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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXII. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY. JUNE 2, 1921. NO. 144. SIX Jilt HU IB *121 CHOSEN f OR ASSISTSNTSHIPS Graduate Council Approves 18 of Number; Others to Be Named. NO RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 3 DEPARTMENTS Posts In Zoology, History and Sociology Are Yet to Be Filled. The University will employ 21 gradu ate assistants next year, IS of whom are already approved by the graduate conn ed. In the departments of history, zo ology and sociology, no recommendations have yet been made for the graduate as sistantships. Six .Tune graduates are among those approved for positions. In the department of botany, the as sistant will be Miss Isabel Xauerth, who receives a B. A. in June from the Uni versity of Iowa. For two years, she has been undergraduate assistant in the bot any laboratory there. i ne ui'iiurum'ui or enemisiry will navo William Skidmore, who is a graduate of Oregon and who lias assisted in the de partment this year. A new assistant in this department is Roger William Trues dail, who is receiving a B. S. in .Tune, from the University of Redlands, Cali fornia. Tie has acted as laboratory as sistant in chemistry at Redlands for two years. In economies. Mr. C. T. Stewart, a 1920 graduate of Indiana University, will as sist, in the absence of Professor Crock - att. Mr. Stewart has been teaching in the Medford high school this year. Miss Hawes Chosen. Mildred Hawes, who will be graduated in .Tune from the department of English literature, will assist in the department next year. She is a candidate for hon ors in English literature. In the depart ment of rhetoric, two Oregon graduates will be employed as assistants. Harold Lee, who will be graduated with honors in English literature and philosophy, and Sophus Winther, who received a B. A. with honors in 1919. Mr. Winther has been head of the department of English literature in the high school at Ham mond. Illinois, since his graduation. In the department of philosophy will be an other Oregon graduate, Norman Byrne who will receive a B. A. in June. The mathematics department will have as assistant Alice Thurston, who has been an honor student in the depart ment and has tutored a class in geom etry for the last two years. She fin ished her work for graduation in th? winter term, and began her graduate work this spring. Another .Tune graduate who will have an assistantship, js Claire j IToldredge, an honor student, in geology For the past year he has been under graduate assistant in the department. Others Are Picked. In physics. one assistant will lie Arthur Bramley, a student in the department, who will complete his work for a R. A. in the fall term of next year. Mr. Bramley’s scholarship record this year has been of unusual excel lence. The assistant in mechanics will be W. Howard Wise, who receives a degree in .Tune from Bozeman College, Montana. He has been a teaching assistant in Bozeman for the last two years. Mathilda Mathisen, a 101S graduate of Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin, will assist in the department of Latin. She assisted in the department! at Ripon. and since her graduation, has been teaching at Menomonie, Wisconsin. In Romance languages. Helen du Buy. who has assist ed this year, will continue in the assist antship. Education Assistants Named. Tn the department of psychology will be another Oregon graduate of this year Wilbur Ilulin. an honor student, who has assisted during the last two terms of this year, will continue in the department. A teaching fellowship will be held bs Thomas D. Cutsforth, a blind psychol ogist, who is now teaching at Riddle. Oregon. Mr. Cutsforth has done much research work, and has published sev eral papers on psychological problems. The school of education will hate as assistants Howard Lehman and Horace K. Lane, both of whom are receiving B A. degrees this .Tune. Mr. Lehman comes from Albany College and Mr. Lane from Montana Wesleyan College. This de partment may be given another assistant later. oiuuxljnt OFFICERS TO TAKE HOLD TODAY Financial and Other Committee Reports Will Be Featured at Last A. S. U. 0. Meeting of the Year. The installation of the A. S. TT. O. of ficers for the year 11121-22 will take place at the assembly today. This will he the last student body meeting of the car, although there will be one more assembly. The old and new student body presi dents will each give short addresses, and it is probable that