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©n>nmt Sailu 5ntecal& iitturial Page Edward M. Miller Editor WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10. 1926 Frank H. Loggan ... Manager Sol Abramson .. Managing Editor Mildred Jean Carr .... Associate Man. Editor AT/,nra ntwl TT./Hfrtl- PHoTlftR. 655 Harold Kirk ___ Associate Editor Welter Jones .. Sports Editor Philippa Sherman .. Feature Editor Wayne Leland .. Associate Manager Bnsinss Office Phone 1895 Day Editors Esther Davis Geneva Drum Frances Bourhill Claudia Fletcher Mary Conn Night Editors Ray Nash, Chief Ni*ht Editor John Black K«na!d Se,1<;rs Earl Raesa l*1" Haggerty Sports Staff Harold Mangum Ricnard Syring Feature Writers r\_j m_ Wfiltpr Cushman Upper News Staff Mary Benton Ruth Gregg Edward Smith Jane Dudley Margaret Vincent News Staff Mary K. Baker Jack Hempstead Barbara Blythe Arthur Priaulx Minnie Fisher Lylah McMurphy William Schulze Pauline Stewart Grace Fisher Beatrice Harden Frances Cherry James Leake Ruby Lister Genevieve Morgan Marion Sten Dick Jones Miriam Shepard Flossie Radabaugh Margaret Long Allen Canfield Edith Dodge Wilbur Lester Business Staff Si Slocum __ Advertising Manager Calvin Horn _ Advertising Manager Milton George . Assistant Advertising Manager Advertising Assistants: Sam Kinley, Paul Sletton, Emerson Haggerty, Bob Nelson, Vernon McGee, Ed Ross, Ruth McDowell, Dick Hoyt, Webster Jones. Marian Phy .- Foreign Advertising Manager James Manning ..... Circulation Manager Alex Scott . Assistant Circulation Manager Frances McKenna . Circulation Assistant Mabel Fransen, Margaret Long..Specialty Advertising Office Administration: Herbert Lewis, Frances Hare, ITokhM WHStWlr Concua Drum. ~-- Pan] 1,11V Margaret nensiey _ ____—— --—:-77“ Jamea De Pauli_■ ™ 7Z.~.'-CT,—7:-7—the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the CpUegehey°reKOMeDmabeyr oTpadfif'iStercp^'a^Pr^AaaoSoS^ Intered^in the postoffice at Eugene. Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates. $2.26 per Day Editor—Mary Conn Night Editor—BUI Haggerty Assistant— Jack Hoyt Editorial Oberservations; Presidents and What Not We met Dr. Chase yesterday afternoon and liked him im mensely. In the company of Dr. Conklin and Dean Allen, Dr. Chase came to the journalism building, where he had promised to meet the Emerald reporters and newspaper correspondents. No austere somber sort, this man. Although just released trom a series of strenuous conferences, Dr. Chase gave the appear ance of possessing an unlimited reserve of buoyant spirits, and won all his youthful listeners with his sincerity, his good nature, all happily coupled with a manner indicative of scholarly lead ership. Dr. Chase may be assured that the Oregon undergrad uate body will concur most eagerly in the invitation extended to him by the regents. • * * * Oregon’s romping basketball team is again open to con gratulations. By tossing the Washington State College basket bailers neatly into the ditch, Reinhart’s men have a single obstacle to remove in the path leading to the Northwest cham pionship. Even the most casual observer last night could not have helped noticing the gusto with which the Oregon rooters rejoiced in the Oregonians’ mounting score. A champion l^b basketball team will be eminently acceptable to all aligned on the side of the Webfeet. 0 Verily, however, defeat at the hands of 0. A. C. next batur day would be most sodden. Not so? • * * * Student interests the nation over are pretty much the same. Their thoughts, actions, hobbies and enthusiasms run in the same channels. Occasionally, however, some enterprising group of collegians will break loose from the mob and launch a new idea, as indicated by a nation wide student interest in tlieir own education. Last fall Harvard students, taking affairs in their own hands, published a detailed analysis and criticism of individual courses of instruction. Now the Cornell Daily Sun is following suit, and intends shortly to offer constructive criticism of Cornell instruction. Perhaps in a few months we too will be doing the same. * * * • A musician of the highest order will appear on the campus tomorrow night in the person of Charles M. Courbom, cele brated Belgian organist. Courboin’s recital will give music lovers a splendid opportunity to hear the organ in the music auditorium at its best, since the guest artist is considered one of the greatest organists of the present time. With seats sell ing at a nominal price, no one should overlook this recital on the organ, greatest of all musical instruments. • # * * Singular interest will be attached to three Guild Hall plays being produced Thursday and Eriday of this week, since the dramatics department has selected plays written by Oregon students instead of selecting recognized authors. The experi ment, a new one at the University, will prove fruitful for the dramatic people and an added incentive for all interested m Guild Hall productions. It may be expected that a capacity house will greet the players. • * • • Dr. Chase and his party, says the news, were compelled to abandon automobile travel and board the train leading to Eu