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Rainy Day Reflections
*<^^LD MAN WORLD” is a juggler these days,—a fuzzy-fin
, gered juggler with a*hangover headache, trying to keep
half a dozen wooden balls, all filled with nitro-glycerine, rotating
smoothly from hand to hand.
"Preserving the status quo” in China has become a matter of
keeping up the fighting that has been going on for six months
without a declaration of war. The new Manchurian state is torn
by the first of the civil wars that, will prevail there as long as
the strings are being pulled by Japan. Russia and Japun are get
ting nearer and nearer to a repetition of 1904-05.
Ramsay MacDonald announces that Great Britain, France,
Germany and Italy will confer in London on "the whole of the
European crisis.” Our Congress went into delirium over the
Hoover moratorium; we fear for it if the Four Powers declares
a MacDonald or a Tardieu moratorium to carry on the good
work.
The disarmament conference at Geneva, heralded for the past
ten years as the Waterloo of militarism, can’t even stay on tlie
front pages of the newspapers. No news from Geneva means
that there is harmony among the delegates, which in turn means
that little is being accomplished.
The United States has a few family problems of its own. The
nation offers tribute to gangland for the life of a child. A head
line announced that 250,000 people face starvation in Philadel
phia and that food riots are expected.
In Eugene a bank puts up the shutters, and a football coach
throws away a "scrap of paper.”
We can’t see any hope for improvement in the general out
look unless we get a day or two of golfing weather within the
next week.
Onward and Upward, Phi Betes
__ rJ^HE STANDARDS of Phi Beta Kappa have been raised.
Taking advantage of the changes in the University grading
system inaugurated this year, the membership committee has
boosted the grade requirements for an approximate 3.75 (old
style where I equalled 5 points) to 2.0 (new style) for the entire
University course or 2.5 for the last five terms of University
work.
Future Phi Betes will be those who get nothing lower than a
B in junior and senior years, with a fair sprinkling of A’s for
« satety s sake. Since the standards of several professional honor
ary fraternities and sororities have in times past been higher
than that of Phi Beta Kappa, this move on the part of the Ore
gon chapter is justified and significant.
lifty per cent of all courses taken must, in the ease of the
I’hi Bete candidate, be in liberal arts subjects. But a wise chap
ter voted that the membership committee be allowed discretion
in determining just what subjects are liberal arts subjects. For
the business administration major, educational theory or music
appreciation may be liberal arts courses.
The new standard is not above the reach of conscientious stu
dents. It is rather a newer, more distant, more honorable goal
to strive for.
Fhe Safety Valve
An Outlet for Campus Steam
All communic-atinns are to I* ad
drcSM'd to the editor, Oregon Daily
Emerald, and should not exceed HOC)
words In length U-tters must be
Burned, but should the writer prefer
only initials will he used The editor
maintains the ritiht to withhold puhli
eation should he see fit.
NO BK.VUUS!
To the Editor:
For several nights now a brave
and bold band of be-whiskered
sophomores have been making the
rounds of fraternities ami halls,
wielding the paddle with force
upon those class brethren who
have thus far failed to don the
‘'beard,”
They call their “small" orgaui
zation a vigilance committee. Com-'
posed of approximately ten to fif- j
teen of the larger members of the |
class they are most obtrusive and
bold. They are even so rude and)
imposing as to do tlit'ir woi(j of
chastising' in the chuptcr house of
the unfortunate. At least they
could take their victims from the
building and thus alleviate undue
roughness and interrupted meals.
The so-called "Whiakerino" idea
is perfectly all right and may be
commendable in the way of stimu
lating class spirit and amusement,
but the compulsory feature of the
plan is intolerable. That the soph
omore class as a whole should lend
itself to such measures as paddling
and mill-racing to enforce such a
mild, sporting, and no less amus
ing affair is bewildering. The
means to the end defeats the end
itself.
The writer thoroughly believes
in maintaining and upholding all
University of Oregon traditions and
by any method ascribed to by the
student body, but tire forced wear
ing of boards lor a group m the
student body is not tiadiUonul. and
compulsory proceedings are entire
ly out of place.
—A fcSOPMOMOKE.
1
By V. H. Hall
Note: Yesterday the introduc
tory column of the Corridor ap
peared, somewhat buried, on the
rear page of this paper. That
introduction was quite important
in that I vehemently declared
the Corridor was NOT to be an
attempt to duplicate some of
the comparatively successful col
umns of humor that have at one
time or another appeared in the
Emerald. I damned such beast
ly attempts at esoteric humor,
I suppose, because I sense a per
sonal inability to act a clown.
