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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
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meet in room 121, Woman’s
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Decorations and Feature Commit
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April 28, Administration build
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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
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Woman’s building.
Executive Council—W. A. A. meet
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Bernice Yeo, Piano Rec,ital—Tues
day, April 28, Music auditorium,
8 o’clock.
rheta Sigma Phi—Meeting today
(Tuesday) noon at Anchorage.
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