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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1924)
OREGON DAILY EMERALD Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued ' Crib except Monday, during the college year. ASTHUB a RUDD _____ EDITOR j Editorial Board Managing Editor ........ Don Woodward Associate Editor .... John W. Piper Aaioeiate Managing Editor . .....Taylor Huston Daily News Editors Margaret Morrison Rosalia Keber Junior Seton Velma Farnham Leon Byrne Norma Wilson Night Editors ■opart Bullivant Walter Coover Douglas Wilson Jack Burleson George Belknap I. N. S. Editor Assistant . Pauline Bondurant Louis Damrnasch Sports Staff Sports Editor _____ Kenneth Cooper j Sports Writers: Monte Byers, Bill Akers, Ward Cook. Upper News Staff Catherine Spall Frances Simpson Marian Lowry Leonard Lerwill Georgians Gerlinger i Mary Clerin Kathrine Kressmann Margaret Ska via n Exchange Editor Norborne Berkeley News Staff: Lyle Janz, Ted Baker, Helen Reynolds, Lester Turnbaugh, Thelma Hamrick, Webster Jones, Margaret Vincent, Phyllis Coplan, Frances Sanford, Xngcnia Strickland, Velma Meredith, Lilian Wilson, Margaret Kressmann, Ned French, Ed Robbins, Josephine Rice, Clifford Zehrung, Pete Laurs, Lillian Baker, Mary West, Emily Houston, Beth FarLss, Alan Button, Ed Valitchka, Ben Maxwell. UO P. J. MUNLY . MANAGER Business Staff Associate Manager .Lot Beatie Foreign Advertising Manager ... James Leake Aw’t Manager . Walter Pearson Alva Vernon Irving Brown Specialty Advertising Gladys Noren Circulation Manager .... Kenneth Stephenson Aaa*t Manager .—. Alan Wooley Upper Business Staff Advertising Manager .... Maurice Wamock 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. Subscription rates. $2.26 per year. By term, 76c. Advertising rates upon application. ■ditor Phones 655 | Manager ... 951 Daily News Editor This Issue Norma Wilson Night Editor This Issue Walter Coover Reward the Deserving Dr. James H. Gilbert, professor of economics, lias offered an explanation as to why university professors of varying abil ities are paid tlie same salaries. Dr. Gilbert is still near enough, to his university days to remember that as an undergraduate he was more appreeiative of the pedagogical genius of one man than another. But he thinks there is no definite criterion of an instructor’s ability; that the employers of teachers have little means of determining how well a man can impart knowledge to students; and that thus there must be no marked discrimin ation between teachers of the same class. For even students, at times, disagree as to their appreciation and judgment of some college professor. We can agree with Dr. Gilbert that some of our campus savants are more deserving of the taxpayers’ good money than are others. We can also agree that there are varying opinions among students concerning the inherent or acquired teaching abilities of our instructors. But we must be of slightly different opinion regarding a possible fitting of monetary recompense to the fitness of a teacher for his position. A proposal to which Dr. Gilbert ob jected was that students pay fees to their instructors for in struction received. Ho feared that the dignity of the educa tor’s office might be slighted, and that he would have to play politics and do much handshaking to entice sufficient students to his classes to pay him for his services. The doctor insists that popularity should have nothing to do with the retention of a college professor. lie thinks that actual abilities should justify him his job. Perhaps he is right. But it appears to us that in the long run the man who can really teach, the one who has something in substance to give to his students, is the popular one. At least, if he is not, he ought to be. The inefficient and bluffing instructor cannot win the faith of his students. They ultimately avoid his courses, and it is only coercion on the part of tin1 administration—placing his subject in some group require ment— which brings him any patronage at. all. Generality or Personality? li a man lias high aspirations, we should not attempt regu lation of them according to hard and fast rules. For ambition impeded by law w ill discover means of evasion or circumven tion. There is a danger that rigid enforcement of entrance re quirements to our university may suppress ambition, if that be possible. For it has come to pass that students have performed sacrifices for the sake of college educations, only to be denied the opportunity of higher learning because of deficient high school credits. A public institution undoubtedly has reasons for enforcing a set of inelastic entrance requirements. Pecuniary complica tions necessitate cautions investment of every dollar. There is risk involved when it is known that an applicant admitted does not measure up to the stipulated standards. Rut there are cases, and they may be numerous, when injustice is done to one hoping for the privilege to