1876-1951
OCTOBER ff 1951
The OLD OREGON departs from its usual style and ap-
pearance to commemorate the University of Oregon's
seventy-fifth anniversary year. In these pages is given a
picture of the University yesterday and today. Articles
in this special edition were written by George Turnbull,
emeritus dean of the School of Journalism.
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9wnt the
President---
President H. K. Newburn
Seventy-five years ago this fall, the University of
Oregon first opened its doors to students. Today that
same institution, having drawn sustenance from its
many friends and supporters, is an educational asset
of which the state may well be proud.
It is interesting in retrospect to consider the de-
velopment of the University against the background
of a young, progressive frontier state. That first stu-
dent body, a quarter of a century ago, numbered 177,
of whom 97 were in the college preparatory depart-
ment. A faculty of five persons handled all instruc-
tion.
Today the University has a student body of 4500
in Eugene in addition to the professional enrollment
in Portland. The peak enrollment on the Eugene
campus was 6,148 for fall term 1948. The teaching
faculty now numbers approximately 350 with an
additional 75 in Portland and a like number of em-
ployees in the service areas.
During the first 10 years, the University was one
building?sturdy old Deady Hall?plus a few acres
of land. Today the Eugene campus alone spreads
over 130 acres and includes 34 permanent buildings.
In the first years of its existence, the University oper-
ated on an income of approximately $6,700. Today
the annual payroll is nearly $3,500,000.00.
In another area, it is also interesting to note the
change which seventy-five years has brought. Stu-
dents entering the University in the early days had
two courses of study from which to choose?a class-
ical and a scientific program. Oregon's young men
and women of today have opportunities in nine pro-
fessional areas as well as an exceptionally strong
program in the liberal arts and sciences.
While these changes in the physical structure of
the institution are interesting to consider, it is per-
haps even more significant to note that the ideals
and aims of the institution have remained virtually
unchanged from the days of President Johnson and
Dean Condon. The devotion to the principle of free
inquiry, of respect only for the first-rate and of doing
well that which is undertaken is as strong today as it
was seventy-five years ago. The institution was
founded to give educational leadership to the state.
It retains that goal and provides in addition a myriad
of other services.
The aim of the University's program is described
in one of the early catalogs as follows: "To cultivate
the mind in a general way by disciplining the facul-
ties, to make the young strong in intellect, to give
them acute, polished, well-balanced minds. If this
disciplinary work is well-accomplished, the mind
may afterwards be applied to any subject, to the
study of any profession, art, or business, and it will
be able to work with precision, ease, and power."
The University's program of today is built much
upon the same general concept. The emphasis on a
broad, well-rounded education as a foundation for
professional study and for developing ablier and
more useful citizens is the heart of the University's
program.
The achievements of the past, often completed un-
der adverse conditions and against formidable ob-
stacles, pose a challenge and a solemn obligation for
all of us. It is fitting, therefore, that upon this occa-
sion we not only honor those persons who have made
this University what it is today, but that we reex-
amine our goals and rededicate ourselves to the aims
and ideals which inspired and guided our prede-
cessors.
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THREE QUARTERS of a century of
material, and spiritual development of
our state: such is the record of the Uni-
versity of Oregon. The beginnings, neces-
sarily, were small, for the young state
was thinly populated and struggling; the
way upward lay through mountainous
difficulties that tried the courage of the
tiny University's friends.
But the spirit rose above all obstacles.
A little accord planted in hope and faith
has become the sturdy educational oak
of today. The story of the University so
ver\ briefly sketched in these pages con-
vinces even the rapid reader that the
struggle was by no means confined to
the early years; it has taken a steadfast
spirit to build the institution in the face
of one crisis after another.
Tremendous progress is shown, from
the small, struggling school of 1876 to
the rapidly expanding University of
1951, whose further advance is a bright
vision. Those who paved the way and laid
the foundations that made this possible.
Accordingly, this number of OLD ORE-
GON is dedicated to those pioneer men
and women whose foresight and hard
work and devotion brought the Univer-
sity into being, and to those sons and
daughters of Oregon who, through the
years, have given of their best to build
the University and to increase and im-
prove its service to the commonwealth.
Some few of them, such as those who
made the losing fight in the constitutional
convention to have provision made for a
state university, go back close to a full
century. The thinking then was not com-
plicated by rivalry springing from the
desire of any particular city to have the
institution located there.
Faculty members are included in the
group to whom gratitude is felt; in times
of stress the) gave themselves with in-
creased devotion and sacrifice to the work
to which they had consecrated their lives.
We of the University today are appre-
ciative of the contribution of those who
served in difficult days of privation.
Their place in memory is lasting; for the
strength of a great state must be based
on the educated integrity of its people.
I
The institution's history is one of an upward struggle
from pioneer beginnings to effective maturity today
with ever-growing service to the commonwealth
IN THE PIONEER days, higher educa-tion was handled entirely by small but
well conducted private institutions, which
are credited with having made the most
of what they had to work with. With a
handful of population, mostly in the Wil-
lamette valley, the need for a public in-
stitution of higher education was nol
strongly felt.
It was thirteen years after Oregon
came in as a state before the legislature
did anything about establishing a stale
university. In 1872, a Eugene group re-
ceived assurance from the legislative as-
sembly that the university would be
established there if a site were provided
free and a building costing $50,000 were
erected on it. The hard times accompany-
ing the panic of '73 made the raising of
the needed funds most difficult. Finally,
all obstacles were overcome and a partly
completed building was opened on the
eastern outskirts of Eugene. This, rough-
ly, was the pioneer background.
The little university opened October
16, 1376, with a faculty of five, headed
by John W. Johnson, Portland high
school principal, as president. The John-
son administration, lasting until 1893,
ivas one of poverty, deprivation, sacrifice,
hard work, with great emphasis on schol-
arship, no student extracurricular activi-
ties aside from the literary societies, but
a fine esprit de corps in faculty and stu-
dents. Rudimentary departments of law,
music, and medicine were established in
this period; but all had virtually to be
reborn years later.
# * *
The second period, one of determined
efforts at modernization and broadening,
opened with the installation of Dr.
Charles H. Chapman as president, in
1893. First off-campus lectures by fac-
ulty, first real graduate work with the
master's degree earned in course, first
correspondence courses, first summer
classes held, the first dormitory (Friend-
ly hall) opened, first student paper
launched, first football game played, first
track team organized?such were some
of the achievements that marked these
few years in the mid-nineties. The ad-
ministration of frank Strong, 1899-
1902, saw the organization of the gradu-
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John Wesley Johnson, first president ofthe University of Oregon.
ate school; the time was too short to
encompass many changes. Financial sup-
port was heavily increased to keep up
with accelerated growth.
In this period three colleges were es-
tablished?one of literature, one of sci-
ence and the arts, and one of engineer-
ing, including a school of applied sci-
ence, a school of engineering, and one
of mines and mining. Collegiate courses
preparatory to law, journalism and
teaching were installed.* # *
The longest administrative regime in
the history of the University was that of
President Prince Lucien Campbell (1902-
1925). This was the period in which the
institution became, in its main outlines,
what it is today. Virtually all the profes-
sional schools either were established in
those years of development or were so
rapidly reorganized as to amount to their
beginning anew. This was at the same
time a period of struggle for adequate re-
sources and for maintenance of the in-
tegrity of the institution. Both of these
aims were achieved. In the Campbell ad-
ministration the University passed from
the status of the small school, with its
loose-jointed efficiency, a place where
everybody knew everybody else, to the
size where little but within-a-group ac-
quaintanceship was practicable. Closer
relations with the people of the state and
greater service through the new Exten-
sion Division characterized this period.
* * *
A time of reorganization, in which de-
velopment was accomplished despite un-
favorable conditions both within and
without Oregon higher education, fol-
lowed in the administrations of Presi-
dents Arnold Bennett Hall, and C. Valen-
tine Boyer. (1926-38). The reorganiza-
tion of the state system brought the resig-
nation of Dr. Hall. One phase of the re-
organization was the removal of upper-
division science from the University. An
effort to combine O.S.C. and the Univer-
sity of Oregon on the Corvallis campus
was voted down by the people.
After a year and a half, during which
the new chancellor of the state system,
Dr. W. J. Kerr, personally directed the
administration of the University, Dr. C.
Valentine Boyer was elected sixth presi-
dent. Dr. Boyer steered the institution
smoothly through one of its most diffi-
cult periods. A high spot and most diffi-
cult moment for President Boyer was the
occasion when he had to cast the decid-
ing vote that prevented the faculty from
ending military instruction on the Uni-
versity campus.
* * *
Dr. Donald Milton Erb became the
third war president of the University.
Pearl Harbor changed the entire tone of
the institution during his administration.
Virtually every able-bodied male student
and many of the faculty joined the armed
forces. Army and Air Force training
units were stationed on the campus.
President Erb was successful in his policy
of persuading the state board to restore
upper-division and graduate science to
the University.
It is rather early for history to decide
what are the main characteristics of the
University under the administration of
President Harry K. Newburn. Up to now,
certainly, it ranks as the period of great-
est development in the physical plant of
the University; it is also a period of
faculty reorganization.
Left to right: Judge J. J. Walton, Judge Matthew P. Deady, and B. F. Dorris, prominent Eugene citizens who joined the legislative
and financial struggle for establishment of the University.
The First Difficult Days
THE MOVEMENT for higher educa-
century ago when, in 1851, the territorial
legislature began considering public edu-
cation beyond the high school. In the
previous year Congress, in the Donation
Land act. granted the usual two town-
ships (46.080 acres) to the territory of
Oregon, then including what three years
later was cut off to form the new Wash-
ington territory. (After the separation,
Congress revised its action, to give two
townships to each of the young common-
wealths.) The Oregon legislature that
year provided for the selection and loca-
tion of these lands. They were ineffici-
ently managed, and the returns proved
disappointing; University funds, derived
from the sale of these granted lands, had
been lent on poor security. Meanwhile,
in 1851, the legislature, distributing the
institutions of the territory among its
larger towns, handed the university to
Corvallis (then known as Marysville),
the penitentiary to Portland, and the
state capital to Salem. Later legislation
awarded the university to Jacksonville,
then the most important town in south-
ern Oregon. Of all these, Salem was the
only one that finally landed its prize.
* # *
In the constitutional convention of
1857, looking ahead to early statehood,
came the expected battle over the ques-
tion of providing for a state university.
Judge R. P. Boise of Salem headed the
fight for the provision; and Judge Mat-
thew P. Deady, later one of the strongest
friends of the LIniversity and chairman
of its board of regents, opposed it. Boise
lost when his minority report from the
committee that had turned down the proj-
ect was defeated. Judge Deady in a letter
to a friend, written in 1851, had shown
his preference for private educational in-
stitutions, saying:
"... I am sorry it will not be in my
power to meet you on Saturday next to
expose this humbug about the university.
. . . You know that this university if ever
built will not come into existence for fif-
teen or twenty years. At least, when it
does commence, you also know that in-
stitutions of this kind under supervision
of the state always languish while other
institutions in the same neighborhood
fostered and cherished by the zeal of re-
ligious bodies or private enterprise soon
leave them in the shade."
This expression continued to represent
substantially Judge Deady's attitude as
expressed in the constitutional conven-
tion. In that gathering he favored paro-
chial over public schools even at the ele-
mentary level. The convention, voting
that way, regarded universities as for the
rich only. Judge Boise's reasonable argu-
ment that a state university would favor
the poor?probably because its fees
would be much lower than those of pri-
vate schools drawing no tax support?
failed to sway the delegates. Congress
was asked to divert the university fund to
public school purposes, but the conven-
tion voted that this money be not utilized
until ten years after the adoption of the
constitution.
* # *
Then, in 1862, Congress passed the
Morrill act giving each state 30,000 acres
of land for each of its senators and repre-
sentatives in Congress, to found an insti-
tution providing education for agricul-
ture and the mechanic arts. After eight
years this money was allocated to the col-
lege at Corvallis controlled by the Meth-
odist Church South. This marked the be-
ginning of the Oregon State Agricultural
College.
Meanwhile, interest was reviving in the
state university project. Governor Grover
suggested that the lands earmarked for
the university be relocated. Before the
convening of the 1872 session of the state
legislature, 10,935 acres was deeded and
bonded by the general land office and the
university endowment raised from $10.-
055.09 to $41,979.74. Well beyond the
ten-year period provided in the consti-
tution, the matter of locating and estab-
lishing a state university was taken up
again in the early seventies.
Of Oregon's 90,923 people in 1870,
two-thirds were in the Willamette valley.
Even in this area the population was
sparse. Obviously, any higher educa-
tional institution established in the young
state was going to have to start very
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small. A real problem at first, indeed,
was to get it started at all.
Oddly enough, a visit of President T.
F. Campbell of the Monmouth institution
to Eugene to line up support for his
school had the effect of arousing Eugene
people to a realization previously lacking
of the importance of a state university to
a town, and soon Eugene itself was in the
field. Eugene had had its own Columbia
College, a struggling school which had
come to an untimely death in Civil War
days. (Poet Joaquin Miller was one of its
early prep students.)
Five Eugene men, after a session to
discuss plans for getting the new univer-
sity located in their town, decided to or-
ganize a campaign, and the result was
formation of the Union University As-
sociation. These men?B. F. Dorris, S.
H. Spencer, John H. Thompson, Judge
J. J. Walton, and John C. Arnold?with
W. J. J. Scott, J. B. Underwood, J. J. Corn-
stock, A. S. Patterson, E. L. Applegate,
F. L. Bristow, and Dr. A. W. Patterson?
incorporated the association with a capi-
tal stock of $50,000. This group pre-
sented a bill in the legislature in Septem-
ber, 1872, to permit the backers of Eu-
gene to provide a site there and to erect
a building worth $50,000. to be ready by
January 7, 1874. After a stiff battle, the
bill was passed.
The situation, however, was still none
too promising. The Eugene group was
committed to donation of the site and
building, but the panic of 1873 was "just
around the corner." Times were hard,
and money was tight. The promoters of
the university idea were to discover what
a lot of money $50,000 was in those bare
pioneer days. There were already seven
chartered colleges in the young state,
and some of that group opposed actively
all efforts to establish a non-denomina-
tional public university.
To begin with, the bill to locate the
university at Eugene was opposed as un-
constitutional, since no provision had
been made for the institution. With that
hurdle surmounted, the friends of the
project ran into opposition at home.
Many in the southern part of Lane (Eu-
gene's own) county feared the effect of a
university at Eugene on a county-divi-
sion plan they were agitating. The county
court, which had voted a $20,000 bond
issue, leaving $30,000 to be raised by
subscription, rescinded its action, leav-
ing the friends of the enterprise to raise
the entire amount by private subscrip-
tion?and this at a time when the farm-
ers' wheat prices were away down.
No individual gift to the fund was in
excess of $500, and donations ran as low
as $5. Eugene, center and backbone of
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the campaign, had 1,100 population. A
wide variety of fund-raising enterprises
was undertaken, in addition to just pass-
ing the hat. Probably $1,000 came in
from such things as Ladies' Aid socials,
a burlesque performance by a traveling
troupe, strawberry festivals. Glass for
the doors and windows of the Univer-
sity's building was provided with funds
raised by school children. Names of the
young donors included Dorris, Friendly,
Goodpasture, Hendricks, Walter, Winter,
and Young. These youngsters grew up
into substantial citizens, and virtually all
of them later studied in the University
they had helped to launch.
The building. 122x57 feet, three stor-
ies high, with mansard roof, was started
May 7, 1873, when excavation was be-
gun for the basement. A real emergency
was faced when money ran out before the
roof had been put on. The same spirit
that had carried the project thus far
saved it in this instance.
But it was still a mere shell of a build-
ing when the 1874 legislative session
opened. Determined opposition was
faced, but the legislators put through
friendly Governor Grover's suggestion
that two years more be granted the Union
University Association to complete the
building. Forty-six canvassers were ap-
pointed after a Eugene mass meeting;
farmers donated wheat, calves, little pigs,
boxes of apples, which, with the inde-
fatigable Judge Walton doing the ped-
dling, large and small, were sold to Mr.
Hendricks and other helpful merchants.
It wasn't quite enough, and county aid
was sought in vain. Then Mechanics'
liens were filed against the building,
which was scheduled to open within a
few months; the president-elect (Dr.
Thomas M. Gatch) and one of the pro-
fessors (Arnold) resigned. Things looked
black.
Again W. J. J. Scott stepped into the
breach. He and J. E. Holt assumed the
remaining $5,000 indebtedness, and the
long, hard fight was won. The building,
with a roof on it and six rooms ready on
the first floor, was free of debt. So it
was found possible to open the new Uni-
versity October 16, 1876.
