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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1921)
Oregon Daily Emerald HARRY A. SMITH, Editor. RAYMOND E. VESTER, Member Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. Associate Editor .Lyle Bryson News Editor.Charles E. Gratke Assistant News Editors Velma Rupert, Elisabeth Whitehouse John Dierdorff. Sports Editor.Floyd Maxwell Sports Writers Eugene Kelty Edwin Hoyt Don D. Huntress Statistician I Night Editors ^ Wilford C. Allen. Carlton K. Logan, Reuel S. Moore, Kenneth Touel. News Service Editor ... .Jacob Jacobson Assistants Alexander Brown, Eunice Zimmerman ---1 Feature Writers .E. J. H.( Mary Lou Burton, Frances Quisenberry ' ---- . .. ------ --•) News Staff—Fred Quyon, Margaret Scott, Kay Bald, Owen Callaway, Jean Strachan, Inez King, Lenore Cram, Doris Parker, Phil Brogan, Raymond D. Law rence, Margaret Carter, Florence Skinner, Emily Houston, Mary Traux, Pauline Coad, Howard Bailey, Arthur Rudd, Ruth Austin, Madalene Logan, Mabel Gilham, Jessie Thompson, Hugh Starkweather, Jennie Perkins, Claire Beale, Dan Lyons, John Anderson, Florence Walsh, Maybelle Leavitt. ---1 Associate Manager ......Webster Ruble Advertising Manager .George McIntyre Circulation Manager.A1 Krohn Staff Assistants: James Meek, Randal Jones, Jason McCune, Ben Reed, Mary Alexander, Elwyn Craven, Donald Bennett. Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Entered in the post office at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Sub scription rates $2.25 per year. By term,'75c. Advertising rates upon application. PHONES: Campus office—€55. Downtown office—1200. "WEIGHTED” GRADES. The faculty of the University has adopted a system of “weighted” grades, an entirely new step for Oregon, a step to wards the high scholastic standard which the University has been working for all year. Approximately half of the Amer ican institutions of higher learning use some system of “weighted” grades, systems similar to that to 'be used here and being followed at such schools as the University of "Wash ington, Montana, Grinnell, Maine, Simmons, Ohio, Arizona, and Ihaverford. California and Arizona have but'recently adopted a system of “weighted” grades. The faculty adopted the present plan after due consider ation of all other methods, believing that making it necessary for 140 of the 186 hours required for graduation to be above V was the best system for Oregon. An analysis of previous graduating classes was made, which showed in one year that 29£ per cent of the total number of graduates averaged in their four years a grade lower than the present grade of IV. It was also found that there were members in that class with V aver ages for the four years, and members of the present graduat ing class with the same low average for their four years of collegiate work. Oregon students should not look upon this action of the faculty as anything which will curtail student activity or work unnecessary hardships. The faculty feels that the high average is the thing to he desired, and that no premium should be placed on the good gradle, the full completion of the reg ular number of hours still be required of all students. Mak ing it necessary for 140 hours of the 180 to be IV or better is, however placing a discount upon poor grades. The eflect of the “weighted” grades system upon the average or good student will be negligible. Its effect will be upon the poor student, who has been slipping through the Uni versity with barely passable grades and receiving the same degree as his classmate who earns the highest grades. It means that some students must remain in school longer in or dei to obtain the 140 hours above the grade of V. It may work a hardship on the loafer. The adoption of the “weighted” grades system is a big step lor Oregon—a step towards a University which is to be recognized because of its high scholastic standards. RESEARCH FUND VOTED Faculty Makes Provision for Projects; 20 Men At Work. Provision for u fund to be set aside each year for the promotion of research nt the University has been made by the faculty. It wus decided that this fund shall not be used to increase the ei/U>lu mont.s of any member of the faculty who s doing research. The research committee, of which Dr. I1.. L. Packard, acting he.ad of the de partment of geology, is chairman, has de fined the word to mean “a definite, orig nal contribution to knowledge,” Ac cording to Denu Dyment, there are in ’he University about 20 men with re icarch projects definitely outlined or tin ier way for completion this year. OREGANA TO AID OREGON Copies To Be Sent All High Schools In State ot Washington. Oreganas