©rpgntt ®a!lg ipmeralii Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued Mir except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. DONALD L. WOODWARD ...:. EDITOR EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor . Harold A. Kirk Associate Editor .-.—.Margaret Skavlan Associate Managing Editor . Anna Jerzyk Desk Editor .Norma J. Wilson Sports Editor .... George II. Godfrey Daily News Editors Mary Clerin Emily Houston lames Case Jalmar Johnson Gertrude Houk Lillian Baker Night Editors Cliff Wilson Pete Laura Webster Jones Alfred Boice Jmek O'Meara Walter A. Cushman Joaenhine Ulrich Exchange Editor Sports Starr Wilbur Wester .... Assistant Sports Editor Ward Cook, Don Osborne .. Sports Writers Upper News Staff Edward Robbins Euptenia Strickland Elizabeth Cady Geneva Foss Sol Abramson Carvel Nelson . P. I. N. S. 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Day Editor This Issue Mary Clerin Sol Abramson Assistant Night Editor This Issue Pete Laura Assistant .Tom Graham Entered a* second class matter at tne post omce at Eugene, uregu», uuu« »«•. iff Congress of March 3, 1879. “Speaking With Tongues”—And of Them 'J'HE PAULINE epistles were primarly concerned with “charity,” an article which may or may not have been a distant relative of the Oregon Spirit—a remote ancestor, so to speak. “Speaking with tongues” was rather taken for granted, a by-product, a secondary consideration. But the student body of the University of Oregon is not so comfortably situated as regards languages. They are taught in classes, and the gram mar is to be consumed with little side-trimmings of conjugations and declensions; but comparatively few students get the real pleasure out of using the languages thus learned. True, there are the language clubs, some with delightfully unpronouncable names, but these meet only on certain definite dates, and everyone does not belong. The Emerald believes it high time .that it was made possible to use these languages ac quired by the skin of one’s teeth or the sweat of one’s brow. A means should be provided whereby a conversational facility could be gained by daily exercise of the foreign vocabularies. A French table, or a German table in the dormitories is usual among many of the eastern colleges and universities. Oregon students taking summer school at Berkeley would find that many of the boarding houses there advertise such tables as a spe cial service. At these tables nothing but the specified foreign language is spoken. This can be done with considerable profit and enjoyment in eating places where there are enough lan guage students to make it possible. Figures compiled for last term at the registrar’s office show that, there are enough languages, and students taking languages to supply a miniature tower of babel. French, the “world’s polite language,” leads with a registration in the various courses of 812. Spanish, with a consideration, perhaps, of the growing trade relations with our neighbors In the south, is second, with 492. German, with a heavy registration of scien tific students, is third, with 225. The so-called “dead” lan guages come in for their share, Latin with 85, and Greek, which is growing, with 25. Italian and tlie Norse languages have 39 and 24, respectively. Granting that some of these figures represent duplicates, where one student takes more than one course, anil granting, too, that certain students have no other interest, in languages than completing graduation requirements, there would undoubt edly be large numbers of persons who would really enjoy such an arrangement for conversation. ■> Just how such a plan could be made remains a problem. Some one may perhaps have to set the fashion, as with bobbed hair or health bread, and the rest will follow simply enough. With (ireek and Latin it is possibly out ot the question, though it would indeed be charming to see certain of the young orators following the example ot Demosthenes (at least we hope it was he) and learning to speak with their mouths full of olives in stead of pebbles. Or possibly a Latin student could say fit tmgl\, over the last bite of a glorious piece of pie, “Sic transit gloria mundi!” As spring comes on, too, the French students will have more and more to say about “la joie de vivre.” Oh, there are no end of delightful possibilities. lheie certainly ought, however, to be a genuine chance for French and Spanish tables, or French and German tables. And, to invert the Pauline line, and adapt it to modern conditions past all recognition, 1 hough you have the Oregon Spirit, it is well to have two tongues instead of one.” ELECTION IS POSTPONED body, ami the attitude of the facut AT PENN STATE COLLEGE ty toward student government has Penn State.