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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1926)
Barry Cerf Will Deliver Speech Before Assembly Reed College Professor to > Talk on New Spirit In Education Barry Cerf, professor of compara tive literature at Reed college, will be on the campus Thursday to de liver the assembly address. The sub ject of his'lecture will be “The New Spirit in Education.” Professor Cerf is well known as a literary critic, and has written several text books which are now in use in educational institutions throughout the country. Professor Cerf is a collaborate author of the French grammar which is being used in the University first year French classes at the present time. Prof. Rudolph H. Ernst, of the English department, who knows Professor Cerf, is impressed with his curious philosophy of life. He is conservative in his views, but at the same time is willing to experi ment. His ideas of educational methods are in keeping with this philosophy, yet ho expresses a will ingness to inquire into and experi ment with the modern. He is clever and also a humanist, says Professor Ernst, who is convinced that his assembly address will be entertain ing and worthwhile. Professor Cerf has been actively connected with the Reed experiment, or Schalz plan, of articulating the literatures, sciences and history at Reed, says Prof. Ernst. In 1902 Prof. Cerf received hi« A. B. degree from the University of California, and in 1903 was grant ed his A. M. In 1908 he got his Ph. D. from Harvard university. He spent some time in both Franco and Italy as a student. From 1908 till 1910 Prof. Cerf was at the Uni versity of Wisconsin in the capacity of instructor. He was an assistant professor 1910-1912 and associate professor from 1912-1920. In 1918 and 1919, during the World war, Professor Cerf was with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and since 1921 he has been connected with Reed college. Changes Made In Conduct Of Women’s Track Two Preliminary and One Final Meet Will be Held This Year Women’s track practice is becom ing more intensive in preparation for the preliminary track moots, which will bo held May 13 and 14. This sport iB being conducted on a different basis this year than here tofore. and contrary to the usual cus tom of picking the various class teams after the big competitive moot on field day, two preliminary and one final meet will be held this year. The change lias been effected by Miss Ernestine Troemel, track instructor, and Nellie Johns, head .of the sport. Another deviation is the selection of the teams before the competition. The class teams will no selected and announced some time during the first week in May. During the preliminary meets the first teams of sister classes will com pete. 1 has the freshmen and juniors will be pitted against each other on one day of the preliminaries and the sophomores and seniors on the other days. On May 18 the four classes will hold a combined track meet. “The preliminaries will be run off just to give us an indication of •what will happen on May 18,” said Miss Troemel. These initial meets, however, will be run off with the proper number of officials, so if any record should be made it will hold. On the day of the big event all teams are to show up by 3:30, and the event will last until 0 o’clock. The preliminaries will commence at 4 o’clock. Every event will bo worked off according to places taken in the event. First will count five points, second three, and third one. Class teams will be chosen according to ability and attendance at the practices held each Tuesday, Thurs day. rind Friday at 4 o’clock, with emphasis on ability. There will not, as has been the custom, necessarily be an even uum l»f>r of girls placed on the first teams. Only those who show up to the best advantage will got the first place •and in ease there should not lie the usual six of these, the team num ber will be cut. This change is made because it is felt that it is unfair to award 100 first team points to a girl who does not really merit the first team position, but has to be placed there merely to fill out the required number. Reviewers for Emerald Browse Among Books Jennifer Lorn, by Elinor Wylie Reviewed by Julia Burgess Romantic incident