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University of Oregon, Eugene
Arthur L. Sehoenl . Editor
William H. Hammond . Business Manager
Vinton Hall . Managing Editor
EDITORIAL WRITERS
Ron Hubhii, Ruth Newman, Rex Tuasinn, Wilfred Frown
Nancy Taylor . Secretary
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Mary Klemm . Asalatant Managing Editor 1
Harry Van Dine ...-. Sport* Editor
Phyllis Van Kimmell ..... Society (
Myron Griffin . Literary ]
Victor Kaufman .-.1 ■ !; J• J";j!r
Claience Craw . Makeup Editor
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K*n, Kdvar Goodnauifh. Beth Salway, Brad Harrison, Phil
CoKRWell, and Lucille Chapin.
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ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily
except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member of
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Some Needed Alterations
Dissatisfaction with the present method of1
compiling the grade list for the University
should be ironed out soon when the interfraternity
council and heads of houses vote on the recom
mended plan of a joint committee of those two
groups.
Eight points were drawn up which were ex
pected to make the grade list fairer to both dorms
and fraternities. Representation of the dormitories
was secured on the joint committee after the Em
erald had called attention to the need for such an
envoy.
Of the eight points laid down by the committee,
only one seems to open to criticism. Grades of
all pledges and active members of fraternities, who
are living in the dormitories, shall be counted in
with their fraternity, the recommendation is.
The dormitory furnishes or fails to furnish a
desirable atmosphere for study and if the frater
nity man living there does well it is argued that
the dorm should get credit for his showing. If his
grades are poor, his fraternity will argue that it
had no control over his study habits and since the
dormitory was a bad influence on his grades (as
suming it was) the dorm should be charged with
his grades.
On the other hand fraternities often pledge men
for their scholastic abilities and should therefore
get credit for their showings. Dormitories are not
particularly anxious to be charged or credited with
these grades, so it seems fairest that the student's
fraternity should shoulder it. Both would like the
“gravy” but want the other to take the empty
bottles.
A good move in the revised grade sheet ratings
is that grades in honors work count for more points
than regular scholastic work. Although some of
the points outlined in the recommendations are "as
broad as they are high" they set forth improve
ments over the present system of figuring house
grades and should be accepted by the interfrater
nity council and heads of houses.
Costs of “Vagabonding”
EDUCATION costs money. The more money
people have to pay for a thing the more they
want it and value it. People are funny that way.
At Oregon “vagabonding” in classes costs noth
ing. A student can drop in on any class, listen to
the lecture, and walk out. It costs him nothing
but the time. Vagabonding is seldom indulged in
here.
At California and U. S. C. they call it “audit
ing.” Each hour the student at the latter school
takes over the 16-hour limit costs him $9. If he
thinks he would like to take a course from a cer
tain professor some time, but would like to hear
one or two lectures by that professor he is techni
cally "auditing” and must pay the fee.
Down south they guard more jealously the edu
cation the student gets. They make him pay for
it. “Vagabonding” to a professor's class because
he is an interesting lecturer is impossible without
paying for the privilege. Yet the southern schools
have well-developed “auditing” practices and many
students avail themselves of the chances.
Here, where there is no charge for gaining a
little extra Increment of knowledge, students look
upon “vagabonding" almost as one Would a drudge.
Perhaps Oregon should charge admissions at the
classroom doors for all students not enrolled in
the course and build a new football stadium on the
proceeds.
Freshman Troubles
"TVEPLORING the lack of college spirit at Colum
bia university in New York and attributing it
to the sophisticating influence of the big city, a
secret society of upperclassmen called the "Hluck
Avengers” has been formed to curb cocky fresh
men.
