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About The Oregon weekly. (Eugene, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1902)
THE OREGON WEEKLY ered; a sentence must be modified LIN K ’S EXCLUSIVE SHOE STORE or cut out here, another substituted there; a word must be displaced by Published each Monday during the col another more apt or more effective, lege year by the students of the till the highest reach ot his power UNIVERSITY OE OREGON is attained. $ 3 . 9 0 $ 3 . 9 0 Nor is the preparation for a de Entered at Eugene postoffice as second livery a more speedy process. The class matter. difference between two renderings SI »SCRIPTION RATES LIN K ’S EXCLUSIVE SHOE STORE of the same sentence may win or DAVID 11.20 One year, by mail, I .oo lose a contest, The voice must re One year, by carrier, 05 veal in all its fullnss the loftiest Single copy, - - - - conception of the intellect, the deep- W e a r e to o l> u » y to w r i t e A d » . Advertising rates made known on ap- . L . , vt .. p i' ib,r est emotion ot the soul, plication to Business Manager, I . <». Mot o, Eugene, Oregon. Then too a certain amount ot t) I /> • a* | time is necessarv for the student to forget the details of the process by EDITOR IN CHIEF ,, < »1 Lnr.K 1, J AS. 11. • • • I which the final result is reached. assistants He must forget the slow and some- L e a d i n g D e n ie r In V. VV. TOMLINSON, RALPH AACON | w}lu[ laborious steps by. which he HUS I S ESS MA N AC. E K has reached the mountain top and HOLT STOCKTON, - - - ’03 feel only the inspiration of the ASSISTANT ,,5 I height. ALBERT R. TIFFANY. We have some of the strongest M O N D A Y , OCTOBER 13, 1902 men to put forward in the contest; SELECTION OF ORATORS the presidency is ours; the contest Some memliers of the faculty have Hs to kcld Eugene, where our suggested that the classes begin at rePrc!*entative " ’ll ^)e stimulated once to select their orators so that to ^ ie highest reach ot his powers they may have plenty of time to hv the presence of a sympathetic prepare for the local contest. We I audience think the suggestion a pertinent! Bet us begin early and go in and seasonable one. Hitherto the! w’th a determination to win practice has been to defer the selec tion of orators till some time in I)e-I ABO UT SOCIETIES cember. This gives the orator scarcely two months to prepare fori During the hustle and bustle of the contest. His subject must lie the opening weeks of college; the selected; his method of treatment perfecting of student and class or- FOR must be chosen; his outline must be ganizations; the working up offoot- constructed; the oration developed, ball enthusiasm, we seem to have LATEST memorized and rehearsed in this forgotten that once there existed STYLES short time. in the University three literary so- ()f course, if the student had all cieties, already we have had the iti- IN his time to devote to the work, two quirv, “ Where are the literary so- months might be time enough, cieties? When will they begin Other things demand a share of his | work?” They seem to have been attention and the small portion of completely swallowed up in the his time which he can give to his swirl of things in general This oration is painfully inadequate t o should not be so. Six years ago the task before him. Thus too the literary societies were the most often an orator enters the local flourishing organizations in the contest poorly prepared and fails to University. The air was full of so evince his best powers. One who ciety enthusiasm and rivalry, and DEPARTMENTS AT EUGENE has lieen fortunate enough to have nearly every student deemed it his Graduate School. Colleges of Literature, Science and the Arts; a little more time, may deliver his iuij’cratixe duty to join a society oration more smoothly and display and take a part in its proceedings. Surveying and Engineering; School of Mines and Mining; School of a little more finish ami thus win Last year the societies were scarce Music; I niversity Academies. out over one whose possibilities are ly able to keep on their feet. Courses Preparatory to Medicine a id Dentistry; for Teachers, and greater, but who, on account of be We are now lacing a new colie Re ing hampered by lack of time, has year in which opportunities for so 1‘reparatory to Law and journalism; Especially numerous and advanced failed to do his best. To even up ciety work were never better. Graduate Courses. the scale, let them all Ixîgin early. These opportunities should not be It can not be to » often empha neglected. No college man is so sized that a great oration or any busy that he can afford to neglect AN IMMENSE CONSIDERATION IN PURCHASING thing approaching a great oration, society work. Whatever his aim fi is a slow growth. It must come to in life, whether he becomes a law li maturity as the grain ripens in the yer, a doctor or an engineer, he field; it must I k * unfolded bit by bit should l»e able, if necessity de as the rose unfolds its petals; it mands, to rise before an audience IS the certainty of getting the goods y you order, and getting them must be built as the chaml'ered and voice his convictions in an easy when you want them. nautilus builds itsshell slowly piling and forcible manner. The societv Modern man's clothing is as much a creature of evolution as mod- apartment 01, top of apartment, un is the only place where the student ern man himself. til the completed structure meets tan lorm the habit ot reasoning with W e t i r e ( ilw ti.v H p l e a s e d t o the admiring g.ize ot the observer. a crowd as he would with an indiv » lio \v o u r lin e » The relative strength of different idual and of instantly £ , . ,, . Accommodât V T . p a s s a g e s m u st In- carehillv cmsnl- jug expression to thought. E. SCHWÄRZSCHILD Upiversibv Books, S tu d ep t s S upplier Drv) Goods, Clothing Gents’ Furnishings HAMPTON 5R0S. YORAN'S SHOE STORE SERVICEABLE WINTER SHOES UNIVERSITY OFOREGON I Be State Universitv ÎY FURNITURE Its. M ill H. F R I E N I3 LY F. L. C H A M B E R S HARDWARE
