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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD
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University of Oregon, Eugene
Arthur E. Schoenl . Editor
William H. Hammond . Business Manager
Vinton Hall . Managing Editor
EDITORIAL WRITERS
Run Iliilitw. Ruth Nfwman, Rex TusxinK, Will rod Brown
Secretary Ann Hathaway
UPPER NEWS STAFF
Mary Klemm . Assistant ManaKin*
Harry Van Dine . Sporta
Phyllis Van Kimmell ..
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Osborne Holland . Feature
Ralph David . Chief Night
Claience Craw . Makeup
Editor
Society
Jterary
Editor
Ceorge Weber, Jr.
Tony Peterson .
Addison Brockman .
Jean Patrick .
Larry Jackson .
Betty Hagen .
Ina Tremblay •
Betty Carpenter .
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Louise Curney .
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Day Editor .Elise Schroeder
Night Editor ....Dorothy Morrison
Assistant Night Editors
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Educational Progress
AMERICA prides herself on being progressive.
On the stage, in the congressional lobbies, in
the factory, in the home, and even in the school,
you hear it. Throwing aside the lethargy which
held back civilization for so many years and made
it heretical to suggest any new ideas or revolu
tionary devices, the modern world is steeping it
self in a deep, romantic color—calling itself pro
gressive.
And yet the very thing that leads to most of
this progress—education—is the worst hanger
back, the slowest to change the old regime meth
ods; the last to go through its own particular “in
dustrial revolution” and adopt the new guise.
Educators over the nation complain at the
backwardness of the United States to accept the
theories they have worked out to better education.
They point toward the district school system with
its uneven tax levy and its poorly prepared board
of directors; they deprecate the poor equipment
and few courses available in the one or two
teacher high schools in small communities. Con
solidation of districts and transportation of dis
tricts would solve the latter problem. Making the
county instead of the district the unit would be
an improvement over the other metHBU, which is
prevalent. .
Those are only a few of the weaknesses of
present-day educational systems. There are more:
inefficient teachers; poor integration between ele
mentary, secondary and higher education; politi
cally dependent stale officials; decadent, outworn
courses still incorporated in curricula, and any
number of others.
Much of the difficulty in affecting changes in
the educational system can be traced to inability
to "sell” the change to the public. The common
citizen would rather think that “what was good
enough for father is good enough for me” and use
that as an argument against spending public money
to improve the schools.
Using newspaper publicity to help show the
public the needs and advantages of progressive
education is one way of creating interest and in
forming the taxpayers. Such methods are in use
to a greater extent in the east, but are slowly
with the characteristic slowness of most educa
tional reform—coming westward.
Coming Off Probation
A CTION of the faculty of Phillips Exeter acad
emy, eastern preparatory school, in rescinding
their rule that students on probation will not be
allowed to represent the school in athletics or
other contests has faulty logic motivating it.
Any boy, declares the leader of the movement,
whom the faculty sees fit to keep in school should
be allowed to represent the academy in athletics
or any other activities regardless of whether or not
he is on probation. Requirements for admission
are of a much higher standard, he claims, than at
other schools, and if the athlete once is worthy of
admission, then his qualities will carry him
through.
Two factors oppose this optimistic viewpoint.
If all schools were of equal rank in admission re
quirements, then the rule would have to be again
invoked. Again, the student is required to advance
far above his required admission standing. His
admission certificate does not pay his way on an
intellectual railway train. It but admits him in
side the station.
And if the athlete indulged in too many stop
overs, at the expense of his travels and speed, then
must those stop-overs be curtailed, and a little
more coal thrown under the boilers.
R. T.
Why Professors Get Gray
'HESE are some of the reasons:
The bluffer. The boy with the loud voice
and the empty head, who usually is only 10 per
cent right. The sweet young thing with red lips
who does not study, but tries to use her ‘'person
ality” to impress her knowledge of the course on
her professor. The smart, silent bird who "knows
his stuff” but has to be coaxed to talk. The pre
occupied young thinker whose mind is always miles
away; who never hears the question and answer
some entirely different one. The assertive Phi
Bete who hogs the recitation. The persons who
take the course for credit. The sleepers do not
bother unless they snore.
Four years of class lectures have aroused in us
a profound sympathy for the professor in front of
the class. His gray hairs are not unwarranted.
