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A Horse On The Freshman
\ N indignant correspondent discovers after a week’s obser
^ vation that the new freshmen iids are objects to evoke
unqualified horror. “Those hideous green beaks that overshadow
their (the freshmen’s) young faces give them the most callow,
untutored, naive, simple-minded, and raw expression, individu
ally and collectively, that I have ever seen going up and down
the Oregon campus,’’ says the protest.
Without appearing to come to the defense of the new fresh
man headgear, the wholesale indictment of our correspondent
weighs rather heavily on the first-year students. After all, vir
tue is not skin deep (as Horatio Alger once said), and surely
a jockey’s raiment of brilliant green cannot transform an other
wise intelligent countenance into one of untutored, naive, simple
mindedness.
And then, we must also remember our traditions. Oregon
freshmen arc supposed to be naive and simple-minded. In the
early days of the University, freshmen fought for the privilege
of wearing their green caps not knowing, of course, what the
caps made them look like. When they found out they immedi
ately began fighting the other way. But by that time the course
of tradition had begun, and freshmen, caught in its inevitable
flow, were life-sentenced to *he wearing of green lids. (For
who is there so base as to break a sacred tradition!)
In search of a more respectable appearance, each incoming
freshman class trimmed away a portion of their green lids. By
last year they had come to look so nearly like human beings
that the Order of the “O” (great upholders of Oregon traditions,
albeit they took it upon themselves) decided there must be a
stop. Pr esto, the age-old cap.
Faint not away, fair correspondent, at the appearance of our
freshmen. Callowness is a virtue in the very young; and to
appear simple-minded is to keep faith with a very old tradition
of our school. If our freshmen look like unhorsed jockeys, smile
and think how they would look at Epsom Downs or Belmont,
facing the barrier. Their lot and our lot is hard to bear, but
it is for their good. Naive and untutored, our freshmen must
look as they are. It has been said.
The President Speaks
7E note in Friday’s Emerald an account of the final address
” * of Dr. Arnold Bennett Hull to the freshmen. Dr. Hall in
his last talk to the entering students emphasized the necessity
of appreciation of the beautiful in nature and the desirability
of picking the romance and adventure out of life, elevating it
above the sordidness with which we inevitably come in contact.
Somehow we always envy the freshmen their opportunity to
spend two, three, or more hours the first of fall term listening
to Dr. Hall as he gives them the very cream of his rich expe
rience in living and the result of his wide and deeply intelligent
observations. We feel that our president is a man whose re
markable and many capacities are not fully appreciated by the
students whom he guides. If the freshmen only knew it, they
are being given a superb opportunity to get an insight into the
personality and character of a man recognized throughout the
country as an educator of outstanding ability which they likely
will not have often again.
Dr. Hull is an unusually busy man. The encumbering duties
of an executive position he fulfills with extreme care and
thought, and in addition devotes much of his time to the ideal
of continued progress of the University. No labor union can
make his an eight-hour day', and it is obvious that he can have
little time lor personal contact with the 3000 men and women
on tiie campus.
We consider that the freshman class is distinctly and highly
favored when the president spends several hours with them ex
clusively.
In answer to a questionnaire 28 per cent of the freshman
girls at Syracuse university admitted having been in love many
times, while 10 per cent said they had been in love but once.
The remaining 31 per cent who insisted they had never been
in love ut all will catch up in the next four years.
We admire the courage of the polyphonic choir in planning
to sing "The Hymn of Praise" the day after the Oregon State
game.
A passport, a railroad ticket, and a can of flit are the trav
eler's impedimenta in Russia, according to Dr. John H. Mueller,
who has just returned from the land of the soviets.
If the egg-: wallowing story in Friday s Emerald is true, an
other Oregon student is well on0 the way to fame and success.
Education, what wonders are performed in thy name!
