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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1932)
Sheldon Says University’s Is Given Excellent Standing in East Oregon Ranks With Leaders In Many Fields Dean Is Baek Again From Carnegie Sessions Local Advancements Recognized In Teaching, Arts, Music. Literature, Science The University of Oregon is at tracting national attention in the field of advancement of teaching, and developments here in the fields of art, literature, music and sci ence survey programs are being watched with keen interest. This was the report of Dr. H. D. Shel don, chairman of the department of social science, who has recently returned from Minneapolis, Minn., where he attended the session of higher education called by the Car negie Foundation for the Advance ment of Teaching. The meeting brought together 35 delegates from important colleges and uni versities of the United States. A comparison made at the ses sion shows that Oregon has one of the most progressive programs of any institution in the United States, Dr. Sheldon reports. The comprehensive examination expe riment now under way here, while not as elaborate as some at other institutions, is regarded as sound and likely to achieve more definite results than many others, it was declared by delegates who studied it. IT. of O. Projects Interests Dr. Sheldon presented four uni versity projects at the session, and all aroused keen interest. These were “Aptitude Tests in English Compositions,” “An Ex periment on the Value of Labora tory Instruction in the General Science Courses,” “An Experi ment in the Field of Artistic Ap p r e c i a t i on,” and “Pedagogical Training for Future College In structors.” Dr. Sheldon's talk on aptitude tests in English were based on the plan prepared by Kenneth L. Shumaker, which has already at tracted a great deal of favorable national attention. Work [under way on survey projects in art and science sponsored here by founda w-—-— I -- Lyric Soprano Mu Phi Epsilon will present Miss Juliet Glen (above) in a recital at the Music auditorium tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock. Proceeds will go to the Mu Phi Epsilon scholarship fund. tions was outlined, while the grad uate course for college instructors| was highly commended. The Uni versity here is one of the few in stitutions that is devoting serious study to the problem of training : for college teaching. Oregon Leads on Coast In its progressive projects Ore gon is ranked with Chicago, Ohio State, Minnesota and Columbia, and on the Pacific coast ranks as a leader with Stanford university. Dr. Sheldon was one of three delegates attending the session from the Pacific coast. The others were W. C. Bells of Stanford and A. O. Leuschner, of California. _ Miss Kerns Selected As Art Exhibit Juror Miss Maude I. Kerns of the nor mal art department was recently honored by being selected as a juror for the northwest art exhib it in Seattle. A group of her Japanese paint ings, which were on display in the San Francisco East-West gallery were transferred to Seattle.for ex hibition there. 1 Dr. O. L. Wright Publishes Book On Spanish Vert Seven Years of Researeli In Philology Made by Oregon Professor The result of seven years of re search in the field of Romance philology, a volume entitled "The -Ra Verb Form in Spain,” by Dr, Leavitt O. Wright,' professor of Romance languages at the Univer sity of Oregon, has just been pub lished by the University of Cali fornia Press. The study attempts to clarify the history of the many usages which have been made of a verb form whose several functions are a source of great confusion to stu dents of Spanish, and to explain just how and when it is used in modern Spanish. The book con tains 160 pages, two folded tables of statistics which give a detailed tabulation of the functions of 38, 000 verb forms, and two lengthy bibliographies. The volume was given high praise in a review written for "His pana,” national magazine on Ro mance languages, by R. K. Spald ing, authority of California. “Dr. Wright's volume is one of the most exhaustive studies ever made in this field,” he said, "and no one should see fit to overdo him in this task.” Dr. Wright, who is a member of the executive council of the American Association of Teach ers of Spanish, has published sev eral articles in this field. He will speak before the annual meeting of the association in San Francis co December 28 on certain gram matical errors in the new consti tution of the Spanish Republic. S. S. Smith Comments Upon Book by Riddell Reception of an 'unpublished novel entitled "Rendezvous” and written by Stewart Riddell, who has two sons in the University, was commented upon by S. Ste phenson Smith, associate profes sor of English. The book was presented to him for comment, Mr. Stephenson stated, and he found it written in a ci editable manner to the author. Movie Notes By BOB GUILD McDONALD — “Movie Crazy." COLONIAL — “Tom Brown at Culver." STATE — “Flying Fool.” HEX — “Passport to Hell.” — “Movie Crazy”—Harold Lloyd bears out the maestro Chaplins contention that sound is not nec essary if the artist is funny enough in his latest. “Movie Crazy" at the McDonald now for a four-day run. In fact the sound apparatus could go clear haywire, and why not, if the audience is laughing loud ; enough to drown out, the dialogue anyway ? Constance Cummings supplies the charm in the piece, but it is a humorous effort