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FACULTY ADOPTS NEW
COURSESJF STUDY
Upperclassmen Will Be in “Up
per Division,” Underclass
men in “Lower Division.”
INDIVIDUAL ADVISERS
FOR TWENTY STUDENTS
Each One Must Complete 64
Semester Hours of Work to
Enter Upper Rank.
TTecomendations of the committee on
course of study, providing for a new
division of students, a new arrangement
of studies, a new method of selecting a
major subject, and an improved an
nouncement of courses, were adopted at
the meeting of the faculty Thursday
night. These provisions will take ef
fect beginning with the class entering in
September.
According to the new arrangements
the University will adopt the nomecla
ture used by the University of Califor
nia. describing the freshman and sopho
more years us the “Lower Division,”
the junior and senior years as the “Up
per Division.” and the graduate work as
the “Graduate Division”.
The faculty authorizes the appoint
ment of a standing committee of Lower
Division advisers whose members shall
act as advisers to all freshmen and
sophomores. This committee will con
sist of representatives from all depart
ments and shall be of such size that no
member shall be charged with the over
sight of more than 20 students. The
president and chairman will appoint the
members.
The individual adviser shall make out
and sign the study cards of the students
assigned to him, arranging a program
of studies as shall maintain a proper se
quence with his previous secondary
course, fit him for such work as he in
tends to take in the Upper Division and
shall be consistent with general princi
pals governing the selection of studies.
The departments of instruction, fall
ing under the committee of Lower Divis
ion advisers, will be divided into three
groups. First, English, and languages
other than English; second, social
sciences, including history, economics,
and other studies; and third, mathemat
ics and sciences. Before entering the
Upper Division a student must have re
ceived credit for not less than eight
hours in each of these three divisions
of work. Exception shall be made by
the committee to the rule requiring all
three groups only when in the case of
specifically prescribed programs.
Each school and department shall for
mulate and file with the adviser's com
mitte, a statement of its requirements
for its admission to its work of the jun
ior year. This statement will deter
mine to a great extent the courses which
the advisers will prescribe to their
charges.
The new system provides for promo
tion as follows:
“When a student has satisfactorily
completed not less than 04 semester
hours of work, in-hiding prescribed
physical culture, has satisfied the re
quirements of the school or department
which he elects, and has met the re
quirements in oral and written expres
sion in English, he shall be promoted
to full standing in the Upper Division.
This plan will eliminate the present
condition wherein juniors and seniors
are earning their gymnasium credits.
The student, under the new arrange
ment, does not elect a school or depart
ment until he is promoted to the 1 pper
Division. The dean of the school or
the head of the department then be
comes his adviser or appoints some sub
stitute. “A student t ecting the work
of a professional school shall follow the
course or one of the courses prescribed
by that school and approved by the gen
eral faculty, and on satisfactory com
pletion of such course, shall receive
the appropriate degree,
“If the student elects the work of a
department, the head of that depart
ment may require not less than 12 or
more than 30 semester hours of ad
vanced work in that department or in
closely allied departments, and may
make reasonable requirements of work
in other related departments.” .Stud
ents must make t>0 semester houis in
the Upper Division, and 04 hours, in
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Appeals To Seniors To Aid Memorial Gymnasium
Building Adapted To Women As Homemakers
“TARGET PRACTICE?” NO.
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BILL AND HIS OLD PISTOL
A stranger on the campus peeked into
Kincaid field yesterday to see target
practice but was disappointed when he
found that it was only a man firing a
pistol into the ground behind him. Bill,
however, stirred the gent up a little by
showing him how .lie old gun shot the
boys out of their trenches for a hun
dred-yard charge.
The pistol Bill carries has been in
his possession for 28 years and he esti
mates that he has fired over .‘13,000
shots during the 28 years the pistol has
been used for track. Bill fires over 40
shots a day, six days out of the week,
and three months during the year. At
35 cents a box, the shells that the pis
tol has fired would cost somewhere in
the neighborhood of $250,000
y. W. CABINETS HERE
Conference Opens This Morning
With Bible Hour.
Luncheon Given Delegates at
Bngalow; Mrs. E. C.
Robbins Speaks.
The Y. W. conference was opened this
morning at 0 o’clock by Miss Mary Wat
son who conducted a Bible hour which
was followed by a talk on the national
association monument by Miss Jane
Neill Scott, national executive secretary
for the Northwest. Miss Scott recently
returned from New York where she at
tended the annual meeting of the na
tional board.
