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Oregon I VOL. 20. EUGENE, OREGON. THURSDAY EVENING, Emerald DEC. 12, 1918 NO. 28. FWM RELAXES ITS SUES TS FIT Quality to Decide Grades for Term; 9-Hour Provision is Suspended. INFLUENZA AMDS. A. T. C. HANDICAPS CONSIDERED Incompletes Will be Given Instead of Conditions; Other Changes. Relaxation of some of the usual re quirements for work to be completed in one term and emphasis on the quality rather than the quantity of work in de termining term grades are made clear in a statement issued from the presi dent’s office this morning. The. Univer sity faculty passed the legislation pro viding for these changes to meet the situation created by the. influenza epi demic and the demobilization of the S. A. T. C. The faculty decided that “A student who was necessarily absent much of the. time but who showed interest and zeal in his work when present, will receive at least as much consideration as the student who, though present ofteuer, neglected his work or did work of poor quality. Failures May Be Earned. 4 “For this term the grade ‘condition’ will not be given, but ‘incomplete’ used instead and the. grades of next term will be used as a basis for removing such in icompletes, it being understood that this recommendation has no reference, to earned failures and that such ineom ,pletes are to be removed by excellence j of work in other subjects taken during the winter quarter, the grades being limited to ‘passing.’ ' “That is, one of three things may 1iappen to a student at the end of the term: ■ “(a) He may successfully complete his work and receive a passing grade. I “(b) He. may, through failure to .take the examination or negligence in his work be given a flat failure, receiv ing the grade F. “(c) He may conscientiously do his best, staying in the course until the end and writing on the examination, but still through unavoidable absences and lack of time for study not be able to earn a passing grade in the case he will receive a grade of •incomplete-’ If then he registers in college next term and at th end of the term shows a sat isfactory average grade in his courses, he will receive credit in the courses in which he was marked ‘incomplete’’ the. first term. The exact standard to be required next term for the removal of. incompletes is not specified. Cases will be passed upon by a committee, which will consider each case upon its mer its.’’ Concession to fion-Cotn. “The nine-hour rule is suspended and the, faculty decided that the student's status in the University shall not be prejudiced by his record this term. That is. if despite the above provisions any student still fails to have nine hours in which his grade was either passing or iaowaplete, he may still re-enter col lege next term and make a fresh start. “Non-commissioned officers of the S A. T. C. on the recommendation of the military authorities may receive full credit for the term's work as military credit, a list of such men to be. furnish ed the committee before final action is taken. “i. C- O.'s Company Clerks and others who have had such a heavy burden of military work that they wore prevented from attending part or all of their class es may receive credit for this work in proportion as it has necessarily taken their time, upon the recommendation of the Commanding Offices and with the approval of the committee.” ALMACK HARRISBURG SPEAKER John C. Alinack, director of the ex tension division, will speak before thl Commercial club of Harrisburg. Decem ber 20. on “Cons mated Schools.” Little Red Tags Too Few; Many Students Not on Oregana List Subscriptions Still Coming in; “800 by Friday Night,” Slogan Of Committee May Fail; Annual Valuable After Col lege Days Say Faculty Members. The little red tags nr labels which are appearing on the buttons and lapels of the students’ coats on the campus are increasing each hour, but are far from numbering 800, the slogan adopted by the committee in charge of the Oregona, “800 by Friday night,” looks like it may not be. for either the students are not subscrib ing or else the committees are not work ing fast enough. And as neither case has been reported to the general committee, it seems to be just a slow campaign of which the results can not be seen until tomorrow afternoon when all the mem bers of all the committees will report at the booth in front of the library at 4 o’clock. It is quite necessary that every mem ber of the committee report for until he does there will be no way of telling where the campaign stands. It was thought at first that the record of the classes could be kept on a bulletin board in front of the library but this was impracticable because there were so many people taking subscriptions and no check of them could be kept. At the freshman class meeting last Tuesday, a large committee was appoint ed to care for the soliciting of the Ore gano subscriptions. Bill Cumings as chairman, has under him Fred Tewks bury, Sid Robinson, Lyman ICennon, Wil liam Purdy, Edward Irwin, Margaret Studor, Maurine Elrod. Helen Houghton, Lucile Parsons, Miriam Holcomb, Skeet Manuerud, Fred Main, and Paul Little field. Ella Dews has taken care of all the military officers, while Mary Packwood and Sam Lehman are getting subscrip tions from the faculty members. Nell Warwick is soliciting subscriptions from the students who are registered as spe , cial. Here is how some of the faculty mem bers and students on the campus feel about the