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Educational Entertainment

Creator: n/a
Date: April 1932
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives


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Some of Georgia's leading educational institutions are furnishing us with a most interesting series of lectures by way of educational entertainment.

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Arrangements for this educational series were made at a luncheon meeting at the Warm Springs home of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt last October by Dr. C. M. Snelling, Chancelor University of Georgia, Athens; Dr. M. L. Brittain, President Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta; Dr. J. R. McCain, President Agnes Scott College, Decatur; Dr. Spright Dowell, President Mercer University, Macon; Dr. Harvey Cox, President Emory University, Emory University, Georgia.

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Lecturers who have come to Warm Springs from these well known institutions, at weekly intervals, include:

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"Self Education"

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Professor S. G. Stukes, Agnes Scott College.

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"Modern Business"

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Professor J. W. Jenkins, University of Ga.

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"Appraising the Opportunities for Gainful Occupation within the Community"

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Professor Thomas Quigley, Ga. School of Technology.

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"Cultural and Applied Art"

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Miss Louise Lewis, Agnes Scott College.

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"Opportunities in Civic Endeavor and Civil Service Work"

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Dr. Philip Davidson, Agnes Scott College.

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"French People"

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Professor Thomas Scott Holland, University of Ga.

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"Opportunities in Free-lance Writing"

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Miss Emma May Laney, Agnes Scott College.

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"Chemistry and What it Is Doing"

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Dr. J. S. Guy, Emory University.

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"Pressing Problems Confronting the United States"

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Dr. John B. Clark, Mercer University.

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"Reading -- a Powerful Influence for Pleasure or Profit"

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Dr. William Gilmer Perry, Ga. School of Technology.

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"Vocational Opportunities for the Physically Handicapped in Business and Technical Fields"

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Professor Paul W. Chapman, Ga. State College of Agriculture.

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"Opportunities Available to Handicapped People in Word and Pictorial News Gathering."

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Professor George M. Sparks, Ga. School of Technology.

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The incompleted portion of the schedule includes:

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"Agriculture"

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Dr. Andrew M. Soule, President State College of Agriculture, Athens.

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"Medicine"

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Dr. R. R. Kracke, Emory University.

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"Teaching as a Career"

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Dean Peyton Jacob, Mercer University.

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"The Mind and its Governing Influence in Life"

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Dr. G. C. White, Emory University

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"The Philosophy of Living"

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Dr. M. L. Brittain, President, Ga. School of Technology.

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