Therefore, my aim is not cam
pus humor. Once for all, let
that be understood. I go to such
lengths to make this clear be
cause the Corridor will hence
forth appear in about the same
position as have humor columns
on this editorial page. V. H. H.
When a gay, young English lady
of the 19th century feared satura
tion with the routine of home life
and the stoical ideals of the care
ful and suspecting father, she
sought relief by attending the
“Beggar’s Opera." She usually
prided herself in her liberalism
and sophistication (in our sense
of the word). She believed her
self a genuine modern, taking a
giggling pleasure in doing some
thing just a little bit naughty.
John Gay, a huge, puffy, and
awkward humorist, wrote the
“Beggar's Opera" in 1728 and it
has been revived from time to time
up to the present day. Gay's jolly
wit of the early 18th century has
remained almost matchless. It was
scandalous at that time and has
always been so in the eyes of some
people in-so-far as to be barred in
Chicago on the grounds of immor
ality. But what sane, thinking
person could overlook the spark
ling humor and satire and con
demn it on those grounds ? In
Gay’s words:
Life is a jest, and all things
show it;
I thought so once, and now I
know it.
The “Beggar’s Opera” is being
rehearsed on this campus today.
The performance cannot be far in
the future. I see shadows of
Steve Smith, that father of illegiti
mate Christ m a s Revels and
Colonial Rout, behind the scenes.
I hank God someone is rescuing
us from those cesspools of neo
teric, sentimental sluggishness and
talkie-going babbitry.
CAMPUS ♦ ♦
ALENDAR
Industrial group of Y. W. C. A
will meet at 9:00 at the bungalow.
Discussion group on “Christian
ity in the Present Day Churches"
at 9 p. m.. Woman's lounge. Kev.
Walter P. Myers, leader.
Important Amphibian meeting
at 7:15 tonight in Gerlinger hall.
Alpha Delta sigma meets today
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Starts Tuesday— 8:30 P. M.
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Also Hair-cutting
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|' al noon at the College Side. All
members must be present.
| Thespians will meet tonight at
' 7:30 in the sun room of Gerlinger
! hall.
The Art and Craft group of
Philomelete will meet tonight at
: 8:30 at Alpha Delta Pi house. It
i is imperative that all members be
i there.
_
i Phi Delta Theta announces the
; pledging of: Jack Ross, of Los
Angeles; Alvin Pandle, of Port
land; and Ralph Schomp, of Salem.
Alpha Phi announces the pledg
ing of Jane Haas of Portland, Ore.
There are several Y. W. C. A.
office hours open. Girls wishing
these positions sign up at bunga
low before Friday.
Westminster guild will meet to
night at 9:00 at the Westminster
house.
Y. W. C. A. cabinet meeting to
night, 7:30, at the bungalow. All
newly installed members asked to
be present.
‘GRAND OLD MAN’ HAS
BIRTHDAY AT HOME
(Continued from Page One)
managed to make himself incon
spicuous with a result that no one
knew who was the originator of
j the motion. Many asked him if he
knew the man, not aware that he
I could be the one, since they be
i lieved an Arizona delegate re
| sponsible.
Dr. Fosdick in his talk referred
to him as “a Greek professor with
a sense of humor.” (Greek profes
sors aren’t supposed to possess
such a quality, so says Dean
Straub.)
Always thinking of others, he
sends two messages to the cam
| pus, one expressing his pleasure
I that "Prink” Callison has been
chosen head football coach, and the
other for the students.
"I am glad ‘Prink’ Callison was
chosen coach. He is a man of fine
' and high ideals, and his life has
been a life that can be modelled.”
To the students he says: "No
matter how old I get to be, my
love for the students, boys and
girls—especially the girls, will
never be diminished. I hope to be
strong next fall, so that when the
tug-of-war comes off at the mill
race, I expect to take hold of the
freshman end of the rope and pull
the sophomores in. Or, if not that,
at least to see that the freshman
get a ‘square deal’.”
0 BRIE^WhOLD FROSH
BALL PRACTICE TODAY
(Continued from rape One)
distinct groups, but merely those
organized by the coaching staff.
Spring practice may be concluded
with a grand finale similar to the
game staged at Oregon State col
lege Saturday night.
The varsity baseball nine under
Bill Reinhart continued to drill in
McArthur court yesterday. The
rain is beginning to get on the
boys’ nerves, but there’s nothing
they can do about it. The track
men also could use a little sun
shine. Colonel Bill Hayward spent
the afternoon showing motion pic
tures of Olympic games stars in
action.
