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©regmt Hailjj ®mnal5 University of Oregon, Eugene SOL ABRAMSON, Editor EARL W. SLOCUM. Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Bay Nash __ Managing Editor Karold Mangnm .-. Sports Editor Philippa Sherman, Feature Editor News and Editor Phones, 655 BUSINESS STAFF Gihrin Horn _ Associate Manager Milton George-Advertising Manager 3am Kin ley__— Advertising Manager Ed Rom_Foreign Advertising Manager Herbert Lewis_Ass't. Advertising Mgr. Francis McKenna __ Circulation Manager Bob Dutton Ass’t. Circulation Manager Joe Neil, Ruth Street Specialty Advertising Alice McGrath- Specialty Advertising Roberta Wells . Office Administration Day Editor This Issue— Minnie Fisher iJj JUJfrffG Assistant— Grace Fisher Night Editor This lea no— Sidney Dobbin Wayne Morgan The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students . of Hie University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily exoept Sunday and Monday during tfce college year. Member ot Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.66 per year. Adver tising rates upen application. Residence phone, editor, 2298-L; manager, 1820. Business office phone, 1865. »> , Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility Is assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion. 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. - *«if NOTICE If any valuables, including tooth i brushes, typewriters and stockings, are picked up in the area between 1 13th and 14th, Mill and Alder, please hand in at the new Chi O I Chateau. (The Emerald is running this no tice in advance to keep its Want ad columns from being overcrowd ed after the girls move in.) Use the word en “Casserole” in a sentence. “I’d rather kiss Mary en cas ! serole lady,” ^ 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. Eat your Sunday night supper at — Sflje Andjotage You will enjoy the Food ■ and like the price (spsiaEfai3is/sia]3ia(aisiajaiaiaiaiBEiB®siai3i3J3iaiaiajsisisi3f3®si3i3iBjai3i3i3jaMSM Unitarian Church 1 3th and Ferry “WhatIs Christianity” B. F. LINDAY SERVICES AT 11 A. 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