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State Musical
Teachers Due
HereForMeet
School of Music Is Host
At Convention Today
And Tomorrow
Chamber of Commerce
Will Entertain Guests
Vesper Choir to Present
St. Cecilia Mass
MORE than 100 delegates from
all over the state will be on
the campus today for the twelfth
annual convention of the Oregon
State Music Teacher’s association,
which will meet here today and to
morrow, with headquarters at the
school of music. Concerts and dis
cussions relating to different mu
sical instruments will be offered by
the visitors, and Eugene Carr, chair
man of the arrangement committee,
wishes to stress that these discus
sion sessions are open to the pub
lic. Many music students of the cam
pus are expected to attend the ses
sions, which will be held in the
school of music auditorium.
Over 75 delegates are expected to
■come from Portland alone, and
southern Oregon will also be well
represented. A number of delegates,
will be entertained in Eugene homes,
and the service clubs and chamber
■of commerce of the city have been
active in the plans which they have
.arranged for the entertainment of
the visitors.
Sign at Music Building
Registration will begin at the mu
sic building this morning at 9:00
o’clock and a full day of discussion
is scheduled. The Eugene Chamber
of Commerce will meet the dele
gates at the music building to es
cort them in cars to their club
rooms for a luncheon, for which they
will act as hosts to the delegates.
The program will be presented by
the guests, and immediately follow
ing, the chamber will conduct their
guests on a drive to points of in
terest in the city. They will return
to the music building in time for
the afternoon session which begins
at 3:00.
The University orchestra, under
the direction of Rex Underwood,
and the University vesper choir,
with soloists, under John Stark
Evans, will present the program
which fills tonight’s schedule. The
St. Cecilia Mass will be repeated by
the choir, and the orchestra will of
fer a great variety of entertainment.
The concert will be given in the
auditorium of the school of music,
and will begin at 8 o ’clock.
Program Follows
The complete program for today
follows, and that for Friday will
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Phi Theta Vpsilon
Inducts New Members
Formal initiation of new members
of Phi Theta Upsilon, junior-senior
women’s service honorary, was held
in the Woman’s building last night.
Those initiated were: Butli Bur
cham, Lily deBernardi, Mildred
Lowden, Mae Moore, Hazel Pruts
man, Lillian Vail, Constance Wein
man, Allison Wilder, Emmabell
Woodworth. Following the initia
tion a dinner was given for the
old and new members at the Anchor
age.
New officers were elected as fol
lows: Clita Walden, president; Em
mabell Woodworth, vice-president;
Diana Deininger, secretary; and
Buth Bureham, treasurer; and Ber
niece Basor, historian. Betiring of
ficers are: Wilma Lester, president;
Alice Morris, vice-president; and
Diana Deininger, secretary-treas
urer.
Charter members of the organiza
tion are: Esther Hardy, Kathryn
Ulrich, Kathleen Powell, Baehel
Storer, Alice Morris, Clita Walden,
Wilma Lester, Sue Shepherd, Diana
Deininger, and Berniece Basor.
UNIVEBSITV OF WASHING
TON, Seattle, Wash.—More than
$1000 was raised by student shoe
shiners on the day set aside for
the raising of funds for needy stu
dents.
UNIVEBSITV OF WISCONSIN,
MADISON, Wis.—The correspond
ence school has enrolled 90 convicts.
The prisoners pay for the courses
either by prison earnings or by
loans from the university.
Student Investigations Start Faculties
Of Universities Gunning for Reforms
Oregon’s Move Toward Junior College and Honors
System Pioneer in Nation-wide Action
(Editor’s note: This is the first
of two special articles by an Emer
ald staff writer on the student
movement for curricular reform.
The second will appear in an early
issue.)
By JANE DUDLEY EPLEY
When a student investigation
committee in 1926 published an ex
tensive report dealing with the ills
of the present educational system
and suggested curricular changes,
most students at the University of
Oregon were first brought into con
tact with a movement that has now
attained nation-wide scope.
