The Sunday Emerald
VOLUME XXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SUNDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1923
NUMBER 18
ROUND
and
BOUT
A BREAM
We had a choc malt the other night
just before we hit the hay and as a re
sult we had an awful nightmare. It was
such a fearful and wonderful dream
about our own Oregon campus that we
should have been sorry had it been lost
to the world, but fortunately we had
switched on the dictaphone before we
turned in and so we can present the
dream here complete without comment:
The day was ideal; one of those fast
fleeting days of Indian summer when
there is a decided tang in the air. There
was a haze in the air through which the
sun shot golden beams as I wandered
along hello lane.
THE CO-OP! RAH! RAH! RAH!
THE CO-OP!
I ran to the library steps. There
was a large crowd assembled there listen
ing intently to a representative of the
student co-operative store who was ex
plaining the store’s organization while
out on the edge of the crowd some one
was singing softly, “That’s Where Our
Money Goes.”
Y. M. C. A.—Y. M. C. A.
The/best ol’ club
In the U. 8. A.
About the Pioneer was another mob
only slightly smaller in size to the one
in front of the library. These students
were listening to Robert F. Lane who
was putting across that organization in
such a strong fashion that the students
were cheering it wildly.
But the nicotine tree was deserted.
I wandered out onto old Kincaid field
where a hearty game of soccer was in
progress. No one was in sight but the
players, so I finally asked one of them
where all the spectators were. He told
me that all Oregon men were so interest
ed in playing games themselves that they
had no time to “drag” a woman out to
the grandstand to watch eleven other
men having all the fun.
“What’s all the crowd going up to
the Woman’s building for?” I asked.
Privately I had thought they were going
to call at the two dormitories.
“Agora and Cross-roads are meeting,”
he answered nonchalantly, • “ and Beveral
of the faculty members are making
speeches on various topics. Paul Patter
son is speaking to the student groups on
the ‘Art of Debate’ and they had to
shut the doors an hour before he began
because of the crowd.”
He turned away to his game, but I
queried him again. “Why all the
crowd at the school of B. A.?"
“ ‘Exclusive Methods in Business’ is
the topic,” he said wearily. „
“And Mr. Barnett speaking from the
steps of the Law building?” I ques
tioned.
“ 'The Political Science in Our Uni
versities,’ that’s a good topic,” be con
cluded with a gleam, “and even some of
the prefessors find the subject an ab
sorbing one.”
And so I woke in amazement!
AN INNOVATION IN GASOLINE
ALLEY
Delta Gamma down the street
Siding a four-wheeled cart
Wonder if they cranked their horse
In order to make him start?
LEAP WEEK
Dusty Farnham in the Campa Shoppe
“Buy you some candy?” Well I guess
not.
Come along now, or this I’ll swear
That all the way home I’ll act like a
hear!
SAD—SO—SAD
There is a young Pi Beta Phi
Who boasts a brilliant blue eye
But her other is green
With a marvelous sheen,
Which has caused her many a sigh.
WHEN’S GREEK GREEK?
There once was an Italienne Kappa
Her husband’s face she did slappa;
The scream that he scrome
Burst heaven’s blue dome
And the baby woke up from its nappa.
-Say HeUo First
UNIVERSITY SENDS OUT
CATALOGUES OF SLIDES
The Extension Division Will Loan Fiee
Educational Pictures to High
Schools in the State
Three thousand catalogues contain
ing a list of free educational lantern
slides have just come off the press,
and are being mailed to the high
schools and places of public education
throughout the state. There are 232
sets comprising 8781 separate slides
listed in the catalogue, according to
Alfred Powers, assistant director of the
extension division, in charge of visual
education.
Since the last catalogue was pub
lished there have been nineteen ad
ditional sets added to the list, Mr.
Powers said. Some of these are: “How
the World is Fed,” “Modern Greece,”
“Guatemala,” “New York City,”
"Scenes of the Civil War,” “Mountains
of the Holy Land,” “Physiology,” and
“Alice in Wonderland.”
