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VOLUME XXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1926 NUMBER 102 Oregon to Be Host to Friend of Emerson Chas. J. Woodbury Last Survivor of Brook Farm Colony Two Lectures be Given Monday at 107 Villard Speaker, Past 70, Retains Vigor and Enthusiasm |^HARLES J. WOODBURY, last '■'* living friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, will speak Monday to classes in American literature in room 107 Villard at 11 and again at one o’clock sharp. Persons out-, side the classes are invited to at tend. Each spring Mr. Woodbury visits colleges and universities lecturing about his friend. “Emerson and His Friends” will be the subject of his 11 o’clock lecture; and “Emer son Himself” will be the topic at the one o’clock address. On a visit to the University about two years ago, Mr. Woodbury was well received by the students, and in turn he has a great affection for the University. On his last vis it, he said, “Very seldom do I meet such friendly and courteous young people.” Enthusiasm Still Shown Although he is more than 70 years old, he has a good voice, speaks distinctly and forcefully, and is very alive and enthusiastic. He uses the old style of delivery, speak ing slowly and enunciating his words distinctly. Mr. Woodbury is said to be as enthusiastic and as keenly interested in Emerson now as when he was a boy at Williams college Massachusetts. While away on a visit from Wil liams college where he was a stu dent, Mr. Woodbury heard Emerson give an address and was so much impressed that he and a group of friends invited Emerson to the col lege to speak. This was an innova tion, as Emerson was considered very radical. Emerson accepted the invitation. Mr. Woodbury was so much impressed that he1 abandoned his college career and became a con tinual companion and secretary to Emerson. Last Survivor of Brook Farm Mr. Woodbury is the last surviv or the famous Brook Farm colony, which was the first American at tempt at communal life. tinder the communal form of life, each member of the colony contributed to the common store and lived from that. The members pledged themselves to plain living and high thinking. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Bron son Alcott, the father of Louisa M. Alcott, famous writer of girl’s sfto ries, and David Henry Thoreau were some of the members of the colony. These writers were the first to receive notice abroad. Previously the comment of the British and the people on the continent has been “Who reads an American book?” Hendricks hall will be host to the speaker while he is on the campus. He will arrive Sunday afternoon and will go from here to O. A. C. immediately after hi* last address on Monday. Majors in Physical Education Will Make Annual Portland Trip Senior majors in physical educa tion will make their annual obser vation trip to Portland next Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday, ac companied by Miss Florence D. Al den and Miss Emma F. Waterman of the physical education depart ment. The majors will visit and observe the work in the Portland” free dis pensary, the orthopedic work in the Sliriner’s hospital, the work of the State 'Accident Commission, and the work in Peninsula and Sellwood Parks. They will also visit the Y. W. C. A. and Mulnomah club, and observe the health and physical ed ucation work in both grade and high schools. Several students will go to Port land in order to hear Jay Nash, head of physical education in public schools in Oakland, California, speak to the Oregon Physical Edu cation Association. Serious Cheapening of Memorials Since War Noted by Art Instructor National Society Will Endeavor to Fight Against In ferior Sculpture, Says Fairbanks By ALICE KRAEFT The commercializing of noble sentiments which were the out growth of the World War, a cheap ening of war memorials to such an extent that it is becoming serious, is the situation which the National Sculpture society has recently set out to right, Professor Avard Fair banks, instructor in sculpture, de clared in an interview yesterday. At present there is a very cheap type of bronze sculpture that is be coming so well recognized that peo ple are beginning to feel that any thing that is in bronze is good work and good art and as a result of this feeling there are several bronze companies in the country that are becoming very wealthy through their wholesale distribution of ster eotyped models, he declared. These companies hire amateur sculptors and turn out works of art