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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1942)
Professor Lauds Trend Toward Specialization By RUTH DOZIER Hugh M. Shafer, professor of education at the University, is optimistic about the educational standards during and after the war. “We are beginning to take the turn towards specialized educa tion,” said Professor Shafer. “The view of educators now is not quite the idealistic one it used to be of educating everyone equally in the most academic way pos sible.” Further Specialization Most people are not interested, and what is more important, they have no need for advanced in struction in languages, mathe matics, or Latin. In the future, even more than now, many peo ple will spend their lives in some specialized job industry. Hence, Professor Shafer believes that a broad vocational training in some special field is the most practical answer to the future education problem. “They can learn the precise skills in the shops they enter if they command a broad knowledge of the field before hand,” he said, Professor Shafer believes that certain students may then be se lected by means of aptitude, vo cational, and intelligence tests for the “higher education” or for the programs of study for law or medicine. “The dead wood must be cut out of our educational pro grams and diplomas that state definitely what the student had completed successfully should be instated, especially if a system of specialized education were adopt ed,” he added. Increased Vocational Training Vocational training for great numbers should not be haphazard, Prof. Shafer continued, but con trolled by the laws of supply and demand. He pointed out the ex ample of England and what it had done toward educating peo ple for jobs in which they were needed. “The numbers of students that go into training in the fields of business administration, law or medicine are strictly regulated in accordance with the demand in these professions. This plan was suggested for the schools of the United States by H. A. Zook, former U. S. com missioner of education and is al ready beginning to be adopted. The government has been giving helpful suggestions and guidance to the schools but there can be nothing definitely enforced as yet. Professor Shafer is pleased with the growing amount of con fidence in schools and the in creasing interest in education. Things like the success of scrap drives and bond sales attributed to the schools are a great help in stirring up the inert attitude of the people toward the educa tional system, however. War Poster Exhibit Opens at Art School The art school gallery is fea turing a collection of United Na tions war posters collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Posters from every allied na tion are on display from now till November 30. These are original propaganda brought from China, Russia, Holland, Spain and the Latin countries. Like those of the United States, they urge the citizens to buy bonds, heed air raid warnings, speed production and other war activities. Twenty thousand hours of flying instruction have been giv en at Northwestern University without an injury. “Hi. Recognize me? I'm one of your crowd. You see, I speak for Coca-Cola, known, too, as Coke. I speak for both. They mean the same thing. The gang say I look just like Coke tastes. And you can't get that delicious and refreshing taste this side of Coca-Cola. Nobody else can dupli cate it.” BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. OF EUGENE Parks Johnson (left) and War ren Hull, interviewers on Vox Pop, which will be aired from Gerlinger hall next Monday at 5 p.m. Vox Pop Ducat Supply Limited Tickets for the Bromo-Seltzer Vox Pop show are still available in Kenneth S. Wood’s office in the speech division of Friendly hall. The tickets will be given upon request of any student in terested in radio, speech, or drama. Mr. Wood, University radio di rector, holds 100 tickets for dis tribution on the campus. Loggers Featured The show has not been brought to the campus as a University feature, but in the interest of the loggers and lumber men of the state, Mr. Wood explained, and will be heard coast to coast, Columbia Broadcasting system, from 5 to 5:30 p.m., Monday, No vember 23, in Gerlinger hall. Doors will close at 4:30. Parks Johnson and Warren Hull, interviewers on the show, will ask questions and supervise contests during the production. Dave Grant is in charge. People Get Break Originating from the Latin, “vox populi,” voice of the people, the show’s name has been cut down to Vox Pop. It began as an informal quiz session, with impromptu words from the man cn the street. The present series is dedicated to the war effort. Music Society Gives UO $100 Mu Phi Epsilon patroness as sociation has presented the Uni versity music school with one hundred dollars to be spent on phonograph recordings of famous musical works. This is the second such pre sentation made by the Mu Phi patronesses. The last was made in the spring of 1942. The purpose is to provide the department with a well-selected collection of fa mous classics. A special shelf has been built in the music building to house the collection. The donation will be called the Mu Phi Epsilon patroness record library. Twenty-one recordings were purchased with the last one hun dred dollars. Works included symphonies by both classic and modern composers, the opera “Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart, several albums of early organ and vocal music, madrigals, and miscellaneous other works. Chemistry Professors Attend National Meet Representing the University chemistry department at a meet ing of the Oregon section of the American Chemical society at Reed college in Portland Novem ber 10 were Dr. Adolph R. Kunz, associate professor of chemistry and acting head of the depart ment; Dr. Dallas S. Dedrick, as sistant professor of chemistry; Dr. Pierre Van Rysselberghe, as sistant professor of chemistry; Dr. Charles H. Secoy, instructor in chemistry, and Roy C. An drews, instructor in chemistry. Main speaker for the occasion was Dr. Frederick Blicke, pro fessor of organic chemistry at the L/niversity of Michigan. Recreation Class Makes Field Trip The class in functions of recre ation in communities, taught by Miss Florence D. Alden of the physical education department, made a field trip Friday in which they studied the different phases of recreation for men in service. The first visit was to the USO house in Corvallis, from which they went to Independence, where Miss Kay Fossum, who re ceived her M.A. degree at the University in 1942, acted as guide. The town of Independence is being organized by Miss Fos sum as a demonstration project to show how a whole town can be co-ordinated to serve the men in service. From Independence they went to Camp Adair where they visit ed club houses, libraries, hostess houses, and other recreation fa cilities. Orchestra Concert Scores Success ^ By ROSS YATES The University symphony or chestra Thursday night in its first concert of the current year scored a success that maintains its reputation for fine perform ances. Rex Underwood, conduc tor, led the orchestra with an as surance obtained only by expe rience. The program opened with the “Star Spangled Banner,” fol lowed by the overture “Sakun tala” by Goldmark. This over ture placed the audience in a re ceptive mood for the better int^ pretations to follow. String Section Coordinates Special credit should be given to the string section, especially to Verne Sellin and June Grantz, violinists, and Irene Clark, cell ist, for their performance of the Handel “Concerto Grosso, op. f>, number 12.” The coordination be tween the performers was al most perfect. Violin solist Elizabeth Walker played the first movement of the Beethoven concerto in D major, including the difficult Joachim cadenza. Her interpretation of this work was brilliant, showing what a true artist can do with a great composition. Pleasing Variety “Danse Macabre” by Saint Saens provided variation that was pleasing. It was played wiJf ■ a zest that matches the spirit * the composition. “L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1” by Bizet brought from the orches tra a depth of expression not shown in the other works. It was a fitting closing number. A CHECKING ACCOUNT affords a good way for stud ents to make disbursements from their expense funds. EUGENE BRANCH of the UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK of Portland Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation WANTED! EMERALD DELIVERY BOY Hour's Work Daily Wages: $1 Must Have Car ( Call Betty Biggs Schrick Phone 3300 — Ext. 351 or 480J
