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In two years Cambridge has watched the growth, decline, and departure of the Radio School. Yesterday all but a few straggling members packed their sea bags and headed westward to the Great Lakes Training Station.

During the war the navy has been increased many fold, and has needed a corresponding increase of radio operators. But when it is considered that at one time there were nearly five thousand students in the school, it seems indicative that Cambridge has been a gathering place for the unfortunates of the navy.

The College was only too willing to let Uncle Sam utilize its buildings, in the expectation of assisting in the successful prosecution of the war, but it is sorry that this city has been the butt of governmental inefficiency. Doubtless the school has done much good, but we are as glad to see the blue horde passing into oblivion, as they are to go.

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