Oregon daily emerald., October 16, 1926, Page 2, Image 2

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CULTURE is activity of
thought and rcceptivcness to
beauty and humane feeling.—A.
N. Whitehead.
The Collapse of
The Honor System
THE “honor system” is again in
trouble. 'This time the cry
comes from the south, where the
code is foundering at the University
of California and the University of
Southern California. The problem
is evident in the following news
item from Los Angeles:
The Honor System at the Uni
versity of Southern California has
been declared a failure by several
of the prominent faculty members
and at present student and faculty
committees are at work on this
problem. The main flaw in the
system has been the difficulty in
getting students to report viola
tions of the code. The faculty,
on the other hand, does not great
ly relish the idea of going back
to police work.
At both schools the system has
vigorous defenders. At Berkeley,
where the code is now in its twenty
sixth year, the proponents are par
ticularly loathe to give up the fight.
In a scathing editorial the Cal
ifornian gives vent in very definite
and uncomplimentary terms to those
who would go back to the proctor
system.
Nevertheless, neither the Califor
nian nor anyone else can deny that
thero is a problem, and that the
honor code as it now exists has little
in its favor. For purposes of iden
tification the name should be chang
ed to the “watch-dog system.” That
is what it anionnts to.
From the aforementioned news
item it will be seen that the faculty
is unwilling to play the watchdog.
So the duty devolves upon the stu
dents. Now they are refusing to act
as proctors to one another, and that
is where the problem lies.
There is nothing especially honor
able about a system that relieves
the faculty and makes the students
assume the role of watch-dog. In
this light the “honor system” is not
at all as revolutionary as it is sup
posed to be.
There is, of course, the question
as to whether or not the student who
reports cheating by another is de
serving of the contempt that is
vented on the grammar school pupil
who “tells the teacher.” This is
causing the rub. Most college stu
dents would evidently rather let
cheating go unreported and thereby
be false to the artificial “honor
code,” rather than make the report
and be false to their own code of
honor.
Their .judgement is open to debate,
but that is no solution to the ques
tion.
The only way out that we can
see is the substitution of a real
honor system for tho present mis
named watch-dog code. As long as
there are proctors, no matter wheth
er they are faculty or students, fail
ure is the only prospect for the pres
ent arrangement.
Each student must be made his
own policeman. If he cheats, he
should be allowed to reap what im
aginary benefits ho is able to ac
quire. The honest student should
not bo burdened with the dishonesty
of his fellows.
And, by the way, is it not likely
that grading, by setting up a false
standard, is the great temptation
that loads to cheating? When grades
almost necessarily become the im
mediate end, are they not likely to
induce false aims?
Unless these matters aro consid
ered when revision of the “honor
system” is undertaken, the code will
disintegrate. What is needed is a
real honor system, and not the pres
ent buck-passing police establish
ment.
A Fitting Enterprise;
The Memorial Volume
IT is particularly fitting that the
senior 'Class, the last entering
group of students to have known
Prince Lucien Campbell, should fin
ance the memorial volume to the
late president of the University.
The book should go far in making
better known tho achievements of
the man who gave tho greater part
of his life-time in the service of
tho institution. Careful effort has
been made to make the work a thor
ough review of President Camp
bell ’s life and work. '
The senior class could not have
chosen a better object upon which
to devote its funds.
As Others
See it
Ignorancc-With-a-Stomach-Aehe
(Daily Californian)
The loose tonguo of ignorance can
■provoke irreparable damage. Auntie
Clatter with her tales of scandal has
wrecked ninny an innocent life.
Shyster politicians with half-truths
and deliberate falsehoods have cast
reflections upon wholo nations and
torn down the trusts of thousands.
History is full of such occurrences,
even as far back as the days of
Shakespeare, who bewails the “ton
gue on wheels” in Macbeth and
again in the Tempest.
