Oregon Daily Emerald - UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16. 1921. | NO. 100. 11 COLLEGES WILL Bible University Will be Host; 200 Visitors Expected Friday Evening RALPH HOEBER WILL ’ REPRESENT OREGON Composition and Delivery to Be Judged; Award Is Gold Medal Student- orators representing nine Ore gon colleges will participate in the an imal state oratorical contest to be held this year at Eugenq under the auspices ! of the Eugene Bible University. The meeting is scheduled for Friday evening March IS. at 7:30 p. m., at the First Christian church. Plans for the entertainment of 200 visitors at a banquet following the ad dresses were announced yesterday by Jonathan Bridges of the Bible Univer- J sity. president of the state oratorical as sociation. who also gave out the names of the institutions to be represented by entries this year as follows: Univer sity of Oregon, Oregon Agricultural Col lege. Pacific University, Pacific College, State Normal School at Monmouth, Al bany College, McMinnville College, Will amette University and the Eugene Bible University. This is the second time the state con test has been scheduled at Eugene, two years ago the University of Oregon hav ing entertained the orators. A business meeting of flic association delegates will be held at 3:00 p. m. the day of the contest at the Bible University. Hoeber Represents University. Ralph Hoeber, senior in economics, will represent the University of Oregon speaking on the topic “The New Des potism,“ a theme dealing with present day industrial and labor problems. John Carter speaking on the subject “Our Unrealized Hope” is announced as the entry of the Bible University. Rules of the contest will follow close ly those of former years, according to President Bridges-. There will be no time limit but the contestants must limit their themes to 1500 words. Two sets of judges are provided for; one to judge on delivery and the other to decide on the merits of the composition. The latter consisting of the heads of the English departments, of several eastern uni vertities at present have the submitted copies of the orations and their decision is expected in a few days. Gold Medal to be Awarded. A gold medal is to be awarded the ; (Continued on Page 4.) CAMPUS, IS VISITED BY COUNTRY CIVICS CLASS Eighth Grade Pupils From Upper Camp Creek School Say They Want to Attend Oregon. •Tust fine,’ was the verdict of one of the members of a very much inter ested party who made their first visit to the campus yesterday. “You bet”, said one: “Hope so,” said another, when asked if they would choose Oregon for their future education. In fact, the entire four were enthusiastic about everything from the pioneer to the pink frosted cake that they had at Friendly hall, where they were entertained at lunch. 1 he school board of Upper Camp Creek district Xo. 5, of Lane county, de clared a holiday so that the eighth grade could make a visit to the campus and the county seat, and so they came, the entire four of them. But what they lacked in numbers they made up in en thusiasm. The visitors were Mable Dilute, Mary Fisher, Astrid Soleim and Beulah Thurman, so it seems that the future students from Upper Camp Creek are all to be girls, though a brother of one of them is at present a correspond ence student of Oregon. The tour was made under the direc tion of their teacher, Arnold Collier, who said they called it “practical civics day” and that they would visit the woolen mills and the county court house in the afternoon, before they returned up the McKenzie to district Xo. 5. According to Miss Mozelle Hair, who met Mr. Arnold at an institute this fall, there is an interesting history con nected with him. He is an ex-service man and accepted the post as teacher for the Camp Creek district, in spite of the fact that it was a section that had al ways given a great deal of trouble to those attempting the role of teacher. But he has worked on his homestead and in the school until today, Camp Creek district is known as one of the most orderly in the county. Mr. Collier is very happy in his work, he says, al though it’s a long jump from teaching art in the schools of Chicago, to teach ing all grades in the little old school house at Camp Creek. Y. W. C. A. BOARD ELECTS. ' The advisory board including both the new and old members met at the Y. W. C. A. bungalow Monday afternoon to elect officers for the following year. They are: President, Mrs. John Stark Evans; vice president, Mrs. C. A. E. Whitton; secretary. Miss Barbara Booth; treasurer, Mrs. G. E. Lehman. This board works in connection with the Y. W. C. A. and aids the girls in their Work. MISS DINSDALE IN ALBANY. Miss Tirza Dinsdale, Y. W. C. A. secretary, will speak to the girls at Albany College today on her work in Italy. She was asked to do this in con nection with a World’s Fellowship series being held in Albany. Berberis Darwini Et Cetera to Spring from Excavations From the many excavations and holes on the University campus the casual observer might be led to believe that the scientists in search for the lost garden of Eden had decided that the an cient menagerie had been located on the banks of the Willamette, but Donald Shepard. the University’s new land scape gardener, says that out of these holes will grow shrubs and trees which will greatly increase the beauty of the campus. * "W hat are the names of some of the hushes you are planting,” Mr. Shepard was asked. "Why, our plans call for*laurustinus, Ilcvberis darwini, American arbor vitae, Canton-.” "Well, the names are not necessary,” broke in the bewildered reporter,” but you might describe the kind of shrubbery which you have inserted