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. ,
ARTHUR S. RUDD ....EDITOR
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What the Student Public Wants
The changing attitude on campus affairs, the apparent lack
of interest in things that used to stir up student sentiment, as
shown by the apparent indifference to traditions, has caused
campus leaders to wonder. Considerable writing has been done
on the subject, in which there has been some tendency to ex
press a belief that the listless attitude is a condition local to the
Oregon campus.
When tlie editor of the Emerald attended the recent sessions
of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press association at Los Angeles,
the testimony of other college and university editors convinced
him that it is a case of a changing university world rather than
merely a “changing Oregon.”
The problem has become so general that discussions are be
ginning to appear in national publications. An editorial in
“The Nation” so ably sums up the situation, as it appeared
to the Los Angeles conference, that we reprint it as worthy of
special attention of students of a Coast institution.
It is entitled “The Languid Generation:”
“The editors und managers of the undergraduate news
papers of a number of Eastern women's colleges sat together
in the convention room and discussed their commou problems.
Intelligence and ability were obvious possessions of all of them.
They had also the appearance of being entirely alive, which be
longs only to people who have something of meaning and im
portance to do. They found the task of editing and writing col
lege newspapers a baffling one and the problems that they faced
resolved themselves finally into one problem: The students
in the colleges were not interested in anything. Surely a dis
couraging fact to face, one which the editor of the Saturday
Evening Post or the New York Evening Journal knows nothing
about.
“Should they print reports of lectures which the whole
college might have heard and which were attended by a dozen
students? Should they bring into the paper news of the out
side world, and “try to interest the undergraduates” in mat
ters of public significance? Should they talk about education
in general and the curriculum in particular—to several hundred
deaf cars? Or should they merely chronicle the interests of
the majority; and if so ... “But the majority has no interests.”
The delegates agreed on that.
“They compared notes. One editor thought that if the stu
dents at her college could be said to read anything with eag
erness it was collections of miscellaneous facts. “They like to
know how many pieces of mail-matter come into the college
and go out every week; how many bricks it took to build the
new dormitory.” Another delegate said that brief theater and
book notes were read; another that a rathe1, dreary humorous
column was the thing the college turned to; another said that
the discussion of college fads, such as the use of the swagger
stick. made matter that her public would read. “If the stu
dents at C-would get excited about swagger-sticks I’d
take it as a hopeful sign,” said a cynical young woman in the
front row.
“A frail, passing interest in fads, the theater, books, facts,
jokes—is this a foundation to build a paper on? The editors
seemed hardly to think so. They looked in vain for some breath
of hot feeling, some prejudice, some clash of ideas. And all
they found was a languid tolerance for any idea. Modern stu
dents, it appeared, can not be shocked or won; they are pleas
antly aloof from the bitter interests that tear the world. They
read, but books are books to them, adjuncts to a serene aea
demic progress—not chronicles of a living reality. The world
is a little misty to them, a little remote, as if they were souls
in some Maeterlinckian heaven waiting to" be, born.
“No one would wish for the students of America the tortures
of hunger, the clash of national and racial hatreds, the grind
ing effort by night and day, summer and winter, to secure
enough money to buy learning. These things, characteristic of
European universities, make life real enough, in all conscience,
and education a thing to prize, but they warp the mind ana
blunt the sensibilities. Perhaps some compromise is necessary
between hunger and complacency. Perhaps the generation that
is being bom out of our American colleges will have to rub
against life a little before it really believes in it. Real interest
is an emotion, and emotions spring from the needs of human
beings, and so far in this comparatively comfortable land there
: has been little of Europe’s bitter need for interest and intelli
gence.”
Oregon and California orators who take part in the radio
debate contest on February 29 will have their first opportunity
to really “air” their views.
Campus Bulletin
'Votifpfl will he printed in this column i
for two issues only. Copy must be l
in this office trr 5:30 on the day I
before it is to he published, and must 1
he limited to 20 words. If
Oregon Knights—Meeting,
tonight.
7:15
Second Orchestra—Eehearsal in
Villard at 4:30 p. m.
Sigma Epsilon—Meeting at the
Anchorage today noon.
Crossroads—Meeting Thursday,
7:30. Woman’s building.
Phi Mu Alpha—Luncheon at the
Anchorage, Thursday noon. .
Spanish Club—Meeting at the Y.
W. bungalow at 7:30 tonight.
Ad Club—Important luncheon
and business at the Anchorage
Thursday noon.
P. E. O. Sons—Enrolled in Uni
versity, please call Mrs. Thomas
Wells at 725 L.
Doughnut Athletics—Important
meeting today in Gym at 4. Or
ganizations will send representa
tives.
Honorary Fraternities—Send in
names of members to registrar at
once, so that grade averages can
be made.
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.
Senior Men and Women—Living
in town please drop a list of their
college activities in the box at tho
library door. For Oregana.
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
I Some High Points in Oregon
I Emerald of February 13, 1923
At a faculty meeting, held yester
day, the semester plan was defeated
by a 38 to 31 vote.
Scroll and Script, women’s campus
honorary organization, has been
granted a chapter of Mortar Board.
Three ideals are advocated by the
national organization; service to tho
University, scholarship and leader
ship. Scroll and Script received the
first chapter of Mortar Board grant
ed on tho Facifie coast.
