VOLUME XXVIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1927
NUMBER 62
Can the Webfoot
Hoopsters Repeat
And Win Title?
Chances of 1927 Five
Rest Largely on Ef
forts of Veterans
By HAROLD MANGUM
The last pre-season game has been
played, and the boards cleared for
the conference basketball season.
Twelve tilts have
jeen wrested from
eleven teams in a
dozen starts, which
betokens Per“*
feet average. The
Webfoot varsity
has averaged bet
ter than a 40
point score over
this period, and
has held opposing
quintets to half as
nany, which is all
fine and dandy.
Gordon Ridings
YVitn me cumcicm/o
ing here Saturday night, and the
highly-touted University of Idaho
Vandals billed as opposition, campus
sages are scratching their heads and
wondering just how that 'basketball
team of Billy Reinhart’s is anyhow.
Just how does it compare with the
1926 Webfoots at the same stage of
the game?’Will the men of Reinhart
repeat their 1926 championship in
the northern division of the Pacific
coast conference, and will they be
able to maintain their perfect per
centage?
» * *
Well, there is nothing occult about
the sports department of this noble
sheet, and there isn’t a crystal in
the whole building outside of a
watch, but we’re willing to sacrifice
ourselves for the common good, so
we will venture a guess that the
192'7 Oregon basketball team, bar
ring further injuries, waltzes
through the northern part of the
Coast loop and entertains the Uni
versity of California quintet in the
new hoop pavilion early in March.
And, while we’re at it, we’ll also
opine that Mr. Golden Bear treks
back to th’e sunny southland with
two thorns in his shaggy flank.
Some skeptics have doubted the
ability of the new hands on the
Reinhart rancho to shock their
share of alfalfa, rurally speaking.
They point out that the tyros, while
willing and well-coached, have a
tendency to slip at critical moments
—that the recruits play like cham
pions for part of each fracas, but
have little lapses now and then
which might prove fatal in a tight
game.
These same aouDting xnomases,
drat ’em, point out that Billy Bein
hart has lost five good men and true
since the season started, and that
four of these stalwarts were from
his first eight players. It is true
that Bay Edwards, who was counted
on as a strong substitute for Oker
berg this year, suffered a knee in
jury at the very beginning of prac
tice which rendered him unfit for
further service on the hardwood
planks. It is likewise true that
Keith Emmons, Clare Seallon, and
Mervyn Chastain, all first rate for
wards, had a run in with the scan
dal sheet and came off second best,
nd it is true as preaching that Gor
don Bidings got his feet wet and
contracted influenza last week, and
will probably be on the bench Sat
urday night.
Why, then, the optimism? In the
first place, Oregon has the services
of three of the best, if not the three
best, courtmen on the entire Pacific
slope. Algot Westergren, the spark
plug guard, has been on the all
coast five for two straight years,
and, outside of a streak of hardluck
in basket making, is to all purposes
as good as ever. Boy Okerberg, of
20-point renown, was second only
to Bill Higgins of California last
year, and now Bill is showing the
California freshmen how to pivot
and dribble. Jerry Gunther took a
job on the mythical quintet also
at the close of last year’s hoop ex
ercises, and still holds it.
In the second place, the boys are
anxious to get another erack at the
Bears, for the result of last year’s
session in Berkeley has not left a
pleasant aftertaste in the maws of
Beinhart’s young men.
There are third, fourth, and fifth
places also, but more of that anon.
The deadline is already fifteen min
utes past, and the day editor is
howling for copy.
Package and Tin Can
Reward of Birthday
«TTEY! Lookee what I got.
X Ajt’s my birthday today.”
This was what stopped the
Emerald reporter en route be
tween two educational centers in
the southern hemisphere of the
campus.
“No, I don’t know what’s in
side. I can’t open them yet,”
said this little burst of excite
ment, a boy of eight years. He
exhibited a square wrapped pack
age, and a tin can. “This is a
book, I think,” he said as he
held up the package, “but I
don’t know the name of it.”
The reporter’s curiosity as to
the contents,of the can were not
to satified, however, for just try
to keep a kid like that when he
sees a chance to get a ride with
the mail man.
Dr. Edmund Day
To Visit Campus
This Week-end
Economist Will Address
Graduate Student^
And Faculty
Dr. Edmund E. Day, widely
known economist and professor of
business administration at the Uni
versity of Michigan, will be a guest
of the university Friday and Sat
urday.
His name in “Who’s Who” car
ries a long list of identifications
which includes membership on the
U. S. Shipping board at the close
of the war, member of the board of
editors of half a dozen economic
magazines, and author of “Statis
tical Analysist.”
