VARSITY AND YEARLING
MERMEN VIE SATURDAY
Winners Will Compete With
Winged “M” Swimmers
The varsity and freshman swim
ming teams will clash for the first
competition of the aquatic season
Saturday afternoon, at 3 o’clock in
the pool in the Woman’s building.
This meet will serve as a tryout
for the team which will be entered
against Multnomah Athletic Club
in Portland on January - 30. The
fastest men in each event, whether
freshman or vaTsity, will be enter
ed in the Portland meet.
Both teams, composed of 12 men
each have been drilling for the past
two months on the seven events
which will be run off.
The race between A1 Sinclair, Bill
MacGregor and Willis Fletcher in
the breast stroke for 200 yards
should be the thriller of the meet,
for all three men have been swim
ming the event in practically the
same time in practice.
The 50-yard dash between Jack
Herring, of the varsity and Ed
Finley is another promised dose
race, for both men are exceptionally
fast.
Diving for the varsity will be
taken care of by Lloyd Byerley,
with Frank Biggs who has been
showing good form also entered.
George Thompson, freshman, is an
other promising candidate for the
diving honors.
Don McCook, varsity sprinter,
will be unable to compete on ac
count of an infection. He will be
in good condition by the time of
the Oregon-Aggie meets, however.
DR. GAVEN C. DYOTT
TO STUDY IN AUSTRIA
Dr. Gaven C. Dyott, ’21, his wife
and her mother, Mrs. F. E. Dunn,
of Eugene will sail January 30 from
New York on the Aquitania for
Vienna, Austria. Dr. Dyott has
been practicing in Cottage Grove
until the first of this year, when
Me sold his practice. Both the doc
tor and his wife will study medi
cine in Vienna. While on the cam
pus he was a member of Kappa Sig
ma.
Coming Events
Friday, January 22
3:15—Address, “Besearch and
Development in the Bell Tele
phone Laboratories,” by M. B.
Long. Boom 105, Deady.
All Week
Exhibition photos of modern
stagecraft, Guild halL
Exhibition paintings of Prof.
A. H. Sehroff, art museum.
Xnfant firodigies
True Stories of Faculty Kids
L
The same number of birthdays
checked off tbft. calendar and
clothes exactly alike are about
the only similarities' existing
,between Billy and Jack, the three
^year-old twin sons of Professor
bind Mrs. Petr C. Crockett, for
,they do’ not look a great
deal alike, and their disposi
tions are certainly very different.
“Billy is always into every
thing,” explained Professor Crock
att, “but.Jack is more cautious and
is content to stand by and watch
his brother’s adventures.”
As if to prove his father’s state
ment, Billy came bouncing down
the stairs about that time, despite
the cast on his shoulders to heal
a broken collar bone.
“He got the injury falling out of
bed,” Dr. Crockatt explained. “He
isn’t even safe when he is asleep.”
Not long ago Billy fell out of a
second story window, and his par
ents can relate any number of nar
row escapes that seem to almost
fill his short three years.
“The nice thing about Billy,
though,” said his father, “is that
he always' comes out little the
worse for his experiences.”
Jack evidently acts as the re
straining influence upon his bro
ther. At any rate, he doesn’t seem
to be quite such a family care.
“Jack is often taken for a girl,”
said Dr. Crockatt, as he patted the
blonde curls of .tJtS.iymmgster at
4is side and called attention to his
dimpled cheeks.
Despite the difference in their
dispositions, the boys are great
pals. Even when a large group of
^children are playifig together, they
especially seek each other out.
“They are staunch friends,”
Crockatt smiled, “and each is a
strong defender of the other.
Just like most boys of their age,
the Crockatt twins are interested
in railway trains, both large and
small, and they never like to have
a train go by them without watch
ing the locomotive until it has
puffed its way out of Bight.
Jean, the seven year old daughter
of the Crockatts, finds a harder
time amusing herself for she must
seek companionship among other
children. This didn’t appear to be
a difficult task, however. The Em
erald reporter discovered her play
ing jacks with a schoolmate on the
porch of the Crockatt home. Had
it not been that her age somewhat
accounted for a missing front tooth,
it might have been taken for grant
ed that her disposition was not un
like that of Billy’s.
