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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1939)
V. For Women Only By MARGE FINNEGAN Vacation days are over again for the next three weeks and it’s really “back to the grind" with finals so near and work stacked high on everyone’s desk. More people are seen in the library ev ery night now, and Hood River apple growers are receiving rush orders from students with low grades. Speaking of apple-polishing sets me off on another track. A recent campus visitor from the University of Mississippi informed us of dif 1 ferences in our college jargon. Ap ple polishing on that compus is commonly referred to as “quillin’,” and they speak of cokes, the all jcollege favorite bevprage as "dope.” In fact, the visitor stated that she was much surprised to find the name “dope” was not univer sal. She asked for a dope in a A WS ‘Hop’, House Dances Set for Weekend Pot and Quill Writing Contest Closes Tonight Aspirants to membership in Pot and Quill, campus creative writ ing honorary, must have their con test entries in the box in the li brary by closing time tonight, Muriel Beckman, president warned last night. From the list of entries, the honorary will recruit its new mem bers, Miss Beckman announced. Although it is not necessary to win a prize to be eligible for mem bership, a first prize of $5 will be given for the best entry, she stat ed. Limited only by the fact that entries must be creative work, en tries may submit poetry, essays, and short stories. New York drug store recently and was greatly astonished when the clerk said he was sorry but he had no license-. In her best southern accent, (Pleascr turn to page four) Winter Fashions “fluff” 'Soft “kitten-warm,"’ parka sets which 'will keep out the cold wind in all your w inter sports. Itoyal blue, white, green, red, and wine . $1.98 As advertised in Vogue, Life, Esquire, and Mademoiselle. 1004 Willamette St. Model sketched ineludiug hat: $14.75 Just Arrived! A brand new shipment oi ski logs that will make \ou the warmest and the best dressed coed that ever fell in the snow . . . wangle a new Hirsch Weis suit for Christmas, a windbreaker in powder blue, or a bright sweater and mittens to match. Ski Suits.$ 14.75 to 22.75 Parkas . . ..$3.95 to 10.95 Ski Pants .......... $4.50 to 9.95 Tyrolean Sweaters... . . $2.95 to 3.95 Mittens.lv . $1.00 to 2.00 For the latest information see BETTY COWAN at The CAMPUS SHOP EUGENE S FASHION CENTER Nickel Hop Tonight; House Dances Fill Last Open Weekend By MARY KAY RIORDON Modernizing the traditional “Dime Crawl,” Oregon women offer the “Nickel Hop” tonight from 6 to 8 o'clock, an opportunity for campus men to dance with the girls of their dreams for a nickel. The dance will be informal with sport clothes appropriate, and keen com petition will be offered by all living organizations for the loving cup which is annually given to the house collecting the most nickels in ratio to its members. DU Kiddles Party It will be “back to the days when” Saturday night for Delta Up silon pledges as the chapter pre sents its fall house dance in the form of a Kiddies Party. The house will be decorated with circu lar paper dolls, slates, and over 500 blue and gold balloons filled with hydrogen. Costumes for the affair will be children’s clothes. Bob Allen’s orchestra will furnish the music. Musical Theme The all-dormitory dance Friday night will be held at the John Straub Memorial hall with Bob Calkins’ orchestra playing. A mu sical theme will illustrate various popular old-time favorite pieces, and large 'cardboard notes will decorate several walls. Intermis sion entertainment will be provid ed by Helen May Hatcher, who will do Spanish and Hungarian dances. * * * Campbell Co-op will entertain Saturday night at a semi-formal radio dance with a “Down Mexico Way” theme. Decorations will car ry out this idea with a tile roof and large pictures of Mexican scenes and characters around the walls. The programs will be in the shape of a Mexican house. * * * Christmas offers seasonal themes for several house dances this weekend. Alpha Delta Pi will j carry out this idea Friday night with the traditional colors and a large trimmed Christmas tree. Zeta Tau Alpha will honor their pledges Friday night at a Christ mas dance with five Silver Christ mas trees with blue lights, giving a holiday atmosphere to the house. Programs will be blue with silver and in the form of the pledge pin. Music will be furnished by radio. Cops and Robbers “Cops and Robbers” is the theme of the Canard club’s dance Sat urday night. The dance will be sport with a radio furnishing the music, and programs will be in the form -of “gats.” Kappa Kappa Gamma will sur prise their freshmen Saturday night at a costume pledge dance. Art Holman’s orchestra will play. Also keeping the theme a secret is Alpha Xi Delta whose dance is Saturday evening. Bonny Holmes and his orchestra will play, and a special feature will be offered during intermission. "J* si* "i4 Kappa Alpha Theta will present a costume dance Friday night with Art Holman’s orchestra playing. The theme, “Life is a song,” will be carried out in the decorations and the costumes worn. Alpha Chi Omega’s annual fall i.nce will take its theme from the comic strips. Guests at the dance will dress as their favorite char acter, and many couples will rep resent famous “funny” couples. Maurie Binford will furnish the music. Oregon Mothers will entertain Ski Dress ‘Colors Up’ For Fall Christmas and vacation aren't too far away and snow ... at least every year we pray for a real honest-to-goodness white Christmas . . . snow means that you fervent skiers will be off to Mount Hood or up to McKenzie slopes to do your christianias, tele marks and slaloms ... to know what’s fashion first this season shop the downtown windows, for several stores are displaying their assortment, and what an assort ment it is . . . you can buy any thing in mad bright colors or in conservative black, navy, and brown . . . Sonja Henie three-piece suits are first favorites either in gabardine or wool ... an ultra swanky one combines a gray wool jacket lined with navy and navy pants . . . new in the outside mit ten line is the natural