W. S. C. Considers
Two Oregon Men
Hobson or Westergren is
Possible Mentor
Chances that the Washington
State College basketball team will
be coached by an ex-Oregon star
next year are two
out of three, ae
received here re
cently. Algot K.
Westergren and
Howard Hobson
[ are the two Ore
gon men, who,
with Dick Mun
son, Seattle high
school coach, are
being considered
to succeed Carl
S chladleman.
Choice between
the three is ex- A1 Westergren
pected within the next week, prob
ably on April 21, says the communi
cation. ,
Westergren graduated last year,
softer having for three times been
chosen on the all coast mythical quin
tet. He was characterized by Bill
Beinhart, Webfoot coach as “the
best man in the conference last
season.” He played guard all three
years. Hobson was a forward, play
ing his last year in 1926. He, too,
was one of the outstanding players
of the circuit, and when graduated
was thoroughly grounded in the
principles of play.
It has been known for several
t months that Westergren was con
sidered for that position in addi
non to unmoor
of others of less
er i in p orta nee.
However, infor
mation that the
field had narrow
ed down to a trio
was received hero
only this week.
Both ex-Oregon
men have been
loaehing since gra
m-asss* uuation, Jrtobson
Howard Hobson at Kelso high, and
Westergren as assistant to Rein
hart.
Atuagon<r, ,4s..AoaclungRaifcml
high seliom' in Seattle, where he has
made an excellent record.
Ti
Italian Magazine
Sent to Art Library
By Avard Fairbanks
An Italian magazine depicting the
art of medieval Italy has just been
received at the library of the school
of architecture and allied arts from
Avard Fairbanks, former head of the
sculpture department of that school.
Mr. Fairbanks, who is in Florence,
Italy, at the present time on a Gug
genheim Foundation fellowship, sent
the magazine to the school through
Fllis F. Lawrence, dean.
Beautifully illustrated with plates
of such art subjects as painting,
sculpture, architecture, and the
crafts, and printed entirely in Ital
ian, the magazine will be of great in
terest to the students, Dean Law
rence believes.
Mr. Fairbanks now has a commis
sion under way for a new foundation
in Vancouver, Washington, and ho
will also do the war memorial to
be erected at Camp Lewis, Vancou
ver, Washington, Dean Lawrence
stated. The sculptor was at the Uni
versity of Oregon for seven years
before he went to Florence to study
last summer.
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JOY
am,
Story by May Edginton
Comedy Aesop Fables
'How Dry I Am!9 Chatters Pretzel,
Campus Squirrel9 As It Rains
I Collegians may worry and scold
! and fret in scowling looks at the
|spasmodic wet when it’s spring. They
j needs must hats and slickers don
i and in some eases put galoshes on,
I or get a soaking.
I .and a lot more might bo
said o’ that.
Burst of sunshine and all the
University turns out of doors. The
weather comes mildly to this campus
and'a warm night on the millrace is
bettered a thousand times by the
tonic of a lingering April shower.
But rain has inconvenience to those
impatient souls who look with yearn
I ing to the tenuis courts, baseball
! diamond or cinder track, canoe trail
j or open road. “Aw, the devil!” the
most impatient explodes. Which is
probably natural. But he goes back
to his book’s again. Which is a good
thin g.
The magnolias by the Deady-Li
brary walk have announced spring
and heaven on the campus,’ and do
ing their bit, have shed their blos
soms to have them raked up by the
gardeners. The lilacs on the same
walk, the laurestimus by the library,
the maples and cott-onwoods here
and there, the cherry trees around
President Hall's . residence and in
other spots thrive with fragrance
and beauty. Winter is gone; there
is no doubt about that!
But rain, and the umbrellas open
and slickers rustic and galoshes
slosh.
But there is one on the campus
who is not troubled with studies
when the sun comes out, nor with
slickers and galoshes and hats when
the dampness settles again. That
one is “Pretzel,” the red tree squir
rel, who lives with Mrs. Pretzel in
the hollow fork of a tree by the
walk from Villard to Sociology. A
little shower doesn’t dampen his
spirits a bit, nor docs it those of his
I relatives who are scattered over the
city. But a heavy shower and he
scampers with a laHghing chatter to
his refuge. There, if it is possible
to imagine what it might look like,
he spits out his cheek full of buds,
calls for Mrs. Pretzel to bring him
his slippors, the latest edition of the
Emerald, and his trusty pipe and
forgets the passing of the hours.
Sam Miccelson, the head gardner,
tells many a story about Mr. and
Mrs. Pretzel and their relatives in
other portions of the campus and of
the other little animals and the birds
and insects. At night an owl hoo
hoos in a tree in front of McClure
hall. In the daytime the thrushes,
the robifts and the ipany smaller
feathered residents and visitors
chirp and sing.
Then there are tho little woods
bees. Look eloso along the east
side of the Deady-Library walk and
you will see the little mounds of
freshly chewed dirt which each en
terprising woods bee has thrown up
around his hole under the grass. Dig
up tho area around one of these
mounds and you will dig up a bee,
which, in warm weather, is ready
for stinging purposes.
But the squirrels are most amus
ing to study. They live mostly on
the walnuts garnered from the trees
back of the Administration build
ing, Mr. Miccelson says. One day,
two of them, thinking to change
their diet for tho good of science
or just for the variety of menu, ate
some buds from the top of the big
cottonwood tree in front of Deady.
These buds are not good eating for
squirrels, and the gardener found
them later, dead at the base of the
tree. They were either poisoned out
right or intoxicated to dizziness ahd
killed by the fall.
