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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1935)
Strawberries VOLUME XXXVI With the mysterious, now un known strawberry queen reigning over all, campus frolickers will eat strawberry sundaes and dance to night at the annual strawberry festival. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1935 Board Deliberates The state board of higher educa tion, although announcing’ its in tention to keep the chancellorship position, revealed no successor to' l»r. W. Kerr late last nigh. NUMBER 125 Raymond C. Brooks J Chosen as Speaker For Baccalaureate ‘World Situation'’ Topic Of Pastor's Sermon To Graduates Villard Gives Topic Activities Calendar Has Variety of Events By Jane Lagasse Dr. Raymond C. Brooks, profes sor in religion at Pomona college, Claremont, California, was an nounced last night as the speaker for the senior baccalaureate sermon by J. H. Gilbert, chairman of the committee selecting the speaker. “The Challenge of the Present World Situation,” will be the topic of Dr. Brooks’ address. The speak er started his ministerial career here in Eugene as pastor of the First Congregational church and in replying to Dean Gilbert expressed his pleasure in being able to return to Eugene and meet old friends. \ ulard Names Topic Dean Gilbert also announced that Dr. Oswald G. Villard, speaker for commencement, had wired in ans wer to question as to his topic, that it would be “Youth and the Re public.” Dr. Villard will be accom panied here by Mrs. Villard and son Oswald. Final social activities of the members of the class of ’35 have been scheduled on the calendar of events of the commencement sea son. The seniors will be fed, ser monized, and ceremonialized in the three or four days preceding- the last gesture—graduation. Caps, Gowns Garb They will march in a body, clad in cap and gown, at both the bac calaureate and the commencement exercises. Since the transfer in 1932 of the Sunday services from the downtown church, they have been permanently located in Mc Arthur court. Full instructions regarding time and place of processions and the part which each graduate will play in the exercises will be supplied from the alumni office during the week preceding commencement. Speech Contest Slated The Failing-Beekman contest to be held at the music auditorium Friday evening, June 14, will at tract a large number of seniors (Please turn to page tzvo) Freshman Class Plans for Picnic Ralph Cathey, freshman class' president, announced yesterday the selection of a committee to make arrangements for a ‘frosh class picnic to be held soon. No date has been set and the class will attempt to get permission for the event to day from the personnel division. Cathey named„Clyde Keller and Richard Sleeter as co-chairmen of the proposed event and they named the following assistants: food, lone Miller and assistant, Charles L. Edmonds; sports, Lyle Baker; patrons, Noel Benson; music, Betty Bean; finance, Albert Carter; transportation. Ralph Cathey; en tertainment, Robert Wilhelm. Campus Calendar Pi Mu Epsilon picnic scheduled for today is postponed. Kwamas and pledges will meet at noon today at the Anchorage for lunch. Strawberry festival queen com mittee meeting 12:30 at College Side. Very important! Phi Chi Theta will hold a very important meeting 105 Commerce .today at 5 o'clock. Alpha Delta Sigma will meet at 4 o’clock in Mr. Thacher's office today. All members are to be pres ent. Band men going to Lebanon will hold a special rehearsal Wednes-j day, May 29. I Stparns Asks Ones Who Want Oregana Work to See Him Freshman and sophomores de siring positions on the 1936 Ore gana are requested to see or telephone Newton Stearns, busi ness manager, before the end of this week. The staff is being organized now to begin work early in fall term of next yepr. Donald Sterling To Speak June 5 To Emerald Staff Robert Lucas Announces Year’s Workers Donald Sterling, managing edi tor of the Oregon Daily Journal published in Portland, has con sented to give the address at the Emerald banquet, Grant Thuem mel, Emerald Business manager, said yesterday. The banquet will be held June 5 at the Del Hey Cafe and will be for those students who have worked on the Emerald news and business staffs. William E. Phipps, editor, and Thuemmel will invite the special guests for the free dinner, which is to start at 0 o’clock. Robert Lucas, the editor of next year’s Emerald, will announce his staff at the banquet. OSC Professor Boswortli Dies Prof. E. E. Bosworth, head of :he business administration depart partment at Oregon State, died at Iris home Friday morning follow ing an illness since the end of the second quarter of the school year. Professor Bosworth has been read