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VOL. XIII. EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22. 1912. No. 57 SUMMER GHATAUQUA SESSION ARRANGED BK OREGON FACULTY EXCELLENT LABORATORY AND LECTURE COURSES WILL BE GIVEN DORMITORIES TO GRANT REDUCED RATES Railroads May Cut Fares to Eugene— Big Attendance Expected by Teachers. The Summer School catalogues are out and contain a complete descrip tion of the aims, purposes and fea tures of the School. Also, an account is given of the work offered and of the various instructors who are to take charge of the different depart ments. The purpose of the summer session is expressed as being “to ex tend to those who are otherwise en gaged during the school year the ad vantages which the University offers for instruction, together with the aid afforded by the library, laboratories, and other facilities of study connect ed with the University.” Besides this special courses are of fered for teachers and for students desiring to do research work in any department. Some of the special fea tures are a Department of Physical Education under Dr. Stuart, a De partment of Music under G. C. Bueh rer of Stanford, and a course of lec tures on the Study of Nature in Town and Country Schools, by Pro fessor Grant Smith, of Chicago. Dr. A. A. Berle will give a course on the Intensive Education of Children in the Home, and Dr. Rebec will present a course of lectures on “Aesthetics. Living Rates Will Be Cheap. The main dormitories of the Uni versity are to be kept open all sum mer, and rooms will be rented to wo men at the low price of fifty cents a week. Board will be furnished to both men and women at $3.00 a week. The management requests that appli cations for rooms be made as soon as possible. Apportunities will also be given for outdoor living, if so desired. Tents may be placed on the lawn of the Women’s Dormitory, and floored tents will be provided for families, who wish them. Reduced rates to Eugene will be in use during the en tire session, for those intending to take up Summer School work. Musical Entertainments Planned. Each day an assembly will be held at 7:30 A. M., at which a short ad dress will be delivered and a few mu sical numbers given. The period from 11 A. M. to 12 M. will be used for lectures on interesting subjects. Ef forts will be made to bring to Eugene during the sessions some of the pop ular lecturers of the country. Mu sical features of various kinds will be provided by the Music Department for evenings and week-ends. It is planned to make the Summer School an ideal Chautauqua Assembly. Brief morning evercises and lectures, lectures at 11 o’clock by distinguished educators and speakers, concerts and platform lectures will prevent there being any dearth of entertainment and instruction. In a lecture on Ibsen at the Uni versity of Minnesota, Dr. Otto Heller of the University of Washington gave the worship of women as the chief, if not the only contribution America has made to the higher culture of the age. LAUREANS FIGURE ON PREP DEBATING CUP ! - The Laureans will hold their reg ular meeting Saturday, May 25, with a | lively program outlined. At this meeting the question of buy ing a cup for the Oregon High School Debating League will be discussed and decided upon. It is possible that the cup will be purchased by the Laur ean and the Eutaxian Societies to gether. The effect of woman suffrage on the State of Oregon will be discussed by David Pickett and Fred Hardesty, and Bert Lombard will endeavor to fore cast the limit of direct legislation in Oregon if forty initiative measures will be up for consideration at the next election. Whether or not Ore gon needs a lieutenant governor will be the subject that Norman Aschcraft will have an opportunity to discuss. William Cass will endeavor to ex plain the value of studying the works of several of the world’s greatest poets. ONE TWO MONTHLIES IN Last Number Will take Up Features of Oratory, Debate, Track and Baseball. The “Monthly” for May, to appear shortly, will be a combination of two numbers. Miss Degermark discov ered that with the finances available she could put out either two puny numbers or one good healthy one, so decided to combine them. The book will be a sort of grand hash, a record ed summary of the year’s activities in oratory, debate, music, dramatics, track, and baseball, with special em phasis on the girl’s efforts in debate and track. The verse department will be ex ceptionally good as the quantity is greater than usual and the grade is good. Among the contributions in the lit erary department will be stories from the pens of Raymond Caufield, Esther Grissen, and Ida Turney. The editor characterizes these stories as interest ing and well written. This last issue of the year will con tain an unusually large “Who’s Who” Department, embracing most of the University celebrities in the depart ments of track and