VOLUME xxvrn
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1927
NUMBER S3
Dollars
versus
Amateur Stand
Merits of Professional
Basketball for Retir
ing Veterans Conned
By HAROLD MANGUM
What for the basketball player
when the three years of competition
are gone, and graduation stares the
collegian in' the face? What hap
pens to these young men now form
ing the fast and furious college
fives when the referee’s last whistle
blows, and ends their college car
eers?
Glaring examples of the answer
came to light in the Oregon-Mult
nomah game night before last. How
ard Hobson, Webfoot captain last
year, and Russ Gowans, lemon-yel
low leader of two years ago, were
included on the Winged “M” five,
and, by the way, were just about
all of that quintet. Both men played
good ball, especially on the floor
where headwork and experience
count, rather than in shooting where
the premium is on good eye co
ordination and constant practice.
Hobson was all over the floor,
hounding the ball, and cutting off
scores. Gowans stuck to Okerberg
like a mustard poultice, and kept
the Oregon twinkler to three field
goals, which is a very low total for
the elongated pivot-man.
The rest of the club team was
mediocre, although one substitute
did pull one for the book. When
sent in he was told not to talk.
“Can’t I even say hello?” he
queried plaintively.
Gunther, Okerberg, and Wester
gren starred for Oregon. That is
getting to be a stereotyped phrase,
but it will be pied shortly, for these
luminaries have only two more reg
ular conference games ahead of
them, and possibly two or three
playoff contests. Then they will
be ex-stars, with the accent on the
“ex.” They will be hasbeens, al
though their court ability has hardly
changed at all.
What will happen to them? No,
no towels are wanted. Gunther and
Okerberg are taking business admin
istration, and Westergren is major
ing in economics. None of these
fields promise high monetary returns
without a long period of apprentice
ship.
Will these men gravitate to a
club team? The Multnomah five is
about the best independent quintet
in the state, and it is I>1 points be
low the present Webfoots in ability,
if Wednesday night’s score is any
indication.
Hobson is coaching at Kelso,
Washington, and not getting rich
too fast. Gowans is working in a
Portland bank, but the banking
game is a slow, hard one, handi
capped by the bogie of seniority.
Gillenwaters, a good varsity man of
two years ago, is helping coach the
varsity, which can’t be a very luc
rative position. Charley Jost is
working for the Union Oil Company
in Roseburg, and not paying any
installments on a Rolls-Koyce.
With the present high surge of
sports interest, there might be a
future in professional basketball.
It seems like a quintet composed of
such men as named above would
put up a corking good brand of
basketball, and pack the fans in,
provided that the players could stay
in condition and continue to func
tion.
Professional football is still on
its feet, and gaining strength. Pro
basketball might work right into
the general scheme of things.
There is no particular reason to
suppose that the pro game would
interfere with the college and simon
pure product. The colleges only play
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Lessons Prepared
On Birds by Huestis
A new correspondence course on
birds of the Pacific coast has just
been completed by Professor R. R.
Huestis of the zoology department.
The course emphasises field work.
‘;The place to study birds is the
place where birds are to be found.
In the lesson bird census, there is
a tabulation of all the birds seen
in a trip from the campus on foot
up the mill race, in auto to Spring
field bridge, and then on foot along
the east bank of the Willamette.
One hundred and forty-nine birds
were seen of thirty-four varieties.
There are nineteen lessons alto
gether. These include the history
of birds, their character, coloration,
feeding habits, and language.
Architecture
Needs Given
In Statement
Lack of Classroom Space
Results in Delay
First of Year
Ten Suggestions for
Improvement Offered
Departmental Additions
Stressed as Need
<<rT"'HE cost per major student of
the school of architecture to
the state is very low compared with
other institutions of a similar char
acter,” according to a report issued
by the school. “The twenty-seven
per cent increase in the architectur
al enrollment caught the school un
prepared in space and equipment,
with the result that the freshman
class of over fifty were without a
place to work and lost eight weeks
on their schedule.”
