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VOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE TUESDAY. APRIL U N4X Xl’M HER 111
Fellowship
, Given UO
Professor
Guggenheim Award
Announced Granted
To Dr. R. W. Leeper
Dr. Robert Leeper, associate
professor of psychology, has been
awarded a John Simons Guggen
heim post-doctorate fellowship
award amounting to $3,000.
Granted a 12-month leave from
the University starting September
1, 1948, Dr. Leeper wm study at
the University of Chicago with Dr.
- Carl Rogers, an outstanding work
er in the field of personality, and
then will go to Duke university to
work with Dr. Carl Zener and Dr.
Donald Adams on problems of
learning. Dr. Leeper's project will
be a book on the psychology of
personality and the development of
an organizational or perceptual
theory of learning.
Although 112 men were given
Guggenheim awards, only one oth
er Northwest man, Dr. George
Stanley, professor of Canadian his
tory at the University of British
Columbia, was included in the
group.
Dr. Leeper has done considerable
Work in personality, motivation,
and learning. He has published sev
eral books and many articles. Com
ing to Oregon in 1937 from Cornell
college, Dr. Leeper received his
bachelor’s degree from Allegheny
college, Pa., his master’s and doc
tor’s degrees from Clark univer
sity, Worcester, Mass., and has
done post-doctorate study at the
University of Chicago. He is a
member of Phi Beta Kappa and the
American Psychological associa
tion.
This summer Dr. Leeper will
teach at the University of Colorado
and the University of Minnesota.
Building to Add Rooms
Studios, classrooms, and a new
dean’s office will be installed in the
planned addition to the school of
music. Bids for the project are
scheduled to open April 23.
The building, to be 46 by 127 feet,
Will be located south of the present
school and face west. Expenses will
amount to approximately $195,000.
Welcome to Eugene
Christiane Beylier is greeted on her arrival from France by Miss Mariel Means, a UO. sophomore (left),
and Mrs. Paul B. Means (right), who lived with Miss Beylier’s family in Paris when she was a student.
Miss Beylier is enrolled in the University as a Chi Omega scholarship girl. (Courtesy Register-Guard.)
Movies Feature
Chaplin, Topper
“Topper,” first of the series of
the Topper movie comedies of a
decade ago, will be presented Wed
nesday evening at 7 and 9:30 in
Chapman hall to University stu
dents. A short featuring Charlie
Chaplin will complete the show.
Thorne Smith wrote the book
from which the movie, starring
Roland Young, Constance Bennet,
Cary Grant, and Billie Burke, was
adapted. It tells of the adventures
of a dignified bank president who
runs into trouble when he meets
two persons “out of this world.”
It has been termed "delightful
nonsense using trick photography
to mix visible and invisible char
acters.”
The program is sponsored by
educational activities through the
audio-visual department. Either
Bob Merril or Arthur Elbon will
operate the projector, accord
ing to Don Hunter, director of the
audio-visual department.
French Girl Arrives on Campus;
Calls UO 'Wonderful Heaven'
The University of Oregon is “a
wonderful little heaven and the
American students aren’t aware of
it,” was a first impression of Miss
Christiane Beylier, the French
girl who arrived on the campus
Saturday as a Chi Omega schol
arship girl.
Here on an Oregon foreign
scholarship and a Chi Omega
living scholarship, Miss Beylier'
completed her registration Mon
day and has begun her studies on
an American campus, filling a
long-time dream. She will major
in liberal arts and expresses a
special interest in languages,
piano, and merchandising. A re
turn to France with her United
States schooling is her first plan
for the future.
Americans Break Ice
She has studied in the official
government business school in
Paris and for the past six months
she was employed as a secretary
for Lucien Lelong.
Excited and wide-eyed, Miss
Dr. Wright Authors New Book
By BOB FRAZIER
A new volume of history “from
the horse’s mouth” is available in
Eugene bookstores, with the re
lease this week of “The Reshap
ing of French Democracy” by Dr.
Gordon Wright of the University
history department.
Much of the material in the new
book, which is the story of the
founding of the present French
republic, was drawn from Dr.
Wright’s own observations in
Paris, where he worked in the
American embassy and observed
daily the making of the new
French constitution.
