Poor Grades Do
lam it Good Work,
Thinks Leighton
Standardized Tests Will1
Not Revolutionize
Higher Learning
The undertaking of the develop
ment of a system of standardized
tests for college students by the
American Council of Education, if
successful, will not have such a
revolutionizing effect on higher
education as might be supposed,
according to the opinion of Prof.
R. W. Leighton, of the school of
education.
The proposed tests, according to
the plans of the council, would
make a college student's advance
ment depend on actual achieve
ments, universally standardized
rather thin on spending a certain
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time, such as a term in a certain
study.
Professor I,eighton says, “This
attempt to make the students’
progress depend upon rate of
achievement rather than number
Of years, would not make any no
ticeable change in a school, such
as the University of Oregon, be
cause the work of students here is
limited if grades are poor and
honor privileges allowed if schol
arship is good, therefore, control
ling the length of time necessary
to receive a given degree.”
"From the standpoint of educa
tors, the undertakings of such a
development of standardized tests
might aid in the work of perfect
ing tests which could be standard
ized for subjects upon which no
agreement for standards has been
made as yet,” said Professor
Leighton. The subjects for which
standards have not been agreed
upon are of the nature of artistic
power and literature appreciation,
according to Mr. Leighton.
Professor Leighton also express
ed the belief that the development
of standardized tests in college edu
cation would facilitate in the teach
ing of units of a subject. “There
also is a possibility that standard
ized tests would make it easier to
determine a student's aptitude in
a certain field,” Mr. Leighton said.
Former Student Is Now
Chemistry Professor
Filling the position of assistant
in the Missouri Botanical Gardens,
Washington university, St. Louis,
Missouri, is the job occupied by
Lyle Wynd, who received his M.A.
from the University of Oregon last
year. Wynd has a botanical fel
lowship at the gardens and is pro
fessor of chemist ry, according to
a letter received by F. L. Shinn.
He is working for a Ph.D. and
his work is in the sugar metabol
ism of orchid seedlings with ref
erence to artificial germination.
He has his own office, a private
laboratory equipped as he desires,
and a section of a greenhouse fit
ted with modern appliances.
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Dear Friends:
Nov. 2(i, 1930.
T've just been thinking; over ttie tilings I have to be
thankful for this year.
In the first place, I'm mighty thankful I'm living here
in Eugene, because 1 can't think of any place I’d rather be.
Then, too, I'm thankful for my friends, and for most
of my relatives. They're mighty nice to me.
Another reason I'm thankfvd is that you folks have
been kind enough to drop in occasionally and tell Mr. Skeie
that you read my ads. That means a lot!
There are other things to be thankful for, too, take
for instance our new patterns in silver. In our Com
munity silver there are two new ones Deauville and Nob
lesse. In Gorham, there are Washington Irving anil Vanity
Fair.
When you come right down to it, there are lots of
things to be thankful for, ain't there?
TICK.
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WHAT SHOW TONIGHT?,
McDonald Wednesday and
Thursday, Harold Lloyd in
“Feet First." Friday and Sat
urday, “See America First,”
with Harry Langdon and Bes
sie Love. Sunday and Monday,
Jack Oakie in “Sea Legs."
Colonial Wednesday and
Thursday, "The Aviator," with
Edward Everett Horton. Fri
day and Saturday, Clara Bow
in “Love Among the Million
aires.” Sunday and Monday,
Cyril Maude in “Grumpy.”
H e i 1 i g — Wednesday and
Thursday, “College Lovers," Fri
day and Saturday, Sue Carol in
“She’s My Weakness.” Sunday,
“Top Speed,” with Joe Brown.
Rex — Thursday and Friday,
“Soup to Nuts," with Ted Heal
ley and his gang. Saturday and
Sunday, Wally Wales in a west
ern.
For those students who remain
in Eugene over the holidays, the
list of cinema attractions for the
rest of the week is given today.
Since there will be no Emerald un
til next Tuesday, the boxed list at
the top should be retained as a
reference. All theatres are display
ing special Thanksgiving perform
ances with added features and
continuous showings from 1 to 11.
McDonald Brings Langdon, Lloyd
and Oakie
The McDonald theatre is show
ing today and Thursday “Feet
First,” a first run talking picture
starring Harold Lloyd. It is a pic
ture replete with characteristic
Lloyd thrills and farce comedy. On
Friday and Saturday, the theatre
has booked the hilarious “See
America First,” starring Harry
Langdon, Bessie Love, and Slim
Summerville. That cast Is recom
mendation enough! Sunday and
Monday brings Jack Oakie’s latest,
"Sea LegC
Colonial lias Good List
"The Aviator,” latest talkie of
Edward Everett Horton, is show
ing today and Thursday at the Co
lonial. It is a hilarious comedy all
| about an aviation expert being
forced to run a plane. Friday and
Saturday brings Clara Eow's “Love
Among ihe Millionaires.” Fine
stuff for Eow fans. Cyril Maude,
one of the best known in the front
ranks of the legitimate, is appear
ing for the first time as a movie
star in "Grumpy,” on Sunday and
Monday. Theodore Roberts once
made it as a silent.
