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OREGON OFFICIAL ORGAN OF STUDENT BODY VOL. 17. EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1916. NO. 63. 1817 STUDENTS GET II 13VI1H0REJ257 LESS “H” Most Freely Given by Pres ident Campbell; C. H. Ed rriondson Flunks Most. ONLY 16% OF STUDENTS FAIL Missouri Grading System Is Worked Out Ideally Last Se mester, Says Faculty. According to the student grade reports submitted to each member of the fac ulty by Registrar A. R. Tiffany, the Mis souri system of grading adopted here four years ago, has worked out approxi mately ideally in the last semester. A total of 4898 marks were given at the end of the winter term. If the 523 in completes and withdrawals are deducted the total equals 4375. Of this amount there are 1817 M’s, 1301 grades above M, and 1257 below M. If thb Missouri system had worked out theoretically exact, there would have been 24f49 M’s, 1224 grades above M and the saipe amount under M. On the whole it is nett expected to result in the ileal for any one year, or for any one class; but in the course of ten years or more in practice, it does. The highest percentage of failures was registered by C. H. Edmondson, assistant professor of zoology. Out of 20 stu dents in comparative anatomy 9 failed to pass. In giving his reasons for these failures, Professor Edmondson said, “Though difficult, my subject was not beyond | the grasp of any hard working student, I attribute the failures to the inferiority of the sophomore students who were in the class.’’ Of the 40 students in his classes, Col in V. Dyment, professor of journalism, refused a passing grade to 12. “I have nothing to say. My percentage of fail ures seems reasonable to me,” he said. J. D. Barnett, professor of political science, failed 12 students out of a total of 56. “I decline to give any reasons for flunking my students,” said Professor Barnett last night. J. H. Gilbert, professor of economics, refused passing credit to 22 students out of a total of 114. “There are two rea sons for so many failures in my classes.” said Professor Gilbert. “First, the prin ciples of economics are hard and beyond the rapge of many students who do ex cellent i work in other departments. Sec ond, several students did not work and I have no compassion; I pass on merit only.” | E. Cf. Robbins, assistant professor of econoniics, denied a passing grade to 27 of the 161 students in his classes who were not numbered as withdrawls or in completes. This makes a total of 16 per cent failure grades. “Compared to other standard universi ties of the United States, I do not think that is a high percentage at ail,” said Professor Robbins. “The reason I gave so many P’s can be explained by the fact that nearly all my students were fresh men. The first year students have a dif ficult Itime adjusting themselves to the work.” .President Campbell has the distinction of giving the most high grades. In his classes of ethics there were 77 stu dents. Of these 38 were awarded H, 30 S, and 9 M. Deab D. W. Morton of the school of commerce, and A. F. Reddie, professor of public speaking, tied for second place in the I bestowing of H's, both giving 15. ProfeSsor H. C. Howe, of the department of English, gave 90 M’s, the largest num ber recorded from any one instructor. In the departments of physical educa tion 15 men received H grades, 47 F, and 72 incomplete out of a total of 261 marks. In the women’s department 16 H’s were recorded, 35 F’s, and 70 in completes, out of a total of 273 marks. U. C. NAMES GREATEST ALUMNI Not to be overshadowed by Stanford recent list of prominent alumni, members of thh faculty of the University of Cal ifornia have named ten men who they be lieve have bought the most credit on the state institution. Among them are Franklin K. Lane, Governor Hiram John son and Jack London. “Scoop” Efefends His Infidelity Emerald’s Cub Reporter, Late ly Fired From Staff, Tear fully Begs Editor’s Sym. O fiendish city edit Do you think I have That you harp at me To put my copy th O pity the poor rep' For he is a stude or! nothing to do? and carp at me rough? ort^r! like you. often make Good resolutions I To get copy in on time. Then Reddie calls rehearsal You say I’m not wc So now I woo the p To tell you my thou Besides my work on I have other duties And I have to attend to them Even when folks cus So pity the poor re And keep the due. and rth a dime, oetic muse ghts sublime (?) the Emerald staff too, s at me—like you. porter bail-outs” till they’re RIVAL PAPER TO WILL INV All the News Fit to P Isn’t Rumorei tint and Some That d as the Slogan Arrangements have been completed for publishing in the typographical depart ment of the University a rival sheet to the Emerald. And this is the sum of the information that can pe secured, ite information, you rumored as follows: Defin know. But it is That a half dozen or so of upper-class students are backing the venture., that the organ ie to give publicity to propaganda to which they say the have been closed; bht that the policy EMERALD ADE CAMPUS purpose of the new Emerald’s columns will not be a straight sition to the EmeralcJ. that’s fit to print and rumored to be the n< The flag under which the undertaking is to sail is also a matter of mystery. out and out oppo “All the opinion some that isn’t,” is wcomer’s slogan. Somebody heard som it