University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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. Sw aircraft inspecting, a chine operations. ating ma- Little can be said of the University ' s research activities, except that more than 300 scientific workers are engaged in 150 projects on which the govern- ment is spending approximately $500,- ooo a year and private industry about as much more. Training for war is the big business at the University of Michigan, but it hasn ' t yielded to hysteria, scorn, or rid- icule. Today the humanities, the cul- tural and non-technical courses which President Ruthven fought to maintain for Michigan (amongst scoffs of edu- cators and educated all over the coun- try), have been given top priority rating by the Government. This means that they have first call on the instructional facilities of the institution. iiLittle by little the emphasis in war- jtraining has been shifting. Today at [Michigan the emphasis is upon the field of humanities, in which, according to military authorities, the University has assumed a top ranking position. Stress is placed on the study of the lands and the people of the countries which eventually will be liberated or occupied by the United Nations. The intensive curriculum includes instruction in the languages especially Japanese and Michigan is the only college offering to Army personnel courses in Persian, (the language of the country considered of prime importance in the strategy of war), racial origins, civil institutions, his- tory, economics, communication, natu- ral resources, ecology, and geography. President Ruthven contends with con- tinued good fortune, that on the con- clusion of the peace our institution will revert immediately and smoothly to its major role that of preparing the youth of the state and nation for leadership in the world to come.

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KESOMER Vr + 1 1 es, the service men are here over 4000 strong are being trained at the University of Michigan. The questions circulating about campus seem to per- tain to just what these fellows are doing here, and it has even gotten to the point where service men wonder what the other service men are doing. There are so many of them what are they sudy- ing for and why so many at Michigan? It ' s a little known fact that Michigan is one of the few schools in the country designated to train men of the ARMY, literati i kydi ibjiiii tin is I Unr n ' t vit NAVY, MARINE CORPS, AIR|inil f ], FORCE, and COAST GUARD. The Army moved its judge advocate gen- eral ' s school here from Washington, and for | the Navy its post-graduate school in naval architecture from Annapolis. In little more than a year the Univer- sity has trained more than 2,000 civ- ilian employees of the War Department in ordnance materiel inspection, ultra- high frequency radio, surveying, map- making, engine-acceptance testing,

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Mighty smooth formations Cap- tain Cassidy and staff review Ma- rines, Blue-jackets, and Naval ROTC all out on parade.