Special Training Courses
A COURSE OF LECTURES as an introduction to naval training is being given at the request of the U. S. Navy for the benefit of students who have enlisted or who plan to serve in the navy. This course does not carry academic credit. It meets one evening per week in Dartmouth Hall and the lectures by Prof. A. L. Demaree, former Lieutenant (J.G.) USNR, are very well attended.
Dartmouth, in cooperation with the Civil Aeronautics Administration continues to offer civil pilot training courses of both primary and secondary grades. Three semester hours of credit are granted for successful completion of the primary course. The advanced or secondary CPT course gives the successful student credit for six semester hours of academic work.
Physical training has aroused widespread discussion in respect to what program the colleges should follow in preparing students for military service. One's first reaction to the question may well be that every college boy should be hard as nails, horny-handed from swinging an axe, and otherwise physically prepared to give battle to a tough foe. On second thought, however, there are only a certain number of hours in a day and Dartmouth's primary job is to provide its education, mental training and discipline to students.
The compulsory features of continuous college work have been increased under the war schedule and there are apt to be even more requirements rather than fewer in the future. Whether physical education and training of an exacting type beyond the sophomore year is demanded in the present situation is not clear, and the Dartmouth authorities are wisely taking enough time to find out before students are loaded down with more compulsion. Romeyn Berry in the Cornell Alumni News recently reminded his readers that it is student blood and not the blood of faculty committees that will be shed in the war. He suggested that administrators and teachers curb their desires to set up more requirements of students than may be necessary.
Dartmouth is working out a system of increased intensiveness in physical training. How it shall be established and organized, in relation to the other and enlarged requirements that are made on students' time and energy, will be decided shortly and will be in effect by the opening of the summer term.
"THE MAKING OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY" Hanover Holiday will begin Monday, May n, day after the Commencement exercisesand will end Friday, May 15, when class reunions begin and meetings of the AlumniCouncil, Secretaries Association, Class Treasurers and Class Agents will be held. Thegeneral subject of the week's program of daily faculty talks, and recreational activitiessponsored by the Hanover Inn, is listed under the pictures above which show, at left,Prof. Malcolm Keir who will speak on "Organized Labor in a Democratic Country" and,right, Prof. Kenneth L. Robinson whose talk on "The American Dream, Past andFuture" will be a feature of the Holiday program.
