STANDARDS HIGH
FOR ENGLISH A
Mere failures This Ydar
Caused by Harder Tests
States English Teacher
Higher requirements by the 'Uni
versity, rather than a weakening in
the English instruction in the high
schools of the state, are,said to be
responsible for the fact, that 44 per
cent of the freshmen taking the
entrance tests in English at the
University of Oregon this year
failed, as against 39 per cent .last
year.
The actual figures on this year’s
tests, as announced yesterday by
L. K. Shumaker, teaching fellow
in charge of English A, follow:
passed, 485; failed, 378; total tak
ing test, 863. Comparing the re
sults with those of last year’s
tests, Mr. Shumaker said that the
5 per cent increase in failures was,
in reality, smaller than that expect
ed by the University authorities,
because of higher requirements.
“We believe that sincere effort
is being made by the high schools
to bring their work up *to a level
with these requirements,” he said.
“However, the tests this year were
more difficult than those given last
year, and entrance requirements
are likely to be Taised still higher
in an effort to keep up the stan
.dards of good grammatical training
in the preparatory schools. This is
the ultimate goal of the tests, and
of the course in English required of
those who fail in the examinations.”
The University requires all stu
' ‘dents failing in this test to take
the course in English A without
.credit. This year nearly 400 stu
dents are starting in with this
work. The number includes thbse
who found it necessary to havo a
clear standing in English A before
receiving junior certificates, and
others taking the course for its ad
vantages, According to Mr. Shu
maker, the University this year
will retain its policy of allowing
students ttj drop out of English A
when the instructors find that the
quality of their work is measuring
up to requirements.
English A classes for the fall
term have been dividod into three
sections, with Mr. Shumaker and
Mrs. Walter Snyder, graduate as
sistant, in charge of the work. The
course this year not only includes
a stiff review, but emphasizes par
agraph structure, paragraph se
quence, and other important details
in Composition. For the first time
since the course was introduced, a
textbook, “Sentences and Think
ing,” by Forster and Steadman, is
being used.
Both Mr. Shumaker and Mrs.
Snyder are giving special confer
ences to students in an effort to
help them personally with difficul
ties they muy havo in English.
G. B. Shaw Immortal
In Humorous Plays,
Says Campus Critic
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was entirely in sympathy with the
whole concept of the play.
Gordon Nelson handled the part
of Colonel Pickering, an interested
gentlemen, with facility and integ
rity. Colonel Pickering was not a
character offering much dramatic
possibility.
Shaw s plays aro desperately
awake—this performance kept ns
awake. Shaw’s brilliant wit, liis
keen observation, his genius for dia
lect were ifbithfufly reproduced.
The play is purely comedy, impress
ively so, and yet there are sub
tleties not to be overlooked.
B.vron Foulger’s Alfred Poo
little embraced much of the poign-'
ant invective Shaw so delights in
hurling at our middle class com- j
mercialism. At the same time
Henry Higgins’ utterances arc of
this same tenor; he refuses to comp
romise his healthy, cultured intel
lect to the demands of cspitempor
aneous nrtificiality.
Of course, in this play, ns prob- |
ably is in every other play there
arc certain outstanding characters !
and actors—but it can sincerely be
said that each of the performers
filled his place felicitously with the
whole. The plot, notion, charactcri
saatiiou, in fact, the dramatisation
was artistically synchronized. The
many treasurers of humor and ob
servation were skillfully brought!
out. The performance, us tin play
demands, was intensely entertain
ing.
Will Shaw live? If humor ever
imn ortalized drama, Shaw will not
soon b’ forgotten. However, Shaw
does not concern himself with the
deeps of life—life is not that seri
ous. His problems are specifically
and pertinently local both geo
graphically and temporally. He is
a fascinating and admirable enter
tainer.
The Moroni Olsen players have
announced the following plays for
this school year: “The Ship,” on'
December 10 and “Friend Hanpah,” j
March 4, 1926.
BIBLE STUDY CLASSES
WILL BE ORGANIZED
—
the annual bible study canvass
among the students of the tlniver-1
sity of Oregon is being made this j
week under the auspices of the in
ter-ehuijch committee, of which
Ronald Beattie is chairman.
The object of the campaign is to
enroll hew students in Sunday
morning bible classes and in‘the
young people’s societies which meet
Sunday evenings. The work will
be launched at a luncheon to be
held this noon in the “Y” hut.
John Seifert, of the, School of
music, will sing.
