Steady Growth
Made Despite
Lack of Funds
Add to Faculty Personnel,
Teaching Standards
Raised
Men Rather Than Mortar
Has Been the Policy
Of Dr. Hall
Steady progress that has at
tracted attention throughout the
entire country has been noted in
every department of the Univer
sity of Oregon, in spite of the
handicap of the last ten years, in
which the University has had an
increase in regular attendance at
Eugene of 77.5 per cent, while the
income for instruction, operation
and maintenance was increased
but 13.5 per cent.
Lower Division Work Shown
In 1927 there was established
the lower and upper divisions, with
group organization in the lower
division and specialization de
ferred to the upper division. The
purpose here is to get a broad
liberal education for the first two
years, upon the completion of
which the students who do not
show adequate interest should be
encouraged to drop out of the
University, while the better stu
dents have been given a period of
time in which to study their nat
ural aptitudes and to select their
major subjects in accordance with
their best abilities and profoundest
interests.
Men Preferred to Mortar
The administration, confronted
by a rapidly increasing attendance
and a limited income, has had to
choose between faculty and build
ings, and the first has been defin
itely selected. The University is
made up of its men, rather than
its buildings. Some of the eminent
scholars who have been brought
here in the last five years are as
follows:
C. V. Boyer—B.S. (Princeton),
M.A. and Ph.D. Princeton—Gradu
ate Pittsburg Law school, studied
at Oxford and at American Acad
emy, Rome and Athens. Fifteen
years member of Illinois faculty.
Recognized authority on economic
influence on literature. Head of
English and of literature group.
Head of Honors council. • Sjj
David B. Davis—M.A. and Ph.D.
Chicago. Won fame since coming
to Oregon in mathematical re
searches. Two years ago Oregon
led all institutions west of Mis
sissippi in mathematical research
due to productive work of Milne
and Davis.
Donald M. Erb M.A. Illinois,
Ph.D. Harvard. Held Thayce fel
lowship, won Recardo prize. Re
searches in "Economics of Weak
Railways,” won traveling fellow
ship for study in Washington. In
cooperation with Interstate Com
merce commission shaped thesis
into a book which has won favor
able comment from all who have
read manuscript.
Ernst (lellhorn—M.D. Heidel
berg and Ph.D. Muenster. Taught
at University of Halle and has
completed researches in physiol
ogy that have attracted interna
tional attention.
Curl L. Huffaker B.S. Chicago;
M.A. and Ph.D. at Iowa. Experi
ence in public school work, mem
ber of Arizona faculty. Since com
ing to Oregon in 1927 has attract
ed widespread attention through
his studies in school administra
tion and finance.
Edward D. McAllister — Ph.D.
California. Whiting fellow in phy
sics. After coming to Oregon in
1928 began researches in the
spectrum that attracted attention
of eastern scholars and won ap
pointment as research associate in
the Smithsonian institution.
Arthur Russell Moore B.A
Nebraska, Ph.D. California. World
renowned authority on marine
biology and physiology. Member of
faculty at Bryn Mawr, Rutgers,
etc. Now carrying on researches
in European laboratories.
Wayne I.. Morse M.A., LL.B.
Minnesota; fellow in law, Colum
bia, 1928. Instructor and assistant
professor of argumentation at
Minnesota. Since coming to Ore
gon-in f929, Mr. Morse has won
vvidespread attention by his re
searches into legal practices and
the administration of the criminal
law. His recently published re
port on the Crime Survey in Ore
gon has called for favorable com
ment from lawyers, judges, and
editors throughout the country.
Robert Holmes Seushore B.A..
M.S., Ph.D. (Iowa). Faculty of
Ohio State university; one-time j
National Research council fellow
in biological science, Stanford uni
versity (1926-281. At Stanford
and later at Oregon won renown
for researches into questions of t
motor skills and through invention !
of ingenious apparatus that has
been extensively used in labora
tories all over the country. Dur
ing present academic year was
called into national conference on
child welfare and served as mem
ber of committees to formulate im
portant recommendations and
findings of conferences.
