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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Fred W. Colvig. editor Walter R. Vernstrom, manager LeRoy Mattingly, managing editor Desk Staff This Issue Day editor: Leonard Greenup Assistant day editor: Lillian Warn Night Staff This Issue Night editors: Assistants: Crawford Lyle Betty Bohnenkamp George Haley Margaret Dick Revival of Group Singing gJAOLY enough. singing fis a means of group expression and sis a rallying force for fel low-feeling seems to have fallen from popu larity. It hasn't been deliberately displaced from its old importance, although it, is the way of the modern sophisticate to look down upon enjoyments of old-fashioned folk. No, it isn't that we moderns have said “Group singing is a-kin to the lioopskirt and there let it remain’’ not tliat at all. We’ve simply unpremeditatediy let it slip. Man must have music, but we of 19JG are taking ours “canned.” Just as the automo bile is making many of us forget that we have legs, so is the radio making most of us forget that we have voices. # * * JT really is an unfortunate loss, for (here is nothing quite that can replace the thrilling sense of comradery that one receives when he lifts his voice in a chorus of his friends. Brotherhood, an almost, emotional fraternal ism, is an expression of the sociality that raises man above the lone beast. Ami there are few expressions of the fraternity of man so deep as the communal chorus. The inter-group singing contest which I’hi Mu Alpha, men’s music honorary, will spon sor next term will contribute to a revival of interest in vocal expression at Oregon, we hope. Group singing is so naturally delight ful that the impetus given it hy the contest may serve to reinstall its popularity on the campus permanently. II. P. Slugg says that he believes in the nobility of labor and ascribes whole-heartedly to the right to strike, but that if the “kiss strike” gains a foothold at Oregon, as it is reported to have done on other campuses, he will have no scruples about “scabbing.” II. Kessler, papa of the current matrimonal movement, announces the adoption of the name Te-elaeka to make the Tt'PACA pro nouneahle. The hope is that when and if the organization becomes a clique, it can be termed the “Clickety-t’lacka.” Miscellany Timely Notes on Cramming C|OMK stay up all night. Some go to bed hy ten. Some outline the text. Some hull session far into the morning. But whatever the method, college students are apt to dis regard every fundamental rule of learning when finals begin. What’s more, Phi Petes show as many idio syncrasies in their pre-ex “cram” session as the probat ionarics. If you’re counting on raising your average by a night-before study session, here are the best and worst ways to go about it. compiled from a synthesized stir vey of how psychologists say students ought to study and how they actually do. First, be sure that you’ll flunk if you don’t learn the course in eight hours flat. That provides motivation, and raises the whole level of learning. Psychologists’ experiments have proved that the rapid learner also re tain material better, exploding the age-old fallacy that the plodding method is the most efficient. Recitation helps. But the sleepy groups of “bull-sessioners” are probably going about it the wrong way. About 40 pep cent of time should be used in reading, the rest in some form of recitation. The campus bears out this theory, for the higher the bawl-out average, the less the reliance on bull - sessioning. “Waste of time.” agreed two Phi Betes. “The more you know the less you get out of it.” Their ideal method is condensing the ma terial they’ve read into brief notes, in their own words. And it’s psychologically sound. “But don't just copy sentences that don’t mean anything to you,” they warn. Eight hours per medium-sized textbook, plus two hours for classroom notes, was their estimate for reading and learning. * * * rJ''IIM low point of fatigue comes at about three in the morning, agreed crammers. This doesn’t mean that you have to give up and go to sleep. A “second wind-’ comes to the student as well as to the track man. Host periods should be taken—short fre quent ones arc better than long. And they should consist of complete relaxation, not an other form of study. Major premise of the Gestalt school is that learning should be “whole” rather than “part.” Read the entire thing—if necessary, re-read it. Don’t memorize one small fact after another. Get the idea and the relation of one part to another. If you find yourself cramming irrelevant and unrelated details, ask yourself “Why? How is" it related to the point?” The sandwich - eaters and the midnight feeders have the wrong idea, say pyscholo gists. Hunger stimulates mental effort. As for stimulants—coffee, caffein pills, coca cola, No-Doze, all have their advocates on the cam pus, with coffee leading the field. * * # JT has been proved that caffein actually helps efficiency, for about two to four hours. Large doses may retard motor co ordination—which is the main objection