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> The Sunday Emerald VOLUME XXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. SUNDAY. MAY 25, 1924 NUMBER 169 Gift Drives Nationwide Forty - three Colleges in Various States Receive Outside Aid Totals $70,000,000 Michigan University Given $25,000,000; U. of C. $13,000,000 s > By P. L. Campbell It is coming to be an accepted corollary of public education that state support does not necessarily mean the absence of private sup port—that institutions which are drawing revenues running into mil lions of dollars from the public may nevertheless seek additional funds from private sources. Indeed, state university executives are coming to the conclusion that legislative appropriation will al ways lag behind actual needs and that the only solution of the state university financial problem is the appeal for large additional support from those public spirited citizens who are interested in the progress of education. Several Million Given Last fall, when the University of Oregon began its Gift Campaign to raise $5,000,000 within five years for buildings and endowment, we were interested in discovering just how much the state universi ties of the country had received in gifts from private sources, so we made inquiries. The returns were astounding. They showed that the state universities and state col leges have received altogether a total of nearly seventy million dol lars. Forty-three institutions sup plied us with detailed information of the gifts and bequests they had received, the amounts varying from two thousand dollars given the new Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines for the pur chase of books, to the millions given Michigan and California. The complete table of these returns is as follows: Gifts to State Universities Alabama Polytechnic institute, $630,000; University of Alabama, $200,000; Alaska Agricultural Col lege and School of Mines $2000; University of Arizona, $170,000; University of California, $13,000, 000; Colorado School of Mines, $110,000; University of Colorado, $1,500,000; Connecticut Agricul tural college, $213,500; University of Delaware, $1,400,000; University of Florida, $350,000; Georgia School of Technology, $2,000,000; University of Georgia, $1,310,000; University of Illinois, $377,000; University of Indiana, $2,500,000; Iowa State college, $1,214,000; University of Iowa, $2,672,750; University of Kansas, $1,815,568; Kansas State college, $320,000; University of Kentucky, $40,000. University of Maryland, $440, 000; Michigan College of Mines, $75,000; University of Michigan, $25,000,000; University of Minne sota, $4,000,000; Mississippi Agri cultural and Mechanical college, $65,000; University of Mississippi, $65,000; University of Montana, $75,000- University of Nebraska, $625,000; University of Nevada, $392,670; University of New Hamp shire, $1,200,000; New Jersey (Rut gers) college, $1,083,684; University of North Carolina, $2,604,865; North Dakota Agricultural college, $23,400; University of North Da kota, $50,000; Ohio State univer sity, $1,684,000; South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical col lege, $110,000; Pensylvania State college,' $464,000; University of South Dakota, $41,500; University of Tennessee, $117,000; Utah Agri cultural college, $10,600; Washing ton State college, $10,000; Univer sity of Washington, $320,000; West Virginia university, $1,500,000; University of Wisconsin, $967,000. Total, $70,748,537. Alumni Show Interest We hear much about the large amounts that are being invested in stadiums. We are told that this indicates that alumni are interested in athletics only. Such is not the case. The alumni are interested in anything that concerns the welfare of their university. If they feel that their part can best be played bv providing a stadium, they will raise funds for that purpose, but (Continued on page three) Galli-Curci “at Home” to Oregon Student By O.'B. M. Room 204. Somewhere behind that door I would find Mme. Galli-Curci by whom I had been called. The hours since I had received the mes sage had been spent in anxiety and a mental rehearsal of the things I planned on saying. But I had for gotten even the first words and some one' was already answering the door. It was Homer Samuels, the concert and life accompanist of the world’s great singer, Galli-Curci. And stand ing a few steps behind him was his wife, the singer. They had said over the telephone that they were glad that I was coming, but from then until now I hadn’t believed it. They are both blessed with that