The University of Oregon was at first,
of course, strictly a one-building insti-
tution. So this one building, with its
brick walls three feet thick for the base-
ment and two feet the rest of the way?
built to last if any building ever was?
had no distinctive name until 1893. Then
the board of regents, on motion of A. G.
Hovey, christened it Deady hall, in honor
of the late president of the board?who
had had to be converted to the wisdom
of public higher education in Oregon.
Top: Thomas G. Hendricks, prominent
Eugene citizen who became a member of
the first board of regents. Center: Henry
Villard, railway magnate, whose financial
aid prevented a University crisis. Bottom:
S. H. Friendly, who joined Eugene citi-
zens in the fight for a university.
High standards and financial support
occupied the administration
of President John W. Johnson
Officials, faculty, and students of the newUniversity gather at Deady Hall on
Founder's Day, 1876.
THE NEW University of Oregon was
October, 1876, when a small group of
students crossed the threshold of that un-
finished building in the old wheatfield,
which many years later was to be chris-
tened Deady hall. Of the 177 students
who registered in the first year, 98, or
considerably more than half, were
"preps" taking high school subjects, for
which almost no public provision had
been made in Oregon up to that time.
There were six faculty members.
Two years later, in June 1878, five stu-
dents received from President Johnson
the first diplomas granted by the Univer-
sity of Oregon. The five were Robert
Sharp Bean, later to be chief justice of
the supreme court of Oregon and after-
ward federal district judge and chairman
of the board of regents; Ellen Condon
(who as Mrs. McCornack wrote a full-
length biography of her geologist father,
Dr. Thomas Condon) ; George S. Wash-
burne, Matthew S. Wallis, and John C.
Whiteaker, governor's son. Judge Bean
and Mrs. McCornak were initiated into
Phi Beta Kappa when the national hon-
orary scholastic fraternity was installed
on the Oregon campus forty-five years
later.
? * *
That June day of 1878 was a proud
day for the little class, the new faculty,
and the group of parents and friends
gathered for the first commencement ex-
ercises.
When the University opened, Portland
was the only city in the state supporting
a public high school. Secondary-school
subjects were taught in several private
academies. Ten years later the number
of students in the young University had
only increased to 194, with the perrent-
Scnola rsh ip,
rigid discipline
mark the opening years
age of "preps" even higher than at the
opening. Real growth had not yet started.
That first faculty was a highly capable
group of hard, conscientious scholars.
John Wesley Johnson, the president, was
a Missourian who as a lad of 13 had
driven his family's ox team across the
plains to Oregon. Thirsting for educa-
tion, he managed to get himself four
years of intensive study at Yale. With his
rather skimpy Oregon educational back-
ground, the lad from the far west was
not quite ready for Yale; but his long
trip from Oregon betokened a serious
purpose that aroused the sympathetic in-
terest of the faculty at New Haven, and
young Johnson was admitted. His record
at Yale was brilliant; and his Oregon stu-
dents recalled his mastery of the Latin
classics, which made it possible for him
to teach them with a minimum of refer-
ence to a textbook. Before being called
to the University he had been the first
principal of Portland's first high school
and instrumental in developing a high
school curriculum for Oregon.
Johnson was a strict but fair disciplin-
arian, and he enjoyed the full respect of
his students and the fear of those dis-
posed to idleness. He was a conscientious,
orthodox Baptist and an outspoken Dem-
ocrat. This outspoken Democracy on the
part of the head of the state University
didn't particularly delight members of
the board of regents, most of whom had
other political ideas, and occasionally
Chairman Deady would have "a good,
plain talk with President Johnson"?
which accomplished very little.
President Johnson's great problem was
the scant financial support available.
This, indeed, has been almost equally
true of all his successors: but in his case
the situation really came close to the
brink of disaster. Returns from the land
grant were disappointing, with the earn-
ings of the small cash endowment also far
below expectations. How Henry Villard,
Northern Pacific Railroad magnate,
came to the rescue of the University in
1881, when, with judgments against the
property, writs of execution were in the
hands of the sheriff, is a story well known
to all the old-timers?and one that should
never be forgotten in Oregon. There
should always be a Villard hall on this
campus.
# * *
Mr. Villard paid $7,000 of the
S8.181.89 outstanding, and the citizens
paid the rest. (Dr. H. D. Sheldon in his
History of the University of Oregon says
he believes it is perhaps not justified to
say that Mr. Villard prevented the clos-
ing of the University, and that probably
the local forces interested in the Univer-
sity would somehow have saved it; there
is no certain evidence of this, and Dr.
Sheldon's superb confidence is open to
some question.)
* * #
Nor should the contributions of a de-
voted faculty be overlooked. Judge Law-
rence T. Harris '96, who himself goes
back as a student to the Johnson period,
writing in this magazine, January 1927.
said of this: "President Johnson and all
members of the faculty sacrificed by serv-
ing at a reduction of 25 per cent of their
agreed salaries. . . . also contributed sub-
stantial sums from their salaries." In
1881, the president in a letter to an ab-
sent faculty member informed him
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(Judge Harris reports) of the $7,606
debt. "A writ of execution is now in the
hands of the sheriff against the grounds
and University building," he said. We
are liable to be sold out before September
if the creditors are not satisfied that the
mone\ will be raised to pay off the liens."
The citizens of Eugene had raised $3,400
at a mass meeting a few days before the
president wrote this letter. Of this, about
S2.000 was subscribed by members of the
small University staff, the president lead-
ing off with $600.
The whole of Johnson's administration
was a period of hardship. Fewer than
seventy students in all had been gradu-
ated through 1885, and no appreciable
progress could be achieved.
Serious intellectual atmosphere per-
vaded the institution, though the range
of its collegiate work was necessarily nar-
row. The president handled the classics.
His best-known faculty member was Pro-
fessor Thomas Condon, pioneer geolo-
gist, who handled, besides sciences, a
wide range of other subjects as needed on
the small staff from time to time. Mrs.
McCornack, his daughter, member of the
first graduating class, lists his subjects,
in addition to geology, as mineralogy,
botany, ethnology, rhetoric, history of
civilization, mental philosophy, interna-
tional law, constitution of the United
States. "The breadth of his scholarly in-
terests," she said in the biography of her
father published in 1928, "was such that
all of these studies had long been of deep
interest to him, and this made their teach-
ing a pleasure."
Mark Bailey. New Englander, gradu-
ate of Brown, had charge of mathematics.
A tall, impressive man, he was pious and
orthodox, he was as much interested in
his students' spiritual welfare as in their
intellectual development.
Mrs. Mary Spiller was in charge of the
preparatory department, with Miss Mary
Stone as assistant. Mrs. Spiller came from
Pacific University, Forest Grove, where
she had handled the same type of work.
Her first assistant was Miss Mary Stone.
The first addition to the faculty came
in 1878, when John Straub, young gradu-
ate of Mercersburg College, in Pennsyl-
vania, came as professor of Greek. He
was to remain in active connection with
the University for 52 years, holding, at
different times, the posts of secretary of
the faculty, dean of the college of litera-
ture, science and the arts, and dean of
men. The men's dormitory is named in
his honor. Through the years he became
the best-known member of the faculty
among the alumni and the citizenry in
general and one of the most popular with
his unfailing memory of names and faces.
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Two other outstanding educators?
George H. Collier, professor of physics,
and Thomas M. Gatch, professor of Eng-
lish, were added to the staff in 1879. Pro-
fessor Collier, Oberlin graduate, had
taught at Pacific and Willamette univer-
sities. He remained at the University un-
til 1895. Professor Gatch, who had been
the first selection for president of the
University, was added to the staff as pro-
fessor of English when President John-
son suffered an attack of ill health. The
understanding was. that should the presi-
dent be unable to continue, Mr. Gatch
would be moved into his position. Presi-
dent Johnson recovered, and Professor
Gatch left the staff, later becoming presi-
dent of the University of Washington
and, after that, of Oregon Agricultural
College. He already had been president
of Willamette.
John W. Johnson continued at the
head of the University until Io93. He re-
mained on the faculty as professor of
Latin for five more years, until his death
in Io98. His great contribution was the
upholding of high standards of scholar-
ship and student discipline. His regime
covered a period when not much promo-
tion or expansion was possible, and for
years it was a question of keeping the in-
stitution alive and doing the best pos-
sible with the meager resources at hand.
Notwithstanding his strictness?perhaps,
even, because of it?the first president
built up an admiring respect from his
students that amounted to affection. A
former student whom he had suspended
for misconduct, recalling the incident
many years after, remarked, "He was the
best friend I ever had."
The city of Eugene in 1876 when the University was founded.
The University faculty in 1891, headed by President John Wesley Johnson, (behinddesk). From left to right: Mark Bailey, mathematics; E. H. McAlister, astronomy and
engineering; George Collier, chemistry; Miss Luella Clay Carson, dean of women; MissPhilura Murch, assistant to Miss Carson; Edgar McClure, science; Thomas Condon,
zoology; John Straub, Latin, German, Greek; President Johnson; andBenjamin J. Hawthorne, psychology.
Early Dap
at theUniversity
Above: Villard Hall, second
University building, as it ap-
peared in 1900. The building
was completed in 1886.
Below: the first gymnasium,
located on the site of the pres-
ent art quadrangle, completed
in 1890.
Above: Members of the gradu-
ating class of 1890. The picture
was donated by Fletcher Lynn,
top. Beginning with mustached
George H. Marsh on the left end,
the first row consists of Clara
Condon, Horace McClure, Albert
G. Hovey, Lloyd E. Woodworth,
Agnes M. Greene, and Susan M.
Dorris. Second row includes, from
the left: Walter A. McClure, Jo-
seph M. Widmer, Arthur L. Vea-
zie, Fannie C. Condon, Lennah
Bain, Edward H. McAlister, and
James R. Greenfield.
Old Oregon
Literal Forces Take Hel
Elective studies are added to a rigid curriculum,
a graduate school and summer classes develop
m
THE ADMINISTRATION of Presi-
1898) was a period of liberalization. A
considerable list of elective studies were
added to the rigid curriculum then in
force. A native of Wisconsin, he had
taught mathematics at Johns Hopkins
for two years after receiving a doctor of
philosophy degree there.
Changes were due at the University on
his arrival. The institution had got out
of touch with the high schools and had
no definite standard of admission. In his
inaugural address President Chapman
urged development of the high school
system in the state. Among the changes
he instituted were a rule that the ad-
vanced classics should be taught as litera-
ture rather than grammar, and another
that science credit could not be given un-
less the student spent at least two-thirds
as much time in laboratory as in lectures
and recitations.
To help get the University in closer
touch with the people of the state he de-
veloped a lecture series which was the
forerunner of the work of the Extension
Division. In the field of English litera-
ture, these talks were given in Portland,
Salem, Astoria, Corvallis. Most of the
October 1951
lectures Dr. Chapman delivered himself,
with excellent reception. The first cor-
respondence course offered in Oregon,
another reflection of the Chapman poli-
cies, was offered in 1895, and within two
years courses were offered by mail also
in algebra, geometry, English grammar,
physical geography, ancient history,
modern history, and Latin. These were
given at the high school level.
Still another move to get the Univer-
sity better known and more serviceable to
the people was the offering of the first
summer classes. This precursor of the
regular summer sessions was given near
Seaside. In 1897 the regents announced
abolition of the first two years of the
preparatory course at the University.
This was the first step toward abolishing
the whole preparatory division of the
University, which was done seven years
later.
Three incidental events, not directly
connected with the curriculum, were the
playing of Oregon's first intercollegiate
football game, in 1894; organization of
the first track team, in 1895, and appoint-
ment of Luella Clay Carson as the first
dean of women, also in 1895.
Resignation of Dr. Chapman in 1898
Charles H. Chapman, left, whose adminis-
tration was one of liberalization following
that of J. W. Johnson. Right: Dr. Frank
Strong, third president of the University.
was not the result of any defect in his
general policies or educational ideals. He
did a great deal to increase the efficiency
of the University as an educative instru-
ment and to bring it into closer relation
with the people of the state. His stand-
ards were high. On the oLhcr hand, he
failed to achieve smoothness, in his pub-
lic relations, not always appreciating the
other fellow's point of view. In any event,
however, he left the institution much
stronger than he found it.
Dr. Frank Strong, third president,
though he remained only three years
(1899-1902), was a harmonizer and de-
voted his energies to strengthening
phases of the University which had
slipped back in the preceding two or
three years. Graduate work was strength-
ened with the organization of a graduate
school, with F. G. Young, professor of
economics and sociology, newly from
Johns Hopkins, as dean. Some reorgani-
zation was undertaken. Three colleges
were established?one of literature, and
one of science and the arts, and one of en-
gineering, including a school of applied
science, a school of engineering, and one
of mines and mining. Collegiate courses
preparatory to law, journalism, and
teaching were installed.
The new president was more system-
atic than his predecessor had been. Dr.
Chapman had had no regular secretarial
help, writing his own letters and perform-
ing the other chores ordinarily looked
after by a secretary. Dr. Strong obtained
the appointment of a combined registrar
and secretary to the president.
Dr. Strong inherited a divided faculty
?split almost evenly on the basis of their
respective attitudes toward President
Chapman. Tired of faculty wrangling, he
quit calling the antagonistic professors
together, employing instead a picked
group he called the academic council.
When some of the faculty men com-
plained, the regents directed that regular
monthly meetings of the faculty be held
and records kept. Opposition to som? of
Dr. Strong's progressive policies led to
his resignation. The friction came to a
head over a summer session for teachers
in Eugene. The regents refused to author-
ize the second of these sessions, after the
one had lost considerable money, unless
it should pay its own way. President
Strong accepted what was then a much
more attractive position, as chancellor of
the University of Kansas.
New Optimism and Expansion
PRINCE LUCIEN CAMPBELL,
longest term, twenty-three years, at the
helm, was sympathetic with the aims and
policies of both Dr. Chapman and Dr.
Strong. President Strong, indeed, had
tried to bring him to Eugene as professor
of philosophy and education. In methods,
however, the new president contrasted
sharply with both. Dr. Strong he re-
garded as lacking in patience in his deal-
ings with the regents, and Dr. Chapman's
whole attitude toward faculty, board, and
public lacked the smoothness that was
to characterize the relations of the new
executive in the face of even greater dif-
ficulties.
Prince L. Campbell, native of Mis-
souri had come to Oregon with his father,
Thomas F. Campbell, and had been grad-
uated, at 18. from Monmouth Christian
College, where his father was president.
For three years he served as an instructor
in the college, then took off for Harvard,
where he came under the influence of
some great teachers?A. S. Hill, rhet-
oric: Francis James Child, literature:
Josiah Royce, philosophy. Here he de-
veloped still further that serene optimism
which characterized his years at the Uni-
versity of Oregon, and he became at-
tached to the elective system of studies
installed by President Eliot. He inter-
rupted his course for one year to do some
newspaper reporting for the Kansas City
Star. He wrote for the paper a series of
articles promoting a park system and in
other ways encouraging the beautifying
of the city. This assignment from Colonel
William Rockhill Nelson, owner of the
Star, was particularly pleasing to one
who combined a love of beauty with a
penchant for planning.
While young Prince Campbell was
away at Harvard, Christian College at
Monmouth became a state normal school
without entirely changing its academic
nature. On his graduation from Harvard
he returned to the Monmouth institution,
then under the presidency of D. T. Stan-
ley, to teach psychology and history of
education and to lecture on pedagogy
and the classics. He was later to handle
Latin. English, physics, and chemistn.
From 1#89 he served as president of the
school until 1902, when the call came to
10
Prince L. Campbell guides the University of Oregon
through 23 years of academic and physical growth
bell was distinctly forward-looking.
When something went wrong, his big
question was, "What do we do now?"
He was disinclined to spend time and
energy looking back for responsibility
for mistakes except insofar as that might
be necessary in providing for the future.
It is hard to realize how small was the
University when President Campbell
took hold in 1902. Enrollment was about
200, annual budget $47,500. In his open-
ing address to the faculty he forecast the
great growth of the state and the Univer-
sity, saying: "Instead of our meagre
400.000 of population, we shall before
many years have a million; instead of
the comparatively small valuation of
81-10,000,000 we shall have from $300,-
000,000 to 8400,000,000. The people who
are coming to us are largely from the
great educational states of the Middle
West, accustomed to paying well for good
schools and content with nothing but the
best. The work of building up our educa-
tional system, as far as material resources
are concerned, should be comparatively
easy from this time on."
President Campbell lived to see the
population approximate the million he
had predicted and the property valuation
exceed a billion dollars. Enrollment in
the University of Oregon increased, dur-
ing his administration, nearly fifteen
fold, with the faculty as large as the en-
tire student body had been in 1902.
