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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1920)
Oregon Daily Emerald HARRY A. SMITH, Editor. RAYMOND E. VESTER, Manager. Member Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. Ansort&te Editor .Lyle Bryson News Editor .Charles E. Gratkfi Assistant News Editors Dorris Sikes Velma Rupert Sports Editor.Elo.vd Maxwell Sport. Writers Pierre Mead, Eugene Kelty, Edwin Hoyt Night Editors Stanley C. Eisman Carlton K. Logan . Heuel Moore. News Service Editor....Jacob Jacobson Assistant.Eunice Zimmerman _s_i Special Writers: Mary Lou Burton, Frances QuixTjnberry, Elisubotli .1. Whiteliouse News Staff:—Harold Moore. Fred Guyon, Inez King, Margaret Scott, Ken neth Youel, Owen Calloway, John Anderson, Martha Westwood, Jean Strachan, Lenore Cram, Doris Parker, Margaret Carter, Phil Brogan. Florence Skinner, Family Houston, Harry Ellis. John Dierdorff, Pauline Coad. Howard Bailey, line feed Bailey, Arthur Rudd, Ruth Austin, Clarence Anderson, Mabel Gilliam, Jes sie Thompson, Hugh Starkweather. Jennie Perkins. Associate Manager ...'.Webster Ruble Advertising Managers .George McIntyre, A1 Woertcndyke Circulation Manager.Ogden Johnson Office Assistant.Marion Weiss Collections ..T. Warren Kays Staff Assistants:—Randal Jones, Eugene Miller, Lyle Johnson, Jason McCune,1 Traogene Letcher, Ben Reed. Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Entered in the post office at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Sub scription rates .$2.25 per year. By term, 75c. Advertising rates upon application. PHONES: Campus office—055. Downtown office—1200. THE IRONY OF FLUNKS. It may bo that several students whose amiable presence we now enjoy will'not be with us next term. It may be that a new crowd will compose the crew who inhabit the library steps, and the curb opposite. And it may be that it will dawn j on a few more students that the builder of the University li brary really designed that building for study. For sad as it* may seem, there are always those who fail to realize until too late-that they came to the University to learn. The ax of the faculty is not wielded often, but when it falls, those students who persist in adorning the loafing place in stead of the study place should be the ones who feel it. Those academic greybeards who rejoice triumphantly when stu dents who have taken too active a part in student activities feel the keen edge of this faculty ax, have our sympathy. It is not those who do participate in student activities who should rightly suffer at the end of the term, but those who persist in spending their time in doing nothing. A! man can be admired if he really works at almost any thing, but the world has nothing but scorn for the habitual loafer. Rome students feel that their calling in college is to apply themselves diligently to their studies and nothing else. It is a bit of irony that the leaders in University life who may mount up to community, state or national leaders, are often the ones who “flunk out” in college. And it is still more of a paradox that the ax of the faculty is wielded indis criminately on student leaders on whom the faeultv them selves rely for the safe conduct of student affairs of the Uni versity^_ * —---•* Announcements *-*-:-* Oregon Club.—Hi" slag mixer, mens gym. tonight. 8 i>. m. Oregon Club of Women’s League will meet .Monday, December ti at the bunga low. All women not affiliated with any residential organization nr" urged to be ! present. Those who wish to do so may bring their lunch at 0 o'eloek. The busi ness meeting will begin promptly at 7. followed by a social hour. Masons—There will he a meeting of the Craftsmen next Tnesdny^evening, .0:15, at the Osburn. Notice—If boy loaning keys will eall 550 lie may receive same. THE RANDOM REPORTER. (Daily Questions and their Answers) Today’s question: How many courses are you going to flunk tins term'? Frances McGill, ’23—’I don’t kiuw, but Jimmie’s laying for me." Guy Sacre. ’22—"Oh. about a dozen. Why?” Martha Westwood, ’22—"Oh. dear, how many ?” Wilbur Hoyt, ’22—"Absolutely none.” Lenore Cram, '23—"Everything but journalism.” Ralph Couch, ’23—"So far it’s been bad enough; I hate to think about exams." WHAT THE OLD GRADS ARE DOING. [Mark Bailey, who graduated from Ore gon in 18SS and who received an M. A. degree at Harvard in '00 i.s now profes sor of Latin and Spanish in the Kalama zoo College in Michigan. While at Ore gon he was valedictorian of his class and j belonged to the Laurean Debating So ciety. Professor Bailey is the author of “The Latin Verb and its Uses.” “Latin Prepositions,” and “Beginner’s Book in Latin,” and is associate editor of the "United Editors Encyclopedia.” lie was at. one time professor of an cient languages at the U. of W. and he taught