Wow, that's pretty interesting. I have never thought about how the focused industry in the US during the War might have affected other countries not even involved in it.
What did the University Reform do?
I am watching baseball right now myself.
Sorry, I had not read your edited post before.
Well, first of all, some context. By 1918, we had a few universities but they were not cheap, almost all the students were male (there were some female, but much less than male) but the worst part was probably that the professors were old and too traditionalist, dictating classes with very old-fashioned curricula. Well, the students of the oldest university in my country (Cordoba University) decided that enough was enough and they launched a lot of protests, strikes and wrote a long manifest. The protests expanded to all the country, but the main focus was at Cordoba. They had the support of the more progressive teachers and graduates. They succeeded in changing a lot of things. Better criteria to select professors, participation of students in the government of the university, revisions of the curricula, that slowly became better, more science oriented and with more robust criteria. Since then, students are represented in the Directories of the universities. Thanks to the Reform, our universities (I am talking about public universities here) became really good, and a proud for my country (it gave us 5 Nobel prize winners. I know it does not seem much compared with USA and other countries, but for a Latin American country is not bad).
