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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1921)
Oregon Daily Emerald HARRY A. SMITH Editor. RAYMOND E. VE5TER Manager Member Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. Lyle Bryson News Editor Charles E. Gratke -H rijs<rrfTit« Editor Assistant News Editors Velma Rupert,. Elisabeth Whitehouse John Dierdorlf. •porta Editor ...Floyd Maxwell Sports Writers Pugeue Kelty Harold Shirley Art Rudd Night Editors Wilford C. Allen. Carlton K. Logan, Reuel S. Moore, Kenneth Youel. Statistician.Don D. Huntress __—-1 Feature Writers .E. J. H., Mary Lou Burton, Fiances Quisenberry News Staff—Fred Guyon, Margaret Scott, Pearl Harris, Owen Callaway, .Tean Stracban, Iuez King, Lenore Cram, Wanna McKinney, Raymond D. 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"-1 '■ "'1 THE CAUSE OF BETTER MINDS. “I have a distinct recollection of 75 years of public opin ion,; and every decade has regularly been alarmed at the deter ioration of their minds and their morals and the fearful effect it; will have upon the future of the country,” says Chauncey M. Depew, 87 years old, but still one of the famous minds of the country. “ And every decade, in my opinion, has marked an improve ment in the minds and morals of the young,” he continues, “because they have been getting an increasingly better educa tion.” It is to be assumed that Mr. Depew refers to higher education, since the progress there has been much more notice able than in the elementary or secondary educational institu tions. Occasionally, sometimes often, “self-made men, selt acclaimed graduates of the “University of Hard Knocks” arise up and shed copious tears over the degeneration of the college man and woman. The loyalty of these “self-made” men to their own alma mater cannot be equaled, expressed as it generally is in criticism of higher educational institutions of all kinds. Anyone who has risen to what might he called “success” through his own endeavors has an unalienable right to be proud of that fact, and even occasionally to boast of it. But college graduates who have earned their own education through one of our American colleges have the same right, and there are a great many who have. Because they rejected the curriculum offered by this “University of Hard Knocks” for that, of some real educational institution, they become the subjects of this occasional wave of criticism. That college men are making good everywhere is not a I theory but a fact. The leading citizens of most communities, the majority of the men whose names appear in “Who’s Who,” in fact, most of the successful men of the country are college < graduates. It is admitted by most of these men that the col lege education which they received was one of the big factors in their success. The progress of civilization is co-ordinate with the expan sion of education. The minds and morals of young men and women are improving as civilization advances and educational facilities expand. Mr. Depew strikes the keynote of the crit icism of the college student, when in referring to better educa-! tion he says: “This brings about more independence, which is what frightens people—but at the same time it creates a bet ter armor of protection against the dangers of independence.” Students are somewhat back ward about applying for posi tions.on activity committees for themselves or their friends. Positions on these committees are a great deal more important than most people realize. Each committee will make a recom mendation for a budget for the activity which they represent which will in all likelihood effect the final A. S. IT. 0. budget! In tlie case of sports, they may influence, the arranging-’ of1 schedules. Thursday noon is the deadline for recommenda tions. 1 Communications ABOLISH JUNIOR WEEK-END? To the Editor: The recent raining of the standards of University scholarship brings up the question of just how far the students may be expected to go in the matter of outside work. The general concensus of opinion among students now seems to be that too much is being asked of them. One of the most effective ways of cutting down on this outside activity seems to be embodied in the suggestion that Junior Week-end be abolished. It is admitted that this four-day period ne cessitates much advance planning, much work at the time, and a rest of several days before things can again begin to run smoothly. Shortly after Junior Week end, final examinations come, so from the middle of May until the end of the year the work is a continual grind for the average student. Besides imposing the actual scholar ship requirements the University also asks thut the students take care of the guests during Junior Week-end, make all the iilans for their cure, finance anil en tire proposition and in short give up their time for at least a week to tins work. The same t*?pe of ntside activity was required at. Homecoming 'Week-end, and the work asked on the millnge bill cam paign, the entertainment of the legisla tors, and of editorial conventions, all tend to take study time. While all of these things make for a better Univer sity, the burden falls on the students. They, being already burdened by their class work, give a good part of their Announcements Crossroads.