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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1926)
Semi-Centennial Assembly Will Be Held Tomorrow j Students Will Pledge Loyalty to State At Exercises , Symphony Leader to Get Honorary Degree Throe thousand students of the University of Oregon will pledge their loyalty and devotion to the state, tomorrow at the Semi-Cen tennial assembly and annual Pledge Day exercises, at 10:30 a. m. in the Woman’s building, when Walter M. Pierce, governor of Oregon, will ad minister the pledge, to be followed by the singing of the Oregon Pledge song. President Arnold Bennett Hall will, for the first time in the of ficial capacity as president of the University, preside at the assembly, which will be opened by an aca demic procession which will form in the sun room of the Woman’s 1 building, and will march to seats at ' the left of the auditorium. A pro cessional will be played by the Uni versity orchestra led by Rex Under-; wood, conductor. Miller to Give Address The principal address of the morn ing will be “Education and Civi( Responsibility,” to be delivered by the Honorable Edward W. Miller Ph. D., state senator and formei president of Kansas Wesleyan Uni versity. The invocation will be given by the Reverend. Herbert S. Johnson ’87, and the Semi-Centennial song “Great Oregonf’ will be sung fo: the first time. The words were writ ten by Irene Stewart, alumnus ol the University, and the music was written by Rex Underwood. Ode Will Be Read Another featuro of the program will be the reading of a Commcm orative Odo written recently for the Semi-Centennial occasion by Mary Lowell Rebec, by Prof. W. P G. Timelier, professor of English. Degree to Be Given The only honorary degree to b< conferred during the Semi-Centen nial, will bo given at the assembly when Mr. Willem van Hoogstraten conductor of tho Portland Sym phony orchestra, will reccivo tho do gree of Doctor of Music. Mr. Hoog etrateu will also deliver an addrest at nino o’clock Thursday morning at the music symposium in the music auditorium, Dean John J. Lands bury presiding. Faculty and Students Cooperate in Housing Celebration Visitors “ The work of tho housing com mittee for the Semi-Centoniuul ami Homecoming has been a wonderful example of student co-operation with ithc faculty,” says I’rof. W. W. Snyder, chairman of the com mittee for the faculty. Edgar Wrightman is heading the students in this work. Surveys have been made of the housing facilities, and every avail able room, in hotels, rooming hous es and private homes have been listed by the Homecoming housing •committee. This list has been placed j.c the disposal of the Semi 1'entennial committee. A complete plan has been worked out whereby each incoming train will be met by the students. An in formation booth will be maintained at the depot all week. Visitors will receive directions there, after which ■’they will bo taken to the adminis -tr.ttdiou buil-’lng for registration. They will be assigned rooms at the alumni headquarters back ot the ad ministration building. Five ears will meet each train according to the announcement. The committees will function all week due to the tact that visitors will be coming in for different phases of the program during 'the entire time. The personnel of the housing com mittee is: Faculty, I’rof. W. \V. Suy dcr, chairman; Mrs. Virginia Judy Esterly, Prof. George Turnbull. Student committee: Edgar Wright man. Chairman, Herbert Socolosfsky, Phil Sheridan, Ronald lluhbs, Wil liam Prudhomme, Rodger He Husk, William McGregor, Mary McKin non, Mary Clark, Esther Hardy, Sal ly llughson, Hon McCook. Former Residents Are Visit inf! Here Mrs. Charles 11. Edmondson whose husband was formerly with the zo ology department on the campus is visiting in Eugene for two weeks or more. Mr. and Mrs. Edmondson now reside in Honolulu, the former being with the zoology department in the University or Hawaii. Mrs. Edmondson is accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Frank J. Brown, and while they are here they are guests of Hr. and Mrs. Warren D. Smith and Prof, and Mrs. Albert E. Caswell. Mr. and Mrs. Edmondson and Mrs. Brown have been taking n tour of the world, Mr. Edmondson having returned to Honolulu earlier in the summer. Lone Building, Two Oaks, Uncut Grass Were Early Features Of Today’s Campus f i — | Only Entrance in 1887 Was a Four-step Stile, Saysf 5 Dean Straub; Students Older Then I I — | Picture one lone building on top ■ of a knoll, two isolated oak trees, t and a field of tangled uncut grass, ! and you see the Oregon campus as ! Dean John Straub saw it on Novem ber 17, 1878, when ho first;.''came’ to the University of Oregon. One won 3 ders if Bean Straub’s more sanguine 3 hopes could have imaged, from that - humble college struggling for its , existence, the University of Oregon , as it is on the eve of its Semi-Cen