"Elephants a-pilin teak, In the sludgy, squdgy creek , Where the silence ing that nv y You was rf afraid to speak! " -Kipling "Mandalay" ELEPHANT S Two million elephant s could not do the wor k now being done by Gen- eral Electric Compan y motors. Whatever th e work to be done, whethe r it needs the power of a n elephant or the force of a man arm, there is a General Electric moto r that will do it faithfull y for a lifetime at a cos t of a few cents an hour . The elephant is man most intel- ligent helper. But-consider thi s interesting comparison: An elephant i3 much larger than the electric motor of a "yarder " or logging machine " has the power of twenty ele- phants; it handles clusters o f logs ; it works dependably , twenty-four hours at a stretch , if necessary. Twenty elephants would ea t daily 10,000 pounds of green food, which a corps of attendants must gather . A motor "eats " nothing but electricity, supplie d at the throw of a switch . So our own iron elephants ar e better ; and the place for flesh- and-blood elephants is in th e jungle or in museums y the museums will also exhibi t wash-tubs and old-fashione d irons, and all the other house - hold and industrial tools whos e work can be done by motors s o much better and at so little cost. GENERAL ELECTRI C 201 The Quality Store of Eugen e There is no Economy inCheap Merchandis e F r a t CLOTHE S for Young Me n Are up to that standard of dependabl quality found always in the merchan- dise sold in Eugene's Own Store . at" Clothes are smartly styled.. at" Clothes are splendidly tailored and fin- d. at" Clothes are made from fine shape-retain- durable and attractive fabrics-and the y reasonably priced at- $28 .00 to $3 7,5 0 9Zi~ ~CLScNotianfit~unne*1 - RAOnSON Surma Buaa :KSTON E Minneapolis Rochesrer Chicago Pnun Mn.QwrnPcoria Oeta r Grccnsboro, N . C Mount ROYA L Monucal MAIN FEATURES OF THE INTERCOLLEGIATE ALUMNI HOTEL MOVEMENT Interested alumni can secure from a clerk at the desk of each Inter - collegiate Alumni Hotel an information leaflet which describes i n detail the Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel movement . At each Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel there will be maintained a car d index of the names of all the resident alumni of all the participatin g institutions. This will be of especial benefit to traveling alumni i n locating classmates and friends. The current issues of the alumni publications of all the participatin g institutions will be on file at each Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel . Reservation cards will be available at the clerk desk in each des- ignated hotel and at the alumni office in each college or university . These reservation cards will serve as a great convenience to travel- lers in securing advance accommodations. The managers of all Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels are prepared t o cooperate with Individual alumni to the fullest extent and are als o prepared to assist in she creation of new local alumni association s and in the development ai,zi extension of the activities of those alread formed . S. K e Pa r,borgh Camroao i sno Porn on Lim.Miami Sr-laSan Diego OMO naoaSyracuse THE PARTICIPATING COLLEGES : The alumni organizations of the following colleges and universities ar participants in the Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel movement : Akron AlabamaAmherst Bates . Beloi tBrown Bucknell Bryn Maw rCalifornia Carnegie Institut eCase School ChicagoCity College New Yor k Colgat e Colorado School Mine sColorado ColumbiaCornell CumberlandEmory Georgia Goucher New York University Stevens Institut eHarvard North Carolina Texas A . and M . Illinois North Dakota Texas Indiana Northwestern UnionIowa State College Oberlin Vanderbilt James Milliken Occidental VassarKansas Teachers Coll. Ohio State Vermont Kansas Ohio Wesleyan Virgini aLake Eric Oklahoma Washington and Le e Lehigh Oregon Washington Stat eLouisiana Oregon State Washington Maine Penn State WellesleyM . I. T. Pennsylvania Wesleyan College Michigan State Purdue Wesleyan Universit yMichigan Radcliffe Western Reserve Mills Rollins WhitmanMinnesota Rutgers Williams Missouri Smith WisconsinMontana South Dakota Wooster Mount Holyoke Southern California Worcester Poly. Inst.Nebraska Stanford Yale INTERCOLLEGIATE ALUMNI HOTELS : Roosevelt, New York Onondaga, Syracuse Schenlcy, Pittsburg h Waldorf-Astoria, New York Sinton, Cincinnati Wolford, Danville, Ill .University Center,New York Wolverine, Detroit Neil House, Columbus Copley-Plaza, Boston Multnomah, Portland, Ore . Pere Marquette, Peori aUniversity Center,Boston Sacramento, Sacramento Southern, Baltimor e Blackstone, Chicago Californian, Fresno St. James, San Diego Windermere, Chicago Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebr . Park, Madiso nUniversity Center,Chicago Oakland, Oakland, Cal . Oenry, Greensboro, N . C.Ben iamin Franklin, Philadelphia Lycoming, Williamsport, Pa . Sheraton, High Point, N . C.Willard, Washington Mount Royal, Montrea l Radisson, Minneapolis King Edward, Toronto Charlotte, Charlotte, N . C. Biltmorc, Los Angeles Coronado, St . Louis George Vanderbilt, Ashevill e_Palace, San Francisco Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Pa . N. C. Olympic, Seattle Urbana-Lincoln, Urbana, Ill . Francis Marion, Charleston ,Seneca, Rochester Saint Paul, Sc . Paul S. C. Claremont, Berkeley Savannah, Savannah, Ga . Ponce de Leon, Miam i o be built in 19t6-2 .7 Madison sonsBaltimore Cn.Charlotte, ee, N.C. Sorrow Cincinnati Kura BowaaoToronro, BETHLEHEMBethlehem, Pa. 4 OL1) OREGON April, 192 7 The Wonderfu l Gift- Any Time- Your Photograp h Kennell -Ellis Studio s Eugene Salem ilnffmun jewelers and Opticians See Us for Your Wants - Our Prices and Quality Will Convince Yo u By All Mean sSee Us Befor e You Buy You rDiamond 790 Willamette Stree DANCE PROQRAM S Engraved Announcement Place Cards Visiting Cards Fraternity Stationer Coe Stationery Compan y 941 Willamette St . Agents for The Owl Drug Co. Product and Darnee Toilet Article CROWN DRUG CO . JAMES H. BAKER, '2 4 Phone 146 Miner Bldg. When it comes To Love Making, Are Yo u Timid Tim ! "Say It With Flowers" CHASE GARDEN S FLORISTS NINTHW PHONE 1950 @11MI MSF_UJLUJG IMMATLA _ MV!J_JI .W! .11AJ4_ !CL?Al!NIVJMIMMl.U:WLl!lIWJI .u Published every month during col -lege year at the University o f Oregon, Eugene, Oregon MEMBER OF ALUMN I MAGAZIN'ES ASSOCIATE D gI Vol. IX, No. 7 April, 1927 III11311111!!IIIEII!II IIE1IIII1111IIIiIIIIVIIIII1111111illllII611IIILIiI 1111111II]I IEII I!II6111111111!II11lIB IIII IN III IIII I!1111111111111611111!VII111iiI[I IIIItl1161l II Nll11111111111111lluvl!VIII 1111{I IIIHI11111l111[III111AI11111111111!111111pll16111111111116{II AIlI 111111Nllllll111111111111111!1111 Contents for Apri l MOVING TOWARD A SUMMER QUARTER By Arnold Bennett Hal l THE STORY OF THE HUNDRED PROFESSOR S By Dean Alfred Powers, 0 8 CALIFORNIA ALUMNI GREET PRESIDENT HALL 12 TRADITIONSOF THE SUMMER SESSIONS By Dr. Dan E. Clark 1 5 FROM THE FAR CORNERS OF THE STATE . 16 SUMMER AFTERNOON AT OREGON(POem) By Irene Stewart, ex-1 1 6 EMERALD EDITOR DISCOURSES ON TRADITIONS By Sol Abramson, 27 1 7 A CONNOISSEUR OP RARE BIRDS (Book Reviews ) . By S, Stephenson Smith 1 8 FACULTY NEWS NOTES . Department edited by Lois Osborne Casey 2 0 OREGON (Poem) By Walter L . Wbittlesey, 1 2 0 EDITORIALS 23 CAMPUS NEWS 2 4 LEMON EXTRACT Department edited by Paul Luy 2 6 NEWS OF THE CLASSES 28 List of Advertisers a Ba a B e B ssiIrslIIsIU611Il1IAlilllliIIiliI1fI!1!IIIIIIIIIIlIl1111iIII1IiI11716111I1{III6111111l11111!!II1111lIIIIi1mfis11116IIIImllilllllllll1ll11NlIIIII1111111111116111111811111IIIIIIIIIIIIIAIII6 p61III116111f11tl111IIIIuil!1111111111!16111111EIIIIIINIi11111111111111I1116I11116111161H6i1111I1!IIIIf611i11111161II11!IIIIIIIIIIISIl111lIi Anchorage 33 Behnke-Walker 32Blythe Witter Co 31 Booth-Kelly 27Brill, J . C 38 Camel Cigarettes Back Cove r Chase Gardens 9City Cleaners 33 Coe Stationery -- 4Co-op 37Crown Drug Co 4 De Naffs 86Densmore Leonard 33 Domestic Laundry 33 Eugene Business College 39Eugene Clearing House 40 Eugene Farmers Creamery 39Eugene Fruit Growers 36 Eugene Hotel Inside Back Cover French Shop 39 General Electric __ Inside Front Cove r Gill & Co 36Graham's '- 39 Hoffman's Jewelry 4 Intercollegiate Hotes 2- 3Jim, the Shoe Dr 33 John Hancock 29 Kennel-Ellis 4Kilham s 39Kuykendall's 35 C. A. Lee 83 Manerud-Huntington 86Mathis 81 MtMorran & Washburne 1Meier & Frank 31 New Service Laundry 33 Northwestern School of Com - merce 29 Office Machinery Supply Co 83Oregon Electric 27 Osburn Hotel 88 J . C . Penney 33Peter Pan -" .. 3 7Portland Hotel 31 Preston & Hales 33Prince Albert 25 Rainbow 33 Simmons Co 87Southern Pacific 30 Table Supply 34Tiffany -Davis 35 Underwood-Elliott 38University Florists 37 White Electric 39Wetherbee-Powers 39 tls.~9Cri9r%.1rr :193niIr.~Ili~l1l%.lirrwYlr~.Z R.i9~rl~r%.nzrr.\1rr.~lrrilfYal9r fi5YIlYiA~rl~rrlir,i~Inillii II IIM .`clIYA.- rai+ritarrllrr ."RIn`.ilfWIA lrnlrYe" 14,11Ali 0 0 PRESIDENT ARNOLD IIENNFTT HAL L To President Hall goes the credit of first conceiving the idea and the possibilities of the Greater Summe r Sessions at Oregon . Enthusiastically and with his characteristic energy . he started immediately to plan fo r the Oregon summer ses,siuns, fur a fourth quarter that would rival the best summer sehnnls of the countr y . . . .a far western summer school between the mountains and the sea! " Volume IX APRIL, 1927 No. 7 Moving Toward a Summer Quarte r By ARNOLD BENNETT HALL, O NE of the first definite thoughts that came to me after my arrival sity Iocation, and the undoubted charm of its climate. " What a wonder- ful place far a summer session, " was my spontaneous reaction. Then , as I began to see more of the surrounding country, to glimpse the snow- capped suMmits of the Cascades, the trackless miles of virgin timber, an the lovely pathways through magnificent forests that led to mountai n lakes, all within two or three hoursdrive from the University, m y spontaneous reaction developed into a matured conviction. I also realized how the indescribable beauty of my adopted stat e had never become known to the people of the central states . I though t that the establishment of a strong summer session that would attrac t people from the Mississippi Valley to spend a summer at Eugene woul d perhaps be the best possible manner of bringing an adequate conceptio of the beauty and resources of the state to the attention of the middl e west. This would be a real service to Oregon, for I am convinced tha t when once the facts are known, Oregon will become the great playground of the Nation . Moreover, as I became . familiar with the immediate problems of th e University, I found the development of a full fledged four-quarter sys- tem an economic necessity. By developing a full summer quarter, wit h a curriculum ultimately as rich as that offered in the regular quarters , we can increase our building capacity over 30 per cent by spreadin g our attendance over four quarters instead of over three . This wil l require some time but the present development of the summer sessio n is the initial step. . Finally, this will enable us to give the students at the University o f Oregon contacts with the best professors from other states during th e summer session and also greatly facilitate the very wholesome tendency towards exchange professorships between the greater universities . Because of the desire of men from the east to spend a summer on th e Pacific slope, it will be possible to attract the best instructors for a sum- mer quarter, even on the limited salaries that the University can no w afford to pay. I3ere is a real, practical method by which the alumni and friend s of the University can render material aid to the University and to th e commonwealth. Bring the summer session to the attention of every per - son who might be interested. Write your friends about it . Send us th e names of those who might be interested and let us send them our illus- trated announcement. The railroad fares are so cheap now that man y people in the east can have the benefit of a summer session and the joys of a wonderful trip for the price of one . It will help the state . It wil l be a genuine service to those who know little or nothing about th e University. It will hasten the day when we can secure a full-fledge d four quarter system at Eugene The Story of the Hundred Professor s By DEAN ALFRED POWERS, Director of the Summer Session s O NE HUNDRED professors are under contract . Tw ohundred and ten courses are definitely arranged . I nthe first summer following the semi-centennial, the greate r summer sessions have become a fact . Last summer, 1,225 stu - dents attended at Eugene and in Port - land . This summer, faculty and cur- riculum have been set up for 2,000 a t the two places . "We'll do our part," said Dr . Hall . "We'll do it for three years, with a summer program never before remotel y approached in this state, and the n But Dr . Hall, it already appears , had girded up his patience for too dur- able a wait . The way it looks now , there will be more alumni than eve r attended a homecoming cafeteria lunc h in the men's gymnasium, more teacher s than ever assembled for the Decembe r educational meeting in Portland, an d more out-of-state visitors than can ge t into the Eugene auto camp and thos e out Springfield way put together . Thi s is speaking in slightly superlative lan- guage, but when by the first of Marc h three hundred and fifty write in abou t the physical education courses and th e summer school of athletic coaching , there is some basis for expecting tha t the campus will be fairly populous be - tween June 20 and July 29, and that Lincoln high school, th e habitation of the Portland session, will house as many matur e people as it now houses adolescents . Magazines consider Christmas stories in July and Fourt h of July stories in December . In a similar anticipatory way , summer school programs are set up . Dr . Hall and member s of the faculty have been working on the greater summer ses- sion offerings since November . The preliminary bookle t announcing them has been ready for some time, and the com- plete catalogue will shortly be available, with full descrip- tions of the courses and biographical statements on th e hundred instructors . In detail and in unity, it promises ade- quate substance for six weeks of study . "A corking set-up in English," says Dr . C . V . Boyer , noting with satisfaction the names of Wilkie Nelson Collins , writer and critic of New York ; Dr . Oscar J . Campbell, prom- inent scholar of the University of Michigan ; Professo r Elmer W . Smith, of Colgate University ; Miss Shirley V . Long, short story teacher of Columbia University ; Dr . Arthur S . Patterson of Syracuse University all supple- mented by seven members of his regular staff . "Nothing seems to be left out of the history," observe s Dr . R. C. Clark, "and it's all given by good men ." Good me n is not too strong a term Dr . Joseph Schafer, who grace d the Oregon faculty for so many years and who is now super- intendent of the Wisconsin Historical Society ; Dr . Edwar d P . Cheyney, distinguished historian of the University of Penn- sylvania, whose books you have all studied ; Dr . William A . Morris, of the University of California, and noted authority on English history ; Dr . R .. F . Arragon, brilliant member o f the Reed College faculty . All these for history, plus Dr . Donald Barnes, Dr . Andrew Fish, Dr . Dan E . Clark and Pro - fessor Walter Barnes, the latter giving a course on new Rus - sia, the subject of a book he is writing . "Not so bad, " admits Dr . H . D . Sheldon, scottishly, as he lovingly scan s the thirty-three education course s offered in the two sessions . It is a menu that should prove satisfactory i n its range and variety, including sev- eral lower division offerings, a larg e number of upper division courses, an d nine of strictly graduate status for th e regular and post-sessions, . On the edu- cation staff the women instructors ar e in the minority but distinctly able i n their academic and practical prepar- ation. Miss Alice Barrows, leadin g authority in America on platoon schoo l activities, has been able to get a si x weeks' leave from her duties as special- ist in the United States Bureau of Edu- cation to come to Portland for tw o courses. Miss Margaret Burr, of th e Seattle schools, rewarded a long searc h for the ideal person to give the course s on the teaching of backward childre n and the psychology and education o f atypical children . Mrs . L . O . Ander- son, one of the leading women admin- istrators in the state of Washington and superintenden t of schools at Waterville, will give a course for dean s of girls and another on the teacher and her school . Mrs . Margaret Bannard G-oodalI, head of the English departmen t of the University high school, will give methods of instructio n in English . Four women and fourteen men-it's not the public schoo l proportion at all, but the men are modest in spite of thei r sex and their notable achievements . Dr . George D . Straye r of Columbia University, Superintendent Jesse H. Newton o f Denver, Superintendent Carleton Washburne of Winnetka , Superintendent Harry B . Wilson of Berkeley, Superintenden t C. A . Rice and Assistant Superintendent E . H. Whitney o f Portland, Professor Edwin J . Brown of Stanford University , Professor J . H . Hoist of Montana State College, A . C . Argo, principal of the Sequoia Union high school, Redwood City , California, comprise the visiting instructors . The regula r staff will include Dr . Sheldon, Dr . Homer P . Rainey, Dr . B . W . DeBusk, Flaud C . Wooton and Kai Jensen . The personnel in other schools and departments is equall y outstanding . Two men of national reputation have bee n secured for psychology, Dr . Franklin Fearing of Ohio Wes- leyan University for Portland and Dr . Adam R . Gilliland o f Northwestern University for Eugene . At Eugene Professo r Howard R . Taylor and Thomas D . Cutsforth of the regula r psychology staff will also give courses, the former bein g scheduled for the psychology of learning and the psycholog y of vocational guidance, the latter for beginners' laboratory . Music is especially strong at both places . Dean Lands - bury and Mrs . Anna Landsbury Beck, unavailable themselves April, 1927 OLD OREGON 9 because of a trip planned to the South Sea islands, wer e asked to name the best possible instructor for public schoo l music at Eugene. "Minerva C . Hall, supervisor of music at Long Beach , California," they said . A wire was dispatched . at the time of the floods in the southern state, but after some suspense an acceptance came, insuring three unusually attractive course in public school music-elementary public school methods , junior and senior high school methods, and practical grou p artistry, including orchestras, glee clubs, choruses an d assembly music n the Long Beach schools, is on the extension faculty of th e University of. California . She has been in great demand i n the summer schools of the east, where she has served on sev- eral faculties, including that of Northwestern University , noted for its music offerings . Her courses will be supple- mented by elements of musical science and history and appre- ciation of music, given by Miss Miriam Little of the regula r University faculty. In Portland there will be six courses. Frederick W . Good- rich, well-known musician and organist, and William H . Boyer, supervisor of music in the Portland sellouts, will each offer two courses. For some time there has been a deman d for a course in Italian for music teachers, and this is bein g satisfied this year through securing Beniamino Re, instructo in Italian in the Portland Center. Then Dr . Fearing is going to give a course on the psychology of music and . art. Th e offerings in the Portland session have long enjoyed a reputa- tion for distinction and practical value and they are bein g extended by these fresh and fascinating additions Reference has been made to the interest that has bee n shown in the physical education courses e summer school of athletic coaching is given elsewhere in this issue of OLD OREGON . The large number who will be in atten- dance will make the work just that much more valuable. In the regular program for women, a national leader i s being broughtfrom New York City-Miss Christine Dobbins , inspector of dancing and physical education in the New York schools , out as one of the two leading women in the country wh o could contribute the most at the University of Oregon . He r work was known on the campus, her wide training in Europe and America, her attractive personality and her genuine capac- ity as a teacher. But to make doubly sure, wires were sent to Columbia University, New York University and Barnar d College, and in the summer school files are two telegrams and a letter from these great insti- tutions in enthusiastic ap- praisals of her as an instructo and technical authority. Dr. John F . Bovard, dea n of the school of physical edu- cation, gave up an attractiv e offer at another University i n order that he might participate in the greater summer sessions His exhaustive study, in col- laboration with Professor F . W. Cozens, of California, o n tests and measurements i n physical education has attract- ed wide attention, and one o f his courses will be in this field. The other will be on the phy- siology of exercise. Robert Krohn, supervisor of physical education in the Port - land public schools, dynamic teache and master of technique, will hav e charge of the work in the Portlan d session, giving graded exercises for rural and city schools and sport s and recreations In a limited list of America n schools of journalism that could be numbered on the fingers of on e hand, that of the University o f Oregon would be included . It s benefits have been extended to the greater summer sessions . Man y alumni, trained in the days of Gen- ung rhetoric and in the somewhat similar though less rigi d period of formality some years following, will be glad t o secure the clarifying influences of objective writing as dis- tinguished from the subjective. Teachers of English in par- ticular will welcome the opportunity to take the course offered by Professor George Turnbull on editing the high schoo l newspaper, or the one on newswriting as a help in teaching composition. In Portland, Walter W . R . May, executiv e news editor of the Morning Oregonian, will give a genera l course on journalistic writing, designed doubly to serve teach- ers and writers . He promises that assignments will be o n concrete things and never on dreams and visions and fancies and impressions Shirley V . Long was mentioned awhile ago. She is bein g brought from Columbia University to the Portland sessio n to serve exactly one hundred people . Her classes will h e limited to that number-fifty in elementary short story an d fifty in advanced short story . Owing to the demand for th e work, no one will be permitted to take both . Arrangement s have been made for preliminary enrollment and reservation s may be secured by writing to the Portland office of the Uni- versity, 322 Corbett Building . Miss Long wrote the othe r day asking whether she should require three short stories or two. Her query is illuminating . It indicates that she is no t afraid of paper work and is going to use the project metho d in teaching. She is author of the well-known Columbia cor- respondence course in short story, for which, incidentally , that institution charges forty dollars Between the two sessions some shifts in emphasis hav e been made this year . Mathematics and chemistry will b e given only on the campus, an attractive series of courses being set up in both departments, while German and Latin will b e given only in Portland . Bot- any will be emphasized in th e Portland session and marin e courses in the subject will b e given at the field station a t Coos Bay, but none are sche- duled for the campus . Th e other science in Portland wil l be biology. In Eugene, a total of nine - teen science courses will b e given in physics, zoology , chemistry and laboratory psy- chology, with a field geolog y course scheduled for the Wal- lowa mountains under th e direction of Dr . Warren D . Smith, from June 15 t o July 13. The marine zoology statio nFROM ELK to OLI) OREGON April, 1927 . will be in operation from June 16 to July 20, offering tw o courses in botany and three in zoology, Miss Ethel 1 .. Sanbor n being instructor in the former and Dr . Harry B . Yocom, in- structor in the latter, as well as general director of the camp . The commodious cabin owned by the Boy Scouts of Coo s county has been rented for the summer session . You will recall Dean Collins' story on Uppercut Colleg e and President Micky O 'Brien's querulous meditations : "Fit- osofy, filosofy-what t 'ell's filosophy` l" That classic wa s written before Dr . George Rebec left the University of Miell- igan to come to Oregon to arouse and satisfy an interest i n that subject that is unique in it extent . Dr . Rebec is remain- ing on the campus for two grea t courses and as adviser for th e three or four hundred graduat e students who will he workin g for their master's and doctor 's degrees. "Who is the outstandin g philosopher for the Portlan d session??" was the next consider- ation and Dr . William Savory , head of the department . at th e University of Washington, wa s secured for social ethics an d present movements in philos- ophy. Eleven courses in sociolog y have been arranged, six at Eu- gene and five in Portland . Dr . P. A . Parsons, whose recen t books, Introduction to Moder n Social Problems and Crime an d the Criminal, have enjoyed a wide popularity, will have as hi s associate at Eugene Professo r Charles N . Reynolds of Stan - ford University . In Portland , Dr. Thomas D . Eliot, note d sociologist, writer and teacher , of Northwestern University ; Miss Margaret D . Creech, assis- tant professor of applied sociol- ogy ; and Mrs . Saidie Orr-Dun- bar, executive secretary of th e Oregon Tuberculosis Associa- tion, will comprise the staff . I n either session it will be easy t o find the courses wanted . Tho University of Oregon i s the only coast summer sessio n offering a professional series o f courses for library workers an d teacher-librarians . Miss Della J . Sisley, assistant professor i n the school of librarianship in the University of California , is coming for cataloguing and classification, while adminis- tration of school libraries and book selection and evaluatio n will be given respectively by Miss E . Lenore Casford and Mrs . Mabel McClain of the University staff . Four courses in art will be given in Portland by Mis s