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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1934)
New Grading System Tried By Dean Allen Grades Not to Be Put On Journalism Papers Students Should Measure Their Work by Constructive Improvement Kate A new experiment in grading will be attempted by Dean Eric W. Allen in his elementary jour nalism class for the rest of the term. Class papers will be copy read as usual, but no grades will be marked; so that students will take note of the constructive criti cism made of their work. Dean Allen believes that perhaps then instead of the students merely glancing at the grade and casting the papers aside, they will take time to read the criticisms, to won der how seriously the mistakes were regarded by the copyreader. In pondering over the mistakes, students will be more than likely to improve, or at least not to re peat the same errors. In declaring that an independent attitude toward education had been created, “I think that perhaps we, the faculty, are to blame,” he said. ‘‘We regard grades- almost as cur rency.” The dean believes that the work itself should be of paramount importance instead of grades. The present method of grading tends to set a low grade average for the class, Allen said. ‘‘A” stu dents usually do not try to im prove—the cease ot worry and ac quire an ‘‘easy-going attitude,” which an influence on the rest of the class. If a student gets a grade above this low class average, he thinks he is all right—he gets com fort from the knowledge that he is above average. “A” students, as well as other studnets, should be constantly trying to improve their work. Allen hopes that through this experiment, students will measure their work by the rate of improvement rather than the grade. Grades will be recorded and announced at the middle and end of the term. If the experiment works, the dean intends to follow the system the "rest of his teaching career.” Under the MIKEROSCOPE By JIMMY MORRISON rpHE “Rhythm Girls,” NBC vocal A trio, heard from New York, each enjoy the distinction of be ing an accomplished pianist. All three were part of a vaudeville act featuring eight pianos before they discovered their voices blend ed, which resulted in their air debut with Paul Whiteman’s joint. Paul also started the “Rhythm Boys.” Lawrence (Oscar) Wagner, trumpet player and director of Johnny Robinson's band, is mak ing quite a name for himself among band leaders all over the country. He has written arrange ments for Casa Loma, Don Bestor, Guy Lombardo (that’s their one good tune), Ben Bernie, and oth ers. Oscar has had offers to go to New York and write stock ar rangements—the ones that every little band in the country buy to play, like Holman and Burr—but Johnny has him under an iron clad contract for five years. “Osceh Waow Waow,” as Robin son’s boys often chose to call him, played legit solo trumpet here on the campus a few years ago. Guy Lombardo has II men in his band, but no fiddlers. That’s a point in his favor, because as a rule fiddlers drag over the notes and don't let the band go to town in its best style. Harry Barris, member of Paul Whiteman's original Rhythm Boys and composer of hits including “Little Dutch Mill,” “I surrender Dear,” “Lies,” and a host of oth ers, will be master of ceremonies at a new San Francisco night club opening May 17. No radio con nection has yet been announced, but KYA is acting sponsor for personal appearances. A1 Pearce's piano team of Jacqueline Archer and Earl Hatch harmonize so well at the keyboard noMe owMto €uceH<j own ■ O L O N I A I lt'« f, AlDfR STARTS TONIGHT— Hollywood Preview of House of Mystery (Temporary Title) GINGER ROGERS in "DON'T BET ON LOVE" Mickey Mouse—News No Raise in Prices All Seats lfie « Society « MARY LOUIEE EDINGER, Editor SATURDAY evening will be the scene of numerous and sundry sorority and fraternity dances. During the middle of the week ex change desserts play a prominent part in the social life of the Uni versity. Exchange Desserts Numerous exchange desserts are scheduled for the middle cf this week. Tonight Phi Delta Theta will entertain Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Sigma will entertain Gam ma Phi Beta, Kappa Kappa Gam ma, Beta Theta Pi; and Kappa Kappa Gamma to Beta Theta Pi. Tomorrow night Phi Mu will en tertain Phi Delta Theta and Sig ma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Kappa. Miss Endicott to Wed The engagement of Ellen Endi cott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Endicott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Endicott