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NUMBER 34 Faculty To Give Point System Consideratior Requirement Revision* To Be Effected Perplexing Question ol Computing Average May Be Settled That problem which has beer perplexing students ever since th« new grade system was announced early in the term—“How are grade points to be figured and what wili requirements be?”—will probablj be decided at the faculty meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in 110 Johnson hall. Restatement of faculty regula tions covering the granting of more than 16 hours credit, the junior certificate and the bache lor’s degree in the light of the new grading system is to be the main point of business. Will Consider Points The first item to come up will be the computing of grade points. Under the plan of five passing grades, five points were given from a I, and one point for a V. Wheth er to continue this method and give four points for an A and one for a D will be the question before the faculty. No point is given for a D at other institutions. What average will be required for the granting of more than 16 hours’ credit will be the second point for consideration. This will primarily be a problem of inter preting the former III average re quired in the new letters. It is ex pected that a certain grade point average will be required. Wording To Be Altered Wording of requirements for the junior certificate will be re-ex pressed under the third item to be taken up. At present it is required that “70 or more term hours be completed with a grade of IV or better.” This is also expected to be reworded in terms of grade points. Whereas the old requirement for graduation specified “186 term hours, of which 140 must be with the grade of IV or better,” it is expected that the new regulation will specify “the grade of C or better,” though this might also be translated into a grade-point av erage. Investigations Made It is understood that the aca demic .-requirements, scholarship, faculty legislation and institutional research committees have been making extensive investigations of the practices in other educational institutions and will have recom mendations to make in the light of the information thus gained. Uniformity with other institu tions was the aim sought in mak ing the change from the five to four grade systems. It is expected that other changes will be in the same line. Campus Will Give Team Big Sendoff At Villard Today HUGE rally will be held' to day at 12:30 at the Villard i station to give the team a good 1 send-off for the game Saturday with the U. C. L. A. Bruins, the “babies of the conference,” in the Olympic stadium at Los j Angeles. A battle is expected when the teams clash. This will be the last send-off rally for the team this year, as ! they will remain in California | for the Thanksgiving game with I St. Mary’s at San Francisco. Unless present arrangements i are changed, the rally will be at [ Villard station. If the plans are j altered, the rally committee will let the various living organi zations and campus authorities j know of the change. The University band will also be out to give the team the last taste of campus spirit they will receive before their California invasion and the end of the sea son. Seabeck Theme Features Meeting Topic of Y.W.C.A. L. Anderson, Conference Executive, Appears Before Group The “Seabeck Idea” was the theme for the second meeting of the Y. W. C. A. Upperclass com mission meeting, held last night at the bungalow. As this group has chosen Sea beck for its project, the program last night dealt with its different phases. Leila Anderson, traveling secretary for the Episcopal stu dent organization and member of the Seabeck executive committee, spoke on the general topic of Sea beck. Helen Chaney, president of the Y. W. C. A., and several others who have been to Camp Seabeck portrayed something of its atmos phere and background. Elizabeth Scruggs gave a read ing, and Nancy Thompson led Sea beck songs. Evangeline Miller, assisted by Clare Maertens, was in charge of the program. Virginia Hartje, president of the commission, urged that all girls co-operate in making this group more powerful and successful. BLUETT IN CALIFORNIA Charles Bluett, who received his master's degree in education at the University in 1925, has been Appointed to the California state department of education in the Bureau of Rehabilitation, accord ing to word received by Miss Ida May Pope, secretary of the Oregon Appointment bureau. Landsbury Is Non-Committal On Orchestra Appearances “How did those music tests come out, Dean? I mean the ones'you invented last year, and made me take every time I came up here to get any news.” The Emerald reporter was at it again. “Ask the psychology depart ment. Have a cigar—next time. All out, or I’d give you one, I feel that good-natured today.” Dean Landsbury looked good-natured, too. “What can you tell me about the concert Thursday night?” “Ask Rex Underwood.” “Can you tell me anything about anything today?” The reporter had been sent out to get a story, and he was going to get it. “Why don’t you ask me about something I know?” the dean par ried. “I’m