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Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXIV.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, 1923
NUMBER 63
WORLD NEEDS AID
OF STMT SAYS
J. STITT WILSON
These Are Most Tragic Hours
Known to Christian Age;
Alertness Demanded
MORAL POWER IS NEEDED
Universities Must Produce Men
With Clean Hearts to
Solve Problems
* It is of fundamental importance that
the present generation of college-train
ed men and women should be associated
with the great issues, perplexities and
problems which oppress the heart of
mankind during the present generation
if their education is to be an advantage
rather than a menace to civilized so
ciety, declared J. Stitt Wilson, nation
ally known student of world problems,
in his address at the first assembly of
the term yesterday.
“The world today is passing through
one of the most crucial and critical and
perhaps tragic hours it has known in
the Christian centuries,” said Mr. Wil
son, “and it is in this situation that
the lives of most of us will be lived.
If you students are only consciona of
the days in which you live, you will
be of great value to the world in its
present race of education against cat
astrophe.”
College People Leaders
According to Mr. Wilson, 73 per cent
of the entire leadership of the world
is college-trained, and it is for this
reason that the message of world needs
and social problems is carried to the
students of the country in an effort to
rouse them to a fulf realization of their
responsibilities to society and eliciting
their interest and consecration in meet
ing and sqjving the perplexities of the
human race during this crucial period.
The student group now in college will
be forced to meet with the most ser
ious situation that has confronted col
lege students in a hundred years, Mr.
Wilson believes.
It is because college students are too
often unfamiliar with the outstanding
characters and the transcending events
of their own times that they are unable
to contribute definitely to the cause of
progress, said the speaker.
World Faces Four Problems
There are four great problems con
fronting the peoples of the world at
the present time, according to Mr. Wil
son. The first of these is the emergence
of the races of the East from their for
mer state of outcast and despised mass
es and the vital parts they are play
ing in the affairs of the world. China
upon which not half a century ago the
white races looked with a certain poor
ly concealed disdain, is possessed of the
strongest physical background in the
world, the speaker said, and the four
hundred million people who comprise
this great nation of the far east must
be reckoned with in the settling of
world affairs. This cannot be done ex
cept on the plane of real understanding
and comprehension. Chinese students
have captured the honors in the uni- j
versities of Europe and the United
as heathen and pagan.
There is India with its three hun
dred millions of Indians who “are built
for thought,” and the average educated j
incorrectly called Hindu, according to;
Mr. Wilson, could tie knots in the aver
(Continued on page three.)
20 NEW STUDENTS ARE
FRATERNITY PLEDGES
Seven Men’s Houses, Three Women’s
Groups, Announce Additions
to Membership
Although a complete list of the
pledges of the various fraternities and
sororities will not be in until the end
of the week, the list to date includes
the pledging of fifteen men by seven
fraternities and three women by three
sororities. As is customary at the be
ginning of the winter term, not a great
deal of interest was manifest in the
pledging, due in part to the lack of a
definite rush week and pledge day, and
also because of the small number of
students who entered the University at
this time of the year. The list follows:
Sigma Nu—Byron Wallace, Astoria.
Sigma Chi—M. M. Frost, Portland;
Ernest Stoddard, Baker.
Chi Psi—Clarence Smith, Portland;
Lester Lomax, Portland.
Delta Tau Delta—Charles A. Kilgore,
Canby.
Kappa Sigma—William Ashby, Sal
em; Elmer Lewis, Freewater; Thomas
Robertson, Salem; Mingus Aitken, Ash
land.
Phi Delta Theta—Walter Carrington,
San Diego; Elvin Hodges, Tacoma;
George Henkle, San Diego; Walter Mal
colm, Portland.
Kappa Delta Phi—Charles Calistro,
Portland.
Kappa Theta Chi—Maurice Warnock,
Silverton.
The women’s fraternities:
Alpha Phi—Margaret Vincent, Port
land.
Delta Delta Delta—Katherine Kerns,
Portland.
Delta Zeta—Helen Dickey, Eugene.
Alpha Chi Omega—Anna Vogle.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULED
FDR FEB. 2,3, ON CAMPUS
Plans Made for Next Meeting
of Prepper Leaders
Much constructive work along the
lines of high school student administra
tion and editorial policy is expected to
be accomplished at the coming conven
tion of the Oregon State Association of
High School Student Body Presidents
and Secretaries, and the Oregon High
School Press association, which will
meet here February 2 and 3, according
to John MacGregor, president of the
Associated Students of- the University.
