W. Elwood Smith
Delivers Phi Beta
Kappa Address
Exhorts Scholars To Feci
Proml of Attainment,
Organization
"Phi Beta Kappa exists for the
purpose of taking the curse off
scholarship,” declared Dean W.
Klwood Smith, of the school of
basic arts and sciences at Oregon
State college, last night at the
Phi Beta Kappa banquet honoring
the Senior Six elected this fail.
"It does this,” Dean Smith
added, "by creating an atmosphere
and by setting an example. Even
incompetence is more dignified if
supported by an organization.” He
described a club called Kappa
Beta Phi, which is elected from
the lowest section of the class. Its
members proudly wore the largest
clock keys obtainable.
"When the world says, ‘Phi
Beta Kappans, you are anachron
isms,’ ” he continued, "you can
say, ‘Yes, and proud of it.’ We
stand for things that are not
timely, but timeless. We don’t be
long to any age, but—I hope—to
every age.”
The initiation of the Senior Six,
Mary Katherine Fenton, Elizabeth
Shields Hall, Arthur Ireland,
Thelma Lund, David C. Williams,
and Elaine Williams, took place at
fi:30 yesterday afternoon in Alum
ni hall of the Gerlinger building.
Frederic S. Dunn, of the Latin
department, was toastmaster at
the banquet, held at the men’s
dormitory at 6:30. John H. Muel
ler, of the sociology department,
president of the local Phi Beta
Kappa chapter, officially wel
comed the six new Phi Beta Kap
pans.
"We have found that election to
Phi Beta Kappa is a responsibility,
not a reward for attainment,” Ar
thur Ireland responded for the
Senior Six.
Agnes Petzold sang two French
songs, "Close by the Walls of
Sevilla,” from Carmen by Bizet;
"Hindoo Song,” by Bemberg, and
an English selection, “Five Eyes,”
by Gibbs. She was accompanied
by Mary Galey.
Oregon’s Debate
Plan Wins Praise
At North Carolina
Largo Attendance Increases
Results From Trial of
New System
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.—(Special
to Emerald)—A 1500 per cent in
crease in debate attendance oc
curred at the University of North
Carolina when a change was made
from the old method of debating to
Ibe new Oregon plan.
Outstanding features of the new
system are: (1) There are no
judges. (2) Speakers attempt to
influence the belief of audience
upon the question rather than up
on the ability of the speakers. (3)
Cross-examinations are held in
which the debater may interrupt
their opponents. Four hundred
heard the first debate conducted
under the new method as com
pared to the 25 who were accus
tomed to attend the old style de
bates.
The Oregon plan of debating was
adopted on this campus in 1927
when J. Stanley Gray was in
charge of the speech division. Wal
ter E. Hempstead, present instruc
tor in the speech division, was de
bate manager at that time.
When the round-the-world de
bate team, consisting of Hemp
stead, Avery Thompson and Benoit
MeCroskey made their tour they
distributed literature explaining
the Oregon plan among a numbei
of other colleges, and also used
the plan in many of their debates
thus helping give it the popularity
that it now has.
Former Oregon Students
Do Graduate W ork in East
Thomas Hanson, Kaymoni
Thompson, and Abbot Lawrence
all former students at the Univer
sity, are doing advance work ii
architecture in Boston.
Hanson is studying at Harvari
and Thompson and Lawrence art
at M. I. T. Lawrence, who is th»
son of Ellis W. Lawrence, dean o:
the school of architecture, recently
won the Chamberlain prize for hi:
design of a terra cotta plant. Thi
prize is awarded the winner in th<
competition between Harvard am
M. T. T.
Lawrence also won the seconc
medal in the Parrish prize prelim
inary contest.
From Other
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OTT W ITH WINTER WOOLENS
Rub your blue fingers, you col
lege students up in Idaho, warns
students at Leyden university in
Amsterdam, and shiver a bit when
the sun goes under a cloud down at
Rollins, if you wish, but neither of
you knows what it is 'to be cold—
speaking relatively.
Over at the Holland university
Dr. W. Keesom has succeeded in
cooling a space of ten cubic centi
meters to 0.75 of a degree K. If
you don't think that’s cold, listen
—K is the abbreviation for the ab
solute zero, which is 491 degrees
below zero on your frat house ther
mometer. The cold that Dr. Kee
som has created, therefore, is just
489 degrees below zero as you boys
and girls figure it.
Put that in your pipe and watch
the barrel crack!
BATTLE LASTS TWO YEARS
Baths haven’t bothered the early
English stained glass in Menton
college chapel at Oxford for some
time. It is to get its first cleaning
since 1700, and some of the glass
hasn’t been touched since 1620.
But, get a load of this—the bath
it’s going to get will take two
years. The glass is so valuable
that the cellar in which the bath
is to take place is locked and
guarded constantly.
GINGHAM GALS TO GALLOP
“Gingham Gals’ Gallop” has been
selected as the name for the first
of the women's choice dances to
be given during the leap year by
the Washington State college chap
ter of Mortar Board, national sen
ior women’s honorary.