the same subject at Tacoma for several years. STUDIO NOT FOR VISITS. Professor A. .11. Seliroff has been bothered several times lately by students interrupting him in-his private studio at ; his home. The other day three students came in and asked to look at his exhibi tion. lie was very busy at the time and was bothered for an hour by foolish questions, lie is on the campus in his office in the architecture building until -1:00 o’clock every day and can be inter viewed there without interrupting the work lie is doing off of the campus. PUIS HOLD LEAD IN CHAMPIONSHIP RACE (Continued from Pago 1.) the center of the hoop tieing the score with S. A. E. In the five minute play off which followed, Clerin for die win ners showed a sudden hurst of speed an nexing two field goals which swung the game in their favor. Coach George M. Bolder says that .a special effort will be made to complete the doughnut, schedule next week. He is uncertain whether or not it will he pos sible to play any games during exam ination week. However any games that are left over will he played the first of nexl term. First call. Captain Eddie Durno sounds first call for varsity basketball practice. First practice will take place at 4:00 p. m. hi the men’s gym, Saturday afternoon. It is desired that all men wishing to try out. hi there at tint: time. A display of genuine Navajo blankets Saturday, December 4. Phone 11S4. Grace INI. Peck, 412 Fust l.“>th Street. Phone 141 City Messenger Service Messengers 39 E. 7th J. C. GRANT, Mgr. r Roy Curtis Makes Your Watch Keep Time. Artistic Kngraving (M Hast 9th. JIM, THE SHOE DOCTOR —Better come in and get better acquainted with our method of merchandising. —We can save you a lot of money on your every-day needs. tot! Bell Theater * Springfield ONE DAY ONLY—S UNDAY, DECEMBER 5th, Continuous Show from 2:30 to 11:00 p. m. Featuring Black Face Comedians, Singers and Dancers Mr. M. H. Milo, principle fun maker, late come-' dian with A1 G. Field’s Greater Minstrels, and Miss Olive Milo, positively the only lady play ing cornet and piano a t the same time. Band and Orchestra This attraction played Portland for seven days to standingroom only. p , ~ * 1 he Minstrels will appear in cony motion with a 0-rfceJ eon. *iy drama. . ' • “Silk Husbands and Calico Wives” Featuring HOU SE PETERS i A two and a half-hour Show. Admissio n, 25c and 55c BEFORE 1894 every chemist thought he knew wHat air is. “A mechanical mixture of moisture, nitrogen and. oxygen, with rtraces of hydrogen and carbon dioxide," he would explain. There was so much oxygen and nitrogen in a given sample that he simply determined the amount of oxygen present and assumed the rest to be nitrogen. One great English chemist, Lord Rayleigh, found that the nitro " gen obtained from the air was never so pure as that obtained from some compound like ammonia. What was the1'"impurity”? In co-operation with another prominent chemist, Sir William Ramsay, it was discovered in an entirely new gas—"argon.^ Later came the discovery of other rare gases in the atmosphere. T'he air we breathy contains about a dozen gases and gaseous compounds. This study of the air is an example of research in pure science. Rayleigh and Ramsay had no practical end in view—merely the dis covery of new facts. A few years ago the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company began to study the destruction of filaments in exhausted lamps in order to ascertain how this happened. It was a purely scientific undertaking. It was found that the filament evaporated -—boiled away, like so much water. Pressure will check boiling or evaporation. If the pressure within a boiler is very high, it will take more heat than ordinarily to boil the water. Would a gas under pressure prevent filaments from boiling away? If so, what gas? It must be a gas that will not combine chemically with the filament. The filament would burn in oxygen; hydrogen would conduct the heat away too rapidly. Nitrogen is a useful gas in this case. It does form a few compounds, however. Better still is argon. It forms no compounds at all. Thus the modem, efficient, gas-filled lamp appeared, and so argon, which seemed the most useless gas in the world, found a practical application. Discover new facts, and their practical application will take care of itself. And the discovery of new tacts is the primary purpose of the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company. Sometimes years must elapse before the practical application of a discovery becomes apparent, as in the case of argon; sometimes a practical application follows from the mere answering of a “theoret ical question, as in the case of a gas-filled lamp. But no substantial progress can be made unless research is conducted for the purpose of discovering new facts.