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University of Oregon, Eugene
RAY NASH, Editor
MILTON GEORGE, Manager
EDITORIAL flOARD
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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
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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. A. is cool and comfortable and
mellow and mild.. Long-burning, with a good
clean ssh. You never tire of P. A. It’s always the
same old friendly smoke. Get yourself a tidy
red tin and check everything I’m telling you!
Fringe albert
— no other tobacco is like itl
^ ^'8. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, Wmston-Salam, N. C.
The more you know
about tobaccos, the
more you appreciate
P.A,