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Show H FEWER STUDENTS. M Preliminary returns from the colleges and technical m schools are showing a decline in enrollment of 10 to 40 per cent. As the majority of these students are under military age, it does not seem possible that any such pro- portion could have been drafted. Probably a good many toys of 19 and 20, fearing lest they would be called out 1 before the war is over, dislike to enter on courses that m they may not be able to complete. H The United States faces a hard race after the war for H technical and mental supremacy. The war has demon- A strated that the old levels of attainment were not suffici- m cnt. Old theories of political economy, old systems of H mechanical production, have had to go into the rag bag. H The world's industries are going to reopen on a basis of B greater production. Many wastes have been eliminated B and the wits of men have been sharpened by intense com- B petition. B The United States can not go along in the old wasteful m way. It needs mechanical experts of the highest order. K It needs broadly trained men who have studied deeply m into human history, and who can lead our people in ways H of progress and in development of better civic institutions. m Therefore the boy who abandons his plan for higher m education is not doing well. It is quite possible that there B will not have to be another drawing. Or even if there is, 1 the second division of men called may get no farther than B the training camps of this country and France. m In that case they can simply come back to their work B without any real loss of time. The year will have been B well spent in a valuable training, and they can resume B their mental and technical studies with more power than B ever. The country needs all the educated men it can get. B The untrained man more than ever before will be out of B the game. |
