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NUMBER 47 The Emerald Is the Official Publication of The Associated Students VOLUME XXXI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929 THE WEATHER Rain today; snow In mountains. Moderate to fresh southerly winds. Temperatures for Monday: Maximum . 54 Minimum . 51 Preeipitation .62 Stage of river.?. —1.8 50-Voice Choir Will be Heard Polyphonic Group Under Arthur Boardman To Sing December 15 ORGANIZATIONS FEW Much Wrork Neces§ary To Sing Difficult Type Of Music By LOIS NELSON When Arthur Boardman’s 50 voice Polyphonic Choir makes its initial bow to the campus at the 4:30 o’clock vesper hour Sunday afternoon, December 15, two things of momentous importance will happen. 1. A new major music organ ization will be recognized. And ythis, when you remember that large groups like the orchestra and the symphonic choir aren't born every week or so, is not to be sniffed at. 2. The University of Oregon will have claim to one of the few amateur organizations of the kind in the nation. Though it hasn’t been officially verified yet, it is thought here that this is the only amateur polyphonic chpir on the coast. Thi3 mean’s then that Ore gon is “way up there” musically. Hour Many V oicos Meaning Any now, for the laymen who are hazy on this word “polyphon ic,” be it said that it means “many-voiced.” Instead of sing ing the usual four-part music, the rich old music of the early church, some of it with five, seven and nine parts, some of it with four parts in threg different divisional choirs and some in eight, ten and twelve parts, is used. ^ It’s complicated, sure, and it's tough work singing. There are comparatively few organizations the world over that do it. It rep resents the cream of truly fine music. One organization that does attempt this type of music is the Russian Symphony choir about which many Oregon students had aesthetic spasms last year. An other is Smallman’s choir of Los Angeles which will appear here later in the school year and there are a few others in the eastern states. Music Majors Sing Students chosen to sing in the group are music majors and be fore they qualified they had to know their “vocal onions.” Mr. Boardman, the American tenor who came to Oregon this fall to become head of the voice depart ment is tremendously taken up with the possibilities of the or ganization. The type of music the group will sing is so difficult that it necessitates much work and the ( organization will have to have time to develop, he says—but he is expecting great things of the choir. s One music instructor, speaking of the choir yesterday declared: “It’s the finest thing being done on the coast. No one appreciates what really wonderful work Mr. Boardman is doing. Those who come to vespers next Sunday have a real surprise waiting them.” The choir is to sing a number of Bach’s chorales and other se lections from the old church mu sic. This will be the last vesper ser vice of the year. WOMEN DEBATERS TO MEET TONIGHT Ten varsity and six freshmen women will meet at 7:30 tonight | in Dr. R. C. Hoeber’s office to dis cuss plans for the coming debate season. The varsity women’s team con sists of: Florence Holloway, Mar garet Edmunson, Mary Klemm, Frances Jordan, Lavina Hicks, Elaine Henderson, Elizabeth Pain ton, Harriet Kibbee, Bernice Con oly and Bernice Woodward. The freshman team consists of: Louise Smith, Dorothy Stringer, Jean Lennard, Betty Jones, Evelyn Roberts and Gwendolynn Caver hill. Dr. Hoeber will take over the coaching of the women’s debate squads in place of Walter E. ^ Hempstead this season, according to the latest announcement*;. -- Cast 'em Not Away! Inmates Need Amusement TAON’T throw away your old ^ toys! If they are still bright and new, keep them; If they are too old for use, keep them anyway. A request has been made at the infirmary for toys with which to keep the inmates amused — puzzles are preferred. One, Rockwell Rog ers, eonfined with a case of the mumps, seems to find the long hours of the day particularly uninteresting, and his nurses have put in a plea for any in terested parties to furnish Rockwell with a game dle-de-winks that he mlg © on the bed-covers, or i ^ B-B gun with which he j shoot holes in the ceilin W Other patients who 3 appreciate playthings ol 2 description are: Don 1 g mick, Betty Jones, Wrigh ® elmun, Margaret OrmanU Dixie Brown. Oratory Tryou Come at 2 Today In