Oregon daily emerald., April 13, 1924, Image 1

Emerald
VOLUME XXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1924
NUMBER 133
The
Bystander
A Problem
of Great
Campus
Over-Organization
By C. N. B.
Recently the senior class staged
a “revival.” They felt the neces
sity for such a revival.
“An enterprising journalist” re
cently discovered an ambitious stu
dent official in . “diggings” at
Springfield. He wanted to study.
Very quietly, Dean Dyment re
cently questioned the efficiency of
a campus boasting over one hun
dred and twenty-five organizations.
He knows the much-bandied “cam
pus weariness.”
I think distinctly, affairs have
come to pass on this University
campus where no man “is captain
'V' of his soul,” as the glee club so
cheerfully sings. Perhaps ten per
cent of the student body are mas
tered by the one hundred and
twenty-five organization*, in the
capacities of secretary, president,
chairman, etc, etc.
Ninety per cent, perhaps, are
“out in the cold.” Many reformers
in this locale of student affairs
cry that’the burden must be shared.
I ask: “Why must there be the
burden?”
Let all except social fraternities
go 'by the board! These will serve
as rallying places. Oregon clubs,
etc., as -usual, also.
Build a student union building—
pronto!
Given living organizations and a
student union — then let a man
stand on his own feet. Let his
social fraternity be regarded as his
family home—the place where he
meets guests as a host at dancing
parties.
At the club rooms of the student
union—around the fireplaces; in the
halls of his own school of law, medi
cine, journalism, or what-not, let
him find his own level and his own
companions.
The number of students who play
tennis and handball has tripled on
the campus since the installation of
courts for those sports. The num
ber of interested and up-to-date
readers on the campus has increased
largely, since the placing of “spe
cial interest” and rent collections
in the library.
Sport fans on this campus who
know say that, granted an almost
unanimously enthusiastically sport
ing student body, varsity teams
will take care of themselves. There
will be plenty of makeri at. In
other words, abolition of the re
quired institution of twenty or
, more teams every year for re
quired competition, and the substi
tution of a growing body of volun
tarily interested players of differ
ent “hobby” sports will result to
the good.
Such a System of individual
sports allows for the formation of
y impromptu teams for as long a
period of time as the spirit of in
terest remains in them. When in
terest fails the team dissolves.
What have we here at Oregon?
(Given an organization which got its
charter and started out with a zip
and a bang—descend two student
generations, and then look!
Dry bones—dry bones of the
( once healthy ancestor! A group of
twelve women or men, we will say,
with a president, a vice-president, a
secretary and maybe a treasurer!
Prodded, stimulated interest—meet
ings, pins—hours spent perhaps in
correspondence with the national
officers!
* • •
As the University grows larger,
the issue faces us more clearly. Are
we going to continue to struggle
along with the old system of bur
dens for ten per cent, with the rest
left “out?” Why carry dry bones
and empty shells with us?
• • •
Individualism will grow on this
campus and make the name of “Ore
gon” great—if every student on
campus who is in “activities” will
blue-pencil his programme, using
the test question: “Am I getting
as much out of this particular acti
W vity as I am putting into it?”
No’ that is not a selfish attitude!
Household Arts Building
Women’s Quadrangle
r
Shown in the above cut is a portion
of the Household Arts building, which
is to.be an integral part of the pro
posed women’s quadrangle. This
building, housing all domestic science
and household arts departments, will
be located adjacent to and south of
the administration building. It will
face the Woman’s building, the cen
ter entrances of the two structures
being directly in line with one an
other.
In general appearance, the building
will closely resemble the present mem
bers of the. women’s group—Susan
Campbell hall, Hendricks hall, and the
Woman’s building. A clock to be
placed in the tower of the building
will be a prominent feature. This
building, which will be of two stories
in height and somewhat longer than
the administration building, will be
connected on the west to the pro
posed dormitories by means of an ar
cade. Through this arcade will be
seen an attractive view of the quad
rangle.
Dean E. F. Lawrence, of the school
of architecture, who is in charge of
laying out the Greater University,
designed this as well as the other pro
posed buildings.
