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POLITY CLUB HERE
Student President Advances
Reasons for Establishment
of Organization.
Along lines of improvement In the Uni
versity of Oregon, Lamar Tooze is en
thusiastically in favor of establishing
a branch of the “International Polity
Club," here. The club originated in Eng
land some years ago, but was not intro
| duced to the United States until three
yearn ago, according to Mr. Tooze.
“These branch clubs consider inter
national affairs from every standpoint."
snys Tooze. “They are backed financial
ly by Andrew Carnegie. The finest lec
turers in the world are sent out without
a cent of costs to the clubs. Such men
a* Norman Angel, editor of the “Paris
Mail." can be obtained. The ojjly cost
would be that for the mailing of liter
ature, and it would not amount to over
twenty-five cents a month from each
member of the club.
“Each year delegates from the differ
ent branches of the ‘International Pol
ity Club’ meet in some dty. This year
the convention will take placo at Madi
son, Wisconsin. Every branch club is
allowed one or two delegates, whoso ex
penses are all paid out of the Carneglo
fund. No particular propaganda for or
against war, suffrage, etc., is taken up:
but a thorough study is mmde of each side
of every question.
“The government of these local organ
izations is left entirely to the members.
The only connection between them and
the central body, is through the litera
ture and lecturers. 1 think that by all
means we should form a branch here at
the University of Oregon. They are scat
tered nil ever the East but out here in
the West there are none.
“Another thing that 1 think wo should
do to make the University of Oregon
known throughout the East, is to aend
an athletic team on an eastern tour. They
do not realize back East what Oregon
really is. The Michigan-0. A. C. gnm<
caused the colleges and people hack then
to realize that there was somebody out
here; and I think that a tour of our foot
ball team would wake them up. If the
idea is congenial to the faculty, there is
nothing that I would like to see done,
greater than this."
Regarding his observations of Euro
pean students aud universities Mr. Tooze
says, “The European students are far
less conservative than wo Americans. In
our talks—they all speak good English
the foreign students would say jtiRt. ex
actly wlmt they thought without a
thought of hesitating. They were far
more radical in their ideas than we.
“One thing that impressed me, was the
wish on the part of the college men to
come over to the United States in order
to finish up their education. Especially,
did the students of engineering seem to
desire that they might he able to attend
American universities as soon as they had
finished the work at their own schools.
"A strange sight to me, was that of
seeing only one large building in both the
University of Stockholm and Copenhagen.
At encli of these institutions the major
ity of the students are women. Two thirds
of the student body at Copenhagen is
composed of women.
"The European colleges do not have
fraternities, hut they have secret dubs.
Their education is more of a classical
nature and less practical than ours.”
In order to form a bond between the
•Ul students who went on the Ford peace
expedition, these members organized a
society on the homeward trip with Miss
Ora Ouessford of the University of Iowa
as secretary. The organisation will pub
lish a magazine called ‘‘The Challenge”
monthly. The first issue will appear
next month.
Among the other western students who
went to Europe with Henry Ford were:
A. ,1. Hettinger, Stanford; Paul Fus
sell, University of California; and Emil
Hurja, University of Washington. \o
other schools west of Nebraska were rep
resented.
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Triple A met at th« Chi Omega house
Thursday afternoon, where it was voted
to pledge something to the Women's
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sembly.
The society will not meet again until
the second week after exams, when the
Kappa Kappa Gamma freshmen will b(?
hostesses.
Adoption Simplified Spelling
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was put up to the faculty for vote at the
present time, I would vote no,” said Dr.
James 1>. Barnett, professor of political
science.
"I believe we could well adopt the 12
words first listed by the national com"
mission,” said Dr. D. W. Morton, dean
of the school of commerce. “This would
save time and labor in the commercial
world and nny economy along those lines
is worth while. I do not think a whole
sale change could be made at once—Hi
must be a gradual process. I am doubt
ful how I shall vote if the University fac
ulty ballots on the matter of adopting the
Reed college system of spelling. I am
open to argument.”
