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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1927)
29 From Faculty To Leave Oregon At End of Year Absence Leave to Travel Or Do Advance Study Takes Several Business Administration Loses 5 Men Twenty-nine instructors in the University, representative of nearly every school and department, are leaving at the end of this school year, either for advancement into better positions or on leave of ab sence. The school of education, from which three professors will go, is losing almost as many as any other one department. Two of these, Homer P. Rainey and Kai Jensen, are leaving for positions in the east. Professor Rainey has resigned to accept the position of president of Franklin College, Indiana, and Kai Jensen, instructor in education, will teach at Ohio State College, Ohio. Professor F. L. Stetson has asked for spring and summer leave of ab sence for advanced study. Four Will be Abroad Four of the instructors absenting themselves from the University will be abroad. Avard Fairbanks, as sociate professor of architecture and allied arts, will be on a year’s leave of absence, studying for the Gug genhein fellowship. Miss Cornelia Pipes, instructor in Romance lan guages, is to continue her advanced study in France, and Miss Lillian ►Stupp, assistant professor of phys ical education, intends to be abroad for a year. Raymond I). Lawrence, instructor in journalism, )bas ac cepted a position on the Chicago Tribune, Paris edition, in France. Faville Already at Harvard The business administration school is losing five instructors. Davtid Faville, associate professor of busi ness administration, left during the year for advanced study on a Har vard fellowship. C. It. Ham has re signed, and Arthur R. Ilimbert will continue advanced study at Stan ford in the coming year. Professor Harry C. Hawkins has accepted a government position with the For eign Trade department at Washing ton, D. C. Professor E. C. Robbins has asked for a year’s leave of ab sence to accept a research professor ship at Harvard. William G. Hale, dean of the law school, has been appointed dean at Washington University, St. Louis. Captain Frank Culin, assistant pro fessor of military science, lias been transferred to Fort Benning, Geor gia, and will study there during the j coining year. Miss Cuevas to Be in New York Florence D. Alden, of the phys ical education department, is leav ing for a year’s study at Columbia University. Miss Christina Crane and Miss Rosalia P. Cuevas, instruc tors in Romance languages, are leaving. Miss Cuevas intends to be in New York with her sister. Alice Henson Ernst, assistant pro fessor of English, is having a year’s leave of absence for study. Ethel I. Sanborn, instructor in botany, has also asked for a year’s leave of absence at Stanford, where she will continue advanced study for her Ph. D. Harry A. Scott, professor of physical education, has a leave of absence to study in the east a year, and Walter W. Snyder, assistant professor of English, also intends to continue advanced study during the year. Herbert G. Tanner, associate professor of chemistry, wjll study at Stanford. Professor Ralplj 1>. Casey, of the school" of journalism, has re ceived a year’s leave of absence to do advanced graduate work in poli tical science and journalism at the l niversity of Wisconsin. Horace G. Wyatt, assistant pro fessor of psychology, has accepted a position teaching psychology at Stanford, and intends to move to California at the close of the school year. Other instructors that have re signed are: Virgil Hafen, instructor in architecture and allied arts; Wil liam Fletcher Smith, assistant pro fessor of Greek and Latin; and Ce cile McAlister, assistant in psychol ogy. F. C. Wooton, of the education school and instructor in University high school, has received a Stanford fellowship and will study there. j Track Meet for Girls Will be Next Tuesday Noxt Tuesday at 3:45 the girls’ track meet will be held on the field behind the Woman’s building, with 11 events scheduled. These include standing broad jump, the running broad jump, the hop-step-and-jump, *,he 'high jump, djiscus throwing, basket and base ball throwing, jav elin throwing, the 50- and 75-yard dashes, and the (iO-vard hurdles* The following girls will take part in the meet: First frosh team: Edna Dunbar, Florence Holloway, Genevieve Swe denbrug, and Leone Swengel. First sophomore team: Olive Banks and Ethel Helliwell. First junior: Vir ginia Lounsbury and Hazel Nobes. First senior: Elleau Fargher and Margaret Pepoon. The second team girls have been classed all in one group as follows: Martha Xcss, Florence McNerney, Lou Ann Chase, Margaret Cutt'a baek, Laura Prescott, Florence Hur ley, Vesta Scholl, and Arlene Butler. Miss Alden Will Study In East Next Year Miss Florence Alden, head of the women’s gymnasium in the school of physical education, will not re turn next year to Oregon, but plans to study at Columbia and New York University. A busy summer has been planned by Miss Alden, before her work starts in the East next fall. She will attend the National Education As sociation convention at Seattle from July 5 