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Sample Copy Sample Copy VOLUME XXXVII NUMBER 1 Incidentally A Few Fleas . . . A Few Suggestions By Robert XV. Lueas (Editor) Mr. Freshman, vou don’t need priv advice. All vou need is time. If when you enter the University of Oregon vou a»e cocky and bring with vou the when-T-was-in-high s^hool skeleton time will adiust that to the satisfaction of all con cerned. Tf you arc scared, intimidated by the supreme pnse, and the utter indifference of Hie campus bigwigs don't frnf about that either. The rext four years will teach you that the high-nosed priest of sophisti cation. to be more specific, the “snob” in educated bevond his in tollig'mce and too stupid to recog nize the riot of color that exists in every face in the world. You will not fall for *he old era? about “studies don’t mean a thing - it's the contacts that count.” You have seen too manv disciples of that spineless phrase walkin'! themselves lxrw-iegged in an at tempt. to earn bread and butter with “contacts" when the sum to tal of their benefit derived from college might b° summarized in a bull-session of five minutes. And vet you won’t shrink from the blazing noise3 of tvm rallv, the clamor and romance of the danee. No, and vou will want, to pit the eln.'-smate that ducks action and snirit, and activity. He will be MTSSTNG something-. You won’t enter the University of Oree-on thinking that vou are drifting into a fairy-land of smart college people, soft, sweet, summer evenings. All won’t, be a Roman holiday. Tn (he class rooms the world will not unfold itself before your contented and idle mind. Of course you see the brilliant doctor, lawyer, the revealing scientist, the powerful contain of business. They are finished products. How did college form those superior pemon alities? College alone had little to do with it. and will ignore the pres ence of your healthy selves if you don’t realize that there must be ■work -blinding work, and occa sionally of the monotony of a dronj ing professor, and the aching ten sion of the final examination, the very sight of which may send the poorly prepared mind into a state of vacume. These things won’t bother you. You are healthy and tough minded and eager to learn. You haven’t time to decay into the weak-sister state of people who you see all about you. You are young and new- with sharp edges that cut a clean path toward your ideals as an adult. Without a doubt, when you ar rive here you will quietly remem ber that your fellows are here for the same reason that you are—to secure and education not onlv from books but from two legged per sons they call "professors” who are swell guys, and from experiences that are jarring, rich, lustrous. And that you are lust ns good as the next fellow and mavbe better. You are just getting your (Please turn to page five) ASUO Gives Triple Value For Student Membership Cards The Associated Students of the* University of Oregon announce a program for fall term that is un excelled in the history of the in stitution and offers $15.55 worth of entertainment for the price of the student body card which is $5.00. The breakdown of the pro gram and the monetary value fol lows: Football: Gonzaga at Portland, $1.10; Utah at Eugene, $1.65; Cali fornia at Portland, $1.65; Idaho at. Eugene; SI.65: Oregon State at Eugene, $2.20. Total, $8.25. Concerts: $2.20. Dances: $3.00. Emerald subscription: $1.00. Freshman football: $1.10. Total $15.55. Price of student i body card (which admits holder j free to entire program), $5.00. With two internationally famous \ groups of entertainers already signed for its concert season 1935 36, the ASUO announced today plans for the impressive array of i famous stars of the musical and . dancing world. Stars Listed First on the list revealed by j Ralph Schomp, assistant graduate I manager, are the Ted Shawn! dancers, who have been packing collegiate playhouses throughout the East and Middle West for the past few years. Mr. Shawn, for merly of the world famous Shawn Denis dancing team, has gathered together a group of dancers that has been receiving laudatory press notices in college and metropolitan dailies alike, whenever they have shown. The Latvian Russian choir which provided music for the current screen success “Anna Karenina” j are also scheduled to appear before the students in MacArthur court. There will be eight concerts dur ing the season. Four will be pro vided by the University concert band, under the direction of John Stehn, and the University orches tra, under the direction of Rex Un derwood. Others Considered The other four concerts will be staged with outside talent. The above two have already been sched uled and the other two appearances will be chosen from such stars as Grace Moore; Martinelli, Metropoli tan opera tenor; Lotte Lehmann, Metropolitan soprano; Tito Schipo, famous tenor who was received by a packed house here on a former ^ visit; Alexander Eralowsky, Euro pean pianist on his first tour of America in five years and who has been filling his houses until there was standing room only, so far on his tour; Nino Martini, who starred in a film