of the department since 1932, rnd has been a member of the fac rlty of Oregon State college for line years. Funeral services were held ycs :erday morning. YMCA, YWCA Give Picnic Tomorrow The YWCA and YMCA will hold a picnic Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock as part of a rally pro gram for the Seabeck conference. The picnic will be held at Skin ners Butte memorial park. Short talks, songs, swimming and even a ball game l.V*s been planned by the program committee. Women from the YWCA will furnish the food for the picnic supper at 6 o’clock and the men will each bring 10 cents to defray their share of the expenses. Evryone interested is invited to take part in this picnic. Cars will be at the YMCA hut and the YWCA bungalow to transport the picnickers to Skinners Butte park at 5 o’clock. Carruth Gives Vocal Recital in Autorium Don Carruth, baritone, appeared in a recital last night in the school of music auditorium. Byrle Ramp accompanied him on the piano. The recital was held under the auspices of the University school of music. Compositions from the following composers appeared on the program: Handel, Arne, Mes sages Manney, Burleigh, Tschai kowski, Schubert, Ireland, Som ervell, Brown, and Aylward. Advertising Managers Meet; Thacher Speaks Dean Eric W. Allen, Prof. W. F. G. Thacher, and Prof. Arne G. Rae attended the advertising managers’ meeting in Portland. Invitations were extended to each newspaper in Oregon to send a representative. Mr. Thacher reviewed the “Adver tising Agency Compensation Con troversy.” "35 Oregana Distribution Starts Soon Stearns Names Bikman. Morrow, Hill on 1936 Staff Other Members Will Gel Appointments Later The 1935 Oregana will be com pleted and ready for distribution by the first of next week, Newton Stearns, business manager, said last night. The index, which is of necessity the last part of the book to be finished, was completed yes terday and the book has been sent to Portland to be bound. Persons desiring copies of the Oregana, who have not previously subscribed may have their names put on the waiting list at the grad uate manager's office in McArthur j court. All Copies Contracted While all the available copies have been subscribed for, ordinar ily a few subscriptions are not paid in full and are canceled. Notices have been sent to all subscribers who have not finished paying for their copies, and the subscriptions must be paid in full by the time the book is issued, or they will be canceled. 1936 Staff Named Stearns also announced the ma jor staff appointments for the 1936 Oregana as follows: Sam Bikman, senior in science, assistant business manager; Edward Morrow, junior in law, advertising manager; and Richard Hill, sophomore in science, circulation manager. Bikman held the position of cir culation manager of this year’s Oregana, while Morrow was assist ant advertising manager, and Hill was assistant circulation manager. Appointments to fill the offices of organization manager and of fice manager will be made at the beginning of next term. Winner of Medal To Be Announced Winner of the silver medal given by the French government for the best French student at the Uni versity for the year 1934-35 will be revealed on the commencement' program June 17, Dr. Ray P. Bowen, head of the Romance lan guage department, announced yes terday. The medal is the gift of the French government through the minister of foreign affairs and Consul de Bellefon of Portland. It is awarded only at Universities where the department of French has a recognized high standing. “The winning student,” declares Dr. Bowen, "must have maintained a record for work of the highest quality; have taken as many ad vanced French courses as possible, and must have done considerable independent reading outside of class requirements. Army Rates ROTC Unit as Excellent A rating of "Excellent” was awarded the ROTC unit of the University of Oregon as a result of the annual inspection made by officers designated by army head quarters, according to a letter re ceived by Dr. C. V. Boyer from Paul B. Malone, major general of the United States army All ROTC units received rating of "excellent,” "satisfacto-y,” or “unsatisfactory,” judged from the inspections at different times of the year by Col. Halsey E. Yates, Major O. R. Hines, and Gen. Paul B. Malone of the army. Hood River High First In Chemistry Contest Hood River high school won the annual chemistry contest spon sored by the Oregon section of the American chamical society it was announced today by A. H. Kunz, assistant professor of chemistry at the University, who is in charge of the contest. Marshfield and Grants Pass high schools tied for second place. A gold plated volumetric flask suitably engraved will be