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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1936)
On Other Campi For the latest news at other schools turn to the editorial page and read Mildred Blackburn’s ex changes. Tears and GPA For a good cry read the varsity and frosh hoop stories on page 3— and maybe the fall term house GPA averages below. VOLUME XXXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1936 NUMBER 60 UO to Have New Humor Magazine Winston Allard Named Editor of ‘Scruples’; First Number to Come Out Junior Week-end Oregon is going to have a mag azine as well as a daily and year book, George Root, Oregana edi tor, announced last night. At the same time Root announced the ap pointment of Winston Allard as editor of the new publication. The first issue of “Scruples,” as the new humor magazine will be called, comes out Junior weekend. The second edition will be bound into the Oregana. “Scrples” will be the first cam pus magazine to start since the “Lemon Punch" was discontinued around 1922. When questioned last night Al lard said that he hoped to make a real success of the venture. “Cut and dried ‘collitch’ humor is out. We are going to produce a humor magazine that will provide plenty of robust laughter for the campus. It will also serve as an outlet for the splendid talent for both draw ing and writing that we have on the campus. “I hope students won’t misun derstand and think we will pro duce a magazine that will be a series of “he and she” or “Mr. A. and Mr. B” jokes. With people like Bill Marsh, Guy Wemham, Bill Barker and others of like abil ity as contributors, “Scruples” should give the campus smart, so phisticated humor.” Allard said that appointments of the complete staff as well as fur ther arrangement will be made and announced the first of next week. The magazine will pallel Har vard's “Lampoon,” Notre Dame’s “Gargoyle,” and California’s "Pel ican.” Cantor Offers Scholarship $5000 Award Goes To Best Letter Writer A four year scholarship and com plete maintenance at any Ameri can college or university will be awarded by Eddie Cantor to the person who writes the best letter on the subject, “How Can Ameri ca Stay Out of War?” Cantor has set aside a fund of $5000 for this purpose. The letters will be judged by four American educators, Robert M. Hutchins, University of Chicago; Frederick Bertrand Robinson, Col lege of the City of New York; Ray Lyman Wilbur, Lelanjd Stanford university; and Henry Noble Mac Cracken of Vassar college. Anyone Eligible Everyone is eligible to partici pate in the contest, but if the win ning letter is from a person un able to avail himself of a college course, he must designate another to be the recipient of the award. Choice of the college or university and the time of attendance is op tional. Letters are not to be over 500 words in length. The contest will close Saturday, February 22, and the judges’ award will be an nounced by Cantor Sunday, April 5. All letters are to be addressed to Eddie Cantor, General Postof fice, Box 99, New York City, New York. Alpha Delta Pi Move Considered No action will be taken until Monday upon the Alpha Delta Pi request to move into the present Zeta Tau Alpha house, it was re ported by Mrs. Hazel P. Schwter ing, dean of women, who is head of the sub-committee of the hous ing group which will recommend the action of the higher board. The sorority asked permission to move from their present location on 849 Eleventh to the ZTA house on Sixteenth and Alder. They plan to move at the beginning of spring term if their request is granted. Boyer Feels Tug of Pioneer Spirit on Oregon Campus; Leaves Mid-Western College English Department Flourishes Under President’s Direction; Now One of Largest Divisions of University Back in the days of ’49, Samuel P. Boyer made his way from Pitts burgh to St. Louis, then slowly across the plains to California, in search of adventure and his share of the gold he had heard so much about. After a few years he re turned to Pennsylvania, richer only in experience, where, still filled with the pioneer spirit, he became one of the first independent oil operators in the Quaker state. In 1926 his son, Dr. Clarence Valentine Boyer, made his way across the continent to Oregon, swiftly and smoothly, by automo bile. But the same pioneer spirit that brought the father across the plains and back again urged on Dr. Boyer, for he was leaving a pro fessorship in an older, more con servative middle western univer sity for a place in a newer, rapid ly growing institution, the Univer sity of Oregon. To Dr. Boyer, pioneering in edu cation has furnished as great a thrill as prospecting