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Day Editor This Issue—William Schulze
Night Editor This Issue—L. H. Mitchelmore
Assistant Night Editors— Harold Bailey
Myron Griffin
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1927.
A n Old Story
Told Anew
IT is ail old story that many a
college graduate finds himself
compelled to wonder what his fdur
years behind the academic (walls
have meant to him.
The courses he studied were just
so many units of language, science
and literature in varied quantities.
Each was considered as a separate
entity and not to be associated with
anything else of which he might
have knowledge. If courses were
found to overlap, as was the case in
a few instances, it was considered
an academic accident—one not to
be mentioned for fear that the in
structors would see to it that such
short cuts to learning were elim
inated.
Much the same story is the one
fold by the anonymous writer of an
article entitled “Unhappy College
Years,” which appears in the New
Student for October fi. The author
tells of how he and his fellow stu
dents 'were shepherded through
three years of college work, memor
izing unrelated facts and cramming
notebooks in order to haw the de
sired information on hand for ex
aminations.
To quote the author, “What we
thought about the facts or whether
we thought about them did not seem
to matter.”
As seniors they were “treated” to
a course in ethics.“to round out
our training.” In this course they
were, told not to take notes; there
were no .east iron rules of p roe end
ure to follohv and free discussions
of topics were encouraged. The re
sult was little short of chaos. Un
accustomed to doing independent,
thinking, they “complyined bitterly
that there was nothing to anchor
to—no definitions, no exposition of
ethics which they could commit to
memory.”
They had been taught to recog
nize certain facts so as to- be able
to pigeon-hole them under specific
subjects, but now they were being
given strange facts and asked to
consider them in relation to other
facts so as to fit into a philosophy
of life. To these students who Were
thus belatedly being urged to think,
such a thing as a philosophy of life
was in itself a, new and unfamiliar
quantity. o wonder they were be
wildered.
The University administration
has shown that it Is ready to do
all that it can so that the education
to be had here may bo oho of value
to those.(who seek it. The honors
system and the lower division re
forms, now in tlie formative stage,
will no doubt .go a long way toward
achieving tfie desired goal. With
(lie individual able to pursue the
course of study best suited to liis
needs and with the able and sym
pathetic guidance of a. progressive
faculty, tile future should see fewer
Oregon graduates pondering the fu
tility of a university education.
N\ bother the plan proves a success
or a failure depends upon the man
ner in (which the students make use
of the new opportunities offered
them. —W. C.
Debaters Off;
The WorUVs Their Lab
OHOETbY after noon today' the
^ Korea Mam will clear the Gold
en Gate for Honolulu. Among her
He Works Like a Dojj
To Pass Test, Flunks
(liy Vnited Press)
New York City, Oct. 10.—'Follow
has had hi.s day before the learnod
professors at Columbia University.
Follow worked like a dog to pass
his intelligence tost bot'oro the de
partment. of animal psychology at
Columbia.
When he had finished little move
than the technicality of having two
more foot than the average fresh
man prevented him from matriculat
ing.
Fellow’s master, Jacob Herbert of
Ih'troit, maintains that his five
year-lod (loruiau shepherd dog lias
1 he intelligence of an eight-year
old boy and knows between LIDO and
I'111 spoken words.
Asked after -the test, if ho’ be
loved the dog actually thought,
i'rof&ssor .1. ('. Warden, head of the
department; of animal psychology,
answered:
I 'wtouldn ’t say that, 'because we
run 1 eieu say that people do.’’
passengers are three Oregon under
graduates who compose the Univer
sity’s international debate team.
They are off on the first lap of a
’round-the-world debate tour, the
first undertaking of (its kind to |
America’s credit.
Whether or not the Oregon squad
wins most of its meets with four
teen foreign teams is. unimportant.
There are too many variables enter
ing into a pioneer venture; too
many different bases of decision,
to attach significance to either vic
tory or defeat. There is no code
comprehensive enough to apply to
the greatly divergent viewpoints
that the Oregon team Will encounter
in their opponents and audiences, j
The experiment will show, how-1
ever, in the interest displayed to
what degree (in ter national-maided -
ness exists. Ami it may indicate to
some extent the best approach to
ward more genial world-studont-rc
lationships. Anyway, no better
laboratory than the world could ibe
devised for the purposes.
Thanks to
John Philip Sousa
TOTIN' PHILIP 80USA has siig
nally honored the University by
offering to write a march expressly
for Oregon. <
The veteran leader’s millionth
mile is just passed, his seventy
fourth ibirthday is just around the
corner. Yet he holds first place as
bandmaster and patron wherever
martial music is heard.