are to be sent to all the high schools in the state of Washington and all prospective college students in these schools are being sent the bulle tins and publications of the various de partments of tin* University of Oregon. This work is being carried on by Miss Jeannette Calkins and Alfred Powers of the extension division, with the assist ance of John Braddoek, who recently or ganized the Washington club on the cam pus. j The idea is to interest the students in the high schools of that state in the work and life of this University. Through the co-operation of the various members of the Washington club, the names of many prospective students have been obtain ed. COLLEGE GIRLS RACE TO CLASSES “Keep Fit" week at the University of Washington with a formula for an hour’s exercise a day caught eo-eds purposely starting to classes late so they might run without appearing “perfectly idiotic.” An other requirement is to get to bed at 10:15 p. m. Some do, but they are not students. ♦ Patronize Emerald Advertisers ♦ ♦ ♦.♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Announcements *-* Darwin Lecture. — Professor Walter C. Barnes will address the Eliot Club on “Darwinism and Character,” Sunday evening, March 6, at 7:30, at the Uni tarian church, on the comer of Eleventh and Ferry streets. All University stu dents are cordially invited. Women’s Oregon Club. — Meeting \Monday, March 7, at 7 p. m., at the Y. W. C. A. bungalow. All members out. Soccer Game. — Oregon, plays Eugene All Stars 2:30 Saturday afternoon on Hayward field. Admission free. Towns , people invited. Oregon Club. — Meeting Monday at 7:15 in Y. hut. Plans for baseball will be discussed. Dean Robbins’ Economics Classes. — The assignment for Tuesday, March 8, for the eight and nine o’clock sections of 1 principles of economics is to study the trust movement in America and forms of combination. The assignment is found in Taussig, pages 415) to 424; Seager, old edition, 442 to 448; new edition, 450 to 456; Hamilton, new edition, 439 to> 449. Law Lectures. •— Beginning Monday morning at 10 o’clock, L. F. Mercer will give a series of lectures on Books of Law and Books of Index, or How to Find the Law. The lectures are open to all law students. Masons. — There will be a meeting of the Craftsmen Wednesday, March 9, at 5 p. m., dinner after meeting. The of ficers of the Eugene Lodge will be our guests. STUDESflSLETTER FROM MO SKU Famous English. Author is Interested in Campus Writing no honor thesis may have in teresting side incidents — as Mildred Hawes has discovered. She is a senior | honor student in English literature, and chose as her thesis topic* “Literary Criti cism and Evaluation of the Books of May Sinclair.” This ambitious honor student read May Sinclair’s books, and then, about six weeks ago, she wrote a letter to the English author. “I didn’t tell anybody I had written the letter,” said Miss Hawes, “until I received the answer; and here it is,” she finished, taking an envelope out of a green and gold memory book. The letter is written on ordinary white writing paper in a rather cramped ver tical hand, with many divisions between letters in words. This is what it says: 1 Blenheim Hoad, N. W. S. Dear Miss Hawes: Thank you very much for your letter. I am immensely pleused and interested to hear that the students of the Univer sity of Oregon are making a serious study of my books. I am sending you a copy (if I can get one) of the October “Bookman.” It has a short personal article on me by Mrs. C. A. Dawson Scott. There were a great many personal things—such as references to tragedies in my family and the color of my study curtains, which I asked the editor to take out (both curtains and tragedy being irrevelant to the subject.) The fact is, I hate personal articles. I hate giving details about my life. It is really interesting to know that I live six months in London and six months at Stow’-on-the-Wold?? Nothing matters but the inner life of an author and you’ll find bits of it in nil my books—only bits, phrases here and there. But you’ll find most of it— all that matters—in “Mary Olivier” and in my “A Defense of Idealism,” and “Journal of Impressions in Belgium.” (This last has a lot that’s external, too.) Let me thank you again for your ap preciation: this sort of recognition is among the most encouraging things that can happen to a writer. Sincerely yours, MAY SINCLAIR. SCHROFF IS ‘NOT GUILTY’ Chromatic Dizziness on Art Building Not His Doing, says Professor Professor A. II. Sehroff of the school of fine arts yesterday made forceful protest at the accusations made against his department as to the responsibility for the color scheme placed on the ex terior of the new art building. Mi Sehroff's department was in no \v.!