< State Board Member Asks Oregon Dads to Consider Problems
Mrs. Pierce
Shews Need
For Thought
Finance Question Placed
In Forefront
Other Topics for Consideration
Mentioned by Speaker at
Fathers' Dinner
( Oregon Dads were asked to con
sider pressing problems now be
fore the Oregon state board of
higher education by Mrs. Cornelia
Marvin Pierce, member of the
board, speaking at the annual ban
quet of the Oregon Dads Satur
day evening in the John Straub
Memorial building. She urged that
committees of dads be formed to
study these questions.
Finance was held to be of para
mount importance as a problem
to be considered by the public.
“I look beyond the group of stu
dents now in Oregon institutions
and see the 15 per cent of the for
mer student body who have not
returned to campuses this year,”
Mrs. Pierce said. “Is it because
they were disappointed in the Uni
versity or because they lacked the
means to finance themselves? In
either case it is most serious.”
More Taxation Decried
Declaring that the economic sit
uation must be taken into consid
eration and that the probable
length of time of this pressure
jvill make impossible any increase
in support by taxation, Mrs. Pierce
asked, “In the meantime shall the
burden rest upon the student
through tees, tuitions and debts?
Shall those who cannot pay these
fees be denied the campus or shall
the campus be open to all highly
qualified students without fees?”
Other topics calling for serious
study were professional education,
junior colleges, faculty councils,
unification of the present system,
and the relations with the press.
More Training Desirable
“Shall Oregon educate for all
professions freely and without fees
at public expense, or shall there
be a comity in higher education
which will distribute professional
schools among the neighboring
states of the Pacific coast?” the
board member asked. At this
point Mrs. Pierce raised the ques
tion of teacher training for ele
mentary schools. “Shall we con
tinue to offer preparation of col
legiate or graduate grade for doc
tors, lawyers, druggists, and archi
tects, and be content with two
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President of Oregon
Dads Sends Message
To University Students
W. Lair Thompson, for the
third successive year president
of the Oregon Dads, sends a
message to the students of the
University of Oregon. To those
who attended the Dad’s day
banquet, he has already
spoken, but to the students
who were not there he sends
a message:
"Have absolute confidence:
thousands of friends of the
University of Oregon are or
ganized to work for the good
of the institution. The well
being and bright future for the
University are assured. We
can look forward to an era of
progress and development.”
years of normal school work for
the training of public school teach
ers ? Can Oregon be content with
its system of elementary teacher
training? Does it not call for
immediate revision and for estab
lishment of a teachers’ college?”
it was asked.
Junior colleges in Oregon would
reduce the student expense cost,
make it possible for younger stu
dents to live at home, give edu
cational opportunity to remote as
well as thickly populated centers
and would relieve the pressure on
the larger schools, Mrs. Pierce
stated, in bringing this question
before the group. “One of Presi
dent Arnold Bennett Hall’s major
contributions to the Oregon edu
cational program was undoubtedly
the reorganization of the Univer
sity into upper and lower divi
sions,” she said. “Shall this be
followed by junior colleges in the
centers already established in La
Grande, Ashland, and possibly in
Portland ?”
Faculty Aid Desirable
Declaring that except during
the formation of the report of the
curriculum committee of the board
the people of Oregon have not had
sufficient faculty guidance in ed
ucational affairs, Mrs. Pierce
asked, "Is it not possible to call
upon the faculty councils for ad
vice and help in this period of
transition and could not such a
plan be made a part of our sys
tem?” The most dangerous sup
position which outside groups may
make in regard to education is to
assume that universities can be
run as are industrial plants and
big business operations, it was de
clared.
Unification was held to be a
problem of extreme importance.
"In this so-called unified system
of higher education how may the
work of the various campuses be
most clearly related ? The very
fortunate necessity for economy
points the way, but it does not
offer the solution. This may be
arrived at only through serious
study, through a spirit of toler
ance and a determination to weld
into a single system the diverse,
but not incompatible units of Ore
gon’s educational system.
Papers Asked To Aid
Declaring that she did not as
sume in any way that the press
of the state could be controlled
or that it needs guidance, Mrs.
Pierce threw out the suggestion'
that journalists might unite with
the state editorial association in
formulating a program that would
remove from editorial and news
columns some of the sectional and
institutional partisanship and bit
terness, and that would help the
board to put before the public
educational news and comment of
real significance and importance.
