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DOCTORING THE CONSTITUTION
rTMIE constitutional revision committee is ready
to offer for the delectation of the student body
a group of amendments to the flimsy A. S. U. O.
constitution.
From what we have learned, there is not much
in the proffered amendments that will set the
world on fire. Nevertheless they contain several
suggestions that will considerably expedite the flow
of business through student administrative channels.
Anil there arc one or two which could cQnceivably
arouse a mild storm of opposition.
The revision committee has not lost sight of its
original intention to revamp the entire constitution.
Its purpose in presenting the several amendments
at this time is to secure the stamp of student ap
proval while the work is still in progress, rather
than complete the new constitution, only to have
the whole document nullified later because of oppo
sition to some minor clause.
Don’t go to the assembly today prepared to see
the constitution of the A. S. U. O. torn to shreds
before your eyes and then reconstructed on a new
and startling scale. It won't happen. But a few
very significant changes are being made, and it
would be shirking a duty not to attend the assembly
and form an opinion on them.
You may come away from Gerlinger hall con
vinced that the mountain has labored and brought
forth a mouse. But at least you should hear the
recommendations today, in order to be prepared to
vote affirmatively or negatively upon them at the
special election next week, in the interest of estab
lishing and pel-petuuting an effective student gov
ernment at Oregon.
INTRODUCING C OLUMNIST LKGKKK
COMPETITOR columnist has invaded the ter
•+■ *- ritory of Innocent Bystander. It wouldn't be
so bad, says I. B., if the Invader would come out
in the open and tell us his name. This Monsieur
Legree, the columnist who makes his debut today,
refuses to do, in spite of the fact that we told him
we didn’t care especially for his nom de plume. He
has apparently become much attached to it.
To satisfy the curiosity of anyone interested,
we will tell as much as we know. Senor Legree,
in an unguarded moment, has confessed that he is
a college tramp. He has left more universities than
most of us have heard of. In several cases he left
voluntarily. At two of these college, at least, he
lias been the conductor of a column, writing under
his present pseudonym. Hence his affection for
the name.
We would not be doing our duty to unsuspecting
and trusting readers if we did not divulge that Herr
Legree is no respecter of persons. He arrives at
Oregon with a fresh viewpoint, and many things
here, strangely enough, look funny to him. Anil
he doesn't mind saying so, in which particular he
differs from a great many of us older inhabitants.
Our Mr. Legree has been given permission, twice
a week, to speak out in meeting. He will probably
pick on the Emerald as frequently as ho singles out
other hoary and self-conscious campus institutions
and ingrown Webfoot traditions. We can take it
if you can.
THE POOH-POOHED CLASS
'T'HE Oregonian’s editorial on the Reed collegf
A demonstration against European-style auto
craciea is a beautiful example of the type of over
weening snobbery to which college movements an
subjected.
Such an outburst as we reprinted yesterday re
veals that much of the adult world refuses to believ;
that college students are capable of rising above th<
rah-rah stage of intellectual activity. The possi
bility that sincere, deliberate thought might be pro
yoking such revolutions apparently does not occu:
to them.
Recent “revolutions" on the Oregon campus haw
not exceeded the bounds of parliamentary propriety
yet even these have been met with a few editorial:
from the press of the state indicating a gross mis
conception of college life.
When honest convictions, however manifested
are put down as infantili whims and “silly pranks,’
we start to boil. Let the pastor and flock of th<
17th Baptist church come forth with a resolutioi
of protest on some issue and they are treated witl
deference, however shallow their reasoning may be
But let campus leaders raise their voices on curren
matters and they are scornfully set down as quix
otic crackpots out to raise a smell for the fun of it
It’s lots of fun to toss off such pharses as “Hero
ically beating back the heathen hordes of German;
from their sacred campus,” and a surefire way o
setting oneself up as a master of brilliant sarcasn
and sophisticated comment. But, such editoria
pleasantries don’t refute the arguments of th<
“rebels” or discredit their motives in the eyes o
thoughtful persons.
