Northwest Viking - 1928 December 7

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What's in a Name?
. Many oddities lurk in the col­umns
of this year's student direc­tory.
For we find anything from
three "Sargeants" to a "Gunn" or
- a "Bpringstel". Three "Hills" as­cend
the hill every day to school. A
'Guy' may 'Haighf to put 'Irons' in
a 'Tarbox'. Yet these names appear
in the roster.
For tongue-twisters we have
picked at random: "Owatonna, Mo-awad,
Baaoa, Badosovich, Laakso,
and Zylstra.
An interesting study in double
consonants may be made by bor­rowing
five names from the facul­ty
list: "O'Malley, Skalley, Philippi,
Hoppe, and Kibbe."
Seventeen Mac's are found, with­out
counting "Maki." Smiths lead
in number this year, greatly out­numbering
the Johnson clan.
BOARD OF CONTROL
OFFERS P R E FOR
A Committee to Draw Contest
Rules, Was Appointed at Last
Meeting of Board.
FORUM NEXT TUESDAY
Notice of Student Representative
Election, and of Editor and Busi­ness
Manager to be Posted Soon.
-W. S. N. S.-
Whether a blonde or a brunette
beard grows the faster and whether
the use of hair tonics is ethical, are
questions confronted by the male
part of the Sophomore class at the
University of Washington these
days in the 31-day beard-growing
contest which began November 20,
patterned after a similar contest
which is an annual affair at the
University of California.
I t is estimated that beards about
one and a half inches long can be
grown in a month, but the Soph­omores
who age about eighteen-nineteen-
twenty may have to spe­cialize
in the military mustache or
the slim Vandyke. University dis­trict
merchants are offering prizes
for the longest, stiff est, handsom­est,
reddest, etc. etc., beards grown
in this period.
And the whole campus is consid­erably
interested in the prospect of
looking like a page from the old
iamily album.
But the Co-ed stoops to conquer.
Moire subtely, the women are
trying to see who can grow the
most hair on the back of their
jiecks.
-W. S. N. S.-
University educators meeting a
lew days in St. Louis were reported
t o have reached the conclusion that
"a deplorable crop of misfits" con­fronts
the educational world as its
greatest problem.
Spokesmen for the five great un­iversities
represented in the confer­ence
said it is their greatest con­cern
to know "whom and how long
to educate". Mass education as fol­lowed
in educational systems of
this country are to blame for the
dilemma, they said.
Teachers engaged in instructing
pupils of every grade know the
t r u t h of the university leaders'
statements. They have made no
new discovery' They merely gave
emphasis to a problem long recog­nized
and discussed wherever edu­cational
leaders are fraternalized.
W. S. N. S.
Nearly four millions dollars are
annually lent by 218 colleges and
universities to students of charac­ter
and ability in order to enable
them to finish their college educa­tion.
Walter J. Greenleaf, of the Bu­reau
of Education, found many im­portant
things in a study of student
loan funds recently completed. "We
are living in what appears to be the
'installment age' where people make
large purchases by paying so much
down, and so much per month.
Higher education is no exception to
the rule and as an investment,
yields a high rate of interest with
the passing years," he says.
His study shows that in a few
cases no interest whatever is charg­ed,
while 6 per cent is the rule, yet
some charge as high as 8 per cent.
Individual loans average $100 to
$150, but many exceed these. Re­paying
invariably begins at a stat­ed
period after graduation.
——-W. S. N. S.
A. S. P. C. officers ordered their.
Frosh to "obey traditions" at the
Thanksgiving game of the College
of Puget Sound, Tacoma. The
Frosh at the last minute of an
actual rebellion acquiesced and wore
their green caps to and at the
game, ••.../••'..
\ This is "Hello Week," traditional
Sit the University of Washington.
'•'&.-.. — - w . s.:N. a ;
,^; Oregon had a real Thanksgiving,
.;&iregpn State wiiming frqm New
i:tYprk ^
IJQ; ;•: in- the •Soutfr from \.U. .';C/;:L.:;;;A.
