IDIENCf LIKED
ASDEBATEJUDGE
Oregon Coach Believes New
Method Will Encourage
Better Arguments
“I believe the audience decision is
■worth a thorough trial,” said C. D.
Thorpe, of the public speaking depart
ment when commenting on the judging
system used at the recent Oregon-Cal
ifornia women’s debate at which each
member of the audience cast a ballot
in deciding the winners of the contest.
The idea of allowing the audience
to vote for the winners in a debate, is
to register the reaction of the speeches
according to the Oregon coach. The
purpose of most good speaking is to
influence the pepole who hear it to be
lieve or to act, he said, adding that if
wb* are to have a real test of the suc
cess of a speech or of any number of
speeches, we can get it only by finding
how the members of the audience as a
whole are affected.
“It is my belief that much of the
artificiality of debate contests in the
past has been due to the fact that de
baters have been preparing as if for
a sort of game, where certain set rules
counted, where certain judges with
known or at least possible prejudices,
must be pleased,” Mr. Thorpe said. He
pointed out that much of the so-called
“debate jargon” can be directly traced
to the conditions under which debates
have been conducted. The result of
such a method, he said, has often been
that speeches such as one would never
use under any conditions in real life,
are heard delivered from the debate
platform.
The audience decision will necessitate
• a new kind of speech—a kind of speech
that wins audiences; the kind that
would produce results in a city clean-up
campaign or win votes in a state or na
tional election; a kind which would con
vert sinners to repentance, or the kind
that would gain the necessary twelve
votes of a jury. Such was the opinion
expressed by Mr. Thorpe.
“The possible danger in the plan is
that partisanship and prejudices may
influence votes, but I believe there
is little more danger of that here than
under the judge system,” said Mr.
Thorpe, adding that the prejudices of
younger people like university students
are more easily overcome than the set
convictions of some of the older per
sons, who usually act as judges.
“Morover, college students are on the
whole as good or better judges of
what constitutes effective speaking as
are many lawyers, judges and ministers
who got their training in the good old
elocutionary days,” he said.
“In the recent Oregon-California de
bate, Oregon won the debate, and was
entitled to the decision. About one
third of the audience voted for Cali
fornia. These persons thought Califor
nia won and cast their ballots accord
ingly,” said Mr. Thorpe. “I am sure
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that had the other two thirds had as
strong a conviction that Caiifprnia
should have the decision, they would
have voted against our team, for I
believe thoroughly in the Oregon spirit
of fair play,” he said.
Eliane Cooper, assistant coach of the
women’s varsity debate teams, and a
member of the public speaking depart
ment faculty, expressed emphatic dis
approval of the audience decision plan.
At the Oregon-California debate last
Thursday night the audience plan was
used for the first time on the Oregon
campus. California has used the system
all this year, and it is planned to use
this method of judging in all the coast
conference debates next year.
PHI THETA KAPPA WILL
MAKE ITS AWARD TODAY
Best All Around Girl in Business Ad
Will Receive $50 Scholarship from
Honorary Commerce Society
Today will mark a number of annual
events for members of Phi Theta Kap
pa, women’s honorary commerce frater
nity in the University, as the $50
Scholarship given by this group will be
awarded to the best all around girl in
the school of business administration
for the year and a number of new
pledges will be chosen. In the even
ing a banquet will be held at Campa
Shoppe for the members of the frater
nity in honor of their new pledges and
also Miss Lillian Burns of Corvallis, a
national officer who is visiting on the
campus today.
In making the award of the annual
scholarship, Phi Theta Kappa seeks an
upperclass girl in the school who has
a high scholastic average, as well as
an active interest in the affairs of the
school and she does not necessarily
need to be a member of the fraternity,
according to Marcella Berry, who is
president of Phi Theta Kappa. The
award will be made during assembly
this morning by E. C. Robbins, dean of
the school of business administration.
Phi Theta Kappa has been recently
extended into the Universities through
out the country although it was origi
nally started by a group of business
women. Its aim is to promote scholar
ship and high standards among women
who are going into business. Miss
Burns, who is visiting the campus for
today only, will return to Corvallis to
morrow.
VIRCHAND RAYNER HEAD
OF COSMOPOLITAN CLUB
Twenty' Countries Represented Among
Membership of Sixty; Organization
Formed Last Fall
Virchand Rayner, Eugene, and Sig
rid Martinson, North Bend, were elect
ed president and vice-president respec
tively of the Cosmopolitan club for the
ensuing year at its annual election Tues
day evening. Eleanor Houk, Chemawa,
at present vice-president if the club,
will fill the office of secretary for the
club next year. Onofore Hipe, Philip
pines, was elected treasurer.