to No-Dozes and caffein pills. “Makes you so jittery you can’t write,” condemned one coed. Strychnine and cocaine, also listed as stimu lants hut not in use on the campus, have a depressing after-effect that coffee does not. Smoking one cigarette after another is not so ba*d after all. Tests show that your pulse rate increases, but so does your resist ance to fatigue. Claims of coeds that it “keeps them awake” are based on fact. But alcohol, although it may make studying more painless, also makes it more ineffective. It depresses instead of stimulates. The more you take the less you leant and the worse you learn it. Ideal conditions vary. Some students can learn better with the radio on. “Louis Arm strong records are better than coffee at three in the morning,” llioy claim. I’rofessors, shows a survey, need optimum conditions for learning, while the younger generation can often cram in a crowded room, because they’re used to it. Textbooks can t help you on that. You re the best judge as It) where you should study.—Stanford Daily. Formal Dress (Continued from page one) Horace Robinson, director and designer of “Goodbye Again," said yesterday afternoon that virtually the entire house lias been sold out for the opening night. The box of fice in the administration build ing will be open today from !) until curtain time. Reservations may be made there for repeat performanc es Saturday and Tuesday evenings. The repeat performances will begin at the usual hour of 8 p. m. Sunshine Slate (Continued from page one) school in Fairbanks, Alaska, she was selected as one of four girls who were taught the dying art by a wizened, brown-skinned Tlingit Indian squaw, named "Dancing Water.” Each blanket is made by hand and tells the story of the Indian clan. When the girls were almost finished with the blanket, “Dancing Water” took Louise Davis's hand and ripped off a part of her thumb nail. This was woven into the Chilkat blanket “to ward off evil and poverty from the tribe." Criminal Curiosity The hideout in Wisconsin where the gangster Dillinger and his co horts were trapped three years ago by federal men and yet escaped, has been turned into a sort of “Dillinger" museum. The manager of the tavern has made his busi ness into a proverbial "gold mine" by preserving nil of the broken windows and splintered furniture that was damaged in the gun play, says Dorothy Reider, of the Los Angeles Junior college newspaper, who visited there this summer. The manager of the tavern sent for Dillinger's father and gave him a home and chance to share in his venture, which has proved profit able for both of them. Dillinger's lather now has a room set off from the bar-room where he is exhibit ing relics of his infamus son's boy hood. lie makes a charge of 25 cents to go through the room. Love, Marriage ____ _ r*_ (( unturned from page one') tivc commit tees. There is ii possi-. bility that this will be reduced to three terms. Football \wards Made Twenty-five varsity football players were named to receive awards following the council’s rati fication of Coach Prince G. Calli son's recommendations. Heading the list are Captain Dot Bjork and Ed Farrar, who will be presented special award blankets for com pleting four years of play, during which they have both won three varsity letters. Members of the athletic board will meet Thursday evening. De cember 10. to make plans for next term’s activities and to hear fi nancial reports of the season's football games, Karl M. Pallett. adviser, announced Wednesday. Ihm (Hark (Continued from page one) taken at the convention but no definite decision was reached. “Contrary to all statements in newspapers and other news sour ces regarding the convention, no antagonism toward the Newpaper Guild for its actions was express ed." Han stated. Sigma Delta Chi neither favors nor condemns the Guild. Another matter that was dis cussed was the raising of the stan dards of Journalism from a hodge podge to the level of an art. At present there is not close enough restriction of requirements for journalism workers and Sigma Delta Chi members believe that selection of journalism workers should be more discriminative, rec ognizing that thorough social edu cation and a richer background than average is necessary if the high standards of journalistic work are to be developed and maintain ed. A committee was appointed for investigation of ways and means to carry out these and other ideas for raising the standards of the field of journalism. Delegates to the convention had an opportunity to view the Texas Centennial as guests of the city of Dallas. Of this. Dan said the most interesting feature Was The Cava!