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PUBLISHED TiY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Fred W. Colvig. editor Walter R. Vernstrom, manager LeRoy Mattingly, managing editor Assistant day editor: Hob Emerson Night Editors: John Grimes Assistant niRht editors : Hetty Ilrady, Margaret Rankin The Campus Comes of Age T^EAN Karl was on certain ground when ho told questioning fathers last weekend that Jlell week on the Oregon campus is a thing of 1 lie prist. It is as passe as that other symbol of the collegiate flask era, the coon skin coat. Hell week suffered its final throes last, year when two or three benighted fraternities put their neophytes through an ignoininous session of paddling, inillracing and the var ious other trimmings of the archaic institu tion. This year, although the deep, whispered secrecy that surrounds fraternal mummery may keep us in the dark, no instance of hard handed pre-initiation has been reported. Pledges are now prepared for membership only in a spiritual and ritualistic fashion. * # # demise of Ilell wtfhk didn’t come about, through administrative edict; it came at the fraternities own volition. Of course there were sensational points to ho scored against it : millracings led to several eases of pneumonia, resulting in death in at least one instance, and paddling in t lie vicinity of the delicate sacral projection of the spine injured many a hapless neophyte. lint the fear of doing physical harm to their freshmen was not the main reason why fra ternities all over the country did away with llell week. It was something larger, some thing that an expose of isolated injustices would never have brought, about. Perhaps it is best expressed in saying that American universities have gone through a period of adolescence. Now they are coming of age. From Basel, Switzerland, a week or so ago, Ralph Cathey, well-known student, of the University, wrote us his most striking obser vation in tin*'attitude of the European stu dent. “In 1 he United States,” said Ralph, “students think it's smart to he dumb. In Europe they think it's smart to be smart.” # * # ^JATHEY’S estimate of the American stu dent might have been more fair if it had been applied to the doc. College of pre-depres sion days. The cliaracforizat ion still holds to some extent, hut tlie grounds for it are fast, disappearing. [Experience with the depression has left American college students with a hard-boiled point of view. Students have had to fight harder for an education. Some fought their way through (lie depression's depths. Others were compelled to stay oiil of school until their fortunes turned. At any rate circum stances have led them to scrap many of the vacant frivolities of campus life and have given them a deeper scholastic intent, llell week was an expression of that old sappy frivolity, and as such it has been dispensed with, wo hope never to be revived. Tlie student- today takes things apart and tries to find a core of reason. Indeed the American campus is coming of age. Small Margin, Big Turnover JKSSK Owens, ebony li^litniii^ that lie is, can step the .sprint distances just abmit as fast as any Iiiiiluumiii. But -Jesse, who seems a i inch to win the Sullivan trophy for the year's oulstamling atlilete, wouldn't have a host of a sliow against a eraek 440-yard relay team. Not even old Ave Brnndage and his Olym J)ie committee would ask Owens to run against a good rplny squad, no matter how many shekels (for the committee) were involved. # # # pOOTBAl.L teams aren't individuals, hut they are made up of individuals and hu man rapacity is limited on the football field as well as on t he t rack. The “team" which California used against Oregon in Berkeley stadium last Saturday didn't have enough units to qualify as a relay team I’oi Coach Stub Allison could find only three hatches of the hoys to put in there to do or die for the Bolden Bear. We're not crying. Oregon did her best, except for a few fumbles, hut Cal put n great team on the field last Saturday, in fact, she put on t lu ce great t earns. # *> * poll innocent Oregonians, who don't get a chance to see one of the big teams per form in their own yard except once in a foggy moon, one tiling was a little puzzling. It was difficult to figure out why Allison didn't throw in eleven more men from his bench army when Vallejo and his third string males began to slow down after three or four min utes in the game. Perhaps Stub can’t afford to have the lads lose a year of playing eli gibility. No matter what you believe about football players’ board and tuition, the professional leagues have at least one thing on the “ama teurs.” To cut expense and even the game up so the people will come out to see theii contests, the pros have limited their squad.1 to 22 men. Base ball, through a grueling season, 1ms long used a player limit, usually about 2d This reduces expense, eliminates the dead weight, enables