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University of Oregon, Eugene
Arthur L. Sohoenl . Editor
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Vinton H. Hall . Managing Editor
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Nancy Taylor .-.— Secretary
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Sports
THE following editorial, printed in the New York
World, Kurils up excellently the way many per
sons feel toward sports, both inside and out of
college. In it we hear a slight feeling of injustice
for the boys who have to work and go to school
nigbts because they do not have the educational
advantages of other young men; in it is echoed the
lament of many that athletics often sacrifices men
tality for the muscularity; in it the same feeling
expressed that some check is needed, some defini
tion necessary to differentiate between professional
and amateur sports.
"Let us get straight on sports. If we continue
to play along as we have been doing the result
must be the building up of even more hypocrisy.
Prohibition has done its worst, and now the tide
has changed. There are millions of devotees of
sports in this country, and we hope their number
will increase, but we hope also that they will play
games for the fun they get out of them and not
for some ulterior motive.
"We hope the time will come when the boys
who go to work in the daytime and to school and
college between the hours of 7 and 9:30 o'clock
in the evening will have even greater opportunity
to play. It will help them and it will help this
country. We are not going to waste any sympathy
on the boys who work their wny through college;
they would high-hat us or throw a brickbat at us
if we did. Our interest is in the confusion of
thought which cannot see the difference between
doing something athletically because it is a pleasant
thing to do and another policy which says that be
cause 'nature has given me a strong pair of legs,
a deep chest or some other physical asset I must
capitalize them instead of the gray matter God
placed in my skull.’ The tragedy of the moment
is that so many superb youngsters are the victims
of their elders -men who are prepared to sacrifice
them on the altar of personal ambition. In sports
competitors give of their best, their last breath,
their very heart beats, until the cinders of the track
blind their eyes; they ought to give for something
more than money.”
A College Novelty
TJENNINGTON, Vermont, the place where Revo
lutionary war heroes were made, will be the
site for a new “ideal” college for women, budded
upon the latest educational lines.
Embodied in its features will be:
1. Selective plan of admission on basis of pupil’s
school record.
2. Tuition fees to pay for fidl cost of instruc
tion with generous scholarships for the deserving.
3. Individually prescribed work the first two
years.
4. Tool courses, such as mathematics and for
eign language, prescribed only for those who look
forward to major work requiring their use.
The United States is gradually approaching a
period when the progressive schools and scientific
students of education must ally themselves more
closely in the common effort to evaluate the newer
methods carefully and impartially. Such a college
as will be built in Vermont will emphasize indi
viduality, direct interest, initiative ami self-depend
ence as educational aims.
No longer will the student be required to take
two or three years of college language, say French;'
it will do him only a minimum of good unless He
expects to teach French or travel abroad which
only one out of 100 French studiers plan on.
The oft-heard charge that colleges are mills
where every student is taught the same thing, re
gardless of individual capabilities, is being answered
by this institution. Students in college today are
advised what courses to take, but after they get
in those courses all are taught by the same wooden
method, aimed to teach as much as possible to as
many as possible anil let the “devil take the slow
pupil.”
In the elementary and high schools, and even
in smaller colleges, greater emphasis is being placed
on feeding each individual pupil educational food to i
the correct amount and of the correct sort so that
he may get the best results. If this method is to
be a forced feeding, with the sickly and the well
both getting the same "hardtack,” society can only
expect that those who went in “sick” will come
out in little better health, educationally speaking.
Colleges where the lecture system has to be em
ployed because of the large-sized classes are only
making the best of the situation. There are better
methods of putting the subject matter across and
getting the best results from teaching than by the
lecture, but under the prevalent conditions of over
crowded colleges, it is the only thing left. Those
who are alarmed to see small colleges being started
up all over the country and watch with misgiving
the new-born junior college movement should
change their slant of looking at things and rejoice
that at last education is trying to get to the indi
vidual instead of pouring the molasses of knowledge
over a swarm of human flies and hoping that it
will catch some.
Who’s King Now?
THERE is an unusual situation down at Oregon.
There sits in the Emerald editor’s chair a man
who is officially nothing, officially something,
drawing pay for something which he isn’t and not
a member of something to which he legally belongs.
A conflict of appointments brought it all about.
