Him TESTS
STITE PRISONERS
Rathie, Owens, and Hart Get
Mental Inspection.
ARMY EXAM IS USED
Extension Division Reports
On 200 Convicts.
Miss Mozelle Hair, secretary of the
extension division, spent Tuesday, Oct.
lt>. in Salem for the purpose of giving
the Terman individual intelligence tests
to Hurt, Rathie and Owens, the three
men condemned to death for the shoot
ing of Sheriff Til Taylor at Pendleton
last summer. These men expressed them
selves as willing to take the tests. Dr.
Gregory, who returned from .Salem Mon
day evening, says the results of Miss
Hair’s work will probably not be made
public.
Dr. Gregory and Miss Hair gave two
intelligence tests and three school
achievement tests to about 1200 of the
270 men at the state penitentiary Mon
day. Dr. Gregory says about sixty per
cent of the men were apparently much
interested in the tests; the others were
sullen and indifferent, and did not re
spond in such a way that the data will
be useful for further studies.
Army Test Given.
The intelligence tests used were the
army alpha, the same as that given to tiie
soldiers during the recent war. and the
Terman group test. The school achieve
ment tests used were the Courtis arith
metic test in the four fundamentals, a
reading test designed for the sixth,
seventh and eighth grades, and a lan
guage test designed by Professor Greg
ory himself, for sixth, seventh and eighth
grade pupils. The results of the tests
are not yet tabulated.
With the exception of about seventy
who were out at work, the prisoners
were placed at the disposal of Miss Hair
and Dr. Gregory, he says, both forenoon
and afternoon as soon as their routine
work was done. The older men respond
ed to the tests better than the younger
ones, states Dr. Gregory. Tne one wo
man in the institution, he says, did not
take the tests.
Four Classes Noted.
Dr. Gregory says his impression of
the group as he saw them together, is
that they might be divided into four
classes. Twenty-five per cent of them
seem average men with average intelli
gence and good bearing; a second twenty
five per cent, are seemingly of average
intelligence, but rather of a criminal type,
the kind of men who would seem to
need watching; a third twenty-five per
cent appear to be of a very low grade of
humanity, some seemingly defective in in
telligence as well as in morals; the re
maining twenty-five per cent are sullen,
morose, and passive, and are probably
subnormal.
Dr. Gregory says he and Miss Hair
were treated with the utmost courtesy
while visiting the penitentiary, and his
Impression was that the prisoners are
exceedingly well treated.
Warden Compton, says Dr. Gregory, is
much interested in the tests, and would
like to have others given.
MUSIC FESTIVAL
GETS HIGH PRAISE
Progressive Action of Univer
sity of Oregon Lauded
In Publication.
“To tho University of Oregon belongs
the unique distinction of being the first
collegiate institution on the Pacific
Coast to inaugurate and put into effec
tive operation a music festival intended
to be an annual event of more than pass
ing importance.”
So says the August 21 issue of ‘Musi
cal America,” a weekly of national cir
culation published in New York, at the
beginning of a description of the festi
val which together with a large picture
of the soloists, the festival chorus and
the University orchestra covers a little
more than half a page.
The article mentions in detail the
parts taken by all the participants in thb
festival and speaks highly of the whole
program. 1 jilt fl
The closing paragraph says:
“If tin* excellence of future festivals is
as great as that of the first venture, the
permanancy of the festival will be fully
assured to the University of Oregon.”
LANDLADIES UNPOPULAR.
Just because the landladies in Ann Ar
bor boosted the rent 200 per cent, the
regents of tlie university authorized that
the barracks at Camp Custer be pur
chased and fitted up for malt; students
•v.
INTELLIGENCE TESTS
IDE III MIS HI
Oregon Children Superior in
Physique to Easterners.
That intelligence and achievement tests
are a better criterion of pupils’ grade
standing than the teachers’ estimate is
the conclusion of Giles M. Rucli, in his
report, just made public. Mr. Ruch
made an extended study of 135 children
of the seventh, eighth and ninth grades
in the campus high school last year when
he was principal of the school. Mr. Ruch
applied both physical and mental measure
ments using all the best known tests.
On the physical side, he made compari
sons with a number of similar studies in
eastern cities, and discovered that the
Oregon children are both taller and heav
ier than the eastern children. Their
vital index, a ratio between lung capa
city and height and weight, is also su
perior to that of eastern children.
The results of the general intelligence
tests agree with the teachers’ estimates
in about three-fourths of the cases. Mr.
Ruch believes that these tests give chil
dren of certain temperaments a better
standing than the usual method employed
by teachers. He thinks if the tests were
given at the beginning of the year, the
pupils would be better understood by
teachers and superintendents, and some
of the evils of lock-step promotion
would be eliminated.
In the pedagogical tests, Mr. Ituch
found that the campus high school chil
dren were above the average of groups in
the same grade in all subjects but arith
metic and writing. No instruction in
writing is given these children Beyond
the sixth grade, which probably accounts
for the deficiency there, says Dr. H. D,
Sheldon, dean of education.
Mr. Ruch’s work is the first attempt
to apply all of these tests at the same
time to the same group of children. His
object in making the tests was to deter
mine if possible what selioolastie use
could be made of the tests.
The bulletin is published as one of the
University of Oregon series.
Mr. Rucli is an Oregon graduate of
1014 and is now a graduate fellow at
Stanford University.
IDAHO STUDENTS INCREASE.
Steady increase is shown in reg stra
tion at the University of Idaho. So far
1710 students have, registered out cf
which 1072 are women.
SOCIETY TOO HARD BOILED.
As a result of the thirtieth annual run
ning of the Skull and Keys society at the
University of California, two students.
.T. W. Butler. ’21 and H. H. Cobb, ’21,
have been put on probation until next
August. The society has also been ppt
on probation.
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