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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1923)
OFFER OF HOBO IS Universal Pictures Holdinc Contest; Scholarship to Be Given Winner Universal Pictures Corporation through its president Carl Laemmle is offering a scholarship of $1000 to the college student submitting the best sce nario for a moving picture. This an nouneement and the rules of the contest have just been received by Professoi W. F. 6. Thacher of the school of jour nalism. In addition to the scholarship the scenario will be paid for, the amount being not less than $500. The college or university which the winning stu dent is attending will receive $1000 which the board of trustees may use for any purpose whatsoever in the in terest of the college. It is interesting to note that scenar ios are to be submitted in short story form, told in the simplest and briefest manner possible. The continuities and working scripts are to be taken care ot b'j the Universal’s scenario department at Universal City', California. Any stories which Universal Pictures can use will be purchased for not less than $500. Submitting of scenarios gives Universal Pictures Corporation the script. This contest is open to all university students throughout the country. The closing date of the contest is May 15, and the announcement of the winner will be made by September 15. Pules which govern the writing of the scenario are as follows: 1. Scenarios should be written in short story form, omitting all non-es sential details. 2. Scenarios must be typewritten. Title, full name of writer, and name of college must appear in upper right hand corner of first page. 3. Students must state at the end of scenario thaft the idea used is, so far as they know, an original one. 4. All scenarios from your college or university should be forwarded not later than May 15, 1923, in one package, by registered mail, addressed as fol lows: Mr. Carl Laemmle, Universal Film Corporation—Attention Scholar ship Contest Dept., 1600 Broadway, New York City. 5. Scenarios once submitted may not be withdrawn until the end of the con test. 6. This company reserves the right to make any' changes considered necessary in title or story. 7. The judges will be chosen by the Universal Pictures Corporation, and their decision will be final. 8. The name of the author and of the college or university will appear on the film when produced. HANDIWORK OF PAST AGE REVIVED HERE Bags, Cushions and Tray Cloths Using Stitch of Renaissance Period Made hy Students Bags, cushions, tray cloths, runners, and backs for chairs are being made by Miss Maude Kerns’ class in design 1, reviving the gross point and petit point stitch of the renaissance period —a stitch very like our cross stitch. The work is of especial interest at this time because the Roumanian tapestry of Dr. Charles Upson Clark displayed last week on the campus showed in many cases the same stitch. A Greek bag has been loaned for study by Miss Alice Capps, as well as Italian and Chinese embroidery and two Persian towels. “This stitch has been used in many countries and at many times,” said Miss Kerns. “It was popular during the renaissance, and the reign of Will iam and Mary, and was known in Eng land and France. It was revived by our grandmothers, and now it is having another revival.” Miss Kerns found women in Portland and Seattle making tapestry upholster ing for their furniture when she was C re recently. The canvas needed has become so scarce that she has been un able to get any more in Portland, Seat tle, or San Francisco, and has just sent to Paris for more. INSTRUCTOR BELIEVES (Continued from page one) third, his frequent tirades against exist ing social customs. None of these is a sufficient reason. They are all based on the popular illu sion that a man’s character is a criterion of his logic. Nothing of the sort—Lew isohn’s arguments must stand or fall by virtue of their inherent logic alone. Lew isohn has in one place referred to base ball and prohibition as the two most dis tinctively American institutions. Is this what the writer of the editorial had in mind? But aside from this, the attitude of the editorial is one of refusing to consider the very question at issue: Are Ameri can institutions and existing social cus toms capable of handling our present sit uation? Or may not some criticism be made, with an outlook toward progress? This is what Mr. Lewisohn has done. Vet because he has done it we are told to look out for him. This is one of the most dangerous tendencies in America to day. William Dean Howells has said: “Whatever is established is sacred with those who do not think.” This seems too true. Mr. Lewisohn's attitude during the war was not antagonistic to America. It was antagonistic to the war psychosis, and the underhanded and “dirty” meth ods with tvhich ij must be obtained. It condemns" the unreasoning 0 and unjust results ’of this psychosis." as any think ing man will today. For example, are not the French atrocities in the Ruhr, as told in the papers now, equal to the Ger man atrocities of the war? Yet we rather land them or at least excuse them. However all this has nothing to do with the argument. It is an appeal to pre iudice. Further, there were some statements in Lhe last part of the editorial which are false. The statement that Lewisohn at tacked French literature was intended to further the prejudice against him as “pro-German.” Rut those