PORTLAND SITE
GIVEHJOSPim
School of Medicine Offers
Government Location for
War V e t e r a n s’ Use
GIFTS ACKNOWLEDGED
Property is Part of Tract
Presented to University
By Late C. S. Jackson
The offer to the federal govern
ment of a free ten-acre site oh the
University of Orgon school of medi
cine da.mpus for a U. S. veterans’
hospital was authorized by the Uni
versity hoard of regents at its
meeting today.
The site is part of the newly ac
quired tract of 88 acres, adjacent
to the medical school campus and
known as Sam Jackson Park, which
was given to the University last
Christmas by Mrs. Maria Jackson
and Philip Jackson, widow and son
ef the late C. S. Jackson of Port
land. Provision was made by the
donors enabling the deeding of por
tions of the newly acquired tract.
Ten Acres Offered
The offer of the ten acres to the
government stipulates expressly
that the purpose shall be for a Vete
rans Bureau hospital to be built and
operated thereon. If Congress al
locates a Veterans Bureau hospital
to the Pacific Northwest, it is hoped
that the government will appreci
ate the advantages of proximity of
such a structure to the medical
school and hospital buildings in
Portland, which is the acknowl
edged medical Center in the Pacific
Northwest. • *
For more than a year past nego
tiations have been carried on by the
Oregon department of the Ameri
can Legion, other veteran bodies
and the Portland chamber of com
merce! to bring about the establish
ment of a Veterans Bureau hospital
in this state.
Gifts are Acknowledged
The board of regents adopted
resolutions yesterday formally |
thanking the donors of the Sam
Jackson tract, pointing out that the
gift affords opportunity for the
reasonable expansion of the mledical
center and for affiliated or bene
ficial institutions, and for more
adequate research into the causes
and methods of prevention of dis
ease in Oregon.
The board acknowledged the gift
of $5,000 from Dr. Noble Wiley
Jones, 'a Portland physcian, for the
establishment of a fellowship in the
department of pathology of the
medical school, the income from
which is to be used to aid deserv
ing and diligent students carrying
on special work in that department.
Dr. Jones has already provided such
an income annually for five years,
and now desires to perpetrate the
annuity. In addition, he has given
$300 annually to bring some dis
tinguished scientist to the medical
school for a series of lectures.
In his annual report to the board,
Dean R. B. Dillebunt reported the
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Doughnut Debate
Final to Be Held
Thursday Evening
Alpha Beta Chi, winner of the
men’s doughnut debate title, and
Hendricks hall, winner of the wo
men ’s contest, will meet Thurs
day evening in the final doughnut
debate of the ^"ear. The winner
of this meet will be presented
with a gold cup by the local chap
ter of Tau Kappa Alpha, men's
[ honorary forensic fraternity.
The final contest was postponed
last term because of the final ex
aminations. The question to be.
debated is: “Resolved: that the
Japanese should be admitted on
the same basis that European im
migrants are now admitted.”
The debate will begin at 8
o ’clock in commerce hall. Mem
bers of the faculty will act as
judges as they did in the prelim
inary contests last term.
studemSsteo
IN NEW BOOK-SHELF
Books of Divers Natures!
Drawn Ouf Rapidly
The generally accepted theory
that the run of students are too
occupied with ther studies to do
outside reading has been ques
tioned the past week as the result
of 'an experiment conducted by Mrs.
Mable McClain, head of the cir
culation department of the Univer
sity library recently.
During the Christmas vacation,
Mrs. McClain selected one hundred
books of comparatively recent prfnt
dealing with a variety of subjects:
scientific vh>rks, biographies, per
sonal sketches, contemporary his
tory, essays, fiction; books calcu
lated to appeal to divers literary
appetites, and arranged them on a
shelf near the) charge desk in the
circulation room. The books at
tracted considerable attention at
once, and one by one they were,
withdrawn until at the end of the
first week of the winter term only
pne half of the original number re
mained.
Most of these “genefral interest
books” are works of late fiction
which have until recently been
classed among the rent collection
and on the seven day book shelf.
DELTA ZETA HONORS
HOUSEMOTHER AT TEA
Delta Zeta entertained with a
formal tea Saturday afternoon in
Alumni hall in honor of Mrs. Grace
Russell, Delta Zeta house-mother.
