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VOL. XLVI. THE UNIVERSITY OF GEOIMJIA, ATHENS, GEORG IaT JANUARY », tlM2. No. 12—Z-100.
VRA Speaker
Speed-up of Program Would
Necessitate Inclusion of
Summer Session
The University faculty began dis
cussions today for a speed-up of the
academic program in compliance with i
the "all out” war schedule of the
national government.
Under the proposed program a stu
dent would complete all requirements
for an academic degree in three years.
Freshman orientation would be
speeded up to June and the summer
Bchool session would be replaced by
a regular academic quarter.
According to William Tate, dean
of students, under the old plan a
student wasted from three to four
months during the summer. Placed
on a three year basis a student has a
fair chance of obtaining a degree be
fore being called into military ser
vice. The majority of students enter
at the age of 17 and can finish at 20.
Faculty to Discuss it
The proposal was presented to the
Executive Council this week by R.
P. Brooks, dean of the School of
Business Administration. Faculty
discussion will materialize within the
next two weeks.
The University has been on a three
year basis since the inaugural of the
summer school session several years
ago, but students have not been
urged to take advantage of this op
portunity.
The only administrative regulation
would be inaugurating a new fresh
man week in June, and revising the
freshman schedule to conform with
regular academic work.
Students completing high school
in May or June may step right into
college without a three month inter
lude. With three summer schools to
his credit, a student with three full
academic years can receive a degree
one year ahead of schedule.
Nation-wide Plan
This plan is being inaugurated in
colleges over the nation and the
southeast. An adoption by the Uni
versity may mean that the plan will
be used throughout the University
System. In that relation a student
would go to Junior college one and
one-half years and senior college an
other one and one-half years.
Adoption of this plan would mean
the placing of more courses at the
disposal of students during the sum
mer quarter. Heretofore students
found it hard to pick out courses
during the summer session that
would correlate with their regular
academic work.
If the proposal is adopted, it will
be effective immediately with a fresh
man orientation in June. This speed
up plan may counterbalance the quo
ta of University students who will
leave school for the Army.
Main argument against such a pro
gram is the regular military schedule.
Such a program would conflict with
military camp programs for advanced
R.O.T.C. students during the summer
months, but according to the admin
istration an agreement can be reach
ed whereby the military student may
complet e camp training and make
up the lost academic work during ex
tra hours of the fall, winter, and
spring quarters.
Swing ’em Open
If such a program is carried
through, many dormitories and din
ing halls, heretofore closed during
the summer session, would remain
open. A full faculty would be main
tained for the administration of the
academic program.
Such a program will call for strict
student efficiency and "all out” ef
fort. which is in direct relation to
the program outlined by Congress and
the national government.
An indirect blow to the new plan
would be the fact that many stu-|
dents work during the summer!
months so as to finance schooling]
during the Fall, Winter, and Spring
Quarters. These students would be,
unable to attend any session of sum
mer school. Especially would it be
a blow to the College of Agriculture.
Out 5 War Effort
University Theater
To Present Drama
With Paula Muller
‘Ladies in Retirement'’ Will
Open Feb. 5 in Fine Arts
Auditorium
“Ladies in Retirement,” a murder
play with a psychological angle and
a cast of six sexy women and one
lone male, has been announced as
the next production of the University
Theater. It is slated to open in the
auditorium of the Fine Arts Build
ing Thursday, February 5, with a sec
ond performance February 6.
In the leading role is Paula Muller,
Miami, Fla., who was the comedy
sensation of "The Male Animal,” in
the part of the colored servant. "La
dies in Retirement” gives her an ex
cellent opportunity to prove her abil
ities in a purely dramatic character
ization.
Low Tilley Alone
The only man in the cast is artist-
actor Lew Tilley, Atlanta, who gets
a chance to do a little sleuthing in
the part of a psychologist.
The remainder of the cast which
has Just been announced by Ed
Crouse, director of the Theater, is
Sarah Wilkerson, Sandersville; Beth
Hutchinson, Athens; Frances Clary,
Athens; Carolyn Baugh, Llthonla,
and Louise Platt, Gainesville.
Several of these actors have dem
onstrated their ability in past plays,
the most recent of which was “The
Male Animal."
The play was written in England
by Edward Percy and Reginald Den
ham and has just completed a long
and successful run on Broadway.
Hollywood recently released the mov
ie version with Ida Lupino and Lou
is Haywood in the major roles.
Questionable Virtue
Action takes place at the home of
a woman with alleged easy virtue.
The house is situated on the Thames
Estuary. She is visited by two of her
older sisters. When she attempts to
get rid of her sisters, she is killed
by her housekeeper and sealed Into
an oven. All this action takes place
on the stage. The remainder of the
play deals with the manner in which
the man in the plot makes a series
of eye-opening deductions which
prove that the housekeeper actually
is the murderer. A powerful climax
follows when the housekeeper is
forced to admit her own guilt.
Over 1,000 season tickets to the
Theater were sold this past fall and
Director Ed Crouse states, “This play
should be very interesting to stu
dents, as it is the type that will ap
peal to all of them. We are expect
ing a full house when ‘Ladies in Re
tirement’ opens.”
