Evening star., 1943-08-08
American University
To Open It's Fall Term
On September d

The College of Arts and Sciences
Of American University will open its
autumn semester September % with
a convocation address in Metro
politan Memorial Church by Bishop
Edwin Holt Hughes.
The summer session ends on Sep
tember 3, ten days before freshmen
arrive for the orientation program
under the personal direction OF
President Paul F. Douglass.
Emphasis will be placed in this
program on the idea OF self-educa-
ton.
Examinations will be administered
to the students in the sophomore
and senior years by the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching, which has designated
American University as the regional
examination authority for its self
education program.
Under this program, students de-
velop carefully defined educational
objectives with their advisers. Then
they pursue their studies under the
counsel of professors, who encourage
habltuation to ideas as we'll as facts.
These professors look on examina :
tions as measure of performance
and an index of the command of
permanent and available factual
knowledge.
Index Of Performance.
"The university said President
Douglass, lis seeking to break down
the feeling on the part of the stu
dent that an examinations purpose
is to eliminate him as a student
rather than to guide him as a schol-
ar. When the sprinter breathlessly
asks the coach what his time was on
the stopwatch, the athlete wants an
index of his performance. Examina-
tions must come to be just this kind
of performance"
To unity the educational objec-
tives of the university and to make
educational and business division.
OF common interest, Prof. Cyril w
Woolcock, of the University of Pitts
burgh and director OF Falk School
has been appointed business man.
ager, treasurer and executive officer
OF the university. A leader in the
field of progressive education and
treasurer of the Progressive Educa-
tion Association. DR.. Woolcock took
part in the eight-year 30-school
research study conducted by the
Progressive Education Association
Prof. Earl "A. Dennis, chairman OF
the University Standards Commit
tee, has been appointed postwar
planning officer, and Is engaged or
his work of planning for the return
of men and women from the Armed
Forces.
THE university's program" he
said, "is now ready for demobiliza
ton and we test and place the serv.
ice people at the appropriate levels
within the divisions of the univer-
sity."
Now On Study Trip.
Prof. Dennis pointed out that Dean
James ]. Robbins of the graduate
division is on study trip durins
the month of August and early part
OF September, which will take hin
to the Pacific Coast. Dean Robin.
is developing the section OF DR.. Den.
mis- program which relates to 6
unified undergraduate graduate Sc.
quence which leads to the master.
degree.
Meeting educational needs Of tn,
downtown areas, the College OF Art.
and Sciences will offer this fall fol
the first time, evening courses in the
creative arts at Phillips Memoria
Gallery where the creative career
painting courses OF the university
are already conducted. The evenin,
offerings will not only include design
caurses, but workshop course II
creative writing taught by Asso.
ciate Prof. Merritt c. Batchelder: :
class in music in performance, CO.
ordinated with the offerings of tn,
Washington musical season, ane
taught by Assistant Prof. James Nc.
Lain; and courses in modern Euro.
pean art taught by Agnes Delano.
Two courses in Elizabethan anc
Victorian literature at the Gallery
will be given by Prof. Oliver Lodge
son of the late Sir Oliver Lodge
Prof. Lodge came to the United
States as Carnegie Professor of Eng
lish Literature and has conducted
research into various fields of the
Elizabethan period.