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VOLUME XXVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MARCH 7. 1925 \n"riWT>uiT> no EDGAR MASTERS COMING MONDAY Lecture to Be Given 6y Poet In Woman’s Building On Topic of Modern Verse FIRST CONTINENTAL TOUR Critics Pronounce His ‘Spoon River Anthology’ Original Contribution Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, who will lecture and read se lections of his poems, appears at the Woman’s t building Monday night, at 8 o ’clock. * This is the first continental tour of the poet, who, unlike many of the modern poets, has not entered upon the lec ture platform until years after his first success. Mr. Masters’ volume, t “Spoon River Anthology,” is the best known of his works and is unsur passed in popularity by any book of poems. It is considered an original contribution to American literature. There are many crudities in the poetry of today, but there is no doubt, say the critics, that there is also a tremendous interest in a des perate struggle on the part of those who are writing to produce some thing peculiarly American and orig inal. A questionnaire recently sent to collegiate America shows an in terest actually existing in present day poetry by the number of courses being offered in it. Mr. Masters’ “New Spoon River An thology” is required reading in Yale university. Sincerity is Characteristic Mr.. Masters has been called a second Walt Whitman. His vigor, his Americanism, his unusual form of versification, his democracy and his sincerity have given rise to much that is very vital in present day poetry. English critics have paid tribute to him for his “Spoon River Anthology.” The Manchester Guardian prophesied that the book would become a classic. Amy Lowell, one of the most an alytical critics of the day, con siders Masters one of the most hope ful products among American poets. “Spoon River Anthology,” she says, “is a book that people not only read, but re-read and can’t for get. They think about it over and over and they see a world re-created in all of its crudity and all the limitations of a small American vil lage. ” Suppy of Books Ordered The University Co-op has ordered a supply of Edgar Lee Masters’ books. It is customary for the author to autograph his volumes when he appears in each city. Noted Poet to Be | | Here Monday | Edgar Lee Masters OREGON SWIMMERS IN SUITE MEET TODAY University Represented By Eight Entrants Eight men will represent the University at the state swimming meet to he held at Corvallis this afternoon. The results of the meet will determine the championship teams and individuals of the state, and all important teams will be rep resented. O. A. C., Oregon, and Multnomah will enter full squads in the events. The O. A. C. tank is the finest in the state, and it is possible that several state records may be shattered. The University will be repre sented by Ben Lombard in the 100 yard free style; Lamont Stone and Don McCook in the 50-yard dash; Bob Boggs in the 220-yard free style; A1 Sinclair in the 100-yard breast stroke; Art Erickson in the 100-yard breast stroke; and Hymen Samuels in the plunge for distance. The relay team will be composed of Bob McCabe, Lombard, Boggs and McCook. That is the same team which defeated the Aggies in a dual meet last'Saturday. Univer sity of Oregon, Oregon Agricultural college, and Multnomah club al ready have sent in their entries. Budolph Fahl is coaching the Ore gon men. MOZELLE HAIR TO SPEAK AT TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE Mozelle Hair, director of the cor respondence study department in the extension division, speaks at the Elmira teachers’ institute on Sat urday, March 14. She will speak on local history. As editor of the Extension Division Monitor Miss Hair has been in a position to get first hand knowledge of local his tory. Last fall she edited an en tire local history number of the Monitor. From time to time she writes articles and editorials in the Monitor on this subject. ‘THE RAGGEDY MAN’ REVIVED; PRODUCTION TO BE NEXT WEEK As a farewell performance for Miss Charlotte Banfield, instructor in the department of drama, a re rival of “The Raggedy Man,” per haps the best liked of the many plays which Guild hall has held in the last half dozen years, will be given. The