Dean of Women Thinks Slang Should Be
Limited™"Knock ’Em Cuckoo”™lt’s Bad
(By Douglas Mullarky)
Thpre’s lots of slang words and ex
pressions used purely on the campus in
a matter-of-fact-sort-o’-a-way to fit the
time and the place. But Dean Elizabeth
Fox doesn’t approve of them all—so a
reporter ascertained.
Of course there is the slang word,
“snitch,” nobody could get along without
that, hardly. Miss Fox would hate to
have it eliminated from her vocabulary.
Then again, there is the word “frosh”,
which means freshman, or, since the
green lids are burned up. “first year
in in.” This expression is used only at
Oregon—at no other University—and re
ceives the entire and unqualified stamp
of approval of Miss Fox.
But when the men of the University
speak of “a hunch of girls” Miss Fox
thinks they talk as if referring to a
bunch of cattle. It should be said: “A
group of women.” And as for the wo
men referring to the men as “fellows”—
“One girl just laughed at men,” says
Miss Fox, “when I suggested that she
no longer refer to men as fellows. It
is my opinion that the Seniors should be
willing to get on the pedestal to the
extent that they could be called men and
women without provoking mirth.”
Furthermore, Miss Fox has paid par
ticular attention to the use of slang in
the girls boarding houses and in the
sororities. They don’t use it whole lot
of the king's English. Their use of
slnng is unpardonable. When men like
Bishop Sumner visit the girls, it must be
an awful trial to the girls or an awful
shock to the Bishop.
“Knock ’em Coo-Coo" is a slang ex
pression which, until she was interviewed
by the reporter, was entirely foreign to
Miss Fox. But it is bad. “Kill ’em
dead,” might be pardonable if used on the
football gridiron sidelines, but otherwise,
"nix”.
“Kids” that’s what gets Miss Fox’s
“goat”. That’s one word that ought to
he “cut out”.
ATHLETES MEET SATURDAY
The inter-fraternity track meet which
was postponed last week on account of
rain has bpcn set for the coming Sat
urday. I’reliminaries in the various
events will he run off Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday after drill.
Each house is permitted three men
in each event. From the showing made
in the intercompany meet junior week
end tiie Betas and the Fijis have the best
chance at the cup.
SENIORS TAKING EXAMS
Law Department Gives Quizzes This
Week Because of Bar Tests.
The Law examinations for seniors in
that department are being given this
week beginning with Monday and will
conclude on Saturday. This is being done
to give the seniors who have to take their
bar examinations in Salem next Tuesday
an opportunity to take the same set of
questions as the rest of the class. The
men to take their bar examinations in
Salem are Kothwell Avison and IT. E.
Barnhart. There will be no alteration
in the rest of the examinations.
WILL INSTALL OFFICERS
Oregana, Emerald and Co-op Reports at
Assembly.
The last, student body meeting of the
year will be held Wednesd ly. Besides
the installation of officers for the en
suing year and speeches, the reports of
I the Oregana, Emnrald, and Co-op will
come up. If all plans work out a rally
will occur after the business is com
pleted.
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Emerald Staff Members Paired
Off Two by Two.
Annual Banquet Scheduled for
Friday Evening; Between 50
and 60 to Attend.
The drawing were completed last night
for the staff members of the Emerald
for the annual banquet Friday night in
the tea room of the Hotel Osburn. There
v ill he between 50 and 00 guests of the
manager and editor. Invitations were
mailed today.
The drawing as Fate decreed:
1 Loy Carlisle.Mellie Parker
2. Burle Bramhall.Gladys Wilkins
.'{. Maurice Ilyde.Miriam Page
4. Harold Say.Elizabeth Aumiller
5. Harold Newton.Tula Kinsey
(!. DeWitt Gilbert. .Erma Zimmerman
7. Bert Woods.’....Helen Hair
8. Clofford Sevits.Martha Tinker
!>. Douglass Mullark.v.. .Nell Warwick
10. Harry Crain.Rosalind Bates
11. Milton Stoddard.Helen Brenton
12. Joe Denn.Gertrude Cowgill
13. Tracy Byers.Pearl Craine
14. Paul Heaney.Anne Dawson
15. Win. Haseltine.... Adrienne lipping
10. Levant Pease.Florida Hill
17. John Almack.Elsie Fitzmaurice
IS. James Sheehy... Dorothy Dunniway
10. Arvo Simola.Adelaide Lake
20. Jacob .Tneobson.Louise Allen
21. Richard Avison.. .Jeannette Calkins
22 Kill Morrison.Lucile Saunders
23. John Dundore.Dorothy Parsons
24. Lyle McCrosk^y Beatrice Thurston
25. Ross Dalgleiseh.Jessie Garner
26. Harold Hnmstreet.
Special program-menus are being pre
pared. Their exact nature the committee
composed of Adrienne Epping and Lou
ise Allen is keeping secret. President
Campbell, Dean Allen, K. W. Onthank,
Burle Bramhall, Jeannette Calkins and
Harry Crain will respond when called
upon by Harold Hnmstreet, Emerald
editor.
