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education of sub-collegiate grade ; and President K. L. Butterfield, of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, in charge of agricultural, 

 vocational, and general technical education. A budget of fifteen 

 million dollai^ was drawn up, of which several million dollars was 

 estimated as needed for textbooks alone. Four-fifths of the funds 

 were to be provided by the Y. M. C. A., and the remainder by the 

 American Library Association. 



The organization of so vast an enterprise at top speed in a foreign 

 land and under war conditions has been aptly described as a veritable 

 " adventure in education." It was not, however, entirely a pioneer 

 undertaking. Quite early in the war a system of instruction had been 

 developed, apparently somewhat informally, in one of the Canadian 

 divisions in France, and known as the University of Vimy Eidge. 

 The object was announced as to equip men in active service for 

 " greater efficiency in business, agriculture, and other great industries 

 of the Dominion." The instruction included lectures for large 

 groups of men, class work with smaller groups, and individual in- 

 struction for advanced students. 



Late in 1917 what was known as Khaki College was organized by 

 the Canadian Expeditionary Forces farther back of the lines, on a 

 somewhat more formal basis with a chancellor, a senate, and an 

 executive faculty. One of the eight departments of instruction was 

 agi-iculture, with lecturers, drawn mainly from the ranks, in animal 

 husbandry, field husbandry, horticulture, farm bookkeeping, agri- 

 cultural English, and poultry. A system of credit in Canadian in- 

 stitutions for work of college grade was arranged, and instruction 

 through short practical courses was also provided at some twenty 

 lecture centers in France and England. About five hundred thou- 

 sand dollars was allotted by the Dominion Govermnent for tlie main- 

 tenance of tliis work, supplemented by about an equal amount from 

 the Y. M. C. A. From October, 1917, to July, 1918, about nine 

 thousand men had been enrolled in the various departments. 



I Some attention had also been given to agricultural instruction in 

 the British Army. In August, 1918, through the joint efforts of the 

 Training Branch of the General Staff and the Directorate of Agri- 

 cultural Production, the British Government located at Etrun, just 

 outside the devastated area surrounding Arras, the First Army 

 School of Agriculture. Here a farm of three hundred acres was fitted 

 up, and demonstrations and other instruction provided through the 

 winter to officers and men awaiting demobilization. This school was 

 one of the first of a series of British educational enterprises. 



The suspension of hostilities on November 11, 1918, altered the pur- 

 poses and plans of the American educational system to some extent, 

 but intensified the demand for instruction on a comprehensive basis 



