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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1912)
I 9 ‘ i ■ * * 1 S. H. FRIENDLY & CO. THE LEADING STORE 3be Sensation of tfye Clothing business is tfye nen? 5ull X>rcss Suit ir>e fyare just rcccircb It is a yiand Tailored garment made of Standard Full Dress Material, and of course is Silk Lined I We were able to secure only a]Limited Number of these Exceptional Values which are worth $40.00 We are going to sett these Suits for $25.00 Wing's Market THE HOME OF GOOD MEATS AND GROCERIES , ^RESI! CURED, COINED AND SMOK ER meats, SAUSAGES AND POULTRY Phone 38 487 Willamette Ul • ■ IICX Barber Shop SANITARY AND UP TO DATE Thirteenth and Patterson Streets McMorran & Washburne announce complete stocks of Society Brand and L System Blue and Black Evening Suits $20.00 to $35.00 Full Dress Suits are Accessories ♦ * * * * * * * * * ALUMNI NOTES ******* »irnw * * * * * John, “Jack,” Latourette, ’07, prac tices law in Portland. Miss Jennie Tilly, ’10, is teaching in Lebanon High School. Mrs. Kate Fullerton Graham, ‘09, is at home in Minneapolis, Minn. Ferd Neubauer, '10, is teaching mathematics in Oakland High School. Willie Williams, ’10, is with the General Electric Co., Schenectady, Pa. Eberle Kuykendall, ’08, graduates from Cooper Medical School this spring. Miss Frances Young, ’10, is taking post graduate work at Stanford Uni versity. Miss Cora Biggs Wold, ’05, teaches mathematics in Washington High School, Portland, Harry Yanswich, Law, ’06, repre sented Parkinson legally during the referendum case. Ward Ray, ’08, is taking post grad-; uate work in chemistry in'the Uni versity of Berlin. Reuben V. Steelquiest, ’09, a recent benedict, is a constructing engineer, residing in this city. Mozelle Hair, ’Q8, is secretary of the correspondence study department of the University of Oregon. Jessie H- Bond, ’09, is principal of the Gilliam County High School. Jesse is a recent benedict. He mar ried Elsie Davis, M8. Prof. Johnson reports thftjt .the' story of his vacation trip related in! the last issue of the BmeraW. is a; true account.—The ecUtbt thought he was publishing a good fake st to youy raoUjerT^^t^^tweethaart, will be a box of OTTO’S CANDIES. The only candy made in Eugene, and > better than any cand/'slipped* iif'tA ! Eugene. r • ,* GEARY RAPS PLEDGING OF RIGR SCHOOL BOYS Opens Question for Discussion and Hopes to See Frats Act Unit edly On It. To the Editor: When in Portland for the holidays I noticed fraternity men from the University of Oregon rushing young preparatory school students, who had not completed their second year of academic work. This emphasized a belief which I have held for a long time, namely that the fraternities should oppose unitedly the pledging of students before they actually enter the University. In order to open a question which has already been dis cussed, I respectfully submit the en suing communication: From the standpoints of the Uni versity, the incoming student, and the fraternities, a rule under which no ' freshman is asked to join a fraternity until the middle or the end of the opening week of college would be ad visable,—an elaborate system of rules such as the Pan Hellenic would not be : necessary. When certain high school students of the nobbier, “already made” var iety are adorned with pledge pins and are shown attention by college men, the other students in the high schools feel that they are being discriminated against. They are riot in a position to see life at Oregon as a whole, but have this one phase of it impressed ! upon them until they decide to seek I “far off fields,” go to schools where the fraternity system is not so pro nounced, or give up college alto gether. Then too, the very high school students, to whom so much attention has beeri shown, often are persuaded that they have pledged themselves to the wrong fraternity, or with the novelty of being shown atterition by Oregon students and of ehjoying the hospitalities of the Uni versity worn away, seek fresh fields of conquest and leave their hosts with depleted pocket books in a state of humiliation. It is obvious that the high school student that is pledged during his academic career, is not treated fairly as he is often rushed off his feet and joins a chapter that would not natur ally be his preference. Then, too, the men who pledged him and whom he likes, may have graduated by the time he enters college and he may find that the men he is associated with, are not congenial. Forgetting for a moment the other parties interested about a rule bar ring the pledging of high school students would be advantageous to the fraternities. They Would still have the' incentive to show prospec tive students attention, but would be saved from the humiliation of having their college and their fraternity turned down by men whom they have pledged. Such a rule Would dignify the fraternities and the University as well. The practice of not admitting fresh men to fraternities, ittaU, is in vogue in Wisconsin and tame other Universities. Under this system the freshmen are inspired with loyalty to their college first and to their fra ternity second. It is doubtful wheth er this is always the case under the present system. However, from the financial point of view and poSsibly from some others, the establishment of such a custom at the University of Oregon is impossible; but a step towards it in the doing away with the pledging of preparatory school students, viewed from all points of the compass, seems advisable. ^RTHUJt M. GEARY Cabinets to Meet. ' aN . > h,-. The Y. . and Y. W. cabinets will meet tonight (Wednesday! at the Chi Omega House for S social time, top ics of value and interest' to both cab inets will be discussed. —* A'— Jdiss Margaret Hankins will spend the ‘.week-end Vrith ’ Mis Marguerite Rankin. Miss Hazel Lawrence will visit her sister; M&bet, tbr a week or two, ar riving next Friday. Yoran’s Shoe Store The Store That Sells Gopd Shoes uni THE PLACE First Class Workmen. 565 Willamette Street. PIANOS FOR RENT 606 Willamette Street. Yerington PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST JOHNSTON’S CANDIES •U V,- 4. 40 East Ninth Street. Linn Drug Co. KODAKS KODAK SUPPLIES BUNTE’S CREAMS 530 Willamette Street. Civ 23illia$# pool SMITH £ McGORQIICK, Proprietors yfp wyuld appre^f yopr ao count. Merest paid on time Oe ■ * u« * «> ^ I; s posits and Savings Accounts. Corner Seventh and \VjRaraette THE CLUB BARBER SHOP t ........ ^. * ■*. .__ Student Trade Appreciated BERT VINCENT >, t. Proprietor T *v ‘V «••'»» , .,4„ Making Clothes is pur Specialty THE Haberdasher 50S WUlamitU St. U