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MINOR SPORTS
BY action of the executive council yesterday, en
thusiasts of tennis, cross-country, golf and
swimming will be permitted to organize teams to
represent the University and to compete in a lim
ited program of intercollegiate competition. As
adopted by the executive council and the athletic
committee, the participants will be given “minor
O” awards, distinctive from the letters presented
for baseball, football, track and basketball.
Ever since first action was taken by the ath
letic committee on the matter of re-establishing
minor sports, complaints have been heard to the
effect that varsity “O’s” should be given. The par
ticipants feel that they put in as much time and
energy in the course of a season to entitle them
to equal honors with the participants in the major
sports, as well as membership in the Older of the O.
Their stand is ill advised. The present budget
tor minor sports is so pitifully slight that only a
very limited schedule of contests can be arranged.
Very little first-class competition will be met, for
the coffers of the A. S. U. O. can not stand the
cost of extensive traveling. A swimming team, for
instance, will probably encounter no more first
rate competition than Oregon State college and
the University of Washington in the course of a
year's competition. It would hardly be fair, on this
basis, to reward Oregon's aquatic representatives
with varsity O’s. On most other campuses, includ
ing Stanford and Oregon State, the minor sports
award is distinct from the varsity letter.
There was a time when golf and tennis and
swimming were sports of major importance at Ore
gon. There were swimmers of wide note, golfers
who won national and international honors, tennis
teams that consistently battled their way into na
tional intercollegiate finals. But the evil days
came, and finally these sports had to be dropped
entirely.
Now these sports must re-establish themselves
in the eyes of the campus as being of major im
portance, and the teams must prove themselves to
be worthy representatives of the University. When
these things are accomplished, it will be time
enough to talk of varsity letters. For the present,
the swimmers, golfers and tennis enthusiasts should
be grateful that these sports are to be resumed,
even on a minor basis; their principal reward must
be, for the time being, the mere privilege of par
ticipation.
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THOSE CONSISTENT SOPHOMORES
TT was indeed a pleasure to read in our favorite
*- paper yesterday this headline: “.Skull, Dagger
\ No Longer for Return of Lids.” The first thought
! was that the sophomores had seen their incon
sistency in trying to firce upon others what they
! did not want themsclvc
But it soon appeared that the sophomores the
word in its original Greek form meant something
akin to "wise fools”—had not seen the error of their
ways. They merely had failed to get support for
their scheme to restore the banished lid. Now they
seem to be trying to disown it.
Had the honored men of the class of 1936 been
without interest in the matter of whether freshmen
should resume the wearing of green lids, they prob
ably would not have brought the matter up before
the Interfraternity council in the first place. But
since they did bring it up, they must confess owner
ship.
Some members of the faculty are trying to in
still a spirit of intellectual honesty in their stu
dents. The statement of the sophomores, “We wish
to go on record as neither for nor against the meas
ure,” may not have the characteristics of intellec
tual dishonesty but it does remind one faintly of
the jellyfish.
And to think that it was less than a year age
that a member of this present sophomore class as
president of the frosh commission praised the ef
forts of Bill Bowerman, then vice-president of the
A. S. U. O., in bringing about the discard of the
green lid tradition.
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CORRECTION
'TVHE EMERALD hastens to correct two errors
in recent issues. The first had to do with fig
ures comparing freshman enrollment on this cam
pus with first-year enrollment at Oregon State
Agricultural college, which were incorrectly quoted.
The freshman enrollment at the state college is
slightly larger than the enrollment at Eugene, al
though the University's total enrollment is larger,
and the freshman enrollment here is slightly greater
than last year.
In a front-page story the Emerald indirectly
quoted Virgil D. Earl, dean of men, as doubting
the wisdom of permitting students to remain in
Portland Saturday night, November 11, following
the Oregon-Oregon State football game, because of
the opportunities which might arise for clashes be
tween students from the two institutions. Dean
Earl’s misgivings were founded upon»other consid
erations.