H. O. Townsend—A.B. and Ph.D.
(Cornell). Sage fellow in phil
osophy at Cornell; member Smith
college faculty for 12 years. Ex
tensive contributor to philosoph
ical literature. One of few Ameri
can scholars to be invited to take
part in the International Congress
of Philosophers at Oxford, Eng
land, summer of 1930.
George Williamson -B.A. Stare
ford, M.A. Harvard, Ph.D. Stan
ford. Faculty of Washington
State and Pomona college. Won
fame by his book on the “Donne
Tradition.” This year received ap
pointment as Guggenheim fellow
in nationwide competition. Will
study in Europe and prosecute
further his studies in chosen field
of English literature.
Leavitt Olds Wright—A.B., B.D.,
M.A., Ph.D. California. Faculties
of California, Columbia, Pomona;
nationally known authority on
philology and the grammar and
verb forms of the Spanish lan
guage. Last December invited to
deliver papers at three national
association meetings in Boston,
New York and Washington, D. C.
Not only has the administration
spent weeks and months of time
in selecting the best faculty rrjen
available, but a special effort has
been made to keep the outstand
ing members of the faculty. An
esprit de corps has been estab
lished, with the result that faculty
members regularly stay at Oregon
in preference to going to other in
stitutions, better known, at salary
increases of from twenty to fifty
per cent.
Ketirenient Annuity Added
On July 1, 1929, with the cooper
ation of the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching,
the administration established a
system of retiring annuities for
the regular members of its faculty
and administrative staff. This is
the first time that a regular sys
tem of retirement annuities has
been inaugurated in a state insti
tution of higher education in the
state of Oregon. Since its inaugu
ration it has been extremely use
ful in holding outstanding mem
bers of the faculty and administra
tive staff, and has also been used
as a model for annuity systems in
other institutions in the United
States.
The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching has
agreed to provide for the retire
ment of the eight oldest members
of the University faculty and ad
ministrative staff. It is estimated
that this will c'ost the foundation
a total of $50,000, and if it had
been necessary for the University
to provide for their retirement
under the regular retirement plan
the cost for these annuities would
have been $73,000.
University Teaching Improved
One of the first things done by
the new president upon his ar
rival in 1926 was the organization
of a committee on the improve
ment of University teaching, the
committee being made up of fac
ulty members. This movement has
gained great momentum in the last
two years and has made a distinct
improvement in the teaching work
done by the faculty of the Univer
sity, the credit for which goes to
the faculty men themselves. This
work has been so distinctive that
the Office of Education, Depart
ment of the Interior, recently held
a Northwest Conference on the
Improvement of University Teach
ing, in which the work done at
tire University was made the cen
tral theme of the conference. The
University of Oregon is one of the
first two or three universities to
achieve national prominence in
this much needed field of univer
sity activity.
Graduate Work Developed
The whole work of the gradu
ate school has been reorganized
on a divisional basis, breaking
down departmental barriers and
bringing the work into the most
modern form of organization that
is greatly increasing its efficiency,
raising the standards, and modern
izing the work in every respect.
The graduate work is now as well
organized as it is in any university.
Applied Social Science Noted
This school was reorganized on
strictly modern lines two years
ago. Its appeal to the public and
its practical work in the aid of
organized charities and profes
sional social work has been so
obvious that a very large portion
of its budget is derived from vol
untary gifts from individuals and
charitable organizations who have
recognized its distinctive achieve
ment. The American Red Cross
selected this organization to estab
lish in Lane county a National
Red Cross demonstration center
for rural social work. This ua
Veteran
-:
Dean John Straub, the “Grand
Old Man of Oregon,” who has ren
dered splendid service to the Uni
versity for more than 50 years.
Not long ago he celebrated his
77th birthday. Although he is now
retired, he still maintains an active
interest in all that concerns the
school and the students.
tional recognition is some evidence
of the national esteem in which
the work of this school is held.
One of the many functions of
the school of applied social science
is the maintenance of this service.
Because of insufficient income, it
has been impossible to develop it
to its full needs, but much valuable
service is being rendered at nom
inal cost.
