EMERALD 1917 NO. 64. a 191/OEMIISSEiilOR EXIMS jyPTIOIHL' Prof. Howe Believes New Sys tem Should Be Inaugurated This Year. COMMITTEE TO REPORT ON CANVASS THURSDAY Karl Becke Declares Attitudes of Many Faculty Members Are Encouraging. 1917, particularly, demands that senior examinations be made optional, in the opinion of Prof. H. C. Howe, senior class adviser. His idea is that this year, if not for all time, the examinations should be made optional with the heads of the depart ments because of the Oregon pageant which will be given during the commence ment week, with the added work and de mands that it will entail upon the stu dents. 4 4 Professor Howe believes that the need this year for a change is imperative and that application of the measure to all future years would be advisable. The fact that numbers of the men of the senior class will probably enlist with the national guard in the event of a de- j claration of war and the University has ‘ assured all such students their full credit to the end of the semester is considered by some an added reason why the senior examinations should be discontinued, for this year at least. George Turnbull, professor of journal ism, who recently graduated from the University of Washington where this sys tem of optional senior examinations was adopted during the last year, is heartily in favor of the move. He made some considerable study of the causes and ef fects of the change at the northern in stitution and declares them to have been wholly desirable and entirely satisfactory. He believes the change to be wise and progressive. The committee in charge of canvassing the faculty and of presenting the petition met last night and divided the faculty among themselves for the purpose of holding personal interviews and of deter mining the stand which the members of the faculty will take upon the petition when it is submitted at the regular meet ing a week from next Thursday, April 5. A more complete report of their find ings and a forecast of the results of the petition may be available by Thursday. Information along that line is at present fragmentary and unreliable. Karl Becke, chairman of the commit tee, considers the present outlook favor able to a trial of the optional method ad vocated by the class and affirms that many reports of encouraging attitudes by the faculty members have come to him, but that these are not to be divulged until a full classification may be made by the committe. ROSEIMBEnU rLAnlS iUtlMtnT Pageant Preparations Progress, and New Characters Are Chosen. Extensive preparations are being made for the pageant which will be staged on the campus next June. Ike latest report is that the plans for the scenery will be drawn by Louis L. Ros enberg of the architectural department. He will also make a model and will work it out in detail before the rehearsals begin. The scenery will L; ‘■yinbolic rather than realistic. Large curtains will be used and possibly a few trees. It has also been decided that the plan proposed by Prof. II. L h. ihaeher will be adopted. By this plan each coun ty in Oregon will have a representative in the pageant. One feature of the proposed plan is that the products of .-each county will' be symbolized. Several new characters have been se lected since the last report. Charlotte Ban field has been c.st for the part of "Sacajawey”; Helen Brancht will have the role "Spirit of he Valleys”; Mar garet Crosby will take the part, ”Spirit of the Seas”; Ella Walker the “Spilt of the Mountains”; and Bernice Lucas .*4 "The Spirit of the Plains”. All these * characters will be dressed in costumes symbolic of the parts they tepresent. NEW PATHS TO BE BUILT! # £ # £ GRAVELTO REPLACE WOOD * * * 4t IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED The plunked walks which have been built at different places on the campus to keep students out of the mud during rainy weather, are to be converted into permanent walks as ,oon as good weath er comes. The planks will be taken up and gravelled walks will be built. .•'everal other improvements will prob ably be made. The old wooden walk on the north side of Thirteenth street from Onyx to Kincaid will be removed and a cement one will be built. A cement walk will replace the wooden one around Johnsqu hall. Mr. Fisher says that everything pos sible will be done to keep s.udents out of the mud until the rain ' s over. HAS BROTHER IN RUSSIA Rcsweli Dosch. Art Instructor, Hears From War Correspondent. Arno Dosch, war correspondent for the New York World, who is writing special articles on Rucsia for newspa pers and magazines in the United States, is a brother of Roswell Dosch, instruc tor in drawing in the University. Mr. Dosch is writing under the name, Dosch-Fleurot, because Dosch is so ob viously Gorman that it would cause end less explanations and trouble in the Al lies’ countries. Mr. Dosch has simply added his mother’s aaiden name, a pro cedure which is perfectly legal in France, where Mr. Dosch was last summer. Mr. Dosch has been in Russis^ four months, His brother has received no word from him except through occasion al cablegrams, saying that he is well. Roswell Dosch received one letter when his brother first retched Russia, saying he is very fond of Europe. His wife and two children are in Paris. Mr. Dosch has been in Europe since the outbreak of hostilities. He has vis ited all the war fro? s and has travelled in England, France, Germany, Egypt, and Italy, writing as a correspondent for the leading newspapers of the country. He began his newspaper career after his graduation from