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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1930)
AWS Secures Speakers For Winter Term Mass Meeting To Re Held During Second Week Of Next Quarter Eminent Women Will Be Brought Here for Conferences, The vocational guidance pro gram of the Associated Women Students, recently announced by Margaret Cummings, president of A. W. S., and the personnel ad ministration of the University, will be actually started when an out standing woman will speak at the winter term mass meeting during the week of January 12-16. A speaker has been asked, but no vtord has been received from her as yet. In addition to speaking before the women of the campus as a group, the visitor will be on the campus for two or three days for individual conferences with wo men interested in her particular field. Experts Invited Following the initial meeting and talk, women who are experts in their own fields of endeavor will talk to groups of interested wom on and will also have individual meetings with them. It is planned Home for via SOUTHERN PACIFIC Fares Cut TO CALIFORNIA Leave December 17-18-19 Return Limit January 6 SAN FRANCISCO $25.50 FRESNO 29.35 LOS ANGELES 39.45 SANTA BARBARA 38.80 and many others TO PORTLAND $eio ^ROUNDTRIP Leave December 18 to January 1 Return Limit January 6 SPECIAL TRAIN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18 Leave Eugene 3:30 P. M. Returning Sunday, January 4 Leave Portland 6:15 P. M. Fast service, six trains each way daily. EQUALLY LOW FARES TO ALL OREGON POINTS ROUNDTRIPS CUT TO NORTHWEST Leave December 18 to 25 incl. Return Limit January 6 SOME EXAMPLES: SEATTLE $13.85 TACOMA 12.05 SPOKANE 23.10 PENDLETON 15.45 ASTORIA 9.65 LA GRANDE 19.05 PHONE 2200 FOR ALL TRAVEL INFORMATION Travel experts will advise you as to low holiday fares to your destination, give you schedules, make reservations, render every travel service, gladly and without obligation. Southern Pacific F. G, Lewis, Agetil i to have someone different on the campus every week of the winter 1 term. Some of these will be wo men on the University faculty who have made achievements in their own work. Others will be brought from outside. The personnel ad ministration of the University is assisting in bringing these people here. Will Cooperate The ten Philomelete hobby groups and the 15 frosh commis sion groups will cooperate with the A. W. S. in this project by making vocational studies a large part of their program during the winter term, Miss Cummings said. She, with Daphne Hughes, Jessie Puck ett, and Marguerite Mauzey, are working out the organization of the new A. W. S. project. The fall term mass meeting was cancelled when it was found that Dr. Jessica Piexooto, economics specialist of the University of Cal ifornia at Berkeley, would be un able to speak at the meeting. Taylor Appointed Psychology Head For Winter Term Conklin To Take Visiting Professorship at an Eastern School Dr. Howard R. Taylor, associate professor of psychology, will be acting chairman of the department throughout winter term, during the absence of Dr. Edmund S. Conklin, head of the psychology department, Dr. Conklin announced yesterday. Dr. Conklin has accepted a vis iting professorship in the graduate school of divinity at the University of Chicago for the winter term. He plans to leave shortly after final exams, and to return in time for the beginning of spring term. During his absence, Dr. Conk lin’s 9 o’clock section in elemen tary psychology will be taught by Dr. Taylor, while all of Dr. Conk lin’s other classes, as well as Dr. Taylor’s 2 o’clock will be taken by Miss Celia Hager. For spring term, the original schedule of class es will be resumed. While in Chicago Dr. Conklin will have supervision over grad uate students in psychology, in ad dition to his work in the graduate school of divinity. His work in the psychology field will have to do chiefly with candidates for doc tor's degrees. During the Christmas vacation he plans to attend the annual con vention of the American Psycho logical association at the Univer sity of Iowa in Iowa City. The convention meets December 29, 30, and 31, ilefore taking up his duties at the University, of Chicago, Dr. Conklin will also address the tri ennial convention of the Confer ence of Church Workers in Uni versities and Colleges of the Unit ed States, which is to meet in Chi cago January 1. He will be one of four guest speakers at the confer ence banciuet, held once every three years, and his topic will be “Implications for Religion for Current Trends in Psychology.” I ail Xenia lakes In New Members Eleven Neophytes Initialed By Foreign Trade Eleven men were initiated Sat urday night into Pan Xenia, inter national foreign trade fraternity, at a ceremony held in the Osburn hotel which was followed by a ban quet and a