President Campbell will say a few words. The graduate manager’s report will be read, as well as the reports of the vari ous standing committees. “Everybody out,” says Carlton Sav age, retiring president, “and give the new officers a good send-off.” “Better Business” Movements to Be Fostered. The University Ad dub has been made a member of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, according to word received by officers of the local organi zation. The Ad club was formed over a month ago and since that time has been working toward membership in the na tional association. The Associated Advertising Clubs con sists of 1SS local advertising clubs, com prising 19 national advertising associa tions, representing national advertisers newspapers, magazines and other adver tising agencies. There is a total mem bership of 20,000, chiefly in the United States and Canada. The national organization was started in 1905. One of its principal objects is the fostering of the better business move ment through the vigilance committee, by putting an end to all false and mis leading advertising. The importance of education in advertising has recently been recognized and a committee has been appointed in an effort to co-operate with the institutions by organizing a committee for that purpose. W. I’. Strondborg, vice-president of the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company, is vice-president of the As soeiated Advertising Clubs and is also a member of the educational committee Mr. Strandborg is eager to co-operate with the Ad club and will no doubt do much to aid it. Members of the national association will receive the monthly magazine, “As sociated Advertising,” published by the organization. MISSING EMERALDS WANTED AS FILES Old Copies of Oregon Catalogue Also Needed By Librarian to Com plete Collection. Copies of the Oregon Emerald of De cember 0, 1U10, and January 3, 1320, arc needed to complete the files of the student body publication at the library and any student or faculty member in possession of either of these lost issues would confer a favor on the library staff by leaving them at the desk. Other publications missing from the files, according to a recent library bulle tin and which the staff is anxious to obtain are: University of Oregon cata logues for 1881-1882 and 1882-18S3 and the following: IT. of O. bulletins Vol fi Xo. 2, Oregon H. S. Debating League Sept. 1908; Vol. 10 Xo. fl. Report of the President of the University, Feb. 1913. A number of volumes of the Oregana are available for exchange for other col lege annuals. A list of the Oregano dates will be sent upon request, says the announcement. The following volumes have been added to the library shelves in the past week: “As If”: “Creative Involution”: “American Bottles, Old and Xew.” and “Summary of the World ar Work of the American Y. M. C. A.” .MR. AND MRS. MOWREY VISIT. Dent Mowrey and wife, who have re cently returned from Xew York, are spending the week on the campus visit ing friends. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mowrey ire very prominent in musical circles throughout the west. Rex Underwood instructor in the school of music, and Mr Mowrey studied music in Europe at the same time. Mr. Mowrey’s mother is head resident at the Kappa Kappa Gam ma house. ORCHESTRA PROGRAM WILL OFFER VARIETY TO LOVERS OF MUSIC Alberta Potter, Frank Jue, Herbert Hacker Soloists Tomorrow Evening. POPULAR SELECTIONS TO BE GIVEN PLACE Trombone, Violin, and Tenor to Be Added to Numbers By Ensemble. Variety is the most expressive word to use in describing the program of the concert to be given by the University Orchestra in the Eugene theater tomor row evening. Included in the program are numbers ranging all the way from full orchestral selections to tenor solos. In spite of the varied nature of the concert, however, the backbone of the whole structure will be the numbers by the full orchestra, according to Rex Underwood, the director. There will be five of them. Even in them the tiresome repetition of music of the same kind is to be gotten away from. An overture followed by n good popular tune, thcu an operatic selection, and so it goes. “There is one thing that we can promise with out. fear of the consequences,” said Mr. Underwood. “There is variety enough for anyone.” "Paghaccr On Program. Tho operatic selection is from “Pag liacci,” one of the most tuneful operas written. Tn it, as in “Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna.” overture, the or chestra is given an opportunity to do its best. Each instrument