baseball, oratory, and debate. The Engineers Department has a large number of interesting general and technical articles, all in all it will be an admirable issue, an interesting record of the Spring semester. WOULD-BE PEDAGOGUES SECURE TEACHING POSITIONS Four members of the present grad uating class have already secured teachers’ positions in the different high schools thoughouv the state. Miss Rachel Applegate, of Klamath Falls, has been engaged to teach Eng lish and Latin in Coquille High School, at $75 per month. Raphael Geisler, of Portland, will take the chair of Mathematics next year at Baker, at a salary of $95 per month. Miss Annie Bergman, of Eugene, who has been holding a position as assist ant in the language departments in the University, will teach Latin and I German next year in the Elgin High | School, with a salary of $75. Wil liam St. John, also of Eugene, will teach Latin at Ashland at a salary of $90. With the adoption of the teacher’s recommendation committtee, the Uni versity authorities have recommend ed a score of candidates forVeaching positions, but owing to lateS school elections, only four have been notified of their election. WEIGHTY PROBLEMS TO BE TREATED IN TWO DAY ASSEMBLY COMMONWEALTH DAY BRINGS MANY PROMINENT MEN AS SPEAKERS CONSERVATION COMMISSION WILL MEET Visitors to be Entertained Both Days by Oregon Graduates in Eugene. Commencing Friday morning, and lasting until Saturday evening, the six sessions of the Annual Commonwealth Conference, meeting to discuss social, economic and political problems of the State, will be held in Villard Hall. This conference will bring together not only a large number of promi nent state officials, but men of promi nence throughout Oregon, who will present papers and lead discussions treating questions of industrial as well as of political Importance. Among the number of speakers are John H. Lewis, State Engineer, Hon. C. E. S. Wood, Hon. William S. O’Ren, Hon. C. E. Spence, Master State Grange. John M. Scott, General Pas senger Agent Southern Pacific Rail road, and W. T. Bucnanan, Publicity Director R. R. L. and P. Company. Joint Session Important A feature of the sessions will be the joint meeting of the Oregon Con servation Commission, meeting for the first time outside of Portland, and the Commonwealth Conference. This session will be attended by practic ally every Government Forest Ser vice official in the state. The visitors of the Conference will be entertained at noon luncheon, both Friday and Saturday, at the Dormi tory, by the local Alumni Association, while an informal social meeting has been arranged for Saturday evening. It is probable that the Faculty will excuse students desirous of attending the Friday sessions of the Confer ence. The complete program of the Con ference is given below. All sessions are free. Friday Forenoon, May 24, 9 O’clock. “Taxation and Social Justice,” paper by Charles V. Galloway, Chairman State Tax Commission. of Product of Industry Between Employer and Employee,” paper by R. A. Harris. Friday Aftemooon, May 24, 2 O’clock. “Economic and Social Factors in Ore gon’s Good Roads Problem,” paper by Geo. G. Putnam. Discussion led by C. E. Spence. “Extension of the Area of Cultivation in Oregon Through Co-Operation and Social Organization,” paper by W. E. Coman, General Freight Agent Hill Lines. Friday Evening, 8 O’clock. “The Problem of Transforming Ore gon from a Merely Geographical to an Organic and Spiritual Entity.” Saturday Forenoon, 9 O’clock. “Worthy Standards of Living on Nor mal-Sized Farm Units in Oregon,” by W. T. Buchanan. “Improvement of the Economic Or ganization in Oregon for Securing to the Producer His Full Share of Values Created,” paper by W. K. Newell, Gaston. Joint Meeting of Commonwealth Con ference and Oregon Conservation Commission. Saturday Afternoon, 2 O’clock. “More Active Co-Operation Between Oregon and the Nation for Pro CLUBS TO CONDUCT INTER FRATERNITY TRACK MEET June 1st, on Kincaid field, the first All-Fraternity Track Meet in the his tory of the University of Oregon will be fought out by representatives from the various fraternities and clubs on the campus. Every man belonging to the fratern ity, is eligible to compete except those who have made their “O” in this sport. As there are a great number of men out for track who have not made their letters, several pretty races will undoubtedly be pulled off. Each fra ternity team is limited to five men who can enter as many events as they please. The entries for the meet must be in by next Saturday and the com peting clubs are requested to hand these entries to Carl Grayson at the Fiji house as soon as possible. Two handsome trophy cups are to be awarded. One, presented by Bill Hayward, is to go to the winning team; the other, presented by the In terfraternity League, is to go to the winner of the half mile relay race. Al. Fresco Production of “As You Like It” Will