High School Contest
Drama Will he ‘Shall
We Join, the Ladies?’
Too many irons in the fire! Since
yesterday’s Emerald—when it was
Ladies?” would be given on May 4
for the drama tournament guests—
decisions around the drama depart
ment have been made, unmade and
remade. *The last and final verdict
i.-> that it will be produced. The call
has been sent out for all cast mem
bers to appear at 3 o’clock this aft
ernoon.
Duo to the short time left for re
hearsals on the one-act play by Bar
rie, Miss Wilbur thought it might
be best to give ‘‘La'dy Windermere’s
Ban” instead of the shorter drama.
This plan was frustrated when it
was found that the train taking the
junior vodvil chorus to Portland
leaves at conflicting time. Several
of the east members for “Lady Win
dermere’s Fan” are in the vodvil, so
that it will be impossible to produce
the longer play.
Work, beginning this afternoon,
will have to be intensive. Miss Wil
bur urges all members of the cast to
appear for rehearsal today. The play
will include roles taken by Jaek
Waldron, Milton George, Edna As
May, Lawrence Shaw, Grace Gard
ner, Glenn Potts, Luelia Andre,
Cecil Matson, Eunice Payne, Alice
Gorman, Thelma Parks, and Joy In
Dr. Royal J. Gick
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Adams Chooses
Committee Heads
Second Annual Carnival
Will be April 28
! _
Bill Adams, general chairman of
the student committees in charge of
the Second Annual High School Bo
lay Carnival, has chosen the heads
cf his sub-committees, and prepara
tions for the meet will begin imme
diately. All the high schools in the
state have been invited to enter
their track teams, and a large num
ber have already signified their in
tention of entering the competition.
The meet will be held Saturday,
April 28.
Adams has received a large num
ber of requests from the various
fraternities in regard to giving them
certain teams or men as guests dur
ing the carnival, but tho conflicting
nature of most of these requests and
the impossibility of pleasing every
one has led to the adoption of a
system of lottery for the disposition
of the teams, as well as the selec
tion of the temporary student mana
gers for each squad. Each frater
nity will draw one entire team for
housing during 'the meet, and each
team will draw its manager from a
list of candidates for the position*.
The earnest co-operation of tho
student body is needed in order to
make this Belay Carnival a real suc
cess. In one sense, Oregon is again
competing with her ancient rival at
Corvallis, for the Aggies are also
staging a state high school track
meet later in the spring, and the
comparative impressions that the
preppers receive of the two institu
tions is likely to be a largo factor
ir determining which school they
will attend in the future. “It ir
Oregon hospitality ■frs. O. A. C. hos
pitality,” said Adams, “and the
Beaver brand must be the best.”
The committees in charge of the
Terrifying Literature in Vault
Not As Bad As Students Believe
There is about the word vault, a
certain terrifying sound. It echoes
and reverberates with a chillness
which strikes fear to the bravest
hearts. One sees graves, and death
and cold palo spectres of a dimly
lighted past.
The library vault has its ghosts.
It is Pandora’s boJt, that harbors
all that’s bad. Wicked words writ
ten by wicked writers whispers from
' hot ’ books, that is what the vault
holds, according to most university
students.
So it was with trepidation and a
certain anticipation of pleasure that
I let myself be guided by the will
ing library assistant to tho vault.
As soon as I b^&the accustomed
to the dark, my eyes beheld a num
ber of musty volumos. I shudderod
—afraid to gaze on the forbidden
titles. Forcing my eyes to focus
on a dark book in front of mo I
slowly read, “Pike’s Arithmetic,”
I the librarian took down the book,
and showed me a chapter on ‘ ‘ vulgar
I tractions,” I tried to look sophisti
| cated but I doubt that success was
attained.
Next sho showed fhat terrible
piece of literature which we are all
forced to read in English Survey,
Malory’s “Morte D’Arthur. ” I
wondered if I should turn and flee
various phases of the situation as
announced by Bill are,: General sec
retary, Dena Aim; housing commit
tee, Paul Hunt, chairman, Russ
Baker, and Jim Bezendorf; enter
tainment committee, John Ander
son, chairman, Jack Dowsott, and
Carl Nelson; accommodations, Franz
Wagner, chairman, Kenneth Potts,
Ralph Geyer, and Orville Bred
thaucr; publicity committee, Chan
Brown, chairman, Ralph Martig, and
Walter Norblad.
from those emblems of sin, but curi
osity won and I stayed.
Next a bunch of Dialogues for
School Children by Samuel B. Morse,
was forthcoming. This little book
was yellowed with ago having been
published in 1797, so it must have
been written with an idea of pleas
ing the ‘ wild younger set ’ of that
day.
Some more books (she seemed to
be picking them worse and worse
all the time) were, Mark Twain's
“A Yankee in King Arthur'sCourt.,”
“The Prinee and the Pauper,” and
'‘The Guilded Age.”
My heart, sank within me, how
ever, when she handed mo that em
blem of sordid reading, “The Paerlo
Queene” by Spenser and right after
wards Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”
The titles of the next threo books
were bad enough, Perkins’ “Geome
try,” Briggs’ “Triganometra Brit
anlca” and Cockers’ “Arithmetic.*
Well, the vault had lived up to
its name. I felt a waning desire
to read these books, and when she
handed me a last obscene work, all
the moral training I had had at
borne arose within me and T pushed
aside the ponderous, gold-lettered
volume, entitled “University of Ore
gon Extension Division Correspon
dence to Study Courses.” My
taste for the risquo in literature
is satiatedh
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