JIN NEI1RDT COMES SATURDAY SV Poet to Give Program ol Lyrical and Dramatic Readings in Guild Hall EPICS WIN MUCH FAME Efforts Are Made to Bring Celebrities and Develop Campus Cultural Center An address by John G. Neihardt, the “American Homer,” opens the University of Oregon lecture season sponsored by the associated students. The program of lyric and dramatic readings will bo given in Guild hall Saturday night at 8:15. The poet, who sings of the stirring days when the white man first penetrated into this Northwest of ours and met the Indian, will be the guest of the Uni versity; he follows the two poets of last year, Vachel Lindsay and Carl Sandburg. The committee for bringing such celebrites to the campus has received the heartiest cooperation of Claude Robinson, president of the student body. “We hope to make the University a real cultural center in every sense of the word,” Mr. Robinson said. ’’This can only be done by bringing here men of the foremost rank in their fields. It is for this purpose that the committee was established last year.” Poetry Prize Won Mr. Neihardt won the $500 prize of the poetry society of America for the most noteworthy volume of verse published by an American in 1919. In 1923 a chair of poetry was created for him in the University of . .ebras ka, which he accepted on the condi tion that he be entirely free to pur sue his work. He had, in 1921, been made the poet laureate of Nebras ka by action of the legislature. Neihardt’s lyrical work falls into three general classes—his early rest less love poems, found in his volume, “A Bundle of Myrrh;” the fuller ex periences of life and living, of par ent-hood and fulfillment, in “The Stranger at the Gate” collection; and lastly, his relations to his fel low men, the world of nature, and his possible “relation to the cosmos.” Lyrics Win Fame Most compelling are his epics, which won him his great fame. “The Song of Hugh Glass,” “The Song of Three Friends,” in his ejpie cycle of the West, were begun in 1913. He began his third poem of this cycle in 1920, and will complete it this Tear. It is “The song of the In dian Wars”. In learning what the adventurous frontiersmen had experienced, Neb hart made a 2000-mile trip in an open boat down the Missouri from the head of navigation. Several volumes of the poetry of Neihart are on reserve at the down stairs desk at the University library. Y. M. CARDS NOW READY Students Pledging One Dollar Arc Entitled to Membership All Oregon students who have at any time during the past yenx pledged and paid an amount oi money over a dollar to the campus Y. M. C. A. are entitled to Uni versity of Oregon student member chip cards, according to local Y At. officials. These cards may be had at either the Y. M. hut or thf A • vV. bungalow at any time. ' uring the past summer one Ore £,on student made an extensive trip throughout the eastern states, visit Iug such cities as Chicago, New Aork, Boston, and Montreal, Can a<ta. In each of these he was able through the use of his mem jership ‘ard to secure xoomB at as much as —' per cent reduction over the pro vailing prices. ®ther Unive'.'s. y students hav( tound this card to be helpful whei traveling in the summer and fine m several instances that it hai saved them the original cost xf thf card. D. G.’s Set Style In Greek Names; Sapolio Is Latest “Sapolio”—psychologically one’s association of ideas will call to mind the word “scrub”. That is why the Delta Gammas named their dog “Sapolio,”—because he is a ‘scrub’ dog. Moreover, since the dog is associating with Greeks, he must have a Greek name. Sapolio Delta Gamma isn’t exactly a Greek name but it sounds enough like one to pass. The pup is called “Sap” on most occasions, although sometimes it is “you poor sap,” especially after he has tried his teeth on some one’s foot. Sapolio bears his lengthy name well, and now and then displays marked intelligence by answering to it when called. TO BUSINESS STIFF Emerald Adopts New Plan For Foreign Ads Emerald business staff appoint ments for the winter term were an nounced yesterday by Leo P. J. Munly, manager. The main part of the business staff will remain the same, but a few additions have been made and an entirely new plan has been adopted in connec tion with the foreign advertising department, according to Mr. Mun ly The new members of the staff are Karl Hardenburgh, who has been appointed assistant advertising manager; Walter Pearson, assistant foreign advertising manager, and Frank De Spain, advertising as sistant. Alva Vernon and Irving Brown have been appointed as sistants under Walter Pearson. The remainder of the business staff con sists of Lot Beatie, associate man ager; James Leake, foreign