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The Sunday Emerald ...^ . . * UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1923 VOLUME XXV NUMBER 54 The By Stander Rhodes Scholarship Campus Names Initials Before Names “Peter Ibbetson” Traditions By C. N. H._ Two candidates for the Rhodes scholarship came up before the Portland committee yesterday. There are those on the campus who would like to see Oregon carry off the vic tory here, as others would like to see her the football champion of the coast. • • » Teh years ago the University did did “rate” among the lealing uni versities of the nation in matters of scholarship. When it came to a matter of raising scholarship stand ards there was a commotion abroad on the campus. A co-ed remarked excitedly to an administrative of ficer, “But if you raise the standards no one will come to college here.” “We go on the contrary principle, my dear young lady,” replied that official; “the more you try to keep out, the more try to get in.” That is exactly what has hap pened. The Emerald published a story the other day in which a faculty member “took a wallop” at the in discriminate naming of the build ings on the campus. The gentle man is absolutely and undoubtedly right. But we make this point, in which we think that the professor will probably agree with us—that such names as “The Shack” and even as applying to the new build ing of the school of journalism are not undignified but are on the con trary so remindful of traditions and past University life that they ought to be preserved with great care. Speaking of the names of the campus halls, the instance of “Friendly Hall” occurs. Why should not the administration and custom put before this name the initials “S. H..” thus ma.kimr it “S. H. Friendly Hall?” Then the incoming students and visitors will know that it is named for a former regent of the Univer sity; at present its nomenclature suggests a charitable institution. The presence of the initials would in no way prove cumbersome. Cali fornia gets along very well with its “Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall.” • • • Mrs. John Leader, wife of the much-feted campus “Colonel,” is to appear soon in “Peter Ibbetsen,” a, Guild hall production. Mrs. Leader gave a performance last year which the campus will remember in the role of the mother in “Alice-Sit By-the-Fire.” She appeared also in “The Scarlet Pimpernel.” Wje are not the only ones on the campus, we believe, who are looking for ward to a very pleasant evening “at the theatre.” Mr. Beddie and the University company are usually good, and in Mrs. Leader they have an added attraction. # • • Those who read Colonel Leader’s letter to the Emerald advocating a University “Tradition” museum, probably realized that, at base, the colonel was advocating care “for traditions which make a Uni versity.” “As are its traditions, so will be a University” is a true paraphrase. • • • The women’s organizations on the campus are to be commended for the Christmas cheer which they are spreading. • • • Rumor has it that Anna Case greatly enjoyed her soiree with a party of “college students” at College Side Inn Friday evening. Of course the distinguished guest knew that that was one very interesting side of college life! ALPHA CHI ENTERTAINS HOUSE MOTHERS Honoring their head resident, Miss Sue Badollet, the seniors of Alpha Chi Omega were hostesses to about twenty of the house mothers of the campus at a luncheon given at the chapter house yesterday. The table was attractively decorated to carry out the Yuletide idea, a miniature Christmas tree being used as a center piece and sprigs of holly and many small lighted candles adding to the effect. Mrs. J. G. Lange, head res ident of Tau Nu sorority, rendered j several vocal selections. Anna Case; a Voice, a Smile, a Joy By Jeanne Gay Miss Anna Case, the remarkable ! American soprano, who was present 1 ed in a concert here Friday night, 1 was enthusiastic about her college j audience. “Why,” she exclaimed to the re porter, with her vivacious smile, “it was just like a baseball game—only they didn’t throw their hats in the air! I want to thank every one of them personally,” she added, “for their wonderful reception of my singing; it made me so happy that I want to study and work harder than ever. They did make me so happy.” Miss Case, who at once captivated her audience with her great beauty, is tall, with soft wavy brown hair, sparkling dark blue eyes, heavily fringed with black lashes, and a brilliant smile. Gowned in a stun ning creation of satin, silver and crystal beads, she charmed everyone with her ease. She appears exuber antly happy. Her poise and her carriage are especially marvelous, and her ability to feel her listeners was at once noticeable; she is an elocutionist as well as a singer. After the recital, Miss Case at tended the dance at the College Side Inn, where she was greatly impres sed with our Oregon spirit. She fairly bubbled with life, and the students were all fascinated with her pleasing- personality and her “pep.” It is whispered that she so enjoyed herself that she didn’t want to leave and after the dance was over, she sang for an hour to a select college group of men, some of whom in turn rendered songs. Asked of her impressions of Ore gon, she said, “I like Oregon very much when it doesn’t rain; but most of the time I feel like a drowned rat. In fact, if I could ever learn to swim I believe it would be in Oregon!’ ’ Miss Case is to sail December 29 for the Hawaiian Islands, where she is planning to give three concerts. This is her first trip to the islands, and she is looking foward to it with pleasure. Pierce Will Talk at Press Meeting Gov. Walter M. Pierce will speak on “Law Enforcement” to members of the Oregon High School Press association and the Association of High School Student Body Presi dents, here, January 12, at 1:30 o’clock. The program of the con ference will be announced in a few days. Much interest has been shown in the high school journalism efficiency contest. The awards to be made at high school press meeting are: 1. For the best example of a re porter ’s work on a high school paper. 2. For the best original editorial. 3. For the best record ua bci vice iu u iiign sciiuui uii txie part of a high school paper. 4. For the best methods of handling advertising. 5. For the best gen eral mechanical make-up. 6. For the best mimeograph newspape_r. 7. For the best high school news notes section in a Portland news paper. 8. For the best high school news notes section in a newspaper outside of Portland. 9. For the best advertising and business man agement of a high school year book. 10. For the best high school maga zine. 11. For the best story in a high school magadine. NINE CANDIDATES OUT FOR HONORS THIS YEAR Specialists in Their Respective Fields are Recognized for Scholarship The names of nine students have been printed in last week’s faculty bulletin as registered for honors: Alicia M. Agnew, Latin; Hally L. Berry, geology; Florence D. Buck, English; Darrell Larson, drama and speech arts; Helen F. Igoe, Latin; Katherine E. Pinneo, drama and speech arts; Julia F. Raymond, English; Katherine Watson, English; and Harold R. Wynd, botany. Such honors are given to special ists in social fields, and are intended to be the highest honors given by the University, equivalent to a re commendation for a scholarship or fellowship in a graduate school. “Students receiving honors must show evidence of the desire and capacity to do work of a scholarly nature beyond that included in the usual class assignment,” the printed rules state. Honors are given in only special, cases, when a petition from the major professor has been sent to the administration of honors j committee. A student taking honors, three terms preceding registration must have made no grades below a two in his special subject for honors. His name is taken off the list of eligibles at any time when his work falls below the grade of two during the year. Five students were granted honors last year. PAJAMAS ARE WORN AT CALIFORNIA RALLY California’s biggest rally of the year, the “Pajamarino,” was held re cently at the Greek Theatre. An extra big fire was blazing, and the men filed in with their classes and everyone wearing a pair of pajamas. ! Colliery Pits and Complexes * By K. J. W. and N. L. W. Looking up from several hours of reading D. H. Lawrence, things have undergone a tremendous trans formation. Everything seems to have the queer half-sick taste that reading absorbedly in a fxjit dark ening twilight can produce. It almost seems significant that it has become dark outsids while reading from the man. His sty)9 has that dark, impending quality about it. For in his world, men are baff'ed, blundering—futilely seek ing something—and he, as helpless as they, but watches them seek, and dash their heads like birds in a storm, against windows that premise light and give death. His women are inhibited, sipped, beautiful, crushed creatures, whose faces haunt us like a yellow-white nightmare. And his youth is all a beating of wings in an effort to be free of half-imagined Oinds. His landscapes are a succession of colli ery pits, saloons, and long roads to be ran down at night driven by de feat, or skulked along in the sultry sun, goaded by chagrin. “Sons and Lovers” is an appeal ing, almost clutching book with its tragic human conflict of love in the blood with an abstract opposite de sire. The boys seem whito-taced gaunt beings endowed with feelings that at once lure and repel them. The author gives them his own re sultant self-consciousness at the paradox. In Paul he expresses his frustration, for the boy finds that passion does not satisfy, that art is a futile and ineffectual sublimation. So Miriam and Clara are ’mth dis carded. The father yields dumbly to the mother’s transferring of her passion from him to her sons, and the mother becomes hopelessly tangled in her feelings for her men-children. “Women in Love” is looking into the same valley from different hill. He is preoccupied with the attempt to have his characters come to themselves through love without destroying themselves, and the