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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1925)
Wttgntt iailjj mcralli Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued Sally except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. DONALD L. WOODWARD ----EDITOR EDITORIAL BOARD Associate Editor_____—— -Margaret 8kavian Managing Editor.......... Harold A. Kirk Associate Managing Editor - - -.j-Anna Jerryk Sports Editor — George H. Godfrey Daily News Editor Karr Clerin Emily Houston fames Casa J almar J ok noon Gertrude Honk Lillian Baker Night Editors Pats Laura Ray Ifesb Webster Jones Claude Reavls Xsan Graham Walter A. Cushman Lylah MeMurphr Society Edits Sports Staff Wilbur Wester _ Assistant Sports Editor Richard Syring, Richard Godfrey _-Sports Writers Uppor News Staff Edward Robbins Mildred Carr Elisabeth Cady Genera Foss So) Abrams on Eugenia Strickland Mary West Josephine Ulrich Exchange Editor Non Staffi Helen Reynold!, Margaret Vincent, Either Davis, Jack Hempstead. Georgia Stone, Glen Parch, Lawrence Arroand, Ruth De Lap, Dorothy Biyberg, Clayton Meredith, Margaret Kressman, Philippa Sherman, Ruth Gregg. Mary Baker, Alice Kraeft, Geneva Dram, Helen Schuppel, Ruby Lister, Barbosa Blythe, Mary Conn, Ronald Sellers, Paul Kraosse, Bill Klien. Frances Bonrhill, Sybil McKnight. BUSINESS STAFF FAMES W. LEAKE_MANAGER Associate Manager _ Frank Loggaa Advertising Managers_Si Slocum, Wayne Leland, Wm. Jones Assistants....Milton George, Bill Prudhomme, Bert Bandall, Galvin Horn Clrenlation Manager _ James Manning Assistant Circulation Manager------ Burton Nelson Foreign Advertising Manager..... Claude Beavis Assistants _ Wait O'Brien, Hilton Bose, Neil Ohinneck Specialty Advertising_____ Mildred Dunlap, Geneva Foss Adminstration-Margaret Hyatt, Marion Pby, Fred Wilcox, Bonner Whitson, Bob Warner. Day Editor This Issue Pete Laura Assistant .Alice Kraeft Night Editor This Issao Clate Meredith Entered as second claw matter at the post office at Eugene, Oregon, under act •< CongreM ef March 8, 1879. ‘HE REST of this week—next week, and then—“the del uge.” It is well to take a moment to consider what it is all about. What has been gained this year, individually and col lectively by the University of Oregon students? Because, whether we be optimists or pessimists, the matter of gain enters into that process known as taking stock of oneself. The fresh man is beginning to know “what it is all about.” The sopho more is beginning to be discriminating. The junior is already “a college man,” or, rather, “a university man.” And the senior—ah, he, poor dear, is looking up from his four years of struggle and contemplating the awful possibility of “grow ing up!” And after taking stock of one’s self, there remained stock taking for the University. We are likely to find a great many things on the shelves. A university, if it lives up to its name, has the quality of universality. There more to it for the opti mist than counting the number of good times he has had, the singing around the dinner tables, the dances, the games, or whatever else could be classed under that general heading. There is even more to it for the pessimist than counting the number of times he has been bored. But whether the University has meant little or much, the out-going seniors find many loose ends—courses which they wish they had taken—people they might have known, yet some how7 never did—and dreams which still stretch to a vanishing point. But this state of affiars is perhaps better than if there were a settled variety of satisfaction. The university gives one taste, or perhaps it would be truer to say that it forms one’s tastes. Certainly one is a student here during but a small por tion of his life. And it remains to be seen how' these tastes can later be satisfied, how the student can learn to satisfy them and This necessity for growth is met with outside the university. '“Antecedent to Adult Education” is the title of an