improve his mind. Consider the man who has seen the slow accumulation of savings, which offers the possibility of better things. What is lie to think when he discovers some inviolable standard of re quirements barring the realization of his dreams! Any com mittee on admittance that ignores sacrifice and ambition is giving priority to generalities over personalities. It means that curriculum regulations, if they cannot adjust themselves to circumstance, are wrongly constituted. Not long ago a man knocked for entrance at the door of our halls of learning. Upon inquiry it was learned that he had not quite completed his high school course. He had gained several years of experience in the great school of life. Kicks and hard knocks had given him a true evaluation of further education. At such a period in life he could not afford to re vert to his high school training. College was what he wanted. Perhaps our authorities found this man wanting in the qualifications of an entering student. If they did, they took exception to the practice whoch has been instituted by the pro gressive Germans. In the march of progress they have ad justed themselves to changing conditions in higher education. FT. "W. Puckett in the Survey of January 15 says of the univer sities in Germany, “It is now allowable for a person to enter without the usual certification, provided he has the equivalent if the necessary preparation—maturity and ability of indepen lent thought.” "We have turned at least one such person away. He thought te possessed the above equivalent of high school preparation. But a dogmatic rule could not be bent to accept him. o Campus Bulletin Notices will be printed in this column for two issues only. Copy must be in this office by 5:30 on the day before it is to be published, and must be limited to 20 words. 1 <$>.-. — ^ ► Mu Phi Epsilon—Business meet ing, Saturday, 1:30, Music building. Varsity Philippinensis — Import ant meeting Saturday evening at 7:30, February 2, at the Y. M. C. A. hut. Varsity Debaters—Past or pre sent, meet at Socoilogy building, Friday at 12:45, to have group pic ture taken. Women’s Life Saving Corps— Meet today at 4:50 in the swim ming pool, Woman’s building, for picture. Bring suits. I j <2>------<J> 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. -_3> To tlio Editor: For some considerable time I have noticed that there is a distinguished member of Hindu society favoring the Emerald with epistles of a highly educative and informative value. As a Britisher I must thank you most sincerely for your tolerance in pub lishing them, and do now express my sorrow that a Britisher should make ; the unfair and biased statements made in certain of these epistles. As Colonel Leader has already writ ten, it is not the place of any Brit isher, as is Mr. Oak, to make such eritcizing remarks, (without invita tion), upon any nation while a guest of this honorable republic, the Fnited ' States. We must not try to arouse 'antagonism, but rather a feeling of mutual appreciation. Tf Mr. Oak must make these criticisms, then why does he not go back to his homeland where he has the right as a citizen 'to enter into the political affairs? Neither is it Mr. Oak’s place while in the United States and enjoying the privileges of its wonderful education ; nl system and its fine living condi tions, to express, in public, through i the press or otherwise, his “amaze ment at the attitude some professors in American universities are taking in regard to the League of Nations” nor was it good taste, to say the ; least, to make the statement that he . did about the continued “exploita tion” of the Asiatic and the smaller nations by “white” interests. T am confident, irrespective of I whether the U. S. enters the League, that she will ever hold up the high principles for which she has so nobly stood in the past. As Air. Oak is so prejudiced against the “white” inter ests, it is a wonder that he came to “Mighty Oregon” to be educated (Grnndhi went to an English univer sity. > However, Mr. Oak must not he taken as representative of India, as 1 am personally acquainted with men of his homeland, and can say that T would he proud to be counted among some of them. Furthermore, the an ti British movement in India is mere ly the misdirected activities of the j mis informed minority. Tt is note worthy that India during the late war, put her army into the field vol untarily and largely at her own ex pense: farther that Tndia was the only British possession not affected, internally, by either industrial strikes or revolution during the war. This speaks eloquently for the patriotism of Tndia as a whole. That there are certain anomalies and injustices ex isting under the present system of government T do not deny. But the British government, iwth the assist ance of Indian representatives of high standing, are endeavoring to make the situation better. It must be admitted that all gov ernments have their