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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1922)
Culture and Training Offered FUNDAMENTALS NECESSARY IN MEDICAL FIELD “The problem of medicine today is three-fold,” said Dr. Harry Beal Tor rey, head of the zoology department. “These problems are the development of practitioners, prevention and re search work. “The practitioner handles cases re sulting from accidents and unknown causes and emergency cases. Preven tion of disease will be a great thing in the future. When disease can be pre vented there will be no need of prac ticing. In research there is constant and profound investigation. “These three departments of medi cine always, co-exist; there is always the necessity for the practitioner of skill and good judgment. There is an increasing call for the general practi tioner who will be expected to possess the fine personal understanding of people, that the other practitioners ex hibited, as well as the best results of modern training. i\ow, me great tendency in medi cine is toward specialization along one line. In the future there will be an increased tendency toward general practice under modern conditions. A career awaits the medical student in the branch of public health and hy giene. It is recognized by the govern ment that this department is import ant and must be increased and encour aged. At Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Pennsylvania schools of medicine, ad vanced training in public health is given to graduates in medicine. Sim ilar schools on a less ambitious scale are being established in other parts of the country. “The great amount of research work and the number of research chairs offered by the schools indicate the large future of medicine. We are only at the threshold of what will be accomplished by researchers jn this profession. “In entering one of these fields of medicine too much emphasis cannot be laid on the fundamental training of the student. It is more important that he learn the fundamentals of the sciences well than that he devote him self too early to technical procedure. “There is the desirability of an all round culture for the student of medi cine—an all-round citizen, sensitive and sympathetic with the lives and conditions of men. “Oregon has a remarkable outlook in the field of medicine. It is yet young and plastic, unencumbered bv traditions and in a condition favor able to the instituting of improvements. “Oregon is the only medical school in the northwest at the present time, and will probably be the only school for some time to come. Our unified curriculum of seven years is univer sally regarded as an advance in the right direction. Toronto university is the only institute which can compare with our school in this respect.” MUSICAL SCHOOL PROFESSIONAL IN ITS STANDARDS “The aim of the school of music is to build up a professional school,” said Dean Landsburv, head of the school of music, in an interview yesterday in outlining the activities of that depart ment of the Univrsity. “This school should be a graduate school reaching down into the under graduate school one year,” he con tinued. “We want the students who are majoring with us to acquire a gen eral education, as well as training in the school of music. We have been working toward this end for some time and we hope to accomplish it in the future,” Dean Landsbury said. It was not his ambition, the Dean said, to have the largest number of majors in the University, but to enroll those who really like music and want to belong to the college of arts and sciences. This department of the Uni versity sponsors movements of state and nation-wide importance, such as the federation of music clubs and su pervisors' conferencs, he also asserted. “The school of music is made up of a series of schools,” he said. “One of the important departments is the teach ing of public school music, and the de mand for teachers throughout the coun try from this department is greater than the supply.” “Music is a vital element in campus activities, as well as elsewhere. It has an active part in commencement exercises and assemblies,” Dean Lands bury said. Another important aim of this school, according to the Dean, is that it stands for culture among the students. It also gives the students an opportunity to major in music. Asked how the University of Ore gon 's school of music ranked with other universities on the coast, Dean Lands bury said that the University of Ore gon school of music had no competitor in the west. On this campus, he con tinued, excellent equipment is avail able. There are 14 members of the faculty in the school of music, 92 ma jors and an enrollment of 400 students. TRAINING GIVEN IN NEW PHYSICAL EDUCATION FIELD “One of the greatest needs of the field of physical education is for trained, scientific workers,” said Dr. John Bovard, dean of the school of physical education. “Physical educa tion is a scientific field, and we need people who will advance this science,! study its laws, and work out its stan dards, for it is still a pioneer field.”