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NUMBER 53 CHER ARTISTS MEETSTINFORD Seven Lettermen Back Raise Prospects for the Season; Rosenberg Squad Captain HARD SCHEDULE FACED Interrfraternity Contest Planned for End of Term; Men Urged to Report Intensive training for varsity track starts at the beginning of this term and will continue for the rest of the season. The varsity track squad goes up against the hardiest schedule which has been lined up for many years. Immediately after the beginning of the spring term the squad leaves for Palo Alto where they will meet Stanford in a dual meet on April 11. This meet will be a particu larly hard one for the opener of the season because it comes just a week before Stanford’s last meet of the season with California. The Cardinals will, bo in the pink of condition at the end of their sea son while the Oregon team will bo just beginning to get into shape. Bill Hayward is planning on a lot of intensive work in order to get prepared for this first competition. He plans on keeping the most prom ising men over the spring vacation for hard work and then putting the finishing touches on the training in Palo Alto in order to acclimate the men before the contest. Relay Meet Next On May 2, the Oregon relay teams ■will enter the Washington relays at Seattle. The four events in clude half mile relay, mile, two mile and pentathlon. Some one will be entered in the pentathlon, an evdnt in which Oregon has not par ticipated since the time Art Tuek starred in it. Hayward will prob ably enter teams in all the relays. May 9, Oregon meets Pacific uni versity in a dual meet at Eugene. This is the first meet with Pacific for many years. In the early Ore gon track history the meet with Pacific was a regular one on the schedule. May 16, the varsity competes against the University of Washing ton in a dual meet at Seattle. May 27, on Junior week-end comes the big dual meet of the season against the Aggies on Hayward field. The conference meet eomes on May 29 and 30 at. Corvallis. There is a pos sibility of Oregon arranging a meet with U. S. C. on June 6. 90 Men Out Now At present Hayward has almost 90 men turning out for varsity and frosh but he insists that there are many men who are capable of de veloping into track men who are not out. Every year a call is is sued for more men. Although he (Continued an Page Four) APPEARANCE OF JEANS DELAYED TILL MONDAY Sophomore men were unablo to get their Blue Jeans at Paul Green’s yesterday. Officials of the sopho more class lay the failure to the railroad company who unfortunate ly sidetracked, in Portland, the shipment from the factory in Se attle. “Word has been received at the store that the Blue Jeans will be in Eugene and ready for distribu tion Saturday afternoon without fail. The sophomore men have therefore decided to postpone the first appearance of this mi*ih heralded article of wearing apparel until the following Monday morn ing. Russell Lawrence, president of the class declares that h© expects near ly every male member of the sec ond year group to blossom forth with the Blue Jeans on Monday. A system has been worked out at Paul Green’s store, says Lawrence, whereby the men will not be kept waiting at the store for long per iods of time to gert their orders in their exact size. Those who have not as yet ordered J?ans will be able to purchase them at the store, as a number of extra pairs have been ordered. | Students Attend Meetings In East During Holidays Oregon students who went East during the vacation season as fra ternity delegates are still drifting back from the conventions. Paul Patterson and Fred Martin, have returned from the Delta Kappa Ep silon national convention at St. Louis, Mo., and Jack Day from the Phi Delta Theta convention at Cleveland, Ohio. Ted Gillenwaters, attending the Alpha Tau Omega convention at Philadelphia, Pa., is expected back today. Victor Bisley, who went to Richmond, Va., to represent his chapter at. the Phi Gamma Delta convention, and Don Park the Sig ma Alpha Epsilon convention at At lanta, Ga., have not yet returned. PRIZES WILL BE GIVEN FOR EMERALD WORK Better Reporting Stressed By Managing Editor A list .of prizes to be given for exceptional work on the Emerald | was announced at the staff meeting ! held yesterday afternoon. The ! managing editor, Harold Kirk, out i lined the work for the term and listed the requirements for making the staff. The proposed list of prizes in cludes the following: $15 for the best daily news editor; $15 for the best daily night editor; tips, three prizes of $7.50, $5.00 and $2.50; for the best reporting, three prizes of $7.50, $5.00 and $2.50; for the best