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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1931)
Exam Schedule For Fall Term Is Announced Examinations Will Be Held in Regular Rooms Instructors Should Adjust Conflicting Hours j For Students The committee on fall term ex aminations has just released the complete schedule given below. The exams will be held in the regular classroom unless otherwise arranged by the instructor. Any conflicts should be adjusted by the teacher. Friday, Dec. 11 1-5—Background of Social Science, all sections (comprehensive ex amination). 1-5—Theory and Observation of Secondary Teaching (compre hensive examination). Saturday, Dec. 12 1-3—Personal Hygiene for Women. Monday, Dee. 14 8-10—Class at 8 MWF or any two of these days, and four or five hour classes at 8. ' 10-12—Report Writing and Eng lish A, all sections. 1-3—Classes at 8 TuThS or any two of these days. 3-5— Beginners Psychology Labora tory, all sections. Tuesday, Dec. 15 r 8-10—Classes at 9 MWP or any two of these days, and four and five hour classes at 9. 10-12 — Constructive Accounting, all sections. 1-3—Classes at 9 TuThS or any two of these days. 3-5—Survey of Physical Science, all sections. Wednesday, Dec. 1G 8-10—Classes at 10 MWF or any two of these days, and four and five hour classes at 10, 10-12—Spanish: First Year, Sec ond Year, Third Year Literature, all sections. 1-3—Classes at 10 TuThS or any two of these days. 3-5—French: First Year, Second Year, Third Year Literature, all sections. Thursday, Dee. 17 8-10—Classes at 11 MWF or any two of these days, and four and five hour classes at 11. 10-12—Elements of Sociology, both sections. 1-3—Classes at 11 TuThS or any Y two of these days. 3-5 — Introductory Course in Speech and Extempore Speaking, all sections. (Continued on Page Pour) Education Club To Hear Dr. DeBusk and Wessel Dr. V. W. DeBusk, of the educa tion department, and Louis Wessel, graduate student in education, will be the two speakers at the Educa tion club meeting tonight at 7:15 p. m., in room 3, Education build ing, accomding to Professor F. L. Stetson, president of the club. Dr. DeBusk will speak on “Diag nosis of Learning Difficulties of Students,” and Louis Wessel will talk on “Adult Education” with special reference to correspondent work. Advertising Staff Of Student Annual To Meet Tonight members of the adver tising staff of the Oregana staff are requested by John Painton, advertising manager of the student yearbook, to meet at the Oregana office to night at 7:80. “The meeting is of the utmost importance as we will evolve the completion of plans for this year's advertising program,” stated Painton. “It is necessary for the success of ! the campaign that ail advertis ing solicitors and ail other mem iters of the staff be present. Plii Beta Will Give Concert To Raise Money for Fund Instructors, Students Will Participate in Varied Musical Program The fall term Phi Beta scholar ship fund concert will be given Thursday night at 8 p. m. in the music auditorium. Lora Teshner, Aurora Potter Underwood, Rex Underwood, Roberta Spicer, Fran ces Brockman, and Howard Hal bert will take part in the program. Phi Beta, women's national profes sional music and drama honorary, awards several scholarships year ly Miss Teshner, new instructor in cello in the University school of music, will play two groups of so los, and will also play with the string trio and the quintet. It will be her first appearance before a campus audience. Mrs. Underwood will play with the trio, and will offer two groups of modern piano music as her share of the benefit concert. Miss Spicer, cellist, and Miss Brockman, violinist, are holders of Phi Beta scholarships. Fairmount Busses To Run On New Service Schedule Route Will Be Followed After Christmas Holidays A rearrangement of the Fair mount Loop bus “run” under the provisions of the “increased serv ice schedule” of the Oregon Stages company, who recently purchased the city bus lines from the Grey hound Lines, Inc., has been an nounced. Under the new plan, starting at four minutes and 34 minutes after the even hour from the S. P. depot, the busses will run south on Wil lamette street to Eleventh avenue; on Eleventh avenue to Alder street; on Alder to Thirteenth ave nue; on Thirteenth to University street; on University to Four teenth avenue; on Fourteenth to Agate street; on Agate to Fif teenth avenue; on Fifteenth to Fairmount boulevard; on Fair mount to Nineteenth avenue; on Nineteenth to Alder street; on Al der to Eleventh avenue; on Elev enth to Willamette street; and on Willamette to the S. P. depot. The schedule of the Springfield bus remains unchanged. A Smith Flays Condemnation Of Nippon Attack as Unjust “I haven’t any patience with a too ready condemnation of