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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1924)
OREGON DAILY EMERALD Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued daily except Monday, during the college year. ABTHUR S. RUDD . EDITOR Editorial Board . Don Wbodward . John W. Piper Managing Editor Associate Editor Daily News Editors Margaret Morrison Rosalia Keber Marian Lowry Velma Farnham Leon Byrne Norma Wilson Night Editors Rupert Bullivant Walter Coover Douglas Wilson Jack Burleson George Belknap P. I. N. S. Editor _ Pauline Bondurant Assistant .!- Louis Dammasch Sports Staff Sports Editor . Kenneth Cooper Sports Writers: Monte Byers, Bill Akers, Ward Cook Upper News Staff Catherine Spall Mary Clerin Frances Simpson Kathrine Kressmann Leonard Lerwill Margaret Skavlan Georgiana Gerlinger Exchange Editor .— Norborne Berkeley _i News Staff: Lyle Janz, Ted Baker, Helen Reynolds, Lester Turnbaugh, Thelma Hamrick, Webster Jones, Margaret Vincent, Phyllis Coplan, Prances Sanford, Eugenia Strickland, Velma Meredith, Lilian Wilson, Margaret Kressmann, Ned French, Ed Robbins, Josephine Rice, Clifford Zehrung, Pete Laurs, Lillian Baker, Mary West, Emily Houston, Beth Eariss, Alan Button, Ed Valitchka, Ben Maxwell. LEO P. J. MUNLY .-..-.-. MANAGER Business Staff Associate Manager . Lot Beatie Foreign Advertising Manager . James Leake Assft Manager . Whiter Pearson Alva Vernon Irving Brown Specialty Advertising Gladys Noren Circulation Manager . Kenneth Stephenson Ass’t Manager . James Manning Upper Business Staff Advertising Manager .... Maurice Warnock Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Karl Herdenbergh 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. $2.25 per year. By term, 75c. Advertising rates upon application. Phones Editor . 655 I Manager . 951 Daffy News Editor This Issue Itosalia Keber Night Editor This Issue Doug Wilson Assistant . Jim Case Knowledge and the Dollar The very practical ideas of some of our modern University i men are regarded with disfavor by a groat many of the old school who hold that the so-called “materialism of youth” is spoiling the.four happiest years of life—those years spent on the campus. “Gone are the good old days,” they wail. They! would have us live again in the roseate college atmosphere that their memory brings back. Yet with all our materialism universities continue to graduate scores of men and women, who, despite their love for the tangible things of this life, have failed to point their learning toward one object and consequent-! ly are as far away from knowing what their life work will be as when they first matriculated. Perhaps in many instances it is better so. If their cduca-. tion has given them a broad background of knowledge they will be better able to judge the real values in life, and when they do find their niche, work that much more effectively toward their goal. Yet there is always danger of drifting, and ap parently the man who knows exactly what he wants to do and starts doing it as soon as the gates of the University have closed behind him, has a start over his less definite brother. Educational ideas of the old world are seeping into the uni versities of even the far west. The local use of the term “Ox forditis” recognizes the influence of the browsing type of edu cation for the purpose of a fuller life experience as opposed to the world worship of the dollar chaser. According to Gerald Chittenden in Scribner’s academic departments, speaking courageously, might summarize this atti tude as follows: “What we tench you here will not assure you of a job when you leave us, or ever add one dollar to your income. Your! material well-being in the future does not interest us in the least; indeed, il we succeed with you as well as we may hope to do, you will choose your career not because it is lucrative, but because it is interesting, and the best of you will enter occupa tions in which the accumulation of money, instead of being a criterion of success, you will be something you will have to explain. “Such occupations arc politics, medicine, the ministry and teaching; there are many more. In lieu of material advantages we offer you the chance to make your mind hospitable to new ideas and tenacious of the good in human experience “You will be chary how you take anybody else’s word for what that good is; you will be fitted to weigh evidence and to think independently and impersonally. We will show you how to pursue truth, or if it happens that your mind is cast in a different mould, how to pursue beauty, which is also truth. We will equip you to act, when you arc confronted with a new situation, in