Weakness Seen
in Track Meet
Team Needs Distance
Men, Says Coach
The feature race of yesterday’s
track meet on Hayward field was the
880; the others were good but lacked
the fighting finish that characterized
the struggle between McCujie and
Gerkey. MeCune led for about 875
yards; but Gerkey overtook him in
the last five yards and crossed the
line winner. Tuck also hurled the
javelin about 195 feet, just to fin
ish off a successful afternoon.
“ This meet certainly proved that
our greatest weakness is in the dis
tance races,” was Bill’s comment on
the showing of the team. He also
said: “I suppose you noticed that
certain of our prominent athletes were
conspicuous by their absence.”
Summary of running events: High
hurdles: Ivelsey, Hall, Bosenburg and
Carruthers. The 880: Gerkey, Mc
Cune, Mauney and Humphrey. Mile:
Keating, Conley, Barnes and Tetz.
440: Bisley, Eosebraugh, Wilbur and
Kinney. The 100 was run in two
heats, the first: Pallay, Price and
Mc.Auliffe; the second, Snyder, Bur
kitt and Cash. The finals: Sny
der, Burkitt and Price.
Summary of the field events: Shot
put: Tuck, Johnston, Stockwell and
Beatty; discus: Tuck, Stockwell,
Johnston and Winterer. Javelin:
Tuck, Bosenburg, Beatty and Simon
ton. Pole vault: Spearow, Eosen
burg, Kelsey and Canterbury.
VESPERS ADDRESS TOPIC
IS “ATM OF LIFE”
In response to the request of a
group of students, Dr. Swartz has
consented to u^e as the topic of his
vespers address this afternoon, “The
Aim of Life.” This is a change
from the topic previously an
nounced. The vesper service will
be held at 4:30 in the Miethodist
church. Dr. Swartz is president of
the Pacific School of Beligion and
has been visiting the campus the
past few days, giving various ad
dresses and holding conferences
with many students.
Secretaries to
Meet Monday
Tomorrow morning at 8:30, cham
ber of commerce representatives
from all parts of the state will as
semble for registration in the
fourth annual short course for com
mercial club secretaries, which
will be held on the campus this
week und,er the auspicfes of the
state association of commercial
secretaries and the school of busi
ness administration of the Univer
sity. The first address will be
?iven by A. L. Lomax on “Funda
mentals of Plant Location,” at 9
i ’clock.
Sessions will continue each day
from 9 o ’clock in the morning to
1:45 in the afternoon. Dinner is
scheduled for 6:15, while an around
;he fire discussion, informal party
ind banquet are some of the diver
sions planned for the evening. All
meetings, luncheons and dinners,
unless otherwise specified on the
program, will be held at the Col
ege Side Inn. The secretaries will
oe housed in a series of connected
•ooms at the Osburn hotel.
This course has for its purpose
:he giving of instruction in prob
ems of state development and tech
lique of organization work. Some
dea of the effectiveness and prac
;icability of the instruction may be
gained from the fact that every
secretary who attended the first j
■ourse four years ago and who has 1
•emained in chamber of commerce!
work, also attended the second and
third coursed and expects to be
present again this year.
The program this year is divided
nto the following parts: (1) a
series of educational courses on j
sconomics, business cycles, sales
manship, public speaking; (2) all j
chases of chamber of commerce,
echnique; (3) assembly, forum,
ind fireside discussion; (4) dis
cussion of the program of the
date chamber and the development j
■ommittee of the Portland cham
jer; (5) recreational features. The
)fficial publication, the “I” Open
!r, edited by William Pope Allen,
’21, secretary of the Hood Eiver
(Continued on page four)
Annual
^Vill Be Given
A Line o’ Verse
Readers of the Chicago Tribune
will doubtless recall the famous
colyumist,” Bert Leston Taylor,
known to his readers as B. L. T.,
who is known as the first writer of
note to edit a column. Every
spring in the many years which
his colyum was published, B. L. T.
printed this bit of verse from “A
Shropshire Lad,” by A. E. Housman.
