Gertrude Tolle
Writes of Life
In Canton, China
Oregon Graduate Teaches
General Sciences in
Christian College
Something of the life of an Am
erican teacher in China during the
revolutionary period is told in a
letter recently received from Ger
trude Tolle, ’23, by Professor E. E.
DeCou, head of the mathematics
department.
Miss Tolle has spent three years
teaching general sciences at the
Canton Christian college, Canton,
China. During that time, she has
had a number of interesting ex
periences in connection -with her
work.
Canton has been the center of
most of the revolutionary disturb
ances in China. In her letter, Miss
Tolle told of how the teachers at
the college were forced to flee to
Hong Kong and British protection
when warfare threatened the safety
of the foreigners in Canton. Many
of the teachers, Miss Tolle among
them, continued on to Manila and
spent the summer there.
Last summer was spent in Japan.
While there, she climbed Mt. Fuji
yama in company with an English
teacher.
The organization of trades unions
among the Chinese' working classes
gave rise to an amusing incident.
Even the household servants, ac
cording to Miss Tolle, have joined
the unions. Those who were en
gaged about the college took it into
their heads to go on a strike and
did so.
The strikers not only refused to
serve or prepare food in the homes
and eating commons at the college,
but they would not permit food to
be brought to the students. As a
result, the faculty had to endeavor
to feed the students out of such
slender stocks of foodstuffs as they
1 had on hand in their houses.
After the stri&e had been in
progress for a week, word came from
the union headquarters that the local
strike was unauthorized and that
the strikers must return to work.
The servants, said the Oregon grad
uate, were very loath to resume
work under compulsion without hav
ing gained some concession from
their employers. They finally ar
ranged that the school authorities
should set off a large number of
firecrackers when the servants re
turned to their jobs.
In her letter, Miss Tolle said
that she expecta to be back in the
United States soon, probably leav
ing China this month. She plans to
resume teaching in the high schools
of Oregon.
Basketball
(Continued from page one)
player capable of getting his share
of the counters. At center is Erick
son. Canine at guard -was high point
man for the Vandals with four field
goals and two free throws against
Washington. Jacoby and Canine
are the regular guards.
Probably the brightest light of the
Vandal quintet is Johnny Miles,
forward. He led his team in scor
ing last year and for his all-round
ability received honorable mention
on the all-coast team. The Vandals
have capable substitutes in Green,
Judevine and Dawald.
It will be a great game with two
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llth and Alder
of the contenders for the champion
ship trying to out-hustle each oth
er. Idaho will have its veteran team
and Oregon will be very much in
evidence with its three veterans,
Okey, Swede and Jerry. Ridings is
once more in a suit and g6ing great
and Scotty Milligan is readv for
his first conference garute.
Four more games have been slated
for the Webfoots. Gonzaga will be
met in Spokane, January 26. Mult
nomah club will be met in Portland,
February 12, and a return tilt will
be put on in the Oregon gymnasium,
February 16. The Willamette Bear
cats will be met in Salem, Febru
ary 2. Ten regular conference games
complete Oregon’s 1927 hoop sched
ule.
Basketball Schedule
Changes Give Girls
More Practice Time
Another change has been made in
the schedule for girl’s basketball
practice, which lengthens the per
iods. This plan was favored by most
of the girls turning out, as one 35
minute period was not long enough.
The schedule as it now stands is:
Freshmen: Monday, none; Tues
day, 4:05 to 5:15; Wednesday, none;
Thursday, 4:40 to 5:50; Friday,
none.
Sophomore: Monday, 4:40 to 5:50;
Tuesday, none; Wednesday, 4:40 to
5:50; Thursday, none; Friday, none.
Junior-Semior: Monday, 'none;
Tuesday, 5:15 to 5:50; Wednesday,
none; Thursday, none; Friday, 4:40
to 5:50.
There will be a special period
on Thursday from 4:05 to 4:40 for
the forwards only of all classes.
Besides these practices, which are
held in the inside gymnasium, there
will ibe scrub practices in the out
door gym practically every hour,
so that if any girl misses a prac
tice, she can make it up there. This
new schedule does not affect the
requirement of three practices a
week.
Girls who have had their heart
O. K.’s but have not turned them
in to Miss Shelley, do so at once,
as they cannot 'go on playing until
this requirement is complied with.
Day
(Continued from page one)
tion of good teacher, one who has
done and is doing first class scien
tific research in economics, and an
administrator of unusual capacity
as shown during the period he
served as chairman of the depart
ment of economics at Harvard and
since as dean of the school of busi
ness administration at the Univer
sity of Michigan.”
While on the campus Dr. Day will
address a special meeting of the
Social Science club Friday night
and a group of graduate students
and faculty members Saturday
night. Both meetings will be held
at the Anchorage. A trip up the
McKenzie highway is being planned
Saturday to entertain him during
his stay here.
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An American Tragedy
By THEODORE DREISER
The inclination arises occasional
ly to put aside the pursuit of truth
and to join with the dear, good
people who say that there is so
much that is unpleasant in the
world, why write about it.
