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Tli#* Oregon Dnlly Emerald. official student publication of Ibo Uriiver-iiy of Oregon, Ymbb^bed daily fluring the college year except Sundays Mondays, holidays and final examination periods. Subscription rates: SI.25 per term and per year. Entered as second*c1ass mater at the postoffice, Fugcne, Oregon, Editorial offices Journalism building 2, ft. 10. Phone Local .154, 151, Business Offices, Journalism building 5. Phone l ocal 154. Represented for national adviretising by NATIONAL ADVERTI_SIXG^SER VICE, INC., college publishers representative, 420 Madison Avc.. New York, X. V. Chicago Boston Los Angeles San Francisco. PAUL DEUTSCHMANN, Editor HAL HAENEK, Manager BILL PENGRA, Managing Editor UPPER NEWS STAKE Lloyd Tupling. associate editor Bud Jermain, news editor Lyle Nelson, assistant managing editor Charles Green, chief night editor Elbert Hawkins, sports editor Glenn ITassolrooth, literary editor Bernndine Bowman, women s editor Wally Patterson, photographer Ruthellen Merchant, executive secretary UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Keith Osborne, advertising manager i"<s i... mi. .. .. ’■ ... ’ C lav ton Fllis, circulation manager Ruth Mary Scovell, executive secretary Jean Farreiis, national advertising manager Betty Jlankington. executive secretary Dick Litfin. classified manager DAY ADVERTISING MANAGER Maxine Glad ASSISTANTS Jean St inet to Roma Theobald Need Inadequacy Remain? T AST Thursday The Emerald opined that the faculty had given Hu1 “no-grade” proposal an A. Developments, or rather lack of them, indicate that the grade Would have been more aptly stated as “incomplete.” The discussion of the grade problem has simmered for a good number of years. It was almost a year ago that Dr. Warren D. Smith made his advanced proposal, in faculty meeting that “honors,” “pass,” and “flunk ' he substituted for the present grade system. Out of that suggestion on Jan uary 12 of this year came a committee. Ten months later the committee's work was completed, its recommendations approved, the way cleared for action. Undoubtedly the committee had good reason to take ten months. The problem was complex. The recommendations submitted to the faculty were exceedingly astute and well composed. They represented the results of a poll of over 300 faculty members, an analysis of the “pipe” course prob lem, of the bad conditions in some required courses, and ended up with a well worked-out compromise that seemed highly satisfactory. *■ * # # rJpiIE faculty apparently recognized the value of the report by adopting the recommendations with hardly a note of criticism. Tint action since then has shown that the support was not nearly as whole-hearted as was supposed. This conclusion might seem hasty when it, is considered that only one week has passed. Tabulations of professorial opinion seem to indicate that many still favor the idea. Hut there is a discordant note of evasiveness, a hint about tech nical difficulties, a fear of antagonizing conservative ele ments. In passing the senate committee recommendations, the faculty admitted that thv present system was incompetent in many cases. It set up the machinery to correct conditions in courses “which often yield high grades and to which students sometimes flock to boost their grade-point average.” It noted that under the five-division system in some cases “it forces the instructor to make evaluations which are perhaps logically impossible.” # * # # 'JpiIESE arc distinct evils. They stand in the way of educa tion. They make the University a distributor in many cases of “fictitious grades” rather than the disseminator of knowledge. Delaying tin* establishment of the “ho-gradc” compromise is an educational blunder. It is like passing a law and then preventing its enforcement. The incompetence of the present system has been proven and agreed upon. The machinery to correct its inadequacy lias been provided. Delay is neither logical nor necessary. Home for What? J^AKLY Sunday morning a tired and deafened bunch of Webfoots thought Homecoming was pretty much a suc cess. The rally had more than its share of noise, the Ducks had whipped Idaho. Harris had played to thousands. The alums oh yes, they had been here. At least some freshmen who gave up their beds knew about it. “Homecoming was a great affair—everybody getting to gether talking about old times. There were Tom and Hill who graduated last year, and Joe from two years ago, we went out and got boiled together . . . and say, I forgot to tell you . . . then' was one old duck from the class of IS . . . he came around Friday evening for dinner hut 1 never saw him after that . . . he button holed a couple of freshmen and started talking about when Col. Header ran the University . . . the poor I'rosh were bored stiff . . . and sav did.ja notice at the game when the baud started playing and drowned out all the old Order of 0 men?” TyjA\ BK it didn't happen exactly this way. hut there were many Sunday morning rehashes of Homecoming that took this form. And in that muddle of careless student opin ion is found tin1 problem of the alumni festival the problem which brings recurrent rumblings of discontent. Heads returning fm the annual get together are roughly of two groups the recent graduates, whose contacts with the campus are still fresh, and the older alums who have memories and genuine feeling for the I’niversity. but whose contacts have decreased as the years pass. For the younger alumni a program akin to what the stu dent desires is just the thing. Men just a year or two out of college welcome the opportunity to become college stu dents again. They worry little about memories, the welfare of the University is of no more special interest to them than, to the general lethargic group of students. * * # # Jl1 IS the old alum who thinks enough of Oregon after a good many years to return who is possessed