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Letter regarding the future of War Issues Courses, dated Nov. 30, 1918
Typed letter on War Department letterhead from the Committee on Education and Special Training to instructors of the War Issues Course. The letter indicates that courses related to the War Issues Course, including ‘courses on problems of the War, the Peace Conference, and Reconstruction,’ will continue at several educational institutions after demobilization of the SATC. The letter bears the horizontal watermark 'Hammermill Bond.' The letter concludes with the typed signature, 'Committee on Education and Special Training, By FRANK AYDELOTTE, Director of the War Issues Course.'
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Pamphlet suggesting organization of War Issues Course, dated Sept. 18, 1918
This is a printed pamphlet. The first page has a letterhead of 'War Department Committee on Education and Special Training' and is dated 'Washington, Sept. 18, 1918' and is from 'The Committee on Education and Special Training'. It is signed 'Committee on Education and Special Training By Frank Aydelotte, Director of War Aims Course' and is to 'Professors in charge of course on the Issues of the War, SATC, Collegiate Section.' It begins with 'Note:-This Memorandum supplements, but does not supersede Memorandum of September 10th'. The body of the text makes suggestions, rather than requirements, for the War Issues course. The sections are: '1. Distribution of Time'; '2. Modification for Engineering Schools'; and '3. Syllabi'. On the second and third pages of the printed pamphlet, the 'Syllabi' section is continued. It is then followed by: '4. Text Books and Other Materials'; 'Class Discussion'; and '6. Combination with English Composition'. This section is continued on the last and back page of the printed pamphlet. It is followed by '7. Examinations' ; '8. Relations to War Aims Course in Training Detachments'; and '9. Army Paper Work'. The page is signed, 'Committee on Education and Special Training By Frank Aydelotte, Director of War Aims Course.'
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Catalog of maps for War Issues Course, dated Nov. 8, 1918
This is an eight-page printed pamphlet. The first page has a letterhead of 'War Department Committee on Education and Special Training' and is dated 'November 8, 1918'. It is from 'Committee on Education and Special Training' and is to 'Institutions where Units of the Students Army Training Corps are located and Chairmen of the War Issues Course groups'. The subject given is 'Maps for the War Issues Course and for other courses in which the Geographical Problems of the War and the Peace which is to follow have a part.' The body begins with an explanation that the American Geographical Society of New York has prepared base maps for the U.S. government. The first section is '1. General Description of the Maps; Their Usefulness'. On the second and third pages of the pamphlet, the following sections are included: 'The Price of Maps; Opportunity for Examination'; '3. Use of Funds'; '4. Wide Distribution of Maps Desired'; '5. Descriptive Matter'; and '6. Correspondence Regarding Maps'. It is signed 'Frank Aydelotte, Director of War Issues Course'. After this is a listing under 'Detailed Description' for the maps available. The scale and size are included and some of them include study ideas. On this page are Europe, Alsace, Lorraine, and Adriatic. On the fourth and fifth pages of the printed pamphlet, the map listings continue, including size and scale. Some have additional ideas on how to use them or details of interest. The maps are: Tyrol, Austria-Hungary, Balkans, Rumania, Russia, Russian Empire, Baltic Basin, Baltic Provinces, Poland and Lithuania, Poland, Caucasus, Block Diagrams of European Problem Areas, and Asia. On the sixth page of the printed pamphlet, the map listings continue with: Danube to India, Western Asia, Anatolia and Armenia, Syria, Palestine, Siberia, Africa, and Central Africa. The seventh page is blank. The eighth and back page of the pamphlet is also blank.
Washington, D.C. -
Bulletin announcing YMCA request for lecturers
This is a two-page typed letter. The first page has a printed letterhead of 'War Department Committee on Education and Special Training' and is dated 'December 10, 1918'. It is from 'Committee on Education and Special Training' and is signed 'Frank Aydelotte, Director of War Issues Course'. It is addressed to 'Professors in charge of the War Issues Course'. The body of the letter announces that the YMCA is hiring full-time lecturers on Political Economy, United States History, American Ideals, and other social sciences topics to work in the National Army Cantonments for a period of two months. The reads, 'The YMCA wishes to add to its staff a number of lecturers on Political Economy, United States History, American Ideals, and other topics connected with the social sciences who will work in National Army Cantonments during the next two months.' The 'bulletin is issued at the request of Dr. A. O. Lovejoy, Director of Lectures, YMCA Educational Division. The work in question is not connected in any way with the Committee on Education and Special Training of the War Department, but is entirely under the control of the YMCA.' The second page of the letter has the same printed letterhead as on the first page but no additional text.
Washington, D. C.