Pure American Music
Browsing Room Topic
A recorded program of "purely
American music" presented by
George Hopkins, professor of mu
sic in the school of music, initiated
the first lecture of the spring term
Berios in the Student Union brows
ing room last night.
Hopkins selected the works of
four American composers who in
future years may be looked upon
as the pioneers of American mu
sic, possibly the U. S. version of
Mozart, Bach, or Beethoven.
•Two Feet’
These composers, he said, "stand
on their own two feet" in complete
independence of the influence of
the traditional European masters.
He indicated it has been in the
past decade that their works have
become recognized. "American
music* came of age some time ago,
but we're just beginning to re
alize it," he said.
The oldest of the four compo
sitions presented was “The Indian
.Suite" of Edward McDowell, a
sincere, romantic work written in
3891-2. More representative of the
American scene were "Appalach
ian Spring," a ballet on rural life
Written 10 years ago by Brooklyn
ite Aaron Copland, and the more
serious "Second Symphony" by
Roger Sessions and "Second So
nata for Violin and Piano" by
Charles Ives.
American ‘Hybrid’
American music has, what he
• Campus Briefs
0 An important meeting of the
entertainment commission has been
scheduled for today at 7 p.m. in the
Student Union. Topics to be dis- 1
cussed include a change in the ex- i
change assembly hour, finance re
port, and a new faculty speakers
tour for the Portland schools.
0 News for the Campus Merry
Go-Round column should be turned
in to the Emerald Shack by 3 p.m.
Wednesday. The column will ap
pear on Thursday as usual.
• House lists for Duck Preview
Weekenu must be turned in to Mrs.
Golda P. Wickham's office in Em
erald hall by 9 a.m. today, accord
ing to Dorothy Kopp, women's
housing chairman.
• Inter-Fraternity Council will
meet today at 6:30 p.m. in the Stu
dent Union. Nomniation of officers
for the coming year will be held at
this time, Dick Morse, IFC presi
dent, said. Also slated is a discus
sion of rushing conditions.
^ Students who are planning
to re-apply for scholarship or who
are applying for them, must have
their applications in immediately,
the office of student affairs has
announced. The applications were
due Wednesday, but will still be
accepted in the student affair's
office.
0 University of Oregon Young
Republicans will meet tonight at
6:30 in the Student Union,
called, a "hybrid background.”
There are traces in it of Inca anu
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Aztec tribes, primitive Negro
tribes of Africa and early Amer
ica, the American Indian, and the
Western hillbilly. It contains, also,
the work of composers who arc
traditionist, modernist, experimen
talist, and those who belong to no
group, who Just write.
SU Personnel
Slate Meeting
Personnel committee will meet
today at 4 pm in Student Union
302 Subjects under discussion will
be selection of committee person
nel this spring term and a review
of the records of all Student Union
personnel. The results of the per
sonnel evaluation will be reviewed
and recommendations for next
year's program will be made. The
function of the program staff for
spring term will also be discussed.
Y Cabinet Sets
Retreat Friday
Old and new YWCA cabinet
members of the sophomore and up
per class commissions will attend
the annual spring term retreat Fri
day and Saturday at Kitson Spring,
Ore. A
Mrs. Gladys Lawther, regional
YW secretary, will attend to meet
the new cabinet and present ideas
from other schools for the YW pro
gram.
Purpose of the retreat, accord
ing to Mary Elizabeth McDowell,
director of the campus YW, is to
unite members around the purpose
of the Y, to get to know each oth
er through worship, discussion and
fun and to plan the program for
the coming year.
Cars will leave from Gerlinger
hall Friday at 2, 3, 4, and 5 p.m.
and return Saturday at 10 p.m.
Committee chairmen for the re
treat are Jane Simpson, arrange
ments and transportation; Cathy
Tribe and Barbara Keelen. pro
gram; Sally Hayden, food; Kath
ryn Holloway, work schedules, and
Kose Warner, worship
Officers Duties Revised
The Student Union Board voted
in favor of revising the duties of
the five officers of the Board as set
forth in the perpetuation plan of
the SU program, at_a meeting held
Wednesday afternoon.