article in The Survey, which goes on to say, “History throws some light upon these questions. Amongst primitive groups education de votes itself entirely to the training of children and youths. The adults need no education. There is nothing for them to learn. They know all there is to be known. Is it merely a coincidence that a primitive group tends to become social stagnation per sonified?” And so we have it. The University should have in stock, and the student should come to know—growing pains. K rJ"'IIE ABOVE title, which heads an article by A. P. Brogan in The Nation for May 20, holds an interest for those who have heard college life criticized from the outside, and seen its devious ways from the inside. An interesting experiment, how ever, w7as that of finding what the students themselves re garded as sins—quite asid^ from their studies of ethics, reli gion and philosophy. The author describes the experiment as follows: “Thinkers of former days drew up lists of ‘cardinal virtues,’ and ‘deadly sins.’ It would be difficult to say how closely those lists cor responded to dominant popular attitudes of the times. . . . Ac cordingly students were asked to give lists of the ‘best prac tices’ and the ‘worst practices’ that they knew. The students seemed to be unable to give any significant list of the best prac tices, whereby hangs another tale. So the study was confined Taking Stock grow'. ,« ^ ^ * i‘ * “What Is Sin in College?” 1 to the bad practices. There happened to be sixteen of these bad practices which stood out as being mentioned most fre quently by the students. The list of the sixteen practices, in alphabetical order, is given below.” These turn out to be: cheating, dancing, drinking, extravagance, gambling, gossip, idleness, lying, Sabbath-breaking, selfishness, sex irregularity, smoking, snobbishness, stealing, swearing and vulgar talk. | In tabling the results, the author says: ‘‘It appears that any group of two dozen or more students gives substantially the same ranking that any other such group gives. Below are printed the average rankings given by several hundred men and women at the University of Texas during the years 1919 1921. The rankings are based upon arithmetical averages. Number 1 represents what they think is the worst to do, and so on for the others. Practices Sex Irregularity . Stealing . Cheating . Lying . Drinking . Gambling . Vulgar Talk ....... Sabbath-Sreakin g Swearing . Gossip . Selfishness . Idleness . Snobbishness . Extravagance .... Smoking . Dancing . Bankings by Men Women . 1 1 . 2 2 . 3 3 . 4 4 5 . 5 6 . 7 7 . 9 8 . 8 9 .13 10 .10 11 .11 12 .12 13 .14 14 .15 15 16 16 HONORARIES TO JOIN IN FORMAL BANQUE1 A joint banquet of Phi Bets Kappa and Sigma Xi will be hel< tomorrow night, in the gun room o: the Woman’s building. The ban quet, which is to be at 6:15, fol lowing the Phi Beta Kappa initia tion in Alumni Hall, is to b< formal. Wives and husbandh oi members are invited. Prof. Frederick Dunn, head of thi Latin department, will act as toast master. Talks will be made by Dr Harry B. Torrey, representing Ph Beta Kappa; by Dr. W. E. Milne representing Sigma Xi; and b' Norma Wilson, representing tin initiates. Dr. John S. P. Tatlock professor of English at Stanforc university, will also talk. Professo At the Theatres O'----— THE MCDONALD—Last day: The universally recommended masterpiece, "The LaBt Laugh” with Emil Jennings’ added attraction, “A Contin ental Carnival,” with fifteen entertainers including Pi-id Pipers jazz band. Comedy, “Andy Gump in Hollywood.” Coming: Raymond Griffith in "The Night Club.” Norma Talmage is “The Lady” Zane Grey’s “The Code of the West.” The stage success, “The Wizard of Oz.” Harold Bell Weight's “Recreation of Brian Kent.” THE REX—First day: Pola Negri in “East of Suez,” Somerset Maugham’s story of a girl and three men in a gripping love drama set amid the mysteries of the orient, the cast- including Rockliffe Fellows, Noah Beery, Edmund Lowe aiul