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LIBRARY AND SCIENCE BUILDINGS NECESSARY SAYS M. H. DOUGLASS Need of Laboratories, Class Rooms, Equipment Told By Professors The need of new buildings at the University is Illustrated in a report by M. H. Douglass, University librar ian, on the crowded conditions at the library during the present school year. Not only are the reading rooms over crowded and the students who are trying to study subjected to all man ner of distraction, but the shelving space is also far inadequate to ac commodate the accumulation of books. Mr. Douglass also points out that quarters of the library officials have been encroached upon for storage rooms, and space is no longer avail able either for the proper care and marking of new volumes as they ar rive or for the re-binding and upkeep of the used ones. Confusion Great In Library Under the present system of study, reference work and other outside read ing is assigned in almost all classes. All this must he done in the library building or in class rooms opened up in emergency after hours. Accord ing to the librarian, the seating cap acity of all the rooms available in the library for study purposes is but 211, yet the time when a majority of the 1700 students must do their studying in the library iB limited to a few hours of the day. Crowding during these periods is very acute and many can neither secure the books needed nor find a place to study, Mr. Douglass reports. Class rooms on the upper floor of the library and in the base ment add greatly to the confusion by packing the halls and entrance be tween periods. New Building it Needed The librarian’s report indicates that the growth of the University demands a library building with room enough to make available all necessary books and reference matter, and at the same time provide rooms for reading and study. Under the present conditions good work is in many cases impos sible and instruction is hindered in al most all departments of the Univer sity througli causes beyond the con trol of either students or professors. The only remedy, according to those who have stdied the situation, lies in the erection of a new library building designed to meet present needs with provision made for the normal growth of the University. The librarian’s analysis shows that the present build ing is now over utilized, anti that ef ficiency is cut down by conditions which are constantly being aggra vated. science work is Hampered Reduction in class work efficiency through over crowding is not (rumble to the library alone. Reports from tlie beads of the science departments indicate that crowded class rooms, scanty laboratory space, widely re moved recitation rooms and laborat ories. or uncongenial surroundings make thorough instruction difficult in botany, geology, physics, psychology and zoology. With all available space utilized at present many of the de partments still find insufficient room for their needs. A peculiar handicap In the science courses is the lack of room and facilities to accomodate graduate students and to permit re search work, according to Dr. Uovard of tlie zoology department. Valuable specimens must be stored unpacked and unavailable for use, while proper displa> can not he given those which are in cases. A solution is offered if funds were available for the erection of a new science building. Such a building would be designed to meet ’! > needs of tlie departments of bot nn\ geology and zoology and would release Deadv hull for the « \punston !'f the departments of physics and psychology, according to the plans set f<> to in the reports of the science rme sms on present conditions. Gradcate School to Pro’it "ho g re --t handicap in a'i do i ,r;n..' its (he lack of room for i'l for liihorutfirle ami for mu cou’ii and specimens, the analysis prepared by Dr. ltovard and Dr. Boyr ion of the physics department states. The rsoult is poor class rooms, un available laboratory hours, and in ability to make available all the pres ent equipment. The science profes sors feel tliat one new building will pen It better Instruction under more ‘avorablc conditit us to undergraduate ; tud- tits in all ilto scienci branches ami will make possible the develop ment of a strong graduate school. LOST A S!eta Kappa 1'si pin. Find er please notify Ethel Waketleld ilo dricks Hull. OUTDOOR COURSE PLANNED Packard to Conduct 3 Week*’ Work In Geology Near Medford Dr. E. L. Packard, professor of geo logy, will conduct an outdoor ad vanced class in geology on the Rogue river, near Medford, for three weeks between June 21 and July 10, ac cording to announcement made yes terday. In this class, Dr. Packard said, he will take not more than ten students. Five have already signed up for the class—Victor Husband, Newton Estes and Hubert Schenk, all of Eugene; Claire Holdredge of Trent, and Merril D. Ely of Port land. The work to be done will be the study of a small area of cretaceous formation found last summer by Hu bert Schenk. “This area,' Dr. Packard said, “will afford opportunity for th 3 study of geological problems of a varied na ture and will be directly in line with work already started for an exten sive study of the cretaceous in this state.” KAPPAS WIN FROM THETAS FIRST OF DOUGHNUT SERIES IS PLAYED—SCORE 22-1 Dorothy McKee and Alive Evans Star For Winners—Voliere Coffey Scores for Defeated The first game of the women's doughnut baseball series was won Monday afternoon by Kappa Kapya Gamma from their opponents Kappa Alpha Theta with a score of 22 to 1. The Thetas played a hard game but were unable to stand up against the pitching of Dorothy McKee, pitcher for the Kappas, who