—The attitude of the caused the student election to be j College Senate, student governing! postponed indefinitely. Campus Bulletin Notices will be printed in this column for two issues only. Copy must be in this office by 5:30 on the day before it is to be published, and most be limited to 20 words. Sigma Xi—Meeting tonight in room 307, Deady hall. Women’s Life Saving Corps—No meeting tonight. Sigma Delta Chi—Begular luncheon today at Anchorage. Important business. Theta Sigma Phi—Meeting today noon at Anchorage. Attendance imperative. R. O. T. C. Band—Picture to be tak en at 4:15 at barracks today. At tendance imperative. De Molays—Meeting today at 5 o’clock in room 105 Commerce building. All urged to attend. Junior Vod-Vil—All wishing to try out list names with Paul Krausse at College Side Inn at 4 o’clock. Personal Hygiene Class—Lecture section will meet at 1:00 in the Woman’s gymnasium instead of Vi Hard. To-Ko-Lo—Meeting tonight at Col lege Side Inn. All active mem bers and pledges urged to attend. Discussion of dance. Doughnut Swimming Managers— Meeting Tuesday, 7:15 p. m., room 121, Woman’s building. Pool open Tuesday, February 17, at 11 o’clock for voluntary swim ming. Will count as class hour. NEW potter™ ARRIVES FROM DETROIT Recently Installed Oven Be Fired Soon to Arrived after irs long journey across tlie continent and installed in its new homo in the Arichteeture building, the pottery kiln awaits its first firing. The kiln, which has been long in coming, is of the “Revelation” brand, a product oi the II. .T. Calkins company of Do troit., Michigan, one of the best kiln manufacturing companies in the United States. Tho new kiln, which is heated bj oil burners, will not be fired unti a sufficient amount of pottery is modeled to fill it, as the process oi firing is expensive and demand! great care in operation. The claj is moulded into the desired shape! and then placed in the oven of the kiln where they are baked at a tern porature and for a length of time corresponding to the type of pot tery they are. The clay removed from this first firing is called “bis cuit ware” because of the porous condition the baking causes. If it is to be glazed pottery it is given a coat of glazing before it is again put back into the oven. Ever} piece of pottery is fired twice be fore it is given its final decorative touches, and if the pottery is of tin glazed typo this second firing causes the coloring of the glazinj liquid to mix with tho clay so that a harmonious effect results. Tho pottery classes are at wort on their first pieces, which con sist of book-ends, candlesticks, tiles and the first bowls and base work A shipment of Oregon clay which if of the finest type for that work is expected in the near future and the kiln will We given its trial firing near the jend of this term or the first of next. The pottery classes this year art under the supervision of Mr. Know land U. Zane. ! YAJLE frosh stage snow FIGHT; WINDOWS SUFFER Yale University. — Some Yale ' freshmen started a snowball fight i to divert their minds from the mid year examinations. The fight start I ed on the evening of January “t>. ■ The next morning it broke out again land the snowball barrage was not j lifted until all the windows in all j the freshman dormitories were ; broken. At the Theatres I HEILIG—Tonight: May Rob son in her own play, “ Some thing Tells Me,” with excep tional cast and settings. Wednesday evening, West ern % audeville, presenting five Orpheum and Keith acts of unusual excellence. The sec ond show is crammed full of college specialities and is win ning high favor with Univer sity students. Thursday, Friday and Sat urday. the Brandon Opera company presenting light and j comic opera, witj( Thoo Fen- I nington in the leading role. | The repertoire will be Thurs- i day, “BohemianGirl.” Friday, i “Spring Maid," Saturday af I ternoon. “The Mikado,” and ; Saturday night America's fa vorite, “Robin Tloodv’’1 Coin ing, Douglas Fairbanks in j “The Thief of Bagdad.” I COMING EVENTS I -----—^ l Tuesday, February 17 7:30 p. m.—“From Buddha to Gandhi,” Syud Hossain, Yillard hall. Wednesday, February 18 7:30 p. m.—“Catholic Chris tianity,” Reverend Edwin Y. O’Hara. Thursday, February 19 11:00 a. m.—Assembly, Wo man’s building. 8:00 p. m.—Debate, O. A. C. Willamette-Oregon, Villard hall. Friday, February 20 7:45 p. m.