Mrs. George T. Gerlinger, who had op-
portunity for years while she was a regent
of the University to observe President
Campbell in action, commented on the
optimism of his viewpoint and the con-
sideration he always gave to every group
with which he worked. His abiding faith
in the inherent good sense and good con-
science of young people, and his firm be-
lief that they would rise to the bigness of
their challenge, stimulated even the most
unimaginative," she said.
The period was not only one of great
growth but also of struggle for the finan-
cial support needed to sustain the growth.
It seemed that the school was constantly
having to fight against determined op-
position. No fewer than four University
Old Oregon
Prince Lucien Campbell, whose admini-stration extended over 23 years of the Uni-
versity's history.
succeed Dr. Strong as head of the Uni-
versity of Oregon.
Meanwhile, at Monmouth, President
Campbell had become an effective devel-
oper of education in Oregon, working
through organization to carry out plans
for improvement and helping shape legis-
lation to bring them into being. He had
also demonstrated the generous nature
for which he was so much loved at the
University of Oregon. The story is told
of some personal loans that had his
banker worried; it turned out that the
money had been turned over to the col-
lege to provide for some pressing need.
The Oregon faculty were not unanim-
ously delighted to have their new presi-
dent come from a normal school. The
head of the chemistry department, in-
deed, resigned rather than try to do re-
search under a president with this normal
school background. The new head of
chemistry appointed by President Camp-
bell, it happened, was Professor Orin F.
Stafford, who, in a career of more than
forty years in the institution, did some
of the most useful chemical research ever
conducted in Oregon. President Camp-
appropriations were submitted to refer-
endum vote in President Campbell's first
ten years at the helm. One of these ap-
propriations (in 1912) was lost; the
other three (in 1906, 1908, 1913) were
carried.
This almost continuous battle for the
funds to carry on made maintenance and
planning difficult indeed, and the situa-
tion was confusing. But on the whole, the
favorable popular response did much to
strengthen the morale of faculty and stu-
dents.
The most significant victory in the long
battle for adequate support came in 1920.
when an initiative measure was carried
providing continuing millage taxes to ob-
viate practically exclusive dependence on
successive appropriations by the legisla-
ture. This measure was framed for the
support of all the several institutions of
Oregon's public higher educational sys-
tem. It provided for an annual appropri-
ation of 1.2 mills on the assessed valua-
tion of the state for the State College and
the University and an additional .06 mill
for the State Normal School at Mon-
mouth. Of the 1.2 mills, three-sevenths
was to go to the I niversitv and four-
sevenths to the College.
The campaign was effectively organ-
ized under the leadership of President
W. J. Kerr of O.S.C. and Colin V. De-
ment of the University. Printed matter
was circulated over the state, speakers
presented the institutions' case before
every possible public assemblage. The in-
itiative succeeded by a vote of more than
two to one, and adequate maintenance
and needed buildings were assured. New
buildings financed in whole or in part
from this increased appropriation were
the women s building ( Gerlinger hall).
Business Administration building, Con-
don hall (a classroom building ), a com-
bined Education and University High
School building, one for Journalism, and
an Art quadrangle (the old Commerce
building and the powerhouse radically
remodeled). More than a million dollars
from the new millage tax was spent on
these new buildings in the succeeding
five years.
Prior to this, a new library building
(now the home of the Law School) had
been completed (1907 I at a cost of $50,-
With no ROTC but plenty of campus mo-rale, the University rose to meet the World
War I emergency. Standing left to right:Lieutenant W. F. G. Thacher, personal
adjutant, Colonel John Leader, importedhead of the reserve officers' training camp,
with son John, and Colonel WilliamBowen, head of the Students Army Train-
ing Corps. Bulldog in the foreground isCol. Leader's mascot, "Bill." Other officers
are unidentified.
October 1951
000, and a frame dormitory, known as
Mary Spiller hall in honor of the first
woman member of the University faculty,
was opened. This dormitory was taken
down just a few weeks ago. A big wooden
building, at Thirteenth and University
street, was erected for a men's gymnas-
ium. The remaining half of it now houses
the men's pool. The little brick structure
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Foundation ror P roeress
Provisions for improved research, faculty retirement
characterized the administration of Arnold Bennet Hall
ARNOLD BENNETT HALL, whose
tober 1926 coincided with the celebra-
tion of the University's semicentennial,
was a man of educational vision and con-
structive capacity. A graduate of Frank-
lin College, in Indiana, where his father
was professor of Greek, he studied law
and political science at the University of
Chicago, receiving the degree of J.C.D.
After a )ear as an instructor in North-
western University, he became professor
of political science at the University of
Wisconsin. Nationally known for his pro-
motion of social science research, he took
a leading part in establishing the national
conference on the science of politics,
which met each summer at Dartmouth
College.
* * *
In his inaugural address at Eujene
President Hall outlined the cardinal poli-
cies of his administration?-emphasis on
research, departmental reorganization to
break down the artificial barriers be-
tween departments and increase coopera-
tion among faculty members in teaching
and research, adoption of faculty retire-
ment plan, and concerted efforts for the
improvement of teaching. He was most
successful in the research and retirement
programs. Results of efforts to promote
better teaching are hard to evaluate. Two
of the methods undertaken for a time
were the evaluation of instructors, partly
by their students, and the filing with the
registrar or copies of term examinations,
presumably for administration inspec-
tion when desired.
A personnel research bureau, under
Dr. Howard Taylor, head of the psychol-
ogy department, made a series of studies
aimed at the improvement of the examin-
ing process, the grading system, and the
advising of students.
* * *
President Hall was highly dissatisfied
with the tiny provision made for re-
search. He pointed out to his board of
regents that the three-tenths of one per
cent of University appropriations de-
voted to research work precluded any re-
spectable accomplishment. He followed
his inaugural address with many letters
and speeches directing attention to the
12
Arnold Bennet Hall, fifth University presi-dent, who sought improvement of research
and provisions for faculty retirement.
need, meanwhile working to interest big
eastern foundations. This was a continu-
ation of efforts by President Campbell
and Dean R. B. Dillehunt of the medical
school, and heavy contributions have
been made, from time to time. Allocation
of considerably more state funds to re-
search resulted in completion of several
important projects, including a crime
survey in Portland by the law school and
the sociology department, several eco-
nomic studies, and some investigations
into teacher supply and qualifications
and high school costs.
* * *
President Hall increased the pressure
on faculty members to carry on individ-
ual research projects. Cooperation in this
was well up to what could be expected
from a staff barely large enough to carry
on the regular teaching.
Funds needed for research were heav-
ily cut by the years of depression follow-
ing 1929. In 1932 the general research
set-up was made interinstitutional, with
a central research committee in charge.
This arrangement was discontinued and
the separate institutional graduate
schools re-established in 1946.
Dr. Hall lost no time in seeking action
on his plans for faculty retirement and
annuities. His motivation appears to have
been more heavily consideration for the
student than any strong desire to do
something for the faculty, though both
ideas were present. This really tied in
with his plans to improve teaching. He
believed the students should be protected
from such aging faculty members as for
one reason or another were unable to
keep up the quality of their teaching. In
1923 one of the last acts of the old U. of
0 board of regents before it was super-
seded b/ the new state board of higher
educaion was to establish a comprehen-
sive system of retirement allowances.
With 105 members of the faculty and ad-
ministration on permanent tenure par-
ticipating, salaries were raised 5 per cent
by the University, and 10 per cent of the
gross salary was then set aside as a spe-
cial fund to purchase annuity policies in
the Carnegie organization's Teachers' In-
surance and Annuity Association of
America. Retirement age was set at 70.
Several years ago the state of Oregon
passed a compulsory retirement law af-
fecting all its non-elected employees, who
were to retire at 65. This set ahead by
five years the retirement of many of the
teachers and other employees.
* ? it-
President Hall took the long view on
the development of the University. Dur-
ing his administration $193,000 was
spent on sites for future building expan-
sion, and some of the more recently
erected buildings, such as the Erb Mem-
erected buildings, such as the Erb Me-
morial Union, Carson hall (women's
dormitory), and the new science build-
ing, besides the power house and ware-
houses across the millrace, have been
built on land acquired during Dr. Hall's
regime.
Arnold Bennett Hall prided himself on
being a practical man among professors.
At the same time he had a strong feeling
for high-level emotional expression and
esthetic development, between which he
saw a close relation. It used to grieve him
to see an occasional student going along
with his head down when there was so
much beauty to be enjoyed all around
and on the distant horizons. He habit-
ually took down his old violin, late at
night, when with the family asleep, he
played it with what skill he had (he was
no violin virtuoso) for his own esthetic
enjoyment. His ideal for the University
was the all-around development of the
man and the woman. He did his very best
for the University. Habitually he worked
beyond his strength, and he did not live
to see the revival of much he saw torn
down during those hard years of reor-
ganization.
Old Oregon
Left to right: Presidents C. ValentineBoyer, Donald M. Erb, and H. K.
Newburn.
Hardship and Rehabilitation
DURING THE residence of Chancel-
Hall's resignation in 1932, the University
ran without a president until, in 1934,
when Dr. C. Valentine Boyer, dean of
Arts and Letters, was made acting presi-
dent. A little later he was made the sixth
president of the University. It was not a
post he wanted, but he handled the work
to the general satisfaction of University
faculty and students. He had come to
Oregon as head of the English depart-
ment from the University of Illinois in
1905 and had made a fine record both in
teaching and administration.
It was a period of great difficulty; but
the new president handled the situation
well, albeit at heavy cost to his health.
Finally, after four years, he felt the strain
too great and, at his request, was allowed
to concentrate on the deanship of Arts
and Letters, which he had not relin-
quished.
(Meanwhile Dr. Kerr had resigned as
chancellor, to be succeeded by Dr. Fred-
erick M. Hunter, chancellor of the Uni-
versity of Denver, who headed the state
system until 1946, when Dr. Paul C.
Packer, dean of the School of Education
at the State University of Iowa, suc-
ceeded him. Dr. Packer resigned in 1950,
and the present chancellor is Dr. Charles
D. Byrne, who had been secretary of
the state board of higher education under
all three of the preceding chancellors.* ? *
When Dr. Donald Milton Erb, New
York-born, graduate of the University of
Illinois, came from his post of acting
October 1951
head of the department of economics at
Stanford in March 1938 to be the seventh
president of the University of Oregon,
there was a general feeling that this
young and vigorous man, then in his 38th
year, would solve the University's ad-
ministrative problems for many years to
come.
It was not to be. His brief six-year
term, terminated by a fatal attack of
virus pneumonia, was characterized by
the closest, friendliest co-operation be-
tween president and faculty. "Don" Erb,
as he was known to his faculty, with all
his friendliness, was direct and business-
like, and he had set high standards for
the University. His greatest battle, and
most important victory, was the return
of upper division science to the Univer-
sity. He had let it be understood that he
would not consent to remain as president
if this fight should be lost.
The faculty was solidly behind him on
this, and he succeeded in persuading the
state board of higher education that
sound educational policy demanded the
return of upper division science. "All the
weight of educational evidence," he told
the board, "shows that a great liberal
university cannot be had without the sci-
ences, so that, as I see it, the question is
not to restore a portion of the sciences,
or try to work out some expedient bal-
ance, but whether we shall recognize a
principle which has everywhere been
found correct. There I must take my
stand."
A colleague paid him this sincere trib-
ute which summed up the sentiment of a
deeply sorrowing campus on his untimely
death: "He brought vigor, youth, cour-
age, scholarship, and good judgment to
a difficult task. His success was unquali-
fied. His death is a bitter loss."
Until the coming of Dr. Harry K. New-
burn from the State LIniversity of Iowa
to be president, in 1945, Dean Orlando
John Hollis of the School of Law, func-
tioned as acting president. His fine ad-
ministrative abilities were exhibited anew
in his handling of the work of the presi-
dency.
The six years of President Newburn's
administration have been years of con-
tinued, accentuated progress, accom-
panied by much reorganization of per-
sonnel and the most extensive physical
construction and reconstruction in the
history of the University.
Administration organization was al-
tered when the post of Dean of Admini-
stration was created at the beginning of
this year. W. C. Jones, former president
of Whittier College, Whittier, California,
was brought to Oregon by President H.
K. Newburn to fill the position.
In the field of building construction
and improvement, the University has
made unprecedented progress. Interior
renovations of Villard, Friendly, and
Deady halls supplement the construction
of a new physical plant, a library addi-
tion, an addition to the Music school, the
nearly-completed Science building, and
an additon to Oregon and Commerce
halls, recently exacavated, indicating fur-
ther progress in campus expansion.
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Stepping Stones of Progress
1850 Federal government grants two townships to each new
state for establishment of university.
1851 Legislature allocates public institutions?capital to Sa-
lem, penitentiary to Portland, university to Marysville
(old name of Corvallis).
1857 Constitutional convention fails to provide for university.
1872 Old land grants obsolete, Governor Grover has state
board relocate university lands . . . 10,935 acres deeded
Eugene group organizes Union University Association.
Legislature passes bill giving university to Eugene; $50,^
000 building on donated site to be ready by Jan. 7, 1874
. .. Bill survives fight on its constitutionality.
1873 Year of great panic. Farmers fear to increase tax load.
County court rescinds action voting $30,000 bond issue.
Whole cost of building to be met by private citizens. .. .
Excavation begun for building . . . Mechanic's lien filed
against it.
1876 Regents elect first faculty . . . W. J. J. Scott and J. E. Holt
assume University's $5,000 debt. . . . State board accepts
building. . . . First students enter, October 16.
1878 First class, five members, graduated.
1881 Henry Villard comes to financial aid of University.
1884 Law school started at Portland.
1886 Chair of music established.
1887 Medical school organized in Portland.
1891 Reflector, first U. of O. paper, launched.
1893 Charles H. Chapman succeeds John W. Johnson as presi-
dent; modern era begins . . . First university lectures
given off campus?genesis of Extension Division . . .
First dormitory (S. H. Friendly hall) opened.
1895 Luella Clay Carson made first dean of women . . . First
correspondence course offered (in English literature).
First track team organized . . . First summer classes held,
near Seaside.
1894 First intercollegiate football game, with Albany College.
1899 Frank Strong becomes president . . . Graduate school or-
ganized, F. G. Young dean . . . L. H. Johnson chosen
steward of the University.
1900 First fraternity established on campus (Sigma Nu.)
1901 Legislature increases University's financial support to
$47,500 a year.
1902 Prince Lucien Campbell begins his 23 years as president.
1906 First referendum on higher education appropriation
fails.
1907 New library building ($50,000) erected. Mary Spiller
hall, first women's dormitory, opened.
1908 Another referendum on University appropriation fails.
Thirty-two acres added to campus, on southeast. Gamma
Phi Beta, first sorority, installs Oregon chapter.
1909 Wooden gymnasium erected, for men. . . . School of
music reorganized.
1912 First organized University extension classes organized
in Portland.... University building appropriation beaten
in referendum.
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1913 Appropriation for U. of 0. maintenance and building ap-
proved in referendum. . . . Plan to consolidate U. 0. and
O.A.C. defeated. . . . College of engineering removed to
O.A.C.
1914 Schools of education, commerce, architecture established.
1915 Appropriation of $5,000 approved for University print-
ing plant.,.. Law school definitely established in Eugene.
1916 School of journalism established. . . . Portland subscrip-
tion of $25,000 assures new Marquam Hill site for medi-
cal school.
1917 Military science and training added to University cur-
riculum. . . . Hendricks hall and Oregon hall opened.
1919 Monograph series started. . . . Intensified development of
research begun.
1920. School of physical education installed. . . . Gerlinger hall
completed for women's building, with gymnasium. Ore-
gon Emerald becomes daily paper. . . . Initiative carries,
giving continuous building and maintenance to all the
higher educational institutions.
1922 Fire destroys frame building housing Journalism, parts
of Biology, and Architecture and Allied Arts.
1923 Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary, installs
chapter at University of Oregon.
1924 New Journalism building occupied.
1925 President Campbell dies.
1924-6 Executive committee of three appointed to handle Uni-
versity administration.
1927 Burt Brown Barker made vice president, takes hold of
revived gift campaign.
1926 Arnold Bennett Hall elected president. Research reor-
ganized. Improvement of teaching encouraged. . . . Mc-
Arthur Court basketball pavilion finished.
1928 Faculty retirement system worked out by President and
Board of Regents.
1929 Reorganization puts higher educational institutions un-
der single state board.
1931 John Straub hall, dormitory for men, opened. Art mu-
seum building completed.
1932 President Hall resigns. ... Dr. W. J. Kerr made chancel-
lor; takes over personal administration of University.
. . . Zorn-Macpherson bill to combine institutions at Cor-
vallis defeated.
