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
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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
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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<? would express no opinion,
many who made evasive replies, many who declined to answer. In
some cases those interviewed intimated that they did not personally
favor the selection of the present chancellor, but believed in the
interests of peace and expediency his selection should be accepted
quietly. In such cases the reply in the above tabulation is listed
as “yes.” We believe we have been perfectly impartial in the tabu
lation and are ready to submit it for inspection to an impartial
scrutiny.
It is to be remembered that this survey was conducted at a
comparatively quiet period in the history of higher educational con
troversy, and that undoubtedly many who reserved comment at.
that time would, in the light of recent attacks upon the University,
be much more outspoken. It should also be remembered that this
survey covers only the more populous business districts, where in
terest was most intense at the time of the selection of a chancellor:
the great mass of small businesses in outlying sections is not in
cluded, or the answers to the first question would probably show
an even more significant ratio than 78 to 21.
The Emerald believes that these figures are irrefutable and that
they completely nullify the statements of Mr. Bryson.
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In favor of Kerr then?
No .
Yes .!..
Didn’t live here at time
Has no opinion .
Declined to comment ...
All independent men and women
who have not signed the student
Nelson resolution sign at the Co-op
today.
Kwama, sophomore women’s
service honorary will entertain
Skull and Dagger, sophomore
men's service honorary at dinner
in the Alpha Phi house tonight at
G p. m.
All members of the committee
of 50 are requested to call Tom
Tongue at the Chi Psi house be
fore 11 o’clock this morning. Very
important.
The industrial group of the Y.
W. C. A. meets tonight at 8 at the
bungalow. Dr. Cornish will lead a
group discussion on problems of
commodity buying. Men and wo
men are invited.
Hendricks hall will have pictures
| taken at Kennell-Ellis studio, 957
j Willamette, today.
The Allied Arts league will meet
; Thursday, November 9, in room
| 107 in the Architecture building at
2 p. m. Plans for the Beaux Arts
ball will be discussed.
Refreshment committee for the
sophomore informal meets at 4:30
this afternoon at the Kappa house.
W. A. A. council meeting to
night at 7:15 in social room.
Folklore group meets at 4 this
afternoon in the A.W.S. room to
make plans for term. All interest
ed please come.
Theta Slg meeting, 4 o’clock
104 Journalism, today.
Women’s debate squad will meet
Wednesday at 7:30 in Friendly
hall.
A.W.S. speakers committee will
meet this afternoon at 5 at the
College Side inn.
I’hi Beta will meet tonight at 7
in Gerlinger hall.
Mum sale representatives will
meet upstairs in the College Side
at 4 today. Since this is the last
meeting, it ij important that ev
eryone come.
; ASUO to Issue
Free Rooters’
Lids for Game
Unity in Cheering Group
Sought hy Vail
ONLY 500 AVAILABLE
Students Held Responsible and
Must Pay One Dollar if
Hats Are Lost
Rooters’ lids will be issued free
of charge to men students hold
ing student body cards beginning
Wednesday morning at 8 o’clock
at a booth to be constructed be
tween Oregon and Commerce
halls.
The Associated Students by vote
of the executive council, supplied
the funds for 500 lids of the same
quality formerly sold for .ft. They
are not to be given away, but are
to be issued in the same manner
as athletic equipment and must be
returned during spring term. Each
student will be responsible for his
lid and for any lost or stolen there
will be a charge of $1 taken from
the student's deposit.
Number Limited
Since there is a limited number
of the new lids, students possess
ing old ones are requested by Tom
Stoddard, assistant graduate man
ager, to wear them.
In order to get a seat in the
rooters’ section it will be neces
sary to wear both the rooters’ lid
and a rally tie, according to
Mickey Vail, chairman of the rally
committee. By reversing some of
the lids in the rooters’ section
there will be the letters ORE
spelled out on a green background,
and it will be necessary for the
whole group to be uniform or the
effect will be lost.
Tongue Urges Support
“If every Oregon man wears a
rooters’ lid at the game Saturday,
and if he really helps to build the
spirit and unity of the rooters’
section not only for this game but
in the games in following years,
I feel that the associated students
will have made a real investment,”
said Tom Tongue, A. S. U. O. pres
ident, yesterday.
The graduate manager’s office
suggests that due to the limited
number of lids, that men call at
the booth as early as possible on
Wednesday as there will be no
more available when the supply
runs out.
750 Reservations
Given Co-eds for
U O - OSC Game
Women's Student Cards Must Be
In by Noon Thursday; Train
To Leave Saturday
Women’s tickets for Saturday’s
game distributed at the booth be
tween Oregon and Commerce halls
yesterday numbered 750 of the to
tal of 830.
Women are required to ex
change their student body cards
for reserved seats before they
leave Eugene. They will be given
a return train ticket upon show
ing their game ticket to the con
ductor on the way to Portland.
Tickets will be exchanged until
Thursday at noon. After this time
it will be impossible for any wo
man to obtain a student ticket.
Men will not exchange their stu
dent body cards but will show
them on the train, at which time
they will also be given a return
ticket. The cards will be taken
up at the gate of the game.
The rally train, which is the
only train on which' students may
ride to Portland, will leave the
depot at 7:30 a. m. Saturday. It
is possible, however, to return on
any regular Southern Pacific serv
ice. There will be trains at 7:45
p. m. and 9:50 p. m. Saturday;
and 8 a. m., 7:45 p. m. and 9:50
p. m. Sunday leaving from the
Union depot in Portland.
