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Freshman Edition • VOLUME XXX Freshman Edition UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1929 NUMBER 107 REVISION CMP TELLSJF PUNS Amendments Mean More Efficient Organization, Says Committee STUDENTS VOTE APRIL 17 McKeown Wants Students To Pass Change Tn a report compiled for publica tion yesterday afternoon .Robert Ilvnd, Tom Stoddard, Ron Itubbs Joe McKeown find Helen Pet ers, members of flic constitution .1] revision com mittee, discussed the five amend ments proposed nt Thursday’s s t n d e n t body meeting which are to be voted uport next Wed nesday. The re port, which fol low’s in this story, points out what they re gnrd as the improvements in the efficiency of student management "which the revisions would mean. McKeown Issues Statement In a statement for the Emerald, issued last night, Joe McKeown, student body president, Said: “The five amendments are a so lution of our growing student prob lems. Every student should consider each of them carefully and study the statement of the committee. I sincerely recommend their adoption because they mean a more efficient and more cooperative student gov ernment.” The committee’s report follows: Fellow-students: As members of the committee on constitutional revision appointed some time ago we wish to explain ^ to you the reasons why we have suggested the changes which are up for your consideration. We want you to know that the problems we studied have been constantly in the minds of student officers, the uni versity administration, and others who are connected with student gov ernment on the campus. We have gone to these people for suggestions feeling they were in a position to know the actual problems involved. We have considered the organization of other student bodies and studied their constitutions. We were con fronted with ninny problems but felt that at this time five of them need ed immediate attention. Along with the advice of students, alumni, and faculty we prepared the five amend ments which were proposed to you at the meeting on Thursday. We sought the advice of legal authori ties; and in every way feel the amendments involve problems of a serious nature because they concern the welfare of our student govern ment. We have tried for this rea son to propose only the most im portant problems. Inconsistency Eliminated k The first amendment eliminates an inconsistency. The constitution provides that three members of the executive council shall be alumni of the university, one of whom shall be a member of the board of regents. The recent action of the state legis lature eliminated the board of re gents so consequently we propose fContinued on Page Four) _ Campus Kept All Wet Too If every student in the uni versity would equip himself with two five-gallon pails and every •lav during warm weather take five trips to the millrace, re turning with filled buckets to dump on the lawn, the university would not have to worry about green lawns. Rut sad as it may seem stu dents have other things to do, so the university does -the work. It’s no easy job either. .Tust forget all about the amount of water that is used and look at it this way. If every male stu dent on the campus took two of liis neckties and /waved a hokus pokus wand over them making them into water-hose, and then if Joe MeKeown took iiis great big chief hokus-pokus wand and waved it over them all, making them all in one, he would only have doubled the amount of hose (garden variety) that is used every summer’s day on the cam pus. And even yet there are be tween five and nine men working full time pulling weeds, haking moss, and running the univer sity’s three power mowers as well as innumerable man-power ones. MILLER RETURNS FROM INSPECTION IN EAST University Physician Visits College Infirmaries Dr. Fred N. Miller, university physician, lias just returned from a trip east to get information about tile infirmaries of other universities in anticipation of the construction of the new infirmary here. lie vis ited Washington State college, Uni versity of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Cornell, Princeton, La Payette, Columbia university, ami Iona State college. Washington State college has a $150,000 infirmary, but the practice of the dispensary is not extensive; the University of Minnesota has a new hospital containing 70 beds; Princeton has a $400,000 hospital with 90 beds and accommodations for the isolation of infectious cases. In the eastern colleges there is usually some connection between the infirmaries and the medical schools, and many of the physicians teach in these schools, according to Dr. Miller. Many Of tho infirm aries do not have to provide for such a large number of beds as the infirmary here because in an emer gency of any epidemics they can use tiie hospitals for their overflow.’ Financing plans for the new in firmary here are under way. Mrs. W. B. Crane, the mother of Ethel Lou Crane, a senior in education, is at the head of 100 women in Port land who are soliciting for pledges for the $50,000 which is being raised to match the $50,000 voted by the state legislature, according to George Godfrey, director of the bureau of public relations. Mrs. C^ane hopes to be through by the middle of June, and as soon as this amount is raised, the building of the infirmary can be started so that it will probably be completed by next fall. Average Student Gets Greatest 'Kick* Out of University, Say Oregon Deans All who wear shirts with 15-inch collars, 7 1-4 hats, and the usual generous shoe, or size 10 dresses and accessories, will perhaps find some thing to write home about. Average students are getting' the most out of school. Dean Hazel Prutsman says so; Dean Hugh Biggs says so; and of course you always have said so. No matter whether they put a pink or blue bow on you when you were a red faced infant (and you were one), no matter whether you were a shining star at high school or a glow-worm, nrPmatter anything except that in this case you have beaten out the potential Phi Betes. “The average student gets the most out of school,' ’ Dean Prutsman said, “for the scholar is too wrap ped up in himself, and of course the inferior student is incapable of be ing of great importance. The social contacts that he makes are as im portant as his academic record in that they teach him to live with other people and to discipline his emotions and round out his develop ment for practical affairs. I think participation in activities is one very important means of education. College stimulates participation of the average student by giving him habitual training in the technique of handling actual problems as he goes along. I predict colleges for the scholars and colleges for the country club class someday, hut now colleges are mostly benefiting the average student.” Dean Hugh Biggs, though he did not list sneak dates from the libes, excursions up or down the mill race, etc., as extra-curricular activities, opined, “The average student, the moan between the two extremes, the sincerely culturally inclined who recognize the value of social activ ities in their proper jdaee, gets the most out of college for American practical life. He need not spend four years at school; he can round himself out in a year or two, de pending of course on the maturity and preparation of his mind when lie enters college. If he holds as his dominant purpose his scholastic work, as I think he should do, but prepares himself for the different phases of life by mixing and ming ling with people and seeks practical knowledge honestly and fearlessly, I he gets the most out of his school.” OFFICERS ARRIVE FOR INSTALLATION Mrs. Howard W. Gardner, National President, Comes for Event PLEDGING SERVICE HELD Psi Chapter at Washington Sends Delegates ‘‘Tlio girls of Beta Pi chapter have boon very pleasing to me. ” said Mrs. Howard Williamson Gard ner, grand president of Zeta Tau Alpha, who arrived last night to install the local group of Gamma Nn as Zota Tail Alpha, national frater nity. “I find them a charming group.” Mrs. Garnder has just come from Los Angeles, California, where she attended the province conven tion of Lambda province. Miss Helen Claire, province presi dent of Kappa province, and Miss Gladys Taft, president of the Port land alumnae, also arrived to help with the initiation and installation. The Psi Chapter of Zota Tau Alpha, from Seattle, Wash., sent out the following sisters to be present: Jesse Williams, president; Margaret Mc Farland, Beatrice Baber, Alice San dell, Muriel Stradley, Geraldine Moon, Leslie Montfort, and Mary Fullington, the alumnae advisor. O. S. C. Sends Members Alpha Sigma chapter from Cor vallis, Oregon, also sent a group of representatives; Phyllis Chandler, Valette Harer, president; Alice Mos er, Ethel Allison, Martha Jones, Itha Clinton, Gladys Liebraiul, For est Bales, Vivian Bales, Mary God frey, Gladys Shank, Polly Bocken feld, Louise Weis, Lois Brown, Lu cille Donnelly, Lucille Gould, and Zula Brutner. Friday morning a formal pledg ing service was held; Friday after noon the national registration; and Friday night, the installation ball at the Eugene hotel. This morning the formal initiation will take place, and this afternoon a formal tea will be given at the Woman’s building. The national has 57 chapters in all, and is soon to be made an inter national fraternity, by the installa tion of Beta Rho chapter at the University df Manitoba, at Winne peg, Canada. To Cultivate Higher Ideals “The object of tfie sorority is to cultivate a higher ideal of woman hood, to encourage all those woman ly traits existent- in our lane],, to give, a firm foundation to those friendships founded on college com panionships, ” declared Mrs. Gard ner. The sorority carries on philan thropic work in the Work of a health center maintained at Currin Valley, Virginia, and it also has sev eral large cash endowment funds for its altruistic work in scholarships, which enable deserving girls to ob tain a college education. BOARD WILL CONSIDER SUCCESSOR FOR DAVIS Douglass Calls United Christian Directorate Meeting For April 23 Recommendations for a conimittee on the policy for the coming year will bo considered at a special meet ing