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I The Fraternities
Get Tough
TT is not the first time that the fraternities on
4 this campus have declared war on the distaste
ful business of “dirty rushing.” Upon the close of
( each year’s rush week they declare vehemently
| that the practices of various of their collegues
are deplorable and something must be done to
clear the air.
At the beginning of this year's rush week,
the inter-fraternity council passed rules against
unethical rushing practices and appointed a com
mittee to observe and report violations of these
rules. This procedure, adopted by a quorum of
the member fraternities, was placed in opera
tion, and at the council meeting of last Thurs
day the violations were reported and the assessed
fines announced. A provision allowing appeal be
fore the tribunal of the council was appended
and the appeals will be heard and evaluated to
night. It is likeiy that there have been errors
in the detection of violators. These will be con
sidered and adjusted oy the appelate group.
Immediately following the meeting of last
Thursday, the council was besieged with reports
from members, who "had observed violations
among fellow fraternities” that were not re
ported, and implied a measure of injustice there
in.
The fact, and it undoubtedly is a fact, that
there were unnoticed violations does not diminish
the guilt of the house reported. Granted that the
machinery for detection of violations may be
imperfect, the remedy for that imperfection does
not lie in the abrogation of the punishment, but
rather in the perfection of that machinery. In
an organized community seeking laws for the
furtherance of its own order, society pays for
actions contrary to the will of its majority.
Of course it will be tough on the houses that
are punished. Their violations were no worse
than the violations of others. Yet it is hoped
that they will understand the punishment as a
step in avoiding similar actions in the future.
Should the action of the houses be unfavorable
to enforcement of the council’s laws, there will
be no reason to expect clean rushing next year
since a powerful precedent will have been lost
by those who disregard the importance of law
and enforcement to the adequate regulation of
the complicated rushing system.
Why Not Dance?
JNCKEDULOUS as it seems, at a time when
there is so much history in the making before
our eyes, destinies of nations hang in the bal
ance, and civilization itself is being threatened by
possible extinction, the petty issues of every day
living must be settled such quibbles as whether
there shall, or shall not be dancing on Sunday
on the University of Oregon campus must be
considered.
Last week the Emerald published an interpre
tation of the recent ruling passed by the dean of
women's office that there must be no organized
dancing, that is, dancing at Sunday teas in the
sororities. The ruling has caused a storm of
campus resentment out of proportion with the
importance of the “blue law.”
The dean of women's office bases its stand
on "consideration of other people's observance
of the Sabbath,” and the fact that the Univer
sity, as a part of the community must do its part
to preserve compatibility between students and
the residents living close to the dancing soror
ities.
Investigation has proved that the sound of
the radio, or phonograph, together with the glid
ing feet, cannot be heard beyond the front porch,
or at most, the front walk of the houses; also,
that but one or two of the houses are situated
next to private dwellings. Whether there is danc
ing or not, these self playing music boxes will
continue to peal forth, Sunday, and every other
day of the week as they are doing now. That
eliminates the “noise" objection.
The dean of women's office made ii clear that
it does not object to the students' dancing out
side of the houses on Sunday but the students
cannot see it that way. Why should the place
matter? And is it not better to dance in the
dignified surroundings of their campus "homes,"
than to be forced to express their rhythm in out
of-town ball rooms.
The office states, also, that the issue is not
one involving morals; that it has no moral ob
jection to dancing. As we understand it, then,
the question simmers down to—it’s all right to
dance on Sunday, but students must not disturb
the sorority Sabbath with the sound of their
dancing. But that doesn’t make sense!
Walt Back Day—
An Opportunity
\ LETTER to the Emerald makes the sugges
tion that the student body and all others
present at the Oregon-Idaho game this coming
Saturday be asked to rise and bow their heads
for one minute in silent prayer, while a member
of the band plays taps for one departed to join
the ranks of Oregon’s immortals.
The idea is a good one.
Walt Back v/ou'.d have scoffed at being
termed one of Oreg jn’s immortals. He would
prefer to be termed a real man—one admired and
respected by his associates and a man who was
honest, firm, and stimulating.
