Term Paper
Explained by
Faculty Member
Ten Commandments —
Crib Not, Copy Not,
But Do Paraphrase!
-By S. S. S. -—
If lliosc members of the class
who are working to get by, or to
make their house grades, or to earn
three necessary upper division
hours, will retire to the back of this
large hall, and read the Inncrald,
play poker, bridge, or mumblcdc
peg,—silently—, I have a few re
marks to make on the subject of
•t term papers for the benefit of those
who are working to install a little
permanent furniture in their minds,
and who arc trying to find out what
the world is about. This little dis
course is on term papers.
The term paper offers you a
chance to do something on your
own account. You cease being a
human sponge, anil become a self
active and dynamic unit once more.
You are undertaking a project
which is your best chance to show
your mettle. Do not be too much
influenced by the .fact that you arc
writing for a single reader: the pro
fessor. Because if you try to read
liis®mind, and suit your attack to
his tastes and vagaries, you will
stultify yourself. a Launch out on
a lino of youf own. Suit yourself,
first and do not worry about the
taste of the public.
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This is pot to say “that you do^
not need some soli'd content, some
real material wjiicli you have col
lected from other men’s books; but
you should make this material, your
own, by passing it through a sifter
and taking it in as a part of your
own vital experience before yjou
start to give it out again as a term
paper. Mull it over in your mind,
think about it while you’re in the
hypnagogic state half way between
waking and sleeping (preferably
not during lectures). Let it grow
on, you, let it weigh on your mind at
least as much as your speculations
about how your screen test^ will turn
out, or whether you will make the
chorus in the junior musical show.
In short, take a little personal in
terest in the subject, and make the
reader feel that you appear ‘‘your
self in person” in the paper. We can
spot a paper which is written in a
dead, third-personal Style, by the
time we have read the first page.
Write like you talk, but with
more form and connection.
It' I may speak on a rather deli
cate point, I would riot lean too
heavily on your bright friends in
thu house, or on other critics. It
is always disturbing to the com
placency of the professorial mind
if you asume that it- is unaware of
thu standard authorities on the sub
ject. When someone hands in, a
few pages cribbed from Uazlitt s
essays* br Hooker's , (sermons, or
Taussig’s economics or Muir’s his
tory, or the Encyclopedia Britan
liica, or some similarly well lcnowti
source, the professor is apt to take
it as unflattering to his command
of the field. Besides, it might be
difficult to keep your slyle in tig
examinations consistently at this
level.
If a definite subject is set,® write
on that, not* on something some
where near it. “No SiaiPever wrote
well save for°bread,” says Dr. John
son. Good writing comes from an
inner onecessit*- for expression, * said
Goethe. A term paper written to
order is perhaps %norc iit, accord
•with Johnson’s dictum than with
Goethe’s; but there is such a thing
as making even an assigned subject
you own.
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Every now and then 1 find a
senior whom I have to lead gently
over to the library, and introduce
him for the first time to Boole’s
Periodical Index and other stan
dard tools for research. Usually lie
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knows the campus “Who’s Who,”
or who is going with whom; he is
acquainted with the places in town
to cat, dance, and idle gracefully;
he has memorized his quick tricks
in bridge and knows the chances
of filling a straight broken, in the
middle; probably shoots a nifty
game of billiards and can wield the
paddle with virtuosity and dispatch.
But of the ABC's of elementary
research, lie is as innocent as a
sophisticate cun be about anything.
This is sad. By the junior year,
a man should know his way about,
in the library proper as well as in.
the entry. And in collecting ma
terial, as in collecting bills, a little
enterprise and inventiveness is a
great help. Nothing helps a term
paper more than a good mass of
concrete data and examples, to bear
out your main contentions. If you
have some well-sifted notes from
yoijjE reading, you ilytn reinforce
your paper mightily.
Do not stick to your texts and
authorities too closely. Weave in
this extraneous material as a part
of your own thought, and to bear
out your own points. Make the
organization of material your own,
in any event, and take a single
consistent ‘'line” on the subject.
