Invitation Cards Sent Out To About 2000 Graduates For Banquet in Portland Five Hundred Expected To Attend Affair in Portland Hotel Next Friday Night Five hundred members of the alumni association are expected to attend the banquet next Friday night in Portland, honoring Captain J. J. McEwan, Oregon’s football coach for next year. The banquet will be held at the Portland hotel at 7:15, and is sponsored by the Portland Alumni association, of which Nick Jaureguy is president. Several campus people are expected at the affair: Jeannette Calkins, alumni secretary, Virgil Earle, ath letic director, Walter .Malcolm, president of the student body, Bob Mautz, football captain of 1925, Albert Sinclair, captain-elect, and Dr. John F. Bovard, dean of. the men’s department of physical edu cation. Newspaper Cards Mailed Invitations to the banquet have been sent out to nearly 20,00 alum ni. The card is a suggestion of a newspaper, going under the title of “Oregon Alumni Two-Penny Post” —“Published in a, hurry by long distance telephone, January, 1926.” There is a cartoon by “Bunk” Short, class of ’24, and the head line of the nows is “Extra! Extra! News Bush.” Alums Wish to Meet Coach The main section of the card tells where the banquet is to bo and where tickets may be purchased. It is prefaced by the following words: “Left, Bight, Left, Bight, Left, Bight—Forward, March. . .Don’t crowd! Don’t push! Got in line! Get your ticket early, or you may not get in! For what? Why, for the big Oregon Alumni Banquet for Oregon's new coach, Captain John J. McEwan.” Joanette Calkins said yesterday, that the alumni are anxious to meet McEwan and that at least 500 are expected at the banquet. FRESHMAN COMMISSION WILL MEET AT 4:15 “The Negro Question” will be the topic /or discussion at the Freshman Girl’s Commission meet ing this afternoon at 4:15 in the Y. W. C. A. Bungalow. Katherine Hondo, a senior major in sociology, will outline the problem, and the remainder of the time will be spent in discussion by the girls. Kather ine Kneeland, program chairman, lias arranged a short musical pro gram. Mary llarnoy will give some piano selections. Other Commission meetings this term will bo on February 11, and February 25. Tho subject for the first of these, according to plans of the program committee, is “The Grading System at the University.” “Time and How to Spend It” will be discussed at the last meeting. Summer Studes Get News From Bulletin Board (Continued from page one) No one was ever quite sure whether the subjects for publication tore the cuts out in disgust, or whether friends cut them out for their mem bry books. The Bummer Sun, which now runs during the summer session, is a weekly, coming out every Wednes day. It now has the field to it self, the “Acta Diurna” having gone out of existence at the end of the 1921 session. The “Summer Sun” was started in li)18, and ex cept for two years, 1920 and 1921, it lias run steadily, being put out by the students of the summer journalism classes. r VERSIFICATION GROUP TUTORED BY MRS. ALICE HENSON ERNST Verse Fbrm of Campus Poets Critically Analyzed; No Curb on Individual Style That small group of persons who have a desire, or who find they have an ability to express themselves in verse, and who heretofore have had little opportunity to have their work constructively criticised, are now working under the tutelage ‘of Mrs. Alice Henson Ernst, assistant professor of English at the Univer sity of Oregon. Her class in versi fication was started last fall. The purpose of the class is to pro 'vide a meeting place for the campus ’ poets to study and experiment in ‘the writing of verse and veTse forms, and to receive the aid of helpful criticism from Mrs. Ernst, who is a student of poetry. To gain flexibility and breadth, the differ ent forms and verse patterns are tried out with free assignments for variety, usually on local material. , One assignment on a theme relat ing to Homecoming time, called forth various interesting responses. One in free verse is given below, while another in ryhmc, “The Pio neer,” appeared in the January is Isue of Old Oregon, the alumni maga 1 zine, During the past term blank verse, ryhme royal, the rymed cuplet, and the true sonnet were all subjects of study and assignment. The method of procedure followed by the class is that of critical analysis of each students work, which is read in class. Thus the class as a whole Kmefits from the criticism, as weT ;as the student whose Work is under discussion. Later the student has a conference 'with the instructor, who gives her personal attention to the student’s most vital problems in connection with his work. Technique is studied as a mealns of expression rather than as an end, and individual Btyles are given free pjay. Before the end of the year each student hopes to find the form or pattern to which his pe culiar ideas find the best expres sion, and to specialize in that form. Following are some of the samples of the work done by the class. This does not include several poems which are entered in national poetry contests. A few of the members of the class have already received rec ognition for their work through publication of poems in literary, magazines. Walter Evans Kidd and Philippa Sherman are among this number. The first poem of the sub-joined poems, “Jed Fulton,” is by Evelyn H. Schetnck, ’28; “Independence,” by Philippa Sherman, ’28; “Home coming,” by M. Fitch, ’28; A Cedarville Tradition,” by Lloyd J. Reynolds; and “To the Mona Lisa,” by Juliette C. Gibson, ’26. JED FULTON By Evelyn H. Schenck Jc'd Fulton was a man of whom folks said No word of good or ill. Ho lived apart Save only