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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1927)
f Oregon Will Meet Capitol Boys Tonight Willamette Players Rate Highest in Northwest Conference Schedule Lists Five Games to be Played i Varsity Team Will Play Montana Saturday The Probable Line-up: Oregon Gunther Ridings Okerberg Milligan Westergren f f c g g Willamette Hauk Litchfield Hartley Ashby Ledbetter BILLY REINHART, Oregon bas- ; ketball coach, will start his first , string against the Willamette Bear- j Billy Reinhart eats tomgnt anti give the Capitol Dity fans a chance to see the Oregon varsity in action. This will be the \ third time that the teams have j met this season. ! Willamette opened the home season for the Webfoot : squad here Janu- I ary 15 and 16, i Oregon t a kin g| both games by a wide margin. The first ending 38 to 10, and the second 43 to 14. The Willamette Casaba men have been playing a better brand of ball since their (previous Agamies with Orelgon. They have defeated Pjiei fie, Whitman, and other schools of j the Northwest Conference and now ] top the percentage column of that : loop. Hartley Good Man The Bearcats have a good pivot j man in Hartley, who has been play- j ing on the squad for the past three seasons. He was high “point man for the visitors when they played the Oregon team in McArthur court, and he works well with his team mate Ashby at guard. The Oregon varsity has had only j two days rest from its strenuous road trip and the Webfoot bench men will probably have a chance to show their stuff before the ev§ning j is over. Keith Emmons, forward on last year’s frosh team, has been inelig ible until recently, and hasn’t had j a chance to work into the Oregon j style of play to any great extent, j He was used, however, during part j of the Gonzaga tilt last week and played a good offensive game, chalk ing up seven markers. The game to night might be an ideal time to give him another opportunity to prove his ability. Reserves Sought Last season a shortage of reserve strength handicapped the Webfoot ( basketeers when they met the Cali- ; fornia Bears for the conference title, J and Coach Billy Reinhart does not | intend to be caught in that predic- j ament again. The Oregon boys have five con- | ferenee games left on their sehed- j ule, all of which will be played on the home floor except the tilt at | Corvallis. Saturday night the Uni versity of Montana five meets the j Oregon quintet in McArthur court. Oregon Honors System Fails To Provide Student Freedom Need for Separation From General Routine Organization Declared Funda mental. Summary of Honors Plans Now Operating in Other Institutions Given What does the student want? Not pampering, not license; but appro priate freedom. What is freedom— proper, positive freedom? It is not permission to choose your particular shackles. It is to exercise without interference your own sufficiencies. It is the right to exercise self-dis cipline. What kind of freedom does our present educative system grant the student? Only the right to more mental voracity; to mire himself deeper than the system itself de mands. This do they counsel who tell us, You are free to take more and ever more courses. “What do you fume and fret and prate?” demands another, “have we not here an honors system ready and operating for him who seeks? True, we do not, we cannot, so pnor we are, provide you with such attention as the physical department with its ‘honors’ faculty and ‘tutors’ gives its superior student; but we suffer you to work independently without other limit than your own capacity. Only, of course, the system must be satisfied first.” Aye, and there’s the rub. What is this honor system that we now have? In effect, it bids you: Be a good docile pupil in the regular way, and you can be a student between times, during your leisure—Sunday afternoons, say. Is that enough? This committee thinks not. The student, it believes, wantso to be a student in the course of his regular work; not between jumps **n the pupil treadmill. The Oregon Honor System The system, of honors now suryiv-, inig in this University came into ex istence in 1912. Its institution was the result of a feeling on the part of a number of faculty members that some measure should be taken to adequately care for the excep tional student. The original plan was in this manner: Any student sufficiently interested in any one or more subjects to do extra work, should, if his record bespoke un usual ability, be allowed to register as an honors candidate. The intent of the plan was to rescue the student from the rou tined, low-gauge educational ma chine which grinds out the mass. What has really happened, however, is this: Instead of achieving a sep arate adjustment within the sys tem—-an adjustment which would serve the student and relieve him from machine in whole—it merely devised