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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1928)
Concert Slated For Orchestra Musicians to Play Friday And Saturday Nights at Heilig Theatre The University Symphony orches tra, under ti. derwood, is Friday and 6 and 7, at conjunction ction of Bex Un ■ its home concert lay nights, April Heilig theritre, in ts show. Two per formances will be given each night in order to accommodate all those de siring to hear Oregon’s own musi cians.1 ’ • !.•••, ' < 1 Tho picture being shown, (“Tlie Leopard T idy,' ’ starring* •Juequo liue Logan, has been very highly rated and is a mystery story of continental lit,- directed by Rupert | Juliaii who also directed “ The Vol- j ga Boatman.” The Heilig manage-j ment and the orchestra’s publicity! manager, Edward Best, have ar ranged for all students to be ad mitted at half price (25' cents) ' on presentation of their A. 8. U. O. tickets at the door. The thirty minute music program will consist of those numbers which Mr. Underwood found to be most popular on trips jaken by the group. The first* number is a selection from. »‘ The J^riune . j Toller V by Victor Herbert^ who was the great est American wrjter of ljgjit operai “The Fortune, Terier11 One of his greatest from which comes “The Gypsy Love 8ong. ” The second number is a violin -solo, “Pale Moon” (Logait'Kreis Ju) by Mrs. Gwendolyn Lampshire Hayden. Thomas’s Overture to “Miguom” one of the most repiref sentativ’o of the J’ljeit'.Pre'iH-li jufterhs' follows,. This <m»>' Is! ■fy'aetidtilaTliy-! noteworthy for its instrumental, combinations. Miss 1 ’'DoriscTlielan Patterson will play a harp solo, 11 Welsh Melody.” The final number will be the second -Hungarian RtWJBfViy.yt; ,w,rit: ten for the piano. Tt is the most popular of his y^ujpapdiis’andi gived the harp and feeds an opportunity in the orchestral .arrangement, Saturday the matinee concert will be especially arranged for 'children •and will include an explanation and 'demonstration of the different in struments—all designed to be edu cational as well as entertaining. ■ It will be a showy brilliant pro gram appealing a 11' W hether jjnu sieians or not,' and will lie found to be well adapted to. a theatre aiididneO. * " *' » ' '' Douglass Publishes Report on Study Plans j Dr. Jliirl It. Douglass, professor i of education and director of Uni- , vorsity High School;, has recently had a monograph published which'! is a report of a group of oxpori- i meats with two jdans of {super vised study. The purpose of the experiment woh to determine which of two plans- was tlic more effec tive, the recitation-study or the study-reeijatiim soipience. Ten pairs of dxperimolntal sec tions word, Atjtcd for the experiments, all of which wit-iio obtained from University '"iiHigjlu' The sCchious tv ere so, .selected' and so made up that they1! were (if equal ability as measured by the. Otis Intelligence -test and by' the standard tests in jtho subjects faycltl in the chesses. Teachers in .’the classes exclian-god'l •classes, at tIn' 'conclusion of the first ■half of tire expefij,nent. The ill .tainment of each class was meas ■Ured by cutefully constructed ob jective tests.. <K •" In the cldsseH of history and Eng lish the , atudy-recitation sequence I was nior'cf cffuctlvo and in mat-lie-1 imaties and science the recitation ;study was more effective. Al though in two history classes and "one mathematic's -class- the differ-], nice was not great enough to be beyond the' possibility of chance er ror of measurement. -Neither se-t* queues was found to lie partieu lurlye-bettrr for bright or slow stu dents. One interesting phase of the study was the fact that the teach ers of the classes were not able to jirediet which method would prove most effective even iu classes they taught themselves. Mr. Doug lass states that this shows the no tessitv for carefully controlled ex 1'crimeutalj work with' ejm'fully measured results rather than rely lag on the opinion of classroom in structors as to the relative effec tiveness of the methods. Breakfast To Bo Given At Westminster House * The annual Faster morning break fast for Presbyterian students will be held at Westminster bouse at 14 ami Kineaid street, Sunday looming, April S at 7:.">0 a. m. Hu