re sult is an ultimate physical con sciousness. He makes of flesh an altar upon which he sacrifices each of his characters. And he does not propose a way out. Evidently his own paths are as twisted as are those through which he moves his men and wo men. * * • A wistful whimsicality that some how seems to suit the straight, black bangs and deep eyes of her picture; a wistfulness that hints a bit of Barrie; a whimsy that reminds one of Walter de la Mare; a bit of rare lace, delicately and intricately sim ple; a small fine piece of Dresden, so thin that light shines through it; this is Katherine Mansfield. The things she wrote, so many of them unfinished at the time of her early death, are handled with a touch that is gay and delicate, the gayety and delicacy of crocuses in the spring. There is no element of caprice in her stories; no straining after effect. (Continued on page three) No Decision Is Made in Rhodes Scholarship Test — Winner to Be Picked Monday PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 9.— (Special to the Emerald)—After a deadlock in the cofmittee of ex aminers, it was announced late last night that no publication of the successful candidate and the alter nate from the state of Oregon would be made until Monday. The grilling of the representatives of the various state institutions be gan at one-thirty at the University club in this city and continued until late in the afternoon when the last deadlock in the committee of ex aminers retired to come to a de cision. The merits of the respective men were so sipiilar and the de cisions to be made so close that a deadlock resulted and a second con sideration was made necessary. Recess Declared The committee was still closeted at eleven o’clock last night, when the chairman, P. L. Campbell, de clared a recess until either today or Monday. Announcement was made that names of the selected men would be published on Mon day. The men who are contending for the honor are: Claude Robinson and Arthur Rosebraugh, University of Oregon; William Lewis Harrison and Joseph R. Macready, Pacific university; William Cyril Osgood, Linfield college; Howard McGaw Smyth, Reed college, and Edward R. Sox, Albany college. Members of the examining com mittee are: P. L. Campbell and Walter Barnes, of the University of Oregon; Richard F. Scholz, Reed col lege, and J. B. Harrison, of the ,University of Washington. Interest Shown Interest in ' the Rhodes Scholar ship contest was shown on the Uni versity campus in the number of f phone calls received at the Emerald office inquiring as to the decision. All last evening until long after mid-night members of the Emerald , staff were kept busy answering the phone calls which averaged one every two minutes for the greater ( part of the evening. The Eugene , Register also reported many in quiries as to the scholarship decision. ( PHYSICS DEPARTMENT ON FIVE-YEAR BASIS i i 1 Two New Courses to be Offered For Training of Students as j Electrical Experts I s With the installation next fall of a five-year curriculum in the funda- ■ mentals of electricity, Dr. William ^ P. Boynton, professor of physics, is | establishing two new courses in his department: one in “Advanced | Electrical Theories,” and the sec- ^ ond in “Advanced Electrical , Laboratory.” ] “The purpose of the courses,” - said Dr. Boynton, “is to teach the ( student the fundamental principles ^ and theories of electricity with the , aim in view of having them take , positions in the laboratories of the great electric companies.” Either a master of arts, or a master of science , degree will be given for those who t complete the course, he stated. Dr. Boynton first gave the course ; in electrical measurements twenty years ago. This was the first elec- 4 trical course given on the campus. ^ It has been given practically every | year since. 1 Oregon Will Play Five Big Games in ’24 Homecoming Tilt to be Fought November 1 with Huskies To Practice Early The 1924 schedule will find the varsity playing five major contests with but one week of rest. Oregon opens the season with a long jump to Palo Alto, where the Red Shirts of Stanford will form the opposi tion, October 18. In this game the Webfooters go up against the hard est team on the coast in all prob ability. Stanford loses three men, but has three coming up just as good and with the great Nevers due for his best season, Oregon will have to spurt to win. The long trip is also a hardship on the athletes. November 1 will find the varsity tangling with the Washington Husk kies on the home lot in the feature of the Homecoming festivities. Graduate Manager Benefiel suc ceeded in getting this game for Eugene, but it is not known whether a new contract was drawn up be tween the two schools or not. Wash ington should prove a drawing card here, as the Northerners are in possession of a wonderful team for next season. Idaho in Moscow The varsity hops to Moscow No vember 8, to take on the danger ous Vandal crew, coached by the svily Matthews. Idaho threw a scare into the conference teams this pear and has a good chance to re seat next. Eugene will be the scene of the W. S. C.