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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1956)
Foreign Scholarships Available to Students Many scholarships arc now open for application to students interested in studying abroad or in the United States in different colleges and universities. Dead line for filing for the academic year beginning in 1957 is Oct. 31 or Nov. 1. Among the available scholar ships are 12 Marshall scholar ships which the British govern ment offers annually to United States graduate students for study in British universities. The awards are made only to citizens of the United States who are un der 28 years of age on Oct. 1 in the year in which the award is taken up. The Marshall scholarships are tenable at any university in the United Kingdom which includes England. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The awards are made for two years but may be extended for a third year. The value of one Marshall scholarship is from 550 to 600 pounds a year plus transporta tion to and from the university in the United Kingdom. Three scholarships are awarded in each of the four U. S. regions—east, south, middle west and Pacific regions. Students in this area should write for application forms to the British Consulate-General. 2516 Pacific avenue, San Francisco 15. i Successful candidates will be no- j tified in the spring. Study in Mexico Another group of scholarships includes 16 grants by the Mexican government to U. S. students for study in Mexico during the aca demic year beginning March 1.! 1957 and ending Dec. 15. 1957. Although the grants cover full maintenance and include tuition, applicants should have other funds for incidental expenses and travel costs. Preference will be given gradu ate students upon application. Foreign Student Reception Today The annual foreign student re eption is scheduled for Monday at 8 p.m. in the Student Union ball room. Both students and towns people are invited. Purpose of the reception is to introduce the foreign students to the public and the campus. They wear their native costumes but it is not essential. Robert Horn, University pro fessor, will act as master of cere monies. Theodore Stem, president of the foreign student freindship foundation, will give the welcome. Following the short program refreshments will be served and the foreign students will be in troduced. Wives Activity Cards Available Activity cards for the wives of University of Oregon students are still available at M101 Stu dent Union. Priced at $1 per term, the cards may be purchased by the husband with a student body card, or by the wife with her hus band’s student body card and identification. The cards entitle holders to free admission to EUMCA and University-Eugene-Stpringield or chestra association concerts and participation in all events spon sored by the SU board, the edu cation association department, and the AStJO. Pacific Coast Conference rules makes it impossible to include at tendance to the athletic events and still offer the cards at a rea sonable price. However, undergraduate juniors or seniors are also eligible to apply. A graduate student will be awarded 1249 pesos a month while an undergraduate will re ceive 1185 pesos. Graduate fields recommended for candidates arc architecture, Indian and physical anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, museog raphy, art (painting), cardiology and tropical medicine, biological sciences and Mexican history. Undergraduate fields recom mended are philosophy, language and literature. Other fields are not excluded. Eligibility requirements include United States citizenship, good knowledge of Spanish, good aca demic record, good moral charac •ter, personality, adaptability and good health. For application forms write to the U. S. Student Department, Institute of International Educa tion, 1 East 67th st.. New York 21. Deadline for filing is Nov. 1. NATO Scholarships Still another series of awards for students are open" in the form of NATO scholarships. These scholarships are for students who have graduated at the time of ap plication. Priority will be given to stu dents in the fields of the humani ties and social sciences over the pure sciences and mathematics. Students may apply for study in the United States, Canada or any of the European NATO countries — Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Candidates may apply for study extending from 6 months to over a full academic year. The award will be adjusted accordingly. In addition NATO will pay#transpor tation expenses. Candidates will be selected on the basis of their scholastic rec ord, their subject of study and the institution at which they plan to pursue their studies. Application forms may be ob tained by writing the Institute of International Education, 1 East 67th St.. New York 21. Deadline for filing is Nov. 1. Winners will be announced April 4th. Soph Honors Tests Will Begin Tuesday The Sophomore Honors Lit erature test, scheduled for Tues day, will begin the fall series of comprehensive tests for Sopho more Honors awards. Test dates for the other subjects are: physi cal and biological science, Oct. 11; study of society, Oct. 17; and history, Oct. 18. Sophomore Honors are awarded to students who pass the tests with distinction in four fields— one of two in science and all of the other three, history, society and literature. Tests are given in both the spring and fall and may be taken separately, whenever a student feels he is ready. Employment - Must Be Ready to Travel COLUMBUS, Ohio Iff)—This ad appeared in today’s edition of a local newspaper: “WANTED: “A single man not over 25 years of age to drive in a head on collision at Powell Speedway, Saturday, Oct. 6. We already have one man. Both cars must be speeding at 45 miles an hour at point of crash—a 90-mile-an hour impact—and drivers must give unconditional release in case of injury or death. Give pr ice you want and all details.’’ BA Club Elects Budd President William Budd was elected presi- j dent of the Propeller Club at the j first meeting last Thursday eve ning. SeWing as vice president j will be Wally Russell and hs sec retary treasurer. Donald Burger. The club is an organisation of students in the school of business ■ administration interested in ocean shipping. This student group is affiliated with, the national or ganisation and has direct rela tionship with the Portland Pro peller Club. Included in the schedule for the coming year will be speeches and discussion groups conducted by Portland business men in the various fields of the shipping in dustry. Any student interested in taking part in the club's activities can contact A. L. Lomax, the faculty adviser, in 374 Common wealth. Soph Honors Program 'Unique' Says Thomas The University of Oregon's Sophomore Honors program is "unique” said Russell Thomas in an Emerald interview last Friday, insofar as the award of honors is dependent upon comprehensive examinations rather than course grades. Thomas, a professor at the Uni versity of Chicago, is making a nationwide studv of general edu cation for the Carnegie Corpora tion. He visited the campus last Thursday and Friday. Similar Program at Wisconsin Thomas said that Oregon’s Sophomore Honors program is one of the few of its kind in large state institutions. He mentioned the University of Wisconsin as having a program similar in in tent for lower division students called "integrated liberal studies." Wisconsin’s. program differs somewhat in that students may not elect to take some or all i courses, but must take the entire series once they start. Wisconsin I also neither uses comprehensive j examinations nor gives an award I for successful completion of the courses. General education is used to a greater extent in large private j universities than in state institu : tions, Thomas said, mentioning | Yale’s "Directed Studies” pro | gram, and the regular lower di vision requirements at the Uni , versity of Chicago and Columbia | university. The variety of general educa tion courses covered in the Sopho more Honors program and uni versity lower division require ments is not dissimilar to other j universities employing general ; education, Thomas said. He mentioned that one differ ence he noted was that students in select general education pro grams such as Sophomore Hon ors usually take both a physical j science course and. a biology ! course, instead of one or the other as here at Oregon. Discussion Classes Praised Thomas praised the use of small discussion classes in Sophomore Honors. He said his feeling was that although general survey courses with large lecture classes | often employ the same readings and other material, they still do not accomplish as much as dis cussion classes of restricted size. Outside the Sophomore honors program, Thomas said that Ore gon offers excellent opportunities in upper division general educa tion work. He noted the system of interde partmental studies and general social science majors as being rare in state institutions. This, he said, offers good opportunities to students wishing to gain a broad background. 'Derbv' Winners To Be Announced Announcement of Bunion Derby winners will be made Tuseday. ac cording to Laurie Fisher, Judging co-chairman. The delay is due to the high averages of house par ticipation and the illness of a committee head. Total receipts for the annual progressive dsnce, held on cum* pus Friday night, were $62S, ac cording to Larrllyn Carr, co chairman. 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