Some of the subjects listed in the
catalogue are under the general heads
of geography, industries, physics, phy
(Continued on page three)
REPORTER FINDS
JUNES 1. GILBERT
GOOD STRATEGIST
Economics Professor Declared
In Habit of Bluffing
in Class Room
AGGRESSIVENESS IS POSE
Docile and Friendly Attitude
Appears When Outside
His Classes
By Eugenia Strickland
“How can one be an altruist and a
cynic?”
A quick retort, or a frigid silence, an
outright denial or assumed dissimula
tion that might have been expected was
not forthcoming from the wily James
Gilbert, political economist.
No, Jimmy Gilbert’s eyes, deep-set
and darting, only probed the questioner.
Uncle Sam lost a good strategist when
Gilbert decided upon business science as
his profession. Perfectly satisfied that
the question was not guileless, that it
was a brutally personal inquiry used as
a maneuver to secure information,
James Gilbert turned and looked out of
the window. His hand hid his mouth,
the most mobile part of a person’s fea
tures. Perhaps his lips grew tighter to
hide the smile that might break forth
at the thought of the crudeness of at
tack. Then he spoke.
Is an Altruist
“Theoretically,” he said, “I am an al
truist. Every economist is. I cannot
say whether I belong in the altruistic
class in practice. A man’s estimate of
himself is clouded with personal pre
judices. Suppose you ask some of the
business adminisration majors, students
Vho have been here three or four years,
for a criticism of Jimmy Gilbert. They
should be able to say whether I am an al
truist of a cynic in life.”
Not a change in tone, not a tremor or
difference in the timbre from the usual,
vibrating, staccato notes he uses in class
room, as he urged the writer to go forth
and seek information perhaps from ene
mies, mayhap from friends. A student
of human nature, such as is this eco
nomist, certainly did not expect all
praise, all kind words. Tet, so he di
feeted.
Well Known Figure
As a mosaieist who has assembled from
distant lands precious bits of glass to
fit together a complete mosaic, so the
writer gathered together words and
analysis and grouped them to mold a
unified impression of the personality
of James Gilbert.
He is a familiar figure about the cam
pus and town. But he is not noticeable
because of any external eccentricity—
no—for as "a type he is just one of the
many business men mingling in the
jrowd. Perhaps it is the alertness, the
vigor and swing of his shoulders that
distinguishes him. At any rate, the pro
fessor has left his imprint upon many
in his 17-year career of teaching.
A very human person is Jimmy Gil
bert. He is guilty of bluffing, reads
one mosaic. His aggressive attitude in
class is but a pose. Outside he is timid
to the point of being timorous. His
self-assertion disappears. There is a do
cile, pleasant and friendly Jimmy Gil
bert. He is man of intense likes and dis
likes, yet capable of disciplining himself
(Continued on page four.)
OVERSEAS WOMEN
RECALL RAVAGES
OF WAR IN FRANCE
Canteen Directress and Nurse
Exchange Stories of
Former Work
TASKS EXCITING AND LONG
Amusing and Enjoyable Times
Experienced Along
With Tragedy
By Margaret Morrison
“The world is a pretty small place
after all,” a time-worn expression—yet
it so aptly fits the situation of the mo
ment, the meeting of an old friend, or
the friend of a friend, that there is no
other phrase to quite describe the oc
casion. Yet, what is more delightful
than to meet once more some companion
of a forgotten day, or to talk over with
a congenial acquaintance, experiences
with which both are familiar. And when
the reminiscences are of France in war
time, of devastated villages, the hurry
and excitement of marching troops and
the bombing of cities—then does the lis
tener begin to sit forward on his chair
and forget to take a good breath except
just once in a great while.
Two women on the University campus,
Miss Clare Juliette Gibson, a war nurse
in France fer two years, and Mrs. Nora
Crump, directress of canteens during the
war, are the characters in this little
drama. The scene was the Anchorage
teahouse, and as Mrs. Crump had thought
to bring along some of her war photo
graphs, it wasn’t at all difficult to
start the ball of conversation rolling.
“Did both of you ever happen to be
in the same community at the same
timet” I asked.
Knew Same People
“Well, probably not at the same
time,” smiled Miss Gibson, “but I do
recall many of the same people whom
Mrs. Crump has mentioned. We seldom
had time to do much sight seeing, es
pecially when we were out at the front
and the fighting was heavy. We would
work from 16 to 20 hours at a stretch
sometimes.” |
“Didin't you ever feel tiredt” I asked. |
“Never when we were working—the ex
citement was too great,” she answered.
