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VOLUME l
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1949
NUMBER 58
Drama Conference toHear Robert Edmond Jones
Broadway and Hollywood pioneei
in theater design, has been secured
as featured speaker for the North
west Drama conference to be held
on the campus February 10, 11,
and 12, it was announced yesterday
by Horace W. Robinson, director
of the University theater.
Jones, who designed such stage
productions as John Barrymore’s
“Richard III” and “Hamlet,” and
the movie “Becky Sharp,” will
speak on “The Theater of the Fu
ture.” He is the recipient of the
Howland memorial prize from
Yale university in 1926, and the
Fine Arts medal presented by the
American Institute of Architects
aLLaiuuiciii clS d
designer of the theater.
In his career in the theeater,
Jones has designed such historic
productions as the controversial
“Macbeth,” in which Lionel Bar
rymore appeared, the famous
“Green Pastures,” and many of
Eugene O’Neill’s plays, includ
ing “Desire Under the Elms,”
and the more recent “Iceman
Cometh,” of two seasons ago.
Jones is also a director, and is
responsible for the production
which gave the initial impulse to
the famed Central City Festivals
in Colorado. He has also authored
two books—Dramatic Imagination,
ROBERT EDMOND JONES
and (with Kenneth MacGowan)
“Continental Stagecraft.”
Today, at the pinnacle of his ca
reer, Jones is, as always, a pioneer,
looking forward toward the theater
of tomorrow. He challenges con
ventions in his forecasts of the the
ater of the future in which motion
pictures, radio and television will
.play so large a part.
This is the conference's second
year on the Oregon campus. A
steering committee composed of
Robinson; Angus G. Bownier, di
rector of drama, Southern Ore
gon College of Education and di
rector of the Oregon Shakespear
ean Festival; and Marvin A. '
Krenk, president of the Eugene
Very Little Theatre, has planned
the program, which will includo
productions of “The- Glass Men
agerie" and “School for Scandal.”
Also scheduled are sectional and
divisional meetings, a business
meeting, and a buffet banquet for
the final day of the conference.
Daily exhibits from commercial
concerns on lighting, costume fab
rics, books, and so forth; the Ori
ental Art museum exhibit, a li
brary exhibit, a picture display
from universities, colleges, high
schools, and civic and community
theaters participating in the con
ference. and special motion pictures
have been planned.
Nelson Tells
TermSwitch
Difficulty
A new factor in the proposed
change from a term to a semes
ter calendar was brought to
light todavAoy Lyle Nelson, di
rector of information at the Uni
versity.
As pointed out by Nelson', the
adoption of the semester plan by
one school in the state system (i. e.,
Oregon) would mean that all of the
institutions in the state system of
higher education would have to
adopt the semester plan also, since
the system is operated as a unit.
This, Nelson believes, will be a
major complication in the adoption
of a change by President Newburn,
Chancellor Packer, and the state
board. The proposed change, was
recommended by the University
faculty on Wednesday, and must be
approved by all the above-named
offices before going into effect. The
faculty recommendation is now on
President Newburn’s desk.
When questioned by the Emerald
yesterday, Dr. Newburn stated that
“I have not had time to study the
faculty recommendation yet, but
plan to give it careful considera
tion.”
Dr. Newbum’s approval would
mean that the recommendation
would go to the offices of the chan
cellor and then to the state board.
Friendly House
To Present Dull
Prof. Paul S. Dull x /ill be the
guest at today’s convention hour
at Friendly house, when methods
of preventing wars will be dis
cussed from the point of view of
the political scientist.
Dr. Dull is assistant professor of
history and political science and is
also head of Far Eastern studies.
During the war he served in the
marines as Japanese language offi
cer, and in 1944 he was in the gov
ernment information service.
The evening will begin at 7 with
a gramaphone record recital by
Hr. Roy C. Andrews of the chemis
try department. The conversation
hour begins at 8, and is followed
by refreshments and dancing at 9
p.m.
Friendly house, 11th and Ferry,
is a meeting place of American and
foreign students of all races and
creeds.
Illustrated Lecture Series
Topic 'Near East Heritage'
Nine illustrated lectures on “Our Heritage From the Near
East” by Dr. C. C. McCown, visiting professor in the Univer
sity department of religion, will be presented this term by the
University Lecture Committee.
The initial lecture, “The Dawn of Civilization,” will be held
in Room 207, Chapman hall January 13. It will concern fossil
man, the Xeanderhloid, and the betrinniners of asrriculture.
Phi Sigs Start
Moonlight Girl
Search Today
With the delivery of announce
ments to university women’s living
organizations today, Phi Sigma
Kappa has begun its annual quest
for a Moonlight Girl.
Each women’s group will select
one girl as a candidate and submit
her photograph by Friday, January
14 to the Phi Sig nomination com
mittee. This committee, composed
of three faculty members and
three members, will nominate six
candidates from the group for in
troduction to the house members
and pledges at a special banquet in
their honor.
Final voting by the fraternity
will preclude introduction of the
Moonlight Girl as guest of honor at
the house ball on January 29. Pre
sentation of the Moonlight Girl
trophy to her will be made at this
time. The trophy will remain in the
possession of the sponsoring living
organization until next year’s
Moonlight Girl is chosen.