feature story, three prizes of $7.50, $5.00 and $2.50. The total amount of prize money to bo given will be $75.00. There may be some changes in the prizes before the end of the term, the managing edi tor of the Emerald said. Special refe^pnce will be given' to improving the writing in the paper, said Harold Kirk in outlin ing the plans for the term, so that the Emerald may be the best of its kind. There will be no staff ap pointments until the end of next week and every one is urged to try out for positions. Anna Jerzvk, assistant managing editor, was introduced to the staff. Margaret Skavlan was added to the editorial board as associate editor, i STUDENTS TURN OUT FOR TENNIS GAMES j Yesterday was the first tennis day since November that any great number of hours have been suitable for playing. Will Grimes, who has charge of the University tennis courts chalked up five hours for fol lowers of the game. “Eight is thes largest number of students who have turned out in one ' day this term and during the good weather, at the first of the fall term, as many’ as 375 a day would come out,” said Mr. Grimes. The courts are busiest during February and March, when the var sity practices are carried on. Dough nut contests ‘are usually held in May. The courts are so constructed that the water drains off rapidly after a shower, making them avail- j able for much more, time than the students generally suspect, said Dr. John Bovard, dean of the school of physical education. The courts can j i also be mopped up after a shower, i ; enabling the students to play im- j mediately, he said. • PROFESSOR TO LEAVE ON TRIP TO CALIFORNIA Prof. James A. Miller, of the law : school, who has been granted leave ; of absence for a year and a half, I will leave Eugene shortly for I southern Califoronia where he will ■ recuperate from combined affects ; of pneumonia and overwork. Pro j fessor Miller was ill late last spring, | i and before he was entirely well re ! sumed part of his duties as faculty i | member. Until a new instructor is secured, Mt. Miller’s classes are being handled by H. E. Rosson, a member of the debate coaching I staff. Interest in Foreign Youth Is Object of Y. W. C. A. Fellowship Committees OPEN TO CAMPUS WOMEN Discussions Are Concerned With Various Phases of Ten Foreign Countries Discussion groups, concerned with foreign countries with the- view to arousing interest in world fellow ship and especially in the “youth movement” in Europe, were or ganized last term under the direc i tion of Ellen McClellan, chairman of the World Fellowship committee of the local Y. W. C. A. and are to begin this term. The groups, ten in number are open to all campuS women. Those who are interested may sign up at the Bungalow any time this week and Monday. “The aim of the committee is to foster world fellowship and to bring foreign and American students on the campus closer together,” Miss McClellan explained. “The cam pus organization is a part of a widespread interest in world rela tions and it is the hope of the promiotors that these discussions will do much to bring about a bet ter understanding, among the stu dents, of world problems,” she con tinued. “The nations which are to be studied and whose problems and outstanding factors are to be dis cussed are not the gireat world powers, but others which are worth considering because of their promi nence in world affairs, Miss Mc Clellan further explained. “We feel that people are bound to learn of the large# countries in the class room, but they are not so likely to study these so extensively,” she added. These nations and the leaders chosen to direct the ^discussion groups are as follows: Switzerland* Genevieve Chase; Polanty Beulah Smith; Korea, Gladys Calif; India, (Continued on Page Three) NEW MEMBER PLACED ON BOTANY FACULTY Louis T. Henderson who was for sixteen years in the department of botany at the University of Idaho, has been added to the faculty of the ^University of Oregon botany department for thp next three months. Mr. Henderson who has retired and lives most of the year on his apple ranch in Hood River, is one of the early pioneer botanists, and often worked with Thomas Howell who wrote the first botany of the northwest, based on his collection which is now the property of the University. * Mr, Henderson is an alumnus of Cornell university and was on the Cornell team in the famous Saratoga Regatta of 1875, when Yale and Harvard competed. Mr. Henderson lias discovered many new species, some of whieh bear his name. One of the best known of these is the purple lamb’s tongue found in southern Oregon in the region around Grants Pass. It is scientifically known as “Erythronium -hendersoni.” Mr. Henderson is working on fche flowers of Hood county, including those on Mt. Hood. He is also go ing ,over the whole collection of the University and checking up the determinations and putting the sheets in good shape. This is a very valuable piece of work for the herbarium, which is one of the largest in the northwest, and hag been much disarranged due to the fact that the department has not been able to have a specialist keep it in shape, according to Pro fessor A. R. Sweetser head of the botany department. “The department feels especially fortunate in having Mr. Henderson to work over the herbarium, and hopes that he will be able to spend at least five months here next year,” said Professor Sweetser. Medical Student Discovers Cause Of Salmon Poison Chemical Substance in Fish Source Discovery of the cause of sal mon poisoning, which claims the lives of numerous dogs each year, and of the means of remedy, has been made by T. D. Wyatt, of Baker, a junior in the medical school at Portland. It was only after long investi gation and intensive experimcnta . tion that Wyatt was able to dis cover the actual poison which causes the mortality and the means by which the disease might be cured. He showed that a chemical sub stance in the flesh of the fish is responsible for a poison which causes a clogging up of the respiratory organs. Faculty members of the medi cal school and Dr. Thomas W. Boss of the state fish commis sion, regard the discovery as one of great importance and they have commended the young sci entist heartily. HRSITY FIVE TO MEET WILLAMETTE SATURDAY Struggle Will Be Test of Oregon’s Strength Oregon’s 1925 basketball machine will receive its initial baptism un der fire on the home floor, when the quintet lines up against the speedy Willamette five on Saturday at 7:30 in the Eugene armory. The varsity held a ngnt workout last week against the American Le gion at Marshfield and triumphed by a 59-15 se.ere. Tomorrow night, however, Oregon will meet a team that has developed a dangerous scoring combination that might prove to be a hard offense for the Oregon hoopsters to stop. Billy Beinhart, Oregon hoop men- j tor, is counting considerably on the ability of Howard Hobson and Buss Gowans in piling up an impressive number of “ringers” in tomorrow’s contest. These two men have play ed a season together at forward and should work fairly smoothly in the tilt against the Bearcats. Boy Okorberg will not doubt handle the tip-off job, with either of the fol lowing four men playing at guard: Frank Beinhart, Chuck Jost, Jerry Gunther or “Swede” Westergren. It is practically a toss-up between [ these four men as to who will start under the Oregon basket. The contest should serve some what as a yardstick to measure the real strength of the Oregon quintet. The varsity has more than its share of green material. These new men, j however, are showing up very well, I but whether they can stand the ! strain under real fire will be i brought out in this game. Oregon has a very light team, but what it lacks in weight it is trying to develop in speed. Short passes are a predominating feature in the ; varsity style of play. In the de-j fensive wrork, Billy Ileinhart is try- \ ing to develop a zone-defense sys tem. This style of defense when ! mastered is very effective and ! whether a green team can take up this new style will be plainly j brought out in the Oregon-Beareat 1 tilt tomorrow. LAW STUDENT RECOVERING FROM SERIOUS OPERATION Samuel S. Carter, a student in the University law school, is in the Eugene hospital recovering from an operation on a ruptured duodenal ulcer. The operation was performed Monday by Dr. Wm. B. Neal and Dr. G. A. Ross, of the University health service. Carter is reported to be recovering nieely. O--__-___- ^ ELECTION ANNOUNCED Delta Theta Phi, national honorary law fraternity, an nounces the election of: Waldemar Seton Jr. John L. Day Carl A. Dahl Robert Clapperton Carl Skoog Harold Emmons ♦ REBEC ASSAILS REALjSTS’ VIEW Romanticism Held Factor In Broadening, of Many Phases of Civilization ROMANTIC MOOD DEFINED Victorianism Said to Have Become Unsound When Its Ideals Left Reality “The great problems of life are not to be settlod by smartness or by a few picked up ideas.” Thus did Dr. George Rebec, dean of the graduate school, tersely sum up his case against the modern realistic tendency in art and life, at tho close of a short address delivered in the regular weekly assembly Thursday morning. The bulk of Dr. Rebec’s talk centered about a clarification of the terms “idealism and “roman ticism,’’ which, ho pointed out, were commonly confused today with aestheticism and viewed as