Show N Note ote te to Students EasyGoing EasyGoing Easy- Easy Going Col College lege ge Days Gone Cone By RUTH MILLETT College just aint what it used to be Gone are the days when a freshman entering college could look forward to four long lazy carefree years with nothing more real to worry about than into getting x the right sorority sorority sorority so so- fl or fra Ira 11 G Gone 0 n e are f 3 the good old t days when a campus was wasa ww a little world a apart par t and a neither professors professors professors pro pro- n nor 0 r students knew or cared much what was going going going go go- ing on out out- side Ruth Millett Colleges now are all business They are being geared to the defense effort as though they were so many factories hurrying hurrying hurrying hurry hurry- ing to turn out their finished products with as much speed and as little waste as possible All over the country three- three year courses have been intro intro- And now the University University University sity of Chicago is working out outa a schedule whereby a student can get a bachelors bachelor's degree in two years That will make it possible for young men to finish finish finish fin fin- ish their general education and get a degree to show for it be- be be be- fore they have to enter military military military mili mili- tary service There is no reason why the students cant can't get through in two years years years-if if they spend all their time at getting an tion Bull Sessions Will WillBe WillBe WillBe Be Eliminated But college wont won't be the same Those long bull sessions on purely hypothetical questions will go There wont won't be time for them Besides college students today have too many real hardships hardships hardships hard hard- ships and problems to face to spend their time arguing about high sounding issues And there wont won't be that nice feeling of drifting along taking things easy that used to be the special privilege of the young folks whose dads had agreed to pay their bills for four years while they studied a little talked a lot and fell in love Love Affairs To Be Different Even campus love affairs willbe willbe will willbe be different Instead of feeling feeling feeling feel feel- ing that they have all the time in the world young folks will be speeding up their courtships and marrying hurriedly in order to find what happiness they hey can before they are separated by the war Those careless carefree coll college col col- l lege ge days are gone for the dura dura- tion Those who are in college now may learn just as much in their speeded up programs as students of normal times But while they will end up with college |