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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 40 Grade Sheet System Under * Consideration Committee to Advocate Earl Pallett’s Plan . To Faculty Reduction of Printing; Cost Will Save $1000 Grades Sent to Students Only by Request A now system of issuing student grades, which will do away with the scandal shoot now in use, will be recommended at the next, faculty mooling by the junior college advis ory committee as a result of a meet ing of the committee last night at 4 o’clock in the women’s room of the Woman’s building, according to 4 O. F. • Stafford, chairman of the committee. The committee has been conducting an investigation of the scandal sheet in an attempt to find out whether or not the sheet has justified the expense of its publica tion by encouraging the students to raise their grades. System Makes Saving The new system that will be rec ommended was formulated by Fail M. Pallet!, registrar of the Univer sity, and will effejpt a saving of over $1000 a year in sending out the grades, Air. T’allett claims, be cause the cost of printing will be c-ut out. Under the new plan all the work of sending out the grades, including typing and mailing, will be done in the registrar’s office. Grades will be filled in on a form sheet, of which there will be four for each student. In order to get bis grades during vacations the stu dent must leave a stamped, self addressed envelope in the regis trar’s office before he goes home, otherwise grades will not be mailed, y The three other copies of the stu dent’s grades will be sent respec tively to his parents, to his major advisor, and to the high school from which he graduated. Tins system will simplify the work in the business office,” said Mr. Pallett. Tlie scandal sheet was officially established, on the University of Oregon sampus at a faculty meet ing, January 20, 1920. Excerpts from the Emerald of the following day say: Publicity To Be Used “Publicity plays a very promi nent part in the new system wherever it has been adopted. The University will furnish the Port land papers and all other papers in the state with the grades in all classes at the end of each term. A University bulletin will also be is sued containing the same informa tion. “Opponents to the system contend ed that too great an incentive is given to the student to strive for high grades rather than the work itself.” The Emerald of January 29, 1927,! follows with a survey of studept . opinion in which 18 students were j interviewed and only two were i quoted as in favor of the innova tion at that time. Statements from a number of fac ulty members not on the committee follow: JI. C. Howe, professor of English, said, when asked whether or not : he were in favor of abolishing the j sheet: “On the whole, I am not in favor of abolishing the scandal sheet. Personally, I have seen a j raise in the student grades as a j whole since the system was estab-' lished, but whether or not it is due 1 wholly to the scandal sheet would be very difficult to say.” * Dean John Straub, “vrand old j man of Oregon,” said when ques tioned about the issue, “ I would vote to abolish it. It doesn't do any! particular good. I don’t think it 'raises the grades of the students. Nobody reads the sheet anyway.” F. G. G. Schmidt, head of the de partment of Germanic languages and literature, was strongly against having the scandal sheet retained. Ilarl R. Douglass, professor of education, was undecided about which side he would take, as he could see advantages on both side’s. “I think it is some inceptive to do better work, and on the other hand it does violate the privacy of the student. It is an accommoda tion to the faculty and alumni to have the grades arranged where they are easy to get at,” he said. Harold R. Crosland, associate professor of psychology, gave his views as follows: "I feel confi dent that the grade sheet hasn’t succeeded at Oregon, but unless we can find some better way of serving (Continued on page five) . i Patrons List NowComplete For Xmas Ball Multnomah To Be Scene Of Annual Festivity December 27 Dance Plans Started By Committee Heads Foreign Scholarship Fuml To Be Benefited Christmas-College-Ball plans are | fast formulating and arrangements j for the annual festivity, which this j year will be held in the main ball room of the Multnomah hotel in Portland, December 27, are nearly complete, announced Mazie Rich ards, general