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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1944)
Committee Appointed to Choos Recipient of Pratt Scholarship A committee to recommend the recipient of the Arthur 1 Pratt scholarship fund, to be given for the first time at th year’s commencement, has been appointed by Acting Presidet Orlando J. Hollis. Howard R. Taylor, associate dean of the graduate divisioi is chairman of the committee which includes Andrew Fish, pri fessor of history; Waldo Schumacher, professor of politic science; K. J, o Connell, associate professor of law; and Pierre Van R/sselberghe, associate professor of chemistry, The original gift of §5000 from the Coca-Cola company of Eugene, trader the managership of John G. Foster, established the Arthur j Pratt scholarship fund at Chris mas time. It has been increased r cently by two gifts from the san source, §500 to the principal fun and $400 to the income accoun GOOD BUSINESS! Students find that it’s “good business’’ to maintain a bank account and that this is a good place to do it. EUGENE BRANCH UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK Head Office—Portland MEMBER FDIC Can<yiatulcMa*vi to the CLASS of ’44 Si> much depends on you—the youth of our nation! For your educational advantages will better fit you to take part in making the better world that is to follow the war. Just as a sound educational background will better equip you to help fight this war, it you are going forth from classroom to combat dutv! Municipal Electric and Water Utilities affording- $475 available for use in B making the award this year. Tiie award will be payable in three equal installments at the begin ning of each term in the following academic year. Work may be start s. ed in the summer term, is The award is to-be used for post it graduate work at the University of Oregon, or the medical school in Portland, and the selection will be based on scholastic record, char aeter, citizenship, and promise of ;1 distinguished post graduate work. — The committee is not basing the ?. | selection on any specific grade :- point average. Also the scholarship :- doe# not involve any service to the e University, nor is the need of i, assistance a primary consideration. The committee is asking faculty cooperation in securing applica tions from eligible seniors. Appli cation blanks may be obtained from the graduate office in John son hall, or will be sent to any student recommended by a mem ber of the faculty. Applications, to be considered this year, must be received by May 24. | Seven Coeds Compete (Continued from page 1) gifts was to provide two prizes of $150 and $100 for the best orations delivered by members of the grad uating class. A fund established by Mrs. W. F. Jewett makes possible a third prize of $50. Entrants in the contest, as an nounced by W. A. Dahlberg, direc tor of speech and dramatic arts, are: Nancy Ames, outgoing ASUO president; Thelma Nelson, mem ber cf Senior Six and an education major; Joanne Nichols, an asso “■ ciate editor of the Emerald; Helen Johnson, Oregana editor; Edith Onthank, architecture end allied arts major; Beverly Padgham, YWCA outgoing president; and I Margie Robinson, editor of Old Oregon. GOOD LUCK CLASS OF '44 Eugene Hotel Barber Shop EUGENE HOTEL Presents ART HOLMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA Every Sat. Nite Dancing 9 ’til 12 in the Persian Room JOHN STARK EVANS (Continued from page 1) music is expanding through a long range program with emphasis on public school music and on choir and instrumental work. Acting President Orlando J. Hol lis expressed surprise at Mr. Evans’ resignation, and also said that he will be missed because of his long association with the school and his interest in com munity music. Although war interrupted Mr. Evans’ work at the University in 1918, he came back to spend 24 years on the faculty. For 12 years he directed the University of Ore gon men’s and women's glee clubs which toured the state annually to give concerts. He served as organ ist and director of the choir and organist at the Eugene First Methodist church for 14 years. For the past nine years he has been organist and choir master for the First Presbyterian church in Port land. under Mr. Evans direction the Eugene Gleemen have become out standing in choral concert work in the West. Mr. Evans is a native of Iowa and was graduated from Grinnell college with Phi Beta Kappa mem bership among his honors. He later studied in New York and Paris, and came west to teach at Pomona college before joining the Univer sity faculty. State Board Adopts (Continued from page 1) for a ballroom. Other features near the top of the list are general and smoking lounges, browsing and record room, movie equipment, banquet hall, terrace, committee rooms, student government offices, lost and found department, check rooms, sun porch, roof garden, game rooms, and post office. Other features receiving over Believe It or Not DON'T GUESS CALL JESS GODLOVE The Plumber 31 Hast 7th Ph. 5-17 Knox Recital Well Liked I By NORRIS YATES Bach, Chopin, and Debussy re- | ceived polished and vigorous treat- .