VOLUME XXXIV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER C, 1932 ___ __Nj
Questionnaire
Results Show
Relationships
Student Faculty Feelings
Brought Up l»y Quiz
IDEALS EXPRESSED
Men’s, Women’s Attitudes Toward
Professors Differ, Say
Final Figures
Complete, tabulated results from
the student-faculty questionnaire
conducted by Louise Webber, pres
ident of A. W. S., with the cooper
ation of Skull and Daggers and
Mortar Board, to determine the
present status of student relations
with their instructors, were avail
able last night.
Personal interest, friendliness^
sympathy, and understanding were
the qualities preferred in profes
sors by the women students.
Among the men a sense of humor
and individuality were deemed
most important.
Answers from 103 students,
representative of 18 major schools,
divided among living groups and
among sophomores, juniors, and
seniors revealed that 96 had, some
member of the faculty to whom
they could go to discuss courses,
vocational ambitions, and academic
problems. One man and one
woman reported that there was
no one to whom they could go.
Personal Problems Shunned
The men in general would just
as soon talk to a particular mem
ber of the faculty about personal
problems as to their parents. The
women students answered nega
tively.
Students were agreed that hand
shaking was a significant deter
rent to friendship with faculty
members. Most of them felt that
knowing a professor outside of
class enabled them to gain more
from the courses under the pro
fessor.
The common meeting place
given was the classroom. Four
teen men reported acquaintance
ship through fraternity houses,
but women were much more spar
ing in affirmative reports in this
category.
Activities Play Part
Activities, especially among
journalism and music students,
played an important part in de
veloping intimate acquaintance
ships . Here again the classroom
was the predominant place of ori
ginal meeting. Men, likewise, re
ported acquaintanceship through
fraternal organizations.
Women find activities an impor
tant means of friendship with pro
fessors; men find recreation and
fraternity houses of greater im
portance.
Miss Webber circulated the
questionnaire as a project in Dean
Onthank’s class in personal guid
ance problems. Similar question
naires conducted in other institu
tions of higher learning have been
signally valuable as a basis for
improvement of faculty guidance
work with students.
Other projects have been con
ducted by other members of the
class, who will have reports avail
able soon.
Official Visits Camps
T. A. Bergman, national execu
tive secretary for Delta Tau Delta,
was a visitor on the campus
Thursday night and Friday. Mr.
Bergman was a guest of the local
chapter of Delta Tau Delta during
his stay here.
Fee for Oregana
Payable First of
Winter Quarter
Students who have not yet paid
the $2 initial payment on Oregana
subscriptions, due December 1, will
make the payment at the same
time as the regular registration
fees next term. This was made
known yesterday when the admin
istration agreed to take over col
lection of year book subscription
payments through Orville Lind
strom, student representative.
The payment will not be made
as an addition to the regular $38
fees, but will be payable at the
same time as the registration, and
will include both the initial De
cember payment and the $1 due
January 1. The $1 due February
1 and the $.50 payable March 1
will be collected through house
bills as originally planned.
Those subscribers who have al
ready paid first installment of $2
will pay $1 on January 2, as the
original contract specified.
Oregon Yeomen
Win ROTC Cup
In Rifle Matches
Delta Tau Delta Is Second
With 1657 Against
Winners’ 1723
Holding their early lead, the
Oregon Yeomen won the 1932 in
tramural rifle matches which end
ed last Saturday. The final score
was 1,723, a substantial margin
over the Delta Tau Delta’s, last
year’s champions, who came sec
ond with 1,657. The silver cup
given to the winners by the R. O.
T. C. has been sent for and will
be presented early in the coming
winter term.
The individual scores of the five
high men in the winning team are
as follows: Don Byers, 365: Leroy
Smith, 350; Foust, 342; Everett
Ream, 336. Fred Haufstead and
Jack Taylor tied for fifth place
with 330, but Haufstead’s score
was counted. According to match
rules, the man having the highest
standing score has his record
counted in case of a tie between
two contestants on the same team.
