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Are We Goofy?
“Jove! The college man used to he an odd-looking goof,
what?” (Yale Review).
He was, indeed, just that. It is true. If you happened to
have a brother in college between 1906 and 1910 you would
know it. But saddest of all, we, today, haven’t profited by the
history of the past (as recorded on picture postcards) and in
our college “war paint and feathers” we, too, look more like
conundrums that human beings.
The man of the past, as we see him, is a scream—posed be
fore the camera in his loud plaid suit, Avide cuffed and button
decorated; peg-topped trousers; long coat also cuffed and be
decked with buttons, fitting snugly at the Avaist to give a cor
seted effect and set off Avitli a final flourish of broad collar and
wide-sweeping lapels. Side splitting, funny—agreed!
The suit isn’t half of it, however. There are the knobby
light tan shoes Avhose toes were pronated and bumpy; socks a
bit louder than avc dare today, but neat. And so Ave come to
the little things that meant so much in 1906 to the well-dressed
college-ham: his pennant, advertising his alma mater; his pipe,
large, black and odoriferous; and capping the whole, his head
gear, (let. us leave that to the imagination of the reader). This
is a pretty fair picture of our subject in 1906 and the feAV years
following.
Now turn the page and have a look at the live bodies (.some
might be called souls) drifting around the University campus
today. Not a very encouraging sight from the standpoint of
neatness and decorum, however sensible in spots. Funny how
grotesque we appear when we stop long enough to look at our
selves. The majority of Oregon men and women would hesi
tate to appear on the streets of their home towns clothed in the
rigs which make up their campus regalia. (The influence and
prestige of the first families might be considerably weakened.)
Ultra sloppiness is the keynote to be achieved by the well
gotten-out college man or woman in the year of Our Lord 1925
What can be nearer the goal than the young ladies who appear
at their classes each day garbed in short, scant, wool, one-piece
dresses; long, flapping, kimono-like yellow slickers (with mud
splashed borders a foot wide) ; galoshes four or five sizes too
large, left open, thus necessitating the dragging of the feet;
and their heads topped with wind tossed locks or misshapen rain
hats? The girls’ faces are their fortunes and for this reason are
as carefully protected from the wind and rain as rouge and
powder will permit. Today's papers say that Prince of Wales
coats are to be worn this spring by women,—well, anything
might be an improvement over yellow slickers!
It isn’t necessary to say much about the men except that
their yellow slickers may be distinguished from those of the
women by the green decorative “O's” painted at random over
their slick, stiff, skin-like surfaces. Blue jeans, pale blue hats,
shirts, socks and overcoats arc other noticeable masculine traits
)t‘ dress which predominate. And, if the gentleman has red
hair for instance, his pale blue shirt should be crowned with an
American beauty colored tie. If the man is fortunate enough to
be an upper classman he can add to the general sloppiness by
appearing from day to day in ink spattered well-worn cords.
Ych! they were goofy all right, in the old days. But—so
are we!
Fred B. Smith, assembly today, is rated as one of the most
powerful speakers of the present day. Many who have heard
him on previous occasions say it is “worth the price of admis
sion” just to watch his technique of “handling” a large au
dience. 11 is topic, “Fundamental Education,” sounds inter
esting.
Va
Honestly, we never thought that
anyone who wore one of those trick
hats turned up fore and aft and
then stepped on before they were
worn,would ever worry about the
becoxningness of a hat. Ain’t
nature wonderful?
* * •
Anyhow the sombrero comes down
farther over the face than the Stet
son, and is lots more chic. It gives
an air of distinction and, also, how
could it be forgotten that one of
the leading style setters for men
had his picture taken in a sombrero?
• * *
What do you think really happened
In those days of long ago?
Nothing, of course, was doing,
According to so an so.
But then in another class,
With instructors of different view,
The time was splendid and lovely
To be envied by me and you.
You can take each one with a grain
of salt,
Or you can swallow it all,
But eventually, in the long run,
On you’re own opinion you’ll fall.
After a thorough perusal of all
the leading magazines including the
leading papers, such as the Emerald,
the vagarian has noticed that the
“present generation” of any date is
totally unlike that of the time
“when I was young, why we never
thought of doing such things.”
(And that’s probably why they
didn’t do it).
Ah, well, them was the good old
daze, and old folks will be
historical.
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.... Yes, and the American
education system has something
wrong with it. Well we knewT that
when we for our last paper returned,
and we’ve had our suspicions for
some time.
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LAWS OF NATURE
Civilization is largely a matter of
prevention. Though modern man is
no more able than was his prehis
toric ancestor to alter the working
of physical, economic and social
laws, ho is able by reason of a bet
ter understanding of these laws, to
avoid their consequences.
