WWCollegian - 1944 June 30

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By WALT BAKEB
THE FUTURE
Others write about the future, so
why not you and I? The fact is
none of us know anything' about
it, but it serves to place us on a
common footing and to give us an
equal opportunity to prophesy
without the gift of prophecy.
One favorite of prophecy is to
^predict what would have happened
in the past had this or that taken
place. Such prophets assure you,
just as if they knew, that if some
singular event such for instance as
the Black Death or the Versailles
treaty, had never been foisted upon
the world by the permission of
providence or the stupidity of men,
the whole course of subsequent
European history would have been
different or, at least, we would not
now be fighting World War II.
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One reads and hears such state­ments,
and lets them pass without
controversy — tolerates them for
what the are, somebodys guess. One
doesn't take the trouble to point
out that the events of history are
never so nicely predictable. He
doesn't demand a show of casual
connection between what actually
did not occur, but which might
have occurred had the situation
been otherwise. He doesn't demand
it, because he knows it cannot be
shown.
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To' say that Johnny would have
become an excellent musician had
his teacher not died of the gout
before, the fifth lesson is over, sim­plifies
the case. It is granting
too much to the teacher and too
little to Johnny. It is far more
difficult to prophesy about the fu­ture—
For here; we are" not dealing
with agents dead and gone who did
one thing, when they might have
happened had they acted different­ly.
A Friend Says:
In that vein, a well-read friend
of mine, right here at Western
Washington, claims that the post­war
world will not belong to us
who, while our men are fighting
for us Over there, are working out
plans for what is to come, but to
the twelve million men in the ser­vices
themselves when they get
home. This is pure prophecy, for
with full regard for my friend's
learning, I say he is simply guess­ing.
He can have no way of know­ing
what he says with certainty. He
vrests his whole case, as he must,
upon certain present indications,
and then concludes a result. And
it is just that element of inevitabil­ity
that is always absent from the
affairs of free men, which makes
anthing like a prediction of what
the are going to do at some future
time, something unreliable, just
anybody's guess.
Visual Aids Among
New Courses
New courses for the academic
year 1944-45 are in the supplement
to the annual catalog which is now
available in the registrar's office.
Included among the new courses
are the following: Art 153, probr
lems in school drawing; English
121, survey of drama; Industrial
arts 78, practical .lettering tech­niques;
Physical education 88;
fencing; science 140; field zoology;
Science 165, visual aids; Teaching
technique 161, techniques in re­medial
arithmetic; Teaching tech­nique
162, techniques in remedial
reading; Teaching technique 163,
observation and techniques in a
typical remedial clajss; Teaching
technique 165, diagnostic tech­niques
and special measurements.
VOL. XLII—NO. 34 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Friday, June 30, 1944
Education Leaders Gather to Confer;
Exceptional Children to be Discussed
Sponsored by the Washington State Department of Education with the
cooperation of Western Washington College of Education, the Conference
on the Education of Exceptional Children will be held on the Campus next
Thursday and Friday, July 6 and 7. Prominent members of Education in
the state will be present to lead discussions and deliver addresses. s
The program for the two-day meeting follows:
PROGRAM
Morning Session—July 6
Campus Elementary School Auditorium
10:0(K-Opening of Conference, President W. W. Haggard, Western Wash­ington
College of Education: Address of Welcome
National Atnhem, Don Bushell, leader, instructor in Music, Western
Washington Colleeg of Education
Brief Overview of the Conference, Miss Emma S. Erickson, Western
Washington College of Education
10:15—"Meeting the Individual Differences Among Children," Mr. E. L.
Lindman, Director of Research and Statistics, State Office of Public
Instruction, Olympia
10:30—"The Schools Accept the Challenge," Mrs. Beryl Bruff, Principal,
Lowell School, Bellingham
10:45—"Special Service Agencies and Departments are ready to help the
Schools."