to 8. She is secretary and treasurer of the physical and health education section of the Associa tion. After the conference, Miss Alden plans to tour Oregon with her sis ter, Miss Helen Alden, who is com ing from the East. They will then go down to California. From there they will go East, traveling by way of the Grand Canyon of the Color ado. She Has a Sweet Tooth —^ our girl who is about to graduate. Nothing could please her more than a "specially packed box of delicious home-made chocolates bought at—■ Brown’s Taffy Tavern 833 Willamette I Diversions on a Penny Whistle The Time of Man Elizabeth Madox Roberts ‘•It’s unknowen how lovely I am. It runs up through my arms and shoulders, warm, and ne’er thing else is the matter. I saw some moun tains standen up in a dream, a dream that went down Tennessee. I will tell somebody what I saw, everything that I saw. Tt'3 un knowen how lovely I am, unknow en.” Ellen Chesser, murmuring herself to sleep, eases the pangs that stir in her with the falling of a June evening; and Sherwood Anderson is “humble” before what he calls a wonderful “performance.” Of course The Time of Man is pre cisely not a performance; it is po etry, a steady, luminous flow of word beauty. Words must be han dled delicately and sensitively, must be felt in the brain, and carry with them the touch of the artist’s heart and fingers to be beautiful. They come from Anderson’s smoldering brain, warmed, but not shaped with thought. So he stands humble be fore words that shine and throb with life, caught up out of thought. The life Miss Roberts gives us is that of two generations of a fam ily of Kentucky poor whites—and herself—and mankind. Because all three are there we have a great book. The author spent the bare foot beginnings of her life in the Kentucky mountains, and rather amazingly completed a poet’s innoc uous sojourn at a university, Chica go, and at present resides shame lessly at Los Angeles. Only the first of these facts seems signifi cant. We have had many novels of the soil written from the outside; in most of our realism there is a feeling of an unmannerly, prying eye and a disinterested pencil. Even Miss Outlier's beautiful work is made external by her beguilement with painting and suave refinement. But The Time of Man comes from the inside; the earth and the peo ple who live on it speak through its pages. “Her body and mind were of the earth, clodded with the clods; the strength of her arms and her back and her thighs arose out of the soil; the clods turned upon them selves to work back into their own substance endlessly.” Ellen, beat ing out the clods draws her strength from the earth and cnbodies in her self a higher expression of its stark force. And Miss Roberts, in work ing out Ellen’s story, gives us a book wherein this strength mounts up into the precious substance of literature. The girl piles stones in the field, wondering about herself, the origin of the rocks she is lift ing, and the nature of the men who first came, turning the soil with their plows and bringing the time of man. “She was leaning over the clods to gather a stone, her shadow making an arched shape on the ground. All at once she lifted her body and flung up her head to the great sky that reached over the hills and I shouted: j ‘Here I am.’ She waited lis j tening. ‘I’m Ellen Chesser. I’m i here. ’ “Her voice went up the wind out of the plowed land. For a moment she searched the air with her senses and then she turned back to the stones again. “ ‘You didn’t hear e’er tiling,’ she said under her breath. ‘Did you think you beared something a-callen ? ’ ” Most of our American literature of the soil has been concerned with pioneers, large-framed, mighty ex ploiters of the earth and forests. That has been our story, conquest; and to our failure to implant a culture and nourish it in the soil of the new land the blame is laid for our failure to produce a fine native literature. But the Chesser family are not pioneers, nor are they pio neers without a frontier; for they show the unquenchable restlessness, the content with rude living, and the love of simple, primitive things, the land, tools to work it, and the plants and animals that feed on it, that form the basis of pioneer char acter. As poor whites they are never more than shifting tenants, never possessing more than can be from farm to farm in one wagon with a calf or pig driven behind. In finance, ownership enslaves; on the soil, it frees. These people are tied to the earth by poverty and instincts; they are essentially peasants. Twenty miles is a great distance to journey; the law is a strange, fearsome power; one must not protest the God-made justice of things however oppress ing they may prove to be. “The world’s little and you just set still in it and that’s all there is. There ain’t any ocean, nor e’er city, nor e ’or river nor e ’er north pole. There's just the little edge of the wheat field and a little edge of a blacksmith shop with nails on the ground, and there’s a road a-goen off a little piece with puddles of water a-stauden, and there’s mud.” Yet for Ellon’s eager, imaginative spirit there is always an escape. For her “life began