VOLUME XXVIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1927
NUMBER 84
Second Track
|Meet of Year
At 2:30 Today
Thirteen Events Scheduled
/ Featuring Sprints and
Weight Throwing
Varsity an^ Freshman
Squads Have 54 Men
Vic Wetzel Is Entered
In Four Contests
THE University of Oregon track
squad will have its second inter
squad meet of the season today at
Vic Wetzel
Z:3U. Thirteen
events will be run
off, seven of them
being frosh events
ind six varsity af
fairs.
Yic We t z e 1,
Oregon track vet
eran, will be in
four events. He
has added the
high jump and the
pole vault to hia
regular work with
the -weights.
Shot Putters Work Hard
The varsity shot putters are work
ing hard trying to develop a point
winning man in that event. Vic
Wetzel and Ed Moore have had var
sity experience. Moore was one of
the Webfoot weight heavers in 1925
but was not in school last year.
Wetzel has been on the team for the
past two seasons.
Dobie Sanderson, from last year’s
frosh, is showing good form in both
the discus and shot and will give
She veterans some keen competition.
George Stager, another member of
the yearling squad last year, is
a rounding into form and Bill Hay
ward thinks that he may prove to
be a surprise.
Sprinters to Vie
The sprinters will have a big
time today with ten men entered
Jn the varsity affair and thirteen
frosh ready to line up for the 75
and 150 -yard dashes.
Ed Crawley, pole vaulter and let
terman, will probably have things
pretty much his own way in his
event, but Allen Bracher, a transfer
from O. A. C., is rated as being a
good high flyer.
Entries for today’s meet:
75-yard dash, versity. Allen Bra
cher, Alex Scott, Hollis Alger, Speed
Dixon, Dan Hendricks, N. Burns,
Bill Pendergast, E. Schull, B. Jack
son, A. Sullivan.
150-yard dash: L. Zuck, C. Price,
Fisher, J. Price, B. Jackson, W.
Dielschneider.
Shot put: Vic Wetzel, Dobie (San
derson, Edward Moore, A. Montgom
V ery, George Stager.
Discus: Vic Wetzel, George Stag
er, Edward Moore, A. Montgomery,
Dobie Sanderson.
High jump: Vic Wetzel, M. So
well, A. Boyden.
Pole vault: Allen Bracher, Vic
Wetzel, Ed Crawley, Tom Bunn, M.
Sowell.
75-yard dash frosh: P. Livesley,
H. L. Kelley, M. Kelley, W. Browne,
B. Banks, C. Koeske, Thompson, B.
Bicks, Ely, Wm. Suver, P. Magin
nus, I. Staples, B. Atkinson.
150 yard dash frosh: P. Livesley,
H. L. Kelley, M. Kelley, W. Browne,
B. Banks, C. Noeske, Thompson, B.
Bicks, Ely, Wm. Suver, P. Magin
nus, I. Staples, B. Atkinson.
300-yard frosh: Bonnette, F. Flan
igan, Hammill, A. McCarty, B. Pin
ney, A. Beinhardt, F. Shimizu, E.
Thornburg, Thompson.
High jump: Ball, P. Maginnus,
Beed, O. Bredthauer.
Pole vault: O. Bredthauer, B.
Casey, Grives.
^ Shot put: B. Bicks, Welsh, Camp
bell, H. Hildreth, E. Atkinson.
Discus: Bicks, Wellsh, Campbell,
H. Hildreth, B. Atkinson.
Officials: Starter, Delbert Ober
teuffer; announcer, Bob Mautz;
field judges to be selected from the
lettermen.
Varsity Diver Injures
Heel While Practicing
Lloyd Byerly, varsity diver,
pulled a tendon loose in his left
heel last evening while trying a
back dive. He will be operated on
this morning. This will probably
keep him out of the swimming con
tests for the rest of the season.
Byerly is a senior in the school
of business administration, and a
member of Kappa Sigma.
