Back to School

Faces scrubbed, most of the nation's kids went back to school last week. The big & little red schoolhouses were again going to be crowded to the rafters.

The U.S. Office of Education predicted that college enrollment will set a new high of 2,750,000 students--600,000 more than last year's record. Of them, about 1,325,000 will be ex-G.I.s, 10% more than the previous high last April.

Other news of U.S. education:

P: Sailing for Europe this week aboard the Queen Mary: 52 U.S. undergraduates who will study abroad--the largest such group since the 1930s.

P:In New Britain, Conn., elementary and high schools closed half an hour after opening, while Local 871 of the American Federation of Teachers (A.F.L.) and the school board argued for four days about wages. In Gary, Ind., it was the pupils who struck.

P: Chicago's new School Superintendent Herold Hunt posed with some of his new charges. They saved an otherwise routine publicity picture by their earnest efforts to smile for the cameraman.

P:Kindergarten and first-grade enrollments were bulging with the first war babies to reach school age. Babies who passed their infancy in these hectic times, warned an Ohio psychologist, are apt to be jittery about such a violent novelty as school. Dr. Clare W. Graves of Western Reserve University advised parents to watch for such signs of nervous tension as mouth-tugging and hair-pulling. After a couple of weeks in school, kindergartners are apt to go on talking jags; the only thing for parents to do then, said Dr. Graves, is to grit their teeth and listen sympathetically.

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