The 'New-School-Song Commit-:
tee' was appointed by the Board of
Control at its regular meeting last
Monday afternoon. Catherine
Morse, Guy Springsteel, and Mr.
Ruckmick were chosen by the
Board of Control and two others
will be included by this group to
make- the rules for this school-wide
contest which will probably begin
next week and end before the first
of the Winter quarter.
A Well-Worth Prize
Twenty-five dollars is sure to be
the amount presented to the com­poser.
Announcement of. contest
rules will be printed in the Viking
next week. In a school this size, it
is thought surely a number of songs
of" original composition or trans­position
will be submitted by stu­dents
i n the Music department or
by others interested.
Election and Notices
Election petitions will be posted
sometime this week, announced Roy
Arnett, Secretary of the Board, for
a representative to take the place
of Guy Springsteel who has served
out the four-quarter term of Made­line
Bosshardt, now a graduate.
And notices of application for
Editor and Business manager of
the Northwest Viking for the com­ing
Winter quarter will also be
posted. The Editor and Business
manager are required to be resi­dent
students here for at least two
quarters, to have a good journalis­tic
standing, and to have recom­mendation
of the faculty advisor.
Each receive ten dollars for each
current issue of the Viking.
Forum Next Tuesday
That inter-school debate, letter
awards, and apportionment of funds
be discussed in an all-school forum
next Tuesday, December 11, was
also emphasized by the Board. Sam
Ford, Co-op manager, announced
yesterday that he has just ordered
several black and orange basketball
suits for the Co-op team, a unit of
the intra-mural series.
CALENDAR
FRIDAY—December 7.
Rec Hour, 4 to 5 o'clock,in
, big gym.
All School Girls Dance, by
W. A. A. in big gym, 8:30
SATURDAY—December 8.
Hike to Natural Dry Docks.
- Edens Hall Informal, 8:30.
SUNDAY—December 9.
Regular Church Services.
TUESDAY—December 11.
Regular Assembly, student
forum.
THURSDAY—December 13.
Mental Hygiene, June Jos-lyn,
room 119, 8:00.
FRIDAY—December 14.
Freshmen assembly, 11 o'­clock.
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HOLD THEIR ANNUAL
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"Wintertime" Will Be Decorative
Scheme to be Carried Out at the
Hall's Informal Tomorrow Night.
Capacity Crowd Witnesses
Normal Drama Production
Story of Characteristic Carolina Mountain People
Cleverly Portrayed by Normal Cast. Claire Wilson
Shows Unusual Ability in Character Portrayal.
Tomorrow night in the drawing
room of Edens Hall, the "dorm"
girls will hold their quarterly in*
formal, which promises to be one
of the most successful ever held.
The 'wintertime' idea will be car­ried
out in the decorations and the
programs, under the direction of
Virginia Schmidt, social chairman,
and her committee consisting of
Delores Young, Dorothy Gibson,
Alice Sundquist and Louise Dunn.
Geraldine McKee and her com­mittee:
Jane L'Eveque, and Helen
Stine, will have charge of the pro­gram.
The refreshments commit­tee
is: Margaret Hill, chairman,
Ann Fillinger, Irene De Vries, and
Irene Young. Elizabeth Gable has
charge of the music. Ruth Steele is
social chairman.
Former Student Now
Edits Filipino Forum
Victorio Velasco, former Philip­pine
student at Normal, is now edi­tor
of the "Filipino Forum" which
is a six page mimeographed news­paper
issued twice a month.
Velasco, when attending here,
besides writing a weekly column in
the school paper, was the founder of
the "Scribes Club," and the first
editor of the "Red Arrow."
Sharpen Your Razors, Girls,1 Boys
Plan Razorless Days and Weeks!