In addition to the plans outlined for
the regular working sessions of the two
conventions, it is planned to take time
during their stay in which to show
the visitors about the campus, and to
entertain them by the customary stu
dent show, this time to be “A College
ISlight,” and a tea given by the Wo
men’s League of the University at
which they will be the guests of honor.
Many smaller entertainments will
probably be given for them by the var
ious organizations on the University
campus. A committee of Sigma Delta
Chi, national journalistic fraternity, is
arranging jointly with the school of
journalism for the entertainment of the
members of the press association. The
school of journalism and Sigma Delta
Chi will act jointly as hosts to the con
vention.
The two conventions will open on
Friday morning with a joint meeting,
at which representative student and
faculty members will address the visit
ors. The two conventions will then
adjourn to meet’ separately for the
remainder of the morning. Sessions
will occupy the greater part of the af
ternoon, according to the tentative pro
gram already laid out, and the visit
(Continued on page two.)
TwoJStudents Arrive in Eugene
~After Strenuous Five Day Trip
Five days was the time required by
George McIntyre, manager of the 1922
Oregana, and Claire Shumate, freshman
in the University, to cover the 135 miles
between Bandon and Eugene. The two
men, who arrived here Wednesday eve
ning told of their trip wearily, for
besides riding on a passenger train, a
work train, a relief train, in the cab
of a locomotive, and on a Ford jitney,
they passed the ties for 52 miles.
They left Bandon Saturday morning.
At Reedsport the train was reversed
due to a wreck having tied up the road.
That evening the two travelers found
themselves at Marshfield. They were
forced fo stay there until Monday morn
ing when they tried their luck on a
work train leaving north. At Canary
a tunnel had caved in.
A walk of six miles ,'ver the hills
and the undaunted men arrived early
Tuesday morning at Cushman where
the warmth of a hissing engine stand
ing on the track enabled them to be
comfortable till the dawn.
Friendly trainmen allowed the two
to ride in the cab to Beck where they
left the locomotive and pushed on afoot.
A lift on the relief train to the wreck
just outside of Mapleton and once more
they pushed on. Shumate says the en
gine hit a large stone and leaped down
the hill, landing there on its back. Only
the tops of the driving wheels showed
above the flood waters.
At noon Wednesday the two struck
Noti about 18 miles from Eugene. There
a car was hired and the remainder of
the way was traversed without further
trouble other than the rough riding over
mucky roads in the “tin limousine.”
Shumate was in the midst of an ad
miring group of “brothers” reciting the
tale of hardships and his good fortune
in arriving during registration when a
fellow Bandonite appeared stating he
had just made town. This was two
hours after Shumate’s appearance.
“When did you leave Bandon?” the
newcomer was asked.
“This morning,” he announced dis
gustedly. “That sure was a long trip.
Almost ten hours. How long did it take
you, Shumate!”
But the answer is unprintable.
MEMBERSHIP IN
SIGMA XI WILL
BE RESTRICTED
Only Graduates and Faculty
Members to Be Eligible
for Some Time'
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HONOR CONSIDERED GREAT
New Fraternity and Phi Beta
Kappa Most Prominent
Honorary Groups
Faculty members aud graduate stu
dents wlio have shown ability and pro
mise in original research in science will
be eligible to membership in the local
chapter of Sigma Xi, national honorary
scientific research fraternity. In excep
tional cases some chapters admit up
perclassmen to social membership aud
such provision may be made eventual
ly at Oregon, although no such plans
have been formulated.
Members of the University science
faculty consider the granting of a chap
ter of Sigma Xi to Oregon one of the
greatest honors given to the Universityi
in recent years and say that it is na
tional recognition of Oregon’s advanc
ing standard of scholarship.
The Sigma Xi chapter was granted
to the University of Oregon at the na
tional convention held jointly at Har
vard and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology the latter part of Decem
ber. The vote was unanimous, accord
ing to Professor O. F. Stafford, head of
the chemistry department, who repre
sented Oregon at the meeting of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science, held in Boston the
same week, at which thousands of sci
entists from all over the country and
Canada were present. Professor Staf
ford became, a member of Sigma Xi,
which was organized at Cornell Univer
sity in 1886, at Kansas University, the
third institution to be granted a char
ter.
Outstanding in World
Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary
scholastic fraternity, which recently
granted a chapter to the University,
and Sigma Xi, are the pre-eminently
outstanding honorary organizations in
the wrorld.
