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i VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 4ft Figures Don’t Lie; McArthur 1 Court Outrivaled Washington Pavilion Is Largest in West; Are Aggies Mistaken? By TtTOTTABD IT. STRING Sports Editor McArthur court, the pride of the ■west in the wav of a huge athletic pavilion last year has been out rivaled. The University of Washing ton, through an appropriation of $100,000 from the state legislature, $37)0,000 from the sale of A. S. U. W. bonds and balance from A. S. U. W. treasury and other sources, have practically completed a mammoth $000,000 athletic pavilion. Within a week the Husky basketball team will be at its daily daily practice in the huge structure. The pavilion will be dedicated December 27, 29 and 30 when the University of Illinois bas f krteers stop in Seattle on a leg of their 4200 mile barnstorming trip. Covering two-acres with an indoor athletic field of 1.4 acres itself, topped bv a skylight 70 feet in width, 300 feet in length, this huge construction is easily the peer of athletic houses in the west. A seat ing capacity of 11,000 for basketball games and 14,000 for assemblies, it outclasses McArthur court a few thousand in this respect alone. After January 1, the building will also be used by the physical education de partment which moves from rather antiquated quarters. The structure is of Tudor-Gothic architecture to harmonize with the rest of the campus buildings. One enters through a wide portal, climbs an easy, graded runway to the seats which surround on three sides the athletic field 330 feet in length and 1S7 in width. Within this field is being constructed a basketball floor 120 feet in length and 00 in width. ► Sixty-six feet, above the floor is this giant skylight. It is reported that no basketball can be thrown or foot ball kicked as high at the overhead windows. Physical education classes and basketball aren’t the only forms of activity for this new building as the east end is open and there is room for a giant moveable stage, a field virtually regulation size can be used for indoor football practice, also in tliis end varsity baseballers can work out when April showers pre vent outdoor practice. All around this big pavilion will run a natural and cinder track. On the basket ball floor a regulation tennis court will be laid out. Offices, wide corridors, a full equipped laundry where every bit of the athletic equipment will be tended to, training rooms, fully equipped hospital room, big scoreboard in the west end and a big press box hang ing from the roof by steel girders are just some of the minor features of the building. Perhaps the enormity of the build ing can be shown by the following figures on building material used— 320,000 face bricks, 560,000 common bricks, 2116,000 feet of lumber in roof alone, 3,000 cubic yards of con crete, 300 tons of reinforcing steel, (Continued on page two) Conservative Liberal, Labor Parties Represt i by Cambridge Debaters ■' Topics From xn Question to Judge. Lintlscy Argued ist-Talking Englishmen By CTTAL NOG \% j Talk! Tho Cambridge ^ * 'rs, M. A. B. Eing-Hamilton, rt Lionel Elvin, and Hugh tosh Foot are living exanq that verb. They walked int ,.ic ! Methodist Episcopal ehureli last night about a half an hour before the big debate, and proceeded to have a little private debate among themselves. King-IIamilton is a Conscrvatist, Elvin advocates the Labor party, Foot the Liberals, and when the question of England’s policy to ward Russia was ventured, there was an argument. “The whole thing was brought ' about by tho supposition that Rus sia was spreading propaganda in London,” said Elvin, “and maybe they were, but they didn’t find any evidence.” lie was leaning against a desk in a little room beside the plat form of the church, and with that remark, looked significantly at King-Hamilton, the Conscrvatist. King-ITamilton, the oldest look ing of the Cambridge men, took him up immediately. “What? They certainly did. When the police broke into that Russian headquar ters they found a man burning the evidence.” I “They found only burned papers, too, they couldn’t prove a I tiling,” came back the Labor man. “Could they, Foot?” Foot agreed with Flvin. “They didn’t find a bit of incriminating evidence, but that didn’t keep them from running out all the Hus sions.” All three men were alert, giving and refuting arguments. These En glishmen were fast thinkers, and faster talkers. Little men, in tuxedos that had seen lots of serv ice on debating platforms, but they were big men when they started talking. They believed what they said. They made you believe it, too. They exhausted the Russian ques tion, and when Judge Ben Lind sey’s policies were suggested, they took these up with enthusiasm. They lamented the fact that Eng land’s divorce laws were so anti quated and thought that a less stringent law should be passed, al lowing man and wife to be sep arated more easily. They were much interested in the American system of divorce; and Reno, Ne vada, was not a new name to them. One month more will find these debaters back in the halls of Cam