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Day Editor This Issue—Frances Cherry
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Harry* Tonkdh
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927.
Oregon Must Now
Ray the Piper
Thoughtful students will ho
somewhat dismayed at the load
of debt on their shoulders which
the report of the finance committee
graphically reveals. The trebling
of the burden in the general funds
classification alone is a writing on
the wall with unmistakable impli
cations.
The Associated Students have
danced and are now face to face
with the problem of paying the
piper. The precarious margin
shown in the football ledger adds
to the sobering effect of the $<10
per student direct tax for the build
ing fund. Oregon is shaking its
head after an orgy of ostrich opti
mism.
Student over-enthusiasm erected
a colossal monument to a victorious
basketball squad. It indentured it
self heavily in attempting to meet
formidable cut-throat, athletic com
petition. It hoped against reason
to realize on its hairbrained specu
lations. And now the A. tS. U. O.
confronts the painful penalties of
inflation.
Pruning adventitious sprouts from
the extra-curricular activities tree
will not suffice; shrewd investiga
tion is necessary and it may be that
some of the more important branches
must be sacrificed to , cheek the
blighting parasite of interest. Pay
ments of interest alone, it will be
noted, have already reached four
figured installments.
The finance committee’s budget,
due the middle of next month be
fore the executive council, can do
much to stabilize the existing mone
tary weaknesses. Knowledge of
t.he situation, unwavering resolu
tion and u keen pair of shears are
needed. Even though it hurts a
little, do not flinch!
The College Nation
Seeks An Answer
<<nnTTESE are Die busy days for
tlio educational reformers,’'
according to the New Student
Service, "... University of
Michigan has definitely determined
to begin next fall the plan of con
ferring two-year diplomas on stu
dents deemed incapable of carrying
upper division wdrlc.”
Other universities now experi
menting with various improvement
plans include Wisconsin, studying
separate civilizations comjple.tely
instead of piecemeal; Antioch, alter
nating manual work with study
periods; Harvard, introducing two
week reading periods as a prelimin
ary to final examinations; and
Princeton, experimenting with a
preceptorial system and a four
year course- plan.
No Oregon, after all, is by no
means uni<|uo in its restiveness
under the old order. Institution of
the honors college for the upper
division and abolition of the grade
sheet as a remedial measure for dis
tractions from lower division schol
arship are current local manifesta
tions of the important movement
which is sweeping the entire na
tion.
As the Daily Prineetoniun com
ments:
“We are entitled to hope for bet
ter things in the line of education
in the next few years.”
Yes, somewhere among the halt
ing attempts and missteps must lie
the happy solution for the baffling
puzzle of democratic education. Ills
that formerly seemed inherent ip
the system have already been iso
lated and are yielding to treatment.
Tomorrow may build real scholastic
achievement on today’s pathetic
fumblings.
Modern Painting More Scientific
Than Artistic, Says Kenneth Hudson
“Perfection of technique in mod
ern painting lias been developed to
such a degree tHut emotional inter
est is entirely lacking, and paint
ing lias become a science rather
than an art,” said Kenneth K. Hud
son, assistant professor of archi
tecture and allied arts, in a talk to
the fortnightly club yesterday.
Painting was first introduced be
cause of economic necessity to sub
stitute for the old mosaics which in
the 'Christian era became too costly
for the churches to afford, Mr. Hud
son pointed out. This was the Ital
ian art of primitive school, and
the paintings were made to conform
to the religious beliefs, rituals and
ideas of the day.
The churches believed that the
study from the nature of the human
figure or even landscape was rob
bing the painting of its spirituality,
lor this reason then the art was very
crude from a technical standpoint
but eery rich in emotional inter
est. The first great master of the
primitive school was (Kotin, whose
pictures the speaker characterized
as outstanding for their directness,
simplicity and comprehension.
