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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1932)
VOLUME XXXIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1932 NUMBER 98 Seniors Must ' Order Gowns Before April 15 Annoiincemeiits To Be Distributed May 1 Co-op Will Rent Costunie9 For Commencement If Signed for All orders for commencement announcements and for caps and gowns must be in to the Co-op store by April 15 so that the an nouncements can be distributed and the caps and gowns sent for by May 1, Hobart Wilson, presi dent of the senior class, stated yesterday. “Announcements will be printed only by order,” Wilson said. “They are priced at 12 cents apiece. Caps and gowns also have to be sent for, and that only on order. “By courtesy of the Co-op store, caps and gowns will be available during commencement week on a rental basis for $2.50 with a de posit fee of $2.50. This last will be returned to the renter when he returns the cap and gown. Last year the rental price was $3, ex cluding the deposit. “The committee of the senior class on arrangements for com mencement,” Wilson said, have awarded the contract for an nouncements to the Master En graving Co., of Portland. The an nouncements will be on large fold ed sheers of ripple-grained vellum with deckled or unfinished edges. Wording of the announcement will be much as it has been in past years; to the effect that State Board of Higher Education, the faculty and the class of June, 1932, are holding their commence ment program at McArthur court, June 13, 1932, at 10 o’clock a. m. ^ Commencement plans, leap week, the senior picnic and the senior class gift will be discussed at a senior class meeting to be held shortly after the spring vacation, Wilson said. Slipper at Westminster To Feature Chinese Food A Chinese dinner under the direction of Miss Helen Whitaker will be given at 6 o’clock Wednes day evening at Westminster house. The supper is given in place of the regular meeting of the West minster Men and Guild as the last get together of the term. Miss Helen Whitaker will prepare the raw ingredients and instruct the students how to cook their own meals. All students planning to attend should sign the bulletin board at Westminster house. The number is limited to 25. Charge will be ^ 15 cents for the dinner. A bust of Lafayette has been presented to New York university. Four Hour Finals In Law Courses Slated for Exams ^ SPECIAL examination schedule for law school courses made necessary by four hour finals in that school, was posted last week. The schedule follows: Saturday, March 12, 8-12. code pleadings, evidence; 1-5, criminal law. Monday, March 14, 8-12, part nerships; 1-5, torts. Tuesday, March 15, 8-12, con flicts; 1-5, personal property, j Wednesday, March 16, 8-12, I insurance; 1-5, rights in land, j Thursday, March 17, 8-12, ti I ties. ' Friday, March 18, 8-12, con tracts, practice; 1-5, equity. Two Cups Posted To Spur Entries In Booth Contest Trophies Offered for Best Financial Success and Trimming of Stands Living organizations sponsoring booths in the All-Campus Carni val will be spurred on to greater Ann Baum 1UIV.1 V>Jl> Uliu " deavor with : their projects | because of two I cups secured as I awards, stated I Ann Baum, I president of the ® A. W. S., last night. ' These cups will be present . ed to the booth t taking in the most money and to the best decorated booth. The latter selec tion will be based upon four points: originality or artistic qual ity; suitability to carnival and merchandise; compactness and ar rangement; and budget (that is under $5). Judges of the booths will be Mrs. Hazel Prutsman Schwering, Ronald H. Robnett, and Lance Hart. Announcement and award ing of the prizes will constitute one of the features of the festival. Muriel Kolster, assisting with booths, urges that houses rush preparation of their booths and to have them completely planned. Their success will depend mainly upon the barkers and ballyhoo. For this reason the operators of the booths should be carefully chosen for their personality and original ity. DEANS DIE SAME DAY Two former deans of Ohio State university—Brig. Gen. Edward Or ton, Jr., 68, former dean of the college of engineering, and Dr. George W. Knight, 73, former dean of the college of education, died last week on the same day. T eachers Asked T o Criticize Winter Exam Schedule Faculty members will be asked by the registrar to express criti cisms of the working of the exam ination schedule for this term. It is planned to make the schedule a standing one that may be used every term. Points on which the comments are desired are: combination of examination times that lead to ex cessive loads on any one day for students, conflicts in examination times, how the faculty members are fixed for proctors and assis tants under the new schedule, and the spread of the whole load over the week. The schedule for this term wras designed to spread examinations over the whole week td lighten loads on the early days of the week. The complaint has been heard in the past that the major ity of examinations fell on Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday. It is believed the majority of students will have to stay through Thursday and that many will have examinations on