The occasion for the offer is par
ticularly happy, now that the Uni
versity band holds promise of be
ing capable of really doing justice
to the nejv composition.
Tried on
The Dog
TNTELLIGENOE tests arc ecrtain
Iv coming into tlicir own. A last
night’s press dispatch from Now
York tolls about Fellow, a police I
dog “with an expression like Bcr-1
card Shaw at a banquet,” who is to
undergo an intelligence test at Col- |
umbia. University sometime this!
morning. Fellow’s master says his
canine has the intelligence of an
eight-vear-old child. “I’ve raised
him from a puppy,” he says pride
fully, “and I don’t knohvi myself i
how ranch he understands.”
Fellow displayed a calmness j
almost to indifference of the ordeal
before him, according to the report.
That alone would seem indicative of 1
a high, philosophically-minded in
telligence. Let us hope that the
psychic inquisition will not leave -
him, as such things have so often
left us, *in an unhappy, suicidal
frame of mind, convinced of a fact -
that we have long suspected but
have tried not to see—that we don’t
know anything- and never will and ■'
why did we come to college any- •
wav.’ If this happens to Fellow, he
will probably finally decide just as
we have—quite rationally and im
lartially, of course—'-that after all , 1
here is nothing significant in in- j ’
jclligenec testing and that psychol-j1
>gy is certainly the queen of the M
nexact sciences. t
But, perhaps, Fellow will pass
with high honors. It i* not incon
■eivablc. If he does, he will prob-j ^
ibly be elected lo l’hi Beta Kappa A
u the apring. —II. A. |
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Follow flunked very few ques
tions in his examination.
Mexican Federal*
Put Down Rebellion
(By United Press)
Mexico City, Mexico, Oct. 10.—
lleports of an overwhelming victory
for fed orals in the state of 'Vera
Crux were followed by an announce
ment by General Alvarez, I'resident
Guiles’ chief of staff, that the Mexi
can rebellion had been suppressed.
The government’s victory, Al
varez said, was in Ayahualco, where
••WOO federal soldiers Sunday after
noon trapped 1000 prisoners.
Federal Troops Trap
Rebels in Vera Cruz
(By United Pussst
Mexico City, Mexico, Oct. 10.—
i hree thousand federal troops under
Generals liiscobar and Aguirre have
trapped 10U0 rebels in the state of
\ era Cruz, the president's office an
nounced today.
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AUTHORITIES WERE DESPER
ATELY SEARCHING FOR SOME
LUNATICS WHO ESCAPED FROM
THE ASYLUM AT SALEM FRI
DAY.
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Probably afraid that once they
made the campus there would be
slight chance of ever detecting
them.
Justin Dutch, Sophomore in the
University for the last seven years,
and prominent member of Snooze
& Snort, honorary fraternity for
Scandinavian r.onombulists, who was
chairman of the group judging the
teams in Saturday’s game for best
discipline, most courteous manners,
bearing on the field, sex appeal and
poise. The winning team is to be
presented Thursday with a beautiful
little hand painted cuspidor of
Elizabethian mode. Mr. Dutch is
also in charge of the movement to
eliminate profanity and discourse
about classes in the locker rooms
of the University gymnasiums.
CO-ED COUNCIL
Dear Aunt Seerah,
Would you favor us by acting as
chaperone for our pledge dance two
weeks from next Friday 1
Chairman.
Dear Chairman,
Ain sorry to decline your kind in-1
vitation but the doctor advises that
I quit smoking and drinking, at
least for a while.
Aunt Seerah.
ALPHA CHI O NEWS
The other day a girl rang the
doorbell at the new Alpha Chi O
house and asked if it was the Music
Building. She was told “no” hut
3lie insisted that somebody had told
ler it was a “big building up around’
rere”.
Soon after, the Pi Phi's com
plained of noise from the Alpha Chi
3 house. It was probably just
aughter after the girl left but even
io the S. A. E.’s are beginning to
yonder if it won’t be too noisy even
it their distance.
lore lies Freslunau Hugh McSwain,
le lost liis lid once in the rain; |
it soaked his hide,
And so ho died
ikorn water on the brain.
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Gretchen thinks the fellow who
nid, “I do not choose to run in
.928,” was an Oregon track man.
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INFIRMARY NOTE:
The most pathetic case in the in
innary today is that of the senior
'ho dislocated his neck trying to
write his Greek letters on the hip;
ocket of Jr is cords without taking !
hem off. . j
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Prof. Anity remarks that the i
Idaho hull turned out to he chipped
beef.
