MAY 24,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Most High Schools Are College Preparatory, Shoemaker Writes
"Colleges are much more concerned than formerly with the integration of high school study and experience" W. H. Shoemaker, professor of romance languages, writes in a recent publication of School and society.
A Professor Shoemaker's article, "When Are High School Courses College Preparatory?" was prompted by the statement of two Stanford professors, who he says, urged high schools to offer language work independent of college requirements because they claim high school language study is not really college preparatory.
According to Professor Shoemaker, the Stanford men said statistics show only three pupils out of a beginning foreign language class of 35 continue the same language in college and only one majors in it. They claim this proportion is so small that it can't be called college preparatory, he says.
"It should be pointed out only seven of the 35 go to college" Professor Shoemaker comments. "Three out of seven seems a satisfactory proportion."
"The long interval of time elaping between high school language work and college language work, and the fact that a student's grades were low partially account for studying different languages in college than in high school. Others of the 35 will be more interested in another field and may pass a proficiency language test to discontinue language study altogether," Professor Shoemaker says.
The Stanford men, Professor Shoemaker points out, imply that high school language study is not college preparatory" unless the same language is continued in college. Professor Shoemaker says that this is absurd and offers proof by saying "try to apply this statistical test to American history, physics, football or the bass drum."
The conception of what courses are "college preparatory" held by both colleges and high schools is broader than that applied by the California professors, according to Professor Shoemaker who lists this preparation under three general headings; a linguistic tool, a knowledge of foreign things and expression, and a critical attitude toward all human though and expression.
In the absence of high school preparation, the college has to do the preparatory job; without the colleges the high school course is apt to become another "blind alley"
course. So colleges and high schools find common cause, he says.
"Colleges are not amuglly satisfied with their requirements and they are ready to cooperate with high schools in their common problem—educational growth of maturing young men and women," he concludes.
Former U.S. Communist Boss Meets Molotov in Moscow
Moscow. (UP) — Earl Browder, former American communist leader, said today that he has met with V. M. Molotov, Russian foreign minister, since the Big Four conference in Paris and that he has been received everywhere "as an old and trusted friend of the Soviet Union."
However, Browder in a press conference at the Moskva hotel here said he is "out of politics" and "I am not a member of any political party at this time."
Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant, directed by George Washington, in 1792 laid out plans for Washington, D.C. The original drawings are in the Library of Congress.
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