THE NEBRASKAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934. TWO J r & i I i $ (;,. I: h ? vV- 1 'A I....: t . ft . r r I :, -.1 ..'V v. 51 t i The Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION AND BULLETIN OF THE 1934 SUMMER SCHOOL 6ESSION Published Tuesday and Thursday morning during the summer session and circulated fret to summer school students and faeulty members Item boxes In campus buildings and book ' Directed by Student Publications Board. Telephonest Day-B6891 J Nlpht-B3960 B3333 Monday and Wednesday Nights Bruce Nlcoll ..Editor Wilbur Erlckson , .Business Manage Hodge Podge For Thursday. IN today's issue of the Nebraskan appears an article dealing with the place of vocational guidance, and its place in our high schools and colleges. The question is controversial one, and on several occasions has raised a rumpus in the educational world during the past few years. Particularly has the storm been at its peak during the past few months, what with the new deal and philosophy of revolt running rampant in the minds of the aver age individual. The controversy is not hard to analyze, if one is willing to accept a broad outlook on this whole mat ter. During the past few depres sion years there has been a strong tendency for thinking men to place more stress on the social sciences. During the preceding de cade our whole national life was built largely around specialization in the fields of finance, engineer ing, and the professions. They have become overcrowded and as a re suit thousands upon thousands of our college and high school trained youth have joined the ranks of the unemployed. Certainly, if we ac cept this condition as a direct re' suit of overspecialization, we must admit that vocational instruction in our public school system is at best a trifle unsteady. "THE recreation program of the summer session, and more par ticularly its sports program is evi dently well under way, accord ing to assurances from the student committee workiffg under the di rection of Prof. E. W. Lantz. Of some interest seems to be the 'kitten ball," or playground base ball games among the men and women. Just what the committee will eventually do in regard to or ganizing this sport ior summer school students is not known at this time. But whatever the actual course of the sport, students will find an evening of this sport an excellent tonic to keep in good spirits. AND in regard to the place of athletics in educational institu tions it is interesting to relate the plans of the university department of athletics to put on a large "ath letics for all" program next year on this campus. With the return of minor sports this spring, and the increase in participation in under graduate intramural athletics, it looks as tho concentration on "big time" athletics is distinctly passe. pHAT was a rather bitter de ' nunciation of education and educational leaders H. L. Mencken set forth in a recent issue of the Liberty. What Mr. Mencken wants is a return to teaching of the three Rs in our public schools. He thinks that schools are too expensive, and that pedagogs are "better speech makers and politicians than real honest to goodness teachers Air. MencKen s statements run cross grain to the plea now preva' Jent m nearly every section of America, Education must be brought to the fore, if youth is to be prepared to face the problems of the new deal, this sentiment seems to indicate. But perhaps Mr. Mencken is somewhat justi fied. NOTHER mixer Friday night Last Friday the committee in charge of the affair seemed quite elated over the large turnout They promise a) low admission price If the thronr continue. But tfcey 10 Greatest Living Americans Headed By F. D. Roosevelt Frank in Delano iwobvvch., nt the United States, heads the list of ten greatest living Americans recently named by E. A. Ross, nationally-known prefessor of soci ology at the University of Wis consin. Others named by Professor Ross include the following: Louis D. Brandcls, Unite States supreme court justice; Jane Addams, social work and founder of Hull House, Chicago; Norman Thomas, socialist patty leader; John Dewey, philoso pher; Eugene O'Neill, Ameri can dramatist; Sinclair Lewis, Nobel prize winner in litera ture; Upton Sinclair, author of forty books exposing social evils; Thomas Hunt Morgan, California physiologist who was recently awarded the Nobel prize; and Margaret Sanger, ac tive in tne csuiduhiiiih-ui. birth control clinics. of ro in a dilomna as to lust how they are to preserve the demo cratic school spirit of the affair, They have anounced a hostess system for Friday's mixture. If summer students want a greate nnlrit of democracy at their parties, they should act accord ingly. Then, too, the committee will always be glad to accept worthwhile suggestions. EVIDENTLY the drouth, the grasshoppers, the floods, the chinch bugs, an dother forages on Nebraska crops are not effecting the summer school registration Indications point to a near equal of last years low mark. TEACHERS TO GATHER ON CAMPUS JUNE 27 FOR 3-DAY CONCLAVE (Continued from Page 1). will be presented by Doctor Wes lev on "What Chanees Must Be Made in the Social Science Cur riculum on the College and Sec ondary Levels. Closing the after noon's work will be an open fmiin discussion with Dr. J. L, Sellers, university professor of his torv. in charge. Thursday morning's session, wun Sunt. J. C. Mitchell of mccooi pre siding, will be addressed W doc tor Wesley