The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-05-10
COLLEGE WILL
MAKE REVISION
OF COURSES
Research Department at Ste
phens Is Working EMen-
sively for a Usable
Education.
STRESS LETTER WRITING
Information on English, Mathe.
matics, Voice and Religion
Is Sought Through
Ouestionnaires.

Certain members Of the Stephens LOl.
lege faculty are carrying on extensive re-
search work under DIR. W. W. Charters,
Director Of Research, TO the end that the
courses offered by the college may be
better suited TO the needs Of the student
in her after-college life. We are seek
ing TO determine" says Doctor Charters,
what are the wOman's chief needs in
the home and in business, the qualities
that she must have and the information
that We must give her.
Prof. Roy Ivan Johnson is working on
the problem of the college girls En-
glish. lie believes that the writing OF
letters is the principal use that a woman
makes Of written English. He has ex-
amined volumes of letters by such au-
ihors as Shelley, Stevenson, Browning
and Keats; and he has collected "one
hundred best letters" by requesting OF
several nationally known women-picked
from Who's Who-that they send him
the best letter in their files. Also, he
has examined one thousand letters writ
ten by college freshmen and has noted
their weaknesses. With the results of
these Investigations to guide him, he is
recognizing his courses.
The research work in religious educa-
tion has resulted in information valuable
to Miss Jessie Burial in her course in
Sunday School Methods. A list of sixty
seven difficulties that a Sunday School
teacher encounteTs-all her possible dif-
ficuliies-has been compiled by inter
views and correspondence with various
Sunday school experts
These difficulties have been sent in
the form Of questionable 10 sixty ex-
pert teachers in each oi twenty differ
ent states with the request that they give
their ways Of meeting at least six of
them. They include such problems as
those Of getting attendance and OF max.
ing the Sunday school program interest
ing.
The difficulties of Sunday school su-
periniendenis have been studied the
same way, and list of forty-sight has
been compiled. One thousand Sunday
school superiniendeHfs from forty states
have given their methods of meeting
these difficulties.
Another line of work is the training
of the speaking voice Of the student. A
voice clinic has been established under
the direction of Miss Helen Kingsted,
professor Of expression; and every girl
with poor voice is sent here for special
exercises which will correct her defects
In the field Of mathematics. Mrs. The
odosia Galloway is working out supple
mentary courses TO the regular courses
in chemistry, foods and clothing, which
include just the knowledge of mathemat-
les necessary to the complete understand.
ing of these studies.
In addition TO the work being done by
the faculty Of the college, a research bu-
reau is working in Pittsburgh under the
direction of Doctor Charters. The bureau
is collecting diaries kept by women grad
uated from forty different schools,-wom-
ems colleges, state universities, agricul.
tural colleges, and is compiling data
from them. These diaries tell what the
writers do and think about during one
weeks time. About $50 diaries have been
received to date
The Research Department Of Stephens