the spectators to know the “names and numbers of all the players” and puts the teams on a fairer basis. * * • TN tlic round-robin conference schedule Ore gon plays seven other major Pacific col lege teams. Oregon state is still to be tackled Three of those teams, one of which must gc to the Rose Bowl on New Year’s day, could score only one touchdown or lesson the Web foots. Oregon played them all even and lost on breaks and fumbles. It, was a different story when the Duck? faced the mass battery of big guns presented by the other two teams, TJSC and Cal. 1TSC rolled up a big score against Oregon aftei being held until the fourth quarter. Cal scored with less than a minute to play in the firsl half on two beautifully executed passes wliicl netted her 7ti yards, then failed to score ir the third quarter but ran wild as replace incuts outdistanced Oregon’s tired team ir the final minutes of the game. * « to TP the eight-team setup is going to accom plish its purpose and provide a tight, fasl football loop on the coast comparable to the Big Ten, a readjustment has to be mack somewhere. Oregon teams can hold their own, this yeai or any other year, with anyone on the coast as far as fight and football is concerned. The Oregon team Saturday had a dangerous, sparkling offensive. It held the hard-hitting Bottari and his mates of the moment for four downs on the one-yard line. On the next play, after one of the best lines on this coast came off the field completely exhausted, Cal men walked through a tissue-paper front wall to swarm about the punting Gammon and block Ids kick for the score they couldn’t push HU inches in four downs to get. # # # J.JAJ) Cal had only 25 men eligible to play, it might have been a different, story. For one thing, some of those hoys on (ho Cal bench might have trekked north to cloister themselves in the Oregon green in order to get; their crack at grid fame. Limiting the number of freshmen Allison could use against the jaded men of Callison would inject an element of fairness into a game already stacked for the team of the larger school. Before the Oregon-Cal game. Cal’s Ramb lers played the Stanford “Cool's” sixty min utes of football, and first-class football at that. One of the boys who played a large part in the defeat of Oregon and of CSC, little “Mushy 1’ollaek, started the season with these same Ramblers. Were the men eligible to play limited to 25, men like Pollack could still be able to make the rise to the varsity, for the eligible list could he clumgad for every game. # # A1,'S conch had more than a hundred foot ball moil at liis finger tips that afternoon. Oregon s mentor had 'Jf' men, four of whom "ere iiijurod and mmblo to play a full game, all tirod by a long trip into a heavy, oppres sive, and w arm climate. That may be football, but “it simply isn’t cricket. There are other reasons for limit in »r the size ot the squad. They include the matter oh iiiianccs mentioned above. It would also relieve the strain on sports writers and an nouncers. One announcer ‘talking full speed might have been able to straighten out the substitutions in the last half of Saturday's frame. Also, sports writers could quit getting soused Saturday night in an endeavor to for get that some coach bad double-crossed them by letting some uukuown from the “third" striufr “star. for how can a writer pick a staffing and starring lineup when si\ or seven equally good left halfbacks or right etuis are chafing at the bit on the sidelines? Rennies Names ( Cunt tinted from /mi/.1 one) pha Epsilon voted to abolish the practice. Evils of the pre-inition week do exist, Reames stated, although not in the same degree for various houses. "There is a lot to be said for and against hell week," Rennies ex plained. "The dads dislike the vio lent methods that have been used in Rome eases. There is a lot of merit In what they say, but as far as hell week goes, there will prob ably be a lot of opposition raised against efforts to completely abol ish it." The attitude of University offi cials is that hlthough the praetiec has been partially banned, com plete eradication is a d v i s a bio. Many fraternities arc instructed by their national organizations to re frain from initiation hazing Nev ertheless the custom, either iu mill I or aggravated form, is stilt in ex 1 isteiue on the campus. i Tune ’er Out... By BOB POLLOCK i Well, it’s Wednesday again, and I so what. So outside of Friday, this is probably the best radio night of the week . . . we hate to mention it, but the Hit Parade is still on I . . . KGW at 7 . . the bloomin' music-mangler they call an orches tra still makes us ill . . . but the occasional vocalist is not bad. Use a little extra Juice on the set and stick your sconce a tri fle closer to the speaker and try for KOO at 8:30 tonight for five minutes of Rachel Parlay, who used to—and may still—warble on the fast-moving Manhattan Merry-Go-Round. Nice Parisian accent, and