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EN TOTJTE chose il faut con
siderer la' fin.—French prov
erb.
Many Marriages—
But Not in College
N'O LONGER may colleges be
Stigmatized aB mere matrimonial
marts. No longer may those young
ladies who have filled their hope
chests enter the co-educational es
tate in search of the ultimate in
conjugal objets d,art. At least not
at Whitman college. President Ste
phen B. L. Penrose and his faculty
have seen to that.
A letter from Dr. Penrose pub
lished on the editorial page of a
recent number of the Whitman Col
lege Pioneer, student paper, reads
as follows:
A Letter From the President
January 6, 1927
Editor of the Pioneer:
I have been asked to give to the
student body through the Pioneer
the regulations of the faculty con
cerning the marriage of under-grad
uate students.
The condition of each -student
whether married or single must be
made known to the faculty before
registration.
If a student, while an undergrad
uate, marries without the knowledge
and approval of the faculty ob
tained in advance, he is immediate
ly dropped from membership in the
institution whether such marriage
takes place during the college year
or in vacation.
Ho or she may only be registered
as a member of the institution by the
express permission of the Board of
Deans after full knowledge of the
circumstances.
Stephen B. I.. Penrose.
Seriously speaking and with all
due respect to student liberty, the
regulation may have its good points.
Naturally, much depends 11(1011 its
interpretations in actual practice.
It- is, on the face of it, simply a
-method of passing the buck to avoid
any possible parental censure of the
college administration. The letter
makes no reference to the possibil
ity uf both parties being legally of
■age. To prevent a marriage under
such a circumstance would, of
course, be despotic Idiocy. Preven
tion on sucli grounds as immoral in
fluence on the student body, lack of
finances 011 the part of the foiul
couple, or the possibility of an infel
icitous effect on their opportunity
for study would be equally ill-con
sidered. These things depend whol
ly upon the personal equation which,
unfortunately, even college profes
sors are unable to accurately eval
uate.—H. A.
Reading as
A Fine Art
WE ARE interested to discover
that the editorials in this col
umn have proven “entertaining and
more or less useful,” as our corres
pondent puts it. From our point of
view we return the compliment, but
retain the privilege to disagree and
correct from our lofty eminence the
suggestions made in the communica
tion from C. G. B.
We highly recommend the spirit
of research that our communicant
evinces and we submit that it is the
proper spirit for a university type
of man. It is true, that a student
may have interests which he pur
sues in ucnance or tne present or
any other system of education, but
we aro quite sure that C. G. B. is
earnest and anxious to learn those
things which a University should
by its nature teach. His suggestion
is good but it does not go far enough
in the direction in which it starts.
The difficulty which he has raised
requires a more thorough-going rem
edy than the one he has outlined.
Ilis suggestion that knowledge of
astronomy is necessary before a
man can fconsider himself educated
is important in its implications. In
our society there is not enough pre
mium on knowledge for itself. One
who wishes to know something
which has no apparent practical
bearing is looked upon as queer.
The spontaneous love of new in
sights is killed in the raw youth,
who is told by the world to bo prac
tical, by which is meant: determine
how much money there is in it.
There is a plan in use at various
colleges in this country which per
mits students who havo shown spe
cial aptitude greater opportunity to
do the work in which they are most
interested. This very sort of plan
is being advocated on the campus at
the present time by an independent
investigation committee.
The student who has once par
taken in the joy of learning will
feel very kindly disposed toward
such a plan. For those who have
never en joyed this pleasure, we can
only recommend it as a future de
light. We do not intend to go into
a rhapsody on the beauties and
pleasures of the life intellectual. It,
like virtue, is its own reward.
We conclude that it is a good idea
to think. Our friend of the commun
ication is decidedly on the right
track. Our library is rather com
plete and the librarians are very
helpful. A revival of the fashion of
rending as a tine art instead of as
j a means to an ulterior end is the
I need of the day. Let us watch the
| coming of the new dawn.—I'. T.
Commun
ications
Mi
The Student's Problem
Mr. Editor:
Upon perusiug one of your en
tertaining and more or less useful
editorials, headed, "It Should be
Hone but How.” ] was inspired to
attempt an answer to the question.
