Word: gi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many institutions of higher learning, Chicago is opening its doors to a steadily increasing stream of returning veterans. Chancellor Hutchins feels that they are largely men who have serious college aims before them, and he has considerably toned down his last winter's "educational hoboes" stand on the GI Bill of Rights...
...glimpse of the classroom work of the GI Japanese student furnishes the best idea of Harvard's "optimum method." Speaking in Japanese, a native instructor answers the questions, also in Japanese, fired at him by the students: "Where are the Japanese troops likely to have taken refuge?" the khaki-clad American asks in the strange tongue. His knowledge of the geography of the area enables him to understand, and perhaps discount, the Jap's answer...
...GI is popular all over Europe, but although Sicily fell in 1943, there still have been no municipal elections because we fear that they will result in communist officials. In Southern Italy we did not know the leaders of each town so we kept the old mayors rather than hold elections and the old mayors were in many cases fascists...
...Armed Forces Committee on Post-War Educational Opportunities for Service Personnel warned that the GI Bill might prove "extraordinarily costly--both in human and financial terms" if veterans were allowed to prepare for unsuitable or overcrowded vocations...
...University of Wisconsin's President Clarence A. Dykstra thought the GI Bill of Rights would be soundly interpreted: "It will be no kindness . . . to let (any man) do substandard work for any considerable time, or to encourage men to try college work in order to get an education stipend from Uncle...