NUMBER 129
Heads Named
For Forensics
Management
Jack Hempstead Appointed
As General Manager
For Next Year
Frances Cherry, Durgan
Chosen Debate Heads
Probable Meet Arranged
With Australia
Jj'OREfcSIC managers for the 1926
’27 school year were selected by
the forensic committee of the ex
ecutive council Tuesday, and the
appointments will be confirmed in
all likelihood at the next meeting
of the executive council. Selections
were made on the basis of aptness
for, and interest and experience in
the work of managing varsity and
freshman men’s and women’s teams.
As announced yesterday by Elam
Amstutz, retiring general forensic
manager, they are: Jack Hempstead,
Gladstone, sophomore in journalism;
Walter Durgan, Engene, sophomore
in pre-law; Francos Cherry, Wal
lowa, sophomore in journalism, Joe
McKeown, Marshfield, freshman in
pre-law. ...
Amstutz Retires
Hempstead is the new general for
ensic manager, succeeding Amstutz,
who has held this position for two
years was men’s forensic manager
during the past year. As such, he
had charge of the arrangements and
scheduling of varsity oratory^ and
debate contests. He has been on
the varsity debate and oratory
teams and is a member of To-Ko-Lo
and Sigma Delta Chi.
Durgan will be men’s forensic
manager next year and is starting
during the remainder of the term
to work out plans. Miss Cherry,
the new woman’s debate manager,
will handle the varsity women’s
contests, while McKeown, new as
sistant men’s forensic manager, will
have charge of freshman men’s de
bates and also assist in administra
tive matters, working with J. Stan
ley Gray, head of the public speak
ing department, and J. K. Horner,
(Continued on page four)
Student Officers
To Be Installed
At Next Assembly
Activity Awards for Music,
Athletics, Forensics
Will Be Given
The new officers of the associated
students will be installed Thursday*
when Walter Malcolm, retiring pres
ident, will administer the oath of
office at the last strictly business
meeting of the school year, which
will occupy the entire assembly
-period.
DeLoris Pearson, A. 8. U. O. sec
retary, will read the minutes
of the last meeting, after which
the report of the building commit
tee will be called for. This will
be the only report given at this
time, since the other standing A.
S. TJ. O. committees have made no
material changes since the last
report which was given in Decem
ber, says Walter Malcolm.
A feature of the assembly hour
will be the presentation of awards
won during the year in the va
rious student body activities. Ber
yl Widmer, wrestling coach, will
present the wrestling awards, and
E. F. Abercrombie, swimming and
tennis coach, will present the
awards earned in swimming.
The regular basketball awards,
which have been made up accord
ing to the plan adopted through
the revised constitution, will be
presented by William J. Reinhart,
basketball coach.
The awards for music and for
ensics have been decided upon and
ordered, but have not been re
ceived from the eastern firm from
which they will come. John Stark
Evans, director of the Glee clubs,
will announce the names of mem
bers deserving awards, who will
receive them at a later date in
the term, and Rex Underwood, di
rector of the orchestra, will give
the names of orchestra members
who will receive the awards. A
member of the forensics department
(Continued on page three)
!
Report Asks New Standard
For Entrance and Grading
Plans of Student Committee Aim to Prevent Unfit Persons from En
tering or Remaining in University; Methods Used at Washington
and California Are Suggested as Suitable for Use at Oregon
(Editor’s Note: Following is the
second installment of the student
committee report running in the
Emerald this week. The first ar
ticle, printed yesterday, outlined the
general University scholarship sit
uation.)
'J’HE problem of selecting with
some degree of accuracy those
applicants who should be admitted
to University training and of re
jecting those who should be refused
access to such training, is a problem
which is not in any way peculiar
to the University of Oregon, but
it is one which faces practically
every institution of higher learn
ing in the country.
Following on the heels of the war
period of general low scholastic
achievement in colleges throughout
the country has come a healthy and
vigorous movement on the part of
better institutions to improve scho
lastic conditions. Many of the id
lers who succeeded in getting into
college have been eliminated by
higher standards being introduced
within the colleges themselves, and
the student mentally unfit, or hav
inadequate preparation, has been de
nied admission through the raising
of entrance requirements.