A.W.S. ELECTIONSOF NEW
OFFICERS TO BE TODAY
(Continued from Page One)
charge of the voting are: 9 o’clock,
Jane Haas; 10, Margaret Osborne;
11, Iris Strom and Doris Giles; 12,
Mary Lou Dodds and Nancy Suo
mela; 1, Betty Jane Burke and
Beverly Price; 2, Marytine New
and Helen Osland; 3, Helen j
Scruggs and Margaret Chase; 4, 1
Virginia Howard and Edith Kor
honen.
A Decade
Ago
AprH 6, 1922
“The present income of the Uni
versity cannot meet its needs in
the next ten years, no matter how
much saving is accomplished in
the way of expansion and curtail
ment of maintenance expenses,”
predicted President Prince Lucien
Campbell in an assembly address.
* * *
Mr. Hal E. Hoss, managing edi
tor of the Oregon City Enterprise
and secretary of the Oregon State
Editorial association, paid a visit
to the University campus.
The annual banquet of the Y. W.
C. A. was held at the Hotel Os
burn.
* * *
“Athletics have taken the place
of militarism in German colleges,”
Dr. A. W. Vernon, of Carleton col
lege, told a large crowd of students
at the “Y” hut.
“The Periscope” column sarcas
tically, called Dr. Vernon’s speech
a “thinly veiled plea for sympathy
with that poor downtrodden race.”
* * *
Professor F. L. Stetson of the
school of education was attending
the Inland Empire Teachers’ asso
ciation meeting at Spokane, Wash
ington.
“WONDER BABY” DIES
BERLIN, April 5—(AP)—Ger
many’s “wonder baby,” known only
as Vera, which weighed less than
one and one-fifth pounds at birth,
died today after having been kept
alive more than two weeks in an
incubator. The girl was 12 Va
inches long.
BOOKS OF THE DAY
EDITED BY BOY SHEEDY
AN ARCHITECTURAL NOVEL
Skyscraper. By Faith Baldwin.
Cosmopolitan Book Corp.
By J. A. NEWTON
“Shyscraper” is a delightfully
interesting modern novel depicting
the development of a romance be
tween a girl in business and a
young man who has trouble find
ing the work he likes best.
The skyscraper is just a setting
for the beginning of the story and
has little to do with the action of
the characters. The first chapter
is devoted to a clear and colorful
description of the skyscraper—
which you know from the begin
ning is modeled on the Empire
State building of New York—and
the story ends with another short
er description. In this way the ef
fect of unity is achieved which
gives the reader a feeling of sat
isfaction.
Lynn Harding, a girl pretty
enough, as the author says, to
inake people look twice when they
passed her in the street, holds a
position in an insurance office
which pays her $40 a week. One
morning at breakfast in the sky
scraper’s cafeteria her elbow is
jostled by Tom Shepard, private
secretary to one of the officials in
the same office.
The romance progresses smooth
ly up to the proposal. Lynn doesn’t
want to give up her job, since
Tom’s job doesn’t pay any more
than hers. Tom won’t marry her
unless she does.
The girl with whom Lynn rooms,
Jennie, a vivid and extremely ap
pealing character or the vamp
type, takes Lynn to a pent house
party where Lynn meets David
Dwight, a slick, middle-aged crim
inal lawyer who is defending him
self in court as often as his clients.
Being something of a man of the
world and knowing how to please
the ladies, Dwight sweeps Lynn off
her feet with his sophisticated
manners. There are week-end par
ties and pent-house affairs which
lead to much jealousy on Tom’s
part though everything comes out
all right in the end.
Faith Baldwin’s style of writing
is charming in its simplicity, and
although she seems to be econom
ical in her use of words, each word
she does use is a step forward in
the story. Constantly interesting,
constantly moving onward, the
story makes one inclined to read
every word including the lengthy
and vivid pictorial passages de
scribing the skyscraper.
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Oregon sports will be reviewed
by Bruce Hamby, assistant sports
editor of the Emerald, during the
“Emerald of the Air” program at
4:15 this afternoon over station
KORE. In addition to giving foot
ball prospects for next year, he
will discuss the prospects of Coach
Bill Reinhart’s baseball team and
Colonel Bill Hayward’s track team
this season.
Wallace Campbell will give his
oration entitled “Up Stream” dur
ing the 15 minutes broadcast.
For the first time all Americans
are on the schedule of the George
F. Daker Non-Resident lectureship
at Cornell university for a series
of lectures on chemistry.
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