Moonlight Girl for 1948 was Ann
Phetteplace, Gamma Phi Beta.
WSSF Official
Arrives Here
Barbara Brady, traveling secre
tary for the World Student Service
Fund in this area, arrived on the
Oregon campus yesterday to aid
in coordinating the campus WSSF
drive, which begins Monday.
Miss Brady already has spoken
over local radio stations and giv
en pointers to solicitors for the
campus drive. She will remain
throughout next week.
Money collected from students in
this and other countries by WSSF
goes to help students in war-devas
tated areas. Aid includes food,
clothing, help in finding shelter,
and school supplies.
After graduate study in this
country and Germany, Dr. McCown
received his doctorate from the
University of Chicago in 1914
He has been professor of New
Testament literature and interpre
tation in the Pacific school of re
ligion, Berkeley, Calif., sometimes
dean, and professor emeritus since
1947.
Since 1936, Dr. McCown lias
been director of the Palestine In
stitute of Archaeology at Berke
ley. In 1930-31 he was director of
the Yale University American
school research expedition at Je
rash, Palestine.
Several of the books which he has
written are particularly related to
the coming lecture series as: "Lad
der of Progress in Palestine;” “Tell
en-Nasbeh I”; and “Archaeologi-cal
and Historical Results”.
Other books which he has au
thored are “The Promise of his
Coming”; “The Genesis of the So
cial Gospel”; and “The Search for
the Real Jesus.”
The second lecture will be “From
Village to City”, January 20; and
on subsequent Thursdays, "Ancient
Life Through Modern Eyes, Janu
ary 27; "The Beginnings of the Al
phabet”, February 3; "Persepolis:
the glory of ancient Persia”, Febru
ary 10; “The Conict of Cultures in
Transjordan, February 17; “Gera
sa: Roman city planning at ‘the
Pompeii of the Near East' ”, Feb
ruary 24; “The Mystery Religions
and Immortality”, March 3; and
"The Roll and the Book”, March
10.
The University Lectures commit
tee of the faculty is headed by Dr.
Rudolf H. Ernst.
Writers Wanted
Students interested in writing
for the Emerald this term have
been asked to attend a meeting
Saturday in room 6 Journalism at
1 p. m. Previous Emerald experi
ence is not. necessary, says Don
Smith, assistant managing edi
>or.
Enrollment Drop
Seen by Registrar
By George Dorris
record winter term enrollment ot tv00 is expected by the
end of late registration, January 15, with a total of 5475 reached
by Wednesday evening, J. D. Kline, assistant registrar, reveal
ed yesterday. This is an increase of 74 over the 5401 enrolled at
the same time last year.
Although these figures are considerably under the all-time
MIT Architect
Dean to Speak
On Wednesday
William Wilson Wurster, dean of
the school of architecture at Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology,
is scheduled to speak at the Uni
versity school of architecture and
allied arts at 2 p.m. January 12.
The speech will be given at the
drafting room, and will include
slides.
Dean Wurster is nationally prom
inent in architectural and planning
activities, and is in partnership
with Theodoore C. Bernardi and
Donn Emmons, San Francisco ar
chitects. He has practiced in San
Francisco since 1926. His work
there includes large housing pro
jects, office and commercial build
ings, and a dormitory on the Uni
versity of California campus in
Berkeley.
He is a 1919 graduate of the Uni
versity of California, and has held
his present office since 1944. His
wife, Catherine Bauer, is well
known for a series of books on
housing.
Dean Wursters’ visit is spon
sored by the student associate
chapter of the American Institute
of Architects. He is the third and
last speaker of the yearly program
sponsored by the student chapter.
Allen Selects Five
For Committee
Members have been chosen for
the three-party committee for con
sidering incorporation of the stud
ent body proposed last term.
From the executive council Art
Johnson and Hank Kinse’.l will
serve; from the three political par
ties, Mo Thomas of the ASA, Lou
Weston of the USA, and Bob Davis
of the ISA, will act as representa
tives. The group will select its own
chairman.
record of 6125 established last fall
term, the drop is considered natur
al, Kline stated.
The percentage of veterans
among- the students has remained
about the same, being 55^ of the
total. The total number of veterans
is becoming smaller, particularly
when compared to the veteran en
rollment of the past several years.
The registration program used
for advance registration for this
term has been called the best sys
tem yet worked out, and current
plans are to use it for spring .term.
No changes are being considered in
the program.
January 3 was the last day for
regular registration, Kline stressed,
and everything after that date is
considered late registration. A late
registration fee is being charged of
$1 per day, until a total of $5 baa
been reached. Saturday, January 15,
is the last day for registering, and
is also the final day for adding n
course. February 5 will be the last
day for dropping a course.
PNCC Confab
At UBC Put Off
The Pacific Northwest College
Congress, which was to convene at
the University of British Columbia,
yesterday, today, and tomorrow,
has been postponed, according to
student body president Bob Allen,
who had planned to attend as an
observer.
Oregon did not budget to sen&
an official delegate this year, Al
len explained; instead, the council
decided to send Allen as an ob
server to report back. Then th*.
University student body’s future
relationship with PNCC will be de
cided.
Libe Adds Room
A new typing room, outfitted
with three coin operated typewrit
ers and space for three persona*
machines, was opened this week in.
room 155 of the library.