The University of Oregon should pay this
tribute to the departed star, and will have an
opportunity for such expression next Saturday.
The mud and power of Oregon was not alone
in puzzling the anxious California Bear. On one
ocsasion, J. Brittingham, California end, in the
middle of a pile of football players, grasped Bob
Braddock’s head and calmly survey the face
guard he was wearing. We know that he con
ceived of it as a mud plow.
To dance while not dancing when we dance
in the forbidden dance, and the pigeon in the
grass that Sunday dances is O. K. but all wrong
is the dance—the Gertrude Steinism of the
campus.
The performance of the rally committee on
the stage of Portland’s Broadway theater was
one of extreme variety. As to the show itself—
Jack Campbell deserves orchids for his efforts,
and for the results!
Europe Firsthand
By Howard Kessler
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'IT' ASTER morning, with a jubliant sky, Bill
' and I packed a lunch and our cameras and
left the Philosophenweg on a hike that took us
up and down hills, through woods, delightful
villages and peaceful glens for 25 miles around
Heidelberg, to Neckarsteinach, the quaint hamlet
where students held their schlager duels a few
years ago when the spilling of blood was for
bidden in the university city, to Dilsberg, perched
on a hill above the river, to Weissenstein, Sch
onau and a few other minor masterpieces of
nature.
All day, in secluded lanes or on the broad
highway, we met and passed an endless proces
sion of hikers, youthful and elderly, many carry
ing guitars, accordians or harmonicas, whole
families having an outing together, groups of
ruddy girls, and bands of stout boys, all singing
lustily. We did a great deal of singing ourselves.
The day and the environment seemed to call for
it, and we were still harmonizing as we wearily
tramped back past Heidelberg castle that eve
ning.
The most admirable contribution to world
civilization made by Germany in this century,
and the one thing I yearned to transplant in
America, is the Youth Movement, which the
Fatherland originated and developed while it was
yet a firm tradition elsewhere that “children
should be seen and not heard.” It is in this move
ment, now spreading over other countries, that
the world may ultimately find the solution to its
ills. A friendly camaradie between peoples is a
much more potent factor in establishing univer
sal peace than an agreement that each nation
is to have only so many bombing planes atid
that no one can exterminate his neighbor unless
he complies with a given set of regulations, and
must recognize the ethics of killing, to prolong
the torture and the profits.
me youm aosteis or uermany deserve pub
licity. They are the outgrowth of Sdhirrmann's
idea. Richard Schirrmann, a Ruhr valley school
teacher, saw tenement faces about him, and dur
ing the summer holidays of 1910, influenced some
of his fellow teachers to place straw in vacant
school rooms, so he and his pupils could under
take extended hikes and bed down free of charge
at night. From this search for pure air and ex
ercise came the roots of the “Jugendherberge"
;u' “Youth Hostel," organization.
Today there are 2,000 such hostels in Ger
many, and more than six million young people
annually find shelter in them. There are hund
reds in England, Scandinavia, the Netherlands
und Denmark. There are nearly half a dozen in
the United States.
I he purpose of the Jugendherberge is to en
courage the youth of Germany to discover the
beauties of its native land, but it also enables
foreigners to have the same privilege at 25
cents a night. My triend Bill Woodward spent
one ot his vacations bicycling through Germany
as a registered member of the Youth Hostel
movement, ami he was enthusiastic in describing
the life.
The hostels have choice and picturesque loca
tions in old castles, city bastians, cloisters, farm
houses and even on shipboard. They are hygien
icaliy modern in all respects.
Hearing the ebullient picture Bill drew, 1
wished to see a youth hostel. “Fine,” he said.
I here s one at Pilsberg. not three miles from
here. We’ll take a look at it." And we did.
Campus Calendar
(Continued from Page One)
Tuesday at 3 p. m. Tryouts arc to
be held after the meeting.