Dr. Day will speak to members
of the social science faculties, to
gether with faculty members in re
lated branches, at a special meet
ing Friday, and to graduate stu
dents at a dinner Saturday. Both
meetings will be held at the Anchor
age.
Handball Casualty List
Mounts as Tourneys
Progress; Bliss Wins
The war’s on, mates, and the
carnage has begun. In English,
those words mean that the donut
handball free lance doubles and
singles tournaments are functioning
and good men biting the dust every
day.
Thus far this week the casualty
list reads something like this:
Singles: Murray defeated by
“Slim” Bliss 21-4, 21-7.
Benson lost to Cohn 21-17, 21-16
and Bill Dallas staged a comeback
and defeated Walker 12-21, 21-9,
21-17. Alton Gabriel won an e’asy
duel from Feves 21-1, 21-2.
On the doubles roster the deaths
are as follows:
Coffey and King defeated Brown
and Warner 21-13, 21-12. Widmer
and Reinhart sunk Renshaw and
Cahill’s hopes 21-5, 21-9. Bauman
and Stott lost to Huestis and Park
er 21-16, 16-21, 21-13.
Players are warned to post their
scores if they are to 'be counted in
the final reckoning.
Women Exceed Men
As Infirmary Patients
Many women of the campus have
fallen prey to the prevailing “flu”
epidemic this week, and far exceed
the number of men in the infirmary.
‘1 Mike ’ ’ Moran continues to be
the most cheerful member. This is
the eighth week that Mike has
been in the infirmary with a brok
en leg, yet his good nature is still
with him. The infirmary has been
crowded most of the time, but the
nurses still maintain that Mike is
the model patient.
Students to be Notified
i When Books Are Ready
The card catalogue, started at the
library the beginning of this term,
has been discontinued. The cata
logue was a system by which the
names of persons who had left calls
for books were posted when the
books were available. Students were
expected to take their cards off the
board and present them at the desk
for their books.
None of the books advertised in
this way were called for, and the
old system of sending calls through
the mail is in use again.
All Ready For
La Deuxieme
Critique Today
Nine Well Known Jurymen
On Campus to Advise
And Criticize
Seminars and Talks
To Fill Student Time
Banquet This Evening at
Osburn Is Feature
THE last detail has been taken
care of, the last picture hung
and the scraps swept away; all is
ready for the first criticism of La
Deuxieme Critique which is being
held in the school of art and archi
tecture today.
The nine members of the jury
have arrived and are ready to give
their best criticisms and advice to
the students. Some of the jurymen
are well known on the campus, hav
ing been on previous juries. Those
who will judge and criticize the
work of the students today are:
A. E. Doyle, one of Portland’s lead
ing architects, W. G. Purcell, who
is also one of the foremost archi
tects of Portland, Joseph Jacob
berger, known for years as one of
Portland’s most prominent archi
tects and art critics, Sidney Bell,
possessor of an admirable reputation
in the field of portraiture, Miss
Esther Wuest, supervisor of art in
the Portland public schools, Mrs.
Prudence Abbott, Portland artist
and decorator, W. G. Holford of the
firm of Lawrence and Holford,
architects, John Bennes, Portland
architect, and Judge Charles H.
Carey, retired from the bench, art
connoisseur and critic of rare abil
ity.
Program Begins at 10
The regular program for the Crit
ique will begin at 10:00 this morn
ing when the juniors and seniors
who are majoring in normal arts
will meet Miss Wuest for a sem
inar. This will last till 11:00. At
the same time Mrs. Abbott will
meet the students in decorative de
sign. From 1:30 to 3:30 she will
talk to the students of interior dec
orating. At this time Miss Wuest
will also talk to • the freshmen and
sophomores in normal art. She will
give criticisms and a general talk
to the students.
From 10:00 to 12:00 and from
1:30 to 3:30 Mr. Bell will conduct
criticisms of the work in the de
partment of fine arts.
Judge Carey will give criticisms
in the department of sculpture dur
ing the greater part of the after
noon.
Students Plan Full Day
Architecture students are plan
ning to arrive about 9:30 and make
a day of it. They will have individ
ual and group criticism from the
five architects who are on the jury.
Students are urged to be present
all day for efforts are being made
to work out a schedule whereby it
will be possible to have some well
informed person in each studio at
nearly every hour of the day.
At noon each department will en
tertain its visitors at individual
group luncheons.
Expect Large Banquet
A large attendance is expected
at the banquet which is scheduled
for 7:00 this evening at the Osburn
hotel. Leading features of the ban
quet will be speeches by Judge C.