Ten suggestions for improvement
of service are mentioned which may
be carried out when funds are avail
able. These include a field represen
tative for organizing state art as
sociations, exhibitions, advancement
of information for building methods
and city planning; the development
of professional courses in Portland,
which would serve to keep down
enrollment on the campus; to bring
into the professional curricula such
practical courses as can be given
only by demonstration, and which
could be given by employes of the
University.
A new staff member to develop
history of art courses and aesthetics
is also recommended.
Museum of Building Proposed
The establishment of a museum
of building materials is also planned
while a University department of
photography which should make for
economy in the various fields where
photographs are used, could be of
fered without seriously increasing
the costs of the department, the re
port claims. The amplification of
service courses in cooperation with
industries of the state is also con
templated.
Lack of facilities also means loss
of some of the best student work
which is worthy of display. Further
development of an adequate print
course is advocated, and finally a
method for marketing the work of
students and staff for there seems
to be a great opportunity to form
such an agency. Ceramics, tile, pot
tery, small seulptored objects and
prints are included in the sugges
tions of possible fields where such
development would be practical.
Needs of School Listed
The most pressing needs of the
school are listed as enlargement of
the drafting room facilities in ar
chitecture and provision for an inter
ior decoration drafting room; free
ing of the upstairs exhibition room;
increase of library facilities and
fellowships and scholarships. Addi
tional faculty members are also
needed if the anticipated increases
develop next fall, concludes the re
port.
Reed Dean of Women
To Lead Europe Tour
Word has been received by Dean
Virginia Judy Esterly that Mrs.
Richard Scholz, dein of women at
Reed College, Portland, will have
charge of one of the student groups
that will tour Europe this summer
under the management of the Open
Road, Inc., the American represen
tative of the International Student
Hospitality association.
Mrs. Scholz is the widow of Rich
ard Scholz, former president of
Reed, who was succeeded by Presi
dent Norman F. Coleman.
Mrs. Esterly has announced that
she will be glad to register any Uni
versity woman who would like to
make the tour in the group conduct
ed by Mrs. Scholz. She asks that
applicants leave notice at the office
as soon as possible, in order that she
may get in touch with Mrs. Scholz.
Jessup Stands High
In Points Fall Term
Point honors for the fall term go
to Bertram Jessup, senior in jour
nalism, from Portland. Jessup made
93 points while carrying 20 hours
work for an average grade of 1.35.
He was allowed credit for but 19
hours.
Ruth Griffith, senior in German
from Salem, took second place with
85 points, carrying 19 hours for a
1.52 average.
Colloquium Comm ittee of Faculty
Defines Work of Honors Council
Concluding Report Plans Division of Juniors;
To be Voted Next Faculty Meeting
< Editor's note: Following is the third
and concluding installment of the faculty
colloquium committee’s report on superior
students and honors courses. This plan
will be voted upon at the next faculty
meeting.)
In pursuance of these recommen
dations the committee proposes the
following legislation:
I...Classification and definition of
Junior Certificates and re
quirements for graduation
in relation thereto.
1. Junior certificates shall be of
three kinds denominated (a) Junior
Certificate, (b) Junior Certificate
with Upper Division Standing and
(c) Junior Certificate with Honors
Privileges. •
2. A student shall receive a
“Junior Certificate” when he has
earned 9.1 term-hours qnd has ful
filled all lower division requirements.
(Explanatory Note: Lower divi
sion requirements at present (Jan
uary 19, 1927 are as follows:
1. Clearance of any entrance
deficiencies.
2. English A exempted or clear.
Two years of Physical Educa
tion.
4. Three term-hours of Personal
Hygiene for women.
5. Two years of Military Science
for men.
(i. Three groups fulfilled.
Any changes that the faculty
might hereafter make in lower div
ision requirements would automatic
ally change the requirements for
the junior certificate.)
