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A Football Utopia
HOW far would colleges and universities of the
nation get in doing away with the paid coach
and admissions to college games? Dr. Frank Par
ker Day, president of Union college, offers those
remedies as a means of achieving real amateurism.
An eastern newspaper asked students on six col
lege eampi what they thought of the schemes. And
this is what they found:
A boy, a varsity player in Dr. Day’s own col
lege, is speaking . . . “It’s a whale of a good idea.
But it’s far in the future, like the peace plan. It’s
Utopia . . . too idealistic. But it’s fine.”
With variations, that was the answer of the
undergraduate in all six of those eastern colleges.
For the undergraduate, as educators know better
than reformers, is more conservative than many
alumni.
In a different part of the country a real step
was being taken toward amateurism. Iowa, which
had been suspended for infractions on rules of the
Big Ten conference regarding amateurism, was re
instated. But eleven athletes were barred from
further participation in conference games. The
Daily Iowan declared that it considered the rein
statement “only a peace without victory.”
In other words, those who blamed the alumni
for the bloated condition of football in the sports
curriculum, may have only been kidding themselves.
There seems to be no hint at Union college or Iowa
that the students have a great yearning for an
end of the excitement. The problem of paring
down football to normal importance may be greater
than thought, but sooner or later it must be met.
Tlie people of the United States pay their money,
not for football, but for education, and if anything
is clear, it is that football is impairing education
more and more every day.
Tuxedoes and Armors
LITTERING cuirass atop his head, steel gaunt
lets on his mighty" hands, and his body cov
ered with plate-steel armor, Sir Gawain sallied
forth to call on his lady, who lived at Camelot.
As his horse stepped in ruts along the forest
road and jolted him, Sir Gawain was bounced
around inside his armor like a dice in a shaker.
His collar cut into his neck and almost choked him.
The steel armor held him rigidly and unnaturally
erect. He feared to dismount and walk. If he did
his casque probably would come loose or the straps
holding on his cast-iron pants would break and he
would walk off without them. He and two serfs
had worked hours to get his armor bolted together
properly.
By the time he arrived at Camelot and whistled
under the lady's window, he was sadly out of sorts,
two bolts h ail worked loose and left his helmet half
fastened, and his whole outfit smelled of stables
and horses. A fine way to be for the queen's com
ing-out party, he thought.
Draw aside the curtain. Make the day 1930.
Sir Gawain becomes any college man. His armor
is a tuxedo. The steel breast-plate dissolves into
a boiled shirt front. Bolts become shirt studs; col
lars are starched and have sharp edges. He is
afraid to bend over. The serfs who helped bolt on
his armor transform into fraternity brothers who
fix the back of his collar, where his arms will not
reach and his eyes cannot see.
The college man must have a tuxedo exactly the
pattern that the rest of the men are wearing. It
must not vary or his whole evening is ruined; an
• oddly-cut lapel is a felony; one too many studs is
mayheni.
Add so the poor, style-bound male, buckled up
in his resplendent (if you can call black and white
resplendent) broadcloth and starch, heads for the
formal dance.
There he meets his lady fair. Where he has
put on many yards of useless cloth, she has taken
off many. He is straight-jacketed. She is as free
and unhampered as a couple of yards of gauze will
leave her.
And they say we have equality of sexes!
“11,430 Study at California’’—headline. The
prevaricators!
New Use for Igloo
THE automobile show to be held in McArthur
court Thursday, Friday, and Saturday deserves
encouragement from the University and from stu
dents for two reasons. Probably the greatest rea
son is that another use is found for the Igloo, fondly
known as the white elephant of the campus.
Greater the number of outside shows and activ
ities of this sort held in the court, greater will be
the net return from the building. Even if no money
were received from most of the occasions the aver
age cost for each would be lowered. There is no
question as to whether or not the court is now be
ing used to its full capacity.
The auto show itself should be encouraged, for
when the Eugene dealers hold it on the campus the
advertising and publicity over the state for the only
major auto show to be held in the state this year
will redound to the University’s credit to no small
amount.
But most of all, it is the new use for McArthur
court that deserves encouragement. There is hardly
a student who will not feel that using the barren
concrete pile for things other than basketball games
does not reflect a little more to the benefit of the
managers’ business sense.
#On account of the recent complaints against the
“milking” caps worn by the “baseball school” last
spring, it has been suggested that the bleacher boys
also discard the “saddles” they frequently used so
as to remove all agrarian atmosphere from the
game.
If the tobacco advertising were to cease, it is
probable that within five years the number of to
bacco users would decrease by half, supporters of
temperance and morals claimed the other day. So
would the number of magazines published.
Zither sales have slumped so that the owner of
a zither factory back east is worried. lie ought
to get a few movie stars’ testimonials and pass out
free samples at fraternity houses.
The cognomen “cull” should be attached not
only to guys who "guzzle moon,” but to any human
being from whom the sap of life has evaporated or
whose ideas are worm-eaten .
A French sculptor bet friends that he would
live to be 200 years old. No doubt he will derive
great joy from the money when he collects his bet.
We see by the papers that goldfish have to be
licensed in a certain city on this side of the conti
nent. Sort of a bowl tax, so to speak.
