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AL KARR, Editor BILL BRANDSNESS, Business Manager
PAT GILDEA, ELSIE SCHILLER, Associate Editors
KITTY FRASER, LAURA STURGES. Editorial Assistants
Wilson—An Excellent Man
Will O. Meredith Wilson be the next president of the Univer
sity of Oregon? If so, the state board of higher education would
be making an excellent choice.
Salt Lake City’s Deseret News-Telegram reported Saturday
night that Wilson, now' a top executive with the Ford founda
tion’s Fund for the Advancement of Education, is the “leading
candidate’’ for the presidency. The Oregonian Sunday said the
state board is expected to name Wilson president when it meets
in Portland Monday and Tuesday (the Tuesday meeting being
the official one, when such a decision would likely be made.)
Wilson, now secretary of the Ford fund, was formerly pro
fessor of history and dean of liberal arts at the University of
Utah. A graduate of Brigham Young university in history,
his teaching experience includes being assistant professor
of history at BYU, the same at Utah and the University of
Chicago, associate dean of the college and associate professor
at Chicago, professor of history and dean of the school of arts
and sciences at Utah, and dean of the university college at
Utah.
Wilson’s Ph.D. (in history) was obtained at the University of
California in 1943, after study at the University of Heidelberg
and the University of London.
From what we have been able to learn about Owen Meredith
Wilson from Who’s Who in America and the articles carried
Sunday by the Oregonian, Journal, and Register-Guard, Wil
son’s record appears to be outstanding. He has had important
teaching positions in history at BYU, Chicago, and Utah, and his
work with the Ford foundation’s education fund indicates that
he has since added valuable administrative experience to that’
gained at Chicago and Utah.
It is somewhat unique that here might be a high official in
the Ford foundation program going to a university, when the
trend, if any, seems to be for university officials to go to such
programs. Oregon’s H. K. Newburn, for example, president
until last Sept. 16, resigned his position to become director of
the foundation’s center for educational television and radio.
So if the state board is able to get Wilson to accept the UO
presidency, and selects him for that post, possibly in its meet
ing Tuesday, it will have engineered something of a twist to
the current trend.
From what we know of Wilson’s record, as indicated above,
we strongly hope that the board chooses him as the next presi
dent of the University of Oregon.
Sneak
Sows
•Will Cornwallis surrender? Will Washington cross the Deleware?
Don’t cut class tomorrow or you’ll miss the answers to these and
other exciting questions.”
Letters to the Editor
A Worthy Cause?
Emerald Editor:
As we in a University or a
juvenile detention*" home? For
the past week there has been
little chance for relaxation or
sleep—let alone studying. The
parade of idiots has been trav
eling by in an endless proces
sion.
The University student body
has gone all out for the su
preme cause—electing “Betty
Co-ed and Joe College.” Is the
cause worthy of the effort? A
group of th« so-called “future ,
leaders of America’’ stumbling
down the street screaming
some moronic chant is an odd
example of college youth.
During the last school year
this same idiotic behavior never
ended. Is rational behavior a
character of the past? Why
couldn’t this ceaseless energy
find its way to the sports field,
where it seldom is seen, or else
Into the classroom, where it
could Be used?
Name withheld by request
-The Looking-Gta88
See How They Run' Judged
A Generally Good Farce
By Toby McCarroll
Emerald Critic
"Sec How They Run’*
A farce in three acts by Philip Kini
... Featuring: Joella Wood (Ida), and Judy
EUefson (Skillton). With: Paul ten Hove,
Ben Schmidt, Dave Parkhurst, and Patrick
Henry.
Directed by Horace Robinson. Set by
Howard Ramey .Length: 2 hrs. and 20
min. Remaining dates: Oct. 27, 28, 29,
30. 31. University Theater.
It is readily admitted that it is
difficult to write a farce. A good
farce captures those idiotic
thoughts we all have that place
things in extremes, perhaps it
is all the more enjoyable be
cause we can recognize some of
our own ideas.
Vicar Toop
Mrs. Toop ...
Clive Winton
Loretta Mason
.Harry Smith
Wade Eaton
The writer of
a farce has a
problem above
I j u s t putting
■down funny
■ideas; he has to
Ithink of some
[way to end the
play. I some
(times wish that
tie farce writ
ers would not
rationalize their way back to
realities or endings and just
leave us in the realm of the
fantastic.