About three hundred invitations
were issued. In the receiving line
w'ere Mrs Virginia J. Esterlv, Mrs.
Grace Russell, Miss Gertrude Houk,
Miss Dorothy Abbott, and Miss
Ruth Lane.
Mrs. Walter Barnes,' Mrs. Alfred
Schroff, Miss Eunice Zimmerman,
and Miss Florence Alden presided
at the tea service. During the re
ceiving hours Madame Rose Mc
Grew sang, and Miss Esther Chris
tensen gave several piano selec
tions.
FRITZ LEIBER’S PRESENTATIONS
AROUSE CAMPUS DISCUSSION
(By DARRELL LARREN)
Eugene’s brief season of Shakes
peare is over. The reaction to it
is in many ways as interesting as
were the performances themselves,
and the favorable discussion and
interest occasioned by Mr. Leiber’s
visit is most gratifying to lovers of
the classic drama. Eugene was well
pleased, and rightly so, with the
plays given Saturday.
Although three hundred years
have elapsed since Shakespeare
created “The Melancholy Dane,”
it took only this one performance
to start countless fraternity fire
side discussions on the old question
as to whether or not Hamlet is in
sane. The Bacon controversy has
even been re-opened by some, and
all in all the aftermath has been a
most pleasant one.
The performance of “The Three
Musketeers” was refreshing and
delightful, and Mr. Leiber played
D’Artagnan with a vigor and
dash that was perhaps a bit sur- j
prising to a Eugene that had
known him only as Macbeth. He
is a casual genius—a talent that
shines best through its very non
chalance—and this quality was of
the greatest advantage in the por
trayal of the dare-devilish, sucepti
bte and lovable Gascon.
He leaped through the window in
true Fairbanks manner, and rollick
ed through the part with verve and
vitality. His ability as a come
dian was also demonstrated in
D’Artagnan, but at times he sac
rified atmosphere for the laugh it
self. The comedy used was for the
most part that of the twentieth
century, his side quips and slang
being, in the main, modernisms
which were out of period.
This criticism, however, does not
apply to his two comedy men, Rob
ert Strauss and Joseph Singer, who
play Planchet and Boniface. Their
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onrTK
TO BE HELD HERE
Old Line Contest Try-outs
Will Be Held January 31;
All Students Eligible
SUBJECTS ARE GENERAL
Nine Schools Enter Meet
At Monmouth to Decide
Championship of .State
Try-outs for the Old Line ora
torical contest at Monmouth, March
13, will be held on the campus, Jan
uary 31, at which time the Oregon
speaker will be chosen. Nine
schools are entered for the contest
at Monmouth which will decide the
state oratorical championship for
the year.
“All students enrolled in the Uni
versity, including freshmen are
eligible to try out for the place ns
Oregon's representative 'at the con
test,” said Oscar A. Brown, foren
sics coach. “The only require
ments are that the orations be writ
ten and memorized by January 31.”
Large Turnout Desired
“Any general topic may be used
for the orations, said Brown, but
subjects of vital interest shoutd be
chosen, especially those in which
the students themseilves are inten
ely interested and in which they
hlave personal experience or con
victions.”
Coac.h H. E. Bosson' stressed the
importance of a large turnout for
the local competition. For years
ths contest has been the big foren
sic meet of the year in University
interest, he said. There are many
students in the University who are i
talented speakers but who haven’t]
the time for debate work. These j
students would find oratory an in- j
teresting activity, he said.
Increased Interest Shown
Increased interest is being taken
bv colleges throughout the state in
forensics this year as is shown by
the agitation of several schools for
more contests of an oratorical or
extemporaneous character. Several
school's have increased their coach
ing and teaching staffs and a close
competition is promised by the local
coaches in the meet this year.
Ephraim Conway represented Ore
gon in the Old Line contest last
year in which lie won second place.
The winner of the jlocal tryouts
will receive the aid of the coach
ing staff in finishing his oration
and in delivery in order that he may
be prepared to do his best in the
state contest.
The Old Line contest is held un
der the auspices of the Intercol
legiate Oratorical Association of
Orelgon. The schools who will be
represented at the meet are: Ore
gon, Oregon Agricultural college,
Willamette university, Linfield col
lege, Albany college, Oregon State
Normal school, Pacific university,
Pacific college and Eugene Bible
university.
