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Oregon emerald Published each Tuesday. Thursday aai Saturday of the college year, by thi Associated Students of the Unlrerslti of Oregon. Entered at the postofflee at Eug#n< as second class matter. Subscription rates, per year, $1.0* Single copies. 5c. STAFF Editor-in-Chief.-Leland G. Hendricki Assistant Editor....Marjorie McGuin Managing' Editor .Max Sommei News Editor ..Wallace Eakii City Editor.. Leslie Toozt Special Departments Administration -- Clytie Hal Assistant ...Don Beldinf Society.. Beatrice Loek< Assistant ... Madge Barr) Dramatics ..Mandell Weisi Music . Alice Grair Exchange ..Rita Frale) Sporting Editor .Harry Kuch Assistants—....Floyd Westerfield anc DeWitt Gilbert. Features _.Lamar Tooze, Miltor Stoddard and Edison Marshall. Reporters Alexander Bowen, Irwin Sutton Helen Johns, Flawnice Killingsworth Louise Allen, Charles Dundore, Leigh Swinson, Lois Ladd, DeWitt Gilbert Helen Currey, Sara Barker, Helen Downing, Roberta Killam, Gladys Col well, Kenneth Moores, Mildred Gerig, Jack Montague, Donald Roberts, Grac« Edgington, Adrienne Epping, Hazel Wymore and Sam Bullock. Business Staff Easiness Manager. Anthony J«ureguy Asst. Manager .Floyd Westerfield Collections— Howard McCulloch and Jimmie Shechy. Manager’s Phone, 841 A WAY OUT Perhaps members of the University of Oregon faculty have found the best palliative for the evils of the present system of final examinations which ever will be found. It is the simple alternative of requiring in lieu of the examination a long paper or thesis on some phase or phases of the semes ter’s work. The two counts on which the final examinations are most often de nounced by both students and instruc * tors are these: The undue strain they impose on the students, and their in effectuality as a criterion of the stu dents’ knowledge. Roth these faults are eradicated, we believe, by the new plan. Such a thesis is not necessarily easier than an examination, so far as the amount of work represented is concerned. Rather, it admits of greater and more intelligent effort on the part of the student, but with a saving of the energy now expended in worrying and useless cramming. A long theme, planned systematical ly and worked out calmly and pains takingly, should provide an acid test of the student’s ability. When com pleted, it will be an accomplishment worth while—provided the instructor has been sufficiently fastidious in his exactions. This is more than can be said of the result of the usual two hours’ travail over a blue-book. The latter is certain to be misrepresent ative in every way of the best of which the student is capable; in sub ject matter, in composition and in penmanship. Probably there are courses in which the instructor will find it impossible to devise a form of thesis from which he can appraise the work of his stu dents. However, in most of the cours es offered here, the plan seems prac ticable. Wo hope to see it developed and applied with increasing success in the future. CAMPUS NOTIS Owing to a halt in the return copy, the State Printer will be unable to pub lish the 1916-1910 catalogue before June 1 or later. Mrs. Cushman, Mr. and Mrs. Craw, ford and Julia Crawford, of Browns ville, were guests at the Delta Gamma house Wednesday. Mrs. J. K. Locke, of Portland, and Miss Sampson, of Buffalo, N. Y., were dinner guests at the Gamma Phi Retn house. Mildred Lawrence is visiting ai the Delta Gamma house. Mrs. 1!. S. Wilson and Maria Wil son are spending the week-end at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house. Margaret Wetzel, of Portland, Maude Cameron, Beulah Morgan and Eva Yates, of Corvallis, are week-end guests at the Alpha Phi house. Meta Goldsmith was a luncheon | guest at the Delta Delta Delta house j Friday noon. Delta Delta Delta entertained with 11 an alumnae dinner Thursday evening, i The alumnae present were: Mozelle 'Hair, Mabel Kuykendall, Edith Buell, ! Barbara Booth, Helena Hughes. Mary Tischer spent the week-end in | Salem with her parents. Frances Elizabeth Baker visited t with friends at 0. A. C. Saturday. Miss Frieda Goldsmith has been ill with lagrippe the past week and un able to nold her gymnasium classes. Clan Witousek entertained infor ' mally for Mrs. W. A. Ferguson, of Portland, and Ellen Vanvolkinburgh, Saturday evening at Mary Spiller Hall. Gladys Roberts was a dinner guest at Mary Spiller Hall Friday. ************* • * * SPURTS * • • ************* Whitman and the Multnomah