PERMANENT BUILDINGS FOR REED COLLEGE TO BE BUILT SOON
Main Buildine to Cost $200,000 and Large Dormitory Will Be Erected Before Next School Year. Portland Institution With $3,000,000 Endowment Establishes High Stand
ards and Will Do Work of Same Scope as Amherst, Bowdoin and Williams, Although Many Features of Its Admistration Will Give Individuality.
Br ar. Wllllasa T. Fanler, President ef
Hrml t alleae.
REED COLLKUB will open for the
Bret year of Instruction In the
new buildings upon Ita permanent
cam pi: nest September. Students will
be received In complete their work for
the decree of A. B. In June.- 1M4, but
no decree will be rranted to any atu
rtent who l credited with lea than two
veare of hie academic work at Keed
ollese. and there will be no formal
commencement before June. 1916.
The class work of the colleve la al
ready unili-r way. aa SO atunente 2
men and S4 women were admitted to
the fre.hman cU. laat Beptember
from rij appllranta for admlaalon. The
work l betcit -nOurted In a bulldlnn
erected by tle Keed institute at
t leventh and- Jefferaon atreeta. Thla
bulldinK will not be used for college
purl? after the present year.
iired t'olU'tt-e. which Is the Collexa
.f Liberal Arts and Fclencel of the
lte-d Institute, la established under an
endowment left by Mr. and Mrs. flmin
cj. Keed. of rortand. The present
value of the endowment la approxi
mately fl.Ovo.OOO. It consists largely
f real esute. well located In the City
of l'ortland-
liy the terma of the bequest the col
I,Se U and forerer must remain non
sctaplan. "permlttlna those who may
seek Its benefits to affiliate with such
rrlixlous smlettes aa their consciences
mjv dl'tnle."
The Collene of Liberal Arts and
tv ien.es. whlrh ! the only work which
OREGON PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE
NOTED FOR THEIR EFFICIENCY
System Has Crown Up Under Exceptionally Good Laws.
houses Built During Year Number 116.
lly l R. Alderam. State nprtnle
sral mt IHblle Inatrnrtlea.
THE New Year's editions of The
oreconl.in mark our steps of
progress. This record would not
be complete without telling of the ad
vancement of-our schools.
Throuch school board conventions,
teachers" Institutes and patron-teacher
associations, which latter bave been
encouraged by the Mothers' Congress,
public Interest In the schools Is tap
l.llv growina-. Especially" have people
been interested In making sanitary con
ditions better.
tine hundred and sixteen new school
hnuiea have been built during th pant
year. All of these are modern In light
In.:, heating and ventilation. Many old
school houses have had the lighting
Improved: the windows on one side
boarded up and more windows cut on
the other side, so that cross light have
l.a, n done away with. Moves have been
lavketed and window boards provided,
and In many caaes a complete ventil
ating system put In. The change ia
being made from the common dipper to
the Individual drinking cup or the bub
bling fountain. The water from hun
dreds of wells ha bren tested by the
state Board of Health, which board
vnder the direction of Dr. Calvin Jt.
XV hue has co-operated most effectively.
We have In Oregon a rural super
xisory Isw that Is bringing all the
irhoo' of the state to a high standard.
In all counties where there are 0 or
mare districts tht re la now an educa
tional board appointed by the county
.uperlr.tend.-nt. who serves as a mem-b.-r.
This board appo.nts one or more
rural supervisors. ho may not receive
more tfcn tli nor ri-s than I100O
for a rear of l' months. These super
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BU1LDIXG ICHEVE FOR REED
the trustees of the Reed Institute will
undertake for the present, will not of-f-?r
Instruction In engineering, .aa-rl-tulture.
forestry, law. medicine, mili
tary aclence. raining or theolosry. It la
not a technical school or a professional
school, but aolely a college of liberal
arts and sciences, confining Ita field of
work to that which Is best represented
In this country by the acope of such
colleges aa Amherst. Bowdoin. HaTer
for.L Wesleyan and Williams. These
colleges have. In general, the same aim
and approximately the same endow
ment aa Keed Allege.
