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._
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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
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Announcements
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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.
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| The Campus Cynic ]
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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.
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