“A perfect poem,” was his ex
planation of it. With this fore
word, the Sunday Emerald reprints
the poem, hoping that readers of
the poetry column will receive as
much inspiration from it as did
B. L. T.
Lovliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland
ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my three-score years and
ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a
score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And syiee to look at things in
bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow,
SONNET
Like to a little errant child that
strays
Down summer roads, coaxed on by
nodding flowersj
Trailing the butterflies’ erratic
ways,
And filling up the gay flask of
the hours
With bird calls and the droning
hum of bees,
The gold of field-flowers, and the
gleam of trees
That beckon from near hill tops:
so I pass
And fill my heart with little glit
tering joys.
It is enough to be alive, to glass
Life’s loveliness. So I make holiday
And thank the jocund gods thal
will the play,
And throw me, heart and soul, tc
these employs.
—Yet shall I gladly leave my
merry toys
When Mother Sorrow calls, nor care
to stay. —C. L. F.
QUERY
If you had a pen of pine-needles
And a bit of the night for ink,
With a snn-beam for a blotter,
Could- you write a pine-cone, do
you think ? —C. L. F.
SPRING SONG
Across the hills the slim moon
smiles,
The little breezes run to greet her.
She peers into the woodland aisles,
As if a lover were to meet her.
“Make haste!” the clamoring frogs
are shrill;
A laggard lad they are reviling.
The slim moon smiles across the
hill—
Is it at me she’s smiling!
—C. L. F.
Edmund Conklin, Puritan
and Psychologist
By Leon Byrne
He stands in front of Ins class,
waving his arms, grimacing, shouting
and whispering; now he leans against
the table behind him, letting his voice
sink to a murmur, then—boom!—his
voice resounds, one arm flies up, a
foot is extended, and while the class
jumps as one person, he pushes the
table from his path and has reached
the blackboard and scribbled there
on strange hieroglyphics before the
quickest witted of his audience has
had time to close his gaping mouth.
A master showman, this professor
of psychology, for his pupils, never
once yawn, or grow restless, or con
template matters foreign to the class
room, so perfectly does he psycholo
gize. Perhaps some of them mutter
as they leave the class, “Queer man,”
but he does not mind. He merely
grins inwardly—and outwardly, too—
for he is satisfied; he has done his
work and he knows it.
I say he grins. Kindly as his dis
position may be, one could hardly
say that he smiles. His features were
not made for smiling. He is doomed
eternally to grinning, and grin he
does—eternally.
How interesting are first impres
sions, if remembered, when com
pared to later conceptions. I remem
ber distinctly my first impression of
Dr. Edmund S. Conklin. He came
around the corner of Villard hall,
walking briskly, standing exceedingly
'erect. Two things about his ap
pearance impressed me. Tho man
has a long chin and, while not un
usual in the species, this exaggera
tion draws attention. But it was
another peculiarity which chiefly
caused me to neglect a common nice
ty and to openly stare at him. It
was his eyes.
I have known men: Max Garrett
of Washington, and Dean Erie Allen
of Oregon, whose eyes flashed intel
ligence or twinkled understanding.
This, however, was tho first time
I had met eyes which literally
glowed with intelligence. They
looked keen, alert, inquisitive, imagin
ative. They looked at me—not at my
boots or hat or books—it seemed as j
if they looked down inside me, ask- i
ing, “What manner of man is this?” I
His eyes still are the dominant |
feature of his image as it rises be
fore me now—tall and erect, angular
(Continued on page four.)
Tennis Players
Are Announced
Varsity and Freshman
Teams Chosen
The varsity and frosh tennis
ttams were picked by Coach Fahl
after the elimination tournament,
which ended Saturday. Meyer,
Kice, Crary, McBride, Slattery and
Harding have earned a placo on
the team, while Beatty, McKalson,
and Calef will fight it out for the
other berth on the squad. The men
were ranked according to the way
they finished in the tournament.
