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About The Oregon weekly. (Eugene, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1908)
E D IT O R IA L B R IE F S IH I OKEGON WEEKLY • '.ïl’icr"" a "Ancrai understanding has been reached. A thletic relat.ons of the colleges of the N orthw est have en- Published every Monday during the college tered upon a new era. A w a \e oi c and Wholesome athletics has been be year by the students cf the gun, and from present indications the U N IV E R S IT Y O F OREG O N vital problem s relating to intercollegi Entered at Eugene postoffice at Eugene, ate athletics contests have been pu Oregon, as second class m atter well underw ay. c . A. M cC L A lN , (1. \V .H UG, SUBSCRIPTION RATES . One year, by mail ........................................ $1 no' R epresentatives I Diversity ot t rc& One year, by copy ........................................$ 05 Single copy ----------- • ♦ •— 'flic teac h ers in th e Pendleton P ub lic schools at a m eetin g held last week decided to enroll as a body in the cor respondence co u rses now b ein g offered by th e U n iv ersity of O regon. The course w hich th e teac h ers will study are in P edagogy and E n g lish L itera ture. 'fh e te a c h e rs took th e step upon th eir ow n in itiativ e and w ere not ask ed to do so by th e school hoard. All over the sta te th e correspondence courses are g e ttin g m ore popular. A DRAMATIC CLUB At a great m any of the leading u n i versities, at the present tune, strong, well conducted dram atic clubs are .......... - ,(W form ed; and in most cases much valu- NIETA HARDING .......................................................... .|W, MERLE R MERIJ. R CHESSMAN chessman ................................ w '-.b le train in g is given to the m em bers. 10 ! T his is especially true in the E astern PEARL J . HAW THORNE,........................ colleges and it is a noticable fact th at MANAGER . . . . ’09 WALTER M. EATON ................................. such organizations are g etting more ASSISTANT MANAGER . . . . ’10 and more popular in the W est. All ARTHUR VAN DUSEN .......................... ready three of the leading universi ties on the coast are supporting d ra Monday, F ebruary 10, 1908 m atic clubs. At the U niversity of M innesota it is considered one of the highest honors N O RTH W EST C O N FER EN C E to become a member of the college D ram atic Club. The m em bership of flic representatives of the “ big six the organization is limited to fifty and in stitu tio n s of the Pacific N orthw est drew up articles of agreem ent at W al at tim es there are as m any as oOO s tu ia W alia, last week regulating college dents on the w aiting list. M em bers athletics in the N orthw est colleges. are chosen by com petitive rehearsals m 1'lie conference was free from w ran g the various lines of dram atic a it. Each ling of any sort and the delegates year the club m em bers give a nu m th rash ed out each issue in all its phas ber of plays w ritten by th eir own ittein- editor - in - chiep THOMAS R. TOWNSEND ....................... ASSISTANT EDITORS ’09 At the recent m eetin g of the Alumni A ssociation at P o rtla n d , 1 res. C am p bell reccom ended the estab lish m en t of a biological statio n on the ocean beach south of Coos Bay. It lias been found by Prof. A. R. S w eetser, of the d ep art m ent of biology, th a t a section ol that beach is p a rtic u la rly rich in m aterial for biological research and is also con v eniently situ ated to serve as the loca tion of the statio n . It is th o u g h t th a t an announcem ent will he m ade soon co n cern in g the selec tion of a football coach for next year. E x am in atio n s will he o v er on next S aturday. D O N ’T C O M PL A IN It m ay seem to m any that this w eek’s issue of the W eekly is over balanced w ith a d v e rtis in g ; hut if you think so, d o n ’t com plain. It has here tofore been th e custom for the ed itors of the O re g o n W eekly to take a week off and not p u t o u t a paper d in ing the ex am in atio n s, so you can re gard this issue of th e paper as a gift. Alt ready the W eekly is tw o issues ahead of schedule,— the C hristm as is sue was a n o th e r g ift,— so th a t readers have sm all g ro u n d s for complaint. Read this paper, ads and all, and if es. T h ere was a general spirit of goo 1 i hers, P lays of a classical and artistic na will and feeling for one another. All concerned adm itted the m istakes of the ture as well as com edies are rendered past and worked with all seriousness at regular intervals and the result is and earn estn ess to rem edy these m is liighlv gratifying. Ever\ year the senior class at the takes to the best interests of all. 1 he harm ony among the delegates of the U niversity of O regon p u ts on a p la y - conference was surprising, and the de usually <»f a classical n ature. T h u s far liberation of the representatives on under able in struction, the seniors each question before adoption or re have alw ays m ade a m ost creditable jection was thoroughly weighed. F or show ing; hut the stage train in g has tw o days the conference was busy day been limited to only one year. 1 low much m ore tru e histrionic ta l a m i night, 'flic fairness in which the in stitu tio n s concerned treated the o th ent. and dram atic art, could he devel er in stitu tio n s is to he highly com oped if the instruction in im persona m ended. T h e questions of eligibility tion could begin while the student is and scholarship were unanim ously ap- s still an under classm an. How much proved, while with a single exception stronger and b e tte r w ould the east the question of am ateurism was d o u b t of characters in our annual senior ed as feasible at the present tim e. It pla\ he. if the m em bers had each had was th o u g h t best to adopt articles of three or more years of tra in in g / By agreem ----- ent rath e r than a constitution. all m eans we should have a dram atic and to elim inate all red-tape m easure c| up 1M >SS ihle I’lie responsibility of enforcing the The Philologian society has challeng- athletie regulations was left to the ed the l.au rean s to an inter-society athletic au th o rities ami self-respect of Freshm an debate to he held in the the in stitu tio n s them selves. The con-1 spring. It is needless to add th at the ference w as a success from every L aureans will probably cheerfully ae- stan d p o in t. It has brought the in- ! cept the defi. vou are not satisfied, keep it to your self. TRYOUT NEXT W EEK T he try o u ts for places on the teams in the five-m ile in ter-class relay race will take place next week, im m ediate ly after the re-o p en in g of college. 1 K' first five m en to qualify in each class try o u t, will he th e class representatives in the final ev e n t, w hich will he tie culm ination of all the cross-country and distance tra in in g of the ' s ’ntC... Each m em ber of th e w inning team receive a gold m edal. All classes, e the seniors w ho failed to entc 1
