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OREGON EMERALD Pubishcd Wednesday and Saturday dur ing the college year by students of the UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Application made for second class mail rates. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year.$1.00 Single copy.$ .05 EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chlef ....W. C. Nicholas, '10 News .Editor .Kalph Moores, ’12 \ssistant .Wm. E. Lowell, ’ll City Editor .Calvin Sweek, ’ll Asistant .Dean Collins, ’10 Reporters .L. L. Ray, '12 .R. B. Powell, ’12 .W. S. Main ’12 .IT. L. Cash, ’13 .F. S. Waite, ’13 .Geo. Shantin, '12 .Dan Mitchell '13 .W. R. Bailey, '12 .Karl Onthank, ’13 .Helen Higbee '12 BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager. .Fritz Dean, ’ll Circulation .C. A. Osterholm, ’12 Advertising ....James Caufield. ’12 Saturday, June 4, 1910. When Honors Are Not Honor able I ho men's senior honor society re cently organized at tlie University of Oregon is a delicate subject to discuss, especially in the college newspaper. Ac cordingly we have endeavored to keep out of it, elsewhere as well as in our columns. But the agitation which the matter has stirred up is no trivial thing and calls for attention. That no one can misunderstand our attitude, however, we must say in justice to the editor that lie has done nothing to bring up the subject. The story in today’s issue was not engendered by him. It was not even written by anyone on the regular staff. Certain students came to the editor with the facts all collected and the story written and insisted that they had a right to he heard. It will not he necessary for us to go into any extended discussion of honorary societies. In general we have no objec tion to them, and consider that they may serve many useful purposes. But the local organization has several peculiar ities that distinguish it from others of its kind. In the first place, its history is unique. The heads of five fraterni ties met and organized, each then in viting an additional member from his house to join. This they have termed an honor society and decree that it is composed of the most prominent sen iors in college. Now, wc conceive that it is perfectly legitimate lor a man to consider him self prominent in the world if lie sees lit. lie may announce himself as such, and his own admission is all that is necessary to convince himself. In the same way a number of this kind of men may organize and vote themselves joint 1\ to In' the most prominent students in this or any other college. They may adopt for their name the skull and chain or any other fossil that they consider is symbolic of their mental or spiritual state. But when live fraternities at tempt thus to form a coalition or mu tual admiration society, and masque it under the guise of an honor society, we must disapprove. Of course it is denied that any such proceeding is in icuueu, mu, as a secouu indictment against the said organization, we will give a few of the facts that point iucon tcstabh to this eotielnsion. I he society protesscs to make prom inence in student activities the sole ba sis for membership. Now the facts are that some of the members have not in the least been prominent in student activities. I lien there are so many sen iors who can claim just as much prom inenci who are not members. W hen an organization of this kind leaves out the President of the Associated Students, not onl\ for this year Inn for the com ing year, there is something wrong. Then, in the announcement of the mem hership for next year, the same live fra ternitics and no others are represented in the society. No other conclusion is possible than the one we and the great majority of the students in the I University have come to. Now, as we said before, we do not I object to an honor society. Neither do we object to a union of the fraterni ties, if it will do anything to put a stop to the present petty jealousy and fight ing between some of them that exists at present. All we object to is their claim to being an honor society. However, this is simply a matter for the student body to keep in mind. There is no law against the action of this or ganization, but the students will know that the word honor as used by it does not mean honor at all. Aside from this there is no recourse but an appeal to the members themselves. There is no doubt that they wish to see their re spective fraternities p>~/:-.,jci- without the persecution that sometimes attends the members of secret societies,both in col lege and without. It is also probable that they have enough “Oregon spirit” to wish to see an end put to faction alism ; fraternity and anti-fraternity; “Barb and Greek.” What we './ant to say to them, then, is this: Nothing that has happened within the memory of the present col lege generation has aroused such bitter feeling and intense opposition as this action of theirs. Nothing is so apt to divide the University of Oregon into factions, to make membership in a fra ternity an insuperable barrier to popu larity, in the future as it was in the past, than this pretended honor society. True, there was already some such feeling. But it was dying out. There