The Sunday Emerald
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VOLUME XXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1924
NUMBER 75
The
Bystander
LAPSES OF LAW.
SAINTLY KING JAMES?
Q. E. D.—EVOLUTION.
CARS—FURS ?
_By C. N. H,_
One, two, three, four, five, only
one more left, make it good! and
six. Punishment has been meted,
“Well, fellows, this certainly is a
kangaroo court.” “Head the book,
Frank!” Senior- Seniors!
Shall the University barristers
carry canes, unless they are seniors
as well as law students! They
shall not, say the University seniors.
In the first tussle, the counsel for
the defense retired from the field,
carrying the cane of his punished
client. Cries of, “I s’y old thing,
ah you theah, come oveah lieali”
rang over the campus. In a sec
ond tussle under the principle of
prevention of economic waste, the
cane formerly belonging4 to one of
the barristers was presented with
ceremony to a University professor
who happened by.
“Poor sportsmanship” say some
of the cane-carriers, “they have to
get their traditions out of a little
green hello book, written by no
body in particular.”
“It’s a tradition that we alone
may carry canes if we want to,”
cry the seniors, while the lawyers
talk of the law of lapses. “Let
them, carry canes and; takip the
consequences” they voice the
threat. How about the lapses of
law?
Many of the students seem to
think that there is “a great deal
of stewing over a very little meat”
in the present unfortunate quib
bling contest now afoot in the re
ligious life of the country. We
pass this story on:
First Clergyman—bee here, it
you’re going to argue with me, you
have to argue properly.
Second Clergyman (defiantly) —
Well, that’s what I am and have
been doing all along.
First Clergyman—No you aren’t.
You’ve simply been rearranging
your prejudices!
“The Berry Patch” of the Cor
nell Daily Sun takes an interest
in this theological controversy. We
add, although not especially by way
of reply, but more apropos that
living in a Christian country or
being reared in a Christian family
does not alone qualify one for a
doctorate in Christian theology.
For good or for ill the theology
of a religion is far from being its
perfect expression. When, however,
many supposedly University stu
dents refeT to the “St. James” ver
sion of the Bible, we wonder what
the next fox-trot tune will be like.
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Certain good people living about
university campuses are objecting,
we are told, to the use of the saxa
phone at student (or perhaps any
other) dances, on the grounds that
it arouses primitive impulses. Read
ers of “Town and Gown” will re
call that the dean of women in the
middle western university pictured
there, felt herself slipping under
the bombastic boom, boom, boom
of the bass drum. We suppose that
in the New England of 1620 and
after, ye Puritan maid had only ye
cold New England moon and ye
wild Indian warhoop to stimulate
her primitive impulses. Poor girl!
“These women will make fools
of themselves, won’t they?” was
a question heard frequently on the
campus when a group of women
rode down Thirteenth street last
week in a palsied flivver.
In the few minutes between the
clack-clack-clack of the flat-wheeled
street car, the br-r-r-r-r of auto
trucks coming from and dying
away in the distance, the honk
and er-r-r-k of horns, classes are
conducted in the buildings along
Thirteenth street. And lastly, but
not leastly, the good old S. P.
whistles five or less long blasts as
it steams noisily past. It is un
fortunate the University is located
here where it disturbs this noise!
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To sit on the fence and laugh
at life, said one of the His Dean
ships in characterization of a type.
Gosh!
C. N. H.
Neihardt, a Poet of the
Higher Places
“Oli there are those, a sordid clan,
With pride in guad and faith in
gold.
Who prize the sacred soul of man
For what his hands have sold.”
John G. Neihardt, won his audience
in the short space of time it took to
give his first reading last evening
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John G. Neihardt
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pealing melodies, inspired by his in
terest in home and the beauty and
sanctity - of motherhood, composed
the first part of his program. The
above quotation taken from “The
in Villard Hall. Plaintive and ap
Heritage,” was part of this group.
Included also were “Lullabye” and
“Vision”.
“Eight Hundred Reasons,” a drama
inspired by an associated press dis
patch telling of a Russian mother
killing her only son, thinking he
was a stranger, because of her lust
for gold, particularly held the audi
ence, because of its tense dramatic
moments, its pathetic appeal, and its
awful futility.
