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Six Alumni Presidents
of Institutions
Eight Are Deans
High School Positions
Held by 869
The University of Oregon has fur
nished presidents to six colleges from
among its graduates, according to a
report of the alumni office which has
just completed a study of the Uni
versity’s contribution to education.
Among the institutions which have
been headed by University of Oregon j
men are the Btatc universities of j
Montana, Wyoming and Now Mexico.
University of Oregon men have served
as state superintendent of public in
struction in Oregon, superintendent
and assistant superintendent of Port
land public schools, superintendent of
grammar schools in San Francisco,
assistant superintendent in Oakland,
California, dean of the school of edu
cation of Washington State college,
and United States supervisor of Edu
cation in the Philippines.
Educational Work Done
One of the most interesting pieces
of educational work dono by a
graduate of the University was that
of planning the system of education
now in ubo in all the ships of the
United States navy. Through this
organization every ship has becomo a
school where the enlisted men aro en
abled to tako up their education whore
they left it off ashore and to learn
various trades and professions. The
Oregon graduate who conceived this
plan now directs the work of this
floating university as chief educa
tional advisor to the United States
navy.
All told, 1238 University of Ore
gon men and women now servo as
educators. Eight are collego deans,
100 college professors, 59 superin
tendents of schools, 100 principals of
schools, 51 physical directors, 49
music teachers, 809 high school teach
ers.
Various Schools Included
Among the colleges and universi
ties in which the alumni servo as pro
fessors are Princeton, Columbia, Cor
nell, .Tolins Hopkins, New York ,Tlli
nois, Georgia, Northwestern, Boston,
Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, llad
cliff, Yassar, Stanford, Louisiana,
Iowa, Texas and Pennsylvania.
Among the state school executives
who have attended the University are
men who have served as city super
intendents of schools in Ashland, As
toria, Baker, Corvallis, Cottage C.rovo,
Medford, Marshfield, Rosoburg,
Salem, La Grande, Tillamook, Klam
ath Falls and Bend.
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"Life is a farce,” exclaimed Dr.
Johnson abruptly.
“I agree with you,” said William
calmly, “and the tragedy of it all is
that most men are so constituted that
they can never realize it.”
“Socrates saw life in all its rugged
splendor and totality—and died,”
said Saint Paul.
“My sainted Paul,” said Aeschylus
smiling. “Isn’t that always truet
Isn’t it at once the glory nnd the
destruction of man that man sees
life as it is, conquers it nnd dies—
Vet he lives for all eternity in that
one moment of conquering?”
“There is some so-called modern
writer,” said T>r. Johnson tapping his
forehead, “who writes that in the
face of the ‘trampling march of un
conscious power,’ man ‘condemned
to lose his dearest, tomorrow, himself
to pass beyond the vail’ has at last
resort this consolation that he can
stand ‘like a man’ and defy it all; as
the nut defies the trip-hammer. The
universe may take nearly all of man's,
but it cannot rob him of his own in
tegrity, and so man conquers for the
moment and in that moment lives for
all eternity.”
“I suppose it is quibbling,” said
Aeschylus, “to argue whether man
lives or dies when he at last faces life
in totality. Danne asked to see Zeus
in his splendor and she died when she
faced it—and yet she lived.”
“Surely,” said Shakespeare, “so did
Socrates live, and Oedipus and Tear.”
"Bcnedictus qul venit in nomine
dotnini vitae omnne” quoth Saint
Paul, “for lie lives forever and ever.”
“The difference between life nnd
death is a small difference,” said Dr.
Johnson musingly.
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Activities or Study: Mere
Training or Culture?
By Marion Playter
“Sure, she makes good grades,
but she docsn’t do anything. She
plays tennis marvelously too, but
you’d never know it. And she swims
awfully well, but she won’t go out
for anything.”
Thus a student was recently
described, in derisive tone of voice.
Why, the girl was almost a social
outcast. Imagine not “going out
for anything”!
Henry A. Perkins, professor of
physics at Trinity college, Hart
ford, has some interesting views on
college “activities” in an article,
“The American College,” in the
April North American Review.
Mr. Perkins points out that the
majority of students come to col
lege with a vague and indefinite
goal, resulting in this: that the
work is done “without enthusiasm
and the general attitude is that of
just meeting the requirements with
as little effort as possible.”