A student shall receive a Jun
ior Certificate with Upper Division
Standing when he has fulfilled the
above requirements and when (1)
70 or more of his hours have a grade
of IV' or better and he shall not,
throughout his previous course, have
been on probation for more than
one term or (2) when he shall have
made 30 hours with an average
grade of 3.5 in two consecutive
terms immediately preceding his
application for the certificate.
4. A student shall receive a Jun
ior Certificate with Honors Priv
ileges when he has fulfilled the
above requirements and has also
complied with the conditions to be
imposed hereafter by the Honors
Council.
5. Beginning with the Commence
ment in .Tune, 1931, no student shall
be granted a bachelor’s degree who
does not hold either a Junior Certif
icate with Upper Division Standing
or a Junior Certificate with Honors
privileges and who has not earned at
j least (12 term-hours in upper division
subjects subsequent to the receipt
j of such certificate. Provided, how
i ever, that candidates in the profes
sional schools may receive the bach
elor’s degree with 45 term-hours or
more of upper division work earned
1 (Continued on page three)
Frosh Win Fast
Game From Prep
Quintet, 42-35
Wendling High Hoop Team
Weakens in Final Ten
Minutes of Play
Wendling high
Wicks (10)
Mossier (15)
■Johnson (3)
Stahlberg (2)
Taylor (4)
Substitutions
ler, Cox (1).
McDonald (1),
(35) (42) Frosh
f (11) Potts
f (14) Clark
c (6) Coleman
g (2) Chastain
g (6) Cheeney
: Wendling, Kee
Oregon, Dowsett,
Hatton (2).
In a game that was nip and tuck
from start to finish, the Oregon
freshman basketball team emerged
victorious over the Wendling high j
school five Wednesday by a score
of 42 to 35. The game was played
on the Wendling floor.'
The game started off with a rush
that showed the frosh had aban
doned the usual slow style of play
that has characterized freshman
games in the past. Both teams scored
frequently. The half ended 21 to
20 in favor of the Oregon five.
In the second half, both teams
maintained the fast pace until the
last ten minutes when the Wendling
five weakened and gave the frosh
the game, 42 to 35.
Clark led the yearling scoring by
garnering 14 points on seven field
baskets, while Potts was not far
behind with 11 counters. Mossier,
star forward for the high school
quint, was hight point man of the
game with 15 marks. His floor work
was exceptional and he missed few
shots. His teammate, Wicks, scored
ten points.
The work of the freshmen was
much smoother than any they have
displayed lately, and if they pos
sessed a tall center, they would
probably have run up a much larger
score. The present incumbent, Cole
man, is a guard and is merely filling
in at center in the absence of an
efficient pivot man.
The Wendling high boys were a
tall and rangy outfit and were un
cannily accurate in their shooting
but lacked the experience to cope
with the frosh.
Abramson Adds Two
To Editorial Staff
Two important appointments to
the editorial board of the Emerald
have been made bv Sol Abramson,
editor. Henry Alderman and Ber
tram Jessup, seniors in journalism,
have been added to the staff as eon
, tributing editors.
Alderman came to Oregon this
year from Reed College, where he
was on the editorial staff of the
Quest. Jessup has done work on the
Emerald staff.
Girl’s Basketball
Begins; Margin
Of Scores Wide
Six Games Open Season;
Victories Go to Upper
Division Teams
Tlie beginning' of the girls’ bas
ketball season is characterized by
a lack of highly competitive play
ing, but this is probably due to the
fact that all higher teams have
played those lower in rank.
On Wednesday night the fresh
man first team won from the fresh
man second with a score of 07 to
12. The sophomore first team beat
the sophomore second, 55 to 1(5, and
the junior first won from the junior
second 52 to 13. Several places on
the teams were filled by substitutes,
and this may have had something
to do with the great difference in
scores.
The freshman fourth team de
faulted to the freshman third with
a score of 2 to 0 on Thursday night,
because only two persons of the
fourth team turned out.
