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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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meet distasteful circumstances.
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toward himself as well as those in front
of him.
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structor, he is an individual. Certainly
there is no man of keen intellectual in
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can excel him in conciseness of lecture.
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
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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.
While the more apparent effect of
Unitarianism has been destructive, in re
ality it has been to a far greater degree
constructive or re-constructive.
The University is necessarily modern
istic in its teaching. It could not be
otherwise and sustain a worth-while rep
utation.
In our little Unitarian church on Elev
enth avenue we are striving to give an
interpretation of religion which accepts
Modernism. We invite all University men
and women to its services.
The Morning Service is at 10:45
each Sunday. This is the chief service
of the day. We have no regular even
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The theme for next Sunday’s sermon
will be “Lives and Life." The soloist
at this service will be Miss Johanna
James, soprano.
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