H. S. Delegates
Open Session
With Assembly
President Hall, Hugh Biggs,
A. S. U. O. Head, Will
Make Addresses
Ward Cook Urges Large
Student Attendance
Special Seats Reserved
For Representatives
THIS morning at nine o’clock in
the auditorium of the Woman’s
building, five hundred fifty high
school delegates from all parts of
the state of Oregon, will be greeted
by the University of Oregon student
body and faculty, at the opening
session of the two day high school
conference.
The official welcome to the high
school guests will be made by Ar
nold Bennfett Hall, president of the
University, and Hugh Biggs, presi
dent of the A. S. U. O., who will
give welcoming addresses.
Ward Cook, chairman of the high
school conference committee, in a
statement issued in circular form
yesterday, spoke of the purpose of
the assembly which is one of the
biggest events of the conference and
urged a large attendance. “In or
der that a mark of special favor be
shown to the 550 representatives of
the various high schools in the state
of Oregon, who will be here to at
tend the seventh annual high school
conference, it is highly important,
if this assembly is to be successful
that the student body be on hand.
A half filled Woman’s building may
give the visitors a wrong view of
university life. On the other hand,
a good turnout will impress the
high school students, many of whom
are intending to go on with their
education after graduation from
high school, and it will enable them
to carry away a good impression of
this institution.”
Musical Program Feature
Other features of ,the morning
hour will be a trumpet duet by Pro
fessor W. L. Perris, of the music
school faculty, and Lawrence Wag
ner, student in the musie school.
The men’s glee club will honor the
guests by singing a group of Oregon
songs.
Henry Davis, director of United
Christian work on the campus, will
deliver the invocation.
The high school students will oc
cupy the front rows in the student
section of the auditorium and the
high school faculty guests will take
their places in the first rows of the
faculty section on the left wing of
the auditorium.
Musical Program for
Winter Term Arranged
Dates have been set for several
concerts to be given, this term.
The concert given annually by
the Men’s Glee club in the Home
Concert series will be held February
16 under the direction of John Stark
Evans, assistant dean of music. The
orchestra directed by Bex Under
wood, professor of music, will hold
its concert February 23, and Mu
Phi Epsilon will give their program
April 13.
A number of musi8al offerings
have been 'arranged for March and
April under the auspices of A. S.
U. O.
1800 Photos Taken
For 1927 Year Book
Eighteen hundred individual pic
tures have been taken by Kennell
Ellis photographers for the 1927
Oregana. Last year only 1700 were
used in the book.
All proofs must be turned in at
the studio not later than Satur
day, January 15. Those taken back
after that day will not appear in
the Oregana. Work on the mounting
will be started Wednesday.
25 Practice Teachers
In School of Music
Enrollment of 25 practice teach
ers, the largest number that has
ever been listed in the school of
music, was announced yesterday by
Mrs. Anne Landsbury Beck, profes
sor of music and director of the
University high school glee club.
These students are studying to fin
ish the course in the supervision of
public school music.
Robert L. Thotnas
Washington high school graduate,
who is president of Press confer
ence.
R. O. T. C. Student
Officers Making
Plans for Dance
Committee Appointments
For Annual Formal
Announced
Committees have been selected,
and plans are complete for the of
ficers’ Formal Military Ball to be
held Friday, January 28, at the Os
burn hotel. The ball is the annual
social event of the Commissioned
Officers’ club, composed of ad
vanced students in the R. O. T. C.
department. Invitations are extend
ed to present and graduate members
of the club.
Members selected by Bill James,
president of the .club, to serve on
the committees include: Verne Folts,
general chairman; decorations, Mark
Taylor, chairman, Ed Brown, Ed
Johnson, and Earl Raess; programs
and music, Wade Rutherford, chair
man, William Brown, and Clark
Eldridige; invitations, Robert Ben*
jamin, chairman, Jack Hempstead,
and Kenneth Martin; refreshments,
Eugene Howe, chairman, Keith New
comb, and Walter Padvick.
The Officers’ club is composed of
44 members. Officers of the organ
ization are Bill James, president,
and Orville Blair, secretary-treas
urer.
Former Oregon Girl
Edits Fashionable
Eastern Magazine
Lyle Bryson, a graduate of the
University of Oregon in 1922, has
recently been appointed managing
Editor of “The New Eve,” a mag
azine devoted to fashions, society,
sports and theaters, and printed
in New York.
Miss Bryson has- been in New
York since her graduation from, the
University. She was employed in
social service work for a while and
was for some time a member of the
staff of the New York American.
She assumed her work on The New
Eve, with the December 1926 issue.
