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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1916)
OREGON EMERALD Published each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the collar* year, by th* Associated Students of th* University of Oregon. Entered at the postofftce at Eugene as second class matter. Subscription rates, per year, Single copies, lo._______ STAFF KDITOIi-IN-CHllliir see* #'* # • •■#* • • • • •••**#**••••••***• Assistant Editors...Wallace Managing Editor... .Harold Hamntreet City Editor...Harry L. Knelt New* Editor.Mandel Weiss Copy Editors...D# Witt Gilbert, Clytle Hall Night Editor . .Ebcrle Sheldon H. SOM1 Leslie O. T* Special Writers. .Grace Edgington, Frances Shoemaker, Charles Dundore, Walter Kennon, Mary Baker. _ . . Administration .Klllam Sports .Chester A. Fee Assistant .James Sheehy Features ...Adrienne Bpping, Echo Zahl Dramatic Critic .James CeUars Dramatics..... Music. Eulalie Crosby Society .Beatrice Locke Luclle Watson GxdiostM ...... Louise Allen Reporters. .Kenneth Moores, Jean Bell, Marian Nell, Carroll Wlldin, Harold Bay, Robert McNary, Percy Boatman, Coralle Snell. Luclle Messner, Luclle Saunder, Joe Skelton, Stanley Eaton, Helen Brenton. BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS MANAGHR.FLOYD C. WESTEH.FIBLD Manager’s nnd Editor’s Phone -841. A New Mental Diagnosis. THE HUMAN mind has unravelled some mysterious riddles in the history of science, but for the most part science has coped with problems external to itself. With the possible exception of the riddle of the universe, the most evasive question that the human mind has undertaken is the diagnosis of itself. However, in this day and age of intellectual quests, the mind of man is speedily coming to know itself. Two weeks ago at a conference of psychologists in Chicago, Dr. Karl T. Waugh, professor of psychology at Beliot college, gave a re port on some mental tests that he has been conducting for the past three years on college students. The experiments were conducted to determine the relative ability and intelligence of students. Dr. Waugh, it seems, has realized that under our present sys tem of higher education, students are oftimes failures because they do not fit into the average class room. Students may get into classes in which the teaching methods demand tenacious memory, which they lack and instead are quick of compreliension, or of the slow and steady type of thinker. On the other hand it has been kfcown as a fact that some men who turned out to be of exceptional ability were failures in college. One of our own professors tells how he flunked a student out of college, who now is one of America's leading literary lights. These capable men who are misfits because of rare character istics are the victims of an educational system that as yet has been unable to devise a scientific method of determining special ability. And so too in the business world. The employer is usually forced to employ men on recommendation, to try them out to find their real merit or to subject them to a sink-or-swim try-out. All of these methods are unreliable and expensive. While Dr. Waugh’s experiments are not startling or even new, they appear to have promise, and at least show that in time education and business, by the aid of psychology, will be able to select students and employes for certain lines on individual meiit and not by the hit and-miss method. By means of test mehods, Dr. Waugh examined a number of college students at the end of their freshman year and again at the beginning of their senior year. By association with these students in the intervening time, he verified his experiments. In this interval the students showed an increase power of concentration of five per cent, in speed of learning four per cent, in quickness of association an increase of forty five per cent. lie was also able to determine the peculiar type of mental development of each subject, and also to de termine the composite of efficiency of an individual in a group of mental faculties. Oregana Pledges. AT THE last general session of the student body, the Oregana officials made an appeal to about four hundred students who hap pened to be present, and in order to have some figures on which to base their contract, blank pledges were distributed to be filled out by those desiring copies. Several weeks before this the students of the University thought that the Oregana was such an important record of annual college annals that they decided to take it out of the hands of the junior class and place it among the