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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1924)
C&tegon Daily $*meralft Member of Fadflc IntercoUejUte Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, leaned except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. DONALD L. WOODWARD EDITOR Editorial Board Managing Editor Associate Editor . Associate Editor . Edward M. Miller _ Margaret L. Morrison __ Leon K. Byrne Associate Managing Editor -- Harold A. Kirk Desk Editor _Nonna Wilson Sports Editor ....George H. Godfrey Daily News Editor Mary Clerin Douglae Wilson Frances Sanford _ Night Editors Fete Laura J dimer Johnson Bel Abramson Webster Jones Jasper Crawford Ksehange Editor —. Josephine Ulrich Sports Staff Wilbur Wester Ward Cook Upper News Staff Margaret Skavlan Kathrine Kressman Lillian Baker Edward Robbins Gertrude Houk Mary West James Case __ p. i. N. S. Editor _ Louis Pammasch Assistant ..._.... Hermoine Smith News Staff: Pauline Bondurant, Eugenia Strickland, Elisabeth Cady, Clifford Zeh rung. Margaret Vincent, Helen Reynolds, Emily Houston, Dorothy Blybetg, Geneva Foes. Margaret Kreseman, HU ton Roae, Ned French, Clate Meredith, WUliam Muit Ina and Jack (fineark. __ IAMBS W. LEAKE MANAGER. Business Staff Frank Loggan Associate Manager Advertising Managers—William Jama, Si Slocum. Advertising Assistants — C. P. Horn, Wayne Leland, Louis Dam mash, Bon ner Whitteon. foreign Adv. Mgr. - Claude Reavis Circulation Manager - Jerry Crary Aaa't. Circulation Mgr. Jamee Manning Circulation Aaaiatant - John Black Specialty Advertising Mildred Dunlap Margaret Hyatt Geneva Fom Edna Nelaon Entered In the postoffice at Eugene. Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, *2.26 per year. By term, 76c. Advertising rates upon application._ Daily News Editor This Issue Mary Clerin Might Editor This Issue Webster Jones Assistant .Walter Cushman Johnny and His Slingshot ORD is received from the Oregon Humane society that, after three years’ effort, Humane Education has been made a part of the course of study in every grade in the pub lic schools of Oregon, the subject being taugh one-half hour each week. The work is good. A far greater effect will become ap parent than the mere lightening of Dobbin’s load on stiff graje and slippery pavement, or in the fact that Johnny will voluntarily lay aside his homemade sling-shot. Have a child study Humane Education for eight years dur ing the grammar grade stages and when he has finished school he will be an active Humanitarian. He will have a greater am bition to aid and befriend his own human fellows, as well as the other creatures of this earth. This Humanitarian shall have learned something of the true relation of the human to the animal life, the value of life, and the cowardice of needless killing, and will have incul cated in him a love for truth, justice, and that generosity which makes the strong the supporters, instead of the op pressors, of the weak. H is but a start. It is but a mite added to many other mites which are tending to further more sympathy and better under standing among people and peoples. Sowed, as it is, during the impressionistic age of childhood, it is conceivable that this habit of fraternity may bear better and better fruit as the years come and pass—until, by common consent, the grown-ups, as well as Johnny, will lay aside THEIR sling-shots. 'To the Unknown Donor ITI1IN a few days the strains of the new $25,000 Reuter T T pipe organ will color the silent reaches of the University hall of music. Within a short time the dreams of the un known donor, for a “Greater Oregon” will have been fulfilled. One can picture the giver, standing with bated breath await ing the first faint whisperings of its awakening soul as it stirs under the touch of adventurous fingers. He prefers, not the demonstrative thanks of empty words for his greatest of gifts—but the thanks returned in renewed effort, in the whole souled enjoyment of relaxation to its harmony. He has preferred that personally we shall not know him— but there is tin1 thought that some souls are so great, so full of benevolence for mankind that their identity is written in the stars for the world to see—“He Gave Much and Asked Nothing in Return.”—M. L. M. Communications ' .Hi r* to the KMKUA1.D from stu dents and faculty member* are well limed, but must be slimed and worded concisely. If it is desired, the writer’s name will be kept out of print. It must be understood that the editor reserves the right to reject , ominunications. DIRTY UNIFORMS To tlie Kditor tor any one else that might be interested): Any one who cares to take the trouble of meandering out behind the barracks some afternoon will see the same as I did. lie will see a motley mob of forlorn looking freshman football players. If he does not revolt at the scene of a bunch of husky specimens clad in dirty grey undershirts that are many sizes too small, he will go closer and notice the fact that the men are not a bunch of derelicts but it is just their funny football clothes that make them look that way. Some of them have the little cot ton jerseys that were probably a mite threadbare when Dean Straub first uttered