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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1923)
Society By Catherine Spall * With dainty college women in lovely gowns of every tint and hue, with college men in their conventional formal attire, formal dances, in an environment of beauty to the minutest detail, are oc cupying the interest of college folk at this season. Two formals, those of the women's Oregon club and Alpha Xi Del ta were pretty affairs of Saturday eve ning. However, a number of informal dances are being given during each week end. Informality and “pep,” that word which should be devoted exclusively to describe a college dance, were the charac teristics of each of the four class dances held Friday evening. With the exception of the freshman class, ludicrous costumes which in some cases gave a startling ef fect, wfere worn at the dances. With a mask to hide their identity and with the mysterious password, so necessary for entrance into their “ball room,” the seniors >made merry at land Friday evening. Costumes of every description lent color aplenty for the mix. During the evening masks were taken off resulting in many surprises and a great deal of fun. A prize of a box irf. candy for the couple dressed in the cleverest costumes, was won by Wesley Frater and Ethel Wheeler. The former was diessed as a farmer even to the hay on him; the latter was attired as a little . old maid with curls, high choker, and a funny little hat. The Junior Jazz Jinx was a big success if one judged by the large number pre sent and the fun and noise prevalent. The men’s gymnasium was the scene of the dance. There were feature dances, Paul Jones and tag dances during the eve ning. Many clever costumes were no ticed among the motley-colored throng. Patrons and patronesses were Dean and Mrs. Eric W. Allen, Miss Madeline Mc Manus, and Mr. Ben Horning. Serpentine and gayly costumed couples were featured at the large sophomore dance at Ye Campa Shoppe. An excel lent five-piece orchestra rendered music for the underclassmen. Patronesses for the event included Mrs. Mildred Gillen, Mrs. Lettie Mowrey, and Miss Sue Badol let. Freshmen frolicked in the Woman’s building which was decorated in blue and white streamers for the dance. Just off •from the main hall were cleverly arrang ed booths in wTiich fortunes were told. A unique feature dance was given by the Misses Kathryn Jane Seel and Gladys Noreen who were dressed as thieves with black suits on, hats pulled down over their eyes, and flashlights. Dean and Mrs. John Straub and Professor and Mrs. B. E. DeCou acted as patrons and patron esses. * * * K Alpfia Xi Delta entertained with a de lightful formal dance last night at the Woman’s building. A color motif of gray and blue was cleverly carried out by the moss-covered oak branches cover ing the walls and ceilings, and by the light shaded with blue. Attired as a wood nymph. Miss Dorothy Hall gave the feature of the evening. The programs were of gray with the crest of the soror ity engraved in. Patrons and patroness es were Professor and Mrs. E. E. DeCou, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Prescott, Mrs. A. B. j Wells, and Mrs. Mildred Giffen. Alpha Delta Pi was the hostess at a dinner Wednesday evening when they en tertained a number of Sigma Alpha Ep silon fraternity men. Mrs. Carl Handley Will of Seattle who is the president of the Gamma Phi Beta Alumni association of Seattle and also a visiting delegate making a tour of the western province has been the inspiration for a number of affairs during her visit here. Wednesday afternoon Gamma Phi Beta sorority entertained with a tea in her honor at the chapter house. Four wo men from each house ancT the house chap erones were asked to th affair to' meet Mrs. Will. In the receiving line were Mrs. Will, Mrs. Bobert Earl, Miss Le Laine West, and Miss Helen Idleman. Mrs. George Beed poured. Thursday evening Mrs. Will was honor guest at a formal faculty dinner party at which Gamma Phi Beta was the hos tess. The list of guests included besides Mrs. Will, Professor and Mrs. E. E. De Cou, Dean and Mrs. John Straub, MrB. P. L. Campbell, Dean and Mrs. Colin V. Dyment, Professor and Mrs. Frederic S. Dunn, Professor and Mrs. O. F. Stafford, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Borer, and Miss Mary Watson. The REX Starting Monday REPLAY WEEK presenting Monday only Fannie Hurst’s “THE GOOD PROVIDER” • Tuesday only Thomas Meighan in “IF YOU BELIEVE IT, IT ’S SO ” Three other big pictures. Alpha Chi Omega was the hostess at a brother dinner Tuesday evening. Twelve brothers attended the affair. William B. Faville of San Francisco who is president of the American Insti tute of Architects, and is a well known figure in architectural circles, was a vis itor on the campus during the past week. Thursday evening he was honor guest at a dinner given at the Anchorage by the Architecture club. A number of faculty members and students majoring in the department were included in the list of guests. The engagement of Miss Olive Gates, ’25, Chi Omega, and Francis Wade, '22, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, was announced at a beautifully appointed dinner at the Chi “Omega house Thursday evening. The table was centered with a profusion of red carnations, and favors and place cards of red further carried out the color scheme. The lights were covered with red heart-shaped shades, and at each place was a red satin box of candy in the form of a heart in which the names of the couple were written on a paper heart. Miss Gates is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Gates of Hillsboro. Mr. Wade graduated last year from the University Law school and is now district attorney of Sherman county. Coming as a surprise was the announce