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RAY NASH, Editor MILTON GEORGE, Manage!
EDITORIAL BOARD
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Clarence Barton, Joe Freck, Gordon Baldwin, Glen Gall, A. F, Murray, Harry
Tonkon, Harold Bailey.
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The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the
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Day Editor This Issue—Elaine Crawford
Night Editor This Issue- Joe Freck
Assistant Night Editors— Myron Griffin
Glenn Gall
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1928
But the Grown-ups
Keep Their Dolls
A MEDLEY of interpretations, oil
with t lie same refrain of
“what’s wrong with the colleges?”
continue to be featured in all the
leading periodicals. Panaceas, anti
dotes, and nostrums ad nauseam are
offered fdr the diseases of these in
stitutions. Hut relatively slight at
tention is paid to the deep-rooted
causes of their indisposition.
Correct procedure in this instance,
by analogy again, would be to dis
passionately diagnose the affliction
by its symptoms and determine the
real source of the difficulty which
sort of educational leech is too
•prolio to merely accept as an or
ganic imperfection of the college
itsi’df.
Too rarely is the obvious fact
considered that students who enter
the ivied portals are nothing more
or less than the sum of their ex
periences — that is, educationally.
Formal procedure as a rule begins
with tlie .grade school and continues
in the high school. Hut in some
eases a previous preparation is
given. This is true at Porterville,
California, whence comes this news
item:
“A no-doll edict has been handed
down in the Olive- street school here
for liindergnrteu pupils with the ob
servation that ‘playing mother’ dur
ing sessions has diverted attention
from the regular class routine.”
“Playing mother,” we take it, is
much too vital, too closely linked
with living, too much fun ever to
be educational. There is another in
stitution we have in mind where
children are taught through play,
and their progress is remarkable.
Hut we daresay that school, by hu
man teaching, pays the penalties of
heresy against the tenets of formal
met hodology.
“What’s wrong with the col
leges?” we might reply, the kinder- i
gulden. There it is that blighting
academicism creates the lirsl breach
between knowledge and intelligence.
And as long as pupils remain recep
tive, a progressive system widens
the breach.
College students, however, have
the advantage over the kimiergar-!
ten pupils. They have learned to
enliven the presentation of the dead
past with the lamented extra-curli- ,
culum activities. They refuse to'
take their dollies home.
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A Live (rliost
Trout the Bust
OINCIi wo are nothing if not up- i
preciative, we have become tic- I
costumed to constructing memorials l
to the memory of such persons and
filings as have aroused our esteem,
in fact, the custom is so well in
trenched in our mode of life that
to see a monument which testifies to
I ho excellence of this or of that
person is to assume that lie has de
parted this world and that his spirit
is communing with the great of past
ages.
In the light of such a condition,
witness the latest achievement in
memorial symbolisms. .Recent news
dispatches from Hanover town in
the state of New Hampshire, the
seat of Dartmouth College, tell of
■f gift of $1,000,01111 which lias mgde.
possible the erection of a fine new
library at the college. Atoji the
beautiful colonial lower-of the li
brary is a faithful replica of a rum
cash, complete even to copper hoops.
.Needless to say, many a New ling
lander has been aroused to protest
against the seeming sacrilege of in
cluding a ram cask in a. memorial
j to the Puritans who laid the foun
dation of the college. They see in
it a protest against prohibition; a
budge which brands the institution
as the very den of iniquity mid sin
which many believe the modern col
lege to be. Besides, what, if any,
is the esthetic value of an imita
tion rum cask ?
Happily enough, there is a rea
son for this unusual form of me
morial. When I'Kleazar Wheelock,
revered as the founder of Dart*
mouth, bought tho land on which
the college was started in 1701), he
drove a shrewd bargain with the
Indians of the neighborhood and se
cured the land in exchange for 500
gallons of grade “A” Nfcw England
rum. .since rum was a recognized
medium of exchange in tho trade
of the time, the present generation
of students and faculty at Dart
mouth hold tliut the memorial is
appropriate, especially as it is said
to be executed in a truly artistic
inn a ner.
True, it is quite unconventional
to lie so truth-telling when it comes
to the matter of commemorating fa
mous happenings of the past, but
tlien this is said to be an uncon
ventional age.
Again, there is the oft repeated 1
story of wide-spread riotous living
on the port of the present rullcge
generation; a tale which lias many
times been denied by well-qualified
observers. In view of our penchant 1
for erecting monuments to beings
el' (lie past, cannot the alarmists be
made to think that the enshrined
mm cask is dedicated to the mem
ory of Demon Rum, officially exiled
rf not actually dead.'
—w. r.
