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VOLUME XU
26OO
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1940
NUMBER 100
IBRARY
, CAMPUS
What to Do? Campus Sun Dial Found Wastin’ Time
By WES SULLIVAN
Somebody had better wind the
sun dial.
No one knows quite what to do
when a sun dial starts losing
time, but someone should do
something pretty soon for the
historical dial next to Johnson
hall has been losing ground at
the rate of nearly a minute a
year for the past 18 years leav
ing it 15 minutes in arrears.
This isn’t the menace that it
might seem on first thought. It
doesn’t throw student's timing
off to any great extent because
it only works five per cent of
the school year.
Came in 1912
Back in the spring of 1912
when the monument made its de
but on the Oregon campus it had
as much efficiency as any nor
mal sun dial, but the landscape
artist who planned its setting in
cluded some little shrubs in his
plan. During the years they ma
tured into trees and now prevent
two or three hours of sunlight
from falling on the face of the
dial. As if that wasn’t simple
enough the architects who
planned the campus built the ad
ministration building in such a
spot that it cuts off another hour
of light.
So altogether, on a clear day,
the dial still has seven hours left
to bask in vitamin D, that is if
the sun is shining, but the sun
only shines approximately 50 of
the 260 days during the school
year.
It’s a Puzzler
Not many people make an at
tempt to read the dial anyway.
Each year a new influx of fresh
men try their luck, but not be
ing able to make any sense of
the many Roman numerals and
latin phrases, stay clear of it.
Another handicap to reading
the dial is the fact that minutes
have to be added or subtracted
according to the time of the year.
This is provided for in a metal
plaque on the southern side of
the monument. April 15 is the
only day in the year when, ac
cording to the plaque, the time,
will be in complete accord with
the dial.
As to the history of the dial,
it is a memorial to Wilson Pierce
Mays, of the class of 1909, who
died in 1910. His parents erected
the monument.
The probable reason for the in
accuracy of the dial is that it.
was not built on a cement base
and the weight of the stone hat*
caused it to settle and leave tbo
dial's surface on an angle.
It is still possible to find tho
correct time by the instrument,
however. Simply wait until somo
time other than the 94.4 per cent
dark era, find the correct bear
ing. look at the plaque and adtt
or subtract the correct number
of minutes. Having completed
that, add the 15 minutes that the*
dial is slow.
Well, anyhow, it's pretty.
Committee
Named for
Luncheon
Plans Take Form
For All Campus
Weekend 'Feed'
With the selection of the cam
pus luncheon committee by Grace
Irvin, chairman, plans are be
ginning to take form for the an
nual “all-campus feed” which ac
companies the coronation of the
Junior Weekend queen.
Members of the committee,
named yesterday, are Janet Gore
sky, assistant chairman; George
Macken, financial chairman;
Caroline Kortge, serving chair
man, and Kenneth Bowes, set-up
chairman.
Miss Irvin announced that the
theme of an old German beer gar
den would be carried out as far
as possible, even to the extent of
a German band. The girls who
will do the serving will wear offi
cial Junior Weekend pinafores.
Mothers here for the weekend
will be given special tables, Miss
Irvin announced.
She also announced that firms
who wish to place bids for the
campus luncheon should contact
George Macken, 318.
Lyle Nelson Only
Editor Candidate
Lyle Nelson, present managing
editor of the Emerald, was the
only candidate who had filed his
petition for the editorship of the
paper when the deadline was
reached last night at 5 o'clock.
Nelson will be interviewed by
the educational activities board
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Scotch Instinct
I think I'll inhale deeply
’Round someone who has the flu,
Or a sweet bouquet of poison oak
Would accomplish much, it’s true.
I'm going to take some poison,
t Not like arsenic, maybe rat)
P'raps to eat a dozen sundaes
Would be an easier way at that.
If you wonder why I'd turn myself
Into a walking “germery,"
It's just because I’d like to use
My time at the infirmary.
—J. W. S.
Infirmary Sets
Term Record
With 200 Calls
Largest attendance at the Uni
versity infirmary health service
this spring came Monday, when
more than 200 patients signed up
for medical service at the desk.
Average attendance for the term
has been around 125.
In the hospital division Monday
were Mary Sheldon, Bettie Wil
son, John Merrill, Arthur John
Fagin, Barbara Barrett, Mar
gery Williams, Bill Graham, Hy
mie Harris, Glenn McKibben, Eu
gene Kideduf, and Mrs. Harriett
Eckman.
Assembly Will
Reveal Officers
Band to Play Fight
Songs; Phi Thetas
To Name Pledges
From out of the haze of whis
pering campaigns next Tuesday
will come definite announcement.
of the ASUO presidential candi
dates of the two principal campus
political blocs.
