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...most conspicuous effect of the war upon education in America, so far as can thus far be discerned, is the impetus given to the teaching and study of the sciences. The old-line colleges are away below their normal strength in students, but the technical institutions are filled to the brim and most of them are now wondering what they will do with the new influx which seems certain to come next autumn. The war has developed technical industries to an unprecedented extent in this country, and the call for trained men is far greater than it ever was before...
Those students whose personal experience with life in the University includes war and even pre-war times are interested observers of the rapid transformation which is bringing us back to the normal order of what the outside world loves to term "college life." The signing of the armistice last November marked a very low point in the tide of college activities beyond the regular courses. At that time practically every activity which in some degree did not spring from military courses was either non-existent or well along the road to become so. The ink was searcely...
...signs of the days of military regime. They were days which, had their advantages and their disadvantages, but undoubtedly very few would elect to live them over again. Let the "peace paint" be applied ever so rapidly, the grim effects of war cannot be effaced too soon from the normal activities in the University...
...this spring will be held under exactly the same conditions as those which usually attend the regular fall drive. The recent opening of all the societies has created a great need for funds, for Phillips Brooks House is working on the same basis as at the beginning of a normal year...
...schools, it must be said, respond to the best of their ability, but their ability is sometimes very limited. Public institutions stumble over the question of appropriations, private institutions meet the problem of insufficient endowment. Both are usually defeated. The result is such a scale of salaries that Normal School graduates find it more profitable to serve, let us say as hotel waiters, and full-fledged college professors have to content themselves with stipends that the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers would treat with scorn...