Credit for the securing of the charter
is attributed to the high standard of
scholarship at the University in pure
and applied science, the administra
tion’s favorable attitude toward scien
tific research and the efforts of the lo
cal committee of the science club,
members of which are Dr. A. E. Cas
well, professor of physics, Dr. B. A.
Packard, professor of geology, and Dr.
J. F. Bovard, dean of the school of
physical educatiin.
The following sixteen members of
the faculty of the University are al
ready members of the organization,
having been elected at other institu
tions :
William F. Allen, Robert Louis Ben
son, John F. Bovard, Albert E. Caswell,
Edwin T. Hodge, Samuel C. Kohs, Earl
L. Packard, Frederick L. Shinn, Warren
D. Smith, Orin F. Stafford, Herbert G.
Tanner, Harry B. Torrey, Harry B.
Voeom, Roger J. Williams, Ann Hardy
and Hazel Hauck.
Many Works Published
Other faculty members signing the
petition for a charter included W. P.
Boynton, George E, Burget, E. S. Conk
lin, H. R. Crosland, H. D. Hoskins, Olof
Larsell, E. H. McAlister, W. E. Milne,
Harold B. Myers, H. J. Sears and R. H.
Wheeler. The research work listed for
these members includes ^20 separate
published pieces of research as well as
numerous projects which are now under
way.
The date of the installation has not
been set but it is customary to install
new chapters sometime before March
15 after the granting of the chapter.
The installation is personally conduc
ted by the president and secretary of
the national organization. These of
ficers are Dr. Henry B. Ward of Hli
nois University, and Dr. Edward Ellery
of Union College. Both have been in
Eugene previously. Dr. Ellery was the
guest of Professor Stafford several
years ago and Dr. Ward visited the
campus several months ago while mak
ing investigations here.
It is possible that th local installa
tion will not take place until June, con
trary to the usual custom.
While in the east Professor Stafford,
who recently brought to perfection a
process for utilizing waste wood on a
commercial scale, visited the plants
where the method is used and was en
gaged in various conferences in regard
to the exploitation of the process. Pro
gress is being made and it is expected
that another plant will be established
soon.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCED
Tau Nu announces the pledging of
Marian Wagini of Portland, Oregon.
OREGON TO MEET
DENTAL COLLEGE
OUINTET TONIGHT
Tooth Architects Expected to
Give Lemon-Yellow Five
Stiff Opposition
MULTNOMAH TEAM IS NEXT
Bohler’s Men Working Better
Than Last Year; Tilts
Set for Armory
The first regular game for the Var
sity basketball team is slated for 8
o’clock this evening at the Armory
with the North Pacific Dental College
team of Portland as the opposition.
The two teams have already met once
this year, when Oregon took the Dent
ists down the line 35 to 21 in one of
the barnstorming games.
All games this year will be played at
the Armory where the floor is much
larger and the hall will accommodate
a larger crowd than the men’s gym.
The Armory floor is algo a great deal
more desirable from the players ’ point
of view, as the baskets are set out
from the wall and the floor is consider
ably larger. One feature against the
Armory floor is that it is usually quite
slick, since it is used for dances every
week-end.
Line-Up Not Yet Known
The team which will line up against
the Dentists has not been picked by
Coach Bohler, but he will probably
start Zimmerman and Altstock as for
wards, Latham at center, and probably
Chapman and Schaefer as guards.
These men played in most of the pre
season contests and work well together.
Saturday night the Multnomah Club
team will drop in from Portland and
try to tack another defeat onto the
Varsity. The clubmen already have
one victory, the 39 to 31 game taken
from the Varsity during the Christmas
holiday trip. The Lemon-Yellow team
has a good chance to turn the tables
here, and a hot game is predicted.
Better Than Last Year
The Varsity looks'a great deal better
this season than at ti corresponding
time last year, and has a good chance
to win a majority of its games if the
probable improvement is shown.
Tough competition will be met, how
ever, as all the teams in the Northwest
have practically last year’s squads
back. Idaho, which won the coast cham
pionship last year, lost only one man
and expects a stronger lineup than ev
er, while O. A. C., which took second
place last season, lias a veteran squad
and expects to cop off the coast honors
this year. Washington also has a vet
eran quintet, making the pickings look
harder than ever for the team which
finished in the cellar last year.
