Spring Term Social Plans .Are Released Informal Dances, Track, / Tennis and Baseball Featured Winter Term Steals Majority of Formals April Frolic and Smoker First Big Events THE heavy winter term schedule of social activities on the cam pus has given way this term to a lighter program of informal dances, track and tennis meets, and base ball games. There are fewer for mals listed, and the calendar is filled out with the April Frolic, Men’s Smoker, tea and breakfast dances, dance drama, concerts, bazaars and religious conferences. Junior Vodvil, and the events of Junior Week-end will be important diversions from the educational routine. The complete social schedule for the spring term follows: April 1, Friday: Alpha Xi Delta Informal, Delta Gamma Formal, Chi Omega Informal, Alpha Delta Pi Informal. April 2, Saturday, April Frolic, Men’s Smoker, Phi Mu Installation (of Kappa Omicron), .Alpha Om icron Pi Tea Dance—2:30^5 p. m., closed to dances. April 6, Wednes day, A. S. U. O. concert. April 7, Thursday, Dance Drama, Orchesis and Mu Phi Epsilon—McDonald theater. April 8, Friday, Sigma Beta Phi Formal, Phi Delta Theta—Kappa Sigma Bootlegger’s Ball. April 9, Saturday, Theta CM Formal. April 11, Women’s League Puppet Show, Heilig theater—Fine Arts Benefit, a April 13, Wednesday, Mu Phi Epsil * on Concert, Bazaar—Fine Arts Club. April 15, Friday, Good Friday, closed to dances. April 16, Satur day, Tokolo Formal, Friendly Hall Sports Dance. April 22, Friday, Baseball—O. A. C.—Corvallis, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Underclass Dance. April 23, Satur day, Baseball—O. A. C.—Corvallis, Seven Seers Cabaret Dance, Delta Delta Delta Breakfast Dtance. April 29, Friday, Baseball—U. of W.—Seattle, Gamma Phi Beta In formal, Religious Conference (Dr. Bruce Curry). April 30, Saturday, Track-Relay Carnival—Seattle, Kap pa Alpha Theta Informal, Religious Conference (Dr. Bruce Curry), Al pha Chi Omega Formal, Sigma Al pha Epsilon Upperclass Dance, Psi Kappa Formal, Susan Campbell Hall Formal. May 1, Sunday, Religious Confer ence (Dr. Bruce Curry). May 6, Friday, Sigma Nu Informal, Alpha \ Omicron Pi Informal, Delta Delta Delta Informal. May 7, Saturday, Track, W. S. C.—Eugene, Sigma Chi Formal, Sigma Ph i Epsilon Formal, Phi Delta Theta Formal. May 9, Monday, Baseball—Wash ington—Eugene. May 10, Tuesday, Baseball — Washington — Eugene. May 13, Friday, Junior Vodvil. May 14, Saturday, Junior Vodvil, Friendly Hall Grille Dance, Track— Washington—Seattle, Tennis—O. A. C.—Eugene. May 15, Sunday, Phi Delta Theta Picnic. May 20, Fri day, Junior Weekend, closed to dances, Tennis—U. of W.—Eugene, Baseball—O. A. C.—Eugene. May 21, Saturday, Junior Week-end, closed to dances, Baseball—O. A. C. —Eugene, Track—O. A. C.—Eugene, Junior Prom. May 27, Closed to dances, Track—North Division P. C. C.—Corvallis. May 28, Saturday, Closed to dances, Track—North Division P. C. C.—Corvallis, Tennis—O. A. C. —Corvallis. May 30, Monday, Mem ^ orial Day—a holiday. June 3, Fri day, Closed to dances. June 4, Sat urday, Closed to dances, Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Track Meet— Los Angeles. June 13, Monday, Com mencement. Nomination Committee To Make Report Soon A committee to nominate officers for Women’s League election, which will be held soon, has been appoint ed and will give their report at the first Women’s League mass meeting of the term. The committee is: Anne Runes, chairman. Frances Mor gan, Kathryn Ulrich, Esther Setters, Glenna Fisher and Beatrice Peters. Officers to be nominated are pres ident, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, reporter, and sergeant-at arms. ! International Equality Included in Platform of Chinese National Party Danger to Western Industrial Competition Seen In Low Living Standards of Masses (Editor’s note: The following article tells the story of the Kuomintang or Chi nese Nationalist (Cantonese) party. It is the second of a series of four prepared by Chinese students in America in a di rect appeal to the American colleges for a sympathetic understanding of the Chi nese viewpoint. The Peking government will be the subject of the next article.) (New Student Service) From a tiny secret society, found ed by Sun Yat Sen, the Chinese George Washington, in the days when South China was fighting to overthrow the corrupt Manchu dy nasty and establish a republic (c. 1911), Kuomintang, the Nationalist party, has grown in size and strength until its influence now ex tends over half of China. Its army of approximately 800,000 men un der General Chiang Kai-sliih (incor rectly called Chang kai-sliek in the news dispatches) is at present bat tling with Chang Tso-lin and his allies, whose forces number around 900,000, for the rich Yantze valley, the industrial, commercial and agri cultural region midway between Canton, from which the Nationalists started their drive in 1926, and Pe king, the capital of the opposing Northern forces. The Nationalist party (Kuomin tang) is the only party in China which is grouped together in sup port of a set of principles, a plat form. Other