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©tegott iatlg 4j:meralh University of Oregon, Eugene RAY NASH, Editor MILTON GEORGE, Manager EDITORIAL flOARD Robert Galloway .. Managing Editor Claudia Fletcher .. Ass’t. Managing Editor Arthur Schoeni ... Telegraph Editor Carl Gregory .r. P. I. P. Editor Arden X. Pangborn Literary Editor Walter Coover ..Associate Editor Richard H. Syring ___ Sports Editor Donald Johnston ... Feature Editor Margaret Long _1-...... Society Editor News and Editor Phones, 656 DAY EDITORS: William Schulze, Mary McLean, prances Cherry, Marian Sten. NIGHT EDITORS: J. Lynn Wykoff, chief; Lawrence Mitchelmore, Myron Griffin, Rex Tussing, Ralph David. ' ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Joe Rice, Mil Prudhomme, Warren Tinker, Clarence Barton, Joe Freck, Gordon Baldwin, Glen Gali, A. F. Murray, Harry Tonkon, Harold Bailey. SPORTS STAFF: Joe Pigrney. Harry Dutton, Chalmers Nooe, Joe Rice, Chandler Brown. FEATURE STAFF: Florence Hurley, John Butler, Clarence Craw, Charlotte Kiefer, Don Campbell. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Amos Bun?, Miriam Shepard. Ruth Hansen, LaWanda Fenlasor, Flossie Radabaugh, William Haggerty, Herbert Lundy, Dorothy Baker. NEWS STAFF: Margaret Wat3on, Wilfred Brown, Grace TayJor, Charles Boice, Elise Schoeder, Naomi Grant, Maryhelen Koupal Josephine Stofiel, Thirza Ander son, Etha Jeanne Clark, Mary Frances Dilday, William Cohagen, Elaine Crawford, Audrey Henrikson, Phyllis Van Kimmell, Margaret Tucker, Gladys Blake, Ruth Craeger, Leonard Delano, Thelma Kem, Jack Coolidge, Crystal Ordway, Elizabetn Schultze, Margaret Reid, Glenna Heacock. BUSINESS STAFF LARRY TUI ELEN—Associate Manager Ruth Street . Advertising Manager Bill Hammond . Ass’t. Advertising Mgr. Lucielle George . Mgr. Checking Dept. Ed. BisBell . Circulation Manager ADVKRTISI NG S A LESM EN—Charles Richard Horn, Harold Kester, Ray Smick, FINANCE A D MINI ST R A TO R—George AD V ERTIS1 NG ASS 1ST ANTS—Harold OFFICE ADMINISTRATION Doris Lauregaard Margaret Poorman, Kenneth Margaret Underwood. 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Day Editor This Issue—Elaine Crawford Night Editor This Issue— Floyd Horn Assistant Night Editors—Warren Tinker Glenn Gall WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1928 Clearing the Ambiguity From ‘Greater Oregon’ EARLY appointment this year of a Greater Oregon committee chairman indicates a commendable tendency to more deliberation in the l conduct of the committee’s activi ties. Heretofore, the loader’s choos ing has often been deferred until late in the spring when his plans, of necessity, had to be made over hastily. • The immature attention and thought devoted to the functions of the committee in the past—through np fault, it’s true, of the commit teemen themselves — have often opened veins of severe questioning concerning the legitimacy of (the group’s work. Its purpose has been criticized as short-sighted promotion. It lias been censured for precipitat ing a landslide of students unquali fied for serious university work by its rosy representations of college life. Whon n recent. critic of the method of disseminating University informa tion suggested that a sort of field secretary could bo employed to sup plant mail advertising, ho did not reckon with costs. Ho was abso lutely correct in implying that a helpful and wise, presentation of what' the University can offer the prospective student is economical of state money and University facili ties. But why didn’t he realize the possibilities of an efficient Greater Oregon team? In some way or another, and we think not all unjustly, Greater Ore gon in the past has carried the un mistakable connotatiojjp of numbers at the sacrifice of Tpiality. But it is not necessarily so. Here, within easy reach of the administration, is a potential student embassy which can learn to choose its material shrewdly. It can be of tremendous assistance to many high school stu dents to whom college means only glamor; it can turn the stops of others to trade schools for which they are best qualified; and it can hearten the real students of Uni versity calibre to surmount inde cision and discouragement and to continue in the University. The work of this year’s Greater Oregon committee will, we hope, achieve this standard. Its efforts, not directed at inflating the Uni versity's glory, should be bent on a studied analysis of University re quirements and the capacities and intentions of prospective students. By giving to high school students a clear, fair picture of what really constitutes University work,'we can progress somewhat toward abandon ing the wasteful trial and error archaism in selection. dIE desire for things on a big scale without due consideration of the quality secured is said to have been one of the characteristics of the Roman civilization and a fac tor which had a share in the ulti mate downfall of Rome. It would seem, says Dean Rebec, that we. of the present age of civilization have inherited