on "What Changes Must Be Made in the Social Scl ence Curriculum on the Elemen' tary Level." At 10 o'clock Dr, Helen Mcintosh will speak on Fundamental methods in Teach ine the Social Sciences in the Elementary Schools." The sesison will be closed by Doctor Burton who will have as his subject "Su pervising the Social Sciences in the Primary Schools." The afternoon session will open at 2 o'clock with Supt. M. C. Lef- ler of Lincoln as presiding officer, "The Future of the Small High School and Some Implications of Administration and Supervision Growing Out of Economic and So cial Changes" will be discussed by Doctor Pittman. At 3 o'clock Miss Alice Sowers will lecture on "What the Schools Can Do to Make Parent Educa tion More Helpful to the Schools" and at 6:30 the conference dinner is scheduled in the Student Activ ities building on the ag campus Chancellor E. A. Burnett will pre side. Following the dinner a panel discussion will be conducted un dcr the direction of C. A. Bowers, on significant changes in the so cial science curricula for the new day. Friday mormnes session will have as presiding officer Miss Chloe Boldridge and Miss Alice Sowers will open the business with lecture on "The ontnbution Which Parent Education Makes to School Education." Following her talk Dr. P. G. Johnson, supervisor of physical and biological sciences in Teachers College high school, will speak on "The Natural Sci ences and Social Life in Rural Communities." At 11 o'clock Doctor Pittman will discuss "A Supervisory Pro gram for Rural Schools in Ne braska." Luncheon with Miss Eva B. Shuman will be held at the Y. w. a A. The closing session of the con ference with Mrs. Alberta Bal lance presiding, will be opened by Miss Alice Cusack talking on "In fluences of the Social Science on the Reading Program of the Elementary School." The conclud ing address will be given by Doc tor Pittman on "The Supervisory Program, Applied to the Field of Rctuiixjg." I Educational World Over Subject of Kdllora mitrt Milch ha brn said irrrntly ronrernlii tho vnlur ot voratliiiml tuldnnr In our public school nyatrni. In the fol lowing article reprinted f rum a rwent I- mi of the l.iwwry indent an rcurm Mininintkin Is made of the qiicntlon, pr- tlculiirly with reitnert to the prnlilcm lnc Ins youth In the new deal. Is vocational guidance a fake medicine with false claims, or ,'s it a useful and dependable aid di recting young people into the proper jobs and careers? If recent outbursts of educators are to be taken at face value, the educa tional world is pretty weil divided on the subject, and tne ue pression, with its surplus of work ers over jobs, brought about the split. "Vocational guidance as prac Used today in high schools and col leges thruout the country can icau only to shattered hopes and bitter dlaannintment for hundreds of thousands of students now receiv , ... . ing the socalled vocational counsel ing," asserted Dr. irving lorgc, the protagonist o fthe fight. Doctor Lorge, who is research associate in the InnMtute or waucaiionai re search at Teachers college, Colum bia university, based his remarks on a 12 year survey in which 2,500 bovs and e-irls in New York City elementary schools were studied. "Vocational guidance is in Gan ger of making a virtue of charla tanism." he said. Counselors and advisers, supposedly mapping out the type of work best suited ior adolescents and adults, have no more basis in rendering their de cisions than have fortune-tellers, astrologists, or palmreaders, he said, adding that vocational gui dance todav "is no better than guessing and considerably less hon est." These were strong words, and found quick reply from Dr. Harry D. Kitson. who is director of the vocational guidance department of Teachers college, Columbia univer sity. Doctor Kitson has devoted years ot worn in me iieia ana strongly denied mat vocational guidance is "fortune-telling." He challenged Doctfor Lorge's concep tion of guidance, and said it was anything but clairvoyance. The well-trained vocational counselor, Doctor Kitson said, will refuse to predict a vocation for an advisee, deeming it "morally wrong to make people's decisions for them." The proper function of the counselor "is to help the in dividual to become interested in worthy occupations, to find in formation about them, and to ex amine the conditions, opportunities and rewards obtained in them. He also assists the individual in mak ing an inventory of his present as sets physical, psychological, so cial, and economic. "The enlightened servants of the vocational guidance movement are not trying to make of vocational guidance a science. Even at its highest development it will only be an art like the practice of healing, teaching, and nursing " Another educator of Teachers college at Columbia, Dr. Harold F. Clark, economist, entered the vo SCHEDULE OF SPORTS HOLDS ATTENTION OF STUDENT COMMITTEE (Continued from Page 1). men desiring to participate is made known. Women's baseball has progress ed with rapid strides, it was stated, with two teams already organ ized. The women's practice ses sions are identical with the men's, and the practice grounds are just east of the baseball grounds near Social Science building. Golf and horseshoes, while they will be more in the spotlight la ter in the year, are being started this week. Tournaments will be held later in the summer sessiou, according to the committee. In addition to the sports pro gram the commitee laid