In such a situation, our all-im
portant “activities” step in quite
naturally. Mr. Perkins calls these
“absorbing occupations” the “dir
ect result of a situation created by
our mixed population, prosperity,
democratic ideals, and national
temperament.”
Ho explains this “amazing in
terest” in extra-cutriculbr ^icfivi
ties by the fact that the majority
of students come to college when
they are beginning to cravb some
thing “practical,” so that they
find the indefinite pursuit of the
ever-elusive, much-jibbered-about
culture hardly a “red-blooded job.”
“We see,” says the professor, “why
tlioy have evolved an elaborate
miniature world of affairs to satis
fy this natural craving for experi
encing life.”
The writer admits that they are
more rohdy to cope with that real
world of affairs than their “less
sophisticated cousinv abroad,” but j
“compared on the mental plane, or
on the basis of cultivation, our
young people are hopelessly out
classed, and seem very immature in
all that involves the world of ideas
and thought, beside their foreign
cousins.”
These foreign cousins, the critic
points out, have read and talked
instead of “setting up a counter
attraction so compelling as foot
ball or inter-fraternity relations.”
This man finds that it means a
choice between these two methods
of education: between “training
that comes from a miniature world
within the college—better acquired
in actual experience—” or the de
veloping and expanding of the
mind at a time when it is most
ready for such a process.”
“An old-fogey prof?” someone
suggests. No, he sees both sides,
even that of the over-organized in
dividual who is not happy until
he can display a miniature jewelry
counter on his chest.
But he believes that the aim of
a university is not only to satisfy
demands, but to “elevate” those
demands. No “radical changes”
are needed to achieve this, but “it
does mean,” he explains, “a clear
understanding of what we are
about, and then a conscious effort
to modify and alter whatever may
not bo working toward the best in
terests of education.”
Mr. Perkins says: “All these in
terests are admirable when under
taken in the right spirit, and not
driven to the excess we see to
day.”
The professor anti writer advo
cates above all a “reasonable”
spirit. “Revive the true love of
play in the place of purposeless
loafing or joyless ‘activities,’ and
the problem is solved.”
And Spring, Season of Love
and Poison Oak Among Us
Spring is a groat season, for
poets, doctors, song writers, ball
players, romanticists and automo
bile salesmen. Blossoming trees,
budding flowers, rippling waters
and engrossing politics featuro the
arrival of the new season. Long
boforo Romeo and Juliet risked
their necks over the edge of a frail
balcony, spring was recognized as
the mating season, or at least,
heralded ns tho period for affairs
of tho heart.
Locally, spring means three
things: picnics, love, and poison
oak. All are dangerous, often dis
astrous, sometimes pleasant, usual
ly fatal, and remarkably common.
The theory of evolution applies to
tho trio; of course, there are some
who do not tako poisoned oak, but
eventually and inevitably, every
body takes picnics and love. Funny
world.
Picnics are ofton explained ns
being the call of tho groat out
doors, tho beckon of the open
spaces or the desire to return to
the freedom of a long-departed
barbaric era. All this may bo true,
but who ever heard of a picnic
being a gonuino success and satis
faction when only one sex was
represented. There are times when
women go up the race alone, and
whn men go into tho mountains
unhampered by feminine compan
ions, but these are trips, not pic
nics.
A good picnic Is made up of:
a canoe, a moon, several stars,
many trees, a fire, smoke blowing
in the wrong direction, a quart of
fruit salad, not enough sweet
pickles, multitudes of softly spoken
words and ten thirty.
Then comes love, nobody knows
why, but it does. Philosophers,
physicians, students of abnormal
psychology and literary geniuses j
have spent lifetimes trying to fig
ure out what love really is. Law
yers, ministers, and fraternity
jewelers make a living out of it;
most students use it as a hobby,
pastime and a habit. >
There are degrees and stages of
love; in ,fa'ct, the proverbial 57
doesn’t take in the first third of
the well-known local varieties.
Some only have it once and are
immune, a few never get over the
first attack; to the majority, how
ever, it comes annually, like straw
berries, hives, insomnia, the sum
mer suit and poison oak.
Poison oak must be placed last
in order, because if there were
more poison oak, there would bo
less love. It is very similar to
love; comes when you least expect
it, causes restless days, sleepless |
nights and undescribablo discom- !
fort. One co-ed (well informed)
defined the love sensation as being
“an itch in the stomach that you
can’t scratch”—the difference is
that poison oak is external.