Immediate attention was attract
ed to the Oregon report. It was not
so much the content of the report
itself, but the spirit of desire on the
part of students themselves to ex
amine the educational machinery as
manifested by it, that resulted in a
nation-wide demand for copies of
this statement.
That was a year ago. This year,
another self-appointed investigating
committee took up the work, and a
second report was made public. This
new spirit in education had so far
advanced that the second report be
came directly connected with a fac
ulty movement of similar character,
with the result that the University
of Oregon is one of the first institu
tions of the country to adopt certain
drastic curricular changes represen
tative of certain aims of the move
ment.
So, at Oregon, a plan for a junior
college, providing the academic
course with a definite break at the
end of the second year, and an hon
ors system, offering privileges to the
exceptional student not to be found
in mass educational methods, have
definitely been made a part of the
educational system.
True, Oregon is a pioneer inas
much as this institution has actually
adopted certain suggested changes
I growing out of this movement. But
let it not be supposed that these
educational reforms, not even the
phases peculiar to the plans adopted
here this year, originated here or
are. confined to this University.
Witness, for instance, this state
ment made in January by Dr. Clar
ence C. Little, president of the Uni
versity of Michigan, “Pressure of
great numbers of students,” said
Dr. Little, “prompts universities to
admit that there are too many alert
and constructive youths to allow
mediocre students to continue dur
ing a full four-year period.
“Students in freshman and soph
omore years should have the ad
vantage of instructors who are best
fitted to arouse their intense inter
est in some form of achievement.
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Death of Young
Oregon Poetess
Draws Eulogy
Walter Evans Kidd Lauds
Irene Stewart Clayson
Of Class of 1922
By WALTER EVANS KIDD
“And learn how life, once made,
could die,
And just what was this death—
Learn what wisdom could discry
Such ecstasy as breath.”
—From “Afterward,”
by Irene Stewart
The death of Irene Stewart (Mrs.
Frederick Clayson), a young Ore
gon poet and a friend, is pathetic—
pathetic because her singing days,
which held such promise, were cut
short last Tuesday and because her
clear voice will never again repeat
verse to us. Intensity of emotion
and beauty of tone characterized her
every utterance.
She belonged to the University
class of ’22. Last Christmas she
married Frederick Clayson, who was
graduated in English last year.
Irene was always sensitive to the
beauty and irony of life. Often she
found escape from the tedium of ex
istence by taking flight into a fanci
ful place as beautiful and enchant
ing as a fairy world. Other times
she courageously challenged life.
Frankly she admitted her tech
nical faults and limitation in sub
ject material; wisely she struggled
to achieve a lucid and lyrical terse
ness of style and a wider scope of
vision.
Only last week she talked with
me, discussing her recent marketing
of poems with “Poetry” and “Poet
Lore.” During our conversation
about the perishability of flesh and
the eternity of stars, she quoted
from Maxwell Anderson’s verse:
“Time stops all crying, dries the
bitterest tears.
Sorrow for death, sorrcAv* for love
that’s past,
Goes down with the frail wreckage
of the years.”
During the last year Irene Stew
art gained the recognition of many
national magazines, such as The
Independent, Poet Lore, American
Mercury, Midland, The Lyric,
Voices, Commonweal, Greenwich
Village Quill and Poetry. Her lyric,
“Great Oregon,” won first place in
the semi-centennial song contest.
“The Little Queen’s Sleep,” which
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Military Uniforms Due
In Barracks Saturday
All military uniforms must be
turned in by Saturday noon to the
store-keeper in R. O. T. C. bar
racks, if their possessors wish their
'five dollars returned, say commissary
officials.
The store-room will be open dur
ing the following hours:
Thursday and Friday: 8 to 5.
Saturday: 8 to 12.
Students are urged to turn them
in on time.