University Standards
Shoiv Progress
A comparison of the academic
standards of the University o* ( re-!
gon today with those of the school j
ten years ago cannot but give much ;
satisfaction to those persons who j
labored hard and well to raise the j
standards to the height they now
are, but it is the feeling of this)
committee that we should not be
content merely with progress—how
ever desirable that may be—when
mediocrity only is achieved. There
is still room for vast improvement.
Those improvements, in an academic
way, which have been thus far ac
complished at this institution, have
Leen accomplished by acting upon
undesirable individuals after en
rollment in the University—no con
structive steps have been taken to
prevent the unfit from entering.
(This last statement applies only
to students matriculating as resi
dents of the State of Oregon, which
group, however, comprises the great
majority of students in the Uni-' ;r
sity.
Two Suggestions
Tentatively Offered
It is the purpose of this report
to urge that steps be taken by the
proper authorities to raise the pres
ent scholastic level of the Univer
sity of Oregon, and with this end
in view the committee advances two
definite plans whereby it is hoped
this result may be accomplished.
Both plans aim to select, that is,
their function is to separate the
wheat from the chaff, the first byb
preventing the unfit from ever en
tering the University, and the sec
ond by eliminating those who were
successful in mariculating, but who
should not be permitted to remain.
Let it be distinctly understood that
these plans are not being advanced
as comprising the last word on any
phase of the subject. The members
of the committee are painfully
aware that the plans are crudej that
if they are not ultimately replaced
by plans far superior, they will
at least be extensively modified.
The excuse for advancing these
plans is not that they are perfect,
but that whatever their imperfec
tions may be, they will at least
afford some ground for a beginning
in the right direction.
Dartmouth Attitude
Shown in Report
“Any discussion of admissions,”
states the Report on Undergraduate
Education of the Dartmouth College
Senior Committee, “must begin from
the premise that the college cannot
accept everyone who raps on its
doors seeking entrance.” That this
attitude is not confined to privately
endowed institutions, as contrasted
with state universities, is manifest
from the following extract from the
Catalogue of the University of
Michigan: “It is expected that the
principal will recommend not all
graduates, but only., those whose
character, ability, application, and
scholarship are so clearly superior
that the school is willing to stand
sponsor for their success at the Uni
versity.” It is advisable to point
out at this time that while there
seems to be a unanimity of opinion
among authorities on entrance prob
lems that many applicants should
not be permitted to enter college,
there is no such unanimity of opin
ion as to the best method of ascer
taining who should be allowed to
enter and who should not.
Other Schemes
Differ Greatly
The Universities of California and
Washington have developed schemes
for the purpose of selecting appli
cants to be admitted without ex
amination which differ widely from
eacli other. The plan proposed for
the University of Oregon is an in
tegration of those plans, modified
in certain essential particulars. The
graduates of an accredited high
school in California are admitted
to the University without examina
tion upon the principal’s recom
mendation as to their scholarship,
character, seriousness of purpose,
ideals and initiative. The Univer
sity handles the business of accred
iting the secondary schools, and a
school is accredited or not, as the
case may be, upon the scholastic
records of its graduates in the Uni
versity. An accrediting committee
checks the records of the graduates
of the various high schools and any
school showing a low scholastic
standard, is removed from the ac
credited list until the committee has
reason to believe it should be re
instated. The fear of having his
particular school removed from the
accredited list is a constant pres
sure of such a_serious nature as to
cause each principal to handle the
problem of recommending graduates
with considerable care. The net
result of the California plan seems
to be that any student recommended
to the University has a pretty fair
chance to succeed in college work,
and after all, that is all that can
be expected of any such plan.
Washington Sets
Minimum Grade
The plan followed by the Uni
versity of Washington is to require
every student matriculating to have
had a minimum grade in high school
of 80 per .cent in at least two
thirds of his subjects. This idea,
while having certain peculiar ad
vantages seems to be open to a very
serious objection—at has a tendency
to cause the high schools to
change grade standards so that 80
per cent (instead of 70 per cent) be
comes the passing grade. This ten
dency is ruinous of the efficiency
of the “80 per cent” rule.
