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©csgott Sailg i*mptaUi Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued Jafly except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. DONALD Ii. WOODWARD .-.-. EDITOR EDITORIAL BOARD Associate Editor . Margaret Skavlan Managing Editor . Harold A Kirk Associate Managing Editor ... Anna Jerzyk Sports Editor .... George H. Godfrey Daily News Editor Mary Clenn Emily Houston James Case Jalmar Johnson Gertrude Houk Lillian Baker Night Editors Pete Laura Ray N*ash Webster Jones Claude Reavis Tom Graham Walter a. Cushman Lylah McMurphy Society Editor Sports Staff Wilbur Wester _ Assistant Sports Editor Richard Syring, Richard Godfrey . ..Sports Writers ; Upper News Staff Edward Robbins Mildred Carr Elizabeth Cady Geneva Foes Sol Abramson Eugenia Strickland Mary West Josephine Ulrich .. 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Nelson Entered as second class matter at the post office at Eugene, Oregon, under act §i Congress of March 3, 1879. Lyric Rainbow Commended <<'Yy^IIETHER oi* not God uses soap is really not of vital im port to the University of Oregon, but that the Univer sity is being made the object of ridicule throughout the state should be. If anyone doubts that this is fast becoming preva lent, let him visit the office of one of the leading Willamette valley newspapers on the day the Emerald containing the Lyric Rainbow column appears.” The above is quoted from a communication to the Editor in the recent controversy over the merits of the Lyric Rainbow, the weekly poetry column of The Emerald edited by Walter Evaps Kidd. We do not know what leading newspaper offices the writer of the above called upon recently, but one Oregon newspaper has been kind enough to find the “pot of gold” at the foot of this particular Rainbow, and to say so in no uncer tain terms. That paper is The Albany Democrat-Herald, which favorably recognized the poets and the editorial policy of print ing their work, in an editorial entitled, “The Lyric Rainbow in the Storm,” Saturday evening, April 25. It is significant that such praise comes from the pen of Charles Alexander, na tionally known as a^liort-story writer, and whose personal en couragement of writers and selection of material for the Satur day literary section have brought his paper into wide notice. The University^ was privileged to entertain Mr. Alexander as a guest at the convention of Oregon writers held on the campus last year. “Though the number of people writing verse today is only less deplorable than the number and kind of verses turned out, all this activity, as we have sometimes mentioned heretofore, is not bereft either of its significance or of its immediate bene fits to the poets themselves,” he writers. “One mitigating cir cumstance that street-corner statisticians in these times over look, in speaking of poetry, crime, moral laxity and other pro perly modern suppurations, is that in the United States at this moment there are a hundred ten—or twelve or thirteen—-mil lion people; and a further circumstance, in regard to the pro- j bational literature of the university type, is the wide acquain tance with literature and art made possible to nearly all voting people. In grandfather’s time perhaps one out of ten was blessed with the opportunity to make this acquaintance. A i rising ratio of dubiously authentic talent, must, reasonably, be expected to accompany this process of general education. The young effervescings. then, of so many who never will improve their talent into the professional class, need cause little surprise ; and no unhealthy alarm. Out of this mass of maiden efforts i will graduate the giants of the pen who will tower in the skies tomorrow. "The Oregon Emerald, the campus daily newspaper at the University of Oregon, has just issued its most entertaining num-' her since the old Sunday Emerald passed away with the defee- , tion of Ernest Hayeox, now a successful, fiction writer, then a i, student. Much uproar has been stirred on the campus, it ap pears, and the Emerald's editor, Donald L. Woodward, has given ! three columns of space to letter-writers practically all pro and I occasionally con on the subject of ‘Lyric Rainbow,’ a column I of poetry printed weekly in the Emerald and edited by one ! Walter Evans Kidd.” Mr. Kidd is apparently not as unknown to the state at large as certain of the letter-writers on the “eon” side of the ques tion would like to have Us think: "As for Mr. Kidd, he was, it can be claimed, discovered by this paper; he first won into the light of print in these columns 1 (The Democrat-Herald s'), and during his Portland high school i years was a steady contributor. He still contributes. Yet now, because of producing the best under graduate poem last year in America, because of his appearance in quite the most select poetry publications, Mr. Kidd requires nvo defenders. The peculiar armor of publication turns the clouds of really severe arrows always unloosed in his direction when anything of Mr. Kidd’s is printed. It is well enough, as a critical pose, to as sert why this poem by Mr. Kidd is taffy, that poem horsecollar, and a third sheer idiocy; a silence as demure as stultifying falls on the critics when someone timidly mentions his prizes won, his honors taken with these same poems, his selection, among thousands of aspirants from the country’s proudest uni versities, as recipient of various awards. So that, whatever your theory as to the past of poetry, the present or the future, you have at least to admit that for the present, among the younger skylarks, Walter Evans Kidd has won indismissable cause for attention.” Mr. Alexander further writes of the controversy: _ “One Frederick Schlick precipitated rough weather by cru sading, in the columns of the E'mefald, against the quality of poetry therein printed and the policy of permitting it to be printed. The entertaining issue of the paper followed. Begin ning with an editorial, the subject is considered from a gen erous variety of all possible angles. After two issues devoted to Mr. Schlick’s side, the editorial states that fewr have changed their minds, or had them changed for them by all the hubbub.” The Democrat-Herald then goes on to quote from both edi torial and communications: “Exerpts from the