Friday. Formerly many students have finished their schedules by Wednesday. The complaint that examina tions for afternoon classes have always been given late in the week has been met by the sche duling of exaips for these courses on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day. This is expected to make afternoon classes more popular. I Lomax Chosen World Leader For Pan Xenia Election Comes at End Of Seattle Conclave Presidency Is Tribute to Professor’s Active Service Alfred L. Lomax, professor of business administration at the University of Oregon, was chosen international president of Pan Xenia, foreign trade honorary, in ; Seattle Saturday. The election | came as the conclusion of the world convention of the fraternity held on board the Dollar liner, President Madison over the week end. Lomax, accompanied by six stu dents, traveled to Seattle Friday to attend the conclave, and re turned Sunday evening. The dele gates gathered on the liner Satur day morning and held their fifth bi-annual session as the boat steamed up Puget sound to Victo ria, British Columbia. From here the liner continued for a trip to China and the Orient, while the delegates returned to Seattle by water. Leading Economist Professor Lomax is considered as one of the leading economists of the nation. The election comes (Continued on Page Two) John Pennington Will Represent Oregon at Meet Old Line Speaking Contest To Be Held at Pacific, University Friday John Pennington, sophomore in pre-law, will compete in the Old Line speaking contest to be held at Pacific university Friday, March 11, as the representative of the University of Oregon. He will deliver an original ora tion entitled, “His Last Opinion,” which is based on the effect of Oli ver Wendell Holmes, the noted jurist, on modern jurisprudence. Pennington has the right to rep resent the University in the con test by virtue of winning the cam pus competition held several months ago. He is experienced in forensic work, having been on the freshman debate squad of last year and having been active in other speaking lines. The state Qld Line contest is one of the many phases of speaking activities sponsored by the Inter collegiate Forensic association of Oregon. All the higher educational schools of Oregon are members of the association. i The winner will be selected by a I group made up of the coaches of ! the various entrants. An award of i $25 will be given to the winner. | with the ,one who places second i getting honorable mention. Walter E. Hempstead, who has i been coaching Pennington, will ac j company him to the meet. Class Schedule Changes Are Few, Says Constance ^ Few changes have been made in the class schedule for spring term, according to Clifford Constance, assistant registrar and secretary of the faculty schedule committee. The majority of those made were ! in rooms in which classes will meet. The changes will be announced in supplement to the year schedule. The siJpplement will be distributed to advisers before registration. A quantity of beads shaped to look like human teeth have been found in Assyria, showing that there was a fashion in ancient Ninevah of wearing artificial teeth j | around one’s neck. New Rule Body Meeting Is Set For Tomorrow Tradition Violators List To Be Printed Recommendations Passed At Special Session Held Yesterday By GEORGE SANFORD Recommendations and defini tions of technicalities advocated by the Emerald were passed and approved yesterday by the newly established traditions court at a special meeting, Walt Evans, chairman, announced last night. The first open meeting of the court will be held tomorrow at 12:30 p. m. in the men’s gymna sium. A list of tradition violators will be published tomorrow morn ing. Punishment will be admin istered by a special group, the senior traditions ■committee. Class Standing Defined Definitions of class standing as stated by the A. S. U. O. constitu tion will be followed strictly, Evans said. The statute says sub stantially — that a person return ing to the campus for the third year, must have attended school at least two terms of each year preceding in order to be admitted to upperclass standing. Policies adopted by the court further stated that freshmen must wear green lids at all times while within the Eugene city limits. Campus Boundaries Determined The boundaries of the campus— in the interpretation of the smok ing rule—were defined as includ ing the area bounded on the north by 11th street; on the east by University street; on the south the boundary follows the south ern edge of the graveyard to the Education building; and on the west by Kincaid street. All smoking within this area is forbidden. Evans further declared building entrances would be in cluded in the area forbidden to smoking. The wearing of whipcords, a former point of controversy, will be henceforth the sole privilege of upperclassmen, according to the edict of the court. In previous (Continued on Page Four) 'A Man Can’t Read His Tombstone When He’s Dead’ Peace at last. Aristide Briand is dead. All ‘France mourns his death, but in America it is lovers of peace who feel the deepest loss. For the Briand - Kellogg pact outlawing war is the document of the century. He may be the George Wash ington of Europe in years to