. St Andrew's College Review, Easter 1916. of goods owing to the return of the soldiers. Then tak-ing the problem of the returned soldiers, the fear that thousandsof them will be unable to obtain employment and others be aburden to the community is greatly exaggerated. Many of these 26 ST. ANDREWS COLLEGE REVIEW soldiers came from rural districts and will return there, and evenshould there not be industrial employment for others, there willbe a demand for even inexperienced farm-help. Now consider war-stricken Europe. A great percentage ofher most fertile fields are now providing trenches for
. St Andrew's College Review, Easter 1916. of goods owing to the return of the soldiers. Then tak-ing the problem of the returned soldiers, the fear that thousandsof them will be unable to obtain employment and others be aburden to the community is greatly exaggerated. Many of these 26 ST. ANDREWS COLLEGE REVIEW soldiers came from rural districts and will return there, and evenshould there not be industrial employment for others, there willbe a demand for even inexperienced farm-help. Now consider war-stricken Europe. A great percentage ofher most fertile fields are now providing trenches for the armies ofthe various belligerents to fight in. The destruction wrought isincalculable, and many years must pass before it is this interval there will be a demand for the very grainsthat Cana;da can so abundantly produce. Then, lastly, one mustconsider that Canadas prosperity is founded on Canadas tre-mendous natural resources, the stability of which is constant, notvarying with war or peace. N. MacL. MacLeod. (Form V.). Keeping their Eye on the Kaiser ST. ANDREWS COLLEGE REVIEW 27 LIFE AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY THE Editor has asked me to write a short account of my stayat Purdue University, thinking my experiences might proveof some interest to present St. Andrews College boys who intendto take a course in practical science. Unfortunately for thispurpose, my career at Purdue was cut short when I decided toenlist, but I shall try to give an idea of the place and its peculiar circumstance of my being a Canuck attending acollege where so many fellow-students and instructors wereGermans, may add a touch of interest at the present time. Purdue College is a large institution something like theBoston Tech. It is situated in vSouthern Indiana, and is at-tended by about 2,000 students. About two-thirds of thewhite population of Indiana seem to be Germans, or of Germanorigin. At all events that about is the proportion of the Germanelement at Purdue. So 3^ou can
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