' r " t THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,'. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1911. , nnnnnnr u mm 7"--- " -'' F i STUDIES Of-WHAOT TO SET IIP A IB SETS FORTH HIS DEAL OF COLLEGE ALDSKAtt 5 CBMO. ' REED INSTITUTE IS WILLIAM T. FOSTER SCHODLSTANDARQ ' , "' :c . W-WW U 'At Head of Reed Institute, in Spe cial Article, Says Institu tion Will Be Able to Meet Severest Tests of Critics. ' (The following attempt to characterize an ideal college, headed Some Charac teristic of a Good College,'' and written by Professor William T, Foster before -he waennade president 0 Reed Tnstl ' Mute, la retarded as a masterpiece of its kind.) " By President William T. Foster. ''With sweeping condemnation' of the American , college on every hand. the question is urgent whether a college is possible which can satisfy the severest 7 ( tests of Ae critics and justify "the full est confidence and highest hopes of the - American people. ' We, have faith to be lieve that such a college la possible. . Si "It i a college free , to pursue its mission; as the maker of men and wo , men and enlightener of mankind, with unobscured vision of the truth and - power to proclaim the truth without fear or tavor-Of, politicians, or religious " sects or benefactors, or public cries, or its own administrative machinery. mould Bar Idlers. "It is a college that mistakes notblg ' .. fnr o-rontnPR: that having fixed ' minimum qualifications for entrance, makes no catalogue professions that are " exaggerations of Its actual demands, and offers no special opening ir "c It is a college open only to minds capa ble of good scholarship and ready. If not ' eager, to make the, sacrifices it Involves. It is a college that ehuta Its doors ; promptly on Idlers, by -mean of a dis cipline from which there la no escape; v ...mi... in ahnrt. that refuses to grow in numbers and tuition fees at the ex pense of intellectual and moral vigor. "It is college, therefore, that never MrmiM orowth bevond the ooaslbillty of dally vital contact between- each student ,and i inspiring leacnero wnr ... .h rk flrat1 men. who-know how to teach, and who are devoted to their work1 In the professional spirit Ac cordingly, it Is !a college that resists ' the temptation to shift any consider able part of Its teaching to temporary. Inexperienced and underpaid Instructors whoso chief interests do not center In their students. It is a college that sees the folly of putting large sums into fine buildings and small sums into strong men; that pays its professors enough ' to leave them free to put their life-blood Into the daily work, and thus protects Its most vigorous teachers from the temptations of wealthier universities. It i a college that will not Buffer its sympathy for Inefficient teachers to pre- . vent their speedy retirement whether they are young or old. It Is a college that resists both the temptation to dla- slpate its energies by rambling and un warranted ventures Into university do mains, and as well, the university temp tation to substitute mechanism for per- " sonallty in administration. Olves Pew Courses. Thus It becomes a college that gives comparatively few courses, but gives them honestly and thoroughly; that pre sents no unhappy contrasts between the promise of a catalogue and the perform- anee of the college: that tolerates not a single . course i whose demands can be fiatlsfied by superficial work, or by two or three short periods of overstrain ; that will never sacrifice its chief ends by allowing groups of students, on any pretense, to neglect college work for - college advertising, "Rather than this. It Is a college that Insists at any cost, on daily application, genuine intellectual effort, exactness, thoroughness and promptness in the per formance of duty, and the other req uisites of moral manhood that alone can satisfy the .growing demands of Amer- . lean cltlsenship. "It Is a college that rigidly holds to the only Safeguard of the elective sys temthat what a boy-chotwes to tJo, that he must do creditably; a college that knows history too well to attempt to prescribe the essentials of a liberal education, but does Insist that every stu dent shall do a considerable amount of good work In the - department - of - his choice; It is a college that distributes Its credits on a scientific rether than a personal basis, and then puts a further premium on sound scholarship by mak ing quality as well as quantity of work count toward graduation In a definite way. Thus It combats laziness, super ficiality, dissipation, excessive Indul gence In what we are pleased to call college life, by making the moral and Intellectual requirements before and after entrance, an honest, sustained, and adequate challenge to the best powers of the best American youth. Becomes Broad School. "Finally, It la a college imbued with that kind of democratic spirit that co oeerates for the common good with ell ' n" HKPnciFs oi Hociai progreHSi a