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The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso
ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily
except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member of
the Pacific 1 ntercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at
Eugene, Oregon, ns second class matter. Subscription rates,
$2.50 a year. Advertising rates ipon application. Phone, Man
ager: Office, J81J5; residence, 127.
Day Editor .Barney Miller
Night Editor.Warner Guiss
Assistant. Night Editors
John Rogers, Jack Bellinger, Gwendolyn Metzger
Education a Variable
BERTRAND RUSSELL, "catsup-faced, white
haired” radical pacifist, says: "The American
educational system is not designed to make people
know the truth. It is tainted with propaganda and
with the money of Big Business. . . . The obvious
purpose ... is to turn out job lots of men and
women with brains as standardized as so many
gum vending machines.”
Granted that education today turns out gradu
ates with 50 ounces of assorted, standardized
knowledge. Granted it forces individual differences
into the mold of forced similarity.
To assert that the American college student
holds such an attitude, wholly to the exclusion of
all facts, it is a mistake. Outside of the realm of
certain accepted learning, the American college
man or woman holds all possible attitudes on any
variety of subjects he or she cares to be concerned
with.
Let it be said to the detriment of the American
educational system, these attitudes are in the ma
jority weak and subject to abrupt alteration. Con
fronted as they are with a wide variety of ideas
in each field, the radical and conservative viewpoint
both presented for the student’s intellectual ap
proval or disapproval, he goes from one extreme
to another. He has no original ideas. He is af
flicted by the thought. "I am immature, incompe
tent to judge.” In the classroom he is ranked
according to his ability to stand up and relate what
someone else has said about such and such a sub
ject.
It is inevitable that the student should feel this
way until he has acquired a matureness (should
it be “rigidity?”) of ideas which will fortify him
to stand up and let the world hear of his opinion.
Education presents a confusing array of conflicting
ideas and theories which force the student to be
a pliant weigher of dogmatisms he is the jury
and must decide for himself which he will cham
pion. He seldom has any original ideas of his own;
he takes up and supports one or the other of the
theories he had presented to him in his educational
work- whichever seems most noteworthy to him.
Neglecting a Duty
FOOTPRINTS in the snow sometimes tell a story.
And this happened to be the footprints of sev
eral people who forgot or else have never realized
the sacredness of the seal at the entrance to Vil
lard hall. The observance of this little tribute to
the seal of our Alma Mater perhaps may always
go unheralded as far as you and I are concerned,
and then again it might not. The moment of pass
ing around or over the seal as the case may be
is not of long enough duration to warrant stopping
and looking around to see who may be impressed
one way or the other.
But whether noticed or unnoticed there should
be a little feeling of pride, an Inward satisfaction
in guiding one's steps so they will not fall on an
emblem of the University. It is a chance to up
hold the honor spirit of Oregon. A man does not
enter a building without first removing his hat.
He does it whether there are others near by or
whether the place is entirely without occupants.
Oregon has not abolished all traditions. Those
which are a joy and appeal to the pride of its stu
dents have been retained and this is one of them.
The seal was not so carefully put there by a proud
graduating class merely to be trodden under feet,
whether covered with snow or otherwise. R. N.
The Band Divorces Sports
THAT the band is not an auxiliary of sports is
shown best by the band itself. Instead of dy
ing a cold, cold death up in the barracks and wait
ing for periodic basketball games and spasmodic
military parades the organization is planning its
own way and marching proudly along it.
Sunday, when the band gives its concert in the
music building, there will be no long punts or
snappy floorwork, no card stunts or yell-king's
bawled commands; in fact, nothing at all to take
attention away from the music itself.
And the music will be worth-while if practice
and spirit mean anything. The new system of
credits and upper-class musicians is still proving
beneficial. ' —R.T.
Now' they have driverless automobiles which will
start, stop, and back up at the word of command
spoken by someone entirely away from it. That's
nearly human. Let's hope they do not make them
with obstinate ideas of their own.
Washington recently gave students quizzes on
their professors to find out just what weaknesses
and failings these pedagogs had. Now that the
results have heen practically compiled schools of
the nation are inquiring about them. Washington
announced that they would be kept at home wh<?te
they would do the most good which is exactly
where they belong.
Oregon with more than 3,000 students flunked
51 students out of school fall term. Washington
"rolled” 298 from 7,258 in the A. S. U. W. The
"mortality” up north was considerably higher in
proportion to enrollment, but then it must be re
membered everything is higher in cities.
DO YOU RRMRMBKR when everyone wore
sweatshirts to class, all decorated up with collegiate
pictures and philosophy? And art students made
money drawing them?