Vi Hard Hall Ton Signecf To Compete For Four Places With Two as Alternates Main Speeches Will Be 15 Minutes; Others 8 Oratory tryouts will be held at 2 o’clock this afternoon in the as sembly room of Villard hall. Ten men have signed up for the try outs and each one is to determine in advance on which topic he would like to speak Four men and two alternates are to be picked for the oratory tryouts. The best on the list will be chosen regardless of the sub jects used in the tryouts. Speeches for the 15 minute ora tions mufet be written out and memorized and speakers must give all of the speech that was pre viously prepared. Manuscripts will be turned in at the time, the speech is given. Two extemporaneous speaking representatives will be selctd at th tryouts also. The speeches will be eight minutes in length and on the general topic, “The Question of World Disarmament.” Specific subjects will be as signed each candidate at 2 p. m. and the tryout for the extempor aneous speaking representative will follow the oratory tryouts, giving some two hours for special preparation on eight minute talks. Those trying out are: Bob Mil ler, Pacific Forensic League both oratory and extemporaneous; Wil liam Cutts, Pacific Forensic league, both oratory and extem poraneous; Ben Padilla, Old Line Oratorical contest; Art Potwin, Pacific Forensic league; Wallace Campbell, extemporaneous con test; Roger A. Pfaff, Forensic league; Lorenzo Sampilo, Oratory Peace contest; Lysle Smith, Ora tory Peace; Errol Sloan, Pacific Forensic league; and Francisco Tubban, Pacific Forensic league. GLEEMEN TO SING AT MUSIC BUILDING With John Stark Evans of the University school of music direct ing, the Gleemen, men’s singing organization sponsored by the Eu gene chamber of commerce, will appear in concert at the Univer sity school of music auditorium at 8:15 p. m. tonight. They will have as their guest soloist, Sydney Dixon, of Seattle, radio singer, who is known to Eugene audiences for his work with the Sunset Trail pageant last summer. Fifty-four Eugene business men sing in the organization. Course in Assaying To Be Given Next Term A course in assaying will be of fered during the winter term by the geology department, Dr. War ren D. Smith, head of the depart ment, announced yesterday. The prerequisites for the course, \ which carries a ten dollar fee, will j be general chemistry, methods, and general geology. Dr. Smith will instruct the class I with Harry Wheeler as assistant. 'Faculty Club Will Sponsor Dance Friday Clubhouse To Be Scene of Affair, States Dean David E. Faville PLAN BRIDGE TABLES Head of Affair Urges All Members of Group to Be Present The Faculty club will sponsor another dance, it was announced last night. The event is scheduled for the evening of Friday, Decem ber 13, and is to be held at the Faculty clubhouse, at 14th and Emerald. The program, similar to that of last year’s successful affair, will consist mostly of Paul Jones’ and waltzes, so that the unmarried and otherwise unattached mem bers of the faculty may have a chance. ^ There wffl be bridge for those who do not care to dance, accord ing to Dean David E. Faville of the B. A. school, who is in charge of the affair. Refreshments will be served, and a special feature is promised for the further enter tainment of the professors. “Admission is to be only twenty five cents,” said Dean Faville last night. “There’s really no reason why all the members'of the fac ulty should not be there and have a good time. It should be fun to see everybody out of character for once.” Frosh Sweater Question To Be Discussed Today Class Meeting To Consider Recommendations of Committee The question of whether Or not the freshmen shall buy sweaters for their numeralmen will be con sidered at a class meeting called by Larry Bay, class president, for Villard hall at 5 this afternoon. The executive council recently adopted a recommendation of the finance committee that the fresh man class be advised not to buy sweaters for their athletes this year. It was claimed that the purchase of the sweaters makes the burden of class dues too heavy on the freshmen by adding consid erable expense to an already full class budget. Much dissatisfaction with this policy has been expressed by a part of the freshman class, par ticularly those in line for numeral awards. The purpose of this meet ing, according to Bay, is to ex plain the situation to the class as