ial credits
were also given the men returning from service, in some cases as high as
fifteen hours, equaling a semester's work, in recognition of their
special war-time experience and training and the new earnestness and
appreciation of what a university education meant, with which they
returned to their class rooms and laboratories.

University life speedily returned to its accustomed channels; only the
service buttons, the modest ribbons in lapels, and khaki and blue
overcoats remained to suggest the Campus of a year before. So great was
the reaction from things military that the re-establishment of the
R.O.T.C. in modified form came slowly. Eventually about 180 men, largely
from the freshmen and sophomore classes, were enrolled in the artillery
and signal service units under the two officers detailed to the
University, Captain Robert Arthur and Captain John P. Lucas, who held
the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonels in France. These courses
promise much for the future, however, though during the University year
the work is confined to technical training, with the drill to come in
the annual summer camps which every man enrolled must attend. Not only
will men be continually in training as reserve officers, effective at
once in an emergency, but also they will form a nucleus around which a
really effective training corps for the general student body can be
built at any time when the necessity arises. If this work develops as it
should, and comes to form an integral part of university life, we shall
have profited by one of the lessons of the Great War, and with similar
courses installed in all our great educational centers, America will be
ready, as she was not in 1917.

CHAPTER XIV

THE ALUMNI OF THE UNIVERSITY

Just at present Michigan probably has the largest body of alumni of any
university in the country. The total number of graduates in January,
1920, was 34,817, of whom 28,901 were living, while the total of
graduates and former students was 60,463. Of this number 11,420 were
known to be deceased. The number of addresses on the University lists at
that time was 43,783. There are several reasons for this large alumni
body. In the first place few universities have many living graduates of
the classes which graduated before 1850; Michigan's oldest graduates at
present are George W. Carter, '53_m_, of Boulder, Colorado, and John E.
Clark, '56, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale. After her first
f