Purpose of the change is to fur
ther enumerate and clarify the
duties of the officers, according to
Clyde Fahlman, chairman of the
board.
The motion also widened the re
sponisibities of the assistant chair
man to include handling petition
ing of chairmen of special events
committee and standing commit
tees and taking charge of election
mi chinery.
Position of the board members
was also set forth as “attend all
board meetings, serve on any spec
ial board committees . . . and to
take an active part in the SU pro
gram both as an adviser and as a
participant. The governing docu
ment formerly did r.ot include an
enumeration of the responsibilities
of board members.
A report submitted by Valerie
Cowls, chairman of the Creative
Arts Workshop special events
committee, was also considered.
Miss Cowls, in a report read by
Don Zavin, recommended that the
workshop committee be made a
standing committee under the di
rectorate to strengthen and unify
the Creative Arts program. Plan
ning and organization work would
be simplfied, Miss Cowls said. The
recommendation was tabled to be
reconsidered after the presenta
tion of the Creative Arts Work
shop in late May.
Robert Kubeck, chairman of the
recorded music committee, an
nounced the opening of a record
lending library in the SU Mon
day.
The date for the annual SU
Awards banquet was set for May
21. Awards for outstanding stu
dents in the SU program are pre
sented at the banquet.
Six vacancies are open on the
board, Fahlman announced. The
closing date for receiving petitions
is April 8. Vacancies include rep
resentatives from the college of
liberal arts, schools of law. phys
ical education, music, architecture
and allied arts, and graduate stu
dents.
Don Zavin, chairman of the
Career Day special events com
mittee, reported arrangements for
Career Day, to be initiated on April
14, were complete.
Welfare Official
Plans Interviews*
Margaret White, personnel di
rector for the state public welfare
commission, will be on campus all
day Wednesday to talk to seniors
interested in public welfare work
in Oregon.
Students planning to talk to
Miss White, should make appoint
ments to see her through Herbert
Bisno, assistant professor of so
ciology, whose office is Common
wealth 205.
Contract Awarded
For New Hospital
PORTLAND (.Pi—A contract
was awarded today for a 14-story
teaching hospital for the Univer
sity of Oregon medical school in
Portland. Construction will start
in two weeks, and the hospital
will be finished in 1955.
Bids for the building, wiring, ele
vators and heating totaled $4,
700,000. The Donald M. Drake
company of Portland got the
building contract for $3,085,000.
Scholarships Open To Women
Schiller New Prexy
Of Co-op Council
Elsie Schiller, Junior in journal
ism, was elected president of Co
ed council at the finat.winter term
meeting of the group. Patricia
Hahn, freshman in liberal arts,
was elected secretary for the com
ing year.
Co-ed Council is the governing
body of the three women's co
operative living organizations on
campus—University house. Rebec
house, and Highland house.
Retiring officers are president,
Pat Ward, senior in geology and
geography; and secretary, Louise
Matter, sophomore in music.
Freshmen and sophomore wom
en who plan to attend the Univer
sity next year are eligible to apply
for the Kwarn a and Phi Theta
scholarships, respectively, accord
ing to Nan Mimnaugh, Kwama
president.
Money for the awards is obtain
ed by the two organizations from
service projects held during the
year. An indefinite number of
scholarships will be given. Their
size will depend upon the number
given and the funds available.
Those students interested in ap
plying for the scholarships should
contact the office of Mrs. Golda P.
Wickham, associate director of
student affairs, in Emerald hall
as soon as possible.
HEXAGON ON CABLES
Inventor of Dymaxion
Is Art School Lecturer
R. Buclcinster Fuller, famed architect and inventor of the
Dymaxion house, will he a visiting lecturer at the architecture
and allied arts school for two weeks beginning Sunday.
