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Central Presbyterian Church Frederick Preston Search, A"'pic“ America’s Greatest of the U. of O. School of Music VlOlOflCCHlSt Tickets on Sale at the Y. M. C. A. Book Exchange Tuesday, March 3, 1914 SUMMER SCHOOL HAS ABLE MEN DR. AXSEN AND PROF. TUR NER WILL BE NOTABLE SPEAKERS TO HOLD EDUCATION WEEK Teachers Will Be Given Oppor tunity to Attend Classes. Dr. Stuart Will Provide Out door Training. Dr, Stockton Axeen of Princeton University, a brother-in-law of President Wilson, and Prof. Freder ick J. Turner of the Department of History of Harvard University, will ■be the most prominent men at the University of Oregon summer school, to be held June 2!) *o August 4. Dr. Axsen is not new to the uni versity, as he lectured at last year’s session in connection with the En glish Literature Department. His lectures this year will be upon ‘‘Shakespeare and British Poets.” Prof. Turner comes to Oregon with the reputation of being one of the greatest of living American histo rians. He is a former president of the American Historical Society, and for, many years was head of tho De partment of History at the Universi ty of Wisconsin. Dr. Joseph Schafer, professor of history at Oregon, was a student of Prof. Turner while the latter was a member of the Wiscon sin factulty. Dr. Schafer has charge of the summer school, and It was mainly through his efforts that the Harvard historian was Induced to come to Oregon. Prof. Turner will lecture during the last week of sum mer school on the subject, “Aspects of Western History.” Another eastern professor will be in the person of Dr. A. A. Burleigh of Tufts College. He will give a course in Christian ethics. Dr. II. 1). Sheldon, formerly a member of the university faculty, but at present a professrr at Pitts burg Pnlverslty, Is also scheduled for a series of lectures to be Kiv«'n under the Department of Education. "School Administration’’ will be the subject of a number of lectures by Superintendent of Public Instruc tion Churchill and D. It. Alderman, superintendent of the Portland schools. Dr George Itehec will of fer courses in educational psycholo gy. and Dr. Clifton K. Hodge will of fer courses In civic and social bi ology. A course In llbrury Instruction for teachers will he given by Librarian M. 11. Douglass. The various library systems will be explained, particu larly the Devvej decimal system that ts new being used in the Pnlverslty Library. Uesldis these special courses, there will be the usual summer school courses offered by the differ ent university departments. One of the features of the sum mer session will he a conference of ministers from July 1 ft to 17, Inclu sive. Dr. John H. Royd, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Portland. Is lti charge of the conference ar rangements. Ministers of every de nomination throughout the state wilt ’ be Invited. During the third week an educa tional conference will be held. This conference will be mainly for the benefit of teachers that attend sum mer school. The number of credits allowed for summer school this year will be six Instead of seven, as w as the case last GERMAN COMEDY WILL BE PRODUCED BY STUDENTS Play Will Be for the Benefit of Societies Visiting Here in June. The German Department of the university will stage the German comedy, ‘‘They Announce Their En- I gagement,” in one act, on the cam pus sometime during June, when the ! 35 German societies of Oregon will 1 hold their annual convention here, j The play was written by Wiehert. For the benefit of the visitors, ! nothing but German will be spoken by the actors. Dr. Schmidt, head of the department, said today, in speaking of the play: “The purpose of this work is to give the students a practical knowledge of the language, as well as an Insight to foreign plays. Two years ago we staged the come dy, ‘One Must .Get Married,’ and the r suits were very successful.” Prof. O’Donnell, Prof. Reddle and Dr. Schmidt will coach the play. The leading part, Mrs. Gumbach. v, 111 be assumed by Beulah Stebno. j who lias a thorough knowledge of German. Miss Stebno is the only person of direct German descent who will take part in the play. The other characters will be rendered by Effie Rhodes, Jeanette Wheatley, Echo Zahl, Walter Dim in and Sherman Pobst. Hr. Schmidt says that if weather permits, the play will be