1'rof. Harold It. Cropland will
speak in 101 commerce tonight at
8:00 on “Several Experiments in
Attempts to Understand Ineffici
ent Sinaia •'*. sponsor of
the talk, wll lhold a business meet •
ing at 7 :"0 preceding Professor
Crosland’s appearance.
Sigma Delta t ill, national men's
journalism honorary, will meet at
■1 o'clock today in 201 journalism.
laving oigani/ation social chair
men who have not scheduled their
fall term dances are usked to re
port them to the dean of women
office immediately. The term'
social schedule eanot be releasee
until the complete list is received
l’lii Beta meeting for active;
and new and old pledges tonight
at 7:00 in women's lounge at Get
linger.
Scnhhard and Blade meets to
day at the College Side at c
o clock.
President Boyer’s Speech
(Editor’s note: President Boy
er’s speech to the students at
the opening assembly Tuesday,
October 7 is continued here af
ter being started in Thursday’s
paper.)
The studies which you pursue
and the manner in which you pur
sue them will not only fit you to
make a living but will prepare you
to live fully. What are the things
which a person does when he isn’t
following his vocation? He or she
listens to music or makes it him
self, he plays golf or some other
game, he motors, he reads, he goes
to the movies, he gives or attends
dinners, selects clothes, travels
abroad, looks at pictures, goes to
church, builds a house, furnishes
it to the best of his financial and
artistic ability, he attends occa
sional lectures and other meetings
and engages in conversation. How
he does these things matters very
much. In other words, he spends
his leisure in recreation and in
building up his mind, in satisfying
his love of natural beauty and of
art, and in expanding his spiritual
nature. He lives in the realm of
ideas or he ceases to grow. Some
men and women cease to grow
mentally about two years after
theyi graduate. You meet them
twenty years later and, except for
a better knowledge of the market,
they are just where you saw them
last when they received their di
ploma. They have not lived fully.
They have lived a cramped, rou
tine life. They have missed much
which life has to offer.
For there is a very real joy in
learning and in the appreciation
of art and in fine conversation.
The thrill that comes from the ex
pansion of the mind, from seeing
things in their relations as you
have not seen them before, is like
the prospect which you gain from
a mountain top. The pursuit of
knowledge is like a great adven
ture, and when some bit of new in
formation, falling into place, caus
es the knowledge whi h you al
ready possess to take on a new
meaning, the sensation is like that
: of an explorer discovering a new
land which creates for him a new
But if the University offers you
this opportunity for self-advance
ment and self-development, it also
imposes upon you a great respon
: sibility. You have beer told and
you will be told again v.hat many
of you already know from expe
rience, namely, that you are liv
ing in an unstable age. Just when
we had reached the peak of pros
perity everything went topsy tur
vy. We passed into the depression,
from which we have not emerged.
This depression means that there
was something wrong with our po
litical principles or the practice of
them, something wrong with our
economic theory and practice,
something wrong with our social
adjustments. Leadership failed us.
Millions of people have had their
lives constricted, lost their self-re- j
spect, and sunk into despair.
But we must not give up our
faith in the mind. It is mind that i
has led us from animalism, through
savagery, through barbarism, to i
civilization.
In mind we must trust to take
: us out of the morass and establish!
again a good life for all. The dis
tress you see about you, the dis-;
, tress \vinch you yourself feel,
should not be cause for despair.
Man’s historic life has been made
up of crises, the meeting of which
has developed him into the being
which he now is. It has been said
by Whitehead that the unstable
ages are the great ages, that they
have been great because great
dangers have been met by great
souls and great minds and great
people. We have faith in your
mind and in your spirituality, that
is, your courage, your resolution,
and your love of God and human
ity to dispell this depression and
create a new world.
You are the future leaders, you
have often been told this. It is not
a. mere sop to your ego. What
does it mean? It means that ohly
a small percentage of the popula
tion • has had a college education
but that they exercise an influence
disproportionate to numbers. It
means that upon the trained minds
of the educated we must depend.
It is you who must put your shoul
ders to the wheel and try to solve
economic and political problems.