parties are held to gether solely by allegiance to a mil itary leader. “International equality, political equality and economic equality”— these are the principles for which the Nationalists are fighting. Pop ularly heralded as the “Three Peo ples’ Principles” of Sun Yat Sen, they have formed the basis for all the reforms undertaken by the Na tionalists in South China. In seeking “International Equal ity” the Nationalists are striving to regain those of China’s soverign rights which she has lost under the unequal treaties, that China njay take her rightful place as a sover ign nation among the other nations of the world, an equal among equals. The Nationalists also favor “Pol itical Equality” and throughout the territory which they control they have established the direct election of government officials and have granted the franchise to both men and women on a popular basis. A direct tax on land, the devel opment of natural resources by the government and governmental own ership of public utilities—these are the chief reforms which Dr. Sun in (Continued on page three) Summer Session Faculty Includes Noted Scientists Dr. Fearing of Stanford, Prof. Gilliland to Teach Psychology Two of the foremost psycholo gists in America will teach classes in the University of Oregon’s 1927 summer session this coming July and August. They are Adam R. Gil liland, A.M., Ph.D., professor of psychology at Northwestern Uni versity, and Franklin S. Fearing, A.M., Ph.D., professor of psycholo gy at Ohio Wesleyan. Gilliland will be in Eugene, while Fearing will in struct at Portland. Professor Gilliland received his master of arts degree from the University of Ohio, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. At one time he was professor of psy chology at Lafayette University, and during the war served in the psychology department of the U. S. Army. Professor Gilliland is known on the Pacific Coast, having attended the annual convention of the American syehological Assoeia tio in Los Angles last summer. Dr. Fearing is a product of the psychological department at Stan ford University, having received both his degrees there. Since his graduation, he has done research work in the field of physiological, psychology, specializing in the study and observation of reflexes and equilibrium, following up the latter subject so as to determine by certain experiments those who are unfitted to be aviators. These two theses on reflexes and equilibrium have been published, as has a rota tion table developed by Fearing in collaboration with Professor Frank W. Weymouth of Stanford, which determines the effect of a rotating movement on the equilibrium. Stanford Professor To Speak to Students Thursday and Friday Eliot G. Mears, professor of geog raphy and international trade in the Stanford Graduate school of business, will visit the University of Oregon on Thursday and Friday, March 31 and April 1. He will speak to a general assembly Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock in‘room 105 of the Commerce building. He will meet any students—sci entific and technical, as well as liberal arts majors—who are look ing forward to taking graduate work in business either at Stanford or elsewhere. Private interviews may be arranged at the school of business administration office. Mr. Mears is himself a graduate of the Harvard Graduate school of business administration, was for four years a member of its faculty, and is one of the original members of the Stanford Graduate school of business. He was connected with the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce for four years, first as chief of the Foreign Service Division, and later as American ! Trade Commissioner in the Near | East. Accredited Tour Will be Offered To Art Students Members Limited to 25; Classes and Special Work Planned A European lecture-travel tour for students in architecture, paint ing, and sculpture will be directed this summer by Arthur C. Weather head, dean of the school of archi tecture at the University of South ern California, according to a cir cular and letter received by Dean Virginia Judy Esterly. Six university credits, equivalent to the number offered for the sum mer session, will be granted those who qualify on the tour. The group will be limited to 25 members, most of whom will be from the Univer sity of Southern California, al though students from other cam puses are asked to join. The course will be co-educational. Dean Weatherhead will lecture on the tour, giving nine preliminary lectures on board ship, and special work will be done at the American Academy at Rome, where the party will spend double the usual time taken by tourists there. The tour, which includes fifty days of motoring on the continent, covers a route which abounds with famous architectural monuments, museums and art galleries. The tour will carry the group to London, Paris, Orleans, Vichy, Le Puy, Avignon, Nice, Genoa, Pisa, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Assisi, Perugia, Florence, Venice, Milan, Bellagio, Montreux, Geneva, Dijon, and back