Cussedness
1 Feeds Crime,
Believes May
Pathological Causes and
Disease Also Build
Criminals
Trained Police Needed
To Collect Evidence
Doctors Often Unable to
Hold Post Mortems
THE need for expert handling of
evidence was stressed by Luke
S. May, Seattle criminologist, in his
lectures on the handling of crim
inal evidence, given yesterday in
Villard hall, before students of the
law school.
‘ ‘ The regrettable fact is that we
don’t have officers trained to pre
serve all evidence scientifically,”
said Mr. May. ‘‘Never stop working
on a ease, for diligence, industry,
and sincerity win criminal cases.
Physical evidence is better than
that obtained from witnesses as it
can be connected up more readily.
Brain Often Diseased
‘‘Certain criminals cannot be re
formed, because their brain is par
tially destroyed toy various dis
eases. But because some of them
are diseased, do not think all of
them are,” he continued. ‘‘From
my experience most of the crim
inals have so much pure cussedness,
or desire for notoriety or a thrill,
that they think of nothing else. In
some cases there are pathological
reasons for crime. All available psy
chology should be used by lawyers
and sociologists.”
Mr. May cited the Spadoni case
as an example of a murder where
a thorough search was not made.
Cites Case
In this case the gun the murders
used was not found until three years
after the crime had been commit
ted. During a brush fire near the
scene of the crime, some boys heard
three pistol shots. This was report
ed to the police who investigated
and discovered the gun about two
hundred yards from the house. It
was old and rusted but Mr. May fi
nally got it in working order. The
breech was opened, and certain
marks were found which had been
preserved by the film of oil in it.
These corresponded with marks on
the toullets taken from the victim’s
body. The weapon was found to
have been issued to a soldier in a
Kansas regiment, who suspected a
man named Spadoni of stealing it.
Spadoni .was located in prison in
San Francisco, where he was under
sentence for attempting to poison
an Italian family. He had told this
family that he had killed a man in
Washington.
Spadoni was brought to trial and
convicted. The ease was appealed,
and the Italians who had testified
at the first trial refused to verify
their statements and even denied
them as they feared the wrath of
the Camorra, the secret society of
which Sapdoni was a member. So
the case was dismissed.
Post Mortem is Difficult
Only about one doctor out of
a hundred is capable of conducting
a post mortem examination,” said
Mr. May in his lecture Tuesday
morning. “They may be experienced
physicians but the conditions of a
post mortem are entirely different
from the usual cases.”
Investigators in their zeal to find
evidence are often like the criminal
in his commission of a crime—both
are so interested in their projects
that they overlook small details.
"The feeble minded person with
no emotions is the kind who has
to be watched, ’ ’ declared Mr. May.
“They should be taken care of for
life in some instiution, in order to
protect socfety. ”
Lawyers should learn to watch
the individual’s face and study the
reaction of witnesses under cross
examination, he concluded.
Herbarium Curator’s
Brother Passes Away
Mr. L. F. Henderson, research fel
low in botany and curator of the
herbarium, left yesterday morning
for Tillamook where he was called
by the death of his brother, John
Leland Henderson. Mr. Henderson
was to meet Lew Henderson in Ore
gon City from where the two were
to drive on to Tillamook.
The deceased was the father of
both Lew Henderson and Syd Hen
derson, former students on the cam
pus and well known in Eugene.
! University Fails Unless It Provides
For Real Scholar, Says Colloquium
Committee Would Appraise Student’s Capacity
At End of Sophomore Year
(Editor’s note: Following is the first
section of the faculty colloquium com
mittee’s report on superior students and
honor courses. Members of the committee
were: Dr. George Rebec, chairman: Dr.
J. H. Gilbert. Dr. H. D. Sheldon, Prof.
H. R. Taylor, Prof. J. A. Johnston, Dean
Eric W. Allen, Dr. E. L. Packard, Prof.
Charles E. Carpenter, Prof. H. C. Howe
and Carlton E. Spencer, secretary. The
committee’s recommendations will be
voted upon by the faculty next month.
