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Fraught AVith Future Rewards
The proposed regulations which have been drawn up by a com
mittee from the women’s organizations on the campus and which were
sanctioned yesterday by the student council, are an important step
in the direction of self-government. It is not probable that self gov
ernment at Oregon will mean a radical change in the present student
constitution or statutes. There has been an apparent desire on the
part of the administration to allow the students to take the responsi
bility of handling the making of their own rules and disposing of
cases calling for disciplinary action, and this does not require any
radical changes of code on the part of the students.
The new set of regulations governing the actions of the co-eds
is the result of the desire on the part of the students to take over
their own problems and work them out in their own way. It is not
probable that the faculty committee will see fit to refuse to sanction
these rules, which will replace a large number of faculty-made regu
lations, some of them obsolete and many of them failing of their pur
pose but nevertheless still existing.
A feeling of responsibility and interest in affairs which are of
vital concern seems certain to arise from the effects of such a sig
nificant step. The students are showing by their action that they
are wholly in sympathy with the movement of the faculty and others
who wish to see this University develop into more than a mere pro
vincial institution. An active life with a pure desire for seeking the
better things in an intellectual preparedness, including the cultural
as well as the professional, will be the result of this increased feeling
of self responsibility and confidence.
“An international point of view is sought, in the instruction of the
school of business administration,” said President Campbell in an
introductory speech before the students in that school yesterday.
And the international point of view,—a broader and more complete
aspect of a liberal education awaits the students who can develop and
cultivate a taste for the broader things to the exclusion of the pro
vincial. ‘‘The glorified high school” and the tendency to ‘‘school
master” arc the fast disappearing scars of higher education a decade
ago.
Only by Swift, Accurate, Silent Work
Tin* movement to corporate an intercollegiate organization of
the underclass societies similar to the Oregon Knights has been
started by the University of Washington, which has its Knights of
the Hook, and it is possible that some good may come from such
an attempt. The Oregon Knights were organized on the campus
here last fall and have since been doing some good work; there are
nlso a number of instances in which their work has not been so good.
Organizations of this nature comprised of underclassmen are not to
be placed on a pure basis of an honorary society or a social organ
ization,- their purpose should be wholly to promote the interest of
the associated students and the University wherever ami whenever
possible.
Their movements should not be heralded with ceremony and
parade, for their achievements are judged by what they actually
accomplish by efficient organization, working swiftly, accurately,
and silent 1\ The need for such an organization has been apparent
here in years past ; let us hope that by their accomplishments the
underclassmen have been able to fulfill this need. If intercollegiate
organization will aid in this accomplishment, then let us have it.
Nationally known men of the calibre of Mr. A. L. Mills, of Port
land, who has a wealth of personal observation and wide xperience
with vital igattcrs of finance and economic conditions, leave their
audiences with something of value. Mr. Mills addressed the students
yesterday at two separate gatherings, ami his offerings were interest
ing for he spoke as a man of authority can speak. The administra
tion would do well to bring more men of this type to the campus.
There are few neck-ami neck finishes when the students come
down the home stretch of the term. The returns as seen by the
judges will appear in the “scandal sheet,” which is likely to show
that the “getting by” favorites, poorly trained, have straggled in,
distanced.
BULLETIN BOARD
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it is to be published and must be limited
to 26 words.
Newman Club—There will be a busi
ness meeting at the club house Fri
day afternoon at 5 o’clock, at which
time nominating of officers for the
ensuing year will be in order.
Newman Club Breakfast—The regular
Newman club breakfast will be held
next Sunday at 9 o’clock, at which
time election of officers will take
place.
Southern Oregon Students—A 15 min
ute meeting of all students who live
in Klamath Falls, Medford, Ashland,
Oakland and Boseburg will be held
at the Y. hut at 12:50 today.
Basketball Banquet—Postponed until
Monday night at 5f30 at Anchorage.
California Club—Will have a picnic
Tuesday, 28. All members are invited
to meet at Villard at 10 o’clock.
There will be a dance Thursday, 30th.