1934 Dr. C. V. Boyer installed as president of University.
1937 New Library building completed ($465,000).
1938 Dr. Donald M. Erb succeeds Dr. Boyer as president.
1942 University takes its part in war. .. . Army and Air Force
training units stationed on campus. . . . Almost entire
male student body in service.
1943 Upper division and graduate science restored to Univer-
sity after 11 years. . . . Death of President Erb. . . . Dean
0. J. Hollis made acting president.
1944 Dr. Harry K. Newburn, Liberal Arts dean at State Uni-
versity of Iowa, elected president. . . . New building era
opens.
Old Oregon
The Student Union?Hub of Campus
FOR MORE than thirty years students
dreaming of a student union. For a long
time it was hardly more than a hope, with
an occasional boost in the Oregon Emer-
ald. First to organize the sentiment into
a tangible movement that would one day
crystallize into a two-million-dollar struc-
ture with few equals in its class in the
United States, was John M. MacGregor,
president of the Associated Students in
1922-23. The Oregon Daily Emerald,
then edited by Kenneth Youel, got be-
hind the little drive, which culminated in
about $50,000 of pledges from alumni.
The movement was slowed down some-
what by the general University gift cam-
paign, which came along almost simul-
taneously, and by the depression of the
early and middle thirties. Successive stu-
dent presidents, however, from Claude
Robinson '24 on down, and successive
Emerald editors from Arthur Rudd's
time, each gave a little push to the enter-
prise. Ernest Haycox. famous as a writer
of fiction, who was a member of Mac-
Gregor's 1923 class, gave the long-drawn-
out campaign its final boost in 1947 while
president of the alumni association. The
drive had just been stymied again, this
time by World II. Now the alumni were
stirred up once more, and a building fund
of five dollars a term was collected from
each student for the building fund.
The site at Thirteenth and University,
southeast corner, had been purchased in
1946, when the fund totaled only $100,-
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000. Bonds backed by rentals and other
prospective earnings of the building were
sold; and ground was broken, finally, in
June 1948, with John MacGregor, vet-
eran of two world wars, top-flight lawyer
and head of the department of business
law in New York University, present to
see his dream unfolding into something
tangible. It had been a quarter of a cen-
tury since he as president of the student
body had given the drive its first real
momentum. He had the pleasure of in-
specting the completed Erb Memorial Un-
ion at the formal dedication, Nov. 3,
1950.
This whole publication could be filled
with nothing else if adequate recognition
were given here to all who have helped
make the Union a reality. A few names
just can't be omitted. There were Leith
Abbott and Harry A. D. Smith, editors
of the Emerald in 1920 and 1921; Owen
N. Bentley '21, of Portland, a wheelhorse
through the years; William N. Russell
'35, who put on a successful fund cam-
paign in Eugene; Verdi Soderstrom '40,
killed at Pearl Harbor, who as vice presi-
dent of the student body led a student
campaign. Nearly every officer of the As-
sociated Students and nearly every editor
of publications through three decades
have helped promote this project, as has
every president of the University from
President Campbell on down. Successive
University administrations have given
the students the needed encouragement,
advice, and co-operation. Dr. Will Victor
Norris, professor of physics, was consult-
ing engineer, heading up the actual plan-
ning after construction was assured.
Architects of this distinctive structure
were Lawrence, Tucker, and Wallman of
Portland.
The Union, actual cost $2,100,000,
which took two years to build, is the cen-
ter for just about all the extracurricular
activities on the campus except competi-
tive sports. The alumni association of-
fices are housed in the building, and there
are a U.S. post office substation, a branch
telegraph office, and a barber shop. The
campus Y.M.C.A. is housed in the build-
ing, and the browsing room is adminis-
tered by the University library. Every-
thing else, including bowling, billiard,
and other recreation facilities in the base-
ment, and the huge cafeteria on the main
floor, is student-managed.
Landmarks removed to make room for
the building and surrounding landscap-
ing include the residences occupied for so
many years by Dr. Henry D. Sheldon
(education and history) and Professor
Orin F. Stafford (chemistry).
Richard C. ( Dick) Williams, director
of the Union, who supervised selection of
the furnishings, cut his teeth in business
by managing the Oregana three years in
succession while an undergraduate. On
graduation he was made manager of edu-
cational activities.
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A Look at Schools and Departments ? ?.
Here are given brief resumes of the
history, aims, and work of the College
of Liberal Arts, with its various depart-
ments, and the professional schools. Fur-
ther and fuller articles on this general
theme are to appear in later issues.
College of Liberal Arts
From the founding of the University
of Oregon, the liberal arts have been
the central core of the educational pro-
gram of the institution. In the earliest
University catalogs, the several "courses"
of liberal-arts instruction were rather
loosely grouped under the "Collegiate
Department," distinguished at first only
from the "English Preparatory Depart-
ment" but later also from the professional
schools. In the Catalogs of the 1890s, the
term "College of Letters" occurs, but
only as a heading in lists of students and
graduates.
As a part of the first formal organiza-
tion plan for the University, inaugurated
by President Strong, the College of Liter-
ature, Science and the Arts was estab-
lished in 1899. The University continued
to administer the liberal-arts program
through this college until the reorganiza-
tion of the Oregon State System of
Higher Education in 1932.
In the fall of 1942, major work in sci-
Today and Yesterday
ence was re-established at the University,
and the separate liberal-arts divisions
were merged into the College of Liberal
Arts. James H. Gilbert, who was the dean
of the College of Social Sciences, was
named first dean of the newly organized
college.
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The College has 17 instructional de-
partments, including anthropology, bi-
ology, chemistry, economics. English,
foreign languages, geography and geol-
ogy, history, home economics, mathe-
matics, philosophy, physics, political sci-
ence, psychology, religion, sociology,
and speech.
The total number of students regis-
tered in the College of Liberal Arts dur-
ing the year 1950-51 was 3853, an in-
crease of 28 per cent over the total enroll-
ment (3003) for the preceding year. The
large increase is explained by the fact
that students formerly registered in the
lower division of the professional schools
are now (except for Physical Education)
enrolled in the College. Of these, only 235
were classified as auditors, special or
part-time students. Sixty-two per cent of
those registered (2405) were men, 38 per
cent (1448) were women.
One of the most significant recent de-
velopments in the College has been oc-
casioned by the reorganization of all the
professional schools except one (Archi-
tecture and Allied Arts, Business Admini-
stration, Law, Music?preceded the year
before by Education and Journalism) on
an upper-division basis. Although some
of the changes were limited, since all of
the professional schools except Educa-
tion and Law have retained some prepar-
atory lower-division courses, two im-
portant gains resulted: (1) the reduction
of specialized or professional courses in
the student's first two years and (2) a
doubling of the general education or
"group requirement" courses, from two
year-sequences to four. This change not
only improves the quality and range of
the preprofessional student's general edu-
cation experience, but it also provides a
more defensible program for those stu-
dents who, after declaring an initial in-
terest in a profession, find that they lack
either the ability or interest to continue.
The College is now proposing a num-
ber of curricular changes. The most of
these changes?an effort to increase the
student's general education, to provide a
better balance between specialized and
Left: Students study botany under the direction of C. W. Clancy, associate professor of biology. Right: Advanced students in psy-chology learn to handle machines which aid in clinical testing procedures.
16 Old Oregon
Upper right: High school students improve reading
speed by use of a tachistoscope in regular remedial
reading classes supervised by the School of Educa-
tion. Upper left: Shang-Yi Ch'en, associate profes-
sor of physics, inspects a pressure tube used in ex-
periments studying high pressure in foreign gasses.
Right: Laboratory work occupies a major part of the
chemistry student's time. Lower left: Kip Walton,
freshman in speech, tries his hand at radio speech in
a temporarily empty studio of the University radio
station, KWAX. Lower right: Skeletons of a duck-
bill platypus and a small kangaroo occupy Louise
Henderson in the study of physical anthropology.
November 1()5L 17
general education?is an increase in
group requirements from four to six
courses. Several upper division courses,
a limited number of new interdepart-
mental courses will be recognized as
meeting the group requirements. The
College is proposing also a sophomore
honors program for the student of unus-
ual ability. Under this program students
may. if they choose, meet their require-
ments by examination without class at-
tendance. Still another curriculum, with
courses at an elementary level, is de-
signed for students who are deficient in
their preparation.
* * *
The College last year had a total of
159 faculty members, who were distrib-
uted about equally in the ranks from in-
structor to full professor.
Members of the staff have earned many
lonors in the academic field. In the years
since the war they have published twen-
ty-one books, thirteen of which are text-
books in their respective fields, and the
rest of which represent writing either of
more general or more scholarly interest.
Among volumes published are a study
of the post-war French government,
American strategy in Guam and Micro-
nesia, railroads and sternwheelers in Ore-
gon, a philosophical consideration of the
directive in history, two volumes of po-
etry, and textbooks in English composi-
tion, mathematics, foreign languages,
psychology, chemistry, philosophy, geog-
raphy, and speech.
A number of professors have had sab-
batical leaves for study and research;
several have research grants for labora-
tory studies on the campus, others have
received fellowships from the Social Sci-
ence Research Council, the Guggenheim
Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
Members of the department of anthro-
pology have carried on extensive investi-
gations of the cultures of the Indians in
Oregon, the Aleuts in Alaska, and the
peoples of the Pacific Islands.
A nationwide survey of liberal arts col-
leges made by Kathryn McHale in the
thirties under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Association of University Women,
listed the number of progressive move-
ments affecting curricula, methods of
teaching, orientation, and personnel
work, that had been initiated in some two
hundred colleges and universities. In the
number of progressive departures the
liberal arts college of the University of
Oregon ranked among the upper seven,
i.e., in the upper three or four per cent.
Only two other liberal arts institutions in
the Pacific area (Reed College and
Scripps College) had an equally high rat-
ing.
Of 462 members of the University fac-
ulty of all ranks from instructor up listed
in last year's catalog, 182, or approxi-
mately 40 per cent, have one or another
of the various doctorates {Ph.D., J.D.,
M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D., Ed.D.).
Prior to the reorganization in 1932
the three main divisions of a liberal arts
college?science, social science, and lan-
guages and literature,?were organized
as a unit as the College of Literature, Sci-
ence, and the Arts. With the removal of
upper-division science, the remainder of
the field was divided into a College of
Social Science and a College of Arts and
Letters. When science was returned to the
Long hours at the drawing board are common to students in the School of Architectureand Allied Arts. Barbara Bates, fifth-year student studies the problems of interior design.
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University ten years later, a further re-
organization took place, and the three
divisions are now included in the Col-
lege of Liberal Arts. With the retirement
of Dr. James H. Gilbert as dean in 1947,
the College was put under the direction
of Dr. Eldon Johnson, then head of the
department of political science.
Architecture
The president of the American Insti-
tute of Architects, A. Glenn Stanton of
Portland, is a graduate of the School of
Architecture of the University of Oregon.
This is the latest of many distinctions con-
ferred on graduates and staff of this
school since it was founded.
Ellis F. Lawrence, Portland architect,
graduate of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, was the first director, taking
the title of dean two years later. Dean
Lawrence maintained his private profes-
sional office in Portland, splitting the
week for many years between practicing
his profession and directing the teaching
of it. Professor Percy P. Adams and Pro-
fessor E. H. McAlister, former dean of
the old School of Engineering, were Dean
Lawrence's first associates on the staff.
Allen H. Eaton, added to the faculty in
1915, gave the initial impetus to the fine
arts side of the school, since strengthened
by professors of sculpture, painting, in-
terior design, ceramics, applied design,
art history, art education. A three-year
program is given also in landscape archi-
tecture.
The school has shown remarkable
growth and development. Since 1920 it
has been a member of the Association of
Collegiate Schools of Architecture. The
methods, objectives, spirit, and organiza-
tion of the Oregon school have drawn
favorable comment from architecture
educators all over the country, and the
school has exerted a wide influence on
other such institutions, even in the older
centers. Dean Lawrence was called on by
institutional heads for advice on reor-
ganization of their architectural depart-
ments.
C. Grant La Farge, eminent New York
architect, was once quoted as calling an
ideal school of architecture "a happy
home in which the students will be en-
couraged to develop themselves" and ex-
plained, "The idea is ... no pipe dream,
for such already exists. Witness, for ex-
ample, the LTniversity of Oregon." Praise
came also from many other leaders in
the field. Graduates of the school have at-
tained recognition among the outstand-
ing architects of America.
For many years the University of Ore-
gon was the only western school desig-
Old Oregon
nated as a center for the training of art
teachers.
Progress continues under the direction
of Sidney Wahl Little, who became dean
in 1946 on the death of Dean Lawrence.
The school has always been noted as
a burner of midnight oil, with students
working devotedly on their projects with
little thought of time.
Robert K. Kohn of New York, director
and president of the American Institute
of Architects, once after a visit paid the
school the tribute of saying, "The under-
graduate work is equal to the under-
graduate work done in the East today,"
while Dean Bosworth of Cornell com-
mented that "personally I should not be
surprised if in some ways you are ahead
of us."
Business Administration
In the last three years the School of
Business Administration has graduated
1,283 students?an impressive number
yet still inadequate to meet the demands
of the economic life of the state.
These students, many of them of ex-
ceptional quality, were distributed among
the several major areas of subject mat-
ter covered in the school, including ac-
counting, finance, foreign trade, traffic
management, merchandising, and mar-
keting.
The school enters the 75th anniversary
year with a well-balanced course of study
and a staff well able to prepare men and
women for business leadership in the
state. An important recent development
has been the emphasis on courses in real
estate and insurance, in both of which a
surprising number of students enrolled
and made important progress.
An important development in the last
three years has been the shift to upper-
division status. The students now concen-
trate their liberal arts work in the first
two years and reserve their major busi-
ness courses for the upper division. Thus
the student gets a better, broader general
education, and his professional work is
definitely on upper division standards.
An accompanying development of im-
portance is the growth of the work in the
graduate field. This will at once stimulate
overall scholarship and improve still fur-
ther the standing of the school in the
American Association of Collegiate
Schools of Business.
Off the campus, important field work
of an educational nature was carried on
through the program of business clinics,
held in several communities throughout
the state, with the co-operation of cham-
bers of commerce, service clubs, retail
merchants' associations, and business
October 1951
Informality keynotes art classes in theschool of Architecture and Allied Arts.
and professional women. These clinics,
contributing importantly to the practical,
side of the classroom as well as helping
local business units, will be increased in
number in this seventy-fifth anniversary
year.
The Oregon Business Review analyti-
cal business monthly, has developed and
continued a valuable research program
which has been carried to every section
of the state. Besides this, the school has
under way research projects for both the
Bonneville Power Administration and
the National Park Service.
Graduates of the school have been
making excellent progress in the busi-
ness world, thus supporting the conten-
tion that training in business administra-
tion enables a graduate to win recogni-
tion and promotion more speedily than
the untrained recruit who depends solely
on an "apprenticeship" to master the
business.
Dental School
A wise man once advised that no one
try to write about the elephant's tusks
without knowing anything about the ele-
phant. Modern dental educators have this
principle well in mind, with the result
that the leaders in the are all grounded in
medicine as well as dentistry.
The Dental School, youngest member
of the University of Oregon family, was
established, in Portland, by an act of the
1945 legislature, taking over the prop-
erty of the North Pacific College of Ore-
gon, which, with its various mergers,
goes back to the old Oregon College of
Dentistry, founded in 1898.
The University was fortunate in enlist-
ing Dr. Harold Judd Noyes, D.D.S.,
M.D., from Illinois, to head the new
school. Dr. Noyes is a leader among den-
tal educators, and plans already made
for widening and improving curriculum
and facilities will go forward as resources
are made available.
Education
Offerings in education were made in
the University as far back as the admini-
stration of Dr. Frank Strong, third presi-
dent, who served from 1899 to 1902. A
school was organized with Dr. Henry D.
Sheldon as dean, in 1901. He resigned
in 1911 but as back two years later after
serving on the faculty of the University
of Pittsburgh.
Under Dr. Sheldon's direction the
school was expanded and developed. A
new building (Oregon hall) was erected
and what is now the University high
school was opened there in 1916. The
school now operates as a six-year high
school, with abundant opportunity for
practice teaching.
When Dr. Sheldon gave up the dean-
ship and moved into the history depart-
ment as a professor, in 1932, his work
was taken over by Dr. J. R. Jewell, who
had been in charge of the education
courses in Oregon State College. Dean
Jewell retired in 1947 and was succeeded
by Dr. Paul B. Jacobson. Under the new
dean the offerings have undergone con-
siderable revision and simplification.
