Oregon emerald
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and Saturday of the college year, by
the Asociated Students of the Uni
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Editor-in-Chief.Iceland G. Hendricks
Managing Editor .Max Sommer
News Editor .Wallace Eakin
City Editor.*.Leslie Tooze
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GET THE ASSEMBLY HABIT
The first student assembly of the
year is announced for tomorrow morn
ing, with Preseident Campbell as the
speaker. To use the words of the
circular notice that always emanates
from headquarters on assembly morn
ings, “we trust that there will be a
full attendance.”
Our reasons for entertaining this
wish are not, however, those which
are frequently expressed. Too often
the students have been urged to at
tend assembly because it was deemed
important that the speaker go away
with a good impression of the Uni
versity, and it was rightly surmised
that to deliver an address to the va
cant benches of Villard Hall is hard
ly conducive to such an impression.
So some of us, impelled by our sense
of duty, climbed the stairs of Villard
once a week with the reesignation of a
martyr ascending the scaffold.
During the crisis through which
the University has passed, when a
campaign of prejudice and misrepre
sentation was waged by its enemies,
and its fate hung, perhaps, on 301
slender a thread as the fancied dis
courtesy of the students toward a vis
itor, such measures were necessary
and justifiable. We hope, however,
that they will not be proposed now. j
They savor too much of the hypo
critical, and Oregon students are not1
hypocrites.
Anyway, the Wednesday assembly,
as it has been conducted recently, can
stand on its own merits. The oppor
tunity of hearing a live, interesting
speaker, such as the majority of those
who appeared before us last year, is
one that the students should not neg
lect. The fact that the speaker gen
erally is a stranger to the campus,
and represents a new and non-acu
demic point of view, makes his opin
ions the more valuable.
We repeat that attending assem
blies is a privilege, and not a duty,
and we believe the students are com
ing more to realize this fact as their
minds become disabused of the notion
that the programs must of necessity
be dry and wearisome. The faculty
might have compelled our attendance
by inaugurating some form of roll
call, but they preferred to make it
optional with us, believing the aver
age student has the good sense to do
thut which is for his own good.
1 here is another and better reason
and this is the fact that it is the one
opportunity of tho week for all of
us to get together. It is good for us
to do this: to rub elbows with all our
fellow students, ad to realize that we
are all members of a big unit. It is
only by such contact that Oregon spir
it can be kept alive and cogent.
And if we may venture a suggestion
to those having the assemblies in
charge, it is that they be made just
as snappy and colorful as possible.
Every interesting program insures a
larger crowd next time, while every
“frost” causes its victims to register
a solemn vow of “never again.” The
long preliminary ceremonies, which
were criticized last year, should be
cut down and made less farcical. For
instance, an invocation or prayer prop
erly has a place on the program, but
its impressiveness is destroyed by un
due length. Numbers furnished by the
students, whether vocal, instrumental,
or oratorical, are invariably welcomed
by the assembly audiences.
Let’s all bo there tomorrow morn
ing.
WHO WILL IT BE?
In a short time the Student Coun-j
cil will be confronted with the duty
of electing u cheer leader. In the,
past Oregon has had etfective "rooter
king's,” but the position has never
been regarded here in the light of its
real importance.
In many ways, the leadership of the
rooters during the various games and
on other occasions throughout the
year is one of the most responsible,
and certainly one of the most diffi
cult tasks for which a student may be
chosen. It is so regarded at many
other colleges, where the position of
cheer leader is much in demand, and
where its holder is rewarded with a
letter or with some other token of
honor.
In spite of the fact that last years
cheer leader and his assistants worked
hard and did everyhting in their pow
er to make the rooting a success, they
came in for considerable censure from
the alumni and others, who were dis
appointed with Oregon’s showing in
the game with the Aggies at Albany.
This emphasizes the size of the job
facing this year’s leader, and the im
portance of choosing a capable man.
Should the annual game with the
Oregon Agricultural College be played
in Portland November 21, as seems
more than likely, it will doubtless be
attended by the largest crowd in the
history of Northwest football. Inter
est in Portland and throughout the
state focuses on this game, rather
than on that with Washington, and
the record-breaking crowds which have
attended the contests between Ore
gon and Washington in Portland
should be excelled November 21.
I* or years our Corvallis brethren
have been trying to get us down to
Portland, and doubtless they are
gloating upon the prospect of this
game. With four students to Ore
gon’s one, and with a great advantage
in organization on account of their
compulsory drill, the Aggies expect
to show us up badly in rooting.
That they will have a great advan
tage is undeniable, but Oregon’s infe
riority in numbers and preparation
can be offset by a determined effort.
“Oregon spirit” has surmounted great
er obstacles, and it is an exclusive
brand on which we have the monopoly.
With a sufficiently clever and re
sourceful Sousa at our head, we can
produce as great a quantity and as
good a quality of noise as any num
ber of rivals. And while the Corval
lis cadets will doubtless make a natty
appearance in their khaki uniforms
and brass buttons, perhaps some Or
egon strategist can design a costume
which will overcome the handicap.
And after all, an Oregon victory, for
j which we all hope and pray, will dis
pel any lingering doubt in the minds
of the crowd concerning which bellig
erent is the “better man.”
The tryout for the cheer leader will
be held during the next two weeks.
Each aspirant will be given his turn
at conducting the services. On such
nights, let every masculine possessor
of two whole lungs repair to Kincaid
bleachers.
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THE ALUMNI PAGE
With this issue the Emerald intro
duces the alumni page, which is to
become a regular feature of the paper
and appear every Tuesday. It has
been inaugurated to fill a long-felt
want of the alumni, expressed last
spring in a movement to start a sep
arate publication. The enterprise was
however, found impracticable, and an
exclusive department for the gradu
ates in the Emerald is the substitute
chosen.
Heretofore the Emerald has always
endeavored to make a special appeal
to the former students, and has print
ed as much news concerning them as
has been obtainable. We shall con
tinue this policy, independent of the!
new department. Through the alum-1
ni page, however, the graduates will
speak for themselves. By agreement,!
representatives of the Alumni Asso
ciation are to furnish a certain amount
of copy for each Tuesday issue. Its'
arrangement will of necessity be in
the hands of the regular staff, but
outside of this the Emerald will have
nothing to do with the material in
these columns. We expect to do no
editing and no altering.
The department will contain notes
concerning the old graduates, and once
or twice in a while a letter or an ex
cerpt from a letter from one of them.
Also, the editors of this department
will be free to express their own opin
ion from time to time concerning mat
ters in the graduate or undergraduate
world. For such opinion we assume
no responsibility, but we urge the stu
danty >to .consider wiell what those
who have gone the same way we are
traveling have to say to us.
Dr. Schafer Extends Correspondence
Work—New Instructor
Is Engaged.
By means of the added appropria
tion of $15,000 granted by the state
to the Extension Department of the
University for the years of 1913-14
and 1914-15, Dr. Schafer, the head of
the department, has been enabled to
add several new courses to the cor
respondence study work.
These include History of Modern
Elementary Education, Secondary Ed
ucation, Problems in Education, the
English Novel in the Nineteenth Cen
tury, Introduction to Philosophy, El
ementary Psychology, and Socialism
and Social Reform.
A new instructor in this depart
ment this year is Dr. H. D. Sheldon,
Dean of Education in the University,
who, among other members of the Ex
tension Faculty, will deliver lectures
at seven teachers’ institutes and va
rious other places in the state this
fall.
Miss Mozelle Hair is secretary of
the department. Mr. Eaarl Kilipat
rick, field secretary of the Alumni
Association, is also tp be connected
with this department this year.
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