. The school of physical education at the University is organized with four distinct departments: physical educa tion for women and for men, intercol-1 legiate athletics, and the University, health service. A department of phys io-therapy is being worked up and will j be continually improved, and equip- ; rnent bought. Each one of these de partments is presided over by a director, with the exception of the intercolle giate athletics department. While these four departments are distinct, they are all one so far as the faculty, the school as a whole, and teachers’ training is concerned. “The teachers’ training course has as its aim the training of the highest type of educators in college and uni versity physical education instruction, directors of high school physical edu cation; of athletics and coaches in the various sports, and of community and playground supervisors,” said Dr. Bo vard. The first two years of the course are based on fundamentals, with! a sound training in the sciences, so that in the advanced years work can be taken up which is based on the ele mentary courses. These foundation courses are similar to the pre-medic courses and give the student a thor ough understanding of anatomy, physi ology, bacteriology and hygiene. The upper division courses are so arranged that the student can take technical work along the particular lines desired with an insight into the big fields. Another aim of the school is to make the cultural foundation of the student as well developed as is possible, so that there will be no narrow minded specialists. “With this,” Dr. Bovard said, “is the desire to give them a thor ough training in the fundamentals of health and the laws of health, so that they will stand for hte best standards and be a force for better health in the community, and have health programs and all those little things that can be done by intelligent people who act in telligently.” GOOD ENGINEERS IN DEMAND SAYS DR. A. E. CASWELL “The opportunities for first class en gineers were never better than they arc today,” said Dr. A. E. Caswell, of the University department of pre-engineer ing. “Engineering is coming to the front, is now recognized as one of the learned professions, and is demanding long and careful preparation on the part of those who intend to become leaders in that field. “It is sometimes said that the pro fession is overcrowded. It is true that there are many engineers with narrow and inadequate preparation. These men always find it hard to get one of the good positions. On the other hand the world is ready to stand aside to allow anyone to pass who knows where he is going. “The engineer is essentially a crea tor. As such he needs a well-trained mind, a large body of suitable knowl edge, and a rational imaginative fac ulty. Above all, the engineer must be resourceful. All the great inventions were ideas before they became concrete facts. “The exact preparation which an en gineer needs depends to a certain ex tent upon the branch of engineering he intends to follow. At present the tendency in the better schools of en gineering is away from specialization and more toward general engineering. “On graduation the student takes the first, opportunity that offers itself, and takes advantage of every opening. “Mathematics and physics should be the foundation for the successful en gineer to build upon. Chemistry and geology and often bacteriolov are es sential to a scientific preparation for this field. “Here at Oregon we, in the pre-en gineering course, are right in line with the practice of the best schools and we expect our students to make their marks in the profession.” Hill niiiimiii !llfll li3l i Ml inniii Appreciation Since 1869 Hi To the University students we wish to express our most sincere thanks for their trade during the past school year, and we take plea sure in wishing them a prosperous and enjoyoble vacation period. This store has been one of the leading business institutions of Eu gene. During this time we have witnessed with great pleasure the rapid strides of the growth of the University of Oregon, and we are pleased to think that this store has at all times kept abreast with the University in development and in spirit. 1 I I i ! In the future 1 Next year, and the years that follow will bring greater success to this University. New faces will ap pear and the older ones will go, so to the departing seniors and to the freshmen and new students of next year let us express our heartiest good wishes—as friends with one big thing in common—A GREAT ER OREGON. W. A. Kuykendall; Inc. i The Store Appreciation For the hearty response we have received through our advertising in The Emerald from the students of the Uni versity, we are deeply grate ful, and that gratitude shall be expressed in some way more substantial than words. We shall express it by selling merchandise designed to suit the requirements of college men. Your interests shall al ways come before ours be cause you are our main in terest, and our word to you will be as good as its actual performance. WADE BROS. Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes A PLAIN FACTS Our lunch service is one of the joys of college life, our menu is heaping full of all sorts of delightful sand wiches, salads and pastries that are a delight to the taste and the eye. No night was •ever so cold that the Peter Pan didn't have something to offer in the line of a “warmer.” We are just as proud of our fountain as we are of our lunches. It is literally bub bling over with all sorts of original ice cold, refreshing drinks that make the world worth living in. No day was ever so hot that the Peter Pan fountain didn’t have some thing to offer in the line of a “cooler.” A Bit Personal To the seniors—we haven’t anything to offer in the line of fine sounding advice but we do wish to express our most sincere wishes for your success, and remember that when you come back Home coming this “old hang out” will be here to meet you, and greet you, as usual. To the rest of the gang— there is n’t very much to say, of course we hope that you have a good vacation and we '"■ope that you will all com^ back back to school next fall. It may be a little lone some around here this sum mer but next October we ll have everything polished up for the big year. So long. The Peter Pan Walt Hummel, Prop.