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OREGON EMERALD Published tuh 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, $1.00. Single copies, 6c. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF..."T^.T..MAX H. SO**™ Assistant Editors.Wallace Eskln, Leslie O. ToOse Managing Editor.Harold J**"”*'^ Copy Editors.Ed Harwood, DeWitt Gilbert, Clytle Hall Special Writers. .Grace Edgington, Frances Shoemaker, Charles Dundore, Walter Administration Kennon. .Roberta Klllam Assistant's .Janies Sheehy Lee Bostwlck Features .Adrienne Epplng, Echo Zahl Dramatics .Martha Beer Society ..'.I”!!!!!.’!!!!.!....’ Beatrice Locke, Luclle Watson, Catherine Twomey — Louise Allen Assistant* . .’...Martha Tinker Reporters,'.Kenneth Moores, jean Bell, Robert McNary, Percy Boatman, Cora Me Snell, Luclle Mesener, Joe Skelton. Helen Brenton. BUSINESS STAFF _n BUSINESS MANAGER...FLOTD C. 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Manager's and Editor’s Phone—841. __ THE OREGON EMERALD as the official organ of the Associated Student Body of the University of Oregon, aims to serve the student body politic in the following zvay: to diffuse cor rect and authentic news; to protect and conserve the highest ideals of the University; to consistently'avoid all secret affiliations and alliances; to play the game squarely with no favoritism; to be op timistic and courageous in fulfilling its functions; to comment on, and receive comment on the problems concerning the University and its welfare; to pursue a constructive editorial policy which nec essarily implies a destructive policy; in short, to pursue militantly a policy of proper publicity in regard to all problems that confront the Student Body—all of this, based on the truism that a demo cracy can be effective and efficient only so long as it maintains a free and militant press' Colleges) and Revolutionism. ’AMERICANS VISITING Europe invariably bring back the news that the European student is far more radical than his American cousin. Reacting to this true state of affairs, Seymour Deming, in his book still damp from the presses, "The Pillar of Fire”, puts a torpedo beneath the ark of the American university. The book has met with approval and condemnation, and such a book should meet with both favorable and unfavorable criticism. 7'he Masses, a social istic freelance in journalism, characterizes it as “the manifesto of rev olutionary democracy in the higher education,” while militant Har per’s Magazine says that although the book goes a little tdo far in some directions, it is on the whole an intellectual ozone. With justification the April issue of Current Opinion says that Mr. Deming charges the American colleges with a shameful evasion of the real and vital issues of American life. Mr. Deming has a tendency to attack the professors, whom, by the way, he calls the “high priests of our intellectualocracy.” Some of the blame, no doubt, should go to the professors; but on the whole we are of the firm opinion that the mental stultification that seems to characterize the American college student is due, in last analysis, to himself. There seems to be very little intellectual hunger on the part of the average student. His time is consumed by a num ber of activities that squelch any other tendencies that may be lying dormant. The American student, nourished on shibboleths of freedom of speech, has little to talk about. His views are ultra-conventional, and he probably knows little about modern social philosophies that might otherwise lead him to chew his mental cud a little more in stead of doing the sentimental thing of “getting a date.” Colleges should not be the factories for turning out radicals for the sake of radicalism. But universities should turn out men that are mentally active, men who are not only drilled in things as they are but also in things as they should be. The atmosphere of a univer sity should be one of high mental pressure. Such an atmosphere cannot come by regulating the hours of study.. It cannot be regulat ed at all: it must be cultivated. Student life in Russia is subject to so many restrictions that the universities are melting pots of all the “57 varieties” of radicalism. Lack of free speech in Russia and some of the European countries creates a freedom of thought that free dom of speech in America has not yet created. Or perhaps it is that the American student loses all of his mental fervor by over-pigging and the like. -p f BasketBall Next Season. IT SEEMS to us that the Student Body is taking too seriously the matter of the reinstatement of basketball. To us it seems that there is absolutely no doubt but that the game will be restored. At the time that basketball was suspended, the faculty stated freely that it was an experiment, and that it was not a step to abolish intercol legiate athletics. Faculty members, whom we have seen, have nothing against basketball. In fact it is regarded that the season of suspension is proof that the game is popular enough to warrant its reinstatement. One of the reasons for the suspension last year was that it was neither a popular nor a paying game. Since athletics are not for profit, and since the suspension of the game for one season gave evidence of its popularity, there is hardly room to doubt that the faculty will restore the activity as soon as it gets around to it. No Music on Sunday. WHEN THE decree came out that Sunday golf was taboo, some ardent wielders of the stymie felt that was an unreasonable dis crimination between the seven days of the week. Now students can not even listen to music. Strange as it may seem the students look ed forward to a concert treat. So, too, did many townspeople. A little music on Sunday, we think, would be an ideal form of recreation which would in no way interfere with church-going or smack of irreligiosity. 