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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1919)
OREGON EMERALD Official student body paper of the University of Oregon, published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the college year by the Associated Students. Entered in the postoffiee at Eugene, Oregon, m second class matter. Subscription ratds $1.25 per year. EDITORIAL STAFF DOUGLAS MULLARKY .EDITOR Helen Brenton .Associate Elizabeth Aumiiler .Associate Dorothy Duniway .News Editor Erma Zimmerman,Assistant News Editor Leith Abbott .Make-Up Adelaide Lake .Women’s Editor Nell Warwick....Society I’ierce Cumings.Features Alexander G. Brown.Sports Bess Column.Dramatics ASSISTANTS HARRIS ELLSWORTH ...MANAGER Elston Ireland .Circulation Catherine Dobie .Collections BUSINESS STAFF News and Business Phone 055. Reporters. Kupert, Helen Manning, Lewis Niven, Raymond Lawrence, Wanna McKinney, Frances Stiles, Stella Sullivan, Velma Helen McDonald, Louise Davis, Fran ces Cardwell, Dorothy Cox, Elva Bagley, A CONSTRUCTIVE PLAN. ■ t The student cooperation and approval of Dean Walker's stop announcing Ilia plan for a state-wide basketball series with finals to be played at the Univer sity each spring lias been in every way satisfactory and in keeping with the spirit of the University, Walker’s suggestion is one of the most constructive made for some time looking toward 1 lie growth and useful ness of Oregon to the people of the stute, and is receiving tho support it deserves. It ls'true that the boys on Uy> teams must be entertained by the men of the University while they are here for the championship games. Also there will lie difficulty in getting a satisfactory date so that (lie games will not inter fere witli the present work and activ ities of Oregon students. However, the plan will tend to center interest of the high schools at Oregon as they are nl -eady in track and in the state debating league. In tlds way they will lie of real service in increasing tile enroll ment and enlarging the service of the University to tile young men and women of tlie state. With those activities of high schools all centering at the Uni versity, the students will not only take more Interest In their high school life but "ill have the University called to their attention to the end that more will avail themselves of the opportunities of fered to the people of the sttate through he University of Oregon. While it means little to the students flow in the University, ns a larger en rollment will not tend to give them any additional advantages, the efforts toward hu increased attendance at Oregon should not he neglected. Oregon stu dents want to see the University main tain its present standards and to grow in greatness in proportion to the other schools of the 1‘acifie coast among which Oregon now holds so high a place In various forms of intercollegiate activity uud in scholarship. Furthermore, the larger the student bod}’ at Oregon, the greater will he the service the Fuiversity can he to the Kate which supports it. It in a duty of ritixenship to encourage education. In* ssiuueh as Walker’s suggestion tends toward a greater use of the service of fered at Oregon it is constructive. Ore gon likes the plan and will make it its own. THE OLD GYM. The crying need for the new Woman's building is felt more keenly perhaps by the woman’s gymnasium department than by any of the other numerous women's interests which at present suf fer from lack of housing facilities. It is not generally known just how badly crowded the dressing rooms are but the amazing facts are these: Two hundred fifty Oregon women are com pelled to use twenty-three showers, and nineteen dressing rooms in the brief space of ten minutes allowed to prepare for their next classes or their gymna sium hour. At three o’clock forty sophomores, seventy freshmen, a»d twenty-five in the corrective room are doing their gym work. At four o’clock these one hundred thirty-five women must share the twenty three shoWrs and nineteen dressing rooms with incoming four o’clock classes of approximately the same size. It is obvious that a large per cent must be denied the privilege of taking showers. The condition of lighting and ventilation are necessarily abominable us^a result of this tremendous over crowding. The benefits of the exercise are thus Inrgcly lost. Tiie classes are too large to handle satisfactorily since no individual work is possible. The instructors in the depart ment declare that classes of forty or fifty arc ns large ns can be properly haudled at once. 'l’lie new Woman’s building will obviate these difficulties by providing adequate facilities for the physical training de partment. At present there is no place provided to keep the numerous trophies wbiqfi are offered each year; the office space is entirely inadequate since three in structors must uso one smull room; there is no rest room; and recitations are held in five different buildings. 