The
Backseat Driver I
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By MARTHA STEWART
This morning; I thought I smelled
spring in the air and I sat in my
classes composing lyrical bits with
which to wow you unsuspecting
readers. This afternoon the sky is
grey, the wind is bitter chill, and
all I’ve got to saw is “Aw Nuts!”
Henceforth I shall abandon all
thought of talking about the
weather and shall confine my ef
forts to dependable topics like pol
itics, the national deficit and
peace.
I’m sorry more of you couldn't
have met Marian Lay (Mrs. H. L.
"Honey in the Horn’’) Davis when
she was here last week to speak
to Matrix Table. Mrs. Davis, a
graduate of the University herself,
is the sort of woman who makes
one feel rather superior about I
graduating from her alma mater.
When plied with questions as to
hers and Davis’ reactions when
word reached them that his "Honey
in the Horn’’ had been awarded
the Pulitzer prize Mrs. Davis told
the following story.
The two were staying at a little
hotel in the South at that time, j
One morning the desk clerk buzzed
them to come downstairs for a
phone call. Thinking it something
of no importance and not wishing
to awaken her husband who still
slept. Mrs. Davis went down to
answer it.
“This is a reporter from the
Nashville Times,” came the voice
at the other end. “How does Mr.
Davis feel this morning?”
A bit puzzled but not wishing
to b» rude Mrs. Davis replied
somewhat hesitantly,
“Why all right, I guess.”
“Js he excited?” the reporter
queried once more.
“Excited?” By now Mrs. Davis
was completely bewildered. “Why
no, I don't think so. He's still
asleep.”
This went on for some time, \
neither having the slightest idea
what the other was talking about
when suddenly something clicked
inside the reporter’s brain.
"Don’t you know,” he evclaimed,
“that your husband was awarded
the Pulitzer prize this morning?” |
With a shiek Mrs. Davis dropped,
the phone (“For all I know,” she
said, “it may be dangling there
still.”) and tore upstairs to break
the glad news.
Their small cocker spaniel, hear
ing her coming, came running down i
the hallway to meet her. In her
excitement Mrs. Davis didn't see
liim and a moment later she had
tripped over his wiggling body and
fallen face down in the corridor,
while the spaniel lea pud around
her barking frantically.
By that time Davis had heard
the noise and,
“A moment later,” his wife tells
us, “the Great Author stuck his
head out the door to sec what the
commotion was.”
“you’ve just been awarded the
Pulitzer prize,” Mrs. Davis man
aged to gasp. Davis eyed her calm
ly for a moment.
‘(I have?” he queried. “Well,
you’re not taking it very well.”
This next one, alas, sounds sus-1
piciously like some of that nasty
old gossip that I was talking about
last week. Reluctantly . . . very
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House Dances Head
Week's Social Whirl;
Many Motifs Planned
Alpha Phis and Alpha Chis Go Modern;
Sigma Nus Have Monte Carlo; Pi Phis
Have Musical ComedyTheme
Monopolizing the social calendai
for the weekend will be the win
ter formals of Alpha Phi, Phi Gam
ma Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, Del
ta Tau Delta, and Canard club or
Friday night which will be followec
by those of Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha
Chi Omega, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma
Nu, Phi Delta Theta, and Yeo
men-Orides on Saturday night.
Night Club
For Alpha Phis
With a modernistic night club
as a decoration motif, Alpha Phi
will hold their annual winter for
mal on Friday to the music of
Maurie Binford’s orchestra.
The color scheme will be in or
chid, green, and silver with panels
stenciled on the walls by Sam
Fort. Huge, modern paintings
will be hung on the walls. In the
corners, stream-lined pillars will
come down from the ceiling with
silver ivy leaves wrapped around
them.
A semi-circular bar will be
placed in the dining room for
punch with lights set in the panels
to reflect on the dancers and walls.
The programs will be white
leather with the fraternity crest
placed in the center in silver, held
together with a bordeaux cord.
