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YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? Novelist Declares College Men Today Have no General Knowledge and Submits Proof. Owen Johnson declares that the col lege men of today have no general knowledge, let alone real culture. Most of the colleges, he asserts, have become mere social clearing houses, whose students know7 only a few facts hastily crammed for examinations and promptly forgotten. In his new novel, “Stover at Yale.” j which takes up the whole subject of I American colleges, Johnson makes a character propose a list of forty gen eral questions to a bunch of class- ! mates. But as the story is laid in 1900, the test is not hard enough for today, says Johnson, though most of his readers admit that they cannot an swer the questions in “Stover.” John son has just prepared a new list, which, he says, every college student or graduate ought to be able to an swer. Any man in a French or Ger man university could pass a creditable examination on them. How many American collegians can, he asks. Johnson’s Questions for 19122. On Music. 1. What is the difference between the Wagnerian theory of opera and the old Italian? 2. Who wrrote “Carmen,” and what w7as the history of its reception? 3. What was Bach’s influence on the development of music? Architecture. 4. Who w7as the architect of the Parthenon ? 5. What is the fundamental differ- j ence between Gothic and Renaissance architecture ? 6. Who was the architect of the Vatican ? Religion. 7. What was historically new in the Christian religion? 8. What is the history of the cross as a religious emblem? 9. Describe any two religions be sides your own. Literature. 10. What American author has most profoundly influenced modern literature ? 11. Name ten French dramatists. 12. Name six Gerban poets or dramatists. Politics and Economics. 13. What do you know about the ! new political experiments in New Zealand ? 14. What about the labor pension system in Germany? 15. What is the difference between j socialism and anarchism? Painting. 16. What was Rembrandt’s contri- j bution to the history of painting ? 17. What was the medium used in j ancient painting? 18. Who composed the Barbizon school, and the Pre-Raphaelites ? General. 19. What do you know about the history of the theory of medicine, and particularly of the germ theory of disease? 20. Who were Franz Hals, Spinoza, Holman Hunt, Ambrose Thomas, Zorn, Bossuet, Schaikowsky, Jehova, Goya, Bjornson, Strindberg, Savonarola, Duerer, Cavour, Winslow, Homer, Sir James Young Simpson, Mistral, Cel lini, Garrick, Abbe Prevost, Engels? In the original list of forty ques tions in “Stover at Yale,” Johnson has several other queries, such as “Who were Leoncavallo, Verdi, Dostoefski, Bastien Le Page, Renan? What do you know, about the spread of so cialism in Germany, France and Eng land?” The character in “Stover at Yale” who propounds the questions com ments on his classmates: “You have no general knowledge, not even opin ions, but at the end of four years of education you will march up and be handed a degree—Bachelor of Arts! And we Americans have a sense of humor! Why, our colleges are splen didly organized institutions for the prevention of learning. Business col leges. The colleges have surrendered a great deal of their power to the in fluence of social organization, which FRIENDLY’S ATTORNEYS UNEARTH NEW EVIDENCE Precendent Established in Ladd vs Holmes Case—Important in Rehearing Petition. The attorneys in the Oregon refer endum case have unearthed additional authorities which appear to have a strong bearing on the request for a rehearing of the case and today the counsel for S. H. Friendly will file a supplemental brief on the motion foi rehearing. This document, drawn up by Judge Slater and Judge Pipes, states that the court in its opinion declares that the startute relieves the state from the necessity of proving injury, but does not relieve a private citizen. The sup plementary brief further states that the court in so holding, is engrafting upon the statute, a limitation not found in the words of the act, and, after citing a number of authorities, goes on to say: In connection with these cases, we desire to call the court’s attention to the language of this court, used in the case of Ladd vs. Holmes, 40th Ore gon 178 of Opinion, as to the rights of a legal voter as against one not legit imately entitled to vote. We have heretofore endeavored to show that the intent of the legislature in pass ing the act now under consideration, to provide for bringing into effect the initiative and referendum powers pre served by the people, was to protect the rights of the qualified electors not signing a petition, as against the wrongful acts of those not legitimate ly entitled to petition, or the frauds of those making a petition, and to in vest the qualified electors with the right to a personal remedy against such wrongs, to the end that he might secure the full effect of his individual right as a member of the public leg islative body. JONES SAYS HE WILL NOT GO TO SWEDEN The news breaks out this morning that John Paul Jones, the world’s champion miler from Cornell, who is picked as a sure man for the Olym pics, may not go to Sweden. Jones is working his way through school and has a chance to make sev eral dollars as director of the Boy’s Camp at Harrison, Me., and says that he cannot afford to go to Sweden. Every effort is being made, however, to persuade Jones to change his mind and also to fix things so he can make the trip. Jones is stated as McClure’s great est competitor for the trip to Sweden, and if the above rumor is true, Ore gon’s great miler’s chances will brighten materially. BOND PLANS BOATHOUSE AND SWIMMING RESORT In compliance with the general de mpnd lor more adequate canoe ac commodations on the mill race, Paul Bond has taken a ten year lease on three hundred feet of land opposite Villard Hall, where he intends to erect a thoroughly up-to-date boat house with racks for forty canoes. In addition to this, lunches and re freshments for picnicers will be sold and a long veranda fronting the race will furnish ample lounging room for exhausted canoers. Bathing suits will be supplied for hire and Mr. Bond has planned to in spire a general desire for swimming by placing spring boards and a chute at convenient points near the house. is more and more going to turn the colleges into social clearing houses.” Besides attacking the college system of shallow culture in “Stover at Yale,” which has been appearing ser ially in McClure’s, and which comes out in book form on April 5th. John son is to have a series of articles on the “social usurpation” of Harvard, Yale and Princeton in a leading mag azine next month. Whether his “test of general knowledge” is fair or not, how many can answer Johnson’s Twenty Ques tions for 1912? • J. H. QUACKENBUSH & SONS HARDWARE 82 E. 9th St Eugene Aloha Theatre “The Home of Good Pictures.” Change of Program Monday, Wedneti day and Friday. W. M. Renshaw Wholesale and Retail, Cigars and Tobacco 513 Willamette St. Printing.*. 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