4 The new Woman's building besides providing for these needs will add a swimming pool; will house the homo economics department, and provide meet ing places for various women's organ izations. The University of Oregon must have conducted its S. A. T. 0. iu u much more satisfactory manner than did other American colleges. This from the Uni versity Daily Kansan: "The enrollment at the University of Oregon shows an increase of JO per cent over that of last year. Unbelievable when it is remembered that the S. A. T. C. was established there lust fall!" FACULTY PLAY POSTPONED Fergus Ruddle to Assist In Production to be (<lven in April. Tlit> faculty pln.v, “Milestones,” by Ar nold Heunett, will not be produced until after spring vacation, according to Mrs. Uric Allen. Fergus Reddle, bead of the department of public speaking, who has just returned from Austrlia, has promis ed to assist with the production. Rehear sals are already in progress. Peter t'roekatt, professor of econom ics, will take the part left vacant by William Vuuce, former secretary of the V. M. C. A, on the campus. One other part is yet to be filled. The full cast now chosen is: John lthead.W. K. O. Thncher tlertrude lthead.Mrs. Sallie Allen Samuel Sibley.Peter t'roekatt Rose Sibley .Norma Doble Miss lthead ......Mabel Dorsey K hard Sihley . N y Sibley.Charlotte Ranfield N l\vm .Andrew Fish Hon. Muriel Pym..Kmma Woottou Hall Fudly lthead ....Mrs. Virginia Walker Arthur Fierce .Robert Prescott 1-"“-* Monkburst.Clayton Baldwin MOVIE SHOWS TO flF GIVEN IT y. M. HUT Secretary will Try Out Plan; to Ask Dean Ehrmann if Women can Attend. Motion picture shows will be tfiven at the “Y” hut if the University* students desire them, According to Edgar I?. Van Osdel, new secretary of the campus Y. M. C. A. These show's will be given, he said, as ofteh as the students wish them which will probably be once a week. Mr. \ an Osdel intends t« see Dean Ehrmann with a view to finding out if it would be possible for the University women to attend these Rhows. This has been done successfully in other places. .“These films are sent past our door all the time.” said Mr. Van Osdel, “and wo might just as well have I hem stop off here." They are sent under the auspices of the War Work council to all the “Y” huts and go from San Francisco to Washington all the time. The War Work Council will have charge of this work orl>il June and if the students desire the films will be shown on the campus. The purpose of showing these films which are issued by the standard moving pictures associations and are the same as those shown in the regular moving picture houses is to add to the social pleasures of the students. There will be no admis sion charged for these shows. Admission will never ho charged for performances held in the “Y” hut. said Mr. Von Osdel, if the Y. M. C. A. secretary can help it. Plfcns will be made later in the year, according to Mr. Von Osdel, for the Roa beck delegation, which ho says he hopes will he a good sized one. Mr. Van Osdel says that ho likes the University and the general atmosphere of the campus life. Ilo wishes to get ac quainted with each individual man in the University, he said today, and ionrn what the wishes of each and needs of each are before making any definite plans for the work of the Y. M. O. A. for the year. 4444<t444444444444 ♦ MU PHI EPSILON 4 ♦ announces the pledging of 4 ♦ MRS. \\' F. G. TIIACIIER, 4 ♦ LEOLA GREEN, 4 ♦ PATTY FRENCH, 4 ♦ MARGARTT RIDDLE, 4 ♦ MARTHA TINKER, 4 ♦ DOROTHY DIXON. 4 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦444444 FACULTY NOTICE. Modern 8-room BUNGALOW close to the University, strictly modem, fire place, furnace, large lot, close to car line, $2500—cash $1300. SAM RUGII REALTY CO., 22 E. Sth St. 2t Wallace's Cigar Store, 804 Willamette. Complete lino Cigars and Cigarettes, tf Wallace’s Cigar Store, 804 Willamette. Complete line Cigars and Cigarettes, tf _ _ _ t. —■ ALPHA BETA DISTRESSED Old Men of Society Perturbed Over Light Treatment in Emerald. The feature story in the last issue of The Emerald in regard to the purposes and apparent features of Alpha Beta is regarded as a challenge and the light treatment an offence by the old men of the organization, according to Don Ox man, one of the six new men elected to the inter-class society. Oxrnan, who has been directed by the old members to give a statement to The [ Emerald, setting students aright in re gard to the society, says: “Alpha Beta is a society of nncient origin on the campus, devoted to the moral uplift of the students. In its pres ent group of six pledges, the old men feel that they have admirable material on which to work for the ultimate good of the University. This statement of the society has been authorized by the pres ent members who, of course, do not wish thei^ names known for fear of ridicule because of their ultra-moral purposes. “The statement in The Emerald speaks lightly of the society in regard to its members and surmises ‘Alpha Beta is evidently no scholastic society.’ This is admitted. It is, however, I am told by the men now' in the society, an organization with a purpose, something distinctive in view of some other honor societies on the campus. “It is also true,” says Ures Maddock, for the men already admitted to mem bership, “that the newly elected this year embrace a wide field of student ac tivity ns The Emiyald stpry said—‘prom inent students, athletes, and some stu dents not generally known at all.’ This is whnt makes Alpha Beta strong. It is the most cosmopolitan group on jhe campus —Bohemian.” Wallace's Cigar Store, S04 Willamette. Complete line Cigars and Cigarettes, tf PHOTOGRAPHS—Satisfaction guar anteed. ROMANS STUDIO. For Real Fuel Economy, Use GAS For COOKING LIGHTING HEATING MOUNTAIN STATES POWER CO. Phone 28. 881 Oak St. JIM SAYS: Wear Neolin Soles and Wingfoot Heels. Waterproof and Noiseless. JIM, THE SHOE DOCTOR ‘ 986 WILLAMETTE STREET. We Make Our Own Candies. The Oregana Confectionery llth Near Alder. 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