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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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.