Oregon
Emeralr
VOLUME XLV NUMBER lOfr
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1944
All Campus To Rally
For Junior Weekend
Oregon spirit will have a chance to prove itself on Friday,
April 28, when a snowball rally will usher in the first hint
of the Junior Weekend celebration, Anne Craven and Edith
Newton, co-chairmen of the weekend, announced today.
The rally, led by the rally squad, will begin about 9:10, so
that the air corps and pre-med students will be able to join the
iun. The air corps band will play.
Festivities will culminate in an
assembly at the Igloo.
At the assembly will be present
ed the usual array of fun, spirit,
and laughs, all in order to promote
Campus-wide excitement over Jun
ior Weekend. The chairmen feel
that the famous spirit of the Uni
versity of Oregon has been dor
mant lately, and that it is time
Oregon students show their mettle.
Queen Anita Fernandez and her
court, Princesses Peggy Klepper,
Elaine Wilson, Frances Colton, and
Phyllis Horstman, will for the first
time be formally presented to the
students. This in itself should make
the assembly an exciting event. To
add to the festivities, Miss Newton
announced, a drawing will be held
at the rally, in which the name of
a girls' living organization will be
pulled from a hat. The organiza
will be asked to sing. This
custom was traditional at assem
blies several years ago, and is now
being revived.
Spanish Novelist,
Exiled from Peru,
To Talk Tuesday
Unusual understanding of the
American people was shown by
Luis-Alberto Sanchez, Latin Am
erican literary critic who will lee
-4u.re here next Tuesday, in a book
which he wrote after a year in the
United States. Although he admit
ted several prejudices he held, his
studies of the American people
Were regarded as particularly keen.
Dr. Sanchez, whose lecture will
begin at 8 p.m. in 207 Chapman
hall, was invited several years ago
by the Library of Congress and
other groups to come to this coun
try, where he did research in the
Library of Congress, taught at Co
lumbia university, and traveled
throughout the country becoming
acquainted with the people here.
The background for his lecture,
“The Latin American Novel and
Its Social Content,” comes from
having written many books and
articles dealing with literary criti
cism, as well as history and poli
tics. He is considered the outstand
ing critic of Spanish literature.
At present this 43-year-old na
tive of Peru is on the faculty of
the University of Chile, and assist
ant manager of Casa Ercilla, one
of the largest publishing houses
in Latin America. He received the
degree of doctor of history, phi
losophy, and letters from San Mar
cos university, one of the two old
est universities on the continent,
at Lima, Peru. He has taught
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Two Shack Rats Return
For Glimpse of Oregon
“Glad to see you back” was the
password around the shack this
week when two former shack rats,
Pfe. G. Duncan Wimpress and Pri
vate Joe Miller, met in the journal
ism building’s halls to welcome
each other back to Oregon.
Wimpress, who has just finished
a course at Fordham university
and expects to be sent overseas,
was managing editor of the Emer
ald last year before he left with the
BRC. Miller, an army censor on
his way to Alaska, was an Em
erald columnist. Needless to say
the meeting was a warm and
hearty one.
Judge Hay
Challenges
“Your status as an American
student is a challenge; as you meet
it so will you make yourself, great
or little, by your own determine,
tion,’’ maintained Judge Arthur
Douglas Hay, Oregon supreme
court justice during his address at
the installation assembly yesterday
morning in McArthur court.
“The responsibility of your edu
cational advance bears heavily on
your own shoulders,” he continued,
adding that a war-time college
calls on common sense to make
the best use of opportunities.
Expressing the opinion that go
ing to college is the greatest op
portunity to build for happiness
and worthy living, Judge Hay con
demned “frittering away time” in
such ways as reading pulp maga
zines, “The opiate of the unintelli
gent, the dishonest, and the lazy”;
and upheld diligent application to
study and honesty with self as well
as teachers.
“If you propose to gain mere
technical skill you are wasting
your time at a university. If you
are here only for a good time you
are probably a criminal. You
should come to college to gain wjs
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Display Sold
By Dr. Nash
Dr. John Henry Nash's collec
tion of fine books, which has been
displayed in the library for a num
ber of years, has been sold, and
will be presented to the University
of California, it was learned Thurs
day. Dr. Nash is now in town and
indicated that the collection will
probably be shipped the first of
next week.
Included in the collection are
about 3000 books, valued at ap
proximately 5150,000. Many of
them were printed before the 15th
century. Manuscript books, many
of the very finest books, and a few
books on early printing and the
history of printing are among the
display.
Religious Group
Plans Breakfast
Newman club, the Catholic stu
dent group on the campus, will
hold its monthly communion break
fast after the 9:30 mass Sunday,
April 23, at St. Mary’s Catholic
church. The Military Wives and
Mothers club, under the direction
of Mrs. G. B. Schaefers, is serv
ing the breakfast in the St. Mary’s
school cafeteria on 11th street just
behind the church. All civilian and
soldier members are invited to at
tend.
After breakfast a short meeting
will be held to discuss the annual
Newman picnic, planned for April
30, announced Joe Miklovich of the
air corps, chairman of the affair.