A “campus king” will be elected
as a feature of the leap year dance,
which will be held on January 23.
Co-eds will have the opportunity
of voting for their favorite col
legians.
STUDENTS DEMAND GUSHER
Inspired by the equivalent of a
70 per cent cut in the University
of North Carolina’s appropriations
for the rest of the year, an edi
torial on the front page of the
Daily Tar Heel, student news
paper, suggested that the univer
sity be abolished unless it were
possible to “discover oil or gold
on the university property.”
ALARM CLOCKS FADDISH
From the Stanford campus
comes a helpful suggestion for co
eds who find compliance with
sorority locking-up hours espe
cially difficult to observe.
Because a California girl could
never seem to reach the door be
fore it closed, she bought an alarm
clock and set the alarm for a time
that would enable her to return
before the “gates” went down.
However, the scheme wasn’t
fool-proof, so there was bound to
be an accident. Once, while tucket
away in her escort’s overcoat
pocket, the alarm went off in a
restaurant and caused a genera!
exodus of the patrons who thought
it was a fire signal.
CLASS HEARS THENEMANN
Karl F. Thunemann, of McMor
ran and Washburne department
store, talked to Professor C. D.
Hadley's class in business policy
recently. Mr. Thunemann drew on
his experience with the Eugene
firm speaking on types of competi
| tion confronting department stores
Former Student
Is New Cocoanut
Grove Manager
A. Green Takes Position I
Installing ‘Midnight Sons’
As Orchestra
Opening under a new manage
ment, with “Abbie Green’s 10 Mid
night Sons” the featured attrac
tion, Cocoanut Grove will launch
the 1932 season of dances tomor
row night. Abbie Green, '28, new
manager for the Grove, announces
that his band will perform every
Friday and Saturday night
throughout the year, except on
evenings when a dance would con
flict with campus functions.
The interior of the Grove is be
ing rearranged; a new grand piano
is being installed; and the floor
has been repaired and sanded,
Green said. Arrangements are un
der way to operate a sandwich
and coffee concession during the
dances. Trios and other special
numbers, featuring campus talent,
are promised.
Green’s 10-piece band is well
known on the campus, having pro
vided the music for the sophomore
informal, the Christmas college
ball, and the Krazy Kopy Krawl.
It is billed to play at the senior
ball February 6.
Throughout the season the band
will play at the McDonald theater
every Friday night for the first
performance, preceding the dance.
Green, who was a student here
for three years, was leader of the
original George McMurphy’s Col
lege Knights, a band which started
on this campus and later played
engagements at Balboa Beach,
California, and recorded for Co
lumbia.
The newly reorganized "Mid
night Sons,” with Green at their
head, will remain on the campus
throughout the year, he said.
IMiilonirlrtr Initiations
Changed to Sunday P. M.
New Schedule Is Being Arranged
For Ceremonies
Change in the time of the initia
tion ceremonies for the Philome
lete hobby groups to 4:30 Sunday
afternoon instead of 7 was an
nounced yesterday by Helen Evans,
president of Phi Theta Upsilon,
junior-senior women’s honorary
which sponsors the hobby organi
zations.
j The ceremonies will be held in
Gerlinger hall.
The new schedule arranged by
Miss Evans after the change in the
plans, is as follows: Arts and
Crafts, 4:30; Charm school, 4:40;
Drama, 4:50; International Rela
tions, 5; Music, 5:10; Nature
Study, 5:20; Prose and Poetry,
5:30; Travel, 5:40; Women in Her
1 Sphere, 5:50.
Edith Luke is general chairman
' for the initiation. Marian Chap
man was appointed chairman of
the invitation committee, and is
' mailing invitations to approxi
mately one hundred new members.
I
Directs Play
Ottilie Turnbull Seybolt, head of
the drama division, who left yes
terday with the “Journey’s End”
east for Astoria, where the play
will be presented tonight Tor the
fifth time under her direction.
EMERALD
The first of a series of plays will
be presented this afternoon, when
“The Dinnerless Joke,” a fifteen
minute production written and di
rected by Cleta McKennon, goes on
the air at 4:15 during the Emerald
broadcast.
Thursday of every week will be
set aside for the presentation of
plays, skits, and dialogues with the
view of allowing campus dramatic
talent perform before the micro
phone. Tryouts held last week
brought out nearly 30 would-be
radio actors, and casts for the
plays will be drawn from this di
rectory as needed. As many aspi
rants as possible will be used dur
ing the ensuing weeks.
The cast for today’s play in
cludes Mary B. Codd, Zora Bea
man, and Fred McKinney.
The Oregon Yeomen double
quartet will give 15 minutes of
musical selections during the Fri
day Emerald of the Air, Jack
Bauer announcing the program.
Condon Club To Hold First
Meeting of Term Tonight
The winter term meeting of the
Condon club will be held tonight
at the home of Warren D. Smith,
professor of geology.