going to play the Mo zart concerto in D minor with the orchestra, but that’s not much. It's not showy, as many concertos are. The piano is only one instru ment in the orchestra, not a solo instrument as in Rachmaninoff or Liszt works. The D minor is the best of Mozart’s works, many peo ple think, and I’m going to try to play it as Mozart himself would have wanted me to play it—the way he wrote it. That means that it will be graceful, tuneful, lively. There's little thunder in Mozart, and no one can cover up bad tech nical mistakes with loud banging on the keys. You either hit the notes, or you don’t. That’s all I have to say.” “Plenty,” the reporter smiled. “Remember—this concert is an orchestra concert, and not a solo by the dean. Their work will be worth hearing, as they are doing some very fine numbers; some numbers that will interest the stu dents; numbers that are close enough to jazz themes, odd enough to entertain them. But they are real music—that’s the difference. Come again. Goodbye.” “Goodbye.” And that was another story. When Dr. Landsbury’s exclusive story on his own concert appeared last night in another newspaper, the Emerald reporter called the dean while he was eating supper. The reporter was sure he could be reached at that time, if never again. “Have you any statement to make to the Emerald with regard to a signed story by yourself which appeared in a Eugene paper this evening, Dean Landsbury?” "None.” “Can’t you give me an idea to use in a story? I was assigned to (Continued on Page Two) Prexy Appoints N.S.F. A. Survey Committeemen Hall Heads Research on Student Government Body To Offer Suggestions After Year of Study on College Problems The appointment of a commit tee to work in conjunction with the National Student Federation of America to study problems in student government was an nounced today by Brian Mim naugh, student body president. Robert Hall, president of the jun ior class, was named chairman of the body, and those working under him are Ellen Sersanous, secre tary; Ned Kinney, Fred Hellberg, Carson Mathews, Hal Short, Ken neth McKean, Ed Bolds, and John Marrs. The purpose of the committee is to investigate various phases in student government at other schools with the view toward fur therance of intrastudent body re lations at the University of Ore gon. Will Study Problems The group will receive corre spondence from the National Stu dent federation and will study such problems as the University of Southern California is confronted with, the sale of student body tickets through an expensive cam paign rather than as a require ment for entrance to the Univer-. sity. Fullest cooperation to the local body has been extended by the Pacific Coast Student Presidents’ association, comprising the student body leaders of the major univer sities on the coast. All data will be checked by both organizations, and the results of the survey, along with recommendations for changes in the University of Ore gon, will be presented at the close of the year. Mimnaugh Favors Plan “This movement will present a decided advance in the student re lations problem and, we expect, will lead the way for better stu dent leadership on the coast. There are several similar bodies operat ing in eastern schools, where marked improvements have been noted,” stated Mimnaugh. Thermostat for Measuring. Low Temperature Installed New Piece of Equipment Added To Chemistry Laboratory A new piece of equipment known as a low temperature thermostat was recently installed in the labor atories of the chemistry depart ment, to be used in the continu ance of the studies on gels and properties of gelatine systems, ac cording to Leo Friedman, assist ant professor of chemistry. It is necessary that the tempera ture should be controlled, and with the aid of this new thermostat, it will be possible to maintain a constant temperature at any point below yoom temperature. This is accomplished by placing the ex pansion coil of a Frigidaire com pressor in a well insulated tank of water and controlling the stop ping and starting of the cooling system with electrical temperature regulator. With this addition to the other thermostatic equipment already possessed, the laboratory is now equipped to carry on these gel studies over a complete tempera ture range. Stephen D. Coleman and Drew W. Perkins, students doing grad uate work in the department, are assisting Mr. Friedman in this gel atine research. Cosmopolitan Club Will Initiate Students, Faculty Thirty-five people will be in- j itiated tonight into the Cosmopol- i itan club, a group of American and guest students on the campus. The initiation will take place at the International house at 7:45, under the direction of Eleanor Jane Bal- I lantyne, president. In addition to student members, several faculty members will be initiated tonight as advisers of the club. A social meeting will be held after the initiation for the new; members. Lage, Lyon Play For Music Fans At Auditorium Before a small yet attentive au dience last night another student recital was presented, this one giv en by Norma Lyon and Lenore Lage. For the most part the se lections were such as to show the