A Symposium: Dr. Lee Powers, State Director, Department of Health
Miss Bernice Scroggie, State Supervisor, Division of Children, State De­partment
of Social Security
Mr. Harry G. Halstead, Director, State Board for Vocational Education,
Vocation Guidance and Rehabilitation
Mr. Oliver W. Nelson, State Supervisor of Education for Handicapped
Children, Schools for the Deaf and Blind
11:45—Summary of Morning Session, Mr. W. H. Dutton, Department of
Education, Western Washington College of Education
Announcements *
12:00—Luncheon, Edens Hall
Afternoon Session
1:00—Group One, Workshop in Academic Problems, Room 219, Main
Building, Conducted by Miss Emma S. Erickson, Western Washington
College of Education
Group Two, Workshop in Problems of Vision, Room 201, Main Building,
Conducted by Mr. Roy Howard,. Director of Special Education, Seattle
Public Schools
2:35—Tea, AWS Room
3:00—Group Two, Workshop in Academic Problems, Room' 219, Main
Building
Group One, Workshop in Problems of Vision. Room 201, Main Building
Morning Session—July 7, 1944
Campus Elementary School Auditorium
9:00—General Assembly, Emma S. Erickson, Chairman, Discussion of
Plans for Morning Observations
9:15—Observation of Classroom procedure in which special attention is
given to the problems of individual differences among pupils. Discussion
of procedure observed
10:45—Tour of Campus Elementary School
11:40—Lunch, Edens Hall
Afternoon Session
1:00—Group One, Workshop in Problems of Hearing, Room 313, Main
Building, Conducted by Miss Edna Davis, Director of School for Deaf
and Hard of Hearing, Spokane Public Schools
Group Two, Workshop in Problems, Room 308, Main Building, Conducted
by. Dr. James Carrell, Director, Speech Clinic, University of Washington
• 2:35—Tea, AWS Room ^
3:0*0—Group Two, Workshop in Problems of Hearing, Room 313, Main
Building „
Group One, Workshop in Problems of Speech, Room .308, Main Building
5:00—Adjournment of Conference
'Learn to Listen'—
Says Hood;
Art Lost to Public
Speaking on "The Lost Art of Lis­tening
to Music," in last Friday's
assembly, Marguerite V. Hood, as­sistant
professor of music educa­tion
in the University of Michigan
and supervisor of music in Ann
Arbor city schools, concluded her
part in the Music Week program. ,
"Years ago," declared Miss Hood,
"people were able to give more of
their leisure time to enjoying mu­sic;
whereas, now, theatres, dances
and travel take up our spare mo­ments."
She suggested that people will
learn to understand and appreciate
music when they learn to devote,
time to it as an end in itself rather
than as a background to other ac­tivity.
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Upped Enrollment
Not Complete
Although complete statistics are
not available, enrollment for the
summer session is expected to total
over 300 students, according to in­formation
released M)y Dr.. W. W.
Haggard. This number is greater
than the enrollment last year at
the same time.
Complete infomation will not be
available for some time. Various
groups are entering the College for
different conferences, workshops,
short sessions, and institutes and
it will be necessary to wait until
registration for these affairs is
closed.
WWC STAMP SALES HIGH
Students, faculty, and staff mem­bers
purchased stamps and bonds
totaling $32,282.25 for the year 1943
and 1944, according to information
released by Dr. W. W. Haggard;
This total also includes the sales
in the Campus school. ,
Quiz Results
Uphold Poll
"What We Don't Know Is" Likely
to Hurt Us," pertains to WWC as
well as Jto the nation. This fact was
revealed in tests given by Miss Nora
B. Cummins, history instructor, to
her spring quarter history 3 and her
summer history 1 and history 129
classes. Hadley Cantril, Director of
Public Opinion Research, Princeton
university, in the New York Times
article mentioned above said that
Americans are not only self-center­ed
but ill-informed on world affairs.
Adults Differ
The article stated that 27,000,000
United States adults do not know
that the Japanese have taken the
Philippines. Of the 57 WWC stu­dents
taking the test prepared by
Miss Cummins, 11 did not know
that the Japanese control the Phil­ippines.
Two of our students had
never heard or read about the At­lantic
Charter, and 34 could not
designate one provision of the Char­ter.
The national survey showed
that 54.000,000 Americans had never
heard of the Atlantic Charter.