Oregana. They show the con trtist between the man who has his col lege year-book and the man who does not. Dean John Straub: “I would give $250 at the present time to have a year-book from my Alma Mater. I graduated from Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. The students were .mostly boys, although there were a few girls. Most of them I haven’t seen since, but I hear of them often. Their i faces are becoming indistinct in my mem ory and in the evenings when I grow reminiscent of my college days, I would give most anything to have a book which i has in it the pictures of my class mates, the old buildings of the college, for many of them have been torn down in order that newer and larger ones might be built and one which contains the pictures of the old faculty. But I graduated in ’76 and that was before they had year books| If I was a student at Oregon I wouldn’t miss one issue, I would put them in my library alongside of my Bible.” Eric Allen: “The four old ‘Badgers’ on my book Fhelf are among the most useful hooks of reference I have. The ‘Badger’ was the annual of the Univer sity of Wisconsin, and, taking the four together, they contain photographs of nearly everybody I knew in my college days. Every once in a while somebody becomes famous and the papers say he was graduated from the University of Wisconsin. The name, perhaps, sounds sort of familiar—did I know him? I look him up and. sure enough, ns soon ns I see his picture there comes a flood of memories and once more I am in touch with an old friend or acquaintance. The money spent for these books I have never regretted. It has paid a good dividend every year. The Oregann, I am sure, will furnish a similar satisfaction in years to come to every student who buys one. Without it. his life will become poorer in that he will drift away more readily from the ties of college friendships.” TUESDAY SET FOR REGISTRATION DAY Class Work for Winter Term to Start January 6; Fees Due January 4. Students who have registered and paid their fees before they left the campus, for the holidays, will be nble to enjoy two extra days’ vacation as regular class work will not start until Monday, Janu ary (5. A plan has been devised whereby the students may arrange to mail the amount of their registration to the busi ness office during the holidays. Regis tration fees must be at the business of fice by Saturday, January 4. The faculty decided to require regis tration of the students now on the cam pus before they leave for vacation. Tues day, December 17, is to be used as reg istration day. The schedule follows: January 4 is to be used for the regis tration of students not yet registered and new students. Freshman English'exam inations will be held Friday, ns previously arranged, and all classes will he resumed on January 6. And on this day all Mon day classes will be held. Twenty-seven out of the thirty-one vote# sent to the Registrar’s office in the oampns mail were in favor of the resig nation change. PERSONNEL WORK PRAISED Inspector Gives Favorable Report On S. A. T. C. Papers. Lieutenant F. C. Jewell, who Is in specting the discharge paper work of the S. A. T. C. units in the twelfth dis trict, visited the University yesterday and gave high praise to the work being done by the personnel office here. Lieutenant Jewell came here from Helena, Montana, where he spent a few days at the school for discharge paper work. He inspected the barracks here and saw the men at drill and said that he was very favorably impressed with the efficiency of the corps here. Lieutenant Jewell left this morning for Corvallis, where he will spend the day inspecting the Oregon Agricultural Col lege unit. FEB. 15 DATE SET FOR FRESHMAN GLEE Class Decides Time for Dance; Support of Oregana Urged at Class Meeting. Plans were completed for the freshman glee at the freshman class meeting which was held Tuesday afternoonr at fou o’clock in Villard hall. The glee will he held on February 15 at the Eugene ar mory, according to the decision of the class. Dean Straub and Herald White, presi dent of the student body, spoke to the class concerning the Oregana campaign, urging every member of the class to do his part in making it a success. The meeting was conducted by vice president Phehe Gage. A Committee was appointed by Miss Gage to get Freshman Oregana subscriptions and to take charge of the. freshman glee. The committees for Oregana subscrip tions are: Committee 1—Fred Main, Forrest Lit tlefield. Lyman Kennon, Edward Irwin, William Sharkey, Sidney Robinson, Pierce Comings. Roscoe Roberts, William Roiger and William Purdy. Alternative committee—Allard Heit kemper, Roger Plummer, Herbert R. Decker and Sidney Tewksbury. The committees for the freshman glee are as follows: Social committee—Phebe Gage, chair man; Margaret Fell, Lucille Evans, Phil Owens, II. A. Moore and Lyman Kennon. Decoration committee—Fritz Jackson, chairman; Maurice Mann, George Pluck, C. Ferris, Bruce Bailey, Charles Huggins, Wesley Shattuck, .Toe Wise, Emma Gnr bade. Helen Kelson. Lucille Evans, Mau rine Elrod, Fora Merrsen. Dorothy Dahl, Gem vb ve Haven and Louise Sheahan. Refreshment comuurtee Laura Rand, ••hairman; Lois Brrnett, Ray Morse and A. Rotiflow. Music committee—Phil Owens, chair man: Harold Connelly, and II. A. Moore. Patron and pdf-cneas committee— Pierce Cumings, chairman and Dorothy Reed. Program comc'iiiee— Patty French, 'hnirrtr.an; Max Wilkins, II. A. M >ore, Mart el Skeels and Dorn by Scott. 