T he CHEMAWA AMERICAN
NEWS NOTES
The choir is practicing nightly on the Christinas
pageant. The parts of the three kings will be carried
this year by Louis Orr, Janies Dupuis and Dan Mo-
tanic. The other principals haven’t yet been definit-
ly selected.
The old wooden tower which formerly stood south
of Cramton hall, known of late years as the “pump
house,” has been razed and is now no more. As soon
as the old plumber shop has been evacuated it will
share a like fate.
Mr. Hall, instructor in barbering, is now living on
the campus. He and Mrs. Hall live in the cot
tage formerly occupied by the Shawvers—who have
moved to the house vacated by Mr. D. S. Turner and
family—who have retired.
The painters and carpenters have completed their
work on Mrs. Melovidoff's laboratory in Hawley hall*
Her classes find it very convenient now that ample
pantry, storage and linen closet space has been pro
vided. Mrs. Melovidoff feels grateful to all who have
had a share in making her place of work so complete.
An item from the D. S. : Miss Newell is teaching
related work to the girls during this quarter. Their
study includes child care and the building up of a
successful personality. We hope that the girls may
through this course come to understand something
of the situation they will meet when they go out to
hold positions and have a better foundation for meet
ing those situations and problems as they arise. The
girls are doing splendidly and seem much interested.
All advance notices concerning the appearance of
turkey at Cramton hall for the students’ Thanksgiving
dinner were fulfilled on that great day.
The fixin’s
were also all present and the students enjoyed the
bountiful repast to the full. The employees also en
joyed turkey and everything that goes with it at their
dinner. At various private homes about the campus
employees and their friends also observed the Thanks
giving noon hour in the time-honored manner. Most
of the news notes to reach this office from the students
expressed their thankfulness for their fine dinner and
the music of Mr. Turney and the orchestra.
In chapel Sunday December 3, Mr. Fred Rickard,
assistant boys advisor, addressed the student body
briefly regarding the organization and functions of the
advisory council. The council is a very important
part of our life at Chemawa and it is hoped that the
good attention given to Mr. Rickard is indicative of a
real and sincere desire on the part of all the students
to make the council a worthy unit in the administra
tion of the school. By popular request the choir and
the orchestra repeated the Thanksgiving anthem of the
P age 3
Sunday before, the orchestra played “Devotion” by
Mackie-Beyer and the program closed with everyone
singing “Dear Old Oregon.”
The McNary hall serenaders, sponsored by Mrs.
Mabel Cornick, house mother at McNary, sang at sev
eral of the employees houses on Thanksgiving eve. The
music was well received in every case, in fact at one
house the boys were treated to some very delicious cake.
Two former fair co-eds of Nebraska university now
residents of Chemawa, loyaly backed their team to the
extent of wagering on the outcome of the Nebraska-
O. S. C. game. As luck would have it the Oregon
boys bogged down in the Nebraska gumbo and the
Cornhuskers won an unexpected but decisive victory.
By the terms of the wager the losers of the bet, Messrs.
Larnard and Rickard, had to pay for their loyal but
misguided confidence in the Staters by rising at the
employees’ club last Friday and crooning the Nebraska
song. Ye reporter considers it very inconsiderate of
Oregon State to so cruelly betray the trust placed in
them by these two faithful adherents.
Opportunity
here is a gray-bearded maxim, honored on
account of its venerable age, which runs
thus: “Opportunity knocks once at each
man’s door.” John J. Ingalls once went a-son-
neting around this proverb, and some say he
wrote the finest sonnet ever written by an
American. I am inclined to think this is so;
and if it is, it proves for us that truth is one
thing and poetry another.
The actual fact is that in this day Opportun-
itv not only knocks at your door, but is play
ing an anvil chorus on every man’s door, and
lavs for the owner around the corner with a
club. The world is in sore need of men who
can do things. Indeed, cases can be easily re
called by every one where opportunity actually
smashed in the door and collared her candidate
and dragged him forth to success. These cases
are exceptional; usually you have to meet Op
portunity half-way. But the only way you can
get away from Opportunity is to lie down and
die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men,
nor dead ones who flatter themselves that they
are alive.
T
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