Harvard in 1905, reporting for New York papers. He has also done considerable magazine work. YELLOW PLACARDS ARE OUT Oregana Subscribers Get Fancy Tags; Price to Go Up Saturday. “I have subscribed for the Oregana.” So read the two-inch square yellow cards being distributed today by solicitors to those who will own a 1!)17 Oregana. Harold Tregilgas, circulation manager, says he hopes to increase sales by the use of the tags. “So far, 300 have sub scribed,” he said. “We need over 500 subscriptions, and I hope the tags will cause the sales to reach that number.” “The committee requests that all stu dents who have subscribed get tags and wear them. If the students will co-oper ate, they will aid the solicitors in discov ering who has subscribed and who has not. We think that the use of the tags, which is entirely new, will arouse so much enthusiasm that the required number of annuals will be sold before the $2.50 of fer expires on Saturday.” Oregana suoscriptions are obtainable from the solicitors, the registrar and the co-operative store. FACULTY PROVIDES SOCIALS Committee of Seven Get Up Affairs for New Members. Xot only do students need a little so cial recreation, but ..Iso the faculty, a shown by the existence of a semi-of Dean Eries Allen as chairman, and Pro fessor F. S. Dunn, Mrs. Joheph Schaf er, Mrs. E. E. De Cou, Mrs. It. II. Wheeler, Mrs. M. F. McClain, and Miss MoZelle Hair. In speaking of the committee Mrs. McClain said the idea was merely to te gracious to the newocmers on the facul ty. She explained that there was at present no way for ue nein members t. become acquainted so this faculty soctal affairs, either picnics, dancis, musicals | committee arranges three or four social j or evenings of readings to which all may come and enjoy themselves. U. VOLUNTEER CORPS WILL DRILL TIGHT Initial Class Meets at 7 P. M. Hayward Hall, Under Drec tion of H. K. Kingsbury. Interest High; Local Medical Frat Ready to Enter Red Cross Work. The University volunteer drill corps will meet at 7 o'clock this evening for the first instruction in drilling, under the direction of H. K. Kingsbury. The drill will be held in the men’s gymna sium and the members are instructed to wear rubber-heeled shoes. Any men in the University who are now willing to join the movement under the c. n ditions outlined at Saturday’s meeting can do so at this time. Tomorrow evening at the same hour the class in first aid to the injured and sanitary hygiene will meet at the same place under direction of Bill Hay ward. Thursday evening at seven, also in Hayward hall, the advanced class in sanitation intended especially for those planning to take up Red Cross or re lief work, will meet with Dr. G. E. Harrow. Harold Tregilgas, head of the local chapter of Sigma Alpha medical frater nity, said yesterday that the members of the pre-medic department of the l Di versity were taking hold of the work with interest. “We are urging not only the members of the fraternity, who number about -5 o" 30, but also all of the pre-medic students in the University to go into this movem ut for all that there is in it,” he declared. It is prob able that in case of »V..r a large number of the pre-medic students could step di rectly into relief or general lied Cross work in the ambulance corps. Interest among lae students on the campus remains keen in not only the National Guard but also the Federal Reserve Corps, for which Lieutenant AVillis Shippam, as an officer of the federal army, is commissioned to enlist men in Kugene. Several members of the student body have made inquiry both of Karl Onthonk, secretary tc President P. L. Campbell, and I ientenant Ship parn at his offices in the Eugene armory. Under the arrangements of the Federal Reserve Corps, oni - men who are pe culiarly fitted for leadership are taken, and these are called upon only in the ease of absolute necessity and used as officers in the newly reeri ited army units. BiSHOP HUGHES TO SPEAK Bishop Matthew S. Hughes, who will address the Vesper service Sunday, April 1, is one of the younger bishops of the Methodist church and has been consid ered for a number of years as one of the outstandiing pulpit men of this coun try. Bishop Hughes ha ; held many pastor ates in the New E: gland states, Middle West and the South. Before he was elected bishop of the Northwest district, which includes Alaska, Washington and Oregon, he was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Pasadena, recog nized as the largest Methodist church in America. 11c began his ministry in a very hum ble way, working in small country churches. I>uo to his ability as a stud ent and speaker he rose to be one of the most prominent divines in America. From 1908-11 he was professor of prac tical theology, University of Southern Cal. His headquarters are now in Portland. His brother, Bishop Edwin 11. Hughes of Boston made the University com mencement address seviral years ago and has spoken :n tigene on a Lyceum lecture course several times since then. Mrs. Hughes end daughter are to be here with him and will be guests at the Methodist parsonage during tln-ir stay. “Bishop Hughes is an earnest man with a strong mes.age. lie is known both as an administrator and as a speak er with few equals’’ says Itev. II. (_>. Parkinson, of the Eugene Methodist church. Bishop Hughes wi.i address the Y. W. C. A. Saturday night, the Methodist church at 10:45 Sunday morning and the Vesper service at 4:150 in Villard Sunday afternoon April 1. SUL OREGON HOLD SCHOOL FOUR TERMS? Faculty Considering Change of Registration From Sep tember to