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George Belknap
Fraternity Responsibility
Those of us on our campus who arej, privileged to take courses
under Dean George Rebec have found that some of the ancient Greeks
were not so ancient after all and that many of their sayings come
home with a surprising force to us today.
In the play “Orestes” of the great Greek playwright Euripides,
one of the characters says: ‘ ‘ Greek it is still to honor kindred
blood.” On our own campus we have a system of social life modeled
after and named for the Greek people in their noblest days. Damon
and Pythias set the example of brotherly love for the fraternity men
of American colleges.
Now and again attacks are made on the fraternity system, and
oftime with justice; for it is a poor fraternity man who will not ad
mit that the system has its faults.
But at the base this fraternity system is a success or a failure iu
proportion as it correctly defines the word “kindred.” A chapter
of any Greek letter society on a campus which is an association of
“kindred” men who are leaders in college life can not help but be
one of the chief assets of the college. In the hands of each successive
generation of fraternity men lies the fate of their fraternity and the
fortune of the entire fraternity system. To them is given the task of
defining the word “kindred”; and once those kindred souls are
found, the fraternity is given the privilege of fostering and honoring
them.
Jewels
A junk heap is not a pleasant thing of which to think, but it
often yields valuable treasure to the man who searches through it,
for more than once diamonds of the first water, and jewels of rare
value have been found in just such unexpected places. The human
itarian individual will protest, we know, when we say that of the
thousands of people we meet in the course of a year nine hundred
and ninety-nine of each thousand can be little more than junk to us.
What they may be to others we cannot know.
Fortunate indeed is the man who, going through the junk-heap of
three score years and ten, picks up the three or four true friends al
lotted to him by a kind Providence. College years are propitious
years for the meeting with friends who gleam true.
C. N. H.
Average Student Merely
Attempts to “Get Through”
By Harold N. Leo
Have you ever stopped to consider how
much it costs every one concerned to
hold the University in session for a
year! What the total turnover is? Not
merely the money spent by the insti
tution, but in addition all that is spent
by the students?
There are over 2000 students on the
campus this year. A very conservative
estimate of the gross expenditure is over
$2,000,000. At least $1,500,000 of this
sum is a total waste! Where are the
professors of political economy now?
Who says that chewing gum and war are
the most costly luxuries of American civ
ilization? This $2,000,000 is the cost
here at only one small University. Think
how stupendous ip the sum spent in all
the institutions of the country.
It is apparent to any critical observer
•that, the largest portion of this is waste.
Does the average student really know
what he is paying such a sum for? Does
he know why he is here? Apparently
not.
The average student is here to “got
by” or “get through”; he is here be
cause it is his superstition that a col
lege diploma will mean something—
either money, or place, or culture—to
him. He does not know how nor why it
will mean this, and will not try to dis
cover. In most cases he could not even
defino what he means by “culture” or
“refinement.”
Of course this view omits those who
are at the University simply because
father pays the expenses—those who
come so that they will not have to work.
That class should be omitted from an
article like this. It should also be omit
ted from the University, and that in the
.shortest order.
Most of the students are so occupied
•with the business of registering, get
ting hours, attending classes, yes, and
oven taking notes and passing examina
tions, that they have no time to get ed
ucated. They have no time even to won
der what it is all about.
The average college graduate knows
uext to nothing about history; about
books; about thought; about art; about
science. The average college graduate
does not have even a basis of scholar
ship; he has credits and a diploma. He
is not educated; he is graduated. As
'one professor remarked last week:
Many of our students should not be
in college. They should be digging
ditches—or in business.”
The University is a place for the pro
mulgation of knowledge; for the train
ing of thought processes. The Univer
sity is a place for scholarship. Every
one would be better off if those who do
not want scholarship and those who are
not capable of scholarship would leave.
One Year Ago Today
SOME HIGH POINTS IN OREGON
EMERALD OP OCTOBER 21, 1922
Oregon today defeated Whitman col
lege (i to 3 in a hard fought contest,
the outcome of which was not certain
until the final whistle had blown.
Water is preventing rapid work in
excavating for the new Journalism
building.
Harold Newton, Oregon graduate and
American vic.e-counsul at Kobe, ad
dressed several classes on the campus
today.
Students who wish to vote at the
coming state election held November 7,
must secure certificates of registration,
according to news received from the
court house.
Percy La Salle has been elected head
of the chemistry club.
Word in today's paper says that the
Alpha Delta parrot is learning to speak
English fluently.
-——Say Hello First
NEW PICTURE COMING
TO CASTLE THEATER
Potash and Perlmutter, creations of
the famous humorist, Montague Glass,
appear on the silver screen Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday at the Castle.
Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr
who played the title roles when the
play was presented on the legitimate
stage impersonate Potash and Perlmut
ter in the screen version. The picture
is a Sam Goldwyn production.
-Say Hello First
Read the Classified Ad column.