As you point out in your august
manuscript, it would be impossible
justly to limit the educational fa
cilities of the state university to
that minority of the student body
which you somewhat vaguely term
“students.” The “studier” must be
allowed to pursue his intellectual
happiness, and the “pupil” must
have his education injected into him
whether he likes it or not.
The question then is, “How can
the student be permitted to shape
his own education and garner his
own learning without interfering
with the progress of the studier and
the student?”
There can bo no doubt that many
of ns are possessed with a desire at
times to inform ourselves on some
topic not included in our regular
curricula. For instance, I myself
have long had a desire to delve into
the mysteries of radio, to learn of
the principles that make the blamed
thing work. A friend of mine wishes
to kndw something about astronomy.
It is probable that this sought
after information, if obtained,
would benefit the student far more
than required work in subjects se
lected bv his major professor. But
with our present 15 to IS ' hour
courses, time does not permit the
youthful knowledge seeker to go off
on such useful tangents. If he does
so, he must do it at. the expense of
his required lessons.
Why not instigate a course of,
sav, one to three hours credit, which
we might call research for want of
a better name. Let it count toward
a degree or graduation whether or
not it fits nicely into the student’s
major.
Let the student taking research
spend his three to 9 hours a week
which he would ordinarily spend on
a one to three hour elective,—let
him spend this time in reading up
on any subject chosen by himself, or
in working experiments connected
with the subject, or in any way he
chooses, so he increases his know
ledge of the subject. Hequire him
to write a monthly paper on the
Tk SEVEN
SONG OF THE WEEK
“DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH
THINE EYES,” BY A. E. CAS
WELL.
• • *
Be that as it may, there’s the
story going the rounds about the
undertaker in Scotland who made
the generous 'Offer to bury free of
charge the first person to comimit
euieide in 1927. By breakfast time
on New Year’s morning the entire
village was depopulated.
* * *
WOMEN’S ACTIVITIES
At the meeting of campus cooks
held Saturday afternoon, Dean Vir
ginia Judy Esterly was elected to
honorary membership.
I don’t know if the organization
has a badge or not. A miniature
can-opener would be quite appro
priate, or if -a floral design is de
sired, a carrot.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ELLY
NEY, BUT HAVE YOU HEARD
THE E. B. U.’s BRAY?
MADDENING MOMENTS
Arising religiously to attend your
eight o ’clock, which happens to be
your only class that day, and ar
riving out *f breath only to remem
ber that the prof is out of town,
and is not having a class.
• * *
They were walking side by side,
She was slim, he was wide;
Then he grabbed her ’round the
neck
And she hollered, “What th’
heck! ”
• • •
Tony Montagna, better known as
Bull Montana, was seen yesterday
being rushed by a couple of Alpha
Tau Omega boys.
Omigosh! I found this ad in the
Drain Enterprise. Can our own Jack
be leading a Jekyll and Hyde life?
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DRAIN, OREGON |
• • •
Sidney King wonders who it is
that gives the signal to begin the
dance at the Campa Shoppe. That’s
really quite simple, Sid. It’s this
way. The music starts. Johnnie Mohr
arises and begins toddeling.. This in
turn starts the glasses on the tables
to rattle, and wakes the couples
and then the jig is up.
Ways of Beginning Successful
Fairy Tales
Once upon a time . . .
I called you up several times last
night. . . .
It seems two Irishmen ....
That reminds me ... .
Last night ....
Then I sez . . . .
• • *
CAMPUS STROLLING
Mary McKennon wearing her red
leather jacket. It has almost become
a campus tradition to be thought of
along with the Wilcox cape, the
Barnett felt, the Sersanous spotted
coat, and the Sinclair puttees. Sonia
Wilderman doing Juliet from the
porch of the student body offices to
subject, including at the end of the
term, a complete outline of the
term’s work. Grade him entirely on
the showing made in the monthly
papers. Make the grading sufficient
ly rigid to prevent “pupils” to elect
the course as a “pipe,” and require i
the term papers to show conclusive
ly that the student has spent a rea
sonable amount of time on his sub
ject.
