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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1924)
The Sunday Eleven o’clock By Bruce J. Qiffen University Pastor IMMORTALITY BROUGHT TO LIGHT Text: “Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, hath brought immortality to light through the gospel.” 2 Tim. 1:10. Easter is the festival of flowers and the immortal hope. What is the birthday of a nation compared with the celebration of the hope of Immortality! No greater thought, no higher hope can ever fill the hi)/man hnindj« The average ‘ex pectancy of life’ is 15 to 20 years. Said Hujxley once: “Heife I am walking on a plank, and it reaches out into the fog, and I have got to keep walking. I can see only 10 feet ahead of me possibly. I know that pretty soon I must walk over the end of that plank, per haps today, perhaps next year, per haps in 20 years.” Now Jesus Christ did not bring us new the hope of immortality. He found it here in our hearts, but he has confirmed it and enriched it. His proof of immortality is not our instinct. His proof of im mortality is God. If we are God’s children, and if he truly loves us, then it is incredible to Jesus that we should cease to be. Once realize the fatherhood of God, as he was never weary of proclaiming it, and you must believe in the immortal ity of the soul. His is the love that will not let us go. He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. It is thus that Christ has confirmed our human yearning. He has rooted it in tho fatherhood of God. John Fiske put it a very littlo bit differently when he said: “I believe in the immortality of tho soul, not in the sense in which I accept tho deminstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in tho reasonableness of God’s work.” TWO SENIORS ANNOUNCE THEIR ENGAGEMENT Friday night at dinner, the en gagement of Mabcllo Breckon to James Baker was announced at tho Pi Beta Phi, of which Mrs. Breckon is a membor. Mrs. Breckon is a senior in tho fine arts department and president of tho Allied Arts league. Mr. Baker is a senior in tho school of sociology, and a member of Alpha Tau Omega. NEVADA BASKETBALL FIVE STARTS SPRING PRACTICE University of Nevada—(P. I. N. 8.)—Coach Martio has decided to have spring basketball practice at the university this year. The men on tho varsity squad started prao tico this week, and tho beginning of next weok tho freshman toam will go on tho floor. ^CLASSIFIED ADS^ Minimum charge, 1 time. 25c; 2 times, 45c; 8 times, 60c • 1 week, 91.20. Muet be limited to 5 line*; over this limit 5c per line. Phone 961, or leave copy with Business office of Emerald, in University Press. Office hours, 1 to 4 p. m. k'AYABLH IN ADVANCE ONLY ^ Be a Newspaper Correspondent— With the Hoacock Plan and earn a good income while learning; we show you how; begin actual work at once; all or spare time; experi ence unnecessary; no canvassing; send for particulars. Newswriters Training Bureau, Buffalo, N. Y. F 12 tf Oh, Those ‘Friday-Night Library Blues’ By L. L. J. There have been “blues” about “sweet mamas” and blues concerning “aggravating papas,” not to mention the various and sundry varieties of blues on everything in general from tin pans to delapidated shanties, but some great composer of celestial har mony is missing a wonderful oppor tunity. What is needed to fill the bill is a fine concord on “Friday Night at the Library Blues.” Now the name may not be catchy, but there is certainly a host of mater ial. Blues at the library on Friday nights are spread about like the snowy blossoms of a shedding cherry tree, or something that center of re search gathered on the sixth day as is the over-advertised snowball in the proverbial eternity. Go to the library some weekend ev ening and try having just a whale1 of a time; just try it. Outside are the trees, the moon, the race; dim echoes of floating music and drift ing couples strolling no-place and get ting there. Inside; books, millions of them, with no more popularity than a broken date. Empty chairs and forelorn tables, bored assistants sleep ily waiting for the creeping clock to do its stuff. Here and there a stu dent, and for once if the term is used correctly, perhaps it would even be permissable to use scholar as an ad jective describing these industrial in dividuals who are willing to let edu cation carry through Friday night. There is what might be called. a rumor, but really may be a tradition around here concerning the library on Friday night; at any rate it is said in masculine circles that the fairer sex refuses to go to the library over the weekend because of injured pride, whatever that is. The explanation seems to be that the co-ed uses the logic that if she isn’t seen minus a date nobody knows that she didn’t have one. In other words, all those who did not bat high at the telephone booth hide out and would sooner sit at home saying catty things about the sisters than be exposed to the un bearable disgrace of being seen un dated. Well, there is a certain bit of popular psychology in the argument. Regardless of explanations, there is an obvious absence of anything in the nature of a mob scene around the re serve desk, and you don’t