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over emphasis again
'T'HEY’RE taking a look at Frank Fullback’s
•*- grades back in Chicago at the North Central
Association of Colleges and High Schools, and he's
not doing any too well.
For 11 colleges out of 64 surveyed report that
25 percent or more of their athletes flunk out of
school.
Startling as these figures may seem on the face,
careful reflection will reveal elements that consid
erably lessen the punch they contain.
For instance: How many of this number are real
students that come to college for an education and
are led astray by the insidious lure of sport ? And
how many are imported numbskulls proselyted
purely for their strong right arms, and barely able
to get by in any phase of intellectual activity ?
While the exact truth cannot be ascertained, it
is often said that athletes have to work harder for
a grade than do non-athletic students in classes
where the professor has a case of ingrown scholas
ticism. Every college student has, at some time
or other, seen professors ride popular athletes day
after day. There may be a lot of truth in that
hypothesis.
When the educators rant about coaches’ salaries
and detraction of the student's mind from his work,
they do not create much of a flurry among students
or sports lovers.
But if they can show that an appreciable num
ber of real students, who would succeed in college
without the destructive lure of athletic participa
tion, flunk out of school on account of sports, every
student and every college will aid them in doing
something about it.
SIGN THE PETITION
U ATHER than reinstate swimming as a major
-*• *- sport on the University campus, the executive
council last Wednesday granted major awards to
five members of this year's swimming squad and
side-stepped the main issue. The question arose
from a recommendation by the Order of O to
the athletic committee.
Dissatisfied with the executive committee's ac- j
tion certain members of the Order of O circulated
petitions yesterday asking that swimming at the
University of Oregon be made a major sport and
major awards be presented for the past season.
The Emerald has previously pointed out reasons
why swimming should be reinstated as a major
sport, and most heartily endorses the petition now
being circulated by lettermen.
When a sport has been conducted on as high a
plane as swimming during the past season, we can
see no reason why the executive council should
grant letters to only five of the aquatic squad and
disregard the status of the sport itself, when swim
ming could so easily be reinstated with no great
increase in cost to the University.
We recommend that the students of the Uni- |
versity of Oregon, everyone who was a member of ^
the student body winter term, sign the request now ,
in circulation.
OREGON'S SELECTIVE PLEDGING PLAN
N experiment being watched closely by person-1
-* nel offices in colleges throughout the country
and now working itself out on the University of ■
Oregon campus is the Oregon selective pledging
plan, by which Oregon fraternities hope to elevate
their scholastic standards and stabilize their mem
berships.
One of the greatest curses on the modern fra
ternity is the fact that the freshman of low intelli
gence is frequently the individual who is most
enamoured of the social advantages of fraternity
life. Men of this type tend to tear down a fra
ternity's morale and scholastic standing, frequently
drop out of school after a short time, create a con
stantly shifting membership, and are usually poor
financial risks.
Oregon fraternities last year voluntarily voted
to deprive themselves of 10 percent of the entering
freshman class. They used the entrance intelli
gence examinations as the basis for the weeding -
out process, declaring the lowest ten percent of the
entering class ineligible for plodgeship.
Virgil D. Earl, dean of men. has aided greatly
ill promoting this experiment and has assisted the
Interfraternity council In placing it into effect.
Jack Cate, senior in economics, who lias recently
completed a study in which he tested further the
value, to fraternities, of men who made a low schol
arship record, has contributed much to the new
selective pledging plan.
Although the sponsors of the plan are wary
about estimating it. benefits after les than on;
i year's operation, we believe that definite results
have already been shown.
In general the trend of the freshman grade
point average was approximately .2 of a grade point
higher winter term than it was fall term, and the
freshman grade average fall term was considerably
higher this year than in any preceding year.
Of the 244 freshmen winter term, only four were
forced to drop out of school because of low scholas
tic standing—a noticeable improvement over former
years. The percentage of the number of freshmen
attaining fraternity grade requirements for initia;
tion was appreciably higher.
True, the selective pledging plan has not been
in effect long enough to make an estimate of its
j actual worth, but we believe that it cannot fail to
| produce higher scholarship and a consistency of
| fraternity membership in the future.