produced outside on the campus; otherwise, it will he staged In Vlllard or the gym nasium. The time required for the comedy is 30 minutes. This is the fourth play to be acted out by the students of the German Department. ADVERTISING EXPENSES ARE CUT TO MINIMUM Posters Are Principal Means of Gaining the Pub licity Desired Posters, circulars, schedule cards, newspaper writeups, general an nouncements and the telephone af fords the means by which the Uni versity V. ,\i. C. A. carries on its publicity operations. So far this year, the gr ater part of the work has been done through posters, drawn by Milton Stoddard, Sam Kujlmakl and .loe Tomlnaga. Only $25 lias lieen spent so far for print ing. Advertising by means of post ers has been found to be tbe most year I'nder the present arrange ment, a five-hour course will give two hours credit, •'Summer school tills year prom isos to be one of the most successful ever conducted hr the university," •aid Or. Joseph Schafer yesterday. "We have lieen very fortunate in securing for the session such men as l’rof. Turn r and l)r. \xsen. Doth i ire educat r of nation-wide repute, ind their lectures should prove at tract he. "Wo intend to emphasize to teach ers residing in other states tho de 'Irabili!' of attending the Oregon summer school. It would be a splen did vacation for teachers of the mid dle western states, where the sum mer heat is so Intense. Dr. Stuart, the women's physical director, will condition teachers during summer school so that they may make i tramps after school is over. She will assist in organising parties, furnish ing guides, an ! rendering such other ; assistance as she may be able. "A summer school bulletin will be | issued on March 1 and will be gener ally distributed. It will contain pic tures of the mountain and seacoast 1 scenery of Oregon." effective, according to Carlyle Geis ler, chairman of the publicity com mittee. The work of the Publicity Depart ment is to inform the fraternities and clubs of each week’s lectures, and to do personal advertising. Geis ler, in speaking of the work this year, said: “We have done less paid advertis ing than before, but have carried on a more extensive personal campaign among the students. We request that all men of the university watch the bulletin boards a,nd the an nouncements in The Emerald for no tices of the lectures given by the Y. M. C. A. each week. It is impossible to reach every student, and in the past many have missed the best lec tures because they have failed to no tice the announcements.” The members of the publicity com mittee are Carlyle Gfeisler, chair man; .Toe Tominaga, Sam Fujimaki, Milton Stoddard, Lamar Tooze and rohn Wells. 8 MEN AT COTTAGE GROVE Students Will Hold Meetings for Young Men. Eight students left last night for j Cottage Grove on the first trip of the year, to be held under the Exten sion Department of the Y. M. C. A. The students will hold nightly meet- j ings for the special benefit of the! vounger fellbws of the town, and' will explain to them the religious side of college life. The men who made the trip are Charles Koyl, Walter Dimm, Herbert Lombard, Bert Schmidt, Harold Hum bert, Clarence Maurer, Sherman Pobst, Vernon Motschenbacher and Erie Lane. The Extension Department now has a Bible class organized in the Eugene High School. The members >f the committee in charge of the work are: Lamar Tooze, chairman; Victor Holt, Walter Brenton, Charles i Collier and Sherman Pobst. Ruth Duniway, ’12, is living at Athena, Oregon. I EMERALD EDITOR SAYS WIRE WILL NOT BE USED Fowler Believes Eugene Is Too Small to Warrant United Press Service “At present it would not be ad visable to use leased wire service for The Emerald,” said Editor Hen ry Fowler today, in speaking of the recent proposal made by the United Press to give The Emerald telegraph ic news service. “At present the size of Eugene is not large enough to i You Can’t Go; Wrong in Buying Your Rubber Goods at Our Store It’s very easy for the inexperienced buyer to go wrong on rub ber goods for it’s easy to cover up inferior ity in this class of goods. But you take no chances in our store. We guarantee every piece we sell. We buy only from the best manufactur ers, firms who guar antee each and every piece of rubber goods to us, enabling us in turn to guarantee the goods to you. 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