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Special Edition dmcrali) Special Edition VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1938 NUMBER 2 Fall ASUO Card Sale Starts at McArthur During Registration Term's Attractions Include Fritz Kreisler, Don Cossack Chorus, Six Grid Contests, Fall Frolic, Emerald Subscription. Presenting a full term of the finest entertainment and biggest values ever offered on the University campus, the annual fall sale of ASUO student body cards will swing into action Friday, the first day of registration, it was announced Saturday by George Root, educational activities director. A total of $14.75 worth of fun. entertainment and nrivilee-es will be given for only seven dol lars, the price of the student body cards. Cards may be purchased, as formerly, at the time of enroll ment. With six football games, the best concert entertainment available, the Fall Frolic, a subscription to The Emerald, University daily newspaper and full privileges to participate in activities on the campus being offered, Root be lieves this fall's ASUO card will be a value few students will care to miss. UCLA Game First The first football game to be played in Eugene this season will be the contest with the UCLA Bruins on October 1. Another Eu gene game will be November 5, with Idaho. This will be the out standing feature of the giant three-day Homecoming week-end. ASUO card-holders will witness on Armistice day the Eugene por tion of the annual “little Civil war” two-game series between the Frosh and the OSC Rooks on Hay ward field. Oregon will have the first chance in many years to witness and cheer for her grid team in the, battle against USC when that game is held in Portland, October 29. The rivalry between Oregon and Washington will take place in Portland, November 19. Oregon’s 1938 Duck grid squad will meet Oregon State’s Beavers in Port land on November 26. These games are all on the 1938 ASUO pro gram. ASUO Brings Iireisler First of the concert series will be Fritz Kreisler, unequalled in musical brilliance and talent, who will play for the entertainment of our student body November 7. Mr. Kreisler, who has played his vio lin in every part of the country season after season, with eager audiences crowding his halls, may truly be called a master of his art. In no part of the country is the name of Fritz Kreisler un known. Connoisseurs of the vio lin and violinists, musicians who can unmistakably recognize a master in his art, intelligent con cert goers and the general public,! have all felt in Mr. Kreisler a potent personality, able to sway his audience with his light touch j on magic strings. Cossacks Like Organ The Kreisler concert will be fol- i lowed November 16 by the ap pearance of the world-famed Rus sian wanderers, the black garbed human organ—the Don Cossacks. The Cossacks have appeared at the University twice before on ASUO bills, the last presentation being during the 1936-37 season. Led by Serge Jaroff, dynamic little musician, this famous male chorus has been proclaimed as the sensation of the season, wherever it puts in an appearance. The singing history of the Cos sacks dates back to 1922 when 36 battle-scarred veterans of war and revolution, these imperial officers of the late Czar, serving in the 18th Don Cossack regiment, were confined in the prison camp of Tscherlengir just outside Con stantinople. In 1923, through intervention of the League of Nations, a group of the Cossacks organized a chorus under Jaroff's leadership, and met with immediate and complete suc cess. In fourteen years they have sung over 3000 concerts in every country in Europe, in England, Mexico, Australia, and America. Jaroff Has Color Their leader, Serge Jaroff, was a student of religious choral con ducting in Moscow at the time of (Please turn to page two) 'Practical' Courses To Aid Graduates New Enlarged Studies To Stimulate Work Conditions Facing stark realities of getting a job will be a little easier for Uni versity of Oregon graduates hence forth, for a number of courses of the more “practical” type have j been added this year. Several of the new courses, as well as a number already given in such subjects as business, journal ism, law,' physical education, edu cation and architecture, will actual ly approximate working conditions j and will give the student practical experience. Students who plan to teach may now take a course called “Social Science Synthesis,” which aims to train the prospective teacher who must of ten 1 combine several-high school subjects. For students who seek to enter the ever-widening field of public service a number of courses in such subjects as admin istration of justice, problems of public administration and others are offered. The University law school, sin^e moving this year into its new build ing, now has a model courtroom, where student lawyers try “moot” cases. The DeBusk memorial educa tional clinic, where students may analyze teaching methods used for atypical children, will also be con tinued and enlarged this year. A course called “graphic jour nalism,” which trains students in photography and the use of pic tures in the news, has also been es tablished by the school of journal ism. i Dean Gilbert Fishes, Does Research Work Dean James H. Gilbert of the college of social science, when not fishing during the summer months, did research work on the revenue and tax policies of the states in | regard to alcoholic beverages. The fish in the McKenzie can still see clearly to grab onto a hook, he declares. VISITS IN SAN FRANCISCO Charles M.