Unravelled, the difficulty takes this shape:
The man who is editor of the Emerald is auto
matically a member of the publications committee.
Two weeks ago a new editor was appointed, to
take office next fall. The publications committee
was picked by George Cherry a few days later and
immediately went into office, displacing the pub
lications group of which the incumbent editor is a
member.
So the editor of the Emerald today, since he
holds his position from September to June, is not
actually a member of the publications committee,
although the constitution provides that such shall
be the case.
The Gordian knot is further entangled by the
fact that although the editor for the past year still
writes the editorials and directs the policies, draws
the pay, and bears up under the many compliments
which are an editor’s lot, the editor for next year
holds all the political power through his affiliation
with the committee.
The past editor, according to constitutional re
quirement, has made out a list of awards and sal
aries to be paid to workers on the paper this year.
This recommendation goes to the publications com
mittee, upon which sith the editor for next year.
Truly, the times are out of joint. Perhaps the in
congruous arrangement as it now stands might be
avoided by not putting the recently appointed pub
lications committee in force until the following fall.
It might be remedied by making the editor-elect
the real editor for the last month of school, such
a system as is used at Oregon State college.
For the benefit of those who think college stu
dents terribly sophisticated let us cite Washington,
where fraternities indulge in donut horseshoes and
touch football.
A bunco artist was exposed by a University pro
fessor the other day. How about exposing some
professors as bunco artists also?
This is not spring weather; it’s more like arte
sian well weather.
St-----—*—----in,
Editorial Shavings
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Four'hundred and seventy-three girls voted for
the 12:30 rule on week-ends and 13 voted for 12:15
closing hour. We'd like to get a look at those 13.
Daily Nebraskan.
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About this time of year graduating seniors be
gin to wonder whether food handed out by chari
table institutions is as good as what they get at
college. O. S. C. Barometer.
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"Petting,” says a leader of an intercollegiate
club, “is passing out." On the other hand, the
early census returns show 222 more inhabitants in
Paw Paw. Michigan Daily.
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Nowadays a man can follow any course he wants
so long as he has the green fee. Fullerton Torch.
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THE ART OF CONVERSATION
(Columbia Missourian)
Not so long ago American terseness was such
a common thing and so generally accepted that
even the humorous magazines noticed it. Congress
men were objects of wonder mainly because they
could talk so much and accomplish so little. Women
who ranted and raved were occasionally avoided
and labeled as gabby nuisances.
Modern observers say we have all joined in this
worship of the Great God Gab. We produce auto
mobiles, safety pins, bathtubs and college graduates
mechanically by the tens of thousands. Now we
are producing our conversation on the same mass
production basis, it is charged. Soon, others pre
dict, we will improve the quality of our conversa
tion. Tens of millions of citizens, if we may be
lieve our advertisements, are learning salesman
ship, French, and how to make the politer forms
of conversation, through correspondence courses.
Americans, surely, are in need of an art of con
versation. Invariably visitors remark, “Delightful
people, Americans, but they do not know how to
talk."
Because of this, it is pointed out, there arises
our "ferocious hospitality" which leads to rushing
the visitor from place to place and tiring him to
death without really talking to him.
Attention is called to our lack of great orators.
No Cicero lives now. Bryan is dead. There are no
successful Daniel Websters, if we exclude Senator
Borah. Debaters in schools are trained to voice
opinion selected for them. The whole nation stum
bles in the dark when it must converse intelli
gently.
It appears that one of the gal
lant 3,000 has contributed some
thing of a highly intellectual na
ture. Whether it’s in blank verse
or not we haven't yet determined.
Here it is, anyway:
INSULT
“A Pollyanna critic!”
Because I laughed at what bored
me—
Bettered to have suffered
At the irritation of it all—
To have joined the ranks of
young critiques,
Sipped tea—felt pain at the in
sufferably prosaic—
Later—drunk and sexy—
Lost myself in a long hang-over.
Blit having felt the super-trite
ness
Of such young modernity,
I laughed, instead
Of abusing my aesthetic sense.
That laughter brought, me in
sult—
But—from one at whom I
laughed.
—E. M..
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Deep, huh?