that historic phrase of his. Some of the rest of them have these tunic-like sweat shirts that fill out and flap like a sail when the wearer shows a burst of speed. It will probably be said that these are good enough to practice in and all that old rot, but the ab surd fact remains that they play in those self-same dirty jliirts. One need only to turn back to the sec ond half of the Oregon-Washington football classic to point out that a team can fight as hard in sweat shirts as in wool jerseys. If we« are to take any stock in [the predictions of .Too Maddock, and it seems that .Too knows his dope, Oregon is euterinv an era wherein winning teams are to be the usual thing rather than the ex ceptional. If this be true, is it too much to ask that the teams have not only the best of equipment, but plenty of it. And by the way since the freshmen, as a class, have so much in common with the color green, why not let the babes cavort on the gridiron in green jerseys, the sleeves of which reach clear to their wrists. Ol ’ Joe Kicker. FACULTY WILL DISCUSS GRANTING OF ART DEGREE A meeting of the faculty will be hold tomorrow afternoon in the Guild theatre at 4:15. One of the questions which will be brought up for discussion at this meeting will be the request of the school of architecture to give the degree of master of fine arts. Campus Bulletin Notices will be printed in this column for two issues only. Copy must be in this office by 6:30 on the day before it Is to be published. ai»d must be limited to 20 words. Ye Tabard Inn—Wednesday noon, Anchorage. I Temenlds—Important meeting, noon today at Campa Shoppe. Sophomore Informal Committee— Meeting tonight in College Side Inn at 7:30. Beta Oamma Sigma—Meeting at' Campa Shoppe today noon, No vember 5. Women’s Basketball — Managers meet Wednesday, November 5, 7.15, room 121, Woman’s building. Teachers—Wanted to fill two va cancies. Apply at Appointment bureau, Education building. Exntaxian Meeting—Meeting in Woman’s building at 7:45 to night. Education Seminar—Meeting Thurs day evening, November 6, in room 2, Education building, at; 7:30 o’clock. Emerald Meeting—Important meet-' ing of staff and those trying out to be held at 4,15 in journalism building. Tryouts for Frosh Cross Country— Team to meet Rooks, Saturday, will be held this afternoon at 4:15. | Technical Society—(All pre-enjgin ,eers). Meeting in Deady hall at 7:00 p. m. Wednesday. Talk by 1 Paul R. Hoppe on “Opportunities in Radio Engineering:” Presidents of Liying Organizations —Turn in notes on alumni of your house to Jeanette Calkins by Thursday noon. For details call 1593. o <> Editorially Clipped | -o AYE OE NAY! The worth of a college education has been argued pro and con. Sta tisticians have compiled huge col umns of figures meant to illustrate the value and benefits to be derived from a college course. Economists have discussed the super-earning ca pacity of the college man. Yet for all the statistics and economic dis cussion a few remain unconvinced of the truth of the desirability of so-called higher learning. We stop and wonder. We realize that all college men are not suc cesses in the truest sense of the word. In earning capacity some never reach the level of those whose training has been received in the school of experience and hard knocks. All college men do not be come captains of industry, nor do p.11 of them distinguish themselves in their chosen vocations. But for all the adverse criticism there are these things in favor of college training. It affords a wide and varied background for the stu dent’s future efforts. Through study he may become intimately acquaint ed with the knowledge of past ages. His point of view is broadened. Through association with other stu dents he becomes capable of group activity. He becomes socialized, developing meanwhile a knowledge of facts and affairs which is all I his own. Yes, the worth of a college edu cation has been argued pro and con. The advantages to be derived from four years spent in an institution of learning cannot always be meas ured in dollars and cents. It pays other and less tangible returns cer tainly. The general concensus of opinion is that it increases one’s appreciation of life. This, in it self, is something. It tends more than to balance faults mentioned. —U. Daily Kansan. CRAMMING Harvard, in an effort to discour- : age the practise of cramming, to impress upon undergraduates the advantages of daily work, has re moved its former rule of disciplin ary action on, the basis of mid-term one hour examinations. In the past failure to pass such examinations, usually given in November and April, resulted in probation, or the horrors of faculty warning. Under the new regulations probation need be feared only at mid-year examin ation time. Conversely, probation can no longer be shaken by satis factory work in the November and April examinations. Although the new ruling is good, inasmuch as it gives students more freedom in the performance of their academic tasks, it is extremely doubtful whether it will do much towards discouraging cramming. As long as the present system of lec tures and examinations obtains in American education (at least in so