Referring to the rifle matches,
Colonel Barker said, “we appreci
ate the interest taken by the or
ganizations and the hearty co
operation of the team captains in
handling their men.’’
Dunn To Talk at YWCA
Bungalow Tonight at 9
Frederic S. Dunn of the Latin
department will talk on the sub
ject of “Christmas in Fact and
Fancy” at the Y. W. C. A. bunga
low this evening at 9 o’clock. The
lecture is sponsored by the Y. W.
C. A. group on religion and every
one is invited to attend the affair.
After the talk by Mr. Dunn the
group will sing Christmas carols.
Guests who have been invited to
attend are the Lane county nurses,
the Westminster guild, Y. W. C. A.
cabinet, and the Student Christian
council.
Frosh Hygiene Exams
Will Be Held Monday
Freshman hygiene sections
will meet for examinations in
Villard hall next Monday morn
ing at 9 o’clock, instead of in
regular classrooms, as previous
ly announced in the Emerald.
M. P. Isaminger’s class will
meet in room 107 Villard, and
Dr. C. V. Langton’s class will
meet in room 203.
Helen Raitanen, Senior Six,
Treasures Memories of Sea
By ELINOR HENRY
Stormy seas and purple light
ning are Helen Raitanen’s dearest
loves. She feels a little sorry
about the wave-washed basements,
but she can hardly wait to get back
to her home in Astoria to see the
waves breaking over the "prom”
and dashing spray on the streets.
The purple lightning is a mem
ory of a visit to her grandmoth
er’s home in Massachusetts when
she was 13. She has a picture
showing her standing beside the
Minute Man near Concord Bridge,
but her most vivid memories are
of the beautiful thunder storms
rather than of statues or even Bos
ton.
Her recent election to the Sen
ior Six of Phi Beta Kappa heads
an already imposing list of hon
ors and activities. She is a mem
ber of Pi Lambda Theta, educa
tion honorary, Pot and Quill, Am
phibian society, W. A. A. and the
A. W. S. council. She is also as
sistant chairman of the Christmas
Revels, and is for the third time a
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section editor of the Oregana, su
pervising “Dance.” For the second
consecutive year she is president
of her sorority, Sigma Kappa, and
is president of the heads of houses.
A long list of committee appoint
ments might be added.
“I read just most anything,”
she said. She is a member of the
Co-op book club, but doesn’t get
time to read more than a book in
a week or two. She feels that she’s
getting her money's worth, how
ever, exclaiming over the quality
of books to be found on the shelves
on the book balcony. Her favorite
book is “Archy and Mehitabel” by
Don Marquis.
She takes rather full notes in
class, but sometimes forgets to re
fer to them again. Like Janet
Fitch, she draws many figures in
her notebooks. She is an English
major, with French and education
her minor interests. Just now she
is enjoying her practice teaching
in sophomore English at Univer
sity high school.
California Professor Unearths rSun Temple9
Dr. Edgar Lee Hewitt, head of the new department of archaeology at the University of Southern
California, revealed the life of a vanished civilization in the excavations at Chetro Kctl, New Mexico.
This pueblo was supposedly built at about 861 A.D., and the sun temple above could accommodate about
1,000 worshippers.
World Tomorrow
Lecture Tonight
Given by Bossing
Professors Give Nine Talks
On Various Subjects
During Term
The series on “The World To
morrow" will be concluded this
evening from 7 to 8 o'clock, when
Dr. Nelson Bossing, professor of
education, will deliver a lecture on
“The World Tomorrow” in the
men’s lounge at Gerlinger hall.
During the course of the term
nine lectures were delivered by
prominent professors on the cam
pus. Dr. Bossing opened the
series with a general introduction,
followed by Dean J. R. Jewell,
dean of the school of education,
who spoke on the subject, "Educa
tion.” Dr. Warren D. Smith, pro
fessor of geology, talked on “Sci
ence.” He was followed with a
lecture on “Art,” given by Dean
J. J. Landsbury, head of the
music department.
