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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIII. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1922 NUMBER 97 i i IDAHO VANDALS OUT OF RACE Basketball Champions of Coast Lose in National Contests at Indian apolis to Kalamazoo. SUN IS AWAITED Spring Weather Needed Before Base ball Practice May Start; Frosh Nine Material Sized Up. By EP HOYT The Idaho Vandals, bunting winners in both the Pacific Coast and North west conferences were eliminated from the national intercollegiate basketball tournament now being played at In dianapolis Thursday night when they ran into the speedy five from Kala mazoo college, Michigan state cham pions. The Vandals were beaten 38-; 32 and were helpless before the scor ing attack of the Michigan collegians. It was the first round of the tourna ment and two games were played, Wa bash having little difficulty in defeat ing Illinois Wesleyan champions of Illinois, 39-16. The Wabash five hail from Indiana and by virtue of their one sided win over Wesleyan look like strong contenders in the champion ship drive. The national intercollegiate tournament is put on by the Indian apolis chamber of commerce and is the first national meet of collegiate bas ketball champions. Speculation has been rife in western sport circles as to the reason for Ore gon ’s football team’s non election of a captain for the ensuing year and among the explanations offered has been the one that such an election would disrupt the team. When this was brought to Coach Huntington’s attention recently Shy laughed and said, “That supposition is ridiculous and unfounded. Never have I had a more loyal squad around me; that bunch of boys were all willing to sac rifice anything for the good of the team. It was merely a case of over sight and wasn’t done while the boys were all together so now it will have to wait until next fall. No matter bow close the race for the captaincy might have been there would have been no hard feeling and whoever secured the election would be assured of the absolute support of the squad.” ■ • • Baseball at Oregon is waiting the advent of good weather and at pres ent lettermen and candidates for the varsity nine are taking daily work outs in the batting cage in the grand stand on Kincaid. Coach Bohler is not optimistic over the prospects for a winning nine especially since both the Washington Sundodgers and the Washington State Cougars have their teams of last year back almost intact. Hope for a good diamond aggregation were severely shattered recently when “Tex” Knight and Terry Johnson, infielders on last year’s frosh nine left school. Both men were sadly needed this year but Bohler is doubtful as to whether they will return. Knight in particular was depended upon to bolster up the Varsity’s inner defense as he was considered one of the clas siest infielders in college ball. • • • The good weather the first of the week was made use of to good advant age by Coaches Bohler and Huntington who looked over the numerous fresh men out for the yearling nine with an j idea of lightening the burden of the ! freshman baseball coach when he is finally appointed, by eliminating the poorer material. The necessity for the 1 frosh mentor to weed out his material from a hundred or so candidates after the opening of the season proper has . always proved a serious handicap in developing a winning team. The all-state relay to be held on Hay ward field April 14 and 15 promises to be one of the big track events in the northwest in that it will give the institutions of higher learning in the , state a chance to meet in actual compe tition on a first class track. A high value is placed on the meet in that it gives the smaller colleges and univer sities a direct goal toward which to | work in putting out a track team. Fur ther it will bolster up a waning inter est in track throughout the state and , will tend to increase the number of meets between the smaller schools. CLASS TRYOUTS FOR TRACK MUST COME TODAY, SAYS COACH Purpose is to Prepare for Meet Next Saturday; Field Events Strongest RELAY MEN TO BE PICKED Rain Slows Up Work; Varsity Loses Sprinters; More Material Needed “Bain or shine, these class tryouts have got to go through,” said Track 3oach Bill Hayward yesterday. “I want jvery man who has been out for track this year to come out tomorrow after noon for these races, because next Sat urday we will have the interclass relays to help determine who will run in the ill-state relays.” The classes will compete within them selves today and the four winners in sach event will be picked to represent ;heir class next week. This afternoon the 220, the 440, the 880, and the mile will be staged in each class. This will provide material for next week’s relays, vhich are to be the half mile, the mile, ;he two mile and the four mile. It is reported that Tommy Wyatt will not be in school next term. Hayward ivas depending on Wyatt for his relay ;eam, and for the 440 yard dash. “He s a good man,” Bill said, “and hiB leav ing will throw my plans off consider ably.” Wyatt is the second man of ;rack ability to leave a gap in the Lemon-Yellow defense. Albert Grilley, fvho ranked