Esther Wuest, director of art instruction in the Portlan d public schools and popular and effective teacher in forme r sessions. This year, art will be given for the first time i n the Eugene session, Newland B . Zane, assistant professor o f design, being scheduled for three courses , Business administration will also for the first time be a summer feature at Eugene . Accounting, business manage- ment and investments are the three courses . They will b e taught by Franklin Felts, assistant dean of the school o f business administration . Those interested in working for a degree of master of business administration will find thes e the beginning of a sequence which can be studied over a period of time . Romance language students have an unusual opportunit y this surname, since a graduate course in French phonetic s has been set up, under the direction of Dr . Arthur , terson, chnirni ;ul of the romance language department o f Syracuse University . Advanced Spanish will be given b y Professor L . O . Wright, whil e first and second year Spanis h and French will be given i n Portland by Professor E . M . ls,arrington . All the hundred professor s and their attractive offering s have not been and could not b e mentioned in a statement as lim- ited in scope as this is, bu t enough has probably been sai d to afford you some basis fo r agreement with the general im- pression on the campus that i t is the most distinguished grou p of educators ever assembled fo r a summer school in the state o f Oregon. "How were they secured ? How were they enticed awa y from the great universities? " has been a matter of some in- quiry. Well, the greater Universit y of Oregon summer sessions hav e had no inferiority complex, an d you have seen how invitation s dispatched to leaders in academi c fields have brought acceptances . In the old days there occa- sionally came such men as G . Stanley Hall, Stockton Axso n and Dr . Berle, whose letters i n the old summer school files tel l enthusiastically of their enjoy - merit of six weeks in Oregon . Today, Dr . Strayer, Dr. Chey- ney, Alice Barrows, Shirle y Long et al, to the number o f forty in a single year . Thos e appreciative notes in the file s give the cue of their availability . The explanation of why the y can he enticed away from the great universities is expresse d by the line that the traveling resident of Grants Pass write s in hotel registers-"lt's the Climate . Alumnae Plan Luncheo n The annual Portland luncheon for the alumnae of Orego n is being planned by the Women's Affairs committee of th e Portland Alumni Association, Mrs . Esther Maegley Jus- tice, '13, chairman . has appointed sub-committees to arrang e for the affair, which is to be held on April 30, at Henr y Thiele's. Noted Educators to Teach in the Eugene Summer Sessio n DR. A . S . PATTERSO N He is one of several Ne w Yorkers on the summe r staff . He comes fro m S y r a c u s e University , where he is chairman o f the romance languag e department. The an - nouncement t h a t h i s graduate course will b e on French phonetics ha s caused much interes t among teachers o f French. A. C. ARG O One of the outstandin g Young school men o f California, is coming t o Eugene to teach educa - tional administration, in - cluding a course on th e junior high school, a sub - ject of particular inter - est at this time . He i s principal of the Sequoi a high school at . Redwoo dCity . PROFESSOR L . O . WRIGH T He is so dextrous with his Spanish tha t for three years he successfully held dow n the principalship of Colegio Interaoeiona l at Guadalajara, Mexico . He has been o n the romance language staff of the Uni - versity for a year and will give thre e Spanish courses at Eugene . DR. GEORGE REBE C professor of philosophy an d graduate dean , is going to h e busy man this summer, wit h something like three hundre d seeking towards master an d doctors degrees, His two course s in philosophy have been sched - uled Fes the afternoon so tha t canflirts cannot shut out hi s old friends . MISS MINERVA C . HAL L Music supervisor at Long Beach, Califor a nia, will give at Eugene three public schoo l music courses of the kind that in the pas t have made her a popular instructor at the University of Kansas, Washburn College ,Illinois Normal College, and Northwester n University, California Alumni Greet President Hal l EDITOR : President Hall is visiting eight state universities for the purpose of investigatin gadministrative problems. He is also meeting the alumni in the various cities on his tour, and judgin g from the letters that have reached the alumni office, he is receiving everywhere the enthusiastic support o fOregon graduates. As OLDOeecox goes to press, only the details of the alumni banquets in San Francisc o and Los Angeles are at hand, The May issue will carry reports of the meetings in Chicago, Spokan eand Seattle . Bay Region Meetin g By DOROTHY DUNIWAY RYAN, '2 0 U LUMNI and former students, now living in the Ba y region, enthusiastically pledged loyalty and coopera- DAVID L. McDANIEL, 2 tion to President Hall at a dinner given in his honor March He acemeetinhairs Fa n-11 Riumni11 at the Palace hotel, San Francisco . eisco. Mr. McDaniel, i nthe past fourteen year s Jeannette Calkins had written of the president's cordiality since he has been living i n and friendliness . Everything she had told us and every- S a n Francisco, has n otg ~- failed to meet an Orego nthing we had read about Dr . Arnold Hall in OLD OREGON we football team or to gree tBill Hayward 's track me n found to be true . And when the president had concluded when they have passe d his informal address, we gave him three cheers and only throughthe city . And man ya football dinner or gather wished they could have been louder, ing of Oregon alumni ha s Thirty-three alumna and former students gathered in been sponsored byhim, answer to hurried notifications by card and telephone . Man y had previous engagements and courteously sent regrets an d best wishes . Dr . Hall met and chatted with everyone before dinner . He showed a genuine desire to really know the alumni . N o wonder, then, that he had no difficulty in winning his wa y into our hearts ! There was no formal program . David H . McDaniel, '12, Those present introduced themselves by rising and glein g who. acted as chairman, paid a graceful tribute to the presi- their names, class, and occupations . Special applause wa s dent in introducing him as the sole speaker of the evening, given to C . M . Hill, gradnute in 1881, who said he was a For more than an hour President Hall talked, intimately, "Californian by birth, but an Oregonian educationally , entertainingly . But it was not talk for "show ." Vividly he ,' matrimonially and fraternally" ; and to David McDaniel, Jr ., told of the recent legislative session, of the fate of the library who said he would be "ready for Oregon in two years ." and infirmary bills, He . took us fully into his confidence . Charlie Fenton Clarke notified everyone "across the bay " He told us everything in which he thought we would he in- of the meeting . terested. Those present were : Sam R . Thurston, ex '03, Lynett a Enthusiastically he spoke of the future of the University, and Vernetta Quinlan, both '25, Edward Linklater, ex'25, Dr . urging the alumni to help him realize his vision . Here, and, Homer I . Keeney, '97, Dr . S . N . Weil, '24, Dr . J . Dwigh t in fact, throughout his address, was noticeable the idealism Wilson, ex '19, Iva McMillin Wilson, ex '19, Vernon P . Duns which is one of the president's dominant characteristics . can, '24, Eugenia Strickland, '25, James R . Kinney, '25, E . "I tell you I like that combination of good, practical com- H . Lauer, '93, 0 . M . VanDuyn, '97, C . M . Hill, '81, Mar y mon sense and idealism," one of the older men said after Hegardt, ex '22, B . Shirley Edwards, '23, Dr . C . M . Carlson , the meeting in commenting on the president 's talk . '23, H . A . McColl, '24, John R . Lowe, '26, Jessamine M . Mc- Dr. Hall endeared himself to the alumni also by his ' Gloin, '22, J . Carl Bowman, '21, Nancy Fields, '21, R . J . tribute to the late President Campbell ; only a few, sincere < Patterson, ex '22, Mary E. Mathes, '20, M . D . Stearns, '25 , words, and yet we had been, unconsciously perhaps, waiting Lucille Perozzi, '26, Ellen G . McClellan, '26, Le Conte Jami- for them . son McDaniel, ex '13, Marion F . McClain, '06, Emm a As always when he talks with alumni, President Hall' Stephenson, '19, David L . McDaniel, Charlie Fenton Clarke , asked that we meet a few times during the year to "revivify '16, and Dorothy Duniway Ryan, '20 . We were glad to wel- a certain type of spiritual life that marks college days ." He come Mrs . Lauer and Mrs . Weil, who are not Oregon alumnae , made as strong a plea for joining the alumni association as and David McDaniel, Jr . Jeannette Calkins herself could have made . Some minutes he gave to clearing up misunderstandings Los Angeles Meetin gthat developed after the active gift campaign closed, and By ALLEN GARNCICOSS, 2to explaining what is being done with the pledge payments . "As far as I'm concerned," said Mr . McDaniel in thank- Y WAY of saying hello to Arnold Bennett Hall on hi s ing President Hall at the conclusion of the banquet, "I'm first visit to Los Angeles as president of the University , going to keep right on paying my pledge and you can do Oregon alumni gave a banquet at the Los Angeles Universit y anything you like with the money . You don 't have to tell Club, March 21, with Dr . IIall as the honor guest . Ther e me what you're doing with it ." The applause which followed were nearly 60 alumni and ex-students at the dinner, wit h indicated that Mr . McDaniel's confidence in the president 's representatives of classes extending from 1893 to 1927 , program for the University was shared by the others present, On March 7, Oregon alumni, inspired by the desire for a The alumni were deeply touched by a letter from Dean closer union of Oregon students residing in the southland , Straub to his "boys and girls," read by Mr . McDaniel . met in Los Angeles and formed an alumni group, . Charles W . April, 1927 0LD OREGON 13 Noy], '11, was elected president, and Allen Carncross, '22 , was elected secretary, At this meeting it was announced tha t President Hall was to visit Southern California . As th e result the banquet was decided upon and a committee, con- sisting of Lelah Stone, Marian Lynn, Grace Tigard, and Nor - borne Berkeley, was named to arrange for the affair . On the night of the banquet more than 5)) gathered to pa y honor to Dr . flail, and the new president won his way to th e hearts of the oldest and youngest grads even he-Fore proceed- ings had gotten under way . Tt was a genuine rennion wit h the head of the University mixing in as a true Oregonian . A t the speaker's table, besides Dr . Hall, were Mr . Koyl, in th e role of toastmaster, Dr . Miriam Van Waters, Dr . Elizabet h Woods, Mrs . Tnga Sandberg, formerly of Wisconsin, Mrs . Charles W . Koyl, Grace Tigard, Lelah Stone, Korborn e Berkeley, Marian Linn, Allen Carncross, and Irene Compto n Carncross . The others who attended the banquet were Melba Byrom , Constance Vance, Virginia Hull, Claire Keeney, Ruth Snow , Harold Atkins, Stanley Eisman, Willis Kays, Warren Kays , Mr . and Mrs . F . K . Harkness, Mrs . Alberta Campbell Sim- mons, Ruth Cowan, Ned French, Mr . and Mrs . Robert F . Lane, W . H . Morrison, Elinor Ely, Charlotte Clark and Mrs . Clark, Karl VonderAhe and Betty Robinson VonderAhe, San- fred Cxehr and Emma Jane Gehr, Jason McCune, Carroll Wag- ner, Margaret .Jackson, Dr . Frank Davidson and Anna K . Davidson . Donald M . Frazer and Marjorie Frazer, John M . Roth , A . P . McKinley, Mrs . Marv Durand, Bernard E . Spencer , Douglas Farrell, Elmer IIardenbergh, Karl Hardenhergh , Albert II . Vincent, E . A . McClellan, Verena Black Ruther- ford, David E . Norcross and Dr . Jaynes George . Mr . an d Mrs . E . J . Kearney of Wisconsin, friends of Dr . Hall, wer e in attendance also . The speakers of the evening besides Dr . IIull were Dr . Woods, '05, and Dr . Van Waters, '08, who, having known th e president as a leading educator in Wisconsin, introduced th e University leader with a high tribute to his organizing geniu s and his successful teaching methods . Dr . Hall in his talk, besides sounding the keynote of opti- mism for Greater Oregon, gave an intimate picture of th e new University . He pointed out the great problem that face s Oregon, with the unprecedented increase in eurolhnent an d the lagging income from the millage tax . He urged th e development of genius among the undergraduates and push- ing of the program for junior colleges . Reviewin g the athletic situation, he stated that Oregon could look to th e future with optimism . The Lemon Yellow is due to regain it s old prestige in football, he declared . Higher standards, the four-quarter system, development o f the graduate school, and more funds for research work, Dr . Hall explained, were also in his program . On the musical program of the meeting, Marian Lin n gave a group of songs, accompanied by Alberta Campbel l Simmons . Oregon songs were a feature of the banquet . UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ALUMNI DINNER IN SAN FRANCISC O Starting inside the "U" at the left and from there going directly around the table : Sam R . Thurston, 13 ; Lynnetta Quinlan, 25; Edward Linklater , 5 ; Vernetta Quinlan, 5 ; Dr . Homer I, Keeney, 7 ; Dr . S . N . Weil, 4 ; Mrs . Wei] ; Dr, J . Dwight Wilson, 1 ; Iva McMillin Wilson, ex-9 ; Vernon P . Duncan, 24: Eugenia Strickland, 6 : James It . Kinney, 26 ; Mrs. Lauer ; E . H . Lauer, 93; Dorothy Duniway Ryan, 0 ; O . M . Van Duyn , 7 ; C . M . Hill, 1 ; Marv Hegardt, 2 ; Charlie Fenton Clarke, 6 ; President Hall ; David L . McDaniel, 3 ; Le Conic Jamison McDaniel, ex-3 ; David McDaniel, Jr . ; Ellen G . McClellan, 6 ; Lucille Perozzi, 6 ; M . D . Stearns, 5 ; Mary E . Mathes, 0 ; R . J . Patterson, ex-2 ; Nancy Fields , 1 ; J . Carl Bowman, 1 ; Jessamine M . McGloin, 1 ; H . A . McColl, 4; John R . Lowe, 6 ; Clifford M, Carlson, 6 ; B . Shirley Edwards, 3 . (Marion F . McClain, 6, and Emma Stephenson, 19, came in after this picture was taken) . Five Distinguished Instructors in the Portland Summer Sessio DR. FRANKLIN FEARIN G He comes to Portland from th e psychology faculty of Ohio Wes - leyan University . He has made a special study of sensation, so tha t one of his courses which student s are awaiting anxiously to take i s on the psychology of musi c and art . DR. J . E. KIRKWOO D It isn t best to go too far awa y from home for a botanist becaus e of the strong claim of local flora . Dr. Kirkwood, who is head of th e department at the University o f M:nrtana, knows Oregon plants a s thoroughly as he knows those o f his own state . He will he in Portland. MISS ESTHER WUES T Director of art instruction in the Portlan d public schools, needs no introduction t o art teachers of the Northwest, hundred s of whom have been in her classes, Sh e hss prepared four courses for th e Portland session . DR. EDWARD P . CHEYNE Y His texts in English history claimed even ou r wayward high school attention . This dis - tinguished historian from the University o fPennsylvania has been scheduled for the te n and eleven olock hours at Lincol n high school . PROFESSOR ELMER W . SMIT H New York is furnishing a liberal quota o f instructors this summer . Professor Smit h comes from Colgate University, where he i shood of the English department, for tw o courses in literature in the Portlan d summer session . ALFRED POWERS, 0 Dean of the Extension Divi -sion and director of the 192 7 summer sessions at the Uni - versity of Oregon. His vigorous mind an d executive ability are now directed toward Oregons Greater Summer Sessions . Traditions of the Summer Session s By DR . DAN E . CLAR KJ INETEEN students attended the summer session of the University of Oregon in 1902 ; preparations are being made for a total enrollment of two thousand in the summe r sessions of 1927. Seven instructors were listed in the an- nouncement of the summer session of 1902; this year we ar e promised a faculty of a hundred or more. Here is reflected a story of growth that is typical of western progress and de- velopment George Goodall and Alfred A . Cleveland and Edith Kern s and Webster Kincaid and Emma Wold and the other four - teen pinoeer summer sessioners of 1902 could scarcely com- plain of large classes and mass education . It is equall y certain that they were not unappreciative of the oppor- tunities for summer study under able instructors, four o f whose names still adorn the faculty roster of the University : Henry D . Sheldon, O . F. Stafford, F . G . G. Schmidt, and Frederic` S . The fees (five dollars) and the appreciation of ninetee n students, however. were apparently not sufficient to induce . the University authorities to repeat the experiment of a sum- mer session the following year . Although the catalogue i s silent on the subject, there are reminiscences of summe r offerings in 1905, at which time only two out of severa l prospective instructors (Professors Howe and Schmidt) ha d enough students to justify conducting classes. At any rate , in 1906 there was a special bulletin announcing a summe r session of four weeks, including a library training schoo l directed by Miss Cornelia Marvin . Since that year the sum- mer session has beena continuous feature of the Universitys offerings. In 1917 for the first time, summer classes wer e organized in Portland, and each year following that success- ful experiment it has been proper to speak of the summe r sessions of the University, one at Eugene and one in Portland, held simultaneously for a period of six weeks . On the cam - pus for several years advanced and graduate students . wer permitted to carry on research work after the close of the. summer session e establishment of a definite post session, with organized classee lasting four weeks. College life without its traditions would be unthinkable . And so it is natural that in a quarter of a century certai n traditions should have become associated with the summe r sessions of the University of Oregon. Two of these tradition s are outstanding: they are sure to impress themselves o n every student in the greater summer sessions of 1927. On e of these is the tradition of high quality of accomplishmen t on the part of both students and instructors . It has lon g been observed that summer session students know what they want and why they want it, and that they work hard to get as much as they can in six weeks Likewise, the University has from the beginning take n the stand that the summer sessions must be characterized b high quality of instruction. Even during the first few year s it was customary for the summer session faculties to be made up of many of the _ablest members of the regular Universit y teaching staff. Then by 1912 announcements began to-in- elude also the names of noted teachers from other institu- tions. Leafing through the catalogues from year to yea r one learns that summer session students, either on the cam- pus or in Portland, have been privileged to study . unde Richard Burton, Grant Showerman, Stockton Axson, Clifto n F. Hodge, Adolf A ._ Berle, Frederick J. Turner, E . P . Cub- 16 OLD OREGON April, 1927 berley, G . Stanley I4all, Henry C . King, Henry E . Bourne , Harry Elmer Barnes, Edward T . Devine, R . M . Wenley , Edgar Dawson, Samuel B . Harding, J . Duncan Spaeth , Edward L . Schaub and many others who are known nationall y and internationally as teachers, scholars and writers . Thu s the present director of summer sessions is but responding t o a well-established tradition when he tells us of the notabl e faculty, taken both from the University's own staff and fro m other institutions, which will give instruction this summer . The other tradition which has come down through th e summer sessions with undiminished force and verity is th e tradition of sociability . Summer session students and facult y work hard : they play hard also . They get . to know each other . Recreation has long received marked emphasis in the plan s for the summer sessions, and has been featured in the an- nouncements. Short hikes, long trips, picnics, games, swim- ming, stunt programs, concerts, plays-all these have becom e traditional . The catalogue for 191 2 a picture of a hay-rack party--only fifteen years ago .. Among the treas- ured possessions of scores of former summer students ar e snapshots taken on trips to the Three Sisters or Horsepastur e Mountain. Picnics and steamboat rides on the Columbia ar e never-to-be-forgotten memories of Portland sessioners . In 1018, partly to serve as a project for students i n journalism courses and partly to add to the pleasure of th e sessions, the Summer Sun appeared . For a time this snapp y little paper was not printed but was typewritten and poste d on a bulletin board in front of the library, its motto bein g "Let there be light ." It announced that it would "even stand for some verse-free, you know ." It chronicled the hap- penings of the days, made announcements, and even per- petrated an occasional joke . Historians poring over its page s years hence will catch many interesting glimpses of summe r session life, as, for instance, when the editor says, "The Suxm- mer Sun rejoices to see the interest in the great old game o f horse-shoes. It wonders why marbles and one-old-cat can no t he revived." A few days later the pages carry the mournfu l news of ten students suffering from the mumps . One year . the Acta Diurna was substituted for the Sun , with no notable diminution of light . According to its headin g it was issued "almost daily" and its purpose was the dis- semination of "near news ." Later it claimed to be issue d "in something less than a daily manner ." Its editor, Grac e Edgington, '16, (now Mrs . Len . B . Jordan )stood valiantl y by the recreational program, and made her announcement s in a most compelling manner : "If we believed that the floo d that ruined Noah's potato crop was making its second visi t on Saturday we know where we'd go . We'd try that Spence r hike." Or, "When you are eighty you will not miss the $1 1 it will cost you to go on the three-day Cascade trip . An d think of telling your grandchildren about how you were 'al l over this country when it was covered with fir forest' ." This is the spirit of the summer sessions at Oregon . Fo r twenty-five years attractive courses, capable instructors, har d work, and abundant good times have made the six weeks ses- sions periods of real refreshment for all who caught th e significance of the two traditions . From the Far Corners of the Stat e B ROM the remotest corners of Oregon where mails ar ea month apart, from sheep herder 's and logger 's camps,ranches, service stations, schools, and ships, as well as fro m busy city homes, came lessons from students taking cor- respondence courses in the extension division of the University . Four hundred and forty-one teachers, 139 students, 8 7 homemakers, and 40 patients, 39 of whom are in the Stat e Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Salem, are among those enrolle d in study, making a total of approximately 400 . A bus boy, college president, sailor, journalist, maste r mariner, orchardist, chemist, attorney, banker, biologist, min- ister, florist, hairdresser, radio operator, surveyor, foreste r and civil engineer ar e among the students . Multnomah county ha s the largest number of per - sons taking the courses , with Lane county secon d and Marion county third , Jefferson county only ha s two, Sherman county ha s four, Crook county ha s three, and Wheeler two . Since the first corres- pondence course was of- fered in 1907, the wor k has grown tremendousl y through the years until i n 1925 total registration wa s 1,238 students enrolled i n 1,676 courses. Bird study, botany, de - bating, economics, educa - lion, art, literature, history, mathematics, geology, first an d second year French and Spanish, health education, English , science and sociology are among the courses offered . Every county in the state is represented by two or mor e students. In addition to the county representation, 314 com- munities are reached by this study . Twice as many women as men are enrolled because of th e fact that many teachers, wives, and mothers are taking ad - vantage of home study to keep pace with progress . Teacher s find that courses are of direct assistance to them in thei r classroom work . Many housewives are on farms in isolate d districts and are unable to come in contact with the outsid e world or complete thei r education in any othe r way. The majority of stu- dents doing correspon- dence work are from 19 t o 30 years old . Men an d women from 31 to 40 ar e greatly in evidence, whil e many young people fro m the age of 14 to 18 year s are also studying . Interesting stories eon-r e to the Extension Divisio n of the difficulties encoun- tered by the correspon- dence students in far corn- ers of the state . Bu t neither high rivers no r land slides keep the les- sons from being sent in , Summer Afternoon at Orego n By tRENE STEWART, ex-'21 Three-thirty. Soft across the velvet gras s The shadows spill from noon-day pools beneath the trees Somewhere a lawn-mower mumbles as it feeds The full-blown roses--Summer writes her name with these- Beckon down paths that lead to old Villard . Romance has stepped across the grass and touched the flowers , And her enchantment lingers like a song . High hearts have known and loved these deep rose-scented hours. When evening comes and sunset gilds the walls The shadows will be purple rivers through the lawn, And rhododendrons will be torches se Ablaze to mark the way the golden day has gone . Emerald Editor Discourses on Tradition s By SOL ABRAMSON, 7, Editor, Oregon Daily Emeral d I NSPIRED, perhaps, by some of the juvenile classic son college life or the numerous motion pictures tha tcarry all the benefits of college to the few remaining thou - sands who have not had the advantagesof higher education, and yearning for a more "collegiate" atmosphere, Oregon has decided to have traditions . And when Oregon students .do anything, if ever, they do it up in style . A few months ago, when everything was quiet and peace- ful, someone suddenly discovered that many of the freshmen were not wearing green caps ! To save the University fro m the inevitable ruin threatened by this unholy lapse, it wa s determined that traditions must be enforced! The spirit o f the crusades seems to have had marvelous hold on the or- ganizers of the "back-to-law-and-order " movement With a mighty blaring of trumpets they announced tha t the