We do not justify every movement of studen
rebels. But we stoutly maintain that college stu
dents will have little chance to rise above the menta
plane of mediocrity if their earnest efforts at dem
onstrating dissatisfaction with existing abuses an
sneeringly set down in the public prints as pueril
bombast.
i,i-■ ..
On Other Campuses
The College Racket
GOING to college is called “the great Americai
racket” by President Ralph Cooper Hutchin
son of Washington and Jefferson college in one o:
the most scathing denunciations of the presen:
nigher educational system and its students issuec
within the last few months.
President Hutchinson charges that most studen1
organizations, both past and present, were formec
for graft, and that fraternity jewelry salesmen am
other agents declare that they simply can not dc
business on some campuses without practicing
graft. He decries the fact that in general the ole
ideals of education, culture and character have
been submerged by the motives of social and finan
cial profit.
He does not let the matter drop without a rea
son. Hutchinson declares that the rapid pioneer
expansion of the nation created a demand for mei:
of training greater than the supply, and therefore
a college degree took on a great practical signifi
cance. The general public hence was encouraged
I to “send its young men and women through the
sausage grinder and out with a packer’s trade
mark.”
The bitter charges of one so closely in touch
with the university system can not be ignored. I!
is probable that the American college system has
been permeated in the past by a great amount of
graft, but there is a lighter side to the picture. The
university students seem to be staging a “new deal"
of their own in this respect. Organizations are
having to justify themselves to exist, graft isn't
tolerated as it once was and there is a growing
interest in the real intellectual purpose of a college
education.—Indiana Daily Student.
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OVERFLOW
<<'T'HESPIANS will meet at 7 tonight on the
A sun porch of Gerllnget. Each member
is requested to bring thirty cents.”- from the
Campus Calendar.
You either bring it or feel like it.
* * *
One of our charges on the reporting staff at
the beginning of last term started off on her
career of college journalism by turning in the
following gems as news stories, just to show
you what day editors have to put up with:
“Cor these long winter evenings, why not
organize a bridge tournament ? The houses
could have teams and play for the champion
ship.''
And:
"A number of local cars have been observed
passing through town lately with deer on the
running boards. So look out. my little deers
(dears) and don't get on any running boards!”
* * *
HEH! HKH! DEPARTMENT: Ex-l’ostmas
ter General Brown is being investigated by
Senators Black and White.
* * $
When the gleemen started going in for
flossy antiphonal effects, they recked not with
the possibility that someone would get it wrong.
At their concert Sunday a double quartet re
tired behind the scenes, from which point they
kicked it back and forth with the visible vocal
izers. Very Alpiny.
"They used to have such a good reputation
for punctuality," said one lady. "It's a shame
that at the last two concerts seven or eight
men have come in late after two numbers have
been sung.”
ANTI FASCIST LEAGUE
FORCED TO ADJOURN
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ical science, providing: that action
of the body be considered as ac
tion only of the individuals voting
for that action, Bennett, republi
can; Allen, sophomore in business
administration, and George Teltoft,
freshman in business administra
tion last term, both active in the
league of Young Democrats, with
drew from the meeting.
The roll call of party affiliations
was as follows: Communists, Clay
ion Van Lydegraf and Richard
Bolling; radical, Lester Van Lyde
graf; Socialists, Jack Barker,
John Crockert, (not registered in
school i, Henry Ireland, David
Henry (not registered in school),
Charles Paddock: liberals, Johann
Hesse, Harold March. Harvey
Hawley; students of government,
William McCall and David Ktehle;
Democrats, Allen and Teltoft; Re
publican, Bennett.
The discussion of communism
was started by Teltoft's reading a
' clipping from a Communist paper
advocating preparations for war
and asking Bolling to explain his
being a Communist and also a pa
cifist in the face of this avowed
communistic policy
Allen asked for information per
taining to the background of the
: organization, declaring that he
would not be connected with any
group leaning toward communism
, and denouncing communism as a
■diabolical form of government.
[Argument folioe,td.
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Then and Now - - By STANLEY ROBE
0
King albert
i9f4' PEHSomiy commands Belgian
ARMIES WRING G£Rt1AN INVASION
f934-pLEI> IN 3S FOOT FALL g
WHILE MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, g
MORSE TO SPEAK
ON LAW STUDENTS’
FUTURE TUESDAY
—head in Emerald.