“There must be further adjust
ment to hard years which are tp
come because public funds will be j
small,” Mrs. Pierce said in conclu
sion. "Faculties must be called
upon for continued sacrifice, stu
dents will find it difficult to sup
port themselves and parents will
find it often impossible to gratify
the ambitions of their children.
All our energies must be devoted
to the effort to hold, if possible,
the fullest opportunity for serious
students and to give every en
couragement to the development
of special talents.
"The board needs the very defi
nite and constructive help of your
group in its effort toward the
preservation of democracy and the
finest spirit and the highest ideals
of scholarship in Oregon’s institu- j
tions of higher education.”
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Morse Blasts
Industrialism
In Education
Dean Decries Polities in
College System
j Principal Speaker at Dad's Day
Banquet Asks Aid in Putting;
Schools in Old Place
Fathers of Oregon students,
here for the seventh annual Dad's
day, were called upon Saturday
at the annual banquet of the “Ore
gon Dads" to aid faculties, admin
istrators, and students throughout
the country to restore universities
to their original place as “a con
! gregation of scholars and students
organized for teaching and study
m the higher branches of learn
ing,” by Wayne L. Morse, dean of
the school of law, who was prin
cipal speaker.
Politics in higher education,
1 over-emphasis of student activi
ties *and what he termed the “in
dustrial plant” system of organi
zation of college and universities
were soundly scored by the dean
in his frank and vigorous address.
Good Signs Seen
Encouraging signs, however, are
noted at Oregon by the dean. “One
can notice a marked sobering at
titude spreading throughout our
student body,” he declared. “The
depression has sent us more of
serious-minded young men and
women—students more conscious
of the fact that they must rise
above the ranks if they are to ful
fill their obligations and pay their
debts to the people of the state
who support the institutions that'
give them the advantages ot
higher education.”
Declaring that “mass produc
tion” in education has brought
about another serious evil—poli
tics in education—Morse said “Fat
budgets, extensive plants, large
congregated economic groups of
students and faculty have been
juicy fillings for political pies. If
those finest scholastic traditions of
university training and culture are
to be preserved, politics, and all
the nefarious practices that go
along with it, must be kicked out
of higher education. We must re
member that a state university is
not a municipal institution of the
city in which it is located, and we
need to protest the practice of
small groups of city and state
politicians proposing to speak for
a university and its faculty and
students.
Faculty Trained
“A university is not a factory
or a department store and cannot
be organized as such and retain
ihe characteristics of a university.
A true university does not consist
of a general manager, a superin
tendent, a general foreman and a
host of assistant foremen, and
then a large body of faculty em
ployes. The conception that fac
ulty men and women are mere
employees must not go unchal
lenged, because that conception is
devastating to faculty morale.
There is need to recognize that
faculty members are highly
trained specialists and scholars
and constitute a professional class
of at least as high standing as
doctors, lawyers and engineers.”
Morse pointed out that the leg
islative act of 1872 entrusted the
faculty of the University, consist
ing of the president and profes
sors, with the immediate govern
ment and discipline of the Univer
sity and was empowered to recom
mend to the board of directors a
course of study.
Nelson Statement Quoted
Quoting the statement made re
cently by Roscoe Nelson, new ap
pointee of the state board of
higher education from Portland,
and adopted as a policy of the
board, Morse declared, “If I in
terpret that language correctly,
we are aDout 10 enter upon a new
era in higher education in this
state, an era in which the hoard
is going to do something it has
not done enough of namely, rec
ognize that if a university is to
execute its functions properly and
to the best interest of the state,
academic freedom must be pre
served and the views of faculties
on educational matters as well as
those of the administration must
be taken into account.
“Open and fair discussion on
matters of educational policies and
principles participated in jointly
by the board, the administration
and the faculties will raise mo
rale, increase professional incen
tive, re-est&blish academic pride,
and result in a university which
can truly boast ‘We train men and
women to raise above the ranks.’ ’’
Loyalty as a dominant factor
was stressed in the talk. “The
board must be loyal to the chan
cellor and to the faculties, and
the chancellor must be loyal to
the faculties as well as the board,
just as the faculties must be loyal
to the chancellor and the board, :
Morse said.
President Nearly Floored by
| Dad’s Request for Airplane
By ELINOR HENRY
“Today is Dad’s day. Anything
you ask we will do for you.”
The house president smiled at
the fathers and daughters about
the luncheon table and sank
gracefully back into her chair. But
the first request nearly floored
her.
“How about getting us an air
plane to fly to Portland to see the
O.S.C.-Southern California game?”
suggested W. C. Ruegnitz.