Rex Theatre Opens for Thanks
giving Show
The Rex theatre, heretofore open
only on week-ends, is having a
special Thanksgiving showing of
the musicomedy, “Soup to Nuts. ’
The film features Ted Healey and
his gang. The picture runs on Fri
day as well. Saturday and Sunday
brings another of Wally Wales
popular westerns.
Heilig Elans Big Week
The Heilig theatre announces an
ambitious booking for the holidays.
Today and Thursday they are
showing the comidrama, "Coyege
Lovers,” featuring Jack Whiting
and Marion Nixon. Supposed to be
realistic college stuff. On Friday
and Saturday, Sue Carol appears
in "Shfe’s My Weakness,” with Ar
thus Lake in support. On Sunday
the theatre brings the box office
success, "Top Speed,” a comidrama
with music. Players include Joe E.
Brown, Jack Whiting, Berenice
Claire, and Laura Lee.
Educator Speaks
To Student Group
Omega Delta Pi Is Chosen
As Club Name
According- to the constitution,
which was submitted for the ap
proval of the new education socie
ty, the name of the club will be
Omega Delta Pi, implying the
whole-hearted and all-inclusive ef
forts of education in a three-fold
attempt it child training including
mental, spiritual, and physical
training.
E. H. Hedrick, superintendent ol
schools at Medford, in his talk be
fore the education undergraduates
last night made an effort to ex
plain the fact that Oregon trained
men and women .and often were
losing educational positions to out
side people by saying, “I believe
that the fault lies in the fact that
we have trained our students more
as teachers and less as leaders.”
The meeting, which wras held in
the Gerlinger building, also includ
ed a brief business session and mu
sical program followed by a social
hour.
In continuation of his tnlk on
“Qualities of Educational Leader
ship,” Mr. Hedrick encouraged the
need for more general knowledge
of educational work. He said:
"High school and grade principals
ought to know something about
every department under their su
pervision.”
In closing Mr. Hedrick empha
I sized the value of the knowledge
! of the curriculum to potential
I leaders in the field of education,
i According to the speaker, more
! would-be leaders have failed be
cause of lack of knowledge of the
j curriculum than for any one other
reason.
“There is no royal road to suc
cess in the educational field," Mr.
Hedrick stated, "but the best foun
dations for success are good edu
cational philosophy and psychology
plus complete knowledge of the
< curriculum.”
Arl Is Discussed
By Miss Avakian
Philomelete Makes Plans
For Lunelieon
Are artists born or made? This
topic was discussed by the Woman
in Her Sphere group of Philome
lete during a meeting held at 5
o’clock Sunday afternoon in the
weaving room of the art building.
Miss Victoria Avakian, assistant
professor of architecture and al
lied arts, talked to the group and
led in the discussion.
Art in the home and the ques
tion of personality in clothes were
the main points of Miss Avakian’s
talk.
The Woman in Her Sphere group
has taken the subject of art for
work and study this term. Several
weeks have been spent in work rn
art projects.
Plans for a luncheon to be held
some time after Thanksgiving are
being made. The luncheon is being
given in order to wind up this
term’s work and to make active
plans for the coming term.
Dinner Slaled by
Methodist Group
__
Tlianksgivign Feast Open
To All Students
A banquet for all students who
are remaining on the campus over
i the Thanksgiving holidays is to
j be given by the Wesley club, or
I ganization of Methodist university
students, Friday evening, Novem
ber 28, at 6:30 o'clock.
“The purpose of the dinner,” ac
cording to Wilbur Sohm, president
of the Wesley group, “is to help
! overcome that homesick feeling
that comes when Thanksgiving is
! spent away from home. All stu
dents on the campus at that time
i are invited to attend.”
j International house has already
accepted an invitation to be guests
at the banquet. Others who plan
to attend are requested to notify
the church office today. There
will be an admission charge of 50
cents.
Jane Thacher To
Play for Quartet
Members Spent! Summer
Al Aeali-Kah-Nie
Jane Thacher, pianist of the
school of music, will assist the
Neah-Kah-Nie string quartet in its
program at the chamber of com
merce next Monday evening.
The quartet is unique in western
musical circles and perhaps in
America, in that through endow
ment, it is in a position to devote
itself exclusively to the prepara
tion and presentation of ensemble
numbers.
Members of the quartet spend
their entire summers and early fall
at Neah-Kah-Nie, on the Oregon
coast, from which they take their
name, in strict adherence to a
rigid program of practice in prep
aration for their concert season.
The members of the quartet are:
Susie Fennel Pipes, first violin.
Hubert Sorenson, former member
of the Portland Symphony orches
tra, second violin; Michel Penha,
cello, and Alexander Vdovin, viola.
Professions Are
Inter-dependent
L
Wilcox Urges Professional
Cooperation
"Eventually the professional
men of America will realize
through an understanding of their
mutual dependencies, that each
has much to gain through inter
professional cooperation,” W. R.
E. Wilcox, professor of architec
ture, said when he returned Thurs
day from the annual meeting of
the American Inter-professional
Institute, held in Omaha, Nebras
ka.
