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EDITORIAL BOARD
Managing Editor . Harold A. Kirk <
Associate Editor .Margaret Skavlan j
Associate Editor .Margaret Morrison j
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Associate Managing Editor .J. Anna Jerzyk
Desk Editor .Norma J. Wilson Sports Editor .... George H. Godfrey
Business Staff
JAMES W. LEAKE . MANAGER
Associate Manager ... Frank Loggan
Day Editor This Issue
Jim Case
Night Editor This Issue
Jack O’Meara
Assistant .Claude Iteavis
The Cosmopolitans and the Campus
'•’VyilAT PROVISIONS can be made for the foreign students
^ * at the University to make them feel more at home? By
what means can association of these students and the Ameri
can-born students be developed for mutual benefit? It is to
answer this need that the Cosmopolitan club was first organ
ized. Now, with the resignation of a faculty man as leader of
the group, members are even expressing fear for its continua
ance.
If a University is to be universal in its attitude, a very real
interest should be the foundation for such an organization.
Nothing can be more profitable in education than contact with
foreign cultures. To gain this contact is the reason for such
study as is being carried on by the World Fellowship discus
sion groups of the Y. W. C. A.
The average student is a very busy person. He is concerned
with his classes, with quizzes, perhaps with house grades. He is
concerned with his social diversions. He is concerned with life
as it is at the University of Oregon. And rightly so, perhaps.
How often docs he stop to realize that Oregon is not the world?
That there are persons here from other parts of it—-one who
knows life in a colorful foreign city, or one whose father owns
his own elephant?
There is also the foreign student himself to consider. Many
have been in the United States long enough to understand the
American point of view and the American sense of humor. In
the case of the Filipino students there are enough of them to
form a separate group. But a real attempt should be made to
come to an understanding with those from the Orient. To one
who has grown up in the ancient cultures of the Fast the West
often seems cruel, indifferent, and a cause for cynicism. There
is a fundamental difference in point of view, truly. Yet there
are many things in common between the Fast and the West.
To help the foreign students to know the finer side of our
American education and culture is pari of our social duty. .It
\is part of our political duty. On such understanding reached
by the student classes can be based accord between govern
moots. And it is an organization such as the Cosmopolitan
club which furnishes the machinery that helps make under
standing possible.
Taking Inventory
JN ONE of the senior courses in the University, a regular
daily assignment, has been given which will last the rest of
the year, and, one is [ed to believe, is designed partly that the
habit will last on through life. And that assignment is -“read
the morning paper and be aide to discuss the news intelligently."
January is the time of taking inventory and of unloading
j.vor-stoeked shelves. Perhaps ridding oneself of unessentials
md dusting off the schedule book to make use of it once more,
would help take care of the extra demand on a student's time.
Said a contemporary not long ago in commenting on the
many “useless" activities indulged in by college students:
‘‘The present generation seems to forget that the taxpayers of
this state are sending them to college to indulge in serious
study not useless frivolity." All of which fails to take into
consideration the fact that there' is a physical and. social side
of education as well as ,t scholastic one.,
It is significant that not one member of the class objected
to the assignment given out. and perhaps seventy five per cent
were already in the habit of reading the morning paper. Which
all goes to show that the laboratvyiy or practical side of life is
becoming a matter of course by the time a student reaches his
upperelass years in college. Whether the future will see the
tendency spread lower to take in the entering classes, only
time will show. The symptoms are encouraging, however.
(•n Tuesday. (). A. C opened a drive for the purpose of
raising fundus for a “Memorial Union Budding,” which will
‘Stand as a memorial to war heroes and which will house many
student activities. This reminds us that the spring of 1924
saw a similar drive in progress on the 1’uiversity of Oregon
campus, and with what success.’ The entire amount was sub
scribed lit ihtvr days. On behalf of the students of Oregon,
the Emerald extends cordial wishes to 0. A. in this worthy
enterprise.
('ross-word puzzles will he a thing of the past in six months,
along with Mali Jongg and Bridge, say the newspapers. Better
get busy and learn bow to work them so you can teach your
grandchildren^hen the next wave comes around.
Yesterday's temperature record reminded us that it's time
lo wax the front porch and haul out the Victrola.
y agaries
Debating is a series of word
statements indulged in by individ
uals chosen for their ability to
enunciate a mean vocabulary. It
usually consists of the following:
Opening of speech: “Honurubble
juhjufis, Ladeez and gentulmun,
worthee opponunts.”
