Oregon daily emerald., January 13, 1923, Page 4, Image 4

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
PLANS FIHST CONCERT
Musical Treat Will Be Given
January 28
The University symphony orchestra,
directed by Rex Underwood, of the
school of music, is to make its first
down town appearance January 28,
when it will give a concert in the
Methodist church under the auspices of
the Eugene Iilks.
The material in the orchestra this
year is unusually fine, and the concert
is being given with the idea of show
ing the Eugene people some of the
musical ability of the campus, at the
same time giving them a musical treat,
since orchestra concerts seldom come
here. The program given at the “pop”
concert in December will be repeated,
and Mr. Underwood is adding several
other numbers of the same type to the
program. The music is particularly ap
propriate for symphony orchestras and
represents both the classical and ro
mantic schools of music. Mr. Under
wood pays particular attention to the
choice of numbers for these programs
and endeavors to make them both com
prehensive and entertaining.
A large sectional platform is being
built so that the entire orchestra may
be accommodated. This is removable
and will be given to the church so that
it may be used for future concerts. The
money for the building material and
labor is being given by the Elks, and
the work is to be done by the Univer
sity carpenters.
The admission price has not been de
finitely decided, it is possible that this
may be done away with and a collection
taken up to defray any expenses which
may be incurred, and any surplus will
be given to some institution in Eugene
to be used for charity.
All arrangements for the concert are
being made by a committee composed
of Oeorge McMorran, A, A, Dorris, as
sisted by the school of music. The ,
program will be announced later.
DIVERGENT VIEWS GIVEN
(Continued from page one.)
versify. The present term plan to be
effective necessitates four and live hour
courses. The University has not large
is both of time and money to the Uni
enough faculty tTT give a sufficient var
iety of those courses, so many necessary
advanced courses must be eliminated.:
If (he quarters are to be of equal length
and properly placed as regards vaca
tions the University session does not
end until the 25th of June, as is the
case this year, consequently Oregon stu
dents arc at a great disadvantage in
securing jobs for the summer.”
Change Is Condemned
‘‘It was the hope of many that the
University in its process of growth was
through with administrative changes!
for a while at least, and might now de
vote itself to more important things,”
said Dean Allen in stating his belief)
that the proposed system will result in
the throwing into the waste basket
work which has been carefully built up.
“However, for the comparative slight
advantage of the semester plan—or no
advantage at all as nearly half of the I
faculty believe—many of us must do-1
vote our energy for months to come to 1
reorganizing courses, straightening out
credits, tolling students what will and
what will not fulfill the final third of
a group requirement, and to other time
consuming nonproductive work. All'
of this will be at the expense of the in
telleetual life of the University which
after all these weary years of inade
quate UUPDOfi ami struggle for exis
tence seems about to come to such a fine
fruition. A tremendous amount of de
tailed work has been done in the last
two years devising required study sehe
dules for various departments—-a de
parture in education by which the Uni
versity of Oregon hoped to show the
educational world something better
than the discredited elective system.
This labor has involved a vast amount
of negotiation between departments
and adjustment of courses. Now every
department is to be set to work to
lengthen this course or shorten that
one, and the principal work of Dean
Dymeut and his associates for the last
two years is callously tossed into the
wastebasket. The weary, weary pro
cess must be begun till over .again, and
Oregon must be for at least three years
more in the limbo of those colleges
whose curricula are neither fish nor
flesh nor good red herring. That is
only part of the faculty side; the stu
dent who wishes to spend part of the
year in self support 1ms a considerably
greater grievance. Soiiie will merely
find life under the semester plan some
what harder, the year more difficult
to arrange, courses less easily fitted to
gather: others few, let Us hope—will
probably give up the hope of earning
an education.”
Koubins lor uhange
Concisely stressing one point, l)<an
!•). > Itobbins, of the school of business
administration, nm<le this statement:
“The whole tendency of the University
under the term plan is toward creating
one year coordinated courses. Obvious
ly, the student who can attend only
part of the year is at a great disad
vantage because the University is tinan
daily unable to provide sufficient bas
ic courses beginning each term. Fur
thermore, if we move to the idea advo
cated by some adherents of the term
plan of giving examinations only at the
end of the school year, we virtually
debar part time students. This is un
fair and the evil can best be eliminated
by the return to the semester plan.”
Dr. E. L. Packard, head of the Uni
versity research committee, believes
that if the advising professors would
consider more carefully the year’s
course for their students at the begin
ning of the fall term it would save
time in the end, instead of making out
new schedules each term. Dr. Packard
thinks some plan might be worked out
whereby the year’s work could be plan
ned at the beginning of the fall session
according to the year schedule last
year that would eliminate the three
registrations in part at least.