Cross to Talk;
‘Brass Tacks’
Address Title
Assembly Speaker Expert
Economist; Portland
Baritone to Sing
“Brass Tackks’’ is the subject
of the lecture to toe given today by
Dr. Ira B. Cross, professor of eco
nomics at the University of Cali
fornia, who is on the campus as a
guests of Phi Beta Kappa and Sig
ma Xi, national scholastic and sci
entific fraternities respectively.
Dr. Cross is a well-known speak
er, author, scholar and economist,
and it is expected that the assem
bly address which is the last of the
term, will be one of the best given
this year.
Arrangements for special music
have been made and Otto Wede
meyer Portland ljiaritone, who is on
the campus as a delegate to the
Twelfth Annual convention of Ore
gon State Music Teachers’ associa
tion, will sing several numbers. He
will be accompanied by Mrs. Mrs.
Ella Connell Jesse, Portland, pia
nist. Mr. Wedemeyer is a well
known singer and music instructor
in Portland, and is choir director of
the First Presbyterian church there.
Dr. Cross is the author of several
volumes on economics, industry, and
finance; lecturer for the extension
division of the University of Cali
fornia; dean of the San Francisco
chapter of the American Institute
of Banking; and has recently been
appointed a member of the Board
of Regents of the American Insti
tute of Banking.
In 1905, he was graduated from
the University of Wisconsin, and re
ceived his M.A. there the following
year. Ho was granted a Ph.D. from
Stanford university, and was for
several years assistant and associ
ate professor there. In 1919 he ac
cepted the position of professor of
economics at the University of Cal
ifornia where he has been up to the
present time.
Dr. Cross is a member of Delta
Sigma Kho, forensic honorary; Phi
Alpha Tau; Phi Beta Kappa, schol
astic society; Beta Gamma Sigma,
scholastic commerce honorary;'
Lambda Chi Alpha, social frater
nity; and Alpha Kappa Psi, profes
sional commerce fraternity.
DRAKE UNIVERSITY, DES
MOINES, la.—A new custom has
been established by Don Kaufman,
president of the junior class, by
giving a silver trophy to the soror
ity having the most girls at the
prom.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAM
BRIDGE, Mass. — The Harvard
Club will present for its spring per
formance Shakespeare’s “Taming of
the Shrew,” with modern dress and
action.
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, Easton,
Pa.—The fraternity group has aver
aged higher grades than the non
fraternity group for the first time
in the history of the college.
Luy Appoints
Webfoot Staff
For Next Year
Ad Men, Writers, Business
Managers Selected by
New Editor
Socolofsky Chosen
To Help Handle Money
‘More Contributors,’ Cry
Of Magazine’s Head
WEBFOOT appointments for the
business staff, associate edi
torships and the regular contribut
ing staff were made yesterday, by
Paul Luy, editor, and Louis Dam
maseh, business manager for next
year.
Herbert Socolofsky, vice-president
of the A. S. U. O., will be the as
sistant manager. Socolofsky is a
junior in the business administration
department, and the Webfoot’s cir
culation manager for this year.
Archie Mitchell, also a junior in
business ad, will manage the for
eign advertising. John Konigshofer,
freshman in the geology department,
will take care of the local adver
tising. Both he and Mitchell did
advertising for the campus magazine
this year.
Margaret, Lucile Named
Margaret Long and Lucile Carroll
will do specialty advertising, and
Bill Doyle and Tom Willis are the
advertising salesmen.
Paul Hunt, pre-law, Harold Kelly,
business administration, and Tom
Stoddard, economics, have been ap
pointed circulation assistants. All
three" ttre freshmen.
The associate editors, appointed
by Paul Luy, editor-elect, are: Ruth
Newton, junior in journalism, Art
Schoeni, sophomore in journalism,
and Harriet Atchison, freshman in
the art department.
The regular contributing staff, al
so appointed by the editor, were as
follows: Brad Collins, Mary John
son, Bob Yoke, Donald Johnson,
Jim Rodgers, Dick Jones and Joe
Holiday.
