OREGON DAILY, EMERALD
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Official publication of tha Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued
Aallj except Monday, during the college year.
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For Peace of Mind!
Old Oregon, the alumni magazine of the University, has an
exceptionally good and chatty editorial page, of exactly the
type which invariably interests alumni and students. In its last
issue the editor comments upon “increasing evidence that Ore
gon is weary of imposed activities.”
“Except in the pursuit of pleasure,” Old Oregon says, “the
student body does show a certain apathy. Spring fever, sky
rocketing standards, athletic defeats—the cause is explained
variously. But the fact remains that the weary are getting the
victory. ’ ’
Just here we depart from the quoted editorial to ask: Why
should not the Weary have the victory? We do not mean to
dispute the question with the editor of Old Oregon, for we feel
sure that she agrees, yet the question remains with us. Too,
we question the clause, “Except in the pursuit of pleasure . . .”
We have our pet explanation and w^e wonder how much the
spirit, facetiously called Oxforditis, has to do with it.
There is no doubt that a University cannot be run as an ed
ucational factory. One hundred and eighty-six hours for a di
ploma has been suffciiently rapped on the campus, but there
is more to it than that. Such a diploma is merely the result of
too mechanical a system of class-work. To those who are
awake to the trend of events and the swing of the currents of
campus life, it is a known fact that there is an increasingly larger
group among the faculty and students in their upper-class years
who actively advocate conference and individual work to large
ly supplement the present lecture system. “Modify the me
chanics” is their cry.
When a student becomes really interested in an education
which demands his time, non-essentials vanish quickly, and sup
erfluities are reduced to a minimum. Certain activities have
been reduced to a minimum; certain others soon will be. We
feel that the pursuit of pleasure” will soon be reduced to a
really pleasurable ami less onerous minimum. In proportion,
likewise, athletics of the many ns opposed to the old system of
athletics tor the few stars, should grow in strength. Paradox
ically there will be more time to work by loafing; more time
to salt down our garnered facts with spirit.
Again we ask. “Why should not the Weary have the vic
tory?”
Because a great many students did not order an Oregana
during the first subscription campaign another opportunity is
being offered to subscribe to the 1921 year book. Days at Ore
gon are full of interesting events and in the years to come a
record of the time spent on the campus, as compiled in the Ore
gana, will be very valuable. Our tip is—visit the Oregana
tabic at tin1 Co-op, today, and subscribe.
Again we take the opportunity to remind the faculty that
classes should be dismissed on time.
U. H. S. TENNIS MATCHES
TO COMMENCE APRIL 7
At a meeting yesterday of all
University high school men interested !
in tennis, it was decided to start j
their nil-school tennis tournament
next Monday, April 7. The games
will be played on the new I’niversity
courts. The men have not finished
signing up for the tournament and
Coach Webster gxpects about 30 men
to turn out. There will be both sin
gles and doubles and the men are
Inisv now picking pairs for the dou
bles. '
Whenever anyone is beaten he is
not eliminated from play but he
drops down into the second class or
losers’ tournament and each class will
play until the best in the group is
decided. L’he all-school tournament
will last all next week and then out
side competition will be brought in
il possible. Men from the school I
tournament0 will be picked to repre
sent tin' \arious classes in the inter
class tennis matches which will fol
low the tournament.
Campus Bulletin
Notice* will be printed in this column
for two issues only. Copy must bo
in this office by 5:80 on the dmy
before it is to be published, and must
be limited to 20 words.
O-•--—— ♦
Ye Tabard Inn — Wednesday,
Anchorage, 7:30.
Spanish Club—Meeting tonight.
7:15, Y. W. bungalow.
Oregon Knights—Meeting, 7:15
tonight, in Condon hall.
Women’s League—Tea this after
noon, 4 to 6, Woman’s building.
Samara—Meeting Wednesday in
Miss Thompson’s office. Impor-:
tant.
House Managers — Meeting at
Household Arts building, Wednes
day at 2:00 o’clock.
Girls’ Volleyball — Hours have'
been changed to Monday, Wednes
day and Friday at 3:00.
Girls’ Rifle Team—Preliminary
and record firing for girls’ rifle ;
team all during week ending April ,
5.
