The Wartime Problems of College Students
T HE dislocations of war have produced no new needs of students with which general or liberal education has not long been concerned. They have, however, accentuated many problems and put them in new settings. War dislocations have dramatically affected students' interests and motives. The immediate difficulties of living a good life, for example, are so great that they tax the resources of the students and have profound implications for the strategy of teaching. Because of the relation of the wartime concerns of students to educational planning, the central staff and a number of the colleges of the Co-operative Study in General Education have attempted to determine just what problems students really have. In February, 1942, and again in November, students wrote unsigned essays in response to the question, "What difficulties or concerns have you experienced, or do you expect to face, as a result of the war?" Nine hundred students from 7 colleges wrote replies in February;' fifteen hundred students from 13 colleges wrote replies in November. In each