production dates are next Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 11 to 14, with a special matinee Saturday after noon. Miss Banfield has been a first assistant to Fergus Reddie since the spring term of 1917 when she was a senior in the department of drama. Since that time, as well as teach ing, she has taken leading parts in i Guild theatre plays with marked success; her best loved role prob ably being that of Grandmother Squeers in “The Raggedy Man.” Miss Banfield has resigned her in struetorship to take effeet at the end of this winter term as she is to be married this spring. It is in honor of her that “The Raggedy Man” is being revived. “The Raggedy Man” is a Hoosier play based on some of the best known poems of James Whitcomb Riley. The plot of the comedy has been taken from “Little Orphan Anne,” “Out to Old Aunt Mary’s,” “The Old Swimming Hole,” “The Raggedy Man” and other poems which are well known and loved by Americans everywhere. When “The Raggedy Man” was given for the first time, two years ago, it was so well liked that it was found necessary to run extra per formances. Many juniors and seniors on the campus remember the play as one of the biggest laugh hits which has been produced on the Guild stage. The play has the homely sincerity of Riley’s poems coupled with a deeper strain of real heart interest. Yet everything at the same time is treated in the highest comedy manner. Kate Pinero, who graduated from the department last year is at pres ent on the campus. She was the chief laugh producer in the original production, taking the part of Ade liney Bowersox, the village post mistress. She has been prevailed upon to play her own part again. There are two other present mem bers of the company who played parts in the first production and win take the same part now. Dar rell Larsen was Mr. Craig Porter and Gordon Wilson was the negro butler, Zoroaster. VARSITY FACES CRUCIAL GAME WITH AGGIE QUINTET TONIGHT I I TO GIVE CONCERT Florence Easton, Soprano, Renowned Prima Donna, To Appear Tuesday Night STAR PLAYS MANY ROLES Singer Takes Leading Parts In Latest Appearances At Metropolitan Opera Florence Easton, noted prima donna soprano, will appear in con cert next Tuesday evening, March 10, in the Methodist Episcopal church auditorium at 8 p. m., under the auspices of the Associated Stu dents. Students, as usual, will gain admittance by their student body ticket and townspeople may purchase tickets at Laraway’s Mu sic store or the Co-op. Miss Easton for the past seven years has been a principal member of the Metropolitan Opera company in which she has gained wide fame. East season more attention has been focused on the activities of this artist until now her every appear ance is looked forward to with keen est anticipation by a public whose affection and esteem she has stead ily gained and kept. Latest Title Soles Given Among her latest leading parts at the Opera in New Tork are in the title roles of “Carmen” and “Mme. Butterfly,” and the Prin cess von Werdenberg in Strauss’s “Der Bosencavalier.” Her brilliant achievements in these parts have added so much to her artistic status that now Florence Easton is often referred to as “one of the best voices at the Metropolitan today.” Florence Easton was born in Eng land. When very young she came with her family to Toronto, Canada, and began the study of voice, later continuing her vocal work in Paris. Her debut was made at Covent Garden, London, and shortly after wards she married Francis Mac lennan, noted tenor, and came to America with him to sing with the Savage Grand Opera company. Af ter two seasons with that organiza tion, she was engaged for the Ber lin Opera and sang there the lead ing roles in “Aida,” “Mme. Butter fly, “La Boheme,” “Faust,” and other operas. Star Plays in Famous Operas Following her appearance on the continent, she returned to London to create the soprano role in the Ricardo prize opera, “The Angelus.” Returning to America in 1915, Miss Laston sang leading roles with the Chicago Opera company and the next year was engaged by the Metropolitan, making her debut as Santuzza in “Cavalleria Rusti cana.” Since then her success in opera, concert, and recital have been a triumphant progression . FIRE CAUSES ALARM TO HALL OCCUPANTS Another fire which might have