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NUMBER 35
Phi Beta Kappa
Announces List
Of ‘Senior Six’
Scholastic Honors Bring
Mention by Society
^Mueller Named New Head
Of Oregon Chapter of
Scholar’s Group
Students elected as the “Senior
Six" for the fall of 1931 by Oregon
Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
at the meeting yesterday after
noon are:
Mary Katherine Fenton, Eng
lish.
Elizabeth Shields Hall, English.
Arthur Paul Ireland, law.
Thelma Eleanor Lund, educa
tion.
David Carnahan Williams, math
ematics.
Margaret Elaine Williams, biol
ogy
“Election to ‘Senior Six’ is the
highest academic honor granted
undergraduates during the Univer
^ sity year,” Dr. John H. Mueller,
newly elected president, comment
ed in announcing the selections.
“Scholarship is the principal qual
ity considered, although character
| shown in work is cnosidered.”
Dean Rebec Elected
Officers elected at the meeting
are Dr. Mueller, president; Dean
George Rebec, vice-president; Mary
E. Kent, secretary-treasurer; Mrs.
Marion F. McClain and Ronald H.
R o b n e 11, executive committee;
Clifford L. Constance, new mem
ber of nominating committee.
Mrs. Richard Kriebel, formerly
Ruth Miller, was named represent
ative of the Oregon chapter at the
celebration of the 150th anniver
sary of Alpha chapter of Massa
chusetts to be held at Harvard
university on December 5. The
Harvard chapter is one of the old
est of the academic honorary. It
is expected that practically all of
the more than 114 chapters will
be represented.
Revisions to the constitution of
Oregon chapter were adopted at
the meeting and will be announced
later, it was said by Miss Kent.
A bulletin giving detailed explana
tion of the requirements for elec
tion to the s.ociety and to honors
^conferred by it is expected to be
issued later.
Play Will Be Presented by
Campus Spanish Club
"El Criado Astuto,” a Spanish
playlet, will be presented by La
Corrida de Todos, the campus
Spanish club, tonight at 7:30 at
Westminster house. The members
of the cast are Doris Stamps, La
drew Moshberger, and Robert W.
Wilson.
Following the playlet, the club
will listen to a radio program
broadcast from Mexico. Announc
ing over this station is in both
English and Spanish.
Concluding the program, the
members will sing a variety of
Spanish songs.
All students or former students
of Spanish are invited to attend.
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Pictures Needed
For Extra Pages
Of NewOregana
LICK,., click — you’re ..cap
turedl What for?—the 1932 ;
Oregana, of course.
Word has come that the good
year book is again clamoring
for snapshots and pictures to
make the snap-shot section of
the Oregana the peppiest little
place in the whole periodical, !
and now is the time to dig up
those seremingly funny pictures
you took this summer of the
girl friend in old clothes' or
yourself on that camping trip
to the beach, mountains, or
where were you. Then, with the
other hand full of campus snaps
from last spring or this fall, ;
rush down to the Journalism i
shack where Jack Bellinger will I
be waiting for you with open
arms (for the snaps, you under
stand!). Jack is the school year
editor and wants a lot of good,
clear, pepy snaps.
Then the next thing is to wait
till the Oregana comes out next
spring and, well—you’ll be sur
prised!
Speaks Tonight
Herr M. Fischer, from Budapest,
Hungary, who will speak tonight
at 8 o’clock in Villard hall assem
bly on “Hungary’s Contribution to
World Civilization.”
Herr M. Fischer
To Speak Tonight
At 8:00 in Yillard
Hungarian Railway Officer
To Tell Contribution
Of His Country
Herr M. Fischer, international
railway welfare worker of Buda
pest, Hungary, is to lecture on
“Hungary’s Contribution to World
Civilization,” tonight at 8 o’clock
in Villard hall assembly. The talk
will be illustrated with motion pic
tures and lantern slides.
“Herr Fischer brings to the cam
pus a view of international rela
tions from a new angle, “Professor
Victor P. Morris, of the economics
department, said. “He is a loyal
Hungarian but able to take an ob
jective attitude toward the vital
problems which must be solved be
fore conditions in Europe can be
stabilized.”
