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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1924)
MISS SEAMEN IS GREAT TRAVELER Y. W. C. A. Worker Visits China, India. Russia IDEA OF PEACE RELATED Lack of Foreign Students Found on Campus Miss Josephine Seamen, of the Y. W. C. A. world service council, who is visiting Dean Virginia Judy Esterly, has done a great deal of traveling, along with her duties with the Y. W. C. A. She has made her home in China for the past 20 years. It was there she met Dean Esterly. During this time, she has traveled up the Yang-tse-Kiang river, to Hangehau, Pekin, Shang hai and all other prominent places. Miss Seamen has visited in India twice, each time making a circuit of the country from Bombay to Calcutta, up the Ganges ’river, then to Jaipur and back to Bombay. She has been in Siberia, Russia, and al most any other country one cares to mention is familiar to her through personal experience. But this is Miss Seamen’s first visit to Oregon. Furthermore, she has never visited on the campus of a co-edu cational school for any length of time before. Co-education Is Discussed “There are some girls and boys whose contact in an intellectual way proves a common stimulus; on the other hand, there are some that are not of that temperament. Some not very steadily balanced girls would find a school, strictly for girls to their best advantage dur ing their studying days,” said Miss Seamen. “World peace is Buch a cosmic sounding phrase. I should like to substitute a ‘common understand ing’ of people and their handicaps, and what they can exchange. There can be no world peace and I don t know that it is desirable. As long as a thing lives there is a struggle. If there were no conflict in this world, it would be as dead as the moon. The struggle impending does not deal with the physical slaugh ter method but rather that of the higher plane—the mind. Even when Vl.ASSIFlED ADS be limited to 5 lines; over this limit 6c per line. Phone 961, or lesve eopr with Business office of Emerald, in University Press. Office hours. 1“ 4 p. m. VAYABLB IN ADVANCS ONLY ► Lost—Lady’s brown leather urse, somewhere near the comer f University and 13th streets, Dntaining money and watch. Finder lease call 69. Reward. A .12-13 Be a Newspaper Correspondent— gith the Heacock Plan and earn good income while learning; we how you how, begin actual work t once; all or spare time; experi nce unnecessary; no canvassing; end for particulars. News writers ‘raining Bureau, Buffalo, N. Y. F 12-tf <£>. ■ --;-———♦ Eastern Teacher to Instruct Here | I^^SSSBSSSSS^Sl J. Duncan Spaeth we attain the perfect cooperation we plan, we shall compete as to who shall be the more cooperative,” she said. She was particularly interested in the lack of a great number of foreign students on this campus as compared with those in the Califor nia schools. Her possible solution to this was that -so many of the steamer lines end there. “I think that the presence of Oriental students in a university is indispensable to common under standing. This tends to create a friendly attitude as only personal contact can'. Otherwise, students meet those of a foreign country only through books. There is an open sesame between the youth of the countries and by this means only can there be a common understand ing. I think that the future of both India and China lies in their young students, whether they study in America and return, or study in American schools in their own country,” said Miss Seamen. Viewpoint Is Optimistic The unfortunate attitude that is taken by so many that the condi tions are getting worse is not sanc tioned by Miss Seamen. It is her idea that the prevalent turmoil and unrest is due to the vision that all people have which arouses discon tent and is merely proving a stimu lus to this. “I believe that there is a spirit working in the hearts of men, awakening a desire to do God’s will and pleasure without knowing exactly what they are do ing,” she said. Miss Seamen is especially inter ested in Y. W. C. A. work and ex pends a great deal of time and energy as a volunteer worker. f i I f AA JOHN GILBERT % “JUST OFF t! BROADWAYX f y The narrow street of ♦> a thousand- mysteries. ♦> f The Castle Soon f ♦♦♦ Patronize Emerald Advertisers NOW SPEEDING portikc +# m UNIVERSAL JEWEL A DazzlingStoi L) cYtheVoun^er Set witha c^reat cast A dazzling story of the