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VOLUME XXIX.
NUMBER r>:s
Ex-Webfooter
Gels Offer
From Franklin
Many Events Are Listed
For Minor Spgrts;
Trackmen To Elect
Bv JOE riGNEY
Perry Davis, former Oregon swim
mer anti diver, who graduated from
the department of physical educa
tion in 1927, has been offered the
position fif director of physical edu
cation at Franldin College, Franklin,
Indiana, to take effect next fall,
according to an announcement made
by Del Oberteuffer, acting head of
the physical education' department.
At the present time Franklin Col
lege has no definite physical educa
tion organization, so the work of
establishing a department will be
Davis’ problem if he accepts the
i position. Davis acted ns instructor
at Oregon last year, and is now
studying for his Masters’ degree
at Columbia University, New York.
Dr. Homer F. Rainey, president of
Franklin College, who made the of
fer, was formerly a professor at
Oregon.
Johnny Anderson, swimmer on
last year’s frosh team, may be sent
to the National Intercollegiate swim
ming meet in April, according to
Edward F. Abercrombie, head
coach. Anderson, who is eligible
for varsity competition this winter,
expects to enter either the 100-yard
dash and the 150-yard backstroke
or the 440-yard free style. If he
registers for the longer distance, he
will not enter the shorter.
Anderson is one of the best swim
mers ever seen at Oregon, and came
. very near breaking several Pacific
Coast conference records last year.
With the added experience gained
last season, he is expected to better
one or more marks.
^ The National -meet will lie held
either at the University of Pe«n
sylv-alnia, Philadelphia, or at the
Naval Academy, Annapolis. Aber
crombie placed fourth in the fancy
diving event at the first national
meet held in 1923 at Princeton Uni
versity. The meet alternates each
year between the east and the mid
dle-west, and as it was held at the
University of Iowa in 1927, it will
go east this winter.
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Abercrombie is again developing
several promising freshman swim
stars. Chester Floyd, outstanding
dash mil, bids fair to equal the
speed of Johnny Anderson. Floyd
was captain of the Hollywood Ath
letic club team last winter, and Wil
liam- Parke, another frosh, played
with the Long Beach high water
polo team.
Other men out for the yearling
squad are Donald Neer, diver; Val
entino Jones and Morris Kinney,
dashes; Ronnello Lewis, 200 yard
breast stroke; Marvin Smith, 150
yard back stroke; Jennings Beard,
and William East. Two meets with
I the O. S. C. rooks and one with the
Vancouver Community club are defi
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I
Hoads Press Moot
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David (J. Wilson, of Lincoln High
School, -who was last year elected
president of the Oregon High School
Press Association, will preside over
the press division of the eighth an
nual conference.
Vaccination of
Students Urged
By Dr. Miller
More Cases of Smallpox
In Lane County Now
Than Year Ago
All students who lmvo not been
successfully vaccinated within Jhe
last five years are urged to do so
by the University Health Service.
There is more smallpox at the pres
ent time throughout the state and
especially in our own county than
thero was at this time last year,
according to Dr. Fred N. Miller,
University physician.
“This is a disease which can be
prevented, and it is a real disgrace
for intelligent pcoplo to get the
disease,” Dr. Miller said. The
method advocated by the United
States Public Health Service is
used by the University physicians.
The vaccination is' painless and in
volves only a very small area on
the arm or thigh. It is not followed
by a large scar.
“At the present time there are
12 cases of smallpox in Lane coun.
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Two-Piano Program
To Be Given as Benefit
George Hopkins, professor of mu
sic, will give a two-piano recital in
conjunction with David Campbell,
pianist, in Portland, Sunday, Janu
ary 15, for the benefit of the Fine
Arts fund.
The program which will bo given
includes “ImprOmptu-Rocoeco” by
Edward Schutt, “Les Eolide” Cesar
Franck, “Gavotte and Musette,”
Joachim Raff, and the “Concerto
Patheticyie” by Franz Liszt.
Mr. Hopkins will give a two-piano
recital here with Louis Artau, in
structor in piano, later iu the term.