that they sell for about half the price a pro fessional sculptor would charge. To counteract this influx of in ferior art the National Sculpture So ciety is beginning to disseminate the knowledge through all the sources it can to bring people to the realization that the profession of sculpture is like any other profes sion in that those who specialize in it are better equipped to do the work than amateurs. The society feels that the coun try is intelligent enough to realize the perilous conditions similar to those which followed the Civil War, declared Professor Fairbanks. Peo ple were eager to erect monuments in memory of the heroics of the war and fell easy victims to the epidemic of “granite soldiers”, many of which can be seen today in numer ous cities all over the country and especially in cemetaries. These “granite soldiers” were crude works of art, yet they are not very much worse, if any, than the “stock sold iers”, which are finding their places in some of the denters of civilizat ion today. “It seems almost unavoidable that a people who live among such stat ues as the “Coming of the White Man,” “Sacajawea,” “The Pio neer”, the “Skidmore Fountain”, (Continued on page four) ‘Slaying’ in Law School to Cause Moot Court Trial Prof-Student Battle Ended As Youth Crashes Foe With Weight When Sam Bass Warner, professor of law, failed to appear before his classes this week, the cause was laid to a “slaying” in the law school in which he was the party of the second part. Anyone interested in such com monplace crime stories as man slaughter is getting to be, may pro ceed with this one. Grades for the winter term, the root of the whole trouble, resulted in a charge against David D. Ev ans,law student, for “manslaugh ter.” It seems that young Evans, who is a very ambitious student, walked into the office of Prof. War ner, on the morning of March 11, in order to ascertain the grade which Prof. Warner intended to give him in a class in office procedure. Evans, When told his grade was to be a III, flew into a fit of passion and demanded an explanation. “It is a dirty deal,” he said, “and I shall take the matter up with the dean immediately.” He starred out the door, when Prof. Warner stopped him and pleaded with him not to go to the dean, but Evans would not listen and a scuffle ensued. Warner, in his rage picked up the nearest weap on available, a door weight, and started toward Evans, whlereupon Evans with herculean vigor and un usual presence of mind, snatched a paper weight from the desk in the office and hit the professor over the head, causing his downfall. Evans then went outdoors for a smoke and was label taken into custody by District Attorney Rob inson, law student. The coroner pronounced Warner dead, and in an indictment by the grand jury, young Evans was summoned to appear be fore the moot court in the court room of the Circuit Court of Lane county next Tuesday night at sevien o’clock where he will be tried, prob ably before Judge Skipworth. The attorneys for the defense are Rupert Bullivant and Robert Chris man, and for the prosecution, Her bert Brooks, John Bryson, all third year law students. It is expected that the jury which will be chosen immediately preced ing the trial will consist mainly of journalists. Date Set for Payment Of Library Penalties Monday, April 5, is the last day on which over due fines may be paid at the library, according to announcement made today by M. H. Douglass, librarian. On Monday evening all unpaid fines will be turned over to the comptroller’s office for collection with added penalty. Former Oregon Man Publishes New Biography ‘’The Mind of John Keats” Title of Volume By Dr. Thorpe “The Mind of John Keats”, by Dr. Clarence DeWitt Thorpe, who was associate professor in English here two years ago, has just come from the Oxford University Press, and copies have reached the campus. Dr. Thorpe spent about 10 years preparing the volume. Keats’ thought life was used as the sub ject for Dr. Thorpe’s doctor of phil osophy thesis and the book was evolved from the thesis. “The important thing the book does is to reveal to us that Keats was an aesthetic thinker of signif icance, that he had ideas about his art, and that his thought life, espec ially in his last years, was one earn est search for the solution of prob lems in his art,” said Prof. Walter Snyder of the department of Eng lish, giving an estimate of the vol ume. “His book does not overlap with Amy Lowell’s book on Keats. While Miss Lowell has contributed to Keats’ criticism a most admirable