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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1927)
(Skcgmt ®aUg Hhnmtld University of Oregon, Eugene RAY NASH. Editor MILTON GEORGE, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Robert Galloway . Managing Editor Walter Coover . Claudia Fletcher .. Ass’t. Managing Editor Richard H. Syring Arthur Schoeni . Telegraph Editor Donald Johnston ..... Carl Gregory .v. P. I. P. Editor Margaret Long . Arden X. Pangborn . Literary Editor News and Editor Phones, C55 Associate Editor J .... Sports Editor j .. Feature Editor ... Society Editor _ i DAY EDITORS: William Schulze, Dorothy Baker, Mary McLean, Frances Cherry, Herbert Lundy, Marian Sten. NIGHT EDITORS: Lynn Wykoff, chief; J. E. Caldwell, Robert Johnson, Floyd Horn, L. H. Mitchelmore, Ralph David. Assistants : Rex Tussing, Vinton Hall, Myron Griffcn, Harold Bailey, Harry Tonkon, William Finley, Joe Freck, Everett Kiehn. SPORTS STAFF: Joe Pigney, Harry Dutton, Chalmers Nooe, Glenn Godfrey, Chandler Brown. FEATURE STAFF: Flossie R.idabaugh, Florence Hurley, Edna May Sorber, John | Butler, Clarence Craw, Charlotte Kiefer, Walter Butler. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Amos Burg, Miriam Shepard, Ruth Hansen, LaWanda Fenlason ♦ NEWS STAFF: Margaret Watson, Wilford Brown, Grace Taylor, Charles Boice, j Elise Schroeder, Naomi Grant, Orpha Noftsker, Paul Branin, Maryhelen Koupal, ; Josephine Stoficl, Thirza Anderson, Etha Jeanne Clark, Mary Frances Dilday, William i Cohagen. Elaine Crawford, Audrey Henrikson, Phyllis Van Kimmell, Margaret Tucker, : Gladys Blake, Ruth Craeger, Martiel Duke, Serena Madsen, Betty Hagen, Leonard Delano, Fred Junker, Thelma Kem. BUSINESS STAFF LARRY THI ELEN—Associate Manager Ruth Street . Advertising Manager Bill Bates . Foreign Adv. Mgr. Bill Hammond . A»s't. Advertising Mgr. Wilbur Shannon .... Ass’t. Circulation Mgr. Vernon McGee . Ass’t. Advertising Mgr. Ray Dudley . Assistant Circulator Lucielle George . Mgr. Checking Dept. Elftior Fitch . Office Administration Ed. Blssell . Circulation Manager ADVERTISING SALESMEN—Bob Moore, Maurine Lombard, Charles Reed, Francis Mullins, Eldred Cabb, Eugene Laird, Richard Horn, Harold Hester, Helen ’Williams, Christine Graham. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the college year. Member, United Press News Service. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, ns second-class matter.. Subscrip tion rates, $2.GO per year. Advertising rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 721; manager, 2799. Business office phone, 1895. Day Editor This Issue—Frances Cherry Night Editor This Issue—Ralph David Harry* Tonkdh SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927. Oregon Must Now Ray the Piper Thoughtful students will ho somewhat dismayed at the load of debt on their shoulders which the report of the finance committee graphically reveals. The trebling of the burden in the general funds classification alone is a writing on the wall with unmistakable impli cations. The Associated Students have danced and are now face to face with the problem of paying the piper. The precarious margin shown in the football ledger adds to the sobering effect of the $<10 per student direct tax for the build ing fund. Oregon is shaking its head after an orgy of ostrich opti mism. Student over-enthusiasm erected a colossal monument to a victorious basketball squad. It indentured it self heavily in attempting to meet formidable cut-throat, athletic com petition. It hoped against reason to realize on its hairbrained specu lations. And now the A. tS. U. O. confronts the painful penalties of inflation. Pruning adventitious sprouts from the extra-curricular activities tree will not suffice; shrewd investiga tion is necessary and it may be that some of the more important branches must be sacrificed to , cheek the blighting parasite of interest. Pay ments of interest alone, it will be noted, have already reached four figured installments. The finance committee’s budget, due the middle of next month be fore the executive council, can do much to stabilize the existing mone tary weaknesses. Knowledge of t.he situation, unwavering resolu tion and u keen pair of shears are needed. Even though it hurts a little, do not flinch! The College Nation Seeks An Answer <<nnTTESE are Die busy days for tlio educational reformers,’' according to the New Student Service, "... University of Michigan has definitely determined to begin next fall the plan of con ferring two-year diplomas on stu dents deemed incapable of carrying upper division wdrlc.” Other universities now experi menting with various improvement plans include Wisconsin, studying separate civilizations comjple.tely instead of piecemeal; Antioch, alter nating manual work with study periods; Harvard, introducing two week reading periods