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If a requirement of this type is made the problem of who shall provide for the correc—
tion must be met. The usual answer will be that the student must provide for the correction
himself. If the student does this he may have to be assisted financially to pay for a part
or for all of the rehabilitation service. Rehabilitation through this means may be difficult
to enforce for a time and may work a temporary hardship on some colleges. Rehabilitation can
be done in this way, however, and effective college administration can make this program
function successfully.

The rehabilitation work may be carried on by the college itself. Under this plan
hospital facilities will have to be provided; physicians, surgeons, dentists, ophthalmologists,
orthopedists, nurses, and other personnel will have to be employed. Needed equipment will have
to be purchased. Everything will be done to carry on fully the rehabilitation work that is
necessary to bring the college student up to the standards of fitness required by the Army
examiners. Under this program the full responsibility falls on the college.

The suggestions which have been made here may appear to require drastic changes in the
approaches which colleges have made to this problem. It must be stated emphatically, however,
that the rehabilitation of college students who have remediable defects will be done no better
now than formerly if the referral and follow-up program is not conducted with some force and
with the view to seeing that the recommendations which are made by examiners are carried out.
The issue must be faced squarely by college administrators and by noncollege groups.

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