f Oregon Will Meet Capitol Boys Tonight Willamette Players Rate Highest in Northwest Conference Schedule Lists Five Games to be Played i Varsity Team Will Play Montana Saturday The Probable Line-up: Oregon Gunther Ridings Okerberg Milligan Westergren f f c g g Willamette Hauk Litchfield Hartley Ashby Ledbetter BILLY REINHART, Oregon bas- ; ketball coach, will start his first , string against the Willamette Bear- j Billy Reinhart eats tomgnt anti give the Capitol Dity fans a chance to see the Oregon varsity in action. This will be the \ third time that the teams have j met this season. ! Willamette opened the home season for the Webfoot : squad here Janu- I ary 15 and 16, i Oregon t a kin g| both games by a wide margin. The first ending 38 to 10, and the second 43 to 14. The Willamette Casaba men have been playing a better brand of ball since their (previous Agamies with Orelgon. They have defeated Pjiei fie, Whitman, and other schools of j the Northwest Conference and now ] top the percentage column of that : loop. Hartley Good Man The Bearcats have a good pivot j man in Hartley, who has been play- j ing on the squad for the past three seasons. He was high “point man for the visitors when they played the Oregon team in McArthur court, and he works well with his team mate Ashby at guard. The Oregon varsity has had only j two days rest from its strenuous road trip and the Webfoot bench men will probably have a chance to show their stuff before the ev§ning j is over. Keith Emmons, forward on last year’s frosh team, has been inelig ible until recently, and hasn’t had j a chance to work into the Oregon j style of play to any great extent, j He was used, however, during part j of the Gonzaga tilt last week and played a good offensive game, chalk ing up seven markers. The game to night might be an ideal time to give him another opportunity to prove his ability. Reserves Sought Last season a shortage of reserve strength handicapped the Webfoot ( basketeers when they met the Cali- ; fornia Bears for the conference title, J and Coach Billy Reinhart does not | intend to be caught in that predic- j ament again. The Oregon boys have five con- | ferenee games left on their sehed- j ule, all of which will be played on the home floor except the tilt at | Corvallis. Saturday night the Uni versity of Montana five meets the j Oregon quintet in McArthur court. Oregon Honors System Fails To Provide Student Freedom Need for Separation From General Routine Organization Declared Funda mental. Summary of Honors Plans Now Operating in Other Institutions Given What does the student want? Not pampering, not license; but appro priate freedom. What is freedom— proper, positive freedom? It is not permission to choose your particular shackles. It is to exercise without interference your own sufficiencies. It is the right to exercise self-dis cipline. What kind of freedom does our present educative system grant the student? Only the right to more mental voracity; to mire himself deeper than the system itself de mands. This do they counsel who tell us, You are free to take more and ever more courses. “What do you fume and fret and prate?” demands another, “have we not here an honors system ready and operating for him who seeks? True, we do not, we cannot, so pnor we are, provide you with such attention as the physical department with its ‘honors’ faculty and ‘tutors’ gives its superior student; but we suffer you to work independently without other limit than your own capacity. Only, of course, the system must be satisfied first.” Aye, and there’s the rub. What is this honor system that we now have? In effect, it bids you: Be a good docile pupil in the regular way, and you can be a student between times, during your leisure—Sunday afternoons, say. Is that enough? This committee thinks not. The student, it believes, wantso to be a student in the course of his regular work; not between jumps **n the pupil treadmill. The Oregon Honor System The system, of honors now suryiv-, inig in this University came into ex istence in 1912. Its institution was the result of a feeling on the part of a number of faculty members that some measure should be taken to adequately care for the excep tional student. The original plan was in this manner: Any student sufficiently interested in any one or more subjects to do extra work, should, if his record bespoke un usual ability, be allowed to register as an honors candidate. The intent of the plan was to rescue the student from the rou tined, low-gauge educational ma chine which grinds out the mass. What has really happened, however, is this: Instead of achieving a sep arate adjustment within the sys tem—-an adjustment which would serve the student and relieve him from machine in whole—it merely devised a whirligig to beguile the student while insisting that he con tinue to muddle through the old jumble. It was a mistake because it tried to harness the student to two systems at once. The honors plan was derived from the European and British universities; the old organ, to which it was grafted, was the established pupil, high school, sys tem. Any makeshift honor scheme which requires continued subjection to the pupil machinery necessarily defeats its purpose. The first re quirement of a