V,
SPECIAL FAIR EDITION
FIRE
$600 LOSS OCCASIONED BY
DESTRUCTION OF EX
TENSION HALL
EXPLOSIVES BARELY SAVED
Origin of Conflagration Un
known. Spontaneous Com
bustion Theory Receives But
Little Credence.
For the first time in many years
a serious fire visited the University
campus, when the new Extension
building, Just receiving the finish
ing touches from the 'builders, was
burned to the ground early yester
day morning. It was valued at $600
and was not insured.
The blaze was first discovered by
the nightwatchman at 2:15 o’clock.
He quickly roused the men in the
Dormitory, who attemtped to extin
guish the flames with a hose used
for sprinkling the campus lawn.
Meanwhile the city fire department
was summoned, but arrived 20 min
utes after the blaze had been discov
ered. By this time the building was
a bonfire, and the regulars bent their
efforts toward saving a sfiack about
12 feet from the burning building,
and McClure hall only 25 feet dis
tant, both of which contain explosive
chemicals.
Both buildings were saved, and
their equipment protected from dam
age. The Extension building, how
ever, being of wood, fell an easy
prey to the flames, especially with
the start they had gained before the
arrival of the department.
The building was erected with
funds appropriated by the last leg
islature to provide for the rapidly
growing work of the University ex
tension department. It was intended
to use the new structure as head
quarters for the department, and
also as a temporary meeting place for
University classes stranded by the
present overflow' of students. Just
what will be dofle with these classes
is now a problem, as the present
available facilities are taxed at every
recitation hour. However, the Uni
versity ofifcials are congratualting
themselves on the fact that the ex
tension department had not yet been
moved into the building, for other
wise all material and records would
have been destroyed.
The origin of the fire remains a
mystery. The theory that it started
from spontaneous combustion of old
rags saturated with oil is not given
credence generally. Aside from the
improbability of such combustion, the
painters declare they left no such
rags around the building.
Y. W. C. A. BUNGALOW IS
NOW READY FOR USE
First Meeting in New Women’s
Building Will Be Held
Next Monday
■ The Y. W. C. A. building has been
finished for some time and by the
end of tlie week all furnishing will
be completed. This building con
sists: of an office where Mrs. Fletch
er can be found every afternoon, a
rest room which will be open to all
girls at any time and a lavatory,
kitchen and a large assembly room
are found in the building.
Many social functions will fake
place in this building. The first one
will be held Monday afternon at 4
o'clock, to which every woman of the
1'niversity will be invited. Rally
onterences, High school reception,
Sutaxian meetings, and Sunday ves
per meetings are a few of the numer
ous events that will take place this
winter.
New teachers connected with the
ischol of music are Miss Hermione
Hawkins. Miss Ruth Davis. Miss Jes
t;e Fariss and Miss IJcse Powell.
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OWN EXPENSES
Y. M. C. A. ALONE SECURES
46 POSITIONS FOR COL
LEGE MEN
WORK FOR EDUCATION
Employment Bureau Breaks All
Records This Year in Number
of Jobs Secured for Univer
sity Boys Working Way.
With 46 jobs already secured for
students, of which 27 are regular
during the year, and more men yet
applying for positions, the indica
tions, according to Secretary Charles
Koyle, of the Y. M. C. A., are that
this year will break all records in
the proportion of University • men
working their way through college
either wholly or in part.
Never before have so many men
been asking for jobs—fraternity,
dormitory and outside men. During
the whole of last year only 36 regu
lar positions were filled, while so far
this year 27 regular jobs have been
secured through the Y. M. C. A. bu
reau, not considering those jobs se
cured privately. A considerable
number of men, also, have come to
the University solely relying on the
jobs secured for them before they
came.
Last year the bureau’s assistance
to students, by the securing of jobs,
amounted to more than $2000, and
the amount this year, from all indi
cations, will far exceed this sum. The
employment census taken last year
by the association showed that one
half of the fraternity men were
earning their way wholly or in part
and one-fourth wholly.
The proportion of fraternity men
earning their entire way this year
will be larger than ever, as indicated
by the increased number applying
for jobs even in spite of the possibil
ity of aid fro mtheir parents. The
work being done by the students
varies from janitor work and dish
washing to more highly specialized
work. Secretary Koyle states that
all students who are still needing
work should leave their names with
him, so they can be accommodated at
the earliest opportunity. There are
odd jobs open from time to time.