Resolution Demands
Nelson Resignation
As State Board Head
Request Made First by Law Seliool Dean
At Homecoming Luncheon:
Approval Unanimous
The resignation of Roscoe G. Nelson from the chairmanship of
the Oregon state board of higher education was demanded by the
University faculty in a resolution passed unanimously at a special
meeting yesterday in Guild hall.
Wayne L. Morse, dean of the law school, had demanded Nelson’3
resignation in a speech at the Homecoming alumni luncheon Saturday
noon at the John Straub Memorial building. The faculty action offi
cially sanctioned Morse’s stand.
The resolution declares that “tactless, discourteous, and unfounded
aspersions” hcfc'e been "cast upon the University of Oregon, its stu
dents, and the members of its faculty.” It charged Nelson with
Note to Alumni
Through the genero.sity of a
loyal friend of the University,
it has been possible to mail
this issue of the Oregon Daily
Emerald to all alumni residing
in the state of Oregon.
I welcome this opportunity
to urge all alumni to acquaint
themselves through the col
ums of this newspaper and by
whatever other means possible
with the facts surrounding the
recent developments in higher
educational circles of the state.
It is a critical situation that
faces your alma mater—a sit
uation that merits your intelli
gent understanding of the
principles involved.
Despite the overwhelming
amount of material presented
in this issue of the Emerald,
there is one fact that must re
main clear: namely, that the
fight the faculty and the Uni
versity are waging for freedom
and fair play is not a fight be
tween institutions nor two fac
tions of divergent educational
thought, but a fight to obtain,
as Dean Morse says, "leader
ship with a perspective,” or, in
other words, leadership that is
free from political shackles,
bias and partisanship.
Your University cannot hold
the place you cherish for it
among the great institutions of
the country if its faculty feels
that unjust criticism and op
pression is being placed upon
it from above. The University
needs today, as does all higher
education, your sympathetic
understanding and your en
couragement in a campaign to
end the forces that have been
strangling true educational
ideals.
ROBERT K. ALLEN,
Aiumni Secretary
¥ partisan commitments and revival
of unnecessary antagonisms," in
speeches which he gave on the
Eugene and Corvallis campuses
last Thursday. Copies of the reso
lution were ordered sent to Gov
ernor Meier and members of the
state board.
Morse Makes Statement
Morse last night declared, “As a
result of the faculty's action, X
feel that any further statement
from me in regard to Mr. Nelson's
speeches and his replies would be
superfluous. I wish to repeat
what T said in faculty meeting
this afternoon: that I have a deep
personal affection for Mr. Nelson
no matter whal personal abuse he
or others heap upon me. I shall
confine myself to the basic issues
involved in the controversy which
involves the very perpetuation and
preservation of the University.
"In regard to Dr. Kerr’s state
ment to the press, I wish to say
that I shall answer it in his pres
ence at the next meeting of the
faculty. Suffice for now, I wish
to call attention to one glaring
fallacy in his argument on the
budgets. By hypothesis, suppose
X has $100 and 20 per cent of it
is taken away from him, and sup
pose Y has $10 and 18 per cent
of it in, taken away from him.
Query: Comparatively speaking,
which man, X or Y, would suffer
most?” _
Nelson Comments
Roscoe C. Nelson, president of
the state board of higher educa
tion, had been advised Monday
evening of the action of the Uni
versity of Oregon faculty and is
sued the following statement:
“No necessity exists for any ex
tended statement. I shall be guided
fully by my conception of what
the public interests require. The
importance of the cause of higher
education far transcends that of
any individual or group of«indi
viduals. If 1 yielded to my in
clinations I would retire at once
and thereby remove myself from
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Election to Friars Climaxes
Busy Homecoming Weekend
Friars, senior men's honorary,
inducted seven outstanding seniors
into the organization at the Home
coming dance held Saturday at
the Igloo.
Jack Cate, economics major, and
chairman of the Homecoming com
mittee; Ed Martindale, political
science major, and president of the
senior class and interfraternity
council; Mickey Vail, physical edu
cation major and yell king; Dick
Near, law student prominent in
campus activities; Glen Hieber,
law student, chairman of the con
stitutional committee; Mark Tem
ple, physical education major and
co-captain of the varsity football
team; and Gilbert Olinger, busi
ness administration major, and
captain of the basketball squad
were those admitted.
The homecoming dance was a
finale to a very busy weekend,
consisting of the rally, journalism
jam, alumni luncheon, and the
Utah football game.
Prizes awarded to the winning
houses for the best floats in the
rally parade were: Pi Kappa Al
pha and Chi Omega Mrs. Walter
Cook trophy for the women's
house and the Bristow trophy for
the men’s house, forty admissions
to the McDonald theater for each
house: Sigma Kappa and Alpha
Phi $2.50 merchandise order from
Aladdin gift shop for the women’s
house and a $2.50 merchandise or
der from White’s Inc. for the men’s
house, and a $2.50 order from Mc
Morran and Washburne for each
house; Sherry Ross hall and Kap
pa Kappa Gamma, $3 merchandise
order from Babb’s hardware store
for the men’s and a $3 order from
Skeie’s for the women’s house.
All trophies and prizes were
presented to the winning teams by
Mrs. Walter Cook, honorary presi
dent of the Oregon Mother's club.
Phi Gamma Delta and Pi Beta
Phi, although winning no prizes
received honorable mention in the
parade.