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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1918)
•Sanon Has 23 Musicians; Places Open For Four More. ■The University Orchestra, under the eadership of Robert Louis Barron, head of the violin department of the School of Music, is rehearsing regulnrlj for its first con ert, which will be the third of the University concert series at the Eugene Theatre. Professor Barron has the following Hi! musicians at work: First Violins.—Alberta Potter, Mar garet Phelps, Ursula l’im, Stanley Wentz, Arthur Hendershott, Margaret Biddle and Raymond Atkinson. Second Violins.—Gwendolen Lamp shire. Elsie Marsh, Edna H. Rice, Charles Runyon, Ada MeMurphey, Gail Winched and Ralph Johnson. Cello.—Marry Devereaux. Bass.—Leonard Gross. First Clarinet.—-Albert Perfect. First Cornet.—Lloyd Bellman. Second Cornet.—Reginald Fifer. First Trombone—Raymond Marlatt. Tympani.—Richard Lyons. Piano.—Aurora Potter. Musicians Needed Professor Barron says that the or chestra is progressing nicely, but that he needs a flute. Viola, drummer and another trombone. Anyone wishing to try out is invited to call at Professor Barron's studio in the School of Music building, between 10 A. M. and 12 M.; 1 P. M. and 4 P. M. any dhy thys week. Rehearsals are held in the auditorium of Millard Hall on Tuesday and Thurs day from seven to nine P. M. Robert Louis Barron, violinist, and Arthur Faguy-Cote, baritone, will be the soloists at the appearance of the Uni versity Orchestra at the Eugene Thea tre. The date will be announced soon. Programme For Concert The programme is as follows: Overture, “Titus,'’ Mozart, University Orchestra. “Aria from Faust,” Gounod, Arthur Faguy-Cote. Orchestral Accompaniment, “Unfin ished Symphony,” Schiubert, University Orchestra. “Concerto” (First Movement), Men delssohn, Robert Louis Barron. “Group of Songs,” Arthur Faguy Cote. (Mrs. Arthur Faguy-Cote at Piano.) “Two Norwegian Dances,” Grieg, Uni versity Orchestra. The second appearance of the Uni versity Orchestr at the Eugene Thea tre will be some time after Christmas, ivhen Eleanor Lee, contralto, and Alber ta Potter, violinist, will be the solists. [ TWO MORE DEATHS (Continued from page one.) f Lieutenant II. G. Ohickering. Lieuten ant A. E. Caswell and Miss Mary Perkins the University faculty, accompanied Mrs. Sargent to Portland, where ser vices will be held. President Campbell is keeping in con stant touch with ithe State Board of Health, informing them of the conditions here. “The University will take what ever action the conditions warrant,” the President said this morning. “At pres ent, i'i seems best to keep the University ripen, for every precaution is taken find : the number‘"of cases is decreasing.” The | P’st report gives 251 students reported ! vek. many with only slight colds. This is I a decrease of 87 over Thursday’s report. “If thV situation grows alarming,” the President announced, “the Univer sity will be closed at omc ” Military Honor for Townsend. A military escort of the staffs of the Oi egon State Officers’ Training Camp and members of Company I) aceoirpaniec the body of Thomas 11. Townsend, mem ber of the camp and graduate of the Uni versity, who died of pneumonia Thursday r.ight, to the train. The boay was taken to Salem, Mr. Townsend’s home, where funeral services will be held. The com pany presented arms and the bugler sounded ruffles and taps as the train left the stat on. The honorary pallbearers were Colone1 i John Leader, commandant of the camp. * Major James McKinnon. Captain Charles Comfort, Captain Karl Onthank. Lieuten ant John Kamm, and Lieutenant H. G. Ohickering. Mr. Townsend had been confined since Tuesday at the Eugene hospital, where he died at 5:80 p. m. Thursday. His wife I wns called to Eugene Tuesday and a | brother, John, of Portland, came Thurs j day. Mr. Townsend was a traveling sales man for 'the fir mof Allen and Lev,'is, v. holesale grocers, with headquarters in Pcrtland. He was a graduate of the Uni »versity in the class of 1000 and taught Jin the Eugene high seh""l after grsdua Stion. He was a member of the Beta The |tn Pi fraternity and at 'the time of his * kieath w:fs a member of the Alumni Oouu *. riL of the Alumni Association f the Uni ’M ersity. * He is survived by his uarents. Dr. and Eugene Bible University Has Curios Bibles Made About 1300 A. D. Written on Vellum. Clay Tab lets and a Meek Ring from Africa Are of . Interest The Eugene Bible University is *he j possessor of the finest collection of rare , old Bibles on the Pacific coast. 