a whole. STAFFORD TO BE VICE-CHAIRMAN Professor O. F. Stafford, head of the department of chemistry, was elected vice-chairman of the Oregon branch of the American Chemical society at its meeting in Salem on Saturday. Professor Stafford, with Dr. Raymond Cool. Dr. Roger Williams, and Dr. Leo Friedman, also of the chemistry department, attended the meeting of the society at which a report of the fall meeting of the national organization was made by Profes sor Stafford, who was councillor for the Orgeon section. Officers elected on Saturday were F. L. Cooper, of Portland, chairman; Mr. Stafford, vice chairman; W. H. Carmody, of Reed College, secretary-treasurer; and John Fulton, of O. S. C., coun cillor. POTMIS HAS CHARGE OF Y.M.C.A. GROUP Art Potwin will have charge of this year’s Y. M. C. A. discussion groups in men’s living organiza tions, according to Don Campbell, Y. president, who appointed him to fill the position. Potwin will choose two assist ants and will soon draw up a ten tative schedule of topics and speakers. These discussions are to take place next term. “Much interest has been shown and it will be a big thing for all men on the campus,” said Campbell, Report Shows Nearly $19,000 Pointed Toward Treasury From 1929 Football Profit From Varsity Games Allow Addition W ithout Drawing From Student Ticket, Says R. Robnett Editor’s Note: This is the eighth of a series of surveys by Rex Tussing, member of the editorial board of the Emerald, briefly out lining the direction of student in come and expenditure through of ficial channels. Between $18,000 and $19,000 will be added to the student treas ury in profits for 1929 varsity football without taking a dollar from student tickets, Accord ing to an ap proximate report made by Ronald R o b nett, assist ant graduate manager, yester day. If student itickets are iri Doc Kohnctt eluded, $8,000 more would be added to bring the total to $27,000. The most profitable year in the history of the University, the to tal (not including the student tax) was almost $10,000 more than last year and $3,000 more than in 1925 when $15,788.65 above expenses was received. Gross receipts for the year for varsity football was near $94,500, from which was sub tracted $75,750 for expenses and division of profits. Last year the same sport took in $62,595.44 and expended $52,064.52. Recent G allies $18,000 I The St. Mary’s and Florida re turns were estimated at about $18,000 each, while expenses for the trip will run les3 than half of that, so that the two games ac count for $20,000 of the returns. Home game profits which are listed below have already sub tracted from them event expenses which include the guarantees to i visiting teams, officials’ expenses,! etc. The total profits (approxi- j mate) were $67,500. Pacific .$ 750.-— I Willamette .,. 135.— j Idaho . 7,850.— I U. C. L. A. 2,450. O. S. C. 11,425.00 Hawaii . 1,000.00 j Washington . 5,000.00 Stanford . 8,750.00 St. Mary’s . 18,000.00 j Florida . 18,000.00 Local Games Unprofitable Only one game played in Eu gene did not lose money, that be ing the Homecoming game with; O. S. C. However, the total from that contest was les3 than last year when placed in Corvallis, when over $14,000 was received from the Beaver coffers. One conference game went in the red, not making guarantee money. While for the past season $3,000 was lost on freshman football compared with $2,225 for 1928, the total profit for all teams was $15,- ; 800. Expenses for the season were less, in fact, than the $75,000 list ed, instead, nearing $48,000. Uni- j versity bookkeeping has placed di- j vision of profits with other teams under expenses. Those for 1929 were approximately: Salaries .$ 7,450.00 Awards . 600.00 ; Equipment and supplies.. 5,500.00 Event expenses, adver tising and publicity.... 7,000.00 Miscellaneous . 1,300.00 Training . 