The basis of the proposed plan
for Oregon is a combination of the
California and Washington schemes,
which seems to retain the advan
tages of each system and yet to
rid each of its most objectionable
features. The scope of this report
permits no more than a brief state
ment of the plan proposed, which
briefly is this:
Be it hereby proposed that a com
mittee on the accrediting of high
schools in the State of Oregon be
evolved by the University of Ore
gon, whose duty it shall be to ac
credit those high schools whose
standards of scholastic achievement
are satisfactory to the University
and to remove from time to time,
as the occasion demands, from the
list of accredited schools those
schools whose scholastic standards
are unsatisfactory as manifested by
the records of the graduates of
such high schools in the University.
Only those students who enter under
class two (see below) are to be con
sidered in a determination of wheth
er the standard of a school is suffici
ently high to justify it continuance
on the list of accredited schools.
Two Alternatives
Open to Entrants
1. That any student who has the
recommendation of the principal of
an accredited high school as to liis
seriousness of purpose, ideals, and
initiative and an average grade of
80 per cent in all his high school
work (or one step above passing)
may be admitted to the University
of Oregon without examination.;
2. That any student unable to ob
tain a recommendation from his
principal, as set-out above, may ob
tain entrance to the University of
Oregon through the medium of en
trance examinations, which may in
clude subject matter examinations
and psychological examinations,
either or both, as may be deemed
necessary to enable the University
officials to pass judgment in each
individual case.
As has been previously pointed
out, cognizance is taken of the fact
that in the past few years the stand
ards within the University of Ore
gon have been raised considerably,
but there still remains a flotsam
population of students who do them
selves no good by remaining in col
lege, whose presence has an unde
sirable effect on others in college
for a serious purpose, and whose
time wasted here is a distinct econ
omic loss to the state. Those stu
dents, it is the feeling of this com
mittee, should not be allowed to
remain around college year after
year barely “getting by.” Under
present University requirements, a
student must pass at least 7 hours
in any one term, or 17 hours in two
terms. For this “hour” require
ment we propose the substitution
of a “point” sytem, the points to
be computed on the same basis as
is now used. (1 hour of I gives
5 points, 1 hour of II gives -1 points,
etc.,) and that an average of 30
points per term be required of every
student( the law school excepted),
or if only 20 points are earned in
any one term, a total of 60 points
to be earned in two terms.
A?ew System
Of Averages Proposed
The basis of this plan is the as
sumption that any student to be eli
gible for college work should be able
to make a IV average in 15 hours
carried. Such scholastic require
ments should not eliminate deserv
ing students of college caliber, but
it would have a most salutary effect
on the loafers and those below par.
This plan, in essence, is the same
as now employed at Stanford and
the University of Washington.
Summarizing, these are the recom
mendations made by the committee:
1. That the University of Ore
gon launch a policy which will ult
imately provide it with its own list
of accredited preparatory schools,
independent of, although making use
of) other accrediting agencies;
2. That the admission on certifi
cate be based on scholarship plus
definite recommendation from the
secondary school principal;
3. That applicants unable to en
ter on certificate be admitted upon
, such examination as the University
j officials may deem expedient in in
j dividual cases;
4. That the existing requirements
to remain in the University be
changed from the “hour” baisi to
a “point” basis.
StudeiitUnion
Drive Brings
Totalof$1239
Quota of $7000 Not Made
Because of Wrong
Addresses
Fund to Be Used for
Basketball Pavilion
Collection Area Divided by
Committee
JjUNAL returns on the Student
Union collection drive have been
announced by Romayne Brand,
chairman for the drive this year.
Altogether the drive netted $1239,
part of which was collected by stu
dents on the committee, and part
of which was mailed in to the
Alumni holding company. Mr.
Brand announces that out of the
possible $7,000 that was due the
sum of $1239 is not particularly
large. However, the drive was con
sidered very succesful, for, had it
not be.en for the drive the sum
would probably never have been
collected.
Many Collections Made
Mr. Brand says that the chief
cause for failure to collect the
pledges was due to the number of
incorrect addresses. Many persons
approached claimed inability to
pay their pledge at this time, but
only a very small per cent refused
payment, approximately seven or
eight persons out of 700. Because
of the proportions^ of these figures
and because a largo number \s>f
new addresses were secured, the
committee feels ^that the drive was
successful.
The funds collected will be
turned into the general basketball
pavilion fund, being used, however,
as a loan from the Alumni hold
ing corporation. The committee al
so collected past-due pledges from
students not in school at the pres
ent time.
