Classes and Assemblies Are
Managed by Students
INTEREST KEPT KEEN
Cuts From Weekly Meetings
No Longer Made
Students manage classes, speak before
the weekly assemblies, and control stu
dent body affairs at the University high
school. School work directed from the
point of view of the student is the se
ret of keeping up interest through the
years of senior and junior hij^i school,
according to Professor Hail It. Doug
lass, supervisor of the campus high.
The socialized recitation is the keynote
of the system, the purpose of which is
to make this part of class work more
of a social situation and less a part of
ordinary school room routine. The man
agement of the class is put into the
bands of a student elected by the class,
who appoints special committees and con
ducts the class as chairman, according
to parliamentary law. The teacher, in
the background, acts as educational ad
visor, and is ready to help if the students
get into deep water. The teacher also
talks over the lesson plan with the chair
man. The elasswork goes on however,
in the manner of a special investigation
conducted by a committee-meeting. Some
thing is lost by having the students in
charge of the class, Professor Douglass
says, but this is more than made up for
by the desire of the students to make a
good showing before their group.
System Is Successful.
“This system cannot be used in nil
classes, but where we have attempted
it, it has been successful,” Professor
Douglass said. History and English are
the subjects best taught by this method,
he said. The idea is to promote the
spirit that the class is a group of per
sons working together in the spirit of
inquiry and research; “the biggest mo
tive on which we build is the child’s own
instinct of curiosity and injuiry,” Mr.
Douglass said.
The assemblies present the biggest fea
ture in the student handling of affairs,
sa.vs R. K. Dickerson, principal of the
eampns high school. When a play or
debate is especially worked our in class,
or when a student does some particu
larly good piece of work m English, it
is given over again at the weeKly as
sembly for the benefit of the student
body. Students don’t want to cut as
semblies like this, Mr. Dickerson said,
and the opportunity of performing before
the student body nets ns incentive in
c.'ass work.
Have Student Government
The student body government is in the
hands of the president of the student
body, vice-president, secretary and treas
urer, all elected by popular vote. In ad
dition to these officers, who are usually,
although not necessarily, chosen from
the senior high school, there are three
representatives from th* junior high
school. It is actually a system of self
government in the matter of controlling
elections and in social affairs, although
u certain amount of faculty supervision
is exorcised, Mr. Dickerson said. The
students do handle such things as fire
drill. The have worked out a system
and attend to the policing and traffic
regulation of the drills, according to Mr.
Dickerson.
“The mechanical arrangement of the
new building is a great help,” the prin
cipal said. “There has been a distinct
difference in the school since we have
moved.”
AMERICAN COLLEGE
STUDENTS UNWORLDLY
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iiig an active part in college life.
“It is true that not all college students
are real scholars, but that is because ours
is a public educational system and not nti
education for the select few. as is true
in England,” she said. Dean Fox denied
that college students are more prone to
argue than are people in any other walk
of life. '“This is a thinking, and there
fore, a questioning age, and all people
are arguing.” When asked wherein the
eollege student was more worth while
than the one who did not go to eollege,
•she replied. “The college student has a
broader sympathy for human problems:
he is ready and eager to know the world.
No one more than the college student or
professor regrets that a few fall by the
wayside and are snobbish, but this snob
bishness is no more true of the eollege
student than of anyone else. In fact, the
students of our University are much
"lore democratic than are many of the
factory workers and business women
that T have met.”
Dean William Cl. Hale, of the law
school, said. “The thing most needed by
the college student is to learn to he a
severe critic, of his own work. It is not
so much what you are doing hut the
spirit and manner in which you are doing
it that is going to count in future life.”
Dean Halo regretted that college stu
dents lack, in many cases, a sense of pro
portion.
“The problem of the regeneration of
college life is not an administrative prob
lem but a problem that must be solved
by the students themselves. Informa
tion should be for mental and moral
habits and characteristics rather than
merely for the power to be gained
through knowledge,” he said. “However,
the college student has many advantages
over the one who has never gone to col
lege because he has acquired a broad
general knowledge and a large way of
looking at life. The man who goes into
business as soon as he is old enough
and does not have the opportunities of
a college education is necessarily nar
row because he has had a narrow train
nig.”
Miss Henrietta Gouy, instructor in
French and a graduate of a Fr«%ch uni
versity, who has lived all her life in
France until she. came to the University
of Oregon last fall, said: “The American
college student is much more responsible
than the French student because here in
America you have so many organizations
in your colleges and in these a student is i
given much responsibility. There is too
much living on the surface of things here
in America,” she continued. “So many
students feel that they know so much
already that they are unwilling to get to
the bottom of a subject. However, when
they leave college, life soon tenches them
that they do not know so much, and
then the habits acquired in college come
to their support and they make a suc
cess.” Miss Gouy believes that the fact
that so many students are prone to
argue trivial points is the fault of the
new system of education rather than of
I the student. “We encourage our stu
dents to think for themselves, to ques
tion and to argue with others, until it
becomes a habit that it carried too far.”
As a remedy, she believes that college
students should not be allowed so much
freedom and should be held more strictly
to a definite ,line of work.
0. A. C. OFFERS LECTURES
Course In Military Engineering Given
For Company “A.”
Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis,
April 18.—A series of lectures on mili
tary engineering is being given by the
school of engineering of the college for
the benefit of Company “A” engineers,
First regiment, national guard of Ore
gon. The course has been critically ex
amined by Colonel C. E. Dentler, senior
instructor inspector of Oregon national
guard, and Major R. Park, corps of . en
gineers, district engineer of second Port
land district. The lectures have been
supplied to all members of Company
“A” in mimeograph form and national
guard officers throughout the entire state
have also been provided with copies by
the Portland headquarters.