Hugo Bezdek9 Penn State’s Mentor,
Was Billy Reinhart’s First Ancestor
Oregon’s Twine-Swishers of 1912 Ended Season
In Triple Tie; Dean Walker on Squad
Oregon's first official basketball
coach was Hugo Bezdek, who came
here in the fall of 1906 for a
year's stay. Bezdek gained his
knowledge of the hoop game as a
member of the Chicago Y. M. C. A.
team. The season athletic club was
defeated twice and the Ashland
Athletic club once. Two games were
dropped to the Oregon Aggie five.
Members of this early hoop squad
included Captain Donald Stevenson,
center; Ramp, Moore, Johnson, and
Nelson,t forwards; and Penland,
Strong and Charmon, guards.
With the completion and dedica
tion of the present men’s gymna
sium in February, 1910, basketball
at Oregon received impetus. Tfhe
game had been discontinued during
the two previous years. The 1910
season was started late 'by the Ore
gon five due to the tardy comple
tion of the gymnasium. By the
time the lemon-yellow lioopsters
were in condition the other teams
were finishing their seasons. The
intercollegiate game was taken up
for the first • time this year and
was new to all the players. Other
teams of the northwest had been
( playing it for two years,
i With William Hayward, track
! mentor, at the helm, several late
games were played. The team won
from Idaho, which had overwhelm
ingly defeated the University of
Washington. A heart breaking eon
Dr. H. Crosland
To Talk Monday
To Law Students
Second Lecture on Crime
Detection to be Given
Wednesday
Dr. Harold B. Crosland, of the
psychology department, will speak
at 10 o’clock on Monday and on
Wednesday before Dean Hale’s law
students in the class of “The Ad
ministration of Justice.” Monday
his subject will be “Methods of
Detecting and Exhibiting Guilty
Knowledge in Persons Suspected of
Crime.” His topic for Wednesday
is “Methods of Studying Handwrit
ing to Detect Forgery, and the
Authorship of Forged Documents.”
He has proven one of the methods
to be of worth in at least four prac
tical cases: two of stealing, one of
cheating and the other an experi
mentally instituted “crime.” He is
; soon to publish an article in rela
I tion to these subjects fin “The Jour
jnal of Applied Psychology.”
Because of his interest and ex
perience in such work he has been
asked to join an organization of
experts along different lines, whose
purpose is to render service in crim
inal cases in court. This organiza
tion is unique and the members
claim the precedent as being the
very first. They are certain that
the magazine which they contem
plate publishing is the first of its
kind in the world.
The organization is including
every possible line of expert work:
handwriting, toxicology, finger
prints, ballistics, typewriting, etc.,
and now they wish to include the
work of psychologists and to delve
into the search of the sub-conscious
mind to apprehend criminals. They
have chosen Dr. Crosland as a rep
resentative in this special field.
Journalism Major Is
Doctor in China Now
Helen Brenton Pryor, who grad
: uated from the school of journalism
i in 1919, is now an M. D. in Nanking,
I China, specializing in children’s
treatment, according to a letter re
! ceived on the campus recently.
“We are more or less sitting on
j a volcano over here, for foreigners
| are being ordered out of the cities
! up the river every day. Ships, ex
i cept English, are being comman
' deered for troops, therefore travel
is uncertain. It is an interesting
j life and not without its thrills,”
| she said.
The first English person she has
seen since she has been in China
is Helen Whitaker who is a member
of the language school faculty in
Han Si Men college. Miss Whitaker
graduated from the University in
1920.
While at the University, Mrs.
Pryor majored in journalism and
took up medicine later. She was
editor of the Emerald part of her
senior year.
test was lost to O. A. C. by one point
on the varsity floor.
The 1910 team was composed of
Captain Harry M. Stine and Jami
son, forwards; Ruth, center; Neil
and Elliot, guards; and Walker,
Moore and Cockerline, substitutes.
The Oregon team of 1911 finished
second in the northwest champion
ship race. The varsity defeated ev
ery conference college at least
once. Out of the 12 games played
Oregon won 9,—losing only to the
University of Washington. During
the season, Oregon scored 304 points
to its opponent’s 169.
