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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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