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[N. S. Vol. XL VII. No. 1208 



Charles James, 

 George ¥. Kimz, 

 P. Austin Lidbury, 

 Arthur D. Little, 

 C. E. K. Mees, 

 E. A. Millikan, 

 Eichard B. Moore, 

 Wm. H. Nichols, 

 William A. Noyes, 



Henry Fairfield Osbom, 

 Charles L. Parsons, 

 Ira Eemsen, 

 Theodore W. Richards, 

 Edgar F. Smith, 

 E. G. Spilsbury, 

 Julius Stieglitz, 

 Milton C. Whitaker. 



THE WAR DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE ON 

 EDUCATION AND SPECIAL TRAINING 



The Secretary of War authorizes tlie follow- 

 ing aimouncement : 



Witli a view to mobilizing the educational 

 institiitions of the country and their facilities 

 for special training, there has been created in 

 the War Department a " Committee on Educ- 

 tion and Special Training." Associated with 

 this committee wiU be five civilian educators, 

 inown as an advisory board of educators. 



The committee will be composed of Col. 

 Hugh S. Johnson, deputy provost marshal gen- 

 eral; Lieutenant Colonel Eobert I. Eees, of the 

 General StafE, and Major Grenville Clark, of 

 the Adjutant General's Department. 



The five advisory members of the committee, 

 whose selection has been approved by the Sec- 

 retary of War, are : 



Dr. Charles E. Mann, of the Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 

 ing, and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. 



Dr. James E. Angell, of Chicago, dean of 

 the faculties of the TJniversity of Chicago. 



Mr. J. W. Dietz, of Chicago, director of edu- 

 cation, Western Electric Company, president 

 of the National Association of Corporation 

 Schools. 



Mr. James P. Munroe, of Boston, a member 

 of the Federal Board for Vocational Educa- 

 tion (which appointment will include the in- 

 terests of the trade schools and schools of sec- 

 ondary grade). 



Dr. Samuel P. Capen, of the U. S. Bureau 

 of Education, specialist in higher education. 



In these appointments it is felt that the en- 

 tire educational field has been covered, since 

 Dr. Mann is representive of engineering 

 schools. Dr. Angell is representative of aca- 

 demic colleges and universities, and Mr. Dietz 



is from the field of schools conducted by indus- 

 trial concerns. The committee will be author- 

 ized to call in from time to time other educa- 

 tors for consultation and assistance. 



The functions of this committee will be to 

 ■mobilize the country's schools and colleges be- 

 hind the Army. It will encourage and arrange 

 for the technical education of men needed by 

 the several branches of the Army, particularly 

 the Ordnance Bureau, the Signal Corps and 

 the Engineers. In a degree the educational 

 institutions are already rendering patriotic 

 service to the government, but it is planned 

 that there shall be a systematization of their 

 eSorts and that their facilities for technical 

 training shall be fully utilized. 



The General Order of the War Department 

 creating the " Committee on Education and 

 Special Training," defines its functions in the 

 following broad terms: 



Under the direction of the Chief of StafE the 

 functions of the committee shall be: To study 

 the needs of the various branches of the service 

 for skilled men and technicians; to determine how 

 such needs shall be met, whether by selective draft, 

 special training in educational institutions, or 

 otherwise; to secure the cooperation of the edu- 

 cational institutions of the country and to represent 

 the War Department in its relations with such 

 institutions; to administer such plan of special 

 training in schools and colleges as may be adopted. 



It is ordered that the committee shall be given 

 such assistance, commissioned and civilian, as may 

 be necessary to fully execute its duties, with office 

 room in the War Department Building. 



It is estimated that within the next six 

 months 75,000 to 100,000 men will be given in- 

 tensive training in schools and colleges. These 

 men wiU be drawn from the armed forces of 

 the nation, the men now in training camps or 

 about to be called thereto, and the registrants 

 under the selective draft act. It is expected 

 that most of the men selected for technical 

 training will be taken from among the men 

 who have registered under the selective draft 

 law and who are awaiting training and the 

 call to the colors. 



In the selection of men for intensive train- 

 ing in technical subjects the committee will 

 have available the information contained in 