On Other Campuses
Working Students
'T'HERE are three kinds of working students—
■*- working students, working students and just
plain ordinary working students. The first kind
works and draws pay for its labor in the form of
money. The second kind works just as hard and
gets paid, not in money, but in a value not easily
measured. The third kind well, he's not important.
I won’t talk about him.
The first and second kind are working toward
the same end: an education. The second kind ready
gets one; the first gets a smattering. To me one
of the tragedies that is with us every day is the
working student of the first kind who spends so
much time making a living that he can't get the
education he works for. His diploma, when he is
graduated, is like all the rest of them. As some
wag said, it and a nickel will get a cup of coffee.
But it means something to him. It is the result
i>f countless hours of physical toil.
The diploma is the pay check of the second kind
of working student, the student who has sufficient
money to attend college and sufficient to realize
that he gets out of college just what he puts into
it. He works at studies. His labors incite no pity,
admiration or sympathy. There’s nothing spec
tacular in them. He's an unsung type of "working
student." But his diploma, which like the others
requires a nickel if he would drink coffee, has an
inestimable value to him. Oklahoma Daily.
Reading
-and
Writing
PEGQY CHESSMAN, Editor
TO’HO, in your estimation, are the
” greatest living novelists?
Naturally, a question of that type
will arouse a great deal of con
troversy, for the choice of one per
son is open to another's argument.
In 1930, the Scholastic magazine
sponsored a column which decided I
the best novelists, the results to
he gathered from numerous critics,
the experts of current literature.
Responses from the critics were
varied. Some refused to classify
modern writers, feeling that few
could be compared. Thirty-one
popular critics, however, agreed to
send in their estimations.
The compiling of these ranked
Willa Gather first and Edith Whar
ton second. Theodore Dreiser.
James Branch Cabell, Sherwood
Anderson, and Sinclair Lewis fol
lowed in close succession.
But three years have passed
since that content was held, and
undoubtedly there have been many
changes. A few authors who de
served inclusion may have been
overlooked, new names surely
could be added, and new novels ct
the older novelists would have to
be considered. Many of the writ
ers classified then in the lowest
divisions have come to prominence
since the investigation was made.
Just what is your opinion re
garding the novelists of the day?
Tomorrow, in this column, Miss
Bernice Rice, head of the old libe
circulation department, and Miss
Nancy Roberts, head of the High
Hat library, will give their opin
ions of modern novelists. Compare
their selections with yours.
Interesting news comes to the'
admirers of Christofer Motley in
the announcement of the publica
tion of his new book, "Shakespeare
and Hawaii." The title seems rath
er absurd, considering the breach
of time and space between the two
parts of the subject matter, but
the story is another in the com
forting, rambling Motley style. We
defy you to think of something
Morley tails to consider in his lat
est book, for discussion of "shoes
anti ships and sealing wax, cab
bages and kings" are all embod
ied in the material.
The story is really much more
of a summary of Morleys obser
vations of life and men. tragedy
and comedy. He follows no defin
ite procedure, obeys no literary
rules consequently his tale will
endear him even more to his fol-1
lowers.
Morleys defense of his ram
bhngs is summed up in his state
ment to the pre.s that be v it Ik d
to think of Shake. peace as "a
symbol of the creative imagination
in all the arts anil in all forms of
human dreaming, because Shakes
peare has become for us far more
than just the sum total of every
thing he wrote he has expressly
become the symbol of man's tri
umph over circumstances and the
intellect’s triumph over the irony
that afflicts all mortal affairs."
Mannequin
By PATSY LEE
Vt.’HO will the all-American girl
be ? The great job of choos
ing such a person lias been under
taken annually at most every in
stitution of higher le r uing ex
cept the University of Oregon, and
now we are going to have our all
American gal, too.
Mannequin sincerely hopes that
not only personal loveliness will
enter in the judging. An individ
ual's popularity must be taken into
consideration, but even an extreme
case of this type would not be sat
isfactory. So let's hope that the
final decision will be a happy com
bination of both these personal ac
quirements. and that the campus
ivill take the winner without tlie
lsual feeling of jealousy and criti
cism.
