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VOLUME XXXII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930
NUMBER 48
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Campus enrollment for 1929 and ]
1930 was 3,242 students.
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1 Plans Complete
For Big A.W.S.
I Christmas Ball
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Annual Dance To Be Given
At Masonic Temple
January 3
Affair To Be Get-Togetlier
For Oregon Students
And Friends
With a time, a place, and an
orchestra which the directorate
believes are the nearest possible
to perfection for a dance, plans for
the Oregon Christmas College Ball,
sponsored by the Associated Wo
men Students, are rapidly shaping
up, Eess Templeton and Slug Pal
mer, co-chairman, said Thursday
evening in making final announce
ment of the affair to the campus.
The annual dance will be held at
the Masonic Temple in Portland
on Saturday evening, January 3.
This is the last Saturday before the
beginning of winter term, and the
co-chairmen are emphasizing the
fact that the dance will be the big
get-together of the Christmas va
cation for University of Oregon
students, alumni and their
friends. After much consideration
Killoran’s orchestra has been se
lected by the committee to furnish
the music.
Invitations Extended
Special invitations have been ex
tended to all alumni living in or
near Portland through Miss Jean
nette Calkins, alumni secretary.
Small folders containing essential
facts of the dance and the names
of the committees in charge have
been sent to all Portland high
schools. Those in charge of high
school publicity declare that the
enthusiasm among the prospective
Oregon students is very high.
Through the efforts of the pub
licity chairmen, Lois Nelson and
Jim Travis, the four Portland
newspapers have agreed to carry
full accounts of the dance in their
Morning Oregonian has announced
the affair as one of the outstand
ing events of the Christmas sea
son. Pictures of the members of
the directorate have been taken
and will be used in the Portland
papers.
Ticket Sale Under Way
The ticket sale on the campus
has been under way in all men’s
living organizations under the di
rection of Helen Chaney, finance
chairman, since Monday. They are
priced at $1.25 per couple. Tickets
will be on sale at the Co-op today,
and at Sherman and Clay in Port
land December 31, January 2 and
3. They also may be purchased at
the door.
Under the direction of Jane Cul
lers the patrons committee has is
sued invitations to over 200 prom
inent Oregon people to act as pa
trons and patronesses. The re
sponse from these people indicates
Hhat a great percentage of them
will accept. It is planned to have
bridge tables for the patrons.
Among those invited to serve in
this capacity are President and
Mrs. Arnold Bennett Hall, Vice
President and Mrs. Burt Brown
Barker, Governor and Mrs. Albin
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sections. Already the
istration Date
ted January 5
an addition of four
ho regular vacation,
return to the t'ni
student
versity f> ..iter term registra
tion on Jannary 5. This year’s
Christmas vacation starting next
Friday, totals 1G days in all.
Those students who plan to
change their majors are request
ed hy the registrar to do so be
fore the end of this term in or
der to avoid confusion during
registration.
! Kaufman, Schenk
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Win Advertising
Awards Merchandise
Bonds to Students
Competition Here
McMorran and Washbnrne
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I The $15 first prize in this year's
; McMorran & Washburne's adver
i tising contest open to Professor W.
I F. G. Thacher’s general advertis
j ing class was won by Victor Kauf
man, and second place was award
ed to Harry Schenk. Both are
juniors in journalism and members
of Sigma Pi Tau. Bob Holmes and
Helen Evans were given honorable
j mention.
The prizes are in merchandise
bonds. Schenk’s will have a value
| of $10. About 50 persons, consti
tuting the class membership, com
peted. The ads were to sell the
Majestic refrigerator. Sixteen of
the best compositions were select
ed by Mr. Thacher, and McMorran
and Washburne sent them to Port
land where they were judged by
the Majestic distribution agency
for this district.
The members of the class will
be given an opportunity to vie for
I prizes in two more contests during
winter and spring terms. They are
the Henry Hayek contest in the
preparation of layout and typog
raphy, and the Ham-Jackson con
test, a direct mail campaign. In
addition, the advanced class will
have the Botsford advertising
agency contest. Prizes in each ag
gregate $50.