Pour jobs for board are still unfilled
and twelve men who ask for regular
work have not yet been accommodat
ed. Secretary Koyle says he notes
an even more democratic condition
in the old Oregon spirit this year as
shown by this large number of the
students going through school en
tirely on their own resources.
U. OFO. FACULTY HAS
FOURTEEN NEW TEACHERS
Board of Regents Carries Out
Plan Greatly to Expand
’Varsity’s Work
Fourteen new faces adorn Univer
sity of Oregon faculty meetings this
fall. Five of them are full heads of
departments—-"professors;” five of
them hold assistant professorships;
the remaining four are instructors.
The five new professors are; W. F.
Allison (Cornell,) sanitary and hy
draulic engineering; Edw. Thorsten
berg (Yale) Scandinavian languages;
D. C. Sowers (Columbia), municipal
expert; Dr. Clifton F. Hodge (Johns
Hopkins)j civic biology; R. H. Lj
man (Grinnell and Berlin), dean of
the school of music.
The new assistant professors are;
C. H. Edmundson (university of
Iowa), zoology; F. L. Stetson, de
partment of education; Dr. R. M.
Winger (Baker and Johns Hopkins)
mathematics; Dr. K. M. Dellenbach
(Cornell), psychology; Colin V. Dy
ment (university of Toronto), jour
nalism.
The four new instructors: John
P. O'Hara (Notre Dame and Univer
sity of Paris), history; Graham Mit
chell (university of Oregon and Col
umbia), history; G. H. R O’Donnell,
(Idaho), German.
Emerald ads PAY
RESULTS OF RESEARCH
•. AVAILABLE FOR FARMERS
University of Oregon Professors
Will Give Practical Talks
at State Fair
Results of experiments in the phy
sics and chemistry laboratories of the
University of Oregon will be given
Oregon farmers and other landown
ers during state fair week, Septem
ber 2 9-October 4, at Salem. While
the University does not deal directly
with practical farm topics, that func
tion be ng left to the Oregon Agricul
tural college, much of its recent ad
vanced work in the sciences has an
important bearing upon certain as
pects, of agricultural life, and it is
some of the findings along this line
that the University professors have
been asked to pass on to the agricul
turists who visit the state fair. The
seven who will conduct classes are:
O. F. Stafford, professor of chemis
try; Dr. Clifton Freemont Hodge, the
widely-known biologist from Clark
university, who has been secured by
the University for extension work for
one year among Oregon towns; Dr.
George Rebec, head of the Univer
sity extension department; Dr. Fried
rich Georg G. Schmidt, professor of
the German language and literature;
Dr. Joseph Schafer, professor of his
tory; Dr. J. H. Gilbert, assistant pro
fessor of engineering, and Dr. E. H.
McAlister, professor of civil engineer
ing. Their lectures with dates and
hours will be:
Monday, September 29—9:45—Dr.
George Rebec, Different Views of
Education. 11:45—Dr. C. F. Hodge,
Civic Biology. 1:45—Prof. O. F.
Stafford, How Our Mineral Fertiliz
ers Are Secured. 3:30—Prof. O. F.
Stafford. The Purification of Wat
er. 5:15—Dr. J. H. Gilbert, Better
Credit for Farmers; Banking Co-op
eration.
Tuesday, September 30 (German
Society Day)—9:00—Dr. George
Rebec, The Classical Type of Educa
tion. 10:30—Dr. Clifton Freemont
Hodge, Practical Bird Study. 1:00
Prof. O. F. Stafford, The Manufac
ture of Glucose From Potatoes. 2:30
y-Dr. F. G. G. Schmidt, Education
and Evolution of Modern Germany.
4:30—Dr. J. H. Gilbert, Failure of
Employers’ Liability.
Wednesday, October 1—9:45—Dr.
George Rebec, Aristocracy and De
mocracy in Education. 11:15—Dr.
C. F. Hodge, Game Conservation in
Oregon. 1:45—Prof. O. F. Stafford,
Alcohol from Waste Farm Products.
3:30—Dr. E. H. McAlister, Reducing
the Cost of Permanent Roads. 5:15
—Dr. J. H. Gilbert, Taxation and
Vexation; What Is Justice?
