PICTORIAL ESSAY...
Oregon, Our Alma Mater...
The University of Oregon isn’t just an institution of higher
education. It is all the things students remember about it. It
is the things Webfoots come back to year after year. It is the
things newcomers will learn to know and love.
There is a lot to Oregon that has Nothing to do with GPAs
or visits to the deans for “counseling.” Some of the things
which distinguish Oregon from all other schools are all bound
up in tradition . . . like the “O” on Skinners butte and the mill
race. Others are so much a part of our everydays that no one
notices them . . . like the heating tunnels or the physical plant
whistle.
Pirfeaps the most-used building is McArthur court, the
“Igloo”. Here Oregon’s basketball teams “plow through the
ACADEMIC SIDELIGHT
THE MILLRACE
* * *
HEATING TUNNELS
foeman’s line” while rooters “roar
the praises of her warriors.” Then
the backboards are camouflaged
with stardust . . . the court be
comes a ballroom for dream-come
true dances. Or shadows obliter
ate the steel beams while a spot
light is centered' on concert stars.
Or solemnity keynotes the atmos
phere as cap-and-gowned seniors
file past the diploma table.
, Annually rival Beavers try to
: mar the bright lemon yellow of
the concrete “O” and freshman are
: given the dubious pleasure of re
i painting it ... an old tradition,
| one that will never die.
Marking the march of time, the
steam whistle atop the physical
plant daily brings students to their
eight o’clocks and sends them to
their lunches at noon. On special
occasions, like last Armistice Day,
it signals moments of silence. It
is indispensible, but ignored, like
the heating tunnels which carry
steam and hot water to all the cam
pus buildings. Once they were even
considered as possible airraid shel
ters.
“I like a shady place by the old
millrace” .... In the most senti
mental of Oregon songs the stream
is made immortal. Now it is a
muddy gulch, but sometime again
it will be the scene of spectacularly
colorful canoe fetes.
Classrooms, too, form a memor
able part of the University. “You
shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free” is
carved over the library doors . . •
and in the classrooms we learn the
clues of where to find it.
. . . Gather ’round and cheer her.
Chant her glory, Oregon!
McArthur court
SKINNERS BUTTE'O'
PHYSICAL PLANT WHISTLE