Take the case of the chemistry
student, for example, who wishes to
learn something of astronomy; not j
all the details perhaps, such as he I
would obtain bv taking the regular !
astronomy courses which would oc- 1
eupy several hours of his time every '
day for several terms, but only a
rudimentary knowledge of the sub !
| jeet such as every man ought to J
have but many lack.
Let him elect astronomy as his
research subject, and substitute it
for some useless elective with which
his program is now encumbered. Let
him spend his time reading about
the subject, or, if he chooses, let
him build a home-made telescope
and get his knowledge first-hand. In
other words, prescribe the object
alone; that the student increase ma
terially his knowledge of astronomy,
and make the method of doing this
entirely optional with the student.
It might be that it would be found
necessary to increase the reference
facilities of the library a great
deal, and obtain quite a number
of up-to-date books, but the present
Oregon library is far below the av
erage for schools of this size and
needs increasing anyway.
Would not such a plan go a loi^g
way toward solving the problem of
the “student”?
C. G. B.
some collegiate Borneo. What ercr
become of the painted pictures on
the backs of slickers?
• • •
Use actuate in a sentence.
When I had the flu I sneezed and
said acuate times.
* * *
Once upon a time there was a
dime crawl and the girls just turned
in the money they collected at the
door, but that was onee upon a
time. Now they gather up all the
loose change among their members
and turn that in too for the house
that turns in the most is supposed
to be the most popular. So this
time wre will be on the watch to see
who had the most loose change.
* • •
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
* Let me show you a card *
* trick. *
Fellowship
(Continued on page two)
growing horizon in human possibil
ities.
Dr. Reinhardt described education
as a thing that can neither be
bought nor sold, but which can be
earned by those who are earnest in
their efforts. She declared that she
had no use for education for edu
cation’s sake alone, and said that
education was for the purpose of
making wisdom of learning, *and
merely gives the capacity to learn.
The tafternoon session was also
addressed by President Arnold Ben
nett Hall, who told the organizatiop
that to his mind the two most im
portant debts of a state institution
were the education of the boys and
girls in the habits of intellectual be
havior, and the conducting of and
development of research.
Mrs. A. W. Cooper, of Portland
and director of the North Pacific
section of the Association, presided
at the afternoon session, and Miss
Frances Pierce and Miss Emily Wil
liams, students of the school of
music, gave organ and harp num
bers.
The luncheon given at Hendricks
hall featured reports on the Amster
dam Conference of the International
Federation of University Women,
which were given by Mrs. Gertrude
E. McElfresh, Mrs. Harry E. Bux
ton, and Miss Edith Carter Kuney,
all of Corvallis.
CAMPU/
Bulleti
Webfoot Athletic Schedule for Week
Basketball:
Varsity:
February 2, Willamette Univer
sity at Salem.
February 5, University of Mon
tana at McArthur Court, 8:15.
Freshmen:
February 2, Salem high school, at
Salem.
February 4, Salem high school at
McArthur Court.
February 5, Columbia University
at McArthur Court. (Preliminary)
Swimming:
February 2, Intra-mural swim,
Woman’s pool, 7 o’clock.
February 5, Multnomah Athletic
club, Woman’s pool, 7 o’clock.
Handball:
Continuation of intra-mural and
departmental handball tournament.
Football:
Varsity practice all week.
Sculpture Club meeting postponed
until Thursday at 4 o’clock.
Ye Tabard Inn: Meeting tonight
at 7:30. All members be there. In
teresting program.
Graduate Club meeting Tuesday
night 7:30 in men’s room of the
Woman’s building.
Freshman Commission meeting
postponed until one week from to
day.
Red Cross will meet at the men’s
gym, Thursday night at 7:30 p. in.
All members are urged to be there.
Temenid meeting, Craftsman club,
Wednesday at 5 p. m.
Dial meets Wednesday night with
Mabel McClain, 1390 Alder street.
Approximately 5,000 additional
seats will be added to the Memorial
stadium at the University of Cali
fornia. Construction will start im
mediately and the structure will be
finished by next fall.
At De Pauw University, frater
nities may not rush a man by taking
him to shows and cafes. All rushing
must be carried on within the fra
ternity houses.