Thursday, October 2—9:00—Dr.
George Rebec, Education for Work.
10:30—Dr. C. F. Hodge, The Rat
Problem. 1:00—Dr. Joseph Schafer,
The Citizen’s Relation to History.
2:30—Prof. O. F. Stafford, Fertiliz
er from the Ai-. 4:30—Dr. J. H.
Gilbert, Insurance Against Accident;
New Compensation.
Friday, October 3—9:45—Dr.
George Rebec, Education for Citi
zenship. 1:45—Dr. Joseph Schafer,
Strength and Weakness of Our Con
stitution. 5:15—Dr. J. H. Gilbert,
National Reform of a State’s Reve
nue System.
Saturday, October 4—9:00—Dr.
George Rebec, Education for Life.
10:30—Dr. Joseph Schafer, Citizen’s
Part in State Government. 1:00—
Dr.Dr. Joseph Schafer, Citizens’ Part
in Local Affairs. 2:30—Dr. C. F.
Hodge, Children’s Garden Studies.
4:30—Dr. J. H. Gilbert, Immigration
and Eugenics; Race Survival.
DAVIES HEADS LAUREANS
Literary Society Organizes For Year
and Elects Officers.
A1 Davies, ’14, was elected presi
dent of the Laurean Literary society
at a meeting of that organization,
held Tuesday night primarily for
election purposes and secondarily to
formulate plans for the year. Luton
Ackerson was chosen as vice-presi
dent, Allen O’Connell received the
office of secretary, Sam Wise was
made assistant secretary, Otto Helder
censor, and Carlyle Geissler, editor.
Speeches were given by the incom
ing and outgoing officers, and in th»
informal session which followed it
was decided to enlarge and strength
en the society as much as possible.
Show public spirit; Tote.
SYSTEM IS -V
• EFFICIENT
TWO STATE SCHOOLS ARE
ORGANIZED TO WORK
WELL APART
COURSES NOT DUPLICATED
Campbell Gives Benefits That
Will Accrue to Higher Educa
tion if University Is Placed
on Good Basis.
-—
President Campbell's idea of the
i efficiency of the present educational
system in use in Oregon if this sys
tem is carried out to its logical con
clusion, was shown in a statement
isued by the head of the State Uni
versity this morning on the subject.
President Campbell believes in the
segregation of the two different lines
of mental development represented
by the two state institutions for high
er learning and argues against the
further tinkering with a system
which has already made good. He
says as follows:
“The present organization of the
State University and the State Agri
| cultural College is fundamentally
i good. The two institutions, through
segregation of work, are enabled to
give emphasis each to the demands
of its own special field, and yet are
so closely allied that by interchange
of lecturers and students they may
easily secure all the benefits sup
posed to exist in one combined insti
tution. The schools are only forty
miles apart and are connected by two
lines of electric railway. The mill
age tax takes care of their future
support, without any need of ap
pealing to the legislature or inter
mingling the educational and politi
cal affairs of the state.
“The Board of Higher Curricula
has full . power to prevent unneces
sary duplication of courses, and to
hold each institution to its legitimate
field of endeavor.
“All that the institutions now
need is to be let alone and given a
fair chance to get their stride in the
educational race that is making for
prosperity and a higher civilization.
“A decisive vote in November in
favor of the appropriation for the
University buildings will practically
settle the status of higher education
in Oregon and save the state from
years of contention, with attendant
paralysis of educational efffcienev.
An overwhelming majority- against
the referendum will put to rest the
threats of future initiatives and
counter-initiatives, no one of which
will ultimately carry, and all of
which will breed discord and animos
ity beyond measure.
“The state has already suffered
enough from this educational un
rest. It has been entirely unproduc
tive of good, and every one is heart
ily tired of it. It would be distress
ing to face a year, or even years, of
still more unpleasant controversy,
coming just at a time when the state
needs the united energy of all its
people to win its share of the new
prosperity coming to the west.
“We cannot afford to have inter
nal contention over educational or
ganization repelling the very best
type of possible citizens from our
borders." J
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TWO BLIND STUDENTS
ENROLL IN U. OF W.
