VOLUME XXVI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1925
NUMBER 70
OREGON QUINTET
TO MEET AGGIES
■Varsity Hoopsters Prepare
For Important Game At
Corvallis on Saturday
STANDINGS ARE GIVEN
Contest Will Determine
Which School Has Best
Chance in Pennant Race
Pacific Coast Conference Standings
W. L.
Oregon Aggies . 3 1 |
Washington .....2 1
Montana * . 1 4
Montana opponents .4 1
Oregon .0 1
Washington State .0 1
Idaho .0 1
Northwest Conference Standings
W. L.
Oregon Aggies .8 1 i
Washington .7 1
Oregon .6 1
Washington State .4 1
Idaho .:.3 2
Montana .2 4
Whitman . 3 8
Gonzaga . 1 <5
Pacific .4 j.
Willamette .0 6 |
*As Montana does not play the !■
same number of games with each j'
team in the Pacific, coast confer- I
ence, its scores do not count in ).
tabulating the standings of its op- j
ponents. Montana’s own standings,
however, are tabulated.. Montana’s
games count in the Northwest con
ference, however.
This week’s games in the Paei
■ fic coast conference:
Saturday—Oregon versus Oregon j
Aggies at Corvallis; Washington ■
State versus Washington at Seattle. !
Undaunted by their defeat in a j
torrid encounter with the Huskies
last Saturday night, the Oregon '
varsity is now preparing for a hard
battle with the Aggies this week
end. This contest promises to be
one of the outstanding tilts of the
season. Inasmuch as Washington, >
O. A. C. and Oregon have each
dropped one game, the result of the j
■contest between Oregon and the j'
Aggies will no doubt eliminate or
seriously handicap one of the Ore- J
gon teams in the coast conference!
race.
Oregon Gets Lead
The 33-29 score between the var- i
sity and Huskies is a rather indi
cation of the closeness of the game.
Oregon started out with a lead and
held the advantage till close to the
l end of the first period. However,
-the northern team opened up with
a speedy offense in the final min
utes of the initial half and gained
the lead and from that time until
the end of the game, Washington
was fighting desperately to retain
the upper hand of the tilt.
Oregon Has Chance
The loss of this game will not
hamper the Oregon basketeers in j
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BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT
SENDS IDT INQUIRIES
The status of the teaching of bi
ology in the state is being deter
mined by means of questionnaires.
These questionnaires have been sent
to the high schools of the state
by Miss Vesta Holt, instructor in
zoology.
The questionnaire seeks to dis
cover the character of the course
and to learn what are its aims.
Data is asked concerning the lab
oratory equipment and the biologi
cal library. The preparation of the
instructor of the science is being
asked.
Prompt replies to the 232 inquir
ies are returning to the depart
ment. High schools wherein there
are two teachers are mailed these
queries.
The class in the teaching of bi
ology will compile the results of
the investigations. These results
■will probably be published.
Number of Stars
Not Determined,
Says Astronomer
Professor E. H. McAlister, of
the mechanics and astronomy de
partment, believes that the nor
mal eye can see 5,000 stars at a
glance. A person whose eyes are
well trained can see 10,000.
“Some stare never come on this
side of the equator,” said Profes
sor McAlister. Besides, one sees
but half the sky at a time, as the
other half is on the other side
of the world.
“As to the actual number of
stars in the sky, no one has de
termined. We do know, though,
that several hundreds of millions
can be seen at the Lick observa
tory in California and the Terkes
observatory, owned by the Uni
versity of Chicago, which have
the two largest telescopes in the
world.
CHEMIST TO LECTURE
TONIGHT FOR LAYMEN
Relation to Other Sciences
Speaker’s Topic
Dr. Alexander Williams, secre
tary of the American Chemical So
ciety committee, which will award
essay contest prizes involving
$6,000, will speak before students
and faculty in Alumni hall at 7:30
this evening. “Chemistry in Sci
ence, Economics, and Politics,” will
be the subject of his discussion.
The society is offering six $20
prizes to high school students in
each state as well as six four-year
scholarships to Yale and Vassal-,
each scholarship carrying $500 a i
rear and tuition for four years.
