The Sunday Emerald
VOLUME XXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1924
NUMBER 121
Alums Active
in GiftWork
Former Students and
Graduates to Reuse
One Million Dollars
Meetings Are Held
Program Will Supply
Memorial Court and
Men’s Gymnasium
Rallying to the support of their
alma mater alumni of the Univer
sity throughout the West are en
thusiastically sponsoring the $5,000,
000 Gift campaign for which they
have undertaken to raise $1,000,000,
one-fifth of the total.
During the past week, P. L.
Campbell, president of the Univer
sity, and Lamar Tooze, ’16, field
representative of the campaign,
have been in California where they
attended enthusiastic meetings of
Oregon alumni, and other meetings
have been held in Oregon. Presi
dent Campbell addressed the alumni
of Northern California in San
Francisco and of Southern Cali
fornia in Los Angeles. He also spoke
to the Jackson county alumni in
Medford, and thet Benton county
alumni at Corvallis. William G.
Hale, dean of the school of law,
addressed the alumni of Douglas
county at Roseburg, and Dr. H. D.
Sheldon, dean of the school of edu
cation, spoke to the alumni of Coos
and Curry counties at Marshfield.
Alumni Remain Loyal
The following alumni meetings
will be held this week: Monday,
Dean Hale will address the Columbia
county alumni at St. Helens; Tues
day, he will meet the Hood River
county alumni at Hood River; Wed
nesday, Yamhill county alumni at
McMinnville; Thursday, Clatsop
eounty alumni at Astoria; Friday,
Clackamas county alumni at Oregon
City; Saturday, Western Washing
ton alumni in Seattle. President
Campbell will speak to alumni of
Marion and Polk counties at Salem
on Tuesday, apd to Multnomah
county alumni in Portland on Wed
nesday. A Deschutes county alumni
meeting will be held at Bend on
Thursday.
“No matter how far years or
miles remove them from the cam
pus at Eugene, I find the alumni
retain strong loyalty and enthusi
asm for the University and every
thing connected with its welfare,”
said President Campbell. “The
groups in California were just as
anxious and ready to do their part
in the Gift campaign as are the
groups nearer home. Although they
have gone outside the state, they
still feel a strong sense of respon
sibility to Oregon, and they arei
going to take active part in this
movement to provide the Univer
sity with the buildings it so sorely
needs.
Small College Liked
“There is a definite feeling
among the alumni that no matter
how large the University may grow
in numbers, it must maintain its
old atmosphere of individual in
struction, small classes, and personal
contact between faculty members
and students. Some of them have
seen the results of university over
crowding and machine-education
where classes are grouped for lec
tures by hundreds and even thou
sands and where a student is a mere
unit, rather than a person; and they
want to make sure that the Univer
sity of Oregon will never become
that sort of an institution. It is
because the University has deter
mined to maintain these high stan
dards of instruction that the Gift
campaign has been made neceesary.
“The alumni part of the program
will supply the University with the
long planned Memorial Court in
honor of the 47 University men
who lost thedr lives in the world
war, with the gymnasium and Ath
letic fields, and with what is psob
ably our most urgent need, the
library. The library must always
be one of the most important build
ings in the University; ev'ry de
partment looks to it for assistance
in carrying on its work; every stu
dent must depend on it to secure
full value from his courses. At the
present time our library cannot meet
the needs of the University. It was
built to accommodate six hundred
students and is now trying to care
for twenty-five hundred. The
library must provide for the needs
of the campus and must also serve
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College of the Cold North,
Gold and Totem Poles
By Harold Kirk
We have just finished browsing
through a periodical unique among
college magazines and as truly Alas
kan as a totem pole, the “Farthest
North Collegian,” a student publica
tion of the Alaska Agricultural col
lege and. School of Mines; at Fair
banks. From its title page to J;he
last advertisement, which lists gold
pans, sieves, and prospectors picks,
it fairly reeks with the atmosphere
of the north.
Few of us know of the existence
of such an institution and fewer still
have any concept of what college life
in the far north might mean.
Since it opened its doors in 1922,
?ve are told, it has grown from an
enrollment of 6 to 65 and now offers
four year courses in agriculture, bus
iness administration, civil engineer
ing, general science, home economcs,
geology and mining and metallurgy,
with short courses for the housewife,
the farmer and the prospector.
Its students are drawn from the
gold camps anl trading posts of the
northern territory, from Juneau to St.
Michel. In the publication we find
stories of the -sourdough, the mala
mute and the caribou, with a glimpse
of social life at the institution writ
ten by young men and women, many
of whom have never been outside, and
whose local color did not have to be
acquired.