I n informal group discussions in
the office of the Northwest Viking,
Wednesday noon, a contest was pro­posed
by the Associate Editor of
this paper. The following is the
gist of the plan: first: that certain
men in this school permit their
beards to grow for a period of two
weeks, the men in question being
Gordon Leen, Vernon Vine, Ben
Hamilton and Joe Hermsen. At
the completion of this contest the
beards were to be measured, and
the one with the longest was to have
one of the school's most popular
girls to shave it off on the landing
in the main hallway. The girls in
question, and we'll not have time
to mention all of them, are Cather­ine
Morse, Jeari Marquis, and Mary
Elizabeth Fowler.
Everything was fine and dandy
until Catherine Morse balked at the
idea of shaving a man. When she
backed down, so did the others, as
they began to realize the penalties
for manslaughter and that there
might be • difficulty with the Bar­bers'
Union.
Then some bright genius broach­ed
the idea of having a faculty
beard-growing contest. This im­mediately
gained favor. Jean Mar­quis
said that she would use her
influence on the dean of men. We
wonder just how much influence
Jean has. But our. next big prob­lem
was to find someone to induce
the other prospects, Mr. Beyer- Mr.
Fowler, M^
Kibbe, to enter this precarious con­test.
There were several things
that entered into this informal pro­cedure
that caused some questions
to be raised. For instance, could
Mr. Fowler and Mr. Kibbe raise the
beards t h a t . woukk compare with
those of Mr. Bever and Mr. Ruck­mick?
Then it was decided that
there would have to be two divis­ions
in the contest and prizes a-warded
accordingly.
At about the time the discussion
was getting under full swing and
plans were being made for launch­ing
the contest, the one o'clock
class bell rang and interrupted tbe
conversation, but you have not
heard it all yet. There may be
more about this shaveless talk than
appears on the surface.
— o
George Allez Writes
George Allez, who was a former
president of the Associated Student
Body of Normal and a graduate of
1927, is attending the Library School
at Columbia University.
In a letter to Mr. Herbert E. Fow­ler,
he said, "I am thoroughly sold
on the value of library training for
all students and want to teach stu­dents
how to use the library."
Mr. Allez spoke of meetings with
Mr. E. A. Bond and Mr. Edward
Arntzen, both of wliom aire on a
leave of absence from the Normal,
and Mr. ElwbodDavis, former fopt-.
Last night' the Normal Drama
Club presented their quarterly play,
"SunrUp," by Lulu Vollmer, di­rected
by Victor H. Hoppe, with the
auditorium packed to its capacity.
The drama took place in the
backwoods, mountainous region of
North Carolina. The first scene
opened in late September, 1917, just
after the United States had drafted
men into the army. The third act
was in mid-winter at midnight in a
terrific snowstorm.
A complete new stage set, pro­duced
Widow Cagle's cabin in yel­low
pine logs of the hills. Rustic
and quaint furnishings added much
to the scenic illusion and gave a
perfect background for the action.
Perhaps the most difficult of tech­nical
stage problems was the cre­ation
of a terrific snow storm with
limited apparatus. However, this
and the sunset and sunrise effects
were well executed. The fine light­ing
effects of fire place glow, flick­ering
lantern lights, howling wind
and snow and finally the cheerful
dawn made the play extremely pic­torial
and vivid.
Character Development Stressed
"Sun-Up" is pre-eminently a
foslyn Postpones
Lecture on Dec. 13
Owing to the fact that the date
of the Drama Club play conflicts,
the fourth lecture by June J. Joslyn
which was scheduled for last eve­ning
has been postponed and will
be combined with her last lecture
on December 13, ^at '7:30 o'clock in
room 119.
Miss Jones will speak on the
"Problems of Children" and "The
Delinquent." Some of the problems
will be taken up by using actual
cases of students. Problems involv­ing
relationship.between the parent
and child, teacher and child and
their effect upon the child.
In her discussion of "The Delin­quent"
she will tell how to help
a child who commits anti-social
acts. The child probably needs to be
understood rather than punished.
This talk will point out some of the
more common motives for delin­quency
in children and suggestions
for meeting them.
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Robert Louis Barron, Violinist
of College of Pacific Musical
Conservatory Gives Recital.
