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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1946)
Museum Materials Show Burmese yWay of Life’ By Harold Norbcrg Alfred F. Whiting, assistant pro fessor of anthropology, is giving students in “Peoples of the Pacific Rim” firsthand insight into native (Burmese culture, and practical ex perience in museum technique. The class is preparing a display of native materials collected in the Chin hills district of Burma by the late Dr. E. H. East, medical missionary at Fort Haka, Burma, from 1902 to 1911. First Public Display Carried over from winter term, the display is one of three museum projects undertaken by Mr. Whit ing and students in Anthropology 125. The Burmese collection has been assembled, cataloged and pre pared for exhibition. As soon as display boards are available, the collection will be ex hibited in the University Museum of Natural History in Condon hall. The Burmese collection has never been on public exhibition before. Dr. East, who practiced medicine in Portland from 1912 until his death in 1939, had wanted his Burmese collection to get into re sponsible hands. In line with her husband’s wishes, Mrs. East visited the campus in 1941 expressly to view the Museum of Anthropology. Deeded to Oregon She directed that the Burmese collection be deeded to the Uni versity of Oregon. Mrs. East visualized use of the material in re lation to courses concerned with primitive peoples. The collection includes weapons, clothing, basketry and toys. Among the weapons are axes, swords, bows and arrows and crude flintlock guns. Native Clothing Clothing in the collection indi cates the Burmese people were picturesque in dress. Their hand woven textiles have an exquisite, firm texture. Headgear includes broad, grass-woven hats and tur bans. Another item of clothing is a knee-length raincoat made of overlapping layers of coarse grass. No Literature Basketry in the collection ranges from wicker-woven con tainers to wicker balls which were used by the natives in individual exercise much as we use Indian clubs. The toys include hand painted horses and dolls curved from wood. While identifying the Burmese material, the class found no litera ture on the Chin hills district. which indicated that the collection will be significant in further study of the area. Fijis Feature Grass Skirts Phi Gamma Delta highlighted the social calendar last weekend with its traditional surprise dance, the “Fiji Grass Skirt Formal.’’ What was slated to be strictly for mal turned out to be only 50 per cent so for the men, who substitu ted grass skirts for trousers, but otherwise appeared in complete formal dress. The girls, some of whom had se cured new formals for the occa sion, learned reluctantly at the last moment that they had to wear the grass skirts prepared by their es corts. The programs were boiled bones on which the pertinent data was painted. These were tied by strings of raffia. High point of the evening was the significant appearance of the Fijis' celebrated, campus - sing crashing dog, “Gismo,” who mod estly sported a grass skirt of her own. Poetry Contest Scripts Due Soon Prizes Scheduled for Upper, Lower Classes All manuscripts to be entered in the poetry competitions sponsored by the department of English must be turned into the English office in Villard hall by noon Saturday, May 25, Philip W. Souers, head of the department, announced Tues day. Prizes awarded for the best poems will be the Julia Burgess prize of $25, open to upper-division students, and the Walter Evans Kidd prize of $15, open only to lower-division students. Rules covering competitions for both prizes are as follows: 1. Any type of poem is ac ceptable. If, however, short lyrics are submitted, tnere must be at least three of them and not more than five. 2. All entries must be typed double spaced, and submitted in triplicate. , 3. Name of the author must not appear on the manuscript, but shall be sealed in an envelope on the outside of which the titles of the poems submitted by that person are to be typed. 