OrewmDaHy ||EMERALD A Different Text This week a new Took, one of many, will go on shelves and into display cases of bookstores throughout the nation. How ever. this book 'will be of special interest to members of the University family, for it has been written bv our own Karl Pom eroy, professor of history. Most people, think of hooks by university professors, groan as thev think only of endless textbooks — some interesting, some dull. But this book is different. It’s a lively book, interesting and enjoy able to read, written i< r the layman. "In Seach of the Golden West" is it> title, and the book concerns tourists who have traveled west jusf/ to see the country and to have a good time. Pomeroy, who has taught at the Univer sity since 1949. has been on leave during the year on a Guggenheim fellowship do ing research on a book which will be com pleted next Vear on the history of the Pacific coast. He has previously had two books published. To a reader with only a sketchy his torical background, the book i> informative as well as entertaining. And we'll wager that even Pomeroy's colleagues in the history department will enjoy it. Briefly, the book tells how tourists have l>een important to the west, and how they have helped to mold and change it to fit their expectations and needs. Their reasons for traveling west haven’t always been as clearly defined as tho>e of the forty-niner, the trapper or the missionary, but they have been an important part uf the West. Few vacationers traveled west by stage coach, hut with the completion of the trans continental railroads, many tourists headed toward the Pacific. Pomeroy's hook covers this exodus from tlie first Pullman Palace cars during the livO’s through the present day when many areas geared exclusively to the tourist trade. The hook was prompted by Pomeroy interest in the touri-t angle of American historv, for he feels that the "reactions of tourists tell many things that are signif icant about America." Pictures of travelers during the late nintecnth and early twentieth centuries add a great deal to the book. 0 Pomerov says that he gathered the ma terial through class lectures and t<>uri't information. If the lively text of his book is indicative of his lectures. Pomeroy's classes next year should he filled. Fitting Climax Sunday's stirring Sousa encore hy the mammoth Philadelphia < irchestra was a fit ting climax to what we can gladly report was a successful season from the college side of the Kugene University and Civic Music Association. Eugene Ormandy’s entourage drew a large audience into McArthur Court. Al though mostly Eugene citizens, a goodly number of University students (with moth ers in tow) managed to attend. With the Continued appearance of such attractions as Mantovani. the DePaur Chorus and the Philadelphia Orchestra, we'll have further opportunities to get that "well-rounded" college education we've all heard so much about. + + + 2w C< aJJ ‘Pangloss Story’ Is Typical Picture Of Unfortunate Examination Situation A topic that receives a good deal of well-deserved negative comment, particularly as the end of the term approaches, is the subject of examin ations. The theory, practice and value of testing has become the enigma of the modern univer sity, the para dox of progres sive education, the Gordian knot of education departments. The unfortunate nature of most criticism is that it is aimed at the annoyance of having to do what little studying most students do, rather than ques tioning whether a system built around tests effective promotes education as it should. It would certainly be proper to ask whether any test can be devised that necessitates a thorough knowledge of a sub ject as well as provides an in centive to do more than is minimally required. But rather than delve into this field, which would require some rather per turbing assumptions about pro l'essors and students, I would like to dwell on a subject of more relevance on this campus. What are the unhealthy effects that an education system built around testing produces in study habits and attitudes? Tests have become a necessary evil amidst a jolly life of alcohol consumption and sexual drive satisfaction, both obscured faintly by a thin veil of crepe paper. Because of this, a mul titude of devices have been de vised to circumvent these un pleasant interruptions to an otherwise happy existence. Here is one field where ingenuity and incentive have proliferated. Happy is the Greek*organiza tion that is the proud possessor of an up-to-date test file. Given the proper conditions, a few minutes spent with this valuable tool insures at least a passing grade in any course. Passing is all the University requires, therefore it