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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 6 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 13, 1928
ALL-SCHOOL EXCURSION TOMORROW
RESULTS OF SURVEY
SHOW WIDE
OF STUDENT
Methods Courses Predominate in
Answers to Questions; Tech­nique,
Observation Rank Next.
ANSWERS HAVE VALUE
Completed Survey Will Provide
Suggestions as to Course and
Figures to Show Extent of Need
Answer to the questionnaires on
courses needed most by teachers dur­ing
the summer session which were
given out in assembly last Friday,,
cover a wide range and offer many
valuable suggestions Results so far
tabulated show, that from a group
of two hundred fifty answers, meth­ods
courses, technique, observation
courses, and cultural courses, respec­tively,
seem to be in greatest de­mand.
Next in rank, desires have
been expressed for remedial work,
advanced music, present day current
events, course in classroom prob­lems,
and administration and super­vision
for principals and supervisors.
Many other courses have been sug­gested
but not with the same degree
of correlation as those which have
been mentioned.
Method Courses Desired
That method courses seem to be
felt as the greatest" need by returned
students is evident by the fact that
approximately one-third of the pap­ers
returned expressed such a wish.
Tliis, of course, cannot be taken to
mean that one-third of the students
prefer to take more methods during
the- summer session than cultural
courses because the question as stat­ed
asks what course they feel they
most need. Perhaps if the methods
course was given with five hours
credit the student would have oppor­tunity
to take cultural courses to
round out the program. * This illus­tration
may be taken to apply to all
choices made since the choice was to
be made for one course only and
that to fill the* greatest need.
As to .the type of methods courses,
suggestions for courses in grammar,
history and geography as actually
taught in the classroom seem to be
predominant. Nearly every subject
in the grade school curriculum Avas
represented in the desire for meth­ods
courses. Many students did not
express a desire for any particular
methods course but listed their de­sires
as for a genera] methods course.
Some of the descriptions of courses
are given as follows: "More mater­ial
in modern or new methods of pre­sentation
of grade school subjects,
especially co-ordination of work
through problems or projects"; "A
course which would acquaint a per­son
with the actual methods of pro­cedure
in teaching different types of
lessons*'; "How to make Geography
and History more interesting and to
eonnect.it with present needs of the
pupils"; "A course in grammar as it
should be'taught in the upper grades
including actual lessons with stu­dents
as participants."
Suggestions on Observation
Regarding observation and tech­nique
the following answers have
been received aniong many others:
"Observation of instructors conduct­ing
classes in all the-common branch­es";
"A course in practical school
room problems with opportunity of
discussion with other, teachers their
methods of solving**; "Some" defi­nite
plans ' and methods of, teaching
through observation of classes".
Observation seems to "be desired by
many students in some form or oth­er,
thus providing as suggested", op­portunities
to see plans actually in
use and glean from them the ideas
desired. • • • . .,
A wide range of desires is evident
from the return and it is impossible
to take an expression from each
field. There are those who are in-
Large Party Expected To Make
Mount Baker Climb Next Week
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FOR SUMMER TERM
RATIFIEDJBY BOARD
Lectures Get $2.75; Athletics, $2;
Student Recreation Receives 75c;
Northwest Viking is Given 50c.
RUCKMICK IS APPOINTED
He Fills the Post of E. J. Arntzen
Faculty Appointed Member,
Who Leaves on a Vacation.
Prospective Mountaineers Will Leave Campus Early
Next Friday Morning for Kulshan Cabin; Record-
Breaking Faculty-Student Group Will Make Trip.
MERCHANT OF VENICE
WANTS YOUR OPINION
Vote, students! "The Mer­chant
of Venice", collectively
speaking, is in a quandry. Will
you help him decide ?
Shylock in a derby, baggy
trousers, and an excess of He­brew
gestures, or Shylock in
the old-fashioned Jewish gab­erdine?
Would you smile at
Portia appearing in the latest
cut Hart Shaffner & Marx gar­ment
in the courtroom scene, or
do you prefer her in a flowing
robe, (borrowed from tlie lo­cal
Methodist choir) and long
white wig of the good old days?
in short, do you see Shakes­peare
in the modern, or Shakes­peare
in traditional romantic'?
