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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1937)
From Where I SIT By CLARE IGOE It's great to be back. Much as I hate the nauseous, •'there are no days like college days,” pseudo sentiment, I must admit to a thrill of satisfaction at walking through the campus again, at seeing old friends—at the feel ing of "belonging” I get when I walk into the familiar buildings. It’s good to hear the rattle of busy typewriters at the shack— to sit and drink a coke in the smoke-hazed atmosphere of the Side. Even the “Hiyah, Chum" of a bumptious freshman is music to my ears. Football games, rallies, the color and zest, the noise and eager life of fa.ll term, the first, fine careless exuberance of the entering fresh man, is upon us. The campus wakens again, from its somnolent summer drowsiness, to the running footsteps of a student dashing to an eight o'clock, to the murmur and strident calls of voices in the "between-class” rush. And old as it Is, it becomes young again, in response to the youth it shelters. * * * T>UT in the middle of all this life, this intensity and move ment, there broods a ghost. Dark windowed and sullen it stands, its insides horribly torn and desecrat ed. The steps where student feet once trod are guarded by a grim “Danger, no trespassing” sign. Where once volumes filled with great knowledge were stored there is now only emptiness or perhaps the lunch box of a WPA worker. Forgotten and desolate, the old ' libe stands, waiting for its rebirth as a law library, its old and lova ble idiosyncrasies lost in wonder ing admiration of the modern glor ies of the new structure. I walked by there the other night, and I felt somehow saddened, I thought—a freshman wouldn’t feel this way, but I do, because I’m a senior—I’ve been here three years, and this one is my last. And for a moment I felt as lonely, as old and replaced as the old lihe must feel. I thought, next year this will all happen again, but I won’t Im‘ here to see it, and this part of my life, which has been so happy, will be closed forever. Perhaps it’s maudlin, or I’m in my dotage or something but I guess I’m rather fond of the old campus. New Heating Plant To Eliminate Soot, Says Dr. W. Norris Recent completion of a $65,000 remodeling project gives the Uni versity of Oregon one of the best heating plants in this section of the country, according to Will V. Nor ris, professor of physics in charge of the alterations. Installation of one new 550-horse power boiler and remodeling of the old boilers and other heating plant equipment was included in the pro ject. A former irritation which the new equipment is expected to elim inate is that of flying cinders. A system of induced drafts has been introduced to do away with the spreading of cinders and other such particles by the heating plant. I (Oregon LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor Board's 'New Face' Plans New Face for Igl oo Y\nn:x Kenneth E. Shumaker suddenly de cided late tliis summer to accept a year’s fellowship at Stanford, the Oregon campus lost, for that period, more than an educator. Mr. Shumaker’s main contribution has. of course, been in educational fields. Mis classes have had that elusive somethin" which induces students to acquire a maximum of information without losing interest, but perhaps his most important work was done as supervisor of the bureau of English, and in giving student English and intelligence tests. He will receive his doctor’s degree at Stanford. It would not be surprising if the faculty or personnel divis ion of that institution did not claim him to handle work with such tests. * # * ’VTO OTHER, faculty man on flic campus ' ever look a deeper interest in student life or student affairs. This interest, which kept him in closer touch with undergraduate life on tin- campus than are most staff members, along with firmly-held opinions produced from a cool and logical mind, made him a strong member of the educational activities board of the AKI’O. The loss of such a man from the educa tional board just before the opening of fall term necessitated some rapid and efficient ap pointing on the part of University President C. V. Hover. Since the adoption of optional fees. I >r. Hover has made it his policy to extend administrative control over the actions and activities of the student corporation. Power has been concentrated in the hands of the two boards, the educational activities board and the athletic activities board, until the duties and decisions of their members have become liighlv important. ’ # * * IN SUril an appointment, amounting al * most to an emergency measure, the great est advantage of strongly centralized control was operative. I)r. Boyer’s choice was quickly made. The new hoard member is Horace W. Robinson, assistant professor of drama. Through his work with University theater stage sets and productions, Mr. Robinson also has been thrown into contact with students. He brings to the board knowledge and tech nical ability of the stage