0REA1ER OREGON WORKERS OUTLINE SCHOOL CAMPAIGN Committee Plans to Advertise University all Over State. Eddie Duruo was elected permanent chairman, and Ella Dews, secretary, of the Greater Oregon committee, at the meetkig held last evening at 7:00 o’clock in Guild hall. Every high school in the state is to be renched, according to the plans of this committee, and the high school students will be urged to attend the University of Oregon- The members of the committee are to be the speak ers, they will outline the work of the different departments of the University and will speak of the advantages to be obtained here. The outline which the students nre to use in addressing the high schools was talked over and explained by Eddie Pur no. Oregon’s merits are to be empha sized. the chrtipnoss of living at the Uni versity will be spoken of, and Oregon's football team, the champion team of the Northwest, will not he forgotten. Stuents Urged to be Posted Dunio urged them to be sure they were posted in all the courses offered so that intelligent information could be given. “Get the bulletin*, there is one for each department, read them and ask questions on them. Emphasize the de mocracy of Oregon,” he said. “Give ev eryone the glad hand, speak to all, and bafjg up your own school.” Ella Dews said, “I am sure ’{fie'*gVr1s are going to support the committee. We are all coming back next, term and the girls are going to work to get the boys back, too.” Tell Advantages of Oregon It wag suggested by Herald White, i president of the student body, that the different houses explain the work of the committee to the members who were not present. “Urge them to attend the meetings," lie said, “a.n<l nil work for a ‘Greater Oregon.’ Take up the advan tages to be had here, but do not run down other schools.” Literature and other general informa tion should be sent to the high school students and others who are interested, was the opinion of Karl W- Onthank, secretary to the president. Names should be obtained so that this could be done. A man from each platoon in. companies A and It was appointed to call a meet ing of the freshmen in that platoon and talk over “coming back" with them. Or egon literature and bulletins were given out to the members of the committee. 324 Complete Number Releas-j ed, Exclusive of Men in Naval Unit. Fifteen men of the S. A. T. C. d's charged yesterday will lie the lust men discharged until December ”1, Colour. W. IT. <’. Bowen, commanding officer, said this morning, unless a few other men appear, whose immediate discharge is essential to enable them to return to their business duties. Twenty men had been discharged up to this morning. Those released today are Edgar C. Lind say, Adolph It. Adams, and John F. Lee, all of Portland; Ambrose I*. Gallagher, of Rainier; Floyd C. Bartlett, of Spring field, Oregon; M. F. Falerios, of Lake Linden, Michigan; George Shields, of Silverton; Virgil M. Reeves, of lyehanon; Guy E. .Morelock. of Joseph, Oregon; Jo seph E. Saylor and George it. Wallace, of Freewater; Kenneth K. itlake, of Inue; V. W. Jones, of McMinnville; Loren E. Mikesell, of Heppner. and Wayne Ever ett Elliott, of Eugene. The contract surgeons. Dr. S. M. Ker ron and Dr. W. It. Neal, are giving the men their physical examinations, which will probably be completed this week. Discharge paper work is progressing un der the direction of Lieutenant R. S. 7.im inennan, assistant personnel officer. The i number of men who will he discharged by December 21 is I52-4, exclusive of the men j of the naval uni* ' Dr. Cloran Teaches 16,300 Classes in 23 Years; Misses None Dr. Timothy Cloran. head of the de partment of Romance languages in the University, has instructed approximate ly 115,300 classes without missing one. Never once in all his 33 years of teach ing. has he failed to meet a class on ac count of sickness, other duties, or for any reason whatsoever. His students nev er take a chance on being absent from class in the expectation that the instruct or will not appear. He is always there. Dr. Cloran, whose name appears in "Who’s Who In America,” as a professor and author, is a language enthusiast. He would rather teach languages than do anything else. All college hours are too short for hint when he is teaching French and Spanish. From the first tap of the bell, he drives hard at the work, firing questions rapid ly handling a class of over 100 as easily ns one of 20. With chagrin, he admits tath several times out of the 10,300, he has been one or two minutes late to class, thus wasting much valuable time, which can never be made up in all eternity. Dr. Cloran’s clnsses have averaged 50 students, making a total of 815,000 class hours to his credit in the 23 years. The last twelve years of this record were made at the University of Oregon, where Professor Cloran has taught French, Spanish and Italian. BIN IGIIN PLACED ITONf BINGES Town Situation is Basis of Ac )on; Influenza not Bad on Campus. The campus health committee pllaoed a ban on all (lances and unnecessary gatherings in a special meeting in Presi dent Campbell's office yesterday after noon. This action was taken to comply with the order of Mayor Peterson of Eu gene forbidding all dances, public and privfate. The order made necessary the cancelling of the Company A and B dances for Friday and Saturday even ings. Any cases of influenza, President Campbell said this morning, will be iso lated. Only three University students have influenza and the cases are very slight, says l)r, John Bovard, chairman of the campus health committee. Every precaution will he taken to guard against a recurrence of the epidemic. The University infirmary, 1101 Uni versity iivcine, provides free clinical and dispensary service for all women of the University, and men not in the S- A. T. C. Tlics > students are urged to call at the infirmary for advice and treatment for so.