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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1925)
R.O.T.C. BldS MANY STUDENTS Statement Shows Growth in 9th Corps Area CULIN PRAISES WORK - ! Colleges Will Supply More Officers * _ Enrollment in the 9th Corps i Area R O. T. C. has shown a steady ; increase dqjing the past few years. This information was received by the local unit from Corps Area headquarters and made public in a statement issued Wednesday; by Captain F. L. Culin. “In the 9th Corps Area which includes the states of California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming,” according to Captain Culin’s state ment, “the total R. O. T. C. enroll ment in the senior division at the present time is 10 897 as compared with 9,375 in the" academic year 1923-24. Many Advanced Students “Of this total, 1,191 are advanced course students as compared with 903 in 1923-24. From these figures it is seen that practically one stu dent out of ten registers for mili tary work becomes a candidate for a commission in the Officers Re serve Corps. “The figures indicate a healthy and satisfactory growth, vindicat-1 ing the action of Congress in es tablishing the B. O. T. C. as a source of officer material for the Beserve component of the Army. Of last year’s B. O. T. C. students, 3,317 received commissions in the Officers Beserve Corps. “As the number increases eaeh year, it should not be long before the B. O. T. C. can supply the an nual increment necessary to keep the reserve element of the National Defense scheme up to proper strength. It is estimated that about 7,000 new reserve officers are required each year. Captain Culin says that because a number of the best men in the University here take advanced mili tary training, the B. O. T. C. of fers increasing benefits to the stu dents and th© State. Eight Commissioned Here (“From the viewpoint of pride in our own institution,” the statement continues, it is gratifying to note that Oregon students are keeping pace with students at other insti tutions in this important civic ■duty. “In June, 1924, eight students ■were commissioned second lieuten ants of Infantry, O. R. C. Twenty three are candidates for this com mission in June, 1925, and thirty nine expect to be commissioned in June, 1926. “The results obtained this year in the local military department are very satisfactory. The sched ule of hours is arranged so as to allow eloser personal supervision by the regular army officers in charge and the studeut attitude towards the work is improving, as shown by both attendanoe records and grades. i WANTED—Salesmen to sell a nationally advertised eemmodity in Eugene and also during summer va cation in state. Call Gordon Wil ■sn, 730. ; J-8-9-10 FORMER GUILD STAR COMING IN HEILIC PLAY Janet Young, ’14, to Appear In “You and I” Janet Young, an Oregon graduate of 1914, will play the part of Mrs. | White in “You and I,” a three-aet | eomedy to be presented by the Mo-! roni Olsen Players of Ogden, Utah,! at the Heilig theatre Tuesday j evening, January 13. “You and I” was the Harvard ^ prize play of 1922 written by Philip Barry, a Yale graduate who studied in the dramatics class at Harvard. The play was first presented in New York city, where it ran for some time with a marked success. The Moroni Olsen Players are ap pearing in a series of three plays in thirty towns throughout the west. “You and I” was selected by Miss Young for Eugene presen tation. Miss Young, while on the campus starred in many plays under Fergus ! Reddie. After graduation she was connected with Chatauqua work and for the past two years has beem with the Moroni Olsen Players. She is a member of Delta Gamma soror ity. Seat reservations may be made by AMATEUR WRESTLERS WIN IN THREE EVENTS University May Have Teams In Coast Conference The amateur boxing and wrestl ing meet held in the Multnomah club Tuesday evening ended with victories for the University in three of the four events entered. This meet was sponsored by the Multnomah Amateur Athletic clut> for the purpose of showing the de velopment of amateur sports on’ the coast. Men were entered from the Unive^pity of Oregon, Oregon Ar ricultural college and the Spokane Athletic clnb. The University was represented by Tug Irving and Frank Biggs, boxers, and Perry Davis and Syl vester Wingard, wrestlers. Irving, one of the cleverest box ers on the campus, closed his bout by knocking out J. Van Arman of the Multnomah club in the third round. Biggs won a decision from James Flynn of Multnomah club, in one of the fastest bouts on the schedule. Davis, one of the main bone crushers of the squad, threw Ernest Mack of Multnomah in three min utes and Wingard lost a gruelling struggle to Desmond Anderson af ter going for seven minutes. This showing made by the var sity athletes will almost assure the University of having teams in both wrestling and boxing that will be able to hold their own with any of the teams in the Pacific coast conference. FORMER STUDENTS MARRIED IN PORTLAND Of interest to their many friends on the camjjus is the marriage in Portland during the Christmas holi days of Juanita Jackson ex- '25, and French Moore, who is now at tending the University of Oregon Medical School. Mrs. Moore left the University cwinter term of last ye^r and since that time has been study ing classical dancing in Los An geles. Both were well known and active on the campus. Mrs. Moore is af filiated with Alpha Omicron Pi and was also a member of Pot and Quill. Mr. Moore is a member of Sigma Nu and Nu Sigma Nu fra ternities. EDITOR IS IN PORTLAND FOR OLD OREGON MATERIAL Jeanette