Southington High School - Chronicle Yearbook (Southington, CT)

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Elie K B 4-rlcHRoN1cLE ya-- Aviation is coming more and more tothe foreground. It is very rapidly usurping the position of the railroad and steamship as far as transportation is concerned. There is a great need for skilled workers in the aeronautical industry. Some corporations have been unable to fill their orders for planes, because of the lack of skilled laborers. Many aeronautical factories have es- tablished their own schools in order to train workers. There are aeronauti- cal courses in our universities. All our universities offer courses in agriculture, which has become ap science, today. Think of a course in food values and the preparation of food being offered to a college student of three hundred years ago! Our universities have decided that enough attention to food has not been given and are offer- ing courses in the study of it. Another new course offered today is sanitary engineering. Headlines have appeared in our newspapers The White Wings Go To College. New York University has opened a course in sanitation, a vital problem which concerns everybody. Our big cities present ample opportunities for careers in this field. One of the nation's chief problems is crime. Our universities are offering courses in crime and crime prevention. We are far behind Europe in this field, for the heads of criminal study abroad all hold college degrees. A University official was recently asked to make a list of courses which already existed and which would lead to procuring positions. Some men- tioned were catering, costume design- ing, pest control, hotel management, and laboratory technicians. The great expansion in the college curriculum of today which I have shown you, indicates that never before has there been such a wide variety of careers for young people as there is today. We should feel encouraged that we students today do not have to choose between two or three over- crowded professions or do pure mechanical labor. Each of us may find a place for himself in the world some- where among tthe countless careers. Classmates, we have arrived to- gether at the dawn of a new era with various opportunities awaiting us. Let us go forth to meet them will all our hearts and souls. -LENA OTT. Page Twenty-nine

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-MQCHRCNICLE we czlediczfazfy The Salutatorian has told you some- thing of the opportunities in the world today for those who are musically in- clined. I would like to point out how a college education today offers greater opportunities for a broader education than ever before in our history. Long ago, a college education em- phasized two subjects: the Classics oi Greece and Rome , and the Duties of a Christian to his Creator. Then, the people regarded Latin as the language of culture, and theology as queen of the sciences. Any boy graduating from grammar school was supposed to be able to read and write easy Latin and to know a little Greek grammar. If his knowledge included these points, he had satisfied the requirements for ad- mission to a college. It wasn't neces- sary to know whether he could add up a column of figures twice and get the same answer both times, nor name the principal rivers of New England, nor even be able to spell American cor- rectly. Today, the only necessary require- ments for admission to a college are that a pupil has graduated from a High School which has a reasonable standing, and that his marks are a cer- tain average. In some cases, College Entrance Board Examinations must be taken by the student, and very often Scholastic Aptitude Tests. a A narrow curriculum was offered the student in the college of yesterday and he was compelled to partake of whatever was given him. There was no elective system. The college stu- dent of bygone days studied the Bible all through his course and for a year, Cathechetical Divinity. So that he might read the Old Testament in the original, he studied Greek, and to read the New Testament in the original, he is Page Twenty-eight H studied Hebrew for a year- Af 0116 time, Chaldee and SYFIHC WCTC 3150 taught. If the student wanted to learn French or German, he would have to do it by himself, because the Univer- sity offered him no aid. Log1C, C'fh1CS, and politics were studied for two- years and a few lectures on physics, history, botany were sometimes slipped into the course. Anyone who was able to read the originals of the Old and New Testament into the Latin tongue, and to resolve them logically, provided he were of Godly life and conversation was awarded the bachelor's degree. A simple examination also decided who was worthy of a bachelor's degree. For the master's degree, the student must write a thesis. He must also possess a competent knowledge of logic, natural and moral philosophy, arithmetic, and astronomy. Besides the thesis for a master's degree, a number oi disputations were intro- duced into the college course. Many questions asked very profound, such as When Balaam's ass spoke, was there any change in its organs? Now let us look at the wide curricu- lum of our colleges of today and the opportunities they offer students in an almost unbelieveable variety of careers. No longer is the curriculum narrowed to purely academic subjects. Subjects are being introduced rapidly as the need for them arises. For in- stance, one of our universities has introduced a course in retail salesman- ship, which has some one hundred and sixty members in the class. The students, both men and women, are college graduates. They go to school for a certain period of time and then they are allowed to go into a store for practice purposes. The students acquire positions quickly because of their excellent training.

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