In this issue there is an article by
Helen C. Manning, ex-’22, on “The
Romantic Sport of Fencing.” Miss
Manning has been in newsipaper
work since she left the University,
having been on the staff of the Ore
gon Journal for over a year. She
spent most of last year in New York
but is now in Portland again. She
has done a great deal of free lance
work.
Group Meetings and
Subjects Announced
Discussion group meetings will
start January 25, instead of January
18, as was previously announced.
They will continue for five weeks.
A number of speakers have already
been procured. Those already en
rolled are Warren D. Smith, head
of the department of geology; H.
G. Tanner, associate professor of
chemistry'; Charles E. Carpenter,
professor of law; M. K. Cameron,
professor of economics; Frederic S.
Dunn, head of the department of
Latin; and Homer P. Rainey, pro
fessor of education.
“The Attitude Towards the 18th
Amendment,” “Has Christianity Re
tarded or Aided ProgressT”, “Is
Our Religion Worth Exportingf”
and “Eugenics,” are some of the
subjects to be brought up for dis
cussion.
High School
Leaders Start
SessionToday
First Assembly of Meet
Opens in Woman’s
Building at 9
Schedule Includes
Experienced Speakers
Committees Will Assist
And Guide Delegates
ACTIVITY on the Oregon cam
pus was quickened'yesterday by
the arrival of the chosen leaders of
38,000 Oregon high school students,
delegates to the seventh annual
high school conference here today
and tomorrow.
Approximately 550 student body
officers, press representatives, of
ficers of Girls’ Leagues, and fac
ulty advisers, will come together
for the first time at the 9 o’clock
assembly in the Woman’s building
this morning, and then divide into
sectional groups to discuss perplex
ing high school problems.
As the preppers arrived they were
taken immediately to the Adminis
tration building, where a registra
tion booth has been installed.
Badges and programs were issued to
them and they were conducted by
fraternity, sorority and dormitory
representatives stationed there to
the living organizations assigned to
entertain them during the conven
tion. A program on which is a plot
of campus buildings has been issued
to the preppers.
Group Divisions of Conference Made
The division of the conference
into groups after the assembly this
morning will find the Association of
Student Body Officers gathered in
the music auditorium, presided over
by John Halderman, University
freshman. Halderman, who came to
the conference from Astoria high
school last year, was chairman of
the resolutions committee, and when
it was learned that Edmund Jones,
formerly of Washington high school
of Portland, and elected president
of the officers for this year, would
be unable to attend the convention,
Halderman was selected to preside.
The High School Press Associa
tion will meet in 105 Journalism.
Robert L. Thomas, president of the
association and former ^editor of
the Lens, Washington high school,
Portland, will preside over the
morning meetings. In the afternoon,
the editors will meet in one group,
and the managers will constitute
another.
The Association of Girls’ Leagues
will gather this morning in the
gymnasium of the Woman’s build
ing, and will be presided over by
Myrtle Mast, president of the Wom
an’s Athletic'Association. Elizabeth
Crissell, Washington high sehool,
Portland, president of the Girls’
Leagues, will be in charge of the
afternoon session.
The Faculty Advisers’ Conference
will be called to order by Dean
Eric W. Allen in 105 Journalism at
3:50 this afternoon. They will also
meet separately tomorrow morning
in 105 Commerce hall.
Educators on Program
In addition to a number of Uni
versity faculty members scheduled
to talk, a list of well known edu
cators and journalists wil appear
on the program.
Miss Jessie Spaulding Smith,
newswriting instructor, director of
publications and publicity at the
I Oakland Technical high school, Oak
land, California, will speak three
'times during the conference.
Sheldon F. Sackett, editor of the
;McMinnville Telephone-Register, will
speak at 2:15, to the managers’
I division of the press conference.
Hal E. Hoss, manager of the Ore
j gon City Enterprise, secretary of
j the Oregon Editorial Association,
| and secretary to Governor I. L. Pat
1 terson, will deliver an illustrated
j lecture tomorrow morning.
The student officers will hear W.
A. Lacey, principal of the high
school of Walla Walla, Washington,
at 1:15, this afternoon, and C. A.
j Howard, state superintendent of
public instruction, will talk tomor
j row.