BRITAIN REVERSES
IT was predicted by nv ny observers of European
affairs shortly after ihe close of the World war
that Great Britain's attitude toward Germany
would undergo a radical change. Once the menace
of a German navy had been removed, the mistress
of the seas immediately showed less inclination to
support France’s stand toward the defeated powers.
While not exactly objecting to French occupa
tion of the Ruhr over a decade ago, the British
certainly did not endorse this aggressive French
move. Germany’s recent clamor and France’s
equally loud protest against such strengthening of
her former foe have brought Great Britain forth
as somewhat of a champion of the German claims.
The British foreign office has criticized France for
the present hopeless impasse in European attempts
to reach an understanding on armament issues.
The latter nation has flatly refused to countenance
German rearmament unless other powers guarantee
her protection against Germany.
In the face of combined British and Italian
sponsorship of Germany's claims, France must
either accept a compromise or risk the danger of
driving these two nations into Hitler’s camp.
Contemporary Opinion
Three Rousing Rahs-Berries
TN the pariance of our times the students of the
-*■ University of Oregon have handed Cfusader
Richard Neu'oerger “three rousing rahs-berries.’’
The proposal to raise a “scholarship” to send Mr
Neuberger to a school at a maximum distance from
this place is a deft way of saying that a good many
of Mr. Neuberger's fellow students would be pleased
to have him exert his crusading talents elsewhere.
Much as we like the energetic Mr. Neuberger
we want to be among those who say:
“He had it coming!”
On the other hand, we wish to go on record as
saying that the movement for lower student fees
in the Oregon schools will not be laughed off by
“hanging one on Neuberger.”
It is true that in a roundabout way the cam
paign for lower fees is but the outgrowth of certain
personal feuds between certain athletic leaders and
the embarrassing Mr. Neuberger and whether Mr.
Neuberger has left those animosities behind in his
new campaign may be debatable. Certainly, if he
is wise, Mr. Neuberger will make himself less con
spicuous than heretofore.
But the movement for lower fees will go on,
with or without Neuberger because it is needed.
The glib statement in the student resolution that
99.44 per cent of the students have been satisfied
with things as they were ante-Neuberger is not sus
tained by the fact that some 40 per cent declined
to pay the fees the minute compulsion was re
moved, thanks to the machinations of the ubiquitous
Neuberger.
Though few students have cared to come out in
the open and face the many unpleasant conse
quences of defying “student opinion," there is ample
evidence of a large silent vote for lower fees.
This demand is genuine and it will not be dis
credited by the lampooning of one individual. If
necessary it will find new leaders.
For the fact is that several hundred students !
now on this campus and several hundred more on j
other campuses are finding it hard to make ends I
meet and they grab at any relief from any fees.
Likewise it can be proved that the big losses
in enrollment in the Oregon schools are not due
to superior attractions elsewhere but to the fact
that Hundreds of Oregon's young men and women
have been unable to raise enough money to go to
school anywhere. All this has bearing on student
fees and all fees.
The movement for lower fees is not a movement
to kill athletics or any other worthwhile activities,
but it is a movement which protests doing much
for athletes and little or nothing for scholars.
If the support of these schools has been too
grudging in recent years, may it not be wise to
give thought to the problem of making these j
schools as accessible as possible to qualified sons
and daughters of ALL the TAXPAYERS.
On this point, wo shall say more later.—Eugene
Register-Guard.
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On Other Campuses
War To End War
ITH flags, banners, parades, and emotions, |
' T student associations with anti-war sentiments j
marched the campus recently. But flags, banners,
and parades are war symbols. Mob emotion is a
prominent cause of war.
We are oppressed by the conviction that anyone
who will parade and wave flags against war will
parade and wave flags for war.
Wnat anti-war associations accomplish by their
present tactics, is to train people in addiction to
war symbols. Transference of those symbols to a
pro-war attitude is simpler to achieve than the
original addition.
The only hope for opposition to war is cold, un
emotional rationality. Members of the University
Anti-war Association should merely shrug their
shoulders and say, “If war comes, we. rational
people, will not go under any circumstances, be
cause we have demonstrated that war is irrational.'’