Twelve of our students could not
name one provision of the American
Bill of Rights. Eight did not know
that we have received reverse lend
lease from Great Britain, and 27
did not know that a peace treaty
is appoved by the President and a
2/3 majority of the senate. Twen­ty-
six here did not know that the
state governments decide who can
vote in presidential elections, and
60,000,000 of the United States
adults do not know who decides the
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Attention Graduates
Students who expect to receive de­grees
or war emergency certificates
in August are asked to check the
list posted on., the main bulletin
board for corrections of spelling, for
omissions and for correctness of the
paper they are to receive.
Students now in school must make
application for these degrees "and
certificates before July 1 or pay a
two dollar late fee.
Many Complete
Music Week
People from all over the state as
well as many regularly enrolled stu­dents
audited the classes in curricu­lum
problems and in music tech­niques
and materials conducted by
Marguerite Hood last week.
In adidtion to these classes Miss
Hood devoted one and one-half
hours each day to work with groups
from the workshop, helping to solve
special problems.
"Miss Hood's teaching had an in­spirational
quality," stated Miss
Mira Booth music instructor with
whom Miss Hood worked.
"She made the classroom teacher
believe that even with little or no
preparation, he could still enrich
the childrens musical experience,"
Miss Booth went on to say.
Miss Hood fitted this conference
in between her regular work as asr
sistant professor of Music Educa­tion
in the University of Michigan
and supervisor of music in Ann
Arbor city schools, and her special
work with college and graduate
classes at the National Music Camp
at mterldcnen, Michigan.
Meet Ends in
Resume by
Tyler, Hicks ^
Tyler Speeches Place Stress On
Educational Improvement,
Coordination by All Concerned
"To improve, instruction and to
better coordinate parent-teacher
efforts to educate the child should
be the goal of our evaluation pro­grams
in education," stated Dr.
Ralph W. Tyler, chairman of the
department of Education of the
University of Chicago, in his ad­dress
yesterday morning in the col­lege
auditorium.
In this, the first of these addresses,
by Dr. Tyler on the theme of eval­uation
of education in War and
Peace, the chief speaker outlined;
firsC the purpose of evaluation;
second, procedures of evaluation
and third, the inadequacy of many
common methods of evaluating-
Emphasizing the large part the
child's personality plays in the
evaluation of his behavior, he stat­ed
that to find out how far changes
of behavior have been made is the
evaluator's objective.
Panel Discusses Points
These points'were questioned and
enlarged upon by a discussion panel
consisting of five prominent school
administration officers throughout
the state and the director of the re­search
and statistics of the Wash­ington
state, department of public
instruction.
As .chairman, of the board of
examinations at the University of
Chicago, Dr. Tyler has observed
the progress of evaluating programs
in such widely varying situations as
the wealthy, suburban Highland
Park school..in.Illinois,- the urban
New York City schools, and the
rural Michigan schools.
Education Meets Test
In his Thursday afternoon ad­dress,
"Has- Elementary. Education
Met the Test of the War?" Dr.
Tyler declared that the criticism
of our educational program
brought on by selective service ex­ams
is unjustified. He went on fur-
• ther to state that the armed ser­vices
are basing their teaching pro­gram
more and more on the basic
principles of education in qur pub^
lie schools. A new group of school
officers were represented o n ' t he
discussion panel.
"What Does the Future Hold for
Elementary Education" was the topic
of Tyler's third and final address'
this morning. The main points of
this speech concerned educational
services and the program rattier
than facts and figures on school
populations and finances. Again
the discussion panel consisted of
another group of educational ex­ecutives.
With A. C. Hicks, English
department chairman and acting
registrar, and Dr. Tyler as speakers,
the conference will be concluded
with today's luncheon at Edens hall.
j{ Dateline
Friday, June 30
Annual Educational Conference,
County Superintendents meet-
', ing.
Satuday, July 1
Hike to Lake Fragrance.
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Monday, July 3 (
Mixed recreation, 7:30-2:30 p. m..,
swimming, softball, tennis, bad­minton,
golf, volleyball, achery.
Tuesday, July 4
Holiday, Sucia Island trip.'" j
Thursday, July 6
Mixed recreation, 7:30-2:30 p. m.,>
swimming, softball, tennis, bad*
minton, golf, volleyball, archery.
Thursday, July 6—Friday 7 . >
Remedial Education Conference^