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The Passing of Golden Days
Break, break, break
At the foot of thy erags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come hack to me.
—Alfred Tennyson.
The class of '24 is on the last lap of a long race. The final
term of their University life has come, and with it all the doubts
and fears, all the thrills and expectations, all the sentiment
and sadness that have ever been prone to well up in ylouthful
bosoms, when the time draws near for the world outside the
campus to claim graduates for its own.
It has been a happy four years fc* most ^f them; such a
period of pleasant association with fellow-beings of a congenial
age must needs be happy. It has been vitally and intensely
interesting for the group who were freshmen in the fall of
3920, Avho saw the last of the old “rah-rah” time-wasting Ore
gon, who mingled with the returned-student veterans of the
World War, and who watched this University change, discon
certingly fast, under the pressure of “higher standards.”
Now they are ready to leave it all behind, this group of men I
and women who have labored through the years in the shadows
of the venerable Deady and Villard—ready to face a world
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that is calling for new blood, a world which has sounded the
tocsin for young men and women.
In these closing weeks there will be much restlessness and
pondering over what is ahead and much dreaming of the love
liness of the days that are gone. A certain sense of accomplish
ment will be mixed with the realization that soon these associ
ations, built up through four enjoyable years, this whole scheme
of life, now so all-important, will be broken up, never to bej
experienced again. Never in all time to come will this same'
group be together, once the circle is broken; never again will
the same faces be seen around the tables of living organizations,
the tables where golden song in praise of Oregon has been
raised so many times.
Present ties and friendships, born of campus associations,
will be severed, and the trails of many of those who are now
strolling, hand in hand, over the last rise in the University road,
will never cross again. Net it is always so. In every walk of
life the sadness of parting with friends and loved ones, of leav
ing pleasant fields of endeavor, is always present. Without
the sadness the joys of existence would be less keen.
The empty place in the heart, which will be felt most keenly
when the train carries the graduate out of Eugene, next June,
will soon be filled with something else. Love of the campus
existence will be replaced by the zest of conquering new obsta
cles. New associations and varied activity will soon take the
sting from the hurt occasioned by leaving college life.
Yet the memories of Oregon will always be dear ones. One
could never forget the fullness of four such years, for the things
gained here make the foundation upon which life outside will
be budded.
The successes the graduates attain will be measured largely
by the standards acquired here. The money-gauge does not
mean so much as it did before. Oregon men and women who
have gained the biggest lesson of University days know that a
fullness of life, attained through a love of service, is the true
goal of human endeavor.
FORMER STUDENT
EMPLOYED IN PORTLAND
Everett Dolgraves, '-7, formerly
enrolled in the school of journalism
uf tlu' University, has left school
and is now employed on the Uort
land Oregonian. His home is at
Pasadena, California.
Hardships of Cold Alaska
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Gold, Crooks, Ice and Snow
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By Elisabeth Cady
“I think Alaska is the best coun
try today for a young fellow to go
to get ahead. It has hardly even been
scratched over in the gold mining bus
iness, and the coal there has been
tested and found to be almost aB
good as that mined in Pennsylvania.”
This was the opinion rendered by W.
F. Wostell, who takes care of the
household arts building, and who
spent 11 years in Alaska, mining and
prospecting.
Mr. Wostell and his wife started
for the north in January, 1898 in the
vessel “Oregon.” Seven days after
leaving Portland they picked up the
352 passengers of the “Corone, ”
which had been wrecked off Lewis
Island.
The- trip from Portland ’to Skag
way took pine days and after reach
ing port they had to hunt a place
to camp. In those days there were
no houses and camps were- made any
place in the snow. Mr. and Mrs.
Wostell pitched their camp on the
bank of the Skagway river where
it empties into the Lyn canal.
Drinking water at that time was
taken from the river in which the
de-ad bodies of horses and reindeer
had been thrown and had frozen
solid. Their next door neighbors
wore “Soapy” Jeff Smith one of
the most notorious crooks the world
had ever known at that time, and
his gang of “boosters.”
“They controlled the whole town
of Skagway,” said Mr. Wostell.
“There was no law and order and
more crookedness than respect
ability. A vigilance committee of
101 men was organized to get rid
of Soapy and his crowd, and notices
to this effect were put up all over
town, but as fast as they were put
up, a “booster” tore them down.
We saw wo couldn’t work that way,
so we held a me-eting on the South
ern Pacific company’s docks. One
of the boosters came down to break
up the meeting, but lie- was run
off by Frank Reed, one of the
members, stationed at the end of the
dock.