Portland churches will not celebrate prohibition
anniversary with bell-ringing because few churches
have bells. Why go half-way? How much pro
hibition is there?
Well, anyway, the temperature rose when it be
gan to snow yesterday and we were able to take
off two blankets, those bed socks, a sweater and
two overcoats.
“Hunt for Chewing Gum Reveals Ancient Ru
ins” headline. The explorers must have run their
hands under the tables of some well-known eating
house.
Charles Chaplin is quoted by his press agent
as being interested in hypnotism. Next time you
go to see him, you do so at. your own risk.
Conversation is a lost art, the cry goes around.
And usually those who do the complaining aren’t
such good talkers themselves.
Oklahoma wants an accurate copy of the Ore
gon student body constitution. That’ nothing, so
do we.
In
on lectures
Hoover is more of an engineer than an econ
omist since he believes in advancement of canals.—
Dean James H. Gilbert. *
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If the pyramids were natural, we would be
thrilled by their regular outline; but because they
are made by human beings, we stand in awe of
the prodigious amount of work expended. Gustav
Muller.
A baby deserves as much credit the first time
it turns over as a student does for making the
honor roll. E. S. Conklin.
One feels inferior to a mountain unless there
are other mountains to mediate that feeling.—
Gustav Muller.
Yesterday I saw: CLARENCE CRAW and ED
MORGAN totin' crutches under their right arms
. . . CARSON MATHEWS slithering on skiis be
hind a car . . . VIRGINIA TOMKINS grinning
when a snowball bounced off her back . . . the
SIGMA CHI pledges wearing numbers like jail
birds . . . ROY SI1ANEMAN giving his green lid
to SCOTT WELLS so that Scott could go to class
. . . DON GUILD looking woozy after the first night
of initiation . . . Oregon studes getting to class
on time, since the snow did not permit delay.
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HATING VS. FINANCES
This fall when sonny boy came to college he
promised his parents he would “cut” the dating
and would study, in preparation for his life voca
tion, and when dad financed his son's education he
expected the boy to expand his knowledge and
create within himself the desire to be a success.
And at college, son began his study, pledged a
fraternity and only too soon, was commanded by
his fraternity elders to date and only “at the best
sororities." His interest in his scholastic standing
has waned with his ever-growing anxiety to be
come a social success and be present at the ma
jority of Greek financial functions. His joys now
become affected by the will of the co-ed, a survey
of his pocketbook, and the credit that can be ex
tended to him by the corner drug store or clothing
store.
Unlike students at the University of Missouri,
the "Cornhusker cake" rents an automobile, if he
is not fortunate enough to be dating with a friend
who maintains an automobile of his own. Of course,
his lady friend could not be expected to walk, even
if the party is only four blocks away! Transpor
tation costs, the inevitable supply of food after the
dance, whether desired or not desired, brings the
price of dating to an exorbitant cfigure considering
the value of three hours' fun.
The precedent has been set, men who desire to
date popular co-eds must accede to the demands
of Nebraska society, not merely because of the
fair sex but because of those collegiate, immacu
late men who adopt college as a medium for be
coming socially prominent and spending dad's
money. Why must scholarship and family finance
suifer from this easily remedied atrocity? It's high
time a few spirited Nebraska men set the prece
dent to tread toward the goal of economy and
, common sense.—Daily Nebraskan,
It's Good-bye, Yes Good-bye
Nancy Thicly.cn, as Mrs. Cheync.v, charming adventuress, says
farewell to liarl Klippell. who as the Mysterious Charles, gentleman,
butler, and burglar, has been her partner in higher crime. A scene
taken from the All-C'ampus play, “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney,” which
will be shown tomorrow night at the Heilig theater.
You’ll never get anything done . . .
you spend all your time getting there and coming
back. Invest in a “campus crate’’ that will
really run. Priced to sell by the seller . . .
cheap—cheaper—and cheapest.
CHEVROLET CO.
l’lione 1920
or (127
Louis Dammasch
YOU BET WE HAVE IT!
Any Make cf Typewriter You Want
Rent cr Buy One at Special Student Terms
Office Machinery & Supply Co.
Willamette St.—Opposite “Y” Phone 148
may make good intentions, but one soon for
gets these intentions and when the party is
near, it is too late ;o have your clothes cleaned
and pressed.
May we suggest that when vour intentions are
to have your clothes cleaned and pressed, call
one of your Kugene Clearer’a Association and
they will make it possible for you to be neatly
and well-dressed for any occasion.
Eugene Cleaners Assn.
German club meets tonight at
7:45 at Y. W. C. A. All who are
interested are invited.
