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Timin'*
NOT entirely superficial was Lair Thompson's
figure of speech at the Mother's day banquet
last Saturday. The president of the Oregon Dads
pointed out that timeliness of action by any admin
istrative body is as important as good timing in a
golf swing, and then he made his point: that the
board of higher education should take immediate
steps to secure a successor to Chancellor Kerr, who
has announced lie will hold his office until a new
chancellor is appointed.
Lair Thompson’s words of advice should not go
unheeded. The board has sought, in recent months,
to rectify with as little commotion as possible its
previous errors of judgment and the blunders of its
agents. It displayed excellent judgment in the ap
pointment of Presidents Boyer and Peavy. A two
months truce in higher educational warfare culmi
nated April 1 (>, when Chancellor Kerr gave notice
of his intention to withdraw. To this point the
board's actions were well calculated to convey to
the entire state an impression of stability, sincer
ity, and orderly arbitration of controversies.
Now that Dr. Kerr has taken the long expected
step, however nothing can tie gained by delay in
t.he matter of selecting a successor. Higher educa
tional affairs will remain in a state of suspense
until the new selection is made. Parents of high
school graduates will continue to be fearful of send
ing their children to Oregon’s institutions until
'they know that those institutons are permanently
delivered from political manipulation and internal
dissension. Full confidence in Oregon education
cannot return until a successor to the chancellor
ship is named -a man whose educational and ad
ministrative reputation is widely and, favorably
known, and one who has never before been con
nected with higher education in this state.
The low level of enrollment 27 per cent under
pre-Zorn-Macpherson figures is indicative that
rapid, decisive action must be taken. If possible,
the new chancellor should be designated before the
opening of school next September, as Mr. Thomp
son recommends. The present period of virtual in
terregnum is hardly healthful to morale, is certainly
not conducive to a general restoration of faith in
Oregon higher education.
ilil and Miss
TJRACT1CALLY every senior becomes aware,
along during his last, term in school, that there
are a lot of courses he would have liked to have
taken, and a lot of them he did take that he re
grets; courses for which lie now feels a strong need
and Interest, and courses which have so far paid
off no bounty and show no promise of doing so.
Numerous devices have been set up to try to
offset this common complaint. Faculty advisers
and course catalogues, as well as older Students
whose advice is sought try to decrease the propor
tion of “dud” courses.
But faculty advisers and catalogues fail to a
large extent in the matter of working out a satis
factory curriculum. Advisers have to run through
the schedules of scores of students, few of whom
they know intimately, in a single day. Moreover,
they frequently display a startling ignorance of
courses outside their departments. Catalogues give
n rough idea of the content of a course, blit are
of little aid in indicating the ability of the professoi
and the more subtle phases of applicability.
Fall term, when the student is deciding the
whole year's policy, is congested with activities.
About 24 hours elapse between the receipt of tvgi.-.- ,
tration material and the filing of it. During winter '
and spring terms, the whole process of registration
is often accomplished within an hour or two, in
eluding conference with adviser. This element of
hurry is ruinous to careful selection of courses. To
be sure, students have more time than they usually
take, but it is necessary to register early to get
desired professors and hours before they are all
gone.
An extra day each term between the taking out
of registration material and the opening of the
wickets, it would seem, would not do irreparable
harm to the term's class schedule. It would allow
faculty advisers to make good use of their posi
tions, give students a chance to compare notes and
talk over the selection of courses, and pay itself
back with interest in a better balanced, more effi
cient college training.
Votes of Straw
A MOTHER of those straw votes which make up
-*■*- regular bids for circulation by the Literary
Digest has been set in m tion to test the popularity
of the New Deal. A cross-section of the nation’s
sentiment will be sought from the returns from
15,000,0f)0 ballots in what the Digest chooses to
call “a. national vote of confidence—or its oppo
site!”
Two questions are asked by the referendum:
"Do you approve on the whole the acts and policies
of Roosevelt’s first year?” and "For whom did you
vote in lft32?" The person favored by receipt of
a ballot merely inscribes two crosses, writes the
name of his state and drops the card in the mail
box. Ballots are secret and simplicity of the ut
most is a primary objective.
Assuming that the poll will provide as accurate
a cross-section of the nation’s citizenry as did those
in previous years on prohibition and presidencies,
grave doubts may yet be raised as to the signifi
cance of this latest project. The trouble, strangely
enough, lies with the form of the ballot itself.
