VOLUME XXXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1933 NUMBER 30 Students Rally To Support Of Faculty Action One Thousand Names Pledge Of Indignation Resolutions Circulated Over Campus COMMITTEE FORMED Reasons Given for Establishment Of Group by Tom Tongue; Response Is Quick Student indignation mounted rapidly yesterday against the at tack made on the University of Oregon by Roscoe C. Nelson, chair man of the state board of higher education. Before the day was over, more than 1000—1024 to be exact—students had signed peti tions endorsing the resolution passed yesterday by the faculty asking Nelson’s resignation from the board. First in the stirring course of the day’s events was the forma tion of a Committee of 50, headed by Thomas H. Tongue, president of the student body, to inform the students of the history leading to the present crisis, and to hold down any outbreaks that might reflect discredit on the University. Speakers Give History At noon speakers appeared in every living group on the campus, warning against demonstrations on the campus and at the annual Oregon-Oregon State game in (Continued on Page Two) k Gilbert Declares Resolution Denial Of Nelson’s Claim Unanimous Resolution Is Public Objection to Partisanship In Higher Education James H. Gilbert, dean of the college of social science, yesterday gave to the Emerald a statement declaring ihat the resolution of the faculty yesterday is a “public protest against partisanship in higher education” and a refutation of Roscoe C. Nelson’s claim that the faculty is divided in the ratio of 99 to one. The full text of Dean Gilbert’s statement follows: “The unanimity of the faculty vote on the resolution of protest should serve as a standing refuta tion of the claim that the faculty is divided in the ratio of ninety nine to one. There are more ‘Catilines’ and ‘maggots’ than Mr. I Nelson imagines. Never in many years has the University faculty exhibited more solidarity of inter est and esprit de corps than dur ing the past few trying days. Whatever their stand on some of the issues raised by Mr. Nelson they are one hundred per cent against the unbecoming partisan ship and abuse shown in increas ing degree in three successive ad dresses by the president of the board. The faculty, almost to a man, are opposed to the program of Hitlerizing higher education in Oregon. “The action of the faculty, it should be made clear, is in no sense related to inter-institutional i (Continued on Page Tivo) Oregon Dads, Mothers, and Federation Pledge Support 1933 NOV 6 AM 9 40 STERLING GREEN EDITOR EMERALD UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE ORG— DADS WERE ORGANIZED SEVEN YEARS AGO BEFORE UNI FICATION OF EDUCATIONAL CONTROL IN OREGON STOP THE CHARGE OF LAST THURSDAY AGAINST THE DADS IS FAUSE AND UNJUSTIFIED STOP AS TAXPAYERS AND FATHERS OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY WE HAD AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO SUGGEST THAT THE PLAN OF UNI FIED CONTROL WITH A PRESIDENT IN CHARGE AT EACH INSTITUTION BE CARRIED OUT STOP LAST WEEK’S OCCUR RENCES SHOULD MAKE CLEAR TO ALL WHAT MANY REALIZED WHEN UNIFICATION WAS ADOPTED STOP NOW HARMONY CAN BE ATTAINED ONLY BY A MAJOR OPERA TION STOP THE BOARD SHOULD PERFORM IT IMMEDI ATELY. W. LAIR THOMPSON. PORTLAND ORE NOV 6TH 1933. STERLING GREEN EDITOR THE EMERALD U OF O EUGENE ORE. THE OREGON MOTHERS WAS ORGANIZED IN WHAT MIGHT BE CALLED “PEACE TIMES” AND ITS OBJECTIVE WAS AND IS “TO SERVE IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY THE INTERESTS OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF ITS MEMBERS.” IT IS MOST UNFORTUNATE THAT AT A TIME WHEN IT WAS HOPED AND THOUGHT THAT PEACE AND HARMONY HAD BEEN RESTORED AND THAT HIGHER EDUCATION IN ORE GON WAS ON THE WAY TO BETTER THINGS, THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCA TION SHOULD HAVE FELT THE URGE OF APPEARING BEFORE THE STUDENT BODIES OF OUR TWO FINE MAJOR INSTITUTIONS AND REVIVING CONTROVERSY. ALTHOUGH THIS MATTER HAS BROKEN OUT OF A CLEAR SKY AND HAS BEEN PRECIPITATED SO SUDDENLY THAT A MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF OUR ORGANIZATION HAS NOT, AS YET, BEEN POSSIBLE, THE OREGON MOTHERS MAY BE DEPENDED UPON TO SUPPORT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE FACULTY AND STUDENT BODY AND ALL OTHERS HAVING FOR THEIR OBJECT THE ATTAINMENT OF THAT WHICH IS RIGHT AND PROPER AND FOR THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE UNIVERSITY AND STATE OF OREGON. THE OREGON MOTHERS FEEL THAT THIS IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY TO PLEDGE ANEW THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND TO ASSIST IN REESTABLISHING A HARMONIOUS SPIRIT IN THE CIRCLES OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN OREGON. HARRIET M. DIBBLE, PRESIDENT “THE OREGON MOTHERS’ ” EXTRA—PORTLAND ORG 6 440P STERLING GREEN EDITOR OREGON DAILY EMERALD EUGENE ORG— THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FEDERATION PLEDGES ITS WHOLE-HEARTED