“The class showed very munch
interest in the McMorran & Wash
burne contest this year and the
work averaged up to a high stand
ard,” said Mr. Thacher.
Registrars Offer
NewF ellowship
i University Administrators
Will Give $1000
A fellowship is being offered by
the American Association of Col
legiate Registrars for the year
1931-1932 to a graduate student,
for educational study in the admin
istration department with chief in
i terest in registrars’ work,
i The person will be given $1000
as an aid for use of study during
the year. He may study in any
institution that is a member of
the American Association of Col
legiate Registrars, which has fa
cilities suitable for study in that
line of work.
Figures Indicate Increase
In Infirmary Confinements
With the end of the fall term al
most in sight the University in
firmary reports that a total of 139
students have been cared for at
that institution so far this term.
This is a slight increase over
last year’s record, as there were
only 128 students confined to the
Vfcare of the campus health service
during the fall term of 1929.
However, according to Helen
Fleming, infirmary nurse, there
have been no very serious cases
this term. Colds and sore throats
have been the predominant causes
of confinement.
Virgil LaClaire, Alpha hall grad
uate student, has the distinction of
being at the infirmary longer than
any other patient in the memory of
the present nurses in charge. La
Ciaire, who has been in bed for the
past eight weeks as a result of a
broken leg which he received when
he slipped and fell on the floor of
the men's new dormitory, is expect
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ed to be in bed for at least anoth
er week.
The health service at the Uni
versity is. at the present time, un
der the direction of Dr. Mark T.
Phy, who is officiating in the ab
sence of Dr. F. N. Miller, Univer
sity health director. Dr. Miller is
now in New York attending the an
nual conference of health adminis
trators from all the colleges and
universities in the country. Dr.
Miller will read a paper on the
health situation as regards col
legiate institutions and will take
part in other phases of the gather
ing as well. He is expected to re
turn to the University of Oregon
on January 5.
There were nine students con
fined to the care of the infirmary
yesterday. Those students were:
Jane Warner, Maida Ehlers, Har
riet Kibbee, Charles Davis, Ed
Schofield, Ben McDonald, Virgil
LaClaire, Cecil Buckingham, and
: William Manning.
Service to University Is Their Aim
These sophomore men, charter members of the new service honorary group that has been organ
ized on the campus, are now considering a name for the club and investigating fields of service in
which ihey can enter actively the beginning of winter term. Members of the service group are, from
left to right: Charles Larkin, secretary; John King, Virgil Langtry, Carson .Mathews, sergeant-at
arms; Henry Mumaw, John Marrs, president; Bill liider, George Vaughan, treasurer; Freeman Young,
Ted Jensen, Ed Kinney, vice-president; Larry Bay, J.m Travis, and Gordon Day. Kenton Iavvson was
not present for the picture.
Arthur Boardman Describes
Theme of Handel’s rMessiah’
Famous Oratorio Founded
On Story of Birth
Of Christ
“Handel's ‘Messiah’ given at any
time of the year attracts a good
deal of attention, but it is always
more interesting at the Christmas
season, because it is- the greatest
musical work celebrating the birth
of Christ that has ever been writ
ten.”
Arthur Boardman was discuss
ing the oratorio which the Uni
versity polyphonic choir and the
University symphony orchestra are
to present at the music audito
rium Sunday afternoon under his
direction.
“When ‘The Messiah’ is men
tioned, most people at once think
of the ‘Hallelujah Chorus.’ That
is justly considered to be the high
light of the work, but it is only
one of the many beautiful and
spirited chorales and solos which
are included in this magnificent
oratorio. The text, originally
written in English, does not suffer
by the translations from a foreign
tongue which other oratorios have
had to undergo. The words, taken
for the most part from the Bible,
tell of the prophecies of the com
ing of the ‘Messiah,’ then turn to
the story of the birth of Christ
at Bethlehem, and wind up with
rejoicings for the salvation which
the birth brought to the world.