Selling College Magazines
Even colleges sometimes lapse unoriginal. Take
for instance such minor and inconsequential
things as selling yearbooks and magazines.
The University of Minnesota Gopher offered a
kiss with each sale. Chorus girls from the Rio
Rita road show were to supply the kisses. The
sale was stopped by the faculty.
Soon after the University of Washington Col
umns magazine hired Rio Rita chorus girls to help
speed lip a subscription drive, the show girls being
given preference over campus beauties.
The spirit spread. Back at Boston university
the Beanpot secured the services of chorines, whose
kisses were guaranteed and the magazine was
thrown in.
Why college co-eds instead of chorus girls were
not called upon to quash the masculine sales re
sistance on the various campi was not explained,
but probably lay in the bashfulness of the collegiate
sister. This does not seem to bear out the picture
of the typical co-ed in college movies who dispenses
kisses promiscuously to lucky wights.
Ohio State university is in political doldrums
because only 1,166 students out of 10,000 voted in
a recent student body election. University of
Washington with 1,650 votes and 6,400 students
was also worried a year ago. At the Oregon polls
last spring 2,000 out of 3,000 students on the cam
pus voted. These figures seem to indicate that
campus life and interest thrives more at smaller
institutions.
Co-eds in an eastern college, in a questionnaire,
declared that the ideal man did not need to have
sex appeal. Six times as many listed money as
more desirable. They’re right. S. A. wont pay the
laundry bill or shingle the bungalow.
The time is coming, says a soap manufacturer,
when a person will take a bath every day. That
fellow never lived in a fraternity house where he
had to battle to get his shower before all the hot
water is gone in the morning.
A glance at the vacant seats in the women's
section during the Willamette game Monday
showed one reason why women outrank men in
grades consistently.
Up at the University of Washington the politi
cal pot has already commenced to boil. At Oregon
it has been too cold to allow any such physical
phenomenon.
The weather the last few days has been as
changeable as the proverbial woman’s mind and
twice as cold.
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DEATHS RESULT IN STAMPEDE
Dr. R. C. Romig, University physician, and
three attendants are reported fatally injured and
the dispensary a total loss as the result of a stam
pede of local Scotchmen to get free vaccinations
yesterday morning.
It has aiso been rumored about that the cry of
invisible vaccinations by the women has caused no
little embarrassment on the part of the health
staff. Dr. Artie Choke, prominent specialist, has
suggested that the tonsils and appendix be utilized
for such purposes but is unsupported by the anti
belt league.
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Please save all your old fly swatters for use
as tea strainers in the state' school for the blind.
CORRECT THIS
Did you ever hear that, story about the three
burglars who climbed into the bank window when
the clock struck two?
That was an alarm clock.
LITTLE BOW LEGS
She thinks the Y. M. C. A. sign should be hung
up over the registrar’s office. (Your Money Cheer
fully Accepted.)
* * *
Prof. Thatcher says he once heard of a super
salesman who was so good he sold a two-pants
burial suit to a mourning widow.
* * *
General—Why Is a pig raiser like an author?
Tire—Because they both deal in trash?
Gen—Nope, because they both make their living
with the pen.
* * *
And now the Soda Jerker will award a life saver
to the one who can tell us where snow is driven.
WHO SHOT NOTT?
Read about the great duel of Shott and Nott
in tomorrow’s Emerald. The End
I lAi CollegiatePulse j
AFTER EFFECTS OF THE GRID SEASON
With the close of another football season at
dear old Nebraski. we can hopefully expect the
following things to happen:
1. Increase in class attendance both athletes
and ralliers.
2. Less limping on the part of athletes.
3. Demise of the champion front page editorial
writer- -The Rally Man.
4. Fewer casualties among professors.
5. No more anonymous advertisements in the
Daily Nebraskan, begging students to rally all day
long.
G. Decrease in amount of publicity for certain
organizations.
7. Passing of "school spirit” into complete ob
livion.
8. "Cracking" of textbooks heretofore left idle.
—-Daily Nebraskan.
Yule See Things Like These.
By Max Kessler
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HAMMOND MAKES
CHANGES IN STAFF
Several changes in the Emerald
business staff were announced
yesterday by Bill Hammond, man
ager.
