University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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Tke vj7Paduate Ocnool DE rEORGE REBEC The graduate school believes that it is sincerely able to report essential good progress. It can point, not only to a constantly better prepared student body, but to one increas- ing from other and distant parts of the country and abroad. At the moment there are nineteen active candidates work- ing towards their degree of doctor of philosophy. The immediately most engrossing business before the graduate school is that of working out a new constitution and formal organization. The proposal has just received the sanction of the faculty, and it is purposed henceforth the school, as a whole, will be divided into some four groups -- -nat ural science; social science; language, literature and fine arts; and medicine. Medicine, it might be ex- plained, is erected into a separate group at least in part, because of the practical problems arising from its situation off the campus. The groups are established in the interest of breaking down, even in graduate work, the too narrow specialization of individual depart- ments, to establish a habit and opportunity of conference and cooperative thinking and work among the departments whose interests lie fairly close together. The mention of the medical school probably calls for the explanatory report that there is no proposal of having the graduate school swallow up the professional schools, even where the work of the latter is of a graduate status. The graduate school will continue to busy itself with work and degrees of the paramountry theoretical, in the distinction from a strictly professional nature. Dean George Rebec is head of the school, and under his direction the graduate school has drawn men and women for advanced work from all over the Northwest. Special research work is done by these students, and much valuable material is discovered. Each year an increased number of individuals come to the Uni- versity of Oregon to take up graduate work, the largest number in the history of the institution being enrolled du- ring the school year 1929-1930. A still greater number is ex- pected by Dean Rebec next year. The increased emphasis upon higher scholastic degrees is one of the leading factors in the enlarged enrollment, Dean Rebec believes. ( Ik nr Mi SCHOO

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I ne Cyollege ot Literatui t, Sc lence, a nd the Art, With the addition of sociology to the college in the spring of 1929, the number of departments was increased to an even twenty. These twenty disciplines, with the four groups in the lower division, now enroll almost exactly one-half of the major students on the Eugene campus. This does not, nn James h. Gilbert however, indicate the full extent of the service rendered by the college, under the direction of Dr. James H. Gilbert. Reckoned in student hours the liberal arts college carries approximately two-thirds of the instruction load on the University campus. The professional man who hopes to succeed realizes soon that education is a continuous process and the man or woman best equipped with a trained mind and an intensive study of auxiliary sciences finds his professional status and his influence in his community more easily maintained. The curricula of professional schools on the Oregon campus have been constructed with a view to a large admixture of cultural subjects. During the first two years in particular students electing majors in law, journalism, business, education, etc., are encouraged to acquaint themselves with the great masterpieces of literature and to train their own powers of expression in written and spoken word. In the social sciences the student finds an explanation of organized society and the evolution and significance of present day institutions. Work in the physical sciences trains in exact reasoning and familiarizes the student with the environment in which man must achieve his destiny. The biological sciences introduce the student to the realm of organic life and the physi- ological foundations of the mental processes. Specialized work in these fields leading to professional opportunities is provided by the upper division curricula of these twenty departments. An attempt is made from the time of entrance to adapt the work to the capacities and needs of students. At the end of the first two years superior students are singled out for distinction and honor privi- leges in the upper division work.

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I he Ochool of Architecture and Allied Art Pi w Ellis F. L wvri:: The aim of the school of architecture and allied arts is the development of creative faculties. The school itself is divided into three parts, those of architecture, fine arts, and normal arts. Probably there is no other school on the campus which allows the student to broaden out his own individual charac- ter as the school of architecture. It primarily endeavors to stimulate and encourage the student ' s best qualities and helps him to discover his own particular abilities. Contact with all the different departments of the school and special- ization in any one of them is an aid toward this aim. The department of architecture conducts courses in principles of construction and design, in the technique of pencil, pen and brush, essential to accurate and effective pre- sentation, with such courses in history and practice as may supply acquaintance with the best examples of historic architecture, and a proper sense of the applicability of the pre- cedents set therein to the design and purposes of modern buildings. The department of fine arts has classes in all forms of delineation, including oil and water color painting, pastel crayon and charcoal drawing, as well as modeling in clay or plastoline, from life, cast, or nature; also classes in decorative design with advanced work in mural painting and stained glass. The department of normal arts furnishes experience in designing and process of pro- duction of objects of the industrial arts, such as dress design, textile patterns and weav- ing, tile making and basketry, and the training of teachers for public school instruction in art. Members of the faculty of the school of architecture and allied arts have won distinc- tion in their various special- ized lines of work. Dean Ellis F. Lawrence, head of the school, is known as one of the finest architects on the „, Pacific coast. Special exhibits IS of painting and sculpt u r e throughout the United States have included representative works of the Oregon artists. Special attention is given to normal arts, and the students i nrolled in the courses create winks of beautiful and artis- tic natm e. Scho H of Architecture Wll A] I II D l I-