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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1921)
Oregon Daily .bmerald HARRY A. SMITH, Editor. RAYMOND VESTER Manager Member Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. Lyle Bryson News Editor ....... Charles E. Gratke opiate Editor Assistant News Editors Velma Rupert, Elisabeth Whitehouse John Dierdorff. Sports Editor.Floyd Maxwell Sports Writers Sfagcne Kelty Harold Shirley Art Rudd Statistician Don D. Huntress Night Editors Wilford C. Allen. Carlton K. Logan, Reuel S. Moore, Kenneth Youel. News Service Editor ... .Jacob Jacobson Assistants Alexander*Brown'7 Eunice Zimmerman Feature Writers .B. J. H., Mary Lou Burton, Frances Quisenberry News Staff—Fred Guyon, Margaret Scott, Kay Bald, Owen Callaway, Jean Strachgn, Inez King, Lenore Cratn, Wanna McKinney, Raymond D. Lawrence Herbert Seheidt, Florence Skinner, Emily Houston, Mary Truax, Howard Bailey Ruth, Austin, Madtflene Logan, Mabel Gilliam, Jessie Thompson, Hugh Stark weather, Jennie Perkins, Claire Beale, Dan Lyons, John Anderson, Maybelle Leavitt . . Associate Manager .Webster Ruble Advertising Manager .George McIntyre Circulation Manager A1 Krohn Staff Assistants: James Meek, Jason McCune, Elwyn Craven, Mongan Staton. Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, lamed 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 Qampus office—655. PHONES: Downtown office—1200 AIMS IN COLLEGE EDUCATION. “ We don’t know why we are teaching students; and they know wo don’t know,’’ is the somewhat startling statement made by Frank Jewett Mather, holder of a professorship in aft at. Princeton, before a recent meeting ol Phi Beta Kappa. While restricting himself to. institutions of the Atlantic seaboard, in New England, and in the middle western states, Mr. Mather contenlds that the aim of these colleges is not defi nite. He believes that students and alumni went the college to become a finishing school. Liberal education is a luxury, asserts Mr. Mather, “prop erly accessible only to a few who command either exceptional leisure or exceptional abilities.’’ He contends that an educar tioii, more properly a college education, should not be made to compete with the finishing schools, the preparatory schools, or the professional schools. It is the infusion that lowers the standard of our college work, since it is the poor students and not the gooldl ones that set the pace, he declares. A degree voluntarily taken after two years of work, if there was no promise that the work of the last two years would be honor, according to Mr. Mather, would be a “fixed and rea sonable treaty of peace between faculties and their alumni and students to stop an undignified running fight.” The group system was an attempt to make the elective sys tem fool-proof, but Mr. Mather criticises it by saving that “students are no more intelligently choosing groups than they di/d' single courses.” Such reasoning appears sound, it being unlikely that at 18 or 19- the student has clearly marked intel lectual preferences. There aren’t new studies, according to Mr. Mather, who says that the great divisions of studies have not changed since Aristotle. All of which appears an intellectual criticism of the mod ern educational tendencies. We still feel the effect of those educators who desired to graduate students prepared to im mediately make practical use of their education. Education for culture’s sake was forgotten. It was natural that the col lege education, the liberal education, was shoved into the back ground. Mr. Mather’s criticisms show signs of an awakening. GIRLS STMT TENNIS SERIES DURING WEEK First Rounds Played Off; Var sity Team to be Picked. The first rounds in the varsity tennis tournitui^nt and the Hound Kobin series were played off Inst wefek, and the second round in each will be finished this week The varsity team will lie picked by n process of elimination in the varsity tournament, and (lie class teams will in ebosru by Miss Waterman ami Miss Perkins from among tin1 winners in the Hound Robiu series. The winner of tin tennis racket which is awarded on field day, will be picked from among the vie tors of this series. The results of the varsity tournament are as follows: Madeline Slothoom de feated Alice Evans, 0-3, t»-ll; May Lind ley, Naomi Uobhins, 0-3, 0-1; Sarah Mar tin, Marianne IVhnhaui, 15-.'