Pi Lambda Theta—Luncheon and1,
business meeting today, 12 o’clock,)
at College Side Inn. Regular mem
ber! only. > ■
Philosophy Club—Meet in men’s 1
room of Woman’s building, Wednes
day evening at 7:45. Harold Lee
will be speaker.
Women’s Forum—Meet in Worn j'
an’s building at 7:30 tonight.
Women’s league executive council;:
following forum meeting. j
Track Men—Important meeting |'
of both varsity and freshman track ^
athletes today at 4 p. m. on Hay- (
ward field. Bill Hayward.
Canoeing—All girls interested in i 1
inter-class canoeing meet in lecture:]
room of Woman’s building at 5 i
p. m., Wednesday, April 2. 1
Education — Students desiring
supervised teaching, “Education
107,” during 1924-25, make applica
tion this week with Mr. Hughes,
Education building.
Communications
I-—i
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 I
print. It must be understood that the .j!
editor reserves the right to reject
communications.
THE CIGA-HIGHWAY
FRATERNITY
To the Editor—
This is not a complaint from a
member of the local chapter of the
Healtheoc Anti-Cigarette associa
tion, nor is it the whining of one
who has been ruled out of the ever
increasing nicotine association at
the University of Oregon. It is
merely the statement of a condi
tion altogether too obvious, yet ap
parently overlooked because of this
lack of obscurity.
Every school day from early'
morning till late afternoon groups
of men students may be seen idly
pulling at a cigarette or a pipe
while waiting for the boll to ring
for the next class period, or wildly
puffing at a nowly-lit cigarette dur
ing the few minutes between
classes. They cluster in small or
large groups, depending on the
weather, on the Pacific highway
from Kincaid to University streets,
with the nucleus of the smokers in
the vicinity of the “Nicotine Tree”
in front of the Administration
buildingi
oevenu mousanu persons pass tne
University daily in automobiles on
the Paeifie. highway. How many of
these autoists know the University
and student life here only by the
impression they get as they ride
by, it is difficult to estimate; but
beyond doubt a considerable num
ber of them see only this part of
college life. Some of these passers
by may be fathers and mothers who
have watched their boys grow up
jthrough the grade and high schools
with a certain high degree of pride
that the latter have not learned
the smoking habit. They are
shocked to see nearly all the Uni
versity students smoking. (Since
smoking is not allowed on the cam
pus, nearly all those students on
the highway are there for the sole
purpose of smoking, but this the
(passers-by may not know). And
with smoking they are prone to
class other habits, properly so or
not does not matter, some of which
they might know as vices. After
thinking it over, they may decide
they had better, possibly, send the
bo vs to some other institution.
Of course, they have only one
side, a very small part, of Univer
sity life here, but there is the rub.
The University of Oregon is laying
the foundation for the greatest pub
licity campaign and financial drive
in its history. The students now in
attendance, realizing the present
cramped conditions for study and
classroom work, are desirous of as
sisting their alma mater in this
worthy undertaking of securing
sufficient and proper equipment
here to continue the high standards
of scholarship of the past few
years.
The best advertisements are be
ing ruled off the highways of Ore
gon. Can we students afford to
keep the "Nicotine Tree” as' our
inly highway advertisement? Pos
iibly we ought to dig it up this
spring and plant it far back on.the
;ampus, where it will be lees con
ipicuous. Or possibly it would be
loing Oregon a good deed to dis
band as a Cliga-Hiway fraternity
ind reorganize as a Pipe-Pullers’
dub with headquarters at the heat
ing plant.
SENIOR.
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ATTITUDE TOWARD
SCHOLARSHIP
In the opinion of various members
>f the faculty who have expressed
iheir ideas on the subject of scholar
ihip and its reward, it seems that
;here is not enough importance at
tached to the purely scholastic at
tainments of college undergraduates.
Students, or those individuals so
ailed by wont of their associations,
ire accused by learned professors of
osing sight of the purpose which
they had in mind when they enrolled
n curriculum work at an institution
>f higher learning. And the atti
ude of Penn State, may it be said,
s but a reflection of conditions, in
general, existing throughout modern
American colleges and universities. *
Several years ago, an idea was hit
lpon for stimulating interest in
icholastic work by setting aside a
lay, when undergraduates who had
ichieved distinction in academic
vork should be recognized and
lonored according to their worth.
