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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1936)
Emerald Magazine Editor, HOWARD KESSLER U ORE EYE Consider it said. * * * We’re hoping for 2800 contribu tors before we hear a jazz orches tra playing in June again. (Some of our puns are really subtle. It’s something you’ll have to get used to.) If you have anything to say about anything, your opportunity has come; if you’ve read anything by anybody, we'd like to know about it. “Books are lighthouses erected In the great sea of time.” “Light Is the symbol of truth.” "Truth is the gravitation principle of the universe.” Figure it out for your self. * * * We asked Experienced Debater Mary Nelson what she thought of "Eyeless in Gaza,” Aldous Huxley’s latest. . “A philosophical study of Anthony Beavis, who is generally conceded to be, in part, Huxley himself. Beavis was a skeptic and cynic until 1934, but I am glad to report that Mr. Beavis is now a believer in brotherly love. For stu dents in philosophy, fine; for the seeker after popular fiction, cloudy. The frequent detached paragraphs of Huxley’s own opinions are in teresting. The work develops the changes in philosophy brought on by depression.” * * • Twinkling Journalist Mildred Blackburne approves of “Beyond Sing the Woods,” by Trygve Gul branssen, for collegiate readers, al though she refuses to pronounce the nume of the author. "A Norwegian tale of a primi tive northman who fights local traditions and brings the changes of the outside world into his feudal estate. “Dag, the second, is the predom inant character. The author studies his struggles against the past, his growth, and his dealings with his fellows. The descriptions of the setting are colorful. The book is a realistic romance.” 31BISIS3EI5fSiSIS13J5/513®3EJSMBiSISJSIu Sam Tyler Doctor of Optometry (Eyesight Specialist) Phone 620 for Appointment 921 Willamette Street ?OJSEI»H3i3I3J3ISISI3iBlBi3f3J3J3/5MBI3i31Q! In endeavoring to discover who have read the latest books, we were unable to find any represen tation among the male under graduates. Still, I suppose some of them do read more than Esquire. * * * "Since it is a series of short sketches of upper New York life, "Listen for a Lonesome Drum,” by Carl Carmer, should be easy read ing for the time-lacking student,” says Ex-Wisconsin Newshound Charles Hulten. Prompted in part by this new volume of ten-minute chapters, and in part by a recent Sinclair Lewis article, we engaged with Brilliant English Prof. S. Stephenson Smith, in a discussion of the possibility that the literary trend, due to in creasing speed of civilization and less time for leisurely reading, will be more and more towards break ing up books into short, impres sionistic incidents. Professor Smith recalled that Pope had foretold the same trend a century ago. However, the pro fessor did not believe that such a style would last for long. * * * "Oregon Poets,” a new anthol ogy just received by the library, is of interest because several Ore gon grads and faculty members are included in its contributors. “Down in a corner crouching in a cellar, Striking in the darkness a fragrant snake. Jabbing down the oakum, mumbling bits of hokum, Jabbing all the oakum that the ;foint will take . . .” As Paul E. Tracy worked in Eugene cellars as a plumber he must have been composing that poem, which is one appearing in the anthology. Tracy, a 1927 grad uate in journalism, is now a plumb ing saleman in Baker, Oregon. Contributor Walter Evans Kidd, who took both B.A. and M.A. de grees from the University in 1926, and 1935, now teaches in Washing ton high, Portland. Oregonian Staff Member Mar garet Skavlan, '25; Enelse Jansen, '36; and John Scheffer, with a B.A. in 1928, and an M.A. in 1931 from this school, complete the list of Oregon grads who write for the book. * * * Number of contributors in this edition: 10. IT O GKAD GOES EAST Jasper Bellinger, graduate of the school of journalism at the University of Oregon, who has been working the past year on the Salem Statesman staff, resigned recently to enter the University of Minnesota for graduate work in journalism. Most Popular Model Although admittedly not quitesoeye-appeulingaa the moat-photographed girl in the world, we have u model of our own that'H pretty popular. It's ealled the PERFECTED Visible-Ink Pen INK-VtTE prua, $6, $8.50. l’en cilsto match, $3 and $4. Other W ater man** prua, $2.50 up. Other Exclusive Waterman's Featurest Tip-Filling Self-Starting A Microscopically-Perfect Point Your Choice of 7 Different Points • Miracle Ink Bottle! 