Patrons and patronesses are Dr.
ind Mrs. C. H. Schwering, Mr. and
Mrs. Lance W. Hart, Mr. and Mrs.
P. L. Chambers, Mrs. Elizabeth
ralbert, Mrs. M. P. Barbour, Dr.
ind Mrs. Daniel D. Gage, and Mrs.
John Wall.
Winter Formal
For Fijis
Phi Gamma Delta will hold a
formal dance which will be decor
ited simply and artistically with
:he use of palms and spot-lights.
Their programs will be in pur
ple and gold. Buck McGowan’s or
ihestra will furnish the music.
The patrons and patronesses are:
Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Kunz, Mr. and
Mrs. George Root, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Seufert, and Mr. and Mrs.
[rvin Vater.
* * *
Dinner Dance
For AOPis
Simplicity will also mark the
ormal dinner dance given by Alpha
Dmicron Pi at the Eugene hotel
Friday. The banquet and ball room
vill be decorated in black and
vhitc.
Art Holman's orchestra will play,
rhe programs will carry out the
slack and white color scheme and
vill have the sorority name print
id on them in gold.
Patrons and patronesses are Mr.
tnd Mrs. Charles Hulten, Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Fansett, Mr. and Mrs.
Erank B. Reid, and Mrs. Ocie B.
3ehymer.
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Dinner D*uicc
\t Osburn
Delta Tau Delta will hold a for
nal dinner dance at the Osburn
lotel on Friday evening.
Palms and floodlights will be
:he only decorations for the music
if Earl Scott. The programs will
lave a transparent front with the
Delta crest stamped in gold. The
FORMALS
Friday, Feb. 18
Phi G Formal
Alpha Phi Formal
AOPi Dinner Dance
Delt Formal
Saturday, Feb. 19
Sigma Kappa Con
vention
ADPi Dance
Alpha Chi O Dance
Pi Phi Dance
Yeomen-Orides Dance
Sigma Nu Dance
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Radio Draws
Lots of Men;
i Fewer Women
“Good evening, everyone. This is
your Oregon Emerald Reporter
bringing you the latest flashes
from the campus.” So begins the
little speech which the hopeful
would-be announcer speaks into
the audition microphone in the edu
cational activities building. A few
minutes later he is handed a little
black record with his voice per
manently captured on it.
This is something of the proced
ure which the student applicant for
the coveted job of KORE radio
announcer goes through, and judg
ing from the crowds which have
been flocking to the activities of
fices during audition hours, it is
the week’s most popular pastime.
A definite shortage in the num
ber of women who have come for
auditions has been noticed in spite
of the inducement of free cigarettes
and a record of each individual's
voice, and much speculation is un
derway as to the cause of this.
Perhaps the number of women
smokers is decreasing, or again
the feminine student may have
more modesty about her vocal tal- j
ents than the masculine one.
Women interested in taking part
in the contest for radio jobs arc
urged to come for auditions before
Friday which is the closing date.!
In spite of any rumors or assump
tions to the contrary there are no
distinctions made between men and
women in the contest.
cellophane is under a purple fly
leaf.
Patrons and patronesses are Dr.
and Mrs. Daniel D. Gage, Mr. and
Mrs. W. P. Riddlesbarger, and Mr. j
, and Mrs. W. A. Dahlberg.
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Modernism
For Alpha Chis
On Saturday night Alpha Chi
Omega will go modernistic in a
i color scheme of blue and silver.
Blue and silver cellophane will;
be stretched across the ceiling with ;
blue and silver stars suspended j
from it. In the center of the liv-1
ing room a mirrored ball will hang
which will be twirling throughout
the evening with spotlights turned
upon it.
Black cocktail glasses will be
silhouetted on the wall with real
istic bubbles coming out. Earl
Scott's orchestra will play.
The programs will be in deep
purple suede with Alpha Chi Ome
ga lettered in silver.