The latest development is the launch-
ing of a large project aimed at the im-
provement of school administration in
the Pacific Northwest states. The work
will be done with $265,000 just contrib-
uted by the Kellogg Foundation.
It is planned to use co-operating insti-
tutions in the various states and to de-
velop in-service training programs
throughout the region. These programs
are to be developed for elementary and
high school principals, county superin-
tendents, and persons in state depart-
ments of education. Under the program,
conferences will be held, three or four
days in length, with specialists both from
within and from without the region.
Workshops for various types of adminis-
trative personnel are planned, one such
to be held in Eugene next June for ele-
mentary principals, from Washington.
Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Oregon.
One of the features of this program is
its close articulation with the entire cam-
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pus and particularly with persons in the
social sciences. An associate director who
is a social scientist will be selected to
spend his time in developing seminars
and preparing material to bring out the
importance of social backgrounds in edu-
cation.
The program will continue for five
years in various pilot communities, not
to exceed twenty, throughout the states
concerned. In these pilot communities.
Dean jacobson explains. surve\ s utiliz-
ing the entire resources of the University
will be undertaken, and as material is
produced it will be plowed back into the
in-service training program. It is pro-
posed to make careful evaluation of the
program, and pertinent parts will be as-
sumed by the various institutions and
state departments of education in the re-
gion at the end of the five-year period.
English
The Department of English, of course,
is one of the standard liberal arts depart-
ments that go back to the very beginning.
Someone always has been teaching one or
more courses in English. The Department
is, year after year, the largest in the Uni-
versity.
In the last six years, under Dr. Philip
W. Souers. department head, some radi-
cal changes have been made, including
the offering, for the first time, of a major
in writing. This enhances the usefulness
of the department to students wishing to
undertake writing as a career, through,
for example, the medium of the various
forms of fiction. This work is under the
direction of Professor Robeson Bailey,
who came to Oregon in 1949.
A series of courses has been introduced
in major literary expressions. Conceived
in the spirit of general education, these
deal with epic, tragedy, comedy, and sa-
tire, not as types but as ways of looking
at life, and they include both the older
and the modern literature.
Another change made was the revision
of the courses in American literature,
with Professor Hubert H. Hoeltje in gen-
eral charge of a wide range of upper-
division courses.
Graduate work in English is showing
steady increase from year to year.
Journalism
Latest recognition for the Oregon
School of Journalism is the selection
of the school as the center of a year of
study of American life and the American
press by a group of ten German news-
paper editors. The program is under the
direction of the state department. The
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group arrived the other day and have
settled down to work.
The school, begun as a department in
1912 under the direction of Eric W. Al-
len, experienced newspaperman, was
made a school four years later. Its growth
and development have kept well up with
the advancement of the University.
From two little rooms in the basement
of McClure. which were ample for the
first year, the school has grown until it
now is bulging out of its quarters in the
three-story Journalism building.
After the first few years the school has
been rated among the leading institutions
of its type in the country. The staff is
made up of men who have had years of
practical experience in the various fields
in addition to high academic standing.
Practical training is given in all the im-
portant fields of journalism, in which the
strict requirements of the American
Council for Education in Journalism
have been met as regards curriculum,
faculty personnel, equipment, and back-
ing by the general University adminis-
tration to insure its keeping up with the
developing needs of the field.
The present dean is Dr. Gordon A. Sa-
bine, newspaperman and teacher with a
doctor's degree from the University of
Minnesota.
Every effort is made to fit students for
work on the various media, from the
smaller weeklies to the metropolitan dai-
lies, the magazines and the radio. Gradu-
ates of the school are found on a high
percentage of Oregon newspapers. Other
graduates have moved out into top posi-
tions on metropolitan dailies, advertising
Prospective dentists learn careful and pre-cise handling of dentistry tools.
agencies, radio newswriting, and other
types of journalistic positions in other
parts of the country. The staff is hoping
that the next University building project
will give the school a housing adequate
to its needs.
The University Press, from a few cases
of type, two little slow presses and a base-
ment corner for quarters in 1917, has ex-
panded to a three-linotype plant with a
growing battery of automatic presses. It
now fills every corner of its own concrete
building. Virtually all the University
printing and the students' newspaper are
produced in the plant. Superintendent
Fred Beard, in charge since the retire-
ment of Robert C. Hall, who supervised
expansion from the little basement days,
is continuing the development, steadily
increasing the automatic press capacity
of the plant.
Foreign Languages
The founder of the Department of
Foreign Languages at the University
of Oregon was Dean John Straub, who
taught French and German, as well as
Latin and Greek, in which he specialized.
Professor Straub became a member of
the faculty in 1878 and from 1899 to
1920 was Dean of the College of Litera-
ture, Science and the Arts.
Dean Straub's successor as head of the
department of classical languages was
Professor Frederic S. Dunn, an Oregon
alumnus of 1892 who became a member
of the faculty in 1898. In 1897 Professor
F. G. G. Schmidt was appointed head of
the department of modern languages. In
1905, with the appointment of Professor
Timothy Cloran as its head, a separate
department of romance languages was
founded. Professor Schmidt continued as
Head of the German department until he
was succeeded by Professor George F.
Lussky in 1939.
In 1925 Professor Cloran, who re-
mained as professor of Romance lan-
guages until his death in 1933, was suc-
ceeded as head of the department by Pro-
fessor Ray P. Bowen, who continued in
that position until his retirement in 1947.
Professor Edna Landros, who succeeded
Professor Dunn as Head of the depart-
ment of classics, remained in that posi-
tion until 1947.
Significant publications of members of
the Department comprise "The Dramatic
Construction of Balzac's Novels" by Pro-
fessor Bowen, "La Fortune du Tasse en
France" and "Chateaubri et le Tas-
se" by Dr. C. B. Beall, professor of Ro-
mance languages since 1929, "The
German-American Handbook" by Dr. E.
P. Kremer, professor of Germanic lan-
Old Oregon
guages since 1928, and "The ra Verb
Form in Spain" by Dr. L. 0. Wright, pro-
fessor of Romance languages since 1926
and former president of the American
Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese, and "Professor Longfellow
of Harvard" by Dr. C. L. Johnson, as-
sociate professor of Romance languages
since 1935.
Books currently being prepared for
publication are Professor Kremer's "The
German Proverb," "Homer and his Audi-
ence" by Dr. F. M. Combellack, associate
professor of classical languages since
1937, "First Year French" by Professor
Johnson and Mrs. Huguette Sponen-
burgh, and "Year Abroad" by Professors
Dougherty and Picard and Miss Loretta
A. Wawrzyniak.
In 1947 when the departments of class-
ical, Germanic, and Romance languages
were merged, Dr. David M. Dougherty
was called from Clark University in Wor-
cester, Massachusetts, to head the new
department of foreign languages.
Eleven foreign languages are now of-
fered and the average enrollment during
the past four years has been well over
1,000 students per term.
A great expansion in the Far Eastern
languages should be noted. Japanese,
Chinese, and Russian are getting in-
creased attention since the war, which ap-
parently called the attention of many stu-
dents to the growing importance of these
languages as a part of the program in Far
Eastern Studies.
A number of holders of Oregon's
higher degrees in Romance languages,
classics, and German are now teaching in
major universities in many parts of the
United States. Perhaps we should men-
tion the names of S. L. Robe and Leland
Thielman at the University of California
at Los Angeles, Edna Landros and Chris-
tina A. Crane at Oregon, Walter Kraft at
Oregon State College, W. T. Starr at the
University of Maine, J. Mathews at the
University of Washington, L. B. Ellis at
Western Reserve University, M. E. Erick-
son at Louisiana State University, D. G.
Castanian at Northwestern L^niversity,
Robert Knox at Washington State Col-
lege, and L. E. Richter at Linfield Col-
lege.
In 1948 the quarterly review, Compar-
ative Literature, was founded under the
sponsorship of the University of Oregon
and the editorship of Professor Beall.
This journal, which "provides a forum
for those scholars and critics who are
engaged in the study of literature from an
international point of view," has become
truly international in both scope and cir-
culation and has attracted considerable
November 1951
Body development and muscular controlare important factors in tumbling classes
offered by the school of Health and Physi-cal Education.
attention in centers of scholarship all
over the world.
At the graduate level in Romance lan-
guages there has been a steady increase
in the number of candidates for advanced
degrees, particularly at the master's level.
A program of studies leading to the doc-
torate in Romance languages has been
reestablished and a small number of grad-
uate students are currently candidates for
this degree.
School of Law
The School of Law is an outgrowth
of a night law school established in
Portland in 1884 and moved to the Eu-
gene campus in 1915. It has been a mem-
ber of the Association of American Law
Schools since 1919 and its standards were
approved by the American Bar Associa-
tion in 1923.
The school has a library of 38.850 vol-
umes, a gain of more than 10,000 in the
last ten years. Many of these came as
donations from the private libraries of
noted Oregon lawyers, such as Matthew
P. Deady and Robert Sharp Bean, both
of whom were judges of the U.S. district
court, and W. D. Fenton of Portland.
In most years as high as ninety per
cent of the school's graduates taking the
examinations of the State Bar Associa-
tion succeed in passing, and its graduates
have been highly successful also in pass-
ing the examination in other western
states. In some recent years 100 per cent
success has been achieved.
Staff members through the years have
written some standard textbooks. "The
Law of the Press," written nearly thirty
years ago by William G. Hale, then dean,
was the first full-sized volume on the sub-
ject written for classroom use. Now in its
second revision, it is used as a textbook
in many schools and departments of
journalism. Wayne Morse, former dean,
now United States senator, contributed
heavily to the U.S. Attorney General's
Survey of Release Procedures, and his
volumes on Parole, Probation, and Par-
dons are standard on the subject. Pro-
fessor Howard's textbook on business
law continues popular in that field.
Through his service on the staff, Dean
Morse won a reputation in the settlement
of labor disputes was a for a time a mem-
ber of the National Labor Relations
Board. Dean Hollis served for years on
the local selective service board, and he
and other staff members worked on im-
portant committees of the State Bar As-
sociation.
Mr. Hollis has been dean of the school
since 1946; Dean Morse resigned, six
years ago, to make his successful race for
the United States senate. Deans since the
school was moved from Portland and re-
organized have been the late Edward W.
Hope, William G. Hale, the late Charles
E. Carpenter, Wayne Morse and 0. J.
Hollis.
School of Music
Initiated in 1886, courses in music
were the first outside the regular lib-
eral arts to be offered in the University of
Oregon. D. W. Coolidge, first to head up
the work, remained only two years, hav-
ing tired of the fee system of paying sal-
aries, which, however, was to go on and
on. Gifford Nash, who handled the work
from 1897 to 1902, is still well remem-
bered by the old-timers. Ralph H. Lyman,
from Grinnell, following the successful
Irving M. Glen, took the title of dean un-
der a reorganization in 1913. Longest to
direct the music school was Dr. John J.
Landsbury, who was dean from 1917 to
1939, when he was succeeded by Dr.
Theodore Kratt, the present head.
During the Landsbury regime the pres-
ent building was erected, enabling the
school to get out of the old two-story
frame structure which was to serve the
Extension Division and the radio classes
21
for many years. The old building was
close to the Southern Pacific railroad
tracks before they were moved north
across the millrace, and the combination
of the steam locomotives' frequent high,
shrill whistle with the coloratura notes of
an ambitious voice student, produced a
cacophony no one particularly enjoyed.
The school was moved as far from the
tracks as was possible.
Courses in theory and practice in the
school cover a wide range. With its fac-
ulty of talented specialists, the school
stands high among the music schools of
the country. Musical organizations of
high standard organized among the stu-
dents include symphony orchestra, chor-
uses, and bands.
Health and
Physical Education
Fourteen years after physical educa-
tion was introduced as an adjunct of stu-
dent life in the University, the first ma-
jor, so-called, in physical education was
organized, in 1914. Emphasis was placed,
from the start, on corrective and rem-
edial work, and this has continued to be
a characteristic of the curriculum ever
since.
The classes were organized into a
School of Physical Education in 1920,
one of the first in the United States. First
dean was Dr. John F. Bovard, head of
the department of zoology. The school
has had high professional recognition
throughout its history.
Graduate courses, preceding this de-
velopment in most other institutions,
were instituted about 1929. For the last
eleven years the school has developed its
graduate work until now it has more com-
prehensive graduate offerings than any
other school west of the Mississippi river.
Doctors' and masters' degrees are award-
ed every year.
A division of health education was or-
ganized in 1947, which, under the plan-
ning and teaching of H. S. Hoyman, be-
came one of the best-recognized pro-
grams of the sort in the country.
Teachers are prepared to handle health
education and physical education. Stud-
ies are made of posture and posture im-
provement, fatigue, and new types of
tests have been developed in the physical
performance field. The school's approach
to physical education is concerned basi-
cally with scientific investigation of the
effects of exercise on growth, develop-
ment and physical improvement of the
individual.
Graduates of the University of Oregon
School of Health and Physical Education
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are holding key positions in Western and
Middle Western higher educational insti-
tutions.
The present dean of the school, who
succeeded Dr. Bovard in 1931, is Dr.
Ralph W. Leighton, has his doctor's de-
gree from the University of Oregon.
Optimism, Expansion
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built at the northeast end of the campus
in 1889 was now turned over to the wom-
en, who used it until the completion of
their new quarters in Gerlinger hall in
1920.
Definitely organized schools of educa-
tion, architecture, commerce were estab-
lished in 1914, the School of Law reor-
ganized, was placed on the campus in
1915. The next year the School of Jour-
nalism was organized and the new site of
the medical school on Marquam hill was
assured by a Portland subscription of
$25,000. Military science and training
was added in 1917 as America entered
World War I.
Establishment of the School of Physi-
cal Education in 1920 was one of the
developments dearest to President Camp-
bell's heart. Keenly interested in raising
athletic competition to the highest pos-
sible plane and in bettering play facilities
in Oregon cities, he placed Dr. John F.
Bovard, head of the department of zo-
ology, in charge of the new school, under
which also was included at that time the
University health service.* * *
With no American officers available to
train the students in the rudiments of
military science in preparation for serv-
ice as officers, the War Department man-
aged to obtain the services of an officer
of the British army who had been wound-
ed in the fighting on the Somme and inva-
lided home. Lieut. Col. John Leader, pic-
turesque, dynamic Irishman, reached
Eugene about Christmas time and soon
had things moving. In addition to train-
ing students and faculty he got about the
state awakening the people to the war
emergency wtih such stories as that of
the possibility of the Germans' landing
troops at the mouth of the Siuslaw and
overrunning Oregon. He proceeded to
put a note of realism into the situation.
Soon men, in practice warfare, were dig-
ging trenches and putting up barbed-wire
entanglements on what is now the Uni-
versity athletic field area. The war de-
partment came through with 400 old
Springfield rifles which replaced the
wooden guns used by the makeshift bat-
talion organized under faculty leadership
before the Colonel's arrival. He also or-
ganized a summer camp in which many
prominent Oregon men were trained for
officers.
Months before University personnel
took any active part in the fighting in
Europe, a University ambulance com-
pany was organized and, after some con-
fusion finally got to France and par-
ticipated in the last months of the war.
More than two thousand graduates, stu-
dents and former students of the Univer-
sity participated in the fighting. The 91st
division, including the greater number of
the Oregon men, saw active service in the
Argonne. Others were members of the
Rainbow division, and still others were
found in the navy and the marine corps.
Among the thirty-nine University of Ore-
gon men who lost their lives in this war
were Captain Elberle Kuykendall, of the
ambulance unit, Lieut. Leslie 0. Tooze,
and Georke Cook, vice president of the
Oregon student body.
Besides those who participated in the
actual fighting, many University of Ore-
gon people interrupted their university
work to contribute to military success
and other phases of the public welfare.
With the definite establishment of mili-
tary training in the University curricu-
lum, the war department sent Col. W. H.
C. Bowen, retired Indian fighter, as the
first commandant of the new Resrve Of-
cers' Training Corps.
World War I marked the end of the
University's days as a small institution.
Just prior to the entrance of the United
States into the conflict, the enrollment of
students passed one thousand for the first
time. The next ten-year period was to
see the three thousand mark exceeded,
with a cumulative enrollment of 3054 in
1926-27. Most of this growth had come
during the Campbell administration.
For the last year of his administration
President Campbell was virtually inca-
pacitated by the illness that terminated
his career August 14, 1925. To handle
the administrative work the regents ap-
pointed a committee of three. Dr. H. D.
Sheldon, dean of education, was chair-
man, handling faculty matters; Karl W.
Onthank, executive secretary, questions
of discipline and student affairs, and
Louis H. Johnson, comptroller, business
details. Pending the election of a new
president, the administrative committee
continued to function through the 1925-
26 academic year. Dr. Arnold Bennett
Hall, professor of political science at the
University of Wisconsin, recommended
by a committee made up of Judge G. F.