OREGON SAFETY VALVE
_ An Outlet for t ;tiii[>u> Steam _
LOUSY LIUS
To the Editor:
After viewing for am whole
week the exceptionally awful c ■!
lection cl f: . h.a. n p;: uling: the
campus. I have conn to Uu* i > -
elusion that they ate not really
that way it is their hats. Could
one catch a freshman in an un
hatted condition it has been done
maybe he would turn out to be
.1 tairl.v decent-looking mortal, no
worse than any of the rest of us.
But with all due desire to spare |
the freshmen's feelings, I have to }
say that these hideous green beaks
that overshadow their young faces
give them the most callow, untu
tored, naive, simple-minded, and
raw expression, individually and
collectively, that I have ever seen
going up and down the Oregon
campus.
Why do the poor things have to
blight their college careers at the
start by appearing with that ex
pression forced upon them ? One
sees one particular freshman who
fills the bill as regards a vapid
countenance and he wears that
hat. Cup, then. Well, every new
specimen of hat cap, I mean -
which one sees, is of course as
sumed to be reposing upon the
brow of the same vapid sort of
mutt. I beg to state, with tears
in my eyes, that this impression
is false. The Oregon freshmen
are NOT any muttier than any
other freshmen. They just look
that way. And is it their fault ?
No, it is not. It is the fault of
those horrible, ferocious, vile, ex
cessively lousy lids.
Can nothing be done?
If whoever did this thing to our
youth refuses to revoke the rul
ing, I recommend to the freshmen
a few quiet moments with a pair
of scissors. At least they could
transform those objects to the in
nocent green dots the freshmen
wore last year. A far, far better
thing for humanity speaking for
myself, a year's view of those phe
nomena will cause me to lose my
mind with a loud shout.
OFFENDED DIGNITY
CAMPUS ♦ ♦
ALENDAR
Music group of Philomelete will
meet Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock
in the Kappa Delta house. Pro
gram. All girls interested invited.
Independent Men living off the
campus are invited to attend the
first meeting of the Oregon Yeo
men, independent men’s club, Mon
day evening at 7:15 at the “Y”
hut. Freshmen are especially wel
come. Discussion of the year’s
plans will be in order.
Prose and Poetry of Philomelete
will not meet Sunday afternoon,
but a special hour will be held
from 9 to 10 Wednesday evening
at the Kappa Delta house.
Travel Group Will Fete
Women at Tea Sunday
Travel group of Philomelete, a
new section of the hobby organi
zation, will entertain with a tea
Sunday for girls who are inter
ested in foreign lands.
Miss Nella Roster, A. W. S.
foreign scholar on the campus,
will tell her impressions of Flor
ence, Italy.
The affair, which will be at 4
o’clock, is to be at the home of
Miss Eula Duke, 1471 Villard, one
of the sponsors for the group.
LEMON ♦
♦ PALOOKA
Round about the campus ....
wonder where Howard Nachtman
picked up that terrible red neck
tie ... . did Larry Fisher ever
try posing for a collar advertise
ment ? ... . frosh with their green
caps look cockier than ever ....
when do “libe steps” start? ....
is it just imagination or do the
girls look prettier this year? ....
Little Irvin of the Vigilance com
mittee, the cynic, says that's be
cause they have more of them
selves covered up .... Dagmar
Hauggen, the new Kappa siren,
running to a German class ....
Siren doesn't mean she’s a scream,
either .... Jim Blair looking his
usual handsome self .... what
kind of car is that wreck Julius
Rehall drives around? .... Is that
where the sophomore class funds
went ? ... . Now, now, Julius—
bad boy! .... the senior bench
. . . . For benefit of the frosh—the
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Oregon Seal can’t swim and it
isn’t an animal .... Art building
and Virginia Stafford .... Claire
Meisel looking brutal .... McClure
hall .... Charlie Barr looking in
tellectual .... Helen Althous
playing with test tubes .... Max
ine Moore wrestling with bio
chemistry .... Out behind Mc
Clure .... the Emerald copy
room .... O-O-O-h! what terrible
language .... Just Jessie Steele
again .... Friendly hall . . . .
when will the waterbagging sea
son open .... Over at the Ad
building .... Ralph David look
ing debonair and dangerous . . . .
out in the air again .... here
comes Betty Williams .... what’s
she thinking so hard about now?
