St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13
Farm by Day,
Study at Night
College Students Will Get
Summer School Credits
Working in Fields.

BROOKLYN. - Plans are being
completed for college summer
schools on the farm where city stu
dents will pass about four weeks har-
vesting crops and at the same time
attend classes for which they will
receive full college credit.
simultaneously, the board Of high
er education announced that the four
city colleges will begin this month
to recruit student and faculty men,
bers for summer farm work de-
signed to help solve the manpower
shortage. The colleges will work
with state and federal agencies In
placing students. However, Brook
Ign college was the only school
ready to give details Of its summer
program.
The originator Of the Brooklyn
plan for the combination Of brain
and Drawn in work-study camps is
Prof. Ralph c. Benedict, chairman
Of the Brooklyn college committee
on student employment, who said
that the farm schools will probably
be open to all students in city col
leges.
On Cooperative Basis.
Under present plans, DR.. Benedict
said, students studying similar sub
jects and their faculty will live CO.
operatively at camps situated main
ly in sections Of the state where
fruits and vegetables are grown. He
said that his committee was particu-
larry interested in establishing
camps in these regions because Eek
perience has shown that green hands
are most useful in harvesting these
types Of crops"
DR.. Benedict, who passed last
summer at farm camps near Red
Hook, where 100 students in city col
leges were employed, said that
classes would be held on evenings
and rainy days. He added that "our
experience with farm camps last
summer made it clear that many
such days and evenings could be
devoted to courses, provided that
faculty members would make them
selves available to give them"
DR.. Benedict said: I'VE expect
soon to have student groups organ
lied under faculty leaders. The
only remaining factor then will be
negotiation for farm-camp sites"
Standard courses, similar to those
taught at regular summer sessions
at city colleges, will be available to
the student farmers, DR.. Benedict
said. Among them will be English,
foreign languages and mathematics.
The farm life will be far from an
ivory tower refuge from the war,
however, since other courses will
prepare boys and girls for war serv-
ice. These will include military
mapping and photography.
Farm Biology Course.
DR.. Benedict will himself give a
course in farm biology this spring
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plan to work at the camps and will
continue his course at the farm
schools this summer. A series Of
orientation lectures also will be CIV
en- at the college this spring at the
suggestion Of federal farm agencies.
Prospective student-farmers will get
in trim for their summer workout
by doing some gardening on Brook
lyn campus plots.
The Importance Of the summer
farm-school to boys and girls who
wish to accelerate their college pro-
grams because Of the war was
stressed by DR.. Benedict He point
ed out that In addition to many boys
under IS in the colleges who face
induction soon there are hundreds
Of girls who wish to speed up their
educations so that they may work
In war industries or the auxiliary
services. He said, however, that
the first purpose Of the camps was
to aid the New York state farmer
who faces nnannouyer difficulties