It is just as true as ever that a
person struck by lightning will be
killed, but modern man, through his
Campus Bulletin
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rhespian — Meeting today, 5:00,
Journalism building.
Alpha Kappa Psi—Meeting today
at 5 o’clock, Woman’s building.
Executive Council of Women’s
League—Meeting tonight at 7:45,
Junior Week-end Directorate—Meet
ing today at 5 o’clock in the Gift
Campaign building.
World Fellowship Discussion Group
studying Norway meets at An
chorage at noon today.
Meeting of All Beginning Practice
Teachers—Thursday, February 5,
at Education building, room 3, at
5 o’clock.
in Women’s building.
Sophomore Women—Make appoint
ments for medical examinations.
See Miss Gavin.
Sigma Delta Chi—Meeting at Col
lege Side Inn today at 4 o’clock
promptly. T. Hawley Tapping
will be present.
Technical Society Meeting Post
poned—The regular meeting of
the Technical society is post
poned to Thursday, February 12,
at which time Professor E. H.
McAlister will speak.
knowledge of electricity, has
learned to equip isolated buildings
with lightning rods and thus to
prevent the accumulation of a
charge large enough to do damage.
The person of the present day
who contracts the germs of a dead
ly disease is just as likely to die as
was the inhabitants of Europe dur
ing the Black Plague.
The impact of two swiftly mov
ing bodies will cause just as much
destruction today as it would have
donq in the year 2000 B. C. But
man has evolved means of prevent
ing such impacts, as witness the
railroads’ systems of block signals.
A man of the present era is more
likely to succumb to starvation than
was the Neanderthaler, but today
we have evolved gigantic methods
of food distribution which take
from the land of plenty to give
to the place where famine rages.
Rapacious tyrants are as prone
today to accumulate for themselves
at the expense of their neighbor as
were the kings of old. But today
we have anti-trust laws.
Most of our endeavors up to the
present time have been based on
our knowledge of physical laws.
With our conquest of them, we
brought about new social conditions
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© 1925
r coming"EVENTS j}
Thursday, February 5
11:00 a. m.—Fred B. Smith,;
Assembly, Woman’s building.
7:15 p. m.—Fred B. Smith, “Is
America a Great Nation?” Vil
lard hall.
Friday, February 6
4:15 p. m.—Fred B. Smith,
“World Outlook—Peace or War,
Brotherhood or Revolution,” at !
Y hut.
8:30 p. m.—Oregon Knights’
costume dance, Woman’s build
ing.
Saturday, February 7
Basketball, O. A. C.-Oregon,'
Corvallis.
3:30 p. m.—Wrestling, Idaho
Oregon, men’s gmnasium.
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which are not so easily understood
nor so readily remedied when they
go wrong. The scientist of the fu
ture will be increasingly devoted
to discovering the laws of human
nature and human relations.—Daily
Kansan.
WISCONSIN ATHLETIC COACH
CONDEMS STUDENT PARTIES
University of Wisconsin.—In a
recent press dispatch, Dean H. S.
Goodnight, member of the athletic
council, is quoted as saying, “The
impression is being established
among both our own alumni and
other institutions that we are a
bunch of cake-eaters, that we lack
the red blood of real manhood, that
When you write home
for money, use
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ive are flying the Big Ten cham
pionship flag of fussers. Doesn’t
our record of parties and
substantiate this jibe?”
dances -
SPRING STYLES
We feel so glad about the new Stetsons
—just received—that we’d like to tele
phone an invitation to every well
dressed man in the University. So
come in and see them.
New colorings, new styles embodying
the new ideas of the Stetson designers
who are alert to the changes in Fashion
all over the world.
$7.00
Wade Bros.
Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
DANCE TONIGHT
WITH THE “OUTCASTS”
8-piece orchestra
from 9 to 12
LARAWAY’S
OVER MUSIC STORE
Dancing Every Thursday—M. & U.
Don’t Judge From
Appearances!
THE earth LOOKS flat enough! That’s why so many
thousand years came and went before our ancestors
even Suspected the terrestial globe of being round. Their
eyes deceived them!
Don’t depend upon appearances to guide you right.
Don’t buy goods on the strength of looks alone. Mer
chandise with a well-known name has the call. Only the
maker of a good product can afford to advertise his name.
Attempts to popularize unworthy goods can not succeed.
Wise merchants and manufacturers seek the good
papers to tell the stories of their wares. The publishers
seek the reputable advertising for their readers’ guidance.
Well-informed buyers seek news of good merchandise
through the columns of the best papers.
This proves the value of advertising. Neither adver
tiser nor publisher can prosper without your patronage.
Therefore, it is to their advantage to cater to you. They
do it, too.
It is distinctly to your advantage to be guided by the
messages they lay before you—the advertisements.
READ THEM REGULARLY!