In “ The Roadhouse End of the
Trail,” by Margaret Thomas, we
find this—‘ ‘ Down on the Yukon there
is a roadhouse opertaed by Crooked
Neck Annie and her daughter. The
hostelry consists of two twelve-by
fourteen log cabins, facing each oth
er about ten feet apart, the space
oofed over between them. Frost and
torm have cavorted with the struc
ture so that the log walls and floor
progress in ripples. The beds are
bunks, of course, and the potatoes
are stored beneath to prevent freez
ng; Tabbits are hung from the raft
ers to prevent freezing.”
The college holds an annual fresh
man bonfire and wienie-roast and we
find the following toast, given on
the occasion by the president of the
institution, quite fitting and proper:
“Here’s to the howliny malamute,
Most liked and licked of all the
brutes,
Consumer of everything made to eat,
From, fish and fritters to pickled
pigs’ feet,
In life you worry the musherman,
In death you fill a labeled can.
Now by the ever-blazing log,
To you allegiance I pledge,
Hot dog!
Local Mermen
Beat O. A. C.
Fast Races Feature
Dual Meet
Oregon defeated O. A. C.’s swim
ming last night by a score of 40 to
■28. The varsity won four first plac
es and the relay, while the Aggies
took three firsts.. Palmer was high
point man, annexing 10 points, and
Carpenter made 6 points for the Cor
vallis mermen.
The 100 yard dash was the clos
est event of the program. Palmer
and Carpenter were neck and neck
through the entire race and Palmer
won only by scant inches. Also in
the 50 yard dash the two swimmers
were on a par but the local merman
won out. In the 100 yard backstroke
Gardner nosed out Yoran and cap
tured first place. Turner of O. A. C.
won the plunge by going the entire
60 feet of the tank. Wiswall of "Ore
gon and Smith of O. A. C. were tied
for second place with 56 feet. In
an extra plunge to break the tie
Wiswall won.
•Burroughs of O. A. C. and Hors
fall of Oregon put up a nifty exhibi
tion of diving with the Corvallis div
er on the winning end. In the relay
O. A. C. was entirely outclassed and
did not have a chance of winning.
Horsfall won the 22 yard dash by
a margin of 60 feet'over O. A. C.’s
man. The results of the meet:
50 yard dash—Palmer, O.; Carpen
ter, O. A. C.; McCabe, O.; time 27
seconds.
100 yard backstroke—Gardner, O.;
Yoran, O.; Silva, O. A. C.; time 1.30
3-5.
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Yearbook Goes
to Publishers
Oregana Will Appear
Early in May
Spring vacation marked the dead
line for copy for the 1924 Oregana.
The editor, Miss Freda Goodrich,
spent the past week in Portland con
sulting with engravers and reading
page proof. She will return to the
campus the early part of this week.
During her absence Miss 'Rosalia Ke
ber, associate editor, has been hand
ling the office work here.
The fact that spring vacation,
which has ueually marked tho time
when copy for the yearbook should
be in the hards of the printor, came
en.lier this year meant a decided
speeding up cr. the part of the edit
or and staff. Lights burning far into
the night in the Oregana office be
fore spring vacation did not mean
that last minute cramming for ex
ams was going on, but that picture
mounters, section editors, art editor
and others were doing their bit to
get their particular part of the work
in on time.
The result was that practically all
copy for the annual was ready for
the engraver and printer befors vaca
tion and that a longer period of time
for the presswork on the book will
be allowed. From now on until the
appearance of the book early in May,
section editors will be reading proof
on their sections, verifying name
lists anl checking details.
Printers and engravers have ex
pressed themselves as being well
pleased with the progress of the 1924
staff. Hal E. Hoss, editor of the
Oregon City Enterprise, where the
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The American in the Orient
Shanghai as a Social Center
By Catherine Spall
Arriving in the Orient just two
days after the big Japanese earth
quake, touring over the island aglow
with gorgeous-colored autumn leaves,
in one of the loveliest seasons of the
year, watching the celebration of a
gay Japanese new^ year festivity in
which huge fam:ly crests artitt;calh
put on (he gates in front of pict-r
os mi" dwellings, walking down nar
row streets bright with many lanterns,
in Shanghai, the Paris of the Or
ient”—the participant was Lylah
McMurphey,' a student at the Uni
versity, who has just arrived at her
home in Eugene.
