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Entered a* second class matter at the post office at Eugene, Oregon, under act
of Congress of Marcb 3, 1879. »
The Spread of the Plague
THE faculty meeting this week notice of motion was
made to open Saturday to regular scheduling of classes.
This motion will be voted upon at the next meeting in one
month. Reasons advanced for proposal of this plan, to quote
from the report of the Schedule committee in the faculty bulle
tin is that this motion “seems advisable to the committee in view
of the already crowded conditions as to class rooms, the antici
pated increase in student enrollment next year, and the fact
that no relief is in sight in the present class room situation.
The new building, while it will help the library congestion, and
the over-crowded laboratory situations in certain departments,
will have very little effect on the class room problem,”
No one will deny that conditions here are crowded, often
over-crowded, and the last one to deny such a condition is the
student himself. Nevertheless, there appears to be a small,
perhaps even a considerable amount of injustice couched in
this proposed change. A six-day school schedule will work a
hardship on a number of conscientious, worthy students to
whom Saturday is a golden day, a golden day because they
work on that day for several extra dollars, and those extra dol
lars may mean the difference between attending the University
and realizing their ambitions, or not.
It might be pointed out that at first this plan would only
affect the larger, lower class divisions, and students would be
given a choice in regard to Saturday classes. It seems illogi
cal, however, to expect that, very many will break up a free
Saturday by volunteering to take classes for that day. This
would mean there would necessarily be arbitrary assignment
in most cases.
That conditions are crowded is admitted. The committee
states that it anticipates an increase in enrollment next year.
Why is this? First, of course, there will be the natural growth,
due to increased population in the state and the greater pop
ularity of higher education among the people. Second, it will
be due to boosting, whereupon natural, normal growth becomes
forced expansion. Even universities and colleges, the pur
ported sanctuaries of the scholar, have been overtaken by the
American ^disease of worshipping bigness, where mere size over
awes and gross numbers hypnotize.
Commercial businesses are not the only enterprises where
success or failure is judged upon a quantitative basis. The in
fection has spread into the very seats where leadership should
develop, where students should have every facility furnished
to foster thinking and the conception of high purposes. This
will not be accomplished by unnaturally building up the size
of the student body.
It will be accomplished by giving those who have had the
will, courage and determination to gain a university education
every advantage. They are the ones from which mankind may
expect a bounteous return in inspiration and progress. Not
a few of these arc of the aristocracy of character and intelli
gence rather than the aristocracy of money. To force these out,
or even to make attendance just a little more difficult for the
sake of larger enrollment figures, seems a violation of one of
the most fundamental aims of higher education.
NEW OFFICERS FOR CAMPUS
Y.M.C.A. TAKE UP DUTIES
officer* for the campus Y.
M. C. A. were installed at a bau
quet at the Canipa Shoppe Thurs
day night Several speakers were
present from Portland. Bart Ken
dal was installed as president. Wil
lard Marshall, who has just com
pleted his term as presid nt, addre<s
ed the ({roup, recounting the work
of the past year. Other officers in
stalled were Ronald Beatty, vice
president: Kirk Bolliger, secretary
ami Wilfred Long, treasurer. The
news committees were also introduc
ed. A. E. Yont, J. O. Meehan, Joe
Tibbets, and Willard P. Rouse, all
from Portland, addressed the forty
men who were present. H. W.
Davis of the local “V" hut also
spoke. Wilfred Long played several
piano selections.
Campus Bulletin
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in this office by 6 :30 on the day before
it is to be published, and must be
limited to 20 words.
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Meet in front of the Administra
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Mu Phi Epsilon—Opera Concert,
4:00, Sunday afternoon in Music
building.
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Communications
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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.
WORK OF CAMPUS POETS
DECLARED MOST PITIABLE
To the Editor:
As I have but recently entered
the University of Oregon and as I
do not have the pleasure of know
ing any of the so-called campus
“poets” personally, my subsequent
remarks may be said to be purely
impersonal. I only write desiring
to comment with the hope that the
“Lyric Rainbow” column will be
closed out, and the “poetic” ser
vices of its editor dispensed with.
i In glancing over the poetry pub
lished this week I made note of the
fact that the creater of the “Lawn
Tale,” “Sunshine” and “Lazy
Moon” is bringing on hernia in the
attempt to be poetic. Is it not
ludicrous that juvenile poets in
variably clothe their work entirely
in what they consider poetesques,
and imagine that indulgence in
such will endow upon their child
ren the spirit of genuine poetry?
They cannot understand that nud
ity is really most becoming, that
what is inartificial is most splen
did.
The respects in which the new
poetry can be said to differ from
the old are not mere details of
form, for much poetry which is in
fused with the new spirit is writ
ten in old measures and rhyme
schemes. It is not merely in dict
tion, though the truly modern poet
rejects poetic commonalties in his
choice of words.
The spirit of new poetry is to
discard its Victorian apparel, kick
off the tinsel, and run freely as it
desires. Let us remember that a
woman of refinement dresses us
ually in charming simplicity; it is
only a woman of the most vulgar
taste who indulges in gewgaw. Our
campus poets in trying to be real
istic are only making excellent
fools of themselves. Their works
are not artistic, nor poetic; they
are pitiable.
