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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.