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given amounts of work and reading, he would truly have the earmarks of a successful college graduate.

The nature of most courses in Social Studies is such that a person of normal intelligence can maintain average grades and yet be lazy so far as study habits are concerned. If each course could be laid out in such a manner as to make necessary a greater effort on the part of the individual toward organization of material, deciding what is most important and what is supplementary -- in other words, the mechanics of his studying -- I believe that the pupil would be gaining the greatest amount of information from his courses, and at the same time laying sound foundations for real success in his future. The issue of study habits is, of course, a fundamental one in any educational system and yet no indoctrination along such lines is stressed prior to entrance into college. Undoubtedly, such indoctrination should begin long before that time, but under present circumstances, if an awareness of such techniques is not cultivated in the universities, a high percentage of students will continue to graduate from colleges with only haphazard hhabits of approaching their real work.

The time of returning to the Farm is still indefinite for most of us, I suppose, but it is a time we are all looking forward to with anxiety. To say that I hope things will be just as they were is probably repeating the hope of a great many alumni, but in view of the kind of campus we left, it is a very understandable wish.

Sincerely yours,
Gordon R. Ewig.

Ensign Gordon R. Ewig
LST926
SoFPO
San Francisco, Calif.