\ icsponsiblf for the variegated pol ychromatic color scheme of the building now occupied by the departments of sculpture and normal art, he says, ad miting that the fling of the Campus Cynic, through factious, was eminently just. Deau Lawrence has definitely decided i now to use the tan color which Mr. Sehroff mixed for the interior walls of his department in the architecture. DEMI JUiEN KEEPING HIS STUDENTS BUSY Professors and Majors Take Care of Daily Classes Dean Allen’s two classes, publishing and editing, have not lost any work since the dean started on his trip south, but the class periods are carried on in a little different manner. In the editing class professors, and majors in the school of journalism have been selected to give talks on the subjects with which they are familiar in connection with journalism. Monday Dean W. G. Hale, of the law school will deliver a lecture on “What the reporter should know about the law and law courts. Monday, February 28, Miss Jeannette Calkins and Charlie Fenton, publishers of the Old Oregon, spoke on how to or ganize a small magazine and how to make £t. Tuesday Miss Grace ^ Edgington told how to edit a small magazine and how to keep the people interested, and the subscriptions coming in. Miss Edging ton is the editor of the Old Oregon. Wednesday, Charles H. Fisher, editor of The Guard, told the students of the principles of success in journalism, and Thursday Alfred Powers spoke on feature writing. Next Tuesday Dean C. V. Dy ment will have charge of the class and every day until Dean Dean Allen comes back some professor or student is listed to have charge of the class. The publishing class, a class that meets only twice a week has been car ried on in much the same manner. Miss Jean Strachan was appointed chairman of the class and each day some one speaks on subjects with which he is par ticularly familiar. Tuesday, March 8, Stanley Eisman, editor of the Lemon Punch, will talk on how to make a maga zine look right. Thursday Harry Smith, editor of the Emerald, spoke of the make up of a paper the size of the Emerald and the Tuesday before Pro fessor Turnbull told the students about the make-up department of a big city paper. Wing’s Market Quality, Service and Low Prices. Fresh and Cured Meats. Phone 38. 675 Willamette Street. DID YOU NOTICE OUR WINDOWS f 5wiett}#tan$ (tlotiic Oh Mister! They’re here today— Drop in and see the new “Follies” Novelty Handkerchiefs— Spring ones—you bet. Sports, Dots and Patterns. Have one for Blow and one for Show. * mentis aai5<gair 713 Willamette l. ~v. ■ . -'What Is Air Pressure? THE air is composed of molecules. They constantly bombard you from all sides. A thousand taps by a thousand knuckles* will close a barn door. The taps as a whole constitute a push. So the constant bombardment of the air molecules constitutes a push. At sea-level the air molecules push against every square inch of you with a total pressure of nearly fifteen pounds. Pressure, then, is merely a matter of bombarding mole cules. When you boil water you make its molecules fly off. The water molecules collide with the air molecules. It takes a higher temperature to boil water at sea-level than on Pike’s Peak. Why? Because there are more bombarding molecules at sea-level—more pressure. > Take away all the air pressure and you have a perfect vacuum. A perfect vacuum has never been created. In the best vacuum obtainable there are still over two billion mole cules of air per cubic centimeter, or about as many as there are people on the whole earth. Heat a substance in a vacuum and you may discover properties not revealed under ordinary pressure. A new field for scientific exploration is opened. Into this field the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company have penetrated. Thus one of the chem ists in the Research Laboratories studied the disintegration of heated metals in highly exhausted bulbs. What happened to the glowing filament of a lamp, for example? The glass blackened. But why? He discovered that the metal dis tilled in the vacuum depositing on the glass. This was research in pure science — research in what maj be called the chemistry and physics of high vacua. It was undertaken to answer a question. It ended in.the dis covery of a method of filling lamp bulbs with an inert gas under pressure so that the filament would not evaporate so readily. Thus the efficient gas-filled lamp of today grew out of a purely scientific inquiry. So, unforeseen, practical benefits often result when research is broadly applied. 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