So we have the famed quartet:
| spring, picnics, love, and poison
| oak. They should be taken in mild
1 doses and never seriously'.
Literary Gossip
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PAT MORRISSETTE
Says a western magazine editer:
“The University of California Chron
icle is coming into its own as a lit
erary periodical. It is neither the
dry-as-dust publication which its title
might indicate, nor the frothy issue
if student standards. It is serious in
its purpose, yet possessing a ‘read
ability’ which gives it a place on the
ordinary library table.”
On the other hand: “There isn’t
a college literary magazine in the
United States,” says an intelligent
member of the University of Oregon
faculty, “printing undergraduate ma
terial that can be considered, even
in the amateur sense, a literary mag
azine.”
Now this proves conclusively, as
we’ve always maintained, that life is
a great thing.
• • «
The last issue of “The Overland
Monthly” is an “Oregon poets’ num
ber.” Mary Carolyn Davies is easily
the star of the “number.” (Hazel
Hall does not contribute.) Audred
Bunch, a senior at Willamette, has a
poem with a pretty fair verse in it.
There are only two very good lines in
the whole mess, however, and they
were both written by Miss Davies.
Gertrude Robinson Ross, “the
Salem bard,” presents “The Song of
Barbara Blomberg” which reverber
I ates with the Scandinavian enthusi
asm of Sir Patrick Spens, but echoes
—more truthfully—the Ruy Diaz of
Fl Poema del Cid. The poem hinges
on the line, “John Donn of Austria
is off for the fight.” (Don Juan.
John Donn. Here’s work for a psy
choanalyst. •
The translation of J. K. Huysman’s
“La Bas” is out. Huysman is Ben
Hecht, ’s one idol. The book, which
|is called “Down There,” is supposed
to have startled censors and is being
consistently “frowned upon.” Harry
Hansen in his “Midwest Portraits”
tells how" Hecht becomes enthusias
tic over Huysman. Hecht’s “The
Florentine Dagger” shows the claw
marks of Huysmanism—and partic
ularly the mark of “La Bas.”
Another translation of importance
is that of Zola’s “Nana.” Until the
present this book has had a very
wide circulation in the paper cover.
Tt is the most popular of all Zola’s
works, and. in total book sales, leads
any other book on the continent.
...
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no longer on the rent collection.
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duction with their well executed
solos and ensemble. The quintet:
Gwendolyn Lampshire, Jane O’Reil
ly, Nina Warnock, Mary Burton,
and Delbert. Moore, was enthusi
astically received.
The much advertised part of the
show, the musical comedy, “Cap
tain Jacqueline,” written and pro
duced by an Oregon girl, Imogene
Letcher, was the most pretentious
number of the evening. The music
of “Captain Jacqueline” is excel
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although the plot of the comedy is
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greater share of the applause. Of
the two specialty dances of this
number, the one by Josephine Ul
rich and Rex DeLong was really
clever.
“Nothings” Is Surprise
“Nothings,” a joyously foolish
take-off on itself and the show in
general was the surprise of the
evening. Wenona Dyer and Mar
garet Jamieson caught the true
spirit of fun in thier skit and won
the general verdict; of the mirth
enveloped audience.
By their rendition of “No One
Knows What Happens in the Old
Arm-chair,” “Ray Graham’s Colle
gians”" proved that they are syn
copators “par excellence.” They
gave a tuneful finish to a program
varied in quality and in content.
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“American girls are getting too
far away from nature to develop the
type o£ womanhood which serves the
country best.”
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ston, the little Tennessee girl who
plays opposite Harold Lloyd in “Girl
Shy,” which opens at the Heilig Mon
day, the celebrated comedian’s latest
feature Pathe comedy.
Miss Ralston is by no means the
type who would be pointed out as
the “athletic girl.” She is small and
dainty, and could easily play the
flapper role.
Jobyna Ralston* was selected as one
of the “baby stars” of 1923, and is
one of the prettiest of the group of
young girls now bidding for screen
fame. She was signed by Lloyd to
a three-year contract after her splen
did part in “Why Worry1?” and in
“Girl Shy” she is said to live up to
every expectation created by her work
in the previous Lloyd successes.
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