Robert Louis Barron, newly ap­pointed
director of the violin in the
College of Pacific Musical Conser­vatory
of Stockton, California, "ap­peared
in a recital last Tuesday
morning in the regular assembly.
Although Mr. Barron came re­commended
rather highly by cer­tain
press quotations, his Normal
audience was perhaps a little dis­appointed
at his performance. How­ever
it was obvious in his more sim­ple
selections, that he put a great
deal of himself into his playing.
Naivete Noticeable
A most interesting personality is
Mr. Barron's. He caused consider­able
. comment by his excessive
naivete which both amused and puz­zled
his hearers. However his stage
presence was very pleasing and his
audience forced him to respond to
one encore.
Mr. Barron showed to his best ad­vantage
in the latter part of his
program which consisted .of the less
classical though more widely ap­pealing
numbers.
Much credit is due to the finish­ed,
accompanying of Miss Edith R.
Strange,, of the Normal department
of music. To her very sympathetic
accompaniments, Mr. Barron's play­ingwas
brought out to the best of
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character play centered around
Widow Cagle as chief.' representa­tive
of thta rapidly passing com­munity
life in which the extreme
feud spirit dominates all action.
While a serious play, it has bits
of humor scattered throughout.
Widow Cagle's pointed humor es­caped
no one, including Sheriff Jim
Weeks and Pap Todd. -
"Sun-Up"s an accurate repro­duction
of the life of the Carolina
mountaineer and illustrates the fast
passing clannish ignorance, on the
part of these hill-billy people. The
entire play is in the backwoods di­alect
which makes it seem very
natural and adds much to the ef­fectiveness
of the local color.
As the play opens Rufe Cagle
and Sheriff Jim Weeks are rivals
for the hand of Emmy Todd. Emmy
plays the part of a coquette well in
playing one man against the other
and keeping them both in sus­pense
until the final moment when
she consents to marry Rufe just
before he goes to war.
Dense ignorance is portrayed by
them. They are "Agin" everything,
(Continued on.Page Two)
New Campus Editor
Given Appointment
Because of the resignation of
Catherine Morse, Campus Life edi­tor
of the Klipsun, a vacancy oc­curred
which was filled by the ap­pointment
of Irene Larson to the
position by Naomi Chase, Klipsun
editor.
The Klipsun staff members are:
Naomi Chase,, editor; Glen Fair­banks,
business manager; Margaret
Morrison and Bernice Gnagey, as­sistant
editors; Raymond Greene,
editor of the Arts; Lenore. Handra-han,
Art editor; Ben Hamilton,
Men's sport editor; Evelyn Craw,
Women's sports editor; Alice Oak­ley,
Sophomore representative, and
Dorothy Sasse, Freshman represen­tative.
A meeting of the staff was held
Wednesday evening, November 28,
for the purpose of planning the
'dummy' at the home of Margaret
Morrison. 341 So. Forest St.
Spokane Chronicle
Sponsors NeW-Sorig
Contest for Northwest
Dr. C. H. Fisher has received" a
notice of a Pacific Northwest Song
Writing Contest which is now being
conducted by the Spokane Daily
Chronicle and Spokane alumnae
chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, col­legiate
women's journalism society.
This contest is open to all residents
of Oregon, Montana, Idaho, British
Columbia and Washington. The
Chronicle will award up to $125.00
in cash: prizes for four Pacific
Northwest song-lyrics (the musical
scores are not desired and will not
be considered.) The contest is now
under way and will close January
2, 1929.
PROF. CHALLENGES;
STUDENTS ACCEPT
Professor Feels That Students
Get More From Voluntary Than
From Required Reading.
Five students are successfully car­rying
on outside reading in the lib­rary,
during their class periods in
history la, and still maintain an
A standing in the class group.
The five students are: Bernadine
Brown, Elizabeth Elles, Bessie Hien-tamer,
Lillian Nesheim and Jean
Philippi.
