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VOLUME XXVII NUMBER 141 Total Number Degrees May Include 475 Partial List Shows Seniors To Graduate from Eugene Campus June 14 Medical and Social Schools Not Included Largest List in History of University Expected J.^ PABTIAL list of those to re* ceive degrees from the Univer •ity of Oregon on June 14 follows. This does not include those from the School of Social Work, the medieal school at Portland, or the ones re ceiving degrees last January. It is estimated that the total number of degrees for the entire year will reach 475, which is expected to be the largest number ever to graduate from the University. Sara Dorothy Abbott, B.A.; Paul W. Ager, B.A.; Iris Akin, B.S.; Harry B. Allison, B.A.; MyrI All man, B.A.; Carroll J. Amundson, B. A.; Bessie Joyce Andrew, B.S.; Alfred William Andrews, B.A.; Win ifred Edith Andrews, B. A-.; Villairs Thomas Austin, B.S.; Bomulo C. Avila, B.A.; Alwina Bach, B.S.; Vernal Gailard Backman, B.S.; Ealph Bussell Bailey, B.A.; David C. Baird, B.S. in Arch.; Louise Buth Brasford, B.S.; Mildred E. Bateman. B.A.; Bonald H. Beattie, B.A.; George N. Belknap, B.A.; Cecile Sehoen Bennett, B.A.; Eula Benson, B.A.; Joseph Benson, B.A.; David Lester Bidwell, B.A.; Edward Wil S son Bieghler, B.A.; Gordon D. Bil lingsley, B.A.; K. B. Blakeslee, B.S. in Ed.; Jane BoDine, B.A.; Edgar L. Bohlman, B.A.; David Lewis Borenstein, B.S. Stuart Bothwell, B.A.; Marion Elizabeth Bowman, B.S.; Margaret Boyer, B.A.; Winnefred E. Brad way, B.A.; B. Bomayne Brand, B.S.; Helen Katherine Bristow, B.A.; V, Herbert Brooks, L.L.B.; Bernardine Browder, B.S.; Hersehel J. Brown, B.A.; John B. Bryson, B.S., J.D.; Eloise Evelyn Buck, B.A.; Gladys Buehler, B.A.; Bupert B. Bullivant, L.L.B.; Charles Gordon Burlingham, B.A.; George W. Caldwell, B.A.; Eugene Callaghan, B.A.; Catherine Celeste Campbell, B.A.; Helen Scott Cantine, B.A.; Blondel H. Carleton, B.A.; Pearlie L. Cavanaugh, B.A.; Joe T. Cereghino, B.A.; Lester Fuller Chaffee, B.A.; Esther Church, B.M.; Caroline W. Clark, B.S.; Elmer B. Clark, B.A.; Myrtle Clau sen, B.A.; Frederic H. Clayson, B.A.; Catherine Constance Cleaver, B,A.; Nola E. Coad, B.A.; Mildred Coleman, B.A.; Mary Elizabeth Conn, B.A.; Mary Anita Cool, B.A.; (Continued on page two) Prominent Seniors Review Their Activities in University Men’s Ideas Flow Freely As Graduation Nears; Reforms Suggested (By J. LYNN WYKOFF) Y^ARIOUS long-silenced and startl ing opinions were brought to light in the course of interviews with some of the men who are soon to graduate aiyl bid good-by to Old Oregon. Now that their schol astic careers are about over, the men interviewed seemed to feel free to express ideas which they have se cretly cherished for some time, but have feared to expound. Take Ed Miller, for instance. Ed pondered deeply for a moment when asked for a few words, and then produced this daring opinion: “The University is all wrong. What we need is fewer men and more women. Furthermore, a little light wine and beer would make fraternity fare more palatable. In my opinion, the greatest single institution in the University is the mill race, and the least important is the faculty. I am glad I am leaving, because I won’t have to wear funny clothes any longer.” Bob McCabe suggests a reform which he has long had in mind, but which he has been too bashful to bring forth before. He thinks that an advisory committee should be established in each department, to advise the incoming student, with more wisdom and patience than is at present expended, as to the courses for which he shall register. At pres ent, he says, the system in use is for the fraternity brothers to gath er around and pick out “pipe” courses for their freshmen. Howard Hobson is very well sat isfied with the future athletic pros pects of the University. “With the new five-year contracts recently signed, the coaching situation looks particularly good,” he said. Hob son thinks that the freshmen base ball and basketball .material this year was poorly developed, mostly due to lack of games. He says the varsity prospects are fairly bright, although this lack of freshmen ma- j terial will be a small handicap. Hob son added that he can sincerely recommend married life to any and all who are contemplating the step, which he but recently took. Walter Malcolm was one of the most bashful men from whom the reporter attempted to secure a statement. Walter is evidently not at all used to speaking, and had very little to say. He intends to enter Harvard law school in the fall, and says he is anxious to get (Continued on page three) Shaw’s Comedy, "You Never Can Tell” to he Given at Heilig on June 11 f A five-shilling dentist and a diplo matic waiter play together in “You Never Can Tell,” George Bernard Shaw’s fashionable comedy which will be presented June 11, at the Heilig theatre, as the senior play for the commencement week pro gram, under the direction of Miss Florence E. Wilbur. “You Never Can Tell” offers an amusing study of social conventions, with the usual Shaw cleverness of dramatic diction, which “deals less with the crime of society and more with