The development of the summer
session until the session, in size
and richness of offerings, can be a
fourth quarter of the University,
thus making possible the use of
the University plant through four
quarters instead of three, was one
of the first steps adopted by the
administration. This is clearly in
the interests of economy and also
enables the students of the Univer
sity to come in contact with some
of the outstanding professors of
the great universities who can be
secured here during the summer
at very small cost. The increase
of summer session attendance has
been from 1,226 in 1926 to 1,701
in 1930.
In addition, summer cruises have
been held as part of the summer
session to Alaska and Hawaii
which have paid all their expenses
and left a small balance to the
credit of the University.
Artistic Appreciation Developed
The administration believes that
a liberally trained man ought to
have his natural capacities for
artistic appreciation highly devel
oped, on the theory that such a
development will add to the joy
ousness of his life, to his capacity
for spiritual perception and to a
deeper understanding of spiritual
and religious values. With this in
view, the development of glee
clubs, choral organizations, a sym
phony orchestra, a concert band,
a polyphonic choir, and similar
organizations have been encour
aged upon the campus and have
been developed to such a high
state of efficiency that they have
attracted national attention.
Just recently an eastern founda
tion granted a $10,000 subsidy to
the University to make a scientific
study on the teacliing of artistic
appreciation. It is expected that
this subsidy will be continued from
year to year until the study
reaches completion. One of the
things contemplated in this re
search is to determine, if possible,
what relationship there is, if any,
between an increased capacity for
artistic appreciation and one's
altruistic urge and spiritual per
ception. This is attracting atten
tion from other institutions and
is considered one of the most sig
nificant pieces of research in the
whole country.
The work of the school of archi
tecture and allied arts has been
so outstanding in character that
when the Carnegie corporation de
cided to establish another summer
normal school for the training of
art teachers, it chose the Uni
versity of Oregon and provided a
subsidy to enrich the offerings of
the summer session and to provide
scholarships for teachers desiring
to attend. The •only other summer
session so sponsored by the Car
negie Corporation is Harvard uni
versity. This is a much coveted
recognition which has come to the
University as a center of artistic
interests.
The erection of this beautiful
structure to be occupied primarily
by the Murray Warner Collection
of Oriental Art. is a significant
achievement and lends additional
impetus to the art work of the
campus. This was erected by gifts
of various sizes from all over the
state. Its erection at this time
was made possible by Eugene ;
business men who raised $153,000
for various University purposes, j
Organization of
Mothers and Dads
Has Big Response
Meetings Aid in Promotion
Of Understanding of
School Aims
By JAMES BROOKE
The creation of the Oregon
Mothers and the Oregon Dads
organizations is a feature of Dr.
Hall's administration. The Dads
group was founded in 1928 and the
first official Dad’s day was Janu
ary 28, 1928. The Mothers did
not organize until a year later and
the first Mother’s day on the cam
pus was held May 11, 1929.
Each year the number of parents
attending the meetings on the
campus has grown considerably in
size and importance until at the
present time they are regarded as
two of the outstanding events of
the year.
Dads Enthusiastic
Spontaneous enthusiasm greeted
the announcement of the first
Dad’s day with large numbers at
tending the first meeting. Many
letters expressing regret at the in
ability of the senders to attend
were received by those in charge
of arrangements. One San Fran
cisco Oregon Dad wrote that he
was unable to attend but to show
his approval and sympathy with
the new organization he enclosed
money for ten tickets to the ban
quet with instructions to give one
to each of his two sons and the
remaining eight to boys who were
working their way through school.
Dennis Is President
At the first official meeting of
the Dads, Bruce Dennis, Klamath
Falls, was elected president. A
general committee of 50 and an
executive council of 9 were desig
nated, and a constitution specify
ing the purpose of the group was
adopted.
Dr. Hall explained the purpose (
of the organization in the January j
11, 1928, issue of the Emerald. He :
said:
“We want the fathers of our i
students to come to the University, i
enjoy the hospitality and the
splendid ‘Oregon spirit,’ see just
where the classes are held, where
I the boys and girls live and play,
i and also to become acquainted
I with each other.”
