VOLUME XXVI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY. MARCH 6. 1925
NUMBER 92
THETA CHI WILL
INSTALL TODAY
Phi Sigma Pi to Become
Alpha Sigma Chapter
0f National Fraternity
MEMBERSHIP TOTALS 67
Elaborate Program Planned
For Entertainment of
Installation Committee
The Alpha Sigma chapter of the
Theta Chi national fraternity, for
merly the Phi Sigma Pi local, will
be installed on the Oregon campus
this week-end. The first part of
the formal installation ceremonies
will be held in the chamber of
commerce hall today between 1:00
and 4:00 p. m. will be conducted
by an installation committee headed
by J. E. H. Simpson Jr. of Portland,
a member of Sigma chapter.
A smoker “in which a bunch of
the boys will whoop it up at the
Malamute Saloon” will be held at
the College Side Inn this evening
at 9 o’clock, as the second feature
on the program for the week-end.
Banquet to be Saturday
On Saturday morning at ten
o’clock the active members of the
newly chartered fraternity, ■ the in
stalling committee, and the alumni
of Phi Sigma Pi will assemble in
the chamber of commerce reception
hall, where the latter will be of
ficially Tecognized as alumni of
Theta Chi. A banquet Saturday
evening at the Osburn hotel, at
6:30, and a reception at the Crafts
men club in honor of the visiting
installation committee, Sunday af
ternoon, at 4:00 p. m., will complete
the ceremony.
ytn bigma Pi was organized No
vember 11, 1920, as a local organi
zation with 16 charter members. At
the present time there is a total
membership of 67, both active and
alumni, not including four pledges
who are yet to be initiated. Pres
ent officers of the organization
are: Hue Mowrey, president; George
Boss, vice-president; Milton Peter
son, corresponding secretary; Prank
lioggan, recording secretary; Emer
son Haggerty, treasurer; and Lewis
Beeson, manager. Officers to serve
under the new Theta Chi charter
will be elected Saturday afternoon,
national 68 Years Old
Theta Chi national fraternity, of
which the local Alpha Sigma will
be the 41st chapter, was organized
at Norwich university, Vermont, 68
years ago, and has chapters in many
of the leading colleges and univer
sities in this country, and boasts of
a total membership of over 6,000
men.
Extensive preparations for the in
stallation ceremonies which will
commence today, have been made
by the local chapter, and an elab
orate program of entertainment for
the installation committee planned.
Members of the committee who will
conduct the ceremonies of tomor
row are: J. E. H. Simpson Jr.,
chairman, Portland; Bernard A.
Mcllhaney, Nu, travelling secre
(Continued cm page three)
Frosh Glee Dance
At 8:30 Saturday
To Be Semi-formal
, As has been the precedent in
former years the Freshman Glee
will be a semi-formal affair. The
women will be asked to come for
mally attired and it will be op
tional with the men of the upper
classes.
Work is progressing rapidly on
the elaborate decorative scheme,
and daily the assurance of a most
successful evening grows.
The green cappers again an
nounce that they are to be the
hosts to the other classes and
the dance is without charge.
A most novel and appropriate
feature is promised. The chair
man of this feature committee
most emphatically states that it
will be entirely different than
anything ever before seen on the
campus and that it will be very
difficult to surpass this feature
in uniqueness and brilliance. Del
bert Faust, very prominent in the
entertainment line on the cam
pus, will be featured in this act,
and with his professional and
finished talent he has promised to
surpass himself in it.
ARISTOTLE’S DOCTRINE
SUBJECT (IF PAPER
J. E. A. Johnstone Addresses
Philosophy Club
By interpretation of Aristotle’s
doctrine of the mean, we arrive at
the conclusion that beauty consists
in harmony, J. E. Ainsworth John
stone brought out in his paper, read
before the Philosophy club, Wed
nesday night. Virtue lies in unity,
blending the qualities of soul. The
condition of the soul is rational and
systematic, existing in proportion to
the highest good.
Virtue, Mr. Johnstone continued,
is a mean between the two ex
tremes. Virtue is not tepid, for it
includes enthusiasm. Every act is
an act of the whole personality.
Preception and truth are not a for
mula.