awarded to the winning team coached by J. H. Crenshaw, University of Ore gon graduate. r Lady Capulet u -I** Cynthia Liljeqvlst, one of th( stars of the “Trial of Mary Dugan shows her versality as she, witli Director OttUlie Seybolt, plays tht role of Lady Capulet in the pro duction “Romeo and Juliet” start ing tomorrow at the Terrace theater. Romeo and Juliet Opens for Six Day Run Wednesday Robinson Directs Stage Setting for Play Romeo and Juliet, University theater production under the di rection of Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt, will open tomorrow night on the cam pus at the Terrace open air thea ter between the old libe and Vil lard hall. The play will run for six days. Last year the group produced Shakespeare’s "Taming of the Shrew,” and with a year’s expe rience for them Mrs. Seybolt is very optimistic concerning the re ception the play will receive. A great deal of time and work has been put into the erection of the stage and outdoor settings by Horace Robinson and his crew of workmen. Costumes have been under the supervision of Alice Hult who is working in the new costume room of the department located in S. H. Friendly hall. Wednesday Ends Editions of Daily; Shock in Silence And the life of the Emerald draws to a close. Tomorrow', with a six page paper, will see the last issue of the campus paper until the staff is reorganized for work in the coming fail. The shack will be quiet and des olate. The w'alls will re-echo every footstep, every spoken word, even though it be only a whisper or a sigh. Solitary shadows will slant through the windows and play up on the typewriter keys that will be quieted of further work. Student journalists will gather round in the empty rooms. No one will say any thing though. The Emerald dies but it will come to life again—next fall. Legal Fraternity Initiates Women Phi Delta Delta, women's pro fessional legal fraternity, initiated Katherine Karpenstein of Eugene and Nora Hitchman of Portland Sunday morning, May 26. at the St. Andrews hotel in Portland. The ceremonies were followed by a breakfast given in honor of the newly initiated members. Miss Karpenstein is taking law work in the University and is law librarian here. Miss Hitchman is a first year law student. Master Dance Holds Tryouts for Women Meinoers of Master Dance will hold tryouts for all girls who have had two terms of interpretive dancing, or previous lessons Wed nesday night at 7:30 in Gerlinger hall. The dances will be judged on their techniques, original composi tion, and improvising ability. Strawberry Festival Set For Tonight Sundaes, Dancing Offer Food, Frolicking For Campus Specially Elected Queen to Head Ceremony Strawberry sundaes and dancing will hold sway tonight as studying and thoughts of exams are dis carded for an hour and a half of fun at the annual Strawberry fes tival. All living organizations will have a five-thirty dinner tonight and will serve no dessert in order to enable the whole campus to be at the faculty tennis courts at 6 o’clock. Large, fresh strawberry sundaes will be sold for only 10 cents apiece. Three booths will be erected on one of the tennis courts for the sale. Procession at 6 Promptly at 6 o’clock a royal procession will start in the vicinity of Deady hall, headed by the Strawberry Queen who has been carefully selected by a committee of 12 men and whose identity will be revealed tonight for the first time. A spectacular coronation will take place on the ground just above the tennis courts as a grand climax to the procession. The following men compose the committee of 12 who were respon sible for the selection of the queen and her court; Ed Kendall, Wally Hugg, Tom McCall Ralph Terjeson, Budd Jones, Tom Blanchard, Fred Fisher, Ron Gemmell, Robert Lu cas, Cosgrove LaBarre, and Jack Campbell. Arrangements for a special five (Please turn to page three) Kwamas Pledge At Mortar Board Ball Ceremony Sophomore Honoraries Take Charge Nineteen outstanding freshmen women received the highest honor possible for their class when they were pledged to Kwama, sopho more women's service honorary, at the Mortar Board ball held last Saturday night in the Osburn ho tel. Members are chosen each spring at the traditional ball as they are tapped by those chosen the year before. After they were tapped the membrs and the new pledges marched under a narch of swords held by old new members of Skull and Dagger, sophomore men’ ser vice honorary, to be received by Hazel P. Schwering, dean of wo men, and Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, assistant dean of women, who pinned on the pledge ribbons. The nineteen honored were: Kathleen Duffy, Vivian Emery, Gretchen Smith, Beverly Burkitt, Isobelle Miller, Olive Lewis, Betty