old-style library steps horseplay, whereby freshmen were haled before the lettermen on trumped-up charges to furnish a Roman holiday for the populace, had been outlawed . A brand new system, fair, honest and intended to teach rather than punish offenders of Oregon s to take its place . Accordingly vigilantes were appointed to spy on offenders. The erring freshmen were forthwith called before a cour t of three judges, and given a hearing . The first offender s were shown the error of their ways, and upon exhibiting a n humble and repentent spirit they were turned loose wit h injunctions to sin no more . Those who insisted that the y themselves had the right to dictate their conduct were les s fortunate. They and the repeating offenders were then ad - judged guilty and ordered to take their punishment on th e library steps. Most of the students had sufficient sense of humor t o appreciate the comic aspects of this very serious hierarchical system. Besides, the judges made a rather serious erro r when they excluded Emerald reporters from their first meet- ing . The freshman court, ridiculous by its very nature, wa s not spared further ridicule for its star-chamber tactics. Afte r a few meetings it died quietly . THE FRESHMAN COUR T Where erring Fresh were hailed before three upper-classmen judges, an d sentence was meted out to the wrongdoers . "Star-chamber tactics, " said the Emerald, accusingly . For a few weeks no more was heard of traditions enforce- ment e had arrived when it must drop the last of its prep schoo l notions iuin the horrible fate that would come upon the Universit y if it discarded its traditions, made a last stand - - - and won. So Oregon is having traditions . Again an elaborate es- pionage system has been established. Again a court deter - mines the punishment ; the library steps ceremony is dead . Enforcement of tradi- tions, it has been decreed, is . serious matter, and punish- ment is not intended as entertainment for the spectators, bu rather as a means of impressing on the freshman his insig- nificance, and the everlasting glory of the University o f Oregon. And there matters stand . There is no use trying to argue with a tradition-worship- per. He has somewhere heard that after college col res rea l life, a "school of hard knocks ." He has interpreted thi s literally, and assures anyone who questions the basis of tra- ditions, that freshman discipline is an excellent preparatio n for life . From this we may conclude that life is nothin g more or less than one long paddling session . So imbue d with this notion is the vigilante, that he sees no need fo r defending his position . He refuses to entertain the pos- sibility that he is supporting a silly notion carried over fro m prep schools, that the freshman may reasonably expect t o be treated as a man, and that after all he is assuming grea t authority in settinghimself up as a dictator of someon e else conduct. He will tell you that the freshman is "cocky", that h e most be taught to obey, that. he is not as good a man as hi s fellow students above the freshman class, and that he is bein taught great lessons through discipline . Therefore, h e leaves the first year student no choice in the matter, no t even the right to disagree . The vigilante is not content t o leave the carrying on of traditions to those freshmen wh o consider them integral parts of the college . He refuses t o permit those who object to the humbling process to go thei r own way . Development of individuality is a high crime , and its advocacy capital treason . However, the man wh o doesn believe in traditions is a fool and must be treate d as a. fool. Gone are the days when traditions lived and grew quietl y by popular approval . It now is necessary to enforce them . just like martial law . Rather than take this as an indica- tion that the University is out growing its fresh-water day s and bowing to the inevitable, your patriotic and unthinkin g student takes it as a sign that the Universty is degenerating . He is now in a frenzy to save the University from decay . Poor fellow ! if he would only stop to think he woul d realize how petty and unimportant it all is . But he doesn t think; he acts and makes a great issue out of a matter tha t must eventually lose its place in the universities, which after all exist for a serious purpose and not altogether as school s for horseplay. Students still find plenty of entertainment on the cam - pus, plenty of sources for the much-glorified "memories o f college" so relished by alumni . Serious study has not ye t taken first place in student attention ; no need to fear tha t the registrants are turninginto book-worms . Clearly the trouble is this : the University has grown up , but its students have not. The inevitable changes must await the inevitable time when college students also grow up . - In the meantime, Oregon is suffering a severe relaps e from a bad case of traditions, A Connoisseur of Rare Bird s By S . STEPHENSON SMITH, Assistant Professor of English Literatur e NORMAN DOUGLAS is not the kin dN ORMA N writer who gets into literary man- uals. He is not in surveys of the importan t figures in contemporary literature . H e would not want into such company, any - way. Nor would the company feel quite a t ease if he were in it . Since he is one of those strange literar y coves who hover around the ragged edg e of literary respectability, I can, as I hav e indicated, find out much about his life , his. habits, his income, his taste in sports , or such inconsequential matters . I am no t therefore under the handicap of . knowing many, facts about him . But what reade r could be so deaf, dumb, and blind to tem- perament as to miss the essence of Nor - man Douglas after reading his four books , South Wind, Alone, They Went, and Ex- per(mentef Notice the simple but crypti c titles. Can you read their meaningf I s there not something baffling in this strang e simplicity, with its suggestion of a sophis- ticated skeptic behind the mask 4 I would bet all my literary credit tha t Douglas is enjoying an ill-preserved middl e age. He is one of those expatriate Scotch - Englishmen who really belong to no coun- try at all, yet would not like to be calle d citizens of the world . Rather he is em- peror of himself, in Peer Gynt term . Douglas looks on all the rare birds, the ec- centrics whom he meets in his travels, a s specially designed for his own diversion . . . if there is a Providence for epicures, dia- bolists (he is a far more real diabolist tha n Shaw) and connoisseurs of human vagaries , Douglas must feel in its especial debt . There are more queer ns, more hard y originals, more unique poison-flowers in hi s books than in those of any other modern . And Douglas never looks at these folk wit h condescension or pity; there is never a trac e of patronizing superiority in his attitude . He does not comment disparagingly on thei r queerness. Rather he relishes and savor s it, as he would some rare dish . It is hi s meat. A BLAND IRONIS'I ' True, he is a satirist and an ironist . Bu t he is not down in the muck amidst the per - sons, institutions, and frailties of huma n nature which he criticizes . He is above th e melee, completely detached . He write s without any intent to change, to reform , or to scourge . He would not end thes e aberrations. That would deprive him o f his subject-matter. He is as tender towar d these out-of-the-way types as a bug-hunte r toward his rare specimens . He does no t give away his hand like most enthusiasts , but he surely is enamored of the quain t ones. Never, like Sinclair Lewis in Elme r Gantry, does he sneer at his characters ; nor does he regard them with malice, thoug h he oftens tells anecdotes about their doings , and pictures their appearance, and recount s their peculiarities in a fashion whic h would seem malicious in a moral writer . But Douglas is too detached even to mor- alize. He seems to be of the opinion that th e Hebrew religion and scheme of morals i s rather a grim joke on the Western World ; but he also implies that the Western Worl d is a grimmer joke on the Hebrew and Chris - Han scheme of morals,-not the cheeriest Curiously enough, when Douglas brings aplace for those Oriental cults to feel at genteel devil on the scene, as he does i n home. Still, even when he tells stories about They Went, he makes him an apostle o fthe lives of queer saints, or of queerer re- beauty, of perfection in the arts . . . an d ligious fanatics, he does it with relish . He always frustrated and heartsick because h e would not dispense with any folly : it acids never gets a chance to execute his plan s too much to his own enjoyment . for achieving higher beauty . Always th e I du not know that the pious would feel grubbiness of some earthbound, low eharac - very- safe in company with Douglas . I su- ter wrecks his best-laid schemes . spect they would fear him as a wit who Douglas calls his Mephisto Theophilus : might go off and hit them . . - to borrow beloved of God, as if he credited the Deit y Chesterfield phrase . One of my brother with a reluctant kindliness and forehearanc e critics has urged that Douglasart is im- toward the lost . Prince of the Angels . . . paired by the fact that he is not sympa- Lucifer, Angel of Light . . . and here, th e thetic with his characters, and that he does devotee of beauty of line and color an d not write with serious intent, There is form. Strange, this hint that fine art ha s probably some truth in this . But the fact more in common with evil than with th e is Douglas is not aiming at producing quite usual fustian conventional g o o d n e s s . a serious effect : he is amusing himself, and Strange doctrine indeed! Smacks of th e he is so tolerant, so full of diablerie and decadent nineties, now enjoying such a sportiveness of the mind, that f haven the vogue that they threaten us with a ne w heart to criticize him for a certain levity and romantioism. objective attitude toward the persons of In very truth, Douglas is a little way - his books . It sometimes appears that ice ward, naughty in an adult fashion, if s o takes evil for his good, and the ordinary sophisticated and subtle a man can b e Philistine goodness for evil . Like Blake, he called naughty ; but he is never wicked . H e apparently thinks that many Pharisees is too pleased at being the ironic spectato r "Had only to say that God was the devil to become bored and blase . The pagean t And the devil was God, like a Christian of life in Southern Italy, Capri, Rome , civil ." Naples, is too colorful and amusing, to osuggestive of endless past strata of history , each providing a layer of eccentric rabble , for him to lose interest . South Wind is his most massive work . Everybody who reads it, even George Saints - bury, wishes he had written it . It is clever with a transcendent higher cleverness whic h outdoes all its imitators . Arlen, Huxle y and VanVechten drop into the shade be - side it, and an even shadier shade, too . The English critics, when this nove l Caine out, remarked that it was plotless . It is, except that . it is the most success- ful plot against the pea .ee of mind of th e fatuous end complacent which could wel l be devised . Unluckily few of them woul d read it . It has been urged also that the charac- ters all talk like Douglas . In a sense thi s is true, rather lucky for them, too, I ca n hear Douglas remark in Shavian fashion , for that means they talk like one of th e best talkers outside England . As a mat - ter of fact, the characters are pretty wel l differentiated . Keith, the elderly dile t tante, and viveur, wonderfully charitable , but a great despiser of organized charity , is no doubt rather like Douglas, and so i s the old Italian Count Caloveglia . The y are both a little weary, but perfectly po- lite, even to bromides like Bishop Hear d . . . "The bishop," Douglas says, i s merely a dummy contrived to reflect th e moods of what I took to be the averag e reader." Whether this is a subtle hin t that Douglas only wants to be read b y those like-minded with himself, I mus t leave to the reader to judge . No one who has made her acquaintanc e will ever forget that marvelous "syntheti c lady sot" Miss Wilberforce . Freddy Park- er, the president of the foreignersclub , too, is memorable : be is nearly as swinis h as Elmer Gantry. He sells very bad whis- key to the club members, and dilutes i t at that . "Cultured members, on drinkin g it, were wont to say things about Locusts April, 1927 OLD OREGON 19 STRAIGHT AHEAD LIES THE ROAD TO THE "FAR WESTERN SUMMER SCHOO LBETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS AND THE SEA ." and Borgia . The commoner sort swore lik e hell at Freddy Parker ." One chapter begins, "The funeral wa s a roaring success ." But I do not want t o give the impression that the book is noth- ing but a succession of clever witticisms . Douglas is epigrammatic as much by natur e as by design . His wit is always humorou s and never forced . The discussions on aesthetics, on lan- guage, on art and morals, are superb . I f you want a whole philosophy of criticis m on humanity and the fine arts, here it is , set forth without pedantry, always in th e tone of good company, and presented i n such artless and inconsequential conversa- tions that the unwary reader absorbs grea t learning by osmosis . . Douglas woul d never dream of pumping it in . He will no t raise his voice to accent a point . As for the descriptions of the island o f Nepenthe, its caves and cliffs, its colorfu l processions, its dried-up springs, - th e whole played upon by the South Wind, th e sirocco from the African desert, which nev- er stopped, well, match me this, even i n Gautier. And you do not have to as k Douglas, where are the Italians and th e others who people these scenes . For th e scenes are beheld through the eyes of th e characters. The very breath of the Sout h Wind penetrates our marrow, and suffo- cates us as it does the dwellers on the is - land. Then there is a reveling in the an- tiquities of the island, sacred and secular . Douglas is as great a collector (and alas , it must be confessed, an even greater fab- ricator) of queer and useless facts, of odd s and ends of information, as he is a connois- seur of strange people . He is consisten t in his vagaries . But for all the flair for the unusual i n fact and fancy and character, there i s nothing queer about the style . It was sai d of Wendell Phillips that he had exactl y the manner for an agitator : so singularl y free from agitation . So Douglas has pre- cisely the style for his needs . He credit s Keith with a "rare faculty of expressin g the most atrocious things in correct an d even admirable English ." One wonders i f it is like character, like author, in thi s case. Keith, too, "cultivated insensitive- ness as other people cultivate orchids ." Begins to look like a superfluity of naugh- tiness, doesn it" And consider this rathe r remarkable utterance of the same charae - ter, "But I am afraid you don realiz e the advantages of ruffianism as a mode o f art and a mode of life . Only think : a thousand wrongs to every right! What a n opening for a man of talent, especially i n a country like this, where frank and inde- pendent action still counts its admirers . You have done nothing, of late, worthy t o he recorded in the Chronique scanda!euse o f Nepenthe . . It is not fair to the rest o f us. We all contribute our mites to th e gaiety of nations ." How closely the cad- enees sound like those in a speech of mora l advice. But the contents ! A modern presen- tation of the Renaissance doctrine o f virtu, which made virtue consist in doin g everything yuu wanted to, and doing it wit h all your power and might . virtue doe s not lie in refraining from being naughty . Well, well, where would this all lead u s to, if we took Douglas too seriouslyBu t he would consider it lamentable if we did . The only place where he falls into a hig h serious tone-though not heavy, even here , -is when he talks of art and beauty . Beau- ty is his religion, and plastic art its sym- bolic embodiment . Like the Greeks, an d the Renaissance pagans, he exults in visibl e beauty, the beauty which enthralls th e senses and exalts the mind . His code an d his consistent satiric tone do not permit hi m to become rhapsodical . Ile always keeps a quiet composed air, a little like Stendhal , or Samuel Butler . But he is a convince d lover of the beautiful, and it is there tha t he finds his values . . . his goodness, too , I suspect , His last story, They Went, has th e strange and unusual beauty of the glos s or patina on old bronze that has lai n long in the earth . Douglas has taken an old and wide-sprea d legend of the City of Ys, overwhelmed b y an inrush of the sea . He has treated al l the primitive elements in this story in th e most subtle, intricate, and sophisticate d manner. It takes a hardy soul to treat a Brittany mead-hall, Gothic tribal customs , and a lot of hard-fighting, bone-gnawin g barbarians in the style of a modern decad- ent colorist and sensitivist . There is a charm about a highly civilized treatmen t of the primitive, however . And it is this which gives the lustre to the hard old bronz e of the folk-tale . The auburn-haired, green-eyed princess , who is just nineteen, and not at all her father daughter, is a piquant and delec- table creature, but a little bloodthirsty . I t is one of her devices-and she has many - which gives the title to the book . Whe n a captive Roman engineer built the tow n of Ys for her father, she ordered him t o construct a tall tower for her, at the edg e of the city-wall, just over the Great Drain . Whenever any young man aspired to he r favor, if he pleased her, she invited him t o the Tower . Many came for the evening , but nobody ever knew for certain ho w They Went . It is hinted that there was a . chute from the Tower to the Great Drain , and that is beyond the reasonable shado w of a doubt the way They Went . In an y event, these accidents both stopped an d started scandal . It took a cunning min d to imagine this princess and to deal wit h her after she had been created . Dougla s has no lack of courage . They Went carries evidence of lovin g workmanship in every line and every touc h of its post-impressionist color work . Th e descriptions, the imaginative conversations , are all stylicized, allegorized to the poin t where art becomes symbolic . Yet Dougla s never, like Cabell, becomes lost in a maz e of symbols, or artificial in spirit . He keep s a simple narrative manner throughout, eve n in the most symbolic portions . He is bland , plausible, and smiling, even when he i s most intricate . And his ironic comment s on the motives of his characters I It woul d almost convince one that there is joy i n being decadent in an elemental manner ? I haven time to deal with Douglas th e critic and controversialist, or with Dougla s the short story writer . In Experiment s he presents himself in these three aspects ; while in Alone he is openly and frankl y autobiographical, though not about his lov e affairs, like George Moore, or his own wit- ticisms, like Margot Asquith . I commen d especially to all Puck-like wits the review s of Elinor Glyn and Victoria Cross in Ex- periments . This article might be headed O n Some of the Uses of Bad Fiction,-the use - fulness in this case residing in the fac t that these slushy novels inspired Douglas t o write with the utmost delicacy of touch o n the indelicacy of Elinor Glyn . As a witty but slightly irreverent stu- dent of mine remarked, Norman Douglas i s a man one would like to know, if not per- sonally, at least conversationally . And b y his books you may know him I 20 OLI) OREGON April, 1927 FACULTY NEWS NOTE S (Edited by Lois Osborne Casey ) IYlf%IlYIfY ` ZY11YliYiliC%i~11YIIY1t%i 1liil1i% s t LW1 .1IMAMMI _JJLVI J1L_l!JJI~VIIL l fIW~!uI .UIM6VJlAZIs g ._ .I .1G_VJtdlV_JAWr~u e i" William G . Hale, dean of the school o f law, recently announced his resignatio n and acceptanc e of a position a s dean of the la w school at Wash- ington Univer- sity, St . Louis , Missouri . T h e resigna- tion of Dea n Hale, who ha s been at the Uni- versity since 1920, will tak e effect next fall , and he an- nounced that h e decided to leav e Eugene only after long delib- eration . The offer at Wash- ington Univer- sity was so at - tractive that t h c Universit y ofWILLIAM G . HALE Oregon coul dW not meet it, th e administration announced . President Arnold Bennett Hall, who i s on a . tour studying administrative prob- lems at the larger western and middl e western universities, . will interview sev- eral possibilities for the position . He ha s in mind several high caliber men, it wa s announced. Long interested in reform of court pro- cedure, Dean Hale, since coming to Ore- gon has been active in the Oregon Ba r Association. He has worked to raise th e standards of admission to the bar, and , under his direction, the school of law ha s progressed rapidly . I can only wish," said Dean Hale , "for a law school of the University o f Oregon a larger measure of support an d correspondingly larger opportunity fo r service to the state, both in educatin g young people for admission to the bar an d in a type of research in the practica l operation of the administration of justic e that will bring to light those facts upo n which intelligent reform measures may b e based. I raise no voice of calamity, no r do I impute wholesale deficiencies in th e administration of justice, but the neces- sity for improvement is obvious and i s everywhere recognized . An impartial in- vestigational service, which among ou r state organizations the law school i s alone in a position to render, will mar k the way to progress ." Dr. Wilmot C . Foster, assistant profes- sor of anatomy in the University schoo l of medicine at Portland, will spend th e next college year on a leave of absenc e in the Mayo clinics at Rochester, Minn . Dr. Foster has been an instructor at Ore- gon for the past eight years . A vard Fairbanks, professor of sculptur e at the University, has won the honor o f selection as a Guggenheim fellow and wil l leave for Europe next fall with funds pro- vided for a year study abroad . He is th e first Pacific Northwest professor to ge t the award . The foundation was estab- lished by John Simon Guggenheim . I n announcing the selection of fellows, th e foundation pointed to Professor Fairbank s as one who had shown "unusual creativ e ability in the fine arts ." Mr . Fairbankswork has brought hi m unusual attention during recent years . Perhaps the best known of his works i s "The Doughboy," which has been adopte d as a world war memorial by the state o f Idaho and erected in heroic size in Mos- cow and St . Anthony . Other well-know n pieces include the old Oregon trai l mcdalion, the service memorial at Orego n Agricultural College, and the servic e memorial at Jefferson high school, Port - lend. He is working on panels for bronz e doors at the United States National bank , Portland, at the present time, and is com- pleting a fountain for Carl Washburn , Eugene . Prior to his affiliation six year s ago with the University of Oregon, Mr . Fairbanks was engaged in private sculp- ture work in Salt Lake City, Utah, an d Honolulu, T . H . Mr . Fairbanks is a graduate of Yal e university of fine arts, was a student o f beaux arts in Paris, and has studied a t the Arts Student League, New York . H e is a meuber of the National Sculptur e society, and of the American Federatio n of Arts . Fritz Marti, former instructor in phil- osophy, is back on the faculty of Growle r College, Baltimore, after spending the fal l and winter terms on the staff of Haver - ford College, Haverford, Pa . - OREGO N By WALTER L. WHITTLESEY, r Oregon-Forest and hill-side , Oregon-Desert and plain ; Here where the Fathers abide , Here shall our Sons remain . Golden her mountainsheight , Golden her wealth of grain ; Oregon blessed by sunlight , Oregon healed with rain . Strength in her leaping waters , Help from her hills above ; Loyal her sons and daughters , Oregon, land we love , Oregon . Professor Charles N . Reynolds, wh o comes up for his doctor degree at Stan - ford this spring, is scheduled for thre e courses in sociology, in the summer sessio n at Eugene, including a course in anthro- pology and a seminar in race relations . Pro- fessor Reynolds has contributed significant- ly to the coast relations survey, one of hi s interesting investigations being on th e Chinese tongs. Professor Reynolds, before going t o Stanford two years ago, was executive sec- retary o . l and was one of the popular instructors i n the Portland session . To predict more accurately than no w what - success a student will have in col- lege is the purpose of a research to b e conducted by Professor Hari R . Douglas s of the school of education . He will stud y the relationship of certain facts know n about a student before he begins his col- lege work and the student later succes s in the university . Definite points to be surveyed are : siz e of the school from which the studen t comes, amount of the salaries of the hig h school teachers, distribution of the stu- dent subjects, grades made in hig h school, the student industry or appli- cation, and his citizenship qualities o r school attitude . Lyle J . Bryson, managing editor of Th e New Eve, who was scheduled for a maga- zine writing course in the Eugene summe r session, wires that an offer of a position o n the Cosmopolitan Magazine will keep her r n New York . The course will, therefore, no t be given this summer . This is the onl y faculty resignation received and the res t of the program will be carried out as an- nounced. T. K . Homer, member of the Englis h faculty and debate coach, is not going t o teach this summer, but is going to go t o school himself . He has reserved a plac e in the advanced short story course to b e taught in the Portland summer session b y Miss Shirley V . Long, noted instructor fro m Columbia University . Dr. Glenn E . Hoover, former assistan t professor of economics at Oregon, is th e author of "Economic Effects of Inher- itance Taxes," published in the Marc h number of the American Economic Re - view. Dr. Hoover holds "that any large - scale attempt to substitute inheritanc e taxes for taxes on consumption woul d seriously restrict the supply of producers capital and thus imperil the high level o f well-being that characterizes the presen t economic order ." He comes to other con- clusions which will interest the student o f economic thought . The American Econ- omic Review, unfortunately, is not fo r sale at any news stand . Youl have t o make a special trip to the library, April, 1927 OLD OREGON 21 The flora of the southeastern part o