Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1946-03-08
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SAA> pAaNNA+ N<AiN Noh -
" college and major in English
ana be dumb in mathematics,
some Of the very basic subjects
ana fundamentals that are essen
uai TO graduate work have been
neglected or thrown aside by
somebody who said they were
education. 1t is useless tt give
man the higher education hen
ne has not had the elemen tary
6 lower. When one pulls nim-
Saf by lowering some one else
down, the gear is in Reverse or
q makes an unbalanced tqua-
don. So out where Mr.. Green
Is serving so efficiently, the equa-
ooo is not balanced. Scholar ship
Is in the background. at pres ent;
hut 1T is written. :"
In most of our colleges, there
Is what we call "selective' and
elective. have definitely con-
Guided that there is not enough
of the real fundamental and too
much elective and selective,-
not enough detective" Colleges
are one thing, and the material
nat is turned out in the field
d another. Many of our colleges
are doing fine job with the ma
terial they have to work with.
Your college may have a double
A rating. but If that college fails
to put emphasis on scholarship
and spend most of its time ped
ding honorary degrees. it should
n0t even be In telephone book"
Go back and read that article
s0me morel
For instance, at Arkansas Bap-
tist College, Mr.. Tandy w. Coggs
b the president. Every teacher
has a field that he has majored
IN, or that he is supposed to know
more about than anyone else.
See?
Last year six people (there may
be more) were second year when
sCfle0l closed lin 1916. l mean
tenth grade when I say second
year." This year these same
people. all six of them, are SEMI
Ws, or twelfth grade. Who pro-
NOTED them? The teacher who
worked out summer course of
study ''majored" in English. Yet,
she knew mathematics, science,
and everything else, and when
these students returned in Sep
'tember. 1916, to the surprise of all
the teachers, they were seniors
Penalized! That is not a good
word. Read on-From ten to
twenty-five dollars were paid for
this interim" course. Remem-
her there was no summer school
81 A. b. c.: no<eachers being paid
for such work; not one thing in
the catalogue Of that great col
hge said anything about anyone
can Jump" from tenth grade to
twelfth.
l wonder what were some of
the questions. l must assume
sAce l do not know. Read them.
Who was Hitler! Who do you
think can be compared to Hitler
n the state of Arkansas? If +
let you out early from dear old
A. b. c., where Professor o. c.
Green is Chairman fthe De-
partnent of Social Science, will
you mold sentiment to keep me
here as president, Will you be
Wiling to say II" the president
did all this work you see here?
II anyone tells you that l did not
send my children here to finish
College even though l was presi-
dent, and was urging other young
men and women to come. will
yvu tell them, "A change is good
for anybody and move ON" Will
you be willing to send me other
preachers and influential per-
sons up here and tell them if l |
am not here to see my niece who
runs things and works out all
interim" courses'
You will not discuss my record
al the Industrial School at Pine
Bluff, You will not say a word
about I came here under "fog"
as President. and I have done
very little except 60 UP and down
the state and gossip and build
sentiment for myself. Passed
from tenth to twelfth graded
Well your co'umnist just as
sumed that these could have been
some of the quest ions asked these
six people who to ok an "interim"
course which permitted them to
skip the eleventh grade or junior,