Oregon Daily Emerald
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Arthur Rudd
Night Editor This Issue
George H. Godfrey
Democracy in Higher Education
That all college students do not pay in full the cost of the education
they are receiving is well known, and it is likewise a fact that sooner
or later there must come forth in this State and in the nation at large
some general policy which will provide the higher education. Wil
liam H. Allen, writing in the current issue of Good Housekeeping,
makes a concrete suggestion that a promissory note be issued to
the students, those who are abe to pay as they go and those who are
not.
“If those who can afford to pay cash are required to pay cash,
how can those who lack the cash while at college later pay all their
education costs without defeating the purpose of educating them?’’
he asks, and then “If there is merit in the suggestion, they can pay
the full cost just as a corporation pays the full cost when it lacks
cash, namely, give a promissory note. In some colleges this might
mean that every single student would give a promissory note for part
or all of his tuition. Why not?”
In such a plan the writer of the article sees the student in a new
light. “Where now he takes what he gets with little or no gratitude,
he would, as a self-supporting and self-respecting customer, wonder
whether he was getting his money’s worth.” And as a result, “the
change in attitude on the part of the college customer would increase
tremendously the cooperation of students and former students with
colleges in strengthening their work.”
Mr. Allen has taken up the disadvantages of such a plan also in
his article, but he is of the opinion that the advantages outweigh
these for, as he points out, ‘ ‘ Many a college man has been a fumbler
if not a failure because he did not stop to wonder when going through
college, whether it and he were worth what they were costing. Many
a man has failed to get on his feet because of the character weakness
which kept him from starting to pay back his obligations for college
opportunities. There is good reason to believe that there would be
fewer failures and near-failures financially in our college output if I
the costs of education were clearly before college students and their
colleges. ”
No doubt there is a great deal of merit in the plan which William]
II. Allen has advocated. It would be hard to make all of us see the
merit, it would likewise be hard to make it successfully solve the
problem of the cost of this higher education to the satisfaction of thej
taxpayer. Hut the fact does remain that there must be a solution!
some day, else the constantly increasing costs of higher education will
mount higher and higher or the far greater evil will put in its ap-|
pearance, that of underpaid college instructors and the lack of facil
ities which will provide the education which all may partake of and!
benefit from. The plan of the promissory note is obviously a demo-!
eratie one, and the higher education must ever be thus, must ever be
for the educating of the masses.
Summing up his article Mr. Allen declares that “Two results
will surely come it we ever make such an experiment, (1) there will
be no longer an excuse for having side by side in the same college en
vironment an underpaying student and un underpaid faculty body;
and (2) it will become politically and financially possible to give
higher education to a vastly larger percentage of America’s youth'
than will ever be able, under our present system, to go even to free
colleges and technical schools, ’l’his will be possible because contribu
tions from the ‘cooperative puy-it-all-back society of college bene
ficiaries will make it a reasonable proposition that society tax it
self in advance the funds necessary to maintain at college those who
cannot pay even board and lodging bills with their own capital.”
A successful Junior Week-end such as the one just passed would,
not be complete without a word of thanks and commendation to the
Junior class under whose auspices this annual affair is held. Order
liness, efficiency and dispatch characterized the program of events
and cooperation on the part of ail the students contributed in no
small way to all this. The beauty of the canoe fete has never been
surpassed in the history of Junior Week-end festivities, and even
the campus luncheon was executed in well regulated fashion.
BISHOP SUMNER COMES
TO SPEND WEEK HERE
Episcopal Church Dignitary iunl Wife
Patrons for Junior Prom; Full
Program Arranged
lUght Keverend Walter T. Sunnier,
Bishop of Oregon, is visiting the cam
pus tor the week, Bishop Sumner and
Atis. Sumner came down on Saturday
and acted as patrons for the Junior
I'ioiu in the evening, Mrs. Sumner,
however, returned to Portland yester
day .
Bishop Sumner is especially inter
anted in the work of the M. aud V.
\\ . on the campus, as well as cither re
ligious groups. In order to get a more
personal look into this work, he held
personal interviews with some of the
most active members yesterday. To
morrow the Bishop will meet with the
V W. cabinet at 1 o’clock and at -
io'clock will be at the Y. M. At l
o'clock he will meet with the life ser
'ice group for a short conference. At
the same time on Wednesday, Bishop
Sumner will speak to the church co
operation committee.
