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University of Oregon, Eugene
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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 ami Monday, during the college year. Member of
the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice ot
Eugene, Oregon, as second Class matter. Subscription rates,
$2.50 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, -Man
ager: Office, 1895; residence, 127.
Wanted—More Traditions?
TRADITION—A belief, custom, or usage
handed down from generation to generation.
• • •
*TMIAT’S what Webster calls a “tradition”—the
word over which more other words have been
spent, more laws passed and spasmodically en
fqrced than any other on the Oregon campus.
Year after year the howl goes up for or against
some tradition Oregon has or wants. Abolish one
and the heavens ring with the cry, "Pretty soon
there won’t be any traditions . . . Oregon will be
a business college.” At universities certain func
tions and material objects are classed as' traditions,
as well as the less animate beliefs and customs.
So the thought occurred: What traditions does
Oregon still have? Is the glamor as nearly gone
as alarmists picture?
Here are a few functions, beliefs, customs and
usages still on the books at Oregon, prepared by
our staff traditionalist:
1. Four major class dances—Informal, Glee,
Prom and Ball.
2. Dime Crawls. (3) Green lids and library
steps (Hark! Are those hisses?). (4) April Frolic.
(5) Homecoming week-end and dances. (6) Jour
nalism Jamboree. (7) Canoe Fete and Junior Week
end. (8) No smoking on the campus. (9) Foreign
scholars. (10) Junior shine day. (11) Open house.
(12) Senior bench. (13) No stepping on seal.
(14) Senior kid party. (15) “Crowning’’ frosh with
lids. (16) No pigging at games. (17) No cords
on underclassmen. (18) Senior mustaches. (19) No
frosh wear tuxes. (20) Saying “hello."
Those are twenty more-or-less-traditions which
still flourish on the Oregon campus. If some event
like the tug-of-war or frosh "gauntlet” should be
given the ax, Oregon students can dig up this list
and cross one off and there will still be nineteen
left.
Illegal Voting
OTHER colleges, too, seem to have their election
troubles and scandals. University of Southern
California last week-end voted on its student body
officers and as a preventive measure against illegal
voting they made use of a system of identification
cards.
All students desiring to vote had to have identi
fication cards properly filled out. They contain
the name of the student, the class numeral and the
college in which he is enrolled. Just how this was
expected to curb students voting under someone
else's name was not explained.
The most adaptable way of checking on such
undesirable practices as are wont to creep into stu
dent elections seems to require the student body
cards when there is any question of the identity
of the would-be voter. Such a ruling was declared
in order at the recent A. S. U. O. polls, but a few
dishonest voters crept under the wire either by some
clever subterfuge or because of laxity of voting
officials in checking on cards.
Whether or not any measures will be taken to
eliminate illegal voting at class elections today is
not known at the time of this writing. But in the
interests of honesty all the way round and a fair
chance for every candidate such precautions should
be taken.
Fraternity “Cowards”
THAT deferred pledging not only “works” at
Stanford, but has far fewer evils than the aver
age college man believes, is the message that one
gains from an interview with a Stanford football
man, who was also rushing chairman of his house
for two years, printed in today's paper.
One of the outstanding arguments pointed out
by this southern university man in favor of late
pledging is that the time which the freshman must
live in the dormitory is a period in which he can
make or break himself. He is given a chance to
show the stuff he is made of and not pampered
and “pushed” by his fraternity into doing things
he would not ordinarily undertake and consequently
in which he has little interest.
On the other hand, this man declares that un
less a school had dormitory space enough to house
all freshmen the value of deferred rushing may be
lost.
Having gone through several years of rushing
under the Stanford system, he can evaluate bene
fits to the fraternity and to the freshman, and he
does not underestimate the value the first-year man
gets out of “rowing his own boat” for three terms.
The Emerald’s poll of fraternities and dormi
tories shows a decided feeling against deferred
pledging. Kay Lyman Wilbur once told the writer
that fraternities are stronger knit together than
any organization he knew and yet were the “big
gest cowards when it came to making changes.”