4,600.00 (Continued on Tnye Two) Five Hundred Tou ch Used a Day at Men’s Gym JrST think of washing the number of towels that are ha mled out at the window of the men’s gym every day! Figures show that an average 1 of 500 are used daily by stu dents and faeulty. Comparison with figures of tin- fall term last year—the fall term being the biggest term— indicate that fewer men are in dulging in exercise this year. For tlie month of October, 1928, there were 14,939 towels handed out, making a daily average of 538. In October of this year, 13,613 towels were used, mak ing an average of 504 a day. It is in November that the greatest difference is noted. For the month of November, 1928, there were 13,162 towels in use, giving a daily’ average of 547. In November of this year, the number was 11,570 for an average of 463 a day. This includes every day but Sundays and holidays. U. of W. Visitors Spend Week-end On Campus Here Murray Warner Collection Studied by Delegates During Stay Members of the delegation from the University of Washington which were on the campus over the week-end to study the Mur ray Warner collection of Oriental Art returned to Seattle Monday. The museum was opened for their benefit all Saturday evening and all day Sunday. ' The students spent considerable time in the museum while the cus todian told about various articles in it, and the Washington faculty members explained the relation of articles to class work in which the students have been engaged. Time also was spent in the library, look ing over and readings the books which Mrs. Murray Warner, do nor of the museum, has collected also. Many of these books are so priceless that they have to be handled with gloves. The group was Drought here by Professor Eldon Griffin, of the de partment of Oriental studies, who was formerly on ttje history staff of the University of Oregon. In cluded in the delegation were sev eral members of the faculty and about twenty students. The delegates attended John Galsworthy’s play, “ E s c a p e,” which was presented at the Guild theatre Friday and Saturday nights. They were guests of various liv ing organizations, dormitories, and the International club while here. Faculty members were entertained at a dinner given at the faculty club by members of the University staff. The whole group posed for pictures taken by George Godfrey, director of public relations, in front of the Fine Arts building now under construction. Armenian Maiden Enrolls in U. of 0. Extension Division A LITTLE Armenian housemaid in Constantinople, Turkey, is now waiting as in a wonderful dream for a letter which will soon reach her from the other side of the world, telling her that she is enrolled as a student in the Uni versity of Oregon. Mile. Heghine Sahagian, as she writes her name, keeps house and tends the baby in the home of Mrs. Lucille Saunders McDonald, a graduate of the University of Oregon, who now is foreign cor respondent in Constantinople for the New York Times. Although only 17, Mile. Heghine has graduated from an Armenian high school, and has completed all requirements for entrance into the University of Stamboul, Turkey. She speaks English excellently, as she has studied the language for from two to three hours a week for five years. Heghine (Helen, in our lan guage) does not, however, desire to enter a Turkish or Armenian university. She wants to study medicine and believes that she can prepare for her doctor’s career at no school better than at the Uni versity of Oregon; so she has en rolled in the correspondence school until she can come to America and really enter Oregon as a full-time student. In a letter from Heghine’s mis tress, Mrs. McDonald, to Miss Mo zelle Hair, head of the University correspondence department, Mrs. McDonald said, “Heghine is very enthusiastic about it. All of her friends are marveling and think her talk of going to an American university by mail is a fairy tale.’’ i Ninety-Six To Graduate At Term End Formal Service Cancelled; Students To Receive Degrees by Mail MUST COMPLETE WORK Tentative List of Prospects For Completion Named By Registrar Ninety-six students of the Uni versity of Oregon will graduate at the end of the present term and be awarded their degrees, provided they successfully complete the studies they are now carrying, ac cording to an an nouncement made by Earl M. Pal lett, registrar. The students will not be grad uated at a for mal service but will receive their Earl Pallet* degrees by mall in January, and may participate in the June ceremony if they care to. The tentative list of students who will receive their degrees fol lows : Bachelor of Arts Portland — Elizabeth Mary Beans, Robert Kenneth Boggs, Miriam B. Campbell, Louise Leila Clark, Grace E. Coey, Walter J. Coover, Albert H. Cousins Jr., Beryl Cox, Dorothy Josephine Dougall, Gertrude Eberly, Laura M. Frantz, Fred W. Gerke, Joseph ine Howard, Ernest M. Jachetta, Dan Claude McDonald, Billie V. Martland, Delford Monto, Arnold H. Nieveen. Other