Japan,” said Warren D. Smith, professor of geology and geography in re gard to the present Chinese-Japan ese war. “While I think the activ ities on the part of the Japanese have gone too far, I think that Japan has a real equity in the sit uation.” “My personal sympathies are with the Chinese because Man churia as far as I know has been considered a part of China, though the Manchus have in times past ruled over China. However, the Japanese point of view cannot be neglected. She has been forced to go somewhere, not only for land but particularly to get coal and f iron both of which she is in great need. Her soy bean export busi ness is another big interest of hers which she doesn't want endan gered,” he said. Dr. Smith pointed out that only one-twelfth of Japan's area is ara ble which condition forces her to reach out for more territory for her rapidly growing population. In order that Japan may take care of her people she must be on an industrial basis, believes Mr. Smith, and industrialism calls for coal and iron. These products have been denied her in almost every other direction. For nine years Professor Smith was in charge of the bureau of mines in the Philippine Islands. During his stay in the islands he said that the Japanese were try ing to get concessions particularly of iron deposits but they were not allowed to do so. “So she is now turning to Manchuria. Manchuria has many iron deposits which the ' Japanese have long had their eyes j upon. She also needs Manchurian j lumber. “The question as to what the 1 League of Nations can do about it naturally arises,” continued the geologist. “It can not. do much in this situation without the help of (Continued on Page Four) Tarbell, Epps Co-Chairman OfHolidayBall College Dance Will Be Held in Portland Proceeds Will Go to AWS Foreign Scholar Fund; Committees Named Marguerite Tarbell and Dave Epps have been appointed by Ann Baum, A. W. S. president, to act as co-chairmen for the annual Christmas college ball to be held in the Multnomah hotel ballroom in Portland January 2. Proceeds from the affair will go to the A. W. S. fund which is used to bring one outstanding foreign student to study on the Oregon campus each year. Complete Committee The complete committee for the dance is: Marjorie Swafford, tick ets; Lucille Kraus, finance; Ellen Sersanous, patrons and patroness es; Ed Schweiker, bids; and Dick Neuberger, Bruce Hamby, and Madeleine Gilbert, publicity. The tickets will be sold for $1.25 on the campus through house rep resentatives during the week of final examinations, it was an nounced by Marjorie Swafford, chairman. The committee is mak ing a special effort to reach Ore gon alumni throughout the state and invite them to attend the holi day informal. “No Host” Dinners It is the suggestion of commit tee members that groups of friends arrange as a special feature of the event “no host” dinners preceding the dance. The list of 200 patrons and pa tronesses will be announced soon. Sixteen Freshmen Sign for Tryouts Of Debate Squad Many Meets With Colleges Of Oregon Listed on Forensic Schedule Sixteen men have signed to en ter the freshman debate tryouts to be held in Villard hall Thursday evening, December 11. The ques tion for debate will be, “resolved, that the national government should provide for a system of co operative control of indudstry to supplant our present system.” Of this number of contestants, ten will be chosen for the regular squad. They will be judged on log ic and clarity in their argument. Those who will compete are: af firmative, Theodore Pursley, Parks Hitchcock, Robert Gray, Harold Holmes, Brittain Ash, and Girton Humphreys: negative, Bernard Asheim, Robert Ferguson, William Meissner, Orval Thompson, Her mann Hendershott, Herbert Ska let, and William Davis. The debate schedule this year will include contests with Linfield college, Pacific university, Albany college, Oregon State, Monmouth Normal and Willamette university. Also the squad will enter the Lin field conference of 12 debates if the date is set for January 19 or 20. “I am quite pleased with the turn-out this year,” said Robert Oliver, freshman adviser. “Most of them have had experience in high school and show much promise. Harvard-Oxford Forensic Encounter To Be on Radio NEW YORK—(IP)—Tentative plans of the National Broadcasting company call for an international debate by radio between Harvard and Oxford universities some time in the first week of December. The argument, between the two schools 3000 miles apart and sep arated by the Atlantic ocean, will be rebroadcast in this country to the national hookup of the NBC, and it is probable that the British Broadcasting company will do the same in England. The event, the first of its kind ! ever to be held, will also be the first debate between Harvard and Oxford since 1925. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Pi Kappa Alpha announces the pledging of James Hartley of Ashland, Oregon. University Plans Experiment An experiment In the promotion of intelligent appreciation of natural beauty will be conducted by the University next summer, with Crater Lake as headquarters. The work, under the supervision of Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, president of the University, will be financed by the Carnegie Institute of Washington, I). C. Above is shown Crater Lake, world-famous beauty spot of Oregon, where the work will be carried on. Below are the men who will carry on the project. Left to right: Dr. Hall; Ralph W. Leighton, research fellow; Robert H. Seashore, professor of psychology; and Nowland B. Zane, professor of painting. Dean Schwering Eats No Turkey On Thanksgiving ITAZEL. P. SCHWERING, dean of women, is one person who did not eat too much turkey at Thanksgiving. Her holiday feast consisted of an egg nog. On Wednesday Dean Schwer ing had her tonsils removed. She spent the vacation recovering From the operation and was able to be in her office Monday, j Dr, J. R. Wetherbee, Eugene physician, performed the opera tion. Five All-Campus Tourney Crowns On Victors’ Heads Fred Deuel Latest To Take Title by Capturing Tennis Finals Five of the six all-campus tour naments which began early this term are in possession of cham pions, with the title of one still undecided. Fred Deuel was the last to don a crown when he took the tennis singles tourney by defeating Har lan Thompson. Warren Cress, by conquering Deuel, captured the handball sin gles scepter. Together, Cress and Deuel are in possession of the handball doubles championship by virtue of winning from Sol Schei der and A1 Schneider. Bob Near showed his heels to the divot-diggers this fall and breezed in with the donut golf gonfalon. The followers of the an cient game of “barnyard golf” crowned Rich Prochnow king of the horseshoe tossers on the cam pus. The tennis doubles tourney is the only competition left which cannot lay claim to have crowned anyone ruler in that division. Former Oregon Student Passes in Coos Bay City Nettiemae Smith, age 22, died Tuesday, November 24, in Marsh field from an operation for goitre. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Smith of Bandon. Fu neral services were held there last Friday. Miss Smith entered the Univer sity three years ago and was af filiated with Alpha Omicron Pi She was out of school for a year, returning last fall, when she worked at the Co-op as well a3 attended classes. She was an out standing student and prominent in debate. Pre-Law Adviser Schedule Revised For Winter Term Grouping of Classes To Be Put Into Effect Here Immediately A reorganization of the adviser schedule for all the pre-law stu dents on the campus goes into ef fect immediately with the posting of the new list today by Dean Wayne L. Morse, of the law school. The plan just going into effect automatically groups the students by classes, these in turn being as signed to members of the law school faculty. The old adviser as signments for pre-legal students are definitely cancelled. In general the advisers in the future will be: freshmen, Claire and Howard; sophomores, Hollis; sophomores and juniors, Spencer. The name of each student and that of his adviser is posted in the glass bulletin board of the law school on the second floor of the Oregon building. It is necessary that pre-legal students go to their new advisers during winter term registration, and in order to get their new as signment they must consult the list immediately. The new advisers are also to be consulted before registration if the student wishes to take up any of his problems with an adviser in the meantime. Dr. Rainey’s Installation At Bucknell Scheduled Former Oregon Professor Is New President-Elect A report on the inauguration this month of Dr. Homer Price Rainey, University of Oregon professor of education from 1924-28, as presi dent of Bucknell university at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, has been received by Dean James H. Gilbert from F. D. Struck, class of 1911 and now head of the department of industrial education at Pennsyl vania State college. Mr. Struck writes that the trend of thought which ran through all the addresses at the ceremonies was that ‘‘the chief function of a liberal arts college is to develop in America a greater sense of public responsibility in political, economic, social, and educational affairs.” Dr. Rainey, while at Oregon, specialized in school administra tion as professor of education and wrote several articles for Oregon publications, among them ‘‘Liber al versus professional training” I