Oregon daily emerald., February 01, 1922, Image 1

Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXITT.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1922.
NUMBER 70.
LID OK DANCES Will
BE KEPT ONE ME
WEEK, INDECISION
Health Service Decides to Take
no Chance on Spread of
Grip Epidemic
STUDENTS GET WARNING
Peril Pointed Out in Return
to Classes Too Soon
After Illness
On the basis of reports for Saturday,
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the Uni
versity health service has decided that
the order prohibiting all dances shall
be extended over into next week. This
announcement was made yesterday at
the close of the meeting in the office
of Dr. John F. Bovard, head of the
health service, at which student rep
resentatives met with the University
health committee to go over the situa
tion.
The recommendations of the Univer
sity physicians were carried out by the
committee in makng the decision to
extend the time of the restrictions on
all dances and similar public gather
ings.
Text of Order
The original order, which will be ad
hered to for another week at least is
as follows:
“The University health service, with
the approval of the social affairs com
mittee, considers it wise to prohibit
formal and informal dances for a few
days until the conditions justify re
scinding of the order. The order is is
sued in view of the prevalence of in
fectious colds and grip. This mild
epidemic has not yet become an epi
demic of influenza, and the University
authorities are taking the foregoing
precautionary measure to prevent the
influenza that has taken hold elsewhere
from getting into the University. The
order is effective from and including
January 27.
(Signed) University Health Service,
bv John F. Bovard, Chairman.
Approved: P. B. Campbell, Presi
dent.”
Return to Class Too Early
Students have been returning to
classes too soon after getting over the
fever, Dr. Bovard says. This fever
lasts about three days, and they have
been returning to their work at the end
of that time. This should not be done.
The two days after the fever are a
dangerous time, for this is a period of
general weakness. During this time
students may very easily be re-infected,
or they may take another cold, with
the chance of its turning into pneu
monia. Everyone* is urged to stay
indoors and keep quiet for two or three
days after the fever has disappeared,
and temperature is back to normal. The
two days of a very weakened condition
following the fever period is a char
acteristic of this disease. The Univer
sity physicians urgently ask all stu
dents to cooperate in this for their own
good, and to aid in checking the epi
demic.
Health Before Grades
Many students are over eager to re
turn to their studies due to worry about
their grades, as every absence is im
portant, with the present advance in
standards. While it is true that the
few days’ absence may materially ef
fect grades, Dr. Bovard asks the stu
dents to remember that good health is
much more important than grades right
now. An effort will be made by the
University health service to secure leni
ency on the part of instructors in mak
ing up final grades of those students
who have been forced to stay out on
this account.
The infirmary continues its request
that students come for treatment as
soon as they feel a cold or the grip
coming on. Better cooperation has been
shown during the last few days than
ever before, and it is hoped that the
students will continue to help in this
respect. If all cases are reported in,
there will be a means of keeping a
check on conditions.
Music Giving Aid
Miss Grace Robertson, University
nurse, is helping those students who
can not get into the infirmary. The
chief limitation at present is a means
for her travel to the houses and dif
ferent places where students reside.
President Campbell has lent his car and
chauffeur for the mornings, but a car
and some one to drive it is especially
needed for afternoon work. The health
service asserts it would greatly ap
preciate any help students who have
cars could give in this respect between
the hours of 2:30 and 4:30 every after
noon. George Houck is chairman of the
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FOREIGNER WANTS DATA
ON “MAIL ORDER” DEGREE
Correspondence Work is Sought by Jose
Cardenas of Geneva, Switzerland;
Information Desired
Wanted! Information concerning any
college that confers the degrees of Doc
tor by correspondence. Jose Antonio
Cardenas of Geneva, Switzerland, has
written to the University of Oregon to
ask if it confers the Doctor’s degree or
awards the Engineer’s diploma to stu
dents who have carried on their studies
entirely by correspondence. It seems
that Mr. Cardenas was informed that
the University did, but in case he has
been mistaken he “should feel greatly
obliged” if names of other colleges
or universities which do so were sent
to him.
He asks that the following particu
lars about the University of Oregon be
sent to him:
1. A certain quantity of printed mat
ter, also original examples of diplomas
delivered by you.
2. Photographs or other pictures of
the buildings comprising your institu
tion.
3. Exact information as to vour own
fees and as to the terms you would feel
inclined to offer to an official repre
sentative. (That is an individual who
would represent the University in Eu
rope and procure every month a cer
tain number of duly qualified candi
dates.)
