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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
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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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