Word: gi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veteran enrollment in the College has also taken a steep plunge. Only 100 ex-GI's showed up in the Class of 1953, leaving 800 less in the whole College...
...GI Bill of Rights, Bahn declared, has given the University "democratically constituted" classes, and therefore "a quickened intellectual life...
John U. Monro '35, University Counselor for Veterans, challenged Conlon's objections to federal aid to medical schools. Monro cited the lack of federal interference with colleges despite the large government payments to them under the GI bill, and questioned why payments to medical schools would necessarily entail government control...
...Rinchart Publishing Company has lately brought out on the market a new series of paperbound books which, with the gradually disappearing GI subsidy, is going to mean considerable saving to the undergraduate in the Humanities. Modern Library, which was such a good thing when it first came out, has not only been steadily increasing its prices but lately taken to putting flashy dust-jackets on its issues in an apparent attempt to cover up the deteriorating quality of its insides. The catalogue of Modern Library is still without equal, but Rinchart's thick paper at least allows the student...
...federal government is giving plenty of aid to education as it is--most of it by direct subsidy through the GI Bill--and it has given plenty in the past, beginning with land grants for colleges in the last century, and school-house building programs in the Depression. What the various pressure groups desire is that the money forthcoming from the Eighty-First Congress will be unconditional--no strings attached. What they desire more fervently, of course, is the money itself...