Be Given Commencement. The presentation of “As You Like It” by members of Prof. Reddie’s class will institute a new custom at Oregon, but one which has been suc cessfully worked out at most of the large Eastern Universities and Col leges. The production will be given Mon day afternoon of Commencement week at three o’clock out of doors bn the southwest part of the campus. The natural setting of Oregon’s pines and firs should be effective and add greatly to the charm of this comedy. The cast has not been definitely de cided upon, but will contain a num ber of the ’Varsity matinee idols and footlight stars. Among those who are rumored will take part are Ralph Moores, Homer Maris, Carle ton Spencer, Gretchen Sherwood, El len Shearer, Beulah Stebno, Maude Beals. ST. JOHN TO TEACH IN ASHLAND’S HIGH SCHOOL Will St. John, T2, has been elected to fill the chair of Latin in the Ash land High School, at a salary of $85.00 per month. Ashland has a new high school building which is the finest equipped school in Oregon out side of the new Portland schools. The building is built on the style of Stanford University structures and is first class throughout. The seats are of the latest design. All the wood work is elegantly finished, the doors all of hard wood panels, and it con tains besides the usual number of recitation rooms, a library, rest room for teachers and pupils, a gymnasium and theatre, which will hold 1.200 peo ple, a foundry, blacksmith shop, man ual training shops, domestic science, chemistry, and physics laboratories. Felix Moore, ’09, is principal of the school and is making good with the energetic people of southern Ash land. moting Right and Prompt Develop ment of Oregon Resources,” paper by John H. Lewis, State Engineer. “Corporation Law and Corporation Supervision for Oregon to Insure Safety to Investors and Efficiency for Development,” paper by C. D. Babcock. Saturday Evening, 8 O’clock. “Oregon’s Role in the Solution of America’s New Problems,” address by Hon. C. E. S. Wood. PINKHAM CHOSEN TO DISCIPLINE OREGON’S 1912 FOOTBALL TEAM ASSISTANTS NOT YET NAMED BY VARSITY’S FIRST GRAD UATE COACH MOULLEN. CLARK AND OTHERS MAT AID Outcome of New System Anxiously Awaited—$600 Saving Made in Salaries. At a meeting of the Athletic Coun cil Monday evening, Louis H. Pink ham, a graduate of this University in the class of 1010, was elected head of the staff of graduate coaches, who will next year guide Oregon’s football team to victory, as every Oregon student hopes. $2,000.00 will be allowed this year for the coaching staff and Pink ham will be given $800 of this. Former Oregon Players will Assist. Assistant coaches have not been se lected and will not be until udvice is received from Alumni and from Pink ham. However, George Hug, ’05, prin cipal of the Eugene High School, and an Oregon center of past fame, Win. Main, ’12. captain of last year’s team and one of the best backfield men ever developed at Oregon, Gordon Moores, ’08, undoubtedly the best known end that ever played on an Oregon team, Dudley Clark, ’10, famous fullback and punter, Fred Mullen, ’09, the greatest place kicker developed in the west, and one of the greatest kickers in America, and others, have been mentioned as possible assistants to the head coach. Pinkham Has Big Record. Louis II. Pinkham during his time at Oregon gained the reputation of be ing one of the best all around tackles in the west. He made the All-North west team three consecutive years and was known as one of the hardest and. headiest players of his team. Pink ham knows the game from beginning to end, and this combined with his ability to get along with men, prom ises to give Oregon a head coach of unusual ability. This will be the first year a grad uate system of football coaching has been used at Oregon. Its adoption was bitterly fought last fall by a large number of alumni and students, and equally as strenuously championed by others. The system is an experiment and the outcome of it will be watched with a great deal of interest through out the state. Something like $600 will be saved in salaries of coaches by the system this year alone. SENIORS ARRANGE DETAILS FOR I’ICNIC JUNE FIFTH At a meeting of the Senior Picnic Committee, composed of Cass Ken nedy, Emma Waterman, and Bill Main, it was definitely decided that the affair should take place on the banks of the McKenzie, June 5. Lists will be posted immediately, to give all Seniors who intend to make the trip an opportunity to signify their intention before the first of June. A tax for the outing will then be levied, proportional to the num ber on the lists. The money is to be paid in advance, the Senior women will pay Emma Waterman, the men will hand their hard earned shekels to Kennedy. Many and various eats are planned by those placed on the eats commit tee, who are Emma Waterman, Ja vina Stanfield, Jessie Bibee, Ruth Merrick, and Frieda Goldsmith.