-,, throats, colds or any other mi nor ailments. The hours are from 10:00 to U!:!'1 in the morning; 1:00 to 2.00 p. m. and 5:00 to 6:00 p. m. ])r. Bovard urges that the students go in !he infirmary at once if they have pav - ■ • (> throat or cold symptoms. The s1'., >■ n at the University is good and ill d'dly better than in nearly all other p!: n • s, according to reports. There is •• 1 ■; dc.tely do cause for alarm, Dr. Bo vssd wish*'.: everyone to understand, hut precautions must he taken. THACHLR college editor Faculty Member to Supervise University Publications. 1. . itenant W. F. O. Thacher, person u, I .j'ficer, who will resume his duties as , ‘ssor <>f English in January, will be college editor to supervise University publications, beginning in January. The position of college editor is a new one, (rented to meet the necessity for seeing that pH cop.v for bulletins, catalogs and booklets issued by the University Press, is properly edited arid to insure uniform ity, in material and make-up. Professor Thacher will also write much of the copy for the various University catalogs and booklets explaining the work of the college. All these publications are issued by the University Press. Professor Thacher bus had experience in r/iaguzinc work as association editor of the Pacific Monthly from 1902 to 190H and as a special writer for two years on the Sunset Magazine. He has been on the University of Oregon factulty since 191.'!. He is a graduate of Princeton, where he took his M. A. degree in 1906 INCOMPLETE MARK TO BE REMOVED BV GOOD GRADES LATER President Campbell Promises Allowances for Classes Missed. f • ' OREGANA SLOGAN TO BE “800 PLEDGES BY FRIDAY” * Success of Campaign Depends Upon Pep Shown, Says Eddie Durno. i President Campbell announced that all allowances would be made In the coming examinations for broken work during the past term, at the regular meeting of the Associated Students at the assembly hour yesterday morning- In reference to the geenral uneasiness regarding the examinations, he emphasized that no one should worry if through illness or mil itary work his work was not complete. He said that if the student’s grades were satisfactory next term the incom pletes would be removed. ■The student band added much to the meeting. The lively "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp” march nnd ‘‘The Princess of In dia” selection brought rounds of ap plause. Walker Glad to be Back Doan milker, graduate manager, who has returned to the campni* from Camp Zachary Taylor, aaid in reference to the Greater Oregon committee which was organized for the purpose of boosting Oregon, “I don’t see how unybody needs to bo encouraged to come or to come back to Oregon. I was never so glad to be any place in my life as I am to he back here.” While in Kentucky, Dctan Walker was associated with men from every big col lege in the country, and said that in comparison he thought more of Oregon than ever before. “There are two reasons, as near ns T enn find out, why some of the men think they want to leave here, and they niro wanderlust and lack of money.” In regard to the former he staid, “It doesn’t pay, and as to lack of money, no young follow should be afraid to get out and hustle while getting his education. It al.wn.vs has been dome nnd always will be done at the University.” Jack Dundore, chairman of the Ore gana committee, stiid that ns the Ore gann is the only compact record of events on the campus for the tntire year, every student should lmve n copy of the year book. “The slogan is 800 subscription* by Friday night,” said Dundore, “and if $800 is not in the treasury by that time there will be no Oregano. By paying $1 in advance the Oroghna is assured nnd the remaining $2 will be collected in May when the book is published-” “We want a mighty and bigger Ore, gon next year,” said Eddie Dtirno, tem porary chairman of the Greater Oregon committee. “The success of the cam paign depends on every member of one of the largest and most important com mittees of the i’niversity, and on every member o fthe stueut body." Ella Dews, secretary of the student body, announced that the student body play which will lie given next term will lie a benefit play, and \\:J1 be directed by Miss Charlotte Iinnfield, temporary head of the dramatics department. DEAN FOX IS PICTURED Shown in War Work Bulletin Talking to Two French Girls. A picture of Dean Elizabeth Fox ia her Y. W. C. A. uniform, has been found by one of the co-eds in the November 22 issue of the War Work Bulletin, a Y. W. ('. A. publication. Although no names nre given, it is plain to the friends of Miss F'ox that it is she who is engaged in conversation with two French girls. The picture is on the back page and on the front page is a story of the Y. W. C. A. work ia Tours, France, the place Miss Fox is stationed. Only a few copies of the War Work Bulletin come to the campus, so the little pamphlet has been placed on the insida library bulletin hoard where all may get a chance to see it.