which the ASU(T in its new position seems to need. Since the balmy days of compulsory fees have passed, the associated students have busied themselves with the presentation of an activity and edueational program designed to he too good for the student to miss. President Boyer has concentrated student corporation affairs in the hands of his two hoards. As a consequence, these hoards, and especially the edueational activities hoard and its manager, have been placed in the positions of extensive hookers, producers, and organizers of a tre mendous concert schedule and general activi ties program. CINCE the AST'O is definitely in the show ^ business and attempting to please a skep tical and difficult college audience, the talents of a master showman like Mr. Robinson seem of great value. His value to the hoard is already apparent. At its request, lie has submitted teutative plans for the permanent decoration of McArthur court. Through the use of indirect lighting and carefully planned and colorful hangings, Mr. Robinson has devised a scheme whereby the Igloo could he beautifully and inexpensive ly decorated for almost any sort of occasion— concert, commencement, or dance. The beauty of his plan lies in the ease with which the decorations would he erected and removed, a three-man crew doing the job in forty-five minutes, in their inexpensiveness, and in the fact that varied decorative schemes are pos sible. 11 Id appointment of Mr. Rojtinson rounds out a strong, well-chosen hoard. Earl M. Pallette, executive secretary and registrar, makes a careful and campus-wise chairman. Non-voting Secretary -I. O. Linstrom, I Diver sity business manager, saves the hoard much time with his finger-tip knowledge of costs and collections. Dr. Dan E. Clark, professor of history, Kai'l "NY. Onthank, dean of per sonnel and administration, and Orlando -T. Hollis, professor of law, representing vast fields of campus, legal, and business informa lion, give added strength to the hoard. This year two student members, the presi dent of the A\YS and the editor of The Em erald, have been added to the undergraduate ! members on tin* board, the president and secretary of the AST70. Strong, as it was be- I fore the loss of Professor Shumaker, it cannot help but be better equipped to face its prob lems with the aid of a professional producer. * I SIDE SHOW Edited by .... Paul Drutsrhmann, National Bill Cummings, Campus President RiV>seveIt’s trip to Oregon is over and in liis wake we find a chastened but smiling group ol politicians. Notable among these is our own (iov. ('ha lies II. Mart ill, whose recent efforts in conjunction with the anti Ross league were dealt a decided blow by the president’s affirmative declaration in regard to the “widest possible use” of Bonneville power. Aside from the “widest possible use” phrase the president’s speech was a marvel of middle-of-the-fence generalities, or at least that is what one would gather from the con tented statements issued by Oregon politicos Thursday morning. Everybody from Gover nor Martin to Monroe Sweetland, Oregon Commonwealth head, found something in the Bonneville address that proved he was right. .lust what happens at Bonneville will most probably depend upon who gets the much debated administrator’s post. The outstand ing candidate, as far as we can determine, is ,! I). 1 voss of Seat tfe, who has made an enviable record as head of that city’s municipal power plan*'. From all indications Mr. Ross ■will be a square shooter, and the “little man” ought to get a good deal of the “widest possible use ’ it' Mr. Ross lakes over. However, before this dream of cheap power for every fanner and small community in the Columbia basin can be realized, there are a vast number of political, industrial, and me chanical hurdles to be jumped. The Portland chamber of commerce will not easily give up its vision of industry in Oregon, nor will Gov ernor Martin and his league give up without a murmur. Then too, transmission costs might seriously impede progress toward the “blank et rate ’ ’ which cheap power enthusiasts main tain was inferred in the address. One reassuring item about the Bonneville address is that FDR lias not entirely lost his political touch, in spite of the recent supreme court fiasco, which he plans to continue, and the Black Klan scandal. At least, we are grati fied to find, he is able to hand Oregon’s home town minded politicians a stiff blow and leave them all smiles and acquiesences. BEAT STANFORD Make that Oregon Student section appear "big league" WEAR A ROOTER LID Oc at the— "CO-OP’ STUDENT SUPPLIES TOILETRIES TRY OUR FOUNTAIN LEMON O PHARMACY 0. L. Ireland, Prop. Phone 2717 Corner 13th and Alder CAMPUS Headquarters for GYM TENNIS SHOES SIZES TO FIT YOUR FOOT PRICES TO FIT YOUR POCKETBOOK. We carry the Nationally Advertised HOOD SHOES FAMOUS FOR— POSTURE FOUNDATION HYGIENIC INSOLE Unit'. CO-OP’ Campus Calendar Sigma Nil was host to Kappa Kappa Gamma at its first ex change dessert of the season last might. * * » There will be a meeting of the