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THE humble and modest flow
ers that bloom in the valley
perish perhaps when they are
transplanted too near the sky.—
Balzac.
Vital Statistics;
Eef Is Dead
EEF was a good dog. And a con
scientious one. The record of
.his life will stand as a canine mon
ument to unflagging earnestness and
achievement.
Few have risen from negligible
origin to such social and economic
success as did Eef. Born, no doubt,
of worthless parents, cast out upon
the world at an early age without
ever a bone to his name, by dint of
sheer personality and perseverance
he won. his way to fame and fortune,
but with all this he remained the
same merry playfellow and compan
ion, with as keen an interest in
rat-holes and felines, with as great
an enthusiasm for chasing motor
oars as any unspoiled and loveable
puppy. It was his joyousness thal
proved his undoing.
Many will say that his death
under the wheels of a Cadillac, oJ
all machines, was typical of his
spectacular career, but those whe
knew him feel otherwise. Eef was
not vain. In him there was no hint
of the exhibitionist. A moving auto
mobile, whether, Cadillac or Ford
Bolls-Boyce or Chevrolet, was to
him a thing to be chased whole
hcartcdly and joyously with little
fear of evil. He probably preferred
flivvers. They make more noise and
pother when heckled by inspired
dogs.
That Eef will lie mourned is fit
ting. But undue grief is unneces
sary, for who would mot choose tc
die doing the tiling he most loves?
H. A.
Incentives to
Scholarship
INTEREST in student activities
or the need for money are in
entives to study. This conclusion,
based on analysis of records at Yale,
was advanced by Albert Beecher
Crawford, director of Yale univer
sity’s bureau of appointments, at
the meeting of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement “of
Science.
Mr. Crawford’s explanation is
quite simple. Self-supporting stu
dents who keep their grades up to
a certain standard are given some
financial assistance by the univer
sity. Students who enter activities,
no’matter what sort, must likewise
stand well in their classes. There
fore, activities are incentives that
make for application to study.
These requirements do not apply
to universities generally, so Mr.
Crawford’s analysis cannot be ac
cepted as covering all American
colleges.
Even were it true that activities
stimulate interest in studies there
is room for questioning the quality
of the work produced in a univer
sity considered as an adjunct to
extra-curricular interests. 'More
than likely effort is concentrated
alone on reaching and keeping with
in the set requirements rather than
on learning for its own sake.
If extracurricular activities are
necessary stimuli to study, there is
something wrong with our whole
scheme of education. Mr. Crawford
evidently appreciated that tho sit
uation he described is far from
ideal in his remark that though ac
tivities are not the most desirable
incentives to study, they should not
be restricted until more direct meth
ods of arousing student interest in
curriculum are devised by the col
leges. Among these direct methods
he advised more clear definitions of
the purposes and aims of education.
This situation is due largely, we
would say, to the present mode of
making trade schools of universities
and advertising mainly their advan
tages as roads to greater financial
remuneration. Statistics are called
in to prove that the college grad
uate is more “successful,” measured
by the golden yardstick, than the
non college man. Besides doubting
this conclusion, which after all
| means little ,wo see no reason why
the universities need apologize for
any resemblance to cultural centers,
and adopt purely the professional
front.
Education is riot merely a matter
of learning tricks so that one may
j by four years of eolle.go training be
! able to earn more money. How does
j this view differ from that of an
[animal trainer who replaces his ape
which knows few tricks, with one
that is able to learn many more
stunts and therefore proves a great
er attraction to the audiences?
Doesn’t a cultural education add
I something in giving a greater aware
| ness of the world, a keener appiN&c
[ iation of literature and the arts, a
[better understanding of life?
The universities will have come
nearer to fulfilling the function their
j designation suggests when they gain
sight of the value of learning for
i its own sake and not merely as an
1 open sesame to (Avhite-collar em
I ployment.
Spain
(Continued from page one)
border in Oropesa for example. The
provincial costumes for festival oc
casions are very nay, colorful and
beautiful. In Valencia the better
to-do women wear Dlonda lace, hand
ed down, golden pins in their hair,
gold necklaces, gold ear-rings and
rare silk colors deftly brocaded.”
Inadequate public schooling hab
itual corruption of the civil service,
asurpaiion of parliamentary func
tions by the executive, bought elec
tions, the tyranny of financial, mil
itary and political oligarchies over
riding the public will, the personal
individualism and the lack of faith
rn necessary investments keep Spain
behind times, according rp '{Miss
Thompson.
“The Spanish are afraid to in
vest unless certain and immediate
returns are in sight,” she explained,
■“consequently, foreigners do it.
England and France built the rail
roads and America is helping to de
velop the waterpower. The only ir
rigation ditches they have arc those
•onstructed long ago. Irrigation
projects, though approved by the
government, have never been under
taken because the peasant farmers
i are too individualistic and poor to
i cooperate.