Since then the group has grown
greatly each year. The head last
year was Paul T. Shaw, Portland.
' O. Laurgaard, also of Portland, is
the present president.
The Oregon Mothers group
came into being chiefly through
! the untiring efforts of Mrs. Walter
M. Cook, Portland, who toured the
state, speaking to service organi
zations en route, and awakening
everywhere an interest in the Uni
versity. Mrs. Cook served two
years in the capacity of president
and was subsequently elected hon
orary president for life. Mrs. F.
Willard Bond, Pendleton, is now
president of the organization.
Oregon Mothers Active
The Mothers have been particu
larly active and interested in stu
dent affairs. Fourteen local groups
of Mothers have been organized in
the state for the purpose of more
fully appreciating the workings of
the University. They were the in
spiration for the writing of the
“Mother’s Study Book,” a series
of papers developing various
phases of university life. The local
groups use this book as a basis for
study.
The two parents groups were
not created with a view toward
their potentialities as money rais
ing sources. Dr. Hall discouraged
all attempts in this direction.
The purpose primarily was to
acquaint the parents with the ob
jects and methods of the Univer
sity and with its aims and aspira
tions for the students so that the
parents might work with it in
greater harmony. Dr. Hall seeks
to build character and broad
mindedness in his charges and he
1 believes that by educating the par
ents to appreciate his endeavors
he will be enabled better to suc
ceed.
The Oregon Mothers and Dads
organizations seem to have estab
lished a harmonious relation be
tween the University and the par
ents of the students, as was the
original aim, and at the same time
they enable the parents to keep
closer in touch with the students,
understand student problems, and
what is even more—it brings
about a firmer relation and deeper
sympathy between parents and
children.
Gifts Made to University in
Five Years Total $1,504,942
By RALPH DAVID
Gifts totaling $1,504,942 have
been made to the University of
Oregon since Dr. Arnold Bennett
Hall took over the reins of the
administration five years ago.
Largest single amount in this
total was the $400,000 donated to
the University medical school in
Portland by the general education
board of the Rockefeller Founda
tion of New York in 1929. The
money was used for an out-patient
clinic building at the medical
school. A previous donation of
$128,500 in 1926, also to the med
ical school, makes a grand total
of $528,500 received from the gen
eral education board during the
past five years.
Of gifts from individuals, the
largest is that from Mrs. Gertrude
Bass Warner in 1928. This gift was
an Oriental art collection valued at
$168,194. The donation led the
way to the construction of the
Prince L. Campbell Museum of
Fine Arts.
The work of the Alumni Holding
company, an organization of Uni
versity of Oregon graduates, in
collecting gifts amounting to
$205,000 in 1929-30, was the final
step to actual completion of the
fine arts museum.
Of other gifts during the five
year period, the Woodward be
quest of $60,000 in 1926 made pos
sible the construction of Sherry
Ross Hall as a unit of the new
men’s dormitory. The bequest was
in the nature of land and the hall
was named in honor of the donor.
Organizations Help
A campaign in 1926-27 in be
half of the Portland Doernbecher
hospital netted $29,043 from the
American Legion of Oregon, $21,
068 from the Rotary club of Port
land, $18,000 from the Oregon
State Elks, and $12,000 from the
McKee estate. The Doernbecher
hospital and the new out-patient
clinic building, made possible by
the Rockefeller foundation gift,
are used by students of the Uni
versity of Oregon medical school
in Portland.
One of the largest gift cam
paigns ever conducted for the Uni
versity was that by the citizens of
Eugene in 1928-29. At the end of
the campaign the amount raised
for University use reached $153,
000.
More recent gifts secured under
President Hall include one of
$10,000 from the Carnegie corpor
ation for art survey work, and a
land grant valued at $40,000 from
Ion Lewis to be used for scholar
ships to students in architecture.
Gifts to the University of Oregon, October
March 31, 1931:
1926- 27
Woodward Bequest, Land for Sherry Ross Hall .