Student and Faculty Committees
I The student and faculty commit
| tee heads and assistants in charge
of the conference are:
Students—General chairman, Ward
I Cook; assistant chairman, Bill Pow
jell; secretary, Edith Bain; welcom
; ing committee, chairman, Lester
Johnson, Dave Bauman, A1 Boyden,
j Bob Hynd, Elwood Enke, Burt Mc
Elroy, Joe McKeowin, “Wigs”
Fletcher, Gladys Steiger, Louis
(Continued on page two)
Unofficial Title Given
Basketball Pavilion
HAVE you ever seen, stunts
between halves at basket
ball games? Well, here’s a new
one—tonight you’ll see vmany
stunts on a huge and gigantic
scale—not the fouls walking
around but something for you to
remember.
It is written in the annals of
the University that the new pa
vilion must not only have an of
ficial opening on its own founda- '
tions but also aii unofficial open- i
ing on the props of a certain
popular, red haired desert wan
derer. Tonight the court will re- j
eoive its officially unrecognized !
name which will bring down the j
house—we mean the house—not
our beautiful new ambiguous
theater.
McEwan to Greet
1927 Gridmen at
Monday Meeting
— T :
Nucleus Made Up of 15
Lettermen; Positions
To be Contested
Captain J. J. McEwan will meet
football aspirants for the 1927 team
in Johnson hall at four o’clock Mon
day afternoon.
Plans for spring
practieo will be
outlined and a
working basis
l formed.
Coach Me Ewan
will have 15 let*
jj termen as a nu
i cleus for the 1927
| team. They are
| Ted Pope, Frank
ji Riggs, John Al
.. bert Warren, Ho
Ira Woodie mer Dixon, Beryl
Hodgen, Harold Mangum, Hal Har
den, Bob Keeney, Clarence Carter,
Victor Wetzel, George Burnell, Ira
Woodie, Arthur Ord, Merrell Hagan,
and Cotter Gould.
Quarterback Needed
There will be plenty df competi
tion for the quarterback position
with Ira Woodie and Merrell Hagan
from last year’s varsity, and Frank
Mimnaugh and David Mason from
the frosh. Not a great deal is
known of David Mason because of
injuries received early in the sea
son before he had a chance to show
his stuff.
Several candidates for back field
positions are coming up from the
frosh squad. They are: Bobby Rob
inson, half back; Cecil Gabriel, half
back; Frank Mimnaugh, quarter;
David Mason, quarter; Ed Cheney,
half back; Ronald Coleman, half
back; and Harold Hatton, full back.
George Stadleman, center, and
tallest man of the frosh squad, may
be one of Oregon’s outstanding
men on the line next fall.
Gene Vidal will work with Coach
McEwan during the , spring prac
tice. This work will start earlier
than usual and may last into the
spring term, according to the coach.
Aspirants for all positions are asked
to turn out early.
Special Geology Lab
For Good Students
A special laboratory section has
been formed in general gleologv,
under Ray C. Treasher, assistant
instructor, for those showing ex
ceptional work and interest in the
course. More detailed work in geol
ogy will be handled because of their
ability.
“It is going to be considerably
harder, but as a compensation they
will probably get more out of it,”
■ said Treasher. The following will
ine«t Tuesday at five o’clock with
Treasher under Dr. E. L. Packard,
professor of geology: John Allen,
Richard Bogne, Guinevere Lamson,
Betty Lewis, Elizabeth Dimmitt,
Kathryn Kirk, Henry Ball, James
j Sharp, John Aldridge, Katherine
! Karpenstein, arid Winifred Weter.
Mrs. Clark, Mr. Carr
To Sing for Vespers
A duet by Mrs. Prudence Clark
and Eugene Carr will be the music
for the regular University vespers
in the music auditorium at 4:30
Sunday afternoon.
John Stark Evans will play sev
! oral organ selections and the Rev
i erer.d Fred Clark will read the ves
pers service.
Oregon Says
'Hello’to Prep
Convention
High School Conference
Opens Today at Nine
With Assembly
Vanguard of Delegates
Arrives 1:30 Thursday
Guests Requested to List
Names Immediately
nptlE flow of delegates to the high
school conference' began official
ly at 1:110 yesterday afternoon,
when the first delegation to arrive
registered in the Administration
building.
Kenneth Loretz and Doris Hil
leary, representing Turner high
school, began the intlux of delegates.
They were only a half an hour
ahead of three groups that arrived
at about the same time, from The
Dalles, Hood Kiver, and Dundee.
Delegates Listed
The registration booth remained
open until 11 o’clock last night,
checking names of delegates and as
signing them to houses. It will be
open this morning until 9 o’clock.
It is urgent that every delegate
register, for admission to the events
of the conference will be solely by
the ribbons and cards which they
will receive at the booth.