Dorothy Ann Warner is the new
executivs secretary. She will have
charge of executive correspond
ence and finances. Edwin Publos
is head of the newly created sta
tistical department. The work of
this department will be to conduct
extensive surveys on the market
reached by the Emerald, and to
compile office statistics. Ruth
Milligan will be office girl.
DEAN ALLEN JUDGES
SOUTHERNER’S SPEECH
(Continued from Page One)
southern accent and vigorously
arguing with all comers that they
hailed from Alabama.
Although he had visited the
South before, Dean Allen ex
pressed himself as deeply moved
by the true southern hospitality
.shown the convention delegates
while they were guests on the
Louisiana State university cam
pus. Three banquets were given
in their honor, one by the uni
versity, one by the local papers of
Baton Rouge, and one by Tulane
university and the New Orleans
Times-Picayune.
At the convention meetings, on
. December 30 and 31 and January
1, the Louisiana chapters of Theta
Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi,
national journalistic honoraries,
acted as hosts to the delegation.
Other new officers elected at
the convention, besides Dean Al
len, are Frank L. Martin of the
University of Missouri, vice-presi
dent, and H. H. Herbert, Univer
sity of Oklahoma, secretary-treas
urer. Dean Allen, having held the
office in 1923, is the only delegate
who has ever been elected twice
to the presidency of the associa
tion. He is also chairman of the
council for research.
Casey Honored
A recommendation of the Ore
gon dean to enlarge the Journal
ism Quarterly, official organ of
journalistic education, from 24 or
36 to about 100 pages, was ac
cepted by the convention. Dr.
Frank L. Mott of the University
of Iowa was appointed new editor
of the publication, and an edito
rial board of five members was
named. One of these is Prof.
Ralph D. Casey of the University
of Oregon.
KESSLER WINS
COMIC CONTEST
Winner of this week’s cartoon
contest is Max Kessler, of Gamma
hall, whose work appears in this
issue of the Emerald. This con
test is open to every student on
the University campus, and the
winning cartoon will be printed.
Judging of the work will be held
every two weeks.
The first winning cartoon was
printed in the final edition last
term. It was drawn by McGowan
Miller and received much favor
able comment throughout the
campus.
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NEXT SUNDAY
11:00 A. M.
“The Universal Religion
to Come”
Congregational
Church
Clay E. Palmer, Minister
Pi Sigma group picture will be
taken for the Oregana today at
12:30 in front of Friendly hall.
Alpha Kappa Psi group picture
will be taken for the Oregana to
day at 12:30 in front of Friendly
hall.
Aklepiads meet today at 5 p. m.
in Deady hall.
Mu Phi Epsilon meets Thursday
noon on the sun porch of music
building. East Side members will
be hostesses at luncheon.
Frosh commission groups led by
Dorothy Kirk and Diana Deinin
ger will meet today at 4 o’clock
in Westminster house.
Y. W. C. A. cabinet meeting to
night at 7:30 at the Y. W. bunga
low.
W. A. A. mass meeting tonight
at 5 o'clock in room 121, Gerlinger
hall.
Gamma Alpha Chi meets at 5
o’clock today in- the newspaper
room of the Journalism building.
Emerald meeting f or the day
staff at 4 o’clock today in room
105, Journalism.
House representatives for Y. M.
discussion groups meet at Y hut
at 4 to select speakers and ar
range schedule.
Orchestra practice on Thursday
evening at 7:30 instead of this
evening.
Oregon Knights meet today at
5 o’clock in room 110, Johnson
hall. Presence of all members is
requested.
High School Conference directo
rate meets in front of Friendly
hall at 12:45 today to have a pic
ture taken for the Oregana.
Ye Tabard Inn meets tonight at
7:30, at 1432 East 13th street.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Delta Zeta announces the pledg
ing of Ethel Mason. Castle Rock,
Washington.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Alpha Upsilon announces the
pledging of Ray Adams, of Port
land, and Elmo Lindholm, of Sil
verton, Oregon.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Alpha bmicron Pi announces
the pledging of Reina Egersdorff,
of Klamath Falls, Oregon.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Gamma Phi of Alpha Tau
Omega announces the pledging of
Earl McGuire, Marshfield; James
Gilbaugh, Portland; and James
Corcoran, Klamath Falls.
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the first requisite of a business man.”
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business system. Keep your clothes neat by
having them cleaned and pressed at a regular
time.
Eugene Cleaners Assn.
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