a central school of nursing, the major hospital clinical unit had to meet these standards. The school had to require for admission not less than graduation from an accredited high-school; The school had to maintain an educational staff adequate to provide satisfactory instruction and supervision; Its curriculum had to include all those units of instruction necessary to conform with accepted practices in basic nursing education. The school had to provide adequate clinical experience in the four basic services – medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and obstetrics; The school had to provide well-balanced weekly schedules of organized instruction, experience and study; The school had to provide adequate and well-equipped classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and other necessary facilities for carrying out the program, and satisfactory living facilities and health service for students. In evaluating the adequacy of the school facilities to meet the various requirements specified, the standards of the National League of Nursing Education were to be used as a guide. Congressional hearings on appropriations stressed all schools should be allowed to take part in the program. When the standards were applied against the existing conditions, they did not seem practical for some schools to achieve. Some accommodations were made for smaller schools by lowering the standards for them. They would be judged by criteria that included the qualifications and number of instructional personnel, their clinical facilities, the curricula, the weekly schedule of hours, and the health and guidance programs. Such schools produced a small percentage of the cadet force. While monitoring the standards of the 1,125 approved schools of nursing, the consultants of the Division of Nurse Education traveled thousands of miles, wrote countless letters, and provided direct and specific support services. The consultants were assigned to an area and each school was well known to them. The CNC program began on 1 July 1943 and ended with the last group of graduating students on 31 December 1948 and included three enrollment periods; the first term was in 1943, the second in 1944, and the third and final term was in 1945. During this time, 179,294 students enrolled in the program and 124,065 of them graduated from the participating nursing schools. The main cause of student withdrawals was homesickness; some married students withdrew to be with their husbands when they were released from the military; others when the hostilities ceased; some failed in their studies; others left for health reasons; and some left