biography, like so many other critics before her, she has only touched in cidentally upon Keats’ thought life.” jut. morpe nimseir says in the preface: “This book is the out growth of an attempt to analyze the poetic mind of Keats. About ten years ago, I began a etudy of the developm'ent of Keats as a poet, with special reference to his growth in self-restraint. I had not pro ceeded far before I became con vinced that the key to the young poet’s remarkable advance in power during the brief span of his work ing years could be traced largely to a natural reaction to his own serious thought on the nature of art and poetry “Accordingly, I set to work to gather from his letters and poems all possible evidence as to what these ideas were. The total mass of this material, a few lines of poetry here, a passage from a letter there, a bit from one of his critical com ments in another place, was truly astonishing. Not less revelatory was the pertinence and the import of these utterances. There began to dawn upon me a feeling that here was an aesthetic thinker of signif cance. And as I came to analyze and organize, this feeling ripened into a conviction.” Vesper Services Called Off for Spring Term There will be iuo more vesper services during the remainder of Spring term. This is contrary to an announcement made recently. If any special services are to be held, announcement of the dates will be made later. There will be no Easter vesper service. The regular Sunday services will be continued next Fall term. Emerald Will Award $100 For Workers Prizes to be Distributed At Emerald Banquet For Efficiency Staff Meeting Called for Tuesday at 4:30 p. m. News Staff Will Get $85; Business Staff, $15 One hundred dollars in prizes is to be distributed am'ong members of the Emerald business and news staffs for work during the spring term, announces Edward Miller, ed itor. The executive committee sanctioned the plan at its regular meeting last Wednesday. Awards will be made ion the basis of good work and efficiency during the term, and will be awarded at the Emerald banquet at the last of the term. Eighty-five dollars will be dis tributed ataong the members of the news staff and $15 among the busi ness staff. The money will be di vided as follows: On the news staff the best day editor will get $15; best night edi tor, $15; best reporting for year, first prize, $7.50; second prize, $5.00; third prize, $2.50; best in dividual reporting, first prize, $7.50, second prize, $5.00. The person turning in the most tips will re ceive $7.50; the seoond most tips, $5.00; and the third most, $2.50, The reporter writing the best fea ture story will be awarded $7.50, and the one having the next best, $5.00. The most efficient advertising salesman on the business staff will be given $10, and the most efficient person in the circulation depart ment will gets $5.00. An Emerald staff meeting will be held next Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 p. m., and Sol Abramson, man aging editor, requests that every member be present. The basis for the awards will be. explained, and other information concerning plans for the term will be given out. A number of changes in beats are to be made next week, and the en tire staff will be reorganized with a view to obtaining the greatest possible degree of efficiency. Ev eryone desiring to try out for work on the Emerald is urged tio attend the meeting. Meeting of Faculty Postponed for Week The regular faculty meeting scheduled for Wednesday, April 7, has. been postponed until the next week because of the meeting of the Inland Empire Teachers Associ ation in Spokane April 7, 8, and 9. Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geology department, and Prof. F. L. Stetson of the school of education, will attend the meeting. Dean II. D. Sheldon, chairman of the admin istrative committee of the Universi ty, and president of the Association will be unable to attend as he is not expected back from his trip to Wyoming until after the meeting. Station KGW to Broadcast Radio Debate Johnson, Beelar to Defend Referendum on War Question Arguments Begin at 8; Fifteen Minutes Long First Varsity Competition For Oregon Team BY JACK HEMPSTEAD J^EBATING teams of the Univer sity of Southern California anil the University of Oregon will speak tonignt over radio KGW in Portland as an annual fea | turo of the Oro | gon forensic I schedule. James f Johnson, pre-law and Donald Beel ar, sophomore in pre-law, repre sent Oregon I against L e 1 a n d Tallman and Wil iam Berger, who James