sheep’s wool black and brown leather palm to wear over warm fluff mittens which you’ve seen pictured in Mademoiselle . . . they are a type j of brushed wool so soft that your hands sink in them . . . parkas come with detachable hoods in zip per and button styles with colors j ranging from glacier blue, slate1 blue, and sun yellow to ever-popu lar navy and black . . . waterproof gabardine bags with embroidered trim fasten onto your belt, and can be zipped open in a flash . . . no more fumbling this year with numb fingers at buttons and buc kles because drawstrings are shown on almost everything ... I one adorable cap is of quilted beige gabardine, lined with scarlet, fitting snugly over the ears and tied under the chin mith a flaming red cord . . . most sweaters arc of Tyrolean design, and socks are handmade wool imports from Nor way . . . with such originals to choose from, can you wait to be off on the slide? Saturday afternoon at a luncheon 1 and bridge party from 1 to 5 o’clock. Members of Delta Delta Delta Sunday will join with Oregon State Tri Delts in their annual Founder’s Day banquet at the Cor vallis chapter house. A special bus has been chartered to take the members to the OSC campus for the affair. * * * The "gaj? 90’s” will prevail at the Sigma Nu house Saturday night as they transform their house with murals of buggies, and old time amusements. Pictures of (Please turn to page jour) lllfllllllMllllHIIIIIlMlliltllMI llllllHMIltllillllinillltlllllflUllltllillllllllllllilllllilll)'^ li.r.imiiiuiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiui! Do Your Ski Shopping for White Stag Ski Togs • Tyrolean Suspenders • Flannel Hoods • Down-hill Ski Pants The COED SHOP in IMOLA’S next to the Side Shirts, Skirts, Sweaters, Anklets Ut & Cow fUGENE OWNED,WITH NPW YORK BUYING CONNECTION Dress of the Week Glamorous is the word for MARY STATON'S daring new formal which she wears during her performance in "The Wo men.” A glistening halter neck of gold metallis, criss-crossed to fall in soft drapes, is tucked under a wide rhinestone belt at the waist. A skirt of heavy black ac cordion-pleated crepe is separ ated from the blouse in front, illustrating the latest in formal trends. Mary wears a gold turban decorated with metal leaves, gold sandals and jewelry to complete her costume. Hobbs-W inetrout Wedding Announced For December 20 Announcement of the approach ing marriage of Miss Bettie Hobbs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Hobbs of Orange, California, to Arthur Winetrout, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Winetrout of Grants Pass, was made Monday night at a formal dinner at the Tri Delt house. News of the engagement was told by means of miniature nose gays of red carnations tied with red and white ribbons, the colors of Kappa Sigma fraternity, of which Mr. Winetrout is a mem ber. Tiny silver bells on the rib bons named December 20 as the date of the wedding. The Tri Delta chapter house here will be the scene of the pre Christmas rites. Miss Joyce Craw ford will be maid of honor, and Lee Winetrout will act as best man. Rev. Norman K. Tully of the Presbyterian church will officiate. Members of the Greek organiza tions of the couple will provide the music. Both the groom and the bride to-be are students at the Univer sity, where Mr. Winetrout was a member of the 1939 football squad. They will be at home after Jan uary 1 at 408 B street in Grants Pass. Margaret Young, Vivacious Coed Enjoys Activities “Our mothers were Thetas, our fathers were Betas; I’m a Theta, he's a Beta, but he goes to Oregon State,” said Margaret Young, this year’s first coed of the week to be engaged. A very attractive girl with wavy light brown hair, she is 19 years old, five feet five inches tall, and has hazel eyes. “1 like to study but not too much,” said Margaret regarding ac tivity participation in a student's college life. Dance Co-chairman Although only a sophomore, this charming coed is already well known on the campus. She is co chairman, working with Barbara Bamford, on the Nickel Hop, treas urer of her sorority, a WAA mem ber, vice-president of Kwama. sophomore women’s honorary, and on the YWCA frosh commission. She was vice-president of the Am phibian club last spring, a mem ber of the speaker’s committee, and chairman of the water pag eant. In the library is a large plaque on “The Mission of a University.” Frederick G. Young, whose name appears at the bottom of the in scription, was Margaret’s grand father and a professor of social sci ence and dean of sociology at the University. Social Science Major Margaret also is a major in so cial science, but instead of teach ing it, she plans to be a campfire girl executive after graduation, one of her main ambitions being to start camps for mothers similar to those for girls. How many of you boys can keep a baseball score? Those who can have nothing on this prominent coed for she keeps up with the best of them! As girls’ sports edi tor Margaret also works on the Emerald. “It’s fun being in different ac tivities, and I am not in them merely for any glory I may re ceive,” shp said. At her home in Portland, Mar garet enjoys horseback riding as one of her hobbies. She also is in terested in dramatics. 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Wednesday exchange desserts were Alpha Chi Omega-Theta Chi; Alpha Gamma Delta-Sigma Nu; Alpha Phi-Zeta hall; Chi Omega — Poetry By MART KAY BOOTH Marked Down Last year the girls of Oregon Made money in the fall By having all the boys come To finance the “Dime drawl." i f .1 ' in This year I learned to my regret Admission takes a drop. Tonight the plea to boys is this: Support the “Nickel Hop.” Girls, rally round, support the cause And protest at this drop. If once we let the price go down No telling where ’twill stop I If we don’t stand together, girls, And this low price revamp, We’ll probably be hostesses At next year's "One Cent Stamp.” Sigma Chi; Gamma Phi Beta-Al pha Tau Omega; Hi-Land House Kirkwood Co-op; Kappa Alpha Theta-Phi Delta Theta; and Sigma Phi Epsilon-Alpha Omicron PL Friday evening Chi Omega and Delta Tau Delta will hold an ex change dessert. 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