bert Fleming, retiring president of tlie Westminster forum is desirous that all interested attend the breakfast. He says that eueh yen' if has been one of the high water, marks in the lives of the students, and all who attend have a good X'Uuoe dtibiuu^ to attend *ltt»uid‘ j tell Mrs. F. M. Carter at Westmin 1 ster houa4e; that she may prepare for •'! them,; lias announce^. Just before breakfast a special service is planned at which time the newly elected officers of Westmin I ster forum will bg installed. Alun j Williams, president; Helen Holt, i vice president; Hilda Top, secretary and Carl Moore, treasurer were the | students chosen to lead the Presby teriaVi group in: their work.’. ! ThlriSe in' ehaTge of the breakfast | have, asked that students who are i not Presbyterian but are interested I in the work to attend Hunday morn | iaS Fields About McArthur Court Much Improved Facilities for intramural athletics on tile University of Oregon cam pus will be greatly expanded as the result of grading and construction work V now under way oh tho nth I letie. fields surrounding McArthur ! Court and the R. O. T. C. barracks, i Barth removed from the excavation ; for the new men’s dormitory was placed in a depression in the ath letic field, creating a new area for athletic activities. Under a program being planned by Dr. John Bovard, dean of the school of physical education, fur ther work of this character will be clone, on the fields this spring, in cluding leveling of a promontory and placing the material in another de I presSion.' This1 will ereftte two wide ; terraces,- and will make a field large enough for two baseball dia monds for use of intramural teams, I according to Dr. Bovard, Oregon’s Tennis Team P^ays California Today (» Orpgoii !jji team. will: piny its ! first ednftfrence match of- the season LUfw .afternoon at Berkeley- against 1 he ' University of California. Be i lore they left Eugene last Tuesday members of tlie team expressed con tidehce in' tlieir aliility to take the •tteli'fnnriaiis into eamjit - ->■-»■» . Hepry Neejr, Bacifie intercolle, •Ki.»t*w4i.ijflis-- chaifipitnl, ,is . number ne man on the Webfoot aggrega tion.. ;01itife Ilartlnan/ and Richard I Edge, lettennen from (apt 'yeap j play second and third respectively. Howard Shaw, a. transfer from, a California school, holds the other position. On Saturday, the Oregonians will cryss. racquets, .with Stanford Uni vh'fsjty. Stanford, who has one of the strongest teams in the country, V expected to .wig. Easter Time J .. } , • A • *, , Dress Time If you are not in. line . for. a complete out fit, there is al ways s o m e thing needed to brighten up the wardrobe. BIG SHOWING of EASTER NECKWEAR KNOX HATS A perfect head piece to lead the Parade i : i . i i i . . i ■ De Neff's Young Men’s Wear McDonald theatre BUILDING College Changesj l JLiterary Tastes — I Seniors Have No Confusion •Of Good and1 Bad ■ * • - ■™ * < j Complete reversal of a («ollege (student’s taste and judgment in lit | orpture enuring the ' norpial four years has just been proved by Pat Morrissette- instructor ill English. His findings are the result of a series of recent experimental ex aminations with a group of five sonnets, competently evaluated by leading American critics, with special emphasis on freshman rat ings. With graphic curves and ex planatory text, Mr. Morrissette il lustrated how the freshmen, with almost mathematical precision, pick tke trite and* usual poem as the leader. The second year student, wi*h more literary .assurance and slightly abler judgment, puts the mediocre in second place- Juniors are accurate but are humble re garding their ability. They have a tendency bo rate everything much alike. But the seniors .arc the joy of the English department. The report said of them: “The senior is all that could be hoped for. There is no con-fusion of the good and bad; no toleration of the hackneyed, the trite. His judgment is accurate and strong..’’ Aside from its revelations as to the character of the members of tire different classes, and their -ad vance in literary faculties wOii((li the tests measured, Mr. Morrissette’s study shows the , absence, of cor relation between critical ability and ! grades. Ho ■ attributes this discrep- [ ancy to the shortcomings of ten ’ minute quizzes customarily used as I a student ratihg basis by the de- i paijtra^nt, As .a remedy, h» 'recom mended the employment ef quizzes! only as teaching devices with class recitation as the grading founda tion. “As a whole,” Dr. Morrissette said, “-this investigation shows that there is a false emphasis in the i present grading system. I suggest | >a re-valuation of this (ten-minute quizz) grading device.” The tests just completed are only a small part of the work of grad ing revisions and examination for mulations which has had Mr. Mor rissette’s attention this year. Some of his previous, scientific measure ments of teaching have been adopted for use by other colleges and universities. Washington University Starts (Gridiron Work UNIVERSITY OP WASHING TON, April 5— (P.I.P.)— Seventy men answered the call of Coach Enoch Bagshaw for the first spring football turnout on the lower Stadi- 1 um field Monday afternoon. Despite the large number that turned out, the prospects for a prosperous season this spring and ! next fall are not very bright, for there was only a sprinkling of ex perienced men in uniform. Coach Bagshaw expressed the wish that more men would turn out. Only seven men from the varsity | squad of last year drew suits, and only ,tWo of these were lettermen. Chuck Carroll and Elliot Pulver are ; the. two V ‘ W ’ ’ wearers, and Leo : Wilcox, Hoy Squires, Kay Kruger, j Longy Butler, and Jack Seamen | wore the varsity men back. ML An Easter Hat In Character With Your Costume 3. —After frock and coat and shoes are bought, there is still the faster hat t<> choose. And how much rests on its proper selection. —If you reel you have done well with your Easter shop ping so far—-you will particularly want to see this new collection of straws. Here you will find an Easter hat in character with yout; thoughtfully chosen costume. Per haps it will feature the smart cellophane. (Second floor) YOUR EASTER HOSE MUST BE REALLY BEAUTIFUL — “KAYSER SLIPPER HEEL, $1.65 —On Easter day of till days you'll \vant your Veil chosen slippers to be partnered with really beautiful hose, such as ttyese. Exquisitely sheer and lustrous, these are hose of jvhh’h you could be proud. Colors the latest. NEW, CHIC FOOTWEAR BLOSSOM FORTH—$3,95 To $6.85 Accessories Play An Important Role For Easier —Fashionable Neck Beads And Chokers 49c to $4.98. —Smart New Fabric Gloves, So Intriguingly Styled; Pair 98c to $1.49. —Exquisite Coat And Dress^ Flowers—Corsages. Very Attractive In Their Unique Colorings—49c to $2.50. —And Such Lovelv Handbags And Purses. The Seasons Latest Offerings Will Be Found Here. Of Nicely Tooled Leathers—$2,50 to $6.50. —Dainty, Filmv Neckwear For the Discriminating Fair Sex—79iq to $2.49. , The Outstanding Program of Heilig History Appealing to every person appreciating the fine things musically and pictorially. ON THE SCREEN ENTIRE PROGRAM FRI, &. SAT. Directed By RUPERT JULIAN Who Made “The Volga Boatman” ^Jacqueline Lotjan „ awu. was A “LEOPARD LADY”—-A TAMER OF WILD BEASTS WHO jlfcNEW No!FEAR—A TREMENDOUS'MYSTERY DRAMA OF AUSTRIA—. AMAZING IN ITS. NEW'TWISTS AND THRILLS. Arthur James of ‘‘Motion Pictures Today,” says ‘‘One of the best pictures of the year, is ‘‘The Leopard Lady, a new Pathe lOfftnng that provides absorbing and intense interest. ON THE STAGE ANNUAL HOME CONCERT University of Oregon Symphony Orchestra REX UNDERWOOD, Conductor Augmented to 50 Artiste for their home concert TvrnTF. By Special Arrangements with A. S. U. 0. Student Body Tickets will be ac cepied at half-price for this en gagement. To Accomodate the crowds wishing to hear this big musi cal treat, Mr. Underwood has kindly consented to give two complete concerts on Friday >nd Saturday at 3 p. m. No one will be seated during con certs please time your arrival so as to be seated when concert be gins. ¥ - t' REX UNDERWOOD Conductor 4—Shows—4 Friday at 1—3 —7 and 9 Saturday con tinuous 1 to 11. —PROGRAM— 1. Selection from “The Fortune Teller,” Victor Herbert. * Violin solo. Pale Moon, • (Logan Kreisler), Gwendolyn Lauipskire Hayden. 3. Overture to “Migiton” (Thomas). 4. Harp solo, Welsh Melody, Doris listen Patterson. .3. Second Hungarian Rhapsody, (Liszt). PRICES: Friday and Saturday nights and Satur day Matinee—50 cents