Aw, dean, why did you remind ’em of that?
Kappa
rushing
^ chairman, to
5 p rospect:
“Yes, there
was a time
when t h .
Thetas were
f very good."
SORORITIES PAY
MORE FOR FOOD,
SURVEY SHOWS
head in Emerald.
That doesn't take a survey, just a casual glance.
Mexico City, D. F., Mexico, Feb. 20.—ZP—Offi
cial confirmation of news that the University of
Oregon had voted to retain compulsory military
training rilled the
state department
with consternation
here today. The
secretary of war ,
ordered the Uni
versity of Mexico
cadet corps to
abandon the op- '
tional basis upon -
which it had been i
conducted.
"We cannot
close our eyes,"
said an official
p r o n unciamento,
Left to right: Generalissimos
Uoscius 11. Backio, Federico
Woofer, Edvvurdo Keley and \V.
A. Wuppenstino.—By telephoto.
"to the preparations for war in ‘Los Estados Uni
dos,’ as clearly indicated by the action of the faculty
at ‘La Universidad de Oregon.’ We must be guided
accordingly.”
The four students who have comprised the op
tional R. O. T. C. unit here during the present year
have been commissioned generals, and' will aid in
drilling the Mexican freshman.
* * *
NATURE GROUP TO
TAKE LONG WALK
—head in Emerald.
Perhaps the Journalism faculty could be induced
to join the Nature Group. j
TO A
“JLOST
LADY”
(upon learning
of her engage
ment):
‘"Tis better, Charlotte, to have loved
And lost," I'd fain begin;
Through weary hours I'd have shoved
Such phrases as “it might have been,"
And lovely words I thought you’d like
Into a poem you could read
Quite proudly to a little tyke,
Who, hearing of a Launcelot’s deed
And speech, might well inquire;
“Gramma, was they lots of gents
You ever used to could inspire
To talk to you such elygence?”
But, instead, I'll wish you well,
And with no poem struggle;
’Tis better, Charlotte, truth to tell,
Than poetry to juggle;
’Tis better to have loved and lost,
Yes, darling, ’tis much better.
COURSE HERE
GEARED FOR
LOW ABILITY
—head in Emerald.
Course? Courses!
Innocent Bystander
By BARNEY CLARK
r|''HIS is one of our off days. You
six readers will have to be
contented with a short column.
The only reason we can ascribe for
I this abberation is that the unusual
! weather has warped our carefree
spirit. It isn't the heat, it's the
; humility 1
The Kappas evidently be
lieve in showing their rushees
the seamy side of life. Au
thentic reports indicate that
they intend to take them all
to the smoker. Either the
Kappas have underestimated
the depressing effect of mas
culine \ iolenee upon the sen
tie female character, or else
the material they have im
ported is of sterner stuff than
the Keystones we have known.
An unfinished letter Left in a
typewriter here in the office in
trigues us no little. It is very
unfinished. As a matter of fact,
is consists merely of a salutation,
viz:
"My darling- King—"
I This is the most maddening
thing we have come across in
ages. Who is this king? Is he
real royalty, or is he just a Rus
i sian refugee? What girl is it that
hobnobs, nay, consorts, with a
gentleman of royal blood? What
hidden currents of international
intrigue may not underlie this ap
parently trivial clew?
We are going insane; you fool
with it for awhile.
or. dun gnashes
"Them as drinks
Grain alcohol straight
Are headin' for
The pearly gate!"
Elizabeth DeBusk Better
Elizabeth DeBusk. who is in the
| hospital with bronchial pneumonia,
was greatly improved Tuesday.
Her temperature was normal
| again. She is the daughter of Dr.
1B. \V. DeBusk of the school of
education faculty.
Parents Visit Here
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Failing of
Portland visited their daughter,
Jean, senior in history, on the j
campus yesterday.
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‘Enoch Arden9 Presentation
Meets Approval of Audience
Playing upon his voice as if it
were an instrument, Paul Petri,
professor of music, attained a
range of qualities in his reading
of “Enoch Arden” last night,
equalled only by the piano tones of
the accompaniment played by Mrs.