Aristotle’s doctrine of means has
undergone a number of changes by
the various world powers. It was
reduced by the Greeks, popularized
by the Roman romaniticists, and
finally, mutilated by middle age
historians. Following the delivery
of the paper, club members and
guests discussed the subject for the
remainder of the evening.
GLEE CLUB MANAGER
TAKES BUSINESS TRIP
James Leake, glee club manager,
left yesterday morning on a four
day’s trip to arrange dates for ap
pearances of the Men’s and Wo
men’s glee club and the Univer
sity orchestra, during spring vaca
tion. He will visit Albany, Salem,
Portland, Longview, St. Helens, and
Astoria.
The glee clubs will probably sing
at Albany and Salem, while the or
chestra, it is expected, will appear,
at Longview, St. Helens, and As
toria.
OPPORTUNITIES NOT GRASPED
BY OREGON STUDENT IS CLAIM
“The students on this campus do
not take their opportunities for
leadership; at least, if they do,
they never make the most of them,”
declared Katherine Butterfield,
graduate assistant in the school of
sociology, in a recent interview.
She was setting forth some of her
impressions regarding this campus
and Northwestern university, which
she attended on a scholarship and
from which she graduated.
“Students stress social affairs
much more here, and yet they do
not take as great an interest in ac
tivities, such as Y. W. and Y. M.
and Women’s League. I do not
know why it is, but here, if you ask
someone if they are going to the
Women’s League meeting or the Y.
W. meeting, they say “no”; they
have no intentions of doing so. At
Northwestern, these groups have
their buildings on the campus and
there are always many at the meet
ings.”
Although Northwestern is a much
larger school the spirit among the
students is as great there as here,
said Miss Butterfield. There this
spirit may not be so evident, she
said, since this campus is more cen
tralized than that of Northwestern.
There the campus is divided, many
of the schools being in Chicago,
making it impossible for the stu
dents to get together as they do
here. Each school, or group of
schools, has its own assembly.
Chapel is held three times a week
for half an hour in the morning at
Northwestern, and this custom,
Miss Butterfield thinks, makes it
possible for the students to get to
gether in an easier and more con
venient manner than that used at
Oregon. Each student is required
to attend chapel once a week, and
the other two periods prove very
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AMERICAN POET
Edgar Lee Masters to Read
Selections of Own Poem
‘Spoon River Anthology’
PROGRAM TO BE AT 8 P.M.
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Characters of Chief Work
Constructed on Names
Taken From Tombstones
The fourth of American poets
will appear on the campus Monday
night. Edgar Lee Masters, poet
and lawyer, will read selections
from his “Spoon Eiver Anthology”
and will discuss American poetry
and American poets.
Mr. Masters is, in his own opin
ion, a lawyer first, a poet second.
He has none of the flair and bo
hemian characteristics which are
usually associated with one whose
tendencies turn to poetry. Mr. Mas
ters, in appearance, is in harmony
with his legal profession. He is# a
short man, prone to wear coats
whose length accentuate his brevity
of height. His face is round, and
in a caricature in the Bookman of
August, 1922, one may j notice
a suggestion of rotundity of person.
His high forehead is bulbuous, hair
growing well back from his fore
head. Glasses intensify his modest
reserve and calm aloofness and car
ry out the efficient business-like
mood.
Masters Unlike Sandburg
Masters, though he has lived in
Chicago, is not of the literary
school of the middle western me
tropolis. He has held himself aloof
from the tendencies of such as Carl
Sandburg and Vachel Lindsay
whom Chicago claims as her own.
“Only Masters exists, a magnifi
cent solitary, marooned in a desert
of the arts. If Masters is aware
of the feasts and gambols of the
Society of Midland authors, he
watches them, dike Orusoe, from
concealment, shocked to the soul
at the barbaric pastimes of these
literarv savatres.”
Work Original in Subject
“Spoon River Anthology” is a
book of epitaphic brevities in
verse. It is an original contribu
tion to American literature, and the
numerous imitations pay homage to
the volume.
The people whose names Masters
secured from the tombstones of a
cemetery near his home and whom
he has made live again by his vi
gor of style are characters of any
small town. The village loafer, the
romantic school teacher, the re
turned hero, the drab housewife, are
dramatized and humanized into
compelling pictures of realism.