The best known of the closing
numbers are the soprano solo, ‘I
Know That My Redeemer Liveth'
and the ‘Hallelujah Chorus.’
“This oratorio has enjoyed ^ver
increasing favor for nearly 200
years. Handel composed the work
in 1741, taking but 24 days for
all the composing. Because of the
limitations of the orchestra and
the choir for which he wrote it at
the time, the music is not at all
complex, but the work is so beauti
ful that one forgets the thinness
of the orchestration.”
But, according to Boardman, it
takes an ensemble about as large
as the 200 students who make up !
the choir and the orchestra to give
“The Messiah” the spirited inter
pretation and the volume that it
requires in order to be at its best.
Boardman himself has appeared as
tenor soloist for productions of the
oratorio in all parts of the coun
try “more times than he can re
member.”
Phi Beta Kappa
Will Initiate Six
Seniors Tonight
Dr. Goldenweiser To Talk
At Banquet at Dorm
After Ceremony
Phi Beta Kappa, national scho
lastic honorary fraternity, will ini
tiate six senior students tonight j
at 6 o’clock in alumni hall of the |
Gerlinger building. The “senior '
six’’ elected to membership this
term are Mary Gauntlett, Ronello
Lewis, Ida Markusen, Paul Wal
gren, Mildred Wharton, and Mrs.
Golda Wickham.
Following the initiation cere
mony, a banquet will be held at
the men’s dormitory, starting at
8:45 o'clock. Dr. Alexander Gold
enweiser, anthropologist and soci
ology professor in the Portland
center, will be the featured
speaker. The initiation banquet
will be open to the public.
Miss Mary H. Perkins, professor i
of English, will act as toastmis
tress. Other speakers on the pro
gram will be Jesse Bond, profes
sor of business administration, and j
Miss Mildred Wharton, senior in
mathematics, w'ho will respond for
the initiates.
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Emerald Business Staff
Needs Several Workers
All students interested in solic
iting ads or doing office work next
term should hand in their applica
tion to Jack Gregg, advertising
manager of the Emerald, before
January 6.
Gregg announced that there
would be several positions open
later on ior office girls, copy writ
ers, and ad solicitors. However,
all applicants should see him be
I fere the next issue of the Emerald.
Yearling Reading
Contest Will Start
Officially at Noon
To Make Talks in Houses
Oil Campus To Stimulate
Interest in Contest
At noon today, in every house on
the campu3, speakers will announce
the official start of the freshman
leading contest for 1931. This con
test, sponsored jointly by the Uni
versity Co-op and the library for
the purpose of stimulating fresh
man interest in reading outside of
class work, offers prizes of $30,
$20, and $10 respectively for the '
three best essays on “Books I Have !
Read During the Year, and What
they Have Meant to Me.” Mrs. 1
Mabel E. McClain, circulation li- j
brarian, Miss E. Lenore Casford, |
periodical librarian, and Dr. C. V. j
Boyer, of the English department, I
will judge the manuscripts on the j
quantity and quality of books read, ;
as well as the student’s expression j
and perception of their contents, j
Janet Fitch won the 1930 contest
this fall.
Speakers are as follows: Vir- '
ginia Hartje, Alpha Beta Chi. Phi
Delt, S. A. E.; Cynthia Hall: Sig
ma Chi, Sigma Pi Tau,; Mary Bo- j
hoskey: Phi Sigma Kappa, Bache-;
lordon; Alice Wedemeyer: Sigma
Nu, Kappa Sigma; Eleanor Shee- j
ley: Chi Psi, Beta; Madeline Gil
bert: Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Al- |
pha Mu, Theta Chi; Billie East
man: Delta Tau Delta, A. T. O.
Joan Cox: Kappa Alpha Theta.
