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Register-Guard editorial calls for new UO leadership, decries over-emphasis on athletics

“The problem now is to obtain far-sighted leadership. … Oregon needs a man (sic) who can visualize and vitalize the great functions of scholarship and research. … The “over-emphasis” on athletics is intensified mainly by the neglect of other needs.”

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April 17, 1934. Alton F. Baker, Editor & Publisher, Eugene Register-Guard

9 Comments

  1. Fishwrapper 01/28/2014

    Old news, pal.

  2. Bored 01/28/2014

    Yeah, looks like UOM has run out of gas.

  3. uomatters Post author | 01/28/2014

    You guys are a tough crowd. The editorial even runs right under the logo of Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration, Alton Baker’s politics must have been pretty interesting. Check out the wiki article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recovery_Administration

    Apparently the Philadelphia Eagles are named after the blue NRA eagle.

  4. Fishwrapper 01/28/2014

    Just busting your chops. The historical context provides hysterical meaning, etc. The wry dry of my retort faded when I hit the “enter” key. But, then, you knew that.

  5. uomatters Post author | 01/29/2014

    My delicate feelings are hurt. I will not post about athletics again until someone can find a pre-1934 newspaper story about UO athletic excesses.

  6. Fishwrapper 05/27/2014

    I’d forgotten this gem. And your “delicate feelings” as well…

  7. ényo 05/27/2014

    The 1934 R-G editorial provided a historical context more phallical than hysterical…plus ça change plus c’est la même chose…

  8. anonymous 05/28/2014

    Hysterical! I mean Historical! Some things never change.

  9. ényo 05/28/2014

    Parapraxis is an interesting phenomenon.

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