of this city, was announced Friday evening at a formal dinner at the Tiny Tav ern. Miss Endicott will be married in June to George Audren Am mann, son of O. H. Ammann of Boonton, New Jersey. Miss Endicott will graduate this spring from the University. Mr. Ammann is working for his doc tor's degree in Ornithology at the University of Michigan. She is a member of Kappa Delta and he of Sigma Pi. They will make their home in the east. Phi Kappa Psi to Entertain Members of Phi Kappa Psi will entertain the faculty with a formal dinner Thursday night. The guests will be Dean and Mrs. Virgil D. Earl ,Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Schwering, Dean and Mrs. Karl Onthank. Mr. and Mrs^ S. Ste phenson Smith, Joseph Angel. Mary Jean Warner. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. G. Thaeher, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chambers. Anniversary to be Celebrated Sigma Kappa will celebrate this evening with a dinner in honor of their house's birthday. Members and alumni will be present at the dinner which is to be held at the chapter house. Carmen Blaise is in charge of the arrangements. Clii f’sis to Entertain Stanley Haberlaeh is in charge of the Chi Psi upperclass dinner to be given Thursday evening at the chapter house. Banquet to Be Given The members of Beta Phi Alpha will be guests of the Corvallis chapter at the Founder's Day ban quet next Sunday. Betrothal Announced The engagement of Caroline Card, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Card of Portland, to Mar shall Wright, son of Mayor and Mrs. George F. Wright of Honolulu, was announced last night at a din ner at the Alpha Phi house. After dinner the Kappa Sigma house of which Mr. Wright is a member was invited in for dancing. They entertained with Hawaiian music. Miss Card is a member of Alpha Phi and Mortar Board. The couple will be married in the fall and will reside in Honolulu. Scanning the Cinemas McDonald — “Men in White," Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Elizabeth Allen. Also “You’re Telling Me,” W. C. Fields, Larry, “Buster” Crabbe, Joan Marsh. Colonial—“Don’t Bet on Love,” Lew Ayres, Ginger Rogers. Also mystery picture pre view. Name not announced. By J. A. NEWTON About Operations I am blessed, or am I cursed?—I with a roommate who thinks he’ll! be a doctor some day. He attended J “Men in White” Monday and came home to report that the operation i scene looked very authentic. The way they spend money on movies it is no wonder that they are occasionally accurate. In a case such as “Men in White” they usually hire a real physician to tell them how such scenes should 1 be done, and to pass their okay on the finished product. The most interesting part of it was the preparation for the opera tion, in which the docs and nurses washed their hands and disinfected themselves thoroughly. Story about a young interne who is torn between love for his pro fession as a service to humanity and love for his sweetheart, Myrna Loy, whom he wishes to marry. Drama built on the struggle re sulting in the decision. The biggest thing in W. C. Fields’ comedy is his trouble with inanimate objects. There is one sequence in “You’re Telling Me’’ which takes fifteen minutes, dur ing which he is trying to knock a golf ball off the first tee of a new golf course. Story about a. lazy blundering fellow with a flair for inventing who invents a blow-out proof tire which he sells and gets a lot of cash for (preposition!). Daughter in love with rich boy, but won’t marry her because he’s rich and .she’s poor, but every thing’s swell when papa sells the tire. Not Seen Colonial has a new show', “Don't Bet on Love," which sounds logi cal, if not amusing. Have nothing on it except that Lew Ayres is in it, with Ginger Rogers, who is making good, and who is a pretty, pretty girl. And just to add spice to the program the Colonial has a show the name of which they won’t an nounce. that in Portland the other day they became Mr. and Mrs. Joe Darby, Phi Delta Theta pi anist, played interpretations of the leading bands’ signature songs i while Ralph Schomp smoothly told the radio audience about them yesterday over KORE. Tune in today at 4:30 for Delta Tau Delta’s program. Fred Mc Kinney and the Delt trio will probably be the nucleus of the broadcast. LETTER FROM VILLARD FLAYS MILITARY DRILL (Continued From Pape One) tends to destroy individual initia tive. “Certaiftly, as I have said be fore," Mr. Villard writes, “there are infrequently better ways of using the money expended by