tennial celebration; a college pulsat ing with the*life of 3500 students. I When Bean Straub first came to , the University there were only 150 | students in the school, with only 40 [ enrolled in the collegiate depart ment. Soon after entrance in the , faculty Bean Straub became its sec ! rotary. It was in this position that ' he won himself the hearts of L the students. Ho was always the ! students’ friend in whatever trouble . came up. , | Buring his stay at the Univer I sity, Bean Straub taught in every ! department in the college but one, I the department of chemistry. In j 1900 he was made dean of the col-' I lege of liberal arts. Ho was ! for many years the dean of men, and in 1925 he was made emeritus dean of men. “When I first came to the Univer sity,” lie said, “there was only one street leading tp the campus; that .! was Twelfth street; and there was only one way to get into the cam pus and that was over a four-step stile. This lot one out upon a board walk which led to Beady hall. There was no water with which to | irrigate the lawn. When the grass [ grew too long a man would come with a team and mower and cut it and take the hay away with him. There was a windmill and a tank ton top of Deady hall. It was from this the campus got its water.” ■ri The':* two lone trees afforded but little shade for the University and Dean Straub made several appeals to Judge Matthew P. Deady, chair man of the board of regents, for an appropriation to provide for more trees. Finally he succeeded in get ting $200. One hundred trees were planted and ninety-seven of them grew and are on the campus today. The student body of the early days, according to the dean, was: different from the student body of today. The students were more ma ture, ranging in age from 20 to 30. There was none of the class spirit that you see today. There were no fraternities or living organizations. Those who did not board in private houses usually assembled in groups of two or three and did their own cooking. “I knew everybody by name,” Dr. Straub said. ‘‘It was like one big family.” When asked if he felt the growth of the University as it grew up through the years, he replied that ho did not. “Each fall the classes would be a little larger; buildings were added one by one, but the change was so gradual that I scarce ly noticed it.” “I am fond of the University,” Doan Straub said, “perhaps fonder than I was in the old days. I have grown up with the institution and have the same feeling for it as chil dren who have grown up side by side and have learned to love each other.” Chemical Society Members Discuss Oregon Minerals Dr. Floyd L. Howland, professor of chemical engineering at O. A. C., gave an illustrated lecture on sur vey work dono last summer in East ern Oregon, at the monthly meeting of the Oregon section of the Amer ican Chemical society which met last Saturday in McClure hall. Tho lecture was entitled “Chemical Re sources in Eastern Oregon.” Dr. Rowland mentioned finding ni trate deposits which wero believed not to bo of chemical importance unless thero be a more concentrated bed as yet undiscovered. Dr. E^ T. Hodge, professor of ge ology in the University, while in dis cussion, put forth tho theory that prior to the formation of the Cas cade mountains, Eastern Oregon was inhabited by many millions of birds, such as ducks, geese and pelicans. | lie further said that after the for | mation of the Cascade mountains, the territory beeamo dry and tho guano deposits left by tho birds were concentrated by surface and under ground waters, forming tho present outcroppings of nitrifte. The main speaker, Dr. Rowland, pointed out that Sumiper hake con tained large quantities of sodium carbonate. lie maintains that with in the next ten or twenty years this will be developed into a resource of first magnitude. Mention was also made of the large deposit of diatomite near Red mond which awaits an adequate market on the Pacific coast for de velopment. The meeting was attended by a group of 110 people. The next ses sion will take place in Portland, November 6. Jessie M. Thompson Engaged to Mr. Scott Jessie M. Thompson of Portland announced her engagement to John Denny Scott, prominent Portland man and member of an old pioneer family. The news was made known Monday evening at the Thompson home. Miss Thompson was a member of the class of ’23 and when at tho Uni versity she was on the Emerald staff, Oregana staff and a member of Theta Sigma Phi, journalism honor ary. Tin Mr. Scott is a graduate of Lelygh | University. They have not announc ed their wedding date. Cleaning and Pressing, $1.25 Pressing, 50c UNIVERSITY TAILORS 1128 Alder St. Joint Novel Contest Offers Large Prize To Aspiring Writers The John Day Company and tlio Woman’s Home Companion aro of fering a joint $50,000 prize novel contest, the prize to be divided equally between a woman and a man i