did his father. As an instructor, professor and then dean in the fields of English and the liberal arts he has always been keenly alert to any new movement that would improve teaching, or advance the fascinat ing realm of research. After serving a score of years as teacher and dean, Dr. Boyer on January 15, 1934, was again of f£red an opportunity to respond to his pioneering urge, this time in the field of executive work. The board of higher education made him acting president of the Uni versity, then three months later he was chosen permanently for this most important position. Now, on February 6, he will be inaugur ated formally as the sixth presi dent of the institution which he joined in 1926. Except for a few years that he spent in the practice of law, Dr. Boyer has devoted his life and ca reer to higher education. He was graduated from Princeton univer sity, an institution famed for its insistence on scholarship of the highest type, in 1902. In 1909 he received the degree of master of arts, and in 1911 the degree of doc tor of philosophy, the highest aca demic degree that can be attained, was conferred upon him by his al ma mater. Following his career as an un dergraduate and law student, Dr. Boyer spent more than a year in Europe, where he attended Oxford university, and the American academies in both Rome and Ath ens. He returned to Princeton in 1909 as Charles Scribner fellow, and upon receiving his doctorate in 1911, became an instructor in English at the University of Illi (Continued on Page Tivo) SCHEDULE FOR OREGANA PICTURES MONDAY 11:50—First and second year law students—Oregon. 12:30—Mortar Board—Johnson steps. 12:40—Friars—Johnson steps. 12:45—Executive committee — Johnson steps. 12:50 — Order of the “O” — Johnson steps. 3:00—Temenids—Johnson steps. 3:15—Phi Chi Theta-r-Johnson steps. Mrs. Hesse Will Talk at Gerlinger “Marriage and Vocation” will be the topic discussed by Mrs. J. L. Hesse Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock in the women’s lounge at Gerlinger hall. Mrs. Hesse will treat the sub ject from the following angles: whether a woman can handle both a vocation and a fatnily, whether it is desirable to do so, the advan tages and disadvantages, compli cations in combining the two, the values of each ,and how to make a choice between them. She is peculiarly fitted to lead the dis cussion, being a mother as well as an author of some distinction. This is the second of a series of meetings being sponsored by the discussion group of the YWCA. Each talk is followed by an open forum. All interested girls are urged to attend. Thespians Hold Business Meeting Thespians, freshman service hon orary, held its regular business meeting on the steps of the art museum, following the taking of the group’s picture for the Ore gana, at 4 o'clock Friday, January 24. It was decided that Thespians should serve at Coed Capers. The next meeting will be held in the AWS room at Gerlinger, at 5 o’clock Friday, January 31. Pi Lambda Theta To Hold Meeting Pi Lambda Theta, women’s edu cational honorary, will meet Mon day, January 27, at the home of Mrs. D. R. French at 2182 Kincaid street, at 7:30. It will be a busi ness, social, and discussion meet ing combined; and the names of prospective members will be sub mitted, according to Miss Ger trude Sears, secretary. ‘Uncle Tom’ Ends Run Saturday Capacity Audiences See Revival in New Theater Completing a week’s run at their new playhouse at 13th and Monroe the Very Little theatre will close its revival of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin” tonight after seven successful per formances at which capacity audi ences again relived the joy, pathos, humor, and tragedy in an authentic dramatization of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s great drama of slavery. A cast of 27 enacted the heart rending story of Uncle Tom, Eliza (with the ice, too), Topsy and Eva, as this American classic was dra matically unfolded in 25 different scenes in six acts. Music, both in strumental and choral, was an out standing feature of the show and added remarkably in creating the mood and atmosphere of those pre civil war days. The music was ar ranged by Rex Underwood, Edna Brockman and Janet Smith. Many other campus folk, includ ing both instructors and students, assisted in many details of the pro duction which was under the direc tion of Dr. W. E. Buchanan, Jr., a former campus actor. These in cluded Robert Horn, Hugh Rosson. Kenneth Shumaker, Fay Fischel Knox, Ness Knollin, Gerda Brown, Mary Bennett and Jack Bryan. He Is Major Spencer Now Carlton E. Spencer, University professor of law, has been pro moted to the