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Hubbard regime has meant to Rochester football. Some
of the University's most loyal alumni were urging, then,
that football be abandoned. Nobody but Rochester's
1941-1942 opponent, now, regrets that the "Chicago
Plan" was not adopted. President Alan Valentine
launched the Rochester Plan instead. It has paid big
dividends in victories, and in student and alumni morale
at Rochester.
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Historian Sees No Early Victory;
Russia Weakened,Dr. Perkins says
The Ameriran people are not justified in expecting an
early end to the war, Dexter Perkins, professor ofhistory,
told the City Club at its January 9th meeting.
He warned against a too optimistic view of the
Russian campaign, while conceding that the Soviet
forces are carrying on a brilliantly directed offensive.
The strength of Russia will be severely diminished when
she enters the third yeotr of war this summer, he said,
and America cannot expect to win this war "by other
people's blood and other people's efforts."
He pointed out that American offensive plans are immensely
complicated by the enormous distances involved
in transporting men and equipment to distant and widely
separated fronts. In this connection, he declared, those
who ignore the ban on pleasure driving are" defying the
interests of the war in their own interests.
"It's far easier to walk or take the bus to the theater
than to fight Japanese snipers in jungle country or man a
ship that moves through sub-infested waters," he said.
.. 'Sacrifice' is too melodramatic a word for the comparatively
slight inconveniences that the war has brought to
Americans. We're going to find in the coming year that
total war carried on at a distance of 5,000 to 7,000 miles
is going to call for substantial curtailments."
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Employers ShunLiberalArts Men;
Placement Office Seeks Grad Data
. War conditions in general, and Selective Service regulations
in particular, are sending liberal arts graduates into
the armed services while their technically trained classmates
are being sought for jobs in war industries or in
war-related research, according to Thomas J. Gorham,
'35, the University's vocational counselor.
It is difficult to find jobs for the arts majors, companies
being unwilling to hire these men because of the virtual
certainty that they will soon be called to the colors.
Most arts students in the class graduated in December
anticipated this and had enlisted in the Army or Navy
Reserves; many of them are already in training camps
being prepared for commissions.
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The aviation industry took the largest share of the
thirty-eight graduates granted engineering and science
degrees, nine entering this field. Research and development
work with petroleum called for eight men. All of
the technical graduates are now in industries engaged in
war production, and are scattered from Massachusetts to
California, and from Rochester southward to Louisiana
and Texas.
The vocational counselor reports that his problem this
year has not been to find jobs for the graduates. There
have been more jobs than there were men to fill them,
and all but one of the seniors had been placed prior to
Commencement. He was therefore able to concentrate on
the task of helping each student select the job for which
he was most suited so far as interests, abilities, and circumstances
were concerned, and where he could make
the maximum contribution to the war effort.
Counselor Gorham is receiving, at fairly frequent intervals,
inquiries about older men. He would be glad to
talk with alumni who were graduated some years ago
and who have not yet found exactly the sort of position
they have been seeking.
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University Offers 2 -Year Courses
As Special War Service to Students
New flexibility is given the University's teaching programs
with the inauguration of special two-year courses
planned to meet specific war needs.
As announced by President Alan Valentine late in
January, four new courses will be offered, beginning in
May, at the opening of the Intersession. They will not
replace, but will supplement, the traditional four-year
degree program.
One course, a two-year basic curriculum in arts, is
available to men under eighteen years of age. The other
three are primarily for women, and include:
A two-year course in business administration.
A two-year program in laboratory techniques. Those
completing the course satisfactoriJy will be awarded
certificates for laboratory technicians.
A two-year course leading to the certificate for technical
aides.
It should be noted that no degrees are awarded. President
Valentine points out that many high school graduates
do not find it expedient to plan a full four-year
college course, even under the accelerated schedule that
makes possible the attainment of a degree in two and
two-thirds years. Most men students anticipate a call to
military service shortly after they become eighteen;
women students are increasingly anxious to participate
in useful war activities as soon as possible after completing
high school.
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