is allowed to show what it can do. “Prelude,” by Rachmaninoff, is the number so often used as a piano solo. With the orches l tra all the mellow depths and the rich crescendos of the selection can be brought out to a much greater extent than is possible on the piano alone. In between the regular program num bers will be found several popular tunes played by the whole orchestra. Among thoese will be the “music box number.” The second part of the program will be given over to solos and the feature numbers. Two violin solos by Alberta Potter open the period. The same solos were given in the Ileilig theater. Port land, recently, as part of the Girls’ Glee club concert. At that time the Oregonian commented on her “excellent technique.” Jazz Not Omitted. Frank .Tue, the popular tenor, though listed for only solo, will be forced to sing several, judging from past appear ances. The remainder of the second section of the program will be filled with the two jazz numbers. Herbert Hacker caused more mirth in the towns of southern Oregon with his trombone than any other one member of the orchestra. His solo, “Slides T'rora (Continued on Page 4.) STUDY OF CHEMISTRY IT WAY TO WEALTH Dr. Shinn Speaks of Hard Work In Profession. At the last chemists’ meeting of the year held last week in McClure hall, Dr. F. D. Shinn reminded the students that in the chemistry profession a student could not graduate with a B. S. degree and at once get a job which pays well. “It takes a B. A. degree, a doctor’s de gree, and years of experience before n person can get work in the profession which is good in a material way,” said Dr. Shinn. However, the outlook is brighter in this country than it has ever been before because the war excluded German products. Dr. Shinn said that if congress sees fit to place a tariff on chemistry products made in Germany the future of the chemists in this country will be still better. According to Dr. Shinn the only thing that should call anyone into the profes sion is pure love for the work. Dr. R: .1 Williams also spoke on the future, in the chemistry profession. The meeting was open to the public and many persons interested in chem istry were there. Plans were discussed for a picnic, lftit no definite arrangements were made. Professor .7. L. Whitman was elected to membership in the club. Bones of Extinct Monster, Veteran of Oregon’s Ice Age, Donated to Condon Museum Thousands and thousands, perhaps mil lions of years ago, a giant animal, re sembling a mastodon, lay down to die near the present site of McMinnville. Oregon. This animal, thought by Dr. I’ucknrd, of the geology department, to be the ancestor of the mastodon, which in turn is the ancestor of the modern elephant, may have succumbed to the cold, for it lived during the Pleistocene, or ice age. “At the time this giant animal lived,” said Dr. Packard, “the climate of Ore gon, Washington and the rest of this region was very cold. Immense sheets of ice spread over the country, Puget Sound was a great glacier, so this father of the mastodon probably had a great many things to contend with.” The fossils of this animal, found by Mr. Wardele, a jeweler residing at Mc Minnville, were recently donated to the geology department and will be made a part of the museum started by Dr. Con don. Parts of.tRfe animal found, were a jaw. with two remarkably well-pre served teeth, a leg bone, four feet ir< I length. which is completely preserved, I and a fragment of a tusk about four feet i long, and with a diameter of nine inches, i showing that it was about seven feet in j length. i “Specimens such as these, especially j ones so large and well-preserved, are very rare,” I>r. Packard explained. “It is plain to be seen that they are parts of an animal that easily exceeds the mas todon in size, and which, in all prob ability, is an ancestor of the mastodon itself. Interesting developments may be expected from the study of this pre historic animal.” Mr. Wardele discovered these relics along the banks of the Yamhill river about 40 fee; below the level of the flood plain. Fragments, such as teeth, parts of ribs, and parts of tusks have been found in other pnrts of the northwest, showing that mastodons existed in this region. Included in the collection donated by Mr. Wardele were teeth of mammoths, teeth of ancient horses, and other inter esting specimens of pre-historic life. 18 SENIORS RECEIVE TEACHING POSITIONS Students Aided By Appoint ment Bureau On Campus. Eighteen seniors or former graduates of the University have been given teach ing positions in high