“Some very funny things happened out
there as well as the tragic ones. I re
member in particular one night when
we were terribly rushed. A haughty
German officer had been brought in on
a stretcher and was resting comfortably
while waiting for attention to his
wounds. As one of the nurses passed
him, he stopped her and asked in very
poor English, “Why do I have to wait
while you attend to those swine first!”
“ We are leaving the swine till the last,
that is why you are waiting,” she an
swered.
Not All Sadness
“The life of a canteen worker was not
all one of sadness according to Mrs.
Crump. “Mrs. Pep” was the nick-name
which the boys bestowed upon her and
which stuck during her entire stay.
Cheerful at all times, she is always ready
,to help any one in distress, a veritable
ray of sunshine in a dark place. Many
were the tea-parties which she had with
“her boys” just before they started for
the front, giving them a little mother
ly advice, helping to compose a letter
to “the girl” and to mother. “Borne of
(Continued on page three)
All Classes Frolic on Eve
Of Extraction of Shekels
By Lyle Janz
“Knowledge, the soul of a republic,”
sa.vs the inscription over the door of
the Administration building. Having
paid dearly in registration fees .during
the last week for the privilege of be
coming a part of that soul, the mem
bers of the four classes attempted to
( forget it all and launched forth last I
night in a series of class dances that |
i put conservatism to shame. Future
senators, captains of industry, gover- I
nors, suffragettes and doctors—not to !
mention the scant few that will not
becomes very famous as a result of
their college training-had a whale
of a time at the first series of “get 1
acquainted” class dances.
Perhaps it isn't really fair to the!
dictionary and dancing academies to j
ca.l these affairs last night dances, bnt
for lack of a better name we will:
give them that title.
Away down town in an atmosphere
as remote from the influence of the
!
library as possible the seniors cele
brated (or mourned) the close of
“Senior Leap Week” with a genuine
kid party. Dainty young things at
tempted to appear years less than sweet
sixteen, and down-trodden men sought
refuge in knee trousers and Buster
Brown collars. Oh, quite an affair was
this bust, replent with shouting, gig
gling and gayety. Perhaps after all
the seniors do need to relax from the
burden of their future cares, most es
pecially those few that are actually
going to graduate.
At the men’s gym the juniors were
taking the dedication of their cords
quite seriously. In fact the junior
dance came almost close to the ordinary i
conception of what the modern dance!
is; there was almost a total absence of I
football tactics and as a whole the
juniors were behaving themselves like
little men and ladies. Whether or not
(Continued on page three)
French Girl Likes
Oregon’s Athletics
By Jeanne Gay
Mile. Andree Pellion, the Women’s
league foreign scholarship student,
laughed merrily when told that she
was going to be interviewed.
“But what shall I say?” she said
lifting her shoulders characteristically
and smiling. (When she smiles her
face lights up, she has beautiful blue
eyes that dance, a saucy little red
mouth, and auburn hair.)
“Everyone is so good to me out here
in Oregon so far from my native home
in France^—you see; when they asked
me in New York if I knew where the
finest apples in the world were grown,
I didn’t know and they told me that
I soon would, for I was going way
out to the Pacific coast to Oregon to
go to school. Of course I was pleased
but I did not know what it would be
like and I was afraid that I might be
lonely but now I know how mistaken
I was,” she said.
“I just love the University and I
think it is wonderful that everyone is
so democratic, it keeps me busy saying
‘hello, hello’ to everyone I meet,” she
laughed.
Mile. Pellion is very interested in the
athletics. In France so much time is
not devoted to sports although they
have the same games and ‘pep’ rallies
also.
“I don’t understand this game called
football but it is played in France and
I am anxious to learn all about it, as
everyone talks football so much out
here.”
“I always wished to go to Spain so
I could hear the serenades but now I
Mile. An dree Pollion
am pleased that I came to Oregon for
they have serenades right here and
such beautiful ones too, the other night
I was so thrilled to wake up to music
and of course I did not know what it
was at first until the girls told me.”
“And the millrace,” she said, “I just
love it, especially in the moonlight.”