its romantic follies.” All four acts take place in one day, begin ning on an August morning in the year 1896. The scenes are laid at a fashionable summer resort on the English coast. The first act is in the office of the five-shilling dentist, which has been open six weeks, and his first patient is the impetuous Dolly Clandon. . Dolly and her twin brother, Philip, in a.burst of enthusiasm, invite Mr. Valentine, the young dentist, to lunch with them, but this “conven tional Britisher” refuses to accept the invitation until they prove that they have a father, alive or dead. The second act is on the terrace of Fhe Marine hotel, where the Clandon family, including Mrs. Clan don, Gloria, the eldest daughter, and the twins, with their three guests. Mr. Crampton, a wealthy yacht builder, Finch McGomas, a solicitor, and the young dentist are at lunch. Acts three and four have - the same setting, being in Mrs. Clan don’s room in the hotel where fin ally a mutual reconciliation is at * tained, largely due to the tact of William, the waiter. The action of the play moves rapidly and develops into a surprising climax. Each character in this play of conven tionalities offers a i ealiatic picture of human nature. The “twins” illustrate the discon certing effects of that perfect frank ness which would make life intoler able, while Gloria demonstrates the powerlessness of reason to overcome natural instincts. Mr. Valentine is an optimistic young man, whose optimism leads him into a serious l infatuation for Gloria. Mrs. Clan | don is the typical conventional ' mother, going so far as to write books on parental conventions. Mr. Crampton, or “Clialkstones,” as the “twins” called him, is the satirical, i elderly gentleman of the play, crabbed, ,a pessimist toward life, living apart from his wife and chil dren. The waiter is the best illus tration of “the man who knows his place.” The following players make up the cast: Mr. Valentine, Arthur Gray; Dolly and Philip, the twins, Jack Jones and Etha Clark; Mrs. Clandon, the mother, Jane BoDine; Mr. Crampton, the wealthy yacht builder, Edgar Buchanan; Gloria, the older daughter, Norma-Jane Me Cleary; Finch McComas, solicitor from London, Cecil Matson; Bohun, the lawyer, Thomas Montgomery; the waiter, Alfons Korn; and the maid, Frida Deininger. • The producing staff for the play includes: Elizabeth Talbot, property manager; Dick Hoyt, busineri man • ager; and Perry Douglas, stage man | ager. Commencement Week Program is Listed Friday, June 11 2:30 p. m.—Senior class play, “You Never Can Tell.” 8:15 p. m.—Senior class play, “You Never Can Tell.” Saturday, June 12, Alumni Day 9:00 a. m.—Annual meeting and breakfast of the State Alumni association, Osburn hotel. 10:00 a. m.—Meeting of the Alumni council, Alumni office. 11:00 a. m.—Semi-annual meeting of the Alumni association, Guild theatre, Johnson hall. 12:00 noon—University luncheon to alumni, seniors, and in vited guests. Admission by tickets. Men’s gymnasium. Special reunions of classes of 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1886 (40-year), 1896, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 (25-year), 1916 (10-year), 1917, 1918, 1920. 3:00 to 5:00 p. m.—-Reception to alumni and graduating class, Alumni hall, Woman’s building. 7:00 p. m.—Flower and Fern Procession, campus. 7:45 p. m.—Twilight concert, west steps of Villard hall. 8:45 p. m.—Failing-Beekman orations, Villard hall. Sunday, June 13 11:00 a. m.—Baccalaureate ser vices, First Methodist church. Monday, June 14 10:00 a. m.—Commencement exer cises. Conferring of de grees on graduating class, Woman’s building. Presbyterian Body Selects Senior Girl As Member of Board Genevieve Chase, senior in ro mance languages, is the youngest person and the only undergraduate ever elected to the National Board of Education of the Presbyterian church. She was nominated by Dr. Lampe, of Chicago, a member of the board. “Dr. Lampe wrote that he deter mined there should be some young people on the board as he watched the student conference meeting on New Year’s day,” said Miss Chase. “The board meets twice a year and I shall attend the meeting in Sep tember. ” Miss Chase will be Northwest representative on the board. She is also the winner of a social service scholarship offered by the National Board of Missions of the Presbyterian church. This fellow ship will give her two years of work at Columbia university and a master’s degree. Half the time is spent in practical settlement work and the -other half is devoted to study. Miss Chase is particularly inter ested in the problem of racial an tagonisms in the United States and the harmonious adjustment of the various races to the conditions here. She was a delegate from the Uni versity to the Interdenominational Student Conference at Evanston, Illinois, this year. She has been a member of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet, and is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Lambda Theta. Alumni Smoker Held During Homecoming The Alumni Smoker at the Men’s gym, Homecoming week-end, was the first of its kind to be held on the campus. It was proposed by