Tickets on Sale at Co-op
The lecture will be at the Wo
man’s building at eight o’clock
Monday night. The committee in
charge states that the hour was
made late in order that Mr. Mas
ter’s appearance would not inter
fere with house-meetings. Tickets
are being sold at the houses, the
Co-op and at Laraway’s Music
shop.
GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT
TO STUDY FIRE CLAYS
The department of geology may
co-operate with the chamber of
commerce in procuring data con
cerning the economic importance of
certain clays in Lane county, ac
cording to Professor Warren I).
Smith. The chamber of commerce
is now showing samples of tile,
flower pots and fire-brick made
from Lane county clay by J. L.
Hoffman, of Richmond, California.
The class in non-metallie ore de
posits visited 'the collection of
clavware at the chamber of com
merce Tuesday afternoon previous
to a field trip to study the clay
deposits at the Cook place, about
; three miles west of Eugene. Seve
! ral of the samples of fire brick and
tile shown at the chamber of com
j merce were made from clay taken
I from the Cook farm. This property
I is owned by the father of Paul
Cook, a former geology major.
OREGON LOSES FIRST GAME
TO AGGIES BY 15-12 SCORE
Women’s Smoking
Will Be Discussed
By Y.W.C.A. Group
“Shall the women be allowed to
smoke on this campus?” This
question will be thoroughly
thrashed out at the meeting of
Miss Grace Louks’ discussion
gr«up today at 5 o’clock. She
is an expert on T. W. C. A. dis
cussion group work. Miss Louks’
real purpose in holding the dis
cussion is to give the girls point
ers on how a discussion should
be led. Having done research
work in discussion groups at
Columbia university, and led
such organizations in many parts
of the country in her travels,
Miss Louks has many new things
to tell the Oregon women.
“A cordial invitation is ex
tended to any one who is inter
ested in the topic, even if they
do not belong to the group,” said
Ellen McClellan, chairman of the
World Eellowship committee.
FIIIE EX-STUDENTS
NOW TEACH IN CHINA
Canton Christian College
Sends Copy of Paper
Five former Oregon men and wo
men are now teaching at the Can
ton Christian college in Canton,
China, according to a letter re
ceived by the Emerald from Miss
Ida Himes, assistant secretary of
the college. Mrs. Ivan H. Ware,
formerly Miss Helen Hall, and Miss
Amy Dunn, formerly housemother
of Delta Gamma sorority, went to
China together. They spent some
time teaching in the Overseas
school, which is on the Canton cam
pus, but which is conducted only
for foreign bom Chinese whose
parents send them to China for
their education. Miss Wave Lesly
is teaching mathematics and Miss
Gertrude Tolle is teaching phys
ics. Walter K. Belt, who graduated
rrom u. A. C. before taking a year’s
graduate work at Oregon, is teach
ing English on the Canton campus.
A copy of the News Bulletin, pub
lished quarterly by the Canton col
lege was sent with the letter. Miss
Himes suggested that the Canton
group be put on the Emerald ex
change list so that the old Oregon
students would have some connec
tion with their former campus.
ASSEMBLY SPEAKER IS
GUEST AT LUNCHEON
Hr. Miriam Van Waters, who
spoke at assembly yesterday, and
who is superintendent of the juve
nile hall and referee of the juvenile
court in Los Angeles, was the guest
of Dr. F. G. Young, dean of the
school of sociology and a group of
advanced students of the depart
ment, at a luncheon at the Anchor
age yesterday noon.
Dr. Van Waters spoke on the es
sential needs of the social welfare
worker, their problems, and gene
ral work.
As most of the students present
are soon to do similar work, she
endeavored to set before them a pic
ture of what their activities would
require of them.
The life of the social worker is
not a bed of roses, she declared. It
has many ups and downs.
She stressed the absolute neces
sity of having a good personality
and keen common sense. A good
personality, she pointed out, is al
most invaluable. However, even
though these qualities are decidedly
important in the success of a social
worker’s career, they do not carry
the force that they might, and
should, if the worker does not pos
sess a good scientific foundation.
A worker cannot succeed to any
great degree unless he or she pos
sesses this knowledge.
YOUTH PROBLEMS
STATER CREITER
Dr M. Van Waters Declares
Parents Evidence Lack
Of Interest In Children
HOME LIFE IMPORTANT
Returning to the campus of her
Alma Mater in the role of lecturer
has served to make new friends for
Dr. Miriam Van Waters, judging
from the number of students in the
group surrounding her following her
address at assembly yesterday.