cni- lege - 1 " i - T 'l I LiT) I -3'JIIDIUI III that 1 not shut off by campus walls; wirn a view nr its rosponslUimv a couple mat is religious without being sertarlan: a college that, with all Its idealism, makes dally, practical contact with the fnany-sidod life of city and state, here and now; a college that Is (hanging because it Is living: that looks , forward oftener than backward, yet seeks the wisdom of organized experl- ence to light the path ahead, thus sup planting the blind guidance of tradition by the safer guidance of scientific in sight." v Paint Without Oil Remarkable Discovery That Cuts v Down the Cost Of Paint Seventy. Five Per Cent ... . . . , A'- Tree Trial racks Is KaUed to . - Evaryon Who Writes. A. I Rice, a prominent manufacturer Of Adams.- N, Y" has discovered a proc ess of making new kind of paint with. ut th use of oU- ' He calls It Powder paint It comes In the form pf a dry vowder an) all that U required Is cold we trke-Tatntweat!ief--proof; Tinpronr ';ina :.wm ounou ou paint. It adherea to any surface, wood, stone or brick, sprads and looks like oil paint and onts ahout one-fourth as much. Writ to Mr. A, K Rice, Manuf'r., 608 Nmtti Bt... Adam. N Y., and he will n-rrt yon a free trinl pukags also color mi Mil full informMttoti showing you i ymi tun save a good many dollars, cnMinnwiiiimiiiiii.'ilMiiniii ii i mi- n mhikiWii i mm mint I txmt'VmmK,imMi m-mvmimmmmmtoimmtum' , III -Ii " '"'i v V jt'' : W y- N yA S'-.Tlui' cut of -woman's college gives ati kdelleat Idea of one itf the styles of college architecture which Is being given favorable consideration. This building is the Women's Dwell ing Hail at , Washington university, St. Louis, Mo. It is in the Tudor-Gothic style of architecture and is built of native stone with Indiana stone trimmings. If a similar style of architecture should prove feasible for Portland, and if it should be adopted by the trustees of the Reed institute, there would probably bo erected as a part of "the Women's college a quadrangle similar to the one in the illustration. It would occupy in the group plan, herewith presented, the position indicated by the buildings marked G,.. border-. I" . Jng on Woodstock: avenue. The Question of the group plan and of the style of architecture, however, awaits further consideration. ,vAt the right is shown the proposed J ground plan. The lake In front of the-campus, the shores of which will be developed and beautified, and President W. T. Foster are also shown. OF REED IN DETAIL First Edition of Booklet of In stitution Tells What Presi dent and Trustees Hope to Accomplish Here. In the first edition of thet Reed, In stitute Record, which goes off the presses today, President William T. Foster and the trustees of the college of arts and sciences divulge their plans In detail: -J -.tf Much: information regarding the Plans of the officers, that has not before been given otit. Is considered ' In detail. 'Some Characteristics of a Good Col lege," a special article by President Foster, glees' the nubile a gonerai idea of what the educator hopes to make of Reed Institute. . ' , . "The First Class," "Faculty," "Alma of the College," "Provision for the First Class," "Buildings,"' "Endowment," Tuition and Scholarships," "Require ments for Admission," "Certificates and Examination" and "Courses of Instruc tion" are some of the most important subjects discussed In the official pub lication of the college. Alms of College, One of the most interesting articles In the Record is headed "Alms of the College." It reads: "Reed college purposes to take full advantage of Its splendid freedom from harassing traditions. While endeavor ing to profit by the rich experience of other institutional It plans to study exhaustively the peculiar needs of Port land and of the northwest, and so to develop each department 'that It will serve the community more effectively than could any merely t transplanted In stitution. What this Involves In the way of original, constructive work, will be explained from time to time, as pre sent plans mature.' Detailed discussion of the courses of etudy and the alms of the several departments will be re served for future numbers of the. Rec ord, to be prepared by the 'heads of departments, rormsd Century Agb. "Although the college expects to look to the future oftener than to the past. Its general alms were fairly well form ulated nearly a century ago, by Thomas Jefferson. In stating the purposes of the University of Virginia; "(1) To form the statesmen, legisla tors, and Judges, on whom public pros- Iperlty and Individual happiness are so iuucii i uepena; "(2) To 'expound the principles and trttoiHie-of governtr-the"4awiiwttch regulate tne Intercourse f ' nations, those formed municipally for our own government, and a sound spirit of leg islation, Which, banishing 'all unneces sary restraint on Individual action, shall leave jjh '-free-to do whatever does 'not violate the equal rights of another; "(J) To 