Gamma Deltas Protest Serenade By
Euripides, Bachelordon Mascot
The only original complaint of its
kind has been filed in the Emerald
office. Baclielordon has a dog, a
dog called Euripides. And the
Alpha Gamma Deltas have risen on
masse t% charge the said Euripides
with willful and malicious intent of
breaking a recent campus ruling,
viz., the obligation to file a week in
advance, all serious intentions of
serenade.
But the offender is young, main
tains the counsel for the defense, a
bare six months old, and below the
age of reason. He is a Pointer by
'nationality, a tenor by profession,
and a Bachelor by ehoiee. Due to
environment, he hates women. And
he is branded a criminal.
To aid recognition, he is de
scribed as having a white coat
(description recorded last Saturday
night), with brown spots rambling
over the outside. Those wishing to
identify him bv his footprints will
find the same frescoed in batik de
sign all over the owners’ best rugs.
Whether he is a genuine Bird Dog
or not, there are no papers to at
test, but his owners shipped him in
from a certain rural district where
pedigrees are uncertain. Therefore,
as Sociology majors would maintain,
what good can come from am off
spring with ignoble parentage?
As the complaint develops, late
on Tuesday last week, a wail dis
turbed the sleep of the plaintiff’s
household. Because of a djiscus
sion as to whether or not it was an
owl, a few members went to investi
gate in person, and the report was
noised that Euripides was tied up
in the back yard with a wire rope.
It was even hinted that the afflicted
one had been shut up all night in
a piano box from which he could
not escape until near midnight.
Thenceforth, he continued to make
the night hideous.
The defendants refute the story
entirely. Euripides was subjected to
no inhuman treatment, his owners
declare indignantly. “We just put
a ring on the clothesline.”
“Yes?” the Inquisition encouraged,
“and thereby hung what?”
“And to the ring there was a rope,
and on the rope there was a dog,”
the defense is said to have reported
flippantly; “and thereby hangs a
tale.”
“And his ring slipped back and
forth so that he could travel at
will down the whole length of the
clothesline.”
But the plaintiffs merely main
tain that this only distributed his
howls over a larger area. The tele
phone, they assert, was even brought
into action, but the owners of the
dog deliberately refused to answer.
The only response seemed to be
that certain Baehelordons only add
ed their howls to the canine’s, with
the indelicate command that he
shut up.
Whereupon, the raucous Euripides
merely increased volume and went
up a couple of notes higher ia order
to add climax to the solo. The out
come of the suit is still pending.
Preppers In
For Full Day
Entertainment
Schedule Today Includes
Annual Banquet, Tea
and Smoker
Special Attractions
At Big ‘College Nile’
College Knights, Glee Club
To Be Featured
A continual round of entertain
ment is on today’s program for the
delegates to the eighth annual high
school conference. It has been the
plan of the entertainment coinmit
to mahe
tern headed by Paul Hunt
this dav one that will be remem
bored and talked about long after
the delegates have returned to their
homes and their high schools.
The “College Nito” entertain-!
ment, which is scheduled for 9:30
o’clock this evening at the "Woman’s
building, is one of the big events
of the day for both delegates and
University students. With such
talent as Madge Mormile, Kenneth
Allen, George McMurphey’s Kol
lege Knights, the University Glee
club, and .Tack Reynolds, as well ns
several who are getting their first
chance tonight to make a name for
themselves, the program is sure to
be attended and appreciated by
most of the student body, say those
in charge.
Banquet at 5:45 P. M.
At 5:45 o’clock this evening, dele
gates will attend the annual ban
quet in the Woman’s building,
which will be presided over by
Bean James IT. Gilbert, of the eol
'lego of literature, science and the
arts, instead of President Arnold
Bennett Hall, as originally an
nounced. Speakers on the program
for the banquet include: Bon Beelar,
president of the Associated, Stub
dents; William Powell, chairman of
the student committee in charge of
the conference, and Kenneth Allen,
head of the high school association
of student body officers.
