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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1943)
•World War I Changed Campus to Training Camp (Eclitoi s Note : I his is the second in a series of articles on the campus during the first World War.) By EDITH NEWTON When Oregon first became a military training camp, April 16, 1917, Captain Willie Shippen was in charge of the Univer sity military activities. Under his direction between three and four hundred students and a majority of the faculty practiced the rudiments of military training in Kincaid field. While Daddy Long Legs,” advertised as the most fascin ating comedy hit of the year, was being billed at the Eugene Liiccu-j. ^ wuu yuv,ca J.i.VJlJ.1 UU UcIAlS to $1.50, Oregon coeds had not ^^>rgotten the war. New Courses Three new courses had been an nounced for women; physical pre paredness, first aid and emergen cies, and lectures on Red Cross. They were scheduled for spring term of 1917. Miss Carmen Swanson, senior and assistant in the zoology de partment, was the first woman to be called to active service. Miss Swanson had volunteered as a yeoman in the navy the previous summer and had not expected to be called into active service un til after graduation. She was sent to Bremerton to do stenographic work. Red Cross Work The YWCA bungalow was head quarters for all Red Cross work on the campus, and girls were ask fet to pledge as many hours as possible knitting and folding ban danges. Rifles were needed for the boys to drill with, and in the absence of real Springfields, wooden guns from the Eugene planing mill were put into service. Khaki ov eralls furnished by the boys themselves were their uniforms. Charlie Chaplin While Charlie Chaplin was play ing at the Savoy theater in “The Cure,” wild rumors swept over the campus. There was no FBI or any other efficient local organization to investigate the numerous stor ies that were spread, and stud ents took it upon themselves in many cases to follow clues they believed important. All sports at Oregon were sus o^ended in favor of military train ^P>g soon after war was declared. The greatest blow to sports came when Johnnie Beckett, captain of the football team that had beaten Pennsylvania 14-0 on New Year’s day 1917 in the Rose Bowl, en listed in the marine corps along with “Brick” Mitchell, another star player of the 1916 season, and Coach Hugo Bezdek. Ambulance Corps On June 7, 1917, every member of the T6 team that had not al ready enlisted joined the ambu lance corps formed by Dr. Eberle Kuykendall, University graduate living in Eugene. Summer session that year was well attended. Many business men came from Portland to spend the summer taking military training. Fall term military training was tntinued on a large scale, but en were growing scarce. During that term it was decid ed that because of the lack of men it would be permissible for coeds to come to dances in groups if they were attended by chap erones. A typical dance that year was one advertised in the Em erald. The advertisement stated that soft collars and middie blous es would be required at the stud ent body dance in the gym. The admission was 25 cents. Prices were higher, and among the latest jokes was—“If the cost of living mounts any higher, what say you to getting an airplane ?” tThe “Hooverizing” movement as gaining momentum, and a fraternity reported having cut down costs so much that even the garbage man was complain ing. Homecoming dance that year was made as simple as possible. Taxis, dress suits, and flowers were ruled out as extravagances that marked one as disloyal. The freshman bonfire was to be only 15 feet high, and nothing but cld boxes or material that had no value were used in the demonstration. Sans Everything Miss Lillian Tingle, home eco nomics teacher, amazed the whole state with her economizing rec ipes. “Sans Everything’’ was the name she gave to her first won der recipe for a cake made with out sugar, milk, butter, or eggs. In a lecture on food conservation she told her audience that she had made some very delicious soup that day with apple rinds boiled in water with a tablespoon of peanut butter added. A complete survey of wasted food on the campus was made, and it was determined that the 165 men from the University who had enlisted could be fed on the food that was being thrown away. Immediately all houses started saving food and adopted the slogan, “The University of Oregon will feed its soldiers.’’ 24-Year-Old Made Major University of Oregon alumnus, 24-year-old William B. Rosson, was recently promoted from the rank of captain to the rank of major in the army of the United 'States, it was announced by the ■war department a few days ago. The distinction is two-fold as it makes Major Rosson one of the youngest officers of his rank in the ground forces of the United States armed' forces. Major Rosson’s record at the University was one of exception al achievement. In 1940, the year of his graduation, Mgjor Rosson was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa; he received the rat ing of a cadet colonel in the ROTC. The summer after grad uation he received the Pershing medal for being the most out standing ROTC cadet in the 9th corps area and upon graduation was granted a regular army com mission. Three of his classmates here at Oregon and his roommates at camp were awarded commissions of second lieutenants in the re serve corps at that time. They were Burton S. Barr, a lieuten ant-colonel under Rosson in the ROTC, Richard H. Werschkul, and Robert Herzog, all of Port land. Barr, Werschkul, and Herzog were all called into active duty at the same time as Rosson but were separated and sent to dif ferent camps. The four class mates did not see each other again for nearly two years. Then the quartet met again in Africa on November 7, having arrived simultaneously in differ ent transports. But again they were scattered. By this time Barr and Herzog have risen to the rank of captains and Werschkul to first lieutenant. Macalester college, St. Paul, will train air force cadets. University