Besides, six prices of $1,000 have
been provided for students of col
legiate grade.
The contest does not seek to add ,
materially to the numbers of those
engaged in chemistry as a profes
sion, nor to lay undue stress upon
'hemistry as a science, but rather
to encourage students to know
more about chemistry without nec
essarily engaging upon the serious
study of the science itself, to real
ize the cultural value of such study
and with this introduction to be
come interested in a fuller acquaint
ance with other natural sciences.
INDIA WILL BE TOPIC
AT COSMOPOLITAN CLUB
Indian in all details, in decora
tions, discussions and refreshments,
will be the atmosphere of the Cos
mopolitan club meeting tonight in
the Y. W. bungalow at 7:30 o'clock.
The addresses will be given by
students who have lived in India.
Satya Deve Loompa, of Jaloun,
India, will discuss the economic and
political conditions of his country.
Daljit Singh Sadharia, a sophomore
in the political science department,
movement in India. The social con
ditions will be discussed in an ad
dress by Sylvia Hurd, who has re
cently returned from a missionary
position. The speakers will wear
Indian costumes. Indian Refresh
ments will be served after the talks.
COMMERCE FRATERNITY
ELECTS FOUR MEMBERS
At a meeting held last week, Al
pha Kappa Psi, national profes
sional commerce fraternity, elected
Richard Chaffer, Maurice Warnock,
, Steele Winterer and Kenneth
Stephenson to membership. The
organization is active in the field
of commerce and endeavors to main
tain contacts between the school of
business administration and the
business world.
Kappa chapter of the national at
| present consists of eleven under
I graduate majors in business admin
1 istration and four members of the
; faculty. Professors A. L. Lomax,
j F. A. Nagley, C. C. Myers, and E.
E. Davison.
Members are chosen on a four
point basis of personality, activity,
scholarship in the school, and poten
tial leadership in business.
TO GIVE ‘KEMPY’
Three-act Modern Comedy
By J. C. and Elliot Nugent
Will Be Presented Soon
PROMINENT CAST CHOSEN
Play Entertains Broadway
Audiences With Clever
Speeches and Situations
Mask and Buskin chapter of Pi
Epsilon Delta, national honorary
dramatic fraternity, has selected
“Kempy” by J. C. and Elliot
Nugent, the big hit in New York
two seasons ago, as the play which
they will present at the Heilig
theatre, February 26.
“Kempy” is a three act modern
comedy written by two of the most
famous vaudeville skit writers of
the day, and therefore does not de
pend entirely upon situations to
ereate comedy. The lines of “Kem
py” were clever and humorous
enough to amuse Broadway’s most
critical audienees for nearly a year.
It was only recently released by the
publishers for amateur production.
Wilson Has Comedy Bole
The cast for “Kempy” has been
selected by Norvell Thompson, the
director, from among some of the
most prominent Guild theatre ac
tors who are members of Mask and
Buskin. Gordon Wilson will have
the chief comedy role as the “pen
ny-pinching” father of three mar
rigeable daughters. Walter Mal
colm takes the part of Kempy, the
plumber’s assistant with ambitions
to be an architect, who marries the
heroine, Jane BoDine, and at the
same time falls in love with his sis
ter-in-law Ruth, played by Betty
Kerr.
Barney McPhillips will be the
real estate salesman who has mar
ried the oldest of the three sisters,
played by Helga McGrew. Helen
Park will take the part of the moth
er of the group of sisters, and Clif
ford Zehrimg will be the former
suitor to the hand of the heroine,
who, in the final “clinch,” has her
restored to his arms.
James Leake Manager
Following in the steps of former
Mask and Buskin successes,
“Kempy” will be given at the
Heilig theatre but one performance,
the evening of February 26. Last
year the A. A. Milne play, “The
Dover Road” was presented with
great success before a large campus
audience, and this year’s perform
ance is therefore expected to draw
an unusually large attendance.
The business management of the
play will be handled by James
Leake.
F. S. DUNN TO ADDRESS
LATIN CLUB AT SALEM
Professor Frederick S. Dunn,
I head of the Latin department, left
i for Salem yesterday, to address the
| Latin club of the Salem high school.
