' i Aabmets Dine
At Bungalow
Joint Discussion Group
Meeting Last Night
Cabinet members of both the Y.
M. and Y. W. C. A. held a joint
dinner and get-together meeting last
night at the Y. W. bungalow at
which time the value of the Y in
its relation to the student and the
University was discussed.
It was the first time in a num
ber of years that the group met
jointly, so both sides had many ques
tions to ask about the work of the
. other.
9 Margaret Edmundson, president
of the Y. W., acted as chairman for
the discussion group, which was
held in the bungalow following the
meeting on the front lawn.
Do you think our organization is
of value on the campus or do other
student groups really duplicate what
it is trying to do? This was the
first question given the cabinet
members. Opinions were that with
an independent inter-donominational
group of the Y type could do real
pioneer work, while if linked with
some special denomination, there
was little to really encourage the
students of all churches to work.
It was felt that the non-church go
ing student also takes an interest
in such work, and the group did
have a definite place.
That the Y was linking the reli
gious and the educational was pre
sented as an argument for its value.
While all this is being done, it was
pointed out, the Y should guide the
students in the direction back' to the
church.
It was believed that the Y. M. and
Y. W. should be separate and had
been made so, in order that things
could be talked over, the devotional
could be made more valuable, and
the men and women could think
through their special problems.
Co-operation between the cab
inets was approved, and hopes of
real work together next fall was
talked. This is to be especially the
case, in matters of bringing speak
ers to the campus, and in the mat
ters of finance where both organ
izations were involved.
The joint cabinet^ went qn rec
ord as favoring the campus chest
for another year and making a real
attempt to promote subscription
giving by the independent students.
Scores for Women
Archers Announced
The 2 and 3 o’clock classes in
> archery under the supervision of
Miss Harriet Thomson, professor of
physical education began the shoot
for the championship yesterday. The
first official scores have been given
out today, with the first year ar
chers making better score than the
second year archers.
According to Miss Thomson the
scores are running higher this year
than last, the highest score last
year was 14.2 per cent while the
first reports of this year is 14.8 per
cent perfect score.
The first year class are shooting
the Columbia round—that is, shoot
ing 24 arrows at 30 yards, 24 at
40 and 24 at 50. The second year
class shooting the National round,
43 arrows at 50 yards and 24 at 60.
High point girls for this term
are:
Boris Hardy, 14.8 per cent of
perfect score—first year archer.
Ethel Convoy, 14.2 per cent of
perfect score—first year archer.
Jane Thompson, 10.7 per cent of
perfect score—first year richer.
Eowena Haven, 0.3 per'cent of
perfect score—first year archer.
“No Real Humorists Living Now ”
States S. S. Smith In Inter view
“Why have wo no comedy of any
literary merit in the United States%”
S. Stephenson Smith, associate pro
fessor of English, repeated the ques
tion.
“From the time of the colonial
wits we have always had our humor
ists,” said Professor Smith. “Frank
lin started the vogue for wise moral
maxims with a funny turn to the
phrasing. He has had many follow
ers down (a long way down) to
Frank Crane, Ed. Howe, and Walt
Mason.
“These maxims arc rather youth
ful compared with Chinese wise
saws, but still they woul^l come in
handy for filler in the hands of a
clever writer of comedy. AA’c can
see in English comedies how much
use is made of the folk wit, and it
is too bad that some of Ed. Howe’s
wise cracks will die with his maga
zine, when they might be embalmed
in a good comedy of manners. After
all, however, epigrams alone will
not make a comedy.
“A\ hen we look at the other types
of American humor we find a rich
and varied supply. AVashington
li ving talked like a book, but his
‘ Diedrich Knickerbocker’ shows
many of the typical symptoms of
the local American historian. Irv
ing’s satire is gentle, amiable, and
a little too polite. One would think
when one reads of his career as a
young man around town (in. the
days before ‘The New Yorker’ came
to furnish cheap sophistication to
the provinces), that Irving might
have written a comedy if he had
had a mind to; but he was too much
of a romantic, so ho became minister
to Spain and wrote official letters
instead,—not to mention dismal
chore work such as ‘Astoria’ and
the ‘Life of George Washington.’
Like many of the gay young dogs
who have started out bravely, he
was caught and tamed by the gen
teel tradition.
“Well, Artcmus Ward, Bill Nye
of comic history fame, and Mark
Twain were not so genteel. They
never got, however, beyond the
dialogue stage, the speakers in each
mse being the author and his other
self. True, Mark created the great
est comic characters in our litera
ture, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer;
out they never grew up. And say
what you will, high comedy requires
persons who arc nominally fully
idult.
