THIRTEEN (HAUTE
rosins CREATED
Assistants to Earn Expenses and
Have Time to Study
Advanced Courses
With $5,000 available for compensa
tion of graduate assistants, thirteen
more of these will be engaged by the
University in the next college year, it
was announced today by Professor F. G.
Young, dean of the graduate school.
Under this plan, University gradu
ates will have an opportunity to pur
sue their advanced work, devoting half
time to their positions as assistant, for
which each will receive $400 a year.
This will be enough to cover their full
expenses for the year, in most cases.
Oregon’s facilities for graduate work
have been growing under the increas
ingly liberal financial support available,
Dean Young said today. Libraries and
laboratories have been growing at an
accelerating pace, and the establish
ment of the additional assistantships is
in the opinion of Dean Young, a long
step forward toward the time when the
doctor’s degree will be regularly offer
ed at this institution. Already, he said,
a stage of development has been reach
ed where it is feasible to direct a fair
proportion of the resources and energy
of the University to distinctively grad
uate work.
Though at present Oregon’s gradu
ate courses go no higher than the
master’s degree, many Oregon men and
women graduates have established fine
records for advanced study at the larg
est institutions in the east, in compe
tition with the best young brains of
the country.
The departments in which the ad
ditional assistants will bo employes are
botany, chemistry, economics and soci
ology, education, geology, German, his- .
torv, Latin, mathematics, rhetoric and
American literature, physics, psychol
ogy, and /oology. There are already
ten graduate assistants at work in the
University.
To be counted for advanced grades,
the candidate’s work must, not fall be
low “M” and at least one third of his
credits'must be “II” or “S” for a
regular graduate student, one year in
residence is required.
Commencement Speaker is Still
Sought; Dr. Boyd May Give
Baccalaureate
Plans for ('ommeueotueut exorcises
for tlio University graduates of this
year are practically oom|)loto with the
exception of tlio speaker for the or
oasion. Then1 has lioi'n a little ilelay
liver this matter owing to the plan In'
iag worked out whereby several eol
leges of the northwest are eooperat lug
in bringing some speaker of ability
from the east to ileliver the several ail
dresses.
President I.indlei of the University
of Idaho is chairman of the committee
from the different schools to arrange
for this speaker and un announcement
of the person selected for this part of
the program is expected at any time
from him, Kail Onthank, secretary to
the President says.
For the baccalaureate sermon the
Reverend John II. lio\d, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Portland, has
been in\ itod to officiate and although
no answei has been received ns yet it
is ven likely he will accept the invita
tion -V Onthank says Or, Boyd is
well ki wu on tin ainpus having ad
dressed 'I students on several ocean
ions.
The con meet exercises "ill be
held on Monday morning, dune Iti, on
hte campus and the baccalaureate ser
rnou will be given the la\ before. The
preceding Sftturda will be given over
to the alumni tad among the things
scheduled for teat day are the state
alumni nsBOciatiio meeting, the alumni
business meeting, the President's re
eeption and the niumtii ball in the
e\ ening.
A meeting of the committee arrang
ir.g for commencement will be held
very soon and the final plans made Mr.
Onthank says.
MISS HAUER TO TAKE CLASS
Miss Celia V. Hager, assistant in
psychology, will take charge of l>t H.
\V. Ueltusk s extension class for the
teachers at Roseburg next Friday
evening.
FRATERNITIES TO PAY TAX
Social Organizations Have 50 per Cent
Added for Delinquency
Dr. George Hewitt of Portland, is on
the campus this week to explain the
social tax which all sororities and fra
ternities are supposed to have paid to
the government. Like the income tax,
this social tax is supposed to be paid
without any special notification from
the government. But because the fra
ternities here did not know the ruling,
and Dr. Hewitt himself did not know
until a month ago that they were sup
posed to pay the tax; he has taken the
time to come down to Eugene and try
to clear the matter up.
From November 1, 1917 to April 1,
1917, all persons initiated into a fra
ternity or sorority were supposed to
pay to the government 10 per cent of
their initation dues and national dues, j
not later than one month after initia- 1
tion. Due to their lateness a 50 per
cent penalty will now have to be added.