have to make a few enemies trying to find an unoccupied chair. According to the economic law of supply and de mand, Friday night should be bar gain night at the library. There has been a great deal of well worn and over emphasized romance built about this old building; its com fortable steps and convenient loca tion are said to -have had a part in the making of many a successful (and the opposite) love affair. It is said that love can surmount a great num ber of difficulties; if so, it would sure be put to a test around this building after sundown on Fridays. So there may be blues and blues, but there eaif be none like the lib rary blues—we know, because we were there Friday night, but we weren’t students, so of course we left. Picking Political Plums Is |the Coming Campus Chaos If you think your’e good, just start talking yourself up. Bo liberal with tlie cigarettes; talk fluently and with some smattering of common horse sense while under the nicotine bush; take all of them to the movies; tell them you like the girls in her house; smile sweetly and gargle a toothsome hello to all of them. If you have all of theso symptoms, you are sure to succeed. Succeed in what, you say? It’s getting close to that time when the campus political pot begins to boil, when the bee starts buzzing and when everybody knows the good and bad points about some of the potential candidates for the student body offices. If you have been passing up your political information, never mind studying the papers now, because you ’ll get an insight into politics right here at home. Charity begins at home. So do crooked politics. The campaign of course will be square this year as it always is. Yet, just like a lottery dance. It’s going to be a grand little raeo this year, providing someone runs. If you feel real popular get in the race; sharpen your spikes and get ready for the campaign gun. Several nice political plums will be ripe for plucking soon. Of course, there will be the little scandal, but there won't be any of us connected with oil. Then of course, you may not win. Don’t worry, you’ll win something. The Royal Order of Lame CJuackers will bust over and console you after the last ballot is counted A Sure Cure for Spring Fever is a delicious dish of ice cream, covered with crushed fruits and whipped cream. If you need nourishment during the lazy afternoons drop in at Ye Campa Shoppe and try some of our salads or sand wiches. They are a whole meal in them selves. You will see all the gang there too and have an enjoyable afternoon. A Picnic Is Not a Picnic If you haven’t a well prepared lunch, let us fix you up and You Will Have a Good Time and you find that you didn’t reach the plum. Kun anyway and get the recogni tion and a membership card in the Lame Ducks society. The Murphy Clan Have Their Innings (Continued from page one) ceived this scholarship, and he is now a prominent lawyer. He has passed the good news on to Errol, who, with his last term’s grades averaging better than a “2,” is in a position to continue his studies at Harvard with all expenses paid. Is everyone aware that a law in America enables a man to change his surname if he so desires? The modem Dumas wrote it! “SCARAMOUCHE” The screen’s master directed it! Literary Gossip by PAT MORRISSETTE We’re not the only one who’s be ginning to think the American Mer cury is rather soft stuff. The ap peal of the Mercury, says an Ameri can editor, is: 1. To liberated adolescents who wish to kick up their heels. 2. To the middle or muddle gen eration in American letters. And while we’re on the subject we might as well mention that Mencken’s"Book of Burlesques” is on the April lists. It is his old stuff. He orchestras the field between death and jazz. • « • Robert Bridges set right out for the University of Michigan, and he’s going to stay there—for a while, per haps. “It was the poet laureate of England, imported for the little mid dle-western boys and girls to look upon,” wrote John Farrar. Bridges wouldn’t give Farrar an interview. But Robert wouldn’t pay attention to a thing. He went right out to Mich igan. • • • The newspapers are printing Pap ini’s "Life of Christ.” All the jHearst papers are going to run it— that is, Randolph has signed a con tract to that effect. Reminds us of what Lloyd Morris said: “Papini is an extraordinary clever journalist with a predilection for the sensation al and an absolute contempt for con sistency.” Yes sir. Newspaper stuff. * • • Carl Van Doran gives Stuart P. Sherman a cunningly brutal slap in “Many Minds.” Sherman has crowned Puritanism as the radicalism of the past, you know. And Carl just says he’s not satisfied with dead radicals. Ho-hum. Harry Kemp has dramatised “An Untold Tale of Boccaccio,” and is sued it in book form with nine other one act plays. Sir Walter Raliegb’s essay on the old boy is not what it’s cracked up to be. Sir WalFer quotes “from the spirited English transla tion of 1820.” But he’s got no taste at all. And we might mention that under the direction of Doe Marti four young men on the campus have just completed reading Boccaccio in the original. Yup. Boccaccio stands the test of time. It seems pretension to believe that the campus