After a meeting of the different di
visions of the technical councils, the
delegates made a .our of the campus
and returned to the Y. W. C. A. Bun
galow where a Seabeck luncheon was
served. About 100 special guests were
invited. Mrs. E. C. Robbins, a member
of the advisory board, acted as toast
mistress and each c< liege responded
with a toast. To the accompaniment of
ukeleles many Oregon songs, songs of
other colleges and the original Seabeck
songs were sung. This particular kind
of a luncheon was given to aroue in
terest in the Seabeck conference which
will be held at Seabeck, Washington,
June 22 to July 2.
During the afternoon Professor
Sweetser gave an illustrated lecture on
the “Laboratory Method in the Solu
tion of Doubt,” which was followed by
songs by Mrs. I taisie Middleton.
Tomorrow morning at 9:110 a “quiet
hour” will be held at the Bungalow at
which time Miss Watson will give Bible
lectures. At 11 o’clock the delegates
will attend the First Methodist church to
hear Bishop Hughes’ sermon and in the
afternoon they will attend vespex‘3 at
Yillard hall.
Bishop Matthew S. Hughes, of Port
land, will speak on the “Challenge of
Today to College Women”, at the third
session of the Y. W. C. A. conference
which will be held at Guild hall at 7:15
o’clock this evening. President Carnp
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(By Irene H. Gerlinger)
A special appeal to the senior class
has been sent out this weeK asking
their^ help in raising funds for the Wo
man's Memorial Gymnasium.
The present Girls’ Gymnasium, inade
quate end unsanitary to the last de
gree, erected 30 years ago at a cost of
only $5,000, cannot much longer be used
even by the patient, long-suffering
girls. It is not probable that the
state will give the University a build
ing of that size and character for many
years—if at all. The savings from our
small niillnge tax will never accumulate
fast enough to erect so large a building.
So the faculty, students and alumni of
the University, women's clubs, and
friends all over the state are trying to
raise by private subscriptions the $100,
000 necessary to build a suitable wo
man's gymnasium.
The building when completed will con
tain besides a well equipped gymnasium
and swimming pool, rooms for rest and
recreation and for more courses espec
ially adapted to the future needs of
the young women ns home-makers. It
will be the social center on the campus
for men and women students, alumni,
faculty and guests. University life will
be finer and happier for everyone here
when the Woman’s Building is complet
ed.
It has been suggested that in giving
its parting gift, this senior class may
ask to have the privilege of having its
name over one of the big, cheery fire
places, or over some special room in
the building. That honor will gladly be
accorded them if their gift amounts t
at least $1000.00.
The general plan of memorial tablets
on the building is that those who give
five hundred dollars, or more, may have
their name, or that of si me one dear
to them, placed on a tablet on the out
side of the long blank wall of the gym-^
nasium. These will be protected from
the weather by a long arcade. The
names of those who give smaller gifts
will be listed in less conspicuous places
about the building. All will be wrought
out by the architect and the decorator
as a beautiful and harmonious part of
the whole scheme.
It is hoped that this big movement
may culminate not only in securing this
one beautiful building for our campus,
but that it may serve as a bond of work
and loyalty for our students and alumni;
and that we may through this success
ful campaign start a flood of private
gifts toward our beloved University, as
has been the case through similar ef
forts elsewhere. As soon as the last
brick is laid in the Woman’s BuildJhg,
we will all take up some other big task,
another dormitory for the men, an au
ditorium. or a fine arts building, and
especially the establishment of more
scholarships and fellowships. Senior
classes of the University have always
left behind memorials. Some of the
loveliest trees on the campus are daily
‘ reminders of the classes that have gone
from Old Oregon. Not until last year,
-tirrwevrrr'had the seniois or alumni be nr
asked to do anything definite toward a
building for the campus. But the class
of 1916 responded promptly and gen
erously to the appeal of the l\omaus
League for help in erecting a Woman’s
Gymnasium. It is believed that 1917
with the largest class ever to graduate
from here will outdo even 1910 in lib
erality.
I lieartiest thanks are hereby extend
ed to all the students, faculty, and
friends who have given their loyal sup
port. and encouragement to this great
work far the upbuilding of Oregon Uni
versity.
When this year’s gifts to the Wom
an's Memorial Hall are read at Com
mence.jent time, may those of the class
of 1917 lead all the rest!
