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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1948)
.Campus Heads Exchange Ideas Returning hee after attendingr the ninth annual convention of the Oregon Federation of Col legiate Leaders . on the Oregon college campus Barbara Johns, Howard Lemons, and Bob Frazier, University of Oregon delegates to the meeting, reported a full day of conferences and meetings with the leaders from other schools. Representatives from virtually every college in the state were pre sent for the convention, which dis cussd inter-campus relationships and the place of activities in col lege life at the Friday sessions. The three University delegates will return to the Corvallis cam pus Saturday morning, when Fra zier will lead a panel on the role of the college editor in student af fairs .The Saturday group will also discuss faculty-student relation ships. Delegates reported that the first day's meetings proved profitable to them in discussing problems com mon to all campuses. Among prob lems that appeared to be of prim ary concern were the place of political pressure groups on the campuses, payment of student government officers, overloaded activity programs, the high cost of name dance bands, financing stu dent government, and the fact that on all campuses a small number of people appear to carry all activi ties. The group also expressed con cern that oftentimes students en roll in the wrong school, and then stay there out of a spirit of school loyalty. At noon Friday they heard Dan Poling, dean of men at Ore gon state college, speak on the place of activities in the educa tional program. The Oregon delegation expressed appreciation for the courtesy ex tended them by student body of ficers at the state college, and re ported they were shown “every courtesy” on the northern campus. Bob Frazier, Emerald editor, spent much of Friday afternoon with Ben Howe, editor of the Ore gon State Barometer, and the two editors ironed out a number of dif ficulties that have kept alive a cross-campus feud for many years, j [ With the Greatest of Ease, Apparently Howard Hughes’s $23,000,000 plywood flying boat Hercules, which many people thought would never fly, is shown at anchor in Los Angeles Harbor just before it was flown on a short hop by Hughes during taxi tests. Spotlight of a Senate investigation into Hughes’s $40,000,000 worth Qf government warplane contracts, the world's la-gest flying boat weighs 200 tons, can carry 700 passengers, has eight 3000 lip motors. Hull is 220 feet long, 30 high, 25 wide. Wingspread is 320 feet. Kiss to Speak Of Campus Life Dr. Ferenc Kiss, professor of anatomy and histology and dean of the faculty at the University of Budapest, will be the speaker at the regular meeting of the Inter- j varsity Christian fellowship in the dining room of John Straub hall to night at 7. President of the Free Church Movement in Hungary, he will speak on religious life in the Dan ubian states from the standpoint of the student and on the funda mentals of Christian faith. Dr. Kiss is currently conducting a nation-wide lecture tour of col leges and universities, under the auspices of the United States In tervarSity Christian fellowship of which the Oregon IVCF is a chap ter. It is an interdenominational or ganization designed to meet the need of university students. Its program encourages daily prayer, Bible study and Christian fellow ship. Planning a Party? Let us relieve your baking worries—! COOKIES CAKES ROLLS \ Plain or fancy Home Bakery and DELICATESSEN 86 E. Broadway Phone 4118 , , f f , , , . f r r < , . • r m l ! t • « % , t Infirmary Catches Six Only six students took refuge iti the infirmary from the worries of beginning classes this week. They aye; Donna Bolch, Ruth Hades, Phyllis Brady, Harry Lansman, Clarence Reich, and Austin Pitcher. Course Organized In Home Nursing The Red Cross college unit has organized a home nursing course for the wives of veterans on the campus, to begin today, home nursing chairman Marie Hatsup announced. The 12-hour course, under the instruction of Mrs. Annette Ayl worth, will be given in a three week period, the afternoon class meeting from 2:30 to 4:30 and the evening class from 7:30 to 9:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Phi Kaps to Build House on Campus Delegates attending the national convention of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity at Columbus, Ohio, report ed the decision of the national or ganization to loan the funds needed for building a fraternity house on the University of Oregon campus. Librarian Sets Book Promotion Miss Bernice Rise, newly appoint ed readers consultant, has announced ■ her plans for promoting more aware- I ne-s among students of the library and the browsing room. For the browsing room. Miss Rise plans weekly book discussion by various professors and graduate stu dents of both' bid and new books, plays, and poetry. Also to be pre sented in the library are movies and records of poetry readings, and mu sical selections. Miss Rise is enlarging the collec tion of prints of old paintings, which may be checked out for half a term at a time by students, and renewed as often as they wish. A complete book list of tre best books in all fields is being made by Miss Rise for the convenience of both students and alumni. The list will contain the name of the book, the price, publisher, date of pubtica tion, and a sentence or two telling about the contents. Miss Rise is planning to expand the house library system to every living organization on the campus. Oregon was one of the first to have house libraries, but it is becoming popular on many campuses through - out the nation, Miss Rise said. President Truman, In his an nual budget message, asked for an extra $6,000,000 now and $38, 000,000 during the 1949 fiseait year to carry out "an effective foreign informational and cul tural program.” Let's Go! LET THE FOLKS AT HOME KNOW WHAT'S BEING DONE! And the Emerald can do a thorough and enlightening job. Send the Emerald to your family and friends. To be sure the next big important issue won't be missed, clip the coupon below and mail today! $4.00 a school year.. .$2.00 a term ■ Oregon Daily Emerald University of Oregon , ! Eugene, Oregon g } Enclosed find $.for my subscription to the EMERALD. I i i Name . ] Street address. i I City .State . / : ; ■ ; : . : ; .f ’ • " ! : I J It.