. ... up by the Woman's building
. . . . There’s Russ Cutler crippling
some of his pupils in the Sigma
Delta Psi class .... Paul Laffer
ty kicking a football .... beauti
ful punt .... Don Stevenson
broad jumping .... Thelma Nel
son conferring with Thornton
Gale .... wonder what the theme
is for the new Oregana . . . .
Alyce Cook making puns . . . .
paper puns —tearable .... Charlie
Foster and Gordon Corson . . . .
suppose they could pass their
swimming tests? .... back to
the editorial rooms .... My these
editors have hard-boiled looks at
times ....
* * *
And then there's the guy that
put glue in his girl's lipstick.
What-a-mun!
This campus should never be a
cold one with all the fir trees on
it.
* * *
Yesterday we let you read a near
tragedy. Today we present a real
one. Now don’t say that wo did
n’t lead up to it.
A REAL TRAGEDY
Amanuella Frumenti, one of the
most feared of Chicago's gang
sters, was a real friend of Michael
Kilkenny, a huge cop whose size
twelve feet furnished him -a good
tindersta’nding of the criminal
ways.
Nothing was stranger than the
friendship of these two. The one
who had let daylight into the
bodies of countless rival gunmen:
and he who upheld the long arm
of the law. In Chicago the arm of 1
the law is so weak it needs some
one to hold it up.
Anyway, for close onto five i
years the strange friendship pur
suit during which tune Amanu- i
ella shot three crooks for drop
ping pineapples on Michael's head.
Not that he feared they would
hurt Michael, but because it riled
his sensitive nature to see so
much good explosive going to
waste on a solid Irish skull.
Michael three times sprung
Amanuella from the “jug” to
which he had been confined by
over-zealous officials.
Truly did they love each other,
even as brothers. But an ugly
snake raised its head in their little
Paradise. Amanuella, due to his
long association with the criminal
brotherhood, began to supplant
the name of Michael with that of
“Bull.” This was a title which
TV
Michael hated from the depths of
his soul. He begged his friend to
desist but it had become second
nature with Amanuella.
"Amanuella,” he said one day,
“if you don't quit using that
phrase, ‘o. k., bull,’ I shall have
to get hard with you."
“O. K., Bull,” Amanuella had re
plied blithely and skipped out to
do a little back-racketeering.
Michael fingered his gun
thoughtfully. It was evident that
flesh and blood could stand no
more. A fortunate thing happened
—Amanuella was obliged to leave
town suddenly. The old friendship
came back and Michael accompan
ied his friend to the dock.
“Amanuella,” he said with a
sudden surge of feeling, “how can
I get in touch with you ? Should
I telegraph or cable?”
Amanuella thought. “Oh, cable,”
he decided.
Michael pulled out his gun and
shot him then and the little ctory
was ended.
* * m \
The editor says
This t'oliiinn’s bad—
I’ve only done
As I was bade
And tried to write
Some lightsome humor
And voice a bit
Of campus rumor
I’m a frazzled wreelt,
I’ll pass to bliss
If I try to do
Any more of this.
Plans for Cosmopolitan
Club Reception Complete
invitations Will Be Sent Out
Next Week
Plans for the yearly reception
given by members of the Cosmo
politan club were made Wednes
day afternoon at the first execu
:ive council meeting of the club
neld in the Y. W. C. A. bungalow.
The reception, which will be
ield at the International house, is
given for students and faculty who
:iave expressed an interest in the
group, which is composed of guest
rnd American students. Invitations
will be issued next week.
Committees appointed for the
reception are: Ruth Griffin, chair
nan of the entertainment com
mittee: Dorothy Foote, chairman
>f the invitation committee: and
Lois Greenwood, chairman of the
refreshment committee.
In tiie receiving line will be
Eleanor Jane Ballantyne. presi
dent; Bobby Robinson, vice-presi
ient; Max Pulido, treasurer: Dor
uhy Foote, secretary: and King
rhow, custodian.
