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The following official statement of the chancellor of Syracuse is printed in explanation of that University's method of awarding war credits to returning officers and enlisted men. Erroneous and in completed reports of Syracuse's action appeared several weeks ago in the eastern papers, and gave rise to the editorial in the CRIMSON of February 12, entitled "Unhonored and Unsung." We are glad to learn that these reports are not correct, though we still question the advisability of distinguishing between men technically trained officers and untrained privates in awarding war credits; the University's system of treating all men returning from the service exactly alike appears to us the only wise course. The chancellor's statement follows:
The facts are that there is positively no discrimination against a man because he is a private and there is no favor conferred upon a man because he is a commissioned officer: It all depends upon what the men did in their scholastic work. The officers were obliged to pursue courses in what were called "ground schools" or at institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology or our own university. These courses were thorough and information from Massachusetts Tech is that students did as thorough work there is such special courses as they are required to do in the regular course Of course officers doing that work are credited when they return to take up their regular college work. Privates who went directly into service and had no opportunity for any study whatever could not expect to be credited for work which they had never done or attempted to do. That was not because of discrimination but the unfortunate fact that they were not able to study while they were in the service.
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