KILPATRICK HEADING
ASTORIA RELIEF WORK
Extension Division Head Is Not to
Return to Campus Before
x Next Week
Earl Kilpatrick of the extension div
ision will not be on the campus this
week on account of liis participation in
the rehabilitation work in Astoria.
Mr. Kilpatrick, head of the relief
work, reports, according to the Red
Cross Courier, that the health situa
tion is good. Those in immediate need
are found by seeking them out in their
temporary homes.
In close cooperation with Mr. Kil
patrick are Mrs. Parsons, of the exten
sion division in Portland, and Miss
Thompson, head of the social service
work in Portland.
The Astoria Budget expresses thanks
to the workers in an editorial. It says,
“To the University of Oregon, which
loaned trained workers, and to those
other institutions which sent experien
ced volunteers, and to the local Red
Cross chapter members who gave with
out stint of their time, Astoria acknow
ledges profound appreciation. The
friends of our dark hours shall not be
forgotten in the batter days to come.”
RACHEL HUSBAND RETURNS
Geology Graduate Now Employed in
Los Angeles Museum
Rachel Husband, '21, who was grad
uated from the University in the Geol
ogy department, is now visiting the
campus from Los Angeles, California.
Miss Husband is located at the Los
Angeles Museum, Exposition Park, as
assistant in the paleontology depart
ment. Her work consists of separating
bones which come from the tar pools
of Southern California and looking for
fossils in brickyards and cliffs around
Los Angeles.
Miss Husband likes California and
says she finds her work there interest
ing.
PETITIONS NECESSARY
FOR FLUNKERS’ RETURN
Dismissed Students Must Prove Their
Ability to Carry Work to
Be Reinstated
Apropos of the statement that thirty
eight students were flunked out of the
University at the end of the fall term
the scholarship committee wishes to
impress these and other students with
the fact that re-admission is granted
| upon petition only after a nine months'
interval during which the applicant
| must prove to the satisfaction of the
committee that lie is capable of carry
ing college work.
Up to two years ago flunkouts were
considered final but the faculty then
modified this rule to allow the scholar
ship committee to use its discretion in
allowing students to re-enter upon the
fulfillment of specific requirements
which are printed as follows in the
University regulations:
“A student dropped from the Univer
sity under any of the provisions of this
code may petition the Probation com
mittee for re-admission after nine cal
endar months have elapsed.” An im
pression has arisen from this that all
petitions will be granted but according
to Dean Dvment, chairman of the schol
astic committee students are allowed
to return to the classes only after care
ful investigation regarding their abil
ity has been r :ade. It has been found
that less than an approximate third of
the petitioners are able to meet these
demands, he stated. Members of this
committee are Dr. H. D. Sheldon, Dr.
F. L. Shinn, Dr. E. C. Robbins and
Miss Mary Watson.
MEN’S GYMMSiUM HAS
NEW HANDBALL COURTS
Rules for Players Are Given
by Department
Four new handball courts, one of
them marked off for squash, will be
ready for use in the men’s outdoor
gymnasium next Monday. The courts
have been so designed that there are
no obstacles whatsoever to hinder the
players. A new feature is that every
court, aside from its regular entrance
and exit, has a fire-exit which opens di
rectly out upon the street. This was
done to conform with fire regulations,
and these doors will not be used as a
regular means of passage. The central
door on Thirteenth street is the only
entrance to the building.
Boxing and wrestling will henceforth
take place on a second floor which has
been built in the gymnasium. This
will make a place for tumbling on the
upper floor of the regular gymnasium,
thus keeping the lower main floor clear
of all mats and such apparatus. A
runway, or “Bridge of Sighs” is now
being built leading from the second
floor of the main gymnasium to the
second floor of the outdoor gym.
Following are some of the rules
which wifi govern the use of the courts:
(1) Daily regular classes have first
claims on courts until four o’clock.
(2) After four, students are free to
play until six o’clock, when building
must be vacated and locked.
(3) Doubles have precedence over
singles. When singles are in progress
and another pair makes known that
they wish to play, they should be tak
en into the game immediately, unless
they offer to wait until the game is
finished.
(4) Singles may not be started when
others are waiting for a game.
(5) Fire-exit doors should never be
used to make an exit from the build
ing except in case of fires. Students
are urged to cooperate in keeping these
doors closed at all times.