A graduate of the Politecnica!
university of Budapest, he has for
30 years been connected with the
Hungarian state railways. His in
tense interest in the welfare move
ment among railway employees
has taken him to many countries,
including visits to England, Italy,
and Uruguay, and he has, of
course, traveled extensively
through t£e Balkan states.
“Herr Fischer is personally in
terested in students as individuals
as well as in the work of the In
ternational Relations clubs as a
whole,” Professor Morris added.
“He is always willing to answer
questions regarding his country
and its relations to its neighbors.”
Under the auspices of the Car
negie Endowment for International
Peace, Herr Fischer came to the
United States recently to lecture
before International Relations
clubs, sponsored by the foundation
in the various colleges and univer
sities of the United States. The'
local International Relations club
invites all students, faculty mem
bers, and Eugene people interested
in international relations to attend
his lecture here. No admission
will be charged.
Last night, Herr Fischer spoke
before the International Relations
club of Oregon State college in
Corvallis on “Economic and Cul
tural Life in Hungary.”
He will be entertained at dinner
tonight by Dr. John R. Mez, of the
department of economics and po
litical science.
Claire To Discuss Fault of
International Arbitration
Fortnightly Club Meeting Is Set
For Thursday Noon
“Why international arbitration
is not as successful as it might
be’’ will be the general topic of
Prof. Guy S. Claire of the school
of law in speaking to the Fort
nightly club at the Osburn hotel
this afternoon.
Mr. Claire bases his arguments
on “the fact that there are too
many reservations in actual cases
that could not come before an ar
bitration board.” The existence of
the world court is proof of this
i fact, he contends.
As opposed to arbitrable ques
| tions of points of international law.
i the greatest reservation that
| stands in the way of arbitration is
the question of "national honor
I and vital interest,” he believes.
Mr. Claire will utilize current in
i temational events in presenting
i his topic.
Fall Concert of Orchestra
To Commence at 8:15 P.M.
■
Tonight at 8:15 the University
orchestra will open its fall concert,
featuring Dr. John J. Landsbury,
dean of the school of music, as
piano soloist. Rex Underwood will
direct the performance of the 65
I piece organization. Modern and
| classical music will be included.
Admission to students will - be
only 25 cents, while admission to
the faculty and townspeople will
be 50 cents. The money will go
into the instrument and scholar
ship fund of the orchestra, as part
of the funds of an A. S. U. O. ac
tivity.
Members Listed
Members of the orchestra are:
Concert master—Howard Hal
bert.
Violins—Frances Brockman, Jo
sephine Chapmar^ Frances Ever
son, Larry Fisher, Howard Hal
bert, George Kotchik, Leo Lohik
oski, Delbert Moore, Peggy Swee
ney, John Caswell, James Dutton,
Lois Howe, Kamilla Klekar, Vivian
Malone, Ruth Metzler, Alice Mor
gan, Mary Mischler, Lelia Neigh
bors, and Thelma Lund.
Violas—Ruth Breitmeyer, Roma
Gross, Beulah Gore, Arthur Olson,
Martha Patterson, Evelyn Schmidt,
Beulah Wynd, and Douglas Orme.
Cellos—Roberta Spicer, Miriam
Stafford, Corinne Combs, and
Helen Gorrell.
String basses—Mike Gross, Wil
liam Holman, Delos Parks, Hu
bert Totton, and Siegfried von
Berthelsdorf.
Wind Instruments
Horns—Myron Blackwell, Ralph
Coie, Mervin Rodda, and John
Stehn.
Trombones—James Hartley, Ray
Hardman, and Jack Frisch.
Trumpets—Bill Sievers, Charles
Woodin, and Leslie Ervine.
DEAN LANDSBURY
Flutes—Victor Bryant, Bob Wal
den, and Jane Burke.
Oboe—Vernon Wiscarson.
Clarinets—Jay Wilson, Warren
Weber, and Dick Fields.
