VOLUME XXVII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1926
NUMBER 79
Varsity
Must Fathom
Complicated
System
Doc Bohler Advocates Rush
ing As Panacea; Beaver
Record Is Significant To
Oregonians
“I believe that if we had gone in
and mixed with the Aggies instead
of trying to meet them at their own
game,” said Coach Bohler of W. S.
C. Wednesday, in explanation of
the 0. A. C. victory, “we would
have beaten them. We will cer
tainly be laying for them in Pull
man.”
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That, in a few words, summarizes
the situation. A team trying to
meet the Aggie basketeers at their
own game is like a farmer trying
to guess under which shell the elu
sive pea reposes. Oregon, to win
Saturday, must go in and mix with
the Beavers, keep them from hold
ing the ball, and rush them off
their feet. California employed
these tactics last spring, and after
dropping one encounter, came back
to drub the Aggies in two straight
games for the coast title.
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The O. A. C. system depends up
on getting and keeping possession
of the ball. This purpose is almost
invariably accomplished at every
tip-off by “Slim Jim” Pinkerton,
the lofty center, who is tall enough
to outreach most of the pivot men
in the conference without leaving
the floor. As one of Oregon’s best
scoring plays is built around the tip
off, the result of the Okerberg
Pinkerton jumping contest should
be instructive.
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Much copy has emitted from Cor
vallis this winter concering duplex
systems, triplex systems, percent
age systems, greyhounds, “phantom
phives,” and what not. From re
ports, it would seem that Oregon is
going to face five super-men or hob
goblins next Saturday, but some
sage has aptly remarked that hoop
games are won on the basketball
court, and not in newspaper col
umns.
# * *
Coach Reinhart and his merry
men are worrying about the out
come of the O. A. C. fusjM as they
have worried about no other tilt
this year. The Aggie system, how
ever exasperating, is undoubtedly
dangerous and effective.. The Beav
ers work coolly, calm as sextons,
and are content to bide their time
until an opening comes. Then they
flash in like a beam of light, and
the score keeper hangs up two
more tallies. They never hurry a
shot, never shoot unless the way r)s
clear, and are deadly accurate from
middle distances and under the net.
The varsity players are used to
teams playing a rushing, speedy
game like their own, and may pos
sibly lose their temper if the Ag
gies take a lead and resort to their
stalling practice. Nothing could
please genial Coach Hager better.
A peculiar feature of the O. A.
C. sealson to date is that the Aggies
are usually behind at half time, but
prove strong finishers. They run up
no lop-sided scores, but few large
scores are hung against them. Their
system is designed to win ball
games, and win it does. Hager s
machines have never finished low
er than second in all the time that
he has been coach at the Corvallis
institution.
STUDENT RELIGIOUS
INTEREST SLIGHT;
WORKERS HOPEFUL
(Editors note: Following is the
second of two articles on the place
of religion on the University of
Oregon campus).
By TOM GRAHAM
In spite of all the signs of in
difference mentioned yesterday as
regards student interest in religion,
the religious workers on the cam
pus are hopeful and they see signs
which seem to indicate to them that
religious life on the campus is not
entirely dead. All the fraternities
on the campufs are visited every
Tuesday evening by a man who
speaks on some matter relative to
religion. The speeches are given
by able men and are sure to excite
interest. Miss Florence Magowan
of the Y. W. C. A. reports that a
few years ago the Y. W. was forced
to go out and look for workers
among the coeds. Now, due to the
activities of the Girls ’ Reserve in
the high schools, many girls come
to the Bungalow and ask for some
thing to do. Up to this time the
Y. M. has noticed no such effect of
the Hi-Y in the high schools.
Although the increase in church
attendance does not keep pace
with the growth of the student
body the religious workers of the
campus feel that there will come a
time when the students realize the
value of religious1 information.
Then they expect to see the churches
full of students.
It is impossible to give credit for
religious instruction in the Un^.
versity, but the religious workers
have other plans. They advocate
the Christianization of the other
courses of the University. That is,
they depend upon the professors to
interest the students in religion,
then they will satisfy that curio
sity. They are working on plans,
not to be completed in the near
future to be sure, for a religious
center similar to those at Cornell
and University of Pennsylvania.
They have fostered the speaking at
fraternities and such courses a) the
one given Sunday afternoon by Mr.