JANES TAKES POSITION
WITH MORNING ASTORIAN
Theodore Janes, former school of
journalism student, is at present
employed on the Morning Astorian
as telegraph editor. Janes was on
the Emerald staff while on the cam
pus’ and is a member of Sigma Delta
Chi, men’s national journalism fra
ternity. He was representative for
the Oregon chapter at the national
meeting held at Bloomington and
Indianapolis, Indiana, in Novem
ber, 1924.
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ELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT
Chase Inn of the International
Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta
Phi announces the election to
membership of:
David B. Evans
Herbert M. Graham
Roy G. Bryson
Edward W. Grant
Frank P. Keenan
Edward C. Kelly
Robert T. Mautz
Ernest N. Robertson
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VARSITY WINS
earn tilt
Willamette Defeated by 63
to 31 Score Saturday;
Team Has Good Offense
PACIFIC GAME IS FRIDAY
Quintet Strengthened With
Return of Gillenwaters;
Louie Anderson Dons Suit
The Oregon basketball quintet I
stepped to the front last Saturday
and soundly trounced the* Willam
ette basketeers by a 6,1-31 score.
Before the start of the contest, the
Bearcats were favorekl to defeat
the varsity by a small margin.
In the Saturday tilt, the Oregon
offense proved to be its defense.
Running at top-speed, the varsity
forwards kept, the Bearcats in their
own court the greater part of the j
game, and held the opposition to |
11 points. However, the varsity
defense weakened somewhat when
it was pressed back under its own
basket.
Okerberg is Star
Rov Okerberg was the star of the
Oontest, scoring 22 points. He is j
capably filling the gap left open by j
the graduation of “Hunk” Latham.
Although Ted Gillenwaters played
but a few minutes, he showed the
same scrap and ab.ility at checking
that won him a letter last year.
.Tost and Gunther also performed
under fire in a creditable manner.
Chiles was the only substitute used
at forward. “Swede” Westergren
played a fair floor game but plainly
showed lack of experience in drop
ping back on the defense.
The game was featured through
out with short passing combina
tions. However, the zone-defense
system was not used to its full ef
fectiveness.
Official Season Opened
This game officially opened the !
192!) season for the Oregon five, j
Willamette is a member of the j
Northwest conference.
On Friday, the team plays Paci
fic. The Badgers are not rated very
high, inasmuch as the Multnomah
club defeated them with little dif
ficulty. The Willamette squad de
feated Multnomah, so the contest
should not prove £o be a hard one.
The Pacific tilt, will serve the
purpose of a practice game to bring i
out the improvements in the Ore- |
gon defense made this week.
The varsity will be strengthened
by the addition of two new men
to the squad. Ted Gillenwaters is
now turning out regularly. Louie
Anderson is also out and with a lit
tle more practice, he should prove
to be a valuable cog in the Oregon
machine.
The forward part of thel Oregon
five is being well cared for by Hob
son and Rowans, with Okerberger
playing at the tip-off position, and
with Earl Chiles ready to sub as
forward.
By the end of this week the var
sity should swing into a mid-season
steady form, capable of giving any
conference quintet a good battle.
JOURNALISM GRADUATE
ACCEPTS NEW POSITION
Maurice Hyde, ’17, graduate of
the school of journalism, formerly
advertising manager of Lipman,
Wolf & Co., is now with the adver
tising department of the Emporium
in San Francisco, and expects to
locate there permanently.
Mr. Hyde was editor of the Ore
gana in 1916, was elected to Sigma
Delta Chi, men’s national honorary
journalism fraternity, and is an
honorary member of Alpha Delta
Sigma, advertising fraternity. He
worked on the Guard. Register,
Stanfield Standard, Oregonian, and
San Francesco Bulletin before go
ing to Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
Mr. Hyde’s former assistant at
Lipman, Wolfe & Co., was Harry
Smith, ’22, who ia now advertising
manager for Montgomery, Ward &
Co., Portland.
Senior Ball Tickets
To Continue on Sale
Remainder of Week
Beginning at 9 o ’clock today,
tickets for the Senior ball will
be obtained at the library. The
attendance to tho ball is limited
and it is advisable, declared the
committee in charge, that those
wishing to attend, buy tickets as
soon as possible.