Dr. Fletcher D. Brockman, sec
retary on friendly relations be
tween the United States and the
Orient, gave the fifth lecture on
“Relations With Asia.” The sub
ject “The Home” was presented
by Dr. John Mueller, professor of
sociology. Dean George Rebep of
the graduate school presented the
topic on “Religion.” Dr. Donald
Erb, professor of economics, gave
the eighth lecture on “Economics,”
and this evening the final topic
will be given by Dr. Bossing.
Noble To Lecture
On Lytton Report
The first of a series of lectures
sponsored by the International
house will be given by Dr. Harold
J. Noble of the history departmet,
at Guild hall tonight at 8:15. Tis
topic will be “The Manchurian sit
uation in the Light of the Lytton
Report.”
Dr. Noble is regarded the best
authority on the campus on Far
Eastern questions. He has done
an extensive research work in
Oriental history and is at present
teaching this course in the Univer
sity. Professor Noble himself was
born in the Orient, and one of his
frequent visits there was made
this summer.when he went espe
cially to gather first-hand informa
tions on the Manchurian situation.
Students and townspeople are
invited to hear the lecture. A
small charge of 25 cents is re
| quired for admission.
Day Foster To Speak
To Advertising Class
H. Day Foster, announcer and
continuity writer with radio sta
tion KORE, will address Mr.
| Thacher’s classes in general ad
vertising tomorrow at 3:00
o’clock in room 105 Journalism
building on “Radio Advertising
| from the Local Angle.”
Mr. Foster is a former student
J of the University of Oregon and
I was affiliated with Alpha Delta
! Sigma honorary. He has been
’ with KORE since 1930.
Honorary Initiates Four
Gamma Alpha Chi, advertising
honorary, initiated four new mem
I bers Sunday morning at the Os
; born hotel. A breakfast was
■ served shortly afterwards. Those
initiated were Althea Peaterson,
i Mary Snyder, Louise Barclay, and
1 Mary Teresi.
Thieves Forage
Campus Stores
Over Week-end
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Three University district busi
ness establishments suffered from
the invasions of thieves over thi
week-end, it was reported at
police headquarters yesterday.
The Cottage lunch suffered the
greatest loss. The robbers entered
by a front window and obtained
$20 in money and chips from a
pin machine, $25 in cash which
was concealed in a cup, 10 cartons
of cigarettes, and several candy
bars.
Burglars forced the rear door of
Taylor’s confectionery, where they
obtained half a cooked chicken and
several cans of assorted foods.
The Oregon pharmacy was next
entered and robbed of three boxes
of cigars, several packages of
cigarettes, and 30 cents which they
took from the cash register.
The Phi Sigma Kappa house al
so reported the theft of an elec
tric clock, stolen from the mantel
some time Sunday night.
Pi Mu Epsilon Guests
Of O.S.C. Math Faculty
As guests of the Oregon State
mathematics faculty and advanced
students about twenty members of
Pi Mu Epsilon of the University
held their December meeting in
Corvallis Friday night. Profes
sor and Mrs. DeCou and Doctor
and Mrs. Moursund were dinner
guests of Professor and Mrs. W.
E. Milne.
After an informal hour, at which
refreshments were served, Profes
sor Edgar E. DeCou gave an ad
dress on “The Development of
Mathematics in America.” Holly
Fryer, vice-director of the Oregon
Pi Mu Epsilon, read a technical
paper on mathematics. Mr. Fryer,
who graduated from the Univer
sity, is now graduate assistant at
the college.
The officers of Pi Mu Epsilon
are: Kenneth Kenzle, director;
Holly Fryer, vice-director; Eileen
Hickson, secretary; Harriet Hol
'brook, treasurer; Jean Millican,
assistant secretary-treasurer; Ed
gar E. DeCou, permanent secre
tary.
Prospective Teachers To Meet
An important meeting for those
who expect to do cadet teaching
during the next high -school se
mester will be held in room 4 of
the Education building Thursday,
December 8, at 4 o’clock.
