Show SOCIAL STUDIES ARE STRESSED AS NEED AT SAVANT SESSIONS salt lake city alty greater stress on 0 social o tal studies was wag the keynote of the 1933 convention of tho the Ameri american cai 1 association ot of state universities versi ties leold recently in chicago president george thomas ot of the university of utah was waa honored with his election to vice presidency ot of the group for the coming year it was reported at the convention meeting that fellowships in rural sociology and agricultural economics are being awarded in n increasing numbers this attitude on the part ot of colleges has come perhaps as the reaction to the overemphasis over emphasis given to exact sciences in college curricula over social studies the conditions affecting elementary education throughout the tha country were ere discussed and it was shown that children of t school age were not in school an and d that nation 2 2000 00 rural schools throughout the nation are closed with a prospect of additional schools being closed by christmas sixteen ool colleges leges have closed clo sed their doors and a survey of 29 states involving 25 school districts shows that financial obligations mounting to 40 million dollars have been defaulted |