recently released from Hollywood, “Here’s to Romance”; the American Ballet; Trudi Sclioop and her Ballet Comique. The total attendance price to all of these concerts will be approxi j matelv $6.00. Schomp announced, j However, all students holding an j ASUO card will be admitted abso lutely free of charge. Moleskin-Clad Soph Relates Incidents of 'Humbler Days’ Editor’* Nntp— Thi* story, written l>y fl | prominent, freshman Emerald renorter, is ji I’hronolovy of some of the hishliwhts of ,};is extrn-eurri.ai’-ir career ns a frosh. it rmnhu*i"es 'Ttln” at the University. It is noteworthy that Mr. Harhe-t was an ex cellent etu'i-mt * as are all well-rounded Orevon freshmen. I1 is was a aiood funda mental first year at eolletre. By WAYNE HARBERT , Only once can a young- man or .woman be a freshman in a college ‘'or' university. Anil, take it from me, a sophomore who has been through the mill last year as a lowly freshman, it will always be: one of the biggest thrills of my life to think back over the many ern-1 li.-irrassing and amusing moments of my first year at the University of Oregon. There was my first “date” to a college fraternity, the lirst time that I cracked a final for an "A." the thrill of attending the first big- University dance and of being in a campus dramatic produc tion. And then, there was the time the rally train went to Portland, crammed full of victory-thirsty collegians, all determined to deal defeat to Oregon State college on the gridiron. What a thrill it was to sit in the rooting section during the torrid fray! Politics Politics! Yes, politics at Univer sity is almost as much fun as a football game. There was the big torchlight parade which stretched for block after block, composed of almost a hundred carloads of patri otic students, all lustily cheering for their favorite candidate. Of course after the parade, there was the big political dance at one of the larger sorority houses. The rival parade goes by! Joe College in all his glory! On the sneak, I hereby advise all men students who plan to come to Oregon to enter one of the best schools in the west not to wear cor duroys or moleskin pants. For these are the sacred garb of the sophomores and the upperclassmen. And, to all frosh, DON’T bother to bring your tuxedo to Oregon the first year! You can't wear it. It is among the unwritten laws that no yearling should even be .heard of wearing a tux. Why, they won’t even let the freshmen go to the Senior Ball because everyone must wear a tux, and the tradition mak ing it unlawful for first year men to wear the formal attire naturally keeps them on the outside looking in. Aspiring freshmen should all invest in a pair of inexpensive frosh pants, commonly known as tin pants. They cost only a couple of dollars and are the established freshman attire. However, any type of wool pants can be worn, just as long as it isn’t cords or mole skins! A dipping in the mill race is automatically handed to the frosh who attempts to break this tradi tion. It was during the pre-Whisker I ino days. The Whiskerino, you know, is the annual dance given by the sophomore class at which all (Please turn to page 7) Massive New Library to Rise at Oregon Overstuffed Chairs to Replace Traditional Desk, Chair With construction already under wav for the new y 1.50,000 lil)rary on the University campus, it has been called to the attention of the thousands of students who plan re turning to Oregon next week, of the modern features to be embodied in the huge structure which will make it one of the most imposing buildings on th campus. Most novel of the features is the recreation room which will occupy a central portion of the ground floor and will he devoted to creat ing a home-like atmosphere for students using the library. The "oom will be approximately 90 feet nng hv ?.4 feet wide and will be furnished with over-stuffed furni ture. floor lamps, and easy chairs, replacing the conventional desk ind-chair system of the library. At Jach end of this room will be built a fireplace from which fires will glow on cold, wintry evenings. The vails of the room will be largely of glass. so as to make the recreation il center as inviting as possible. New Features Included The incorporation of desirable features of libraries throughout the nation has been made by the irchitect., Ellis F. Lawrence and Librarian M. II. Douglass. Besides furnishing ample space for the 250,00(1 volumes now housed in the old library in cramped quarters, the new structure will have private studies for faculty members and graduate and upper-division stu dents. A memorial forecourt, in which will be a fountain surrounded by i garden and seat, is to be financed by gifts made by the Alumni Hold ing company. Two walks will lead up to the entrances, while a third public entrance will be through the basement. In general architecture design, both inside and out, the library promises to be most striking. The Lombardic design will harmonize with the Museum of Fine Arts nearby, a3 well as other newer buildings on the campus. Art Rooms Spacious No student can gain access to anv other part of the building without first noticing the