'harmonise and promote the Mr .f"-nirhiittTrer ffmnwfnptnTWt. PLANS and commerce, and by well-informed views of. political economy to give a free scope to the public Industry; "(4) To develop the reasoning facul ties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and Instil Into them the precepts of virtue and order; "(6) To enlighten them with mathe matical and physical sciences, which advance the arts, and administer to the health, the subsistence, and comforts of human life; "() And, generally, to form them to habits of reflection, and correct action, rendering them examples of virtue to others, and of happiness wtthln themselves." ALLEGE PAYMENTS ARE F (Special Plipatcb to Til Journal.) Eugene, Or., March 4.wThe cltixens of Cottage Grove, carrying out a threat made at a recent mass meeting In that city, have begun Injunction proceedings In the circuit court to restrain the Lane county commissioners' court from pay ing for road and bridge repairs and salaries of road supervisors from the general fund instead of from a road fund which does not exist but which the Cottage Grove people claim that should exist, claiming that the court in fixing the levy should have specified certain number of mills for road purposes and confined tho road and bridge expenditures to the sum derived therefrom. Instead, the complaint says, many hundreds of thousands of dollars have been paid out In the last three years for such work from the general fund. The 'action was brought' for the reason that Cottage Grove wants a cer tain, amount of road money that tfw plaintiffs allege Is due the road district that was created by the legislature sev eral .yars ago within the corporate limits of the city. . This Is a parallel cae to one brought by the city of Extgene against the coun ty "several years ago and won wdeclHlon, recovering from the county over $5000 for road purposes, which had been col lected but not turned over to the city as a separate'road district. MAY BEGIN WORK ON ROADJHJT OF VALE (Sfieclal 'bhpsteb to Th Jouraal.l Vale, Or,, March 4. That Vale will be the scene of much railroad building within the next month is now assured through, the trip t6 New York of Con struction Engineer D. II. Ashton, of the Oregon Short Line who has been sta tioned In this city for the past two years during which time be has been building the new railroad to Brogan from this city, as well as securing the-rlght-of-way and other preliminary, work for the Oregon ft Eastern Into the Harney val ley from this city. i Engineer Ashton received Orders a few days ago, to go to New York for a con ference with the railroad officials of the Harrlman system. ; Op the last day of last December Mr. Ashton put in an ap plication for the construction of. 27 milcaof .joadout.of-VaJ..oi-ho-su-4 vey of the Eastern ft Oregon railway route, and' now u is belteved that his trip will result in the announcement of actual work within a few weeks. fnder a new rulingn Ceylon opium may be Imported onl$; by; the govern ment and dispensed under 'the supervl-stow-nf the rtvIT rneitlrsl "stores. FROM WRONG COST OF TUITION ONLY $1 GO IN REED Students Will Bear One Sev enth of Expense; No Fra ternities or Sororities. The cost of tuition In Reed Institute will be only 1100 a year.' This amount Is expected to cover about-one seventh on the amount spent by the college on tuition, for each student, the generous endowment permitting the trustees o charge such a small amount for instruction- --7-4- rf , ' On the Subject of scholarships the Record says: "The endowment is such that, with a student body of 300. a tuition fee of $100 Is expected to cover about one sev enth of the expense to the college for the Instruction of each student "Scholarships of from 50 to $300 will be awarded to students of extraordinary ability and promise, regardless of sex, who cannot well meet, the moderate tu ition fee without such aid." Neither fraternities noi sororities nor intercollegiate Athletics will be permit ted at Reed Institute for the first few years. More atentlon will be paid to work. ' ; "Boys or fit Is whose chief Interests In college Ufa are social and athletic will not find In Reed college a con genial atmosphere,". President Foster has written In the Record. "There will be a healthful - interest in clean sport and every boy and every girl will be expected to take part regularly In some of the outdoor games." ' 40 STUDENTS MAY BE DROPPED FROM 0. A. C. Srelal Ilnateh to Thi Journal ' Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallls, members of all of the classes have dropped below 'the -required scholastic standing for continuances for the work of this Institution, according , to . the grades which have Just been complied by th registrar for the first semester oft the present college 'year. This may mean that these students will have to leave the Institution .for the present year." ., -, .