\Hultea, assistant pro fessor of journalism, vacationed in San Francisco with his wife. Cossacks Return For Third Successful Engagement The Don Cossack Russian male chorus . . . returning- to McArthur Court for the third time under the auspices of the ASUO. They will appear November 1*. University Announ ces'Purch ase Of 12 Acre Tract Along Millrace By Bill Pengra With the purchase of more than 12 acres of land adjacent to the Anchorage and running east to the Wil lamette river, the University will be able to begin the groundwork almost immediately lor an extension of facilities. The project may include the long-disused Student Union building, ROTC drill fields, and an amphi theater capable of holding Junior week-end events such as the Canoe Fete, according to Dr. Earl M. Pal lett, executive secretary of the University. The land'; which surrounds the Anchorage except for its swimming pools, is a tract for which the Uni versny nas long Deen aicKermg. it was acquired with funds of the Stu dent Activities Board to be saved for future use. Coming at the same time the property was purchased, proposals for a new super-highway through Eugene that would take the main flow of traffic away from Franklin boulevard, south boundary of the tract, were made by civic leaders in this city Saturday. Such a develop ment would figure importantly in the plan of administration officials to make the newly-acquired area a part of the campus. Erb Names Committee President Erb has appointed Dr. Pallett, Fred Cuthbert, landscape architect; Professor Will Norris, in charge of campus building projects; Dean Virgil Earl, J. A. Lindstrom, University business manager, and Professor Orlando Hollis, profes sor of law, as a committee to lay plans and confer with highway en gineers of the new road-building project. Such a development might incur the straightening of the course of Oregon’s historic old millrace in order to build a large arena for spring term campus productions. The long-delayed Student Union prciject might be constructed to provide beautiful restaurant and recreational facilities which would be profitable to the associated stu dents, Dr. Pallett said. About four acres of the property were acquired in April for the sum of $3,000. Plans for the new highway may direct it in a route parallel to the railway tracks leading out of town. Although few plans are made as yet, the new project would call for an undercrossing from the campus to the new addition’s facilities. CASTEEB’S SUMMER BUSY John L. Casteel, director of the speech division, attended the Hazen conference on student guidance at Pacific Grove, California, August 12-16. He also taught in the Uni versity summer session, and at the state WPA educational conference at Corvallis. Students Asked To Register Cars With Rhinesmith All students of the University who will be driving cars during the school year are requested to register them with O. L. Rhine smith, auto enforcement officer. Cars must be registered even though the student may not be the owner. Students living at home are also required to sign up their cars. There is no fee for the regis tration. Mr. Rhinesmith’s office is located at the rear of Friend ly hall. Grid Grandstands Will Be Enlarged WPA, ASUO Provide Funds for Work at Field With a $32,000 program planned for the remodeling of the grand stands in Hayward field, the capac ity of the field will be increased to accommodate the entire popula tion of Eugene, about 20,000. The work will be completed by next football season and the reno vation and addition of seats to the stands is made possible by the grant of $14,400 from Public Works Administration and $17,600 con tributed by the Associated Students organization. The west stands, in front of the time clock, will be increased from 3497 to 4800, and the east stands will undergo an addition of 1700 seats, bringing the seating capac ity up to 5814. The other stands will be painted and reconditioned, thus! giving Hayward field an entirely | new face. 1937 Oregana Claims Popularity Rating Annual Wins Esteem Of Coast Readers in Survey The 1937 “Oregana,” University of Oregon yearbook, was judged most popular annual among student headers in a survey conducted last spring term by Dick Williams, who is to be business manager for the 1939 edition which is to go on sale on October 3. Williams sent out questionaires to students on 13 west coast cam puses to determine which features they most enjoyed, and which books they enjoyed most... and the results showed the Oregon book is held in greatest esteem by sub scribers. For the past two years the "Ore gana” has ranked in the national field as “all-American.” Three years ago the book was judged a “pace maker” among University publi cations in the United States. The proposed new annual will be described in detail on Thursday, ac cording to George Root, educa tional activities manager of the University. The book will be placed on sale on registration day, with the con centrated drive schedule to begin October third, when student sales men will be assigned to each living organization. Students who wish to help with publication and financing the book should talk to Dick Williams in the new Associated Students office in McArthur Court. O’CONNELL, VISITS BROTHER K. J. O’Connell, assistant profes sor of law, visited his brother in Pot Latch, Idaho, during the sum mer. Before returning to the cam pus, Professor O’Connell saw the Grand Coulee dam and Rainier na tional park. 