A drab and prosaic town in Ne
braska having as its chief product,
“corn and hogs,” but claiming to be
“The Poet’s Town,” was the inspi
ration for his poem of that name,
in which the poet was described as
“Lover flf golden apples,
Munching a daily crust;
Haunter of dream-built chapels,
Worshipping in the dust;
Dull to the worldly duty,
Less to the town he grew,
And more to the God of Beauty
Than even the grocer knew.”
Mr. Neihardt spent the last half
hour in telling of his cycle of poems
to be called “The Cycle of the
West” in which he narrates the
growth and progression of civiliza
tion from 1822 to 1890. “The Song
of Hugh Glass,” “The Song of Jed
Smith,” “The Three Friends,” and
“The Great Migration,” are included
in this group.
Following the program a reception
was given in Susan Campbell hall,
at which a group of friends were in
vited to meet Mr. Neihardt.
Rent Collection
Lists N e w Books
Many Topics Treated
by Late Writers
Recent attractions on the list of
new rent books have arrived at
the library. Among the newer ones
may be found, “Over the Foot
lights,” by Stephen Leacock, author
of “Frenzied Fiction” and other
popular books; “Triumph of the
Nut and Other Parodies,” by
Christopher Ward and which in
cludes such titles as “Blacker
Oxen,”. “One of Hers,” “Some
Freedom,” “Certain People of No
Importance,” and ’’Paradise be
Damned.”
Otrers are: “Theodore Roose
velt,” by Lord Charnwood, author
of “Abraham Lincoln;” “The Fas
cist Movement in Italian Life,” by
Dr. Pietro Gorgolini; “The Blind
Bow-Boy,” by Carl Van Vechten;
“Jeremy and Hamlet,” by Hugh
Walpole; “The Late Mattia Pas
cal,” by Luigi Pirandello; “The
Machine Wreckers,” by Ernest Tol
ler; “The Story of My Life,” by
Sir Harry Johnston; “The Boy
Grew Older,” by Heywood Broun;
“The Hobo,” by Nels Anderson, and
“The Eagle’s Shadow,” and “The
High Place,” both by James B.
Cabell.
Heating Plant
Is Laboratory
The mechanics and astronomy de
partment will have sixteen hundred
square feet of floor space in its
new laboratory in the old heating
plant, according to d-awings of the
new layout just ci mpleted, says
Professor E. H. McAlister. At
present the boilers are being re
moved and the partitions taken out.
Then doors and windows will be
added, he said, and actual work in
designing the floor space will be
gin.
“No plans and details as to
the location of specific objects in
the room have been worked
out,” the professor said. “The de
partment will have a floor space
of about forty by forty feet in this
new lab, every inch of which is to
be used. All probabilities are that
classes will begin meeting in the
laboratory some time this term.”
MISS EDGINGTON’S CLASS
WILL NOT MEET
The University class in report
writing, taught by Miss Grace
Edgington, will not meet at any
time during the coming week, ac
cording to word from Miss Edging
ton, received Saturday.
Vesper Services
Event of Today
University Choir and
Soloists to Sing
The University choir will give its
monthly vesper service this after
noon at 4:30 in 4he Methodist Epis
copal church.
In addition to the regular chants
and responses sung by the choir, a
vocal duet by Ruth Akers, soprano,
and Aubrey Furry, bass, “Hark,
Hark, My Soul,” by Shelley, will
be sung. “Crossing the Bar,” by
Charles H. Marsh, will afford ex
cellent oppotunities for the choir to
be heard at its best. Roy Bryson,
tenor, will sing “Gloria,” by Buzzi
Peccia.
Students who attended the In
dianapolis convention will also
have an important part on today’s
program. Those speaking will be
Mary Bartholomew, Lester. Turn
baugh, Orlando Hollis and Edwin
Kirtly.
John Stark Evans, associate dean
of the school of music, is the organ
ist, as well as choirmaster. Vesper
services are considered by many as
being one of the finest things on
the campus, and as the University
choir is composed of the Men’s and
Women’s Glee clubs, that fact alone
should serve as an inspiration to
every student to attend.
Reverenl Bruce J. Giffen will de
liver the invocation.
