to V-7, and be permitted to complete his study for the bachelor’s
degree before reporting for active duty. He can be assigned to V-5,
aviation cadet, and be called up at once or as soon as he is needed.
Those failing to meet V-7 or V-5 standards after two years of study
will be assigned to regular naval training stations as seamen, second
class. By the time the student is 20 he has a fine chance to become
commissioned and if he does not become commissioned he has at
least an equivalent rating to what he would have if he enlisted then
or became inducted under Selective Service. Students who have
been accepted by the Navy as V-l men will be required to study
certain subjects, such as mathematics, physics, and physical training.
These are required or elective courses for students in divisions of
this College.

Students entering military services by induction through Selective
Service are reporting a high percentage of assignments to specialized
duties in their fields of college specialization. It is assumed that the
military officials will continue to select men for specialized services
in keeping with their technical training.

The College cannot predict changes in enlistment procedures and
policies. At present it appears that Springfield men are needed for
professional work and are being recognized by military and naval
officials if they merit appointment.

18. Do Springfield students obtain occupational deferment?

The Selective Service Act and certain “directives” issued by the
National Headquarters specify that certain classes of college and
university students are to be considered for deferment. These
lists have mentioned some of the fields for which Springfield prepares.

The more general principle is that men are to be deferred who
are judged by their Selective Service Boards as “necessary to activities,
the maintenance of which is essential to the war production program
and the national health, safety, and interest.”

The interpretation of this last clause is individual. Different boards
may place different interpretations on given vocational groups in
the light of local situations. There apparently can and will be no
blanket coverage by all the Boards of any groups of college “majors”
other than those in branches of engineering, science, medicine, and
dentistry.

Recently, however, the National Headquarters of the Selective
Service System issued a memorandum calling attention to the fact
that there is a distinct shortage in certain classes of high school
teachers, namely, in vocational education, industrial arts, vocational
agriculture, physical education for men, and to a lesser degree in
physical science and mathematics.

The order was summarized with the sentence “The obligation of
an individual for training and service should be carefully weighed
against the national interest involved in the maintenance of the
level of secondary education.”

The interpretation of this memorandum is still a local matter.
The report is reviewed here to show that there is a demand for
Health and Physical Education teachers today, that they should be
deferred when there is acute need for them in a given place, and
that men studying and serving in this field are officially recognized
as being important to the national health, safety, and interest.

19. What will the College do if I am called into service?

If you withdraw from the College because you are called by your
Selective Service Board or if you enlist in military service, you will
be refunded your tuition for the term in which you are then registered.
Room rent will be prorated.

You will be given an honorable dismissal by the Dean and will
be eligible for re-entry at a later date.

You will be “followed” by the College by means of bulletins, the
student paper and special communications. You will still be con-
sidered a Springfield student.

A word about the way the College handles requests for deferment
is in order. When a student wishes to have the College support his
appeal for deferment until the end of the current year or until gradu-
ation, he confers with the Dean. The Dean goes over his record
and, in consultation with the divisional Directors and other interested
faculty members, determines whether the College can honestly support
the man’s request for deferment. If he is to be supported, the Dean
forwards the necessary information and credentials to the Chairman
of the student’s Selective Service Board.

Furthermore, the Dean has extensive information concerning all
branches of the services. Before a student is inducted as a selectee
he may desire to enlist in a preferred branch. The Dean will counsel
with him concerning such opportunities and procedures.

This is a description of present facts and practices. The College
does not know whether enlistments will continue to be permitted nor
whether subsequent directives of the National Headquarters of the
Selective Service System will alter the relation of students to the
colleges they attend.

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“Next to active military service itself, there is no higher
Opportunity for serving our country than helping youth to
carry on in their efforts to mold themselves physically strong,
mentally awake and morally straight.”—From a recent address
by President Roosevelt on the occasion of the fiftieth anni-
versary of the Boy Scouts.

 

 

 

New Emphasis Placed On
Exploratory Program

Oe alumni and friends of the College write in to ask

whether it is appropriate for them to recommend young men to
this College who are not sure of their educational and vocational
objectives and who have been thinking of Springfield as a College
which they could attend during the process of making their long-
range decision regarding certain fields of specialized study.

Springfield College does not sponsor a formal “junior college”
program, but it does have a program of courses which will serve the
same purpose and which also provides a student with an opportunity
to continue on to graduation in the College if this is where he belongs.

For these young men, Springfield College recommends the following
program of Educational and Vocational Exploration.

@ e@ @ Two years of solid liberal arts and sciences (English, two
years; History, Sociology, Economics, Psychology, Biblical Literature,
Biology, another Science or Mathematics, one year each; plus certain
electives).

@ e @ A comprehensive program of educational and vocational
testing and guidance, including remedial work to correct special |
academic and personal disabilities.

@ @ @ A comprehensive program in physical fitness, including test-
ing and remedial work, thorough training in personal hygiene, par-
ticipation in competitive athletics, and development of a wide variety
of recreational and sports skills which will have “carry-over” value
to later life.

@ @ © Continuation in the College for upper-level work leading to
a degree—if the student can be served best by the offerings of Spring-
field College; Transfer to some other college—if the student can
obtain a program of greater service to him in another college. The
College recognizes its curricular specialization and makes no attempt
to “hold” any student whose interest and abilities it cannot properly
serve. These transfers may be made to liberal or to professional
colleges and may occur at the end of the first, second, or third year
without loss of credit, except in those cases where students make
radical changes in their educational plans.

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