two-act play presented by five of tIre initiates. Pan Xenia is attempting to ac quaint its members with present day problems in foreign trade and with business men who have been outstandingly successful in this field. The two-act play was based on the theme of the right and tlie wrong methods of entering the business of foreign trade. Dean Faville of the school of business administration was the chief speaker of the evening, tak ing for his subject. “The Growth of Foreign Trade in the Univer sity.” The eleven men initiated were: Harold Johnson. Francis Moon, Carrol Watson, Orville Garrett, Kiehard Stevenson, Frederic Kerr, Lionel Lane, Carey Thompson, Fred Norton, Frank Helstel, Wayne Emmott. l'rosdi Basketball Squad Hi\ idvd Into Two (Groups In order to facilitate handling of the large freshman hoop squad which has turned out during the last week, Coach Prink Callison has divided the men into two groups, oue meeting at 3:30, the other at 1:45. Several more play ers have turned out making a to tal of more than 50 candidates with which Callison hopes to build a strong quintet. Ad-taker Dorothy Hughe**, manager of the classified advertising depart l mcnt of the Emerald, has doubled the use of the want-ad column of the paper this term, according to Anton Peterson, Emerald business manager. Miss Hughes is the first freshman to rule over the classi fied desk at the shack. Washington Dean Will Talk at Meet Miss Conali Ellis Speaker For Luncheon Miss Conah Ellis, of North Cen tral high school, Spokane, Wash ington, was announced yesterday as principal speaker of the opening luncheon meeting for high school girl’s league advisers and dean3 during the High School conference on this campus, January 17 to 19 Miss Ellis will address the group on “Problems of the Unacademic Minded Girl," according to Mrs. Veola Ross, chairman of the Pi Lambda Theta group in charge of arranging the program of speak ers. Plans for obtaining other speakers for the advisory meet ings during the conference are un der way. Mrs. Ross announced plans yes-1 terduy for securing prominent Oregon high school deans to speak at the Friday afternoon and Satur day morning meetings for faculty attendants at the conference. The program of entertainment for this group also will include a tea to be given at the Gerlinger building for visiting girls’ league represen tatives and their advisers, accord ing to Mrs. Ross. Christmas Theme To Be Used by YW Special Vesper Services Will Be Held Today Music, carols anil the Christmas legend will be features of the spe cial Christmas vesper services to be held at the Y. W. C. A. bunga low today at 5 o'clock, for all girls who may be interested. Irma Logan is in charge of the music, which will provide a back ground for the reading of the Christmas story by Elizabeth Scruggs. Lorraine Beardsley, Blema Parker, Mabel Thompson, and Irma Logan will sing carols during the reading, while Estelle Johnson and Roma Gross play the violin. Scarlet candles and festoons of fir boughs will decorate the bunga low, under the direction of Eva Burkhalter and Virginia Hilen. "The age-old spirit of Christmas i: embodied in these services, stat ed Mildred Wharton, chairman of the program committee. “In a few moments of silence, we will try to realize the significance of the ap proaching season." Portland Graduate (dull Held Meeting Saturday Members of the Portland Grad uate club of the University of Ore gon held their annual meeting last Saturday in Portland. Aside from those doing graduate work and teaching, those present included Vice-President and Mrs. Barker, Dr. George Rebec, dean of the graduate school. Dr. A. A. Goldenweiser, the well known anthropologist, who is do ing research work and some teach ing at tlyj Portland center spoke on "Science, Scholarship, and Cul ture." Dean Rebec reported the meeting a success in every way. While in Portland last week-end he completed the series of lectures on "World Wide Conflict of Races and Nationalities,” Conklin Conducts Judgment Tests Under Grant Fund Art, Psychology Students Tested as Part of Research Work The first of the research work in the field of fine arts authorized under the $10,000 grant made to the University of Oregon by the Carnegie corporation on Novem ber 12, has been set in motion un der the direction of Dr. Edmund S. Conklin, head of the department of psychology. In line with the terms of the grant, which specify “research work of all kinds in the field of fine art, literature and music, with the aim of benefiting those whose interest is in the appreciation of art rather than in actual partici pation,” Dr. Conklin has been con ducting a series of art judgment tests, using as subjects members of beginning art classes and class es in elementary psychology lab oratory. The McAdory art test and the Meier-Seashore art test are those which