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Contributors to this issue are: Monte Byers, Pat Morrissette,
Margaret Skavlan, Leonard Lerwill, Betli Pariss, Catherine Spall, Ed
ward Bobbins, Norma Wilson, Bon Woodward, Mary Clerin, Ward Cook,
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Margaret Morrison George Belknap
Small Town Boys
lu a recent editorial a Portland daily sounded the praises
of the “small town man.” Following a rather lengthy dis
sertation upon the merits of living in the country it said:
“Ample time for reflection is theirs (those who live in the coun
try). So from time to time they send us their young men and
women, grown to a mental stature that dwarfs us, nurtured, if
you please on small town stuff, sustained by village morality—
and we are amazed at the marvel.”
It is an interesting commentary on campus life to note how
well this principle works out here. Older students on the cam
pus have seen it happen time and time again that the well
known, much rushed “prepper” fails to live up to expectations
and is finally excelled by some small town youth of little or no
reputation.
It has worked out in so many cases that the high school
“stars” have absolutely failed as University students that to
have it turn out in any other way has almost come to be a
surprise.
There are advantages in going to the larger high schools.
Facilities for scholarship are better, and higher class instruc
tion is often available; but on the other hand there are 'the
multitudinous distractions of the life in the larger places.
Perhaps the freshman from the village knows fewer dance
steps and has not learned to plaster his hair quite as smoothly
as the urbanite, but our observation teaches us that his chances
to succeed are likely to be better than those of the boy with
the metropolitan veneer.
Sport Chatter
by
MONTE BYERS
If that noise about tho crazy
antics of tho Japanese current is
correct, Oregon may be able to add
a few more sports to tho calendar.
Say the Willamette froze over—
chance for a hockey team. Snow
on the hills -skiing tournaments.
Speed skaters might find the race
a good speedway, providing they
watched the bridges.
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Despite the fact that over half
a hundred coaches have put their
monickers down as desirous of the
Oregon mentorship and others have
been mentioned, one man seems to
have been overlooked. Johnny
Beckett seems to have had a lot
of success with marine teams in
tfie east. Sport followers will re
member Johnny as one of the best
tackles ever turned out at the local
institution.
With football a fireside topic
now', we turn our attention to
basketball. Oregon, with six vet
erans and a number of other good
men out for the team, ought to be
up among the top Hoteliers when
the curtain is rung down in March.
Latham, Rockhey, Alstock, Shafer,
Chapman and Cowans form a very
promising nucleus for Reinhart to
build a scoring machine around
Besides these hi' has King, Hobson,
Stoddard, Cillenwaters, Tuck, Far
ley and Morlock, all promising can
didates.
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Looking over the prospects we
find that the other schools in the
conference have some nice hoop
teams and Oregon will hav<> to
hump to get a solid grip on the top
rung. The Aggies, Cougars. \ and
als, Huskies and Missionaries have
quintets to be proud of. Some
veterans will be minus when the
season starts, but they all have a
host of material to fall back on. It
should be a great year for basket
ball, with a number of torrid games
before the championship is tucked
away and the mythical five is sc
lccted.
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Track prospects are none too
bright at present. Bill has five
lettormeu and some untried Irish
man and holdover material to mold
his track aggregation from.
Spearow, Risley, Rosebraugh, Kane
na and Hunt are monogram' men
available. Rosenberg, Anderson,
Mautz, Keating, Kelsey, E'by and
Wells will bo on hand to fight for
places on the team, all men of
ability in their events.
Sprinters and distance men are
needed to round the team out, es
pecially second and third place
men. iiill may have some dark
horse stuff out, but he would wel
come more aspirants for jobs on
bis cinder team, lie has suits and
track shoes aching for someone to
come and get them for a scamper
around the cinder oval.
The 1924 track season will mark
the close of a brilliant career for
Ralph Spearow, vaulter, high and
broad jumper. I’ast track seasons
have found Oregon's premier vaulter
doing wonderful work in this big
event. The 11*21 season should be a
great one for him.
Spearow's vaulting career ex
tends over a long period of years.
We can remember him vaulting
over homemade paraphernalia in
grammar school days over a decade
ago. In high school wo remember
him as a good two-thirds of his
school’s team one year.
He has vaulted for the Mult
nomah club in sectional meets. He
has attended national meets.
Spearow vaults consistently around
the HI foot mark and has been
around the world often. In many
meets he has tried to break the
existing record and came within a
gnat's eyelash of it.
