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Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1924__NUMBER 112
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New Grade Plan
Hits Quitters
Hard Worker No Longer
to Go Un-rewarded
By the Editor
qnHE UNIVERSITY is going to
remove the premium on schol
astic quitting. Carlton E. Spencer,
registrar, is putting a new “grades
point” plan into effect, which will
rate students fairly, and which will
do away with many of the present
evils. Dodgers of work will have
a hard time to keep their seat on
the top of th& scholastic world.
Under the present plan, the stu
dent who makes 12 hours of I and
four hours of II, for instance, re
ceives a lower standing in the grade
rolK than the one who makes only
12hours of I. He is penalized for
carrying a heavier load, for his
average is .25 lower than the
straight I student.
The new plan, which is announced
for the first time in this column,
and which will be put into effect
in rating the organizations for this
term’s work, remedies the present
unfairness and lack of common
sense by considering the hours
passed, as well as the grade earned.
The old fiction that one is greater
-than five will be abandoned. The
following table will be employed:
Each hour of I will credit the
student with 5 points.
Each hour of n will credit the
student with 4 points.
Each hour of in will credit the
student with 3 points.
Each hour of IV will credit the
student with 2 points.
Each hour of V will credit the
student with 1 point.
To illustrate how this plan will
work: A makes 14 hours with an
average of II. His rating is 56; B
makes 16 hours with a grade of III.
His rating is 48; C makes 16 hours
average grade, IV. His rating is
32; D makes 10 hours with an aver
age grade of III. His rating is 30.
The totals, not the averages, are
the basis of comparison.
Up to this time, freshman stu
dents falling down in their work
have been urged by their upper
•classmen to drop the course. The
dropping habit continues all through
the four years of University life
as a result of rewarding the quit
ters.
Quitters are scorned in athletics.
"Why should they be honored in
scholarship?
Each hour not passed, whether it
be> withdrawal or failure, will re
duce the rating of the stud'ent.
There will be no inducement to
withdraw from a course to avoid a
failure or low grade. He will lose
no more staying on and taking
his failure than he will by with
drawing.
There will be the incentive both
to pass hours and to pass with high
grades. The great weight will still
be on the grades.
The proposed plan will rate the
student according to what he ac
complishes.
This system will probably be
used at first only to determine house
grades, due to the labor -required
to take care of the office work
necessitated by the change. In the
long run, the clerical work will bei
simpler than under the present plan.
The next step that should be taken
is permitting withdrawals at any
time during the term. After all,
University students are old enough
to know when they have too much
work and if they feel that a better
type of work could be done with
fewer subjects, they should be al
lowed to drop to 12 hours, with their
adviser’s consent. Under the new
plan, such a drop would be fair to
the other students. A student is
allowed to take as few as only 12
hours, and if the over-zealous ones,
who were brave enough to tackle
a bigger job, find that it is too
much, they should be allowed to
make a change.
The registrar’s office is going
ahead with the new plan. A
second grade sheet, coming out sev
eral weeks after the usual “scan
dal” sheet will probably have to
come into being and the rating of
all 2,175 students on the campus
will be made.
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The one objection against the
idea—that students who are forced
through economic pressure to carry
a light course will not be treated
fairly—can be answered by the fact
that working students usually aver
age up very well with their fellow
students. Then, of course, the
working student, under any system,
is under somewhat of a handicap.
However, grades are not everything,
and the man who does the practical
as well as the theoretical is ahead
in the long run.
The Emerald is glad that there
is to be no delay in making this
experiment, for the sooner the>
“changing Oregon” gets on a firm
basis in matters scholastic, the bet
ter it will be.
BLUE SHIRT CLUB FORMED
TO BOYCOTT LAUNDRIES
Harvard University—A blue
shirt club has been formed at Har
vard. The purpose of the organiza
tion is to boycott the laundries.
Only one shirt may be worn during
the week.
