MANY COLLEGES DEPOPULATED

Colleges throughout the country are fast becoming depopulated, many men leaving to take part in active military service. At Princeton 407 men have already left, 207 have gone from Brown, 400 students from the University of Pennsylvania are now working on farms, while at the University of Chicago nearly half of the undergraduates are now training in the R. O. T. C.

Columbia's enrolment in the special war courses which opened last month has exceeded all expectations. The work is in charge of Professor James C. Egbert, director of the department of extension teaching. Professor Egbert has decided to permit students to enter the classes for several more weeks. The courses include training in trench construction, camp sanitation, army regulations, radio telegraphy, and engineering training such as is needed by army engineers and for similar courses. Other courses are offered for Governmental training, and hosts of classes are open for special training for women who desire to be of service to the Government during the war. The courses will continue until the opening of the summer session, which will continue uninterrupted by the war.

Approximately 407 men have left Princeton since war was declared to enroll in some branch of military or Government service. It has been impossible to obtain an absolutely accurate list, due to the fact that a number of men, including those who failed to obtain admission to the officers training camps, have returned to college and have not yet had their names put back on the official roll of the university. This means that approximately 39.5 per cent of the total number of undergraduates who were left in college after the midyear examinations have already left. The percentages by classes is as follows: 1917--32.2; 1918--36.0; 1919--33.0; 1920--26.0.

Two hundred and seven Brown men have left college to enter the military service or agriculture. Of these, 27 went to Plattsburg, 38 are in the Naval Reserve, 25 in the artillery, and 100 men on farms.