CELESTIAL BODY
TO BE OBSCURED
Eclipse of Aldebaran Will
Occur Wednesday
EVENT IS PHENOMENAL
Star Is 33,000 Times Size
of the Sun
Aldebaran, a star with a volume
33,000 times larger than the sun and
so far away that light from it takes
50 years to reach the earth at the
rate of 186,000 miles a second, will
he hidden from view of earthly ob
servers next Wednesday night. To
Eugene observers the star will dis
appear just after 8:19 o’clock and
will reappear just after 9:25 o’clock.
“The moon will pass between the
star and the earth and cut off the
light of the star completely, and the
phenomenon will be visible to the
naked eye,” said Professor E. H. Mc
Alister of the astronomy department
of the University.
Aldebaran is a giant red star, the
principal one in the constellation
Taurus, the bull, and is in the re
stricted group called the Hydes. The
Pheiades are not far away. Measure-'
ments made by the Mount Wilson ob
servatory show that it has a diame
ter of 28 million miles, or more than
22 times that of the sun.
Eclipse Will be Sudden
The star will disappear at the left
of the moon and Teappear at the
right. The eclipse will be sudden be
cause the star will be cut off by
the dark of the moon and will be
gone before one notices it unless he
is on the watch, declared Professor
McAlister.
“This eclipse is classified by the
astronomer ns occupation,” said Mc
Alister. “The moon occults many
stars every month, but for the most
part these stars occulted are so faint
they can not be seen without teles
copic aid. and the occupation of a
reallv bright star is rather rare.
“Por most, of us the main interest
will lie in viewing something which
possibly we have never seen before,
and which is not only an unusual, but
also a really beautiful spectacle,” be
said.
Star Very Bright
Pointing out the features of sin
guar interest in the present case, Mc
Aister said, “They are, first, the
star is a very bright star (first mag
nitude), and the phenomenon may be
seen with the naked eye; second, the
moon will be only a little more than
half full, and the star will disappear
at the dark edges of the moon.
“As you watch, the two bodies will
seem to be drawing closer together;
but remember the star will disappear
at the dark edge of the moon (‘near
the top’), which you can not see,
and the disappearance will be without
warning and instantaneous—the star
will be gone before you think the
moon has reached it.
Close Watcli Necessary
“After tlie disappearance, you can
turn your attention to other parts of
the sky, or otherwise busy yourself
Mil til the time of reappearance ap
proaches. Hegin watching a few
minutes before the predicted time,
'i'li-* star will appear at the right edge
■of the moon not far from a point op
posite the moon’s center. The re
appearance at the bright edge of the
moon will also be instantaneous, and
you will see what appears like a bril
liant speck of a fireball slowly float
ing away from Ihe moon.
“Aldebaran is a sun many times
bigger than our own. And if you are'
privileged to watch its oceultation,
remember that you are observing the
eclipse of a sun which is vastly great
er than our own sun, but sunk so
far in the depths of space that it
seems like a mere point of light.
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THE TWILIGHT OF MENTAL
DISCIPLINE
Mental discipline in our dnv has
-iinink In an altogether secondary
topic, and tin- fact is an interesting
symptom of tlir drift of the world >
thought and action in our time,
Time was when everybody believed in
mental discipline, and stoutly con
tended that his particular brand ot
education abounded in this im-ontesl
able necessity. Nowadays, wliili
gymnasia for the body spring up or
all sides, gymnastics for the mini
have lost their interest for nearly
every one. We have come to see thal
all action is exercise and that al
exercise is discipline. The mind am
body are on practically' the sami
footing. Every bodily aet that et
feets its purpose is a double disci
pline. A man wlio has moved his
arm once moves his arm more readily
with each succeeding trial. Rut this
is not nil. To move the arm suc
cessfully makes it easier to move the
neck or move the leg, for the body
co-operates in every movement of its
parts, and co-operation with one mus
cle is an aid and encouragement to j
co-operation with every other.