adver tising manager; Maurice Warnock, advertising manager; Kenneth Stephenson, circulation manager; Alan Woolley, asssitant circulation manager; Gladys Noren, specialty advertising, and Frank Loggan, Chester Coon, Edgar Wrightman, and Lester Wade, as advertising assistants. “The business staff is enlarging, with the idea of making less work for the few and getting a better organization,” declared Mr. Munly. Something new in the way of foreign advertising has been started by the department of which James Leake is in charge. A survey is being made of all the national ad vertising goods that are carried in the stores and shops throughout the town, and questionnaires are being made up with which to carry on retail investigation. The ma terial from the questionnaires is to be compiled and sent to the Em erald’s representative in New York who will endeavor to get the busi ness for the paper. The business manager pointed out that this is part of the policy of expansion. “This plan, which is not entirely original, but is used by some of the larger publications in the east, is an entirely new field for the Emerald,” he said. Walter Pearson has charge of the questionnaires under the direct supervision of the foreign advertis ing manager. SOCIAL WORKS STARTED Portland School Arranges Welfare Week-end at Oregon City The Portland school of social work of the University of Oregon, has ar ranged, through the extension service of the University, in cooperation with various state agencies, for a welfare week-end at Oregon City, the 18th and 19th of January . Welfare week-end is intended to be an exposition of some of the funda mental problems of health and wel fare as they affect the citizens of Clackamas county, as well as to show what agencies are available for deal ing with such problems. “The Portland school conceives popular, as well as professional edu cat:on in social work, to be it s le gitimate function,” says a pamphlet issued, giving the details of the pro gram. Virtually all agencies partici pating in the program are intimately connected with instructional work in the Portland school. Members of Class of 1924 Vote to Turn All Surplus Funds to New Building DANCE PLANS ACCEPTED Play Will Be Given Spring Quarter; Commencement Plans to be Completed As a memorial to the University, the class fo 1924 will leave its surplus funds and the proceeds of the senior play to the student union, was the decision reached by that class at a meeting last night. The committee on class memorial, which was headed by Douglas Farrell, reported its decision to give the money to the student union. In support of this decision, Farrell said, “The student union is i more of a reality right now than most of the students realize, and it is the best and most fitting mem orial we could leave behind us.” John MacGregor, chairman of the student union committee, told the .class about the action of last year’s senior class, and urged the adop tion of the recommendations of the memorial committee. Vote Is Favorable He said that the finished student union would cost at least $200,000, but that the first wing could be started when $75,000 was raised. About $25,000 has been raised at the present time. The recommenda tions of the committee were pas sed by a unanimous vote of the class. The senior play for this year was also discussed, and a motion passed to the effect that one be given. A committee was appointed by Paul Sayre, president, to have charge of the play. Ted Baker was appointed manager of the production, and a play committee, headed by Darrell Larson, and composed of Wenona Dyer, Russell Brown, and Gwladys Keeney were appointed to make a selection of a suitable play. A properties committee composed of Hally Berry, Eugene Shields, Lester Wade, and Estel Akers was also i appointed. Class Dance Friday Plans for the senior class dance to be given Friday night were dis cussed, and the report of the dance committee, that the affair be semi j formal, and that it be a leap year I affair, was accepted. A meeting of the senior women was called im mediately following the class meet ing. A committee was also appointed to confer with Prof. J. H. Gilbert with regard to the activities of the class at commencement time. Georgia Benson is chairman of this com mittee, and is assisted by Ray Har lan and Andrew Karpenstein. The attendance at the meeting was the best that it has been this year, as over a hundred members of the class were present, and a great deal of interest was taken in the various discussions, especially re garding the class dance. enrollment is asked students Wishing to Teach Advised to Register in Bureau All graduating students who wish to teach should