1 Professor Dunn’s lecture, which
I will be illustrated, will be on the
subject of “Julius Caesar and His
i Monuments.”
i' The lecture will uescribe the
'monuments and structured of Jul
! ius Caesar, some of which were' not
I finished before his assassination.
Most of these were completed by his
successor, Augustus Caesar. Illus
trations will show where the monu
! ments stood, and how the ruins look
I today.
Some of the buildings to be shown
will be the Senate House, after
wards used as a church; the the
atre, which is still standing and is
now known as the theatre of Mar
eellus; the town haU; and the ros
trum from which speeches were dc
; livered, situated in the Forum.
MBS. McCLAIN TO 8PEAK
AT COLLEGIUM AUGUST ALE
Mrs. Mable McClain, of the Uni
i versity library, will be the speaker
at the meeting of Collegium Augus
^ale, tonight at 7:30 p. m.
California Club
Will Hold “Skate”
Thursday Night
Promptly at 7:30 o’clock Thurs
day evening, all students from
i California will gather in front of
the Peter Pan, from whence they
will proceed to the Winter Gar
den, where a skating party will
be held.
This will be the first social
affair to be held by the Califor
nia club this year—a 11 social
skate.” The club is being re
ogranized, and a dance will be
given later.
All students who either live in
California or have lived in that
state are invited to take a part
in the festivity Thursday night.
FRE-D SMITH TO GIVE
ASSEMBLY ADDRESS
Lecture First of Series By
Y. M. C. A. Leader
A student committee oif one hun
dred, headed by Bob Mautz, is tak
ing charge of the series of lectures
to be given on the campus this
week by Fred B. Smith, nationally
known Y. M. C. A. leader.
Mr. Smith will arrive on the cam
pus Thursday from, the University
of Washington where he is con
ducting a series of lectures the
first three days of this week. He
will make his first appearance here
at the regular assembly in an ad
dress, “Fundamental Education.”
Thursday night at an all-tlniver
sity meeting, the visitor will speak
on “Is America a Great Nationf"
On Friday he will speak on “The
World Outlook—Peace or War,
Brotherhood or Be volution.” At
noon the student committee will en
tertain Mr. Smith at a luncheon at
the “Y” hut, and Friday' evening
the faculty members and adminis
trative staff and their wives will
have the speaker as their guest at
a dinner to be served in the sun
parlor of the Woman’s building.
“The interest shown by the stu
dent and faculty is very gratify
ing,” said H. W. Davis, student
pastor.
D0JI6H1T HANDBALL
BEGIN
The next sport to appear on the
doughnut schedule will be handball.
Several entries have been handed
in at the physical education depart
ment but all others expecting to
enter will have to make arrange
ments by Thursday, iP’ebru'iVry 5.
The drawings will be made at that
time and a posting of the result
will be made on the bulletin board
in the men’s gymnasium.
The teams scheduled to play will
have right of way over all others
for use of the handball courts. The
first round will start on Monday
and will run through to Friday of
next week.
The tournament will be run off
on the straight elimination basis. A
series of three games will be played
with the winner of the first two out.
of the three staying in the running.
The team garnering 21 points first
will be regarded as the winner. The
service game shall be used only by
unanimous agreement. There will
be no referee in evidence at tho
matches
A more detailed statement of the
rules and regulations regarding the
tournament will be posted on the
bulletin board in the men’s gym
nasium.
Pot and Quill elects the fol
lowing to membership:
Mrs. Alice Henson Ernst
Mrs. Kathleen Clark
Mary Jo Shelley
Margaret Clarke
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ART OF PRINTING
TO BE DISCUSSED
John Henry Nash Will Be
Speaker At Newspaper
Conference Next Month
DATES ARE MARCH 13-14
Topics Will Include All
Phases of Subject of
Commercial Printing
The are and business of print
ing in its various phases, commer
cial and manufacturing, historical
Land qualitative, will be one of the
(leading subjects on the program for
the seventh annual Oregon news
! paper conference to be held at the
| school of journalism on March 13
and 14. Other leading* topics will
be in the fields of advertising, edi
torial problems, and circulation.