H. Carey and W. J. Purcell of Port
land and Dr. Kudolph Ernst of the
department of English. Dr. Ernst
will probably give a talk on the re
lation of art to literature, and at
the same time give a representative
expression of the attitude of the
faculty to the work of the school
of art and architecture.
Famous Composition
On Glee Club Program
The “Valse Triste” by Jean Sib
elius, arranged for women’s voices
by N. Clifford Page, will be the
feature number of the first part of
the concert to be given on February
9 by the girl’s glee club.
This Icomposition by , Finlatad’s
foremost composer was originally
written for the orchestra and wa3
taken from the death scene of the
play, “Kuolema" by Arvid Jara
feld. It is classified as a tone poem
and tells the story of a dying
woman who leaves her death bed to
waltz with the ghostly dancers of a
delirious dream. Finally, exhausted,
she falls as Death appears at the
door. The words used in the ar
rangement were taken from the
drama, “Kuolema.”
War Comrades Meet
After Nine Years
IT wag midnight—the sirens
so returned—the air raid was on!
Dashing for shelter from their
rooms in a London hotel, the two
men found the basement full, and4
instead of seeking another re
treat they stood in the street,
watching the flashing search
lights, listening to the boom of
anti-aircraft guns as the raiding
Germans were driven from over
the city.
Together they had erossed the
sea while it was full of hidden
peril, in that dark year of 1918;
and together they had worked,
but the day after the raid they
parted, and saw no more of each
other.
Nine years passed, and last
Tuesday, Henry W. Davis, di
rector of Christian work on the
campus, and Dr. Jesse Bader, na
tional secretary on evangelism
for the Christian churches of
America, met for the first time
since that night in London, and
were able to talk over the days
which they had passed together
while in the Y. M. C. A. service
abroad, for a few minutes before
train time.
Summer Session
Plans Progress;
Adds Art Course
Powers Expects Record
Attendance; Folts to
Teach Subjects
Inqnqiries at the rate of five and
six a day are being received Ijy
the extension division concerning
the University summer session.
They find the plans for the summer
work, which include additional
courses both here and at Portland,
well* under way.
A course in period furniture and
appreciation will be offered at Port
land if a suitable man of national
reputation can be secured, accord
ing to Alfred Powers, dean of the
extension division.
An art course will be given on
the campus this summer for the first
time. Business administration sub
jects, including accounting, busi
ness management, and investments
under the instruction of Pranklin
E. Folts, will also be added. Most
of the resident faculty members
have been selected, but the choice of
outside faculty, which promises to
include prominent educators of the
country, has not been completed.
From 1800 to 2000 students are
expected this year at the Portland
and Eugene sessions. This will be
an increase of about 50 per cent
over the attendance last year, when
there were a little more than 400
students on the campus and 800 in
Portland. The Association of Uni
versity Summer Schools, of which
the University of Oregon summer
session is a member, had nearly
100,000 enrolled in its 26 schools
last year. This shows the increased
popularity which the summer schools
are gaining, Alfred Powers stated.
Some new courses have been add
ed to the post-session which will be
given from August 1 to August 26,
starting right after the close of the
summer session. As many as 15
hours of credit may be attained by
those who wish to attend for the
entire ten weeks. Both graduate
and under graduate work will be
given in education, English, history,
psychology, mathematics, economics,
and romance language.
Mrs. Warner to Sail
From China Jan. 24
Mrs. Murray Warner, who gave
the Murray Warner Art collection
to the University, and who has
been in China trying to get mater
ial for the museum, is leaving Kobe,
China, for San Francisco, January
24, on the “Cleveland,” according
to a cable recently received by her
son, Sam, B. Warner, law professor,
who just returned after an jabsence
of tw'o terms. Further details are
not yet available.
Mrs. A. R. Sweetser
Reported Improving
Mrs. Albert B. Sweetser, wife of
Dr. Sweetser, is recovering from a
serious attack of pneumonia with
which she has been confined at the
Eugene hospital since December 24.
Only last week was she able to be
without a trained nurse who has
been with her since the beginning of
her illness. She is reported to be
improving rapidly now and will be
able to leave the hospital very soon.
V arsity Debate
Teams Chosen
For This Year
Time Definitely Settled
For All Engagements
Except Last
Group of 16 Students
Selected by Horner
W omen’s Debate Teams
Not Yet Determined
SELECTIONS for all men's var
^ sity debate teams have been
made and the definite schedule for
debates settled. The date of the
last debate, with Arizona univer
sity, is the only one in which the
date has not been decided. The
schedule for the women’s debates
has not yet been made out, accord
ing to .T. K. Horner, debate coach.
