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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1923)
OREGON SUNDAY EMERALD Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Kenneth Youel, Editor Lyle Janz, Manager Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued daily except Monday, during the college year. ERNEST HAYCOX, Sunday Editor George H. Godfrey, Managing Editor.Marvin Blaha, Associate Editor Features: Jessie Thompson, Earl Yoorhies, Katherine Watson, Arthur Rudd, Edwin Fraser, Ep Hoyt, Margaret Skavlan, Francis Linklater, Katherine Spall. General Writers: Clinton Howard, Eddie Smith, Rachael Chezem. Informal Learning To a great, great many of us here in college life, now and then, becomes pretty much of a mess. Now, by this we don’t mean to be sophomoric and state that living is a sham and delusion, and that we have learned of all things and are weary thereof. Not so. The world in general is never so wrong as when it pictures the college student as a cocky, I-know-it-all sort of fellow, mentally indolent, blase, immensely irreverent. No, the shoe is on the other foot. A thousand things strike on our faculties, demand attention and decision. Each day, each hour we have to wrestle with some problem never before met, erect a makeshift court and jury, and settle the question for better or worse. It seems that we are everlastingly at it; it seems that we are for ever plagued with intensely presonal problems; that there is never to be an end to the ceaseless march of difficulties and setbacks—all of which have to be settled somehow. That’s the way we grow and get along in this school. Beneath the surface of our daily living we are engaged in a de cisive battle with environment and cold facts. Here, within these “cloistered walls” we lay the cement foundation for all of our life. It is sometimes funny to hear our deans and professors “crab” us for being lazy when we muff the day’s lesson; they apparently for get that behind and below formal education comes another kind which grips us and holds us as no lecture, no text can ever, in a thousand years, do. Harry and Minnie have a scrap and both bat about .000 for the rest of the week in class. But that scrap is vital education! Two fraternity brothers approach the brink of physical hostility and patch the thing up by fraternal effort. And that is education! Some cam pus man is reported, by the grapevine route, to have passed beyond the social pale, and all the women mull the situation over. And, for them, that is education! Of course this list can he carried to absurdity, and'certainly we don’t seek to displace the curriculum by a series of personal en counters. But the point is, it sometimes seems that this informal kind of education is not as fully recognized as it might be by our intellectual masters, if you please. No course can compare with the moral and ethical training we get by being jammed elbow to elbow with two thousand others made of the same sort of stuff. In getting along with each other we get a liberal learning not accounted for in the parchment degree. Personels Because of n (|uiot week eiul for stu deiit body activities a larger number of students Ilian usual are visiting the home folks and friends. Portland has elaimed the greatest number of visit ors. lOdna Largent, Beatrice Tidd and Kvn Bussell from the Alpha Xi Delta house journeyed down to Pottage Grove .Friday evening to visit Doris Sykes, ex '2,'i. Dow Wilson, former member of the class of '20 and now a student at the medical school in Portland was a guest at the Phi Gamma Delta house last week. Wilson will be remembered as a former captain of the Oregon foot ball team. "The Importance of Keeping Fit” was the subject of a talk which Bill Hayward, university athletic coach, gave to a group of men at the V. M. O. A. in Portland Friday. I'iii\ ersity faculty members have been quite ia demand the last few months acting as judges at debates among the various high schools of the state. Monday live instructors will be out of town for that purpose. Dean Uric W. Allen of the school of journal ism, Prof. Melvin T. Solve of the Eng lish department and Prof. Alfred Pow ers of the extension division will go to Albany for the debate between the Al bany and West Linn high schools; and on the same day, J. W. Benjamin and | Peter Spencer of the University high school will judge the contest at Browns ville. While participating in some exorcises in a gymnasium class last week, Mar iette Beattie, freshman in the school Of physical education, injured her knee and has been obliged to use crutches. ‘•People go to the Shakespearean plays more tor entertainment than for education,” said Fritz Leiber, star in the Macbetli play given last week, in a talk given before the members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house where he was a guest for dinner Monday eve uing. Alpha Delta Pi will have as guests at its formal uext week. Miss Moreita Howard, graduate of ’ll*, and Beatrice Orudson, ‘20. Miss Howard is an in structor