FRIDAY, MARCH 5.1943
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Classes Speed Up For Meteorology
A course in analytic geometry was completed Monday to prepare 10 students for a meteorology course in connection with a government training program, Dean E. B. Stouffer of the Graduate School and professor of mathematics, announced yesterday.
From the request of the students themselves, Dean Stouffer agreed to teach the course in two and a half hours daily for three weeks. By com-
Ten students were enrolled in analytic geometry when Robert W. Webb, of the University of California, came to the University to recruit students for this government course. They dropped all other courses to concentrate on analytic geometry, lessening their training period six months.
From the request of the stu agreed to teach the course in three or four weeks. By completing the course before March 15, they were allowed to enroll in the meteorology course, which requires only 14 months instead of 20.
The government course is associated with aviation training, and is divided into three sections. Section A is for those students who have had calculus and physics, and requires eight months further training; section B is for those with credit in analytic geometry, and requires 14 months; and section C is for any student without college mathematics and calls for 20 months training.
Concentrate on Geometry
Seven of the students have been accepted already, and Dean Stouffer feels certain that the others will be. Delay has been caused probably because two who have not been accepted are in the reserve corps, and the other was late in applying, he said.
Has Testing Program
Another way in which the mathematics department helps to place its students is in the testing program at the first of every semester. Every student enrolling in the first course of college algebra is given a test in arithmetic and algebra.
If he dose exceptionally well in the test, his professor will check up his high school record and his psychological test score, and he may be
executed from taking algebra. If he does poorly, a transfer to the 5 hour course in algebra for three hours credit is suggested.
A special examination is offered to engineering students in algebra and trigonometry. If they pass it satisfactorily, they may be excused from both courses and be allowed to continue with analytic geometry.
For those who need help in the department, room 215 is open from 3:30 to 5:30 every afternoon through the semester. A regular faculty member and advanced or graduate students are on hand to direct students having difficulty.
Special Examination
Students who have been helping in this room this year are Arthur Benner, Ralph Dagenais, and Robert Harrison, all engineering juniors; Bertha Cummins, College sophomore; Judson Goodrich, College junior; and Clarence Beck, engineering senior.
All mathematics grades are kept on file in the office, grade sheets dating from 1890 are available, and pictures of the mathematics clubs, which includes most of the departmental majors. The club meets twice monthly to discuss subjects not included in the mathematics courses.
Library Open
Any student may study in the departmental library in room 207, and they may borrow books either from the branch library or from the mathematics office, Dean Stouffer explained.
Paper Issued
The Micrometer, Naval Training Station newspaper, was issued yesterday.
Military Secret
Men taking the course, 120 at a time for sixty-day periods, go out as instructors in camps in every part of the world.
To make use of these methods developed by Dr. Samuel Renshaw, the navy has established at Ohio State a "recognition school" to serve all branches of the armed services and all of the United Nations.
Columbus, Ohio, (ACP)—Methods of teaching visual perception developed by an Ohio State University professor of psychology are expected here to be the margin between victory and defeat in many an aerial dog-fight before the war is ended. They may also turn the tide in engagements among surface craft as well, military men declare.
New Visual Aid Helpful In War
Methods used in the school, the only one of its kind in the world, are a military secret. They are designed to train for a speedier recognition of approaching craft, either air or surface.
In their original conception, the methods were intended for use in peacetime teaching, not warfare. Several years ago Professor Renshaw became interested in so-called "mental wizards." He brought several of them to his laboratory and subjected them to weeks of examination and experimentation, to determine the secret of their powers.
New Methods
Out of this research came methods by which Professor Renshaw was able to develop in many of his own students the abilities ordinarily attributed in a mysterious way to "mental wizards" and "photographic minds."
Then came Pearl Harbor, and Dr. Renshaw saw in his methods the possibility of a major contribution to the war effort. Adaptations to
Ann Arbor, Mich. —(ACP)—Colleges face the prospect of an enormous increase in enrollments after the-war, according to Dr. Warren R. Good of the University of Michigan school of education.
Enrollment Increase Expected After War
"The federal government is already planning to subsidize the further education of men in service after the war, as it did after the first World war," Dr. Good asserts in an article appearing in the School of Education Bulletin. This means that hundreds of thousands of young men will be fed into the colleges every year for several years, Dr. Good says, and the rise in enrollments will be further accentuated by the greater prosperity of millions of workers who will have the means, as well as the ambition, to send their children to college.
"It is a crucial necessity, therefore, that the higher institutions now maintain the personnel and facilities they have as a nucleus for meeting the impending expansion," Dr. Good says. "They need, furthermore, to locate sites and make plans for inevitable plant expansion.
Dr. Good warns that the colleges are at present in no condition to meet this prospective boom either with adequate facilities for classwork, organizational demands and student housing, or with the needed faculty members and other personnel.
Topека, (INS) - County commissioners would be allowed to issue bonds and rebuild essential bridges during the war when all highway revenues are being curtailed, under a bill approved for passage today by the house ways and means committee.
The work met with the approval of the navy department, which has now entered into a contract with the University's research foundation to train larger groups on a permanent basis.
the military needs were made, and several small groups of naval officers came here on an experimental basis.
Killed by the same committee, however, was the bill to increase the gasoline tax one cent per gallon during the emergency.
Committee Votes For Bridge Bill
The house spent most of the morning disposing of the ways and means committee appropriation bills. The senate continued debate on the measure placing labor unions under strict state regulations.
The bill, which would place the hotels in the same class as railroads and gas companies, was referred to the public utilities committee, and for a while, was slated to be buried. The committee, however put the measure back in the house calendar.
The bills classifying Kansas' larger hotels as public utilities and placing them under the supervision of the state corporations commission was rescued from death today.
Jack Ballard, Lee Sanks, George Strunk, and James Scanlan, who are members of the AERC, but because of a clerical error did not receive their orders at the same time the other did, will report in Leavenworth March 11.
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