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VOLUME xxvn UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1926 NUMBER 131 Seniors Vote To Award Cup To Paul Ager Earl Chiles to Guide Next Senior Class; Mary Barr To Wield Razor Riggs to Pilot Juniors; M. Barnes, Secretary Freshmen Elect Foster as Chief for 1926-27 £*LOSE filial results featured in several of the class elections yesterday afternoon, a number be ing elected by a one vote margin. The senior class selected Paul Ager as ■winner of the Albert cup award which is given each year for char acter, service and wholesome influ ence. Anna DeWitt was unopposed in her race for permanent secretary of the graduating class. Earl Chiles defeated Ward Cook for senior class president, 57 to 54. Betty Beans for vice-president, and Phil Bergh treasurer, ran without opposition. Katherine Graef was elected secretary. Bob Neighbors won the office of sergeant-at-arms, Pete Brooks and Doc Wrightman being defeated by less than ten votes. The razor-wielder of the senior class will be May Agile Barr, who was elected class barber by one count more than Anne Kunes received. Few of the offices for the junior class were closely contested. Frank Biggs was elected president by 47 votes majority. Katherine Mutzig defeated Elizabeth Talbot for the vice-presidency. Marian Barnes for secretary of the class was unop posed. The race for treasurer was won by Edward Crowley. Bobert AVarner will officiate as sergeant-at arms for the coming year. Bob Foster was elected president of the sophomore class, and Helen Shanks vice-president. By a one vote margin, Bose Boberts will act as secretary of the class. Bill Hynd was unopposed for treasurer and Jack Jones elected sergeant-at-arms. Interest in class elections was slight, according to the opinion of the polls committees, a small pro portion of each class^ voting. The largest total number of votes east for sophomore offices was 360; 172 for the junior class, and 112 for the seniors. Frosh Trackslers Have Final Workout For Relay Carnival Freshmen who will run in the relay carnival Saturday against the Aggie rooks at Corvallis had their last hard workout before the meet yesterday. This meet will furnish the only opportunity to gauge the strength of the Rooks before the dual meet the latter part of the month. This is the first intercollegiate competition for the Frosh track squad, the Babes are out to do their stuff. The yearlings have been looking forward to this meet all sea son and have been training hard for it. The Rooks, however, are re ported to have one of the strongest teams that has ever been turned out of O. A. C. They are especially fav ored with a flock of quarter milers who have given the varsity many a close race, but the rest of their distance men have not yet shown what they can do under fire. The events for the afternoon in clude a 440 yard relay, half mile, mile, 2 mile and medley relays. The relay carnival will be one of the feature events of the O. A. C. Junior Week-end. Parents to Be Shown Oriental Art Exhibit The Murray Warner collection of Oriental art, which is famous throughout the state, will be open this week-end for the benefit of the mothers and fathers who are to be entertained on the campus. Mrs. Perkin", who has recently re turned from the Orient, will be in charge of the museum, which is on the third floor of the Woman’s building, and will be helpful to those wishing to know about the different things in the collection. Saturday St will be open from 9 to 5 and Sunday from 2 to 6 p. m Committee Advises Honor Group Receive Privileges Freedom from Grades and Class Attendance Suggested for Students ‘Capable of Carrying on Independent Scholastic Work; Present “Honors” System Said to Be Worthless; Alternative Given (Editor’s "Note: Following is the fourth article in a series of five student committee reports on the scholastic situation within the Uni versity at the present time. The final article will appear tomororw). fJTHE committee recominends very strongly that definite academic privileges be made available to stu dents of the upper three classes who have proven themselves capable of assuming the responsibilities of in dependent work. These academic privileges would be provided through the means of a system of honor students, which would be a radical departure from the system of “honors” now in vogue at the University. The present system of so-called “honors” in individual subjects em ployed by the University, is, in the opinion of the committee a negli gible factor in the functioning of the educational process and does not tend to promote any wide-spread interest in scholarship. The system proposed would grant certain well defined privileges to all who have demonstrated their ability to as sume this responsibility of pursuing their own education. An honor student, under the new definition, is a student pursuing successfully his education on his own initiative with the counsel of his instructors; he is a student who has outgrown the ^confines of a narrow, formalistic course