Bassoons—John Finley and Har
riett Talcott.
Tympani—Martin Geary.
Harp—Doris Helen Patterson.
Four Numbers on Program
Geary will be assisted by sev
eral other men on the percussion
instruments during the perform
ance of “The Sorcerer’s Appren
tice.”
The program for the concert
will consist of Gomez’s overture
to “II Guarany," Dukas’s “The
Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” the Mo
zart concerto in D minor, with
Dr. Landsbury as soloist, and
Haydn’s “Symphony No. 2.”
Brooke, Bennett,
Root Win Prizes
In Book Contest
Judges Report Competition
For Honors Close
This Year
James Brooke, sophomore in
pre-medics and editor of the lit
erary section of the 1932 Oregana,
was yesterday announced as the
winner of the freshman reading
prize contest conducted this year
for the fourth consecutive time by
the University library and the Co
op book store.
The first prize is an order for
$30 worth of books to be chosen
from the book balcony of the Co
op and was awarded to Brooke
for his paper entitled "Books I
Read Last Year and What They
Meant To Me.”
George Root, second-year jour
nalism major and a special writer
on the Emerald, was awarded sec
ond prize, an order for $20 worth
of books, for the next best paper
on the same subject, and George
Bennett, sophomore in economics
and vice-president of the Oregon
Yeomen, received the third prize
of a $10 order.
Judges for the contest reported
that the papers entered in the
competition this year were partic
ularly good, according to M. H.
Douglass, University librarian. The
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Faculty Will Decide
On Grade Averages
New Certificate and Graduation
Requirements To Be Set
Members of the faculty will
meet this afternoon at 4 o’clock
in room 110 Johnson hall, to vote
on revised regulations to cover the
grade point system as it will op
erate under the four passing grade
plan. Other minor business may
come up.
The items to be considered cover
the averages to be required for
granting more than 16 term hours
of credit, for awarding the junior
certificate and for giving the
bachelor degree. The require
ments are expected to be expressed
in grade point averages.
The change to the four passing
grade system was made this fall
in conformity with a recommen
dation of the committee which in
vestigated Oregon higher educa
tional institutions last year. It
will put the University on a uni
form plan with other institutions
throughout the country.
Sigma Delta Chi
Names Oregonian
National Official
May Honored at Conclave
Of Journalism Group;
Oregon Places High
By RALPH DAVID
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 18.
—(Special to the Emerald.)—The
Pacific coast and the University
of Oregon were signally honored
by the selection of Walter W. R.
May, associate editor of the Port
land Oregonian, as executive coun
cilor of Sigma Delta Chi, profes
sional journalism fraternity, at the
seventeenth national convention in
session here today. Mr. May is
an associate member of the Ore
gon chapter of Sigma Delta Chi.
Oregon placed eighth in effi
ciency and thirteenth in profes
sional achievement among the 44
chapters represented at the con
vention. The chapter was espe
cially commended before the as
sembled delegates for the excel
lence of its books and the appear
ance of its exhibit.
Pacific coast journalism re
ceived further recognition when
Fremont Older, editor of the San
Francisco Call-Bulletin, was elect
ed to honorary membership in the
fraternity—an award given yearly
for distinguished newspaper serv
ice.
Ralph David, president of the
campus chapter of Sigma Delta
Chi, is attending the national con
vention of the professional jour
nalism fraternity, in Minneapolis, j
as Oregon’s representative.
House Heads
Flay Emerald
Co-ed Contest
Popularity Nominations
Cancelled as Result
Organization Terms Event
Detrimental to Spirit
Of Friendliness
The heads of women's houses on
the campus unanimously voted not
to support the co-ed popularity
contest being sponsored by the
Emerald and Colonial theatre at
a meeting held yesterday, Janice
Hedges, president, announced to
the Emerald last night.
"As a result of this decision the
contest will be called off,” Bill
Duniway, editor of the Emerald,
stated, “as neither the Emerald
nor the Colonial theatre wish to
spons'or anything which will not
meet with the approval and inter
est of the students.”