performers’ ability to the best ad vantage. Mozart’s Sonata in A Major was the first number interpreted by Miss Lyon, a pupil of Jane Thach er, and was followed by Liszt's “Consolation.” Both Compositions were rendered with feeling and surety of touch which made them pleasing to the auditors. Miss Lage’s first group included "Selve Amiche,” Caldera, “Se tu m’ami,” “Pargolesi,” and “Chivuol la Zingarella,” by Paisiello. The clarity of tone and apparent ease with which these difficult pieces were accomplished was a credit both to the singer and to her in structor, Mr. Bryson. As might have been expected, the scintillating “Caprice Viennois” by Kreisler, and the melodious “Naiads at the Spring,” by Paul Juon, were the selections which seemed most pleasing to the audi ence. This was due partly to the intrinsic harmony of these master compositions, and largely to Nor ma Lyons’ skill in developing and bringing it out. Lenore Lage seemed to please most with her charming song, “If I Were a Rose,” a composition of Hesselberg’s. Alice Holmbach was accompan ist to Miss Lage. The next recital will be that of Miss L'ois Johnson, another student of Jane Thacher, some time next week. Posters in Health Week Competition Due Noon Today Week’s Best Sorority Menu To Receive Alden Cup Prize Friday All competitors in the poster contest for Health week should turn in their posters by noon to day at the women’s physical edu cation office. The prize for the winner is a two weeks’ pass to the Fox McDonald theatre, presented by the management. The Alden cup for the best sorority menu during Health week, won last year by Beta Phi Alpha, ; will be presented Friday at a tea ^ which all women on the campus are invited to attend. House man- j agers are to turn in their menus to Virginia Hunter, general chair- j man, by noon today at the Alpha ! Chi Omega house. Ten Teams nay Ten teams have entered the vol leyball competition, v/ith three new ones playing yesterday. Kappa Delta is in the lead with two vic tories, after defeating Alpha Gam ma Delta. The standing of the teams: Won Lost Kappa Delta . 2 Delta Zeta . 1 Independents . 1 Pi Beta Phi . 1 Alpha Chi Omega . 1 Alpha Gamma Delta. 1 Delta Delta Delta . 0 Kappa Kappa Gamma.... 0 Susan Campbell . 0 Alpha Omicron Pi . 0 Games Slated Today Games scheduled for today at 5 i’clock are: Kappa Delta vs. Alpha 2hi Omega; Susan Campbell hall ys. Alpha Gamma Delta; Delta Seta vs. Delta Delta Delta. Al though the 5 o’clock hour is taken, james may be arranged at 4 >’clock by calling Mae Masterton. Considerable interest is being shown in the individual ping-pong iadder tournament. All University ivomen are invited to attend open louse from 4 to 6 o’clock at Ger linger hall. Besides playing ping pong and volleyball, the swimming pool will be open, or the girls may iearn badminton. Women’s Houses 6:3Q-7:3oTonight will be the slogan for the dime crawl tills evening at every women’s living organiza tion on the campus from 6:80 to 7 :S0. Proceeds from the tra ditional fall term A. W. S. dance will go to the foreign scholar fund. House represent atives must take the money from their houses to Louise Ansley at the Delta Gamma house directly following the event. Hungarian To Tell Of His Country’s Aid to Civilization Herr M. Fischer Is Sent By Endowment Fund For World Peace “H u n g a r y’s Contribution to World Civilization” will be the sub ject of an illustrated lecture by Herr M. Fischer of Budapest, Hun gary, tomorrow night at 8 o’clock in Villard assembly. All students, faculty members, and Eugene people interested in international relations are invited to attend, according to Miss Mar garet Hammerbacher, president of the campus International Relations club, which is sponsoring Herr Fischer's appearance here. No admission will be charged. Give Dime Crawl r ui uu ^caia, ncn istuci wa.a in the service of the Hungarian state railways. For several months he has been touring the United States, speaking before the va rious International Relations clubs sponsored by the Carnegie Endow ment for International Peace. “Herr Fischer is especially well qualified to discuss the contribu tion of south-central Europe to civilization and to world prob lems,” Professor Victor P. Morris, faculty member of the University International Relations club, said yesterday. "He is a thoroughgo ing authority on the subject of European railroads. He has trav eled extensively and is well ac quainted, particularly in the Bal kan areas.” The Hungarian railroad man has been in the United States but a few months, but he speaks Eng lish fluently, Professor Morris added. Reports from other Inter national Relations clubs which have sponsored his address are en thusiastic in their praise of the speaker. Four To Become Members Of Business Ad Honorary Beta Gamma Sigma, men’s na tional scholastic honorary in busi ness administration has announced the pledging of four new members. The new pledges are Carl Coad, Cove; John Goplerud, Silverton; Sam Mitchell, Junction City; and Robert McCormach, Pendleton. These men were chosen because of outstanding scholastic achieve ment in business administration courses. Roy E. Brown, president