Mr. Pelagius Williams made a
proposition to all history la stu­dents,
in the X group, that any stu­dent
could take his class time and
use it for outside reading of his
own selection in the library.
Offer Is Accepted.
The five students, who took up the
work, report once a . week to Mr.
Williams for a round' table discus­sion
and on test days they take the
test with the rest of the class. If
they fail to make an A grade in the
test, then, they reenter the class
for the class discussion. So far,
these students have made A stand­ings
in their tests.
This experiment, modeled after
the Oxford method, is intended to
give the individual student a way
in which to develop his own in­tellectual
interests. "The reading
they choose, to do is of more value
to themselves than that which
they axe required to do," says Mr.
WiUiams.v':'•:•:,-''€> 'J---"\'-:.
IS MADE BY MRS.
A Marked Resemblance is Shown
in the Oratory of Ruth Bryan
Owen and Her Renowned Father.
A special assembly took place last
Monday morning at eleven o'clock
in honor of Ruth Bryan Owen, the
distinguished daughter of a dis­tinguished
man, William Jennings
Bryan, three times Democratic can­didate
for president.
Those who have heard Mr. Bry­an,
have noticed the marked re­semblance
of his oratory to that of
his daughter. There is the same
splendid tone to their speeches, the
same mastery of the English lan­guage
that has the power of hold­ing
the audience enthralled.
Wished Pioneer Life
Mrs. Owen said that she wished
it was possible to get a bird's-eye
view of history in order that one
might acquire an idea of the pio­neer's
life. It was always her de­sire
to be a pioneer, for it is so easy
then to see just where one fits in­to
the scheme, but now that civili­zation
has progressed so far and
so rapidly, it is very difficult to
discover our exact status.
American Youth Mentioned
"Lindberg is far more character­istic
of American youth than the
young people spoken about in the
newspapers," said Mrs. Owen. "He
was a pioneer who proved that it
is not far from our hearts to the
hearts of those across the seas; and
he did more to establish an under­standing
with the Old World than
many of our prominent diplomats."
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A Special Assembly Will - Be:'iHelf|;,!|'ij||
. I n Recognition of the ' G i ^ u a t e s ' ^l
Since There Will be No Exercises.:;-;;^!:
NO COMMENCEMENT A^':t;: ^ | |l
At End of Fall Quarter in 1927,
Sixty-six Students Received Their:
Diplomas—Upper Classmen Listed
Thirty-six students have filed;,
their petitions in the Dean Beyer's;'
office, as candidates for graduation,
December 21, 1928. ; :A
Last year sixty-six persons /re?
ceived diplomas at the end of the V;
Fall quarter. Included in this numSli;
ber were several upper class stu|,!;
dents. This reduction of thirty stu-t
dents over last fall is believed : to;
be caused by the extremely large^
class which graduated at the end:;
of the Summer quarter, August 21yi:l
1928. This class included 163 stu-^:
dents. No upper classmen who will;;:
graduate this fall. . --:
No formal Commencement will:;
take place at the end of the quarter;';
due to the small number of stu- • i
dents graduating. It has not been; ;
customary to. hold Commencement-
*Exercises at the end of either ttieS
fall or winter quarters but to invite;
invite the graduates back, to take •;
part in either the spring or summer:
Commencements. ^
However, special recognition of:
the graduating class wiU be given |
in assembly.
' The following is a list of candi­dates
for graduation December. 21. i
1928. 'M5
Two Year Course
Acher, Daisy M., v^ ;
Anderson, Margaret,
Bergh, Myrtle S.,
Berreman, Orilla H., ...
Bond, Elmer Elwood, ^ i
Campbell, Helen Maris, -
Cassidy, V e T a C , :Y :
Collins, Mabel.Pratt,
Edmundson, W. Dean, ^
Garrison, Myrta Elizabeth, , •
Giarde, John,
Grimson, Christine,
Jacoby, Alta Muriel,
Johnson, Annie C, >
Keveren, Kenneth A.,
Koli. Lempi, ;;,
Korsborn, Elton H., '
Lewis, Dorothy Mae,
Lundberg, George L.,
Lundstead, Frances, : •: ;'
McCush, Mary E., .'•:-:
Maynard, Ernestine Gratia, ^«
Mullen, Alice Eloise, "! • v>
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(Continued on Page Four)
What Trials We Have When We §
Try to be Very Good Students
With Apologies to Charles Merz.