failing and the British administration in Tndia is no | exception. It also must be confessed, by even the most conservative, that British administration has done a great deal toward the improvement of India as a whole, and the better ment of the living conditions of her people. SYDNEY ROBERT JOHNSTON'. Tone year ago today"* I Some High Points in Oregon | Emerald of February 1, 1923 <s>--o Basketball fans declare that the varsity will have the hardest contest of tho year when Webfoot-Aggie tossers meet in Corvallis this week end. Edison Marshal], one of the most successful young writers of today, and a former student at the Univer sity, was recent visitor on the campus. •Tohn B. Siefert, instructor in voice, and Ronald Reid, a senior in the school of music, are to give a joint recital, February 27. Most of the news in today’s Em erald is concerned with the visit the state legislators paid to the campus yesterday. Students are expressing strong sen timent against the $100 tuition fee, now being considered by the state legislature. Tn the opinion of members <of the University faculty, the students are not efficient in the matter of note taking. More attention should be given to the lectures and less to the notes, the faculty members decree. Salary scales in the University of Oregon are surprisingly below the average for American state univer sities according to a compilation re cently made. The average of 43 'state universities pay their presidents $9575; deans, $4701; full professors, $3708; and assistant professors, $2430. The average for Oregon is: president, $8000; deans, $4362; full professors, $3507; and assistant pro fessors, $2335. At the Theatres REX Ingenious plot complications give “Mile-A-Minufe Romeo,” the Will iam Fox production that opened for a three-day engagement at the Rex theater last night unusual charm for a Tom Mix picture. By -which we mean, in addition to the breath less action and expected number of thrills, Tom Mix offers in this re cent motion story of considerable interest. One of the uncommon situations presented is the MachivelMian scheme of exterminating two rivals by contriving to get them to fly at each other’s throat. The crafty lover informs both rivals separately that each insulted the other. A gun fight ensues in which the rivals learn that they have been the dupe of the third rival, and that their fight was “framed” to kill either or both of them. Lucky Bill, played admirably by Tom Mix, is one of the dupes. Having wounded the other dupe in* the “framed” fight he offers to compensate by helping the latter elope with the girl. He is double crossed innumerable times and finally forgets his diffidence so far as to attempt to get the girl for himself. In no previous production, per haps, does Tom Mix display his horsemanship so skillfully. Through out the production he is almost en tirely riding—wild. We do not be-j lieve this situation makes it easy to emote and for that reason de clare Mr. Mix’s performance extra ordinary. Betty Jewel, leading lady, is very satisfactory, as is the en tire supporting cast. Lambert Hill yer is responsible for the good di rection. CASTLE Some persons prefer comedy as the piece de resistance of their mo tion picture bill of fare; many like pure romance; others confess a de- j Watch for LITTLE Old NEW YORK Next Week Your Spine may have a vertaberal lesion as shown, which may be the cause of yonr ailments. file Chiropractor corrects these snbluxations— lib erates the nerve impulses j —Health returns. DR. GEO. A. SIMON 916 Willamette Street DANCE Saturday Night The only open college dance in Eugene Eagles’ Hall Willamette Street, Between 6th and 7th Across street from Post Office Dancing 8:30 to 12 t Admission 85c sire for adventure and hair-raising “thrillers.” All of these classes will find their wishes fulfilled in “Painted People,” a First National picture i featuring Colleen Moore, which is showing at the Castle theater to day for the last time. Threading the footage is a love story of tender appeal—one that will be relished by every type of theatergoer, with Ben Lyon playing opposite the star. And there are plenty of thrills, which include the stopping of a runaway horse and a sandlot base ball game. The author, Richard Connell, is one of the foremost humorists of the day and he has supplied laughs without end. (T| LOOK FOR THIS NAME ON TKE NECKBAND -n/'-T-7-7 r ) I Every feature about these ties appeals to college men Easiest tying neckwear you can buy! 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Cleaning the top of battery. 5. Tightening all screws and holdowns in their proper positions. 6. Removing any dirt about the car caused by this inspection. Eugene Storage Battery Co. 83 Seventh Avenue East Phone 1272 It will be a good thing, houseman agers, if you will take advantage of our College Ice Cream Special for your evening meals this week end EUGENE FRUIT GROWERS Phone 1480 8th and Ferry S reet.