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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1909)
OREGON EMERALD Pubished Wednesday and Saturday dur ing the college year by students of the UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Application made for second class mail rates. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year.$1.00 Single copy.$ .05 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF W. C. NICHOLAS .’10 ASSISTANT EDITORS Ralph Moores .T2 Fay Clark . T2 C. W. Robison .’ll Calvin Sweek .’ll Dean Collins .TO MANAGER FRITZ DEAN .’ll ASSISTANT MANAGER C. A. OSTERHOLM.T2 Wednesday December 15, 1909. Student Body Dances. The students of the University have at present no informal social functions. The class dances which constituted the sum total of college affairs are still for mal. notwithstanding the movement on foot to make them less so. Unless there are some dances during the year at which the students may get together and enjoy themselves on equal terms, there is bound to be a tendency toward the formation of social castes and cliques. That such a condition would be highly undesirable is evident, and it is for the prevention of such a tendency that the executive committee of the associated students has outlined a plan whereby a number of informal student body dances will be held during the remainder of the year in the new gymnasium. It is to be hoped that this plan will be carried out. Student society seems to be dull this year because of the ces sation of roller skating among other things. Students coming here from (other colleges complain that the Uni versity does not have nearly so many colege functions as other schools. Again the dances held in the gymnasium would do away witli the after dance suppers down town which are generally admitted to be one of the besetting sins of Var ' sity society, and against which stu dent and faculty sentiment has so far been powerless. And finally more than all they would provide what is so badly needed at the University—college func tions were there would lie no social dis tinctions. Hold German Christmas The Christmas entertainment of the German Club was held at the Dormitory last night, the program being prepared and carried out in true German spirit. A Christmas tree was laden with gifts, each accompanied by an appropriate German verse composed by the giver. The presents were distributed by num bers, each person coming forward when their number was called and reading the verse upon the package before they received their gift from the hands of Dr. Koehler, who acted the part of St. Nicholas. One of the prettiest features of the program, was a German dance by a number of the young women of the Club, who had been drilled under the direction of Dr. Stewart. After the close of the program refreshments were served and an impromptu dance occu pied the remainder of the evening. The Dormitory Club will give an informal dance in their reception room Friday night. They expect to follow it with several enjoyable evenings during the coming holidays. A. S. Trow, ’09, has returned to Eu gene and is visiting at the Tawah Club. RECLAIM LAND ALONG i COLUMBIA BY DIKES At the Engineering Club last Satur day evening. Geo. Poysky, president of the club, gave a lecture on the reclama tion of water covered lands, lie first took up the dike system of Holland, explaining in detail how it worked. Proceeding to the United States he told how five million acres of land was re claimed at the Mississippi river delta, and one million in the Sacramento val ley. According to Mr. Poysky several thou sand acres along the Columbia River have already been reclaimed by dikes and levies, and propositions are on foot to reclaim many more. The method of proceedure is to build dikes to the head and foot of an island, and pump out the waiter between. These dikes are usually built by dipper dredges. Dr. Leonard presented another of his scries of lectures on mathematical puz zles. He first took up the problem of how much a man loses who takes a counterfeit bill in exchange for mer chandise. Next he presented a solution of the old problem of how old is Ann. He found that according to one word ing of the problem she is 16 years old; according to another she will be born in 44 years. Several other problems of like nature were presented. The next lecture of this series will be given in the near future. MONTHLY OUT TODAY —HAS GOOD ARTICLES The December number of the Oregon Monthly, which comes out today, con tains a pleasing variety of reading mat ter. The high standard set in the first issue is maintained with new features to interest its readers. From now on the Monthly will be di vided into two main divisions: stories and scientific articles. Aside from these, this issue contains a number of ex cellent short poems by various contrib utors. Also a cartoon on the result of the O. A. C.-Oregon football game, by Luckey, ’12. The most interesting articles are as follows: LITERARY DEPARTMENT Shorty—A Story-Paul Correll A Vacation-Isolenc Shaver “And the Call Came Not"_ -Frances Luckey I he "Rooter" Song-Dean Collins The County Fair-Blanche Hughes Healthy Bread-Alfred Powers 1 he Country Postolfice_Donna Todd An Unfortunate Promise__Donna Todd ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Selling the "Calumet"-C. L. Marshall I he Bungalow-Ferdinand Struck Peculiar Inventions_E. A. Marshall llte U. S. Life-Saving lug "Sno homish" -Clarence Walls Railroad Construction._N. R. Charman Alumnus Has Grouch Some time ago the Emerald received a communication from \V. L. Whittle sey, who after graduating served for a time on the Oregon Faculty. We were then and still are at a loss to under stand his motives in thus knocking things m general in and about his Alma Mater and we are publishing the fol lowing letter in the hope that the rest of the students may be able to ascertain the motives of one whose actions we can only explain upon the hypothesis that he is a large sized grouch. " l o the Editor of the Oregon Em erald : Sir: Apropos of the recent 20-6 j game, has the I’uiversity of Oregon football team ever before lost during two successive years to a college of our own class: lias it occurred to any j of the present student body to resent ; this? It's all very well to lose grace-) fully but why abdicate?” W. L. Will 1TLESEY DUNN’S BAKERY Bread, Pies, Cakes and Confectionery, also Ice Cream and Fruits. 4 E. 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