Oregon
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Published daily during the college year except Sunday*, Mondays, holiday* and final
examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice' Eugene, Oregon.
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/"OREGON STATE boasts some 3500 students. The Univer
sity of Oregon lias 2500. Oregon’s rally aggregation found
just how loud 3500 Beavers can yell Wednesday when the
troupe of 16 presented a Corvallis program. The tables turn
this morning and 15 or 16 Staters are going to find how much
damage 2500 Oregon voices can do to the roof of the Igloo.
Don Durdati’s absence from the Beaver lineup notwith
standing, 3500 State students think OSC will thrash Oregon’s
five twice this weekend. Likewise, the Beaver rally aggrega
tion thinks 3500 OSC students can out-vocalize a Webfoot as
sembly.
Rally attendance is no longer “universally compulsory” at
Oregon. It is at many other schools. When the executive
council discussed forced attendance recently, members agreed
that if the program i,S not enough to draw students, the answer
is to improve the-luiur program—not to force freshmen and
pledges to “pack” the Igloo. Today’s assembly is the first step
into the new era, and other all-Oregon programs will follow.
Students will find that something new has been added to
Thursday schedules.
The 16 Oregon students toured to Corvallis to show Staters
“how Oregon puts on a rally.” Oregon State students showed
how they respond to a rally assembly. Today, as Beaver talent
presents its rally show, it's Oregon’s turn to rock rafters.
Hobby’s five will take care of the Durdan-less Beavers this
weekend. It’s up to Oregon’s 2500 to equal rally rousing State
students in the Igloo this morning.
(le&esiAje. Not. . .
"^JNIVERSITY records show that two hundred sixty men
are enlisted in the naval reserves on this campus.
How many more men are enlisted is a question which is
bothering armed forces adviser, Dr. Carl F. Kossack.
The past indifference of men to pleas to check with the
armed services to see if they are enlisted, or whether they just
think that they have been accepted, have been appalling.
Failure to investigate the circumstances will cause serious
difficulties for the errant student. If he is enlisted, and through
some error either at the University or at the navy headquar
ters his name has been omitted he may be called because his
grades are not reported and for that reason he may be con
sidered out of school.
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rJMIF, NAVY men may check their status by merely looking
for their names on the library lists. Members of the other
reserves should check carefully so that if they are not included
they may complete their enlistments or merely prove that they
are enlisted.
Draft boards have been known to report men for failure to
report regularly, and non-reservists are at their mercy. Ignor
ance has never been an excuse in the eyes of the law, and fed
eral law is not to be trifled with.
A few miutes of the student’s time may be well spent by
just reading his name in the library or checking with Dr. Kos
sack to make sure that he is on record as being in a reserve
class. —T. J. B.
BeAi&e Mte Point. . . .
Shot' rationing; spikes the old argument to save rubber bv
using shoe leather. About all that’s left for the super-patriot
is to walk on his hands.
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Allen Michie tells this story: A favorite English joke con
cerns two Englishmen riding in the compartment of a London
bound train. The first,one was engrossed in a newspaper.
Shortly he turned to his comrade traveller, and remarked, ‘T
saw we’re doing rather well in this war, aren’t we?”
"I say, old man,” said the other, ‘‘You speak very good Eng
lish for a Russian."—(Coronet)
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The 48-hour week may seem like a heavier load to a civilian.
To the veteran of Guadalcanal it would be a vacation.
AdJliL
By JOHN J. MATHEWS
BACK EAST: Although no one
has heard any waxings released
since “The Outskirts of Town,’’
the Lunceford herd is anything
but folding. Always a great show
band, they panicked ’em in Har
lem last month like they never
did before and should be on the
West Coast before long to join
Benny Carter, BG, and all the
top-notch outfits which always
seem to crowd the LA area. Harry
Jackson, Bobby Mitchell, and
Freddy and Paul Webster now
line up along the back .row of a
cyclonic brass section, which still
-features Trummy Young, one of
the best-liked tram men in the
business. Ted Hulbert has amply
filled the hole so long filled by
Willie Smith. Lunceford seems
ever to have the two things that
put a band over: musicianship
(try to refute the greatness of
his disks) and showmanship
(have you ever attended a Lunce
ford performance ?). When an
ork sounds exciting through the
ears and looks excited to the
eyes, it takes a pretty dead soul
to keep from jumping.
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HERE AND THERE: Raspber
ry-of-the-month goes to Esquire
for the crack on p. 98: “Nobody
can give a dance band dignity
except Paul Whiteman.” And pa
per’s gettting scarce.
Since Decca always manages
to do their poorest job of record
ing on the Jimmy Dorsey outfit,
I’d give a pretty penny to check
in person the tremendous new
crew the elder Brother D. is
flashing these days. Includes a
ni.*:e-man brass ensemble.
Speaking of potent brass, I
read a while back that the
Count’s slide and valve men were
giving the rear wall of Harlem’s
Apcllo theater a bad time. Wags
have the owner taking out torna
do insurance. Incidentally, an old
star is reported to have stolen
that show, is Jo Jones. Is any
body surprised?
Benny is due at the Palladium
about now. Let’s hope for some
air shots of Stacy, Lausen, Steve
Steck, Charlie Castaldo, and BG
himself. Old Goodman fans en
joyed a heart warming, by the
way, over a recent pic in Metro
nome showing Stacy and Hymie
feathers from the fray
by barhara younger
While the rest of the campus is preparing for the coming
weekend, Art Damschen and Marge Curtis are collecting scrap,
Friday afternoon. They ride around in a truck and pick up the
scrap, weigh it, and take it to the chemical works to be turned
into a war material. The chemical works where the fats are
deposited is a particularly enjoyable place. As you enter the
premises, you win nna aeau
horses to the left, and rotting
dogs to the right, while a sweet
odor wafts on the breeze.