and sentiment may even now in this age of nat uralism make successful appeal to the more exacting reader if dis | guised as fantasy, as in “Thunder ; on the Left,” or mingled with irony, ; mysticism, and poetic imagery, as in “Domnei” or “Jurgen.” Elinor Wylie in “Jennifer Lorn” (which preceded ‘‘The Venetian Glass Nep jhew”) combines extravaganza, sen j timent, irony, and poetic imagery. Her style is full of reminders of James Branch Cabell. In realistic ironic touches in the midst of ex travagant situation, she is his equal; in delicate whimsy she is an unfailing delight to lovers of clever subtlety. Her heroine, “Jenny For lorn,” so trusting, so beautiful, So helpless, so sweetly vacant of in tellect, so innocently yet so surely drawing lovers, rescuers, champions about her—reminds us of the Cabell heroine who exists not for her Own sake, but to cast a spell of eternal beauty. Where then is the originalityt It lies partly at least in the clear er, more vigorous outlining of the figures, especially in the despica ble Gerard Poynyard. It lies in the fantastic imagistic art, the highly ornate prose romance. If one desires that peculiar rec reation which comes from relaxing one’s study of a wearisome world of “Barren Ground” and “Peasants,” and from living in a world of pris matic beauty, he will find it in Eli n'or Wylie’s “Jennifer Lorn.” No More Parades, by Ford Madox Ford. Review by R, D. C. This is the story of Capt. Tiet jen.g and his ordeal in France dur ing the war. The ordeal, by the way, is two-sided. Poor old Tiet jens is assailed by bullets and by matrimonial difficulties; he is hope lessly entangled in the stupid red tape 'of the War Office and the commlanding general, and equally involved in the unsuccessful attempt to resolve his difficulty with Syl via. Sylvia is Mrs. Tietjens. Tietjens is an embodiment of the best qualities of the old Tory aris tocracy. He is stubbornly loyal to big country and the traditions of his caste. He is a gentleman to the last. In fact, it is his unbending effort to livo up to what he believes to be sound traditions of family and class that proves to be his un doing. Sylvia flouts him, and ig so brazenly untrue that her name be comes a by-word at home, but she manages to keep her place in the estimation of a few old Tories on the commanding goneral’s staff, and Tietjens, poor innocent, gets the blamle for everything. The reader finds it rat.hor diffi cult to accept the saintlike atti tude of Tietjens, who permits Syl via to insult and outrage him at every turn without a single yap or holler. He is so fearful of violat ing his code by playing the cad that he ends by becoming as meek as a dove and as patient and for giving ns a martyr. The merit of “No More Parades” does n'ot lie in the plot complica tion, oven though the triumph of Sylvia finally sends poor Tietjens up to the “line” to face the mad ness of trench fighting. The merit resides in the picture of life in the comp for replacement troops over which Tietjens rules in his stolid and Courageous way. Besot on ev ery side by inefficiency, red tape, stupidity, he “carries on.” The captain manages to maintain the mtorale of the camp, to send the fighting legions along to the front, and to maintain some order in tho midst of chaos and blundering, in spite of overwhelming odds. As a picture of the “hell of war” in a non-fighting area, “No More Parades” is splendid. But we just can’t swallow Sylvia and Cnpt. Tiet jene ’ chivalry, soanehow. That seems a bit too thick. The Prelude to Adventure, by Hugh Walpole, Reviewed by Mrs. E. W. Allen Olva Thine is a student at Cam bridge University, brilliant, aloof, eynienl, without religion or human ties. Tn a moment of anger he mur der a fellow student. It is signif i n>.