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©rcgon lailg Emerald Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Student* of the University of Oregon, issued llfly except Sunday and Monday, during the. college year. DONALD Jj. WOODWARD . EDITOR EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor . Harold A. Kirk Associate Editor ..Margaret Skavlan Associate Editor ..—.-.Margaret Morrison Associate Managing Editor . Anna Jerzyk Desk Editor .Norma J. Wilson Sports Editor .... George H. Godfrey Business Staff • JAMES W. LEAKE .*.* MANAGER Associate Manage?....-. I'rank L°R&an — ----— Day Editor This Issue Night Editor This Issue Mary Cle'rin Cliff Wilson Joe Maddock .Toe Maddock coached the Oregon varsity football team last fall in a competent, able manner, and his team finished a suc cessful season. The two hardest games on the schedule, and the wo that counted the most, were won. Washington went down to defeat 7 to 3, and 0. A. C. was beaten by the same score. The coach that made this possible deserves a full measure of credit. , On the field, Joe Maddock is a man liked by all. He knows football, and his intense love for the game is an inspiration in itself. Joe was a fair and square friend of every man who turned out for football, and supporters of the game, alumni and students, like and admire him. Circumstances prevent Maddock from offering himself as a candidate for re-election as coach next year. He writes, though, that this is a cause of deep regret on his part, During his stay here, he formed hundreds of friendships which are vory dear to him. His football men, he says, are the finest hunch of men in the world, Joe Maddock can well he numbered among the Oregon men as one of them. The many friends he has made here will always hold him in the highest regard, and his work will stand as a credit to the University and to himself. Contact The work of the student lecture committee is under way. Some time during this month, or shortly thereafter, Dr. David Starr Jordan will speak to the campus on the problem of world peace. Later, Edgar Lee Masters, of Spoon-River fame, will he scheduled. He will read his poems. He will meet the students. The campus will be interested in minor details about the lives and personalities of these men. It will enjoy knowing what they like to eat, and the colors of their ties. But will he a real interest in them above an idle curiosity. There is a reason why they are being brought here. There is a reason for ex pending money to1 make student contact with them possible. It is this—they have idfcas. They think. They create. These men will furnish one thing. It is up to the students to furnish the other. Contact, in the very word, implies both. Communications Letters to the EMERALD from stu dents and faculty members are welcomed, but must be signed 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 communications. To tlio Editor of the Emqraid: In your editorial, Saturday, Janu ary 10, on the standardization of American education you spoke of the noed of a new attitude and new methods in American education. An other phase of this same problem, which is, if anything, more basic in the eyes of the writer than that mentioned by the editor, is tho un wieldiness of the present system of credits used in a majority of the universities of this country. The step made a few years ago by this University to raise the stand ard of scholarship in tho institution by requiring that 140 of the term hours earned for graduation by anv student be above a grade of V, while it undoubtedly relieved tho existing situation of low scholar ship, in tile end only begs the ques tion. The system is not changed, it is only mended. Each student undetr the present system of credits is required to make 1 St! term hours to graduate from the University, “140 of which must be above a grade of V.” This arrangement necessitated tho aver age student carrying approximately 10 hours work each term during his entire four years. Now matter how excellent the quality of his work, tho student can get only a maximum of 10 term hours credit. The disadvantage of such a system is obvious. Eor example a student may be a junior, majoring, say, in architec ture, and lias been enterprising enough to work off all his require ments other than those of his de partment during his first two years in college. He looks forward to doing some intensive work in his chosen field of endeavor, architec ture, during his remaining two years. At the beginning of the term he fills out his study card, first with say, seven or eight hours in his major, then three hours in history, an hour in sculpturing, and an hour j of art appreciation. This totals up j 13 or 14 hours. Now ho has all he cares to take, all that he thinks he can thoroughly do justice to, but it is not enough. To meet the re quirements ho must add three or four more hours to his program. And so ho casts about, finds a three hour course reputedto bo a snap, signs for it and proceeds to pay it as scant attention as possible. This happens every year in overy de partment. As the attitude of tho instructor toward the student grows more lib eral, and as the student’s attitude toward his work becomes more vital, this handicap of an unwieldly credit system will become more and more irksome. It is neither becoming nor just to offer criticism without atterapt 1 ing to offer a panacea. Tho present | writer has in mind a credit system, a system which is not new to edu cation, which he believes will prove the answer to the situation. This system briefly stated is: credits are awarded on a basis of quality not | upon quantity work. Not the num ber of hours work any student has completed, but the quality of work done in that time