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No Swimming Sign Posted
>JT v; oi. ’t be long, with warm spring days just ahead, until
the University of Oregon student mind turns to thoughts of
swimming, and consequently to the millrace. Those students
who ar? not helped into the race by obliging friends and
Orator nt • y brothers probably will don suit and head for the
ischoo' 'a ‘Tittle creek” for a swim.
Before they do it might be well to point out a few facts
concerning swimming in the millrace. (1) The race has been
condemned for swimming by both infirmary doctors and by
Eugene health authorities. (2) livery year the infirmary has a
«umber of eases of sore throat, or other afflictions, directly
trace 'bT to the millrace. (3) The race is a part of the "\\ illarn
ette river which has been a serious problem in stream pollution
for m my years.
A.appealing as the millrace may seem on warm spring days
it should be remembered that the water is polluted with
all kinds of germs which have been put into the Willamette
j'ivar through city sewages. Until some solution to the problem
of stream pollution is worked out the millrace will be unfit for
.fiwinimitig.
The University tank may not seem as attractive as the mill
.rao«-, bo * it’s a great deal safer.
Go Look at Spring
you want to see what spring looks like, go down to the
back ,4eps of Villard and stand under the lilac bush that is
begun i ig to bloom there now.
Look out across the old part of the campus and watch the
mm li t'r through the tall trees and strike the grass. Open your
eyes v id \ and then breathe deeply. If you pick the right day,
especially one of the brighter mornings, you will be sure you
tiave located the exact spot where spring lives. Thursday morn
ing v, a - rather nice. Spring came out for a while.
* *
jJF you kail heard the Old Testament verse before, you would
stand there and think “What have I to do any more with
♦idols? I have heard him and observed him: I am like the green
♦fir tree . . ..”
Ido’s dictate the winter. Spring is an elusive, pulsing thing.
•The idols of winter are mechanical: strict schedules, dark
classrooms sickness of hate and war. Spring is puckish. It
defies tiro winter idols, then runs away.
Out by Villard it’s easy to believe that God's in his green
mor.'.i on i all's right with our world—for a moment at least.
Go look at spring taunting the winter idols.—P.E.
In Years to Come
.THE interclass rivalry that typified the college life of the
h voes of the stories we so avidly read as high school
dreamers is overshadowed at the "University of Oregon by the
♦intense "cliques” created by living groups. It is the pep and
♦interest incited by closely knit Greeks, dorms, and co-ops that
..make up Oregon’s school spirit . . . and such an arrangement
rJias it.' faults. Snobbishness is a possible result.
jGn-' night’s junior class party was a step in a new direction
, . . it was an attempt toward creating a bond of friendship and
.unity in one undergraduate class, toward building a fighting
ti.pirit : . the third-year students that will help toward a bigger
Junio:: Weekend.
* # #
rjpm: Junior Weekend directorate, which arranged the affair,
tl ought of it principally as a way of letting all the juniors
fin on. weekend plans, as an attempt to make each member of the
cla*. of '42 think “This is my class and my weekend. 1 want
•if to be big!”
Hut the idea has many more possibilities than that, for al
though there were many juniors who didn’t come up to Ger
linger last night, those who came probably gained a little more
realization of just what the “Class of ’42” really is. For the
first time since they heard Dr. Erb deliver the welcoming
address back in September, 1938, these proud holders of new
“Junior Certificates” found out they had something in
common.
A faculty member was as excited as Gene .Brown himself
over the party yesterday. She declared she had been praying
for something to bring class spirit back to its own ever since
she came to Oregon.. She had a faraway look in her eyes as
slip reminisced that “democratic get-togethers like this one
are what old grads remember longest.’’—II.A.
From All Sides
Exchange by Mildred Wilson
No longer can any son of Eli
or Nassau deny that Harvard
men are the ultimate connois
seurs of what’s what in feminine
pulchritude. The “savoir faire" of
the sons of Harvard was official
ly recognized recently when nine
men were asked by the American
Society of Beauty Culturists to
cast their unbiased glances over
numerous contributions to what
makes a strong man meek—sub
mitted by Wilfred Academy for
girls.
—The Harvard Crimson.
* * *
Pi Tau Phi, honorary at the
University of Pittsburgh, believes
in simplifying things.
Seems as though payment of
the Pi Tau Phi award to the out
standing senior in college has to
be authorized by the Pi Tau Phi
treasurer. When the award was
announced at a Scholars’ day as
sembly recently it turned out
that Sally Jane Thigpen, treas
urer of Pi Tau Phi, had won it.
Thus, Sally Jane Thigpen must
transfer $10 from the Pi Tau Phi
treasury to the personal account
of Sally Jane Thigpen.
Pi Tau Phi believes in simpli
fying things.
—The Pitt News.
* * *
“Little grains of powder,
Little drops of paint,
Makes a girl’s complexion
Look like what it ain’t.”
—Ka Leo O—Hawaii.
* * *
After telling his sociology
class that human group behavior
was fairly predictable, Frank
Sweetser of the Department of
Sociology at the University of
Indiana, said, “I’ll predict that
no matter how warm the weather
gets, no one will come to class
in a bathing suit. I’ll even pre
dict that no one wrill come to class
barefooted.”
That was on a Friday.
“By golly!” Mr. Sweetser ex
claimed, when Rodney Anderson
walked into class Monday, minus
socks and shoes, “Someone did
it."
—Indianapolis Daily Student.
International Side Show
By RIDGELY CUMMINGS
Ezra Pound is a poet from Ida
ho who prefers to live in Europe.
He is an admirer of Musso the
Deuce-o and considers Italy the
_ cultural center of
the world.