October. Under New System Students Choose Any Term for Vacation. The faculty is now considering a plan, which, if carried out, would change the opening of school from the middle of September to the first of October, the school term consisting of four quarters, summer school composing the last quar ter. Each quarter would rank on an equal footing with any other in the school year. The committee, composed of Professor O. E. Stafford, chairman; Professor A. 11. Sweetser, Dean John Straub, and Dr. II. D. Sheldon, asked about 250 students how the change would affect their sum mer work and found that farmers and harvesters would feel it most. Should this system be adopted, the quarters would last from the approxi mate dates of Ootobir 1 to December 22. January 2 to March 2o, April 1 to June 15, and July 1 to September 15. Each semester would continue twelve weeks with examinations at the end of the quarter. No vacations would break into the semester. “The Eniversity of Chicago and Stan ford University have adopted this plan, and the University of California is con sidering it,” Professor Stafford said. “The student can take his vacation in any quarter that he chooses or he may go to school all foil" quarters it his health and purse hold out and graduate from the University in three years. “Professors would receive their pay for three quarters and if they could ar range their work they might take their vacation in any quarter that they chose or they might teach all four quarters and save iqi a year of vacation and take it all at once. This means that a. pro fessor might go east to study during the winter instead of in the summer.” The extra time that an ndd!tional third semester would take in examinations and registration would not hinder the working out of the plan, according to Professor Stafford. lie pointed out that registration would occupy only one more day and examinations could be cut down to hour and a half periods. “The only real hindrance to the adop tion of this plan by the University is the financial one,” declared Dr. Staf ford. “It demands a larger budget for the teaching force, which is not avail able now nor likely to he in the near future” CAPTAIN MILLER TO SPEAK Salvation Army Oficer Will Talk to Y. W. C. A. on the War. Captain Jessie Miller, of the Salva tion Army of Eugene, will speak at the Y. \V. C. A. meeting Wednesday after noon at -1 o’clock on the “Spiritual Sig nificance of the War”. Miss Miller was educated in Glascow, Scotland, and has relatives in the war and through them she has been able to keep in touch with what the war is meaning to the people of the warring nations. After the regular meeting, Mrs. W. 15. Madden will conduct her class on Japan. Five o’clock Wednesday has been set as the regular hour for the class. Mrs. Madden has lived in Japan 20 years and so is well prepared to speak with an intimate knowledge of her subject. MOTHERS’ CONGRESS HERE The annual convention of the con gress of mothers will meet in Eugene next fall, October 17 to 20, i. the pres ent plans are carried out. The mothers’ congress is a state wide organization, composed of all the parent-teachers as sociations throughout the state. Mrs. George McMath. ot Portland, who is president of the congress, visits all of the schools in the state in the interest of the congress. East year the conven tion was held at The Dalles and $500 was pledged to the University women’s building fund. This next year one con vention day will b“ ‘ evofed to the Uni versity and its needs. Dean Elizabeth Eox is making plans for entertaining ■ the visitors. BULLETIN USED IN JAPAN # # * # PAMPHLET SENT TO TOKIO OTHER PUBLICATIONS SOON i A bulletin on the use of electricity, put out by the University school of commerce, has beea sent to the Tokio Electrical company of Knwnski, Japan, and will be used by them. The bulletin was written by L. F. llarze, prominent consulting engineer of Portland, and is being widely used throughout the 1'nited States and Canada, according to Pro fessor Hopkins, of the school of com merce. The bulletin deals especially with the use of electricity on the farm and in the home more economically and with a sav ing of labor. “The bulletin is valuable not only to the consumer but also to the company,” said Professor llopkins. The Idaho Power company of Boise, Idaho, has sent to the school for 5000 copies to be distributed to their costumers. Another bulletin has been written by the commerce school on the system of long distance distribution and supply in Germany. The information used in this pamphlet was made available to the school by the United States Department of Commerce. A public bulletin dealing with recent electrical development in Sweden will soon be issued by the department. Y.W.C. A. SECRETARY VISITS Miss Eleanor Hopkins Pays Annual Visit to Oregon Campus. .Miss IClonnnr Hopkins, notional Y. W. C. A. student secretary in tlio North west field, has been a visitor on the campus since Friday. Miss Hopkins is on her annual visit to the University. She makes trips to. all the student or ganizations in her field, meets the girls and special committees and helps to plan the work for the year. She has directed special attention since she has been here this time to the planning of the cabinet conference to be held this week end and has had sev eral special meetings with the cabinet. Friday evening, Miss Hopkins was the guest of the cabinets at dinner served at the Bungalow. That evening she spoke to the Eugene high school girls on the Y. \V. A. organizations in other states. The advisory board and