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Hie Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of
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TO DEAFEN with little bells
the spirit that would think.
Victor Hugo.
Evidences of
Sportsmanship
IT IS not the Emerald’s purpose
to interfere in Eugene high
school's muddled athletic situation.
But there is a pertinent relationship
between the affair and university
athletics in general.
, Without assuming to know the
intimate details of the squabble, the
Emerald would place the blame for
the trouble on the high school and
school board officials who made con
cessions, no matter the degree of
their importance or unimportance,
to the belligerent students.
Simply because of the enforcement
of an ineligibility ruling in the caso
of a football player, a group of stu
dent-enthusiasts took it upon them
selves to “right” matters by doing
as much harm as possible about the
school. A strike was settled very
much in favor of the self-styled
martyrs whose conduct warranted
their expulsion from the institution.
A similar incident in Baltimore
called forth the following editorial
comment from the Baltimore Sun:
Professionalism in college foot
ball is bad enough. But when the
desire to win at all costs invades
and dominates high school ath
letics, the situation created is in
tolerable.
It is said that without the as
sistance of a youth named Mich
ael Noonan, first ruled ineligible
to play and now expelled from
City College, that team will prob
ably be defeated by Polytechnic
in the football game today. What
does that matter, so long as the
team does its best and makes a
clean and courageous stand against
the opponent? If the spirit of
sportsmanship still exists at
“City”—and we are loath to be
lieve that it does not—the school
would much rather be defeated
without Noonan than win with
him. The evidence that he is in
eligible under agreements in inter
scholastic sport seems irrefutable.
If it were not, the youth’s out
rageous conduct toward Dr. Bur
dick would be sufficient to stamp
him undesirable material for clean
and honorable athletic contests.
The unfortunate position in
which City College has placed it
self is emphasized by the fact
that the Noonan boy is not the
only member of the team debarred
by the conditions of eligibility
which rule the City-Polv game.
If these boys should not play in
this game, they should not have
played in any prior matches of
the season. And childish protests
bv the student body against the
operation of regulations in the
interest of clean sport can only
serve to strengthen the unfavor
able comment which the Noonan
incident arouses.
It is indeed bad enough when stu
dents are so fired with the desire to
win that they are ready to do any
thing from wrecking the school
building to white washing (literally)
the principal in protest against a
very legitimate ruling. But when
these same students are permitted,
even for a time, to dictate and re
main in the institution, the condi
tion is intolerable.
How much appeal does the Sun’s
suggestion of “playing the game for
the game’s sake” hold for the aver
Commun
ications
Brickbats for tie Seers
Seven Seers, Ine.
Pear Messdames:
I could do with less gratuitous
advertisement. Why do you not
start a supplementary section ealled
age high school or college football
fan? Just try to tell these students
that it is far more honorable to play
the game without the contested
player and lose rather than to play
with him and win, and see how
popular a note it sounds.
The Emerald was recently critic
ized for suggesting that the game is
played to win, and not for its own
sake. That, we were told, is the
same as admitting that sportsman
ship is dead; tljat idealism is dead.
Where is the evidence of sports
manship and idealism in the conduct
of the high school belligerents?
Our point is this: The revolt is
not a passing childish outburst. The
spirit that is being evidenced now
and the attitude it forms are going
to be carried over into the colleges
by these same students (and they
are representative of thousands).
That same desire to win at any
cost, while tempered by less-bending
rules, is going to be ever-present.
There is food for thought in this
situation.
IIAT kind of ‘salve’ is that
” ▼ on the fireplaces in the lib
rary?” asked a young and innocent
student.
If the question is asked on Thurs
day, th<f word doesn’t mean much,
•for nothing is less soothing or* con
ducive to peace of mind than to
hear the announcement: “The lib
rary is closing for assembly.”
No matter how deeply engrossed
in a reserve book one is, no matter
how limited the time to study, one
must leave.
If the ruling was made in the
hope that more students would at
tend the weekly gathering, it, lias
failed. Tfye students go home. The
bait has to be unusually good to
draw them to assembly of their own
will.
Why pretend longer that such a
rule increases attendance at lectures?
Surely when such a regulation has
tailed of its purpose (largely because
of uninteresting speeches) and re
in,fins only as an annoyance, it
should be discarded:—W. L.