in the science department ot Franklin high school, Portland, and. Miss Crudson is teaching at McMinn ville high school. Mary Harris, an ex-student of the class of ’25 is visiting at the Kappa Al pha Theta house this week-end. Miss Harris’ home is in Portland. After the lengthening shadows have ! submerged the daylight, some of the streets neighboring various campus sor ority houses are said to resound to the rumble of roller skates on slippery pave ments, accompanied by the delighted squeals of Oregon co-eds. i Margaret Stahl of the Alpha Chi [Omega house has as a guest this week, her sister, Dorothy Stahl of Reed Col lege, Portland. The opportunities for women in the field of social service work will be the topic of discussions given by Miss Ela uora Thompson form the university school of social service before various groups of university women Tuesday. iSam Thompson of Portland is visiting this week with his sisters Jessie and Ohloe Thompson, two university stu dents. Mr. Thompson is a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, and is a member of Theta Xi. Among the welcome visitors on the campus this week-end are Jorgnn Hoick of Denmark, Hans Teisler from Ger many, Piet Hoest of Holland and Jas per King of New York. Mr. King and Mr. llolck are guests at the Phi Kappa Psi house, Kappa Delta Phi extended its hospitality to Mr. Teisler, and Mr. Hoest is staying at the Alpha Tan Ome ga house. HEARST GIVES GYMNASIUM Fireproof Structure to Last 100 Yoars Donated to California Co-Eds V. of California, Berkeley, March 1.— The girl’s gymnasium, a gift of William Randolph llearst, is to be erected upon the campus of the University of Cal ifornia. The building will be a fireproof structure and "ill be approximately 2S0 feet long and 70 feet wide and will be supplemented with wings and smaller units. Construction of the building will not begin before the summer months, states C. J. Struble, assistant comp-' (roller. College Marriages—? . O. A. C. Boys and Girls Give Institution of Marriage the Royal Razzberry O. A. C., Feb. 28.—“College marriages are the ‘bunk’.” This is the verdict of 9.'1 out of 100 persons, selected at random, whowere interviewed on wheth er or not they were in favor of under class students taking the nuptial vows. “Co-eds are too good to be asked to share the poverty of the average col lege student,” Merrill Good, the colonel of cadets, emphatically declares. “If you have lots of money it’s different, but most people don’t have the money.” “Get an education or learn a trade before you get married,” Percy Locey, football captain, advises the underclass student. “Most college sophomores don’t even know what they are going to do to earn their living without being handicapped by the responsibilities of married life.” “Unless you’re sure it’s your last chance avoid entangling alliances,” is the counsel given by Clarence Hickock, the winner of the national peace ora torical contest. “Peace and economic stability through your college life will lie impossible with divided interests and foreign responsibilities.” Professors do not approve of college I marriages except in unusual cases. Their main objection is that marriage keeps ! a person’s mind more or less from their : class work. “A married student is handicapped i in liis activities,” a political science professor asserts. “Assuming that I | had as much money as the average col j lege junior I would worry myself to i death trying to support a wife.” “Marriage brings enough responsi j bilities to occupy a woman’s time with j out trying to go to school,” a woman j instructor says. “Girls can’t be suc cessful housewives and students at the same time. It’s a physical impossibil ity.” Upperclass women also give college marriages the veto. “Married students can’t get the most out of either their marriage or their college life. Students should acquire an education and perspective of the world before getting married,” a senior declares. “Married students outgrow each other. The people that interest you when a freshman have no appeal whatever for you when you are a senior.” But what about the ones who are in favor of college marriages? What about the three per cent? “People are only young once,” says Ab Surd, local humorist, who is firm in his belief of the success of college marriages. “While unconventional it is most convenient,” he believes. “The best feature is that it provides a stand ing date. Think of the vast number of hours spent pouring over the telephone i book and the commercial print! Two people can live cheaper together than they can apart. I know many college marriages that are successful to the i last degree. In fact, many men would | never get through college if they didn’t j have awife to send them. Men spend I hours of agony in arduous wooing and amorous advances. Marriage would do away with the evil of unclaimed bles sings.” “The only good I can see in college j marriages aside from the fact that it provides a means of a wife to spend I her money,” a well-known senior