If you haven't planned on tak
ing in the Order of the O jig on
Saturday night, you'd better start
telephoning your best date right
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Do Your Bit By STANLEY ROBE
the ymca PROVIDES A STUDENT 1
CENTER IT ALSO BRINGS SPEAKERS
To THE CAMPUS, SPONSORS /
\ Student discussions an& /
V HELPS THE NATIONAL COUNCIL. /
(Oregon’s Pledging Problem aaa
(Editor's note: inis is tne
second of three stories consider
ing the advantages and* disad
vantages of the system of de
ferred pledging proposed by
some as an alternative to the
present pre - registration rush
week. The series, originally in
tended to be two stories, has
been extended to at least three,
due to lack of space today.)
By ELINOR HBINRY
< “While it is recognized that
there are many advantages in hav
ing first-year students live in the
dormitories, it would not be prac
ticable in Oregon at present, be
cause of housing conditions, to re
quite that ail pledging be de
ferred until the sophomore year,”
Chancellor W. J. Kerr said in a
Innocent
Bystander
By BARNEY CLARK
| \0 Theta Cbis have bats in the
** upper story? Yes, says Poliv
ka, blushing. It seems that a large
bat (not a jag, you idiot) entered
the Cheeses’ sleeping porch at 2:15
the other night and flew' around
vigorously for about 15 minutes.
Hollopeter got up and threw it out,
but Polivka had to be told about
it the next morning. He slept
right through the battle.
Alpha Gamma Delta caught a
large turtle (1884 model» last
Wednesday noon. After reducing
it to a state of coma, which they
termed “taming it," they daubed
A.G.D. in turquoise paint on its top
center, christened it “Oscar,” and
wove a string through its shell.
Innocent Bystander hopes that the
Alpha Gams aren’t as slow as their
pet. (No pun intended).
SPORT FLASH: In a unique
race staged yesterday a. m.,
Betty "Rajo” Allen, on the fa
miliar boy’s bicycle, nosed out
Daddy Allen in the equally fa
miliar Franklin on the one
mile stretch between home and
office. Some scorcher, eh. kid!
The joyful news reaches us that
Bob Titherington, brightest jewel
in Sigma Chis diadem, has at last
decided to stay in school. Bob, if
you must know, came from down
South, suh, and for awhile he did
n’t feel right to home among us
no’thern folks. Gunnel Tithering
ton changed his major three times,
and was about to leave in discour
agement, when he met a blonde
Alpha Gam, and now he wouldn't
leave us for anything. Nice work.
Gunnel Bob.
And there is the weird tale con
cerning the Phi Psi pledge who
was invited to a tea at the D.G.
mausoleum. The brothers informed
him that he would be required to
bring Ins own food: so our child
wonder packed a tidy little lunch
in a shoe-box tied with a string
and toddled up to the house with
the pillars, where he shoved the
lunch into the hands of the first
gal to answer the bell and busted
right in. Probably expected to
find a weinie roast in progress
right in the front hall.
Heuriette Horak. Emerald for
eign relations ace. is responsible
for the story of the girl glass
blower who married the sailor and
had „ob!et=:
Tm sorry.
staiemeni issued yesterday aiter
noon to the Emerald.
“After all,” he added, “the suc
cess of any plan is largely depend
ent on the observance of proper
regulations.”
Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, di
rector of dormitories of the Ore
gon state system of higher educa
tion, expressed herself as against
deferred pledging, first, last, and
always. As housemother at the
University of Iowa, where de
ferred pledging was tried for a
number of years but found unsuc
cessful, and as national president
of Phi Omega Pi sorority, Mrs.
Turnipseed has seen numerous
rushing plans in operation.
“The problems arising from de
terrea pledging, she remarked,
“according to our experiences and
information, are just as serious as
those arising from early pledging,
and the individual work done in
dormitories is seriously hampered
by forced residence of all fresh
men.”
At the end of last week, accord
ing to figures from the registrar’s
office, 340 freshman men and 250
freshman women had registered.
The maximum number of students
who can be housed in the women’s
dormitories is 240, in the men’s
halls 274, the dormitory director
said.
