Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXIII. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1921 NUMBER 49
NEW INSTITUTION
SEEN ON CAMPUS
Graduate School Assumes Important
Place in University Life; Higher
Degrees Granted to 14 Last Year.
DEAN REBEC CITES
QUICK GROWTH
Says Introduction of Methods and
Spirit of Advanced Study Tends
to Improve Work Even Down to
Freshmen.
What of the graduate school?
The old time Oregon campus of which
the alumnus tells and sings, knew lit
tle of anything academic beyond the
A. B. degree. When a man was a
senior he was at the top; when he was
graduated he was through; a “course”
was four years unless by reason of
flunks it was five.
The graduate school, whose students
have been in the University five or
six or seven years, and its influence
have crept into the University life in
the last few years almost imperceptibly
so far as the average student is con
cerned. “Average student?” said we?
Nay, nay, his very standing is af
fected; he is called “undergraduate”
now, if you please.
Last Commencement the University
granted 149 bachelors’ degrees and 14
masters’ and higher, almost one degree
out of every 10 being for graduate
work. Few students have noticed the
growth of the graduate school to such
proportionate importance on the cam
pus, principally, perhaps, because the
graduate student retains his old con
nection with his special department,
though he is now no longer a member
of the college, but of the graduate
school.
Dean George Rebec undertook vcster
dav to discuss what the rapid growth of
the graduate school, of which he is
the head, must mean to the University
as time goes by. And it means many
subtle changes in atmosphere and uni
versity spirit, he believes, which will
affect not only its own members but
the whole University.
This development involves differ
ences, he said, in attitude towards the
curriculum, changes in relation to out
side activities, new qualifications for
appointment and promotion of faculty
members, and a new apportionment of
the way in which faculty members
divide their time between different
duties.
The heart and center of a successful
graduate school, said Dean Rebec, is
preoccupation with the interests of the
intellectual life, but the School cannot
-thrive in this respect unless the rest
of its University thrives with it. A
man cannot live four years in the at
-mosphere of reluctant performance of
set daily tasks for a tyrannical master
and then in the fifth year suddenly
transform himself into a disciple of
liberal learning, a fit candidate for one
of the University’s higher degrees.
The recent “raising of standards”
in the undergraduate departments has
been a great thing for the graduate
school, according to Dean Rebec. It
has placed a temporary emphasis upon
“marks and grades,” but it is really
leading to something quite different.
It is bringing nearer, he maintains, the
atmosphere of “liberal learning” in
which courses, as such, will be of little
account, as they are now in the grad
uate school. The post-graduate studies
a subject, he explains, and not a course;
if a course will help him with his
subject he takes it, but it is mastery of
his subject he is after, not gradeB in
his course, or credits.
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On the graduate school will depend
the rank of the University throughout
the country; as the graduate work
thrives or withers, the University’s
reputation throughout the world will
go up or down. Faculty men and
graduate students must receive recog
nition for research activities; their
names must appear as authors of ar
ticles in professional magazines; pro
fessors must have more time for other
work than teaching; seminars must re
place classes even where the number of
advanced students is very small.
The graduate student gradually with
draws from undergraduate “activi
ties.” perhaps he no longer cares to
live in the fraternity house, but he
is an important member of the Univer
sity, and, according to Dean Rebec,
destined to become more so. And very
largely as he does his part both on the
campus and in after life, the Univer
sity of Oregon will have the academic
reputation that will place it high among
the institutions of the country. He
can perform a service to the institu
tion which the undergraduate cannot.
“CALLING DAT” HELD
The first “calling day,” a new in
stitution among the faculty women,
faculty wives, amd faculty mothers,
was held yesterday afternoon in the
Alumni hall between 3 and *6, when
Mrs. Eric W. Allen and Mrs. R. C.
Baird entertained. Owing to the im
possible burden of formal calls, which
the constantly widening circle of fac
ulty women has entailed, a “calling
day” upon the second Thursday of
every month, has been agreed upon.
All faculty women are urged to come,
as this will afford a means of meet
ing new members and becoming more
closely acquainted with the old ones.
FOURTH NEWSPAPER
CONFERENCE TO BE
HERE NEXT MONTH
Advertising and Business Side
of Journalism to be
Discussed
NOTED MEN WILL SPEAK
Banquet at Osburn Will Be
Feature of Entertainment
of Campus Visitors
The Fourth Annual Oregon State
Newspaper Conference will be held
January 13 and 14 under the auspices
of the school of journalism according
to the announcement of Dean Eric W.