who have fol lowed his critical work for the last few years know that the statement, is not true. He attacks certain writers or works and lauds others, just as any critic must do, for artistic reasons alone. It was also stated that Lewisohn’s criticism was wholly destructive: that, he had no change to suggest. He has. ft is in the hook; all the change he sees i need of. A careful reader can get his program. “Un Stream” is interesting and in valuable in that it so aptly expresses much that is being felt in America to day. John Dewey is saying similar *hings. but we say, “That’s philosophy”; Mul don’t bother about it. Lewisohn has fsaid them in plain language and it makes >'s wonder. These things are being felt world wide. Bertrand Russel^ has a similar criticism of education in this month’s Dial: “Is Education Free?” The manner of “Up Stream” grows | vindictive at times, but this can be ex 1 cased, when we realize what Lewisohn has been through. “Up Stream” should Le read and thought about by every stu dent in the University. Every thinking j person would find it profitable and ques-j tions it raises are vital to each one. COLD WEATHER REFILLS , UNIVERSITY INFIRMARY Faculty Members as Well as Students Are Listed Among Recent Vic tims of La Grippe The University infirmary was fairly wrell cleared out last Friday, according to the health department, but coinci dent with the sudden cold spell there has been an increase in the number of colds and similar illnesses, until this week it is again filled. Several of the faculty members, as well as many stu dents, are among those ill. Sybil McKnight, junior in the school of sociology, who was operated upon! for acute appendicitis last Friday af ternoon, is getting along nicely, accord ing to reports from the University health service. Half Couch, member of j the varsity basketball team, who has been receiving treatment for‘an infect ed foot, is improving, and it is hoped he wrill be able to play in the next game. M. H. Douglass, University librarian, has been confined to his home since last Saturday with a bad cold and sore throat, but is reported to be much im proved this morning. Other faculty members who are suf fering from the la grippe epidemic are Dean Colin V. Dyment of the college ! of literature, science and the arts, and I Professor C. D. Thorpe of the public speaking department. Professor Melvin Solve has been taking care of Mr. Thorpe’s classes during his absence. It j is expected that he will return to the ! campus the latter part of the week. PORTLAND AD EXPERTS TO SPEAK HERE SOON former Student of University Will Be Among Speakers to Address Class of Professor Thacher Professor W. F. G. Thacher was in Portland last week-end interviewing a number of prominent Portland advertis ing men and arranging for them to speak to his class in advertising on practical phases of the profession. Jack Crossley, vice president of the i Crossley and Failing agency, is to ad- j drress the class Friday, February 16.' ,J olin Dolph, former University of Ore gon student and now of Kirkpatrick and Dolph advertising service, will address the class on the psychology of advertis-] ing. This i| a field in which Mr. Dolph has done much investigating. This talk will be given early in March. Later in! the month Morris Hyde, advertising man ager of Lipman, Wolfe and Company, { j will speak on the day’s work of the ad-' vertising department of a large depart- j ment store. Hyde, who is a graduate of the Uni versity of Oregon school of journalism, says that there is excellent opportunity for university-trained people in depart ment store advertising. “HAND SHAKE” TO APPEAR Theta Sigma Phi Publication Is Bdited by B. Keber and M. L. Burton i Work for the anuual publication of the !“Hand Shake,” official organ of Theta i Sigma Phi, women’s national journal istic fraternity, early in March, is well | under way, having Rosalia Keber as editor, and Marv Lou Burton as assis-1 tant editor. The Hand Shake has been annually pub-1 bshed since 1913 and one copy is sent to each woman on the chapter roll of; Theta Sigma Phi. The local chapter boast of membership of Miss Grace Edg ington, national organizer of the fratern- j ity. FRESHMEN EXEMPTED FROM ENGLISH CLASSES First Year Students Given Opportunity to Take Examinations Once Each Month for Special Credit & Three freshmen who entered 'the Uni versity' in October have been exempted from t’ne English A course recently, one for good work in class assignments and two after a special examination conducted February 10th. Margaret Woodson, who 'is a major in the school of journalism, was exempted for her excellent papers submitted in class (Tilring last term, and Emily Roberts and Hjalmar Johnson passed the special examination success fully. John Evans and Gladys Onstad, who are new students this term on the cam pus, have passed the entrance examina tion for freshmen in English and are exempted from the course. A special examination is given about once a month to allow freshmen an op portunity to be exempt from the class and it is expected that a larger num ber will pass this the next time it is con ducted. SIAM KING HOST TO BRODIE Former Oregon Student Now Minister Given Dinner by Royalty Edward Brodie, Envoy Extraordinary ! to Siam and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, was guest of honor at a dinner given by the king and queen of Siam on December 18, according to • he Siam Observer, Bankok, Siam, a