< that this, the only important event in the world of physical real ity, takes places iust before the be ginning of the story. From here a close-knit and dramatic plot moves to its inevitable conclusion, but its events and complications are almost purely psychological. It is quite simply the story of how he found Ood and human relationships; it is a tale of spiritual adventure. “It is difficult to tell because it is about Cod. and we all of us feel, and rightly I expect, that it is prig gish to talk about Cod at all.” he s1 s to the girl he loves. Perhaps only the reader of mystical temper ament will find it personally con vincing, deep experience outside our own seldom is, but it is so vivid, direct and moving, so lack ing in moralistic or pietistic fervor that it seems entirely real—we ac cept the fact that it happened to Dune. • • Its background is a most inter esting picture of student life at Cambridge, The most dramatic and original achievement of the bo'ok is the stirring description of a football game that is simultane i ous with a high mystical adven ! ture. * Walpole’s technic is simple but expert. He has mastfery in the cre ation of that prevailing ©motional quality we call atmosphere, and at times the reader has exactly the sense that Olva Dune and Margaret Craven had of moving in a dream. Voting (Continued from page one) Cecil McKercher; 2-3 —Joe Peak, Keith Newcomb, Don McCook. S-Z: 9-10—Helen Pollock, Paul Wagner, Bill Powell; 10-11—Max ine Edmunds, Carl Williams, Alan Canfield; 11-12—Maxine Lamb, Io la Rubenstein, Dave Borenstein; 12-1—Ruth Gregg, John Whorton, Glenn Potts; 1-2—Ruth Cochran, Betty Lewis, Paul Clark; 2-3— Harold Socolofsky, Caroline Tillot son, Wendell Grey. R. O. T. C. (Continued from page one) Capt. Culin, who has been in close touch with all preparations. As a special feature of the drill the Stars and Stripes will be lowered from the flag pole which was only re cently constructed on the field. The national anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner,” will be sung as a regular part of this ceremony. The various companies and the commanding officers )whieli w.\!l make up the parade are: Company A, Capt. Robert McKnight; Com pany B, Capt. Rupert Gilbert; Com pany C, Capt. Guy Mauney; Com pany D, Major Albert Sinclair; Company E, Major Kenneth Ste phensen; Company F, Capt. Herbert Powell. Major Walter Malcolm will also be on the reviewing staff. Survey Praises Oregon Treatise About Publicity Book by Casey and Quiett Reviewed in New York Publication A review of “Principles of Pub licity,” by Glenn C. Quiett and R^lph D. Casey, the latter associ ate professor of journalism at the University, was written for the cur rent issue of The Survey, New York publication, by Mary Swain Rout zahn, publicity expert in social work and a member of the depart ment of surveys and exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation, New York. “Principles of Publicity,” is a practical, sincere and well-written hand book. It is not, like several earlier books of publicity an effort to sell the services of public rela tion experts, writes Mrs. Routzahn. “The information about technique is sound and helpful, and the chap ters on newspaper publicity espe cially are detailed and specific. The student is taken behind the scenes in a newspaper office, and also the printer’s shop. He is introduced to the newspaper staff from pub lisher to reporter, and advised about his relations with each one. A chapter on the Trade Press should be of special interest to those who work in the national field. “The authors have gathered a wealth of examples of news stories and other publicity material,” con tinues the critic. Mrs. Routzahn’s only objection to the volume is that it lacks suffi cient footnotes and other means of crediting quotations. The Survey review was reprint ed by the committee on publicity methods in social work in New York in a circular news-bulletin, which it sends out each month to all social workers, publicity (experts,, and others. House Managers Plan Advisory Organization A general meeting of the house managers to discuss house problems and consider the practibility of an informal advisory organization will be held at the Phi Kappa Psi house Thursday evening during the dinner hour. Dean H. Walker, dean of men, is of the opinion that a loose organi zation of the house managers will be established on the campus, but that the purpose of such coopera- , tion will be to assist the house man- , Special Tonight Benefit Performance for the Y. W. C. A. And t:'» doing to be a Big Doable Program ’ THOMAS MEIGHAN —in— “IRISH LUCK" With LOIS WILSON V And Tfce Priee Winning Sophomore Stunt from April Frolic “THE KISS" A Be'7M^.yuofitI„f:isi»Joyom A COMEDY ROARt LLOYD HAMILTON in “NOBODY ’S BUSINESS” buy your ticket today! ^ ou 11 HoId the V ax/ r* a McDonald Theatre ■ i i S i ,“£-r^-5icEr£iaic3E;tai'aiajaE/aE/2f 1 Ml ^'Mgraj®asj^ara®iSitaarara/aaiaja,a/aja/s;sa^31 ager to solve hie problems rather than hamper hia individual endeav or*. Kenneth Stephenson is temporary chairman of the advisory council. He has endeavored to probe the general feeling regarding coopera tive organization by sending out questionnaires. All the houses did not respond, but those who did were favorable toward holding monthly advisory meetings. April Frolic Stunt At McDonald Tonight Curious males who did not suc ceed in “getting by” with the floor cops at April Frolic will be able to satisfy their souls tonight at the McDonald theatre, for the prize winning stunt which was given by the sophomores, called “A Kiss," will be put on between the acts of the movie, “Irish Luck,” with Thomas Meighan. The whole per formance is being sponsored by the Y. W. C. A. for the benefit of its general fund. Tickets for the affair have been distributed to the different houses, and the cooperation of the campus is solicited. ANNOUNCEMENT Sigma Nu anounces the pledging of Frank Robinson of La Grande, Oregon. Beta Gamma Sigma Elects Five Men; Foley Wins Honors Beta Gamma Sigma, national hon orary commerce fraternity, elected the following students for mem bership at a meeting held last Wed nesday noon at the Anchorage: Lester Oehler, sophomore, Salem; Clarence Carter, sophomore, Myrtle Point; Richard L. Collins, sopho more, Eugene; Charles Heck, junior, Cottage Grove; Phillip Bergh, jun ior, Eoseburg. William T. Foley of Bend, Oregon, freshman in the school of business administration, has been elected to have his name engraved upon the Beta Gamma Sigma plaque, which honors outstanding scholastic achievement. The plaque is situated at the head of the stairs in the commerce building, and every year the freshman with the highest av erage is chosen by the fraternity to have his name engraved upon it. Foley had an average of 1.4 in the See THOMAS MEIGHAN “IRISFMLUCK” BENEFIT Y.W.C.A'. . 1 McDonald Theater, Wed. April 28th TYPEWITER PAPER: 1ST GRADE SI.25 2nd GRADE 1.00 3rd GRADE. YELLOW .75 :><§XSXSX§X§X§XSX§X§X§X§X§X§XSX§> CARDS PROGRAMS NEWS LETTERS PERSONAL STATIONERY SXSXS>^><SXS><S><S><SX5><S>®,<S><3<5 Grill DanceTonight with music by THE AGGRAVATORS 7:45 to 10:15 25 CENTS PER COVER Ye Campa Shoppe ■University at the end of winter term. Fred O. Nieme was chosen last year. The scholastic average of mem bers of Beta Gamma Sigma for the past quarter was 1.4. Out of a total of 69 hours, 45 of them were ones. Local Military Group To Have Inspection Lieutenant-Colonel Harry L. Jor dan, the 9th Corps area inspector, will be in Eugene May 25 and 26 to inspect the local K. O. T. C. unit. This inspection is an annual af fair to acquaint the corps area com mander with the state of training in the different units, and makes for better coordination of training. SEE THOMAS MEIGHAN “IRISH LUCK” BENEFIT Y.W.C.A. McDonald Theater, Wed. April 28th n ^ COLD SUNDAES , IUST the thing to eat " these warm spring days are cold sundaes eaten in the cool retreat that is the dining room at the Anchorage. They are the best “snack” to take between meals. It is the best place to eat at all times. # # * Phone Your Table Reservations for the Canoe Fete. The Anchorage Just Across From the Campus f ? f i 7 7 T t t f f T T T T t t i Xi V 1 X| X1 y Yil f | v!i His Word is his Bond A “Personal guarantee” means very little to you. Unless you know tlie man who makes it. Ninety per cent of the things bought for your home are se lected by the house manager. He is the purchasing agent. Most men admit that he is a capable buyer, and the reason is this: he must be shown — convinced by proof — that an article is what the house needs and is worth the price! For that reason, he sees tlie advantage of dealing with a local merchant—a man whose “personal guarantee of satisfaction” means just what it says. The manager knows that what he advertises in this paper is entitled to his consideration. Because he has confidence in liis neighbor—the local dealer—he can safely invest the house funds in what he guarantees. Read the Ads in This Paper and save yourself money by trading at home Z