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Excerpt from The University Record of the University of Florida, 1948, Vol. 42 The policies pursued during the war period proved wise and advantageous to the University. With a large decrease in the student body, part of the staff of the University was given leave for war service. Another part, retained on the campus, was occupied in research and training personnel for the war effort. Thus, the nucleus of the University staff was preserved and was almost entirely available for service to the large student enrollment which devel oped after the return of peace. The cost of operation of the University was largely shifted to the Federal Government. Civilian student enrollment drop ped below a thousand and only a relatively small number of Army trainees was enrolled in the first year of the biennium. Though in the first year of the biennium the enrollment fell to the lowest point since the academic year 1920-21, in the second year of the biennium it leaped to the highest in the history of the University. Naturally, a transition of such proportions involved adjustments of a rapid and extensive character. It was not possible to predict the date of termination of hostilities, or to foresee all the benefits which would be provided for veterans. 'no one contemplated educational opportunities at Government expense on the vast scale which has developed. When a pos sible program of this kind was conceived, the number of veterans who would seek education was greatly underestimated. A special committee appointed by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt estimated that a maximum of 6 per cent might want to go to school. Fortunately, the Legislature of 1945 had excellent vision in making a con tingent appropriation for the University in a sufficient amount to enable the institution to meet the situation in the event the war ended during the bien nium. Without this foresight it Would have been necessary to call a special session of the Legislature, as hundreds of Florida students, mostly veterans, would otherwise have been denied education at the State University. We esti mated a potential student enrollment of if the war ended. In the aca demic year 1945-46, the enrollment reached a figure of in the regular session and approximately in the Summer Session, with a total of different Students enrolled during the year. (see Report of the University Registrar.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.