Today is your chance to "tell
the world" what you think of
it. Shall we be the first
school in America to present
Shakespeare in modern costum­ing,
or shall we .follow the
custom of centuries in our man­ner
of dress ?
Representatives
of School Will
Attend Meetings
The Northwest session of the In­stitute
of International Relations will
be held in Seattle at the University
of Washington the week of July 22
to 27, 1028 inclusive. The institute
has for its purpose the serious study
of problems involved in international
relations in the belief that an under­standing
of such problems is the
greatest single need of the present
decade.
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Work Arranged in Three Divisions
The work of the institute is divid­ed
into (J.) evening lectures, (2) af­ternoon
conferences, (;i) morning
round tables.
The special evening lectures will
be open to the public without charge
and will be held each evening at the
University Temple adjoining the
campus.of the University. Sunday to
Friday, inclusive. Among the best
known lecturers are: Arnold Bennett
Hall, president of the University of
Oregon, whol will speak on "Social
Control and World Peace; also Ray
Lyman Wilbur, president of Stan­ford
University; Willis J. Abbott,
editor of the Chj;stian Science Moni­tor:
Silas Strawn, president of the
American Bar Association. * Admiral
W. .V.;.'-Pratt, of the U. S. Navv.will
A record-breaeking party of al­most
seventy-five faculty members
and students is expected to make the
trip to Kulshan Cabin and the as­cent
of Mount Baker next week when
the Normal stages its annual climb
to the top of "Kulshan,'' the mon­arch
of the Cascades. Mr. Bond, Mr.
Arntzen, and Miss George, faculty
members who will have charge of
the trip, are making preparations to
have a large number of people taken
care of when the busses leave the
school campus at 5 o'clock Friday
morning. The entire trip, will take
three days, the first day to be spent
in reaching the cabin, which will be
the base of operations, the second
in climbing the mountain itself, and
the third, Sunday, in returning to
Bellingham.
After a- two-hour trip to Glacier
by bus, the party will leave civiliza­tion
early Friday morning for its
destination, Kulshan Cabin. A stiff
ten-mile hike, then the cabin erected
two years ago by the Mount Bake]'
Club and Bellingham Normal, will
be reached. The cabin is situated
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Losey, Shakespearean
Reader of Note, Will
Come Here Next Week
Dr. Frederick E. Losey, famous as
an authority on Shakespeare and as
a reader of Shakespearian plays, will
appear at the Normal Monday, Tues­day,
and Wednesday of next week.
Each evening he will discuss one of
the. most famous of the-plays of
Shakespeare and then read it, and he
will appear in assembly Tuesday.
Whether he will lecture or read a
play at that time is not known.
Dr. Losey appeared here last sum­mer
and won much praise for his
presentation of Macbeth, King Lear,
and Julius Caesar. His presentation
of -Julius Caesar and particularly his
interpretation of the character of
Brutus was especially praised.
Although the full program is not
yet announced, Hamlet Avill be a-mong
the plays read. Dr. Losey is
making a tour of the coast and comes
here from Corvallis, Oregon.
Dr. Charles U. Clark who has but
recently returnee* "roni a tour of
Europe, will be the speaker in next
Friday's assembly. He is a well-known
lecturer and writer on travel
subjects, and i s a n authority oh
European conditions. Dr. Clark is a
lecturer who has command of the
anecdote and human interest story
and uses them throughout'-his books
and his lectures. His latest book,
'•"Bessarabia", has had a wide sale
and has ben widely commended for
both interest and the insight into
the lives of the people of the peart,
of Russia 'of which it treats.
Herbert Ruckmick, member of the
faculty in the Industrial Arts de­partment,
has been named b v Presi­dent
C. II. Fisher to take the place
of E. J. Arntzen as faculty appoint­ed
member of the Board of Control.
The appointment takes effect at the
beginning of the fall quarter. At
that time Mr. Arntzen, the incum­bent,
will leave on a vacation. The
appointment was announced at the
weekly meeting of the Board of Con­trol,
which occurred Wednesday
morning.
