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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1922)
Oregon Daily Emerald Member Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association _ Floyd Maxwell Webster Ruble Editor Manager ~Offici"ji| publication of "the Aaoociated Student* of the University of Oregon. issued <*»'*» except Sunday and Monday, during the college year.___ Kenneth Youel Associate News Editor ....Wil/ord Allen News Editor Daily News Editors Margaret Scott Ruth Austin John Anderson Arthur Rudd Wanna McKinney Sports Editor .- Edwin Hoyt Sport* Writers—Kenneth Cooper, Harold Shirley, Edwin Fraae*. Night Editors Earle Voorhiea George H. Godfrey Marvin Blaha Fred Michelson Dan Lyons News Service Editor .Alfred Erickson Radio Service Editor—.Don Woodward Exchanges . Eunice Zimmerman | Statistician ....— Doris Sikes Special Writers—Mary Lou Burton, John Lierdorff, Ernest J. Haycox. Society—Catherine Spall, Mildred Burke. Society—wuwnnB opcm, inuunru n -• News Staff—Nancy Wilson, Mabel Gilham, Owen Callaway, Florin* Packard, Jean Strachan, Madal.ne Logan, Jessie Thompson. 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Subscription rate*, PHONES Business Manager 961 Editor 666 Dally New* Editor Thla laaua John Anderson Night ('.ditor This Io»ue Dan Lyons The Place of Research. “We need then in our faculty more virile, upstanding, keen men, —men with vision and imagination, who feel the desire to teach in their bones and who have chosen their profession with a view to service. Let those of the faculty who can, add to the store of human knowledge, but let us not doubt or waver in our belief that our prime duty is to teach, guide* encourage, inspire.” This quotation appeared in the Yale Alumni weekly and v as directed against certain conditions then under fire at the great eastern university. At the University of Oregon research—the ad ding to “the store of human knowledge”— was impossible or prac tically so up until these recent days when the university has had more than holes in its pocket. Last year it made its first appropria tion for research, $10,000, and by so doing placed itself on a level with the other great educational centers where it is believed to be essential to do more than teach. For it is in the educational centers and in laboratories made possible by graduates of these centers that there will be made the great discoveries which add to the store of human knowledge and to the rounding of human happiness. The Yale weekly is right to this extent—that the prime purpose of a university faculty is to teach. We are beginning to realize what it. means here at Oregon to have a complete and widely respected teaching staff of a calibre which was not uniformly possible in the old days under limited appropriat ions. We know now what it means; we like it and would not have it otherwise. lbit if Oregon is to become one of the country’s great and dis tinctive universities and it is headed lor that distinction it must do its share in adding to the store of human knowledge, in joining in tlu> work as parcelled out by the national research council in solv ing the great and the little problems yet unsolved. For to do that is to show great vision to aid in piling up the grains of sand which must be gathered before the foundation of a complete human hap piness can be laid. The Dull and Inane Not Wanted. “Then* is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labour of thinking," once remarked Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is the business of this I’uiversitv to stimulate thought and intelleetual ac tivity among the students. One of the best means of so doing is to present an intelleetual leader or some person who holds a high place in worldly affairs, to the students at the weekly assembly. It is not right to expect students to attend assemblies when the speaker is not a good one, when he is not a leader, a top notehcr. Let us have men who can provide intellectual inspiration and stimula tion. For instance, the Kmerald would like to see men of the caliber of 1 )r. \lfred Zimmerti speak at .assemblies; not some lesser light who might have been secured on the spur id the moment. If the Luiversity can bring the highest type of speakers it will be doing an inestimable service to the students a service which the students have a right ti* expect. Then too, much local talent could well ho displayed at the assemb !v period One of the most enjoyable periods of the year was the hour devoted to Mu l’hi Kpsilou. There are many organizations on the ,inipus which could do equally as well. Why not have some originality expressed m the arrangement of assemblies‘j Let its make them vivid, interesting, sparkling, instead of the dull, inane sessions now common EDITORIALLY CLIPPED ECONOMY AMONG STUDENTS AM r< Wl'tM huts ;t r lit or fill ;.;i' • WIum. .!r|vw uU»n.:. " > rovnr t Hu- in . ni* i.-. nt person w !•.* i is - t t \t t\ tit In ; wo ha\ «* a w t > fV«*M n <*t ’ hoaits toward the jolly inM;\ ’ ' w ’ o swoops at! ol the *>' ’ t-htv K • •1 •' land :: n ■ i s \ s. " \ ■ mil -I t I - ' in\ »rent " W ^jood t lot* I ' and although \\ spt‘:vl in a fri t'dlv ml dciuonatie whn ' KttV:i!cr«i \\«* fi't'm our ttieuds ’ l'ur t-tints if posMlde. If wr attend a'1 of til ;'«» M theatrical perform in . »-s. musical ami student and athletic even's entertain royally at dinners, ami m \ ■ i jt .’ m away a fried who asks for a loan '■ " «* glow with eon\ iv iality and w e } a large following among the student j body. 1 I'lu- question is, is it our own n .»m (t at wo are so lax ish with’ Milli' i ill's* s. - s and daughti rs haxo a right j ‘ * scatter their dollars, but often :>’■ 1 ’\amiuation of faeN will show th t t' i young oroesus at school is bin • ii l ortod b\ flit* fruits of a boot bln k :,a establishment at h mo. whereas * i ’ in clothes man max have a back ronm! of s adits au>i ancestral banquet halls. If oil.' makes his own money, it is his to spend until he runs through it, but when father is clerking at th bank until a1! hours of the night mother is taking in roomers, and the ehildren are \nvrin:’ their old shoes and patched rompers to "send our hoy -— --— BULLETIN BOARD Notice* will be printed in this column for two issues only. Copy mu3t be in the jffice by 4 :30 o'clock of the day on which it is to be published and must be limited to Z5 words. Hood River Students—All Hood River students are especially invited to at tend a supper at the Congregational church at 6 o’clock Sunday evening, February 12, at which Rev. W. H. Bodily of Hood River will be present. Dean Bovard will apeak at the young people’s meeting, Central Presbyter ian church, Sunday evening at 6:30. His subject will be “Physical Edu cation as a Life Calling.’’ University Vesper Service—Sunday af ternoon at 4:30 in the Methodist church. Excellent musical program. Address by Rev. Wm. H. Boddy of Hood River. Men’s Oregon Club—Important meeting Monday, 7:15, in Y. M. C. A. hut. All men wishing to attend the Oregon club dance February 18 should attend this meeting. Oregon Club of Women’s League—Pot luck supper at 6 o’clock Monday at the Bungalow. Bible discussion at 7:39. | Phi Mu Alpha—Meeting Sunday at 2:00 p. m., Chapter room of music build ing. Good program. Junior Class—Important meeting Tues day afternoon, 4:15 o’clock, Villard hall. Bible discussion at the Bungalow at 7:30 Monday. Mrs. Bruce Giffen is leader. All town girls invited. Botanical Pedagogy class will meet on Monday as usual. to college,” the student should remem ber that if he is a spendthrift under such conditions, he is a merciless ex tortioner. Rich or poor, economy is a laudable practice under any circumstances; it is a fortune founder and a character builder, and for a college student, is valuable training for the world of hard knocks which he enters from the happy, haphazard freedom of the campus.— Daily Illini. Make Reservations—For that trip to Portland this week-end now at the Y Hut. See Mrs. Donnelly.—Adv. IDAHO STUDENT COUNCIL i University of Idaho, Moscow, Feb. 10 (P. I. N. S.)—The student council, re cently installed by the student body. I received official recognition by the faculty at their last meeting. Accord ing to the present plans, the council will be made up of five members of the faculty and ten students selected from the different classes. MONTANA WINS FROM IDAHO University of Idaho, Moscow, Feb. 10.—The Northwest hopes of the Idaho Vandals received a severe setback when Montana took the second of a two-game series, 25-22, on the Montana floor. Idaho won a hard fought game, 23-22, the previous night but could not repeat. Hostilities between the two teams will be opened on the Idaho floor late this week and campus followers are looking for an exciting series. Btiinti read the classified ada; try usinf them. Start the day right with Dental Creme and Mouth Wash Get the Cool clean Klenzo Taste a id healthy teeth W. A. Kuykendall Inc. THE REXALL STORE Campus —Kodak Finishing— Photographer A. C. Read Pictures that will bring back pleasant memories of your.... _School years. A Lincoln Sermon Sunday Morning at the FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH The theme of the Pastor, Rev. Frank Fay Eddy will be “Lincoln-Great In Service” The special soloist will be Miss Bernice Allstock, CONTRALTO The hour is 10:1.) o’clock— the church is on the corner of East Eleventh and Ferry streets. SLAB WOOD FOR SALE We eau now supply you with the most popular wood ever on the market SPRINGFIELD SLABWOOD Also Dry Body and Second Growth Fir BOOTH KELLY LUMBER CO. Office 5th and Willamette Phone 45 Chocolate Coated PEANUT BARS Something New. You'll Like Them OREGANA STUDENTS' SHOP First impressions count! Your clothes usually make them— New French Flannel Shirts —with collars attached —tailored by Earl & Wilson —whites with self stripes —and grays. $5.00 Come and get ’em— New brocodedsilk shirts for wear with Dinner Suits, $8. Green Merrell Co. men’s wear “one of Eugene’s best stores’’ “FOLLOW TEE TMAIL ’ ’ We like your 50-50 idea— We’ll put two straws in YOUR GLASS if YOU LIKE. You girls will find the rest of the Seniors here—drag your man in and feed him—we may have room for you— Notice WHO SAID THAT We DIDN’T HAVE A GOOD LINE OF BAR CANDIES .$3 5-t Q) eg O o ^ .2 feO fee *3 ^ ^ eg o o > 'o o V ^ CD c *3 ^ •J3 c3 >fe‘o * ^ W C > g I w ^ e •o^ HIGH CLASS STATIONERY IS AN OTHER ONE OF OUR SPECIAL TIES. The CO-OP IT’S YOUR STORE