plans for the second mixer to be held in the coliseum Friday night. It was the opinion of the committee that a hostess system might be worked out to the ultimate advantage of the dances' school spirit Miss Jane Rrmn, i,irrnin, recent ly appointed as student represent ative of the kindergarten and pri mary department, attended the Wednesday session of the commit tee. Wendell Dodd was named by Mr. Lantz as chairman of the ticket sales for the Educational Confer RENT-A-CARS as usual are available to summer students. Low rates and good cars. No red tape. Aim-ays open. Motor Out Company 1120 P Street Pretty Well Split Vocational Guidance cational guidance controversy and suggested a new approach for the problem of jobs. In addition, he as sailed many claims of the voca tional counselors, asserting many of the features of training youth for certain occupations to be ab surd in the face of present-day facts. "There are approximately 6,000 positions for aviators In the coun try," he Bald, "and yet 500,000 boys of hi eh school age have ex pressed their plan in vocational guidance conferences to become aviators. Obviously, only a small fraction of this number can be ab Borbcd in this field. In many high schools it is not unusual for 30 to 50 percent of the boys to choose tho professions ot engineering, medicine, and law for their future careers, and yet in these three oc cupations there are less than 2 nercent of the population." Urging a complete revision of vocational guidance metnoos Doc tor Clark said there should be a master occupational plan for the entire country, based on tne as sumption that the 125,000,000 per sons in the country must be dis tributed throughout the work to be done. "The primary assumption should be that all the people will be used in work- that the avail able work should be divided and new work created." Writiner in Occupations, the Vo cational Guidance Magazine, Doe tor Clark said occupational plan ning is necessary today in any tvpe of economic order. "As long as every man is largely self-sufficient occupational planning is su perfluous. When the industrial world begins to specialize and ue troit makes automobiles, Pitts burgh makes steel, and Lowell produces textiles, then it becomes vitally important to know some thing of the number of people needed to produce textiles or any other item. "One of the few things about which we can be quite positive is that there is more work to be done in the United States than the pres ent number of people can possibly do. We need more things and more services than we can possibly provide for ourselves. Many peo pie have feared that the rapid in troduction of machinery would displace so many men that it would displace so many men that it would not be possible to find work at all. It can not be too em phatically stated that even if new and completely automatic machin ery were to be introduced into every factory in the land, . unem ployment would still be unneces sary." Doctor Clark proposed an occu pational plan which would involve the setting up of a central statis tical agency in Washington which, on the basis of all the esti mates prepared by local commun ity bodies, would prepare a mas- terplan estimating the number of people that will be needed in each occupation in future periods. ence dinner which is to be held at the student activities building on the Ag Campus next week. According to a survey at Le high university it was disclosed that, after twenty-five years fol lowing graduation, Phi Kappa Kappa men still lead other mem bers of their class. EASY STARTING GASOLINE HOLMS 14th . W 30th Year B3998 EAT COOL KEEP That's the motto of the Campus Inn. "With this in mind au electric COOLING SYSTEM has been installed in order that you may enjoy your meals end afternoon refreshments to the fullest. ' CAMPUS INN (facing Teachers college) j 1 , GUY CHAMBERS ASKS ALUMNI SUPPORT OF UNIVERSITY IN JUNE IS SUE OF ALUMNUS. (Continued from Page 1.) ing the past year, and the method in which they are facing the new social era. Also included in the June issuo of the Alumnus is an article deal ing with the Ivy Day oration, made during the annual Ivy Day festivities, by William Eddy. Mr. Eddy discusses the merits and ef fectiveness of creating a university lobby that will be effective and functioning. According to Eddy the only way to solve the univer sity's problems in appropriations, and to take it out of the legisla tive halocaust is to form an effec tive and strong lobby, composed for the most part of university graduates and friends of education. Other features included in the June issue are: "Pruning the Food Budget," written by Dr. Rebekah Gibbons, associate professor of home economics; a summary of the year in athletics at the univer sity; the book review department, by Gilbert H. Doane, university li brarian; That Every Child May Sing; and news of the classes. DR. BILLIC CONCLUDES TALK FOR SCIENCE TEACHERS ON FRIDAY (Continued from Page 1). ject, "The Development of Units of Study Which are Appropriate for Junior High Schools and Which Integrate This Work and the Science of Elementary and Secondary Schools." Open group conferences are scheduled to follow each class pe riod and special individual or group conferences may be ar ranged by appointment. A general conference on science problems at elementary and junior high levels is also scheduled both days at 11 o'clock in T. C. 323. 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