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List of course subjects with instructors and class size
This is a handwritten chart on a drawn grid (the paper has a watermark of Requisition Bond). At the top of the page is 'Institution[:] Southwestern University' and 'P.O.Address[:] Georgetown, Texas'. The chart has four columns, 'Subject,' 'Name of Officer in Charge,' 'No. of Instructors in Subject,' and 'No. of SATC Students,' the last of which is divided again into two columns, '1st Term' and '2nd Term Estimated'. The subjects are 'Military Law + Practice,' 'Sanitation + Hygiene,' 'Surveying + Mapmaking,' 'Mathematics,' 'Physics,' 'Chemistry,' 'Biology,' then two erased row values, 'English,' 'French,' 'German,' 'Geology + Geography,' 'History,' 'Psychology' and then three more erased rows.
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Letter regarding continued advanced technical study, dated Oct. 13, 1918
This is a letter from R. C. Maclaurin, Educational Director, and for 'President R. E. Vinson, Austin, Texas.' It directs Vinson to communicate to the heads of institutions in his district that SATC students who have completed at least one year in technical programs should continue their advanced studies 'until otherwise directed'.
District of Columbia -
Letter regarding the future of War Issues Courses, dated Nov. 30, 1918
Typed letter on War Department letterhead from the Committee on Education and Special Training to instructors of the War Issues Course. The letter indicates that courses related to the War Issues Course, including ‘courses on problems of the War, the Peace Conference, and Reconstruction,’ will continue at several educational institutions after demobilization of the SATC. The letter bears the horizontal watermark 'Hammermill Bond.' The letter concludes with the typed signature, 'Committee on Education and Special Training, By FRANK AYDELOTTE, Director of the War Issues Course.'
District of ColumbiaTags 1918, academics, American Association for International Conciliation, American Historical Association, Aydelotte, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Committee on Education and Special Training, Committee on Public Information, National Board for Historical Services, Southwestern University, Student Army Training Corps (SATC), War Department, War Issues Course, World Peace Foundation, World War I -
Brief outline of War Issues Course
Typed letter with 'Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. Office of the President' in the upper left-hand corner as blue letterhead. The letter has a vertical watermark that reads 'Oriole Linen Bond'. The body of the letter is addressed to President Robert E. Vinson, District Educational Director, SATC, and it regards the “character and organization” of a proposed 'War Issues Course at Southwestern University,' including plans for the Fall, Winter, and Spring terms. It specifies the members of the course planning committee as 'C. A. Nichols, Professor of Education, Chairman, A. S. Pegues, Dean, Professor of Economics, Walter Prichard, Acting Professor of History, J. C. Gobey, Professor of Chemistry.'
Georgetown, TX