University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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Romance Languages Ten full-time teachers are employed in the department of Romance Languages and there is a ten per cent increase in the enrollment of students every year. The demand for well- prepared teachers of French and Spanish ex- ceeds the supply. The educational and prac- tical value of the Romance Languages is very great. French books are read by large numbers in all the cultural centers of the World. The rapid and amazing development of Latin America offers splendid opportunities for technically trained men, who have a re- spectable knowledge of the Spanish language, which is acquiring extraordinary importance in all the schools of the United States. Practical courses in conversation, composition and pro- nunciation may be taken in the upper division. Advanced and Graduate work in the languages and literatures is open to qualified students. There are two classes in commercial Spanish and one course is devoted to Latin America. Portuguese, spoken in the vast territory of the Republic of Brazil, is becoming more and more indispensable. Students who have had three years of Spanish are given some work in this language. ltalian is studied for its litera- ture as well as for the beautiful language. El Circulo Castellano and Le Foyer Fran- cais a1'e clubs for practical training in Spanish and French. FACULTY MEMBERS OF Tl-IE Anna M. Thompson Rosalia Cuevas Italia Dallera Gertrude Espinosa Lois E. Gray Henriette Gouy Tfwcnly--fifurr Timothy Cloran, Ph. IJ. Ilmld of lJcj1art1r1cnt B. A.,Wes1.ern Reserve, 18912 stu- dent, University of Berlin, 1897- 98: University ol' Strassburgr, 1808-09: Ph.D., Strnssburgr, 1901: student, University of Paris, 100-1- 05: University of Madrid, 1005- 00: faculty, Shurtlefl' College, 1803-07: Idaho, 1809-1000: Vander- bilt, 1000-011: Oruxon, from 1906. DEPARTM ENT Germaine Cornier Anrlree Pellion Helen Duliuy Manerucl

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George Rehec, Ph.D. Dean A. B., Michixzun, 1891: student at Stl'ilHHlJlll'K, 1893-04: Ph.D., Mich- igan, 1897: student in Florence, Italy, 1908-9: faculty, Michigan, 1894-1909: Orcxzon. 1912-18: direc- tor, Portland Extension Center, 1918-203 professor of education, Reed College, 1920-215 head of de- partment of philosophy and dean of Graduate School, O1'UK0Il1 from 1911. The Graduate School The aims of the Graduate School may be approximately described under four heads. First, there is the endeavor to have the stu- dent both deepen and widen his scholarship. By having him put his energies into a major and a minor field of study, he is diverted from a loose scattering of his interests over things more or less in general, at the same time that the taking of courses is transformed into an approach on the whole body of those subjects, and the attempt is made to achieve the be- ginnings of a real mastership in them. Second, in place of the habit oi obediently 'itakingu the contents of lectures and text books and more or less faithfully giving them back in quizzes and examinations, the student is challenged and expected to take a critically active and investigative attitude towards knowledge and ideas. Third, and above all else, the Graduate School wishes to be animated by the idea of research, in the very broadest meaning ot that term. lt is a place steadily and eagerly de- voted to thc pushing forward of the houn- daries of knowledge, and the training and in- spiring oi the young men and women who are to continue this culminating portion of a uni- versityis service. Finally, the Graduate School of the 'Uni- versity of Oregon endeavors not only to build this active and creative habit oi mind above and as a supplement to, the ordinary college course, but strives, by its presence on the cam- pus and by its example to stimulate it within the undergraduate years themselves. l FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE DEPAR'l'lVlEN'l' William P. Boynton F. G. Schmidt Harry Beal Torrey Edmund S. Conklin Henry D. Sheldon Frederic G. Young Warren D. Smith Tfwmzly-four

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HerbertCromhie Howe, A.B. Head of Department B. L., A. B., Cornell, 1893: graduate scholar in nhil0S0DhY, Cornell, 1893-95: head of depart- ment, Oregon, from 1906. FACULTY Clarence D. Thorpe VV. F. G. Thacher Mary Watson Barnes julia Burgess Mary H. Perkins Rudolph H. Ernst Hugh E. Rosson Department of English The English department is the largest in the University, having this year a facultv of twenty-two members, and a student roll of two hundred and fifty majors. lt comprises four main divisions ot the work: English literature, World literature, Written English, and public speaking. 'llhese main divisions of the English department have varied fields and duties, the chief of which are: l. Service courses in the writing of English, in which students are trained in a particular line of Writing, legal, business, scientific, his- torical, or whatnot which is demanded bv their choice of a major department. 2. Fine Arts courses, or courses in creative Writing, including courses in magazine writ- ing, verse writing, short story writing, and playwriting. These courses are meeting the test of acceptance for publication, or in the case of plays, of acceptance for production on the stage. 3. Courses in extempore speaking, oratory, and debate. 4. . Reading courses which aim to make our students men and Women of the world of human thought, act, and emotion, by bring- ing them into contact, through literature, with the most profound and- powerful minds of the race, and their reactions to human life and its problems. MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT Walter Snyder Mildred Hawes Mrs. Alta C. Hoover Helen Grouch Snyder Alice H. Ernst Ralph Hoeber L. K. Shumaker Tfwenly-.tix Paul Patterson Kenneth Rowe Oscar Brown E. WV. Merrill Luceil Morrow Frank Palmer Irene Whitfield