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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1946)
Around The Clock - With Duke By Duke Dennison Around and around we go with old dribble, and it's confusing, let's niak|J|^^qjusing. I ..creep around or. my bike enjoynfg scenery, the two-legged type, and finding the ■ day just as it has been left for me. But I am happy with it all. I wish I could make marks with that old sparkle. It just ain't in the books. But coming off this kind of noise, I gotta give off with column. 1 am left with no alternative. Tasty dish, eh? Don McNeill Back of Straub hall the future Budge’s are scampering around the tennis courts fattening their averages off the run of the mill racqueteers. Brother, it looked so -#eod from my pedestal yesterday that I am going to flail at the old pellet sometime today, if I can find some worthy who will chance the effort, and who has balls to spare. Comes the dawn. Continuation with the sub ject finds our boys looking good, and speculation should give them a good in on the coming competition. Dot’s goot. Down Buffalo way we are also finding goot tennis being displayed in the person of the perennial favorite, Don Mc Neill. Around this time of the year the Buffalo Tennis and Squash club throws its annual tournament for the cream of the crop in the amateur fold, and all of the cream . decide to settle their accounts elsewhere and take a jaunt up to Buffalo for the tournament. The secondary items of Lake Placid and Saranac Lake, which gives off with some ultra fine winter sports, also comes in and this is just the time for that type of sport, sport. Season for Everything While on the subject of this tour ney, it gives with the unusual in gusto to mention the conditions that find these questers heisting their respective bosom buddies. Predicting the weather in that sec tor at this time of the year is like the Bulls and the Bears in Wall Street deciding to settle this thing once and for all as buddy-buddies. Sounds simple doesn’t it, but try playing tennis in a sub freezing temperature sometime, and you will get the surprise of your life, not to mention drooling with icicles. Whoa there, Charlie; lo and behold we have left our boy, McNeill, in the middle of a lob on match point in the finals with Sidney Wood, Interna tional tennis exponent and one of the'foremost operators for this United States- over a span of seven years. The count is 40-love with McNeill on the serving end. Our boy Don concludes the set and the match with a smashing delivery of the lob, and takes the snuff home to his Uncle Jorge. That's some mighty fine shooting on his part, and if he has any of the form that saw him National champ in 1941, he will undoubted ly run off with a couple more cups before the new crop gets into full swing. Geez, he used to have some fiery matches with Bobby Riggs. I caught a couple of them when I was back in my own stamping grounds at Forest Hills, and they tops. These two don't have to take a back seat to any of the perennial champs when it comes to competitive display, and I don’t mean perhaps. TAKES OVER VACANCY mamrex George “Sling" Bray will be counted on for full-scale action tonight in the Oregon State tilt, filling a spot left open by the injury of Roy Seeborg. Shug has proved a dependable reserve for Coach Hobby Hobson this year. Another Vet Returns; Swander Enrolls in Sprina “Gee, all the kids I started col lege with either haven’t returned yet or are preparing for gradua tion.” This was the comment of Courtney Swander, former Oregon student and ex-Shackrat, who vis ited campus friends yesterday in anticipation of enrollment in the University spring term. Swander left during the Christ mas season of 1943, enlisting in the army. Taking his basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, he was as signed to the 35th division. More training, preparing him as an in fantry communications man, was received in Fort Bragg, North Car olina. Swander was transferred over seas in the summer of ’44, follow ing D-day, but, “we didn’t see any action in Europe till September,” he said. Participating in combat over France and Germany, the young infantryman fought in the battles of the Rhineland, Ardennes, and in central Europe. Wounded A wound, a frozen foot, and an ensuing case of pneumonia received in Germany sent Swander to Eng land by plane, where he was hos pitalized at Oxford. Out of the hospital in April, 1945. he was reassigned to the signal corps, and sent to the 7th army at Mannheim. There he used some of his journalistic training when he worked with the teletype on the German edition of Stars and Stripes. Part-time correspondent in Al sace-Lorraine followed this assign ment, and Swander served in this capacity until he was eligible for discharge December 1. Tagged “in dispensible,” he stayed with his signal corps outfit until January 20, when he was released. Europe Swander took a 25,000 mile trip through Europe before returning to his Portland home, touring Bel gium, Holland, Luxembourg, nor thern Italy, France, Austria, “in fact everywhere except Russia.’’ Courtney, a former liberal arts major, will return to Oregon April 1 as a journalism major, for the last term of his sophomore year. He is a graduate of Franklin high school, Portland, where he worked on the Franklin Post. He entered the University in the fall of 1942, and was an Emerald worker, first as reporter, then as special events writer. Home Economics Staff Honored At Dinner An East India curry dinner was given Wednesday evening, Febru ary 27, in the home economics de partment honoring the home eco nomics department staff with spe cial guests, President and Mrs. Harry K. Newburn and Dr. Harold J. Noyes, new dean of the Oregon Dental school in Portland. Those also present included Miss Frances Van Voorhis, Miss Cather ine Jones, Miss Valliere Decker and mother, Mrs. Decker, Mrs. Virginia Gayden, Miss Mabel Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thurston, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Peterson, and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Warren. Mr. Peterson and Mr. Warren recently returned from the service after being stationed in Europe and the Aleutian Islands. ASTORIA DUET PLAYS HOOP TUNE $88S$S7 ’ • ■• ■ • ■ ■ •-.■.—■■■. - --.ww^ Roy Seeborg and Stan Williamson, pictured with Coach Hobby Hobson, have proved their worth as stellar performers on the hardwoods for their mentor this year. “Salmon" \\ llliamson was placed on the Associated Press all-star north ern division team, while “Finn” Seeborg is holding up the floor work department of the Ducks in all games played. All Meat n No Potatoes If Vandals n Ducks Win They'll be holding their breath in Moscow tonight! After twenty three hungry years, the Idaho Van dals are in an excellent position to bring home some championship bacon to go with their native grown potatoes. Minus the services of Gale “Brave” Bishop, the cellar dwelling Cougars shouldn’t prove too tough for the tight playing boys from up North. Of course there’s always the chance that they’ll get those last minute heebie-jeebies, or “dropsy” as it is more com monly called, and “blow” the contest, but more than likely it will be up to the Beavers from Oregon State to force a play-off. Sore ’n Ready Oregon's Webfoots, sore about being slapped down in three of their last four games, will be any thing but duck soup for the aggies from the hil^terlands. The last game the two teams played at Corvallis saw the Webfoots grab a thrilling overtime contest 53-48. The Beaver’s two victories here at McArthur court were by no means ignominious de feats for the iJucks. All three of the Beaver-Webfoot games played thus far have heen closely fought contests, and there is no indication that the Ducks will be any less hard to handle in tonight’s contest. Vandals W in—OSC No Oregon’s increased scoring power will constitute a real threat to the Staters pennant hopes, especially when considering that all the pres sure is on the Beavers. Excluding some sort of a minor miracle at Pullman, the Beavers realize they have to win tomorrow night to gain a playoff. Tradition, inter-school rivalry, the final game in Hamilton’s col legiate career, that Dick Wilkins is on a scoring spree, and that old Dame Percentage is on the Web foot’s side, are all factors that bode evil for the Corvallis quintet. We hate to appear predju diced, but plugging for the little guy is an old American custom . . . just call me Yan kee! Assemblies Over There will be no more regularly scheduled assemblies held this term, it was announced yesterday by Ed Allen, president of the ASUO. Required Courses Deemed Beneficial “But why?” they say. “Why do I have to take that?” A history major wonders why he is required to take chemistry—or algebra—or physics. A math major wonders why he is required to take English composition. They shake their heads in bewilderment and feel very mis treated. It may seem strange to some of these students, but the truth is that the powers-that-be are not demons who concoct the required curricu lum in boiling witches cauldrons. They have the students’ interest at heart. The problem of what really makes a good education is centuries old. Even then educators were attempt ing to put forth a curriculum which would be perfect, one that would draw out the best in each person. Prof O. P. Field, of the Indiana university government department, in his “The Problem of American Higher Education,” published re cently in “School and Society” is one of the latest to advance his ideas on higher education. Accord ing to Field, the superior students are being placed at a disadvantage by the curriculum which are now popular. In his article, he agrees with Charles Evans Hughes, who said, “I am one of those who be lieve in the classical and mathe matical training: and I do not think we have found any satisfactory sub stitute for it.” ‘‘On the other hand,” Field writes, “to compel the average student to choose the curriculum which the able student should take is only to insure the former’s failure in his studies. Other students know that they cannot successfully cope with mathematics and the more diffi cult and abstract subjects. For a college to offer to these students such subjects as mechanical draw ing- typing, shorthand, newspaper reporting and other subjects along this line, with some history, gov ernment, sociology, music and art, is perfectly justifiable. It may be ideally such students should not be present on the same campus with students of medicine, law, higher mathematics and philosophy.” —ACP. Mrs. Durland Teaching Mrs. Velita Estery Durland, former art education major in the school of architecture and allied arts, is now teaching art in the high school and junior high school in Baker, Oregon. She graduated from Oregon in 1945. All Oregon newspaper publishers announced their satisfaction re cently with the high standards set by the Oregon press. “In Fact,” however, has published a letter from the steel interests to weekly newspaper owners showing their “high standards.” It’s in the libe.