“We sailed from Vancouver, B. C.,
on the ‘Empress of Canada,’ Aug
ust 24, direct for Yokohama, and
were ten days on the water,” began
Miss McMurphev, attired in a good
looking sport outfit, consisting of a
jaunty black cha|>eau, sjwrt dress,
and clever top-coat of mustard and
range combine! effectively. She has
clear blue eyes, dark brown bobbed
hair, and stands five feet two in stat
ure. '»
At Yokohama the steamer was
docked out in breakwater for a day,
after the news of the earthquake,
v-hick happened two days previous,
‘'rrnieht. Two thousand refu
gees were taken on the boat at this
port, and after a two-day trip to
Kobe the travelers landed.
“I could understand what the Jap
anese were saying to me, but I could
n’t, of eourse, reply in the language.”
declared the returned traveler when
questioned regarding the difficulty
of comprehending the natives.
The life of an American in the Or
ient is much the same as it is here,
but much more cosmopolitan, espec
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Track Men
Sense Jinx
Cinder Path Artists
Fight Hard Despite
Injuries of Season
Work Is Hampered
Strength Is in Field
Events; Kamma and
Kelsey Start Work
By W. S. A.
“There is no such thing as luck,”
according to certain eminent author
ities; and by the same hypothesis,
a “jinx” is only an ignorant super
stition. Nevertheless, it is almost
impossible to convince an Oregon
follower of athletics that “Old Lady
Luck” hasn’t completely abandoned
the teams that wear the lemon and
yellow.
Football championship honors
went glimmering this year largely
because of seemingly uncalled for
injuries; a basketball championship
was lost when two all-star men wero
stopped at the height of their
career; and now the ill-famed God
dess of Bad Luck has started her
underhanded work on the track
crew. First, it was Louie Ander
son, a sure point winner with the
javelin; and thea Arthur Tuck, a
sure first place man in at least
two events—who have felt the ten
acles of the “jinx” closing around
them. Anderson is out for the sea
son; but Tuck is only laid off for
a week with a bad knee—he ’ll be
back in the harness again, but it is
hard for a man to break a world’s
record and favor a weak kneei.
Team .Not .Discouraged
Still, Bill and his gang are out
there fighting; and it’s an Oregon
tradition that “the bigger the odds,
the harder we fight.” This cold
weather isn’t the best in the world
“for conditioning the men, so the
coach has continued the old three
day a wetek schedule of practice for
the first two weeks of this term.
Then the final grind starts.
Oregon doesn’t look very strong
in the sprints, but will put a strong
aggregation out for the field ©vent
points. The pole vault will be well
taken care of by Spearow, Rosen
burg, Holman, Kelsey and Poulson.
Then the high jumpers will give any
outfit real competition. Spearow
works in this, Ebe is showing up
well, and Cleaver is developing.
The loss of Hills and Anderson
is felt in the broad jump; but
Spearow will be there again, and
Young, who got his start as a track
man in the intramural meet last
year, is showing well. Kelsey and
Snyder are the other two on whom
Bill is placing his faith.
Kelsey and Kamna Return
In the shot put, Bob Mautz, Beat
ty and Kamna are depended on to
garner in the points; Mautz and
Kamna are also developing as dis
cuss throwers. Tuck and Stockwell
are also heaving the old Greek plate.
Tuck, Rosenburg, and Beatty are
the mainstays who will probably be
sent after any points possible to
gather by hurling the javelin.
The return of Kelsey and Kamna
helps to offset some of the other
tragedies of the cinder path. Kelsey
not only bolsters the sprinting
squad, he is a hurdler and a jumper
of no mean reputation. Kamna is
a letter man who entered this spring.
He won his monogram last season
by heaving the discus.
Coach Hayward feels that he is
up against a hard proposition this
spring and is leaving no effort un
spent in his determination to turn
out a winning combination for Ore
gon. Hei said: “The boys realize
as well as I do that we are up
against a hard proposition and they
are all working hard.”
PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR
vVILL VISIT CAMPUS
Miss Helen Hartley, director of
the public health courses in the
school of social service at Portland,
will- be in Eugene Tuesday. The
school of social service is a part
of the University extension division.
Miss Hartley will attend a lunch
eon at the Anchorage Tuesday noon.
All those interested in pre-nursing
courses are invited to attend.
PRUDENCE TALBOT VISITS
AUNT ON CAMPUS
Miss Prudence Talbot of Port
land is visiting her aunt, Miss Ger
trude Talbot, head-resident of Hen
dricks hall, for a few days. Mias
Prudence is having a vacation from
her school work.
Examinations and Ponies;
Also Parrot Minds
By Junior Seton
Three times each year the tran
quility of our college life is dis
rupted by a mental eruption which
at its termination leaves us broken
and trembling. These triennial dis
turbances are affectionately called
examinations by the instructors.
