Art School Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Varied Program
Slated; Open House
Scheduled Today
By PAX ERICKSON
Today and Wednesday the Uni
versity art school is celebrating its
25th birthday with a full activity
schedule.
Dean William Emerson of the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology will arrive this morning
and as honor guest of the festivities
will first attend a faculty lunch
eon this noon at the Anchorage.
From 2 o’clock until 4 o'clock
there will be. an open house at the
art school, with exhibits of student
and faculty work.
Emerson to Speak
At 4 o'clock Dean Emerson will
speak at Chapman on “Why Not
Beauty?”
The anniversary banquet is set
for 6 o’clock at the Osburn hotel.
Speakers will include Mrs. Beatrice
Walton Sackett, for the state board
of higher education; Chancellor
Hunter; President Erb; Tom Pot
ter, president of the Allied Arts
league; A. Glenn Stanton, presi
dent of the Oregon chapter of the
American Institute of Architects;
Dean Lawrence of the art school,
and Dean Emerson. Burke Morden,
president of the alumni art league,
will be toastmaster. The banquet is
open to any who want to come.
Tickets are available at the art
, school office.
Trip to Follow
After the banquet a trip is
planned to the Campbell Memorial
Art museum, where visitors will be
shown the night light in the court,
as well as the Murray-Warner col
lection.
Wednesday’s activities include
group luncheons at noon. At 2 o’
clock Dean Emerson will confer
with architecture majors, and at
7:30 the regular Willcox Wednes
day night open house will be held
at the art school library instead of
at Professor Willcox’s home, as had
originally been planned.
Portland Man Buys
Local Biding School,
Makes Spring Plans
The Eugene Riding academy
was recently purchased by Milton
Rhone, who owned the Highland
academy of Portland. He is well
known in that city for his horse
manship and many of the students
of the University have taken in
structions from him there.
Spring term plans by Mr.
Rhone include many delightful
rides into the hills. Longer rides
and other activities have also been
planned for students who delight
in horseback riding.
Oregon Professor's Painiing
Wallace Haydon, assistant professor of architecture at the Univer
sity, here views with Miss Brownell Frasier, associate professor of
interior design, a watercolor painting he made of Viipuri, Finland, be
fore the bombs hit that city.
National Prominence
Gained By Art School
An inscription is being carved
for the entrance to the art build
ing. It reads:
“We want this school to be a
happy home where the student is
helped to educate himself.—Saari
nen.
“Here is the minimum of re
straint and the maximum sense of
responsibility.—Prince Campbell."
First organized in 1914, the art
school of the University of Oregon
is this year celebrating its 25th an
niversary.
Nationally Prominent
During the 25 years of its ex
istence, the school has achieved
national prominence and has come
to be known as one of the finest
training centers in the whole na
tion.
The school became a member
school of the Association of Col
legiate Schools of Architecture in
1920, thus becoming the 15th of
approved schools of architecture
and was accepted as such by the
American Institute of Architects
and the state board of architectur
al examiners, according to infor
mation from a report compiled by
Ellis F. Lawrence, dean.
Non-Competitive System
Honors, prizes, and awards have
been dispensed with in the art
school. A non-competitive system
has been worked out, and the
school is the first in the country,
Dean Lawrence believes, to aban
don the so-called Beaux Arts sys
tem. Each student is treated as an
individual, the student body is
largely self-governing.
During the past 10 years the
school has been the recipient of
grants amounting to $55,425 from
Carnegie funds, through the Amer
ican Institute of Architects, for
summer art sessions for art teach
ers.
23 on Art Staff
.With a staff of 23, the art school
is divided into eight departments.
Major enrollment stays at around
300, while there are many non
major students, particularly those
interested in advertising. Between
1919 and 1922 the art enrollment
doubled, and from 1922 to 1925 it
redoubled. Since then it has in
creased 25 per cent.
Dean Gawrence has been for
many years serving on the educa
tion committee of the American
Institute of Architects, has been
director and president of the As
sociation of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture, and is at present
chairman of the National Advisory
committee on Preparation for
Practise.
Students have registered in the
school from Massachusetts and
Maine to Honolulu, from Okla
homa and Florida to Alaska. Grad
uates include architects practising
far and wide, teachers, and those
practising interior design and oth
er professions.
Visitors Attend
Art School Meet
Called to the University by the
occasion of the 25th anniversary
of the art school will be a number
of out-of-town guests, according
to information from Ellis F. Law
rence, dean of the school.
Among those expected for the
two-day festivities are Mrs. H. C.
Wortman, organizer and former
president of the Portland art
class; Miss Bertha Stewart, inte
rior decorator; Miss Nan Wiley,
head of the art department at
Cheyney; Constance Fowler, head
of the art department at Willam
ette; Robert Tyler Davis, curator
of the Portland art museum; Walt
Pritchard, head of the sculpture
department of Washington State;
Burke Morden, Portland architect
and president of the alumni art
league, and a sizable delegation
from the Oregon chapter of the
American Institute of Architects.
Congratulatory telegrams have
been arriving in considerable num
ber, says Dean Ellis F. Lawrence,
They included one from Japan.
Call for Air Corps
Recruits Issued by
War Department
A call for mid-year graduates or
second year men has been issued
by the army air corps as recruits
to meet present training require
ments, according to a release from
the department of military science.
The war department is conducting
an extensive campaign to contact
qualified students.
The military department stated
that probably this week an exam
ing board will visit the campus to
interview interested students. It is
not a government policy to encour
age students to drop college to en
roll in the air corps.
On the preferred list are men
with two or more years of college
holding a junior certificate. Other
applicants will be required to pass
a mental exam in addition to the
regular air service physical
check-up.
Campus
Calendar
Ye Tabard Inn will meet Wed
nesday night at 7:30 in room 105,
Journalism, for a short but im
portant meeting.
Important Ski club meeting to
night at 7:30 in 207 Chapman.
Please be prompt. Motion pictures
will be shown.
The Life Philosophy commission
of the University YMCA will meet
at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Dr. James
R. Branton's home. The meeting is
open to anyone interested.
Gamma Alpha Chi will meet at
Alphi Phi at 4.
Communion for Episcopal stu
dents will be held Wednesday
morning at 7 o’clock in the men’s
lounge, Gerlinger.
Heads of houses will hold an in
formal luncheon at the Chi Omega
house from 4 to 5 p.m. today. A
business meeting will be held at
4:45. Both old and new heads are
invited. Dean Schwering will pour.
There will be a Theta Sig meet
ing at 7 p.m. in the Chi Omega
house for formal pledging.
Miss Adele Baron, senior in Ro
mance languages, attended! the na
tional convention of the French
honorary, Pi Delta Phi, held in
San Francisco last Saturday, as
representative of the local chapter.
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