“See How They Run” Is a
generally good farce. The bas
is plot concerns the affairs of
an English Vicarage, an un
usual English Vicarage. The
vicar is proper, his wife is an
American actress (but the
niece of a Bishop). There is
an ancient maiden, an alert and
love struck maid, an old friend
of the wife, and various oth
er assorted stereotypes.
The play is a series of situa
tions, between the wife and her
friend, the vicar and the old
maid, the bishop and the world
at large. The center portion of
the play concerns a large case of
mistaken identities where no one
knows anyone - and everyone
wishes to be someone else. Then
a Russian spy is introduced and
all the dramaturgical problems
Dougherty Compiles
Themes of Juniors
David M. Dougherty, head of
the foreign language department,
together with two “previous Ore
gon instructors, Rene L. Picard
and Loretta A. Wawrzyniak, is
editor of the recent publication,
‘Year Abroad.”
This illustrated book contains
themes written by the students
gvho spent their junior year abroad
during 1946-47. At this time
Dougherty was director of the
g^oup of 40 students. The themes
riew the personal experiences and
impressions of the students while
abroad.
are “solved” by the ringing of
the church bells (making the
Russian think that the revolu
tion had come. He raised his
arm in salute, was tickled and1
dropped his gun—ugh!
Outside of these last moments*
when rigor mortis sets in, the
play is relaxing and amusing.!
The situations are sometimes;
overdone, but there are many
clever lines, and some others
that the playwright thought to
be funny.
Both Miss Mason and Mr.
Smith did admirable Jobs in :
their roles. On Saturday night j
there were ocassionaily lags
and fmlterings, but nothing too
serious. Mr. Eaton was gen
erally bad, but he did not de
tract too much from the play '
and was even Interesting and j
enjoyable in a couple of scenes j
—good enough to make me 1
think he was playing far be- |
low his ability.
Miss Ellefson was generally j
excellent and did much to set
and advance the tempo of the
production. The rest of the cast
was adequate, with one excep
tion, Mr, Schmidt’s gesturing
reminded one of a kangaroo with
palsy, and there is nothing I can
think of that resembles his de
livery. Having seen Mr. Schmidt
in several other plays, I would
say he turned in a normal per
formance.
Mr. Ramey's set is one of
the best he ha9 ever put on
the University Stage.
This was not as well polished
as most of Mr. Robinson’s pro- ‘
ductions, but the performance
(at least Saturday night) had
enough funny moments to make
it recommendable.
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At lend Confab
An all-time record of 725 high
ichool publications’ staff members
ind advisers met on the University
)f Oregon campus last Friday and
Saturday for the 27th annual Ore
gon high school press conference.
“There’s no such thing as use
css information,’ Robert Frazier,
Eugene Register-Guard political
staff writer, told the group at the
iraditional candlelight banquet
Friday evening in the Student Un
on ballroom. Drawing from his
personal experiences as a reporter,
Frazier spoke on the topic "You
Have to Know Something About
Everything.”
Students heard Anita Holmes,
»x-editor of the Emerald and now
with the Redmond Spokesman, re
late her experiences as a reporter
for 18 months with the Washing
Ion Post. Miss Holmes spoke at
the breakfast meeting Saturday
morning.
"Advertising offers a standard
of living the like of which has
never been seen before on this
earth," said Harry C. McClain,
advertising director of the Port
land Oregon Journal. Speaking at
the concluding luncheon of the
conference Saturday, he said that
‘selling and advertising are the
two greatest professions on earth.”
The annual high school news
paper improvement awards went
to the Milwaukian of Milwaukie
high school, the Crater Comments
of Crater high school (Central
Point) and the Imbler Hl-Llfe of
imbler high school. Mrs. Margaret
Knispel of Hillsboro was elected
president of the Oregon Associa
tion of Journalism Advisers.
Oregana Begins
Men's Pictures
Men’s living organization pic
tures will be taken at Kennell-El
liss beginning with Alpha Tau
Omega and Beta Theta Pi today,
Janet Bell, living organizations
editor, announced.
Both fraternities are scheduled
for 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Complete
days are being given to the larg
er fraternities to allow more men
to fit into the time schedule, Miss
Bell said.
Attire will be suits, preferably
of a dark tone, and ties of solid
color are urged by Miss Bell to
create uniformity.
Eugene freshmen men not liv
ing in dormitories may have their
picture appear on the page of the
fraternity with which they are af
filiated. Eugene freshmen men who
are living in dormitories may have
pictures on either the fraternity
or dormitory page.
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