—Oregon clash November L5. The Cougars are always a team o watch and with Exendine in his lecond coaching season, the Pull nanites may surprise the critics vith some good football. They itarted late this year, but look like he goods next season. Oregon winds up the season Nov imber 22, with the Aggies in their annual Homecoming clash. It is the Iggies ’ turn to stage the go between he two schools next year. Injuries a Factor Condition of the varsity players md injuries will count a great deal n the future schedule. Oregon was landicapped this past season by in uries and with the big games early ■nd coming in a bunch, impairment to he squad would affect the team howing. Conference teams swing into the 'all practice September 15, which ;ivcs Oregon a little over a month o get in shape for the first game, t is likely that there will be one or wo pre-season games with one of he smaller college teams or some ithletic club. In the past Oregon ias scheduled games with Pacific and Willamette and also the Multnomah lub of Portland, and it is likely that he same procedure will be followed luring the early weeks of next sea on. Smaller Teams Building Up Games with Pacific and Willamette rill be watched with t interest. Both ggregations are picking up. Pacific 'inished a wonderful year by defeat ng the Montana Grizzlies 0-0. Both institutions have good coach s and they can be depended on to 'ut teams in the field next season hat will be more than trial horses 'or the conference elevens. Ho! for an Education - 1. By L. L. J. An education is a fine thing; ask the man who owns one. There Was a time in this country when people could get along without educations, but that was before the age of foot ball rallies, jazz dances, matrimonial co-education, golf, bridge, and sex plays. Of course there has always been education, but it has taken centuries to develop our present mode. There is a huge red-bound book in the lib rary that contends that the Greeks and a few others were really quite civilized and many of them highly enlightened. It seem so ridiculous, though, to presume that a man like Socrates could have had the equiva lent of a university degree; just ima gine : he is admitted to have gone barefooted most of the time and garbed himself in a semi-sheet and bathrobe affair—what could he know when he never wore a rooter’s cap nor smoked a borrowed pipe? Evolution is a slow and painful process, and while we feel sorry for those that have missed our advantag es we haven't time to worry about it, we can only be thankful that we live in a day that is offering us true knowledge. Education is so practical now too. When the man finishes school he is fully prepared to join the home town 1 commercial club, participate in char ity drives (these almost always gain publicity) and play golf. The woman graduate is invariably skillful at _ij (Continuefl on page three) Faculty Asked to Play Santa Nine Days Hence Students Warned to Ward Off Flunks There remain fourteen (lays in which to do the Christmas shop ping. There remain nine more days in which to prepare for the exam inations. We might say that this is a preparation for a Christmas gift from the faculty. For after we get home and accustomed to tucking our knees under the family board, we’ll be anxious to see what the faculty slips in our stockings in the line of grades. In the past we have found that there are two ways to bat in col lege—to do, or not to do. If we do, we stay for another term. If we don’t, we wire the friends to ship the trunk home to father and then go out and work until the faculty decides to take another chance on us. With nine days, 20 hours, 35 minutes and 54 seconds to go be fore the faculty pipes, “Put all your books out of sight, tie all the ponies in the alley and I will dic tate the first question, so that you will all get started right,’’ some of us had better get in and bur nish up the think-tank so that when one of the faculty springs one on the Whichness of What, we can rub the tank, mutter “Onkey On key” and the question is answered. Yet nine days, O Freshmen and the signs of the Zodiac will be on the fritz; the graveyard will be the place for departed spirits only; the grandstand will echo with the hollowness of nothing. The oracle Bays wo ’ll all be devouring the accumulation of notes in the wee sma’ hours. Guess that we better follow out the dope unless wo want to go home and tell pa and ma that the faculty kidded us into taking a year layoff from our studies. Re member that little expression of Ceasar’s about taking the tide at the flood stage? Well, right now is the flood stage, and unless we start cramming and make a. good raft, we're, going to be left strand ed on a lee shore with a long spell of wading home and waiting for next year’s fishing. Study now and don’t wait until exam times and then start yodell ing to someone to throw out the lifeline. CAMPUS LIFE SCREENED Movies of Junior Week-End Events to be Exhibited Soon The films of campus views and junior week-end Btunts taken on the campus last year are being