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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1921)
Oregon Daily Emerald HARRY A. SMITH, Editor. RAYMOND VESTER Manager Member Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. 4M<>ciate Editor .Lyle Bryson News Editor.Charles E. Gratke Assistant News Editors Tdma Rupert, Elisabeth Whitehouse John Dierdorff. Sports Editor.Floyd Maxwell Sports Writers Eugene Kelty Harold Shirley Art Rudd Statistician.Don D. Huntress Nigbt Editors Wilford C. Allen. Carlton K. Logan, Rcuel S. Moore, Kenneth Youel. News Service Editor ... .Jacob Jacobson Assistants Alexander Brown, Eunice Zimmerman Feature Writers .. ...E. J. H., Mary Lou Burton, Frances Quisenberry News Staff—Fred Guyon, Margaret Scott, Kay Bald, Owen Callaway, Jean Strachau, Inez King, Lenore Cram, Wanna McKinney, Raymond I). Lawrence. Margaret Carter, Florence Skinner, Emily Houston. Mary Truax, Howard Bailey Ruth Austin, Madalene Logan, Mabel Gilliam, Jessie Thompson. Hugh Stark weather, Jennie Perkins, Claire Beale, Dan Lyons, John Anderson, Mfiybeil Leavitt. Associate Manager .Webster Ruble Advertising Manager .George McIntyre Circulation Manager.A1 Krohn Staff Assistants: James Meek, Jason McCune, Elwyn Craven, Morgan Staton. Sfficial publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon 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 SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL. Some will doubtless be disappointed'in the selection made for the memorial to be erected on the campus of the Univer sity in memory of the dead heroes of Oregon. But careful thinkers will realize that the plan adopted is the most feas able, the most adequate, and the most eloquent memorial that Oregon could erect. The plan embodies a memorial court, flanked by two imposing buildings, and at the entrance of the new auditorium. So situated, the memorial could not be more impressive, being at once the physical and spiritual center of the University. The soldiers’memorial project is now well under way. A plan has been adopted, and a start has been made on the $100 000 necessary to complete the memorial. At President Camp bell’s suggestion, the 1921 commencement will be a memorial commencement, and plans to promote the project will be fur thered at that time. And what could be more fitting than that the dedication of the memorial should be inspiration of the semi-centenary of the University of Oregon in 1925? The first stage of the memorial project has been passed. Students have done their part in the selection of the idea, and are now willing and anxious to co-operate in carrying the plan to completion. The soldiers’ memorial is one of the j noblest enterprises ever undertaken by the University of Ore gon. It will go “over the top” with the same spirit which caused the heroes whom it will commemorate to give their lives for their country. With some thirty candidates out, and no berths cinched, Coach Bolder is having a difficult time selecting the team which will represent Oregon on the diamond throughout the season. Games like that of yesterday offer the coach an op portunity to find out how the candidates stand up under fire. A victory now isn’t nearly as valuable as a victory later in the season, anyway. But let’s go out to beat the Bearcats if we can today jus.t tb6 same. Madame Matzenauer is here tonight. Got your ticket yet? What Is Wrong With. American College Students? (Continued from Fagc 1.) abstract courses, but even literature is applying itself to present, day life. “I don’t find very much difference among students," said Eric \V. Allen dean of the school of journalism, in an swer to the charge that college students are indifferent. "So many Oregon stu clouts como hereof their own accord, am so many of them are working' their way through school, which is not so general ly true in the east, that there does not seem to be any fundamental truth ti this charge.” The disadvantages of, and remedy for the adolescent condition of the eollegi student of the I’nited States was point ed out by Dean Allen. American col lego students are very young. The Eli ropean student of 111 or 20 is mental!? three or four years older than the col Remember The Home Folks We have the latest in Club Letters and Stralhmore De Lux Linens. Stationery that is appreciated by all. Have you purchased your Tennis racket and shoes? Tennis Season is here and we are ready to outfit you. MMh'\ 4 ».«*«<». 4*%* » M .