Take Notes in Class by Punch
ing Holes in Paper. Walk
Alone on Campus
When college opened Monday prob
ably the most remarkable students
on the campus were Joseph Wood
and George Bailey, who are totally
blind.
So accurate are their senses, how
ever, that they can walk to and from
the campus and between the build
ings without the least hesitation.
A week ago Bailey was led over
the route from his Brooklyn avenue
home to the university, then around
to each of the buildings where he
will have classes. This process will
be repeated several times until the
young man has the campus thorough
ly learned.
“In my mind,” says Wood, “the
campus is a series of geometrical de
signs. One building is located at
such a distance and at such and such
an angle from another. 1 will soon
have these angles and distances firm
ly fixed in my mind, so that it will be
no task at all to find my way around
the grounds.”
Wood takes his lecture notes by
the American Braille system. This
consists of n metal frame to hold his
paper, and through this frame he
punches little dots in the paper about
as fast as the average student writes
in long hand. He does his studying
by means of a hired reader.
Both Wood and Bailey carefully
count their paces. They also have a
remarkable sense of hearing and of
•distance. They can tell from the
number of paces they have taken
just where there is a corner to be
turned, where to begin to descend
stairs, or where a crowd of students
is likely to be met. They can tell
their proximity to a building or an
obstacle by the echo of their foot
steps.
Bailey is a graduate of the stato
school, and will major in journalism,
is an unconditioned freshman, about
20 years old, and will take wrork in
music. He is an accomplished pian
ist.
Wood is a graduate of Lincoln high
schol, and will major in journalism.
He is registered as a special student,
and will take English, psychology
and advertising.—Washington Daily.
AGORA CLUB WILL AID
IN CIVIC ADVANCE'.ENT
Members Appointed to Extend
Services if Possible in
Home Towns
A meeting of the Agora Club will
be held tonight at 7:30 in Miss Per
kins’ room in the Library.
The Agora Club was organized
last year for the purpose of improv
ing civic conditions.
Reports of the summer campaign
will be read at this meeting. The
club aims to work in conjunction
with the Business Women’s Rest
Room committee as well as the Civic
l eague of Eugene.
Mrs. E. S. Parsons, president of
the club, has appointed the follow
ing members for the purpose of ex
tending wherever possible, aid in civ
ic advancement in the counties in
which the members make their
homes:
Baker county, Ruth Peter; Ben
ton, Pearl Homer; Clackamas, Ethel
Risley; Clatsop, Kay Ball; Columbia,
Elieu Van Volkenberg; Crook, Agnes
Elliott; Coos, Gretchen Sherwood;
Douglas, Mildren Waite; Gilliam,
Tula?Kinsley; Harney, Mabel A/thur;
Hood River, Florence Avery; Jack
son, Clara Weiiis; Josephine, Alice
McFarland; Lane. Agnes Matherson;
Linn, Ceclle Sawyer; Malheur, Flor
ence Mofatt; Morrow. Marie Hager;
Marion, Clarence Ogle; Multnomah,
Olive Zimmerman; Polk, Agnes
Campbell; Tillamook, Edith Watt;
Umatilla, Edith Still; Union, Bea
trice Littlefield; Wallowa. Mona
Dougherty; Wasco, Janet Young;
Washington. Agnes McLaughlin;
Yamhill, Ludella Whittlesey.
Don’t trait; register.
WHY DOES THE UNIVERSITY
OF OREGON NEED $175,000 T
Heads of Instruction Departments Show How
Crowded Conditions of Class Rooms Inter
fere With Successful Work
ENTER OFFICES THROUGH WINDOWS
From Every Side Comes Same Complaint of Cramped
Quarters. English Lit Department Has Three
Teachers and Three Hundred and Fifty Students
With One Room Available.
Why ia $175,000 needed by the
University for additional space?
Why Is the passage of the two refer
ended bills necessary to satisfactory
growth? These questions were asked
of the heads of each of the depart
ments of instruction yesterday, and
from each came an answer colored by
the necessities of his own work.
Administration Offices.
PRESIDENT CAMPBELL has
an office that is not un
satisfactory in size, but it
is the only convenient place on the
campus for the numerous committee
meetings that are necessary some
times to the number of four or five
a day. The ante rooms of the pres
ident’s office, Dr. Smith’s and Mr.
