Twenty Pago
East Qrcgonian Round-Up Souvenir Edition
Pendleton, Oregon, Thursday, September 23, 1915
Page Thrre
OREGON AGRICULTURE COLLEGE J)PEINS MOST PROMISING YEAR OF WORK
Entrance Requirements Raised to Full Four Years High School Course. Entrance Applications Indicates Record Creaking Attendance.
I he Oregon Agricultural College Is
'Beginning the mont promising year, In
point of uttendance and service to the
tate, that it has jet known. An in
crease in enrollment of at least 12
per cent was Indicated by the admis
sion credentials on file at the itegis
trar's office ax early as September t,
two weeks before the rcgulur open
ing of college. Subsequent duta, col
lected both at the office of the regis
trar and at the offices of the various
deans. promise even greater advances
in student enrollment. In addition
to a larger student body than form
erly, and In addition also to the Im
proved personnel of the student
body, due chiefly to Improved stand
ards of scholarship throughout the
entire Institution, the College is bet
ter prepared this year than in any
Previous year to carry out a sym
metrical college program. Its cours
es of utiidy have been definitely set
tled, thereby banishing the doubts
and discouragements that hurrassed
Its efforts when the board of higher
curriculum was debating tha problem
of Its peculiar field. Its depart
ments, moreover, are headed by men
-exceptionally trained in their sped
altles, and experienced in the pecu
liar field that they serve, while their
associates and assistants are men who
t have not only demonstrated their
competence as experts, but are add
ing, month by month, frexh evidences
of their scholarship and their power
to serve the cause of science in In
dustry. Its extension service, pio
neering a new field, like other pro
gressive colleges of the country, is
steadily approaching a more severely
efficient method of getting the ser
vices of the college out to the people
and at the same time reaching a
wider constituency In a more Inti
mate, practical way. The student
body, finally, through Its own Inltl
atlve, or through Improvements i In
college administration, is now on a
splendid bunls for conducting the
business of ntudent activities (urn
ountlng to thousands of dollars), for
managing student discipline, and for
developing Ideals of community re
sponsibility and social Integrity. Not
the leunt factor In this scheme of ef
ficiency and service is the work of
the new dean of women.
A word about some of these fac
tors that are yearly attracting more
tudents to the college and Improv
ing the quality of Its service to the
state, may be of Interest Just now to
readers of the East Oregonian.
The Advance In Scholarship.
Beginning this year the college Is
on a full four-years' basis of high
school entrance requirements. Tills,
as a matter of couse, advances the
standard of the degree courses
throughout. Graduate of the col
lege from now on will stand on a par
with those of the best land-grunt col
legos of the country. Those entering
the teaching profession will experi
ence no hardship over the grnduntes
of other colleges and universities as
heretofore, when they were eligible.
In the field of secondary education,
to teach their specialty only.
The vocational courses also, while
they are open to any student who
Is of mature years and qualified oth
erwise to profit by the Instruction of
fered, are appealing to a class of stu
dents who usually have a severely
purposeful motive and some experi
ence with their chosen vocation be
fore coming to the college. As a con
aequence, the student body that comes
to the college Is not only better pre
pared on entrance but Is capable of
more rapid and complete develop
ment.. Another evidence of the advanced
.standard of the scholarship of the
College Is the demand for special
work in Its technical departments,
particularly In the higher years of
study. Thirty-four students of other
colleges and universities are already
.enrolled as O. A. C. students this fall.
Many of these come from the east,
where the college Is recognized as a
leader In many lines of scientific In
. structlon.
Itivognltlon of Faculty Iirailwslilpx
Perhaps the most pointed testl-
mony to the leadership of the fac
ulty of O. A. C. is the wide-spread ef
fort on the part of other colleges
many among the best in the land to
"lift" our experts. Some of these ef
forts have recently been successful;
Utttiy have not. A great eastern uni
versity and several western universi
ties have made surprisingly attractive
offers to members of our horticultu
ral factulty, In some Instances offer
pg to double salaries. None of the
heads of departments In this division
of the college have left, though one
of the Instructors accepted a lucra
tive appointment In the University of
California. A land-grant college In
New England offered a deanshlp to
'one of our heads of departments at a
greatly augmented salary It waa re
fused. Various offers carrying sal
aries a third higher than our facnlty
men and women are receiving at O.
A. C. have come to our workers dur
ing the past six months and have been
cheerfully declined. The motives are
obvious: a secure faith in the future
of Oregon and her leading technical
college, and a confident outlook for
fflclent service In an Institution
.wisely and Impartially administered.