for the Oregon Educational Jour | nal of 1930. He had been president of Frank I lin college, Franklin, Pennsylvania, i prior to inauguration at Bucknell | university. Campus Frolic To Be No-Date Affair Dec. 12 Stucles To Offer Special Vocal Numbers Guests To Be Entertained With Dancing and Feature Stunts An all-campus, no-date Christ mas Revels, to be held in Gerlin ger hall Saturday night, December 12, was announced last night by Bob Hall, student chairman, and Dr. Philip A. Parsons, faculty chairman. Dean Karl Onthank, father of the idea, otbained the permission of Dean Virgil Earl and Dean Hazel P. Schwering to hold the dance. The affair will be entirely infor mal. It is being sponsored by a large group of students and fac ulty members, on a fifty-fifty par ticipation basis. There will be dancing to the music of the best campus orchestra, according to Ethan Newman, in charge of the orchestra. Gifford (Buck) Nash and Pro fessor S. Stephenson Smith will organize a group of 50 or 60 carol lers to sing at the Revels, and Kenneth (Mickey) Vail and Jack Hewitt will organize a similar group of mummers, tumblers, and jesters. Musical Nonsense MacGowan Miller and Barney Miller will conduct a Santa Claus party and Christmas tree. Dr. Robert H. Seashore and Professor Knowland B. Zane will supervise musical nonsense to be presented by faculty members. The Order of the O, under the direction of President Kermit Ste vens, will make arrangements for the Yule log and the Christmas tree. The Oregon Yeomen, under Merlin Blais, president, will roll in the punch and cider in barrels. Wallace Campbell, of the Yeomen, will be purchasing agent. (Continued on Vage Four) Radio Broadcast Over NBC Circuit Honors Webfeet Doc Spears and the University of Oregon football squad were to be guests of honor at a special Webfoot program broadcast Fri day night at 10 o’clock from the NBC studios in San Francisco, but the Oregon contingent had already started north before the message was sent them. Speeches from the coach and from each member of the team had been planned by Jennings Pierce of the NBC who arranged the pro gram. An interview from Doc Spears was to be on the broadcast. The early departure of the Web foots after their encounter with St. Mary’s Gaels at Kezar stadium Thanksgiving day, did not stop the Oregon program from being put on the air, however, and a very satisfactory broadcast was pre sented. Oregon songs and an or chestra and quartet, an interview with Lloyd Yoder, San Francisco football referee, and the selection of an all-Coast team filled out the hour program. Professor Tuttle To Talk At Frosh Council Meeting How To Study for Examinations Is Topic of Address “How to Prepare for Examina tions,” is the subject which H. S. Tuttle, associate professor of edu cation, will discuss with the Frosh Y Council from 6:45 to 7:30 to night at the Y Hut. Questions from the group will be answered by Mr. Tuttle, and the talk will be of practical value tc students in the coming examina tions. "Mr. Tuttle guarantees that students will save several hours ol preparation and receive bettei grades if they will follow his direc tions,” said R. B. Porter, secretarj of the University Y. M. C. A. yes terday. The meeting tonight is the sec ond of a series conducted by Mr Tuttle on the subject, "Am I get ting an education?” The Frost council invites members of othei classes to attend the meeting to night, Mr. Porter said. Welcome Planned For Oregon Pacific Basin Debate Team ■ ■ ■ - ■ - — Seniors Meet at Vi I lard Tonight, 7:30, Says Wilson A SPECIAL, meeting of the senior class will be held at 7:30 tonight in room 107, Vii Inrd hall. Hobart Wilson, pres ident of the seniors, has railed the meeting for a very impor tant purpose whieh he has not divulged. The meeting will be a very short one, it was an nounced. Tuesday Recital To Feature Three Music Students String Ensemble of School To Play for Plii Beta Concert Thursday Maude Stehn, advanced piano student of Jane Thacher, Roberta Spicer, cellist, and Marguerite Bryson, accompanist, will be pre sented in Tuesday evening’s recit al at the Music building at 8 p. m. Mrs. Stehn will play two groups, the first being Bach’s “Prelude and Fugue No. 22,” and Beethoven’s "Sonata Op. 13,” of which the three movements, allegro, adagio, and rondo, will be played. Miss Spicer, accompanies by Mrs. Bryson, will play Squire’s "Bouree,” and two numbers by Da vid Popper, “Fond Recollections,” and “Harlequin.” The closing group, to be played by Mrs. Stehn, will contain Mac Dowell’s "Idyll,” the Schubert Liszt “Hark! Hark! The Lark,” and “Sparks,” by Moskowski. The school of music string en semble will play Thursday night for the Phi Beta benefit concert. After-Dinner Speakers To Hold Contest Dec. 11 Major