HOWIE CONCERT
TO BE TONIGHT
Rex Underwood Will Direct
University Orchestra in
Sole Performance Here
EVENT IS AT 8 O’CLOCK
Heavy Number Beethoven’s
Tidelio’; Two Soloists
Featured on Program
Tonight, beginning at 8 p. m., in
the Methodist Episcopal church, the
University orchestra, directed by Bex
Underwood, will give its only home
concert of the year. Admission to
the concert, which is sponsored by
the music committee of the Associat
ed students, will be by student body
ticket. Townspeople will pay the
regular admission price.
The orchestra is considered by
many music critics the best organiza
tion of its kind on the Pacific
coast. It is composed of thirty-four
people who are all experienced mu
sicians, and who are vitally interested
in music of this type.
Frank Jue Praised
The two soloists are both well
known to Eugene music lovers.
Frank Jue, Chinese tenor, is al
ways a decided drawing card for any
organization that features him. His
popularity, while touring the Pacific
coast on a vaudeville tour last sum
mer, was most pronounced. Guy
Price, of the Los Angeles Evening
Herald, enthusiastic over his work,
said, “Mr. Jue has either been born
in America or has studied English
exceptionally well. His coloring of
such colorful songs as “Mother Ma
chree” and “Roses of Picardy” is
as clean custard as ever rolled off an
English tongue.”
Harpist Is Prodigy
Doris Helen Patterson, child harp
ist, is sure to delight those attending
the concert. Her deep knowledge of
the instrument, and the delicacy with
which she masters the most difficult
numbers, have been the reason for
her being called a child prodigy.
The numbers on the program have
been carefuly selected. The heaviest
numbr will be the overture, “Fidelio”
by Beethoven, which is considered one
of the finest things in classical
music. Following is the program for
the concert:
Part I
1. Fidelio—Overture .... Beethoven
2. Intermezzo from the “Jewels
of the Madonna” . . Wolf-Ferrari
3. Two English Folk Dances .
. by Percy Grainger
a. Mock Morris
b. Sheperds Hey
Part II
4. Harp Solo—Prayer .. Hasselmans
Doris Helen. Patterson
5. Songs:
a. The Star . Rogers
b. Bye an’ Bye . . . .Burleigh
c. M’Appari . Flotow
Frank Jue
Part III
6. Pieces for String Orchestra:
a. Air for the G String . .Bach
b. Norwegion Melodies . .Grieg
Poular Song
Peasant Dance
7. -Mignon-—Overture . Thomas
EUGENE HIGH IS VICTOR
Winner Earns Right to Represent
District in Tournament
The University high school quin
tet was defeated last night by the
Eugene high hoopers by a score of
25 to 11 in a championship game
played in the men’s gymnasium.
The game was for the district cham
pionship and the Eugene high team,
by virtue of its victory, will
represent the district in the tourna
ment to be held in Salem.
The game was rough throughout
and was featured by many fouls.
The lanky Eugene high basketeers
had the upper hand all during the
game, the first half ending with a
score of 11 to 7, in their favor.
They dropped in a number of shots
from the middle of the floor.
Murray, of Eugene high, was
high-point man, making nine points.
Powers was high-point man for the
losers with a total of five points
. to his credit.
Portland Medical
School Receives
Hippocrates’ Oath
The Portland medical school has
just received an illumined copy of
the oath of Hippocrates, done by
hand work and beautifully framed.
It is about two by three feet in
dimensions, and was prepared,
framed, and presented by the Port
land Academy of Medicine, to aid
in the maintenance of the medical
school library.
The oath of this “father of
medicine,” will be hung in the
principle lecture hall as an inspi
ration to medical students. This
document is said to represent the
ideal moral standard of medical
practice since the time of this
early physician. He was born in
460 B. C. and died in 370 B. C.
This oath binds the individual
taking it to refrain from divulg
ing anything in connection with his
professional practice whch he may
see or hear in the lives of men
which ought not to be spoken
abroad.