A special nominating assembly
in Gerlinger hall will provide the
setting, with President John Dick
in charge of the meeting. Candi
dates for the office of president
of the student body, first and sec
ond vice-presidents, and secretary
will be named at that time, it is
expected.
Also on the program of the
(Please turn to page six)
Symphony
Concert
Scheduled
Emerald Sponsor
Of Free Program
Slated Tonight
Faithful readers of this news
paper will have the opportunity
to collect their “spring bonus” to
night at 8 o'clock in the music
auditorium when Rex Underwood
and the 70-piece University sym
phony orchestra play a free sym
phonic concert under the auspices
of the Oregon Daily Emerald. All
students are invited.
The program, which will last
approimately one hour and 15
minutes, will be made up of the
selections most popular with the
audiences in the orchestra’s 1939
40 concert series. Although the
orchestra members will wear
their formal black-and-white at
tire, the concert will be on a
completely informal basis for the
■ill-student audience.
Selections are taken from the
romantic works of Tschaikowsky,
Debussy, and Massenet.' A com
plete listing, and further details,
will be found on page 3.
Meeting Attended
Dr. L. W. Staples, geology in
structor, attended the annual
joint meeting of the Engineering
and Technical societies in Port
land last week. W. V. Norris,
physics professor, also attended.
Conference Slated
On Campus Today
Problems of community organ
ization and religious education
will be discussed by the delegates
to the Commonwealth conference
to be held on the University cam
pus today.
The delegates will spend most
of the day in discussion groups.
Those interested in community
problems will hold panel discus
sions in the morning and after
noon. The morning talks will cen
ter around “Community Needs
and Problems.” The afternoon dis
cussion will feature “The Prob
lems of Rural Youth—What Com
munities Can Do About Them.”
The delegates interested in re
ligious education will hear Dr.
John C. Bennett, professor of
practical theology, Pacific School
of Religion, Berkeley, California,
talk on “The Rural Church—Its
Opportunities and Problems,”
during the morning session. Pro
fessor E. W. Warrington of Ore
gon State college will discuss
“What Can the Churches Do to
Make Religion Effective in the
Communities?” before the after
noon session.
A joint session of the two
groups will be held in the after
noon.
Further details on page 3.
Leads Tonight
Rex Underwood, conductor of
the 70-piece University sym
phony orchestra, which will play
a free concert at the music au
ditorium tonight, under sponsor
ship of the Oregon Daily Emer
ald.
Housing Ample
For Weekend
Mrs. Morris Aids
In Arrangements
To Solve Problem
Students who fear there will
be no room for accommodating’
the guests they would like to in
vite to the University for Junior
Weekend cn May 10, 11, and 12,
may put their minds to rest, John
Cavanagh, promotion chairman,
said last night.
(Please turn to page six)
Fraternities List
New Pledge Group
Spring term fraternity pledges
reach a total of 16 students last
week, and the dean of men’s of
fice yesterday announced the
names of seven students who
have signed for Greek houses in
the past three weeks.
Latest pledges are Bill Ross,
and DeWitt Rucker, Sigma Al
pha Epsilon; Frank McKinney
and James Doern, Delta Upsilon;
Harry Cloninger, Sigma Nu;
Robert C. Broderick, Alpha Tau
Omega, and Wallace R. Johnson,
Pi Kappa Alpha.
Seven Men
Get Positions
In Air Corps
Students Named
On Opening Day
Of Army Exams
Seven University of Oregon
candidates received appointments!
as flying cadets to the air corps
training center in the first day of
army air corps examinations
Monday and approximately 15
were scheduled to return Tues
day for rechecks on their physical
examinations.
The students accepted were*
Rodney E. Lewman, Harrison W.
Zurbick, Jack D. Blanchard, Wil
bur H. Wittcliff, Charles F. Skin
ner, Gordon S. Benson, and Wil
liam L. Reynolds.
With a constant waiting lino
before the door, the examining
board worked at top speed from
eight in the morning until five in
the afternoon, interviewing and
examining applicants. Oregon stu
dents are showing a tremendoua
amount of interest in the army
air corps, the board announced,
pointing out the large stack of
applications.
All students who are appointed
flying cadets by the board will
go to the government flying
school nearest their home in eith
er May or September for a three
month period of primary train
ing, then will be transferred to
the air corps’ “West Point of the
Air for a six-month training
period in the newest of the army’s!
planes.
Examinations are being held in
rooms 201 and 205 in the phys
ical education department. The
hoard stressed the fact that it
takes only a normal physique to
pass the physical examinations.
All CAA Students
Asked to See
Lieut. Kurtz Today
AH the CAA students at the
University of Oregon are request
ed to confer today with Lieuten
ant Frank A. Kurtz, member of
the visiting army air corps exam
ining board, on a matter of in
terest to all flying students.
Lieutenant Kurtz asked that
CAA students come any timo
from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. during
the day. to room 201 in the phy
sical education building.