General Education Board, Cash for Medical School
American Legion of Oregon, Cash for Doern
becher Hospital .,.
Rotary Club of Portland, Cash for Doernbecher
Hospital ........
Oregon State Elks, Cash for Doernbecher Hospital .
McKee Estate, Cash for Doernbecher Hospital .
Other Donations, in amounts of less than $10,000 ...
Total, 1926-27 .
1927- 38
Gertrude Bass Warner, Oriental Art for Museum .
Other Donations, in amounts of less than $10,000 ....
Total, 1927-28 .
1928- 29
General Education Board, Cash for Out-Patient
Clinic Building .
Eugene Citizens, Eugene Gift Campaign Fund .
Carnegie Foundation, Annuity Gift.
Other Donations, in amounts of less than $10,000 ....
Total, 1928-29 .
1929- 30
Alumni Holding Company, Museum of Art .
Other Donations, in amounts of less than $10,000 ....
Total, 1929-30 .
1980-81
Carnegie Corporation. Art Survey .
Ion Lewis. Land for Scholarship in Architecture
Other Donations, in amounts of less than $10,000 ....
Total, 1930-31 .
Grand Total of Gifts in Last Five Years
1, 1926, to
S 60,000.00
128,500.00
29.043.00
21.068.00
18.000.00
12,000.00
39,411.00
$ 308,022.00
$ 168,194.00
16,066.00
$ 184,260.00
$ 400,000.00
153,000.00
50,000
40.883.00
$ 043,883.00
$ 205,000.00
64.986.00
$ 269.986.00
$ 10,000.00
40,000.00
48,791.00
$ 98,791.00
$1,504,942.00
U. of O. President
Gains Recognition
For Science Work
Dr. Hall Has Busy Life as
Educator, Economist and
Social Scientist
By JACK BAUER
Arnold Bennett Hall, president
of the University of Oregon since
1926, one of the foremost social
scientists and educators of the
nation, an authority on interna
tional law, and an earnest advo
cate of judicial settlement of in
ternational disputes, was born
July 22, 1881, in Franklin, Indiana.
His father, Columbus Horatio
Hall, was professor of Greek and
vice-president of Franklin college.
His mother, Theodosia Parks Hall,
became professor of Latin in
Franklin college at the age of 18.
Doctor Hall graduated from
Franklin college in 1904. He was
granted the degree of Doctor of
Jurisprudence cum laude by the
University of Chicago in 1907, and
was admitted to the Indiana bar in
the same year.
He was assistant instructor in
political science and international
law at the University of Chicago,
1907-09. He held a scholarship in
the Chicago law school from 1904
to 1907, was enrolled in the grad
uate school in 1908, and the same
year was lecturer in the Chicago
school of civics and philanthropy.
In 1908-09 he held a fellowship in
political science in the University
of Chicago law school.
In 1909-10, Doctor Hall was in
structor in public law and politics
at Northwestern university, where
he taught until 1921 as associate
professor in political science.
In 1915 he published an “Out
line of International Law,” and in
1919 “The Monroe Doctrine.” In
1915, he edited "Hall’s Fishback on
Elementary Law.”
Doctor Hall was a member of
the Wisconsin War History com
mission in 1919, and in 1921 be
came associate professor of law
and political science at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, which posi
tion he held until he came to Ore
gon in 1926.
The degree of LL.D. was confer
red on Doctor Hall by Franklin
college in 1924.
“Dynamic Americanism," "Pop
ular Governments,” and a syllabus
on “The Past, Present, and Future
of the Monroe Doctrine,” were
published in 1920. They represent
a small part of Doctor Hall’s con
tribution to authoritative litera
ture in the field of political sci
ence.
Doctor Hall is a member of Phi
Delta Theta, national social fra
ternity, Phi Delta Phi, national
honorary law fraternity, Phi Beta
Kappa, national honorary scholas
tic fraternity, Delta Sigma Rho,
national honorary debate frater
nity, Pi Gamma Mu, national hon
orary social science fraternity,
Order of the Coif, national hon
orary law fraternity, the Madison
University club, the Blackhawk
club, and the University club of
Portland.