central ly located recreation room. Ad joining this room on one side will be the Pauline Potter Homer col lection of beautiful books and on another side will be the location of (Please turn to page 4.) The University of Oregon, chattering students, vine-covered walls, handsome larious yell-kings) wise professors, bewildered freshmen, cocky sophomores, seniors. It is all on its way. men, lovely women, hi somhor juniors, eleant Dr. F. M. Hunter’s Statement To ’Young Bloods’ of Oregon Editor’s Note: This statement is from the pen of Chancellor F. M. Hunter and is directed to the Uni versity of Oregon’s class of 1939. To all ambitious red - blooded youth the institutions of higher ed ucation of Oregon extend greetings. These institutions invite those who have high qualifications and cour age and who can make best use of their excellent facilities to join the college family in preparing for more useful and happier living. Espe cially to all such I offer the saluta tions of the State Board of Higher Education and of this office. The question, “Does College Edu cation Pay?" inevitably arises when youth considers his future. The answer comer, in terms of the pos sibilities of growth of the spiritual man and his ability to create for himself an inner culture. In these days of confusion and competition, it is overwhelmingly difficult, if not 1 impossible, for the young American ' to acquire this culture without the 1 assistance of the college and the university. 1 How Will It Pay But the final answer must! in- ' elude economic, as well as spiritual, considerations. ‘"Will it pay in dol lars and cents?” asks the young i man of today. Let me cite the find ings of a recent careful and scien tific social survey. In one of the 1 great metropolitan cities of the United States, under the direction of leading statisticians and econ omists, data giving positive evi dence upon this important question have just been forthcoming. In No vember, 1933, a canvass of a large number of employed and unem ployed heads of families indicates that those who had acquired the benefits of a university and college education not only resisted the un ■mployment wave best but received >y far the larger proportion of inane ial returns. Here is a picture of more than >0,000 heads of families of this city Phe surveyors sought to ascertain Tom them the group most preva ently employed -and receiving the lighest wages. Five principal >roups were used: Per cent Employed 3 roup I— People who did not go be yond the sixth grade - 40.7 3roup II— People who went beyond the sixth grade but not beyond the ninth . (13.3 3 roup III— People who went beyond the ninth but not beyond high school .73.9 (Please turn to page 4.) ARTIST’S SKETCHES SHOW HOW NEW LIBRARY WILL LOOK! Here are exterior views and the plan for the ; first floor of the new $350,000 library to be construct ed on the University of Oregon campus. At the top Is the way the library will look from a point on Kin ' caid street near Fourteenth avenue. Lower left is the main floor plan, showing the various features to be I Included in the structure. Lower left Is a view of the ! library looking south. The Museum ef art is seen on ! the left, while on the right the architect has sketched a view of the humanities and sciences building, a project for the future. The ground will be broken officially for the library at a ceremony Tuesday at ! 1:45. (Illustrations courtesy Eugene Register-Guard.) H- - Oregon Enrollment CJ \pproaches Record; 5000 Mark Eyed ---* Iimter Sinks Shovel at New library Site ]lian eel lor Featured ipeaker at Initial itep in Construe! ion When Chancellor Frederick M. luntcr worked a shovel into the tubborn, dusty dirt of the Univer litv of Oregon campus last week ind expertly turned it into the nitial move in the construction of ;he University’s $350,000 library juilding, he quietly climaxed a 20 /ear period of hoping and planning >n the part of University of .Ore gon officials. Soon from around 'hat scratch in the earth would ’cratch in the earth would arise a rast building epitomizing much hat distinguishes the University of Oregon—cultural development. In a few brisk sentences, as much to the point as his shovel wielding, lie told the goodly crowd of towns people, students and officials that, traditionally, practice lags 50 years oehind knowledge; but, in the pres 3nt day, both knowledge and prac tice lag 50 years and even a century behind need. Dr. Hunter's speech, marking his first public appearance in Oregon since he assumed the office of chan cellor of higher education Septem ber 1, was delivered on the site of the new building near Kincaid and Fourteenth avenue September 10. The outline of the building has been laid on the field in white and posts with white flags marked the cor ners of the structure, giving a good suggestion of the location of the new building and its relation tc other buildings on the campus. Preceding Dr. Hunter on the pro gram were M. IT. Douglass, Uni versity librarian; Burt Brown Bar ker, vice-president; Representative C. F. Hyde, representing Governor Martin; and Mayor Elisha Large of Eugene. Librarian Douglass