to Paris. The price of the tour with steam er accommodations and first class travel expenses is $f,075. Further information can be obtained from Arthur C. Weatherhead, Dean of the School of Architecture, LTniversity of Southern California. Dean Esterly has also received the announcement of the summer school session of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. The dates are July 4 to August 27, and instruction in Modern French is listed. Erring Frosh Receive Vigilantes' Summons The first session of the Vigilance committee of the Oregon Knights and the Order of the “O” for the spring term will be held in room 1, Johnson hall, at 7 o’clock sharp. Freshmen who do not answer the summons of the session will be ap propriately dealt with by the Vig ilance committee. All sophomore Oregon Knights are requested to attend tonight’s session. The following freshmen appear: Alex Kashuba, John Anderson, Walt Clancy, Francis Sturgis, Oliver Hill, John Edwards, Frank Morse, Harry Wolf, Kenneth Olds, Roy Wilkinson, Hyman Hall, Bob Goetz, George Peterson, Hames Werschkul, John Bird, Ted Conn, George Bux : ton, James Jowers, Rogers Kimber ling, Firmin Falleur, A1 Horsfelt, Dick Rawlinson, Herb Metzler, Dave Mason, Jack Anstey, Arden Pang born, Bob Robinson. I Dr. J. Spaeth Speaks Today At Assembly “Books ami Experience” Chosen by Scholar For Subject Lecturer Is Exchange Man at Reed College Delivered Commencement Address Last Year FORMER Princeton crew coach, scholar, professor, author, and out-of-doors man—is a part of the record of Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth, who will address today’s assembly on “Books and Experience.” Dr. Spaeth delivered the com mencement address for the last graduating class of the University. He also lectured at assemblies dur ing summer school, and taught sum mer school here several years. Last summer he taught at the University of Southern California summer ses sion. He was head of the English department at Princeton, and is now acting as exchange professor in English at Redd College, Port land. Spends Vacations on Coast For many summers he has spent his vacation on the Pacific coast. Professor W. E. G. Thacher says, “He has probably covered as much of the Pacific coast by walking as any man living. He is an impres sive platform speaker, vigorous and witty. He is interested in every phase of life.” He is the author of “Old English Poetry,” which is used as a text book in the University. He is also editor of the section on American Literature for the American Year book. Mrs. Spaeth, who is with Dr. Spaeth in Portland, is a portrait and landscape painter. She spent the past summer in Southern Cali fornia doing art work. Dr. C. V. Boyer, head of the Eng lish department, will introduce the speaker. Dr. Boyer was a student of Dr. Spaeth’s at Princeton. Webby’s Spring Garb To Be Gay; Donations Are Gladly Accepted Webby, like all well behaved youths, is to don its spring feath ers and turn its fancies towards thoughts of what the younger things are supposed to think. But the Webfoot, in its first spring number, is going to treat these fancies in a rather light vain. A colorful cover is being designed which will give the reader an idea of what is to be found within. Bolf Klep said yesterday that the order of the Quacks may soon be come a reality, though it will not be known definitely for a week or so. This order is to be composed of members of the staff and contribu tors who have done exceptional work for the magazine. The editorial board is consider ing some sort of awards to be given to members who have done good work on the Webfoot throughout the year. What these awards will be has not been announced. Feature stories of about 1200 words are wanted for this issue. They must be light and easy to read. The editor has suggested that they be written in about the same style as the lighter articles found in such magazines as Vanity Fair. Staff artists will illustrate any ar ticles which are accepted by the editors. The whole campus is invited to contribute to the magazine, but the articles must be in the hands of the editors on or before April 10. Printing Class Picture Appears in Journal A photograph of the advanced class in typography, school of jour nalism, appears in the “Editor and Publisher” for March 19. The class is printing, under the supervision of John Henry Nash, famous San Francisco printer, a hitherto unpub lished work of the late President Campbell, “Education and the State.” The members of the class are: Milton George, Genevieve Morgan, Calvin Horn, Lewis Beeson and Kay Nash. “Editor and Publisher” is the oldest publishers’ and advertisers’ journal in America, and is printed in New York. Canoe Fete Plans Go On Despite Mud 24 Houses to Participate; Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Phi First May 20 Set for Big Annual Water Festival Sigma Pi Tau, Twice Cup Winner, in Line-up Undaunted encroaching by the mud that is on the mill race from both sides, plans for the canoe Herb Socolofsky fete scheduled for May 20 are skip ping for wa rd