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COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

JANUARY PACULTY MEETING

The college faculty will meet on Tuesday,
January 18, at 4:30 in Fraser Theatere
The Committee on Program and Curricula
will make a report on progresses

TEE ASTP

Since this program is largely the responsi-
bility of the College, the following infor-
mation about it mav be interesting»

As you know, these young men are housed in
Lindley Hall, a building which provably
gives our unit as fine accomuaodations as
are to be found anywhere in this nine--
state corps areas There is practically
unanimous agreement that these young men
are being given unusually good foode The
University is striving to give them the
best of instruction, and the departments
concerned are to be congratuleted on the
quality of the teaching and particularly
on the quality of their determination to
do the best possible jobe

As the program continues, the men in this
program are being more carefully selecteds
At any rate, the instructors feel that
those who came this term were, on the

- whole, better qualified for the work than
were those who came last August. We are
told that the men assigned to us on March 1
will be still more carefully selected.» On
the whole, teachers of this program feel
that the average quality of these men is
very good, and the Army has consistently
asked us to maintain high standards of
scholarships The following are some figures
on enrollment:

Number of men in August term --780

Number of reserves discharged at request of
parents ~=28
Number discharged for unsatisfactory scholar-
ship during or at end of term =~ 136

Number discharged for other reasons meh

These figures show thet 17 per cent of the
above students who were here throughout the
semester were discharged for academic de-
ficiencye

Number of men entering November term -~727
Number discharged for ungatisfactory
scholarship to date —-104

January 15, 1944

These figures show that 14 per cent of
this term's enrollees have been trans—
ferred to other worke However, since
the Army practically requires us to make
final reports on each man at the end of
eight weeks, nearly all who will be dis-
charged this term for scholastic dc=
ficiencies have already been dischargede

With - the backing of the Army and the oo
operation of the faculty, we ane very
sure that this group of men are receiv—
ing excellent training in preparation
for the advanced work they will take
elsewheree It seems to be the general
feeling of 11 connected with the pro=
gram that about all the "bugs" have beer
worked out and that from here on, the
work will go forward efficiently and
with few complications.

A GOVERNOR SPEAKS ON EDUCATION

The educational system must be better
integrated in the coming transition
periode The colleges must set them-
selves determincdly agains’ proposais

to degencrate them either into retreats;
for those who wish to oultivate a taste
for graciourc living, or into mere train-~
ing schools for those who seek » short
cut to success in vocational pursuitse
Each of these objectives is imverfeot.
We must provide practical education to
meet practical needs, to enable men and
women to earn a livelihood; we must pro-
vide also an education that will enable
them to build » life, full and usefule

The colleges would do well, I think, to
eliminate from their curricula courses
thet are frivolous and valuelesse lLike--
wise, they should not intrude upon the
specialized field of the trade schoolse
Technical schools would do well to
broaden their efforts so that their
graduates will be better grounded in the
languages and the social sciencese Thes
institutions dedicated to training
teschers for the common schools would
profit some from dewemphasis on tech
nique and more re-emphasis upon the
subjects that their graduates will
tench, The professional schools might
profitably consider whether their trend-
do not tend to divorce them from the
current of public thoughts

wWe~Ellis Arnold
Governor of Georgia