Concert Program
Will Begin Jan. 30
The schedule of the Fine Arts de
partment for the winter quarter,
which was announced this week, in
cludes Carroll Glenn, in the concert
series, January 30; the Men's Glee
Club’s northern tour, beginning Feb
ruary 17; the Fifth Annual Music
Festival, February 27 and 28, and
Debussy’s "Blessed Damozen” by the
Women’s Glee Club later in the term.
On the United States Naval Acad
emy concert series Hugh Hodgson,
Minna Hecker, and the University
Ilee Club are listed with the other
attractions there which include Al
bert Spaulding, Lawrence Tibbett,
and the Carmallta Maracct dance
group.
The Roth String Quartet will be
’eatured at the annual Music Fes-
Ival and will be accompanied by
Hugh Hodgson, director of the Fine
Arts department.
Plans for the Women’s Glee Club
presentation have not been com
pleted, but the program is expected
to take place early In March.
Religion Week
Begins Sunday;
Moore to Talk
Famous Methodist Minister
Will Speak at 8 Services
For Students
Bishop Arthur J. Moore of the
Methodist Church will be the speak
er at the fourth annual Religion-in-
Life Week to begin next Sunday
morning and to continue through
Wednesday evening. The services are
sponsored Jointly by the Voluntary
Religious Association and Athens
churches.
Bishop Moore will speak at eight
main services as well ns at several
luncheon and informal meetings. The
first service will be at the First Meth-|
odist Church at 11:16 a. m. Sunday.
A union service will be held at thej
First Baptist Church at 8 p. m. Main J
services for the three other days will J
be held morning and evening at the
Fine Arts Auditorium. Monday morn-'
ing service will be at 10:30, while j
the other two morning services will J
be at 11:30. All classes will be ex
cused for the 11:30 hour Wednesday.!
Evening services during the week |
will be held at 7:30.
Keynote of Services
"The Meaning of Religion in This
Time of World Chaos and Crisis” will
be the keynote of the services. Bish
op Moore’s subject for his first ad
dress will be “Is the Christian Gos
pel Adequate for a Time Like This?”
At 4 p. m. Sunday, Bishop Moore
will lead a discussion by Church and
VRA workers at the Faculty Club.
At the same time Mrs. Moore will
speak to a mass meeting of women
In the First Presbyterian Church.
This meeting is sponsored by the
Athens Council of Church Women.
Bishop Moore will address a fac
ulty luncheon in the dining hall of
the Ag Hill cafeteria Monday. Stu
dent leaders, ministers, and other in
terested friends have been Invited to
attend this meeting. On Tusday he
will address the Kiwanis Club at
luncheon and on Wednesday the Ro
tary Club.
President Harmon W. Caldwell has
called upon all organizations and
extra-curricuar groups to side-track
their activities for the meetings. All
students are urged to attend the con
vocation and mass meetings in the
Fine Arts Auditorium.
Moore Is Native Georgian
Bishop Moore was born at Way-
cross, Georgia, in 1888 and entered
the Methodist ministry from Emory
University in 1909, serving for ten
years as an evangelist. He later
served as pastor of churches In San
Antonio, Texas, and Birmingham,
Ala. He was then elected a bishop
and served in the United States for
four years. He has the distinction
of having been assigned to the larg
est episcopal area in the history of
the church as bishop of China, Korea,
Japan, Africa, Belgium, Poland, and
Czechoslovakia.
Bishop Moore’s appearance here
Is quite timely In view of his close
relationship with both the Chinese
and Japanese as well as with other
nations throughout the world. When
he left China in 1940 he was given
a certificate of honor from the Re
public of China, which reads:
China Honors Bishop
"The Government of China con
fers upon Bishop Arthur J. Moore
this award of honor In recognition
->f his distinguished and indispensa
ble service rendered in human relief
to the people of China.”
Bishop Moore is now resident
bishop of the Atanta area which
comprises Georgia and Florida. He
also Is president of Wesleyan College
and president of the Board of Mis
sions of the Methodist Church and
supervises Methodist mission work
in Europe.
Charter Day to Celebrate
Georgia’s 156th Birthday
January 27 has been set by the
Alumni Society as Charter Day, to be
observed throughout Georgia in ob
servance of the 166th anniversary of
the chartering of the oldest state
university in America.
A complete program will be an
nounced next week. Last year an ob
servance was held in each congres
sional district
ltl<diop Arthur J. Moore, above,
aggressive Methodist Church lead
er ami former religious worker in
tile Far East, will address student
grou|>s throughout the Religion-in-
Life Week which Itegins Sunday
Morning.
Debaters Planning
Northern Invasion;
Tryouts Thursday
Forensic Invader** Will Re
new Verbal Feuds; Yan
kees Here Feb. 4
Mon’s Varsity Debate tryouts will
be held Thursday afternoon, Janu
ary 16, at 3:46, in the auditorium of
the Language Building. The subject,
announced by Mr. Ralph Stephens,
debate coach, is, Resolved: That the
Best Interest of the South Demands
Greater Emphasis on Industrialism
Than Agrurianism.