come. He proposed an United States of Europe because he realized the futility of 26 na tions slitting each others’ throats. Sixty-nine years old, 12 times foreign minister — yet they wouldn’t give him the presi dency because he wouldn’t kow tow to the sacred gospel of na tionalism. They’ll chalk their praises on his tombstone in stead. And then there’s the old gag about Moses meeting Briand at the pearly gates and saying, “Hmph! Look what they’re do ing to your peace pact in China.” And Briand replying, “Hmph! Look what they’re do ing to your Ten Command- | ments in China and everywhere else." Sadly, WEBFOOT CHARLEY. Group Unexpectedly Accepts CurriculumRecommendations At Lengthy Portland Session School Efforts Oil Proposed Plans Listed University Moves Told By Gilbert Deferred Pledging Aelion Reeoininended Delayed By President Hall VMIAT THE UNIVERSITY RECOMMENDED A president or suli-ohaneel lor at each institution, in charge of that institution. Inclusion of journalism cours es in the school of soelal scienc es, rather than with English. Postponement of inaugura tion of deferred* pledging until fall of 1933. By THORNTON SHAW Changes recommended by the University on receipt of the orig inal 90-page report of the curricu lum committee were pointed out here last night by Dean James H. Gilbert, of the college of literature, science, and the arts. These rec ommendations were included in the University’s 80-page answer sent to Salem last Tuesday. Dean Gilbert also pointed out further information on the details of the committee’s plan. First among the University’s recommendations was that calling for a president or sub-chancellor for each institution. The commit tee’s report called for only one chancellor with offices at Salem who was to be directly over the deans of the various schools on the Corvallis and Eugene campuses and the three normal schools. Institution Coordination Needed Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, presi dent of the University, together with those assisting him in the an swer, contended that there should be a man at each institution re sponsible for coordinating the work' of the institution and responsible to the chancellor in Salem. The University also recommend ed the inclusion of journalism in the school of social sciences, pro vided journalism was abolished as a school. The cases of other schools which had journalism as a department were cited, showing that in the greater number of cases the jour nalism curriculum was considered as a social science. The notable example of this on the coast is Stanford university. The close connection between journalism, as taught at Oregon, and the social sciences was also pointed out. According to the ar guments of the University lav/, business administration, and jour nalism are intimately connected with the field of social science. Journalism Points Listed The importance of retaining the school was pointed out by Dr. Hall on several grounds: 1. The intimate relation of the school with the press of the state, whose backing is essential to the board, because of their work in shaping public opinion. 2. The fact that the school of journalism attracts the highest type of students. Investigation has shown that the student of the school of journalism is 10 per cent above the average of the Univer sity in mentality. 3. The fact that the school of (Continued on Page Two) Unified Administration Is Provided; Further Issues Up March 16 Include Deferred Pledging and Military Training By WILLIS DUNIWAY PORTLAND, March 7.—(Special to the Emerald).—Departing from its original plan 61 adjourning until April 18 to aet on the report of the curriculum committee the state board of higher education unanimously adopted the report at 6:20 here tonight. The board then adjourned to meet again March 16. It is expected that deans of the schools and one president will be appointed at that time. The plan provides for six schools each on the Corvallis and Eugene campuses, each under the supervision of a dean, with a chancellor i.i Salem acting as president of all institutions in the state. Schools assigned to the Eugene campus would be those in the field of liberal arts and social sciences, including literature, language and arts; social sciences; law; business admin istration and commerce; fine arls; physical education. Schools on the Corvallis campus would he those in the field of science, including home economics; agriculture; physical and biological sciences; engineering; forestry; pharmacy. ECONOMY? -EDITORIAL 'J'O CHARACTERIZE the adoption of the report of the curriculum committee to the state board of higher edu cation as a drastic and revolutionary move in the history of higher education, not oidy in Oregon but in the T inted States, is to barely suggest the consequences of such a dis tribution of schools and courses. Surface observers might think that the curriculum com mittee lias made a fair and economical distribution of major schools. Evidently the aim of the committee was to parcel out these schools impartially to each institution. The mathe matical exactness of this distribution has resulted in some strange divisions and departures from accepted University organization. Major schools in the pure sciences have been moved to Corvallis, as