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Fred Michelson
Create the Background
“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light
which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of
the firmament of bards and sages. ”—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Thus is the value of a cultural education emphasized in terms
which can be applied to the individual case. Yet in practically every
instance where the attempts of those who are far-seeing enough to
bring the exponents of a cultural education to the college campus
are successful, the reward is insufficient. It is insufficient because
it falls far short of its mark.
Last night the students were treated to an interpretation of one
of the seven arts, music. Soon they will be treated to an opportunity
to hear Alfred Zimmern, scholar and author. Examples, both, of
what is contained in the process of making a cultural education
maintain its true purpose.
No man can detect or watch the “gleam of light which flashes
across his mind from within,” unless he partakes of the opportunities
which develop that gleam of light. The realization and understand
ing of the beauty of the arts cannot come to the student who does
not take advantage of his chance to create the background for such
an understanding.
To get the utmost out of life is to complete the cultural education
while the opportunity is present. Shake off the mental lethargy and
from pure desire look toward the opportunities for advancing the
qualities of complete understanding and realization of all the beauties
of life, rather than continue within the narrow confines which have
followed into college life from the high school.
Make Them Foolproof
Commenting upon the recent decision of the Wharton School of
Finance to return to the old system of faculty supervised examination
rather than to continue an honor system which has fallen short of
its purpose, the Cornell Sun says:
“The case is just one more bit of evidence that an Honor
System is nothing more than the students make it. No con
stitution, no chain of committees, no exposition of high ideals
can make it foolproof. Honor, not the system, puts a stop to
cheating. Once the honor becomes defunct, the constitution
is not worth the paper it is written on.’’
The new rules which the women at Oregon have compiled and
which will be presented to the student affairs committee in the near
future for ratification, is evidence ot the first step in self government.
Yet what the Cornell Sun says of the Honor System at the Wharton
School is true of what we may expect of self government in this rein- ■
tion of the responsibility for the successful operation of these student
made rules.
They will not be foolproof, and the abuse of the privileges will,
make them not worth the paper they are printed upon. Self govern
ment is going to come from that sense of honor and responsibility
which makes an honor system succeed. Sentiment must be at the
bottom of it. and the foundation must lie in the principles of truth
and honesty as they have been taught in the home, and failing in
the home, at least in the early stages of childhood.
The women will probably not meet opposition on the part of the
faculty committee in their desire to install rules and principles of
their own making, but the accession to their future requests and to
the requests of the students as a whole will depend upon their ability
to install the sentiment of honor and responsibility which will make
the proposed regulations “foolproof.’’
In 1 >r. Charles I’pson Clark the University saw a real man and a
real scholar. That he could not be here longer was a pity, and to
make up for it perhaps the l niversitv will assure his being here next
year as has been suggested. Hr. K. K. Robinson comes today; Dr.
Alfred K. Zitumern later in the month, in accord with the University’s
new and self-committed policy. If they are all like Dr. Clark this
new policy will surely meet with the success which it merits.
PRESIDENT CAMPBELL AWAY
President P. L. Campbell is spending
tl week hi Portland where lie is eon
ferriug with members of the board of
regents. 1 resident Campbell will re
turn Friday morning and will be ae
companied by several ineinln r> of the
board who will spend the day on the
campus.
MORE GOING TO CHURCH
Secretary 1 . IV I’utnuui of the I'ni
vorsitv I M C. A. reports, thut the
student classes at the various Ku
jjotu< ehurehes have shown a £ood in
eri'.tse in attendance us a result of lust
weeks membership campaign. The earn
paign will continue until the 15th of
March, and an all student Itible class
rally.
BULLETIN BOARD
Notices will be printed in this column
for two issues only. Copy must be in the
office by 4:30 o'clock of the day on which
it is to be published and must be limited
to 25 words.
G. M. S. A. U. (Condon Club)—A pro
gram meeting will be held tonight at
7:45 in room 4, Johnson hall. Dr.
Packard wi.l speak on Alaska, and T.
A. Phipps, on “Diamonds in Brazil.”
Anyone interested invited.
Freshman Meeting—There will be a
meeting of the freshman class this
afternoon at 5 o’clock in Villard hall.
Important business to be discussed.
All members be present. H. Met
calf, president.
Chess Players—See new schedule in Y
hut and play your game before Fri
day. Contest now under elimination
method. Che kers will be jdayed as
before.
Christian Science Society—There will
tie a regular meeting of the Christian
Science society of the University to
night at 7:15 in room 106 of Oregon
hall.
Girls’ Debate Tryout—Try outs for the
girls train which will meet O. A. C.
will be held Tuesday night at 7:15
j in the commerce building.
April Frolic Committees—All April
j Frolic committees will meet Thursday
| in Women’s League club room at 5
o’clock. Very important.
California Club—Regular meeting to
I night at 7:30 in 105 Commerce. A
full attendance is desired.
Phi Theta Kappa—Meeting in the
seminar room at the Commerce
! building this afternoon at 5.
i
Eugene Filipino C’ub A special meet
ing will be held in Dean Straub’s
room at 7:30 Friday evening March 3.
App'e Pie Sale—Given on the campus
by the .Y. W. C. A. Thursday. Ten
cents per cut.