Brevity has stolen its punch and refused the
balloter a chance to express his real opinions. On
a question so manifold and so vital as one year's
entire activity of a national administration, the
voter’s answer must be one of approval or of re
jection without qualification of any kind. Few
thinking men are willing to make such an answer,
and many of them will without doubt tear up their
ballots in disgust, leaving a greater burden of opin
ion to those inclined to make snap judgments and
to follow popular leaders.
And what will the results be worth? Practi
cally nothing, for already is known the weight of
sentiment in favor of the Roosevelt policies. If
the poll indicates nation-wide approval—and that is
practically certain—then the administration would
seem requested to continue its previous policies, or
to embark blithely on new ones.
If an unlikely disapproval is the popular man
date, then, as in British votes of confidence, the
administration may consider its policies condemned.
Being without practical means for wholesale resig
nation, Roosevelt’s staff might then return its
powers to congress or extend tentative feelers to
right and to left. But toward which? The Digest
poll gives no clue.
This latest test of the New Deal, though un
official, is a forceful reminder of an election held
last November in Germany. An overwhelming ma
jority of Germans in that election approved of the
Nazi program, and they voted on ballots that called
for one answer: Do you approve, Yes or No? The
Digest poll, however, cannot be taken seriously, for
it defeats its own purpose by the meaningless ques
tion it asks, and for its "take it or leave it" tactics
invites heartiest of disapproval.
On Other Campuses
A New Deal in Grades
*T>HE Oregon Daily Emerald announces a “new
deal’’ in grades, a system proposed by the dean
of the School of Journalism where comments in
stead of grades are placed on the students’ papers
a practice which has been carried out for years
by many professors at the University of Kansas.
By doing away with grades on papers the Ore
gon dean believes that the student will be prompted
to study the corrections on the returned paper more
carefully, which will be an incentive to improve
ment. With the old method there is a tendency
to toss a paper aside as soon as the grade has been
learned.
The plan does have many advantages. Com
ments are more personal than grades, and provide
a direct guide to improvement for the student. The
method also saves the less fortunate individual em
barrassment when prying eyes observe his record.
The Daily Emerald suggests that the old system of
grading is inclined to give rise in the class room
to a small social elite among the best students,
which carries with it too much prestige.
The method used by many of the instructors
on the Hill of Kansas is that of placing critical and
constructive comments within and often on the
back of papers. These are usually very carefully
read to ascertain the opinion of the instructor, and
also to gain a general idea of the rating of the
wotk. If desired, grades may usually be learned
upon request.
The passing of the old system does away with
the easy method of learning tIre grade at a glance
and discarding the work, and the new method calls
for mote careful examination. The former is a
hangover from grade school; the latter has proved
unusually successful, and is more befitting the al
titude of a college student. Daily Kansan.
Innocent
Bystander
By BARNEY CLARK
7E have heard that there will
be no big-shots at the Anti
Military Ball, but we are glad to
say that it is only a report. The
rumor that Colonel Barker will be
a patron is also false, or so w<
assume. Small-caliber minds will
accept it as true, however. They're
always gunning for somebody.
Sherwood Burr, campus dunce
U'.:t: prueticulh deeper
ate most of Hu- time. Ilis prize
hull fiddle player. Halt l>a\is.
has an unpleasant huhit of fall
ing in love w itli a new girl every
week, anil this takes tiis iniiul
off tiis work to sueli an extent
that lie ean Itarilly eoneentrate
enough to spin his "dog house"
around in his usual debonair
manner. Burr is worried all Un
tune for tear that he will ab
sent-mindedly let go of his in
strument and erush him (Burr)
under its weight. This weighs
on Burr so ninth that it aftoets
his playing, and thus afleets the
whole band. Bight now. the only
solution seems to be to get J'intl
married, but, unfortunately? he
won't nuke up his mind.
Chick 'Scoop'' Burrow \\ as
nearly killed the other night. Ill
rushed into the Kmerald office,
shouting "Have you heard about
the Prom Queen, have you heard j
about the Prom Queen ’"
"No," queries a stooge, "what |
about the Junior Weekend
Queen ?'*
“She's got Canoe Fete," chortles
Burrow, "shed got Canoe Fete!" i
Only the poor aim of the assent-j
bled member: saved him from, an
instant death.