various important enterprises of the associated students. Yet on this particular day not one-half of those present at the student body meeting signed up for copies of the Oregana. If they did they forgot to hand the pledges to the management As a result the Oregana officials are scratching their heads over the problem that confronts them. Unless something happens—and that, rather sud denly—the Oregana will come off the press with about half as much bulk as a pocket diary. We hate to have to make an appeal to the students to support everv enterprise of the associated students. It gets rather tedious. Besides, the Oregana is published every year primarily for the stu dents. The students showed clearly by their vote that they wanted the annual, otherwise they would have abolished tire publication out right. The Oregana belongs to the students, and it is up to them to take care of tlieir belongings. It is perfectly evident that a large number of the pledgers for got to hand in their signed pledges. It would be of inestimable value to the Oregana management if such persons would turn them over to the Y.M.C.A. Book Exchange at the earliest possible time, and others desiring a copy can fill out a pledge at the same place. Immediate payment is not asked, and will not have to be in for some time. Dur ing that interval every student can save enough kael to buy the Ore gana by creating a little reserve account in his or her pocket and con tributing a few spare pennies each week to the fund. CAMPUS NOTES *1 * -—-—-— * Kappa Alpha Theta were entertained Friday evening with a dance at the Country clnb by Mrs. Wateon, Hn. K, EL Boyer and Mrs. I. H. Bingham. Quest* were Ann Dawson, Mae Ballosk and Isabel Young, from Albany, and Marjorie Kay from Salem. Denotations were in green. W. E. Schiffer, of 'Washington Gam ma Pi chapter of Alpha Tau Omega, was a guest at the A. T. O. house Sunday and Monday. Beta Theta Pi dinner guests on Sun* lay were: Bose Basler, Vera Olmstead, Eulalie Crosby, Leura Jerard, Claire Haines and Erna Petsold. Arthur Fertlg and Charley Flegal, both from Corvallis, spent the week-end at the Sigma Nu house. Mr. D. W. Davis, of Portland, was a Thursday evening dinner guest of Beta Theta Pi. Professor E. W. Allen, on his week end trip to Portland, met Cyrus Sweek, cx-*17, who is traveling for a book and stationery firm over the northwest states and California. Professor Allen said he was doing well and intends coming back to the University next fall TO TRAIN BIBLE LEADERS The Y. M. C. A. announces that there will be a teachers* training class for stu dents who are lending Bible classes or who wish to learn how. It is planned to have this open to ten or twelve upper classmen and others qualified for the work. Dr. H. D. Sheldon, head of the School of Education, will have charge of the course. It will last seven weeks, begin ning with the start of the spring semes ter and ending spring vacation. MISS PERKIN8 WILL SPEAR Miss Mary H. 'Perkins, of the Eng lish department, who is a state regent it the Daughters of the American Revolu tion, will address the Willamette chapter of that organisation in the interest ol the proposed women’s building, at the chapter’s annual meeting in -Portland, Wednesday. On her return from Port land Miss Perkins will stop off at Sa lem, and will return to the University, Thursday. President Campbell will re turn from his eastern trip Tuesday. $25,000 18 THE LIMIT. The fraternities on the campus at the Universty of California will be prohibit ed from building new houses costing ovei $25,000, according to a resolution pass ed by the board of trustees of the Uni versity at a recent meeting. First semester examinations at the University of Montana will be held dur ing the week of January 24. The second semester will open February 2. 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When we supply it, the Diamond will be of the purest ray. • We make “Quality” right; then the price right. Seth Laraway BUY of the Merchants who are advertising in the Ore gon Emerald. We believe in the Golden Rule. Student 9hctcd Will look after you personally.. One for cut free. Come See the New Platinum Tone & % Martin dtudic Upstairs 992 Willamette Crani Concert! “J||g ||Q§Q MSIQBI) ACAWTATA Eugene Philharmonic Society Assisted by THE UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA, 25 pieces, and Mrs. Chandler Cloan, Soprano, of Tacoma; Miss Louise Yoran, Contralto; Mrs, Ambrose Middleton, Contralto; Mr. Henry Paul Filer, Tenor; Mr. John Claire Montieth, Baritone, of Portland. EUGENE ARMORY