Other banquet speakers will be:
Bavid Wilson, president of the Ore
gon High School Press Conference;
Ethel Elliott, president of the High
School Girls’ Leagues; John A.
Straub, emeritus dean of men; Erie
[ W. Allen, dean of the school of
jjournalism; Earl Pallctt, registrar;
and C. A. Howard, state superin
tendent of schools. Music during
i the meal will be furnished by
j George McMurpliey and his Kollege
I Knights.
Principals Lunch at Noon
A luncheon is to bo hold at the
College Side Inn at 12:15 o’clock
today in connection 'with the Prin
cipals’ conference, to which all vis
iting high school faculty members,
whether or not the.y are principals,
and also members of the University
faculty, are invited to attend. The
group will be addressed by II. F.
Hunt, principal of Stadium High,
Tacoma, on “Making Activities
Significant in the Curricular Tlan.”
A tea for all girl editors of an
nuals and papers is to be given
at che Woman’s building at 4:30
o’clock this afternoon by Theta
jligma Phi, women’s national hon
orary journalistic group.
Smoker for Journalists
Sigma Delta Chi, men’s national
professional journalism fraternity,
will entertain all visiting high
school editors at a smoker to be
held in the Woman’s building at 11
o’clock this evening, after the
“College Nite” entertainment.
The annual campus tour, which is
to be held at 4 o’clock this after
] noon, will be conducted by the Ore
jgon Knights, and .will include
points of interest all over the
campus, including the Murray War
ner collection of oriental art, the
Woman’s building, the University
press, the University laboratories,
and Oregon’s historic mill race.
Student Directorate in Charge
A directorate of students working
in conjunction with a faculty com
mittee has handled the numerous
details in connection with the
eighth annual conference. William
Powell is general chairman of the
student directorate, Art Anderson is
assistant chairman, and Louise
Clark is secretary.
The faculty committee includes
Geqrge H. Godfrey, school of jour
nalism; Elmer L. Shirrell, dean of
men; Earl Pallett, registrar; and
Dan Clark, extension division.
The University student commit
tees are as follows:
1 Woman’s League—Esther Hardy,
chairman; Adalia Everts, Nellie
Johns.
Housing and registration—Joe
Roberts, chairman; Harriet Atchi
son, Avis Seines, Doris Lee Gordon,
Mildred Tuggle, Maurice Kenney,
| (Continued on page fourX
Mixups Frequent
In Registration
For Conference
Tidal Wave of Preppers
Deluges University
On Thursday
The girl approached the registra
tion desk in the Administration
building blusbinglv but with a do
torminod expression on her face.
“I’m awfully sorry to bother you”
she said, “but you have mo down
for the Sigma Pi Tau house, and
really ... I can’t stay there!”
Not once but several times was
this complaint lodged by incoming
delegates. Two men were register
ed for the Sigma Beta Fhi house and
consternation reigned until the mis
take was corrected and they wore
shipped to a more fitting domain.
In between the spasmodic, arrivals
of tlie preppers the halls of the build
ing were filled with bored under
classmen waiting for the call “Kap
pa Sigma here,” “Adi Pi”, “Tri
Belt”, “S. A. E.”, “Any Beta frosh
around?”' “Oregon Knight,” “Sig
ma Nil”, and all the other Greek let
ter combinations, as well ns the
campus dormitories. Some of those
waiting yawned outright, some mere
ly closed their eyes or looked into
the eyes of other patient pledges.
Tall ones, short ones, long ones,
lean ones, the preppers came, some
times in a tidal wave of bags and
galoshes, sometimes singly, or chap
eroned by the faculty advisors; all
of them being tagged with red, green
or blue ribbons, according to the
office which they hold in their high
school. One girl came back and
turned in her little blue ribbon . . .
“I’d rather have one like my
churn’s,” she explained .... and is
now booked for the student body
president’s convention in place of
the Tress meetings.
The long distance record is held
by Bcvnolds Gaboon, registered from
Nyssa, which tries to fall into the
Snake river canyon iu Malheur coun
ty, while Billy King of Coquille, and
Ted Orava of Knappa will have to
draw straws for the title of the
smallest man at the conference, both
being under five feet in height.
