Excerpt from A Khaki University for Canadian Soldiers There is a strong desire on the part of the men of the army, particularly among those who had previously been following intellectual occupations, to undertake any work that would bring them again into connection with the problems of civil life. The excitement associated with the beginnings of army service has passed away, and the social and civil instincts are again asserting themselves. A considerable portion of them are not only willing to take advantage of opportunities for intellectual improvement, but are anxious so to do. This applies not only to religious men who have been interested in Bible study and corresponding subjects, in association with the and Chaplains' Service, but to those whose thought and interest run entirely to ordinary secular occupa tion. Two illustrations of the sort of evidence gathered will serve to show why I came to this conclusion. I met a group of two hundred men, who came together after a religious service, on an invitation to discuss with me the possibilities of their taking advantage of an educational scheme in order to prepare them for their life at home after the war. As these men had been at a religious meeting, naturally a large percentage of them were men who were thinking in the terms of religious effort. Personal enquiry among them showed that fifty-seven of them wished to take up the study of agriculture, forty had their minds turned toward the Christian ministry, thirty to get a business education, eighteen to take up work of the character done by the fifteen the study of practical mechanics, several the teaching profession, while the remainder simply desired to improve themselves. 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.