Alpha Xi Delta, Alpha Chi Omega;
Margaret Pollitt: Phi Mu, Delta
Zeta, Alpha Delta Pi; Nancy Suo
mela: Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi
Beta Phi, Kappa Delta; Dorothy i
Morgan: Chi Omega, Delta Gam
ma, Chi Delta; Charlene Purcell:
Tri-Delt, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha
Gamma Delta; Marjorie Bass: Al
pha Phi, Gamma Phi Beta, Zeta
Tau Alpha.
Court Named for
Albert E. Schroff
By Art Students
Faculty Member Honored
By Allied Arts League
For Work Done
The court in the entrance of the
school of architecture and allied
arts will be named Schroff court
after Albert E. Schroff, recent
professor in architecture, the Al
lied Arts league has decided. In
naming this court for Schroff the
art students are simply expressing
their appreciation for the wonder
ful work and help this man has
been to the school.
Professor Schroff became a fac
ulty member in the University in
1915 and has been an active mem
ber of the architecture school up
until two years ago, when he was
granted a leave of absence for
three years on account of ill
health. He was head of the paint
ing department, being himself a
notable painter.
It is the f>lan of the league to
place a stone bench in one end of
the court with a sentence in
bronze around the edge, which will
contain their sentiments toward
the professor whom they all ad
mire and respect greatly.
The work will be done entirely
by the students in the school of
architecture and allied arts. They
are working on a design for the
bench now, which they hope to
have finished the early part of
next term.
Emerakl-KORE
For 1930 Closed
Willi Big Review
All Headliners of Previous
Programs Featured on
Radio Broadcast
A radio parade, bringing before
the microphone in the studios of
the College Side Inn a list of head
liners of performances for the past
term, closed a most successful
“Oregon Daily Emerald of the Air”
series of student broadcasts for
1930 last night.
The girls’ trio, “Three Little
Warts,” the Harmony Twins, Mys
terious Mose, and the Emerald En
tertainers were only a few of the
artist3 of the evening. Musical
numbers that have proved espec
ially popular on past programs
were chosen for the most part in
making up last night’s program.
"Japanese Sandman” and “I’m
Yours” were well harmonized by
the girls’ trio, and the trio of the
opposite 6ex gave ever-popular
“That’s Grandma” and “Ding Dong
Daddy.”
Mysterious Mose, incognito solo
ist on previous radio hours, was
announced as Milton Thompson,
and he offered as his contribution
to the review “Roses of Yesterday.”
Maxine Glover, Kane-Etting blues
singer, chose “My Man From Caro
line” as her solo number.
Dale Brown and Wilbur Thi
bault, piano and violin duo, gave
their own arrangement of “Sweet
Sue.” These two boys also aided
Sheldon Dunning and Bruce Hig
by in turning out lively dance tunes
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One-Act Plays
Will Entertain
Prep Students
Department of University
To Dramatize Phases
Of College Life
‘Breaking of Calm’ Will Be
On Program Given for
Visiting Delegates
The College night entertainment
which is to be presented at Ger
linger hall for the benefit of the
visiting prep school students, Feb
ruary 9, will consist of a different
motif than that of past years,
Barney Miller, committee chair
man, announced last night. This
year the various departments of
the University will be given an
opportunity to put on acts repre
senting their particular phases of
college life.
“The Breaking of the Calm,’’ a
one-act play which is to be given
by the drama department under
the direction of Mrs. Ottilie Sey
bolt, will be one of the principal
features on the program. A box
ing bout, a tumbling act, numbers
by the men’s glee club, and the
greater proportion of the campus
musical talent have been secured,
also, Miller announced.
Skits Arranged
A burlesque on the “Capture of
Troy," and a second entitled “The
Charleston Tragedy,” will be in
cluded on the list of short skits
arranged for the evening.
The press conference, which is
under the joint chairmanship of
Harry Van Dine and Tony Peter
son, will include on its list of
speakers a number of prominent
journalists fend successful business
men. The program will be divided
into four groups: editors and man
agers of school papers and of an
nuals, and a number of the high
school students themselves will
speak before their respective
groups.