three-column deluge of letters to the paper defending the Lyric Rainbow column reveals what must proved an astonishing interest in the efforts of the scribes: “ ‘Perhaps the outraged feelings of the negative critics that voice such, little sympathy with the campus poets would be ap peased with a reprint of poems like ‘Tears, Idle Tears,’ in the Lyric cohimn, since God with his cake of soap failed to create the expected response. The old wheels would then be able to pass along in the same rhythmical and the same old drowsy way in the same old tracks that were laid in the dear old cradle days. Surely the sincerity and initiative expressed in the works of our campus, poets merits praise . . . ’ “Not all the defenders displayed that impersonal restraint which usually is to be admired: ‘“Walter Evans Kidd has as much provincial and national fame as any college student could desire. He was recently ranked by recognized critics as the most original poetry-phraser on this side of the Rockies. He is nationally known due to the several poetry prizes he has won and the poetry he has placed in national magazines. That isn’t so bad, is it now? No doubt Mr. Schlick would consider himself Shakespeare if he were in Mr. Kidd’s place. . . .’ “The purpose here is not to have anything to say, particu larly, about the storm of defense stirred up by the surprised Mr. Schlick. That is an affair of the university campus and not of our pages; and it appears that Lyric Rainbow is the stronger rather than the weaker for the attack made upon it. Some times that is the result of attacks. Young poetry at the Uni versity of Oregon never knew its own strength until it was challenged. Our purpose, rather, in setting forth the case al most detailedly, is to draw' attention to the whole question adumbrated, as Mr. Kidd might say, by the explosion at Eu gene. It is not that vre would become entrusted wdth a particu lar brief for the young hack-a-word poetry in itself, as the ulti mate, as mature expression; nor, on the contrary, that we be lieve the senile styles popular twenty years ago to be all effi cient, partaking satisfactorily of perfection. We believe neither. We believe a bit in both, and as Radio KGW’S announcer is apt to say, v'e are glad to have them with us tonight.” “Mr. Kidd himself is a case in point: he might never, lack ing welcoming home publication, have progressed to the point he occupies today,” the Democrat-Herald says in conclusion, emphasizing the service which can be done to literature by the newspaper press, “and w’e may assert that local readers suf fered their first, stiff jolts, the customary delivery of modern istic poets, when first Walter Evans Kidd’s poems v'ere con tributed to this paper. To repeat, it wms good for them to so make contact with the good and the modern, albeit the local, in art; it was unprovincial; if it gave them food for jeers, if it astounded them, it furnished them with the stuff that thought is made of, also. “There have been other, numerous ones, found when most desperate by these columns, given print, and who were speedily on their way into the fat magazines, the book publishers’ lists, where, they now abide. It was not, it is true, perspicacity, and certainly nothing of discrimination; it was but a simple policy and a somewhat boundless.. belief in the veritable value of our aspiring yijpths. It w as counter to all western newspaper cus- i tom. It invoked deseriptives ranging through ‘idiocy’ and ‘nonsense’ to adjectives on the brighter side of the wrall. So that it in nothing else, the effort has stirred people to seek for sufficient and expressive curses, and thereby stimulating them, j “Meanwhile the Emerald’s, comparatively new poetry ref uge finds itself surrounded, in the first assault, with defenders known and numerously unknown; it finds its adherents a le gion indeed beyond its \Widest dreaming. Such is the testing and the proof, in unanswerable practice, of the first few' liter ary pioneerings before the home public of the west by home scribblers. ...” i 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, v: must be limited to 20 words. University Orchestra—No meeting Tuesday or Thursday of this week, but all members must be present at 3:30 next Sunday af ternoon at the auditorium for a ■ program. American Red Cross—Meeting of all members life saving corps Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the tank in the Woman’s build ing. Bring your suits. Class Hockey—All girls that ex pect to go out for class hockey meet in room 121, Woman’s building, tonight. Decorations and Feature Commit tees—Meeting Tuesday afternoon, April 28, Administration build ing, 5 o’clock. El Circulo Castellano — Meeting Wednesday night, costume party, College Side Inn, 7:15-10:15. Freshman Commission — Meeting postponed for one week. Sigma Delta Chi—Meeting today noon at Anchorage. All Girls interested in class hockey meet at 7:15 tonight. Room 121, Woman’s building. Executive Council—W. A. A. meet ing Tuesday at 7 o’clock. Bernice Yeo, Piano Rec,ital—Tues day, April 28, Music auditorium, 8 o’clock. rheta Sigma Phi—Meeting today (Tuesday) noon at Anchorage. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Alpha Omicron Pi announces the pledging of Elizabeth Cady of Portland. GAY THOMPSON Marcel and Bob 75c Manicure, 50c 861 WILLAMETTE ST. Roome 5 Phone 1091-R GRAND OPENING MAY ? ■ WATCH THE PAPERS! WATCH the BILLBOARDS! ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR! PHYSICS PROFESSOR TO HAVE TJ. OF C. FELLOWSHIP ■ Prof. E. H. McAlister of the phvs- i ics department, lias received a fel lowship in the department of phys cs of the University of California tit Berkeley, California. The fel- j owship will mean his filling a posi- | tion similar to that of graduate I assistants here. The appointment ■ s for the school year beginning next fall. UNUSUAL AMOUNT OF FLU REPORTED BY DISPENSARY There is a wave of intestinal flu iweeping over the campus, accord ng to Pr. F. N. Miller, University physician. A great many cases lave been reported to the dispen- j lary this week. Fewer heavy colds ir cases of grippe than usual are j loticeable. Doctor Miller urges . j hat anyone having a touch of in estinal flu report at once to the lispensarv for treatment. 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