Try to give a single impression as
a result of the whole paper. Bend
your arguments, your proofs, to this
end. This is essential in technical
papers, in science or history; but it
is equally a good principle to ob
serve in literary essays.
One note on the danger of pad
ding. Probably we deserve to get
some filler, when wc specify HUUU
words; but if wc don't set an
under limit, we get a scanty sketch,
not a substantial essay.
Cello Students Hear
Concert at Portland
r, • °
Miss «MiriaSioLittle, instructor in
the music department, accompanied
by three of her°cello pupils, mo
tored to Portland lagj week-end
where they heard Tallis Hess, na
tionally known celloist, in a coScert
at the Multnomah hotel.
Miss Little studied cello under
Mr. Hess for several years whijp a
student at the Chicago conservatory
of music.
Accompanying Miss Little were
Roberta .Spicer, Miriam Stafford,
and Margaret McKnight.
Grim Tragedy Stalked
In Path of Student
(Continued from Page One)
die like a rat in the reeking black
oil.
Gathering his fast failing senses,
he let go the chain and struck out
to where tWe ladder should be. Luck
favored him, his hand struck it, and
ho struggled up the ladder to fall
exhausted half way through the hols
in the top of the tank.
A few lungfuls of pure air gave
him sufficient strength to climb the
rest of the way from the tank. For
several days lie was quite* sick from
the diesel oil he had swallowed, and
for some time after,"h'e applied giwi
erqus quantities of soap and water
before the oil was all out of his hair.
Despite his ducking, Bob is a
husky* lad. He stand? six feet and
jine inch in *hift socks, and weighs
220 pounds.
“Afraid,” said Bob, “hells bells,
I was in°too lfluch^of a hurry to get
out to think about that.”
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Temenids, national fraternity for
Eastern (star women, announces the
election to membership and initia
tion of: *
Mrs. Lois Baker
Bernadene Carrico
Louise Chessman
Mrsi Ethelinda French
Blanche Griggs
Florence llill
Evelyn Hamilton
Amy Hughes
Winona Irving
Avis Seines
Virginia Smith
Emuiabelle Woodworth.
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Resolutions
Wheroas Almighty God in his
infinite wisdom has seen fit to To
move from our midst, our late friend
and fellow student, Hobcrt Kelly,
and
Whereas, by his death the Uni
versity of Oregon has lost one of
the most earnest and respected stu
dents; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Associated Stu
dents of the University of Oregon
that to his sorrowing family we
extend our deepest sympathy, and
be it further
Resolved that a copy of these
resolutions in behalf of our beloved
friend be sent to his family, and
that a copy be transcribed on the
records of the Associated Students
of the University of Oregon, and
that a copy be published in the stu
dent publication.
Whereas Almighty God in his
infinite wisdom Inis seen fit to re
move from our midst, our lute friend
and fellow student, George Weldon
Hyatt, and
Whereas, by his death the Uni
versity of Oregon has lost one of
the most earnest and respected stu
dents; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Associated Stu
dents of the University of Oregon
that to his sorrowing family we
extend our deepest sympathy, and
be it further
Resolved that a copy of these
resolutions in behalf of our beloved
friend be sent to his family, and
that a copy be transcribed on the
records of the Associated Students
of the University of Oregon, and
that a copy bo published in the stu
dent publication.
Bobbed Hair Coming Back, Barbers
Advise; Long Locks Irking Co-eds
Hairnet Industry Picks
Up as Pius Take Slump
—
Bobbctl hair may be coming back,
says a campus barber. “Sometimes
two or three a day come in to have
their hair cut after it has been
growing for several months. The
other day a girl who had let hers
grow for three years had it cut,
but most of the ones who come in
have been letting it grow for six
or eight months, just long enough
to pin back. From what our maga
zine!} say, all over the country wom
en are cutting their hair again.”
For three years the women on
the campus have let their locks
grow. »0 Last spring the barbers
thought ‘milady* might relinquish
her chair in the barber shop, so
that soon man could be shaved un
disturbed by women’s voices. Even
Pile number t^f neck clips decreased.
