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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1913)
OREGON EMERALD Published each Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday, nf the school year, by the As sociated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered at the postoffice at Eugene as second class matter. Subscription rates, per year. 11.00. Single copies, f,c STAFF Editor-in-Chief.Karl W. Outhank Managing Editor.Franklin S. Allan Haws Editor,.Henry Fowler City Editor. Harold Younj Assistant Editor... .Carleton K. Spencer Special Departments Sporting1 Editor,.Mason H. Roberts Assistant.Thomas Boylen Co-Ed. Sporting Editor, Nellie Hemenway Administration . . . Clarence Brotharton Assistant .lames Donald Society Editor.Elizabeth Rewle Assistant .May Smith Riterary and Dramatic. A. H. Davies Exchange.Dal King Features, . Reland Hendricks Raw School.B. Burns Powell News Editor’s Staff. Karl Blackahy Fred Dunbar Tulu Kingsley Itohert Fiirlss City Editor's Staff Ralph Allen Harrv Cash Wallace Kakln Maurice Hill Luton Ac.kerson Elmer Furusett Arthur Crawford Business Mgr. Evelyn Harding Reatrlce I .Illy. Clarence Ash .lanet Young Beatrice Locke Andrew M. Collier Assistant Manager . . Advertising Manager Assistants. Circulation Manager. Assistants . Lyman G. Xloe Marsh Goodwin ..(Hen Wheeler Clyde Altchison . ... Ralph A1 len . . Sam Mlohael . . John McGuire . .Frank Dudley Tuesday, January 14, 191.3. CHANCINU THK ( (INSTITUTION The constitution of the Associated Students provides that an amendment shall be submitted for the first read ing at a regular meeting:, 'l’his means that those interested in proposed changes, must begin to perfect the wording of their pet measures and to organize their forces, for the meeting held on February 21! is the last until that of May 7. The question of making the Wo man’s (ilee Club a branch of student activity is awaiting the action of the students. This organization was granted temporary status as a depart ment of the Student Hody by the Kxe cutive Council, in order that it might go ahead and work with adequate support. However, this action of the Council holds only until after there has been opportunity for the friends of the club to submit a constitutional amendment. If this measure is one worthy of adoption, it. is time for its supporters to begin action in its favor. Those who wish to regulate the awarding of Varsity letters, should begin to work out a satisfactory sy stem. In years past, every!ing has been put <df until the last minute, and there has been no organized at tempt to supply an adequate remedy. As a matter of fact, our constitu tion has become antiquated. Condi tions at. the University have changed, making regulations once beneficial, a hindrance and a disadvantage. The instrument has been amended until it is next to impossible to determine' authentically the law upon a given point. A great deal of it seems a hopeless jumble. It is time for some public spirited student, or perhaps better still, a group of students, to get together and revise the constitution completely. This could then be brought before the A. S. U. 0„, revised still further, if need be. and adopted l.et some of Oregon’s budding statesmen take this matter in band. It is an opportunity to gain invaluable experience and to do a lasting service for the Univer sity. It is high time that we turn our at tention to the constitution. ! \SI(i\II) COM MIMIC \ THINS Elsewhere on this pane are two un signed loltoi.' to tho editor. Of course, it is always desirable that tho author ho known. Hut the Emerald that not few 11 1 aits who have ideas and suggestions, well worth public consideration, have rea sonable motives for desirinp to with hold their names from publication. In such en os tho name of the writer will In' kept i mfidential, The Kappa Kappa (iiimimi recep tion Sunday afti rnoon, was attended by many University students and friends Re fro; hments were served durinjr tin afternoon. The receiving line included Mi ( arin De^erniark, president of the lor .1 chapter, Miss Eva Powell, prand president, Mrs. Cuvier, house mother, Mrs Eric W. Allen, and a number of the alumni and visitors. Try the Crossoy Rook Store, at ,V17 Willamette street Announcements Illustrated Lecture—By Professor F. S. Dunn on “Pallas Athena,” Tues- | day, 4:00 p. m., in Professor Sweet ser’s room, Deady Hall. Smith-Bobbin Meetings—Hear the ’’Great Speaker to Men” in Villard Hall Tuesday evening, January 14, at 7 o'clock sharp. International Asso ciation Quartette will sing. Basket ball game postponed until 8:30 for address. Admission free. Basketball—Game Monday evening with Idaho will commence at 8 o’clock. Game Tuesday evening will com mence at 8:30 o’clock, to accommo date the Smith-Robbin meeting. Dance—Second Student Body in formal Saturday evening, at 8 o’clock, Men’s Gymnasium. Season tickets admit. V'. M. C. A.