The report will be published in three in
stallments. )
The committee recognizes that one
of the chief indictments of Amer
ican universities at present is the
prevailing practice of adjusting cur
ricula and methods of instruction
to the capacities and scholastic am
bitions of the average student. It
is not at all surprising that courses
of this kind fail to enlist the in
terest or challenge the powers of
those favored by unusual endow
: ment. The exceptional student soon
finds that his reserve powers are
seldom called into action, there is
little room for the exercise of un
usual gifts, and requirements form
ulated with reference to the average
student foster habits of indifference
and indolence which may even con
stitute a handicap in after life. Un
less the University. can supply the
student of high intelligence and
aptitude with opportunities commen
surate with his powers and a con
tinuing challenge to do his best, the
institution, in its effort to accom
modate the mass, is sacrificing its
most precious material.
The task of the committee was
two-fold. In the first place, it had
to devise ways and means for find
ing out the student of high intel
lect and ambition and segregating
these as ;a .separate group With
characteristics and an esprit de
corps of their own. It is obvious
that this process of segregation
must be well and thoroughly done.
Since the privileges extended Ito
those identified as superior students
must, in the nature of things, in
volve a relaxation of requirements
which now apply to students in gen
eral, the honor status must not be
extended to those who would regard
it as a license to loaf. The faculty
must be assured of inclination as
well as ability. There must be a
certain measure of devotion to the
scholarly ideal. The student must
be motivated by a desire to pursue
his investigation out of a sheer love
for learning and an overpowering
“pride in thoroughness.” When it
is understood that the status of
honor student carries the privilege
and the obligation of “doing more
work in his own way,” it may prove
unattractive to many students now
loud in their demands for recotgni
tion of special talent. Any program
for dealing with superior students
is based frankly on the assumption
that a considerable part of the stu
dent body would, under proper con
ditions, sincerely prefer vigorous in
tellectual activity to mediocre ac
complishment. Only on the assump
tion that the load voluntarily as
sumed bv superior students will be
increased rather than diminished
will the faculty be willing to accept
any radical departure from the pres
ent uniform requirements.
To facilitate the process of selec
i tion referred to above, the commit
tee proposes to fix the end of the
sophomore year as the point where
a definite appraisal of students’ ca
pacity record and personality should
j be made. To this end the commit
tee assumes the availability of all
data which the personnel commit
tee and the registrar’s office can
supply. A combination of high
school records with the student’s
record in lower division work, sup
plemented by all inferences that can
be drawn from mental tests and
personnel records should enable uni
versity authorities to predict with
a fair degree of certainty the stu
dent’s fitness for the honor status.
By this process the faculty as a
whole, or a council for the adminis
tration of honors would be able
to recognize students of distinction
and promise and prescribe appro
priate methods of treatment during
the remainder of their university
work. This procedure would pave
the way for sectioning on the basis
of ability in upper division courses
or the admission of specially qual
(Continued on page three)
Senior Ball Tickets
To be Called in Soon;
Few Cardboards Left
Only three days remain for the
Senior Ball ticket sale. Friday night
all tickets will be called in, so those
intending to go to the dance should
obtain their tickets at once before
they are sold out, it was urged by
the senior class last night. A few
of the 300 tickets, which were
placed on sale, remain so there is
still a chance for anyone who acts
quickly.
If there are any ,who are hesitat
ing to go to the affair because they
expec.t a large crowd, or a poor
floor or poor music the senior class
announces that there will be a lim
ited number present, the floor will
be in better shape than it has ever
been and a 10-piece orchestra will
furnish some of the best music ever
heard on the campus.
‘ ‘ Last but not least, ’ ’ says Doc
Wrightman, chairman of the ball,
“it is the only strictly formal all
campus dance given on the campus |
and for this reason alone everyone
who can, should be eager to go.’’
Sixteen Members Added
To W. A. A. This Year
The membership of the Women’s
Athletic Association has been in
creased to ninety-nine members, ac
cording to a report made last night
at the W. A. A. council meeting.
This means that there have been
sixteen members added this year.
The advisability of reinstating
hiking as a sport to count for points
in W. A. A. was discussed at the
meeting. Many girls seem interest
ed in it, and a committee is now
trying to draw up some plan where
by it will be possible to keep ac
curate count of the points earned
in this way.
In order that the new president
of W. A. A. may attend the national
convention at Cornell University,
Ithica, New York, to be held the
second week in April, elections have
to be held this term. The new of
ficers will not, however, assume
their official duties until next term.
The following nominating com
mittee was appointed: Margaret
Pepoon, chairman, Miss Florence
Alden, faculty member, Arliene But
ler, Vesta Scholl, and Myrtle Mast.