Davis.
Before the blame is placed for the
lack of interest on the campus, it
is necessary to determine that
blame is due. It may be said that
ones religion, or lack of it, is one’s
own business. That is true, but it
(s also true that the business of a
student is to obtain as broad a
culture as possible. No one will
deny that some knowledge of reli
gion and higher criticism is an im
portant contribution to culture.
Therefore, if a student leaves the
University with no knowledge of re
ligion other than that with which
he entered, he has not made the
best of his years at college. It is
not necessary that the student make
up h|s mind. He need not become
a fundamentalist or an athiest, but
he does need to know what each
one believes. Since knowledge of
religion is necessary to culture and
the student body seems to lack it,
the problem deserves consideration.
It is my opinion that most of the
blame lies outside the University.
When the students enter the Uni
versity they do not have the in
quiring mind necessary to the at
tainment of a wide culture. They
have been reared in conventional
Sunday schools or no Sunday schools
at all, and they have never been
taught that there is anything more
to religion than singing a few
hymns, enduring a sermon, and put
ting a penny in the collection box.
For this reason I believe that the
burden of the blame must rest on
the churches themselves for not
being able to stimulate their mem
bers sufficiently to make them in
vestigate, or even continue their
interest after they are out of the
shadow of the steeple. The fact
that 80 per cent of the students
register a religious preferance, and
only eight per cent attend church is
an indictment of the churches.
However, the students themselves
are also to blame because when a
man or woman is old enough to
come to college he or she should be
old enough to realize that some
knowledge of religion is nectary
to an educated person. In a few
(Continued on page four)
IMMIGRANT SUBJECT
OF K. YOUNG ARTICLE
Intelligence of New Comers
Held Lower
Average intelligence of the new
immigrant is somewhat lower than
that of the older immigrant from
northern and western Europe, de
clared Dr. Kimbell Young, associate
professor in sociology and psycho
logy, who has just published the
fiiWt portion of an article, “The
New Immigrant and Modern Indus
trial Society,” in the Industrial
Psychology.
“This does not mean that the
people of southern European coun
tries are necessarily less intelligent
than those of northern European
countries. Rather, I have shown
in this article that modern industry,
with its emphasis upon unskilled
and hemi-skilled labor, has attracted
the less intelligent and the less
skilled labor from European coun
tries,” Dr. Young explained.
A discussion of the new immi
grant’s relation to citizenship in an
industrial country, contained in the
second part of the article, will be
published in March.
CRITIC PANS, PRAISES PLAYS
WRITTEN BY CAMPUS AUTHORS
By JAMES DePATTLI
Although the three one-act plays
left much to be desired from the
viewpoint of their stories, the pro
ductions themselves were interest
ing in stage-craft and last night at
the Guild Theatre the spectators
demonstrated their approval.
But if you are a tired campus
man and romp to the performance
tonight with an ecstatic song on
your lips—take an aspirin tablet
before you go. Before the eVffning
is over the ecstatic song will change
to a pessimistic hymn by the pres
entation of “The Athlete,” and
“The Kingdom of America.”
It is understood that all three of
the plays are “literary drama,” and
perhaps were not intended to be
produced by the writers. To read,
“The Athlete” is rather beautiful.
You cannot escape the ingenuity of
the writer of “The Athlete” in the
matter of providing you with ex
quisite tragedy, futile happiness,
and a delicious blend of remorse,
(Continued on page two)
EARLY SPRING TRACK
WORKOUT TOMORROW
Regular List of Events to be
Run at 2:30
Hayward field’s pits and cinders
are due for a hard working over
next Saturday when every track
man out for varsity or frosli will
perform in the initial meet of the
year. The start is set for 2:30.
All the regular track events will
be run off in the meet, but the dis
tances will be cut down to allow
for the early season condition of
the men turning out. The after
noon’s work will take the form of
a standard track meet with all the
galaxy of officials, and Bob
Mautz’s fog horn voice will prob
able call the events.
“Everyone who has been out is
expected to enter in his event in
Saturday’s competition meet,” said
Bill Hayward yesterday.
Men who are slated to enteT the
competition—both freshmen and
varsity should report to Bill Hay
ward at the shack near Hayward
field and sign up for the events,
Iso that a complete list of entries
will be available tonight.
