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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1950)
Carnival Booth Themes Due at 4 WAA carnival booth themes will be submitted for approval at a meeting of all representatives at 4 p.m. today in McArthur Court. Representatives are asked to | bring a $2 fee for registration to the meeting. Booth themes will be assigned to living organizations after approval ■by the carnival booths committee, headed' by Eleanor Johns and Betty -Wright. A prize will be awarded to orga nizations with the outstanding booth, Kathryn Littlefield, carnival co-chairman, announced Monday. Booth will be judged by R. W. S Leighton, dean of health and physi cal education; Mrs. Golda Wick 11 ham, director of women’s affairs; 'Miss Jeanette Masillionis, instruc tor of physical education; and Bon nie Geinger, WAA president. Doctor To Speak At Wesley House A resident physician in Hawaii will speak on medicine outside of the North American continent at a pre-nursing meeting Wednesday noon in Wesley House. Freshmen are urged to attend to participate in election of officers for the coming year. Blonde Vocalist Coming Monday SONGSTRESS JUNE CHRISTY will appear in McArthur Court Monday'night at 8: p.m., when Stan Kenton and his orchestra pre sent '‘Innovations in Modern Music for 1950.” Student tickets to the concert are now available at Mac Court. See story on page one Then and Now '1887—No Beer or GPA; Dormitory Living Also Oaf By ANNE GOODMAN Quiet hours, closing hours, study hours, sleping hours. Signing out for a concert or a trip to the libe. Phone duty, pledge duty, house du ty. Living in a dorm for a year. The list of restrictions that ac company University life seems to increase with years and the size of the University. An oft-heard mutter under stu dent breaths is that “persons of col lege age are mature enough to set down their own rules of behavior.” Be this true or not, top adminis Qii&\ * \\ i m with CiDE-X DRY CLEANING SAVE MONEY MONEY BY OUR CASH AND CARRY SERVICE CAMPUS LOCATION 1420 Onyx Ph 4-3013 343 E 13th trative officials have handed down disciplinary codes and other stu dent regulations since way back in University history. A comparison o fthen and now will reveal glimmers of past stu dent life. The lates University ruling in sists that all freshmen live in dorms their first year. From the catalogue also comes this: All lower-division men and all undergraduate women not living with relatives in Eugene must live in the dormitories or in houses maintained by organized Univer sity living groups (fraternities, so rorities, cooperatives). Requiring freshman to live in dorms in 1887 would have been un heard of. There were no dorms. There weren’t sororities or frater nities. There was only “board and lodging in private families’’ for from $3 to §5 per week, with per mission ofr “clubs’’ to be formed in which the cost of living would be less. So reads the catalogue for that year. Dances, Dances, Dances In modern times an evening- spent dancing at an all-campus ball, a dance house, or at Willamette Park' is an accepted custom. In 1887 students were forbidden to “attend public dances and danc ing clubs at any time during a ses sion of the University.” Not only dances, but skating rinks burdened the list, too. Today’s disciplinary code uses vague, generalized terms such as “immorality,” and “gross indec-, ency” as grounds for expulsion. Quiet, Quiet, Quiet In that day young people were la dies and gentlemen. Or that’s what an observer might gather from the specific rule that no student was “to stand or sit around the doors, or make any disturbing noise in the halls of the University Buildings.” And speaking of University buildings, the campus then boasted two, including a newly-erected structure named Villard. As for assignments, missing a (Please turn io page eight) House Managers Meet The House Managers Associa^ tion will meet at 7 tonight at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house for the election of officers. Liability insurance, for hired em ployees of fraternities will also be discussed. Otsaan daily IEMERALD TODAY'S STAFF Assistant Managing; Editors: Mar jory Bush and Gretchen Gron dalil Desk Editors: Marjory Bush and Gretchen Grondahl Copy Desk: Lorna Davis, Hoe Jen sen, Jackie Pritzen, Gretchen Grefe NIGHT STAFF Night Editor: Rusty Holcomb Night Staff: Mary Yost, Joanne Sweet, Jim Albertson, Jack Young French Chat Tcdny A French “Causerie,” or chat, will be held at 2 p.m., today, in the Side. All members of the French Club and French classes are in vited to come and chat—(in French, bien entcndu). Speed laws aren’t the only good reason you’re smart to know what you’re driving at. The heating system in some apartments are likely to become the best known flat failures this winter. Open House Slated Open house at Plymouth House will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. today. All students are invited to attend. Pigskin leather arrives in some of the fall shoes. Quite a novelty to have’ your dogs squeal instead of bark. Everything Right The moment you light . . . 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