“The farming, implements are
very antique, tough forks of trees
still being used for plowshares. They
still winnow wheat as they did in
Biblical times. They still have
clumsy carts with big wooden
wheels.”
Miss Thompson, who should like I
to say “yes and no” to all glamor- j'
ous questions about Spain, does not j '
present illusions of romantic tradi
tions and of a silkenclothed don]1
dramatizing his love to the strum-j1
Ating of a guitar beneath a flowery
balcony from which a honey-col- ! 1
ored sonorita smiles down and tosses ;1
a crimson rose to him who
“Kneels on nights of the full moon
To vow strange deeds for liis lady’s
grace.” ’ 1
she depicts, instead, ordinary but
passionate lovers, in baggy trousers,
publicly courting a young lady, .
who wears no flaming mantilla over 1
her bright black hair;- crucifixes on
hilltops; yellow mongrel dogs; an- i
tique buildings under a blazing sun;
skies pouring pure colors across
snowy mountains; heavy rainfall in
winter; and lines of asses, laden
with olives, tigs, oranges, grapes, 1
pepper and wool, winding slowly ^
across an arid plateau to the mar- ■'
ket places in Madrid. 1
Oil BRING BACK THE GOOD
f)LD DAYS OF BLACK STOCK
[NGS AND WHITE HANDKER
CHIEFS. i
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Ambrose Bierce, in. his new
volume, “The Devil’s Dictionary,”
»ives some cynical and startlingly
new definitions of some of the old
md respectable words. A few of
them follow:
Apologize: To lay the foundation
for a future offense.
Birth: The first and direst of all
lisasters.
Bore: A person who talks when
pou want him to listen.
Heathen: A benighted creature
who has the folly to worship some
thing he can see and feel.
Immigrant: An unenlightened per
son who thinks one country better
than another.
Infidel: In New York, one who
loes not believe in the Christian
religion; in Constantinople, one who
loes.
Learning: The kink of ignorance
listinguishing the studious.
Life: A spiritual pickle preserv
ing the body from decay.
Love: A temporary insanity cur
able by marriage or by removal of
the patient from the influences un
der which he incurred the disorder.
Optimism: The doctrine or belief
that everything is good, especially
the bad.
Peace: A period of cheating be
tween two periods of fighting.
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS
»*****»**»*!
* ALRIGHTEE! * j
***»*«»»»**!
When Blossom Time comes can
spring be far behind.
* * *
POME
“This here is a pipe,” I heard
A fellow say last summer. 1
He wasn’t seeking a soft course
He was the local plumber.
I’m looking for a pipe,” I heard
Some big he-man repeat.
But it wasn’t a plumber this time
It was an ath-a-lete.
ORANGE SONG
“ORANGE YOU GOING TO BUY
ME THAT?”
College Humor has announced a.
short story contest with a big fat
prize offered for the winning story.
If some of us were able to sit in on 1
the meetings that Mrs. Donelley has
every month with matrons of the
girls’ private rooming houses there
would be littlo doubt as to who
would win the cash.
Quiet hours were broken on the
campus Monday by a party at bust
at Abie Hall’s house. .!
A critical co-ed speaks:
“I’m so glad no ono liked that
horrible play last night. I just
thought it was dreadful and I was
so embarrassed I didn’t dare look
at my escort all evening, and when
a play goes that far I think it’s
about time something was being
done! ”
Sirus Pinchpenny’s Diary
Up at the stroke of seven and
did hie myself away to listen to a
class of Pedagogue Grame’s and
there I did do my best to contente
myself and listen to him orate at
greatc lengthe on interest but I
must confess that there \ras little
of it for me. Anon out on the cam
pus where who should I meet face
to face but the scrivener, Henry
Alderman. And he in a happy frame !
mind over some recent success that
lio had made in cooking in his bach
elor apartment and he did say that
tie thought Lilian Tingle should I
teach a course in Cramp Cookery for
apartment dwellers. By night to
the College Side Inn to sup and did
Jrder a minute steak but after .
waiting for it over 30 minutes did
'way for my night’s labours.
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Just when we thought that over- I
worked slang word “muchly” was11
;oing out of usage along comes an
ither one'to take its place in the (
■ollcgiate vocabulary—“soonlv.” |
How many present knew that the ;
University owns 12 nice, bright,,!
irassy cuspidors? It’s a fact. When- (
>ver there is a meeting of the Board i
if Regents they are brought down ' <
’rom their hiding pace in the attic |
if the Ad buiding. shined up, and 1
illowed to sit in on the meeting.11
\fter the meeting is over they are 1
>ut back again for another long ]
try spell. I ,
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“You would! You’re jus' the. . ,”j
(Shot rings out and ambulance 1
ushos victim to hospital.) s
» » »
It looks as though Lita Grey
Jhaplin is playing the leading role *
n “The Gold Rush” this time.