ment of the engagement of Miss Audrey Perkins, ’23, and Verden May which was announced at a luncheon at the Alpha Delta Pi house this week. Cut spring flowers were used in the table decora tions. Miss Perkins whose home is in Springfield is a senior majoring in the department of business administraton. She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi sor ority and Phi Theta Kappa. Mr. May is in business in Springfield. Chi Omega entertained all the football letter men and the coach and trainer at a dinner Wednesday evening. The table decorations included a clever miniature football field with the goal posts, a foot ball, and little kewpies dressed in foot ball raiment, each with his number on his back. Besides Coach “Shy” Hunt ington and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hayward, the guests included twenty football men. This was the first of what the Chi Omegas plan to give annually, namely, a banquet for the football men at the end of the season. , A lovely formal dance was that given by the women’s Oregon club at the Cham ber of Commerce clubrooms Saturday evening. Crimson and white were the col ors used in the clever decorations, and from the ehandelfers hung myriads of crimson and white balloons. About the rooms were large bouquets of pussywil lows. On the white programs in gilt let tering were the words “Oregon JIlub,” and also the Oregon seal. Patrons and patronesses for the dance 1 were Professor and Mrs. E. E. DeCou, Mr. John Siefert, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Spencer, and Miss Alice Betts. • * * Beatrice Fraley, ’24, of Eugene, an nounced her engagement to John “Dinty” Moore, ex ’21, Monday evening at dinner at the Delta Delta Delta house of which Miss Fraley is a member. At each place was a clever bouquet of paper nosegays, attached to which was an envelope bear ing the two names. The lights above the table were covereff^with red shades, and on the table fed candles shed a soft glow. A large box of candy was passed to the sorority sisters of the engaged girl. Mr. Moore is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. At present he is engag ed in the lumber business with his fa ther at Bandon, and at San Francisco. The engagement of Grace Pick, ex ’25, Alpha Delta Pi, and Meador Fletcher, ex ’19, was announced recently at the Alpha Delta Pi house. Miss Pick whose home is in Portland is not here this year. Mr. Fletcher is in the insurance business in Eugene at present. The date of the wedding has not yet been set. A delightful program of salon music was given last Tuesday evening at the Alumni hall of the Woman’s building, by members of the faculty of the school }f music. Taking part in the musicale were Aurora Underwood, Dr. John J. Landsbury, Rex Underwood, Lora Tesh ner and Alberta Potter. The University Symphony orchestra will give a concert this afternoon at the Monday—for 3 days Laurette Taylor “PEG O’ MY HEART” • A picturization of the cele brated play in which lovely Laurette became world fa The Castle mous. ‘ ‘ Paramount ’ mud “First National” Pictures are shown only at the Bex and Castle Theatres FAILURES SHOULD BLAME SELVES, SAYS PROFESSOR SOCIOLOGIST CLAIMS EVERYONE IS MORE OR LESS LAZY College Student Meeting Adversity Be comes Victim of World-is-all-Wrong Theory and Welcomes Revolution l\ of Minnesota, Jan. 23.—That the majority of people achieve less success than they might because of conditions within their own control, and not because society falis to give them a fair oppor tunity is the view of Professor Ross L. Finney of the sociology department. The individual who feels that he is not getting a fair deaf or a “chance” ought to ask himself first, whether he may not be partly to blame. Perhaps he has not chosen the right occupation. Per haps he has not seen the opportunities before him. Perhaps he has been merely trying 'to do average work, the same this year as last eyar. Perhaps, he has be?n too careful not to do any more work than he was paid for and has erred on the other side by, doing less work thanohe was paid f<fl\ Nearly everybody is more or less lazy and hates to exert himself more than he must to get what he wants. Some achieve a great deal with littlO effort and much luck, so why work so hard? Add do that disposition the vicious teaching that the world is all wrong, iaat it is made up of oppressors and oA pressed, robbers and victims, and even a person of high intel ligence is likely to become discouraged and brood over his fate. The college graduate, who finds the world is not waiting to give him all he wants, is especially prone to this error. Such a person, instead of trying to im prove his own situation, welcomes sug gestions of visionary reforms or violent all-leveling revolution. Methodist church at 4 o’clock for the benefit of the Eugene Elks. r£he pro ceeds will go to the Elks to be used by them for charity. A program has been arranged for the affair which is of much interest on the campus. • • • Newman club entertained for its mem bers last evening at a dinner dance. Pussywillows and spring flowers were used to decorate the rooms of the hall. A number of social events are included in the entertainment of the high school students who will come to the campus next week-end for the high school stu dent’s conference. On Friday evening they will be given a banquet at Hendricks hall. At 8 o’clock will be College Night with the students as the guests at the auouorium of the Woman’s building. This affair will include skits by the Glee club, Varsity yells, moving pictures, se lections by the University Orchestra and presentation of “O’s.” Saturday the girls will be special guests at a luncheon to be given for them by the Women’s League of the University. In the after-1 noon there will be the annual