Today that same freedom of the
chin threatens the Honor System,
gift of Benjamin Ido Wheeler to the
student body in 1899 and many
times since called “California’s
greatest contribution to the field of
student affairs.”
A hue and cry has arisen from
both students and faculty. Some
few students speak of tale bearing
and rise up in holy wrath against
the student who should dare to re
port a cheater, as against he or she
who “told the teacher” in fourth
grade days. Certain professors, at
times, with indisputable proof of
cheating inked in blue books that
are twins, have decried the Honor
System. Other institutions, notably
Stanford and IT. S. C., having fol
lowed California’s lead in adopting
the system, have also followed with
the same criticisms.
This wide-spread uproar will cer
tainly overturn the system if it con
tinues. Before trampling underfoot
a system which has survived for
over 26 years; before discarding a
system which, in the words of its
originator, is the foundation of stu
dent self-government; before con
demning a system which has been
worthy of such wide imitation, it
might be well to know just what
that system is.
The critics of this thing, the core
of California’s history, should learn
the full breadth of the Honor Sys
tem. Could they tell us just, why,
once so successful, it is a failure
now 1 They must know what it took
the place of, and what can super
code it. If it is a failure, where is
their panacea! If these things they
cannot tell, thee are they but prat
tlers and their half truths only the
wailings of ignorance-with-a-stom
aeh-nehe.
Exhibit
(Continued from page one)
charm of perfect workmanship, but
he recognizes it only in the applied
arts and knows little of the crafts
manship of painting. He cannot
bring his appreciation to paintings
as he can to a beautiful piece of
cloisonne or embroidery. 'Further
difficulty is found in his unfamil
iaritv with the symbolism involved.
They make him wonder at the pres
ence of animals, fruit, birds, and
other things which the Chinese have
used for very definite symbolic ex
pression.
"The paintings which Mrs. War
ner is about to show in her eager
ly anticipated exhibition include the
fields of portraiture, landscape, birds
and flowers. A number of them are
interesting in subject matter alone
while others are interesting to the
student for technique of structure.
Some are done by very dexterous
thumb painting that can be achieved
only after long study and prac
ticed agility. Some are ■examples of
quite fine brush work. All are very
fine examides of the finest Chinese
art. ”
These will be found in the exhibi
tion room of the school of art and
architecture during the entire week
of the Semi-Centennial celebration
and Homecoming. Further notice
will be given in the Kmerald con
cerning the hours during which the
exhibition will be open to the public.
TttSEVEN
SEERS
IT’S TIME FOR THE BABES
TO HAVE THEIR BATTLE.
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DRAMMER
“Well,” he said, “I guess I will
have to be leaving now. I must pre
pare for tomorrows classes,”
“You would,” she tartly re
plied. j
“You' see We are expecting a
quiz in philosophy in the morning
and I really should get to the house
and start cramming.”
“Yes, you would,” she put in.
“.and.say I could choke a
person that continually says, ‘you
would’ why don’t you stop it?”
‘ * Oh yes, of course you Would. ’ ’
As he stood over her limp body
with a smoking colt in his hand he
heard two words slip out between
her crimson lips, “You would?”
she gasped and then passed away.
He Walked quietly up the street
and soon all was calm on the
Patomac. Another pest had passed
into the great open spaces.
“What have you named your
newest baby ? ’ ’
“We’ve named him Bill because
he is always bilus. ”
“Well, I suppose you'd name him
John if he had jaundice.”
MORE POULTRY
Young Percival von Paupenlioop—
His eves were filled with fear!
For long ago, ink ceased to flow
From his fountain pen, so dear.
With sickened soul he cast a glance
At his prof, who gave a grunt:
“Not finished yet! Du vu want all
day!
Pass yer papers to the front!”
“Be merciful, oh uiighltv lord,
Let pity point out thy path!”
“Yu come prepared!” the prof, re
plied.
And that filled Perc with wrath!