somewhere on the roads, traveling after the wa gons where she had claim upon all the land and no claim, all at once, and where what she knew of the world and what she wanted of it sparkled and glittered and ran forward quickly as if it would al ways find something better." Herein lies the distinction of The Time of Man; its homely culture and its poetry are truly native and undiluted. Miss Roberts may not be a greater poet than a few others of our writers, but she combines a rich sensitiveness, a warm sense of humor, and a perfection of rhyth mic and tonal feeling that are very rare. When she presents so pa Memorial Day May 30, 1927 Appropriate Cut Flowers DELPIIINUM CALLA LILIES GLADIOLI CARNATIONS Potted Flowers HYDRANGEAS PRIMROSES ROSES FUCHSIAS SPIREAS Reverence, respect and devotion turn our heads each year to ward the resting places of those who donned their country’s uni form and marched away with Grant, Lee, Roosevelt and Per shing. Memorial day, we re member. We want to beautify their graves. We cover them with nature’s most beautiful handiwork—flowers. Only their pureness and sweetness can ex press our love for those that are gone. REX FLORAL CO. Rex Theatre Building Phone 962 tientlv and vividly and with such originality the picture of Ellen ! yearning for life and from first to last fleeing from the living, one can only say, “It’s unknown how lovely it is.’’ R. IX HORN. Mrs. Ernst’s One-act Play to be Produced In Portland This Fall "Spring Sluicing,” the latest of the one-act plays written by Mrs. Alice Henson Ernst of the English department, is 'to be produced in Portland this fall by the Portland Plavcrafters, according to a letter recently received. The letter also asked that the play be entered in the national play contest of the Drama League, the chairman of the committee stating that they felt it to be worthy of special mention among the plays sent in from Ore gon. It is to be presented' in a group of one-acts which may in clude a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “lie.” “Spring Sluicing” is a bit of harsh realism with an Alaskan back ground, giving rather simply a pic ture of life in that country before the time of the gold rush, and hav ing as it's main character “Trapper Joe. ” Mrs. Ernst has had two plays produced earlier, “Cloistered Calm,” a comedy of college life, and “Seven Yesterdays,” a pageant giving scenes from the history of Alaska. A fantasy, “Nightingale,” was printed last fall in Poet Lore. Dean W. G. Hale Guest At Farewell Dinner Doan Halo of the law school was given a farewell dinner last Sun day night at the' Osburne hotel. It was sponsored by Phi Delta Phi, national honorary lawyers’ frater nity, and forty members of the law school were present. Judge G. F. Skipworth, Charles E. Carpenter and Orlando Hollis gave talks at the banquet. Some time ago Dean Hale resigned as head of the law school to accept a position at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. ‘Poetry’ Takes Poems By Pat Morrissette Two poems, “The Evening Song of the Young Scholar” and “The Student at Lunch,” written by l’at V. Morrissette, instructor in Eng lish, appeared in Poetry Magazine for June under the head of “Uni versity Portraits.” Five Conference Tilts On Grid Program; 2 Will Be Played Here Boginning on October 8, Oregon will open the conference football season against the University of Idaho on Hayward field, and will close the year against the Univer sity of Washington at Seattle on Thanksgiving day, November -4. Five conference games are sched uled, with two being played here, one with Idaho and the other on November 12, the annual Homecom ing game against O. A. C. Only one long trip will be made, that to Palo Alto to meet Stanford on Oc tober 29. The pre-season games, probably against Pacific and Willamette, will be announced later. The conference schedule of the season is: Oct. 8 . Idaho at Eugene Oct. 15 . California at Portland Oct. 29 . Stanford at Palo Alto Nov. 12 . O. A. C. at Eugene Nov. 24 . Washington at Seattle The Open Door Yes, the door of success may be open to the senior, but—to the rest of you who are coming back next year the door of opportunity stands open at Sigwart Electric store. You know the place where you can al ways make a good buy in the little things that make a room attractive and convenient. Sigwart Electric Co. 956 Willamette St. £>l?ap Ifetite Mrs. Underwood is again in charge of the shop, and employs experienced dressmakers only. The shop will he prepared to meet the needs of college women next fall. If you have rare old materials, they wil be treated with the ut most care. Prices Are Indeed Reasonable Mrs. Underwood 573 E. 13th 2 Blocks Off Campus Phone 1733 Speed -- Efficiency-Service Not hitting right? Lacks pep and punch? See us about any motor ignition trouble. NINTH AND OLIVE Second Hand Books Wanted For the remainder of the term we will pay half price in trade for such books as we can use next year. Bring them in. SOME OF THE BARGAINS :;oc 20c 25c :i5c 40c 50c 75c 1.00 Typing Pacts Scratch Parts Filler Paper Filler Paper Filler Paper Filler Paper Box Paper ... 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