OUDFN C.N VSiU.s
“t li.rmpague has a glint that is
cheery,
lint jour eyes will lose their
sparkle, dearie!” t
Iley Hu i halt loant. '
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The Trouble Maker
By STANLEY ROBE
Satisfaction Found in Exhibit
Lance W. Hart, assistant
professor of drawing and
painting, is now exhibiting a
collection of his pictures in
the McMorran and Washburne
gallery. It will be on display,
free to the public, for two
weeks. There are 75 pictures,
including oils, water colors,
monotypes, drawings, and va
ried types of each. Below is
an interpretation of the exhib
it, written by Robert D. Horn,
assistant professor .of English.
By ROBERT D. HORN
A TIRE ACTION. Satisfaction of
the hunger for color and for
frank, accurate portrayal of the
definite contribution of the one
man show by which Lance Hart
quietly announces to his many
friends, “After all, I am a painter.”
Perhaps he has been reluctant to
confess his classical purity of taste
in an age blatant with shaggy ro
manticism. Discreet, unassuming
design, subordination of the ego to
artistic integrity, fidelity to the
character of the subejct, such
things are most loudly praised af
ter the possesser of them is no
longer about to trouble us with a
sense of our own want of such well
manned poise. Rarely does an ex
hibit of work give one such a fresh
sense of the studio. Mr. Hart has
for the moment stepped out of the
room to let the pictures make
their own statement. We are un
disturbed by any admonition that
we must like this patch of tree
shadowed gray wall or that olive
green arrangement of dice and
quinces. And yet, these canvasses
are so clearly records of personal
experience that one senses that,
not only are they not for sale;
they are only to be had by adop
tion, if at all.
f|'HE exhibit is composed of over
lapping groups. The portraits
include not only the noncommittal
Swedish girls, but two equally ret
icent 'Swedish red barns. Land
scapes embrace and universalize
Aberdeen, Gray’s Harbor, and the
environs of Stockholm; but pene
trate the unfinished arrangement
in Red and Green and the rapidly
sketched pleasantries which include
an interpretation of the Millrace.
And everywhere secrets of formal ]
design are displayed, in still-life I
patterns of flowers, in mask-like
faces, and in the portraits and
landscapes again. It is this con
tinuity of trained yet unacademic
design that gives unity to a strik
ingly varied group of pictures. This
and the steady rejection of pose
or eccentricity define a style that
takes equal satisfaction in rich|
depth of tone in a mahogany table
top and in the high notes of red,
blue, and green in a rain-bright
ened street in Aberdeen, Sober,
warm varnish and electric, vibrant
pigments take their places in a
harmonized world of reception.
For showing so many qualities
that compel praise, Mr. Hart lays
himself open to a market peril. The
rest of us who only look at paint
ings are going to be tempted to
ask things that we should only
wait for. There is movement, for
example. Mastery of design too
easily stirs in us a discontent with
the sialic unless it aumits the pos
sibility of changing forms. The '
poised world too easily becomes
soundless and remote. Hence the
growing prestige of the bustle, the
detail, and naturalism of Peter
Breughel. Will Mr. Hart please in
terpret the massed types of Ore
gon campus life in Breughel's
idiom ? Then there is the passion
most of us feel for the perfec
tions of linear perspective since
we have glutted ourselves on the
dropsical elephantiasis of Picasso.
From Giotto to “Christopher Bean"
painters have been responsible for
making angles and rectangles in
teresting. Mr. Hart has made a
beginning here in wharf shanties
and an almost complete little card
board town. Will he please record
Pleasant Hill for us? In mural,
too, he has an enviable record. But
must he always formalize his fig
ures into sybolism ? Will he not be
so kind as to be a Mantegna or
Signorelli for us, and portray the
complexities of an age that is at
once atom-smashing and stream
lined ? Or will he oblige us by re
leasing his deft talent for mimicry
and give us some satirical pro
jections, since Rivera and Laning
and Stewart have done so ? Is it
any more rude to ask such favors I
than to demand encores from the:
Underwood String quartet ? The j
sixty-five paintings in this delight
ful exhibt convince one that it is I
not. It is only uncomplimentary I
to ask of an artist what he is in
capable of giving. Mr. Hart’s va
ried powers make us discontented
with certain areas of yet unpainted
canvas.