He is also a member of the
American Political Science associ
ation, the American Social society,
the League to Enforce Peace, the
American Institution of Crimin
ology, the American Judicature
society, the American Peace soci
ety, the American Society for the
Judicial Settlement of Interna
tional Disputes, the Social Science
Research Council of America, and
the Universal Union for Peace.
For several years he was chair
man of the committee on problems
and policies of the Social Science
Research Council of America, and
in 1923 founded the Pacific Coast
regional committee of that organi
zation. He was the first chairman
of the regional committee.
In 1927, Doctor Hall was a dele
gate to the Institute of Pacific
Relations, held in Honolulu, and
has several times been invited to
address the Pan-Pacific conference
on international social relations.
Doctor Hall has for several
years been state chairman of the
National Student Forum, and in
November, 1930, was invited by
President Hoover to participate in
the White House conference on
Child Health and Protection. Dr.
Ray Lyman Wilbur, chairman of
the conference, extended a special
invitation to Doctor Hall to attend
the meeting of the medical section
of the conference.
Doctor Hall is one of eight chil
dren. four others of whom are
prominent in educational fields in
this country.
Oregon's president has encour
aged nation-wide contacts by
members of the faculty with their
colleagues in national societies de
voted to the interests of the spe
cial intellectual fields. This has
been instrumental in stimulating a
progressive turnover of teachers, t
and the constantly' increasing j
prestige of the University has se- 1
Donor
Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner,
donor of the Murray Warner Ori
ental art collection, which will be
housed in the Prince L. Campbell
Fine Arts museum, recently erect
ed on the campus. The untiring
efforts of Mrs. Warner, and other
friends of the University, have
made possible this museum, which
will be the finest in the West.
cured more competent and satis
factory professors for the Univer
sity. Doctor Hall's educational re
vision policies, inaugurated in
1928, have drawn the attention of
the nation, and his invigorating in
fluence has set.in motion a profit
able interchange of educational
policies which reflect credit on the
University and the state.
Music is Doctor Hall’s chief
hobby. He played second violin in
the Franklin college orchestra in
his undergraduate days, and still
retains his love of music.
There always is music in his
home during meal times, and his
library of many hundreds of phon
ograph records is one of his chief
prides. There are two talking
machines in the presidential resi
dence on the campus, and the doc
tor puts a series of records on one
of the machines the moment he
returns from his office at the end
of the day.
Doctor Hall also is fond of fish
ing and hiking. Outings on the
McKenzie Tiver, though infre
quent, are the president’s finest
recreation during the school year.
He loves to hike the long trail
on Horse creek, on the Upper Mc
Kenzie river, and relaxes at Foley
springs, 60 miles from Eugene.
Doctor Hall is very partial to the
Oregon woods. Oregon trout are
favored, in his estimation, beyond
all other fish.
Research Gains
Recognition for
U. Over Country
Stimulation of Activities
During Five Years Has
Worthwhile Results
By RUFUS KIMBALL
With Dr. Hall wholeheartedly
back of it, a constantly broadening
program of higher research has
reached its greatest development
in the past five years, and has
made them a period of outstanding
progress in the history of the Uni
versity. Today nearly every school
and department on the campus is
engaged in some way in further
ing this progress; and the future
promises even greater achieve
ments in the many fields of new
scientific knowledge.
In his inaugural address just
five years ago, Dr. Hall used these
words;
Hall Lauds Research
“Scientific research is the basis
of human knowledge and the
source of human progress. There
is not a realm of human activity
or interest that has not been en
riched, improved, and enhanced by
the products of research.
We must have the spirit of in
quiry, stimulated and unhampered.
Freedom of research and a reason
able allowance of time and energy
are the first requisites to an ef
fective program of productive
scholarship. It will be the policy
of this administration to encourage
in every way within its power
those men on the faculty who de
velop a genius for productive
scholarship which can be placed at
the service of the state.’’