Competition Declared Unfair
The opinion was expressed at
the meeting of the heads of houses
that such a contest would be det
rimental to the spirit of friendli
ness among women’s organiza
tions on the campus. It was felt
that such competition was really
not fair in every sense of the word,
as after all it would be difficult
to honestly decide the most popu
lar girl on the campus. As a re
sult it was unanimously voted not
to support it.
The popularity contest was to
begin tomorrow with the an
nouncement of the candidates. Stu
dents on the campus since Wednes
day have been handing in their
choice for a candidate in the bal
lot box placed inside the old li
brary. It was planned to select
the ten co-eds receiving the high
est number of nomination blanks
as participants in the contest. It
was to last until December 18, at
which time the winner would be
announced.
Brown Regrets Disapproval
“I'm very sorry that this con
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New Volumes Increase
Business School Library
Many Interesting Titles Appear on
Reading Shelf
The school of business adminis
tration library has several inter
esting new books on its “free read
ing shelf.” This shelf is maintained
to give opportunity to students for
supplementary reading on fields of
business outside of regular text
book assignments. Books on this
shelf may be taken out for a week.
There are many interesting titles
among the new books. “The Story
of the Films” contains a series of
lectures by such well known pro
ducers of motion pictures as Cecil
B. de Mille, William Fox, Adolph
Zukor, and Jesse L. Lasky. “Fifty
Hand Picked Stocks” and "Invest
ment Policies That Pay” offer
some sound advice for the would
be speculator. “The Story of Mon
ey” should prove interesting in
these times of abandoning the gold
standard.
“J. C. Penney, the Man With a
Thousand Partners,” “The Making
of a Merchant,” and "Selling by
Telephone” should find readers
among prospective merchandisers.
Other titles are “King Cotton Is
Sick,” Business Adrift,” Peru
From the Air,” and “They Told
Barron.”
U.ofO. Debaters Even Score
By Victory Over Philippines
By DAVE WILSON
MANILA, P. I., October 19.—
; (Special to the Emerald)—A debit
entry of four years’ standing has
been removed from the Univer
sity of Oregon’s international de
bating ledger. When the Pacific
Basin good-will debate team de
feated a University of the Philip
pine’s forensic trio on the night of
j October 13, the score was evened
between the two universities. *
Four years ago, when the Ore
gon round-the-world debating team
visited Manila, a University of the
Philippines team won an audience
decision from them on the Philip
pine independence question. This
year’s team was more successful
i with a somewhat similar question:
* i
“Resolved: That Imperialism is a
benefit,” Oregon affirmative.
The S. Ft. O. sign was out on the
night of the debate and hundreds
of people were unable to get into
'he hall. However, they had the
option of hearing the debate over
the radio, for an impressive bat
tery of stage microphones put the
proceedings on the air over station
KZR.M, Manila’s most powerful
broadcasting station, and reports
of reception have drifted in from
Australia, Japan and the Straits
settlements.
After the decision of the five
distinguished judges had been an
nounced at exactly 12:22 a. m. on
the night of the debate, George C.
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What Next ?
(EDITORIAL)
"Y^^TIAT sort of student government does Oregon have
when a man may hold an important appointment from
the president of the student body and still NOT BE REGIS
TERED IN TIIE UNIVERSITY?
Carson Mathews, chairman of the rally committee this
fall by appointment of Brian Mimnaugh, A. S. IT. O. presi
dent. has never been a student in the University this term,
and therefore has never, at any time, been eligible to hold
the appointment he has enjoyed these past seven weeks.
This is a serious state of affairs. Are we to assume from
tins case that there might he other appointees in the student
administration who are not enrolled in the University and
therefore not eligible to hold their offices?
“1 didn't know that Mathews wasn't regularly en
rolled. I have seen him around the campus frequently and
just assumed that he was a student. lie didn't say any
thing to me about it." This was Mimnaugh's defense last
night when the Emerald laid its revelations before him. A
pretty weak defense when there are many ways open, as
the Emerald found yesterday, to determine if a student is
enrolled in school or not.