It must not be supposed, however,
that the trustees of Keed College aim
merely to reproduce any of the older
Institutions. The object la to profit,
so far aa pons lb In, by the total expe
rience of other colleges, to study the
needs of the Northwest, particularly of
the City of Tortland, and to develop
the type of Institution and the branches
of work which will moat highly and
progressively serve the peullr needs
In the special sphere of Influence of the
College.
The college will have, from the out
aet. aome marks of Individuality. It la
Interested In Intensive rather than ex
tensive work. It will not compete
with state Institutions In number of
departments of variety of courses or
slxe of faculty or student body. Ita
field is quite distinct from that of state
Institutions, although the plana for Its
aTlmlnlsiratlon are Intended to help, ao
far possible, all the other educa
tional Instltutlona of the state.
Keed College. In Its requirements for
School-
visors give their whole time to the
supervision of the rural schools. As
It now stands there Is a supervisor
for every ii rural districts, and for
every 1440 school children. On an
average the supervisor can visit each
school for a half a day every six weeks.
This Is a change from the old way.
when the county superintendent could
visit only once a year. Until now only
city achoola had adequate supervision.
Ten years ago we had only 12 high
schools in the state. Now we have
111. four-year high schools, and next
year we s.iall have about 140.. .and
about Sun of one, two and three-year
rank. That our people believe In edu
cation Is shown by the fact that we
have whole counties where four out
of every tire eighth grade graduates
enter the high schools. Our grammar
schools are so graded that In most
cases the student takes It aa a matter
of course that he must not stop until
the uniform eighth grade examination
Is passed.
Oregon has In some localities settled
the question of the rural social center
by establishing rural high schools with
in riding dlstsnce of practically all the
homes In the county. These high
schools are organised under the county
high school fund law. This law I con
sider one of the best In the United
States, as it makes It possible for rural
districts, with but little cost and with
the minimum amount of red tape to
secure high schools. A general tax Is
levied on the whole county, and the
money Is used to pay the tuition of the
pupil, no matter where In the county he.
attends high school. The tuition Is
4 each for the nrst JO. 130 for each
of the second !0. and I11.50 for each
over the first 40. This law Is In oper
ation In nine counties In Oregon. In
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100.79S.
SOW MEiR f M .RK.
THE MORXTXG OKEGONIAJT, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1912.
COU.EUE AND SKETCH OK DORMITORY TO BE ERECTED AT OSICE.
admission, has set standards which are
almost unique. It has declined, and
will cortlnue to decline, to admit any
students on condition, or special stu
dents, or partial students, or those
who have not completed the equivalent
of a four-year high school course with
M hn MHtn.rM freriit. 1 In other
words, a high school diploma and the
ii Z in. mii.ra ailmU.
Inarr.
alon are not sufficient. The college
goes behind the record of each candi
date to ascertain. If possible, through
many sources. Including a personal In
terview of the president with each
candidate, whether the student haa
sufficient moral fiber and earnestness
of purpose to profit highly by the work
of the college. The Intellectual, moral
and religious work with which the col
lege, as an educational Institution, is
primarily concerned. Is regarded as of
paramount Importance, and prospective
students who are more Interested In
the mere diversions of college life. In
cluding Intercollegiate athletics and the
excesses of fraternities and .sororities,
are advised not to apply for admission.
There will be no secret societies and no
Intercollegiate athletics.
Reed College la profoundly Interested
In the physical development of all Its
students. men and women alike,
whether or not they have special quail,
flcatlons for winning contests, and will
seek to promote their health and effi
ciency through scientifically directed
gymnasium work and outdoor sports of
many kinds. The fact most character
istic of the athletic policy of Reed Col
lege Is that It does not plan to spend a
these local high schools we have much
that tenda towarda adult education and
secures a better social life. The de
bating society. In which young and old
take part, also the library work and
the lectures that are given here are
a great help In the making of a bigger
and better social community.
