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.
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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.