of study. We have previously emphasized the importance of seeing all knowl edge as a unified whole. The man who is working out a problem him self will often discover a need for knowledge in other fields that he may achieve results of value. A student working in literature will immediately find necessary, for in stance, an acquaintance with his tory; a student in psychology will soon find himself on the border of physics, chemistry and physiology. The student looks upon his inde pendent work as high adventure and becomes fascinated when once imm'ersed in the subject. Privileges Deserved by Worthy Students The University student, during his first year in the freshman col lege has undergone the strict dis cipline of pedagogic compulsions, and presumably, has secured a sat isfactory background for genuine University work. As shown in a previous article he should have ac quired the tools and the University attitude towards his work. But we must look forward as well as backward. The student will soon face the necessity of going into his life work where he will be con fronted by all manner of privileges. We advocate the granting of re sponsibilities so the student may, if he wishes, try his wings. We do not believe that all students are anxious or able to assume any more responsibilities than accorded at present, and we are not, therefore, advocating that the proposed priv ileges be made available to all stu dents. We believe, however, that many students are being retarded under the present system, and we propose to give these more ambi tious students the opportunity to de velop themselves to the extent of their abilities. In a utopian University all stu dents would be honor students; but unfortunately we must deal with conditions as we find them, and j we are convinced that at present the majority of students are not j prepared to take advantage of the . opportunities we propose to offer. | We believe the student should be given the opportunity to carry on independent investigation in the various field of knowledge. In classes as constituted today the dull students set the pace, the more able students being held back by the slower pregress of their less apt classmates. Our system, we believe,1 will make it possible for ambitious students to set their own pace. Hpnor and Grade Groups Provided The committee proposes to divide the students of the three upper classes into two divisions: an honor group and a grade group. The honor group will include all students who have, as stated above, displayed a distinct ability to carry on inde pendent work: The grade group will include all students taking University work as carried on at the present time. In sheer numbers we assume the honor group will approximate, at the out set, not over 15 j>er cent of the three upper classes. The success of the system, however,' would demand an increase in,size of the honor group. Honor students are those persons who have displayed a distinct abil ity to carry on their work on their own initiative. At the end of the freshman year, or whenever their ability has been demonstrated, they should be permitted by their de partment heads to enjoy practically unrestricted privileges in the pur suance of their education. They should not be subject to a grade system, nor to compulsory class or conference attendance, but allowed to follow their studies in as natural a manner as possible. t « The Vemainder of the grade stu dents who are unable through lack of an adequate grasp on the meth ods and habits of individual work should be placed in the second group which is given instruction according to present University methods. Here the existing grade system should be kept in force and compulsory attendance to lecture and quizz sections remain a re quirement. The system of compul sory class attendance in the senior year for grade students should be modified to require attendance in quizz sections only. The plan as outlined by the com mittee places an intentional prem ium upon ability to successfully in itiate scholastic work. One of the purposes behind the creation of a distinct set of privileges for stu dents in the honors group is, to stimulate student? in the grade di vision to develop an ability for in dependent study. It is expected that a good percentage of them will eventually be transferred to the honor section. Minority Believes in No Electives General Outline Courses Compose New Plan for Freshman College (Editors Note: A report la yes terday’s Emerald outlined a plan for a freshman college. A few mem bers of the committee have out lined a course of study which they believe would be more effective than the program previously ad vanced). As stated in the report yesterday, the freshman present a distinct problem and must be dealt with as such. The ideal method of hand ling the new students entering the University Is the junior college. This college, which is used in a few institutions, includes the last two years of high school and the first two years of college. Such an insti tution is impossible in Oregon be cause of