Dp. Erb, Tex Oliver
To Be Honored at
Portland Banquet
VOLUME XXXIX
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938
NUMBER 66
Juniors Become Legally Qualified, Governed By Constitution
I
3rd Year Class Voters
Approve Constitution
In Special Meeting
Provisions Made to Exclude Proxy Votes
From Elections; Members Also Favor
Spring Election of Officers
Members of the junior class, governing- without a constitution for
almost one year, last night marked approval on a set of class regula
tions at an assembly held in Villard hall.
The new constitution follows rules enacted by other classes. Special
provisions were made to exclude proxy votes from class elections, a
condition that caused political excitement during the election of the
Gov. Martin Will
Present Trophy
ToROTC Colonels
Plaque's Possession
To Depend on Best
Competitive Drill
The governor’s trophy for the
best ROTC unit in the state will
be officially presented to the heads
of the Oregon and OSC ROTC Sat
urday evening at the military ball
by Governor Charles H. Martin
himself, it was revealed yesterday
by Jack Lew, captain of the local
Scabbard and Blade chapter.
Cadet Colonel Mills of the Ore
gon State ROTC and Cadet Colo
nel Enders of Oregon will official
ly receive the trophy from the gov
ernor.
Units to Compete
Notice that a trophy would be
given was made last term by the
governor after a visit to the Ore
gon campus.
Possession of the plaque will be
determined annually in spring term
when the ROTC units of Oregon
and Oregon State will be judged
in competitive drill.
Boyer to Receive
Official plans for receiving the
state’s chief executive are in the
..hands of Dr. C. Valentine Boyer,
president of the University.
Representatives of the state
board of higher education, the
OSC military department, the na
tional guard, and1 other state mil
itary organizations and their wives
will be honored guests.
Emotion Meter
May Measure
Many Moods
By ALYCE ROGERS
A University of Iowa professor
has devised an “emotion meter,'’
which he says measures the ca
pacity of one’s mood for love by
the perspiration in the palm of the
hand.
The machine would be of little
use to the unenlightened swain,
said Professor C. A. Muckmick,
' the inventor, because it takes a
trained psychologist to interpret
the romantic side of our readings.
The meter measures all types of
emotional disturbances, including
anger, fear, joy, and that pfoduced
by lying. Lie detectors generally
rely on changes in blood pressure
and breathing, he said, but in his
opinion hand perspiration is more
reliable.
When a person lies the sweat
glands in the hand become more
active, and this generates electri
cal currents, which are recorded by
the detector’s galvanometer.
Appealing 'Judy'
Judy Hansen, charming six-year
old neighbor of Theta Delta Chi
fraternity at the University of
Washington, was chosen their
candidate for “Fraternity Row’s
27 Sweethearts,” the creme de la
crop of campus loveliness along
with 26 beautiful sorority girls.
The ideal girl and her court of
five will be first announced in the
1938 Tyee, campus yearbook.
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Click, Clack ...
Class marks in courses at Geor
gia Tech were mediocre until a
brilliant blind student entered the
group. A bit of detective work dis
closed the fact that in writing
quizzes which were all of the true
and the false variety, the class
waited for the number of clicks
from the chap's typewriter, which
was a concession made to him.
Three clicks stood for “yes” and
two for “no.” The grades are back
to normal. He now taps a period
after each "No.”
group last spring.
ASUO Guidance Vetoed
A proposal to hold all class elec
tions under ASUO guidance was
Voted down after a general dis
cussion. Voters also went on rec
ord in favor of spring election of
officers.
Because of the short time avail
able and the added work of Junior
week-end, the class decided it
would not be practical to present
a junior show. Before the meeting
was disbanded ideas and sugges
tions for Junior weekend were
heard.
Universities Offer
Scholarship Awards
Valuable Fellowships
Offered by Colleges
In Many Fields
Six universities are offering
scholarships, fellowships, or grad
uate assistant teaching positions,
according to bulletins posted on
the board in Villard. The fields
cover nearly every branch of home
economics, English, medicine,
chemistry, agriculture, engineer
ing, biology, history, political sci
ence, and physics.
The schools include: Marquette,
school of medicine: Marquette,
setts Institute of Technology, Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute, Mt.
Holyoke, Washington university at
St. Louis, and Columbia university.
This last university is also offer
ing the Edward Goodrich Acheson
gold medal and prize of $1,000. In
the same line of study, electro
chemistry, is offered the Edward
Weston fellowship of $1,000.
At M.I.T. there are assistant
teaching and post doctorate fel
lowships open. At Virginia Poly
technic there are graduate appoint
ments of $480-$600 with free tui
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Senior Ball Favors
Will Be Valentines
Distinctiveness in decorations,
and programs will be the mode for
the Senior ball to be held Saturday,
February 12, Mel Shevach, chair
man of the affair, announced yes
terday.
