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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1939)
Homecoming Special NUMBER 30 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1939 u. OF 0. LIBRARY Each in HisOwn Tongue The Homecoming committee each of whom has been busy with some phase of the preparations. From eft to right the committee members are: Burton Barr, genera! chairman; Les Andersen, in charge of the bonfire; Jce Gurley, promotion chairman; Bud Aronson, chairman of the dance; Roma Theobald, gen eral secretary; Bob Ccrby, in charge of signs; Norman Foster, publicity; Rich Werschkul, noise parade. Formal vs Informal Battle Stirs UO Campus Committee In Favor of Informal Hop Homecoming Heads Retreat to Safety Of Portland A barrage of feminine protests bombarded the campus yesterday as the opening guns of what ap pears to be a battle of the sexes boomed into action. Battle lines were drawn around a question of i what the correct style will be for the annual homecoming dance with the men defending the Informal side and the women fighting for a formal dance. (Please turn-to page five) Special to Be Sent to Alums Today’s six-page homecoming edition of the Emerald is to be sent to thousands of alumni and other prospective weekend visitors all over the state, through special arrangement with each living or ganization. Members of Kwama, sophomore women's service organization, will deliver extra copies of the special to all men’s and women’s living groups at noon today. Students are asked by homecoming heads to mail these copies as welcomes to their friends or relatives who are considering spending homecoming weekend in Eugene. Another homecoming edition will be printed Saturday morning, when an eight-page publication is planned for visiting alums. House Presidents Asked to Call For Checks All fraternity and sorority presidents who have not re ceived payment for housing del egates to the Oregon High School Press conference should call at the school of journalism office at once. Captain Fred Waller who will play the part of Captain Bluntschli in the University theater’s production “Arms and the Man.” House Agents for Oregana Asked to Check in Cards House agents for the Oregana must cheek in their cards to morrow at the Oregana office between the hours of 2 and 5, Dick Williams, Oregana busi ness manager, announced last night. Women Keep Phones Busy Campaigning Petitions, Polls Say Women United For Formal Attire Campus telephone lines buzzed, secrecy-laden with activity last night as a concentrated campaign led an anonymous feminine tele phone voice raised Oregon women to the cause of formal dresses for the Homecoming dance with a sweeping house-to-house pell and petition campaign. At 10 o’clock last night petitions with more than 200 independent girls’ names had been turned in at the Emerald news room, and dinner-time polls in sororities in dicated that the feminine half of the University is definitely lsng dress minded for this weekend’s dance. Semi-Formal Dresses? Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Phi, Alpha Delta Pi, Chi Omega, Sigma Kappa, and Delta Gamma report ers notified the Emerald of 100 per cent votes in their organizations for a long dress campaign. Every (Please turn to page five) Finishing Touches Put on Plans For Homecoming Celebration Civil War To Rage Saturday University Leads Oregon State by 23 Battles to 12 The Beaver and the Duck will go a-feudin’ again down by the mill pond (now dry) at Hayward field Saturday, and right now no one knows if the Beaver will chew up the wily Duck or if Mr. Duck will waddle all over the husky Bea ver. After 42 years of this battling back and forth, the two schools are no better off than when they started. Admittedly Oregon has won 23 games to 12 won by Oregon State, while seven were tied, yet the last three years OSC has shut out the Ducks with nary a point. Games Always Close The games have been so close that not since 1916 has one team won by more than two touchdowns and a field goal. Those three goose eggs on the Oregon column in the last three years don’t help the State cause any. Last year’s scrap in Multnomah stadium was a close battle until the Webfoot reserves gave out and the Beavers went right through the line for a pair of scores. (Please turn to page five) Sick Boys; Gals Set Style: Bring Own Glad Rags' Infirmary pajamas - of - the - week, as worn by Shirley Sulli van, were blue silk trimmed in white, topped by a white fringe bed jacket. The present trend in hospital wardrobes is veering away from the “un-form” fitting outfits and unsavory color combinations pro vided by the campus infirmary. Many students now “bring their own.” Setting the pace in bedwear fashions yesterday were': Wilbur Colwell, Dorothy Burger, Betty Plankinton, John McGown, Mar iory Hastings, William Potter, Sunny Stanke, Josephine Lumm, Helen Graves, Barbara Roberts, George Schreiber, and Doris Mc Mindes. ASUO Prexy Invites Grads To Oregon’s loyal alums: The weekend of November 11, 1939, looks like the biggest home coming weekend in the long history of the University of Oregon. There is a full program of events with something doing every minute; the football game is a “natural,” of course, and you can’t afford to miss it. Already the homecoming fever has hit the campus, and spirit runs higher than it has for many years. So, alums, come on down and join us in celebrating the weekend in true Oregon fashion; I know we’ll all have a great time. JOHN DICK, President, Associated Students, University of Oregon. Homecoming Schedule Friday, November 10 1-6 p.m.