and hence our plaudits go to Harold Lloyd, why supplies the laughs. May we advise the class that if they like to relax in their movies they should stay away from the big house this week. It wows you, and how can you wow relaxed ? This is a picture for the whole family, and you can tell the fresh men that. * * * “Tom Brown of Culver" Tom Brown has been acting all his life, and he does one more good job on the Colonial screen today and to morrow as that same Tom Brown who fought the good fight through Culver Military academy. With the whole colorful military school as a background he turns out a per formance calculated to place him high on what lists there be about such things. Slim Summerville is in his old familiar role of comedy relief, and does as well as he always has. We recommend this show, if only that it is not the customary boy pic ture, and won't even mention that there is no juveniless simpering in tacked on scenes. They didn’t need one, thanks to the interest that overcalls the so-called "love inter est." Let us mention H. B. War ner and Richard Cromwell, whose work is well enough known to re quire no other remarks. Five rProdigies’ Chosen By Head Of Northwestern EVANSTON, 111., Oct. 17.—Out of more than 100 applications, President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern university this week had selected his “class” of prodi gies, whose college careers are to be watched with interest by edu cators throughout the country. Those singled out as prodigies are either 14 or 15 years of age and were chosen because of mark ed ability shown in preparatory schools. Although in certain in stances they will receive special attention, their courses in general will be the same - as those taken by regular entering students. Following is a list of President Scott's potential geniuses: Mary Margaret Moore, 14, of Danville, 111.,—daughter of an at torney; likes dancing, swimming! and other sports; doesn't know j exactly what she’s going to do, j other than to “have a good time.” HESTERFIELD Presents_ I I Ah ound the Corner and down your way he comes with his mellow accordion ... a song on his lips and the love of song in his heart, like a wandering troubadour of old. < Light up your Chesterfield, fling wide your radio J window and listen ... for he has many tales to tell you! THE CIGARETTE THAT’S AAAJer THE CIGARETTE THAT TasfojBefler I (chesterfield Radio Program—Mondays and Thursdays, Boswell Sisters; Tuesdays and Fridays, Arthur Tracy; Wednesdays and Saturdays, Ruth Etting. Shilkret’s Orchestra and Noruian Brokensbire. 7 p. m. (P. T.) Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays; | and 6 p. m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays. Columbia Network. ‘ Jane Alice Hall, 15, of Clovis, N. M.,—also a daughter of an at torney; plays tennis; wants to “take up journalism.’’ George E. Alcott, 15, of Weiner, Ark.,—son of a physician, plans to study medicine; plays basket ball and baseball. James Allan Norton, 15, of Flint, Mich.,—will major in crea tive chemistry because his mother teaches chemistry. William Duncan Stech, 15, of New York—plans to become an attorney; plays football and bas ketball; his mother is director of publications at Columbia univer sity and his father is a research statistician. Requirement Changed In Hygiene Department A change in the physical educa tion requirements were made known yesterday by V. E. Sparks of the hygiene department, who states that entering freshmen are required to take one hour a week of hygiene for the entire year of three terms as compared with last year’s requirements of one hour per week for one term. According to Mr. Sparks, this method gives the course more em? phasis and makes health an im portant feature of the physical education course. This subject is being taught by Dr. M. P. Isaminger and Dr. C. V. Langton, formerly of Oregon State college. a genuine STETSON THIS Fall, you can trade a $5 bill for a genuine Stetson. It’s the swap of the season! You get traditional Stetson smartness . . . Stetson qual ity... and a choice of richly varied styles and colors in both soft felts and derbies ;.. all for only $5. Other Stetsons, at $7, $10 and up, are priced way under last year’s. OHN B. STETSON COMPANY hiladelpbia New York London Pari CARS AGAIN! For Gas—Oil—Tires The Varsity Service Station ldth and Hiljard Officers Elected For Positions on Forensic Council Mary Jenkins Is Secretary; Bauer Named Publicity Manager i' _ Officers for managerial posi 1 tions in the Student Forensic i council were named yesterday by 1 J. L. Casteel of the speech depart ■ ment. Mary Jean Jenkins is to be this year’s forensic secretary; and Malcolm Bauer is publicity man ager. Miss Jenkins is a freshman in journalism, and Bauer is a sophomore in journalism. The other officers from last year are Cecil Espy, senior archi tecture and allied arts major, who holds the position of manager of men's debate; Josephine Waffle, I sophomore in English, who is man ager of women's debate; and Ted Pursley, manager of the speaker's bureau and sophomore in law'. The position of manager of ora tory is still open, Mr. Casteel an nounced, and those interested are requested to see him. me session also adopted a plan for the W. F. Jewett contests, 1932-33, which includes two divi sions, the varsity series and the amateur series. The purpose of the first is to provide suitable con tests for upperclassmen of ad vanced experience or ability