the Alumni association and carried out by the senior men. The pur pose was to bring the “grads” and college men together. The features of the event were boxing bouts,- fencing, and skits were put on by the various men’s houses on the campus. The fencing was good, the boxing better, and the skits were lustily applauded. It is the desire of the Alumni as sociation as well as the men of the campus to make this smoker an an nual event to be held Homecoming of each year. They hope, in this way, to help the alumni and - tniors to become better acquainted. Activities as Aid in After College Life Argued by Graduating Women (By JANE DUDLEY) JpOUR years of observation and experience in a university de velop definite ideas in college wo men, if the opinions of eight prom inent seniors are to be considered. These young women take* sides on the question of “activities and studies in relation to after-college life.” The result, as quoted below, brings out the fact that co-eds, con trary to popular belief, can take college life seriously and thought fully, and also disagree greatly. Margaret Vincent, an active worker on the campus, believes that the recent student questionnaire was a great stride toward that elu sive thing called “an understand ing between professor and student.” She says: “You ask what I think of all the agitation on the campus over tho question of activities and intellect ual pursuits at the University. I think most of us who are graduating nee that we have been running blindly in all directions with no de finite course planned as a guide. We have not proportioned our college careers so that each of their many phases has shared equally with the others. “Things always come out right in the end when everyone begins to wonder, to investigate, and to at tempt a solution. The ‘undergrad uate report’ recently submitted to the student body and to the state in general is the most pronounced step that has been taken towards setting this University on a basis satisfactory to student, faculty member, and taxpayer alike. With that as a foundation, or at least as a definite conception of what the student body thinks is ‘the matter with the University,’ surely some thing definite can be attempted to straighten up the problem in prac tice as well as in theory.” Anna DeWitt, in pointing out the aims of Women’s League, of which she is retiring president, declares that work in campus activities, es pecially the efficiency and broad minded spirit developed by working on committees, brings to the student an early conception of how to ar range her time. “While the aim of Woman’s Lea gue is chiefly to create friendships,” says Miss DeWitt, “through the ac tivities of the League, girls become used to managing, and develop ef ficiency which they can use in al most any phase of their lives. This very purpose of enlarging friend ships creates a larger background for the college girl. There is the tendency on a campus living in groups for the students to become segregated and narrow-minded, and in the activities of Women’s Lea gue, such as the Big Sister move ment, and April Frolic, where girls are brought together, they are con stantly becoming acquainted with students with whom they probably never would have come in contact.” Campus polities are cited by De loris Pearson, secretary of the stu dent body, as helping the student undensitand more thoroughly nation al politics, and as bringing friend ships to individuals. “The class officer,” she says, “gets on the inside of things, be comes acquainted with the outstand ing members of the class, and makes life-long friendships through close association at committee meetings. Politics on this campus could be stirred up a lot, because we are quite dead in comparison to other campuses. Block formations are formed .just before elections, but there is nothing dependable to go by.” Janet Wood, president of W. A. A., ibelieves that athletics as a eam pus activity afford the best devel- ■ opment for a girt. She says: . “Athletics for all college women are scientifically administered, so that all girls will receive an all around development — physically, morally, and mentally. Health is es sential at all times, and college ath letics, including games like golf, hockey, tennis, swimming, riding, hiking, and canoeing, give a healthy girl a chance to keep fit and a phys ically unfit girl a chance to become equal to the hardships of life. All college athletics are c-haracter (Continued on page two) Senior Class Makes Record During Year Alumni Smoker, Senior Sing Instituted for First Time Anna DeWitt Secretary All Four Presidents Now In University DOB GARDNER, president of the 1926 senior class, said he didn’t weep when the last senior meeting was held Thursday afternoon, May 20. In fact, he says he is glad that it is all over—we wonder if the rest of the class feels that way. And yet, the class of ’26 has completed one of the most successful years of any Oregon senior class. At the last meeting of the year there was so much money in the treasury they couldn’t decide what to do with it. After much debate and discussion, the money was dis posed of—-not