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OREGON EMERALD Published each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the college year, by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered at the postoffice at Eugene as second class matter. Subscription rates, per year, fl.OO. Single copies, 6c. _ STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF..MAX H. SOMMER Assistant Editors.Wallace Bakin, Leslie O. Toose Managing Editor...Harold Hamstreet City Editor.Mandril Weiss Copy Editors..,,.Ed Harwood, DeWItt Gilbert, Clytle Hall Special Writers. .Grace Edglngton, Frances Shoemaker, Charles Dundore, Walter Kennon. Administration ... ..Roberta Killam Assistant....Harold Say Sports Assistants Features . Dramatics Society.Bea Exchanges Assistant .Chester A. Fee ..James Sheehy, Lee Bostwlck .Adrienne Epplng, Echo Zahl ...Martha Beer trice Locke, Luclle Watson, Catherine Twomey .Louise Allen .. ..Martha Tinker Reporters. .Kenneth Moores, .Tear Bell, rtobert MoNary, Percy Boatman, Cora lie Snell, Luclle Mensner, Joe Skelton, Helen Brenton. BU BUSINESS MANAGER... Assistant Manager.. Advertising Manager .. Circulation. Collections . Manager’s 'SINESS STAFF .FLOYD ad Editor’s Phone—841. C. WESTERFIELD .. . Kenneth Moores . .Burle D. Brant ball .Wily Knighton .Estley Farley Voluntary Military Drill. IF FOR no other reason than to parry any attempt to estab lish compulsory military drill, every male student in the University should sign up for voluntary military drill. Not that this would be the only reason: voluntary drill has all the merits that compulsory drill lacks. Compulsory drill would establish military training for all time at a time of world war, when the feeling is one akin to fear. Our nation at this time is in a crucial position. But whatever alarm ists, may say, war is unlikely; yet adequate preparation is essential. But in this period of the wolrld’s history, war is the exception and peace the rule. It would be the height of folly to establish compul sory drill in the Universities at this time, which is no norm of or dinary times. Once established, compulsory training is here for good. At Heidleberg is the old “career”, a remnant of the sixteenth century when throughout Europe every university was a sort of fort, when professors were first of all soldiers. The universities were sur rounded by battlements access ible through high picketted iron gates. At Harvard there still remains that survival of militarism, the six teen foot spiked steel fence. All of this is militarism—militarism in the universities where preparation should be educational. Even at this time, despite the statements of anti-Germans, there is no compul sory military drill in the educational system of Germany. On the other hand Germany encourages higher education by exempting stu of drill after they are educationally dents from a certain amount prepared. Voluntary drill, contrary ism. Drill has educational po dency to degenerate into the to compulsory, has no savor of militar Dssibilities of discipline without the ten militarism of mediaeval times when universities were primarily concerned with making soldiers. In this day and age of advanced warfare, the educated soldier is far better than the uneducated soldier, which alone would be sufficient cause to condemn compulsory military drill. Far better, indeed, in results is voluntary drill; but voluntary drill cannot be established if there are not enough volunteers. The success of voluntary drill insures the university against compulsory training. So let’s have more volunteers I Another Phase of the Cut Rule. OFT HAS it been said that law and justice are diametrically opposed, but always have we been prone to take this extreme state ment with a grain of salt. Whether or not this is true is not our ob ject, but we can conceive of nothing which so reverses the scales of justice as the latest extension of the cut rule. It has been applied to gymnasium absences. IIow this was justified by any of the known theorems of logic or justice, we cannot for the lilfe of us say; with all due credit to the instigators of this crime against justice, the line of reasoning seems thin. In the first, place no University credits are granted for gym. Athletes can moil among parallel bars and horses for four years, and merely satisfy the minimum requirements. Rut if some studious per son, scarce as they are. were to miss sixteen hours of gym an hour of credit is filched from his hard-earned economics, psychology or lan guages. Requirements state that gym credits must be earned before graduation. A hard-working student may be able only to pursue his gymnastics on the little-by-little method. While he is earning these requirements his credits in studies are being sapped away. If gym credits are not counted as regular credits, how. in the name of justice, can cuts he counted to discount regular credits? As the correspondent of two weeks ago aptly says. “If gym work yields onlv gvm credit, let gym cuts forfeit only gvm credit.” [’ CAMPUS NOTES » ~ ---—--* Mr. .1. K. Hratke, editor of the A* torl« I'ally ltudget, will speak at the assembly tomorrow morning on the sub ject, "The Problem of Making a I.iving." Mr. Gratke will he accompanied to 15n getie by hia daughter Ie>ris. and prob ably Mrs. Gratke. Miss Gratke has ijutte a reputation ns a violinist and she will render several selections. Miss Marija ret Taylor, of Astoria, will be her ac companist. President P. L. Campbell left Eugene last Saturday evening for Seattle where he will represent the University of Ore gon at the inauguration of Henry Siiiz aallo as president of the Eniversty of Washington, on Monday and Tuesday. Later President Campbell will join (he official party from the University of Washington and will go t*' Pullman for the inanguratinu of Ernest Otto lloltWnd >as president of Washington State Cal* lege, on March 23 and 24. President Nioholaa Murray Butler of Columbia University "ill he one of the party. Week-end