with anyone in school in the sprints, was the first to leave. More Quality Material Heeded “I’ve got more men out than I ever bad before this early in the season,” Bill said, “but not the quality. The men I want to see out here are not out. rhey are back there on the campus. I know what every one of these men can io because they have been turning out.” Bain combined with cold weather is slowing down the speed of getting the men in shape to meet outsiders. Bill says that a week or ten days of warm veather would make a lot of difference n the appearance of things. It is hard for the field eventers to get the kinks sut of their muscles in the cold, and con sequently are not getting the most out )f their workouts. Hayward is trying rather to develop form into the green tracksters than oreak any records just now. Shot put ;ers, discus and javelin throwers were sut in profusion last night, but none sf them know enough about it yet to get sy in a conference meet. However, the material is there awaiting development, md if the coaches have anything to say ibout it, it will be in shape to meet the snemy. Field Events Promising Byler is getting his form down pretty veil in the javelin, and heaves it a long vays, but more training is needed to smooth off the rough edges. McCraw of ast year’s frosh looks like a sure bet >n the shot put and discus. Hayward srescribes the 12-pound shot for the put :ers at present, and the heavier weight vill be used when the men are a little ougher and the weather gets warm. Bill 3pear looks like a discus hurler, but tlayward is instructing him in the shot )ut and javelin as well. Spear is big ind rangy and there is every reason to >elieve he will make a success of track vork if he keeps coming out. “Tubby” Ingle is among those field iventers present. He is hurling the jave (Continued on page four) Blind Psychologist Finds Tall Objects Are Easiest to Sense Tom Cutsforth, blind graduate as sistant in the psychology department, says it is easier to feel the presence of tall objects than short ones, and objects to one side than objects di rectly in front. This was brought out in his talk before the Hawthorne club, University psychology group, Thursday evening. His discussion, which was entitled, “The Sixth Sense,” included a com parison of the relative abilities of the blind and those who can see in the mat ter of “sensing” invisible objects. Mr. Cutsforth said that Dr. R. H. Wheeler, professor of psychology, with whom he is working to find the basis of the so-called “sixth sense,” is more highly “sensitized” than he is and that Dr. Wheeler is better able to sense the presence of invisible objects. The question has come np time and time again in scientific eirelea. as to what sense organs register the extra / sense, often called the sixth sense,” I he declared. “Up to' this time Dr. Wheeler and I have been unable to come to any definite conclusions but ; it is our belief that the ability to feel | the presence of invisible objects comes from a mixed sensation originating in the ear and the nerves of the skin and face,” he explained. The latter part of the talk was taken up with a review of the literature of tactual sensation of epicritic and pro topathic sensation, as written by Dr. Edwin G. Boring, professor of experi mental psychology in Clark university. It was brought out in the review that there is no distinctive protopathic and epicritic sensation, which means that thp sensation one receives when a nerve is cut is not due to any sensitivity which still remains there but to the overlapping of other nerves, which lead in from the aides to the place affected by the absence of the nerve whieb was severed. BISHOP SHEPHARD WILL GIVE TALK AT VESPERS — Speaker Said to be Strongest Pulpit Orator in Northwest; Organ and Vocal Numbers Featured An address by William Orville Shep hard, bishop of the Portland area of the Methodist church, special organ mu sic by John Stark Evans, hymns by the University choir, and vocal solos by Joanna James, Bernice Altstock, and Arthur Johnson will be the features of the vesper services tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in the Methodist church. I Although Bishop Shephard has been in the northwest only since last year, ! when he succeeded Bishop Mat Hughes, he has become well known on the cam pus, through his intellectual ability and general interest in higher education. He has been termed “one of the strong est pulpit speakers in the northwest.” | Bishop Shephard is a scholar of some note, having received four college de grees, three at the DePauw University and School of Theology at Green Castle, Indiana, and one at Syracuse Univer sity, Syracuse, N. Y. John Stark Evans will have an op portunity to show his ability on the pipe organ, in his Voluntary and Inter lude as well as in the entire accompani ment to the choir and soloists. The anthem, “Hark, Hark, My Soul” by Shelley will be sung by Joanna James, soprano, and Bernice Altstock, con tralto. Arthur Johnson, who will sing “The Prodigal Son” by Sullivan is another feature of the service. The offering which will be taken up will, it is hoped, enable the choir to have their vestments for the services