Program and favor will be com
bined in a novel box of chocolates
packed in a valentine box. Every
coed attending the dance will re
ceive one, Virginia Moore, program
chairman said.
Harry Lewis and his orchestra,
who opened their western tour in
the Wiltshire Bowl and are now
playing in the Rio Del-Mar, have
been secured for the annual senior
hop in McArthur court.
Alumni Plan
Feast to Hail
Erb's Arrival
Tex Oliver Also to Be
Feted at Banquet;
Davis Eyes Series of
Oregon Reunions
Oregon’s President-elect Donald
M. Erb and newly-chosen Coach
Tex Oliver will be honored in
March at a banquet in Portland
sponsored by the Oregon Alumni
association, Elmer Fansett, alumni
secretary, announced Thursday.
“The affair, to be held as soon
as both men have arrived to as
sume their new positions at the
University, will be the largest
function in the history of the state
association,” he reported.
Davis Makes Plans
Roland Davis, president of the
Portland alumni group, is making
arrangements for the program in
cooperation with the University of
fice. Under the direction of Mr.
Davis and his board of governors,
the Portland graduates, number
ing between four and five thou
sand, have been organized into a
very active group.
Dr Erb will deliver the principal
address of the evening. Chancellor
and Mrs. Hunter and Dr. and Mrs.
Boyer will be in attendance.
Date Not Definite
So far no definite time has been
set for the banquet, since it is not
known when Dr. Erb will be able
to attend.
“If at all feasible,” said Mr. Fan
sett, “it wilf be held during spring
vacation, so that students will be
able to attend.”
The Portland meeting will be the
forerunner of several state-wide
gatherings to stimulate alumni in
terest in the University.
Frosh Revolt;
New Style Lids
End Tradition
Another item revealed during
a recent survey in library files
of Oregon traditions was the gi
gantic blunder the frosh class
suffered in 1903 when they re
ceived a forbidden order of green
frosh lids.
All went very well until a
slight mishap occurred, a mis
take in the order of the caps.
The caps received were not the
■ traditional skull caps, but jockey
caps.
The disgruntled freshmeil
planned to ship them back post
haste.
But the upperclassmen had a
different view of the matter.
Here was a chance for them to
turn the tables. Taking charge
of the shipment themselves, they
made the freshmen wear the
headgear, much to their disgust.
And this wasn't all. As the years
went by, the caps went from bad
to—well, pretty bad, finally
reaching the comparative size of
the palm of your hand and still
of the jockey style.
Talent Contest Ends
Next Tuesday Night
Final competition for $50 in
prizes, offered in the campus ra
dio, dramatic, music and speech
contest directed by Warren Wal
dorf will be held Tuesday evening
at 7:30 in the assembly room at
Villard.
All entrants in the contest are
to be at the hall at 7:15 to pre
pare for their programs, Waldorl
announced. Because the entry lisl
was not as large as expected, all
competition will run off in one
class with blanket prizes of $25.
$15, and $10, instead of divisional
rewards, he said.
Pictorial, Literary Maps
Featured in New Libe’s
Circulation Lobby Cases
Pictorial maps showing great literary figure of several countries
are featured in the current display in the circulation lobby of the
University library, Mrs. Grace Morris, reserve assistant, said yesterday.
Each showcase includes a map of a country and some contemporary
literature from that country.
With the map of England are “Elizabethan Women” by Gamaliel
Kraarora, ana • Potrait or an Age
by G. M. Young. With a map of
Ireland are “Islands of Ireland” by
Mason, and “The Face of Ireland”
by Floyd. France is included with
“Lives of Talleyrand,” by Crane
Brinton, and “Modern French
Painters,” by Maurice Raynal.
“The Spanish Main” by Philip
Ainsworth Means is one of the
books in the Spanish section.
Another case displays a map of
the Oregon trail, with pictures of
well-known spots, and shows where
the California trail branched off,
Mrs. Morris points out. “The Hon
Fraternity Bulletin
Boards Given Piaise
By BILL SCOTT
Silent servants of Oregon’s fraternities are their bulletin boards.
They serve well as places to post miscellaneous information as well
as keeping the waste-baskets from filling to rapidly.
The typical bulletin board has a copy of the seldom-read house
rules, a list of house duties, a call sheet, some ads for dry cleaners’
representatives, and perhaps an intramural schedule.
New Books Added
To Circulation Libe
Because of the large number of
requests, three new books have
been added to the library circula
tion, Miss Bernice Rise, circula
tion librarian, declared yesterday.