chairman of the af fair, as chairman of the foreign i scholarship committee of Women’s i league. The dance is given annually in j Portland for University folk and preparatory school students of the city, by Women's League to increase its foreign scholarship fund, which this year is bringing Therese Cham belland from France*to work for her master’s degree in English at the University. Committees at Work Committees working out plans for the ball are: finance, Teddy Swaf ford, chairman, Jane Cochran, Ruth Street: patrons, Doris Gramm, chair man, Mayanna. Sargent, Katherine Talbot: publicity, Katherine Mutzig, chairman, LaW'anda Fenlason, Doro thy Baker. Publicity work is already being forwarded and campus cooperation and ticket sales in the men’s houses will be under the direction of Harold Kelly. A patron list of two hundred has been completed, and the committee this year is strictly enforcing a rule that no students will be admitted on patron tickets. .Patrons Announced Tho complete list of patrons is an nounced to be: Governor and Mrs. T. L. Patterson; President and Mrs. ■Arnold B. Hall; Mr. and Airs. John Straub; Mrs. Virginia Judy Ester ley, Dean and Mrs. Elmer Sliirrell, Messrs, and Mesdames W. IT. Jewell, J. S. Evans, David.Graham, W. F. G. Timelier, C. H. Hardy, ('. D. Rorer, I). IT, Munro, Dr. and Mrs. Clarke Black, Mr. and Mrs. James Malarkev, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Church, Judge and Mrs. J. Coke. Dr. and Mrs. George D. Peters, Messrs, and Mesdames L. P. Muncy. E- S. Martin, Albeil Cousins, W. C. Smith, W. C. Dicker, Edward New begin, Wn so n Johnston, Frank Heit kemper, W. C. Crane, E. D. Kllloe, Herman Sehade, J. C. Dezendorf; Dr. and Mrs. George Marshall, Messrs, and Mesdames W. E. Prudhomme, W. C. Bristol, D. C. Eeules, W. W. Banks, E. E. Hall, Dr. and Mrs. George Wardner, Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ger man. Colonel and Mrs. Cyrus Dolph, Messrs, and Mesdames BVoekwell Slatter, *A. H. McCurtain, S. M. Luders, Don Zan' Percy Allen, Wil liam Van Schuyver, F. Cookman, W. Cullers, Clarke E. Dye, II. P. Dutton, O. W. Mielke, Boas Plummer, F. A. Douty, D. L. Mavhew. 8. C. Whitten, J. B. Grimes, S. ,T. Plumm, W. O. Mansell, Dr. and Mrs. 0. Miller Babbitt, Messrs, and Mesdames, Messrs, and Mesdames L. L. Wil John L. Kaufman, L. C. Vader, Har vey Wells, Dr. and Mrs. William B. Hare, Messrs, and Mesdames J. 1. Bowerman, Walter Kicks, F. C. Fal ter, H. L. Ray, C. D. Gilbert. Captain and Mrs. A. L. Pease, (Continued on page two) English Department Chooses Students For Honor Work Fifteen students have been select ed for honors in the English de partment and all have’ signified their desire to take up the work. This group is composed of a third of the men and’a third of the wo men who have received the highest grades in the department, and is mechanically selected by the in structors of the department. Those chosen are: seniors, Julia Rrauniuger, Maxine Koon, and Alice South wick; juniors, Frances Bacon, LaRoy Bove, Mary Cameron, Elsie Cirnino, Roberta Douty, Made line Goodall, Ruth Jackson, Mar garet Knapp, Rebecca Morgan, Mar garet Nugent, Hileena fainter, and Thelma Rvckman. The honor council will meet the week after Thanksgiving to pass ou a plan for the carrying out of the work to be done by this selected gioup. Order of ‘O’ To Show Oregon-Washington Game on Gridgraph Following the “cheering nows” that tho University of Oregon would ! inaugurate its first ‘‘at home” Thanksgiving day holiday, to ap pease the disappointed students, the Order of the “O” has decided to run the football gridgraph. The gridgraph will begin at 2 o’clock. The Kollege Knights will again be on hand to furnish music between halves and following the game. The price will not be raised because of the holiday, but remains at 25 cents. ! Because it is an Oregon-Wash ington game, and as it is Thanks giving afternoon the Order of the ”0” is preparing for a record at tendance exceeding that of any i other previous gridgraph held on the campus. Vivid Pictures Of Earth Given By Bailey Willis Noted Scientist Lectures On Earthquakes and Their Effects With vivid picturizntion enriched hv years of exploration and re search in the earthquake belts of the world, Dr. Bailey Willis of Stanford University gave a com prehensive lecture on earthquake progress before a large audience in Villard hall last night. The 100 slides used as illustrations were heightened in interest by the