No Definite Proof That College Education Has Dollar-and-Cents Value, Declares Dr. H. R. Taylor
University Graduate’s Salary
Higher, Says Personnel Head
Superior Native Ability Cause of Larger Sums
Earned, Not Particular Courses Studied,
Discloses Psychology Professor
By RUFUS KIMBALL
Although statistics show that the salaries earned by college grad
uates arc materially higher than those drawn down each year by men
who have not gone any further than their graduation from high school,
it does not follow that there is any dollars-and-cents value in a college
education, in the opinion of Dr. Howard R. Taylor, director of the
personnel bureau of the University.
Contrary to statements published recently in a government bul
letin on the value of higher education, Dr. Taylor said last night, it
has not been proven that a man benefits financially by attending or
graduating from a university, and no data have been compiled to
show that this is true. i
Wrong Reports Pointed Out
“The higher salaries paid to col
lege graduates,” he explained, “re
sult in most cases from the su
perior native ability which the in
dividual must possess in order to
complete the four-year course,
rather than from any educational
value he may have gained in the
process. It is from sources where
the significance of this fact is not
taken into consideration that the
frequent fallacious reports on the
financial advantages attendant on
college training arise.”
The benefits gained from uni
versity work are primarily of a
less concrete nature, Dr. Taylor
believes, and have no traceable in
fluence on the amount of money
earned in later life.
Training Not Always Valuable
“There are of course,” he stated,
“many places in life for which
college training is no particular
advantage. Hence students with
very poor preparation and only
vague notions of whether they
want to go to college or not, are
usually better off to seek at once
their special talents and interests
in business or industrial life. Stu
dents who are at the bottom in
high school record and in such a
psychological examination as we
give to our freshmen, are almost
sure to find college work not
worth the cost in money, time,
and effort.”
Regarding the reliability of a
student's scholarship record as a
basis for predicting the extent of
his success after graduation. Dr.
Taylor cited recent statistics on
the achievements of members of
the first 24 graduating classes at
the University of Oregon.
Of the most successful men who
graduated between 1878 and 1901,
53 per cent were good students
and 17 per cent were weak stu
dents, the University records
show. Of the unsuccessful grad
uates of these classes, 52 per cent
were weak students and 12 per
cent were good students.
Attitude Is Characteristic
“Such figures,'’ Dr. Taylor de
clared, “do not show, of course,
that scholastic success is the chief
determinant of success in later
life; they do not even show that
by diligence in college any student
can win increased chances for his
own later success. But they do
suggest that the attitude of the
individual to his college work is
likely to be characteristic of his j
later efforts and that ability man
J ifested in relative business success
tends in the case of college grad
uates at least to show itself in
earlier accomplishment with the
academic curriculum.
Hughes Prominent in School
“Charles Evans Hughes,” Dr.
Taylor pointed out, “was the num
ber-one man in his law class at
Columbia. The firm of which he
was a member habitually picks
the highest man in some law class
when they find need of another
lawyer on their staff.”
Athletic ability is in no way re
lated to scholastic ability, and is
no indication of future achieve
ment or failure, it was shown.
The personnel office has on file
data on classes graduating from
West Point, which sljow that “ath
letes have the same expectancy of
distinguished success and no more
than other men in their classes.”
Wide Path Replaces
Narrow Board Walh
No longer will students who
choose to cut across' the campus
by the way of Mary Spiller hall
have to walk single file going by
the north side of that building, for
the old, narrow, wooden sidewalk
has been removed and a new and
wider gravel walk was laid in its
place yesterday.
Speakers at the University oi
Minnesota Gridiron banquet will
not be allowed to bore their lis
teners. A fire siren will be in
4 stalled to check any long-winded
orators.
Stanford Organist
Will Give Concert
At Music Building
Allen, Famous Musician,
To Present Recital
Here April 1
Praise Given by Leading
Music Critics
Warren D. Allen, organist at
Stanford university, will give an
organ concert at the Music build
ing auditorium Tuesday, April 1,
according to an announcement re
ceived here yesterday.
The cause of good music has ad
vanced rapidly at Stanford since
Mr. Allen became organist there,
critics say. In Music News of
February 7, an article by Albert
Cotsworth gives enthusiastic
praise of Allen as an organist.
“We of the Central West raise
our hats in compliment to the
knowledge and art expressed in
such programs,” Mr. Cotsworth is
quoted as saying.
Allen spent two seasons abroad,
studying piano and composition
with Rudolph Ganz and Von Fiel
itz, and organ with Widor. On
his return he joined the faculty of
the College of the Pacific and
later went to Stanford—first to
substitute during the fatal illness
of Eouis H. Eaton—then to con
tinue as his successor.
Seats for the concert can be
bought from any Phi Beta, or at
the Co-op. Anyone wishing in
formation may telephone 2887-W.
Japanese Scientist
Shows Interest in V. S,
Dr. E. D. McAlister, assistant
professor of physics and mathe
matics, has just received a letter
from Japan which he considers in
dicative of a fine spirit which the
scientists of that country show
toward us. "If that spirit existed
in all countries, I think war would
be almost impossible,” he says.