The speeches will be limited to
four minutes with no rebuttals.
These tryouts are open to all male
students of the University, excluding
nine men who made the team In the
Full tryouts.
The debate team will have a full
Boheduln this winter and spring.
They will have a representative in
the National Intercollegiate Prize
Debate, which has a $1,000 first
prize; take their annual northern trip
In the latter part of February, and
enter the annual Spring tournaments.
Debates with other state Institu
tions have been scheduled for the
latter part of this month In Athens.
The first Yankee forensic Invasion
will occur February 4 when the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania debates the
Georgia boyB on the campus. Home
engagements with other Eastern uni
versities will be held at a later date.
On this year’s Northern tour the
Georgia debaters wiil meet Wlnthrop,
University of Richmond, William and
Mary, Johns Hopkins, one university
in Washington, D. C., University of
Pennsylvania, Princeton, Rutgers,
and New York University. They will
not debate Columbia University but
one of the debaters will represent the
University of Georgia on the Uni
versity Life program on February 14.
This program, a round table discus
sion on college life, Is sponsored by
Columbia and broadcast over a na
tionwide hook-up through the Mutual
Rroadcastlng System.
Uncle Sant to Rene fit
From No Decorations
University fraternities and so
rorities that have planned to enter
tain with formats during the Win
ter Quarter, will dance in an un
decorated atmosphere this year to
aid Uncle Sam and the American
Red Cross. Phi Mu took a real
patriotic Initiative by calling off
their dance and donating all party
funds to the United States defense
program.
This decision was reached in the
office of Robert M. Strozier, asso
ciate dean of students.
The money which would have
been used for decorations will be
spent either for defense bonds or
donated to the Red Cross. The
same assessments will be levied on
members as was planned.
The sororities represented were
Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Delta Delta,
and Phi Mu.
Fraternities were Phi Delta The
ta, PI Kappa Phi, Lambda Chi Al
pha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa
Alpha, and Kappa Sigma.
337 Students
Fail to Register
For University
Decline Is Normal Consider
ing Draft, Registrar T. W.
Reed Declares
By C. P. Scruggs
Despite the action of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Secon
dary Schools in dropping the Uni
versity from its accredited list, en
rollment figures released yesterday
by the registrar's office showed a de
crease of only 337 students from the
September total.
Students reporting late and tardy
transfers are expected to decrease
this deficit to around 276, Registrar
T. W. Reed said today.
Enrollment through yesterday was
2,641. The total was composed of
1,618 male students and 1,123 wo
men studonts.
Decrease less Than Expected
"This decrease was far less than
we had anticipated,” Mr. Reed said;
"and according to recent years we
can expect approximately 69 other
students to report.”
Registration for the winter quar
ter will continue until January 19.
"The average decrease for the
winter quarter is 160 studonts, and
the remainder of the number can
easily be attributed to the Army
draft measures and Vacant defense
positions,” Mr. Reed continued.
Last year the women’s registra
tion for tho winter quarter showed a
drop .of 67 students from the fall
quarter figures, while this year only
13 are not expected to return.
Vacancies in dormitory rooms
were less than usual this quarter In
■<pite of the smaller enrollment, Dean
Tate's office reported, probably be-
•ause of the Influx of town boarders
o the campus.
"Probably nine-tenths of the de-
•renso in male students was due to
nlistments in the Nation’s defense
forces,” Mr. Reed said, "while the
ither fraction could not return be
cause of low grades or financial con
ations.”
Caldwell Told ’em
Tho student body was urged by
President llarmon W. Cadwell early
in December not to drop from the
University rolls until absolutely nec
essary so that they could "prepare
themselves for un uncertain future."
Because of the acute shortage of
stenographer and volunteer defense
workers, there is a possibility that
a small number of women students
will leave the University to fill these
jobs.
The registration and probable con
scription of students who have
reached their 20th birthdays by Feb
ruary 16 will tend to further de
plete the school’s below-capaclty en
rollment.
An overwhelming drop had been
anticipated, and University officials
were quoted as "being very pleased”
at registration figures released. Of
ficials did not expect the enrollment
to reach anywhere near normal.
Some officials had expected a mini
mum drop of 600.
New Courses Given
In Summer School
More courses will be Offered in
summer school and the curriculum
will be greatly enriched in all proba-
blity. Dean L. L. Hendreu announced
today.
This enrichment will be done pri
marily for men students who plan
to enter military service. However,
it is hoped that a large number of
men and women students will re
spond.
Practically all the courses offered
during the regular school year will
be available to the summer school
students, and every possible advant
age will be given these students.
The faculty is anxious to conduct
a poll to discover the attitude of the
students In regular session who
would be Interested in summer
school.
In the past the summer school cur
riculum has been devoted largely to
teachers, and only about 26 per cent
of the students In regular session
have reported during the summer.
It is hoped that this increase in
| summer school curriculum will result
in an increase of students.