the federal government. But if the federal government will not come to the support of higher education as it should in this national emer gency, then at least let thp col leges and universities refrain from wasting the time and effort now bestowed upon training for war when the wdiole moral and spirit ual world is doing its uttermost to abolish that institution, rightly called the “sum of all ivllainies," from this earth’. The preparation for it can never be anything else than instruction in an anti-moral, anti-social, and anti-Christian form of human behavior." Viilard’s deep interest in the University of Oregon and his con cern over its welfare has now been twice demonstrated since his visit here. In The Nation of March 25. he devoted an entire page to a | signed editorial article, lamenting i the financial difficulties of Ameri can higher education, as exempli- , fied by conditions in Oregon insti tutions. POLLS TO OPEN AT 9 FOR t<UEEN ELECTION (Continued from Payc One) campus for three quarters of an hour. The tie '. !; elected queen w ill be crowned on Friday of Junior Week end by the junior class president at approximately 12:45 at the cam pus luncheon. She and her atten dants will hold sway at the Junior prom Friday night and at the canoe fete Saturday night. Pic tures of the royal party will be sent out over the country through the NEA and will appear in papers. The committee in charge of the queen’s reign is as follows: Marie Saccamanno, chairman, Mike Pinkstaff, assistant chairman; Laura Goldsmith, secretary; Helen Wilson, costumes; Bob Zurcher, elections; Clayton Wentz, floats; Alberta Baldwin, flowers. HVOHALB 12:30 CONTINUOUS 11:30 • Now Till Thurs. • CLARK. ■^TTk VYJSIHJ plus" Kwama Pledges Freshman Coeds At Mortar Board 19 Outstanding Women Seieeted To Service Honorary a Feature of Ball Nineteen outstanding freshman; women were chosen at the Mortal Board ball to become members of j Kwama. sophomore women's serv ice honorary. They were selected on service, leadership, scholarship, and democracy. During the intermission the girls were tapped, a red rose wras pinned cn their shoulders, and they were led under an arch of swords j formed by members of Skull and ! Dagger. They then received a | pledge ribbon from Hazel P. j Schwering, dean of women, Alice B. Macduff, assistant .dean of wo men. and Adele Sheehy, president of the organization. Pledges to Kwama are as fol lows: Starla Parvin, Bette Church, Dorothy Hagge, Glendolene Vin yard, Lillian England. Elaine Corn ish, Eleanor French, Louise Lath am, Martha McCall, Marian John son, Cynthia Cornell. Thelma Cook, Marjorie Will, Betty Coon. Lee Chapman. Mildred Blackburne, Dorothy Dill, Marjorie Kissling, Margery Lee Morse. Present members of Kwama are planning a luncheon in honor of the new pledges some time this wreek. Pre-law Students Hear Faculty Talk About 30 pre-legal students, mostly sophomores and juniors who plan to enter law school next year, attended the pre-legal asso ciation's final meeting of the year last night and heard four mem bers of the law faculty describe the various freshman courses in law. Carlton E, Spencer described the first year course in legal bibliog raphy, stressing the importance of knowing how and where to find information. Paul E. Raymond de scribed the freshman course in torts; Charles G. Howard discussed the course in contracts; and Or lando J. Hollis described both the courses in common law procedure and criminal law. Last night’s meeting was the fourth meeting that the pre-legal Deadline for Payment On Third Installment Of Fees Is Moon May 5 Payment of third installments cn spring term fees should be made by Saturday noon. May 5, it was announced yesterday from the business offices in Johnson hall. Conditions for the payment of these sums will be the same as formerly, with 25 cents being charged students for every day after next Saturday that fees are not paid, until the final deadline May 12. group has held this year. At each of their meetings the future law yers heard speakers who gave them an insight into law school study and the legal profession. This year’s officers were Orval Thompson, president; Bill Schloth, Vice-president; and Nora Hitch man, secretary. Scientist Seeks Atoms In Dungeons of Deatly Wires! Batteries! Mirrors! Bot tles—labeled poison! A dark dun geon to study light rays. All this fantastic and weird equipment in order to experiment with tiny, un seen atoms. This spectographic work, car ried on in the lower regions of Deady by Dr. Norris and Hilbert Unger is for the study of