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.