such a way that your deeds will stand accurately in a sequence of cause and effect which began before you were born and will continue after you arc dead. If you catch the spirit of our instruction, you will become convinced of your own significance of things—that is the road to happiness. We offer yiu alsi opportunities for leisure and for learning how to enjoy it such as you will never get again. “Last of all, we offer you a training in sportsmanship, which, if you are intelligent, you will apply to everything you do, and to every misfortune which you undergo. In short, we have no single object to accomplish, unless it be the power to understand men and things—a power which can only arise from a knowledge of primary causes and essential truth.” This is probably somewhat extreme. Most professors are interested in the material well-being of their students. The world uses ma'teral well-being as a standard too much to allow even the most erudite pedagogues to forget it entirely Yet this type of gospel is needed. Knowledge for the love of it as well as for what iti may mean in a material way is desir able. The love of knowledge in itself cannot be blamed for the fact that some students are leaving this and other campuses without a definite aim in life. The type of student who is the least settled in his mind as to his future is very often the one who has concentrated on “getting by” rather than securing aj broad education. Oregon needs more of the cultural atmosphere. Rubber stamp education belongs elsewhere. An appreciation of the higher things of life will not pre vent the attainment of a reasonable material success. o . ■ 1 - Campus Bulletin Notices will be printed in this cohunn tor two issues only. Copy must be in this office by 6:80 on the day before it is to be published, and must be limited to 20 words. I' O-——♦ Cosmopolitan Club — Meeting Thursday 7:30 in Y. W. Bungalow. Women’s Forum — Will meet Thursday night at 7:15, Woman’s building. Phi Mu Alpha—Luncheon at the Anchorage Thursday noon. All members please attend. Thespians—Meeting to-nite at 5 o ’clock in Dean Straub’s office. Important everybody come. " Communications f 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. <>-:;> NOT SO SWEET To the editor— Emerald critics are making an 1 experiment this year, an experi- | ment that has been tried before, blit one which is proving vastly entertaining and enlightening to the experimenters. Duo to certain powerful selfish influences and interests, journal ism today does not have the pres tige that its power and importance should command. Of some news papers it is truthfully said, “the truth is not in them.” The experiment being conducted on the local campus might be term ed “telling the truth.” It is, in its conception, a step in that direc tion. Certain campus folk, sated with the monotony of uniformly pointless reviews of local productions, ex pressed a desire last year for re views of musical and dramatic events that were not written to fit an already manufactured mould, but were a sincere attempt at construc tive and concrete evaluation. The criticisms this year have attempted to fulfill these expecta tions, rather than to be the sac charine- sweet things of the past. “Little Johnny Jump-up acted just grand last night in his part ' of tlic cute little minister’s son,” has given way to the applying of accepted principles of criticism to technique and interpretation. The results? Wonderful. True, the staid composure of certain ele ments has not quite recovered from the shock, but the campus as a whole is seemingly enjoying the “pitiless publicity.” That is, those who are not being criticized are enjoying it. And therein lies the ' fascination and enlightenment—in observing how those who receive the critic ism react. The things written this year have not been slvarp nor have they been destructive. The purpose of the writers has been to interpret and to show possible means of betterment, to aid, as they might, the advancemet of the artfe. Some of those critized, realizing this, have taken the thing in the proper spirit, have learned that a word of genuine praise means more than pages of drivel written to se cure complimentary tickets, and have perhaps derived some measure of benefit. Others have—well, some people seem to enjoy being lied to. LEON BYBNE Tone year ago todayT ! - I | Some High Points in Oregon | | Emerald of February 6, 1923 ! o-< “Come Out of the Kitchen” will be staged by the University company of players at the Heilig theater on February 15. Carl Sandburg the “Chicago Poet,” known universally for his free verse, will visit the campus on February 26. The Washington Stato Cougars de feated the varsity tossers last even ing by a 21 to 15 score. Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geology department, states that a seismograph should be installed on the Oregon campus. An editorial in today’s Emerald j says, “After paying lab fees the av erage student wonders why it is necessary to ask the legislature for money.” #Coacli Widmer reports that the varsity wrestlers are in good shape for the meet with the O. A. C. grap plers next Friday. Paul Althouse, the greatest opera-1 © O. li. CO. Hibernia Bank & Trust Nnv Or it ans, Louisiana FAVROT & LIVAUD1AS, Ltd.. Architects "Expression in Architecturev IN the hank building the architect has sought always to express the ideal of dignity: the engineer has expressed the ideal ot stability. Architect and engineer together have made ot the American business building a co-ordination ot design, construction and equipment that is a world criterion, bach year finds the American business building anticipating even more remarkable developments in the near future. Certainly modern invention modern engineering skill and organiza tion, will prove more than equal to the demands or the architecture ot the tuture. OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY Offices in all Principal Cities of the World tic tenor of the Metropolitan Opera company, will appear before the Un iversity community on Wednesday evening, February 21. Condon club section of the G. M. S. A. U. in a few days will mail to alumni of the organization the quar terly news bulletin containing infor mation which will be of interest to the Oregon geologists now- scatter-1 ed through many states of the i Union. AUDIENCE CHARMED BY PLAY LAST NIGHT (Continued from page one) sieal little skit depicting the trials of a pair of lovers, interrupted by the appearance of small brother minus most of his apparel figurative ly brought the audience to its feet with alarm lest the “boy” make good his repeated threats to “go and get his clothes himself.” “The Murderers” which was the first number of the evening’s pro gram, was all that it should be for gruesomness and one instinctively1 cringed from the realistic execution of the murder in the final moments of the play. As for the three old rascals in I “The Medicine Show,” one can say no more for their realism than that the smell of “kerosene” mentioned so often by one of the characters, was just on the edge of consciousness in the minds of most of the audience. Through the entire performance the players performed each scene with artistic skill that presented to the audience a finely interpreted whole. This afternoon the company will j give: “Six Who Pass While the Len tils Boil,” “Sir David Wears a Crown,” and “The King’s Great Aunt Sits on the Floor,” followed tonight by “The Book of Job,” the final performance of the company. MARION DAYIES, in Little Old >;rl ^ i NEW YORK x GREAT BIG SUCCESS' I I at the REX don’t miss it ' LAST Liu * / DAY! GOOD One Yard Wide Only 9c Yard GREEN CREPE STREAMERS Frosh Glee Committee Call BOB LOVE, Chairman Phone 1306 Meet Me at the Anchorage for a cup of tea with home-made cake. You will find it a restful place to meet, and an atmosphere that invites friendly con versation In making reservations for bridge teas, private dinner parties or ban quets CALL 30 The Anchorage Style: “Distinctive or character istic mode” (Webster). Might be shortened to “Stetson” in speaking of hats. STETSON HATS Styled for young men Song Writing Contest Offered by Ray Graham’s Collegians Dancing1 at Ye Collegiate Grille every Friday and Sat urday night. For reservations, phone either Junior Seton or the Campa Shoppe. p i i §§ § RULES 1. Students must be regularly enrolled students in the University. 2. All compositions must be original both as to time and music. 3. Must be suitable for fox trot. 4. All compositions must be turned in to Ray Graham or Junior Seton by March 1, 1924. 5. Any contestant may turn in any number of composi tions. v 6. These pieces shall be featured by the Collegians March 8, 1924. PRIZES First Prize—Free admission to every dance by the Col legians at Ye Collegiate Grille for the remainder of the school year. Second Prize—Ten dollars offered by Herschel Taylor. g I S ■ COMPOSITIONS If compositions are suitable they will be used by the Collegians at all engagements and Ray Graham will as sist in getting them published Table Necessities (J When puzzled about your menu * for a luncheon or dinner remember the service the Table Supply offers. We have every necessary delicacy for your economic and social need. 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