Hello Hop Free
To All Webfoots
It’s absolutely free.
That's the big news about to
morrow night’s Hello Dance, slated
for 9 p.m. to midnight in McArthur
Court.
Freddie Yahn and his 13-piece
orchestra will be staging a return
engagement at the all-campus
dance, sponsored by the Student
Union to welcome new and return
ing Oregon students to the 1949-50
season on the Webfoot campus.
ORCHESTRA KNOWN
Yahn is remembered in Eugene
for his performance at last year’s
Hello Dance and his many engage
ments at Willamette Park.
“Short silks’’ is the word on
proper dress for the dance, fol
lowing the President’s Reception
in Gerlinger, 8 to 9:30 p.m.
CARTOONS PLANNED
Cartoons of Oregon ducks en
gaged in various campus activities
will line the walls of the Igloo, ac
cording to George Johnson, decora
tions chairman. In the center of
the floor, another duck will be
perched atop a 15-foot tower.
James D. Kline, assistant regis
trar, and Mrs. Kline will chaper
one the event. Bob Morton is sup
ervising lighting arrangements.
Our Own '5-Walter'
To Broadcast Soon
Dr. W. H. Ewing, head of the
radio division of the speech de
partment, assured the student
body Thursday that radio station
KUDK will go on the air this term
although no definite date has been
set.
Taking the place of Glenn Star
lin, who is on leave of absence
from the University, Ewing will
remain here for a year until re
turning to Ohio State University,
where he was program director for
station WOSU.
“Auditions and interviews for
participation in radio activities
will be held soon, and all students
are welcome to try out,” he said.
Inter-Racial Group
To Meet Thursday
The Inter-Racial Fellowship will
hold its first meeting of the fall
quarter next Thursday, Sept. 29,
at 4 p.m. Ben Lyon of Westminster
House said that further plans for
organization will be discussed and
a date will be set for the election
of permanent officers.
Developed from a series of for
ums held last spring, group discus
ses and aids racial relationships
on the Oregon campus. Advising
the group is Dr. Wesley G. NichSl
son of the Eugene Congregational
Church.
All students who attended the
forums and discussions last year
are urged to take part in the meet
ings, and new students who are
intei’ested are also invited. Re
freshments will served following
the meeting.
Campus Post Office
Approved for SU
Approval of a Student Union pos
tal station has been granted by
authorities in Washington, D. C.
The new unit will handle mail for
the campus and the surrounding
area.
The new station will be equipped
to handle all types of postal mat
ter, and will have its own carriers.
Distribution of University mail
now handled by school employees
will also be transferred.
First and second class matter
now being distributed by Univer
sity carriers will be handled
through the SU station, with third
class and other matter remaining
in the hands of University dis
tributors.
The Ernst Philosophy
Enthusiasm for Work
by Rodney Morrison
Dr. Ernst laughed. Dr. Ernst is
a man of boundless enthusiasm for
his work. He has been teaching
philosophy and English for 45
years, and he still laughs—often.
The laugh was part of his an
swer to a question first asked him
in 1925.
“If I were marooned on a desert
island—yes, I would still choose
Chaucer, the classics—and Dante,
I think,” he said. “No, none of this
modem stuff. Are there any really
great modern authors? I can’t
name any. There would be only
classics in my labrary. And a book
on boat-building, of course.”
A book on boat-building was
part of the original list. The inter
vening years have apparently at
tacked neither Dr. Ernst’s opinions
nor vitality. The grey sitting on
the tips of his curly hair obviously
feels silly, like guests who have
gotten the wrong address.
Dr. Ernst’s love of literature
fills the corners of his book-lined
office as completely as the smoke
from his ever-burning pipe. Why
is literature such a real thing to
him ?
“There is a great insight em
bodied in imaginative literature.
The lessons of the world are there,
in a romantic story. You share
those stories vicariously and from
them enjoy life's significant ex
periences.
“All the really great things are
frail, tenuous. All the great liter
ary artists knew that. But you’ve
got to take a heroic attitude of
life. All men are egotists—we can
save ourselves only by realizing
it. That’s the sort of thing you
find in Shakespeare, Chaucer.”
But how does a study of liter
ature fit into modern education
with its technical aspects ? Dr.
Ernst dismissed the paganism of
the question with a laugh.
“The aim of education should be
knowledge. The group should work
out an intellectual problem. The
instructor should ask a question—
if the class can’t answer it, why
then he may attempt to. Don’t you
think that would be real education
—training the student to think?
Drama Director Named
To 'Papa Is All' Lead
Mrs. Ottilie T. Seybolt, instruc
tor in speech and drama and a dir
ector of the school’s theatrical
productions, will play a lead in
“Papa Is All,” to be presented by
the Very Little Theater of Eu
gene, starting October 7.
Tru Voxberg, junior in music at
the University, will also take a
part in the play. Others in the cast
are Dwight Newman in the title
role, and Kermit Scott, both of
Eugene. George Herbert will direct
the Patterson Greene production.
What about today’s students?
Are they any different from those
who greeted the new English in
structor in 1923?
“Oh, yes. But that’s good. Yes
terday’s students were idealistic.
It was a kind of faith in ignorance.
It’s like—well, it’s like water ooz
ing out of a tap—a vapid, muddy,
viscous thing running all over the
place. I don’t like it. I like a firm,
hardboiled, realistic attitude.”
Yet, some things demand the
romantic viewpoint—things like
literature, a man’s home. Why had
Dr. Ernst left his hometown of
Watertown, Wisconsin, and come
to the West in 1912?
“It was a sentimental thing—the
pioneer spirit, I suppose. I had a
SU Board
Forms Soon
Members of the new Student
Union board will be chosen in
early October, Dick Williams, Stu
dent Union director, announced
Thursday.
The board was formed last
spring with the student publica
tions board, following the abolish
ment of the educational activities
board.
Williams and other University
officials will meet soon to choose
a tentative list of 14 members
which will be submitted to Univer
sity President Harry K. Newburn,
Represented on the board will
be a members from each of the
eight schools on the campus, three
members from the College of Lib
eral Alts, the student body presi
dent, and two faculty members.
Williams and Donald M. Du
Shane, director of student affairs,
will be non-voting members of the
board.
dream in the West. And I might
say that dream has come true.”
Dr. Ernst laughed again—pos
sibly at Ponce de Leon, who had
looked for the fountain of youth in
Florida.
Cancer kills more mothers of school age children than any other disease
• Once, not too long ago—Mom heard her
prayers at night, dressed her in the morning
and got her off to school. . . . But Mom went
away and didn’t come back.
No home is safe from cancer. Last year cancer
killed more mothers of growing families than
any other disease. Tragic—but even more tragic
is the fact that many of these deaths need never
have happened.
Many of the mothers who now die could be
cured—IF they learned to recognize cancer’s
symptoms and seek medical advice immediately
—IF sufficient money can be found for the
cancer research needed to discover the causes
of the disease, to perfect its treatment.
The American Cancer Society, through its pro
gram of public education and medical research,
is dedicated to the conquest of cancer. Will
you help?
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