Says a contemporary: “The days are getting
shorter and the skirts are getting longer. There is
less to see and less time to see it.”
Stanford’s football captain next year is Tandy.
California’s is Carl Handy. It took a strong will
to ward off a pun on that one.
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Oreganized Dementia
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A poor little dog-eared piece of paper found its
way into the Dementia office yesterday. It was
stained with tears.
“I am a poor starving student,” it read,
“and I have a deep problem I wish you would
solve for me. I often gave my right hand to
become a l’hi Beta Kappa, and—oh, I am so
sad.
"I»o you know, they are actually attacking
the University grading system! A bad man
told me the other day that he thought some
of our nicest faculty did not know how to grade
fairly.
“Oh, oh. What shall I do? How shall I
answer this creature?”
L
Of course such a touching appeal to our honor
and sympathy could not go unnoticed, so we turned
the paper over to the editor of the Dementia Hu
mane department.
"You poor, dear thing,” was his soothing reply.
"After all these years of struggling, and memoriz
ing, and note-taking and then this! Somebody
has to go and spoil everything for you by saying
that grades are a lot of hokum. A person who
would do a thing like that to a poor little Phi Bete
should surely be flunked. He's trying to alibi for
the V's he got last term, the wretch.
“Don’t cry, little man, this ogre knew just
as well as we that if it weren’t for grades this
University would he a terrible place.
“The pitifully underpaid profs would be ab
solutely helpless without grades. Business ad
students could actually graduate from this
school without knowing whether Milton was a
French poet or a Chinese aviator!
“Any louse that would tell a Phi Bete that the
grading system ought to be abolished would be
just the kind of a guy who would get sore at a
clerk, no matter how noble the clerk's intentions
were, for trying to sell him a tuxedo instead of a
pair of pajamas!
"Just try to imagine a guy so dumb as to think
that he should be able to get away with writing
a criticism of the course instead of a final exam
| Ination.”
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One Fr’a Penny
By Gullfin
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FABLE THE NINTH
Before this thing goes any far
ther, we may as well take a dip
among the smaller fry . . .
There should he a law at the
University of Oregon. There
should he another one, I mean.
There should be a law that re
quires every freshman, before
entering school, to he vaccinat
ed against one of our most pest
ilent plagues, the disease of
-. Of course, the ailment
isn’t very wide-spread as yet,
nor is it likely ever to be, but
it’s a foul growth, this *
disease, and should be entirely
stamped out.
Still, the inhabitants of this col
ony, as it were, are properly iso
lated from the rest of our groups,
and are even very conveniently lo
cated near a place where the more
serious cases can be taken care
of. But that isn’t enough.
As it is now, these people
walk about the campus unre
strained, getting about more or
less, crowding into the more se
lect circles with their foulness,
and to say the least, it certain
ly isn’t hygienic. But we’re
immune. It isn’t for students
on the campus now that this
plea is being made—it’s for
those future freshmen now all
unsuspecting in high school—
for our coming students—our
progeny. It is for their sake
that we should take precau
tions.
Because they are the ones lia
ble to this dread disease, with
their pureness and their suscep
tibility, and if we are ever to grow
and expand in a healthy way we
should take steps immediately
against the pestilence of -.
It will never become an epidemic
■—never—but it should be stamped
out entirely before it gains a good
foothold.
So this is a plea. There ought
to be a law.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Girls Oregon club announces the
pledging of Doris I’ayne of Rufus,
Oregon.
4. ONLY 10 DAY’S LEFT UN
TIL THE BIG NIGHT. SENIOR
BALL, FEB. 22ND.
HEY, SOPH, HAVE YOU GOT
YOUR TICKET TO THE CLASS
BANQUET YET? ONLY TWO
DAYS YET.—Adv.
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Christian Science organization —
will meet at 7:30 tonight at the
Y. W. ■’C. A. bungalow.
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Kvvama meeting — this afternoon
at 5 o’clock, in Gerlinger hall.
Sophomore and junior women’s
—basketball teams are urged to
be out at 5 o’clock today.
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Phi Delta Kappa—will meet this
afternoon at 4:15 in the men’s
lounge of Gerlinger hall.
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Swimming picture — for Oregana
at 11:55 at men’s gym. Frosh
and varsity swimmers and divers
bring own suits.
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Dr. Reinhardt’s discussion group—
on “Art and Religion’’ will meet
tonight at 7:30, in 107 Oregon.
Everyone interested is invited to
come.
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International Week directorate —
meets with Mr. Culver at the hut
today at 4 o’clock.
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say that you pay the millionaire,
who has $10,000,000 surplus each
year which he can't possibly spend,
interest for his sacrifice in sav
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—Victor P. Morris.
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“Most of the recent movies have
been stage plays photographed
and phonographed.”
—S. Stephenson Smith.
Cows, camels, and co-eds, when
they chew gum, are all ruminants,
but leave ruminating out of your
poetry.
—Edward Lesch.
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SATURDAY—FEBRUARY 22nd
Not Only
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The Year.
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egated arbitration to the back
ground where it belongs and giv
en us an international court in
stead.”
—John R. Mez.
An actor is a man who tries to
be everything but himself.
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DAY EVENING.—Adv.
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