It starts at eight o'clock to ram­ble
over the campus and we all
climb on. Yes, we're all there—
Beck, Bobbie, Randy, Rose, Mary
and Celeste, Swede, Moe, Hammit,
Keith, and Turnbull, "Hardlines"
Robert and our serious editor—
we're there from our most illus­trious
upper-classman to our most
insignificant Frosh.
"I'm going to be late for my
eight o'clock as sure as anything."
'And my grade won't stand the
cut."
Hurry—hurry—get to class—get
grades—I'm lucky to get a C when
I fully expected to flunk—hurry-dash—.
"Did you read that chapter?"
No, he doesn't call on us, any­way."
Try to pretend you're interested—
but, shucks, what connection has
the problem of feeble minded-,
ness with the coming Informal
or even tonight at Baughman's?—
Now if I wear that tan dress-^-What
is the standard of living of the
people in the West Indies?—No,
I'd better wear the georgette and
that new jewelry—Where-as, in
China we find—But I wonder where
Rosalie was«. going last night—and
so on for a whole hour; sitting in
class and going through the mo­tions
of being a student. _
The next hour and we h a d p l a n ­ned
to go ti> thelibrary:birt look at
it: rahi—wel£:,if • wei'must;•':-we:rinist
—it's a wonder they didn't p u t ; t t i e v ^ ||
library over hear Baughmans. W;^;S3i
would be so much nicer to "!waDc£;;i£$
that way in the rain—by the tirii^f|||«|
the library steps are reached; w e ) B | ||
wonder again—who's over at jttie^0$
building they call the '"College? : ; | ; | «|
Center—Guess I'll just drop over t p | | g | |
see—won!t stay long, though-—ibput^;|;|(i
fifteen minutes—there's Joe and:|;^=|
Rosalie and Glenn and Naomi ;and;:!|^!
some -few others—. :"; H ^ S ^ I I "
"My sweet little Alice blue gpwn'v;;^r§|
the music is nice and we lover tp1;ig||
dance!" :,iy-^$$$&
And so we dance while a' S o c i b i b ^ | i | i|
gy paper awaits *~our attentibn^K^||^
dozens of chapters of " Freeman jyfsfi
"Mental Tests" are to be read M ^ | i ; | | j|
countless volumes of -Irish ^ h " ^ r a | ^ | ; ||
ture gather the dust, to say nothing | f | ||
of ..all the other things to be :done;ii|!|||
Finally we get to the; library^.fbu^|s|ji|;
there is barely time to s n a t c h , ^ i a | | | | e|
bibliography '- for . future T e f ^ e i i | e | | | | |j
and off 'to-class' again. .; ;J?0;;|if||^&;
. At last a class that interestel|«|f§;W
but we .are so busy t a k i n g _ n o t « K f i ^ | | | ||
getting names' of books 'to' e n j o ^ | t t | | | ^ ||
Russian literature, . Scandinaimti^;^|
Merature,V Greek: literaturey;;.yJlS^||||i|
literature,' and H.. <&. W e l l s ; B o 6 1 c g : | | ||
•Books—We must'read-that.bpo^tso3i!|s|
i d e n i i u ^ ' f w i t i ' i i i i
_ .., . ,, s^liS^:i?4':~4'fi
thing" .we talk. a p o u t - ^ ' : - ; w ^ | i t ^ | | | pp
and'Vhow! •':"; We're^afraid' :
; t » : l « g ; ? » e | | | | |
haven't ; ; r e a d ; i G ; - ' B . : ' S ^ i n ' ^ r - ^ ^ ^ ^^
that we may ' be
those who know Knowledge||^