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._ ABTHUB S. SUDD _EDITOE Editorial Board Managing Editor . Associate Editor . Associate Managing Editor . Don Woodward .John W. Piper .Ted Janes Bandar Editor .Margaret Morrison Daily News Editors Marian Lowry Rosalia Keber Frances Simpson Norma Wilson Ed Miller Night Editors Jack Burleson Walter Coover Rupert Bullivant labnar Johnson Jlm Caae p x, N. s. Editor .....Pauline Bondurant \juistants ..... , _Josephine Ulrich, Louis Paromasch Sports Editor .Monte Byers Sports Staff Sports Writers: Bill Akers, Ward Cook. Wilbur Wester, Alfred Erickson. George Godfrey, Pet, Upper News Staff Catherine Spall Mary Clerin Leonard Lerwill Margaret Skavlan Georgians Gerlinger Frances Sanford Leon Byrne Kathrine Kressman News c. Tvlp 7an, Holen Reynolds. Lester Turnbaugh, Thelma Hamrick, Staff. 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Dally News Editor This Issue Marian Lowry Night Editor This Issue Pete Laurs Assistant . Harry Dutton Commencement Day and the Campus Commencement day at most educational institutions is a great event of the student year. At Oregon it is a great event only to the senior class, to some of the faculty and to the towns peple—but not to the student body. If a canvass were made of the three hundred or more seniors who are graduating this year probably not more than twenty five could say that they had ever seen a University Commence ment program. There are several reasons for this situation. First, spring term examinations are usually over on a Friday, and Com mencement is the following Monday. There are jobs to get and trips to be made, and the ordinary student, unless he is actually receiving a diploma, simply hasn’t time to stay. The other reason is more important because if it were not for it the first cause of tlie student scarcity at Commencement would be removed. Oregon hasn’t a large enough auditorium to accommodate the entire student body, the faculty, the towns people and the friends and families of the graduates. That is why Commencement is not scheduled at a time when the mass! of students would still be on the campus. The city of Eugene is undertaking to build an auditorium for the University and for the accommodation of convention assemblies. When the auditorium becomes a reality Commence ment should be placed on the University calendar at a time when the entire student citizenship can take part and be in spired by the spirit of the occasion. A V irtue of the Past Of wlmt does modesty consist? Is it a plebeian, an aristo cratic, or a universal virtue? Or does it cease to be a virtue at all ? Modesty was a Christian characteristic. It was dogma. It was right. It was law. Practical asceticism was modest in char acter. Ecclesiastic orders for the confinement of the body and the realization of the soul's infinite potentialities claimed vir gins for service to the higher spirit. Modesty, until recently, was a manner 04* inoffensive be havior. It was control of the individualism in personality. Modesty claimed countless adherents. Modesty bad its own reward. Let it be taken as a hypothesis that this ancient Christian virtue, despite the double standard of morality, was preceptual in its meaning to men. It bad a command, and it attracted followers. But, all, today is the sight of it lost? Seemingly it ceases to be smart in aristocratic circles for one to profess or practice modesty. Likewise the commoner, sensing the struggle for existence which biological and philosophical authorities have called into the foreground of modern thought, loses his faith in modesty as a virtue. Coming closer home, is there a waning of respect for modesty as a measure of merit? Immodesty will have its fling. A co-ed smoker, a female intoxicated was at one time thought altogether immodest. But today our finer sensibilities are hardly so deli cate. We learn toleration. Teachings on open-mindedness tell us we must learn to take these things as they come. Be fair. If the other fellow to attract attention does something con spicuously unusual, go him one better and perform in revo lutionary manner. Jealousy never got anybody anywhere. It stirs baser pas sions which lead one astray. Likewise today modesty will get one nowhere. It lacks the force or energy which gets results, commands respect. A woman is loved, not for her modesty, her beauty, but rather for her ventnresomeness, her audacity, vivaciousness, and activity. The sobriety of convention need not be exceeded. But the dullness of retirement, the self-sacrificial attitude of let the other fellow have the glory is passed by without the notice it might have had a century ago. Change never ceases. We have to gpt used to evolution, revolution, and devolution. If modesty has succumbed, what virtue will be the next to pass? But we always know that when one virtue ceases to be virtuous, some other, to the extreme of its antithesis, may rise to take its place. If, then, modesty has passed, what next? STUDENT FROM RUSSIA TO ENTER UNIVERSITY Samuel Grikpetz to Study Medicine While Here Entrance to the University hn3 been granted to Samuel Grikpetz, of Riga, Russia, who is expecting to enter next fall. He will prob ably arrive in this country during the summer. Grikpetz, who is about 30 years of age, was studying medicine at