gene. The rains did it. Yesterday the mist fell heavy. Proving, we suppose, that time and tide and Oregon rain wait for no man--not even prospective University presidents. Beware of web feet. Doctor— * * * • Because of insufficient seats at basketball panics, both Ore gon and 0. A. C. will be able to provide very few seats for the * visiting team’s rooters. A few seats for visitors will be made available in both the Eugene and Corvallis games, and a hand ful from each visiting college will be able to see the games. The graduate manager strongly advises that Oregon students be certain of admission to the 0. A. C. game at Corvallis before leaving for that city. Unless arrangements can be made in the individual cases with O. A. C. friends, admission to the game will, in all probability, be denied the Oregon supporters. The situation is unfortunate and regrettable, but unavoidable. # * * • Under the leadership of Dean Henry D. Sheldon and M. II. Douglass, University librarian, a religious conference that should attract campus wide attention will be held Thursday and Friday of this week. The guest of honor at the conference will be C. E. Hugh of the University of California, a man well versed in religious work in colleges and universities. The con ference will bear watching. * # # * Announcement of the probability of construction of the new $1 f>0,000 basketball pavilion the early part of this spring will be met with approval by all Oregonians. The crowded armorv, which has served nobly in years past, now tails to accommodate the huge crowds 'hat are demanding admission to the basketball games. The new pavilion, with an imme diate seating capacity of 6,000 persons and an ultimate capa city of 10,000 persons, will assure satisfactory seating arrange ments for years to come. Oregon may congratulate herself on this part of her constructive forward-looking policy. • * • * The Emerald is strong for having a fraternity of fraternities. Only those tongs showing great intelligence, perseverance and' sincerity of purpose shall be members. The name of this fraternity—glorious brotherhood—shall be, “The Simple Six. We nominate for immediate membership, Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Theta, Chi Psi, l’si Kappa, Phi Gamma Delta, and Theta Chi. May the brotherhood grow and prosper. ANOUNCEMENT Alpha Chi Omega announces the pledging of Marion Sten of St. Helens. The Oregon Aggie basketball team beat the Washington State quintet last night in Corvallis, 31 to 24. SEVEN SEERS f <> ' -- - ♦ SIETJS PINCHPENNY’S DIARY Lay long abed this day with a high sniffling head cold and mightily puzzled as to how I did fetch it upon me, as I have worn asifidity and eaten onions this twelvemonth. Anon to printery where did engage in nonsensical conversation with Geneva Drum and she tell me that if balmy zephyrs keep zep hering, spring will soon come and Christmas jewelry will turn green, the pussy willows will be ripe, and the aluminum trees will be heavy with fruit. At noon to guttling of boiled water and shirred turnips and hear tale of how Alpha Delta Pis have not been troubled by scourge but have used water from springs somewhere on sleeping porch There i3 a town in Montana so far behind the times that the mill iners don’t begin showing spring hats until January. A headline in one of the San Francisco papers reads: MAN DROPS DEAD READING SPORT PAGE lie probably couldn’t find any thing about “Red” Grange or Helen Wills that day. TODAY’S HOROSCOPE February 10—People born on this day are apt to have a fondness for fried chicken and angles food cake. They also get their feet stepped on fre quently at Campus Shoppo dances. The co-ed born on Feb ruary 10 very seldom buttons her galoshes. WELL, AFTER ALL IT LOOKS LIKE COLONEL MITCHELL GOT WIIAT HE WAS FIGHTING FOR —THE AIR, Epltaffy Smile thru your tears, For Purdence Print Hope, She took her bath, * Then stepped on the soap. WHAZIS 1 With flour at 21 cents per pound, how much will it cost to shingle my dog house 20 feet square with hot cakes? Janet Pearce. The Alpha Phi and Gamma Phi fresh entertained (we hope so!) a crowd of early risers at their Fried Ham and Egg Dansant Saturday morning. Everything was pretty slick excepting the egg spilled on the neckties. The playful grapefruit was up to its old tricks. .Another Heart Made Happy ! If Okie never does another thing for his alma mater or humanity, he satisfied the sup pressed desires of one maiden at the game the other night when he sat on her lap quite accidentally, however. At the late stage of the game in which he did it, we thought the trick was a kind of wet one. Judging The Daintiest Pumps Can Be Cleaned Even though they are the daintiest of pumps they can be cleaned or polished to look like new- Never think they are too soiled to be cleaned. Ask Us Before You Decide SHINE ’EM UP “Next to Jim the Shoe Doctor” from the way the girl wiped herself off, she did too. BUGHOUSE FABLE There were many teas and lun cheons on the campus the past week-end hut not one of the hos tesses used daffodils or pussy wil lows in her decorations. FAMOUS LAST WORDS Did you enjoy your trip to Wash