It was at the completion of that
season that Oregon played the Uni
versity of Washington Huskies in
Seattle for the northwest champion
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Summer Schools Held
In Foreign Countries
Offer Varied Work
A broadening and entertaining
vacation for the summer school stu
dent lies in the foreign summer
schools conducted in other countries.
Each summer new schools are
planned in foreign educational cen
ters, and interesting courses ar
ranged. Following are some of the
summer sessions planned for 1927:
Oxford: July 29-August 20. Sub
ject: “Shakespeare and the England
i of His Time.”
France: July 1-October 30.
Courses in language and literature
at various universities.
Berlin: July 14-August 24.
Subjects: German language, lit
erature, political and social his
tory, art, civilization, political econ
omy, and sociology. Special classes
in other subjects will be formed
for groups of ten students registered
before June 1.
Heidelberg: June 27-August 6.
Two sections of three weeks each.
Subjects: German literature, folk
lore, music, art, pedagogy, history,
j and economics.
Vienna: July 18-August 27.
! Subjects: German language and
j literature, social and economic prob
! lems, art. Bducation courses for
! teachers.
Madrid: July ll-August 6.
; Subjects: Spanish language and
| literature, history and art.
Porto Bico: July 15-August 17.
i Subjects: Courses for Spanish
| speaking graduate students. Courses
| in Spanish for English speaking stu
! dents.
: Further information about these
I schools and others may be obtained
| from the Institute of International
Education in New York City, New
York.
| Freshman and Senior
| Women Win One-Sided
Games in Basketball
i . • -
With three years of playing be
hind them, the senior women’s bas
ketball team won a fast game from
the sophomore second team, which
made a better showing than oif
Wednesday. Despite the fact that
the final score was 49 to 8, and that
there were substitutions on both
sides, the gamp was speedy, and
the sophomore seconds had the sen
iors puffing before the end.
Splendid team work and quick
passes characterized the playing of
the freshman first team against the
junior second, and resulted in a vic
tory of 48 to 16 for the frosh. Gen
evieve Swedenburg, Dorothy Dietz,
and Marian Newman, forward, made
one excellent pass after another.
Marion Newman came out high
point woman with with 32 points
to her credit.
In another unevenly matched
game, the freshman second team, de
feated the junior third, 34 to 8.
All games so far have been won by
large scores, but no team has yet
played its equal in rank. These
games are more or less preliminary
in nature, and it will not be until
next week that the hotter contests
1 begin. There will be no games play
| ed on Monday and Tuesday.
Sheldon to Go to Texas
For Education Meeting
Dr. H. D. Sheldon, dean of the
education school, is leaving the
twentieth of this month for an edu
cational meeting in Dallas, Texas.
He will be gone about three weeks.
Walter C. Barnes, professor of his
tory, is to take Dean Sheldon’s
world history class while he is
away.
1
Senior Ball
Promises to
Be Different
Chairmen of Committees
Confident Dance Will
Be Big Success
I _
Programs and Favors
To be Given at Door
Feature Shows Dangers
Of This Generation
WITH the presentation of the
Senior Ball this evening the
senior class will have had its last
fling at entertaining the campus.
The committees chosen have been
at work for the past two weeks try
ing to work up an affair of ex
quisite finish and ingenious motif.
Judging from the good humor Rolf
Klep, chairman of the decorations,
has been enjoying for the past few
days the decorative scheme must
be working out as well as expected;
an unusual result in campus dances.
Supper Dances Arranged
At the directorate meeting yes
terday each member of the director
ate expressed perfect confidence
that his part of the work would go
off well. Very few difficulties have
been encountered by the committee,
a fact no class but seniors would
be likely to be able to boast of
since the alleviation of trouble is
only by means of workers who are
familiar with their particular sit
uations.
Programs and favors will be pre
sented at the door. Each program
will designate the particular sup
per dance the individual has. “I
wish to request everyone to ob
serve these dances properly, other
wise someone may have to go hun
gry,” declared Dot Ward, chairman
of refreshments. There will be six
supper dances set aside, beginning
with the fifth and running through
the tenth.