f Oregon, in Lake, Malheur, and Harne y counties, will be the subject of researc h work to be conducte d during the c o m i n g year by Professor A . R. Sweetser, head o f the b o t a n y depart- ment, and L . F . Hen- derson, curator of th e botanical museum. Mr . Henderson will mak e a collection trip o f two or three month s obtaining specimens in the region men- tioned. "Not much researc h has been done in southeastern Oregon," said Professo r Sweetser, "so we are going to try to .get a complete collection of all the flowers o f that section ." Professor Sweetser, assisted by Mis s Laurette C . Taylor, instructor in botany , is continuing an earlier study on the dis- tribution of lamb tongue in the state . George Verne Blue, graduate of th e University of Oregon and an instructor a t Eugene last spring and summer, has bee n invited to read a paper before the Inter - national Congress of Historians at Osl o in August, 1928 . Professor Blue is read- ing history at the Sorbonne and studyin g source material on the history of th e American West at the Bibliothequ e Nationale . He is the holder of a travelin g fellowship from the University of Cali- fornia . "For Sale-a Ford Sedan ." If interested, apply to Carlton E . Spen- cer, registrar . Carlton is not going t o have anything whatsoever to do with a car that has to be cranked . His doe s occasionally . It did on March 18 . An d just as he had, about "turned over" th e engine, the crank gave a vicious kic k and broke his arm . Carlton spent a night in the Eugen e hospital, and a quiet spring vacation a t home. It was hard luck . When Kimball Young was teaching psy- chology and sociology at the Universit y of Oregon he improved each shining spar e hour by writing articles for the journal s in his special fields . Result : lie accum- ulated a long "list of titles" ; articles i n The Nation, The Journal of Social Forces , Scientific Monthly, Industrial Psychology , and so on . After this "warming up " process, Dr . Young thought he try him - self out on the long distances . H e tackled a book manuscript, and now wor d comes to the Oregon campus that he ha s signed up with Alfred A, Knopf, the Ne w York publisher, to write two volumes, a "Social Psychology" and a book o f "Readings in Social Psychology ." Dr. .Young is associate professor o f sociology at the University of Wisconsin , Oregon school law, taught by a membe r of the law faculty, is an innovation thi s summer in the Portland session . Hugh E . Rosson, associate professor of English an d law, has been added to the Portland staf f to give this course and a course in public , speaking. After four years absence as a teache r from the University campus, at Eugene , Wilkie Nelson Collins, who claims Ne w York as his home, although he is an ad- mirer of the Pacific Northwest, will joi n the summer session staff . He will teac h criticism, eighteenth century literature , and the literature of the 1890 in Eng- land, France, and America . Mr, Collins has contributed to th e Atlantic, Century, Collier, New Yor k Evening Post, Baltimore Sun, and th e Commonweal. Ile is the author of thre e books, "Opportunity in Merchant Ships, " "Civilian Seamen in War," and "Th e Rough Log of a Seaman in the Merchan t Marine ." One trip that Dr . Edward. P . Cheyney o f Pennsyl vania has in mind while he i s teaching in the Oregon summer schoo l is to the Marine Zoology station a t Coos Bay, which is in charge of Dr . Harr y B. Yoeom . He is a relative of Mrs . Yoeom . From poetry to pigskin ! Capt. John .3. McEwan has complete d his winter term course of instruction i n Browning in the department of Englis h and now turns his pedagogical gifts to a somewhat different field . His course thi s spring is football coaching in the schoo l of physical education . -From rhymes to end runs . M Capt. Frank L . Culin, U . S. A ., has been professoring Oregon boys for three year s in military science and tactics . Now he i s to become the pupil, sitting at the fee t of gray-haired colonels and perhaps a brigadier-general or two at the infantr y officerstraining school at Fort Henning , Georgia . Sitting at the feet is figurative . The colonels will probably do the sitting . The Far West is assuming a good dea l of importance in the area of diplomacy , polities, and trade . And so is the Fa r East, just across the pond ; witness China ! So what is more natural than that th e University should offer work on Pacifi c problems. Dr. Warren D . Smith took the lead thi s term when he announced a new cours e called the Geography of the Pacific . Th e course deals with the geography and nat- ural resources of the more importan t countries bordering the Pacific, with die- cussion of the social, economic an d political questions influenced by thi s physical background . The average man attending the Uni- versity is taller and heavier than his fel- lows in other universities from data whic h has been obtained, according to statistic s compiled by Dr - Fred N . Miller, Univer- sity physician, and Dr . Wilmoth Osborne , assistant University physician . The per- centage results of the physical examina- tions for incoming students appeared i n the February issue of Nation Health . The Oregon girlsscore on all-aroun d good physical health and development i s higher relatively than the score for th e boys. Miss Henrietta Gouy, instructor i n French last year, is a student at the Sor- bonne. A recent number of the Journal of th e American Chemical Society contains a n article by Dr . Roger J . Williams, associat e professor of chemistry, and two graduat e students of the department, John L . Wil- son and Frank H , Von der Ahc . Th e article is entitled "The Control of `Bins Testing and the Concentration of a 111tos." Dr. Williams and his assistants ar e working on the isolation of the variou s substances that compose "Rios ." The y are gradually getting a purer fraction , which, when added to a yeast medium i n as small a quantity as .0006 milligrams t o 12 cubic centimeters, will stimulate th e growth of yeast to an appreciable extent . If you are a chemist you will under - stand pretty well the nature of the experi- ment. Anyway, it has something to d o with vitamines, and the Oregon men ar e doing a good research job . Dr. Ray P . Bowen, head of the Romanc e languages department, is the author o f "Edonard Estaunie : Novelist of Loneli- ness," published in the January-Marc h number of Sewanee Review . M. stauni e is one of the outstanding contemporar y European novelists . x a A newspaperman, regardless of the vo- cation he may enter after service i n daily jour - -aalism , never quit e gets print- er ink ou t of his blood . Colin V . Dyment, fo r six year s dean of th e college o f 1 i t e rature, science, an d the arts , left recent- ly for Cali- fornia to e x a m i n e v a r i o u s n e w spaper properties with a view to entering jour- nalism in the state to the south of us . After his graduation from Toronto Uni- versity, Mr . Dyment was a reporter an d editor for thirteen years before joinin g the staff of the University of Orego n school of journalism . From 1917 to 191 9 he was director of the school of journal - ism at the University of Washington . isni at the University of Washington, bu t part of this time was spent with the A .E. F . in France . His reports as Red Cros s seurcher with the 91st Division were on e of the outstanding achievements of jour- nalism as well as of service in the Worl d War . Gold Star Oregon parents will neve r forget him nor cease to treasure thes e reports . Virginia Judy Esterly, dean of wome n at the University, is now chairman of th e University section of the national organi- zation of deans of women . Dean Estcrl y was elected at tho annual meeting held i n Dallas, Texas . She read a paper at thi s meeting on "Organization of the Offic e of the Dean of Women ." 22 OLD OREGON April, 192 7 Published by the Alumni Associatioi of the Universit y of Oregon fo r Alumni an d former students Subscription: Two dollars, (foreign $2 .26) payable annually in ad- vance . This also makes the subscriber a paid-up member of the Oregon Alumni Association . Change of address should be reported promptly t o the alumni secretary . OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO N F . H. Young . 4 President Mrs. Isabel Jakway Blythe, 2 Vice-President Jeannette Calkins, 18 Secretary-Treasurer THE STAF F JEANNETTE CALKINS . 8 EDITOR AND MANAGE R Dorothy Collier, 18; Lois Osborne Casey ; S . Stephenson Smith ; Richard H. Syr-Mg, 8 ------ CONTRIBUTORS Calvin Horn, 7 . . . . .. ... .......... .................... ADVERTISING MANAGE R Elizabeth Cady Beeson, 7 REPORTE M. Boyer, 6 CIRCULATION MANAGER Issued monthly during the college year . Entered as second-class mat - ter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon . Acceptance for mailing at specia l rate of postage provided in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917 Vol . IX APRIL, 1927 No. 7 MULTUM T IS gratifying to note the increas- IN PARVO ing extent to which Oregon sum - mer session students are composed of bona fide candidates for higher degrees. The atmosphere o f the Eugene campus is distinctly that of the best graduat e school d some well defined project for research, students come to seek the help of the teacher, library and laboratory in prosecuting their study to the "ultimate frontier," With smaller classes and somewhat easier schedules, in- structors have time for contacts, conferences and companion- ship with students working in the same field of knowledge . The quiet of the library conduces to organized and consecutiv study and the freedom of the laboratory invites intensiv e experimentation Added to these advantages is a summer faculty of out - standing men assembled from widely separated seats of learn- ing; a faculty, cosmopolitan in point of view, and repre- sentative of many schools of thought. Instead of going fro m one graduate school to another, summer students will hav e the best of several graduate schools assembled in one place , Eugene, for their stimulus and advancement THE THREE ] "PHIS caption does not imply tha t R IN THE summer school students assemble t SUMMER learn the rudiments. The spirit of th e SCHOOL summer session is reflected in three R s built on a broader basis and pitched o n a higher plane . Summer school is in the first place a n opportunity for reunion of alumni, educators, and students who have met before and who renew long standing friend - ships and profit by the interchange of ideas . This year th e student body will be drawn from a wider constituency e will be enough, however, of the old guard to "leaven th e mass" and insure that intellectual comradeship for whic h the Oregon summer school is justly famous, It is a safe be t that before the end of the six weeks the newcomers will b e dangerously inoculated with the "Oregon spirit" and wil l come back more than once to the summer schoolbetween the mountains and the sea." They will be drawn hither as muc h by associations as by scenic grandeur or the opportunity fo r study. Recreation, the second R, will be much in evidence bu t always in harmony with the main purpose. Some who com e for the first time from distant states may bring to us a ne w appreciation of the recreational opportunities in this grea t open west of ours . They may in the Shakespearean sens e discover this country to its own inhabitants and give us a ne conception of Oregon as a playground for the pilgrim . Along with reunion and recreation there will be time fo r wholesomereflection that opportunity most prized by the de- votee of the summer session mer session have frequently remarked on the zest and alertnes of students who come to class prepared and full of militan t zeal for the conquest of their subjects . Facts are acquire d and dissolved by the head of reflective thinking . These stu- dents, courteous always, are unwilling to let the professor do all of the thinking . The atmosphere of the place, with al l its opportunities for reunion and recreation, is one that in- vites serious study. These, then, are the three R of the summer session : reunions that are enlightening and enlivening; recreation that is energizing and educational reflection that permits ideal, gleaned from contact, comment and communion of one mind with another to fructify and become a hart of our menta l fiber.