The same principle is valid with j
the mind. Any efficient mental act i
whatever is preparation of a kind
for any other mental act. Cookery
('if the cook'putsrhis mind on it),.is
an aid to metaphysics, and metaphy
sics are an aid to cookery. But while
thinking about ham and eggs helps
a man to think about intuitions, it
is clear that it helps him in a quite
particular and emphatic way to think
again about ham and eggs or to
think about beef and mustard There
is no paucity of mental discipline.
Wherever a mental act succeeds,
these two disciplines are present.
The advocates of mental discipline
are perfectly secure in affirming j
that Greek helps men to learn
Greek, that Physics helps men to
learn Physics, and that Greek and
Physics each helps men to learn the
other
But this notion of mental disci
pline, sound as it is and wide as it
is, was not the notion that upheld i
and promoted so stoutly by earnest j
educators not so very long ago. I
Their claim went much further.
They said, if they were classicists,
that to translate a sentence of Greek
helped a man to solve a problem in
Physics in a fashion in which solv
ing of a problem in Physics did not
help a man to translate a sentence
of Greek; and they left this claim
unsupported by the only contention
that could afford it any real sup
port, viz., that it took more pains
or more brains to translate a sen
tence of Greek than to solve a prob
lem in Physics. They believed that
the study that asked less might yield
more, that the smaller requirement
might afford the larger discipline.
All this was mere fallacy and suftef
'stition. These people had a medieval
notion that certain studies were
Charms, that they were elixirs or por
' tions with mysterious sanative and
i curative effects like those wrought
- in the body by their physical coun
j terparts The men of science whose j
. special business it was to be hard-1
I beaded should have ignored or con
! futed this vagary On the contrary, i
they adopted it, and, simply altering
the contents of the prescription, an
nexed its imaginary values to their [
side.
Of course, nobody supposes that all
mental nets, or that all those groups
of mental nets called studies, are
equal in their disciplinary values.
The point is merely that the same
activity anywhere yields the same
discipline. It is scarcely necessary
to discriminate even between sorts of
activity; KIND in this matter is re
solvable into AMOUNT. When a
man Rees precisely, he sees more,
that is. does more seeing, than his .
associate; when a man thinks pre
cisely, he thinks more, does more |
thinking, than his fellow. Nor is it
meant of course that all equally pow--j
erful disciplines are equally practi- j
cal—in other words, equally appo-!
site to the future vocations or re
creations of the learner. Tt is en
tirelv proper for the classicists to
[maintain that Greek and Latin are
better disciplines than French or
German because they demand more
work; and it is equally proper for
the modernists to contend that French
“nd German are more practical dis
ciplines than Greek and Latin be
cause they relate more directly to
the' conduct of life. But the time
has come for both sides to recognize
that mysticism or mesmerism in the
‘ field of discipline is hocus-pocus.
The trouble sprang from the pe
culiar situation and later difficul
ties of the classics, which, even when
their power was still questioned, felt
their title to be insecure. Fearing
sagaciously enough, to rest their case
on practical utility, and not daring
to stake their whole fortune on the
splendor of their ministries to cul
ture, thev sought a middle ground;
I they wanted a bulwark for their
cause which should be at once less
Philistine than practical utility and
less impalpable than simple culture.
They found this comprimise in men
tal discipline. That system had its
day and is ceasing to be. The noble
classics have given up the strife for
world-empire; they have been left to
those who love them—not the worst
of fates for men or studies, and the
FOUR APPOINTMENTS
NUDE TO MASTHEAD
Prize Contests Explained;
Meeting Is Wednesday
Frances Simpson, formerly a mem
ber of the upper news staff of the
Emerald, has been promoter! to the
position of (lay editor, it was made
known last night by Arthur Rudd,
editor, after a conference with the
managing editor.
Other appointments were those of
Tod Baker to the list of night edi
tors, Wilbur Wester, who has been
placeo on the sports staff, and 'EM
Whirr, who will do general reporting.
Baker has bren on the news s*r ff.
while Wester and Wilier hare not
been on the masthead before.
