The log cabin Democrat., 1921-12-10
TO MAKE CENTRAL A JUNIOR COLLEGE DOMINATES BROAD FIELD Strong Conservatory With Two Years
 of Standardized College
 Work, is Plan.

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 lege the junior college If the denomi
 nation which adjourned yesterday a l Pine Bluff. It's junior and senior
 years will be removed, and it's courses
 for the freshman and sophmore years will be standardized to meet the high est educational requirements. Ouachlta College, which is also affected by the new plan, will gradually abandon its special departments and will become liberal arts college, leaving the special field to Central. Pres. D. S. Campbell expects Central to be great ly benefited by the new arrange ment.
 Conway Baptists given committee appointments by the convention were: J. Frankf Jones, state mission board and Dr. l.. E. Barton, trustee of the Baptist memorial hospital. Trustees named for Central are E. E. Stephan, H. E. Kirkpatrick, V. E. Florence, J. R. Riley, J. D. Dunaway and Gus Bush.
 The Arkansas Baptist state conven- tion which convened at Pine Bluff, closed it's sixty-ninth annual session yesterday. The next meeting of the convention will be held in Fayette- vile on Wednesday after the first Sunday in December. 1922. Rev. E. P. J. Garrott, pastor of the Baptist church of Conway, has been selected to preach the convention sermon.
 Several outstanding changes in gen. eral policy marked this meeting of the conevntion. A change in a constitu- tion does away with the executive board as formerly constituted and forms a new and smaller board, whose whole duty it shall be to collect and disburse the seventy-five million cam paign funds. The function of the former board in maintaining state missions was committed to state mission board of 24 members.
 The arrangement of the per centage was effected so that it will be possible for the new executive board to pay to the participating interests their funds regularly. c. k. Owen is a member of this new board.
 The outstanding feature of the con- vention was the address of Dr. George Truett of Dallas, on Thursday night. Dr. Truett spoke before a capacity house in the new high school audi torium His remarks were construc tive and he gave special reference to the hospital work
 One of the most interesting move ments in the convention touching Con- way people is that of new education al program which was adopted by it. Under this program and policy all of the Baptist schools are correlated and the Southern Association of Colleges. For the present the policy compre- hends junior college work by Central College. This will mean that the Col lege will discontinue for a time it's junior and senior work and devote it's entire time to the conservatory, its preparatory school and two years of college work. fully standardized and recognized. It also corprehends that Ouachita will discontinue its prepara- tory department and decrease it's school of music, confining it's work to the school of liberal arts. The mountain schools are all to be secondary schools and are required to meet the standards required by the state department of education. It is probable that this new program will be effective with the beginning of the 1922 school session.
 President Campbell expressed him self today as highly pleased with this new program. It will enable Central College, within the next few months to gain nationwide recognition for it's graduates, making it possible for graduate from the sophomore class from Central College to enter with full credits the University of Ar kansas, Ouachita College, and Hendrix College, as we'll as large eastern uni versailles and colleges. The field of junior college education is practical lv free field and bids fair to make Central one of the most prominent schools in the southwest. Its conserva- tory will he strengthened and it's special departments will be enlarged under the new regulation. It will not be considered at all necessary to re- duce the rreparatory department,
 The session was largely attended. there being probably 800 visitors in a+tardooco