LiBRARY BINDS BLUEBOOKS
Subjects Treated Concern Education in
England and Ireland.
The library is having bound a collection
of English blue books, containing reports
of the education commissions of Great
Britain. These contain the conditions
of education in England, Scotland, Ire
land and Wales. Subjects treated in
clude “Higher Education in Ireland.”
and “Religious Education in Ireland.”
The above topics are also treated regard
ing England and other countries of the
British Isles.
Thirty volumes are being bound this
week, and a large number of them have
been bound in the past. The books will
be used next year in connection with a
course Dr. Sheldon intends to give. The
books will be on the shelves in time to
be seen by the excursion of teachers that j
will be at the University next week-end
from Portland, according to M. H. Doug
lass, the librarian.
Another set of pamphlets are being
bound by the library. These are Oregon
state documents containing reports of
game wardens and fish commissions and
other pamphlet editions of reports of j
state officers and commissioners.
TO EXHIBIT SPORT STYLES
Fashion Show Will Be Held in Women's
Gym Thursday and Friday.
A fashion show of sport and outing'
clothes for women will be given in the
Women's Gymnasium Thursday and Fri
day under the direction of L. M. Spang
ler, manager of the Spaulding Brothers
store in Portland. This is a new de
parture and they want to acquaint the
girls interested in sports in the wearing
apparel needed for the different games.
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Men's Suits and Furnishings
all this week greatly
under price
HONOR EK ARE ON
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Rosalind Bates and Fannie
Chase Successful Candidates
Remainder Will Appear This
Week; Schedule and Stu
dents Announced.
Honor examinations and those for
master’s degrees, which have not al
ready been taken, are scheduled for this
week. Theses in most departments are
required four days previous to the oral
examination. Several candidates have
left the campus for military service and
their honors will be in the hands of the
individual committees: Frank Beach ex
pects to obtain a leave of absence in
order that he may return for the exam
ination. Rosalind Bates has already taken
her quiz in rhetoric and passed. Fannie
Chase on May IS was successfully exam
ined for a master’s degree. Following is
the remainder of the schedule:
Martha Beer, May -'4, 7:30 p. m. in
Professor Howe’s room, rhetoric.
Frances Shoemaker, May -4, 3:30 p.
m., same room, rhetoric.
F.vla Walker, English literature, May
23. 2:30 p. m. same room.
Bernard Breeding, Commerce, May 29.
at 3 p. m., Dean Morton’s office.
Adah Hall, zoology, May 23, at 2 p.
in., room 35, Heady hall.
Leslie Blades, Master’s degree in rhet
oric, May 23, at 4 p. in., Dr. Bates’
room.
Dates for Frederick Melzer, DeWitt
Gilbert, Frank Beach, Jack Elliott, Er
nest Watkins and Martin Nelson are not
on record in the administration office.
Examinations occupy several hours and
are open to visitors.
WOMEN TO ELECT MAY 24
Woman's League officers for next year
will be elected at the last meeting of
the year, to be held Thursday May 24
at five o'clock in Villard hall.
Reports of all standing committees are
due at this time.
This will be the last chance for all
women of the student body to get together
this year, and a large attendance is de
sired.
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♦ PICNIC CALLED OFF ♦
♦ Senior class picnic has been ♦
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“Fighting Second” Puts Posters
on Campus in Hope of En
listing Students.
Orders to Recruit to War
Strength Received by Com
mander Thursday.
Posters are out on the campus to
day urging students of the University
to join the second company coast artil
lery thereby getting in line for officer
ships in the drafted army when it is
formed. The coast artillery has received
orders to recruit to full war strength,
immediately, and the fifty-five Univer
sity men in the company are making an
effort to get as many college men, as
possible, to enlist among the forty-seven
recruits that are needed by the second
company.
The posters were distributed under
the direction of Sham, Jnureguy, Cox,
and Belding who are non-commissioned
officers and especially interested in see
ing the company as near a University
man company as possible.
The telegram instructing the captain
to hurry enlistments to war strength was
received and read to the men while at
drill, Thursday night. It is believed
by the University boys in the company,
to indicate an early call to service.
Captain Van Svarverud believes the
Oregon companies of coast artillery may
be needed in General Pershing's army
which is soon to go to France. He bases
his opinion on the fact that there is
hardly enough artillerymen in regular
service.
An effort will be made to have all the
University men, who pledged themselves
to join the second company in the event
they were called out, to join now and put
the company nearer war strength.
ATo drill will be held after this week
until the first of next September or until
the company is called out.
By announcement of the government,
the coast artillery will be mustered into
federal service July 15. The men in the
company will be allowed to go home
after the semester is over if they are
not called into actual service before that
time or-immediately after the University
closes.
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