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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1924)
McClure to Be Director Seattle Man to Lead In Northwest AlumniDrive Starts Appointment Made by Alumni Head Appointment as director of the Northwest division of the Univer sity alumni gift campaign has been accepted by William E. McClure, ’96, a leading Seattle lawyer and formerly a regimental commander in lie Washington National Guard. The appointment was announced by Eobert Kuykendall, president of the alumni association. Mr. McClure will direct the campaign in Wash ington, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. According to present plans, Mr. McClure will appoint a district cap tain for western and eastern Wash ington, and directors of the cam paigns in the other states in his division. President P. L. Campbell of the University will outline Uni versity needs at a division gather ing in Spokane shortly. Name Closely Associated Six brothers and a sister of Mr. McClure attended the University and all were graduated. The name McClure is closely associated with Ihe institution. Edgar McClure, B.A., ’83; M.A., ’86, became profes sor of chemistry at the University after his graduation. He lost his life on Mt. Rainier. McClure Rock in Rainier National Park is named after him as was also McClure hall, which houses the chemistry and psy chology departments. Henry T., Hora/co, Walter, John, Charles, Edgar and Jennie took their academic work at Oregon, and all, with the exception of Edgar, set tled in Seattle. Horace was for merly managing editor of the Seat tle Post-Intelligencer. Walter and Henry entered the practice of law, Charles the practice of medicine, and John went into business. Degree Received in 1896 William E. McClure took his liberal arts degree in 1896. He was born in Eugene and lived hero until after his graduation from the Uni versity. During his boyhood, it did ■ at occur to him that ho should do otherwise than attend the Univer sity, he wrote President Campbell recently. “The perpetuation of any repre sentative government must rest upon the general level of intelligence and the education of its members,” ho wrote. “The groatest service any university can render to its stu dents and to its state is to teach men and women to think with ac curacy and with sanity. This the University does, and this, to my j mind, is its greatest service.” Rating Is High Mr. McClure stood second in his class with an average rating on his four years’ work of more than 95 | per cent. After his graduation he entered George Washington univer sity, Washington, D. C., and took the highest law degrees: bachelor of laws in 1900, master of laws in 1901, and doctor of civil laws in 1902. The plan to construct a Memorial court on the University campus in 1 oner of those who made war sacri i ices commends itself to the Seattle man. lie has held commissions in the Washington National Guard from captain to colonel, and now holds the commission of major in the officers’ reserve corps, U. S. A. During the Spanish-American war, he was engaged in construction work on Forts Stevens and Columbia, and during the World war he or ganized and commanded the Third I Infantry, Washington National Guard, with the rank of colonel of infantry. Portland Center Gives Banquet The public speaking class of the Portland center of the University of Oregon gave its annual banquet in Portland Friday night. Dean William G. Hale of the school of law was the principal speaker at the affair, taking tHe place of President P. L. Campbell, who was unable to attend.' Mayor George L. Baker acted as toastmaster at the banquet. The public speaking class in the Portland center has more than 200 enrolled in it including many of the prominent business men of the city. The banquet is given each year. Mrs. Helen Miller Senn conducts the class. Oregon Graduate Is Publisher of Poems (Continued from page one) he “learned the honest methods of deception.” But lie admits that The Mentor’s eye Was too engrossed to heed my basty evolutions Wherein I laid aside my waxen subterfuge .... It is really unfair to lift any sin gle poem from the book for quota tion as it is a “biography in verse,” representing “a few experiences out of an old bachelor’s life, from in fancy to old age, showing how cir cumstances moulded a strong char acter.” (So says the cover jacket). Yet the following passage, if not very good, is very characteristic: On the loveless wild of the Moor .... At the mouth of the cave he pauses .... “Lovor of womon? Lover of clouds! ‘Merry come soon—high 01’ She laughs and jeers at me. Her eyes! They luro me, oh— Like the fruit of an apple tree! Lovor of women? ' Lover of shrouds! Anl now she winks and peers: ‘A lover? A loon! High O!’ And now she jaunts and jeers: My lover’s a loon! High O! High O!” Script Is Ready for Dr. Charles W. Eliot (Continued from pago one) vard’s generations, was scarcely known but in name! “O great perceptor, the Univer sity of Oregon, now presided over by one of your own discipled, would be enrolled among those who hap pily gather today to salute you. Amt the legend we would most reverently and cordially inscribe within the encircling wreath would be the vow that Rome once gave to her Augustus or her Constan tine—Vote X.” HAL HOSS VISITS CAMPUS OVER WEEKEND Hal E. IIoss, managing editor of the Oregon City Enterprise, is in Eugene this weekend. Mr. IIoss, ac companied by Mrs. IIoss, is confer ring with Freda Goodrich, editor of the Oregana, concerning the publi cation of the annual. He will con fer, also, with officials of the build ing and development campaign of the University. “God on the Campus” A senior stopped me recently as 1 was passing his fraternity house and asked me to interpret this text for him, “In Him we live and move and have our being.” It happens that