Evening star., 1942-09-06
Catholic University
Prepares 10 Open
Al Wartime Tempo
Special Glasses Planned
To Meet Needs for
Defense SkiIIs

Wartime tempo will be the dis
courses at Catholic University with
the opening of the fall semester of
the 1923 academic year, according
/ to the Right Rev. Msgr Patrick J.
i Mccormick, acting rector of the
university.
| Full-tine courses will get under
\ way on September 90 in all depart
/ ments of the university. On Sep
/ tember Is part-time classes in the
school of engineering and archi-
+, lecture will begin under the special
war training program which is being
pursued in cooperation with the
United States Office of Education
Similarly, the school of nursing edu-
cation will inaugurate wartime
classes in professional nursing under
grants by the Federal Government.
Sister NJ Olivia, dean of the nursing
school, announced that group of
100 students will begin intensive
instruction in preparation for ulti-
/ mate service with the armed forces
and in public health and Red Cross
posts. s
. Under the guidance of Prof.
j Thomas j. MacKavanagh, chair
man of the university's War-Train-
ing Committee, night classes will
start on September Is for 2-hour
periods in the school of engineering
They will continue for IL and 16
| weeks to prepare men and women
for technical positions in war plants
and Government services. Free tu-
ition is provided by the Government
to qualified students who desire in
, struction in variety of skills leading
to active employment in the war
effort.
Desired Skills Listed.
The courses are especially adapted
to persons who are unemployed
during the day hours and can de-
vote the period between 7 and 8
pm. to instruction in the following
subjects; Industrial cost accounting,
metallurgy of iron and steel, materi-
ais testing, the properties of war
metals and plastics, intermediate
structures, intermediate ordnance
machine design, statistical methods,
traffic management, advanced traffic
management. and inspection of ord
nance materials.
Wartime problems will also be
treated in several courses in the
department of economics, where a
staff of special instructors will be
in charge. Wartime accounting will
be given by DR.. Henry w. Sweeney,
chief of the accounting division of
the Navy Department and author
of several accounting textbooks.
Charles T. Sweeney of the Office of
Price Administration, who taught
accounting for five years at Iowa
State University, will teach cost ac-
counting as related to present war
effort problems. James E. Gillis, a
practicing public accountant and
teacher of long experience, will offer
advanced accounting theory, which
will deal with recent accounting de-
velopments.
In the Held OF labor, a course In
wartime labor problems will be given
by the Right Rev. Msgr. Francis G..
Haas, dean of the school Of social
science and a nationality known
mediator of labor difficulties. DR..
George T. Brown of the industrial
relations section of the War Depart
ment will offer a course in the his
tory of the American labor move
ment.
Two Statistics Courses.
Statistical problems brought about
by the war emergency will be dealt
with in two courses Advanced sta
tistics will be given by DIR. Jacob
Perlman, chief of the economics
division of the Social Security Board,
while DR.. Paul j. Fitzpatrick, secre-
tary OF the faculty of the graduate
school of social science and author
OF q number of volumes on