younger set; a romance that “snaps it up”—full of fire of youth and the pleasure mad pace of the modern youngsters! Eugene Steam Laundry The Logical Place to Send Your Laundry 178 8th Avenue Phone 123 CLEANING and PRESSING Rejuvenates your wardrobe We emphasize quality workmanship and service. TERMINAL CLEANERS Phone 360 J. DUNCAN SPAETH IS ON SUMMER FACULTY Princeton Man Will Offer Popular Courses Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth, professor of English and rowing coach of Prince ton university, is one of the faculty members of the Eugene summer ses sion. During the time spent at pre vious summer sessions both here and in Portland he proved to be one of the most popular professors the sum mer session has ever had. Dt. Spaeth is offering three cour ses — Makers of American Ideals, Northern Epics and Northern Epics Seminar. Makers of American Ideals I is a study of some of the main aspects I of America’s cultural inheritance in | the field of religion, morals, litera j ture, and politics, and of the specific j modification of this inheritance by leading Americans. Among the prominent Americana to be studied and the ideals with which they are identified are: Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards, Common Sense and Puritan Con science; Thomas Paine, Political Rad icalism; Thomas Jefferson, Political Liberalism: Alexander Hamilton, Pol tical Realism, the Frontier in Amer ican Life; Emerson, Hawthorne, Low ell, the New England Humanists; Ab raham Lincoln, Human Equality and National Union; Walt Whitman, De mocracy and Nationalism. Northern Epics, a three hour course, deals primarily with epic legends and literature. Students wishing to reg ister in the Northern Epics seminar must also enroll in Northern Epics. The hours for this course have not yet been arranged, • STUDENT UNION HEADS HOLD INITIAL MEETING (Continued from page one) regular daily meetings at enor mous banquets,” said Farrell. “Those who have their hearts in this thing and are actually throw ing aside all else to make this drive a success, will be rewarded1 for the moment by four banquets." There can be no richer reward for j j those doing the work than to be able to tell their grandchildren what they did for the Student; Union. “We are planning all manner of; entertainment for the campaign days,” Farrell said. “There will be entertainment to enhance the j morale of the students. This is to ) be a serious four-day period, which will have no place for frivolity except to relieve the danger of tedium in the hum-drum of the can vassing.” Henmans to Spend Weekend at New Club House One-room Cabin Built on Bank of Willamette at Bivenside The Hermian club, an honorary physical education society for | women, will spend the weekend at their new cabin at Riverside park. The cabin, which has been leased from A. C. Dilly for the remainder of this school year and all of next, was just recently completed. The cabin has one room, which is 16x20 feet, and the grounds contain one half acre. The land has all been fenced and a well has been con structed. As yet, there is no fire place, but one will be built next year. The club house is on the bank of ; the south fork of the Willamette river, and is surrounded by trees. “The place is ideal,” said Harriet Howells, “because of the wonder ful opportunity to enjoy swimming and rowing. Next year, we expect to have a diving board.” It is expected that 23 members will hike out to the cabin Satur day morning. Most of the girls will stay until Sunday. 9lt the Claaaified Ad habit. Broadway forgives T Y your mistakes, but not ^ ❖ if you make the same V twice V | “JUST OFF % f BROADWAY “ 4 The CASTLE SOON ^ ♦♦♦ Playing TODAY WILLIAMS. Continuous 1 to 11:30 Today V JIM ♦ I MCKEE . It’s Bill’s Biggest! l i i • ALSO PLAYING Harry Witwer’s The 4 4 TELEPHONE GIRL ’ A live wire comedy. * ROSNER on the ORGAN “SCARAMOUCHE Suits Made to Your Individual Measurements W. L. SCROGGS TAILOR A stitch in time saves many a dime I specialize in remodeling and repairing ladies’ and gent’s clothing. GET MY PRICES. 831 Willamette St. (Upstairs) Opposite Castle Theater Phone 753 liiaiiiK imiiiimiiiMiniHiiinHiwnn^ „ Ham Is Everybody’s Dish Ham served with eggs in the morning; cold ham for lunch — or boiled ham with sweet potatoes for dinner. Few other meats can answer so many pur poses. 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