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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1927)
©regmt fiatlg University of Oregon, Ebigene SOL ABRAMSON, Editor • EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD I fin Nash Managing Editor; Harold Mangum, Sports Editor; Florence Jones, Literary ’ Editor ; Paul Luy, Feature .Editor; NewB and Editor Phones, 665 j BAY EDITORS: Claudia FJetcher, Beatrice Harden, Genevieve Morgan, Minnie j Fisher. Alternates: Flossie Radabaugh, Grace Fisher. , NIGHT EDITORS: Bob Hall, Clarence Curtis, Wayne Morgan, JacK Coolidge. SPORTS STAFF: Jack O'Meara. Dick Syring, Art Schoeni. Charles Burton, Hoyt | Barnett. I FEATURE WRITERS: Donald Johnston, Ruth Corey, A1 Clarke, Sam Kinley, John ; Butler. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Jane Epley, Alice Kracft, Edith Dodge, Barbara Blythe. ! NEWS STAFF: Helen Shank, Grace Taylor, Herbert Lundy, Marian Sten, Dorothy Baker Kenneth Roduner, Cleta McKennon, Betty Schultze, Frances Cherp:, Mar garet 'Long Mary McLean, Bess Duke. Ruth Newman. Miriam Shepard, Lucile Carroll, Maudie Loomis, Ruth Newton, Dan Cheney, Eva Nealon, Margaret Hensley, Bi> Haggerty, Margaret Clark, Ruth Hansen, John Allen, Grayce Nelson, Dorothy Franklin, Eleanor Edwards. LaWanda Fenlaaon, Wilma Lester. BUSINESS STAFF Milton George . Associate Manager JSam Kinley . Advertising Manager Herbert Lewis . Advertising Manager Larry Thielen .... Foreign Advertising Mgr. Joe Neil .... Assistant Advertising Manager Francis McKenna .... Circulation Manager Ed Bisscll . Ass’t. Circulation Mgr. Bob Dutton . Ass’t. Circulation Manager Ruth Corey . Specialty Advertising Alice McGrath . Specialty Advertising Advertising Assistants: Ruth Street. Flossie Katlahaugn, KoaencK i,arouetie, niunnc Lombard, Charles Reed, Bob Moore, Bill Hammond. Office Administration: Dorothy Davis, Ed Sullivan, Lou Anne Chase, Ruth Field. Day Editor Th.it leone—Bill Haggerty. Aesietant— Bob Hall Night Editor Thin lame—Henry Lumpoe Annuitant—1 Leonard Delano The Oregon Daily EmeAld, 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. Bwiness office phone, 1895. Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility is assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion. THE whole object of educa tion is to get freedom and i give freedom, to enjoy frecdom. —Robert Frost. Memumitting The Student ■MTT’S always bothered me in my ■l teaching that the student was ■ouch a willing slave. You got him in between two high fences’ and you kicked him down along to his de gree ... or up along,” Robert Frost, New England poet, told a group of students at the Wesleyan Parley. Mr. Frost is interested in the manumitted student, who is not widely different from the manumit ted slave. For ‘ ‘ the whole object of education is to get freedom and give freedom, to enjoy freedom.” "The freedom I’d like to give is the freedom I’d like to have . . . It’s the freedom of my material. You might define a school boy as sue who could recite to you, if you started him talking, everything he read last night, in the OTder in which he read it. . . That ’a just the opposite of what T mean by a free person. The person who has the freedom of his material is the peT aou who puts two and two together, and the two and two are anywhere out of space and time, and brought, together. One little thing mentjoned perhaps, reminds him of something ho eouldn't have thought of for twenty years. . . There’s too much sequence and logic, all the time, of reciting what we learned over, night. . . “You might, ask me this question: How am I am going to find time? I would so run a course by self withdrawal. I would begin a course by being very present, and then ■slowly disappear. A sort of vanish ing act. I’d rather melt away just as I stood there, and leave a fellow more and more alone, and let him feid deserted, like a baby in a room alone. Give him that, terribly aban doned feeling, left to the horrors of his own thought and conscience. . . ”1 mentioned. . .the ability, or the weakness, the strength to be j swept away, to be carried away, by something more than beer, and games, and so on. ... 1 like people who can’t help thinking and talk ing about things, to the highest reaclies. That of course is the great thing. ‘‘You mav say there’s plenty of provision for that in school. But is there? Freedom to do more than you’re asked to do? No, you haven't, either. Every minute’s provided for. I would say to my class, • I am en titled to nine hours of vour time— throe in my class and two outsido for each of those. All right, I pre sent it to you. This is the time you can lose yourselves. You’ve got to! do some losing of yourself to find I yourself. 1 touched it and remit it, I as Kipling says. I’ll keep the in-1 stitution off your back to that ex tent.’ “Nothing may happen nine weeks out of ten. All those hours may he wasted. I think in the years, though, something may happen. . You are right, Mr. Frost, there is no freedom for doing more than one is asked to do. There is neither time nor provision for withdrawal and for “the freedom of material.” Our university educational system still demands that we recite “what we learned over night.” “Self withdrawal” and “freedom of ma terial” are interpreted as cuts,— deadly sins. That is why a self-constituted stu dent committee is fostering an hon ors plan: so that those who seek the great thing, Who have the desire to “think things to the high est reaches” may be enabled to do so. And Mr. Frost adds too: “There’s an attempt in the honor courses to get toward what I mean.” I Am Dying, Egypt. . . Dying <<T AM dying, Egypt. . . dy Aing . . . .” Sounds of the swan song are fad ing, and “Collegiana,” McGill Daily’s colyum of evidence of the feckless folkways of our collegiate kiwania, is dead. The untimely demise is due, the editors explain, not to any violence on the part of belittled vigilance committees or football coaches, but to simple satiation and lack of var iegated diet. “The yokel displays no original ity,” the editors complain. “His babooneries have a tedious way of repeating themselves. The editors were filled with a becoming bore dom and ennui. Therefore, ‘Col legiana’ dies. Rut not its purpose: that never dies so long as yokels perpetrate tomfooleries which are as evident as a wart on a bald head. To other campuses, however, we pass on ‘Collegiana.’ They need it as badly as we do.” Round one for the yokels. There are too many of them to be con quered just at present. They have smothered this effort, as they will smother greater ones, bv the sheer weight of their own tiresomeness. And they have further destroyed a pleasant oasis in the desert of col lege journalism. Catullus Kelly, “a blond ltabel a n man,” contributes the epi tah: ' Weep for Adonais, he is dead. Here is a droll business Gentlemen: Jurgen, Mruga, and old waggish Solomon And Solomon, and Bruga, and Jur gen and Kuphorian Are done. And Adonais And (’ollegiana. Gentlemen .... H. A. Commun ications The Source of the Evil To the Editor: I read with great interest the re port. of the independent undergrad uate committee, and I assure you that 1 am heartily in sympathy with its analysis of existing conditions in the-universitv. That our system of education is imperfect is recognized by both stu dents, (of all three categories) and faculty, (divided by someone into great teachers, fame-seekers and wago-lovers) alike. The assumption, however, is that both present and past committees committed the same error. That is. both failed to get to the root of the cause, though both barely suggested it. But neither of fered any remedy for it other than making entrance requirements strict er. If a farmer wishes to change the course of a water stream that cuts through his field, he will not commence at the far end of the field but will go hack and start from the origin of the stream, because the change of course can be brought about with much less effort. When the course of the stream is changed he tills in the ditch caused by the stream, eventually making his farm look as it ought to look. The same is true of our university problem. 1'hat is, if we are to bring about educational reform, we must start from the public schools where the eause has its origin. For there the cause can be remedied much easier than it can be in the colleges or universities. That children can be managed much easier than high TSt SEVEN SEERS YES WE ARE ALL IN' FAVOR OF THE PROPOSED PENSION FOR AGED TEACHERS. • # * This is supposed to be a democratic university, but there are distinc tions being made, nevertheless. Why was the lost cow denied admittance to the depot the other day? Only this week this paper told of '’'The Great American Ass’ being received at the library. • • • OREGANA DRIVE (Apologies to Omar) ' Within each booth of pasteboard painted gTeen 1 There is a maid of winsome beauty seen. “Come fill the cup!’’ the Ore gana, croons, “And get receipts before you leave the scene. ’ ’ The Writing finger writes: and hav ing writ Hands out a slip with weird-like signs on it. Uft not your hands aloft. The sky As impotently weeps. Nor does it care a bit. “Well’’ murmurs one, “Let those who care to, buy. My little bag of shekels was long since rendered dry. But fill me with the oft-familiar juice, Me thinks I might obtain one on the sly. ’ ’ This is National Thrift Week. House managers have been looking forward to it and making prepara tions for suitable menues for some time. • • • Unless something is done about it right sudJdent, a period of a few weeks is going to elapse in which no member of the faculty is kicked out by the taxpayers of the state. “I didn’t know they had been school or university students needs no argument to convince anyone of its validity. Obviously the fundamental cause of our problem lies not within the university but outside of it. Hence the necessity of starting our reform where the trouble itself commences. And unquestionably tho place is in our public schools. If tho intellectual atmosphere of our campus is to prevail, we must have better trained teachers for our public and secondary schools, teach ers that are capable of teaching their pupils something more than mere Rip Rah Ree, Our Captain (Our Team) Rah Rah Rah. That is, we must have trained teachers, teachers that understand the psy chology of children,—teachers who are familiar with pedagogical meth ods,—teachers who love teaching