Mile. Pellion is a senior and was of
course interested in ‘Leap week’.
“I am so pleased that I was chosen
(Continued on page three.)
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
DELIVERED BY PACKARD
Map Used Showing Shore Line
of Siskiyou Seas t
Dr. E. L. Packard of the geology de
partment presented a detailed lecture
at Deady hall recently, when he spoke
before Sigma Xi on “Tracing the Shore
Lines of the Ancient Siskiyou Land.”
The lecture was given from a com
pilation of material that the geology
department has been collecting for four
years. The investigations have been
carried on in southern Oregon, and from
the data secured, the scientists are be
ginning to draw definite conclusions
of the cretaceous deposits. Maps of
the restricted areas in which the re
search has been carried on have been
made, and material in the form of
specimens and data, which have been
collected by more than a score of ad
vanced geology Btudents, have assisted
in the solution of local geologic prob
lems. Dr. Packard’s contribution in
these investigations is a detailed study
of the forms that once inhabited these
seas.
Dr. Packard and those who have
assisted him have been getting to
gether data for the approximation of
the shore lines and the number of
seas that once covered Oregon. The
Pacific ocean, Dr. Packard explained,
flooded northern California, then came
into Oregon and even spread into
eastern Oregon and into Nevada.
He explained that the recognition of
a shore line is often based upon the
discovery of coarse grained sediments,
such as the accumulation on our pres
ent day beaches, the nature of the
fauna and of the flora. The general
character of the substratum are also
indications of the shore conditions.
“Nevada and a part of the Blue
mountains was invaded sometime dur
ing the Carboniferous age by the Cor
dilleran sea,” he stated. The southern
end of the Klamath region was also
invaded.
“The geologic cross-section made by
the members of the 1923 summer field
camp shows the cretaceous beds to be
many feet in thickness at Neil creek,
which would carry them high upon the
range, perhaps even submerging the en
tire Siskiyou land,” he said.
To represent the seas at different
periods, a relief map of Oregon, made
by Hally Berry of the geology depart
ment, was used. A reproduction of the
cross-section of the region studied last
summer was an aid in illustrating the
formations that extend from the Siski
yous to the Cascades. Rocks showing
the variation of the rock formation
from the summit of the Siskiyous to the
Cascades were also used as illustrative
agencies.
-Say Hello Fir at
CONTRIBUTORS TODAY
Contributors to this issue other than
by line writers are: Monte Byers, Ed
ward C. Robbins, BeH Maxwell, Bath
Farias, Pauline Bondurant, Frances
Simpson.
EUROPEANS PUZZLED
CONCERNING AMERICA
Dr. Marti Tells Impressions
of Our Universities
“One thing that puzzles us Europeans
is just what it is in the thought and
character of America that* prompted
her to throw her whole self into the
war, only to drop the matter entirely
when it had been won.” said Dr. Fritz
Marti, the new instructor in the de
partment of philosophy, who arrived
from Switzerland three weeks ago.
“I thought after reading Sinclair
Lewis’ “Main Street” and “Babbitt”
that I had found the reason,” he con
tinued. “Perhaps I trusted too much in
that conception, for now that I am
here and find no “Main Street” I
am more at a loss than ever to explain
this.”
As to his impressions of this country
Dr. Marti said, “It is difficult to form
judgments after such a short time in
the country. I find American thought
much the same as in my own country
but different from that of the rest
of Europe. There is a certain warmth
and vividness, shall I say sparkle, to
your conversation and social life, more
like the French than your ancestors
the British, that I will confess I did
not expect.”
“American university lire 1 find
much different from our own," said Dr.
Marti, “Because of the large classes
there is not the intimacy between the
students and instructors that I find
here and I like your system much bet
ter.”
“We have no dormitories or living
organizations of any sort and the ad
ministration has no control over the
students outside of classes.” He con
tinued, “Our student body organiza
tions and literary, music and sporting
societies, while composed of students
are in no way connected with the uni
versity* Students take a much more
lively interest in political affairs than
they do here and have their political
societies corresponding to the political
parties of the country.”