There will be no conflicting events
and the swimming meet on the same
afternoon will begin when the track
meet is over.
The sprints and middle distance
races will be run separately—the
freshman in one race and the var
sity in another. The distance races
will find both frosh and varsity
competing.
The list of events on Saturday
afternoon’s program will be:
75-yard dash, variity; 75-y!af,d
daph, frosh and the finals of the
races run off last Wednesday with
six men entered. 150-yard d.-^sh, var
sity; 150-yard dash, freshman; 300
yard dash, varsity; 300-yard dash,
freshman; 660-yard dash, varsity,
660-yard dash freshman. Three
quarter mile, open for both varsity
and freshmwi; mile and a half for
both varsity and frosh. High
hurdUb—60 yards. Broad jump,
high jump, pole vault, shot put, dis
cus, and javelin.
WELLS WAY
10 PUT RELIGION
BEFORESTUDENT
California Speaker Thinks
Youth is Certain To Be
Approved or Made Hero
H. W. Davis Reviews Work
Of Campus Organizations
At Religious Conference
Firmly and frankly Dr. C. E.
Hugh of the University of Califor
nia, developed his idea of personal
contact as the way to solve the
problem of getting college students
interested in religion, at the first
session of the conference on Reli
gious Problems, at Condon hall yes
terday afternoon. Dr. Rugh talks
with h*s audience, not to them. He
intentionally tries to irritate them
to thinking.
“In this age," he said, “we are
very confident and successful wher
ever machinery or science will work.
In religious matters we cannot fol
low even a general trend, for there
is none. We are in a state of gen
eral confusion. We must apply the
theory of relativity to social life
as well as scientific, to find out the
progress by which the world is car
ried on. We know much about the
|seience of the stars, but we think
and feel very inadequately about
religious matters.
Having studied the religious sit
uation in various parts of the coun
try, Dr. Rugh was able to give ex
amples of other schools where sat
isfactory work is being done. Illi
nois has done well in encouraging
an unusual number of students to
be active in Christian work.
In Chicago, where the “Better
Yet” campaign hgfs been going on,
the results have also been gratify
ing. They advocate that the pro
cess of religious thinking must be
aided and accompanied Dy tne stu
dent learning where he is; how to
think straight; how to get the most
benefit out of things in the least
amount of time; how to become
generally educated; how to care
for his body; how to develop char
acter and personality.
“Youth is bound to be approved,”
he said. “He may not always be
approved for good things, but he
will always be approved. He ex
cells in something and is made a
hero or praised. Here is where re
ligious men can got at them. Stu
dents are talking, studying, think
ing in groups on every campus.
There is a youth movement. Get
next to the leaders of these groups.
Get next to the members. Talk to
them about things that puzzle
them. Talk to them about religion.
Be face to face with them, live with
them, think with them—make a
personal contact. It is hard; it is
a long road; you are too set in your
ways to want to do it, but machines
can only help a little and are use
less without your own personality,
contact and effort.”
Bev. H. W. Davis read a paper
dealing with the activities of the
religious organizations on the cam
pus. Chiefly figuring in this work
are the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W.
C. A. with the help of the minis
ters of the churches and the cam
pus.
Prof. H. P. Rainey, of the educa
tion department, urged the religi
ous training of the grade school
children that they might have a
better background for developing
when they became college students.
He deplored the fact that religion
and politics are so widely separa
ted.
Something of the need of train
ed religious teachers was stressed
by Prof. Walter Myers of the Eu
gene Bible University. The demand
is continually growing, and it should
be met by producing a number of
well-trained teachers who can lead
religious thought.
Due to the illness of Dean H. D.
Sheldon, Karl Onthank presided at
the session. Rev. Frank Fay Eddy
gave the invocation.
A dinner was given in the Wom
an’s building at 6:00 o’clock last
night, Prof. F. S. Dunn, presiding.
The address was given by Dr. Rugh.
Tonight at 8:15 a meeting of the
Findings committee will be held.
Discussion of conclusions and poli
cies will be given at that time.
DR. CHASE LEA VES;
DECISION NOT GIVEN
HOME BIGGEST
HUGH ASSERTS
College Student Bodies Con
tain All Kinds of Crime,
Virtue, Is View
“While some college students
practice all the virtues, there are
others who practice all the vices,
up to and including murder,” de
clared Charles E. Hugh yesterday
at the student assembly held in the
auditorium of the Woman’s build
l
ing. Rugh, who for 20 years has
been professor of education at the
University of California, based his'
statement upon the findings of a
national committee of five, of
which he was a member, which re
cently investigated moral and reli
gions conditions in 31 institution*
of higher learning in America.
