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Show War - Conscious Cubs Fill ROTC Classes, New Intensive Courses Administration Seeks to Help Draft-Age Students Prepare; Sound Keynote of Learning Several intensified courses in essential war-time skills, added to the curriculum this semester to teach a full year's work in half that time, have drawn responses from many Southerners. ' Courses that .have been injected into the schedule this year include intensive mathematics, taught by Kenneth Ryan; special physics, instructed in-structed by C. Clinton Allen; aeronautics. aero-nautics. 1 and 2, taught by Alvin Butler; Rapid Combined Type 3 and shorthand, under Miss Ottillie Finster and Miss Martha Shroeder; rapid shorthand 2 with type 4, taught by Miss Gladys Alexander, and a special ROTC course headed i the best thing to happen to men I in this country, Sergeant Redmond began training of boys, athletes as , a whole, who joined the special Company E" first period class. If a boy is drafted with a background back-ground of ROTC training, he has a 75 percent better chance to advance ad-vance and to do more for his country coun-try than a boy who has had no Straining," Sergeant Redmond said. "We (the ROTC) give the basic training, which will be far more rigid than before, and if the boys . will take the work seriously, they can really accomplish something. Advance Work Ideas All the teachers stressed the need of focusing the attention of classes on work instead of leisure time and occasional play. They said that too many boys are taking the attitude of "eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die." They point out that this is entirely the wrong viewpoint. In three special assemblies conducted con-ducted for the boys before the ! new semester, student body leaders lead-ers expressed their ideas on why more serious thought should be given to subjects now, and Miss Winifred II. Dyer, assistant principal, prin-cipal, said that "we will do almost al-most anything to stand behind you and give you the things you need to help yourself and your country." Irvin Noall, manual arts supervisor, su-pervisor, told the youths that "the ones who work and prepare themselves are the ones who will come out on top." All the assemblies carried a theme of learn, and even Lieutenant Lieu-tenant T. L. Crawford, U S N R, who recruited V I candidates, stressed the importance of being prepared. He and other instructors instruc-tors demanded that students should work and learn. Learn physics, learn chem, learn math! by Sergeant Paul D. Redmond. Math Class Includes Review The intensive mathematics course includes a review of algebra 1, 2 and 3, geometry 1 and 2, and an introduction to higher mathematics, mathe-matics, including trigonometry. This course is intended to qualify the student for strenuous requirements require-ments for those seeking higher positions po-sitions in the armed forces. Mr. Ryan pointed out that it also would prove useful in many civilian occupations. occu-pations. He said that the principles prin-ciples taught "would aid rapid advancement ad-vancement in civil and army life. There are 40 enrolled in the fifth period class. Special physics is taught faster fast-er and harder to 48 boys registered regis-tered in the class. Mr. Allen described de-scribed the course as "just plain old physics," but added that the ideas were essential to those wishing wish-ing to be airplane pilots, engineers, or specialists in many branches of the 'armed forces. Aeronautics 'Offered Boys, Girls Offered to both boys and girls, though few girls took advantage of the course, aeronautics has enrolled 210. The class is substituted for auto mechanics. The rapid type and shorthand classes will aid students to be able to take dictation faster and type with, greater proficiency than those in regular classes; ; Advancing the opinion that compulsory com-pulsory military training would be |