# uiSwO*-* f" r m .... i . ^ _ L. . -Nfa L u _ v.m -lr> THE CO-OP *---* Announcements +— --— -—* Orchestra Position Open. — There is a position open in the orchestra for a trap drummer and tympani player. Those wishing to try for the position may see Rex Underwood. Eutaxian Club. — Meeting Tuesday evening. April 19, at the bungalow at 7 o’clock. Ticket Sellers. — All students selling tickets for the Matzenauer concert should turn in their money and unsold tickets at the music building not later than noon today. lege student of this country. The rem ody, he stated, is through the eurricul uni. It must embody harder courses elimination of students who cannot keep up with the pace, and greater emphasis on the serious part of the work. The reason for the unworldly atmos phere here, according to Dean Allen, h because the University is composed onh of undergraduates and faculty members In older schools there is a graduation between these classes, for the post-grad uate (ills the gap, and by practical re search and intensity of purposf assists to abolish this atmosphere. In grad uate work the professor only directs the student in finding out what he does not know, A university should be a co-operative society where everybody is learning all the time, declared Dean Allen in speak ing of the ideals toward which the Uni versity of Oregon is working. Better faculty, longer and more substantial courses, consistent curriculum, weeding out of the wasters, complete equipment, adequate library, and proper emphasis on music and art, all go to make up a complete university in the sense that it is not composed merely of teachers and students, but a mass of people all learn ing, where the oldest professor is still learning by research and the youngest student beginning to be if teacher by helpnig to educate the whole mass. Dean Allen deplores the high school attitude in college 4teaching. “A ihgh school teacher teaches what he knows all the time, while a university professor should devote part of his time to finding out things nobody knows,” he said. That the college student lives on slang is one of the indictments of ad verse critics. Views of Oregon profes sors differ on this subject. Dean Dy ment said. “In general the student’s vo cabulary is limited, and 1 think this crit icism is generally true.” tin the other hand. Dean Allen stated that while slang may be prevalent among college students it is more generally used in the outside world. Dr. Ernest Sutherland Bates, head of the departments of rhetoric and philos ophy, an dan authority on English, ex presses a comprehensive opinion on sland. “Slang is no doubt a detriment, fo rit means a small vocabulary and it is vague, but if slang is the distinctive and individual characteristic of one college, it is permissible. Hood slang is con stantly enriching our language and we are forced to recognize it.” Dr. Bates also believes that slang is used just as much among non-collegians ns in col lege. In answering the question of what is the matter with the college man of to day. Dr. Bates strikes at the foundation of the American educational system. Misunderstanding of what education means and lack of interest in the*ideals pursued, js the trouble. “The defect of the college man is evident before he enters college,” he said. Lack of real national recognition of intellectual and artistic values is the fundamental defect in the educational system. “Education is not formal learn ings; a mere degree does not signify edu [cation; the true sense of education lies in internal values.” The ability of stu dents to think for themselves is not de veloped in the elementary and high schools, and not in college as it should be .said Dr. Bates. Ordinary criticisms of college men and colleges themselves are not important If not indicative of the general scheme of education and social conditions back of them, they are futile and not to the point. The charges that the college man is indifferent, vain, egotistical, prone to useless argument, and uses slang freely, are, in the opinion of Dr. Bates, true, but they are only temporary character istics of youth, and will be found in any young man of the corresponding age. “Many students would be better off if they were net here,” is the unusual statement of Dr. Bates. “Unless they arc fitting themselves for professional life or the business worldd, most stu dents will profit more from direct ex perience with tlieir chosen profession or trade than from college.” This state ment, explained Dr. Bates, applies to those students who have no desire to master thoroughly one subject. “Bet ter be a successful farmer than a medio cre college student,” said Dr. Bates, al though he recognizes the social benefits of a college education. Speaking of the loafers in college ho said: “Wasting time is not getting an education—I be lieve in universal education but a state university cannot, carry the undue bur den of students who arc not fitted to at-1 tend. The solution is trade schools, and study groups of men all interested in the same subject.” Individual guidance of tin- sf , .. • . student i< the prime aim and should be the function of the ideal teacher hr** T> . . uler> believes Dr. Bates. Any attack on the ,< . , StU^PTife is an attack on the teachers, m ' remedy is the removal of the rostral t' now placed on the teachers so that n may better carry out their duties ' "That college students are L ,, whole, indifferent to the world • ^ them is an exploded theory." both Fox, dean of women. "Iv ]t 1Za' true, in a measure, of the student t western institutions. 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