WILL COACH HIGH SCHOOL.
University of Nevada, Reno, April !!>.
—Noble Waite, varsity basketball cap
tain for the 1021 season, has been of
fered a place on the faculty of the Fallon
high school for the coming fall term as
professor and coach of athletics.
I
Bpard Authorizes New De
grees and Courses.
Numerous requests made by the Uni
versity to the board of higher curricula
were approved at a meeting of the board
held in the office of the chairman, ('. ,T.
Smith, in the Broadway building in Port
land Monday. These requests involved
changes in five of the University courses
of study, changes in titles of courses, and
the introduction of new courses. The
University was represented by President
P. D. Campbell and Dean Colin V. Dy
ment. w^iile O. A. C. was represented by
Dr. W. .T. Kerr and Dr. ,T. K. Partello.
The board approved the University
courses of study in pre-engineering, mil
itary science, medicine, commerce, and
geology. The three year pre-engineering
course which will be introduced next fall
satisfies the requirements of the first1
two years in professional engineering
schools such as the Universities of Illi
nois, Wisconsin, and California, Columbia
Uinversity, Cornell, and O. A. C. It pro
vides for a year of re-enforcing work in
science, and work in subjects of general
culture.
The course in military science will lead
to a commission from civil life. It in
cludes 57 hours work in military science.
110 hours in advanced mathematics, and
courses in history, English and philos
ophy.
Changes will be made in the school of
commerce which will cause most of the
work in that school to^ be taken in the
last two years and in graduate work.
The name of the school will be known as
the school of business administration,
and the degree which will be granted by
it will be the degree of master of busi
ness administration.
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According to the new seven year course
in medicine, a student, in order to re
ceive an M. D.. must have taken the de
gree of bachelor of arts.
Permission to give five years’ work in
geology which will lead to professional
geology was also granted. Other re
quests approved by the board deal with
changes in the names of courses and in
the hours of credit, and routine items
such as changes in announcements in the
catalog.
O. A. 0. was given permission bo give
the degrees of bachelor, of science in vo
cational education and bachelor of science
in military tactics.
Messengers
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You are Invited
Mrs. Scott, factory representative will be
here Friday, April 22nd to-give a free dem
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Come and
see ironing
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FRIDAY
APRIL 22nd
Sigwart Electric Co.
933 Willamette Phone 718
FURNITURE IS TRIED
IN NEW ALUMNI HALL
nterior Decorators Aid Mbs. Gerlinger;
Orange and Blue to Pre
dominate.
Miss Bertha Stuart and Everett Bab
ock, interior decorators, of Portland,
pent Tuesday on the campus at the in
itation of Mrs. George Gerlinger, wo
aan regent of the University, who wished
o have expert advice on the matter of
he harmonizing of the furniture to be
ilaeed in Alumni Hall in the Women's
Juilding. •
The furniture was assembled in the
Tall so that the tone effect of walls and
voodwork could be obtained with the
urniture. The predominating colors of
he furnishings of Alumni Hall are blue
nd orange.
“I have sought expert advice on the
urnishings all along,” said Mrs. Ger
inger. “and have found such people as
fliss Stuart and Mr. Babcock very gen
■rous and helpful. They are making this
'isit without remuneration.
“With extra money that has been giv
>n,” she continued, “I bought, on Mon
lay, three beautiful rugs for the grand
itaircase of the building. Rugs with a
leep, rich. Oriental blue predominating
vere selected to brighten the lobby, as
t is otherwise a little cold and severe.”
'artozian Brothers, of Portland, dealers
n Oriental rugs, sent a representative
;o the campus with samples from which
;he three rugs were selected.
The furniture is not being placed in
;he Hall to remain, as there is still some
'inishing to do. As soon as the tone and
ipacing has been seen, the pieces will
je removed to avoid the possibility of
rheir being marred in handling by busy
workmen.
WIRELESS REPORTS PLANNED.
University of Nevada, Reno. April 10.
—Arrangements have been practically
completed which will enable the univer
sity to receive wireless press reports
sent out by the University of Utah. Uni
versity of Washington and other colleges
and universities that are members of the
Southwest and Pacific Intercollegiate
Press Associations. A local student will
handle the work.
Patronize Emerald Advertisers.
LEARN MACHINE BOOKKEEPING
We teach machine hookkeeping, calculator and adding
machine bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, etc.
EUGENE BUSINESS COLLEGE
992 Willamette St. _ ,r Phone 666
A. E. ROBERTS, Manager.
Subscriptions to the starv
ing Chinese Relief fund may
be left at our store or at
Chamber of Comiherce.
Sale of Men’s Dress
Sox-100 dozen-25
and 35c grades
All Colors at
20c pa/r or 5 pairs for$J
Good news for men of a sale of fine
DARN PROOF SOX
x in black, tan, brown, navy and gray all sizes 91 to Hi,
'made with elastic cooped toe, double heel and toes and
sanitary dye.
A year ago these hose sold at 50c a pair. ?This sale
price is less than pre-war price and is for the balance
of this week only, 5 pairs for $1.00.
Caps and Gowns
SENIORS
Order your caps and gowns this week—all you want
at a rental of $2.00 for Commencement week-end
Special prices on note books, paper, stationery and
tennis shoes.
ELT.
500 arrows for archery just received
THE CO-OP
WHY
DREAM of GOOD THINGS
When you can come in hen; and have the time of your
life. You can always have* a good time through your
stomach. If your good tune depends upon a good,
menu—you enjoyment is assured when you come to
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H. BURGOYNE, Prop.