was no longer the old caucus and po litical slate before elections. In a great majority of cases merit was the deciding factor, and it always had its influence. But how can we hope for improved conditions in the future in the face of the feeling now stirred up. Under these circumstances, we do not hesitate to say that while the society in question may be an honorary organization, it is not an honorable one. The society just organized by the senior women would be a good model for them to follow, both in the spirit of fairness it has shown and the broad-mindedness of the organizers. About fifty subscriptions to the Em erald are still unpaid. We vvotdd like to impress upon the minds of loyal stu dents that it should he a matter of hon or with them to pay this voluntarily. They should not compel the manager to come around and collect. SENIORS PLAN 10 SEIZE WORLD BY TRE THROAT TEACHING IS FAVORITE PROFESSION OF OUT GOING CLASS Class of 1910 Will Scatter to Four Corners of World In Pursuit of Their Work. An incomplete canvass of the senior class, made yesterday afternoon, shows considerable variety in regard to the lines of work which they intend to pur sue after graduation. The greatest num ber plan to teach, for a time at least. Ben Williams and Karl Kilpatrick, who graduated last year, will have charge of the school at Oakland, Oregon. Fer dinand Xewhauer and Miss Pearl llutf will teach in La tirandc high school. Others who will leach are Kthel Bar nard, Anne Bergman, Bertha Cummings, Bertha Dorris, Ruth Ihmiway, Caroline Dunston, Barn Eastham, Blanche Fer dine, Elsie Dow, Ruth Hausen, Vera Homer Hazel Humphrey, Ethel John son, Harper lamison. leunie Lille, Ros coe Evans, Lilly Lister, Lela McPher i son, Frances ObertcutTer, Alfred Pow ers, Mae Sage, and Frances Young. , Several plan to take up law. Oliver Huston enters Yale Law School in the fall, and Roy K. Terry plans to enter Columbia Law. Chet. Campbell enters his father’s law office, and Earle Nott plans to pursue the same line of study at some Eastern law school. Ruth Balderree, now Mrs. Wheeler, who completed her college work last February, but who receives her degree with her class this spring, is now in Japan engaged in missionary work. Arthur Geary is going to raise apples near Medford, on a large apple ranch of which he is to have charge. Ches ter Downs plans to enter an Eastern medical school ,very likely Harvard. Ralph Dodson, Laurie Van Valzah and Harold Bates, all pre-medics, will study medicine at Johns Hopkins. C. P. Shangle has secured, through Professor Barnett, a scholarship amount ing to over two hundred and fifty dollars and tuition, at the University of Wis consin, for the further pursuit of the study of Economics and Government. Dudley Clarke has decided to turn down various offers to play professional ball, and will enter Yale next Septem ber. In the Engineering Departments, most of the graduates plan to begin work soon in their own profession. A number of the civil engineers have applied for government positions in the Philippines or elsewhere, and until they get them will hold positions with the state en gineering department. Dick Charman has had considerable experience in rail road construction, and expects to secure a berth with the'Southern Pacific Com pany. George Poysky will open an engin eering office at Astoria. Riddell will go in business with his brother in Port land probably, for a time, and Earl Mar shall plans to accept an engineering proposition at Portland. Frank Swift and Jim Neill plan to enter the shops of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, New York. P>ill Williams and Herman Wattenberg may accept similar positions with the same company or the Allis-Chalmers Company. Three graduates are going into Y. M. C. A. work, Harold Dalzell, Clarence Steele and Harold Rounds. Rounds and Steele will begin work at the Portland Y. M. C. A. as local secretaries, while H. A. Dalzell will spend the summer attending the Lake Geneva and other conferences in the East, and then will return to take up a position as travel ling secretary in the West. The track captain for the season of 911 will he chosen tomorrow morning in the Tollman studio after the pic tures of the team have been taken. The race for captain apparently lies between Martin Hawkins and Bob Kel logg. THERMITE PROCESS IS SHOWN TO STUDENTS Twenty or twenty-live of the eager deicers into the deep mysteries of gen eral chemistry assembled on the lawn m front of McClure llall at eight o’clock Wednesday evening to watch Professor Stafford’s demonstration of the thermite process. This process consists in placing a mix ture of aluminum powder and iron ox ide in a vessel, made of tire clay, and built in the shape of an upturned bell, and in igniting the mixture. These two minerals, when mixed, burn with an intense white heat and evolve a great deal of heat. This process is often used in making difficult welds. In that case the heated mass is led out through a small hole in the bottom of the vessel and intro duced to the parts to be welded. After completing this experiment, Professor Stafford exhibited some ra dium compounds. A. W. 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