©ogott iailg 3j*m0rali> Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. DONALD L. WOODWARD ..... EDITOR EDITORIAL BOARD Associate Editor .-.a. Margaret Skavlar. Managing Editor ... Harold A. Kirk Associate Managing Editor . Anna Jerzyk Sports Editor_ George H. Godfrey Daily News Editor Mary Clerin lames Case Gertrude Houk Emily Houston Jalmar Johnson Lillian Baker Night Editors Pete Lsurs Webster Jones Tom Graham Eay Nteah Claude Reavis Walter a. Cushman Lylah McMurphy ..— Society Editor Sports Staff Wilbur Wester — Assistant Sporta Editor Richard Syring, Richard Godfrey . ...Sports Writers Upper News Staff Edward Robbins Elizabeth Cady Sol Abramson Mildred Can Geneva Foss Eugenia Strickland Mary West Josephine Ulrich --- Exchange Editor News Staff: Helen Reynolds, Margaret Vincent, Esther Davis, Jack Hempstead, Georgia Stone, Glen TJurch, Lawrence Armand, Ruth Dc Lap, Dorothy Blyberg, Clayton Meredith, Margaret Kressman, Philippa Sherman, Ruth Gregg, Mary Baker, Alice Kraeft, Geneva Drum, Helen Schuppel, Ruby Lister, Barbara Blythe, Mary Conn, Ronald Sellers, Paul Krausse, Bill Klien. Frances Bonrhill, Sybil McKnight. BUSINESS STAFF 7AMES W. T.T.ATCK ..._... MANAGER Associate Manager . Frank Loggan Advertising Managers . Si Slocum, Wayne Leland, Wm. Jones Assistants.Milton George, Bill Prudbomme, Bert Randall, Calvin Horn Circulation Manager . James Manning Assistant Circulation Manager .-.-. Burton Nelson Foreign Advertising Manager .. Claude Reavis Assistants . Walt O'Brien, Hilton Rose, Neil Oh in nock Specialty Advertising .-. Mildred Dunlap, Geneva Foss Adminstration .. Margaret Hyatt, Marion Pby, Fred Wilcox, Bonner Whitson, Bob Warner. , Day Editor This Issue Jalinar Johnson Assistant .Dorothy Blyberg Night Editor This Issue Ray Nash Assistant .Ronald Sellers Entered as second class matter at the pest office at Eugene, Oregon, under act §i Congress of March 3, 1879. The Students Have Chosen Well 'JpHURSDAY at the regular Associated Students assembly Randall Jones formally turned over the leadership of the A. S. U. O. to Walter Malcolm, recently elected president for next year. Malcolm’s speech was short and appropriate. Ilis quiet, self-possessed manner inspires confidence. The students need have no fears for administration of their affairs during the University year 1925-26. Particularly pleasing was the fundamental thought under lying Malcolm’s words. He referred to the three presidents immediately preceding him, justly attributing to each a proper share in the establishment of a splendid piece of work. John MacGregor conceived the idea of an Oregon Student Union building, Claude Robinson organized the initial drive and im planted an enthusiastic resolve in the student body to acquire that building, and Randal^ Jones has placed the plan upon a business-like and scientific basis. President Malcolm, in mentioning this work, commented aside that he feared there is nothing big nor startling left for his administration to initiate, but that he felt in such a case his course will be to carry forward as far as possible the plans already started. However, if new problems arise next year which would come under the jurisdiction of the student body, Malcolm stated, he will endeavor to the best of iiis power to meet them adequately and efficiently. The students of the University of Oregon, in general a con servative group, could not ask for a more sane outline of policy. There will be no startling revolutions of government, no little meditated wild schemes, no hurtful distempers, to hamper the steady progress which has marked the A. S. U. O. during the last few years. A loyal and competent group of officers and representa-1 tives has been elected to serve with the new president. Each has shown merit in unselfish service to the University. Each now has an increased opportunity to fulfill the promise of that previous devotion. < - • • « . > «. » i In one week, on Friday night, at the annual Emerald Ban quet, the present editor of the Emerald will deliver the keys to his office to Edward Miller. He gives up his typewriter to his successor with a real feeling of regret that his time has been served. He will no longer have the privilege of controlling the! opinions expressed through the editorial column of the daily, i There have been