Skipworth of Eugene, Vernon Vawter of
Medford, and Dean Sheldon, was elected
by the regents and began his work with
the opening of the Fall term in 1926.
Old Oregon
Looking Back on the Webjoot Record
OREGON has crowded in a whole lot
all kinds of football?in the fifty-seven
years between Coaches Cal M. Young and
Len Casanova. We've had several thou-
sand players and twenty-four coaches to
date. A total of 418 games have been
played, up to the opening of the 1951
season; and of these the Webfoots have
won 229, lost 157, and tied 32, according
to Art Litchman's current bucket of
"Duck Dope." In intersectional games
the record has been 13 wins, 11 losses.
and 1 tie. Oregon took its first Rose Bowl
contest, 14 to 0, from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1917, lost to Harvard,
6 to 7, and was edged out in the 1949
Cotton Bowl at Dallas by Southern Meth-
odist, 21 to 13. That was after Oregon's
great 1948 season, when Coach Jim Aik-
en's team was unbeaten and untied in
the Pacific Coast Conference. (Inci-
dentally, though California went to the
Rose Bowl, the World Almanac for that
year, listed Oregon as Conference cham-
pion.)
A total of 25 coaches have guided the
Webfoot gridders in the 57 years. That's
an average of two plus years to the coach.
No one of the first ten mentors stayed
longer than two years; in those days the
coaching was much more nearly a labor
of love than it is just now, and one season
was about as much as the average grid
William L. Hay ward, Oregon's grand oldman of athletics, coached track at Oregon
for 43 years.
mentor felt he could be expected to give
to the cause.
Oregon's four most durable coaches
lasted six seasons each?Hugo Bezdeck,
who had learned his football at Chicago
from "Old Man" Stagg in the early
1900's; Charles A. (Shy) Huntington, a
Bezdeck product; Prince L. Callison, a
Huntington product; and Gerald A.
(Tex) Oliver, Phi Beta Kappa, who
learned his football at the University of
Southern California and at West Point.
Most successful over more than one sea-
son were Bezdek and Huntington; Bez's
boys captured 28 games, lost 10, tied 4;
Huntington's proteges won 26, lost 12,
and amassed the top record of 6 ties.
"Prink" Callison's mark was 33 won, 23
lost, and 2 tied.
Richard Shore (Dick) Smith, who
made Walter Camp's "All America" at
Columbia after leaving Oregon, beat all
records here by being elected captain
three years in succession.
Basketball, pretty much a stepchild in
the University of Oregon in its earlier
years, made but slow progress. Football
was a strong first in student and fan
popularity, with track and field sports
second, baseball a weak third. For several
years the hoop sport was coached by men
with little or no actual experience play-
ing the game.
The first big year in basketball was
1919, when the Oregon five, coached by
Dean H. Walker '13, who later became
dean of men, and sparked by Deadeye
Eddie Durno, demon forward, won the
Pacific Coast championship. Under How-
ard Hobson '26, former Oregon player,
the Webfoots won the national collegiate
title on top of the Coast championship in
1938.
Hobson, with a doctor's degree in phy-
Throughout the 1950 football season with one win and nine losses, Oregon students jammed the Hayward field stadium for home
games.
October 1951 23
Apparently unimpressed by the fact that these were the "Gay Nineties", the University of Oregon athletic team, college champions
of Oregon in 1895, seem to view the matter seriously. Members of the team are: back row, left to right: J. R. Wetherbee, J. Newsome,
R. Hardy, H. Templeton. E. Shattuck, and C. Griffin. Second row: J. Robertson, F. Templeton, C. Keene, W. A. Kuykendall, and
B. Burnett. Front row: F. Matthews, E. Bryson, and M. Davis.
sical education and several instruction
books on basketball to his credit, is now
head coach at Yale. Another of Bill Rein-
hart's pupils, Gordon Ridings, has had
excellent success coaching the sport at
Columbia. He is now a member of Co-
lumbia's faculty in physical education,
having retired, at least temporarily, from
coaching after a heart attack last year.
Many players schooled in the Reinhart
and Hobson systems are coaching sec-
ondary-school teams, not only in Oregon
but also in several other states.
One year while Hobson was on leave,
John Warren carried a team right up
to the national tournament at Kansas
City. Oregon teams, now coached by Bill
Borcher. were close contenders for the
Northwest title last season.# # #
William L. Hayward, Oregon's grand
old man of athletics, coached track at
Oregon for 43 years, developing many
national champions and record-holders
in spite of Oregon's relative shortage of
manpower. Bill came to the University
from old Albany College, where he had
coached a team that defeated Oregon in
1903. Virgil Earl, star football tackle,
later dean of men, was manager of ath-
24
when he saw one, he realized that Ore-
gon's chances for future success on the
track, at least against Albany, probably
depended on acquiring Bill. So he signed
him up for Oregon; and how well old
Bill produced is the kind of history Ore-
gon sport-followers like to think about.
Champions he developed include Dan J.
Oredon Football Coaches
Cal M. Young 1894
Perry Benson 1895
J. F. Frick _.. ....1896
Joe Smith .......1897
Frank Simpson 1898-99
Lawrence Karberg 1900
Warren Smith ______ _ 1901, 1903
Marion Dolph 1902
R. S. Smith ...1904,1925
Bruce Shorts 1905
Hugo Bezdek .1906,1913-17
Gordon Frost 1907
R. W. Forbes 1908-09
Bill Warner 1919-11
Lewis Pinkham 1912
Shy Huntington 1918-23
Joe Maddock 1924
John J. McEwan 1926-29
C. W. Spears _ 1930-31
Prink Callison 1932-37
G. A. (Tex) Oliver __... 1938-41
John Warren 1942
Jim Aiken 1947-50
Played at Won
Oregon ._ 1
California 4
Stanford 2
California 1
California 6
California 3
California _ 7
Bucknell 3
Oregon ___ __ 6
Michigan 4
Chicago ___ 28
5
Yale 8
Cornell 7
Oregon 3
Oregon 26
Michigan 4
Army .... _ 20
Dartmouth 3
Oregon . ___. 33
Army 23
Oregon ... _. 2
Wash. & Jeff ZZ 21
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Old Oregon
Kelly, first man in the world to run the
hundred in 9.6 seconds; George Varoff,
a 14-foot-4-inch pole-vaulter who held a
pre-Warmerdam world's record for a
time; Bob Parke and Boyd Brown in the
javelin; and Les Steers, whose 6 feet 11
in the high jump is still the world's top
mark. Numerous Northwest and Coast
records were crashed along the way. Bill
helped coach several American Olympic
track teams. Through many years he
acted as football trainer.
Hay ward's successor, William J. Bow-
Right: Oregon gained an early start inchampionship athletics when the nineteen-
man track team of 1898 copped an inter-collegiate championship.
seems to be headed Oregon's way from
the high schools these days, young Bill's
teams are a fine bet to please the Web-
foots' friends for years and years.
In baseball, good records have been
racked up by Oregon teams. Coaches
Reinhart and Hobson took their share of
Northern Division honors. Don Kirsch,
apt Hobson pupil, is keeping the team
well up in the standings since taking over.
Oregon has achieved creditable records
in the minor sports?fair in tennis, fine
in swimming and golf, with frequent
Northwest champions in the latter two
sports. Howard Hoyman's record with
the swimming teams a few years back
was outstanding.
Left: The famous football team of 1900,captained by Dick Smith (standing in cen-
ter of back row) who returned to Oregonin 1925 as head football coach.
erman '35, is the kind of athlete the
old master liked to teach. After a phe-
nomenal record at Medford High School,
where his track teams won sixty-four
meets in seven seasons while losing eight
and tying three, Bowerman was brought
to the University to succeed his famous
mentor. In the last three seasons. Bower-
man's teams have won all but three of
their dual meets, taking the Northern Di-
vision title once and finishing second
twice. Given the type of material that
Right: Oregon's three-year baseball cham-pions of 1943, which editors of the time
proclaimed to be the "greatest diamond ag-gregation in Webfoot history. The team
was coached by Howard Hobson (backrow, extreme left).
November 1951
A State-Wide S ervice
Extension work has become a major University project, ex-
panding the realm of higher education throughout Oregon
MORE ACUTELY than any of his.
Campbell came to feel conditions de-
manding that the University be brought
closer to the people of the state. So in
1912 he settled on Dr. George Rebec, then
living on a fruit ranch near Medford, as
the man to help him with this problem.
Dr. Rebec, professor of philosophy in the
University of Michigan, was on leave for
health reasons. President Campbell eased
him into the work by sending him around
the state to see what the people wanted of
the University and what the institution
might best do to meet the demand.
Dr. Rebec found that one of the best
ways to win the good will of the Oregon
democracy was to develop extension
work. Already a small approach had been
made through regular correspondence
courses. President Chapman had started
lecture courses back in 1894, but these
were allowed to fade out within the next
ten years. This work, it was decided,
needed to be revived.
So the Extension Division was estab-
lished that year of 1912, with Dr. Joseph
Schafer, head of the history department,
as director. Dr. Rebec, a most fluent
speaker, was engaged to go about the
Dr. George Rebec, who laid groundworkfor University extension activities and the
establishment of the Extension Division in1912.
state delivering lectures, arranging for
lectures by other faculty members, and
providing other helpful contacts with the
people. Dr. Schafer got out a bulletin en-
titled "University Extension and Com-
monwealth Service," announcing this de-
velopment in University instruction in
Oregon. Dr. Rebec then joined the faculty
as a regular extension lecturer. Soon he
organized courses in Portland for the em-
ployees of the Portland Railway, Light &
Power Co., with classes in English, math-
ematics, and drawing, to fit in with the
needs of their work. This was the begin-
ning of the great system of extension
classes which, before it was taken over
by the state system in 1932, had built up
to an enrollment of 3,625, or more than
the total taking work on the University
of Oregon campus.
In 1913 Dr. Rebec began regular teach-
ing in Portland, and the classes there
grew apace. The Portland Center was or-
ganized in 1917, with Dr. Rebec as first
residence director.
Correspondence study for University
credit was started in 1907 under the
School of Education, Dr. Henry D. Shel-
don, dean. In 1908 and 1909 L. R. Alder-
man, professor of education, was in
charge. Miss Mabel Cooper '07 was first
secretary of correspondence study. After
two years she was succeeded by Miss
Mozelle Hair '09, who continued as secre-
tary and head of the work until her re-
tirement in 1950. The correspondence
study expanded until in 1929, before the
work was taken over directly by the newly
organized state system, 2,948 students
were registered in courses conducted by
mail.
Congratulations to the
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
on their 75th year
GRADE A
Serving the
University of Oregon
Bend, Corvallis, Eugene
Klamath Falls
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26 ?Old Or-egmi.
Center of Higher learning
THE UNIVERSITY had a few books
its first five years. Then, in 1881, from
Henry Villard's timely gift, $1,000 was
allocated to the library and used mostly
for the purchase of reference works.
From a further Villard gift of $50,000 a
continuing fund for the purchase of
books was made available. Users of the
library are familiar with the stickers in-
side so many of the books they consult,
indicating that they were purchased from
funds donated by Mr. Villard. The acces-
sions received at the library through
earnings of Northern Pacific bonds con-
tributed by the noted railroad-builder
number several thousand.
The University's first little supply of
books was kept in Professor Mark
Bailey's room, "greatly to his inconveni-
ence," as reported in the Oregon State
Journal of January 17,1885.
The first building on the campus de-
voted principally to library purpose,
though housing several academic depart-
ments, was erected in 1907 at a cost, in
those days of low prices, of $25,000. This
provided a three-story building; a steel-
frame fireproof addition to house the
stacks was erected later. This structure,
now the home of the Law School, was
used as the University library for thirty
years.
The present home of the library, a fine-
looking, capacious structure of three
stories and basement, was provided by
Left, the University Library, completed in1937, offers students open shelf privileges
and improved facilities for research
the federal government and built by the
Works Progress Administration; it was
occupied in the spring of 1937. A year
ago, the floor space was nearly doubled
by an addition on its south side, which,
while lacking the architectural attractive-
ness of the main building, has added
greatly to its usefulness. With the stack-
room space so greatly increased, a new
librarian (Carl W. Hintz, educated at
DePauw and Michigan) has relaxed the
rules to make the library even more serv-
iceable to the students. Formerly it took
a special permit to get an undergraduate
into the stacks, where he could pick out
his own books. Now direct access to the
stacks is permitted to all students, greatly
to the convenience of the undergraduates.
The total number of books in the main
library is now more than 400,000. Vol-
umes kept in the subsidiary libraries?
law, art and architecture, municipal ref-
erence, University High, dental and med-
ical schools?expand this total to 512,-
000. Added to this are 35,000 maps, 23,-
000 photographs, 3,000 sound record-
ings, and 34,000 film strips and slides.
The library can now seat nearly one-
fourth of the entire student body of the
institution.
The usefulness of the library to re-
searchers and advanced students as well
as to the undergraduates is enhanced by
numerous collections donated by friends
of the University. The collections include
incunabula and rare books, reference
works and phonograph records in mu-
sic; there is also, in the Museum of Art,
an extensive collection of works on the
art of the Orient.
CONGRATULATIONS
To The UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
On Its 75th Anniversary
MILLERS
October 1951 27
1876-1951
Congratulations
Oregon
on your
75th
Anniversary
ROSENBLATTS
The Store for Men
Portland, Oregon
Collection trom the Orient
GERTRUDE BASS (Mrs. Murray)
curred a few weeks ago, brought the fa-
mous Murray Warner collection of Ori-
ental art to the Oregon campus in 1921.
This famous collection, believed to be
one of the best in the world, was started
while Major and Mrs. Warner were liv-
ing in Shanghai. After her husband's
death Mrs. Warner made several trips
back to the Orient to add to the collection
and to replace some specimens not up to
museum standards. Included in the Chi-
nese display are many paintings by old
masters; tapestries and embroideries;
fine specimens of cinnabar lacquer;
jade; porcelains, including some of the
blue and white of the Ming period; an-
cient bronzes.
In the Japanese collection are old
prints, brocades, temple hangings, altar
cloths, embroideries, old gold lacquer,
porcelain, jewelry, also collections of sil-
ver, pewter, copper, bronze armor, wood
carvings.
Mongolia, Korea, and Cambodia also
are represented among the collections.
Recently acquired from Russia are icons
dating back from the fifteenth to the
eighteenth century, a bronze cross, and
an enamel and marble chalice.
Many modern water colors, woodblock
prints, and oil paintings on Oriental sub-
jects also are on view in the museum.
Among the painters represented are Ore-
The Murray Warner Oriental Art Mu-seum, windowless structure on the new
campus houses one of the finest collectionsof specimans from the Orient.
Mrs. Gertrude Warner brought the famousoriental art collection to the Oregon cam-
pus in 1921.
gon's own Maude I. Kerns, also Helen
Hyde, Elizabeth Keith, Charles Bartlett,
Bertha Lum.
Valuable shelves of books descriptive
of the art and life of the Orient are avail-
able in the museum library; and periodi-
cals dealing with these general subjects
are kept in the reading-room.
The collection, in which President
Campbell was deeply interested, is housed
in the Art Museum building, erected in
1930 at a cost of $200,000. It was planned
that this should be the first unit of "a
temple of things beautiful."
28 Old Oregon
Toward Social Development
MRS. MARY SPILLER, first woman-
gon teaching staff, who came in 1876
as tutor in the preparatory department,
never had the title of dean of women. She
did, however, have an important part in
laying the foundations of social life in
the little institution. First organizations,
formed immediately on the opening, were
the Laureans, men's debating, and Eu-
taxian women's literary society. There
were no dormitories and no fraternity or
sorority houses to encourage the social
life of the young men and women. Stu-
dents from out of town boarded in pri-
vate families, and about the only thing
approaching a social function during the
academic year was the occasional joint
open meetings of the two societies. There
was no objection to fraternizing in the
hall and on the campus; but dancing was
forbidden. Mrs. Spiller succeeded in get-
ting dancing permitted under strict chap-
eronage.
The first dormitory erected on the
campus, S. H. Friendly Hall, three-story
brick building named for a Eugene
merchant who later served as a member
of the board of regents, was opened in
1893. (The building cost only $25,000;
but it must be remembered that this was
not much more than half of the present
Friendly Hall structure, which was
erected in at least a half dozen install-
ments without, apparently, doing any tre-
mendous violence to its architectural at-
tractiveness). No dormitory was erected
for the women until 1907, when the two-
story frame building at the southeast edge
of the campus of that day was completed,
named Mary Spiller hall in honor of the
tutor and women's adviser of pioneer
days.