—Will meet Thursday at 7 :.°>0 p. m. Political Science Club.—The political Science Club will meet Thursday evening in Professor Gilbert’s room in the libra ry at 7:30. Washington Club.—Important meeting of the Washington club Thursday even ing, 7 o’clock, in Oregon building. Plans for near future to be discussed. t Pi Lambda Theta.—Important business meeting Thursday, 7:30 p. in., club rooms, Woman’s building. Bring pencil, paper and dues. Frosh Class Meeting.—Election of of ficers for the Sophomore year of the class of 1924 will be held tonight at 5 o’clock in Villard hall. Every frosh is urged to attend and vote. Commerce Classes.—All 10 o’clock commerce classes today will be excused to attend the special commerce assembly at 10 in Professor Howe’s room in Vil ! lard hall. A check of attendance will be taken at the assembly. Y. W. C. A.—A day at Seabeck will be the order of the regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A. this afternoon at 4:45. All of the girls are urged to attend, for this is to be the best meeting of the year Chemists’ Club.—Meeting tonight in McClure hall at 7:15, wijth Dbctors Shinn and Williams as the principal speakers. I Mask and Buskin.—Meeting at 5 p. m.. Friday, ,May 20, upstairs in tlie library Very important. Phi Theta Kappa.—Meeting Thursday at 5 o’clock, Committee room, third floor, Woman’s building. Phi Delta Kappa.—Banquet, at the An chorage Friday night, May 27, at 0 o’clock. Public Lecture.—N. F. Macduff, su pervisor of the Cascade National Forest will give an illustrated lecture on for ests and their preservation, at 8 o’clock this morning, in room 25, Dendy hall. All interested are invited to attend. Commerce fraternities. — Phi Theta Kappa, women’s commerce fraternity, is giving a luncheon today at the An chorage for members of the four com merce fraternities and for W. D. Whit comb. Arthur Berridge and Philip Han ney. time to the outside work and when they come before the probation committee are dropped from the rolls because they had the interest of the University at heart to such an extent that they were willing to give time from their other work to aid in its betterment, and so neglected their studies. The time has come when a change must be made. The scholarship com mittee plan an added tightening of the regulations next fall. Either a great preponderanee of the time must be de voted to studies, or many will be forced to drop out. One of the logical places to cut seems to be in the matter of Junior Week-end If the University is going to require so much in the matter of grades, it seems only fair that it should provide its own attractions to draw the high school pu pils to Oregon. | The matter of expense is also to be I considered. The average cost of enter tainment in the fraternity houses for this period is about three dollars per man. In the sororities it is a larger sum. While this does not seem to be a large amount, many college men cannot afford it. Beside this sum each man usually pays a dollar for the senior play a dollar for the track kmeet and a dollar and a half for the junior prom, bringing 1 the cost up to about seven dollars. Many students will object to doing away with such an old tradition as Junior Week-end, but if they stop to consider the difference between the actual benefit derived, and the amount of time and money spent they will see that the sug gestion has its advantages. The faculty has beguu to realize that the conditions at Oregon involve hard ships and are willing to abolish the Junior Week-end if the students are willing to consent. It is a matter worthy of consideration by all. —A VICTIM. CAMPUS 849 E. 13th. A. C. Read Photographer Telephone 1393 CAMPUS PICTURES FOR GRADUATION PRESENTS Home of the big campus memory book. Students in Pre-Engineering Can Qualify A fellowship has been created in the school of mines, engineering and chemis try of Columbia University, according to Dr. A. E. Caswell, of the physics de partment, of the University of Oregon,: for which a man from Oregon may qual ify after lie has finished the three years ppre-engineering course for which plans were completed this year. This fellow ship amounts to about $350, or the cost, of tuition, and offers two opportunities to the student—he would get his B. A. degree from Oregon after he had com pleted one year’s work at Columbia, and at the end of his sixth year, or three years after he left Oregon, he would re ceive an engineering degree from Co iumDia. It has been the custom of the Colum bia seliool of mines, engineering and chemistry to offer fellowships for the highest type of work in this line after three years of an academic course in arts has been completed in Columbia college or in some other approved col lege. This year, said Dr. Caswell, when Oregon worked out its pre-engineering program, Columbia accepted it as en tirely satisfactory and equivalent to the Columbia college course. 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