In his last year of college com
petition he should have a wonderful
season. The Olympic games in
Paris are enticing bait. What
would rottnd out a great harper
better than crossing the Atlantic
to vie with the greatest bamboo
artists in the world? Spearow has
an excellent chance to be Oregon's
representative on the 1924 Olympic
team. He is truck captain this year
and will be a good one.
The old guard of Andy Smith's
wonder team packed their mole
skins for the last time this year,
leaving Andy to fill their places,
with new men. Andy may not have
such powerful teams again, but wo
know that he’s going to have a
team which will have to be con
sidered when the 1924 season gets
under way.
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ROOTABAGA PIGEONS
Can Sandburg
After reading the “Rootabaga
Stories,” falling in love with the
White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind
Boy, travelling with Gimme-The
Ax and his children to the Roota
baga country where all the pigs
wear bibs and their mothers and
fathers fix them, there is scarcely
a reader who can resist the impulse
to read immediately upon Us ap
pearance Carl Sandburg’s newest
book, ‘‘The Rootamga Pigeon i.”
The same whimsical magic is in
the new volume, a host of new
additions to the vocabulary of the
! fancy from the first tale which be
gins, “Pdixic Blimber’s mother was
.•hopping hash. And the hash
hatchet broke. So Blixia Blimber
started downtown with fif cen cents
| to buy a new hash hatchet for
chopping
Sandburg tells a story with the
undercurrent of fun and archness
that some grown-ups tell stoiies to
the children when there are other
grown-ups present. The stories are
therefore as much fun to the older
folks who read them as to the
children to whom they are rare en
joyment. There is fancy more
than imagination and even the in
tellectual can sit and chuckle at
“Shush Shush, The Big Buff Banty
Hen Who Laid an Egg in the Post
master’s Hat,” and “Rag Bag
Mammy who lived in the Village of
Hatpins.”
Monkeywrenches and crooked
ladders have a flavorsomeness and
Hatrack the Horse who reaches
| round and hangs his hat on a
shoulderblade becomes a perfectly
plausible creature in a perfectly
plausible Village of Cream Puffs. It
is a whole new fairy lore with a
much more whimsieal appeal and
with a humor and fun that the av
erage fairy lore lacks. American
children must surely love the queer
ly illustrated fascinating volume
whoso covers open upon a fascinat
ing new world.
A word must be said for the il
lustrators, Maud and Miska Peter
sham, whose work is as valuable
as the stories themselves. The pic
tures are the sort that children
would remember in great detail and
love. They have just the same
touch of oddity and whimsicality
that the tales have and without
them it would bo difficult to state
whether the tales would bo all that
they are.
A book for grown-ups and chil
dren, an achievement in fancy,
rhythm and entertainment, “The
Rootabaga Pigeons.” And by the
same man who writes so well of
steel, smoke, city noise and grime.
-—Katherine Watson.
THE BLIND BOW BOY
Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten begins his last
book, “The Blind Bow Boy,” with
a conventional dullness quite unlike
him, and bores the reader with
trite scene between a sou just out
of college and an erratic father;
in which the only hint of the glint
ing humor to follow lies in tffe
father’s advertisement for a com
panion for his son, a companion
whose chief requisite must, be a
complete absence of moral sense and
participation in a public scandal
at some time in his life.
Harold, the son—wlijose strong
j est aversion in life is the coat and
i suit business as a means of liveli
| hood—sets out to lead a life of
luxurious leisure in his own apart
j ment with a valent whose subtle
j attempts to make moral laxness
i easy for thd boy, lerve only to
disgust him. Through the compan
ion whom his father has secured,
Harold meets interesting, clever
and unconventional people, who do
the sort of careless extravagant and
' unconventional things that only
i Van Vechten’s characters do.
They are all impossibly clever
and with them as a medium Van
Vechten expresses his own pet
! philosophies and treats the reader
to those wordy landslides with
which Peter Whiffle was so re
plete; dizzying hodge-podges of
music and art and literature and
psychology and philosphy and mor
ality; lists of paintings, composi
tions, French modistes, books of the
year, Italian poets, Scandinavian
playwrights, Hindu philosophy, Van
Vechten is enamoured of names.
