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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1923)
The Man in the Rut Isn’t Necessarily Down and Out By Leonard Lerwlll Tearing his hair and trembling in the intensity of his emotion, the agitat or, on the corner of Main street and Highbrow avenue, jumped on top of his soap box yelling to the assembled mob, “You are in a rutl You follow the path of least resistance! You are a spineless bunch of boobs, the slaves of your environment!” At the meeting of the faculty the dean rose slowly from his chair and remarked, “I wish we could take some action to induce the students to be original in their methods. It’s always and eternally the same thing with them —never an idea of their own. All they aro concerned with is following the path which has been trod by those who went before them. They are in a rut.” It has taken 200,000,000,000,000 peo ple 50,000 years to build up this civili zation of ours and every thirteen minutes some ambitious young upstart comes along and declares his intention of beginning at the beginning and doing job all over again. As a general Tule no one offers any particular ob jection but for some unexplained rea son the high minded one seldom gees ahead with his plan. Instead of that he starts making faces at the rest of the populace for following in tho rut made by the skidding of their fore fathers. As a matter of fact that rut is the only path the deluded human race has to follow. It is either a case of following the rut or standing still. Suppose a youngster decked out in his new suit of clothes and red neektie decided he wanted to know why 'it was a good policy for him to twist his mouth out of shape and show his teeth every time he met a young lady of pleasing appearance. Inasmuch as we are not all model tooth paste ads there certainly is no sensible reason why we should show our teeth to each other every time we meet. It’s just a rut we’re in—thats all. No sense to it whatever. And yet human beings go on day after day smiling at eaeh other just as though it was the right and proper thing to do. It probably is the right and proper thing to do. If the modern Sir Gallahad had to figure out a reason for the antics he goes through to win a charming princess ho would die a broken hearted old bache lor. And what about this perpetual cry for originality? Certainly Sir Gallahad is not going to try any originality on a maiden’s heart and hand. He will stick to the old tried and sure methods. Ho will stay in the rut. Now comes our search for the real oolloge man. What is hot We have only four or fivo, they tell us, and that’s good news, for four or five are enough if we are going to look upon him as that far seeing individual who gazes back through the evolutionary ages and catches an insight of what he is doing and why. But to find the real college man we must first find the real college. What is it and what should it give to to its students? Obviously there is only one thing it can do. It can put them in the rut deeper and keep them there. It can do, perhaps to a greater extent, what all human society does. It can bind men closer to the habits and traditions of their forefathers. It can teach one to follow the beaten path and make it a trifle more beaten so that it may be followed more easily in tho future. What student knows why he camo to college? If he did know how much better off would he be? He has a vague idea of course that ho will some Terminal Cafe Open from 6 A. M. to 8 P. M. Merchants’ Lunch 11 to 2 35c Special Dinner 5:30 to 7:30 60c Quick Service and Home Cooking. day be a doctor, or write a book, or dig a ditch if you see it in the bare materialistic sense. But a University is supposed to give more than facility with a knife, or a pen, or a shovel. It is supposel to influence the social org anization. But the social system is a thing with a tremendous momentum. The 200, 000,000,000,000 people who have pushed it along during the past 50,000 years have started it on a course that can be slightly changed by a tremendous pressure. The man who gets in front and pushes backward will be run over. It doesn’t pay to be too original. Sport Chatter by MONTE BYERS What makes a good football team? Upon what does its success depend? Some will tell you that it is all in the men who make up the personnel of the team, but that is only a small part of the making of a good football machine. In the mad rush for good scoring ma chine and football championships there is a story often untold, a story which rarely gets beyond the gridiron enclos ure, or the shower room. It is the story of the second team, obscure in th© shad ow of the varsity glory. It is the sec ond stringers who make the varsity a | success. Each day sees them mauled, smeared and trampled in the mud by the varsity eleven. Each day they turn out for more of the same treatment, taking it all with a smile and a firm set to their jaws. We read of the deeds of the varsity, but the second stringers never make the columns. They are th© silent heroes, the heroes who get all the knocks and no credit. Speaki^jr of this greater Oregon stuff, it might be well to mention the second stringers. Give them a hand, they de serve it. When the curtain is rung down on HE’S BACK! America’s Favorite Screen Actor Is Again with Us— WILLIAM FOX WILLIAM FARNUM A gripping drama of Califor nian adventures. OTHER REX DOINGS Matinee 20c; Night 30c FRESHMEN— CJ Have you ever stopped to think how much your folks would like to see what is going on at the Uni versity? They are vitally interested in you. They