“Whether Mark would have been
mcccssful at high comedy may very
well be doubted. He might have
written good ruffianly Eabclaisian
jomcdy in the manner of Dekker,
but he did not see through genteel
society sufficiently well to satirise
t. While one need not agree with
he gloomy young Depressionists
:hat Mark was ruined by taking on
i kind of commercial genteel ve
leer' it must be admitted that ho
-njoyed the high lights too much
;o look on from the wings. And
;ho writer of comedy needs to be
somewhat of a detached observer.
Mark said in one of his prefaces
hat the reader must pardon him for
reing so informing, but that infor
nation stewed out of him like the
beautiful otter of roses from the
itter. No comedy can carry too big
i load of information and for all
Mark’s jocose manner ho really
md serious ideas about society. The
)ff-hand narrative manner of his
wose romances was the ideal vehicle
:'or what he had to say. Nobody in
>ur time except Bernard Shaw with
lis high, crackling, intellectual wit
ms been able to sling a lot of ideas
it an audience and make them like
it. Mark’s mellow, mildly senti
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NANCY MILLER
(Seattle Girl) Wed
Ex-Maharajah of Iiiao
‘The Kentucky Derby”
“BIG BOY’’ COMEDY—
| mental humor with its lackadasical,
| easy-going, rambling style could
| never have carried any such weight.
If he had left that much lumber ly
ing around on the deck his comic
ship would never have stayed afloat.
And yet Mark is our greatest humor
ist, by all odds.
“About the time of Mark’s death
the present movement of hard-boiled
poetry and realistic middle western
fiction began. There is some ques
tion whether both these modes were
not due to the muck rakers, of who*m
Hen Lindsay is one of the few sur
viving Dodos. When the muck
rakers ran out of anything to rake
the next step was to turn to imagi
native creation. We are not vet out
of this jungle, though there arc
some signs of a return to a new
romanticism. Until O’Neill came
along to blend this realistic treat
ment of life with a kind of poetic,
and romantic glamor, we had no
dramatists who could get over the
frontier. O ’Neill h a d bummed
around the world enough to learn
the dialogue of miners, sailors, and
other working stiffs,—not to men
tion the talk and the little taking
"ays of the ladies who had hitherto
never made their bow on the Ameri
can stage. And yet even O’Neill’s
best comedy, ‘Moon of the Caribbee,’
is little more than a single scene
from a complete comedy of life in
the forecastle. Like so many of the
naturalists O’Neill stops when he
has got the raw material together
for a good play.
“And yet there has been plenty
of material for good high comedy
in the American scene. AVc have
sharp contrasts of manners and a
wide variety of social and racial
groups. The universities to anybody
with a perceiving eye should furnish
material for a far better comedy
than one finds in ‘College Humor,’
‘College Comics,’ or any other of
the low commercial ventures which
hold up the mirror to a collegiate
life which their editors and con
tributors for the most part have
never seen but mostly invented.
“The sharp contrast between the
collegiate world and the town would
furnish rich material for comedy
which could bo high,- law, or med
ium, according to the taste of the
comic writer. The universities have
their peculiar folk ways which are
just as Tunny as the affectations of
the blue stockings and learned
ladies whom Moliere satirized. It,
is perhaps a questibn whether col
legiate affectations have much to
do with learning. The customs of
the various tongs are more like the
taboos and totems of some barbarian
clan. They would furnish fine local
color for comic opera in the Gilbert
and Sullivan tradition. The better
type of collegiate novel of the
school of Scott Fitzgerald has taken
full advantage of all this scenery.
“AA’c have the traditions of the
melodrama such as ‘Abie’s Irish
llose,’ with its stage Irishman and
the Jew of vaudeville doing duty as
characters in such comedies as we
have. However, in what the Amer
icans have done, their comic expres
sion has been more characteristically
American than their serious writing.”
There’s A
Time In
Each Year
When
Old dirty cords are as
much out of place as a
dead, wilted leaf on a tree.
They are as noticeable,
too, and as expressive of
negligence as anything
you could do to be differ
ent.
Fall in line with the
gang, fellows! They all
know the velveteen touch
that the number 8 25
gives their campus cords.
Don't be different in this
manner.
New
Service
Laundry
In. B. Zane Will Speak
On Oriental Art Tonight
Nowland B. Zane, professor of
interior design in tho sidiool of
architecture and allied arts, will
speak at the'Willard school in Eu
gene tonight on Japanese and Chi
nese art treasures. A group of lan
tern slides will be shown to accom
pany his talk. Mr. Zane spoke at
the Condon school Wednesday night.