fanati cal illusions of real merit. Tho re lation of romanticism to history, to the broadening of culture, to re ligion and even to science, was brought out in the course of tho address, to illustrate the real value it offers to tho individual and to the world. The romantic mood, Dean Rebec declared, was a substantive entity, to which definite characteristics could be attributed. To illustrate his point, the speaker mentioned three obvious characteristics of the romantic mood: idealism, an inher ent sense of tho worth-whfleness of man and of the world; a certain amount of glamour, a colorfulnoss, a splendor, a bit of mystery and wonder; infiniteness, a viow that man and the world wore inexhaus tively deep, ever interesting. The failure of romanticism to survive the last two centuries, Dean Rebec held, was due to the fact that it went too far, and approached fanaticism. The age following the complete fall of romanticism, tho Victorian age, the speaker described (Continued on 1'age Four) SHAKESPEAREAN ACTOR TO APPEAR SATURDAY A fitting companion to tho great Shakespearean plays in the reper toire of Fritz Leiber, noted actor, who is to appear Saturday at the Heilig, is Alexander Dumas’ “Tho Three Musketeers.’’ This will bo offered by Mr. Leiber Saturday j afternoon. “Hamlet will be played at night, and for this performance students are granted special prices. Lower prices prevail for “The Three Musketeers.’’ Mr. Leiber has a cast of 35 players. Mr. Leiber is being received en thusiastically wherever he plays this year, and many critics say that he is now at the height of his great genius. A feature of Fritz Leiber’s pro ductions especially impressing play goers is the conception of the stage pictures which are developing along entirely original lines in the matter of stage Bettings. Many novel and fascinating effects are produced by means of gorgeous rose windows, elaborate panels and shadow silhou ette. The scenic scheme also pro vides for almost instantaneous change of scene, thus reducing the stage waits to merely the necessary time lost for change of costumes. It is through this advanced in vention in the matter of scenery that Mr. Leiber is enabled to give more of the original script of Shakespearean text than has ever been played on tlio modern stage and to give the performance in less time than is used by other classic players of today. Each of the plays is enacted in approximately two hours and 15 minutes and the thread of the story is never lost or is the j emotional impact of the drama weakened. Works of Dickens Offered As Prize By Fred Lockley Fred Lockley of tho Oregon Jour nal is offering a sot of Dickers and five dollars as first and second prizes for the two students doing the best work in Dean Eric W. Al len 's editing class. The work in the class last term consists of a study of biographical works and a criticism of some well known living journalist. Tho work next term will be investigation in to some great problem that is a matter of public discussion. Tho students of the class have asked that the prizes be awarded on tho basis of the work 9ono in the win ter term. CADET OFFICERS PLAN BALL FOR JANUARY 29 List of Patrons Includes Two 0. A. C. Colonels Officers of the B. 0. T. 0. of the University will givo their annual ball in the Craftsmen club house on the evening of January 29. The committee in charge of the dance has practically all the details ar ranged and the advancod students of the local military department ex pect the event to bo one of the biggest social affairs of tho term. Patrons and patronesses will bo the army officers and their wives. They are: Colonel and Mrs. W. S. Sinclair, Captain and Mrs. F. L. Culin, Jr., Lieutenant and Mrs. E. Q. Arnold, and Captain J. T. Mur ray. Besides tho Oregon officers, two men from O. A. 0., Col. G. W. Moses, and Col. G. A. White, rank ing officers of the B. O. T. C. at CorVallis, will also act as patrons. Two student cadot officers from O. A. C. will bo invited. They hold the highest ranks in the O. A. C. department. All tho student officers as well as the patrons will bo in uniform. The dance will bo formal and this will give, the students who are ju nior cadet officers an opportunity, to wear their new uniforms for the first time. The committee, which consists of Kenneth Stephenson, chairman, Charles Norton, and Walter Back strom, report that there will bo clever decorations and programs in keeping with the military idea that the ball as a whole will carry out. A five-picco orchestra will furnish the music. THETA SIGMA PHI PLEDGES TO BE INITIATED SUNDAY Theta Sigma Phi, women’s na tional honorary journalism frater nity, will hold initiation