proved serious was discovered in the janitor’s closet of Friendly hall Sunday evening. The fire seemed to have originated among some cloth and paper on a shelf in the closet, but a thorough investigation failed to reveal the cause of igni tion. This is the second small fire within the last few weeks, the other being caused by an electric iron be ing left on in the household arts building. The fire was discovered by one of the student occupants when he noticed the hall adjoining the room was full of smoke and traced it to the blaze. The bl^ize itself had not yet become very large, there being more smoke than fire. The woodwork was somewhat scorched and some of the cleaning materials were burned. All Lost and Found Articles Not Sold At Recent Auction Contrary to the general opinion that seems to be circulating about the campus all of the lost and found articles were not sold at the recent Women’s League auc tion sale. Only those articles that remained unclaimed from the collection of last year were sold. The sale of these left-overs has merely made room for the con tinuous stream of lost items that has been coming into the depot since the first of the fall term. The collection at the present time consists of 33 umbrellas, eight pens, five eversharp pencils, five pair of galoshes, three scarfs, a pocket-knife, a purse with a small sum of m6ney, a comb, keys, five pair of gloves, a lady’s hat and numerous hats and caps of the masculine style, gym shoes, men’s rubbers, bolts, raincoats and over coats. OREGQN WRESTLERS TO MEET W.S.C, TODAY C oa c h Widmer’s Squad Is Strengthened Oregon will attempt to defeat the W. S. C. wrestling team thii after noon at 2 o’clock in the men’s gym nasium. If the victory is won Ore gon will finish the season with a percentage of 500. The varsity defeated Idaho and lost two meets to O. A. 0. The Cougars are said to have a strong aggregation of grapplers that have made a good showing so far this season. Coaeli Widmer’s squad will be considerably strengthened by the addition of Ford, the flashy 125 pounder, who did not wrestle against the Aggies in the last, meet. He will be in shape for the meet today. Either Wingard or Davis will wrestle at 135 pounds. Peter son or Woods will go in at 145 pounds. Leavitt at 158 pounds and Cartwright or Wells at 175 pounds will complete the Oregon lineup. Ouy Eathburn of Willamette will referee the mix. ORATORICAL CONTEST SCHEDULED MARCH 13 The first oratorical contest in which the University will partici pate this year will be the Old Line oratory event at Monmouth, next Friday, March 13. James Johnson, law school sophomore, was chosen as representative in elimination try outs last month. “The Spirit of Justice” is the title of Johnson’s oration, dealing with the subject of law enforce ment. Johnson has had some ex perience in debating, but has not been on the squad. This event will be his first work in varsity foren sies. “He is a pleasing speaker,” stated Oscar A. Brown, debate coach, in referring to Johnson, “and will undoubtedly make a good show ing.” A bronze statuette of Abraham Lincoln is the prize which will be awarded to the winner of the con test. --—— FRESHMEN TO REPORT The following freshmen report to Hayward field today at 9 : o’clock without fail: Ted Beck er, James Cook, Humboldt Greig, Harold Dixen, George Mason, Walter Cushman, Homer Dixon, Raleigh D. Greene, Bob Harrison, Clifford W. Kuhn, Don McCook, Reg i Mortimer, Del Monte, Bill Rob- ! erts, Arthur Praulx, Bias- ; del Smith, nenrv Stevens, Mor- ; ris Temple, Clarence Wheel- i house, Ray Edwards, Don Os- ' borne. ■< O TRACK CONTEST THIS AFTERNOON Aspirants Begin Hard Work For Intercollegiate Test With Stanford on April 11 12 MEN WILL MAKE TRIP The last competitive track meet of the season will be run off this afternoon on Hayward field at 2:30. The following Saturday the inter class meet is listed. From this meet Bill Hayward will pick his crew to train over the spring holidays for the Stanford meet on April 11. The competition today is an elim ination meet. The men who show up best today will be the ones who will be in direct line for the team. It does not mean that any aspirant is eliminated directly but the men who make the best showing will be picked until someone shows up bet ter. Thirteen events are