FRIDAY THE 13IH,
TOPIC FOR RADIO
Prof. F. E. Folts to Speak
On Superstition
KGW WILL BROADCAST
Early History of Business
Beliefs is Outlined
“Friday, the Thirteenth” is the
title of a radio lecture to be radio
east this week-end by Prof. Frank
lin E. Folts, assistant dean of busi
ness administration department. The
transmission will be made Friday,
February 13, from station KGW of
the Morning Oregonian. It is the
regular extension division radio lec
ture service for this week.
Coming on Friday, the thirteenth.
Professor Folts has selected this
superstitious title for the theme of
his address. He will show the influ
ence of superstition in business, and
how it prevails in the business
world.
The superstition about Friday,
the thirteenth, has a long history.
For many years Friday has been
known as hangman’s day. It is
traced back to the crucifixion of
Christ on Friday. “Practically all
superstitions grow out of such co
incident facts as are responsible for
the Friday-thirteenth superstition,”
he will tell the radio world. “The
coincidence becomes general know
ledge and in so becoming is streng
thened through the piling up of
similar coincident upon coincident.”
In some countries Friday the thir
teenth is said to be the best busi
ness day in the week. The Turks
accept it as the best day in the
week to do business, according to
Professor Folts. On the other hand
some communities regard it as the
worst day on which to do business.
Professor Folts will trace some of
the early superstitions, showing
where they have their background.
“Mythology and religion are the
two important places where super
stitions have their origin,” believes
the assistant dean of the school of
business administration.
UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEE
HURT IN CAR ACCIDENT
Jesse Jones, a truck driver em
ployed at the University athletic
field, sustained a fractured skull
when he was ran into by a car Fri
day evening near the city hall.
Jones had been employed to
work on the athletic field Friday
morning and was injured as he was
going to his home that evening.
He was unconscious for about forty
eight hours after sustaining the
fracture, but Monday he was con
scious and clianees for his recovery
are thought to be good. The in
jured man has no recollection of the
accident, but otherwise seems to be
rational. Jones has a wife and son
living at Olive and 15th streets.
DEAN ESTERLY WILL BE
CALIFORNIA CLUB GUEST
Virginia Judy Esterly, dean of
women, will be the guest of the
University California club at its
meeting at the College Side Inn
7:15 Thursday night. Dean Esterly
came to Oregon from California.
The dance which is planned for the
near future will be discussed.
FRANKLIN S. ALLEN, ’13,
VISITS PARENTS IN EUGENE
Franklin S. Allen, ’13, who for
two years has been manager of the
real estate advertising of the New
York American, came to Eugene
last Saturday to visit his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Allen. Allen,
who is in the West on business, ex
pects to return to New York Thurs
day.
EASTERN UNIVERSITIES
HAVE RADICALISM TEST
Columbia.—Students at Columbia
University are the most radical and
the students of Yale are the most
conservative according to the re
sults of a radicalism test conducted
at Yale, Columbia and Dartmouth.
DEAN ALLEN TO DELIVER
ADDRESS AT GRANTS PASS
' Erie W. Allen, dean of the school
of journalism, left yesterday for
Grants Pass where he will speak to
the high school at ten o’cock today
on the “Value of Journalism as a
Profession,” and at noon to the
Grants Pass Rotary cub.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Lambda Psi announces the pledg
ing of Bdward C. ETdner of Port
land.
CLASS SECTIONING ENCOURAGES
BETTER WORK, SAYS DR. REBEC
Results of Intelligent Grouping in Philosophy Declared
Beneficial by Head of Department
(By-Ruth Hill)
“Students of the most various
types are swarming to our Ameri
can institutions of higher 'learning
today. Of these something like 10
per cent ought not to be in the more
severe and advanced tj’pe of col
lege, and of the remainder, perhaps
a majority come merely to gather
a modicum of useful, practical
knowledges, or simply to get the
benefit of a cultural environment
and pleasant associations,” said Dr.
George Rebec, dean of the graduate
school and head of the department
of philosophy, in explaining the pur
pose and results of the plan of di
viding the philosophy classes into
sections.
While Mr. Rebee believes the mo
tives mentioned are perfectly legiti
mate provided that these students
do a reasonable amount of sincere
work; still, he holds that they must
not be allowed to stand in the way
of those students who are to be the
leaders in the intellectual and scien
tific life of the generation to come.
“The division into sections is not
done exclusively on the basis of un
usual ability,” said Dr. Rebec, “be
cause while it is true that students
cannot enter section A without ex
hibiting a fairly high degree of pro
ficiency, nevertheless, the intention
is not to segregate merely the few
ablest individuals, but rather to
tempt a considerable number of
students to undertake wort of a
more intensive sort, and in a more
individually responsible s p i r it.
Such a purpose aims to reach the
I upper 30 or 40 per cent of the class
rather than only the choicest 10
per cent. The students in section
A, being expected to do much extra
work both in.quality and quantity,
which will demand a greater frac
tion of their time, are entitled to
more attention than those, who, hav
ing their major interest elsewhere,
have to treat philosophy as a sec
ondary preoccupation, and who
must occasionally content them
selves with the status of simple
‘general course men,’ or, if you pre
fer, ‘pass men.’ ”
The freshman course, ‘Introduc
tion to Reflective Thinking,’ is
broken into three sections. Al
though the abler students are in
sections A and B, section C is not
confined to the hopelessly back
ward but rather to those who are
slow and need a considerable
amount of help in the nature of
coaching. Owing to the discus
sional way in which the class is con
ducted and to the fact that the
work is purely elective, it was not
found necessary to segregate any
‘awkward squad’.”