First 5 o’clock vespers of the
term will be held at the Y. W.
bungalow this afternoon.
All Y. W. C. A. chorus members
please be at the bungalow at 4
p. m. today for practice, and also
for vespers, which will be at 5.
Kwama will meet at Gerlinger
building at 8 o’clock tonight. Im
portant.
Women’s frosh debate squad
will have its Oregana picture
taken at 12:45 today in front of
the side entrance to Friendly hall.
Every member please be there.
Men’s frosh debate squad will
have its Oregana picture taken at
12:45 tomorrow in front of the
side entrance to Friendly hall.
Asklepiads will meet today at 4
p. m. in room 105, Deady hall.
Play Group of Philomelete will
meet today at 7 o'clock at 1205
University street.
Teminids will meet at Crafts
men’s club immediately following
the basketball game tonight. Im
portant.
K w a m a, sophomore women’s
honorary on the campus, will en
tertain frosh women at a tea to
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be given at Alumni hall of Ger
linger building Thursday after
noon, January IS.
Ti Sigma will hold their first
meeting of the winter term to
morrow night at 7:30 at the Y. W.
hut. The meeting is open to all
students interested.
Fraternities or sororities hous
ing delegates during the High
School conference will be reim
bursed $1 per delegate by turning
back tickets to Eleanor Flanagan
at Kappa Alpha Theta.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Sigma Nu announces the pledg
I ing of Gifford Sobey of Paso Ro
bles, California, and Raymond R.
Reis of Sprague, Washington.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Alpha Gamma Delta announces
the pledging of Marion Clarke of
1 Portland, and Elinor Lonergan of
Seaside.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Sigma Kappa announces the
pledging of Katherine Van Ant
werp of Portland.
FRATERNITIES RULE
AGAINST HELL WEEK
(Continued from Fnge One)
tion, some fraternities now make
their freshmen devote this time to
a thorough and detailed house
cleaning, which involves no hard
ship beyond some real work. Other
fraternities put their freshmen
through intensive study courses
designed to acquaint them with
the fraternity and with the uni
versity. A few still compel their
initiates to ' make long trips out
in the country, but impose no oth
er physical hardships.
“Hell week’’ is no longer a
Now...
there is a chance!
Since cold weather is here and every
one is wearing his old duds there is a
great opportunity to have your school
clothes laundered and ironed, ready for
the sunshiny weather.
Eugene Steam Laundry
Phone 123, and we will send one of our representatives
to collect your specials.
What Can Be
Better ?
What is better than a brick of de
licious ice cream? Phone us and
have it delivered when you want it.
LET US DELIVER SOME
NOW
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Association
BRICK
Chocolate Malt Fudge
Strawberry Nougat
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Phone 1 480
8th and Ferry
problem of any importance on the
campus here, Dean Biggs con
cludes, and he believes that in the
near future it will abolished en
tirely.
CLASSIFIED ADS
PIANO JAZZ—Popular songs im
mediately; beginners or ad
vanced; twelve - lesson course.
Waterman System. Leonard J.
Edgerton, manager. Call Stu
dio 1672-W over Laraway’s Mu
sic Store, 972 Willaniette St.
Res. phone 13F23. tf
PIANO JAZZ—Popular songs im
mediately; beginners or ad- *
vanced; twelve - lesson course.
Waterman System. Leonard J.
Edgerton, manager. Call Stu
dio 1672-W over Laraway's Mu
sic Store, 972 Willamette St. tf
LOST—Black Chesterfield over
coat at game Saturday night.
Return to lost and found depot.
HARVARD CLASSICS - Dr. El
iot’s famous five-foot shelf—51
volumes, cloth binding, excellent
condition. $30 cash. Also Har
vard fiction classics, 20 volumes.
$10.00. Both sets for $35. Phone
2932.
Final Touch
to any costume, wheth
er for the campus or
more formal dress is a
SHOE SHINE. It is
the mark of perfect
grooming and the
“knowingness of
things.” Drop in to
day at the
CAMPUS
SHOE SHINE
Across From the Sigma
Chi House
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for
Women
and
Men
Tap shoos, basket
ball shoes in various
styles. Hood’s Grey
hound a n d Spald
ing's non-skid are
favorites Good,
heavy tennis oxfords
for out-door courts.
Try at the “Co-op”
first for shoes for
all sports.
TOILET
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You will find at the
“Co-op” a choice
line of face powders,
c o m p a e t s, toilet
soaps, tooth pastes
and brushes, razor
blades and shaving
creams—hundreds of
articles of every-day
use.
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