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VOLUME XXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1924 NUMBER 140 DELTA OMEGA HEADS HOUSES Grades for Winter Term' Given Out by Registrar; New System Is in Use WOMEN’S HOUSES LEAD Friendly Hall Highest of Men’s Group, Holding Twelfth Place on List Delta Omega wins first honors m grades for the winter term under the new system of compiling house averages. Kappa Alpha Theta is m second place and Alpha Delta Pi « third. The ratings of these tree houses are respectively 47.80, 47.10, 46 42. The first 11 on the list are women’s houses. Friendly hall is the highest of the men’s organiza tions, Psi Kappa, second, and PM Sigma Pij third. , Method Is NefW Dor the first time, the house ratings in grades have been com piled under the new system in stalled the. latter part of the winter term In order to arrive at the rat ing, the grading system is reversed from the old method, so that an hour of I counts 5 points, an hour of II counts 4 points, an hour oi III counts 3, an hour of IV counts 2, and an hour of V counts 1 point. In other words, the number of points given to a credit-hour is a - ways equal to six minus the grade. No account, however, is taken ot hours not passed, whether with drawns, ineompletes, or failures. In the column devoted to the. average grade of hours passed, this would not necessarily be the aver age that an organization would make under the old system, for this new system of rating does not take into account the hours of fai - ure that a house may have. Iu the averages for fall term, Kappa Alpha Theta headed the list, with Delta Omega second. Grades Are Announced Following is a complete list of houses and their grading. Av. Grade Eating Delta Omega .,. 2.675 47.80 Kappa Alpha Theta - 2.871 47.10 Alpha Delta Pi . 2.669 46.42 Kappa Kappa Gamma 2.756 Alpha Chi Omega . 2.8-0 Gamma Phi Beta . 3.038 Tau Nu . 2.9o6 Delta Delta Delta -. 2.930 Alpha Xi Delta .-- 2-9J0 Hendricks .. 3.080 Friendly .-. 3-115 Susan Campbell . 3.048 Pi Beta Phi . 3.040 Alpha Omicron Pi . 2.pia Delta Gamma . 3.102 Phi Sigma Pi . 3-153 Chi Omega . 3.190 Thacher Cottage . 3.2bU Delta Zeta . 3-1"' Phi Delta Theta . 3.301 Sigma Nu . ■ Bachelordon .-. 3.32f Phi Kappa Psi .- 3-175 Sigma Beta Phi . 3.310 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 3.204 Alpha Tau Omega . 3.207 Sigma Chi . 3.403 Kappa Sigma . 3.484 Delta Tau Delta . 3.451 Beta Theta Pi — -1— Kappa Delta Phi . 3.467 Alpha Beta Chi . 3.575 Chi Psi . 3-5’3 Kappa Omicron - 3.501 Sigma Pi Tau .3-1°° Phi Gamma Delta . 3.478 45.64 45.43 44.30 44.19 43.85 43.21 43.03 42.96 42.69 42.12 41.77 41.55 41.50 41.46 41.31 39.22 38.34 3W6 37.96 37.55 37.30 36.86 34.33 34.21 33.95 33.93 33.44 32.62 32.51 31.98 31.75 31.02 30.84 30.79 28.11 SENIOR CLASS PLAY WILL NOT BE GIVEN Owing to the fact that not •enough interest was shown -by the senior class, the customary senior play has been called off, announced Ted Baker, manager The committee of Mask and Bus kin directing the play extended the tryouts to arouse more interest but only 12 people turned out for a east of sixteen. It was found im possible to pick the cast from this number. The play calls for eight men, and only seven men were present at tryouts. “It Pays to Advertise” was the play which had been chosen to be given. -It is a clever farce of mod em American business life. Campus Men Asked to Y. W. Bungalow for Afternoon Tea “Men of the campus: you are cordially and especially invited to attend the University Young Women’s Christian association’s annual spring tea-Toom at the bungalow from 1:30 to 6 o’clock today.” And now for the menu. There will be home-made pies and cakes made by the best cooks of the town, who are famed for their pastries. Pies of all varieties will be served, both plain and a la mode. Hot fudge sundaes, and coffee will also be served. Spring blossoms are to be at tractively decked around the room. The money raised from the sale of the food is to go into the Seabeck fund, which is used each year to send delegates to the an nual Y. W. C. A. summer camp at Seabeck, Washington. All University students, facul ty members, and town people are invited to come. STUDENTS «IAY HEAD MEIKLEJQHN AT DEED Oregon Invited to Attend Weekend Lectures An opportunity has been offered to all. students who desire to hear Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn to go to a meeting at Beed college in Port land. Many students heard him dur ing his recent # visit to the campus and became enthusiastic. The Beed meeting will last from Friday afternoon of this week through Friday night and Saturday. All those who desire to go should make arrangements through the A. S. U. O. office as a letter will be sent Wednesday morning, making reserva tions. Beed college will provide room and board for all visitors to the meeting. The session will take the form of personal