Entertainment for these four
groups will be in the hands of Sig
ma Delta Chi, men’s national jour
nalistic fraternity; Alpha Delta
Sigma, men’s advertising frater
nity; Theta Sigma Phi, women’s
journalistic fraternity, and Gamma
Alpha Chi, women’s advertising
fraternity.
The dean of women’s conference,
which is being sponsored by Pi
Lambda Theta, national education
honorary for women, will include
on its program an afternoon tea
to be held jointly with the Girls’
League officers, Connie Baker,
chairman, said yesterday. Assist
ing her on the dean’s conference
committee are Marjorie Swafford,
Betty Anne Macduff, Dorothy
Hughes, and Kathryn Fry and
Mrs. Veola Ross, Pi Lambda Theta
representatives.
Committees Named
Other committees include:
Entertainment — Barney Miller,
chairman; Mac Miller, production
manager;’ Walter Robbins, busi
ness manager; Wade Ambrose,
properties; Bob Klinkner, lights.
Press conference — Harry Van
Dine and Tony Peterson, chair
men; Dorothy Hughes, secretary;
Larry Jackson and Ted Montgom
ery.
Housing — Carson Mathews,
chairman: Betty Jones, secretary;
Julia Creech, Kathryn Brigham,
Marie Nelson, Elizabeth Gilstrap,
Lucille Weber, Josephine Potts,
Marian McIntyre, Dick Jackson,
Larry Bay, Treve Shawcross, and
Wally Palmer.
Registration—Margaret Tarbell,
chairman; Marian McIntyre, Gor
don Day, Eileen McIntyre, and
Wes Edwards.
Campus tour—Bill Price, chair
man; Bob Maguire, assistant;
Nancy Suomela, secretary. John
Meyer, Wes Stewart,. Evert Ream,
Glenn He°eber, Eugene IJarr, Har
old Birkenshaw, Edward Martin
dale, and John Adams.
Library To Remain Open
All Vacation Week Days
The University library will be
open each week day during the
holidays with the exceptions of
Christmas and New Year's, M. H.
Douglass, librarian, stated yester
day.
The library will be open from 8 a.
m. until 6 p. m. during the week
but will be closed on Sundays and
evenings.
Archery Grows
To Man’s Sport
/^RCHERY has left the rank
ing; of a feminine sport on the
eumpus and invaded the strong
hold of the men. With the for
mation of a four-man team at
the Phi Psi house, under the
leadership of Frank Kistner,
routes the unnouneement that
two teams have keen mustered
at Zeta hall to meet the chal
lenge.
The two Zeta hall aggrega
tions will meet In competition
Saturday night at Gray's indoor
archery range and the winner of
that mntch is scheduled to shoot
against the Phi Psi team Mon
day night.
Plans nre under way for a se
ries of tournaments next term,
according to A. Ralph Gray, pro
prietor of the range, and it is
planned to enter a team, picked
from among the competitors, in
the Olympic Bowman’s league
male shoot which starts early in
February,
Final Rehearsal
On 4The Messiah’
Is This Afternoon
Choir, Orchestra Combine
To Present Masterpiece
Of Handel’s
A final rehearsal tomorrow aft
ernoon will close preparations for
the performance of Handel’s “The
Messiah,” which the University
polyphonic choir and symphony or
chestra will unite to present in
the music auditorium Sunday aft
ernoon at 3 o’clock.
The group of about 200 students
which comprise the choir and the
orchestra have been rehearsing for
this major musical event of the
fall term for two months. Evi
dence of the interest which this
University performance is attract
ing in cities other than Eugene is
shown by orders for tickets which
have been received by mail from
Portland, Roseburg and Albany,
according to Arthur Boardman,
the director.
Meanwhile tickets may be pro
cured either at the Co-op or at
the office of the school of music.
Finals of Rhodes
Contest Continue
Robert F. Jackson, Oregon
Candidate Quizzed
The division final examination
for the Rhodes scholarship, in
which Robert F. Jackson, of Eu
gene, graduate student in physics
at the University, is one of the
state of Oregon candidates, was
still in progress at Spokane, Wash.,
at a late hour last night, word from
that city said.