rare facul ty of putting people at their ease, and it was no small task, in my case. Whether the time spent with Ivrme. Galli-Curci be long or short, a portion of that is always devoted to mention of their home, and especially the one in the Adirondacks. “The thing that I would most like, if T could not sing, would be to be a good home maker. Mme. Schuman-Heink is both,” she said. “We have spent the day most pleasantly. Although this is the o 'fourth time that we have been in Oregon this is the first time that we have seen the Columbia River high way. Tt is beautiful isn't it?” The question was directed to her hus band to whom she deferred everything during the hour that I spent with them, from judgments passed to the spelling the names of other arstists and publishers. To such as T it would seem that it would become tiresome to respond to the wishes of the thousands to whom she sings and smiles each week. When I asked her about it she said, “By no means! What can one ex pect to get over to the public if the singer isn !t thrilling with an emotion for them. You are not a great ar tist unless you are not more thrilled each tune you sing.” It had come to the place where I thought I might try out a journal ist’s ability by asking her age (she had been clever enough to learn mine) when she said, “When you are ready I will be glad to hear you sing.” She mentioned the unsur passed ability of the canaries, say continued on page four) --$> Oregon Loses Second Game Whitnjan Wins Close Contest, 4-3 WALLA WALLA, Wash., May 24, 1924.—Whitman college base ball team came out victorious in the second game of its two-game series with the University of Ore gon, winning 4 to 3 here this after noon. The first contest yesterday resulted in a 6 to 4 win by the Oregonians. This loss makes a total of two games won and four lost on the northern trip. The latter part of the contest was marred somewhat by a wind stormst.orm which hampered good playing on both sides. Williams, pitching for the visitors, played good ball, allowing but six hits during the contest. The Mission aries took the lead in the second inning with two runs and another added in the third. Oregon was unable to score after having made two runs until the eighth inning, when, with five hits and an error, a third run was put across the plate tieing the score at 3-3. Whitman came back in the last part of the inning, making two hits, getting a stolen base, which put over the winning tally. All through the contest the closeness of the score was featured. Neither side was at any distinct advantage at any stage. Both Hodgins and Williams, hurlers for both teams, did well on the mound. Only two errors were made by each team. Summary: R. H. E. Whitman . 4 6 2 Oregon . 3 8 2 Batteries — Whitman, Hodgins and Walther; Oregon, Williams and Bliss. ‘Juner’ Chosenl as Synonym Shelby Carter Wins Prize in Contest After two weeks of waiting, the campus is now to be informed of the results of the contest for an improvement in a name to be sub stituted for the word “Pigger.” Out of 128 suggestions, “Juner,” a term thought to be symbolic of the idea to be expressed, was selected. It is Shelby ‘-Duke” Carter, a junior in business administration, who gets both the honor and the $5 in cash for turning jn the favored name. Carter’s suggestion happened to be the one of the 128 to be handed in. The judges, after considering all the possible names, agreed with the donor of the term “Juner,” who said: “The word should be sug gestive of romance or at least should be more suggestive of the aesthetic than symbolic of the ani mal. Birds and poets have selected June.” A number of other names were considered worthy. Some of them are: quedder, peacher, larker, dater, racer, and piffler. Some of the more humorous - types came under the following: buzzer, dover, facer, fisher, bobber, quester, hay seeder, dazzler, coqueter, etc. Those who have promoted the contest have done so because of the unfavorable criticism which the word “pigger” has brought forth, especially from visitors on the campus. The new word will be used in the columns of the Em erald in place of “pigger” and per haps in the years to come the cam pus will see fit to adopt “juner” too. o i College Life in France— * * * * * * Highly Colored Education By Margaret Slavlan A college where everyone studies, and studies earnestly, where one takes recreation in the group and has a large and colorful garden to play in—such is Ecole Normale du Mans, La Sarthe, France, attended by Mile. Andree Pellion, holder of the Woman’s league foreign scholarship on the