“Soapy was notified of this and
came running down. When Reed
told him to halt, Soapy pulled his
gun and shot him. Reed, although
mortally wounded, pulled his gun '
and shot Soapy, and shortly after
the combat they both died. The rest
of the gang didn’t give any more
trouble.”
In March, Mr. Wostell and his
wife started for the interior, over
the White Pass trail. They pulled
a hand sled lpaded with 360 pounds
of ‘grub’ for 480 miles, finally ar
riving in the Dawson country. Sixty
cents a pound was paid for packing
supplies into the interior, because
of the difficulty of getting over the
trail. From White Pass to Bennett,
a distance of 20 miles, one walked
over the bodies of pack animals that
had died from starvation and hard
ships of the trail.
In the Aatlin country, at the
headwaters of the Yukon close to
the Northwest territory, Mr. Wos
tell ’s son and daughter were born—
the first white children born in
that country. In 1902, Mrs. Wos
tell and the children returned to
the States.
Mr. Wostell had two partners at
this time. Two of the men pros
pected while the other stayed in
camp. “In the winters,” he said,
“the ground was frozen solid from
one to 10 feet in depth, and in the
summer it thawed for only about 18
inches. The mining was done by
building a fire and covering it with
rocks, which h*ld thej heat, and
thawed the ground for a short dis
I tance. This material was then dug
out and the process was repeated
until bed rock was struck.
“In some places,” Mr. Wostell
continued,” the ground yielded $600
worth of gold to a pan, which is
about two shovelsful. This is in
particularly rich veins, but in picked
spots the ground went $15 a pan
continually. In one place jny part
ner and I had ground that gave 27
ounces a day.
“There wasn’t very much of
anything humorous or funny then
in Alaska,” he concluded. “Prac-.
tically everything was hardships
and was sad. Once in a while things
would seem funny at the time, but
afterwards they seemed tragic or
silly. One went there then to work,
not to be amused or entertained.”
D. A. R. vs. Liberalism
A Criticism by Oscar 0. Winther
Tlu» reformers and revivalists we
have with us always, but every now
and then there appears on the scene
one of those gloomy sensationalists
who fill us with horrors of encroach
ing Bolshevism, and who pretend to
unveil monstrous plots of sinister
forces that are undermining our Con
stitution and hindering our oapital
stic enterprises. (Enterprises that
rob the layman and acquire govern
ment oil reserves).
The recent D. A. R. convention im
presses one from the columns of the
dailies as being* an excellent example
of the 100 per cent booster organi
zation type which lias a strange, and
eeniingly, a factitious habit of using
vague words which sound patriotic
but mean nothing. It impresses one
ns an organization which means well,
but an organization which is taking
the wrong attitude in aiding its
ountry to recover from its wartime
crisis. We are becoming tired of
hearing about the world coming to
an end and of a Bolshevik revolu
tion. Neither will bother us, and if
they do, let us hope for something
better than what we have.
If radicalism does become un
pleasant, one does not believe that
fanaticism will suppress it. The in
tolerance expressed by way of resolu
tions passed by the D. A. R. warns
us against a greater danger than
“liberal publications will ever be in
this country. It seems that the
“Daughters” have inherited too much
conservatism and not enough of the
thing that their name implies.
If we are to remove from our
library shelves the books of II. G.
Wells, G. Bernard Shaw, and others
of their kind, we arc taking away
(he very things that stand for prog
ess, materially and spiritually. Truly,
the people who do not appreciate the
wit of Shaw or the imagination of
Wells without thinking of them as
revolutionary and unconstitutional!
can be excused for “they know not
what they do.”
Miss Ilermine Sehwed might have
sighed with relief on the passing of
our FreenuuTs publication. “Tf we
can only suppress the New Republic
and the Nation, we will be on the
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road to progress,” was undoubtedly
her benighted thoughts. But from
the shoulders of serpents grow other
heads, and the recent publication of
the American Mercury must have
shocked passionate Americanism of
the honorable Miss Schwed. Of course,
it is one consolation that she may
nourish that this publication is
ocked in the reference librarian’s
esk at our state University; presum
bly, in order that few may discover
ts presence in the library.
All Will come out fine, Miss Schwed,
f we can substitute such wholesome
lagazines as the Western Stories,
nd the True Stories for the “liberal
ublications,” which now fill our
helves. These stories are distinct
.merican literature and do not inter
fere with the foreign policy of our
onorable secretary of state, nor
oes it interfere with the corruption
f our attorney general and the other
ily members of our national cabinet.