Uniform divorce laws in the nation
will be the topic of debate, when tho
University of Oregon women's de
bate team meets the women’s team
from the University of Washington
on March 7.
Tito installation of Kappa Theta
Chi, local fraternity, as the forty- j
eigth chapter of Phi Kappa Psi will
be held this week-end.
Kmerald editorial says, “With the
constantly increasing number of cars
parked on the campus it is probably
only a matter of time until some en
terprising business man will want to
construct a service station and auto
camp under the Condon oaks.”
A donation of Indian relics to the
geology department has been made
bv W. ,T. Seaver.
’/eta Kappa Psi, women’s national
debating society, has initiated Marion
I.ay, Virginia Pearson, Margaret
Morrison, Rosalia Keber, Myrtle Pel
ker, Mildred Crain, Prances Simpson,
Julia Raymond and Winifred Graham.
Penn Pyment is suffering from an
attack of la grippe.
NORTHWESTERN STUDENTS
HEAR ISRAEL ZANGWILL
Northwestern University — Israel
Zangwill, famous English dramatist
and playwright, addressed the students
and faculty of Northwestern univer
sity recently, on matters related to
the theater of the present day
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FARRELL REPLIES
(■Editor’s Note—This communi
cation was received following the
condemnation of the recent as
sembly announcement, concerning
dime crawls. It was crowded out of
a recent issue and is consequently
late in appearing).
To the Editor:
Inasmuch as the “indignant” one
with the sentimental complex is un
doubtedly a freshman, I shall, in a
few words, explain in a kindly and
tolerant way the method of pro
cedure in the matter of having an
announcement made from the floor
in assembly. The nature of the, an
nouncement must be divulged to,
and permission obtained from, the
secretary to the president before
the announcement can be made.
Which would tend to show that the
announcement was not considered
such “poor taste.”
Furthermore, the speaker in no
sense attempted to preach a sermon.
He set forth the accomplishments of
a world figure from an historical
point of view. This was an ordi
nary assembly to the students who
really got the full significance of
the speaker’s words.
And by the way, I wonder if the
indignant one arose and sang
“Mighty Oregon” at the1 close of
the “memorial services.”
—DOUGLAS FARRELL.
AGAINST LUXURY
To the Editor:
With the alleged growing use of
cars, particularly by certain of the
men students, and of fur coats and
such “non-essentials” by the
women, a growing cry has been
raised upon the campus by those
who fear that the trammels of the
outside -world are intruding upon
the University and its classic at
mosphere.
Say these partisans: “To be free,
the University, and not the worldly
atmosphere, must absolutely and
unconditionally dominate the cam
pus life of its students.” This does
not mean, of course, that it should
divorce itself from the outside life
and graduate a band of recluses.
Far from it. Rut there is a cer
tain and undeniable value in hav
ing a uniqueness in University life. [
The very difference of the life on j
this campus, where it is unique and j
different from the ordinary seven- '
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Coming Events
TODAY
4-6 p. m.—Women's League
tea. Woman’s building.
6:45-7:30 p. m.—Women’s League
dime dance.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14
11:00 a. m.—Assembly. Woman’s
building.
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.
6:30 p. m.—Banquet for editors
and publishers. Osbum hotel.
8:00 p. m.—Willamette Men’s
Olee club concert. Methodist
Episcopal church.
8:15 p. m.—Arthur H. Johnson,
concert. Guild hall.
9:00 p. m.—Dr. James Gilbert,
“The Tax Situation.” Radio.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Oregon vs. Idaho, wrestling. Mos
cow, Idaho.
Continued conference.
12:00 m.—Hendricks hall lunch
eon for conference. Hendricks
hall.
8:15 p. m.—Arthur H. Johnson,
concert. Guild hall.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17
7:00 p. m.—Open forum meet
ings. Congregational church.
:1 ay-a-week life at home serves to
impress the stamp of the Univer
sity upon young minds.
At home, students of well-to-do
parents may have their elaborate
parties, their fur-coated, pearl
nccklaeed, theatre parties; there
they may ride in father and
mother’s limousine or touring car.
When they come to the University,
a forced abandonment of all these
luxuries earned by their /parents
will place them in a much better
frame of mind for the accomplish
ment of the real purpose of Univer
sity life. Discipline and forced
democracy is of incalculable value
to the young and impressionable
University students of today.
And to this sentiment, what op
posing hue and cry has been raised?
None, save this one, “Tyranny of
the majority!” We wonder which
the campus; thinks is valid, the
argument or the single-line reply?
Or is the campus asleep, lethargic?
Sixty-six and two-thirds of Ore
gon ’s students are self-supporting.
Are these facts mentioned above,
simply cheering signs of prosperity,
or are they potential evils?
—SENIOR.
SPENCER COLLINS IN CHARGE
OF ACCOUNTING OFFICE
Spencer R. Collins, a member of
the class of ’21, has opened an of
fice in Eugene this month for Whit
comb, Piepenbrink & Company, an
accounting firm, who have offices in
Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Astoria,
Pendleton and Walla Walla. Collins
is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsi
lon fraternity, and belongs to
Alpha Kappa Psi and Beta Alpha
Psi, honorary fraternities. He is a
certified public accountant.
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