Educator From
Sacramento To
Talk Here Today
W. J. Cooper To Address
Assembly on ‘Rights—
Use and Abuse’
'William .T. Cooper of Sacramento,
superintendent of public instruction
for tlie state of California, is to do
liver an assembly address on
“Rights—Use and Abuse” at nine
o’clock this morning in the gym
nasium of the Woman’s building
The assembly was set for this houi
in order to enable the high school
delegates as well as the University
students to be present.
Mr. .Cooper, who is scheduled tc
give a series of lectures for a weele
of the summer session on the Ore
gon campus this year, taught c
course in social science here a few
summers ago. Ho was formerly the
superintendent of schools at San
T)iogo and Fresno. He obtained his
bachelor and master degrees at the
University of California, and is the
holder of an honorary LL.D. froir
Whittier College in southern Cali
fornia.
Mr. Cooper frequently contributes
articles on civics and citizenship tc
current periodicals.
According to Dean Elmer L. Shir
rell, who is acquainted with him
Mr. Cooper is a forceful and inter
esting speaker. Dean Shirrell wil
deliver the speech of welcome tc
the visiting “preppers” in the place
of President Hall, who has been ill
Donald Peelar, president of the
associated students, will preside.at
the meeting.
Saturday Last Day
To Enroll This Terra
No student may enroll in the
University for the winter term
without special permission from the
registrar, after Saturday noon, anc
any who enter following this date
will not be allowed to carry a ful
! program.
Saturday is also the last day foi
! adding courses, and students (are
| asked to be sure that they arc
taking the subjects listed on the
i yellow slips they received at the
first of the term, as no eredit wil!
j be given for the work unless prop
erly registered.
Many students have not filed theij
University addresses at the regie
| trar’s office and they are requesteei
to do so.
Varsity Five,
Revamped, To
Faee Bulldogs
Milligan, Pivot; Chastain,
Forward for Gonzaga
Tilt Tonight
Visitors Have Fast,
Formidable Quintet
Football Star at Guard
For Spokane Team
Probable Lineups
Oregon Gonzaga
Hidings . .P .. Berilla
Chastain ..F. McCarvel
Milligan .0......Le Veaux
Epps .G.... Kennedy (C)
Bally .G Walterskirchen
S. McLean
S. Magnalio
S. Jovick
By RICHARD II. SYRTNG
Sports Editor
With Scotty Milligan as erntor,
Coach William (Billy) Reinhart will
present a somewhat changed Oregon
Scott Milligan
varsity when the
varsity lineup
when tlio Web
foots inert tbo
touring Conzaga
University Bull
dogs t.oniglit at
8 o’clock in Mc
Arthur court in
what promises to
be a close, excit
ing pre-eonferenco
basketball game.
Tonight’s fracas
is free to the public, anil besides a
large number of townspeople, hun
dreds of visiting high school dele
gates aro expected to be in attend
ance.
The presence of Milligan at cen
ter'in tonight’s tilt is only the con
tinuation of Reinhart’s search to
find some one to fill the shoes left
vacant by Roy Okerberg, star cen
ter for the past three seasons. Lanky
Tck Reynolds, Ray Edwards and
Howard Eberhart have all been tak
ing turns at the pivot position but
nono have come up to the expecta
tion of the Oregon hoop mentor.
Milligan Vacates Post
Milligan taking a now position at
renter leaves vacant a forward berth
which will be filled tonight by Mer
jvyn Chastain. Chastain performed
at guard in a recent Willamette tilt.
! Gordon Hidings will be at the other
forward post.
Joe Bally at guard is another af
fected by tho new change in lineup
as this speedy player was stationed
at forward in the last Friday night’s
game. Big Dave Epps, who has seen
little under-firo service this season,
will draw the other guard assign
ment. Epps can generally be counted
on for a few markers in addition
to doing some nice checking.