was to be “The Repall,” or the “Come Back” or something Price, regularity of matters of darknt’* pnd whisperings yet, like that. issue, and size are but the idea is aiKu will be extremely sel not be a copy on file that possibly faculty barred as readers. A the typographical de as the grave about the advent of the in surgent sheet, but from preparations go ing on, it looks as if there might be some thing stirring about week. aody else say that that the circulation ect, that there will at the library, and members will J?e J. DeLay, head of partment, is silent the middle of next 30 PLAYERS RESPOND Football Candidates Bezdek’s FI Spring Answer Coach rst Call for Training. Thirty candidates first call for Spring football training. In the hope of tur perior to that of last year, Coach Bez dek is losing no time in starting the slow process of moulding the old ma terial into shape anil inevstigating new prospects. “The barring of freshmen from var sity athletics neces ing,” said Bezdek i sitateg early train discussing future plans. “In this way we can get a line on the material in the present freshmen class.” turned out at the ping out a team su Captain Johnnie charge of the early “We will practice Beckett will have season conditioning, chiefly passing and punting the ball,” said Johnnie. “Later we may take up scrimmage work, but the main purpose at present is to con dition ourselves for the fall grind.” Every freshman with varsity ambi tions is urged to turn out. There will be excellent opportunities for positions on next season’s team for unless the pres ent “dope” is wrong, there may be sev eral berths left va the term. cant at the end of KNOX C The Woman’s At' trol at Knox, has should be granted selected for the basketball. OLLEGE hletie Board of Con decided that “K's” to all girls who are final tournament in COMPARATIVE GRADES ISSUED BY REGISTRAR Fijis Leap to Head of Fraterni ties and Mary Spiller 1 Leads All. HOUSE GRADES FOR 1915-19!6 1. Mary Spiller.2.467 2. Pi Beta Phi.2.300 3. Alpha Phi.2.2C7 4. Women not in fraternities.2.180 5. Delta Delta Delta.2.144 6. Kappa Kappa Gamma.2.130 7. Chi Omega. 2.117 8. Delta Gamma.2.110 9. Phi Gamma Deltp.2.064 10. Friendly Hall.2.049 11. Gamma Phi Beta.2.029 12. Kappa Alpha Theta.1.992 13. Men not in fraternities.... 1.932 14. Delta Tau Delta.1.868 15. Phi Delta Theta.1.865 16. Sigma Chi.1.833 17. lota Chi .1.821 18. Kappa Sigma.1.726 19. Beta Theta PI.1.702 20. Alpha Tau Omega.1.659 21. Sigma Nu .1.595 Lots of things blossom in the spring —and last but not least bud the house grades. The Fijis have rather pdt it over on the men students of the Uni versity by leaping from place No. 20 in 1014-15 to place No. 9 in 1915-16. Mary Spiller still lends the list. The percentage for this house raised from 2.388 to the present, 2.467. The Kappa Sigma’s have the same percentage this year as last but they have dropped down one place in the list. The Sigma Chi’s slipped into the percentage that the Phi Deltas had last spring. The general scholarship of the student body—which has never been computed before, stands at 2.100. Last spring it was 1.966. The students are taking more hours this year. The number of hours carried last year was 7,905; this year 10,768. This is out of proportion to the incrense in student body which was only 10 per cent. The house grades are computed by multiplying the number of hours H. S., etc., in the following proportion: H.4 S.3 M.2 P.1 F.0 Cond.9 Incompletes are not counted in mak ing out the statistics. OREGANA RAISES $1050 Bob McMurray’s Subscrlptlonlsts Rake in 420 Names; Colton Wins $10 for Greatest Number. “The financial success of the Oretgana, which was in doubt until a few days ago, is now assured” declared Bob McMurray, circulation manager. “Four hundred and twenty subscriptions were signed by March 31,” declared McMurray. “This means that $1050 has already been raised by the subscription campaign, de spite hard times and the early canvass.” George Colton won the first prize of $10 for securing the greatest number of subscriptions. Harold Tregilgas won the second prize. “The present subscription campaign has demonstrated that the students can successfully manage the annual. In this, the first year of student management, we can promise a well appearing book, and what is more important, that it will re free from debt. FAMOUS WINE COOPERATE AT STANFORD VINA CLOSED After a period of some thirty-five years’ activity, the wine cooperate at the Stanford ranch, Vina, was recently closed. The famous old wine cellar con tains one oak barrel that is capable of Bolding two million gallons of wine. This is probably the largest cooperate in the world. It was built by Senator Stanford in the early eighties, and has been a great source of revenue ever since. The cellar itself is .