Rosa, Doris Mabie, Elisabeth Tur ner, Marjorie Gearhart, Betty Bean, Gladys Battleson, Constance Kletzer, Erma Huston, Joanne Par rot, Hallie Dudrey, Gayle Buchan an, Genevieve McNiece, and Jean Ackerson. Ten to Take Foreign Trade Board’s Exams The Foreign Trade advisory board is giving the written exam inations some time the end of this week, and the oral exam will be held Monday, June 3. The 10 students taking the exam ination include: Loyd Deeds, James Frantz, Fred Fisher, Glen Halla day, Leo Jacobs, Jakob Koop, Nor man Roth, Robert Stranix, Fred Whittlesey, and William Russell. Student FERA Work For Month Must Be Completed June 15 The committee of Federal Re lief for students announced that all students employed on FERA work during the month of June must work their allotment of hours between June 1 and June 15. State Board Retains Office of Chancellor; Faculty Shifts Made Four Oregon Professors Given Advancement In Title Taylor Heads Psycli Additional Instructors In Five Courses Are Authorized In addition to working on the chancellor situation yesterday the board handled routine business and announced the adoption of the 1935-36 budget and the advance ment in rank of several faculty members. Faculty changes included: in crease of the salary of A. T. Gill, O. S. C. basketball and baseball coach, from $3,000 to $4,000; ad vancement of Howard R. Taylor to the head of Oregon’s department of psychology, succeeding Dr. Ed mund S. Conklin, resigned; ad vancement to rank of Professor of S. S. Smith (English), E. P. Kramer (German) and Louis A. Wood (economics), all of the Uni versity; change to 12-months ser vice of O. F. Stafford, dean of the University lower division; appoint ment of Warrine Eastburn in structor of physical education; and authorization for additional in structors in mathematics, chemis try, biological science and home economics at the University. Budget Adopted The total budget for higher edu cation the coming year is $2,404, 169.29 which is still 34 per cent under the 1929-30 budget. Accord ing to Finance Chairman E. C. Sammons, decreases in taxable val uations in the state virtually offset the levies restored, and operations will still be on a rock bottom basis. No effort was made to alter the (Continued from Page Two) Advertisers Hold Eugene Conclave Saturday, June 1, the annual Gamma Alpha Chi and Alpha Delta Sigma advertising conclave will take place. At the joint banquet at the Eugene hotel, Mack Wilkins, president of the Wilkins and Cole advertising agency, will be princi pal speaker. Leith Abbot, adver tising manager of the Southern Pacific, will act as toastmaster. To the most outstanding man in upperclass advertising a new $100 scholarship prize will be awarded. At 5 o’clock Saturday, just pre vious to the banquet, Alpha Delta Sigma will hold its initiation in the men's lounge at Gerlinger. The Gamma Alpha Chi formal initia tion is to be held Sunday, June 2, at the Eugene hotel. Library Gets Book By Former Student "Dr. Mallory,” by Alan Hart, a 'ormer student at the University, aas recently been published and received at the library, M. H. Douglas, head librarian, announc ;s. Mr. Hart was a student in the nedical school in Portland as well is here on the campus. The novel deals with the life of Ftobert Mallory, who with his wife, jetties in a picturesque salmon 'ishing village in Oregon and un lergoes great sacrifices to accom plish his full service to humanity. Parsons and Kehrli On Organizing Tour Philip A. Parsons, professor of sociology, accompanied by Herman Kehrli, director of the municipal research bureau, are at present on i tour including Marshfield, Co juille, Port Orford, Gold Beach, md Roseburg, to organize county planning commissions in the var ious communities. Mr. Parsons will spend a short time in Portland be fore returning to the campus the latter part of the week. Libe Hours Shifted For Wednesday and On Memorial Day The library hours for Wednes day, May 29, and Thursday, Me morial day, May 80, will be changed Mr. Douglass, head li • brarlan, has announced. On Wednesday, May 29 the reserve departments will be open from 7:45 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. And on Thursday, May 30, from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. The circulation and reference department hours will not be changed on Wednesday. Thurs day the hours will be from 9:0<) a. m. to 6:00 p. m. Students Receive Notice of Opening Of Vacation Work Biology, Botany, Geology Training Neetletl Communications have been re ceived by Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geography and geology department from the National Park service offering summer work for qualified men students who have had courses in geology, biology, or