As painting begun to be recog
nized as having a definite place iti
the life of the people, investigation
began to be made, life was looked
upon as a field of materials, truths
were discovered in nature and with
the art of Massutio came the com
plete knowledge of the human fig
ure.
Front lotto to 1000, during the
High Kenaissaitco, painting, as an
art, was perfected. Since this time
unified painting litis given way to
specialization. The result of this
lias been a deterioration because ot
an over development of one phase
of the work.
The most important modern school
of art is the so called primitive
! _ . I Up!
ing in technique, tint arc looking
Isick in die ulil masters for the fun
da me li til Is. They wish to make
painting vital and to eliminate tech
nique for technique's sake. These
pictures have an emotional interest
and a person does not have to be
educated in art to appreciate them.
Another school of this period, for
lack of a butter name, would bo
called the radicals. They believe,
Mr. 11 tidspn said, that everything
developed so far is bad. They would
do away with all established rules
and look to the archaic, negroid and
infantile subjects. They are grad
ually, however, coming back to the
piimitive style of painting or that
of emotion rather than technique.
Probably the newest school of
painters is the distortionists, said
the speaker. These people would dis
card all actuality, painting in the
abstract merely design or splash.
They try to portray the emotional
reaction one would have to a pic
ture, without portraying the object
causing the emotion. .Probably the
most famous picture of this type
was the one exhibited ill New York
entitled "Nude Descending a Stair
case.” There was neither a nude
nor a staircase, but the artist had
tried to. paint the emotion he would
feel eu seeing such a thing.
Boynton To Address
Library Association
Dr. \V. I’, Boynton, head of the
department of physics, will give an
address before the Portland Library
association in Portland today. The
association has been sponsoring a
series of lectures given by the
heads of various departments con
cerning the bibliography of the de
partments, and Dr. Boynton’s talk
I '"ill be ell ph' -ice.
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, TfitSEVEN
L SEERS
Sr
PUTS FOOTBALL
IN MOUTH TO WIN
BET—BUT OH MY!
(Portland Telegram)
OREGON CITY, Ore., Dec. 1.—
(8pecial)—B. Y. Harris, mill work
er, made a bet in a local pool ball
last night that he could place a bil
liard ball in his mouth. The crowd
doubted. The bet was 50 cents.
Mr. Harris won.
But it took Dr. A'. H. Huydke a
couple of hours to extricate the ball
from the half choked Harris.
» « «
We planned to tell Coach Me
Ewan about this fellow, until we
read the whole story and found it
really wasn’t a football. Just think
of the trick plays that could be
built around such a man!
# * #
Ir d ,
Fiji: “What are you doing up
here?”
Diji: “Nothing. I have a class.”
* * •
TODAY’S GEOGRAPHICAL
ANSWER
“He’s not as bad as he might bo.”
“Budapest, anyhow.” (And she
nearly went into convulsions.)
« * #
NEW FRATERNITIES
MAKE APPEARANCE
The Santa Clans club, formed
early in the term by A. T. O.’s who
pigged engaged women or women
with steadies, has become a regular
fraternity and just recently granted
Oregon Beta chapter to a petition
ing group at the Kappa Sig house.
The organization is a regular fra
ternity in every respect, even to
rituals and pledge pins.
Another club to form at the A. T.
O. house is the “Six Wise Men” or
the “Die Hards.” Membership is
made up of men who have been
“thrown over” by a woman or else
have “thrown over” some woman
because she was going with some
body else too much. If they ever
go back to the woman, they get
booted from the club. Frank “Flop”
Powell was recently released. There
have been no chapters granted so
far. ,
Voire on Chi O side porch: ‘‘lloy,
Ormastend, what are you and Gloria
doing in that mail closetf”
“Playing postoffice, what do you
suppose!”
• * *
CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
PACED WITH QUARANTINE
(By Clothes Press)
SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 2.—(Spe
cial)—Great anxiety lias been felt
by authorities hero today following
the outbreak of writer’s cramp at
the International Correspondence
School.
