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'.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
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'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
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form ed; and in most cases much valu-
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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
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WALTER M. EATON .................................
such organizations are g etting more
ASSISTANT MANAGER
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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