color ful anecdotes gleaned from his own experiences, as Dr. Willis traced i the history of earthquakes from the j Babylonian legends up through the shadowy centuries to the present ■ day. IJr. Willis swept across the earth’s .meridians with the familiarity that we, who substitute the clean Chinook winds for electric fans, and the pure I mountain snows for frigidaire and leaky ammonia pipes might show in lour home, showing just how supcr i ficial our lives really have become, jin contrast with our childish law on 'serenades, lie spoke of the laws that igovern the earth. “Scientists find' I that Nature is subject to law. | Changes are constantly in progress. (Nothing from the tiniest microbe | to the greatest star in the heavens can escape the law which is omnipo tent and universal. It is incon ceivable that the law should be un intelligent. It could have been in volved only by a supreme intelli gence and bv that intelligence it is never broken.” Taking the earth as a speck of dust spinning in the heavens, Dr. Willis depicted its concentration with other specks of/dust until it grew to its present size, so fully charged with energy'that it is not dead but intensely alive and re sponsive. And some of the re sponses are earthquakes. The earthquake belts are directly related to growing mountain ranges, running from Cape Horn to the Arc tic; down the Japan and Philip-J pine islands to Malaysia and across j Asia to the Alps until it drops off into the Atlantic, said Dr. Willis. ' The rest of the world is quite im- j mune. The most favored hangout for earthquakes in the world, is : Chile, where they have one every j 20 minutes. The longest known , earthquake took place in Chile and lasted eleven and one-half minutes, j Dr. Willis cited as a contrast the i duration of the Santa Barbara quake which lasted 20 seconds and the San Francisco earthquake in 1905 that shook the earth for 40 j seconds. He said that an earth quake felt like a ride in a buggy j without any springs. At the time of the Sa» Francisco : earthquake, a gigantie block, 25 | miles deep and 180 miles long, was drawn back like a great spring snapped back into place with an 1 elastic rebound, jumping 20 feet in (Continued on page six) Research To Be Made Of Airport Facilities A study of airport facilities in Oregon is to be conducted by tu» bureau of researeli in the fo-hool ol business administration. die sur- , vey was requested bv the Oregon State Association of Commercial i Secretaries. According to F. E. Folts, acting dean of the school of business administration, the resul.s will probably correspond .to those of a similar survey made six years uifo, when the possibilities of transport- : ing by airplane the University of Oregon professors who had classes in Portland was contemplated. At that time it was found that the saving of time was offset by the additional expense to such an ex tent that the plan was dropped. i Oregonians Determined ToWin Fight Spirited Rally at Depot Urges Webfoot Team To Beat Huskies Last Practise of Year Displays Oregoh Fight Washington Is Favored Although unheralded by anv great amount of previous publicity, the desire to give the Webfooters a genuine Oregon send-off as they left for the Washington game at Seat tle proved to be sufficient incen tive for a student rally last night. The impromptu rally by the Web foot rooters was typical of the spirit of the team. Since the Aggie game, practise at Hayward field lias been little more than a listless grind. The unnatural strain was bound to break sometime, and ves terdav afternoon seemed to be a fitting time. Final practice was held yester day, and the team is in the best possible mental and physical state to meet the Huskies. Thanksgiving day will be the last chance for the Oregon team to break into the con ference win column this season, and for this reason they aro doubly de termined to upset the powerful gridders. To Win By .TOK PIGXRY Oregon in Fighting Mood More power, more dash, more spirit was shown last night oil Hay ward field tha'n has been seen in the \\ ebfoot camp for many days, j The men have been whipped to ac tion bv the criticism that has as sailed them from all sides, and'a' repetition of the 192d incident is more probable than ever. The Webfooters yannot suffer greatly from a defeat by the Hus kies. With this in mind, it is ex pected that Oregon will cast aside its usual cautiousness and uncork a wide open attack for the discom fiture of the Washingtonians. Al though Washington is confident of a victory, it will take no unneces sary^ chances with the Webfoots, and will undoubtedly attempt to nm up as large a score as possible. Oregon’s touted passing attack has little effect on its opponents this year. Thursday’s battle will have every opportunity to prove the real strength of the aerial game. Washington has a line thait has been almost impregnable all season, so the Webfooters will resort to passing for most of their yardage. 