The committee consists of Bob
Rowse, entertainment; Jim An
thony, transportation; Doris Loen
ning, foods; Lola May Heagney
and Gloria Fick, posters and pub
licity; and Charles Ma, location.
Animals Frighten Coeds
As Men Boost Smoker
Shrieks and screams of terror reverberated over
the campus early this morning as bleary-eyed coeds
going to their 8 o'clocks found the University to
be overrun with lions, bears, elephants, and other
species of wild animals. Soldiers from Camp Adair
were immediately summoned to help the local air
corps boys repel the animal invasion.
Before the militia could get into action, however,
it was revealed that the animals had been im
ported from Frank Buck’s Malay peninsula head
quarters to help advertise the all men's smoker to
be held in McArthur court at S:30 this evening.
Mr, Buck assured that the ferocious-looking beasts
are perfectly harmless unless molested.
McArthur court has been transformed into a Ba
varian beer cellar for the smoker. Skull and Dag
ger members will sell cigars, cigarettes, pretzels,
beer (root variety), and vegetables to throw at the
fighters.
Fuerer Adolph Hitler of the Third Reich ha*
loaned the smoker committee a number of his elite
Gestapo agents to guard the doors and eject alt
girls who try to crash the party.
General Chairman Charles Politz announced last
night the following program for the event:
Man-killin’ Morgan of Morgan's Creek at 155
pounds will put on the gloves with Bust-'em-uj»
Buttefield at 150 pounds.
Prospective pledges to Sigma Delta Chi, men'#
journalism honorary, will present a skit burlesquing
student politics. This sterling dramatic offering, in
the opinion of many critics, is a cinch for tho
Pulitzer prize this season.
A wrestling bout between Bone-Grinder Gab!-,
ringer and Gorilla Gellatiy is guaranteed to exeell
anything now being offered by the Pearl Street
arena.
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Welcome Sign Out For
"Moms” on Weekend
Mothers are to be the special gruests of the University during
Mothers’ Weekend, but the committee in charge headed by Gloria
Malloy and managed by Dean Karl W. Onthank, extends a welcoming
hand to all Oregon Dads who will accompany the mothers.
All events planned for the weekend will be coordinated with the
Junior Weekend affairs, and Miss Malloy urged all mothers to got
early tram reservations that they
may bo able to attend the annual
Sing, with most girls' living- or
ganizations competing, Friday
evening at S.
It is x-eported that the hotels in
Eugene are usually well filled and
students should make reservations
for their parents now. In former
years most of the living organiza
tions were able to accommodate
the mothers, but due to crowded
conditions on a wartime campus
this may not be possible for a large
number of visitors. Many houses,
however, expect to be able to pro
vide rooms for the mothers.
Dorothy Rogers, chairman of
hospitality, asked the cooperation
of all campus living organizations
in making the parents of their in
habitants feel welcome. Although
there will be no interhouse com
petition this year, all houses are
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Morse Receives
Bid to Conference
Wayne L. Morse, former clean of
the University Law school, has
been asked to take part in the
National Wartime conference for
the "professions, arts, sciences, and
white collar fields,” June 2 and 3,
in New York City.
The future of the professions
and sciences will be the theme of
the conference, and the field will
be covered in four discussion sec
tions: international collaboration
of the professions, planning for
full employment, standards of liv
ing, and post-war readjustment and
restraining of the professions.
In the invitation to Morse to act
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Editor Sought
For Handbook
A student handbook, containing
miscellaneous information of stu
dent interest, will definitely 1n>
issued for students next year, it.
was announced late yesterday by
the committee, composed of Der:.«
Karl \V. Onthank, Nancy Ames,
Mary Riley, and Orlando J. HoIlH
The editorship is open to anyone
desiring to submit a petition for
the office. It will be a paid posi
tion, and any registered student,
regardless of class or major course,
may apply, by securing an eli
gibility slip from the dean of nu n
or dean of women. Petitions must,
be turned in to the educational
activities office by noon Wednes
day, April 26. Gathering of in
formation and editing of the book
will be carried on during- May an#
the summer months, so that tin*,
book will be ready for distribution
at registration next fall.
Tims publication will be “more
than a welcome book or student
directory,” according to President
Hollis. It will contain about 100
pages of general information: cus
toms, traditions, organizations, ac
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vMIUmUHIIi.
JUNE BUCKLES . . .
. . . former assistant in the biology
department, who is now in the
Waves. She received her B.A. de
gree in biology in 1944 and since
1943 has been an assistant in the
biology' department.
KATHRYN HELEN FREY . . .
. . . former Oregon student who is
now in the Waves. Miss Frey was
a sophomore in journalism and
was a member of Hilyard house.
She is included on the service flag
of Hilyard girls in the service.
MARGARET OTT . . .
• . . former Oregon student who 3s
dow in the Waves. Miss Ott was
major in history while at the Uni-*
versity. She has a brother, Bill!,
who is also in the service, a boiler-*
maker, second class.