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BUT LOOK the following is
an advance story we swiped from
the publicity department. It was
n’t to have been printed until next
year some time, but here it is in
all its gorgeous details':
"Yes,” declared W. T. Shaving
cream, ex-president of the Univer
sity student body, “us ex-student
body presidents have just began
to realize fully the debt we owe
the rank and file of our dear Alma
Mater.
“That’s why we are endowing
this ten million bucks. From
now on, the students won’t have
to pay any fees. The interest on
this sum will take care of that
for years to come.
“There have been lots of en
dowments to the University but
with each new endowment, it
seems that there is always a new
raise in the fees. How’s that go
ing to help the students, I ask
you ?
"Our debt is to the students,
and not to the University. The
students elected 11s. In the past,
anil in years to come, we have al
ways at least one distinction we
are “ex-student body presidents.”
"Fees are the students’ biggest
problem. They can study econ and
math in garrets and tents. They
don’t need buildings for that.
Many of their text books were
probably written under worse cir
cumstances. Hooray for the com
mon people!"
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WE REITERATE:
"This is too much.”
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That in 1897, for the first and
only time in its history, the Uni
versity of Oregon conferred upon
six graduating students the degree
of bachelor of scientific didactics?
(Didactics is defined by Webster
as the art or the science of teach
ing.)
—R. K.
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That in the Emerald of Tuesday,
May 20, there was not one story
that “broke over" from one page
to another i. e. no continued
stories ?
—H. T.
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That neither the editor nor man-.
ager of the Oregana had his pic- j
ture taken for the senior section
of the Oregana? (Neither was a
senior.)
The freshmen at Washington
Lee had a big time at the annual
freshman night, but the university
treasurer is stuck with a bill of
more than $800 for the damage
wrought by the yearlings in their
mad capers.
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Now That You’re Read The Emerald
Answer These to Test Your Knowledge of Campus Current Events
1. Who won a Jewett prize for a second time?
2. Who plays over KORE tonight?
3. Who ran to the Springfield bridge and hack
in 32 minutes?
4. Who is going to address the class in avia
tion?
5. What Oregon grad has been selling poetry
recently ?
6. What is going to become of bayonets and
the old R. O. T. C. uniforms?
7. Who gives a recital tonight?
8. What Corvallis group is going to hear Dr.
Hodge ?
9. How many more games must Friendly hall
win to cinch its series?
10. Who won prizes for the recent Community
Day games ? •
Mrs. Hearst’s
Fashion Monocle
(If you could see yourself,
as others see you)
By C. H.
Is it the effect of Greta Garbo’s
"IT,” and their attempt to copy
it, or is it merely spring, that has
made so many co-eds bob their
hair?
Elsie Goddard, up at the Delta
Gamma house, has given up her
“crown of glory.” She no longer
looks a woman of the world: just
sweet, young, girlish.
Loleta Jaeger, with all the j
stored-up' dignity of past and gone !
Thetas, looks as if she had stopped
playing the “part of the nice girl,”
as our own Guilfin so aptly ex
pressed it, now that she has cut
her long golden tresses.
Flavell Hayner is no longer Miss
Modesty 1929, but is Miss Mod
erne 1930 (Ziegfeld and Follies
Bergere).
Margaret Muncy couldn’t keep
from having a sophisticated air if
she wanted to, but with her long
bob she has a naughty look that
is a bit naive . . . yet very, very
expressive.
With long hair Mary Caniparoli
had a deep melancholy look (like
some heroine out of a story book).
With it down on her neck, she
has the same look, but with a dif
ference, if you know what I mean.
So important has this bobbing
problem become again, that the
Emerald looked up some statistics
on the subject. Dorothy Tepee,
who is the Junior Prom queen, has
long, wavy brown hair.
Of the four girls who are to be
her attendants, all are brunettes
with either curly or wavy hair.
Janice Strickland and Lorena Wil
son wear theirs long. Margharita
Hay and Orplia Ager have theirs
in long bobs.
ur me omer 10 wno ran, omy
one confessed to straight hair
(although I dare say that if we
could see them as God does, a lot
more would have it versa vice).
Five have bobbed hair, and only
three, out of all those 18 who ran,
are blonde.
So it seems that, although it is
becoming increasingly popular,
men still prefer their maidens to
be sweet, demure, and long-haired
(it is true . . . women still dress
for the attention of the sterner
sex).
