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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1941)
CAMPUS — - i EDITS: Rally Dances *Under Scrutiny Once Again SPORTS: Frosh-Rook 'Little Civil War' Steals Spotlight y.A j VOLUME XLIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1941 NUMBER 32 Hope Hughes Voted ‘Hello Girl’ New Edition 'Duck’ Guide On Sale Now By tonight the pigger who has been dreaming about that little blonde since the Hello dance will know that her phone number is not 3300. . Tbe 1941-42 student directory will be on sale today and until Saturday at the Co-op and all liv ing organizations for 25 cents. Full of vital statistics ranging from the list of 29 Smiths to the all-important information as to whether that handsome prof is married or not, the little green book contains a complete list of students, faculty, and campus or ganizations and departments. The staff, headed by Betty Jane Biggs, editor, included Bar bara Lamb, associate editor; Doug David, business manager; Jim Thayer, assistant business manager, and Charles Politz, who did the cover design. Honored position of head “A’’ goes to Horace Abono, while Jo seph Zorich brings up the rear “Z.” Listed are 29 Smith, 28 Johnson, 38 Jones, and -16 Browns. Departments new to this year’s Guide are a list of faculty com mittees, officers of living organ izations, officers of honoraVies, list of publications, the ASUO rally squad and the year’s tenta tive social calendar. Also listed are closed weekends and rules governing dances sponsored by living organizations. HOBBY HORSE r mmm Collecting miniature horses is the hobby of Paul R. Washke, PE professor. He is holding a rep lica of “Man O’ War.” Fifty Horses’ Reside In Washke’s PF Office By THORN KINERSLY Fifty horses in an office 20 feet square! Paul R. Washke, professor of physical education, has that many living com fortably and seemingly happy in his office, 131 PE building. Grazing on a large shelf on one side of the room are large and small, silver, gold, and copper colored; thoroughbred and work; old and young; famous and foolish—all sorts of horses. But they don t eat hay. They are miniature horses. Mr. Washke, who is the presi deht of a local hunt club and owns two real horses of his own, started his novel collection about four years ago. As a first prize in the annual hunt club masquer ade ride he was giving a little silver horse. Collecting was the rage at the time and this little horse was all it took to get Mr. Washke started. He now has over a half hundred miniature metal horses without riders and is con tinually on the lookout for more. (Please turn to page three) THESE SURVEYS ~ It’s a regular credit course but King Martin and the rest of the boys get a lot of fun just the same out ol spying at various campus "objects” in their surveying course. Dorothy Hayden, of course, is merely serving a useful function in acting as King’s ’scope object. Writer to Dwell On USSR Maze William Henry Chamberlin, Christian Science Monitor corre spondent in Russia and Japan since 1925, will tell Oregon stu dents his experiences in the USSR at a Gerlinger assembly, Thursday, November 13. Title of his lecture is “The Russian Enigma.” Under this heading he will expound his views on the rise and results of the Russian communistic set-up. The author-reporter has trav eled in all parts of Russia, in cluding Siberia, observing the trends in recent times. During the start of the Five (Please turn to ('age six) Amorous Birdman Delivers Own Mail “Not snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift comple tion of their appointed rounds,” reads an inscription on the main post office in New York City. Like New York postmen, a Ran dolph field lieutenant delivered the mail despite all odds against him. Flying over the Oregon cam pus Wednesday on his way back to Texas, the lieutenant wrote a letter to Lois Fisher, sophomore in journalism and dropped it over the side. Sky-gazing students saw the plane circling and doing power loops over the campus and watched the large white envelope flutter down. A few minutes later the telephone rang. “Is this Miss Lois Fisher?” the voice on the telephone asked* “Well, I have a letter for you that was dropped out of an air plane. ADS Honors National Head Lou Townsend, national pro si-. dent of Alpha Delta Sigma, na tional advertising society for men, was principal speaker at an ADS pledge dinner last night in the College Side. Pledges named by the society were Dave Holmes, Warren Rop er, Chuck Haener, Allen Hunt, Dave Stone, Pat Cloud, Ancil Payne, and Wilbur Linde. Mr. Townsend is completing a tour of the northwest visiting col lege chapters of the society. Yesterday noon he addressed the A. T. Vance chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma at Oregon State col lege. Jim Frost, president of the Uni versity chapter, and W. F. G. Thacher, adviser, attended the Corvallis luncheon and returned to the Oregon campus with Mr. Townsend. SURE GET Figures, ’ Elevation Object of Surveying’ By RUBY JACKSON Members of the class in intro duction to construction are inter ested in figures—mathematically speaking and otherwise. So any campus queen who finds herself staring into the eye of what ap pears to be a surveying telescope will know now that she has walked into the path of a mem ber (probably masculine) of the class attempting to find campus elevation. “If girls get in the way it dis tracts us,” understates King Mar tin, member of the class. Martin explained that the class, taught by Percy P. Adams, assist ant dean of architecture, is of fered by the school of architec ture, and teaches students how to figure elevation. The campus sun dial, by John son hall, has an established eleva tion, and students usually work from there. There are 15 boys and 5 girls in the class, and Martin reports that interest in the pro ject always picks up spring term. The telescopic instruments, which are very powerful, are known as transits. The transits go into their greatest activity when classes let out. Many of them are trained on campus paths to w'atch coeds walk by a tact ful way of giving a prospective date the “once-over.” Main project is figuring the ele vation between the figure “12" on the sundial and the left rim of the manhole cover at 19th and Fairmount boulevard—a distance of over a mile. Spring term sun-bathing beau ties and amorous couples would be wise to remember the powerful range of the telescopic transits, Martin says. Duties Mean Much Activity For Hostess By JOANNE NICHOLS Hope Hughes, senior in a.rt» and letters, will be official hand shaker and hello-girl for the an nual Homecoming weekend cele bration, a vote of the football team decided yesterday. She will be the first Homecoming hostess in the history of the alumni fete. Miss Hughes ana the other finalists, Bette Morfitt, Eleanor Sederstrom. and Elizabeth Steed, were introduced at the Webfoots’ training table yesterday noon. Each girl spoke briefly to thu team. The Homecoming hostess will work with the hospitality commit tee, headed by Janet Farnham, in meeting special trains and registering alumni in Johnson hall. She will greet, welcome, and help to entertain visiting grad.o and other guests. Miss Hughes, president of WAA, will represent the Univer sity of Oregon and its students as their hostess for the Homecoming fete. She will typify friendly Ore gon spirit and the hospitable at titude of Oregon toward visitors. Men's and women's houses reg istering the largest number of alums will receive cups, and it i.*> essential that all houses urge their old grads to register. Hi Ya, Steve The Independents soon will vote Some officers as they begin. Now Steven Worth should b« content. An Independent's bound to win, —J.W.S. RESULTS r i Caswell’s Son to Wed Miss Alberta Baxter John Edwards Caswell, gradu ate of the class of 1934, will be married Saturday, November 15, at the home of his aunt, Mrs. George B. Campbell, in San Jose, California, according to his fath er, Dr. A. E. Caswell, head of the physics department at the Uni versity. His fiancee is Miss Al berta Baxter of Lebanon, Tennes see.