girl j asserts, “is that it also provides good | material for aspiring journalists to j write about.” And that’s that. WOMEN, WOMEN HAUNT COLLEGE MALE TO GRAVE By Clinton Howard The first phenomenon which the poor home-bred victim of the co-educational institution bumps up against in file ear ly moons of his venture into the^ol lege world, is women. The second phe nomenon lie encounters is more women, and by the time he is through college, he lias encountered most women! Woe be to him if he be shy! Poor lad, he stands first on one leg and then on the other before the women he meets on the campus, and makes himself agreeable. lie smiles seraphically in a high school manner, instead of the ! man-of-tlie-world fashion, which comes with the sophistication of college years, j and stammers out an invitation to go canoeing, or maybe a date, “next Satur day night.” His conversation about the fireplace,* with the men, at first consists largely of brief interpellations into the general ; conversation, to the effect that so-and so is a nice girl, or a “keen woman”—• but by the time he lias reached his sen ’ ior year, he should be an authority on i all of the older campus women, and most of the freshman class. He should be able to pick a woman's line apart, and put it together again, and he should with ease, recommend “a darn clever dame” to the less sophisticated under classmen. lie soon finds that a woman is but human; he, too, degrades the idol from her universal pedestal, and unconscious ly elevates himself, the great “1,” to her place. It is strange that he never finds out until he is forty, unless he is married, what an utterly foolish move this is, for it is not until then that he is classifed as a bore. Society in gen eral, dotes on egotism, accompanied by a springy step, and lots of young zipper, but gray hairs, even with a buttonniere in the lapel, are not congenial, unless it is purely a commercial deal. Fortunate is the fellow who meets the right girl. Falling in love with love, and falling in love with a girl are good experience, and falling out of love is only the necessary corrollary to * the first two, for the preservation of sanity and soundness of mind. Etiquette bureaus advise the use of great care, with regard to falling in lo\ e, but then most such bureaus are conducted by old maids or crabbed bachelors, who take one-lialf of a white digestion tablet after each meal. When a man has gone through four years of women and quiz sections, he is not ready to fall in love until he meets the right woman—but when he does, there’s one -thing sure, even though the cigars aren’t passed, he doesn’t spend his evenings in a canoe up the millrace, sitting in one end of a canoe and talking to the lady on the other end, about the weather. Another nice thing about meeting the right woman, whom the rest of the gang inav remark is a "keen looker is that with the recognition, the last hints of •gray and forty” with a buttonniere, vanish and one is certain that though me mav be something of a dub, social ly, the darling little tootsy-wootsy peach-blow will be the best of coaches, l in straightening one out. 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WHITE GOLD MOUNTINGS' $5025 $75*22 $100 22 If the setting your diamond or other stone is now in does not suit you, bring it in and let us show you how we can change it to your satisfaction by changing it into one of the above or other style of mountings. A large stock to select from. All work done in our own shop by expert workmen. W. L. Coppernoll Very truly yours, 790 Willamette Watch Expert and Jeweler Watch Inspector, So. Pac. R. R., 0. E. Ry. Co. !b J Ye Shoppes On Willamette and the Campus WHEN old Deady stood stark, alone in the moonlight, when trees grew just as they pleased where now briek buildings stand— back in the old days when classes were held by candle light— * * * Then couples wandered at night, two by two, just as they do now—only there was no graveyard — no grand stand—not even the pleas ant. canoe-able mill race. * # # John Steward. 'SO. and Mary Winton, 'SI, strolled out of the library of old Deady one night when the moon shone big and bright. Romance was in Johnnie’s soul, and by .the light of that big, yellow moon, he thought he saw that same romance dancing in the blue eyes of Mary. * # # “Where shall we go?’’ John nie whispered as they slowly went down the steps. “Oh, let's go home.” yawn ed Mary. “I’m tired of just walking around!” * * i John and Mary went home. John was disappointed—hor ribly so—but then—what to do but walk around • And it did get tiresome. If only they had had a Campa Shoppe where ‘‘some thing different” would have varied the evening. But trees and weeds grew where the Campa Shoppe now stands, and the now famous Towns Shoppe was still undreamed of. # * # Romance, even in the spring, fades for lack of “something different. The Campa Shoppe and the Town Shoppe offer you variety, pleasing and satisfying, whether you want a good time or just something to eat or drink.