iu the scenery adjacent to the library. Students are wondering if junipers or pine trees are to grow from the holes.” Mr. Shepard explained that the shrubs flamed directly in front of the library "ill create a beautiful evergreen effect when leafed out. The Berberis darwini tmu to an indescribable brownish-red hi (he fall and have green berries dur ing the winter months, and the other shrubs will greatly enhance the beauty and offset the dreary sight of uncam ouflaged brick walls. One each side of University street a vow of pin oaks has been planted. These oaks, asserts Mr. Shepard, are no tthe deliquescent variety, hut have a symmetrical pyramid shape when ma ture. They are not rapid in their growth, but will be assuming the pro portions of a real tree in a few years. Pin oaks are beautiful trees for an ave nue. said the landscape gardener. Although Mr. Shepard is making such an alteration in the campus scenery, he expresses his approval of the coniferaes and various deciduous trees. The sev eral Sequoia giganticus adjacent to Vil lard hall are beautiful specimens, Mr. Shepard avers. These trees are natives of California and attain enormous size in their native habitat. The evergreen trees, pines, firs and spruce, are pretty well grown out, the campus decorator believes, but are not endangering their own existence. He does not believe it a commendable plan to cut down some of the campus coniferaes, since an obvious gap would be made in the symmetry. New flower beds also have a place in the plans for campus beautification. The improvement in the local land scape will hardly be noticeably effective this year, says Mr. Shepard, but next year the shrubs will add much beauty to Oregon’s already pretty campus. In at taining this desired beauty Mr. Shepard said that the students can co-operate with him to a great extent by not tramp ing down the delicate shrubbery and by heeding the placarded signs. TWENTY IMPORTIIP POSITIONS HELD BY OREGON PROFESSORS Instructors Are Officers In Various National Bodies HIGH STANDARD SHOWN BY FACULTY ACTIVITY Score Listed Includes Five Women Among Those Who Are Prominent Approximately twenty members of the faculty of the University of Oregon are officers of national organizations or are holding positions of importance with in these bodies. This, based upon the lat est figures obtainable, is indicative of the high standard of the University which is reflected by the activities of its faculty. , Professor F. S. Dunn, of the Latin department, has recently been made an officer of the American Institute of College Professors. His position is on the council of this organization, which he will hold for the next three years. Professor Dunn is also the organizer and secretary of the Classical Associa tion of the Pacific Northwest. Dean Allen Has Vice Presidency. Eric W. Allen, dean of the department of journalism is vice president of the American Association of Schools of Journalism, and was recently appointed a member of^he committee on research. He is now at St. Augustine, Florida, at tending a meeting of the National Edi torial Association. , Dr. John F. Bovard, dean of the school of physical education, is vice president of the western division of the American Physical Education Society, to which position he was elected last year. Dean Elizabeth Fox is a member of the executive committee of the nation al council of Administrative Women in Education, of which organization Miss' Lilian Tingle, professor in the house hold arts department, is vice president. Miss M. L. Cummings, of the wo men’s physical education department, is chairman of the committee on health and physical education, and was ap pointed by the State Teacher’s Asso ciation to draft an amendment to Ore gon’s Compulsory Physical Education law. Architect Official Included. Ellis F. Lawrence, dean of the archi tectural department, is president of the Oregon chapter of the American Insti tue of Architects. Dr. Edmund Conklin, head of the psychology department was appointed by ex-Governor Withyeombe to a spe cial committee of three to investigate delinquents throughout the state. Dean John .T. Landsbury of the school of music, is a member of the National Committee of Public School Music. Professor James D. P.arnett, professor of political science, is a member of the board of editors of the American Politi cal Science Review, and also associate editor of the National Municipal Review, a i ublication dealing with city and state problems. Professor Ernest Sutherland Bates, head of the English department, is pres ident of the Oregon Council of English. Professor R. C. Clark, of the history department, is a member of the coast bianch of the American Historical As sociation. Cloran Helps Organization. Professor Timothy Cloran, of the language department, is the local organ izer of the American Association of University professors. Professor B. W. DeBusk, of the school of education, is a member of the Oregon Child Welfare Committee. Professor Robert C. Hall, of the school of journalism, is vice president of the Northwestern Association of Teachers of Journalism. Professor H. D. Sheldon, of the school of education, is organizer of the Oregon State Teachers Association. Mrs. W. F. G. Thacher, of the school of music, is national musical adviser to Mu Phi Epsilon. Professor F. G. Young, tof the school of sociology, is secretary of the Ameri can Historical Society, and also secre tary of the Oregon Conservation Com mittee. Miss Grace Edgiugton, assistant in structor in the department of rhetoric is the national organizer of Theta Sigms Phi, national women’s honorary journal ism fraternify. Colonel Leader, Here for Visit, Says