conferences with Meiklejohn. Discussion groups will be formed and educational topics will be discussed. Bothwell of Beed college sent a long distance call to the A. S. U. O. office yesterday, asking that all res ervations be made at onee. Since the meeting is being held on the week end it is expected that a number of University students will attend. KOREAN TO ADDRESS COSMOPOLITAN CLUB Duck Soo Chang, a Korean stu dent in journalism, and formerly the editor of Dong, a daily, of Seoul, will be the principal speaker at the meeting of the Cosmopolitan club, to be held in the Y. W. C. A. bungalow this evening at 7:30. Mr. Chang will speak on Japanese uni versities, a subject of which he knows a great deal, as he has studied in Japan for many years. He is a graduate of Waseda univer sity of Tokio. Education majors interested in the subject are welcome to attend the meeting and hear Mr. Chang. In addition to this talk, two reels of motion pictures showing a for eign land wyi be shown. The mat ter of entertaining the visiting Meiji baseball team,. which plays the varsity next Saturday, will be finally decided. HOUSES MUST NAME FLOUTS Time Limit on Entry Titles in Canoe Fete Is Set for Friday of This Week LIGHTING IS ELABORATE Center of Bleachers to be Reserved Seat Section; Special Music Planned All houses entering floats in the canoe fete must turn in the name of the float to Rupert’ Bullivant by Friday of this week, April 25. Ed Tapfer, Junior Week-end chairman, states that this list must be com plete by Friday in order to make certain the program order. There will be extra bleachers for the fete, and seats will be sold at a flat rate of 25 cents each. There will be a block of reserved seats in the center for which the price is to be 50 cents. The ticket sale is to be handled by Hesden Metcalf. Those desiring reserved seats should make an early application to him in order to secure places. An in vitation will be issued to the townspeople to attend the canoe fete. Spotlights Are Secured Three theater spotlights have been secured for the purpose of lighting the canoes. This will insure a standard lighting system. These lights will be adequate to show off the varied colors of the floats to best advantage, and will concen trate all the light on the float it self. The race will be illuminated under water by green and yellow lights. Thus the scene will present a truly holiday atmosphere, the committee believes. “Try to make your floats simple but effective,” is Ed Tapfer’s ad vice to the houses. “Don’t try to crowd too much into your picture. The best floats are those which are not too elaborate and are appro priate to the scene. Dean Permits Dances The committee is working at present to secure musical numbers to be given before the floats ap pear and at intervals during the fete. Last year the men’s glee club quartet gave several numbers be fore the fete began. This year’s plans have been made to take up the time after the canoe fete. If any house desires to give a house dance or stage a street dance after the fete, with its part ner house in the affair or with any other house, it may do so. Dean Virginia Judy Esterly has given her permission for the staging of such dances. TICKETS TO BE SOLD AT HOUSES TONIGHT Co-eds attention! Have you sa^d up 85 cents to buy your ticket to the leap year dance? All the women ’s houses will be vis ited during dinner tonight by mem bers of the committee, who will sell the tickets. The dance is May 2, anl is given by the Women’s league at the Woman’s building. The price in cludes the girl and her partner, and proceeds go to the Women’s league social treasury. Girls are urged to get their dates as soon as possible. Rebec, Home from Tour, Tells of Graduate Exchange Idea Comparisons that reflect favorably for the University of Oregon gradu ate school were made by Dr. George Kebec, dean of the graduate school, 'following his return from a tour that included the greater part of the uni versities and colleges on the - Pacific coast. Dr. Rebec has been absent since the beginning of the spring term, and has traveled from Moscow, Idaho, to Berkeley, California. While Dr. Rebec’s trip was primar ily for the purpose of interesting oth er institutions and their students in the University of Oregon’s higher fields of research and learning, he availed himself of the opportunity of studying and analyzing other gradu ate schools and systems. In only one place, the University of California, did Dr. Rebec find con ditions which might suggest chances of change or betterment in the Ore gon school. For the greater part, graduate schools and departments are in the organization or projective stage. As a forerunner of his visit to oth er institutions, Dr. Rebec visited the University of Oregon school of medi cine in Portland where graduate work is developing rapidly. Dr. Rebec re ports that while at this branch of the University, he