It is my firm belief that our
campus “poets” mistake colenter
itis for the poetic itch. I merely
wish to inform them that God does
not juggle with bars of soap,
(Sunshine), nor d(oes ' my good
rCOMING EVENTS^
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Saturday, April 18
2:30 p. m.—Interclass track j
meet, Haywarcf field.
8:00 p. m.—“Crimson Eye
brows,” School of Music audi
torium.
Sunday, April 19
4:00 p. m.—Mu Phi Epsilon
concert, School of Music audi
torium.
<£> -be
friend the lawn hose crawl across
lawns to sun itself or slink away
at night “to coil itself in the long
grass beside the tool-house,”
(“Lawn Tale”). If God plays the
rofe of laundryman in Eugene I
very much desire to have Him call.
Beally, it would flatter me. I won
der, does He clean and press suits?
As to the lawn hose, I smell moon
in the air. I am a cautious person
and I offer a substantial Reward to
anyone who can bring to me a gen
uine, living, breathing, first-rate
hose that crawls, wiggles, hisses,
spits, and slinks.
In closing, I would say this: It
would be an easy matter for me to
pause on the street and, spitting up
into the air, say: “Ah, tis raining.”
But as I chew tobacco the process
would stain my clothing, and I am
silly enough to doubt the truth of
my assertion. With this in mind j
1 add that the poetry printed in!
the Emerald is usually the most
meaningless blah, cheap sentimen
talism, rot, bunkum. It would
please me if someone could point
I At the Theatres
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HEILIG—Friday and Satur
day, Fred Thompson in his
dashing, “That Devil Que
mado;” Next week, “The
Snob,” and “The Great Di
vide,” an American epic that
rates with the best films of
the year. Galligher and
Shean, with Greenwich Vil
lage Follies, April 28. Be
ready when the box office
opens.
THE BEX—Last day: The
screen’s most delightful per
sonality, Constance Talmadge
in “Learning to Love,” a ro
mantic comedy with the
startling Connie leading a
quintet of shieks through
a rapid race with Cu
pid at the tape and Antonio
Moreno saving his wind for
the finish; A1 St. John com
edy, “Bed Pepper,” is the
spice of laughter; Oregon’s
own Webfoot Weekly; LeBoy
DeVaney in musical comedy
accompaniment on the mighty
Wurlitzer.
Coming: Kichard Barthel
mess in “New Toys,” with his
"■dainty wife, Mary Hay, mak
ing her screen debut; present
ed with a Bex prolog, “Toys,”
with Katherine Irvin Stang
and her Two Tiny Tots.
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DEMOCRACY
After an Hundred and Fifty Years
Next Sunday. April 19, marks the one hundred
and fiftieth anniversary since the Battle of Lex
ington.
Democracy was then a theory untried; now it is
to be considered as an experiment which must in
evitably be carried further in political practice.
The successes of democracy have always been
linked with individualism and the freedom of man.
This all makes an interesting theme which will be
considered by the Rev. Frank Fay Kddv in a sermon
at the Vnitarian church Sunday morning at 10:45
o'clock.
The Soloist at this Service will be
ALBERTA CARSON, CONTRALTO
1’niversity men and women are always welcome
at the “Little Church of the Human Spirit.”
Dut to me just wherein it is poetry, j
I am only a simple layman and I i
v-earn for culture.
Tours truly,
FREDERICK SCHLICK.
BRIDGE TEA ADDS $140
TO SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Approximately $140 was taken in
at the bridge tea, sponsored by the
alumnae association, which was held
at the Osburn hotel Wednesday af
ternoon. The tea was given to
benefit the permanent fund of
$5,000 which is being raised for
the Mary Spiller scholarship, found
ed in 1908 and which is awarded
each year to an Oregon high school
graduate. It allows her one year’s
room and board at Hendricks hall.
The tea was in the hands of Mrs.
Herbert Clarke, president of the as
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Per Couple—85c
sociation, Mrs. Frank Chambers,
vice-president; Mrs. J. O. Holt, sec
retary; and Mrs. Lawrence T. Har
ris, treasurer. Women of Eugene,
wives of University professors and
students of the University reserved
tables and played during the af
ternoon.
GOOD GUESSER TO WIN
TICKETS TO GUILD PLAY
Monday morning nine cherubic,
infant faces will be on display in
the Co-op. The discerning one will
recognize them as photographs, tak
en some twenty years ago, of the
cast of “Miss Lulu Bett,” the j
Guild Theatre play to be given
April 22, 23, and 24. The one who
first guesses correctly (the entire
nine will be given six tickets to
the play, ,the second to hand in the
correct identification will receive
four, and the third will get two
tickets. In ease you should not be
able to recognize the entire cast
hand in your guess anyway, be
cause if no one should guess all,
the one first handing in the larg
est number correct, will receive the
Bix tickets. The second and third
prizes will be judged accordingly.
Hand in your guesses at Guild
Theatre box office. The contest i
will remain open from 1:00 p. m.
on Monday until 5:00 p. m. Tues
day. Winners will be announced
in Wednesday’s Emerald.
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