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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1919)
A Cbg V* JL' VUA The Womans 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 postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates $1.25 per year. EDITORIAL STAFF DOROTHY DUNIWAY . ADELAIDE LAKE . ERMA ZIMMERMAN . HELEN BRENTON . EMMA WOOTTON HALL MARY ELLEN BAILEY .. Helen McDonald . ELIZABETH AUMILLER CLYTIE HALL FRINK .... . Editor . Associate Editor News Editor and Cartoonist . Managing Editor .....Features .Sports .Woman’s Activities ..Proof .Head of Copy Desk ASSISTANTS Louise Davis, Frances Cardwell, Dorothy Cox, Stella Sullivan, Elva Bagley, Frances Stiles, Velma Rupert, Nell Warwick, Mary Ellen Bailey, Helen Man ning, Lyle Bryson, Wanna McKinney, Eleanor Spall and Genevieve Haven. BUSINESS STAFF CATHERINE DOBIE .Manager ASSISTANTS Helen Manning, Lyle Bryson, Mary Ellen Bailey and Ruth Nash. EVERYBODY HAPPY? Isn’t this the very best Junior Week-end ever and aren’t you having the best time? It is what every one is saying, even the freshmen who scrubbed and painted End* toiled for the beauty of the campus, even perhaps, those who were ducked in the race, for what is a hi tie water on a warm May day? Junior Week-end this year is returning to its normal basis. During the war, the lack of upperclassmen with so many Oregon men in the service, made activities and festivities of the week much smaller than usual, and the old athletics were quite out of the question. But this year, with the return of the/oli Oregon men has come a strengthening of 1he Oregon spirit, for, small as we may have been in numbers at times, we have never lost that far famed fight. We are fortunate in having this year a particularly large guest list of both alumni and high school students. To the alumni, we can say only that we are just as happy to have you here (as you are to be on the campus again. We know you’re glad to get back- Not a letter has come from Oregon men and women overseas or serving in the United States in the cause of democracy without an expression of “how wonderful it will be to get back to the campus.” It is certainly good to see and talk once more with so many Oregon men who have added to Oregon’s honor by their service for their country. To the high school students, we extend a sincere welcome. Wc hope that you will find all your dreams of Oregon realized, for we know that you have heard much of the University. May this week end bring to you every possible bit of happiness and joy and some thing of our Oregon spirit. THETA SIGMA PHI Theta Sigma Phi, national fraternity for women in journalism, claims among the members of its 15 chapters many women who have the promise of brilliant literary careers. Active participation in the profession of writing is the anticipation of every Theta Sigma Phi whether she is interested in newspaper work, advertising, writing, poetry or short story. The fraternity was founded at the University of Washington in 1909 for upperclass women majoring or specializing in journalism. Oregon’s chapter, which is Theta, was founded in 1915 and already among her alumnae Theta chapter has a number of women active in journalism or closely allied work. Grace Edingtou is assistant instructor in journalism at the University of Washington. Echo June Zahl is court reporter on the Portland Telegram. Helen t urrey and her sister-in-law, Mrs. George Huntington Currcy, managed and edited the Malheur county Enterprise while Mr- Currcy was awav at war. Louise Allen is a member of the reportorial statt ot !he; Portland Oregonian. Docile Saunders for six weeks during .Legis lature was managing editor pt the Salem Statesman, where she is employed as a reporter. Claire ltaley is society editor and assistant telegraph editor on the East Oregonian and Elsie Fitzmnuriee is a reporter on the same paper. Beatrice Locke is society editor on, the Spectator in Portland, Alone Philips is a‘reporter on the Clack amas County Banner in Oregon City and Emma Wootton Ilall is doing a fine bit of journalism work in compiling the war record ol the Lniversity. The big event for Theta Sigma Phi each year on the Oregon campus is the publication of the Women s Emerald, at Junior Week end. In lIds edition are printed the names of the new' pledges ot Theta Sigma Phi. Theta Sigma Phi brings to women in journalism an inspiration for the best possible work. These women as they leave their Alma Maters and enter the field of journalism are returning this inspir ation with splendid work which brings honor to their national fraternity. WORK FOR THOSE BONDS The passage of tho *>,000.000 reconstruction bond issue to bo voto.t on Juno :i would moan $500,000 for University of Oregon buildings. Tho I'nivorsitv needs more adequate housing and facil ities iu tlio soionee departments, tho schools of oouuuoi'oo and journal ism, not to mention tho imperative need for a now library. Not a single shelf on the library has room for another book. Every book in t(|t> lihrarv has been shitted at least 01100 this year until e\ci\ available inch has been used. Neither is there room for comfortable seating of the students and faculty. The University is growing rapidly. The increase in enrollment this year has been more than 20 >,er cent. The University will continue to grow. Additional buildings must be provided. Every loyal Oregon man and woman should get even possible vote for this all important bond issue by explaining the need tin* buildings on tin4 campus and vvhat tin $500,000 can do toward building up the University and aiding in caring for its future students ON TO SEABECK Nothing can mar the glory of Seabeck. Not even the unluck} number 13 has its diabolical