Our Schools in War Time—and AfterDean, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
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Our Schools in War Time—and After
Dean, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
Education -- United States; World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Schools
At Cornell University all professors and instructors in the
marine-engineering department and all the senior students of marine
engineering were in either private or public shipyards on or before
graduation day.
The University of Wisconsin, anticipating that a large number of
persons who had been trained in the administration of stores would soon
be needed in the civil section of the Quartermaster's Department, in
the Ordnance Bureau of the War Department, and in the Quartermaster's
Officers' Reserve Corps, decided to aid in training for these services
by offering special courses in the classification and handling of
stores for those departments.
This university also planned a summer session with courses in wireless
telegraphy, first aid to the injured, Boy Scout movement in theory and
practice, and gave a course of war lectures especially designed for
teachers, and a course for Red Cross volunteers who wished to take
part in civilian relief work. This last course was in coöperation with
the Red Cross organization, which, as explained in another chapter,
will have much to do with relieving families deprived of their natural
heads. The men and women in this course studied the basis of family
life, psychological and economic principles underlying bodily health,
the resources of the state to preserve the family group, and methods of
social service and friendly visiting.
Aviation schools for training candidates for the aviation corps were
established at the University of California, Cornell University,
Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Illinois, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, Princeton, and the
University of Texas. The first navy aëronautic school has also been
established recently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The College of the City of New York offered an emergency war course
in bookkeeping and office practice to help fit men and women to fill
the positions made necessary by the increased work of the national
government, and to train people to take the places of those who
responded to the call to arms. It also offered its regular winter
courses during the summer in order to speed up the graduation of young
men already enrolled in the college who might be drafted.
This college also placed in every armory and military headquarters in
Greater New York a teacher of conversational French. This work was very
popular and highly successful.
The University of Kentucky offered to women and civilians two special
courses in its College of Electrical Engineering: a course in
automobile engineering especially designed to teach women how to drive
and take care of motor ambulances, and a course in wireless telegraphy.
The Pennsylvania State College offered a six weeks' course in
storekeeping under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department.
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