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About The Oregon weekly. (Eugene, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1908)
Hair and Tooth Brushes Tooth Preparations, Perfumes and Fine Soaps W. A. KUYKENDALL pharmacist 569 Willamette Street Very Complete Stock of DRUGS CHEMICALS and Surgical Appliances Eugene, Ore. confronted by truths hidden or re- T H E Y. M. C. A. C O N FE R E N C E Y. W. C. A., A FACTOR FO R GOOD vealed which they are to search alter. — ‘ Truth is their demand; they wish to A Source of Instruction, Inspiration An Interesting Discussion on W ork of reject the false. Will it not come about and Pleasure—An Annual Oc- The Young W om en’s Christian tliat the more significant and more currence. Association blessed the truth the more earnest their Twelve delegates represented the search for it? Surely, if they can be It is sometimes thought and assert made to know the significance and University of Oregon Y. M. C. A. at ed that a State University is not ad blessedness. the Student Convention held at Gear apted by nature to a deeply spiritual The State University is a rich field hart last June. W hite hats with green atmosphere for its students or even the work of the Christian Associa >ands and other distinctive gear made to a so-called religious atmosphere. for tions. For the Y. W. C. A. of our own the Oregon men easy to find hnd among This assertion is based on the relation University there is an ever widening the crowd of some three hundred dele- of our state to the national doctrine opportunity to contribute toward the gates. Foi a week these three hun- that religion must not be taught in oui dred students lived at G earhart, apart public schools. And so it sometimes Christian influence of the womanhood from the outside world and not even follows that a State University is of the Northwest. As the number of seeing the daily newspapers, devoting charged with being a godless school. women grows to represent many times their entire time to conference work. But is this reasoning founded on every community the Association will Fred B. Smith and other powerful lead- real or fancied conditions? To be need ever renewed consecration to the 1 ers were there and exercised a pro sure, sectarianism or denominational- work before it. There are now en found influence on the lives of all the ism is not taught in our public schools rolled one hundred and fifty-five wom men. Plans were laid for work in var and the pure American spirit would en ; in a few years there will be five ious local associations which have since not tolerate such teaching. Rut in the hundred. If this is a day of small been productive of good results. Pleas very denial to teach the creed or pecul things for the Y. W. C. A. let it have ia r'te n e ts of any sect is there not a large hopes. But no day is small that ant features of the conference were the promise of the largest religious free sends a few women from these halls talks at evening on Sunset Crest, surf dom? The very freedom of a State consecrated to God and his righteous bathing, and a track-m eet on the beach University is a'species of the genus ness, devoted to lofty character and in which the colleges of W estern Ore gon defeated all comers. Liberty, ft is rather a Just where the confer tree on which the spirit ence will be held this year of religion which is the is as yet uncertain but the highest kind of liberty program will be practical may engraft itself. ly the same as last year. Christ died to make all The local Y. M. C. A. men free. z\nd it is in hopes to send a large del free civilizations, free egation, as the inspiration governments, free institu gained at such a confer tions that the Christian ence is always reflected in religion makes its largest the next year’s work of and surest growth, lienee, the delegates. it is, that in our day The men who attended schools and colleges last year’s conference at founded bv denominations G earhart were wonder are for the purpose not of fully developed and have prom ulgating sectarian been m ainstays of the ism but rather religion. work during the year. They welcome students Mr. Lym an is in corre enriched by the religious spondence with I. B. belief of all denominations Rhodes, state secretary and seek to deepen an for Oregon and Idaho, abiding spiritual faith. with regard to the place The State University of holding the conference, from its freedom and its STU D EN TS AT G EA RH A RT C O N F E R E N C E , 1907. and a definite announce large representation of ment is expected in a few many denominations is peculiarly adapted to the development disinterested service, fortified by an «lays. Generally money is advanced to of strong religious thinking and devot ability to think carefully and with ser delegates desiring to. go. This plan enity. will probably be followed this year. ed religious character. One peculiar possibility in this or It has been said that the mixture of ganization is the common fellowship many races in America will tend to W ashington and California will produce the most highly organized into which it may bring girls of all meet in debate soon, which will prob people in history. By analogy, will it classes—whatever be the social or in not be tenable that the cosmopolitan tellectual standing or controlling am- able mean more laurels for Idaho. ism of a State University registering „ bition. Blest be the tie that binds, and conditions. It is the woman of warm, broad sym students o f all creeds Spring vacation is now on at Wash of diverse races, inheritances, and tem pathies, cultivated by knowing many ington, and just over at O. A. C. peram ents may be a held for the cul problems, the disappointments and ture of a spiritual character in large joys of many, wrho can find the good The Oregon Tablet for Seniors at numbers of students? Be it borne in everywhere and do good everywhere. mind that the daily life of students is LINN DRUG CO. (Continued on page 11)