Mrs. MacDonald Tells
Of Work in Journalism
At Initiation Banquet
Glimpses of a woman engaged in
journalistic work were given by
Lucille Saunders MacDonald, form
er student at the University, and
member of Theta Sigma Phi, nation
al journalist honorary organization,
in a talk at the initiation banquet
which was held Sunday evening at
the Osburn hotel following a formal
ceremony for Wilma Lester, Bar
bara Blythe and Claudia Fletcher.
Experiences met in getting jobs,
keeping them, and in various fields
of the profession, which are open
to women were described by Mrs.
MacDonald who is now covering the
state legislature for the Oregon Vot
er. She has worked on the Portland
Oregonian and has traveled in South
America, Alaska, and Mexico get
ting material for trade journal ar
ticles and feature stories. She and
her husband plan to spend the sum
mer in Constantinople where she
will continue writing.
Formal initiation of the new mem
bers was held at the Woman’s
building just preceding the banquet.
Besides the regular members Mrs.
MacDonald, Mrs. Eric W. Allen,
and Mrs. Catherine Cogswell Thorne,
honorary members, and Mrs. Dor
othy Hesse were present. Mrs. Al
len was toast mistress for the eve
ning.
Short Story Contest
Will Close on 20th
The date for the closing of the
Edison-Marshall short story con
test for which a prize of $50 is
being offered has been set up from
the 15th to the 20th in the hope
that more manuscripts will be sub
mitted.
“The response thus far has been
very meager,” stated Professor W.
F. G. Thacher, who has charge of
the contest. Any original short story
of which two copies have been made
together with two envelopes on
which have been written the name
of the story and the author’s name
will be received any time before
the end of the week.
It is hoped that a number of stu
dents will take advantage of the
extended opportunity. The author’s
name must not appear on either copy
of the story.
Guild Plays
Will Be Ready
This Evening
Sophomore Drama Pupils
To Give Four One-act
Presentations
Tickets on Sale at
Johnson Hall Office
Work Will be Presented
Two Nights
'TT'ONIGHT and again tomorrow
night the curtain of the Guild
Theatre will be drawn back to dis
close four one-act plays in which
the sophomore players of the Guild
Theater will take part. The support
of the student body has been enlist
ed through speakers who have vis
ited the various living organiza
tions on the campus. Tickets will
be sold at the box-office in the Ad
ministration 'building until 8:30,
the time for the plays to open.
Changes Made
Many changes have been made in
the cast of characters. The cast
for “Everybody’s Husband,’’ by
Gilbert Canaan, is as follows:
A Girl . Joy Ingalls
A Maid . Bernice Via
Her Mother . Sara Beunethum
Her Great-Grandmother .
.. Frances Wardner
Her Grandmother .. Diana Deininger
A Domino . Glenn Potts
Second Play is “The Robbery
Fice characters appear in “The
Robbery, ’ ’ by Clare Kumimler. They
are:
Fielding, a butler .... Perry Douglas
Edie Upton, a daughter, .
. Helen Barnett
Robert Hamilton, a son .
... Calvin Horn
John Upton, a father, Glenn Potts
Margaret Upton, a mother .
. Elizabeth White
One is Murder Plot
“Trifles,” in which the writer,
Susan Glaspell, lets her characters
gather a “trifle here and a trifle
there” to solve a murder mystery,
is expected to be a real “taker.”
The cast is:
The Sheriff, Mr. Peters .
. Laurence Shaw
County Attorney, Mr. Henderson ....
. Elmer Grimm
Mr. Hale . Cecil Matson
Mrs. Hale . Edna Assenheimer
Mrs. Peters . Grace Gardner
The last of the four plays is “The
Trysting Place” by Booth Tarking
ton, and has the largest cast:
The Trysting Place by Booth
Ta rkington.
Mrs. Curtis, the young woman .
.. Renee Grace Nelson
Lancelot Briggs, the boy .
. Dean Condon
Mrs. Briggs, his mother .
. Helen Hembree
Jessie, his sister .... Thelma Park
Rupert Smith, the young man .
. Lynne Black
Mr. Ingoldsby, an older man ..!
. Gordon Stearns
The Mysterious Voice .
. Laurence Shaw
Appointment Bureau
Requests Registration
Of Practice Teachers
Those students who plan to do
practice teaching next year, and
who desire the services of the ap
pointment bureau connected with
the University school of education
in helping them to obtain positions,
are requested to register with that
bureau immediately.