without a break. Permanent draw ings for rotation of the houses iu the fete were made yesterday, and as a result twelve fraterni ties and a like number of soror ities were picked by lot to partici pate in the coming affair. Houses Participating All right, here are the ones to work this year: fraternities—Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Friendly hall No. 1, Delta Tau Del ta, Psi Kappa, Sigma Chi, Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Kappa Sigma, Phi Sig ma Kappa and Sigma Pi Tau; sor orities—Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Hendricks hall, Phi Mu, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Delta Gamma, Sigma Beta Phi, Del ta Zeta, and Kappa Delta. Inaugurate Rotation Plan Now that’s over. These houses and all the others were given, quite by lot, permanent numbers, which will be filed with the deans of men and women, and which will be fol lowed in future years in deciding which organizations shall participate and which shall not. A rotating sys tem will be used which will find those houses which did not partic ipate this year taking part next year, together with enough of the first named this year to bring the quota up to a round dozen for both the men and women. Hence, in 1928, the Phi Delts, Spees, Friendly Hall No. 1, A. T. O.’s, and Psi Kap pas will again put forth entries for the men’s houses, with Alpha Phi, and Alpha Xi Delta again acting with the women. Drawings Wednesday Drawings will be made next Wed nesday to decide teams for the com ing canoe fete. They will be made on the library steps with every man and his brother invited to see that (Continued on page three) Oregon, Washington, And Idaho Compete in Tri-State Debate Today Ronald McCreight and Benoit Mc ! Croskey, varsity debaters, will meet representatives of the University of Washington tonight at Seattle at the same time that Avery Thomp son and Mam Taylor debate the University of Idaho representatives in Eugene. The contest here will take place in the University high school auditorium at 8:00 o’clock. The question for debate is, Re solved, that democracy is a failure. The team in Seattle upholds the negative while the team here is arguing the affirmative side of the question. Oregon, Idaho, and Washington form the trio for the tri-state con test for which Oregon has signed a three-year contract. Instructor to Return After Year’s Leave Kenneth Rowe, instructor at Ore gon who has been on a leave of ab sence, will return next year to con tinue his work in the English de partment, according to notice re ceived recently by Dr. C. V. Boyer, head of the department. Mr. Rowe is at present doing ad vanced work at Harvard, having been granted a master's degree there, after obtaining a master’s at the University of Texas. He will probably return to Harvard later to work for his doctor’s degree, ac cording to Dr. Boyer. He has done I special work in the Elizabethan field of English literature, with the emphasis on Spencer. New Animal Tribe . Comes to Campus TXTRODUCING Moses Aga meninon, whose ancestors were closely related to the sheep and goat families but who is rather a mixture of each. lie will be at home on the front lawn of the Chi Tsi Lodge every day whenever he is not to be found grazing on' the porch. Moses, like his Biblical namesake, was found near the bullrushes al though the exact spot cannot be given because of legal complica tions. Since his advent into his new home the lawnmower has become a useless ornament, so useless, in fact, that it has been willed to the boys in the Sigma Chi house. At this early date nothing much can be said as to his usefullness but it is reported that his hair is a greenish lustre, so great things are expected, of him. After he has become acquaidted on the campus, according to pres ent plans, he will be formally in troduced to the Delta Gamma goat in order that he will not feel too much out of place. Subscriptions Wanted in Drive Opening Today ‘Send the Emerald Home’ Slogan of Students Aiding Contest In keeping with the start of the spring term, Francis McKenna, cir culation manager of the Emerald, mnounces the annual spring term subscription drive, starting today and ending on Saturday. A prize of one spring term sub scription will be awarded to each worker who turns in $10 worth of subscriptions. Edward Bissell, as sistant circulation manager, has been named to manage the drivo with the assistance of Wilber Shan non, circulation assistant, and a group of picked solicitors. Mr. McKenna urges the students to subscribe early and thereby in sure as many copies of the paper to their friends and folks at home is are published. The Emerald for the past term reached over 1200 subscribers who are not on the cam pus. The subscription price for the remainder of the year in ono dollar. “Many students keep their par ents and friends informed with campus and student activities through the subscriptions to the Emerald.. Letters have been re ceived from subscribers supporting the above statement. “The Emerald is the only way I can keep fresh the fond