Let’s All Write
In speaking of the contributing
staff, Luy said, “I hope people will
not get the idea that the pages of
the Webfoot are closed to writers
who are not on the list. These names
represent only those who have con
tributed this year, and have prom
ised to do so again next year. I
hope there will be a lot of copy
turned in from students interested
in writing and the magazine, as
there was this year.”
When asked about his policies for
next year, Luy said that if condi
tions were favorable, there would
probably be a slight increase in size
of the magazine, both in number of
pages, and width and length of the
magazine itself.
Portland Dental School
Elects Edgar Buchanan
Head of Student Body
Edgar Buchanan, ex-’27, of Eu
gene, who is attending the North
Pacific Dental college in Portland,
was elected president of the student
body in the recent election, accord
ing to word received on the campus.
Mr. Buchanan, who was^active in
dramatics while on the campus, tak
ing part in Guild Theater produc
tions, does both acting and direct
ing in the Portland Playcrafters,
which is under the direction of
Mrs. Doris Smith. lie plays the
Persian prince in the “Attar of
Roses” episode of Rosaria.
Mr. Buchanan is a member of
Theta Chi on the campus and of Xi
Psi Phi at North Pacific.
German Youth Turns
To Outdoor Movement
“The Wandervogel movement in
Germany has had a wholesome in
fluence on youth, and women espe
cially have profited,” said Dr. F.
G. G. Schmidt, head of the German
department, in an interview yester
day on the youth movement in Ger
many. “As a result the youth of
the country have become very in
dependent, and a more or less co
educational affair has developed. It
is much like the scout or Y. M. C. A.
movement in America.”
The movement started in 1904.
Later the unions and societies be
gan to lend a helping hand, and in
1908 a Conference of Socialists was
held. Frederick Ebert, who was
later the first president of the Ger
man republic, was one of the lead
ers. Before the war there were at
least 800 organizations and since
the war 1000.
Debate Group
Installation
Set For Today
S. Houck, Delta Sigma Rho
National President,
Will Officiate
Oregon Chapter Has
11 Undergraduates
Benoit McCroskey Heads
Local Organization
'T'HK Oregon chapter of Delta
Sigma Rho, national honorary
debate society, will be installed to
day and initiation of new members
will follow. A banquet will be held
at 5:30 at the Eugene hotel for all
debaters as well as Delta Sigma
Rho members. All members of the
men’s and women’s varsity teams,
and the freshman squad are invit
ed to attend.
Stanley B. Houck, national presi
dent of Delta Sigma Rho, will in
stall the chapter at the banquet,
and Judge 0. F. Skipworth, of Eu
gene, an enthusiast of forensic ac
tivity, will speak. After installation,
the members will stay for the formal
initiation to follow.
Men and Women in Group
President Houck has just install
ed a chapter of the honorary at
Pomona college and is on his way
back to headquarters at Minneapo
lis. He arrived in Eugene at 6:35
last night and will spend all day
Thursday on the campus.
The undergraduate members of
Delta Sigma Rho are: Margaret
Blackaby, Frances Cherry, Dudley
Clark, Walter Durgan, Jack Hemp
stead, Beryl Ludington, Benoit Mc
Croskey, Cecil McKerclier, Mark
Taylor, Avery Thompson and Paul
ine Wiueliell.
Five of Faculty Members
Members of t.lie University of
Oregon faculty already members
are President Arnold Bennett Hall,
Hugh E. Rosson, associate professor
of English and law, E. C. Robbins,
dean of the school of business ad
ministration, J. Stanley Gray, as
sistant professor of English and
oratory coach, and J. K. Horner,
assistant professor of English, de
bate coach and national vice-presi
dent of Delta Sigma Rho.
University of Oregon debaters pe
titioned Delta Sigma Rho last year,
and notification was received that
the chapter hud been granted curly
in the winter term of this year.
Benoit McCroskey is president of
the Oregon chapter of Delta Sigma
Rho, and Cecil McKerclier is sec
retary-treasurer.