bridge, and as Foot said, “doing a year’s work in six months.” A de bate with Whitman College Friday will end their arguments in the States. They will make a flying trip through Canada, debating once, then back to England. Grades Will Be Sent to Parents | January 3, 1928 j — Students To Get Grades Before 'End of Holidays Only students who leave stamp ed, self-addressed envelopes at the registrar’s office will have their fall-term grades sent to them, reiter ates Earl M. Pallctt, registrar of the University. “No grades will be given out at the window after the student re turns, and furthermore, the duplicate of the student’s grades will not be sent to his parents until after Jan uary 3, 1928, so the student must leave liis envelope if he desires a grade during the holidays,” said Mr. Pallett the afternoon. The business office will be too busy with registering students at the be ginning of the winter term to give out any grades at the window at all, and this will not be necessary if the students Co-operate by turning in envelopes, which will be sent as soon as their grades are made out. “Some students have failed to turn in envelopes because they think, ‘Oh, well, my parents will get a dup licate anyway, so why bother?’ The parents will not get the information before the student has returned to school, so the student must not de pend on that as a.means of finding out his grades,” said Mr. Pallett. The student must write his own name, not that of his parents, on the envelope. About 50 envelopes have been turned in to date, accord ing to a report from the office. Japanese Student at Waseda College Writes of Around-the-World Debaters Thompson, McCroskey and Hempstead Received At Tokyo With Much Applause From Tokyo comes the latest word of the arouiul-the-world de baters, Avery Thompson, Benoit MeCroskev, and Jack Hempstead. Frank K. Hirano, student in Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, addressed the following letter to the students of the University of Oregon: It is my great pleasure to write to you all students of Oregon that liow brightly an excited enterprise you have started to have a good understanding between your coun try and ours. Last night, I happened to listen to the three American students from your University at the audi torium of the Tokyo Asaki Press company, situated near to the Hi biva park. And at that time our Japanese three students made speeches showing a very interest ing program of each other. And you shall be able to see details of the gathering with another printed paper and you will guess the very friendly scene of the speakers and the great numbered audience at that night. At 6 o’clock in the afternoon the great contest was opened, but just at the time that great auditorium was fulfiled with about 2,000 peo ple, of course 50 more American ladies and gentlemen were present, and when the chairman appeared on the platform, thunderous applause was roused and after 10 minutes’ speech, Professor of St. Paul Uni versity made a very interesting but encourageous speech with very earnestness. Then the chosen sir speakers made a very good speech respec tively, as the program shows. How a great historical gathering it was. From the very beginning to the last moment, how all of they sure were earnest to speak and listen to. After decision of the judges, the Oregon team became the winning party, and the Asaki presented the memorial eup to the Oregon. Though the Japanese students were defeat ed all of the audience poured a very loud cheer te all the speakers. As soon as the contest was closed, we some Japanese students went out to take a ramble about Grinza (Continued on page three) World Tour Debaters To Vie With Easterners Three more contests have been scheduled for the University of Ore gon world tour debaters, Coach J. K. Horner announced yesterday. These are: Carlisle College, Carlisle, Penn sylvania; Ohio State Normal School, Bowling Green, Ohio; and Purdue University, South Bend, Indiana. The exact dates of these debates have not yet been fixed, Mr. Horner said, but they will take place some time in the spring. F. S. Dunn To Deliver Address Dec. 27 to Seattle Convention Prof. F. S. Dunn, head of the Latin department and president of the Classical Association of Pacific States, Northern Division, will de liver his presidential address to the annual association convention meet ing in Seattle, December 27, as quests of the University of Washing ton. The subject of Professor Dunn’s address will be “Annus Prodigeos- j us,” and involves a discussion of the portents and ill omens preceding and following the assassination of Julius Caesar, 44 B. C. On Thursday, December 29, Pro fessor Dunn will read a paper before i meeting of the Department of Classics of the Oregon State Teach ers Association to be he’d at Port land, entitled “Julius Caesar and the Winter Solstice.” Orchestra and Quartet Play at Elks’ Service Music for the annual memorial jervice of the Eugene Elks held Sun lay afternoon was furnished by the University orchestra and the Urnler ivood string quartet. The orchestra rdayed the opening march for the :-eremony, Gounod’s “March Cor tege.” The string section played Tanne’s “Extase.” Three numbers by the Underwood string quartet vere included in the program, Glaz junoff’s “Interludim,” “Music of the Spheres” by Rubenstein and Tschaikowsky’s “Andante Canta bile.” Doris Helen Patterson, mem ber of the University orchestra alayed a harp solo Nevin’s ‘Rosary.” Tristan’ and ‘Iseult’ Received by Library Two new copies of Tristan and iseult have been received by the nain library. One is a play written n verse by John Masefield, and he other is in story form and is j vritten by Joseph Bedier. j Some of the other books just re vived are: “The Gateway to Life,” >y Frank Thiess; “Wanderings in; irabia,” by Charles H. Doughty, vhieh is an abridged edition of ‘Travels in Arabia Deserts”; “Boy n the Wind,” by George Dillon, vhieh is a series of poems by that luthor, many of which have ap >earcd in prominent magazines; and ‘Rebellion,” by Marteel Howe farnham. Rhodes Scholarship Finals Come Dec. 10; Four Men To Compete Final examinations tn determine the Rhodes Scholar from the state of Oregou will be given in Portland, December 10. Four University of Oregon men will take the examina tion. They are: Henrv Alderman, senior in the school of Journalism;! Theodore Ruch, graduate student of psychology now at Stanford Univer sity; Ralph ^Tartig, second year law j student; Robert F. .Jackson, junior! in physics. The examination will be given by the following committee: Dean M. F.hvood Smith, chairman, O. A. 0.; Professor W. C. Barnes, secretary, j Oregon; Professor W. P. Maddox, j Oregon; Professor O. B. Xoble^ Reed College; President Leonard W. I Riley, Linficld College. The meet- ! ing will be held at the University Club in Portland. W. A. A. Hikers Visit New Hut At The Braes Afternoon Spent Playing Games, Sweaters and Letters Given The light of flickering coal oil lamps greeted the eager bunch of girls who hiked up to the Braes for the opening of the W. A. A. cabin late Sunday afternoon. The first impression on entering the cabin was warmth, for both of the rooms had stoves in them. The larger room of the cabin was nicely filled, and the lack of furnishings was not! noticed for the girls draped them selves comfortably over the floor and few benches. The hikers eagerly listened to the ; stories told and lustily sang college j and camp songs. Soon the delicious j smell of coffee emanated through I the room from the kitchen. Luucli j was in order. Pickles, oranges, and J cake were exchanged. After lunch the new members gave a skit. A shooting match was j held between the three faculty members, Miss Martha Hill, Miss Emma Waterman, and Miss Mary Jo Shelly. Miss Hill was the only one who succeeded in knocking over one of the celluloid ducks, used for game, with the stubborn pop gun, so she was awarded a bouquet of flowers. Letters and sweaters were then awarded by Miss Waterman, head of the physical education depart ment, and the girls started home through the fog. The only casualties of the evening were a J broken lamp chimney and a leaning i front porch. Women’s Fraternity Offers Fellowship In Research Work - L Ti Lambda Theta, national hon- ; orary educational fraternity for j, women, is offering the Ella Vic- r toria Dobbs National Fellowship of ! $1000 to the woman who wishes to ! devote herself to research in edu cation during the year 1927-1928. Every candidate for the honor must have an M.A. degree from a graduate school of recognized worth and have shown notable skill in teaching and significant accom plishment in research. Upon the ac-1 eeptanee of the scholarship the scholar must devote herself unre servedly to study or research. Fosters have been placed on the bulletin board of the education de partment, which give the rules of the contest. Other information can be secured from Frances Schroeder, i president of the local chapter of i Pi Lambda Theta. World Debate Tour Popular in Honolulu; The activities of the round-the-; world debaters from the University; of Oregon are described in an article, in the Pan-Pacific. Union Bulletin, published in Honolulu. “This orig inal pioneer forensic project is grip ping the imagination of those in the Pacific Sphere of the world tour who stand for peaceful economic and so cial progress through mutual under standing,” says the article. The three students described are Jack Hempstead, Gladstone; Avery; i Thompson and Benoit Mi-Croskey,: Salem. They have already com pflbted their debate schedules in Hawaii, Japan, and China, #nd are < now in the Philippines. They vilLl \ isit many countries of the Far East and Europe, and thea will j i spend several months debating and I giving lectures in this country. Russia Unable •ToAgree With Great Britain Litviuoff Gains World Interest but Remains Day Too Long « Chamberlain Defeats Russian at Diplomacy Soviet Asks for Complete Disarmament (By United Tress) GENEVA, Dec. —Great Britain aiul Russia exchanged views on their diplomatic relations through their accredited representatives today but found it impossible to reach any bas is for agreement. The conference between the suave Sir Austen Chamberlain, British