Oregon debates the University of
Washington at Seattle, March 31,
on the question: Resolved that
democracy is a failure. Benoit Mc
■Croskev, junior, and Ronald Mc
Creight, sophomore, are Oregon’s
representatives and have the nega
tive of the question.
On the same day at Eugene, Ore
gon debates the University of Ida
ho on the affirmative of the democ
racy question. Mark Taylor, junior,
and Avery Thompson, sophomore,
uphold Oregon, with Ronald Robi
nette, junior, as alternate.
Utah to Be Met
In Salt Lake City, on March 4,
the University team debates the
University of Utah. Benoit MeCros
key, junior, and Donald Beelar,
junior, take the negative of the
democracy question.
A contest with the University of
Montana is scheduled at Portland
March 2 on the negative of the
question: Resolved that the 18th
Amendment should be modified to
allow the sale of light wines and
beers. The debaters representing
Oregon at Portland are Dudley
Clark, senior, and Jack Hempstead,
junior. Melvin Oolin, sophomore,
has been named as alternate for
these two.
In Eugene, on April 5, Oregon
meets the University of Southern
California. Joe McKcown, sopho
more, and Beryl Ludjngton, sen
ior, represent Oregon in the af
firmative of the prohibition ques
tion. Roy Herndon, sophomore, is
alternate.
Final Date Pends
3 he date for the last debate with
Arizona is unsettled. Oregon de
bates the University of Arizona in
Eugene on the negative of the pro
hibition question. Roland Davis,
junior, and Walter Durgan, junior,
aie the debaters, with Ellsworth
Plank, sophomore, as alternate.
In addition to these debates with
Washington, Idaho, Utah, Montana,
Southern California, and Arizona,
Oregon will enter the National Con
stitutional contest, t0 be held in
Los Angeles, the Tri-state contest
to be held in Seattle, and the State
Peace contest, to be held in Salem.
Spring Football Men
Asked to Draw Suits
A call has been issued by Captain
John J. McEwan, head football
coach, for a big turnout to the
spring football practice which of
ficially opens today.
All the men who are interested
are requested to report to the gym
nasium between the hours of 1:00
and 3:30 to obtain their outfits.
The practice will start at 4:00
o ’clock sharp.
Neiv Students Asked
For Eugene Address
New students who registered at
the University this term and did
not give their Eugene addresses are
requested to notify the registrar
immediately.
This information is essential as
numerous calls for these students
have already been received at the
office.
Ankle Injury Causes
Dean Esterly9 s Illness
Virginia Judy Esterly, dean of
women, was not in her office yes
terday, due to illness partially
brought on by a sprained ankle.
Mrs. Esterly injured her ankle last
week, but did not give up her duties
during the high school conference.
Fatigue brought on a slight relapse.
Trapped Girl Freed
In Time for Class
HELP!
Frantic cries heard in the
women’s gymnasium, and not
from the swimming pool either,
brought [another , co-ed to the
rescue. The distressed one was
found locked in her dressing
room with terrorizing fears of
being late for class. She had
straggled safely through a swim
ming class without the need of
a lifeguard, but when she swung
the door of her locker shut, the
lock had swung also and caught
so that it was impossible to open
it from the inside.
All’s well, though, she was
rescued in time for elass.
Medieval Castle
To Form Setting
For Frosli Glee
Preparations for Annual
Dance Progressing
With Speed
“Everything is set for the Frosh
Glee next Saturday night at 9:00,”
says Art Rogers, chairman of the
affair, which will take place in the
Woman's building. “This dance will
be one of the most picturesque ever
held on the ca'mpus,” Rogers pre
dicts.
Arrangements have been made
to start the Orcgon-Idaho basketball
game, scheduled for the same night,
promptly at 7 o'clock, in order to
givo thoso attending plenty of time
to get ready for the dance after
wards.
The report published in a pr<*
vious issue that the- motif of the
dance would be colonial was erron
eous, Rogers says. The Woman’s
building will bo transformed into
the festival hall of a medieval
castle. Stone archways and colon
nades will make tho danco different
from anything seen here before.
The orchestra will bo costumed in
tho style of the Middle Ages.
Walter Crane, decoration chair
man and art major, and several
other freshmen have beon working
on tho decorations.