campus. French students attend a college at an earlier age, in general, than do American students—averaging about SO to 21 years on graduation. The examination comes at the end of the four years, and each study begun in the freshman year is car ried straight through the complete term of years. No electives are permitted—each girl must take whatever the coliege offers, his tory, literature, drawing, sewing, 1 be the subjects as they may. Specialization comes only in the university work following college— the colleges are not equivalent to our universities, but are more paral lel to a graduate school. There are no flappers in French colleges. The reason for this, Mile. Pellion laughingly admitted, is be cause the entrance examinations are so difficult that only those fit ted for serious study can pass them. In the college she attended 68 took entrance examinations, and only 18 passed. Early to bed and early to rise is the rule. The students of college age have little personal freedom. Each girl must be in bed at 9:30 o’clock in the evening, dormitory system, and up at 6:30 in the morn ing for an hour of study before (Continued on page three) Alumni Give Large Sums — ■■■ ■ Portlanders Promise $77,072; Beekman Is Donor of $1,500 Library Need Told i Loyalty of Graduates Shown by Support of Gift Campaign PORTLAND, Ore., May 24, 1S24 —(Special to the Emerald)—Gifts of Portland alumni to the Univer sity of Oregon Gift Campaign now total $77,072, according to an nouncement of P. II. Young, Port land city chairman, at a meeting of alumni in the Multnomah hotel | yesterday. Among the subscrip tions announced were $1,500 from B. B. Beekman, son of the donor of the Beekman oratorical prize of the University, and $600 from | Robert S. Bean, member of the first graduating class and judge of the superior court. Library Need Voiced John C. Veatch, formerly assis tant United States district attor ney, called attention to the need of a library on the campus at Eu gene, and urged the alumni to re double their efforts in order that a building suitable for the Univer sity for all time might be erected. “Many of us remember the Uni versity of Oregon as a few build ings surrounded by a plank fence with a campus on which the jani tor pastured his cows,” he said. “That University existed 22 years ago, when I first went to Eugene. We have watched the institution grow in numbers until it is one of the great universities of the West, and wo want to make sure that it is going to maintain its position. Real Service Given “In making the library their prime objective, the alumni are doing :a real service for future generations of students, and for the state at large. This campaign is a savinlgs .account for future generations. The returns on our in vestment will continue to accrue to the University and the state long after we are gone.” Captain Clarence Ash, commander of the S. S. Dewey, the first ship to take relief to the survivors of the earthquake in Japan, was also a speaker. Three Articles Are Published Three more articles written as assignments in the course in spe cial feature writing and trade journalism have been purchased by trade magazines. Power, a New York publication, will print an article shortly by Margaret Skavlan on the two plaques modelled by Prof. Avard Fairbanks of the fine arts depart ment. These plaques, “Power” and “Light,” adorn the new heat ing plant on the campus. A national journal devoted to the interests of the newspaperman and commercial printer will publish an | article written, by Leonard Lerwill and Dr. II. R. Crosland’s proof reading experiment. Wilhelmine Daniel sold an article on the observance of Gingham ! Week in Eugene department stores ! to an eastern publication to retail [ trade Edith Sliffe to Play at Recital The graduation recital of Edith j Sliffe, assisted by Gwladys Keeney, soprano, will be given Tuesday might at 8:15, in Alumni hall. Miss Sliffe is a student of Mrs. Jane Thacher, instructor of piano in the school of music. Her program will be divided into five sections, and will include selections from Chopin, Bach, | Beethoven, and Wagner, as well as some of the later composers, such as Rachmaninoff, McDowell, and Delibes. Other pieces will be by Bcinberg, Puccini, Schuman, and Landon Ronald. Origin of Annual Flower and Fern Procession Tty S. A. A new secret society no longer interests the campus in this clay of over-organization. It was a differ ent matter around the winter of ’91! and the spring of ’94, for at that time nearly the whole 700 members of the Oregon student body were very much