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Show them want scientific and technical education and see no reason why they should have to complete basic bas-ic liberal arts requirements. Dr. Watkins believes that returning re-turning veterans should be equipped equip-ped for occupational and professional profes-sional responsibility, but if they are to live interesting, satisfying and complete lives he believes they must be made familiar with the "priceless heritage of the liberal lib-eral arts." The increasing tendency of the young people in colleges and universities uni-versities to seek technical training train-ing along highly specialized lines, to the exclusion of a broad, general gener-al and liberal education, is no doubt explained by the economic returns that come to the specialist special-ist in later life. Just the same, the country can hardly afford to lose the valuable service that is made available to society through the education of men and women in the liberal arts. PROFESSOR SEES NEED OF LIBERAL ARTS "Nothing could be more fatal to the security and peace of our people," peo-ple," declares Dr. Gordon Wat-kins Wat-kins ,dean of the College of Letters Let-ters and Science of the University of California, at Los Angeles, technical and professional educa-"than educa-"than excessive emphasis upon tion to the exclusion of the liberal and humanistic arts." The educator calls attention to a disturbing trend, evidenced in the letters received from soldiers and sailors, showing that most of |