FOREWORD

It is not an army that we must shape and train for war; it is a nation.... The whole nation must be a team in which each man shall play the part for which he is best fitted.... Each man shall be classified for service in the place to which it shall best serve the general good to call him.... The significance of this cannot be overstated. It is a new thing in our history and a landmark in our progress. It is a new manner of accepting and vitalizing our duty to give ourselves with thoughtful devotion to the common purpose of us all.—Woodrow Wilson, Proclamation, May 18, 1917

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[Bringing the War into the Schools][1]
II.[War and Community Uses of our Schools][17]
III.[The Field for Industrial and Trade Schools][53]
IV.[Our Colleges and Technical Institutes][80]
V.[The Opportunity for Manual and Household Arts][115]
VI.[The Work Impulses of Youth][135]
VII.[Organized Boy Power vs. Military Drill][165]
VIII.[Red Cross and Other Community Work][192]
IX.[Reëducation of the Disabled][211]
X.[Farm Cadets][234]
XI.[The Organization of a Cadet Camp][272]
XII.[A Summarized Program of Action][304]
[INDEX][331]

OUR SCHOOLS IN WAR TIME—AND AFTER

CHAPTER I
BRINGING THE WAR INTO THE SCHOOLS

The summer of 1917 found America realizing that the war which it had entered was not going to be won by the mobilization of an army and a navy, however strong and efficient they might be. In the proclamation of Woodrow Wilson the whole nation was called upon to mobilize with a clear, succinct purpose of organizing those forces of industry, of education, of woman power, which are back of every successful struggle of a nation in peace or in war. The ready acceptance of the slogan "Win the War in the Air," with the public clamor for aviation, was but an indication of the general awakening of the public to the truth that the war must be won by the use of forces as yet undeveloped, or undirected towards national ends.