on April 9. EVANS TO CIVEICITALS LENTEN ORGAN CONCERTS WILL BEGIN MARCH 19 “Seven Last Words of Christ” Will be Given April 9 by University Vesper Choir and Soloists John Stark Evans, professor of or gan in the University school of music and director of the University Vesper choir will give a series of lenten organ recitals at the Methodist church, begin I ning on Sunday, March 19, and con tinuing until Easter. These recitals were the musical feature of the Lenten season last year and Mr. Evans’ an nouncement that they would be given again was very cordially received. In addition to the organ numbers there will be a soloist for each reci tal. Madame Rose McGrew, soprano, John B. Siefert, tenor, and others will be heard at different times during the series. In response t.o popular demand Mr. Evans has agreed to give one or more programs of “request” numbers and will be glad to receive requests for appropriate music. Since these have been coming in so rapidly it is very probable that several such programs will be given. On April 9 the University Vesper choir will give the Cantata “The Seven Last Words of Christ” by Dubois. The soloists will be Madame Rose McGrew, John B. Siefert, and ,T. Irwin Mutch, of Portland. The choir and soloists have been practicing this for some time and according to Mr. Evans, the cantata promises to be even a greater musical event than was Gounod’s St. Cecelia Mass, which was given at Christmas time. BACK MAIL DELAYS WORK Students Fail to Get Notices Sent Out by Registrar's Office Much delay and extra work is caused in the registrar's office by the failure of the students to get notices and cam pus mail from the mail case placed in the basement of the Administration building, according to the office per sonnel. It is very difficult, according to Miss Stephenson, chief clerk in the regist rar’s office, to reach the students not connected with any living organizations and many of them do not seem to know of the existence of the case in the base ment of the Administration building. Ab a consequence many important no tices are often neglected for weeks. Some of the houses have also failed to call regularly for campus mail and bulletins and notices have been accumu lating. UNITARIAN HEAD WILL VISIT Dr. Samuel A. Eliot, of Bouton, presi dent of the American Uniterian Asso ciation, and son of Charles W. Eliot, president-emeritus of Harvard TJniver sitv, is to be in Eugene on Tuesday, March 14. Entertainment for him will include a dinner to be given that even ing by the members of the Uniterian church, which will be followed by a reception to which the public is invited It is expected that Dr. Eliot will give a short address at this time. E. P. LYON ILL Mr. E. P. Lyon, cashier in the busi ness office, has been confined to his home for the last few days with a slight attack of the grippe. COMMITTEE HEADS REPORT PLANS FOH Patronesses are Chosen for All-University Women’s Annual Affair ICE CREAM BARS ORDERED All Ideas for Stunts Must be in Today to Prevent Any Possible Similarity Beports of the heads of committees for the annual April Frolic, to be given in the Woman’s building April 8, wore given and plans were discussed at a mass meeting of all members of the committee yesterday afternoon in the Woman’s League rooms. Patronesses were named for the Frolic. Work on the affair is being rapidly completed, so that everything will be ready bj the first Saturday of the spring term, when it will take place. There will be one more meeting of all the committees this term, according to Carolyn Cannon, general chairman, to see that everything is in working order. Stunts to be Limited Drawing of places on the program was made at the last meeting of the general committee, leaving eight or ganizations to give skits in this year’s performance, and eight in next years. Further plans were made to speed up the stunts, and keep each within its tm minutes for production, and five minutes between acts, to change proper ties. This schedule will be strictly ad hered to. Hangings for the back and sides of the sta^e will be provided by the April used for all the stunts. No organi zation will be allowed to use any hang ings or backgrounds of their own, but may use any stage properties they wish. .Dean Elizabeth Fox, Mrs. P. L. Campbell, Miss Gertrude Talbot, Miss Porothv Collier, Miss Helen Broek smit, Mrs. Edna Datson, and Mrs. John F. Bovard weye named as patroness-^ Rehearsals Planned The names and general ideas of the stunts are to be handed in to the stunt and program committees today. The stunt committee will see that there are no duplications of ideas. On Satur day morning, before the Frolic, the stunts will be rehearsed before the members of the stunt committee. Dur ing the performance Eskimo Pies will be sold to members of the audience, for the sum of ten cents each. 12,000 of these have been ordered. The shortened schedule of stunts was planned to permit more attention be ing put on the social side of the even ing, according to the chairman of the general committee. There will be one dance between each act, and dancing afterwards. An orchestra will be pro vided for the evening. More attention will also be given to