Committee to Study
Traditions of Colleges
Appointed by Beelar
A traditions committee for next
year, under the leadership of Her
bert Soeolofsky, was named yester
day by Don Beelar, A. S. U. O..
president, at the last Student Coun
cil meeting of the term.
Other members of the group in
clude Dr. Delbert Stannard, Oregon
alumnus, Del Oberteuffer, instructor
in physical education, Jeannette
Calkins, alumni secretary, Frances
Plimpton and Fred West, under
graduates. Dean Walker, dean of
men, is the ex-officio representative.
The work of this body, as out
lined by the chairman, will include
a study of situations in other uni
versities and colleges in order to
bring about some effective arrange
ment on this campus if possible.
Wendell Cray, junior man on the
council, was appointed chairman of
a committee on activities which
will cooperate with chairmen of
major campus events next year in
selecting student workers.
A permanent resolution of the
council passed in 1925 which made
the freshman class president a non
voting member of the group was res
cinded.
Awarding of gold “O’s” to mem
bers of the varsity basketball team
in recognition of the capture of the
Northwest championship will take
place a#1 assembly today, it was an
nounced.
Mrs. Esterly Better;
May Return Tuesday
Mrs. Virginia Judy Esterly, dean
of women, was reported improved in
health yesterday. She has been ill
in the Eugene hospital with tonsil
itis and infection of the hand since
last Friday. If she continues to get
better, she will probably return to
her office by next Tuesday.
Contest Aims to Find
Best College Novel
«'■ ''HE Spring Board,” a novel
-*■ by Ronald Woolf, which
has recently been released by
Charles and Albert Boni, New
York publishers, has caused a
great deal of comment on college
novels. This comment has led
the publishers to offer a $150
prize for the best essay support
ing or attacking “The Spring
Board.”
Members of the Boni Publish
ing company claim this book is
the best college novel ever writ
ten in America and they invite
any college undergraduate to
enter an essay supporting any
other candidate for this honor.
Any one interested may write
to the Charles and Albert Boni
Publishers in New York for de
tails governing the contest, which
will continue for the next two
months. The date for entry is
about August 1.
Tennis Tourney
Of State Players
To Open Today
Thirty Entered in Singles
Contest Here; More
Are Expected
The Eugene singles open tennis
tournament, sponsored by the school
of physical education at tho Uni
versity, starts today at 2:30. En
tries will be received until noon,
after which time drawings for the
first round will be made, Edward
Abercrombie, tennis coach, an
nounced.
More than 30 players from over
the state have already turned in
entry blanks, and others are expect
ed to firing the total well over 40.
This alone makes it impossible to
include doubles matches in the tour
ney as the playing is to bo complet
ed Saturday afternoon, the coach
declared.
The Web foot varsity tennis squad
has entered, and will be competing
against the pick of Multnomah club,
which is to be represented by Gard
ner Brown, junior ace. Other net
men from Portland include: Jack
Rhine, Washington high school;
Don Ragan, Lincoln, winner of the
Eugene singles tournament last sea
son: and Jack Kaplan, Portland
park player who was on the Oregon
freshman team in 1926.
Several faculty members of O. A.
C. and Oregon are expected to enter.
Stephenson S. Smith, instructor in
the English department, former Ox
ford player, and Homer P. Rainey,
professor of education, who Was
recently elected president of Frank
lin college, have already signed up
for the tournament. Eugene V. Slat
tery, major in the law school and
local tennis player, has also turned
in his card.
Henry Neer, No. 1 player on the
varsity, and brother of Phil Neer,
of California, winner of the Na
tional Intercollegiates 1925, is rated
as one of the strongest players on
the Pacific coast, and probably will
win the tournament here. Neer won
every singles match during the re
cent round-robin tourney competing
against men from Stanford, Wash
ington, and O. A. C.
