Men in Army, Navy May Get Post-Induction Course

After ten months of discussion and planning, the colleges and the Army and Navy have completed plans for enabling men in uniform to continue their education while in the armed services. Known as the Army Institute, the program will make it possible for soldiers and sailors to study high-school and college subjects in their spare time, and to have their records sent to whatever high school or college they may choose.

Immediately after the start of the war, educators were worried lent there be a repetition of the chaotic 1918-1919 system of granting blanket credit on a basis of total time in the service. During those years, colleges throughout the nation vied with each other in giving such credit, and thousands of failures resulted.

Avoid Danger

The Army Institute is designed to avoid that danger by establishing a uniform method of teaching and testing soldiers and sailors.

After four months in the service, an enlisted man will be able to register for any of some 150 high-school subjects and 350 college subjects. The courses will be given by the correspondence method, with about ten lessons in each course. When he has satisfactorily completed a subject, the soldier-student will be granted a "certificate of proficiency."

Records Sent Back

Men who desire to receive credit from a college or university for such work may arrange to have their records sent to it. the decision as to how much credit will be given is left entirely in the hands of the college; the Army Institute itself will not dictate the decision. So far, some 70 colleges have accepted the plan, and it is now under active consideration at Harvard and many other universities.

Under the direction of Colonel Francis T. Spaulding '17, on leave from his post as dean of the Graduate School of Education, the Institute will pay one-half of the tuition fees for such college courses, up to a total of twenty dollars per course. The colleges offering courses include the University of Chicago and the state universities of Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia. Subjects range all the way from abnormal psychology to advanced 'zoology and cover both the liberal arts curriculum and that of technical colleges.

No college plans to grant degrees on the basis of Army Institute work alone, but it is expected that the Institute will offer an opportunity to fill gaps in the work of a man who leave college in the middle of his course of study. Training while in uniform will shorten the length of time necessary for study after the war