Dymaxion is Fuller’s trade name for philosophy which "aims
to harness on a non-profit basis the maximum technological
— .resources for the greatest number
UN Nominates
Sec.-General
Associated Press
The way has been cleared for a
Swedish diplomat to take over as
United Nations secretary general.
He is Swedish Deputy Foreign
Minister Dag Hammarskjold.
His nomination came as a sur
prise. Russia and the Western
powers came out a meeting with
the recommendation that Ham
marskjold be given the S40,000-a
year, tax-free post which Trygve
Lie of Norway wants to quit. The
security council approved.
In Stockholm, Hammarskjold
said the news was a complete sur- !
prise to him. He added: "I had '
not the slightest warning of any
kind." Diplomats at the U.N. con
sider the agreement on a new sec
retary general a major break.
There had been strong feelings
that Russia and the West could
never agree on the subject. Many
diplomats felt that if the problem j
of a new secretary general could
be solved, a break on greater issues
may follow.
Asked in Stockholm how he i
thinks he will get along with the 1
Russians, Hammarskjold replied,
i "I hope to get along with them all.
It is quite an essentia] part of my
! job.”
He must still be approved by the
U.N. assembly, but that will be a
formality.
Oratorical Contest!
Open for Seniors j
Graduating seniors have been I
urged to try out for the annual!
Failing-Beekman Senior Oratorical
contest by W. A. Dahlberg, asso
ciate professor of speech.
Three cash awards ranging from
$50 to $125 are given to winners
| of the contest. Five Eugene towns
people will serve as judges for the
contest to be held Friday evening,
June 12.
Subjects for the oration may be
selected from the contestant’s own
field of interest. All seniors, re
gardless of their major field, are
eligible. The speech is to be from
12 to 15 minutes in length.
For further information and help
in the preparation of the speech,
applicants are asked to contact
Dahlberg in Villard 210.
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of people.” The Dymaxion hoii«e,
designed in 1927, is a hexagon
shaped building hung on cables.
Fuller invented a Dymaxion
automobile and patented a Dymax
ion map projection in 1944. He
recently completed the installation
of a 90-foot dome for the rotunda
of the Ford Motor company in De
troit, Mich.
Fuller will bring with him a
36-foot geodesic dome which will
be erected on the campus and
used by the architect in conducting
a research problem on spherical
trussing for architecture students.
Twenty students will be selected
to work with Fuller on a special
project during his visit. He wi/1
also conduct three seminars at the
school on "energetic geometry.” A
lecture, title to be announced, will
be given in the Science building
amphitheater Thursday, April 9 at
8 p.m.
Fuller has recently been a visr
iting lecturer at such Eastern
schools as Yale university and
Massachusetts Institute of Te'cb
nclogy. He has also created a sys
tem of mathematics which will
probably be discussed at one of
the seminars, S. W. Little, dean of
the architecture and allied arts
school, has announced.
Campus Calendar
Noon Aren <fe Arts 111 SU
Phi Beta 112 SU
1 p.m. WSSF 113 SU
4:00 Panhell Exec 111 SU
6:30 IFC Coun 112 SU
Young Repubs 113 SU
7:00 Eta Mu Pi 110 SU
ASUO Ent Com 315 SU
7:15 YMCA Cab 319 SU
7:30 Chess Club 111 SU
HEILIC 4 9*!i
NOW PLAYING
"Last of the Comandoes"
Broderick Crawford
Nancy Hale
—also-—
"Strange Fascination"
with
Hugo Haas - Cleo Moore
STARTS SUNDAY
"I Love Melvin"
with
Donald O’Connor
Debbie Reynolds
STARTS THURS., APRIL 9
"Redhead From Wyoming"
Maureen O’Hara -Alex Nicol
also
"Girls in the Night"
with
Joyce Holden - Glenda Farrell
NOW PLAYING
Tyrone Power
"Mississippi Gambler"
STARTS SUNDAY
"Tight Little Island"
Basil Radford *
Catherine Lacey
STARTS THURS.. APRIL 9
"La Roride"