towns — Allen Morrison Clark, Santa Barbara, Calif.; Katherine E. Hendricks; Spokane, Wash.; Daisy Newhouse, Spring brook; Harold G. Palmer, Baker; Myra Belle Palmer, Baker; Max ine Pauiaco, Coquille; Shirley E. Row, Pendleton; Jennie B. Ritchie, Corvallis; Celia Stoddard, La Grande; Corinne Trullinger, Bor ing; Ruth B. Woodward, Arage. Eugene—Joseph S. Bally, Emer son ’Edward Bolz, Mary Clark, Irvin L. Faris, Marian Field, Grace Margaret Griggs, Donald C. Kings ley, Miriam R. Shepard. Pearl Marie Hiskanon, Bessie M. Rathe, Thomas Duncan Rob ertson, Marjorie Seiple, Mabel A. Simpson, Florence K. Somerville, Marjorie Ruth Stearns, Edward D. Taylor. Receive B.S. Degrees Portland—Arthur J. Anderson, E. Leroy Baughman, Vivian Mau rine Blair, Nettie M. Rankin Bol land, Lewis H. Carpenter, Neill S. Chinnock, Claud A. Eldridge, Rich ard F. Gordon, Thelma E. Gunn, George R. Hogshire Jr., Vesta B. Kimbro, Nina Zoe Kitts, Gerald D. Plue, Bonnie B. Waugh, William D. Winter. Robert E. Fleming, Ben G. Franklin, Sidney A. King, J. Her man Radabaugh, Ira C. Woodie. Other towns—Fred G. Barnum, Eureka, Calif.: Wilfred G. Bates, Astoria; Ray G. Edwards, Milton; Adalia F. Everts, San Diego, Calif.; Arnold E. Friberg, Seattle, Wash.; Theodore R. Gurney, Baker; George L. Hill, Baker; W. Winona Hood, Boring; Clara Kirk patrick, Pendleton; Herbert F. Lundy, Wheeler; Paul R. McCul lock, Baker; Pearl Etta McMullin, Springfield; Gordon W. Miller, •regon City; May O. Moore, Drain; Fay Patricia Murphy, Car mel; Richard N. Pugh, Philomath; Harvey W. Robertson, Trail; Paul Wagner, Ashland; James L. Watts, Scappoose; .Sister Eloise Mary, Oswego; Robert H. Smith, Marion. Business Administration Bachelor Eldred M. Breese, Prineville; John Jasper Scrivner, Clifford Stalsberg. Lawrence J. Boyle, Canyonville; Carl Landerholm, La Center, Wash.; S. David Turteltaub, Min neapolis, Minn.; Elizabeth Karpen stein, Anthony W. Woodmansee. Bachelor of Architecture J. Laurin Reynolds. KOCHANSKI HEARS MUSIC STUDENTS Two Oregon music students “strutted their stuff” on the vio lin for Paul Kochanski, Polish vir tuoso, and found favor before him, during the past week-end. They were Esther Wicks, senior in music, from Astoria, who is one of the six Juilliard scholars on the campus this year, and Beulah Wynd, freshman in music, from Eugene. Both are pupils of Rex Underwood, head of the violin de partment of the school of music. Mr. Kochanski commended their work heartily. Miss Wicks and Miss Wynd played for him Friday, Following his concert appearance Thursday night at McArthur court, Attendance at Violin Concert Encourages Hall ttj WISH to express to the student body my genuine delight In seeing sueh a large number present at the splendid Koehanski concert Thursday evening. It gives me great en couragement in my efforts to establish high cultural stand ards upon the campus. “The capacity to understand and appreciate beautiful music is an extremely important fac tor in one's education for the enjoyment of life. Students who can learn to enjoy and ap preciate the kind of music that I they heard Thursday evening j are developing habits and ca pacities that will enrich their personalities and stimulate and I mold their emotional lives in such a way that it will not only add to their cultural back ground, but increase their so j cial efficiency. I “More and more modern edu cators are realizing that train | ing for life involves the educa tion of the emotions, as well as of the intellect. The develop ment of a fine capacity of mu sic appreciation is one of the best ways'by which this may be accomplished, and I earnest ly request the fullest possible co-operation on the part of the student body in our program which has for its objective the development of the artistic ap preciation of our students.” Signed: Arnold Bennett Hall. Discussion for ‘Trade Terms’ of Music Announced Landsbury Plans Evening Of Informal Practice For Workers Meetings To Be Held Once Or Twice Per Month An evening of general music discussion, to range in subject from augmented chords to Pales trina or the newest concoction of the moderns, will be an innovation on the campus next term by Dean John J. Landsbury, following a suggestion made by Rex Under wood, heau of the violin depart ment. Convinced that musical terms and names often lose all meaning to the student once he gets out of the classroom atmosphere, Dean Landsbury believes that