It is perfectly clear that influ
ences in the first 18 years of the
life of the student are the most \
important character forming agen
cies of the undergraduate," Profes;
sor Rugh said. “Where the student
has lived in a home where love pre
dominates, and in a community
where he is well known and re
spected, there is little question as.
to his moral statu£. On the other
hand, where 4he young man or
woman takes the occasion of going ]
to college as a means of escaping
the home where there is little love,
the opposite is true.
••.Between tne two extremes, y
Professor Hugh added, “you find
about 57 wobbling varieties.”
Oollege Group Important
The second great influence, the j
speaker pointed out, is the college
group with which the student eats,
sleep's, and plays. The group in
which the average student falls is
in the most cases purely accidental,
he said, when he told of tho influ
ences of fraternities.
“It would be easy to say harsh
things about fraternities,” said
Professor Bugh, who is a fratern
ity man. “But they are important
factors in college life, and can be
influential for good or evil. ” He
told two (stories, one representing
each extreme. The first was of
eight men of eight different fra
ternities who wero instrumental in
removing a roadhouse from near a
campus, and the other where fra
ternity men tried to remove a pro
fessor who changed his course,
thereby making it impossible for
students to use their fraternity li
braries as a means of cheating.
Morale is Factor
“Another factor in the behavior
of college studenljs,” Professor
Bugh said, “is tho morale of the
university or college. The morale
depends upon the traditions and
ideals of tho college.
The fact that so many of the,
teaching profession were losing
their contact with Students by be
coming deans and researchers was
also pointed out as a deteriorating
factor. “Teaching is the funda
mental business of a college pro
fessor,” the speaker concluded,
“and those who are getting away
from the students and getting
younger instructors and those who
have grown too old take their
places, are untrue to their trust
and to themselves, their profession
and the public.”
SERENADE GIVEN FOR
DR. HARRY W. CHASE
An impromptu serenade was
staged last night for Dr. Ilarry
Woodburn Chase, president-elect of
the University of Oregon, by stu
dents on the campus.
After the serenade was over, Dr.
Chase briefly thanked the students
for the musical program, and stated
that he was deeply moved by the
Oregon hospitality and interest of
the students.
The serenade was given at 11
o’clock last evening, and the voices
of the students resounded clearly
across the stilled campus.
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Sigma Delta Chi
Pledges Are to
Amuse Crowds
at Library Steps
Freshmen will be treated to the
unusual spectacle of upperclassmen
undergoing the paddling they have
tso joyfully anticipated in the past,
this morning when pledges of Sigma
Delta Chi, men’s national honorary
journalistic fraternity, congregate
on the library steps at 10:50, and
submit to the traditional indignity
which tradition has imposed upon
the green-cappers.
The neophytes are Jim DePauli,
Lewis Beeson, Herbert Lundy, Ray
Nash, Malcolm Epley, Edward
Smith, Harold Mangum, Glen Rad
abaugh, Ronald Sellers, Jack Hemp
stead, and Allen Canfield. The of
fenses range all the way from ex
cessive cockineiss to stealing from
a blind man’s cup and back again.
ROOKS WILL OPPOSE
FROSH AT 3:00 TODAY
Corvallis Yearlings Use
Stalling Basketball
Rook will oppose freshman this
afternoon at 3:00 o’clock in the
men’s gym when Coach Leslie’s
Oregon green-dappers line up
against Coach Hubbard’s O. A. C.
yearlings for a return basketball
game.
The contest is expected to be a
vest pocket edition of the game at
Corvallis tomorrow night between
the varsity aggregations. The rooks
employ the same style of stalling
basketball as that employed by the
Aggie varsity, while the freshmen
use that advanced by Reinhart’s
players.
The Oregon yearlings won over
the Beaver first year men last week
in Corvallis by a count of 30 to 20,
and are out to repeat the dolie this
afternoon.