All Portland high schools are
sending delegates. The list of stu
dent leaders and faculty advisers
who will take part in the discus
sions and talks today and tomorrow
follows:
Washington — Robert Thomas,
Jesse Douglas, Elizabeth Crissell,
Richard Scott, Harry Powells, Irene
Smith.
Lincoln—Robert Allan, Louise
Muller, David Wilson^ Joe Leslie,
Foard Smith, Mabel Downs, faculty
adviser.
Commerce—Evelyn Boody, Agnes
Grouquist, Nathan Eisenstein, Jane
Reeves, George Goss, J. F. Elton,
adviser.
Grant—Kenneth Curry, Dorothy
Ward, Dorothy Teepe, George Arm
strong and Wilinadene Richolson.
Benson Polytechnic — William
Reihl, A1 Brown, William Turnbull,
William Whitehead, Donald Morand
and II. II. Parson, faculty adviser.
Roosevelt—Edward Brown, Sybil
Knowles, Jean Kalmbach, Leon F.
Ray and Karen Nelson.
Jefferson — Jess Weim, Gladys
Clausaen, Thelma Powell, Kenneth
Jette, Elies Short, Carolene Holman,
faculty adviser.
Franklin—George Bishop, Grace
Dehuff, Lucille Rowley, Wilma
Couey, Clarke Henkle, I. A. Melendy,
faculty adviser.
McMinnville — Leon Redmond,
Edna Breeding, Rainier Schreiber,
John Sauter, Vera Altimus, William
Maxwell, faculty adviser.
Marshfield — Marvin Hutchins,
Catherine Langworthy, Eleanor Lew
is, Marion Gidley, Clyde Gosney,
Helen Gray, faculty adviser.
Mill City—Edward Wachter, Rose
Smith.
Milwaukie Union—Sandford Whit
ing, Jean Jameson, Harold Catfield,
Frances Elliott, Mary E. Appleby,
faculty adviser.
Mohawk Union—Lela Lybarger,
Merle Fisher, Miss M. D. Wall*er,
faculty adviser.
Monmouth—Loland Wilson, Hal
ley Johnson, F. M. Roth, faculty
adviser.
Newport—Joe Parthemer, Nancy
Wilson, Ellis Warring and JBeth
Paulsen, faculty adviser.
Ontario—Harry Anderson, Cath
erine W. Conway, faculty adviser.
Oregon City—William Collie, Le
Moine Murray, Helen Schultze, Mir
iam Swafford, Harold Lent, Guy D.
Barnett, faculty adviser.
Rainier—Chaa. Rosebraugh, Mary
I Hosebraugh, Mary Moore, O. D. By
| erg, faculty adviser.
Roseburg—William Knight, Vel
I ina McDonald, Ray James, Daphine
Hughes, J. V. Long and Loyo J.
1 Reynolds, faculty adviser.
Brookings—Amanda Jones, Gohla
j Scobee.
Beaverton — Raymond Harrison,
Helen Stiles, Boyd Sprague.
Boardman—-Ray Barlow-, Erma
Broyles.
Brownsville—Rex Tussing, Stelja
Schultz, Leota Tycer.
Cottage Grove—Roy Scheufele,
Helen Ostrander, Rachel Galloway,
! Harold Bede.
Coquille—Harlo Call, Fern Hon
dyshell, Clare Bean, Jean Young.
Crow—Julia Swafford, Orville
Powell.
Dallas—Wayne Page, Laura Boil
(Continued on page two)
John Halderman
University freshman, -who will
preside over Association of Student
Body Officers.
Oregon Knights
To Show Visiting
Delegates Campus
Annual Banquet Planned
This Evening at 5:45
For Preppers
A number of interesting events
are scheduled to relieve the minds
of high school delegates, taxed by
the pressure of threshing out vex
ing problems in student government
and high school journalism today
and tomorrow.
The Oregon Knights have reor
ganized and will take an active part
in the conference. Their chief func
tion will be to conduct groups of
delegates on tours of the campus at
4 o ’dock this afternoon. Some of
the chief points of interest in these
tours will be the Murray Warner
collection of qriental art, the uni
versity laboratories, the Woman’s
building, and the University press.
The annual banquet in the Wom
an’s building at 5:45 will be the
largest social event for the preppers.
Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, president
of the University, will be toast
master, and there will be short
speeches by Hugh Biggs, president
of tho associated students, Robert
L. Thomas, president of the press
association, John Halderman, presi
dent of the Association of Student
Body officers, Elizabeth Crissell,
president of the Association .of
Girls’ Leagues, Eric W. Allen, dean
of the school of journalism, Ward
Cook, chairman of tho conference
directorate, Dr. Jbhn Straub, emer
itus dean of men, and C. A. Howard,
state superintendent of public in
struction.