HONOR GUARD IS PREPARING
Girls Work to Perfect Signaling, First
Aid and Auto Knowledge.
Preparation for the actual servico
they might be called upon to do is the
order of drill for the girls of the Honor
Guard these days. Signal practice,
“first aid” instruction and initiation into
j the mysteries of the automobile make
! up the program.
The Thursday mgnt meeting of the
guard was given over to signal work,
preparatory to the receiving practice
which will be held Monday afternoon,
when the girls will attempt to read the
messages wig-wagged from the top of
Skinner’s Butte. William Hayward
gave a demonstration of four kinds of
bandages to the first aid corps at their
meeting in the Chamber of Commerce
building Tuesday night. They were also
taught how to prepare bandages for use.
The automobile corps is learning the
mechanics of an automobile now and
the girls are to learn to drive as soon
as they master the principles of a car.
Over 200 girls are enrolled in the dif
ferent divisions of the guard and most
of these report at drill in the regula
tion costume, a wh|te middy with blue
collar and red tie and a white skirt. To
stimulate interest the girls are planning
for a parade next Thursday in which
the Boy Scouts and the Radiator band
will be asked to march.
At the dance given by the guard Wed
: nesday night, $185.00 was taken in.
! There were about 400 dancers on the
! floiir and 100 looked on from the gal
j lories.
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“U.” TO GET MEDICAL BOOKS
Dr. E. E. Loomis Will Give Library Con
taining Ancient Volumes.
Dr. C. E. Loomis of Eugene, who
will give ui> his practice the first of
next month, has donated his entire li
brary )f medical books to the Universi
ty library. This library consists of
| books which he has collected and a nutu
i her of books given him by a friend who
I was formerly a practicing physician.
! Several of these books date back to
; 1795, and the oldest authentic books
I on surgery are co itained in the set.
They cover the subject of medicine from
1795 to the present.
VITAL STATISTICS GIVEN
‘•The Vital Index of Development”,
is the title of an article by Dr. B. IV.
DeBusk. which was presented to the
library this week. The article was pub
lished in the March number of the Ped
| agogical Seminary.
i It contains a table of the height,
i weight, vital capacity and ratio of sit
! ting to the total stature, in normal, re
tarded and accelerated boys and girls,
i According to the article th feeble mind
ed are shorter and weigh less.
“U” ROSE SLIPS POPULAR
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MARYLAND WOMAN WRITES
A letter from a woman in Baltimore,
Md., lias just been .ooeived by Super
intendent II. M. Fisher asking for roses
which the University was giving away
upon request a short time ago. This
is not the only note which has come
from a long distance. One was received
from Indiana and several from Idaho,
stated that a friend was thinking of mov
stated that, a friend was thking of mov
ing to Oregon and had seen the an
nouncement in an Oregon newspaper
she had sent for. Her neighbor, the
one who wrote, had 00 rosebushes in
her yard but desired some of the Ore
gon roses which she had heard so much
about. She wrote too late.
Faculty Committee to Consider
Optional Exams.
Will Report April 19; Gilbert,
Schroff, Douglass Endorse
Change.
The petition of the senior class, ask
iug that the heads of the various depart
ments of the University have the option
of giving or omitting the regular exami
nations for seniors at the end of their
Inst semester bns gone to the faculty and
has been referred to a special commit
tee.
A meeting of the faculty was called
last Thursday instead of at the regular
time next Thursday, Because President
Campbell will not he in town at the regu
lar date. The committee of seniors pre
| seated their petition at this time. No
I action was taken but a faculty committee
! will be named the first of next week to
[consider the matter and make a report
at the next regular meeting of the fuc
i ulty, which will probably be April 11). A
i decision on the petition may be expected
'at that time.
The canvassing committee of seniors
which is interviewing the faculty with re
ference to its stand on the matter re
ports that Dr. James Gilbert, Prof. A. II.
Schroff and M. H. Douglas have taken a
favorable stand on the proposed change.
These men represent the economics, fine
arts and library departments, respect
ively.
Another special meeting of the faculty
will be held next Tuesday for the purpose
of finishing some business which was
held ov*r from the Thursday session. No
action will be taken on the examination
Question at that time.
SEEKS PORTLAND OFFICE
John A. McQuinn, a graduate of the
University in the class of 1871), has an
nounced his cundidacy for city commis
sioner of Portland. He has been a can
didate several times on the Democratic
ticket for the office of county surveyor.