Two cases of the dread disease
have been reported in the South Sea
Islands amcfeig the “Proper Meat
Diet’’ students, and also several
senior electric refrigeration majors
in Alaska are down with the
malady.
"I am afraid that we can have
no Christmas vacation this year,”
said Dewey Wright, president of the
school, “but postal authorities have
promised to move the graduation
days ahead two weeks, to make up
for it.”
Gretclicli says her lu>y friend, had
his hand taken off (off her shoul
der.)
'SCKN'K ON HIGHWAY TO 1’OKT
LAND 1. Ast WEEK-END—
One blue coupe going 30 miles an
hour with ono occupant in rumble
sent, also one quart oil can (not
filled with oil). From can a rubber
tube extending through back "hi
de, w to front seat, where three other
occupants partake at various iittor
\a!s by means of said rubber tube.
(And then they say college stu
dents aren’t versatile.)
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“lley. how about me?”
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SEVEN SEEKS
W. A. A. paper chase—Girls start
at Woman’s building at 2 p. in.,
back at 5 p. m.
The Webfoot club will have its bi
weekly dinner at the College Side
Inn, Monday at 6 p. m.
Phi Delta Kappa initiation and ban
quet Saturday, December 3. Ini
tiation to start at 3 p. m. in Wo
man’s building. Banquet at 6
p. m. at Anchorage.
Fred Clarfe, pastor of the Congrega
tional church, will lead discussion
group at Westminster house, Sun
day at 6:30. All students in
vited.
Dimer h. Shirrell, dean of men, will
speak: on “Consistency?” beflore
members of Wesley club at Metho
dist church, Sunday evening.
Westminster Bible class meets Sun
day morning, 9:45, at Westmin
ster house under leadership of
Dean E. L. Shirrell. University
men and women cordially invited.
V. W. C. A. discussion groups:
“Poetry,” Dr. Smertenko, at her
home, 740 East loth street, Sun
day, 7:30 p. m. “Relationship
Between Men and Women,” Miss
Thomas, Bungalow, Monday at
3 p. m. “Psychology and Reli
gion,” Dr. Conkliu, Bungalow, Mon
day, 4 p. m. j
The Campus Stroller
Observes . . . . .
THAT Hayward Field is lonely
now, and seems to dream of past
glories, while McArthur Court is
awakening from the long hiberna
tion in anticipation of battles to
come.
THAT the unintentional Seer-like
appearance of this column yesterday
was due to the unsolicited aid of an j
over-zealous night editor.
TjrfAT the new Fords have come,
but—
THAT the old vanity of flivver
will continue to find favor in col
legiate circles to a large extent.
THAT the faculty, in the course
of the debate over the suggested de
mise of the Scandal Sheet, ex
pressed the opinion that students
would be in favor of abolishing any
thing proposed, and—
THAT we’ll bet they were think
ing of final exams.
• Pledging Announcement
Phi Sigma Kappa announces the
pledging of ddnnis Keizer of Korth
Bend, Oregon.
Juniors Champions
In Speedball Finals
The junior women won the speed
ball championship last night when
they defeated the sophomores 18 to
1. This is the only game the sopho
mores have lost although the seniors
tied them Monday, 3 to 3. The
juniors lost one game to the sopho
mores by a small margin.
The sophomores could not seem to
break through the junior backfield
and they could not hold the fast'
junior forward line.
The seniors won their game with
the freshmen, 6 to 2. The last half
of the game was played by the light
of the moon and one star. The mag
nesia covered ghost ball could not
be seen in the di mlight. The fresh
men scored when one of the girls
under cover of the darkness rau over
the line and caught a forward pass.
12 Pencils with Name
Printed in Gold, 60c
Johnson City, N. Y.
assorted colors, high grade No. 2
black lead, postpaid. Cases for six
pencils, Morocco, $1; leather, 75c;
imitation leather, 50c.
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Johnson City, N. Y.
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