4. As candidates from here would ex
perience some difficulty in writing
their thesis in English, I presume that
you would accept it if written in any
other European language.
5. I also presume that you would ac
cept as equivalent studies already pur
sued by certain candidates in other col
leges or universities.
15S FAIL TO PAY LAB FEES
ME It APE more neglectful of
CHARGES THAN WOMEN
Mus petition to Remain in School
ftfter Today; Present Plan Best
of Any Yet Tried
At a late hour yesterday the busi
ness office reported that 155 students,
about 50 more than last term, had failed
to pay their laboratory fees within the
specified time. The men were in the
lead with a total of 85, the women
numbering 70. Today is the last day
of grace for late payments including
the additional $1. After today the
student who has not paid up will have
to petition in order to remain in the
University.
Fees for this term range from 50
cents to $15, the latter being the high
est amount yet paid by any student for
regular laboratory fees, according to E.
P. Lyon, cashier at the business office.
The average would be close to $2.50.
Science Costs Most
Highest fees are paid in the science
courses where the total depends upon
the number of such courses taken by
any one student. This does not take
into consideration the school of music,
where courses, laboratory, and instruc
tional fees are highest of all.
The present system of handling the
payment of registration and laboratory
fees has been designed with the idea
of best suiting the convenience of
everyone concerned, said Mr. Lyon.
Laboring along under the criticism and
maledictions of students and faculty
alike in past years the business office
tried one plan after another which was
expected to handle the situation more
efficiently, but without success.
Present Plan Pleases
“We have tried the plan of paying
the fees at the time of regular regis
tration,” he said, “but after long lines
of students waited for hours until some
of the girls fainted we gave up that
plan. Taking into consideration every
one concerned the present plan is the
best yet proposed in spite of continued
criticism. The chief difficulty now lies
in the fact that students, although
given plenty of time, leave the pay
ment of fees until the rush of the last
day or two which wastes their time
and makes more work for the office
force. With a little more co-operation
there would be little real difficulty
in this part of the registration
routine.”
FACULTY TO MEET TODAY
Subject of Specialist’s Certificate Will
be Main Business
The regular meeting of the faculty
will be held this afternoon at 4:15 in
Guild Hall. The principle business will
consist of the movement of legislation
in accordance with a notice of motion
given by Dean Sheldon of the school
of education at the February meeting,
regarding the matter of Specialist’s
certificates. According to the proposed
motion, persons who have received the
bachelor’s degree from this University
and who continue in residence for an
other full year will be eligible to re
ceive a Specialist’s certificate, for
teaching, subject to required conditions.
Other minor business affairs will also
be up for discussion.
VACHEL LINDSAY IS
EXPECTED TO CHANT
POEMS IN VILLARD
Bard Liked and Ranked High
by American and English
Literary Critics
AUTHOR IS PICTURESQUE
First Public Appearance at
Dinner Where he Roused
Bored Guests
“Then I saw the Congo creeping through
the black,
Cutting through the forest with a golden
track.’ ’
When Vachel Lindsay comes to Oregon
on the evening of Tuseday, February 7,
to lecture in Yillard hall he will chant
some of his better known poems or send
away a keenly disappointed audience.
As a chanter Lindsay first raised his
voice where it was heard and came to
count in American poetry. True, he is
more than a chanter—all admit that now,
even England’s critics of American let
ters and that is saying very much indeed
—but the very picturesqueness of his at
tempt to bring poetry to the station it
held in the times of the bards won for
him his first audience. For “some there
are even to this day,’’ according to a
well known critic, “who much prefer a
song of sunrise or a verse to the im
mortal planets to listening while a parlor
poet dissects his most intimate and often
unusual complexes.’’ These people are
the Lindsay fans.
For Vachel Lindsay has come lately
to wonder just a bit if all his spectacular
actions haven’t detracted from the real
Vachel, man and poet, and directed the
spotlight to anther Vachel, whose only
claim to fame is that he shouts his poems.
If such has been the result Lindsay
has need to worry but many there are
who do not believe that such is the case.
Went to Yeats Banquet
In literary circles there still lives the
story of Vachel Lindsay’s first intro
duction to the elite of his own craft.