Petri.
“Enoch Arden," a poem spoken
with interspersed piano accompani
ment, was an unusual sort of en
tertainment—and was unusually
well performed.
Net only a wide voice range, but
also a tremendous dramatic power,
enabled Petri to interpret the
crises of the poem so forcefully
that they were actually imparted
into the audience in their full im
port. This was especially notice
able in the feeling of foreboding
before Enoch’s leaving, and in his
despair after he returned.
The musical accompaniment
(Mrs. Petri draws the full tonal
expression from the piano) built
up, to a great extent the interpre
tation of the poem. Different
piano themes for the characters,
settings, and ideas in the poem
were interwoven to portray the
action which was going on. The
music dramatized the words as
well as did Petri himself.
The performers deserve especial
credit in that some parts of
"Enoch Arden,’’ which contain
quite sentimentally trite expres
sions, might have seemed melodra
matic except for Petri's powerful
interpretation, and the expression
which Mrs. Petri put in Richard
Strauss’ musical accompaniment.
The eight themes in the piano
music were played at the first of
the concert by Mrs. Petri, thus en
abling the audience to see how the
themes were built up and inter
woven to create the dramatic in
terpretation of the poem.
Emerald
of the Air
T ET’S go to press! News of var
ious and sundry forms is at
your command during the after
noon broadcast at 4:30.
In the evening we go into an
other strange interlude by pre
senting a wartime air story, en
titled “Fool’s Luck.’’ There are
plenty of airplane crashes while
the young hero is trying to gain
a ten-day leave of absence by ‘get
ting’ a deadly German ace.
Cast of characters consists oi
Line Devereaux as the Major, Bill
Rice as McCain, Hank Roberts as
Hemingway, and George Bikman
as Rupert.
The sound effects are produced
by Craig Povey. It's at 8:30.
Reading
-and
Writing
PEGGY CHESSMAN, Editor
rpHOSE who have read and re
read Gertrude Stein’s “Auto
biography of Alice Toklas” will ap
preciate the announcement that
Random House is finishing pub
lication of the opera, “Four Saints
in Three Acts,” which Miss Stein
and Virgil Thompson have writ
ten together.
The opera was recently produced
in Hartford and New York. Carl
VanVechten wrote his impressions
of the production immediately af
iaOI3EMSJSM3lDJ|fiin5[Sl!nJni)|fairiirril[HiraUD[HlInllnl
ter the premiere, and his article is
being used as an introduction to
the Random H^use book.
After “Ah Wilderness” has been
in circulation but a few months, a
great many critics suggested that
Eugene O’Neill return to his for
mer style, morbid though it
might be, in preference to this di
version which was to serve the
author and the public with relax
ation.
It is interesting to note, however,
that the folk play has gone into
its fifth printing, with demands
from all parts of the United States
flowing into the publishers’ office
daily.
Fitted to the college students’
budget are the Modern Library
series of books. Through the in
troduction of these the purchasing
of numerous new and old books
and the acquiring of a fairly ade
quate library have been made pos
sible.
The latest additions to the Mod
ern Library are “Three Lives” by
Gertrude Stein; “Ben Hur” by Lew
Wallace; "Eminent Victorians” by
Lytton Strachey; “Guermantes
; Way,” by Marcel Proust; “The
i Enormous Room” by E. E. Cum
! mings; “The Essays of Mon
taigne”; “Quentin Durward, Ivan
hoe, and Kenilworth” by Sir Wal
ter Scott; “War and Peace’ by by
Count Leo Tolstoy; “The Life of
Samuel Johnson” by James Bos
well.
“Les Miserables” by Victor Hu
go; The Complete Poems of Keats
and Shelley; “Plutarch’s Lives”;
The complete novels of Jane Aus
ten; and “Twelve Famous Plays of
the Restoration and Eighteenth
Century.”
Tabard Inn Pledges Three
Ye Tabard Inn of Sigma Upsilon
announces the pledging of Barney
Clark, Rupert Pray, and Willard
Marsh.
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