At the smoker, two sophomores
held two wrestling freshmen on
their shoulders. “It reminds me
of Indian boys and white boys
wrestling on horseback," remarked
C. L.' Allen, who hails from a
ranch near Bend and is the father
of S. Eugene Allen.
“This is my second Dad’s day,;
and I enjoy it very, very much,”
declared F. R. Olin, dad of Milli
cent Olin from Mill City.
Eugene is riot new to H. Heiberg,
who drove down from Portland
with Mrs. Heiberg to visit their
daughter Ruth, but this was his
first Dad’s day trip.
This was true also of A. G.
Denniston, Eugene, father of Mary
Jeannette Denniston. “It’s the
first time I’ve been able to take
advantage of it,” he said, "as I’ve
been out of town on business bet
fore, but I think it’s a splendid
idea.” <
Two Portland dads who sat next
to each other at the smoker were
Henry Hartje, Virgiia Hartje’s
father,’ and C. H. Baynard, father
of Bernice Baynard. Another
Portland dad at the smoker was
C. H. Weston, whose daughters
are Barbara and Nancy. He en
joyed the game Friday night,
though he arrived too late to reg
ister that evening.
Most successful of the acrobatic
stunts at the smoker was the per
formance on the bar of little Jim
mie Cutler, young son of Ross
Cutler, instructor in the physical
education department.
One of the elementary journal
ism class “reporters” and ex-Gov
ernor A. W. Norblad hunted each
other in the crowd after the ban
quet for at least 15 minutes. The
search was proving fruitless, Nor
blad sent the kind message by a
mutual friend: “Say whatever you
like. I’ll back it up.”
It was the same young man who
heard Axel Backlund, also of As
toria, remark, “I’ve been to a [
great many banquets, but this is
the first time the chicken was ever
really done."
If Washington is called the
"father of his country" and "Roose
velt “the father of his people,"
then it must be correct to say
"father of the associated stu
dents," as Tom Tongue was styled,
through an error, in Saturday's
Emerald. The line was meant to
read, “president of the associated
students," of course.
"I think it's a fine movement,”
remarked C. DeYoung, Portland,
speaking of Dad’s day, not of the
all-American girl contest in which
his daughter Margaret is one of
the five finalists.
A. R. Mollison, Portland, says
he’s a “freshman dad,” since this
is his first Dad's day visit to his
son Van, Official business, how
ever, for the bureau of service of
the interstate commerce commis
sion brings him to Eugene quite
often.
It's a long way up from south
ern California, but the dads of
Fred Hunt and Dwight Nielson
thought Dad’s day worth the trip.
Hunt is from San Mateo and Niel
son from Oakland.
UNIVERSITY FUNCTIONS
(Continued from Page Two)
reorganized higher education so
is to avoid duplications.
However, this important point
is to.be noted; namely, the act of
L929 does not infringe upon, limit,
or take away faculty powers al
ready vested by the acts of 1872
ind 1876.
I believe that you will appre
ciate my frankness, and, therefore,
[ wish to emphasize this point. As
che result of the power given to it
oy the law, the faculty of the Uni
versity of Oregon has always par
cicipated in the formation and the
ievelopment of university educa
-ional policies. It has organized
itself into a quasi-parliamentary
oody with standing committees,
each acting within definite juris
lictional /mits and the actions of
each subject to the approval of
:he general faculty.
I am informed by older members
of the faculty that it has not been
jncommon for the University of
Oregon faculty to volunteer rec
ommendations to the president and
oh more than one occasion it has
i refused to adopt recommendations
i of the President when in its opin
i ion, these recommendations have
infringed upon the vested rights
of the faculty.
In more recent years, with the
approval of the Board of Regents,
the advisory council of the faculty
was created. The council consists
of three deans and three profes
sors elected by the general facul
ty: it was designed and has been
continued as an instrument for
the orderly expression of faculty
opinion on matters affecting bud
get, rank and salary of faculty, li
brary, creation and extension of
departments, selection of the pres
ident, and questions of tenure and
demotion.
In the light of the expressed
statutory graAt of power to the
faculty of the University of Ore
gon, it is my opinion that until
the legislature repeals the acts of
1872 and 1876 the present faculty
governmental organization and
powers are binding upon the ad
ministration and upon the Board
of Higher Education. And should
any attempt be made to destroy
by legislative enactment, the hori
zontal organization of the Univer
sity of Oregon, 1 trust that, you
men and women will rally to the
cause of academic freedom.
