Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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OT direcT imporTance To The war eTTorT is The Training oT docTors, nurses, and engineers. The pro-- gram in The Schools oT Medicine, Nursing, and En- gineering has been acceleraTed by The addiTion oT a summer session To meeT The increasing need Tor sTudenTs Trained in These proTessions. In war Time as well as in peace The TuncTion OT The college is To Train leaders. For This purpose The Navy has esTablished aT VanderbilT The V-7 pro- gram, which is The basic Training Tor The Reserve OTTicers Training Corps. Junior and senior sTu- denTs enlisTed in V-7 Talce courses in navigaTion, spherical TrigonomeTry, physics, and hisTory. They are permiTTed To graduaTe. ATTer sTuclying sea- manship and ordnance, They are gualiiied Tor ap- poinTmenT as ensigns.. RecenTly esTablished is The V-I course Tor sTudenTs in The Junior College. Suc- cessTul compleTion oT The V-I course is gualiTicaTion Tor admiTTance To The V-7 program. 'The special Tields oT lcnowledge in The College oT ArTs and Sciences, such as physics, The chemisTry oT gases and explosives, indusTrial chemisTry, maThe- maTics, are necessary To acTual combaT as well as 0 WALLER s. LEATHERS, M.D., l.L.D. Dean of The School of Medicine FRANCES HELEN ZEIGLER, R.N., B.S. Dean of The School of Nursing

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SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND NURSING ual can besT serve his counTry in The par- Ticular niche inTo which he TiTs besT. Uni- versiTy Training is as imporTanT as miliTary Training in The business oT scienTiTic de- sTrucTion. STudenTs are discouraged Trom enlisTing. They are urged To conTinue Their educaTion as long as possible in order To prepare Themselves Tor any Task Their counTry asks oT Them. VanderbilT sTudenTs are as eager and ready To serve Their counTry as They ever were. They are calmly waiTing Tor Their call To duTy. Consciousness on The parT oT The sTu- denTs and TaculTy oT The role They have To play in The emergency has quickened Their inTeresT in every Tield oT sTudy. OTher- wise The exTernal appearance oT The cam- E161 pus has changed very Ii+TIe. AT The end oT This year The universiTy has TelT no abrupT loss oT men To The armed Torces. lmprovemenTs oT The TaciliTies oT The uni- versiTy have increased. The magniTicenT JoinT UniversiTy Library was opened Tor The sTudenTs in The Tall. Three Nashville schools, Peabody, ScarriTT, and VanderbilT, raised one million dollars and The Carne- gie FoundaTion maTched This wiTh anoTher million Tor The building oT The library. The sTudenT bodies oT The Three schools have The mosT up-To-daTe TaciliTies possible To obTain To help Them in Their worlc. The compleTion oT McTyeire l-lall, The new dormiTory Tor women, and The Library made The addiTion oT Two buildings To The campus in a single year.

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To producTion behind warTare. The imporTance oT These courses has been increased. ln addiTion To The acquiring oT special slcills, sTress has been laid on physical developmenT. The change Trom college liTe To The ardors oT miliTary Training is greaT. The maioriTy oT VanderbilT men sTudenTs will soon be enlisTed in some branch oT The service and, wiThouT preparaTion, The orienTaTion would be exTremely dif- TiculT. The program oT inTramural and maior sporTs is being conTinued as usual. ln addiTion To This, There is a compulsory program oT physical Training and calisThenics Tor all sTudenTs who are noT parTici- paTing in some maior sporT. The leadership oT educaTed men is imperaTive Tor The conducTing oT The war. IT will be even more so in The posT-war period oT adiusTmenT. The hisTory oT The aTTermaTh oT The TirsT World War Toreshad- ows To a degree The problems being creaTed by This war which will have To be solved-problems which reach even more deeply To The rooTs oT socieTy. ln This respecT The necessiTy Tor educaTion has become more imporTanT. To enable sTudenTs To compleTe I FRED J. LEWIS, M.S., C.E. Dean of The School of Engineering EARL C. ARNOLD, B.A., LL.B., LL.D. Dean of The School of Law