Further plans for the club will
>e made at the next executive
•ouncil meeting to be held at the
{. w bungalow Wednesday eve
ung at 9 o’clock.
Englishman Sees
Greater Chance
Here for Student
We here at Oregon may find it
hard to scrape up enough money
to enter the University, but we
have more opportunity to do so
than do students in Europe, in the
opinion of Guy Wernham, special
student enrolled in the University.
“My first impression of Amer
ica,” Wernham said, ‘‘was the
fact that there is a much greater
possibility of becoming educated
here than in England, especially
for the poorer people.
“The depression in Europe is a
depression. In fact, that was my
main reason for coming to this
country. There is hardly any work
to do in London. It is so much
worse there than here inAmerica."
Wernham was born in England
and spent most of his life in Lon
don, where he worked on several
London newspapers. However, he
is not planning to be a journalist
but is more interested in teaching
biology or French.
“One thing about America,”
Wernham went on, “is that the
people are so much more friendly
and easier to talk to than those
in England. They are easier to
approach and are not as aloof as
Englishmen.
“I also think that it is cleaner
here than in England, but perhaps
that is because it is a bigger and
more open country.”
As he rose to leave the room he
repeated, “It is so much easier
to get an education here.”
The tall young Englishman was
married last year in Paris to Mary
Fitch, a former student of the
University of Oregon and a mem
ber of Kappa Alpha Theta.
PRESS BOX
(Continued from Page One)
ing much newspaper publicity
here, and is regarded by writers
as a dangerous threat.
* * »
As no new developments have
turned up in the case of the eli
gibility of Joe Lillard of the Ore
gon football team, it looks like
Joe is going to be on hand for the
rest of the games of the Webfoot
season. All the howl and hubbub
about the aforementioned player
merely proves the fact that pub
licity is not such a good work
horse after all. Do you think for
a minute that if Joe had been
some little two-by-four halfback
that any question would have been
even thought of as to his eligibil
ity Not by a long shot! It takes
the headlines and the limelight to
bring up something like that. A
boy is good, therefore there must
be something wrong with him.
Some time ago this same question
came up—originating in Califor
nia and reporting that Paul
Schissler of Oregon State and
Jimmy Phelan of Washington both
would have something to say on
the right of "Happy Joe’’ to play
inter-collegiate football — and to
their credit, they both denied it
emphatically. But the fact remains
that someone in authority started
the rumor or else Jonathan Butler,
purely an observer, would not have
taken such an intense and first
hand interest in the case. Ques
tion: Who’s behind it?
* * *
GLASS HOUSES
We ll drop the question now for
the time being, although we might
say that the situation is very
much like the person that lived in
the glass house. Perhaps if all the
boys on the coast that received
payment for playing semi-profes
sional baseball were brought to
task, there would be no football
games because of a shortage of
players. It may seem out of place
to quote Scripture in a sport
column of this nature, but an ex
tremely appropriate one comes to
my mind as very fitting for the
occasion—"Let him who is without
sin cast the first stone”—and
thereupon ten conference schools
stood with their hands in their
pockets.
‘Church Night’ Observed
By University Students
Receptions, Dances, Parties Are
Given by Denominations
“Church night,” an all-campus
event, was observed by University
students last evening when the
Eugene churches entertained in
their honor. A large number of
students attended these parties.
Each denomination planned a re
ception. The Catholic and Episco
pal churches invited the students
to informal dances. An oriental
party was held at the Methodist
church, at which the guests were
entertained by oriental games,
music, and a ceremonial. The
Presbyterian church took their
guests on a “Gold Digging Ex
cursion.’’ The students attending
the Christian church party en
rolled in a “good time college” by
completing registration, being
present at the president’s recep
tion and then going to the junior
prom.
The Community Liberal (Uni
tarian ), Congregational, and
Lutheran churches entertained
with informal receptions for the
students. A “Once in a Blue
Moon” party was given at the
Baptist church.
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