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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1952)
Elephants on the Campus, Beanbags on the Cranium . . . The Old Days are Gone for Good Clone fire the days when balanc ing u beanbag upon the cranium wan part of the curriculum of high er education. Progress marches ever onward. ('own no longer pasture within a block of Johnson hall, and never again will elephants roam only a fe whundred feet from the heart of tile campus. University life In the old days has been described in a series of 1931 Kmerald articles written by Frederic Dunn, then professor of 1-atin. Urinate Village • - Eugene "My student memories,” wrote Prof. Dunn, "go back into the late UiKO's, when one could look out the North window of old Deady hull and .see only a wide expanse of meadow, hounded by a white hoard fence. Far down to the left were the straggling houses of a remote village, while the eastern limbo was limited by the Condon oaks, on the elge of a steep railroad cut, and by Chichester's huge barn, about] whore the University post office. Students' Boners Change^History As Tough Tests Take Their Toll “’In the Paleolithic period man '•hand the world with extinct ani mate," That's the answer a University student provided to a 1933 test question, and it's typical of the r.one-too-bi illlant replies recorded In a contemporary Emerald Asked to write about Edison, a student replied, "If Edison had lived in pre-historlc times he would have invented incandescent lights instead of electric lights because of the time he would not have had the tools necessary to make elec trtc lights." But the classic answers, remark able expositions of logic, explained the phrase, "Man Is an animal.” "Man is an animal is an expres uon used by the scientists to indi cate that man Is a living being. Al though he is living, he still is able, or rather has to die. He comes into being by the same method that the other animals do and dies in the same manner.” Another student wrote: "By the statement ‘man is an animal' we take into account the actions of man, his habits, 'noddy appearance and functions. It is cetlain that man is not a plant be cause he does not grow jnto ground: neither does he depend upon roots and branches for his livelihood; man is not a fish be cause the gills and fins are not present. He is not a bird because his wings are not noticeable and he does not fly under his own pow er since man does not follow other life in form and since he does re semble the animal line so closely, we may safely say that man is an animal." The "free univeslty" established in the United States sector of Ber lin as a counter-measure to the Russian dominated Institute in creased its student enrollment last year from 2,200 to 5,000. THE feflVWt DUTCH TREAT AS ADVERTISED in QUICK An easy on, easy off moccasin style! Supersoft leather... thick Cush-N-Crepe soles. “Dutch Treat” because they're built to pay their own way in extra long wear. YOUNG IDEAS IN MEN'S SHOES 8.95 A^bo-chle r4. 997 Willamette and depot and the extension divi sion building are now located.” The professor continued, "We j used to gather wild strawberries from among the ferns scattered over that vast stretch of pasture. Occasionally we would roost like < rows along that white fence or on the brink of the railroad cut, me morizing our Latin verbs or a bunch of geometry theorems.” "Old Deady hall” (how old can ' we get ? The present Deady is the same one that was "old Deady” in the 1880’s.) was noted for its third floor, which was "quite the place . . for Prof. Mary Spider's classes in elocution to practice ‘O ye hard hearts, ye cruel men of Rome,’ or Longfellow's ‘Excelsior’ in all the keys and tones known to man. Then, too, it afforded ample room for the squads of girls in 'calis thenics ,’ marching and retreating with white wands in their hands and bean bags on their heads." The elephants came later. Prof. Dunn wrote: "And I am not now speaking of prehistoric mastodons whose teeth are preserved in Dr. Condon's cab inet, but of pet pachyderms that mawed 1910 peanuts. |Ed. note: It is assumed that the professor did not spend the day counting pea r nuts. Therefore, "1910 peanuts” probably refers to time, not quan tity! and thereabouts, in S. A. E.'s backyard of now. “Even members of the Faculty are few who can remember the great field that was Web Kincaid's, all the way from Thirteenth Ave nue to the Odd Fellows’ cemetery, and eastward from Alder Street.” The professor told of pasturing his cow on the site of Westminster house, buying hay ’’that would now belong to Kappa Kappa Gamma,” ~w and catching grasshoppers where Phi Delta Theta now stands. 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