which M. H. Douglas, university librarian and chairman of the Unit ed Christian board, plans to call April 23. Several adjustments will be made and the choice of a successor to Rev. Henry W. Davis, director of campus religious work, who will leave at the end of the present school year, will be discussed. Rev. Mr. Davis, who announced his resig nation early this year, has been di rector of the United Christian work on tlie campus for six years. The advisory board appointed by the Y. M. C. A. consists of: M. IL Douglass, president; L. J. Temple, secretary; Walter Myers, treasurer; Victor Morris, Karl Onthank, Charles Carpenter, P. A. Peterson, R. A. MeCully, Rodger Williams, W. G. Beattie, Harold S. Tuttle, and N. L. Bossing. REYNOLDS GETS POSITION Llovd Reynolds, graduate assist ant in the English department, has received news of his appointment to a position as instructor of English at Reed college at Portland for the coming year, according to Dr. Boyer, head of the English department here. BARNES, WIFE IN EUROPE Dr. and Mrs. Donald Barnes, who have been staying in London, left recently for the continent, accord ing to news received on the campus. Dr. Barnes, who holds a Guggen heim fellowship, has been doing some work at the British museum, as a preparation for further writing on flie “Life of Henry Pelhamt” on Freshmen Hosts At Dance Today ‘No-Date’ Matinee Hop To Be From 2 to 5 Tin' fresh inn n class will lie host to tin' ontire campus this afternoon :it an informri 1 dance to lie hold in the nion’s gymnasium. <’:i 111]ms togs will !><> in oriler, and nt it n'clock dancing will begin, to the strains of George Weber’s orchestra. The fun will continue for three solid hours, ending at 5.o’clock. Several good intermission features have been arranged under the di rection of Jack Stipe. A vocal trio and dancing duo will participate in this part of the afternoon’s enter tainment. The trio consists of Omar Palmer, John Lowe and Don Bva. The dancers are Marsh Brownell and Tom llandley. They will be accompanied by the trio. “No dates” is the decree a ltd to insure observance of this order it is planned to have trucks call for all women wishing to attend the dance. All “luggers” will be frowned upon, it, is said. This afternoon’s “hop” is the re sult of the decision of the frosh, at their last meeting, to resume the matinee dances begun last term In decision of the class. All men attending the dance will pay a toll of 125 cents, while a tax of one dime will be levied on all women attending. NEW BAND TEACHER BEGINS WORK IN FALL John Stehn Once Pupil of Dean of Music Here According to an announcement is sued by Karl Onthnnk, executive 'secretary of the university, and Dr. John J. Landsbury, dean of the school of music, John Stehn, now at the University of Oklahoma, has boon appointed as leader of the uni versity band to replace W. L. Ferris, who has decided to leave at the end of the present school term. Mr. Stehn comes to the University of Oregon highly recommended by Dean Hohtiberg, who is head of the department of fine arts, and who, also, is a personal friend of Dean Landsbury. Dean Holmberg stated that in the two years in which Stehn was con ductor of the University of Okla homa. band, his work was nothing short of miraculous. Attended Simpsonl College Previous to his position at Oltln hom.i, Stehn attended Simpson col lege, where the was a pupil of Dean Landsbury. He transferred to Grin noil where he graduated in 1925 with an A. B. degree. While attend ing this institution he was a mem ber of both the college band and or chestra under the direction of George L. Pierce. He next attended the University of Iowa where in 1927 he was awarded a master of science degree. While at Iowa he studied hand under Yan Doren and orchestra under Clapp. He was also a mem ber of the Oskaloosa orchestra and toured with another symphony or chestra. Upon his graduation from Iowa he was appointed mathematics pro fessor at Oklahoma. He taught this subject for a while and when the band leader was discharged for in efficiency, he was appointed to his post where he immediately made good. Likes Clarinet Stehn’s favorite instruments are the clarinet and the oboe. Concerning Stehn’s appointment Dean Lands'oury said: ‘‘I think the university is indeed fortunate in getting a man of Mr. Stehn’s high calibre as' leader of the band. In the music department we have al ways •endeavored to get instructors who have a good academic back ground, and who are well versed in subjects other than music alone. Mr. Stelin has attended three col leges and has two degrees to his credit. Again, I repeat, I think we are exceedingly fortunate in pro curing him. ’ ’ OPEN SPORTS TODAY AT 4 There will be open swimming and baseball in the women’s gym today between the hours of 4 and (i for all girls interested in these sports. Participation in baseball may be counted as an intramural practice if desired. INTERNATIONAL WEEK FEATURES The Emerald has arranged to print feature stories starting Tuesday on Germany, The Philip pines, China, Japan and t he United States. They are com ments from social professors