register at once in the appointment bureau at the education building. “If you think you are going to teach you will stand a much better chance of getting a position by enrolling now instead of waiting until later,” says Dr. C. A. Gregory, head of the bureau. Enrollment in the bureau does | not prevent the student from 1 taking a position which she finds | herself. The registration fee is I one dollar and when a person is once registered she will always be a member. i Last year, Dr. Gregory says, four good positions could not be fi e ! because the stulents had not filled I out application cards and there was no one to recommend when the calls cagie in. Art Collection 1Purchased for Little Museum Continental Etchings In Exhibition An addition to the art work on the campus is a colection of prints, lithographs, etchings, monotypes, and the like which are to be pur chased with money from the Ger linger art fund, and kept as a per manent exhibition in the little njus eum in the arts building. A collection of continental etch ings and art forms are to be pur chased for the University of Mrs. Lucy Dodd Bamberg, Portland portrait painter, who left for Eu rope last week, and will return sometime in the spring. She will bring not only modern art work, but some by old masters as well. Wood engraving, drypoint, meez zotint, all will furnish the students with ideas of art with subjects chiefly American and Western. GILBERT flE-ELEGTED AT MEETING OF CO-OP Records Show Increase in Membership At the annual meeting of the University Co-operative store, held yesterday in Villard hall, Dr. James H. Gilbert was re-elected to serve as faculty member on the board of directors for the coming year. \Lauren Conley was elected as fresh man representative to serve on the board and Oscar McKinney and Orlando Hollis were chosen as sophomore members of the board. A report was read by Marion F. McClain, manager, in which he showed that student membership fees paid into the Co-Op in the school years of 1921, 1922 and 1923 | had amounted to $2,258 and a total ’ of $3,505 had been turned back as j dividends. There has been a constant in crease in membership each year, I the records show, since in 1920-21 ; there were 625 members, 1921-22 i 782 members, 1922-23 851 and in the ! present school year of 1923-24 j there are 1,074 members. Net I sales for the year 1923 totaled $61, • 399.98, which Mr. McClain pointed i out were 50 per cent text books, j A resolution as adopted concern ' ing the new policy for operation of | the Co-Op, as suggested by the ! student council, read as follows: The members of the Co-Operative 1 store in their annual meeting in ; dorse the program formulated by ! the finance committee intended to ! secure extension in membership of | the Co-Operative store and the more | general participation of students in j the election of the board of direc tors. They signify their willingness i to make any change in the by-laws I of the organization that are ne | cessary to conform with any action taken by the student body, looking ! toward the adoption of the program I as outlined. i ___ STAR MOVEMENTS TOLD I Prof. E. H. McAlister Forcasts Location of Heavenly Planets — On the evening of January 23, the bright star Regulus in the constellation Leo, will be very near the moon, according to Prof. E. H. McAlister of the astronomy department. “It is a spectacle when these two appear so close j together,” he said. “When Reg ulus passes across the moon it will be hidden from observers in the ^ southern hemisphere.” j On the evening of February 7 | the planet Venus, which is the brightest of all the planets, will be I very close to the moon. Aldebar ( an, another bright star, will, on the I evening of February 13, be hidden j by the moon. The moon will pass between the planet and the earth which to the astronomer is knowTn as the occulation. “There are so many of these astronomical occur rences, which are of interest to ! the students,” said McAlister, I “that the astronomer, Frost of Yerke’s Observatory of Chicago i University, is preparing to take I moving pictures of the move ments.” OREGANA DRIVE SET FDR TODAY Subscriptions to be Taken in Organizations and in Booth at the Library BOOK WILL BE LARGER S New Department Features Pictures and Borders in Early Norman Art “Today’s the day! $2.50 is the amount! The 1924 Oregana is the cause!” This was the word given out from the Oregana office this morning when final preparations for the big subscription drive for the year book to be conducted on the campus today, were completed. Representatives have been appoint ed by Gibson Wright, circulation manager, to solicit subscriptions in all of the living organizations