Bishop Sumner will meet with the
student council on Wednesday at 7:30.,
Hiursday he will address the students
at the regular assembly, lie has not
yet announced his topic.
ENGAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCED
The engagement of Lottie Biddle
and Kenneth Jones, both students in
the University last year, was an
nounced Sunday at dinner at the Zeta
liho Epsilon house. Miss Biddle, who
is a member of Zeta Rho Epsilon, is
now teaching school at Marion, Ore
gon, and Mr. Jones is with the Stau
dard Oil company in Salem. The wed
ding will be an event of next fall.
BULLETIN BOARD
Notices will be printed in this eotnma
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.
Life Service Club—Meeting tomorrow
(Wednesday) with Student Volun
teers, 5 p. m., at Bungalow. Dr
Thompson speaks, followed by “pol
luck supper.”
Order of the O—Important meeting
tonight of the Order of the O, in th<
varsity room in the outdoor gym al
0 o 'clock.
Meeting of business staff Lemon Punct
and all wishing to try out, at Punct
office, 5 o’clock today.
Election of officers of next year ’i
junior class in Villard hall todaj
from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
Agora—Meeting Wednesday evening ii
the men’s room of the Woman’!
building, 7:30 sharp.
Night Editors—Important meeting t<
be held in the shack Wednesdaj
night at 5.
Alpha Kappa Psi—Luncheon at An
choruge today. Very importanl
meeting.
Woman’s League—Nominations to be
held in Villard this afternoon at £
o ’clock.
Crossroads—Meeting Wednesday nighl
at 8 o’clock, Delta Tau Delta house.
Historian Committee — Beports due
Friday. Leave with Mary Evans.
Sculpture Club—Meeting of the Sculp
ture club this afternoon at 4:15.
Sigma Delta Chi—Luncheon at the
Anchorage today noon.
Zeta Kappa Psi—Meeting tonight, 7:30.
Woman’s building.
Class Basketball — Sophomore girls,
practice, 5 tonight.
Beta Alpha Psi—Meeting this evening
at 7:30.
Oregon Knights—Meet tonight at 7:30.
Open Forum
MR. WHEELWRIGHT REPLIES
To the Editor:
I have just seen the letter of Mr.
Kanshi Ram that appeared in a recent
issue of your paper, and hasten to
correct his impression that I spoke of
an invasion of India by the Mongols.
The word I used was Moguls.
Answering his proposition contrast
ing the success of the United States
in educating the Philippine people with
the failure of England to do as much
for the Indians, I beg to call attention
to two essential facts in the case that
Mr. Ram has evidently overlooked.
The Filipinos had been under Chris
tian rule for nearly 350 years when
the Americans arrived there, and the
Roman Catholic church had accom
plished a great deal in the way of edu
cating the people, which they have con
tinued doing ever since. Even now
many of the tribes are composed of
barbarians.
Furthermore the Filipinos were a
simple people, with a very indifferent
indigenous religion, if any, and were
easy converts to a new faith, whereas
the Indians, at the time of the British
occupation (which by the way occurred
some two centuries after the Spanish
conquest of the Philippines) were pos
sessed of a culture and a relgiion that
had existed for thousands of years. To
detach these people from their old faith
and practices and educate them in ac
cordance with Christian and European
standards, which were utterly at vari
ance with their own, was an impos
sible task.
That Britons have made fortunes in
India cannot be denied, but they have
in my opinion given more than they
have taken away. Anyone who does
not admit that conditions there today,
under which the Indians live, are im
measurably better than they were un
der home rule, is blind to the teachings
of history and fails fo distinguish be
tween liberty and bondage.
It is true that I associated almost
entirely with the British during my
visits in India, but it is safe to say
that for every Englishman I saw there
I saw 10.000 Indians. The compara
tively few discontented people among
them I believe to be Utopians, theor
ists, demagogues and their victims,
many of whom in numbers (but an in
finitessimally small percentage of the
whole) have been arrested and to some
extent prevented from doing further
mischief.
WM. U. WHEELWRIGHT.