At present he holds the office of con
sulting engineer at Olympia, Washing
ton, and also has charge of municipal
work at Rainier, near Olympia.
VARSITY MERMAIDS
DEFEAT 0. A. C. TEAM
University Women Take 521-2;
Visitors Make 24 1-2; Every
Event Spectacular. 4
MARION COFFEY GETS
20 POINTS OF SCORE
Marie Beach, Evelyn Tregilgas,
Genevieve Keller, Ruth
Trowbridge Star.
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(By Clifford Sevits)
Oregon mermaids ensily won the swim*
ming meet over O. A. O. girls this af»
ternoon in Hayward hall pool by taking
52 Vi of the possible points, to their
opponents 24%. The superiority of the
lemon-yellow nymphs was plain from the
hegiuning although the meet did not
lack thrills at any time.
Miss Marion Coffey took first place in,
four events thus claiming 20 points for
those events, besides her seconds in
others. She was star performer of the
afternoon. Miss Marie Beach, Miss
Evelyn Tregilgas, Miss Genevieve Kel
ler and Miss Ruth Trowbridge were also
important point winners.
The meet was the first of its kind to
be participated in by Oregon. The lack
of experience was plainly visible in both
teams. The visitors were at a disadvan*
tage in having only a small pool in which
to swim at, hopie. The banks of the pool
were lined with spectators, who were in
vited by the contestants. All lookers-on
were women except two judges, timer,
and two newspaper correspondents.
O. A. ('. girls opened the meet by
taking eight out of nine points in the
plunge for distance, but the anxiety that
began to reign in the Oregon end of the
bleachers changed to confidence ns soon
ns the lemon-yellow swimmers placed
first, second, and third in the 20-yard
sprint the length of the tank. Miss Ma
bel Laing for the visitors took first place
ir. the distance plunge with 40 feet 10 in
ches to her credit. Miss Ruth Feasley
of O. A. C. won second place and Mist
Ruth Trowbridge of Oregon third.
The 20-yard sprint was won by Miss
Marion Coffey for Oregon in 15 seconds
with Miss Evelyn Tregilgas second and
Miss Alleyn Johnson nnd Miss Jeannette
Moss tieing for third.
In the side stroke for form Miss Lett
Rhodes was awarded first place, Miss
Eva Hansen second, nnd Miss Marie
Bench third, Oregon winning all three
places. The stroke wns optional, being
either over or under hand.
Except for the final relay event, the
40-yard sprint, in three heats, was per
hnps the most thrilling of all. With a
long, ensy stroke, which showed experi
ence nnd confidence, Miss Marion Coffey
finished first ftir Oregon, in 38 2-5 sec
onds. Miss Evelyn Tregilgas for Oregon
placed second and Miss Jesse Thayer
for O. A. C. finished third.
The crawl stroke for form was award
ed to O. A. C., the time being 38 4-5
seconds for the forty yards. The winner
was Miss Jesse Thayer. Second and third
weer not mentioned by the judges.
Miss Coffey's natural water nbillty
was demonstrated again in the trudgeon
event in which she finished first, follow
ed second by Miss Ethel Walker for
O. A. C. and third by Miss Jeannette
Moss, Oregon. '
Oregon swimmers took all three plne
or in the 10-yard, bnok stroke event,
place takers were Miss Evelyn Tregilgas,
first: Miss Marie Beach and Miss Mar
ion Grebel. tied for second; and Miss
Genevieve Keller, third.
Diving proved the real sensation of
the meet. Contestants were allowed one
optional dive besides the straight front
and running dives in this event. Miss
Marion Coffey again furnished the chief
attraction by her cleveT straight and
jack-knife dips into the pool. Miss Marie
Bench also entertained the audience with
difficult dives, taking second place to
Miss Coffey. Miss Jesse Thayer, star
swimmer and diver of the afternoon for
the O. A. C. tenm, was awarded third
place for her graceful performance.
As a fitting climax, a relay with four
swimmers on each team, brought spec
tators to their feet and caused excite*
ment to reach the greatest height during
the contest. Each swimmer covered the
length of the tank once, making the total
distance of the race 80 yards. At no time
did the Oregon girls fear their fair op«
ponents, yet at the same time, the raca
was dose enough to make the excitement
intense. Miss Marion Coffey finished the
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