Some appointments are already
being made for positions for next
year, and the season is close at
hand when the majority of next
year’s placements will be made. So
far two have received definent ap
pointments through the bureau, al
though calls are coming in from
various schools constantly. W. M.
Bennet, who has been doing grad
uate work in the school of educa
tion here this year, yesterday re
ceived his appointment as princi
pal of the Burns, Oregon high
school, and Mary Benson, who re
ceived her public school music cer
tificate here last year '^nd who
is now a junior in the school of
mu^ic, has accepted the position
of school music supervisor in Cot
tage Grove.
As it takes several days to com
plete a set of papers after a can
didate hag registered, students are
urged to file their registration pa
pers with the appointment bureau
at the earliest possible date in or
der that their credentials may 'be
completed and ready to send out to
prospective openings when needed.
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Scene From "Trifles '
Grace Gardner and Edna Assenheimer (seated) who appear in one
of four plays to be presented in Guild Hall for two evenings, beginning
tonight. Curtain at 8:30.
Girls Will Begin
Basketball Tilts
This Afternoon!
Games to Start at 4:45; '
Season’s Schedule
Is Listed
The girls' basketball season will
be opened today when the sopho
more second team will meet the
sophomore first, the junior second,
the junior first, and the freshman
second will meet the freshman first.
All games will begin promtply at
4:15, and Miss Shelly, coach, has
issued the warning that if the girls
want to get home in time for din
ner, it will be a good idea to be
there on time—everybody, every
game. If a girl is unable to play
she must arrange for her own sub
stitute, or notify the captain of
her team the day before the game
is to be played. That a girl did not
know the game was to be played,
will not serve as an excuse for her
absence, as all members of all teams
are expected to watch the schedule,
which is posted in the gym and will
also come out week by week in the
Emerald.
The following schedule has been
arranged:
First week: Wednesday, Feb. Id,
freshman first and second, sopho
more first and second, and junior
first and second teams. Thursday,
freshman third and fourth, sopho
more third, fourth and fifth, and
junior third. Friday, freshman first
and second, sophomore second,
fourth and fifth, junior second and
third, and senior first.
Second week: Wednesday, Fob.
23, freshman first, second and
fourth, sophomore first and second,
junior second and third, and senior
first teams. Thursday, freshman
third and fourth, sophomore second,
third and fifth, and junior first
teams. Friday, freshman second,
sophomore first, third, fourth and
fifth, junior second and third, and
senior first teams.
Third week, Monday, Feb. 28,
freshman first, second and third,
sophomore second and third, and
junior first teams. Tuesday, fresh
man third and fourth, sophomore
first, fourth and fifth, and senior
first. Wednesday, freshman second,
sophomore second and third, and
junior first and second teams.
Thusrdav, freshman first, third, and
fourth, sophomore first and fourth,
and junior third. Friday, freshman
second, sophomore second and fifth,
junior first arid third, and senior
first teams.
Fourth week: Monday, Mar. 7,
freshman third, sophomore second,
and junior second and third teams.
Tuesday, freshman third, sophomore
first and third, and junior first.
Wednesday, freshman first ajnd
second, junior second and senior
i first.
Election Announcement
Pi Sigma announces the elec
tion of:
Professor William Smith
Thelma Alley
Joanne Ackerson
Justine Ackerson.
Extension Asks
For Additional
Courses, Room
Report Just Submitted
To President Shows
Big Growth
Increased office space is asked by
the Extension Division bureau in its
annual report for 1926 just sub
mitted to the president. Recommen
dations arc also made for increase
of correspondence courses in busi
ness administration.
There is scarcely room for the
students who have completed courses
to take their final examinations,
the report points out. “After one
o’clock when both our half-time
employees and our two full-time
readers are here, the problem is a
serious one.”
Additional courses in accounting,
business English, business admin
istration, business law, investments
and banking are asked because, ac
cording to Miss Mozello Hair, di
rector of correspondence study,
there is more demand for these
courses than for those in any other
one subject.
An increase of 14.5 per cent is
shown in enrollment at the Port
land extension center over the en
rollment of 1925. Registration last
year numbered 4,514 as compared
to .‘1,941 the year previous. Regis
tration in extension classes outside
of Portland numbered 128 as against
94 for 1925. An increase of nearly
20,000 in attendance at lectures,
making a total of 76,171 present
was also shown.