The first fraternity didn't come until
December 1900, when a charter was
given to a group by Sigma Nu. Of the
nine charter members, the five still living,
all well and hearty, assembled on the
campus last December to celebrate its
semi-centennial. Surviving members are
Clarence M. Bishop, Edward N. Blythe,
Luke L. Goodrich, Richard Shore Smith,
and Frederick J. Zeigler.
The first sorority was Gamma Phi
Beta, installed on the Oregon campus in
1908.
There are now 21 fraternities and 16
women's fraternities (sororities) on the
Oregon campus.
Through the years these organizations,
encouraged by the University to enter
this institution, have co-operated effec-
tively in helping solve what often has
been a difficult housing situation.
An extensive and helpful social pro-
gram has been worked out, in marked
contrast with the unavoidable dearth of
activity in the first fifteen or twenty
years.
The Greek-letter groups are paralleled
by large dormitories for men (John
Straub hall) and women (Carson hall)
and by the several co-ops and the pre-fab
dormitories installed on the campus dur-
ing the crowded post-war years. Hen-
dricks and Susan Campbell halls remain
open for women.
First dean of women was Luella Clay
Carson, who took over the disciplinary
chore in 1895 in addition to her duties
as professor of English. Later deans were
Miss M. Ruth Guppy, Miss Elizabeth Fox
(Mrs. E. E. DeCou), Miss Louise Ehr-
mann (acting), Miss Grace Edgington
(acting), Mrs. Virginia Judy Esterly,
Miss Hazel Prutsman (Mrs. C. L. Schwer-
ing), Mrs. N. F. Macduff (acting), Mrs.
Golda P. Wickham (now associate direc-
tor of student affairs).
1. Guy Hovey
2. Horace McClure
4. Joe Widmer
5. Fletcher Linn
6. Loyal Woodworth
7. Walter McClure
11. Haskell Marsh
8. Jein Greenfield
9. Ed McCalister
10. Auther Veanie
For Many Years We Have Proudly
Served the University of Oregon
ARTIST Mff
PHOTOGRAPHERS'"
November 1951 29
CONGRATULATIONS
WEBFOOTS
On Your
75th
Year
Serving
Eugene and
The University
of Oregon
Through
The Years
Flowers
Unlimi ited
Lower Cost, Greater Service
MISS JANET SMITH, employment
memorable contribution to the Univer-
sity in establishing, with the hearty co-
operation of President Buyer, the system
oi women's co-operative houses. Miss
Smith, who devoted herself whole-heart-
edly to the welfare of the girls, getting
summer employment for them, fixing
them up with needed odd jobs during the
school year, advising them, mothering
them, saw so many who had a constant,
and sometimes a losing struggle to keep
themselves in school.
She gathered together a group of girls
who wrould fit into such a system and
started the first of four women's coopera-
tives on the Oregon campus in 1936.
The rent of the first house was $90 a
month, and forty girls met it with $2.25
each. Before her death, in March 1945,
Miss Smith had seen her plan help many
girls go through the University.
"Lower house bills, higher scholastic
achievements" was the motto guiding the
girls to an enjoyable, fruitful four years
Miss Janet Smith, former employment sec-retary of the University, established the
system of women's co-operative houses onthe campus.
as they went through college "on a shoe-
string."
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF EUGENE
PROUDLY SALUTES
THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
ON THEIR 75TH ANNIVERSARY
West Eugene Branch: Main Office: Springfield Branch:
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Eugene Eugene Springfield
SERVING LANE COUNTY SINCE 1883
Deposits up to $10,000 through the F. D. I. C.
30 Old Oregon
A Quarter-Century of Service
Many of the present faculty group of
the University, active and emeritus, were
serving the institution when the golden
anniversary of its founding was observed
in 1926. These, who make up the."quarter
century or more" group, are the subject
of the illustrated "thumbnail" sketches
given here.
James H. Gilbert
You certainly wouldn't know it to look
at him, but Dean James Henry Gilbert'03,
is the oldest member of the Oregon fac-
ulty group in point
of service. Dean Gil-
bert, who headed the
College of Litera-
ture, Science and the
Arts (now the Col-
lege of Liberal Arts)
from 1925 to his re-
tirement in 1947,
has spent all but a
few years of his life in Oregon.
For many years his lectures reverber-
ated across the campus as he gave his
students and other listeners a sound
foundation in the principles of econom-
ics. His lectures scintillated with salty
illustrative stories, and he had a way of
clinching a point with an apt quotation
from the Bible. Probably the outstanding
expert in Oregon taxation, Dean Gilbert,
known to a wide range of friends as
"Jim," has written widely on economic
subjects: one recent book, based on first-
hand observation and extended research,
was titled "Tax Systems of Australasia."
In his spare time Dr. Gilbert keeps fit by
raising fruits and vegetables on some
deep, black river-bottom land about three
miles from the campus. He is never too
busy to do something for the University
of Oregon, to which he has devoted his
energies for close to half a century.
James D. Barnett
Only one member of the present fac-
ulty group (Dr. James H. Gilbert) dates
back farther than Dr. James Duff Bar-
nett, who came to the University in 1908,
having taken his doctorate at Wisconsin
three years before. Dr. Barnett, whose
unyielding standards of scholarship com-
bined with his straight unbending pos-
ture to give him the nickname (only oc-
sionally applied) of "Stiffy," is and has
been for many years one of the busiest
October 1951
and most productive researchers in the
faculty group. His emeritus status has
made little difference, apparently, in the
length of his work day.
William P. Boynton
William Pingry Boynton, headed the
physics department from 1903 to 1932,
when he was transferred to Oregon State
College at the time
upper division sci-
ence was moved
from the University.
Dr. Boynton, Dart-
mouth graduate,
with the Ph.D. de-
gree from Southern
California, came to
the University when
equipment for graduate work and re-
search was at a minimum, and he grew
up with it. By the time science was re-
stored to the Eugene campus, Dr. Boyn-
ton had retired. He is remembered not
only for his teaching but for his fund of
Dartmouth stories and the picturesque
old car in which he got around.
Robert C. Hall
Robert Charles (Bob) Hall came to
the University of Oregon in 1917 after
running his own country newspaper in
southern Oregon to become head of the
University Press, under the general di-
rection of Dean Eric W. Allen. As his
responsibilities increased, Dean Allen
let Bob as superintendent look after
the problems of the Press, large and
small, as it grew from a little handset
plant in a basement corner to a three-
machine factory in its own concrete
building with automatic power presses.
He directed the typographical laboratory
of the School of Journalism for thirty
years. Most memorable experience came
the year before his retirement in 1948,
when a fire that gutted the Press building
made it necessary to take the machinery
apart, piece by piece, remove the ashes
and soot, oil it up and put it together
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again while the carpenters were putting
on a new rof. Hobby: golf?which he
has completely justified by achieving a
hole in one.
Alfred L. Lomax
Alfred L. Lomax had ben assistant dis-
bursing officer for the U.S. shipping
board before coming to the University in
1919. His B.B.A. is
from Oregon, and
his graduate degree
from the University
of Pennsylvania.
Professor Lomax is
a specialist in trade
and transportation,
a national officer in
the Propellor Club,
and is a trade adviser to the Portland
Chamber of Commerce. Recently he has
been giving considerable attention to the
problems connected with developing Ore-
gon's trade with Alaska. He was a mem-
ber of a Portland Chamber of Commerce
party that made an air trip through Alas-
ka last summer in the interest of building
up closer trade relations.
Dan E. Clark
Dr. Dan E. Clark, who retired in June
as head of the department of history,
thought he was going to be a newspaper
man; but in his stu-
dent days at the
State University of
Iowa he got lured
away into history,
and he has been
there, as scholar and
writer, ever since. He
is the author of sev-
eral standard works
in his field, including "The West in
American History." Dr. Clark had thirty
full years on the Oregon faculty, part of
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October 1951 33
Congratulations
To The University
On Its
75th Anniversary
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of the University of Oregon
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34 OldOrcaon
which he spent as assistant director of the
Extension Division. He directed many
Eugene summer sessions. He has enough
writing projects planned out to keep him
every bit as busy as he wants to be.
George Hopkins
George Hopkins '21 already had a
teachers' certificate from Peabody con-
servatory before attaining standing as a
junior in the Univer-
sity. He has real
"triple threat" ver-
satility in music?a
concert pianist with
many successful
tours to his credit,
author of many com-
positions which have
been well received,
and teacher in the University of Oregon
School of Music for thirty years.
Cardinal L. Kelly
Cardinal Lyle Kelly, who was on the
University faculty for almost thirty years
before retiring in 1951, had for many
years one of the
most exacting extra-
curricular jobs of
any member of the
teaching staff. He
managed the Miner
building, which its
builders had willed
to the University.
After long and prof-
itable operation, the building was sold
and the University got out of the field of
competitive business. Professor Kelly fre-
quently was called on for business advice
and since retirement has returned to the
practice of public accounting.
Eyler Brown
Eyler Brown, associate professor of
architecture, is an Oregon product who
obtained his baccalaureate degree in his
home town of Eugene and his master's
degree from the Massachusetts Institute
BEST WISHES
to the
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
on Its
75TH ANNIVERSARY
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On Their 75th Year
October 1951 35
A young man's career was
signed, sealed and delivered in
W E were sitting around after lunchParsons and I ? having our coffee and
talking about this and that, and the sub-
ject got around to how we all got started
in the work we were doing.
I'd told them how winning an essay
contest in school had put me on the road
to being a writer of sorts instead of the
engineer I thought I was going to be, and
then Bill Howell explained how, as a young
lad, he had become interested in architec-
ture through watching them remodel his
father's grocery store.
I turned to Frank Parsons and said,
"Looks as if you're the only one here who
followed his father's footsteps, Frank.
Was that by accident, or by choice, or
what?"
Frank tamped some tobacco in his pipe
and grinned. "Well, it's quite a story, but
if you're really interested, I'll tell you..."
He held a match to his pipe and puffed
thoughtfully for a moment and then went
on. "My dad always wanted me to go
into the same business he was in, but he
never tried to talk me into it. He wanted
me to do whatever I thought I could do
best, and let me have my own way about
choosing a career.
"One day after I got out of college back
in 1920, I stopped at Dad's office to tell
him I was going across town to see about
a job I'd heard was open at the mill. Dad
said that was fine and wished me luck.
Then he picked up a couple of envelopes
from his desk and said, 'As long as you're
going over that way, Frank, would you
mind dropping this off for me?'He handed
me one of the envelopes, shoved the oiher
in his coat pocket and said, 'I want to de-
liver this one myself because it's pretty
important?and it will save me some time
if you take the other.' "
Frank Parsons put down his pipe and
said, "I never did get to the mill that day
?or any other. After I delivered the en-
velope I went back to Dad's office and
asked him how soon I could start working
for him."
Bill Howell leaned across the table and
said, "What happened that made you
change your mind?"
Frank Parsons smiled and said, "It was
that envelope. It was addressed to a
woman who lived on the way to the mill,
and she opened it while I was standing
there. Inside it was a check from New
York Life. Her husband had died just a
short while before and left her with four
small children, and?well, I guess you just
never know what life insurance is all about
until you see what it means to people ..."
Bill Howell nodded. "That was a pretty
smart stunt of your father's?sending you
on an errand like that, knowing that it
might be the one thing that would swing
you over to being a New York Life agent
like himself."
We pushed back our chairs, and as we
were leaving the table Frank Parsons
said, "That's the funny part of the whole
thing. Dad was in such a hurry and the
envelopes looked so much alike that he
gave me the wrong one! He thought he'd
sent me over to pay the gas bill!"
NEW YORK LIFK INSURANCE COMPANY
51 Madison Avenue, New York 10, N. Y.
Naturally, names used in this story am fictitious.
FEW OCCUPATIONS offer a man so much in
the way of personal reward as life under-
writing. Many New York Life agents are
building very substantial futures for them-
selves by helping others plan ahead for
theirs. If you would like to know more
about a life insurance career, talk it over
with the New York Life manager in your
community?or write to the Home Office
at the address above.
of Technology. Professor Brown finished
his work in the University with the de-
gree of bachelor of science in architec-
ture in 1917 and took the degree of mas-
ter of architecture in 1922. He has been
a member of the Oregon faculty since
that time. He is a registered architect. For
a hobby he etches, and his work is rated
high.
Victoria Avakian
Victoria Avakian (Mrs. A. H. Ross)
has been teaching students of all ages to
fashion pottery, to weave, and to master
other manual arts,
for the last thirty
years. Miss Avakian
came to Oregon in
1920 as a talented
youngster with a
flair for teaching,
long before she had
taken her first aca-
demic degree. She is
convinced of the therapeutic value to
business and professional people of mas-
tering some technique or handwork, and
many an adult student has profited from
the work in her studio.
Rose E. McGrew
Mrs. Rose Elizabeth McGrew has been
emeritus professor of voice for several
years, but she is well remembered in
campus circles and
by a long list of
graduates for her in-
spiring work in the
teaching of voice.
Mrs. McGrew was
brought to the Uni-
versity by the then
dean of the School
of Music, Dr. John
J. Landsbury, in 1920. She had had thor-
ough training and a brilliant career in
grand opera in Germany and other parts
of Europe. For many years she used to
delight Oregon students, faculty, and
townspeople with her interpretations of
grand opera.
Ralph R. Huestis
Ralph R. Huestis has been guiding stu-
dents through the mysteries of zoology
since 1924, the year he took the Ph.D.
degree at the University of California.
He had taken the bachelor's degree at
McGill. Dr. Huestis has written much on
Oregon land vertebrates and has used
many generations of white rats in his
work on problems of heredity. One of his
summer occupations has been to act as
guide-lecturer on the life and natural
October 1951
CONGRATULATIONS
Oregon On A
Successful 75 Years
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
1951-1952 Basketball
Schedule
Home Games
Friday and Saturday Dec. 7, 8
Utah at Eugene
Friday and Saturday Dec. 21, 22
Wyoming at Eugene
Monday and Tuesday Jan. 7, 8
WSC at Eugene
Friday and Saturday Jan. 25, 26
St. Mary's at Eugene
Friday and Saturday Feb. 1,2
Washington at Eugene
Friday and Saturday Feb. 8, 9
Idaho at Eugene
Saturday Feb. 16
OSC at Eugene
Friday Feb. 29
OSC at Eugene
PCC Playoffs March 7,
State High School Championship
Sporting Goods
Away Games
Friday and Saturday Nov. 30, Dec. 1
Portland University at Portland
Thursday Dec. 27
Wisconsin at Cow Palace, S. F.
Friday Dec. 28
Iowa at Cow Palace, S. F.
Saturday Dec. 29
St. Mary's at Richmond
Tuesday Ian. 1
C. O. P. at Stockton
Wednesday Jan. 2
University of S. F. at Winterland,
S. F.
Thursday Jan. 3
San Jose State at San Jose
Friday and Saturday Ian. 18, 19
Washington at Seattle
Friday Feb. 1 5
OSC at Corvallis
Friday and Saturday Feb. 22, 23
WSC at Pullman
Monday and Tuesday__._Feb. 25, 26
Idaho at Moscow
Saturday Mar. 1
OSC at Corvallis
8, & 10 in the South
Playoff March 18 to 22, 1952
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Joe Gordon's
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37
I made the right choice the first time!
1 wanted to avoid a trial-and-error beginning.
So in January, 1949, after I graduated from UCLA, I
made a list of the four things I wanted most out of a career.
CO was a business of my own requiring no capital;
(2) was an income not limited by slow, scheduled raises
or a ceiling; (3) a sense of contributing something to
society, and (4) the chance to live in the community of
my choice.
The only career that fitted all these points, I was
rather surprised to learn, was life insurance. I had liked
the advertising of New England Mutual, so I stopped in
at one of their Los Angeles offices. I was really sold by
the caliber of the men I met there, and by their sincerity
and helpful attitude. I signed up, and started in on the
company's comprehensive training program.
During my second year in the business, I sold enough
life insurance to bring me two or three times the income
I could have expected from a salaried job, so soon out of
collepe. And at the same time, I have the satisfaction of
adding to the security and peace of mind of the families
I have served.
No wonder I'm sure that, in choosing a career and a
company, I made the right choice the first time!
38
If you would like more information about a career in
which your individual ability and industry?and nothing
else ? determine your income, write Mr. H. C. Chaney,
Director of Agencies, 501 Boylston St., Boston 17, Mass.
One reason New England Mutual agents do so well is that
they have a truly fine product to sell. The New England Mutual
life insurance policy is a liberal and flexible contract that can
give you just the kind of financial help you require.
And you will be pleasantly surprised to find that the rates
for many New England Mutual policies are lower today than
they were 20 years ago!