White Selected Chairman For State Event Major General George A. White has accepted the invitation to act as chairman for the “after-dinner” speaking contest to be held at the Auburn hotel Friday evening, De cember 11. One representative will compete from each of the colleges, universities and normal schools in Oregon. Norman Hartfel is entered for the University of Oregon. White is commander of the 41st division of the United States army, his authority extending over Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. In civil life he is well known under his pen-name, Ared White. His work which is general ly war stories, is published in the Saturday Evening posh and other magazines. Beckett Appointed Head Of General Program Banquet, Dance Featured On Plans for Arrival Of Webfoot Orators A student rally, banquet, dance, speaking before civic organiza tions of Eugene, and movies will feature the welcoming home of the three Pacific Basin good-will de baters, Roger Pfaff, Robert Miller, and David Wilson, when they ar rive in Eugene January 8. Clifford Beckett, senior in B. A., was chosen as general chairman of a committee to have charge of the program, by a group com posed of Charles Jones, general manager of debate; Walter Hemp stead, faculty advisor of the Basin tour; Burton Brown Barker, Wil lis Duniway, and Brian Mimnaugh, it was announced last night by Mimnaugh. Tentative plans are that a huge student rally be staged at Villard hall as the team arrives Friday, January 8. The train will stop at the University station for that purpose. Following that a banquet will be given in their honor, after which a student body dance will be held in the Igloo. (Continued on Page Four) Students, Faculty Go to Northwest NSIA Conference Four Professors, Twenty Others Attend Reed College Meetings About 25 representatives from the University of Oregon attended the Northwest Students Interna tional conference held at Reed col lege in Portland Friday and Sat urday. Four University of Oregon pro fessors were among the conference leaders. Dr. John R. Mez, of the departments of economics and po litical science, led one of the round table discussions on disarmament and also spoke on free trade and on cancellation of war debts at the Saturday evening meeting. Dr. Victor P. Morris, professor of economics, gave a history of reparations at the symposium Sat urday evening. Dean George Re bec, of the graduate school, gave an address, “Perspectives,” which presented a summary of all the discussions and lectures of the con ference. Dr. Alexander Goldenwei ser of the extension school, spoke at the luncheon Saturday noon on "A World Without Arms—Looking Backward.” At a symposium Friday evening on “The Sino-Japanese Dispute,’’ led by President Norman F. Cole man of Reed college, Wu Tang, IContinued on Page Four) Modern Football; an Amateur Game as Viewed by C. Gauss Practically every college in the country has subsidized athletes, de clares Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton in an article in Decem ber’s Scribner’s magazine. He does not even exempt those institutions which escaped the censure of the Carnegie Foundation bulletin last year. Although colleges have codes of amateurism in which the subsidiz ing of athletes is forbidden, in vir tually all colleges, even the best, this rule is violated in secret as a result of private alumni enterprise, writes Dean Gauss in the Scrib ner’s article called “Our Profes sional Football Amateurs.” Quoting Chief Justice Hughes when Governor of New York that "we cannot expect to have an hon est horse-race until we have an honest human race,” Dean Gauss details incidences of alumni subsi dizing of athletes without the knowledge of the college and in some cases without the knowledge of the athlete himself. He tells oi an alumnus who increased the sal ary of one of his employees whose son was a good fullback; of anoth er halfback who was manager of a student store and got his revenue from kind alumni friends who prof fered a ten dollar bill for a ten cent cigar and told him to keep the change; of a third star who was receiving a monthly retainer fee from a gentleman concerned with holding the young man’s services so high that he might run, a farm four years hence. If cases of this sort are frequent ly hidden from faculty committees, the undergraduates themselves of ten sense that something is wrong, writes Dean Gauss. In a recent in vestigation on 40 colleges, conduct ed by acting Dean Smith of the University of Illinois, it was found that on practically every campus undergraduates believed that the athlete received graft. “I do not believe that any col lege, even those listed by the Car negie report as simon-pure, can possibly guarantee that all players (Continued on Page Four)