OREGON DAILY EMERALD
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President Campbell’s Illness
Telephone calls from every part of the state poured into j
the executive offices of the University yesterday inquiring
about President Campbell’s condition.
An overdrawn news report in a Portland morning paper;
gave the impression that the President was seriously ill, when
in reality competent physicians have examined the University
head and found him only slightly indisposed.
This news was received, with relief, yesterday morning.
The Oregon president holds a warm place in the heart of every
member of the University community as well as throughout the
state generally and anything which affects his well-being is
a matter of real concern to thousands of Oregonians.
The fact that nothing was given out officially to the Port
land papers to justify the report of serious illness is a good
illustration of the wide-spread worry an incorrect news story
can cause.
The Old Oregon Trail
It is fitting that an Oregon professor should create what
will be the official marker for the Old Oregon Trail, as it de
finitely connects the great educational center of the state w’ith
a movement that is bringing thousands to the Beaver state each
year, thereby making for a mightier University.
The Oregon Trail movement is creating real interest in this
state all through the West and even reaches the eastern sea
board in many of its phases.
During his summer travels in the interest of another great
Oregon enterprise, the writer of this editorial, comes into con
tact wth groups of people in every center of the West who have
heard of Oregon as a homeland, through the Oregon Trail pub
licity campaign, and who plan to come here in the near future.
Walter Meacham of Baker, who is putting his entire energy
into the Oregon Trail movement, during the last feAV years
has accomplished wonders in the field.
An acquaintance with the Oregon trail movement will be an
asset to any University student who plans to carry on his fu
ture activities in the West. Those who have started the move
ment eve carrying into reality the details of a dream of a
greater Oregon. A greater Oregon means a greater University.
Our Interested and Interesting Colonel
Colouel John Leader’s interest in the Oregon campus and
his "boys and girls" is shown in a letter published in the
communication column of this issue. The Colonel need have
no fear that dropping of the guest tradition will injure the
Junior Week-end idea. It will make the week-end more truly
valuable to the maintaining of Oregon Spirit as it furnished a
general play-time and get-together for Oregon students.
The Colonel's wail over the abolition of baseball is evidently
the result of a mistaken idea that Oregon has already done
away with the sport. It has only been suggested that such an
abolition might come in the future, and then only if the other
institutions of the north join in the movement.
Colonel Leader “views with alarm” the recent tendency
for scholastic interest to replace what he feels is the real center
of values at Oregon. The Emerald feels that the higher schol
astic standards are bringing a change that is highly desirable
and although we are losing some of our “rah-rah” character
istics we are gaining in their place the recognition that Oregon
as an institution of education has “arrived.”
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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.
Pot and Quill—Meeting at Wom
an’s building at 7 o’clock.
Sigma Delta Chi—Important
meeting at the Anchorage this noon.
Beta Gamma Sigma—Meeting to
day at the College Side Inn. 12:00,
noon.
Dial—Meeting Tuesday night,
February 12, 8 o ’clock, 1158 Mill
street.
Ad Club—Important luncheon
and business at the Anchorage
Thursday noon.
Junior Prom Committee—Meeting
assembly room, Journalism building,
5 p. m. Important.
French Club—Meeting tonight at
7:30 at Y. W. bungalow. French
play will be presented.
Technical Society—Meeting to
-night at 7:30 in Men’s Lounging
room of Woman’s building.
• Band Members—Colonel Sinclair
requests all men to appear in uni
form today and in all future drills.
Sophomore Girls—Those who wish
to try out for class swimming team
meet today at 5 o ’clock at the gym
nasium.
O. N. S. Club—Meeting changed
to Thursday night, February 14.
Sign up for dinner on library bulle
tin board.
Emerald Staff—Meeting of all
staff members in Editorial hall of
the Journalism building, Wednes
day, at 5 o ’clock.
Zeta Kappa Psi—Important
meeting, room 5, Commerce build
ing, 5 o'clock tonight, for both old
‘and new members.
Senior Men and Women—Living
in town please drop a list of their
college activities in the box at the
library dodr. For Oregana.
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Communication
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COLONEL LEADER ON
TRADITIONS
Editor Emerald: —
This is not “foreign correspon
dence,” it is just a cassandraij wail
evoked by the editor’s request that
T should give my opinion on certain
varsity doings.
First, the .lunior Week-ends, the
fate of which will probably be de
cided before you see this. Nobody
can blame the students if they find
the strain of this week-end too
crushing for them; I have boasted
of our Junior week-end all over the
world. When I have heard Oxford
or Cambridge men rightfully vaunt
ing their “May Weeks” or other spe
cial traditions, I have been able to
tell them of our Junior week-end,
a r.d how it was run entirely at the
expense and labour of the students
themselves; I have been able to im
press people all over the world—im
press people very much.
Our Junior week-end expresses to
mo the energy, the idealism, the hos
pitality and the love of beauty of
the American people at their very
highest, but I confess that until I
read the recent “Emeralds,” “Old
Orogons,” and other varsity compila
tions, I had no idea that the main
object was materialistic, viz. to en
courage high school students to come
to the varsity. Admittedly Junior
week-end gives a false idea of var
sity life. Until we reach the millen
nium, no people on earth‘could live
in a condition of such selt'sacrifice,
such beauty, such generosity and hos
pitality, and such idealism as is
shown on the campus in those three
days. Personally, T love all the var
sity traditions, from that tradition of
honour and culture, which we call
the Oregon spirit, right down to the
burning of the freshman’s caps.