—Basketball, Ore gon-O. A. C., Armory. , MYSTERIOUS SLICKER REMAINS UNCLAIMED _ The University lost and found de partment begins to have the sem jblance of a men’s haberdashery. Two R. O. T. C. hats are the latest additions to the collection. Over coats, raincoats, caps and hats, rub bers and gym shoes complete the collection of men’s wearing apparel. Among the raincoats still hangs the mysterious yellow slicker with its redoubtable “O,” which came all the way from Seattle. The usual feminine articles are also to be found at the depot. Scarfs, a sweater, and numerous um brellas of every color and size are but a suggestion of what the col lection contains. On one shelf is a formidable ar ray of fountain pens, gold ones, large ones, small ones, and pens of every description are to be seen. Al together, one glance at the large number of articles, a witness to youthful carelessness and extrava gance, is enough to make one under stand why Mr. Fisher is beginning to wonder what is to be done with the articles that continue to be turned in. His plea is for the stu dents to come over and claim their belongings. I . I Editorially Clipped ( THINKING AS A. SPOET Athletics as it is run in univer sities has been severely criticized because it provides active partici pation for so few students. Thous ands sit on the sidelines and yell themselves hoarse while eleven men engage in competition with the same number from another school. It lias been pointed out that the method is essentially wrong and that it would be much better if athletics were not so specialized but more general in nature. Athletics, however, is not the only activity in which a few strong persons participate to the conse quent disadvantage of countless others. The field of thought is oc cupied by a few giants and the rest of us sit on the bleachers cheering wildly but neglecting through either carelessness or lack of interest to do our own bit of free thinking. There is no excuse for it. The field of thought is wide. No cer tain number is required to make up I a team of intelligent and deliber ative thinkers. No strict rules bind the players. Superiority of technique is not required; each is allowed to play the game according to his potentialities. Life would be enriched if more people would enroll in the sport of I free thinking. Accepting at face value the opinions of others has a I deadening effect upon society; new opinions are invigorating and liven the daily task. If more people real ized this the world would be a more interesting place in which to live. To the Husbands of Eugene: Will you support your wife as long as you live or as long as she lives? Phone 1 985L i D.ILC. WRESTLERS WIN Varsity Takes One jMatch; Final Score is 32 to 8 Although the Oregon wrestlers put up a game fight against the O. A. C. grapplers, the visitors man aged to win four out of five match es, and rolled up a score of 32 against 8 for the varsity, in a dual meet held at the men’s gym Sat urday afternoon. Most of the matches, which were evenly con tested, went by falls. Captain Nixon of the Aggies inet his conqueror in Ford of Oregon, in the 125-pound class. The first round was a draw, the second was a decision for Nixon, but the var sity grappler came back in the third and deciding round and pinned Nixon to the mat in five minutes, 47 seconds. Nixon is rated as one of the best grapplers on the coast in his weight. Bussell, of the Aggies, jjinned Wingard in 2 minutes, 7 seconds, in the third round of the 135-pound division. The first round was won by Bussell and the second was a draw. In the 145-pound class,' Selfridge, coast champion, proved to be too experienced for Peterson of Oregon. Selfridge won two falls from Peterson, the first in 6 min utes, 59 seconds, and the second in 5 minutes. The best bout of the matinee was between Bryan of the Aggies and Leavitt of Oregon. Bryan pinned the local grappler twice, 'getting the first fall in 6 minutes, 42 sec onds, and the second in 4 minutes, 46 seconds. On each occasion Leavitt was the aggressor and had his man on the defense. By taking the odd fall, Publos of O. A. C. defeated Jones of Ore gon’. Publos took the first round in 5 minutes, 47 seconds, Jones the second in 2 minutes, 50 seconds, and Publos the last in 3 minutes, 47 sec onds. The matches which were full of action, were witnessed by more than 500 persons. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA WILL DROP 391 STUDENTS University of California.—Stu dents who fail to pass in 10 units of work are not permitted to re-en ter the university. Because of this ruling 391 students will not be al lowed to continue in school the sec ond semester. PENNSYLVANIA ALUMNI MAKE LARGE EARNINGS Penn State.—A conservative es timate places the earnings of the engineering graduates on the uni versity at $2,000,000 every year. Prom 'the 2,400 graduates 85 per cent are still engaged in the en gineering profession. 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