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 (Continued on Page Two.' 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. (Continued on page three) 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 (Continued on page three) 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 <Continued on page three) 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 (Continued on page three) 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 (Continued on page four.) 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” ♦ # ♦ ♦ •£ 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 (Continued on page three) 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. ! - 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.