Dr. Marti, with his straight, well
knit figure, fair, almost boyish face,
high forehead with blond hair combed
straight back, might be taken for a
young European army officer rather
than a doctor of philosophy. He was
trained first as a mechanical engineer
in the Swiss Technical university at
Zurich and later served as an officer
in the Swiss army where he taught
mathematics and motor mechanics. Be
cause of his keen interest in philosophy
ho gave up engineering for this sub
ject and after spending four and one
half years in the Universities of Zurich
and Berne received his degree.
Dean Rebec, head of the department
of philosophy, mot Dr. Marti while on
his recent tour of Europe and was in
strumental in bringing him to this coun
try. He is now teaching classes in
logic and 19th century thought.
-Say Hello Frret
PLEDGING ANNOUNCED
Kappa Kappa Gamma announces the
pledging of Edith Sorenson of Everett,
Washington.
VARSITY PUSSES
ANOTHER GOAL III
CONFERENCE RACE
Backfield Shows Metal When
It Punches Badger Line
at Pendleton
IDAHO LOOKS FORMIDABLE
Indications Point to Large
Turnout at Vandal Game
Here on Saturday
The varsity leaped one more barrier
in its race for the Northwest gonfalon.
The Whitman hurdle was not altogether
an easy one and the Missionaries most
be given due credit for the game they
put up against the Webfoot aggrega
tion. Every year finds Borleske shap
ing a team from scant material, but his
efforts are overshadowed by the suc
cess of other coaches.
Reports from Pendleton indicate that
the varsity backs lived up to the ad
vance dope. This is without doubt
one of the brainiest sets of backs that
the University has ever had. With
punch, dash and brains smeared with
lots of fight, the ball carriors are hard
to beat.
Defense is Good
The team must have played a whirl
wind defensive game. Holding the
fast traveling Whitman backs to four
first downs is some little feat in it
self. Huntington and Spellman are up
setting the dope about the varsity be
ing a November team. Instead of that
it is a spring team. The forward line
is showing the drilling of last spring,
and all that is going on now is the
polishing process and we might say
that all is well.
Willamette and Pacific were easier
than was expected. Whitman was a
much more difficult stepping stone to
ward the top. A big step confronts
the varsity next Saturday in the shape
of the Idaho Vandals who invade Eu
gene. This is the first big game for
the varsity and some term it the cruci
al game.
Vandals Appear Strong
Followers of Northwest football
know what the Vandals have done so
far this year—three victories in a row
and one of them the Washington State
Cougars. A strong contender for sev
eral years now, the Idaho squad is
coming into its own and with a venge
ance. They have fast teams at Idaho
and this year’s eleven is the same and
added to that they have the great
Fitzke, a triple threat man, dangerous
at all times. Baseball and basketball
fans on the campus had a chance to
look him over last year. He is big
well built and fast.
Idaho has a foxy coach in Matthews.
Ho knows football and knows how to
instill it in others. Idaho and the var
sity have a feud of long standing and
Oregon has the upper hand to date.
With this in mind the Vandals are
coming to the Oregon gridiron with
blood in their eyes.
Large Crowd Expected
The showings made by the two teams
so far will be an incentive for many
football fans to flock to Eugene for
the tilt and the stands may be packed.
This week will see Spellman working
his linemen overtime, while Huntington
has an easier job with the backs, but
I there is always chance for improve
ment and a willing bunch of men can
always be further developed. As it
stands the game is going to be a good
one and will bear watching.
-Say Hello First
' DOROTHY DIXON. GEOLOGY
STUDENT, TO HAVE OPERATION
Dorothy Dixon, senior in the geology
department and member of Delta
Omega and Condon club, has been
! forced to withdraw from school for the
rest of this term, on account of an
attack of appendicitis. She left for
Portland the middle of the week to be
operated on by her uncle, Dr. C. G.
Sabin. During her absence, her place
at the information desk of the Uni
versity library will be taken by Mabel
Turner.
-Say Hello First
HAZEL COFFIN, EX-’23, MARRIES
O. A. C. STUDENT, OCTOBER 17
An announcement of the marriage of
Hazel Coffin, ex-’23, to Lyle Wilton
Stewart has been received on the cam
pus. The ceremony took place October
17 at Powers, Oregon. Mrs. Stewart
previous to her marrige was a major
on the Romance language department.
Mr. Stewart is a former O. A. C. stu
dent.