AllA,am/ms Smoker
Civet i by Webfoot
Club Thursday Ti e
-Ml ye Hit'll nl' jiuguustir and Inula
natures luilil yourselves roiulv tin
•lie liiy event. Wliat 1 a SMOI\Kl{
Where? at tlie MK.N iS CY.Wl
Wlieii.’, Tliri(isl>AV Night. KUr
the r more uml to-wit.
Tlie Webfoot i-1 uI) in t iles all UH'ii
nl the above designation to lie m-e
suit in full (smoker) dress uml It
time at eight o'clock j»re|iaretl tu
viru some veiy good boxing ami
wrestling bouts. There will be otli
ei untertaiiimeut not foigettiug tin
J'l'UIIUts.
Four brotessiouill boxers hate
bton see U red iol the main boxing
ImUts. Tile names (,| these glow
sinners will be nut tuiiiorruw,
"Art" Kit'Jil, winner of the 111'.
I'ouud iliamjiiuusliiji ju (Ue recent
ill t I'll mural wrest lino loi^rnaiiieul,
has urrauged some clever tendem
J’Ulliug bouts. I’artieijiaiiU in these
'ibails have been selected from (iar
ticipaats "i the touruauient.
(^rat'lsmru, Tciiicnicls
IMan Animal Formal
I'lic annual formal joint cljilice of
tin1 Craftsman's Club Temenids—
"ill In' hold at tlio Craftsman’s olub
j houso Saturday nij^ht, February t.
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I morons scenes from Knglaud, Scot
I laud, and Ireland.’’ .
Km losed in AlijCroskcv'.s letter 1
■ to t oaeli llorner is an editorial ^
' I'i’ 11 ed from a Manila newspaper ^
, at the time of the Oregon debate
: "ilh the University of the l*hilip- t
jl'ines. The paper commends the Ore j.
^on men for spiiit and plnok in i
making tlm trip around the world l
and wishes them success in their
j'forthcoming contests. There is also
eiielos-d an illustrated artiele, giv
ing pictures of the debaters of the
two lunvcr^itus,
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TftSEVEN
SEERS
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[ “TELL ME, WHERE IS OUR
| XEW DORM AT?” SAID THE
JANITOR, AND HIS BROOM
SHOOK WITH LAUGHTER.
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Lowden Funnier, singer in a
campus orchestra, who was recently
presented with a silver loving cup
by the American Society for the
Prevention . of ..Cruelty . to ..Radio
Listeners. In Mr. Funnier’s two
years of broadcasting he refused to
sing “My Blue Heaven” and
| “Among My Souvenirs” more than
once ..every ..six ..weeks. He was
highly commended on his excellent
sportsmanship.
FABLE
“Now here’s the key to my car.”
“What a close race,” said the
Scotchman as he fell off the dock
at the Anchorage.
She: “The poor little fleas—do
you know what happens to them?”
Her: “No, what?”
She: “They all go to the dogs.”
AFT EE 7 :.'!0 OK THU PADDLE
DID NOT FALL
there whs >lio floubtj.for 9 o’clock
to her lie said, ‘‘good night.” They
heard his voice and had no choice
but to believe it in that light. Down
he was called and out was bawled,
but all he said was this, “I did not
go last night I know. I did not
see my Miss.” It seems he took
Marion’s pocketbook and in his
pocket put it. She called him up;
she wished to sup; to S. P. 'I', she
foot it. From the porch above he
spoke his love and he dropped the
money. She had to go to eat and
so, he said “good night Honey.”
LINDY RECEIVES WARM
WELCOME IN CHICAGO
SHRAPNEL FIELD, Chicago,
Feh. 1.— (Special)—Amid a bar
rage of pistol and machine gun bul
lets, the Spirit of St. Louis landed
here at 4:37, after its hop from
Minneapolis. Lindy, as lie stepped
from his plane, said Will Rogers is
right—Chicago is hard to locate from
the air because of pistol smoke.
The Col. was immediately rushed
by the marines to the English sec
tion of the library,- where he was
concealed. Foresight of Mayor
Thompson in ordering ammunition
shops closed for the afternoon is
credited with keeping the deaths 1
down to a few thousand.
* * *
A short time ago a headline in
the Oregonian said a noted seer was
under arrest. 11is name was Alex
ander. Me wish to announce that
there is nobody on the staff by that
11 ame, and that the Oregonian may
tind itselt sued for libel.
‘JB mm
IT TAKES ’I'll E HNX.USH !>K
’ A K I'M EXT TO Kr'KXISH EX
•JTEMENT FOIt THE OAM.IH'6?.
'll- EllNST HAS A UA1KCTT.
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The blond senior with the coffce
Uiuod mustache says .if a man
rears a hat he isn’t necessarily act
ing uncollegiate. He may just he
etting bald.
* * *
Grcdehon wants to know win
lu-y don^t make cereal out of the
lain of wood. I’oor Urctcheu. she
uist never have tasted prepared
reaktast foods.