The secretary of interior and president of Stanford
should know. He has viewed fraternities closely
from the outside. He is known to be unfavorably
inclined toward them, and his aim of making Stan
ford a graduate school is heralded as the knell of
fraternities.
Comes Answer
/'"'lOMES answer from the men’s gymnasium, from
'->4 officials who say that cuspidors padlocked
there are but fastened to the wall to keep them
from being kicked about. Last week the Emerald
defended student honesty, declared that padlocking
of cuspidors implied suspicion of student morals.
Now comes this paltry excuse, this weak and
spineless answer to the Emerald challenge. We
cried, “Unlock our cuspidors,” to be answered only
by “The locks hold them to the wall.”
Whether or not the gymnasium employees are
guiltless of intent to deceive, whether or not they
believe that locks are necessary for mere fasten
ings, whether or not they can understand the af
front to sensitive students who shrink before the
implication of dishonesty, we do not know. But
we do know that this is not the first instance.
Three and four years ago, easily within the ken
of the older students on the campus, gardeners
marked each shrub and tree with little stakes set
among the roots, upon them their Latin names.
Now no freshman can learn the name of the bush
beside the sun-dial; roses bloom unknown; lonely
firs rear themselves beside Villard.
Have these stakes been removed, we asked, for
any other reason than fear of vandalism ? No, is
our answer. And so, no small reason we cry, "Un
lock our cuspidors.”
Jazz is looked down upon in Soviet Russia and
has to be “bootlegged” in private homes because
no self-respecting citizen will venture within ear
shot of that music. If their jazz is anything like
the rest of the Russian music, they’d probably have
their ears “shot” if they did go near it.
A Minnesota sophomore used his slide rule and
figured out just how hard and far to hit a golf
ball. He drew back his club, socked it, and made
a hole in one. Proving that there IS some use for
trig after all.
A Frenchman wrote 136 lines on the back of a
postcard. He used 26,119 words. Next thing he’ll
be trying to engrave the Lord’s Prayer on a mole
cule.
V/isconsin recently held a field and track meet
at night. Probably the most popular event was
the huddle race in the grandstand.
There ought to be a law against moons 4like
we’ve had the last week-end. Of course it did not
last long, which may or may not be a good thing.
“University's First Air Delegates Hop Today on
Initial Lup of College Tour” headline in Minnesota
Daily. What is this, a petting marathon?
Road appropriations are big this year. Looks
like it’s also going to be a swell year for detours.
Eighty-five per cent of the co-eds at Washing
ton State are working their way through college,
we read. Working whom ?
Editorial Shavings
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All official automobiles maintained by the state
in Brazil are required to use alcohol as a fuel.
There’s a use for confiscated hootch. The only
drawback is that the cops' cars would run out of
fuel every little ways.—California Tech.
* * *
The professor who says the average college stu
dent has a vocabulary of 700 words has never heard
a driver of a collegiate whoopee cuss in a traffic
jam.—Daily Nebraskan.
• • •
Two Farmers Injured in Warm Battle Over
Party Telephone headline. We’ve heard of some
pretty serious rows over the telephone, but never
before of actual injuries. Daily Kansan.
• * •
There is an excuse for discussion groups. Per
haps the only way a mind can pull itself into being
is by its own boot straps. Still that posture nar
rows the vision so much. Montana Kaimin.
* * *
Of course every student would always like to
be his own boss. But all of us can’t be bachelors,
you know. Daily Nebraskan.
• • •
Then there was the man who thought the uni
versity was haunted because everyone was always
talking about the school spirit. Denver Clarion.
» * «
We endorse U. S. Royal golf balls and Fatimas;
we smoke Chesterfields and play what balls we
find. Montana Kaimin.
• • *
’’Hope you have a good trip,” we wished the
Mask and Wigger as he fell over the footlights.
Pennsylvanian.