- ' cade, a depiction of the history of i Texas. The rest of the fair was only average, being for the most | part just a smaller world’s fair. I I Tune ’er Out... By BOB POLLOCK First of all, we absolutely deny ■ the last three paragraphs in yes j terday’s blurb. Some one took ad vantage of our absence and plas : tered 'em on. That settled, we put the column in the artistic hands | of Cloyd Conner, ex-Oregon state engineer, ex-University of Wyo ming chemist, and ex-University of Oregon journalism student. God save the king! And God save Pollock. And so, kiddies, to bcot ... to spur . . . The first thing that comes out of today’s grab bag is a gripe of long standing which the usual ed., the Tuner Outer with that touch of finesse, has over looked — the asphyxiating tripe that one gets out cf the radio in the hours from 10 a. m. until 2 p. m. Clever little things like “Just Plain Bill,” “John’s Other Wife,” “As Woman to Woman,” “Western Farm and Home Hour” this last one of the many rea sons we abandoned Oregon State to its own miserable fate. But it dees save on lunch. As an oasis in all of that parched desert, Walt Damrosch and the NBC Music Appreciation hour — NBC Blue consoles the serious minded studes without classes at 11 a. m. . . . Lee Gordon from Cleveland — NBC Red — does his bit to help pass away the time j with a bit of smooth melody around then too. • But the prize hot spot of the eve is tlie C’ampana First Nighter. Listen, children . . . “The Pro fessor’s Escapade” — KGW, at 7. Don Ameche as Snakeships, student nephew of Professor Horace Higginbotton d raws frowns for falling in love with a eced. At the crucial moment, however, the prof is touched by _ | the breath of spring and falling ■ ing in love with the dean of wo 1 men, murmuring “Semper Te Amo” — which means in the vernacular, “Babe, I’m nuts about ya.” . . So-Iong, friends . . . back to Portland and to labor . . . you have a nice school. coot ■ Lights By EDGAR C. MOORE TODAY’S ATTRACTIONS IIEILIG: “Ranger Courage” anil “Down to the Sea.” MCDONALD: “The Last of the Mohicans” and "Here Comes Carter.” STATE: “The Man From Gun town" and "Racing Blood." REX: “Sing, Baby, Sing” and “Yours for the Asking.” MAYFLOWER: “Charlie Chan at the Circus” and “The Coun try Beyond.” Ben Lyon. Ann Rutherford, and Russell Hardie play in "Down to the Sea," a story of sponge-fisher men in tropical storms, underwater battles with man-eating sharks, and many other thrilling experi ences. The accompanying feature at the Heilig is “Ranger Courage." a wild and wooly western in which Bob Allen has the featured role. * * * “The .Man From Guntown,” fea turing Tim McCoy, at the State, is another red-blooded western pic ture. Billie Seward and Rex Lease, who have appeared in most of the recent westerns, give McCoy much needed support. Peter B. Kyne's “Racing Blood,” is a picture of the life at the stables and racetracks. Frankie Darro has the lead and Kane Richmond aids him. * 0 * "The Last of the Mohicans," with Binnie Barnes, P^andolph Scott, Bruce Cabot, Henry Wilcoxon, and Heather Angel at the McDon ald, is really a gory and blood stirring dramatization of Jame3 Fenimore Cooper's book. Lots of action in it. Ross Alexander and his wife, Anne Nagel, draw consid erable comment for their acting in “Here Comes Carter,” a much bet ter than average story of a scan dal-spreading Hollywood radio re porter. Hobart Cavanaugh, Glenda Farrell, and Dennis Moore, whose name we have been trying to find in our family tree ever since he first appeared on the silver screen, help carry the burden. * * * Alice Faye, who sang on Bing Crosby’s program last night, and who is a ‘vivacious blonde,’ (ac cording to a triend of ours who writes a radio column) carries the Alice Faye, popular singing and dancing blonde, plays one of her best roles in thg current “Sing, Baby, Sing.” big part in “Sing, Baby, Sing,” at the Rex. Adolphe Menjou, conies back in a well acted part. Tony Martin, who looks like a star in the making, uses a good voice to the best advantage in singing “When Did You Leave Heaven.” “Yours for the Asking” finds George Raft and Dolores Cos tello Barrymore in the starring roles. “Charlie Chan at the Circus” at the Mayflower, finds the Oriental detective, Warner Oland, with Keye Luke solving a baffling mur der mystery with a circus setting. Rochelle Hudson and Paul Kelly appear in “The Country Beyond,” a story of the mounted' police and a gang of fur thieves. Aaron Ro senberg, who was an all-American football player from Southern Cal ifornia three or four years ago, is assistant director of this film. University Friend Gives Five Books to Library M. H. Douglass, librarian, an nounced today the receipt of five books as a gift to the library from McKee Smith of Portland. Mr. Smith, long a friend of the Univer sity, is employed by the D. C. Wax Office Equipment company. The books received included: “The Business Man’s Libe,” vol umes 2 to 8 and 10; Library of Sales and Advertising, volume 3 and 4; Shaw Retailing Series, books 1, 2, and 3, containing ma terial on selling methods, making more out of advertising, and at tracting and holding customers. HAL YOUNG SOLO Hal Young, new member of the music school faculty, will sing at a meeting of A.A.U.W. in Ger lingcr Saturday at 4 o'clock. Mrs. Aurora P. Underwood will accom pany him on the piano. Advertisers Gel (Continued from page one) Delta Theta house this coming ruesday evening at 7:30. All mem bers and pledges are to be