All seniors who have received
notices of assignment for super
vised teaching during the next se
mester must report for definite as
signment at that time, according
to Nelson L. Bossing, who is in
charge of cadet teachers.
Students’ Tickets
Good for Concert
Of ‘’The Messiah’
Admission Price Charged
To All Others Than
Campusites
The football season is over, but
don’t throw away your student
body cards yet, for they will serve
as “open sesame" at McArthur
court a week from Sunday when
“The Messiah" is presented.
Ronald Robnett, assistant grad
uate manager, announced last
night that admission to the con
cert, set for the afternoon of De
cember 11th at 3 o’clock, would
be free to all students upon pre
sentation of their student body
cards.
An admission of 25 and 50 cents
will be charged everyone other
than students, according to Rob
nett, who is managing the produc
tion for the music school. Ticket
sales will open at the University
Co-op and at McMorran and
Washburne next Wednesday.
The combined Polyphonic choirs,
totaling 150 mixed voices, will
join with the 65-piece University
symphony orchestra in the third
annual presentation of Handel’s
“The Messiah." A crowd of 2500
attended last year's performance,
and similar interest is expected
this year.
Arthur Boardman, head of the
music school voice department, will
direct the production, as in past
years. The soloists will be Grace
Burnett, soprano; Rose Simons,
contralto; Victor Bryant, tenor;
and Gifford “Buck" Nash, basso.
Hoive To Attend Coast
Athletic Meeting Soon
Professor H. C. Howe of the
English department and faculty
representative of the University,
on the athletic board of the Pa
cific Coast conference, is plan
ning to attend its annual ses
sion next week in southern Cal
fornia.
If the session adjourns in
time, Mr. Howe also is planning
to attend the Louisiana State
Oregon game at Baton Rouge.
Mr. Howe is primarily making
the Louisiana trip to see his
small grand-children whom he
has never seen.
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TWO IN INFIRMARY
As the time for the final exami
nations draws near, fewer and
fewer students are allowing them
selves to be confined to the in
firmary. Only two, Irving Ander
son and George K. Reeves, are
reported in at present. Both ex
pect to be out and hitting the
books in very short order.
Campus Calendar
The Westminster guild will not
meet tonight as was previously
announced.
No men's chorus. Owing to the
impossibility of obtaining a suit
able and convenient time and place
for rehearsal, the formation of a
men’s chorus has been abandoned.
This announcement was made yes
terday.
All women students who expect
to renew housing permits for win
ter term should see Mrs. Schwer
ing before they leave for the
Christmas holidays.
All householders will meet to
day at 2 o’clock in Villard assem
bly.
Graduate council meeting to
morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in
the graduate school office.
You can’t afford to miss Dr.
Bossing's address on “The World
Tomorrow." He speak^ tonight at
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Dean Advises
FroshToPlay
Up To Faculty
Dean Jewell Says Plan
Brings Best Grades
CONFORM ON FINALS
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Independent Thought OK During
Term But Gets Few ".Vs”
When Found In Exams
Ey DAVE WILSON
“How to extract grades from un
willing college professors,” was
the title borrowed from the Uni
versity of Chicago freshman hand
book by J. R. Jewell, dean of edu
cation, in an address yesterday af
ternoon to an audience of fresh
man men who met in 105 Com
merce at the invitation of the
newly organized Frosh commis
sion, sponsored by the University
Y. M. C. A.
“If your primary interest in fin
al examinations is to get the best
possible grades out of them,”
Dean Jewell said, “you've got to
play up to the professor. Be as
independent in thought and speech
as you like during the class pe
riods of the term, but getting
grades is different from being in
dependent. When you are writing
the final, keep in mind who's go
ing to grade your paper and don’t
go against the professor’s convic
tions or whims on the subject.
Don't go out of your way to dis
agree with the professor."