many classes have this trouble. One hundred dollars went to the fine arts building fund, $50 for a special section in the last Emerald, and the rest for member ship in the Alumni association and subscriptions to Old Oregon for all senors. . Senior Officers Iiisted The other officers of the class, Lyla McMurphy, vice-president; Mildred Bateman, secretary; Charles Snyder, sergeant-at-arms; and Anna DeWitt, class barber, have helped with this year’s administration. To them a great deal of credit for the success of this year is given by the president. For permanent secretary of the class, the individual who tells the news of the class members in Old Oregon, alumni publication, Anna DeWitt was elected at a recent meet ing. The class of ’26 has an unusual record. It boasts that all four presidents of the class are now in school and of the number three are graduating; the fourth was out of school for one term and therefore lacks a few credits for graduation. The four class leaders are Eugene Richmond, freshman; Ken Stephen son, sophomore; Steele Winterer, junior; and Bob Gardner, senior. The Senior Sing, held in front of the library the first of Song Week, this year, was introduced by this class. Such a gathering of the members of the senior class to sing University songs is practiced at many universities in the country and it was with the desire that this be established as an annual affair that the seniors held Senior Sing, said Bob Gardner. Smoker Custom Set Another precedent set by this class was the annual Senior-Alumni Smoker, held after the rally at Homecoming. This gives the men of the senior class a taste of what alumnihood will be like and enables them to become acquainted with many alums in an informal way. This undoubtedly will be carried on by succeeding senior classes. The big entertainment feature of thig year was the Senior Ball, Feb ruary 6, and the biggest event of their college career will be gradua tion, June 14, 1926. Senior Picnic Closes Leap Week Activities A strenuous week and threats of rain did not stop the senior picnic at Seavey’s Ferry as the culmina tion of Leap Week activities. Lil lian Vulgamore, with her committee of assistants, Adrienne Hazard and Betty Rauch, attended to the plans and saw that transportation was provided. The picnic was a strictly no-date affair to begin with, and the men were attracted by promises of plenty of food, free transportation, and good music. Edna Murphy and Mildred Bateman planned the pic nic lunch, and Jane BoDine rounded up the musicians for the dance in the evening. Horseshoes and baseball, with a bonfire in the evening, and singing while the marshmallows acquired the exact shade necessary, filled the daj', and the dance rounded it out. Marion Wagini, Margaret Kress man, and Eula Benson arranged for transportation, and Margaret Vin cent, Adrienne Hazard, and Dr Loris Pearson planned the enter tainment. Myrl Allman and Hulda Guild saw that everything was right and proper in regard to chap erons. And everyone came home happy. French Girl to Spend Summer at Stanford CUMMER days mean hours of study for Miss Lydie Coqblin, winner of the foreign scholar ship and graduate assistant in Ronace Languages, who will at tend the summer session of Stan ford University. She intends to take a course in comparative lit erature from Professor Carre of the University of Lyon, who is an exchange visiting professor and one of the most prominent instructors in France. “Yes, I’m coming back and I’ll be a full time instructor here next year,” said Miss Coqblin, who has taught in England and in several colleges in the eastern part of this country. “By study ing this summer,” she continued, “I expect to have fulfilled the requirements for a master’s de gree in Romance Languages by Christmas.” “No trip home for me this summer,” declared Miss Coqblin, whose home is in Nevers, one of the oldest towns in France. “I expect to go back next year, though. Everything is of the past there, the town itself being of the seventeenth century. It is certainly a contrast with Am erican towns, where it is the future that counts.” _ Phi Beta Kappa Elects 24 from Class of 1926 Members Chosen Because Of High Scholarship In University Twenty-four members of the se nior class were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic society this year. Seventeen of this number were elected and initiated this term while the other seven were chosen during the winter term. In all, the number represents eight per cent of the class of more than 300 members. Practically the same per cent were elected to Phi Beta Kappa from last year’s graduating class, While the number chosen from 345 graduating seniors, was exactly the same as this year. The complete list of initiates this year includes: Paul Ager, Winifred Andrews, Eula Benson, Orlando Hol lis, Evan Lapham, Gilbert Sussman, and Margaret Woodson, initiated during the winter term, and Mildred Bateman, George Belknap, Cecile Bennett, Eloise Buck, Genevieve Chase, Mary Conn, Esther Cotting ham, Esther Davis, Herbert L. Jones, Walter Evans Kidd, Kather ine Reade, Clifford Snider, Mary Jo Shelly, Kenneth