'Least Hectic’ Rush Week Nears End; Erb T o Speak W ednesday President to Greet Frosh; AWS Have' Assembly Planned For Thursday University President Donald M. Erb will welcome his first class of first-year students at an assembly to be held exclusively for freshmen : in the music auditorium at 7:30 j Wednesday evening. Other frosh as semblies will be held Thursday, un der the auspices of the associated women students and the ASUO. Wednesday English, physical, psychological and other examina tions will begin for freshmen. Beginning Friday morning freshmen will be with their advisers, who will assist them in “mapping [ out” their courses. Registration will be held Friday and Saturday in McArthur Court. Dance to Climax Week Then, with registration parapher nalia and equipment put away, the “Igloo” will be the scene of an all University reception and dance, at j which students and faculty members ; will get better acquainted. Classes begin Monday morning, September 26, at 8 o'clock. PE Instructors Attend Workshop During Summer Florence D. Alden and Earl E. Boushey, professor and assistant professor of physical education, re spectively, attended the Western Workshop of the Progressive Educa tion association, which was held for six weeks in the summer at Mills college, Oakland, California. A unique project with no sched uled courses or classes, in which i projects were worked out individu ; ally, the workshop had a facuTty of 22, a “student body” of more than SO. Two entire dormitories on the ' campus were at the disposal of the workers, who made them their liv ing and working quarters. Miss Alden had the project, “Re organization of Curriculum of the Physical Education at the Univer sity of Oregon,” and Mr. Boushey made a similar study. Miss Smith Assists New Agency to Start Janet M. Smith, employment secretary, had a busman’s holiday this summer, when she assisted in the inception of an employment agency for University graduates in Portland. The agency was formed under the sponsorship of the Ore gon Dads. Miss Smith reports that much success has been made in this new v enture. COMISH DOES RESEARCH Professor N. H. Cornish of the business administration school spent the summer doing research work in retailing problems. He made several trips to further his work throughout the state, and fished in southern Oregon. University Christian Mission to Be Here October 2-7 Dr. T. Z. Koo ... secretary of the World’s Student Christian Federa tion and recent representative of China at Geneva, will be on campus for the October meet. University of Oregon students and faculty members will join Octo ber 2 to 7, with national and world leaders in observance of the Uni versity Christian Mission, a part of a movement which includes all. major colleges and universities in the United States, it wa^ an nounced by Charles G. Howard, law professor and general chair man for the event. Noted religious workers who will be here for the week include Jesse Morden Bader, national director of the University Christian Mission; Rev. Heil D. Bollinger, in charge of the department of Wesley Foun dation for the Methodist Episcopal Church; Dr. Howard Thurman, dean of the chapel of Howard University, Washington, D. C.; Rev. J. Hudson Ballard, pastor of the First Presby terian Church, Portland; Dr. T. Z. Koo, secretary of the World's Stu dent Christian Federation, Shang hai, China, and several others. Mass Meeting- Scheduled The week will open with an all University-Eugene masts meeting and union services Sunday, October 2, at McArthur Court. This will be Real Estate Articles By Gage Published D. D. Gage, associate professor of business administration, has had two articles printed in national magazines. “Ancestry of Our Real Estate” appeared in the July issue of Banking, the journal of the Am erican bankers’ association, and was teprinted as the article of the month in the Ju'y 15 bulletin of Mortgage Banker's association. A second article, "This Thing Called Title,” was in Savings and Loan for July. ProUssor Gage spent five weeks in Los Angeles during the summer. followed by an entire week of stu dent meetings, conferences, class discussions and fireside talks, all under the leadership of the visiting religious workers. Subjects which will be taken up during the mission week include “The Meaning of the Christian Life,’’ “Cultivation of the Spiritual Life,” "Christian Vocation,’’ “Chris tian Living in Social Relations,” “Christian Marriage,” “The World Mission of the Christian Church," Snd many others. Movement Backed The University Christian Mission was initiated in the United States by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ, and the movement has the strong and enthusiastic back ing of civic leaders everywhere. In Eugene local citizens and of ficials, local churches and other or ganizations have pledged coopera tion for the event. Mrs. ti race »loan uverion . . . will participate in the University Christian Mission meetings on the campus, October 2 to 7. Trosh' President President Donald M. !Erb . . . go ing through his first freshman week as head of the University of Ore gon. He will preside at the tradi tional president’s assembly Wednes day evening. 