jonnson «»e uutKiug wui of nine debates for U. S. C. The Oregon men, who uphold the affirmative side of the question of referendum on war, have completed their speeches and are prepared to give a good account of themselves and the University in their first intercollegiate contest. Although U. S. C. has failed to exchange briefs with the Oregon debaters ac cording to the arrangement pre viously agreed to by student man agers between the institutions re buttal speeches will be made ex temporaneously this evening. Referendum on War Is Question “Resolved: That war, except in case of invasion or internal rebel lion, should be declared by a direct VULtJ Ui bUC of the United States,” which is the question to be debated, is the same as the one debated between Oregon and the Universi t y of Utah in the first use of the “Ore gon system” on March 11. Last year the radio debate was held with the Uni Donald Beelar i v <iu jiuuatuu vciau/j' ui vuuiui niti* and Joe Frazer were the Oregon men. This event is considered by the Oregonia^i Broadcasting sta tion as one of the best programs given over KGW and much publicity has been given the contest through out the state and the Pacific coast. Details have been handled by the extension department, cooperating with the radio directors and the re spective student managers. Oregon Opens Argument Starting with the constructive argument of Johnson for Oregon at 8 p. m. sharp, the three other fif teen minutes constructive argument speeches will bo given in order. Johnson is followed by Tallman of U. S. C. Then Beelar concludes the constructive argument for the af firmative and is followed by the (Continued on page four) Oregon Song Week Learn a Song a Day In a Harbor of the Mountains In a harbor of the mountains In the gleaming valley, Where Willamette’s hill-fed fountains Join our roaring rally, Shifting sunshine, dancing showers, By the flying water, Play across the ivied towers Of our Alma Mater. CHORUS From the mountain falls the gloaming, To the sky the stars are homing Looking down on Oregon; While soft the ripples run. While canoes are softly gliding Through the shadows stealing, hiding, Float the songs from the old mill race, Songs of our Oregon. And Now the Men Must do Their Stuff rJ,HE HEX just couldn’t stand it. They aren’t going to let the eo-eds put anything over on them. They are going to throw a big all-college smoker, next Saturday night—that is, if they can get on the dime and get things going. Just where and at what time the big affair is to be started no one knows. To tell the truth even Steele Winterer, who pre tends to be in charge of the af fair, doesn’t know what it is all about. The only thing he seems to be sure about is that there is to be a smoker and that it is bo on the same night that the girls are holding their annual no men ball. The committee members have been appointed and they will try to got together sometime before April 10, when the big bust is to be busted. The committee fol lows: Steele Winterer, The Big Push; Bob Gardner, Little Push; Fred Martin, Chief Apple Polish er; Jack Seabrook, Dean of Mus ic; Frank Biggs, Head Mitt Pusher; Lowell Baker, Food Ex pert; Jack Herring, Chorus Di rector; Bob Mautz, Trumpeter; Frosli Flunkies, Ted Lundy, George Webffr, Merrill Hagen, Bob Foster, and Bonald Hubbs. Banquet Honors Visiting Oakland Man Last Night Physical Education Staff Entertains Jay B. Nash And Other Guests A banquet was given last night at the Hotel Qsburn in honor of Jay B. Nash, superintendent, of recreation and director of physical education in Oakland public schools, who for the past few days has been the guest of the physical education department here. The physical education staff of the Ortegon Agricultural College, teaching alumni of physical educa tion, Dr. Cunningham of Berkeley, and Dr. Cozens of Los Angeles were also guests at the banquet. Mr. Nash spoke at noon to the city planning board on recreational problems and the possibilities of playgrounds in Eugene. At eight o’clock in the evening Mr. Nash spoke to the physical edu cation majors and all others inter ested in this work at a meeting in the Alumni room of the Women’s building. The aims and objectives of physical education was the topic of his talk, and he brought out the need of recreation in the education al program, as well as the oppor tunities for individual development that lie in this work. Mr. Nash said that there should be commun ity responsibility in planning rec reational programs, and he spoke briefly as to what should mako up a