4 Passes To Be Used Both Robinson and Woodie have j reached a high degree of accuracy in their throws, and with Wetzel and Higgs feeling right a great many passes are bound to he com pleted. Oregon’s only conference score this season was made on a completed pass in the Homecoming game; this, therefore, can be taken as the Webfoots’ most potential threat. The Webfoot captain, Beryl Hod-: gen, and three teammates are play ing their last game under Oregon colors. The other men are Wetzel, Dixon, and Warren. The last fight,_ and .the greatest one is their hope. With the championship of the coast divided between Idaho and Stanford, Washington and Southern California are battling for second place honors. These two teams meet in Los Angeles on December .'i, but if Washington loses to the Webfoots the edge will be taken from that fray. School of Business Administration Heads List in Enrollment Business administration, the largest of the campus professional schools, has an enrollment of 440 majors from the campus total of 2849, while the department of En glish of the college of literature, science, and the arts has an en rollment of 410 majors, according to Mrs. Clara Fitch, secretary of the administrative offices. There are Id graduates in the English de partment compared to the four in business administration. The school of architecture and allied arts Is second among f.h<\ schools, with an enrollment of 2.'12, and the school of journalism third, with 205. Biology is second among the departments in the college, with 247 majors, and economics third, with 198. The total number of students in th# professional schools is 1436 and that in the college 1413. Tho pre law students are included in the college, although the school of law is cue of the professions! schools. , Move to Stop Police Interference In University Affairs Backed by Student Body; Beelar W ants Action Action bv flic associated students 1 in regard to tlio continual interfer ence by tbo KtigCne police force in stiiilent affairs, is promised by Don ald Beelar, student body president, ^leelsr recommended as a first step that the sophomore class, which is directly concerned with the last act of interference by the local police, | •appoint an official teomnfittoe to lodge a formal protest with the po lice commission of the city council against the interference of the po lice force with the Sophomore In formal. This formal complaint would be the first slep in the course of ac tion against the police interference. “Particularly should the sophomores present this protest because the elm porous at the formal approved the lighting and could not see any-j thing wrong with it,” said lleelar , last night. * “This continual interference- in i student body affairs must be ■ stopped. The student body is not j going tn back down on this case, but is going to get to the bottom of the mattor,” doolared Beelnr. The first interference bv tlie local policemen1 occurred when they ar rested a group of serenaders, Octo ber 29. Tile University authorities succeeded in completing a satisfac tory arrangement with tiie city of ficials whereby the students must place a notice of their serenade with the dean of men three days in ad vance. The last interference by Eugene police to date was their act at the Sophomore Informal, when they dropped up an ancient Eugene ‘'bine law” which demands white lights at all dances in Eugene. This ordi nance was enforced at the Informal by the Eugene police force, al though it had not been enforced at former dances similarly lighted for a long time previously. The light ing effect of the Informal had been endorsed by University chaperons who’were present at the dance. Old Students In Business Ad Register Soon Han of Pre-registration Adopted by Faculty For Next Term In order to avoid the rush and liurry of registration days at the beginning of each term, the school of business administration has de cided to use a new system -of pre