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Campus Activities While their friends were home en joying vacation, several prominent1 college men and maids announced their engagements. All of the people are.' prominent on the campus. Vacation festivities on the campus. consisted of house dances for the ‘ ‘ left-1 overs,” picnics and hikes. Several people were left in each house, so there | was always quite a party at all of the ] open house dances. Now spring is here and picnics will soon begin again. Thirty?’ new pledges to fraternities were announced during the week. * * * Of interest to students on the campus were the several engagements which were announced either during vacation or the past week. Myrtle Ross, ’20, and Clifford Mit chell, ’19, announced their engagement during the holidays. Miss Ross is a member of Delta Delta Delta and Mr. Mitchell, of Sigma Nu. Miriam Holcomb, a member of Kap-; pa Alpha Theta and Richard Martin, of Beta Theta Pi surprised their friends during the past week by announcing their engagement. Both ase from Port land. % x Elsie McMurphy and Garfield Mad den, both of Eugene, were another couple who made known their engage ment to their friends during vacation. Miss McMurphy is a member of Alpha Phi and Mr. Madden of Delta Tau Del ta. Ruth Graham, a senior, and a member of Alpha Phi, has announced her en gagement to Richard Case, of Van ORCHESTRA WILL APPEAR Miss Lee, Mr. Devereaux and Mrs. Pim Chosen as Soloists The University Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of its conductor, Robert Louis Barron, violin instructor in the School of Music, will give its second concert of the year on Sunday, April 20, at 3:30 P. M., in Villard hall. The program will consist of numbers by the orchestra and solos. The solo ists will be Eleanor Lee, contralto; Ur sula Pim, violinist; and Harry Dever eaux, cellist. The arrangement of the program is as follows: .1 Symphony in ”C” major (Jupiter).... .. Mozart Allegro Vivace. Minuetto Finale—Moltb Allegro III Prelude de “Le Deluge,” for violin and orchestra .St. Saens Ursula Pim III. (a) Land Kjending, Ballade.Grieg (Arrangement by Albert Perfect) (b) None but the Weary Heart, (cel lo solo with orchestra....Tschaikowsky Harry Devereaux (c) War March of Priests..Mendelssohn IV. ‘ ‘ Mon Coeur Souvre o ’ta voix, ’ ’ from “Samson et Delila’’ for contralto and orchestra J..St. Saens Miss Lee V. Ballet Music from Faust—Part I.... . Gounod Allegretto movement di valse. Adagia. Allegretto. Moderato Maestoso. TO TEACH SOCIAL SERVICE Work to be Extensive in Portland Branch of Summer Session Social service work in Oregon will receive considerable attention during the summer session in the Portland branch of the University extension work. This work will be carried on jointly with the Social Workers’ club of Oregon, Public Welfare bureau, the American Bed Cross, the Visiting Nurses’ association, the Society for the Prevention and Care of Tuberculosis problems will be given and in co-opera tion with these agencies. Problems dealing with the family as a unit will be handled in connection with the Public Welfare bureau. A course in public health will be given in cooperation with the Visiting Nurses’ association and the Oregon association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. Home service will be handled with the assistance of the Bed Cross along lines now covered by a course given at the Bed Cross by Professor George Ee bec, resident director of the Portland branch of University extension work. The summer course, however, will be more intensive. Instructors for these courses have not yet been appointed. Other plans being developed for the University summer session in Portland will be announced later. Let’s shoot a game of pool. The Club, 814 Willamette street. couver, Washington. Mr. Case is a member of Phi Delta Theta from O. A. C. Thelma Stanton, Mary Paekwood and Myrtle Albright have returned to col lege for the third term. Colonel and Mrs. Raymond C. Baird and children, and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Crockatt were dinner guests iof* Pi Beta Phi Thursday evening. * * * ifi Mrs. J. B. Dezendorf, Doris Dezen dorff and Dorothy Manville were din ner guests at the Sigma Chi house Thursday evening. W. C. Keyes, of Lewisburg, Oregon, is a week-end guest, of Beta Theta Pi. Mr. Keyes is a Beta from Michigan in the class of ’98. Graham McConnell who has just re turned from over seas is a guest of Sigma Chi over the week-end. * * * Helen Day, Margaret Carter, Gertrude Livermore and Marian Linn will be dinner guests of Pi Beta Phi tomor row. * * * B. F. Shepherd, a Sigma Chi from Northwestern University, is a guest of his fraternity brothers on the cam pus. * * * Mrs. Dean Vincent, nee Gertrude Cowgill, ex-’20, spent the week at the Pi Beta Phi house. MISS HAIR IS DELAYED Illness Prevents Her Finishing New York Studies on Time Miss Mozelle Hair, secretary of the University extension division, now on leave of absence in New York to take a secretarial course under the direction of the Y. W. C. A., lias recently been granted a three weeks’ extension of time on her leave of absence. Miss Hair went to New York about the first of March. Shortly after arriving there she was taken ill with influenza -and so it was necessary for her to have an extension of time that she might fin ish her course. Before returning to the University Miss Hair will visit the extension de partments of several of the Eastern universities. Y. M. WILL HOLD BANQUET Ivan Rhodes, State Secretary, to be Present at Installation Dinner At the Y. M. C. A. cabinet meeting Wednesday night it was decided to hold an installation banquet at the Osburn hotel on the evening of April 16. Ivan Rhodes, state Y. M. C. A. secretary, will be at the banquet. Wayne Laird was appointed chair man of the banquet committee. The chairman of the standing com mittees, which make up the cabinet, were appointed, and they will begin the work for the new year. All the men were urged to go to the conven tion, which is to be held in Portland next Friday and Saturday. SWEETSER WILL LECTURE Botany Instructor to Tell Portland People of Spring Flowers Professor A. R. Sweetser, professor of botany in the University, will go to Portland April 12, where he will speak in the evening before the Oregon club in the Portland library. He will lec ture on the early spring flowers of this region. There will also be an exhibit of 150 water colors of the Oregon wild flowers, painted by Mrs. Sweetser. These will be placed in the gallery of the Portland library and both Professor and Mrs. Sweetser will be there Satur day and Sunday afternoons to explain them. Professor Sweetser is being sent by the extension department of the Uni versity, and by the Audubon society. BOOKS TO APPEAR OFTENER Alumni Magazine Will be Issued Ten Times a Year. The alumni magazine of the Univer sity of Oregon, “Old Oregon,” may make its appearance ten times next year instead of four as was the original plan, according to Miss Charlie Fenton, alumni secretary on the campus. The motion will be passed on at the next meeting of the alumni council which will take place the latter part of this , month. If the new plan is adopted the mag azine, beginning, with next term, will be issued ten times during the year, and will not be as large as is now pub lished. CONTEST PLANS ARE PERFECTED Orators of Eight Colleges to Arrive Friday; Banquet Will be Given in Evening The state oratorical association with its annual contest will come to the Uni versity campus on Friday, an event which occurs here only once in every eight years. The contest between the representatives of the nine colleges in the association will be held in Villard hall on Friday evening. Each of the colleges in the associa tion, which includes O. A. C., Pacific University, Pacific College, Oregon state normal school, Albany college, Willamette university, McMinnville col- I lege, Eugene Bible university and the University of Oregon are entitled to two delegates from each class, a debate coach and an orator. At least 80 dele gates are expected and many others will accompany them if precedent is followed. While guests of the Univer sity, the delegates will be entertained at the various houses on the campus. A banquet is also being planned for the guests. Kalph tloeber, a sophopiore, will rep resent the University in the contest. Buth Graham, a senior in the Univer sity, and the president of the state as sociation, has the arrangements in j charge.. Those who wish to attend the banquet should see her. Herman Lind, I as chairman of a committee assisting ' her, is preparing posters which will be 1 displayed on the campus and around I town. There will be no admission charged for the contest. An executive committee meeting of 1 the association was held in Salem early in February and due to the irregular ity of college life this year and because , of illnesses, the contest was postponed | from its usual date of the second Fri- : day in March, to April 11. A list of possible judges was also selected at tli at time. According to the present arrange ments the delegates will arrive in Eu gene at noon Friday, April 11, and will be taken to the houses where they are to be entertained. In the afternoon the association will hold its business meet ing, and in the evening will come the contest, to be followed by a banquet. The guests will leave Saturday. The routine of officers and meeting places of the league follow the same itinerary, each year the contest being held at the school which holds the pres idency, resulting in the office of pres ident and the place of debate coming to the University only once in the years. The Eugene Bible university being a recent addition to the league, making the ninth member, the contestants will now come to Eugene twice in the nine years, once as guests of the Bible Uni versity and once of the University of Oregon. ' Men interested in tennis and cricket should see Colonel John Leader in his office in the gymna sium at once. Colonel Leader is ar ranging class hours for these sports. Gamma Phi Beta announces the pledging of Lenore Blaesing, of Portland. 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