It is you who must insist upon both
brains and honesty on the part of
our politicians and financiers. The
mass of the population is credu
lous, prejudiced, superstatious, and
passionate. They do not know how
to distinguish truth from untruth
or from half-truth.. They are the
victims of mountebanks, quacks,
and charlatans of all kinds. They
accept propaganda as though it
were scientific evidence. The col
lege bred should be trained to de
tect these impostors and expose
them. By every means, by taking
a part in civic affairs, by lectures,
by conversation, by questioning
the impostors, by writing, by
righteous indignation against dis
honesty, you should seek to make
intelligence and honesty prevail.
Your University training should
enable you to do this. Your sense
of duty and love of a good life for
all, your conscience, in other
words, should make you do those
things which you are able to do
and which ought to be done. These
things you can do if you will pre
pare yourselves for the great task.
Will you miss your opportunity and
your obligations?
i nere is omy one means oy
which you can do so and that is
by application to your studies. Do
we trust our health to a physician
who has obtained his degree by
cheating in medical examinations?
Do we engage a lawyer whose only
experience has been the making
of stump speeches? No. my
friends, the knowledge that is
worth anything has to be gained
by hard and assiduous study. If
you try to pass yourself off as an
authority on old-age pensions, cur
rency. and tariffs after such
skimpy work on a text book as
enabled you to get a grade of C in
a course in economics, you are like
the half-baked and unscrupulous
windbags whom it is your duty to
expose.
The work which you Jo in the
University should be thorough, but
you should realize where you stand
in the world of knowledge. You
have just made a beginning. You
are not yet specialists. Y'ou have
done good work and shown your
metal in clearing the field and in
planting the .-eed. But you have
yet to make the seed grow. Pass
ing a subject does not mean that
you are master of it. It means that
>ou are prepared to master it.
Study, which is growth, does not
end with college. It should go on
all your life. No lawyer or doc
tor thinks he knows it all when he
is first admitted to practice. He
goes on perfecting his knowledge
all his life. It is curious that men
in other fields should think them
selves masters when they are only
apprentices. But there is such a
thing as a good apprentice. That
is what I want you to be. From
good apprentices come the mas
ters.
One of the fine things to be said;
about athletics is that it really!
tries a man. You find no quack
ery or stuffed shirts on the foot
ball field. First there is the long,
hard, grueling practice, and then
the game calling for alertness,
teamwork, and courage to bear all
the punishment the body will
stand. It is true that athletics,
editing, office holding, and what
we call the extra-curricular activ
ities, seem to carry off all the
glory, and our ego likes the lime
light. But this calls for all the
more judgment, all the more pa
tience on your part. The rewards
for scholarship come late in life
but they are the high rewards of
accomplishment and deserved re
spect. Your training period is the
four years of college. Your spec
tacular battles and victories will
come afterwards. But you are
training for a hard schedule.
Extra-curricular activities have
a deserved place in college life but
they are not the reason for the
existence of a college. Editing the
Emerald is good practice, but it
alone will not supply the knowl
edge of history, economics, litera
ture, and science that the later ed
itor of a city newspaper needs. The
refined manners which are culti
vated and exercised by your din
ners, dances, receptions, and other
forms of social intercourse on the
campus are highly desirable attri
butes, but without the accompani
ment of intellect and character
they are but the clothes on a dress
maker’s model. Our recreations,
our accomplishments, are but
parts of a well-balanced life. They
are not to be neglected and are
not likely to be. They are too
pleasant in themselves. The thing
that calls for emphasis in college
is development of the mind. Al
ways we must come back to that.
The University is a place of the
mind.
It is here that you can acquire
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such knowledge as to give you
what is called a philosophy of life,
by which is meant an outlook on
life, an attitude towards life, a
sense of the values of life based on
a view of the whole.