Committees Efficient
The state was divided into dis
tricts and towns with committees
responsible for collections in each
town. Mr. Brand says that the
work of the committee was effi
cient, and that the persistence of
many of the members was very ef
fective.
The various chairmen for the dis
trict committees w-erc: Portland,
Dick Hoyt; Eugene, Rupert Gilbert;
Salem, Arthur Hamilton; Medford,
Doris Brophy; Marshfield, Marian
Horsfall; Astoria, Ward Cook; Rose
burg, Glenn Radabaugh; The Dalles,
Beatrice Harden; Pendleton, Edna
Murphy; remainder of the Btate,
Pete Ermler. There were ^bout
130 student assistants on the com
mittees.
Prof. F. S. Dunn to
Give Lantern Lecture
An illustrated leeture on the
ancient Mayan civilization of Yuca
tan and Central America will be de
livered by Professor Frederic S.
Dunn, head of the Latin depart
ment, Wednesday evening at 7:45
in the geology lecture room in the
basement of Condon hall.
He will discuss the possible re
lationship between the Mayan art
and architecture and that of ancient
Egypt, Assyria, and India, and ex
plain the possible origin of the civ
ilization and the cause of its de
struction. All who are interested
in the subject are invited, especially
those interested in geology or geog
raphy.
The entertainment is being fos
tered by members of the geology de
partment.
W.A.A. to Sell Soda
to Hot Tennis Players
Junior Week-end festivities havo
passed from sight, and with their
passing comes the promise of more
warm days. The girls of W. A. A.
have dared to take the promise
seriously and this morning re-open
ed the ice cream and soda pop
stand at the tennis cottage at the
edge of the courts.
Tenis players will find an ice
cream cone or a bottle of cold pip
waiting for them for that extra
nickle or dime they bring to the
courts.
The stand is open from 8:45 to
12:00 and from 1:45 to 6:00 every
fair day.
Classes Make Up
Nomination Lists
For New Officers
Elections to Be Thursday;
Petitioners May Enter
Candidates
Class officers for 1926-27 were
nominated by the freshman, sopho
more and junior classes of the Uni
versity yesterday. Elections will
be held Thursday between 10 a.m.
and 2 p. m. in Villard hall.
Nominations for Senior officers
were: Ward Cook, Astoria, and
Earl Chiles, Portland, for president;
Betty Beans, Portland, vice-presi
dent; Beatrice Peters, Portland, and
Katherine Graef, Portland, secre
tary; Phil Berg, Portland, treas
urer; Anne Runes, Portland, Doris
Brophy, Medford, and May Agile
Barr, Portland, class barber; and
Edgar Wrightman, Silverton, Alon
zo Brooks, Waluga, and Robert
Neighbor, Portland, sergeant-at
arms.
A motion was mado and carried
that names could be placed on bal
lots by petition, within 24 hours
after nominations, and signed by 40
members of the class.
The retiring officers of the class
are: James Johnson, president; Lu
cille Pearson, vice-president, Anne
Runes, secretory; and Ward Cook
treasurer.
Mark Taylor, Eugene; Prank
Riggs, Portland; and George Mill,
(Continued on page three)
Parents Invited
To Visit Campus
Next Week-end
Entertainment to Display
Normal Conditions of
School Life
Invitations to the mothers and
fathers of University students to
visit the campus May 15 and 16,
mothers’ and fathers’ week-end,
were distributed among the living
organizations last, night. Those stu
dents not in living organizations
may secure invitations at the Co
Op.
The complete program for the
week-end was announced yesterday.
It was arranged with the intention
of showing parents the campus un
der normal conditions, and for this
reason, ■ an elaborate schedule has
been avoided
As only two days remain before
Friday, the committee urges Jthe
students to be prompt in sending in
vitations home. Events have been
scheduled for both the fathers’ and
mothers’ entertainment.
On Saturday afternoon, at 3:00
Women’s League will give a tea in
the Woman’s building for the moth
ers. At the same time, a baseball
game between the frosh and Wash
ington high school, of Portland,
will be held for the fathers. Fri
day afternoon, Salem high and the
freshmen will meet.
During the entire week-end, the
Murray-Warner oriental art collec
tion will be open at the University
museum. Special hours have been
arranged: Saturday, from 9 until
5, and Sunday, from 2 until 6. There
will also be an art exhibition in
the art gallery in the art building.
