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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1926)
©tegntt Sailg University of Oregon, Eugene SOL ABRAMSON, Editor EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Ray Nash .. Managing Editor Harold Mangum .. Sports Editor 1 Ronald Sellers . Associate Mng. Ed. Philippa Sherman . Feature Editor j News and Editor Phones, 655 BUSINESS STAFF Calvin Horn . Associate Manager Milton George . Advertising Manager Sam Kinley . Advertising Manager Ed Ross . Foreign Advertising Manager Herbert Lewis . Ass’t. Advertising Mgr. Francis McKenna . Circulation Manager ■. Bob Dutton .... Ass’t. Circulation Manager 1 Joe Neil, Ruth Street .—-- j . Specialty Advertising Alice McGrath . Specialty Advertising | Roberta Wells . Office Administration ! Day Editor This Issue— Claudia Fletcher Night Editor This Issue— Bill Haggerty Assistant— Clarence Craw The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and. Monday during the college year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.60 per year. Adver tising rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 2293-L; manager, 1320. Business office phone, 1896. Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility is assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion. YOUR minds are endowed with a vast number of gifts of totally different uses—limbs of mind as it were, which, if you don’t exercise, you cripple.— John Ruskin. Time for a Much-needed Change OREGON “traditions” will be brought forcibly to the atten tion of University freshmen tomor row in the ceremonies attending the annual parade and mix. It is sure to bo a very jolly af fair. By the application of paddles and sticks, sophomores will “put the freshmen in their place” and inculcate in them respect for tlio noble purposes of tho University. The event will mark the genesis of the true Oregon student. As the bands play the anthem, several hun dred bruised men, bowed with emo-, tion, will vow to do or die for Alma Mater. What could bo more beautiful—and asinine? To the thinking students, partic ularly those in the freshman class, we commend tho accompanying ex cerpts from a speech made by Carl ton E. Spencer, University registrar, to the freshmen, last year* It states the matter clearly and plainly, and needs no further comment from us at this time. Let us simply add that the Emerald is in hearty accord with Mr. Spencer’s views. “You, freshmen, have it in your power to eliminate an altogether un necessary evil that has no place in the University. And, sophomores, you too can go far in aiding in this movement. If you appreciate the foolishness of trying to ‘get even’ with a junior by paddling a fresh man, show it by your conduct tomor row.” We understand the limitations of human nature, and tho possibility that an official ban may bo tho only means of ending hazing in any of its various forms. Nevertheless, wo hope the students’ better sense may prevail. A Campus Magazine; Now or Never OKEG0N students will have a campus magazine, if they choose. Ever since Lemon Punch was se curely nailed in its coffin there has been a demand for a publication that would furnish an outlet for campus literary talent. An uphill fight that continued through most of last year ended sucessfully with the establishment of the Webfoot, which will soon make its bow—pro vided 1,000 subscriptions are ob tained. The Webfoot, it will be recalled, almost died at birth, last year, but student interest saved the ambitious youngster. It would seem natural, then, that 1,000 subscriptions should bo easily gotten and the executive council’s ono obstacle to the comple tion of the project, removed. We hope this will be the case next Tues day when the subscription campaign is started. As planned by its editors, the Webfoot should be a good magazine. It will fill an important part in campus life, caring for the plentiful literary talent that must now flower unseen and unsung. If the University is ever to have a magazine, it must be now. The students, if they fail to support the Webfoot, may well give up hopes of ever establishing a successor to it. We do not believe the project will fail. Webby, we hope, is due for a long and useful life. Vespers—a Rest for Tired Souls AN opportunity for reflection and respite, that is denied most stu dents during most of the week, is to bo had in the Vesper services that are to bo held weekly during the school year. A short program, with music as its motif, offers an excellent oppor tunity for forgetting the rush and bustlo of everyday student exist ence. The half-hour spent at Vespers is well employed. Baiting the Freshman Excerpt from Registrar Spencer’s speech advocating the abolition of hazing. “I have told you that when you come to the University you will be put upon your own responsibility and treated ns grown men. I