COMMUNICATIONS
Letter* to the Emuais from students
and faculty member* are welcomed, but
nuet be limed and worded concisely
If it is desired, the writer's name will be
kept out of print. It must be understood
that the editor reserves the right to reject
communications.
To the Editor:—
This past summer I had occasion to
talk at length with a number of prom-1
inent men, among them managers of
a public utility corporation, and ed
vertising agency, and a metropolitan
newspaper. In each case the conversa
tion turned to the subject of the col
lege graduate—a subject in which each
of the men was interested because each
is an employer who looks largely to
our colleges as a source of supply of|
the recruits of which he is in con-!
stant need.
I asked each man this pointed ques
tion: “What, in your opinion, is the
typical defect in the college graduate
for your purposes! In what respect
can the college improve the training
they offer to the young man who might
be supposed to aspire to positions in
your corporation (agency) (newspa
per) !”
In each case the answer came: “The
college graduate is deficient in Eng
lish. He fails because he cannot speak
and write correct, effective English.
The college should remedy this fault.”
In the cases of the newspaper and
advertising men, the answer seems rea
sonable, because the use of English is
a part of the technical equipment of
their businesses. But it was the
manager of the great corporation that
emphasized the point most insistently.
“We have no trouble in getting tech
nical men,” he said. “Our difficulty
is in finding men who are capable of
interpreting our business to the pub
lic.”
The criticism, I think, is just. From
all of our universities, men are grad
uated with the stamp of the institu
tion ’s approval in the form of a degree,
who are quite incapable of using the
English language correctly—not to say
effectively. And yet I do not blame
the universities. They do everything
in their power, everything which might
be expected of them, to meet this sit
uation. And they fail. They accom
plish something; but in the main,
they fail. Even where the classroom
methods are the most skillful, the marg
in of failure—in so far as final results
are concerned—is only slightly reduced.
The language faculty is a habit— one
formed very early, and one that resists
most stubbornly all attempts to alter
it. Against such resistance the ef
forts of the classroom, formal and im
personal as they must be, can avail
but little.
Is there a remedy! If there is one,
I believe that it lies in the develop
ment of a strong public opinion in
favor of good English. Suppose it were
possible to create here at Oregon a
campus consciousness for good Eng
lish, both spoken and written.
Under the persistent impact of public
opinion, with such favorable conditions
as exist here on the campus, even the
most deep-seated habit of incorrect ex
pression must yield.
Propaganda is no longer a felicitous
word. But I commend to the editor
of this paper the proposition that a
campaign for better English, waged
persistently and vigorously by the Em
erald should bring measurable results.
W. F. G. THACHER
AN ODYSSEY
Spirit kindred, I do greet thee;
Happy am I now to meet thee,
For I like thy manner easy,
)A.nd thy careless air so breezy;
Provst thou hast articulateness
Nothing hampered by sedateness.
iRoaming, art thou? So shall I
With you on your wand ’rings ply.
Man, his motions, shall we see,
Channelled mortals, nowise free;
Let them laugh as you and I
Renounce all tradition
Aud venture perdition.
Come! Let not the world’s persuasion
Seduce us into weak evasioj).
True to that flame that in each burns,
Nor never back but forward turns,
We'll seek the truth, aud prove that
which we seek,
■Knowing that inactivity alone is weak;
So shall we on, for error ne’er contrite,
Stumbling bitter error’s path to right
/Whence to the world these words we’ll
speak,
Renounce all tradition
And venture perdition.
—John Scheffer.
-Say Hello First
BITTER SWEET
Because I bear a love of you
I also bear a pain,
A pain as keen and bitter-sweet
As April’s lilac-rain.
Because you came and smiled on me
But passing, bid me stay,
I dared to look within your eyes.
And threw my soul away.
—Alan Hill.
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Literary Gossip
by
PAT MORRISSETTE
Ben Hecht is supposed to have writ
ten “The Florentine Dagger” in ten
hours. Ought to get Ben to write this
column while he’s combing his hair.
That would give us Friday night to
play pinochle. In “The Dagger”
Hecht introduces himself to the art of
the mystery story. This means that
another American novelist is ruined.
• • •
Absolutely. The rent collection needs
some rejuvenating. Now that we’re all
back from Europe everybody ought to
have some ideas on the subject.
* * •
Speaking of Prof Howe, an unpub
lished paper by that gentleman en
titled “The Biological Limit of Civiliza
tion” bears a startling resemblance to
a study published this summer by P.
Anderson Graham called “The Collapse
of Homo Sapiens.” The resemblance is
one in conclusions—not in treatment.
Howe’s paper antedates Graham’s by
about six months.
* * *
After teaching “Julius Caesar” in
the grade schools for a cycle of red
moons in order to give our growing
young Americans a simple sample of
Shakespeare, here comes a guy by the
name of William Wells who can prove
that William only wrote 57 lines of
the play. (Note: Profs please answer
this low brow in the following manner:
“It is of no particular interest who
wrote etc., etc.)
