fficers, and restoring the scheme to its original
essentially educational policy; for, in the original plan, the military
features were to go only so far as to enable the authorities to
select the best men for further intensive training at the officers'
camps.

[Illustration: THE STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS
Drawn up before the Michigan Union (fall of 1918)]

[Illustration: ONE OF THE FOURTEEN-INCH NAVAL GUNS IN FRANCE
Whose crews were largely composed of the Michigan Naval Volunteers]

This broad military programme was by no means confined to the students,
as the whole curriculum of the University was necessarily almost wholly
subordinated to the new scheme. Many courses not included in the outline
prescribed by the Government, such as the classics, fine arts, and
philosophy, were practically discontinued or given in a limited form to
the few men not in service and the women students in the University.
Many members of the Faculty abandoned their own subjects entirely and
confined their work to the courses on war issues, which had come to form
an important part of the new curriculum, or to elementary work in modern
languages, especially French; German being for the most part anathema.
This was a mistake; as one government inspector, himself a teacher of
English, was accustomed to say emphatically, German was going to be
needed even more than French; and so it turned out in the later days of
the occupation of Germany. Nevertheless the decline of interest in the
German language and literature, which had long been so carefully
cultivated, as we can see now, by the German government, is one of the
permanent results of the war; while there has been a corresponding
increase in the study of French and Spanish.

Throughout this period, the women of the University were far from
passive spectators. Special courses in household economics, conservation
of food, French, journalism, and publicity and the principles of
censorship, as well as a course in drafting in the Engineering College
were provided for them. The women of the Faculty and town threw
themselves indefatigably into Red Cross service, with the presidential
residence on the Campus, known as Angell House, as one of the principal
headquarters. A Hostess House was also maintained in the parlors of
Barbour Gymnasium for the families and sweethearts of men in the
training detachments, while at one time the great floor of Waterman
Gymnasium was used as a barracks. With th