A meeting was held in Dr. John Bo
vard’s room this afternoon at 5 o’clock
at which time Dr. Hewitt explained the
matter thoroughly to representatives
from all of the houses. Dr. Hewitt first
took the matter up with Dr. Bovard, as
he is president of the interfraternity
council.
R.O.T.C. HOLDS CAMP
AT PRESIDIO JUDE 21
Cadets to be Furnished Fare,
Clothing and Subsistence
While There
A summer training camp for the
ltth and 12th districts R. O. T. C.
will be held at the Presidio beginning
dune 21, and will last for a period of
six weeks, according to an announce
ment made by Colonel R. C. Baird at
the military department yesterday.
All members of the R O. T. C. are
eligible to attend, and all cadets at
tending the camp will receive the fol
lowing remuneration from the govern
ment while in attendance: They will
be paid railroad fare from Eugene to
San Francisco, and will be furnished
uniforms, equipment and subsistence
while at the camp.
Any cadets who may desire to attend
and who desire more detailed infor
mation should see Colonel Mail'd. There
will be members of the K. O. T. C.
from other universities and colleges,
such as the Cniversitv of Idaho, Uni
versity of California, O. A. C., Wash
ington State College, University of
Washington and various other schools
throughout the country.
'I’llis is an excellent opportunity, says
Colonel Mail'd, for all members of the
K. O. T. C. to spend a summer’s outing
in addition to receiving some very
valuable military training which will
be entered upon their military record
and will insure them more rapid ad
vancement in the It. O. T C. organiza
tion. There will be a progressive
schedule of instruction carried out at
the camp, which will be of benefit
to those who have attended previous
camps.
Y. M. CONFERENCE BOOSTED
Architect Returnod From Orient Urges
Attendance at Seabeck
.1 11. Vogel, engineer and architect
just returned from the Orient was at
the Y. M. C. A, hut Tuesday boosting
the Seabeck conference. Mr. Vogel be
lieves that the confluence broadens the
view point of all who attend and is
helping Male Seaman, coast secretary
of the V. M., got it started right.
Mr. Vogel was the architect for the
A • hut and is at present working upon
some buildings at Bremerton, Wash.
He is a member of the American Asi
atic Association, and as such believes
that Americans should get more widely
acquainted with their Pacific neighbors,
lie thinks that the Seabeck conference
will help to do this, as many foreign
students attend as the guests of the
association.
Herald White discussed with Mr.
Vogel plans for a conference of college
student body presidents at that time.
As there are many problems before
student bodv presidents which could be
settled better by a meeting they thought
it best to try to get a meeting of the
presidents of as many schools as pos
sihle at the Seabeck conference.
TWINING PLANTS DISCUSSED
Several papers on scientific research
and experiments were given at the
meeting of the Journal club Tuesday
afternoon in the /.oology labratory in
Heady Among these was a paper by
Miss K. 1. Sanborn on the twining of
plants, telling of her original research!
work along this line while at Stanford!
I’niv ersity.
MEN’S GLEE TO TAKE
TRIP UST OF MONTH
Concerts Planned for Salem, Port
land and Albany, May
22, 23, and 24
Arrangements were completed yester
day for a second trip for the Men’s
Glee Club to be taken on May 22, 23
and 24. Concerts are scheduled for
Salem, Portland and Albany by Don
Orput, who acted as advance agent for
the club in Portland.
The concert will be given under the
auspices of Franklin high school in
Portland and will be staged at Lincoln
high school probably, according to
Orput “This is the first time Franklin
has ever entertained the boys,” he
said, “ and they are going to have a
fine time. Friday will be spent in
visiting all the high schools in the city
and Franklin will furnish the machines
to show the boys the city. There is a
lot of enthusiasm down there for the
concert and a large attendance is
expected. ’ ’
Salem will probably get the first
concert on Thursday night and Albany
will be the stop on the way back from
Portland. Both of these towns were j
more than anxious to have the club
come this week-end, but since no ar
rangement could be made with Portland \
until later, the whole trip will be made j
together.
Rehearsals will start immediately
in order that the club may appear at
its best on the trip, says Paul Spang
ler, manager. Probably the same pro
gram which was given at the home
concert will be used with no changes.
The bill was a huge success on the
first trip and at the Eugene concert,
so it will be practically repeated this
time, says Spangler.
