Oregon daily emerald., May 03, 1941, Page Eight, Image 8

Library Holds Annual Open House Today
Best Personal
Book Collection
To Win Award
Day Will Feature
Opening of New
Brooks Addition
By EDITH OGLESBY
Highlighted by many beautiful
and unusual exhibits, the Univer
sity library ig today celebrating
its fifth annual Library day.
Of special interest to students
is the contest for the best per
sonal student library, both gradu
ate and undergraduate, for which
books of the student’s own choice
are awarded "as prizes.' Judging
of these libraries will begin at
10:30 this morning.
Brooks Collection
The outstanding feature of the
day will be the opening of the
Philip Ranney Brooks memorial
library, which is housed in a new
room on the third floor of the
library. This collection was given
to the library by the collector’s
mother, Mrs. Josephine Brooks.
Also on display on the third
floor will be a collection of books
by recent Oregon authors and an
exhibit picturing the evolution of
the University library and cam
pus.
On the second floor, in the map
room, there will be an exhibit of
the library of the late Captain
James Dodson Basey and of his
special Serbian decorations. In
the same room will be a display
of the library’s set of Edward S.
Curtis’ “The North American
Indian.”
Braille Display
In the open shelf reading room
there will be a special showing of
incunabula and manuscripts from
the Burgess col’ection. The John
Henry Nash collection will be
displayed on the same floor and
in the hall there will be a demon
stration of the making and the
use of Braille books. In the semi
nar room 204 the use of micro
film will be shown.
The browsing room on the first
floor will feature a special group
of books on the subject of “Read
ing and the Community,” as well
as a showing of the new books
in the Pauline Potter Homer col
lection.
In the Burgess room off the
lobby of the reserve book room
there will be displayed the Barker
collection of nineteenth century
authors and the Burges3 collec
tion of old and rare books and
manuscripts; in a special niche
in the room there is the famous
Greek vase which has just been
brought to the library; it is of
a period of Greek art contempo
rary with Plato.
Exhibited in the circulation
Water Color Collection
lobby will be several items of
interest, such as the Caroline
Sweetser collection of water col
ors of Oregon plants and wild
flowers, the exhibit of fine bind
ings by Mrs. Walter Church, a
selection of books purchased dur
ing the past year from the Henry
Villard endowment fund, an ex
hibit of World war medals from
the collection of Dr. Frederick
W. Skiff, a collection of books
published by Eugene writers, and
further exhibits from the Burgess
collection.
In the hall on the first floor the
student libraries will be shown.
Old newspapers will be on display
in the newspaper reading room in
the basement and in the staff
room refreshments will be served.
Tea will be served to visitors
to the library on Library day,
May 3-4.
Barristers Apologize
LawSchool-ThetaTilt
Put off by WSC Game
Propaganda from the law
school concerning the devastat
ing quality of “Goatball” Rob
ert’s sidearm triple twist under
hand softball delivery has made
little impression on the Theta
team, coaches and trainers de
clared today.
“So far all the statements have
come from the law school,” ex
claimed Helen Jane Kerr, Theta
pitcher. “We certainly aren’t
afraid of a bunch of old men who
have to strain to lift a bat, let
alone hit the ball out of the in
field.”
Sluggers Slated
“We have a few sluggers of
our own,” added Knuckleball
Pitcher Kerr. “We have the
"Deadeye” Gordons, “Slugger”
Scott, and “Whiff Whiff” Supple.
According to the Thetas, they
have a stellar first baseman in
Sue Sawyer . . . records show
that Sawyer covers more ground
and makes more errors than the
rest of the team put together.
“We should get a small handi
cap from the barristers,” said
Pitcher Kerr, “as two of our
stars have sprained fingers, and
an additional three are on a diet
of fruit juice, which takes away
part of their hitting power. We’ve
been practicing, too, and plan to
show the lawyers a bad time on
the diamond."
Due to the WSC game, the new
date of the contest will be an
nounced soon, Miss Kerr said. All
the lawyers agree that the The
tas are in good form, but expect
their superior knowledge of the
game to enable them to win . . .
the Thetas disagree.
All Complete Solos
All members of the spring term
“flying fifty” have now complet
ed their first solo, according to
the civil pilot training office.
Quay Wassam and Ben Wohler,
both instructed by Merle Robin
son, recently made their primary
lone flight.
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