St. Lawrence college prohibits vio
lent physical attacks on freshman
students. Sophomores who haze too
severely are required to meet all re
sultant doctor bills.
As Others
See it
Bye-Bye Football!
(William Allen White
In the Emporia Gazette)
“Why do you want to go to Pink
University instead of Blue Col
lege?’ ’
‘ ‘ Because it is a better school. ’ ’
“Why?”
“Because they have better men
on their faculty.”
“ Well, that may be, but I no
tice Blue College boys always beats
them in football.”
And this is the whole trouble in
a paragraph. Something is in the
air this season which may be the
beginning of the end for college
football. Never has the game at
tracted bigger crowds. Never has
it received more eolumns of news
paper space. Never have coaches
been paid higher salaries than they
have this season. And never have
the football heroes been more dis
cussed. It is the crest of the wave,
and from now on college football
probably will hit the down-grade.
It will take 10 years, possibly 15,
for it to get back to its proper place
in the sphere of college activities,
but slowly and surely it is going.
A football team which hitherto
has been regarded as the best ad
vertisement of a small college, has
grown to such proportions that is
overshadows the college, cutting it
off from the public interest. The
colleges are attracting, not scholars
but athletes. And college men and
women are beginning to realize this.
College football is getting about
as much space in the papers this
month as the world’s series does.
There is every reason why people
should b;e interested in football. It
is a fine, clean, healthy spOTt. But
suppose now that the world’s series
games were tied onto the colleges
in the same way that football is
saddled onto them. Suppose that
the high-priced baseball managers
were hired by colleges, that Yale
owned the Cardinals and Princeton
owned the Giants. Pew people who
would deny that this situation’ would
be harmful to the colleges, would
burden them unnecessarily and
would detract public interest from
the real things these schools are
doing to the activities of tberr
teams.
There is a certain parallel be
tween the University of Kansas and
the Kansas Legislature, in that
brain-work is assumed to go on in
each. Supposing now, that during
each session of the Legislature, the
members organized a football team,,
built a stadium on the capitoi
grounds, scheduled games with the
Legislatures of Missouri, Nebraska,
and Oklahoma. These games un
doubtedly would overshadow the
legislative work. The "coach” of
each Legislature would be going
round to the different counties urg
ing that strong men be elected to
the Legislature, and, of course, a
ferocious howl would go up from
the taxpayers. The reason that sup
porters of schools do not give vent
to an equally outraged yell is that
college football has grown slowly
and imperceptibly.
There is no reason why both leg
islators and college men should not
take exercise, but there is every
reason why neither should en
gage in public gladiatorial combats
before packed arenas. This year
the colleges are beginning to realize
this. The tail has begun to wag the
dog furiously this season, and this
humiliating fact has at last come
home to the dog.
More than a dozen persons are
enrolled in the introductory course
in the Japanese language offered by
the Oriental Literature department
at the University of Washington.
Seven etchings by two art stu
dents have been placed on exhibit
in the art attic, Philosophy hall, at
the University of Washington.
20% FLUNK
20% of students were dropped last year
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lowest with 12%.
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Everything to an opera singer cen
ters down to protection of the voice;
that stands to reason. So when it
comes to smoking, / am very care
ful. Hence, I always ask for a Lucky,
not merely because of its ever so rich
flavor, but because of its extreme
gentleness to my throat. This ciga
rette, I call my friend for, as a good
friend should, it gives me rein to in
dulge my whims—even as to smok
ing without imposing a price.
© Mishkin, N. Y.
The Noted Voice of Rothier
is Safeguarded by Smoking Lucky Strike
—Because “It’s Toasted”
THIS favorite of the Metropolitan Opera Company
of New York City, Leon Rothier, like other men whose
voices are their fortunes, seeks two merits in a cigarette—
greater enjoyment and throat protection.
Lucky Strikes have become the favorites of men whose
{jriceless voices thrill audiences, as they have with the mil
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The world’s finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, properly
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But in addition, a costly extra process—toasting for 45 min
utes—develops the hidden flavors of the choicest tobaccos
and at the same time removes all “bite” and harshness.
Smoke Lucky Strikes. They give added pleasure—you’ll
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“It’s toasted”
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