Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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The school of Education at Oregon State is concerned primarily with the preparation of teachers for the high schools of Oregon and with the promotion of high standards of secondary education. Work is offered for the preparation of teachers in the fields of science, mathematics, agriculture, home economics, industrial arts, commercial education and approved combinations of subjects, and for educational and vocational guidance. Personal attention is given to students on the improvement of reading ability and vocabulary through the methods of study classes. Testing facilities are available upon the request of students in the education and psychology departments for scholastic ability, aptitude and vocational interests. (( Because of the increasing need for teachers in the secondary schools of Oregon, emergency teaching certificates are issued upon completion of nine credits in education. These enable graduates to teach one year without the additional fifth year requirements necessary for a permanent certificate. (( The school of Education provides a large number of elective credits. In the four-year course, 72 credits are required, while 120 remain to be elected by the student with guidance in their selection from staff members, (T The outstanding record made by the school fall term showed fewer failures and probations than ever before. No students were lost because of D'“ '«■ '««“ » ““»'” with hi. « .«u.v scholarship deficiencies, and there were no downright failures among those taking the methods of study course. 23

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Science serves the nation, both in peace and in war. World War I became a chemists’ war. The present conflict is a war between physicists, and the winning side will be that which makes the most intelligent and efficient scientific use of its facilities. (( The school of Science at Oregon State is proud of its alumni and former staff members who are now serving the nation in scientific capacities both in the armed forces and in civilian research and production behind the lines. It looks forward to the day when these same men and women, returning after the war, will devote their energies to the advancing of the welfare of the nation in a great post-war program of reconstruction and reconversion of swords into plow-shares (( In addition to the highly-specialized education of scientists in the fields of bacteriology, botany, chemistry, entomology, geology, mathematics, physics and zoology, the school is responsible for the basic training in the above subjects, of the applied scientists’ in agriculture, business and industry, education, engineering, forestry, home economics, medicine, nursing and pharmacy. An education in these professional fields can be no stronger than the science foundation upon which it is built. (( As the need for scientists increases, Oregon State students are being trained to take their places in war production and the armed forces. And so Science, both D,‘ Hods ‘uperv,lci blowpipe n«iyii$. on and off the campus, is carrying on an intensified war program, while looking forward to the peace program to come. 25 See eny bugs? It won't hurt, honest!