, ^ „
1 . G. Beattie of Staff s
lo Talk Before School ]
Mr. \Y. (!. Beattie, lecturer in the h
xtension division, will adress the t
binn school Thursday evening, t
anuary 13, on the subject, “The is
'em mo u Aim of Home and School." g
From Other
Colleges
University of Idaho—Seven frosh
aasketball games have been definite-:
y scheduled and seven more are
mder •consideration. January 11 the
Vandal babes will go to Palonse to
day the Palouse Athletic club, and
in January 21 the Potlatch Athletic
:lub. Spokane college plays here
February 5, and Ellensburg Normal
February 25. Two games are listed
vith the W. S. C. Cougar cubs dur
ng the first of the second semester,
jut no date has been definitely set.
A four game trip into northern
Idaho is planned by the athletic de
partment, playing the Kellogg Y.
M. C. A., Wallace town team, Elks
dub in Coeur d’Alene, and Spokane
jollege. This trip is not as yet defin
tely decided upon. Games will prob
ably be scheduled with Lewiston
and Cheney normals also.
University of Idaho—The nrst
freshman, basketball game of the
season will be played Saturday eve- j
ling, January 8, at 7:30 in the uni
versity gymnasium, when the Took
squad will meet the Lewiston all- j
stars. I
The Lewiston team is managed by j
Lea Robinson, sporting editor of the
Lewiston Tribune, and is composed
sf many of the men who were on the
state championship team last year.
This team defeated the team from I
the Lewiston normal by a greater
score than did the Vandals in their
recent invasion of that territory,
and so it looms up as a worthy and
formidable foe for Saturday night’s
contest.
University of California—No, the
sextette from Santa Maria is not
an operatic selection, but 'a family
of football players.
Frank Gill is a junior at the Uni
versity of California, and was the
shining light of the California Var
sity this last season. He seldom
wore a helmet, and his shock of sor
rel hair stood out like a non-dim
ming signal from his position at
half in the Bear backfield.
“Red’s” young brother, Harry,
cavorted at tackle on the California
frosh eleven under Clint Evans, and
helped to roll up the 44-20 score that
sent the Stanford Babes home beat
en.
At Santa Maria High School, an
other red-headed Gill holds forth at
quarter on his prep team. Sixteen
years old, his mates dub him “rusty”
but his mother calls him Ralston.
Sam, otherwise “Gorilla,” isn’t
heavy enough at 14 to make the
Santa Maria unlimited squad, but
is quarter on the lightweight eleven.
Carol, at 12 years, holds the cap
taincy of his grammar school squad
and is tri-country champion in the
dashes on the track.
“It’s too soon to tell whether Jack
will make a lineman or backfield
man,” Frank remarks anent the
youngest of the family. He’s only
5, and the coaching at kindergarten
doesn ’t bring out latent football
qualities.”
The “sextette” are the sons of
C. G. and Lena Gill of Orcutt, Cal
ifornia.
University of California — Al
though avowedly not out to win
games, except as that might happen
incidentally to the main point of
drilling teamwork into his squad,
“Nibs” Price, basketball coach of
the California Golden Bear's, has
hung up an average of .750 per cent
for his pre-season schedule of games
played.
During the first week of their stay
at Whittier, where the Bears have
i winter training camp, the Califor
nians dropped but one contest and
took three. The Los Angeles Ath
letic club was victor in the first
■ontest.
The Bears are expected to break
■amp at Whittier at the end of this
vcek and return to Berkeley, where
hoy will begin their regular Var
iitv schedule in Harmon gymnasium
Wednesday night against St. Ig
latius College of San Francisco.
University of Idaho—Approxim
itoly 600 people gathered around
he campus Christmas tree Sunday
veiling, December 19, and observed
he Idaho tradition of singing car
ds. Students and townspeople who
ittended the vesper services held
n the auditorium formed the bulk
f the crowd. Several fraternities
cere there in a body. Singing start
d at 5:30 o’clock.
A brass quartet from the Pep band
ed by Prof. David Nyvall furnished
ho accompaniment. The carols were
Silent Night,” “O Come All Ye
\iithful,” “Hark the Herald Angels
;ing,” and “It Came Upon a Mid
night Clear.”
One of the tall fir trees near Liszt
all has been decorated with long
trings of colored globes. On the
ip of the tree there is a large star,
'lie tree has been ighted each eve
ing for the past week.