scheduled for the meet this afternoon. Com petition out on the oval this year is keen and some hard races are in store. The broad jump and the dis cus have been added to the list. Fifst Meet With Stanford A little over a month remains be fore the varsity track season begins, with the Stanford meet in Palo Alto. Bill Hayward is beginning to send his aspirant through some stiff competition in order to get them into condition for the meet. Concentrated training has begun. Early season work is over with and from now on no distances will be cut as they have in the previous competition meets. This Saturday at Palo Alto, Dink Templeton, Stanford mentor, is put ting his track team through an interclass meet. He is doing it for the same reason that Bill is doing it—to get a line up on his varsity squad. The following Saturday at the time Bill ha? scheduled the oig interclass meet for Oregon track men the Stanford team meets Olym pic club in a dual meet. A few men over a dozen will make the Stanford trip. There are al most that many oift in every event, which promises to show some hard fighting for the first places. The races today are all the reg ular distances. Endurance is being stressed since the milers are running the two miles; the half milers are running the mile, and the quarter milers are running the half. Track Schedule Glveu The event scheduled are: Pole vault—Kelsey, Rosenberg, Adams, Richmond, Crowley. Broad jump—Flannagan, Rosen berg, Kelsey, Eby, Barnes and Gut tridge. High jump—Eby, Kelsey, Zim merman, Barnes, Tuft, Wilson, Flannagan. Discus—Mautz, Eby, Stockwell, Halin, Martig, Wetzel, Dilg and Hemmings. Javelin—Rosenberg, Tuck, Beat ty, Dills, Wetzel and Stockwell. Shot put—Mautz, Dashney, Halin, Martig, Stockwell, Wetzel, Dilg, Sherman and Kelly. Officials will be: Starter—JJel Oberteuffer. Judges—Virgil Earl, Harry Scott, Sam Cook, Bob Gard ner and Vic Risley. 100 yards, varsity—Holt, Snyder, Sjfmebreaker, Extra and Bossatti. 100 yards, frosh, first heat— Prendergast, Kuykendall, Winslow, Hewlett, Richards. Second heat, frosh — Wetzel, Barnes, Lake, Becker, Russell and Powell. Mile—Gerke, Mauney, Lawrence, Jeffries, Surry, Cook, Boice, Peek, Ohler, Sussman, Button, Overstreet and Niedemeyer. 880 yards—Kinney, Ager, Price, Cash, Wilbur, Bergh. 440, frosh—Allen, Neimi, Fisher, Cooper, Veatoh, Padrick, Read, Ross, j Karshner, Pearson,' Howe, Hicks, ! Tuck and Peterkin. 2 mile—Keating, Tetz, Nelson, i Martin, Barnes, Blakney, Madlung and Swank. High hurdles, 90 yards—Kelsey, Cleaver, Tuck, Hall, Voung, Draper, Guttridge, Carruthers and Lock w-ood. Oregon Students To Tour Europe On Summer Vacation “I should judge that at least twenty University of Oregon stu dents and faculty members will visit Europe this coming summor season on our tours,” E. H. Gor don, passenger agent for the Cunard Lines, told the Emerald yesterday in speaking of great increase in the number of Uni versity students who are com pleting their education by travel. Mr. Gordon held a number of con ferences with students who have signified their intention to take advantage of the new low rate college special tours that are be ing arranged by the Cunard com pany. “Since Don Woodward, George Godfrey and Randolph Kuhn made the trip last summer we have noticed a great increase in inter est in European travel on the part of Oregon students. All in dications prophesy that a con genial group from jthis campus will see all there is to see on the continent next June.” WOMEN’S ACTIVITIES TOPIC OF DISCUSSION More Leisure Time Needed Says Grace Louks More leisure time is needed in order that women students may have aim, a critical sense, be adapt able, have appreciation and in gene ral be able to improve themselves while they are in college. This was the conclusion reached at the meet ing held Wednesday, at the bunga low, which was led by Miss Grace Louks, of New York, who is an ex pert on discussion group work. Yesterday afternoon the group met again to discuss ways in which it might be possible to accomplish this need of leisure. The chief dif ficulty, they decided, was the usual tendency of students to take on too many activities. The following suggestions were made as to how the situation might bo remedied. In the first place, they agreed that one major activity and two minor, or