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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1945)
Large Flow of Veterans Held Needed by Schools CINCINNATI, OHIO—(ACP) With student rolls in institutions of higher learning this fall down nearly a third below 1939, the last normal peacetime year, the esti mated flow to American campuses after the war of 650,000 veterans for federally-financed studies “rep resents the chief'H'opte'hf American college and universities for rescue from the present dearth of men students.” This is today’s generalization of Dr. Raymond Walters, University of Cincinnati president and au thority on college-university at tendance statistics, in his twenty fifth annual survey for School and Society, education weekly. As of November 1, there were 608,750 full-time students and 925,084 grand total, including sum mer and part-time students, in 679 approved institutions. Despite good-sized freshman classes of 16 and 17-year old boys, current men students are from 50 to 94 per cent below the figures of five years ago. As of November 1944, of the in stitutions which reported to Dr. Waletrs both this year and last, 648 had 593,271 full-time civilian and army and navy students, in contrast to 454,759 full-time civil ian and approximately 363,000 in army and navy units in November 1943. For 046 institutions reporting grand total figures for both years, there were 893,883 this fall and 1,099,043 in 1943. Slightly more than 60 per cent of the current collegiate population are women. California, with 16,261 full-time students continues as the country’s largest university in this classifi cation and New York university, with a grand total of 24,722, con tinues as largest in this group. Co lumbia university, with 12,039 full lime and 21,979 grand total, is sec ond largest in both classifications. A large section of Dr. Walter’s report is given over to comments, released here for the first time, as to prospects for returning veterans outlined by Ornas W. Clark, assist ant administrator of the veterans administration, Washington. Based rtpon statistics as to age and educational qualifications of armed forces personnel and upon studies of postwar plans of a sarn For Quick, Efficient Service WALDERS ASSOCIATED SERVICE 11th and Hilyard pie group of 10,000 service men, Clark predicts 650,000 as a “gen erous estimate’’ of those who will be “candidates for full-time educa tion on the higher levels.” Previous estimates hazarded by other sour ces and running as high as 2,000, 000 veteran-students after the war thus seem far too optimistic. The peak load for colleges and universities will probably come a year and a half after Germany’s and Japan’s defeats, Clark believes, as he warns that veterans will not arrive on college campuses in a rush, but will be distributed over several years. At present, approximately 2,400 disabled veterans are now studying in colleges and universities. No figure was given for discharged non-disabled veterans taking ad vantage of the federal G.I. Bill of Rights provisions for higher edu cation. 'Secret Six' (Continued from page one) vertising honorary; Phi Delta Phi, international legal honorary; Delta Sigma Hho, national speakers’ hon orary; the symposium speakers team; the YMCA council; and won the W. F. G. Thacher scholarship for his work as Emerald business manager when he was a junior. After some time spent in GI uni form and later, as a Henry J. Kaiser public relations man, George has buckled down to being a second year law student, except for cer tain periods which crop up against his “activity road’’ for a time. This term he was tapped by Friars. Fourth member of the sextet 's six-foot-two Elmer Sahlstrom, ad judged to be one of the best stu dents of the law school, who head ed the Young Democrats on the campus in their victorious cam paign to reelect Roosevelt. Elmer is claimed by both the BA and law schools because he is working for both a CPA degree and a law de gree at the same time. He is also a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, having been born in this country of parents who were Canadian subjects. The fourth member of Friars among the Secret Six is Harry A. Skerry, known among his asso ciates as one who will defend right to the last ditch. In a way he is “father” to the other fellows, being the only third year law student in the school and “our graduating class we hope.” At the first of the term, Harry came home with George Luoma one night because he could find no other place, and has been there ever since. Fair haired boy of the Secret Six is Don