molecu lar vibrations. “Wre have an idea, if we can only get it to work," said Dr. Norris. Recent Books Arrive For Library Shelves Among the recent fiction and non-fiction arrivals at the old libe are “Smirt” by Branch Cabell; “My House of Life” by Jessie B. Rittenhouse; “Bird of Dawning” by John Masefield; “Postman Al ways Rings” by James M. Cain; “The Oppermanns” by Lion Feucht wanger; “Here Today and Gone” by Louis Bromfield; “The New Dealers” by unofficial observers; “Long Remember” by MacKinlay Kantor; and “The Then Man” by Dashiell Hammett. “Lon Remember” is the Literary Guild’s selection for the month. Breaks South American Trail Vsftta " William Seymour, American, is shown above as he arrived in Rio lie Janiero after an automobile trip which begun at Panama, and blazed a trail down the west coast of South America to the Magellan straits and up the east coast to Brazil. Often he was forced to dig tempo rary roads, and resort to dynamite in order to get through the jungle. On the left Is Gesford F. Fine, United Press manager in Brazil; Samuel Todd Lee, United States consul general; Seymour, Brydon Taves of the U. P. and Mrs. Seymour, and William Seymour Jr. Graduate Office Gets Lists of USC Field Expeditions High Sierra Glacier, anti Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Trips To Cover Southwest The announcement of the 1934 field expeditions sponsored by the University of California, covering 3500 miles of territory this sum mer from June 9 to August 13, has been received at the graduate division office in Johnson hall, re cently. The High Sierra Glacier and the Rainbow Bridge—Monument Val ley expeditions—will cover a great part of the Southwest to pursue research in geology, topography, ethnology, archaeology and other sciences with a personnel of 10 specialists and a group of ad vanced university students or members of teaching staff, yet to be selected. “'This is not a deluxe expedi tion," emphasizes the pamphlet. “Each member of the party must expect to bear his share of camp duties such as gathering firewood, ‘rounding up’ pack animals, help ing in the commisary department, etc.” Qualifications for membership in the expeditions are based on physical health, technical or scien tific knowledge, camping expe rience and the will to work. Cost of the entire field period will be about $315, it is stated. These are the seventh and eighth expeditions organized and sent into the field for scientific exploration by Ansel Franklin Hall, chief of the division of edu cation and forestry of the national park service. Application blanks may be ob tained by writing Hall at 333 Hil gard Hall, University of California, Berkeley. California School Representative to Speak on Aviation Graduate of Boeing Will Present Program on Development Of Air Industry Don Walker, field representative for the Boeing school of aeronau tics at Oakland, California, will present an aeronautical program in Condon hall lecture room, Monday evening. May 7, it was announced by Karl W. Onthank, dean of per sonnel administration, yesterday. Motion pictures will be shown, recent developments in the avia tion industry and the vocational opportunities it offers well trained men will be discussed by Walker, who is a graduate of the Boeing school, and has been engaged in aviation for several years as a transport pilot. Time wiii also be available for any questions students may care to ask. Presiding at the meeting, which is open to all students interested in aeronautics, will be Warren D. Smith, professor of geology and geography. Haakon Hammer Visits on Campus Haakon H. Hammer, explorer, lecturer, syndicate writer, and rep resentative of the Price Radio bu reau of Los Angeles, was on the campus Tuesday on business. The Price Radio bureau is an association which controls news broadcasts, and is composed of the Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Uni versal News Service, and radio companies. The news services and broadcasting companies co-operate in presenting news twice a day. at 9:30 a. m. and 9 p. m. Hammer announced that there would be no objection to the se ries of news broadcasts given by Dean Eric W. Allen’s editing class, which was discontinued last term. Having accompanied Roald Amundsen on his North Pole expe dition in 1921-1925, Hammer lec tured and syndicated polar stories. He interviewed Mussolini in 1924, and plans to travel to Berlin in September. Hammer left for Portland where he will attend a conference on telegraphic tolls for distances. 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