Tho lecture will be given as part
of the program sponsored by the
Parent-Teacher associations of the
different schools in Eugene to cre
ate in the people of Eugene a sense
of community possession in the Fine
I Arts building to bo constructed on
the University of Oregon campus,
Mr. Zane explained.
In his lectures, Mr. Zane shows
'first the familiar things used in
every home, such as china, willow
[ware, furniture, . wall paper, cre
tonnes and draperies. He then ex
plains the source material of these
objects, showing that in design and
utility they have been inspired by
or copied from oriental designs. By
such a historical tracing of origin,
he believes that a closer relation
ship between our everyday life and
the old art of tho orient can be
built up, and a better understanding
and appreciation of beautiful ob
jects attained.
“Teachers, school children, and
parents arc all making comments
and asking questions after the
talks,” said Mr. Zane, “which may
indicate that the Work is having
some stimulating results.”
Crews of Ex-U. of W.
Coaches Meet in East
UNIVERSITY OF WASHING
TON Seattle, May 24.—(P.I.P.) —
Two former Washington crew coach
es, Ed Leader ad Rusty Callow, op
posed each other recently when
Yale’s crews, coached by the for
mer, met tho crews of Columbia
university and the University of
Pennsylvania in a tri-regatta. Pen
nsylvania’s crews were coached by
Callow. Yale took the varsity event.
Y.M. and Y.W. Seabeck
Delegates Meet Today
Information as to wliat delegates
should take with them to the Sea
beck conference Juue 9 to 18, will
be given out at the joint Y. M. C. A.,
Y. W. C. A. luncheon today in the
“Y” hut at 19:00 sharp, for those I
going to Sbabcek.
Arrangements will be completed 1
for transportation, and all men ■
registered will be assigned to cer
tain automobiles, according to Wil
liam Schulze, chairman for the Y. M. j
Seabeck committee.
Christine A. Holt, who has been I
a delegate at three successive Sea- '
beck gatherings, will speak on the
advantages to be derived from at
tending such a conference, accord
ing to Elsie May Cimino, chairman
for the Y. W. Seabeck committee.
Anyone interested in the confer
ence is invited to the luncheon.
Combined Meeting of
Dads, Students Held
A get-together meeting of stu
dents and Oregon “dads” was held
in Johnson hall yesterday at four
o’clock to talk over questions of
interest to both students nml fathers
of students. The joint meeting was
the first move of a long program
intended to bring students and par
ents into closer companionship in
affairs concering the campus. Sev
eral problems were brought up for
discussion, though no action was
taken.
Bruce Dennis acted as chairman
■cf the hour session, at the conclu
sion of which lie appointed a com
mittee consisting of N. N. Bank"
Claude Hover and C. C. Chapman
to meet with students at any time
st udents might wish. The dads'In
tend to visit the campus in a body
next year as they did this year, ac
cording to the .committee, and spe
cial meetings of smaller groups of
dads and students will T>e arranged
from time to time.
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to send mother one of
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Shaw’s attractive pack
ages of candy for “her
day,” May lifth.
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Oregon State Chooses
Most Collegiate Pair
OREGON STATE COLEGE, Cor
vallis, May 24.—(P.I.P.)— A eon
tost for the most collegiate man and
woman is being sponsored on the
Oregon State campus by Hammer
and Coffin, national humor honorary
fraternity. The contest will be de
cided by popular vote of the entiro
student body. A petition with 50
signers is necessary for a nomina
tion. A large silver cup will be
awarded to the winners. Beauty and
sociability will be the important
features in the contest. The local
and national interest shown in the
contest last year is the reason for
its being held again this year.
Hockey Championship
Caine This Afternoon
This afternoon the junior and sen
sor women’s hockey teams play the
last and most important game of
lie season. If the juniors win, they
inve the championship cinched, but
f the seniors lead, it will bo a tio
'or the series.
Yesterday’s game between the
juniors and the frosli, in which the
juniors shot two goals to the frosh
me, was full of excitement and in
cidentally sonto very hard playing.
Hockey has been a very intcrest
ng sport this year, with a good
sized turn-out. The first of the
mason was devoted to practice of
echniipie and the latter part to
liter-class competition.
Professor of Physics
To Arrive Here Soon
Edward P. McAlister, Recently
elected associate professor of phys
ics, is expected to arrive on tlio
campus about .Tunc 1 from Berkeley,
where he receives his Ph. I), degree
the latter part of this month.
I)r. Ethel I. SatibOrn, associate
professor of plant biology, and H. G.
I'anner, professor of chemistry, are
other Oregon instructors who have
been working for advanced degrees
in California. Miss Sanborn is at
Berkeley and Mr. Tanner at Stan
ton! Uiversity.
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