Emerald volume 21 EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920 NUMBER 39 BRITISHER LECTURES OH WAR EMMES HKD AMERICAN RELIEF Holmes Tells Students Belgium Will Come Back—Hoover National Idol COCKNEY HUMOR PLEASES Englishman Not Trusted in Dark by Divine Providence—U. S. Motto Interpreted “Terms Cash” With just a trace of cockney dialect, Harry N- Holmes, associate secretary for the Y. M. C. A. of the British Isles, held the attention of University students and townspeople,- gathered at the weekly assembly at Villard hall this morning at 11 o’clock, when he gave a short informal talk on world problems and their possible solutions. Mr. Holmes, who is a world travel er and was intimately associated with the armies of the various allied forces in Europe during the world war, hav ing spent four full years in Flanders, told of the conditions in France and Belgium where, even today little has been done to bring about the order that existed before the war. American Sacks in Windows In speaking of Belgium, Mr. Holmes said: “The little country is going to live again.” Hoover, accord ing to Mr. Holmes is a great favorite among the Belgians. The little flour sacks of the Belgian Relief Commis sion are beautifully decorated and ex hibited in the windows of the village stores. Even a slight change was made in, the Lord’s prayer, said Mr. Holmes, in which they blessed Ameri can bread. The talk throughout contained a keen sense of humor, especially when Mr. Holmes touched upon the relation ship between the Americans and the Britisher. England’s greatest boast, said Mr. Holmes, is that the sun nev er sets on British territory, which the American intercepts as a sign the di vine providence does not trust an Eng lishman in the dark- The Englishman in turn looks at the American dollar and first of all notices the inscription, “In God we trust.’ This, Mr. Holmes said, the casual Britisher interprets as meaning that he will be trusted to the extent of one dollar, all others cash. President Speaks of Campaign The world is becoming a great neighborhood, stated Mr. Holmes, and urged the co-operation of every Am erican to help bridge over the petty strife which, he says, unfortunately exists between some of the nations. President P. L. Campbell, at the be ginning of assembly, urged every student to assist in every way possi ble, in their studies and in any other way, to make the campaign for the University building program, which hinges upon the voters of the state at the May election, a success. “Oregon has been first in many things,'’ said President Campbell. “Oregon ought to be first in its edu cational system.” The restriction or limiting of attendance at Oregon on account of inadequate housing and class room facilities ads discouraged by President Campb.il', n that noth ing could possibly retard the state more. MEMORY RAISES H. C. OF L. $16.50 is Price of Forgetting to Turn in Registration Card A total of $16-50 was paid by Roland Andre, when he handed in his registration card, Monday morn penalty for late registration. One dollar being charged for the first day, and $.50 for each succeesing day, after the last day set for the paying of these fees. According to Andre, he has been carrying his schedule around in his pocket, and had forgotten all about it. Some of his friends are suggesting the use of the time-honored method of tying a string around the finger, or a course in cultivating the memory. MASK AND BUSKIN TO PUT ON COMEDY SOON “Pills and Poker” Has Been Selected as Vehicle for College Players Next Month The hidden relation of “Pills and Poker” will be revealed in the play of that name to be given the latter part of the term by Mask and Bus kin, the local chapter of the Asso ciated University Players. The play is a rollicking comedy of the type presented by the organization last fall, when “The Prince of Liars” was given. The reception accorded the production at that time encouraged the society to put forth greater ef forts to secure a play of even great er merit. „ The play is to be managed and directed by John Houston. He says the cast will haVe places for thirteen men and women, there being eight men and five women required. The comedy will be produced at the Eugene theatre. The prices are to be reduced materially from those asked for the fall production. The cast will incclude a number of students who have appeared in pre vious plays on the campus. These will be Julian Leslie, Norman Phil ips, Ogden Johnson, Ray Dunn, Adah McMurphey, Thelma Stanton, Evelyn Smith, Doris Pittenger and Claire Keeney. OFFICE VACANCIES FILLED Sophomores Choose Manerud and Huggins as President and Sec’y At the meeting of the sophomore class last Monday, “Skeet” Manerud was chosen president to fill the vac ancy made by the withdrawal from college of Eugene Boylen, and Chester Huggins was elected secretary, suc ceeding Wolcott Buren, who also left school. The class held another meeting on Wednesday and decided to have a hard times lottery dance on February 27. ORCHESTRA TO ENTERTAIN Lighter Classical Music in Sunday Concert at Villara The orchestra concert to be