Next, the abolition of baseball: I
am now charged by many British
nations with having an nbsurhly high
appreciation of American customs, of
their national flag, their national
idealism, their national game, theii
national ouuook; so pcrnaps j. am
prejudiced. You realize of course
that the abolition of baseball would
enormously decrease our standing and
prestige among the American schools,
and would pfevent our acquisition of
a most highly desirable body of
young men—the baseball players of
the high schools. From an education
al point of view, I know of no lec
ture course at any university, which
should not be sacrificed sooner than
the game of baseball played in the
right spirit.
The western state . universities are
not Heidelburg or Oxford, or the
'Sorbonne; they are much higher, both
in their objects, and in their general
training.
A nation can usefully sustain one
or two universities, or possible (as
in Germany) even three, but a uni
versity proper is valuable to only two
classes: first, the leisured class 3nd
future politicians, who gain culture
and education from the atmosphere
bf their Alma Mater and the mixing
with their fellows: and secondly,
those who intend to join the high
brow or learned professions, such- as
scientists, college professors, or law
yers. The object of the state uni
versities is: firstly, to turn out ladies
and gentlemen by the inculcation of
loyalty to tradition, of consideration
for the feelings of others, and of the
other rare qualities, which make up
what we call “culture:” secondly, the
state universities aim at helping its
students in the battle of life. T
know of nr institution in the world
which has to date fulfilled these ob
jects more successfully than our
University.
I happened to have graduated from
a^ college with rather unusual honours
in book work, and am bound to sav
that the result has been largely to
increase the interests of my life.
The University of Oregon is the
greatest institution in my life: it is
more to me than even the surviving
remnants of the different regiments
f bare served with in 20 years of
rough soldiering, and T hate being
humiliated by reading childish and
violent attacks on individuals such
as the letters of the three critics of
C. Y. IT. in recent “Emeralds.” They
smack too much of an ill regulated
prep school, or of the Southern news
paper immortalized by Mark Twain.
I bate reading priggish puerilities
about our “Frivolities.” I hate the
suggestions that we are developing
into a school of high brows and blue
stockings. I bate Uriah Heep worse
than any other Dickon's character,
and I sound an alarm to the student
jbody—Wake up! Aud take stock of
ourselves. Yours truly.
‘ .TOTTY LEADED.
! 1 ONE YEAR AGO TODAyT
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I Some High Points in Oregon !
| Emerald of February 9, 1923 |
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Oregon defeated the Aggies last
I night by a 31 to 24 score.
A close study of student activities
will be made by the faculty in the
I,near future. It is alleged that minor
activities are taking too much of the
student’s time.
Alfred IT. Sehroff, professor of fine
arts at the University, was awarded
first prize for the best oil painting
shown in the eighth annual Northwest
Artists’ exhibition, according to word
received on the campus yesterday.
Registration in Latin and Greek
j classes at the University has not de
| creased during the past few years
1 despite the general lack of interest
| shown in these subjects.
On Friday, May 2, 1902, “Jimmie”
Gilbert, then a junior in the Univer
sity, was the second speaker for the
junior class in oratory. “I will la.y
on for Tusculum, and thou lay or
for Rome,” thundered “Jimmie.”
Tito frosh defeated the rooks Iasi
night by a 33 to 25 score.
Three teams of 15 men each were
selected yesterday to represent the
University in the ninth corps are:
Vi fie match.
Tn its present form the student
cxecuti' ' rcui,. il is saiel to be inef
WHEN APPEARANCE DOES COUNT
Before you are properly attired for the formal, you
should have the ragged edges trimmed.
CAMPUS BARBER SHOP
Next to the College Side Inn
Coming Events
TODAY
7:00 p. m.—Student group discus
sions. Campus organizations.
7:15 p. m.—Student Living Com
mittee meeting. Room 105
Commerce building.
7-9 p. m.—Personal hygiene quiz.
Oregon building.
7:30 p-. m.—“Le Foyer Fran
cais,” play. Y. W. C. A.
bungalow.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13
4-6 p. m.—Women’s League
tea. Woman’s building.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14
11:00 a. m.—Assembly. Villard.
4-6 p. m.—Dean Esterly’s tea.
667 E. 12th Street.
7:30 p. m.—Triangular debate,
women’s teams. Oregon vs. O.
A. C. and Willamette. Villard.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15
State Conference of Newspaper
Men.
Oregon vs. Idaho, basketball.
Moscow, Idaho.
8:00 p. m.—Willamette Men’s
Glee club concert. Methodist
Episcopal church.
9:00 p. m.—Dr. James Gilbert,
“The Tax Situation.” Radio.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Oregon vs. Idaho, wrestling. Mos
cow, Idaho.
Continued conference.
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•ficient. Centralization of authority
and responsibility, together with the
addition of two more alumni to the
council is urged.
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Jaqueline: “I’m cold, Jack; take me
inside your coat.”
Jack: “Pay before you enter; this is a
Finchley one man coat.”
(Apologies to The Wasp)'
You are, of course, worth
many times 50c a day to your
family. Yet that paltry sum
a day put into an Equitable
policy would purchase $6,000
of insurance protection for
your family (age 35). Looks
attractive, doesn’t it?
THE EQUITABLE
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY '
of the
UNITED STATES
ROBERT W. EARL
District Mgr. Phone 1197-Y
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