}, (i d: Maude Oraham, Mnurine Elrod, 0-2, ti-d; Alice Gnrretson, Wave Lesley, 0-4, 0-4; and Carolyn Cannon, Lois Eldridge, 0-0, 0-0 The results of the round robin tourna ment are: Hetty Pride defeated Helen Cooper, 7-5, 0-0, 7-5; Leah Oreenbaum Echo Balderee, 0-2, 0-2; Jennie Noreen Ellen McVeigh, 0-4, 0-2; Helen Pougher ty, Margaret Hussell, 0-1, 0-0; and Kuth Hayman, Mildred Hall, 6-0. 6-1. FACULTY WILL NOT DON CUP ID GOWN Plan Dropped for This Year; May Later be Adopted. At !i mooting of tho faculty last Thurs day it was decided that tho faculty mom hors would not wear caps and gowns at commencement this year. A committee was appointed to look into tho mnttei further, so that next fall tho advisability of instituting tho custom may ho definite ly decided. The law school was given permission ti| revise its system of grading for yeai courses. This means that at the end of the first and second terms the student will he given a* provisional grade which will he superseded by the final grade at the end of the year’s work. It was also decided that in order earn two degrees, the student must: re main for another year after graduation In some cases the work so overlaps that by a judicious selection of courses a stu dent would he eligible for two degrees Although this situation has never arisen it was considered best to have the mat ter settled. 'live committee which was appointed to consider the possible revision of the honor system reported that it was pro gressing in its investigation, hut that it was not yet ready to give a full report TRY TO PHIL-UP Opposite The Co-op Store Announcements +---—+ French Club.—Will meet tonight a! 7:30 in the Y. W. C. A. bungalow. Spanish Club.—Meets Wednesday at 7:15 at the bungalow. Election of offi cers and discussion of important matters good program in commemoration of Cer vantes. Music. All members, especially those newly elected, urged to be pres ent. Also dues must be paid. Junior Class Meeting.—There will be a junior class meeting this afternoon al the Y. M. C. A. hut at 5 o’clock. Condon Club.—The regular program meeting of the Condon club will be held Wednesday evening! May 11, at 7:45 in room 4, Johnson hall. Dr. E. L. Ballard will speak on “The Ancient Shorelines oi Oregon.’’ Everyone interested in science is urged to attend. Home Economics Club.—Important meeting this Tuesday afternoon, May 10 at 5 o’clock in Mary Spiller hall. Crossroads.—Will meet Wednesday in stead of Tuesday evening, as was an nounced. Advertising Talk.—Mr. F. II. McMa hon, director of Merchandising Bureau of the Oregon Journal, will address Pro fessor Thacher’s 11 o’clock advertising class this morning. Alpha Kappa Psi.—Luncheon today at Anchorage, at noon. Crossroads. — Meeting Wednesday night. Theta Kappa Psi.—Meeting tonight at 7:.‘{0 in room .'10,-library. Lemon Punch Publishing Society.— There will be a short but very important meeting tonight in the Lemon Punch ufr fice at; S o’clock. *—--* | The Campus Cynic ] *•-<-* THE STATE OF CANDIDACY. Editor: Citrus O. Peeling, candidate for third assistant keeper of the tobaccc plug for the first assistant type scramb ler of a well known daily paper on the campus (the same paper and the same functionary will doubtless strike out : few syllables and vowels from this arti cle. substituting therefor a miscellaneous collection of dollar marks, x's and ci’s) Citrus O. Peeling, we repeat, is not what he is. I mean to say that Citrus ha> come fresh recently, with a copious quantity of the milk of human kindness You wouldn’t know the old boy. Dnilng this strenuous week of vote snaring he has manufactured the most benevolent and angelic of smlies, tin gladdest of glad, glad hands, and above all he seems profoundly interested in mj health. Oh. of course, I know that In is interested in other people? s 'Well being. yet I feel that should I become indisposed or die off suddenly he woulc retire to some secluded corner of tin library stacks and ruin thousands of per fectly good and dusty volumes of litera tore with a torrential lachrymatory in undation. He is profoundly interested 1 repeat, in my past, present and