guests at Sigma Chi were Wallace Martyn and N. O, Taylor of O. A. C., and James W. Mott of Wil lamette. Mr. Mott is in Eugene to direct the University players in "The Fortune Hunter" which they are to present at the Eugene theatre on March 31. Mrs. Fenton, Esther Fenton, Anne Paw son, Marian Greble, Genevieve Shaver, l.eura Jerard. N. O. Taylor, and J. IV. Mott were Sunday dinner guests 1 at Sigma Chi. Professor Rovard, who recently has been aerioualy ill, la rapidly improving, and expect a to resume his class work by the end of apriug vacation. Fifty-four universities iu the British .empire have aupplied oter forty thou sand men at the front up to the present time. ! A recent fire at the Michigan Agri cultura|l college which destroyed the en gineering buildings with a loss of over $250,000, has raised the question throughout the state ag to whether the Agricultural college should rebuild and maintain an engineering department. From [reports from different parts of the stflte it seems extremely doubtful that the buildings will be rebuilt and the duplication of the work continued for the University of Michigan also has an engineering department. Congressman W. C. Hawley has ap pointed' William Jenkins of Eugene, a freshmffm in the University, as first al ternate in the examination for Annapo lis. Daniel Woods, of Cottage Grove, holds first place. Mr. «®d Mrs. L. H. Potter and Har old Potter were Sunday dinner guests at the A. T. O. house. Bas. Williams was initiated into the A. T. (|>. Sunday night. 1 Eighteen per cent of the engineering students of the University of Minnesota were suspended on account of poor W0Tk- : Sunday dinner gues^-*^’ Alpha Tau Omega were Mr. and Mrs. Poter of Eu gene, Leo Potter and Harold Potter. Dorothy Hedges of Oregon City and Joe Hedges were Sunday dinner guests at the J^appa Alpha Theta house. Alpha Phi Sunday dinner guests were Lucian Carson and Dan McEwen of Corvallis. Alpha Tau Omega held initiation Sun day evening for Basil Williams of Eu gene. Dr. George Rebec was a dinner guest at Friendly hall Monday evening. Haroll Hamstreet and Fred Dunbar were Si|uday dinner guests at Friendly hall. Mrs. Gray and Lucille Sheperd are spending a few days in Portland. Miss Grace Sawyer is in Portland this week-end. Aline Johnson spent last week-end in Portland. MECHANICAL CLOCK LOSES Human (Machine Necessary Finally to Ring Hourly Class Bells. The work of the big dock in Johnson hall at the University of Oregon, which formerly: rang the bells that sounded re lease from classes all over the campus, is now toeing done by a lady and an alarm clock. Mrs. Grace Granger, a clerk in the administration office, is warned by an alarm clock on her desk, of the approach of each hour. She presses a button in the wall which makes the electrical connection necessary to ring the bells in every building on the campus. The big clock, whose duty Mrs. Grang er performs, was sent to Waynesboro^ I’a., for repairs on February 21 be cause it rang the fire department un necessarily two or three times last month. | By ringing the bells at unusual hours, which is the fire signal, the big time piece was responsible for the man in the power house sending in two calls to the Eugene fire department. The Landis Engineering and Manufac turing Co, has made repairs to tha extent of $ir>, consisting of a new fan on the program mechanism, a new commutator and a new1 fibre link. A. C, IflcAlister of the administration office, states that the clock left Waynes boro March 11 and should be in Eugene by toroorlrow or the next day. i | To our Washington Friend, the j Editor of the Windmill. There’s one disgrace in the code of sports that’s worse than an alibi, One thing more disgusting than, “We’d won if the field was dry.” For the man who explains and whines when he’s licked the world has little use, Still, there’s one thing more dishonor able than even a ready excuse; And that is where the sportsman points sharpest the finger of shame, And that is the thing in deepest scorn of Those Who Play the Game, And that is the man who skulks away from a contract he has made Because he sees he is beaten, to face defeat he’s afraid. I —J. D. G. TEN YEARS AGO. From the Oregon Weekly of March 19, 1406 The student body copmittee appointed to draw up a constitution for the sick benefit association is rpady to submit its fepori. The dues for the remainder of this semester will be , one dollar. The paying of this tax will not be compul sory but everyone will readily see that it will be to the interest of every stu dent to become a member. Tho baseball men must get to work immediately. They wstnt to but cannot because they have only a few suits to wear and no diamond on which to prac tice. Suits, a diamond and apparatus will cost $100. The executive commit tee can grant no money to baseball be cause there is no provision in the con stitution of the studen^ body association permitting it to do so. At the meeting Wednesday the students may vote the money it needs. A few students at our State Agricul tural school have frequently referred to thnt institution as “Oregon.” Should it be spoken of as “Oregon?” We emphat ically say “no.” Moreover some call the Oregon Agricultural clollege “the Uni versity.” since it is a state school. Let our farmer friends be content to call their school by its proper name and not to appropriate that of our University for its own. “I LIKE IT.” The Charlie Chaplin’s a Queer dance, I like it. It's a stiff and awkward prance, I like it. It’s not a rag, it’s not a waltz, It’s got a dozen rythmic faults, It’s worse than tobnced for the pulse, I like it. —K. A. M. Two denominational papers have made their appearance on the Ohio State campus this year, the Presbyter ian Student News, the first number of which was issued Inst fall, and the Meth odist Microcosm, it« mls. nm her bcltirr issued last week. The "urine.- stared < ut to be a tri-we< kly publication. 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