• • •
A divorce case is just a turn of the tied.—Pur
due Exponent.
St
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Dear pupa,
It’s hard for mo to boliovo dat
everybody has gone nuts uroun
dis place. Do youse suppose it
could be me? If dey pulls off
anudder week-end like dis, I
guess I will be nuts. Just when
I tought I was gittin nex to
tings, too.
I walks out me class Friday an
bumps into a bunch of mugs wit
sanwiches. Papa, de univoisity
foinished de whole meal dat noon.
I seen everybody else eatin de
stuff, so I tries it too. Dey had
some stuff dey call meat loaf, but
I don’t know what it was made
out of.
I hadn’t no more dan finished
wit de grub when a couple of
apes pulls off me necktie an
trows me into de fish pond! Dey
tink dat’s funny aroun here.
Dere was a bull watchin de ting,
an I didn’t tink I’d letter drag
out me gat.
But if you tink dat’s anyting,
youse had oughto seen de big
scraps de had later. Dey smeared
paint on each udder, papa, an
trowed each udder in de canal.
I guess dey was plenty mad ny
de middle of Saturday afternoon.
I’m gonna keep outa dis ting!
I don’t want nobody to run no
spear into dis baby. Yes, papa,
dat’s what dey done Saturday.
Dey had a spear fight, but I
didn’t seen nobody gittin hoit.
Dp guys stripppd down to dpir
underwear so dp could git out of
dp way rpal quick.
Even dat wasn't enough. A
couple of gangs got out on de field
and took toins jumpin on each
udder and kickin qach udder in de
face.
I’m gittin de jumps, papa. I
can’t sleep at night. When I
meets anybody on de street or
hears anybody come up behin me,
I reaches for me gat. I guess you
better have Gus send me dat paint
sprayer of yours an a box of slugs.
I ain’t safe, I tell you. De lid's
off aroun here, and somebody is
gonna git hoit. Wish I was in Chi
where the risk aint so great.
I hope dey lets youse out of de
asylum soon, papa. It aint woith
very much of a toim in dat place
just to bump off a bank messen
ger. I can see dat now.
Your affectionate son,
—wan
CAMPUS
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Sigma Chi-Kappa Slg.
4:15
Sherry Ross-Friendly hall.
Delt-Phi Psi.
Seniors who are going out—foi;
Failing - Beekman commencement
orations may obtain at the speech
division office printed collections
of modern collegiate orations use
ful in preparations for speeches.
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Exposition 258—All students reg
istered in Exposition 258 are re
Present Incumbent
Harold J. Wells
Candidate for Republican
Nomination for
Justice of the Peace
Eugene Justice District
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Pi Lambda Theta—meeting this
noon at the Anchorage. Election
of officers.
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Asklepiads—will meet tonight at
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Persons in vicinity—of the O. N.
G. rifle range are cautioned to
exercise care on Tuesdays, Thurs
days, and Saturdays when juniors
in the R. O. T. C. are firing.
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Philomelete will leave the Y. W.
C. A. bungalow at 4 o’clock this
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Oregon Knights—meet tonight at
7:30 at room No. 4, Johnson. Busi
ness concerning initiation to be
discussed.
Baseball tryouts for women—to
night at 5 o’clock. All who are
out for baseball must report to
night.
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Amphibian meeting—tonight. All
pledges and members must be
there, at 7:30 in the pool of Ger
linger hall. Very important.
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Tennis teams—will be announced
] Wednesday. All women who have
j not checked off their practices
regularly see Miss Duncan today
or call her at 2858-R.
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Woman in Her Sphere group—will
meet Sunday from 5 to 6 p. m. in
Gerlinger hall.
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Phi Chi Theta—meeting today at
5 in room 106, Commerce. Elec
tion of officers.
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Pot and Quill—meets this evening
at the home of Mary Lou Turn
bull, 1010 East 20th, at 7:45.
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thing. Eat two biscuits with
plenty of rich milk every
morning. It will help make
you a “go-getter” in no time.
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