lack of funds, hence, the proposed freshman college is a sub stitute for this more satisfactory system. Several members of the commit-! tee believe that the curriculum of the freshman college should be of broader scope than the plan ex plained in yesterday’s report. They further believe that there should be no electives for freshmen be cause the electives are seldom chosen by the freshman himself and they tend to narrow the field of study. The -curriculum proposed by this group would be composed of gen eral outline courses in several fields of learning. The freshman would be obliged to take the following courses: natural science, giving him the history of science, an explana tion of the scientific method, and an introduction to the fields of chemistry, biology, botany and the other natural sciences; a course in social science, including the history of the social sciences and a survey of economics, sociology and the other social sciences; a course in general literature, providing a sur vey of movements and trends in literature; a course in general his tory composed of a rapid survey enabling the student to tie the whole history into a continuous se quence thus remedying the impres sion gained by the majority of high school students that one day the sun sets on one historical period and the next morning rises on an other. The general course in his tory would be a correlation of the historical knowledge which the stu dent already has and would show him where he could find the ma terial to fill the gaps in his knowl edge. Proposed Quizz Section To Correlate Knowledge In addition to these general courses in scholastic subjects the freshman should be given a confer ence course in college problems. This course would help him to ad just himself to the problems of col lege life and establish, a place for himself in the college community. The courses, other than the course in college problems, would be lect ure courses with quizz sections. The quizz sections might be com bined in such a way as to correlate the knowledge of the student in all the fields in which he is working thus giving him an idea of the “oneness” of learning. In this curriculum there would be no choice for the student. No mat ter what course he intended to pur sue in his later college .years he would be obliged to take the re quired freshman background courses. This would show the student in what direction his interest lies and enable him to choose a major with a great deal more wisdom than is used under the present system. The freshman college, it is be lieved, will not only act as an in troduction to knowledge and there by be a benefit to the student but will be a period of trial and will thereby benefit the University. The flunking rules would advance in strictness from the first to the last term. That is, the student would be given two terms in which to get his stride. However if it were shown in the first or second term that he was either intellect ually incapable or temperamentally disinclined to pursue a higher edu cation he would be dropped. On the other hand if the student found that the University did him no good he could drop out before he had started to major. In summary, the freshman col lege outlined here would include courses in natural science, social science, general literature, general history and a conference course in college problems. It would act as an introduction to the University for the student and a trial period for the University. It would aid the student in the wise selection of a major and, we believe, solve many of the freshman problems that now trouble both the students and the administration. Oregana Pictures' To Be Sold Today "Much interest is being shown in the sale of Oregana pictures, to be held this afternoon from 1 to 6 in the Oregana office on the second I floor of the journalism building, says Wayne Leland, in immediate charge of the sale. Fraternity and sorority groups can get panels, some of which show forty or fifty pictures, for $4.00. Individual pictures of the groups are regular proof size, and would ordinarily cost fifty cents each. Honorary groups may purchase pan els for from one to two dollars. Pictures of athletes, campus build ings, and events will go for five and ten cents. Money realized from the sale will go into the Oregana fund, and the publicity department will receive the remaining pictures. Those wishing pictures should come early, i before the collection is picked over. Sigma Beta Phi Heads Houses in Grade List Lambda Psi Average First Among All Men’s Organizations Phi Kappa Psi Leads National Fraternities Average Rating for All Organizations 41.54 ^JIGMA BETA PHI, women’s local living organization, has the highest grade average for winter term, with Kappa Kappa Gamma and Kappa Alpha Theta, national women’s sororities placing second and third. The grade sheets were released yesterday afternoon. The method of compiling the grades was a de parture this term from the previous terms. The living groups, m/embers of which' are elected were averaged apart from the living groups whoso members are not elected. Thaelier Cottage leads the list of non-eleet ed, with the Three Arts club second. Local Fraternity Leads Lambda Psi, men’s local, is first in the list of men’s organizations, and is sixteenth in the entire list. Phi Kappa Psi, men’s national, is second, and Sigma Pi Tan, third. Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma led the list of averges last winter term among the women’s houses and Lambda Psi and Sigma Pi Tau led the men. Sigma Nu, men’s national, was third among men’s averages. The average rating of the wom en ’s organizations this year is 44. 940. The men’s organizations av erage is 37.667. Complete List Given Following is the complete list of ratings: Living groups, members of which are elected by the membership of the organization: Name Rating 1. Sigma Beta Phi.49.523 2. Kappa Kappa Gamma.49.089 3. Kappa Alpha Theta.48.905 4. Tau Nu .48.739 5. Alpha Chi Omega.48.302 6. Alpha Gamma Delta...48.037 7. Alpha Phi .47.581 8. Alpha Omfcron Pi.45.981 9. Delta Delta Delta.45.828 10. Oregon Club (Girls).,....45.666 11. Pi Beta Phi . 45.500 12. Alpha Delta Pi .45.031 13. Delta Gamma .44.851 14. Kappa Omicron .43.526 15. Chi Omega .43.344 16. Lambda Psi .43.300 17. Phi Kappa Psi .43.230 18. Alpha Xi Delta .42.819 19. Gammla Phi Beta .41.662 20. Delta Zeta .41.257 21. Sigma Pi Tau .41.083 22. Delta Tau Delta .40.542 23. Beta Theta Pi .40.416 24. Alpha Beta Chi .,.40.200 25. Kappa Delta Phi .40.058 26. Kappa Sigma .38.408 27. Sigma Chi .37.263 28. Alpha Tau Omega.36.743 29. Sigma Nu ..36.402 30. Theta Chi .35.923 31. Phi Delta Theta .34.521 32. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.34.302 33. Psi Kappa .33.565 34. Phi Gamma Delta .32.454 35. Chi Psi .-.30.891 Av. rating of fraternities.37.432 Av. rating of sororities.45.818 Av. rating of fraternities and sororities .-...41.360 Living groups, members of which are not elected by the membership of the organization: 1. Thacher Cottage .50.111 2. Three Arts Club .49.200 3. Susan Campbell Hall.43.697 4. Hendricks Hall .41.037 5. Friendly Hall .39.329 Average rating of men’s or ganizations .37.667 Average rating 'of women’s organizations .44.940 Average rating of all organi zations .41.540 No account is taken of hours not passed, whether W’s, Inc’s, Dp’s, Cond’s, or F’s. Phi Delta Kappa Will Initiate Today at 3:30 Phi Delta Kappa, men’s honor ary education fraternity, will hold initiation this afternoon at 3:30, in the auditorium of the University high school. After the initiation a banquet will be given at College Side Inn at 6 o’clock. The speakers will include Dr. Kimball Young, Prof. O. W. Richards, and Prof. P. L. Spencer. Tracksters Hold Light Workout at Roseburg Field Train Accident in South Causes Three Hour Delay of Shasta BY WEB JONES ROSEBURG, Ore.,—Hay 12.— (With the Oregon track team on board the Shasta)—The University of Oregon track team took a light workout this afternoon on the high school track at Roseburg. The four teen men lopoil around the dirt track for a half hour’s light work out. The sprinters and hurdlers were sent through a series of fast starts by Hayward. The four teams from Montana, Washington State, O. A. C. and Oregon gathered on the track under the eyes of four coaches and lim bered up after the train ride. The Shasta was halted by a wreck in the south so the three hour wait was utilized by the ^various trainers. Russell Sweet, the outstanding per former on the four man team which Montana is entering in the Pacific Coast Conference meet took a heavy workout, with several laps around the track and a dozen snappy sprints under the starting of “Doc” Bohler of W. S. C. The powerful Montanan was in fine condition ac cording to the coach who has been saving him for the meet tlisi week end. He is expected to win both sprint events in the south. The galaxy of distance men on the field would have made any coach’s heart flutter. There was Johnny Devine, national two mile champion from Washington State; Gillette, of Montana, a near champion in the intercollegiate meet last year where he placed third in the mile; then the quartet of O. A. C. distance men, Clayton, Butts, Bell and Sisson. A peep at the times these men have made gives the reasons for the flut ters, for they are undobutodly the strongest distance men who have ever swarmed to the south in force, (Continued on ■page three) Business Staff For Oregana to Be Chosen Soon New Appointment System To Be Inaugurated by James Manning A new system of appointment to the business staff of the 1927 Or egana will be employed next year, James Manning, business manager, announced yesterday. The advertis ing manager, four assistant adver tising managers, circulation manag er, and assistant circulation manag er are to be named from applica tions turned in by those desiring positions. Only one appointment has been made so far for the 1927 business staff, that of Clinton Peets as as sociate manager. Mr. Peets was assistant circulation manager of the Oregana this year, one of the assistant managers of the