sensed a desire, both on the part of the faculty and the students, for a closer relationship be tween the school of medicine and the [University proper. The old spirit of aloofness aiyl the desire for isolation is becoming or has become a thing cf the past, be thinks. Institutions visited by the head of (Continued on page four) Shooting of Dog Subject of Suit by Bruce Curry Action to Be Brought Against Dickey Contending that Marion E. Dickey besmeared shaving soap lather on his dog so that way farers would think it afflicted with hydrophobia and shoot it— which he declares they did on Friday, April 11, Bruce Curry is bringing suit against Dickey to night at 7 o’clock in the county court house. He asks for the value of his deceased pet. This trial is third of the an nual series of moot trials given by third year law students. Dur ing the rest of the term a trial will be given each Tuesday night. The last four trials , will deal with criminal cases. Featuring in tonight’s cnse, Virl Bennehoff is acting as plaintiff attorney, and Clarence Potts as defendant at torney. GUILD HALL PLAY HAS PICTURESQUE SCENERY Tragedy Shows Tinsel and Sham of Circus Life The forthcoming production of Leonid Andreyev’s “He Who Gets Slapped” by the University com pany at Guild hall, Thursday night and Friday matinee and eve ning, will be interesting not only from the point of view of the in terest of the play itself, but also on account of the picturesque set ting. A tragedy of circus life, a drama symbolic, romantic, highly colored is this Eussian play. The tinselled vulgarity of the eircufi forms a background for the interplay of greed and passion, of the odd as semblage of the circus merry makers. Darrell Larsen as “He,” is sup ported by a large cast. Consuelo, the equestrienne tango queen and the lady of his affections, will be played by Wenona Dyer. Papa Briquet, manager of the circus, will be portrayed by Walter Malcolm. Kate Pinneo will play the passion ate lion tamer, wife"'of Briquet. Dave Swanson is cast for Count Mancini, evil father of Consuelo. Bezano, young and handsome bare back rider and Consuelo’s partner will be played by Terva Hubbard. Baron Reguard, a wealthy, prof ligate old suitor to Consuelo, will be played by Paul Krausse. Clif ford Zehrung will portray Jackson, a clown. The rest of the cast is as follows: A Genllemjan, Virgil Mulkey; Tillie and Polly, musical clowns, Boyd Homewood and Henry Sheldon; Thomas, an acrobat, Lexro Prillaman; Angelica, Florence Cran dall; an actress, Helen Mayer; a tumbler, Laird McCormick. The box office will open tomor row at 9 a. m. for the seat sale. Tickets will be on sale at 50 and 75 cents. SECRETARY, ’94, TELLS EARLY EXPERIENCE The University Young Women’s Christian association, which today numbers between 600 and 700 in mem bership, 30 years ago bad so few members that any campus woman holding office in the group had a chance to serve in every position be fore graduation. ThuB does Emma Wold, ’94, tell of the early associa tion in a recent letter to Miss Flor ence Magowan, secretary of the as sociation. On April 13, 14, 15, 1894, almost thirty years ago to a date from this year’s state conference held in Sa lem, April 11, 12 and 13, 1924, the University was represented by three delegates at the state meet. They were Wilda Hanna Beatie, ’95, Anna Roberts Stephenson, ’96, and Emma jWold, ’94. Miss Wold said it was she who had to respond to a toast at the annual I banquet. Her subject was “Our Fu ture Husbands.” She enclosed the conference badge for that year. It is a white silk ribbon with the name of the convention, the date, and place printed on in gold lettering. “It was a duty as well as a privilege to work in the Y. W. Or A. then,’1 Miss Wold says. Miss Wold is liv ing in Portland. Big Meeting Tonight to Start UnionJDrive Tonight is the night of nil nights. Tonight the first and only official Student Union campaign of the Uni versity of Oregon will be launched, when the hosts gather at a magnifi cient banquet to discuss the “kick I off” of Wednesday morning. The full committees of workers who are to comb the campus in their hunts for contributors, to the fund will all sit at the board at the Woman’s building at 6 o’clock sharp. The primary object of the meeting is to acquaint each and every solicitor with all the details of the drive. In structions will be distributed to them. All questions in their minds will be answered, and all the good arguments for Student Union will be taught them by those who have been studying them for the past months. More than 300 students will gather for the meeting to hear how the mighty offensive will take place. All members of soliciting teams, and all team captains, class chairmen, and special committee members connected in any official capacity with the drive are expected to be present at this first banquet night. It is the urge of the executive