The banquet will also be attended
by faculty and student committee
heads, and speakers of the confer
ence.
A special section will be reserved
for delegates and advisers at the
Oregon-Willamette game immediate
ly after tho banquet.
Athletic Awards Given
To Women Before Last
Part of Winter Term
Small O’s and sweaters will be
awarded to those (girls who have
earned them at the basketball, swim
ming and volleyball banquet to bo
given later in the term at the end
of the basketball season, it was de
cided at the W. A. A. mass meeting
last night. No awards have been
! made in past years until spring
I term, and this made the persons
who won them in fall term wait
until that time to receive them.
The number of points it is neces
sary to earn in dancing honors for
membership jn W. A. A. was raised
from 150 to ISO, so as to encourage
a greater incentive.
It was decided to permit a girl
to participate in sports for twelve
terms in college, whether these are
taken consecutively or not, provid
ed that she does not participate in
any one sport for more than four
seasons. In her thirteenth term, or
any above that, she may go out for
| a sport, but^may not win points for
i W. A. A. or for her sweater, or she
1 may not crowd another girl off the
I team who may need the points. This
! "'ill igive a girl who has had to drop
| out a term or two on account of ill
! ness, or some other cause, an oppor
tunity to make enough points to
I earn her sweater. |After twelve
1 terms in school, she may play, but
! only for the pleasure of it, and not
for points.
Oregon Faces
Bearcats in
Court First
Women’s Order of “O” to
Usher for Co-eds;
Seats for All
First Bearcat Game
Played Since 1925
“Billy” Reinhart Not
Too Optimistic
Tonight’s lineups:
Oregon vs Willamette
Gunther f Litchfield
Ridings f Riddell
Okerberg c Hartley
Westergren g Ledbetter
Milligan g Ashby
Referee: Ralph Coleman (O. A.C.)
ItATeARTIIUR COURT will receive
its first taste of collegiate
basketball tonight at 8 o’clock when
the Oregon varsity quintet faces
the Willamette Bearcats in the first
contest 'of a two game series. To
morrow night the second game will
be played with the touring Capitol
city five who met the O.regon Aggies
in Corvallis last night.
This is the Wqbfoofs first game
with Willamette in two years. In
1925 the lemon-yellow hoopsters tri
umphed over the Salem collegians
by a large score but changes have
occurred since that time. “Spee”
Keene, formerly of O. A. C., is now
head athletic mentor at Willamette
and athletics at that institution,
have been on a spurt' since be as
sumed the reins. Keene’s style of
basketball is not known but early
in the season lie was using a mod
ified edition of the Hager system.
This has been discontinued, how
ever, for a faster type of play.
Willamette has practically the same
team intact that lost to Whitman,
by only a few points in the play
off for the Northwest conference
championship last year.
Reinhart Glooms
Coach “Billy” Reinhart is not too
optimistic over tonight’s outcome.
“Willamette has a very good team
and it would not surprise me if
they won. Our men are gradually
rounding into shape and probably
will not play their best but they
will make a good showing,” said
Reinhart. Oregon’s starting lineup
will include Gunther and Ridings,
forwards; Okerberg, center; and
Westergren and Milligan, guards.
According to Jack Benefiel, grad
uate manager, good seats are in
store for everybody. University
men will occupy the bleacher seats
on the main floor on both the east
and west sides of the court. Ore
gon women will occupy the upstairs
seats on the east side. The Women’s
Order of the “O” will usher for the
women and the assistant athletie
managers will see that all the men
get seats.
Last Term’s Cards Good
One thing that the graduate man
ager wants the students to remem
ber is the entrance on the northwest
corner of the building which is re
served for A. S. U. O. students only.
Admittance may be gained with last
term’s student body tickets.
The Oregon band, in new uni
! forms, will be on hand to lend music
to the occasion. The Men’s Order
of the “O” will be seated in a re
served section in the west side
bleacher seals. The Women’s Order
of the “O” will oeeupy seats in
center of the balcony on the east
side.
Rainey to Address
Supervised Teachers
Dr. Homer P. Rainey, professor of
education, will talk to all super
vised teachers of music on January
18, in room 4 of the Education build
ing. The lecture is to be given to
assist the students in their work.
Music students concerned are re
quired to attend.
Science Press Prints
Dr. HalVs Inaugural
Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall’s inaug
ural address has received attention
from “School and Society,” a week
ly educational magazine put out by
The Science Press, New York. The
• complete address appears in the ia
I sue of January 8.