'Hello Dance' Will Begin Social Life Harrison Bergtholdt, Grace Irvin Will Be Co-Chairmen University students, new and old, will join with the Oregon faculty in McArthur court Satur day night for the “Hello Dance” of 1938-39. Maurie Binford’s orches tra will play for the free affair. Informal clothes wilt be in order for the evening, according to Grave Irvin and Harrison Berg tholdt, co-chairmen of the event. An opportunity to meet Presi dent Donald M. Erb will be offered students at a reception to begin at 8:30. A faculty stunt is being prepared for presentation at the dance. Kwama, women’s service honorary, and Skull and Dagger, men’s, will assist in preparation. Faculty members of the commit tee include Professor Philip A. Parsons, chairman, Dean Virgil D. Earl, W. A. Dahlberg, R. K. Cut ler, Pirkko Paasikivi, Zollie Vol chok, and Dean Hazel P. Schwer ing. Jean Palmer is a third stu dent member of the committee. Greek Pledge Period Is Thought Success By Faculty and Stu dents By Glenn Hasselrooth Having weathered the least hec tic “rush week” in campus history, the University of Oregon class of 1942 will tomorrow go forth to face the ordeals of freshman week, in cluding examinations, assemblies, and conferences with advisers. In former years, rush week and freshman week have been one, usu ally the seven days just preceding classes, but confusion and general mixups led to the inception of the new “pre-freshman” week, which ends today. Having the trials of rush week all over when freshman week proper begins has met with the approval of faculty members, old and new students alike. Commenting on the success which the newly inaugurated rush time has had, Virgil D. Earl, dean of men, said yesterday: “The new system is very much better than the old1. Confusion has been replaced by order, and I heart ily approve.” Dormitories I'liieti With dormitories filled to over flowing, the interfraternity coun cil last night reported that about fifty men rushees have been put in private homes. Over 320 rushee date cards have been issued to men, and about 250 to women. Approxi mately 650 prospective freshmen are in town, Eugeneahs included. Rushees will be asked to name their fraternity or sorority prefer ences tonight, and the “real pref erences” will be made Tuesday. An enrollment of 1300 or more for the freshman class is indicated by the fact that not more than half of the first-year students usually join Greek letter organizations. At least 400 more are expected to arrive on the campus by ednesday. Dean Earl Joins Isaac Walton-ers Virgil D. Earl, dean of men, spent his spare time when he was not working, fishing in different parts of the state. The salmon are biting well near Astoria, he re ports. Dean Earl also fished in the Strawberry mountain country, and on the Deschutes river. CASWELL, FISHES IN NORTH A. E. Caswell, head of the phys ics department, fished in British Columbia during the summer. He returned to the campus via the Olympia highway. Old 'Shack' Halved, Moved From Campus Early-returning students were treated to something unusual for two or three days last week the spectacle of a building being moved off the campus in halves. It was the old frame "Journalism Shack," used for classrooms and faculty offices the first eleven years after the es tablishment of the school in 1912. For the last three years it has been used as the offices of the EmerAld business staff and the educational activities board of the ASUO. A week ago Sunday a workman walked into the building with a hand saw, and in half a day he had bisected the old wooden structure right down the middle from north to south. It had been found impossible to move it across the campus all in a piece. The old frame structure has been used for a variety of purposes - be fore the school of journalism used it the extension division was quar tered there, and for several years it was the infirmary; then it was passed along to ASUO. Twenty years ago it was not in frequently referred to as Parkison hall, in ironic honor of a citizen who had been active in defeating Uni versity appropriations, thus mak ing it necessary to use such make shift structures instead of real buildings. When the joint journalism phys ical education frame structure was destroyed by fire the last day of the 1922 summer session, this little frame building, where several of the journalism faculty taught their first classes, was saved from the flames. The historic old Washing ton hand-press, first newspaper press in the whole region west of the Missouri river, had been set up there for several years; and anxious fire-fighters broke it in two and threw it out the window to “save” it from the fire. After the blaze was4* checked, short of the “shack,” the pieces of the press were picked up and re assembled, and, quartered in a place of honor in the University Press building, it is still capable of excel lent work—slow, of course. The old machine had been given to the Uni versity Press by Harison R. Kin caid, publisher of the Oregon State Journal in Eugene from 1864 to 1909, and his son, Webster Kincaid, University graduate, now a realty I dealer in Portland.