The letter is from Mr. T. Taka
mini, Japan's most eminent scien
tist, who has been doing work
similar to that about which Mc
Alister published an article last
October in the Physical Review.
With his colleague, Mr. T. Suya,
Takamini obtained the same re
sults that McAlister did; he en
closed a photograph of the results
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Society
Phyllis Van ICiir.mell, Editor
Dime Crawl Date Set
For This Evening
All women’s living organiza
tions on the campus are holding
j open house tonight for the obser
vation of Dime Crawl, which is
held once every term. This af
fair is held for the benefit of the
foreign scholar who is brought to
this campus by the Associated
Women students. Hours of danc
ing are from 6:30 until 7;30.
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Affairs Honor Visit of
Spanish Consul
Antonio Rafael Vejar, consul at
Portland for Spain, Mexico, and
Ecuador, and his wife, were ex
tensively entertained last Sunday
on the University campus. A
dinner was held at the Zeta Tau
Alpha house Sunday noon. Those
guests present beside the consul
and his wife were Pro£ and Mrs.
Leavitt O. Wright, Dr. and Mrs.
Walter C. Barnes, Prof, and Mrs.
Kurt F. Reinhardt, and Carl Furr.
A musical tea was held Sunday
afternoon at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. J. R. Mez in honor of the con
sul and his wife. Senor Vejar was
made an honorary member of Sig
ma Delta Pi, Spanish honor so
ciety. Members of the society
were present at the tea as well as
the following faculty members:
Dr. and Mrs. Warren D. Smith,
Professor and Mrs. L. O. Wright,
and Dr. Ray P. Bowen.
of his work, though the article has j
not yet been published.
Takamini is at the Institute of
Physical and Chemical Research
in Tokyo.
New Travel Bureau
Receives 50 Requests
More than 50 requests for travel
information have been sent in by
alumni to the Old Oregon travel
service bureau since its organiza
tion last week as an active depart
ment of the alumni magazine, ac
cording to Virginia Sterling, stu
dent secretary of the new service.
Return postcards are being sent
out to every subscriber, to be filled
in with inquiries on specific des
tinations or cruises and on the ac
commodations offered. The ser
vice is free of charge, according
to Miss Sterling, and is open to
students as well as alumni. Rail
road and steamship companies co
operate with Old Oregon in filling
the demands for information.
John W. Nelson, advertising
| manager, of the publication, and
Jack Spencer, assistant advertis
ing manager, are other students
who are working on the travel
bureau.
Article by Ex-Oregon
Student Is Published
“The Yukon Drive’’ by Robert
Ormond Case, former Oregon stu
dent, is listed in the current issue
of the Publisher’s Weekly. The
story deals with the gold rush to
the Klondike. Mr. Case gradu
ated from the University in 1920.
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Reinhart, Plus One Rabbit
And A Car, Causes Accident
A little innocent rabbit—per
fectly harmless in itself, but add
to that rabbit Dr. Kurt Reinhardt,
assistant professor of Germanic
languages, and one car. This lit
tle arithmetic problem was solved
last monday night when Dr. Rein
har.dt and his wife were driving
back from Corvallis.
The rabbit ran out on the road
and became tangled up with the
wheels of the passing car, which
happened to be that driven by Dr.
Reinhardt. The body of the ani
Pagan Burial Urn
Loaned to School
Rare Antique Is Brought
from Italy
A beautiful Pagan burial urn in
the shape of an antique Corinthian
capital and column fragment, be
lieved to date back to the first
century, perhaps from the time of
Nero, is being loaned to the Uni
versity of Oregon by Dr. Jesse
Kellems, a graduate of the Univer
sity who now lives in New York
City.
Dr. and Mrs. Kellem obtained
the fragment on a recent trip to
Italy, and, although exportation
of such objects is difficult due to
government regulations, they ob
tained permission to send this on
to Eugene. The object is a part
of an ancient pagan temple, found
during recent reconstruction of
the via Ostiensis, not far from the
great church of St. Paul's.
Ex-student. (Tom nilos
Diagnostic Latin Test
A copy of “Power's Diagnostic
Latin Test,” compiled by Francis
F. Powers, former student of the
University, has just been received
by F. S. Dunn, head of the Latin
department.
Powers majored in education
while here, with Latin as a minor,
rqpeiving his M.A. degree with
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mal interfered with the mechan
ism of the wheels, and the car
went into the ditch, overturning
it.
The Reinhardts climbed out of
the car, and waited until help
should come. It came in the per
son of an automobile dealer from
Junction City, who drove them to
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the diagnostic Latin test as his
thesis. Since then he has im
proved the test and it is now be
ing published by the Public School
Publishing company of Blooming
ton, Illinois. The test is receiving
a great deal of favorable com
ment, according to Professor
Dunn.
Monies
Evelyn Shaner, Editor
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Rex—“South Sea Rose.”
State—“Blackmail.”
Colonial “The Four Feathers.”
Heilig “The Isle of Lost Ships.”
“Chasing Rainbows”
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egates to the league of nations
conference of international law is
Miss Emma Wold, former Oregon
student. Miss Wold, who lives in
Washington, D. C., graduated from
the University in 1894. She ma
jored in law while on the campus
and has been prominent in law
circles since.
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