The frosh team is made up of
Mead, Adams, McIntosh and either
Westergren or Dorsey, who will at
tempt to land the other place on
the team. Mead and Adams showed
up well in the tournament and with
practice will be ready to swing Into
real competition.
The semi-finals and finals of the
varsity elimination tournament
were held Friday and Saturday.
The results of the matches are:
Rice won over McBride, 1-6, 6-4,
6-2. Crary beat Boyd in twu
straight sets, 7-5, 6-4. Harding de
feated Calef, 1-6, 8-6, 6-2, but later
lost to Crary, 6-2, 5-7, 4-6. Meyer
defeated Rice, 6-0, 3-6, 6-1.
Commencing Monday, the var
sity and frosh teams will be drilled
in fundamentals, and the fine
points of the game. After the pre
liminary practices, the frosh and
varsity teams will start playing
practice games.
The first meet is scheduled for
the varsity and frosh teams with
the Reed college and Irvington
club teams of Portland on May 3
and 4.
The Serenading Cavalier
******
His Modernized Prototype
By Pierette
The brakes screech as the truck
comes to a halt beside the curb.
The brotherhood shuffles off, after
which comes an interval of instru
ments being softly tuned.
Then!—Sweet tones fill the at
mosphere. The moaning sax, the
blaring trombone, the jazzing piano
unite into sonorous harmonies. The
soulful voice of the house tenor
wafts above to the sleeping porch,
where pressed closely against the ■
screen are scores of water-wave- !
combed heads peering through the
nocturnal mists upon the musicians
below. “What house is it? What ,
house is it?” the excited inquiry j
insistently passes from double
decker to double-decker.
The song ceases, followed by a;
volley of feminine claps, some;
husky, some muffled—as though the
clappers haven’t deserted the cozy j
warmness of the downy cot to be
in on the watchful waiting.
Each heart beats as the posses- j
sor knows she must surely be that
only girl, about whom the roman-,
tic voice so softly carols in adoring j
homage. Each would be willing to :
linger awhile with any man who i
could sing like that.
But, shades of serenaders! How
the gallant cavaliers must writhe
as they talk things over, above the
soft strumming of heavenly harps.
How poignant must bo the sorrow
when reminiscences of serenaders in
the good old days are recalled.
Think of Sir Austin of the Yellow
Arm Band, warbling sweet melo
dies in the moonlight to his lady
love, who wistfully stands on the
balcony — with trailing arbutus
twined in her long golden locks.
Timidly sV peeps over the helio
trope-cove, ed balustrade at the gal
lant beneath, so feelingly telling
her a la music, of his everlasting
love, augmented by the strains of a:
guitar, cleverly strummed by him- ;
self.
Were it only the present safety
(Continued on page three)
Passion Week
to Be Observed |
Meetings Announced
by Campus “Y”
The week in the Christian calen
dar preceding Easter is known as
Passion Week, or the week of suf
fering. Very generally, through
out the country, and, in fact, the
Christian world, the week is ob
served by the churchos with spe
cial meetings. The custom seems
to be growing in popularity.
In keeping with this custom,
meetings will be held on the cam
pus this week under the auspices
of tho United Christian Work. All
the meetings will be held in the
“Y” hut at 5 o’clock in the after
noons of Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. The Y. W.
C. A., as well] as the Y. M. C. A.,
will cooperate in these meetings.
They are for both men and women
and it is hoped that the student
body generally will respond to the
spiritual appeal of the great life
that, suffered for the good of all
mankind.
The following program has been
prepared for the four days:
Tuesday—This is known as tho
Day of Conflict in the last week of j
Christ’s life. The address will be i
by Rev. II. W. Davis on “The
Secret of the Helpful Life.”
Roy Bryson will sing.
Wednesday—The address will be
by Rev. E. V. Stivers on “Fellow-1
ship in Service.” The special music
for this service will be announced
later.
Thursday—This is the day cele
brated in memory of Christ’s last'
day with Ilis disciples. The ad
dress will be by Rev. Frederick G.
Jennings, and tho special music will
be a solo by Frank Jue of the
University.
Friday—The Day of Suffering.
