Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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OUR UNIVERSITY IN THE WAR UK University holds its head high today and thinks with pride of the men who are representing it in all branches of national service. Stanford traditions and Stanford ideals have never had a finer fruition than that represented by the great service Hag of the University. The reaction of the university men of this country to the war is one of the greatest evidences of the advantages associated with university life. The breadth of conception and the knowledge of the world and its problems made our university men see more promptly than any other group within our | opulation the aims and needs of our country in the war. Stanford began promptly to play a part. The intensive military training course contributed a considerable quota of officers. More than half of our undergraduates have gone to war. and practically all of those who remain behind are preparing themselves in one way or another for national service. The War Department has assigned back to us students along various technical lines, medicine, engineering, chemistry, geology, and mining, etc., and with the adoption of the jmlicy of military training for all of our students under draft age, our men can see that they are in the University training for public service. The great need of the days ahead will be trained men. It is most important for the type of man who comes to our University to realize that he must allow his country to make the fullest use of his developed and latent talents in solving the intricate problems brought to the surface by the war. We watch with sad hearts our honor roll grow larger week bv week. I-et us here in the University in our various chosen fields work harder and harder to be worthy of the sacrifice our men have made and to be ready to take their places as they fall. By PRESIDENT RAY LYMAN WILBUR