rank of major in the judge advocate-general department of the United States reserve army corps, according to official notifi cation received by Spencer yester day. Since 1923 Professor Spencer has been an officer in the reserve forces, and for the past five years has held the rank of captain. Dur ing the world war he was enlisted in the air service. “The judge advocate-general de partment is the legal part of the army. At irregular intervals I sit as a member of this court of ap peals at Fort Lewis, and study the evidence in eases relating solely to the army,” said Major Spencer concerning his duties as an officer. A series of examinations must be passed before promotion Tan be gained by any officer, said Spen cer, whose goal now will be the rank of lieutenant-colonel. 5000 Postals Mailed Voters By Students Living Organizations'' Response Pleases 306 X Yes Committee For Compulsory Fees About 5,000 postal cards urging voters to support the bill placing control of student fees in the hands of the state board were signed and addressed by students last night. The cards were placed in the mails by the student committee soliciting support of the measure. Although the “post-card drive” was considered successful, Chair man Don Thomas and his aides were laying other campaign plans last night. Committee Pleased “The committee was pleased with response of the students in signing and addressing the card,” signing and addressing the cards,” Chairman Don Thomas said. “Telephone requests for more cards this afternoon would dispel an doubts concerning the general attitude of students towards bill 306 X.” “The response indicated to us that the majority of the students have been in favor of the bill and have desired to aid in the drive for its passage but have had no op portunity to do their part,” Thomas said in explaining the number of signed cards returned. Many requests for cards were re ceived which could not be filled, committee members report. The committee asks that those who did not get any or enough cards se cure one and copy off the message to send to their friends. A similar card campaign is be ing conducted on the Oregon State campus. Plans Made for Women’s Co-op Ways and means of starting a women’s cooperative house on this campus will be discussed at the second meeting to be held in the men’s co-op, 715 East Thirteenth street, Sunday at 4 p. m. Tentative plans have been made to start such an organiaztion spring term, but it is probable that it will not get under way before next fall. Rev. Cecil R. Ristow, pastor of the Methodist church, will speak for about 15 minutes at the begin ning of the meeting to acquaint those present with the aims of co operatives. This will be followed by discussion and appointment of committees to begin immediate work on organization and to get information from other schools where the movement has been started. Hall’s Condition Much Improved Robert C. Hall, who has been confined to the Pacific Christian hospital following an operation about two weeks ago, is reported improving rapidly. Mr. Hall is able to receive company, but is uncer-! tain as yet just when he will be ; able to resume his classes. He is an associate professor of journal ism and superintendent of the Uni versity press. The Hopper, Photographed at Last Here’s the “congressional hopper” you’ve heard so much about— the mahogany box on the clerk’s desk in the house of representatives in which Representative William T. Schulte (Dem., Ind.) is depositing his bill to tax labor-saving machinery. A flood of bills already has been fed into the hopper this session. They next arti examined by the house parliamentarian; then urp marked and sent to the bill clerk, who numbers them and sends them to the government printing office for printing. Coeds Star in Tropic Love Sophomore Skit Is Coeds’ Caper Feature Languid love in the South Seas will set the tempo for Coed Ca pers when sophomore girls pre sent a skit for all-campus women’s affair in Gerlinger hall Wednes day, January 29. The program will start at 7:30. White-jacketed and dark-skirted Thespians will sell ice cream bars and carmel apples. The sophomore skit, directed by Vivian Emery, is a shadow play of a love affair in the cannibal isles. The characters are: Marjorie Gear hart, Eat-a-Fellow-Kaw, king of the Stew-a-Fellow - Alive tribe ; Barbara Fairhurst, L o 11 y p o p , daughter of the king of the tribe; Jane Lagassee, the suitor, Got-a Lot.