If you are interested in having your life insurance program
custom-tailored to fit your personal or business needs, get in
touch with one of your own alumni listed below, or one of
the other 700 college-trained men who represent New England
Mutual from Maine to Hawaii.
These University of Oregon men are New England Mutual repre-
sentatives:
Dean H. Connaway, '37, Portland
Mortimer E. Bonime, '50, Portland
New England Mutual would like to add several qualified Univer-
sity of Oregon men to its sales organization which is located in the
principal cities from coast to coast. If you are interested, write to
Mr. Chaney as directed above.
The New England
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Old Oregon
phenomena in Crater Lake national park.
Another diversion is looking after the
"farm" at his residence across the river
from the university.
Maude I. Kerns
Miss Maude I. Kerns '99 has devoted
her life to art instruction besides doing
a lot of painting of her own. Joining the
staff of the Univer-
sity School of Archi-
tecture and Allied
Arts in 1921, she
spent close to thirty
years inspiring one
generation of stu-
dents after another
to an appreciation
of art and an under-
standing of its fundamentals. Since retir-
ing she has been doing a lot of the paint-
ing she couldn't get at while busy as an
instructor and has gained wide recogni-
tion.
Louis A. Wood
Dr. Louis A. Wood, Ph.D. from Heidel-
berg who had his earlier degrees from
Canadian universities, taught economics
at the U. of 0. for
twenty-seven years.
Known as a progres-
sive in his field, Dr.
Wood had political
science as a hobby.
He didn't just read
it from the books;
he had a way of
spending his spare
time every two years campaigning for
either the House of Representatives or the
United States Senate. While not as yet
successful in capturing a seat in either,
he did get a fine, close, first-hand look
at Oregon and lengthened greatly his al-
ready long list of acquaintances and
friends. He retired in 1950.
Rudolph H. Ernst
Dr. Rudolf H. Ernst, who has just re-
tired as professor of English after twenty-
eight years at Oregon, is a specialist in
Shakespeare and the
English drama. A
graduate of North-
western College, in
Wisconsin, with a
doctorate from Har-
vard, he taught sev-
eral years at the Uni-
versity of Washing-
ton before coming to
Oregon. He is one of those professors
who lectures more comfortably when he
October 1951
Congratulations
To The University of Oregon
On Its 75th Anniversary
Eugene Farmer's Creamery
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Congratulations
on a
Memorable Occasion
EUGENE'S FASHION CENTER
39
Above the Flooded River. Poised a few feet above the swirling
flood, a telephone repairman tests a cable on a bridge between
Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, while his
companion uses a walkie-talkie to co-ordinate repair work. In
other places, telephone men were forced to take to boats.
Meeting the Emergency. Telephone people not only worked val-
iantly to restore service but to keep it going. Dikes were thrown
around telephone offices. Switchboards raised above rising wa-
ters. Emergency power plants set up. Mobile radio telephones
rushed to towns where telephone offices were washed out.
FIGHTING THE
NATION'S
COSTLIEST
FLOOD
From the flooded sections of Missouri,
Kansas and Oklahoma have come stories of
the loyalty, skill and courage of telephone
people in one of the Nation's worst floods.
Many returned from vacations to help.
In one town, a single radio appeal for former
operators brought twice as many as were
needed. Hundreds of trained telephone
people from other states were rushed to the
scene to help their fellow workers.
Once again the Western Electric Company
? the Bell System's manufacturing and sup-
ply unit ? proved its value in an emergency.
By plane, fast freight and truck it rushed
millions of feet of cable and wire, telephones,
switchboards and other needed equipment.
No one can tell when or where such emer-
gencies will occur, but the Bell System has
to be ready and able to handle them when
they happen. That means financially able as
well as physically able.
This points up again that it takes a finan-
cially strong telephone company, with a
strong supply organization like Western
Electric, to give the Nation the service it
requires.
Flying to the Flood Front.
Part of one hundred Long
Distance operators who
were flown from New York,
Louisville and Chicago to
Kansas City, Missouri,
where a flood of calls fol-
lowed the flood of waters.
With traditional Bell
System speed and team-
work, they pitched in to
help at busy switchboards
in the stricken areas.
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
has a bit of chalk in hand to draw more
or less appropriate hieroglyphics on the
blackboard as his discourse flows
smoothly on. He has shown thousands,
very enjoy ably, the way to understand-
ing and appreciation of a wide field in
the classics.
Louis H. Johnson
Louis H. Johnson, retired business
manager of the University, is another one
of the few old-timers who can remember
his namesake who
was the first head of
the University of
Oregon. He served
under Presidents
Strong, Campbell,
and Hall, and at the
age of 80 is still ac-
tive and interested
in the progress of
the institution. After President Camp-
bell's death he served, with Dr. Henry D.
Sheldon, dean of the School of Educa-
tion, and Karl W. Onthank, executive
secretary, on the administrative commit-
tee which served until Dr. Arnold Ben-
nett Hall took hold. Mr. Johnson was the
University steward who, along about
1915, refused to unload the whale so gen-
erously bestowed on the University by
"Loganberry Jim" Fullerton ? which
stubbornness pleased everybody, except
Mr. Fullerton.
Karl W. Onthank
Karl W. Onthank. associate director of
student affairs has been student, faculty
man and administrator, for forty years.
He was graduated in
that famous class of
1913 and after three
years in public
school work returned
to the University as
private secretary to
President Campbell
and was executive
secretary in the last
years of that president's administration.
When illness incapacitated President
Campbell, Mr. Onthank was one of a
committee of three that looked after the
administrative routine, his part being
student affairs and discipline. Another of
his several positions was dean of person-
nel. In his student days Karl was the first
editor of the Emerald.
Edward H. McAlister
Professor Edward H. McAlister, whose
death occurred a few weeks ago, was the
last of the "old guard" who were in the
October 1951
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University when the first president, John
W. Johnson, was in charge of the school.
An 1890 graduate, Professor McAlister
was dean of the old College of Engineer-
ing and later head of the department of
mathematics and astronomy. Among his
valuable research work he made the earli-
est check of water power on the McKenzie
and the Santiam, experimented with
road-building material, tested timber
strength, discovering that old fir timbers
after fifty years had gained slightly,
rather than lost, in tensile strength.
Mary H. Perkins
Not so many years ago, when Miss
Mary H. Perkins could spare the time
she worked out with mashie and putter
and for some time ^^^^^^^^^^
was the top woman
golfer of Eugene.
Mostly, however, she
was busy with her
I niversity work as
professor of English.
With degrees from
Bates and Radcliffe
she joined the Uni-
versity of Oregon faculty in 1908 and
continued for nearly forty years. A mem-
ber of Phi Beta Kappa, she was one of
the most active in bringing a chapter to
Oregon in 1923.
Herbert C. Howe
A popular professor who had student
outdoor sports as his hobby and took
much of his recreation watching football
practice was Herbert Crombie Howe, for
many years head of the department of
English. Coming from Cornell Univer-
sity in 1901, Professor Howe continued
on the staff of his department for thirteen
years after retiring from the headship.
He served for several years as Oregon's
representative in the Pacific Coast Ath-
letic Conference.
Albert E. Caswell
Dr. Albert E. Caswell, who has been
delving in "the atomic structure of ener-
gy" and related matters for many years
and worked in the
field of radar at the
Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology
during the late war,
has been an Oregon
faculty member, ex-
cept for two years,
since 1913. He is the
author of several
standard textbooks on physics, has
astronomy for a hobby; headed the de-
partment of physics for several years.
W. F. Goodwin Thacher
W. F. Goodwin Thacher, Princeton
graduate, came to the English depart-
ment of the University from Portland in
1914 after having
served on the teach-
ing staff of Portland
Academy and also
on the Pacific
Monthly, then pub-
lished in Portland.
His wife, Jane, tal-
ented concert pian-
ist, former pupil of
Leschetizky, joined the faculty of the
School of Music two years later, retiring
in 1951. Both the Thachers developed
some outstanding students. For many
\ ears, in addition to his work in the de-
partment of English. Mr. Tracher was
professor of advertising in the School of
Journalism.
We Proudly Salute
The UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
On Its 75th Anniversary
Jit
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ome
Phone 5-3112
42 Old Oregon
Fred L. Stetson
Fred Lea Stetson came to Oregon in
1913 as an assistant professor of educa-
tion from the University of Washington,
where he had obtained the master's de-
gree and served as instructor. He con-
tinued his increasingly useful service un-
til retirement thirty-seven years later.
Professor Stetson, a specialist in second-
ary and higher educational teaching
methods, served several years as director
of the University's Eugene summer ses-
sion. He has written numerous mono-
graphs and articles in his field, including
also in-service training for teachers.
Fredrick L. Shinn
Dr. Frederick L. Shinn, who retired
ten years ago, was acting head of the de-
partment of chemistry while Professor
Orin F. Stafford was
absent in connection
with research pro-
jects and head of the
department after
Professor Stafford's
death. Dr. Shinn,
graduate of Indiana
University, came to
the University chemistry staff in 1907,
when McClure hall, scheduled to be torn
down before long to make way for a new
building, was new. (The University, in-
cidentally, has had a lot of use of that
?825.000 building of three stories and
basement.)
George Turnbull
George Turnbull. retired in 194o, was
professor of journalism in the University
for 31 \ears. He was adviser to the Ore-
gon Daily Emerald
for more than 25
years and for fifteen
years adviser to the
junior class. He ed-
ited Oregon Ex-
changes, magazine
for Oregon news-
paper workers, from
1920 to 1932. In
1939 he published "History of Oregon
Newspapers" and has written many mag-
azine articles in the journalism field.
Alice H. Ernst
Alice Henson Ernst (Mr>. Rudolf H.),
has been on the Oregon faculh since
1924. She has the bachelors and masters
degrees from the University of Washing-
ton. Mrs. Ernst has imparted to genera-
tions of Oregon students her own enthus-
iasm for verse-writing and other forms of
October 1951
litcran creation. Her hobby is early the-
atrical history and Indian masques and
dramatics, in which she has several books
and many magazine articles.
Andrew Fish
Dr. Andrew Fish, member of the his-
tory teaching staff from 1(J2O to his re-
tirement in 1947, is one of several faculty
men who had years
of preaching to his
credit before taking
up University work.
Mr. Fish carried on
studies in history
which led to the
bachelor's degree in
1920 and the mas-
ters degree one year
later. He took the Ph.D. degree at Clark
University in 1923. Since retiring, Dr.
Fish has taught several years at the Uni-
versity of Washington. He is at present
recovering from a serious illness, in Pasa-
dena, Calif.
Howard D. Taylor
Dr. Howard D. Taylor, head of the
psychology department, is one year into
his second quarter century at Oregon.
Graduate of Pacific
University, with the
Ph.D. from Stan-
ford, he has done
much directly useful
researcli here in con-
nection with meth-
ods of teaching and
factors affecting
mental health. He
served several years as associate dean of
the graduate school under the deanship
of Dr. Olof Larsell.
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University of Oregon
celebrates its
751 k Anniversary
read the only
COMPLETE U of O HISTORY
told in
"The Story of Eugene"
co-authors Lucia Wilkins Moore, Nina Wilkins
McCornack, Gladys Wilkins McCready
?"The authors have not palled any punches.
Especially in their chapters on the U. of 0.
they have been amazingly (but politely) frank;
have stimulated the curiosity of researchers for
generations to come. Packed with faces and
anecdotes, it is history and something more."
Eugene Register Guard
"The thrilling story of a community, and in a
sense?of America itself, from pioneer settle-
ment to bustling metropolis."?L. C. Beckham.
"The chapter on the University gives us the
first? and only?clear picture of its tragedies
and battles for existence. Written at a nice fast
clip, with a little lime out for the poetry of the
place." Mrs. L. R. Faubk>n, alumna
" 'Tti a lovely piece of telling and of pains-
taking research?most unusual and satisfying."
?Mrs. James L. Robertson
"/ am indeed proud to have the Story of
Eugene in my library; the simple pattern oflife brings a song to the heart."?Paul Clarke
Stauffer
"One of the best local histories in print in
the U.S. A superb University story. I believe it
the best history of a University ever written."
?Kent Sagendorph, author of "Michigan?The
History of a University;" Stratford House Asso-
ciate.
"?Most interesting and refreshing in its ori-
ginality; we think the community and the Uni-
versity owe you a debt of gratitude for gath-
ering all the facts, telling them in such an
entertaining way, and leaving them in black and
while for posterity."?Anon
"You've given me back Miss Ran kin with her
boxes of plumes and beads, and Penny Gaylord,
and the board walks where we lost our Sunday
school money.?/ imagine your desk is piled
high with the memories you have evoked. Thanks
again for all of it."?Mrs. Chas. G. Bluett, al-
umna.
"its novel approach and everyday breezinesspresent a new and refreshing technique?."?
Chas. Diclcson
"The authors have woven throughout the story
their own keen insight and understanding and
have changed as if by magic dry facts to a
moving, fascinating history."?The Pen Woman
"The three authors developed a unique way of
conveying the true spirit of the valley to the
reader by providing atmospheric preludes to
each chapter which set the scene and pace, seen
thru the eyes of 'The Old Settler.' "?Register-
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Fred N. Miller
The new penthouse apartment on the
roof of the infirmary building makes Dr.
Fred N. Miller, director of the University
health service, and
Mrs. Miller (Dr.
Marian Hayes) that
much handier to
their work of help-
ing keep the Oregon
student body in con-
dition to study. Dr.
Miller has been on
the job here for
twenty-six years. He is a graduate of La-
fayette, with his medical degree from
Chicago.
Robert D. Horn
One of the standard works directing
students on how to put the English lan-
guage together in a way to express ideas
the most understandably is Horn's "Eng-
lish Composition." The author is Dr.
Robert D. Horn, whose three degrees
were all taken at the University of Michi-
gan. Dr. Horn came to this University in
1925. A favorite field of his is the litera-
ture of the eighteenth century.
Leavitt O. Wright
Dr. Leavitt 0. Wright, American born
in Mexico, came to the University of Ore-
gon just 25 years ago from the University
of California, where he was doing gradu-
ate work. His doctorate is dated 1928.
Dr. Wright is one of those teachers whose
infectious enthusiasm stimulates the stu-
dent to do his utmost with the Spanish
"ra" verb and related difficulties. Dr.
Wright is the author of a book on that
famous type of verb and has done a lot
more research in the Romance languages.
Congratulations!
U. ofO.
DIAMOND
ANNIVERSARY
Eugene
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Victor P. Morris
Another Oregon graduate to work up
to a deanship is Victor P. Morris '15.
He came back to Oregon as professor of
economics after hav-
ing taken the doc-
tor's degree at Co-
lumbia and served
on the teaching staff,
in economics, of
Grinnell College in
his native Iowa and
Oregon State Col-
lege. In 1936 he was
made dean of the School of Business Ad-
ministration and has served fifteen years
in that position. Keenly interested in for-
eign affairs, he has done much lecturing
in that field as well as in the fields of
economics and business.
Florence Alden
Miss Florence Alden was head of the
department of physical education for
women for 25 years. Taking degrees from
Smith and Wellesley, she taught at the
University of Missouri and at the Central
School of Physical Education in New
York before coming west. On her retire-
ment Miss Alden continued her residence
in Eugene; she loves the West.
Carl L. Huffaker
Carl L. Huffaker, professor of educa-
tion, hasn't quite reached the 25-year
mark in the University but will get there
this year, since he
is remaining, on an
emergency arrange-
ment with the state
board of higher edu-
cation, past the regu-
lar age of retire-
ment. He came to
Oregon in 1925, four
years after taking
the Ph.D. degree at the State University
of Iowa. Dr. Huffaker is a specialist in
school finance, organization, and meas-
urements, and he has helped many Ore-
gon school districts solve problems.
Harry B. Yocom
Dr. Harry B. Yocom, who came to the
science faculty of the University of Ore-
gon in 1920 after receiving the degree of
Ph.D. at the University of California, was
at the head of the department of zoology
for many years, retiring in 1945 for rea-
sons of health. He succeeded Dr. John F.
Bovard, who moved over to become the
first dean of the School of Physical Edu-
cation.
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About 55 per cent of the graduates of General Electric's
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employee relations.
Of the more than ten thousand engineers and other
specialists at General Electric, about 60 per cent are in
some phase of engineering or research, with 20 per cent in
marketing, and the other 20 per cent in manufacturing,
purchasing, etc.
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paths for college graduates at General Electric. The grad-
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himself irrevocably to one type of work.
It's a G-E tradition to encourage the newcomer to look
around, try several different assignments on for size, find
the kind of job which he believes will be most satisfying
and to which he can make the greatest contribution.
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