other favorites; Century comedy; Kinogram news events; LeRoy DeVnney in musical settings on the mighty Wurlitzer. Coming: Robert W. Ser vice’s “The Roughneck,” with Billie Dove, George O’Brien and Cleo Madison; “The Nar row Street,” with Matt Moore and Dorothy Devore; Strong heart and the Stronghearts, in “The Love Master;” Johnny Hines in “The Speed Spook;” “Darwin Was Right;” Colleen Moore in “Sally,” with Leon Errol; “The Devil’s Cargo” with Wallace Beery, Pauline Stark and William Collier, Jr.; Buck Jones in “Gold and the Girl.” ► Tatlock, who is highly recommended , as a speaker, has accepted a posi tion at Harvard for next year. His subject tomorrow night will be, i “When Were the Good Old Days?” t The Very Best KALSOMINE IS MURESCO It must be used with boiling water but cannot be com r pared with ordinary brands. OXNER’S Paint Store Phtone 348 8th & Olive Sts. Campus Bulletin Notices will be printed in this column j for two issues only. Copy most be j in this office by 6:80 on the it is to be published, r limited to 26 words. Te Tabard Inn—Those who have planned to attend picnic meet at journalism building at 5 p. m. Life Saving Examinations in Men’s gym, 4:15 today and Thursday. All members must be present. To-Ko-Lo — Meeting, Wednesday night, 7:30, College Side Inn. Ac tive members and pledges. Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs— Meet in music building Thurs day at 5 p. m. Important. Sigma Delta Pi—Very important meeting at 5 p. m. in the Oregon building. Important Meeting of house man agers at T. M. C. A. hut tonight at 5:00. Juniors, Attention—Head important notice on front page of this pa per. Craftsman Club—Meeting Thursday evening, 7:30, at elub house. Circulo Castellano—Meeting at 7:15 p. m. in the “V” bungalow. brief case presented TO HEAD OF DEPARTMENT Members of the zoology seminar and student assistants presented Dr. Harry Beal Torrey, head of the zoology department, with a brief case last night as a farewell gift. The presentation was made at & pic nic held at Coburg bridge. After enjoying a picnic dinner, and a general social time, the group re turned to Eugene where they at tended “The Last Laugh,” at the McDonald theatre. ICOMING EVENTS! ---O Wednesday, May 27 Jury Day, Fine Arts building. 2:30 p. m.—Lecture, Miss Ber tha Stewart, on interior decora tion, Architecture building lec ture room. 4:00 p. m.—Tea for Portland Art class, Murray Warner mu seum. 6:00 p. m.—Jury Day banquet, Anchorage. 8:15 p. m.—Dance Drama, Woman’s building. Thursday, May 28 ' 11:0 a. m.—Assembly, Bishop Sumner, “Border Lines,” Wo man ’s building. Friday, May 20 6:00 p. m.—Emerald staff banquet, Woman’s building. ❖--—^ day before must be j I LEARN TYPING AND SHORTHAND Special rates for part-time students will be given upon request. EUGENE BUSINESS COLLEGE i A. E. ROBERTS, President Phone 666 992 Willamette Guaranteed Rebuilt Typewriters Royal Underwood Remington Oliver Woodstock L. C. Smith Prices Ranging From $25.00 to $65.00 NEW REMINGTON AND UNDERWOOD PORTABLES Student Rates—$4.00 down, $4.00 per month COMMERCIAL MIMEOGRAPH WORE OFFICE MACHINERY & SUPPLY CO. GUARD BUILDING Phone 149 I I I :s l I Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream Soda A refreshment which you might never have tried. You are cer tain to think it the best yet. k'/i I Peter Pan DCMEDY TO BE PRESENTED BY FRENCH ORGANIZATION Le Foyer Franeais has issued an invitation to all students who have had at least one year of French to attend the play, which is to be given Thursday night, at 7:30 at the Bungalow. The play will be given entirely in French. No ad mission charges will be made. The play is a comedy, entitled, “L’Homme Qui Epousa Une Femme Nuetee!” Leads will be taken by Wanda Plincz, Delbert Faust and Robert Hunt. Solos, before and after the play, have been planned. The an nual election of officers -for the j club will be held after the per l/formance. 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