the grand march, and to the individual costumes. Prizes will be effered for the two test cos tumes. Provision will be made in the bnl cony f >r all town women, who will be charged an admission of 25 cents. Stu dents will be admitted to tl e floor, where the admission will be ten cents 5000 POSTERS SENT OUT Information on Summer Courses Given, Faculty From Many Colleges Five thousand summer term posters, which will be sent to practically every school district in the state, have been put out by the extension division. These posters give general information re garding the two summer sessions, the campus term extension from June 21 to July 29, and the term at the Port land center from June 19 to July 28. All the courses of instruction are listed on the posters and the various universities from which the summer term faculty will come, are Princeton, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Idaho, Toronto, and Oregon Full information regarding the summer work may be secured from the general director of the Summer term. BANQUET PLANNED BY CLUBS Secretaries attending the Spring course of the school of business admin istration will be given a banquet by the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, The Kiwanis Club and The Progressive Business Men's Association of Eugene, on the evening of March 31, at the chamber of commerce, according to an announcement made todav by the officp of the commerce department. A large enrollment has already been received for the course and the curricula will be published soon. FEE FOR MUSICAL FUND FAVORED BY COUNCIL Committee to Work Out Plan Which Will be Presented to Students At Elections in May Latest reports from the student coun cil are to the effect that the recently proposed resolution by the music ac tivities committee, of the associated students providing for the addition of 50 cents to the student-body fee each term is regarded favorably by every member. This money, paid at the time of registration, will all go into the music fund and will provide for bring ing to the campus a series of concerts by talented artists and musicians with no additional cost to the student. Owing to a misunderstanding the student council did not meet last Wed nesday evening as planned. Lyle Bar tholomew, president of the associated students, got in touch with the mem bers, however, and found that the reso lution was regarded favorably in every case. It was decided that no action be taken on it at this time, but that the matter be put up to a vote at the next regular student body election in May. The music activities committee will undertake to work out the details and formulate a definite plan of procedure in case the action of the student body is favorable. The idea is to present the proposal at the time of election so that every student will understand just exactly what such an action will mean to the students and to the University ns a whole. BAD-CHECK WARNING GIVEN STUDENTS OVERDRAWING FUNDS SUBJECT TO TRIAL Failure to Keep Stubs Results In Delinquency; Women Unfamiliar With Banks are Careless “Students who give checks not suf ficiently covered by funds in the bank upon which the respective chocks are drawn will hereafter be subject to trial before the student advisory committee and to suspension or dismissal from the University, in addition to any ac tion that may be takou by the civil authorities.” The foregoing notice was issued yes terday by the student advisory com mittee, of which Dean John Straub is chairman, as a result of representations from banks and business houses down town that the unbusinesslike practices of a few students with roferenco to their bank accounts was bringing tho students in general into financial dis credit. The committee said it was aware that most, of the “not sufficient funds” checks which the throe Eugene banks have been compelled to return to de positing customers were not given with intent to defraud, but were merely un witting overdrafts. Nearly all stu dents carry small accounts, but not all by any means keep an accurate ac count of their balances by means of check stubs. Therefore balances con stantly become exhausted without the student’s knowing it, and “n. s. f.” checks result. Other types of carelessness also ex ist. Women students unfamiliar with bank practice have been known to givo a United States National bank check upon a First National bank account, thinking all banks one and the same; and United States National bank checks of Eugene have been given upon an ac count in the United States National bank of Portland. There is of course the occasional stu dent who gives “n. s. f.” checks with intent to defraud tho business man. It is this type of student who here after will bo “subject to trial before the student advisory committee,” with suspension or dismissal as a possible penalty in case of conviction. Of late merchants have been put to much inconvenience through having to handle checks not covered by funds. In the end the students always make the deficiency good, but the business houses have become restless over the neces sity of hunting down *he delinquents. As one business house put it in a letter to University authorities yesterday: “It is a great convenience to many students to have a bank account and to be able to cash chocks after banking hours, and it would not be right to de prive the good, honest students of this privilege because of the few who abus> it.” In some college towns no student ac count will be carried if the depositor lets it fall below $^5. Eugene banks carry accounts of any desirable size, which University authorities say is another reason why their confidence should not be abused. JOE HEDGES TO VISIT CAMPUS Joseph Hedges, a former student of the University whj graduated from the law school here last year, will be in Eugene within a day or two to spend a short time visiting his old friends. Hedges, whose home is in Oregon City, was attending the law school at Yale this year until a prolonged illness forced him to return home. While here, he will stay at the Phi Oamma Delta house, of which he is a member. HIGHER EDUCATION SPECIALIST WES lira visit Dr. George F. Zook to Report to State Superintendent After Inquiry SUCCESSOR OF DR. CAPEN Expert of U. S. Bureau Likes Looks of Buildings on Oregon Campus Dr. George F. Zook, specialist in higher education for the United Sttaos Bureau of Education, is on the campus making an inspection of the University. He will niako a general investigation based on the requirements for a “standard” col lege and will report his findings to the Stato Superintendent of Schools. “There will probably be one or two more schools in Oregon which can be re ported as ‘standard’ than already have that distinction,” said Dr. Zook yester day. At the timo of the last inspection, seven years ago, seven colleges were given this rating, although Borne of them had cortain conditions to fulfill. Oregon is the only state which has a law making this inspection by the Bu reau of Education necessary. In the East there are regional associations which carry on investgiaitons and submit lists of accredited schools, according to Dr. Zook. This would mean that tho states are lees active in this matter in the East than in the West. People Eager for Facts “The matter of standardizing colleges is in a somewhat chaotic condition,” he declared. It arose partly from the de sire of the people of the state to know the kind of work the students of the state-supported institutions are doing. In the granting of teachers’ certifi cates the rating of the institution is often inade the basis. Graduates of college which are not in tho “standard” class must take an examination, while those who have had a certain amount of re quired work in addition to the degree from a standard college may bo given a certificate on that basis. In order that the Department of Public Instruc tion in this state might koep in touch with the type of college work done, this inspection law has been put into effect. Surveys His Chief Work T)r. Zook’s chief work iB in making surveys of the colleges and universities. Tho distinction between surveys and in spections, which ho calls his visit here, is that a survey usually takes several weeks, lie spends this timo making de tailed investigations of tho type and quality of the work done and at the end of the time makes an elaborate report including recommendations and sugges tions for changes. Since Dr. Zook has been with the higher education section of tho Buroau of Edu cation ho has made surveys of educa tional condiitons in a number of states. A. year ago last November he did ex tensive work in the state of Arkansas, and has also made investigations in North Carolina. He is scheduled to spend some timo in Kansas following his western tour. Inspecting Oregon First Tho University is tho first college he has visited in Oregon, but he plans to take several days to each one. Although it is impossible in such a short time to go very deeply into the details of the work done, it is possible to get a general idea, he says. He will look over the Agricultural college after leaving here. “The chief purpose of tho Bureau of Education is to gather information and to carry on research work,” said Dr. Zook, who told of the thousands of let ters which pour in to tho department every day. It is the function of the bureau to answer these letters and to provide the public with all sorts of in formation. He told of various peculiar requests which had come in. Much uraduate worn JJone l)r. Zook spent a great deal of time in work at Ponnyslvania State College after taking his doctor’s degree at Cor nell. He is a graduate of the Univer aity of Kansas. In 1919 he spent a year in Europe aa a member of a na tional committee on public information. The last inspection of the University of this nature was in 1915 by Dr. S. P. Capen, Dr. Zook’s predecessor. At that time the report which was turned in was especially favorable to the University. It was on his recommendation that seven of the schools of higher education in Oregon were placed on the accredited list. At the time of the visit previous to that, in 1912 or 1913, Dr. K. C. Bab cock reported but three of the institu tions as doing work of sufficiently high standard to be recognized. Dr. Zook expressed himself as par ticularly impressed with the beauty of the buildings on the Oregon campua.