This is the club’s first year on the
campus, having been organized about
the middle of the fall term. It now has
a membership of about 60 with repre
sentatives from nearly 20 countries and
from all sections of the United States.
Illustrated lectures, talks by world
travelers, “Filipino night,” folk dances
and songs, showing of curios from out
of-the-way places of the world, and na
tional costumes and customs are in
cluded in the programs put on by the
club at its bi-weekly meetings.
The club will hold its first annual
picnic at the Braes on the afternoon and
evening of May $0. Installation of of
ficers will take place at the last meet
ing of the club for this year, June 5.
CONCERT TO BE IN ALBANY
On Friday evening, May 25, Aurora
Potter Underwood, pianist, and Alberta
Potter, violinist, of the school of music,
will give a concert in Albany, under
the auspices of the Elks. Their pro
gram will consist of solo and duet
numbers, and will be repeated the fol
lowing Tuesday, May 29, when Mrs.
Underwood and Miss Potter will appear
in recital in Roseburg.
Originally feet were constructed to
march straight ahead.
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CALIFORNIA GLEE CLUB
WILL BE HERE MAY 26
Concert, Dance and Stunts to
Feature Performance
Saturday evening, May 26, at the
Eugene new armory, 19 members of the
University of California’s glee club
will entertain University of Oregon stu
dents with a combined concert, stunt
show and dance. The performance will
begin at 8:30 and judging from notices
received of the popularity of the enter
tainers the place will be filled. The
group will stop over in Eugene on the
return trip from the north where con
certs were given in Portland, Corvallis,
Seattle and in Vancouver, B. C.
The program of the club differs ma
terially from that generally offered by
most college organizations. There are
serious songs, college songs, plantation
songs and humorous songs—all sung by
an organization whose experience is
made complete by its two trips through
Europe and its Oriental tour last sea
son.
Owing to their world wide experience
and many appearances on the stage,
the members of the club have all ac
quired the plomb of professionals. Es
pecially is this true of Gerald Toll,
saxophone soloist, Dave Phennig, viol
inist, George Taylor, singer of charac
ter songs and Harold Girvin, who
dances and sings.
A ten-piece jazz orchestra composed
of the club members will furnish the
music for the dance which is to be
given after the concert. Between the
dances vaudeville stunts and acts will
be presented. This orchestra band,
famous for its reputation gained on
its Oreintal tour made over 40 phono
graph records for a talking machine
concern while traveling in the far
east.
Press notices from the Orient give
much credit and praise to the organiza
tion. The Shanghai Press says “The
Glee Club puts up an absolutely unique
performance—it is so good it is uni
que.” Manila Bulletin: “U. C. stands
for Unqualified Class. The boys met
the expectations of the most enthus
iastic.” The Hong Kong Morning Post:
“It may be described as an extraordin
arily good musical program.” Manila
Times: “It is doubtful if a more en
thusiastic audience ever gathered in
Manila than that which greeted the
U. C. Glee Club. It is certain that no
Manila audience ever had more cause
for enthusiasm.”
FIRST ROUND OF MEN’S
DO-NUT TENNIS PLAYED
Two Matches Scheduled This Week
Before Finals Among Groups
Remaining Undefeated
The first round of the do-nut tennis
tournament has been completed and
one game of the second round has been
played. In order to get do-nut tennis
games played off as soon as possible
Gerald Barnes, who has charge of the
tournament, hopes that the tennis teams
will work off the games before the
date scheduled for them to be played.
This will assure the finals of tennis
being over before the finals in do-nut
baseball and track.
With the straight elimination in the
tournament most of the teams of those
entered have been dropped from the
competition. Those out of the race are
the ones who have been defeated in
some round of the meets. They are:
Kappa Delta Phi, Phi Gamma Delta,
Delta Tau Delta, Alpha Beta Chi, Delta
Theta Phi, Oregon Club, Chi Psi, Phi
Sigma Pi, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu and
Bachelordon.
Those who are still battling for posi
tions in the finals are S. A. E., Phi
Delta Theta, Kappa Sigma, A. T. O.,
Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Chi and Friendly
hall.
The Sigma Chi team defeated the
Sigma Nu’s in the only second round
game played so far.