given Sunday afternoon at 3:30 in Villard Hall will be composed of music eas ily understood and enjoyed by all stu dents whether they have studied mus ic or not, according to Professor Rex Underwood, director of the orchestra “We are trying to play lighter class ical music which everyone can enjoy,” he explained. “We are giving a Sunday entertain ment for the members of the student body and we urge all, who can, to come,’ sad Mr. Underwood. “This we will do as often as possible, following in two or three weeks perhaps, with either another orchestra program or a recital of some sort.” PRESIDENT IS INVITED Harvard Club Asks U. of O. Head to Football Team’s Dinner l President P. L. Campbell has just ereeived an invitation to the dinner which will be given in honor of the Harvard football team by the Board of Governors of the Harvard club of Boston, Tuesday, February 3 “The Harvard football team and coach,” said a separate letter, “deeply appreciate the spirit of your congratu lations. We have the greatest, respect for the Oregon team and the clean, hard game you play in the west.” SUBSCRIPTIONS COMING IN Pledges for Women’s Building Are Still Received Subscriptions for the Women’s building, solicited during the holidays by Universty students, are still com ing in to the business office. The latest to arrive is a pledge of $100 j from the Labbe brothers in Portland, | sent by C. Henri Labbe, consular agent of France and vice consul of Belgium. Many small amounts ranging from one dollar to $25 have been coming to the University during the past i weeks, many„ of them anonymously. AH these pledges were solicited dur ing vacation and it is expected that the total of these subscriptions may soon reach $i 0,000. TELLS EXPERIENCES OF LIFE IN SIBEI Arnold Shotwell, After Sixteen Months In Far East, Takes Up School Books ORIENTAL WEALTH COVETED Actual Conditions Not Represented in Current Papers, Says Ex Soldier Sixteen months service with the American forces in Siberia, where the world war is still going on with in dication^ of increasing vigor, is the record of Arnold Shotwell, of McMin ville, member of the Siberian expedi tionary troops who has just register ed for graduate work in the Univer sity of Oregon- Shotwell left the United States in August, 1918, as a member of Ambulance Company No. 4 and was with the allied forces operat ing around Vladivostock until Decem ber 11, 1919. Bolsheviki troops were rapidly driv ing forward along the line of the Trans-Siberian railroad and forcing Admiral Kolchak to make a swift re treat before them, Shotwell said, at the time of his departure early in De cember. The Bolsheviki menace is felt to be a very serious one in Siber ia still, and only the presence of Jap anese and Czech soldiers in large num bers has kept the whole region around Vladivostock from going over to the radicals. The majority of the popu lation, Shotwell stated, is in sympathy with the Bolsheviki. The fighting of the American troops as far as Shotwell’s experiences go, has been largely confined to skirm ishes. This has been due to the allied policy of guarding the railroads and supplies in the rear of Kolchak’s Rus sian troops who have been pressing against the Bolsheviki armies. At first, he stated, the Bolsheviki were friendly to the Americans where their outposts met, but in June, 1919, an American outpost of 75 men was am bushed and two thirds of them killed or wounded at Romanofka on a branch railroad 45 miles north of Vladivo stock. This led to continual skirm ishing till August. The Japanese activities, Shotwell, (Continued on page 2.) UNIVERSITY MAY SOON GRANT PH. D. DEGREE GRADUATE COUNCIL INVESTI GATES REQUIREMENTS FOR DOCTORATE The appointment of a committee to investigate the requirements for granting doctor’s degrees, with the idea of granting such degrees from the University of Oregon was one of the important steps taken at a meet ing of the graduate council Wed nesday evening at 4 o’clock in the Administration building. The com mute appointed was Professor P. G. Young, <?ean of the graduate school, Dr. W. P. Boynton, professor of phy sics, and Dr. H. D. Sheldon, dean of the school of education. It was also decided to make a distinct effort to expand the number of courses offered in the graduate school, especially in connection with the summer school, according to Dr. Sheldon. Dr. Sheldon states that a number of instructors in the smal ler colleges in the states are plan ning to do graduate work this sum mer at the University of Oregon. Next year, in addition rto offering more courses, it is also planned to increase ’ the number of assistant ships provided for graduate students, and the graduate council is recom mending that the stipend carried by fhem be increased from $400 to $500. These assistantships usually take the form of grading papers, assisting in laboratories and helping the instruc tors in other ways. There are about ten new graduate students this term. VARSITY TO BATTLE METHODISTS IN TWO WEEK-END CONTESTS Lemon-Yellow Quintet to Play In Salem Tonight and Here Saturday WILLAMETTE TEAM STRONG Local Basketeers in Bettor