copy of which has reeenly been received by Dean Allen of the School of Journa lism. The long list of guests at the din ner included all the nobility and for eign representatives at the court. Mr. Brodie is a former student of the University and a member of Sigma Delta Ohi, men's honorav journalism fratern ity. He left the University in 1893-94, and is now publisher of the Oregon City Enterprise. He was president of the National. Editorial Association last year. ARCHITECT VISITS SCHOOL Member of American Institute Friend of Schroff and Willcox Charles H. Alden, Seattle architect and member of the board of directors of the American Institute of Architects, was an arrival on the campus yesterday. He is visiting the sehool of architecture and allied arts on his way to Seattle from the south. Mr. Alden knew Professor Alfred H. Schroff of the department of fine arts while they were both living in Boston. He is also an old friend of Professor W. R. B. Willcox of the school of archi tecture, and allied arts, having secured the same office with him in Seattle. He J succeeded Dean Ellis F. Lawrence of the school of architecture and allied arts on j the directorate of the institute. FEES MUST BE PAID BY 24 50 Students Are Fined One Dollar for Tardiness Twenty-four students have not yet paid their laboratory fees. It will be necessary for these people to present petitions to be reinstated in the Univer sity after Thursday, February 15. In , addition to several press notices and bulletins in the Administration build ing, personal notices of delinquencies; have been sent to these people. This number is less than in the fall j term. Although payment was elow at first, during the last twTo days the of fices did a rushing business, though be tween 40 and 00 students had to pay the ; one dollar fine for tardy payment after February 7. MISSIONARY WILL SPEAK Mrs. Minnette Norton from Korea to Lead Y. W. C. A. Group Meeting Mrs. Minnette Norton, a missionary from Korea, who is spending her second furlough in America with her husband, Dr. Arthur H. Norton, medical mission ary, -will be the principal speaker at the regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A : The REX TODAY and THURSDAY! By popular demand— WILLIAM S. HART in “WHITE OAK” A return showing of the best picture “Big Bill” made. And— A Brand Spankin’ New MACK SENNETT COMEDY laughingly entitled “THE PATROL’’ Think “Kodaks” Think Baker-Button “Fone” 536 to be lielil Thursday afternoon at five o'clock in the bungalow. The missionary from tho “land of the morning calm” will speak on Harry Emerson Fosdick, the author of “The Meaning of Prayer,” and a prominent minister of New York City, under whom. Mrs. Norton lias been studying during the o'last .winter. Mr. Fosdick is also the author ofChristianity and Pro gress” which book the women are studying. He is now a professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. The freshman choir will sing and a special musical program will be furnish ed by Misses Irene and Mary Burton. An informal tea will be served preced ing the meeting after which Helen Mc Cormick will preside. “WHITE OAK” AT REX Since William S. Hart has not pro duced a new picture in over a year, and while it is expected he will soon re sume his pictorial duties and stage a “come back,” local admirers of the star have taken it upon themselves to demand that a Hart film be shown at his old stamping ground, the Rex. In immediate response, the Rex has secured for a two-day showing, starting today, "White Oak,” which the man agement advises, has been picked from the best available William S. Hart pictures. Especially for those who, having seen “White Oak,” are anticipating its re turn showing with fond expectations, a new Mack Sennett comedy, “The Pa trol,” has been booked as an added fea ture of this Rex program for today and Thursday. Oet the Classified Ad habit. Think “Films” Think Baker-Button “Fone” 535 VASES FDB FLBWFBS rpiHS is the time to get your new blowls and vases. We have an exceptionally fine stock of tall vases for long stemmed flowers, flat bowls with various shaped frogs, squatty vases for violets and short stemmed flowers. This pottery is in various shades. * # # # JF YOU brighten your rooms with new vases, you should see that the walls have new pic tures. We have Maxfield Par ish pictures, landscapes, Japa nese prints that would look well on any wall. When you are down town, or better yet, make a special trip to see our pic tures. # # # # "\X^TIEN you want to give an ” appropriate gift, you should see us. We have many things for you to choose from —carved Japanese beads, in cense, incense burners, things to suit every occasion. LUDFORD Paint Store 922 Willamette Street The , STRADIVARA “Known for Tone” Just the phonograph for the house. Beautiful models in all sizes. Let us demonstrate. F. A. RANKIN. 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VALENTINE’S DAY Send Her Flowers THE UNIVERSITY FLORIST Phone 654 993 Hilyard Street Terminal Cleaners Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing Special Prices to Students Call and Deliver Phone 360 I “Why the Jovial Look, Old Man?” “I’ve just had a tender T-bone steak, golden brown French fried potatoes, head lettuce salad, topped off with apple pie and coffee—it’s a feed for any man.” The French and Italians may talk about their cuisine, but it’s the Americans who know a “read” dinner. He had that dinner at— The Rainbow _ Herm Burgoyne j