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VOLUME XXXII
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1930
The Weather
Maximum .. 17
Minimum . 33
Precipitation .04
NUMBER 46
Absence Rated
Minor Factor
In Scholarship
Personnel Bureau Report
Reveals Very Slight
Effeet on Grades
Attendance Is Overrated
By Most Professors,
Says Dr. Taylor
That absence from class does
not seem to be a major factor in
scholastic achievement was re
vealed in a bulletin issued by Dr.
Howard R. Taylor, head of the
University of Oregon Personnel
Research bureau, last week. Reg
ularity of attendance was shown
to be positively related to excel
lence of scholarship, but the rela
tionship was not very close.
Sixty-four instructors .co-oper
ated with the research bureau in
the experiment of evaluating the
effect of absence from class on
the quality of student achieve
ment. These professors kept a
record of the classroom absences
of each student and reported the
quality of work done.
Variability Shown :
“Obviously,” states the bulletin, |
“if an instructor arbitrarily lowers
a student’s rating for every ab
sence, an evaluation of such grades
would merely demonstrate the
practices of various instructors in
penalizing absences, not determine
to what extent the knowledge and
skill of the student had suffered
from missing class exercises.
Hence, each instructor was to re
port the estimated achievement of
the pupil without reference to the
amount of absence.”
The research revealed a wide
variability in per cent of perfect
attendance, in average amount of
absence, and in the significance
of absence for scholarship at the
University. The bulletin states
that this wide variability is not
what would be ordinarily consid
ered desirable at any institution
whether large or small.
Changes Recommended
Several recommendations were
offered in the bulletin as a pos
sible solution of the situation.
Among these recommendations
were the following:
“That instructors whose sam
pling of the desired outcomes of
their instruction in frequent ex
aminations is very complete, may
weil let the problem of absence
take care of itself. That instruc
tors who can conveniently check
regularity of attendance will prob
ably note a salutary effect from
the mere fact that such a record
is taken. But if the University
expects it3 instructors to be schol
ars, it should not add time-keep
ing to their already numerous
t clerical duties. And, that the
muddling procedure of arbitrarily
making mere attendance a factor
in scholarship ought to be avoided
if possible.”
Dr. Taylor stated that from the
results obtained from the experi
ment it appears that much of the
material which a student misses
by not attending class is just as
effectively learned elsewhere.
“Regular attendance,” he said,
“has a slight beneficial effect on
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17 Hours Per Term Carried
By One Third of Students
Students at the University of
Oregon are not content to just “get
by” with just enough hours to
graduate, if figures just released
by Earl M. Pallett, registrar, are
an accurate indication. More than
one-third, or 1039 of the total of
3095 on the Eugene campus are
carrying 17 or more hours each
term. The normal load, which will
earn the necessary 186 hours in
four years, is 16 hours each term
for the first two years, and 15
hours per term for the second two
years. Six of the hours are physi
cal education, required during the
first two years.
Nearly another third, or 917 stu
dents, are carrying 16 hours a
term, slightly more than necessary
when in the last two years. Those
carrying the regular schedule of
15 hours total 516. Only 623 carry
less than 15 hours, and but 256
out of the entire total carry 12 or
less hours. Of this latter number,
149 are graduates or special stu
dents who are either teaching part
time or taking some additional
work elsewhere. Only 107 under
graduates take less than 12 hours,
and most of these are on the re
stricted program because of eco
nomic reasons.
In the freshman class 330 out
of 1055 are starting off ambitious
ly, carrying 17 or more hours. In
the sophomore class 387 out of
1005 carry 17 or more, in the jun
ior class is nearly half, or 156 out
of 322. In the senior class more
have eased up, for the figures are
144 out of 393.
The figures definitely indicate
| that the majority of students care
more about learning than merely
' attending the University for a de
gree, officials declare. Practically]
all students have an excess of
I hours upon graduation, it is stated, j
Broom and Mop
End Omega Riot
VF/'HAT started out to be a
' clean-up on freshmen by
sophomores ended with general
h o u se cleaning Saturday at
Omega hall.
Smoke, fury and epithets
hung like a pall over the com
batants, hut heavier still hung
clouds of dust raised by the an
gry feet of the warring factions.
Then appeared some upperclass
men who turned the interclass
spirit to useful pursuits.