Campus Is His Only Home; Sinn Feiners Sack Irish Estate If there's a.little extra breeziness about the campus this week, there’s a reason. Colonel Leader is “in our midst.” Lieutenant Colonel John Leader, for mer commander of the Royal Irish Rifles, wounded veteran of the Somme, is remembered by all who were at Ore gon during the war period, as the jazzy general of the University’s cadet corps and of the summer camps which devel oped so much of Oregon’s good military material for service at the front. He is often credited with doing more titan any other one man in the state to wake up Oregon to the need for wartime pre paredness, devoting to this task his wonderfpl abilities as an inspirer and an organizer. Colonel Leader is much attached to the University. “Only home I ever hart after many fears of wandering about the world,” he exploded as he slopped the reporter heavily on the back with one hand and squeezed his fingers to a pulp with the other. With Mrs. Leader he is visiting friends in Eugene for a few days, after his return from Ireland, where he spent several weeks. The Col onel had gone to Ireland to look after his estates in the south. The Sinn Fein representatives had sent word to him that they would leave his property alouo if he would agree not to allow royal troops to be quartered therein. “I sent hack a cablegram that the Sinn Fein could go to blazezs,” asserted the Col onel. “They did a thorough job,” he said, “left nothing standing on the place.” Here he went into big figures about, the amount of damage, adding that the government was reimbursing him for his loss with a few thousand dollars a year. The Irish, in Colonel Leader’s opin ion, are much better off in a material way than the English, despite the do mestic turmoil. This lit* attributes, in part, to the generous treatment given by the government to the Irish unem ployed. The Colonel’s visit to the old world appears to have confirmed him more than ever in his love of the new and of the west in particular. “This country,’’ lie said, “is as far ahead of England mentally as the English are ahead of us physically. They don't, seem to do any thinking over there.” Waiving argument on the point, the reporter quizzed the Colonel on the rea son for the Americans’ lack in physical condition. “No games, he said. The Colonel counts that day lost on which he has no outdoor sport, and he’d like to see everyone as rugged and hearty as he. But the English are throwing away this advantage, he declared by their alcoholic intemperance. “The liquor sit uation,” he declared, “is frightful— down even to the babes in arms.' I told them frankly over there that if they kept -it up they would find themselves a province of Canada or the United States. This, of course, added largely to my popularity,” he laughed. Colonel Leader was dismayed at. the lack of cordiality toward the United States displayed on the other, side. When lie says “us,” he means the Americans now. He said: “The feeling toward the United States? Not very good, I’m sorry to say.” Becoming more than usually sys tematic and grave, he continued, “There are lour reasons for that. First, the English, and the French too, for ^iat matter, are keenly disappointed by the Americans’ failure to enter the League. They believe it is somewhat due to un friendliness. They do not realize that the Americans are constitutionally inde (Continued on Page 4.) THETI SIGMA PHI'S TEH PIPER IS OUT Personal Items of Alumnae Included in Annual “The I-Iandshnke,” the annual publica tion of Theta Sigina Phi, women’s na tional journalism frat, made its appear-( auce on the campus last Friday, during the visit of the Grand President, Mrs. Mar garet Garvin Stone. This four-page magazine, which is edited by Mary Lou Burton, with Mary Ellen Bailey ns asso ciate editor, is devoted to the activities of the Theta chapter and items concern ing alumnae members. On the first page is an article on “The Woman’s National Journalistic Register, Inc.,” an occupational bureau which has recently been established with its headquarters in Chicago. This bu reau, which was voted on at the national convention held at Madison last year, has been organized with a view toward securing positions for Theta Sigma Phi’s an other trained women writers. Short personal items about alumnae members make up most of the magazine. These show the variety of work being done, which ranges from real newspa per work on big dailies to preparing three “squares” a day. Among those mentioned are Lucile Saunders, ’ll), who is taking a trip through South America; Helen Pohns Platt, who is tuking a spe cial libarary course at Platt Institute in New York; Bess Coleman Kelly, who enjoys her housekeeping just as much as the special play writing course she is taking at Columbia University; Dor othy Duniwa.v, ’20, who is working on the Oregonian, and Adelaide Lake. ’20, who is doing journalistic work on “Can ning Age." a Seattle publication. “The Handshake” also contains the names and addresses of all the active alumnae members, and asks for any cor rections or additions to the list. 53 IN TEACHERS’ COURSE. 