Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1919 — GREAT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM PLANNED [ARTICLE]

GREAT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM PLANNED

Paris. —General Pershing has signed an order establishing an American Army university in France to accommodate 15,000 to 20,000 soldier students. The school will be opened at Beaune. At the same time the main office of the Y. M. O. A. army educational commission will be moved from Paris to Beaune. Courses in. engineering, liberal and fine arts, science, music and the like will be offered. It is expected that one of the four agricultural exhibits which have been prepared by the department of agriculture in co-operation with the Y. M. C. A. will be a permanent feature at Beaune. The Y. M. C. A. war work council announced that the cost of the educational program In the A. E. F. had now reached $700,000 a month. Books and supplies costing $1,300,000 have been sent overseas. The army pays for tl»e books and distributes them to the soldier students.