He came to a dinner some eight or
ten years ago given by Harriet Monroe,
editor of “Poetry,’’ in honor of Wil
liam Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dram
atist, then on a visit to the vigorous
middle western metroplis. Around that
table there were many who had heard
of the sandy.haired son of Springfield,
Illinois, who had been hoboing and
tramping about the country, paying for
his food and lodging with farmers, me
chanics, immigrants and miners with a
most unusual coin, his verse, packing
around for constant exploitation his
theory that the printing and reading of
poetry was of secondary importance to
the shouting, whispering, chanting, and
singing of it— they had heard of him
but for the most part probably believed
him about one tenth poet and about
nine tenths charlatan and fool.
Yeats Wants to See Him
Yeats asked Harriet Monroe to invite
this fellow to her party. The Irishman
knew that time was when all poets were
just such men as Lindsay, simple, sing
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OREGON GRAPPLERS
WILL MEET 0. A. C.
MAT MEN FRIDAY
Varsity Men in Good Shape
Except Kirtley Who Had
Attack of “Flu”
AGGIES REPORTED STRONG
Middleweight to be Chosen
From Nygren, Winnard,
and Bradway
As a preliminary to the Oregon-O. A.
C. basketball game next Friday, the
varsity mat team will meet the Aggie
grapplers in the first intercollegiate
wrestling meet to be held on the cam
pus for several years. The varsity
squad is in good condition with the
exception of Kirtley, who has been sick
for two or three days. The Corvallis
boys are reported to be in fine condi
j tion for the meet and are known to
have a strong aggregation of wrest
j lers.
The juniors, sophomores and fresh
men will have their first opportunity
to see the varsity wrestlers in action
at this tangle scheduled for Friday
evening. However, if there is a good
turnout, it is probable that meets will
be scheduled with other schools. Wrestl
ing is a major sport and any man on the
squad who wins his match is awarded
the “O” sweater.
Opposition for Wegner
Captain Wegner is still the class of
the lightweights although he has been
having a hard time getting down to
the required poundage. Wegner and
Whitcomb (135 pounds') are going up
against the tough end of the Aggie
squad, for they are reputed to have
the best lightweights in the northwest.
Whitcomb is in wonderful condition
as he has been training for the last four
months. He will undoubtedly put up
a good battle against the man who op
poses him.
Kirtley, who is about the only re
liable man in the welterweight or 145
pound division, has been sick for the
last three or four days with a light
touch of “flu.” He attended classes
yesterday, however, and is confident
that he can get back in shape for Fri
day night. O. A. C. has some good
men at this weight, “Bud” Fish, a let
ter man from last year’s team, is back
and is said to be going strong.
Three Good Middleweights
The choice of the middleweight or
158-pound division still lies among
Winnard, Nygren and Bradwav. They
are all good men. One of these three
will probably have to handle the light
heavyweight division and this choice
will probably fall on Nygren, who is
the strongest of the trio.
With both teams in the best of con
dition, the meet should prove to be a
fast one from start to finish. Any man
on the varsity squad who wins his
match will probably hold his own
against any collegiate wrestler in the
northwest for the Aggies are sup
posed to have the strongest mat team
in the conference.
WEATHER REPORT
North Head, Wash., Jan. 31—(By
Radio)—North pacific coast Wednes
day— Fair, moderate north-easterly
winds.
Hat Sold By Mistake; Evening
Dress Brings 70 Cent at Sale
Shoes, pink pajamas, hats, food,
dresses, furniture and bric-a-brac all
played their parts and made the Y. W.
C. A. treasury fatter by $270 at the
rummage sale held down town Friday
and Saturday. When the sale opened
Friday noon, a large crowd was waiting
to get in, and by evening $120 had been
taken in and nearly the entire stock,
collected mostly from townspeople, sold
out.
Hats of all sorts, marvelous creations,
some of them, ranging in prices from 15
cents to $1.50, went to grace the needs
of Eugene bargain-hunters, while shoes
sold for 15 cents a piece.
One wool dress went at $2.50, and an
evening dress, to be sold, by the request
of its owner, for not less than $5,
because of a lost tag brought in 70
cents, the silk under slip going to one
customer for 35 cents and the net to
another at the same price.
One man’s hat. in remarkably good
condition, was sold for $1, before its
hatless and breathless owner could rush
in to claim it. He was tuning the
piano, at the Tri Delta house, he ex
plained in righteous wrath, when one
of the over-enthusiastic and generous
members of the household, in her zeal
i to serve the Y. W., had given his hat,
with other articles, to the collector who
came to the door Saturday morning.