send you to college. Send the Emerald Home Cj} It’s the little things that count in this world. A remembrance such as this means much to your par ents. Subscription price by mail 75c per term ; $2.25 a year, payable in advance. Call at Emerald busi ness office, basement of McClure hall, between 2 and 6 P. M. Don't WaitSubscribe Now! conference football another Oregon grid iron star will pack his moleskins on the shelf and call it enough. Hal Chapman is piloting the varsity in wonderful fashion this year and he will finish in a flame of gridiron glory. Like most of the athletes who come here, he was only mediocre, but everyone knows how he has developed in the last three years. Last year most of the critics of coast football picked him as a close second to Erb, the great California pivot. Hal has kept the Chapman clan on the ath letic history of Oregon. His brother, Nish, was no slouch, when it came to football and basketball. We also hear that there is another brother who may surpass his brothers. He has a big job, but we hope he does. Do-nut basketball has started and it looks like a fast and successful season, if the first game may be taken a cri terion. The scores are close and the combinations seem to be in fairly good shape. The race Tor the flag should be exciting. *' * * Much as we hate to say it, Ray Mc | Keown is lost tp the varsity for the sea | son and possibly for all time. The big ; fellow, though never a star of the high ! est calibre, was a valuable asset to the team. McKeown injured his knee and a cast has been necessary for the last few weeks. Look back through the files of football and count the men who have had injured knees. Few of them ever played after the injury. A knee never gets well. McKeown is showing rare judgment when he says that he will never step on a gridiron again. . Where are the co-ed archers this fine fall weather? We remember in our green cap days when the feminine bow experts used to miss their targets and come close to puncturing our verdant bonnet. • • The Stanford Cardinals are pointing to the Oregon clash as one of their big gest games of the season. They have reason to consider it a big game. Ore-1 gon is still smarting under that 10-0 de feat the southerners handed them in 1921. Stanford has a big team and a wonderful coaching staff, so that the game 'will be an incentive for all foot ball fans to make Portland their Mecca on November 10. Gonzaga routed the Washington State Cougars. They cannot be denied admis sion to the conference much longer. The shifty attack of the Bulldogs fooled the Maroon and Gray men. Coach Dorias of the Spokane gridsters is a pupil of the great Rockne at Notre Dame and if we’re not mistaken Rockne knows a trifle about football. If you don’t be . lieve it, ask the Army. -Say HeUo First J. H. GILBERT FOUND GOOD AT STRATEGY (Continued from page one) i in face of them and forcing himself to meet distasteful circumstances. Blunt in Classrooms In classroom he is blunt to the point of being callous to the sympathies of the students. His witticisms are directed toward himself as well as those in front of him. When Gilbert loses his cloak of in structor, he is an individual. Certainly there is no man of keen intellectual in ZERO Ice Cream Palace Open under new management. Ice Cream Confectionery Light Groceries 1352 13th Avenue W. T. WARFEL, Proprietor Carter’s Lunch Box “The Students’ Lunch at the Students’ Price Don’t wait for the dinner bell—eat when you please. Don’t depend on the cook’s choice —choose for yourself. 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Monotony is prevented by the use of anecdotes, of exaggerated alliteration. A perfect instructor, an imperfect but likeable man. Withal the analysis and criticism col lected, there is one incident that com pletes the picture of James Gilbert. As he dismissed the interviewer, he faced the reporter, and James Gilbert began to speak: “I’m an out and out optimist.” That’s James Gilbert. Modernism-Unitarianism An Open Letter by Frank Fay Eddy Modernism in the current usage of the day seems to mean mental adaptation to the scientific interpretation of facts. It is a word which marks the color of modern thought as distinguished from the unscientific credulity which charac terized the thinking of all but a few philosophic minds, scarcely more than a century ago. Like a rising tide mod ernism has spread until it is almost im plied as the mental attitude of every 'educated person and it has almost com pletely captured all institutions of high er education. Incidentally but quite inevitably mod ernism disturbed the ages-old assump tions of religion, particularly that type of Christianity which based its theology on an inerrant scripture. Religious mod ernism then means a mental attitude which subjects Christianity to the same scrutiny ag all other social institutions. In other words, Christianity is not al lowed any special privileges. It is sub jected to the acid test of scientific in quiry like everything else. But this scientific inquiry into re ligion and religious books and creeds and beliefs does not destroy religion; but rather gives faith a new setting. Now Unitarianism because it had al ready, on philosophic grounds, broken with Evangelical Christianity, was, when the new facts regarding man in a wider universe were announced, not only free to accept them but disposed to welcome them. Hence, Unitarianism has provid ed most of the leaders and practically all of the shock troops in the advance of Modernism in religious fields. 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