“ Tho Senior Ball will estab
lish a now precedent,’'’ states Ed
Bohlman, chairman of the deco
rations. “In every way it will
bo unusual;’’
The feature will be presented
by Victor Potroff, formerly of
the Imperial Opera in the Petro
grad. Ilis ballet consists of
four dancers and his partner.
Their own pianist will accompany
them. The dances included in
their program will be the Rus
sian Mushik Dance, the Pavlowa
Gavotte, which was made famous
by her. Divertisments and en
cores will also be given. The
features will have the same elab
orate atmosphere that character
izes the ball as a whole.
All details of the ball are be
ing given exacting attention, said
Ed. Bohlman. Attendants who
serve the dinner, redolent of old
Russia and consisting of viands
from anchovies to gay cakes,
will be in Russian costume.
The lighting effects will bo
distinctly a departure from those
now in vogue. They will be un
usual, expressing an individual
note of harmony with the decora
tions.
The orchestration will be un
excelled in creating an air in
common with the elaborate tone
of all other features of the ball,
is stated also.
Gallery seats will be sold for
twenty-five cents, is announced
by the ticket committee.
1925 OREGANA DIE
WILL OPEN WEDNESDAY
Students to Be Solicited
For Subscriptions
Plans for the student drive for
subscriptions to tlie 1925 Oregana
have been announced by Gibson
Wright, man'ager of the year book.
The carnpaign will officially e-pen
tomorrow morning and continue un
til Thursday, allowing sufficient
time, it is thought, for all students
who are intending to buy this
year’s annual to deposit the initial
payment.
This year only as many books
will be published as the student
subscriptions indicate, so that in
order to be certain of an Oregana,
it is urged that students purchase
their books Wednesday and Thurs
day. Tomorrow will be the main
lay, and Thursday just for those
who have found it impossible to
get their receipts.
The first payment will be $2.00,
collected during the two days of
the campaign, and the final pay
ment of $2.50 will' be received when
the .Oreganas are published next
May.
Speakers will be around to the
campus organizations during the
dinner hour this evening to “talk
up” the Oregana, and representa
tives are being appointed in each
house to take subscriptions during
the days of the drive. Each living
organization which goes 100 per
cent in the campaign will be given
a free copy of the year-book as a
trophy.
DOUGHNUT SWIMMING
MEET IS NEXT WEEK
Only simple events have been
arranged for the girls’ doughnut
swimming meet to be hejd the lat
ter part of next week. Girls who
are just ordinary swimmers need
have no doubt about turning out
for their house, according to Miss
Harbara Page, swimming instructor
in the physical education depart
ment.
The pool will be open for general
practice on Mondays, Tuesdays and
Fridays from 4 to 5 p. m.; on Wed
nesdays and Thursdays from 3:45
to 4:15. Houses may re(serve the
tank for special practice from 5 to
5:30 p. m. or from 5:30 to 6 p. m.
everv afternoon by arranging pre
viously with Dorothy Evans, head
of the sport.
ENTERTAINMENT IS HELD
FOR CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
A Hoeial meeting of men’s and
women’s glee clubs and the Uni
versity orchestra was held last
night at the new music auditorium
with John Stark Evans and Rex
Underwood, directors of the organi
zations, as joint hosts. lectures
of the three groups were taken for
the Oregana after which a social
hour was held. Refreshments were
served later in th& evening.
UPTON GLOSE TO TALK
ON CHINESE SITUATION
Assembly Speaker to Tell
Of Own Experiences
China and the makers of its his
tory will be introduced to the stu
dent body and faculty at the as
sembly, Thursday, when Upton
Close, equally well know by his
real name of Josef Washington
Hall, will talk on “Adventures in
Chinese Revolutions. ”
Hall is an acknowledged author
ity on China from all angles. His
books describing the land and its
people, its literature and art, are
known among the best, and his lat
est, “In the Land of the Laughing
Buddha," has reached the coveted1
place of ‘ ‘ best seller. ’ ’
When he spoke here last year
Hall was well received and his talk,
describing political leaders and
events in the celestial empire, was
long remembered.
Thursday Hall will discuss, events
leading to and personalities in the
present Chinese situation, together
with its international significance.
He is now on a lecture tour and
will appear in Portland on Jan
uary 16.