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Mary: I once was a belle; now I’m only a shell With sore toes all in a row. (15th) Pigger: I’m Humpty Dumpty! Mary: Go sit on the wall. (THUMPETY THUMP!) Mary: Ye gods! what a fall! (20th) Mary: Fee, fie, ho hum, I smell the sweat of another bum. Be he man or be he beast, I hope that he can dance, at least! (23rd and last) Mary: Old Mother Hubbard, who went to the cupboard Had little cause to feel blue. She had but one dog to pity, While I, poor Mary, have two! Moral: But maybe it’s not quite as bad As I’ve made it out to you; For though men may walk upon your feet, V^ii tirnllr iinnn ♦ h n v-v-1 President C. Valentine Boyer The purpose of a university edu cation is to fit men and women to earn a living, to live fully, and to reshape the world in which they! live. In other words vocation, J leisure and citizenship. I do not specify character, because char- '■ acter is fundamental to all three. | The studies which you pursue and the manner in which you pur sue them will not only fit you to make a living, taut will prepare you j to live fully. What are the things I which a person does when he isn't j following^ his vocation? He or she i 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, attends occasional lectures and engages in conversation. How he does these things mat ters very much. In other words, he spends his leisure in recreation and In building up his mind, in satisfy ing his love of natural beauty, 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 they gradu ate. 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 diplomas. They’ have not lived fully. They have lived a cramped, routine life. They have missed much which life has to offer. For there is a very real joy in learn.ng and in the appreciation of art and fine conversation. The thrill that comes from the expan sion 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 adventure, and when some bit of new information, falling into place, causes the knowledge which you already possess to take on a new meaning, the sensation is like I that of an explorer discovering a new land which creates for him a new world. I Simple Success Stories i OUR HERO ON THE PLATE If you go to the movies with him, don’t ask questions. His g.f does, and its still his pet grouch. If you "belong to his frat, don’t hang onto the telephone receiver for more than ten minutes, or he may throttle you in your bed. If you yearn to be his little wo man, get him over for breakfast and feed him pancakes made of whole wheat flour, corn meal, rolled oats, baking powder, salt, eggs, and milk. If he refuses to go home, and you still want to honor and obey, set a box of graham crackers and a bowl of milk before him, with peanut butter sandwiches as a side dish. Then, lady, you’re set. That is, if you are tall, have an olive com plexion, raven hair, know a little about law, are capable of enjoying sports as an intelligent fan, and poison oak when you see it. So far, it has been easy. But when you learn that he does not want you to talk unless you know what you are talking about, you’ll probably decide it isn’t worth the trouble after all. Now, all you have to do is look up the record of Liberty salesmen in Portland for the year 192t>, and you have the name of this curly headed politician. Or maybe you already have discerned his name in the cartoon above. Or maybe all will be clear to you if you are one of the three girls who have married since he planted his pin or his af fections on other ladies. Or if you are the granite-hearted Titian who cracked his heart at Grant high. He hasn’t been rogue-galleried as yet, although, in younger and more abandoned days he was fined on four counts, and anyone who can amass that total in a Model T Ford must be admired for his cour age and persistence. Though he was born there, he hasn’t the visible locution of a for mer University first-baseman. The debut was in 1916. A resourceful legalist, he hasn’t been up a tree since 1920, when a drove of horses trotting down 46th street, instead of having the usual effect induced by fright, caused him to reach the topmost branch es of a poplar he had never before been able to climb. He yearns for at least two things, the boy to be about three years older than the girl. If the first two are girls, well, he’ll take a chance on number three. But no more. The South Seas and China lure him. He likes the Oriental type. In high school he was a third string tackle, “because everybody else was trying out,’’ and two years ago he defended Townsend on the University debate squad. “When I started studying thfe O.A.R.P. plan I changed my mind, but it was too late then,” he says. Conservative, Republican, he be lieves in a gradual evolution of government. Wants to be a judge, and most of all in life, values the respect which other people have for him. And he’ll get it, because he’s modest, good-looking, and has a smile. 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