should determine the amount of credit to be awarded. This system, of course, has its dif ! ficult features, and would involve considerably more work and expense j than the one in present, use, but it would be eminently fairer to the in dividual student. Its flexibility would tend to further, in a very real sense, the realization of “the hope” expressed in the Kmeraid editorial for the success of the new trend in education. GLEN E. BURCII. COMPOSITOR WINS FIRST PRIZE IN ESSAY CONTEST l.lovd Beecher, compositor in the University press, won a first prize of $100 in the Portland Automotive Trades association winter overhaul ing essay contest. The second prize was won by H. It. Rancher of The ! lhilles, the third by Celestia Brace | and the fourth prize bv Veronica ! M. Dolan, both of Portland. A to l tal of $225 was distributed in prizes. Campus Bulletin Notice* will be printed in this column for two issues only. Copy moat be in this office by 5:30 on the day before it is to be published, and must be limited to 20 words. Johnstone’s Greek Drama Class— Meets today at one o’clock. Ye Tabard Inn—Wednesday night, Shumaker cabin. Important. Regular Y. W. C. A. Meeting— Thursday, 4:30, at the Bungalow. Technical Society—Meeting in room 105 Deady hall at 7 o’clock, Wed nesday. The speaker will be i Ralph Fggstaff. American Red Cross Life Saving Corps—Members to meet in office of men’s gymnasium, Wednesday, I January 21, at 5:00 p. m. j Eutaxian Meeting—Postponed to Wednesday, January 2S. Sculpture Club—Meeting today at 5 o’clock in casting room. Im portant. Craftsmen Club—All members meet today noon, 12:40, clubhouse. Picture to be taken. All members be there. World Fellowship Discussion Group studying Korea meets at 6:00 at the Anchorage tonight. World Fellowship Discussion Group studying Ttaly meets at 6:00 to night at the Bungalow. LIBRARY ERECTS CAGE AROUND DISCHARGE DESK In order to facilitate the success ful operation of the receipt system, recently installed in the University library, a “cage” has been erected about the discharge desk. The suc cess of the receipt system depends upon the orderly return of books. Students are requested to return the books due to the window at the dis charge desk, and there receive their receipts. Preservation of these re ceipts is absolutely necessary if the student wishes to avoid a possible error and liability to two fines. COMMERCE FRATERNITY INITIATES FOUR PLEDGES Initiation exercises of Beta Gam ma Sigma, national honorary com merce fraternity, were held in the Woman’s building, Sunday even ing. After the initiation a banquet was held in the College Side Inn. The men elected to the fraternity are: Truman Sether, Ralph Austin, Carl Yreeland and Robert Frank son. L At the Theatres J THE CASTLE — Richard Bar tholmess, supported by Lillian Gish in “The Bright Shawl,” by Joseph Hercsheimer. Comedy, "Snappy Eyes,” and Kinogram News Weekly of timely interest. Coming: Zane Grey’s won der picture, “The Wanderers of the Waste La*ds” in na tural colors. Bebe Daniels in “Dangerous Money.” James Kirkwood, Lila Lee and Wal lace Berr in “Another Man’s Wife.” Richard Dix in “A Man Must Live.” THE REX—Second day: Cele bration program; Betty Corn son in ‘ ‘ The Garden of Weeds,” a pulsating drama of a lily of the fields, trans-1 planted to Broadway’s glit tering bower or golden love, a James Cruze production with Rockcliffe Fellowes Warner Baxter and Charles Ogle; Wel coming back Eugene’s favor ite organist, Robert V. Hains worth, direct from two years success in Los Angeles and Hollywood, again at the migh ty Wurlitzer, in solo and set ting; Atmospheric prolog, “A Rose in the Garden of Weeds,” featuring Johanna James, singing “When You Look in the Heart of a Rose,” at 7:30 and 9:25; Mermaid com edy, “Step Fast;” Interna tional News Events. Coming: Colleen Moore in “So Long,” by Edna Ferber. HEILIG — “Captain Blood,” Raphael Satatini’s stirring masterpiece of the sea with a host of pirates, buccaneers, denizens of the time of the Spanish Main. The greatest sea tale ever filmed, with J. Warren Kerrigan setting new standards in cinema art. Coming: Western Vaudeville, Wednesday, with selected Or pheum and Keith acts; Yo landa, thrilling tale of French life, “He, Who Gets Slapped,” with Lon Chaney. <5>-O PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Sigma Nu announces the pledg ing of Phil Usinger of Berkeley, California. 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Friday, January 23 Basketball, Pacific - Oregon, Forest Grove. o---o VACCINI SCARS FAIL TO HALT HOOP GAMES “In spite of -prevalent vaccina tions, basket ball games will be played according to schedule,” said Mis3 Shelly, basketball instruc tor in the department of physical education, “until* we are handi Marcel and Bob Curl TO STUDENTS 50c Open Sundays and Evenings by Appointment. 1375 Ferry GAY THOMPSON Phoner 1578R _ft__ _ ®siaiaia®a/aMaMsiaisjsMsiaja/3Maj DON’T FORGET that you get the best material and guaran teed workmanship when we rebuild your old shoes. CAMPUS SHOE SHOP 13th St., Just Off Kincaid Eiai3iajaisjaia®aisiaaiaiaiaiaiaaiaisiai capped for players. In that case, no substitution on the teams will be attempted. The whole season will be postporfed." However no teams were chosen yesterday at basketball managersr meeting. 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You probably would, especially if you knew that by so doing you stood a good chance of helping to pay your way through school. If you DO want to combine some practical training with the theoretical, as hundreds of successful Oregon grad uates have done for the past thirty years, come to the of fice of the OREGON DAILY EMERALD. Drop in any afternoon this week and ask for the Business Manager.