The pleasing personality which
has probably played no small part
in her success in juvenile work was
a factor in putting across to her
audience something of her energy
and good will.
In her address on “Youth in Con
flict,” Dr. Van Waters declared
that it is not a lack of parental
control that causes the increasing
number of juvenile delinquents in
the United States. She laughingly
quoted G. Stanley Hall as saying
that the only thing that would
cause the American boy to commit
suicide would be the thought that
he was losing control of his parents.
The trouble is caused, she said,
rather by a lack of interest than by
a lack of control. There is a shift
ing of emphasis from the child and
home to economic problems—to
making a living. In the mind of
the chi 11 whose parents are more
interested in buying a car than
maintaining a home, she said, is
bred a cynicism and a distrust not
only of the parents but of society
in general.
Old Theories Denied
In her experience as a social
worker, Dr. Van Waters said she
has seen the old theories of the
causes for criminals and delin
quents exploded—such theories as
physical peculiarities in the size of
the brain or the length of the arms,
or the mentally retarded. In
dividuals brought before her court,
she says, ail1 of every type—intel
ligent, mentally deficient, under
protected and over-protected—and
the only effective means of treat
ment is to deal with them as in
dividuals, seeking for the cause of
their delinquency.
Dr. Van Waters said that child
ren pick up the emotional flavor of
the home even before they can
speak, and often serious crimes by
children are the result of the at
mosphere created in the home by
the parents. The modern mechani
cal conveniences of the apartment
house rob the child of healthful di
version and the ensuing monotony
results in mischief for the child.
The speaker quoted a famous ju
venile worker as saying that “The
true home of the child lies in the
attitude of the parents toward one
another, possessing common sympa
thies and going toward the same
goal.”
Enthusiasm Heeded
Speaking of the importance of
keeping up the enthusiasm for
charity work after it has once been
established, Dr. Van Waters said.
“The greatest social forces are clear
ideas in the minds of energetic men
and women of good will..” She said
many social workers camo into the
category of fanatics if one defini
tion of the latter was true—“fan
atics are those who redouble their
efforts when they have forgotten
their aim.”
Mrs. Victoria Booth Clibborn
Damarest was present to give the
invocation. An announcement was
made of her meeting for University
girls on Friday at the Armory.
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
STUDENTS WED MONDAY
Claire Wills and Marley C. Lewis,
both sophomores in the business ad
ministration department were mar
ried March 2, at the First Christ
ian church. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis are of Cottage Orove. They
will make their home in Eugene,
and Mrs. Lewis will continue her
work at the University.
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W. A. A. Hike Listed
To Cover Ten Miles
Saturday Morning
An official W. A. A. hike is
scheduled for Saturday morning.
The party will start from the Ad
ministration building at 9 o’clock.
This hike has been especially ar
ranged for tho benefit of those
who lack the required 50 miles
necessary for hiking credit this
term. A definite course has not
been fixed, but Grace Chapman,
who will lead the party, expects
to follow the Loraine highway,
which leads out past the old golf
links south of town. Not more
than ten miles will be covered.
OREGON TO CRIPPLE'
WITH W.S.C. SATURDAY
Match Here Will Be Last on
Wrestling Program
The Oregon wrestling team will
attempt to win theJast meet of the
season when they tackle the Wash
ington State grapplers, Saturday af
ternoon at the men’s gymnasium.
Tho meet is scheduled to start at
2 o’clock.
Last year the varsity took the
Cougars into camp and will try to
repeat. The exact strength of the
visitors is unknown. They defeated
Idaho throe bouts out of five. The
University of Washington took tho
big end of the score from the Cou
gars and Idaho turned the tables
on the Huskies by winning four
out of five bouts. In the first meet
of the season Oregon defeated Ida
ho by taking four bouts.
Oregon’s lineup will be consider
ably strengthened as Ford, the fast
125 pounder, will be back to take
his place on the mat. Ford has
been suffering from cauliflower
ear. Either Wingard or Davis will
go in the 135 pound division. Davis
has been suffering from an injured
toe.
Coach Widmer has not decided
whether he will start Peterson or
Woods in the welterweight. Woods
has been working hard and is ready
to swing into action. Harry Leav
itt is the 158 pounder representa
tive.