Special vesper services have been
planned for Sunday. The services,
to be given by the school of music,
are to begin at 3 o’clock, and are
to last three-quarters of an hour.
The earlier time was set for the
convenience of parents wishing to
return to their homes early in the
afternoon.
Mildred Bateman is in charge of
the week-end " affair Louise Inab
nit is the committee chairman for
the Women’s League tea. The na
ture of the feature, and the music
program will be announced later.
Director to Speak on
British Labor Strike
The director of the Portland La
bor college, Harry A. Director, will
lecture today on the British general
strike at 10:00 a. m., in Boom 4, of
the Commerce building. Glenn E.
Hoover, assistant professor of eco
nomics, who has a class meeting in
the room at that hour, has invited
ail those interested in the British
strike to attend the lecture. Mr.
Director is a graduate of Yale, and
has studied at the London school
of economics.
Star Athletes
Will Compete
at Palo Alto
Fourteen Leave Today for
Coast Conference
Track Meet
Flanagan Expected
To Increase Record
Hurdlers Will Face Keen
Competition
BY WEBSTER JONES
rpHE Pacific Coast Conference
meet at Palo Alto this week
end, in which a 14-man team will
represent the University, plans ta
bring together the greatest ath
letes in every event ever gathered
together on the coast. It is a ban
ner year in track, and records are
doomed to topple consistently.
Among the 14 men who embark
for the south today on the Shasta
under the watchful eye of Bill Hay
ward will be the greatest broad
jumper on the eoast, Proctor Flan
agan, who will probably be able to
set one of those records falling, by
increasing his championship leap of
23 feet, 5.8 inches, which he mado
last year, by some three or four
inches.
Qood Work Expected of Jumper
In last Saturday’s meet he got
off with a fine sprint on his first
jump and made 23 feet without any
difficulty. On his next leap he
jumped far into the pit for a dis
tance of 23 feet, 6.25 inches. Those
were the only two jumps which
Flanagan made in that day. Hayward
has been sending him through
sprint work, for he says "The fast
er you can sprint the farther you
can jump.” He will be in good
shape to “open up” in the south.
The rest of the team depends on
an "on” day. The hurdlers, Fran
cis Cleaver, Walt Kelsey and Ralph
Tuck, are formidable stick-men.
Both Tuck and Cleaver should make
15 seconds flat. Captain Walt Kel
sey should place well if he makes
24.5.
Although the Oregon hurdlers
probably lead everything in the
northwest the competition is ex
ceptionally keen, with Leighton Dye
and Kenneth Grumbles of U. S. C.,
West of Stanford and Ragan of
California.
Bashes Considered Safe
Then the “ifs” start creeping in,
and the places that the remainder
of the Oregon men will take in the
exceptionally fast competition, un
equalled in intercollegiate track in
the country, is doubtful. A good
day and the competition might
bring out some of them.
The dashes are fairly safe in the
hands of Sweet of Montana, Barber
of California, and House of U. S. C.,
who have all made under 10 flat,
while Clarke of Washington has
made the century in 10 flat and has
beaten Jerry Extra, Oregon entry,
twice this year. The 220 runs in
the same proportion and it is in
this race that Extra will probably
do his best. His company ia ex
ceptionally fast.
The 440 is another big race for
the southern schools with, Miller
and Storie, of Stanford, and Apple
(Continued on page four)
Stephenson, De Witt
And Ager Aspirants
For Albert Cup-Prize
Paul Ager, Anna DeWitt, and
Kenneth Stephenson have been
nominated as candidates for the Al
bert Prize cup and will be voted on
by the senior class at their regular
election Thursday.
The class of 1926 will meet Wed
nesday at 5 o’clock in Villard hall
to nominate a permanent secretary
who will be voted upon at the
Thursday election.
Tho Albert Prize, a loving cup,
is awarded each year to the mem
ber of the graduating class who
“shall, during his University course,
have shown the greatest develop
ment in character, service, and
wholesome influence.” Eligible*
must be conspicuously good in the
respects noted.
East year the prize was awarded
to Mary Jane Hathaway, of Oregon
City.
Lylah Lou McMurphy, class viee
president, will have general charge
of the polls, and Mildred Bateman,
class secretary, will have charge o£
the ballot counting.