Agness Ferris, chairman of the
patrons committee, states that the
patrons and patronesses attending
will include Governor and Mrs. Pat
torson. Bert Stevens, floor chair
man, states that he has the floor of
the Woman’s building in excellent
condition. •
Lost A. S. U. O. Tickets
Duplicated for $1.00
Duplicate student body tickets
will be issued only upon the ap
proval of the finance committee and
the deposit of one dollar, according
to a resolution passed |by the ex
ecutive council at a regular meet
ing yesterday.
The student bodies of the Eugene
and University high schools will be
permitted to use the McArthur
Court for their athletic events al
a cost of 20 per cent of the ticket
receipts, not to exceed tho expense
of opening the pavilion, the council
decided.
Assembly Will
Feature Music
Bill by Mu Phi
Piano, Violin, Cello, and
Vocal Numbers Will
Be Presented
Classical Pieces Listed
On Honorary Program
Group to Broadcast Over
Radio, Jan. 27
Uinivjiib.oj.ti siuaenis ana iawu
ty will have their first oppor
tunity this year to hear a musical
program presented by Mu Phi Ep
silon, women’s music honorary, at
the regular student body assembly
this morning at 11 o’clock. '*
The numbers to be featured at the
hour program are unusually well
selected, consisting of vocal solos,
piano, violin, and eello numbers and
a trio.
The group will be very active
this term in sponsoring several con
certs of a similar nature, accord
ing to Adelaide Johnson, chairman
of the Mu Phi Epsilon concert com
mittee. The first is scheduled for
January *27, when a radio concert
will be given; and on February 2.
John Stark Evans will be featured
as accompanist of the Rex Under
wood string quartet.
At the assembly this morning,
Olga Jackson will play two piano
solos, “Lento” by Cyril Scott and
“Tho Crapshooter's Dance” by East
wood Lane.
Clare Whittop, Leota Biggs, and
Harriett Ross, composing a voea
trio, will sing “Allah’s Holiday,"
“The Land of the Sky Blue Water,”
and “The World is Waiting for the
Sunrise.” Mary Clark will accom
pany them.
Nina Warnock, accompanied by
■ Reta Warnock, will play two violin
! solos, Chanson Arabe” by Rimsky
|Korsokoff-Kreisler, and “Hjne Kote”
by Hubay.
Adelaide Johnson will sing ,
“Moonlight,” by Robert Schumann,
accompanied by Lois Everson.
Miriam Little, celloist, accom
panied by Aurora Potter Under
wood, will play Mendelsson’s “On
Wings of Song,” and “Village
Song,” by Popper.
The program will be concluded
with a vocal trio number, “The Tri
I angle Song,” which is the offietal
Mu Phi Epsilon fraternity song.
Princeton Students9
Reading Increases
Student reading at Princeton is
on the increase, according to an
article published in this month's
“Publisher's Weekly." The article
affirms that the average undergrad
uate of Princeton university is buy
ing ten books today where a decade
ago he bought one. The statistics
for the article were procured from
the records of Princeton bookstores
and the university library.
In spite of this increased purchase
of books, the university library re
ports a circulation of 142,000, near
ly treble the circulation of ten years
ago.
Mr. Young, the librarian, says
about 10 per cent of the students
read seriously and continually about
t two books a week over the required
j reading matter. Forty per cent read
| an average of one every two weeks,,
and 50 per cent read sporadically,
although a creditable amount.
Schroff Exhibition Shows Fullness
Of Life And Masterful Technique
Landscapes and Marines Suggest New and Richer
Development in Work of Artist
The scene is a deep ravine thickly
covered by trees and deep under
growth hazy in the warm light of
a California summer afternoon. A
blue haze hovers over the trees
which seem to quiver in their rich
ness and fullness of life. Professor
A. A. Sehroff tells in each of his
37 canvases and watercolors a story
complete, touching, pleasing and re
vealing.
The one just described is no love
lier than any of the others, in fact,
it is difficult to pick out any and
say it is better for in his recent
work Professor Sehroff has done
work which, to those who are some
what familiar with his previous
work, is deemed better than any
done for many years. The truth of
this is easy to understand when one
sees for himself, for in every pic
ture there is a noticeable freshness,
a happier feeling, a suggestion that
the artist was perhaps in better
condition physically and mentally
than he was previously.
The exhibition consists of land
scapes and marines. It is impossible
to give even a partially just descrip
tion of the works hung. No one can
describe the subtle charm of a.
Schroff landscape nor the strong,
masterful, almost uncannily perfect
portrayal of his glimpses of the etd
Pacific. They must be seen to be
appreciated and once they are seen
they are always appreciated.
The University is fortunate in
having this exhibition of his work
and students and townspeople are
urged to take advantage of thia
opportunity to see some truly ex
quisite landscapes und gripping;
marines.