The students have a numbctr of
other names for them, some of which
are not so elegant as they are ap
propriate.
Wei havo just finished one of
these episodes and while its horrors
are still fresh in our minds we
should consider the advisability of
having examinations, or the feasi
bility of eliminating them.
Examinations are held, not as is
popularly supposed to afford the in
structors an opportunity to wreak
vengeance on the>ir .defenseless
pupils, but rather for their benefit.
The student, spurred by a desire to
get a “I” in a course for which
he has never opened a book, is able
to accomplish this worthy end
hrough the kindly assistance of exam
inations.
If he has the usual parrot-like mind,
which retains without understanding,
ho will be able at the end of the term
to read through his text book and re
member enough to write an excellent
paper. As the examination and mid
term quiz count 90 per cent and the
daily work only 10 per cent in moat
courses, the scholar will be able to
get by without being forced to the
usual expedient of attending classes.
Another benefit accruing to the
student from the present system is
the opportunity to take his exami
nations on an “honor plan.” This
is au institution that can have nono
but the best effects on the moral
tone of the student. Under this
system, the student is placed entire
ly on his honor. In order that there
shall be no danger of his falling
from grace, alternate seats are left
empty, and the instructor in charge
spends the allotted time with his
eye glned to the peek-hole in the
door.
Examinations also serve as an in
spiration to the student in develop
ing his ingenuity. Various contri
vances, known under the group
heading of “ponies,” are often re
sorted to by the scholar when his
memory or eyesight has failed him.
The inventive ability of the aver
age student in this particular is
nothing short of phenomenal. In
fact, there is no doubt that, if the
student were to devote a fraction
of the time and energy expended in
this labor toward studying his les
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Junior Vod-vil
Tryouts Soon
“Captain Jacqueline”
Has Six Leads
Tryouts for parts in the musical
comedy for the Junior Vod-vil will be
held Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week, Director Dave Swanson an
nounced at the junior directorate
meeting yesterday. Imogene Letcher,
who wrote the popular feature,
“Mummy Mine,” for last year’s
Vod-vil, has written the sketch for
this year.
“Captain Jacqueline,” the new
corfiedy, in contrast to last year’s, is
very modern, Swanson declares. “The
music is exceptionally good. Snap
py dialogue and quick - action will
cature the performance.”
The play calls for six leal||ttw^
men and four women. There fi also
a mixed chorus of about 20. Try
outs for the leads will be held next
Tuesday, April 1, at 5 o’clock in Vil
ard hall. On Wednesday at the
same hour and in the same place,
tryouts for the choruB will be given.
Imogene Letcher will be in Eugene
to help judge the tryouts. Other
,'udges will be Dave Swanson, Vod
il director, Kate Pinneo, Bernard Mc
Phillips, Joy Johnson and Elizabeth
Robinson. Kate Pinneo and Dave
Swanson will direct the act. As soon
as the cast is selected work will be
begun and intensive work will bo car
ried on until the date of presentation,
Saturday, May 3.
There will be two evening perform
ances, one at 7, and one at 9:30.
Reserved seats will be sold for both
performances. In this manner it will
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Exhibition Given
by Mrs. Schroff
Portrait Photograph Js
Main Feature
A charming exhibition of portrait
photographs by Mrs. Alfred H.
Schroff, wife of the head of the
fino arts department, followed the
winter term’s painting exhibit of
her husband in the Schroff studio
across Eleventh street from the
campus. Mrs. Schroff, who is an
artist in her own right, has special
ized in photographic portraiture of
children for the past three years.
Her father, Frank Barrows, the
famous Boston photographer, be
queathed to her a woalth of tradi
tion in the work.
pearly every faculty child is,
represented in the 90 photographs,
<%hich offer views of characteristic
attitudes accomplished in well-man
aged lighting effects, carefully fin
ished.
The exhibition, held during the
spring vacation, was interesting to j
the children themselvee. for on one
occasion they were invited to serve
tea to visitors at the studio. The
youngsters had a gay time of it in
their eagerness to find the numbers
of their photographs in the circu
lars/and to be first to serve tea to
a newcomer.
Accompanying the exhibit of the
photographs in dull tones, were to
be seen a number of miniatures
painted by Mrs. Schroff. These
were grouped on the mantel and on
the wall near tho mantel. The sub
jects included: Margaret Mossman
Bobbins, Ann Walker, Peggy, Betty
and Adelaide Church, Mary Eliza
beth Earl, Jane Folts, Jacqueline
Laraway and Tliora Hafen.