homecoming committee today at four o’clock at the College Side. * * * The Wesley Foundation cabinet .will be installed during the special student service Sunday morning at the First Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. B. Earle Parker, pas tor, will install the officers. Offi cers for the year are: Victor Goff, president; Dorothy Rowland, vice president; Hazel Lyle, secretary; and Jay Putnam, treasurer. » * * Charles G. Howard, professor of law, w'ill speak to the Wesley foun dation Sunday evening at 7:30. His topic is “The Student and the Church.” A social hour will follow the meeting. Earl M. Pallett, executive secre tary and registrar, has been con fined to his bed since Tuesday with a severe cold. He is expected to be up by the end of the week. A social swim for all University of Oregon men and women has been scheduled for Friday night from 7:30 to 9 o’clock in the Ger linger pool. * * * Infirmary patients today include Cliff Morris and Marvin Helon. Orides, the independent girls’ or ganization on the campus, will meet in the AWS room in Gerlinger hall Monday at 7:30 p.m. All old and new members should be there. There will he a picnic at West minster house Friday. Meet there at 6 p. m. rain or shine. Former ASUO Prexy Made Institute Head Claude E. Robinson, class of '24, and former ASUO president has accepted the post of associate di rector of the American Institute of Public Opinion, according to word received by Dr. George Re bec, dean of the graduate division. Robinson was a candidate for a Rhodes scholarship upon his gradu ation and subsequently taught and worked in the research division of Columbia university, where he was awarded a master's degree in 1926. In 1936 he received his Ph.D. at Columbia. Robinson's work has been in the economics field of so cial science. British Traveling Text Display Shown at Libe Thirty-five British text books, of interest primarily to educators, are now on display in the main de livery room of the University li brary. They have been shown in the public libraries in Portland and San Francisco and in the libraries of the Universities of Washington and Stanford, as well as in various cities in the East. The books are sent here by the British consul at Seattle. Teletype Talk Ey STAX HOBSON Justice Question l p Catch Polygamist Washington An uproarious meeting of the national bar association, revolving around the Justice Black question, was climaxed yesterday by a drive for a resolution condemning judi cial membership in a secret order. At the same time people all over the nation were awaiting Black's radio speech, in which it was be lieved he would attempt to clear up charges that he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Mantaroneck, IS. Y. Twenty-six years of age and married seven times! That is the record established by Lillian Mon der, Springfield, Massachusetts, woman. However, her plans for additional marriages were dealt a severe blow when New York po lice took her back into custody for polygamy. In April she broke out of a Mas sachusetts reformatory where she had been confined for marrying four men in two months. A few hours after her escape she cap tured her seventh husband. Whatt a woman! IS etc York Coming through for the second time in as many years, the New York Giants clinched first place yesterday in the National league when they split a double-header with the Philadelphia Phillies. Next Wednesday the Giants face ther arch-rivals, the Yanks, in the opening game of the world series. Phi Beta Awards Scholarships to U of O Students Dorothy Louise Johnson, violin ist, Barbara Barnell, pianist, Char lotte Cherry, cellist, and vocalist Barbara Ward were winners of the Phi Beta scholarship award, given annually by the Eugene chapter of Phi Beta, national women’s music and drama honorary. Executive Secretary of Pi Kappa Alpha Here _ Robert M. McFarland Jr., execu tive secretary of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, was guest of honor at a banquet held at the house Tues day evening. Faculty and alumni were guests. This is Mr. McFarland’s first visit to the local chapter. He ar rived Monday morning from Los Angeles where final arrangements were made for the 1938 Pi Kappa Alpha convention. He left late Wednesday afternoon for Portland where he will meet with the alumni chapter. Before returning to his home in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. McFarland will visit nearly half of the fra ternity's chapters. Rally ! Rally ! ! Rally ! ! ! DancE featuring Babe Binford and his All-Star Eleven Kickoff: Friday Nite, 9 o’clock October 1, 1937 Gerlinger Hall Gate Admission 75c Couple. CARBURETOR U. S. Pat. No. 2,082,106 YELL0-B0LE *$125 lew way of burning tobacco —better, cooler, cleaner. Car buretor-Action cools smoke. Keeps bottom of bowl absolutely dry. Caked with honey. At dealers’ now. I UPDRAFT LATEST DISCOVERY IN PIPES ....mmmmmmm.Mum.vm.m.mmmmmm..... Oregana CONFECTIONERY Mayflower Theater Bldg. . ‘ ' ..v,<. 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