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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1916)
ORE( Published each T Associated Students Entered at the p Subscription ra tes. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. MnnnKlnK Editor . . , City Editor. BUSINESS MANAGE! Phone Editor 565 ON EMERALD jesday, Thursday and Saturday of the college year, by the it the University of Oregon. >stofflce at Eugene as second class matter, per year, $1.00. Single copies, 5c. EDITORIAL STAFF. .HAROLD HAMSTHRET . ...Edward P. Harwood .De Witt Gilbert BUSINESS STAFF. I .GEORGE T. COLTON .Phone Manager 4S1 THAT QUESTION OIF YELL LEADER That rah-bar-Oregoii spirit is not as serting itself these days and the handful of trousers warming the bleachers as the team goes through its nightly practice are not ns many ns they should ho. ' I5ut the fault is rooter leadership, and again the annual question of yell leader presents itself. Alumni have for the last two years bewailed the fact that the “old Oregon”, spirit was becoming a. myth; that with the growth of the university and the change of dominating leaders the spirit was becoming a tradition rather than remaining a living fact. .Summed up the alumni are bewailing t|be passing of the spirit while the present classes stand over the bier without! faith for resur rection. The wail of the alumni may be a need ed inspiration to us of the present gen eration. We cannot believe the spirit has passed but from the indications this fall it is hopelessly anaemic. But that is because we rode to heavenly happiness last year on the blaze of glory in which our football heroes ended the season. And the team, almost Intact, is back into harness again drilling for another strenu ous season. The fault is we are self-satisfied and have not chosen a yell leader. No man puts in quite so strenuous work as does the yell leader during the football season. And choosing the leader now is handi capping him for more than the length of time school has been open. THE COLLEGE 'iGEORAMUS. The Portland Oregonian arises the question of a college ignoramus in an editorial ol’ August. -7„ and like so many » others of the .v'.ate mind falls, into error. Thankfully enough it ahhors rote learn ing and condemns it for its own worth. The scholar with his head full of facts of no value lias assimilated a lid of stuff that will he of no practical use to him. The Oregonian assumes that a man goes to college where he is held in leash for four years or more while his head is pumped full of so much hot air. Then he is released from the institution hy graduation or otherwise he is like a balloon up in tlie air -and must suffer the arverse knocks of a cruel world before he comes to earth again and starts to make a business man of himself from the ground floor up. Such an assump tion is reprehensible. The days of gone hy years are no more the same today in the editorial field as in the commercial or Inventive fields. Educational progress is marked hy more efficient tactics and methods. And to at tach a stigma to the man with a diploma is to censure education as doled out in our colleges and universities today. A great change lias taken place today in the methods and tactics of bygone years. This change is due to the demo cratization of higher education. Hut the Oregonian lias not kept up with the times and superficially expounds on the minority representation of our colleges. The minority representation is composed of the poor folks who come to the uni versity white away a few more years, and somehow hope for miracles to pass. More interested in good times titan am bitious work they shift the burdens of studying to their classmates, and skin through on Confucius' one corner. Then when they come out with a diploma and a head of hot air they are wiseacres and either seek those jobs held only by men of age und many years experience, or smoke cigarettes and entertain “milady” while dad foots the 1>HJ. These are the ones who advertise their college educa tion and on whom the Oregonian and the like hop and draw their superficial con clusions. This is the stigma given a university or college education. But how about the real facts—this democratization of higher education? The democratization that is transforming higher education? The answer is—look at the hands of the majority. They are hands that know what work is. They are hands trained in toil. That is the demo cratization of higher education. It is education not alone for the wealthy and idle but education for those with ambi tions and visions. It is education those who have creative faculties and wish to increase their efficiency. They are hands that have supported themselves, dominated by minds that have guided their energies. It. would have been better had the Oregonian stigmatized the breed as rep resented in the minority representation and not the class as represented in the general term “college student.” The alumni arc going to feel the pinch of the high cost of living ns they have not before. For the increased cost of printing is cutting them out of two issues of the Emerald a week. In past years the three issues of the week were mailed to all "good” alumni with a special alumni edition each week. But now only one issue a week goes to “good,” (alumni.) Heaven comes high er! That University of Oregon graduate who manufactured salve for the growing of lower digital extremities got one pati ent in an extremely compromising posi tion. For as one person has expressed it the patient must either toe the mark or foot the bill. It was callous wit 'that responded when asked "Are you out for football?” "Yes, I am out.”- with a sarcastic tinge to the answer. GLEE CLUB OFFICERS CHOSEN. At a meeting of the men's glee club last night officers for this year were elected. John Black was elected presi dent of the club. Lewis Bond was chosen as tin' secretary-treasurer for the com ing year. Try-outs for the men’s club will be held Wednesday afternoon in Mr. Lyman’s studio from 4 to ti o’clock. SON BORN TO PROF. ROBBINS. A son was born to Frof. and Mrs. E. Bobbins Sunday evening at the Eugene hospital. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK OREGON EMERALD Please send the Oregon Emerald for the College Year, of 1916-1917, to.. Address.. for which I enclose $1.00 in advance. Address Emerald office U. of O. Middleton Concert Company Will Go Over State. Well Known Soloists Will Re present University of Ore gon in Concert Work. Martin Tinker. ' A new trio has been formed with the opening of this school year in the music department, which will represent the University of Oregon in concert work all over the state. This trio, which will be known ns the Middleton Concert com pany, is composed of Mrs. Middleton, vocolist; Mr. Hadollet, flutist; and Miss Davis, piano soloist and nccompaniest. All of these musicians have been heard in concert work in Eugene and alway with great success. Mrs. Middleton states that most of the work will be en semble work although there will be a few solos. Mrs. Middleton possesses a contralto voice of very rich quality and wjth the high flute will be a very pleasing com bination. Miss Davis’ ability as an ac companiest is indisputable ns for many years she has accompanied the vesper choir and prominent soloists of Eugene and the University. Dr. Enndsbury of the University school of music will go to Portland every two weeks this winter in the in terest of the extension department, giv ing lectures on the different phases of music. ANNOUNCEMENTS * Soccer meeting Friday evening at 4:15 in gymnasium. All candidates out. For details, see story in this Emerald. Band practice and tryout to be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock in Vil lard hall. YELL LEADER PROBLEM UP Student Council Will Appoint Committee to Hunt Desirables—Doiph After Job. Who will be colonel of the rooters’ brigade? That is the question that the student body council will start on the way to ward a solution at its first meeting to morrow. ' A committee will be appointed to look np possible candidates and report to the council at its second gathering. Election of a yell leader will then be held. Jack Dplph has announced his candi dacy, according to Nichols Jaureguy, siudent body president. Alex Bowen is also another possible aspirant for the job, says Jaureguy. LATE PLEDGES. I Alpha Phi announces the pledging of Margaret Gray of Portland, and of Helen Case of McMinnville. Delta Tau Delta has three new pledges who were not previously announced. They are Robert Montague, Horace Foulkes, (and Lay Carlyle all of Port land. Edmon^l Tracey of Albany has been pledged by Sigma Nu. Sigma ,Chi announces the pledging of Owen Kophfi. Thi Gamma Delta’s unannounced pledges are: Rerman Lind and Carl Knudsen ,of Portland. Sunday Emerald to your friends at home. ( The Club Shine ! Is A Good One Qeo. Molos, Prop. 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