a whirligig to beguile the student while insisting that he con tinue to muddle through the old jumble. It was a mistake because it tried to harness the student to two systems at once. The honors plan was derived from the European and British universities; the old organ, to which it was grafted, was the established pupil, high school, sys tem. Any makeshift honor scheme which requires continued subjection to the pupil machinery necessarily defeats its purpose. The first re quirement of a successful honors plan is freedom for the student. In its early years the Oregon sys tem, it is said, did achieve this freedom for its students. During the first year of its operation twenty five undergraduates ■ enrolled and were granted honors. The necessary freedom was obtained, however, by circumvention of the writ. It de pended upon the co-operation *of sympathetic professors. It was nec essary that the latter should suffer the student in some nneasure to make compliance with the old for malities, such as class enrollment and attendance, only nominal. This, it seems, was at first done. With in creased general enrollment such as has marked the last decade of the University’s history, however, the l fundamental weakness of the essen tially grotesque dualism asserted it- , self. Insistence upon strict conform ity to the letter demands of the pupil system has reduced the make shift “honors” plan in Oregon to the innocuous monstrosity which it now is. Under its yoke the student is as free for action as a Siamese twin. The actual desuetude into which it has fallen is evidenced by the fact that for each of the last three years only four students have submitted themselves to its disrupting opera tion. If the ratio of honor students to total enrollment had been main tained through the years there would be this year seventy-five candidates instead of the five who are now striving for an honors education be tween “goose-steps.” Honor Systems In Other Colleges From what has been said in re spect to the present “honors” sys tem it follows that this committee believes that the first condition of any practical honors scheme is gen uine and formal separation of its essential workings from the system at large. The two systems are in nature separate, and not co-exten sive. Positive recognition of this fact is prerequisite to its operation. Advocacy of the adoption of some plan achieving, first, a division of registrants; and, second, separate adjustments for their respective ed ucation is of course not original with this group. It is well known (Continued on pane four) More Reports Of Departments j Are Submitted j Inadequate Facilities and Teaching Shortage Emphasized Despite the fact that the Univer® sity library made a net gain of 14,789 books during 1926, a list of the most needed books and period icals and some binding ivork calls for a sum of $19,000, which should have been spent in the past, de clares this department’s annual re- j port just submitted to President Hall. The report stresses the fact of shortage of storing space, and points out that the University Press and other departments have been called upon to help the library out of its ever increasing number of dif ficulties. Less than nine per cent of the total number of enrolled ; students can be accommodated by the present seating capacity of the building. The extent of tardiness 'of stu dents in returning the books may be (Continued on page two) Feministic Traits Shine Through Rostrum Calm of Co-ed Debaters — ‘Women Are Funny,' Coach Reflects; Cites as Evidence i Whims of the Members of Squad Women are funny. The proverbial “sweetest sentiment in the world” needs only three words for expres sion. So, too, this truth which, it is safe to say, is the next oldest thing in the world may be stated in three cold, barren words—women are fun ny. We have another proof of it, to add to countless instances. It is this. The University of Oregon has a women’s debate team. It has a men’s debate team, also, and, you will remember, the complete sched ule for the men debaters was pub lished long ago. But, and here lies the agonizing proof—the women’s schedule has just been arranged. Why? Why, because women are funny. Every girl wants to go to Seattle to debate against Washington, and every girl wants to stay here and debate the question, “Besolved, that fraternities and sororities should be j abolished.” Every one wants t« . work on the same team with some- j one else and everyone flatly refuses to work with someone else. Five out of eight women varsity debaters ap proached the coach in somewhat this fashion: “I simply can’t de bate with (but we won’t mention names) and I simply won’t; I don’t know why, but we jnst don’t get along—” and more of the same. On the other hand, and all this goes to prove that men are models of per fection, not one of fifteen men, to debate in six contests, made