Hie idea was worked out, and
Scholarship day became an in
titution at Penn State. Since
;hat time, Scholarship days
iave come and gone, but their pur
lose has been defeated by the dearth
if common interest among the un
lergraduates. Tn cases where classes
cere excused to allow students to at
end the convocation called for the
mrpose of honoring their fellow
lassmates who had won tlip right
0 recognition for scholastic work, it
vas found that the time was given
iver to personal pursuits and pleas
ires with no more than a passing
ihought for the individuals who had
nade possible their leisure moments.
It is a case, then, of changing the
lentiment of the majority with re
ipect to the merit of work done in
1 scholastic way. “Grinds” and
‘bookworms” are rightly looked upon
vith [disfavor. Penn State should
iave no place for such misguided and
lelfish individuals. But the fact re
nains that there are undergraduates
n every institution who are possessed
>r a higher degree or native intelli
gence than others, and when men of
[his caliber achieve distinction in ac
idemic work there is no side-stepping
the fact that they arei deserving of
ecognition.
The problem of general disinter
sstedness might be solved in a com
monhense manner by doing away with
Scholarship day entirely and substi
For real Fountain Pen Satisfaction
Use
"The Ink That Made
The Fountain Pen Possible”
SANFORD'S
« FOUNTAIN PEN INK
tuting in its stead a Recognition mass j
meeting, presided over by prominent
' undergraduates, where honors might
j be paid to the most deserving, indi-1
ividuals in all lines of collegiate en
| deavor, with special emphasis uponj
the scholastic side if necessary. Link-!
ing the work done in a scholastic way
with noncurriculum activity of a
more popular nature might be one
means of securing a more friemdly
feeling toward scholarship in gen-1
eral.—Penn State Collegian.
GORDON S. WELLS, ’21,
RUNS FOR ATTORNEY
—
Campus Interest in Primary Election
Increased by Entrance
of Law Graduate
i Interest in the coming primary
election is heightened on the cam
pus by the fact that Gordon S.
Wells, who graduated from the
University school of law in 1921,
has announced his candidacy for
district attorney of Lane county.
A number of friends of Mr. Wells
! on the campus are working in his
interests and they predict success
for his campaign.
Since his University days, he has
been practicing law in Eugene, and
in 1922 was deputy district attor
ney. He is now teaching a course
in the law school in addition to his
private duties.
Wells entered the law school at
the age of 32 and was listed every
term as an honor student. He, was
one of the very few special stu
dents of the University ever to
receive a degree.
Registration for the primaries,
May 16, closes on April 15.
THEY TOIL NOT—
Neither Do They Spin
LILIES
of the
There was an old mercfiant who
lived in a shoe,
He had so many debts he did not know
what to do.
His store didn’t pay,
Nor increase much in size
Until one fine day
He said, “I’ll advertise.”
Advertise in the
Oregon Emerald
Coming Events
TODAY '
4-6 p. m.—Women’s league tea.
Woman’s building.
THURSDAY, APRIL S
11:00 a. m.—Assembly. Villard
hall.
9-4 p. m.—Y. M. C. A. election
of officers. Hitt.
4-6 p m.—Dean Esterly’s tea, 667
, East 12th street.
FRIDAY, APRIL 4
8:00 p. m.—Oratorical congest.
Villard hall.
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
April Frolic, Woman’s building.
Men’s smoker. Men’s gymna
sium.
CASTLE
Although the term “all-star cast” j
has been misused by scores of pro- i
dueers, First National offers a ;
cast in John Francis Dillon’s pro
duction of “Lilies of the Field,”
which opens tomorrow at the Castle,
that defies comparison. Corinne
Griffith and Conway Tearle are
seen in the featured roles; Crau
furd Kent, Charles Gerrard, Cissy
Fitzgerald, Sylvia Breamer, Myrtle
Stedman, Phyllis Haver, Dorothy
Brock, Alma Bennett, Edith Ran
som, Charlie Murray and Mammy
Peters are seen in the supporting
parts. Try to tie that list.
Read the Classified Ad column.
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CJ From our ovens come warm, delic
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