Library and
Assembly Hours
Don't Give Them
Dangerous Ideas
11K Seven Seers, when in
trouble, need our support about
ns mueli as the army needs the boy
scouts. So we leave the columnists
to defend themselves from the at
tack levied by a member of the
faculty in a communication appear
in'; in today’s Emerald.
\\ e write, rather, in defense of
the Emerald. The relation of pub
licity to success is the problem of
the complainant and the Seers. But
e hen Professor Smith suggests
blackmail, we must register a pro
test. lie seems to be aiming direct
ly at the integrity of the Seers in a
malicious effort to undermine their
amateur standing.
The suggestion offered is likely
to have a bad effect on the staff.
W e can’t accept it. Furthermore,
we don’t want anyone else to ad
vance such dangerous and unethical
ideas to our workers.
1-ct it be understood that if
blackmailing is to bo at all resorted
to. it is reserved for the use of the
editor alone. With each staff mem
ber a potential blackmailer there
must be some centralization of au
thority.
Checks should be made out to
the editor, personally.
the Seven Sneers, which people
would pay to keep out off I should
be glad to be a contributor to this
column. \ ou might make more
money out of what you don’t print
than out of what you do.
Yours ungratefully,
STEF HENSON SMITH
On Revising Opinions
To the Editor:
1 he best test of criticism is its
As Others
See it
Lord and Lady Nicotine
(Ohio State Lantern)
Other campuses are being stirred
by controversies over eo-cd smoking
at the present time. From time to
time there has been discussion over
it at Ohio State but it never quite
reached the dignity of a controversy.
And that, we are prepared to face
the world and say, is a good thing.
Such dicussion and such contro
versy, although it may be interest
ing, leads to nothing and is just a
waste of time. If Miss Co-ed wants
to smoke a cigarette now and then,
she'll do it and there’ll be no one to
raise a forbidding hand—that is
with any degree of success.
These are days of equal rights
and privileges, of single standards,
and if women want to smoke they
can and do claim the privilege.
Most objections to it come from the
other sex, of course, and that be
cause the picture of the ideal woman
in the male mind does not include
a cigarette between arched, red
lips.
Co-ed smoking here is not nearly
as prevalent as it is in other col
leges and universities, particularly
in the East. Here is it still rare
enough to attract attention. In some
other universities a co-ed would not
think of leaving for a football game
without a package of cigarettes in
her pocket. Here it is exceptional to
see a co-ed smoking at a game and
th% only other places that any can
be seen at all are in a few of the
restaurants and occasionally at
parties and dances.
Few, if any, of the smoking co-eds
enjoy the pastime. They go at it
laboriously and usually when a cig
arette is half-consumed they throw
it away with an air of relief. Most
of them smoke simply because it
has come to be considered smart
and the thing to do. With them it
is incense burned in worship of the
god of fashion. If, through some
inconceivable miracle, smoking for
women should become passe prac
tically all ’ of them would abandon
their fags immediately and perhaps
heave a sigh of relief in so doing.
They don’t enjoy it, but. then, that’s
their privilege.
On the other hand if an edict for
bidding women smoking would be
passec by some all-powerful body
or person s.teh as Congress, the
practice would increase by leaps
and bounds. Such are the ways of
women, or wider than that, such is
human nature.
Let them rnjoke, if they wish.
It’s a cinch tney can’t be stopped
anyway. Besides, isn’t the patron
saint of smokers, Lady Nicotine, one
of their own sex? Furthermore,
as any co-ed will tell you on the
slightest provocation, it’s nobody
else’s business.
And that’s that.
power to make one think. And the
best test of the truly educated per
son is his power to think no matter
how badly his pet prejudices have
been hurt. Yet how many are will
ing to do this?
There is a spirit of pseudo-radic
alism on the campus. It’s the kind
of thing that makes students render
lip service to writers because it is
the thing to do. And the “thing to
do” is the rule of the campus. In
other words the individual must con
form—he must believe that all is
"ell and that day^ by day every
thing is growing bigger and better.
Honest criticism—based on facts
—has been notably lacking on the
v.unpus. Is it too much to expect
that students will stop to think be
fore decrying criticism of their opin
ions ? Few opinions are absolutely
incapable of revision. Let’s shake
off this college type of Babbittry.