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The Vagabond
(The lectures on today’s cal
endar have been selected for
their general appeal. Everyone
is welcome.)
“Rise of the Medieval Ro
mance, ” by Associate Prof. S.
Stephenson Smith. Class — Me
dieval Literature. 20(3 Villard,
8 a. m.
“From Pineapples to l’olioe
hoc Lava,” by Ur. Warren D.
Smith. Class—General Geology.
101 Condon, 9 a. m.
“Can Mental Abilities Bo
Measured by Assistant Prof.
Howard It. Taylor. Class—Begin
ning Psychology. 108 (Villardi,
a. m.
“Nostrums and Quackery,” by
Assistant Prof. Uelbert Ober
leuffer. Class—Personal Health.
121 Woman’s building, 1 p. m.
“Franco - Prussian War,” by
Prof. Walter C. Barnes. Class—
Modern Europe. 110 Johnson, 2
3. m.
Order of “O”—The following letter
men meet in 10-1 Journalism build
ing at 4:20 today (Wednesday):
Weems, Robinson, .German, Wil
liams, McGee, Eddy, Cohefn, J.
Smith, Pope, Stadelman, and Hut
ton. Last Pow-Wow—Important!
The faculty meeting which was to
have been held today has been
postponed until next week in order
that the Jji»Mor College committee
| might have more time to complete
their report.
Meeting—Pi Lambda Theta at An
chorage Thursday at noon.
Theta Sigma Phi will meet at 4:20
: Wednesday afternoon in r.oom 105
in the Journalism building.
Tabard Inn meeting tonight at the
“shack,” 7:30. All old members
and pledges. Important.
Will the following persons please
check for extra photographs at
Kcnnel-Ellis today if they have
not already done so: Edith Bain,
ifciafcde.. %ansen, Elaine Header
son, Florence King, Miriam Swaf
ford, Hope Crouch, Bed Mathews,
Martha Stevens, Katherine Tal
bot, Walton Crane, Maxine Brad
bury (for Oregiwia staff); Ray
Dudley, Jack Coolidge, John Rice,
Bill I’rudliomme, Clarence Barton,
Gordon Baldwin, Andrew Murray,
Ulemia Heaeock, Margaret Reid,
John Caldwell, Ajirton Peterson,
Doris Pugslev, Helen Laurgaard,
Harriet Butterworth, Margaret
Poonnun, Paulino Prigmorc, Eliza- |
both Boynton, Kenneth Moore,
Harold Bailey, Herbert King, and ;
Ralph Millsap (for the Emerald j
stuff). !
The Campus Stroller
O b s:e r v e 8 . . . .
By J. L. W.
THAT someone should inform tlu
weather man of the advent of spring
as typified by the renewed watery
condition of the millraee.
THAT an ad running in the Em
era Id offers a free meal to the first
one presenting it at the restaurant
advertised, and
THAT we’ve been up at 5 o’clock
four mornings straight, but some
body beat us to it every time.
THAT chemistry laboratories
should be isolated as is the music
building, and not built in conjunc
tion with others buildings, so that
the pernicious odors emanating
tSerefrom make life almost unbear
able for those not inured to them.
THAT the name of the man who
takes an intense interest in a girl
about three weeks before her house
formal is Legion—and also Mud!
THAT since insanity has become
the surefire alibi of criminals, it
is to be expected tlurt some of the
hundred or so who have not paid
their fees will enter that plea.
THAT around the fireplace of
their sons’ fraternity, a group of
dads declared Saturday night that
while college is reputed to have
“gone to the dogs,” they could tell
some stories of thfir sophomore days
that would make good fuel for the
fire in any scandal-mongering min
ister’s remarks.
iTieate-rs ^'1
M c DO XALD — Last d a y — “ The
Cohens and Kellys in Paris,” a
laughter filled sequel to the famous
farce that rocked the world with
laughter, and started the vogue for
Jewish-Irish comedies, with George
Sidney, Vera Gordon, J. Farrel Mac
Donald, Kate Price, and a great
cast of comedians; and, on the
stage, “Kaleb,” the man who
knows, master mystic and seer, and
his company, featuring Elma, Asiatic
dancer, and Kamara, mcntnlist su
preme, matinee and night; special
ladies only souvenir matinee today
at 1:30; Robert Bruce scenic,
■‘Rough Country,” musically inter
preted by Prank D. C. Alexander;
International news events.
RDX—First day—Billie Dove in J
'The Tender Hour/’ with Ben Lyon,
in a pulsating rotnanee of gay Paree,
where romance runs the gamut of
emotions in one glamorous hour of
love anil intrigue; also Buster Bjro.Wn
comedy; Oregon pictorial liewi
events; Marion Zurclier at the or*
gan.
AGAIN TODAY! '
Matinees Daily 2 p. m.
Evenings 7 & 9 p. m.
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