The larger sophomore classes lent
themselves very well to S, division
according to relative capacity or
leisure to undertake intensive study.
The division here therefore illus
trates that the sectioning is not all
done solely on the basis of Varying
degrees of ability, since it was
found that among the higher aver
age of students a distinction had to
be made between the more meta
! physical or abstract minded and the
more concrete minded. These, with
out disparagement to their intellec
tual capacities, seem to prosper bet
ter if given different treatment,
according to Dr. Rebec. They con
stitute tie A and A’ groups. The
third group in this class is made up
of those persons of more limited
powers or lesser leisure for the sub
ject. Within the A and A’ groups
are some students marked out for
special attention and coaching who
are ready to do even more work
than the section as a whole is un
dertaking. The excessively slow in
section B are given whatever atten
tion may be needed to bring them
up to their section level. In this
class the attempt is made to differ
entiate in the examinations given
to the various groups, that for A
and A’ being markedly more diffi
cult than for section B.
| In the junior and senior classes
I a division is made into A and B
i groups with segregation for special
j attention of occasional individual
showing signs of falling in the
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In order that students who under
take a larger amount of work than
is actually required in section A in
any class may receive some reward
for their superior accomplishments,
they are allowed some extra credit
in those classes which are announc
ed as “3 or 4 hours.”
In conducting the classes, the pro
fessor has adopted the plan of ad
dressing the lecture not to the low
est and slowest portion of the
group but the upper 40 or 50 per
cent, the theory being that the in
structor has not right to detain the
ablest students on behalf of the
slow or unwilling. Efforts will be
made to help the latter overtake
the class, but the rate of the class
will not be adjusted down to them.
All the faculty members of the
philosophy department express
themselves as highly gratified witji!
the results so far attained, though
they are not blind to the fact that
many students used to being shep
herded or driven, tend to fall Jjack'
when put on their own initiative.
This fact, however, seems" inevit
able anywhere or under any circum
stances, and surely so where a tra
dition exists, as it does in our
American colleges and universities,
of having the faculty supply the
students with will, says Dr. Rebec.
While the plan is frankly experi
mental, high hopes of its ultimate
success are held.
LEAGUE TEA POSTPONED
TODAY FOR DIME CRAWL
Because of the dime crawl sche
duled for this afternoon between
4:00 and 5:30, there will be no
Women’s League tea. These affairs
will be resumed next Wednesday,
from 4 to 6, and all University
women are extended a cordial in
vitation to attend.
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
GIVES SEATS IN STADIUM
University of Oklahoma.—Life
time seat privileges in the new sta
dium at the University of Okla
homa will be granted those students
who subscribed $250 or more to the
building fund.
OREGON FROSH BEAT
AGGIE’S ROOK TERM
Freshmen Upset Dope and
Take Easy Victory
Oregon’s freshman basketball
team easily beat the Oregon Aggie
rooks Saturday afternoon at Cor
vallis. The frosh came out on the
long end of 53 to 35 score, taking
the lead at the start and holding
it throughout the entire game. The
score at the half was 31 to 19 in
favor of the Webfoot yearlings.
The lemon-yellow players started
the tilt off with a rush which com
pletely took the Aggie frosh off
their feet. Their speed and snappy
passing entirely baffled the rooks
who were unable to stop the ava
lanche of freshman baskets which
followed every time the frosh got
the ball.
The game was very rough
throughout. Many fouls were called
on both quintefs, the rooks suffer
ing the most from penalties, which
materially helped the Oregon men.
The freshmen completely upset
the dope by winning this contest,
as early forecasts were against
them. They were doped to lose by
at least ten points. The scores made
by the two fives when each one
played the Franklin high quintet
gave the O. A. C. rooks a decided
rating over the Oregon frosh. The
rooks defeated the Quakers by a
28 to 20 score, while the frosh were
beaten by ^Franklin to the tune of
a 28 to 26 score, thereby giving the
rooks a ten point rating over the
yearling squad.
Beeney, of the Oregon freshmen,
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in the game of life. The young
man who dresses with taste has
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was high point man of the tilt with
21 points. Eberhart was next with
16 markers, while Palin, rook, was
next, having 12 points to his cred
it.
The summary follows:
Rooks (35) Frosh (53)
Patrick (6).P. Beeney (21)
Falin (12).F. Joy (2)
Burr (9).C... Eberhart (16)
Paterson (4).G.. Reichstein (4)
Wilson (4).G. Powers (8)
S. Walker (2)
8. Hutchinson
Referee: Carr, Portland.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
HOST TO JAPANESE FLEET
University of California.—Four
hundred members of the Japanese
fleet were shown the workings of
the various departments of the
University. The visit was unoffi
cial. While there they were guests
of the Japanese Student’s club.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Alpha Beta Chi announces the
pledging of Caroll Williams of Dex
ter, Oregon.
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