As an added feature, Billy O’Bry
ant and Abbie Green have worked
out several selections on the piano
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Frosh Mermen
To Swim Here
First Time Today
Woman’s Building to Be
Scene of Vancouver
Club Competition
For the first time this season, the
student botfy will be given an op
portunity to see Oregon’s exception
ally strong freshman swimming team
in action. The frosh are to meet
the Vancouver Community club out
fit in the Woman’s building pool at
3:30 o’clock this afternoon.
This meet and the mix with the
Aggie rooks in the local tank Feb
ruary 26 will conclude the yearling
season. The frosh this year have
had trouble finding competition and
have been able to schedule only a
few meets. However, they hold an
impressive 44 to 15 victory over the
rooks.
Although the freshman Squad is
weak in reserve strength, it is pos
sessed of several stars who pile up
the first place points. Johnny An
derson, the blonde flash, has in un
official meets, bested every sprint
record in the Northwest and has
beaten the mark in the 150 yard
backstroke by several seconds.
Anderson is training to enter the
State and Northwest championships
at the close of the season and should
cop more than one event in record
time.
Chuck Silverman, the frosh dis
tance man, has swum some excel
lent races in the 440 and the 220
yard free style events. He has not
lost a race this season.
Raley, breast stroker, is reliable
and can be counted on for points.
Harold Hatton, of the yearling bas
ketball squad, recently turned out
for the water sport and gives Sil
verman real competition in the long
er races.
Father of Mrs. Hall
Dies of Heart Trouble
Mrs. Arnold Bennett Hall re
ceived word yesterday of the death
of her father, Mr. Henry C. Carney,
Evanston, Illinois. Mr. Carney had
been seriously ill with heart trouble
for several months. Mrs. Hall will not
be able to go east at this time owing
to the fact that she is ill with an
attack of influenza.
I"Piano-Playing And Pigskin-Punting
No Longer Mutually Exclusive
Great Increase in Qnantity and Quality of Music
ianship, Thinks Eugene Carr
1 ‘‘The day in which the American
| boy may take music lessens and at
the same time hold a coveted place
on the football team has arrived at
last, ’ ’ said Eugene Carr, instructor
in music, in commenting upon the
increasing appreciation of the
American public for music.
“Not many years ago,’r he con
tinued, “this same 'boy would have
been the inspiration for magazine
covers, which pictured the uncom
fortable lad on his way to a fifty
cent music lesson, passing by his
disgusted companions — uncomforta
ble because he knew they despised
his Sunday clothes and the tell-tale
music roll.”
The great change which has taken
place in the American appreciation
of music is attributed by Mr. Carr
to be due in part to the superior
musical training which children re
ceive iu the grammar grades. Chil
dren are now taught to sing correct
ly. The organization of juvenile or
chestras and bands is becoming in
creasingly common.
Another factor in the popularity
of music, Mr. Carr believes, is the
growth of music as an American
profession. In this connection he
quotes from John Philip Sousa, who,
iu a recent magazine article, pro
claims. that music has at. last been
Sixteen Freshmen
Survive First Drill
In R. O. T. C. Contest
After the smoke of battle had
cleared away from the R. O. T. C.
barracks yesterday afternoon, only
1(5 lonely cadets remained of the
five companies in the department.
They alone could tell the story of
how they had withstood the relent
less attack of the officer’s staff as
signed the task of selecting the best
drilled freshmen in each company.
This was the first of threo prelim
inary drills that will be hold afc
the regular drill period each Friday
until March 11, at which time a
final contest will be held. Only
those who have shown up best in
the preliminary drills may compete
in the grand climax. The military
department is offering three prizes
of $25, $15, and $10 to the winners
of the final competition. Judges
for the contest on March 11 will be
Captain F. M. Moore, F. L. Culin,
and Lieutenant G. F. Herbert.
The victorious freshmen in tho
first preliminary competition were:
Company B, Leon Baird, Rulon
Ricks, and J. R. Smith; Company
C, Gordon Pefley, Albert Wrigh .
and Donald McCall; Company D,
Willis Warren, Karl Landstrom, and
Harold Bateman; Company E, Elmer
Gant, George Jackson, Roy Wilkin
son, and Ernest Hall; Company F,
Paul Knepp, Jack Coolidge, and
John McRae.
