The Oregon weekly., April 13, 1903, Image 2

H IY A I J I s
the public in oratorical contests, in­
crease the reluctance of judges to
Published each Monday during the col­ serve and will sooner or later result
in the disintegration of the league.
lege year by the students of the
When, .however, the executive
UNIVERSITY OK OREGON
committee of the association have
Fancy Goods and Notions
Entered at Eugene poetoffice as seconi felt called upon to hold a post-mor­
tem examination and see if those
class matter.
disconnected members which some
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a
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call the “ Homeless Nation'' could
One year, by mail,
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be identified as the “Scattered Na­
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One year, by carrier,
T O L M I E & T R A V E R S u c R c e - s F s o r a r s n k t o a n d S o n
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Single copy, •
few comments on the case.
Advertising rates made known on ap­
It may be remarked first of all
plication to Business Manager, 1*. O. Box
that McMinnville College is to be
(), Eugene, (Iregon.
pitied for her misfortune and com­
A study of students’ needs, and this, coupled with our
STAFF
mended for the stand the faculty
long experience, makes 11s the place sought by all who
EDITOR IN CHIEF
take in the case. It is evident that
want the best there is in the book, stationery and
JAS. II. GILBERT,
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photographic line.
A SSIST A N T S
than anyone else to give Smith his
VERNON W. TOMLINSON,
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RALPH BACON,
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tors are no less firm in their attitude
EARL ABBETT,
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toe Calling Cards with copper plate $1.50
ROSA DODGE,
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of their own representative than
llt ’S IS K S S M ANAGER
HOLT STOCKTON, -
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were against the crime
ASSISTANT
ol the doughty Minchin. It is to
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>e regretted that the college must
suffer the penalty of exclusion to
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1903
expiate the wrong for which the
institution is in no wise responsible,
’erhaps the only effective way to
OUR OWN POSITION
mnisli the wrong of a representa-
The University of Oregon lias al ive is through the association to
ways l>een backward about partici which he belongs. All Israel was
pating in any Ixiotless after-discus made to suffer because a single
sions of oratorical contests and reck greedy member coveted a Babylon­
onings ol judges. Though it was ish garment and a wedge of gold
known the day alter the contest and tucked them out of sight in his
that the McMinnville orator had tent. McMinnville seems willing
Ixrrrowed quite freely from Wince’s to undergo the hardship if thereby
“ Scattered Nation," we are not like the enormity of the crime may be
some in our readiness to boast of made plainer.
making the discovery and preferring
1 hese frequent exposures of se­
the charge of plagiarism. The in­ cret theft should serve to empha­
stitution is to be complimented lor size the worth of independent
its hesitation in such matters so thinking and the danger, to say
long as it remains in the league. nothing of the downright iniquity,
< hie ol the chief excuses for the ex­ of borrowing whole paragraphs from
istence ol the inter-collegiate asso­ another and attempting to palm
ciation is to “ increase the fellowship them off fof one’s own. The thou­
among »be higher institutions of sands, Ixffore whom the winnin:
learning I the state.” These after- oration comes, taken together con­
controvefsies, these charges and stitute a universal special sense.
counter-charges, these accusations, Someone is sure to be familiar with
1 )EPA RTMENTS AT EU G EN E
and arraignments, these trials and the production thus mutilated by
biati School. Colleges of Literature, Science and the Arts;
attempted convictions, started by the removal of a few choice extracts
some mortified contestant, are not here and there. He readily recog­ Surveying and Engineering; School of Mines and Mining; School of
over fruitful of kindly affection, nizes the peculiar flavor and detects Music; University Academies.
'fhe colleges must learn that they the theft. True there is little
must cooperate in order to compete new in thought; but there is plenty
p .n .ito rx to Medicine and Dentistry; for Teachers, and
and that the more harmonious their of room for originality in method of
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I',lu ,l”d Journalism; Especially numerous and advanced
cooperation the more beneficial their treatment, rhetorical statement, Graduate Courses.
competition. The decision of the illustration and application. Like
judges has never lieen authoritatively Lord Bacon the orator may "light
changed and we believe that on the his torch at every man’s candle"
Ad IMMENSE CONSIDERATION IN PU R C H ASIN G
whole less-positive harm would re- ' but should I k - extremely reluctant
''tilt it any startling discoveries’* 1 to carry off another
man
taper
were kept from the papers and the and call it his own.
public. A flagrant error might a s !
Locomotive Smith will make a
well lay hidden from mortal ken
unless its exposure teach some re-' satisfactory coach. The students when you vvaidthun'1 get,1Ug the goods y °u order, and getting them
medial lesson and in some way “ re- are to I k - congratulated on their suc­
place the wrong by something near- i cess in securing a player of experi­ ern man himself.' * ‘
is ;ls much a creature of evolution as mod-
ence,
a
coach
of
undoubted
ability
er right.” These constantly re­
curring charges ol plagiarism and of and a man universally liked. If
e n re n l w f
1 ' K l>le*i«e<l t o s h o w o u r l i n e n
the
expectations
of
the
football
men
irresponsible markings of judges
“’lly realized next seaso!!
tend only to undermine the faith oi the fault will not be with the coach. V ) .
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