quite some portion of the same trait. Size and co.s§< are the points stressed in discussions of new achievements. We pride ourselves on the physical size of our works. The dimensions of a new building aro emphasized. It is the biggest structure of its kind this side of this place or that. Only a mere handful of people will pay any at tention to such beauty as the archi tect may have embodied in liis plans. The universities and colleges of flic country are rapidly increasing in size and have been doing so for some time, especially during the last ten years. Now we hear ex pressions of the bigness of various educational institutions, always with reference to the number enrolled in courses, the number of buildings and the acreage of the campus. The real worth of the instruction offered is seldom discussed; nor do opinions ventured on the subject issue from reliable sources. About the Biggest And the Best Oregon, too, in experiencing :i grout expansion in numbers. At the same time that the authorities are endeavoring to provide the increased facilities made necessary 1% /the numerical growth yf the.University, there is a definite effort being put forth to create an intellectual growth among the students. The American people are definitely committed to the policy of mass education. As a result we find a vast amount of mediocrity in edu cation. The goal of a generally heightened intellect can be achieved only bv improvements on the present educational methods so as to en courage intellectual curiosity in greater numbers of students. The new honors system and the junior college plan should do much to add a certain degree of the desired quality to the bigness of Oregon. —W. (’. , Commun ications To tlio Kilitor: Mv attention lias just hoe a drawn to thu eomnuinicatiou in your paper regarding tho denial of the pleasure of a smoke at the Dad’s Day ban quet. It is interesting and signi liiunt as expressing the sentiment which loads our statute books with prohibitory laws. There are abun dant signs that an anti-tobacco movement is getting under way. it is taking the American form, "There ought to be a law tiitd ;t well known U»ugu»iut> editor lias expressed the opinion that, ill less than 10 years, such a movement shall have gained considerable moment tun. As one who regards our Nineteenth Amendment ns a well-intentioned blunder, let me draw your readers' attention to ttio fact that it was not the Anti Saloon League but the manners of Amerieau drinkers and the insolence of the American drink ing places that gave us prohibition. Under the same conditions France or Germany wimlil probably have re sorted tn prohibition also. Willi the largest per capita con sumption of toliaceo in ttie world, it is but natural *that there should lie a growing feeling that the to baeco industry is not in need of any further encouragement. When, added to this, there is the attitude of certain smokers that a non smoker has no rights that a smoker need respect -that a sei-ond-haud smoke and a foul tobacco breath shall, willy it illy. be given to every frequenter of public hulls and res itaurants, it is little wonder that wo van see the beginning of another erusade. Some people have no ob jections to the individual use of gar lie but they do object to its being served at a publie banquet. I The most amusing feature is the | assumption that all objections are j lemoved by the vusual, "Do you I object to my smoking.'" ‘‘John, why did you sit with your feet on tho parlor table while at Mrs. de .Smith’s last night’’’ "Oh, 1 asked her if she minded my doing it and stie said, ‘No. make y ourself per fectly at home. ’ ’’ This is not au indictment of smokers but of the kind of people who are playing into the bauds of the professional reformers. ON Jc OF THE DVDF. | TSe SEVEN SEERS Will all those who borrowed , blankets from Captain McEwan last fall please return them. — (Advertisement in Emerald.) “Cap” must be finding that these cold nights require dots of blankets. NEW YORKER TO CALL EUGENE NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 14.— (Special —Officials of tlie Bell Telephone Company were awaiting with anxiety here tonight the suc cess or -failure of a telephone call from Earl “Si” Slocum, of New York, to Lucile George, of Gamma Phi Beta, Oregon. Officials declared that while this will not be the first time such a long call has been completed, it is the first time modern science has ever dared attempt such a feat over a sorority line. Mr. Slocum is laboratory instruc tor of the school of mines on the floating university, which sails from here. According to word received just before breakfast this morning from the Gamma Phi house, the call was completed. Just what the conver sation included is not being divulged at the present time by Miss George. Neither is she saying which end of the line the call was charged to. TO DA V 0 EOG R APHIGAL ANSW >•: -.1 “1 bet you can’t ride on the trains for nothing.” “No; but a Hoboken.” (Such merriment must be deserved. Since try-outs for the Junior Chorus started, all the girls have started speaking to Len Thompson (he is in charge of chorus- and they are saying how nice he is, too—tell ing people they know will tell him. I’rosh Ben Dover wants to know if “Sitting Bull’s” good looking daughter was named, “Sitting Pret ty.” “R. U. R. YOU CRAZY?” ASIC GIRLS AS MEN RUN AMUCK Hundreds of little girls were frightened to death last night dim ing dinner when “mechanical men” silently paraded in black around their tables advertising ARE YOU ARB. Girls at men’s houses, how ever, did their advertising by still more mechanical means—TALKING. (N. V. Daily Nows) UNIVERSITY OUSTS GIRL’S KIDNAPERS SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 7.