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University of Oregon, Eugene
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Day Editor This Issue— Claudia Fletcher
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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.
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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.
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* The Volstead Actions *
* The click of glasses could be *
* heard—Just two near-sighted *
* neckers. *
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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.
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“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.”
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jittering orbs and smile sweetly
pon Si Slocum (not a country lad)
,nd Sol Abramson, one of the big
ittle boys—as they have been each
presented with a year pass to the
McDonald theater.
* • *
“I’M CUBED,” SAID THE HAM
AS HE CAME OUT OF THE
SMOKE-HOUSE.
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SEYEN SEERS
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