botany. The work will be in the CCC camps throughout the country, where the students will be “helpers in the educational program of the National Park service,” aiding in conducting of field trips, prepara tion of museum exhibits and wild life activities. Thirty dollars a month and living expenses will be paid for the work. Men accepting the positions will pay their trans portation to the camp, but will re ceive government transportation back. Students intersted in the summer work are requested to see Dr. Smith for further information. Arthur Gray to Direct South Carolina Drama Arthur Gray, ’30, of Eugene’s drama circles and one of the foun ders of the Very Little theatre here, has been appointed head of the drama department of Furman university at Greenville, South Carolina. Mr. Gray will direct the civic theater in addition to his work at the University. Following his graduation from Oregon, Mr. Gray did graduate work at Cornell, later teaching for some time in the Sioux Falls col lege in South Dakota. Mrs. E. W. Gish, 1919, Returns to Eugene Mrs. Edna Whipple Gish, '19, who has been engaged in mission ary work in China since 1920 ex cept for one year spent in the Phil ippines when she and other mis sionaries werfe forced to leave fol lowing the Chinese uprising of 1927, was a recent visitor to Eu gene. Mrs. Gish received her bachelor’s degree from Oregon in 1919. She will return to China in August. Maxine Hill to Appear In Recital on Sunday Maxine Hill, pianist, is to ap pear in a public recital next Sun day afternoon at 3 o'clock in the music building auditorium. Selec lections by Schumann, Mozart, Scriabine, Ryre, Ibert, and Chopin will be featured on her program. Seven in Infirmary There are seven cases of measles at the infirmary. The infirmary patients are: Constance Kletzer, Bob Chilton, Maurice Rosenfeld, Bill Nelson, Donald Johnson, Ted Nickelson, Edward Nickelson, Bun ay Butler, and Van Mallison. Definite Successor Yet Unnamed; Dr. Hunter Possible Choice Offer Resolutions Board Rejects Proposals Of Federate Clubs For Abolition Continuation of the chancellor ship system was definitely decided upon by the passage of a resolution with this intent by the state board of higher education yesterday. With the passage of this resolution also came the foreshadowing of the possible election of Dr. F. M. Hunter, chancellor of Denver Uni versity, as chancellor. Information received in a tele phone call to Portland late last night however indicated that the obard had concluded its meeting and would not act on the chancellor situation for “some time.” The re port seeminly eliminated possibility of a meeting today to select Dr. W. J. Kerr’s successor. Statement Is Reply The statement was formulated as a reply to the demands of the Federated Clubs for the abolition of the office, declaring that the of fice of chancellor is not unduly ex pensive and setting forth that it supplies indispensable coordination. Earle Wellington, spokesman for the federation of the University of Oregon’s supporting cluds (dads, mothers, alumni and friends) pre sented a strong plea for the return of pure science to the University, and for an administrative setup which will give the presidents of the various institutions real power for educational leadership Demands May Shift The federation is not irrevocably committed to abolishing the office of chancellor, as demanded in re cent resolution, Wellington told the board. His report indicated that the group would withdraw its demands for abolition, should pure science be returned to the University. The board pledged careful at tention to both matters. Vosper Elected Head of Pi Sigma Robert Vosper, sophomore, was elected president of Pi Sigma, Latin honorary, at a meeting held Monday for their annual spring elections. Others elected are Helen Emery, Vice-persident and Margaret Rugh, secretary-treasurer. The meeting closed with a discussion of plans for the coming year. Two Faint When ROTC Hears First Aid Talks Most of the men are glad that routine drill is over and that a course of lectures in first aid is being given in ROTC. Not so with others. The male sex can’t take It any more. So speaks the evidence against them when on the first day of lecturing about what to do for a fractured arm recently, two of the class members fainted. Seats for University Production on Sale With Varied Prices Seats for the Romeo and Ju liet production are on sale at McMorran and Washburne, and the University box office at 104 Johnson. Prices are: first two hows, 33 cents; and bleachers 25 cents. There are over 700 seats available for the play which begins this coming Wed nesday night starting at 8:30 p. m., and continuing for six performances Including Memor ial day and Sunday.