excited about “F. F. F.,” the first secret order in the University. Study was neg lected while everybody concen trated on the possible meaning of the three mysterious letters. The name and purposes of the organization were known only to I)r. Luella Carson, professor of rhe toric and dean of women, and the women of the junior class. The dean had called these women to gether and helped them form the “F. F. F.” The purpose of the organization was not long hidden, for the mem bers began at once to plant and cultivate flowers and ferns around the campus. The name of the order was also visible, “Fern and Flower Friends.” The women did much to beautify the grounds and some of the maidenhair ferns which they planted near the window of Dr. ■3>___ ('arson’s class room are still to bo found near the east stops to Vil lard hall. It was intended that a procession should also be held, but there were not enough women to participate til! 1900. Then the first flower and fern procession was held. There was none of the formality that the ceremony has today. The women marched at twilight, carrying flow ers, and sang Oregon songs near old Villard. The fern and flower procession grew in size and popularity and to day it is regarded as one of Ore gon’s old traditions and it is without question one of the most beautiful ceremonies connected with commencement. The affair is much more elabor ate than it was at its beginning. The senior women now march in caps and gowns, carrying flowers, around old Villard and place their flower offerings to alma mater to gether in the shape of an “O.” The orchestra also partakes in the very impressive ceremonies. There litis only been one thing to lessen the (Continued on page three) - — -- ■ ■—. - ... Co-op Meeting Is Wednesday A plan whereby all members of the University student body may auto matically become members of the Co-op store is being formulated by the board of directors of the store. The usual dollar membership fee will no longer be required for membership under the proposed amendement. A committee of the board has worked out an amendment to the Articles of the Association of the store which will bring about the elec tion of the board of directors by the student body as a whole at the same time as regular student body elec tions. Tn order to put this amendment into effect a meeting of all members will be held Wednesday at 4 o’clock in Villard hall. .Tack Day, president, urges that all members be present at the meeting in order that the nec essary quorum pass upon the pro posed change. Practically a complete revision of the by-laws of the store will be nec essary in making the change, which is hoped by officers in the organi zation, will make the management more under the direct will of the students themselves. Heretofore the board has been a self-perpetuating body and since the store is being operated for the benefit of the stu dents, popular election of the officers is thought to be the better plan. Committee Prop New Measure O Cornerstone of Club Is Placed Visiting Shriners Are Guests at Affair Following an impressive Masonic ritual, George T. Cochran, grnnd mas ter of the grand lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the state of Oregon, plumbed, found true, and laid the cornerstone for the new Craftsman’s club building, being erected near the Oregon campus. At least 200 University students, faculty members, and townspeople, who are affiliated with or interested in the Masonic brotherhood, attended the ceremony. Shriners from Hillali Temple, Ashland, arrayed in the gor geous regalia of their order, were present as well1 as members of the A1 Kader shrine in Portland. A con cert before the ceremony laying of the cornerstone was given by the the cornerstone began was given by the Ai Kader band. Following the invocation, given by the Revorend Fredrick G. Jennings, Alfred Lomax, a Mason and professor in the school of business administra tion, was called upon by Mr. Mac Gregor to speak in President Camp bell’s behalf. j Briefly, Professor Lomax told of I the aims of masonry, emphasizing the duty the brotherhood lias cheerfully accepted in furthering the education of America’s young men and women. George T. Cochran was the last j speaker for the occasion. The grand ! master of the grand lodge reminded jtho brothers of the traditions and i purposes of the ancient order, as well as the duties of Masonry in educating young men and women. “Masonry •is proud of the Craftsmen club,” de clared the grand master. “This cor (Contiuued on page two) Odd Jobs and the Student ^ ^ ^ ^ Menial Labor