A coat belonging to Miss Barbara
Booth, one of those in charge of the
sale, also was taken wrongly for “rum
mage,” and was carried off by the
junk man, to whom the few articles
remaining after the sale were sold.
A great deal of food, donated for
the most part by houses on the campus,
was sold in addition to the other arti
cles. Tea was served on Saturday by
the members of the Y. W. advisory
board and c*her Eugene ladies who as
sisted in the sale.
The advisory board, who were in
charge of the sale, and to whom its
success was largely due, are Mrs. Wm.
Case, Mis* Barbara Booth, Mrs.' 0. R.
Oullion, Mrs. A. R. Tiffany, Mrs. A.
0. Dixon, Mrs R. 0. Hall, Mrs. W. P.
' Fell, Mrs. O. E. Lehman. Mrs. 0. A. E.
■ Whitton, Miss Mary Perkins, Mrs. Rob
! ert Preecott, Mrs. L. P. Hobbs.
SLIGHT EARTHQUAKE
SHOCK FELT IN EUGENE
Few Campus People Heed First Tremor
In Period of Twenty Five Years
No Official Record Made
Sometime about five o 'clock yester
day morning, just a few hours before
the sleepy student roused himself for
his eight o ’clock, an earthquake shock
was felt in Eugene which rattled the
dishes in cupboards and gently shook
the tiers of clumberers on sleeping
porches.
Dean Straub was one of the few cam
pus people who noticed the shock. Ac
cording to the Dean the last shock in
Eugene was 25 years ago.
Due to the fact that the University
does not own a seismograph, the in
strument which records earthquake dis
turbances, no official record of the
quake is available here. Dr. E. D.
Packard, of the geology department,
stated that he could not make a state
ment as to the probable cause of the
quake in that he had not observed it
and had no evidence other than the
information furnished by press reports.
He stated, however, that the disturb
ance was probably a general one and
that it probably had no relation to the
hypothetical line of tectonic disturb
ance running through the Willamette
valley ns charted by Dr, Warren D.
Smith, bend of the geology department
who is now in the Philippine islands.
Dr. Smith, in his paper on the earth
quakes of Oregon, records the last
earthquake shock felt in Eugene as
having occurred on April 18, 1906. The
only other shocks recorded ns having
been observed in Eugene occurred on
December, 16, 1872 and on November
22, 1873.
FROSH FIVE FACES FIGHT
ROOKS HAVE BETTER CHANCE TO
WIN, SAYS DURNO
High School Stars on Aggie Yearling
Team; Oregon Quintet Is Develop
ing Rapidly
“I’m afraid the Frosh are in for a
beating when they play the Rooks this
week-end” said Eddie Durno, the Fresh
man coach when asked about his opin
ion on the outcome of the yearly mix.
The Rooks have a strong team accord
ing to Durno and have been winning
most of their games this season, and
besides this they have played a groat
many more games than the Frosh which
counts for a lot in the way of ex
perience.
Practically all of first year men out
for basketball at O. A. C. are eligible
for their team, while conditions are re
versed here ns many of the best men
are ineligible on account of the grades
they made last term which do not
reach the required standard to allow
the men to participate in athletics. Of
the squad of 15 men picked by Durno
at the beginning of the season, nine
were thus thrown out of tho running,
leaving only six of the original squad
eligible for the team.
Rlnkely, who played for Raker last
year in the tournament, and on account,
of his ineligibility, had the Raker
team disqualified after they had prac
tically won the championship, is on the
Rook team, according to Durno, and
will help out greatly, ns he was con
sidcred the best prop school basketball
player in the state last year. Ridings,
from Molalla, who with King, was
picked as all star forward, is also on
the team along with some such stars
as Rtaddard from La Orande, and John
son, who played for TTi 11 Military Acad
emy.
For the Frosh, King and Orandoll
at forward, Poulson, center, and TTaines
and Aim as guards seem to be the best
combination after the season’s prac
tices are well gone. The Frosh team is
developing rapidly. The men pass the
ball well, and also are clever shots, so
should give the Aggie yearlngs a hard
game notwithstanding the fact that the
Rooks are considered the favorites.
