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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1938)
Students and Faculty Can Develop Friendships With Informality, SaysOnthank By GLENN HASSELROOTH A belief that the faculty-student relationship should have “fewer stiff shirts, white ties, and formal speeches” and “more informal get togethers” was yesterday expressed by Karl W. Onthank, dean of personnel. The traditional evening’s entertainment in a fraternity or sorority house does very little to bring closer the relationships between stu dents and professors, the dean said. Rather, he would advise informal meetings in the forms of chats, and walks. Asked what he thought of the recent attempt of a campus organ ization to bring students and fac ulty together at tea, the dean frowned, and replied that “this is not a tea drinking campus” and students are wary of attending such functions. “It takes an informal meeting to get a professor to come out of his shell in front of a student,” Dean Onthank said. “Some fac ulty members are not social. They live in unreal world of books and ideas. If they can really get out Of a stuffy classroom and say, let their hair down, a small part in improving cooperative methods of education will be gained.” Not only will the out-of-class attitudes of students and profes sors become better, but the atten tion, study, and satisfaction from work in the classroom will be less strained, and not so hard to take, the dean believes. A recent case of a University botanist who took hikes with some of his students outside of class hours was recalled by the dean; Students found out that the recog nition of some specimen of wild life was ten times as exciting as reading about it in a text book. In this manner, common interest in an unsupervised “study” turns into entertainment, the dean said. If such informal practices could once be started, the dean conclud ed, faculty and students would start regarding each other as in dividual personalities, rather than as donors and recipients of high brow learning. Good Records (Continued from page one) est grade-point average was awarded to Loraine Vivian Gjord ing, of Eugene, with a GPA of 3.86. Runner-up in standing was Dean H. Ellis, Salem. The selection meeting was held yesterday afternoon in the faculty room of Friendly hall, with Miss Florence Alden, president of the local chapter, in the chair. Announcement was also made of the selection of Miss Florence Alden, as official delegate to in stallation ceremonies for the new chapter at Reed college, May 6 and 7. It is expected that several members of the Oregon chapter will attend. Outdoor Theater to Have First Opening As a grand opening lor the new Garden theater, the University and the Eugene Very Little theater joins for the first time, to pro duce a program of Elizabethan music, dancing, and drama. May 19, 20, 21 are the dates set for production. Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt, director of the University theater, announced that the main features of the pro gram will be a stream-lined ver sion of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, “Two Gentlemen of Ve rona.” This drama, orte of the lightest plays from the pen of the world’s greatest dramatist, will be sup ported on the program by music of the period, dances enjoyed in the days of “Good Queen Bess,” and "jigs,” the forerunner of our modern song and dance act. The cast of the play will include 17 stars from Guild theater and the Very Little theater. One of the non-speaking feature parts in the play will be taken by a dog. The Gardfen theater, behind the music building on the campus, has not been used, because the shrub bery, that serves as entrances, wings, and exits for the outdoor theater, had not grown enough. Williams' Protests (Continued from page one) Payne Promises Constitution After receiving Williams’ pro test in the meeting, Payne waited until after the meeting to find a constitution, which Williams re ports did not show up. Williams asserts that Payne then gave him a copy of the soph omore constitution before the meeting to read, and that he has never seen the frosh document. “I think the 250 members who have bought class cards have a right to be governed as a class and as there seems to be no con stitution that Tiger can produce, I’m wondering whether it wouldn’t be worth while to look into how the class is governed,” said Wil liams yesterday. “Payne told me Mother’s Day Floral Gifts < I < < < < i < < < < < SAVE MONEY Telegraph costs to out- : of-town pointscan be saVed by placing the or ders in time to mail to ! other cities. COLLEGE FLOWER SHOP Across from Sigma Chi Phone 3018 Board's Annual Grades Awards Contest Opened Scholarships Again Offered; Blanks in Prexy's Office Application blanks for the an nual state board of higher educa tion scholarship awards are now available in the office of the presi dent in Johnson hall, Earl M. Pal lett, registrar, announced yester day. The board is authorized to offer these scholarships not to exceed in number two per cent of the enroll ment in the respective state insti tutions of higher learning. Stu dents who rank high in scholar ship, and who need financial assist ance, are eligible to apply, but at least fifty per cent of these schol arships must go to applicants who have not previously attended any institution of higher learning. Uni versity students with a grade point of 2.75 or better have a chance to get one of these scholarships if they met the other requirements of the high school contacts commit tee, which meets in June to decide upon the scholarships for Univer sity students. Blanks Due June 15 Application blanks must be filed before June 15. These scholarships will carry a value of $64.50, applying toward annual charges totaling $96.00 at Oregon State and University of Oregon, and $24, applying toward like charges totaling $51 at the normal schools. Applicants may apply for schol arships to any of the six schools in the system, including the Univer sity, Oregon State, Oregon Normal, Eastern Oregon Normal, Southern Oregon Normal, and the University of Oregon medical school. that he was not particularly in terested in running the meeting according to parliamentary pro cedure and if I wanted to kick up a beef to do it after the meeting and I am doing just what he told me to do.” Two Conferences (Continued from page one) to discuss cur-rent labor problems in a closed session in the Igloo. Two Conferences Merge The two conferences merged at luncheon in the men’s dormitory, presided over by Deo McClain, vice-president of the Oregon Retail Distributor’s institute. During the afternoon the con ferences continued with separate meetings. Retailers discussed re prepared by the University school tail salespeople, and scanned charts of business administration. The commerce secretaries had as their subject of discussion, taxes and mineral development. Each conference had a separate banquet at 8:30 in Straub hall. Today the retailers will meet in the Igloo for a discussion of unfair trade practices acts. Their noon meal will have as its feature re creation for the “tired business men.” The afternoon program will include discussion of tax problems. The commerce secretaries will meet in the PE building for dis cussion of their organization’s pro blems at 9. They will have their luncheon in Straub hall, and the afternoon program will center around a business session pf the association. together tonight at 6:30 in the Os The twro conferences will meet burn hotel, where they will be ad dressed by a number of speakers at a long and interesting meeting. DePauw university has just opened an endowment campaign to secure $3,120,000 in five years. Bowen Says Languages Have Liberalizing Effect Foreign languages are among the most liberalizing influences to be had in a modern university, stated Ray P. Bowen, head of the Romance languages department of the University, in an interview yesterday. “Nothing liberalizes a person as much as being able to think in fields that are closed to the people who have not had the advantages of University training,” he said. The student who is not majoring in languages, or who does not expect to travel in foreign countries, can still benefit immensely from the study ot languages, ur. .t>ow en believes. Knowledge of an other country’s language is a good introduction to the literature of that country, he said. Because much of the flavor of the original is lost in translation, and besides, 4iot all the good works have been translated into English. Broadens Education Foreign literature, in his opin ion, has more to contribute to our breadth of learning because it deals with such different peoples and situations. “Quite aside from literature,” he added, “I think it is something a student might pride himself on being able to do.” Why a student majoring in so cial science or English should take languages was explained clearly by Dr. Bowen. “If one is really going into social science or into literature,” he remarked, “the things that he will study will be about human experiences that are not limited to those who speak the English language. . . . The articles that tell about social problems are not all translated. French Most Useful French is most suited to the av erage student’s needs, he said, especially since the war. 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