Len Barde brought back an in
teresting idea from the Pacific
Colleges War Board convention.
In Washington they wear cor
sages made of ribbons to match
the girls’ formals with defense
stamps attached.
Speaking of Len, he is one of
the unsung heroes of the campus.
It was Len who put a defunct
war council on its feet, and made
it a working body. Since he has
been chairman of the war board,
the coat hanger drive, the service
scholarship drive, the cigarette
drive, the numerous scrap drives,
and the furniture drives have
been conducted. Last year’s coun
cil did little more than have
meetings at the Side.
One of the more interesting
ads in the monthly magazine is
the picture of a soldier lying
dead in the mud. The caption on
it is, “This week he died for his
country. What have you done?”
—Well, what have you ?
The much criticized rally squad
came into its own this week when
they assisted in selling over $11,
500 in war bonds to the Eugene
Rotary club. Mickey Mitchell,
Anita Fernandez, Betty Biggs
Schrick, and Roberta Madden
were the rally girls who partici
pated. They were aided by “Cap
tain Jack,” a prize bantam roos
ter.
Shertzer on a job with Peggy Lee
and The Boss.
“The Real Jazz,” M. Panassie’s
latest effort to reduce hot music
to academia, has been thorough
ly drubbed by the reviewers for
what it is: a collection of eccen
tric opinions bound together in a
form designed to take in the un
wary. This kind of tripe not only
gripes the old jamophiles, but
will dangerously mislead the un
initiateed. Its author brands him
self as an enemy of jazz.
Sororities on the Spot
Stanford university sorority
women, at the request of an ad
visory group, are considering a
plan whereby there would be no
more rushing or pledging; houses
would be turned over to the Uni
versity and each of the nine hous
es would turn in their national
charters. i
Panhellenic will decide to fol
low either one of these two plans: |
“One, to better the sorority sys
tem as it now stands; the other,
to completely do away with Gv^k
letter chapters and place S Jk
ford entirely on a dormitory ba
sis.”
■—The Stanford Daily
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Double Time
Four senior coeds at Syracuse
university who are interested in
engineering, may obtain 10
months of paid training from
the Chance Vought Aircraft cor
poration. They can receive their
degree at the same time by win
ning one of the Chance Vought
scholarships.
—Syracuse Daily Orange
Post-War Plans
Students from the University
of Colorado will attend a confer
ence on “Post-War Reconstruc- j
tion” at the University of New
Mexico.
Educators and students from
New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado
and the surrounding mountain
states will participate in the con
ference.
•—The Silver and Gold
University of Texas has creat
ed a new degree, Bachelor of Sci
ence in Physics.
PROFILE: DR. CHANDLER B. BEALL
By MARY ANN CAMPBELL
One major is enough for most
college students, but Dr. Chand
ler B. Beall, professor of Ro
mance languages, occupied his
time during his undergraduate
days with two, pre-medics and
Romance languages. He decided
he preferred the latter after he
was admitted to the medical
school, with the result that he
has spent his time ever since
teaching French, Spanish, and
Italian, and writing books and
articles, mainly on the Rennais
sance poet, Torquato Tasso. His
study of Tasso's influence on the
French poets, “La Fortune du
Tasse en France,” was published
at the University press last
spring. Currently the importance
of Tasso to English and Spanish
writers is his chief concern. He
has published several articles re
cently on Tasso’s influence on
Spenser, Shelley, and two 17th
century Spanish poets.
“My career in a nutshell?” He
paused a moment and peered
with amused eyes over the top
of his glasses. “Someone asked
me the other day to put some
thing or other for her into a nut
shell. I told her that professors
spend all their time trying to put
things into nutshells.”
He was born in Northport,
New York, but, he hastily adds,
“that’s only because my mother
happened to be there. I really
grew up in South Carolina, i
In four years he attended
three colleges, Davidson as a
freshman, Johns Hopkins for his
sophomore year, the University
of Paris when he was a junior,
and then back to Johns Hopkins
to take his A.B. degree. He also
holds his doctor's degree from
Johns Hopkins.
Since his junior year he has
been abroad three times, the sum
mer of 1923, all of the year 1924
25, and again in 1935-36 when he
did research work in the librar
ies of Paris and Florence, while
holding a traveling fellowship
from the American Council of
Learned Societies.
“All that was in the good old
days,” he sadly commented, fold
ing his hands and leaning forward
over his desk in a characteris
tic gesture.
Since 926 Dr. Beall has been a
regular member of the summer
school faculty of Johns Hopkins,
but this year he will not be teach
ing there. I
“They still have a summer
school,” he explained, “but it’.'i.a
different set-up. The re^«»ir
summer school has been called
off for the duration.”
He married in 1927 a French
girl, Paulette Lambert, whom he
met abroad in 1923. She is an art- ;
ist and has spoken before several
of the art school classes on the
art of France, Italy, and Mexico.
Besides “La Fortune du Tasse
en France,” Dr. Beall has pub
lished other critical works; “Cha
teaubriand et le Tasse” at the
Johns Hopkins press in 1934 and
“Un Italofilo Americano di Cent’
Anni fa, Richard Henry Wilde,”
which was printed at Bergamo,
Italy, in 1939. He also has (^1
laborated on two critical editi^s
of French works, Chateaubriand’s
“Les Natchez” and Jean Mairet’s
“Chryseide et Arimaud,” not to
mention a score of articles on
compartive literature.
He came to Oregon in 1929.