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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1925)
FIVE GRADUATE ! STUDENTS TEACH 55 Subjects Offered in Portland Classes Five graduate students are work ing as research assistants in five different departments of the Uni versity this year. These students are assistant professors and are do ing special research work. They are appointed by the research commit tee of the faculty and a graduate council which determines what re search being done, at the time, is most entitled to assistants. The as sistants are finally appointed by the board of regents. In the geology department, How ard II. Powers is assisting Dr. Ed win T. Hodge on the project, “A Cross Section of the Oregon Cas cades. Mr. Powers is a graduate of the South Dakota State College and did graduate work on this campus last year in the geology department. Dr. W. E. Milne of the mathe matics department, has as his as sistant, Vladimir B. Bojansky. They1 are working on a project, “Damped Vibrations.” Mt. Bojansky, who received his B.8. degree at Whitman College in 1924, is Bussian and re ceived his early educational training in.that country. Hope Plym^ite, a graduate of this University in the class of '25, is doing research work in the zoology department on “Studies in the Phy siological Effects of Thyroid Feed ing.” Tn the psychology department, Dr. H. B. Crosland is working on certain research work relating to illusions. He is being assisted by Sinforoso Padilla, a graduate of Willamette University in 1924. “Vitamine ‘D’ ” is the subject receiving much attention and re search in the chemistry department. Dr. B. J. Williams, assisted by John L. Wilson, is carrying on the woijk. Mr. Wilson took his A.B. at James town College in North Dakota, and his M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1924. He has done a great deal of graduate work before coming to the University of Oregon. NEW CHINESE CLUB FORMED ON CAMPUS Chinese students on the campus have organized a club, to meet monthly, the purpose of which is to create a conimon interest among Chinese students; to help to brjng a bettor understanding of China to the United States and of the United States to China, according to- Ta Leo, president 'of the new club. This dub is to be a branch of the Chinese Students’, Association, an organization whoso headquarters aro in New York and which has a membership of over two thousand students, scattered among the vari ous institutions of higher learning in the United States. Ur. Welling ton Koo, a well known Chinese edu cator who was Chinese ambassador to the United States for many years, was one of the organizers of this movement. Two magazines are published by the Chinese Students’ Association, Mr. Lee said. One of these, the Chine Student. Monthly, is written in Unglisli and has as contributory many prominent American writers; while the other, the Chinese Stu dent ’s Quarterly, is written in Chin ese. These magazines are to help interpret the United States to vnina. Before this year tliere were not enough Chinese students on this campus to warrant starting a club, but this year the new club was started with a membership of 12. A constitution was adopted and of ficers elected as follows: Ta Lee, president; Ben .Tower, vice-president; Harry .Tuan Lee, secretary; Hung Fai Cluing, Chinese secretary; Shu Wang, treasurer. LOST—Kappa Sig pin between Gamma Phi house and Susan Campbell hall. Please call 772. 8 9 LOST—Alpha Delta Pi Pin Wed nesday. Finder return to Do rothy Straughan. Phone 130,. LOST—Blue pearl bracelet Sunday between library and Music Build ing. Please return to P. Suther land. Alpha Delta Pi, or call 1309. 8-9 NICK LARGE ROOM two double beds eau make very comfortable for 4 boys, $20 per mouth. Also will tae washing and ironing, very reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. 8-9-10-13-14 NEW EXTENSION ! COURSES GIVEN More than one hundred courses in 55 subjects are offered by the ex tension division of the University j of Oregon in the Portland center this year. Alfred Powers, assistant director and associate professor of journal- | ism, will teach magazine writing Monday of each week. Mr. Powers j is also director of social welfare; and visual instruction. Prof. Percy Adams, of the faculty ! of the school of architecture and i allied arts, will give instructions Saturday of each week. Balph Casey, professor of journal ism, will teach a beginner’s course in journalistic work the first term, and Prof. George Turnbull during the second term. History Work Listed Dr. Burchar(j Woodson DeBusk is spending most of his time in Port land this year acting as specialist for the public schools in that city, and is also teaching education there. Prof. Avard Fairbanks is teach ing sculpture Mondays and Tues days. Mr. Fairbanks is resuming his activities after a year’s study in the East. History will be taught by Prof. Donald G. Barnes on Mondays, and Prof. Andrew Fish on Thesdays, and Prof. Dan E. Clark on Wednes days. Dr. Rainey to Teach Dr. Homer P. Rainey will teach education. Dr. Friedrich Georg, G. Schmidt has classes in German lan guage and literature. Dr. Glenn E. Hoover of the eco nomics department, is teaching pub lic speaking for bankers under the auspices