Stephenson, Flor ence Taylor, Caroline Tilton, and (Continued on page two) J. D. Spaeth To Speak At Graduation Saturday, June 11, Fixed As Alumni Day for Class Reunions Seniors to Have Busy Commencement Week Failing-Beekman Orations In Villard Hall JJB. J. DUNCAN SPAETH, note* educator and professor of Eng lish at Princeton, will deliver the University commencement address on June 14. Dr. Spaeth is well known on the coast, as he taught at the University summer sessions for five years. Dean Henry D. Sheldon, chairman of the administrative com mittee will probably present the diplomas. Seniors to Give Play According to the members of the commencement committee, the first event of the week-end is to bo the senior class play, “You Never Can Tell,” by George Bernard Shaw, a “fashionable comedy” to be pre sented in the Heilig theater June 11, afternoon and evening, under the direction of Miss Florence E. Wil bur, instructor in dramatics. Saturday has 'been set aside aa Alumni Day, which will feature five special class reunions, besides eight others. The class of 1886 will cele brate its 40th anniversary, the class of 1896 is planning a 30-year re union, members of the class of 1901 will meet for a 25-year “get-to gether,” members of ’06 will cele brate their 20th anniversary and a 10-year celebration will be held by the class of 1916. Other classes which will reunite according to the Dix plan of reunion are 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1898, 1399, 1900, 1917* 1918, and 120. The Dix plan, which was adopted by the State Alumni association in 1923, provides for a cycle of four reunions in which one given class would meet with four groups of classes corresponding to the four college years. State Alumni to Meet The annual meeting and breakfast of the State Alumni association will be held at nine o’clock Saturday morning at the Osburn hotel. All alumni and former students are urged to attend the Bemi-annnal meeting of the Alumni association which will bo held at eleven o’clock in Guild theater, Johnson hall. The University will be host to alumni, seniors and guests, at a. luncheon, Saturday in the men*s gymnasium and from three to fivo o ’clock in the Alumni hall of the Woman’s building, there will be a (Continued on •page two) Customs of Early Days on Campus Recollected by Dean John Straub By ALICE KBAFT “Yes! yes [those were the good old days, all right!” said Dean John Straub as he rocked in his chair and reminisced of the “good old days” when he first came to the Univers ity. With blue eyes twinkling, he continued his story, now and then punctuating it with a chuckle, de claring, “You know in those days they gave a whole week to com mencement exercises, and commence ment week was a county holiday. People came in from all parts of the county in their rigs or wagons and brought their lunches, eating j them under the Condon oaks. The campus just included that part of the present campus between Elev- 1 entli and Thirteenth streets and Uni versity and Kincaid. Yes, and there was a high board fence around tho whole thing, and the farmers tied their horses up behind the fence, making a line of wagons reaching all the way from the railroad down Eleventh street and around the cor ner on Kincaid street. “Oh, it was lots of fun. There was a windmill too. Did you know that? It was there to pump the wa ter up from the well that is located there somewhere between the oaks. “You know, those two towers on Deady? Well, they used to have large tanks up there and the wind mill pumped the water into them. They eaeh held about 1200 or 1500 gallons of water. And on commence ment day the windmill was always going—you see there was enough wind then, because the seniors were giving their commencement ad (Irenes. “Oh, that wag terrible! You know every student wag required to gin a commencement addregg before to could graduate. The faculty mem berg had to sit there and listen to all those speeches. Sometimes they started at 10:00 in the morning' and lasted until 4:00 in the afternoon. “And then there were the salu tatory and valedictory speeches, too. They would study for weeks and weeks on those speeches, and then when the day came they would get up there and start out something about ‘To you, dear members of the faculty, how can we express our ap preciation for all that you have done for us. You for whom we have worked diligently day after day.’ About that time the faculty mem bers would begin to pull out their handkerchiefs and while supposedly wiping one eye they would wink at each other with the other. It waa the custom to bring two handker chiefs and in the course of the cere mony to, pull one out and wring it out.” Speaking of the addresses, Dean Straub told of the gauntlet of rigid training that those delivering ad dresses had to run beforehand. The elocution training was under the guidance of Mrs. Mary Spiller. When the students “went through the gauntlet” they had to deliver their speeches before the other stu dents who were supposed to sit or stand before them and try to frus trate them. The students could do anything but touch them and in. (Continued on page two)