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 ...
Box Paper .
1.25 Box Paper
1.50 Box Paper ....
17.50 Phonograph
.... 23c
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... 1.13
. 12.98
1:.50 Phonograph .^ 9.98
oc l andy .3 for 10c
10c Candy .2 for 15c
10c Palmolive .2 for 15c
10c Lux Toilet .2 for 15c
1.00 Men's Belts . 69c
1.50 Men’s Belts . 98c
2.25 Oregon Belts . 1.69
1.00 Bill Folds . 73c
2.00 Bill Folds . 1.43
4.00 Bill Folds . 2.98
2.25 “O” Pipes . 1.63
3.50 Pipes . 2.63
I $13.50 - - - PHONOGRAPHS - - - $9.98
$4.00 Memory Books $2.95
BARGAIN - GIVING
CONTINUES
THE CO-OP
Don’t Forget Your Rebate
Bring in your cash register tickets. We will pay rebates on them
if presented in lots of $5.00 or over for the remainder of the term.
MORE OF THE BARGAINS
lot; l air Candies _
25e Pair Candles .
35c Pair Candles .
83c Card Files
1.25 Card Files .
1.50 Card Files
50c Cico Paste .
50c Sanford’s Paste
85c Scrap Book .
1.00 Scrap Book ....
2.50 Scrap Book .
SILVER PENCILS
. 10c
. 17c
. 23c
. 63c
. 87c
. 1.13
. 37c
. 37c
. 63c
. 1.13
. 1.78
HALF PRICL
10c Paper Cups .
50c Desk Baskets .
1.25 Alarm Clocks .
2.50 Alarm Clocks .
5.25 Alarm Clocks .
2.55 Note Book Covers .
7.50 Coolie Coats ..
5.75 Meng's Cruyous .
0.75 Memory Books . ; .
1.25 Pencil Sharpeners .
15c Handkerchiefs .
25c Handkerchiefs .
.... 5c
... 39c
.. 98c
. 1.98
2.60
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. 5.95
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