The freshman class that entered Columbia this
year was adjudged the smartest in ten years, won
every one of the traditional physical combats with
the sophomores, and consistently breaks ull campus I
traditions like wearing the green lid, walking on
the grass, and smoking on the campus. Oregon
isn’t the only university having trouble keeping
alive its traditions, useful or useless according to
who is doing the evaluating. Columbia complains
"there is an entirely different spirit and tempo from
that which exists in most other colleges.” Perhaps
that is the reason why Columbia is such a popular
place for people to go to carry on advanced or
graduate study. In that sense it is a distinct ad
vantage for it to be uncollegiate.
Emerald Survey
WHAT do you like to read in the Emerald?
Editorials? News stories? Dementia? Ad
vertisements ?
The Emerald wants to know. Today it is launch
ing a survey to determine if possible where the
majority of its readers find greatest enjoyment.
It is the duty of every newspaper to look into
the mirror once in a while and see if it is getting
anywhere. To see if it is giving its readers what
they want. Every paper tries to do that, but meas
uring its results is hard.
The Emerald would like frank answers from its
readers to its survey questions. Without them ben
eficial changes cannot be made in the paper. May
we ask your co-operation in the interests of im
proving the Emerald?
The library is receiving checks to buy Braille
books so that blind students at the University may
be sure of reading something. How about a fund
to make sure that some of us with eyes will also
read something at the library?
What has happened to that spring fever every
one was talking about the first of the week?
Friday has been set for the day when we can
get our shoes and sox blacked for ten cents.
It won't be long now till apple cores will begin
to sprout on the trees around Eugene again.
“Canoeing in Race Dangerous Fun”—Emerald
headline. So are a lot of other things.
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| Oreganized Dementia
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Keiili/.ing the shortcomings of public reading
matter, the Dementia staff has determined to
launch at least one blow for the elevation of
human thought, (let your mind into the clouds
long enough to read the following work of Dr.
Confuzus, Dementia’s head philosopher. You
woidd ordinarily pay good money to hear such
terrific thoughts expounded. Cut classes today
and uvoid duplication.
MAN
Man is the soul of creation. He is the IT of
the cosmos. He goes to college. Not only that,
he goes to the university. He learns. Does he
forget? What does he forget? Ha! Those deep,
dank, dark, dangerous, dirty, digressive facts, ideas,
images he is supposed to forget. Bah! He forgets
nothing. His is the memory of eternity, of count
less ancestry.
Men flunk other men out of school.
Man flunk out of school? Preposterous! Man
is noble. Man is the lord of creation. Man is the
essence of the universe.
He gets puddled for being a frosh.
Man is the uncontrollable Will. Man is the car
bon copy of the ABSOLUTE. He is the Infinite
Reality’s standard of value. He is the
1I»> Rets kicked out of school, also, for not
paying a $8 late payment fine on a $7 fee.
He is ingenious. He is the highest form of life,
the amoeba's ambition, tHe very heart of culture,
advancement, science, skill. He is cynical, critical,
analytical, the master of environment.
He fulls out of canoes.
Conclusion, summary, moral: If it weren't for
man, where would we bum cigarettes?
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But there is a poetic side to man; woman. Dr.
Oonfuzus has just generalized about her. She's
man to him, but to Adolphe Burdneste, Dementia’s
ultra-highbrow bard, she is a glorious something.
Take a gulp of this poem if you don't think so.
WOMAN'
An age-old mystery,
Beautiful, sweet,
Movable creature, esteemed respect;
Her axe is sharp and keen, not dull;
It has no nicks, no rust, nor wear;
Her winsome face is seamed in age,
Vet she never does complain,
Whut's she want to complain for?
She's the solution, deep and dank,
Hum your cigarettes from her.
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One Fr’a Penny
By Guilfln
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FABLE THE ELEVENTH
And now we come to an organi
zation that, one would be Jed to
believe, exists on almost every
I other campus in the United States,
I but does not exist here. The mem
bers of - are only too willing
to reel off a long list of important
men football stars, student body
presidents, and drum majors, that
belong to their tong. “So and so?
Oh, yes—he's a -. And such
and such is a -, too.” The
only drawback is that all these
personages have accepted the lit
\ tie brown kidney pill that is their
I pledge pin on other campuses
than this.