1 An extension division course called school administration now has 53 stu dents registered in it. This is the high est number that has ever been regis tered in any extension division course. Many prominent principals and super intendents in the state, are registered in at. The entire number of registrations in the extension division is now 700. Dyment Represents Oregon at Salem Gathering. Colin V. Dyment, dean of the college of literature, science, and the arts, rep resented the University in Salem, Sat urday, at a meeting of the committee on higher education standards of the Ore gon State Teachers’ association, which completed the unification of college en trance requirements and standards. Rec ommendations outlined by the committee at a meeting January 22 were accepted by the University faculty at a special imeeting last Thursday. They have been adopted by nine other colleges and uni versities in the state, and have been ten tatively accepted by O. A. C., State Nor mal and Reed College. The committee, in two sessions, agreed tliut the higher educational institutions of the state, and particularly those specializing in liberal arts and sciences, should be as nearly uniform as possible in their entrance requirements and in their procedures. Inasmuch as 70 per cent of Portland’s high school graduates and »perhaps as high as 50 per cent of the high school graduates in the state go to higher edu cational institutions, it was declared de sirable that the postgraduate interest of such students be clearly recognized in the high school courses of study.' One of several' tendencies of high school students is to scatter among too great a number o^ subjects, it was de cided. The result was said to be tliut the student was not well prepared ip any subject to carry college work, which calls for substantial preparation in a smaller number of subjects. To help standardize procedure, a res olution was adopted that all colleges and universities of the state should be asked to make the recitation period of not less than 50 minutes in length, and that reg istrars should note on transcripts of credit for ouf-going sudents, both the length of the existing recitation periods and the number of hours required for graduation. It. also was recommended that no excess high school credits should receive college credits except by exam ination or satisfactory continuance of the subject. STIR TENNIS MEN OF CONST WILL BE SEEN IN BIG MEETS HERE Washington, California. O.A.C. Stanford and Washington State to Compete WILLAMETTE IN LIST FOR DUAL CONTEST Ken Smith and Frank Jue Only Veterans Back; Larre more and Warner Coach Oregon will play the host for two big tennis meets according to plans which have just been completed by assistant graduate manager .Tack Benefiel, the first meet coming on May 21 as an add ed attraction to the junior week-end festivities, while the second meet will probably be held on the week following although it is not definitely settled yet. The Pacific coast conference meet will hold the center of the stage on May 21, and teams from all the Pacific coast conference schools will be present to compete. These include, the University of California, the University of Wash ington, Stanford University, Oregon Ag ricultural College and Washington State College. Interest To Be Quickened. The meet scheduled for May 28 will include Willamette University, the Ore gon Aggies and Oregon, while a dual meet with Willamette will in all prob ability be arranged for June 4, with the Willamette teams coming" here. With these three tournaments scheduled for the campus, interest in tennis will,prob ably be revived this spring among the followers of the game at Oregon. Sam Bass Warner and Thomas Larre more of the faculty of the law school will act in the capacity of varsity ten nis coaches, according to Benefiel, *aud work will begin at. once. It is requested that, the candidates for the teams ham) in their names immediately to one of the conches however, when a “round robin” tournament will be arranged as an elim ination contest. A court will be re served for the varsity players at once, and regular practice will begin in order to give the aspirants plenty of time to got into shape for the elimination try outs which will take place next term. Miss Slotboom In Line. “Ken” Smith and Prank Jue are the only members of the men’s team who are on the campus this season, and Made line Slotboom will be the only veteran of the women’s team. A large number of candidates are expected to try out to represent the varsity, however in the coming elimination contests. Such stars as Phil Neer and Davies, both well-known tennis players in this section of the country, will represent Stanford this season, and some ex cellent matches pro assured for the meet. The institutions in the confer ence have practically all sent in the word that they will be represented. With the change in the requirements mnde at the last student body meeting for the tennis letters, it will mean that any who win their match in the confer ence meet or any members of the team who win two matches in either the tri angular meet or the Willamette dual meet; will win a letter. Tt is probable that regular gym credit will be given for tennis practice, as ar rangements are being made with that idea in mind by the coaches and assistant manager Benefiel. FACULTY HEARS PAPERS. Mrs. Eric Allen and Miss Celia Hager iread papers at the meeting of the corre spondence faculty of the extension di vision held in Oregon hall Thursday aft ernoon. Mrs. Allen pointed out that there were peculiar difficulties iu cor respondence work that are not found in any other work and slie believes that the correspondence courses should stimu late activity, make clear what is wanted, and get away as far as possible from text books. ♦ THESE MEN REPORT AT 4 ♦ ♦ TODAY ON KINCAID FIELD ♦ ♦ Sidney B. Smith, Vern O. Snider, ♦ ♦ William A. Sorsby, Ralph Spearow, ♦ ♦ Cliarlea J. Spere, Seott Stalker, ♦ ♦ Lyle W. Stewart, Wallace W. ♦ ♦ Strane, Phillip Strowbridge, Rob- ♦ ♦ ert F. Taylor, Lawrance Temple- ♦ ♦ ton, Byron W. Thomas, Charles F. ♦ ♦ Thompson, Flton H. Thompson, ♦ ♦ Spencer R. Trowbridge. * ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦<>♦♦♦