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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
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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.
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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.”
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