OREGON EMERALD
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SELF-GOVERNMENT.
From the viewpoint of students and
faculty, the rally of Monday morning
, welcoming the return of the team from
its victory over California Saturday, was
a groat success. To the students it
'• showed there was no deterioration in the
great Oregon Spirit. To the faculty the
demonstration of the !H)0 students
showed they were responsible for what
they were doing.
The rally was only made possible by
special action taken by the faculty Sun
day afternoon when an hour and a half
was granted to the students.
, The yell leader advisory committee
met voluntarily with the faculty with the
express purpose of seeing the rally
through. All plans to the minutest de
* tail were worked out and in the com
mittee was placed the confidence of the
faculty.
This marks the greatest step' forward
for student self-government ever made in
the evolution of student body govern
ment in the University. ■
The serious aspects of responsibility
are now taking hold of all classmen. This
was seen yesterday morning when no
bounds were overstepped. There was
a bubbling of spirit that bursted into a
bedlam of welcome at the depot when
the train pulled in and each member of
the team was taken, grinning from ear
to car, on the shoulders of admirers to
a waiting carriage. Hut running through
the joyousness was a eurrent of serious
i ness that suppressed any reactionary
, movement.
This is, as self-government works out, a
practical factor in teaching the duties
of citizenship. From present indica
cations it looks as though self-govern
ment would soon be not only needed but
acceptable by the Students and the fac
ulty.
EUNCO GAGS.
From the time our granddaddys wound
their tails about a tree limb and made
monkey-faces at the jelly fish, bunco
gags have been inserted in the mouths
of victims to suppress their cries as their
..kets were filched. This is prefa
tory to mention of that odious practice
of competitive scholarship sales.
Briefly the system is this: A chap
will take a list of magazines around on
a house to house c.i ivass soliciting sub
scriptions. His usual spiel is that lie
is working for a scholarship at a uni
versity or college name to be supplied
according to locality in which he works,
lie pleads that he must get. a certain
number of subscriptions in order to win
a scholarship, otherwise he will have to
go without an education. This sob story
brings in the eagerly sought silver dol
lars but the donor waits in vain for
their magazines. Having secured the
mmii'i the would-be student disappears
to a more lucrative field.
l.ast week a telegram reached the
comptroller of the I’niversity asking
is so-and-so was a student in the Uni
versity. And the comptroller’s reply
nipped the budding little game of a
prevaricator and Jikewisi saved the
University a friend in the person who
might otherwise have been filched.
When, yes, when will this bunco game
endV Brothers, shall we sing, "In the
Sweet ily and By?”
o REMISS IN PUBLICITY.
Anent Homecoming Hay!
From the actual publicity work done
to date the committee in charge is re
miss in its duties. But two more weeks
are left in which to concentrate the
work and throw broadcast the words of
welcome to alumni, friends and relatives.
The Emerald has a criticism to make:
there is too much being taken for grant
ed; there is over-confidence in the plans.
It is impossible to overdo the publicity.
That is a feature of the campaign that
should be worked many weeks before
the actual event in order to give all an
I opportunity to arrange for being pres
ent. The Emerald itself has found it
difficult to get the news. Too much
confidence is being placed in form let
ters. That is a good thing but alone
it is not enough. Those zealous in
publicity matters should realize their
fallacy before it is too late to remedy
the error.
Tomorrow’s assembly is one for
every student, who really likes the Uni
versity—who T^ally feels he is an in
tegral part of it. Pledge Day was not j
inaugurated as a mere hobby, but as a |
test of loyalty. Give our Governor a
royal welcome.
Beat Washington!
$600 MORE FOR BUILDING
Sum Pledged at Conference of Mothers’
Congress and Parent-Teachers.
Miss Elizabeth Fox, dean of women,
returned Friday from The Dalles, where
she represented the women of the Uni
versity at the combined conference of
the Mothers’ Congress and the Parent
Teachers’ Association, which met Octo
ber 1 Lf, 111 and 14.
Mrs. McGrath was the presiding of
ficer of the congress. About 100 Par
ent Teacher associations were represent
ed. Miss Fox declares that “the reports
given by the delegates of the association
on social service work and club studies
were various and interesting. The
small towns of Oregon were well repre
sented.”
Miss Fox spoke on the Women’s
building und presented Mrs. Gerlinger's
report of funds nlready raised for the
building. Mrs. McGrath stressed Miss
Fox’s appeal. As a result of the effort
of tin1 two speakers $100 was raised and
tin.ngress assumed for the local as
sociations a {Hedge of $500. This sum
includes the $175 actually pledged.
Governor Withycoinbe opened the con
gress with an address of welcome. Presi
dent Brannon of the University of Idaho
also gave an address. Miss Milam, head
of the home economies department of
Oregon Agricultural College, gave a
talk on the various ways in which the
college could help the women of the state
through its extension department.