the University of Moscow when i the revolution of 1917 broke out, I after he had spent four years in 1 study. During the subsequent changes in government, conditions ! were too unsettled for the univer- J sities to remain open and finally, when Bolshevists came into power, lie left the turbulent Moscow and | went to Odessa, where he entered the local university. After a short time, Grikpetz was drafted by the Bolshevist army and ho served as a medical assistant. He travelled up and down the Volga with the soldiers and final ly, through outside help, secured a discharge and made his way at once to Riga, Latvia, his home city. Through the aid of relatives in Portland, he is coming to i America and will continue with his education. * The young man is said to speak French and German fluently and lie is at present learning English. Mow much credit he will receive here and his status cannot be de termined till he himself arrives. New Jersey Boys Tell of Car Trip Across Continent Youths Will Sail for Japan Soon, Returning Next November Erie Fish and Vincent Nash, both of Roselle, which is a short distance from Newark, New Jersey, relate some thrilling experiences which they had on their motor trip across the continent. They expect to sail from Portland dune 15 for the Orient. The two boys are in Eugene visiting this week. In February, shortly after their | graduation from high school, they left their home. Their car got stuck in the mud in Missouri, so they had to be pulled for a long distance. One day they covered only 10 miles. In Arizona, their car got stuck again, and the entire i back of the car was torn off. They ' then sold their Chevrolet and j bijught a “flivver,” as they call i it, which they drove to Eugene and] sold. The boys, who are working their ■ way on the trip, will sail from Portland June 15 for Japan. They plan to return next fall and drive across the continent to their home bv next November. While in Eugene, they are guests of the Rev. and Mrs. \\. II. E. Marshall. Mr Fish, who expressed his desire to take up journalism at the Cuiversitv of O 'ton fol lowing his outing, is nej hew of I Mrs Marshall. POPPY SALE IS EVENT SET FOR TOMORROW Orders for more than 250 poppies have already been plaeed with the committee in charge of the poppy sale, which is to be conducted on the campus tomorrow by the 'Women’s auxiliary of the American Legion. Orders are being taken and poppies will be sold in the liv ing organizations on the campus, as well as iu a booth in front of the library. Last year, six organizations re ported 100 per cent sales of the poppies, the proceeds of which are to be used this year in educating and caring for war orphans. Bernice Rasor is chairman of the committee in charge of sales, and Virginia Pearson and Harley Covalt are acting as solicitors. The booth will be open in front of the library all day Friday, and the sale will be conducted by freshmen women. - Coming Events TODAY 11:00 p. m.—Assembly. Villard hall. 8:00 p. m.—Tri-state oratorical contest. Villard hall. 8:15 p. m.—Annabel Denn, re cital. Alumni hall. FRIDAY, MAY 23 Track, field meet. Frosh vs. Rooks. SATURDAY, MAY 24 8:30 p. m.—Senior breakfast. Woman’s building. 10:00 a. m.—Baseball. Frosh vs. Rooks. 1:30 p. m.—State championship track meet. SHHI! All the University is dying to know the thrilling secret — but we can’t tell a soul!! 1922. The volumes are records made of annua! meetings of the society at Worchester dealing most It with bibliographic sketches of well-known people and various other similar subjects. FASHION PARK CLOTHIERS it’s the cut of your clothes that counts your new linen knickers are here - - - - you know “linen’s the thing ’—for the summer lays—-either in plain white, natural or black and brown plaids on white. lots of cool comfort—lots of style, and a lower score—that's what you may expect and that’s what you’ll get in these new “knieks.” they will wash and wear like a school boy’s dirty hands and face - - - - priced extra low at $7.50 per pair—sizes 30 to 42 new cool headgear for golfers visors - - Madagascar helmets - -silk hats - - silk caps. see our windows green merrell Co. men’s wear “one of Eugene’s best stores” j 825 Willamette 825 j TODAY Friday-Saturday The intimate revelations of a beautiful model] "You are a model now,” said Peck. "It’s your job to pose in all sorts ot costumes.”* , "T he n I’ll quit,”.said Nellie. . ■: On the night of the Fashion Pag eant Nellie refuses to pose in sheer negligee. Each moment is a new thrill. And. final ly, abducted by hired thugs Nellie is left to her fate on the tracks of the fast express! o Her profes sion is full of unsuspected dangers. a. »•».* Fire breaks out, dur jng the great’’fashion shoWif The audience and scantily clad mod els barely escape with their lives. 4 Here’s the Greatest Melodrama or All / THE BEAUTIFUL CLOAK MODEL Goldwyn presents Emmett Flynn’s production oj A^OWtn Davis /Idapted i>y A/.//. Uan.-C.oayx, Scenario Ay Corfu Witfon- Directed bu Cmrnett Jlunn. jydtunrxf ' * J Claire Windsor, Mae Busch ,Edmund JLowe, Raymond Griffith, Lew Cody, Hobart: Bos wort h_ ' . ^ ‘Distributed by A (joldujyn Picture JUneMdthiS (y'o Id ivy n^C o rr,c>pcjLCtcx , : n-, NEWS TOPICS NOVELTY REEL E. LACHELE on the New ROBERT MORTON Matinee .20c Nights—Floor 30c Balcony .20c