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
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“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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Sv^tPfTIJlHp Hnmp n°t only bring you pleasure and profit, but may
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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
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