(6) Lights in the courts are turned
on by means of switches behind the
doors. Turn out lights when leuving
court. t
(7) Court No. 1, that in the main
gymnasium, will be reserved for faculty
use after 4:30 p. m. daily. Students
should withdraw at that time if facul
ty members come.
| SCHOOL ADDS NEW COURSE
—
! Aurora Potter to Teach Classes in
Sight Singing and Ear Training
The school of music lias added to its
curriculum this term, a course in ear
training and sight singing to be taught
| by Aurora Potter Underwood, of the
school of music. The course will in
clude the teaching of the fundamentals
of notation, time, sight singing, and a
little about the piano key board.
Similar courses have been given for
some time in eastern schools of music
but it is comparatively new to Pacific
coast colleges. No fees are to be charg
ed and the class is intended for all stu
dents and is not to be limited to music
, majors. It will meet once a week,
and one half credit will be given when
I it is taken with either voice, violin o:
: piano. Mrs. Underwood is using “Eai
| Training and Sight Singing,” writtei
I by George Wedge, which is used in the
f Damroscli school of music in New York
I for a text book.
SEMESTER PLAN
WILL BE TESTED
BT STRAW VBTE
Students Will Cast Ballots in
Expression of Their Stand
on Faculty Action
SENTIMENT AGAINST MOVE
Members of A. S. U. 0. Believe
Present Division of Year
Is Most Logical
If present plans materialize, next
Wednesday members of the student
body will be given an opportunity of
expressing their attitude toward the
two semester system, sanctioned Wed
nesday afternoon by a faculty vote of
-9 to 25. Influenced by an apparently
unanimous expression of opinion that
the faculty should have found out in
some way how students regarded the
proposed change, the Emerald has de
cided to conduct a straw ballot.
Yesterday reporters were in touch
with students in the various organiza
tions and on the campus and it appears
to bo the prevalent belief that the ad
ministration has passed a measure
which is not to the best advantage of
the members of the student body. Many
students admitted that they were not
conversant with the arguments advanc
ed for the two semester plan and ex
pressed a wish to be enlightened. As
the official publication of the A. S.
U. O., it is probable that the Emerald
will request faculty members to make
known in informative articles their
arguments for and against the system
which was dropped during the war.
Arguments Are Advanced
Although students willingly confess
that they know little about the argu
ments for the division of the scholas
tic year into two parts, rather than the
present tri-semester method, they are
not reluctant to advance arguments for
the retention of the three-term plan.
One of the main arguments put for
ward in answer to questions was that
the three-term system follows the log
ical division of the school year, vaca
tions coming at the termination of the
fall quarter, Christmas, and at the end
of the spring quarter, Easter. Another
arguments given by students is that the
present short term plan enables stu
dents with limited funds to come to
the University, knowing that they can
drop out at the end of three months
with their credit earned, rather than
having to leave school during the se
mester without credit. It has been
pointed out that the tri-semester Bys
tem encourages many students to come
to Oregon who find work while on the
campus and in this way remain to com
plete their college course.
Although seniors will not be affected
by the system adopted Wednesday by
J the faculty, unless they return as grad
uate students next fall, members of the
class of ’23 are taking an active inter
est in the campus discussions concern
ing the recent change. The majority
of the seniors look at the question from
the point of view of members of the
science faculty, saying that it is a
poor policy to tear down a schedule of
studies which has been built up after
much work.
May Reconsider Vote
There is a possibility that the term
system adopted Wednesday may bo re
considered, according to information ob
tained from uuthoratative sources. It
is believed that this reconsideration
will not take place if the students in
casting their ballots next week express
their belief that the two semester plan
is not detrimental to the welfare of the
student body. Should students cou
demn the newly adopted plan, it is
thought faculty members will move
that the measure be pigeon holed for
an indefinite period.
One faculty member who appears to
be neutral on the term question yester
day intimated that students always op
pose new campus legislation, but will
find the two-semester system favorable
as the present tri-semester plan when
once working.
HANDBALL FINALS SOON
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Oregon Club
Left in League A
The second round of do-nut handball
1 in league A will be finished when Sigma
I Alpha Kpsilon meets the Oregon club
i in the near future. This game must be
played immediately on pain of forfeit
ure, according to Gerald Barnes of the
physical education department,
i Friendly Hall, Phi Gamma Delta, and
! Kappa Theta Chi, are the survivors of
! the second round of League B. Unless
j there are challenges issued this week,
! these three teams will be rematched an.l
I one eliminated before the final round
j robin, which will consist of the two
I best teams of each league.