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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. $1.00. Single copies, 6c:. EDITORIAL. STAKE. _ editor-in-ciuee.harold hamstreet Associate Editor .Milton Arthur Stoddard Associate Editor.John DeWItt Gilbert Managing Editor. Harwood City Editor .Adrienne Epplng BUSINESS STAKE. BUSINESS MANAGER.BURLE D. BRAMHAL1, Assistant Manager.Eoiilse Allen Assistants .ioc Delia, I.ny t'arlilc, Jeanette Calkins, Harold Barde Circulation Malinger. Heaney Phone, Editor, ,’itl!> Phone. Manager, 841 Depart meats Snorts Editor .James S. Sheehy AHHiHiBnt» . .William Haseitine, Clifford Sevita A«lmini*l rntion ...; 1 '; 'jaITl. 1 u. Assistants.Douglass Mullarky, Frederick Kingsbuiy Student Activities .Dorothy Parsons Women s Sports.. • • • “elen ttair Forensics .......Rosalind Hates General Assignments.John Dundore, Elsie FiP/.maurice, Richard Avlson, Gladys Wilkins. Ross Dalkletsch, Jlussell Fox. Mary Jonns, Martha Tinker, Pearl Cralne, Erma Zimmerman, Percy Boatman, Dor othy Duniway. Duclle Saunders, Bert Woods, Arvol Simula, Florida Dili, Adelaide J„uke, Helen Hrenton, Beatrice Thurston, Byle McCros key, TVacy Byers, Paul Keaney. COURTESY TO SPEAKERS. Wo have a criticism to make. Wo re fer to those fidgety people who can sit just so long at a lecture and then find it necessary to remove their persons else where; also another class of people who always find it convenient to come late nnd make the slam of the door or the scraping of their foot simultaneous with tin announcements so that the speaker cannot he hoard. That explains perhaps why Dr. John Straub had to sing a solo for assembly yesterday morning. The number of the song was given out just as our friends of the above-mentioned class arrived as per schedule. No one heard the number nnd the Dean of the University waded through two versos of the song to receive a hearty handclap for his efforts, simply becattqe it was supposed he was singing a solo. In the name of all that is courteous a speaker should be given an opportunity to give the message lie lias to offer. True some speakers are had and some are good. Ititl a University student is the last person in the world who should make his like and dislikes so known during a University assembly by getting up and leaving while the lecture is in progress. The practice here at Oregon has not been had in the past hut we notice it is like all other growing things that become obnoxious—one person starts and another follows nnd so on until the disease is chronic. For such a practice there should be no beginning. COLLEGIATE SPELLING Don Marquis, who conducts a column In an evening newspaper, departs from the paths of humor to make the follow ing indictment against college men : “For seventeen years we have fussed around newspaper offices in one capacity or another, and it has been our happy privilege to read the copy of hundreds of young collegians. And never once in all that time have we come across a single young college graduate who was able to apell * * * After a year or two out of college it begins to dawn upon them that possibly spelling may have its le gitimate place in producing copy for a newspaper, and lliey take it up seriously. It is not that they seem to have any prejudice against spelling; they just don t know anything about it. The fact that there is such a thing has evidently never been called to their attention.” It is impossible to quash this indict ment by placing the blame on the prepara tory schools, for this does not excuse the colleges. And. anyway, the indictment should not be quashed but extended. Col lege men in ninety cases out of a hund red not only cannot spell but also cannot express their thoughts clearly in writing or in conversation. The colleges need more than the dic tionary that Don Marquis recommends as an addition to their equipment. They need also courses in which men may be taught the gentle and much abused art of con versation. so that the superiority of "reallyV" to “what are yuh trying to do? Kid meV" will be evident. They need courses in which the simple ability to write intelligently, logically and elegantly will la1 emphasized and insisted upon. In this respect the modern English writing courses an* deficient, as exper ience in editing a college newspaper will show plainly. The Oxford man converses with sim plicity and refinement. 11 is diction is ex cellent. lie finds that slang and other doubtful vehicles of speech are unneces sary for intelligent expression. Tie can write a letter or a theme in such a way that his thoughts are arranged in an in teresting. clear, logical manner. And. of course, he can spell correctly. If Columbia contemplates making any sensational changes in its curriculum, it should add a course or two which would enable its undergraduates to follow tin1 example of their English cousins. Col umbia iS/ircfii/or. RIOES STUDENTS TO CLASSES Kansas students have no excuse 'or being late to classes. The university has installed a jitney service at its own expense, and a decrease of .TO per cent in tardiness lias nlrecd. been noted. Shell Fish Fruit Jellos HOW COZY! That’s what the Co-Eds say when they enter How Delicious Is what they say. when they’re served IMPERIAL LUNCH Telephone 579—7‘dl Willamette ■= Short Cake Home Made Pies ' FACULTY FOLLOWED MISSOURI SYSTEM List Shows How Professors Set Standards, High or Low. 202 H GRADES AND 1294 S GRADES GIVEN Some Mark Harder Than the Average, Others Mark Easier. Statistics of the grades given last sem ester, to be read at the regular monthly meeting of the faculty tonight in Guild hall, show that Oregon professors are following the Missouri grading system in fact as well ns in theory. This system assumes that given a large body of stu dents one-half in a given subject should receive M. '.hat half the other part should receive grades above M, and the remain ing, grades below M. The totals of the grades given are as follows; 11 . 