any protest whatever. But it is all right at last, every one is happy and satisfied, and the anxiously-awaited schedule practic ally settled and published in the Emerald—but just the same, women have been, are, and always will be— ! funny. Dime Crawl Thursday; Money for Foreign Scholarship Fund j The second Dime Crawl of the : college year is to be given tomor row “eveninlg from 6:30 to 7:30, spon sored by Women’s League for the purpose of raising money for the Women’s League Scholarship fund. At present, there is no foreign schol ar on the campus but plans are now being made to bring one here next fall. Sororities ajid living organiza tions hold open house on this occa sion and men may dance as long as they like at one. place for a dime. The success of the Crawl depends upon the way the masculine ele ment on the campus respond, so the committee in charge asks that th<f men give their ,best co-operation and support. Organizations that will not en tertain at their own houses are Del ta Delta Delta who will be at the Campa Shoppe, Alpha Delta Pi at Phi Kappa Psi, and Delta Zeta at the College Side Inn. Psychology Students Find Cold Makes Hot Do you believe your eyes? Not always? But you rlo believe your sense of feeling, do you not ? But | would your best friend remain so if he should tell you, that, under certain conditions, the addition of cold water would make you hot- j ter, the colder the Water the more ! tingling the sensation? That is just what the psy-: chology students have been prov-: ing fo rthemselves in the , Cutol- | lo-grill experiment. They accomp lish the result by placing two tubes, one with water about 36 degrees F. and another with cold water, a cer tain distance apart on your wrist. . Prof. Rainey on Tour Of Eastern Oregon Homer P. Rainey, professor of education, is on a lecture trip in Eastern Oregon this week. Professor Rainey is addressing ■groups of teachers and also high school assemblies in Ontario, Baker, La Grande, Pendleton, and The Dalles. Technical subjects such as school finances are the topics of his talks before the teachers. He is ex pected back the end of the week. 1 I New Course Is ! To be Required Of Pre-Medics Unified Mathematics Will Supplant Shorter One in Use A four-hour course iu unified ma thematics for prc,~medic majors will be given by the department of ma thematics beginning next fall, ac cording fo an announcement made yesterday by Prof. E. E. DeCou, head of the department. The course was requested by Dr. A. R. Moore, head of the depart ment of zoology, and will be re quired of all majors in his depart ment commencing with next year’s freshmen. The course will include advanced algebra, trigonometry, analytic ge ometry, and introduction to differ ential and integral calculus. It will supplant the two-hour course in problem analysis given this year for preumedic students by Prof. E. H. McAlister, head of the depart ment of mechanics and astronomy. ! Problem analysis was offered as a i temporary expedient and has prov i en inadequate to care for the needs | of the students, said Prof. DeCou, \ as it does not cover enough ground. With the development of medicine as a more and more exact science, there has arisen a greater need for ; an understanding of physics and I chemistry on the part of medical ■ students, as well as of biology and (Continued on page two) McCornack Funeral Services Held Monday Funeral services for Robert J. Mc Cornack of Eugene, who died at | Pacific Christian hospital Friday i evening, were held at the Veatch j chapel Monday afternoon. MeCor j naek was 19 years of age and a sophomore in business administra tion at the University. He wag declared by his instructors to be capable and keen-minded and one of the most promising and able students of Spanish on the campus. He was a member of Sigma Delta Pi, national Spanish honor society. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. McCornack, and i two sisters, Gladys, a senior in the 1 University, and Ruth. Pro Football To Stay, Says Oregon Grad Dick Reed Defends Sport After Experience on Wilson’s Team Officials and Papers Hinder, He Believes 1924 Varsity Captain Plays Season By DICK SYRING AFTER playing throe years of college football as a member of the Oregon varsity and one sea son as a professional gridster, Dick' Reed, who captained the 1924 varsity and who recently re turned to his home in Eugene, is under the impression that profes sional football is no rougher than the college brand. If anything, Reed thinks the professional game is more refined because each participant is an experienced player. Reed, tackle and end, has been playing with George Wilson's West ern Wildcats which recently dis banded in San Francisco after de feating Brick Muller’s team 17 to (i in an all professional elimination tournament. The recent disbanding of the team marked the successful end of the Wildcats’ first season. The team has been in California since Christmas time. “Pro Game to Stay’’ When asked whether he thought professional football was here to stay Reed replied, “I think profes sional football is here to stay. This was clearly shown through the past season, which drew big crowds. The old idea that professional foot ball would hurt college ball has been disapproved because there are so many large cities which haven’t a chance to see college football. The professional game 'makes it pos sible for them to enjoy the sport. “Professional football is chang ing each year. Promoters have found that the crowds want sensational stuff. They are demanding clever plays, sensational open field run ning and a deceptive aerial game. Next year professional football will play to the grandstands more than ever. Time will be spent in develop ing offenses that will bring the crowds to their feet. Officials Hinder Oame. “Perhaps the biggest hindrances to the professional game today are officials and newspapers. The offi cials are generally of a mediocre type and do not watch the close points. Penalties are made but nev er because of some slight infraction of the rules. The newspapers are still very conservative with the amount of space offered to the pro fessional game. They are still more or less prejudiced in thinking that it will hurt the college game. In California, recently, we got consid (Continued on page two) Underwood Quartette Presented Tonight By Musical Honorary The Mu Phi Epsilon concert which features the Underwood String Quartette will be held tonight at 8:l."i o’clock in the music auditor ium. Due to an error, yesterday’s Emerald announced the event for last night. This concert is the second of a series given by the musical honor ary. A variety of selections have been chosen for this evening’s pro gram and each is well suited to the stringed instruments. Probably the most pleasing selec tions played wiH be “Sally in Our Alley’’ and “Cherry Ripe,’’ both old English songs that will be ren dered first in their original com positions and then in the spirit and form which the “modernist” in music would impart, i The quartette consists of: Rex Underwood, director of the Univer sity orchestra, first violin; Delbert Moore, second violin; Buford Roach, viola; and Miriam Little, violin-cel lo. John Stark Evans will assist them at the piano. The entire program is as follows: Quartetto—Rubin Goldnuark. Sally in Our Alley and Cherry Ripe—old English songs. Lente “Music of the Spheres”— Ruvenstein. Allegro Grazioso—Gretry. Quaretto Op. 76 Op. 5, Largo, Fin ale Presto—Haydn. Quartetto F Major Op. 96, Allegro, Lente, Vivace—Dvorak. Krazy Krawl Keen, Kroiv Kam pus Kriers One feature may be enough for some dances but not so for the Krazy Kopy Krawl! Jack Pres ton is getting right there in a klever manner, which to date has not acquired a title, and Kalvin Horn and Si Slocum will make their appearance in “Krazy Kracks,” a vaudeville skit, sched uled to brake all records for amusement Friday night. And then, the kampus will have an opportunity to see the adver tising fraternity demonstrate its entertaining ability in the skit, “Have a Kamel,” which will be the principal feature of the eve ning. Tickets may be purchased at the various men’s living organiza tions all today; after today they will be on sale only at the Kampa Shoppe. Frosh Debaters To Meet Normal, Whitman Teams Women’s Team to Debate University of Utah In Eugene Two freshmen men’s debates have been arranged, with Ashland normal school and with Whitman college, to be held here in Eugene. The ques tion for debate with Ashland nor mal is that of the parliamentary form of government; with Whitman college the question of the estab lishment of a uniform criminal code and a form of procedure in the United States. The teams will be se lected Saturday morning, but the dates of the debates are unsettled. Women’s debate .plans are almost complete. J. K. Horner, debate coach, said: “Due to the fact that, no appro priations have been made for wo men 's debates it has been hard to negotiate them here at Eugene. Al so, since O. A. C. and Eugene Bible University are not available, the problem has been made doubly dif ficult. ’ ’ This year’s schedule of women’s debates is very satisfactory and is the best Oregon has had for some time. The University of Oregon’s wo men ’s varsity debate team meets the University of Utah here in Eugene March 7. Cecil McKercher, senior, and Marion Leach, sophomore, will represent Oregon on the negative of the question, Resolved: that fra ternities and sororities should be abolished from university campuses. On April 7, in the tri-state con tests, in which are involved Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, the wom en ’s varsity debate team will meet the University of Washington at Seattle. Frances Cherry, junior, and Margaret