—(U.P.) Nino students, all athletes, of the University of Washington have been expelled or suspended for participat ing in the kidnaping and hazing of Maxion Zioncheck, president of the student governing body, it was re vealed today. Moral: Nows increases in value as it travels. SOLICITED COMMENT ON THE SEVEN SEERS The Angelas Temple chorus have put the Seven Seers column to music and sing it as vespers. The offer ing's from the audience have in creased tenfold. May heaven give you strength to cany your gospel to every hamlet and hearth in the land. SISTER AIMEE. (Editor’s Note: For gosh sakes, don’t make your contributions sac religious. Do you want the execu tive council to suspend the Seven Seers column and have me kicked out of school?) FAMOUS l.AST WORDS lion much farther!' SEVEN SEERS fflmm (Bur Hook £faoh Conducted by Arden X. Pangborn i JOHN ERSKINE: Enough of His ; Life to Explain His Versatility. The professor of English at Col umbia University, with a dozen vol umes of humorous and satiric essays and beautiful poetry to his credit, is not the product of his first best seller novel, “The Private Life of Helen of Troy,” and his two subse quent successes, “Galahad” and“Ad am and Eve.” At forty, lie was unknown except to a small delighted circle. At forty-five he is one of the best known and well-beloved novelists in the whole country. There is a great distance between the ad jectives “academic” and “popular.” In the case of Prof .Erskine, about twenty years. He is still academ ic, and he is also popular. Students wait to get into his classy. Pcoplo stand to hear him lecture. And an announcement of a new book stirs the book-reading world. John Erskine is not the typo of 'professor of popular belief. His position in American literature is high; lie has a half-dozen degrees; for his educational work in France during the war he has been given the medal of the Legion d’Honneur; he is a musician of excellent ability —just .now touring with the New York symphony orchestra as pianist under the baton of Walter Dam rosch; he is a fascinating, humorous lecturer, and early in February he starts on his first country-wide tour, being booked solid for months; and he is a novelist, a satirist, a “mod ern ” who hit upon the ingenious idea of presenting America with pic tures of herself today painted with broad, swift strokes on a background of antiquity. The first of these was a novel, “The Private Life of Helen pt Troy,” and John Erskine awoke one morning to find himself prob ably the most popular novelist in the United States. I here is a reason for this. He is a broad-shouldered, virile, hand some chap, whose lively interests extend beyond the class-room. He is interested in people—-American people and, these “modern” times and maimers' of which he himself, with two lively children,*is a part. That* he could not, with his pertin ent, timely essays reach a large au dience is not his fault. That he wanted very much to do it is evi denced by his novels. That he has ac complished it, one ha» only to note his position on the best-selling lists of the country. Now his volumes of essays are al most as popular as his novels. A new volume was brought out last year under the title, “.Prohibition and Christianity, and Other Para .doxos of the Ameriacn Spirit.” His latest book of essays, “The Delight of Great Books,” is to be published in March. John Erskine is not a paradox, a professor turned novelist, a peda gogue turned pianist. He *4s simply John Erskine, Henry Morton Rob inson calls him a “modern Actaeon.” Perhaps. . * * # Longman’s, Green & Co. plan to publish «u February 15 the first novel by Hugo Wast to bo printed : in English in the United States, i Wast is the best known of South American novelists,, and his, stories ! of the Argentine have sold widely j here in Spanish. “Black Valley,” the forthcoming novel, won the Roy al Spanish Academy prize for litera ture—a prize which is awarded but ! om-e in five years. “Black Valley” is a tale of love and a bitter land feud in the Argentine mountains. One of the March novels will bo i K. Uussiev Orenburgsky’s “The Land of the Children.” While the book is as much a story of individual | men and women as Hamsun’s “Growth of the Boil,” its back-I ground is the Russian revolution. Orenburgsky is well knotvn in Rus sia, where some of his books have sold as many as 1200,000 copies, but hi is at present living in New York. "The Great American Bandwag on,'’ by Charles Mena, a John Day novel, has been chosen Literary; Guild book for February. 