Since receiving this initial pledge
of support, research activities at
Oregon, under the sponsorship and
leadership of Dr. Hall, have stead
ily taken a more and more prom
inent part in the “productive
scholarship" of the world.
Ur. GeUhora Scores
III physiology, for example, the
work of Dr. Ernst Gellhorn on j
muscle fatigue and its control has ,
become known throughout the j
world, and won for him the New
York Academy of Sciences award
for 1930 for experimental biolog
which is regarded as the outstafl
ing recognition for research in this
field.
In chemistry. Dr. Roger J. Wil
liams this year has been nationally
recognized for important discov
eries regarding yeast.
H. J. Unger, teaching fellow in
physics, has conducted throughout
the past year a series of highly
specialized studies in the rays of
the spectrum, resulting in consid
erable additions to the knowledge
of spectroscopy. A report of Mr.
Unger’s findings is now being pre
pared for publication.
In the department of geology,
Dr. Edwin T. Hodge has made ex
tensive surveys of the Columbia
river region, and is the author of
studies on other sections of Ore
gon. Dr. Warren D. Smith is en
gaged in a survey of the Oregfjt
coast, and Dr. Earl L. Packard,
also a professor of geology, has
gathered and compiled much valu
able information on the central
part of the state.
Accounting Plan Devised
In the school of business admin
istration, members of the faculty
are constantly active in various
lines of original research, includ
ing many technical surveys in the
course of each academic year. Out
standing examples are the recent
surveys on general business con
ditions and on foreign trade. At
the request of Hal E. Hoss, sec
retary of state, C. L. Kelly, asso
ciate professor of accounting, re
cently devised a new accounting
system for Oregon municipalities
Much practical research work is
now being carried on by the
school of education, including par
ticularly investigations into pupil
costs, new tests, and speci.
teaching methods. The schoo.
makes use of the University high
school as a general laboratory for
teacher training. Wayne L. Morse,
associate professor of law, has
gained wide recognition for an ex
haustive survey of the grand jury
system, as well as for other work
in the field of criminology. Col
laborating with Dr. Raymond B.
Moley of Columbia university, un
der a grant from the Social Sci
ence Research council, he has com
pleted a joint study held to be the
most significant ever made on this
subject.
Economic Problems Studied
Toward the solution of social
problems, a considerable amount
of work has been done at the
University. Dr. Jamps H. Gilbert,
dean of the college of literature,
science, and the arts, has contrJi
buted valuable studies on taxation
and municipal problems. Dr. Louis
A. Wood, associate professor of
economics, is a nationally known
authority on labor questions.
In the study of personnel prob
lems among students, with special
reference to intelligence, scholar
ship, personality, and extra-cur
ricular activities, the results of
many original investigations by
Dr. Howard R. Taylor, associate
professor of psychology, have add
ed liberally to scientific knowledge
in a comparatively new field.
Dr. Hall's ideal of “productive
scholarship” is being fulfilled, and
with it come unlimited possibilities
for the future.
Personnel Work
Forward Step in
Student Welfare
Under the direction of Karl On
thank, formerly executive secre
tary of the University, a new de
partment was established recently,
the work of which has already
won national recognition.
This included the appointment
of a dean of personnel administra
tion, the establishment of a bureau
of personnel research, the develop
ment of a specially trained group
of lower division advisers and the
correlation of the work of the Uni
versity health service, the offices
of the dean of men and dean >f
women, the Bureau of Personv'i
Research and the advisers, all in
the common effort to help the in
dividual student to solve his prob
lems, to help him find himself in
the academic community, to select
wisely his vocational interest, and
to give him constructive counsel
and advice regarding matters
health, academic standing, ana
personal problems of character,
personality, and morals. Part of
this program has been the estab
lishment of an honors system, to
the end that the more brilliant
student could have a higher type
of work assigned to him that
would bring out his best qualities
rather than permit him to loa*.
because he could pass normal re
quirements with greater ease than
the average student. This pro
gram \vas recently discussed as
one of a small group of outstand
ing personnel programs adopted
in the various institutions in
America by a nationally known
authority. ^