Condition For Series than for any Previous Games This Season With a record of having walloped the Aggies last Friday night in a hard-fought game at Salem, the Wil lamette basket ball quintet will ar rive in Eugene Saturday for the sec ond game of a two-game series with the Varsity, the first of which is be ing played tonight in Salem. Wil lamette has a strong team this year and is making a bid for a position near the top in the conference. They lost two games to Whitman but both were by close scores, and they are considered as strong as any of the teams which they have met so far this season. Coach “Shy” Huntington, in speak ing of the games with the Methodists, said, “We are going to have a hard tussle with Willamette and I am not making any predictions as to the out come. Of course, the boys are go ing to do their best, but we are go ing to have to earn every point we make. The Salem boys have a good record so far this season and they are going to do their best to win.” Team in Better Shape Huntington was well pleased with the showing the Varsity made against Washington in the second game of the series against the Northerners in Se attle last Friday night, but said the first game was slow and nobody seem ed able to get going. Long practice hours have been maintained at the gym this week for the purpose of taking off the rough spots in the team work and it is expected that the quin tet will be going about fifty per cent better than in their last appearance here against Whitman. Eddie Durno, who has been working so well in the forward position this season, will not be able to play in the game with Willamgtte tonight, and may be kept out of the contest with the Methodists here Saturday night, as an outbreak of boils has kept him, from doing any work. The members of the squad which left for Salem this afternoon at 2:55 were Captain Lind and McCready, for wards; Latham, center; and Chapman, .Francis Jacobberger and Beller,guards Coach Huntington went with the team (Continnad on page *) STUDENT OF 1908 BACK AFTER SERVING IN WAR LESTER BULLARD, WOUNDED, CITED FOR BRAVERY, RE GISTERS AS SPECIAL Lester Bullard of Menlo, Washing ton, who was a freshman here in 1908, this week registered at the Univer | sity, and presented an application tc become a special student. Mr. Bullard was in the first battle in which the Americans participated, the encounter at Catingny. He was a telephone lineman and operator, close behind the front. On July 18, 1918," he was wounded at the battle of Soissons, and has been in hospitals practically ever since. He was cited for exceptional bravery in maintaining telephone connection under fire. Mr. Bullard’s left arm was shat tered, and as he was left handed, it is now necessary for him to learn to use his right "hand. Upon completion of his freshman year, he worked at sign painting and interior painting, in San Francisco and Seattle. He also operated a> Burroughs adding machine for a time. Then, he enlisted in 1917, and was sent overseas. CAMPUS HIGH SCHOOL TURNS AWAY PUPILS Enrollment Reaches 150 in Supervis ed Study Classes—Seventh to Tenth Grades Taught The University high school will soon have to limit the number of stu dents allowed to register, in fact it has already been necessary to refuse admittance to several applicants be cause of lack of facilities to take care of them, according to H. R. Douglas, principal of the University high school. The University high school was established in 1914 by Dr. H. D. Sheldon, dean of the school of education, for the purpose of of fering an opportunity to students in the school of education for practice teaching, and also as a laboratory where new educational methods were to be tried. This school was one of the first, if not the first, high school in the state to establish supervised study, a practice which has been recognized as producing good re sults and has been adopted by many of the high schools of the state. One of the things this school is now working out is the socialized study plan. This means the getting away from the use of text books to the extent they have been used in the past and offering an opportunity for individual growth and development of the children. It is the aim to have the teaching and methods in the University high school of the very best and most ad vanced kind, where educators from all parts of the state may come for ideas and suggestions. The school began with an en rollment of about 60 and there are now about 160 students. It was the intention to have six grades from the sixth to the twelfth, but in practice the courses have usually ranged from about the seventh to tenth grades, inclusive. SPRINGFIELD HEARS CLUB Men’s Glee Gives First Concert of Winter Term Springfield residents were enter tained Wednesday evening with a concert given by the University men’s glee club at thq Springfield theatre. The program, under the direction of Professor Albert Luk ken, will probably be presented again in Eugene. The glee club has recently chosen two new members: Carrol Akers, first tenor, and Q. R. Morgan, bass. This fills all vacancies at the present time. FACULTY