*{00 feet square, and has two other barrels besides the main coop erate, each containing between 1800 and 2000 gallons of wine. FACULTY INVESTIGATES AUGUST-TO MAY TERM Early Summer Work for Stu dents Is Proposed; Opin ions Are Asked. It has been noticed that for a long time the university of California has' been opened in August and closed early in May, with a mid-year vacation of sev eral weeks at about Christmas time. This plan is said to have worked out well at Berkeley and it is now under the con sideration of the faculty of the Univer sity of Oregon. A committee composed of Professors Stafford, Sheldon, Sweet ser, Straub, and McAlister is investigat ing the proposition both from the stu dents’ standpoint and from the stand point of its general practicability. This committee wants to find, in some way, the sentiment of the student body on the question and it is very probable that a straw vote will be taken at some future assembly. The result of this vote it, to influence the faculty's action to a great extent. The plan, as proposed by the faculty, is to open college about August 20. This would bring the first semester to a close just before Christmas. After a three weeks’ vacation the second semester would commence early in January and continue until the middle of May. An opportunity would thus he given to stu dents seeking work during the summer to get started early and get some of the work which has hitherto been grabbed by men from schools which close earlier in the year. However, the opening in August would prevent hop picking, which is depended upon by many os a mean , of obtaining the necessary entrance money. Also, as higfe schools close their first semester in February, a student entering in mid year would be about a month late. These are some of the arguments for and against the proposition which will be presented to the faculty at its next meeting. MORE ASK FOR REMEDY Over-Organizat'on Survey Goes on; Committee Is Confident of Cure for Evil. Beginning next week the final lap of the survey for over-organization will be gin and within a few weeas the commit tee will give a detailed report on the mat ter to the student council. The final work of the committee will be to propose a practical workable solution to the prob lem as far as the future is concerned. The student body at its last meeting two weeks ago informally expressed its ap proval of the campaign. Here are a few more opinions on the subject: John Beckett—“It’s easy to see that we are over-organized but it is hard to decide upon a remedy. The only hope I can see lies in the attempt of the student body to prohibit useless organizations and to regulate the formation of new ones. Wallace Eakin—“I think the ehief re sult of the movement will be the stimu lation of the so called “dead” societies to an effort to live up to the purpose of their organization. Every one has a purpose nnd in living up to it does some good. However, we should restrict the formation of useless societies in the fu ture.” Marie Churchill—“The best means of overcoming the difficulty, to my notion, is to eliminate useless societies and to consolidate the ones that duplicate each other. There are too ninny organizations that accomplish nothing hut simply meet and take up the members’ time.” ones.” Frank Scaiefe—“There are too many duplicate and useless societies for the under classmen. In the sophomore year especially a man is liable to join more clubs than he can handl . A great many of these could be eliminated without much loss and their efforts concentrated on a few really worthy organizations.” DeWitt Gilbert—“I would favor the appointment of a committee to investi gate the standing of the societies and to determine which were worthy of student body support. Ones found useless could be allowed to die out by refusing to rec ognize them as student body enter prises.” Effeminate Males SubmissivelyMeek Co-Eds Assume Masculine Roles in Senior Lottery Dance Last Night. SOME CLASS, PRETTY KEEN, U. OF 0., SIXTEEN. By M. Y . When the present seniors shall have become grey haired or no haired they will with fondest recollections rhapsodize to the future generation about the leap year lottery dance held last evening at the Sigma Nu House. With a radiant glow on their wrinkled faces, they will tell of the time when men were and acted like perfect ladies and the women assumed the masculine role. Yes, the men will relate how the girls sent them floral decorations, bundled them into taxis, saw that their programs were filled, yea, in fact even took them down town for a midnight repast. And the women will tell how meekly the male behaved in effeminate submission. These and a score of other associated memories will linger ready to be lived over, ne’er to be forgotten. Sixteen dances with generous encores, served as the happy menu, with Paul Jones as the “piece de resistance.” The shades of this historic commodore were reverently respected. A green garland hung around the borders and pillows of the room formed the decorations. Din ing room, living room and smoking room all were thrown open for the dances tlAis giving ample room for the swirls and whirls. Punch and ice cream with flavor of creme de menthe, cooled the combat ants during the intermissions. Just because Wilmot Poster and Clark Burgard were left out of the rowing did not keep them away from the dance. They came in female attire. Foster made a pretty brunette, cosmetics supplying him wire thb Irtortm w yrmth; vrtitle'Bar gard made a striking strawberry blonde. The patronesses were: Dean and Mrs. John Straub, Professor and Mrs. Eric Allen. Mrs. George T. Gerlinger was an honored guest. GIRLS PLAY FOR HOSE Tennis Trophy Is Pair of Silk Stockings; Co-Eds Make Specifications, as to the Color. The women’s tennis doughnut series is an established fact. It will commence a week from Monday. Lured on by the trophy, a pair of silk hose put up