UNIVERSITY ASKS LOCATION
OF WAR VICTIMS’ GRAVES
Tlio University of Oregon would
like the inforomation as to the
burial places, whether in the Odd
Fellow, Masonic, or Catholic ceme
teries, of University students and
alumni who lost their lives as a re
sult of the world war, either in ser
vice in France or at home.
Relatives of those mefi, are asked
to give this information either to
Karl Onthank, executive secretary
or to Colin V. Dyment, dean of the
college of liiteaature, science, and
the arts.
EE.il PUT
Til BE TONIGHT
Janet Young, Former Guild
Hall Star, Will Appear
As Star in “You and I"
A. A. U. W. IS SPONSOR
Proceeds Will be Given
To Gift Campaign for
University’s Expansion
Janet Young, dramatic star, will
have a homecoming today. Miss
Young, who takes the leading wo
man ’a part in the benefit play at
the Heilig tonight, has made a not
able success in dramatics since her
graduation ten years ago, and it
was here on the Oregon campus that
she obtained the early training
which opened the way to her pro
gress in theatricals.
It is not so long ago that Miss
young was graduated that there
are not still hundreds of town and
campus people' who remember her
distinctly from' the time when she
was active in th'e old’ Eutaxian lit
erary society, when she was an of
ficer in the drama club, and a fre
quent participant in Guild hall
theatricals under Processor Beddie.
She is a member of Delta Gamma
women’s fraternity, and many of
the members of that organization
who huvo (been numbered yamong
the graduates in the last few years
are looking, forward with more
than usual expectation to seeing
the former Oregon star tonight.
Flay is; Comedy
The credit is given Misa Young
herself for persuading Mr. Olson of
the Moroni Olson company to do
nate ■ the services of his whole com
pany here tonight for the benefit
of the University gift campaign. It
is Miss Ybung’s loyal offering to
her alma mater. The play itself,
dramatic critics say, is well worth
seeing* even aside from the fact
that, it is in the nature of a bene
fit for the University. Philip
Barry, the author of “You and I,”
won the- playwriting. prize with it
at Harvard in 1922. Since then
the professional production of this
clover eomody has been warmly re
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HEADS OF COMMITTEES
TO MEET WEDNESDAY
A meeting of the heads of the
Women’s League convention com
mittee will be held Wednesday
at 5 o'clock in room 104, Journalism
building. Complete committees will
be announced, and plans for the
convention discussed. The members
are asked to bring all their ideas
and have them organized, ready to
submit in the meeting.
Chairmen of the various commit
tees are Rebecca Ireland, Marie
Myers, Ellen McClellan, ' Mabel
Armitage, Alberta McMonies, Anna
DeWitt and Elizabeth Cady, with
Mary Jane Hathaway head of the
convention.
FENCING, SPORT OF CAVALIERS,
HAS MANY CAMPUS FOLLOWERS
(By W. P.)
En Garde! A clash of steel, ah
touche, and the jilted lover is re
venged. No, not Sabatini, just the
dream of an arstwhile “pigger’’ as
he signs up in Oregon’s newest, or
rather oldest sport, the sport of
Cavaliers, fencing.
“Fencing is truly a regal pas
time, and kingly in its benefits. No
other sport requires such a co-or
dination of mind and muscle, such
speed and agility, such balance of
body, and no sport can offer the
splendid opportunity for grace and
aesthetic satisfaction,’’ so states
an instructor on the coaching
staff.
With a'ready twenty-five men
signed up and a competent coach
ing staff every indication is given
[ that a future for this sport is as
sured at Oregon.
Fencing is a major sport at both
West Point and Annapolis, and a
major-minor sport at Stanford, and
California has adopted it as a min
or. Cornell maintains a training
table for its swordsmen, and vari
ous eastern colleges have a budget
of from one to three thousand dol
lars for their fencing department.
Oregon will teach the French
method, based on concentration,
agility, grace, and the very highest
degree of mental and physical co
ordination. To the French, fenc
ing offers satisfaction of the desire
for personal combat and satisfac
tion of desire for individual su
premacy. It eliminates the brute
element in strife.
Darrell L»rson, of the dramatics
department, declares it is an in
valuable adjunct to any one follow
ing the stage. He says that it is
an important part of the eurricu
I lum of Continental schools of
■ drama.
The novice must become famiJ
' iar with such terms as “ea
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