Get Respect Only
The dean explained that the stu
dent who insists on doing inde
pendent thinking and coming to
personal conclusions has the re
spect of most professors, even
though he may be only a "C” stu
dent.
"The leaders of tomorrow are
just as apt to come from this
group as from the “A” students,”
he went on, “for many of the high
grade students lack necessary
courage and leadership, and gain
their grades by an unquestioning
conformity.”
The final examinations should
do the instructors as much good
as the students, the education
dean declared.
Exams Test Profs
“The best cure for a case of pro
fessorial swelleii-head is to read
the examination papers for a
course in which he thinks lie has
done a particularly fine job of
teaching. When I read the an
swers to the fifth question in an
exam I will give to a class of grad
uate students next week, I'lf know
whether I have put over that point
in clear style or not. If the an
swers are disappointing, I will note
the weak spots and try to
strengthen them the next time I
cover the same ground.”
In discussing methods of study,
Dean Jewell advised the freshmen
“not to kid yourselves that you’re
really studying when you’re sur
rounded by bull-sessions, radio
music or other distractions.’’
"It’s a rare student who can
really absorb a lesson under such
circumstances,” he declared. “You
owe it to yourself to find a place
where you will be free to concen
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Initiation for Phi Delta
Kappa Slated Saturday
The fall initiation of Phi Delta
Kappa, social science honorary,
will be held in the men’s lounge
of Gerlinger hall at 3:30 p. m. Sat
urday, December 10. The ceremony
will be followed by a banquet at 5
p m. in the Ratskeller of the Fac
ulty club.
Dr. Henry Sheldon of the social
science school will deliver tire ad
dress of the evening.
The candidates to be initiated
are Robert S. Hardy, graduate in
history; Joseph A. Holaday, super
visor, University high school; Rol
la A. Reedy, senior in education;
Clifford H. Bullock, senior in eco
nomics; Francis T. Keltner, senior
in education; and Marion G. Weitz,
senior in physical education.
Radio Representative
Expected Tomorrow
Eugene J. Contrane, representa
tive of the national committee on
education by radio, will be a visi
tor on the campus tomorrow and
Thursday of this week.
Mr. Coltrane will hold confer
ences with various members of
the faculty here, and at Corvallis.
Tomorrow he is to meet with the
state superintendent of schools
and a group of librarians in Sa
lem. Mr. Coltrane expects to be
on the Corvallis campus Friday
and Saturday.
Resigns
Glenn S. (Pop) Warner, cele
brated football coach, who yester
day announced his resignation as
head of Stanford’s gridiron forces.
It is expected that he will become
head coach at Temple university.
One of the games great strate
gists, Warner brought Stanford
from obscurity to the football
peaks in the seven years he was
there.
Stanford’s ‘Pop’
Warner Resigns
His Coaching Job
Temple University in Fast
Next Post Seleetetl by
Elderly Mentor
PALO ALTO, Cal., Dec. 5.—
(Special)—Ending more than a
week’s rumors, Glenn Scobey (Pop)
Warner, veteran football coach,
today formally resigned as mentor
at Stanford university. At the
same time he announced that he
had received a contract from Tem
ple university, Philadelphia, ar'd
would take charge of practice
there next spring.
Warner’s resignation was not
totally unexpected as it has been
rumored for some time since the
Indians ended one of their disap
pointing seasons. Announcement
of the resignation, however, caused
a turmoil on the campus.
Following telephoning his resig
nation to Dr. Thomas A. Storey,
athletic director, Warner issued
the following statement:
“I am leaving Stanford because
1 have accepted a position which
I feel is a step forward for me. I
am not at liberty to mention the
institution to which I am going,
but it is a young and growing uni
versity with an enrollment over
three times as large as Stanford
ind is just beginning to be a factor
in athletics.