a voice that almost restores our faith in our wine gargling neighbors, the French. We’re telling you in advance. George Washington, the very busy man who fathered our nation, once signed a confession to a murder the thing was written in French, and George had spent most of his youth at cherry trees and so could n’t read it . . . the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the world, was sold for junk to a dealer who got himself 900 cam els in a contest the company was ; sponsoring and packed it off . . . it was, however, ultimately rescued ... all this dope you can find out on the Strange As It Seems pro gram, Friday, 7:30 on I^OIN. A new singer, Tony Martin who had a top rating in “Sing Baby Sing,” will decorate the George Burns - Gracie Allen pro gram starting November 25 . . . he replaces Jimmy Newell, who, it in to be suspected, was canned . .. the publicity says that “New ell leaves the series to devote all his time to picture work” which is just a nice way of say ing that he’s slipping . . . they never leave while the public still erics for ’em. Now to cheat the Emerald ad ! staff: Anybody wishing to give a ! destitute youth transportation to the Oregon-OSC massacre, address this department. All letters confi dential. Women preferred. Ex-UO Prof (Continued! from page one') superb printing and has been sent out to all members of the Book of-the-Month club as a book divid end. Two weeks ago Dr. Bates’ “Story of the Supreme Court” appeared at book stores. This work, is a spirited, lively, and dramatic story of the supreme court from its be ginnings down ot last year’s im portant New Deal decisions. Dr. Bates cites many hundred leading cases, but weaves them into his story in such a way that the lay reader can see the point at issue. Dr. Bates obtained his A.B. de l gree of the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from Columbia. Be fore coming to Oregon he was in structor in English at Columbia, and at the University of Arizona. In 1915 he was added to the Uni tutor in English, later was an English professor, and before leav versity of Oregon faculty as a ing was a professor of philosophy. Dr. Bates is at present conduct ing forums in Portland for the United States Bureau of Educa tion. Since leaving the University, Dr. Bates has taught in a number of summer sessions here and in j Portland. Annual Battle (Continued from page one) posing elevens line up for their own private feud. In view of this traditional rival ry, bolstered by the usual uncanny Webfoot knack of downing the Beavers at times least expected, the Oregon campus will present a scene of desolation on the day of the game after students have trekked enmasse to the Corvallis battle front. Final Bally Organized school spirit will come to the fore on Friday night when a final' biggest-of-tlie-year rally will be held. Plans completed by the rally committee yesterday call for a serpentine and noise parade through the men's living organiza tions as the opening event of the evening's celebration. The serpen-' tine will pick up recruits as it goes and will end at the vacant lot. Fourteenth and Kincaid, where a bonfire rally will take the spot- j light. The bonfire rally will consist of Oregon yells, pep speakers, music by the Oregon band and. as a grand finale, the burning in effigy of an unknown something or somebody the identity of which was not di vulged by the rally committee. Ball.' Ounce at Park Following tiie rally *ire Willam ette park is sponsoring a rally The Thinking Read By HOWARD KESSLER At last. A freshman who has read a book. And a recent book at that. Bruce Eddy finds “John Dawn” by Robert P. Coffin, a trifle dis appointing, but nevertheless a smooth-reading novel of New Eng land coast life. “I was expecting the book to be like Kenneth Arnold’s work, and I wanted more salt sea tales. How ever, it is an easily read novel, concerned with three generations of an Atlantic seaboard family named Dawn. There isn't a great deal of historical background, but there is a story to tell, and a cycle to be completed.” rJ'HIS is Book week. We haven’t much to say about it except to point out the truth ot this column i head. Thinking people do read. Thursday at 4, in alumni hall of Gerlinger there will he a ‘‘Book Week Tea” for lovers of the print ed page. * * ft JJLOND, handsome David Wilson would like to handle the lights in the play “Petticoat Fever” by Mark Reed. This play has been a Broadway hit, a Very Little Theater presen tation last spring, and a movie. Remember it ? The Aurora Bor ealis are the background, the ac tion centers around a young man who hasn't seen a woman for quite some time. "The funniest play I ever read,” says Wilson. “The humor is spon taneous, fantastic, the action is fast.” Milton Pillette, University Thes-' pian, took the lead in the VLT pro duction; Robert Montgomery starred in the movie. * * * piFTY books most oflcn recom mended by 1,638 students: 