and Learning By Douglas Wilson “He is working Ms way through college.” Tills little memory gem, familiar to every pursuer of higher knowledge, is dragged forth at certain seasons of the school year | to perform wonders. For at elec ttion time it constitutes a dreaded ! weapon in the hands of anybody, be he ever so dumb. Without this testimony a candidate’s platform would be practically worthless. Yet why should this constitute such nil eulogy? Investigation reveals the fact that it is a very common state of existence here at Oregon, and that the student who is not re quired to labor for a portion of his education is the exception rather than the rule. There is evidently no sort of work too menial or humiliating for the college student. In fact, it ap | pears that the lower the form of occupation would be considered in ordinary life, the more prestige does it bring to the student who is using it as a means to acquire (knowledge. One of the most com mon pictures of the working stu dent is the traditional dishwasher, who three times a day mops his brothers’ plates in return for his I own meal ticket. His associates, the waiters, are just about as ; numerous and probably as famous, i The third of this group is the jani I tor, a luxury possessed only by I sororities, since the freshmen of I the men’s houses furnish free labor j in this respect. All the average (janitor has to do is to light all the j fires, keep them going during the | day and attend to such trifles as (Continued on page three) Rooks T ake Frosh Game Good Pitching Gives Game to Visitors by Count of 20-6 O. A. C. Scores First Poor Hurling Hinders Babes; Two Mor< Tilts Next Week The baseball game yesterday morning between the freshmen and the rooks developed into a slugging fest for the rooks, who won by a 20 to 6 count. Tt was mainly the weak pitching of ,the flrosh that started the barrage of base hits and once started they could not be stopped. Sehulmerich, the big center fielder for the rooks, drove out two home runs and a triple out of seven times at bat. West, Mimnaugh, and Jones wielded the big bats for the frosh and connected for circuit drives. The Babes showed sufficient hit ting strength, but they were bat ting against good pitching, while the rooks were slamming the ball to all corners of the field. Frosh Score in Third Stritmatter, the twirler for the rooks, had control and he possessed enough stuff to keep the frosh hitters swinging. The lack of ade quate hurling is the main thing that holds the yearlings down and prevents them from turning ip more victories. The freshmen spotted the visitorr to an early lead by letting them chase across two runs in the first canto, and three in the second. The worst inning was the fourth, when the rooks rang the bell seven times and batted completely around. Hank’s proteges connected for two runs in the third. They scored two more in the seventh on a home run by Mimnaugh with Jones on base. Jones knocked a homer in the eighth with no one on base, and West repeated the performance in the ninth. The frosh and rooks have two more games to play next week. Box Score Given Freshmen AB. R. Brooks, m ,. 5 1 Mimnaugh, c . 5 2 Jones, :ib . 4 1 R. Adolph, lb .... 4 1 Johnson, rf . 3 0 Dallas, lb, 2b .... 4 0 West, ss . 4 1 Miller, 2b . 2 0 Lee, p . 4 0 Wrightman, rf .... 2 0 Vitus, p . 3 0 Royul, If . 1 0 Totals .41 6 Rooks AB. R. Hartley, rf . 5 1 Stritmatter, p .... 6 2 Ward, If . 7 1 Sehulmerich, m .. 7 3 Sundstrom, lb .... .5 1 Drayer, 3b . 4 3 Thompson, ss . 6 2 Larsen, c . 5 3 Denman, 2b . 5 3 Totals .50 20 H. E. 2 1 2 0 1 2 2 0 1 2 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 14 11 H. E. 3 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 3 0 3 0 18 2 Summary: Struck out, by Strit matter 14, by Lee 4, Vitus 6. Bases on balls, off Stritmatter 5, off Lee 3, off Vitus 4. Homo runs, Sehulmerich 2, Jones, Mimuaugh, and West. Three base hit, Sehul merich. Sacrifice hits, Mamuaugh, ; Ward. Umpire, King. U. of W. Has Student Society Demetry Ushakoff, chairman of the local branch of the National Russian Students’ association, was elected a member of the board of ’control of the national committee at a board meeting held at Eagle son hall. The local branch of the associa tion, which has-been in existence independently for two years, has been admitted as a member of the national association. Included in the University of Washington branch are students of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming. About thirty members are in the Washington branch, of -' which 1$ are students in the University.