Varsity Drubs
Tooth-Pullers
by Score 57-22
Oregoft Plays Same
Friday Night’s Battle
Star Tosser Out
With the offensive resuming the
smoothness of Friday night’s con
test, the varsity hoopers gave the
North Pacific Dental college five
a 57-22 drubbing in last night’s
mill. The varsity kept the tooth
pullers on the defensive through
out the go, and checked closely that
the Portlanders were able to garner
but eight field baskets. Pacific
was forced to do most of its shoot
ing from long range and the ma
jority of the tosses went wide.
Without the services of Douglas,
stellar forward, the dentists were
bewildered by the fast teamwork
of the varsity. Coach .Tacobberger
of the molar artists used four spares
in an effort to check the scoring
streak of the Webfoot five, but I
was unsuccessful. Reinhart used !
two subs, King and Jost, the form
er displaying some flashly floor
work and ringing the bell twice.
Jost played better ball than he
did in Friday’s contest and should
go better as the season progresses.
A recent operation has slowed him
considerable, but he looks like the
original understudy to Latham.
Latham worked nicely, scoring 19
markers, 18 of them from baskets.
Around, him the Oregon combination
worked in great style. Hobson,
Oowans and Shafer helped boost the
team score with 10 counters apiece.
Shafer had his eye on the basket
last night and registered six points
out of eight tries from the foul
line.
Smooth
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Jost Does Good
Dental Forwards Star
For the dentists the forwards,
Webster and Rassier, played a
scrappy game, scoring seven and
six points respectively. The sum
mary :
Oregon (57) (22) North Pacific
Gowans .F. Webster
Hobson .F.Rassier
Latham .C. Rogaway
Shafer .G. Erickson
Chapman .G. Mikkelson
King .S. Lawerence
dost .S. Babcock
8. Lutz
S. Karnat
Fouls on Oregon 8, on North Paci
fic 7. Point from foul, Oregon 7,
North Pacific 6. Referee, Cole
man, O. A. C.
Frosh Defeat Franklin
The frosh took the highly touted
Franklin high school quintet into
camp yesterday afternoon by the
count of 40 to 19. The frosh showed
a' slight improvement over the
previous night’s engagement with j
Jefferson, but the team play was
still rather ragged. They are find- !
ing it difficult to change their stylo \
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Rising Feminine Power
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Obliteration of Mankind
By Jay Doubleyew
There is a growing sex complex
fast overtaking us at the Univer
sity of Oregon. Perhaps already
upon us is the condition that there
is a dearth of men and an over
supply of women available for the
important jobs on this campus.
Believing this to be true, I won- I
der whether this is to be regarded
with alarm by the votaries of mas
culinism, or is it to be accepted as i
an evolutionary matter about which
nothing can be done, and which
will bring ultimate benefits to alH
Perhaps there are some inhabit
ants of this globe holding to the
belief that more women working
means less work to be done by
men. But such an indolent spirit
on the part of some certainly should
stir in others those dynamic en
ergies serving as proof of their
physical superiority.
Is there arising a great feminine
peri], a movement which seeks to
seat woman on the throne of the
universe, garb her in the toga of
distinction, and obliterate man from
consideration in the affairs of man
kind? Or is it merely that the
faltering double standard of moral
ity influences us nfen in our accept
ance of widespread feminine dom
ination? Since high morals, ab
solute dignity, staying homo with
the children, and serving as the
nucleus of our entire domestic 1
system, is no longer demanded of
womankind in the measure of form
er days, perhaps men are becoming
less jealous of their prerogative as
leaders in affairs.
If the growing single standard
has not stinted their visions and
weakened their vitalities, something
else must explain the submission of
men to this new-found rising tide
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Dollars, Sense, Versus
Utopian Opinions
By L. L. J.
Every now and then some kind
sonl points out that the reality of
life is not materialistic; that there
is a higher good than the mere col
lection of dollars and sense. The
fundamental motive of an educa
tion, in his viewpoint, is something
greater and more intense than the
plebian lust for capital. His ideal
is the immaterialistic. world, where
the artist will starve to create, the
author will die to produce, and the
business man will sell to give ser
vice.
A lovely bit of Utopia for those
that are sure of a pension in their
old age, but there aro others of us
that can see in the future only
long periods of hunger and event
ually the poor house, unless we in
some manner fit into an economic
niche and proceed to make that
sensual grab for the weekly, weak
ly pay check.