“The Dance of Life” by Havelock
Ellis is a new conception of the art of
living based, for the most part, on a
statement found in the introduction to
Einstein's “Relativity.” Although out
less than a month it is considered by
many of its reviewers to be a valuable
addition to the philosophy of mystic
ism. Havelock is better known on the
campus as the author of the “six best
books” rather than the charming writ
er of “The New Spirit” found on the
shelf of English essays. (There’s an
interesting story concerning the disap
pearance of “the six” from the library
some summers ago.)
Ludwig Lewisohn and John Dos Pas
sos have each contributed a novel to
the season’s literature. Those who got
a thump out of “Up Steam” and
“Three Soldiers” may—and may not—
be anxious for the arrival of the books
on the campus. Lewisohn calls his
book “Don Juan” and the other gentle
man retaliates with “The Streets of
Night.”
“Bunk” is the appropriate title of a
novel by W. E. Woodward dedicated
to the cause of “debunkizing” the
world. Woodward says the world is
full of bunk. Mebbe so. “Of What
Use are the Common People?” a study
in democracy by Heinrich E. Bucholz,
attacks the same question in a more
scholarly manner. Both come out
strong in defense of the common people
and treat the pseudo-intellectual rather
harshly.
Say, are you still reading this stuff,
Pauline? or is there too much abracada
bra? That is the question. Abracada
bra—or no abracadabra. Is it not,—
Mr. Turnbull?
“To make woman upright and honest
would be to attack thq most vital
impulse within her,” intimates Anthony
Advertise!
Ludovici in his recent book on “Wo
men.” If that makes you rabid, Pau
line, get the rest of it.
The Stewart Walker dramatization
of the Book of Job has been booked
for Eugene. ‘Way in February some
time, I guess.
• • •
Three successive biographies of
Henry Ford seem to indicate that the
personality of the man is being issued
in models. The latest model is Allan
L. Benson’s “The New Henry Ford.”
Hall’s “Life and Confessions of a
Psychologist” was probably the most
talked of book on the campus during
the past week. Besides being the sub
ject for an assembly the book was a
topic in education and psychology semi
nars. It is interesting to compare
the campus opinion with the humorous
review of Joseph Collins, author of
“The Doctor Looks at Literature” a
few of the earlier copies of which are
now on the campus. If two and two
makes four, Hall’s book marks an
epoch in psychology and education—but
has little to do with literature.
Lord Dunsany has two more books
of drama out.
-Say Hello First
FUTILITY
Soft as the insistent flutter
Of a bruised moth wing, against
The night’s half of a stained
Amber window, through which
The light ^of an Idol comes warm
In shafts, from some remote and
Shadowed corner, to be quickly
Blotted out, and swallowed by
The swish of other shadows
Eager to be warmed—and welcomed.
So is the thistle down of thought
I might have sent you,
1 But for those swarming others, who
Sleaked themselves within
The barrier of your attention.
The members of the freshman class
wish to take this opportunity to ex
press their appreciation to the mem
bers of the senior class who most
kindly gave up the Woman’s building
to the freshman class Saturday eve
signed) LOWELL BAKER,
President of the freshman class.
-Say Hello First
—Elnora Keltner.
THANK YOU
ning.
“THE GimriGHTEE” HERE
WITH WILLIAM FABNIJM
William Farnum in “The Gunfight
er” opens tomorrow at the Rex theater
for a two day run. The story is by
John Frederick, more familiarly known
as Max Brand. A strong cast sup
ports the star.
Three Days
Starting Monday
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EDMUND BREESE
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Strong men, brave women and
knaves are cast by fate into a
web of intrigue amid the wild
splendor of the timber country
—a bigger and better photo
play of the north than you
have ever seen.
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Other Added Features.
As Usual, 20 Cents.
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“MAIN STREET”
IS COMING
EXPERT SHOE SHINING
For a number of years we have been the students’ head
quarters for shoe shining. We clean, dye and shine any
color shoes. Orders for repairing taken.
REX SHOE SHINING PARLOR
(Next Rex Theatre)
Look at the Fellow
Ahead of You—
ARE HIS HEELS “RUN OVER”?
The felow behind you thinks the
same of you.
Corrected while you wait.
Jim the Shoe Doctor
986 Willamette Street
Phone 867
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Meals at all hours
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Soda Fountain
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Ye Towne
Shoppe
Ernest Seute, Proprietor
Pot Roasted Chicken
You remember how delicious we served it
last year? Fortunately we have been able
to get back the chef that prepared it for you
then. This fine chicken dinner tonight will
delight you.
Musical Concert by the
University Trio, 6 to 8
Dinners, 5:30 to 8
Ye Campa
Shoppe
Herschel Taylor, Proprietor