THE CALL TO DUTY

As 1918 gives way to 1919 so does the University, the country, the world turn from a year of darkness to a year of light. Never was there a greater antithesis than between the blackness of the year just dead and the promise of the coming one.

The University, with all its connected activities, is arousing itself from the straight bonds of the semi-military supervision of the S. A. T. C. and all indications point to a speedy resumption of the normal pre-war college life. To accomplish this regeneration of the University it is necessary for those students who have been in service to get back to duty at Cambridge at the earliest possible moment. It is a good sign that the College Office is making preparations to handle two thousand registrants today, and expects more to drift in during the next few weeks as they obtain their discharges from services. The plea of resuming one's college education is frequently the only one which causes an application for immediate discharge to be considered, especially in the Navy. Thus does the Government indicate its appreciation of the importance of getting the colleges back on a normal footing.

Never before has it been so important for every college man to complete his education and derive the maximum benefit from it. The much-stressed problems of "reconstruction" are very real and it is in a world so "reconstructed" that the present college generation must live and work. In fact, this generation will have its share, and a large one, in solving many of these problems. The same impulse for service that filled the training camps from April 1917 until November 1918 is now making another demand. The call to duty is just as clear now as it was then.