expressed confidence in the planning of the library, because “we have had sc much practice planning it.” He traced the history of the campaign for a new, adequate building, dur ing which Dean Ellis F. Lawrence of the school of architecture anc his firm have drawn at least 25 sep arate plans, a large number of therr recently in an endeavor to fit the needs to the amount of money avail able. He said that the first request foi funds was for $525,000 but thal $350,000 was finally allottee through a PWA loan and grant Douglass explained that the plan a1 rinally completed will be adequate for a period of six to ten years, anc :s very flexible to allow for ultimate expansion, sufficient to handle 500( students at one time, if necessary. CP lease turn to pane two) Not since 1030-31, when the Uni versity of Oregon pulse rocketed to the enrollment of 3093 have 1he prospects for a large student body been more favorable. Reports of substantial increase in freshman registration have been stimulated by the hundreds of applications for admissions mailed into that office each summer month. Reasons for the upward move ment are many: increased Federal aid to needy and worthy students, heightened confidence on the part of Oregon parents in the state’s system of higher education since a final and definite settlement of ad ministrative difficulties, intensive advertising campaign carried on by active students in explaining and promoting the University. Applications indicate that there are many students intending to en ter college this year who have been graduated from high school several years and have been unable to at tend college because of the throt tling depression. Several years of work, during which time money has been saved, and increased business activity have now made it possible for these students to attend school. Most, definite information issued by the office of the registrar: Reg istration day will tell all. College Bedlam Heralds Dance All-University Frolic Staged in Portland Seldom is college spirit., the thrilling, blatant, spirit nnleased outside the months of active school operations. Summer time finds students scattered, static in the quiet humdrum of economic life. Gone are the yell kings, stomping bands, curling ribbons of college colors. In Portland, Oregon, last week, plodding pedestrians were jarred by a terrific din. Office building windows were raised, heads peered over the ledges. Newsboys gawked, stopped howling. Slowly north on Sixth street came a mock locomo tive, pulling a not-so-mock box car, ringing a real train bell. In the engine tender were crowded mem bers of Jim Dierick’s NBC orches tra—sporting rally sweaters, rooter lids, unmistakably green unques tionably yellow. In the box car were clustered Oregon coeds- let termen sweatered, Oregon men, collegiate clothed. The sides of the box car proclaimed the University of Oregon Fall Frolic, held in .Tatlt zen Beach ballroom the following night. Following, chugged a huge truck carrying a compressed air machine attached to a riveter. Object of the riveter’s attention: a three-foot disk of half-inch cast iron. Result: bedlam, chaos, war. Portland cosmopolites were im pressed. A college rally on the (Continued on Pape P.ipht) New Students to Meet Campus Luminaries at Oregon In an attempt to make new comers feel at home at the Uni versity of Oregon, to put them at ease among fellow students who have been in attendance three or more years and who have estab lished for themselves a name in the social and academic life of the school, freshmen will be intro duced to those people whose names will make news at the University during the year 1935-36. As prominence may be secured in many fields of endeavor at the University, students excelling in ricular activities are included in this list of names. These names will make news at the University this year: Jim Blais, president of the As sociated Students, top-notch polit ical office on the campus. Mary McCracken, president of the Senior Class, effervescent lit tle campus spark-plug, exceeding ly active in all campus activity j and excellent student. Bill Hall, solemn independent high-light, president of Inter-Dorm council, winner of the Koyl cup as most outstanding Junior. Peggy Chessman, leader among Oregon women, executive of Ore gon Daily Emerald. Bill Schloth, campus dramatic star, a leading player of Inter Collegiate players Maragret Ann Smith, president of Associated Women Students, super-student, shining Oregon socialite. Rollie Rourke, vice president of Associated Students, newsworthy basketball luminary. Roberta Moody, dynamic mem ber of Greater Oregon Committee, member of Executive Council as Senior Woman. Budd Jones, fiery member of basketball team, rangy, thunder ing football end, outstanding man among Oregon activities. Walt Back, blond all-American football prospect, dynamo of Prink Callison’s football offense, triple threater. Robert Lucas, editor of the Ore gon Daily Emerald. McMORRAN & WASHBURNE’S NEW and DISTINCTIVE DUDLEY FIELD SHOP For College Men THE COLLEGE SHOP For College Women ‘A COMPLETE COURSE IN COLLEGE FASHION’ Please turn to Pages 2 and 7.