of Beta Gamma Sigma, announced that formal initiation will be held Sunday morning at 8 o’clock in Gerlinger hall and will be followed by a breakfast. Alfred Lomax Present at Session of Trade Board Professor Alfred L. Lomax, for eign trade instructor in the school of business administration, took a trip to Portland last Friday to at tend a meeting of the foreign trade advisory board. This board is made up of business men inter ested in foreign trade and in the relation of the students to the field. NOMINATION BLANK Emerald-Colonial Theatre Co-ed Popularity Contest Write in the name of the co-ed you wish to nominate for this contest: Name . Address . Cut out nomination blank and drop in ballot box inside Old Library before 6 p. m. Thursday, November 19. The ten co-eds receiving largest number of nominations will be entered in the con test. Varsity Debate Tryouts Slated Next Tuesday Seven Chosen To Enter Forensic Contest Wage Cut Question Topic Of Arguments This Year; Rules Announced Tryouts for varsity debate have been postponed until Tuesday eve ning, November 24, at Villard hall Drawings for place will begir promptly at 7:15. Each contest ant will prepare in advance tc speak on the subject, “Resolved That the cutting of wages has ma terially retarded recovery from the present depression. So far only seven students have signed up to enter the contest Gordon Day, John Adams and Roj McMullen are on the affirmative side and Wallace Campbell, Ed Mortindale, George Bennett and Thomas Tongue are on the nega tive. All others who expect to take part must sign up in the speech offices at once. The rules for the tryouts are: The first negative and the first affirmative will speak four to five minutes. Two to three minutes will be allowed for rebuttals. They will be followed by the other speakers, who will speak six min utes, alternating affirmative and negative. No fixed number of men will be on the varsity squad this year. Every candidate who shows abil ity to speak, to grasp an organized argument, and to meet opposing contentions will be assigned to the varsity sljuad and given an oppor tunity for varsity debating if his subsequent work warrants. Burton To Speak Before Men’s Educational Group U. of Chicago Professor To Talk Russian Teaching Plan Dr. William Burton, national authority on supervisions of insti tutions, now on leave from the University of Chicago, will be the main speaker at the Phi Delta Kappa, men’s national profession al education fraternity, meeting at 6 o’clock tonight at the Green Lan tern. Dr. Burton will illustrate his topic, “Russia and Its Educa tion,” with pictures taken during his recent trip in Russia. Dr. Burton is a former Oregon ian and a graduate of the Univer sity of Oregon. Many school principals and su perintendents from outside cities have indicated that they will be present for the meeting, according to I. A. Mather, president of Phi Delta Kappa. A business meeting following the address will conclude the program for the evening. Russian Student Here Is Making Asia Relief Map Andrew Isotoff Works in Special English Course Andrew Isotoff, a Russian youth who is taking special work in the English department, is at present engaged in making a large relief map of Asia. Mr. Isotoff has tak en several courses in geography here at the University of Oregon. Much of the information that he is using in his map is not written in English but must be translated from Russian and other languages. He is spending part of his time making translations from Russian for S. Stephenson Smith, associate professor of English. In making this map Isotoff is using the latest geographical ma terial, some of which has to be translated from material published in other languages. Following the World war Mr. Isotoff traveled through Asia and made a study of this country, thus obtaining much information help ful to him in the construction of his map. NINE AT INFIRMARY The grand total of nine patients has broken all previous records this year at the infirmary. Six new members, Helen Nelson, Helen Parish, Clarence Nicholas, Har riette Chase, Charles Marshall and Bob Riddle, were added to the roll call. Jack Chase, Earl Parker and Fred Staver are still confined. Questioned! Ied ENGLESTADl E CK HAMM EH JILL BYlNGTDNl The above four Oregon State football players, whose past com petition records are being placed in some doubt und whose clean slate is attested to by O. S. C. authorities. Four Professors To Speak Before Conclave at Reed Northwestern Conference Of International Clubs To Meet Soon Four University of Oregon pro fessors will be among the 19 con ference leaders and speakers at the fourth annual session of the Northwest Students’ International conference, scheduled for Novem ber 27 and 28 at Reed college. The conference is being conducted un der the auspices of the Carnegie (Continued on Page Four) Dean Faville Announces Pre-Registration Period Dates Are November 16 to 25; Rush Eliminated The school of business adminis tration is holding a pre-registra tion period for winter term, it was announced yesterday by Dean Da vid E. Faville. This pre-registra tion period started Monday, No vember 