ington, Mr. McCammat? G. HOSOFAT SftcCfljattttlwm • BY JIM To Dr. Miller, U. of O. Medical de partment : Dear Sir, Dr. Miller, and old bean: With nothing hut a blossoming cold and jangled nerves I’ve passed through a miserable state of fright. Doc. Thinking things over serious ly, did it ever occur to you that the Ferocious and Fabulous Woof Woof is unusually active in this land of ours right now? The Woof-Woof is, as of course you know, a seven-toed, fire-breath ing animal with a single long and exceedingly sharp horn between his eyes and who, because of his enor mous size and horrible appearance scares folks stiff wherever ho is seen. The Woof-Woof terrorized the campus and this rooster in particu lar not long ago when it was thought that no well regulated breakfast could be complete without someone not present that had developed spinal meningitis the eve before. Now, that was the Woof-Woof in its mildest form, Doc. Millions flee terror-stricken from his path. But they really don’t have too. Any person can walk up to a Fer ocious and Fabulous Woof-Woof, snap his fingers right in front of his nose, giggle at the thing and he’ll give a falsetto moan and roll over unconscious. But if you treat the Woof-Woof seriously he’ll swallow you sure. Not long ago the Woof-Woof was in action when some fingering crit ics declared the structure of our Alma Mater was crumbling, due to a commercialization of basketball and football games. Things come up like modernism and fundamentalism and threaten to disrupt the entire country, and the Woof-Woof springs into action and roars his way from the Atlantic to the Pacific, leaving terror in his wake. He runs rampant on the sub ject of prohibition, Sunday blue laws, the question of whether or not Jonah swallowed the whale and all such important problems, until somebody laughs heartily and back goes the Woof-Woof to his cave. I really believe, Doc, this thing was responsible for my weakened condition—due to nights of worry over this spinal meningitis business —and indirectly for this offensive cold in the think tank and raw broncial tubes. T only bring in the association, Doc, because the other day the Woof-Woof got after Luther Bur bank because the great naturalist j announced through Edgar Waite,! San Francisco Bulletin writer, that! he (Burbank) was an infidel. The I Woof-Woof got the whole country excited aoout it all, not that they even called meetings to pray for his soul. Then Burbank, near victim of the Woof-Woof, spoke from a pulpit, and in part he said: “I love everybody. I love every thing. Some seem to make mis takes but everything and everybody has something of value. Else they would .not be here. “Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles . of j.theologv, just as we read other i books, using our own judgment and I reason; listening to the voice with ! in, not to the nosiy babble without, i Most of us possess discriminating 1 reasoning powers—can we use them, | or must we be fed by others, like babes?” “If my words have awakened thought in narrow bigots and petri fied hypocrites, they will have done their appointed work. “I reiterate—the religion of most people is what they would like to believe, not what they do believe, and very few stop to examine its foundation. The idea that a good God would send people to a burn ing hell is utterly damnable to me, the ravftgs of insanity—supersti tion gone to seed. “I don’t want to have anything to do with such a God. I am a lover of man and Christ as a man and his work, and all things that help humanity, but nevertheless, just as he was an infidel then, I am an infidel today. I prefer and claim the right to worship the in finite, everlasting, almighty God of this vast universe, as revealed to us gradually, step by step, by the dem onstrable truths, of our savior, sci ence.” I don’t know what all this has to do with spinal meningitis, Doc, but as a medical man I sort of thought you would understand. And if you will continue to keep the Woof Woof unconscious for a time, it’ll help a lot. JIM. Theaters -— MCDONALD — Last day: the $50,00® prize winning Liberty mag azine story by Fannie Hurst, “Man nequin,”. with Alice Joyce, Warner Baxter, Dolores Costello and Zazu Fitts. Added attraction, old timJe I “Fiddle Fest.” Comedy, Lloyd Hamilton in “Be Careful.” Coming —Starting Thursday, James Barrie’s 'delightful play, “A Kiss for Cinder ella,” with Betty Bronson, the “Peter Pan” girl. HEILIG — Today and Friday, “Havoc.” Thursday, Association Vaudeville circuit. Saturday,, on the stage, “My China Doll.” COLONIAL—- Opening Thursday night with Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller in Hogan’s Alley. Also Aloha Hawaiian syneopators, and A. R. Kirkham, popular tenor sing er. Miss Florence Nash at the organ. REX—first day: The great Am erican drama, “Abraham Lincoln,” with George Billings immortalizing the role of “Honest Abe,” in a dra ma more thrilling that fiction’s most fanciful pages ever depicted; Bray cartoon comedy, “The Camel’s Hump;” Kinogram news events; J. Clifton Emmel in musical accom paniment to the picture on the organ. COMING—“Sundown,” an epic of the west, with Bessie Love, Roy Stewart, Charlie Murray and Ho bart Bosworth. Royr Kehler and his “Country Store.” 