The Night of “Keen Dates”
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Plotting Now Near at Hand
By Marian Lowry
It ’a only a week now. Then comes
the big gala event for all the women
of the land. There’a been such a
lot of planning, plotting and schem
ing. Everything’s been so mysteri
ous and secretive. For, of course,
the “hombro” of the place is (sup
posedly) not to be in on such a
gaiety as the April frolic.
But then, we all like our practi
cal jokes. And the men, the women,
the seniors, the juniors, the sopho
mores, and the freshmen have all
succumbed to these so-called April
Frolie jokes.
We have a new story this year.
Last fall, while a group of the cam
pus young “women were assembled
around the dinner table, true to cus
tom, one of the number was relat
ing to her companions the number
of dates she had and how far ahead
she was dated up. “And I’ve the
keenest date for April Frolrc. And
he’s a senior!” And unsuspectingly
and innocently, she’s still planning
on her April Frolic date. Here’s to
enlighten her.
Here’s another from last year.
“Hello, Marjie. What are you
planning tonightt” I am going to
tho April Frolic,” said Marjie.
“Let’s go, then,” said he, who
came down last year for Phi Beta
Kappa installation.
Yce, there’s a lot of dating done
for the Frolic.
Then there’s that regiment of
men who have seen the event, and
those who expect to see it. We are,
of course, in on the story of only
those who have attended the event.
We can’t tell on those who are
planning to se« tho stunt show this
year.
Campus history has it that once,
and not so long ago, a band of the
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Night Blaze
Burns House
Sigma Nu Has Loss to
Building and Effects
Estimated at $4,00Q
Fire Starts at 9:40
•■'J >,V. . llttiug
on the third floor, damaged the Sig
ma Nu houso at Elevonth and Pearl
streets. An estimate placed last night
by members of the fire department
and fraternity men indicated betweep
$2,000 and. $3,000 loss to the build
ing and about $1,200 loss to the per
sonal belongings of some of the men.
There was very little loss of furniture
and clothing on the first two floors.
Practically everything was covered by
insurance.
The fire was discovered by Howard
Osvold and Richard Haden, members
of the fraternity, as they were return
ing from a show. Seeing a blaze lick
ing the shingles of the roof near the
chimney, they rushed inside; Haden
calling the fire department, while Os
vold and the two or three other men
in the house rushed up to fight the
flames They were able to accomplish
very little, however, because of the
dense smoke filling the place. Harold
Goedecke and two other members of
the fraternity succeeded in salvag
ing some of the property on the third
floor in spite of the smoke.
Volunteers Give Aid
When the fire department arrived
volunteers helped rush the heavy hose!
up the stairs. By this time, the
smoke was so bad in one room that
the firemen were forced to chop a hole
through the wall for the nozzel of the
hose. The deluge of water soon
drenched the blaze .and the firemen
wore able to concentrate on the
flames which were gaining good head
way on the roof.
While the firemen were fighting to
stop the spread of flames on the third
floor and roof, volunteers were strip
pin the first and second floors. Prac
tically all of tho furniture and cloth
ing was safely removed, and members
of the house expressed themselves as
extremely pleased at the care these
volunteers exercised in carrying out
the property. Much of the usual
housewrecking was dispensed with.
House Not Owned
Sigma Nu had sold its homo last
spring, so will not be forced to suffer
the loss to tho houso. Tlioir new
property on Eloventh between Alder
and Hilyard is not yet ready for oc
cupancy, but some of the men hope
i to move into tho upper story boforo
long. There were about 30 living in
tho honso on Pearl street. Thp fra
ternity was first established in the
house that burned about 1900. ^
| Several of tho students who suf
fered losses expressed tho hope that
they would not have the same experi
ence as members of tho Alpha Tan
Omega havo had. The A. T. O. house
has burned twice in the last four
years.
| Tho members of the fraternity have
found temporary homes at other
houses; and those whose personal be
longings were destroyed, are being
[supplied for the time being.
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Aggies Choose
Football Coach
P. J. Schissler, coach at Lom
bard college, GaloBberg, Illinois,
and a graduate of the University
of Nebraska, the alma mater of B.
[B. Rutherford, retiring coach, was
elected football coach at O. A. C.
! by the board of control, according
to an announcement made by its
chairman, Dr. U. G. Dubach, yester
day.
I Schissler was freshman coach at
j Nebraska for three years and for
the past three seasons has > had
I charge of the football teams of
I Lombaril college. Last season the
Lombard team held Notre Dame to
;a 14-0 score and Schissler won the
praise of Knute Rockne, of Notre
' Dame, for his skillful handling of
the team. ...
Numerous other coaches well
known in the football world have
spoken of the new O. A. G roach
as a competent football man.