The activities of - at Ore
gon can bo best ignored. We
draw the curtain of discretion
over them, such as they are. It
were best not . . . this is no
place for skeletons, at this feast.
But they’re quite the boys. Wo
men cry for them. Any co-ed
will just break her neck to get a
' date with one of them, and when
j the time for the —— dances rolls
around, the high wailing sound
you hear issuing from sorority |
houses is caused by masses of
struggling, fighting girls all cov
eting that highest honor, a bid to
a - function. (If you should
happen to see a woman acting in
the manner here described, walk
—don’t run, to the nearest tele
phone and get hold of an ambu
lance with strait-jacket apparatus.
Be calm about it, for heaven’s
sake don’t fail.
Their house is a rustic, or
perhaps agricultural, affair of
doubtful architectural type. It
might be classed as “just a
house,” except for one startling
feature, and that is its color. A
bright, cheery, sort of shade that
simply emanates the personality
of its occupants. No dull, indef- |
inate hue for these boys—no sir!
When the- house was paint- !
ed, it knew something had hap
pened. So did the whole cam
pus. Why this happened has
been a mystery, but the explan
ation that always rang truest
to us was that the building
wasn’t painted—that it simply
! turned that color from envy.
FORUM
ABOUT IN COMPLETES
To the Editor:
We would like to call your at
tention to the fact that we think,
if the new system of grading does
not go into effect next term, a
little consideration should be
shown by the professors to the
various organizations with regard
to incomplete grades that have
been made up. It certainly is un
fair, both to the student and the
organization, when the incomplete
has been made up according to
tile requirements, for the profes
sor to ignore the effort and neg
lect turning in the grade before
the grade sheet comes out.
According to the present stand
ard. this grade sheet is an import
ant institution, and every organi
zation strives for a high place on
it. If the professors do not give
it due consideration, and offer
“forgetting” as an excuse, some
thing surely should be done about!
it. We know of instances, where )
an oversight of this kind in the
English and art departments ser- j
iously lowered the standards of j
Senior Ball
Calls for a Haircut
VARSITY
BARBER SHOP
DANCE
Winter Garden Tonight
Music By
“CHIEF BIG BOY”
And His Musical Kedskins
Every Friday Night
an organization. Though this mat
ter of the grade sheets may seem
only of momentary importance, its
effects, on the contrary, are of
lasting importance, both to the
local and the national standing of
the organization, and in the con
sequent judgment of the profes
sors. Perhaps this emphasis on
the professor's negligence is only
a Puritannical strain in us in seek
ing the justification of the indi
vidual; but even those in the Eng
lish department will admit, that
this comes under the creed of
“Right and Rights.’’
—M. G.
FOSTER “DOES NOT CHOOSE”
To the Editor:
I wish to quell any vague ru
mors as to my running for the
office of president of the A. S.
U. O., as was intimated 'in yester
day’s Emerald. My only state
ment is “I do not choose to run,”
and even if I did, I could not.
Not only under the new consti
tution, but under the old, I would
be ineligible for this office due to
the fact that I have been enrolled
in the University for eleven years.
The office of president of asso
ciated students should rightfully
belong to a senior, not only a sen
ior in University credits but also
prescribed hours; secondly, he
should be a student. I am neither,
hence “I do not choose to run.”
! The Ambler
YESTERDAY WE SAW
The campus soaked in the sober
sadness of February rain . . .
DULCIE LYTSELL in a robin’s
egg-blue outfit dodging among the
raindrops . . . LEONARD DON
ALDSON, sneaking away from
chem. leb so he could have a smoke
in his shirt-sleeves . . . GENE
LAIRD, who has been looking for
JOHN NELSON for two days, off
on a new scent ... a campus gar
dener pulling weeds and singing
that old bromide: “Yes, sir, she’s
my baby” ... tin horn politicians
in the College Side trading minor
committee jobs ... a freshman
making himself famous by being
the only man that BEA MILLI
GAN doesn’t speak to . . . PRO
FESSOR LESCH, his canine, and
a new girl friend.