Man Publishes Study The result of about six years of .intensive study, a 21S-pagc mono graph entitled "Lewin's Topologi cal and Vector Psychology," by Dr. Robert W. Leeper, assistant professor of psychology, has re cently been published by the Uni .versity press. Kurt Lewin, professor of child psychology at the State Univer sity of. Iowa, whose publications on the theories of motivation arc summarized and criticized in the monograph, wrote the foreword to Dr. Leeper s work, stating: No Petty Nonessentials "In this monograph, Robert Leeper has done more than mere ly present vector psychology; he has criticized it and improved it. To be constructive, criticism must be penetrating without becoming lost in philosophical generalities, and it must be sufficiently tech nical without bickering about petty nonessentials. "As experience shows, it is difficult to avoid the common pit falls of criticism when the issue at stake is of a rather general na ture, such as the issue of field the ory in psychology. It is gratify ing, therefore, to meet this book of constructive criticism.” To Promote Understanding Dr. Leeper summarizes and comments upon Lewin's publica tions on the theories of motiva tion in the monograph, with the aim of clarifying Lewin's princi ples and making them more un derstandable. He thus hopes to promote understanding of Lewin's work among psychologists carry ing on research in that particular field. Formerly teaching at theUni versity of Berlin, Lewin was an outstanding European psycholo gist before coming to the United States in the early 1930’s. In ad dition to his post at Iowa City, he is visiting professor to Harvard university for a part of each school year. Hollywood Reporter (Continued from page six) rolled by Harry Sherman . . . Sabu slated for army call at fin ish of “Cobra Woman" . . . Errol Flynn starrer, “To the Last Man," set to get under way April 12 . . . Lionel Barrymore draws role of army general in “A Guy Named Joe” . . . Jack Jenkins, infant actor in “The Human Comedy," pacted by MGM . . . Paul Henroid to co-star with Ida Lupino in “In Our Time." Holly Dept. . . . George Mur phy recovers from attack of measles and rejoins cast of “Irv ing Berlin’s This Is the Army” . . . Entire Brooklyn baseball team signs to appear with Red Skelton in “Whistling in Brook lyn" . . . Ida Lupino vacations at Arrowhead and peruses script of next Warner Bros, picture . . , . “Song of Bernadette" finally gets under way with 80-day shooting schedule . . . Eleanor Parker, featured in “Mission to Moscow," appears altar-bound with Lieut. Frank Losee. Luise Rainer considers two picture deal with Paramount . . . Twentieth Century Fox plans ten Technicolor productions on 1943 44 schedule . . . Alan Hale dons blond wig, ballet skirts and pow der for one-scene appearance as chorus “girl" in “Irving Berlin's This Is the Army" . . . Fox may make life of President Woodrow Wilson . •. . Kate Smith will broadcast from three army camps • while in southern California for “Irving Berlin's This Is the Army." Wayne received a gift of $500 to aid in developing the Hooker Scientific library. Music Major Named NW Regional Winner Elizabeth Walker, senior in music, has recently been named northwest regional winner of the National Young Artists contest, sponsored by the Federated Music clubs of America. Miss Walker, a violinist, won the state division of the contest at the beginning of the term. She is now an entrant for the national contest, to be held in New York. Whether she will go to New York or Whether the contest will be broadcast is yet undecided. She is a member of Phi Beta and Mu Phi Epsilon, music honor - aries, and will be presented in her senior recital on April 20. Trock Talk (■Continiwd from f'a<n' jour) Colonel Bill added Boyd Brown, javelin to his list of champions. From the 11 Vj mark he steadily climbed to his present ceiling of 13 feet ti inches. In the northern division finals, he narrowly missed vaulting to the 14-foot level. Three times he tried for the mark and three times the crossbar toppled over after a slight, joggle. Thomas came a year late in or der to see George Varoff, pole vault champion in 1937 at. 14 feet 6 inches. Varoff's quick won crown lasted but a couple of years before he was toppled by Earl Meadows and Bill Shefton. Next of course came Cornelius War merdam who seems to have done the impossible in this particular field of athletics. In order to insure a better chance at the 14-foot ceiling the dependable Thomas has vowed to Dr. Morris Added To Planning Board Governor Earl Snell Sunday completed the staff of his newly created post-war planning board with addition of Dr. Victor P. Morris, dean of the University’s school of business administration, and Dean R. H. Dearborn of the school of engineering Oregon State college. Other members of the commit tee have been previously appoint ed and were chosen for the wide variation in their respective fields of interest. They include E. B. MacNaughton, Portland banker; George H. Buckler, building contractor from Port land; A. A. Lausmann, Medford lumber mill owner: Wayne Stew art, Dayville stockman; Del Nick erson, executive secretary, Ore gon State Federation of Labor (A. E: of L. i; Stanley Earl, ex ecutive secretary, Oregon CXO. “Tlfe work of this committee will be exceedingly important to our state,” said Governor Snell. •'The committee is charged 'with the responsibility of devising programs and methods, and' co ordinating plans of action for the post-war demobilization and tran sition periods; of promoting ac tively the industrial, mineral, and agricultural resources of eur state.” Dr. Morris’ part in the commit tee will pertain to the industrial and economic adjustment of post war problems. strengthen his legs which he de nounces as being his only or any way main weakness when 6.Q tried for the new height. iuun jiir.D wan hil L-ftiviruo You ERC and Air Corps men are leaving . . . take with you thoughts of the University. Order Now. We will send you back copies. $1.25 Oregon!! 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