Two histories of the question, (af
firmative and negative).
Three statements of the question.
Six to eight summaries of what
has been said.
Quotation from •+.'» 1-4 authorities
showing the opponents in the true
light.
Six hundred and thirty-nine sta
tistics of the fiscal years ."000 P>.
C. to 1928 A. I). giving background.
After which the debater may or
may not say. something for him
self. The newly organized S. P. 0.
I). A. (Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Debating Audiences,
not dumb animals) would suggest
the following changes:
1. Limit all speakers to thought.
('Phis would insure brevity,) or—
2. Provide some amusement for
the auditors until the last round,
such as a reel of “Split Seconds,”
the next scenario by the famous
author of “Three Weeks,” “Six
Days,” or “IDs Hour,” or a cross
word puzzle.
ZOOLOGY LOAN FUND
ESTABLISHED IN EAST
A naturalist’s loan fund lias linen
established by the department of
zoology at the University of Pitts
burg. This fund is to be used for
the purpose of sending zoology stu
dents to the biological laboratory
founded by William Beebe in the
jungles of British Guiana. Appli
cations will be received until April
I, lf)2.'i, and nominations are to be
made as soon after that date as
possible.
This laboratory was established
by Mr. Beebe in 1916 at Kartoba,
under the auspices of the New York
Zoological society. lie desired to
study intensively a local jungle
area, rather than rush through an
expedition.
The laboratory was placed at the
disposal of the zoology department
of the University of Pittsburg by
Mr. Beebe, and during the summer
of 1924, eight students were Sent
to Kartoba. For two months they
lived and studied in the jungle. It
was due to a desire to continue this
arrangement that the Naturalists’
J. oan Fund was established.
I Editorially Clipped I
THEY SHALL REAP. .. .
Two Indiana men, expelled for
stealing, suddenly have found them
selves at the end of their University,
careers. The end which has over
taken them is far from the goal for
which students strive. But, they
thought they perceived a byroad
upon which they could more easily
complete the journey.' They are now
in a blind alley us far as this l ni
versity is concerned.
The committee on student affairs
could not do justice to the remaind
er of the student body and take
nnv other action than it did. That
the men are only two of a larger
group who have made a practice of
pettv thieving is proved by repeat
ed reports of articles lost by mys
terious channels throughout the Uni
versity. Distinctions can not be
made for that reason, however.
If Walter W. Peterson, special
Uuivorsitv officer, is to accomplish
anything in breaking up this prac
tice he must be backed by action
from those in authority. It is tin
fortunate ftir the victims that they
should be so branded. But, their
plight will cause others, tempted in
the same way, to do a little straight
thinking on the subject.
Indiana Daily Student.
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Communications
To the Editor:
The article in the Tuesday Emer
ald on the Student Group System,
seemed to assume that the grouping
of students according to ability and
record (as now on trial in the
school of business administration)
is a new departure on the campus.
As a matter of fact it has long been
used in certain classes. In the de
partment of history the principle of
forming cpiiz sections according to :
merit, is followed as far as corven- I
ient in all four of the large intro- j
ductory courses^ and in one of them
followed ^ery faithfully, with pro
motions and demotions every month j
or two during the year. In some j
of the literature courses the in
structors even give enough of their
time to carry the principle to its
logical conclusion—the conference
system.
In American education generally,
the principle of grouping students
according to merit is not so new as
Dean Seashore’s followers seem to
imagine. In large institutions
where education is largely me
chanical, it is usually overlooked
or forgotten; but many years ago it
was already in use in the Far East
(of the U. 8.), in small freshwater
colleges where education was and is
based more on the needs of the in
dividual students. I well remember
what a sense of power and freedom
we had in the advanced sections of
Greek and mathematics—and also
what a spur I feU when I found !
was starting off in the second sec
tion of Latin. I had to ask my
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roommate to find out who were in
the first section! • The system is a
real kindness to the! slower stu
dents, usually a convenience to the
teacher, and a tremendous saving
of time, patience and spirit for the
best students.
It is interesting to note^one more
instance in which historians are not
behind the times.
Yours very truly, ,
WALTER C. BARNES.
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