The correspondence courses show
an increase in the number of courses
completed from 617 in 1925 to 786
in 1926. The number enrolled re
mained about stationary becauso of
the fifty per cent increase in fees.
A total of 1,238 students, varying
in age from 14 to 82 years of age
were enrolled in 1,673 course regis
trations. Teachers have the largest
representation in the 'enrollment,
students second, and housekeepers
and homemakers third.
Portland IScwswriting
Classes Publish Paper
The Portland Center Star, a news
paper edited by the newswriting
classes of the Portland Center, is
off the press and is being circu
lated among the students.
The Star gives the students an
opportunity to get practice while
still studying for newswriting, and
is a collection of the best work done
by the Portland Center journalism
Students.
Luke S. May to Speak
To Journalism Class
Luke 8. May, noted Seattle crim
inologist, will speak before the
editing class, in the school of jour
nalism, this morning at 10 o’clock.
He will answer questions which any
one cares to ask about crime, crim
inals, court and prisons.
All journalism students are in
vited, and asked to have in mind
any questions, so that they may
state them clearly and concisely to
Mr. May.
Free Casaba
Party Will Be
Held Tonight
Oregon Five to Entertain
Multnomah Hoopers
At 7:15
Ex-Oregon Stars Now
Playing on Winged ‘M’
Ridings Out of Line-up
With Bad Foot
Probable Line up
Oregon Multnomah
Gunther .F. Ankeny
Epps F. Cherry
Okerberg .C. Oovans
Milligan .G. Buono
Westergren .G. Hobson
rT'MlK Associated Students of the
University of Oregon are stag
ing n party tonight. The entire pub
nc is invited to
arrive at 7:15 at
McArthur Court
where the Web
foots basketeers
will play the
Multnomah club
hoopsters.
The big point is
that it is all free.
Last Saturday
the Weibfoot ca
saba men played
tne winged “M”
in Portland and Epps
swamped them 42 to 28 with Swede
W'estergren, Duke Okerberg, and
Grord Ridings taking a rest in Eu
gene.
Don McCormick, from last sea
son ’s frosh squad, played better ball
against the clubmen last Saturday
than he has at any other time this
season. He played the floor like a
veteran and collected 12 points for
himself, which was three more than
his closest competitor, Keith Em
mlons, also of last year’s frosh
team.
Ex-Team Mates to Meet
The Multnomah team should be
well versed in the Reinhart style
of basketball as two members have
played under Oregon’s present
coach. Hobby Hobson, forward and
field captain on last year’s varsity
is wearing the club colors, and Russ
Gowans, members of the Oregon
team in 1925, is playing the pivot
position.
Hobson not only won his letter
three times in basketball while at
tending Oregon, but he also took
three baseball letters away with
him. He was generally conceded
to be the brains of the Oregon ma
chine last year, and his flashy floor
work has been mlissed by Reinhart
this season. He was teamed (for
two seasons with the three Ore
gon veterans of this year, and it
is possible that he will bother them
more than he will the younger men
whom he does not know so well.
Russ Gowans played center and
forward for two seasons under
Reinhart. His first year as a reg
ular was during the season of 1924.
He was considered one of Rein
hart’s first and greatest finds. He
took a forward berth when Oker
berg started playing varsity ball
in 1925.
Benchmen May Be Used
Reinhart will probably start his
first string line-up tonight, with the
exception of Gord Ridings who pull
ed a tendon in his foot when he
played against the Aggies on last
Friday at Corvallis. Ridings has
been going around the campus on
crutches since that time but prob
ably will be in condition for the
return game with the O. A. C. hoop
ers which is to be played in Mc
Arthur Court February 22.
In all probability several bench
men will get into the fray tonight,
because this will be a good time
to get the youngsters used to work
ing together under fire. Epps will
perform) in Ridings’ place.
Full House Wanted
According to the architects who
designed McArthur Court, it has
seating capacity for 8,000 persons,
and the students want to see what
it will look like when it's full.
Jack Benefiel, graduate manager
of the Associated Students has is
sued invitations to all high school
und grammar school students. This
invitation includes their parents,
friends, and chance acquaintances,
Mr. Benefiel said. Every one is in
vited to come whether they have re
ceived a ticket or not, as all the
doors in the biulding will be open.