INDIAN MISSIONARY
TELLS OF 25 YEARS
ON FOREIGN SOIL
Y. W. Worker In Native Garb
Describes Old Customs
of Hindoo Women
Clothed in a Hindoo sari, a gray,
loose flowing garment that entirely
covers the body and head, Miss
Agnes Hill, Y. W. C. A. missionary,
told a group of college women at
the bungalow last evening of the
strange but interesting ways of the
natives of India, emphasizing par
ticularly the sad existence led by
the women, who are far from free,
because of hereditary customs.
Miss Hill is an earnest and faith
ful Y. W. C. A. worker,, was born
in Dayton, Ohio, and has been in
India as a missionary since 1894
She left India last spring, arriving
in this country in July, for the pur
pose of lecturing to create interest
in behalf of these poor women of
India whom she is so anxious to
help to their freedom.
One amusing experience Miss Hill
told of having in India was when
her servant asked if she might have
a few days off to make up a mar
riage contract for his daughter and
when she said, “Why your daughter
is only eight years old,” he told her
that his daughter had reached the
age where a husband must be found
for, her- Then she said to her,
“Couldn’t your father get any one
to marry you ! I hey thought it
funny that I wasn’t married,” she
explained, “One can’t be an old
maid unless you are a Christian.”
Will Go Back to Her Work.
Miss Hill expects to return to
India this February and is very anx
ious for that time to come, she says,
so she may get back to the at
mosphere of the work that she loves.
“One life is such a little thing to
give,” she said, “I wish that I had
a hundred lives to spend in foreign
fields.”
Upon being asked if she liked the
west, for this is her first visit on
this coast, Miss Hill said last night,
that she was very much in love with
the west, but she wouldn’t stay here
for $1,000 a month, so great is
her love for foreign work. She
related how, while she was in Cali
fornia, the people at a certain Y.
W. C- A., where she visited, begged
her to stay with them, but she ex
plained to them that “one is only
happy where they are needed.” “A
job in this country,” she went on to
say, “is worth your life to keep,
always there are some 50 other
people clamoring after it while in
the foreign countries all you accom
plish is your’s and there is nobody
trying to get your ■ job or shoulder
the credit that is due you for your
efforts.”
Miss Hill was a graduate of the
University of Illinois in 1892 and in
1894 she took up the missionary
work that she is still carrying on.
JUDGE GANTENBEIN DEAD
Former Dean of Law School Father
of University Freshman
Calvin U. Gantenbein, judge of the
state circuit court for Multnomah
county, who died at his home in
Portland, Tuesday morning, was for
several years dean of the University
of Oregon school of law before it
was moved from Portland to the
campus.
Judge Gantenbein was the father
of Ellen Gantebein, a freshman in
the university. Miss Gantenbein is
a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.
S-MARALDA
elects
J. WILSON GAILY
of Enterprise.
SIGMA DELTA PHI
announces the pledging of
ALICE CURTIS,
of Marshfield, Oregon.
Heard of a Liar? He will be at the
Eugenetheatre, Dec. 5. Benefits of
Volunteer Student Movement.
COOKING CLASS GIRLS
I PREPARE LUNCHEONS
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Hostess and Her Assistant Plan All
Details and Do Work for
Meals
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A series of luncheons are being
given by the cooking classes to give
the girls practical experience along
i this line, according to Miss Antoinette
jShumwav of the household arts de
partment.
| “We find that the girls enjoy this
system ever so much,” she said. “The
girls are paired off, one as the hostess
and the other as her assistant, with
the others in the class as guests. Each
girl pays the expenses of her oAvn
luncheon, the cost not to exceed 25c
' a plate. Plans must bo made an
submitted to the instructors for ap
proval before anything can be done
towards the actual cooking of the
meal. The two girls, hostess and as
sistant, must not only do their own
cooking, but their buying also. So
far, they have been allowed either to
buy the bread for the meal or to
make baking powder biscuits, but as
soon as they have been taught the
art of bread-making they will have to
do this also,” Miss Shumway explain
jed. After the table has been set and
all of the guests are present, criti
cisms are made by the instructors.
About four of these luncheons are
.given each week and will continue
until each girl has been both hostess
and assistant.
MACHINE GUN WORK GIVEN
OVERSEAS LIEUTENANT WILL
INSTRUCT CADETS
Men From Each Company to Receive
Specialized Training for Two
Weeks
Machine gun instruction in the R.
O. T. C. was started Monday morn
ing. The work is being done under
the supervision of Donald D. Hunt
ress, a member of the class of ’23.
Huntress held a lieutenant’s commis
sionduring the recent war. He is a gra
duate of the First Army machine gun
school at Gondercourt.
Five or six men are detailed from
each company for instruction over a
peuiod of two weeks. The work is
done during regular drill periods and
includes six lessons. Two lessons are
based on the nomenclature of the
gun, two on its operation and the re
maining two on its tactical uses.
The period of instruction will con
tinue until all of the cadets have be
come familiar with the machine gun.
The most proficient will later be pick
ed to form a machine gun unit. The
R. O. T. C. is making use of a Brown
ing automatic rifle and Browning ma
chine gun for instruction purposes.