—Registration, Johnson hall. 1-11 p.m.—Housing, alumni office, Friendly hall. 7:45 p.m.—Noise parade starts. Parade forms at S. P. depot and proceeds up Willamette street. 8:00 p.m.—Judging of homecoming signs. 8:30 p.m.—Frosh bonfire and rally at 19th and Hilyard. Saturday, November 11 il :00 a.m.—Special chu'rch services, Eugene churches. 9.00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.—Registration, Johnson hall. 9:00 a.m.—Annual meeting and election of officers, Oregon Alum ni Association. 11:00 a.m.—Armistice day parade and meeting, Gerlinger hall. 2:00 p.m.—Oregon vs. Oregon State, Hayward field. 5 - 6 p.m.— (Immediately after the game.) Alumni reunion in the Eugene Armory arranged by Eugene friends of the University. 9:00 p.m.—Homecoming dance, McArthur court, with Leon Mojica and his orchestra. Sunday, November 12 11:000 a.m.—Special church services, Eugene churches. 1:00 p.m.—Homecoming dinners, living organizations. Rooms Modernized In Oldest Building On Oregon Campus The oldest building on the cam pus has just had two of its rooms furnished with all latest improve ments according to Dr. Will V. Norris, professor of physics and consulting engineer at the presi dent’s office. Rooms 103 and 105 in Deady hall have been completely remodeled under the supervision of a federal project. The last word in modern improvements were installed, in cluding heating and ventilation equipment and an indirect lighting system. An acoustical treatment was performed to the rooms to remedy the previous difficulties students had in hearing lectures. New pedestal type chairs were installed in both rooms. Seventy six chairs were put in room 105, and 53 chairs in room 103. Libe Invites Alums To Visit Collections During Homecoming Greetings to alumni and visitors and an invitation to visit the Uni versity library are extended for the library staff by M. H. Doug lass, librarian. For the special benefit of the visitors, the library is remaining open from 7 to 10 Saturday night and from 10 to 1 Sunday in addi tion to regxilar hours. Of especial interest to home comers will be the John Henry Nash collection, the Burgess room, the University of Oregon collection on the third floor, and the brows ing room. The University of Oregon collec tion has on display pictures of alumni, regents, and former facul ty members. There will be a meeting of the China, Cupboard, and Chest group today at 4 o’clock in the YWCA bungalow. Noise Parade Rally To Start Weekend Activities Friday Night Frosh Bonfire Scheduled for Friday Night; Hopes for Lighted 'O' on Butte Expressed; Game and Dance to Be Climax By HELEN ANGELL A new streamlined 1939 homecoming weekend slate, based on the traditional festivities of 24 alum reunions before it, was termed “ready to go Friday night’’ yesterday by Chieftain Burton Barr, as he gathered up the loose ends of the committee’s “Remember When” program. Scheduled to start the homecoming guns popping is the an nual all-school noise parade, set for Friday night, when campus living organizations will compete in a downtown rally parade feat uring elaborate noise - making floats, lighted torches and cheer ing throngs. Immediately following the noise parade, freshmen will take the limelight when they touch off their traditional giant bonfire at 19th and Hilyard. Although a flaming “O” on Skinner's butte, highlight of former homecomings, is now | against University regulation, | frosh chairmen last night intimat ed that there might be “legal light on the butte in the shape of an “O” that night. 2,200 Tickets Left Latest reports from ticket of ' flees in McArthur court listed only 2,200 available general admission tickets for the Oregon-OSC grid iron battle Saturday afternoon, highlight of the homecoming cele bration. All reserved tickets are gone. A battle still raged last night on whether long or short dresses would be worn for the weekend cli max, the Igloo homecoming ball Saturday night. Bringing the Armistice day sig nificance into this weekend’s pro gram will be an 11 o’clock memor ial program at Gerlinger hall Sat urday, when University leaders and |downtown veteran organizations join in a parade and assembly. Judging of homecoming signs Friday, business meetings of the alum association Saturday morn ing, and special dinners Sunday in living organizations honoring vis itors are also headliner attractions on the weekend slate. The Badminton club will meet tonight at 7:15 in Gerlinger hall. Homecoming Rekindles Flames of Numerous Memorable UO Traditions By ELEANOR ENGDAHL It was way back in 1S14, so the story goes, that a comparatively small group of graduated Univer sity of Oregon students wended their ways back to the old stomp ing ground to have a reunion, which they called Alumni day. “But even before that, alums came back to the campus in great numbers for the Oregon-Oregonj State encounter, which has always been known as the traditional game,” said Virgil D. Earl, dean of men, when questioned concern ing his memories of the early ori gin of Homecoming. 