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About The Oregon weekly. (Eugene, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1907)
E L E C T IO N S tests have ever been made and the than a course in “ home kitchen.” Af (C ontinued from page 4) modern cars constructed with steel firm ative, Livia Pond and L oretta faction of e lec tin g a m an as a m ethod fram es have come about partly be Showers. Negative, Ruth Palderree cause the stren g th of tim ber is not and Carol v ne 1 hm ston. neighboring faction. F o rtu n a te ly the good sense and ' determ ined, and also because the cost honor of the av erag e U niversity of ot wood is increasing. One hundred PICNIC ON T H E M’KENZIE tests will be m ade and an elaborate O regon stu d en t has alw ays kept the phenom ena of g ro u p stru g g le within record of the tim bers will be kept i Saturday, May 5th, a crowd of U ni the bounds of co u rtesy and fair riv from the time they leave the mill pond versity students .spent the day at Cold alry and the p a rtiz a n s of each faction in the log until they bend under the Spring on the McKenzie River. The party left earlv in the m orning and did have voted as ju stly as th eir p reju d ic stress of the big testing machine. The ( )regon l im ber Station has not return until late in the evening. es perm itted. T he present nom inees for office are just com pleted a long series of tests Those who enjoyed this recreation all capable of d isch arg in g the duties to determ ine the behavior of bridge w ere: Myra Loveridge,, V esta \ \ al to which they aspire and the problem , strin g ers of O regon hr under stress to lace, of Albany, Mabel Kuykendall, for the honest voter, will be to cast a determ ine the effects of shapes and Elizabeth Elliott. Pelle \ anD uyn, The tests Pertha Dorris. Paul W illoughby. Dick ballot for those whose record for ser knots on the tim ber. vice and ta le n t gives them precedence showed that O regon tim ber is equal to C harm an, < )rmond Rankin, Merwin over less m erito rio u s com petitors. the best grow n in the United States Rankin, “Cal.” Sweek, and \\ alter W hile politics is a gam e which, like and th at knots under certain condi Staff« >rd. most o th er activ ities, offers o p p o rtu n i tions actually add strength to the Saturday afternoon after the 1 )re ty for the tim e honored rule “support wood, 'fh e results are in the hands of vour friends and sm ite your enem ies,” the D epartm ent of F o restry and will gon-M ultnom ah baseball game a num and went up the race. On the cus- the stu d en t-b o d y is happily free from shortly be published in a bulletin. ber of the students took their lunch serious dissen sio n s, and will rem ain tom ary picnic ground at the head of so as long as its m em bers act, as good EUTAXIAN the race they built a large camp-fire college sp irit d ictates, w ith malice tow ard none, and sy m p ath y tow ard At the last m eeting of the Kutaxian and cooked their supper. 'The party all. E ditor. L iterary Society Miss Eva W einhart consisted of Hazel H um phrey, Helene gave a very in terestin g paper on “ The Robinson, W innie Cockerline, W innie T H E F O O L K IL L E R Life of H eine.” N ext Friday being Hadley, Edith Ragan, of Salem ; Max U niversity Day there will be no m eet Snow, Eberle Kuykendall, Dean Good ( )ne of the m y sterio u s beings who ing of the society. At the m eeting m an,“ Billy” H uggins, Ralph Cronise, aids the p ro g re ss of h u m anity is the May 24th there will be the sem i-annu and Edgar Smith. Fool Killer. He ru les over a dom ain al election of officers. I he following Profesor F. S. Dunn, of the Latin forbidden to m o rtals and m etes out program will also be given at this departm ent of the I niversity, gave a punishm ent to th e u n w ary who tre s m eeting: C urrent E vents. Mary Fo- very interesting lecture F riday even pass. P art of his te rrito ry is rep re s h a y ; Debate, Resolved. T h at a course ing at the M ethodist church on “ The sented by the rap id s near the tannery in dom estic science is more beneficial Catac« mtbs.” and those at the head of the race. L ately th ere has ben a disposition on the part of certain college stu d en ts to lay them selv es liable, by shooting tin. rapids in a canoe, ju st for the ex citem ent of the trick. So far th ere has been no serious accident, th o u g h several have had to swim for th e ir lives, while their o v er tu rn ed canoe w as carried down stream , but then one m ust adm it that the scourge of fools is after all a tender hearted ru ler w ith a vast am ount of patience and a special m ercy for col lege stu d en ts. E xperience, how ever, sug g ests th a t the rapids are dangc r ous and he w ho tresp asses takes un 2 SIZES w arran ted chances for the w ater cure. Oregon, California Stanford, Stanford Yale and Harvard PENNANTS 6 0 c and 8 5 c TIM B ER STA TIO N AT W ORK J. 11. K napp, of the T estin g Plant, com m enced a new series of tests '»n tim ber for car fram es on Mondav. I he object of the te sts will be to determ ine the stre n g th of the stan d ard 3x. an 5x8 tim b e rs used in the construeti n of tlat cars ami box cars. Gym nasium Suits, Running Pants and Jersies in W hite and Black S . H . F R IE N D L Y