Forwards Missed This Year
The absence of Captain Mel In
gram and Herb Botehford, pair of
star forwards on the Gonzaga team
last year, has been missed consider
ably by the Spokane school’s five,
but Coach Clipper Smith will have a
formidable quintet on the floor 'to
night. Le Veaux will probably get
the call over Branom at center for
the Bulldogs. Le Veaux is a for
mer member of a Washington state
| all-star high school quintet and, al
though handicapped by lack of col
lege experience, showed well in the
two games played with Montana.
Berilla, Gonzaga Star
At forwards, Coach Smith has
"Andy” Berilla, a former star with
the Lincoln high school team of Ta
coma, and Fred MeCarvel, a speedy
little fellow from Anaconda, very
adept at floor work and the passing
game. Berilla is the only one of the
duo who has shown any consistent
form to date when it comes to ring
ing the hoop. He is generally high
point man for the Catholic maple
court performers.
Captain John Kennedy will be
found at ono guard post for tho vis
itors. Kennedy’s distinguishing
trait is his consistency. He is in
the thick of the fight at all times
and Is good for a few points during
each contest. At the other guard
position Gonzaga has Frank Walter
skirchcn, the diminutive football
: guard who was mentioned by many
| sports writers and coaches on near
All-American teams. The Bpokan
! ites feel that tho length of his namo
i has kept him off of many more all
: star football selections. Walter
| skirchen is fast, aggressive, a good
shot from tho distance and a defen
sive player of excellent ability.
Girls' League President
-^-<V(irXh:—~>
J. vfcPSNti «MAMOi P«0TO,
Ethel Elliott, Medford High
School, who is head of the Oregon
State Association of Girls’ Leagues.
Style Show To
Admit Girls Only,
Says Committee
To Bo Held in Women’s
Gymnasium Today
At 11 A. M.
No men allowed; for girls only,
is the decision of those in charge
of the style show sponsored by tho
Women’s Lenguo to be presented
! Saturday at 11 a. m. for visiting
girl delegates to tho high school
conference. Here in her own field
woman will reign supreme, with no
mere man around to distract her by
his comments, not on tho loveliness
of the clothing, but on the pulchri
tude of some model who has caught
his eve.
“The event is scheduled to take
place in the. women’s gymnasium in
the Woman’s building,” said Adalia
Everts, general chairman, “so that
there will be plenty of roosn to ac
commodate the visiting girls.” The
show will bo introduced by a short
shit in which Mary Iluekett and
Alice Morrow will appear.
“We are trying,” said Miss Ev
erts, “to choose clothes which will
be representative of those worn by
tho average college girl. They will
include lingerie, sport dresses, sport
coats, riding habits, afternoon dress
es, evening dresses and dress coats.”
The models follow:
Lingerie—Rpso Roberts, Mao An
derson, Ruth Do Ncffe.
Sport .dresses and outfits—Mild
red Vaughan, Sara Hennethum, Jane
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Conference in Boston
Attended by F. E. Folts
F. F. Folts, acting (loan of tlio
school of business administration,
attended tlio conference on indus
trial management, held in Boston
during the Christmas holidays. Mr.
Bolts left for Boston December 15
and returned to Portland January
1. Because of the heavy snow, he
was forced to limit his trip to Bos
ton, although ho had planned to go
farther.
Wliilo in Boston, Mr. Folts saw
Dean Robbins, who is on a leave
of absence from tlio University this
year. Dean Robbins is working at
Harvard on a senior course called
business politdes. He also saw David
Favillc, who taught merchandising
here last year, and Alfred Krolin
and Lloyd Byerly, former Oregon
students.
High School
Conferences
Bring Throng
First of Day’s Events To
Be Opening Assembly
At Nine o’Clock
Delegates To Divide
For Group Meetings
Program Draws Experts
In Varied Fields
The University of Oregon is to ho
tlie melting pot in tlio next two days
for tlio representatives of 40,000
high school students who filled cam
pus walks and avenues after their
arrival yesterday afternoon and
evening.