Open Forum
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NO PLACE FOB GOLF HEBE
To the editor:
There has arisen lately, along with
the advent of golf sox in our midst,
a desire to promote golf as a reguB.r
varsity sport. The approach is mmo
what slow. The movement now on foot
is to make golf an inter-fraternity
sport and to include it in the dough
nut ealendar. It seems as though this
step is somewhat hasty, the time is
not yet at hand when Oregon can en
ter into this thrilling game with vim
and vigor.
If doughnut golf should be instituted
as a competitive game it is bound to
take men away from varsity athletics.
The millraee, matinees, and indoor
sports afford major athletics kern com
petition now, without the addition of
golf.
Some of the minor athletics are also
suffering from a lack of material, and
it would be best to renew interest in
these rather than promote another
distraction.
The facilities are not at hand where
by golf could become an established
game, as there are no links on the cam
pus. It would necessitate the use of the
country club. Non-members of the club
are not permitted to play on Saturday
and Sunday, so it would leave only
school days for the students. This
surely would detract from studies as it
takes all day to play a game of golf.
This is not very inducive to high
scholarship.
Golf cannot be promoted among a
group of students, who are seventy per
cent self supporting, as it takes a con
siderable sum to buy individual equip
ment.
Let Oregon promote varsity athletics
and doughnut competition which will
build up material for varsitv teams.
LKTTKBMAN.
USE OF RESERVE BOOKS
INCREASES DURING TERM
Two Librarians, Six Student
Assistants Employed
A total of 2540 hooka wore placed on
the reserve shelves of the library from
the first of this term to February 26,
according to figures compiled by Mrs.
Dora B. Ford, head of the reserve de
partment of the University library. This
represents a number exceeding many
times the total number of books on re
serve in any previous year. Formerly
these books were handled over the circu
lation desk, and it was necessary for
the instructors to limit the number be
cause of lack of shelf space. Since the
reserve department has been given a
separate floor, it has been able to ac
commodate the large number of students
who come to the library to make use of
the reserve books for class assignments.
Griffin Reserves Most
Two full time librarians and six stu
dent assistants are now employed in this
department. Books on economics are the
ones having the greatest demand, a!
though the departments of business ad
ministration, education, and all litera
ture courses closely rivBl the economics
department in giving reserve book as
signments to classes. Professor Eldon
liriffiu holds the record of placing the
most books on reserve. At present there
are 290 books on reserve for his course
in world history. Of this number only
a few are duplicates.
The average number of reserve books
handled a day ranges around the 1200
mark Ou Mondays and Tuesdays the
figure often climbs to between 1300 and
1400. latter in the week the average
drops to about S50. On Sunday after
noons the average number of books issued
is between 025 and 400. On Saturdays
the number is less for a ten-hour period
than the four hour period on Sunday
afternoons.
Classes Contribute Books
Many of the reserve books are bought
by the various classes and turned over to
the library The library, however, buys
a great many duplicate copies of text
books each year for use in this depart
meat. The demands for these booys in
crease annually and a I brary tax on all
students s being considered to help meet
the expense of this ever increasing num
Short-Sighted to Starve Universities,
Is View of Great English Newspaper
We should think almost every educated
Englishman whose jiatriotism is some
thing more than a flourish will concur
in an appeal from virtually all the uni
versities of Great Britain begging the
Prime Minister not to let his govern
ment carry out its threat to cut down by
£300,000 the annual official grant to
the universities. The question is really
whether we are to act in this matter as
a first-rate or as a confessedly second
rate country. In every first-rate coun
try in the world, however much afflicted
by post-war poverty, university educa
tion—the head and fount of all other
education—is being marked off as one
of the few things that must not be
starved, whatever else goes hungry. To
starve, it is like starving your own sol
diers during a war. In every depart
ment of human activity England is an
entrant for a competition in which none
but a nation with a full and strong
brain can be a successful, or even a seri
ous, competitor. Such success may not
be the highest end for national educa
tion, any more than a good income is
the highest end for an individual’s edu
cation. But, to follow great ends, the
individual must at any rate keep himself
alive on the earth; and to have a glori
ous national life, we must at any rate
not slip down into the deadening ma
terial unsuccess of peoples in whom the
light of the mind has burnt low. With
that fate we are seriously threatened.