4. No prize in either competi tion will be given if in the opin ion of the judges no manuscripts of sufficient merit have been submitted. Judges for the contest are Dr. Frank G. Black, Mrs. Alice H. Ernst, and Dr. Ernest G. Moll. Conference to Feature Religion. Outdoor Life “The Christian Difference,” will be the theme of the first postwar Seabeck conference, scheduled June 22 to 29. Open to students of all nations, races, and creeds, it will be spon sored by the Pacific Northwest Student Christian association uri der the guidance of Mrs. Margaret Nor'ton, regional student YWCA secretary, and the Reverend Wil liam H. Genne, regional student YMCA secretary. Registration forms should be filed by June 1. Among the recreational activi ties that will be available are swimming, boating, golf, hiking, folk dancing, ball games, tennis, badminton, and ping pong. In addi tion, library facilities include works pertinent to discussion tc pics as well as many pamphlets and new books. Seabeck is on the Hood Canal in Washington. After dinner every evening there Headquarters for * Bridge * Coke dates * Latest gossip If it's food you want we have that too, on the Side at— THE COLLEGE SIDE INN 'will be fellowship singing. Semin ars on race relations, campus citi zenship, philosophy of life, and other subjects will be held during the morning. Talks Listed Dr. David Eitzen, professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, will speak to the students every morning during the platform hour. Worship leader will be the Reverend' Harold In galls, associate secretary of the national student YMCA council. Miss Winifred Wygal, author and lecturer and forrrter member of the national YWCA staff, will lead vespers. An open meeting at which col ored moving pictures of last year’s conclave will be shown for students interested in the Seabeck confer ence will be held by the YWCA cabinet Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Co-chairmen of the 1946 confer ence are Carola Hayes, W’illamette university, and Allan Anderson, Linfield college. Additional information may be obtained from Miss Lois Green wood, executive secretary of the YWCA, in the “Y” bungalow. I Gullion Arranging Prill Collection Gordon Gullion, anthropology ‘student, is now arranging and tak ing inventory of the Prill collection I of birds, skins, eggs and animals j in the museum of natural history, Condon hall. The specimens were collected by Dr. A. G. Prill and purchased by the University last year for ex'hi I bition in the museum. SOCIAL CALENDAR TODAY Inter-varsity Christian fellow ship Bible study with Herb Butt, 7-8 p.m. at the YWCA. Desserts — Omega liall-Alpha Xi Delta Theta Chi-Delta Zeta Phi Kappa Psi and Kappa Sig ma-Chi Omega Sigma Phi Epsilon - Hendricks hall Sigma Alpha Epsilon - Alpha Gamma Delta Alpha Tau Omega—preference Former^Student Supplies Tribute to Dean Adams By Hans Wold Assistant Dean Percy P. Adams, whose death terminated nearly five decades of service as instructor and friend to students in the Uni versity school of architecture and allied arts, will be long remember ed and sorely missed by the friends and pupils with whom he worked so long and faithfully. Students who graduated under the tutorship of Professor Adams never lost an opportunity to visit him whenever they returned to the campus. Often they brought with them their problems, gaining the guidance of the man whom they always thought of as their teacher, and to whom they were still his pupils. Letter Received A letter received just one day Highland house-Gamma hall Phi Delta Theta-Gamma Phi Beta Sigma Alpha Mu-Delta Gamma Delta Delta Delta-Delta Tau Delta Delta Upsilon-Alpha Chi Omega Susan Campbell hall open house Mortar Board dance salesmen meet 5 p.m. at Westminster. TOMORROW Bible breakfast, John Straub dining hall, 25 cents, Herb Butt speaker YMCA varsity Christian fellow ship Bible study with Herb Butt Westminster house all-campus pot-luck supper. before the death of Professor Adams from Howard D. Eberhart, professor in the college of engi neering, at the University of Cafcr fornia, and former pupil of the as sistant dean, contained the follow ing tribute: . . time has a way of moving us all along eventually. I would like to sit down and talk with Mr. Adams particularly, since most of my work was taken from him. I don’t believe I have ever had the opportunity to tell him that he is one of the finest teachers I ever had or have ever met, and that I learned more about teaching from him than all the courses I ever took in the school of education. I hope I have been able to pass on to some of my students part of the things I learned from him.” Final Tribute It was fitting that one of the final tributes he was to receive in this life should come to him from one of his students. At a meeting of the Oregon chapter of the American Instate of Architecture January 22 of this year, Professor Adams was made an honorary member. Nearly half of the members present were for mer pupils of the professor, and expressed, in this manner, their ap preciation of a man who had faith fully devoted his life to the educa tion and advancement of his fel low men. For all types of classified ads, come to the Emerald Business office, room 5, journalism building. This year all classified ads must be paid in advance. 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