All hands were ordered on
deck and then followed the
busiest 40 minutes that that or
ganization had seen in its his
tory. Carpets were removed,
beaten, swept, and vacuumed;
windows were washed; the floors
were mopped and polished; the
fireplace renovated, and every
least corner shone like a facet
on a newly polished diamond.
Then all hands sat down and
started to dirty it up again.
Thirteen Women
Placed on Varsity
Debate Squadron
Regulars To Be Selected
Some Time After First
Of Next Year
Thirteen women have been se
lected to make up the women’s
varsity debate squad this year.
Those to uphold women’s debate
for the University are: Donna
Gill, Isabella Davis, Ruth Warren,
Frances Kerne, Catherine McGow
an, Bernice Conoly, Gwendolyn
Caverhill, Mary Caniparoli, Alice
Redetzke, Betty Jones, Frances
Jordan, Lavina Hicks, and Louise
Smith.
Four of the girls, Bernice Con
oly, Mary Caniparoli, Frances Jor
dan, and Lavina Hicks were on the
debate team last year and will
continue this.
There were no tryouts this year
in women’s debate, but those eli
gible signed up in the speech di
vision office. The regular teams
will be selected from this squad
some time after the first of the
year.
Several questions of human in
terest have been submitted to the
squad for consideration. One of
which was the question, Resolved,
that the payment of alimony, ex
cept for the support of dependent
children, should be discontinued.
This was submitted by both the
University of Washington and
Washington State as a possible
question for a debate this year.
Dr. Ralph C. Hoeber, assistant
professor in the English depart
ment, and W. E. Hempstead Jr.,
instructor in English, will act as
the faculty debate advisers. Ber
nice Conoly is managing the squad
this year.
The squad is meeting on Tues
day, December 16, in the speech
division office at 7 o’clock to plan
work for the Christmas holidays.
A regular debate schedule will be
adopted after the first of the year.
Jameson To Speak Friday
Dr. Samuel Jameson, associate
professor of sociology, will address
I the Salem Heights Community
club Friday night on phases oi
community organization.
Prep Meeting
Banquet Plans
Get Under Way
Carol Wersehkul Chairman
For Annual Conference
Dinner Here
Several Hundred Delegates
Expected To Be Guests
At Yearly Event
Plana for the annual high school
conference banquet, to be held Fri
day evening, January 9, are under
way, according
to Carol Wersch
| kul, who has
flamed Bill Pitt
fnan, general
l chairman of the
f c o n f erence, to
|:i take charge of
the banquet.
The affair will
be held at 6:30,
probably at the
: : i mmst m nen s dormitory,
Carol Werschkulmd Miss Wersch
kul who has conferred with Mrs.
Genevieve Turnipseed, director of
dormitories, promises adequate
accommodations for the several
hundreds of delegates expected
from the high schools of the state.
Assistants Are Named
Assisting the banquet chairman
on her committee are: Ellen Ser
sanous, assistant chairman, and
decorations; Edith Peterson, sec
retary; John Marrs, ushers; Cor
win Calavan, checkroom; Louise
Webber, serving; Jim Flanagan,
music.
Invitations and information con
cerning the conference are being
sent to the high schools by a com
mittee directed by ■ Adele Wede
meyer, whose assistants are: Cyn
thia Hall, Evelyn Kennedy, Phyllis
Meisel, Helen Burns, Lorraine
Beardsley, Mildred Collins, Mary
Bohoskey, and Edna Bird.
Other Appointments Made
John King, chairman of the prin
cipals’ conference, announced last
night the appointment of Leslie
Dunlap and Edward Bolds as his
assistants. The program for this
division has been almost complet
ed and will be ready for announce
ment within a few days.
Plans for the conferences for
student body officers, editors and
managers of newspapers and an
nuals, girls’ league (Officers, and
deans of girls are as yet indefin
ite, and the chairmen of these
groups made no statements up to
last night.
The Bogey Man Again
By Abranz
Maier and Pattison Charm
Listeners With Piano Duets
Artists on Faretcell Tour
Open Winter Concert
Series on Campus
By DAVE WILSON
Guy Maier and Lee Pattison
“burned the music at both ends”
on two grand pianos which appear
ed to be one at McArthur Court
last night, and fired a large aud
ience with an enthusiasm that de
manded several encores.