committee that each ; worker be there without fail, in order i that no ono will lose the benefit of all the matters which will be talked over at this time. The banquet is to start promptly and business will be dealt with dur ing the meal in order- that all busi ness may be despatched without de lay and the meeting brought to a close as soon as possible. The classes and teams will be | grouped together at the banquet in the order of their teams and team ! leaders. Each captain will sit at [ the head of his team. Thus an ac i counting of all present will be made. This will be. the final gathering of the entire soliciting organization before the opening of the drive to morrow morning. * Tomorrow the en tire student body will come together in assembly at the Woman’s building. There will be talks to tell the stu dents exactly what this is all about. There will be information- telling what the schedule of the events for the week is, and there will be made plain just what is expected of each and everyone of Oregon’s students in participation in this drive. -The assembly will be held at 11 o’clock. And the Wednesday eleven o’clock classes will bo moved over to Thursday. Every student is expected to come to assembly tomorrow. WOMEN’S BASEBALL SCHEDULE IS DRAWN The schedule for the week in wo | men’s house baseball has been drawn I and is as follows : Tuesday—League II: Susan Camp bell II vs. Alpha Chi Omega; League I: Alpha Xi Delta vs. Sigma Beta Phi. Wednesday — League III: Alpha Delta Pi vs. Kappa Alpha Theta; League IV: Kappa Kappa Gamma vs. Delta Zeta. Thursday — League I: Thatcher Cottage vs. Hendricks I; League II: Pi Beta Phi vs. Alpha Chi Omega. Friday—League 211: Susan Camp bell I vs. Gamma Phi Beta; League TV: Hendricks II vs. Kappa Kappa Gamma. The head of baseball, Mary Cler in, urges that all teams play off their games on scheduled time in order to avoid confusion. SOPHOMORES TO PLAN PICNIC AT MEETING A meeting of the sophomore class (Will be held at 5 o’clock this after inoon in Villard hall for the purpose of discussing a number of ques tions concerning the class. | Plans for a class picnic are being made apd tbs Vine and place are to be decided. Jtt Fraze/r is in charge of the affair. Ji/cmf Loake, who is chairman of the soptiu/rijfl men in the Student Union drive, will discuss the coming drive, and a class secretary will be elected to fill the place formerly held by Freda Runes, wTio has withdrawn from school. SENIOR MEN TO MEET IN VILLARD HALL TODAY NOON I All senior men are urged to meet ,in Villard hall at 12:45 today. The I senior cops will parade just before , assembly time on Wednesday. It is i important that the men should turn | out, as instructions for the meet ing will be given at this time. FEW HIGH POINTS ABOUT STUDENT UNION DRIVE 1. Tho grand quota to bo raised is $200,000. 2. The drive starts tomorrow morning, and lasts until midnight Saturday. 3. The least expected' of each student is that he will donate $10 a year for 10 years; BUT 4. No one is expected to make an immediate payment of money, No cash will be collectel in con nection with this drive. Pledges are what is to bo asked. 5. Tho headquarters of tho drive is the building erected on the northeast corner of Kincaid field. The telephone number of Student Union headquarters is “1834.” 6. A special Student Union edi tion of the Emerald will be issued tomorrow morning. These papers I null not be delivered to houses. I They will be distributed on the ! campus by Oregon Knights. 7. Oregon Knights who distri | bute Emeralds must get in touch with Charles Norton immediately. Five Oregon Knights are to be at Friendly hall at 5:30 this after noon for Mrs. Davis. 8. Banquet for all Student Un ion drive workers at Woman’s building at 6 o’clock sharp. CHANGES ARE MADE IN EMERALD STAFF Margaret Morrison to be New Sunday Editor Margaret Morrison, who has been a member of the staff of daily edi tors of the Emerald, and has regu larly edited tho Sunday edition, has been appointed Sunday editor by Ar thur Rudd, editor, after a conference with the editorial board. The appointment is made in con sideration of the - development of the Sunday paper this year, which has been due largely to Miss Morrison’s efforts. When first attempted ono year ago, the idea was entirely now among colleges on the Pacific coast, and has been a college paper experi ment of considerable interest. This will in no way effect the ed itorials or policy of the Sunday Em erald, which will be handled by the daily, as heretofor. Ed Miller will be day editor of the Saturday issue, taking the place of Leon Byrne, who is now doing part time correspondence work for a Port land paper. Byrne will continue to write, however, and will be on the upper news staff. Frances Sanford, who has been on the news staff for two years, has been promoted to tho upper staff. Miss Sanford has been working on