The junior third team played the
sophomore fifth, with a victory of
22 to 8, and the sophomore third
won over the sophomore fourth by
23 to 5,
So far, the results of the games
have been inevitable, since in every
case, a higher team has played one
lower in rank, but next week with
the difference in schedule, there may
be some surprises.
The schedule for next week fol
lows:
Wednesday, February 23, senior
first vs. junior second; sophomore
first, freshman second; freshman
first, sophomore second; and junior
third, the freshman fourth.
Thursday, February 24, the jun
ior first plays the sophomore second;
sophomore third, the freshman
fourth; and the freshman third, the
sophomore fifth.
Friday, February 25, the senior
first plays the freshman second; the
sophomore first, the junior second;
the junior third the sophomore
fourth; the sophomore ^hird the.
sophomore fifth.
Newspaper Work Hard
Says Janes, Ex-Student
Theodore C. Janes, an ex-Uni
versity student, is now doing news
paper work in Montpelier, Vermont.
He is covering the state eapitol for
the Burlington Free Press, Brattle
herd Reformer, Rutland Herald and
the Barre Times, all of which are
newspapers outside of Montpelier,
according to a letter received on
the campus.
“I am responsible for all the news
for the four papers,” he said. “I
find the work is very hard but very
interesting.”
While on the campus in 1924-25,
Janes was head night editor of the
Emerald, and member of Bigma Del
ta Chi, men's national journalism
1 fraternity, and Theta Chi.
Eighteen Men
Pledged at To
Ko-Lo Meeting
Active Members for 1927
28 Formed by Sopho
more Members
Organization Founded
On Campus iu 1912
Underclassmen’s Actions
And Efforts Appreciated
TO-KO-LO, oldest honorary fra
ternity for sophomore men, in
a formal meeting last night at the
College Side Inn, pledged eighteen
representative freshmen who will
form the active membership of the
organization for 1927-28.
The pledges are: Cecil Gabriel,
Melvin Kelly, Bruce Titus, Webb
Haves, LeRoy Hall, Charles Reed,
John Nance, Tim Wood, Kenton
Hamaker, Harold Kelley, John Hol
lister, Jim Campbell, Rodney Banks,
Carl Forsstrum, Kenneth Potts, Sid
Dobbin, Alien McCarty, Laurence
Shaw.
Present officers of the organiza
tion are: Lester Johnson, president;
Allan Boyden, vice-president; Bob
llvnd, secretary-treasurer.
Associations Made Possible
To-Ko-Lo was founded at the
University of Oregon in 1912 by
a group of sophomores who believed
that the increasing size of enter
ing classes was beginning to make
impossible the close contacts and
associations among undergraduates
that had previously existed. It was
felt that an organization of repre
sentative men, carefully chosen in
their first year for all around abil
ity and promise of future leader
ship, could in their sophomore year
unite to the advantage of them
selves and undergraduate life gen
erally.
Campus Problems Discussed
This was to be accomplished
through meetings in which campus
problems and differences could be
constructively discussed from the
many angles that the fraternity’s
representative membership reflects.
While sophomores form the active
membership of To-Ko-Lo, juniors
and seniors through their past as
sociations with the organization, are
able to appreciate the efforts and
actions of the underclassmen. In
this way, To-Ko-Lo principles are
carried on by upperclass members
occupying positions of influence in
student affairs.
Home Problems Class
Entertains Today at
Birthday Luneheon
This week the luncheons given in
the household arts building by the
home problems class under the sup
ervision of Miss Lillian Tingle are
all-women affairs.
Yesterday Mrs. Fred N. Miller,
Mrs. Carlton K. Spencer, Mrs. C.
V. Boyer, Mrs. Sam Bass Warner,
and Mrs. O. F. Stafford were guests
[at a luncheon. Today the affair will
! take the form of a birthday party
for Miss Margaret I),nigh. Covers
1 will be laid for Bess Brown, Miriam
Little, Emma Waterman, Beth Kon
kel, Irene Whitfield, and An dree
* Pellion.