ceremon ies Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock for three new pledges, Esther Davis, Emily Huston, and Gertrude Houk. The initiation will bo followed by a banquet at tho Anchorage. jDEBITE RESULTS III EVEN BREAK Oregon Affirmative Loses And Negative Wins By Same Scores of 2 to 1 MUCH INTEREST SHOWN Large Crowd Fills Villard Hall; Speakers Present Arguments Forcefully Oregon tied O. A. C. in the an nual debato between the two in stitutions held hero and at Corval lis, last night. The Oregon affirma tive team, composed of Sol Abram son and Benoit McCroskoy, lost by a score of 2 te 1, to Bbbert Kerr and Kenneth Goodale here and the negative team, composed of Here chel Brown and Lincoln Erwin, de feated Carlton Laughlin and Blair Stewart, the O. A. C. affirmative team by a similar score at Corval lis. “The debate In Corvallis was one of the best heard here for a long time,” said Coach Oscar A. Brown in n telephone message from O. A. 0. last night. “There was ia good attendance at the contest and a keen interest in the subject was shown. ” Abramson and McCroskoy, speak ing at the local contest, told of the acts of Congress, that in their opin ion were .really progressive, which had been declared unconstitutional by the supremo court. The court is not responsible to the people in that they are not chosen by the electorate, the spoakers for the af firmative pointed out, and for this roason they have gradually risen to the position of ia judicial oligar chy, responsible to no one and doing ns they wish in acting on the legis lation of Congress. The speakers proposed to. remedy this situation by giving Congress or the repre sentatives of the electorate the power to cheek the court’s deci sions. Ooodalo and Korr, speaking for the negative, claimed that a meas ure such as the one proposed by the affirmative would give the supreme power to Congress, which is ef fected by every small tendency or fad that strikes the country. The people would havo only tho elec tions in which to check on the legis lators and many measures contrary to the constitution would bo passed. The supreme court, they said, would not then bo a respected department of the government as it is now but would bu open to machinations by political parties as Congress is now. The people can havo any law they wish under tho present system, the negative speakers pointed out even if it is declared unconstitutional by the supreme court in that an amendment to the constitution may (Continued on Poeje Four) MAGICAL MULKEY TO GIVE ACT ON ACKERMAN AND HARRIS CIRCUIT Virgil H. Mulkoy, a student in the department of drama, known ns “Magical Mulkny,” is soon to be exploiting his mysterious art to the thousands. Mulkey’s magical act is familiar to all students, and to everyone in this part of the coun try. Its fame spread to Beattie, whore tho Ackerman and Harris circuit of vaudeville maintains a booking office. Early this week a letter came for “Mulkey, Master of Magic,” which stated in certain and sure terms that the young man was en gaged by the circuit at a starting salary of $125 per weok. Tho let ter also stated that the act was so highly recommended that no tryout would bo necessary, and that tho magician would be given tho next vacancy that occured. How it all came about would make a story crammed full of in teresting episodes and struggles. From the time lie was eight years old, Mulkey has bees interested in magic. At school he kept his play mates in constant awe, and often in fear of him. In fact, many thought him a kind of witch, or at least suspected him, of partnership with gablins or ghosts. By tho time he graduated from the eighth grade he was giving shows around Eugene, and devoting all his time and his spending mon ey to his art. He entered Eug'one high school,' and hero found many warm friends who helped him in his choson career. Mr. Fred Chess, manual training instructor, turned over his tools and his shop to him, and here the boy spent many hap py hours, designing and manufac turing tricks and illusion to enter tain the public. While in high school, Mulkey achieved an enviable reputation as a real professional magician, and at this time he was accepted into several magician’s societies, and was made a member of the Portland chapter of Magicians. By the time ho graduated, he had apparatus valued at several thousand dollars, and had perfected a full two hour performance. He entered the University in the fall of 1921, and registered in the department of drama. Here, under Mr. Reddie, he began to gain a knowledge of the technique of the stage which he now says is inval uable to him. The magician is warm (Continued on Page Four)