fashion show, demonstrating to the visiting girls the proper mode of the co-ed’s attire on various occasions. i A complete Surprise to the Campus was the engagement of Louise Odell, of Port land, and Bryan McMinn, of Portland, announced at the Alpha Sigma house last night, of which Miss Odell is a member. The table was .decorated with red carna tions for centerpieces, below which were hidden cards bearing the names of the two. Miss Odell is a senior in the school, majoring in Romance languages. Mr. Mc minn is a graduate of the class of 1918 at O. A. C. At present he is an instruc tor in the school of engineering at the University of Washington. Sunday Supper TELEPHONE 30 FOR RESERVATIONS The i Anchorage ‘CHANGE OF TEMPO NEEDED IN SCHOOL’ (Continued from page one.) Granted that most students who think at all admit that there is some thing unsatisfactory about “higher education,” is there a remedy, and if so, what is itf “I haven’t a remedy, and have not developed a satisfactory philosophy in the matter,” was Dr. Barnett’s reply to this question. “Some things I have mentioned could be improved, but I have no definite ideas for reform. “One great trouble with the Univer sity,” he said, “is that every member of the faculty is to a large extent en gaged, necessarily, in keeping up in liis own department and developing his own work, so that he does not have time to give enough thought to the general interest of the University.” He, himself, Dr. Barnett repeated several times, lies had neither time nor opportunity to make a real study of student life. Activities Should Lessen He has, however, several ideas for methods 8f improving institutions of higher learning. He feels that inter collegiate athletics take up far too much of the student’s time and inter est, and that social activities and un necessary organizations should be limited. The plan now under considera tion by Women’s League, to keep out the unimportant clubs and campus or- j ganizations, meets with his hearty ap proval. But while all colleges and universi ties leave something to be desired, the efforts of the University of Oregon to raise its standards have met with con siderable success, Dr. Barnett believes, and this raising of standards is cer tainly a great stride taken in the right dirction. There are three classes of students, Dr. Barnett said; those of high scho lastic ability, who would do good work under any circumstances; those of low ability, who can barely get along, or cannot get along at all; and the great middle class, students neither very good nor very poor in their studies. “Reforms in a university would af-1 feet this middle class, and it is the [ middle class that we ought to help,”| Dr. Barnett declared. For this middle class, which the majority of students occupy, may become, under unfavorable circumstances, the low class of flunks, or under favorable circumstances, the high class of real students,” he said, the University out of all proportion to its importance. THIS WEEK (Continued from page one) members of the Turkish delegation. Notwithstanding, this pessimistic view of Riza Nur, who is the most radical bf the Turkish delegates,, hope is ex About Learning to Dance You might pick up dancing, and you might pick up arithmetic-—both are pos sible, but improbable. We don’t entrust a valuable watch to an unskilled me chanic. Then why waste time and money with any one who knows little if any thing of the dance when with one-tenth of the time you can make your dancing an accomplishment. We can give to your dancing that touch, ease and grace that makes dancing a pleasure. Expert Professional Instructors Eugene Dancing Academy DREAMLAND—Phone 1303 1 p. m. to 9 p. m. pressed in other responsible quarters !hat things may arrange themselves at the last moment. The house, by a vote of 204 to 77 approved the action of its judiciary fommittee in giving Attorney General Daugherty a clean bill of health on the impeachment charges brought against him by Representative Kellar, Min nesota. Max Nordau, the famous German author and philosopher, died at his home in Parie Monday. President Harding 1ms every confi dence that there will be an agreement for the refunding of its huge war debt 'to the United States, it has been stated at the Whitehouse. BOHLER’S TACTICS MAKES NEW TEAM (Continued from page one.) one in Oregon’s dash for the champion ship. Monday evening, February 5, the Webfeet will take on Washington State, a team that is a decided “dark horse” since they downed Idaho last Friday night with apparent ease 2012, Idaho collecting but one field goal. Then on Wednesday night, February 7, the Hawaiian all-stars will be here for iji game. The all-stars have a good team with best men from the various athletic organizations on the Islands. On Friday and Saturday nights, Febru ary 9 and 10, Oregon will play the coij dijding series with the Oregon Aggies in what promises to be two real court battles^ ANTI-FRATERNITY STUDENTS AT COLORADO DECLARE WAR University of Colorado, Jan. 22.— At the University of Colorado the Or der of Commons has declared war on fraternities and is attempting to enlist the aid of all non-fraternity students in stamping out the organizations. Arm in Arm with good form is the tuxedo. For any social occasion where dress up is required. Step in ~ and step out with a ready-to-wear tuxedo, without the fuss and cuss of made-to-order. 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R.’s Have You Said — —“there’s nothing to do tonight?” This is an error, made by those that have not discovered the Campa Shoppe’s Sunday evening chicken dinner. Sunday evening at the Campa Shoppe is a riot of fun—a happy, joyful crowd that will cheer you, and help dispell the foreboding thought of a “blue-Monday.” Ye Campa Shoppe Hersh Taylor