Men at the University of Boston
recently voted on their favorite
type of woman. Brains, beauty,
sophistication, education, charm,
are among the leading specifica
tions voiced. Some said “affec
tionate, not too moral and slen
der.”
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 Willamette St. tf
FOR SALE—Guinea pigs raised
for laboratory use. 1745 Frank
lin Blvd. Across mill race.
Women’s Emerald staff — meets
this afternoon at 4, in 104 Jour
nalism building. All members
must be there.
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Congress club—-will meet tonight
at 7:30 at the College Side. Sub
ject: Independence of India.
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Tan Delta Delta—meeting Thurs
day night at 8 o’clock at the Chi
Omega house. Very important.
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W. A. A. mass meeting—today at
5 in 121 Gerlinger. Very impor
tant. Everyone be there.
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Pan-Pacific meeting—will be held
this evening at 8:30 in 107 Com
merce.
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Scabbard and Blade — members
please be present at luncheon at
College Side today at noon.
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Oregon Knights—meeting at 5
o’clock at 110 Johnson.
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Dean Schwering’s—d iscussion
group on "Spiritual Relations of
Life” will meet today at 5 o’clock,
in the bungalow.
-o
Y. W. cabinet—meeting tonight at
7:30 in the bungalow. Henrietta
Thomson will talk. Important.
-o
Drama group—of Philomelete will
meet Wednesday night at 7 o'clock
in Gerlinger hall. All members
must be present and all those tak
ing part in the skit must have
their lines learned.
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Order of the O—group picture for
the Oregana will be taken Thurs
day at 12:55 on the library steps.
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Pi Delta Phi—will meet Thursday,
February 20, at the Alpha Omi
cron Pi house. C. B. Beall will
read a paper on “The Influence of
Torquato Tasso on French Litera
ture.”
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Freshman women—are invited by
Delta Zeta pledges to a tea at the
Delta Zeta chapter house from 3
to 5 this afternoon.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Zeta Tail Alpha announces the
pledging of Edris Green of Port
land.
I DR. J. R. WETHERBEE
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isfying as a nice pile of clean, neat
clothes, waiting to be worn . . . and on
the other hand, there’s nothing so com
pletely discouraging as a big pile of dirty
clothes. Just call the New Service Laun
dry and we promise to keep your clothes
always ready to wear.
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play is to be at our store all this week.
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Tickets Put on Sale
For Junior Shine Day
“More Rain More Shine’’ is the
campus slogan for Junior Shine
day for which the ticket sale is
starting today. The junior class
is planning a campaign for a sale
of 2,000 tickets with the inten
tion of smashing the junior sale
record of last year which amount
ed to 1,500.
One-half of the funds resulting
from this activity are to be used
for the Bulgarian student fund,
and the remaining portion added
to the junior class fund.
Plans are being made for inside
booths if the weather should be
rainy.
“Ten Nights in a Bar-room” is
to be presented on the W. S. C.
campus soon. The production will
retain as much of the original set
ting as possible.
Dartmouth college has snatched
a new fad. A moccasin dance,
which is a traditional affair at
Canadian winter carnivals, has
been introduced on that campus.
j Do You Know?
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That there were 131,551 credit
hours of instruction given at the
University of Oregon last year ?
That it is estimated that over
$1,500,000,000.00 are spent yearly
on advertising in the United
States ?
That the Chi Omegas and the
Gamma Phi Beta’s had a snow
battle on the University of Kan
sas campus last week?
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That the Pioneer has been try
ing for 11 years to take another
forward step?
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AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Announces a
FREE LECTURE
on
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
By
DR, JOHN M. TUTT, C. S. R.,
Of Kansas City, Missouri.
Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother
Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Boston, Mass.
MUSIC BUILDING AUDITORIUM
THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20th
at 8 o’Clock
The Public Is Cordially Invited to Attend.
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