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NEWARK ENGINEERING NOTES VOLUME 3 NUMBER 1 OCTOBER, 1939 ANNOUNCEMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO BEGIN THE WORK OF THE FRESHMAN YEAR IN FEBRUARY In order to meet a very real need the College has for the past several years made it possible for a limited number of high school graduates to begin the work of the Freshman year in February. Men entering at that time may, if they so desire, continue the work of the Freshman year during the Summer Session. Those who satisfactorily complete the work of the Spring and Summer Sessions are then eligible for admission to the Sophomore class the following September. All candidates for graduation who satisfactorily complete a regular course of study and the examina- tions required receive the degree of Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in the course pursued. 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NEW ARK ENGINEERING NOTES October, 1939 THE PRESIDENT'S DIARY October 5th without a very deep realization of the strength not Always as College opens in the Fall we find our- only of our democracy but our system of free public selves faced with the same old problem, not perhaps schools; not that I consider an engineering college in the same old way, but in a variety of ways, and the most important thing. It is not one-tenth as that is the problem of exclusion of prospective stu- important as the elementary or the secondary schools, dents. We have done a little more this year, and have but the material that we get from that source is of done it in a little better way than we have ever done such a character that I think anyone would realize it before. We have paid a little more attention to the that our own national plan of government is entirely boy as a well-rounded total personality, taking into safe in their hands. The thing that continually sur- account some of the facts a little outside his academic prises me more and more is the maturity of their record, making his academic record if you please, the judgment and the general high level of intelligence, necessary but not the sufficient condition for and by intelligence I mean fertility of mind. entrance. Mistakes which these young people make are mis- I think more and more we are coming to see that takes of ignorance purely, and if they do not do what if the boy's personality represents the sum total of his we think they should do, it is largely because of the reaction to his environment, and if the sum total is fact that they are too experienced or we are too dumb positive and shows any signs of leadership, that in the to understand the nature of the misunderstanding. somewhat different environment of college the same In any school work, of course, there are many general intelligence and characteristics may become individual students and individual difficulties which evident. If there were only some way to make these for the moment may loom large and out of all pro- young men come in early, and not wait until our sec- portion to the general averages. In these times when tions are filled to overflowing and then hope to be things seem to be stirred up abroad and in this coun- accepted. But when a man comes in, for instance, try as well, when I hear in lectures over the radio and from Central High School ranking second or third in at lunch hour of the great sinister forces which are a class of three hundred and forty-two, or something arising to overpower us here in America, it is then like that, it is very hard from a professional stand- that I am thankful that I have a contact with these point and from the standpoint of the public interest young people which is intimate, and I am thankful to say no to him. But this year, in looking over the that there is a deep strong faith in the future, con- candidates, I think we have a very high type of young tributed primarily by my relations with my students. man and there certainly are some signs of real leader- I was at West Point for dinner on Sunday and I came ship. home with the same feeling. Not long ago I had a chance to go through the October 11th Naval Academy at Annapolis and to meet some of As has been my custom for some years past, I have the midshipmen there and to see a good deal of the had a chance to talk to all four classes in the Day ranking personnel of the Navy, as much as I have College and Twilight group as well, and it has been seen of the Army in the past.