an infor mal discussion evening, held once or twice a month, would be a means of creating a generalized interest in musical "trade terms." Terms Forgotten He feels that it is a regrettable fact in' all fields that the signif icance of terms studied in the classroom is immediately lost out side unless some general interest is attached to them. He feels that the real musician should have a thorough knowledge of the musi cal world and that he should have the active desire to keep in touch with it. “These will not be lectures but most informal evening discussions. I want the desire to join them be the only incentive for membership. We will talk about great musi cians, what they wrote, current events in music, interesting musi cal enterprises, and a number of things,” he explained. “But,” he admonished, “if anyone comes to me about the idea, asking what credit there will be in it, I think I should have to tell them that they weren’t wanted in the group.” He emphasized the point that the discussions will be introduced en tirely to improve the general mu sical learning of interested stu dents. “Spoon-fed” Study Poor “It has been demonstrated to me that even the finest students often do not retain much of their knowledge outside the classroom. There is so little time for volun tary general reading during these busy days of regular ‘spoon-fed’ study that I feel Mr. Underwood’s idea is a very valuable one. It seems a solution to what I con sider an important problem.” Barnes Lists Program For History Meet Pacific Coast Branch of American Association To Convene DATES DECEMBER 27-28 Organization Prepares for Twenty-fifth Annual Gathering Here Announcement of the program of the meeting of the Pacific coast branch of the American Historical association to be held here Decem ber 27 and 28 was made last night by Donald Barnes, professor of history here, and chairman of the committee on arrangement* for the meeting. The meeting, the twenty-fifth annual of the organization, is to be featured by short papers by attending professors on various historical topics. Speakers wiU be representative of most of the larger spools of the Pacific slope. Topics to be discussed include American History, History of the Pacific, European History, and History of the West. Officers of the association are as follows: Herbert I. Priestley, University of California, president. Frank W. Pitman, Pomona col lege, vice-president. Carl F. Brand, Stanford, sec re > tary-treasurer. Andrew Fish of the Oregon fac ulty is on the committee on ar rangements as well as Professor Barnes. Robert C. Clark is a member of the executive council. Freshman Fined Eight Hours for Cheating in Quiz Student’s Previous Good Behavior Lessens Penalty Suspension for One Year Usual Sentence As a penalty for cheating in a quiz, the Student Advisory com mittee fined a freshman student eight term hours at its meeting Saturday morning, according to a statement made yesterday by Karl W. Onthank, executive secretary. The penalty, which is often sus pension for a term, was made lighter because of the student’s previous good behavior and his in experience in the University, stat ed Mr. Onthank. Reports show that cheating in final examinations is customarily penalized by a year's suspension. DATE ANNOUNCED FOR MILITARY HOP . Scabbard and Blade has set Jan uary 18 as the date for its annual military ball which will take place next term, yesterday announced Arlen McCarty, head of the local chapter of Scabbard and Blade. Several locations for the affair are being considered but none has yet been decided upon. The ball, which is to be strictly invitational, will be attended by Governor Patterson and military notables from throughout the Northwest. PHI DELTA KAPPA INITIATES THREE Three men, Robert Hall, senior, Henry Matthews, graduate stu dent, and Glen Kimberling, junior, were made members of Phi Delta Kappa, national education honor ary at an initiation held in Ger linger hall Saturday afternoon. The initiation was followed by a banquet in the Regents’ room of the men’s dormitory, Dean H. D. Sheldon, of the school of educa tion, delivering the address. His subject was “The Teacher as an Artist.” Several out - of - town members were present at the in itiation and banquet. E. C. Rothwell, president of the local chapter, was chosen to be its representative at the central con vention of Phi Delta Kappa, to be held in Chicago December 30,