The Emerald efficiency contests
for the winter term will be announced
at the beginning of the spring quar
ter. Approximately $8(1 will be di
vided among staff members who arp
judged to be the best workers in the
various departments. ,
The largest award will be $15 for
the one selected as the best all-round
worker on the staff. The best, day
and night editors will each receive
$10 while other cash awards wall go
to those handing in the most tips
for news stories, for the most nn
assigned news stories presented, for
the best news story of the term, and
for the best feature story. Several
second and third prizes are included
in the list.
A general staff meeting will be
called in the editorial ball of the
Journalism building, Wednesday, at
five o’clock. Matters concerning
handling the news for the Editor’s
eonferenee will be discussed.
INTRAMURAL HANDBALL
MEN TO HAVE MEETING
House Representatives to Decide
Manner of Running Off
Finals, Wednesday
Having finished the preliminaries
of the doughnut handball tourna
ment, the representative from each
organization in the league will hold
an important meeting at the men’s
gym on Wednesday at 4 p. m. The
manner in which the finals of the
tournament will be staged will be
worked nut at the meeting.
Already there lias been a division
in the handball league, with the
two top teams of each division put
in one group and the remainder of
the teams in a second league. The
winning squad of the upped divi
sion will receive the trophy.
In the first league, there are
eight teams which will play off
for the championship. Since each
squad in this upper divison has
gone through its schedule with prac
tically a perfect record, some fast
and well-balanced contests will be
on tap.
The teams in the top league are
as follows: Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma
Pi Tau, Bacnelordon, Oregon club.
phantasm of mental disciplnie which
they called into being to sustain their
power may retire to the spectre-peo
pled twilight of tlie past.—The Minn
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WILSON MEMORIAL
VESPERS HELD SUNDAY
Colonel W. S. Gilbert Delivers
Address; University' Choir
Gives Selections
The Woodrow Wilson memorial ves
pers, held in the Methodist Episcopal
church Sunday afternoon, February
10, filled the auditorium with Univer
sity students and towns people who
joined in paying homage to the late
war president.
Colonel William S. Gilbert of As
toria, who delivered the memorial
address, is past state commander of
the American Legion, lie saw ser
vice overseas during the years of
1917 and 1018 as chaplain of the
First division, and spoke of Wilson
mainly from a personal viewpoint.
“The people of Europe,” he said,
“felt that Wilson had the message
that would settle the questions mos
troubling the universe.” That mes
sage, the League of Nations, he con
tinued, still lives on and in time will
accomplish for the world what our
late president meant for it . to do.”
The University choir, directed bv
John Stark Evans, furnished music
for the service. The next vesper ser
vice will be held on Sunday, March 9.
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Campbell.
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will speak on “The Ben Franklin
and the Country Publisher.”
“How Job Work in the One-man
Shop can be made Profitable” will
be the subject of A. L. Mallerv
who follows Mr. Elliott on the pro
gram. The next talk will be by
Elbert Bede on “A Complete and
Efieient System of Accounts and
Forms for a Small Shop Where the
Publisher is Without Training as a
Bookkeeper.” Following this, there
will be speeches by Arthur W. Law
rence, Thomas Nelson, W. Arthur
Steele and Edgar McDaniel. At 6
o’clock there will be a club ban
quet at the College Side Inn.
Trade Journalists to Meet
. The program for the Trade and'
Class Journalism Section for Fri
day afternoon includes “Essentials
of Trade Journal Editing,” by
George F. Cornwall, “Subscription
Getting” by Stephen Hart, “Hum
anizing the Trade Paper” by Je
rome Owen and “The Decision of
the Federal Trade Commission in
Relation to Printing Costs” by
Louis Sondheim. On Saturday
morning A. C. Gage will speak on
“Constructive Aims for the Trade
and Class Journal Session.” after
■which Fred S. Young will tell of
“Successful Methods of Obtaining
Foreign Advertising for the Trade
and Class Journal.” This will be
followed by a talk on “Postal Ser
vice for Trade Publications,” by
Curtis L. Beach. At 11:30 the au
. nunl business meeting and adoption
of the constitution will take place.
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