for his daughter and his wife Who dressed in burlap, and when winter snows 'Became more cruel to their tired feet,, He let them wear his cast-off boots and shoes. His beard and hair were long, and straggled o ’er llis chest, like raveled rope ends, and his .wife Longed often for the courage and the strength To twist the matted strands into a n'oose. Jed’s eyes were grey and close set, shoulders broad. Ilis arms were hung low, so that he seemed to be More ape than man. Ho never spoke, and ho Was careful always, that no stranger’s eye Might, rest upon his stronghold un awares. INDEPENDENCE By Philippa Sherman John Silver, patch across his sight less eye, \nd wooden peg where once a leg could stand. Had neor been adored by dimpled maid, Nor did lie have a love in every land. COME TO THE Free Grill Dance Tonight CAMPUS TOGS IN ORDER 8 to 10 p. m. Ye Campa Shoppe Make Reservations Now for the Friday and Saturday Dances Phone 229-R His hat, pulled down to hide a face as cruel, As cutlasses that gash, and rip, and tear, Could not conceal a heart that, mer ciless, The please of captive maids refused to spare. Hi, then, I would Old Silver be, and so Whenever dimpled maid would beg a boon, I’d scowl from out one eye and make her cringe, Turn on my wooden leg, and let her swoon! r HOMECOMING By M. Fitch (A Reverie written in the middle of the night by one whose impro vished bed was too hard to sleep on.) I’m tired of sleeping on a wopsy lopsy bed. I’m tired of having to dress in a two-by-four room, With five other perfectly strange people. I’m tired of “talk arounds” which last Till five P. X. and get personal. I’m tired of explaining to alums, who sent The chapter a sofa cushion fifteen years ago, What happened to it. I’m tired of spending the money I was saving For a new pair of galoshes on Yellow “mums” for a woman I never saw before, But who expects to be called sister. I’m tired of mud. I’m tired of rain I’m tired of green and yellow, Nasty seasick colors. I’m tired of slickers and galoshes and football games. I’m tired. I’m tired. I’m tired. Please, Alums! Go home and let me sleep! A CEDARVILLE TRADITION By Lloyd J. Reynolds A yawning hole beside a naked fireplace Is all the haunted house that we can boast of, But then few other towns as small as ours Have had a man like Teagle and his house— Both quiet as a lifeless snake, and haunted. We always crossed the street when passing him, And gazed, and hushed out voices— Lord, it seemed As if his house went with him when he walked. His eyes were blank, like quiet staring windows; < His sagging mouth was like a door smashed in, STARTING TOMORROW! A Joy Ride Thru Laughland IT’LL GET EVERY LAUGH YOU’VE GOT WHAT A ROAR! REGULAR PRICES McDonald THEATRE With pieces of the broken wood left hanging— The mothers watched their children when he passed. John Teagle lived here long before the mill Was built so he was older than the town. And that is almost all we know about him; For fireside yarns to pass the eve nings with. We rushed from out our houses one cold night To see a lighted sky above the fields Where Teagle lived; the trees were black against The leaping flames that roared up from his house. It was too late to try to stop the blaze, So we stood huddled up in groups and watched The windows glare at us like angry eyes. We also watched for Teagle; wished him safe, But no one cared to hunt for him at night. A week dragged past, and no one saw the man, Nor could we find the bones there in the ashes. We dug and scraped for all that we were worth— We thought our chie/ tradition was at stake. Some say that Fanny Macklin saw his ghost Come leering at her with its fiery eyes. 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Gibson You smile, Gioconda, yet within yaur eyes, The pain of Life’s enigma glitters, cold. Shall subtle mystery for all time enfold The passion that beneath your calmness liesf The calmness that enwraps you like a pall, As gray and lifeless as the nun-like skies Draping the blackened rocks that near you rise, And shut out even thought behind their wall? Your lips have thrilled, Gioconda, to the lure Of lover’s voice, of passionate caress What knowledge does your shaded soul possess That thus you brave the world, so still, so sure! You smile, Giocondal Ah, you only dream, The world is tricked—You are not what you seem! NEW SHOW TODAY The Screen Scream— “MADAME BEHAVE” a French farce with Julian Eltinge aud Ann Pennington It’s a cousin to “Charley’s Aunt” —and when Ann CHARLESTONS ! GRADUATE IS GIVEN POSITION IN SEATTLE Crystal West, a graduate of the class of ’24, has accepted a posi tion as supervisor of the cadet teachers in the Seattle public schools. Miss West was chosen from a great number of applicants. While in the University she major ed in education. RADIO WAVES SUBJECT OF TALK BY H. G. TANNER Prof. H. G. Tanner, of the chem istry department, will address the Junction City Chamber of Com merce tonight. The subject of his lecture is “How Badio Waves are Generated.” Miss Mozelle Hair will present an illustrated lecture, Friday even ing, January 29, at Dunn school, near Eugene. She will use three sets of slides, “Cities of the United States,” “A Trip South,” and “Old Time Schools.” * ,, ■ Dr. Edmund S. Conklin, ,head of the psychology department* Address ed the Child Study section of the Portland federation of Women’s Clubs, January 23, on “The Growth of the Mind.” SEE Our Rugs Floor Lamps and Davenports JOHNSON FURNITURE Company 649 Willamette Street Phone 1188 Stationery! Just received, a very attrac tive assortment of Station ery. Come in and look it over. 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