- :,: v- The rule of the survival of the fittest applies to college as well as to any other line or activity. The college coun cil, has passed a rule that is designed to cull out from tho student body those of Its members who are unable to hold up their work or who show no dispo sition to do so. Last year 35 students were dropped from the. rolls of this In stitution and unless some. of those now below the required grade aretelnstated toy-WrresiaenrwQ many more will probably have to leave the college at this time. . ,; , . v A North Dakota man' has patented a fire escape consisting of- a number of inclined planes, slanting in opposite dl rectlons, , so that a person can slide from one to another, and thence to the J yC lLfp ( riEUMiNAJxsnra j LiAlilJv nT lff"-l oV cowiian pwnitj l,,""'' ' ; I I I " 1 1V SaaaARDdBMOg 1 r REH) FACULTY But President Has in View Greatest instructors of Country. Great care will be used In the selec tion of a faculty for Reed college. As yet, in spite of the numerous applica tions reoelved, no appointments' have been made. .Only Instructors who ex pect to realize their Ideal In instruct ing in Reed Institute, wlllbe accepted. The school will open in the fall of 1911 On the subject of "Faculty," the Rec ord says: ' ; "A large number of applications have been received for positions on , the faculty of the college. These ; have been carefully considered and many of them will be given further considera tion at the proper time. Most of the appointments, however, will be made from a small list which Is the outcome of a study, during the past 12 months, of the qualifications of several hundred teachers who have not made applica tion directly, or indirectly. In the search for an ideal faculty, the presi dent has visited nearly all of the lead ing colleges and universities in the United States. 'The chief compensation that Reed colege offers such teachers Is the free dom to pursue their Ideals, as members of a faculty thus selected, In an in stitution with such avowed purposes, having before it an absolutely clear field, and the splendid opportunities for service that such a faculty is sure (o find in what the, general education, board regards as 'the best unoccupied spot In the United States for a college of liberal arts and sciences.' "The first appointments will not be made, before nett summer and most of the men appointed at that time will not take up their work at Portland before the fall of. m" . , - - SOON START WORK ON VALE'S BIG NEW DEPOT (6petUl Dispatch to The Journal. " ' Vale', Or., Marclj 4. That work will start on the construction of the proposed $20,000 brick passenger depot in this city ; within a few days (, was the an nouncement made by Superintendent A. B. Stevenson of the Oregon Short Line with headquarters In Pocatello. Mate rial for the big building is already being loaded on the cars at Pocatello. Tot some time the railroad- company had' been awaiting the action; of the city council IW the matter of straighten ing Main street, so following the suitable arrangement, taken by the council on last Mondayjiamejhe annpuQCemeBtJPf, tre rauroaa cniei. i ne newv oepot will be located on the new track of the. Ore gon ft Eastern built through the yards here fast summer, at the; north end of Main street thus giving a splendid view of the "Last Frontier- city's busy.'thor oughfare, ?, With this new Improvement will also be taken up the putting In of two miles and a half of new tracks within the local yards. - Ml tremsvaaxso- V rtT.rryUffAflTiU. G CBUTDOCAinCCES ' UEOnDCEUTJOOUU I ADWMXIXATBS - 'J. CtfciMENClMUTIOt. -l&ieQmKCBiBIs HIGH STANDARD Entrance Requirements Will Be More Difficult Than in Other Institutions. Some study of, the requirements for admission In ReAil collem. in Interest ing. TO provide. Si high a standard. ir not a higher standard than any other college in the Country, the institute will demand higher entrance requirements. This Is, injract,lwhat JPresident FoSj. ter In the Record,' has to say oh "Re quirements for Admission:" ' "The first requirement for admission Is the creditable completion of a four year hi rh SChOOl - mil ran nf UnJ.. grade.' or its equivalent. In the lan- guageAoi; current college catalogues, this means 15 vunlts of work. a . unit being a study pursued for five periods per ween throughout one school year. This is the lndlspensible minimum, but Is not a guarantee of admission. In general any -substantial subject which is well -taught, and which Is well adapt ed. to the needs , of the school, will count toward admission, said no ilb Ject or, ' subjects will be. MtlficiaHy, weighted according to the traditional methods. The college assumes . that ' the eohoolB know the needs of their pupils more intimately than' does any college faculty; " It ; isthe purpose "of Reed college not to hamper the work of the high school, either by attempting i to1 dictate their programs of study In the supposed Interests of the few who may go to college, or by accepting for admission- less than the creditable and com. plete