HORRORS OF WAR
OUTWEIGH GLORY,
SAYS BEN DORRIS
(Continued from rage One)
whore it hit. Even if the men weren’t
‘rarin’ to go’’ no one said a word
about it to anyone else. He related how
he thought as he went over the top of
the immense feeling of relief he would
have if he were ordered to the rear.
He was surprised when he got started
toward Germany and found that his
legs would actually work.
lie said the men soon recovered from
their scared feelings and were “rarin’
to go’’ by the time they reached the
Herman trenches. A barrage was set
up behind them and they pressed for
ward, the smoke blinded them so they
could only see a few feet ahead. When
they reached the place where the front
line trenches should have been they
found only pulverized ground. It look
ed .just as if the ocean had turned to
dust. There was no trace of a trench.
If there were any dead Germans there
they will never be buried any deeper,
was the opinion of the speaker.
Germans Meet Surprise
The Germans had figured that the
Yankees would never attempt to go
thriugh the woods, continued Mr. Dor
ris, but that they would go around, and
so defended it but lightly. This was
not their plan however, so they plowed
through the forest for eleven kilo
meters the first day and for 200 yards
the second day. lie told of the cap
ture of 42 prisoners and 10 machine
guns by Lieutenant John Rurgard, a
l'uiversit\ graduate in 1017. The Her
mans were all ready to kiss Rurgard's
hands for the treatment he gave them.
Later in Kpinonville, a little town
with cobble stone streets. Lieutenant
Dorris was with a group of men when
"Fritz” tired on them from an orchard
across a narrow ravine. One of the
officers found a door on one side of the
street and Lieutenant Dorris turned to
the opposite side but there was no door
so he dropped to tin' ground. Never
did he get so close to any thing as he
did to those stones, he assured his aud
ience. Finally when there was a ten
seconds lull in the tiring he made a run
for the door opposite, and he figured
‘that Hill .llawvard had missed a good
man when he overlooked me.” Fritz
was kind however when 5 volunteers
walked out in the open to carry in
Lieutenant Lynch who had been shot
in the side. The Germans didn’t tire
while the men were going or coming, he
said.
Endorsement for B. O. T. C.
In a word about the R O. T. C. Lieu
tenant Dorris said that the students
should by all means change their atti
tude toward it. If the government
should call these men in another w_ar,
time would have to be wasted teaching
the recruits how to be soldiers. The R.
O. T. C. is worth while because it is an
insurance against war, the speaker af
firmed and explained that the officers
have to bring men from civilians up to
what they are, and if the officers do
not know' the stuff they can’t teach it
to anyone.
As to the Y. M. C. • A. Lieutenant
Dorris believes that 95 per cent of the
soldiers who knock the Y. M. C. A. do
it because they don’t understand the
situation. When the campaigns were
planned it was with the understanding
that the work to be done was in the
nature of a canteen and not charity.
The Y. M. C. A. has to buy at market
price, pay the cost of transportation
across the Atlantic and in France up to
the front, he explained. When they do
get their supplies there they have to
sell them at what they cost the associ
ation in order to be able to keep in
operation.
‘ ‘ I am glad to be back. ’ ’ said Mr.
Dorris, and then told of how he wanted
a wound stripe but planned to lose
some of the fleshy part of his arm and
not some of his face.
UNVEILING DAY INDEFINITE
Proctor, Sculptor of Pioneer, on Way
to Supervise Erection of Statue
“The Pioneer,” boxed and sealed, is
still awaiting his hour of triumph when
he will be released from his confine
ment and set up before the gaze of
Oregon students. A. Phimister Proctor
the sculptor, is now enroute from Cal
ifornia by automobile and is expected
in Eugene early next week, according
to Karl Onthank, secretary to the pres
ident. “Mr. Proctor will superintend
the erection of his statue,” said Mr.
Onthank.
The base for the statue has been se
cured from the banks of the McKenzie
river at Hayden’s Bridge. It is to be
left in its natural state which is, ac
cording to Mr. Proctor, the proper set
ting for the “Pioneer” The statue is
a present to the University from Joseph
N. Teal, of Portland, in memory of the
Oregon pioneers, of whom his father
was one. Mr. Onthank believes the un
veiling ceremonies will be held soon
after Junior Week-end.
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