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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1912)
V— -- ... oooooooooooo o SPOUTING SQUIBS o O - o o By Slivers. o oooooooooooo The Oregonian predicts that Oregon is due to win her first conference game of the season Saturday, against Idaho, by about one touchdown. O. A. C. is aiso doped to win, on the same day, from Pullman by two touch downs. o o The 0. A. C. Faculty has decided that Emil Hauser, the much disputed Indian fallback, is eligible to play, as they have found no substantial charges of professionalism during their investigations. Coach Sam Do lan will use Ilauser in Saturday’s game at Pullman, unless other charg es are brought up by the Northwest coaches, who are disputing the In dian’s eligibility. o o Reports for the University of Washington indicate that Coach Gil mour Dobie has discovered in Jacquot, the Frenchman, a worthy successor to Mucklestone, the famous half of last season. 0 o Coach Lewis Pinkham and Trainer ‘‘Rill” Hayward, with a squad of seventeen men, departed this morning on the 10:59 train for Moscow, where they play the University of Idaho, Sa turday. o o The speedy team of the local High School is scheduled to play Astoria High, Tuesday, on Kincaid field, and from the showing made against the ’varsity during last night’s practice, the Eugene preps should land an easy victory. o o The game yesterday between Co lumbia University and Hill Military Academy resulted in a scoreless game. This makes the second tie game of the season for Hill, Wolff’s proteges hav ing a 9 to 9 score with Lincoln. o o The University of California Tues day won the greatest victory of the year, when they defeated the crack Australian Waratahs rugby team, by a 6 to 5 score. The Australians are touring the country and are consid ered experts at the English game. OREGON STUDENT BAND WILL BE PERMANENT The Oregon Student Band effected u permanent organization at a meet ing last Tuesday night in Professor Heed's room. Officers were elected as follows: President, Bert Jerard; sec retary und treasurer, Vernon Mot schonbachor; librarian, Morris Hyde. As an aid to finances, the bund will hold a “County Fair” in the near fu ture in the Men’s Gymnasium, featur ing a minstrel show. “The show will be a good one,” said Jerard. A committee having the arrange ments for the fair in charge has been appointed, consisting of Ira Staggs, William Boone, Alfred Johnson, Frank Lewis, and Fred Dunbar. Two new members have been added to the band—-Pat Murphy, cornet, and Norcross, Clarinet. The band hopes to receive a small part of the rooter’s fund, with which to purchase music. Kxpenses in curred for the services of D. H. Mc Cosh, who is now permanent director, have been raised by assessments on bund members for each lesson taken. Theses Few This Year. Dr. Joseph Schafer and Professor F. G. Young are the only instructors that, are requiring theses of all their Senior majors this year. Professor i Howe is requiring theses of all who wish teaching recommendations in his work, and Professor Barker is asking j theses of those whom ho thinks will benefit particularly by them. Otherwise it vs largely optional, and required only when the student is working for Senior honors. The University Orchestra won en thusiastic applause on its first ap pearance in Assembly this week. This new organization, under the di rection of Miss Winifred Forbes, is doing excellent work, and is certain to add much to University life. Plans are being made for an orchestra con cert to be given next semester. POWELL’S EDITORIALS HAVE REACHED AFRICA Bailundo Angola, Africa, September 22, 1912. During the past year the Oregon Emerald has regularly helped to en lighten our darkness here on the “niggerous African shore,” and I have been most happy to renew acquaint ance with names and places of under graduate days and to note how won derfully you have forged ahead in the last decade. To belong to Oregon, even by adoption, is a thing to make one proud in these days of her pre cedence. But may a “has been” ven ture a remark on things as they seem ? Sometime ago I read,—was it an editorial?—I cannot say now, but I read in the Oregon Emerald a sugges tion that the honored motto on our University seal be expressed in the vernacular as it was intelligible only to a few. Shades of the pius Aeneas! ! Can it be? Alas for benighted Yale, who still retains the Hebrew charac ters upon her seal! One might ex press the University aspiration in tier man, but in a more recent issue of the College Weekly there was a protest against eighteen hours of required work in modern languages and a tab ulation of the perfectly good courses in Economics and Logic, etc., etc., one forfeited thereby, courses that would put one in more direct line of serving one’s country in a public way. It is not the mental discipline which might also be gained by “counting fence posts;” it is that knowledge of the modern language puts in its pos sessor’s hand the key to an inner j >oom, through whose portals the un- i initiated never enter no, not with a translation. “Every tongue is a soul,” says the Arabic proverb. It is too true that in many Ameri- [ can colleges French and German are taught in a fashion that would not enable the student to order his dinner even, in a Paris restaurant, nor yet inspire him ever to pick up a French or German book, after he has secured his credits. To delight in the labors of the intellect is not a characteristic of the natural man, it should be of the educated man; the change should be wrought in University halls. Within the confines of our broad country, where everyone who gets into the “Melting Pot,” comes out lisping the American language, a speaking knowledge of continental is not appreciated as it deserves to be. But how silly one feels on the conti nent if he can speak only English! There are many ways of branding the American abroad but the “una lingua” is not among the least. Somewhere between the Kindergarten and the Mortar Board a conservational ac quaintance with French and German should be acquired by every educated American. In another issue of the Oregon Em erald I read of the curriculae (!) of the U. of O. and O. A. C., and met with the crafty Ulysses with his Greek name—reformed, perhaps,—but it seemed to me a bit de-formed. “The University is not specifically designed for the purpose of fitting a man directly for the daily duties of his future work in life,” said Presi dent Hibbin in his inaugural address at Princeton. O, one knows that “practical” is a word to conjure with, now-a-days. and that the battle be tween liberal and specialized educa tion is on. but while the issue is yet undetermined, shall you not keep the Vestal fires burning on the Pacific Coast.? (Mrs. Merlin) Elizabeth Logan Ennis, '02. PROFESSOR ALLEN INVITED TO NATIONAL CONFERENCE Professor E. W. Allen, head of the Department of Journalism, is in re ceipt. of an invitation to attend the National Conferejice of Teachers of Journalism to be held in Chicago, No vember 30. The conference will deal with the problem of giving Journal ism students practical experience. Dean Falcott Williams, of Pulitzer School of Journalism, and Professor Merle Thorp, of the University of Kansas, and others prominent in this field, will read papers. This confer ence is important from the fact that twenty colhfces have added a journal ism course \fithin the last year alone. C. W. Crump Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries Fresh Vegetables 20 East Ninth St. Phone 18 Elliott Hdw. Co. FINE CUTLERY A SPECIALTY White Temple HAMPTON’S FOR Suits and Coats Woman’s Exchange: HOME BAKERY Eva Baldwin 86 East Ninth St. Phone 270-R Weber’s Candy at Obaks. r»r Hear •! CaUrlalaaMl The Folly THE BONE ©r GOOD NLMS Weber’s Candy at Obaks. STUDENTS! Eat at the Y. M. C. A. CAFETERIA Y. M. C. A. Building R. J. Hawley, Prop. 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