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
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than hamper hia individual endeav
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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
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■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.
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“IRISH LUCK”
BENEFIT Y.W.C.A.
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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.
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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
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