The high school course of study Is .
being made to nt the student for life
as well as for college. We aim both
In the grammar and high school to
enable the student to discover for him
self what he Is best suited by nature to
do and to get some preparation to do
that thing.
Our state system of schools Is com-,
preheaslve. It consists of the elemen
tary school, high, school, normal school,
agricultural college, and the university.
This gives a thorough education to the
tons and daughters of the poor as well
a those of the rich.
Our course of study does not require
pages, but rather topics, to be taught.
It encourages much Industrial work,
and endeavors through this to stimu
late an Interest In home duties and to
gain the co-operation of the mother
and the father. In a number of coun
ties the children's Industrial work Is
stimulated by the school fair, where
the children bring the products that
they have themselves raised, and placa
them In competition. The teacher se
cures bulletins from the state and Fed
eral departments of agriculture. In
structs the children, and has a general
direction of the work. The ideal - In
OTegun la not that some elementary
schools shall be Industrial schools and
that only, and that others shall teach
textbooks only, but that all our ele
mentary schools shall become partly
industrial and partly literary. I hope
the time may come when at least one
half of the day will be given to manual
work In the elementary schools ofhe
state. We hope to make the H"s sup
plement the It's. The H's are Head,
Heart. Hand and Habit. Our aim la to
teach the whole boy and the whole
girl: to do this we .must reach the
child rhrough his activities. .
Every district has a school library,
which la being Increased each year.
The county appropriates 10 cents for
every child every year, to be spent for .
.hooka for the school library; and the
State Library Commission, under the
able leadership of Miss Cornelia Mar
vin, helps to purchase the best books
for each district.
A desirable feature of our school sys
tem, one which many atatea do not
have, la uniformity of textbooks and
courses of study, so that a family may
move from one part of the state to
another without having to buy new
textbooks, nor will the children have
to adjust themselves to a different
course -of study.
Oregon has cause to be proud of her
educational system. Dr. Chancellor, an
author of note, and a atudent of school
systems, said a few years ago that
Oregon bad the best school laws of any
state in the Union. He said this after
a close study of our system at work.
Ir. Updegraff. of the Department of
Education at Washington. D. C. says
that our new supervisory law la one
of the best In the United States.
People are coming- to realise that In
order to make the school what they
ought to be, they must Invest some of
their time and Interest, aa well .aa
tuclr money.
single dollar on grandstands or pro
fessional coaches.
The plans are completed for the erec
tion of a main building for the general
purposes of the college and a dormitory.
The main building will contain recita-tlon-rooma.
library. reading-rooms,
rest-rooms and social-rooms for the
men of the faculty, for the women
of the faculty, and for women stu
dents, biological ana pnyit
tories, and the faculty-room and offices
of administration. The building will be
fireproof throughout, with the exterior
of brick and stone, the style of brick
selected being that used for the new
East Side Library. The building- will
cost approximately 1200.000.
The dormitory will be constructed
according to the plans used at Princeton
University and the University of Penn
aylvanla. This gives a series of separ.
ate houses, each accommodating 18 to
15 students. The building will contain
a large living-room for men students
and a dining hall seating 125 students.
The dormitory, when completed, will
accommodate 125 students, and the cost
a room will be 11100 to $1200. This
building will run east and west on the
o-acre tract near Eastmoreland and
Woodstock, about three miles from the
center of the City of Portland, which
was the gift to the college of the Ladd
Estate Company. The campus haa been
extended, alnce the original gift of 40
acres, by the purchase of adjoining
tracts comprising 60 acres.
The college work of the first year on
the campus will bs conducted by at
least 15 members of the permanent col.