schools through the gupointinent bureau of the school of edu cation, says Professor (’. A. Gregory, who is head of the bureau. These 18 are the students and grad uates who have been definitely placed. “A number who have* been offered posi tions have not accepted, and a number who have not as yet been favorably placed are being favorably considered for various positions,” Dr. Gregory said. | “We have not been able to supply the demand for teachers of science and ath letic coaches for men.” Those who have received apopintments for next year, the high schools where they will teach, and their subjects, are as follows: Beatrice L. Grewdson, Mc ! Minnville, languages; Deo II. Cossman, Vale, science; Lester It. Gladden, The Dalles, mathematics; Marie Hidings, Ash land, mathematics; Alice Hamm, Mc Minnville, English; Edith L. Pirie, Her* mist on, science; Laura Moates, Univer sity of Oregon, graduate assistant in English; Mary Turner, Kedmond, French; Wanda Brown, Klamath Falls, science; Howard S. Wines, Klamath Falls, com merce; lthetta Templeton, North Bend, Spanish; Leota Rogers, Ashland, Eng lish; Naomi Robbins, McMinnville, phy sical education; Enid Lamb, Eugene Bible University, mathematics and English: Eve Hutchinson, Baker, English. These students are all seniors. In addition to this year's graduates, Ruth Wilson, ’18. has been appointed through the bureau to teach mathematics in the Pendleton high school, Leone Graham, ’HO, to teach Eng lish in the Enterprise high school, and Alice Farnsworth, ’13, to teach commerce in the Gresham high school. Read Bain, who will be graduated this June, has been offered positions in Port land and Medford. Dr. Gregory says, but will probably remain at the University as a graduate assistant. All students and former students ot the University who are qualified to hold teaching positions may receive the ser vices of the appointment bureau. School superintendents throughout the state re port vacancies to the bureau, which rec ommends wherever possible. The school boards take action upon these applica tions. and report the result. The ap pointment bureau also sends out circular letters to school superintendents, asking them to report any vacancies. CLAIREL OGLE VISITS. Olairel (“Tub”) Ogle, a graduate in the class of ’1G, has been visiting friends on the campus for the past week end. “Tub” is taking a little vacation after a strenuous year at the Oregon Medical school. lie expects to go cast next year and complete his medical course at Har vard. Mr. Ogle is a member of Jielta Tau Delta and Xu Sigma Xu. While in Eugene he was the guest of his frater nity brothers and visited with other friends on the campus. FOREIGN GIRLS WILL GO TO CONFERENCE Y. W. Invites |One to Asilo mar; Two to Seabeck. Three foreign students nt the Univer sity will attend V. W. C. A. student eon ferenees this summer as international representatives. (Jermaine Dew, Anna Karagozian and Lillian Goon are the girls from Oregon who have been invited to go to the cotiferenees by the national board of the association. Germaine Dew is going to attend the conference at Asilomar, California, tiie student center. She is planning on con tinuing her work nt Stanford next year so this will be the conference in which she is interested. Miss Dew expects to return to France after she has completed her education and so some sort of social service work. Since she has been in the United States Miss Dew has worked her way through college as her property in France his yielded no income since the wa r. ■‘I want to get a lot of Y. W. O. A. experience, and I think going to the Sea hcck conference will give me a broader outlook on the work,” said Anna Kara* gov;inn when asked about her prospective trip to Seabeck. Anna is very anxious to learn all she can about Y. W. C. A. work, is it is her ambition to go back to Armenia and serve her people as an association secretary. Lillian Goon lias been asked to go to the high school girls’ conference at Pay ette, Idaho, as a representative of her couniry. The University will not. be out in time for her to attend this meeting but she is going to Seabeck if possible Lillian is also very much interested in Y. W. 0. A. work and hopes to be able to go to China in a few years and work in her own country. NO TROUBLE TO GET CREAM CONES TODAY Girls of Phi Theta Kappa to Be All Over Campus; Raising Money For Scholarship. If you see a sedate senior, sitting on the library stops, biting the top off of a big ice cream cone, or better yet, if campus piggers treat their girls to ice cream cones