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Show HIGHER SCHOOLS BMfEDBYWAR Fromotion of Education Declared Best Thing Struggle Has Done BALTIMORE. Nov. 10. Speaklngt 'at tho twenty-fouth annual conference of the Association of American universities, uni-versities, which la being hold at Johns Hopkins university. Dr. Rav L. Wilbur, Wil-bur, president of the Leland Stanford Jr . university, declared that one of the best things the war has done for the world was to promote education. "Education Is progressing rapidly." Dr. Wilbur continued, "and not because be-cause of educators particularly, but because the students demand education." educa-tion." "More monev 1- being given Io edu-catlon, edu-catlon, which is a fine thing. But It i was the war that brought the idea iha education was the thing and now we ir- dver-runnlng our colleges on that account. "Your young man who went Into the war thought he knew quite a bit. He had enough education, according to ljlmself. Then he found that he ould not get on that he could not be an officer because of his lack of knowledge knowl-edge Now he is home and, benefitting benefit-ting by that experience he Is sending! his younger brothers and sisters on to higher schools. Our universities arej having a hard time taking care of the overflow of applicants " oo- |