Oregon daily emerald., January 13, 1955, Page Six, Image 6

Kwamas Tap Marcia Cook
MARCIA COOK, seated second from left, smiles happily as she is tapped for Kvvamn, sophomore
women’s service honorary, at Tuesday night dinner. Other Kwaman in the picture are Sally Jo
Greig. Karen Kraft, Shirley Bostad and Donna DeVries.
French Government Offers
Fellowships, Assistantships
Opportunities to study or teach
in France are being offered to
American graduate students by
the French Government.
Offered are thirty university
fellowships through the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs and forty
teaching assistantships through
the Ministry of Education.
The French Government
awards are open to men and
women preferably under 30 years
of age. Applicants must be U.S.
citizens. Other eligibility re
quirements are: a bachelor’s de
gree from an American college
or university by the time of de
parture; good academic record;
good knowledge of French, cor
rect usage of English: good mor
al character, personality, and de
pendability, and good health.
Recipients of French teaching
assistantships will teach conver
sational English in secondary
schools and teacher training in
stitutions in France. These posts
are intended for future teachers
of French. A few applicants
with special training in Amer
ican literature and some experi
ence in college teaching may be
selected for teaching assign
ments. in French universities.
Stipends cover maintenance.
Since the number of supplemen
tary travel grants is limited, ap
plicants should be prepared to
pay their own travel.
Forestry Workers
Asked by Board
Applications for the positions
| forestry aid and fire aid are now
| being accepted by the field board
j of the United States Civil Serv
| ice examiners. Feb. 7 has been
i set as the closing date.
Applicants must be 18 ami
; have had a minimum of two
; years experience in the forestry
; field. Salaries begin at $2950. In
i some instances, education may
! be substituted for part of the
. required experience.
Jobs are located in the North
j west under the United States
Forest service. Applications may
be obtained from first and sec
ond class post offices in this
area. They must be turned into
the U.S. D.-partment of Agricul
ture. Eastern building. 515 VV.
10th, Portland 5.
DISLIKES GRADES
Students Are Hope
Of World—R. D. Horn
By Anne Ritchey
Emerald Auiitant Managing Editor
Students here are the best to
be fouAi, Robert D. Horn, pro
fessor of English. thinks. '‘Stu
dents are the hope of the world,"
he explains, "and college age la
the best time of life."
He enjoys working with stu
dents. and his aim In teaching is
to stimulate thought In them. "1
want each individual to find him
self," he says, “and many could
do this better away from the
University."
Horn dislikes giving grades in
in his courses, which include
Shakespease and advance dra
rnu and literature courses. He
feels keenly his own failure
when a student “fails" one of his
classes.
"I can always tell how good
a student is by how much I can
learn from him,” he feels.
Au extremely sensitive per
son concerning student moods
and attitudes, he senses the at
mosphere in a room of students
and bases individual lectures on
this perception.
Much of this sensitivity has
been developed through his in
terest and work in drama. Him
self an actor and director, he
has studied and heard the best in
drama in outstanding German
operas.
He has brought this experi
ence amt intuition to his activi
ties in Eugene's Very Little thea
ter, where he has directed and
acted in more than fifty plays
since coming to Eugene and Un
University in 1925.
Horn sikya he never stops
learning. He was raised in what
might be called an academic at
mosphere, because his father was
headmaster of a Latin academy
in Michigan. This early contact
with knowledge was a subtle in
fluence on him, he feels, even
though tie did not realize it uu
til he put It Into practice us it
toucher himself.
“Teaching, and I ho defense of
tcurnlng, is like moral or r**l
Iouk conviction," ho thinks. "You .
don't realize how you feel about
It until someone challenges or al
ludes it."
Horn received his undergrade •
ate and Ph.D, degrees at the
University of Michigan, where he •
financed his undergraduate study
by selling books, "house-to
house."
Horn looks like a classical
scholar, and partially lives the
life of one. He has traveled to
Europe more times than he can
count, and knows the Marlboi
ough royalty In England person
ally.
He has a large collection of
cure manuscript s of Hha|>es
peure and Chaucer and other
early writers, and corresponds
with other scholars similarly in
terested.
Extremely popular with Ore.
gon students, he serves the Uni
versity in many extra-curricular
ways, lie is currently chairman
of the University assembly com
mittee, and In this position ob
tain* speakers for assemblies and
coffee hours.
He also is one of two faculty
members who are voting mem- •
bets of the ASUO senate. Ex
tiemely interested in the senate, ■ '
he helped pioneer the Installation
of chimes on the campus and is • <
enthusiastically supporting re
storation of the millrace. . ,
His willingness to participate
ui student activities was shown
when* he portrayed Professor
Snarf in a skit given for the ^
Homecoming variety show in
IMS. This number proved to be
one of the most popular in the
show, and Horn enjoyed doing it.
"However, I would probaBly
think twice about any of my
colleagues who would do that."
he says with a shy grin.
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