Yesterday Ezra
came to Rome
from the little
Italian town of
Rapallo where he
has been crystal
gazing in an ivory
tower and ex
pounded on the
Cummings . , ,. , .,
° international sit
uation. He advocated a confer
ence between Roosevelt and Mat
suoka to “keep both Japan and
the United States out of war.”
Pound’s Dream
Pound solemnly told foreign
correspondents that the basis for
Japanese-American understand
ing should be a deal in which the
U.S. would trade the island of
Guam, strategic air base in the
Pacific, for two of Japan’s best
known “Noh" dramas.
The U.S. needs the Noh dramas,
particularly the “Awoi Noh,” and
Japan needs Guam, Pound as
serted; hence everybody would
be happy. In addition the poet
would have Japan pledge the U.S.
free access to China's tungsten
supplies.
Now of course the suggestion
is a trifle far-fetched, but I men
tion it because it ties in with an
editorial reprinted in the Emer
ald yesterday from the Cornell
Alumni News.
The Word Is “Must”
The editorial, written by one
Romeyn Berry, told how the
word “must” has been restored
to the vocabulary of youth and
how youth is accepting the idea
of compulsion but “prefers not
to talk about it or have it talked
about.”
The truth of that statement is
debatable, but the paragraph that
Ezra Pound's acrobatics remind
ed me of has to do with academic
freedom. It mentioned the college
professors who during the last
wrar suffered because they aired
their convictions, and then went
on:
“They weren’t guilty of what
they’d been persecuted for, of
course, but they'd indulged in
loose talk at the wrong time,
which is bad manners. It was
the verdict of society that
while the incidents had been un
fortunate and discreditable to
the administrations of the col
leges involved, the victims got
just about wliat they asked for
and had it coming to them.”
Academic Freedom
To me, the above paragraph
reads like an insidious attack on
academic freedom on the grounds
of etiquette.
Since when has Emily Post
been the arbiter of philosophers ?
Galileo was guilty of bad man
ners, and Giordano Bruno, and
Tom Paine and Thomas Jeffer
son and Abraham Lincoln and
many another great man had the
courage to voice unpopular opin
ions.
How' are we ever going to ban
ish war from the world if it be
comes “bad manners” for the in
tellectual leaders of the nation to
say with conviction that war is
stupid insanity?
There seems to be a contradic
tion in saying that it wras “dis
creditable to the administrations
of the colleges involved” to fire
their outspoken professors and
at the same time say the profes
sors had it “coming to them.”
It was probably nonsense that
Ezra Pound talked in Rome yes
terday—certainly it is unpopular
that an American suggest his
country give up a strategic is
land to an economic rival—but it
is heartening nonsense to hear of
a man who still thinks that a
The
Passing
Parade
By HUMBERT SEESALL, JR.
To Doc Henry’s plea that there
be no confusion of his tri-week
ly effort with Humbert Jr.’s col
umn, Humbert Jr. appends a
hearty AMEN. Not that Humbert
Jr. ever expects to be accused
to his face of something for
which he is not responsible—
since he writes under an as
sumed (really, it is!) name—
just that he has to look in the
mirror while shaving and can’t
afford a trip to the barber every
day. Even a columnist is sensi
tive to public opinion.
National Defense Notes: Kap
paz are devoting their front
porch to nightly “blackout” drill
for the balance of the term. The
last few were called on account
of rain—at least the light didn’t
seem to be burned out those
times.
Taking the spring happenings
in their logical order of impor
tance, it seems that:
third finger, left hand—a
chunk of gold-mounted ice from
Sigma Chi’s Harry Williams to
Pat Holder, four-star boarder at
the D Gee mansion. Don’t know
who deserves the congrats the
most, Harry or Pat. Anyway, this
calls for cigars.
but not far behind in the race
comes Jim “Blackout” Houck,
Theta Chi threat, who finally un
loads his brass onto Nancy Dut
ton, Kappa. Long memoried
readers will recall that this was
one of the predictions made by
Poppa Humbert last term.
Humbert Jr. feels called on to
predict, too. Watch Carolyn “Hol
lywood” Chapman. Baxter Pond
has a good reason to hold off
now, but it isn’t going to last
very much longer. What will this
boost the Sigma Chi total of
planted crosses to?
There sems to be no intra
Theta dissension over Tom Star
buck, the Chi Psi merman. They
all seem to respect Betty Stock
well’s claim.
While the cat’s away, the mouse
will play—Seen at the Forest
er’s—Carol Nelson and John
Dick.
According to Nels Hodges, DU,
steady life is really tops.—With
Kappa Virginia James—we can
see why! . . . and Wednesday
night found Paul Gilbert pulling
the “out of gas” line on Piphi
Mary Lois Dana.
Lou Torgeson replanted his pin
on “Bangs” Dube during spring
vacation. They think maybe it’ll
work now with Phyl in Portland,
and Lou in Eugene. . . . Also dur
ing vacation. Bob Whiteley got
his ATO sweetheart pin back
from “Grandma” Ritter in Port
land.
Seen in a yellow car: Fiji’s Al
lan “Fast Fade” Foster with
Jeanette “Yellow Car” Harbert.
Seen walking around: Foster and
Harbert. Draw your own conclu
sions.
Spring has cum and Humbert
Jr. has fallen in love, too . . .
She’s only a bootlegger’s daugh
ter, but I love her still.
“Noh drama,” whatever that may
be, is as valuable as an air base.
The writer for the Cornell Al
umni News would probably want
to fire out of hand anybody who
talked like Ezra. I’m glad the
editor of the Emerald still agrees
with the dictum of Voltaire, who
said something like: ‘‘I disagree
with what you say, but by golly
I’ll sure back up you’re light to
say it."