OREGON'S CUM ATE AS NEARLY
PERFECT AS IS TO BE FOUND
Destructive Tornadoes, Severe Thunder Storms, Earthquakes and
Other Freaks of Elements Are Unknown. Rainfall Not Excessive.
By Edward A. Benin, District Fore
cast er.
THERE are no species In the animal
or vegetable world capable of such
a wide range In habitat as man
kind. The absolute range in temperature
ao tar known Is 217.$ degrees, the max
imum being 127.4 degrees at Ouargla,
Algeria. July IT, 1871, and the minimum
80.4 degrees below sero, at Wercho
Jansk. Siberia, January 15. 1886. The
rainfall In the foothills of the Himalaya
Mountains, In India, averages about 600
inches yearly, and In the great deserts
of Gobi and Sahara, several yeara
sometimes pass without ao much as a
trace of rain.
It Is not the cold or warmth nor the
wet or dry conditions that limit man
from fixing his abode In all tha "known
climates of the world, but the rarefied
atmosphere that comes with altitude
effectually atops the march upward,
and the highest point Inhabited by any
considerable numbers of people Is
about 11.000 feet In the Andean Valley
of Tltacaca, between Peru and Bo
livia, where It is estimated that 4000
descendants of the Incaa manage to
a-Kin a subsistence, and maintain a
healthy growth. In Tibet, also. It is
believed, a considerable population live
at an altitude of 12.000 feet or more
and keeps as strong and well as those
living In lower places. .-
Oregoniana' are favored with an es
pecially good climate, but it would not
suit the Innults of Northern Green
land, the Tlbetian nor the native of
Dahomey on the Guinea coast of Africa.
These- people are acclimated through
centuries of environment to different
conditions and If they were taken - to
Oregon It Is probable the Innults would
soon become extinct, and the Tlbetians
and African savages would have a
hard fight for their existence. In
other words, the march of civilisa
tion Is from the south to the north
and no race ever perpetuated Itself
that migrated from a cold to a warm
climate.
The heat of the Tropics and the cold
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! ORECO.t PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND
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lege facu'ty. Of these, in addition to
those now giving instruction, the fol
lowing have accepted appointments:
Norman Frank Coleman, professor of
English, now - professor of Eng
lish and dean of the group of
languages. In Whitman College;
William 'Fielding Offburn. professor
of economics and sociology, now in
structor In history and politics In
Princeton University; KJeanor Harris
Rowland, dean of the Wpman's College
and professor of psychology, now asso
ciate professor of philosophy and psy
chology In Mount Holyoke College; Ed
ward Octavlus Sisson, professor of edu
cation, now professor of pedagogy and
head of the department of education at
the University of Washington: Harry
Beal Torrey, professor of biology, now
associate profeBsor of xoology and
chairman of the biological group at the
University of California. .Those now
giving Instruction In the college are:
William Trufant Foster, president, for
merly professor of English and argu
mentation In Bowdoin College; Bernard
Capen Ewer, assistant' professor of
philosophv, formerly assistant profeffsor
of philosophy in Northwestern Univers
ity; Frank Loxley Griffin, professor of
mathematics, formerly assistant profes
sor of mathematics in Williams Col
lege; Hudson Bridge Hastings, profes
sor of mechanical drawing and survey
ing formerly assistant professor of me
chanical drawing and surveying at
Bowdoin College: Jasper Jacob Stahl,
Instructor In modern languages: Arthur
Evana Wood, Instructor In social sci
ences. .
of the Arctic regions are both depress
ing and tend to. retard mental and
physical development. Therefore, the
scat of highest civilization today is
In the Temperate Zone, where the sea
sonal changes stimulate man to activ
ity. In Oregon we can find nearly ev
ery climate known to the Temperate'
Zone. We have on the coast the mild
and humid; In the interior between the
coast and Cascade Range of mountains
we have conditions that are moderately
mild and moderately humid, and In
the eastern portions we have, on the
plateaus and mountains bleak and Win
try weather, with heavy snows, while
In the sheltered valleys mild tempera
tures prevail with dry, weather and an
abundance of sunshine nearly every
day. ' '
The destructive tornado of the Middle
West la practically Unknown In Ore
gon, and thunder storms are a rare
phenomenon. Statistics collected by
the Weather Bureau show that for the
10 years ending In 18S8. 1608 persons
lost their lives and 25,78,600 worth of
property waa destroyed by tornadoes.