and a booth will be placed inside the entrance of the library to take care of students not reached through other means. The subscription booth will be in charge of the girls on the Oregana staff and will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The price of the year book is set tentatively at $4.50; $2.50 of which must be paid at the time the order is placed and the remainder upon delivery of the boolf in the spring. This price will depend en tirely upon tie amount of sub scriptions obtained, Myron Shannon, business manager, has announced and students are urged to place their orders today to avoid disap pointment later. New Art Work Used Only the number of books ordered in the drive today will be printed, Shannon says, since the expense of ordering additional books in the prospect of late sales is too high. The Oregana this year will con tain 480 pages, which is larger by 16 pages than last year’s book. A color scheme of browns and tans is to be used throughout the book and an entirely new and different pro gram of art work will be used for the first time this year. The art page borders, section heads and other illustrations will follow close ly the early Norman period. Phil Bergli is in charge of this branch of the year book work. New Section Added One of the new departments added to the book this year is the Oregon women section, to be dedi cated to the part played by the University women in campus activi ties. Full page pictures will be run of the leaders in the principal activities open to participation by girls, as representative of the en tire body of women students. Pictures to be run include those the secretary of the Associated dents, president of Women’s rue, president of Women’s Ath c association, president of Y. C. A., and president of mortar rd, senior honor society, he time-worn junior write-ups to be abolished and the juniors l be run in full-page cuts of ividual pictures. The senior sec i pictures have all been taken lap and gown. omething entirely .novel and final is promised in the feature tion, of which Lyle Janz and ate Digerness are in charge. Drive Ends Today hecks for the year book may dated ahead to February 1 and 1 be held until that time. Free ,ks will be given to all orgamza is going 100 per cent in today s ve as well as to the individual ing the greatest number of >ies on the campus. It is hoped t the drive will be practical Y ipleted by tonight so that the lCt number of books desired may ordered. All money must be ned into the Oregana office m : journalism building by Thurs r afternoon. Members of the year book staff o will be in charge of the boot the library today include: Mar ■et Morrison, Margaret Vincent, salia Keber, Ruth Powell, Velma redith, Henryetta La™C'*’ mces Simpson, Augusta DeWitt, therine Spall, Marian Lowry, uline Bondurant, Mary Jane stin and Freda Goodrich. Hayward Erects Humble Lookout Near Cinder Path Several of the faculty members have erected houses out ip the Fairmount district. Not to be outdone, Bill Hayward has had a mean shanty constructed in the proximity of the cinder path. Here Bill is able to sit and watch his athletes scamper around the oval while he enjoys the fire. What Bill wants is a name for the new addStion to the physical education department. There is a possibility of a prize being offered for the best sign to hang over the door. At present the cabin in the wilderness sits on a pair of skids, like a logging donkey, and any time Bill wants to move all he has to do is hitch the varsity steam roller to “Skidee” and away they go. But Bill intends to take the skids off soon, so that “Skidee” won't run away all by herself. If you have time, take a limp out to the field and give the shanty the once over and then suggest a name. Connoisseur Obtains Art Pieces in California Mrs. Murray Warner has return ed to Eugene after several weeks spent with relatives and friends in Los Angeles, Pasadena and San Francisco. Her constant interest in the art museum on the campus which she has founded, is indicated by the fact that she has brought with her several additions to it. Among these is an old Chinese crackleware vase, which is a gift to the University from Walter D. Bliss, well-known San Francisco architect and friend of Mrs. Warn er’s, who has become interested in the Warner collection here and has made this contribution to it. During her trip, Mrs. Warner visited her son in Los Angeles and, among the friends whom she visited in that vicinity, was Mrs. Edwin Gellette, sister of Helen Hyde, the famous American painter in water colors and prints. Mrs. Gellette has expressed her interest in the Warner museum by the gift of 19 of these prints to the University at the time of the opening of the collection. Mrs. Warner spent much of her time in California in queist of ma terial on the art objects in the museum and has brought with her a number of valuable books on art. She expressed great satisfac tion in her trip and has* returned to resume her work at the museum with ren'ewed interest and en thusiasm. ONLY TWO COLLEGES SEND DELEGATES TO BIG MEETING Stanford University—(By P. I. N. S.)