-a-Nerve; Dorothy Dickinson, the marooned sailor, Mellow-Jon ah-Jones; Phyllis Smith, Cupid, and Kathleen Duffy, the Stew-a -Fellow-Alive tribe. Elizabeth Turner will read the skit to the soft accompaniment of the piano by Lorraine Barker. Bet ty Ann Brown and Caroline Hand are in charge of props. The girls who will participate in the freshman skit, under the di rection of Jerry Chessman are: Dorothy Magnuson, Betty Lou Drake, Felker Morris, Phyllis Smith, Jerry Sumner, Betty How ell, Dorothy Helgerson, Dorothy Good, and Dorothy Carlton. The revised list of Senior Cops who will take part stands as fol (Plea.tr turn tu patie jour) Millracing, Hacking Assault And Battery, Says Spencer Students who are thrown into the mill race against their own vo lition because they have not cul tivated a stubble for the Sopho more Whiskerino, or for any other reason, have recourse to legal ac tion, according to Carlton E. Spen cer, professor of law. “Any student who has been forced to enter the mill race, or, for that matter, has been corpor ally punished in any manner, may swear out a warrant for assault and battery, or sue for damages," said Professor Spencer. The fact that President C. Val entine Boyer last year issued a statement condemning the ancient University custom of millracing, in Spencer’s opinion, would strength en the victim’s case, should he care to go to law. “By letting it be known that the administration looked with disfa vor on hacks and millracing, Pres ident Boyer formally gave notice to those who still throw wayward students into the streeam that they could expect no sympathy from that source.” In spite of the fact that there is no historical precedent in Oregon for such action, similar circum stances have resulted in awards for damages in other states. Lost and Found Depot’s Collection Greatly Varied Statistically speaking the lost and found department of the Uni versity depot is full. According to a recent survey of the list of articles turned in dur ing the fall term- and this part of the winter term runs something like this: 45 text books, 32 pairs of gloves, 25 odd gloves, 22 hand bags or glasses cases, 4 scarfs, 13 pieces of head dress, from baby hats to men’s chapeaux, 16 notebooks, 17 pens, 21 miscellaneous pieces cov ering such things as compacts, rings, costume jewelry, and beads. Since there has been no date set for an auction by the AWS of these articles, they may still be claimed. Overcoat Puzzle Can Be Solved It seems that even after all this time there are a few people who still remember what happened that hectic night the early part of this term when the gentlemen of the college tramped from sorority house to sorority house, through the blinding rain. Two young men in the treck had coats that appeared similar to each other until they were put on and then they had the tragic quality of being too big for one of the men and too small for the other. Now all the worries that they have had in the weeks since then, could easily be straightened out if each would call the University depot and leave his name and ad dress. Speech Students Talk Over KOAC Discussion of the problem of American neutrality and various proposed bills such as the Pittman Reynolds bill was given last night over KOAC at 8:30 by Walter Eschebeck, Kessler Cannon, and Avery Combs, students of the speech department. This was the, third of a aeries of forums being field on the sub-, ject “Can America. Remain Neutral in the Event -of, Another War?” The fourth and,.la#t talk on. neu trality will be next. Friday, Jan-, uary 31, at .the same time. The topic for next month will be “Is Propaganda a Social Menace?” Emerald Corrects Error That Sororities Protest Hall Dances Through an error yesterday the Emerald printed a state ment in eonneetion with the change in the dates for the Yeomen a n d Grides twice weekly dances to the effect that sororities had protested against the use of (ierlinger hall for this purpose. Evidence of such a protest is lacking, said Fred Gieseke, president of the Yeo men, last night. Gieseke Heads YMCA Campaign Meeting Will Lnunelt Membership Campaign Fred Gieseke will head the mem bership campaign of the University YMCA which starts Monday, it was announced yesterday by Glenn Griffith, secretary of the group. The campaign, the first which the organization has attempted in several years, will get under way officially with a meeting of the Y cabinet and about 20 other men interested in the YMCA Monday at 4 o'clock in the Y hut. All men are eligible to join who believe in the ideals of Christian living and service, according to Griffith. Men joining the local group will have an opportunity of participating in the numerous clubs and activities which the or ganization sponsors as well as the recreational facilities available in the Y hut. Membership fee of the Univer sity group is $1 a year