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.
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