Sunday is a day observed in the Unitarian denomina tion as Young People’s Sunday. So it occurred to me that here was a text suggested for my use. The prob lem which was perplexing our senior vus this: What does a God in which one lives and moves and has his be ing mean to him? Now 1 am wondering if there may not be quite a number among the University student body to whom a similar question has occurred. It is certainly one,which can very natur ally arise in a period when the facts of the universe are being presented to young people in a new light. I am asking that those of you to whom ttiis question of what does God mean to those who find them selves living in a universe as inter preted by svieuee which seems greatly changed from the one of, their earlier years, to first bring the problem home to yourselves as indi viduals by asking yourselves the question: What docs God mean to me? My further invitation is one which otters you the hospitality of our lit - tie Unitarian church, hoping that in my sermon on "God On the Campus’* 1 may, through my own mental and spiritual experiences, suggest some thing to you which may be helpful and interpretative. A special musical program has I been prepared for this service, in which Hubert McKuight will sing a solo and Beulah Clark will play a ; flute solo. (Paid Advertisement). First Unitarian Church of Eugene PASTOR, FRANK FAY EDDY Located on East Eleventh Avenue at Perry street. Morning service at 10:45 o’clock. The Church School follows with classes for University men and women. “The Little Church of the Human Spirit’’ BOOKS THE END OF THE HOUSE OF ALARD. Sheila Kaye-Smith. The first reaction one gets after reading “The End of the House of Alard,” by Sheila Kaye-Smith, is, perhaps, that this is something a little different than some of her for mer books in that she treats a dif ferent class of people, as well as a different religion. True, there is still the smell of the gorse-covered earth rising through the pages, there is still the passion for the soil, but the men are of the landed class, remnants of old families, clinging tenaciously to great portions of land which they are too impoverished to keep culti vated and too proud to sell. The element of family pride is added to love of the land and the Alard coat of arms, starting out of the first pages, is the dim background throughout the entire story. As in “Sussex Gorse,” where each child is sacrificed to the land’s cul tivation and the fight of Reuben with Nature, in this book old Sir John attempts to place individuals of his family upon the altar of fam ily feeling. Peter, whose story oc cupies most of the book, gives up his love of a woman which he fears may change—to his loyalty to the land—which he felt sure would re main always. His is a tragic end. The woman he should have married and the woman he did marry are likewise sacrifices to Starvecrow. The girls of the family lead meager lives with the exception of one—the only one of the family to gain happiness—who marries a farmer very much beneath her socially, in the eyes of Sir John. Gervase—youngest son, becomes a priest in his search for peace, and at the death of Sir John, beopmes heir—the last male Alard. He ends the line by firmly refusing to re nounce his choice of life and utters his stored bitterness at the unhap piness enforced upon them by family. The story is absorbingly interest ing, a large number of- characters all being developed rather fully and our interest and sympathy is se cured for each one.—KATHERINE WATSON. * * • TOLD BY AN IDIOT. Rose Macaulay. When Sinclair Lewis laid waste the land of the Philistines, great was the tee-heoing in the camp of the “young” intelligensia. Now, alas, the tables are turned. Main street is more than avenged, for the creator of “Babbitt” is not a circumstance to Rose Macaulay. Her weapon, like his, is the jawbone of an ass, as she hints with indecent frankness in the very title of her book. This time the victims are the young, tho educated, the literary, the sophisticated, tho up-to-the-minute overturners of con ventions and taboos. The novel de scribes with an easy, sardonic de tachment all the phases of “emanci pated” youth from 1878 to 1924. 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A. • • * ■O----<*>■ I I MOST POPULAR BOOKS I IN LIBRARY; FEBRUARY Non-fidtion 1. The ilance of Life . .:. Havelock Ellis 2. Prejudices .... H. L. Mencken 3. Anatole France books 4. Oh, Doctor . . Harry L. Wilson 5. Mankind at the Crossroads .. j . East Tiction 1. Grey Towers . Anonymous I 2. Town and Gown .... Montross 3. Don Juan . Lewisohn 4. Against the Grain . ._... Huysmans 5. End of the House of Alard . Sheila-Kaye Smith ♦ Certificates for Memorial Here Twenty membership certificates from the Harding Memorial associa tion have arrived at President P. L. Campbell’s office. The association recently wrote to the University seeking members in the association. Any one contributing one dollar or more will receive one of the certi ficates. The Memorial association has as its purpose, the building of a mauso leum at Marion, Ohio; the preser vation of the Harding' home at Marion, Ohio; and the endowment of a chair in a university or uni versities for the teaching of govern ment and economic subjects. TEMPORARY MARRIAGE IS TRIED ONE MONTH Stanford University—(P. I. N. S.) —“The Stanford Chaparral” and TAKE YOUR CHOICE You cau be sure of the highest quality in all our products. Then, too. the change from white to French, rye or whole wheat gives one the opportunity of var iety. ■VhWAMASl Butter-Krust BREAD ,?i I*0STAFF “Columbia Jester” have issued invi tations for their temporary wedding to be celebrated on the occasion of the combined issue of the two col lege comic magazines, which will be released this month. 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