That s what it was chopped up to
I be. Hash it anyway!
* * *
I iu a recent interview, said!
j lie always made it a point to lead j
i the college band in every college !
j town. Iii that way he says he learns
ito really appreciate his own.
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Suggested Title for Bootleg
Product:
| “A JIG IN EVERY SWJG”
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At'ler years of pouring through
old manuscripts we have at last
found out what Adam first said i
when he met Eve.
‘‘Ido you come from Portland if” j
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bulletin
In order to make room for one
more couple at Ye Campa Slioppe
dances, there will he no bass drum
in tile orchestra from now on.
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f’rosli Ben Dover savs ho didn’t;
do s i well on his first game of golf. !
Here is the senior who was dele
gated to telegraph the sad news to
mother of the poor frosh who suf
fered the loss of his mustache at
the game Saturday. The hoys par
ents wish to take this means to
thank those who gave up seeing
parts of the game in order to render
first aid to their son.
TO CRISPEN, HEAT IN HOT
WATER.
SEVEN SEERS
'Theaters,
HEILIG—‘ Body and Soul,” with
Aileen Pringle, Norman Kerry and
Lionel Barrymore.
McBONALD—Second day—“ Beau
Geste,” first presentation of this
tremendous drama of love, loyalty
and lyotherdove adapted from the
popular novel by Pereival Wren,
directed by Herbert Brenon and fea
turing Ronald Colman, Alice Joyce,
Neil Hamilton, Mary Brian, Noah
Berry, Ralph Forbes, William Pow
ell and Victor Mc-Lagleu, of “What
Price Glory” fame. Also, on the
stage, an atmospheric, orgalogue,
“On the Wall,” featuring Prank
Alexander, Harry Scougal, Lcland
Robe and W. C. Reid, with special
scenic and lighting effects, twice
nightly, at 7:20 and 9:110, Oswald,
the lucky rabbit, in “Great Guns,”
a cartoon classic of comedy, Inter
national News, and Frank Alexan
der's original musical score on the
super-organ.
REX—Last day—Mary Roberts
Rinehart’s clever farce comedy,
“What Happened to Father,” a
laughable depiction of the “head of
the house,” who secretly had a
dual personality and who startled
the family out of a year’s growth,
and will hand you more hearty
laughs than you’ve had in quite' a
spell. Christie comedy and novelty,
Marion Zureher at the organ.
Pledging Announcement
Phi Gamma Delta announces the
pledging ot Amos Burg of Portland,
Oregon.
Alpha Xi Delta ’announces the
pledging . of Edna Stoddard of
Baker, Oregon.
Baehelordon announces the pledg
ing- of Dick Lewis of Baker, Oregon,
and Keith MaeGuire of Portland,
Oregon.
Alpha Beta Chi announces the
pledging of Nahum Baker of Grants
Pass, Oregon.
Professor Dunn—Lecture on Homer
ic Poets and Art, Thursday at
7:45, room 105 Deady hall. Under
the auspices of H. Stephenson
Smith’s course in English litera
ture.
Swimmin'g Tank—In Woma n’s build
ing, open to all University women
every afternoon at 5 o’clock, ex
cept Friday.
Eiflery for Women—Definitely dis
continued for the year.
. W. Chorus—Final tryouts today at
1:30 to -1:30. Girls interested re
port to Glenna Heacock at Bunga
low.
Frosh Commission—Meets today at
5 p. m. at the Bungalow.
All Intramural Representatives —
Meet in annual organization of
Pledging Announcement
Delta Gamma announces
pledging of Elma Wiggiu.
t lio
land.
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Not a
tongue-bite
in a
ton of it!
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It may not look so, but he is
referring to his friend’s new
Waterman’s. But, unless he owns
one, he doesn’t know half the story.
Waterman’s looks good, but
the real test comes in use,
and that is where
Waterman’s truly
excels.
We recom
mend for college
Waterman’s
01854 R.R. The holder
nade of stainless ripple
A metal lip-guard pro
) from breaking; a pocket
_ inst loss, and a solid 14
carat gold nib will give service for years. It has
a big ink capacity.
rubber.
The dealer from whom you buy your
supplies sells
>
Announcing
The Opening of
RHODE’S
College Shoppe
NEXT DOOR TO COLLEGE SIDE INN
You are cordially invited to come in
and inspect our new fall and winter
line of College Men’s Togs. *
Also, we have been able to have Mr.
Wobbe, who is representing the Store
Shaffer Co. of Cincinnati, who will be
more than pleased to show you our fall
and winter lines of men’s suits and top
coats.
Jim Regers Is Here to Serve You.
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