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OUR NEED FOR FURTHER EDUCATION This is a momentous period in the history of mankind. The often-ridiculed professors, who supervised the greatest engineering job ever at- ctmpted by man, in one operation simultaneously ended the world's greatest end most terrifying armed conflict and opened new doors by which man nay enrich life or destroy it completely. Unfortu- nately, man's sociological advances hove not kept pace with his technological achievements. Technological progress during the war encrease lj tremendously. The recent war was a conflict of machines. Victory was assured by a combination of technical knowledge and practical application of scientific methods. Colleges and universities ♦' throughput the country participated in training untold thousands of technicians in cooperation with the Armed Forces. Never before in the history was the value cf education mere ably demonstrated. Not only did this result in the famous American know how in industry but it was also reflected in com- bat. Mass education in the decadent democracies as contrasted to the supposedly unerring methods of the dictator powers produced the fighting men and means which dramatically ended the war by the cli- maxing effect of the Atomic Bomb. The victorious warriors are now bock on America's main streets. With demobilization practically completed, the returning servicemen possess an opportunity to continue higher education under the G.I. Bill of Rights. These battle-experienced veterans, who have carried the American Flag to the very cut- posts of civilization, will be older, more experi- enced and wiser than the average high school graduate. This will present nrt only a competitive field but will be an inducement for more intensive study on the part of the ycunr graduate. We are assembled tonight in a commencement program. As the word implies, it does not signify the ending of our education; it rather forcibly indicates that we are on the threshold of ever
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