—H. W. Stone, Secre tary of the Portland V'. M. C. A., will address the regular Thursday even ing Y. M. C. A. meeting in Villard Hall. Assembly Hon. William Hanley, of Burns, Oregon, will address the reg ular Student Assembly tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, on the subject, of irrigation. Glee Club Concert—Glee Club con cert at the Eugene Theatre, Friday evening, January 17. Inter-fraternity Basketball Wed nesday afternoon, January 15. Ore gon Club and Sigma Chi will play. Thursday evening, Kappa Sigma and the Dormitory will play. Recital—Miss Winifred Forbes, as sisted by Miss Avis Benton, will give a violin recital in Villard Hall tomor row evening. Oratorical Try-out Preliminary try-out to limit the candidates for the Inter-collegiate contest to six, will be held Friday, January 17. Glee Club Will practice tomorrow afternoon at 1 o’clock, Villard Ilall. Cabinet meeting—Regular Y. M. C. A cabinet meeting will be held tomor row afternoon, at 5 o’clock, in the Book Exchange. WEI.I.-KNOWN IT’SSEK IS FACETIOUS OVER NEW RULES The new rules made by Miss Guppy', Dean of Women of the University of Oregon, to govern the young ladies, have been met with loud acclamations of relief and joy from the male por tion of the students as well as a few unmarried members of the Faculty. The scattering pennies over the monthly allowance obtained, some times to buy a new book for a lec ture course, can now be spent with out the vision of a pair of entrancing eyes in a new brand of cigarettes, a can of tobacco, or in the improvement of the manly art of hammering num erous balls around a green table with a stick chalked at one end. There have been rumors of such a place of amusement, in connection with the A'. M. C. A. candy store. Some of the boys also show a grow inc' thirst for dry activities, which for several years past have been entirely overlooked in the more intoxicating whirl of social life. Altogether the boys are very much pleased with the ruling and hope, for the ultimate good of the University, that it will meet with the hearty ap proval and co operhtion of the young women. Bob Fariss. VII M \ VI ISMII I \ | MKKI; MHII'T \K\V CONSTITUTION Mrs. 1. 11. Potter and tlu> Misses ' Ida and Harriet Patterson were hostesses of tlu- Alumnae Associa tion of the University of Oregon at the home of Mrs. Potter on Satur day afternoon. A short business meeting was held and arrangements were made for an entertainment to he driven in the spring, for the Junior and Senior oollepe women by the Association. A , new constitution was discussed and < adopted. i After the business meeting the i members enjoyed the usual social i hour and refreshments were served, i It was not decided, when or where , the next meeting would be held. COMMUNICATIONS TABOO ON FRAT TALK DEPICTED AS AN EVIL To the Editor: In your editorial in the Emeralc for January 7, entitled “Big Men al Oregon,” you are in part right anc in part wrong. The apparent lack ol “big” men is not due entirely to the reasons you assigned. Two things you failed to take intc consideration before you drew youi conclusion. While in college, we have not the proper perspective frorr which to set ourselves up as judge; of a student’s prominence. We are ir a too intimate relation and constani contact with each other to judge whether our campus companions are really big or not. Another cause of this scarcity ol men who can hold eiown several posi tions with eliginty and ease is thai the number of University activities has not grown apace with the numbei of men. But there is something wrong wit! the Student Boely. There are abso lutely no leaders in action or thought no one to take the initiative in any thing. The Emerald has plainly tried to start something severs times this college year, but has failed. It has had to hatch move ments of its own accord, and ther send some cub reporter around, I sup pose, to find out what students think about them. But no student, witk the single exception of one co-ed, has had a single thing to say on any sub ject. Every one is content to sit back and wait for the other fellow. Every man and woman in this institution seems to have crawled into theii shell of self