University of California—Univer
ity of California 145 and 130 pound
•eight basketball teams will enter
he P. A. A. tournaments this sea
an. according to the schedule re
■ased by the local association au
lorities. Walter Christie, veteran
ack and field coach at California,
one of the P. A. A. committeemen
Dverning the weight tournaments.
Important Oregon Knight meet
ing today at 4 o’clock in, Villard
hall. Will the following men please
be present:
Clint Mitchell
Jack Jones
Bob Dutton
Lawrence Ogle
Tom Armistead
Alex Scott
Ted Dumey
Vern Dale
Burr Abner
Bill Doyle
Wally Giles
Tom Stoddard
Walt Crane
Ralph Riech
Ed Schultze
Walt Clancy
J. Mathaeur
W. Willis
W. Hunt
B. Case
C. Schaefer
B. Sather
T. Barry
R. Prunls
S. Erpenbrecier
Oregon Knights—Very important
meeting tonight at 7:30 in the Ad
ministration building. Election of
officers and discussion of duties
during the High School convention
this week-end.
Alpha Delta Sigma meets Thurs
day noon at the Anchorage. Im
portant.
There will be no Women’s League
tea tomorrow afternoon because of
the Freshmen Commission tea. The
next regular Women’s League tea
will be given Thursday, January 20.
There will be a meeting of the
women’s varsity debate team to
night at 7:00 in the Sociology build
ing.
The men’s varsity debate team,
the section working on the democ
racy question, will meet Saturday
morning at 10:00.
Miss Margaret D. Creech, assist
ant director of the Portland school
of social work, will be in Eugene
on Friday, January 14. Students
desiring conference with her leave
names at the Extension Division,
phone 990.
Meeting of the welcoming com
mittee of the high school directorate
in room 101 Journalism at 4 o’clock
today. Very important.
Alpha Kappa Delta will meet
Thursday evening at 7 o’clock at
the home of Dean F. E. Young.
Pot and Quill will not meet this
week.
Tabard Inn meets tonight at 7:30,
Journalism building.
'Theaters ^ JL
McDONALD: Last day: Frank
Lloyd’s great production of “The
Eagle of the Sea,” a glorious ro
mance of the seven seas, when pir
ates bold sailed the Spanish Main,
a glowing companion picture to
Lloyd’s first great epic of adven
ture, “The Sea Hawk,” and featur
ing Florence Vidor, Ricardo Cortez
and a large cast of Paramount fav
orites; atmospheric presentation,
“Pirate Pep,” with Sharky Moore
and the Merry-Macks in a medley of
musical mirth, in a special setting,
nightly at nine; “Backward
George,” another of the “Let George
Do It” fun films; International news
events; Frank Alexander musically
accompanying the feature with a
marvelous musical setting.
Coming—Peter B. Kyne’s comedy
of a modern Californian gold rush,
“Pals in Paradise,” with May Rob
on, Rudolph Schildkraut, Marguerite
de la Mntte and John Bowers, feat
ured; Merry-Macks in “Days of
’49.”
REX: Firgt day: “Meet the
For Purity
and Goodness
Because only the best
of materials, and the
most sanitary and up-to
date machinery is used
in making our bread,
you need it to fit in with
your other good foods
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BREAI
Prince,” a delightful comedy drama
of love thrills and fun frills, with
Joseph Schildkraut, Marguerite de
la Motte and a large cast of favor
ites; Clever comedy and news; John
Clifton Emmel at the organ.
Coming—“The Ice Flood,” a mel
odramatic thriller deluxe, with Ken
neth Harlan and Viola Dana starred,
and filmed along the 'Wfillamette
river, near Klamath Falls. Florence
Vidor, Clive Brook and Lowell
Sherman in “You Never Know Wom
en.”
COLONIAL: Today and Thurs
day: Corinne Griffith jin “Mile.
Modiste.” You’ll want to see this.
Also an Aaesop Fable and comedy.
Send the Emerald Some
"Arrow
Shirt
with an
Arrow
collar
on it. This shirt has
the long point collar.
It is made of a genu
ine imported English
Broadcloth—the best
in collars and in shirts
that you can buy.
Ask Your "Dealer
f
w
The apple that
rocked the earth
“I wonder why?”
In Isaac Newton’s mind that question clam
ored for an answer. Many men had seen apples
fall, but this man with the question mark mind
found out why they fall—and his answer has
helped us to uq^erstand,'the workings of a
universe. ^ | ^
a bite of that
pould inspire us too with the
* attitude 1 ^ ^\ % ;-s"
ntplectual curiosity is a great and moving
faf*- ^n^bilixes reluctant facts. It is the
stem drill-master%hich whips into shape that
most invincible of armies—sure knowledge.
Curiosity, with the will to sweat out the
answer, is the greatest asset you can acquire in
your college course. This attribute is needed
by industry today more than ever before.
Would
a
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