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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1944)
Library Functions Described to Class -v The library functions for the students of the University of Oregon, and there are various departments where reference and recreational books may be obtained, reports Miss Krieg, head librarian. At the right of the entrance near Kincaid street is the refer ence room where one can find various dictionaries, encyclo peuiaa, pei luuiuais, Leiepnune ui rectories, a book review digest, a New York Times index, and all types of reference books. Students are not allowed to take these books out of the reference room. Students can locate their books by looking them up in the card catalogue room off the circulation department. All books are filed ac cording to author, title, and sub ject. After locating the card with information concerning your book, record the number of the book and the department and then attempt to locate it. If you have any trou ble, one of the librarians will be glad to help you. In this room are also found Emerald, Oregonian, and Library of Congress indices. The circulation department, headed by Miss Rise, is one of the most extensive departments of the library. It has several exhibits on display each month. Right now, there are exhibits pertaining to National Dog week; Latin, Buddist, -SSnd Persian manuscripts; and a model of a ship built in 1854. Miss Rise encourages supple FOR WEEKEND APPETITES stock up now Cookies Candy Fruit Cokes UNIVERSITY GROCERY 790 E. 11th Ph. 1597 mentary and recreational reading. There are six floors of books, 350, 000, in the stack room that people do not know about. There is a rental shelf where best sellers may be had for ten cents a week or two cents a day. Non-fiction books may be taken out for seven days, but not renewed. Other books may be kept out for a month and re newed if no reserve is filed; the fine is five cents a day and no telephone renewals are accepted. The browsing room, now open from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, will probably be open evenings, Saturday and Sun day as soon as the four organiza tions sponsoring it arrange their schedules. Concerts, readings, book reviews, and maybe a Hallowe’en party will be held there. There are 75 desks in the stack room available for graduate stu dents. Graduates are allowed to keep books on their desks through out the school year, after checking them out. The reserve room is at the ex treme left of the entrance near Kincaid street. There students may take out books for two-hour per iods starting on the hour; books may be renewed if no reserve is filed. The student must know the author and title of the book he wishes, and must have a library card. Books may be checked out overnight, half an hour before clos ing time; they are due on the open ing hour. Reserves may be filed during the day for overnight use. The newspaper room is located in the basement. The London Times, The Emerald, the San Fran cisco Chronicle, the Chicago News, the Christian Science Monitor, and almost any other large daily, and all Oregon dailies may be found there. collections of particular infor mation are found on the second floor. The Oregon collection con sists of books by Oregon authors; books about the University, stu dents and faculty; and pictures of early days at the University. A graduate study room and two smoking porches are also on the second floor. Fish is not a brain food, and no amount of mackerel eating will improve your mentality. “/ don't use a Moose call. 1 just smoke fragrant Sir Walter Raleigh. ” Smokes as sweet as it smells ... the quality pipe tobacco of America UkuO+t ttAOt BUY WAR STAMPS AND BONDS FREE! 24-poge illustrated booklet tells how to select and break in a new pipe; rules for pipe cleaning, etc. Write today. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville 1, Kentucky. AUW Plans Fall Meeting The Eugene branch of the Asso ciation of University Women has been invited to the twelfth annual meeting bf the AUW. The meeting will be at luncheon on Thursday, October 26, in the Hotel Benson Rose room, Portland. Rare and precious articles such as nylon hose, bobby pins, and cleansing tissue were auctioned off during intermissions at the recent student war bond show at Louis iana State university. Proceeds were converted into war bonds and donated to the students-in-service scholarship fund. Dr. William B. Herms, professor of parasitology and head of the di vision of entomology and parasitol ogy at the University of California, has been made a lieutenant colonel in the army sanitary corps. Clips and Comments (Continued from page tzco) most diabolical of ideas yet to hit the campuses. Upperclassmen have been finding their toothbrushes stuck in molasses, their boy friends’ pictures switched, their house’s kitchen help discharged, water cut off, fuses removed, and, in general, things pretty well messed up. * * * Clock-Wise Then there was the story about the group of pledges who were tired of the monotony of having to be on study table while their elders were enjoying unrestricted free dom. One night after collecting all the alarm clocks, they hid them in strategic places, but not before setting each clock to go off at 15 minute intervals throughout the « evening-. While timepieces screeched at the top of their springs, upper classmen and dates crawled around on hands and knees — looking — looking— Nuf Sed (Continued from pafic two) all the time a charming brunette wearing an orchid and a fur coat. “Mink,” from a high-pitched voice to the rear —“Nonsense, Rus sian sable” — “Mink” — “Ruu A FUR COAT.” Mrs. Bricker made a short speech, scrupulously avoiding to enter into partisan rushing, but unable to keep her voice untinged of Kappa calm and bearing. The governor then introduced several state figures, waved, enun ciated a parting sentence, and went inside the car. What Now? Meanwhile, in a camouflaged clearing atop Skinner's butte a little group of white-clad figures had been working feverishly with a massive set of Mars-ian appa ratus, twisting dials, whispering calculations into the horned trum pet mouthpieces of their head phones. A tall figure who seemed to be in command was surveying the station platform with high powered binoculars. Two white Wac-like figures were peering intently into a hori zontal tube-shaped instrument, al so pointed stationward—one at each end. They were muttering numbers into the headphones in low, confident whispers— 48—46—45—43.8—milometers west —check. From a figure at a tripod plotting table—43.8 “CHECK.” A whoop of jubilation went up from the group backslapping— smiles!! The Gift Shop 963 Willamette St. CHINA GLASSWARE FIGURINES FLOWER BOWLS YOU WILL FIND AN IDEAL GIFT FOR EVERY OCCASION J FOR THE LOVELIEST LADY YOU KNOW. ''Boa/d f STRttT' I P€£fOM€] BY YARDLEY I ^^sophisticated, delicately subtle perfumer the perfect expression of flattering Christmas itribute.^ Brilliantly,^festively wrapped inlfour convenient Jsizes" at' :#x* t. ,* . <#, $2-50 r#i $4.50^l$8.50^andj13.50 Tardley products for America are created In England and Unlahed In the USA. from the Original English Formulae, combining Imported and domestic Ingredients. ^ TIFFANY-DAVIS DRUGS They had found the Life pho tographer! A report of his exact position, was radioed to each rally squad member on the platform. The me sage received, each pair of rally eyes swung to the objective, click- d into permanent position, remain*: t on target. Atop the butte the tall figure with the binoculars surveyed hr-' squad, noticed one pair of eyes chestnut brown offbeam on a white-haired man nearby. H« ’ brow furrowed, orders barked thin his headphone ON TARGE'1 THERE! The chestnut brown eye lashes fluttered- got back on the beam. "That's better,” barked the leader - then turned on heel, and resumed his munching on his black market almond Hershey. (Tomorrow: How We Ditched the Life Photographer.) j WELCOME | STUDENTS j Come in and enjoy that "after show coke." i GEORGE'S CAFE at 818 Willamette "Two Girls and a Sailor" with Van Johnson — and — "Charlie Chan, Chinese Cat" STARRING JOAN DAVIS in KANSAS CITY KITTY" mm 'Address Unknown' with Paul Lucas — and — "The Girl Who Dared" with Lorna Gray MCDONALD STARTING "DRAGON SEED" with KATHARINE HEPBURN