by Friendly's for each member of the win ning tenm, each organization has set about picking a duo to enter the fray. "Whq are going to be on your team?” is the most popular expression in vogue with the co-eds these days. Several of the most hopeful girls— those in the “shark” cluss—have already made specifications as to the hue of the prize hosiery. “Can’t they be blue?” asked Itoberta Killam. "Pink would match my new evening gown,” chimed in Dorothy Wheeler, speculatively. Fran ces Bulker thought that white was the most sanitary color. “Red ones would lie good,” murmured Echo Zahl, her mind intent on a new sports spirit. “I crave stripes, myself,” contributed Adrienne Epping. After the above it was voted to leave the color to the discretion of Friendly’s. The hosiery will be on display in that store after Monday. The regular tennis tournament for the women’s championship will be played a few weeks later than the series. Arthur Hendershott has put up a “Champion,” Wright and Ditson tennis racquet for the winner and Larawuy’s jewelry store has offered a cup, to he held permanently when won three times hy the same per son. The cup will be kept in the women’s gym until such time as anyone wins the right to hold it. It will be known as the Laraway cup. The racquet will be on dispjay in the Eugene Gun store after the first. o oTh’e champion and ne*t two best play ers will form the women’s team this year. Arrangements for a meet with O. A. C. to be held here during junior week-end are being made. RIPON COLLEGE. Ripon is to have her first representa tive at Oxford University by the ap pointment of Mr. Johns to a Rhodes scholarship. 100 SIGN FOR DRILL AT ENTHUSIASTIC MASS Largest Voluntary Afternoon Assembly Lays Cornerstone for Drill at University. COMPANIES WILL BE FORMED Colonel C. C. Hammond Creates Patriotism in Appeal for Americanism. Enthusiasm ran high, and the interest and favor that exists toward the volun tary drill movement in the University ex hibited itself yesterday when 150 stu dents attended the mass meeting in Vil lard hall, and more than 100 signed a petition for the organization of volunteer companies. This number, with move that have been secured during the day, insures the quirk formation of drill companies. And at the beginning of next year, favor still existing, two companies of coast artillery will be seen at Oregon. Colonel C. C. Hammond headed the list of speakers who endorsed and encourag ed the plan at yesterday afternoon’s meeting. Others who talked were: Pres ident Campbell, Secretary Grimes, May or W. A. Bell, Dr. C. J. Bushnell, presi dent of l’ncific university; Dean John Straub, Mrs. G. T. Gerlinger and J. D. Foster, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Pacflo Coast Is Defenseless. Colonel Hammond outlined the de fenselessness of the country and espe cially of the Pacific coast. He showed hbw n~h Ihvadihg army could be ira im ported to mnny of the unguarded har bors, and how easily the coast could be cut off from communication with the east, by the blocking of tunnels and the destruction of railroads. And on the const we do not manufacture arms or ammunition. “Every country in the world has a grievance against the United States,” he said, “and we are on the edge of a volcano, not knowing when we may be precipitated into the struggle. In the face of this we have been going steadily backward in military truining. It has taken us a week to put 5000 men into Mexico from the regular army. “An idea of the coast’s weakness can be gained from the fact that one mod ern droadnaught carries more armament than all three forts have at the mouth of the Columbia river. A battleship could lie to out of range of those forts nnd could pound them to pieces without be ing touched. We haven’t a first clau battleship in Pacific waters. Our de fenses are absolutely inadequate. 0. A. C. Asks for Companies. “I am particularly pleased to see the University of Oregon taking this up,” he continued. "We are getting away from the ‘let George do it’ attiude and are realizing that it is our duty to get in and do a little ourselves.” Colonel Hammond said that O. A. C. is asking for four companies of coast artillery, but that he would like to see two at O. A. C. and two at Oregon. Dr. Bushnell emphasized the attitude that should be taken by those who enter the drill. "It should be considered an obligation for the defense of ourselves nnd country. And militnry drill will help us too,” he said. “It will make ns broad er and more commonly interested in the face of this race for wealth and prosper ity. Mayor Bell endorsed the plan and named the movement an opportunity. Citizens of Eugene will assist wherever possible. President Campbell remarked on the tendency in the cast to take up drill and military studies The president heartily endorses the movement. Skiil and Endurance Needed. Dean Straub said he has no sympathy for the„ -mother who “didn’t raise her bo# to be a soldier,” but who is willing to let some other mother’s son go out and°do the fighting. “War is no longer a parade,” he said, “but is a contest of skill and endurance. We need engineers. We need strong men who cun endure hardships.” Mrs. Gerlinger summed up her en dorsement in these words: “We are fit ting you for the peaceful events of life. Why not give some preparation for the (Continued on page four)