recommended in the federal survey report of last year. As President Hall pointed out at that time, such a step is wholly out of line with the accepted ideas of the proper functions of a tjniversity. “We must preserve the framework of the University, and sciences are a basic part of the framework of all institutions of this type,” he said. “The University should be maintained as a place for a well rounded and thorough education for students, and sciences are certainly essential” to such a program. The abolition of the school of journalism is equally without foundation. Its destruction is a blow to the pres tige of the University; but more important still, it is the withdrawal of an agency of immeasurable service to the press of the state in working toward the formation of intel ligent public opinion on questions of public interest. A school of journalism has as its purpose more than the train ing of good citizens. Its purpose is the training of com petent editors who directly influence whole communities and thousands of citizens. “If I had my choice between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, I would choose the latter,” said President Jef ferson. The part played by schools of journalism in raising the general level of the press has been definitely established and verified but recently in the editorial columns of sev eral newspapers of the state. Some points in the adopted report are well taken. These include provisions for adequate and unified health services and infirmary facilities; increased opportunities for work for self supporting students; strengthening of student loan funds; and the abolition of compulsory military training at both schools. But the injustice of the school of journalism far outweigh any other considerations. In the supposed interests of economy the state board has gone too far. Note these words of President Hoover in a message to a gathering of educators in a meeting at Wash ington last week: “The very first obligation upon the na tional resources is the undiminished financial support of the public schools. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE GROUND IN EDUCATION. THAT IS NEITHER ECON OMY NOR GOOD GOVERNMENT.” Women’s Club of Portland To Hear Morris Lecture A talk will be given on “Inter national Planning versus Econom ic Disorder” by Dr. Victor P. Mor ris, professor of economics, at a meeting of the Portland Women’s club in Portland Friday afternoon. He will cite the need for inter national conferences to solve eco nomic problems between nations. The most pressing of these is the mass of tariff barriers being built up between nations, according to Dr. Morris. TO GO SOUTH Dr. Victor P. Morris, professor of economics, will spend the spring vacation in southern Oregon. While there he will deliver several talks on economic problems. The present schools of music and architecture will become departments in the school of fine arts at Eugene. Medicine will remain in Portland. No work in pure science will be given at Eugene above the sophomore year. A big slash in faculty personnel looms at all schools. The schools of journalism and applied social science at Eugene are abolished. Courses in the for mer will be given under the super vision of the school of literature, languages and the arts. The school of mines and department of indus trial journalism at the college are also abolished. Recommendation that degree granting curricula in military sci ence and tactics be discontinued was accepted and will be put into effect. Albert Burch, chairman on uni fication, has been corresponding for three months with educators the country over, and he is ex pected to report on candidates for the single administrator at the next meeting. Resignation of President Hall, Dr. Kerr, and heads of the three normal schools is now inevitable. Installation of one president, with headquarters in the city of Salem, demands their removal. Curricula changes, unparalled in educational history, were need ed, the committee reported, to achieve the goal of one unified school system and to save $2,181, 000 for a biennial period. In bringing the curriculum re port up for final vote, C. C. Colt, Portland, chairman of the commit tee, declared that it was necessary to put the recommendations into effect at the earliest possible mo ment. With the board’s budget coming up for discussion next month, it was pointed out that prompt action was required to provide for faculty and catalogue changes. Organization of the state’s sys tem of higher education on the lower and upper division basis is an important part of the report. Lower division work will be given at both Eugene and Corvallis un der one director. No such courses will be given where enrollments are less than necessary for econ omical instruction. Upper divi sion, graduate and professional work will be given only at the unit where the major school is located. Readjustments will go into ef fect in September, although in some instances they will be post poned until the fall of 1933. While the dean of any one school will have headquarters on one campus, other work in his de partment may be given at either Eugene or Corvallis. Some cultural courses in music and art will be given on both campuses and (Continued on Page Two)