202 S .1204 Mr .2116 I’ .1005 F . 204 Inc. 272 Cond. 114 Gr^ind total .5207 The grades above M total 1400. Those below M total 1685. If the Missouri sys tem set a strict and absolutely accurate standard, there should have been a total of 1224 grades above M, and the same number below, while the M grades should have totaled 2684, instead of 2116. The list to lie read gives the exact number of various grades which each fac ulty member gave in his classes. From this list it will be determined whether a professor is setting his standard of work too high or ton low, in accordance with the Missouri system. Tlie following faculty members held very closely to the Missouri system: Grades Grades Name. above M below M Adams. S 8 Sweetser .. 11> 17 Ayer . 31 30 Howe. 34 30 Watson . 10 IS Schafer . 10 8 O’Hara . 31 10 Allen . ». 13 17 Shockley . 00 00 Members who marked harder than the average or bad exceptionally dull classes are ns follows: Name. Grades Grades above M below M Stafford . 20 34 Shinn . 0 12 Ilopkins . 12 31 Jackson. 11 105 Young. 18 10 Rolhins . 12 74 Gilbert . 7 01 C'larck . 0 15 Kror.enberg . 0 23 Lyman . 10 15 Ilurgess . .. 22 30 Richardson . 11 45 Timelier . 28 37 Schmidt . 42 05 Ciark . 17 23 Hyment . 5 30 Cummings . 20 38 Hayward . 0 41 Goldsmith . 12 54 Conklin and Wheeler.. 10 55 flora n . 30 50 Harthan . 18 103 The following members seem to have marked easier than the average, or to have been fortunate in having exception ally bright classes: Grades Grades Name. above M below M Lawrence . 12 1 Sehroff . 41 4 Doseh . 17 1 Sheldon . 25 11 Stetson . 20 S Dunn . 0 2 He Con . 23 0 Middleton .. 0 0 Perfect . 13 5 I Forbes. 19 Fox . 90 Campbell . 90 Parsons . 16 Turney . 17 Packard . 91 Schwartz . 37 Straub . 19 DeLay . 16 Wheeler . 7 1’rescott . 2~\ 0 0 6 4 6 8 12 1 14 Something Wrong With Cap tains of American Industry, Says Ida Tarbell. Woman Journalist Cites Henry Ford Type of Employer as Basis for Hope. The ideal of industrially democratic America in which captains of industry endeavor to enable their employees to lead healthful and happy lives was held up by Ida M. Tarbell, journalist, author and in dustrial efficiency expert who spoke Tuesday night at the Christian church on “Industrial Idealism.” Of more than average height, dressed modestly in blue, Miss Tarbell with few and almost jerky gestures stated her facts clearly and reasoned with a com pleteness that kept her hearers in rapt attention throughout the lecture. Miss Tarbell does not agitate. She states the facts as she knows them and lets the people draw their own conclu sions. If a change did not come she declared that this democracy of America would revert into just the same state that we came from Europe to avoid. Something is wrong, she said, with the industrial system of a nation that contains thou sands of men out of work who want work. With the advance of foodstuffs and no advance in wages the people are in a still worse state than they were before. And something is wrong where, in the south, the captains of industry assert that it is good for little children to work in factor ies all day long. 1 he golden rule in business lias worKea and she cited the factory of Henry Ford in Detroit, Michigan, where the em ployees not only receive high wages but where they feel that they have a part in the business. This indicates that the statement in the platform of the Indus trial Workers of the World that there can be nothing but antagonism between employer and employee is false. After her lecture Miss Tarbell met in formally many townspeople, professors and students. Members of the University Cornell University Medical College In the city of New York Admits graduates of the Uni versity of Oregon presenting the required physics, chemis try and biology. INSTRUCTION by labora tory methods throughout the course. Small sections facili tate personal contact of stu dent and instructor. GRADUATE COURSES leading to A. M. and Ph. D. also offered under direction of the Graduate School of Cornell University. Applications for admission are preferably made not later than June. Next session opens Sept, 26, 1917. For information and cata logue address The Dean CORNELL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE Box 464 First Avenue and 28th Street, New York City. Rex Theatre -FRIDAY ONLY The Greatest of all Alaska Pictures Better than the Spoilers Ethel Barrymore In the strongest role of her career, as an Alaskan Dance Hall Girl IN TheWhite Raven As to the play, it deals with a girl who disgusted, with her life in the Yukon offers to sell herself to get back to civil ized surroundings. The man who wins her in the card game frees her. She goes to New York, becomes a famous prima donna, and then the man who won her in the game calls to present his claim.—This is the biggest moment of the play. of Oregon debating team procured from Miss Tarbeil statements concerning strike legislation which they assert will be of special value to them in their de bate against O. A. C. tonight. Theta Sigma Phi entertained Miss Tar bell with a luncheon at the Osburn hotel Tuesday afternoon. OREGANA WORK MOVES RAPIDLY The work for the Oregana is progress ing rapidly. Last week three lots of cuts were sent in. “All are getting their work in fine,” said Emma Wootten, Edi tor-in-chief. Miss Wootten has two more weeks to get the work in shape before she goes to Baltimore as a delegate to the national convention of the Gamma Phi Beta. Subscription pledges are now being taken by the ten or twelve students who have entered in the prize contest. 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