W. M. L.
A Defender
To the Editor and E. Z. D.
I nm writing this in defense of
the Oregon Emerald, the ideals for
which it stands, and the manner in
which they are expressed. “E. Z.
1'." who find it "incumbent” upon
himself to protest, seems to be in a
frenzy as to the Emerald’s "public
opinion.”
Truly this misinformed person has
■i wicked pen, and in defense of the
enterprise for which we all labor,
perhaps I should challenge E. Z. d.
to a duel. I won’t do this however
,, Pffhaps he is an exponent of the
manly ’ art of fencing, while I only
can sling ink.
X' dear E. Z. D., come around
some night to the beloved Shack
and see what a fool you are making
°* t°tT J by Sayin« that the editor
and the Emerald are not worthy of
the respect of the Oregon students.
JOE SWEYD
Turnbull und Thaeher
Attend Press Meeting
George Turnbull and W F G
Thacher. both professors in ' the
school of journalism, left yesterday
tor MeMinneville where thev will
attend the district conference of
the High School Press association,
in session there over the week end.
Doth university men will appear on
the program.
Tk SEVEN
& SEERS
a Dirg
no more sport or cutting capers
exams soon, and three term papers.
A WHITE FLAG CAN MEAN
EITHER PEACE OR MEASLES.
• • •
THIS IS THE WAY
A sure-fire way to get a good
grade in a course. Approach in
structor two weeks before term ends.
Extend right hand. Grasp right
hand of prof and shake vigorously
up and down with motion used in
mixing drinks. (Recipe handed in
and approved by Genevieve Hale.)
Dra. Conklin and Taylor gave an
entertainment for their beginning
psychology students in the Condon
library yesterday morning at 9:00.
The room, in keeping with the early
morning hour, was decorated with
all manner and sizes of electric
gongs. A huge dazzling spotlight
played upon the students as they
danced to music furnished by an or
chestra, in the geology room. The
crowd was kept in constant uproar
by one of the features in which sev
eral men tried rolling barrels down
the aisles without hitting desks.
Favors were distributed by the ex
plosion of in immense bomb.
ONLY TWENTY-TWO
UNTIL XMAS! Do your
pearly.
DAYS
flunking
FOLKS WE CAN CONSCIEN
TIOUSLY KILL:
The thoughtless person ^in the
home town who sends us a postal on
our birthday!
“Do you want to hear a good low
joke?”
“Out with it!”
“Two men were working down in
a mine and—”
(ambulance)
Officer Kichvell (R. O. T. C.):
What are you laughing at, Private
C'reath?
Alleged Private Creath: Mr. Me
Elroy, Sir.
Officer Kidwell: Ah ha, you didn’t
know I was here did you?
• • •
“The wurst is yet to come,” said
a casual observer as a butcher
chased a stray dog out of his shop
with a butcher knife.
We heard one guy say the dis
traction in the Psych, attention test
didn’t effect him any. Said he’d
been on a study table once.
“WE’RE LIKE A CIGARETTE
STUB—DOWN BUT NOT OUT!”
< t i
SEVEN SEERS
Alpha Chi Omegas
To Give Tea Sunday
Alpha Chi Omega girls are giving
a tea at their chapter house Sunday
afternoon from 2 to 6 o’clock for
about 150 of the University faculty
members. Receiving will be Mrs.
Anna Hart, Marian Clear, Norma
Stamp. Leota Biggs and Miriam
Little are to give a musical pro
gram.
!1CAMPUS !
Bulletin!,
Physical Ability Test will be giv
en at men’s gymnasium, Saturday,
Dee. 4, at 10 a. m.
TJnaffiliated students may have
pictures taken for the 1927 Oregana
at the Kennell-Ellis studio any
morning, or by appointment.
Philosophy club: Meets Monday,
Dec. 6, at 7:30 in Woman’s build
ing. Dr. Gustave Mueller will speak
on “Is There Such a Thing as Beauty
and What Is It.”
M. McCullough Accepts
Girl Reserve Position
Miss Margaret McCullough, ’25,
who is doing graduate work in the
English department towards her
master’s degree this term, has ac
cepted a position as field secretary
of the Girl Reserves in Astoria. She
will assume her new duties at the
end of the present term, but plans
to continue her graduate work in
the future.
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