Mary Gallagher and Marguerite
Carpenter have charge of both the
luncheons. An extension department
dinner is being planned for next
Friday. Mrs. Genevieve Brnmnn and
Thelma Vernon of the home prob
lems class will supervise. About
twenty guests will be invited.
Know Your Friends,
Cry of Sociologists
! I)o you know your best friends?
If you don’t you had better net
acquainted before the sociology de
partment catches you.
Take a good look at their eyes—
dark or light— at their hair, com
plexion, etc. It’s really time you’re
finding out what they are like, any
way. Don’t forget to discover
whether or not they have succumbed
to your good influence and become
like you in manners, ideas, and
choice of amusement.
If you do all these things, rest
assured that the mimeographed ques
tion sheets, which the department
is asking large numbers of students
to fill out in the interest of an ex
tensive survey, will not find you
unduly perturbed. Besides you will
be able to do your duty like a loyal
Oregonian and help add to the sta
tistics and knowledge in the Uni
versity.
Come One, Come All;
Swell Party Ahead
LL the glamour, glittering
^ *-sophistication, and romantic
appeal of a Town and Gown or
I’lastie Age dance, the soft
lights, gently swaying decora
tions, handsome men in evening
clothes, lovely women in lovelier
gowns, underneath a great pol
ished floor and everywhere the
maddening throb of wonderful
music—don’t laugh, the occasion
deserves such rhetoric—for it.
is no other than that triumph of
crepuscular terpsichore, the Sen
ior Rail due Saturday night in
the Woman’s building. It is to
be, in short, an affair such as
the great outside world believes
a college dance really is.
The dance has been limited to
300 couples and will be strictly
formal. Only three classes will,
therefore, bo represented as the
freshmen are not allowed to don
the black and white costume af
fected in the evening by their
more blase sophomorio and upper
class brothers.
While actual details are being
kept in the dark it is understood
there is to be a most unusual
feature. Another thing that is
being aired about as a fact is
that there will be as good re
freshments as may be secured.
Women’s Fellowships
In Number and Variety
Await Ambitious Girls
More fellowships for women lire
being offered for 1927 8. They in
clude three in social-economic re
search by the Women’s 'Educational
and Industrial Union of Boston,
Mass., and several by the Carols
Woerishoffer Graduate department
of social economy and social re
search of Bryn Mawr College, Penn.
The first three carry a stipend
of $500 each. Clerical assistance,
equipment, and traveling expenses
necessary for the investigation are
furnished by the Department of
Research. A degree from a college
of good standing, training in eco
nomics or sociology, and satisfactory
references in regard to health, char
acter, and special fitness for social
economic research are the require
ments. Application must be filed
before May 1.
The second group includes five for
about $800, one for $550, and sev
eral for $350. They are open to
graduates of all colleges of good
standing. Application must be made
to the president of the college not
later than the first of April.
Further information can be had
at the dean of women’s office.
Dean Bovard Thinks
Men Need Four Years
Of Physical Education
“I think it would be a good idea
to require all students to take phys
ical exercise throughout their entire
college course rather than for two
years only,” said Dr. John F. Bo
vard, dean of the school of physical
education.
“Reed College at Portland has
this requirement. It is the policy
of the Oregon school of physical
education, however, to require only
two years of /physical education
with the hope that most students
will have formed the habit of exer
cise during this period.”
According to Dean Bovard, 75
per cent of the men continue tak
ing some form of exercise during
the time they are in college.
In Dr. Bovard’s opinion, more
equipment is needed at the Univer
sity to provide greater opportunities
for physical exercises. He cited the
recent addition of handball courts
which met with a like increase in
interest in the game and resulted
in as great a demand for the courts
as before.
“As we increase the facilities for
exercise and find out what the stu
dents like to do 1 think there will
be a greater interest in physical
education and many of the difficul
ties now contended with will bo
solved,” concluded the dean.