.
| Organized Groups
Make Higher Grades
Than Non-organized
Students living in organizations
.Made a higher average number of
points during the fall term than
did the non-organization students.
Sorority women made an average of
43.1(5 points as opposed to 40.98 for
the non-sororitv women. Fraternity
men garnered 35.45 points against
35.38 for the non-fraternity.
The general undergraduate aver
age for the University was 38.46
points, with 35.41 for the men anil
42.00 for the women. The averages
show a slight increase over those
for the fall term of 1925-2(5 which
were 35.03 for fraternity men, 33.88
for non-fraternity men, and 40.09
for non-sorority women. Sorority
women failed to do as well, having
made an average of 43.40 points
a year ago during the fall.
Fraternities Draw for
Locations at California
UNIVERSITY OP CALIFORNIA,
at Log Angeles—(By PIP)—Repre
sentatives of the twenty-two nation
I al and local fraternities of the Uni
I versity of California at Los Angeles
I recently drew for preferred frater
nity-house sites adjacent to the new
university campus at Westwood.
Under this arrangement, those of
the fraternities whose representa
tives drew first numbers will be giv
en first choice in the matter of se
lecting the lots on which their
houses are to be erected. The others
will take their turns in making site
j selections, according to the numbers
drawn.
recognized as a field worthy of
American attention.
When Sousa organized his band in
1880 there were not half a dozen
Americans in it. Sousa admits hav
ing worn a beard cut. to give him
a distinguished foreign appearance,
so that the American public would
take him seriously. Today there are
only two or three foreigners in the
band, for the simple reason that the
American talen’t is superior. Sousa
gives the credit for the improve
ment in available material to the
American university and college
bands, which have taken the place
of the once popular town bands
and improved on them.
“The American musician of to
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Hegelianism Is
Subject of Talk
To Philosophers
Albany College Professor
To Tell of Beer-Table
Discussion Croups
The subject of “Hegelianism in
America” will be treated by Profes
sor Raymond E. Baker, of Albany
college, in a paper to be presented
before the philosophy club Monday
evening at 7:45 in the Woman’s
building.
“The advent of Hegelianism in
America is almost literally a case
of the arrival of a philosophy over
the beer-table,” said George Rebec,
dean of the graduate school. “Ev
erybody is familiar with the story
of the German Liberals who, after
the defeat of the Revolution of
184S, flocked to this country, and
how an exceptionally large colony
of them established themselves in
St. Louis, where, at the crisis of
the Civil War, they were staunch
Unionists to a man and were very
largely instrumental in keeping the
state of Missouri in the Union.
“At St. Louis, tho colonists speed
ily established among themselves
| the cultural habits and interests of
their old-country life,” continued
tho dean. “Among these, the age
old German tradition of meeting
around the beer-table for tho discus
sion of all themes, even up to the
bright sun in heaven and Plato’s,
Kant’s, and Hegel’s kingdom of
super-sensible being beyond.
“At about this time,” he said,
“came to St. Louis to serve as super
intendent of schools, a young Amer
ican by the name of William T. Har
ris, dreaming the dreams of educa
tional idealism but quite as strong
ly tinctured with metaphysics. Quite
inevitably Harris gravitated to the
German round-tables, one chief out
come of which occurrence was the
establishment of the famous ‘Jour
nal of Speculative Philosophy,’ the
translation for the first time of
numerous works of the German
idealists into English, and the defin
ite launching of the Hegelian philos
ophy on its remarkable career in
this country.”
Professor Baker has been doing
research work on Hegelianism in
preparation for taking his doctor’s
degree at the University and has
discovered much information not
previously known about the subject.
He is interested in both literary and
cultural history and in philosophy
and is rated as a high grade scholar
by those who know him. All faculty
members and students are invited to
attend the meeting and hear his
paper.
i Evans m Portland
\ For Organ Dedication
Two of the University’s musii
professors, John Stark Evans ant
Eugene Carr, left for Portland yes
terday afternoon for a three day’s
visit.