satisfaction, and be con tent to allow it to drift upon the the rocks of a “do-nothing” policy, a? far as the students are concerned. And why? Is it because of the single fact that no student has the ability, force, or intellect, to start something? Then we are a weak crowd. Is it because there is no room for improvement? Then we are per fect. Is it because there is no way tc make ourselves heard? Then we art gagged. Is it because we have noth ing to gain by seeking new condi tions? Then our environment musl be perfect. They may partially explain the sit uation, but the fact is that we art afraid, actually afraid to talk. And that fear has been engendered by a false fraternal modesty that has caused a fraternity tension and sus pence as never existed in the days when students had minds of their own and were not afraid to speak them. This reluctance of open expression this surpressed feeling, throttled for the sake of fraternity position and criticism, is hindering the local con dition of the University of Oregon more at the present time, than any one element in the institution. Student. SIMPLE GOWNS ARE BEST, SAYS OLD GRAD Eugene, Oregon. l'o the Editor: It is too bad the movement to abol ish dress coats and silk toilets had not oeen started before election, for from ictual observation and contact with he voters, 1 know that a large nura icr voted against the millage bill un Icr the misapprehension that the Uni ,’ersit.v was not democratic. 1 happened to drive into a crowd liscussing it near the Park and at nice became an interested listener. Die remarks 1 heard, had they been rue. would have been greatly to the liscredit of the school. The men were earnest, had no bought they were doing injustice, but hey had no more idea of what goes ui at the University than a five-vear >ld child. As 1 was taking considerable inter st in the millage bill, 1 told them 1 felt sure they were mistaken, that 1 nul spent many pleasant hours in nunc of the houses, and that they vonld find a splendid feeling of com* adeship free from any snobbishness, f they investigated. They immed ately turned on me, saying it was >asy to see I was a college man. I old them, we had no fraternity hous >s and 1 only wished we had such fomforts. It was no use to argue; hey had their minds made up that he University was spoiling the youth if the land. Now comes Miss Guppy and public ly insists on democracy; that was fine. This movement to give the poor boy an equal chance with the rich, is tne best of it. There is no need for girls to dress in rich silks. Time for that when their school days are over. There is nothing so becoming or so suitable, and no dress a girl looks sweeter in than pure white, that can be had for a few cents a yard. Time and again, when I went out, have I heard it remarked, how much better the girl in plain white looked than one in silks, laces, and dia monds, unsuited to her years. It is all wrong to make little school hops into elaborate functions, and take it from me, if you want the people to close up the University, you can go at it in no more successful way. Any girl, who has to put on silks and jewels to make herself attractive, can make herself doubly so in a simple gown that will wash, if the jewels consist of a small I. and large U. If she is always considering other’s feel ings and forgetting her own exist ence, there will be no need of further attractions, and those attracted will be worth knowing. I have been all down the line from the ball rooms of England’s nobility to the ranch dances of the frontier, and I never yet saw silks and jewels outshine a sweet, un selfish girl in a plain white frock. Don’t do it, boys. If you have a dress suit, have some feeling for the fellow who has none. Cut them out, and anything else that will hurt your Alma Mater. An old college boy. I OREGON SHOULD HAVE A LITERARY MONTHLY If the Oregon Monthly is dead or, at best, moribund, I wonder if this period of privation might not offer a suitable opportunity to consider, even to formulate, plans for the magazine’s successor. That it should have no successor of some kind, seems to augur, all things considered, a condi tion rather remote from the exper ience of our present college life. I cannot see, for instance, why a well conducted Monthly should not have a place here which, in its way, would call for as substantial a show of sup port and good will as a well conduet ! ed daily. 