SUPPORT TO THE FACULTY AND STU DENT BODY AND TO THE EMERALD AND WILL STAND WITH YOU IN ANY CAUSE AFFECTING THE FTTURE OF OREGON’S UNIVERSITY— EARLE WELLINGTON. PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FEDERATION. ! Candidates for Rhodes Honor Selected Here Six University Students Named by Group SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE Brooke, Dunbar, Harrington, Hill, Hayter, Lanilye Successful Aspirants for Prize Six University of Oregon stu dents were announced Sunday as candidates for the Rhodes scholar ship by Dr. George Rebec, chair man of the examination commit tee. The six include James W. Brooke, Eugene, senior, German major; John Raine Dunbar, Eu gene, graduate student, English major; George Harrington, Eu gene graduate student, history major; Robert Hayteer, Dallas, medical school, medicine major; Irvin B. Hill, Cushman, graduate | student, economics major; James! T. Dandye, Portland, third year law student. “Among the 14 candidates to take the examination, not one was a failure,” declared Dr. Rebec. The ones selected will be sent to Port land to the state meeting, where they will compete with candidates from the entire state of Oregon. The Portland meeting will proba bly be held the latter part of Christmas vacation or the first part of January. The students chosen from the state meeting will attend the district meeting, which is usually held in Spokane, Wash ington. There two students will be chosen to go to Oxford. The fund which supports the Rhodes scholars was left by Cecil Rhodes, a South African billion aire, who was largely responsible for the building of the African part of the British empire. Students are selected also from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and other parts of the British empire. The examination committee con sists of Dr. Rebec, S. Stephenson Smith, Andrew Fish, A. R. R. Huestis, Clara Smertenko, and Mrs. Clara Fitch, secretary of the graduate division. Style Show to Be Featured at Next AWS Mass Meet Stylist From Portland to Present Latest Models, Fashions, With Description What the well-dressed college woman shall wear, how, when and | why to wear it, will be shown to the University of Oregon co-eds at' the first A.W.S. mass meeting to j be held tomorrow afternoon from ! 4 to 5:30 in Alumni hall or Ger linger, announced Virginia Hartje, general chairman. Modeling will be done from 4:15 to 5; tea will be served from 5 to 5:30. Miss Reisenrath, stylist from Charles F. Berg’s in Portland, will announce the models and give a I short description on the utility ofj each garment. There will be four models, also from Berg’s. The latest fashions in flannel pajamas, woolly robes, soft slip pers, form-fitting slips, dainty un dies and wearever sport socks will be shown. The girls will also model afternoon, and Sunday tea dresses; formal and informal din-j ner gowns, informal dance dresses,1 and trailing gowns for formal dances, featuring the jacket com bination. Members of the committee as sisting Miss Hartje with arrange ments for the event, which has proved so popular with the co-eds last year, are Jean Kinney, invi tations; Catherine Coleman, re freshments and serving; Reba Herns, properties; Elizabeth Rix, music; and Henriette Horak, pub licity. A Reply to Mr. Bryson (EDITORIAL) T~\EAN MORSE declared in his spirited address to the alumni Saturday that a group of men in Eugene had presumed to speak for the faculty of the Uijiversity when the chancellor was selected, and he named five individuals. The only one of these men who undertook to issue a statement was E. R. Bryson, and he declared that these men “spoke for the business men of Eugene and many of its citizens.” It*will be unnecessary to enlarge upon the fact that Mr. Bryson also declared that the statement of Dean Morse did not represent the attitude of most of the deans and many of the older faculty members, because the faculty’s declaration of unanimous support to Dean Morse shows that statement to be in error. The Emerald believes it is able to present evidence that the majority of Eugene’s business men were not even consulted when the group expressed itself as favoring Dr. Kerr, and that a majority of Eugene’s business men were not in favor of Dr. Kerr’s selection at that time. As evidence we submit the results of a survey of 112 Eugene business men undertaken by a group of interested students shortly after the close of school in June. Three questions were asked and the replies were faithfully recorded. The questions were as follows: “Were you interviewed at the time the deal was made?” “Were you in favor of Dr. Kerr at that time?” “Do you favor Dr. Kerr now?” (The survey was completed on .Tune 14.) The results are hereby submitted. Were you interviewed? No . 78 Yes . 21 Didn’t live here at time . 3 Has no opinion . 4 Declined to comment . 1 Doesn’t remember . 5 112 56 30 3 18 5 In favor of Kerr now? No . Yes . Has no opinion . Declined to comment . Had just settled in Eugene 112 Naturally, there were many wh