At the same time apportionment
of funds discussed at a former meet­ing
was ratified. This apportionment
calls for a division of each $6 stu-:
dent activities ticket fee as follows:
Athletics, $2; lectures and enter­tainment,
$2.75; Viking, 50c; social
life, 75c. Approximately $6,000 will
be available for the various pur­poses.
That no one will be either appoint­ed
or • elected to take the place of
Stanley Thompson on the Board of
Control when he leaves school at the
end of the first term, was the opin­ion
of the Board of Control. Thomp­son,
elected for a two-quarter term
at the beginning of the spring quar­ter,
has served one and one-half
quarters of his term, but will not
be in school during the second term
of the quarter. Because the Board
will hold but four meetings during
that time, it is deemed best to leave
the position vacant.
At the end of the summer quarter
two officers ou'-the Board of Control
will be vacant, those being Thomp­son's
place and the place of Mr E.
A. Bond, faculty advisor, whose
term expires at the end of the fall
quarter, but who will leave school
on a leave of absence at the end of
the present quarter. No other va­cancies
will occur until the end of
the fall quarter when a four-quarter
position will bo open as Guy Spring-steel's
term cxpii-es. The secretary-,
ship of the Board will expire at the
end of the summer quarter, this be­ing
a one-quarter position, but the
office is filled by election on the
part of the Board members. Roy
Arnett, incumbent, stated that he
would again be a candidate for the
job.
Concerning the trip to Victoria to­morrow,
the Board took no action
except to review the ticket sales up
to Wednesday • morning and an­nounce
that if the quota was not
filled by Thursday the trip would
be opened to the general public. The
committee chairman, Calvin Nichols
and Frank Mitchell, were appointed
earlier in the week by the executive
committee of the excursion.
Victoria Excursion Leaves Dock
At 7 A.M., Returning 10 P.M.
Steamer Indianapolis, with Six Hundred Students
on Board, to Sail on All Day Trip as Result of
Three Weeks Planning for an All School Outing.
Play Rehearsal
Proves No Place
for the Bashful
(By J. P. W.)
"Where's the place?"
"There! Where he's sposed to kiss
her!"
Hurried moments in the middle
of a rehearsal of "The Merchant of
Venice", the Drama Club's quarterly
production, to be presented August
8 and 9 in the Normal auditorium.
"Where's.he sposed to kiss her!"
Booming tones from Director V. H.
Hoppc. "He's not-going to!"
"Not going to kiss her?" A rum­ble
from the back row of unimpor­tant
servants, suitors and what-not,
Avho are sitting down until the place
where they "come in."
"Not going to kiss her?" unre­strained
joy from the leading man,
Bassanio, played by Ben Howard,
equal joy from Camanna Tucker,
who plays Portia.
"Just omit it," explains Mr. Hop-pe,
and rehearsal is resumed, al­though
from time the amateur ac­tors
and actresses stutter when they
meet this line. The notes say to
kiss her, and its rather hard to let
it slide past.
The burning question again! What
if it's put on in modern dress. What
then, Mr. Hoppe? Not a kiss? Not
one, after all that courtship.
Shakespeare knew his onions.
Shakespeare wrote immortal drama.
Shakespeare put the kiss in!.
It used to be that the casket scene
in the ••'Merchant of- Venice" was
always played in great earnestness.
(Bear up, ignoramuses, the caskets
are not over a foot square and are
merely a method of choosing a hus­band
by allowing a suitor to choose
a casket. This is not a funereal pro­duction).
But the Drama Club,
delving into the background of each
character's life, will have none of
that. Humor, contagious and ir­repressible,
is creeping out at every
point, and the three suitors, as well
as all of the minor characters, prom­ise
to make the quarterly play full
of uood laughs.
The Committee in charge of
the boat trip urge students to
bring ukes, cameras and cards
if they are interested* in play­ing
on the return trip, since
card tables will be available.
Calendar
FRIDAY, July 13—
4:00 P. M., Recreation Hour, big
gym. S:30 P. M., Outside Girls
Informal, Edens Hall.
SATURDAY, July. 14—
7:00 A. 3VL, "Str. Indianapolis"
leaves Citizen's Dock for Victor­ia,
returns at 10:00 P. M.
TUESDAY, July 17—
11:00 A. M., Frederick W. Losey
in assembly.