234 in all. Besides the Bibles there are col lection of day tablets 4,(X10 years old in cuneiform writing, curios from Africa, China and Japan, and an interesting col lection of Polyglottas. One of the most interesting of the old Bibles is the hand-printed Batin manu script made about 1300 A. D. It is ' written on vellum, supposed to be the skins of antelopes. It begins in Exodus arj ends in Hebrews, has 270 leaves or 55S pages. The capital letters at the beginning of the chapters (-verse mark ing was not known at that time) are beautifully tinted by hand in red and blue, with tiny, floral sprays decorating the length of some of the pages. Another testament is a facsimile re print of an lltli century Alexandrian manuscript, which was printed in 1795. The original manuscript is in the Brit ish museum, in London. Old Copies Date to 4th Century There is u copy of a Vatican, a Bozae and a Sinaiticum. All date hack to about the 4th century. There is also a Robert Stevens Greek Testament, which was printed in 1550 without verse markings. One year Liter Stevens put the Bible in verses. Edgar ,T. Banks, the noted ornitholo gist who lectured at Viilard hall last year, recently presented a collection of clay tablets from Babylon and Ninevah to the University. These tablets are about 4,000 years old. One bears the name in cuneiform writing, of Nebuchad nezzar, and anothfr the name of Nn bonidus, father of Belshazzer. They are bonidas. father of Balshazzer. They are remarkably well preserved, with per haps one or two exceptions. The museum contains an interesting collection of curios from Africa. China and Japan. Of the African selection, one that amazed the writer was the neck ring, made of smoothly polished iron, which is worn by the favorite wife of an. African chief. This ring the marriage symbol and has the same significance as the American woman's finger ring, with this difference: The African ring weighs about fifty pounds, and is worn about the nook—a yoke indeed. Polyglottas Are interesting The collection of Polyglottas are of much interest. Some are in four and in eight versions. There is one 12-tougue volume, si\ modern and six ancient lan guages. This I’olyglotta has a board binding a half-inch thick and was print ed in 1599. Another is a King James version printed in 1RS3. It has a thick board binding covered with leather, and is bound at the corners with brass and has heavy brass clasps. This volume | displays a largo map which was made 191 years aftar Columbus discovered America. It shows the world round, but also shows several imperfections. The Amazon river was mistaken for the Ori noco. Reference was made to the two great lakes in America instead of five, and showed California as an island in stead of a peninsula. Began With Five Students The Eugene Bible University, situated ou the state University campus, is the pioneer institution of its kind, and at present is one of three in the United 8tntes> It was established in 1895 ns an experiment, with five students. Today it has an enrollment of 102 in the University, and 22 in the Junior | school. The library contains 0.000 vol umes. All are of a religious and bibli cal nature, as the students do outside rending at the Oregon University libra ry. and attend classes there that are not given at the Bible University. The students come from all the west ern states nud there arc several from west of the Rocky mountains. A group of 30 forms the California club. Two are from Honolulu, one from China and one girl is from Mexico. The men and women are trained for missionaries, min isters, V. V and Y. IV. C. A. and all other fields of work for the good and uplift, of humanity. There are 48 stars in the service flag. Of these 12 or 15 are Y. M. C. A. sec retaries and chaplains in France. The University is kept up by the Christian church, but no distinction of creed is made. Mrs- John A. Townsend of Portland, his wife, two sisters, Mary and Aileen, both University students, and by two brothers, John Townsend, with the firm of Allen and Lewis in Portland, and Loss Town send, of Amity. Mr. Townsend was 33 years old. Women Getting Better. The women, the health office says, are getting along well. A number are be ing discharged from the infirmaries. The second floor of first unit in Hendricks hall has been converted into a convales cent hospital. Here the girls not quite strong enough to take up their work again are being carefully watched so that there will be little danger of relapses. Hendricks ball’s supply of comfortable chairs was gathered yesterday and taken 'to this convalescent hospital and every thing possible is being done to make the girls comfortable. Eva Hansen and Essie Maguire, two of the girls who acted as assistant nurses for the sick at Hendricks and who suc cumbed to the grip, were much better this morning. One good old-fashioned precaution be ing taken is that of airing the bedding in ihe sunshine. The exposure of many flaming red blank ;ts from dormitory windows gave evidence yesterday that this step was being followed. ' A lot of yellow posters have been is sued as p.nother step in warding off the further spread of colds. The .faculty have been requested to place 'these posters in conspicuous places about the campus so that the reader may be warned and take heed “to cover each cough or go out side.” PNEUMONIA AT 0. A. C. Oregon Agricultural College. Oct. 18. —Three serious eases of pneumonia are reported in the S. A. T. C. with 158 men confined in hospitals. Albert Butts, of Yankton, Or., died last night in the col lege hospital following an attack of