Y. W. C A. Meeting at the Bungalow
today at 5:00 o’clock. Tea will be
served at 4:45 p. m.
State Aid Men File February reports
at Window 19, Johnson hall on or be
fore Saturday, March 4.
Oregon Knights—Important meeting of
the Oregon Knights at 7:30 tonight
Crossroads—Meeting Thursday at 7:30
in the Woman's building.
Tabard Inn—Meeting at the Anchorage
tonight at 7:30.
Phi Mu Alpha—-Luncheon at the An
chorage, today. Important meeting. ;
LAY IS SUNG FOR
SIX-DAY SCHEME
Days of Lazy Idleness of Barefoot
Boy With Joys of Old Swimming
Hole and Laughing Brooks and
Giggling Girls Recalled—Class
rooms Substituted.
BY CARNY
How long ago we used to know him!
In those dim, distant days of youth,
there came a time each year when the
sunshine kissed the sleeping hillsides
and the domesticated duck and the
hired man warbled their joyous rounde
lays. He, then, would venture forth,
timidly at first, to wiggle his toes in
the dew-drenched grasses—the barefoot j
boy. It was the time when the zodiac j
was filled with tho melodies of laugh
ing brooks and giggling girls, but the I
latter were of little immediate con
cern to him. The cruel, repressive
winter, of shoes and melancholy chil l
blains, was ended and his white feet
were thrust into the glad springtime.
In three months the bleached and;
dimpled epidemical protection of hi -
pedal oxtreiuetics wou d bo a rich
brown like the accumulated dust there t
on and as tough as the hide of a govern-j
incut mule. The pantaloons ot the
budding rowdy wou d cling precan
ously to his suple ar Into rure by mean
of a pair of homelniade suspenders, a
nail, and an orphan button. His straw
hat would appear miserable and do
jected at the brim, yet what did it mat
terf Life for hint was one glorious
hallelujah and his cars were attuned t >
the harmonics of nature. Sometimes, in
n careless mood, he would thrust a to
bacco eating grasshopper or a war y
toad into his pocket and present it to;
the teacher as a token of his adoration.
Hut today, he is not precisely as he was
previously, lie is almost grown up.
He is now a I'nivorsity student that
barefoot boy of yesterday, yet he
should not despair at his ot. Warren
l! Harding. Hill Bryan, George the V.
William 8, H.-rt. Pius the XI. and Bu
Montana, all were barefoot boys once
Some were poor and some were honest
Some suffered the slings of outragous
c 1 '■■<■ education and have scraped and
struggled to mature years with some de
gree of sanity.
In fa t, if one were to serutinize a
few of our self made men. whose nam ■
IMUU ! I'll 11 \ 1 l , , . > . !
.lit' fllll ’l«>l l >
in the supreme workmanship of thOr
ator »ouM probab’v be reaffirmed.
Thus. college education has been of
some va’ue. insofar as it has k 'pt i*
vietims front being self made.
Hut alas! Wh re once t’ e Vnive-sHv
student revelled in the fu"ness of li?«
and inflated his hollow chest to th.»
effulgence or' a toy balloon in confi
dence of future greatness, he shuddered
trat yesterday before the omnous pen
umbra of repression. From the bat
tlements of a pedagogical hope was
sounded a voice, demanding that a
bulge be put into the childish brain of
the undergraduate. The five-dav-a- ■
week education was found shallow and I
ephemeral withal. Thence arose the ,
solution for that unfortunate: Six
days shalt he labor.
Yet the demand of the future will be
for ponderous and robust brains and it
is evident that five days a week of
saponaceous lectures are totally inade
quate for the cultivation of intellects
to rule the universe, including the sun
and stars. Six days should prevail.
What matters it if the human being
be made to study with such concen
trated intensity that he hasn’t time to
learn anything? What matters it if the
professors be made to lecture with such
frequency that they’ll not have time
to enquire whether Emma Goldman or
Doug Fairbanks is President of the
United States? Such are the peda
gogical possibilities of the six-day
week.
In commemoration of the plan for
the six-day week we should bow our
heads in solem reverence. The rabble
will rejoice, the undergraduate will
feel security in ignorance for a time,
but the forces of frail eyes and potent
intellects may yet be a scourge to
arouse conditioned reflexes! whatever
they may be) in faltering mentalities
to respond to vigorous and perpetual
book-learning.
• a
Iii such an Utopia what would be
come of the barefoot boy? Where
once in the long ago he romped in ad
venturous springtime and floundered
through the oozy swimming holes, he
ived an] held communion with nature.
He learned a something in his artless
childhood which even today is too soon
forgotten. That something, the lan
guage of the trees, the moon, the stars,
the woodland rivers and the sea, which
he understood and loved so well, may
some day echo in vain in ears which
will not hear.
* • •
Today the languid student drags his
frame into the superheated lecture room
and humps himself unanimously into
his chair for an hour’s sweet repose.
He was the barefoot boy of a little
while ago. Tomorrow, the barefoot
savage will pass away, even as the hope
for a soldier bonus, and little Aloysius,
with rubber-tired glasses and elephan
tine brow will replace him. What will
the University student be?
MILITARY BALL AT NEVADA
The unit of the Reserve Officer’s
Training Corps at the University of
Nevada held its annual formal Military
Ball, Monday, February 21.
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The reason for our holding such
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