was referring to the academic, to the acholarship side, to the attitude of teachers and officers. There will be times, perhaps, in other respects, when you will feel that you have not been treated as self-respecting men. This is due to certain customs that have been inherited from prep schools and old-fashioned colleges of a certain type; customs that have no place in a modern university made up of men with sense, self respect, and sound judgment. Schools of the better type have gotten away from these customs. Here is what a freshman at Harvard wrote. It will suggest to you the custom to which I refer. “ ‘As 1 had heard of this form of hazing all my life, naturally 1 ox petted about the same sort of treat ment at Harvard. Imagine my sur prise then, when I was not only al lowed to go unmolested, but have not been bothered since. You mav rest assured, however, that this sur prise was a very pleasant one I was amazed to find the attitude of the upperclassmen one of friendly helpfulness, instead of one of haugh'v superiority. In short. Harvard re gards a freshman as a rational hu man being.’ “Oregon has very little hazing and none of the worse forms, but I look forward to the dav when there will be none at all. That day will come just as soon as some freshman class wants it to come. One writer has said: ‘The hazing of freshmen has de veloped as a self perpetuating nuis anee, largely because of the spirit of reprisal which is born of its humiliations, the spirit of the bully who is determined to take it out on the next available victim.’ “A freshman class is made to suf fer. so when that class becomes the •ophomore class it does the same to j tho next freshman class. Whenover a freshman class becomes so dis gusted with tho practice that it will pass a resolution that it will treat the next class as rational human be ings as they do at Harvard, then tho practice will stop. Any fresh man class can stop it. When classes graduate ns seniors they pride them selves on leaving some tradition, some monument to commemorato the four years it spent liore. I know of no greater monument to tho class of 1930 than to have it written in the history of tho University, that! that class stamped out hazing in all its petty forms. “I give these suggestions to you I for what they’re worth. I don’t ask you to accept them. If, during the next few months, you like every thing that takes place and think it’s good for the University, keep it. If you think it's beneath tho dignity of a self-respecting university, put a stop to it. It’s up to you.” Tfk SEVEN b seer? “SHAME ON YOU FOR THREE MINUTES” SAID THE TIME KEEPER AS I CAME IN LATE. “Why is that old soak at the funeral?' ’ “Just wanted to be near the bier.” Died with her boots on Did Sally McDip, The rippers that held them She couldn’t make zip. “It won’t be long new,” said the veterinary as he chopped off the pup’s tail. FAMOUS TRICK PLAYS: 1. Quarterback disguises as bundle of quiz paper and steals through line. Opposing team is bewilder ed at sight of this and he Is enabled to score touch-down. 2. Coach shouts to fullback that he is wanted on phone and as he trots to the sidelines he re ceives a pass and runs for touch down. 3. End steals over to sidelines, slipping off helmet and donning rooters cap. Impersonates a yell leader and while breaking an, “Oski ”he catches a pass. * * «■ CUPID'S CUSPIDOR. A Maiden’s Prayer Dear Mr. Anthony McHoehandle: I ask nothing for myself but for my mother I „wish a handsome son-in law. MARION HOJRSFALL. ******* * The Volstead Actions * * The click of glasses could be * * heard—Just two near-sighted * * neckers. * ******* Question: Godmother, may I go to the dance and stay until twelve o’clock? Answer: Cut out that swearing Cindy or you can’t go at all. MILL RACE TO BE LIGHTED ( AT NIGHT i AN APPROVED SYSTEM , By the Authorities Lights will be placed above every good parking place on the race. To these lights will be at* tached long cords and when the i petters arrive they will torn ont the light and thus they are freed from intruders. This is a splen did scheme as parking places are easily found by the lights and the authorities are doing their duty by lighting the mill race. Don’t get tough big boy, I brush eggs like you oil my vest. Hiss-tureef A Turkish Cukoo Lived in a tree. He couldn’t hear, He couldn’t see, He couldn’t talk, He couldn’t smell, —Life for that bird Musta-Bin-Hel. _/*v “Now men,” said Les Johnson to the Jolly Sophomores. “When we lead the frosh in the parade, don’t hit them in front of the townspeople, but paddle them on the side streets.” * * »■ NOTICE! NOTICE! Girls are you losing out on dates? Here’s youi*big chance cast your cA STETSON looks smart every day of its unusually long life —in hats the best is real economy. STETSON HATS Styled for young men Wade Bros. 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