LIFE AND WORK OF DR. A. A. MURPHREE


to secure instruction which may be a help and pleasure to
them. The work is carried on through correspondence, class
and club study.
 The Department of Auditory Instruction is yet in the mak-
 ing. It is to consist of a broadcasting station situated on the
 University campus, for which the last legislature appropriated
 the necessary funds. This station will be ready to serve the
 people of Florida beginning in the fall of 1928. Through
 the Department of Auditory Instruction it is planned to offer
 to schools and individuals, by radio, cultural programs and
 instruction by lectures and discussion.
 The Department of Citizenship Training embraces two
 sections, the Citizens' Military Training Camps Bureau and the
 Americanization Bureau. The Training Camps Bureau assists
 the Military Training Camps Association and the War Depart-
 ment in enrolling young men for military instruction. The
 Americanization Bureau offers training for naturalization,
 citizenship schools and cooperation with patriotic societies.
 The Department of Visual Instruction includes a large
 library of visual aids, owned by the state, and lent to clubs,
 schools, and communities for purposes of cultural entertain-
 ment and instruction. This library is supplemented with
 materials secured by co-operating with large corporations
 and the departments and bureaus of the United States govern-
 ment. Motion picture films, slides, collections of reproduc-
 tions of masterpieces, prints, charts, and graphs, accompanied
 by lecture notes, are available.
 The Department of General Information and Service in-
cludes public information and library service which acts as a
clearing house for all kinds of information upon request for
help on any problem confronting the individual or community.
This department also includes a Public School and Community
Center Bureau, which supervises high school interscholastic,
academic and forensic contests, culminating in the state con-
test held annually at the University; a Student Activities Bu-
reau, through which students at the University assist schools
and communities by giving commencement addresses, illus-
trated lectures, open forum debates and by acting as judges
and coaches in various contests; a Publications Bureau which