If, as a nation, we leave it to Germans
and Americans to have the best brains,
no diplomacy and none of the rare moral
qualities with which, like other peoples,
we credit ourselves, can save us from
the fate of the Arabs and Spaniards and
other peoples who tired of making the
efforts necessary for greatness.
There may be less of idealist interest
in education abroad in the world now
than there was at the end of the last
century. But there never was before
such a passionate sense in other coun
tries of the uses of education as an in
strument of individual and of national
efficiency and advancement. Our Do
minion troops could not even wait for
the war to be over, but got up lectures
and classes behind the western front.
Any slackness on our part, where they
are so keen, heightens the common Do- i
minion suspicion that we at home are
feckless, half-awake bodies in a world
of zestfully learning and self-training
men and women. And this is the time
chosen by the most ignorant and least
patriotic of publicists to raise a cry
for the starving down of such university
education as we have—it comes natur
ally from the kind of mind that bleats
for a “brighter London,” meaning more
of the old joyless racket and waste of
wealth by parasitic vulgarians at hours
when most people who work for their
country are trying to sleep. If the gov
ernment, as a whole, has devotion and
any courage, surely it will stand up for
the country against this greedy outcry
for the disablement of the country's
mind. In the whole range of public ex
penditure we can hardly think of any j
other sum of £300,000 which could not
be retrenched with less public loss than
this meagre grant to our hard-worked,
ill-fed universities. To sell a few acres
of Hyde Park for building sites would
be wisdom and public spirit compared
with such an economy. The whole sum
required is only a few times as much
as wc paid for the crockery said to have
been broken by the staff of our peace
delegation in one Paris hotel. If in this
country, still gaudy with ostentatious
wealth after all its losses, the skimping
of education is how it is hoped to sur
vive and prevail in a well-taught and
quick-witted post-war world, we might
almost as well give up hope; the ques
tion would only be as to the date when
we are to founder.—Manchester Guar
dian.
ber of duplicate texts, which enable stu
dents in nearly all departments to use
library books and does away with the
necessity of buying expensive text books
by each individual.
REVENUES NOT IN PERIL
(Continued from page one)
land is already bringing into the state
far more money than the state spends
upon it. It is reported that a famous
middle western hospital which has for
years served as a surgical center for
western cases, has lost thirty per cent
of its business, a great part of it to
Portland.
i
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Q—Does Oregon educate too large a
portion of its population?
A—The average for the country, in
cluding negroes, foreigners and all
classes, is four tenths of one per
cent in colleges and Universities.
The figures for Oregon are six-tenths
of one per cent. This places Oregon
at or near the head of the list of states.
Incidentally, Oregon has the best illiter
acy record. These are figures to be
proud of, and will in future years bring
a big financial return to the state. Nor
would a direct system of government
like that of Oregon be safe if the popu
lation did not rank high in intelligence.
Q—Is it true that every graduate of
the University costs the state $17,500?
A—It is absurd. The cost of instruc
tion per student per year is $2s5, on
the basis of the present year. The latest
available official figures for the col
leges and universities of the United
States give the average for the country
as $325. A graduate, after a four
I year course, would then have cost
$1140. Statistics demonstrate that the
educated man earns so vastly more in
a life time than an uneducated man
that in all probability his additional
taxes alone will return that amount in
cash to the state before he dies, to say
nothing of his additional social value in
many different ways besides taxpaying
capacity.
Q—Are the institutions of higher
■education responsible for the present
| difficulties in which many taxpayers
find themselves?
A—The tax burden on the propertv
of the state is estimated at $42,000,000.
The national tax burden for this year
is about $4,000,000,000, of which Ore
gon's share would be about another
$40,000,000, making a total tax burden
on Oregon property of $82,000,000, of
which higher education costs $2,000,000.