Mr. Evans will dedicate the nev
Kueter organ for the Sunnysidi
Seventh Day Adventist church oi
Sunday; and the rest of the time
he says, will (be given to completi
rest. The production of ‘1 Robin
hood” by the Franklin high school
Friday and Saturday nights, is tin
| main reason for Eugene Carr’i
l trip. He is very anxious to hea
the two leading actors sing, whosi
voices have received a great dea
of praise, lately, among musiea
groups, and who broadcasted ove
the radio several nights ago.
Varsity Hoop
Squad Awaits
Aggie Contest
Gordon Ridings Will Be
Back in Lemon-Yellow
Lineup Tuesday
Okerberg Heads Loop
With 100 Counters
Advance Ticket Sales
Are Large
' I ''TIE University of Oregon baa
keteers are enjoying a well
earned rest since Wednesday of tbia
week. Their next
encounter will be
a return engage
ment with the
Oregon Aggie
hoopstera Febru
ary 22, in Mc
Arthur court.
In spite of the
fact that the
Webfoot casaba
men handed the
Orangemen ai
drubbing in Cor
vallis last week,
Jerry Gunther
and also that the Aggies have had
a. very unsuccessful road trip, the
fans are anticipating a real tustle
Tuesday, that is if the advance sale
of tickets can be considered a re
liable criterion. The reserve sec
tion of McArthur court is practical
ly sold out, according to Bob Over
street, who has charge of the ticket
sale.
Good Season So Far
The Oregon cagers have piled up
an enviable record this year, hav
ing lost but one game, and that by
a one point margin to the University
of Idaho at Moscow. The lemon
yellow men have counted almost two
to one for their opponents during
the season. Probably their greatest
exploit was against the Washing
ton Huskies whom they defeated 50
to 25 at Seattle.
Last season Duke Okerberg, lanky
Webfoot pivot man, led the confer
ence in scol'ing, swishing the net
tor a total of 98 points. He has
bettered his last year's record al
ready this season with a round hun
dred markers and has two confer
ence games, left in which to add to
his record.
The other Oregon players haven’t
been asleep at the switch either.
Algot Westergren, guard, han
dropped the oval through the hoop
for a total of 61 counters, and Jer
ry Gunther is close behind him with
59 points.
Sophs Work in Well
The Oregon sophomores too have
been busy. Gord Ridings has ac
cumulated 46 points, and ,Scott
Milligan has rung the bell for 37.
Dave Epps has chalked up nine
counters, Joe Bally and Keith Bm
mons two each, and Don McCormick
one.
Jerry Gunther has not been scor
ing as heavily this season as he did
last, but Billy Reinhart has used
him as a defensive player more than
formerly. Against the University
of Washington Reinhart had Gun
ther watching Schuss, all-coast for
ward. He held the Iluskie Rash to
one field basket and upon this oc
casion collected ten points for him
self.
Against the Orangemen at Cor
vallis Gunther took after Gra&p
and stuck to him like a bur. One
field basket and one point from the
gift line was all the agile Aggie
was able to chalk up, and until
Gunther had the misfortune to
stumble and fall down he held his
opponent basketless.
Okey Headed for Ail-Coast
Okerberg is the only one of the
Oregon veterans who has not rated
j a berth on the mythical all-coast
! quintet. Last year, in spite of his
impressive record as a point gather
er, he was boaten out by Higgins of
California. This year, however, Hig
gins is coaching the Golden Bear’s
frosh and Okey has already over
shadowed his former record as a
Point garner. Besides this, Okey
has out jumped the opposing cen
ters and figured in the majority of
the Wbbfoot plays. This puts him
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j Floyd Maxwell, ’22,
To Be on Campus Soon
Floyd Maxwell, ’22, who is now
i manager of the Broadway theater,
will be on the campus Tuesday for
• a short visit.
1 Maxwell is coming to view the
1 rehearsal of some acrts that the
■ Glee elub will present at the Broad
way theater spring vacation.