There are one or two good in
teriors in the book. Van Vechten
likes interiors, much as Herge
sheimer does, but he is interested
in the details, the bric-a-brac in the
room, while Hergesheimer notes the
effect of light and shade, of tones
and harmonies. Van Vechten’s in
teriors are like the advertisements
of very good furniture companies
in the Home Beautiful. Not that
they are conventional, but they are
detailed.
He is elusively and alludingly,
and withal, daringly, bold in spots.
His characters are often surpris
ingly frank; sometimes a bit nasty.
There is about Van Vechten, how
ever, the same debonair, laughing
indifference that characterizes Ald
ous Huxley. He is never disgust
ing, always amusing.
His book settles nothing, arrives
nowhere. Campaspe Lorillard, the
most interesting character in the
book, justifies this in a soliloquy
in which she deprecates the at
tempt to present characters as pro
gressing and changing and growing
with experience. To Campaspe, and
to Van Vechten, characters remain
the same. Though Harold’s views
of life may change, Harold himself
is singularly the same. Nothing he
does is startlingly unexpected.
Van Vechten looks about him at
life, and laughs and shrugs lifis
shoulders and writes what he has
seen, glossed over with an easy and
careless cleverness.
—Nancy Wilson.
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MOST FOPULAR BOOKS
IN LIBRARY: DECEMBER
Fiction
1. Town and Gown, by Lyn
and Lois Seyster Mont
ross.
2. Black Oxen, by Gertrude
Atherton.
3. End of House of Alard,
by Sheila Kaye-Smith.
4. Janet March, by Floyd
Dell.
5. Don Juan, by Ludwig
Lewisohn.
Non-Fiction
1. Sarah of the Sahara, j
by Walter E. Traprock. |
2. Studies in Classic Ameri
can Literature, by D. H.
Lawrence.
I 3. College Days, by Stephen
Leacock.
4. Story of the Bible, by j
Hendrik Van Loon.
5. Outlines of Literature,
by John Dr ink water.
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STETSON
Hats
Style and Quality arc the two essentials of
a good hat, but it does not pay to buy one
without the other. All Stetsons have both.
STYLED FOR YOUNG MEN
Buildings Go Up
in Few Hours
The wave of building activity
that has been sweeping the coun
try for the last few years has fin
ally struck the campus and not only
has the University construction de
partment been affected by it, but
1 the architectural department itself
has for a while laid away its pen
cils and paint brushes and has
launched itself into a program of
construction work.
Fire halls, libraries, cathedrals
and other such magnificent struc
tures which formerly have taken
months if not years to build are
here constructed in a few hours.
The work is simple; first the stu
1 dent takes out his plans, gorgeous
ly inked and colored, and then with
a few thin boards or shingles he
builds the framework for his build
ing. After this the finishing in
; stucco is begun by the wrapping
of a package of clay and its work
ing up into a pliable mass. The
wooden frame work is now covered
with the clay and, after a few
hours of molding and smearing, lo
[and behold, an architectural master
: piece stands before you.
The architectural students are re
quired to make models of their
finished plans and are given the
choice of building them of clay or
cardboard. Some very good work
is being turned out by the artists,
the buildings being to scale and
following the plans closely.
RADIO PLAYERS ORGANIZE
AT PULLMAN
Wahington State College—(By P.
I. N. S.)—The first venture of its
kind in the west and one of the
few in the United States is being
launched on the Washington State
campus with the organization of
the radio players, by Professor M.
L„ Daggy, head of the dramatics
department. A group of about 20
students in dramatics will be chos
en as charter members of the new
club, which will give plays over
j the college broadcaster, K F A E.
U. OF W. REGISTRATION
ON INCREASE #
Registration figures at the Uni
versity of Washington for the winter
quarter show a considerable gain
over the enrollment for the preced
ing quarter as well as the corres
ponding quarter last year. Early
[ figures in registration give 4337
! students enrolled and it is estim
ated that the final total will be well
over 5,000. About 500 students
! dropped out at the end of the last
term, but their places are more than
filled by the return of old students,
those 'transferring from other col:
!eges ami entering freshman. Speedy
i registration was in order on the
I Washington campus at the begin
ning of this term, one student estab
: iishing a record of 15 minutes.
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January
Birthdays
Flowers are the most ap
preciated of birthday
gifts. They are so ex
pressive of your regard
and so inexpensive. She
would rather have a few
liowers than many more dollars worm ol something else.
Just furnish us the date and your instructions and -we
will see she gets them at the proper time. One sorority
has the very pleasing custom of remembering each sis
ter’s birthday with a corsage.
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