of the better * 1 rmecoming attitude, lie is the product of Alumni days of the past when thousands instead of hundreds returned, when alumni meetings considered problems of the Fniversitv in stead of mere election formalities. And this type of alumnus is gettnig scarcer. The Home coming setup is not designed primarily for him. As we have noted in the past, the weekend is a psychological festival of Round 'n About... WITH WF.N BROOKS Suppose that most of us have a bit of the devil in us and sometimes, for no reason at all, feel like doing crazy things such as throwing beer bottles . . . empties, of course . . . through department store win dows about 3 a.m. Of course I never get up that early myself. I’ve often thought it would be fun to water-bag Dean Schwer ing, though . . . for just no rea son at all . . . but I dont sup pose she’d think so much of the idea. Or ran you picture hizzoner, the chancellor, getting out pad dles at one of the state hoard meetings? Or a group of the faculty mill-racing Dean Earl for cutting-up at some faculty meeting? .fust picture that gentleman cutting-up . . . such as standing on his hands. * « * Or can you imagine some night, just as the house-mother is about to blink the lights, running up and throwing your arms about her, counting to ten real loud and then hanging one on her? No, your arms are around someone else about this time but what an idea! Maybe I’m crazy. Still it might stall the oid girl off a few minutes and different fellows could do the duties each night. More probably you would get a per sonal invitation from the Dean of Men to drop in and see that person some afternoon ... at your earliest convenience . . . which, of course, means come at once or else! What fun. Now, to be sure, I can’t do any of these things. In the first place I haven’t any empty beer bottles and can’t afford to buy any new ones to empty at pres ent. In the second place I can't afford to pay for a new type writer ribbon to say nothing of a department store window. In the third place, other people who feel the same way I do but never tell anybody would ship me off to Salem for observa lion. They’d have to or be ar oused of not being civilized and they’ve golla be considered civ ilized whether they are or not, hut that’s beside the point. So you see, fellow students, we've gotta slowly learn to re press ourselves and be civilized but sometimes . . . like when a friend borrows your one rain coat when you're not looking and it’s pouring down outside and you have an engagement some place in nothing flat . . . well, I sure feel like unrepress ing myself in a hurry and say ing . .. . but I’ve gotta quit swearing. It's not nice. Aw, what’s the use. For details of the chain-gang incident in front of the Side yesterday afternoon see story on page 1. For further details see the parties concerned. And after the USC game in Portland Gentry was reported making in eiuiries as to just what you could do in Portland if you wanted to stay out all night! Suggest a fifth of gin. * * * FOOLOSOPH I C A L TID BITS: the individual is the greatest person in the world to himself. Remember that when talking and working with oth ers. Just try to! Folks who talk all the time don’t usually have any time to think about what they’re say ing. And a flatterer usually has his own ends in mind. That's all. The Pigger’s guide, official student directory, goes on sale today but one fellow is not list ed correctly. Sig Ep’s Fred Konschot, girls, has a title. Can’t you just see the social chairman introducing the lad to a house mother at a desesrt-exchange . . . ANNOUNCING! (amid the rumble of drums) Baron Fred erick Otto Von Konschot! Would that get 'em? The girls, I mean. In the Mail All contributions are the expressions of the under signed and do not necessarily represent the opinions of The Emerald. Letters should not be over 400 words in length and must be signed by the writer. Names will be with held upon request. A JOKE? To the Editor: Perhaps I am writing this let ter in hopes of being satisfac torily assured that there is something more constructive accomplished at the University of Oregon alumni meetings than met the interested eye of at least one member. Monday. November the sev enth. was the first time that I had been present at such a gathering. I went under the impression that it was a privi lege to be one of the group and that I was to learn there, and t>e a part of a program in which the many hundreds of Oregon alumni should be inter ested. Mr. Bailey, the president, asked us to speak up and re lieve ourselves of any burdens that might be on our respective chests. Constructive criticism was invited and several people in the same spirit in which the invitation was made, arose and offered their ideas. There were very few present and it seemed a fine opportunity for concen trated action. I did wonder at. the scarcity of people because Eugene itself is rich in respon sible. intelligent graduates and former students of the Univer sity. Just about the time when it seemed evident there was to be some motion put into effect, a stream-lined freight car hit the meeting. It scattered the few attending alumni to very early lunches. In fact we were so hungry, supposedly, that we quickly voted for the officers and rushed madly for food. Now I have no objections to the new officers, and I had no particular weight on my chest to be disposed of until I had finally seen a complete meeting of the Oregon Alumni associa tion. A little dazed by it all, I thought perhaps the pills I had swallowed were not sufficient ly sugar-coated, thus account ing for the bad taste in my mouth. Later I asked several persons whom I had confidently expected to see at the meeting why they were not present. They only opened their eyes a little wider and asked, “Were you there this morning? I went once too.” Perhaps I'm taking the Alum ni association of the University of Oregon too