0 ---o Coming Events *1 Wednesday, February 10 4:00-6:00 — Women’s League 1 tea. Woman’s building. ! 6:30-7:30—Dime crawl. Thursday, February 11 1 11:00 — Assembly, Woman’s | building. 8:15 —Organ auditorium. 8:30—Guild hall | hall. <5>— recital, Music plays. Guild f NEW ENGLISH COURSE ! PLANNED FOR MAJORS: < "" Proficient Students Exempt, From Written Subjects j Students showing marked ability: in written English may be exempt from completing their requirement, in that subject, and a new courst, : written English for intending, teachers, has been formulated, ac- j cording to decisions made by the faculty of the English department in a long session which terminated Friday. ! “Students showing marked abil ity in written English may be ex empted from completing the writ ten English requirement on the joint recommendation of the writ ten English instructor in whose course they are enrolled and the head of the English department, these exemptions not to be granted until the student has completed at least one term’s work,” say the minutes of the meeting. Freshmen majors in the depart ment are to be allowed the option of either English or European his tory. Sophomores must take either psychology or animal biology to fulfill their science requirements, economic history was substitute^ for the principles of economics. English literature majors, offer ing French or German to satisfy the. University foreign language re quirement, must demonstrate to the English department a reading know ledge of the language by the be ginning of the senior year. Form erly, the phrase, “offering French or German, to satisfy the Univer sity foreign language requirement” was not included, and “French, Ger man, or Latin” took the place of “the language.” One terfo of English poetry was inserted as a prerequisite to the teaching of high school English. In the drama and play production option, those intending to be teach ers must major in English litera ture, and not in drama and play production. Extempore speaking has been made an a-b-c- course. RAINEY GIVES ADVICE TO FUTURE TEACHERS Students expecting to teach next year were given valuable advice yesterday at the meeting in the edu cation building at 4:30 by Prof. Homer P. Rainey, who has charge of the appointment bureau. Professor Eainey urged that com munications and notices from the office be answered promptly, and the bureau be informed of any change of acTdress, to avoid com plications in notifying a student of an appointment. It is important that all prospec tive teachers register during the next two weeks, because in March and April there is always the greatest demand for teachers. The next demand comeB in July and August because the state law re quires a resignation notice of 60; days before school begins. If students prefer teaching posi-! tions outside the state of Oregon, they are advised to register with commercial agencies. Y. W. SECRETARY DUE FOR WEEK'S VISIT Miss Elsie Heller, of Spokane, i Wash., national student Y. W. C. A. secretary for the northwest, arrived i Tuesday, and will remain all this week. She will be a guest at Susan Campbell hall. Miss Heller has been a frequent visitor here. She will hold personal conferences. Anyone desiring to discuss the student pilgrimage to Europe, Girl Reserve club work or the Seabeck conference may make an appointment for a conference. 3>---O Campus Bulletin $*■—---—<£> Campus DeMolays—Are asked to at tend a meeting of the councilors club at the Craftsmans club, Wednesday at 4:15. Jregon Knights—Very important meeting tonight at 7:30 in the Administration building. Brin|; your sweaters. Faculty women—Will meet Thurs day at Alumni hall from 3:00 to 5:30. Those whose names begin with J. K. L. and M will be hostesses. Meeting of Collegium Augustale in the Y. W. C. A. Wednesday eve ning at 7:30. Dean Straub will speak. All Latin students in vited. if. W. C. A. Cabinet meeting this evening at 5:15 in the Bunga low. Councilor club will meet at 4:15 this afternoon at the Craftsman club. All DeMolays invited to at tend. if. M. C. A. cabinet will meet at a luncheon this noon in the “Y” hut. Gale Seaman will be the guest of honor* Alpha Kappa Psi meeting today at 5 p. m. in Boom 106, Commerce building. Tea to be given this afternoon for Clara Jane Stevens, Portland ar tist, has been postponed until a later date. Dr. Conklin’s classes will not meet this week. largest selling quality pencil in the wirlcl 17 black degrees 3 copying Buy a dozen Superlative in quality, the world-famous V ENUS PENCILS give best service and longest wear. Plain ends, per dor. $1.00 Rubber ende, per doz. 1.20 cAt all dealers American Lead Pencil Co. 220 Fifth Ave., N. Y. 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P*C Oflleo Tomorrow Night— GUILD THEATRE PLAYERS FIRST INTERPRET “THE KISS”.by Kee Buchanan “THE ATHLETE”.by Katherine Kressman “THE KINGDOM OF AMERICA” ... by Helen Webber BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN—ALL SEATS RESERVED—PRICES 50c and 75c Guild Theatre, Feb. 11 and 12