The average senior, after spend
ing four or five years glancing over
higher education, finds himsolf in
a dense fog, mentally depressed and
financially defunct. Wo would say
that the average group of weary,
cynical, disgusted, disgruntled, skep
tical seniors may bo analyzed into
a case of too much university, and
not enough currency.
After all, when there is .just five
months between a man and pos
sible starvation, ho is far more in
terested in paying off notes than
he is in some mystic period of
neolythic literature.
It is a disagreeable fact to state
that the college man is a dollar
mark, but when all is said an 1
dono, it is more desirable to be a
dollar than a question mark. The
statistics of insurance companies,
outside of the fact that they kill
off the larger percent of us before
we can grow a beard, display a
striking example in the reduction
of funds and the census of the poor
louse.
It is nice to play on spending a
comfortable existence sitting around
indulging in one’s personal defini
tion of original thought, but it is
practical to be able to eat three
meals a day and have some sort of
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Treasures Given
to Art Museum
Ten Volumes and Vase
Added to Collection
The store of treasures in the
Murray Warner Oriental art col
lection has received several valu
able additions since the return of
Mrs. Murray Warner from her trip
to California during the recent holi
days. Among these are ten volumes
of illustrated folios on Chinese
porcelain and a Chinese crackle
ware vase which has been sent to
the University by Walter D. Bliss,
prominent San Francisco architect,
who has become interested in the
museum here through Mrs. Warner.
The folios will be added at once
to the museum library which forms
an essential auxiliary to the col
lection itself and is being main
tained by Mrs. Warner and her as
sistants in order that art students
may have information at their dis
posal about the objects in the
museum. Hence Mrs. Warner’s gift
has a dual value in that she has
provided a means for the apprecia
tion of the priceless treasures
which she has given the state.
During her travels in the south
in quest of more material for the
library, Mrs. Warner reports that
she found the best selection of
books on art in Los Angeles, where
she bought these folios. They are
books which are not found outside
of museum libraries and because of
their limited editions are exceed
ingly hard to purchase. The set
which Mrs. Warner succeeded in
buying contains eight volumes on
Chinese and two on Japanese porce
lain. The entire set is the work
of W. T. Walters, an art collector
of Baltimore, whose collection of
Chinese procelains is the finest in
the United States at the present
time, according to Mrs. Warner.
The set is entitled “Oriental Cer
amic Art,” and is illustrated with
great skill in colors. Many of
these illustrations are brilliant in
color and all are realistic repro
ductions of the original objects.
Ornamental vases, snuff bottles, in
cense burners and jars of varied
shapes, many of them bearing the
familiar and significant impression
of a dragon, are the most numer
erous pieces in the collection as it
is illustrated. A description of each
piece is given in detail for the
benefit of other connoisseurs and
the text of the books is concerned
with the more general aspects of
ceramic art.
In speaking of these volumes Mrs.
Warner stated that seven years
were spent by Mr. Walters and his
assistants in perfecting the illustra
tions and writing the detailed
descriptions. This fact, which
shows the authenticity of this con
tribution to art ami the scarcity of
complete sots of this sort make
them a rare and precious addition
to the library of the collection and
an object of beauty in themselves.
Royal Order of
Gunny Formed
New Members Wear
Old-Fashioned Garb
This is Sunday, the day of rest,
and thero are some few freshmen
taking advantage of the day (pro
viding they have come back for tho
fraternal rollcall)'. This spell of
Morpheus will probably last until
Wednesday at tho latest. Why will
they be late today and why sleepy?
Well, it’s this way. In the wee
sma’ hours of the morning they were
out somewhere in Lane county, either
looking for something they hadn’t'
lost, or trying to get back to the fra
ternal hearth. Others no doubt had
to find the grave of George So-and
so up in the spirit heaven. So end
eth a perfect week of initiation with
applied paddles (heavily applied) cel
lar windows, second story entrances,
fresh eggs, and some million other
forms of humiliation.
A new order developed during the
week Just passed. “The Eoyal Order
of Gunny” with at least 20 known
members came into existence. Un
known to most of the campus these
20 youngsters wore tho old-fashioned
sack for five, or six days.
Another item, which would not |
have escaped the eye of an expert i
barber, was the lack of tousorial j
equipment on the part of many neo
phytes. However, they shave today,
but we won’t say how.
