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
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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.
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