The first detail of cadets who are
taking the training for the two weeks
from November 17 to November 28
includes the following:
Company A—Francis Beller, James
Whitaker, Asa W. Eggleson, Walter
Cofoid and F. C. Adams.
Company B—Henry Koepke, Meyer
Russell, Howard Staub, Ralph N. Bur
gess, Wesley A. Shattuck and Russell
Christiansen.
Company C—George M. Goldstein,
Max Himmlefarb, Roscoe D. Roberts,
Stephen G. Smith, L. F. Perry and P.
A. Cummings.
Company D—Perfecto Biason, Or
son L. Vaughn, Richard F. Bery,
James Sears and Richard Sunderleaf.
WAR WORKERS
RETURN
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j Elizabeth Devaney ’17 Helps Ore
gon Root.
Miss Elizabeth Devaney, class of
’17, who has been in Washington,
j D. C., in government work, was
; back on the campus Saturday. Miss
! Devaney went to Washington early
in 1918 and did clerical work in the
ordnance bureau of the war depart
, ment. She remained in Washington
until last October, and while there
visited many historic^ places, in
home in Virginia, took a boat trip
up the Hudson river and made a
short stay in New York city. Miss
Devaney is now teaching in the Cot
tage Grove high school.
SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON
announces the pledging of
NEWTON BADER,
of McMinnville.
NEW COLLEGE SONG OUT
! “MEMORIES OF OREGON" BY HOM
ER MARIS, PUBLISHED
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1 Music to be Sold on Campus and
Streets for Benefit of the
Women’s Building
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I “Memories of Oregon, believed by
i many to be one of the most beautiful
songs ever written with the Unlver
versity as a theme was sold
on the Oregon campus and Eugene
streets at the week-end for the ben
efit of the Woman’s building. The
song was was to be officiall intro
duced by the men's glee club at the
! alumni luncheon on Saturday noon..
| Words and music of the song are by j
Homer Maris, a graduate of the Uni
versity in 1915.
“It is truly a wonderful song, and
1 cannot speak too highly of it,” de
clared Professor Alfred Lukken, of
the school of music, this afternoon.
•'‘Members of the glee club are very
enthusiastic concerning it and I be
lieve it will prove an extraordinary
success. Undoubtedly it is one of the
best Oregon songs we have.”
Mr. Maris, who has written several
other songs, will be on the Oregon
campus at the time it is introduced.
" ‘Memories of Oregon,’ is the thing
I’ve been wanting to write ever since
I entered Oregon as a freshman,” Mr.
Maris said in a letter recently. “In
those days I was impressed with the
spirit that prevailed at Oregon—a
spirit which insisted that every man
do something for Oregon. I wanted
to do something, -wanted more than
anything to write an Oregon song,
but it seemed that every possible
phase of Oregon life, and all of the
Oregon traditions had been touched
on.
“But at last I hit on the idea which
is expressed in ‘Memories of Oregon.’
I hope it will be liked.”
HEW OFFICERS INSTALLED
EUTAXIAN INITIATE EIGHT
MEMBERS
Mrs. G. It- Stephenson Tells of
Society in Early Days of
University.
The newly elected officers of Eu
taxian and the eight women who
were elected to membership were
installed and initiated respectively
when this organization met at the
Y. M. C. A- bungalow last Tuesday
evening. The officers are Lucile
Morrow, president; Irva Smith, vice
president; Mae Ballack, secretary;!
Grace Knopp, treasurer.
Those who were elected to mem
bership at a previous meeting and
who were initiated Tuesday were
Irene Whitfield, Mary Mathis, Alice
Hamm, Mary Turner, Margaret Fell,
Laura Rand, Marie Ridings, and
Ruth Griffin.
Mrs. G. R. Stephenson, of Port
land, a graduate of the University in
; the class of 1896 and one of the first
members of the Eutaxian,, gave a
description of the organization in its
first years. At this time Deady hall
comprised the entire University, it
being the first building on the cam
pus. Mrs- Stephenson told how the
members of the Eutaxian and those
of the men’s literary society would
gather and organize themselves in
to teams for the purpose of debating
with each other.
Mrs. Stephenson spent the week
end in Eugene as the guest of her
daughter, Elizabeth Stephenson, who
is attending the University.
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DOROTHY COX AT DENVER
Former Emerald Reporter Writes for
Rocky Mountain News
Dorothy Cox, student last year In
the school of journalism and mem
ber of the Emerald staff, is reading
the work of some of her former con
temporaries from a great distance.
Miss Cox is attending Denver Uni
versity and in her off moments is
campus correspondent for the Rocky
Mountain News.
During the summer she did some
special reporting in Denver for the
News and had some signed articles
j with pictures. Miss Cox writes that
she misses Oregon,
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COLLEGE JAZZ DANCE
SATURDAY, NOV. 22nd
“College Hall” Above Oregon Theatre
NOTICE
Dances will be given every night of vac
ation for the benefit of the “left-overs”
Get your dates now, first dance
Thanksgiving Night
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