The courage required for that statement in the
face of war is so much greater than that of immedi
ate brave volunteers that it seems boundte - . L’rvi
cerity of Chicago Daily Maroou.
In the Box ... By STANLEY ROBE
1
Students and War
W7ITH mixed feelings must the
” news have been read of the
college meetings last week for the
purpose of pledging students not
to serve in any war which this
country might enter. There
was a plain element of futility
about it. Everybody knows that,
if war were forced upon the Unit
ed States, these young men would
become soldiers if the government
called upon them to do so in the
name of national defense and hon
or. On the other hand, there was
an unquestionably sincere and ; d
mirable feeling shown in protest
ing against war as a cruel and
useless resort, which sliuuid nut
be made use of, in the words of
the Briand-Kellogg treaty, as an
instrument of international policy.
These college boys are not cowards.
They are not thinking of saving
their own skins. What they would
save is the civilization which might
be destroyed by another world war.
For such a sentiment we are_all
bound to have respect. When it is
expressed by so many who consti
tute the “fair rose and expectancy
of the state," it cannot be cava
lierly disregarded.
T'HE impulse and emotion dis
1 played are in large part praise
worthy, but are they not misdirect
ed ? It is not sufficient to cry out
against war. We must give thought
and effort to the causes of war, so
as to discover if they are not re
movable. What these young men
ought to do is to pass on from
their detestation of war to hearty
support of every international
agency designed to prevent it.
Much more effective than their
protest that they will not fight
personally would be a demand that
this country make assurance of
peace doubly sure by, for example,
joining the League of Nations and
adhering to the world qourt. Let
clear-eyed youth, not deluding it
self by imagining that it can at
tain the end without the means,
organize politically to make the
congress of the United States, and
the president, know what they
think of the unwillingness of our
government to cooperate with oth
er nations in heading off a threat
ened war.
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I^URTHER effective action might
be taken by college students in
the way of uniting against narrow
and selfish nationalistic policies
which tend to awaken hostility in
other countries and eventually to
lead to an open rupture. It is not
necessary to accept in its entirety
the theory of the economic inter
pretation of war. as well as of all
history. But there can be no doubt
that economic causes often power- j
fully aid in bringing on a war. j
Take our selfish and stupid tariff!
policy. It contains the seeds of!
war. Look at the parochial-mind- j
ed bill which the president has just I
signed, closing American money
markets to every nation or to!
groups within it which has not!
paid all of its public debt to the
United States. Across it is written, ;
although as yet in invisible ink,
the ominous words "Sasus belli." |
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IVOR should American students
' omit to notice that the Youth!
movement throughout the world
today is only partially pacifist. We
know how the Nazis in Germany
have swept almost all her young
men into the Storm Troops eager
lor war. In Russia the red army is I
an immense force of embattled
. outh. No out forgets that fascist
Italy rallied to the song, “Giovan
izza.” In Japan we read of mil
lions of young men sending to the
emperor a vow that they will be
glad to die in the Japanese army,
should it be necessary. Such a sur
vey of the whole field, ought to re
mind our generous youth that pa
triotism and the spirit of self-sac
rifice manifest themselves in many
different ways. If our college stu
r
dents, intent on preserving peace,
have really educated and trained
minds, they will perceive that they
are not going to the root of the
matter when they merely proclaim
their determination to take no part
in any possible war. They would
do far better to give all their
strength to the movements and
methods and agencies which are
striving to make war impossible.
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ESTIMATES
Edited by J. J. G.
“Great Spirits Now on Earth Are
Sojourning”
WnPHROUGH all the poetry of
Keats’ first volume, poetry
for the most part written at the
age of 21, we feel this tremendous
expectancy, this half-fledged con
fidence, this boyish enthusiasm.
Great things are being done, and
he is privileged to have a hand in
them. ‘Great spirts now on eatrh
are sojourning,” and he has the
fortune to be joined to their com
pany.
