The QC, Vol. 27, No. 26 • January 21, 1941

              Students Plan  To Bury  Exam Sorrows In Snow  At  Big  Pines
• A gigantic snow party for the entire college—
that's how Whittier students expect to recover from
"burning the midnight oil."
For the first time in the history of this college, all four classes are combining to have their
class parties aB one. The event is to be held at Big
Pines, Thursday, January 30.
Students will meet at 6 o'clock (and 6 o'clock
means 6 o'clock according to the committee) in
front of Founders Hall where busses will take the
crowd to the  snow-covered mountains at  a small
cost. Students may, if they wish, provide their own
transportation in private cars.
Hot lunch will be served the snow enthusiasts
at noon by the committee in charge of arrangements. A slight charge may be made. Big Pines
Lodge will be open for students to warm themselves
in, and dance music will be provided. Snow sport's
equipment may be rented at the Lodge or taken
with the students on the busses.
Affl immense poster has been placed on the
public bulletin board in Founders for students to
sign on, by classes, and to state if bus transportation is needed.
Social chairmen of the four classes are combining energies in planning for the affair. These include: freshman, Myla Hathaway; sophomore,
Shirley Thomason; junior, Barbara Brown; and senior, Arlene Welch.
Everyone who intends to go is requested to sign
up on the bulletin board. It is hoped that many will
turn out for thi.s, big opportunity of the year to
engage in snow sports.
FINALS
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PRE-REGISTER
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Published Twice Weekly by the Associated Students of Whittier College
Vol. 27
Whittier, California, Tuesday,  January .21,  1941
Number 26
Urge Students Register In Advance
Final Exam Siege
Hits Here Frida
Student •'temperament on the
■campus today approached the jitters stage as preparations were being completed by faculty members
for the inevitable siege of final
exams,   slated  to  hit   the   Poets  on
Registrar Charles B. Spaulding
today warned students to not rely
upon the tentative schedule of
exams posted at an earlier date
on the faculty bulletin board.
The final schedule, with last-
minute corrections, is' posted in
the Hall in Founders and should
be consulted by all students for
verification of eariy announcements, he said.
Friday.
All is in readiness, the Pedagogs
report, including the questions,
schedule of hours, and  the red ink.
Last of the finals will be held on
Wednesday of next week. Registration for those students who do not
pre-register this week will be held
on Tuesday, February, 4th, and
classes will begin on Wednesday,
February 5th.
Y Majors Hear
Noted  Chicagoan
"In this constantly changing
world we must prepare ourselves
to understand the human element
h> life. This is one of the policies
of the school of which I represent,
that is to educate the students so
they may meet the needs of the
people  they  will  serve."
This was the thought of Dr. H.
C. Coffman, president of George
Williams College in Chicago, as he
spoke to YMjCA students and fac-
uty, Monday noon in the Home
Economics    Department.
George Williams College is one
of two original training schools for
YMCA secretaries and offers the
most outstanding course in informal education of any college in, the
nation.
Choir Will Begin
Tour January 31
A Cappella Choir members leave
Whittier Friday, January 31, for
a four-day tour which will include singing in San Diego, accord   to   Mr.   Frank   Pursell.
Friday afternoon the group
will sing before the Banning high
school, student body, and Friday
night will be spent at Hernet.
where the choir performs for the
women's  club.
Sunday afternoon the organization will present a Vesper
service in San Diego, and then
go to the First Congregational
church in Escondido. On Monday
morning, the choir will appear
before the Oceanside high school
arid return to Whittier that
afternoon.
Fr.  Civilization
-Given In Course
A new course in French civilization conducted by Professor Mah-
lon Harvey will be included in the
curriculum next semester, an announcement from the French department    shows.
The 'course will be concerned
with France during the Third Republic, which lasted from 1870 until 1940. Although listed in the
Catalog as French 122, the class
wilt be open to  all students.
Those who wish to receive credit on. a French major or minor
from the course will do their reading in   French.
MAHLMON HARVEY
Interview Shows Students
Prefer  Subjective  Exams
Like the thirteen steps to the galAows, students are counting the
days until January 24—when final exams begin. In attempting to discover what type of final (if any) students and faculty prefer, the
Quaker Campus has recorded several representative ideas on this
important subject. <
Students are almost 100% is
favor of essay type and subjective
questions on the finals, the results
reveal. Says Terrell Myers, junior,
"Subjective questions, which give a
student a chance to show how
much he knows about a whole
field, rather than objective, which
stress the little details, seem to me
to be the fairest."
Chuck McEver, sophomore class
president, borrowing an idea from
:he Cal Aggies thinks that finals
should be dispensed with, and supplanted by a series of smaller tests
in each subject, given at frequent
intervals.
Expressing an idea which probably will find favour with students
is Dr. Randolph Pyle, professor of
mathematics, whose opinion it is
that more time should be given
to finals;, not longer exams, but
a longer ''final's week" spread them
out, so that there will be no more
than two finals per day for each
student.