and to bring out a larger number of candidates to represent the Uni versity in intercollegiate contests. | The second is arranged to stimu | late interest in public speaking among beginning speech students. The varsity series is subdivided into three types of contests, after dinner speaking, extemporaneous speaking, and an old line orator ical contest. The after-dinner speaking contest is open to all students who would be eligible to the state after-dinner speaking .contest. It will be held in Novem ber, and the awards include a first and second prize, the amounts to be determined later. Winner of the first prize is to represent the University in the state contest, December 9, and the winner of the second prize will be the alternate. The extemporaneous speaking contest is open to all students who would be eligible for the state and Pacific forensic league con tests. It will be held in January with awards of first and second prizes. The winner of the first prize will represent the University in the state and the Pacific Foren sic league extempore contests, j and the winner of second prize will [ act as alternate. In this division, however, the coach is empowered to designate one of the winners for one contest and the other for the second contest. The old line oratorical contest is open to all students eligible for the state old line contest. It will be neld in February with awards of first and second prizes. The win ner of the first prize will represent the University in the state old line and the Pacific Forensic league oratorical, and the winner of second prize will be alternate. The same ruling regarding the al etrnate as in the extemporaneous speaking contest may be observed at discretion of the coach. Participants in these contests are expected to take the regular squad training, given as a part of intercollegiate oratory. The amateur series are divided i into an extemporaneous contest for underclass men, an extempor aneous contest for underclass wo men, and an after-dinner contest for upperclass amateurs. First, second, third and fourth prizes are offered. YWCA Frotdi President Names Cabinet Heads The frosh commission of the Y. i W. C. A. is now an active organi zation on the campus, its person nel is completed, and plans for the year’s program are well under, way, according to Gladys McMil lan, president. ! Miss McMillan has appointed the following chairmen to com plete her cabinet: Ann Burns, pen | nant sale; Helen Wright, apple sale chairman; Margaret Van Cleve, programs; Barbara Henkle, social; Ebba Wicks, groups; Helen j , Gould, service; Alma Giles, bulle-| ! tin. I Active members will be engaged : preparing pennants and rah-rah ' dolls to be put on sale Homecom- j ing week-end. This project has i been one of the most successful frosh enterprises in the past. jPrc-Legal Affair Open to Students Thursday evening the associa tion of pre-legal students will hold its first meeting of the year at a : smoker to be given at the Crafts- j man club at 8 o'clock. According to Tom Tongue, the meeting is not only open to pre legal majors, but anyone who has any inclination of becoming law students is invited to attend.' ( George Hibbard, chairman of the I affair, expects to have an inter esting and entertaining program The law school faculty has been invited to attend and Dean Morse will give a short talk during the , meeting. Refreshments will be served I after the program. Essays Are Published In Pacific Magazine Several papers submitted to Dr. John R. Mez, associate pro fessor of economics and political science, by students in the class in ‘‘International Trade Policies of the Pacific Area,” have been published in recent issues of the Mid-Pacific magazine. In the July issue there is an article titled “Teakwood,” by Ivan J. Toft; “French Indo china Rice Trade,” by George H. Stocker; “Tea Culture in Formosa,” by Edward Thurston; and "The Salmon Industry of Alaska,” by Trove Jones. The August issue contains an ar ticle on the topic, “Japanese Pottery and Porcelain,” by Wayne H. Emmott. Fake Fraternity Man Lifts Money, Leaves Poor Gal LARAMIE. Wyo., Oct. 17.—HovV a fake fraternity “brother,” im personating a prominent Univer sity of Wyoming football player, obtained money from many trust ing persons and in one town pro posed marriage only to leave the girl waiting at the church—was re vealed here this week. The man, last reported to be op erating in Wisconsin, is in the habit of giving his name as “Wal ter Kingham of Cheyenne, mem ber of Sigma Alpha Epsilon,” it was reported. He has obtained several loans from fraternity “brothers” in Cas par, worked his way into the con fidence of a Wisconsin widow and has taken French leave with an other “brother’s” new suit, in addi tion to all of the spare cash he could borrow, according to the rec ord so far. He was still said to be operating, and S. A. E. national headqua. l; has been forced to issue a bulletin warning “Eugene’s Own Store” McMorran & Washburne MERCHANDISE OF MERIT ONLY -PHONE 2700- ! Dances Ahead New Dance Frocks are here Black—wine brown — snugly fitting hip lines low back high front neck line— fur trims — plain — sophisticated. Holly wood's latest $12.95 $16.95 $19.75 K\t' Announcing the GALA OPENING FRIDA Y--SATURDAY OCT. 21-22 Campa Shoppe (Formerly Coeoauut Grove) COMPLETELY REMODELED — NEW FLOOR — Abbie Green’s Music FEATURES — FUN Green Parrot Grille 1 able Service ir_ Connection Phone 1379 for Reservations