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WHALE SKELETON MAY FIND CAMPUS HOME James Fullerton Offers Leviathan to University if Students Pay for Its Transportation An offer to present the skeleton of a whale 60 feet in length to the Uni versity Museum was made yesterday morning by James Fullerton, of Eu gene, providing sufficient funds could be raised among the faculty |S|ndo stu dents to defray the expenses of trans porting the bones of tjm leviathan to Eugene from Florence, where they now 11^, imbedded in the sands of the beach. ° „ Mr. Fullerton’s offer was announced at assembly yesterday morning. Al ready a movement has been launched bring the tyhale to the campus. The amount of money that will be needed o ls„not known but, according to Mr. Fullerton, will be at least $150.00. Several members of the faculty have already agreed to fmake contri butions. Fraternities and sororities will be asked to contribute 10 cents for each member. It is said that if the skeleton is brought to the University it will be placed on a concrete base, somewhere on the campus. The whale carcass washed in on the Florence beach last summer. Mr. Fullerton, who has always been inter ested in whales, purchased the skel eton, with the object in mind of pre senting it to the University Muse um. Mr. Fullerton is of the opinion that several cars would be necessary to bring the skeleton from its resting place to Eugene. SCIENCE CLUB FORMED Professor Boynton President of New Organization of Twenty Faculty Members A Science Club was organized last night by about 20 members of the fac ulty, who met in the Geology lecture room in Villard Hall. The object of the organization is to keep the members in touch with the latest research work and discoveries in botany, zoology, biology, psycholo. gy, physics, chemistry and other al lied sciences. Meetings are to be held on the first Wednesday evening after the second Tuesday in each month. , The officers elected were: President, W. P. Boynton, Professor of Physics; Secretary-Treasurer, O. F. Stafford, Professor of Chemistry. The Presi dent will appoint three other persons who will, with the President and Sec retary, act as the executive commit tee. This club will constitute a section of the Faculty Colloquium. Other sec tions are in the process of formation. Kansas University HAS PURE STUDENTS That the University of Kansas leads other universities in morality and clean living is the opinion of A. J. El liott, field secretary for the west of the National Young Men’s Christian Association. Mr. Elliott’s territory includes all west of the Mississippi river and has ehnrye of the student department of Y. M, C. A. work. He is athliated with the World’s Student Christian Association. "K. U. is the standard institution among all state universities in the United States as to its moral and re ligious atmosphere,” said Mr. Elliot on his last, visit to the University. “This is shown in the clean, whole some attitude the university takes on every question of morality and fair play.” ~ "l‘hog” Allen, formerly of K. U., now coach of the Warrensburg Nor mals, has sued the Regents of Drury and William Jewell Colleges for $50, 000 libel damages, for defamation of character. EUROPEAN WAR WORST IN HISTORY—DeCOU (Continued from page 1.) men who have had great political ex perience. Professor DeCou closed his speech with the declaration that the United States is likely to be called upon to be one of the great factors for peace at the end of the great war. FACULTY PLAYS BALL Professors Hope and Dallenbach and Hugo Bezdek Winners in First Games The second annual faculty handball contest is being played this week in the Men’s Gymnasium. Much interest and great rivalry is being shown among the faculty as to who will take the championship from Dr. R. M. Winger, the winner of last year. The participants are as follows: Dr. .J. E. Gutberlet vs. Dr. E. W. Hope. * • Dr. R. C. Bennett vs. Hugo Bezdek. Dr. R. C. Clark, Prof. G. O’Donnell. Reg. A. R. Tiffany, Dr. R. M. Wing er. R. W. Biroecker, Prof. F. S. Stetson. Dr. Karl Dallenbach, Prof. Graham Mitchell. Prof. Don Sowers, Dr. Waren Smith. Prof. C. V. Dyment, Edward Shock - ley. Professor Dyment will not be able to play on account of an injured hand. Three games have already been played this week, with the following result: Dr. Hope winning from Dr. Gutber let. Dr. Dallenbach winning from Prof. Mitchell. Hugo Bezdek winning from Dr. Ben nett. FROSH BASKET SHOOTERS NUMBER MORE THAN A DOZEN With more than a dozen men prac ticing regularly, several of whom are on the Varsity squad, Tom Campbell, manager of Freshman basketball, ex pects to put out an exceptionally strong team. Besides the usual inter-class sched ule, a few outside games will be played. Two contests with the 0. A. C. Frosh, and one with Washington High, of Portland, are being arranged for. Those reporting for practice Mon day were: Muirhead, Dolph, Camp bell, Noren, Sharpe, Morton, Laffle, Risley, Sheehy, Bartlett, Hargrove, Powrie, Teggert, Goretzsky, Hargrove, and McDonald. Have you subscribed for the 1916 Oregana? Recommendations have been made by officials at Yale University to lengthen the school year and to limit the enrollment of the institution. Tomorrow is the last day you can get the Oregana for $2.50. Subscribe MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY (Owed to Tennyson’s Light Brigade.) Half a word, half a word, Half a word onward. All on a broken-down typewriter Must be six hundred. Kerplunk! hear the shift-key! “In by eleven,” Boss sid. On to the goal of success, Toward the six hundred. Fourteen keys refuse to work, But the writer cannot shirk; No, not even though The spacing rig is out of order! Hers not to make reply, Hers not to reason why, Hers but to do or die. i On to the goal of success, ; Toward the six hundred. Typewriter to right of her, Typewriter to left of her, Typewriter in front of her, Kuttled and clattered. Thump of key and ring of bell, Nobly her comrades worked and well. Into the theme of each speech, 1’ounding out, letter by letter, Coveted six hundred. The speakers had mr.ubieil their words Or had taken wings, like upto birds. In the midst of nr interview. While each single key Must be jumped m separately, To make live e.trbon copies. The story was turned in by noon, Botched up and blundered, Mis-spelled, mis spaced, not numbered, Without capitals, sundered. Yes, it came in!—but not Oh, not six hundred! When can our sorrow fade? Oh, the wild grades we made! All the class wondered. Honor the attempt we made! Think of the typewriters we played! And forget the six hundred. OmDAYTOMORROW After Friday, January 15, Junior An nual Will Cost Purchaser $3.00 per Copy Have you paid your 1916 Oregana subscription yet ? But one more day remains on which the Oregana may be purchased at the special $2.50. After tomorrow the book will be sold at $3.00 per copy. The approach of the end of the sub. scription campaign has brought in a number of eleventh hour 'subscrip tions,‘Vith5 the result that the Orega na subscription themfometer hovers around the 250°mar^. The subscrib ers listed in last Tue^dajr’s Emeraid numbered 209. » . 0 ° Most of the new “subs” have been taken at the Y. M. C. A. Book Ex change. “Tomorrow is the last day on which students may take advantage of the special $2.50 rate,” said Manager Holt today. “Subscriptions will be taken at the Y. M. C. A. Book Exchange until 4:00 o’clock tomorrow after noon.” A ski meet, a new event in inter collegiate athletics, is being arranged for by the authorities at Dartmouth. 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