Among the factulty men und wom
en who have accepted splendid offers
, from other colleges, a few Instances
mny be mentioned to show the respect
that the college commands among
similar Institutions throughout the
' rnuntrv. The head of our department
of botany and plant pathology goes to
Furdue University, Indiana, to occu
py the same kind of position at an
Increased salary. The head of our
department of entomology goes to the
. iTnir!tv of Wisconsin under the
same conditions. The man who hae
! been associate professor In the school
of mines during the past two years
' goes to Arliona M dean of the col
. lege of mines and engineering. A de
partment head In the division of ex-
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tension becomes head of extension
service In the University of t'olorado.
And so on, all testifying to the same
dies her pupils with a view to know
ing what tliey can do, bow they can
do it, and how best she, as their
substantial fact; namely, that Presi-1 preceptor, can stimulate thtm to do
dent Kerr has gathered around him it; and thuse of a social, leader, who
men and women who are recugnUed I seeks, on the one hand, to avoid all
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throughout the country as among the
first in their fields.
Extension.
The Kxtenslon Service, as already
Indicated, is taking on a more scien
tific, more immediately practical
method of distributing the benefits
of the college, in cooperation with
the state department of public in
struction, on the one hand, and with
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the V. S. department of agriculture,
on the other, it Is carrying on a num
ber of comprehensive projects In the
public schools, on the farms, In the
orchards and forests, in the dairies
and cheese factories, in the shops and
In the homes that are exerting an
immediately practical influence on
the Industries and living conditions
of the rural population.
Student-body progress.
Student self government at the
college, established four years ago, is
proving not only a satisfactory means
of Improving student discipline, but
a constructive factor In welding to
gether all the varied Interests of the
college. It has Joined the hands, for
Instance, of athletics and forenslcs.
publications and music, supplies anil
entertainment, In a cooperative
scheme of management and sharing
of funds. It has successfully con
ducted a cooperative stor for a year.
It has organised and operated a ly
ceum course; run a aeml-wekly
newspaper, and assisted In financing
a student loan fund. It has aroused
a splendid spirit of responsibility am
ong all students. It has cooperated
with the faculty In establishing a
body of student traditions, and a code
of principles for the guidance of clubs
and fraternleles. It Is an adminis
trative nswt. In short, which the In
stitution values highly.
Pran at Women.
The work of the new Dean of Wom
en, Mrs. Mary K. Fawcett, who form
erly served as dean of women at the
University of Illinois, and has had
administrative experience In other
leadlng'colleges of the east, promises
to be a sterling factor In the life of
the college community, as well as In
the efficiency of Its service to the
state. A woman with a wealth of
humanity holding an even place with
her scholarship and her professional
skill, she has noble alms and defi
nite plans for attaining them In the
work of caring for the Interests of all
the college girls. She regards her du
ties as threefold those of adminis
tration, giving direction and purpose
to the work and play of the college
women; those of a teacher, who im
possible dissipation or disaster in the
exercise of the social resources of'z
youth, und. on the other, to beautify ts
and Idealize those resources into a
wholesome community helpfilness
happy yet sune, innocent but purpose-
ful.
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The Indian War
of 1855-$. Told
By a Survivor
of the Struggle
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Tried and tested
past correctionr
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charged. After our fischaige trie
thirty-fourth jongress ordewd tie
jreretary of viar to appoint a cumnus
ion of three to examine Into and r
port the expenses ncurreJ for the
pay and malntenunce of tha voluateer
force of 1S35 and 1856. Such com
mission was appointed asd car(ulty
examined Into the matter, aad re
ported. XTen th thirty-sixth con
grew ordered the third auditor of the
treasurer to examine and audit the
claims ot the. vciunteew, there waa a
difference of asout o half between
the ameunts dne in commissions re
port, atd that ot that third auditor
and since thst time the Indian war
veU?rin hare been striving to get
what Is Justly due them but unsuc
cessfully ttH far.
W hav had many promises nose
deey the Justice- of our claims ut
congress. Is stow too much red tape.
Forty years have passed, and but lit
tle over 1,0 fM ot the 7.000 or over
who went Into service to save the
state are now living. Few of them
are In easy circumstances. They
were not of a generation of money
savers, a few more years and the
grand old government of the United
States, so proud of Its record In the
treatment of those who fought Its
battles shall have lost the opportun
ity of paying a debt It doubly owes to
those who conquered Its wilderness
and Its savages. A few more years
and the aged Oregon volunteer of
1855 will no longer be here to envy
Uncle Sam's Indian wards the care
and protection given them for skill
ful manner In which their ancestors
killed and scalped the pioneers of
thli treat northwest.
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