John Henry Nash of San Fran
cisco, who is declared by Dean Eric
W. Allen of the school of jour
nalism, to be one of the three or
four most successful quality print
ers in the United States, has been
obtained by the program committee
to lead o£f on the subject of qual
ity and start the discussion of the
market for the highest grade of
work.
“Mr. Nash has more interesting
things to say about printing than
any other man I ever met,!” says
Dean Allen. “By his fellow print
ers of California he is regarded as
absolutely in a class by himself. He
is, so far as I know, the only
printer who has ever been granted
an honorary degree for the perfec
tion and effectiveness of his work.
Mr. Nash was recently honored in
this way by Mills college.
Work Done Alone
“Mr. Nash’s shop_ is a little one
man affair. Here he works with
his own hands without any large
supporting organization, yet he has
made his name known throughout
the world wherever experts discuss
the work of great printers, Guten
berg, Jenson, Aldus, Elzevir, Cax
ton and John of Spires.
“Mr. Nash has a vault in his
shop and in this he has collected a
‘printer’s working library,’ as he
calls it, consisting of copies of fa
mous books, examples of the finest
printing the world contains, and
books about the technique and his
itory of printing. He often pays
' $800 to $1,500 for a single volume,
for such books are rare ,and are
'eagerly competed for by collectors.
Studies in Europe
' “On occasional trips to Europe,
Mr. Nash spends his time among
the high-grade printshops of Ant
werp, Leipzig, Paris and Venice and
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AQUATIC TEAM TO MEET
WINGED M FEBRUHRY 21
With the return of Norman Burk,
star swimmer to the lineup, Oro
■ gon’s tank team will be at full l
strength for its meet with the Mult
nomah club on February 21. Burk;
has been confined to the infirmary j
but has completely recovered from
his illness.
Oregon’s team is stengthened with
Burk in the lineup. Without the
sprint star the varsity was able
only to tic the clubmen. Oregon
will have better chances in the
home tank.
Rudolph Fahl, coach of the swim
ming team, is attempting to line up
meets with Washington, California
and Stanford and should he secure
any more meets, the varsity will
have its best schedule in years. In
previous years Oregon has been
limited to a pair of meets with the
Aggies.
STUDENTS ABE OFFERED
LOW BATES FOB TOUB
McGill University.—A tour of
Europe at the flat rate of $330 is
being offered to students at Mc
Gill university. This includes
Btop-overg at all important cities
and ten university centers.
Ground Hog Sees
Shadow is Claim
Of S. A. E. Mascot
“Six more weeks of winter,”
said the S. A. E. dog talking to
his friend of the Kappa Sigma
house.
“How come, Noble old top?”
“Well, I was watching for the
ground-hog yesterday and-”
“I intended to do that too, but
I was ou| late the night before
and didn’t wake up until late in
the afternoon. He saw his shad
ow, did he?”
“Nothing else but, Caesar.
And you know what that means,
don’t you?”
“Do yon think I have lived
twenty years for nothing? That
old ground-hog idea is just like
the traditions here at Oregon.”
“How’s that?”
“Never known ’em to fail.”
SIXTY-EIGHT STUDENTS
NEGLECT TO PUT FEES
Penalty for Late Payment
Will Be Enforced
Sixty-eight students failed to pay
their fees by noon Saturday and as
a result must pay an additional
three dollars, plus 25 cents for each
extra day of delay nfter Monday.
Since several of those included in
these figures have withdrawn from
school without filing cards, and
others are. intending to withdraw,
the total will probably be smaller.
At the present time it shows a
marked decrease over the total for
last term.
The extension of the fee-paying
period this term to 10 days, proved
very effective, according to em
ployees of the business office. The
last day rush was cut down from
000 last term to a little over 200
this term.
Another improvement has been in
the matter of “N. S. F.” checks.
Tho evil has practically- disap
peared, it is reported, four or five
being the maximum received so far.
Compared with last term's record,
when over $1,000 worth of checks
not covered by sufficient funds were
received, the change is a bright one,
according to those in charge of fee
collecting.
