OREGON DAILY EMERALD Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued felly except Monday, during the college year. o • ARTHUR S. RUDD ..... EDITOR Editorial Board Managing Editor .. Don Woodward ▲iiociate Editor . John W. Piper Anioeiate Managing Editor ....Taylor Huston Daily News Editors Margaret Morrison Rosalia Keber Junior Seton Velma Farnham Leon Byrne Norma Wilson Night Editors Bupert Bullivant Walter Coover Douglas Wilson Jack Burleson George Belknap r. I. N. S. Editor Pauline Bondurant Sports Staff Sports Editor_Kenneth Cooper Sports Writers: Monte Byers, Bill Akers, Ward Cook. Upper News Staff Catherine Spall f ranees Simpson Marian Lowry Leonard Lerwill Georgian a Gerlinger Mary Clerin Kathrine Kressmann Margaret Skavlan Aaainant IjOuis uammascn News Staff: Lyle Janz, Ted Baker, Helen Reynolds, Lester Turnbaugh, Thelma Hamrick, Webster Jones, Margaret Vincent, Phyllis Coplan, Frances Sanford, ■oKcnla Strickland, Velma Meredith, Lilian Wilson, Margaret 'Kressmann, Ned French, Ed Bobbins, Josephine Rice, Clilford Zehrung, Pete Laurs, Lillian Baker, Mary West, Emily Houston, Beth Fariss, Alan Button, Ed Valitchka, Ben Maxwell. LEO P. J. MUNLY ...... MANAGES Business Staff Associate Manager Lot Beatie Foreign Advertising Manager . James Leake Ass’t Manager . Walter Pearson Alva Vernon Irving Brown fcr— Specialty Advertising Gladys Noren Circulation Manager . Kenneth Stephenson Ass’t Manager . Alan Wooley Upper Business Staff Advertising Manager .... Maurice Warnock Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Karl Hardenbergh Advertising Salesmen Sales Manager . Frank Loggan Assistants Lester Wade Chester Coon Edgar Wrightman Frank De Spain Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter, cmtaa. $2.26 per year. By term, 76c. Advertising rates upon application. Subscription Phones ■ditor .. 605 I Manager Daily News Editor This Issue Junior Betou Night Editor This Issue Rupert .Bullivant Success and Scholarship Reports frequently come to the campus concerning gradu ates or former students, who while here failed to make a credit able showing scholastically, yet who are apparently succeed ing, financially at least, in the work they have taken up. Getting ahead financially is regarded as success in many quarters; others hold the more logical view that financial progress is only a one-sided standard by which to judge. Cer tainly the great contributions to the world’s knowledge and thinking have often come from the most lowly of men. An editorial in the Sunday Oregonian gives an interesting treatment to the general subject of scholarship and success. The point it makes concerning the so-called prominent stu dent who owes a great deal of his prominence to his family reputation is not as generally true on the Oregon campus as elsewhere. Most of the student leaders here have come from families practically unknown outside their own communities. Outstanding campus figures who are connected with well known families of the state are apparently carrying on their work as well as the others. The tendency seems to be, however, to regard the student who has risen from the ranks by dint of his own ability and without the help of a family name as some what more substantial than the one who has used family, no matter how slightly, to bolster him up. The editorial, which is valuable to the student of Uni versity problems, follows: , “The recent discovery of a Michigan psychology instructor that students who were prominent in campus activities, dancers, singers, athletes and mixers generally, are making more money than the Class A boys introduces nothing novel into the debate over what constitutes education, but it does invite discussion of the components of success, lint on this point it appears that the Michigan figures are prudently non-committal. ‘The sta tistics,’ says the man who compiled them, ‘do not prove that the men of the highest grades are incapable of earning big money. They merely show that these men do not prefer those lines of work which are most lucrative.’ “So il appeared from a somewhat similar but more search ing examination of educational values made by a Harvard authority some time ago. it was an analysis of the careers of the graduates of that institution from about 1850 to about 1900. It indicated that those who had received academic honors had been on the whole much more successful than those who had not been so distinguished, lint it is noteworthy that the stand ard was not one of income but rather the attainment of offi cial position, inclusion in ‘Who's Who,’ and similar non-pocun iary achievements. The colleges arc clearly open to no charge of deception in this matter. It is not recalled that it has been their practice to guarantee increased earning power to their honor men. , “Vet the authenticity of present data on the relatively greater success of one group or the other is open to serious question. We need to be constantly on guard against mistak ing seeming success for the real thing and the statistical road is notoriously strewn with pitfalls. The so-called prominent student not infrequently comes of an affluent family and is apt to owe a good deal of his outward appearance of prominence to his easy circumstances and freedom from the necessity of economic effort. If in after life he is prone to attribute his comfortable situation to his own efforts he but betrays a ten dency common to all men. There is a homely adage which holds good for all men in all times, that they are wont to blame providence for their failure but to take all credit for their successes to themselves, “The late Charles P. Steinmetz was a type of the group who would have been set down as pecuniary failures by the Michigan standard, but who would have been rated as con-1 spicuously successful by the contrary rule. Dying, he left a record of performance to be proud of but less than a moderate fortune to be quarreled over by posterity. Increasing enroll ment in the academic courses notwithstanding tightening of scholastic requirements plainly shows that the spirit of service is not moribund. Perhaps it is as prevalent as it ever was in the history of the world.” <$> ■ . ■" —--^ Campus Bulletin Notices will be printed in this column for two issues only. Copy must be in this office by 6 :30 on the day before it is to be published, and must be limited to 20 words. -®>-— -t» Sigma Delta Chi—Meeting this noon at tiie Anchorage. French Club — Meeting 7:30 to night in Y. W. C. A. bungalow. Girls’ Rifle Team—-Picture will be taken at barracks at 12:45 to day. Thespians — Special Meeting journalism assembly room, 11:45 to day. Important. Congregational Girls’ Club — Meets at 1011 Mill street, Tuesday, January 29, 0 p. m. Anyone in terested invited. Cosmopolitan Club — Meeting at Y. M. hut, Wednesday, 7:30. Ore gana jdcture, 12:40 p. m., Wednes day, at Administration building. -7-; Communications | Letters to the EMERALD from stu dents and faculty members are welcomed, but must be signed 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. <£>.