above everything else—teachers that are not interested only in their pay check but also in their pupils, teachers who when asked how they like teaching can reply as did a Eugene high school teacher: “I am just crazy for it. Isn 't it a shame for one to take pay for doing what he likes to do?” Possibly some or all of the com mittee members would agree that that is the type of teachers we need everywhere. Yet if we were to pre . pare for teachers, we would con |demn the methods used by our school of education, or any other teachers training school. Forgetting that children do not use a college man’s vocabulary and unaware of the fact that, if we are to be successful, we must learn their language and their modes of behavior. Such methods can be acquired from no other schools except those whose business is to train teachers. But unfortun ately teachers cannot be made from students that lend themselves to teaching for its pecuniary returns. If we are to raise the intellectual standards of our campus, we must receive material with appetite for learning. But such material will never reach our campus or any other campus as long as the majority of our grade school teachers, are noth ing but high school graduates and the high school ones are what the committee classed as studiers. Therein, somewhat unsystematic ally stated, lies the trouble of the i situation. Can this committee do i1 he seemingly impossible? C. LOUKAS Editor’s note: Mr. Loukas is in error in his interpretation of the committee’s program. As explained 'yesterday no attempt is being made ! to deal with the impossible. For , just this reason neither restriction j of entrants nor reform of teaching ! methods in the state primary and secondary schools is being advocat ed, necessary as these changes mav be. J If is recognized that a state uni versity cannot successfully limit its enrollment to any appreciable ex ;tent. Therefore this matter is not j concerning the committee. The I problem is one of making readjust j ments within the present university structure so that genuine students j may be permitted, probably through I means of an honor system, to do ! genuine work. having a matinee at the Guild the atre today.” ‘‘They haven’t. That is only the crowd of stenographers and office help leaving the administrative of fices. • • • • No Gretchen, Winston Lake is not a summer resort. More nearly a last resort. • • • Vern Fisher went to The Dalles Saturday, accompanied by E. A. Troutman. (Local in Maupin Times.) Something fishy, but they should have gone Friday. • • • “Did you see the cartoon and joke from the Webfoot that is in the last issue of Judge?” “No. Is the cartoon by Klep?” “No. It is that other one.” • • • ABERCROMBIE WINS AGAIN He didn’t enter Wrigley’s Cata lina channel swim because he thought the $25,000 prize was to given in gum. Just imagine that! • • * What has happened to the cam paign put on by the Portland Cham ber of Commerce last winter for a cultured Portland? Have they giv en up the idea of having all the men dine in formal attire one night each week? • • * Hush little freshman, Don’t you cry; You ’ll be a student investigator By and by. • • • TABLE ETIQUETTE If carrot gets lodged cross-Vise in throat, tie knife to shoe lace and carefully lower down throat. Sever carrot with great care, being careful not to mutilate tonsils. • • • My cutie’s due At two to two, She's bringin’ lots Of good home brew, and say I Don’t think it hasn't any kick It must because it makes me sick, My cutie’s brew is due at two today. • • • “THIS IS MY ESTEAMED FIREMAN,” REMARKED THE ENGINEER AS HE PULLED HIS ENGINE MATE OUT OF THE WRECK. %Jhe Largest selling quality pencil in the wotld 17 black Jegrees 3 copying Atoll dealers Buy a dozen Superlative in quality, the world-famous give best service and longest wear. Plain ends, per dor. $1.00 Rubber ends, per doz* 1.20 American renal Lo., Z15 fittb Ave.,N.T. Makers of UNIQUE Th m Lead Colored Pencils in 12 colors—$1.00 per dor. f Vuw CAMPUS ! I Bulietii' Junior Week-end Directorate will meet today at 12 o’clock at the College Side Inn. Crossroads: Meeting tonight. Same time. Same place. Women’s League tea today from 4 to 6 on sun porch of the Woman’s building. Big Sisters are urged to attend and bring their little sisters To-Ko-Lo meeting tonight at 7:3C at the College Side Inn. Very im portant. Hermian 8eminar at Miss Allen’s tonight at 8 o’clock. Professor Wyatt will speak on physical edu cation in India. All women physical education majors invited. Phi Chi Theta meeting tonight at 7:15. Room 106, Commerce build ing. Subscribe for the Emerald What Will 1927 Mean for You? Will it be your last year in college? Possibly it is the year you have planned to enter business — and prove you have the ability to make good I But are you prepared for busi ness? Have you a thorough knowledge of the fundamental laws of Finance, Management, Production and Distribution? Your college training would prove an excellent foundation for the intensive nine months busi ness course given at the Babson Institute. Men may enroll at the begin ning of each term. Entrance dates this year March 28, June 27, and September 21. 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