difficult, precarious incidents this year which have required much in the way of conscientious truth seeking and exposition in the face of many pressures. In turn ing over the editorial reins to Edward Miller the regret of withdrawing fjjom further active participation on the Emerald is greatly lessened by knowledge of the University’s next editor. Editor Miller will publish a paper that will be lively, full of interest, sparkling with progressive ideas, llis editorials will be well-written, sane, colorful, but above all straightfor ward and unflinching in standing for the right as he sees it. The Emerald will not be a mere mirror of majority campus opinion, nor of administrative desires, but with the best inter est^ ot the students held first and above all else, the opinions and facts stated in the co^inm will be dependable and inspire confidence in their leadership. _ The student body has chosen well in the elections. The University year 1925-26 will be a cycle of sound, sure progress, resulting from a dignified, upstanding self-government. Campus Bulletin Notices will be printed in this column for two i&sues only. Copy must be in this office by 5:30 on the day before it is to be published, p must be limited to 20 words. Sigma Delta Chi—Meet for initia tion at College Side Inn at 5 o ’clock Sunday. Communications Letters to the EMERALD from stu 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. KERBY MILLER’S ‘TEACHING’ jxo the Editor; Since the recent meeting of the board of regents of the University, there has been considerable specu lation on the campus concerning the board’s motive for refusing to re-elect Korby S. Miller to the fac ulty of the department of phil osophy. Although it has been im possible to discover the regents’ objection to Mr. Miller, numerous rumors, purporting to account for the action, have been circulated around the campus. According to one report, Mr. Mil ler, during the past year, has been a failure as a “teacher.” This let ter is written largely as a protest against this rumor, whether or noT it influenced the regents’ action. As members of Mr. Miller’s classes, we believe that we are qualified to judge his “teaching.” As a pedagogue, Mr. Miller would probably not claim extraordinary powers. He is rather an advanced student in his subject, philosophy, and it is through his knowledge of this subject, rather than through pedagogy, that he reached the be ginners with whom he came in con tact on the Oregon campus. Pedagogy has its advantages. Through psychological tricks, it is sometimes possible for an instruc tor to pound into unwilling heads facts that would otherwise be un heeded. Such methods are indis pensible in high schools, but it is lamentable that they are necessary in a university. Yet, what Oregon professor who has resigned himself to existing conditions has not his individual system of magic? In a department of philosophy, however, it is even more regrettable that pedagogical sleight of hand should be expected. Philosophy has no facts for the instructor to pre sent, for the student to learn and reproduce. It has problems for thought and discussion, but noth ing to “teach.” The instructor can only lead the discussion in an in- j telligent manner; it is upon the in terest and intelligence of the stu dent that the value of the class de-1 pends. It was as a lender in discussion j of problems that Mr. Miller acted i in his courses during the past year. Outside of the class room, he was always available for conferences, where students cleared up individ ual difficulties. For a few class members who only listened, expect ing to hear “pearls of wisdom” for hasty entry into open note books, the incoherent and faltering at tempts of interested students must have eseemed sterile. But 'these free discussions, for those who took part, had a value that could not be approached by the best pedago gical methods. To members of Mr. Miller’s ele-j mentarv ethics class, offered dur ing the winter term, the rumor that moral views expressed by him in i the classroom were responsible for his dismissal comes as a surprise. \ Since the rumor does not state what | these forbidden views might be, ] Mr. Miller’s students are as unin formed as the rest of the Univer sity. No matter how carefully mem-1 At ijie Theatres I O-