-—-—-<> COLONEL LEADER WRITES To the Editor—Lord Nortlicliffe, the dean of British journalists, used to make a point of seeing every cub reporter at Carmelite House, before the reporter went on his first beat, and giving him one bit of ad vice. “My boy, the object of your life now is to get news—the right sort of news; now if a dog goes out and bites a man, that isn’t news, but if a man goes out and bites a dog—that is!” Ever since accepting the invitation of the editor to become “foreign corres pondent.” for the Emerald, I have I been trying to have a man to go out and bite a dog—but in vain. T saw tlio big varsity football match of the year—against the “City of Vancouver” team. The yell king had advertised freely, implor ing the student body to roll up ami root, and telling them where the rooters’ section in the stands was to be. I went to see the game, and two trim pretty co-eds with their escorts were in the same street car. I lieu- talk made me feel quite liome-like again, and T began to wish I had brought my hunting horn, but alas—there wore certain ly not more than 50 boys and per haps 20 girls on the ground, and the rooters’ section in the bleach ers consisted of some 25 boys with diminuendo voices. The yell king obviously hailed from south of the international line, and he sweated blood in his efforts, but it was not inspiring. Their yells were very well chosen, much better than our’s. One of them sounded like the O. A. 0. “Boom l!ah.” A varsity boy near me yelled himself hoarse, and at the end I patted his back and told him he deserved a better fate. Tie croaked his acknowledg ments thinking I was referring to the lost game. I wish I could bot tle some of our campus atmosphere and bring it lip here to infect, the U. B. 0. T have quite a lot to do with games up here, as I am a director of the Amateur Athletic association, and president of a football league, but somehow T don't get the same kick out of them. In a recent “Emerald” 1 noticed a somewhat incoherent letter from an Indian gentleman, in which, among other amazing statements, he unmasked me as a paid spy. There must be something in it, be cause when in 1015, Dr. Steiner was showing me round his excellent establishment at Salem, one of the inmates made a similar charge: at least he detected in me -Von Tir pit.; camouflaged. 1 commend the institution referred to, to the no tice of your correspondent, as there he would no doubt enjoy congenial company, and a wholesome discip line. Meanwhile 1 confess to being intrigued with the idea, and re commend the young astronomers at the cemetery next summer to ex amine carefully their special tomb ■tone, lest it develop into a camou flaged colonel. The chief interest here is in the Socialist government about to take the reins in the “Mother of Parlia ments.” liamsay MacDonald, the ! new premier, is said to be quite a well meaning follow, with a fair education. Politically his view's are identical with those of Eugene Debs, and he behaved equally fool ishly as that unfortunate gentleman during the war, but MacDonald was luckier than Debs, and sustained no wave of patriotism there prevailing, he lost his scat in the house. J. B ! dynes, his lieutenant, is also a i fairly worthy fellow, but the bal I anee of the party is made up of i replicas of Senator La Follette, Up ton Sinclair, and Big Bill Hayward —-with the latter type perhaps pre ; dominating. By themselves they could not do much harm, but unhappily Mr. Asquith in his mad lust for power, has pledged to them the support of the Liberal party. I hear that a new Anti-Socialist or Center party is to be formed under Win ston Churchill, whose American blood resents Socialism or Interna tionalism, and another hopeful por tent in the formation of the “New Crusaders,” a sort of union of the respectable classes, based on the success of the Eascisti in Italy and Spain. JOHN LEADER. ROBERT COLLEGE HAS BEST SITE IN THE WORLD Robert College —- The site of Robert college on the heights of Bosphorus is said to be the most beautiful of any college in the world. This, the most famous Ameri can educational institution in the Near East, overlooks the walls and towers of the fortification built by Mohammed the Second in the year before he took Constantinople. 1 ONE YEAR AGO TODAY** I - Some High Points in Oregon Emerald of January 28, 1923 <■> - —^ “The greatest problem facing intercollegiate athletics, and es pecially American football, is whether it can stand the adver sities of prosperity,” says Kay Ly man Wilbur, president of Stanford university. The credit for the showing made by the varsity quintet this year must be accredited to Coach Boh ler’s tactics, according to Ep Hoyt, sports writer for the Emerald. Ross L. Finney, professor of so ciology at the University of Min nesota, says, “T'he majority of peo qde achieve less success than they might because of the conditions within their own control, and not because society fails to give them a fair opportunity.” Randall S. Jones, junior student who was struck by a truck while on his way to the junior dance last Friday evening, is recovering rapid ly. The University of Washington grapplers made a clean up on the varsity wrestlers in the meet held at Seattle on Friday. A colored preacher contends that the Rockefeller interests are steal ing the oil and grease which the Lord appointed to lubricate the axels of the earth, and when all of it has been taken out the axels are going to get hot. Then hell will pop, the negro preacher de clares. “Ain’t nature wonderful!” says 'q'THE PICTURE ^BEAUTIFUL#^* The old fashioned love of an \ old fashioned girl who would . not enter the temple of jazz. 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