WOMEN’S RIFLE TEAM
TAKES FIRST VICTORY
Polytechnic School Loses
by Score 855-905
The first victory of thei season
for the women’s rifle team came
last week, when they defeated the
Biverside (California) Polytechnic
school and Junior college by a score
of 905 to 855. The women’s team,
as a whole, is improving greatly,
according to Captain J. T. Murray,
coach. One of its members now
holds the distinction of having
made the highest score that has been
made on the local gallery range this
year by either a man or a woman.
Letitia Cappell, firing in practice,
has made a score of 99 out of a
possible 100. Two other members
of the team, Portia Kidwell and
Dorothy Dodge, have made 98.
These marks were made in prac
tice, not in competition firing.
The women’s team is firing
against Syracuse university this
week.
The Syracuse women are of cham
pionship calibre, according to Cap
tain Murray, and have many wins
to their credit. They have even
gone so far as to challenge a num
ber of men’s teams in the East,
among them the United States Mili
tary academy at West Point.
Interest in rifle shooting is in
creasing and team members are de
voting more time to practice. It is
anticipated that before long some
one will manage to win Captain
Prank Culin’s $2.50 prize. It will
go to the high-point member of the
week’s firing, provided that that
member’s entire course of firing
averages 85 per cent.
ELECTION DATE IS SET
Only Persons Holding Membership
Cards Are Allowed a Vote
The annual election of Y. M. C.
A. officers will be held April 3, ac
cording to the announcement of the
cabinet following its weekly meet
ing in the hut yesterday afternoon.
This is somewhat later than had
been anticipated, but the committee
on nominations thought best to hold
over the election till the beginning
of the spring term.
The number of those permitted to
vote for these officers is not re
stricted to those who have taken
out their full membership in the
organization, as is done in some
schools, but will include any who
subscribe to the purpose of the Y.
M. C. A. and are interested in its
welfare. It is expected the voting
will be done at the hut.
EX-STUDENT IS VISITOR
Bertram G. Haynes, '25, on Campus
for Few Days’ Seay
Bertram G. Haynes, ex- ’25, is a
visitor on the campus. He has been
absent from the University for
morei than a year. Haynes has been
studying in Chicago during the past
few months preparatory to entering
business in Portland.
Haynes tells of having en
countered many Oregon people dur
ing his travels in the Middle-West
and the East. He returned to Port
land last week via New York and
the Panama canal. He says the
East has no particular attractions
for him, a seasoned Oregonian.
RELAY SQUADS
ARE SELECTED
Dope Shows Frosh Will be
Strongest; First Three
Places to be Counted
CAPTAINS ARE CHOSEN
Track Meet, March 8, to End
Term’s Official Training;
Fast Contest Is Expected
Fifty-seven men have been select
ed to compete for their respective
classes in the relay carnival next
Saturday. This meet will wind up
the official training activities of the
squad for the winter term and de
termine the track supremacy of
either the freshman, sophomore, or
the combination junior and senior
team.
The frosh team appears the
stronger in that it will not be forced
to run a man in more than one race,
with an'exception or two; while tho !
combination team put in the field
by the junior and senior classes has
all the advantage of experience and
past competition. Coach Hayward
has hot decided definitely on the
men for one or two positions as yet,
but will make his decisions some
time this week.
Leaders Are Named
Vic Risley and Hugh McColl
have been selected as captains for
the junior and senior team. The
members of the team are: 440, A.
Tuck, Lucas, Lejwis, Kinney and
Carruthers. In the 880, some of
these same men will be used with
Woodward and Rosenburg. In the
mile, Risley, Rosebraugh, Hunt,
Kinney, Carruthers and Houston will
furnish the material. In the. two
mile, MeCune, Houston, Owsley Mc
Coll and Everett. In the four-mile
event, Tetz, McColl, Robson and
Humphrey will work.
The captains of the sophomore
team are Snyder and Keating.