the cabinet entertained with a. luncheon Saturday with Miss Hopkins, Dean Elizabeth Fox, Mrs. I’. L. Campbell, Mrs. Frank L. Chambers and Mrs. W. K. Yoran as honor guests. Miss Hopkins spoke on the plans for the coming cabinet con ference. At u silver tea given by Mika Fox and Miss Ma:y Wats, n at Miss Fox’s apartment that afternoon, Miss Hopkins spoke on the Y. W. C. A. movement. Saturday night, after a din ner at tin- Hotel Osburn, she attended the April Frolic. An informal vesper service was held mt the Y. W. C. A. Bungalow Sunday afternoon from 4 until 0. Miss Hop kins spoke on the . W. C. A. move ment and work. Gladys Van Nuys sang and .Miss Winifred Forbes, accompanied by Martha Tinker, gave several violin selections. Tea was served. While here, Miss Hopkins was a guest at the Kappa Alpha Theta house. She left this afternoon for Albany and will return to Eugene Friday for the cabinet conference. She will bo a guest at the Kappa Gamma house for the week-end. LIBRARY ADDS NEW BOOKS "West Coast Shells”, by Kupis, one of the most complete works on Pacific coast shells, is among the several new books j ccently added to the University library. Eight books on art by Iialdone Macfall, published in Edinburgh, Scot land, and dealing will the art of differ ent countries and illustrating famous paintings in color, along with two copies ,,f Eloison, published in Dublin in 1795, make up other additions. DANCE TO BE^ REPEATED The second annual dancing recital, given last Friday afternoon by the members of the women’s physical train ing department, will be repeated on Thursday afternoon, April 5, in Guild hall, under the auspices of the Women’s Athletic Association. The same program given last week will be presented, and the proceeds are to be turned over to the Women's Build ing fun'* Twenty-Seven Are Members of Second Company Coast Artillery Corps. KENT WILSON FIRST TO DEPART FOR FRONT President Campbell States Se mester Credits Will Be Grant ed Men Who Respond. (By Clifford Sovits) With military bodies all over the I'nited States responding to the fire of patriotism that calls men to the colors, and the gmdunl dis-memberment of Uni versity and college student organizations through the mobilization of national guard forces, comes the realization of what actual warfare would mean to the University of Oregon. Twenty-seven men of the University, members of the Second Company, Coast Artillery Corps, stationed here, anxious ly await the call to arms. Feeling has run high on the campus since the first anticipation of mobilization was occa sioned by the stationing of the Eighth Company on bridge guard duty at Port land Sunday. The first to depart for the ranks is Kent Wilson, who received the call from headquarters yesterday to join the Third Regiment, Oregon, at Portland. Wilson will join the hospital corps, in which he saw service last year in Mexico. He left for Portland last night. Walter White, who also belongs to the Third Company, contemplates leaving School soon. Both men are members of Alpha Tan Omega fraternity and are popular in school activities. The loss of Wilson, casts another dark shadow over Bill Hayward's track pros pects. Wilson was one of the standbys of thi> old squad, hnving performed for the lemon-yellow in the sprints. With the mobilization of the local companies, and others that have representatives in the University, the campus will be de prived of men active in nearly every branch of activity. Track, baseball, and other spring athletics will bo abandoned here, as well as in every other univer sity and college in the United States, in th(‘ event of mobilization of troops. Declaration of war and call for re cruits will cause a rush of colle’ge men in every part of the country to enlist under the Stars and Stripes, as wan the case when trouble with Mexico first appeared. A random glance at campus sentiment shows that at least .TOO stud ents will rally to military service upon the request of the government. President P. L. Campbell stated yes terday that credits for the semester probably will be granted in case of men being called to arms, whether they re spond voluntarily or already belong to the militia. This was done by Ameri can Universities when students were called into service during the Spanish American War. On the Atlantic seaboard the tenden cy to give up school work for the coun try probably is felt nore vividly than it is in the west. Reports from Harvard University show that several live mili tary organizations have been formed by tiie students, and in ease of wur, the school will lose practically all its strong men. In view of the fact that such schools as Harvard depend largely upon tuition for maintenance, the loss of a major portion of its men will work a hardship. The organization of au officer’s re serve corps and the student’s volunteer company in drill, field tactics, und plot ting, has added increased vigor to mili tary preparation among University of Oregon students. Forty-seven have en rolled In the course and a large number have signified their intentions to sign up at tonight’s meeting. In war man euvering, these men will be at a decid ed advantage for having secured the scientific training; undcr-mett of exper ience ia military tactics, such as the course plans to give. Aside from the remaining companies of coast artillery, Oregon’s military force is mobilized and ready for active service. It will be necessary to recruit the local companies up to a maximum war strength before they will bo sent into service, according to officers of (Continued on page three)