Although they prefer blondes,
women remember that “they
marry brunettes,’^ and let the gold
die with the baby clothes.
Curls add to that fetching,
coquet ish look and make the
“come hither” in the eye more
noticeable. (From one who
knows.)
Two pledges at Minnesota who
had worked far into the night' for
their fraternity brethren sneaked
out and entered a neighboring
house where they found two fresh
men waxing floors. The intrud
ers ordered them to exchange
hacks, and when the latter couple
obeyed, the others went home
satisfied.
The
Difference
Between
Wet Feet
and
Dry Feet
Is
that dry foot are those
that are preserved by the
highest grade of wax shoe
oil.
CAMPUS
SHOE SHINE
“Right across from the
Sigma Chi's”
Spanish Society
Meets Thursday
Program To Include1 Music
And Card Games
The last meeting of La Corrida
de Todos, Spanish club, which was
scheduled for Wednesday evening,
will be held Thursday evening at
7:30 at the Westminster house,
instead.
The program for the evening,
under the direction of Marvin
Erickson, graduate assistant in
Spanish, will consist of music and
Spanish card games. Eight Span
ish records, property of the Span
ish department, will be played
from which to learn the popular
Spanish and Mexican ballads.
These records are Mi Viejo Amor
(My First Love), Borrachfta (Lit
tle Tippler), Chula La Manana
(Mexican Morning), El Desterrado
(Love’s Exile), Mascarita (The
Little Masquerette), Colorados
(Ruby Lips), El Que a Hierro
Mata (Love Unrequited), and
Cielito Lindo (My Pretty Angel).
The Spanish students appointed
to take charge of the tables of
card games are M. E. Erickson,
Willmadene Richolson, Mildred
Dobbins, and Curtis Charlson.
These appointments were made
by Carl J. Furr, president of the
club.
All students interested in Span
ish are welcome to come to this
meeting, according to Mr. Furr.
Ann Baum Thrown
From Frisky Horse
Ann Baum, sophomore in sociol
ogy and secretary of A. W. S., was
severely shaken yesterday after
noon when she was thrown from
her horse.
Examination showed, however,
that no serious injury resulted, be
yond minor bruises.
Mueller Planning
On School Survey
Sociologist, Oregon Head
Of Committee
Dr. John Muller, of the sociol
ogy department, returned Monday
from Portland, where he attended
a meeting of representatives from
nearly all the institutions of high
er learning of Oregon, for the pur
pose of discussing with Dr.
Charles Klein the federal survey
of colleges and universities which
is being carried on at the present
time.
Dr. Klein is the Oregon state
chairman of the survey. The
group met at the Heathman hotel,
and considered for the most part
social background of the univer
sities.
A committee composed of Dr.
Delmer Dewey, Dr. Salzer of Ore
gon State college, and Dr. Mul
ler, met in Dr. Muller's office
Monday afternoon to outline plans
for the social background of the
survey for Oregon.
This survey is being conducted
by the federal government, de
partment of the interior, and may
be used by any of the states who
care to follow it for the benefit of
research for their colleges and
universities.
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Greater Oregon committee—will
meet today in room 105, Johnson,
it 5 o'clock.
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Christian Science Organization—
meets tonight at 7:30 in the Y.
W. C. A. bungalow.
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Phllomelete presidents—meet at 8
o’clock today in women's lounge
of Gerlinger hall. Important.
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Vfusic group—of Phhlomelete meets
today at 3 at Westminster house.
Girls bring instruments and mu
sic.
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Tau Delta Delta—meets at noon
today at the Anchorage. Every
one please be present and bring
50 cents. *■
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Prose and Poetry group—of Philo
melete will have an important
meeting at 4 o’clock today at the
Alpha Gamma Delta house.
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Students Interested—in the W. F.
Jewett extempore prize speaking
contest will please sign the list
on bulletin board outside room 2,
Friendly hall.
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Meeting of all house representa
tives—for W. A. A. today at 5
in 121 Gerlinger building. Very
important that each house be rep
resented.
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Phi Beta—important meeting at 4
o’clock today at Susan Campbell
hall. Members plan to meet at
2015 University street at 6:30 tHis
evening.
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