must be plenty good. The test file is most help ful in courses that require a deep understanding of the dis tinction between right and wrong—right and wrong gen erally being relative to the par ticular curriculum or instructor and not the real world. A test file is really a gold mine if the professor in ques tion has acquired tenure, a dis like for class preparation and the firm belief that all students are imbeciles anyway. I'm reminded of a storf about a certain professor in the psy chology department. The only notation on his card in the test file was the somewhat mys terious inscription, Eleanor R. It seems that this particular man, Pangloss T. (for trauma; Idego had a rather unusual attachment for a test monkey named, appropriately Eleanor R. (Pangloss was unusual in several other ways. For in stance, he had a very attractive, bushy tail. Some even were as bold to say that his middle initial stood for this luxuriant growth. It didn’t, except in the sense that he may have had a tail trauma.) Students discovered that by including a t;lo\\ ing: descript ti ■ ■ h ii/f7h j i h 'CES, ERVIN, WHY DIDN'T WETHi'iKTO DRIN6 A HAMMOCK.:'* Letters to the Editor Emerald Editor: I would like to protest the publication of any more film "reviews" similar to the one written by Mr J. Lengel of "For Whom the Bell Tolls ' (Friday. May 17). Mr. Lengel seems to think the film is anothei pleas ant” bit of trivia with an "agreeable plot.” a "suspense packed climax,” and sex. Now, "For Whom the Bell Tolls ' is far from a great film, but it does deal with a rather irnpor The ‘Old Hand* Looks ar Spring (Note: \s do most ev-Kfn eruld columnists, Scott Mc \rthur, sometime author of "Blue Monday" in 1955-56 his return's! briefly to the scene of earlier campus <-rimes. Struck by sprint; term, Junior Week and all that, ( .d::tini»t McArthur Mok Hot at in Inuiil and waxed philosophic. What happened follows.—Kd.) Oregon’s academic win el creaks closer to the end of :h<* 1956-57 school yea! At.d it at fateful day looms nearer, ire signs of approaching summer are at hand. (Jay young swains mote the scenes of their amorous opera tions from parked autos in the alley to parked autos by the rit er. The Pioneer Mother moss green face blanches . t the thought of the end-of-the-yc.ir onslaughts on her person and dignity. The beer companies call for extra drivers to transport in ti cased supplies of amber blew to hard-pressed merchants in the University neighborhood. Occasional non-appt eeiative neighbors grit their teeth as ancient and honored songs deal ing with Beer, Paddy Murphy and Hairy-Chested Men arc brought out of fraternal moth balls and yodeled once more down quiet, green-carpeted Wil lamette Valley. But, alas, also lurking behind (he Ivy-choked walls of the great buildings at the Seat of Learning are other men. Men with hooks, thick glasses, crafty smiles—men with blue hooks and tests prepared. So, as the time for tests looms ever closer, we chant the well known chorus of Springtime on the Campus: Let’s flick it in and go drink beer. tant even In world history in which many courageous Amer icans. such aa the hero, took I art The Spanish Civil War was not fought, ns Mi. I^engel mistakenly believe*, bei w<-.n the loyullata and the Kaput Ili ans These term* refer to one and the name group, those loyal to the Republican gavernrm t of Spain, who fought agarr-1 Franco1* fascists. Caty Coo;»t doe* not play a "soldier of for tune In the employ of lh<- Re public” but an American cohere instructor who volunteered to fight for Demur racy land v. s not paid for it) at a time w I. n anti-fascism waa not enmur age‘ rt attempt to raise the level of . i film reviews above that of the high school*. Michael Munlt Graduate in 1‘nlltical Science Emerald Editor: On behalf of Associated W m en .Students I would lik. to thank all the University women who contributed so generously towards the AWN l’enrv-a minule night. Over $18«r '* t" ■ ■inept during € xanmiatinn* and « ti ilr, liy the Student EublifatM-u 1^ el j( the I'mvei ity uf Oregon. I'-':i < < nml clan# matter at the pen! oifn * I l1' O tie, Oregon. Sulim npt inn rale- I, r ictiuu] year, pet term. Opinions expressed nn the rditen. . 1 ■ re tie those nf 'rhe Emerald and 11** 1 * ' i •'J end t'i represent the opinion oi the n the University. ( IIAKI.ES Ml I'CIIKEMOKI-.. I '■' OAKY CAN'S, Iltptine-s Manager JACK WILSON, Editorial I'me I AI.I.EN JOHNSON, Managinu 1 ' ' CI.KN CHAVES, Advertising M. - K,r COKM'.I.IA IOCI.K. WM. ( OOk, Associate Editors I'll 11. IIACKK, News Editor EDITORIAL. HOARD: „ < harles M itelicdniote, Ja. k \\ d •‘lien Johnson, Cornelia Engle, Willi.itd * I*1.i 1 Hager, ’I'orn Cliapitian, Jerry o', sev, Wayne Woodman.