finished by the Hicks-Chatten Engraving company, of Portland, and will soon be ready for showing. They were sent east for development, but the finishing touches are being added by the western firm. When finished they will consist of motion pictures showing various phases of campus life and many of the features of junior week-end. It is is thought that the pictures will be available for use by the first of the year. They will probably be shown at the college night enter tainment during the annual confer ence of high school presidents, sec retaries and editors, which will be given under the auspices of the school of journalism in January. S. P. COUNSEL TO SPEAK Roscoe Nelson, Prominent Attorney, to Address Law Juniors “Trial Practice” is the subject of a lecture to be given by Roscoe Nelson, member of the firm of Doy, Hampton and Nelson, of Portland, and general council for the South ern Pacific company, before the third year class in the law school, next Tuesday. He will give also a general talk to the entire law school group on “Beginning Practice of Law.” Mr. Nelson is reputed to be one of the best trial lawyers in Portland and it is believed the lectures will be well worth hearing. He is a member of the state board of bar examiners and is interested in be ginners in the legal profession. PLEDGING ANNOUNCED Alpha Omicron Pi announces the pledging of Dorothy Phillips, of j Salem, Oregon. ' Reinhart Has 15 Hoopers on i Floor Nightly Four Tilts Scheduled for Practice Tour in Vacation Seven Men Back The start of the third week of varsity basketball practise finds a squad of fifteen men working oat nightly with Coach Reinhart. Dur ing the last two weeks special at tention has been given to the funda mentals of the game, such as pivoting, dribbling, passing and shooting. However, beginning this coming week the squad will be put through strenuous scrimmage prac tice in order to select a strong ag gregation of tossers to tako on the barnstorming trip during Christmas holidays. Strong Teams Faced The schedule for the barnstorm ing tour has at last been announced, and the squad will pifiy four games with some of the strongest aggrega tions in the state at this time. The team will open this tour at Inde pendence December 16, when they tangle with the fast Independence five. The varsity hoopers will play the McMinnville quintet on the 17th and will engage the Newberg team on the following night. This will make three games in a row with three of the strongest teams in the state and will thoroughly test the ability of this year’s squad. On the 29th they will play the strong Multnomah club five in Portland. which is composed of a number of old college stars, shortly before the start of the tour, in order that the aggregation may get used to .working together. The lettermen of last year, with the exception of Chapman are out in suits and are showing up in fine shape, which ppeaks well for this year’s varsity chances in the conference race. Lettermen Have Battle Besides the lettermen back, there are several other fast men turning out who have excellent chances of landing on the squad, among which are “Chappie” King, Stoddard, Hob son, Farley, Harding, 'Gunther and a number of others. These men will give the lettermen a battle to keep them from making the regular line up. Oregon’s chances of landing np among the leaders in this year’s race as very good indeed, if the squad is not hit hard by ineligibility and injuries. More cannot be Baid until the barnstorming is over. The lettermen back are Gowana, Rockhey, Altstock and Edlund, for wards; Latham, center, and Shafer and Chapman, guards. The injury which Chapman received in football, however, may keep him out of a basketball suit this season, and his loss would be severe, as he iB one of the most consistent guards in the conference. The guarding combina tion of Shafer and Chapman last season made it very hard for the opposing forwards to break through for baskets. “Hunk” Should Shine Latham was -chosen center on the all-coast mythical five and indica tions point to another successful season for this lengthy Oregon star. Gowans, forward, should prove a bright light in the Lemon-Yellow scoring machine, and he will have a fast running mate, who will be chosen from the lettermen, Rockhey, Edlund, Altstock, or King and one of the new candidates for the squad, who are showing up well at present. Another good guard must be found to fill the shoes of “Chappie,” aa jhe running mate to Shafer. Hobson is showing up well in this position and there are a number of othera who are also in the running. FRESHMAN ELECTED TO POT AND QUILL Florence Jones, a freshman from Salem, was elected yesterday to membership in Pot and Quill, up perclass literary organization for women. Miss Jones is the flrat freshman to be elected to member ship in the society since it waa founded, but the unusual merit of her work in short story has woi^ her recognition on the campus al ready. Miss Jones is taking work in short story under Prof. W. F. G. Thacher. She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity.