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VOLUME XLI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1940
NUMBER 80
Research Board
Convenes at UO
Council Discusses Future State Grants
For Undertakings; 50 Representatives
From Six Oregon Schools Attend
By RAY SCHRICK
Approximately 50 representatives of six Oregon institutions of
higher learning met on the University campus yesterday for the annual
conference of the state general research council.
Led by 12 general committee members, the group discussed future
grants for problems of research and last night climaxed the day's work
with a special banquet in the Osburn hotel.
Noted Lecturer
Arrives Today
Dr. Gilkey Plans
Speaking Schedule
For Four-Day Visit
One of America’s foremost edu
cators, Dr. Charles W. Gilkey, will
arrive in Eugene today to open a
four-day visit on the Oregon cam
pus and complete plans for a lec
ture series here next week.
Dr. Gilkey is dean of chapel at
the University of Chicago and pro
fessor of the Divinity school. He
will address four different groups
while at Oregon.
Religious Trends
The noted lecturer will make his
first appearance 11 a.m. Sunday
when he speaks at the Methodist
church on “Spiritual Blackouts.”
He will talk again at 6:30 Sunday
evening in Gerlinger hall, discuss
ing the subject, “Bridge to a Bet
ter World,” and will review “Pres
ent Religious Trends Among Amer
ican Students” at 7:30 p.m. Mon
day in the music auditorium.
Climax to Dr. Gilkey’s stay will
come Tuesday morning when he
addresses a weekly ASUO assem
bly that has been moved ahead
two days from Thursday. He will
talk on “Imponderables of Educa
tion.” This meeting will start at
11 a.m.
Prominent Lecturer
Dr. Gilkey has long been active
in the field of education and has
been guest lecturer at several Eng
lish colleges, including Oxford. He
is listed in “Who's Who” as a Phi
Beta Kappa.
In addition to the other posi
tions, Dr. Gilkey is dean of Rocke
‘ feller chapel at Chicago. He is also
one of two men who have twice
been invited to give the Barrows
lectures. These are given once ev
ery five years and attempt to pre
sent Christianity in its highest
form to the people in India’s uni
versity centers.
Spring Social Events
All the main all-campus social
events for spring term have been
scheduled on the spring term social
calendar, according to a report by
the dean of women’s office.
The office is now ready to add
any other dates such as house
dances which any organization
might be ready to turn in.
Library Gets Gift
A gift for the library was re
ceived Friday from Mrs. Bertha A.
Pearson of Eugene in the form of
two sets of book from her personal
library. The books are "Encyclo
pedia of Applied Electricity,” five
volumes, and "Transactions of Am
erican Institute of Mining Engin
eers,” nine volumes.
Soph Propaganda
The three University barbers
Will shave at the sophomore hop,
The second-year fellow that har
bors
The face with the wooliest crop.
Schlick, Elliott, and Deffenbacher
The sophomores think they are giv
ing
Propaganda to you and to me,
But the hairiest sophomore now
living
Won’t tire more than one of the
three.
Schlick, Elliott, or Deffenbacher.
—J.W.S.
Seven Speak
Seven college professors were
guest speakers for the evening, and
they pointed out the possibilities
of research in their respective
filds. Those who spoke were Dr.
Bertram Jessup, literature; Dr.
John Ganoe, history; and Louis Ar
tau, music, from Oregon; George
W. Gleeson, engineering; Henry
Hartman, agriculture; and Donald
P. Rogers, botany, from Oregon
State; and Robett S. Dowe, medical
research, from the Oregon medical
school.
Meets Annually
The council meets once each year
at a different state institution.
Last year the group convened at
Portland and next winter members
will hold their conference at Ore
gon State.
Research films were shown at
last night’s banquet, and during the
afternoon an exhibit was prepared
for the committee in the natural
history museum. The Nash and
Burgess collections in the library
were also opened for the visitors.
State Sponsors
Research work done by the coun
cil is sponsored by the state board
of higher education.
General members of the research
council are Dr. Earl L. Packard,
chairman; Olof Larsell, vice-chair
man; William F. Allen; Chandler
B. Beall; Ralph R. Huestis; Ralph
W. Leighton; Fred O. McMillan;
William E. Milne; William A.
Schoenfeld; Howard R. Taylor;
Willibald Weniger, and Louis A.
Wood.
The council is divided into groups
studying language, art, literature,
social science, natural science, and
medical science.
Visitor on Campus
Jean T. Eberhart, Oregon grad
uate in physical education, visited
the PE department on a business
trip Friday. He is at present the
physical education director for
the Southern Oregon College of
Education.
Mr. Eberhart received his bache
lor of arts degree at Oregon in
1931 and his master’s degree in
1934. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Eberhart.
'Swingeroo'
nt-n rsaiier win present ms own
particular version of swing music
tonight at the Sophomore Whls
kerino.
Whiskerino
Set for Tonight
Western Theme
To Give Affair 'Wild
Wooly' Setting
Oregon’s tribe of fuzzy sopho
mores will be in their element to
night when it entertains the rest
of the campus at the “wild and
wooly’’ Whiskerino. The school’s
host of bowlegged Ducks and
Drakes will also feel at home, be
cause Willamette-valley cowboys
in two 30-foot lines will guard the
entrance to Gerlinger hall.
Oregon State college sophomores
here for the basketball game have
been challenged to attend the af
fair and line their beards up
against those of the Oregon men.
OSC’s Whiskerino comes off Wed
nesday.
Sophomores must present their
class cards at the educational ac
tivities office by 12 o’clock this
morning to receive exchange tic
kets and a 50-cent reduction in
ticket price. Tickets for all will
still lie on sale tonight.
Couples will enter the dance
floor by walking between the
bowed legs of a giant cowboy. This
sage rider will be decked out in
boots, chaps, and a “nauseating”
blue shirt with the sleeves rolled
back to show the puncher’s red
flannel underwear.
Original decorations
Decorations will be original, ac
cording to the dance committee
In one corner a smooth-shaven
sophomore will hang by the neck
either for his failure to grow a
beard or for premature whisker
clipping.
Imitation kerosene lanterns, sus
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Pat Taylor Famed
On Campus as Wit
I
By PAT ERICKSON
“Dale—”
“Yes, Pat?’’
“If you get four bells for an A,
three bells for a B, two bells for a
C, and one bell for a D, if you got
all flunks would you get the Nobel
prize ?”
She’s got a rep for being a wag,
has Pat Taylor, and she keeps up
her part of the show!
Popular With Smokes
Besides maintaining a flourish
ing repertoire of puns, Pat supports
herself on the campus by advertis
ing cigarettes, running a clean
ing agency, and doing various oth
er jobs. She wastes no time.
Advertising cigarettes, she must
give away each week 400 sample
packages on the campus, and 8
cartons of matches, keeping careful
I account of where ihey are dis
i tributed. The job nets her $25 a
month, and her continuance in it
i depends on sale increases.
Pat takes the whole thing ser
iously, even though she is genially
! passing out fireweeds and matches
most of the time. In fact, she says,
she’s even started smoking sinct
she’s held her position.
Good Showgirl
In addition to her lucrative busi
nesses, Pat is in great demand a;
a campus entertainer; she com
poses many of her own reading;
and song words. With Sally Mitch
ell, she is co-editor this year ol
Lemon Punch, humor section of tht
Oregana.
Sense of Humor
“You’ve got to have a sense 01
humor to get along with the peopl<
I do,” Pat declared, referring spe
J cifically, with finger pointed tow
ard Dale who was sitting opposit*
her in the Side booth. But she like;
I it. Besides, they own a dog togeth
| er; he lives at the Sigma Nu house
Pat has a rare gift of expressing
ideas, such as “Why, I ran so fas'
the other day I’d have made Jess<
Owens look like he was stuck. 1i
cement!” Her campus friends ap
preciate these sallies.
As an arts and letters major
Pat will graduate from Oregoi
next year. She hopes to find a radi(
. job or a position writing radi'
] continuity scripts.
Dahlberg
Named to
New Post
Speech Professor
Chosen Interfrat
Secretary
W. A. Dahlberg, assistant pro
fessor of speech, was named yester
day by interfraternity council lead
ers as their new executive secre
tary. He will henceforth manage
the complete fall term rushing pro
gram of the organization. <»
Active,Faculty Man
Appointment of Dahlberg, who
filled the bill of “a young active
faculty man” which the council
listed as the requirement for their
new rushing leader, will take ef
fect immediately.
The creating of this new office
is part of a setup designed to co
ordinate the activities of the coun
cil with those of the house man
agers and give a year-to-year con
tinuity to the position.
Permanent Job
These rules, passed at the pre
vious meeting, will do away with
the present method of appointing
a new man each year to handle
rush week activities and put the
job on a year around basis. Dahl
berg will also keep the records ol
the council.
First problem facing the new
secretary will be the task of at
tempting to standardize study con
ditions in all Greek houses in ac
cordance with interfraternity regu
lations, according to Walt Miller,
president of the council.
Composers, Authors
Offered Contest
Oregon composers and authors
interested in writing musical plays
will have the opportunity to com
pete for monetary awards totaling
$720 in a fellowship contest re
cently announced by the American
Society of Composers, Authors, and
Publishers.
The contest is nationwide and
there will be separate prizes foi
each of the eight different districts
Competition will include writing
of musical plays, comedies, operas
operettas, light operas, and music
reviews.
Purpose of the fellowship is tc
"afford practical encouragement
and stimulus to the development
of creative talent” in reference tc
the composition of college musical
plays.
Application blanks may be ob
tained from the University ot
Oregon music school, and furthei
information can be received b>
writing the American Society ot
Composers, Authors, and Publish
ers, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New
York City.
Judges for the contest will be
selected from college faculties
throughout the United States.
Geologg Students
Take Coast Trip
Coast towns from Newport tc
Bay Ocean were momentarily wak
ened from their winter hiberatior
i last weekend by 42 geology stu
dents on the annual coast fielc
trip.
In six cars and the University
truck the party streamed up the
coast line, collecting agates, sliding
! down sand banks, and wading it
1'the ocean.
Accompanied by Dr. Warren D
Smith, head of the geology anc
geography departments, and Dr
L. W. Staples, geology instructor
the geologists stopped at “Jump
1 Off Joe,” the Newport lighthouse
' and various other places of geolog
ic and general interest.
Things Are Looking Up
Oregon basketball fortunes are definitely “looking up” after Ilobby
Hobson’s quintet defeated the WSC squad two straight games in Mc
Arthur court earlier this week. The Oregon boys will be out to post
their first win over Oregon State tonight. Above, Hank Anderson, Haul
Jackson, and Archie Marshik demonstrate the difference in height of
the Oregon team.
Dean Not Ropea
By Law's Lariat,
Emerald All Wet
An apologetic state of affairs
existed in the Emerald office
yesterday when it was learned
that a report issued earlier in the
week to the effect that Dean of
Men Virgil D. Earl had appeared
before city officials for a park
ing rule infraction was untrue.
The story came to the Emerald
copy desk by mistake from a
journalism reporting lab and was
not written for publication pur
poses, but merely for practice in
newspaper writing.
Following is a statement of
conditions as they really exist:
1. Dean Earl was not fined $1
for overtime parking.
2. City Recorder Cal Bryan
did not ask the dean to appear
before him for a hearing.
3. The Emerald story and sub
sequent poem on the subject
were not based on facts.
Oregon Markswomen
Will Shoot Todag
In their third annual mterschoo
competition the Oregon girls' rifle
team meets the University oi
Washington national championshir
girls' team today from 10 to 15
a m. at the ROTC rifle range. The
two units will fire in an alternate
firing, prone position match.
The Washington markswomer
arrived last night from Seattle
They will be the guest of the Ore
gon girls over the weekend at dif
ferent living organizations on th<
campus, returning to the Husky’s
school Sunday night. The team wai
accompanied by Lieutenant-colone
D. E. Theabaud, coach, and Mrs
Theabaud.
After the match the whole Wash
ington team will lunch at the An
chorage cafe as guests of the Ore
gon girls and the officers of tin
military department.
[ Shooting on the Oregon squac
will be Claire Lyon, Margaret Pol
lard, B a r b a r a Todd, Marjoru
! Schnellbacher, Martha Lampa
Alice Giustina, Marian Barrett
Thelma Bouchet, Jane Bennett, Re
becca Anderson, Catherine Miller
and either Gloria West or Barbar;
! Miller.
GleemenWill Give
Concert Tuesday
Card Holders to Be
Admitted Free;
Soloists Featured
The Eugene Gleemen, Oregon’s
official representatives last year to
the world’s fair at San Francisco
and one of Eugene’s favorite musi
cal organizations, will give their
first public concert of 1940 next
Tuesday evening in McArthur
court, it was announced by John
Star k Evans, director. The concert
is free to holders of ASUO cards
Soloists for the concert will be
Fred Beardsley and Rollin Calkin
whose numbers will include Liszt’s
“Liebestraum” in Mr. Evans’ spe
cial arrangement for lyric voices
Cora Moore Frey will again be
accompanist.
Yeomen Plan Dinner
Members of Yeomen, indepen
dent men's organization, will have
a dinner Monday at 0 p.m. in the
sun room of Gerlinger hall. Spe
cial guests will be Mrs. Edith Sie
fert, hostess of Gerlinger, and Miss
Janet Smith, YMCA employment
secretary.
The meal is to be prepared by a
committee under Bob Ruth, anc
Oregana pictures are to be taker
at the table. A business meeting
will follow the dinner, according
to Bill Wheeler, president.
Beavers out to Slash
Webfoots' Comeback;
Battle in Igloo at 8
Orangemen Enjoy Two-Game Advantage
Over Second-Spot UO Quintet; Latter
Fresh From Lacing WSC Cougars
By KEN CHRISTIANSON
Oregon State Beavers will roam McArthur court tonight with am
bitions of nipping Oregon’s “comeback” hopes of a thin! northern
division title, (iume time is 8 p.m.
OSC’s basketball quint now leads second-place Oregon by two full
games despite the decisive Duck victories over Washington State. If
last Monday and Tuesday night’s scores mean anything, Oregon may
wnu ue inai ieaci 10 one game.
Coach Hobby Hobson's live, title
defenders, averaged better than G5
points in each of those two games,
while Washington State counted
itself lucky to score 45.
Last week Oregon State had to
content itself with a split with
those Cougars. However, the Beav
ers still rank high above Oregon.
Their only two defeats have been
at the hands of Washington State
while giving the Ducks a couple of
losses.
Close Games
Coach Slats Gill has had his hair
shaven closely several times, fig
j uratively. He squeezed through
both Oregon games with his team
by only five points.—four in the
first and one in the last.
The Beavers came through
Washington State and Oregon by
close scores also.
Hobson wasn’t satisfied with
his lineups after losing to Oregon
State and Washington, but it seems
that the desirable combination has
been found at last. In practice dur
ing the week this five has been
hitting the hoop consistently and
has had drive.
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Students Direct
One-Act Plays
Five one-act plays will be pre
sented Thursday night in the Uni
versity theater under the direction
of students in the play production
class.
Charlene Jackson, Gene Ed
wards, Rose Ann Gibson, Jeannette
Hoss, Trudi Harland are in charge
of the Thursday night program.
The actors in these short dramas
were chosen from tryouts which
were open to any students at the
University other than those regis
tered in the dramatic courses.
Jeannette Harbert, Mary Mar
garet Gendy, and Elizabeth Ten
bush are each advising Eugene
high school aspirants in one-act
presentations while George Class
man is obtaining his experience at
the University high school. Helena
Parsons is directing a short play
for the members of the new course
1 in school and community drama.
Emerald Writer Fails
As’One-eye Connally
Movie “reporters” have a rather
uncouth manner of gaining admit
tance to forbidden places. They
go around flipping over their coat
lapels to reveal their tin press
badges to stern door-stander-in
ners and holler, “Make way for
the press, buddie!”
Maybe “Eight Ball” Bryant of
the Emerald was playing original
when he sauntered nonchalantly
and sans permission into ward five
of the infirmary to see Mary Cor
mack ton business), but neverthe
less he was rather unceremonious
ly propelled into realizing that he
was no exception to the infirmary’s
i visitor ban.
Bum’s Kush
In ward five and hearing an ap
1 ptoaching nurse, Jack dashed be
hind the door. The nurse came in,
pushed the door open, and Baldy’s
nose got in the way. After a one
sided verbal exchange in which
Jack managed to screw in about 10
per cent of the words, he decided
he’d best leave.
However, he didn’t get off that
easily. He was most ably assisted
by the nurse’s righ hoof (five-and
a-half “EEE") which swished up
in an arc that was a honey and
rudely terminated where it wasn’t
funny.
Infirmary patients included Bob
Ellinwood, Catherine Miller, Milo
dine Goss, Dorothy Reese, Jean
Stumberg, Mary Cormack. Gale
Quinn, Don Boe, Harris Taylor,
Max Herndon, Charles Norris, and
Robert Duke.
Seniors Plan
Annual Dance
Tickets on Sale
First of Week;
Band Unnamed
Senior classes at the University
of Oregon have been holding a
“Senior ball” for years and years.
In former years it was necessary
for freshmen to pull a lot of strings
in order to have the opportunity of
coming; but this year the dance
is open to all the campus, and even
freshmen may come, the dance
committee said yesterday.
The men will have another op
portunity to drag their tuxedos
out of the mothballs, because the
dance, which will be held Satur
day, February 24, in Gerlinger
hall, will be formal. Those fellows
who prefer to wear dark suits may
do so, however, the committee an
nounced. Girls will wear formals
and sport the corsages their es
cords send them.
Tickets on Sale
Tickets will go on sale at the
first of next week. They will be
available from representatives in
all men’s living organizations.
Buying early will mean a saving
of 25 cents on the ticket price.
Cost of the tickets at the dance
will be $1.25. Holders of senior
class cards will be given a 25-cent
reduction. Dance heads expect 400
couples at the dance, but to make
sure that each couple receives a
program, 500 programs have been
ordered.
Music. Mystery
Everything will be in black and
white for the “Top Hat” theme.
A canopy (false ceiling) will cover
the main auditorium, while alter
nately black and white panels will
decorate the sides of the auditor
ium, the sun porch, and the master
dance room.
Patrons and patronesses have
been selected, but the committee
hasn't made final arrangements
for their orchestra, but hinted that
it would be one who had much ex
perience playing for college dances.
Overnight Ski Trips
Possible for All As
Youth Hostel Opens
Overnight skiing on the McKen
zie will again be possible this
weekend when the newly opened
ski hostel will be ready.
Last weekend a party of eight
University students and Miss Mar
garet Dunham, regional director
of the American Youth Hostel as
sociation who came down from
Seattle, went up to the hostel in
the White branch area at Lost
Creek ranch. The hostel is just 15
miles from Hand Lake.
Transportation may be arranged
by signing up on the sheet in
the library or calling Margaret
Holford, Susan Campbell hall. Cost
of transportation will be $1, and
lodging cost with a temporary
overnight pass will be 60 cents.
Reservations must be made with
Thomas Fisher, recreation head in
Eugene, at his offices in the city
hall.