struck out al most every girl that came to bat. Vallere Coffey made the score for the Thetas, while the Kappas’ total of home runs numbered three, Dor othy McKee making two and Alice Evans one. The line-up for Monday was as follows: Kappa Kappa Gamma—Alice Ev ans, catcher; Dorothy McKee, pitch er; Lois Harnett, first base; Emma Garbade, second base; Ruth Austin, third base; Margaret Hamblin, r. shortstop; Jeannette Moss, r. field; Mary Irving, 1. field. The Kappas played without their left shortstop, Gene Oeisler, who was unable to get out for the game. Kappa Alpha Theta—Jessie Lewis, catcher; Carolyn Cannon, pitcher; Vallere Coffey, first base; Dorothy McGuire, second base; Marion Law rence!, third base; Marion Linn, 1. field; Imogene Letcher, r. Held; Gen evieve Matson, r. shortstop; Eliza beth Geiser, 1. shortstop. PI KAPPA DELTA HAS FOUR NEW MEMBERS Honorary Educational Fraternity Fav ors Two-Mill Tax For Ele mentary Schools Oftlcers were elected, initiation was held, and a resolution was passed favoring the mill lax l’or elementary education at a meeting Thursday evening of Pi Kappa Delta, honorary educational fraternity. In passing the resolution this or ganization declared that as a body in terested in furthering (lie cause of education,, it recognized the emer gency existing in the elementary schools and wished to declare itself in favor of the two mill tax for such schools and to pledge to the measure the support of the fruter nttj William C. Hoppes was elected president, I’eter Spencer vice-presi dent, Lester Gladden recording sec retary, 1 0. Douglass corresponding secretary and Lloyd Knlund treas urer. Verne Hlue, Leo Cossmau and Marcus o hay were appointed to act as a. membership committee. L G. Douglass, William Thornton, Ko> Stroud and Lloyd Knlund were the new members taken in at this meeting'. MISS ED1NGTON HONORED Graduate of ’16 Made Theta Sigma Phi National Organizer Miss Grace Kdgington, a graduate of tile University in 1916, was elect ed national organizer of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary professional journal istic fraternity for women, at a na tional convention held last week at the University of Wisconsin , Miss Kdgington majored here in journalism and ts now an instructor in that brunch at the University of Washington. Lyle Bryson of the Oregon jour nalism school has just returned from this convention. About 70 women from different universities attended the sessions. WOMEN DEBATERS WILL MEET 0. A. C. IN VILLARD TONIGHT Edna Sparling, Elaine Cooper Oregon Speakers; Negative Goes To Corvallis The first women’s intercollegiate debate of the year will be held this evening in Villard hall at 7:30, be tween O. A. C. and the University. The question is “Resolved, that Am erican labor should organize and support a party of its own.” The original date was set for ’ Tuesday night, but owing to the inability to secure judges, was postponed until tonight. The girls who will represent the University tonight are Edna Sparling of Victoria, B. C., and Elaine Cooper of Portland. Miss Sparling is a sophomore in the University, enter ing with Credit in ihe winter term. She was one of the members of the Hendricks hall champion debating tjpam this year. Elaine Cooper was a member of the champion debating team last year., and of the Alpha Delta team which made a high score in doughnut debate this year. They will defend the affirmative of the question against O. A. C. negative. At O. A. C. tonight the University negative team is debating O. A. C’s affirmative. The girls debating at Corvallis are Ethel Wakefield of Pas adena and Wanda Daggett of Port land. Both have been members of •the champion Hendricks hall team for two years. The girls have been putting in hours of preparation and practice and there is no doubt, according to the coaches, that the debates tonight will be worth while. Those who have been helping the girls by coaching and securing of material are Professor R. W. Pres cott, Walter Myers, Dr. E. C. Rob bins and members of the men’s var sity debating team. OREGON VICTORIOUS IN TENNIS MATCHES Annexes Four Out of Five Events from Willamette; Return Games Junior Week-End In the first tennis match held be tween the two colleges in recent years, Oregon won four of the five events from Willamette University last Saturday afternoon in Salem. In the women’s singles Marjorie Kay, representing Oregon, lost to Mary Finnley of Willamette. The lemon yellow was victorious in two events of the men’s singles, in the men’s doubles, and in the mixed doubles. Mortimer Brown won over Moodhe, while Harry Westernmn defeated Doney in the men’s singles. In the men’s doubles Westerman and Smith downed Moodhe and Doney of Wil lamette. Marjorie Kay and Ken Smith, Oregon’s team in the mixed doubles, outclassed Willamette, rep resented by Mary Finnley and Moodhe. The Oregon team is to meet Wil lamette in two matches here Friday and Saturday . These matches, a part of tlie Junior Week-end program, were to be played between O. A. C. and Oregon, but as O. A. O. has no tennis team this year her place will be tilled by Willamette with the two matches named. i)ok\ (Osburn FAVORITE RESORT OF STUDENTS Dinner Dances Teas and Banquets a Specialty =B MISS STANTON BEREAVED ‘ Death of Father in Portland Calls Student Home Friends of Thelma Stanton, ’20, are extending sympathy on the death of her father, Edward Stanton, in Portland Monday night. Miss Stan ton was called home last Friday by his serious illness from which he never rallied. Death was caused by pneumonia. He is survived by his widow and a son and daughter. 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