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trants disqualified for general military service 
but qualified for special limited service. These 
instructors work under the direction of educa- 
tional officers chosen for their professional 
standing in civil life and commissioned in the 
Sanitary Corps of the Medical Department. 
The General Staff has just authorized com- 
missions for 119 educational officers for this 
purpose. 
From the military standpoint disabled sol- 
diers may be placed in three general classes: 
(a) Those who can be restored to full duty. 
(b) Those who ean be fitted for limited serv- 
ice. (c) Those disabled to the extent of un- 
fitting them for further military service. 
It is the announced policy of the Surgeon- 
General that patients of the first class (a) 
should have, when circumstances warrant it, 
the benefit of therapeutic treatment through 
play, work, and study, as may be prescribed 
by medical officers, in order that their morale 
may be stiffened, their special skills improved, 
their future usefulness increased and their re- 
covery hastened. 
Patients of the second class (b) should have, 
whenever conditions permit and the medical 
officers approve, such specific training—phys- 
ical and vocational—as will in the judgment 
of the educational officers best fit such pa- 
tients for limited service of a particular kind. 
At present patients are being trained in gen- 
eral hospitals for limited service as general and 
vocational teachers, typists, printers, tailors, 
cobblers, harness makers, welders, motor me- 
chanicians, painters, machine workers, wood- 
workers, bookkeepers, statisticians, telezgraph- 
ers, photographers, telephone operators, cooks, 
storekeepers, electricians, etc. 
The list will be extended with the advice and 
cooperation of the committee on education and 
special service of the War Department to meet 
other needs as they arise. In connection 
with the large general hospitals there is 
abundant opportunity for practise in many 
trades and occupations. At Fort McPherson, 
for example, practical experience can be gained 
in twenty different trades. Moreover, there is 
immediately adjacent to the hospital a large 
quartermaster’s mechanical repair shop, cover- 
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ing all phases of mechanical repair and con- 
struction to which men can be assigned for 
limited service or to gain experience. 
_ Patients of the third class (c) should be 
encouraged in every possible way to accept the 
benefits accorded them for vocational training 
by the Federal Board for Vocational Educa- 
tion. To this end they should have while in 
the hospital such physical training and gen- 
eral education as will best promote their phys- 
ical reconstruction and at the same time con- 
tribute most to their vocational training. Pa- 
tients who do not elect or who are not eligible 
to continue their education under the Federal 
board should receive such training as the med- 
ical and educational officers deem best in each 
individual ease. 
GEORGE ARCHIBALD CLARK 
Proressor GEORGE ARCHIBALD CLARK, aca- 
demic secretary of Stanford University, died 
on April 27, 1918, at his home on the campus 
of the university, after a prolonged illness 
from a disease that had baffled his physicians- 
Mr. Clark’s illness began more than a year ago 
with an attack of grip from which he never 
fully recovered. His legs became so weakened 
or paralyzed that he was for some time able 
to walk only with the aid of a cane, and later 
scarcely at all. He continued to go to his 
office until last August, and after he was no: 
longer able to do so he continued to look after 
business matters from his home. His work as 
academic secretary was hard and exacting and 
of such a nature that many of the details could 
not be entrusted to his assistants. This close 
confinement and constant attention to official 
duties doubtless had much to do with bringing 
on the fatal illness. 
Mr. Clark was fifty-three years old. He 
graduated at the University of Minnesota in 
1891. In the fall of that year he went to 
California and registered as a graduate stu- 
dent in Latin at Stanford University which 
was then just entering upon its first year. 
Being an expert in shorthand, Mr. Clark was 
offered a position as stenographer in the uni- 
versity. In 1896 he was made secretary to 
President Jordan. His unusual ability soon 
