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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1938)
'ReadingLost Art; Vocabularies Poor, Lazy/ Agrees Professor Agreeing with Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, famous author, lecturer, and professor of law philosophy at the University of Chicago, that reading is becoming a lost art, E. G. Moll, associate professor of English, said recently, “There is evidence that our freshmen have great difficulty in reading and understanding prose which is not strictly modern.’’ Professor Moll believes that in the speeding up reading habits in Princeton Professor To Teach in Portland Princeton professor of philo sophy, Edward G. Spaulding, will teach three courses—two in philo sophy and one in education—at the Portland summer session of the state system of higher education, running from June 20 to July 29. Introduction to philosophy aims to present the development of for mal philosophy and its various schools, with readings -from Plato, Kant, James, and others. Philo sophy of mind, a seminar carrying graduate credit, will study the na ture and function of mind from the philosophical and psychological points of view; character educa tion, also carrying graduate credit, is an education course designed for teachers and others dealing with student training. He is the author of “The New| Rationalism,” “What Am I?” and “A World of Chance,” and has also1 written for many philosophical and ■ scientific magazines. During previous summer ses-' sions Dr. Spaulding has taught at Harvard and at the Universities of Chicago, Michigan, Washington, j and California. He has also lec tured at the Marine Biology lab oratory, Woods Hole, Massachu setts, at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and at the Peo ple’s Institute in New York City. Dr. R. W. Leighton Selected for Office Of National Group Adding another office to the many confered on members of the physical education school, Dr. R. W. Leighton, acting dean, was elected yesterday to the executive committee of the section for Health Instruction of the Ameri can Association for Health, Physi cal Education and Recreation. Dr. Leighton will represent the entire northwest district of the United States on this committee. He was selected after a short bus iness meeting of the old directors in Atlanta. The duties of the committee are to decide legislation for selecting textbooks for high schools and col leges, for helping in making out school curricula, and to work on the presentation of films and ra dio programs depicting the work of the society. Accounting Class Holds Banquet 4or Kelly in Portland Thirty former students in the advanced accounting classes of C. L. Kelly, professor of business ad ministration, held a banquet in his honor at the Sign of the Rose tea shop in Portland last Friday night. Also present were nine students in his present C.P.A. problems class, who had just finished tak ing the two-day examination for a certified public account’s certifi cate. Faculty members of the Univer sity at the banquet included: C. L. Kelly, O. R. Anderson, instructor in accounting, Miss R. M. Chilcote, instructor in accounting, and two graduate assistants, Kenneth Gil landers, and Wilson Siegmund. Kwanias will meet at 4 in the AWS room in Gerlinger. our educational institutions, the matter of comprehension has been neglected. “There was a time when the degree of literacy in universi ties was much higher,” he declared. Along with reading, Professor Molls says that speech is also be coming a lost art. “We have a grunt and groan vocabulary,” he said. “We affect informality. We say the things wich offer the least possible trouble to ourselves. We merely point to ideas without ex pressing them. We have an infi nite number of short-cuts to lan guage.” Although Professor Moll be lieves that slang is a very useful medium of expression, he says that it must never take the place of a full and complete speech. “When we dismiss a thing with a slang ex pression,” he said, “we have not expressed ourselves with any com pleteness.” Faculty Invited to Attend Conference University faculty members have been invited to attend a joint conference of the Pacific North west division of the Institute of Pacific Relations and the Canad ian Institute of International Af fairs, which is to be held May 20, 21, and 22, at Alderwood Inn on Hood Canal near Bremerton, Washington. “The Par Eastern Crisis,” “In ternational Implications of the Far Eastern War,” and “Anglo Canadian-American Trade Rela tions” will be among the topics discussed there. The number of professors at tending the conference from the University will be small, Mrs. Ed ith Fleming, secretary to the pres ident, said yesterday, since the out-of-state traveling fund has been exhausted'. President Erb has rejected an invitation to the conference be cause of too manj’’ other engage ments, Mrs. Fleming said. Major W. C. Moore Here for Annual ROTC Inspection Class rooms, buildings, and first year drill squads were chief points of interest for Major W. C. Moore ; yesterday as he made his annual inspection tour of ROTC training units. Major Moore was appointed by the commander of the 9th corps area to make the rounds of all the units in the five states comprising the ninth area. He also made the tour last year. All first year stu dents were in uniform with the morning classes marching for the inspector. Major Moore will remain on the campus today for a brief survey of advance classes and students. He will return again May 25 to be a judge in the first Oregon-Oregon State ROTC drill competition. “If the change in civilization is to be an evolution, not a revolu tion, we must teach our young people to find the threads which tie us to the past." University of Idaho’s President H. C. Dale be lieves that it is time we took a lesson from the fate of other countries. The University of Pittsburgh will be host this June to the con vention of the American College Publicity association. Newsreel Film Producers Have SkillrEquipment 'Finished' Product to Be Turned Out by Expert Crew Bruce Nidever and Don Hunter, producers of the sound and color' news reel which will be shown one week each month in Eugene, have had considerable training in sound and photography. Nidever has operated a large size movie camera for several years. His experiments in color photography have satisfied him of its success in such a feature. Hunter has had some ten years of experience in sound work. He made the recent Lucky Strike contest sound' recordings. At p&s ent he is the speech division sound technician and is responsible for University publicity recordings. Expert to Edit Warren J. Teter, who has done commercial news reel wor kin the Middle West as well as still' shots for the University will aid in ed iting the film and will give pro fessional advice to the promoters of Phototone. By use of improved equipment it is now possible to record the actual sound on the spot while the film is being taken. Phototone will make use of this advantage. The announcers will give accounts of the action as it occurs. A sound truck will carry equip ment to the scene. Inside the an nouner will described the news event. Ilis voice will be carried by direct wire to the camera for recording the sound effects on the film.- An outside mike can be switched on occasionally for back ground sounds. Contest to Be ‘Tops’ Athletic contests are to be the outstanding coverage in the news reel. Football, baseball and track can be filmed easily. Basketball games may offer lighting difficul ties, but if necessary photoflood bulbs will be installed in the light system which now illuminate the massive Igloo. Football Coach Tex Oliver and Pension Leader Pays Dr. Francis Townsend and Glen S.-Wilson * . . author of Townsend plan, and national representative, shown in a San Francisco federal court shortly before the announcement was made that settlement had been reached in the $150,000 suit of E. J. Margett against the author who had charged misappropriation of pension plan funds. Bruce Hamby, University publicity director, have favored the news reel and are ready to give coopera tion to the movie enterprisers. L. F. Beck of the psychology depart ment approves of the “sound on film” angle which the students will apply in the news reel. Mr. Beck has shown psychology films on this campus and throughout the state using similar equipment. A tentative schedule of the feat ures appearing in the first produc tion early next October will be the football game, registration ac tivities, the get-together dance, fall fashions, campus personalities, and shots of Oregon’s new coach and new president. House representatives selling Mortar Board dance tickets can call for them this afternoon at the educational activities office. Dr. Cornish Writes Article on Sales? For May Magazine The May issue of the Oregon. Merchant’s magazine carries an article by Dr. N. H .Cornish, pro* fessor of business administration* on “Disadvantages of Special Sales.” This is the fourth of a series of articles written by Dr. Cornish with the aid of his four research students, Donald Farr, Astor Lo back, Alvin Overgard, and Charles H. Sandifur. 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