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whom have since made well-known contributions in social service.
The community has benefited by the assistance of university instructors in a wide range of activities. From early days to the present, the board of education of the city has usually numbered faculty members upon its staff. In the early period, the shaping of the general policy of public school education, and the building program of recent years have been due in no small part to them. The library board and various departments of the city government, as the engineering department, the park board and the water board, have made use of their expert services. They have been active in the City Improvement and Social Welfare societies, in anti-tuberculosis and other public health work, while enthusiastic support has been given to the prohibition and suffrage movements. University professors have sponsored legislation relating to child labor, mothers' pensions, women in industry, and juvenile courts; while the city charter and problems of local government have received their earnest attention. The community draws largely upon the university faculty for help in forming public opinion on social questions, and in contributing to the cultural life by lectures before parent-teacher associations and the great variety of men's and women's clubs the city. In addition to such specific contributions, there can be little question that the presence of the University has imparted a more serious tone to the life and thought of the community, accounting in part for the relative freedom of the city from social extravagances.
The community, in turn, through its various agencies, furnishes a laboratory for training students in social and civic leadership. No doubt the history of the student vote, in city politics, would make an interesting, and not always savory, tale; for it, together with the foreign vote, has been the uncertain element, which could be handled more or less en masse, and hence, in the "old days", was an important consideration. Anxious politicians always advised that it "be watched"; it was frequently subjected to challenge at the polls; a supreme court decision has been rendered upon
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