Oregon People
The engagement of Katherine Wat
son, ’25, to John Anderson, ’23, was
announced early this morning at the I
Pi Beta Phi and Phi Sigma Pi fra
ternities. The news was given out at
the Pi Beta Phi house, of which Miss i
Watson is a member, shortly after I
midnight. Anderson passed the cigars I
at about the same time to his brothers ]
at the Phi Sigma Pi house. i
Miss Watson, a junior majoring in
English, has been active in student
body activities while on the campus.
She is a member at Pot and Quill,
women writers’ organization.
Anderson, since his graduation last
June, has been on the staff of the
Coos Bay Times at Marshfield. He
was prominent in journalism work
and while on the campus he was a
member of Sigma Delta Chi, and as
sociate managing editor of the Emer
ald. He is also a member of Phi Mu
Alpha, musical fraternity
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as the center of information on :
many subjects for the entire state, j
“The men’s gymnasium is also j
badly needed. Adequate gymnasium
facilities for women are provided
on the campus, but the men are :
using a small wooden structure
built in 1911 and already outgrown.
As for the Memorial Court, it has
long been the hope of everyone con
nected with the University that the
Oregon men who served in the world
war should be honored in som&
beautiful and dignified memorial.”
Alumni Active in
Support of Drive
CHANGE IN RULES
ABOLISHES KICK-OFF “TEE”
University of Kansas—The most
radical change made in football
rules by the national committee,
which met in New York City Sat
urday to discuss the regulations and
desirable changes, was tlhe abolish
ment of the mud “tee,” which is
used in the kick-off. According to
the new rules, the ball on the kick
off must be held by one of the.
players, while tine kick is being
made. In order to offset the loss
in distance and heighth which this !
will bring about, the kick-off in the !
future will be made from mid-field.
BUILDING PAYMENTS
ANNOUNCED AT WHITMAN
Whitman College—(By P. I. N.
8-)—The Whitman Building associa
tion announces that the final pay
ments oh the $144,000 bond issue
for Lyman hall, the men’s dormi
tory, and for the central heating
plant, have been made. The im
provements were financed by the
issue of 20-year bonds to the. extent
of $144,000.
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ADELAIDE LAKE, ’19, VISITOR j
FROM PORTLAND
yesterday. Miss Lake was a jour
! Halisip major at the University. She
J is now on the staff of the Portland
; Oregonian.
| STUDENTS HURL EGGS
FROM GALLERY
University of Missouri—Three
university students are under $300
bonds for hurling an egg from the
gallery during the performance of
“Just Married” at a local play
house. The students left the thea
ter between acts and purchased the
eggs at a confectionery store, re
marking at the time, “The show is
rotten.” Old-timers closed their
eyes for a moment and lived again
the days when the Cherry sisters
were being “told with vegetables."
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Is Christianity Decadent?
Is Christianity waning as a social
force? If so what are we going to
do about it? These are the questions
I propose to discuss,, I will not say
answer, in my sermon next Sunday
morning.
Figures seem to show that Chris
ianity as expressed in church organ
zation and resources is growing
lightly faster than the population.
ut somehow one senses a disorep
ncy between Christianity as ex
pressed in its institutions and the
tide of living force, which for a re
ligion, is alone important. To know
what Christianity is spiritually worth
requires more than the testimony of
statistics, for in such a matter figures
may lie very exhaustively and decep
tively.
How far does Christianity actu
ally direct modern life because it is
alive in heart and conscience of mod
ern men and women? That is a
difficult thing to say but it is worth
seeking, for its is the one great fact
of more value than counting the
noses of believers of the dollars of
invested funds.
Looking forward, will Christianity
give spiritual illumination and guid
ance during the next hundred years
to a certain world toward new and
nighty experiments? Certain it is,
we are moving on to a testing time
of Christianity such as it has never
nown.
In my sermon Sunday morning on.
‘CHRISTIANITY IN THE NEW
CENTURY” I shall discuss as best
I can the great problem suggested
by the above questions.
In our Unitarian church we aim to
be open-minded and tolerant yet to
think freely and speak plainly. We
invite all who seek truth in the spirit
of ffeedom'to worship with us.
‘‘The Little Church of the Human
Spirit” extends a welcome to Uni
versity men and women. We believe
we have a real gospel to offer. Our
services are simple but we always
have a little good music. Next Sun
day ROBERT McKNIGHT is the
soloist.
The church is looted on East Elev
enth avenue at Ferry street. - Ser
vices begin at 10:45.
FRANK FAY EDDY, Pastor.
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