1 CAMPUS NOTES f |Pi Beta Pbl entertained at dinner Wed nesday evening. The gueats were, Mra. Shoemaker, Miss Mary Wataon, Francea Shoemaker. Dinner gueata of Pi Beta Plii Tuesday evening were, Mra. Wilaon, ot Medford, and Ruth Wilson. I - Mrs. Gilbert and Majorie Gilbert, .of AatoriA, were dinner gueats at the Gam ma Phi Beta houaa Tuesday night. ISunday dinner guests at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house were, Miss Vella Wiinner, of Portland, and Mr. Fred Hau sen. I - Roger Jayne, Paul Smith, "Shy” Huntington, Dale Butt, Marshall Wood w<#th, Mack Maurice and Roger Browu wfcre Sunday dinner guests at Delta Gumma house. I - Helen Brenton was a dinner guest at th|e Delta Gamma house Tuesday. Mr. Johns, of Pendleton, was a dinner guest Sunday at the Gamma Phi Beta house. Gamma Phi Beta celebrated Easter by giving an Easter breakfast. The mem bers of the active chapter were present. (Alpha Phi announces the pledging of Miss Dorothy Wilkinson, of Eugene. I TEN TIMES TEN? ¥--•-* JIM CELLARS. There is no reaeon that we know of for the name of this colyumn. .Always thought that Echo June wee a better loeer, but— 'Phe burdened heart muat e”en o’er flow. That’* eahl about that. The favorite spring color eeemo to have a vermilion tint. ,-—-n (Censured stuff) (No apology.) We intend to walk softly. Bill would look like a thoroughbred racer in a cowbarn at O. A. C. j STARTS AND STOPS j ¥ -¥ DeWITT GILBERT. Oh,; lid of duck so round and flat, Bill’s storied lid, his old white hat, When you go on, hard work begins And we will expiate our sins; For waffles at midnight and Camels we I find Show up rather plain in a 440 grind. Ob,i lid of duck! Oh, lid of doom! Whien, oh, when, will Bill exhume Yoik from the mothballs in the chest, From then on will do our best, Sigiji of our slavery, round and flat, Billfa storied lid, Bill’s old white hat. i • * • Here’s where we blossom forth again after most a year of silence under this head in this paper. Bear with us, gentle reader, and remember we aren’t paid to do it and so are totally to blame. There was once a young fellow named 1 Moose, Whose joints were decidedly lo*ose, He had lots of stuff, But a liking to stuff, Which brought down on him Hayward’s abuse. see 11 Thefe is scarce any meat on his shins, Rut .he runs lick a fool on those pins, He |is terrible thinny, Thiai follow culled Skinny, But jl’m betting it’s Hargreaves who wins. i * * * This is easy; let’s try the baseball si; u nd. Our captain's a fellow named “Ans,” W'h^i loves around shortstop to prance, Hit ^eat little shirt Is ail free from dirt, But where is the fit of those pants? • • • The | fellow on second’s a “squirrel," With hardly the bean of a girl, The hair that grows on it la too short for a sonnet, And'very much too short to curl. • * • — Very well, dear reader, “take a fast 440 <jind go in." Simpson has installed a regular do mestic science course for four years' du ration. ♦ Providence, R. I., April 21.— ♦ ♦ Although Cornell baa signified its ♦ ♦ intention of Adopting a bear as its ♦ ♦ college mascot, Brown university ♦ ♦ has no intention of dropping its ♦ ♦ time-honored (tradition, which links ♦ ♦ that animal vrith Bruninian activi- ♦ ♦ ties as closed as the tiger is at- ♦ ♦ tached to Princeton or the bulldog ♦ ♦ to Yale. ♦ ♦ Student interest here has been ♦ ♦ aroused withih the last day or two ♦ ♦ by a letter received by Professor ♦ ♦ Marvel at the athletic association ♦ ♦ office, postmarked Danforth, Me., ♦ ♦ in which the writer offers to sell O ♦ at a reasonable price three little ♦ ♦ 'brown bears, at an age easily han- ♦ ♦ died and tamed. This would provide ♦ ♦ a bear for each of the Brown ma- ♦ ♦ jor sports—football, baseball and ♦ ♦ track. 1 ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦<►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ F. W. Floyd df the Missouri Athletic association and a last year’s Missouri varsity man, broke the world’s record for indoor pole vault recently at Kansas City, when he topped the bar at 12 feet 8% inches. The Stanford: museum now has the largest collection1 of Venetian glassware in the world. 1 The Cornell students who carried 5,000 books out of a burning building ought to be excused from further studies in literature.—New York Sun. f i ♦ CORNELL CAN’T SCARE ♦ BROWN’S BROWN ♦ ♦ BEAR ♦ ♦ Thursday—Today Friday-J-Tomorrow i Paramount-Lasky Company Presents FANNIE WARD The heroine of “The Cheat” i TENNESSEE’S PARDNER Bret Harte’s novel of the days of ’49, pictured in a most thrilling manner. Pictures evolved from Amer ica’s greatest minds, on topics of curre'nt interest. ■L - .'Ji"1 Do Business by Mall? lt’a orafitakja, iritk •crania hat* of free Oct catalogue contain* vital info Hu oa Util AdrwHainr. quantity oa 6,000 national guaranteed. Sock ••< War Malarial M|fra. 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Burnham discovers that the countess is the beautiful girl he rescued from the highwayman and although he i^akes her slipper he refuses to give it up to the marquis. Burnham denounces the mar quis and is thrown into prison. Word is carried to the countess of his plight and through her influence Burnham is released and the mraquis humiliated. Later the American and the countess are happily married. Comet Electric Co. Home of the National Maz da and Nitrogen la 9 Guaranteed Electric Irons $2.45 Special BALLET SLIPPERS GYM SHOES TENNIS SHOES EMMY LOUS! VERANDA AND PAR ADE PUMPS LO WPRICES wragu " -tig, or ! Spjlj ' **X VO PAN'S ■ SHOE STORE The Store that Sells GOOD SHOES I Fine White Serge <* Trousers $5°° A beautiful all-wool serge trouser with neat silk stripe. Every man should have a pair or two. Don’t forget May 1st is straw hat day Very Cleanly Yours Eugene Steam Laundry One-Two-Three Hotel Osburn Special Rates for Stu dent Banquets Monthly Dinner a Spe* ialty. 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