Striking a different note, Professor Harry Nerhood, instructor in
history, and the social sciences believes that oral exams are ideally
the most superior, giving the teacher an opportunity to find out just
how much the student actually
knows.
But regardless of these humane
views, finals are still coming—and
they will in all probability be just
as tough as ever!
Nominate Officers
In Student Meeting
Nominations for freshman and
sophomore class officers will be
held at a meeting of the Associated Students scheduled for this
morning at 11:30 a. m., in the Poet
Theatre, John Hales announced
today.
Further business of the student
meeting will include presentation
of the Association financial reports
by Treasurer John Parker, it was
revealed.
Student President John Hales
will preside at the meeting, allowing frosh president Carl Bishop
and sophomore president Chuck
McEvers to call for nominations of
second-term officers for their respective classes. The class election are tentatively scheduled for
tomorrow.
CALENDAR
TUESDAY, January 21—
Clubs.
WEDNESDAY, January  22—
Game—Chapman  at   Chapman.
FRIDAY, January 24—
Examinations   begin.
Gamie—Occidental at Whittier.
Arrange For Students to Complete
Next Term Enrollments This Week
With last classes of the semester scheduled to convene on the
day after tomorrow1, Registrar Charles B. Spaulding today posted a
special notice of pre-registation procedures being conducted this week,
urging students to benefit themselves and aid the college administration by making advance enrollment for the  next  term.
Students who complete their registration before 4:30 p. m. on
Thursday, January 23, will not be
required to appear on the campus
on. Tuesday, February 4th, regular
registration day, it was pointed out.
Instruction begins on Wednesday,
February 5th.
"By availing themselves of the
opportunity to pre-register," Dr.
Spaulding states, "students will not
only save for themselves another
day of the mid-term vacation, but
will greatly help the office staff
complete its work efficiently end on
time."
Elem. Majors
Jo Interview
Superintendents from Los Angeles and Orange Counties are granting interviews to elementary education students on the Whittier College campus today. The educators
are the guests of Mabel F. Rice, J.
Herschel Coffin, and the Department  of   Education.
Juniors and seniors who are
prospective teachers have the opportunity of meeting these eminent
educators in two or three fifteen-
minute interviews. A summarized
background of the student's records and activities is available to
the interviewer at this time. At a
later time the superintendents' reactions and impressions will be
made  known  to  the  student.
Luncheon will be served to these
authorities on education! in the
Home Economics Department at
which time Dr. George H. Meredith, Deputy District Superintendent of Pasadena Schools, will lead
the  discussion.
Those who are on the campus
today from Los Angeles County
are: R. Bruce Walter, Asst. County Supt. of Schools; George E. Bet-
tinger, Supt. Alhambra City School
District; Howard B. Beckner, Dist.
Supt., Artesia School Dist.; Henry
F. Korsmeier, Prin,., Bloomfield
School   Dist.;
Buel F. Enyeart, Supt. Burbank
City Unified School Dist.; Ellis M.
Holl, Dist. Supt., Carmenita School
Dist.; Easl Thompson, Supt.,
Claremont Unified School Dist.;
Foster A. Begg, Dist. Supt., Manhattan Beach City School Dist.;
C. D. Gibson, Dist. Supt., Mountain View  School  Dist.;
Dr. John A. Sexson, Supt., Pasadena City School Distr.; Dr. George
H. Merideht, Deputy Supt., Pasadena City School Dist.; J. Dwight
Cate, Dist. Supt., Ranchito Sihool
Dist.; Fred W. Ekstrand, Dist.
Supt.,  San  Dimas  School  Dist.;
Howard N. Tanner, Dist. Supt.,
Clearwater School Dist.; Charles
T. Samuels, Dist. Supt., E. Whittier School Dist.; Frank M. Wright.
Dist. Supt., El Monte School Dist.;
Dr. Willard S. Ford, Supt. Glendale Unified School Dist.; J.
Hampton Watts, Dist. Supt., Her-
mosa  Beach City School  Dist.;
Carl T. Cobbs, Dist. Supt. Little
Lake School Dist.; W. Ross Fouts,
Continued on Page 3, Col. 1
GIVE PROCEDURE
The procedure for advance registration   follows:
1. Make appointment with adviser  for conference.
2. Secure registration materials
at  Registrar's   Office.
3. See adviser; make out registration cards; siecure adviser's
signature.
4. Return to Registrar's office
to get section cards, and have
registration  materials  checked.
5. Report to Comptroller's officer, where reg'stration is completed.
If a student secures his registration materials and fails to finish by
4:30 p. m. on Thursday, he must
return his grade card to the Registrar's office, in, order that grades
m)ay be recorded, and finish the
procedure on  February 4th.
President's
Corner - -
The fine posters which are seen
about the campus are the result
of work by Rex Goodin and his
advertising group. Plans are under way to make this organization into an Ad Club which will
serve every group on the campus upon request.
Student body elections will be
held the second and third week
of the second semester. Nominations for all offices will, be held
on February 13 and the primary
election will take place February
19. Introduction of candidates
and responses by presidential
candidates will be held on February 18.