for eign secretary, and the stocky Max im Litviuoff, Soviet assistant for eign commissar, who has dominated the Geneva stage for a week, was the grand finale of a score of diplo matic meetings. It completely over shadowed the 48th session of the League of Nations council which opened today. Observers agreed after the eon ference that Litviuoff had remained in Geneva a day too long. lie had captured world interest with his complete disarmament program, his declaration that a. bigger war was inevitable and his willingness to sign non-aggression compacts with nil nations, but lie was defeated at diplomacy by the astute and adroit Chamberlain. The official communique of the meeting says: “M. Litviuoff having asked Sir Austen Chamberlain for an inter view, the meeting took place at the hotel Beanrivage in the afternoon. The meeting gave' occasion for a fiauk exchange of views regarding the relation of the Soviet govern ment arid tlie British government. However, it was not found possible to reach any basis for agreement.” Meeting of Student Housing Committee At Hut This Afternoon Townspeople, wlio have rooms to rent or boarding bouses, will meet with Ulmer L. Shirrell, dean of men, and Mrs. Charlotte Donnelly, secre tary of student housing, at the “Y” hut, at 2 o'clock this afternoon pre paratory to compiling the list of ap proved houses for student occupancy during the winter term. The list will be ready soon, and men who contemplate moving from their present residence must move between quarters, Dean Shirrell said. New students and those desirous Of moving into Friendly hall next term must deposit $10 to insure res ervations. According to a Univer sity regulation which went into ef fect last year, the housing in dormi tories is on the yearly basis, and men who wish to move to a frater nity or othor accommodations must secure special permission from the dean of men. Club To Celebrate In Christmas Party The Cosmopolitan club will give a Christmas party Wednesday evening st the “Y. M.” hut at 8 o’clock. Hack of the members is to bring a present, which is not to cost over 10 rnts. With a Christmas tree and a Santa Claus to deliver presents, ’hristmas spirit will prevail; and the foreign students will have an opportunity to see how Americans jclebrate Christmas. Grace K. Fleming, in charge of the program, says that it is to consist of ■eudings; vocal and piano selections. Yiolet A. Grek will sing several se ections and will give a reading. Dlive Grey will play a piano solo, rherc will be one other selection and a dialogue. Students are in cited. Salemites Will Meet Today To Plan Dance A meeting all Salem students in mom 110 Johnson hall at 4:40 today ias been vailed by Herbort Socolof iky, vice-president of the student )cdy. The purpose of the meeting is to :Jan for a University of Oregon 1 lance to be held in Salem during the tolidays, and to talk over the forma ion of a permanent Salcm-Uuiver ity of Oregon club. Students from owns near Salem will be invited to j lie dance. j Congress Organized; Seating of Vare and Smith Is Postponed (By United Press) THE DAY IN CONGRESS: WASHINGTON, n. c., Dec. 5.— Senate: The question of seating senator elect Smith of Illinois anil Vare of Pennsylvania was put over ! until after the president's message was read tomorrow under a truce agreed upon by both sides, i Routine organization of Senate completed. House: Nicholas Longworth of Ohio re elected speaker. Eligibility of representative .Tames M. Heck of Pennsylvania, ques tioned bv democratic leader, Garrett, on grounds of failing to meet con stitutional requirements as to resi dence. By a vote of the House, Beck was sworn in and the case referred to an elections committee for inves ; ligation. St. Cecilia Mass W'll Be Sling by University Choir Mine. McGrew, Siefert and Carr Have Solo Roles lit Final Vespers — | The University choir, composed of j the men’s and women’s glee clubs | will give the eighth annual pre sentation of tho 8t. Cecilia Mass, at the regular Vesper hour, Sunday, De cember IT in the music auditorium. I John Stark Evans, assistant dean of j the school of music and director of | the men’s glee club, will conduct the ; choir and play the organ accom paniment. The three solo parts of the Mass will be sung by Madame Rose Mc Grew, soprano, John B. Siefert, tenor, and Eugene Carr, baritone. The St. Cecilia Mass, or ‘‘Masse j Solennclle in G,” was written by Gounod in honor of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, and was first played on November 22, 1855, at the feast in honor of the saint. The “Sanetus,” which assured the suc cess of the composition has a simple sweet melody for the tenor. Gounod's fervent religious nature 1 and training is felt in thedevoutness of the “Kyrie.” The “Benedictus” contains a chanting solo for the so prano. The St. Cdcilia Mass is ranked with Gounod’s “Redemption” as his best religion* composition and com pares in achievement with his opera “Faust.” The “Gloria,” “Credo,” and “Agnus Dei” will also be included in the presentation. Freshmen Elect New Commission President ) Eva Davis was elected to take the | place «f