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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1938)
Editor: Martha Stewart Society Editor: Rita Wright Staff: Bernadine Bowman and Marge Finnegan Mortar Board ball Saturday J night center of coeds’ activities. AWS will sponsor gardenia sale. J The Backseat Driver iiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimimiiimiiiiiiiiiHiminiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin By MARTHA STEWART Life is very ironical! ' All this whole miserable, wet, rainy winter when all about me were sniffling wretchedly into soggy handkerchiefs or sneezing reams of paper from the desks around them or just sitting, star ing wretchedly out upon the world through streaming eyes I dashed around the campus with rosy cheeks and springing step com placently enjoying good health. "■ All Winter I wore my rubbers faithfully; I never ventured forth into the elements without first heading the barometer (NO, you mugs, the. machine that tells the weather, NOT our distinguished rival paper) taking a swift glance 'at the sky, and then wrapping myself to the ears in raincoat and ^muffler, just -in case it should rain." . Smugly conscious of my well being I actually sneered at those poor unfortunates with the crim son noses and the tearful eyes. . “Now if they just lived .right ...” I was wont to dismiss them cruelly. And then this had to happen to me! A formal dance, an evening dress, a soft summer breeze waft ing through the open windows and . . . Well! The first thing I knew there I was in the infirmary gnashing my teeth over a ther mometer while a white-clad' nurse clasped my wrist and tightly con centrated upon her wrist-watch. After the first mental rebellion against being sent to bed in broad daylight, I begin to settle down and rather enjoy the experience. “AJh-hah,” I thought to myself, “now I shall catch up on my sleep.” Happily I rolled over on my side and closed my eyes. “Sleep,” I murmured, "Good old sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of foo.” A moment later I was rudely interrupted. '•me tnermometer, tne nurse reminded me sharply, “you still have it in your mouth.” She re moved the offensive object with ’dignity, and I popped off to sleep ’again. My eyes were hardly closed before I felt a hand on my shoul der. ! “Take these, please.” It was the nurse again, this time with two oblong capsules and a glass of water. Obediently I swallowed and went back to sleep. This time peace reigned supreme . . . for all of five minutes. Then I b£fc%m\> conscious of a strange aroma . . . a sharp,- penetrating odor Which crept; into my nostrils and. down ‘ my throat. A soft Irissing sound reached my ears. > Slowly I raised myself upon one elbow and stared down the steam ing spout of a round, fat teakettle perched on a little electric plate. “Now how in the world,” I mut itered, "did the nurse get that there without my knowing it.” •Again I turned my head away, pulled the pillow high around my ears and closed my eyes resolute ly “Nine hundred and ninety-eight, nine hundred and ninety-nine,” I counted sheep. “Hey, ’ve you got a match?” It was a girl in blue pajamas and a lemon colored house-coat, peering in my door. "No!” I roared at her. "Get me a telephone. I want to phone home for a book. I’m not sleepy. I Mortar Board Dance Saturda Coeds Apply Old Tricks, Men Worrn Several campus men have been heard moaning that the girls are not showing the right spirit about Mortar Board ball because they haven’t been asked. There is still hope for these grumbling males, however. Advance ticket sales re ports indicate that the girls must be using the suspense technique which is so popular among the men. The ball will be Saturday eve ning at McArthur court, with Johnny Callihan’s Portland orches tra furnishing the music, accord ing to Gayle Buchanan, chairman for the event. The fact that it is a girl-date affair will furnish the theme. AWS Sells Gardenias The Associated Women Students are sponsoring a gardenia sale in the women’s living organizations this week, as flower are in order for the men. The girls will wear formals and the men white coats or tuxes. One of the highlights of the evening will come with the pledg ing of 19 freshman women to Kwama, sophomore women’s ser vice honorary at 10:30 during a short intermission. Girls on committees to assist Gayle Buchanan are Clare Igoe and Gladys Battleson, publicity; Vivian Emery, programs; Eunice Brandt, patronesses; Brandon Young ,music; Harriet Thompson, decorations, and Betty Brown, tickets. Campus Cottons Make Appearance Cool, crisp, and colorful cottons appear on the campus fashion hori zon again. One of the nicest things about oncoming summer is the ap pearance of these fresh looking dresses when everyone is beginning to get tired of cleaning bills and warmish clothing. This year’s first crop of cottons is really something to look at— J stripes, florals, peasant prints, hand-blocked linens, splashy con ventional patter. Gone, apparently forever, is the simple, unassuming cotton frock of former years. Coeds selecting cottons or linens are not only thrifty but smart as well, because most cottons now in corporate features being used in better silks and light-weight wools. Colors in cotton apparel are grayed somewhat, in the manner of the sixteenth century mezzo tones, as compared with last year's uncompromisingly bright shades. never was sleepy. I guess I’ll read.” Anyway, even if I didn’t get any I sleep, I got a dozen red roses out of it . . . and I wasn't really that sick either. * * * (Why the very idea! I didn’t either write this column just so I could tell everybody I got a dozen roses. The very idea!) Date Winner For all-summer-long’ wear, the one-piece sheer with cape has nc peer. This sheer has a handsomely pleated cape. Men's