Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1919 — American Army University. [ARTICLE]

American Army University.

The American Army university, the largest university* in the Englishspeaking world, has been opened in Beaune, southeast of Paris. Fifteen thousand soldiers have enrolled i or a three months’ course. The faculty of 500 members, chiefly drawn from the American expeditionary forces, is headed by Col. Ira I. Reeves, formerly president of Norwich university in Vermont. The buildings now r serving as study halls and dortnitories were used during the war as an American hospital. A farm of 600 ’acres is used as the main agricultural college, while former work shops of the hospital supply quarters rire being utilized by classes in engineering. The university has opened a branch at Bellevue, near Versailles, for nearly 1,000 students of art and architecture.