before the eyes of the ad miring world todny, don’t be surprised. Today is ice cream cone day, staged by the girls of Phi Theta Kappa, honor ary commerce fraternity, for the purpose of raising a $.10 scholarship fund for a junior or senior commerce major. Tla Nichols, president of the organization, will have charge of the sale, which will be held between !) and 5. (’ones will j cost 5 cents. | The following initiated members will | conduct the sale: 11a Nichols. Lulu Rasor | Dorothy Lowry, Mildred Aumillor, Vir i ginia McDougle, Marian Taylor. Esther Fell, Helen Nelson and Madeline Mc Manus. They will be assisted by six Phi Theta Kappa pledges. PLEDGING ANNOUNCED. Phi Sigma Pi announces the pledging of Archie Morrifield, of Marshfield, Oregon Sixty-six Men Subscribe $4.00 Average Each to Help Work On Campus. $2000 MARK IS GOAL IN VIEW FOR TONIGHT Promoters at Luncheon Hear Talks on What Y. Means to Students. At noon yesterday the biggest drive for funds ever staged by the University V M. I'. A. received a big boost, when the (it! campaigners who have been olios en to solicit funds subscribed, out of their own pockets, approximately .$4 apiece, to show their faith in the work. The launching of the drive was attend ed by a luncheon, served by the girls of the campus V. W. C. A. and paid for by the churches of Eugene. There was practically a 100 per cent turnout of workers and the spirit which was shown indicated a very successful campaign, ac cording to President Callaway. Among the speakers at the luncheon was Harris Ellsworth, who told of the work of the Y. M. C. A. on the campus and emphasized the effect which the drive will have in keeping Hal Donnelly, campus secretary, at the University. “Hal has received a number of offers from other schools," said Ellsworth, "but the vote of confidence which the successful termination of the campaign will give him, will probably mean that he will re main on the campus for at least another year.” To Be Collected Next Fall. “Danny” Woods explained the general financial standing of the Y. M. C. A. and pointed out the fact that the money would not. be collected until next fall, when student poeketbooks would stand the strain more easily. Speaking along this same line, Roy Veatch, who head’ the “Reds,” snid that students should consider the* Y. work as a part of their necessary expenses at the beginning of eaeli school your. llal Donnelly outlined the work of the campus Y. during the past year, telling of the many social events, of the frosh “biblo” and of the bringing of good speakers to the campus. All of which were distinctly Y. M. C. A. activities. “The Oregon University Y. M. Cl. A. is an organization of students and by stu dents,” he said, “and the central office or the secretary has no authority over the way the affairs are conducted. We are merely to help the students put across the work which they outline.” Callaway Is Toastmaster. Owen Callaway, president of the cam pus V, acted as toastmaster of the lunch eon. Immediately following the meal the workers and the officers present mnde their personal subscriptions. Elston Ire land, leader of the “Blues,” and Roy Veatch, of the “Reds,” each made a talk The campaign will Inst until Friday noon and if yesterday afternoon’s pledg ings is any criterion the $2000 mark will be reached by tonight. Luncheons will be held each day for the workers, who will compare notes and make plans for rounding up any slacker organizations that, do not do their share in the drive. Men not in campus orga nizntions will be solicited by their own group of workers ami each house has been assigned two men. It is the aim of the drive to reach every man on the campus. A report which was road at the lunch eon yesterday and which is of interest to supporters of the campaign follows: The men at the University of Oregon contributed $250 to the budget of the campus Y. M. C. A. for the past year, as compared with $1200 at O. A. f\, $1500 at the University of Southern California and like amounts at other universities of the same caliber. The University of Washington Y. M. C. A., besides its regular budget, raised $2000 for work in China, the University California $0000, and the University of Southern California $2500. In every case the sum pledged was more than was asked for in the campaign. The average student budget of the Y. M. C. A.’s in state universities all over the country is $.'!SS0. and the average subscription is $250 for evefy 100 men enrolled. The University of Oregon Ab solution is asking for $2000, which con forms to this average.