Tiffany's, are steadily spreading over
more and more of the hall and pass
age space in Villard Hall. Mr. John
son, also was compelled this year to
cut holes in the walls and force per
sons having business with the stew
ard to stand in the corridor, some
times almost cutting off access to the
other three administration offices.
.150 Use One Room.
ENGLISH LITERATURE DE
PARTMENT.—This is one of the
worst sufferers. Prof. Howe says:
"There are three teachers in the
English literature department, and
always more than two hundred,
sometimes as many as three hundred
and fifty students, divided into
classes which sometimes enroll as
many as 128 students in one section.
These three teachers and 350 stu
dents have only one room, a base
ment room in Deady, several feet be
low the level of the ground. The
room is used every hour in the morn
ing, and as there is no means of
ventilation other than opening the
windows and door, conditions are
bad. Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day afternoons the same trouble oc
curs. Thursday and Tuesday after
noons the schedule is lighter. Prob
ably this ic the worst crowded de
partment in the University. The
room is small, with a low ceiling. It
should never be made to hold more
than forty at a time, but every year
classes of seventy or more have to
be held in it.”
/oology Lab Is Cramped.
THE DEPARTMENT OF ZOOL
OGY is housed in three rooms in
Degdy Hall. In order that the stu
dents enrolled in Zoology courses
may be properly cared for these
rooms will have to be completely re
modeled. Large sections are being
held in rooms intended for small
classes. The equipment of the de
partment is of the best but not suf
ficient for present needs. Many
beautiful and interesting specimens,
illustrating the animal life of Ore
gon are kept in storage for lack of
museum rooms and museum equip
ment. The professors in this de
partment spend each summer at the
University Marine Station at Friday
Harbor in Puget Sound, but of late
years have had to refrain from bring
ing to Eugene the great quantities of
interesting specimens obtainable
there, for lack of a nlaee where they
may be preserved and displayed. The
department could easily expand into
twice the space it has and then be
no more than comfortable. Notwith
standing the crowded conditions and
lack of equipment its growth has
been surprising. If it grows another
year as it has this, the rooms and
equipment will be entirely inade
quate.
JOHN F. BOVARD,
Department of Zoology.
No Room For Expansion.
THE DEPARTMENT OF JOUR
(Continued on page three)
BUDGETARY SYSTEM IS
SELECTED AS QUESTION
Debaters Decided upon Topic
Which Will Be Submit
ted to Stanford
At the meeting of the Varsity de
baters In Prof. Gilbert's room In the
Library building Tuesday after
noon, the general question, "Resolv
ed, That the federal government
should adopt a budgetary system,"
was decided upon and will be sub
mitted to Stanford for the annual
interstate debate this year. The
only other question suggested was
the minimum wage.
According to Debate Coach Pres
cott. only four men will be chosen
to represent Oregon this year in the
debates with Washington, Stanford
and O. A. C. The date of the pre
liminary tryout has not been defin
itely announced but will probably
occur during Christmas vacation.
About ten men attended the de
bate meeting.
TAKES JOB _AFTER FIRE
Dr. Todd to Head Hound University
When Latter Is Almost Wiped Out.
After having been- notified of his
election to the presidency of the Uni
versity of Puget Sound at Tacoma,
which action was taken yesterday by
the board of overseers of that lnati
SENIOR MEN TO DON
OFFICIAL SOMBEROS
First Meeting of Glass Given
over to Plans for Com
ing Year *
At the first Senior Class meeting
of the year held last evening, the
members oi the class decided that all
settlor men should don the senior
sombreros not later than October the
first, and wear them regularly on the
campus throughout the year. To en
force this decree. President Allle
Grout appointed a committee whose
duty it shall be to see that it is car
ried out. Willard Shaver was made
chairman of the committee, with
Charles Reynolds and Maurice Ter
penlng as the other two members.
President Grout says this will be
strictly enforced.
With the purpose of enlivening fu
ture meetings, the class passed a
motion to have a sport program each
time. The committee appointed to
prepare and arrange the programs
was as follows: Edith Still, chair
man; Eleanor McClaine and Ira
, Staggs.
j tution. Dr. Edward H. Todd, of Sa
! lem. who is attending the Methodist
conference here, was surprised and
I chagrined this morning to be noti
| fled of the disastrous fire which oc
curred at the Tacoma institution last
night.
Register now.