could get to know Meikle john in a day (et vice versa!) But a lot of us are pretending that we do. Lucien Price’s “Prophets Una wares” gives us a monocle to look through that puts an idealistic glam our about the man, and his attempt at Amherst to bring about “a return to the agora of Athens and the groves of the Academe.” One critic says Price gives us a human and lovable martyr, but ho doesn’t tell us defin itely enough what he suffered for.” But Price takes up, or rather dismiss es, the complaint made against the Amherst president. It ^eema that some objection to his way of spend The RESURRECTION as a Modernist Sees It Evangelical Christianity has seen tit to found much of its theological vstem on the occurrence of the phy sical resurrection of Christ. That Jesus Christ rose from the dead is taken as a proved fact and that fact is made the basis of the whole Chris tian doctrine of personal immortality. It is used as the complete and ade quate proof of human immortality. No wonder the Modernists in the evangelical churches have slioeked and disturbed greatly their more conservative brethren in tho faith of the fathers when they questioned the truth of the doctrine of the phy sical resurrection of Christ. Yet the Modernists in evangelical churches may appeal to the resur rection theme as an expression of re ligious aspiration as being present in many widely distributed peoples run ning through the whole history of the race as far as we can trace it. It is not a doctrine peculiar to Chris tianity. In it is to be found the ef fort of the human being to give some ! concrete expression to a deep innate longing. Suppose all of these attempts at concrete expression are to be taken ! as so many myths, as indeed from any point of view they are, still they may ! I be used symbolically as an expression; of human aspiration in the field of religion, just as, even when used by masters, words are but somewhat in adequate symbols of deeper realities of the mind. Now do you see the drift of my thought and how it may be worked out in the sermon I shall preach as an appropriate Easter theme Sunday morning at the Unitarian church? I have taken as a theme: “JESUS RESURRECTED PROM THE TOMB TRADITIONAL.” I do this because before we interpret the larger mean ing of that rythm of life which ex presses itself in successive decadence, change or ns we say death, followed by resurrection, re-birth, or however tve phrase the phenomenon of re-ex prossion of the eternal life forces, we must rid ourselves of belief in juiy such destructive exception as the Christian doctrine of Christ ’s physical resurrection. The musical program will include a solo bv Robert McKniglit and a violin solo by Gwendolen Lampshire. All University men and women who are responsive to a religion of free thinking and plain speaking are cor dially invited to our services. Our services begin at 10:45 o'clock. The church is located on East Elev enth avenue at Perry street. —Paid advertisement. EXPERT SHOE SHINING For a number of years we have been the students’ headquarters for shoe shining. We clean, dye and shine any color shoes. Or ders for repairing taken. REX SHOE SHINING PARLOR (Next Rex Theatre) I' ing his $18,000 a year, etc. Four football captains made Phi Beta Kap pa during the Meiklejohn adminis tration. Quarter Men Show Speed in Contest (Continued from page one) der. Polevault—Rosenburg and Canterbury. Javelin—Tuck, Bosen burg and Simonton. Shot—Tuck, Johnson and Beatty. Discus — Tuck, Johnson and Terjesen. Officials: Starter, Larsen. Clerk of course, Byers. Judges, McClure, Wilson, Mautz and Walker. Photog rapher, Godfrey. REED INSTRUCTOR VISITING AT UNIVERSITY Misa Bertha Young, instructor in the English department of Reed college, has been a visitor on the campus the past few days. She is a guest of Miss Gertrude Talbot, head resident of Hendricks hall. Miss Young will return to Portland this evening. Chicken Dinner Doesn’t it make your mouth water to think of it? Certainly it does, but it’s seldom that we have one. Let’s give ourselves a treat on Easter and have a real chicken dinner at the Jitney Eats for only forty-five cents. On 9th just below Oak. Tonight Our Delicious Baked Ham Dinner Southern Style * # * Important Starting today the Anch orage will be open every Saturday. Make it a part of your Saturday plans. Phone 30 The Anchorage Bose LaVogne Beauty Shop Shampooing, marcelling, scalp treatments and hair goods made to order. Ton haven’t forgotten “The FOUR HORSEMEN of the APOCALYPSE ” You’ll never forget “SCARAMOUCHE” (Marriage? BLAH! I That's what Helen said when she discovered I .< • « 1 11 mmg or IWU sue uauu m known about her own Rich ard*—Matrimony ?—Well, if you want the laugh of your life, see— VIOLA DANA ) Don't Doubt Your Husband THE LAUGHTER HIT OF THE YEAR Clever, sparkling, daring humor and satire MONDAY AND TUESDAY FOX NEWS Comedy “ ARABIA’S LAST ALARM” The CASTLE # # # HOME of the BEST COMING SOON— The Spirit of Easter Sunday is in the atmosphere at the Rain bow today. Have you seen our candy rabbits, Easter eggs and novelties so characteristic of the day? Come in for dinner—our Sunday menu is a real Easter treat. The Rainbow Herman Burgoyne