foren sic and business administration beats. Sol Abramson is placed on the news staff. George Belknap, a member of the i staff, has resigned his position as night editor on the Sunday issue. OREGANA PROGRESSING SLOWLY, SAYS EDITOR Lyle Janz, editor of the feature section of the Oregana, is expected to return today from Oregon City where he has been reading the proof and supervising the makeup of his section for the past two days. Work on the year book is progress ing slowly, according to Freda Good rich, editor-in-chiof. Part of the ma terial is being bound at present and the rest is being printed. Tho book will be out about the middle of May. A few subscriptions have been com ing in lately and any others will be accepted until the end of this week. PERSONAL HYGIENE CLASS TO HEAR DR. E. S. CONKLIN All divisions of the personal hy giene classes for women will meet at 1:15 o’clock today in Villard hall. Dr. E. S. Conklin of the psy chology department is to lecture. Next Tuesday all divisions will meet again at 1:15 to hear Dr B. W. De Busk of the school of education lecture. After next Tuesday the various divisions will meet on their regular days with Dr. John Bovard of the school of physical education as the lecturer. OPENING GAME IS WEH Whitman Ball Team Touted to Win from All Records in Pre-season Conflicts NEW FIELD TO BE USED Oregon Lacks Experience of Early Contests, But Has Fast Veteran Crew The varsity baseball squad ia get tijig in its last licks before the open ing of the conference season. To morrow Bill Reinhart will send his tossers against tho strbngly-tonted nine from Whitman college, in the first collegiate game of the season. The initial tussle for the Oregon tossers will also be the first battle to bo staged on the new University baseball diamond near Hayward field. The field is practically completed and will be used for the game if the ground can bo rolled and hnrdoned a littlo more. Tho squad started their practice thcro last night but the play ers found tho ground too spongy and vacated it for the old diamond near C emetery Ridge. The new field will be worked on today and all possible means taken to get it in shape for the gamo tomorrow. > Seven Veterans Left Tomorrow’s contest finds Oregon sadly outpointed as far as dope is concerned. With no pre-soason games behind them except a nine-inning bur lesque with the alumni and a couple of tilts with tho fresh, Reinhart's proteges are far from being in the best of shapo to battle the experienced Missionaries. The only veterans on the squad are Wright and Sorsby, outfielders; Latham and Boss, in fielders; Cook, catcher, and Brooks and Ringle, pitchers. The rest of the nine will be composed of former freshmen tossers and new men. However, the showing made in the game with tho freshmen last Satur ilay may promise something besides a gloomy outlook, Tim Sausser in the box showed moro control and better delivery than any previous time during the practico season and tho team behind him performed in a fashion that gives promise of a nine that will scrap, at least. Wright, Sorsby, and Ferrel in tho outer gardens gave most satis factory accounts of themselves as far as fielding is concerned. Likewise they managed to nick the frosh twirl! ers tor several hits. Infielders Are Fast I" the infield Hunk Latham hand led tho first base position in fine style, while Captain Jimmy Boss at second, Bill Bittner at short, and Hobson at the hot corner all did cred itable work, considering the lack of practice. This quartet will doubtless start tho game tomorrow, although Sam Cook may take a turn at the first base job during the melee since Latham may be used either at first, third base or on the mound. The catching trio of Orr, Blisa and Cook have all been showing up well in practice and it is hard to say which one will be used the most. Thus far Sausser and Brooks seem to be showing up the best among the hurl ers and it is likely that one of them will open tho season. Hard Game Expected Nearly everyone who got into tho games with the frosh hit the yearling pitchers hard. Just how they will perform against the Whitman fling ers is problematical. That the Mis sionaries have a formidable team is evidenced from the fact that they won eight out of a total of nine pre-season games. Last Thursday and Friday they held the strong Washington team to close scores in two games, although they lost them both. The varsity will have to play good base ball to beat them. ---. Y. W. BUSINESS MEETING IS POSTPONED FOB WEEK The usual weekly business meet ing of tho University Y. W. C. A. cabinet and council group will not be hold today. Florence Buck, president of the association, an nounced yesterday. The meeting haa been postponed because of the an nual spring tea-room of the Y. W. C. A., which is being held today and because so many members of the group will be active with tha Student Union drive.