War has jigsawed and jumbled the traditional picture of U.S. higher education. Colleges find it is upsetting their finances, bollixing their standards, putting new strains on their faculties, bringing them new types of students, converting them into vocational schools and making them, like industry, into virtual subsidiaries of the Federal Government.
But the Army is not taking over U.S. higher education bodily as it did in World War I when the Students Army Training Corps put students in uniform, gave them a private's pay of $30 a month, set them drilling on the campuses. The result then was a total victory of...