“It is with regret that I am leav
ing Stanford where I have had
the support of the administrative
authorities, and the students and
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Xmas Season
To Be Ushered
In By "Revels’ i
Friday Night Festivities
In Joyful Tone
CAROLERS TO SING
Cider Will Flow, Engendering
Good Fellowship Among
Faculty, Students
By ROBERT GUILD
Next Friday evening at 9
o’clock carolers for the Christinas
Revels, black robes and all, will
burst into "hail, hail, wassail" and
assorted songs for the second an
nual faculty-student Yuletide mer
rymaking.
At 9:10 by the clock Santa Claus
and his tumbling mummers will
proceed into the hall, and at 9:15
Bill Anderson, from behind his red
nose and white whiskers, will lisp
"Are you happy?" and the fun will
be on. You are cautioned not to
wreck the Christmas tree if you
swing partner past the lower left
hand corner.
A varied program has been ar
ranged for this year's Revels, with
a bit more dancing than before on
the agenda. Fox trots, however,
will be interspersed with waltzes,
unlike co llegiate proms, the
waltzes will be interspersed with
Paul Jones, and the prize dance of
the whole evening bids fair to be
the faculty dance, the Virginia
reel. Steve Smith has promised a
hog-calling husky to call the fig
gers, and only regrets his own
hoarseness, caused by too much
yelling over the "Goosed Goose.”
Stag Line To Be Out
A special feature of the eve
ning's entertainment as outlined
will be the appearance on the floor
of a goodly assortment of non
professional mixers, not for the
cider. Led by the smiling Louise
Webber, 'a gang of wenches will
mill, about with the multitude, as
suring everyone of the proper pro
portions of hilarity and terpsichor
ean grace, and promising to drag
every recalcitrant male into the
melee, for as you no doubt know,
the party’s the thing.
To make this account chrono
logical, at 10:30 virtually sharp,
the keg will be tapped, the food
distributed, and a brief lull will be
occasioned .... during the lull
the genial Bill will mount the ros
trum with a bag of gifts, goodies
and joke-provoking surprise pack
ages from old Kris, who is not
above enjoying a laugh himself.
The motif for the gift-giving fea
ture is not being disclosed, but
your reporter feels sure that there
will be plenty big ha-ha in it for
you all—and then on with the
dance.
Plenty of Hotcha!
Stag lines are strictly de rigeur
for the occasion, since Miss Web
ber and her cohorts have sworn to
do in every stag that eve, whether
he has "drunk his fill” or not. And
indeed, it probably won’t take too
much coaxing to join in the fun.
There’s something outrageously
infectious about the godly prof
and frau sans dignity and sans
that classroom look, whooping it
up. And whoops there will be.
The evening will be dashed and
dotted with songs from Qarolers,
en balcony, intermission numbers
by a famous campus trio, and
tumbling antics by the court
clowns. At 11:50 the curtain will
commence slowly down to the im
memorial strains of “Silent
Night,” and the lights will dim for
the last waltz.
And the cold grey morn will be
time enough to contemplate the
week ahead. •
Written Evidence on Bird
Reserve Received by Clark
Two volumes of some 1100 pages |
of evidence on the Malheur-Har- j
ney lakes bird-reserve case have 1
been received by R. C. Clark, head |
)t the history department, through
the kindness of L. A. Liljeqvist of 1
Marshfield, counsel for the state
3f Oregon. The copies contain !
testimony of the first settlers and j
institute a valuable source book
for history of that region.
The case was tried last year be
fore a special master in chancery
sitting for the supreme court of
the United States at Burns, Ore
gon. The suit is brought by the
United States government against
the state of Oregon for possession
of the beds of Malheur, Mud, and
Harney lakes, which were turned
into a bird reserve by order of
President Theodore Roosevelt in
1908. Decision in the case has not
yet been given.
Appearing as a special witness,
Professor Clark gave the history of
the lakes, surrounding country,
excerpts from the diaries of fur
traders and travelers, and reports
of military officers who first vis
ited the Harney valley, as testi
mony. A part of the diary of A.
S. McQlure, who traversed the '
Harney region in 1853 was pre
sented. McClure was the father of
Edgar McClure, after whom the
building on this campus was
named.
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