GHOCKATT RELEASES
SERIES OE ARTICLES
Oregon Economist Receives
Recognition in Work
Peter C. Crockatt, professor of
economics,has just finished a series
of articles which have been released
by Associated Hditors, Inc., a news
paper syndicate of Chicago. The
article, “Pacific Unrest Mirrors Ef
fect on the Trade of the United
States,” discusses economic condi
tions in the countries of the Pa
cific. Other articles which.. {will
appear in the near future deal with
such subjects as ‘“Pacific Ship
ping,” the “Regional Advisory
Boards,” and “New Railroad Con
struction.”
Professor Ciockatt is the first
and only Western economist who is
contributing to the serfes, which
are under the title “The Ecoitom-,
ists’ Forpm.” His articles appear
with those written by such authori
ties as Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale;
Dr. Emery R. Johnson, dean of the
Wharton School of Commerce and
Finance, Pennsylvania University;
Dr. John R. Commons, authority on
labor problems, are other specialists |
His article on “Pacfic Shipping” ,
will be released soon by the syndi-!
cate, and also his article on “Rail
road Construction.”
“The co-operation of the Rail
ways and Shippers in Regional Ad
visory Boards” is dealt with in an
other article which will appear
shortly in the same series. The
movement, Dr. Crockatt explains, is
a now thing in the United States,
but an old practice in Europe.
“Grant some industrialization of
China,” he says, “the spur of in
dustry in America, as it has been
in Britian, is to supply still more'
refined wants.” I
Japan is classed with the United
States as tho two “plungers” in
the compotiton for industrial lead-'
orship. ,
Peter C. Crockatt is a native of
Scotland, he came to the United
States in 1908, took his B. A. and
M. A. degrees at Oregon, and his
Ph. I). degree at the University of
California. He lias demonstrated
a keen insight into tho trade and
transportation problems of the Pa
cific, and was attached to the pub
lic service commission' of Oregon in
cases before the Interstate Com
merce commission. He was also at
tached to the transcontinental rail
ways for similar purposes. Dr.
Crockatt also held a post in the
United States Department of Labor,
and tho Camp Educational service, j
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Parade-Mix Successful;
Neophytes Imbued
With Oregon Spirit
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“knighted” with the green.
While this last ceremony was ser
ious and impressive, other bits of
the parade and mix demand other
adjectives. The parade, for in
stance, was a happy event for the
frosh; a labored tas for the sopho
mores. What could have been more
exhiliarating to the ego, it was
asked, than to have had the chance
to parade in gala fashion before
the townsfolk of Eugene, what more
difficult than to have kept the pa
rade moving on schedule?
It was real* pleasure, the frosh
agreed.
Doubly pleasurable, too, it was, j
to pass between encouraging lines j
of seniors, each of whom carried a
paddle or cane to physically assist
in their verbosities, and then,
bended low, kiss the Oregon seal
to the plaudits of the assembled
multitude. The class of 1929 felt
honored. v
Small things, like having one’s
trouser leg up to one’s knee; hav
ing one’s shirt tail flyin in the
breeze; having one’s head adorned
by foolish headgear of' antiquity
or having to experience the caress
of a paddle now and then, were for
gotten or overlooked by the fresh
men because of the honors con
ferred.
Impressive and inspiring were the
opening 'ceremlonies of the mix,
staged on Hayward field. With the
freshmen, holding ther ankles and
formed in two parallel lines iacross
the field, the parade of the senior
cops, headed by Bob Gardner, and
the sophomore band, playing
“Mighty Oregon,” stirred specta
tors.
The frosh, too, were stirred when
the seniors, paddles waving, re
viewed the class of 1929 from the
rear. This was exceptionally touch
ing!
The mix, a real scrap from start
to finish, then began. The score at
the end of the tilting and push ball
contests and the , cane , rush , was
Freshman 13, Sophomores, 7. But
next came the flag rush and the
intervention of Oregon tradition.
The score became 57 to 53 in favor
of the second year men.
An announcement, “Two sopho
mores have been found wearing
knickers to the mix; the outcome is
dubious,” added a touch of comedy
to the affair. Dubiousness did not
remaing long, neither did the knick
ers. Only one barrel was to be had,
however. .
To end the affair, a single fresh
man, signally honored to represent
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his class, was crowned with the
verdant headgear of hs ilk by Mr.
Malcolm, while the rest of the class,
kneeling humbly about the presi
dent’s pedestal, similarly crowned
their own heads.
A shout, a yell and a scrambling
to lunches, somewhat late, com
pleted the day—the biggest, with
out doubt, in the freshman year.
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