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About The Oregon weekly. (Eugene, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1908)
R E V IE W O F T H E Y EA R’S W O RK peated this spring. Of the Young Men’s Christian Asso ciation by Retiring President Curtis A. Gardner, ’08 O u r association year begins the first of A pril, to allow the new officers to become accustom ed to their work be fore the opening of college in the fall. L ast y e a r’s work was along lines laid out in the association policy. F ollow in g is a general statem en t of the re su lts accom plished in each departm ent except B oys’ d ep artm en t, which ap pears elsew here: It has been the policy of the associa tion to give an invitation to every man in the U niversity io en ter Bible study. L ast sp rin g a thorough canvass was m ade. Last Septem ber and O ctober, the freshm en were urged to join clas ses. T he results are encouraging be cause of the steady grow th in a tte n d ance. Five classes have been conduct- By m eans ol stag and Jo in t socials, banquets and Bible study picnics the association gets the stu d en ts to g eth er through the year at convenient tim es for a pleasant social hour. M eetings are held weekly and are aimed to supply a place w here men m ay come and enter into an hour of praise and w orship to God. 1 liese m eetings should be taken advantage of by all the men of the U niversity. Few stu d en ts hav applied for work this year. ( if those that have, several have secured em ploym ent th ro u g h Mr. Lym an, the general secretary. T he Book Exchange has a good su p ply of second-hand books for next year. A nyone w ishing to dispose'of second hand books th at will be used next year can do so by leaving them in the Book E xchange. T he Y. M. C. A. library contains one hundred volum es o n M issions and P R O F E S S O R F R E D E R IC S. DUNN W rites an Felicitious Article for the Association Issue of the W eek ly . I was seated at the tab le, ready to w rite my eulogium upon th e Y. M. C. A., w hen, lo!— th ere first floated gently in from th e a d jo in in g room and at last sw ept tu m u ltu o u sly into m y whole be ing the delicious chords of an aria from G au l’s “ H oly C ity .’’ "E y e h ath not seen, ear h ath not heard, N eith er have en tered into the heart of m an 'l'he th in g s w hich God, w hich God hath prep ared F o r them th a t love H im ; the things w hich God H ath p re p a r’d, p re p a r’d for them th a t love H im .” And som ehow , ju s t from th e chance refrains m y siste r stru ck from the in- Y. M. C. A. C A B IN ET, 1908-09 ed with an attendance of tw enty-live. helps for Bible stu d en ts. T h is lib rary T he work is carried on by men who ' is open to all stu d en ts. have had sy stem atic Bible study. Bible T here are 116 m em bers out of 260 stu d y is the back bone of the associa men in the U niversity, or about 45 per tion. cent of the men stu d en ts. M ost of A rch b ish o p V hately said: "If our these are active m em bers. T h irty -six religion is not true, we ought to change of thi., num ber have been serv in g on iL If it is tru e, we are bound to pro com m ittees d u rin g the past year. pagate th at which we believe to be the l'he expenses from S eptem ber, '07, tru th .” O ur association is acting on t o June, ’08, were estim ated to be $640, th is principle. 'Plie Mission study d istrib u ted as follow s: M eetings, $50; courses aim to arouse the stu d en ts to Conference. $135; S tate and N ational the non -C h ristian w orld’s need for pledges, $50; s e c re ta ry ’s salary, $300; C h ristian ity . O ne course has been sidewalk $25.00, su n d ries $82.00. T he com pleted th is year and another is be expenses will am ount to a little m ore ing organized. The courses are in than this. T he cem ent sidew alk re tensely in terestin g , dealing with ex ist cently constructed on the A sso ciatio n ’s ing conditions in non-C hristian lands. property just west of the C am pus, cost A nyone will find these courses profit the Association $108.75. It will re able from a general educational sta n d quire about $675.00 to cover the ex point. penses for the year. 'l'he S tag Social and the Joint Social, both of w hich were given at the begin A joint m eeting of the E u tax ian , ning of college were largely attended. Laureali and l ’hilologian societies is a T he Y. M. C. A. took trips up the W il prospective event of interest. lam ette and on the M cKenzie last \\ hitm an College is to have an a d sp rin g . No doubt the trips will be re ditional endow m ent of $2,000.000. stiu m e n t, the tw o are now a beautiful harm o n y in m y m ind,— I can not dis sociate them ,— th e " H o ly C ity ’’ and the Y. M. C. A.— th e y are both b eau ti ful to me. H ow ab so lu tely im possible it is to tell the fath o m less charm of the o ra to rio on th e one hand, while .only those w ho know can begin, in an infinitesim al so rt of w ay, to estim ate the circum ference cu t into the great heart of the A lm a M ater by the radii from her Y. M. C. A. T h e place of the A ssociation?— at th e h e a rt of th at A lm a M ater. T h e place of th e A ssocia tio n ?— th a t sam e place w hich the cup of cool w ater assu m es in the fevered conscience of th e ty p h u s-p a tie n t,—he stretch e s o u t his tre m b lin g hands to w ard it,— it is p a st all n am in g to him. Sham e to the u n th in k in g citizen or the listless stu d e n t w ho w ould belittle the Y. M. C. A. o r its siste r A ssociation. T h ey are tw in p ea rls in th e brooch ot good fam e o u r U n iv e rsity of Oregon has come to ow n and to w ear upon her h e a rt,— p earls th a t glow and gleam with a fadeless lu stre.