RECITAL PLANNED Miss Findahl and Professor Lukken on Program for Thursday Of interest to lovers of music and i the University in general is the an i nouncement of the Joint recital to I be given by Professor Albert Lukken, | head of the vocal department of the school of music, and Miss Marthu Finds hi of the vocal department, on Thursday evening, Febrpary 5, at the Methoddist church. This is one | of the several faculty recitals that i will be given in the future for the ! University. The program for the recital will i be announced in a few days. FORENSIC CLUB IS FORMED Don Davis Nominated for President —Election Set for Next Week A new literary society for men, the Laurean, was organized by a number | of students who met in Professor R. W. Prescott’s room in the administra tion building, Wednesday evening. A constitution and by-laws were adopted and nominations for officers were made. Don Davis was nominated for presi dent. Election of officers will take place at the next meeting of the so ciety, to be held in one week. The purpose of the society is to promote forensic activities. The form al programs will consist of prepared debates followed by an informal dis cussion of the subject by all present Also extempore speeches will be made. The new Laurean is following ! the general lines of the old Laurean society, leader in forensics in former years. ' . Wesleyan to Raise $600,000 Kansas Wesleyan university has launched a campaign to raise $600,000 during 1920 and 1921. GRADES IN NEWSPAPER MEETS WITH DISFAVOR Majority of Undergraduates On Council Do Not Approve of New System IDEA TO DULL ACTIVITIES Prediction Is That Pipe Courses Will Be Popular—Mlllage Tax Bill May Also Be Affected Following the adoption by the fac ulty of the new policy of publishing grades of the students at the Univer sity in the newspapers a great deal of opposition to the idea was ex pressed among Oregon students. The following interviews from members of the student council serve to give their general opinions together with well founded arguments against the new system: Senior women on the student coun cil have expressed their opinions re garding the printing of all student gardes in the Oregonian as follows: Adelaide Lake: “The real objection I have to printing the grades in the Oregonian is that it will cause a ten dency among the student to take pipe courses, while courses like econ omics and science courses, in which it is harder to get good grades, will be avoided. Students don’t like to have their poor grades known. This seems to me rather a kindergartenlsh act and it a step away from student government toward which we are striving. It will work very well in combination with the new point sys tem.” / Student Activities Considered Era Godfrey: “I do not approve of printing the grades, because lots of people on the campus take part in student activities for which they get no grades. This extra work pro bably causes them to get lower grades, and people who see the paper would not understand this. These activities are almost as Important as the regular University courses. If the grades are sent home that should be enough, because our parents are really the only people interested in them. This will cause students to stfck to their own departments, where they can get the best grades, and will discourage branching out.” Mlliage Tax May Be Hindered Dorothy Duniway: “I think that, although the faculty is trying to make a sincere effort to raise schol- ' arship by this method, the new sys tem of publishing grades of all stu dents lias its drawbacks. The chief objection, I think, is that students will be so eager to get good grades under this new system that they will work for ‘grades’ only and the gen eral scholarship will not be im proved. Students will be sure of good marks also by avoiding hard courses and the so-called ‘pipe’ courses will be overcrowded. It cannot be denied that pressure will be brought on some students so that they will feel they cannot afford to get low grades. 1 i also thing that the grades should not be published in April, since this may have a wrong effect on the people of the state in their attitude toward the niillage tax bill.” Appropriation is Considered Louise Davis:* “I think the print ing of the grades will be very detri mental because many people through out the state will be interested in one way or another in the appropria tion bill for the University, and if they see many low grades they may decide not to give any more of their money to keep up a school with such low scholarship.” Ella Rawlings: "I am very much opposed to printing the term grades in the Oregonian because there is no special good to be derived from it and better methods of raising the scholarship could bo resorted to. It might be better to investigate and obliviate(?) the causes for low grades, which are not always the stu dent’s fault. University students have passed the kindergarten stage and should not be treated as chil dren." Men Also Oppose System Eddie Durno: “I am absolutely op posed to the idea of publishing the grades of the students in the Oreg (Continued on page- 2)