Turner, one of the first men on the campus tapped in the nightmare men's smoker contest. "Probably the most beautiful man at. Oregon,” according to a col league, Don graduated from the University in June, 1941, and is now a first year law student and one of the few Beta Theta Pi's left on the campus. BICYCLES FOR RENT By Day, Week, or Hour 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturday—10:00 to 8:00 p.m. Reserve Bicycles to be used on Saturday or Sunday CAMPUS CYCLERY llth and Alder Phone 4789 SERGE JAROFF Contrasting in size to the 20 burly members of the singing Don Cos sacks, little Serge Jaroff is well known as conducter of the famous troupe, which will appear at Mc Arthur court January 31. The Whole Truth Comes to Light This is the real lowdown on how the Hospitality court was 'chosen. Wednesday the 30 nominees for Hospitality Girl met in Alum ni hall to be judged by the Se cret Six. The opinion of Mrs. Siefert’s, the Gerlinger hostess, four-year-old nephew was grave ly considered by the Six. The infant was asked to look over the 30 campus queens and pick out the most beautiful. Af ter considerable prodding by the men, the child ran to the women, checked the chicks, and made his decision by tugging at the char treuse skirt of the tall-and-blonde Mary Margaret Ellsworth, crow ing with delight (the boy, not ’Sworth). Sf a Buddy (Continued from paye two) the path of the advancing Allied armies in western Europe. Second Lt. George R. Hail, pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress of the 95th bombardment group, has been awarded an oak leaf cluster to the air medal for “meritorious achieve ment" while participating in eighth air force bombing attacks on vital i, Go-Hack Gltoisi founded On Mktit ol (leo&LUian “A Russian who does not sing is no Russian,” says Serge Jaroff, director of the Don Cossack chorus, which will appear in Eugene Wednesday, Jan. 31, at 8:15 p.m. in McArthur court. It was because Russians must sing that diminutive Jaroff who leads the Cossack giants in song founded the unique chorus just 25 years ago. It was 1920, and the Cossacks, torn from their beloved Don valley by war and revolution, were singing away their hunger and longing for home. Jaroff, considered too little among the 6-foot soldiers to be of much use, had studied to be a Oregon Emerald Night Staff: Shirley Peters, night editor Robbieburr Warrens Mary Bruce Crane Advertising Staff: Gloria Grenfell, day manager Bobby Fullmer Nancy Hoerlein Layout Staff: Anne Burgess Pat Powell Oifice Staff: Marjorie Fay CAMPUS CALENDAR The Outing club will meet in front of Gerlinger hall at 10 p.m. for a moonlight hike. Wesley house will be open to stu dents tonight after the game for dancing and playing games. German industrial targets, and on ' Nazi airfields, supply dumps and gun emplacements in support of advances by Allied ground forces on the continent. Hail’s Group Cited Lt. Hail attended the U. of O. for three years. He is a member of the Fortress group which led the first American bombing attack on targets in Berlin, and which was cited by the president for its out standing bombing assault on a rail road marshalling yard at Munster, Germany, in October 1943. As a component of the distinguished third bombardment division, the group also shared in a presidential citation given the entire division for its historic England-Africa shuttle bombing of an important Messerschmitt fighter plane plant at Regensburg, Germany, in Aug ust of 1943. * Games * Toys * Magazines * Candy MAGAZINE EXCHANGE 128 E. 11th • Ice Cream • Cookies • Potato Chips • Cokes • Crackers ELLIOTT’S GROCERY 13th and Patterson Phone 95 choirmaster. He took to leading his comrades, and presently had a trained ensemble obedient to every flick of his fingers. Their fame spread, and they be gan to tour the world. Today they have a million miles behind them, and will cover thirty thousand and more in their annual round of the United States. They will celebral^ r.ot only their silver anniversary but their 5,000th concert this sea son. Their appearance in Eugene, 0:1 a coast-to-coast tour arranged for them by impresario S. Hurok, is sponsored by the Eugene Civic Mu sic association, and is open to all holders of ASUO cards. DANCING Every Saturday Night 9 ’til 12 at the EUGENE HOTEL with ART HOLMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA in the Persian Room McDonald Robert Taylor and Vivian Leigh in "Waterloo Bridge" — and — Eddie Bracken in "Hail the Conquering Hero" "JANIE "PORT OF FORTY THIEVES" "Strangers in the Night" — also — "Border Town Gun Fighters"