on the countries which will be fea tured in the program of Inter national Week. You will enjoy them all. Group to Appear in Concert Famed Flonzaley group, now on farewell tour after 25 years of concert work, appears at McArthur court at 8:15 under auspices of the associated students. DRAMA GLASS GIVES ‘SNOW WRITE’ TODAY Playlette Will Be Presented At Rex Theater A fantastic, quixotic, fairv tale which makes one return to the days of one’s childhood is “Snow White and the Seven I>wnrrs” which will be presented this morning at D:4i> in the Rex theater by the class in dramatic interpretation. For the past several weeks extra rehearsals and night work have been the order of affairs. The class in dramatic interpretation, Vwhich is giving the play, has labored dili gently to produce a success, accord ing to Miss Constance Roth, direc tor. Snow White, alias Loletn Jaeger, has made several trips to the grade schools of the city in order t’o im press on them the nearness of the performance. Queen Brangomar, the wicked, alias Nancy Thiolsen, has forsaken her music, and stayed long hours at the Guild theater to insure, success. Witch Hex, alias Florence Me Nermv, has acquired a habitual stoop from much practicing and living the part. Prince Florimond, alias Bob Guild, really loves the princess. They've worked hard, all these court ladies and gentlemen. Ajid now the play. PIANIST WILL APPEAR IN CONCERT TUESDAY David Campbell Will Give Recital For Fine Arts Building Fund At Music School A recital sponsored by the Fine Arts club for the benefit of the Fine Arts building fund will be given by David Campbell, half brother of the late President Prince h. Campbell of the university, in the school of music auditorium, Tuesday, April 1(1, at p. m. Mr. Campbell is considered one of the foremost pianists on this const. For a number of years he was with the Ellison-White conservatory in Portland, and is now doing concert work. The officers of the Fine Arts club are Mrs. 0. W. Rorer, Mrs. A. Ross, Miss Mauile Kerns, and Mrs. Wilson Jewett. Mrs. Rorer is man aging the ticket sales and tickets are on sale at the library with Mrs. M. II. Douglass, and at McMorran and Washburne. The program is as follows: Sonata Opus 81a .Beethoven Les Adieux—Adagio, Allegro. L’Absence—Andante espressivo. Le Re tour—V i vac issima monte. Mazurka Opus 24, No. 4.Chopin Two Etudes . Chopin Barcarolle Opus 60 . Chopin Toccata Opus 7 .Schumann Danseuscs de Delphes .Debussy Soiree dans Grenade .Debussy La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin. .Debussy Jardins sous la Pluie .Debussy Concert Paraphrase on the Opera “Eugen Onegin” .. .Tschaikowsky-Pabst ENTRANCE TESTS TODAY New students this term are re quired to take both their psychology examination today at a. m. in room 101 Condon, and their English examination in 101 Villard at 2 p. in. It is compulsory that these tests are taken, because failure to do so cancels registration. Ap pointment slips for them were given to all new students when they en tered the university, spring term. HOUSE GRADES LATE House grades will not be out for about three weeks, the registrar’s office announced yesterday. Con siderable time is required to go through the records and average the grades. ilWFE IF DEM WINS DIES IETEI ILLNESS Sudden Passing Comes as Shock to Friends Mrs. I’liilip A. Parsons, wiffe of Pena Parsons of the University of Oregon sehool of soeiologv ami the Portland sehool of social work, died yesterday morning at the Eugene hospital after a short illness. Mrs. Parsons was 48 years old. Mrs. Parsons' death came as a shock to her many friends ns she had been ill but a few days. She was active in many organizations, being a member of the Presbyterian church of this city, the Eugene Fed eration of Women’s Organizations, the University of Oregon faculty club, and the Parent-Teacher asso ciation of the Patterson school. Mrs. Helen Stohlberg Parsons was born February 21, 1881 in Auburn, N. V. She Was one of the daugh ters of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stohl berg -t»f-..t.hi*U*4fcy.—. — After graduating from the Auburn schools, she attended the Syracuse university, and later went to a fin ishing school in the Catskill rnoun taihs. For some time after gradua tion, she taught in Plainfield, New Jersey, where she met and married Dr. Parsons. Later they returned to Syracuse, where Dr, Parsons was a member of the Syracuse faculty for some time, and in 1920 they came to Portland, Oregon. Dr. Parsons entered the Portland sfhool of social work of the University of Oregon at this time. In 1925 they came to Eugene, where Dr. Parsons succeeded the late Frederic G. Young as dean of the sehool of sociology. Arrangements for the funeral will be announced later from the Walker-! Poole funeral home. SMITH RETURNS MONDAY Geology Head Present at National Meet at Stanford University Dr. Warren 1). Smith, head of the department of geology, will return Monday from California where he attended the Cordilleran section of tile National Geological Society of America which was held oil April 12 and 111 at Stanford university. Dr. Smith