registration, according to F. E. Folts, acting dean of the school. Under this plan, the student will register at the end of each term for his next term’s work. The system will be started this term, the first day for registration being Decem ber 1. The system is extremely simple, Mr. Folts says. It means that the student will come into the office about one month before the end of the term and make an appointment with his advisor to make out his next term’s program. When he comes back at the beginning of the .term, he will have to do nothing but file a card. This gives him plenty of time to talk over all his difficulties with his advisors and to satisfactorily analyze his situation with them. It also gives the regis trar’s office an opportunity to reg ister the changes of courses during vacations. This system is pursued in many of the large schools of the country, Mr. Folts says. One example is the University of Washington, where it is very successful. The school of business was the first school to adopt it there. Registration for fall term will be about one month before summer va cation for the business adminis tration students. Mr. Folts ex presses the hope that the other de partments will have their work suf ficiently planned so the registra tion will go as smoothly as possible. Registration days of fall term can then be utilized entirely by helping the freshmen. Big Sacrifice Planned For Football Victory OREGON STATE COLLEGE, Cor vallis, Nov. 22— (P.LP.A.) — I)r. .T. 1!. Boll, venerable mascot ami one of the tiost loyal supporters of the Oregon State teams* is planning to throw liis fedora hat into Alary's river again soon. Every year that Oregon State de feats the University of Oregon in football Dr. Bell performs this cere mony. For the first time in his long life he has had the pleasure of celebrating victory three years in succession. Last year he was un able to throw his old lemon-yellow streamer hat into the river because of illness, but this year he is all ‘‘happed" up over the occasion and will have two luits ready to make up for lost time. Moe Wins Game from Open Golf Champion Don Aloe, freshman in the Uni versity of Oregon, defeated Tommy Armour of Washington, D. C., na tional open golf champion, Monday afternoon on the Eugene Country club course. Moe's feature was putting, while Armour had an edge on the drive. Bebbio Cruikshank and Earl JnnKei, Eugene, played with them. Moo won with 72 strokes, Armour shot 71, Cruikshank 75, and linmel 70. The match started at 2 o’clock and lasted for two and a half hours. In formal Dances Are Planned for Coming Week-end Compensating Revelries To Start Tonight; Many Planned As some small compensation for the disappointment, of having to oat their Thanksgiving turkey on the campus, several fraternities have planned to drown their sorrow in the music and song of informal dances. Wednesday night, Friendly Hall, Phi Delta Theta, 1 ’si Kappa, and Phi Sigma Kappa are giving in formal dances, or ns reports go, “every costume from Apaelio to hard-time.” | Friday nighty Friendly Hall, Sigma Phi Mpsilon, Alpha Tan Omega, Mamma Xu, Onnimn Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Theta Chi, and Chi Omega are repeating the per formance. All these are informal or grill, except Theta’s hard-time dunce, and Chi Omega's Apache lira wl. Saturday will close the revelry, with an informal dance at the Three Arts club, an afternoon tea dance nt Delta (lamina, and a “hard-time” party fit Chi Psi. By far the most original of Hie lot, according to rumor, is tile party given tonight by I’lii Sigma Kappa, which bears the fancy appellation of “The Phi Sig Infantile Paralysis Prom,” a mysterious affair with an atmosphere sterile and prophylactic. Whether the cripple part of the per formance refers to the condition of the dancers after the party, it was lint said, but reports to date have already made curiosity rampant. Oregon Debaters Will Meet Philippine Team The University of Oregon world tour debaters will have their third debate when they meet the Uni , versify of the Philippines Friday night, November 2'. The Oregon team will uphold the negative side of 1he question, “Resolved, That the United States should grant imme diate independence to the Philip pines islands.” Dean of Men Besieged With SadTelegrams Parents Fail in Efforts To Get Students Excused For Vacation Faculty Also Suffer Fijpiii Change in Plans Organizations Will PSan Entertainment i Re