Allen today. At the same time Presi
dent Elbert Bede of the State Editor
ial Association has called a special
meeting, and Superintendent Paul
Cowles of the Western district of the
Associated Press is arranging for a con
ference of the 19 members in the state.
In addition to successful editors and
managers of Oregon newspapers the
program has been arranged to include
several men whose work has attracted
national attention. Better speakers
and live discussion from the very first
will be the feature.
Prominent Editor to Talk
James Wright Brown, Editor of Edi
tor and Publisher, leading trade pub
lication in the newspaper world, who is
characterized by Dean Allen as, “one
of the best informed men in the coun
try on general conditions affecting
newspapers, both on the business and
editorial side, will be one of the speak
ers at the conference.
Either Dean M. L. Spencer of the
school of journalism at the University
of Washington or Professor Fred
(“Pa”) Kennedy, veteran^ organizer
of press associations, and teacher of
business methods and cost systems at
Washington, will appear on the pro
gram.
Friday will be given over to the dis
cussion of problems of the advertising
and business side. The program will
be lead off by Ernest Gilstrap, business
manager of the Eugene Register and
G. Lancing Hurd of the Corvallis
Gazette-Times. H. L. St. Clair of the
Gresham Outlook, Herbert J. Campbell,
of the Vancouver Columbian, Vice
president of the conference, Harry
Dence of the Carlton Sentinel, Paul
Robinson of the Aurora Observer, and
Upton H. Gibbs, editor of the Esta
cada News will be speakers.
Large Attendance Expected
Many replies have been received
from letters sent out to Oregon news
paper men and from all indications the |
attendance will be larger than ever
before, according to Dean Allen. In
addition to Oregon editors a delegation
from the University of Washington is
expected with representatives of the
Washington State Editorial association.
The meetings of the conference will
be held in the league room of the Wo
man’s building. The banquet will be
under the auspices of the Eugene
chamber of commerce and the local
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, and will
be held at the Osburn hotel. The
Saturday noon luncheon will be at
Hendricks hall. Special arrangements
%re being made to take care of the
ladies who are present, ns usually a
large number of wives of the news
paper men accompany them to the con
ference.
The students of the school of jour
nalism are to publish a small sheet
entitled, “Jibes and Scribes,” which
will come out in honor of the visitors.
HENDRICKS GIRLS VICTORS
Susan Campbell Defeated 21 to 11;
Kappas Beat Pi Phis’
Hendricks Hall proved themselves
victors in League I yesterday when
they defeated the Susan Campbell team
by a score of 21 to 11. Kappa Kappa
Gamma also won their game from Pi
Beta Phi, 8 to 5.
Hendricks’ game yesterday waa
their last and leaves them the
only undefeated team in their league,
and entitles them to meet Oregon
Club in the final game. The two teams
are evenly matched and it is hard to
predict what the outcome will be. In
the game yesterday Grace Sullivan
played especially well for the winners,
shooting all but two of their baskets.
Oletta Pedersen took care of most of
the basket shooting for the Susan
Campbell.
•* Pledging Announced
Delta Tau Delta announces the pledg
ing of Charles Jost of Dallas, Oregon.
Sororities to
Give Out Xmas
Cheer to Tots
’Member how a Christmas tree
thrilled you, when you were so small
that it was a century from one
Christmas to another? 'Member the
the dinner that helped make Christ
mas an especially glorious festivity?
This Christmas thrills and dinners of
this variety will be distributed in
Eugene by various sororities.
Ten little children will feast their
eyes upon a lovely Christmas tree
and feast otherwise upon everything
that is necessary to make a Christ
mas dinner perfect at the Theta
house Saturday evening.
Twenty little boys and girls will
feel the supreme pleasure of going
to a real show, a fairy tale come true,
when they see “ Swanwhlte ” Fri
day afternoon as guests of the Ohl
Omegas. Chi Omega will send five
baskets, containing food—everything
from meat to jam—and clothing, to
destitute families.
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Ohl
Omega, and Delta Gamma will give
toys to the Y. W. C. A. for distribu
tion. Their method it this: each girl
draws the name of one of her sis
ters and gives her a gift. When the
gifts have been fully appreciated,
they are turned over to the Y. W. O.
A.
Gamma Phi girls will either send a
basket of food and toys to a family
or have a tree for some children.
Delta Delta Delta and Zeta Bho
Epsilon have not decided just what
they will do in the way of charity
this year.
Hendricks Hall and Susan Camp
bell Hall girls are exchanging 15
cent gifts, also, which will be given
to the Y. W. C. A. for distribution
among the poor children of the city.
