_Education_
School life continues practically as in normal times, with the
exception that, in the elementary schools and in the grades of the
grammar and high schools, there is a larger proportion of women
teachers. Many instructors who had been retired have asked to re-enter
service, thus relieving the young men called to the colors.
In the universities a few distinguished professors of military age have
been permitted to retain their chairs, but a considerable number have
gone to the front. Naturally the number of students has been greatly
reduced.
[Illustration: THE SMALL CANALS OF VENICE WERE ALMOST DESERTED