winner. Manuscripts will bo acceptable ! which are as short as 50,000 words, ' although the preference is for the longer novel. In other contests, pre vious to this time, none wore con sidered which were shorter than 80,000 words. This departure in fa vor of the shorter book is expected to bring forth many works of high literary quality, which are not ! “written to the market,” and which would ordinarily be barred from RAINIER COAL CO. That Good Coal 15 E. 7th Phone 412 I nuit mu ;iin nut nut nautili tint ;mumvthIdI McDonald THEATRE Last Day “The MARRIAGE 1 CLAUSE" with FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN and BILLIE DOVE I and The McDonald | “Merry-Macks” are knocking < ’em dead in $ ‘Homecoming Harmonies’ } in honor of Oregon 'a ’< Annual Homecoming NIGHTLY at NINE ir*Sl h8\i.7*v; '/ail 1 a a a.a a a- a mmst HOFFMAN JEWELERS and OPTICIANS standard novel length competition. Another* unusual feature of the contest is .that collaboration is al lowed, but only between persons of the same sex. The winners will receive, besides the $25,000, the American and Can adian books ’ rights in excess of $5,000, and will retain full motion picture translation, and dramatic rights, relinquishing only the Amer ican and Canadian book royalties under $5,000 and the first serial rights. Official entry forms will be sent to any address upon application to the John Day Company, 25 West 45th Street, New York City. Social Science (Continued from page one) teaching as we have today; there must be developed research work; and the distinctly statistical func tions of the state must be merged with the department of economics, according to word of Dr. Frank Le Rond McVey, president of the Uni versity ofi Kentucky, in his speech at the social science symposium yes terday afternoon. These are neces safy steps if our universities are to go forward rather than backward. “On many occasions and by many eminent men the functions of the university have been discussed be fore audiences of interested people. These functions have been declared to be teaching, research and the preservation of the evidences of civ ilization in museum and library. To this list a fourth may be added— that of mediator, the pathfinder, the interpreter,” he stated. Dr. McVey pointed out the danger of under-development of research in the universities of today, as hasten ing their own insufficiency. Hospitality Is Lauded Dr. McVey, in opening, spoke of the hospitality of the University, especially lauding the arrangers of the inauguration banquet for doing the unheard of, ten speakers, yet the banquet was over at 9 o’clock. This ^should be an example to others, he said. Dr. Willard E. Hotchkiss,- dean of j the school of business at Stanford University, speaking on the subject of “Human Relations in Iudustry,” said: “So far this coast has not gone very far on the road toward an industrial civilization, but if there is a swing toward industry is it not likely that our sons and daughters, the young people who are in our universities now, will have in their lives to face some of the issues which hitherto the growth of indus try has always brought in its train?” Problem Is Real In meeting these issues we need CLOTHES Ready-made And Cut to Order ESTABLISHED ENGLISH UNIVERSITY STYLES, TAILORED OVER YOUTHFUL CHARTS SOLELY FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE IN THE UNITED STATES. i i ■I I 'dfltwte* House Suits and Overcoats *40, *45, *50 /“s. mil ill r BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT =? OUR STORE IS THE House OF EUGENE v The character of the suits and overcoats taildred by Charter House will earn your most sincere liking. 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Box office opens Tuesday, October 19. not draw our inspiration from utop ian dreams of things that never happened and never will, nor indulge in unctious or overdrawn statements about the harmony of interest and the joys of co-operation between different industrial groups, he point ed cut. “We need rather to seek out concrete situations in which actual people have handled actual condi tions so as to secure a maximum of satisfaction for all concerned.” As Dr. Hotchkiss sees it, improve ment centers around the idea of stabilizing employment. Dr. Joseph Schafer, in his address on “Modernizing the University of Oregon,” summed up the progress made under the first presidents of the institution. He reached a climax in epitomizing the work of Presi dent Campbell and peered into the future with Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall as chief executive. To Charles Hiram Chapman, Dr. Schafer gave credit for the first two steps in the transformation process which was to make the school a full fledged university. These were the new methods of laboratory teaching and the lecture method of instruc tion. 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