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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1952)
i Foreign Student i Enrollment Is 116 For Spring Term One hundred and sixteen foreign students are studying at the Uni versity of Oregon spring term just a drop in tire bucket compared with larger institutions like the University of California or Colum bia University, each with over 1000 enrolled. And hardly a ripple in the stream when compared with national fig ures released Tuesday by the In stitute of International Education in New York, although the nation al figure is proportionally less than at Oregon. A recent survey, the institute - .said, puts the foreign student popu r- lotion of the United States at a • -record-breaking 30.000. Every state • is represented, it revealed, but with . the heaviest concentrations in New, Yotk and California. (National col i lege enrollment is about 2,000,000: • "-Oregon has about 4000.; Canada First Here Countries with the largest num * her of citizens here, the report said. - ore Canada. China and Germany. ♦ hi. that order, with students from Africa, the Near East and Asia , growing in numbers every year. + Four Asiatic and two Near Eastern ► 'nations rank in the top ten with • only one from Europe, Germany. • ♦ »raking that list. At Oregon. J. D. Provart, foreign student advisor, said Tuesday that * -Canada likewise ranks first with - ebout 28 students. Next in line are • Japan, with 16. and then Germany with 11. Few From Many From there on. he explained, the » •*^presentation breaks down into ♦' -ti'-any countries with four to seven •students on campus and others with only one or two. A partial I dist would include Norway, India. • China. France, Iran, Iraq. The Philippines. Belgium, Siam, Guam end Pakistan. National figures disclosed that r Huost foreign students are taking engineering courses, with this tend • —cncy especially true for South Asians and Near Easterners. Most European students are in the sci ence and liberal arts fields, the * figures showed, although religion ♦ iv on- the “first ten" list for the t—f+rst time this year. Liberal Arts First With no engineering courses of > fared. Provart remarked, most for eign students here are in liberal 8' ts, a field which includes the sci ence. history and economics depart t^ATTehts among others. Next in line • ■ of preference is business adminis- j tration. the journalism, architec ture and finally pre-medicine, he . said. Provart said the national fig •• tires for the total cost to each «• -f ireign student, $2,500 (which in aud board i, are somewhat “mis-j eludes travel, tuition and room ! • -loading.” Cost Termed ‘Misleading’ Travel costs could push the one yoar cost to $250C, he said, but my foreign students at Oregon ‘ remain here for two, three or four years.” Thus the travel expendi ture, balanced out over a longer period of time, would decrease. About 90 per cent of the stu dents here receive scholarships, he iadded, compared with approxi , rnately 50 per cent over the whole ! : ■Ration, but this too is a “strict in- \ terpretation.” Under a plan fos ■ tered by the state legislature, he explained, most foreign students can qualify for state scholarships vdiich take care of their tuition, j Only about a fourth of Oregon's foreign visitors are women, he concluded, while the ratio is slight ly above 2 men for every woman throughout the country. Classrooms Were Crowded in'[1897/ Hiah Schoolers Dominated Campus When Friedrieh George Gottlob Schmidt arrived at the University in 1897. the school was dominated by high school students. Since there were only two high schools in the state (Salem and Lincoln), the University main tained high school courses so that students lacking requirements for University admission might obtain them. When these courses were finally abolished in 1899. enrollment at the r University fell from about -100 stu dents to ir.o. At the time of Sell mbit's arrival, the campus contained only five buildings Villard Hall. Heady hall, a boys’ dormitory now known as Friendly hall. Collier hull and a small women's gymnasium. Classes were so crowded that a room for Schmidt's German class could only be found by building a partition in the middle of Deudy hall's largest classroom, separating the German students from ex 1 REMEMBER We are open 24 hours. During Junior Weekend Try Our Excellent Food & Service • Delicious Hamburgers • Milk Shakes GREGG'S DRIVE-INN 432^ Pacific Hwy. South Phone 5*8814 President John Johnson's Latin class. Wagons Ho! Tin* I diversity's first presi dent, John Johnson, runic to Oregon l»y driving an ox team across the plains. When the fnm lly arrived in Oregon* they ac quired a farm which Is now part the Oregon Slate college campus. Johnson graduated sixth In a class of IIXI at Vale In IHli'i. lie later organized the first high school in tlie Pacific Northwest. During his presidency, lie taught a l.atiu class unit personally handled numerous other detulls, including registration. [ The sudden drop in enrollment when the prep courses Werq, dropped alarmed the state legis lature, which sent a special Inves tigator to Kugene to determine whether or not the school should be abolished. After seeing two classes an English class and Schmidt's Ger man class the investigator inves tigated no more and decided that the Institution definitely should not be abolished. , Another highlight of the time was tin- decision that Eugene firm* were charging outrageous prices for electricity, water and printing. 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