accomplishment of the four-year high school course. , . "The college docs not bind Itself, however-, to admit all students who pre sent the neoessary scholarship credits and the ordinary ccrtllfcates' of good character. . - "In , any event, the college reserves Jthe right to limit' the number of rtu dents.'at inv Hmn efficiency. As the instruction of each. biuubiii win cosi several times as much as his tuition fee, and as the primary interest of the College Is In the quality of the, work done, and the character of Its graduates, nothing whatever win-be sacrificed in I the, interests of mere numbers-. " - " - , KENNEWICK1 BUSINESS ' , ' - FIRMS ARE ACTIVE (Special Dlitnatrh t Tne Journal. " ''' Kennewlck, WashH March f.Aa An Indication of the rapid development of the Kennewlck valley the following fig Siven out,byj,he;cpnmJasjottJjoue of the town are interesting. The busi ness of the Kennewlck Fruit ft Produce company, the Charlea H. Collins com pany and. the Hamilton Supply company for'.190J amounted to over 1136,000 and for 1910 tSSO.OOQ, an Increase of about 30 per cent. This does not ; represent the total Amount of business for the valley, however, for many of the ranch A M OF COLLEGE ers ship Independently . . , No Students May Enter , oh i Condition; . "All Eyes .Will Be on Reed," Said David StarrJordan, sL Most radical in Its departure from usual college styles Is the olan of th Reed Instituted to refuse to; take atu- Centa on condition. The argument for this plan is .that-, when students are taken on condition, the college la ham pered by the extra burden placed on the unfit.' No other college in the United States requireimo high a" standard. , ' "When I told President Jordan of Stanford -university, j of our plan, ha considered- It: with- enthtiaiaam u President Foster. " 'Reed Instltut.' ha said, 'will be the first college to adopt such" a plan and the eyes of the col lege world will be turned upon it The Record explains the plan in de tail, saying., . "Xo students will be admitted ' condition. As this Is a departure from the prevailing practice among Ameri can colleges. It beeds ' some mlmi. tion. To: a. majority of candidates our colleges virtually say: 'According to our- prof essed standards, you are not preparea xo undertake college work. Although the secondary school oppor tunities are rreater than v Wak although the wider range of admission suDjecis mages lauure ovary year leas j excusable, yet you have failed to pre- j bciii vuniiiimrnum requirements. Never theless, we admit you with conditions. allOW yOU to try to do rnlW unrV In the same classes with tho h' prepared, and, In addition, we require you to maice up your deficiencies In secondary school work.' Th ff. nt this poHcy is to hamper the work. of those secondary school teachers who re stnvmg to promote substained, in telleotual effort; for the prospective college student lnternreta this as a guarantee of admission despite supernciauy or deficiency of prepare I ation. He is thus prepared for further evasion of work after ha gains easy admission to couege. "When students r AmttmA dltlon, the . college is hampered by the extra burdens ntncwi nn th .,nn Unless the devices for determining pioynrnuun jor couege are useless, those students most hMviiv wnii. tloned' must be, as a class, .least fit for couege wor. .. yet on, precisely thl class la laid the heaviest load. ' At tha same time scarcely anv nrnviatnna. made for aaslsting these students to curry ira extra ouraens which, with all the secondary school aids, they have hitherto failed to earrv. Th. Inavtt.. ble result Is a lowering of the stand aros or worn ror the whole colleae. "The Colleae of Arta and fb.i,itu contemplates courses In ths fniinwinv branches: Argumentation, astronomv. blolOKV. botanv. huRlnnaa ana aaministration, cnemistry, econom ics, education. kticmum thna fu. rts. finance. French. aeoBTanhfr- nr. man, geoiogy, government, Greek, his tory, hygiene, Italian. Latin, mathe matics, mecnanical drawlnff. minaralj ogy. oratory, philosophy, physiology, pnyBicai culture, pnysics, psychology, rhetoric. Spanish, soclolorv and stir. veylna. "With the present endowment . theJ Reed Institute does not expect to offer Courses in agriculture, dotneatln engineering, forestry, law. mditn military science, mining, music, phar; macy or theology." 1 1 . - i WIFE IN PARIS SLAVE . TO HUSBANDS AFFINITY ttJnlted Prets LeiMd Wire.) Paris. March 4. Llaht waa thrown on a curiosity of French life today when the pUce investigated . charges maue oy me wire oi M. Pianchon, a wealthy ; bakery proprietor, that she lived in terror of her tiuihunH forced her to play servant to h'ia af- imity. The police sav Plannhan'a vrffa am the drurintrv. whlla Mm eeinU i carriages, wore the fimily Jewels and ate her breakfast in bed brought to her oy wine, nancnon. f Folk to Visit Walla Wall. - Spcil Dispatch to Tee JourMl.) Walla Walla. Wash. 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