there. Formal initiation will be held for the pledges this Sunday at 11 a'clock in Gerlinger hall, and at me o'clock a banquet will be given for Ihe initiates at the Benson Hotel. Luncheon day, for the group, was changed from every other rhursday to every other Wednes lay to avoid conflicts. Speech Division Slate For Year Is Released By MARGARET ROBBINS The 1936-37 offerings of community programs which includes forums, symposiums, demonstrations and speeches of the speech divi sion and the associated students has been released. Questions of discussion of the men’s and women's debate teams, the plan of public discussion, demonstrations, communities addressed in 1935-36, and several new features are included. The motto of the . rliviQinn i« “Thf» Stat.P of Campus Calendar Infirmary patients today are: Evelyn King, Mary Louise Rueg nitz, Allexine George, Mrs. Mary Wernham, Irene Heath, Marceline Seavy, Gwynne Caverhill, Peggy Hayward, Maurice Kelly, Robert Marquis, John Dick, Jack Elders, William Farnas, Lee Allen, and Winifred Henry. Skull and Dagger picture will not be taken Friday as originally scheduled. The Eugene Hunt club will meet and ride Thursday night at the fairgrounds riding academy. All interested in horseback riding are invited to attend, according to Paul R. Washke, director of the men’s gym. Phi Mu Alpha will have an init iation ceremony in the auditorium of the music building at 8 Wednes day evening. UO Library Puts NewLife’ Before Reading Students Life is now found in the li brary.' Life in picture form. Life from all over the world. This Life is a new magazine gotten out by the publishers of Fortune and Time and is one which has taken the country by storm. The first two numbers can now be secured at the periodical desk in the old library. Don’t forget to take a good look at the series of pictures on a brain operation if you want a thrill. Life of Black Widow, Life of Helen Hayes, of Robert Tay lor, Spencer-the-mystery man or first husband of Wally, life over seas, night life in Argentina, life found in the New Deal towns in Montana, pictured by Dourke White, famous photographer for Fortune, lives of people now on the news front are just a few of the subjects for the pictures, which as Ginger Rogers says, “Almost move and talk.’’ Spanish Classes To Hear Mexican Artists at OSC A delegation of Spanish class members and other students inter ested in Spanish and Mexican mu sic is expected to attend the con cert of Mercado's Mexican typical orchestra in Corvallis Wednesday, December 9. A varied program of Latin Am erican music and dances will be presented. Lolita Valdez, who has sung with the New York Grand Opera company, and Gustavo Car rasco, best known of Latin Am erican tenors, are featured on the program. A dinner will follow the musical program at which those interested in Spanish may converse with members of the orchestra. A special price of 75 cents each for the evening’s program is avail able to those attending from Eu gene. Auto loads are being made up at 40 cents per student. Oregon Is the University Campus.” I A series of forums will be pre sented during the winter term over station KOAC, on Friday evenings, called the student forum. Speakers [for special subjects and occasions can be supplied, if requests are made far enough in advance. At present, men’s debate teams are discussing the questions of the “Forums of National Governments” and “The Constitution Today” while the women's team is consid ering “What Shall We Do About Juvenile Delinquency?” The discussions aim to give the information necessary to an under standing of the problem, and to present both the advantages and the limitations of the proposals be fore the public for settling these issues; Questions and arguments from members of the audience are expected as a regular part of the discussion. Under demonstrations come par liamentary procedure on how to debate. Student teams are pre pared to give demonstrations of these. Speech department heads have made plans to allow the entry of groups outside the campus. In formation concerning entrance re quirements can be obtained from the University of Oregon speech di. vision. Visiting Alumni Criticize Student Artists’ Efforts Three former Oregon students visited the art school Wednesday, criticized students’ work, and spent the evening at the home of Professor W. R. B. Wilcox. The alumni were Glenn Stanton, educational committee chairman of the Oregon chapter of the Am erican Institute of Architecture; Hollis Johnston, a member of the committee, and Ed Hicks, who re cently received his master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Roi Moiron, vice-president of the American Institute of Architecture, accompanied the visiting alumni. For details, consult Southern Paci fic Agt., or write J. C. Cumming, Asst. G. F. & P. Agt., Pittock Block, Portland EUGENE MERCHANTS otter ® GIFTS OF VALUE AND QUALITY . . . © A WIDE ASSORTMENT OF GIFTS TO CHOOSE FROM .... and avoid last minute rush-shopping when you get home. 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