The Oregon weekly., March 16, 1908, Image 5

AN
H IS T O R IC A L
D ISCOVERY P R E SC O T T W IN S FIRST PLA CE
(C ontinued from page 1.)
PRO F. F. G. SCH M ID T LECTU RES
About to Be Made in London by Pro­
At Assembly Last W ednesday Morn­
fessor Schafer, of the University
ing on the Interesting Subject
A tto rn ey W illiam Y. M asters, Po'rt-
of Oregon.
land, and C ity S uperintendent of
“Faust.”
I)r. Jo sep h S chafer of the D ep art­ Schools Pow ers, of Salem. The deci­
I hie ot the best and most in terestin g
m ent of H isto ry , w ho is at present on sion was aw arded on a general sum ­
a y e a r’s leave of absence for study and m ation of rank which gave the result lectures ot the season was given at as­
sem bly, W ednesday m orning, by Prof,
travel in E u ro p e is on the verge of im ­ as chronicled above.
Im m ediately follow ing the contest h. G. Schm idt, on G oethe’s F aust.
p o rta n t h isto rical discoveries, accord­
The lecture was illu strated by pic­
ing to a recen t A ssociated P ress dis­ a banquet was given the visiting dele­
patch. D r. S chafer is a recognized gates by the stu d en ts of the O regon tures to portray the various scenes and
a u th o rity on Pacific C oast history, and S tate N orm al School. Prof. A. F. characters. By way of introduction,
his visit to E n g lan d was expected to C am pbell, of the O. S. X. S. faculty, .Dr. Schm idt spoke briefly of G oethe’s
b rin g forth in te re stin g developm ents. acted as to a stm a ste r and called repre­ position in literature and characterized
He is reach in g som e original sources sen tativ es of each institution who re­ him, not only as the g reatest poet of
G erm any, but as one of the greatest
th a t have n ev er been explored by any sponded to to asts as follow s:
1 he I. (). A. ()., Pacific U niversity, poets ol all ages, the cosm opolitan
one fully acq u ain ted with the historv
poet, par excellence. The finest q u al­
of the O regon co u n try . At present he Mr. D. I. A ller.
T heodore Roosevelt. Albany College, ities of G oethe’s mind are em bodied
is ex am in in g the papers in the British
in his F aust, a work which stands at
C olonial and F o reig n offices. H is next Miss C atherine M cM illan.
O u r N avy, U niversity of O regon, the head of all the creations of Goethe
search will proba'bly be productive of
and which must be considered as one
resu lts especially valuable. It will be Mr. Benjam in H untington.
E ducation, O regon State N orm al of the lew poetic w orks that possess
am o n g the p riv ate correspondence of
an im m ortal vitality.
Every reader
Lord A berdeen, w ho was responsible School, Miss M ary W hitney.
( hir I eachers, ( )regon A gricultural can find in it reflections of his own
for the A b erd een tre a ty which fixed
faith and philosophy— no other poem
the n o rth ern b o u n d ary of the U nited College, Mr. R. R. Clark.
S tates at the fo rty-ninth parallel. •T he O ra to rs, M cM innville College, like this was the work of a whole life.
It deals.w ith the greatest problem that
E n g lan d incited by the H udson Bay Mr. C hester W . Cam pbell.
'Hie Y oung Men of O regon, Pacific can engage the mind of man.
com p an y w as in sistin g angrily th a t the
A fter giving an outline of the pro­
C olum bia riv er be the boundary, and College, .Miss Alice B. Hayes.
Music was furnished during the ban­ logue, which indicated the grand e th ­
the I nited S tates was disturbed by
ical idea underlying the whole work,
the co u n ter-cry of “ 54-40 or fight.” Ju st quet by the (). S. X. S. F aculty q u ar­
the tw o parts of the poem were
why E n g lan d gave in and accepted the tet which made a decided hit with the
disscused, em phasizing the fact that
fo rty -n in th parallel has puzzled h isto r­ delegates.
A t the afternoon business m eeting both p arts are sym m etrical in their
ians from th a t day to this. E va E m ory
stru ctu re, the first m oving from H ea­
Dye, th e novelist of the O regon coun­ of the association officers were elected
ven through the world to hell; the sec­
try , in “ T h e C oncjuest” adopts the for next year as follow s: President.
ond re tu rn in g therefrom through the
h y p o th esis th a t the son of L ord A ber­ Mr. R. R. Clark, of O regon A g ricu ltu r­
world to Heaven.
deen, w ho w as at the tim e in O regon, al C ollege; secretary, Mr. Earl A. Xott,
In giving the contents and a clear
saw how hopelessly A m ericanized the ot M cM innville C ollege; treasu rer, Mr.
picture of both parts, Dr. •Kchtnidl
c o u n try had becom e, and w rote the I hos. R. I ownscnd, of the U niversity
disscussed the religious, m etaphysical
facts to his father, w ho com prom ised. of O regon.
A resolution was unanim ously ad o p t­ and ethical ideas of the work and em ­
Dr. S chafer expects to su b sta n tia te this
phasized that G oethe’s plan, as o u t­
h y p o th esis bv finding am ong the co r­ ed by the association s ta tin g that the
lined in the prologue, could not be tin-
respondence of Lord A berdeen private eight colleges of O regon should go on
derstod ami appreciated to its fullest
advices from O regon su b stan tially to record as favoring the annual ap p ro ­
extent if only the first part were con­
the sam e effect. Dr. S chafer will fu r­ priation of $125,000 per (ear to the
sidered. The reason the second part
th er p u rsu e his stu d ies in the Bodleian U niversity of Oregon. A second reso- is so difficult to understand is the ele­
and o th e r g reat E nglish libraries. All lution was adopted favoring a liberal ment of allegory which Goethe was
his in v estig atio n will cen ter about the appropriation to the ( )regon S tate N or­ com pelled to introduce because the
m ooted p o in ts of Pacific C oast history, mal School. Two am endm ents also characters and events are displayed on
on w hich he is one of the best living carried, one prohibiting stu d en ts from so grand a stage. Goethe, during the
com peting in the Intercollegiate con­
au th o rities.
test who have either been ordained in latter part of his life, had entered a
realm of th o u g h t where he was hidden
the m inistry or engaged in the practice
Charman Elected Captain.
of law ; a second prohibits stu d en ts who from the m u ltitu d e and only to the
searching mind will tin* second part
X. R. C h arm an will captain O re g o n ’s are taking the m ajority of their work-
yield up its treasures.
basketball team next season. C h a rm a n ’s in a law or medical departm ent of any
An outline of the contents of the tw o
work at g u ard this y ear w as a revel­ college in the league from com peting.
parts as given in the lecture, would
( hi the whole the contest at M on­
ation to O reg o n su p p o rters. D uring
gladly be reported if space would
the la tte r p art of the season and es­ m outh was a great success. 'Pile peo­
perm it.
pecially on the n o rth ern trip, he was ple of M onmouth were very cordial
a to w er of stre n g th for O regon. He in their hospitality to the visiting dele­
S tu d en ts should rem em ber that Mar.
is reg istered from ( )regon C ity in the gates. The next contest will be held,
E n g in eerin g d ep a rtm e n t. He is popu­ in 1909 at Corvallis under the auspices 26 is the night of the In terstate De­
of the O regon A gricultural college.
bate. Keep that date open.
lar w ith all m em bers of the team .