Soldier-Scholars : Higher Education in the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 221) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Recounts the higher education programs that joined athletics and entertainment to keep idle US soldiers from running overly amuck between the end of War World I and when they could be returned from Europe. Based largely on official Army records, describes how soldiers enrolled in universities in Britain and France, and the rapid development of the AEF's own full-scope, multi-campus university. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.