far as it applies to liberal arts courses) cramming will remain the scholastic weapon of the undergrad uate. Generally speaking it is only in the smaller courses, which often I do not include examinations in their j syllabuses, that any great amount ; of daily work is performed by the ! undergraduates. Lecture course* with their weekly quizzes are invi tations for bulk study. If Harvard is serious in its at tempt to discourage cramming it will have to appeal to the tutorial system. As long as frequent ex aminations are given there will be cramming; and as long as cram ming is a prevalent practise under graduates will fail to gain aca demic knowledge—a thing which many of them seek. Briars “American liberty was ushered in by liberty bells and will be ush ered out by dumb-bells” says a pa triot scoring the “reds.” This last has already been done, old chap; that’s one of the things the “reds” are hollering about. * * * Mob-movements seem to some times be started from motives of common sense. One example: the popularizing of the cheap, yellow slicker by the style faddists on the campus. « • • One of the burning questions of the day, it seems, is whether “O’s” shall be worn on the backs of slickers. We suggest that the cam pus blue-laws prohibit this, except in cases where slickers may be worn as night-gowns and no one else can see, of course. It should be prohibited in public because it is undemocratic, every one not hav ing a yellow slicker. We would sug gest that instead, the “O” be worn on the backs of trousers and dresses> and in order not to arouse the jeal ousy or antagonism of the '“Order of the O” there might be conspieu I At the Theatres I o_«3> THE REX—Last day, Booth Tarkington’s most widely read novel, “The Turmoil,” the drama of two women and the man both loved, brought to the screen with George Hacka thorne, ^Former Pendleton, Oregon, boy), Eleanor Board man, Pauline_ Garon and Ei leen Percy; Sunshine comedy, “The Deep Sea Panic;” In ternational News Events; Ros ner, feattred organist, in mu sical settings to the picture on the mighty Wurlitzer. THE CASTLE—First day. The year’s most baffling mystery play, “It is the Law,” with a Broadway cast; comedy, “Blows and Dynamite.” Fox News Weekly. Standard Cas tle prices. HEILIG — Program Tuesday, Wednesday. Charles G. Nor ris, “Bread” with Mae Busch, Pat O ’Malley, Robert Frazer, Wanda Hawley, Ward Crane, Hobart Bosworth. The North west Mounted Police in tour of United States. Election re turns, Tuesday night. t COMING EVENTS! Today, November 5 4:00 to 6:00 p. m.—Women’s League Tea, Woman’s building. Thursday, November 6 11:00 a. m.—Assembly. Phi Mu concert, Woman’s building. Saturday, November 8 2:15 p. m.—O. A. C. rooks vs. Oregon frosh, Hayward field. -■«> ously printed on the inside some such explanation as “this cipher was not awarded for participation in varsity athletics.” Of course these are only suggestions. » Football is a game requiring a great deal of headwork, says an en thusiast for the sport. This is im pressed upon one by watching the linemen butt each other for a couple of hours. We should imagine that those with the hardest and big gest heads would prevail, provided their trampling powers were equal. A clown band may be ever so good but in order for it to produce the total laughter-provoking effect it should be provided with an am ple supply of clown suits. For this reason we suggest that the R. O. T. C., the alumni, the state legislature, Andrew Carnegie, or someone pro vide our band with a proper supply of them to best set off its produc tions of superb cacophony. PATRONIZE EMERALD ADVERTISERS Made by Eloeeser-Heynemann Co. San Francisco - Portland - Los Angtlts Creators of Corduroy Trous^s for the Western College Man. Last Times Today THE TURMOIL Booth Tarkington’s greatest! THEN — starting T omorrow for 3 days LIBRARY COMPILES LIST OF NEW BOOKS So that the students may have a list of all the new books received in the library, a mimeographed list of them is made on the 4 and 20 of each month. This material is plac ed on the little hook just to the right of the circulation desk and contains the names of all the new books as soon as they are cata logued and indexed. Although the topics under which the books are classified vary from time to time according to just what is received, the usual order follows: general, journalism, psychology, philosophy, crime and criminals, education, philology, mathematics, physics, geology, zoology, chemis- , try, health and hygiene, business, fine arts, rhetoric and public speaking, American and English literature, French, Spanish and Italian literature, description and travel, biography and history. * Get the Classified Ad habit. WRIGLEYS after every meal Cleanses moitk and tcetta and aids digestion. Believes that over eatea feeling and add month. Its 1-a-s-t-l-n-g Basor satisfies the craving lor sweets. Wrlgley’s Is doable value In the benefit and pleasure It provides. Sealed in Parity — 9hc flavor lasts PATRONIZE EMERALD ADVERTISERS Unkempt hair— how to avoid it IT is the first thing people see. It spoils a man’s ap pearance quicker than any thing else. 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