16, and will la3t until No vember 25. All business students are given the opportunity to avoid the rush i of winter term registration and : see their advisers during the next | two weeks. The students who hold their consultations now will merely have to have their schedules check i ed on winter term registration day. Since there are 500 students ma joring in business administration, this system of pre-registration will tend to lessen the difficulties of registration week and make j consultations between advisers and students more satisfactory. Ap pointments for students will be arranged In 205 Commerce. I O.S.C. Denies Rumors About Ineligible Men Stories Said To Have Started Downtown Hammer, Byington, Rust. Englestad Included In Charges By WALT BAKER Downtown rumors that came tc I a head last night concerning the reputed ineligibility of four Ore. gon State first-string football mer were refuted en toto by officials at the State college. The facts of the story of the four-year competition of Bill By ington, Buck Hammer, Reg Rust and Ed Englestad, O. S. C. regu lars, while they were released from Eugene, were not the findings of University officials, or anyone hav ing connections with the school. in a leiepnone conversation wmi the Barometer last night, infor mation given from there refuting the charges was as follows: Bill Byington, Ed Englestad and Buck Hammer have just finished their third year of varsity compe tion and any information given out in Corvallis would seem to dis charge all clouds hanging over these three players. Reg Rust played at Santa Anna Junior college in 1927 and at East ern Oregon Normal in La Grande in 1928; and laid out his first year at Oregon State (1929) and played for that school in 1930 and 1931, according to the word from Cor vallis. Ed Englestad says that this is only his third year of varsity com petition at Oregon State and that he has not attended any other like school. Oregon State officials were unaware of the fact that he was included in the group of ques tionable players. The alleged records that formed the basis of the rumors are as fol low: (Continued on Page Four) American Speech Prints Article by Leavitt Wright The October number of “Ameri can Speech” contains a short arti cle written by Professor Leavitt O. Wright of the department of Romance languages. The article deals with the phrase “and what have you?”, so current in the Northwest. Mr. Wright took part in the dis cussion of a paper by Professor Pound of the University of Nebras ka which was read at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America held in Washington, D. C., last December, and this con tribution presents his argument against the contention of a Far Eastern professor that the phrase under discussion is the equivalent of "gadget.” Oregonian Publishes Article On World Expense by Mez (A chart by Dr. Me/, showing the amounts expended for arm aments last year by 40 leading nations appears on the buck page). A chart prepared by Dr. John Ii. Mez, professor of economics and political science in the Univer sity, from figures taken from the League of Nations armaments yearbook in which are represented the expenditures for the last fiscal year of the world’s 40 leading na tions, shows that the total amount spent is $4,157,931,958, and that the United States leads all the na tions in military expenditures with the sum of $707,425,000. The chart was printed in last Sunday’s Morning Oregonian and was accompanied by an article by Professor Mez. In this article, he pointed out that the sum of $707, 425,000 spent by the United States alone, does not include pensions, nor interest payments on war debts, nor appropriations for vet erans, nor the unpaid war loans J given to Europe. However, the j high figure of American military expenditures is explained, to some extent, by the higher prices pre vailing in this country, he said. "It is seen in the chart that j Russia follows in second place I with $578,000,000. France is third with nearly $467,000,000, and Great Britain fourth with about $465, 000,000. This figure has been re duced in the new British budget, but if the British dominion expend itures are added, the English era-, pire spends more than a quarter billion dollars a year each, for their military establishments," the arti cle states. Dr. Mez believes that the crush ing burden of world armaments should be speedily removed. Speak ing further on the economic bur den of huge armaments, he con tinues: “Repeated efforts have been made to reduce the colossal waste of wealth and energy in our present civilization called forth by the preparation of war. The League of Nations has in the past five years prepared a draft treaty for international armament re duction. The United States has materially contributed toward na val limitation since the Washing ton. disarmament conference held in 1921. The universal acceptance in 1929 of the Kellogg pact for the outlawing of war has helped to pave the way for an actual reduc tion of armaments. “But the greatest hope for the ultimate perfection of international organization rests with the League of Nations, which has become an (Continued on Page Two)