«' ment last night as Phyllis Gray Knox, senior in music from Eu gene, was given in recital by the University of Oregon school of music at the music auditorium. Mrs. Knox justified her selection j of three Chopin numbers by prov ing that she was quite well fitted to bring out the perculiarly ro mantic nuances put into his music by that composer. In the “Scherzojjj in B-flat minor” she achieved marked variety of expression and showed fine dramatic sensitive ness, as well as exceptional artis tic feeling in the cantabile passag es. In the ‘‘Waltz in A-flat” and ‘‘Preludes No. 3, 10, and 16,” she displayed an excellent sense of dy namics in catching the racy, spark ling side of the often moody and melancholy Pole. A slight tenden cy to overexaggerate the accents in the faster passages detracted only a small amount from the gen eral effect. In Bach’s “Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue” she achieved a granj*. diose and powerful effect by means of a brilliant technique marked especially by a strong left hand and a consistent vigor of accenting verging almost on monotony. She coupled these traits with a decided smoothness and coherence of phras ing and delicate sense of timing in the rubato passages. in concluding her program with Lizst’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6,” Mrs. Knox displayed a rhyth mic force, sense of the dramatic and colorful and skill in climactic buildup that resulted in a note worthy interpretation of the fiery and somewhat superficial compos er-pianist. She handled Debussy'^i, “Garden in the Rain” with a reli cate nicety of feeling, although her touch was at times a bit too sharp and clear for an entirely adequate portrayal. She performed Rachmaninoff’s “Elegy in E-flat-minor” with a pul sating emphasis on the darker toned chords that brought out to a satisfactory degree th'e somber \ mood of the great Russian. In con trast, she played Niemann’s “The Singing Fountain” with a quiet rise and fall in the shading of vari ous phrases that well portrayed the lyrical placidity of the piece. 100 votes were: employment office, administration office, Co-op store, barber and beauty shops, banking facilities, bowling alley, trophy room, chapel, memorial hall, cafe teria, soda fountain, photographic dark room, and various offices. Choral Union (Continued from page 1) This year’s chorus is made up of 135 female voices from the choral union classes. In past years, the group has included both men and women, with a total of 500 to 600 voices, and it has always per formed to packed houses. j* 4 Flower, Fern Custom Started by Dean’s Whim By PEGGY OVERLAND One of the most beautiful and also least known of Oregor Laditions is the annual flower and fern procession, a twilighl custom that is perhaps the oldest to be handed down to presem seniors. It is enacted every year at commencement time when the alumnae of the University welcome into their ranks thf gia,uu<iiing seniors. It all goes back to a strange whimsical request that the dean ol women, Dr. Luella Carson, ’09, made in 1894, when she repeatedly expressed a longing for a bed of ferns under her classroom window 4 on the east side of Villard hall. Two junior girls, seized with a desire to gratify this wish, hired a horse and buggy, and went out into the McKenzie foothills. Their adventure netted them an impres sive load of maidenhair roots which they managed to plant under Dr. Carson’s window. From that inauspicious begin ning has developed this rather nos talgic twilight ritual, which was first carried into effect in 1900 when another pair of junior girls led a flower procession, followed by not only the graduating women and alumnae but also by any member of the student body who carec* ^0 join. The group started ' with their bouquets of fern and flowers at the Condon oaks and wound around the building on the old campus, arriving on the grass slope on the west side of Villard just at sunset to complete the cere mony. Since then it has been held in different places, most of 'them centering around Villard and Deady. For the past ten years since the erection of the statue of the Pioneer Mother the program has been enacted in that quadrangle, and this spring commencement will witness the procession starting at Gerlinger and marching down the terrace to the Pioneer Mother. Alumnae will start at one end of Gerlinger and the seniors in tlieir caps and gowns from the other entrance, all carrying their flowers. They will meet before the statue where the alumnae will part and welcome into their center the graduates. Both groups will then circle around the statue and lay their flowers down to form a giant “O,” the entire company singing “Old Oregon.’’ Weather will be the only possible obstacle to the observance of this ceremony. If it rains everybody will meet in Gerlinger and the pro *. cession will be carried out in there. Music will be provided and some program may be included. It will begin at 6:30 p.m. on & STUDENTS We thank you for the ser vice that we have been able to offer you. We will see you all next year. MAGAZINE EXCHANGE 125 E. 11th | Sunday, June 4, just before com mencement that evening at 8. The committee for the affair is under Mrs. O. F. Stafford, with Mrs. Clara Nasholm, Mrs. Virgil Parker, and Mrs. Edith Kerns j Chambers handling the details. Feast to Close. Year’s Work All Emeralds for the year put to bed, shack rats from copy boys (?) to editor-in-chief will feast and forget Friday night at the Eu gene hotel. This annual banquet, a short silk affair, will begin at 6 p.m. It is free to the 75 or so Em erald business and news staff members who have signed up for the dinner. Awards, presentations, and speeches by prominent Emerald ites will make up the program. George Turnbull, acting dean of the journalism school, will present the Turnbull-Hall plaque to a sen ior in journalism who has out standing ability, who has worked mostearnestly and consistently on the Emerald, and who has been the greatest inspiration to the staff. The Emerald editor can not be con sidered for the award, which was started in 1931. In 1943 Mildred Wilson’s name was engraved on the plaque which hangs in the Em erald newsroom. Globally Speaking (Continued from page tivo) Germany overlook a Russian veto. Russia has already offered Poland East Prussia in exchange for her acceptance of the Curzon line. The Big Three have agreed on their spheres of occupation after the German surrender. Russia is to oc cupy the eastern area; the United States the southern, Britain the western—ail three sharing the con trol of Berlin. The Junkers property should be 5xpropriated. The East Elbe aris :ocrats have always been the back bone of the German army. The Os :rilfe affair was used by the Jun kers to force von Hindenburg to ippoint Hitler chancellor. The German general staff should "Hatcheck Honey Grace McDonald "Battle of Russia" be abolished and allied controls over German factories and imports should be maintained until German democracy is in actual existence. It will be hard to find German leaders who are qualified to form a liberal government. The Germans would regard them as Quislings perhaps. One remembers the fate of Rathenau and Erzberger after Versailles. Japan’s Fate The Big Four agreed at the Cairo conference to limit Japan to her pre-1894 frontiers. Like Van sittartism, this gives Tojo a rally ing cry with his people. Most peo ple believe the emperor should he dethroned to insure permanent peace in east Asia. Joseph Grew, our last ambassa dor to Tokyo, does not hold to this view. He believes that democracy could be made to work in Japan by using the emperor as a tool. The militarists who now advise the em peror would be replaced by civil ians with liberal views. We think this leniency toward the Imperial House unwise. Shinto ism, with its worship of a divine emperor, is too ingrained in the Japanese people. The emperor is the 124th direct descendant of Jimmu Tennox, the first legendary ruler of Nippon. Jimmu was born in the left eye of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Mi Kami. Jimmu left a will to his peo ple in which he predicted that the Yamato race was to rule the world. The Imperial House is thus too in terwoven with Japanese militar ism to be allowed to survive our occupation of Tokyo. Army Junked The Japanese constitution should be changed, presenting the war and Through our doors pass Oregon's most active students IT'S BEEN FUN For tire past four years we’ve enjoyed serving you. Come in and have your last meeting here. Join your friends at Taglor's naval ministers being named by the armed services. All Japanese implements of war and her war fleet should be scrapped. The dominance of Japanese life by the five plutocratic families of Mitsui, Iwasaki, Sumitimo, Yasu da, and Okura led to the alliance of of the army and the Black Dragon society that culminated in Pearl Harbor. The army's expansionist policy fr lai^'iawHiii'iiiiiiiiNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiimini was a protest against the Five Families’ control of Japanese wealth—a concentration of eco nomic power to a degree that no western nation could equal. Japanese economy must function. The Japanese must live by foreign trade or starve. Only 14 per cent of Japan is arable land. The Jap anese are unpredictable. Their hys teria over a punic peace could lead to mass harakiri. if ^UanJzi lost. YOUR PATRONAGE A\ e’ve enjoyed serving you and will wait your return next year. To finish the year off right we offer Barbara Gould Special Cleansing Cream, a regular $2.00 jar for $1.25 plus tax. PENNY WISE MDGS 40 E. Broadway 769 W. 6th Ave. HAVE THAT GRADUATION PICTURE TAKEN AT Kennell- Ellis FOR YOUR FRIENDS, RELATIVES, AND SWEETHEART In Appreciation — to issue of the Emerald for the gear, mag tre express our thanks ond facaltg for making this another big gear at the 66Co»op.”