"It is impossible not to feel the
consciousness of election, and the
voice of power in that poem—.” I
have quoted this from Mr. Middle
ton Murry’s book, "Keats and
Shakespeare.” I did so because
that particular section has incited
certain pertinent thoughts concern
ing a generation of poets that will
tomorrow come of age. A section
of Keats' sonnet follows:
"And other spirits there are stand
ing apart
Upon the forehead of the age to
come;
These, these will give the world
another heart,
And other pulses. Hear ye not
the hum
Of mighty workings?—
Listen awhile, ye nations, and
be dumb.”
I have recently received an is
sue of "Scholastic,” the national
high school weekly. This number,
devoted to the prose and poetry of
recent graduates, reveals a num
ber of surprising facts. First of
all, there seems to be a complete
separation from the spirit of post
war poetry. This in itself is not
particularly surprising, these
these youthful poets never having
been to war; but that they should
shear off entirely, even avoiding,
with a conscious effort, the con
cepts laid down by their poetic
forebears, si somewhat unusual. In
the second place, there would seem
to be some justification here for
I. A. Richards' prophesy that if
the world is to be saved, it must
be saved by poetry.
The argument may be advanced !
that after all these poets are1
young; they have not known ex
perience: they will no doubt change
in the next few years. The an
swer is that already there is much
finish in many of these poems,
there is a resolute and conscious
knowledge of what they are fac
ing. I take as an illustration this
statement which appears on a page
>f graduate opinions. It is by my
friend, Ben Belitt. of the t'niver- j
sity of Virginia, who is, I believe, i
’tie of the few young poets of im- '
portance in America today. He!
forwarded the magazine to me. not
knowing what use I might make
.’f it. I hope that he will not re
sent this use of the material. His
statement follows;
"I do not know where I stand, ;
There is much movement, much
precipitate driving' forward, but
nothing to which I can respond in
my own right. I do not admire
progress for the sake of progress,
for I do not believe that the mod
ern world has shown itself worthy
of the miracles which it has per
formed. Its particular genius is
toward destruction, violence, stu
pidity, hysteria. For this I blame,
not the machine, but some larger
inadequacy in the predicates lying
behind modern civliization. I think
that any way of living which plac
es so cheap a value upon human
life and human happiness, which
prevents individuals from living
simply and tenderly, is unsound
and will very soon destroy itself. I
can niether respect nor admire it.”
That is the statement. You see,
these poets know what they are
up against. They are fully cogni
zant of the contemporary scene,
but yet, in poetic practice, there is
with these fine spirits a new en
noblement, a more ideal concep
tion of man than their fathers
were possessed of. One might say
that there is what Amounts to a
fresh influx of poetic faith pres
ent. And that is needed. It has
been absent from poetry for a long',
long time. And when faith is
strong it. almost always follows
that, in conjunction with it, there
will be a stronger sence of joy.
The selection given below is from
a poem, "Brief for a Future De
fense,” by the poet referred to
above. It appears to me to illus
trate well the remarks I have made
upon the nature of this new poetry.
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It is, incidentally, a poem of which
I think very highly.
“I had not blown a breath, not j
stirred a limb
To turn from Him.
Most imperceptibly
I saw His vast limbs girt, and He
was gone from me.
And so, when help was vain, and
He was very far,
Past the clasping of hands, or the
heart’s call,
Under an inimical star,
Poisonous and strange. I hid my
. head
And wept for the dismayed, infa
uate dead.
That is the truth, and the whole
truth, and is all."
Truly, it is a great time to be
living for poetry. If only we may
live to see the fulfillment of these
grand promises. The ‘‘hum of
mighty workings" is everywhere
in evidence. , I believe that we do
not realize “great spirits now on
earth are sojourning." I am proud
to know them.
Innocent
Bystander
Bv BARNEY CLARK
VT/'E were in the private study of
one of the greatest minds of
the ages, J. Jorgensen Jukes. The
great man was standing before a
roaring fire, toasting marshmal
lows as the secretary announced
us. He turned around.
“What the hell do you want?”
he roared, then, “Pardon me, I
thought you were Tom Tongue.
He's been pestering me all day to
go on the student body officers'
picnic. What he can see in these
bourgeois affairs I don’t know."
“We represent the fourth es
tate,” said we timidly. “We came
to ask you some questions, like
what is your campaign slogan?”