Rowe Backs Semesters
In an elaborate argument, too leng
thy to print in full, Dr. H. C. Howe,
head of the English department, mem
ber of the executive council, and ath
letic representative, upholds the two
term system. Briefly, Dr. Howe’s ar
guments are summarized as follows:
The advantages of the two-semester
plan to the University in the way of
economizing time, work, and money,
and increasing continuity and efficiency
of work; secondly, the advantage to
athletics, and thirdly, the advantage to
students who have to work in the sum
mer. Covering his first arguments, he
pointed out how a reduction in the
number of terms would eliminate a
large portion of the work in the busi
ness offices, would save much time .in
registration, examinations, reading of
papers and recording grades. “Economy
of administration where thus easily se
curable, may be regarded as no less
than a patriotic duty in times of such
financial stress as the present,” said
Dr. Howe. Dr. Howe reminds the stu
dents that the present system forces a
late opening of the school year and
throws commencement late in June.
Students from other colleges, getting
out from one to three weeks earlier,
get the pick of the summer jobs, he
said.
It is known that all members of the
psychology department are opposed to
the division of the school year into
two parts, but due to class work and
absence from offices it was impossible
to obtain their arguments for the re
tention of^the present system late yes
terday afternoon.
Carlton E. Spencer, registrar, told..an
Emerald reporter yesterday that he is
personally inclined to favor the semes
ter plan because “it will reduce and les
sen the burden on students and faculty
in the matter of prodedural details.”
The students will not have to go
through the process of registering so
often,” said Mr. Spencer. “The year's
work c^n be determined and carried on
with fewer interruptions, instructors
will be called on for fewer reports, it
will be easier to fulfill group require
ments involving year courses as there
will be lesser chance to go wrong, and
students will not have to go through
the process of petitioning so often.”
Dr. O. B. Stafford, of the department
of chemistry, believes that the balance
of argument is in favor of the tri-se- j
mester system.
"The mere fact that the labor of!
making the adjustment to the present]
system is practically completed where
is it must all be done again if a change
is made, can well be considered espe- j
dally when it must be admitted that as j
i whole the semester system presents
id vantages not wholly of undoubted
north,” said Dr. Stafford._“There are
nany issues involved and it is not pos
dble to discuss the comparative merits
uul demerits of all of them. To men*
dou one or two I might say that in my
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1 own mind the disadvantage of having
two vacation periods as in the tri
semester system is more than offset by
the three serious interruptions occur
ring during the year under the semes
ter plan, the process of sharply taking
stock of class-room achievement three
times during the year instead of twice
is well worth all that it costs in the
way of effort upon the part of instruc
tors and students as well as the slight
extra expense incurred in the admin
istration office in recording the results.
In considering all of the issues involv
ed it seems to me that the balance of
argument is so largely in favor of the
present arrangement that I am for it
and am sorry that by so slight a fac
ulty majority a matter of such import
ance has taken the turn that it has.”
Summarized, .the reasons why Dean
William G. Hale, of the law school, fav
ors the semester plan is as follows:
(1) The University is part of the pub
lic school system and should receive
mid-year high school graduates without
delay; (2) Economy of time for teach
ers, students, registrar, and comptroll
er; (3) More completed courses may
be offered in semester period and this
makes it easier, rather than more dif
ficult, for students to enter or quit at
the end of a unit period.
SOCIETY POSES FOR PICTURE
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were taken Thursday noon when the so
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Tentative plans for a dance were made
but no definite date was set.
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refused to encourage him further.
He died a disappointed man.
Langley’s scientific study which
ultimately gave us the airplane
seemed unimportant in 1896.
Whole newspaper pages were given
up to the sixteen-to-onc ratio of
silver to gold.
In 1891 came Samuel Pierpont
Langley, secretary of the Smith
sonian Institution. He wanted
facts. His first step was to whirl
flat surfaces in the air, to measure
the air pressures required to sus
tain these surfaces in motion and
to study the swirls and currents of
the air itself. Finally, in 1896, he
built a small steam-driven model
which flew three-quarters of a
mile.
With a Congressional appro
priation of $50,000 Langley built
a large man-carrying machine. Be
cause it was improperly launched,
it dropped into the Potomac River.
Years later, Glenn Curtiss flew it
at Hammondsport, New York.
Congress regarded Langley’s
attempt not as a scientific experi
ment but as a sad fiasco and
“Sixteen-to-one” is dead polit
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cleave the air—airplanes built
with the knowledge that Langley
acquired.
In this work the Laboratories of
the General Electric Company
played their .part. They aided in
developing the “supercharger,”
whereby an engine may be sup
plied with the air that it needs for
combustion at altitudes of four
miles and more. Getting the facts
first, the Langley method, made
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today may be forgotten tomorrow.
The spirit of scientific research
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