The spoils system has long been an odious feature of
campus polities. Mathews’ appointment as rally committee
chairman, although lie was not eligible for the job, is an
other case of spoilsmen getting into office. Mathews engi
neered and managed the noisy rally parade for Mimnaugh
last spring term on the eve of student body elections so
well that he received the campus rally appointment this fall
in return. A man in position to know volunteered this in
formation to the Emerald yesterday.
ARE WE TO LET THIS SORT OP THING GO ON?
Phi Theta Upsilon
To Present Party
For Pliilomelete
Janet Osborne Announces
Affair for November 21
At Craftsman Club
Final preparations for the
Thanksgiving party sponsored by
Phi Theta Upsilon, junior-senior
women's service honorary, for the
Philomelete hobby groups are now
well under way with the announce
ment of the committees by Janet
Osborne, vice-president of the hon
orary and chairman for the annual
event.
The party will be held Saturday,
November 21, from 3 to 5 at the
Craftsman club. All women who
are interested in the hobby groups
but have not attended any meet
ings are urged by Helen Evans,
president of Phi Theta Upsilon, to
be present at this get-together.
The committee of Phi Theta Up
silon mebmers who are assisting
Miss Osborne are Eleanor Loner
gan, who will announce the pro
gram; Aimee Sten, who is in
charge of invitations and Gwendo
lyn Caverhill, chairman of the dec
oration committee.
Skits and stunts, which are to
be part of the afternoon’s enter
tainment, are being prepared by
the drama, music, travel, folklore,
arts and crafts, and prose and
poetry groups. Music for dancing
and singing will be furnished by
the music group.
Members of the charm school
group are to be hostesses for the
afternoon and they will register
all the women attending. The In
ternational Relations group is in
charge of the patronesses. The
decorations and refreshments will
be taken care of by the nature
study and the woman in her sphere
groups, respectively.
The list of invited guests fol
lows; Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering,
Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, Mrs. Max
well Adams, Miss Margaret Ed
munson, Mrs. Henry D. Sheldon,
Mrs. Kenneth Shumaker, Mrs. Karl
W. Onthank, Miss Eula Duke, Mrs.
Prince L. Campbell, Mrs. Arnold
Bennett Hall, Mrs. Charlotte R.
Donnelly, Mrs. Sally Elliot Allen,
Mrs. Alice Ernst, Miss Marian
Lowry, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson and
Dr. Clara M. Smertenko, members
of Mortar Board, senior women’s
honorary, and all Big Sisters.
Bailey Chosen Advertising
Manager of Old Oregon
The appointment of Roger Bai
ley as advertising manager of Old
Oregon, alumni magazine, has just
been announced by Jeannette Calk
ins, alumni secretary.
Mr. Bailey is a junior in business
administration and a member of
Phi Delta Theta and Alpha Delta
Sigma. He was business manager
of the Oregana last year and was
reappointed to that position this
year by the publications commit
tee of the A. S. U. O.
Oregon Alumnus
To Speak Before
National Conclave
MacGregor Will Represent
U. of O. at Inter-Frat
Council Meet
John MacGregor, '23, of New
York City, will represent the Uni
versity of Oregon at the confer
ence of the National Interfrater
nity council to be held in that city
on November 27 and 28.
A committee of five undergrad
uates, appointed by Virgil D. Earl,
dean of men, has prepared a list
of problems confronting fraterni
ties on this campus, which is to be
sent to MacGregor and brought up
for discussion at the national ses
sion. The committee consists of
Jim Dezendorf, chairman; Cliff
Beckett, Charles LalM, Thornton
Gale, and Herold Kinzell.
The quentions propounded by
the Oregon committee are as fol
lows:
What methods are used on other
campuses to force upperclassmen
to live in the fraternity houses?
On what basis are intercampus
iterfraternity social activities car
ried on and of what do they con
sist?
How generally are praeceptors
used and what is their success ?