Both halls are giving their Christmas
dinners on Friday evening. Hen
dricks Hall girls will have their
Christmas tree, stunt show, dance,
and gift exchange after their din
ner on Friday, while the girls of
Susan Campbell will have their
Christmas tree and exchange of lot
tery gifts at 10:30 Saturday night
after the concert.
CHI PSI WINNERS IN DEBATE
CHAMPIONSHIP SHIELD GOES TO
VICTORIOUS TEAM
New Varsity Material Developed in
Doughnut Series, Declares
Coach C. D. Thorpe
The Chi Psi debating team won the j
doughnut championship in the finals, I
held in the Business Administration
building, Wednesday evening. The Chi ,
Psi team won five points, while the
Oregon Club team came second with
four, and Phi Gamma Delta third with
three.
The debate shield, now held by Phi
Delta Theta, will go to Chi Psi, if
won for three consecutive years the
shield will become their permanent
possession.
Much new varsity material has been
brought to the surface during the de
bates, according to both Coach Clar
ence D. Thorpe and Manager Paul
Patterson, especially as there were no
i varsity roaches and the men on the
! teqms had to rely to a great extent
! upon their own initiative.
Speaking of the doughnut debates
Professor Clarence r>. Thorpe said: “T
consider the doughnut debates de
cidedly worth while, something that
should by all means, for the good of
varsity debating, be kept up. I think
they are indispensible, as the only
means of bringing varsity material to
the surface.”
The speakers for the Chi Psi affirm
ative were, Edwin Hoyt, Virgil Oliver,
for the negative, Harold Crosthwait,
Harold Miekelson; the affirmative for
the Oregon Club, Ralph Bailey, Dallas
Rice; Negative, Ralph Curren, Max
Maecoby. Phi Gamma Delta affirma
tive, George Royer, James King; nega
tive, Nelson English, Claude Hollister.
The judges for the debates were: C.
W. Thorpe, W. F. G. Thaeher, Ralph
Hoeber. Dean Eric W. Allen, Rev. B.
J. Griffen, M. K. Cameron, R. M. Mil
ler, chairman; G. S. Turnbull, F. J.
Rutter.
SCULPTOR IS ELECTED
A. Phimister Proctor, the sculptor
who modeled the Pioneer was elected
an honorary member of the Sculpture
club at a meeting last night. Plans
for the ‘‘Jury Day” which will be
held next Monday were discussed. It
was announced that the executives for
the 1925 Exposition would be present
at a “Jury Day” early in January.
DE. MILNE’S PAPER PRINTED
Dr. W. E. Milne, of the mathematics
department, has received word that a
papier “A Theorem of Oscillation,”
which he sent recently to the Bulletin
of the American Mathematical society,
has been accepted and will appear in
an early number of that publication.
ADMISSION CHARGE
FOR MINOR SPORTS
POTOPTO A.S.O.O.
Amendment to Constitution is
Offered at Assembly and
Urged by Speakers
SUPPORT OF DEBATE URGED
Appeal Made for Attendance
Tonight; Greater Oregon
Aid Requested
An amendment to the student body
constitution giving the executive coun
cil the right to charge a small admis
sion fee to minor sport contests was
proposed by Kenneth Smith, at the
last student assembly of the year yes
terday morning. Several speakers
urged the students to vote for the
change, citing this as the only way in
\\ hieh the great need of more funds
for the minor sports such as boxing,
wtstling, and soccer ran be provided
for. Support fer the Ore iter Oregon
movement was asked, and student at
tendance at the debate tonight re
quested.
Paul Patterson, chairman of the
Greater Oregon committees, urged the
students to co-operate with the alumni
in the various communities of the
state in carrying the name of the Uni
versity into the high schools and at
tracting new students to Oregon.
Quality Particularly Wanted
What we are aiming for is quality
not quantity, said Patterson, “We do
not want to invite everyone to como
here, but we are on the lookout for the
best students in the senior classes of
the high schools.”
Patterson proposed that the students
dining their stay at home Christmas
vacation ask the editors of high school
publications to lot them put out an
“Oregon Edition” and if their requests
art granted to fill the publication with
stories showing the advantages of the
University. Another plan which he
suggested was that each student make
it s point to promulgate the organiza
tion of college preparatory clubs in
all the high schools and through them
show the seniors the advantages of
Oregon.
“We have the alumni behind us, so
there is no reason why we cannot wage
an effective campaign,” concluded
Patterson.