It’s all over now, and they will
soon sport the new headware.
Spring Program
Nearly Finished!
i
The extension division radio pro- i
gram for February is almost com- !
pleted by Alfred Powers, director j
of the division. The first of the
lectures, which are given Friday ;
evenings at 7:00 o’clock from sta
tion K G W in the Oregonian build
ing, will be given by Dr. W. D.
Smith, on February 1, on the sub
ject, “Earthquakes.” On February
8, Professor Walter Barnes will
probably speak on “The Bok Peace
Plan,” and Dr. James H. Gilbert
will discuss the “Tax Situation” on
the fifteenth.
On the twenty[second Professor
F. S. Dunn will probably give a j
lecture on “Portraits of George
Wasnington.” Professor Dunn has
made a quite extensive study of
Washington’s portraits, and will
discuss, besides those well known,
several which are scarcely known
to the public. A speaker for the
twenty-ninth has not yet been ar
ranged.
The last of the January numbers
will be given January 31, when
Professor Reddie will give a
20 minute reading from “Huckle-J
berry Finn.”
Earl Goes East
to Give Search
for New Coach
None Recommended;
Ralph Cake, ’ 1 3 Goes
to Represent Alumni
Good Men Found
By Leonard Lerwill
A dozen or more of the best
known football mentors in the
United States have been inter
viewed in Chicago by Virgil Earl,
Oregon’s athletic director, who is
in the Illinois metropolis at the pre
sent time, and about that many
more will be seen by him before
lie returns to the campus. The se
lection of a coach is largely a mat
ter of comparison and about 30
prospective mentors for the Lemon
Yeltow have been considered 'by
Earl since he left Eugene on his
eastern trip, by way of San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, some two
weeks ago.
Whilo in Chicago Earl will hold
conferences with A. A. Stagg, the
University of Chicago football
authority, and R. C. Zuppke, of
tho University of Illinois. These
men are both personal friends of
Earl and he will seek their opin
ion on various phases ■ of the Ore
gon football situation, as well as
on tho men under consideration.
Zuppke coached the Oak Park
team which played Virgil Earl’s
Washington high school team for
the championship in 1910.
Council Has Power
The executive council acting with
President Campbell has complete
authority in the matter of hiring
a coach and nothing can be re
garded as final until it has passed
through this body. The athletic
committee can and will make its
recommendation and it is not at
all unlikoly that the executive
council will govern its action ac
cordingly, but so far nothing has
come from either the athletic com
mittee or its representative, Virgil
Earl.
In order that the Alumni may be
represented fully in the selection.
of Oregon’s next coach, Ralph
Cake, a graduate of 1913 now liv
ing in Portland, will join Earl in
Chicago next Tuesday and stay with
him during, at least, a part of the
remaining trip. Tho developments
taking place in Chicago are con
sidered extremely important on the
campus. One faculty member in
close touch with the situation went
so far as to say that there was a
man within 100 miles of Chicago
who was very likely to become the
Oregon coach. The name of the
coach referred to was not made
public.
New Ideas Sought
The athletic director is doing
more than merely interviewing
prospective coaches on this trip. He
is picking up constructive ideas
from all well-known football auth
orities wherever he can meet them.
With this idea in mind Earl and
Cake will proceed together to the
State College of Pennsylvania to
see an old friend of Oregon, and
former Oregon coach, Hugo Bezdek.
There they will find out how
Bezdek is situated and whether or
not he is interested in the future
of the Oregon situation. They will
consult with him about the various
candidates, with whom they have
talked on the trip, and are ex
pected to give considerable weight
to his advice.
From Philadelphia Earl will go
to New York, where a number of
mentors will be talked with and
considered for the campus position.
After scouting about New York
long enough to satisfy himself re
garding the available material
there, he will proceed back to Des
Moines, Iowa, and Lincoln, Ne
braska, and will meat with a num
ber of coaches in both of these
places. From Nebraska he will
come straight to Eugene, ready, it
is believed, to turn in his recom
mendation to the executive council.
It is entirely possible that he will
not confine himself to suggesting
one man to the council, but may
include the names of several from
whom that body can take its pick.
The only action taken so far by
the athletic committee, under
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