5Iany Traditions Oregon is seething with tradi tions, but many of us either never have gone into the historical lore of our alma mater or have been i "too busy” to do much about it. There is, for instance, the “hello walk” tradition, in which everyone traversing the walk between John son hall and Villard are, upon spy ing a fellow student or faculty member, to utter a cheery “hello” even if that person’s identity is secret. Another thing, how many stu dents have been treading upon the sacred Oregon seal of late? It used to be a capital sin. Students who sacreligiously walked upon the seal were, according to Dean Earl’s recollections, subject to hacking or millracing. Any such crime wks reported to the president of the Order of the “O”, names were pub lished in the Emerald, and the of fenders had to report to the library rteps at 11 a.m. once a week to furnish the receiving end for hefty hacks. Another tradition tying up with Homecoming was the wearing of the green lids by the freshman boys. This started in Dean Earl's class of 1906, and until 1910 the boys wore the caps voluntarily. In 1910, however, it became compul sory. For many years the tradition was that during Homecoming the freshmen went up to Skinner’s butte and painted the “O,” wearing for the first time in the year their green lids. From then on they were required to wear the caps constantly until junior weekend, when they burned them in the bonfire held then after another painting of the “O." This tradition died out around 1927 or '28. In the early ’20's slogan con tests were a feature of Homecom ing. All students participated, try ing to out-do each other in the originality of their Homecoming themes. One suggested in 1923 was, “Back again, root again, fight again, broke again, gone again, Flannigan.” However the decision that year finally rested upon "Unite to Fight for Oregon.” 1931 Lively The year 1931 saw a lively Homecoming. The pajama rally, which had been "out” for several years, was revived, and there was a noise parade in which floats were entered by houses, the maxi mum cost set at $10 per house. One moring around 3:30 or 4 the lemon-colored "O” on Skin ner’s butte was smeared with or ange paint and tar. The same hue of paint decorated the sidewalks from the Co-op, then located at Kincaid and Thirteenth streets, to University street, and from Johnson hall to the Oregon seal. OSC in more orange paint was in evidence in front of many buildings. The whole affair caused considerable hubbub, but the orig inators of the trouble remained more or less obscure, so it cannot be said just who were in the guilty party. Floats to Cost $20 In 1933 and ’34 floats were en tered in the noise parade at $10 the maximum cost for a single or ganization, or $20 for a pair of or ganizations working together. It was decided to have a flaming “O” in those years instead of the traditional bonfire, but the bon fire tradition has been revived again. Each year the freshman class has promised the biggest and best bonfires, or other event, ever be held in the history of the Univer sity. This year's class of '43, through its spokesman and leader, Lea Anderson, has promised the most wonderful bonfire of all. Gilbert Slogan Writer James H. Gilbert, dean of the college of social science, has been the master slogan writer through out the years. “Remember When,” the theme which will welcome this year’s grads, was one of his many originations. With all the traditions and his toric activity supplying a back ground from which to work, the 1939 Homecoming chairmen are trying to make his year’s celebra tion the greatest in the Univer sity’s history, with more alums, more visitors, more fun than ever before. 4 Planned It All Burton Barr, general chairman of Homecoming who has been busy the past week making plans to welcome returning grads. CAMPUS CALENDAR Modern dance enthusiasts should remember to attend one of the showings of Martha Graham and her group in the filmed short of several of her concert numbers, In the Villard auditorium today at 3, 4, and 7:30 p.m. All VVAA representatives are re quested to meet in the social room of Gerlinger hall at 4 o’clock to day. Motion pictures will, be shown today at 4 p.m. in room 207 and 209 in Chapman hall for any one 1 interested in foreign tradttt an'a the international eiynomje pro gram. The pictures are sponsored by the propellor club. "Master Dance will meet} in 203 Villard at 7:30 tonight before the regular meeting to see the movies on Martha Graham dance. The same movie may be seen free of charge by anyone at 3 and at 4 this afternoon. Order of the “O” will hold an important meeting at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house’ today at 12’ o’clock. a