Those from whom the team will be
selected are: 440, Snyder, Hills
Cleaver and McAullife. The 880 re
lay men are the same. The mem
bers of the mile squad are Her
mance, Ager, McKenna and Mauney
The two-milers are: Keating, Dahl
Mauney and Gerke. Those on the
four-mile team are: Van Guilder,
Stephenson, Crary and McClellan.
Action Is Promised
The captaiqs for the first-year
men are Stonebreaker and Swank,
with the following men sporting the
colors for the 1927 class: 440,
Stonebreaker, Extra, Holt, Rodda
and Kittoe; and 880, Irelan, Hob
blitt, Cook, Griffith, Moore, John
son and Giovanda. The mile runners
are: Jeffries, Swank, Chapman,
Wilbur and Beeson. The two-mile
athletes are: Michel, Gurnea, Hart
well, Tomlinson, Conley, Runk and
Gibbs. The long distance men are:
Hartwell, Button, Jeffries and
Chapman.
The first three places will count
in each race and the scores will be
five for a first, three for a second
and one for a third. Several of
these races should be fast affairs,
since the freshmen have been giv
ing the varsity keen competition in
the Saturday afternoon meets,
especially in the sprints.
Clear Field Is Necessary
In connection with this, Coach
Hayward requests that those stu
dents not asked in the judging will
not clutter up the field. It adds
to the confusion and in impressing
the necessity for a clear field, he
told of the. student who threw a
javalin which went through his hat.
“Perhaps they aren’t so accurate
this year,” is the way he expresses
it.
STAFF WILL HAVE REST
Sunday Emerald to be Last Issue
Published This Term
Because of the impending exam
inations, the Emerald will discon
tinue publication for the winter
term, when next Sunday’s issue is
off press. Emerald writers will then
be enabled to concentrate their
energies on the coming trials.
When Sunday’s paper is published,
the Emerald staff will have put out |
56 issues throughout the winter
quarter. Persons desiring campus
attention for events taking place
botween now and the end of the
term should notify the Emerald of
their wishes this week.
I HI. OFFICIALS
TO BE CHOSEN
Annual Elections Scheduled
for Today from 9 to 4;
Polls Will be at Bungalow
EIGHT GIRLS NOMINATED
Only Members May Vote;
Tonight’s Banquet to be
Year’s Final Big Event
CANDIDATES LISTED FOR
TODAY’S Y. W. ELECTION
President—
Florence. Buck
Vice-president—
Mary Donaldson
Neva Service
Secretary—
Marian Lowry
Margaret Boyer
Treasurer—
Claudia Broders
Lois Easterbrooks
Undergraduate Representative—
Helen Andrews
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Today the Young Women’s Chris
tian association of the University
will hold its annual elections from
9 to 4 o’clock, withl the ballot
boxes at the Y. W. bungalow. Every
University woman who signed one.
of the membership cards given out
last fall is eligible to vote, and is
urged to do so today. Only mem
bers of the. association will be per
mitted to vote.
One Out for President
Only one name is on the ballot
for president of the group. Florence
Buck is the candidate for this posi
tion. Miss Buck has been active
in the association during her en
tire two and one-half years at the
University. She is at present under
graduate representative on the Y.
W. C. A. council and a leader in two
semi-monthly discussion groups. She
is a junior in the University.
For vice-president, Neva Service
and Mary Donaldson are the two
candidates. Both have been leaders
in Y. W. work, Miss Service being
an official on the present cabinet,
and Miss Donaldson being one of
the student volunteers who at
tended the recent convention at
Indianapolis. Both are juniors.
Other Candidates Given
There are also two candidates
aut for the position of secretary of
the. association. Margaret Boyer is
ane candidate, and Marian Lowry
the other. Miss Boyer is a sopho
more in the University and has
been an active committee worker in
the Y. W. C. A. Marian Lowry is
a. junior in the University and at
present the publicity head on the
council of the association.
