BROWN TO GIVE CREDIT TO STUDENTS WHO ENLIST

The faculty of Brown University has voted to give credit to all seniors who may leave college because of enlistment in the army or navy, or to enter training camps. Credit will also be given base upon recommendation of the Committee on Registration and Attendance, to members of the three lower classes who enlist in any military or naval organization and as a necessary consequence of such enlistment are called away from their college duties. Many members of the Brown Battalion, which includes most of the 800 undergraduates who have not already enlisted in some extra-collegiate military or naval organization, are applying for admission to the Officers Training Camps.

The announcement that the university will give credit to students who, under conditions approved by the faculty, leave now to engage in farm work, is expected to lead many who do not enter the training camps or other organizations to engage in agriculture. With the view of organizing those undergraduates who have had experience in farming for agricultural preparedness, the faculty has adopted the following recommendation of the special Committee on Agricultural Preparedness.

FIRST. That a census of the entire student body be taken immediately in order that the committee may be able to select those students who are qualified to render effective agricultural service.

SECOND. That any student who lives on a farm be encouraged to return home as soon as is practicable, provided his services on the farm are needed; and that any student who does not live on a farm but is qualified to do farm work be encouraged to offer his services to some reliable farmer, or to join an agricultural camp.

THIRD. That the committee aid in the establishment of agricultural camps in Rhode Island.

FOURTH. That under certain conditions college credit be given for the present semester to any student who leaves college to engage in agricultural work during the season of 1917. Among the conditions under which college credit will be allowed for farm work are: Approval of the registration committee it advance; satisfactory standing in college work at time of withdrawal; and at least three full months of farm work before October 1st, including planting cultivating, and harvesting.

The faculty is also planning to utilize ten acres of land owned by the university for farm work done by volunteers from the faculty themselves, the crops to be raised being chiefly beans and potatoes.