perhaps two major and one minor are enough for the average woman student to tackle. In order to eliminate the tendency of taking on too many obligations, it was sug gested that inter-house competition in sports be done away with, be cause they take too much time, and new idea of the value of activities should be enforced upon the minds of incoming freshmen, in order that they may use discrimination in their choice of participations. All organizations which have no defin ite purpose should be done away with, and upper-classmen should give under-classmen a chance to share their responsibilities, it was pointed out. The point system now used in the Women’s League should be made more stringent, and should apply to general membership as well as officers, was one suggestion. Publicity should be eliminated because it leads to judging students by the number of activities in which they have participated, and tends to make the objective of or ganizations personal glory rather than service, was the conclusiion which was reached. Cups, pins, and other symbols of honor should be done away with, they decided, be cause they only add to the evils of publicity. MISS PLINCA TELLS CLUB ABOUT RESORTS IN FRANCE “Pleasure Resorts in Prance” was the topic of the address given by Wanda Plinca before the last meeting of Le Foyer Francais, Thursday night, at the Y. W. bun galow. Two solos, “L’Obstina I tion,” and “Chanson de Florian,” | were sung by Robert Hunt. I NORTHERN TITLE DEPENDS OH TILT Win Would Give Corvallis Team Pennant; Oregon Victory Means Play Off PHONE TO GIVE SCORES Lemon Yellow Runs Up Large Total; Players to Be in Good Condition Complete returns of the Ore gon-O. A. C. tilt, play-by-play, will be given at Villard hall to night at 7:30. A long distance phone service has been installed from Corvallis to Villard, and a running account of the game will be sent over the wire. The ad mission will be twenty-five cents. The reports will be com plete around 8:30, allowing stu dents ample time to attend this “service” and still go to the Frosh glee. --<s> Whether Oregon stands a chance to win the title of the northern di vision of the Pacific Coast confer ence, depends directly on the out come of tbo Oregon-Aggie contest at Corvallis tonight. The game is Blated to start at 7:30. Regardless of the final score, fans of the tilt are bound to see one of the best exhibitions of basketball yet played this season. Oregon will be fight ing to retain a foothold as a cham pionship contender, while the Ag gies are determined to win the title tonight. Should the Beavers win tonight, they will automatically annex the title as champions of the northern division of the Pacific coast con ference. Should the Oregon hoop sters emerge victorious in the fray, it will be necessary to stage the third game at Salem to decide the winner of the northern conference. “Jinx” Favors Team One fact in favor of the Lemon Yellow, is that the team has not lost a coast conference tilt away from home, and should this “jinx” hold out tonight, Oregon may yet lay claims as the leading team. It was generally accepted that the Aggies played a better brand of basketball at the armory last Friday night and deserved to win. However, the Oregon team put up a brave fight, but the squad as a whole was fairly “loggy” from a strenuous northern trip and could not keep up a winning pace. Coach Billy Reinhart is depending on the team to recover, with a two day complete rest, some of its former stamnia and vigor. Oregon Leads In Points Excluding post-season games, Ore gon has scored a total of 530 points against her opponents 360. The Ag gies have run up a total of 427 points against her opponents 302 points. These statistics include only the Pacific Coast and North west conference results. These fig ures point out that Oregon has an extremely dangerous scoring ability, and should the Lemon Yellow scor | ing combination get to working tonight, the varsity should be able ■ to run up a winning lead over the Beavers. The same lineups that played I throughout the contest Thursday night will probably staTt tonight. Lineups . (probable): Oregon O. A. C. Hobson.F. Baker ! Rowans.F. Hidings I Okerberg.C. Brown I Westergren.G. Steele | Jost.G. Stoddard Officials: Nig Borleske, referee. | Bill Mulligan, umpire.