“Ah,” he swelled his chest. “We
have a number of slogans. Here’s
a little creation of my own.
‘Steamheated Slabs For the Grave
yard, and a Chicken in Every
Pot!’ Nifty, eh?” \
“What does it mean?” we que
ried, awed.
The great man looked annoyed.
He cleared his throat. “Perhaps
we'd better go on to the next.
‘Put Ignorance In The Igloo!’
That’s one of Kallikak’s. Great
lad, Kasper! He and I worked to
gether in our younger days.” He
sighed gustily, thinking of his lost
youth. “Poor Kasper. He was a
trained seal in a ball-balancing
act, and I was the offstage noises
for a kooch dancer.”
“What did your worn: consist
of?” we asked, intrigued.
“Ah,” breathed the great man,
raising his eyebrows into his hair,
a distance of a quarter inch. “I
can see you do not know life, my
son.” He leered at us. “I breathed
hard, and made noises like unre
strained masculinity. This raised
the audience to a frenzy.” He
seemed to forget us for awhile,
then he said, abruptly, “It was
shortly after this that I joined a
tight-rope act. It was the deli
cate sense of balance I acquired
there that fitted me for the ardu
ous political work of straddling
issues.”
“What do you think of mother
hood?” we inquired.
The great man looked at us
queerly for a long, long minute,
shuddered violently all over, and
then disappeared swiftly behind a
secret door in the massive paneled
walls of the study.
We waited a long while, but he
never did reappear.
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Emerald of
the Air and
Elsewhere
By JIMMY MORRISON
I- ..
Heard Johnny Robinson's band
last night from the Rainbow ball
room in Denver over KOA . He was
playing Harry Barris’ new tune,
“Little Dutch Mill," and the boys
played it with such remarkable
similarity to Ted Fio Rito that it
was not until they broke into their
signature song, “Everywhere You
Go,” that they revealed their iden
tity.
But the only difference between
Robinson's “slide" trombonist and
Fio Rito's is that Hans Snodgrass
doesn’t slide; he stings 'em. He
can probably sting them better
than any trombone player alive.
Robinson has just two more
nights in Dever. Then he’s going
away, probably on a road tour un
til he gets another good job.
* * *
Carol Lofner (it used to be Lauf
ner-Harris before Phil found out
he was so “good”) has retaliated
with a very fine band. Carol used
to play piano when he and Harris
were together ,and now he pays
weekly checks to three of the
world’s fastest saxophone players.
They are, it seems almost too bad
to say, much better than Lombar
do’s trio.
* *
Ever heard Tom and Don, the
“Hayloft Harmony Boys?” Boy!
They’re surely “keen.”
* * *•
Here’s the way the best band
leaders in the country picked the
ten outstanding hits last week:
1. Wagon Wheels
2. L^t’s Fall in Love
3. Carioca
4. True
5. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
6. The House Is Haunted
7. Without That Certain Thing
8. Dancing in the Moonlight
9. Easy Come, Easy Go
10. Over Somebody Else's Shoul
der
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turing songs of Schubert, Liszt,
and Wolfe. Songs of France will
follow, and the program will end
with a series of songs in English.
The program follows:
I
Guilio Caccini....Amarilli, mia bella
Domenica Sarri ..
.Sen corre l’agnelletta
Lu11Y . Bois Epais
Henry Purcell .I attempt
from Love’s Sickness to fly
Handel (Jephtha) .
Recit. Deeper and Deeper Still
Handel (Jephtha) ..
.Aria Waft her, Angels
II
Schubert . Du bist die Ruh’
Liszt . Du bist wie eine Blfime
Wolte . Verborgenheit
Wolfe . Nimmersatte Liebe
III
Massanet. Ouvre tes yeux bleus
Debussy ... . Romance
Debussy .,.... Mandolin
^icia* . Ariette
IV
Bryceson Treharne .
.A Widow Bird set Mourning
Richard Hageman
. Do Not Go, My Love
C. Armstrong Gibbs.Five Eyes
Deems Taylor. ..A Song for Lovers
Winter Watts... Blue Are Her Eyes
Mana-Zucca .I Love Life
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