Education: Pupils Without Teachers

U.S. servicemen have a chance to end up as the best educated fighters in history. Last week the U.S. Armed Forces Institute (Usafi) was giving them that chance not only by correspondence courses (TIME, June 7) but also through its new self-teaching textbooks. It had evidence that fighters were grabbing the chance. To Usafi chief Colonel Francis Trow ("Franny") Spaulding (TIME, Feb. 7) had come from Italy this V-letter from his old Harvard contemporary Irving Chamberlin Whittemore, a Boston University psychologist transformed into an antiaircraft lieutenant colonel:

The afternoon mail brought the...

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