Dorothy Teepe as president of the freshman commission during the winter term at the meeting held Thursday afternoon in the Y. \V. Bungalow. Miss Teepe will leave from San Francisco January 7 on a trip through the Panama Canal to New York. She will return from there to Portland, lifT home, in time to resume her studies in the University during the spring term. Miss Marcia Seeber, visiting Y. W. secretary spoke before tire com mission. Cambridge Is Given Decision By Audience Informality and Wit Are Winning Factors for Englishmen Sensationalism in Newspapers Is Hit Horner Declares Visitors Best Ever Seen _ ■ ’< Bv WILFRED BROWN Informality anil rvit "worn toni much for logic and deduction, with the result that Cambridge won from Oregon last night at tlio Methodist church, 212 to 96, in a debate on the question, “Resolved, That the power of the press has in creased, is increasing, and should bo diminished.” This was the first, appearance of the Oregon debate squad this year. Donald Beelar and Hugh Biggs, representing the negative for Ore gon, stated their case in the char acteristic American style, building on facts and deductive reasoning. Their opponents, M. A. B. King Hamilton and Herbert Lionel Elvin, depended upon their personalities, replying to the Oregon men with a choice regiark, or a humorous sally —because they either could rnit or did not care to give the nueneneo dry facts or figures. Smiling at ease, yet violating nearly all fixed rules of debate, the young Englishmen won the minds and hearts of tho audienco and an overwhelming majority of ballots cast. Sensationalism Attacked The Cambridge men based their principal argument against the power of the press on the state ment that newspapers are continu ally playing up and sensationalizing news, thus giving it prominence far out of proportion with its impor tance ahd value to the public. Kjng-IIamilton, who mado (ho first speech of the evening, said that modern newspapers are en tirely too full of distasteful news, such as murders, suicides, and di vorces. He asserted that this has a demoralizing effect on the social and political life of the nation, and that it creates a false imprcaifen of life in the minds of the reading masses. TI10 two Oregon men maintained that although there is some evil in the modern newspapers, it is so far over-balanced by the good that to limit the power of the press would curb the good qualities of newspapers much more than it would the bad. Beelar Claims Power Decreasing Donald Beelar, the first negative speaker, took exception to the state ment, that the power of the press is increasing by quoting statistics to show that the editorial space in American newspapers have de creased in volume 77 per cent in the last quarter century. This, he said, is deplorable, indicating a lessening of the newspapers’ influence on the public. Klvin, who followed Beelar, termed the newspaper a tyrany risen in a democracy. “There is no check on the power of news papers,” he said. Their influence is a menace to our political and social (Continued on page four) Mississippi Flood Disaster Accounts Record News of Year, Says Hodge Geology Professor Classes River Situation as Greatest National Problem Of the leading news stories pub lished during the present, year, more newspaper spare in the United States over an extended period of time has been given to the Missis sippi flood than to any other one topic, states Dr. Kdwin T. Hodge, professor of geology at the Univer sity of Oregon. I>r. Hodge bases his opinion on observation of the spare given to outstanding news of the year. It is the opinion of Dr. Hodge that neither Colonel Charles Lind bergh ’s epic flight aeross the At lantic, nor the stirring ease of Sacco and Vanzetti, has claimed the total amount of publicity given the flood during the time of its oc currence and continuing into the present time. He points out as illustrative of the importance of the Mississippi catastrophe as a problem of national concern, that newspapers and maga zines all over the country are giving it close attention even at the pres ent time. Several days ago the Oregonian 1 devoted three and a half columns to the subject, the treatment of which included a statement by public of ficials to the effect that the flood control question would undoubtedly occupy the greater part of the pres ent session of the national congress. “It is the nation’s greatest prob lem,” asserts Dr. Ilodge, who points out that among the cures which have been suggested by army engi neers, geologists, and other authori ties, the one which seems to be the most desirable, is that of shorten ing the course of the river by tho construction of canals. The river would thus bo given a steeper gradient with the result that the river would cease to overflow its banks. “If this alternative were worked out there would be a continuous waterway front St. Louis to the Great Lakes and on to the Gulf of Mexico. The major obstacle in the way of working out this plan is the problem of the great railroad cor porations which will fight the pro posed change sinco it would he a deterrent to their traffic business.”