have been given tb the stu dents so far. Both purport to measure the native ability of the subject in evaluating works of art and other designs, according to true artistic standards. In order to minimize the variable of experience, and to make the test as nearly as possible' a test of in nate ability, only students untrain ’ed in art are considered. They are rated chiefly according to their ability to classify various groups of specimens according to relative merit, and scores are computed from the number of cases in which their choices correspond with those of the experts who compiled the tests. These preliminary surveys are the first step in an extensive re search program which is to be car ried out oy Dr. Conklin and others, dealing with art appreciation, and with possible-correlations between this and other native faculties and mental characteristics. Dr. C. L. Huffaker, professor of education, is chairman of the com mittee in charge of administering the 810,000 grant. Hermian Club To Feature Pamphlet | Lucille Hill Edits Booklet Of Education Honorary The first Hermian Bulletin has been placed in the hands of a typ ist preparatory to mimeographing, according to Lucille Hill, editor of the booklet, whicfo is to become a feature of Hermian club, women’s physical education honorary, every semester. The pamphlet, w’hich will be j placed on sale soon after the Christmas holidays, will hold ap proximately 100 pages, and has sold over 100 subscriptions al ready. The booklets, which are for sale to everyone on the cam pus, cost 50 cents each. The editor was enthusiastic over the features in the first bulletin. There will be two articles by Mary Jo Shelly, formerly of the Univer sity and now connected with Co lumbia university at New York, and one by Miss Florence Alden, head of the women's school of physical education. The various physical education club presidents will have articles, as well as the heads of women’s intramural sports. Team announcements, de partment -jokes, famous sayings of well-known women athletes and instructors, pertinent poetry, and a section entitled "Tacks and Hammer" will all be included with other features in the bulletin. WHAT SHOW TONIGHT? State — “A, Royal Romance,” with William Collier Jr. Com edy drama. Heilig — George Arliss in "Old English.” Drama. McDonald Ann Harding in “Holiday.” Comedy drama. Colonial — Eddie Cantor in “Whoopie.” Musicomedy. Big Programs in Local Theatres Today’s choice of pictures for the movie-goer is one of the big gest problems that Eugene cinema houses have presented for years. Three fine pictures, all showing on the same day. At the Heilig is George Arliss in “Old English," one of those thing it is a crime to miss. At the Colonial is "Whoopee,” with inimitable Eddie Cantor. It is shown on the new giant screen, and is the most pretentious of the talking musicomedies. The McDon old has “Holiday," recently pro duced by Guild theatre to record audiences, and inviting compari sons. Arliss at Heilig In one of the finest pictures of the year, George Arliss is appear ing at the Heilig theatre today. From the Play by John Galswor thy, “Old English” gives Arliss the opportunity to create one of those character parts that people seldom entirely forget. The greatest actor on the stage or screen, no mention in needed of play or role when the magnetic name or Arliss is flashed on theatre parquets. Colonial Installs Huge Screen For the opening of their big first run feature, "Whoopee," the Colonial management is proudly showing off their new giant screen, giving an entirely new thrill to the movie fan. "Whoopee” stars Eddie Cantor, and a host of Zeigfield jewels sup port him. Campus comment is en thusiastic about the film. It is a tremendously costly picture, and is entirely made in improved techni color. “Holiday at McDonald With a magnificent stage inves titure as beautiful as it is rare, and every interior setting distinct ly a work of art, rich, and restful to the eye; with a magnificent cast headed by lovely Ann Hard ing; with a magnificent play by Philip Barry, “Holiday,” playing for the last time today at the Mc Donald, is in every sense of the word, an epical step in movie making. . ^esideS Miss Harding, those in the cast are Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames, Creighton Hale, and Hedda Hop per. State Has Comedy In one of those romantic glib films so well suited to his talent, William Collier is appearing at the State theatre today in “A Royal Romance.” The plot con cern^ a mythical royal family and its difficulties in keeping the “blue blood” from flowing red. Student Officer Confined To Infirmary With Cold Miss Harriet Kibbee, secretary of the A. S. U. O. was yesterday confined to the infirmary with a cold. This ailment is the one most predominant on the campus at the present time, according to