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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
In addition Dr. Billig is sched
uled to give a second special lec
ture on the subject, "The Responsi
bilities of Teachers and Supervis
ors in the Development of a Science
Program." The time and place for
this lecture has not yet been defi
nitely arranged.
Dr. Bung, who is member of
the National Council of Supervis
ors of Elementary Science and
other professional groups, has
been active in research for the de
velopment of science materials
which are appropriate at the vari
ous elementary, junior and senior
levels.
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