Beta Psi Alpha Concludes
Homecoming Celebration
Accounting Honorary To Make
Lunch Annual Event
The local chapter of Beta Alpha
Psi, second oldest accounting hon
orary In the country, has decided
to make Homecoming luncheon an
annual event, so successful was the
affair given the alumni members
last Saturday, Ernest Alne, presi
dent, said last night.
While the active chapter Is small
because there are few accounting
majors in the business administra
tion school, the contacts establish
ed at the meeting were highly sat
isfactory to the alumni members.
Phil Janney, of Portland, was
toastmaster at the luncheon. There
were no speeches, which contrib
uted to the immediate success of
the venture, in the opinion of Rolf
Bodcjing, vice-president, who was
in charge of the arrangements. In
formal remarks took the place of
after-dinner sermons on business.
Wally and Kenny sang popular
songs during the meal, and the
Oregon Yeomen quartet gave sev
eral Oregon songs.
J. D. Leo, Portland head of Has
kin and Sells, national accounting
firm, Spencer Collins, Eugene ac
countant, and Phil Janney, profes
sor in the University extension de
partment in Portland, and other
prominent Oregon C. P. A.’s were
present.
INFIRMARY HAS FOUR
Four students are ill in the in
firmary. They are Bob Riddell,
Helen Parish, Harriette Chase, and
Charles Marshall.
Mathews Out
As Rally Head,
Band Manager
Campus Political Head
Found Not Student
Mimnaugh Avers Complete
Ignorance of Affair;
Campus Deceived
After serving practically a term
as chairman of the rally commit
tee and in other student offices,
Carson Mathews
y e s t e rday was
declared auto
5 matically ineligi
l ble to hold asso
' elated student
I' positions when it
was revealed that
he is not a stu
dent in the Uni
versity.
Mathews is not
enrolled in the
Carson Mathews University this
term, it was definitely learned in
checking with the registrar’s of
fice to verify a chance remark
made by a student at the rally
yesterday. He took out his ma
terial at the beginning of the term
but did not complete registration,
it was said by a clerk in the reg
istrar's office.
Mlmnaugh Takes Stand
“If he isn't in school, he is auto
matically out as a member of stu
dent committees,” Brian Mim
naugh, student president, stated
when told of the registrar’s con
firmation of the report.
“I didn’t know that Mathews
wasn’t regularly enrolled,” the
president continued. "I have seen
him around the campus frequently
and just assumed that he was a
student. He didn’t say anything
to me about it.”
Efforts to reach Mathews at his
home and fraternity house last
night were futile.
Mathews was also manager of
the University band and Monday
was appointed a member of the
committee to work with the
National Student Federation of
America to study problems of stu
dent government. He has also
been active in student politics dur
ing the past two years.
Constitution Quoted
No provision is made in the A.
S. U. O. constitution for eligibil
ity for positions on special com
mittees, but it has been the ac
cepted practice that none but stu
dents could hold the positions.
Article IV, section 3, clause 2 of
the constitution, might be con
strued to apply in the case of a
non-student holding office, it was
pointed out. It reads:
"Students refusing or failing to
pay dues and/or fees shall not be
eligible to enjoy any of the bene
fits of membership in this asso
ciation.”
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Barnett Prepares Article
For February Law Review
“Tort Liability of Municipal Cor
porations in Oregon’’ is the title
of an article being prepared by
Dr. James D. Barnett of the po
litical science department of the
University, for the Law Review
which will be published in Febru
ary.
Dr. Barnett was in Portland last
week-end doing research work and
gathering materials for his article,
in the public library there.
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St.Mary’s Game
Reserved Seats
On Sale at Co-op
RESERVED seats for the St.
Mary’s-Oregon ..game ..are
now available at the Co-op and
the graduate manager’s office.
Plenty of good seats are still
obtainable, although advance
reports Indicated that Kezar
stadium, San Francisco, will be
occupied by a capacity crowd,
according to Ronald H. Robnett,
graduate manager.
The tickets are all In one sec
tion to facilitate the centering
of all Oregon rooters In one
j group as they have been In for
mer years.