Univer sity glee clubs, and oij the business staff of the Emerald his freshman year. “Formerly, the managerial staff of the Oregana included only the ad vertising manager, circulation man ager and assistant, all of whom were appointed,” explained Mr. Man ning. “The addition of four as sistant advertising managers is aimed to produce greater efficiency for next year and to build up a nucleus for future staffs. There is too much work for one advertising man to cover adequately, and more thoroughness is absolutely neces It is desired that the four as sistants to the_ advertising manager be sophomores next year; that is, applications from freshmen who^ have had experience in advertising and who are interested in working up on the managerial staff are pre ferred. For the circulation jobs, the main qualification is a wide acquaintance ship on the campus and interest in the work. The applications must be turned in to Jack Benefiel’s office by May 20, and the choices will be made on a basis of ability from those who apply. Everyone will be given a chance by this method, says James Manning, and it is hoped to build up the staff to the highest possible degree of efficiency next year. Dean Dyment Out, Gives His Side of Case Statement Charges Politics And Intrigue Rampant Resignation Refusal Brings Indefinite Leave Regents Refuse Hearing Says Deposed Dean fJpHE Board of Begents of the Uni versity has indefinitely extend ed the leave of absence of Colin V. Dyment, dean of the college of who has been away on leave during literature, science and the arte, the past year. He was asked to resign and refused. The regents then continued his leave of absence, it became known yesterday. Dean Dyment made the following statement to the Emerald last night: “The University has been at sixes and sevens since its great Presi dent, Prince L. Campbell, became fatally ill in the spring of 1924, and was unable thereafter to administer the institution. Under President Cumpbell’s administration of 22 years, the University was gradually rescued from a condition of poli tics and intrigue, and placed and kept on a non-partisan basis. Since his illness began, however, the in stitution has gradually crept back into politics and intrigue. “When the president’s illness be gan, I was also in California in * hospital, and the last year have been in Europe for study; therefore have been absent from Eugene most of the time since February, 1924, ■» I was quite unaware that a fac tion of the regents, who are them selves divided, had turned upon me. I came back from Italy two weeks ago to ascertain why, and upon reaching Buffalo, was informed that this faction had forced a majority vote for termination of my tenure. “The decision was kept secret for some reason. I understand there is no minute of it even in the public record. Accordingly, there is no official statement, of the reason for this decision, but from various sources I have gathered the follow ing: “I was accused of being a Can adian and consequently of being likely to introduce foreign politics into the College of Literature, Sci ence and the Arts, of which I was dean. (The College is by far the largest of the various units, as it contains 22 departments and teaches about two-thirds of all the student hours of the resident University.) As I was given no hearing by the Board, which has been conducting star chamber sessions for nearly a year now, I could not explain that I havo been a voter in this state for nearly a quarter of a century, having come here as a young man. “As for introducing foreign pol icies, I have at all times carried out only the policies of the late president, one of the finest Amer icans in Oregon history. “The regential faction above mentioned also asserted that there was a serious difference of opinion between myself and two or three colleagues on certain University policy. “The policy in question was an to the unity of the University. The institution is in a period of marked expansion, and I have contended, that for some time yet it should re main a unit under government by the general faculty, instead of being split up into a number of inde pendent units, this latter being a step that would seem to weaken the University when it needs concen trated strength. The dean of Uni versity College, who was mvself. would naturally have profited most from such a decentralization, but I resisted it for what seemed the good of the institution. “I am unaware of anything else, but shall be glad to reply publicly to anything else alleged.” The Board of Regents acted on the matter at its January meeting, asking Bean Dyment to resign “for the best interests of the Universi ty,” Judge G. F. Skip worth, a mem ber of the board, told an Emerald reporter. Dean Dyment received notice of the action about the mid dle of March while he and his wife were in Florence, Italy. He cabled the board refusing to resign and asked for a hearing of any rlurj^B against him. He cnt short his tour and came home. His request for a hearing was not granted and at (Continued on pmgt thnss)