memories of my University lays,” one subscriber wrote. Sup plement your letters with a sub (Continued on page three) Premiere of 'Torchbeare r s’ Tonight, 8:15 I Play Within a Play, Plot of Comedy Produced at Guild Theater — | Drama Scheduled for Two Nights on Campus Senior Company Cast for Presentation THE “Torehbearers,” by George Kelly, the comedy to be pro duced by the senior company at the Guild theater tonight and to morrow night at 8:15, is a story of a group of elite society people who decide to produce a play for the “poor, suffering (seamen” of the Seamen’s Institute. Thus, this is a play within a play. The production for tfie sufferers benefit had been ready for staging once before but the death of the husband of the leading lady, Katie Buchanan as Clara Sheppard, comes at a most inopportune moment. “Torch,” Is Culture Mrs. Ritter, Etha Jeanne Clark, steps in. The self appointed director, Mrs. Pampinelli, or Althea Dwyer, says of the matter that “whenever the torch of essential culture is raised there had unfailingly been the concomitant example of human life and in the words of Lincoln, ‘that we should die rather than see ideals of art perish.’” The rehearsals start, and except for a few minor difficulties such as forgetting lines, and having wrong props, things go rather well. The climax occurs when the young bus iness man husband Mr. Ritter, Wil liam Forbis, sees his wife act and is rendered unconscious. The audience is left in suspense as to whether he is dead or mortally injured, but the play goes on in spite of “unfortun ate interruptions.” More Husbands Lost Besides the characters mentioned there is the langorous, bored, unin terested Bohemian, Florence Mc Crickett, Kittye Sartain; the friv olous three times married and look ing for another husband Nelly Fell, Constance Roth; Alfons Korn is in the “little brother efficiency” role of Mr. Spindler; Arthur Anderson and Ernest McKinney are the young : men about town; Cecil Matson is a vocalist who can sing, but not act— yet he is the hero of the play for sailors; the little vivacious maid at Ritters, Mary Campbell, understands everything because she has been in a play and also lost a husband. Per ry Douglas fills the role of the hard boiled stage manager. Good Time Assured Men at Smoker Saturday Night in McArthur Igloo Rooster Fighters Will Vie for Time Honored Title; Hippo Gillis First Holder of Crown The Oregon rooster fighting cham pionship lias been a coveted title for many years, and Ralph McCul loch, present holder, is prepared to defend it against all comers Satur day night at the Men’s Smoker in McArthur Igloo. The first person to win the title and have his name engraved on the cup was Hippo Gil lis, who was a graduating senior when Dean Walker was a frosh. Dean Walker won the title in his undergraduate days and later John ny Beckett, football star on the 191 fi wonder team, added his name to the list of winners. Rill Hayward, who has been on the campus since 1903, will referee all bouts, boxing, rooster fighting, tilting, and free-for-all included. When it comes to refereeing the free-for-all he will be one busy man, because in this event there will be five heavy hitting men in the ring together, each with homicidal in tent. Some of those who have offered their services in this affair are Har ry Wood, K. O. McDonald, Bob Keeney, and Marshall Shields. It will bo noticed that at least fifty per cent of the persons listed above are freshmen, and probably have never seen a free-for-all at the Men \s Smoker before. The exclusive male affair Satur- i day evening will be unusual in more ' ways than one. The program will consist of a more diversified list of events than in previous years, ac cording to Lauren Conley, general chairman, and the vod-vil acts will be suapyy and close together. The method of dispensing food will also be different. Instead of waiting until everything else is over and then eating, the boys will be presented with doughnuts, cider, and peanuts as soon as they enter the portals of the Igloo. They should get their two-bits worth in peanuts alone, because there will be enough to last them until the end of the evening’s entertainment, Wendell Gray, chairman of the refreshment committee, said. Promotor Owens, of Kagan and Bowen, who is promoting boxing in the Armory, is furnishing the ring for the boxing bouts and other events that must be confined within a ropped arena. Beryl Hodgen will act as announcer during the eve ning’s bill of athletic encounters. A list of the committees and chairmen follow: Lauren Conley, general chairman. Ed Crowley, chairman of program committee who will be assisted by LaVerne Pearson, supervisor of the music, and Scotty Kretzer, promot er of intra-fraternity competition, as well as Johnny Walker, who is in charge of the arrangement. Wendell Gray is chairman of the refreshments committee and will be assisted bv Ernest McKinney and Burr Abner. Wade Newbegin is chairman of the finance commit tee. Maurice Collings, chairman of the boxing committee, and John But ler, chairman of construction.