‘ ‘ Oh pray, oh pray, you 'll rue the j
day
That you should ever think
That I should flunk a Hist Yy quizz
By running out of ink.”
But a jeering smile, a fiendish
smile
Across his face did span
As the prof, in the horn rimmed
glasses said,
“And so is your old man!”
TOMORROW WE SLEEP
Inaugural
(Continued from page one)
University, will be unveiled in the
afternoon.
The Homecoming rally will be
staged Friday night.
Saturday alumni of the Univer
sity will hold a meeting. The campus
luncheon will be given in the men’s
gymnasium. In the afternoon, Stan
ford and Oregon play the annual
Homecoming classic. Saturday night
everyone will celebrate at dances.
The Alumni reception and dance in
the Woman’s building, the upper
class dance at Laraway's hall, and
the underclass dance in the Armory.
The week will end Sunday, which
is the final day of the Murray
Warner Art exhibit, with Univer
sity vespers at 4:30 in the after
noon in the Music auditorium
Diversions
On a
Penny Whistle
The Verdict of Bridlegoose
By LLEWELYN POWYS
As a literary figure obscure and
unsung, Llewelyn Powys came to
America after five years in the heart
of Africa in search of health, and
began the rounds of the publishing
houses with his sketches of the
jungle, later published in book form
as “Black Laughter” and “Ebony
and Ivory.” The friendships of his
brother John opened doors for him
and introduced the young English
man to the metropolitan intelligen
sia. Now Pjowys writes a series of
essays of those New York days
which he calls “The Verdict of
Bridlegoose.”
His African sketches were vivid;
not mere word pictures, but rather
interpretative pieces, making the
reader feel the awfulness of the
jungle life of tooth and claw, and
some of the majestic of that blind
struggle, too. Now Powys enters the
world of men and women. His pen
is just as vivid, but his descriptions
fall short, at least in total effec
tiveness, the worth of his outdoor
pictures. Perhaps this is because of
the worshipful tone he adopts to
ward some of his idols—Paul Rosen
feld, Scofield Thayer and Padriac
Colum—and the antipathic sketches
of others.
There is no doubting the man’s
skill as a stylist, his fine ability to
interpret Nature's various tempers;
and to picture with painter’s pig
ments her changing seasons. In this,
it seems to the reviewer he is most
successful.
Those who stand out for tradition
al good form in social relationships
will be rather bowled over by
Powys’ frank studies of the writers,
poets, ladies, and millionaires who
swam into his ken. Powys accepts
the invitation of a certain Judge
Wells to dine at the Century club,
and the late guest characterizes it
as “a fortress of senile Philistines.”
In a crowded drawing room he lis
tens to Amy Lowell reading her
poetry, and blurts out the open se
cret that the lady smokes cigars.
She eyed the company, writes Powys
“with the aggressive, narrow eye
of some high-pedigreed bird, whose
narrow head is large enough to con
tain only two thoughts, herself and
her own expensive eggs.”
We haven’t learned whether the
author of “This Side of Paradise”
and “The Great Gadsy” has brought
suit for libel, but no doubt he ex
perienced a feeling of surprise when
he dipped into Powys’ book to un
earth the following: “Suddenly
there entered upon us a youth, a
little the worse for drink, whom
everybody called Scotty, and who, I
learned afterward, was the novelist,
Scott Fitzgerald. . . . He had evi
dently never met Dreiser before;
and, far gone in his cups as he was,
he addressed the elder novelist with
maudlin deference when one looked
more closely at this boy’s face, one
noticed that it had a weak, pretty,
blue-eyed, modern look that would
have been curiously inappropriate in
more heroic days.”
There are unforgettable pictures
of Mencken and Dreiser in the vol
ume, and one of the best bits is a
description of a person who was no
celebrity at all, a poor foreign chap
who ran a lunch counter at Sausal
ito on the Golden Gate.