community program. Mr. Nash left this morning for Portland where he will talk to the Oregon physical education associa tion. Bell Telephone Men Will he Here Monday The school of business adminis tration announces to those who are interested in applying for technical or business positions in the Bell Telephone company that they may have an opportunity to meet offi cials of the company Monday and Tuesday of next week. A general lecture will be given to all inter ested in the opportunity at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. Afterward, the representatives will arrange cton ferences with the students, who are asked to see Miss Bailey to schedule appointments. Men planning to attend the White Motor Car factory school are asked to report to the business adminis tration department, which will be able to arrange conferences with officials of that company sometime next month. This factory school is for the benefit of thoso who in tend to become employees of the company. The students are payed while attending this school and fit tig themselves for positions in the company in the sales, technical or executive departments. Final Try-Outs Are Today For Stanford Meet Webfooters Expect to Take At Least 50 Points From Cardinals Weather Conditions Favor Southerners Jumpers Have Little Prac tice; Holder in Form rJVIIE TRACK TEAM to represent' Oregon on the scorching cinders of the Stanford stadium at Palo Alto next Saturday, April 10th, will be picked this afternoon in final competitive try-outs. Oregon’s prospects of returning' with a Cardinal scalp are dim sn& vague, but Hayward’s athletes are hopeful of wresting at least 50’ points from the red-shirted south erner!?. Track at Stanford is in ad vanced stages, while in the north it is still in a formative state. The greater part of the Cardinal season' is behind them, while the Oregon ians have yet to face outside com petition. This is due largely to the perpetual sunshine of the Golden' Bear state which loosens np slow responding muscles' and encourages record breaking performances in tha winter months. weather Is Favorable Lee Barnes, the phenomenal schoolboy from Hollywood who won the polo vault in the Olympic games, Hartranft and Houser, the brilliant weight tosBcrs; Paddock, Kirkeey,, Sudden, Miller, Muller and a boat of others bear evidence to the effect of year-round work and favorable climatic conditions. It has been a. long time eince the Northwest pro duced a track champion. Stanford Hurdlers Fast In two events in which Oregon expects to win points in the south, Stanford has two outstanding per formers. “Swede” Leigtner, hard ier who can make the high sticks in 15 seconds, will represent Temple ton ’s team, and he has showed his heels to all competitors thie year.. Cleaver, Kelsey and Tuck, of Ore gon, form a sweet obstacle crew, bat thjey have not beat that kind of hurdling. Stanford has Miller in the 44ff, which means that this event will be clocked in less than 49 if hurried, certainly under 50. Joe Price, Ore gon ’s leader in the long sprint, willi cause satisfaction if he can make 51. Jumpers in Poor Condition Two of Oregon’s best bets are in poor* condition for strenuous- compe tition. Proc Flanagan, the soaring broad jumper, has had only three or four workouts and has yet to try his specialty. Roland Eby, a. handy jumper, turned out for the first time this term, and will hardly be in shape for the seasoned Stan fordites. Two other former weaknesses are brightening prospects, however, forr Vic Wetzel is tossing tb(e spear around 180 feet and Tom Holder is showing strong endurance in the two mile. Participants Are Many The men who will participate this afternoon: Sprints: Extra, Holt, Kuykendall, Hill, Renshaw and Prendergast. 440: Price, Ager, Jieffries, Pear son, Socolofsky, Ilermance, and Al len. (Continued on page four) Woodward - Baker Wedding for Easter Sunday, Announced Bon Woodward, ’25, and Lillian Baker, ex’25, will be married Raster Sunday at the Delta Delta Delta house of which Miss Baker ia a member. Members of the two houses will be present. Both Mr. Woodward and Mis* Baker were prominent on the cam pus before leaving school last Jane. Miss Baker was day editor on the Emerald. She is a member of Theta. Sigma Phi and Delta Delta Delta. Mr. Woodward was editor of the Emerald last year. He is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, Friars and Theta Chi. The engagement was announced as a surprise feature of the Emerald banquet last May in an extra issue of the Emerald for the banquet.