Dean Dyment then supplemented Pat
terson ’s talk with a recital of the ways
in which the faculty were aiding in
this campaign. The three means which
they were using to advertise the Uni
versity .he said were as follows: By
sending out pamphlets telling about
the various courses to all the high
schools, by sending out various stu
dent and faculty members to speak to
the high school students on the ad
vantages offered them here, and bv
urging the alumni to constantly boost
the University.
Support Asked for Debate
An appeal that the students sup
port the debating team in their con
tests tonight with O. A. 0. and Reed
; college was made by Lyle Bartholomew,
student body president. Tie said that
. heretofore the interest in this activity
has not been what it should be, but
urged that the interest should be re
vived this year since the question to
be argued was a good one and the team
representing Oregon has been work
i ing day and night for a victory.
Professor Thorpe, debate coach, also j
urged a good attendance of the stu
dents saying that the debaters have
been working faithfully ever since
they had been chosen for the team. TTe
refrained from predicting the result.
A motion by Maurice Eben, of the
condolence committee, suggesting that
a resolution expressing the sincerest
j sympathies of the associated students
| be sent to the parents and family of
Jessie Gamble, ex-student of the Uni- j
1 versity who died recently, was passed
: unanimously.
WILFORD ALLEN IS NAMED
Appointment of Associate News Editor
of Daily Emerald Is Made
Wilford Allen has been appointed
associate news editor of the Emerald
and will work with the news editor,
j Kenneth Youel. Allen has been a mem
her of the staff of the Emerald ever
since he has been in college and was
a night editor last year. He was on
the Grants Pass Courier during *he
past summer. The appointment is a
part of the policy started this yea- >f
having a greater number of assistant
news editors and night editors in ‘ r
d-.-r that more time might be given to
studies than in former years.
Oregon Signs
For Game With
Washington U.
Portland, Or., Dec. 8.— (Special to
the Emerald)—Tentative dates for
football games for the University of
Oregon with the teams of the north
west Conference for next year were
set at the meeting of the conference
here today. Whitman college is
scheduled to play the Lemon-Yellow
eleven in Eugene, October 21. The
University of Washington and Ore
gon will meet in the Washington sta
dium in Seattle Thanksgiving day.
The Oregon Aggie-Oregon game will
be played in Corvallis, November 18.
The University of Washington
made application for admittance to
the conference and was admitted.
The application of Oonsaga Univer
sity of Spokane was turned down,
but the Gonzaga representatives were
invited to make application one year
hence. The freshmen eligibility rule
was discontinued but no action taken
when the meeting adjourned.
The football schedule of the North
west conference teams was declared
to be only tentative, pending on the
action of the Pacific Coast confer
ence which convenes Saturday.
ANOTHER CINCH TAKEN IN BELT
OF SCHOLASTIC STANDARDS
Faculty Action Brings Conference
Eligibility and University
Requirement Closr
Tho grado “condition” in the Univer
sity Regulations was abolished at tho
faculty meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Formerly instructors could give con
ditions to students who were doing
work below passing and allow them
by additional work to raise the grade
to five. This will no longer be pos
sible. To quote University Regula
tions, number 80, “Those who fail to
do passing work shall receive tho grade
of F, or ‘ failure ’ except that an in
! struetor may at his discretion give an
‘incomplete’ when the work done in a
course has been of a passing grade, but
when not quite all of the work of tho
course for the term just ending has
been finished by the time of final ex
amination.” The incompletes are not,
however, to be given in place of the
abolished conditions.
The abolition of the grade condition
brings the elegibility requirements of
the Pacific Coast Conference, and the
entrance requirements of the Univer
sity, into approximation.
The University has ruled that a man
making less than nine hours of work
be placed on probation and remain on
probation until the end of the suc
ceeding term. He may not thus rep
resent the University in inter-collegiate
athletics. The Pacific Coast Confer
ence, however, requires a man to make
12 hours to bo admitted in the con
ference games. Although this require
ment is apparently stricter it is not
so in reality, for the conference counts
hours made in physical education
which the University does not, and
permits conditions to be made up,
which under the new regulation, Oregon
does not.
Each season there have been cases
in which a man has made fewer than
9 hours and has thus been bnrred from
inter-collegiate athletics under our code,
who, by making up conditions and
counting his hours in physical eduoa
tign has been elegible to tho confer
ence. Conflicts have thus risen every
season, but tho abolition of the grado
condition will reduce these cases of
conflict to a minimum.
