Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
DEANS OF women
HOLD ) MEETINGS
Problems of High School and
College Courses for Girls
Discussed.

The department of deans OF WON
on, National Education Association,
held five meetings this morning and
afternoon at the Wardman Park H0-
tel and heard addresses from more
than 10 educators.
The morning session was divided
into four sections-university, college,
normal school and teachers college
and high school. while the afternoon
gathering was given over to general
business.
Speaking on the subject THE High
School Dean-Her Varied Oppor'
tunity for Service" Miss Margaret
NJ. Alltucker, assistant director. re-
search division of the National Edu
cation Association, ltkened the daily
schedule of classes In any one OF the
great cosmopolitan high schools to
"a great educational cafeteria with
80 many educational viands set forth
that the incoming freshman needs
guidance in the selection of well
balanced menu"
Uses No Text Book.
The dean, declared Miss Alltucker'
uses no text book. but her teaching
is the most difficult of all the lessons
taught in our high schools ana col.
leges-namely, the development or
right attitudes and ideals.
Business houses find 1t prontaple
to employ directors of personnel TO
meet the individual problems of their
employees. If grown men and women
need such assistance, how much more
do high school boys and girls need
guidance and the help that comes
from knowing that some one Is per-
eonally interested in them, and that
this persons specific Job Is helping
Individual students solve their par
ticular problems" Miss Alltucker'
address was before the high scnooi
section.
To ascertain the aspiration OF the
candida'e toward the intellectuai
life. his concern for spiritual values.
was sc, forth as the chief aim OF the
personal interview me thod OF select
ing candidates for college by Dean
RAYMOND Walters of Swarthmore Col
lege before the college section An
other aim was given as finding out
"how well the candidate knows what
he knows best"
Dean Walters said his study OF reg
istration statistics has shown that
collegiate attendance has increased IL
per cent in the past five years. In
the problem Of determining what can
didates to admit out Of the grea
number who apply. the method OF the
personal interview Is valuable for the
small college and for the professional
schools of the large universities. AT
Swarthmore, he added, where there
are four TO six times as many appli-
cantS as can be accepted, the inter
viewing by faculty members of those
having excellent school records has
proved effective.
Training Of Women.
Too many women are assuming or
being forced into public positions for
which they are utterly untitled by any
previous training. Miss Laura II. Car
nell. Temple University. Philadelphia
told the university section. 1T seems
peculiarly important" she declared
that just now many young women
should take such courses as will pre-
pare them for q clear underSta nding OF
the worlds problems. so that wher
they assume positions Of leadership they
shall he prepared for them. Whether
we are to send women forth as trained
leaders from our colleges or not, de-
ponds not so much upon the subject
matter taught as on the way we
teach our students to approach and
handle subject matter, as to whether
We are giving them chance to think
for themselves"
"Recent scholarly investigations in
to the failure Of higher education to
check the crime waves Of the present
day show that educators have begun
to appreciate the Importance of a bal
anced development in the human be-
ing" Harriet Sartain, dean Of the
Philadelphia School Of Design for
Women. declared before the afternoon
session.
Dean Sartain said: Definite train.
Ing in the appreciation Of beauty. If
1t is to function properly in the ad-
vancement of human happiness, must
be considered as n vital part in the
normal training Of child and not re.
served for the talented few, or con-
sidered merely as an accomplishment
for leisure hours