Miss Fox left for The Dalles Thurs
day morning and returned Friday even
ing. She had dinner with Pena Newton
a former student, now living in The
Dalles. Miss Newton is planning to
have Miss Fox speak to the high school
girls of The Dalles, and will arrange
if possible a tour of Hood Kiver and
other towns in the vicinity.
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♦ BIOLOGY SEMINAR. ♦
♦ Mr. A. C. Shelton will address ♦
♦ the Biology Seminar in Deady hall, ♦
♦ Friday afternoon at 1:15 p. in.. ♦
♦ room 'Jo. All are invited. ♦
♦ Subject: "Final Distribution of ♦
♦ Plants and Animals.” ♦
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Charlie Chaplin in “The Count”—
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♦ COLUMN ♦
♦ Being Cerebral Gyrations Set in ♦
♦ Motion and Expressed in Verse ♦
♦ and its Reverse by ♦
♦ MILTON ARTHUR STODDARD. ♦
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WHEREIN WE MOUNT PEGASUS
FOR A GALLOP DOWN HELLO LANE
ENTREATY.
Please. . . (implorinly and tear
fully) ... oh, please,
Dear inky Typographic Mephistopheles,
If I intrude myself between your column
rules,
Forgive me, Patron Saint. Though fif
teen years of schools
I’ve been, and the eagerly awaiting world
expects
That I make good, though Inspiration
ne’er injects »
With her strange hypodermic needle in
my blood
The fire divine to make me burn as if I
should
Pour chili sauce and Worcestershire and
Spanish beans
Into the chambers of my heart. What
all this mean
Is that Nomatterwhatchn craves to get
in print.
Satanic Pressroom God, our Hope is
that, by dint
Of all the tributes we cun pay to you
in verse,
You will not pi my stuff, which really
is not worse
Than ads and echoes, which with puns
appear
Like this: “If autumn gave me lief, I’d
fall for you, my dear.”
So, beseech I, lot me sing!
Let me, let me have my fling!
For I may not live till spring.
Poor Chatterton died at seventeen,
Sad Keats at twenty-six.
Death’s axe for potes is awful keen;
Too soon they cross the Styx.
When other men have just begun
To live, the poet's course is run.
Sldnny Newton rushed up to Echo
Zahl in the copy-reading dive and ex
claimed, "You can lead a mule to water,
but it takes Hull Durham tobacker.” She
raised the ponderous dictionary threat
ingly and replied, “Any more of this
vaudeville stuff and I’ll book you.”
Tuesday morning Jimmy Gilbert gave
his historic lecture on the evils of gamb
ling by college professors or students.
In the evening, Keith Iviggins engineered
a lottery for a ticket to California.
Keith’s loaded dice exploded and left
him penniless on the floor of the stock
exchange. Scoop Kathbun’s voice rang
out, “Joe Bell is go(i)ng!”
GIRL-GUESSING CONTEST.
The person who guesses the name of
the girl who inspired this pome will
lie rewarded by receiving two stanzas of
poetic recognition, which will be publish
ed in this column if our continuance in
life will i\crmit.
A CO-ED’S HAIR.
Girl of metallic golden hair,
You are more than blonde or fair —
You’ve an eldorado air.
And 1 stare »
And wonder
Might 1 ripple my fingers under,
Over, and through
Your tresses of mineral hue?
Would I hear a tinkly crumple of spun
gold.
If I took a loving hold
Of your hair a-streaming in the wind?
Please don’t mind,
If l compare
Your golden hair
To the gilted tinsel of the Christmas
tree,
But the thought occurred to me
To say it. though my deeper self con
fesses
That your most unusual tresses
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If your beauty vanished hence,
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More truly golden hair could never be!
SCOTTY JAMEY SPEAKS.
Sandy M'Gregor-r-r sat a’ the day in
the lobby of a hotel an’ grinned an’ grin
ned an’ never said a wor-r-rd. The
folks windered what he was s.ae happy
aboot, settin’ there grinnin’. Finally he
leaned over to Jack Douglass an’ whis
per-r-red in his ear-r-r, “Hey, Jock, is it
nae grand to be a Presbyter-r-rian?”
EMERALD KICK.
Is your paper coming regularly?
If it is not phone 703, the Univer
sity office, and leave complaint.
The Emerald wants to give service,
and just complaints are appreciated.
FOXT—A Delta Gamma pin. Please
return to Delta Gamma house, 1367
Alder street.
E. 0. POTTER
Republican Nominee for
Circuit Judge '
Born in Lane county, Oregon in
1860; Graduate of the Univer
sity of Oregon; County Judge of
Lane county one term; Practic
ing lawyer for 26 years.
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