of the Portland center. Cecile McAlister is instructor in beginner’s psychology. Her lec tures, discussions and classroom demonstrations will cover the prin ciples involved in mental phenom ena. Earl Kilpatrick, dean of the ex tension division and director of the Portland center, will spend most of his time in Portland. Dr. P. A. Par sons, director of the Portland school of social work, goes to Portland for classes in sociology. Dr. Par sons, who formerly lived in Port land, now makes his honv> in Eu gene. Law Courses Monday Frank II. Hilton, Portland attor ney, will toach business law, giving a general viow of the various branches of law, the relation' of law to business; contracts; statute of frauds and statute of limitations in connection with contracts. These classes will be on Monday of each week. Dr. Henry E. Thomson, who has recently joined tho faculty, will teach philosophy in the Portland center. LIBRARY BUYS COPY OF THE JEFFERSONIAN The Jeffersonian, n bound edition of a weekly newspaper of that name, edited by Horace Greeley be tween the dates of January 17, 1838, and February 9, 1839, has re cently been purchased by the Uni versity library, said M. L. Douglass, librarian, Monday. This binder contains every edition of the paper that was brought off the press, or 52 in number. This newspaper dis cusses polities, Toviews, speeches, and has editorials. Any student of American literature would enjoy looking over this volume which shows its ago by yellowed pages and old type. Another new book just received is “Tho House of Israel or Anglo Saxons,” by Samuel Albert Brown, a prominent physician of Portland, and, according to Mr. Douglass, a man very interested in the religious education of the students. This book is written to show that the Anglo-Saxons are directly descended from the 10 lost tribes of Israel and deals with the racial standpoint of the Bible, the librarian stated. New books are arriving daily and so are the duplicate copies for the reserve. One of the latest is "Ad vertising British Art,” by Walter Shaw Sparrow. Besides the literary additions, i other conveniences are being in- \ stalled. One hundred eleven new individual desks similar to those in j use in the Condon hall, have been | installed in the Knglish and history ; reserve rooms, replacing the big i tables. According to Mr. Douglass, j these will be supplemented by j chairs with tablet arm(i if necessary : to accommodate the crowd. We Sterilize Every Razor and Use Clean Linens for Every Customer Club Barber Shop 814 Willamette -J3 Among the Authors By Tom Graham A comparatively new man has bten seen in the field of satirical humor who seems well on the way to fill the place vacated toy Don ald Ogden Stewart who fell,so sadly out of the picture with his last book, “The Crazy Fool.” This new man is Corey Ford who has written excellent parodies on the Rover Boys for Bookman and Judge. His article in Bookman is “The Kollo Boys in the Curwood” and James Oliver’s (pet expres sions and situations are done with more skill than Stewart has shown since “Perfect Behavior.” The rise and fall of popular humorists would be a good work for Gamaliel Bradford. His pre occupation with the soul of man would be fully exercised in chron icling the careers of such men as Bencbley, Leacock, Stewart and Ford. It seems very strange that popularity has killed so many prom ising humorists. For a while they are excellent and turn out a book a month but this happy period does not last long. Soon comes the fatal day when such a book as the “Crazy Fool” comes out and the humorist may as well lay his typewriter in the attic for all the attention he is able to attract after that unless the unusual happens and he makes a sensational comeback. However that may be Corey Ford is now gioing strong and every arti cle he has written has shown an improvement over the last so in or der to get in on the ground floor start Ho read him now. His [books may be inferior to his articles and then will begin the search for his successor for it seems that humor ists thrive alone but as soon as one is gone another comes to take his place. Sherwood Anderson, the man who has had more of his stories in the O 'Brien collections than any other, had a new novel published last month named “Dark Laughter.” If this book is up to the standard of “The Story Teller’s Story” it will be one of the most popular (on the campus. Since “Many Marriages” Sherwood has been one of the most discussed, if not the best liked, nov elist whose works are read lier%. Keviewers in England have more praise for him than any other of the Americans. This is one in stance where a prophet is not with out honor in his own country. And erson is as American as Abraham Lincoln and will, it is thought, bring some of the literary prestige back to our shores that fled abroad at the heels of Michel Arlin, Aldous Huxley and the energetic Phillip Gibbs. Clarence Darrow, counsel for Leo pold and Loeb and defender of the scientific faith at Dayton, has taken to literature. He has of late been contributing articles to the American Mercury and states' his intention of writing a book in the near future. His articles in. the Mercury, one on salesmanship which is a discussion of correspondence courses and one on the “Edwardses and the Jukes,” discussing hered ity, show a light style resembling Mr. Mencken’s own. Mr. Darrow’s name adds another to the list of popular lawyer-authors, the best known of whbm is Arthur Train. Olga Petrove, once of the screen, will soon enter the list of women short story writers with a volume in English. Since her departure from the movies she has been writing, directing, managing and acting her own plays. She has had a long and active career which included lectur ing at Columbia and Princeton and an invitiation to sing operatic roles in Munich so in view of her past activities her short stories shbuld rank with Zona Gale and Edna Fer ber. Portrait of First, Regent Executive •Given University A full-length oil portrait of Judge Matthew P. Deady, first ! president of the Board of Regents, has just been received at the Administration building. The portrait was bequeathed to the University by the late Mrs. Lucy Ann Henderson Deady, widow of the judge. According to word received from Henderson B. Deady, of Portland, the portrait is hand sodely framed and is a creditable likeness of his father. No infor i mation has been received as to the name of the painter. Deady hall, presented to the state of Oregon in 1876 by the citizens’ of Lane county, was named after this first president. EXPERT TYPISTS WANT WORK Students who have any papers, novels or letters to be typewritten are urged to patronize campus stenographers. About thirty girls have signed up with the Y. W. C. A. employment committee and are patiently waiting for calls. All of them are experienced. Somle have had training in public offices and 1 are undoubtedly capable of de ciphering the most difficult copy. “The Right Gift” Have you ever been troubled with selecting just the right gift? You will find just what you would like for a gift. We have a, great variety of novel and unique gifts. You are assured of a distinctive gift if you select it from our shop. oomoi Eugene Art & Gift Shop “The Little Shop Around the Corner” McDonaJd Theatre Bldg. Pictures of Frosh-Sophomore Mix Also of the OREGON-MULTNOMAH GAME BAKER-BUTTON KODAK SHOP 7 West 7th “SEE YOURSELF IN THE MIX” RHODES SCHOLAR ELUCIDATES UPON EUROPEAN MANNERISMS When one walks into the little office of S. Stevenson Smith at the extreme southern end of the musty old assembly hall in Villard he sees nothing to distinguish it from dozens of other little offices in other campus buildings. Nothing— that is—except its occupant. S. Stevenson Smith looks the part. Imagine—a typical scholar, a man who has taken the trouble to delve into things beyond the m<ere surface, short of stature, rather plump—if a man may be called plump (the thin, long-haired, attic scholar is a thing of the past) — with a small, coal-black mustache just above a mouth that often wrinkles in a friendly smile. Think of your pet characterization of the young, well-educated man of today and, ten to one, it will conform with the impression instantly received by a young reporter who stepped into the office of S. Stephenson Smith, new instructor in the Eng lish department, Monday afternoon. Smith is what might be called an Oregon “product.” In 1915 he was graduated from Reed College, Port land, and was awarded a Rhodes scholarship. He went to England to Lincoln College, Oxford, where he received a research degree, bachelor of letters. The recent revival of interest in the Shakespearean drama in this country brought to the mind of the interviewer a few questions. municipality of any size has its en played more in Germany than in “Shakespeare,” said Smith, “is England. Nearly every German dowed theater.” “In London,” he said, “the chief center of Shakespearean drama is ‘Old Vic’ theater. Some time ago ‘Old Vic’ was about to be con demned and shut up when some wealthy m!an donated a large sum of money and saved the historic the ater.” The ‘‘Old Vic” company confines itself to Shakespearean drama and classical English comedy, lie explained. TREES OF UNIVERSITY GET FALL TRIMMING University gardeners have begun the fall cleanup of the campus this week. The beds of shrubbery and flowers surrounding the buildings, and the rose hedges are all being cultivated and trimmed in prepara tion for winter. The coming of fall always means an increase in work to keep the grounds in good condition. The m&ny trees and vines begin losing their leaves, and a crew of men is kept busy raking them from the lawn. STEPPING STONES Shorthand, Typewriting and Bookkeeping are stepping stones to success WE TEACH THEM EUGENE BUSINESS COLLEGE A. E. Roberts, Pres. Phone 666 992 Willamette St., Eugene Courses Now Open In Household Arts For Men Students “The school of household arts is no longer the strictly feminine institution that it has bee'n in past years, and as it is still re garded by many,” said Mrs. Lilian Tingle, head of the depart ment, yesterday. “We now en courage men to come to our de partment and a great many of them are taking advantage of the courses offered,” she continued. It is now possible for men to take a full year course in house hold arts. Among the courses offered them are: Food selection, for house managers; camp cook ery, elementary food economics, and household management. 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