'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.
The article states that the na
ture of the special sale, the time
and conditions under which it is
staged and the relative effective
ness of the campaign to push it
will largely determine whether it
will be a failure or a success. .
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