left for the convention on Wednesday, April 10, and F. Karl Turner, research fellow to Dr. Edwin T. Hodge, of the same de partment, preceded him on April 9. SING QUARTET FEATURE TONIGHT Noted Flonzaley Musicians Here on Twenty-fifth and Farewell Tour CONCERT SEASON’S LAST McArthur Court to Be Scene for Appearance Molting its farewell tour after 2" years of ploying, tlio Flonzaley quartet, most famous of tlio world’s chamber music organizations, will appear in concert in McArthur court tonight under the auspices of the associated students of the Uni versity of Oregon. This concert will conclude the annual winter and spring series sponsored by the uni versity. Appears Many Times Tinring its career, which has stretched over a quarter of a cen tury, this quartet has aided in de veloping the appreciation of cham ber music in this country to the highest zenith which it has ever known. This musical group has reached nation wide and even world wide prominence, and is a favorite of music lovers everywhere. The Ffonzaley quartet plays over 100 concerts a season, besides play ing for phonograph records, radio, and vitaphone. Since its first pub lic appearance in October, 1004, it has appeared in more than 500 American cities, and has given over 1000 concerts on this side of the Atlantic. Its major operations have been carried on here, but each sea son it makes a short tour to Europe, where it has appeared in London, Milan, Venice, Rofne, and Paris. A famous music critic once said of them: “They play more like angels than men.” Many cities ap parently relish these heavenly visits, for once heard in a city, they are invariably wanted again. The members comprising the quar tet, are: Adolph Betti, Alfred l’ochon and Nicolas Moldavan, vio lins, nnd’Jvvnn .U.’A,rtJiambeau, cello. Students Bring Concerts Previous concerts of tlie series this season were presented by the Russian Symphonic, choir, and Tito Sohipa, lyric tenor of the Chicago Opera company. These concerts were brought to Eugene at u cost of more than $4,000, for which each student of the university pays a small tux, so that. Eugene is offered an opportunity to hear fine music such us is enjoyed by few other cities ,of its size in the country. NIGHT CLASSES CONTINUE Evening Sessions for Town People Held All Year for First Time For the first time in the history of the university, evening classes for Eugene residents are being held for three full terms. Formerly classes have been held only for two terms but due to increasing popu larity of the courses the extension division is offering a third term. T)te enrollment is very satisfactory, and has been even better than was anticipated, according to Miss Mo zellev iSecretary of the extension teaching. Tlie classes are held in Johnson hull Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 7:15. There is u varied selec tion of courses which includes twen tieth century literature, design, pot tery, comparative art studies, prac tical public speaking, and pedagogy of the social sciences. Guild Theater Ghost rHet Up9 Over Plans for French Department Play It’s likely that, the ghost of Uuild tlieatt r is in bad tom per these days. Wouldn’t any theatrical ghost, whose critical ears were attuned to the prosaic staidness of Kogiish speaking performers, have a right, to get “ hot up,” if he suddenly were upset by a prolonged onslaught of gibbering, chattering Frenchmen? Maybe the Guild ghost is a good old sort and is taking it nicely. I Anyway he’s getting a good dose of the language of the people who say ‘‘Mon ditu,” this week while final, intensive rehearsals for the presentation of “Le Medecin Malgre l.ui, ” Moliere’s class three-act farce, to be staged by faculty mem bers in the romance language de partment—three of them native Frenchmen—Friday night at S:;th at Guild theater. For nearly two months the cast of “profs” has been practicing. They will rehearse every night from now on. It is said to lie one of the few times in the history of the romance language department that the in structors have undertaken an en tire three-act production and their effort has created a lively interest among all French students—in addi tion to the faculty themselves who are admittedly “all Keyed up’’ about the forthcoming comedy. Students of drama call “Le Modo cin Malgre Inti” the greatest of all French farces, and some term it the finest farce ever written. Anyway, what Shakespeare’s come dies mean to Knglish speaking na tions, “Lo Medccin” means to the French. “ Kven for those who have never studied French, the play’s action is lively enough and funny enough to make it entertaining,” commented one faculty member yesterday. “And then, it’s an opportunity to study the very different technique in drama. The Frenchman, you know, talks directly to the audience much of the time and puts the actors and the listeners in a different rela tionship,” he added. “With a previous summary, it will be possible to follow the play quite thoroughly, simply from the action,” the instructor declared. Charles Howell is to play the title role of Sganarelle, the Medccin; Mrs. (Continued on Page TwoJ