This professional society has
chapters throughout the United
States composed of about a thou
sand members who represent ev
ery type of profession.
When asked to explain the de
pendencies of these men, Mr. Wil
cox said, "Every professional man
has a tendency to crawl into his
pigeon-hole and stay there. It is
the purpose of the institute to
create a broader understanding
among the professional men of
America—to make the lawyer real
ize that he owes his office build
ing to the architect and the en
gineer; that the engineer and ar
chitect must have the lawyer make
the legal transactions which are
necessary before the plans of the
architect can materialize; that ev
ery profession is in some way de
pendent upon every other profes
sion.”
Mr. Wilcox was one of the speak
ers at the convention, representing
the profession of architecture.
Rehearsal Finds
Stipe as Lucifer
For One-Act Play
A rehearsal for “The Devil
Comes to Alearez” brought to light
■ some startling characterizations.
Can you picture Jack Stipe as Lu
cifer, the fallen angel himself, tell
ing Katherine Langenberg that to
be more popular she must be more
devilish? And what’s more, this
advice to the lovelorn seemed to
be practical, for when the lovely,
but formerly unpopular Casilda
makes up her mind to marry the
devil, Harvey Welch, as the puffed
| up mayor of Alearez, and Ethan
Newman as Don Mario, are only
too anxious to take her away from
the devil.
This play, coached by Cecil Mat
son, and two other one-act plays
are being put on by the drama de
partment on Wednesday, Decem
ber 3.
Bowen Leaves To
Attend Meeting
Papers Written by Oregon
Professors Will Be Read
Dr. Ray P. Bowen, chairman of
the Romance language depart
ment, left at noon Tuesday for
Stanford university to attend the
thirty-second annual meeting of
the Philological Association of the
Pacific Coast.
Four members of the faculty of
the University of Oregon have a
part in the program of the meet
ing. Dr. Clara M. Smertenko,
associate professor of Latin and
Greek, will read a paper entitled
“The Origin of Optative and Sub
j junctive Moods, a Morphological
| and Psychological Study.” S.
j Stephenson Smith, associate pro
fessor of English, will also read a
paper. His paper is “The Begin
nings of the Psychological Novel.”
Papers by Dr. L. O. Wright, pro
fessor of Romance languages, and
Juan B. Rael, instructor in Ro
mance languages, will be read by
title. Dr. Wright’s paper is enti
tled “The Apodosis Function of the
Spanish Verb Form in -se." “Some
International New Mexico Spanish
1 Folklore Themes” is the title of
| Mr. Rael's paper.
i University Band Plans
Two Formal Concerts
During spring and winter terms
the University band under the di
rection of John Stehn will present
two formal concerts, the first of
which is scheduled for January 18
at the music auditorium. The sec
ond concert will be presented some
time before the end of spring term.
According to Stehn a series of
outdoor concerts is also planned,
but details will not be completed
until later, due to the fact that the
I band is occupied with preparations
1 for the first performance.
Anti-Freeze
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Eleventh and Oak Streets
All Biology Labs
Get Afternoon Off
4t¥|TRRAH! Hurrah!” said old
. Drady hall with a deli
cious wriggle of her front porch.
“Why all the unnecessary ela
tion?” she was asked with a
disapproving frown. (The idea
of an old girl like her acting
like a youngster!)
“I’m going to have a vacation
today—I’m going to have a va
cation today!” she chanted idiot
ically.
“Why, how is that? Aren’t
you going to have any classes
in you today?”
“Oh my, yes,” she answered.
“But say, the general biology
laboratory classes aren’t going
to meet. I can breathe some
fresh air at last. So you see I
have something to celebrate
Thanksgiving for, too. The only
thing that would be better would
be that the classes should cut
up some nice, big fat turkeys!”
Extracts From Book of
R. C. Clark in History
Extracts from “Beginnings of
Texas,” a book written by R. C.
Clark, head of the history depart
ment, are included in the book
“Texas History for High Schools
and Colleges,” which has just been
received by the library.
The subjects included in chap
ters 11 and 4 are written on the
“First Spanish Mission in Texas"
and "Spanish Occupation of East
Texas.”
Athletic Honorary To Be
Installed by Next Term
Sigma Delta Psi, national ath
letic honorary, will be installed on
the campus next term, according
to an announcement made by the
physical education staff. Member
ship in the honorary, which has 38
chapters throughout the country,
Those Holding
Coupons
Como in as soon as possi
lo to have pic-tures taken.
McKune Studios
Broadway and Oak
jfi open to any student passing cer
tain athletic tests.
Three men must pass these tests
before the honorary can be in
stalled so the staff desires that any
men interested in the fraternity
apply at the office for additional
information.
Red Cross Drive Meets
With Success on Campus
The Red Cross roll call on the
campus this year has been more
successful than last, according to
Dr. Philip A. Parsons, dean of the
school of applied science, who has
general charge of the drive.
The faculty contributions are al
ready in excess of those of last
year and the drive is not yet com
pleted. The living centers have
also given more than last year,
Dr. Parsons said.
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