During this time not one life nor a
dollar's wortk of property -was lost in
Oregon from this cause. During the
three years, 1896.' 1897, and 1898. a
record was kept by the Weather Bu
reau of the deaths by lightning In the
United States, and the total number
was 1069, or an average of 356 a year.
During this period one person- was
killed by lightning in Oregon and two
In California. None lost his life in
Washington, Idaho or Nevada. The
death rate- by lightning per 1.000,000
waa greatest in the South Atlantic
States and least on tire Pacific qoast.
Oregon is the point of minimum f re-'
quency of earthquakes on the Pacific
Coast; thoy Increase going both north
and south of this state.
The mean temperature -On Oregon
varies with 'elevation and with dis
tance Inland. In the Columbia River
Valley and in all portions of the west
ern third of the state below the level
of 2000 feet It closely approximates
62 degrees, while east of the Cascades
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and south of the narrow . Columbia
River Valley it ranges between 43 de
grees and 51 degrees, being warmest
In the lowlands and coldest at the
higher elevations. The -chief feature
characterizing the temperature of the
entire state is the coolness which exists
at night during the Summer time. No
matter how hot the day may be the
nights are always cooL
In the southeast central portion of.
the state the annual rainfall Is a trifle
short of 8 Inches, while along the. west
slope Qf the Coast Range of Mountains
In the north, and at an altitude of
about 2000 feet It amounts to a trifle
ever 138 inches. Between the Coast
and the Cascade Ranges the precipita
tion varies between 20 and 45 inches.
Along the coast at sea level the
amounts range from 65 to 75 Inches,
while on the west slope of the Cascade
Mountains It Increases to nearly 100
Inches at the summit. In the Blue
Mountains the amounts range from, 12
to 25 inches so far as the records ex
tend, but probably greater falls occur
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1 jFir t Edw. Cooklngham., ...Vice-Pres. I I 1 I
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lSTI Itome Office, Portland, Oregonte
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for the economic principle of developing Oregon's home insti--"..
tutions for the benefit of Oregonians.
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PORTLAND. OREGON.
FIKTT-SECOND YEAR.
St Mary's .
Academy and
College
PORTLAND, OREGON.
BOARDING AND DAY
SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
AND YOUNG WOMEN
Conducted by the
v Sisters of the Holv Names
of Jesas and Mary.
College, Academic, Commercial,
Grammar and Elementary
Departments.
Special Advantages in Musio, Art
and Domestic Science.
For Particulars Apply to
Suiter Superior.
at high altitudes where no record has
ever been kept.'
- The following table is prepared to
show the mean temperature and an
nual rainfall at a number of well
known cities throughout the world:
Annual
Place ' Mean Rain-
United States " Temp. fall.
Portland, Or. 53 45
Atlanta, Ga. 61 40
Baker. Or. 45 JS
Boise. Idaho 51 33
Chicago, 111 4S S3
Denver. Colo 50 14
Jacksonville. Fla. 6 53
Los Ang-eles, Cal 62 IK
New Orleans, La. 63 5T
New York. N. Y. 53 45
St. Louis, Mo. 66 XT
St. Paul, Minn. 44 2
Tacoma. Wash. 50 45
Yuma. Arls . Tl 8
St. Petersburg 37 17
London 50 2S
Paris , SO 22
Madrid 56 3 6
Berlin 47 23
Vienna 4 2.j
Athens "J 1"
Rome 0 JO
Pe tin 53 25
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