as a prelimin ary to final examinations; and Princeton, experimenting with a preceptorial system and a four year course- plan. No Oregon, after all, is by no means uni<|uo in its restiveness under the old order. Institution of the honors college for the upper division and abolition of the grade sheet as a remedial measure for dis tractions from lower division schol arship are current local manifesta tions of the important movement which is sweeping the entire na tion. As the Daily Prineetoniun com ments: “We are entitled to hope for bet ter things in the line of education in the next few years.” Yes, somewhere among the halt ing attempts and missteps must lie the happy solution for the baffling puzzle of democratic education. Ills that formerly seemed inherent ip the system have already been iso lated and are yielding to treatment. Tomorrow may build real scholastic achievement on today’s pathetic fumblings. Modern Painting More Scientific Than Artistic, Says Kenneth Hudson “Perfection of technique in mod ern painting lias been developed to such a degree tHut emotional inter est is entirely lacking, and paint ing lias become a science rather than an art,” said Kenneth K. Hud son, assistant professor of archi tecture and allied arts, in a talk to the fortnightly club yesterday. Painting was first introduced be cause of economic necessity to sub stitute for the old mosaics which in the 'Christian era became too costly for the churches to afford, Mr. Hud son pointed out. This was the Ital ian art of primitive school, and the paintings were made to conform to the religious beliefs, rituals and ideas of the day. The churches believed that the study from the nature of the human figure or even landscape was rob bing the painting of its spirituality, lor this reason then the art was very crude from a technical standpoint but eery rich in emotional inter est. The first great master of the primitive school was (Kotin, whose pictures the speaker characterized as outstanding for their directness, simplicity and comprehension. As painting begun to be recog nized as having a definite place iti the life of the people, investigation began to be made, life was looked upon as a field of materials, truths were discovered in nature and with the art of Massutio came the com plete knowledge of the human fig ure. Front lotto to 1000, during the High Kenaissaitco, painting, as an art, was perfected. Since this time unified painting litis given way to specialization. The result of this lias been a deterioration because ot an over development of one phase of the work. The most important modern school of art is the so called primitive ! _ . I Up! ing in technique, tint arc looking Isick in die ulil masters for the fun da me li til Is. They wish to make painting vital and to eliminate tech nique for technique's sake. These pictures have an emotional interest and a person does not have to be educated in art to appreciate them. Another school of this period, for lack of a butter name, would bo called the radicals. They believe, Mr. 11 tidspn said, that everything developed so far is bad. They would do away with all established rules and look to the archaic, negroid and infantile subjects. They are grad ually, however, coming back to the piimitive style of painting or that of emotion rather than technique. Probably the newest school of painters is the distortionists, said the speaker. These people would dis card all actuality, painting in the abstract merely design or splash. They try to portray the emotional reaction one would have to a pic ture, without portraying the object causing the emotion. .Probably the most famous picture of this type was the one exhibited ill New York entitled "Nude Descending a Stair case.” There was neither a nude nor a staircase, but the artist had tried to. paint the emotion he would feel eu seeing such a thing. Boynton To Address Library Association Dr. \V. I’, Boynton, head of the department of physics, will give an address before the Portland Library association in Portland today. The association has been sponsoring a series of lectures given by the heads of various departments con cerning the bibliography of the de partments, and Dr. Boynton’s talk I '"ill be ell ph' -ice. i , TfitSEVEN L SEERS Sr PUTS FOOTBALL IN MOUTH TO WIN BET—BUT OH MY! (Portland Telegram) OREGON CITY, Ore., Dec. 1.