Either Cartwright or Wells, a
letterman of last year, will be chos
en for the light-heavyweight class.
Wells has been turning out regu
larly and has been showing his old
time form.
Guy Rathburn, of Willamette, has
been chosen to referee the moot.
PROFESSOR HONORED FEW
AT UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
University of Hawaii.—Freshman
girls are not permitted to speak to
a boy on the campus during school
hours. The rule permits them to
speak to professors.
SPEED! PLAYING
DONE BY TEAMS
Close Checking By Players
And Stonewall Defense
Outstanding Features
RIDINGS HIGH POINT MAN
i
Score Tied in Second Period
By Oregon; Teamwork
Of Both Fives Unusual
(Complied by George H. Godfrey)
The crowd started gathering out
side of the Armory at three o'clock,
and by the time the doors were
opened at four, the number await
ing entrance was estimated at more
than 2,000. The place was com
pletely jammed long before the
starting whistle.
The O. A. C. subs came onto the
floor at 4:28. The Oregon subs
appeared at 4:32, followed by the
varsity and Aggies at 4.41.
The game play by play:
4:45—The officials took the floor,
the Oregon team warming up at the
west basket, and the Aggies at the
east.
5:03—Game starts, with regular
line-ups. Oregon takes ball at once,
and with rapid passes works it to
basket.
5:04—Brown fouls Gowans, who
converts. Score, Oregon 1, O. A. C.
0.
5:05—O. A. C. takes ball, with
Oregon checking (closely A rush
carries ball to Aggies basket, but
they were given no chance to score.
Oregon takes ball to basket, but
Hobson misses. Ball goes back to
O. A. C. basket, but both Bidings
and Baker miss. The ball now is
seesawing back and forth, with Ore
gon in possession most of the time.
The game is fast, with neither team
getting many chances to shoot.
5:07—Oregon’s balk in from out
side.
5:07—Brown fouls Gowans, and
Gowans again converts. Score, Ore
gon 2, O. A. C. 0. Oregon is check
ing closely using man to man de
fense.
5:08—A rush carries ball down to
Oregon goal, but Gowans misses,
another rush ends in ball going out
side.
5:09—Held ball, Bidings and
Jost, Oregon gets ball, to lose it
to O. A. C.
5:10—O. A. C. holds ball for
several passes but Gowans takes it
on dribble. Basket is scored, but
doesn’t count, as whistle blew for
outside.
5:10—Westergren dribbles down,
but is checked too closely to score.
5:11—Oregon works ball down,
loses it, but Bidings fails to place
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TALKATIVE PANAMA MASCOT
ADOPTED BY KAPPA DELTA PHI
A new “student” has arrived on
the Oregon campus. Oscar is his
name. He comes direct from Pana
ma where he was born eight years
ago. He is a handsome fellow with
circular eyes tinged with brown and
is clothed in a beautiful frock of
green, yellow, and crimson feath
ers. The new “student” is the
Kappa Delta Phi parrot.
Oscar has already adopted the
Oregon “Hollo” tradition. When
one comes np to view him he never
fails to give a hearty “hello.”
In the mornings when the fel
lows are rushing to get to their
eight o’docks, Oscar takes it easy.
He twitches his head with enthu
siasm, biting now and then the bars
of the 'cage which hold him cap
tive, and shouts out the name of
the new song hit, “Tea for Two.”
The parrot feels right at home
i with the gang. He likes to listen
in on the fireside talks, interrupt
ing the boys quite often with some
off-hand remark.
He seems to like jazz music bet
ter than the classical, for when the
former is played he sways with the
musical rhythm, but with the lat
ter he ruffles his feathers and
screeches in a displeased tone. Os
car enjoys shaking hands. When,
any one puts a finger through the
cage, Oscar gently takes hold of it
with his foot and looks kind of
slyly at him and says, “goodbye.”
Oscar enjoys answering questions,
although often he gets entirely off
the subject. He seems to think
that ho “gets by heavy” with the
co-eds, talking and laughing more
when they are around.
“Sometimes I wish Oscar had at
tended the school for the dumb,”
says V. Herbert Brooks. “He often
gets excited, and when he does, he
is a regular talking dictionary.’*