“The building of more dormi
tories at Oregon State college and
at the State University of Oregon
Fit as a
fiddle
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Telephone service must he kept fit as a fiddle 365
days a year.
Thanks to a continuous program of maintenance
and replacement, Bell System plant is today more
efficient than ever. Constantly improved operating
methods provide the swiftest, surest sendee on re
cord. Plans devised by telephone men fit the service
more and more exactly to subscribers’ needs.
The result of all this is: the telephone gives you
a lot for a little money.
BELL SYSTEM
J SAV ‘ HELLO" ro MOTHER AND DAD '
-RATES ARE LOWER AFTER 8.30 P. M. |
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at the present time is both im
practical and unfair,” Mrs. Tur
nipseed declared. “We have a ca
pacity of 745 at Oregon State col
lege and of 514 at the University,
with only 49 per cent occupied at
the former place and only 45 per
cent occupied at the latter. Both
organizations have bonds to retire
and interest to pay for the next
15 years without further burdens
of this kind to meet until the en-'
rollment of our institutions will
| warrant an expansion in the build
j ing program.
“Before dormitories were built ^
on either campus sufficient to i
meet the housing needs of stu-1
dents, the fraternities and sorori
ties met the need; and it would j
be most unfair during the present j
economic crisis to force all fresh- j
men into the dormitories regard
less of their desires.”
(Due to lack of space today, the
list of colleges and universities
expressing favorable and unfavor
able opinions on deferred pledg
ing, begun in yesterday's story,
will be completed tomorrow,)
Emerald
of the Air
Over the ether comes the latest
society chatter via Mary Louiee
Edinger. Miss Edinger, society
editor of the Emerald, has pre
pared news items both vital and
interesting to campus social cir
cles.
The society news broadcast will
be a regular feature of the Em
erald-of-the-Air this year on every
Thursday. The station is KORE.
The time is 4:30.
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Infirmary Has Two
Even warm weather couldn’t
prevent some people from becom
ing ill, so there are in the infirm
ary as patients Walter Gray and
George Hibbard.
The Emerald
Greets—
Today the Emerald greets:
ELINOR HENRY.
To interview or be interviewed?
Just start to interview Elinor
Henry, and in two minutes
flat she knows all about the
time you ran away or about
that first tooth. For Elinor
is a born reporter, with a natural
talent for getting something for
publication from anybody. First
she starts off about the weather,
and if that doesn’t make them talk
she slyly asks how their golf game
went yesterday. That cinches it.
One day soon Elinor is going to
be writing as a career; she got
away to a good start last summer
with the publication of story and a
poem in John Martin's Book, the
child’s magazine. Emerald read
ers have known her name for sev
eral years now as proofreader,
night editor, copyreader, ad solici
tor, reporter, and feature writer.
On a special the other night she
talked to Chancellor Kerr and
found him very charming; some
interviews aren’t so nice. Any
way, it’s all in a day's work, says
Elinor as she hurries off to inter
cept somebody for an interview.
Elinor will have 22 candles on a
cake she plans to bake herself.
ROLAND ROURKE
RUSSELL WOODWARD
JOHN ALLEN
WALTER ENGELE
DANCE
Friday and Saturday
ART HOLMAN’S BAND
Ladies 25c—Gents 25e
Willamette Park
Sunday and Wednesday
BERTHA JOHNSON’S
CO-EDS
Till 12
Hear them over KORE
Sunday—6:30
"WHEN A FELLER
NEEDS A friend”
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depend on good old Briggs!
Cramming is a pleasure—if it’s cramming
mellow old BRIGGS into your pipe!
What a grand tobacco BRIGGS is—bet
ter than many tobaccos costing twice
as much!
BRIGGS is aged in the wood for years.
There is not a bite in a barrel of it. No
wonder that in a few short months it be
came a nation-wide favorite before it had
a line of advertising! But won’t you let
BRIGGS speak for itself, in your own pipe?
V
Briggs Pipe Mixtur < ’ «o» in 1-ported tad
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