WEDNESDAY, July IS—
First term ends.
THURSDAY, July 19—
Second term begins.
FRIDAY,'.July 20—
5:00 A. M. Stage leaves campus
with Mount Baker Party.
11:00 A. M. Dr. Upson Clark, in
assembly. '
POSTER CONTEST IS
NEW ADD FEATURE
An all-school poster contest
with three prizes is being spon­sored
by the advertising manage
ment of the Drama Club's sum­mer
production, "The Merchant
of Venice." The contest opened
yesterday and will close July 26.
Any person in school is eligible
to enter any number of posters,
which may be in. black and
white or any combination of
colors and must not be less than
16 inches wide by 22 inches in
length. No posters used as
class projects will be accepted.
Those who plan to enter the
contest are urged to consider
the following points: fitness of
purpose, i. e. does all the mat­erial
on the poster pertain to
the subject to be advertised;
placing of lettering, is the legend
a part of the poster or only an
addition; mass effects; contrast;,
and -simplicity. ..The last named
is to be especially considered.
Judges for the event have not
yet been chosen but will be an­nounced
in time for publication
in next week's Viking. The Art
Department has offered a large
framed Japanese print for one-of
the prizes. Whether or not
it "will be used as the first prize,
and what the other prizes will
be has not yet been decided as-cording
to Benriie Mitchell, the
business manager; .
When the student body sails Sat­urday
morning for Victoria, one of
the most comprehensive undertak­ings
of the students' association here
will have materialized.
The Tacoma-Seattle steamer In­dianapolis
will leave from the Citi­zens
clock, near the Great Northern
depot, at 7 a. m. The trip to Vic­toria
will be completed by 10 a. m.,
and from that hour until about 5
p. m., the time will be open for vis­iting
the city and seeing the many
sights there.
Ten o'clock in the evening has been
named as the hour for the return
from the trip. Originally planned
as having a stop-off at Olga, Orcas
Island, for an evening meal, it was
found that the docking facilities at
that place are insufficient for ac­comodating
a ship the size of the
Indianapolis, and lunch will be served
in Victoria, with the trip home
starting immediately after.
Program
No program has been arranged for
the students while they are in Vic­toria.
Rather the entire program,
as planned for by Calvin Nichols,
chairman of the entertainment com­mittee,
will be given on shipboard.
A five-piece orchestra, the Melody
Boys of Anacortes, will be on board
to furnish musical entertainment
during the trip. The return will be
featured with three hours of dance
music.
Home talent, in the form of both
musical and specialty numbers, has
also been arranged for. On this mat­ter,
however, a silence is. maintained
by those in charge, the plan being to
have most of this part of the pro­gram
in the form of surprise num­bers.
It has been rumored, however,
that a "•blues' singer will be among
the performers.
Deck games on the voyage to Vic­toria,
and dancing and bridge on the
return, are among the plans of the
committe for the entertainment of
the excursionists. According to Nich­ols,
the games will be in the form of
horseshoes and ring tennis, and.'any
others which groups care to -organ­ize.
The card games will be organized
on the return on the lower deck for
those who do not care to dance.
After the sale Tuesday noon, the
number of tickets sold amounted to
some 3S0, with the sale of Wednes­day
and Thursday expected to bring
the number up to the necessary 600,
which will make the trip, self-sup­porting.
Big Trip
The trip is one of the most com­prehensive
endeavors attempted by
the Student's Association for some
time. A guarantee of $1200 was
necessary to obtain a ship of suffi­cient
size, to carry the number of
students who would make the trip.
The fact that the guarantee was so
high made it necessary for the group
to comprise more than one-half: of
the entire enrollment.
Suggested first by the Board of
Control in regular session three
weks ago the matter rapidly gained
favor, and upon a show of enthus­iasm
in an assembly last week, the
ship was chartered and the commit­tees
appointed. The trip supple­ments
all the regular hiking parties
and is in the nature of added and
special recreation.
Nina Gennell, a Bellingham gradu­ate,
who has been teaching in China,
has just completed a course at the
University of Washington and pian's
to return, to China this fail tn es­tablish
a Normal School for Chinese
girls. • ,•'•.• •:;..:;•.
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