Blackaby, senior, will up hold the negative of the question, Resolved, that we should establish a federal department of education with a secretary in the president’s cabinet. On the same night, here in Eu gene, Oregon will take the affirma tive of this question against the University of Idaho. Pauline Win chell, sophomore, is one member of the team; the other debater has not yet been selected. Plans Shaped, Work to Start On Senior Ball Annual Class Dance to be Featured by Modern Spirit, Setting List of Chairmen and Committees Made Out Limited Ticket Sale Win Restrict Crowd ITII the appointment of alt ** committees to handle the va rious phases of the Senior Ball and a specific decorative scheme for the dance worked out, actual work has started on preparation for the event. At a meeting of the directorate yes terday noon a regular plan of pro ceedure was outlined by "Doc’’ Wrightman, general chairman, and reports were given’ by the various committee chairmen. Modern Touch in Decorations As for the predominating idea of the affair, Wrightman would only sav that instead of going back to other ages and countries for inspira tion the main idea this year is to give the campus something up to date and wholly modern in spirit as well as in setting. Details con cerning the decorative scheme re main in the dark since Rolf Kipp, decoration committee chairman, thinks the campus will react to it better. What the entire directorate is most interested in now and most anxious to get over to the entire sen ior class is the idea that the class as a whole is responsible for the snccess of the dance and their as sistance will be in great demand as soon as the work starts. Senior representatives in each house are urged to offer their assistance ra ther than wait till it is solicited. Committee List Made Oat ! The list of committees and mem bers as drawn up yesterday are: decorations, Rolf Klcp, chairman: members: Edith Shell, Cecile Mc Korcher, Maurice Johnston, Georgia Davidson, Katherine Graef, Camille Burton, Katherine Short, Glenna Fisher, Anne Wentworth, Helen Davidson, Margaret Pepoon, Adeline Zurcher, Margaret Acherman, Kath erino Sehnell, Louis Dammasch, Lowell Hoblitt, Berwyn Ma.ple, Har old Brumfield, Robert Boggs, Dnd Clark, Roland Stearns, Dave Adolph and Joe Price. Patrons and patronesses: Esther Setters, chairman; members: Lucille Pearson and May Agile Barr. Refreshments: Dot Ward, chair man; members: Billy Shields, Anne Runes, Mary Louise Wiseearver, and Robert Hunt. Tickets and invitations: Don Jef fries, chairman; members: Elton Schroeder, and Orville Blair. Construction: William Kidwell, chairman, members: Leland Shaw. Cliff Powers, John Wiedermeyer, Kirk Bollig r, and Ken Ileisler. Feature: Howard Osvald, chair man, members: Ha/.elmary Price. (Continued on page three) Faculty Shows Critical Interest In Work of Undergraduate Committee Investigation Regarded as Necessary Factor in Attempts^ To Reshape Intellectual Life of University Keen and critical interest in the work of the independent undergrad uate committee which is analyzing the University’s educational system and recommending changes, is evinced by members of the faculty as shown in interviews with Emer ald reporters. “Of course I am in favor of the investigation,” said Dr. George Re bec, dean of the graduate school. “It is not only a useful but an in dispensible factor in any attempt to remake and lift the intellectual life of the University. I do not view the attempt of this student body as one to secure a reform merely of some of the machinery of the Uni versity, but an attempt to secure an organization of the University pro cedures in a pretty essential way, and above all, to help bring about a new morale among our university students. The hope, I am sure, is to get not a small remnant, but a larlge fraction of the student body to look towards new goals and seek both larger opportunities and re sponsibilities, while even the indif ferent and backward fraction will be given an inkling of new ideals, and be put on the defensive both with themselves and before the world—a state of affairs which I need scarcely say does not now ex ist.” “I consider it a very hdpefnl sign to see the students exhibiting enough interest in their education to find out how it is done. It should prove very stimulating to the entire student body to face these issues,” stated Dr. Homer P. Rainey, profes sor of education. “It’s a step in the right direc tion,” declared Dr. A. R. Moore, head of the department of zoolqgy. “But they ought not to stop at just making a report.” “This plan of the committee may do something to make scholarship considered less of a social blander on the campus,” was the comment of S. Stephenson Smith, assistant professor of Enlglish. “The committee seems to be con centrating on values in University education, rather than trying to ar (Continued on page three)