Club have contracted for two football games to be played next fall. The two teams used to meet quite regularly, but no game has been played since M. A. A. C. won in 1908 by a score of 11 to 5. * * Several of the Northwest’s coaches figure that their teams will have a very prominent finger in the gravy when the conference championship pie is opened at O. A. C. next Friday. Coach Archie Hahn will bring down a fairly balanced team which he ex pects to do things. Thompson, a sprinter, is counted on by Hahn to count strongly in the sprints. * * Vere Windnagle, the little runner who did such great things for Oregon in the spring of 1913, ran second to Ted Meredith, world’s record holder, in a dual meet between Cornell and Penn sylvania, recently held at Ithica. Mer edith is perhaps the greatest middle distance man who ever ran. L. A. Whitney, of Dartmouth, estab lished an intercollegiate shot put rec ord of 47 feet 10% inches in a big association meet in the East last Sat urday. * * Arthur Duffy, one of the old timers in the sprinting game, says: “I would not be surprised if a new 440 record was put up this year. The sprints and distance runs are at a point where they will hardly be touched, but this ! may be a great season for the quarter ; inilers.” * * Harvard demonstrated that the Cor nell crew lacks its usual power and fin ish by defeating them for the first ! time in the history of Cayuga Lake regattas last Saturday. Harvard is now assured of the trip to the San : Francisco regatta. * * | Dudley Clarke, Oregon’s great full back and punter in the seasons back around 1907 when Dick Forbes was coach, and later a Multnomah Club backfleld man, will try to make a I “come back’’ next fall if the P. N. A. will reinstate him as an amateur. He has been out of athletics for two years. ♦ COMMUNICATION * • • ARE WE BEING SHOWN UP AT SAN FRANCISCO (Following is an extract from a per sonal letter written by one of the University of Oregon guides at the Exposition.) Upon my arrival in the Oregon Building, 1 immediately looked around to see the University exhibit. To my great surprise and disappointment, 1 found only a stand such as is used in railroad stations to show scenery along the line. This has a few pic tures of the campus, showing build ings, rose hedges, and "Hello Lane," etc. The thing has not been elec trically connected, but we shall soon see about that. On the other hand, O. A. C. is very well represented. On the second floor the whole northwest corner is devoted to O. A. C. trans parent pictures. These pictures are not used to display campus scenes only, but show work in all depart ments and are surely a fine exhibit, one any college would be proud of, In the reception room on the first floor a couple of signs tell the visitor that all the furniture in the room : has been made b O. A. C. students, and it is excelelnt furniture. In the southeast second floor cor ner, the O. A. C. girls serve luncheons from 12 to 2 every day. amt they are known all over the grounds for qual ity. People fight for seats every noon, and O. A. C. has certainly been made famous through the luncheons alone. The 0. A. C. fellows all wear their uniforms and there is a general O. A. C. atmosphere. The college has done itself proud, while Oregon has nothing to show that sue has an excuse for existence. Every time a visitor asks me if I am from 0. A. C., I want to fight, and I don’t know what I’d do if some one asked me to see the University exhibit. There is still nearly a month before college will be out, and the heavy crowds will not come until then, so, if something is done immediately, we still have time to make a respectable showing. You know it hurts an Or egon fellow’s pride to see a dinky bunch of colored plates along side of all this O. A. C. display, and you can bet that if some action is taken to ward making a showing here, you will find no more enthusiastic supporters than the Oregon fellows here on the job. I shall be here for three weeks more, and maybe a little longer, and I hope to see something started. O. A. C. gets the “Barometer” here regularly and have a copy of the “Or ange” at hand to enthuse prospective students. If Oregon needs anything, it needs publicity of a kind that will make the public realize that we have something beside a good time to show for our University courses. An ex hibit giving us an excuse for existence is what we need here, and not a few miserable pictures. 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