— (8pecial)—B. Y. Harris, mill work er, made a bet in a local pool ball last night that he could place a bil liard ball in his mouth. The crowd doubted. The bet was 50 cents. Mr. Harris won. But it took Dr. A'. H. Huydke a couple of hours to extricate the ball from the half choked Harris. » « « We planned to tell Coach Me Ewan about this fellow, until we read the whole story and found it really wasn’t a football. Just think of the trick plays that could be built around such a man! # * # Ir d , Fiji: “What are you doing up here?” Diji: “Nothing. I have a class.” * * • TODAY’S GEOGRAPHICAL ANSWER “He’s not as bad as he might bo.” “Budapest, anyhow.” (And she nearly went into convulsions.) « * # NEW FRATERNITIES MAKE APPEARANCE The Santa Clans club, formed early in the term by A. T. O.’s who pigged engaged women or women with steadies, has become a regular fraternity and just recently granted Oregon Beta chapter to a petition ing group at the Kappa Sig house. The organization is a regular fra ternity in every respect, even to rituals and pledge pins. Another club to form at the A. T. O. house is the “Six Wise Men” or the “Die Hards.” Membership is made up of men who have been “thrown over” by a woman or else have “thrown over” some woman because she was going with some body else too much. If they ever go back to the woman, they get booted from the club. Frank “Flop” Powell was recently released. There have been no chapters granted so far. , Voire on Chi O side porch: ‘‘lloy, Ormastend, what are you and Gloria doing in that mail closetf” “Playing postoffice, what do you suppose!” • * * CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL PACED WITH QUARANTINE (By Clothes Press) SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 2.—(Spe cial)—Great anxiety lias been felt by authorities hero today following the outbreak of writer’s cramp at the International Correspondence School. Two cases of the dread disease have been reported in the South Sea Islands amcfeig the “Proper Meat Diet’’ students, and also several senior electric refrigeration majors in Alaska are down with the malady. "I am afraid that we can have no Christmas vacation this year,” said Dewey Wright, president of the school, “but postal authorities have promised to move the graduation days ahead two weeks, to make up for it.” Gretclicli says her lu>y friend, had his hand taken off (off her shoul der.) 'SCKN'K ON HIGHWAY TO 1’OKT LAND 1. Ast WEEK-END— One blue coupe going 30 miles an hour with ono occupant in rumble sent, also one quart oil can (not filled with oil). From can a rubber tube extending through back "hi de, w to front seat, where three other occupants partake at various iittor \a!s by means of said rubber tube. (And then they say college stu dents aren’t versatile.) FAMOUS LAST WORDS “lley. how about me?” I SEVEN SEEKS W. A. A. paper chase—Girls start at Woman’s building at 2 p. in., back at 5 p. m. The Webfoot club will have its bi weekly dinner at the College Side Inn, Monday at 6 p. m. Phi Delta Kappa initiation and ban quet Saturday, December 3. Ini tiation to start at 3 p. m. in Wo man’s building. Banquet at 6 p. m. at Anchorage. Fred Clarfe, pastor of the Congrega tional church, will lead discussion group at Westminster house, Sun day at 6:30. All students in vited. Dimer h. Shirrell, dean of men, will speak: on “Consistency?” beflore members of Wesley club at Metho dist church, Sunday evening. Westminster Bible class meets Sun day morning, 9:45, at Westmin ster house under leadership of Dean E. L. Shirrell. University men and women cordially invited. V. W. C. A. discussion groups: “Poetry,” Dr. Smertenko, at her home, 740 East loth street, Sun day, 7:30 p. m. “Relationship Between Men and Women,” Miss Thomas, Bungalow, Monday at 3 p. m. “Psychology and Reli gion,” Dr. Conkliu, Bungalow, Mon day, 4 p. m. j The Campus Stroller Observes . . . . . THAT Hayward Field is lonely now, and seems to dream of past glories, while McArthur Court is awakening from the long hiberna tion in anticipation of battles to come. THAT the unintentional Seer-like appearance of this column yesterday was due to the unsolicited aid of an j over-zealous night editor. TjrfAT the new Fords have come, but— THAT the old vanity of flivver will continue to find favor in col legiate circles to a large extent. THAT the faculty, in the course of the debate over the suggested de mise of the Scandal Sheet, ex pressed the opinion that students would be in favor of abolishing any thing proposed, and— THAT we’ll bet they were think ing of final exams. • Pledging Announcement Phi Sigma Kappa announces the pledging of ddnnis Keizer of Korth Bend, Oregon. Juniors Champions In Speedball Finals The junior women won the speed ball championship last night when they defeated the sophomores 18 to 1. This is the only game the sopho mores have lost although the seniors tied them Monday, 3 to 3. The juniors lost one game to the sopho mores by a small margin. The sophomores could not seem to break through the junior backfield and they could not hold the fast' junior forward line. The seniors won their game with the freshmen, 6 to 2. The last half of the game was played by the light of the moon and one star. The mag nesia covered ghost ball could not be seen in the di mlight. 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