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About University of Oregon monthly. (Eugene, Oregon) 1897-???? | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1908)
26 U niversity of O regon M o nthly Economic Research W ork in the Uni versity of Oregon |H E ' State of O regon' expects, and rightly, adequate returns from the U niversity of Oregon for the money spent in maintaining the University. N ot ,pnly does4 the’jiUniversity strid e'to give value re ceived through, the culture of the studenfs,; but there are some., lines of "University work that have a direct value to the "state.! One of these tivity is the’, work ©f the economic research classes. Economic research is pursued by members of the senior class j under th e direction of Professor E. G. Young, head of the depart- • meat of Economics, For the -past several years the research has been into ^natters, of particular intefest-M ’the_stat^ ^¿O segon, and questions of Oregon history and policy. Fdr the present year sueh subjects are'being worked out by y members-¿f, the class: “Oregon school lands? “The | g | prim ary law in Oregon, as compared with the law in other -st^eS ,” “Fees, I and o th er emoluments of officials in th e state of Oregon, | ^The 'railroad lands of Oregon,” “O regon''treasury b a la r t^ J J . and ^ d e velopment of Oregon County ,sy stem ” A large amount of material re la tin g to Oregon questions, gath ered by the research, class, was used by, tfio Committees of the state legislative assembly at its recent session. One. paper in par ticular, th at relating to banking law s,’ was found i^'ery m drafting the bill's, presented at th a t^ s ^ io n . I ■ second value to the state of the research wö,rk in the Univer-^ rh ity iis S,the training th at it-is giving to a body <$f fb u n g men who are' each' year going to make up | j 9 citizenship of thd ;|qmfnon- We.alth. | Uhder Profess&r Young’s direction the student is taught, the b est method of approaching a mass of more or le?Xrelated ma te r ia l, and having selected R | part th at beaggupon his subjects he is ’expected to present the results in th e manner in which they will be easiest understood, and most graphically perceived. I E g g parative studies of a law in several states are tabulated, so that re lations between like phases can be seen at ,al glance. W hete figures are Concerned, graphic curves are drawn to represent the relations.