SHY HUNTINGTON QUIETLY
MARRIED IN SPRINGFIELD
Miss Hallie Hills of Oakridge is Bride
of Football Coach; Honeymoon Will 1
Be Trip to Hawaii With Team
The marriage of 8h_v Huntington and
Miss Hallie Hills, of Oak ridge, took
place last night at « o’clock at the
home of Iir. and Mrs. W. Rebhan in
Springfield. Reverend E. V. Stivers
of the First Christian church of Eu
gene performed the ceremony.
The wedding was attended only by
relatives and a very few friends of the
couple. Mrs. Rebham, who is a cousin
of the bride acted as bridesmaid, ami
Lionel Trommlitz, a fraternity brother
of the groom was best man.
The couple will leave Monclay with
the Oregon football team for the Haw
aiian islands on their honeymoon.
PBOFESSOB HOWE LEAVES
Professor H. C. Howe left for Port
land Thursday to attend the North
west Conference meetings. Professor
Howe, as the University athletic rep
resentative has Ibecn a delegate to an
nual meetings of Northwest and Pac
ific Coast Conferences for several col
lege generations.
OREGON TO POT UP
HARD BATTLE WITH
DEBATERS OFO.A.C
United States Policy of Navy
Expansion to be Argued
in Villard Hall
NEGATIVE TEAM AT REED
Coach Asks That Students
Give Moral Support by
Attending Contest
“While not predicting victory, we are
putting forth every effort and are
hopful of obtaining a decision,” said
Paul Patterson, varsity d/tibater, re
garding the state debate champion
ship contest against O. A. C. to bo held
tonight at 8:15 in Villard hall.
Tho question for debate is "Resolved,
That the United States should dis
continue its present policy of naval
expansion for a period of seven years.”
Kaeh speaker will have 20 minutes
for rebuttal.
Patterson and Charles Lamb will de
fend the affirmative for Oregon here
while the negative goes to Reed eol
lege for the Varsity’s second contest
in the state triangular league.
Student Attendance Urged
Professor C. D. Thorpe, who has
coached the varsity for the contest,
again stressed the point of student
body attendance.
"The debate team needs ns much
moral support as the football toam
does,” declared the mentor. “There
is the psychology of victory that a
large audience will favor us with. It
is only fair that wo take this advant
age here because our negative team at
Iteed college will have to fight against
the same element. Training for debate
is an additional effort, and deserve.*
the support of everyone on the cam
pus
“Besides that the subject for debate
is as important as the decision. Plac
ing a question of this kind before the
public in a manner to furnish pub
Ii *• interest should, in itself, be valu
able to the students.”
O. A. C. Speakers Able
Little is known here of J. 0. Kimmel
and John Gray, the two men who will
represent the O. A. C. negative team,
but reports indicate that they are able
debaters.
Claude Robinson, who w'th Boyd
Iseminger goes to Reed College as the
varsity negative team, said that in the
Portland debaters the Oregon team is
up against the same stiff opposition
the football team met in California,
but declared that, Oregon fight will
make itself manifest in the stato me
tropolis tonight.
Thus far only two judges have been
hoi ured for the contest here. They ars
P. H. Hilton, and Charles E. Lenon,
Portland lawyers. A telegram was
sent to Dr. Franklin, instructor in
political science at Willamette univer
sity, in an effort to bring him here
as a judge. Professor It. M. Miller, of
the economics department, will act. ns
eh airman.
Music for tlu1 occasion will be fur
nished bv two members of the Uni
versity orchestra.
AGGIE SPEAKERS WORKING
HARD TO KEEP UP RECORD
Oregon Agricultural College, Corval
lis, Dec. 8.— (P. I. N. 8.)—Aggie de
baters work every night—and many
hours of the day—in final preparation
for the triangular debate in which Reed
college, the University of Oregon and
the Oregon Agricultural college dash
Friday night.
They do not intend to let the record
of the past four years be broken, dur
ing which time they have been success
ful. They have received 14 votes to
Oregon’s four and four to Reed's two
during this time.
REED MEN POLISHING UP
FOR BIG FORENSIC TILT
Reed College, Dec. 8.—(P. I. N. 8.)
—Reed’s four men debaters are vigor
ously applying the final polish to their
cases for the dual clash with the Uni
versity of Oregon and Oregon Agri
cultural College Friday evening.
Marion Dickey and Davis Cohen,
the Reed Negative team, will journey
to Corvallis, where they will clash with
D. A. Abbott and Rudolph Hathaway,
the Aggie affirmative contenders. Ja
cob Weinstein and Gibson Howies will
retrain at home to defend the affirm
ative against Bovd Iseminger and
i Charles Lamb, Oregon negative aggres
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