1’ayson and Clarke, Ltd., of New ^ ork, have announced for spring, publication, “Heading for the \ -Uiyss," by I’riuce Lichuowsky. This is a book that, under the title, "Auf Item Webe Zmu Abgrund,” startled Germany into violent argument on its publication a few weeks ago, and has already elicited comment' and rev iews all over the world. Crime Lieliuowsky, from his em inent position as a statesman and as ambassador to England, warned the imperial German government against the headstrong policy which i resulted in wot'3 disaster. Like Cassandra, he warned in vain. His book is the first to tell the whole story from the anti-Bismarekian1 German standpoint; he has a good chance now to say, “1 told you so." It is of interest to the people of every country drawn iuto the strug gle. * * * Among the Newer Books THE COMPLETE WOK KB OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, edited b\ W . J. Lraig. New York. Oxford I’niversity Cress, Four out of five libraries have it. This edition has two advantages; it is cheap and it is authentic. THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE GLOSSARY, by C. T„ Onions. New York. Oxford University Press. Goes with the above. SHAKESPEARE: THE MAN AND HIS STAGE, by E. A. G. Lam born and G. B. Harrison. New York, dxford University Press. Ditto. LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTOR IA. New York. Longmans, 'Green. First publication of the third vol ume of the second series. Figure that out. Disraeli sends a valen tine. MY WIFE, POOR WRETCH, by ‘ Emma Beatrice. New York. Fred erick A. Stokes. Uncensored Epi sodes not in the diary of Samuel j Pepys. SPENSER’S MINOR POEMS. New York. Ashendene Press. Bus iness not brisk. Price $210.00. CRUDE MATERIAL, by C. B. Mullong. Philadelphia. Dormance. Crude material. MURDER AT MANSON’S, by R. E. Young. New York. John Day. i Blah. j MURDER IN THE MAZE, by J. J. Connington. Boston, Little, | Brown. More blah. GRIST, by Edwin Cdrlile Litsevij Philadelphia. Dorrance. Blah. Blah. University High Starts New Practice Teachers A new group of practice teach ers have taken up its duties at the University High. Lawrence De Eycke, Ester Day Craddock, Kath erine Kirk and Allas, Daily are in the commerce department; Grace Fleming, Zelda Hayes, Ruth Newton, ' Art Matson, Loretta Mason, Mau rine Lombard, Constance Roth, Aus-' tn. Graves and Lucille Jackson are ,in the English department^ Helen Mu-maw, Betty Easterday, Elizabeth | Waara, Edna Asscnheimer, Carroll Goshong, George Sumerville and Pearl McMullen are in the history j department; Juanita Biglow, Do Etta Robnett, Bethel Eidson,- Alice Southwick, Pautine Venable, Art Wyeck and Ruth Street are teaching foreign languages; Ruben Ross, Iven meth Wadleigh, Edna Brockman, Olive Adams, Loye Smith and Her man Meierjurgen are in the mathe matics department; Ronald Kretzer, Frances Schroeder and Lawrence Leslie are teaching science. CAMPUS 'BuJietm The Vagabond (The lectures on today’s cal endar have been -selected for their general appeal. Everyone is welcome.) “Earthquakes,” by Dr. E. T. Hodge. Class—Deneral Geology. 101 Condon, 9 a. m. “Can Reasoning Be Improved?” by Assistant Prof. Howard R. Taylor. Class—Beginning Psy chology. 108 Villard, 9 a. m. “Don Quixote,” by Associate Prof. S. Stephenson Smith. Class —Renaissance Literature. 206 Villard, 11 a. m. “The French Army, the Church, and Dreyfus,” by Prof. Walter Barnes. Class—Modern Europe. 110 Johnson, 2 p. m. Tabard Inn meets at the Journalism building at 7:30. Interesting meeting. Women’s League tea today, 4 to 6, Woman’s building. Important meeting of Temenids Wednesday evening, February 15, at 7:45. Installation of officers. Oregon Kniglit meeting in tlio Ad ministration building at 7:30 to night sharp. Very important. OREGON STATE COLLEGE, Feb. 14.—(P.I.P.)—Rlio Dammit Rho, the new Oregon State rowing club training barge, has been officially christened. A representative crew of oarsmen with some experience rowed a demonsration run. The launching of the barge has opened practice for 150 members of the club. A shell house, training quarters, float and training barge have been built by voluntary work| by* members of the club. j SHINE! SHINE! SHINE! | DIME! DIME! DIME! Shoe Shine for a Dime! Mechanical Men K K K—Means Caitipa Shoppe Feb. 21 And How! A happy, snappy dance with plenty of fea tures and the Kollege Knights. Tickets on sale at every living organization, at the Co-op, and at tlie McMorran & Washburne store. 7 PA-wins on every count ANY way you figure It, P, A. is better tobacco, Take fragrance, for instance. Your well-known olfactory organ will tell you. And taste—who can describe that? And mildness—you couldn’t ask for anything milder. Yes, Sir, P. 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