It was announced last Saturday that the Government would assist
sailors and soldiers, when demobilized, to resume and complete their University and professional studies. This will be an act of justice to the many thousands of our ablest young men who, flinging aside their books and deserting their laboratories, answered their country's call in and after August, 1914, and have served ashore or afloat, as officers or in the lower ranks. Many, alas will never come back. Many on returning home will not care to breathe again the aca- demia atmosphere. But a considerable number, especially among the students of science, engineering, medicine, and theology, will, we are sure, bet glad to finish their interrupted studies if the money for their fees and their maintenance is provided by the State. From the public standpoint this is not charity but a sound investment. Our educated young men of all classes are a precious national asset, to be guarded and developed all the more carefully because it has been AQ terribly depleted during the long years of war.
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