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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1951)
Assembly Attendance Discussed Bv Senate, Suqqestions Made Lack of student attendance at assemblies has been a problem re cently discussed in the ASUO sen ate. This year is the first time since the war that a certain hour has been set aside especially for assem blies. No classes are regularly scheduled at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, especially so that students will be able to attend the assemblies. E. B. Ebbighausen, member of the assembly committee, has sug gested that a possible solution to the attendance problem might be requiring freshmen to attend as semblies during their first term. Ebbighausen said that he has seen this method in practice and that students learn, by compulsory attendance, that the assemblies are really worthwhile, and they often establish habits of attendance for the rest of their school years. The University of Oregon, he added, avoids paid speakers from assembly companies, but rather does their best to get excellent speakers who are often tops in their profession. It is not easy since traveling expenses are so high for a speaker from the east coast. COME IN! WE REBUILD YOUR SHOES LIKE NEW FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP BACKED BY 15 YEARS EXPERIENCE CAMPUS SHOE REPAIR Novel Depicted In British Film "Four Feathers." a film dealing with British military campaigns in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, will be shown at 2:30 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. Sunday in the Student Union ball room. The movie memorializes the slaughter at Omdurarn with which Horatio Kitchener in 189S aveng ed the massacre of General Gordon and the British garrison at Khar toum 13 years before. The film adaptation of "Four Feathers" is taken from a novel by A. E. W. Mason. The story concerns a young British officer who leaves his regiment on the eve of battle. He is given white feath ers by his three mesmates and a fourth by his fiancee as a symbol of his cowardice. The remainder of the story concerns his efforts to win back their esteem. The movie, sponsored by the SU movie committee, stars Ralph Richardson and is presented in Korda technicolor. TODAY'S STAFF Make-up editor: Kathleen Fra ser. Copy desk: Donna May, Jean Clark, Annabeth Carlson, Marilyn Dyer, Elynne Orris. Assembly Schedule Told j For Remainder of Year ] The assembly schedule for the yenr has been announced by W. A. Dahlberg, chairman of the assem bly committee. The next assembly will be Nov. 27, featuring Willamette univer sity’s "Varsity Follies.” This as sembly Is sponsored by the ASl'O and will be an exchange program, with Oregon later reciprocating. Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill.l will speak here Dec. 4. ItiH topic will be "Problems Facing Our Nation To day". Douglas, an author on econ omic subjects, was a faculty mem bei of the University o.* Chicago before election to the senate. Paid S. Dull, associate professor of political science and history, will speak Jan. 15 on "Chinese Cornmu I nism, Russia, and the United States.” R-E Week Jan. 20-24 Parliament of world religion will I be the theme of religious cvaluu | lion week Jan. 20-24. F. S. C. Northrop, professor of t philosophy at Yale, will speak on I "East and West and Problems of | World Law" Jun. 29. His latest ; book, "The Logic of the Sciences ' and the Humanities," was publish ed in 1947. In 1949 Dr. Northrop was awarded the “Order of the Az tec Eagle" by the Mexican govern ment. The drama conference wil lbe held on the campus Kcb. 7, 8 and 9. Nobel prl/.e winner and widely known physicist 1h Arthur Comp ton, will apeak Keb. 20. Hu re ceived the Nobel prize for his <h coveries In x-rayH. While still young he quit work In x-rays anil went Into cosmic ray work At the present time he Ih chancellor of Washington uulverslty In St Louis. Arnold J. Toynbee, author of "Study of History," will speak in April. YMCA to Observe National 'Y' Week The Oregon chapter of the YMCA wil observe national YMCA j week with a general meeting at !7:30 p.m. today In the Student 1 Union Francis Dart, professor of phys j ics, will give a talk on "My I’hil ! osophy of Life" after which there will he entertainment and refresh-" ment if. r All men who are interested in the YMCA ace urged to attend his meeting, Dave Hobbs, YMCA president, announced. Head and use Kinerald classi fieds. CHESTERFIELD — largest selling cigarette in America's colleges ......iiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiti.i. ' " m !■ -jr* Cmistm ELD because of ildness NO UNPLEASANT AFlSKIftHS *from the report of a well kno and only Chesterfield has it