One cannot forebear quoting two
graphic vignettes—the volume has
many equally as good:
“Once I witnessed a very curious
scene (in the Catskills). I awoke
suddenly to find myself watching a
skunk dancing an arabesque on a
level space in front of the well, a
lonely, silent arabesque, for the
benefit of our cat, which sat before
it with pricked ears. And as I
watched this animal in its gambols,
rolling over and over, and frolick
ing sideways, I could not but feel
astonishment that God should have
conceived the whimsy of giving so
quaint an animal so merry a heart.”
And this:
"I had no conception that such
people were still living (land ladies
of New York hall bedrooms). It
was amazing. One after another
they stood before me (in Powys’
search for rooms), decrepit human
alley-cats, with knots of grey un
bruslied hair falling upon their
soiled blouses, like the elk-locks one
sees in the manes of aged mares that
are past work, and yet retain a suf
ficient fund of energy to (lisplay cer
tain vicious characteristics devel
oped by them through long years of
oil-usage. Quite apart from the de
grading effect of penury, I think
that the profession of renting rooms
has a most evil influence on human
beings.”
Debate
(Continued from page one)
bate that has occurred on the Uni
versity campus. The Australian stu
dents expressed a desire that the
team from Oregon might visit them
in their own country next year and
that the debates should be contin
ued as one means of bringing about
a closer relationship between the
English speaking countries.
As for the debate itself, the wit
that Americans aje wont to associate
with the English debater was not
lacking, especially in Mr. Heath
wood ’s consummation speech. Donald
Beelar, presenting the main argu
ment for the negative, was not un
responsive to his opportunities for
equal wit during °the course of
cross-questioning by Sydney Heath
wood. Ralph Bailey constituted the
other part of the negative.
The entire question was narrowed
down to one of applicability, or
whether or not the English cabinet
form of government could be used
in the United States. The Oregon
students contending that history,
ideas, habits, and even the political
philosophy of the American people
would not tolerate such a change,
declared that federalism is the real
cause of our success.
The visitors asserted that the leg
islative and executive division of
the American government was the
one defect that prevents the govern
ment from responding to the will of
the people—as is the case in the
English cabinet form.
Tonight the University of Oregon
team composed of Jack Hempstead
and Benoit McCroskey will uphold
the negative of the question,. “Re
solved, that this audience is op
posed to the prohibition of the
liquor traffic,” against John God
sal and Sydney Heathwood of the
Sydney team. This debate will be
broadcasted from station KGW, the
Portland Oregonian radio, and will
be judged by the collected vote of
the audience.
In the radio debate tonight Mr.
Godsal and Mr. Hempstead will pre
sent the constructive cases for their
respective sides.
A party in honor of the visitors
was held at the Eugene hotel im
mediately after the debate last even
ing. Members and instructors^ of
the debating teams were present.
DonuuQuintets Tug
At Leashes as First
Games Loom Monday
As a curtain-raiser for the big
Semi-Centennial week, four donut
basketball games are scheduled for
Monday afternoon.
Starting at 3 o’clock when the
Phi Sigma Kappa quintet takes on
the Sigma Nu divas, games will be
played continuously .all afternoon.
When the wreckage of this match
is cleared off the floor the Chi Psi
hopefuls will mill at 3:45 with the
equally-hopefuls of the Beta Theta
Pi boathouse. Following them comes
the Friendly hall-Delta Tau Delta
game at 4:30, a sort of semi-windup,
and the main bout, theoretically
speaking, comes at 5:15 when the
Sigma Pi Tau boys and the Sigma
Alpha Epsilon boys will battle it
out with naked swords and a leather
covered sphere.
Marian Barnes New
Treasurer of League
Marian Barnes, ’28, major in the
art department, has been appointed
by the Women’s League executive
council, as treasurer of the Wom
en ’s League, to fill the place of Har
riet Osborne, former treasurer of
Women’s League, who did not re
turn to school this year.
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