They are “I’d Rather Be Right”
by Kaufman and Hart, “The Cita
del” by Cronin, and “The Impor
tance of Living,” by Lin Yu Tang.
The books are now on the rent
. shelf.
li is nere mac me uoys gamer
after the list of girls is posted for
the next exchange dessert and try
to figure out what “queens” are
still left to sign up for. Here, too,
are posted the list of the lucky men
invited out by a sorority for the
evening’s dessert and dance.
At the Fijis’ pillared palace, the
boys keep posted by social news
notes w'hich are posted, telling
what girl who is taking out, what
house she is from, and some inter
pretative comment. This service is
if great aid to the men.
orable Company,” a history of the
Hudson’s Bay Co. by Douglas Mac
Kay is one of the books included in
this group.
GRADUATE COUNCIL MEETS
The graduate council of the Uni
versity will meet on Wednesday af
ternoon at 4 o’clock in the office
of Dean George Rebec to consider
the application of one of the de
partments to take on candidates
for doctor’s degree.
Barney Hall Names Board
Of 5 to Investigate Means
Of Financing Student Union
Chairman Robbins to
Meet With Group
To Discuss Project
This Weekend
Eil Robbins, chairman of the
newly appointed student union
board, plans to bring- his commit
tee of five students together “some
time this weekend” to prepare for
the task that faces it in planning
the student center, it was reported
last night.
When the board is given instruc
tions by the executive committee
next week, the board will hear of
the land and $33,000 fund avail
able for the project. The plot of
ground bounded by Alder, Kincaid
and 14th streets has been set aside
for this purpose.
Faculty to Advise
“It sounds like a good commit
tee to work with,” Robbins said
i last night when talking of the five
persons named. “We will also ask
jthe advice of faculty members from
time to time in matters that have
been worked out by other groups
since the project was started.”
The work of the new board at
first will be laying the ground
work and finding the needs of the
campus for such a student center.
DU Delegates Will
Convene at Oregon
Northwest Chapters
Send Members to
Local Forum
Members of six chapters of Delta
Upsilon will convene at the local
i chapter house Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday for the annual provin
cial conference being held in Eu
gene this year.
Two official delegates from DU
chapters at Oregon State, Wash
ington, WSC, Alberta, and British
Columbia, will attend conference
meetings Friday and Saturday.
Scholarship, fraternity ideals, and
similar subjects will be discussed
by the delegates.
Zane Kemler and Dick Halley
will represent the Oregon chapter.
Ken Ely, president of Oregon DU,
will be honorary head of the con
ference.
Additional guests as well as the
delegates will be entertained to
night at the annua! winter formal,
to be held in the Eugene hotel. The
conference meet will be climaxed
Sunday morning with a joint ini
tiation of Oregon and Oregon State
pledges.
Final event of the three-day
meeting will be a banquet Sunday
afternoon at the Del Ftey cafe.
Hunter Urges Youth
To Protect Democracy
Against Dictatorship
Dr. Frederick M. Hunter, chancellor of the Oregon state system
of higher education, yesterday, in his annual address to University
students at an assembly in Gerlinger hall, declared that 50 per cent
of the rest of the world is in league against the American principle
of intellectual freedom
With a huge map of the world, depicting the areas in which there
Winners in Poetry
Contest Announced
James, Miss Larson
Take First Prizes
With Readings
First prizes in the winter term
Jewett poetry interpretation con
test held last night were awarded
to William James in the men's di
vision and Lorraine Larson in the
women’s group. Edward Burten
shaw and Rose Allen took second
places.
j Awards for the contest were $15
; for first places and $10 for seconds.
More than two hundred students
and teachers attended the pro
gram, at which 'six boys and six
girls, chosen from the extempore
speaking classes of the speech de
partment, read poetry selections.
“The Battle of Blunheim” was
the piece read by James while Miss
Larson recited “The Machine.”
Other contestant were Ruth
Chambers, Beverly Steel, Sadie
Mitchell, Levelle Walstrom, Rich
ard Williams, Stanley Johnson,
Phillip Goul, and Hugh Simpson.
Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt, Miss Ethel
Sawyer, and Robert Horn were the
judges.
NYA Students Just
Forget, Dean Sags
—
Explanation of the apparent in
difference of NYA students who
failed to claim their pay checks
promptly was given yesterday by
Dean of Personnel Karl W. On
thank when he said, “Very often
the students never actually see
their money . . . they merely en
dorse thir checks to pay fees or
emergency loans.”