Span ish influenza* The number of women sick has reached 60 with no serious cases. CAMP FIRE POSTPONED The O. T. C. camp fire and song feat which \vn s to have been held Friday ev ening. was postponed on account of the death of Thomas Townsend, of Salem, a member of Company I). The event will probably he held Tuesday evening on "Nd Man’s Band” between the trench es. Alma P. Kratz. of Portland, civil ian aide to the C. S. Adjutant General, will be on the campus at that time and will be a guest. WRITING ROOM USED MUCH An average of 200 letters a day were written at the University Y. M. C. A. during the rainy, dark weather, but ow [ ing to bright days the number tons de creased. In the reading room all the largest Portland dailies, local papers and magazines, donated by Eugene merchants, may be found. DR. CONROY NOW CAPTAIN Member 0. T. C. Gets Commission In Medical Corps. Dr. R. G. Conroy, of Medford, who has been attending the third officers’ camp at the University while waiting for ! his commission in the medical depart ment of the army, received the announce, rneut yesterday that he had been com missiond captain and is to report for du ty at the base hospital at Camp Lewis. Dr. Conroy was a member of a cornpan ny taking artillery training at the Uni versity. He left Eugene this morning for his new position. SOCIETY NOTES I Although no college affairs htive boon given this week, entertainment of a very informal mature has managed to exist on the oampus. Gamma Phi Beta enter tained Wednesday night with au informal dinner party. i<ie guest list included: Captain Klarc F. Covert, and Iueuten ants Frank Spratlen Jr., Edward E. Radcliff, Cornelius G. \\ illis, llondi Par tridge, Reuben Zimmerman and A. B. Barney. The women of the I’niversity have enjoyed hikes every afternoon this week under the patronage of the V. W. C. A. The movement was started as an influ enza prevention, but the girls have found : it so thoroughly enjoyable that plans are under way to continue the hikes ■ during the winter months. Mrs. E. C. Apperson is spending the I week-end with her daughter at. the Kap pa Kappa Gamma house. Madeline Burgess, of Pendleton, is the house guest of Kappa Alpha Theta for the week-end. Frances Tatt. is spending the week end at her home in Salem. Mrs. E. 11. Hamblin, who has been vis iting her daughter Margaret at the lvip- | pa Kappa Gamma house for the last i week, left yesterday for her home in McMinnville. George Black, who was enrolled at the University in the S. A. T. C., left today for Berkeley, California, where he will enter the aviation training camp. He is a Phi Delta Theta pledge. Nadine Hollander, Helen Dahl, Vera Henderson and Margaret Holladay are at their homes in Portland for the week end. Mrs. Kate Lighter, of Portland, is spending the week-end with her daughter Alice, tut the Alpha Phi house. Agnes Busier, Virginia Giles, Myrtle Ross aud Helen Campbell are at their homes in Portland for a brief visit. Doris Churchill is spending the week end in Salem. BRODERS BROTHERS. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in « Fresh, Corned and Smoked Meats. 80 W. 8th St,_ Eugene, Oregon. Phone 40. Wall Paper, Paint and Art Store. PICTURE FRAMING. FRED LUDFORD, 922 Willamette St, JIM SAYS: Wear Neolin Soles and Wingfoot Heels. Waterproof and Noiseless. JIM, THE SHOE DOCTOR. 986 WILLAMETTE STREET. “NEAR THE CAMPUS” Qie Or'egana CONFECTIONARY^” Has the best of Everythin? in LUNCHES, ICE CREAMS, FOUNTAIN DR AND FANCY SUNDAES. ELEVENTH STREET NEAR ALDER. Army Uniforms REMODELED AND REPAIRED. The only Tailors in Eugene with owner in active service. Phone 250. 42 West 8th. Umbrellas COLORED SILK Like Parasols, almost. But Umbrellas, all the way through, serviceable umbrellas that are intentionally and unusually “good looking.” Taupe, navy, purple, brown, black, from $4.95 to $10.00. For Christmas! Why not? Can you name a gift more useful than an umbrella? At M. and W.’s, First Floor. This Is Christmas Shopping Season! I’uy gifts for Christmas giving NOW After all, it’s the logical idea — no congestion; no picked over or short stocks; no mistakes, disappoiment-— unlimited service — we wonder peo ple never thought of it before! nr* Your Christmas Shopping Should Begin at Once,” Says Uncle Sam. Christmas, 1918—the Christmas of Useful Gifts. How different it is from Christ mases that have gone by. But hoy much better it is, and how much better we all will feel if we have helped, in just a little way, the government’s conservation plans. The Mc\lor ran & Washburne Store has prepared its Christmas stocks along the lines outlined by Uncle Sam. The stocks are brimful of happy, useful gifts, the sorts that are ever accept able and welcome — and serviceable. Your visit here, Monday, will solve many a per plexing question as to what to give your friends mid family. You’ll be welcome — and serviceable. Your visit here, Monday, will solve many a perplexing question as to what to give your friends and family. You’ll be welcome. THE BUSY STORE WHERE QUALITY IS SUPREME. OUTFITTERS TO COL 1, EGE MEN AND WOMEN