Rev. Bruce Giffen will speak on
“Tho Crucifixion,” and John'
Siefert will sing. *
These meetings will begin
promptly at 5 o’clock and will last
for 45 minutes.
Women’s Rifle
Team isWinner
The women’s rifle team won their
second match of the year last week
when they defeated Denison univer-:
sity by a score of 920 to 819. The !
firing for the year was completed
Saturday. One other team, that of
the Riverside Polytechnic school
of Riverside, California, was de
feated during the course of matches
fired by the women this year.
The results of the match against
Oklahoma, fired by the men’s
team last week at the special re
quest of the Oklahoma institution,
have not yet been received. Cap
tain J. T. Murray states that the
results obtained by the men were
as good a usual, despite the fact!
that it was a re-organized team
which had no practice since the I
ilissolution of the team which had j
been firing steadily during the
vear.
Oregon Clan
to Act May 9
Date Set for Nation
Wide Gatherings of
University' Alumni
Rally Starts Drive
Meaning of “2-6-0”
Will Be Explained
“Camp Fire Night”
May 9 ig the date set for the
greatest University of Oregon din
ner ever held, when the alumni all
over the United States will gather
in their home towns to make final
plans for their part in the Univer
sity’s $5,000,000 gift campaign.
Scores of Oregon alumni dinners
will be held in the towns of this
state and dozens of others will 'be
held in other parts of the country
wherever five or more University
of Oregon alumni reside in one
community.
Slogan Is Selected
The occasion has been designated
as “Camp Fire Night” and it
marks the beginning of the inten
sive part of the alumni campaign.
After completing their plans at this
meeting, the alumni will begin the
effort by which they expect to
raise $1,000,000 during the month
of May. The slogan for the cele
bration of “Camp Fire Night” is
“Every Old Oregon man and
woman at an Old Oregon camp fire
on the evening of May 9.” It
is estimated that several thousand
of the alumni will bo seated at the
University dinners in their home
towns on that evening.
“Throughout the country, the
University of Oregon alumni are
rallying to the support of the gift
campaign,” said Robert Kuyken
dall, national chairman of the
alumni organization.
Alumni Start Drive
The alumni have a strong sense
of gratitude for the education that
the University gave them and they
intend to show their feeling of
responsibility to the University
and the state by their response in
this campaign in which they have
undertaken to raise $1,000,000, one
fifth of the total of the gift cam*
paign. All the alumni, whatever
their financial standing, feel that
they owe a debt of gratitude to
their University and they intend to
give liberally and to work loyally
so that this fund may be speedily
raised.
If it were possible, those in
charge of the campaign would bring
every alumnus back to Eugene for
the grand get-together dinner, at
which time final plans are to bo
made. Obviously, this in impos
sible, and it is to enable all Oregon
alumni to partake in this big send
off that these dinners havo been
arranged. By this means, alumni in
New York, Chicago, Boston, Kan
sas City and Seattle—all the larger
towns of the nation, wherever there
are five or more Oregon alumni,
will be made to feel that they are
a part of the nation-wide alumni
gathering that has its center in the
state of Oregon.
At this time, May 9, the mean
ing of the signal, “2-6-0,” which
lias been a part of all gift cam
paign publicity, will be made
known to the individual groups. As
vet, no one but those connected
with the campaign is aware of the
iignificance of these three rather
inobtrusive digits.
Alumni to Gather
One of a series of seven publicity
oooklots being sent to all alumni
is devoted to a call for attendance
>t these dinners. “You are in
cited,” the message runs, “nay,
'ommanded, to gather round the
Did Oregon camp fire in your home
;own on May 9, to meet the Old
Oregon folks, to enjoy an Old Ore
gon pow wow, to make final plans
’or the march over the Old Ore
gon Trail . . .”
The alumni have selected for
;heir share of the $5,000,000 cam
mign, to provide funds for the
■rection of the most noedod addi
ions to the campus—the library,
lie men’s gymnasium, athletic
'ields and the memorial court.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Kappa Omicron announces th®
hedging of Marian Hardee, of
frout Creek, Michigan.