Letters and Science in the
Great War
IGHfl\G, healing, control, research, teaching,
publicity-these are the main lines of war-activi-
ties of the sixty to seventy members of the fac-
ulty of Letters and Science who are now absent.
Fighting on land-chicly still in the future-is the part
ot about two-thirds of them. Several are in ambulance
work; a few aid in control of food and minerals; a good
many are working at research problems, which start at
acronautics and go down the war-alphabet at least to subs.
and tariff teaching goes from aviation to topography; and
the subheads of publicity arc innumerable.
The   ar-activities of the faculty at Madison, who num-
her about three times the absent, include all the heads
except fighting, but the distribution of work is different
and the duties are part of the university service or addi-
tional to it, Feaching and research are inevitably to the
fore. The student knows most of the teaching, through
general and special war courses, numbering fifteen for the
second semester, in five departments. Research goes on
actively in all departments which are allied with war ac-
tivities, but it is not made conspicuous and its results are
for the Government alone. Publicity finds wide expres-
sion in addresses (thirty-two members give hundreds of
addresses during the year), by numerous bulletins and
pamphlets issued through newspapers, by the university,
the state, and the nation. Besides these specific matters
there are the countless activities accessory to the war, like
the Y. M. C. A. and the Red Cross, in which members of
the faculty take their part with all other citizens.
All these things the faculty is doing and therewith tries
not to leave the other undone'--the  other" being that
most important public service - the college education of
the youth of Wisconsin.

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