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Saturday, June 11, 1910
Some Things That Are Worth
While and Others mat Are Not
Yv Iru all the conflicting philosophies
concerning the meaning 01 n.e have
.1 satisfactorily settled, when 1.
cnieaiis and i>rahinins lane compro
mised their differences and agreed up
on the fundamental spring of human
action, when charitable Christian shall
rest in peace with justice loving Jew,
and our own motives shall be exhib
ited to us without hypocrisy, color, or
pretence, two forces, we believe, will
be found to be behind them all: The
desire for esteem; self esteem for some,
and for some the esteem of others.
I.very man must decide for himself
which of these gods he wishes to fol
low, and no two will agree probably on
the basis for self esteem. As to the
esteem ol others, let us see how it may
be acquired.
In history there are two classes of
men; one was admired, the other loved.
I he one was the hero, the other the
man. YVe still admire Caesar, the hero,
but we love Brutus, the man. The
world turns in terror from the genius
Napoleon, with his path of blood and
ruin, to the man Lincoln.fl
It is time for college men to think
a little more carefully about the mean
ing of these men’s lives. We are in a
little world of our own, and our chief
object after learning, perhaps, should
i e to make friends, to win the esteem
of our fellow students. We should
recognize that in this the only thing
that counts is our worthiness and the
effort we put forward. I he office of
the politician, the place won by the hero
has only two possible uses. One is
as a means of winning esteem, and the
other is as a symbol that this esteem
has been won. An office held for any
other purpose is useless. No office
brings popularity, or if it does it is
only the proverbial popularity of rats
for a sinking ship.
! heretorc, students, remember tins:
An office is not worth striving for ;is
;m honor. It you have the honor, the
office will come without striving. If
an office docs not come with the esteem
of yonr fellow men, it will go into prof
itless hands, and yon will get something
far better. Hie spontaneous applause
which greeted a student when he went
forward before the meeting last Tues
day afternoon was a symbol of popu
lardy more unmistakably than all the
offices in the student body. Offices may
be won by intrigue; applause like that,
never. If that student takes our ad
vice, he will value that applause above
any other honors he can receive while
a student at this or any other univer
sity.
To all who stay over for the few
days of Commencement this year is
promised a time of real pleasure. Ex
aminations are all ofl. the mind is free
front the thought of harassing quizzes
and grim professors. I he reaction from
the year is a fine sense of rest and con
tentment, so that when the two culmi
nating days of Commencement come,
Tuesday and Wednesday, exeryone feels
in a joyous and hilarious (perfectly
conventional) mood, to enter with spir
it and zest into the various occasions
which is of hearty good fellowship and
friendship with all who claim the Uni
versity as their alma mater.
A FEW WORDS ON THE
FAMOUS OREGON SPIRIT
DUDLEY CLARKE, 1910, PHI
LOSOPHIZES ON A
L TIMELY TOPIC
The Shame of the College
There conies a time in the life of
every college man when he wants to
say exactly what he thinks,—that time is
usually just before he graduates, for he
feels that he can talk with assurity of
the conditions of college life. 1 have
been asked a number of times during
the last few weeks to give my opin
ions on various things connected with
college life, and this I have done freely.
To stop any misapprehension, I would
say this at the start,— I am not aiming
my remarks at any particular bunch
clique or set; if any take offense, it
is because the shoe lits, and those that
it pinches the most will holler the loud
est. so keep your eyes open for squalls.
What does a man come to college for?
Kvcryonc will say at a moment’s notice
that it is to get an education. Well,
what does an education consist of? It
consists of what a man absorbs from
his books and (yes that’s where the rub
comes in) what he absorbs from his
associates. Let’s gel right at the heart
of the matter and find out what a man
gets from his associates. Does a man
mix with the ones that are most con
genial to him? Does he mix with the
ones whose assistance will help him in
after life?