Jean is in the second grade at
the Patterson grammar school, but,
according to her father, she is still
more interested in play than in
hard study.
PROFESSOR ADMITS INTEREST
IN NEWSPAPER SPORT PAGE
Handball Chief Hobby of Donald Barnes, Instructor in
History Department
A hobby, as Webster defines it,
•is a favorite pursuit or object.
Most of ns have one of these domi
nate and in some cases unrecog
nized desires that we concentrate
our mental and physical forces con
sciously or unconsciously upon,
whether it be a foolish craving for
red neckties or a more elevated
object, possibly that of being well
read in all literature. It seems to
be a queer trick of fate that gives
to shoeblacks and statesmen alike a
similiar hobby; a hobby sometimes
as far removed from the position
of statements as. that of digging
clams during spare time.
However, teachers—-and this ar
ticle is mainly for the purpose of
informing an interested campus of
the dominating desires of the
teachers—de have normal hobbies
other than those of flunking stu
dents and giving abnormally long
lessons.
Dr. Donald Barnes, professor of
history, instead of having for his
particular pursuit, that of„ feasting
himself on ancient tales of England
and its rulers, follows the more vig
orous pastime of sports. “I am in
terested in all sports, in fact my
particular hobby possibly is hand
ball,” smiles Professor Barnes
when questioned.. “You only have
to glance through the records of
all the recent baseball games that
Mr. Barnes keeps, to convince your
self of ,his sincerity in saying he is
especially interested in that game,”
says a friend of his. The twinkling
eyes and smiles of both men rather
repudiate the “record” statement
although there is little doubt that
the professor does carefully follow
the winning and losing of many
games. He follows closely the
sports of both America and Eng
land, cricket, hockey, football, as
well as handball, for his own recre
ation.- When asked if ha had. taken
up golf, Mr. Barnes replied with a
decisive head-shake, “I’m not old
Enough for that yet.”
A doctor’s hobbies are hard to
guess, for so many might be pos
sible to afford recreation and dir
version from tiring positions. Dr.
Wilmoth Osborne has several things
she prefers to “pursue” in leisure
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hours, but little time to do so. “I
have so little time to think about
my hobbies,” she said. However,
all physical activities appeal to her
immensely and she would like to
have much more time than she does
for swimming and hiking. “Reading
is a favorite pastime of mine. I
enjoy above almost everything else
a good book,” Even doctors pre
fer modern fiction and the “old
standbys” to deep medical books
and problems of the human ills,
when they are ready to leave the
busy day of interviews behind and
give themselves up to pleasurable
hobbies. Another thing Dr. Osborne
derives much pleasure from after
a hard day at the office, is to go
home to the quiet seclusion of her
own personal abode, and there, re
lieved of serious thoughts, bo care
free again. She delights in going
to her spic and span little kitchen
and cooking a delicious meal, per
haps a tempting salad with the
rest of the meal and a creamy piece
of layer cake which she has made
herself. “Getting away by myself
rests me, and gives me the greatest
pleasure,” she nodded confidential
ly, and it is very easy to believe.
MAJOR HAROLD DABNEY,
EX-OREGON MAN, DIES
Word has been received from
China of the death of Major Harold
H. Dabney, a special student at the
University in 1911. After leaving
here, he attended West Point and
graduated from there in the class
of 1915. He is a graduate of Lin
coln high school of Portland. Ma
jor Dabney was prominent in army
work during the war and has since
been station in China where he has
received commendation from promi
nent officials for his work during
the civil war difficulties in 1924.
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Junior and senior majors in med
icine took the Downing Will-Temp
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supervision of Charles Deien, tof
the school of education, who is a
graduate student working for his
Phd. The results of the test will
be used as part of his thesis ma
terial. He selected the medical
students because he considered
them to be a homogeneous group
with similar interests.
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