Activity Problems Faced
Webfoots Four Decades Ago
By Arlette Morrison
“Some students are so over
organized they have to do their
studying before breakfast and
after bedtime in order to keep up
with social activities.”
Does that sound like something
you read in last week’s Emerald,
or does it remind you of someone
you know who’s on every campus
committee from music for the
Prom to Homecoming violators?
When it was written, orchestras
were playing “Dear Old Girl” for
junior proms, and as for Home
coming, the University didn’t have
enough alumni to fill Fenton Hall,
let alone Hayward Field.
No, when the Emerald published
that remark on activities, it was
probably complaining about some
campus wheel who was not only
running the literary societies, but
had sewed up the best position on
the Mandolin Club.
SAME PROBLEMS
That doesn't mean that students
in 1919 didn’t worry about some of
the same problems that confront
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"activity kids” now. The Oregana
(they called it the Beaver then)
was one of those problems.
“I don’t know what’s the matter
with that book. It just won’t sell,”
one of the staff members said.
You can hardly blame him for
complaining. The price had just
been lowered to 50 cents a copy,
but the yearbooks still weren’t
selling.
IN THE RED
The year before, when Oreganas
cost $1.50, the junior class went
$266 in debt because they could
only sell half of the six hundred
copies.
Finances seemed to be a com
mon problem for the Ducks around
the first decade of the century.
One campus paper related how two
thugs tried to hold up the sopho
more class treasurer. He saved
the class money he had with him
by ducking behind the Beta Epsi
lon woodpile.
“Where the robbers made their
mistake was in trying to hold up
the sophomore class treasurer,”
he told a reporter. “I had just 15
cents in my pockets and that was
the total cash in the sophomore
Hypnotism Topic
Of Science Meet
Hypnotism was the subject of a
.lecture by Rosco Wright, junior
in education, at a meeting of the
Eugene Science Fantasy society
Wednesday night.
Subjects covered were the appli
cation of hypnosis to the fields of
medicine, psychiatry, and educa
tion.
Wright stated that hypnosis
could be used to aid students in
their studies. Since post-hypnotic
commands must be carried out a
student could be hypnotized, told
that he would pick up a certain
book and study it for a specified
length of time, and remember what
he read. In such a case the sub
ject would retain what he studied
after release from the hypnotic
state, Wright explained.
THE DOWN TOWN
COLLEGE SIDE
THAT’S WHAT SEYMOUR’S CAFE HAS
BEEN FOR MANY COLLEGE GENERA
TIONS.. A PLACE WHERE STUDENTS MAY
MEET—RELAX—FEEL AT HOME—ENJOY A
GOOD MEAL OR A FOUNTAIN DISH.
THIS IS OUR INVITATION TO YOU
PRESENT COLLEGE STUDENTS TO COME
IN TO SEYMOUR’S AND ENJOY YOUR
SELVES.
WE CASH SMALL CHECKS AND REN
DER OTHER SERVICES THAT ARE HELP
FUL.
WE ARE THE SOLE AGENTS IN EUGENE
FOR THE FAMOUS PORTLAND VAN DUYN
CANDY.
treasury. As for that 15 cents, it
looks like the last sophomore coin
the treasurer will ever see, so I’d
like to keep it for a souvenir.”
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
The Oregana wasn’t the only
activity on the campus. There
wasn’t a School of Journalism, but
young reporters could work on
the Emerald, the Midnight Dough
nut, or the Oregon Monthly.
'1’he Midnight Doughnut was a
four page paper that came out
every Saturday for two months
and retailed campus gossip—who
was seen canoeing with whom, who
went to parties at sororities and
frats like Kloshe Tillicum, Khoda
Khan, Sigma Nu, or the Tawah
Club.
If your tastes were more liter
ary, you might write poetry or
essays for the Oregon Monthly,
which finally folded completely in
1912.
STRIKE PROPOSED
But campus life wasn’t all lit
erary. In fact, students proposed
a strike the first time professors
assigned outside reading in the
library, and one professor esti
mated that 60 per cent of the
graduates had never set foot in
the library.
Of course all activities weren't
on the campus either. For “High
Class Vaudeville,” 1909 Ducks
went to the Bell Theater, which
also showed the “latest motion pic
tures and illustrated songs.”
If this didn't attract you, you
might try the Electric or Dream
land Theaters, or even Mike Walk
er’s “Mikelodian.” And if you felt
like a drive after the show, you
called Bangs Livery Company,
Main 21.
In 1909, Oregon students went
out for debating, the Mandolin
Club, the literary societies. Today,
many of the activities are differ
ent, but the problems and the
things we say about them are the
same.
SK Fireside
Fetes Officers
A fireside and informal coffee
hour are being planned by mem
bers of Sigma Kappa in honor of
the sorority’s national officers,
who will visit the campus Sunday
and Monday, according to Dorothy
Sutton, house president.
The officers are holding their
annual meeting in Portland this
week and will stop here on their
way to California, where they will
install new chapters at the Uni
versity of California at Santa Bar
bara and San Diego State College.
They will also install a chapter at
Idaho College at Pocatello.
Officers of the city Panhellenic,
Eugene alumni, Mrs. Golda Wick
ham, and house mothers and presi
dents have received invitations to
the coffee hour from 4:30 to 5:30
p.m. Monday. Active members will
entertain the visitors at a fireside
Sunday evening.
The national officers are: Mrs.
Swift Lowry, president; Mrs. Rus
sell Cole, first vice-president; Mrs.
William Seamen, second vice-pres
I ident; Mrs. E. D. Taggert, secre
| tary-treasurer; and Mrs. Laurence
; Corbett, national counselor. Mrs.
i Warren Tinker of Portland will
: accompany the group to Eugene.
Rushees to Meet
All girls interested in winter
term rushing are asked to meet at
Gerlinger Hall, third floor at 4 p.m.
today, Panhellenic President Fran
ces Robson has announced.
Dance Petitions Due Before Wed.
Petitions will be accepted for
chairmanships for the annual
“Heart Hop,’’ Feb. 10, until next
Wednesday at 4 p.m. Petitions may
be turned in to Anita Frost, Alpha
Chi Omega, and Barbara Metcalf,
Kappa Alpha Theta.
Positions open include general
chairmanship, publicity, King of
Hearts selection, coronation, pro
motion, posters, decorations, re
freshments, and tickets. Freshmen
and sophomores may petition for
these positions.
The “Heart Hop,” a girl-date
boy affair, is a progressive dance
to each girls’ house on the dance
program. Any girls’ living organi
zation wishing to hold‘‘Heart Hop”
dances are asked to contact Bar
IFC Defers
Rushing Talk
Following considerable discus
sion, the Inter-Fraternity Council
tabled a motion which would have
brought the matter of deferred
pledging to a vote last night.
Members indicated a desire for
additional time for discussion of
the question in individual houses
in order to have a more complete
representation of opinion.
Several members of the IFC
will meet with representatives
from the Inter-Dorm Council, and
the Council of Men’s Dorms in the
near future to discuss the problem.
A petition for reclassification of
all student living organizations
with University supervision was
introduced and signed by house
presidents. Under present zoning
laws, student living groups are
classified under section R-4, to
gether with hotels and apartment
houses.
Presentation of the pledge class
scholarship trophy to the pledge
group having the highest GPA for
fall term will take place at the
next scheduled IFC meeting.
bara Metcalf at the Kappa Alpha
Theta house.
The dance is sponsored by YW
CA sophomore commission.
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