Does he? Yes, if theose men happen
to be in the same house with him ; yes,
if his bunch happens to be friendly with
the other crowd. I’ll venture there are
not ten seniors in college who can hon
estly sav that they know all the men
in their class that they care to meet or
who, in fact, know more about their
own classmates than to call them by
their first name when it comes near
election time. What kind of a college
is this anyway? Is it a state university
where, it is supposed, men will broad
en out and do the best for the state, or
is it a select crowd of social parasites?
To tell the truth after being four years
in attendance, 1 am as much at sea
over that matter as a freshman;—and
by the way while 1 am on the matter let
me express my opinion about politics
and politicians.
When l came here they told me that
the best man was hound to win, and
that it was “Oregon Spirit” (a title of
some antiquated feeling I believe from
the way things are now run') that would
see that all personal and private griev
ances were laid aside, and the best man
would be bound to win. As I think
of tin matter at the present moment it
makes me laugh. The best man win—
why yes—he’ll win if he happens to be
long to a clique that has a little in
tluence or if he happens to be that kind
of an individual who would sell his
chance for a little worn out tinsel. Does
the best man win; does he? Do you
take into consideration whether he de
serves the place, has he honestly done
enough to entitle him to it? Not by
a whole lot. You vote for the man
whose house may help yours in the next
election or who has never offended
your tender feelings (that to the call
of honor are as thick as a hull's hide).
1 said it oie outset of this little com
muni cation that I didn't want to be per
sonal but if there is a man in the Var- j
look back over the events of not a year
| ago, but a week, rnd say that what I
sity that calls himself a man, who can
have said is false, he’s a candidate for
the Roosevel* Nature Faking Club and
he knows u. As for the college poli
ticians, and by 1 e way you know them
as well as I do, they are, to say the
least the most contemptible and nau
seating beasts that ever infested the
campus. Such persons, whose only aim
in college is to get the name of their
men in the fraternity magazine, and to
see that the crowd has the most offices,
however incapable, as nine times out of
ten results from them to be, are the
ones that will babble most about “Ore
gon spirit,” and occupy half an hour of
your time trying to find out where you
stand on a matter that is none of their
business; that beast has occupied in
times past some little place on the cam
pus, and to those who remain when
I am gone I would say this: Though
the faculty has cut out hazing, it is
not in any sense of the word hazing to
give the water cure to a pest. Even
the trees are sprayed to rid them of a
parasite.
Since 1 have gone this far, I might
as well go the Hurt, and say a few
things more before 1 "cut it," and those
few things are these: You ask an Or
egon man of the old guard what the
one thing that Oregon was most noted
for was, and he will say “Oregon spir
it.” To those men Oregon spirit
meant everything for the Varsity, and
nothing that interferes with it is to
oe taken into consideration. That the
men who held the offices and captained
the teams were the men who earned
them honestly and by consistent and
untiring effort for the Varsity. What
is the “Oregon spirit,” that you prate
about today (and know nothing of)?
I'll tell you what it is. It's self, pure
and simple, nothing more or less than
self. '1 here are a few things that you
can blind a man’s eyes to for a little
while, hut when it gets so that bunches
are working to the detriment of the
college, then it is high time that some
one did what the most successful of
them don't do—come out in the open
and open the eyes of the grids and
mdergrads to the, condition th
ists.
Oregon spirit of the past is a myth
md grows more and more wnaln.Ai
every year. The word bunch or men
is heard on the campus live times to the
word Varsity once.
Student Body offices, captains of
teams, and what not, are the prey of
petty jealousies and scraps. If you
have read this far you »vill know what
I meant when I headed this “ I he Shame
of the Varsity.”
If you’re a man and the little tin
god of Self and Bunch hasn’t eaten its
way into that part of your anatomy
where it is supposed your conscience lies,
hen you know what to do If you’re
not, then the words of the prophet
paraphrased, “The Lord have mercy on
die Varsity."
DUDLEY R . \ ’
I 0111 Kelly lias hearkened to the never
to he resisted call of the diamond, and
left last night for Chehalis, where he
will take charge of the Chehalis team
in the state league.
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