An associate professor of his
| tory at the University, Dr. Wright
spent a year in the French sec
tion of the State Department in
Paris staff. He spent two years
DR. GORDON WRIGHT
in the French capital as a “politi
cal reporter,” observing sessions
of the French constituent assem
blies and reporting to the Ameri
can embassy.
His new book concerns this pe
riod chiefly, with emphasis on
the French Communists in con
temporary French politics. There
is also considerable attention to
empire affairs.
A graduate of Whitman college
with advanced degrees from Stan
ford university, Dr. Wright stud
ied extensively in France before
the war at the University of Par
is and in the French national ar
chives.
His “Raymond Poincare and the
French Presidency” was pub
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Beylier is an interesting and
charming girl. Her eyes and hair
are dark, complementing a very
fair complexion. She speaks a
clear, French-accented English
tongue. “In France,” she said, “all
students learn six years of some
language, and most everyone
chooses English.”
Miss Beylier already sees many
differences from her native Paris.
Speaking of the people, she finds
the Americans “easier to break
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Fire Damages
Music School
A fire in a first-floor janitor's
room brought three fire engines
to the University music school
yesterday afternoon.
The blaze, presumably caused
by a discarded cigarette, started
in a burlap trash container. Men
students in the building had 'the
fire under control by the time the
fire equipment arrived. Fire de
partment members lauded the
students for their quick action.
No survey has been made but
the estimated damage stands at
$300, according to the fire de
partment. The interior of the
room was charred and there was
some smoke damage.
Williams Requests
Piggers' Petitions
Students interested in being
either editor or business manager
of next year's student director,
the piggers’ guide, may contact
Dick Williams, educational activ
ities manager, before noon Satur
day.
Petitions to fill the positions
may be obtained at the deans’
offices by any student with a
GPA of 2 or better.
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Dr. Faus*
To Lecture
Thursday
Controversy Over
General Education ,:!
Subject of Speech
“The Controversy Over General
Education,” will be the lecture
subject of Dr. Clarence H. Faust,
director of the University librar
ies at Stanford university, Thurs
day at 8 p.m.. The speech, first
in the spring (term University
Lecture Series, will be in room 207
Chapman hall.
Dr. Faust is a leading author
ity on the subject of his lecture,.
general education. Former dean
of the College of the University
of Chicago and dean of the gradu
ate library school at the Univer
sity of Chicago, Dr. Faust was
dean of the college when the cur
riculum was radically overhauled.
General Education
• The College of the University
of Chicago is a junior college, in
cluding the last two years of high,
school and the first two years of
college. Its program is devoted
entirely to general education. The
curriculum program now in op
eration is one of the most experi
mental programs in the country,
and it has had a wide influence
throughout the nation.
Co-author of the book, “Jona
than Edwards,” Dr. Faust is a
well-known scholar .in the field
of American literature, particu
larly the history of ideas in the
18th and early 19th centuries.
Taught English
After receiving his M.A. and
Ph.D. from the University of Chi
cago Dr. Faust was an instructor
of English at the University of
Arkansas and professor of Eng
lish at the University Chicago
before being elevated to the dean
ship of the College.
Thursday night's lecture is open
to all interested students.
YWCA Cabinet
Plans Activities
New and old members of the
YWCA cabinet met Sunday at the
coast to review the past year’s
activities and to make plans for
the coming year on the annual Y
retreat.
The new cabinet is president,
Laura Olson; first vice-president,
Nancy Peterson; second vice
president, Janet Beigal; secretary,
Ann Woodworth; treasurer, Jor
dis Benke; membership, Shirley
Lukins; international affairs,
Amy Lou'Ware; foreign students,
Marjorie Petersen; public affairs,
Claire Wiley; worship, Lou Wes
ton; house, Jessie Becker; social
Nancy Beltz; conference, Marcia
Summers; luncheon club, Violet
Meisenholder; community service,
Dorothy Collier and Marjorie
Scandling; publicity, Donna Klet
zing; posters, Kathryn Littlefield;
flying speech, Joy Miller; person
al relations, Billiejean Riethmiller.
Mrs. Gladys Lawther, regional
director, presented a summary of
the local YWCA’s relation to the
regional, national and internation
al Y. Bjorg Hansen and Bobbe
Fullmer, retiring president and
first vice president, reviewed the
past year and offered suggestions
to the incoming cabinet, followed
by a general planning of each
committee’s work by the incom
ing president, Laura Olson, and
the cabinet.