Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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THE PIONEER ’30 of Sacramento Junior College Until this last semester the men of our institution have always led the women in the race for high grades, and let me add by way of com¬ parison, the men have always led also in the race for low grades—if numbers count! But this last semester there was a slight readjustment. Read thoughtfully these numbers: Number of men on straight A list. 5 Number of women on straight A list. 7 Number of men admitted to J. C. Honor Society. 70 Number of women admitted to J. C. Honor Society. 90 Number of men on probation list because of low scholarship. 66 Number of women on probation list because of low scholarship. 22 Number of men on “Great Distinction” list. 6 Number of women on “Great Distinction” list. 10 Number of men on “Distinction” list. 7 Number of women on “Distinction” list. 22 And yet the three students earning the highest rating for two years are men. Keep on, all ye students, in this intellectual race! B. COOLEDGE, Dean of Women. Page Twenty SACRAMENTO JUNIOR COLLEGE

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The Junior College What kind of a place is the Sacramento Junior College? Here there are no faculty enacted rules of conduct. But there is all about the place an atmosphere of work and of happiness, indicating that beyond question these two conditions are not mutually exclusive. In fact, this institution is so altogether human and democratic and purpose¬ ful, and the kind of student in it is so dependable that no laws of conduct are necessary or desirable. Of course, there are a few traditions. For example, dinks, jeans and dirty cords are now in vogue. But they, along with the Senior fence at Yale, the Laguinita mud battle at Stanford, and the Senior bench at California, will soon join the hoop skirts, the flowing whiskers, and the snuff box in the museum of customs, styles, and traditions. What kind of a place is the Sacramento Junior College? It is neither a glorified high school nor a deglorified university lower division unit; it has an individuality all its own—an individuality that cannot be ex¬ pressed in words, but rather in its influence upon the lives of the students who have been here. J- B. LILLARD, President.

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The Junior College The Sacramento Junior College is a new institution. What are the reasons for its existence? Among others are the following: 1. Freshman and Sophomore years of the universities are crowded. Classes are too large for the most effective teaching. 2. The majority of students attending any institution come from territory within a radius of fifty miles or less. Therefore, junior col¬ leges, strategically placed, will lead to thousands of young men and women enjoying the benefits of one or two years of college education who would never do so otherwise. The benefit derived by the state from such additional further schooled citizenry is incalculable. 3. Between the fields of unskilled and skilled labor, between the non-technical and the technical, the non-professional and the profes¬ sional, lie hundreds of vocations of a semi-profess ional nature for which satisfactory preparation can be completed within two years of college. The larger institution cannot do this job so well as can junior college. There is much to be said for the junior college, and little against it. It is bound to prosper in California. H. M. SKIDMORE, Dean of Men. SACRAMENTO JUNIOR COLLEGE Page Twenty-one