However with the thoughts of
spring and summer coining with
sports and swimming, many women
realize the advantages of bobbed j
liair, and have it cub. Most of the)
haircuts are wind-blown, too, which i
may mean that it is a popular fad, '
or "that they like their hair cut in
the way in which it is easiest to
keep it looking nice.
The Chinese girls who went out
of business when women no longer
dust
they
wore hairnets are wiping the
off the loom, (or whatever
made hairnets on), and starting!
their weaving again, for every once i
in a while someone wants to buy !
a hairnet.
And hairpins—the walks on the
campus are strewn witliothem, which !
means more business for the hair- !
mnnufactu rcr.
pm
Now the problem <is: Will the
walks continue to be strewn, wi(tji
hairpins? Will the demand for hair
nets increase? Or, will the wind
blown hair cuts, grow in numbers
as
the
spring comes on, thus
Chinese jjirls and the
manufacturer back to unemploy
ment*
forcing
hairpin
\Mor& Inter-church
Planned IS ext Term
More inter-church parties are
planned for next term, according
to Wilbur Sohm, who had charge
of the Washington party held Sat
] urday night at the Y hut. About
1160 attended. A program of music
and stunts, and a playlet were plan
ned for tils: guests. The various
Eugene church groups had special
features which they presented dur
ing the evening.
John Allen Well
John Allen, junior in geology and
varsity swimmer, was able to return
to his classes this week after a two.
weeks illness with the flu. He was
confined to liis home during li is
sickness and was unable to mako the
trip south with the Oregon natators.
Allen earned a letter swimming
backstrok^ last year but will be un
able 1o compete this year on ac
count of his recent illness.
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SETH LARAWAY
l)iamond Mereliaut and Jeweler
A house budget
Is hard to maintain
The heating expense is one impor
tant item, llei-e are two reasons why
slab wood from a first growth free, is
superior to the same by-product from
second growth timber :
1. The wdod strueture is denser;
there is more heat per unit.
*2. The log is mueli larger, there
fore, the slabs are big, and burn longer
in a furnace.
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Famous Painter
Displays Works
At Art Building
Louis Kronberg of Chicago
Gains Recognition in
America a n d Europe
Louis Kronberg, a noted painter
of Chicago, has an exhibition of 2(i
paintings on display at the little
art gallarv in tho art building. He
was elected an associate of the]
Salon National des Beaux Arts,]
Paris, 102:.’.
Mr. Kronborg studied at tbe Mu
seum of Fine Arts, Boston, also the
Art's League. New York, a tut at
,Lilian’s Academy, Paris. He won the
Longfellow traveling scholarship
given by the sou of tho poet, and
also the silver medal at San Fran
cisco. i
lie made the stage a speciality of
his career and lias painted many
noted people sneli as Lydia Lopa
kowas, Loio Fuller, Kiehard Mans
E.C. Meade
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Pictures!
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Saturday Nights
field and many of the famous dan
cers of Paris.
lie is reperesented in many of
tin- permanent art museums of
America, among them the Metro
politan Art Museum, New York;
Pennsylvania Academy, Philadel
phia: Boston Art Museum; Butler
Art Institute, Youngstown, Al
bright Art Gallery, Buffalo; Mrs.
J. L. Gardner's collection, Boston.
Sigma Delta Pi to Hold
Banquet and Initiation
Sigma Delta Pi, national Spanish
honorary fraternity, will hold a
banquet and initiation at the home
of Dr. Leavitt (). Wright a week
from tonight. Lt will be a strictly
informal affair.
Those to be initiated are: Alice
Shaw, Marguerite Sehierbaum, Ag
nes IVtzold, Wilmadene Richolson,
Karl Landstroni, Grace Mortcnsen,
Miriam Kauttu, Mrs. Leavitt O.
Wright, and Juan Acenteni.
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1209 Pearl Street
Eugene, Oregon
Phone 2929
Clothes may make a man,
But jewelry puts on the
Finishing touches
For the girl
Costume jewelry with its distinctive designs odds to
the dress of the good looking girl. Now few dresses
are made that a necklace or bracelet is not needed
to add color as well as style.
Come in and see our excellent selection of
new jewelry.
“If it comes from tSkeie's it must be good’’ .
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