YOUNG RUSSIAN INSTRUCTOR HAS
* HARDSHIPS IN WAR ANP PEACE
“Clad in white flannels, a straw
hat and a cane, and possessing no
speaking English vocabulary, I
made a sensational if not conven
tional debut into America for I
landed in September in Seattle on
a dark rainy day. You see, I plan
ned to go to San Francisco from
China, where we wore white clothes
on account of the heat. So I sold
all the dark clothes I had because
I could get more money for them.
They did not purchase a ticket to
Frisco for me so went to Seattle.”
“How did you happen to come
to the United States?” I asked.
And then the young Bussian be
gan his story. His name is Bo
jansky, familiarly called Boe, and
is assistant instructor in the math
ematics department. His quaint
English, perfectly constructed, made
listening very easy. He smoked
continuously as he talked.
“1 was fighting in Admiral Kol
chak’s army during the Bussian civ
il war. We had been successful up
to 1919, but from then on were
retreating. We were, pushed back
into Siberia, back to the borders
of China. There our army was dis
banded on account of the great los
ses. Many of us went into China.
I worked there for nine months.
"It was my ambition to go some
where to study . At first I planned
on Germany because I knew Ger
man. Then I learned that the Y.
M. C. A. in China was organizing
groups of Bussians to go to the
United States to school so I joined
them and came to Seattle.
“Eleven other boys from Bussia
were with me, all wanting to learn
English. When we were together
we continued speaking Bussian. In
order to make any progress I knew
that I must leave them, so I went
to Wenatchee where I learned Eng
lish of a poor sort, when I worked
“No,” he repled, “I was educa
in the apple orchards. I then went
to Fairfax and worked in a lumber
mill. Here a school teacher in
structed me in English at night to
an extent that I felt I could enter
college.
“I chose Whitman because it was
near and was a small college where
I could get close to the things I
was studying, to the teachers and
students. I received a small schol
arship and entered as a special stu
dent. The first winter I was chore
boy on a farm and rode a bicycle
to school.
“Being interested in politics I
majored in political science. I lost
interest and changed to math and
science, and graduated in 1924.
“Because of lack of funds I was
unable to accept positions offered
me in the East. Oregon being near
I accepted the position offered me,
and here I am studying and teach
ing. Explaining in my most flow
ery English, the mysteries of ‘trig’
to unwilling minds.”
“Well,” I said, “were you ac
customed to farm life and hardship
in Bussia 1 ’ ’
ted in a military school in a city
and knew nothing of hardships. My
three years in cavalry did not teach
me how to harness a horse. When
I first worked on a farm here, one
morning very early I thought I
heard someone pumping water from
a squeaky pump. I rose and found
that it was a young mule braying.”
“Do you plan to remain here?”
I questioned.
“No. I am going back to Bus
authentic idea of progress in the
sia I don’t even think of fitting
in here permanently, though I like
it. Bussia has been deprived of
scientific information for almost
ten years. Only by those educated
elsewhere returning do they get any
going .back.”
authentic idea of progress in the
scientific world. That is why I am
SENIOR WOMAN GIVES
HER IDEA OF COLLEGE
Self-Reliance and Matured
Tolerance Acquired
By W. E. K.
Mary -, English major, sat
across a table from me in College
Side Inn. Keat’s “Collected Poems
lay at her elbow.
‘■‘Has college been worth while?”
she mused, the while tinkling a
glass of water with an ice-cream
spoon. “Yes, a thousand times. It
has widened the horizon of my vi
sion. College has matured by tol
erance, has given me direction as
to that which I have the best
ability to undertake, has given me
self-reliance, has fostered my taste
for literature, and has lifted my
imagination to ‘the light that never
was on land nor sea,’ and to ‘beau
ty is truth, truth beauty.’ ”
As Miss •— quoted the im
mortal line of Keat’s “Ode to the
Grecian Urn” in her crystal voice,
she lifted his book of verse. A
dusky gold sparkled out of her twi
light brown eyes as she slowly
turned the pages. Then she ran her
fingers aeross her wavy dark hair.
“College has made each book
seem like a vivid adventure into its
author’s mind and into the life and
world seen through the author’s
temperament,” she continued. “It
has made me love all things fox
what they are—even to life.”
Life, according to Miss ———,
can not hold many other memories
as rieh as those she has stored up
during her college career.
“Wherein does college lackf” I
quizzed.
“College has become too mechan
ic,” she replied, “and dulls the
creative facilities and the student’s
sense of brotherhood. College en
courages individual and selfish ri
valry among the students and
wrongfully rewards scholastic ef
forts with stupid grades. College
should foster spontaniety in study
ing and endeavor in behalf not of
self but of mankind. This school
does not have enough competent and
cosmopolitan-minded professors; but
I should not be too critical with
the faculty.
“I have no dogmatic suggestions,
since suggestions are seldom ac
cepted nowadays, to offer the un
derclassmen,” Mary - said.
“My message to them is that life
is like a pillow-slip turned wrong
side out and that college should
turn it right-side out so the crudity
of seaming can not be discerned.
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GEOLOGISTS DESIGN LAMPS
FOB MICROSCOPE SLIDES
Some special lamps have been de
signed by members of the geology
department and have been built by
Carl Aldeen of Mr. Fisher’s de
partment. These lamps are con
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microscope slides and are said to be
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EMERALD ADVERTISERS
SEVERAL OREGON GIRLS
WILL GO TO SEABEGK
Interesting Session for Y.
W. Delegates Planned
The University of Oregon ■will be
represented by several students at
the Northwestern conference for
women, which will be held from
June 23 to July 3 at Seabeck, Wash
ington.
Hiss Florence McGowan, secre
tary of the campus T. W. C. A.,
who is in charge of the plans for
the delegation from here, states that
several who have attended these
conferences have given their names
to attend this year. “Many others
are contemplating going, so that by
another week we will have several
more who will attend,” she said.
About 200 students from the col
leges in the Northwest will be pre
sent. One of the features is that
of association with those who come
from other schools. The spirit of
fellowship is emphasized.
The conferences are arranged to
give opportunity for examination
of any of the questions which to
day are confusing to thoughtful stu
dents. Outdoor life is a large part
of the program.
Registration must be made by
June 10 by sending an application
card with a program fee of $8.00
to Y. W. C. A. Conference Regis
trar, 8th Floor, Marston building,
244 Kearny street, San Francisco,
Calif.
The conference will follow the
one for men at Seabeck, which ends
June 22.
Following are the women who
have given their names to attend:
Florence McGowan, Helen Andrews,
Margaret Boyer, Olga Jackson,
Frances Dodds, Florence Buck, Elo
ise Buck, Anita Kellagg, and Vir
ginia Keeney.
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you’ll find the Oregana a
pretty handy place for a good
cool drink. Big generous glasses
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are carefully prepared with just what you
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