Starting at one o'clock yesterday
afternoon, delegates were register
ed on the main floor of the Admin
istration building, and conducted to
the houses which will bo their homo
during tho two-day sessions about
tlio common problems of their high
school offices.
Registration was carried on until
about 11 o’clock last night, and will
continue until !) o’clock this morn
ing so that tho late arrivals may get
their badges and cards which will
admit them to tho various events of
the week-end.
Throe delegates from Coquillo
were the first to arrive in Eugeno
for the conference. Kenneth ITan
scn, Billie King and Stanley Ste
vens, of that town registered short
ly before one o’clock yesterday af
ternoon.
Marshfield sent the delegation
that was next to appear on tho
scone. John Scofield and Cranson
Fosborg from there were among the
first to register. North Bend dele
gates were also early arrivals.
Shirrell To Welcome Guests
The first event on the program
will bo tlio University assembly at
9 o'clock this morning when Etrnor
L. Shirrell, dean of men, will givo
the official welcoming address to
the high school guests.
After tho assembly, the confer
ence will divide into four parts. The
High School Press association meet
ing will be held in tlio Journalism
building; tho student body officers
will moot in the main auditorium of
the music building; tho principals’
conference will meet in the educa
tion building; while the Association
of Girls’ Leagues will remain in tlio
Woman’s building.
After the press association has
been called to order by David Wil
son of Lincoln High, Portland, thero
will bo an address by Eric, W. Al
len, dean of the School of Journal
ism, on “Organizing the Staff.”
This is scheduled to start at 10:20,
At 11 o’clock Walter W. R. May, of
tho Portland Oregonian will deliver
ap address, also to tho press asso
ciation. His topic will be: “Getting
the Right Start.” Immediately be
fore noon, Dean Allen will givo a
summary of tho morning’s talks.
Luncheon For Faculty
Delegates will eat lunch today at
the organizations to which they have
been assigned. All visiting high
school faculty members, whether
or not they are principals, and mem
bers of tho faculty of the University
arc invited to attend the principals’
and advisers’ luncheon at 12:15
(Continued on page tu’oj
Dr. Boynton Reminisces of Early
Oregon Days; Deady9s Changes Told
From tho time when physics
classes were considered large if they
had His or seven pupils in them to
the present day when such a course
is considered a failure unless there
are at least a hundred in it, has
been the teaching; experience of T)r.
W. P. Boynton, head of the physics
department, at tho University of
Oregon.
In 1904, when Dr. Boynton first
came to this campus, after doing
graduate work at Cornell University,
he was greeted with the largest class
that had ever enrolled in sopho
more physics (they called it ad
vanced then). There were twenty
in his elementary classes and only
one student taking a course in elec
trical engineering from him. This
student was lialph Shelly, now head
ranger of the Siuslaw forest.
“I not only had classes in phy
sics in those days,” said Dr. Boyn
ton, ‘‘but I also had a number of
classes in mathematics and some
physics laboratories to take charge
of as well.”
The basement in Deady Hall was
unfinished then, and it was not
until 1914 that it was fixed up so
, that laboratories could be held in it,
Dr. Boynton stated. About that timo
nearly all tlio English courses were
taught in Deady as -well as tho
classes in science. Professor II. 0.
Howe had his offieo in tho base
ment just across tho hall from
where Dr. Boynton has his now.
I.uellu Clay Carson, then Dean of
Women at tho University of Ore
gon, also taught her English com
position and American literature
classes downstairs.
Trading rooms was just as popu
lar a sport among faculty members
as it is now, for Dr. Boynton and
Dr. Timothy Cloran, professor of
romance languages, decided that
they would like to exchange rooms.
Cloran then took Boynton’s room
while the latter took his because
of its ideal location for an electri
cal engineering laboratory.
Deady Hall has been changed lit
tle since 1914, Dr. Boynton be
lieves, except for the fact that all
departments except those of other
buildings have been moved to other
buildings. Only small changes havo
been made on the building itself,
such as putting the rooms on the
mezzanine floor and replacing the
old spiral stairway with the one
that is thore now.