50 books most often recommended by English professors: put them to gether and you get 10 books in common. Most of the faculty books are classics. The, students are partial to contemporaries. Halliburton even rates with them. QUEENLY Dorothy Dill enjoyed, tremendously “I Am the Fox,” by Van Etten. “A new and fascinating style is used. It would take me an hour to adequately explain it, but as sim ply as possible it is a series of epi sodes which show the effects on a girl of her past life in her making of decisions. “The character studies are ex ceptionally well done. There is no plot, but as a psychological study of a girl this is tops with me.” Title of the book the result of a male and female watching a fox hunt. Male reaction: pleasure at the kill. Female reaction: abhor rence. Says the girl, “You see, I am the fox.” U|^XPRESS and Stagecoach days in California,” by Oscar O. W'inther, University grad of ’25, was yesterday received at the li brary. Winthcr is now a history prof at Stanford, majored in that subject on this campus. As usual when an alumnus turns out a work, the University has two copies, one for circulation, one au tographed copy for the files, a, * * |^EEN young instructor Kenneth Ghent liked “Sailors of Cat tara,'' a play by Friedrich Wolf. "A problem play. War-weary sailors determine to adopt a reso lution that hostilities must cease. A sort of union of soldiers against war. “Not particularly strong, but in teresting from the social stand point. The movement fails, but the author predicts its ultimate vic tory." dance, assisted by the Oregon rally committee. “Beat OSC" stickers are now available at the University Co-op and from members of the rally committee at 5c apiece. Besides putting them on automobile wind shields. students are pasting them on notebooks, raincoats, and win dows. •I1 CONVERTS BEGINNERS— CONVINCES VETERANS!. iOMITMINC WONDERFUL GOfS ON INSIDE JicvrUt $1SSSS MEDICO71 - PIPES, CIGARETTE * CIGAR HOLDERS FINEST BRIAR MONEY CAN BUY , THE ONLY PATENTED “CELLOPHANE"* SEALED FILTER IT REALLY FILTERS The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year exvept Sundays, Mon days, holidays, examination periods, the fifth day of December to January 4, except January 4 to 12, annd March 5 to March 22, March 22 to March 30. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscrip tion rate, $3.00 a year. MEMBER OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 VV. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 2nd Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Loa Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. Business Office Assistants JJean Farrens, Bettylou Swart. Sally McOrew, Velma Smith, Anne Earnest, Betty Crider, Margaret Carlton, Doris DeYoung, Jean Cleveland, Helen Hurst, Janet Fames, Anne Fredricksen, Mig non Phipps, Barbara Espy, Caroline Howard, Janee Burkett, Louise Plum mer, Nancy Cleveland. BUSINESS STAFF National Advertising Mgr.Patsy Neal Assistant: Eleanor Anderson Circulation Prom. Mgr.. Gerald Crisman Circulation Manager.Frances Olson Assistant: Jean Rawson Merchandising Manager.Les Miller Portland Adv. Mgr.Bill Sanford Executive Secretary.Caroline Hand Collection Manager.Reed Swenson IT 71 Campus Calendar Confined in the infirmary are: Peggy Hayward, Gayle Meyer, Car lene Scott, Muriel Nicholas, Jean Rawson, Robert Marquis, Lee Al len, John Strickler, Dennis Dono van, and Gerald Allen. Colonel Thomas M. Robins of the United States Army corps of en gineers and divisional engineer in charge of the Bonneville project, will speak at the second of the popular science lecture series in 105 McClure Wednesday evening at 7:30. All students, faculty mem bers and townspeople are invited. Phi Mu Epsilon, mathematics honorary, will hold a get-together dinner tonight at 6 in the Del Rey cafe. Each member is urged to bring a guest. Order of O will meet today at noon in the Kappa Sigma house. Master Dance meeting tonight at 7:30 in Gerlinger hall. All members please be on time. German Honorary will meet to night at 6 in the Del Rey cafe. It is important that all members be present. Alpha Delta Sigma meets Thurs day, November 19, for luncheon at the College Side at 12 o’clock. The business administration li brary will be closed at 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 21. Books may be taken out at 11:30 a.m. All sorority pledge class presi dents, and presidents of freshmen from the girls’ dormitories and co operative houses are to attend a dessert meeting Thursday night, November 19, at 7 o’clock at Dean Schwering’s home, 1096 E. 20th. The Social Etiquette group of the YWCA will meet tonight in the Y bungalow at 8:30. Mrs. Gor don of the Gordon dress shop will lead the discussion. SPEAKS IN PORTLAND Philip A. Parsons, head of the sociology department, went to Portland Tuesday to speak before a group of social workers, on “Ur ban Sociology.” He is expected to return Wednesday. Got a shake at TAYLOR’S-.