IVJOST tempting are the group
of small oils, mainly land
scapes to the right of the gallery
entrance. The true riches of the
exhibit seem to lie here, as two
larger oils show, they already are
receiving larger expression. Drift
ing smoke over a level river town;
devitalized tree branches shadowed
on the studio wall; living greens
cutting across each other in a park
recess, Roddersholm * Church in
Stockholm, red on gray; macabre
apple-trees in Sam Bonn’s orchard;
western sunset cut by a burnt pine;
—all these carry assurance of fu
ture painting of distinct impor
tance.
Highest claim to notice rests in
the Sunday Afternoon where snow
blanketed gables are dulled to a
mellow repose by winter twilight.
Hhere there is full assurance of
imaginative depth, of atmosphere.
In this work, in the grave strength
of the portrait above, and in the
unfinished portrait, Red and Green,
are combined a sense of created
(Continued on Page Three)
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The Safety Valve
An Outlet for Campus Steam !
All communications are to be addressed
to The Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald,
and should not exceed 200 words in
length. Letters must be signed, but
should the writer prefer, only initials
will be used. The editor maintains the
right to withhold publication should he
To the Editor:
I wish to elucidate a trivial dis
crepancy in connection with the
canoe race last Saturday after
noon. It is singularly inconse
quential and not one to be taken
seriously for it only means that a
world record has not been estab
lished by the Oregon braves and
their lady companions who so
sweatingly endured the mile and
one-quarter flaunt down the mill
race.
In explaining this incongruity
which seems to have bewildered
both contestants and spectators I
will go back two years and exca
vate the facts of the canoe race
that occurred in 1932. The time
keepers of that event purchased
their stop-watches at the five and
ten, supplemented those tinny toys
with a barrage of cast-off Big
Bens, broken- sun dials, electric
clocks without electricity, and fif
teen or twenty obsolete time
candles which blew out in the
wind.
Even with that array of modern
equipment, to say nothing of the
integrity of the time-keepers,- the
final decision of the judges ap
peared to have been spiked with
intoxication, idiocy, flat feet, and
suicide. Suffice to say that big
Bill Anderson, who finished his
heat 200 yards ahead of his near
est opponent, lost the race to a
contestant in the same heat who
came looping in to the tape 300
yards behind him.
In 1933 it is rumored that one
of the time-keepers of the canoe
race died of softening of the brain
while on duty, and that the other
five or six perished for no reason
at all. Consequently the timing
was left in the hands of a seven
year-old, half-witted imbecile who
was not only blind but also deaf,
dumb, and in the last stages of
sleeping sickness. That event was
correctly judged and the honors
were conveyed to the rightful vic
tors.
But last Saturday a new system
of timing was inaugurated. Twen
ty-five residents of an insane
asylum in California were bor
rowed to act as judges. To ar
rive at a decision they conceived
the following plan:
1. Those contestants who rode
in a green canoe, or who carried
a green canoe, or who didn't ride
in a green canoe were to receive
three points, and their time was
to be one hour and 22 minutes.
2. Those who didn't ride in any
canoe—11 points; time—14 min
utes.
3. Spectators—2? points; time
—5 minutes.
4. School teachers from Rose
burg who play grip-tag with op
ponent's canoe—14 points; time—
3 hours and 9 minutes.
5. Any one else—34 points;
time—you guess.
6. Judges—57,984 points; time
—any time.
Those contestants who, at some
time of the race, had the greatest
number of points combined with
the shortest time were to be
chosen winners.
At the close of the race the
judges perceived that they, had
emerged tirumphant, but in true
modesty they relinquished their
rightful claim, solved a problem
in algebra by means of wet gunny
sacks, philology, and paralysis,
jotted down three days, nine
hours, and called on a freshman
to pick the winner.
Therefore, dear reader, do not
be surprised when I tell you that
the victors of the race completed
the mile and one-quarter in less
than six minutes, a pace that not
even the finest paddlers in the
university, or in Oregon, or in the
United States could emulate if
they practiced all their lives.
P. M. A.
Library Has Volumes
On V ases in Museums
A set of four volumes, “Cata
logue of Vases in the British Mu
seums,’’ has been received by-the
old libe and will be ready for gen
eral circulation at a later date.
The books have been recommend
ed by several literary groups for
the study of Greek religion and
cultural development as depicted
on the vases of early civilization.
The books are picture studies of
the vases, accompanied by textual
material describing the craftsman
ship of the objects and giving an
understanding of the vase indus
try.
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