Patrons and patronesses will be
Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Horn, Mr. and
Mrs. C. R. Manerud, and Dr. and
Mrs. A. L. Alderman.
Paradise to
Be Theme
Heralding the theme of a "Mod
ern Paradise," Alpha Delta Pi will
have each room decorated as some
famous spot such as the Holly
wood Hotel, Cocoanut Grove, and
Beverly Wilshirc
Buck McGowan's orchestra will
play. The programs will be the
sorority colors of blue and white
with the gold crest stamped on
them. The dance will be semi-for
mal.
Patrons and patronesses are Dr.
and Mrs. C. L. Schwcring, Mrs.
Murray Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Dal
las Norton, Mr. and Mrs. D. W.
Grites, Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Vater,
Mr. and Mrs. George Root, and
Mrs. Lucy L. Perkins.
* * *
Informal Dance
For Phi Delta
Phi Delta Theta will hold an in
formal dance Saturday night with
a realistic theme. Natural objects
of art will be placed about the
living and dining rooms.
Unusual programs shaped in the
form of the chapter house with
the crest stamped upon the door
Committee to
Nominate lor
AWS Election
With AWS elections scheduled
for March 2, a nominating com
mittee is to meet Saturday, Feb
ruary 18 in the College Side to
select candidates for office.
The candidates will be selected
for president, vice-president, sec
retary, treasurer, reporter, and
sergeant-at-arms. These officers
will be nominated at an assembly
on the day preceding the elec
tions and any further nomina
tions may be made from the
floor.
Officers for the YWCA and
WAA will be elected at the same
time as the AWS elections.
These two organizations will
meet separately to pick their
nominees.
Members of the AWS nomin
ating committee are Vivian
Runte, Vivian Emery, Brandon
Young, Harriet Thomsen, Aida
Macchi, and Anne Fredericksen.
Gayle Buchanan, acting presi
dent, will preside.
Anyone who wishes to suggest
officers may by getting in touch
with any member of the above
committee. For additions to the
YWCA, get in touch with Har
riet Thomsen, acting YWCA
president; for WAA, Gretchen
Smith, president.
“Reports from each member
of the AWS council must be in
by March 1,” announced Gayle
Buchanan.
Members of the AWS cabinet
for the past year have .been
Gayle Buchanan, president; Viv
ian Emery, vice-president; Phyl
lis Gardner, secretary; Betty
Mushen, treasurer; reporter,
Rita Wright; social chairman,
Anne Fredericksen; chairman of
speaker's committee, Harriet
Sarazin; sergeant-at-arms, Aida
Macchi; chairman of orientation
committee, Laura Bryant.
Other executive heads who be
long on the council are Marion
beth Wolfenden, Kwama adviser;
Elizabeth Stetson, head of frosh
counsellors: Brandon Young,
president of heads of houses; Vir
ginia Regan, Pan-Hellenic presi
dent; Gretchen Smith, WAA
president; Harriet Thomsen,
YWCA president, Vivian Runte,
Orides president.
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By
ANNE FREDERIKSEN
(Campus Social Chairman)
Friday, Fqt>ruary 18
Phi Gamma Delta house dance.
Alpha Phi house dance.
Alpha Omicron Pi formal din
ner dance, i
Delta Tau Delta formal din
ner dance.
Sigma Kappa regional conven
tion.
Saturday, February 19
Alpha Delta Pi house dance.
Alpha Chi Omega house dance.
Pi Beta Phi house dance.
Sigma Nu house dance.
Phi Delta Theta informal dance.
Chi Omega upperclass dinner.
ire being planned. Wayne Pel
oven's orchestra will play.
Patrons and patronesses are Dr.
ind Mrs. Adolph Siegrist, Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Walker, and Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Hall.
•Is $ ^
Notes to
Dominate
Using a “Musical Comedy”
theme, Pi Beta Phi will decorate
its chapter house with musical
notes and bars depicting different
scenes from comedies. The pro
grams fitting in with the general
scheme of decorations will be in
blue and white with musical notes
printed on them.
Patrons and patronesses are Mr.
and Mrs. N. B. Zane, Dr. and Mrs.
C. L. Schwering. Mr. and Mrs. Karl
W. Ontba.nk, Mr. and Mrs. Earl,
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. G. Thacher,
Mrs. Alice Macduff, and Mrs. Fan
nie McCamant.
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styles on the seated model. Miss Mitchell recently showed several of
her own coiffures by request at the Portland style show, “Vogues
of 1938.”
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Grades Hare Changed
Since Oregon Si -tried
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By AGNES M. VEAZIK
(Editor’s note: From a journal
ism student at the general exten
sion division in Fort land enmes
this account of the various and
sundry grading systems which
have been used at the University
since its time began. Miss Veazie
begins her dissertation in epic
form (which unfortunately wo arc
forced to condense because of lack
of space) with the year 1880 when
grades were figured in percentages
and the student was told the aw
ful truth about his averages.
“But on a day,” Miss Veazie
writes, “thus tradition goes,
A sensitive damsel grew hys
terical
When she received her grades;
for they were low,
Their altitude being about the
same
As the Imperial valley or Dead
sea.”
From then on in order to avoid
such scenes the. faculty decreed it
“inadvisable) to let the students
know their standing.” Grades were
copied in the registrar’s book “the
book was locked within his desk,
the desk locked in a room, and not
the nosiest guy could get him
wise.”
“By this,” Miss Veazie continues
in poetic meter,
“The faculty made thieves and
burglars out of honest men.”
From here the Portland journal
ism student continues the narra
tion in prose.)
in iayt> me iacuity again iook
up the matter of grades and de
cided that, “At the end of each
year each student will receive a
card certifying credits earned dur
ing the year, signed by each teach
er with whom his standing was 70
per cent or higher. Presentation
of credit card at office is necessary
for registration the following
I year."
The next important change in
faculty grading habits came in
1905 when the letters A (95-100
per ccnt(, B (90-95 per cent), C
(80-90 per cent), D (70-80 per
cent), and F (failure) supplanted
the use of percentages.
Percentage System Adopted
The fall of 1912 saw a more
i radical change. “The system of
grading by percentages of an un
I defined base,” says the record,
( somewhat ponderously, “has been
discontinued, and in lieu thereof
the system of grading by rank
has been adopted.” To explain in
lay language, the new system
worked thus: a list of students
was arranged according to scholar
ship. A fourth was then cut from
each end of the list. The half re
maining received a grade of M
(medium i. The upper one-fourth
were markdd S (superior); the
! lower one-fourth, P (passing). A
top few, not to exceed one-fifth of
the S's, were then removed into an
H (honors) group, and a similar
few cut from the lower P’s received
an F (failure).
"Our marking was on a curve,’
as one graduate of the time puts
it, “and if you were in a dumb
class, you got a better grade than
if you were id a bright one " Those
who experienced it seem to con
I sidcr this system the worst evet
used at the University.
In 192(1 Roman numerals were
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Associated.
Coed Visitors
To Be Shown
Campus Sights
Industrious students who in
tend to pursue their books or
studies at the art school or li
brary next Saturday morning
need not be alarmed when at
about 11 a.m. 75 or 100 wide
eyed coeds descend upon the sa
cred precincts. It will only be
the delegates to the Sigma Kap
pa northwest regional conven
i tion who are being tliken on a
tour of the campus. The tour
i will include the art museum, the
new library, the art school, and
other spots of interest on the
campus.
College members and alumnae
from Oregon State College, Uni
versity of Washington, Wash
ington State college, and Uni
versity of Montana will be guests
of the local chapter for the three
day conference beginning Friday,
February 18. Following the
tour of the campus the delegates
will be entertained at a luncheon
in Gerlinger.
