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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1917)
Dean Straub Harks Back to Misty Pasi For Beginning of Junior Week-End Fete The beginning of Junior Week-end ns an institution is lost in the far distance. Dean Straub says he can remember one of the celebrations back in 1890, so he can say that it began sometime before that. The Juniors at that time had only an affair called “Junior Day.” At this event they put up a flag on the pole in front of Villard and tried to keep the sophomores from taking it down. The pole has been removed for several years now and the flag idea was aband oned some eight years before that. The present plan of constructive work came when IV L .Campbell was elected president of the I’niversity in 1901. The juniors took down an old board fence that entirely surrounded the campus bounded by Eleventh and Thirteenth streets. They also te>ok down an old shack on top of Skinner's Butte. The class of 1900 spent the da/ ir building the fir<t section of the walk be tween I)eady and Twelfth street. This work was continued by other classes un til 1912 when it was completed. The Stop Over at San Francisco Los Angeles On Your Next Trip East Through California Costs Little More There’s Mt. Shasta, Yosemite Valley, Del Monte, Santa Barbara, Orange Empire, Salton Sea, El Paso and Ft. Bliss and many other interesting places to see. And this southern way is the Romantic Open Window Way East Ask your local agent for fares, etc. John M. Sott, General Passenger Agent Portland, Oregon. SOUTHERN PACIFIC “Portland Rose Festival, June 13, 14, 15.” class of 1909 innovated the Junior Week end, says Kenneth Moores, president of the class this year, up to that time the signlc nay being observed. The Junior class of 1908 built the “O” on top of Skinner’s Butte and the ’09 class painted it yellow, which ceremony has been continued every year during the week-end. It was also the custom for a lone time to hold a Junior Oratorical contest in Villard hall and a tennis tournament on the following Saturday morning. |explain alluring smile] *--- : A very large percentage of the prints that are sold in art stores are copies of Mona Lisa. Why? Lillian Porter gives the answer. “GIV-A ME DA MUN-A LIS-A” All dingy art shops look the same. Cherubs peer out of their frames with dusty faces while archangels and ballet dancers glare at each other. Only one person seems undisturbed by the incon gruity of her position and the buzzing of languid flies. She sits among rocks and sees the shop with weary eyelids. Many people‘come into these shops. They gaze at the cherubs, finger the prints, touch the paintings to see if they are of oil. and make the archangels tremble lest their ears be tweaked. Then quite suddenly the stranger turns to the (juiet yet disturbing woman on the wall. Mona Lisa always waits. She knows that hers is no rosebud beauty, yet she anticipates being rolled in paper and sent to adorn the walls of a home. Established in a nejv home, Mona Lisa sits upon the rocks and peers out when no one is looking at her. To mothers she seems to personify patience. To small boys and coquettish girls, she means all that is intolerably dull. To men she spicily suggests the vampire who smiles forever. Whatever the in terpretation placed upon her strange, unfinished smile Mona Lisa gazes down upon the families and sucks up all their emotional experiences. She becomes something created by man’s hand that lives on to smile at his futility. In vain have art dealers sought to know this woman’s power. All they can grasp is the many shekels that come in for prints of this picture. If the print is poor Mona Lisa smiles almost rak ishly. What is her charm? Why are fifty per cent of the art copies sold ones of a woman with passive, empty hands? Mona Lisa doesn’t know. Once she heard a son of Italy cry, “Give me da Mun-a, Lis-a,” while he snatched the pennies out of a girl’s brown hand. Per i haiis she thought it another indication Sales and Service of her popularity. Sometimes a look ap- 1 pears in her eyes that seems to say, “Many people buy me because they have the ‘Mun-a’ and think they need a bit more culture.” At any rate she always smiles! CONF EliCElS NEXT Partial Program for Common wealth Gathering Ready. Dates Are May 17-19; Charles Cheney Principal Speaker; Subject Is City Planning. The ninth annual Commonwealth con ference will be held at the University of Oregon May 17-19, under the auspices of the department of economics and soc iology at the University. Frof F. G. Young, head of the department, will di rect the conference here and Charles II. Cheney, secretary of the California Conference of City Planning May 7-S-9, will be the principal speaker in Eugene. IV. D. Wheelwright, of the Peace En forcement league will also take part in the conference in an effort to estab lish a center of the league in the Uni versity. The program of other speakers COOK LITE HEAT WITH GAS OREGON POWER COMPANY Phone 28 881 Oak i has not been definitely given out yet bat it is planned that the most vital Issues now up to the Oregon people will be dis cussed by speakers qualified by study, service and public welfare interests in a way that will result in right and effec tive action. Circular letters have been sent out by Professor Young to call to all the wo men’s clubs and chambers of commerce in Oregon asking their attendance and co-operation at the conference. The sub jects for discussion as outlined so far and which the conference hopes to pro mote are: Peace-lEnforcement League settlement, uniform tax classification amendment, penitentiary building appro priation, labor mobilization, town and community planning in Oregon, the lum ber industry in Oregon and liberal nation al forest policy. The whole note of the conference, according to Professor Young is to keep people informed of the neces sity of keeping abreast of the times in maintaining an orderly growth for the state of Oregon. Fifteen Northwestern athletes, includ ing three captains, fell by the wayside in recent examinations, and are ineligible. KEDS SPORT SHOES TENNIS SHOES VERANDA PUMPS * GYMNASIUM SHOES EMMY LOU PUMPS WHITE CANVAS SHOES “Prices Lower Than Others’* Yoran’s Shoe Store The Store That Sells “Good Shoes” 646 Willamette Street Improve Your Spare Time If you cannot afford to attend college now—-don’t stop studying. Take some of your colege work by correspondence with % THE DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION TEACHING EXTENSION DIVISION University of Oregon Correspondence courses are not easy. They are meant for earnest, industrious students who are willing to pay in hard work for educational advantages. A Liberal Education is yours for the taking, through correspondence courses of fered by the University of Oregon, along cultural and pro fessional lines. Sv^tPfTIJlHp Hnmp n°t only bring you pleasure and profit, but may aysieilldlll nuilic aiuuy also make possible graduation from the University later. Ask for a catalogue giving full information about the courses. Bird Study Botany Commerce: five courses Debating Architectural Drawing: 3 courses Economics & Sociology: 4 courses Education: six courses English: six courses. Geology German: first year History: five courses Literature: six courses Mathematics: eleven courses Philosophy Physics: five courses Psychology: two courses Several new courses are in preparation that will be ready for students during the sum mer and autumn of 1917. Economics of Business Organization Modern Dramatists Contemporary Poetry , Contemporary English Novelists Business Correspondence German (second year), October Send a Letter of Inquiry Right Now to UNIVERSITY OF OREGON