Calkins, editor of “Old Oregon,” and alumni secretary, has spent the past week in Portland ar ranging ‘material for the next issue of the alumni publication which will be a medical issue. Miss Cal kins left for Portland last Satur day and will return probably today. ATTITUDE OF STUDENT STRESSED BY TEACHER Ethical Educational Values Should be Placed Above Practical, Says Miss Martin “Too much attention is being paid to facts and not enough to attitude in the elementary school system of today,” said Miss S. A. Martin, a student in the education department of the University and a teacher in the elementary schools of Oregon for the past decade, in a recent in terview. “It should be the purpose of the elementary school to develop the proper attitude toward work. Not only an interest, but a feeling of the importance of work should be cultivated,” Miss Martin said in re ferring to the work of teachers in the grade schools. More emphasis should be laid on the pupil’s basic conception of the things he is taking up in school, instead of the actual accumulation of the facts in his mind. Such a change must be brought about, Miss Martin pointed out, through the personality and inspir ation of the teachers. “Through the teaching of music, art, literature and history, the pupils will be led to attain perceptive and apprecia tive powers so that when their reasoning powers develop they will have some basis for a judgment of values.” Answering the inquiry an to whether or not the elementary schools should definitely prepare the pupil in the fundamentals upon which a eollege education are built, Miss Martin emphatically answered that such a conception of elemen tary education has had a very detri mental effect, having led toward the teachers being required to give more time to the instruction of these “fundamentals,” thereby ne glecting the more important task of getting the student in the “right frame of mind” to receive an edu cation. “The trouble with the elementary school,” Miss Martin said, “is not so much with the curriculum, as with the attitude, not only of the teaching forces in general, but also of the public, with regard to what an education really should con sist of.” Miss Martin deplored the present trend of elementary education to ward the elimination of music and art, and saw no relief from the ex isting situation until a sweeping change of public opinion takes place; a radical change away from the present materialistic conception of things. “At present, the public looks to the grade school to prepaie the child for an economic function in life, and anything which does not seem to play a. definite part in the development of this function should, in the eyes of the public, be removed from the schools. These institutions are supported by the public, therefore the teachers must satisfy the public demands.” SEVERAL STUDENTS WIN I; IN HEILIG LIE CONTEST] Prizes Also Awarded for Humorous Sketches Several students of the Univer sity were again successful in win ning prizes in the Heilig Newsy vents' two contests, it was an nounced today by the editor. A “Lie” rcontest, and a joke contest drew many entries. Burton Randall, a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, took sec ond prize in the Lie contest with a weird tale of how he decapitated an owl by walking around it until it .wrung its own neck off. Ken Coop er, former sports editor of the Emerald, was given fourth prize for a tale of expert markmanship. Cooper was a strong contender for first prize, but since he won this last month, he was barred. Edward Miller tied with Cooper in the con test. In the joke column Virgil Mul key, Anna DeWitt, and Eugenia Strickland placed, and were award ed free tickets to the Heilig theatre for their trouble. Randall received a ticket good for two weeks, while Cooper and Miller each received a double pass. The “Nowsyvents” is the house organ issued monthly by the Hei lig theotre, for the benefit of Eu J. A. HOFFMAN Successor to W. L. COPPERNOLL Local Watch Inspector Southern Pacific Company EUGENE, ORE. Formal Dances Require Programs Favors Place Cards Invitations of Fine Workmanship and unique pattern. Call 223 and have us bring samples to your house. Lemon-Caldwell Press BROWNSVILLE ranee The Yearly Event That Hundreds Wait For 20 Per Cent Off on ALL CLOTHING Men’s and Boys’ Suits and O’coats Price on SWEATERS Blankets Reduced Buy NOW! 10 to 50 Per Cent Off on ALL FURNISHINGS (Contract Goods Excepted) Brownsville Woolen Mills Store 701 WTLLAMETT1 ST. jene theatregoers. It is edited by leorge H. Godfrey, a member of he class in Specialized press in the Jchool of Journalism. I/ACANCY AT PHOENIX FOR ATHLETIC COACH An athletic coach, who can teach leveral subjects in addition, will be lircd to fill a vacancy in the Phoe lix high school, according to J. W. Kerns, superintendent. Any Uni versity man who is interested is isked to make application immedi ately at the employment) 'bureau, ichool of education. Besides coaching baseball* basket hall, and track, the person hired will have to teach three years of English and some of the sciences, )r the mathematics classes and some of the sciences. The salary it Phoenix, which is about 220 miles from Eugene, for this posi tion is $170 per month. An experi snced teacher is desired. Several other positions through out the state are listed at the em ployment bureau. These, too, may be applied for at the bureau. , PATRONIZE EMERALD ADVERTISERS Listen Ye Collegians! 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This tickles our cook, because he thinks he puts out the best dinner in town. The Peter Pah