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.
When the circus came to towrt, it
"easily spread itself over three
blocks, and the clowns and hippo
potami disported” from the grave
yard to 13th Ave.
Musk oxen are equipped admri
ably for polar life. They have an
outer coat of long, coarse dark
brown to black hair and a warm
undercoating of wool that is shed
every spring.
1
Duncan Hines recommends it ... .
and so do we.
We invite yon and Mom to come in and enjoy delicious
Swedish and American food—and lots of it—in a quiet,
candle-light atmosphere. It's an evening Mom will re
member.
Smorgasbord
on Kincaid just off 13th
30 steps from the campus
Everyday 5 to 9 p.m.
This Sunday 1 to 8 p.m.
For reservations phone 5-7332
I
FOR THE MOTHER IN YOUR LIFE
YOU WANT A SPECIAL GIFT
Besides being a pretty and loveable mother, is she an efficient, busy house
wife? Your mother is like that? Then she'll thank you every time she uses
one of the sturdy, practical gifts we have at JOHN WARREN HARD
WARE.
For those balmv summer evenings ahead, we have barbeque sets, cutlery,
lazy suzans. casserole dishes—all designed to help her put on those wonder
ful back-vard meals.
Or is your mother the outdoor type? Golf or tennis with Dad . . . and with
you? JOHN WARREN HARDWARE has a complete stock of quality golf
and tennis equipment.
For All Sports Needs
Stop at
THE JOHN WARREN HARDWARE
771 Willamette
5-3353