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About The Oregon weekly. (Eugene, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1908)
more than a mere hint at the relations to the public good of only one distm c tively university function. A bureau for collecting, tiling, indexing and o r Published every Monday during the college ganizing all m aterial tor throw ing year by the students cf the light upon all questions of com m on UNIVERSITY OF OREGON w ealth policies is referred to. In it, in most available and system atic form, Entered at Eugene postoffice at Eugene, would be found a record of life changes Oregon, as second class m atter of a people. W ith it the principles of the social sciences could he applied SUBSCRIPTION KATES tow ards social betterm ent. Such a $1.00 One year, by mail ...................... $1.00 bureau becom es the laboratory foi a d One year, by copy ...................... $ .05 Single copy ................................. vanced work in politics, economics and sociology. It supplies facilities for the 1 01TO R -1N -C H IE F best g rad u ate training. Scholastic work '09 T H O M A S R TOWNSEND .............................................. in which every stroke is directed to A S SIS TAN T EDITORS '0 9 1 social and com m onwealth betteim ent N IE T A H AR D IN G .......................................................... '09 MERLE R. C H E S S M A N ................................................. inculcates the highest patriotism . Ib is EARL F. K IL P A T 1 IC K ..................................................... '09 collection of organized m aterial is PEARL J. I l XXX T H O R N E ,.................................................... 10 M ANAGER readv at hand for utilization bx exeix W ALTER M EATON ............................................................. '09 student in any part of the state con ASSISTANT MANAGER AR TH U R VAN DUSEN ..................................................... '10 ducting investigations for the com m on good. T he university has for several years conducted this line of w oik, but Monday, Jan u ary 27, 1908. no tithe of norm al results are possible w ithout more adequate support. A U NIV ERSITY FUNCTION How such a bureau of research is of highest service to the people of the In these days when not a few in state becom es clear xvith the slightest < iregon are striv ing with m ight and glim pse of their com m onwealth in te r main to relegate I diversity service and ests. T o illu stra te : G rand m aterial activities to the lim bo of the useless stru ctu re s are being built in the dif and the more or less senseless luxuries which max * he affected hv * a few snob- ferent parts of the state and g ia m k i lush trillers it behooves those who see «»lies will be in the years to come, but things as they are in the m atter of these in their planning ami purpose are the distinctive and fundam ental ser as but hovels in com parison with the vice of the U niversity to the com m on proportions and ad ju stm en ts in the good of the people of ( )regon to "speak stru ctu re of the com m onw ealth itself. o u t.” L ittle, of course will be the ef G reat and increasingly intricate are the fect of any degree of light upon those private and the quasi-public corpora- THE OREGON WEEKLY who will not see. An exam ination of the stake a people have in their uni v ersity in o ur rapidly developing civ ilization is alw ays in order. The special stress in the present situation of the u n iv ersity is only a lesser occasion tor proposing this inquiry. Any prim e agency for keeping civilization, with its m odern bew ildering com plexities ami its exigent dem ands for the last results of science, plumb and stro n g ami m oving upw ard needs be fully u n d erstood in this dem ocratic O regon. In o rd er that anx agency that has vital relations to the general development m ay yield a full measure of good it must of necessity be strengthened ami! ad ju sted to m eet the dem ands of en larging sphere and responsibilities. Rv-i erv prim e and perm anent agency in the m aking of a greater O regon must grow in poxver as O regon groxvs. The question then narroxvs down to the in quiry: Are the distinctively university functions requisite for realizing the best for the Oregon that is to be? L im itatio n s of space forbid anything S tate itself -must "hold it over them in power, in adjustm ents, and, above all. in the purpose of its existence. Noble work lias been done by the church, the private school, the club and o th er associations, yet these are but m olding the ch aracters th at are to have their largest and deepest lile in the com m onwealth. T he S tate neces sarily and norm ally in the past lim ited itself io crude negative purposes. 'The conditions of the present and future call for a far different role. O th er com m onw ealths in their public policies arc meeting these condition". Shall O re gon as highly favored as any in her population ami in her reso” r c< s re nounce her heritage of destiny? A people that have given hostages to democrat'} as the O regon people have can least afford to disperse xvith a b u r eau of social and political research at their university. At the university, if anyw here, must be the focus of the creative mind of the S tate. T here m ust he organized the guides to experience w here m en are train ed at the sam e tim e the m aterials are shaped. F. G. YOUNG. AN A C TIV E^C A M PA IG N 'l'lie A lum ni cam paign com m ittee, consisting of C. N. McArthur, *0 1 j A l len II. E ato n , ’0 2 ; El. I. K eeney, ’97; H om er 1). A ngell, ’00; and L ew is R. A lderm an, ’98, ap p o in ted by the A lum ni A ssociation last Ju n e, to w age an active cam paign for the p assage of the U niversity a p p ro p ria tio n bill at the com ing election, has had several m eet ings, and has o utlined a plan of cam paign th a t is bound to b rin g results. 'l'lie law m akes it the d u ty of the S ecretary of S tate on th e 55th day be fore election to mail to every voter in the state a copy of all m easures to be voted upon u n d er the in itiativ e and referendum , to g e th e r xvith arg u m en ts for or a g a in st such m easures. I he Alum ni C om m ittee has prepared a stro n g line of a rg u m e n t in su p p o rt of the ap p ro p riatio n bill and the same will be tiled w ith the S ecretary of State next S atu rd ay . T h e cost of p rin tin g the a rg u m e n t xvill am o u n t to about $350.00 w hich am o u n t has already been subscribed by the friends of the U niversity. T h e enem ies of the I ni- versity xvill, of course, p re se n t their side of the case in th e sam e pam phlets. T he law req u ires the s ta te to pay for the binding of the p am p h lets and also the postage. T h e expense of printing the arg u m en t is bo rn e by the in terest ed parties. T h e A lum ni C o m m ittee expects to w age a very vig o ro u s cam paign for the passage of the bill, especially through the new spapers of the state. th e re will be a lot of circu lar letters, special editions of new sp ap ers, personal let ters, speeches, re so lu tio n s and othei cam paign featu res th a t will educate the people to the needs of the U niver sity. Mr. M cA rthur, ch airm an of the com m ittee. will devote the g re a te r part of his tim e betw een now and June 1 to the cam paign for th e bill. M r. A ldei- m an and M r. R ato n will do the same. C lerks and ste n o g ra p h e rs will be em ployed at an early date. Alum ni in all p arts of the s ta te a re offering then services and w hen a good organization is once perfected, th e cam paign xxil begin in earn est. DON’T FORGET THIS N ext F rid ay evening, in \ illard llall. the annual co n test to select the orat r who shall re p re se n t th e E nixersit} O regon in th e S ta te Intercollegiate cantest will be held. At this t*nR L* o ra to rs xvill com pete. 1 hey are.