The only team that both squads have
mixed with is Chemawa. The Frosh
beat the Indians two games here, but
the redskins beat tho Rooks by two
points on the Chemawa floor. Not
much importance can be attached to
this game though as the Indians plnv
a great deal better on their own floor
than anywhere else, and they were nlso
not working well when thev met the
Frosh. The dope which would seem to
favor the Frosh, therefore, really
doesn’t amount to much.
COMMERCE HEAD TO SPEAK
Board of Deans at Monthly Meeting
to Hear Dean Robbins
The monthly meeting of the board of
deans of the University will be held in
the Anchorage tomorrow at noon. Dean
Robbins of the commerce department
will address the board on the work of
the commerce department at that time.
It is the custom of the board to
have a report of some department in
the form of an address every month.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCED
i Phi Delta Phi announces the pledg
, ing of Chauncev Lawton, Melville 8.
' Jones, and Rolfe Bkulason.
COMMITTEE OFFERS
LIMITATIONS FOR
House-Grouping, One Set to
Put on Canoe Fete Once in
3 Years, Proposed
FINAL ACTION NOT TAKEN
Elimination of Senior Play, As
Feature, and Shorter
Period Suggested
Out of a maze of expressed opinions
on almost overy phase of Junior Week
end, the special committee of presi
dents of living organizations, represon
1 tatives of the student council and the
president of the Order of the “O,”
went on record last night as being in
favor of: limitation of Junior Week
end to the period from Friday noon to
Sunday night; division of organizations
into throe groups, oach group to put on
a float for the canoe fete every three
years, and elimination of the senior
play as a feature of Junior Week-end.
The action of the committee last
night does not decide the fate of Junior
Week-end or any feature of it, although
the expression of opinion should have
a great deal of weight with the student
council when final action is taken on
the subject, according to Paul Patter
son, who presided over last night’s
meeting.
O. A. O. to Have Canoe Fete
A preliminary motion to put the com
mittee on record as favoring Junior
Week-end in somo form was unani
mously passed. Previous to the setting
forth of the motions, expressions of
opinion were made on almost every
phase of the Junior Week-end contro
versy.
Motions to put the committee on rec
ord as favoring the elimination of the
canoe fete failed to pass.
Opinion as expressed by each woman
on the committee was for the retention
of the canoe feto but for limitation in
some way to reduce the cost of the
display. The canoe fote is the one fea
ture of Junior Week-end which is dis
tinctly Oregon’s. Although O. A. C.
has recently initiated, a cn^oe fete
as a Junior Week-end feature the fact
was brought out that the Agricultural
College’s feto is inferior to Oregon’s.
Ella Rawlings expressed the opinion
that the canoe fote is one of the most
attractive events of Junior Week-end
and that she was vory much opposed
to its elimination.
Flans to be Carried Out
Although some 30 people comprised
last night’s meeting the discussion was
carried on principally by about five
people. Preliminary discussion centered
about the selection of students to be
invited as Junior Week end guests.
Charles Lamb stated that a regulation
of the expense and the number of peo
ple to be invited is necessary and that
in the past the high school students in
vited have not been wholly of a desir
able type. Lamb made it plain that
whatever plan was adopted should be
strictly carried out by all houses since
prospective students would get a bad
impression of the University if this
were not don*.
Carl Newbury pointed out that com
petitive rushing played a part in Jun
ior Week-end but that tho primary pur
pose of Junior Week-end should be to
sell tho “propper” one’s particular
living organization.
More Publicity Sought
Tho weight of opinion expressed was
in favor of allowing the organizations
to use their owrn discretion in the mat
ter of inviting gueHts sinco the houses
bear the expenses of entertainment.
Curly Lawrence in commenting upon
tho effectiveness of Junior Week-end
as a means of advertising brought out
the fact that very little publicity was
allowed the University on Junior Week
end in the Oregon news papers, but
that some new plan would probably be
[ much more effective in bringing the
! University before the high school stu
j dents of the state.
The hope that some method of bring
ing the friends of the some 900 non
fraternity people be devised was ex
pressed by Olen Walkley, president of
the Order of the “O.”
DEBATE COACH RECOVERING
Professor Clarence P. Thorpe, varsity
debate coach and professor of public
1 speaking and business English, has been
1 confined to his home since last Wednes
day by a severe attack of la grippe
which has been so prevalent on the cam
i pus lately. Mr. Thorpe narrowly es
| caped an attack of pneumonia. He
i hopes to be strong enough to return to
■ his classes by next Thursday.