If the millage was cut twenty per cent
it would cripple the institutions for
years to come, but would only reduce
the tax burden from $82,000,000 to
$81,600,000. The real cause of the pres
ent distress is bad crops plus price
derangements growing out of post-war
conditions. Conditions are quite likely
to be better in 1923; nothing that can
now be done can affect the taxes pay
able in 1922.
ENGLISH BOOKS DISAPPEAR
Books valued at about $50 were mis
sing from the English laboratory, in the
Sociology building, yesterday. The loss
was discovered yesterday morning by
Miss Ida Turney, one of the instructors,
when she entered the room to hold class.
The missing books had been purchased
by the department with money taken
from the laboratory fees, which are
charged each student taking the course,
and were to be used as the nucleus of
a rhetoric library.
No trace of the books has been
found.
NAMES OF GROUPS DECIDED
Council of Association of Girls in
Town Completes Organization
| The executive council of the associa
| tion of women students of the Univer
sity not affiliated with living organiza
tions, recently formed on the campus,
met recently at the home of Helen Addi
son to complete details of organization.
Names were decided upon for the various
neighborhood groups as follows:
West of Willamette, the West Willam
ette group.
East of Willamette and north of 10th,
Millrace group. ,
Between Willamette and Patterson,
10th and 13th, North Central group.
Between Willamette and Patterson,
south of 13th, South Central group.
Patterson to Emerald, south of 10th,
Campus group.
Following, the meeting, the representa
tives were entertained at the Women’s
Building by the South Central group.
CONDON CLUB ELECTS
Condon Club announces the election
of Alex Shipe, of The Dalles, to As
sociate Membership.
Students read the classified ads; try
using them.
America Great
Imitator Holds
Mrs. Zimmern
Speaker Compares Country to
Huge Retail Store Decking
Its Windows With Styles
From Older Institutions.
America is like a great retail store.
It has none of the attributes of a
manufacturing establishment. What’s
more, it sells its goods according to bor
rowed customs. It decks its shop win
dows with styles from older institu
tions. It deals in ready to wear imita
tions. This is America as Mrs. Alfred
Zimmern sees it.
And for our universities, our co
educational systems, our newspapers,
our conferences, our jazz .... But
Mrs. Zimmern’s estimates are expressed
with such true French geniality that
offense is forestalled. America may
some day emerge from her present
delemma. This is offered as a probable
eventuality.
Mrs. Zimmern was born under the
flag Joan of Arc died for. She
is an enthusiastic worshiper of the
Marseillaise. Although an English citi
zen by adoption and an instructor in the
school of music at the University of
Wales for eleven years, her personality
is as vividly Latin as though she came
to us direct from French soil. And
French soil recalls a point which Mrs.
Zimmern ecstatically emphasized.
“American soil is different from En
glish soil and from the French soil,”
she said; “you are a different people.
Customs which cover European needs
may be most impracticable or inadequate
when applied here in the states. Yon
people are too imitative. What
you need is more introspection, and
less hurry. . You can not measure
thought by the clock.”
Mrs. Zimmern went on to say that
when Mr. Zimmern explains the mech
anism of the English labor schools as
found at Buskin college, Oxford, to an
American audience their immediate re
action is the expression of a desire to
inaugurate such a system in this coun
try. They do not stop to think, she
explained, that a special order of edu
cation for the laboring people in Ameri:
ca would soon build up a class feeling
and distinction as strong as that which
exists in England today. The labor
colleges of Britain are filling a great
need. In America they would only
deter democracy.
Coeducation, according to Mrs. Zim
mern is based upon false principles.
The masculine and feminine mind are
different and demand different ap
proaches. She believes it is altogether
unfair to both the men and women of
a nation to educate them under the
same system. In this country of co
education she nofes a lack of subtlety
and fineness in the personalty of its
women. The French system of second
ary education for girls in her opinion
is far superior to anything found but
side the borders of this European re
public.
Mrs. Zimmern spoke to the members
of the art appreciation classes and other
interested campus folk on French reac
tion to art and beauty .sterdav after
noon. Later she addressed faculty
and townspeople in alumni hall. Mem
bers of Women’s League served tea.
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March 17
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