Th'e games scheduled for this week
are:
Thursday, May 24—8. A. E. vs. Phi
Delta Theta.
Friday, May 25—Kappa Sigma vs.
Alpha Tau Omega.
It is strongly urged that these games
be played off before these maximum
dates set. The winners of these sche
duled games will be matched in the
semi-final or 3rd round and the losers
will be eliminated.
ILLUSTRATED TALK ON
ORIENT GIVEN FOR CLUB
Y. M. C. A. Secretary and Traveler
Shows Slides from Japan, China,
to Cosmopolitan Members
Graphic description of journeying into
the bandit-infested regions of China,
multicolored scenes of Japanese gardens
and temples, sordid tales of poverty ahd
woe among the many poor people in
China, and artistically colored slides of
buildings dating from 30 to 40 centuriee
B. C. to the modern structures erected
by western architects, were included in
the illustrated lecture by Gale Seaman,
Korthwest student Y. M. C. A. secretary
and traveler, to the Cosmopolitan club
in the Hut Tuesday evening.
Mr. Seaman snapped the photographs
from the which the slides were made
while on leave of absence in the Orient
last summer. The slides were then pre
pared by Chinese and Japanese students.
While in the Orient the lecturer at
tended a conference of the world’s stu
dent Christian federation.
Possibly the pictures and Verbal des
cription arousing the most interest in
those present were the ones in which Mr.
Seaman described his journey of over
1000 miles up the Yangste river into the
interior of China to carry a message from
Dr. John R. Mott to General Feng, “the
Christian general,” China’s foremost
military leader at the present time. Gen
era 1 Feng was featured in the newspa
pers recently in connection with the ban
j dit raids in China.
1 This province, according to Mr. Sea
'man, is the real heart of China, where the
nation began more than 5000 years ago.
Pictures were shown of stretches of the
road they took which had been worn
down into the sand to from one to 200
feet below the surface of the surrounding
country by the constant travel of 30 or
40 centuries.
Mr. Seaman also showed pictures of
Harold Rounds, Oregon graduate, who is
doing educational, physical and Chris- i
tian teaching in China, and described the
excellent results attained by Rounds!
among the Chinese youth. A number of
the students at the meeting Tuesday
evening pledged themselves to give finan
cial support to the work Rounds is doing.
As an illustration of the vast influ
ence of the western world on the Orient,
Mr. Seaman showed a picture of the
mayor of Canton, a former student of
the University of California. He told
of the excellent leadership shown by this
western-educated mayor and the many
twentieth century reforms he is bringing
about in the metropolis, among which
is the tearing down of miles of the old
city walls and the building of modern
streets and buildings in their stead.
Scenic spots, descriptions of customs
of travel and dress, methods of farming
and slow means of transportation, were
also presented by Mr. Seaman in his col
lection of slides.
JUNIOR CLASS PICNIC TO
BE DATELESS AFFAIR
Keen Interest Displayed over Event
Slated for June 2; Russ Gowans
is General Chairman
“No,” chorused the men of the class
when it was suggested that the junior
class picnic, scheduled for June 2, be
a date affair. “No,” echoed the wo
men. “All right, it is no-date,” said
President Meek. So it was ordered.
Lots of interest is being shown in the
coming event in the social life of the
class of 1924. Although there will be
no dates beforehand it is practically
assured that the men and the women
of the class will get together even
tually. 1 Possibly through the lottery
method but more probably through a
series of mutual agreements.
Russ Gowans has been made general
chairman. Frank Carter is in charge
of arranging transportation assisted by
Lot Beatie. Luella Hausler, assisted by
Lurline Coulter, Florence McGillivray,
Teka Haynes, Rey Peterson, Bob Haw
kins and Lyle Palmer, make the food
committee. Francis Altstock is chair
man of the entertainment committee
and he will work with Marcella Berry,
Wenona Dyer and Bill Johnosn. Hal
Chapman’s committee will be in charge
of the ground. It is made up of Jane
Campbell, Margaret Seymour and Shir
ley Edwards.
ERROR IS CORRECTED
Due to an error made in the Emerald
of Tuesday, May 23, it was stated that
H. R. Douglass of the school of educa
tion faculty would teach this summer
in the Lewiston, Idaho, State Normal
school. It is C. E. Franseen, graduate
assistant in the school who will be one
of the instructors at the Lewiston in
stitution, while Professor Douglass will
go to the University of Wisconsin to
teach for the summer session.
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