which helps to provide the funds neces sary for keeping up the property, providing reading material and making the contributions to the various organizations of which the local Y is a member. Goethe’s Works Offered as Prize The complete set of Goethe’s works consisting of six volumes will be awarded the student with a reasonably good record in ad advanced German who writes the best essay on some phase of Goethe’s life or works, F. G. G. Schmidt, head of the German de partment, announced yesterday. The German department re ceived the prize from the Carl Schurz Memorial foundation through the kindness of Dr. Ernst Beutler, director of the Frankfort Goethe museum, Prof. Schmidt said. Goethe's complete works, printed by the Insel-Verlag, were to be awarded to some student for dis tinctive work in the field of Ger manics or cultural relations. The character of the contest was left in Prof. Schmidt’s hands. Ristow to Open Club Discussions “The Religion of Kagawa,” will be the subject for the first of a series of three discussions by the Wesley club, beginning Sunday at 6:30 p. m. in the basement of the First Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Cecil F. Ristow will lead the discussion. Kagawa, who has become Inter nationally known through his lead ership of the cooperative move ment in Japan, is now visiting in the United States and was the principal speaker at the coopera tives convention in Indianapolis during the holidays. Mary Rickabaugh will lead wor ship. Infirmary Nears Capacity Roll With eleven patients in the Uni versity infirmary yesterday, it lacked only two of being filled to capacity. The four new inmates who were responsible for the increase were Jean Urfer, Kenneth Miller, Rob ert pecker, and Grayson ftoss. The eight old patients.are Ear leep Grohlebe, Margaret Cass, An, na Marie Priskell, Willard Marsh, Thurston Skie, Harold Draper, and John Taylor. Alpha Xi Delta Tops Term Grade List Alpha Hall, Second; Pi Beta Phi, Third; Grades Lower Than Spring Term Quota Alpha Xi Delta again took scho lastic honors by topping the fall term grade list. Alpha hall took second place, and was closely fol lowed by Pi Beta Phi. The top grades were slightly lower than those for last spring term when Alpha Xi Delta also took first place. Alpha Xi Delta .2.8059 Alpha hall . 2.6215 Pi Beta Phi .2.5893 Alpha Phi.2.5833 Sigma hall .2.5122 Zeta Tau Alpha .2.498-1 Omega hall .2.4971 NON-ORGANIZATION WOMEN .2.4772 Kappa Alpha Theta.2.4611 Alpha Omicron Pi ..2.4561 Phi Mu .2.4513 NON-SORORITY WOMEN .2.4503 Chi Omega .2.4457 ALL WOMEN.2.4363 ALL SORORITIES .2.4241 ALL WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS .2.4162 Delta Delta Delta .2.3984 Susan Campbell hall .2.3924 ALL WOMEN’S HALLS .2.3852 ALL MEN’S HALLS .2.3839 Hendricks hall .2.3783 Sigma Kappa .2.3768 Kappa Kappa Gamma .2.3739 NON-FRATERNITY MEN .2.3719 NON-ORGANIZATION MEN .2.3703 ALL UNIVERSITY.2.3271 Alpha Delta Pi .2.3265 Men’s Co-op. Living Assn.2.3120 Alpha Chi Omega .2.3042 Alpha Tau Omega.:.2 2960 Delta Gamma .2.2789 Alpha Gamma Delta.2.2774 (Continued on Page Two) New Libe Building Materials Arrive Second Floor Cement Pouring Complete The long expected metal stands for the stack room of the new li brary have arrived. A full railroad car of the materials came to Eu gene yesterday morning. As soon as the scaffolding in the stack room is removed the men will start work installing the shelves. About seven local men will be used in the work. With the concrete pouring on the second floor completed the forms are now being started for the walls of this story. These walls will be moved in from the outside eleva tion of the building approximately 25 feet on the east, west and south sides. The foundations under these sides have been made strong enough that additions will be made later when sufficient funds are al lotted for that purpose. The new floor that is being started now is the last one. A flat top will be used on the building with a special drainage system. Norris to Present WPA Projects Dr. W. V. Norris left yesterday for Portland on WPA work, and later will attend the meeting of the State Board of Higher Edu cation in LaGrande next week. He has some WPA projects to bring up for approval. He expects to be back on the campus by Wednes day. Japan, US Peace Race Group Topic Joshmi Tanaka, Japanese stu dent majoring in sociology on the campus, will speak to the race re lations group of the YWCA at 4 p. m. Monday in the bungalow. Tanaka will discuss the possibil ities and means of continuing peace between Japan and the Unit ed Stated and will deal particularly with the Exclusion act as seen through Japanese eyes.