Ten Sigma Delta Chis
Visit O. A. C. Brothers
Ten member* of Sigma Delta Chi,
national professional journalism fra
ternity, were guests of the Corvallis
chapter yesterday evening, at a
dinner at Corvallis. The meeting
was held to establish u bond of
union between the two chapters.
The Oregon chapter plans to en
tertain the Corvallis chapter some
time next term, the date of which
hasn’t been decided yet.
Human Spirit
Challenged
By Adventure
Even Drah Surroundings
Promote Capacity for
Daring Action
Education Passive, Not
Active, Present Fault
Egoism of Individual Plays
Important Part in Life
HE spirit of Columbus, {who
dared to sail unknown sens, the
history of the covered wagon, the
lure of undiscovered lands ns por
trayed liv Stevenson, all are con
cepts of the spirit of “Adventure,”
the subject of the address of Dr.
Harold L. Bowman, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Port
land, Oregon, who spoke at the
weekly student assembly Thursday
morning in the Woman’s building.
There is a capacity for daring
enterprise within the human spirit.
It can exist even in the most drab
surroundings. The challenge of ad
venture exists even on a college
campus, said Dr. Bowman, who
pointed out that the greatest of
human adventures and that calling
for the hardest struggle is the
battle for mastery of oneself. There
is adventure in the fellow who can
master himself. He has the capacity
for a more glorious adventure than
a man who captures a city, he said.
Dr. Bowman told the story of
“Reddy Johnson,” employee in a
business firm. He had the eharac
teristic traits common to some red
headed people, a bit of a temper and
ambition. One day he heard two
salesmen talking about him. One of
them said, “Oh, he’ll be all right
if lie learns to boss Johnson.”
Reddy was puzzled for a min
ute, then he “tumbled” and he
learned that his battlefield lay
within the circle of his own life and
he set about to master himself.
There is adventure in friendship,
too, said Dr. Bowman. “Many of
us are too interested in ourselves.
We have a group of our own in
timate acquaintances and beyond
that we do not go. Yesterday after
noon n man came to me in my study,
lie wished to get acquainted with
mo, he said|. lie stayed twenty
minutes, and during that time f
tried to learn as much about him
ns I could. The Interesting thing
was that at the end of that time f
had his whole life history and he
didn’t know one solitary fact about
me.
“The story illustrates the fact
that there is adventure in trying to
find out about folks, in exploring
into their lives,” continued Dr.
Bowman. “The more I know about
people the more worth I find iu
them.”
Aunt Hannah went to visit her
brother in the country. He was
something of an astronomer uud
Hannah asked to examine the tel
escope which he used. Khe went
to the attic where he kept it and
stayed for a short tame. When she
returned her brother asked her
what she had seen, she responded
that she was able to see what the
neighbors were doing Sn their
kitchen and she had been wonder
ing that for some time. She had
had the opportunity to gaze at the
universe of stars yet she was more
interested in trivial, unimportant
things, said the speaker.
Human Life Spiritual
Them is a capacity in human
life to reach toward the spiritual,
said Dr. Bowman. Faith is reason
grown courageous. It is reason will
ing to venture forth us a pioneer.
Faith is not irrational. It dares to
go beyond what is scientifically dem
onstrated.
“Have we the capacity for ad
venture! Our forefathers had it.
All life is aa adventure if we can
see it. Are you capable of meeting
the difficulties of life! Can yon
face them like a hero or will yon
slink buck into the field of the dem
onstrated! That is the question
which life puts to us,” he continued.
“At uu educational institution
the difficulty that many of us find
is that we are likely to take educa
tion passively instead of actively,”
lie stated. “As long as that is done,
education will be a drab routine.
Hut if we can go into it to discover
something new it is worth while.
There is adventure in the search for
! knowledge. It is found in the chem
I ical laboratory, in the study of hio
I tory, in literature as exemplified in.
the Knights of the Round Table,
who arc characters so real that you
can talk with them and can go
(Continued on jxige two)