Opening the associated students'
concert series for the winter, these
two remarkable pianists, who are
now on their "farewell tour” after
12 years spent together in earning
n international reputation as peers
of the two-piano field, charmed
their listeners with their personal
ities as much as with their music.
Guy Maier is short and dyriamic.
No listener enjoys his playing
more than he does himself; a hap
py smile plays over his face as his
hands sweep over the keyboard;
the pitch of his body, the angle
of his head, the poise of a hand ex
press the spirit of the different
passages. Once,.during the Bach
Bauer “Fantasy” he rose to his
feet to come down on a crashing
chord with full effect, and in
Stranvinsky’s "Three Little Pieces”
he frankly clowned.
Lee Pattison is different. He
3 Pets Make Up
Belt House Zoo;
Duck’s Death Sad
“And the ark set sail.” But
that famous craft of Noah’s has
nothing on the Delts. The visitor,
on entering the door, is met by
Sam, the banty rooster; Chum, the
bobtailed mixture of collie and
Russian wolfhound (and, by the
way, Chum is bobtailed through
no fault of his. it seems as u.
youngster he was inordinately
fond of motor-boating until one
day his long and bushy tail—re
member he is part collie—was
eaught in the propeller of his fa
vorite motorboat. Since that day,
Chum has shown a peculiar aver
sion to his favorite sport.), and
by Charlie, the pedigreed scrub
kitten.
On inquiry one is sure to be in
formed that this incompleteness in
the collection is due to a sad and
lamentable accident. Webby, they
say, was duly initiated but—and
they are careful to explain this—■
he was in poor health and had
been for some time before he came
to live at the Delt house. In spite
of loving care and toufching anx
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Progress Is Only
Entlmsiam, Says
Editor of Journal
Marshall N. Dana Speaks
Before Two Meetings
On Campus
“Progress is nothing but enthus
iasm backed with experience,”
Marshall N. Dana, associate editor
of the Oregon Journal, said yes
terday in his talk on “Personal Ef
ficiency” before Dean David E.
Faville's class in personal effi
ciency.
"The world looks for its leaders
to the efficient, and the qualities
to be found in the efficient are
sincerity, enthusiasm, courage of
! conviction, and ability to cooper
ate. The real tests for efficiency
are to find reality, to become ac
quainted with the facts, and to de
velop self-discipline. Defeat dates
from the time when the temper
comes to the fore, and the torn
shirt becomes the battle flag,” Mr.
Dana said.
“ ‘The tool that is just good
enough will not serve the purpose
of the modern age.’ Everybody
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bends over the keyboard gravely,
as if he had serious work in hand
which deserved to be done well,
and he seldom raised his eyes from
the keys to return the animated
glances wfiich his partner threw
him. His facial expression is con
sistently grave, except when he
leans back from the keyboard and
adds personality to a particularly
graceful passage by delicately lift
ing his left eyebrow much as a
connoisseur of old wine signifies
his approval of a glass of Ma
deira.
But the unanimity of their per
formance did not suffer by con
trast of personality. Their varying
styles of piano interpretation
blended in sound patterns which
made one close one's eyes to dream
and open them again to marvel.
The first two numbers on the
program, a Rondo by Chopin and
Debussy's “Afternoon of a Fawn’’
showed that Maier and Pattison
dc not care to submerge tone qual
ities and natural beauty of melody
under a pyrotechnic display.
Schumann’s Scherzo, written for
strings and piano and transcribed
for Mr. Maier, was a third grace
fully staccato number, and it was
not until the Bach-Bauer fantasy
that the two showed how effect
ively they could work together in
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Five Men Are
Named Officers
Of Service Club
Marrs Elected President
At Meeting; Kinney
Second in Command
Larkin, Vaughan, Mathews
Chosen Other Leaders
Of Sophomore Group
Officers were elected for the
new sophomore service honorary
at its third meeting held last eve
ning in the Journalism building.
They are: John Marrs, president;
Ned Kinney, vice-president; Charles
Larkin, sec retar y; George
Vaughan, treasurer, and Carson
Mathews, sergeant-at-arms.