MINERAL EXAMINER TALKS
W. M. H. Woodward Tells of Procedure
In Securing Mining Titles
W. M. H. Woodward of Portland,
who is United States mineral examiner
for Oregon and Washington, spoke to
the geological and mining society at
their meeting Wednesday night, on
the procedure which is necessary in
order to secure mining titles to govern
ment lands, Mr. Woodward has had
experience in mining and geological
work in Alaska, Arizona, and Mexico
and told where the best opportunities
for leasing are to be found.
DOUGHNUT DIAMOND MEN
TO START FINAL SERIES
Two Elimination Contests Are
Billed for Today
The final round of the doughnut base
ball series starts this week with the first
game coming this afternoon between Phi
Delta Theta and Alpha Tau Omega on
the University high school field at 4
o’clock. This is the first game of a
round robin series which will determine |
the winner in each of the two division of
the league, the winners then meeting for
the championship game.
The three teams left in the first di
vision of the league are the Oregon club.
Friendly hall and Kappa Sigma, while
those in the second division are Phi Delta
Theta, Alpha Tan Omega and Bache
Iordon.
The schedule for the remainder of the
series is as follows: Today at four, Phi
Delts vs. Alpha Tau on the University
high field, and at six, Oregon club vs.
Friendly hall on the Varsity field; Fri
day afternoon at four, Kappa Sigs vs.
Friendly hall on the Varsity field, and
at six Alpha Tau Omega vs. Bachelordon.
The schedule for next week is: Mon
day, May 29, Kappa Sigs vs. Oregon club
at four on the Varsity field, and at six
Phi Belt vs. Bachelordon on the Varsity
field.
The winners in each division of the
league will then play the championship
game on Thursday afternoon, at four
o’clock, on the Varsity field.
SCHOLARSHIP IS WON BY
MARGARET McCULLOUGH
Mary Spiller Award Given Astoria
Girl, by Executive Council, for
Meritorious Scholarship
At the meeting of the Alumnae As
sociation at the home of Mrs. F. L.
Chambers on Friday afternoon, the
executive council awarded the Mary
Spiller scholarship to Margaret Mc
Cullough, of Astoria. A permanent
loan fund was established with the
recent gift of $400 made to the Alum
nae Association.
The Mary Spiller scholarship, which
provides room and board in any of the
halls of residence for one year, is given
by the Alumnae in memory of Miss
Mary Spiller, the first woman member
of the faculty. This award is given to
any girl in the state outside of Lane
county, whose scholarship, ability, and
personality merits it. Many applica
tions for the scholarship were received
by Mrs. Laurence T. Harris, of Salem,
secretary and treasurer of the Alumnae
Association. According to Miss Jean
ette Calkins, it was a difficult matter
to decide to which one of the appli
cants the award should go, as several
| seemed to merit it. Miss McCullough
was very highly recommended by
Alumnae members of Astoria. She is |
planning to enter the University next
j fall. A telegram was sent Miss Mc
1 Oullough last night, notifying her of
the award.
The Alumnae Association recently
received a gift of $10JJ from Mr. and
Mrs. F. L. Chambers and $300 from the
Home Science club of Eugene. A new
loan fund to be known as the loan
fund of the Alumnae Association was
formed to aid students through their
college courses. Nominations for of
ficers for the coming year were made,
the election to be held at the regular
meeting during commencement in June.
POWERS ADDRESSES GRADUATES
Alfred Powers, head of the visual
instruction department of the extension
division, delivered the commencement
address to the graduating class of the
Dut'ur high school on May 18 and to
the senior class of the Lakeside high
I school on May 20.
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Spring Days
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and
WARM WEATHER
will make your stomach cry for cool drinks—
we have ’em.
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Students’ Shop
Phillips’
‘MILITARY’
Soles and Heels
Jim
THE SHOE DOCTOR.
986 Willamette Street.
School Days
do not last forever, and when they are
past, memories are kept warm by the
photographs of friends and pals of the
class room and campus.
McKune Studio
623 Willamette Phone 741
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Graduation Presents
When your class mates graduate you will
want to give them something that will be
appreciated and something that shows
good judgment in choosing a gift.
Give them jewelry. Its lasting qualities
and beauty will add to the charm of giving.
Our assortment of jewelry for appropriate
gifts is now ready.
Come in and see them at
LUCKEY’S
Jewelry Store
Heaping Dishes of
Strawberry Shortcake
that is simply delicious and all kinds of salads
and sandwiches that make cool, appetizing
lunches for hot weather.
Peter Pan
Walt Hummel, Prop.