Claudia Broders, a junior on the
campus, and a member of the pres
ent cabinet, as well as an active
committee worker in the association,
is one of the two candidates up for
treasurer of the Y. W. Lois Easter
brooks is the other nominee for
treasurer. Miss Easterbrooks is at
present assistant secretary of the
Y. W. C. A.
For undergraduate representative,
Helen Andrews, retiring vice-presi
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LECTURES ARE PLANNED
Reed and Oregon Will Collaborate
In Series at Portland
A series of eight lectures, cover
ing a period of eight weeks, will
be given soon in Portland, by Reed
college and the University of Ore
gon, Miss Mozelle. Hair, of the Uni
versity extension division, stated.
Four lectures will be given by
members of the University faculty
and four by some of the faculty of
Reed colleg«(. It is planned by
those in charge to sell 200 $5
tickets for these lectures, the pro
ceeds of which will be divided be
tween the University and Reed col
lege, Miss Hair said.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENTS^
Bachelordon announces the pledg
ing of Wallace Priestly, of Portland,
Oregon.
Delta Delta Delta announces the
pledging of Jo-Ann Warwick, of
Portland, Oregon.
Kappa Omieron announces the
pledging of Bernice Clark and Owen
Anderson, of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Oregon Debaters
Leave Today for
Palo Alto Meet
Herschel Brown and Glenwood
• Archer, Oregon debaters, leave to
| day for Palo Alto whore they will
meet the Stanford representatives
I Thursday night in one side of the
j triangular debate among Oregon,
1 Washington, and Stanford. Martin
S. Moore and Ernest Henrikson,
who are upholding the affirmative,
1 will meet Washington on the cam
pus here.
I This contest between the three
j schools will be the last of the year
j for the men’s squad. Only one
! other debate is scheduled for the
University, the women’s teams hav
ing a meet the last of this month.
The question for debate is, “Re
solved, that the United States
should enter the proposed world
court.” Dean E. C. Robbins of
the school of business administra
tion will act as chairman of the
evening.
‘SCHOOLMNDr
IS TOMORROW NIGHT
Comedy Shows Eighteenth
Century English Life
The University company will pre
sent Richard Sheridan’s “School for
Scandal” Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday, March 6, 7, and 8, at Guild
hall. The curtain will rise promptly
at 8:30.
The “School for Scandal” is a
famous comedy of the eighteenth
fcontury in England, portraying an
amusing company of people whose
hole business is to hear and repeat
scandal of all sorts. Thero are, how
ever, ono or two personages in the
play who do not join this circle.
One of them is old Sir Peter Teazle,
a somewhat cranky and very egotis
tical gentleman with a sharp tongue;
another is a quick wittod young wo
: man who has a lively interest in the
[“School for Scandal.” Some of the
cleverest linos in the whole comedy
are between Sir Peter and Lady
Teazle.
Fergus Reddie is directing the
comedy. Thoso in the cast are: Ber- j
nard McPhi’.’-ps, Elizabeth Robinson,!
Virgil Mulkey, Darrell Larson, David
Swanson, Wenona Dyer, Katherine
Pinneo, Betty Belle Wise, Gordon
Wilson, Wade Kerr, Paul Krausso,
Walter Malcolm, Lexro Prillaman,
Boyd Homewood, Terva Hubbard,
Portia Kidwell and Henry Sheldon.
The box office is open today,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Tickets will sell at 50 and 75 cents.
SCHOOLS TO HEAR TALK
Dean Esterly Will Address Ashland
and Medford Students
Dean Virginia Judy Esterly will
be away from the campus for a
few days the first part of next week
! to give talks in Ashland and Mcd
! ford.
The student body of the high school
in Ashland will be addressed, as
well as the Parent-Teacher asao
! ciation in that city. In Medford,
Dean Esterly will speak beforo the
i student body. The dean recently
returned from Hood River, whero
[she reported having a delightful
! time talking to the girls in the high
! school.