future welfare. I ran across Citrus yesterday noon ii a well known establishment given ovei to the purveying of comestibles am fluids of the sort that freeze the stomacl and make the nose a veriuillion hue. “Why, how are you.” said Citrus, ris ing to his feet eagerly and falling on tin upper part of my spinal column with wilt abandon. “IIow are you? How’s youi health? Come over and sit with me. Yot must. I insist. I haven’t seen you sinct this morning.” Having paralyzed my sensibilities In an evenly distributed barrage of musl bombs, well filled with deadly hot aii gas bombs, he led me over to his table Dimly ■ I recall ordering something t< eat; what it: was, I dor£t know; every thing was submerged in vast, undulating gurgling, pealing waves of sound, eominf from some part of his head. Through ; haze of steam arising from a bowl o soup in front of him I vaguely saw hi: sympathetic, friendly face. I thought i heard him crying, but upon closer obser vation T saw that the sorrowful nois< was caused by the sobbing, gusty draught: of soup he absorbed from his spoon Ip the vacuum cleaner method (you know what T mean—get all you can on tin first suction, swooping back for a secont time if there be any segments or glob ules which resist nbsorbtion). “You know,” he said during a brie intermission in which he came up foi air, “1 have always been interested it Collar Cluett.Peabody (,Co. Inc.Troy. N.Y. your lino of work. Tell me about it.” "I like it myself,” I said modestly and with due reserve. He resumed his food absorption. As he ate I seemed to see kindliness, good fel lowship seep out all over him. When he finished his lunch he left me with some thing like a tear in is eye. Instinctively I thought of all the great tragedies of literature—Evangeline being separated from her lowly Acadian home, Pericles banished from Athens, Uncle Tom being torn from his family—a sob welled up and spilled over my tonsils as I thought of the anguish this fellow was undergoing in parting from me. “Goodbye,” he sobbed, as he turned away from me and staggered down the street. “Goodbye.” T sobbed unrestrainedly “Goo’bye-I’ll see you this afternoon/* The last I saw as I turned the corner was the dejected figure of Citrus lean ing up against a telephone pole, sobbing as if his heart Would break. (Watch for expose tomorrow—great scandal to be revealed!) scandal to be revealed!) —E. .T. IL i$15-00 Given for First Place; j Ashcraft Second. Velma Farnham is the winner of the $15 prize, and Lettoy Ashcraft, of the $10 prize in the advertising contest, which has just closed. The papers of Arne i Rae, Mae Ballack and Eugene Short won honorable mention. Miss Farnham is a freshman in the University from Sheridan, Oregon. She is the only freshman in the advertising class, and was admitted on special rec ommendations, as freshmen are not ns a rule permitted to enroll in this work She is also the youngest member of the class. Mr. Ashcraft is a junior from Ash land. Oregon. He is secretary-treasurei of the newly organized advertising club The prizes for this contest were given by the Botsford. Constantine & Tyler advertising Company, of Portland, and were given for the best first and second solution of an advertising problem pre scribed by them. This problem consisted of the preparation of two advertisements for canned salmon. One was to be in colors, to occupy a full page in the La dies' Home Journal, advertising the best grade of salmon; the other was to ad vertise a cheaper grade to appear in a foreign language paper in New York. “In my opinion,” said Professor W. F G. Thacher. “the problems were unusual ly difficult, as difficult as will, in all probability, ever be submitted to the most expert copy writer.” There were 10 entries in the contest Besides the winners, those contesting were Mae Ballack. Arthur Fong, Pearl Harris. R. C. Hillyard, Floyd Maxwell Arne Rae, Eugene Short and Morgan Staton. Waterman Fountain Pens f er the Graduate At Schwarzschild’s Book Store Wing’s Market Quality, Service and Low Prices. Fresh and Cured Meats. Phone 38. 675 Willamette Street if^——MBaa——p—rt—Ba8aaaBag»»»— Schoble Hats SERVICE-—built in with.quality materials and expert workmanship. 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