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Show COLLEGES FACE SERIOJB PHASE; Supply of Teachers De- dared Not to Be Now Available. PRIN'CETO.N, X. J.. Xov. 23. A serious seri-ous condition confronts tho country with J regard to educational reconstruction, ac- ; cording to speakors bei'01't; the associa- ' lion of co-leues and schools of the middle states and Maryland, in annual cuiien-; cuiien-; tiun here today. It was declared that : j tho colleges face a serious financial situ- : ation as a result of the abolishment of ! tho students' army training corps. The asyociat ion "ap; roved the action of' the assouiat ion of col lope president s of : Pennsylvania in urging that the national government maltc such financial arrange- I meats "as will enahie the colleges and universities of the L'nitcd Stales to complete com-plete the college year in as favorable fi- ; nancial conditions as would have been j the case had the S. A. T. C. continued j to the expiration of the contract in June, lfirt, made with the colleges." The speakers included Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university; Frederick C. Ferry, president , i of Hamilton college; John 11. Denbigh, president of Packer Collegiate Institute, and Dr. John G. Ilibben, president ot" : Princeton university. j I One of the first needs emphasized by 1 ; the speakers was for teachers, who, it j was said, are nut now available. Although there was a division on the question of vocational education, it was! the majority sentiment of the delegates ; that "the aims for which tho war had i been fought would be lost if we go in, in higher education, for vocational edu- cation primarily." In secondary schools, i speakers declared, there would bo more vocational education for certain classes of students. President Denbigh advo- catea that courses be introduced in these i schools without any languages whatever. t Dr. Hlbben said the term "slacker" ; should still be used to apply to students j who do not do a full day's work. "The : public will not stand for young men en- tering universities without a serious purpose, pur-pose, and we shall not stand for it at Princeton," he declared. |