I
OREGON-BEAHCAT
TILT ENDS 34-23
Varsity Wins Final Game
of Conference Season
After Tie Score at Half
GOWANS BREAKS JINX
Reinhart’s Players Have
Things Their Own Way
During Last Quarters
By C. E. Logan
(Former Staff Member)
SALEM, Ore., March 4.—(Special
to the Emerald).—The Oregon bas
ketball quintet defeated the Wil
lamette Bearcats here tonight by
the score of 34 to 23, the final quar
ter of the contest deciding the out
come. Both teams played their laat
game of the season.
While the varsity was mixing with
the Bearcats at Salem, the Univer
sity of California and University
of Washington quintets were strug
gling at Oakland in the first of
three clashes to settle the claim, for
honors of the Coast championship.
The final result was a 32-31 score
favoring California.
Willamette Leads Half
“Hunk” Latham drew first blood
with a field goal early in the open
ing canto, followed by a field goal
by Hobson. Oregon obtained a
four-point lead for a few minutes,
but after a short rally, Willamette
lead, 8 to 4, after which Oregon
was unable to take the lead again
until the opening of the second half,
when another four-point lead wai
obtained.
Chapman was called twice in the
first quarter for holding, but the
Bearcats failed to convert the free
throws. Thei quarter ended, 10 to 6,
with the Salem team on top.
Gowans Breaks Jinx
Cowans managed to tie the score
in the second quarter, but Oregon
was unable to step to the head of
the class again, being content to
duplicate points made by Willam
ette, only to catch up at the end
of the first half, which ended, 15 to
15.
(The jinx was broken by Gowane
after the second half opened, and
Oregon forged into a 19 to 15 lead,
which was held for the remainder
of the contest. This was threatened
by Willamette’s field goal and foul,
but additional baskets by Hobson
and Gowans enabled the Lemon
Yellow to take the third quarter,
25 to 20.
Teams Are Superior
From this time, on, Oregon had
the game on ice and held Willamette
to one field goal and one foul for
the relainder of the contest. With
the score standing 31 to 23, Bock
hoy tossed one in for the last goal
of the season, followed by Latham’s
free throw, time being called with
Oregon taking the contest, 34 to 23.
Both teams were superior to those
which played here January 12,
when Oregon romped off with the
long end of a 47 to 13 victory.
The lineups:
Oregon 34 Willamette 23
Gowans .F. Fasnacht
Hobson .F. Robertson
Latham .C. Logan
llockhey .G. Patton
; Chapman .G. Erickson
j Referee—-Coleman, O. A. C.
Advantages of Radio Debate
Discussed by Oregon Coach
“The first radio debate in his
tory, held last Friday] night be
tween the University of Oregon and
the> University of California, is
: only an opening of the door of the
future advantages of radio in
reaching millions of peoples,” said
Prof. Hugh L. Rosson, debate coach
of the University. “The fact that
such a large audience can be reached
1 so easily and so conveniently, and
1 can listen to discussions on some of
the important topics of the day
can hardly be realized by the aver
age mind.
“I bedieve that the time is not
far off when political campaigns
will be conducted by radio. William
6. McAdoo’s installation of a
$.'10,000 broadcasting station in Chi
cago to conduct his presidential
campaign v.ith is a step in this
direction,” declared Rosson.
“Why, some candidate for the
J presidency could broadcast a speech
; from one end of the continent for an
fiour or so some evening, while hill
j opponent is listening in at some
other place many thousand miles
away. And, after the first speak
er had finished giving his argu
ments, the opponent could answer
him,” he said.
“Nearly 400,000 people listened
to the Orcgon-California debate.
This is certainly the largest audi
ence which has ever sat in one
group to listen to any debate.”
Describing the experience of the
University’s team in preparing for
the contest last weekend, Profes
sor Rosson said, “Thursday night
was spent in adjusting the voices
to the microphone and to let the
: debaters become accustomed to the
| padded cell of a broadcasting sta
tion. Joe Frazer and Walter Mal
! colm, the two Oregon men, each
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