Theodore Dreiser’s latest, and
possibly most important book, is
thoroughly unpleasant, made so by
the subject matter, underscored by
a method of pursuing psychological
minutiae until it entangles the read
er like a delirious obsession. No
smallest turn of event, no most sub
sidiary character^but is hunted and
struck down by the lumbering fore
paw of this literary dinosaur. The
fact that the plot is conceived with
undeviating unity only serves to
enhance the effect; and the circuit
ous tracery of event, in which a be
wildering number of side paths re
turn always to the weary main road,
creates a sense of a wild flight
where escape in a new direction
brings one ever back to the same
nightmare spot. There is no beauty
unless it be that of hard, undecorat
ed veracity; no charm unless it is
in the rough-spun textile. Clyde
Griffiths was as surely born to dis
aster as though lie had been the
child of some tainted house of clas
sic. tragedy whose father’s sins
should be visited upon him by the
revengeful gods. Fate is the mov
ing force—the fate of heredity and
circumstance.
Pliable, desirous, unintelligent,
and unskilled*, the pale figure of
the protagonist is subjected to two
volumes of elaborate scrutiny. He
is introduced as the uneasy assistant
at a religious service held by his
family who conduct a gospel ses
sion for a livelihood. The atmos
phere of ineffectual and fanatical
sincerity fosters in him a blind re
sponse to instinct, which, in be
wildered unenlightenment, turns
from reality to sensual satisfaction.
Little as the boy responds to reviv
alism, the same elements compose
his flawed spirit which compose the
dim and wavering 'spirit of the
preacher, his father.
Through a series of jobs Clyde es
capes the cramped drabness of his
home and rises to a position in a
pretentious city hotel where he is
initiated into the vicious sophistica
tions which pass for pleasures. In
experience and inherent timidity in
hibit his participation, but do not
lessen the effects upon his repressed
licentiousness. He is unable to
dally with sex as do his companions,
and involves himself with one girl
who plays upon his easy devotion.
This phase ends in a disastrous auto
mobile wreck, the consequences of
which Clyde escapes by running
away. After a period of conceal
ment he is transported through the
assistance of an uncle, a prosperous
manufacturer, to a position in his
factory. In the small city he is
stimulated by intermittent glimpses
of the smug social group to which
his uncle’s family belongs; and his
desire to become important fires his
senses so that he enters upon an
affair with Roberta Allen, a factorv
girl. With single-minded persistence
he urges her yielding to him. Short
ly afterwards, chance inducts him
into the fringe of the town’s young
social set where he is singled out
for his appealing weakness by Son
dra, a vain, passionate woman of
the group. Sondra is a figure of all
that is desirable to him. The sud
den knowledge of the pregnancy of
Roberta, in whom his interest has
waned, enters as a menacing factor
to the attainment of that desire.
Unable to be either resourceful or
1 cruel, he delays satisfaction of Rob
erta’s claims until she threatens
exposure. Fired by his infatuation
for Sondra, and his fear, he turns
to the logical solution of ridding
himself of Roberta. His distorted
and ill-planned scheme of murder
ing her by drowning is again, as
always, with him, directed by cir
cumstance and not by intelligence.
Ilis crime and its discovery, the
trial, and sentence to electroci^ion
are elaborately analyzed. In the
death house Clyde completes the
cycle of sensual surrender by under
going a violent religious, conversion.
The thin substance of his nature is
ignited to a final burst of fervor;
and at the last his ^pallid figure
passes without volition and without
comprehension to extinction.
It is perhaps an American tragedy
as Dreiser indicates; possibly the
current of American life moves in
such channels as to carry a flotsam
will to just such an end. But the
American aspect does not seem im
portant; the character creation is
too specialized for that.
In attempting to make a general
evaluation, only a contrast of values
is achieved. Force and significance
the book must be allowed in full
measure; and distressing morbidity
as well. It is an arresting psycho
logical achievement, and it is also
an involved, ungraceful, styleless
novel. But whatever its compon
ents, these combine to produce an
ineradicable picture, the effect of
which is like the witnessing of a
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crime—one doubts neither the fact
nor the meaning of the fact. One
only wishes long after that it had
not been witnessed.
Nigger Heaven
By CARL VAN VECHTEN
Knopf
The Bright Boy of Broadway per
sonally conducts a tour of Harlem,
taking in and pointing out all
shades of God’s stepchildren in all
stages of activity, with a tabloid
teh-twenty-thirty plot thrown in.
Porgy
By DU BOSE HEYWARD
One of the race paints movinglv
and poetically several of his negro
brethren against the slumberous
background of an old Southern city.
Rudd
(Continued from page one)
eight. “McDuffer,” the comic on
the sport page of the Oregonian, is
an example of the new one column
space saving strip.
Mr. Rudd was the editor of the
Emerald when it was enlarged from
six to seven columns. He also edit
ed the Sunday Emerald, a weekly
publication w'ith a literary tone,
which has since then been discon
tinued, and was president of the
Pacific Intercollegiate Press. He
is affiliated with Sigma Delta Chi,
Friars, Hammer and Coffin and
Phi Gamma Delta.
During the past year Mr. Rudd
was able to combine business with
pleasure to the extent of making
New York in the theatrical season,
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