seriously. If so, I'm perfectly willing to call the whole thing a joke. Sincerely, Coral Graham Kneeland. SWAMPS AND SWIMMING To the Editor: Congratulations to the Uni versity WPA crew on having thought up a new game. Evi dently tiring at last of digging up, laying, redigging, transport ing and relaying the campus lawns, they have devised a splendid new sport. No longer must the boys break their backs in humble toil. Due to the fore sight of some foreman, they may now lean on their shovels and be mentally exercised at trying to figure out the possi ble fate of the student who tries to cross the impassable swamp left by the removal of the walk back of Gerlinger. Now never it let it be said that the undersigned are kill joys. Far be it from us to ma liciously and wantonly spoil the sport of a fellow being. How ever, inasmuch as we are the guinea pigs in this game and inasmuch as many of us do not know how to swim and, inas much as those of us who can swim in water cannot swim in mud, therefore, we do here with humbly suggest, sincerely plead and urgently request that the walk be replaced at once. Yours ’till our request is granted. •*> H. C. F. C. A. enthusiasm ;i»> enthusiasm which is beneficial only if it has the support of sou ml and serious alumni. In the din of the past weekend it was exceedingly difficult to raise any serious question. I his showed ilsell in the lack of attendance at the alumni meeting, the growing inaccuracy of registration fig ures. which registered but 400 of the returning grads. Homecoming is in need of revamping. Wie geht’s BimiimiutMiiiimiiiiiiimniiimnimiiiiiimumiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiuiu By V. OATES Today, the aftermath of bal lot warfare, will give us that periodic information we already found out—that balancing the budget is something even a jug gler won’t try. i # * * A woman columnist says what a man can never under stand is that a woman’s intui tion is a seismograph. And we might add that her fruition is the earthquake. * * ® Jimmy Durante was award ed an honorary degree in New York the other day for his “outstanding” contribution to the screen and drama. Another example of a long shot winning by a nose. s a; « A headline tells us the “Pres ident to Talk on Wagner Act.” But it's a cinch Wagner won’t act on the President’s talk. * * * The Lewis-Green squabble re minds us of the political wag who would rather be right than president. The day following elections is one time everyone is glad to go on relief. From the radio ora tors. Courses Offered By Correspondence Aid Handicapped Correspondence study is adapt able to many people who are handicapped, reports Miss Mozelle Hair, head of the University cor respondence division. A girl of 20, who has been bed ridden several years, is taking cor respondence courses. She has tak en first term beginning French, intermediate algebra, college al gebra, and trigonometry. At pres ent she is studying second term French, analytical geometry, and constructive accounting. A young man who is in a tuber culosis hospital is taking his sec ond term of unified mathematics. Both are making straight A rec ords. Their mathematics papers are graded by persons on the cam pus, and both students plan to use their credits on college courses. Botany Department Has Fungi Display About twelve types of Oregon fungi have been put on display in the Condon museum recently by F. P. Sipe, head of the botany de partment. The display includes both edible and poisonous mush rooms and toadstools. Specimens will be changed as new varieties are brought in. Weather conditions are becom ing more favorable to the growth of these plants and the display will become increasingly interesting, according to Dr. Sipe. The CALLIOPE “Dissatisfaction of Youth in College” was Ihe topic of Pro fessor Casteel's group discus sion class at its weekly meet, ing yesterday afternoon in Friendly hall. General as this topic sounds, nevertheless some very poignant facts were brought out, offering the dis cussionists plenty of grounds for debate. Three causes of dissatisfac toin were stressed: Economic causes, social causes, and the inadequacy of the University's study curriculum. The latter was the most interesting part, as several suggestions which are worth consideration were made. The most far-reaching sug gestion concerned a reorganiza tion of the courses in the school of journalism, so that students planning to go into newspaper work would be given a four year general training instead of a hit-and-miss conglomeration of subjects, which they are apt to get under the present setup. A definite study program for each year would be laid out for the prospective journalist. The first year he would be given a fixed set of journalism subjects, covering in an elementary man ner the whole field of journal ism, and a fixed list of sub jects outside the school of jour nalism offering the necessary general training to fi thim for his profession. The second year, this general journalism program of, say, six or eight, term hours, would dig more deeply into each phase of newspaper work, and the last two years would increase spe cialization until at the time of graduation the journalism ma jor would have a well-balanced professional training tapered off with the fine points of edit ing, advertising, reporting, and newspaper management. When he stepped out into the newspa per world to look for a job, he would be freshly equipped for whatever might come along, having just finished his senior year of advanced study in each phase of newspaper work. Moreover, he would be backed up by a required non-journal^ ism course of study including well-picked courses in history, economics, and political science. These courses, like the ones in the school of journalism, would produce a tapered training from general first year subjects to highly advanced senior sub jects. 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