effect, for didn’t exactly that many girls from Oregon attend the Y. W. C. A. conference last year, and wasn’t it one of the very best ever? No University woman need be in doubt what a session at the conference can do for her, for it vas clearly depicted at April Frolic. Besides it is a wonderful place to spend the last days of vacation, for this year comes from August 25 to September 5. Make your plans to be one of the crovd. COLONEL BOWEN In the'retirement of Colonel W. H. C. Bowen from active military service as commandant of the R. 0. T. C., the University is saying good-bye to a sincere friend, who through the period* of the S. A. T. C- and the corps of this year, has given everything .possible to the University men from his experience of 38 years of army life. Colonel Bowen came here to organize and command the Students Army Training Corps in which 500 men were enrolled. The organization was just being thoroughly established when the signing of the armistice brought about its demobilization in December. Colonel Bowen then turned to the establishing of the R. 0. T. C. He has been here in a hard year, for interest in things military declined with the cessation of hostilities overseas, but he has brought, through his abil ity and experience, such success to the organization that Oregon is ranked high by national inspecting officers. Faculty and students will not forget Colonel Bowen, and hope that he will always keep in his heart that place which he has reserved “just for Oregon.” The women’s edition of the Emerald directs attention to the fact {hat it has no “fashion page,” no “helpful hints to housewives,” no “reliable receipts,” no “advice to the lovelorn” by Beatrice Dillon or Dorothy Fairfax, no “wailings of a wife”—none of those “features” so often gathered “at great expense” for the delectation of the “eternal feminine.” Do men like to be warm or do they just like to look warm? One of the Emerald reporters’ suggestions that men go coatless at the start of the bright weather season has met with no response from his fellow sufferers. And all this sunshine has brought forth only a very few straw hats. Are men so very conservative about th^ir dress, just lazy, or do they like to be able to feel really warm for a few weeks after the cold season had passed? Did you begin at the bottom of this Column and read up the way Erma Zimmerman suggested at the State Editorial Association ban quet as the ideal way to get enjoyment from the editorial page? If you really want to, of course you can^even without standing on your head, Edgar B. Piper’s interpretation of the way Miss Zim merman perused his editorial columns. PETE ON JUNIOR WEAK END May 10, 1919. Eero Joe, Well Joe junior week-ends here. If you want to know what a junior weak end is just you look at a junior and youll see. Its the part bounded by his hat and collar. I am telling you that the junior what thought it up was sure weak at that end. Well anyway its hero dnd so is everybody else. Everybodys come up from every where. Theres preppers and peppers from all over the State! Only mostly theres peppers. When a guys got lots of jazz they call it pepper anti most of these preppers have got so much pepper that you cant go by cm with out sneezing. Tt looks suspicions to be sneezing all the time. Folksll think vouve got the influenzy again. It all began on Thursday with the canoe-l’eat. Theres no reason you should call it a feat—just having canoes float down the millrace all lit up. Who wouldn’t be lit up if they could be. Friday was campus day. The spesh* ulty that day was having a bunch of spesh ally selected tellers — speshully selected cause they were Frosh—get out and work till they were all in a preparation. Its good 1 knowed how to handle a pick and a shovel cause a feller likes to do things graceful like when theres Indies lookin on. Then we all lined up and got a plate and a napkin and a pickle. That was the campus lunch. Fat you should of seen those folks eat. Youd a thought they was eat in airplanes the way the food flew. Theres all kinds of sports goin on down here, Joe. I Hint much for sports though. I aint forgot the time I lost five cents bettin on a baseball game. 1 aint the kind to grouch but it seems to me that the team I was bettin on might of won. Theres lots of good lookin girls down here. 1 ast one to go to the junior prom with me and she. said net if she knowed it. 1 think that was kind of funny cause how could I take her if she didn’e know it. She must be holdin it again me cause I stept on her feat at the last dance. It wasnt my fault cause her feat was so big and l told her so and then she got madder than ever. Folks all think this is a swel eele braslnin. Maybe it is cause we are goin to have ice cream for dinner. Yours to a cinder Pete. ODE TO THE ONION What a shy little fruit am the onion When it grows under the ground After it's et it’s a different tale It simply can’t be downed! College is something to Be worked for all you can get out of it. The Y. W. C. A. is selling ice cream and chocolate bars at all events of the week-end. The Booster’s Club with Dorothy Reed as president is in charge of the sales and every one is asked to patronize them. O. H. FOSTER ATTORNEY AT LAW Old U. S. National Bank Bldg. Don’t Forget Bob’s Barber Shop Just around the corner on East 7th St. I Films Kodaks Kodak Finishing Barclays Kodak Shop . Corner 10th and Willamette n -i . Special Junior Week-End * Service We rent kodaks Go where the particular people go j STOP AT THE | Hotel Smeed WHEN IN EUGENE GOOD MEALS YORAN’S Shoe Store the store that sells Good Shoes ’ Home-Made Candies Victoria Chocolates Chocolate Boil Btms Lunches—Candies—Ice Cream 7th and Willamette St. Eugene, Oregon