patient and ye shall enjoy yourself! Students with excuses of varying kinds have been putting on the "Rig Parade” into the dean of men’s office since yesterday morning in an effort to be granted permission to go home over Thanksgiving. "The excuses offered range from sudden deaths to weddings,” said Kean Shirrell. Last night the dean had a large pile of telegrams and letters from allegedly sick parents, requesting that their children bo allowed to come home for Thanks giving. “I have done a big business in long distance phone eplls and tele grams,” said Kean Shirrell. yester day, "lnit when the matter is ex plained to the parents, they readily agree that the action taken by the University authorities was a wise move. ” One of the many pleas of the telegrams and personal visits cen ters around the fact "that the Ore gon State College is not heeding the advice of the state health board and local physicians.” As explained bv Dean Shirrell, the at titude of O. S. C. should not be a determined point for the action of the University in the mutter. The acceptance of the restrictive mea sures is move a matter of personal welfare, of taking the doctor’sj ad vice or banishing him. Disease Seripus There a re, at the present time, three or four persons on the campus who are clippies from the results of infantile paralysis. “Their mis fortune should servp ns an object lesson to those who are so desirous of going home,” explained Dean Nhirrell. “The students ought to realize that you can’t compare two days pleasure, which they would de rive from a hearty turkey dinner and other home activities so greatly desired, in a balance with the prob able results that might follow,” he said, and believed that upon con sideration the right attitude would be pursued. The faculty and their vacation plans get as big an offset from the restriction as the students and they do hot derive any special pleasure from its introduction. Dishing, hunting, and all sorts of plans filled their vacation days. However, they are possibly able to see the proposi tion from a more experienced angle and can heartily make the sacrifice without protest. Class Attendance Menus of enforcing attendance today and Friday have been tlvor oughly provided all the faculty members. Cards have been printed on which all absences will be marked. These will be sent to the registrar’s office where they will be checked with the absences grant ed from the office of the dean of men and dean of women. Those without a check will automatically receive a flunk in the one subject (Continued on page seven) Sea Spirit Interpreted by Schroff In Oregon Coast Scenery Paintings Exhibition of Local Artist’s Work Opens Today In University Art Gallery Tin* kind of day to walk on tin* dunes watching the soil, feeling the wind in your hair find the sting of salt spray in your face, seeing the stigdy jack pines recoil from the stiff sea"|>reeze and a sky white with tossed clouds. Much a sensation of freedom may be found upon viewing “Blowy May,” a water color painting, which is one of a collect iori of Oregon paintings by Alfred 11. Nchroff of Kugene, opening today for exhibi tion in the little gallery at the I'ni Versity Arts building. “Blowy Day” is one of .a group of water colors and oils which Mr. Kchroff made the past summer at the coast near Newport. “South: Coast,” a marine portrayal in water color, shows the green and silver spray of waves which break ; against huge rocks. Mr. Schrot'f I has admirably caught the sense of movement in this picture. One can fairly hear the boom of the surf in another water color, “Xinf —Y.iquinn Lighthouse.” Tu “Yaehats” tuny bo soon the white glint of the sun on ;i pool of water, quiet among great rocks with shadows all about it. Scenes along the Newport wharves—of old boats, rotted piles, tumble-down buildings—are exceed ingly realistic in their nature. Mr. Schroff has obtained vivid effects and a richness of color in bis water colors, which make them outstanding representations of nat uralism, and show that they are clone bv one who seems to thorough ly understand his painting medium. In “'Little Danes, Xye Beach,” an oil painting, a feeding of vustness has been transmitted to canvas by an expert hand, It shows a wide stretch of sand, with a few scant bushes and scrubby, twisted trees growing there, and a glimpse of the sea iri the distance. A grav'ess, not of gloom but of restfulness and quiet, and a bit of (Continued on page twoj