As the new officers were elected,
they took office and proceeded with
the business of revising and adopt
ing the proffered constitution for
the organization. Marrs, the new
president, said last night, “Under
a well thought out and wisely
adopted constitution I see no rea
son why the organization can't be
made into a most successful and
desirable honorary. At the be
ginning of the winter term we ex
pect to enter actively into the af
fairs of the campus. As yet no
name has been chosen but it is
hoped that in the future a suitable
name and policy will be adopted
for the organization.”
George Cherry, president of the
A. S. U. O., was present at the
meeting and assured the group
that both the student and faculty
administration wished it the great
est success possible.
The 15 charter members of the
club are: Bill Bader, Larry Bay,
Gordon Day, Ted Jensen, John
King, Ed Kinney, Virgil Langtry,
Charles Larkin, Kenton Lawson,
John Marrs, Carson Mathews,
Richard Mumaw, Jim Travis,
George Vaughan, and Freeman
Young.
Lane County Has
Student Majority
Multnomah Next With 861
Students Registered
Lane county, with a total of 883,
leads the entire state in county
registration of students at the Uni
versity, according to an announce
ment made here today by Earl M.
Pallett, registrar and executive
secretary. Multnomah has 861 stu
dents in attendance, ranking sec
ond to Lane county. Portland
leads all the cities with 841, close
ly followed by Eugene, with 807.
Of the total 3095 students 2743
are from the state of Oregon, 328
come from other parts of the un
ion, 16 are registered from terri
tories or dependencies of the Unit
ed States, and eight are from for
eign countries.
California is represented here by
177 students from the southern
state. Washington is second with
73; and Idaho has 25 for third
place. From the Philippine Islands
come nine, from Hawaii, six, and
from Alaska comes one. Students
are here also from Canada, China,
Japan, Russia, and Australia.
Infirmary Is Filling Up
With Approach of Finals
With the approach of the final
week of school the infirmary is
slowly filling up. Colds, according
to infirmary officials, is still the
predominant cause of confinement,
although there are a few students
confined with other ailments.
At the present time the follow
ing students are under the care of
the University health service:
Charles Davis, Jane Warner, Har
riett Kibbee, Della Cline, William
Manning, Edwin Robb, George
Baumann, Virgil LaClaire, and Ce
cil Buckingham.
Nine students were at the in
firmary yesterday whereas there
were only six registered there on
Monday.
Study of Counties Made
Miss Mary Moreland, research
fellow in community organization,
is making a study of a number of
Oregon counties in the interests of
community organization research,
which is being given special em
phasis in the school of applied so
cial science this year.
Friday Emerald
Last For Term
FINAL publication date of the
Emerald for this term has
been extended to include Friday,
December 12, following a consul
tation of business and editorial
officials yesterday.
The Emerald was to have
ceased publication for fall term
tomorrow. The final issue will
be an advance Christmas num
ber, it was announced yesterday.
Oregon Faculty
To Speak Before
State Teachers
Five Addresses Scheduled
From School of
Education
Oregon faculty members will
play a prominent, part in the pro
gram scheduled for the 31st annual
convention of the Oregon State
Teachers association which will
meet at Lincoln high school in
Portland on December 29, 30 and
31.
A joint session of the northern
section of the Classical association
of the Pacific states with the de
partment of Classical Teachers of
Oregon will be held. F. S. Dunn,
chairman of the Latin department,
is president of both of these groups.
Mrs. Edna Landros, Mrs. Clara M.
Smertenko, and F. S. Dunn will
speak at this meeting.
In charge of discussion of art
will be Maude Kerns, assistant pro
fessor of normal arts.
Edgar R Means, University high
^school, will head the science and
mathematics group. "The Morris
onian Teaching Cycle in Mathemat
ics and Science” will be treated by
Dr. Nelson Bossing. Principal R.
U. Moore, University high school,
has chosen to explain "The Teach
ing of Mathematics by the Morris
onian Plan.”
A. L. Lomax, professor of busi
ness administration; B. W. DeBusk,
professor of education; Dr. C. L.
Huffaker, professor of education;
Dean H. D. Sheldon, school of edu
cation; R. P. Bowen, chairman of
the romance language department;
and Rex Underwood, professor of
violin, are scheduled to speak on
various group programs.
Dr. Walter Siders, World Feder
ation of Education associations;
Cameron Beck of the New York
stock exchange; and Dr. Willis A.
Sutton, superintendent of schools
at Atlanta, Georgia, are among
distinguished guests participating
in the Oregon State Teachers'
meeting.