Dr. Smith will speak on famous
and near famous geologists that
he has met. In his travels in the
East Indies, Europe, North and
South America, Professor Smith
has met many geologists working
in the field, has talked with them
concerning their interests,
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Personnel Office
Starts New File
For Faculty Use
Minnesota Plan Is Adopted
For Collecting Data
On Students
A new file has been started in
the personnel offices for the ex
change of counselling information
among faculty members, according
to Karl W. Onthank, dean of per
sonnel administration.
This exchange system has been
installed to meet the need for
some arrangement by which ad
visers can have ready access to in
formation about students which
other faculty members have al
ready obtained. The plan that is
being followed in this respect is an
adaptation of the plan used at the
University of Minnesota, which
was highly recommended by mem
bers of the Oregon staff who are
familiar with it.
The workings of the exchange,
as outlined by the dean of person
nel in the faculty bulletin, is sim
ply using the personnel offices as
a clearing house. An adviser or
any other faculty member, when
! he has, through a conference with
a student, gained information
likely to be helpful to other staff
members, notifies the personnel of
fice. A card has been provided for
this purpose, on which both the
student’s name and the adviser’s
name is listed.
These cards are kept on file in
the offices of the dean of women
and dean of men. Those faculty
members wishing information
about a student need only call
these offices and obtain the names
of the staff members who have
the information about the student.
The Fidac medal for outstanding
service in promotion of interna
tional good will has been given
this year to Vassar college, a wo
men’s college.
i TALKIE TOPICS ►
Heilig—“Under Eighteen,” featur-j
ing Marian Marsh. Showing till
Friday.
Colonial — “Notre Dame-Southern
California Game” pictures. Is
showing till Saturday.
Rex—“Reckless Living,” with Ri
cardo Cortez. Showing today
and tomorrow.
State—“Forgotten Women,” star
ring Marion Shilling. Showing
today only.
McDonald—“Dance Team,” star
ring Jimmy Dunn and Sally
Eilers. Showing for the last
time today.
By ROY SHEEDY
Heilig
Appearing opposite John Barry
more in two pictures gave Marion
Marsh the start that has eventu
ally brought her stardom, the ve
hicle being “Under Eighteen,”
which plays today and tomorrow
at the lower Willamette street
theatre. Marion is charming as a
poor working girl who wants to
get rich by good means or other
wise, and she is ably supported by
an almost faultless cast. The plot
is very old, but the acting and
direction go far towards making
up for it. There is much good
comedy and light romance in the
film.
Margie is in love with a hard
working though improvident truck
driver, played with verve by Regis
Toomey. The latter is one of these
moralizing fellows who’s always
afraid Margie will step into the
path of sin. She doesn’t quite.
Warren William, who should be
getting better parts, is a wealthy
guy in a pent-house, the kind who
are alv»iys making young truck
drivers suspicious. The film is
really much better than it sounds,
however. Anita Page is surpris
ingly good as the young wife
harassed by a lazy husband. That
> girl will be an actress yet.
This is likeable Jimmy Dunn,
who, with Sally Eilers, is starring
in “Dance Team,” which is show
ing at the McDonald for the last
time today.
By RALPH MASON
McDonald
“Bad Girl’’ might have been
good, but Jimmy Dunn and Sally
Eilers have put it beneath the sod
in their latest, “Dance Team.”
This picture gives these two
comparative youngsters a fine
chance to display their talents.
Dunn as the enthusiastic Jimmy
Mulligan hopes to become a fa
mous dancer. Eilers as Poppy
Kirk becomes convinced in Jim
my’s scheme and they form a
dance team called Mulligan and
Kirk. Their many-sided, humor
ous, sometimes wistful adventures
on their road to fame are a con
stant source of delight.
The humanness of this pair
their simple, unaffected speech anc
manner set them distinctly aparl
from others. The dialogue is
clever, being written by Edwii
Burke. Others in the cast ar<
Minna Gombell, Edward cranaau,
and Nora Lane.
A university pastor can safely
see this picture, no foolin'.
"Sooky,” starring Jackie Cooper
and Robert Coogan, comes tomor
row' for a two-day run.
» * »
“Forgotten Women” at State
If you’re any kind of a movie
fan and all of us are, at least, to
some extent, you will enjoy "For
gotten Women,” playing at the
State theatre today only. "Forgot
ten Women” gives us a remark
able insight into the lives of the
people who make the motion pic
tures, and it does not stop there,
but it also gives us one of the first
authentic depictions of how sound
pictures are actually made.
The cast is composed of Marion
Schilling, the Wampus baby star,
Rex Bell, Beryl Mercer, and Car
melita Geraghty.
"The Pocatello Kid,” featuring
Ken Maynard, and the eighth
chapter of “King of the Wild” will
play Friday and Saturday.
* * *
Football Pictures at Colonial
The first showing of the com
plete pictures of the Notre Dame
Southern California footall game
will be shown at the Colonial for
the next three days.
Mae Clark at Rex
Ricardo Cortez and Mae Clark
are starring in "Reckless Living,”
which is showing today and Fri
day at the Rex.
BURRELL TO BE HONORED
A dinner honoring O. K. Burrell,
recently elected adviser for the
Daly club, will be held by that or
ganization on Thursday evening
at 5:30 at the Anchorage. All
members are urged to be present.
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