Your mind is the instrument,
and the only instrument, by means
of which you can carve out your
own future and the future of your
country. What kind of future do
you want to have? What kind of
world do you want to live in ? The
opportunity is before you now to
choose the kind of man or woman
you wish to be, the kind of service
you wish to give. There are worlds
before you to conquer if you de
velop a purpose and discipline
yourself to the perseverance and
courage it takes to realize that
purpose. This instrument, this
mind of yours, is made for pene
trating, discriminating, arranging,
and promulgating the truth. You
will have missed your opportunity
and been false to the trust placed
in you by your parents and the
state if you do not develop this
mind in college.
Why should not the University
of Oregon be known as the great
est University on the Pacific
coast ? It does not take numbers
to make greatness. It takes qual
ity. A university is known by its
factulty and the distinction of its
graduates in later life. Leave the
improvement of the faculty to the
administration. But do you seek
to improve yourselves. Make of
yourselves such gentlemen and
gentlewomen, such fathers and
mothers, such lawyers, physicians,
and business men, such leaders in
public life as the whole state will
point to with pride as graduates
of the University of Oregon.
I do not believe you will weaken,
I do not believe you will fail. I
believe that you will live up to the
best that is in you, and I believe
that your fellow citizens in look
ing to you as the leaders of to
morrow are pinning their faith on
strong men and women.
Campus *
Exchanges
By Bill Marsh
From Rome: The season’s most
embarrassing incident. An Ameri
can woman obtained an interview
with Mussolini. As you know,
when being interviewed, II Duce
sits at one end of a long baronial
hall and makes the interviewer
walk the entire length of the room
before speaking. This is to give
Ii Duce’s bodyguards a chance to
size the interviewer up. This Amer
ican lady, after walking about
half the length of the room, paused
for breath. Somewhat awed by
the size of the place she looked
around her—and then gave vent
to a splendid hiccup. The room
was as large as a normal theater,
and the acoustics were quite as
good. Result: The hiccup went
bouncing gaily from wall to wall,
and what was one hiccup became
a full score. The lady, pursued by
echoing hiccups, turned and fled
from the room.
President Roosevelt is appro
priating thousands for the remod
eling of antiquated bastiles and the
building of new, sanitary jails. No
matter how comfortable the good
old-fashioned hoosegow become^,
people still seem to resent being
sent to it. Unless they get to be
Radio ❖
❖ of the Air
By Woodrow Truax
By WOODROW TRUAX
The initial broadcast of the Coed
quarter hour will be presented to
morrow at 3:45 p. m. This is a
new feature of the Oregon Daily
Emerald of the Air. Each Tues
day the coeds from the campus
will present a program which will
be handled entirely by the women.
Miss Patsy Neal is to be in charge
of the Coed quarter hour. Miss
Dorothy Elsensohn will give the
highlights of social events of the
week. Miss Helen Jones will offer
a group of modern musical num
bers on the piano.
like a sailor we once know who
went to sea only during the sum
mer months. When the ocean
winds began to get cold he would
come ashore, buy a brick and
throw it through a store window,
and gleefully accept, his six months
sentence to a nice, warm winter
in the jug.
A choice item from Urbana, Illi
nois: “There is no doubt that the
concert band of the University of
Illinois is the best on the North
American continent with Mexico’s
police band running it a close sec
ond.” For third place we nominate
Captain Billy’s harmonics band.
Man o’ War, Earle Sand'e up, also
ran.
From Geneva: “The league of
nations says that a state of war
does not actually exist between
Italy and Ethiopia inasmuch as no
formal declaration has been made.”
WTe wonder what would happen in
a police court if two belligerent
individuals were haled in for dis
turbing the peace by fighting and
one of them said, “Shucks, judge,
we weren’t fighting. Oh, of course
I was blacking this mug’s eye
while he was knocking my front
teeth out, but we weren’t fighting.
Neither of us made any declara
tion at all.”
\)ance
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Wednesday
Evening.
You’ll dance in your
first lesson.
Special Collegiate
Rates
8 Lessons $5.00
Co-eds $4.00
New Beginners’ Class
Starts Wednesday, *
October 16—8 P. M.
Private Lessons By
Appointment.
MERRICK
DANCE STUDIO
861 Willamette Phone 3081
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