—ad. Professional Guide ^iiiiittinlimiiniimiiiimttRimiiiumiiiiiiimiiiuiiimnmmsiiiiiiliiiiiiiiniiimiimtiiiiiiii'i ' Phone 2929 DR. L. L. BAKER Dentist ; 12th and Pearl Eugene, Ore. | :inn;!i!iiin.; a niiin n r.,, : .nil imill EDWIN D. RATHBONE , Osteopath Phones: Res. 3142; Office 3130,, Office hours: 8-12 and 1:30-5 ,, 207 Tiffany Bldg. a g Sam Tyler Doctor of Optometry (Eyesight Specialist) Phone 620 for Appoint ment 921 Willamette Street New in campus footwear is the PLATEAU LAST shoe, shpwn by GRAHAMS. This1 shoe has a built up toe which has < maae a name tor ltselt as the pacer in lootwear. The shoe is semi-ankle fashioned with a crepe sole insuring a maximum degree of foot comfort. The shoe is just the thing for wet weather as it has a water-proof leather upper. The shoe is heavily sLucneu uirougriout, anu not. a single nail is used in its construction, thus saving the foot much discomfort. The BALMO by HART SCHAFFNER and MARX is l an overcoat of Balmaccan I styling. The raglan should ers permit a draping of the coat from this poinj, that hangs straight to the base of the English flare skirt, giving the coat a very rakish air. The fact that it is very loose fitting in'sures one of complete freedom of bodily action at all times, and still maintaining that distinctive i English styling. The coat is of medium weight wool, med ium length and shower proof. ^Unique plaids and checks in :r'the BALMO can be found at ERIC MERRILL'S. McMORRAN and WASH BURNE’S are featuring In dian Weavers neckwear by the OSWEGO NECKWEAR COMPANY. The beautiful colorings of the ties are very , iiitcicsiiiig u e - cause they are jxtremely uncom mon in wools. The definite bright shades of many basic colors are very outstanding. The wool being n o n - c r ushable i gives them added* wear along with] that rugged ap pearance. These fine fabrics are also used for very attractive mufflers. Ed, California's Playboy, Stanton, Phi Psi, is sporting the new Me GREGOR SUORT* SHIRT. A heavy wool shirt of vivid plaids and checks that is O. K. for the very informal campus wear. With this, one would be correct in wearing one of the McGREGOR or BOTANY mufflers in patterns to match the shirts or BOTANY ties that are the best thing in the tie world, the muffler to be worn ascot fashion. PAUL D. GREENE has both the shirt and mufflers and will be more than glad to help you pick out an interesting, if not striking combination. THE SPY-NAL COLUMN—“just a little personal scandal” by your old pal Thru (thru the keyhole). “Just like In the movies,’’ proving that chivalry is not dead—two Aplha Phi poppas, veddy tired of it all. hired a cab and accordian, complete with musician, and ^ent a-serenadin’. In response to this heart stirring sentiment, D. D. chairman Barney Hall is quoted as saying, “Our next year’s program will include gondolas on the mill race. Father is never wrong.” Later in the yawing, moved, no doubt, by the “hands across the sea” spirit, these same gentlemen put through a call to England, ask ing to speak to “anyone.” After inquiring the time, they poured into the Londoner's delighted ( ?) ears a merry ditty. Tune? Fifty-eight dollars. My daughter! My ducats! . . . Gibbering frantically, my man Friday stepped from the train; paper dolls in one hand, scissors in the other. After many hours of patient questioning he blurted out disordered fragments of information on the soul-shaking or deal. . . . Kappa's June Brown and Edith Sliuey, Alpha Phi's Carmen Curry and Doris Reed, chap eroned by half the Phi Psi house. . . . Pullman porter catching boat for Ethiopia on arrival in Portland. . . . Sleep no more, Mathews and Reum have mur dered sleep, or at least half drowned it. . . . Every body filled to the brim with good spirits, or wishing he were. . . . Bill March a-hauntin’ June Brown and Hallowe'en some weeks past. TSK. TSK. . . . Mob scene in S. F.: Oregon gal loses gold earring just outside Circus Bar of ultra-ultra Hotel Fairmount, way up thar on Nob Hill. Search party started by formally bedecked but wobbbly gent and quickly swells to alarming proportions—earring found in pants cuff of lady’s escort. A top-hatted and tailed crowd left looking rather silly over the whole thing. . . . Peninsula Panic: Defenseless San Jose's traffic tied in a knot which took the harassed constabulary an hour to untangle. Police retaliate by throwing offenders into the city's sombre-hued panel delivery for a one-way ride to the city hall. Feeling deeply their ignominy, Eugene's pride and joy reversed the charges, putting the aforementioned arms of the law m their own Black Maria and driving madly to precinct headquarters. Sometime later, passers-by released the officers who attracted attention by beating apopleetically on the walls of the pinch buggy. Anyway that's what Cal gets for beating us. . . . Keep Yout Seats Folks: Comes Saturday, Comes OSC game, comes the revolution. . . . Sur reptitiously—W MS.