1 may be wrong here—per | haps Monthlies are going the way of 1 orations,- -yet I am fairly certain that Monthlies flourish in other institu tions no larger than Oregon and as progressive. May not the difficulty of maintaining such a magazine here lie in the nature of the magazine it | self- not in its inherent nature, but in the kind of magazine that certain conditions have brought about? I think of one such condition—the way you select your editors. Is your election of an editor who may or who may not have been—the chances seem about even—a constant contributor to the magazine, con dusive to the best writing for it or to | loyalty among your best writers? I j suspect that human nature is a little : against you. My knowledge of col lege magazines points to the fact that j the editors have risen from the body of contributors. The Monthly at I Harvard is, I believe, a self perpet I uating organization. The new editors are chosen by the old staff, and in variably from those who have offered the most promising contributions. At Yale the Monthly is, or was, pub lished by a senior board. At the end of the junior year, we elected a body of five editors, but only from those who had been contributors. The number of articles accepted and the name of each article were published in the daily before the election took place Those were eligible to nomi nation who had gained a certain num ber of ‘points.’ I imagine that in other institutions there are other methods of selection, yet I doubt, if any method can account for a good i magazine, unless there is some recog nition or reward of work done. There seems somehow to be a sort of principle involved here—does there not? One other matter. I am wondering, too, if Oregon is not about ready to make of her Monthly a literary maga zine. Would not that be the most fitting field for a Monthly, the one field not covered by our other pub lications? Stories, descriptions, es says.—not orations or desperately ‘timely’ articles! May it not be pos sible to ignore the booster—say once, only once, a month ? 1 wonder—for the third time. A good literary Monthly might start in modestly; it ought at the very outset, if possible, be self sup porting. Perhaps a business man ager might be chosen outside the staff. Edward A. Thurber. H. W. STONE CANCELS THURS DAY DATE WITH Y. M. C. A. H. W. Stone, Secretary of the Portland Young Men’s Christian As sociation, who was scheduled to speak before the Thursday evening Y. M. C. A. meeting, on the subject, “The World’s Leadership,” sent word to day to the campus Y. M. C. A., that he could not be in Eugene Thursday. As no other arrangements could be made for the meeting, the Smith-Rob bins meeting tonight will take the \ place of the regular meeting Thurs day. Hot drinks at Obak’s. Preston & Hales Mfgrs. of all Leather Goods Dealers in PAINTS AND PAPER Agts. Johnson’s Dyes and Wax COCKERLINE & FRALEY Fancy and Stade Dry Goods, La dies’ and Men’s Furnishings, Men’s Youth’s, Children's Clothing. Phone orders filled promptly W. M. GREEN The Grocer The Store of Quality and not Quantity 623 Willamette Phone 25 L. C. SMITH & BROS. TYPEWRITER COMPANY UNDERWOOD AND VISIBLE REMINGTON TYPEWRITERS REDUCED IN PRICE We have on hand a few 1911! models of the machines of above make, which we can sell for $65.00 under our regular guar antee of one year, on easy pay ments, if preferred. The price of these machines is $65.00. What more suitable or appro priate Christmas or New Y'ear’s gift could be presented to your son or daughter? It would be worth many times its cost for their future education and profit. We only have a limited num ber of these machines on hand, at this price, and it will be nec essary to take advantage of this offer at once. L. C. SMITH & BROS. TYPEWRITER COMPANY ISO Oak Street, Portland, Oregon, , Yours Solefully for a Better Un- ■ derstanding Jim, the Shoe Doctor 640 Willam«tt« j. Linn Drug Co. KODAK SUPPLIES Prescriptions Carefully Com pounded FANCY GROCERIES FRUITS, VEGETABLES Phone us your orders. We hare >ur own delivery wagons. Phone 24C THE CLUB BILLIARDS Bigger and Better than Ever Eighth and Willamette J. J. McCORMICK Berry’s Shining Parlor 640 Willamette Grateful for Student Patronage FURNITURE AND CARPETS Seventh and Willamette Streets. 'The Kuykendall Drug Store DRUGS, CANDIES, TOILET ARTICLES AND SUNDRIES 688 Willamette St. Electric Wiring Fixtures and Supplies Eugene Electric Co, W. H. BAKER, Prop. >40 Willamette Phone 836 C. B. MARKS, M. D. EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT Glasses Cerrectly Fitted. 211 and 262 White Temple. Phone 243-J. 13th ST. MEAT MARKET C. B. DANIELL 'resh Meats, Fish aid Game Big January Sale HAMPTON’S