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Show UNIVERSITY 1 NEWS NATIONAL DEFENSE Four engineering classes spon sored by the federal government got under way at the University of Utah this week, with capacity enrollment. Three other classes will begin next week, and successful suc-cessful candidates for the training train-ing have already nearly filled the rolls. The purpose of the nation-wide program of engineering courses for defense training is to educate men for technical work in the army and in industry in the event of the United States' entrance into a war. The courses are so designed that they will prepare men for special jobs, whether the men are graduate engineers, workers work-ers in vital defense industries, or merely untrained men who wish to prepare themselves for engineering engin-eering work. "Most of the r.?n want to become be-come more proficient in the line of work they like, so that they will be qualified to do that work in case of a war," said Dean A. LeRoy Taylor, of the University School, of Engineering, who is in charge of the defense training. Courses will prepare successful completers to pass Civil Service examinations. Ranging all the way from an elementary course in drafting, designed de-signed for high school graduates, to such subjects as aeronautical engineering, open only to graduate gradu-ate engineers, the courses are free to students, all expenses being be-ing paid by the government. Most Oof the classes are held in the evening, and the laboratory facilities faci-lities of the University Engineering Engineer-ing School are used. Instruction is given by members of the Engineering Eng-ineering faculty who are particularly parti-cularly qualified for the special type of work, and workers from the United States Bureau of Mines. This regular staff will be augmented by other prominent engineers, who will give parts of courses. "The training is attracting a fine type of men." Dean Taylor said. The majority of them are engineers, mine superintendents and foremen, industrial workers in the field of engineering, and young fellows who have war.ted "to study engineering after they (Continued on Page 4) fied because of physical unfitness. Perhaps the saddest of all registrants re-gistrants was a small little line (which probably felt even smaller) smal-ler) of students who were signing sign-ing up again for English A (high school grammer no credit) after having "flunked out" of the same course at the- end of the Fall Quarter! m UNIVERSITY NOTES (Continued from Page 1) left high school, but could not finance such an education." Some courses are foundation work for future study, some are a study of theory designed to augment practical knowledge gained gain-ed in industry, some will review various phases of the subject for engineers, and others will provide a study of certain subjects for engineers who graduated before that particular field developed. Enrollment is limited in all classes, and men interested in the courses should write immediately immedi-ately to the Dean of the Engineering Engin-eering School, Engineering Hall, University of Utah. (NOTE: Special stories will be sent out next week on enrollees in these courses from each city and county. ) BACK TO SCHOOL University of Utah students from all over the state, and from ten other states as well, trooped back to school last Monday, to ring up a record enrollment for the beginning of the Winter Quarter. Settling down to really serious effort after the holidays, students went true to form, enrolling in the courses known on the student grapevine as "heavies," indicating that they would keep up the established est-ablished precedent of working harder during the Winter Quarter Quart-er than at any other time. . "Snap" and "Fun" courses also got their share of the enrollment, nevertheless, one of the most popular of the latter being a class in skiing, designed to teach the fundamentals of the popular winter win-ter sport to beginners. Ski students stu-dents learn the tricks on a straw pile in the gymnasium before they try to do their stuff in the snow, thus avoiding accidents and saving sav-ing a great deal of time. Another course which proved popular on Registration Day was one in play writing and production, produc-tion, in which advanced speech students will attempt to write and produce their own plays. The ever-popular radio announcing course retained its share of speech students, too. The "Army" table for registration registra-tion was, perhaps, most popular of all at the "U". Men registered for Military Science and Tactics (University ROTC) until the U quota was filled. Those who arrived to late signed up as alternates, al-ternates, in case some of the "early birds" should be disquali- |