—Stanford and Oregon Agri cultural college were the only two colleges west of. Iowa to send dele gates to the national inter-frater nity meeting. TREK ASPIRANTS Freshmen Candidates Begin Work in Special Events; Fundamentals Stressed NEW OFFICE GREAT HELP Promising Material is Not Turning Out, Bill Says; Winter Training Required It is about this season of the year that Bill Hayward starts pick ing out individual members from his freshman squad of track can didates and starts them specializing in the events of their particular choice—or whatever he himself be lieves them to be best fitted for. Even though it is months before the first meet the common preliminary conditioning tactics which have been in vogue for all aspirants are gradually giving away to effort# at specialization. “I am teaching technique thie term,” said Bill. “I am going to develop this freshmen squad as a unit so that by spring I will have the men trained in fundamentals.” To do this Bill has established him self in his new cabin out on Hay ward field, where he spends about five hours a day, “keeping an eye” on the various men as they work out. Sprint Men Chosen “I intend to pick the team from the fellows who are out this term,” he explained. Bill believes that winter sports and track have very little in common; so be offers a freshman his choice and makes it imperative that he devotes the winter term to training if he would hope to become a track athlete. He did make an exception, however, and this is in favor of those men who are not in school at the pre gent time, buti intend (to return for the spring term. In giving the list of the men who already have expressed their choice of events, Coach Hayward explain ed that there were many who had not been placed in any particular field of endeavor as yet. Those who have been picked to work out in the sprints, so far, are: Fred Holt, California; A. Wooley, The Dalles; J. Boswell, Yale; Dud Clark, Portland (also a hurdler) ; M. Bod da and Ward Cook, both of Astoria; Dick Extra, Portland; Herb. Kim ball, McMinnville, and Wm. Stone braker, Pendleton. Distance Men Work In the distance events the fol lowing have been working con sistently: Lauren Conley, Califor nia; Philip Swank, Portland; Bos co Moore, Moro, and A. Gray, of Eugene. Canterbury and Flannigan are practicing pole vaulting. Henery Hall, of Portland, has been developing as a hurdler. Five weight men are turning our regu larly: L. Johnson, of Eugene; D. Dasliney, Miarshfield; M. Anderson, (Continued on page three) Soph No-Date, Junior Lottery, Senior Formal, Are Friday “When Frances dances with me, hully gee! I’m as gay as can be.” The campus will discard its cares on Friday next, fling convention ality to the winds, that is all except the seniors, and dance to its hearts content. Tastes differ, it seems, as to the proper method of having the best time imaginable. The sophomores will disguise themselves—a regular “guess who” affair, with Fate play ing most of the cards and probablj the devil keeping a few up his sleeve for occasional reference. It is to be strictly a no-date affair, say the second year men and wo men and though masks are to be worn, the costumes need not be elaborate as it is strictly an old clothes affair. The Midnite Sons will furnish the music with a seven piece orchestra and several fea tures are promised which are not being given out by the committee. The juniors, on the other hand, have allowed Fate to get in all hia handy work ahead of time. The cards are already on the table and the telephone is ringing betimes, announcing the “chosen one,” in this case having been “chosen” by the lottery committee. And that is not all. The most unique convey ance, which a gentleman uses to transport his lady to the affair will be voted upon, the winner being presented with a handsome—well, that would be telling, but the com mittee promises a worth while prize. Notice will also be taken of the most handsomely dressed (?) couple in the room. As for the seniors. Since their days are numbered, they have de cided to make the most of these last few moments JO make use of the old “soup ’n fish” and aTe planning a formal at the Osburn. The latest advices from the class officers say “formal for the wo men and optional for the men.”