Dr. E. S. Bates, head of the depart
ment of rhetoric, said: “The question ii
a far-reaching one, which I cannot go
into without taking it up in detail. I can
only say in a general way that I favoi
the plan.”
“I nm not at nil radical on simplified
spelling,” said M. H. Douglass, Univer
sity librarian. “I would not be in favor
of adopting completely the phonetic sys
tem of spelling at Oregon, but I approve
of certain modified forms. A complete
change in the spelling forms should be
gin in the grades.”
“1 think that the modern style of
spelling is barbarous and that no teacher
thinks otherwise,” said H. C. Howe,
professor of modern English literature.
“If the newspapers would use the sim
plified spelling, it’s success would be as
sured. Students in my courses are priv
ileged to use simplified spelling if they
will be consistent in its use.”
The adoption of simplified spelling at
this time would be forcing the matter,
in the opinion of Mrs. Mable H. Parsons.
She says she is very conservative*in the
matter of a change in spelling.
Dr. E. S. Conklin, head of the depart
ment of pyschology, says he has used
simplified spelling for years and allows
his students to use it. If it were a
question of adopting some form of sim
plified spelling for the University as a
whole, the nature of his vote would de
pend largely upon the way in which the
measure were' worded—upon the exact
nature of the proposition. Such an is
sue could be made ridiculous he says,
and he cannot say that he would vote
either a definite yes or no, without
knowing how it would be stated.
E. E. DeCou, head of the department
of mathematics, favors gradual modifica
tion of spelling, but would stenuously op
pose too many at once.
Colin V. Dyment, professor of jour
nalism: “No.”
“I think simplified spelling is a good
thing, and were this subject to come to
an issue before the faculty, I should cer
tainly vote for it,” said M. Ruth Guppy,
dean of women.
R. W. Prescott, of the department of
public speaking, favors a modification in
spelling, although he said he was not
acquainted with the system advanced by
Dr. George Danton.
A. F. Reddie, professor of public
speaking, is not in favor of the adoption
of simplified spelling either in the Uni
versity or in general. He does not be
lieve that the system is any less arbi
trary than the present way of spelling.
He also fears that the roots of words will
eventually be lost sight of by the pro
posed spelling.
“I believe it would be a good thing to
introduce, providing it is done in a sane
manner,” said A. R. Sweetser, professor
of botany. “The place to take it up is in
the grades. “If the University faculty
votes on the introduction of ‘simplified
spelling’ in the University, I shall oppose
it. Students now have too much work
to complete in their four years, without
being bothered with learning to spell by
new methods. Spelling is only a ve
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‘‘I am in favor of the adoption of some
form of simplified spelling,” said Eric
W. Allen, dean of the school of journal
ism. “It would cost the universities
nothing to start this thing, while it might
cost publishers a great deal. I had per
sonal experience with it some ten years
ago as telegraph editor of the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer. That paper used it
for several months, but finally yielded to
economic pressur# and restored the old
system. People were more opposed to
simplified spelling then than they are
today.”
“The history of our language has been
one of evolution, and simplified spelling
is but a simple extension of this evolu
tion,” said F. S. Dunn, head of thj
Latin department. “It seems inevitable,
whether it comes in its most violent form
or not. My compunctions are those of a
linquist. Certainly, for the average per
son, simplified spelling 4s more com
fortable, and were the matter to come to
an issue, I should vote for it.”
Dr. John Straub is in favor of the
new form of spelling.
“I do not agree with /Dr. Danton’s
plan entirely, but do believe that some of
the more flagrant abuses of our lan
guage should be removed and that simpli
fied spelling be adopted gradually,” said
Dr. R. C. Clark, professor of history.
O. F. Stafford favors a reasonable re
form in spelling. He sees the practi
cability of such a reform, but has a sen
timental desire to retain many of the
old words.
“Tfye crust of convention would be
broken by using the simplified spelling
methods,” Dr. George Rebec, professor
of philosophy, said. He himself is very
much in favor of the methods being in
troduced into the University.
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the matter in a new light. Formerly I
was not*in favor of simplified spelling;
but would now favor its adoption in
some modified form—say .the first 12
words, perhaps, going eve* farther.
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