Leslie will probably start the
same team that faced the Aggies
before. Enfmons, an excellent shot,
and Scallon, the Portland phenom,
will bo at forwards, with Ridings,
from University high, at center,
and Joe Bally, of Eugene high, pair
ing with Dave Epps, of Franklin
high of Portland, at guards. But
three prep schools are represented
in this array as Emmons and Bally
teamed together last winter, as did
Scallon and Epps.
<$> Football Candidates
Every one is requested to
out today with the usual equip
' ment. There will be no prac
tice on Saturday according to
| statement issued from the of
| fice of Captain McEwan. All
| aspirants report on Monday
| at the set time.
RISING CHEERS
GREET CHASE'S
INITIAL SPEECH
President - Elect Expresses
Keenest Appreciation fop
Hospitality Shown Him
Three thousand strong the Ore
gon student body greeted Dr. Harry
Woodburn Chase, elected by the
beard of regents Tuesday to be
come successor to late Prince L.
Campbell as president of the uni
versity, and by their hearty ap
plause express! d unanimous appro
val of the southern educator. Two
standing ovations, the sound of
which re-echoed through the Wom
an Is building, were given Dr. Chase.
The first came when he strode to
his seat on the speaker’s platform,
and the second when he was intro
duced by his student chum, Dr. E.
S. Conklin, head of the department
of psychology.
The deep tones of Dr. Chase’*
southern droll resounded throughout
the auditorium as he expressed his
“appreciation and deep (satisfaction
for tho hospitality and friendship”
extended him during his few days
visit on the campus.
Appreciates Visit
“No one can see what I have
seen here the last few days,” Dr.
Chase said, “and enjoy what I have
enjoyed with you without the keen
est sort of sense of the greatness
of the institution and of the oppor
tunities in this part of the coun
try.
As one goes about the country,
the big things he gets is the sim
iliarity of the great fundamental
traditions of the American people,
no matter in what section of tho
country they live,” Dr. Chase de
clared. He told of the marble tab
lets which tell “tho tragic tale of
the civil war” which are tho sym
bols of University of North Caro
lina of which he is president. These
tablets, he pointed out are to the
southern institution traditionally
what “Tho Pioneer” is to Oregon.
“I think that, after all, these
great state universities like this,
which are developing all of tho
country, mean and must mean, if
they mean anything, that these
great public educational enterprises
are a symbol of the fact that we
believe in America and in its tra
ditions; that wo are trying in this
organized way to send out into the
life of this country, young men and
young women who have caught the
vision of what education is and
should bo, whofce horizons are be
ing broadened and whose satisfac
tions arc being increased and op
portunities being developed, because
of what the public is doing for
them.
Dr. Chase Leaves Sunday
“So it rests on the students of
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CHARLES COURBOIN DISPLAYS
ABILITY IN PLEASING PROGRAM
Charles M. Courboin, Belgian or
ganist, showed an extraordinary
versatility in the rendition of a
program of classical numbers and
musical sketches at his appearance
on the University campus la|vt night.
He played before a capacity audi'
ence in the school of music audi
torium.
Mr; Courboin plays with the ease
of a great master, especially demon
strated in “Afternoon of a Faun”
by Debussy, in which his pipe organ
combinations are unusually effect
ive and interpretative. The “Marche
Heroque,” by Saint-Saens, a com
position very massive in its full
organ effects, wa# performed with
ease, giving an indication of the
latent powers of the oqganist.
In Cesar Franck’s. “Third Cho
rale in A Minor,” Mr. Courboin
demonstrated exceptional grasp of
passages of furious agitation, and
gave an adequate rendition of a
tender episode expressing Faith, and
the ultimate triumph of Right, as
dramatized in the missive chords
at the cloge.
“Primitive Organ” by Pietro
Yon, and De Boec.k’s “Allegretto”
were offered in delightful cont-ast,
the one being an imitation of a
humorously mechanical old-fashion
ed organ; the other a very dainty,
racy little sketch.
In John Stark Evans’ opinion,
the Belgian organist is a master of
his instrument, and is inspiring
not only through his skillful rendi
tions, but also through his magne
tic personality, which is refleeted in
his presentation of a program not
lacking in contrast.
Taken on the whole, Mr. Oour
boin displayed unusual ability as an
organist. His audience being par
tisularly impressed with his pedal
ing, which was done with masterful
precision.
Among the encores played were
“Serenade” by Edward Grasse, and
Schubert’s “Ave Maria.”