The outstanding feature of the
afternoon session, which will be
held in Gerlinger hall, will be the
message to the convention from
Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper, Oak
land, California, who is grand
vice-president of the sorority.
While in Oregon Mrs. Harper
will make her national inspection
of the chapters at Oregon State
College and Oregon.
DEAN HAS PAMPHLETS
The dean of women’s office has
received several pamphlets from
the University of Pittsburgh on
“Careers in Retailing.’’ Any stu
dents interested in this material
arc invited to come into the of
fice and read the booklets. They
may be able to help someone an
swer the question “After college
what?’’
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tad-tune or dinner-time
footwear is on display
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for spring:
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• Smart, Dull Kid in
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• Kid Perforates in
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• Suedes Trimmed in
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Personality Authority
Coming to Campus
Under A WSAuspices
Miss Elizabeth MacDonald Osbourne Will
Speak to Oregon Students on Problems of
Personality and Appearance
Daily Dozens
Don't Correct
Bad Posture
By JEAN GULOVSON
The corrective and restrictive
department of women's physical
education, under the direction of:
Miss Harriet Thomson, is quietly
and efficiently working out a pro
gram of muscle control and muscle
strengthening.
The lirst thing to d • in correct
ing posture is to have the individ
ual assume the right position and
then to practice exercises-* that
will strengthen the weaker mus
cles which are not doing their
share to hold the body framework
in position. Special exercises are
given for every defect from head
droop to weak metatarsal arches.
"Each person's weakness is ih
dividual, so the exercises must be
fitted to the person,” explained
Miss Thomson, who is an expert inj
the field of corrective physical ed- |
ucation. "That is why the daily'
dozens given over the radio are so [
bad. The unguide'd girl with pos
ture defects is likely to develop
her stronger muscles at the ex
pense of her already weaker ones,
thus increasing her postural dif
ficulties.”
Miss Thomson believes that ev- j
cry girl should know how to check j
her own posture. It is a simple!
test requiring only two plumb lines
set about six feet apart. The in
dividual stands between them so
that one plumb line is on the left
side, the other on the right. An
observer stands a few feet away
so that one line appears to fall on
the other when the observer clos
es one eye and looks at the lines.
The plumb lines should pass
through the following points of
the person standing between them:
the opening of the ear, the mid
point of the shoulder joint, the Jiiid
point of the hip joint, between the
knee cap and leg hope at the'knee,;
and the instep about two inches
in front of the ankle bone.
Any girls whose posture difficul
ties are not sufficient to p|acc her
in the corrective classes, but who
wishes special instruction, may re- i
ceivc it by making an appointment1
with Miss Thomson.
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As their biggest project of the
year, AWS has secured the serv
ices of Elizabeth MacDonald Os
bourne, nationally known person
ality consultant, who will be at
the University, February 21, 22,
and 23 for an assembly and a sc
ries of personal conferences with
campus men and women.
The group of talks and confer
ences which have been scheduled
for her are designed to arouse in
terest in the necessity of a plasing
ppearance and an intelligent
kn wledge of the facto.s which
contribute to it; to try to make
the student body see that college
is a training ground for poise and
personality as well as academic
pursuits.
Although Miss Osbourne's work
has been carried on principally in
the eastern colleges, she visited
Reed college last year and comes
to Oregon recommended highly by
Mrs. Schulz, dan of women at
Reed.
Miss Osbourne is a college grad
uate with extra years of study in
art. Her eexperience has been in
the fields of teaching, designing,
and fashion editorial work, and
for six years, she was a consult
ant to whom women came for a
check-up of personal assets and
guidance as to how to make the
most of their charms.
Her conferences will be held be
tween 10 and 12 in the morning
and 1:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon
Anyone who wishes to have a con
sultation with her may schedule
an appointment at the dean of
women’s office for these hours.
These conferences are for a pe
riod of a half-hour consisting of
four to eight students in which
each receives a personal check-up.
Assisting Dean Hazel P. Schwer
ing with arrangements and enter
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