Oregon Colors Now oil
Packages of Cigarettes
Oregon colors now appear upon
all packages of Chesterfield cig
arettes sold on the campus. The
new feature has been adopted by
Liggett and Myers Tobacco com
pany, through the efforts of E. T.
Finley, Eugene representative for
the company.
The plan of putting collegiate
.colors on the packages is in line
with a new policy being put into
practice up and down the Pacific
coast by the manufacturers of
Chesterfields. The Oregon campus
is one of the first places where
the plan has been put into effect.
Tm Still Coach,’
‘Doc’ Declares;
Rumors Denied
Conclusions Arc Loft to
Individual; Reports
Still Rampant
Spears Says Would Talk
With California on
Oregon’s Consent
By JACKSON BURKE
“I am still the coach of the Ore
gon football team and intend to
be next year. I refuse to be re
sponsible for what the newspapers
say I am or am not going to do.”
Add this statement to the grow
ing list made in the past two
weeks by Dr. Spears, head football
coach at the University of Oregon,
and draw your own conclusions.
Meeting Significant
Since November 27, when Dr.
Spears happened to meet Bill
Monahan, graduate manager of the
University of California, at San
Francisco, Monahan unfortunately
being on the lookout for a succes
sor to Nibs Price, rumors have
been rampant.
If the latest statements are any
more reliable than the previous
epistles nothing with any basis or
foundation of fact has as yet been
uttered.
And from the muddle of facts,
pseudo facts, denials and confir
mations an attempt is to be made
to find out whether or not the
Oregon coach will return next
year.
Another Addition
Significantly, Spears makes an
other addition to the already large
list of statements, saying:
"If the University of California
desired to discuss terms with me,
and if the University of Oregon
gave its consent for me to con
sider the proposition I would feel
free to talk to California at any
time, but not unless.”
This statement places the mat- .
ter in abeyance until Dr. Hall re
turns to Oregon or at least to San
Francisco from the Hawaiian Is
lands, where he has been for the
past few weeks.
What Will Be Next?
From a survey of the rumors
which have been passed around, it
would appear that Spears is some
what dissatisfied with conditions
in Oregon, not to such a degree,
however, that he would leave for
this reason only: that he has not
as yet been approached with a
definite offer from the University
of California: that he is awaiting
th£ return of Dr. Hall, who nego
tiated his Oregon contract, and
that when the latter returns a def
inite settlement of the whole ques
tion will bo had, and not until
such time.
Dr. A. H. Kunz To Speak
At Sigma Xi Meeting
The University of Oregon chap
ter of Sigma Xi, national science
honorary, will meet tonight to hear
an address by Dr. A. H. Kunz, as
sistant professor of chemistry. Dr.
Kunz will read a paper on "The
Determination of Oxidation-Keduc
tion Potentials.” The meeting is
scheduled for 8 o’clock in Deady
hall.
Saturday Classes Should Be
Abolished, Believe Students
Student opinion seems to be di
vided on the question of Saturday
classes. Some believe that they
should be utterly abolished and
appear to think that their value
is greater than the trouble occa
sioned by them.
Robert “Hack” Miller, student
athletic manager, believes that
from the administrative standpoint
they are desirable inasmuch as
they provide for a greater utiliza
tion of classrooms, but said that
he thought there should be one
other day besides Sunday entirely
free of classes for the students.
He declined to comment on the
statement made by Dr. Harry B.
Yocom, professor of zoology, that
interruptions such as homecoming
celebrations and the like so dis
rupted classes held on Saturdays
that their usefulness is practically
nullified.
“I believe,” said Miller, “that If
we can only be patient and wait,
we will have some new buildings
and thus relieve the strain on the
buildings which caused the intro
duction of Saturday classes.-'
Ronello Lewis, one of this year’s
Senior Six elected to Phi Beta
Kappa, believes that they are more
of a bother than they are of help.
"I am not in favor of them,” he
said. “They make it very difficult
for those who work on Saturdays
and awkward for those who wish
to go home. I think that they are
more trouble than they are value.
As to having another day of
classes free besides Sunday, I
heartily endorse Miller's idea.”
“Saturday classes are the bunk,”
Kermit Stevens said when ap
proached. When pressed for rea
sons the Oregon hoop man said
that they interfere greatly with
the plans of those who work on
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