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, 5c. EDITORIAL STAFF. _ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.HAROLD 1UMSTRI.BT City Editor.c.. Saunders BUSINESS STAFF. BUSINESS MANAGER,.......BURLE D. BRAMHALL Assistant Manager ...•'.LouUe Allen Assistants.Lay Carlisle, Jeannette Calkins, Joe Denn, Gertrude Cowglll Circulation Manager..... Phone, Manager, 841 Phone, Editor, BUS Departments „ I * 5?!ot,nEtd. . .William Hazeltine Administration• " ‘ ^ 1 .V. .S™±S Ki".Sports. . .Helen Brenton General^Assignments.John Dundore. Elsie Pitzmaurlce, Richard Avison. Ross DalegleHch, Martlia Tinker, Pearl Cralne Erma Zimmer man Dorothy Dunlway, Luelle Saunders, Bert Woods, Arvo Simola, Florida Hill, Adelaide Bake. Beatrice Thurston, Lyle McCroskey. Tracy Byers Paul Reaney, Douglass Mullarky, Bill Morrison, Jacob Jacobson, Robert Case, Mellie Parker, Nell Warwick, Anne Dawson, Bynn Mc Cready and Miriam Page.__^_ IT IS ENDED. The sun goes down with this issue of The Emerald and we cross tho bar— to enter on the still rougher voyage, which tritely conceded by the college grad who has been through the gaff—to cross the bar into the cruel cold world. In retrospect we see many things ac complished the past year and the in auguration of many others, all motived by earnest belief they were for the best interests of the student body. As was the policy last year, so has The Emerald endeavored to uphold the policy this year —one of militancy. The absolute inde pendence of organizations was maintain ed in toto. We bowed to no class, clique or individual. it has cost us many friends—if such they may he counted friends. We have sacrificed friendly re lationships with others to maintain the standard of The Emerald ns an indepen dent student body organ. We do not re gret any of it. We are sorry for the an tagonisms, but they were antagonisms of necessity aud not of choice. The year lias been a panorama of di versified activity such as never before witnessed in the history of the institu tion. From a successful football season that ended with the glorious victory over Pnnsylvania on the l’asudena Field New Years Day, 14 to 0, we plunged into a second semester that saw the University grow into a rollicking lusty youngster of over a thousand student body. Still later in April saw the tremendous war uphenvnl and the resulting demoraliza tion of intercollegiate athletics, the de cimation of the student body by enlist ment for farm, army and navy, and the disorganization of class work by the tense strain of the moments. Then as a finale to the year we have witnessed the change in commencement plans, hte cancellation of the commencement play, the setting tip a week ahead of the underclass examin ations and the dismissal of the University term one week early. Truly it Iuih been a diversified year. How it has been possible to keep a bal ance and poise through It all and keep the student body the loyal body of Ore gon students imbued with the great Old Oregon Spirit that we believe lias been maintuiued is only the result of the great growth of responsibility on the campus and the evolution toward student self government. But now the vacation comes. Whatever may happen during the in terim of three months, the old Oregon Spirit must never be allowed to lag. Whatever our mistakes we must always have Oregon Spirit. What may happen before next Septem ber is difficult to predict. War's ac tivities may have ceased and they may have been intensified. But some of us leave not to return again as undergrad uates. We The Emerald sing today our awan song. The end is here. We part. Goodbye! To the members of his staff who were his loyal co-workers during the year and who so faithfully attended to their duties and helped in the making of what the editor believes has been r successful year, the editor wants to acknowledge his grateful appreciation and wisli them good luck in their future work. WAR WARBLINGS ★ j—-it (lly Lucile Saunders) Theta out in grandstand—When you want to leave do you say “class excused or “company fall out?' Ethel Waite—“Not ‘full out'—you’re thinking of the aeroplane service, my dear.” Threo Songs for Three Gangs of Initiates Alpha Kappa Psi. Hear the bo< in of the rumble drum, •See the simple sillies come, Set jaws unsmiling, stern and dumb— 'Tis Alpha lvappu I 'si. Each on n box with trembling knees, Over there ’nenth the maple trees, Each with his gab creates a breeze To Alpha Kappa Psi. lluy and Tony and Little Jake Each honor tries to take For waging war. llis way to make To Alpha Kappa I’si. Sigma Dolta Chi. In the somber black and white Of the garb most worn at night We gayly march, nil so bedight, To Sigma Delta Chi. Here we go, a campus joke. To Rex Patrons: I saw “The Bottle Imp” when shown at the Columbia theatre in Portland. It is certainly the greatest achievement of that magnificent actor Sessue Hayakawa, and the play is simply fascinating, with the added novelty of being entirely different from anything I have ever seen. a. h. McDonald, Mgr. Rex Theatre. SESSUE HAYAKAWA In the dramatic, colorful presentation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s C.reat Tale of adventure in the South Seas—The most picturesque and powerful Hawaiian drama ever screened. 0 ° •