On the whole, they state, the stu
dents were responsive to their re
duest for early action. Those who
did not pay on time are urged to do
so at once. They will be allowed
until the end of the week to set
tle accounts, after which period
they will be suspended automati
cally. Notices are now being mailed
to those who were delinquent in
paying.
RADIO LECTURER WILL
DISCUSS GIRLS’ CLUBS
A radio program broadcasted by
KGW, the Oregonian’s station in
Portland, will be heard on the cam
nus tonight at 8 o’clock in room
121, Woman’s building.
The central feature of the even
ing will be a lecture by Miss Helen
Cowgill, of Corvallis. Miss Cow
gill, who is president of the Girl's
and Women’s clubs and a prominent
social worker in the West, will
speak on the subject of “Girl’s1
Clubs and their Place in the Com
munity.”
Following the address, a program
of dance music from various sta
tions will be given. This enter
tainment is open to the entire cam
pus and townspeople.
Y. W. C. A. FRESHMAN
HOLD MEETING TODAY
The Freshman Commission holds
its first meeting, sinee it has been
fully organized, at the Bungalow at
5:00 today. Talks will be given
under the general heading of “How
to live on 24 hours a day.” Mary
Clerin will give a piano solo.
Mary Donaldson, vice-president of
the Y. W. C. A.j has charge of the
talks and Virginia Lee Richardson,
Marie Palo, and Norma Stamp will
assist her. Dorothy Dougall, newly
elected president of the commission
will preside.
JUIUIES JOHNSON
wins mr-BUT
Law Sc h o o I Sophomore
Will Speak in Old Line
0 r a t or y Competition
NINE COLLEGES IN MEET
Plans- for Peace Contest
Being Developed; Event
Scheduled for April 3
James Johnson, sophomore in the
law school, was chosen as winner
of the Old Line oratory try-out held
yesterday in Villard hall. He will
represent the University in the Old
Line Oratory contest to be held at
Monmouth on March 13. Nine
schools and colleges will compete
there for .the state oratorical cham
pionship.
Oscar E. Brown, H, E. Rosson and
E. \V. Merrill acted as judges for
the eliminations.
Seven Try-out
The contest is sponsored by the
Inter-collegiate Oratorical associa
tion 'of Oregon. Aspirants for the
try-outs were allowed a liberal
choice of subjects, but limited to
1,500 words in length.
Other students entered in the try
outs were: E. D. Conway, Elam
Amsttitz, Lincoln Erwin, Truman
Rether, Frances Cherry and Ernest
Hendrickson.
The tryout was won last year by
E. D. Conway, who placed second
in the contest at Monmouth.
Peace Contest Planned
Plans are being developed, states
Oscar E. Brown, debate coach, for
the Peace oratory contest which
will be held on April 3. Try-outs
for this event are scheduled for
February 24.
“Speeches should be limited to
1,800 words,” said Mr. Brown, “and
should bear on some definite phase
of international peace.”
The Peace oratory contest is a
national organization and is spon
sored in the state of Oregon by the
Inter collegiate Oratorical associa
tion.
Two prizes will be offered, the
first of $75 and the second of $50,
for the two best orations. About
nine colleges will be entered in this
competition.
A copy of the winning oration
will be sent to the national head
quarters of the Peace Contest or
ganization, to be judged in a final
competition for thought and com
position.
The Peace oratory contest is held
in many colleges throughout the
United States to promote interest
on the matter in student bodies for
developing a solution of the prob
lem of international peace.
ANNUAL DM BULL
Til BE GIVEN FRIDAY
The annual colonial ball of the
local Lewis and Clarke chapter of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution is to be given Friday
evening at the Armory. Students
and faculty are invited to be pres
ent at this occasion.
The order of the evening will be
varied by sevaral features of a
colonial nature. The hostesses are
to be dressed in the style of the
colonial period. The ball will not,
however, be a costume affair for
others.
Mrs. Bruce L. Bogart, who is
chairman of the committee in charge
of the affa.ir, will lead the grand
march and members of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolultion
will act as hostesses.
Tickets are $1.00 a couple for danc
ing and may be obtained at the
door or from any member of the
organization. Tickets will also be
sold for 25 cents to any who wish
to watch the ball from the gallery.