infirm ary officials, and all the patients there at the present time, with one exception, are confined because of colds. The exception is Virgil La Claire who is still in bed as a re sult of a broken leg. Besides Miss Kibbee, the follow ing students are under the care of the University health service: George Baumann, Lawrence Ope dal, Cecil Buckingham, and Virgil LaClaire. Now Is the Time for All Good Men to Get Busy and Type Those Papers “AIN’T IT THE TROOT?” Phone Up and Let Us Bring You Out a Typewriter. BUY OR RENT—STUDENT TERMS Office Machinery & Supply Co. Willamette St., Opposite “Y” Phone 148 American Alumni Council Will Hold Mjeet in January Oregon and Oregon State Will Be Hosts at Corvallis The annual district conference of the American Alumni Council will be held in Corvallis on Janu ary 14, Miss Jeannette Calkins, University of Oregon alumni sec retary, announced yesterday. Miss Calkins is district director of the section containing Alberta, British | Columbia, Idaho, Washington, and i Oregon. The organization is made up of j alumni secretaries, alumni fund supervisors, and magazine editors in most of the main colleges of the United States and Canada. There are ten divisions. The purpose is to further friendly relations be tween the various members and organizations that they represent; the interchange of ideas on their common problems; the stimulating of the individual alumni associa tion, and the promotion of a uni versal policy for college alumni. John G. Olmstead of Oberlin col lege, Oberlin, Ohio, is president of the association, and will be the main guest at the Corvallis meet ing. The University of Oregon and Oregon State college will be hosts to representatives from Uni versity of Alberta, University of British Columbia, Whitworth col f 1 OLD OREGON SHINE Wishes You All a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year # * * But before you leave we suggest that you come iu and get one of our paste shines. ^ V V College Side Bldg. lege, Willamette, Lihfield. Albany, Reed, Whitman, Pacific, College of Puget Sound, College of Idaho, Sooding, Gonzaga, University of Washington, University of Idaho, Washington State, Oregon State, and the University of Oregon. The program for the conference has not yet been announced, but will be ready soon, IVo-Piano Concert Given By Co-eds in Tillamook Miss Gladys Foster and Miss Carolyn Haberlach gave a two piano concert at Tillamook Mon day evening. The program was sponsored by the Monday Night Music Club of Tillamook, Oregon. This program is one of the ser ies which the two girls will give this winter. They have worked ex tensively on their music during the summer and plan to give a number of concerts throughout the North west. Miss .Foster and Miss Ha berlach both belong to Alpha Phi sorority and are members of the Mu Phi Epsilon, music honorary. fcilCiiCiiCiJCdl Gift suggestions FROM THE CO-OP DON’T FORGET OUR FINE GREETING CARDS —5c and up— wtrix For the Collegian’s Desk Desk lamps, desk sets, book-ends, desk clocks, fountain pen and pencil sets, diaries, diction aries, paper-knives, paper weights, and seal calendars. For the Smoker Cigarette cases, ash trays, lighters, pipes, to bacco pouches, and a full line of choice 1 resh tobaccos in special Christinas packages. For the Co-ed Memory books, Oregon seal and costume jewelry including rings and compacts, cos metics, attractive room decorations, social sta tionery, and diaries. For Mother Mother would appreciate a fine hook from our large selection on the Book Balcony or an exquisite etching or print by one of Europe s leading artists. For Dad A desk set. or individual pen or pencil would please Dad—or maybe a fine briar pipe or a bandy lighter. Special Reductions Diaries, Italian leathers, Oregon seal jewelry, memory books, and all other leather goods have been reduced. 20 Per Cent Off 10 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OREGON STUDENTS Save Time Read The Advertisements TIME is a valuable commodity anywhere. At a university, it is doubly so. You women, with your teas, dances, dates and dinners sandwiched in between classes and hours of study, have no margin for idle “shopping around.” And men, with athletics, classes, dates and all manner of activities', have no time to wander aimlessly from store to store. Save time. Read the ads before you start on a buying tour. Know What You Want Then Buy BEFORE starting anything, it is only common sense that you know what you are about. You know what you want. Read the ads every day to find where those things are to be found, and then, when you buy, you’ll know where to go. Then, too, you can keep in touch with the trend of fashion by watching the ad vertisements. Read them regularly. You'll save time in the long run, by being able to find what you want easier and quicker. Oregon Daily Emerald