-By J . H . G. f T CHAPEL HILL, North Caro-lina, during the latter part o fApril, alumni secretaries and editors o f alumni magazines will gather from all over the United State s for their annual convention . Judging from the records o f their past conventions, the lucky editors and secretaries who attend will receive a full quota of practical suggestions , applicable ideas, and inspiration. But to go, or not to go, that is the question in the Orego n Alumni Office at this writing . STILL AFTER IRCULATION Manager Boyer re - THEM ports the continuation of the strug- gle for 4,000 paid members of the Alumn Association, Dues keep coming in, but the goal lies som e distance ahead. Circulation Manager Boyer is to be com- mended for perseverance, at any rate. S HE loyalty of the "old guard" ha snever been questioned. But onc eagain it has been demonstrated. Recently a plea was sent to life members of th e Alumni Association asking for assistance to meet the extr a demands on the alumni treasury for memorials . The resul t was the most generous response. Letters continue to com a from life members, with notes expressing approval of th e memorials and a warm loyalty to the University and to th e Alumni Association. TO GO O R NOT TO GO - THANKS TO TH E "OLD GUARD" GEORGE D . STRAYE R During t h e w - i n t e r months Dr . Strayer give s instruction in Teachers College, Columbia Uni- versity, New York . H e is author and editor a t well as teacher . (Eugen esummer session.) HARRY B . WILSO N Since 1918, Dr . Wilso n has been superintenden t of schools in Berkeley , California . He is th e author of several book s on educational subjects . (Eugene summe rsession.) J. H . HOLS T Professor Hoist teache seducation in Montan a State College . He ha s also been principal, su- perintendent, and en - gaged in educationa l surveys. He will give in-struction in education i n the Portland session . JESSE H . NEWLO N Superintendent of school sin Denver, Colorado . li e is known everywhere a s a leader in school ad - ministration. In 1924-2 he was president o f N . E . A . He will teac h in the Eugene session . ALICE BARROW S Nationally known as an authority on edu - cational problems . She is specialist o f the U . S . Bureau of Education, Washing - ton, D . C . Her work this summer o n platoon schools will be given in th e Portland summer session . Five of the Teachers who will give Instruction in Education in the Portland and Eugene Summer Sessions `4 OLD OREGON April, 192 7 Portland Symphony Orchestra Appear s The Portland Symphony Orchestra, wit h Willem van Hoogstraten, conductor, ap- peared in concert on the University cam - pus, March 7 . The concert was one o f the A . S . U . O . series and was held i n McArthur court . The organization, com- posed of some seventy musicians, pre- sented an imposing appearance and gav e a program that was well-chosen and ex- eeuted with brilliance and technique . Ming Vase Presented E. F . Brodie, publisher and editor o f the Morning Enterprise, Oregon City, pre- sented to the University during the edi- torsconference on the campus, a Chines e red lacquer vase, about five feet i n height and beautifully carved in man y intricate designs and figures . Dating fro m the time of the Ming dynasty, this vas e was made in Fuchow, and is one of th e very few in existence at the present time . The piece will be placed with the othe r exhibits in the Murray Warner collectio n oe Oriental art . F x S Music Fiesta Planne d A music fiesta, to be an evening o f musical entertainment to whieh towns- people and high school students as wel l as the University students will be admit- ted, is expected to form the climax of th e annual song week, which starts April 20 . University glee clubs and the orchestr a will furnish the program to be presente d in McArthur court . The plan has receive d the approval of the student council . W . A . A . Elect s Officers of the Women Athletic Asso- ciation for the coming year will be Nelli e Johns, Portland, president ; Marjorie Lan- dru, Eugene, vice-president ; Ruth Bur- cham, St . Helens, treasurer ; and Hele n Mumaw, Portland, secretary . Yale Paleontologist Visits Campu s Professor Charles Schuehert, professo r of paleontology in the Sheffield Scientifi c School of Yale University, visited th e general geology class recently, and gav e an account of his beginning in his pro- fession. Professor Schuehert wrote th e second part of the text book used in th e general geology classes at Oregon, "Intro- ductory Geology ." a a a Debaters Tie in Contests Both the men and women debat e teams tied in their respective contest s with the men and women teams of th e University of Utah . The men debat e was held in Salt Lake City, upon th e question : "Resolved, that democracy is a failure ." The Oregon team upheld th e negative of the question . The women debated on the Oregon cam - pus. The question was, "Resolved, tha t social fraternities and sororities should b e abolished from American .college eam- puses." Oregon had the negative side o f this question, too . Women representin g Oregon were Cecil McKercher, Portland , and Marion Leach, Ashland . The Orego n men were Benoit McCroskey, Salem, an d Donald Beelar, Warrenton . Pauline Stewart Heads Y . W . Pauline Stewart, Dayville, was unani- mously elected president of the campu s Y . W . C. A . for next year . Gladys Calef , Portland, was made vice-president ; Mar- garet Edmunson, Eugene, secretary ; Juli a Wilson, Portland, treasurer, and Katherin e Kneeland, Portland, undergraduate repre- sentative . The results of the election wer e announced at the annual membership ban- quet. PAUL AGER, 6 Paul Ager Granted Fellowship at Yal e Paul Ager, 6, who has been doing re - search work on problems of universit y finance in the president office this year , has been awarded a Strathcona fellowshi p in transportation at Yale University . The fellowship was established by fund s furnished by Lord Strathcona to further th e study of transportation at Yale . There ar e five fellowships awarded each year to out - standing students throughout the Unite d States. One thousand dollars is grante d for expenses during the college year . Ager is a member of Phi Beta Kapp a and was vice-president of the student body . He won the Spaulding cup and the Albert s prize while in school . He was a varsit y track man and a member of the Order o f the "0" . Athletes Receive Blanket s Niue blankets were presented to ath- letes who have completed three years i n a single sport at the annual smoker hel d on the campus April 2 . Three of thes e were in basketball and six in football . Jerry Gunther of Portland, Algot Wes- tergren of Astoria, and Roy Okerberg o f Salem, each of whom has played thre e years in basketball, received blankets . Th e football men who received the award are : Al Sinclair of Eugene, captain of the 192 6 team; Bert Kerns of Parkman, Wyoming ; Carl Johnson of Oregon City ; Georg e Mincnaugh of Portland ; Lynn Jones o f Salem; and Otto Vitus of Eugene , Upton Close to Lectur e Upton Close, writer and lecturer o n China, will speak at the student assembl y May 19 on the "Revolt of Asia ." Upton Close, whose real name is Jose f W. Hall, is a professor at the Universit y of Washington and author of "The Lan d of the Laughing Buddha," which deal s with China since 1916 . He is returnin g to the United States in a short time fro m further observations in China, on whic h he will lecture . From 1917 to 1 .919 Mr. Close journeye d through Shantung in Chinese clothing , gathering reports on conditions in tha t province. It was while engaged in thi s work that some of his copy was labele d "Up Close," meaning that he was nea r the scene of action . The words were mis- construed by an editor receiving his cop y to mean the name of the author of th e article, and it was from this accident tha t the pseudonym Upton Close was evolved . Commenting on the speaker, Walte r Barnes, professor of history, said : "Upto n Close has an unusually quick understand- ing of the Chinese character, and ha s many interesting ideas on the compariso n of Oriental and western civilization ." Upton Close recently assisted Dr . H . H . Gowan, professor of Oriental literatur e at the University of Washington, to re - vise his book, "Outline History of China ." s Balcony Made for Sculpture Student s A new balcony, which will be used a s a storing place for art work, will soon b e completed in one of the sculpturing room s of the department of fine arts . The stu- dents of sculpturing will now have mor e room; something they have been in nee d of for some time, according to Professo r Avard Fairbanks, head of the departmen t of sculpture . Individual sculpture work is being don e by two students, Beatrice I . Towers , Garibaldi, who is working for a master s degree, is engaged in sculpturing a life - size figure of a mother and a child, whil e Anna O . Keeney, Eugene, senior, is mak- ing a life-size figure of an aviator . April, 1927 OLD OREGON 25 When the plutarch s start plutarchin y AT THE night sessions, when class philosopher vie with class Merry Andrews in deciding th e heavy problems of the world-or burlesquin g them - notice the royal guest, Prince Albert . Chiming in with the spirit of the occasion ing the air with the finest tobacco-aroma ever . Do you smoke Prince Albert? It will brin g you more pleasure and satisfaction than yo u ever thought a pipe could give . The instan t you throw back the hinged lid and release tha t wonderful P. A . fragrance, you suspect you are in for some grand smoke-sessions The very first pipe-load confirms your sus- picions. Cool as a gate-tender . Sweet as th e week-end reprieve. Mild as the coffee in Com- mons-mild, yet with a full body that satisfies your smoke-taste completely. Get yourself a tidy red tin this very day . CRINGE ALBER -no other tobacco is like it ! 01927, R. Reynolds Tobacc o Company. Winston-Salem. N . C . P. A . is sold everywhere I ntidy red tins, pound and half -pound tits humidors, an d pound crystal-glass humidorswith sponge moistener top . And arrays with every bi t of bite and parch removed b y the Prince Albert process . Editorial and feature writers of the Ben Hur Lampman type are now goin g their strongest on trilliums, crocuses, an d the what-note of spring . AMERICANA NOT E "And at college," confided a proud Pen- dleton father last week, "my son is gettin g along great . First he pledged Phi Delt an d now he has made a swimming letter ." "And what is your son studying," th e father was asked . "Oh, I don know ." Whatever troubles Noah ha d With floods and crowded Ark , He worried not of traffic cop s Or finding space to park . Gretchen has just finished one of Elinor Glyn novels and she says it is th e closest thing to perpetual emotion she has ever seen. x Europeans say that Americans are hate d everywhere. Well, let them name a few o f their bosom friends . x x TERM PAPERS ARE MORE EASIL Y READ THAN DONE . x x Sol Abramson says he bets most of the college suicides are editors of college pub- lications. Yes, Sol, either that or th e readers. NO REST FOR THE WICKED, PRO- FESSORS MUST BE BUSIER THA N ONE WOULD IMAGINE THEN . Some of the pictures that come over th e wireless look as though there might hav e been a great deal of static in the air a t the time . x Under yon granit e Rests Billy Ooop ; He tested his theor y Of eight in a coupe . x One of the best things about prepper s coming down to the campus for week-end s is that they appreciate mother cooking al l the more when they go home. x Weepah, Nevada, has a manicure tent w e are told by the newspapers . All the gol d digging is not going to be done in th e mines, evidently . x REFORMER SLOGAN : LET MY CONSCIENCE BE YOU R GUIDE . Henry Ford was injured in a Ford coup e the other day . The evil he has wrough t has returned to torment him evidently . CO-EDS GO ON AIR A T EUGENE HOTEL STATIO N (Headline in Oregon Daily Emerald) . Personally, we like to see the co-e d that would go on air . Franklin P . Adams, columnist in th e New York World : "t tu, Brute!lispe d Caesar sadly .-Circular issued by th e Alumni Association of the University o f Oregon.-Take that home and try it o n your lisper ." WHAT THIS UNIVERSITY NEEDS I S hi O R Ii PROFESSOR JOKES AN D FEWER JOKE PROFESSORS . x Under the spreading chestnut tree , The co-ed gives her fur coat a pat ; She may call it mink or squirrel or skun k But, oh, what can be done with a eat ! Browning won his suit but think of al l the gowns Peaches wan . "They also serve who only stand an d wait." is more modern with the verb "sit " used instead of "stand ." Rent and fees and dances; Choe malts, sandwiches, eves ; Clothes for looks ; paper, books ; Those are what keep us broke . COME ALONG CLOTHES . IF YOU E GOING WITH ME, YOU GOT TO HAN G ON . x BIJGHOIJSE FABLE S "Dad I want you to be the first to se e the grade sheet ." Keep active, doctor advises. Yes, espe- cial when crossing a busy street on a rainy day . After a person is several years remove d from college it must be amusing to think of the things you used to think of . x x x Nebraskans have one satisfaction . Their state will never be called "The Switzer - land of America ." x x THE TRUE TEST OF LOVE IS T O SEE YOUR BEST GIRL IN HER GY M SUIT . Dean Walker must have written som e more letters home to the parents request- ing that students bring no cars to colleg e with them this term . The parking spac e across from the library is more crowde d than ever before . "Our housemanager didn buy an y carrots today ." "He in the infirmary ." "How that, " x April, 1927 OLD OREGON 27 Use th' OREGON ELECTRIC - Weekend Trips $5.30 PORTLAND AND RETUR N Tickets on Sale Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays; Return Limit, Tuesdays Low Round Trip between Eugene and the Following Points, Daily, 15 Day Return Limit : Albany $2.50; Corvallis $2 .25; Forest Grove $7 .10; Salem $3.80; Woodburn $4.75; Hillsboro $6.75; Portland $6.00 Trains leave 8 :00, 10:50 a. in. ; 2:00 (Ltd .) and 6 :05 p. m. L. F. Knowlton, Trav . Psgr . Agt. F. S. Appebnan, Agent PHONE MAIN 140 uumtm mmnWMMMu :::mummm :mmomm:iumummmimmmuuumnmmmtmuumomnms ummommmnnmmuamuummmmmmmn ::null :umuioolulommunmomunmmummmmmnm immu mnuumeunu4m:mmnmmmmmmmmm:mmnmmm:utm on " lic remains the same-Loyalty, Service, Efficiency . BOOTH -KELLY LUMBER CO . 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