Th dean denied the suggestion
that some of the students on the
NYA payroll are not actually in
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They Speak to Oregon
Mens symposium ueirate squad . . . travel over state to discuss various pertinent topics of the day.
is censorsmp oi we press, speecn,
and even of thought before him,
the chancellor presented the evi
dence that the fate of the great
ideals of freedom of the mind and
brotherhood of man as exemplified
in modern democracies will depend
upon the straight thinking of the
American youth.
The policies of Stalin, Hitler,
Mussolini, and other exponents of
dictatorships, he likened to the in
quisitions of the dai’g ages, when
the struggles of such men as Leon
ardo and Savanarola toward intel
lectual freedom were quickly sup
pressed by the hand of despotism.
The burning of the book at the
University of Berlin during the
Hitler purge, the chancellor cited
as an example of the trend of
present-day censorship.
Youth’s Part Told
Dr. Hunter stated that the great
battle of American youth will be
to convince the world by practical
example and clear, straight think
ing that government by democracy
is the'only government consistent
with the principles of intellectual
freedom.
President C. Valentine Boyer in
troduced Dr. Hunter to the stu
dents, stating the chancellor’s
qualifications to deal with this
topic.
Constitution Protects, Belief
“The constitution, with its writ
ten charter of intellectual freedom,
is the greatest guarantee against
the spread of the black shadow
(dictatorship) over the whole
world,” Dr. Hunter said.
History Professor
Will Review Books
Professor R. C. Clark, head of
the history department, has been
asked to review two books by the
Mississippi Valley Historical Re
view in Cleveland, Ohio.
The books to be reviewed, “Don
ald Mackenzie, King of the North
west,” by Cecil W. Mackenzie, and
“Marcus Whitman, M. D., Pioneer
and Martyr,” by Drury are both
histories of the Northwest.
Building Needs Here
Will Get Probe of
Committee; Ideas
For Desigh Sought
By naming .five students—Ed
Robbins, chairman, Paul Deutsch
man, Barbara Pierce, Genevieve
McNiece, and Bob Dent—as a
committee to investigate ways and
means of financing Oregon’s pro
posed student union, ASUO Prexy
Barney Hall yesterday started the
ball rolling on a project first ad
vanced in 1924.
The five students will call upon
other schools having student cen
ters to submit information on the
way their buildings were secured.
Besides studying the problem of
raising money, the group will study
the size and type of building need
ed on this campus.
Blue Prints Wanted
Assistance of the architecture
classes mav be asked in the mat
ter of submitting ideas on the
building proiect.
Hall said that in choosing this
groun he tried to name several per
sons with few preconceived ideas on
the subiect. They will act inde
pendently of the ASTJO executive
committee in all matters. It will
meet with the ASUO hoard next
week, however, to be informed on
its duties.
Proposed facilities for the build
ing to Include are a large assem
blv hall and ballroom, kitchen fa
cilities for banauets, ASUO offices,
and in the basement a cooperative
book store and other shops.
Evans Will Present
American Oratorio
An American oratorio, never
presented in this section of the
country before, will be given early
next month by the First Presby
terian church choir of John Stark
Evans, in Portland.
“Hora Novissima” (Earth’s Lat
est Hour) was first written as a
meditation by Bernard de Morlaix,
a Frenchman, a number of years
ago. It was adapted to music about
30 years ago by Horatio Parker.
The musical composition portrays
the story in a happy light, taking
a much different stand than the
ordinary interpretation of a Judg
ment Day.
Mr. Evans’ choir is composed of
43 members and a mixed solo quar
tet.
Libe Newsroom Has
Home Town Papers
A solution of how to keep in touch with affairs “back home” is
offered by 150 current newspapers in the periodical room of the Uni
versity library.
Oregon papers and several foreign and out of state ones such as
the Japan Times and Mail which is a Tokyo publication printed in
English are there. One paper, the Portland Posten, is printed in
Annual Contest
Opened bg Juniors
A prize of $20 was offered by
the junior class yesterday to the
person submitting the best theme
for Junior weekend.
Plans, which should include ideas
for the junior prom, canoe fete,
and concert, must be in the hands
of the judges by February 14. Sec
ond and third prizes will be given.
The contest is open to all stu
dents.
OWCU1S11.
The library also maintains sub
scriptions with the Boston Christ
ian Science Monitor, the New York
Times, and the Manchester Guard
ian, as well as with the Portland
Oregonian, and the Oregon Jour
nal.
Papers are received from the Eu
gene Register-Guard and the Eu
gene Daily News, apart from the
large exchange with other town
papers of the state.
The smallest is the Portland
Sunnyside Gazette, a weekly. An
other small paper is the Capitol
Daily from Washington, D. C.
All papers are kept and arranged
in bound files. The Oregonian files
date back to 1897.