Appointment of the four Rhodes
scholarship winners in this divis
ion, which includes the states of
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana, Wyoming, and North Dako
ta, will likely be made by officials
in the East and not announced at
Spokane at the conclusion of the
examination, the report received
here said.
$5000 Donated
To University
For Art Center
Oregon Gets Grant From
Carnegie Corporation
For Second Time
Money To Be Used During
Summer Session, Says
Dean Lawrence
The Carnegie Corporation at
New York City has granted $5000
for a renewal of the summer art
center to be held here during the
regular summer session, announc
ed E. F. Lawrence, dean of the
school of architecture and allied
arts, yesterday upon receiving an
official notice of the grant from
New York.
The fund has been established
under the direction of the Educa
tional Committee of the American
Institute of Architecture of which
Dean Lawrence is a member. This
ir the second year that the grant
has been given to hold an art cen
ter here at the University. Last
year was the beginning of this ex
periment in the West. Fourteen
university and normal school
teachers were invited from Mon
| tana, Idaho, Washington, and Ore
gon to attend the University. All
their expenses were paid and $100
was furnished each of them with
which to purchase teaching ma
terials.
This invitation is extended to
the teachers selected with the un
derstanding that courses in art ap
preciation are being given on the
campus from which they come. The
movement is sponsored by the Na
tional Architecture group for the
purpose of stimulating art appre
ciation on college campuses.
The University of Oregon is the
second school in the United States
to be granted the privilege of hav
ing such an art center, the one
ct^er similar session being held
every summer at Harvard univer
sity.
W. R. B. Willcox, head of the
architecture department will have
charge of the art session for this
coming summer.
Dr. Kiang Kang-Hu, head of the
department of Chinese studies at
McGill university, Montreal, Cana
da, who was on the campus last
year, will return again to attend.
W.A.A. Intramural
Fall Sports End
Winter Term Activities To
Start January 6
With the completion of the wo
men’s intramural all-star combats
ii- hockey, swimming, and volley
ball, the W. A. A. fall sporting sea
son drew to a successful close this
week, according to Jessie Puckett,
W. A. A. president.
The winter semester sports will
start on the second week after reg
istration, or beginning January
6. Speedball, managed by Dorothy
Goff, and coached by Miss Marjor
ie Landru, and basketball, manag
ed by Dorothy MacLean, and
coached by Miss Margaret Duncan
compose the events offered by W.
A. A. for winter term.
Six Sororities Will Entertain
Poor Children With Parties
Six sororities on the University
campus plan on giving- Christmas
parties for the poor children of
Eugene. Regular parties with all
the trimmings, Christmas trees,
candy canes, presents and a guar
anteed genuine Santa Claus, fol
lowed by a big chicken dinner with
all the fixings. After dinner the
sisters will entertain their little
guests with games, London bridge,
Ring Around the Rosie, Drop the
Handkerchief, and, of course
Christmas stories.
With these six houses it has be
come a yearly tradition to enter
tain poor children, whose names
are provided by the Eugene Red
Cross. Kappa Kappa Gamma, Al
pha Omicron Pi, Kappa Delta,
| Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Alpha
, Theta, and Sigma Kappa will have
| Christmas parties over the week
I end. }
i Last year at the Kappa house,
while the party was at the height
of its merriment, two little boys
called at the front door to sell
mistletoe. Although unexpected
guests, they were invited to join in
the hilarity of the occasion. They
were ragged and dirty, and their
hair hung down to their shoulders,
giving them a quaint effect. They
cursed volubly and often, so al
lege the sisters of Kappa Kappa
Gamma.
They criticized the party as be
ing slightly tame for their years,
but complimented the girls on their
choice of cake and chicken, which
articles they consumed in prodig
ious quantities, hile they sat back
comfortably in their satiety and
watched the progress of the cele
bration, four of the girls slipped
up on them from behind and start
ed to cut their hair. Although they
bit and scratched, too late they
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