successful honors plan is freedom for the student. In its early years the Oregon sys tem, it is said, did achieve this freedom for its students. During the first year of its operation twenty five undergraduates ■ enrolled and were granted honors. The necessary freedom was obtained, however, by circumvention of the writ. It de pended upon the co-operation *of sympathetic professors. It was nec essary that the latter should suffer the student in some nneasure to make compliance with the old for malities, such as class enrollment and attendance, only nominal. This, it seems, was at first done. With in creased general enrollment such as has marked the last decade of the University’s history, however, the l fundamental weakness of the essen tially grotesque dualism asserted it- , self. Insistence upon strict conform ity to the letter demands of the pupil system has reduced the make shift “honors” plan in Oregon to the innocuous monstrosity which it now is. Under its yoke the student is as free for action as a Siamese twin. The actual desuetude into which it has fallen is evidenced by the fact that for each of the last three years only four students have submitted themselves to its disrupting opera tion. If the ratio of honor students to total enrollment had been main tained through the years there would be this year seventy-five candidates instead of the five who are now striving for an honors education be tween “goose-steps.” Honor Systems In Other Colleges From what has been said in re spect to the present “honors” sys tem it follows that this committee believes that the first condition of any practical honors scheme is gen uine and formal separation of its essential workings from the system at large. The two systems are in nature separate, and not co-exten sive. Positive recognition of this fact is prerequisite to its operation. Advocacy of the adoption of some plan achieving, first, a division of registrants; and, second, separate adjustments for their respective ed ucation is of course not original with this group. It is well known (Continued on pane four) More Reports Of Departments j Are Submitted j Inadequate Facilities and Teaching Shortage Emphasized Despite the fact that the Univer® sity library made a net gain of 14,789 books during 1926, a list of the most needed books and period icals and some binding ivork calls for a sum of $19,000, which should have been spent in the past, de clares this department’s annual re- j port just submitted to President Hall. The report stresses the fact of shortage of storing space, and points out that the University Press and other departments have been called upon to help the library out of its ever increasing number of dif ficulties. Less than nine per cent of the total number of enrolled ; students can be accommodated by the present seating capacity of the building. The extent of tardiness 'of stu dents in returning the books may be (Continued on page two) Feministic Traits Shine Through Rostrum Calm of Co-ed Debaters — ‘Women Are Funny,' Coach Reflects; Cites as Evidence i Whims of the Members of Squad Women are funny. The proverbial “sweetest sentiment in the world” needs only three words for expres sion. So, too, this truth which, it is safe to say, is the next oldest thing in the world may be stated in three cold, barren words—women are fun ny. We have another proof of it, to add to countless instances. It is this. The University of Oregon has a women’s debate team. It has a men’s debate team, also, and, you will remember, the complete sched ule for the men debaters was pub lished long ago. But, and here lies the agonizing proof—the women’s schedule has just been arranged. Why? Why, because women are funny. Every girl wants to go to Seattle to debate against Washington, and every girl wants to stay here and debate the question, “Besolved, that fraternities and sororities should be j abolished.” Every one wants t« . work on the same team with some- j one else and everyone flatly refuses to work with someone else. Five out of eight women varsity debaters ap proached the coach in somewhat this fashion: “I simply can’t de bate with (but we won’t mention names) and I simply won’t; I don’t know why, but we jnst don’t get along—” and more of the same. On the other hand, and all this goes to prove that men are models of per fection, not one of fifteen men, to debate in six contests, made any protest whatever. But it is all right at last, every one is happy and satisfied, and the anxiously-awaited schedule practic ally settled and published in the Emerald—but just the same, women have been, are, and always will be— ! funny. Dime Crawl Thursday; Money for Foreign Scholarship Fund j The second Dime Crawl of the : college year is to be given tomor row “eveninlg from 6:30 to 7:30, spon sored by Women’s League for the purpose of raising money for the Women’s League Scholarship fund. At present, there is no foreign schol ar on the campus but plans are now being made to bring one here next fall. Sororities ajid living organiza tions hold open house on this occa sion and men may dance as long as they like at one. place for a dime. The success of the Crawl depends upon the way the masculine ele ment on the campus respond, so the committee in charge asks that th