Roy Okerberg, his teammate, is
expected to give Neer some keen
competition. Ilis advantage in
heighth and strength will be met
by the speed of the smaller man in
covering the court and his ability
to wear his opponent down by plac
ing his returns. Both men have been
playing together all season and each
knows the other’s stylo of play, so
if those men meet it will be more
or less of a toss-up as to which one
will win.
Plans for the tournament next
season include matches between the
women of the state as well as the
men. This can be accomplished only
in event that additional courts are
built. Ten new courts are to be
built next year if finances permit,
Coach Abercrombie declared. The
additional courts would bring the
number up to an equal with the
Stanford equipment, which is con
sidered the best on the coast.
The tournament, which will last
until Saturday afternoon, will be
carried on the straight elimination
plan. The finals, on Saturday,
should throw some of the best ten
nis talent in the state in competi
tion for the medals which will be
I awarded by the United States Lawn
Tennis association.
UNIVERSITY OP CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY, Calif. — Dogs have
been banned from the campus by
order of the president.
t
Nash Swamps
Phil Bergh in
EmeraldRace
Large Vole Cast Gives New
Editor 775 to 363
Majority
Mangum’s Appointees
Will Keep Positions
Six-Page Paper Planned
For Next Year
AY NASH, managing editor of
the Emerald, was yesterday
elected editor of the paper for next
Ray Nash
year over Phil
Bergli by a vote
of 775 to 363.
T li e election
was made neces
sary because of
the death of Har
old Mangum who
was chosen at the
last student elec
tion as editor.
With 1138 votes
cast it was con
sidered a good
turnout as the edi
torship was the
only imng on tne Danot. JNash re
ceived more votes than some win
ners in the recent campus election
in which over 1700 votes were cast,
and over twice as many as his op
ponent.
Same Appointments
According to Nash, those appoint
ed on the staff by Mangum will be
reappointed. The staff stands: Wal
ter Coover, associate editor; Bob
Galloway, managing editor; Arden
Pangborn, sports editor; Margaret
Clark, society editor; and Donald
Johnston, feature editor.
Plans are being made for a larger
and better Emerald next year. It
is planned to increase the size of
the paper to six pages with an in
crease in feature and news material.
New features will be added, Nash
announced.
Tne University Press has ordered
new equipment to care for the ex
pansion in the size of the paper.
Work to Progress
Work on the changes and im
provements in the publication will
go on during the summer and by
next fall all will be in readiness to
start with the new Emerald.
The new editor has worked on the
Emerald staff for three years. Dur
ing this time he has been on the
news staff, a night editor, a day edi
tor, and this year is managing edi
tor under Sol Abramson. He has
also been a contributor to the Web
foot, campus magazine. He is presi
dent of Sigma Delta Chi, men’s
professional journalism fraternity.
Capt. Culin Will Take
Vacation and Report at
Fort Benning Next Fall
Captain Frank L. Culin Jr., as
sistant professor of military science
and tactics, and executive officer of
the E. O. T. C., will leave the Uni
versity at the close of this term.
Captain Culin will report for duty
about the first of September in the
advanced officers class of the in
fantry school at Fort Benning, Ga.
Capt. Culin came to the Uni
versity in December, 1923, and in
leaving he says: “I have thorough
ly enjoyed my position at Oregon,
and I am leaving here with a very
definite feeling of regret.”
Before going to Georgia he and
his family will spend the summer
having a good time. The first part
of the season will be spent in San
Francisco and the latter part in
Arizona. “From there we will go
to Georgia if it is possible to get
across the Mississippi,” says Cap
tain Culin.
Captain F. M. Moore will fill tho
vacancy left by Captain Culin.
Final R. O. T. C. Parade
Given Over to Juniors
The companies of the R. O. T, C.
department held their final cere
mony today under the command of
select Junior Cadets. However, at
the opening of the ceremonies the
senior cadets were in charge. They
gave their places to the juniors
after they had received their com
missions.
There were forty-three commis
sions given to the juniors and sen
iors by the department.