I am satisfied that a frank rec
ognition of the horizontal demo
cratic organization of the Univer
sity of Oregon and an extension of
that organization to other institu
tions of higher learning in the
state will do more to bring about
harmony in higher education in
Oregon than any other one thing.
The Honorable Roscoe Nelson in
his recent public statement of
board policy did much toward
quieting the fears of those who
have exercised a constant vigilance
seeking to preserve and protect
the vested interests of our Univer
sity. In approving his language,
the board seems to have gone on
record as recognizing the horizon
tal democratic organization of the
University. He stated in part: “In
the exercise of his trust, the board
had selected a chancellor who is
the board's chosen and trusted
chief advisory officer. The board
has the right to ask, and as far as
I am concerned, will demand a full
and unequivocal loyalty from
those who in turn serve under the
chancellor’s directions. This does
not involve the loss of cherished
academic freedom, it does not limit
or abolish open and fair discussion;
but it eliminiates subversive tac
tics.
“The educational institutions
should have their faculty councils.
Moreover, and better still, as Mrs.
Pierce has suggested, there shotild
be inter-institutional councils in
which the chancellor’s presence
and participation should promote
understanding and mutual confi
dence. The scope and contents of
their proceedings should be con
structive and helpful and should
leave no room for the type of de
vious undermining and sapping
which endangers the successful op
eration of a sane and wholesome i
system created by the will of the 1
people of the state.
"Intelligent and fair-minded men
will recognize that this does not
involve subservience to the per
sonality or identity of any specific I
chancellor who may hold office
tenure, but it does mean that the
board regards the subtle negation
of his efforts, attempts to weaken,
minimize and hamper his efficien
cy. as inevitably tending to defeat
achievement of the purposes of
the board which is responsible for
him and to which he is responsi
ble."
If I interpret that language cor
rectly we are about to enter upon
a new era in higher education in
this state. An era in which the
board is going to do something it
has not done enough of; namely,
recognize that if a university is
to execute its functions properly
and to the best interests of the
state, academic freedom must be
■preserved and the views of the fac
ulties on educational matters as
well as those of the administration
must be taken into account. Open
and fair discussion on matters of
educational policies and principles
participated in jointly by the board,
the administration, and the facul
ties will raise morale, will increase
professional incentive, will re-es
tablish academic pride, will result
in a university which can truly
boast, "We train men and women
to rise above the ranks."
If T interpret Mr. Nelson’s lan
guage correctly, he lays down the
sound principle that the chancel
lor's office, be it occupied by X. Y, j
or Z, is to be respected as a vital |
administrative branch of our sys
tem of higher education, and that '
the office is entitled to a full and
unequivocal loyalty;—loyalty but
not submission. Further, although
he does not say it in so many
words, I am sure that by the judi
ciousness of his language he rec
ognizes that loyalty, like circulat
ing blood must pass back and forth
throughout the entire education
system, or disease will result. The
board must be loyal to the chan
cellor and to the faculties, and the
chancellor must be loyal to the
faculties as well as to the board,
just as the faculties must be loyal,
to the chancellor and to the board.
One more thought and I am
through. Loyalty does not neces
sarily mean agreement. Disagree
ment .with some program of the
chancellor „or of the board does
not mean disloyalty, por should it
mean disqualification of him who
disagrees. In one’s very disagree
ment he may be right, and if per
mitted to voice his objections in a
frank, tactful, parliamentary man
ner, he may prevent the sacrifice
of an important academic princi
ple.
I know of no chancellor, college
president, or lay board connected
with any university in the land
sufficiently competent to determ
ine satisfactorily the many com
plex and technical questions in
volved in maintaining a first-rate
university. The brain trust of edu
cation, the specialists and experts
on education, are to be found in
the ranks of our college faculties.
The best interests of the educa
tional program of any state de
mand not an administrative oli
garchy, not an employer-employee
relationship between faculty and
administration, but rather an ad
ministrative system representative
and cbo'"-r.tivc in nature which
guarantees that there will be
brought to bear upon every major
academic problem and policy the
contributions resulting from the
combined efforts of faculty, ad
ministrative officers, and board
members. Such a university is
truly a congregation of scholars
and students organized for teach
ing and study in the higher branch
es of learning. A university so or
ganized will best perform the pri
mary function of training young
men and women to rise above the
ranks.
Leaves Library Staff
Mrs. Catherine Mason, attend
ant in room 30 of the library, will
leave shortly for Bend, where her
husband has been transferred. Her
work will be taken over by other
nembers of the sta^.
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