Fashions Take Spotlight With the eve of this year’s Mor tar Board ball drawing closer, the eternal feminine problem of what to wear, shifts to broader mascu line shoulders, and this time itr is his turn to dress to please. With the coming of spring j^he traditional conservative mjale wardrobe has at last yielded to color, and this season finds even formal attire the added contrast that color lends to clothing. Quite new and correct for even ing wear is the white coat with grey corded gabardine trousers, oi a reversal of this combination. For the more formal occasions a white tuxedo coat and dark trousers may be set off with one of the new green, blue, or maroon-colored bow ties with colored studs tc match. To complete this outfit a boutonniere of blending colors may be worn on the lapel. For fashionable sportsweai there are various types of multi colored shirts, and slacks fit high about the waist with tailored tucks. Jackets in herringbone diagonal stripes, and checks with shirred backs, with the new three buttoned fronts, with only one tc be buttoned, are very popular. At the bottom of all this are the new Mexican huarachos which can’t be beat for style and comfort ir sportswear. TWENTY IN INFIRMARY Students in the infirmary yes terday swelled the number on the sick list to twenty. The list in cluded John Weber, Allen HUnt Grace Irvin, Betty Thomas, Shir ley Schrenk, Marianne Weston Barbara Fulton, George Campbell Walter Vernstrom, Clayton Hel gren, Robert Black, Charles Del zell, Theron Borden, G 1 e e s o r The Coed of the Week GAYLE BUCHANAN By BERNADINE BOWMAN To be able to write like this week’s coed of the week, Gayle Bu chanan, talks would would be an accomplishment. Such spirit and enthusiasm is rarely found in a graduating senior woman. After being literally dug out of the cpstume room on the third floor of Friendly hall, where she was busiiy sewing on the costume she will wear in “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” she nonchalantly perched on a window sill to be interviewed. Smiling she proceeded to give her views on living and the such in a manner nut uummuii ^ average coed. She knows wljat she thinks and is not afraid to say it. Students Too Young She believes that most college students are, too young to know what it is all about and what they want to get out of college. And they don’t find out until they dre seniors, she said. She blames part ! of this on the misguidance of freshmen. Their being disappoint ed with school she attributes to the lack of inspirational’ leader ship in classes. Sororities, she thinks, often do' more harm than they do good. The j disappointment and pettiness found in a house sometimes out weigh the good they do. Activities Waste of Time This coed leader whom every one admires so much regrets hav ing wasted so much time in school!: She thinks activities are a waste j of time. They have given her con fidence and friends, but she feels! that the people who devote their j time to studying have .gotten more | in the way of character building material. A certain amount of ac tivities she considers invaluable but finds them “driven in the ground.” The activities that one goes into should be limited to one’s actual interests. Too Many Honors Oregon, she believes, is lower ing its standards by bestowing soj many honors; It has to give some, she admitted, but such things as cups are outdated'. Value is too often placed on the wrong things. The girls who have scattered in terests get most of the recogni- j tion while the girl that specializes ! goes unnoticed. Gayle is 21 and was born in! Ashland. She has been over the i Oregon border once, and that was; when she was sent by the Univer- j sity to Los Angeles for a confer-' ence. The part she remembers most about the trip is missing the! train that her traveling compan ion was on and having to go down j alone. Youngest Child She is the youngest of a large: family\and is the fifth to go throughXthe University. She ad mires her father very much be cause at one time he had four chil dren in college without any finan Payne, May Robinson, Tom Fraites, James Manning, William! Hawke, Don Anderson, and Wil liam Harrow. POPE’S i 5c SPECIAL FROSTED MALTS Campus, Fri., Sat., and Sun. only iiiiiHiiniiiniiimiiiiHniiianiiHiiiiimHiiiiii cial aid. Her family, she says is arty and “queer.” One brother is at the Pasadena Play House. One sister has a puppet show, another di rects, and still another is musical. A lot of people have printed ar ticles on what they thought an ideal man should have but none of them have suited Gayle. Here are the three things she likes in a fellow: 1. A sense of humor. 2. A clean shirt. 3. Courteousness. Along with these three things she thinks boys should learn how to be themselves, as well as girls. (Incidentally she can’t stand the Joe College type.) Condemns Going Steady Girls shouldn’t go steady but should play around while in col lege, she said, forgetting to add that she has gone steady for eight years! Pin planting she consid ers good fun. She thinks it makes the boys feel good to have their pins planted. And so with one closing bit of philosophy, that people should not take themselves so seriously but stand back once in a while and laugh at their own antics, she plunged back into the costume room. . Next year Gayle may be teach ing English in a high school. She would like to combine teaching with personnel work. ^tmiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiimiinimiiitiimniiiiiiiimiimiiiiuminiiiiiiiiiniiiimimniHitmm^ ... -7 ' She will appreciate a— COMPACT i With reproductions of ori- j ginal oil paintings on the covers and just arrived from England via the Queen Mary. Some of the designs are: Romeo and Juliet The Peacocks Conferences Cottage Homes $1.25 each THE BROADWAY INC 20 & SO East Broadway