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just closed either as a participant or iistener will w ithhold from such an ef fort the support and co-operation it so ju stly deserves. Keep up the en th u s Published every Monday during the college iasm. Let us make the I niversity of year by the students cf the ( begon the hub of the state wheel in UNIVERSITY OF OREGON music as well as in higher education. THE OREGON WEEKLY tion of the O reg o n W eek ly to issue a special edition d u rin g the p resen t va cation upon the present situ atio n of the U niversity from the stan d p o in t of the s tu d e n ts ; but we have concluded th at the edition will p erh ap s be more effective if published later in the sea son. Entered at Eugene pnstotfice at Eugene. Oregon, as second class matter BASEBALL LANGUAGE. T h ro u g h o u t the I nited States re form s of all kinds are now very popu SUBSCRIPTION RATES $1.00 One year, by mail ..................................... lar. There are very m any kinds of re One year, by copy ..................................... $1.00 Single copy ................................................ $ .05 form before the American Public and very m any reform ers. The latest addition to the list is the Editor-in-Chief. reform er of the English language. F or Thomas R. T o w n se n d ...................... m any years there has been a powerful Assistant Editors tendency, even on the part of leading Niet a Harding .................................... periodicals of the country to show a Merle R. Chessman .......................... fondness for the rise of common col Earl F. K ilp a trick .............................. loquialism s better known as “slan g ”. Pearl J. Hawthorne .......................... So frequent has been the use of slang Manager that am ong the sporting elem ent, a re W alter M. E a to n ................................ p o rter is in m any places considered a Assistant Manager very poor success if he is not an adept A rthur Van D usen.............................. at the use of language “a la George Ade.” R eports of baseball gam es all over Monday, April 20, 1908. the U nited S tates have for a long tim e been daily chronicled in the latest vernacular of the Bowery tough. T he T H E MUSICAL FESTIV A L . rep o rter who can frequently coin some All week at the U niversity of O re new orthographical expression peculiar gon the main topic of conversation has to the literary sense of the average been the M usical Festival given by the baseball fan has been the popular w rit Eugene < )ratorio Society in conjunc er of the red sheets of m any of the tion with the Chicago Sym phony O r best Sunday papers. Xow that the evil is before us, re ch estra. Since the concerts are over com m ent has been no less than be form ers have come forw ard with the fore, so great has been the success of rem edy. In the baseball world, chief the com bination of voices and in s tru ly the difficulty has been hard to m eet. m ents. 'The artistic and educational H ow ever, a group of E astern dailies success of the festival was due alm ost have subm itted the proposition to the wholly to the ability and u n tirin g ef baseball fans who read the papers and forts of Prof. Irving M. Glen, who has have asked for a vote on the m atter. again show n him self to be a m aster of If the fans wish a continuance of the choral music. Perfectly at home when slang style the papers will not give it in charge of the com bined chorus and up. It the fans are willing, the new s o rch estra, he proved him self a director papers will be only too glad to report and conductor in whom any city m ight the gam es in pure E nglish. Realizing that the college press has take deep pride. The chorus, m ade up largely of U ni some influence in the purification of versity people, is according to Rosen- the English language, the ( fregón becker. the w izard leader of the great \ \ eekly will chronicle the baseball o rch estra, am ong the best which has gam es for 1'fOS, couched in the purest su n g the tw o beautiful oratorios on English in the possession of the re the present trip of the Chicago m usi porter who attends the gam e. W hile cians. In very glow ing term s. Rosen- it may displease som e, we feel th at it becker praised the chorus of one h u n is better for the W eekly as the official dred and seventy-five voices and chief spokesm an of the U niversity to use ly Prof. Irv in g M. Cden. as director. English becom ing to a college paper. So great an enthusiasm has been aroused by the success of the big m usi TPECTAL E D IT IO N LA TER cal event that there is now a m ovem ent on foot to establish as an annual fea- D uring the S pring vacation much t i r e . the S p rin g Musical Festival. Xo can be done for the U niversity and her on? who p articipated in the festival appropriation bill. It was the in te n A n o th er paper will a p p e ar on next M onday, as usual, g iv in g the students tw o papers which are not usually p rin t ed at this tim e of th e y ea r as it is not cu sto m ary for the e d ito rs to w ork d u r ing vacation periods. F o r the year, the W eekly will run six editions a- liead of schedule. L ast y ear only th ir ty papers were p rin ted d u rin g the year. T his year th irty -six and perh ap s th ir ty-seven papers will be put out for which the staff of the p ap er gets no salary nor college credit. T H E SP R IN G VACAT1ON W hen the re g en ts of the U niversity of ( fregon estab lish ed the annual sp rin g vacation at E a s te r tim e they took a wise step in the rig h t direction. T he proposition of w h eth e r or not a vacation at this tim e is deisrable, is not by any m eans a d eb atab le question. N obody could get alo n g w ithout it. F aculty, stu d e n ts and even jan ito rs are glad of the w eek’s “ re fra in a tio n ” from college w ork. S p rin g fever com es to the college stu d en t in exactly the sam e way that it com es to anyone else. A w eek's rest will do all good. M any a man is like a g ian t river in an unexplored co u n try . H e has unlim it ed pow er, but it has never been utilized. O th e r men are like mill stream s. E v ery bit of the pow er th a t is in them is being put into use. A m ong eastern colleges the sub ject of sum m er base-ball is being dis cussed p re tty freely. T h e idea is gain ing w eight th a t a m an w ho is a skilled base-ball player o u g h t to be allowed to m arket his com m odity just as a stu dent does in any o th e r line of work. I he eastern college press is strongly in favor of allo w in g stu d e n ts to plav sum m er base-ball u n d er sufficiently strin g en t rules.— C arn eig ie T arta n . At C olum bia U n iv ersity the d ep art m ent of Zoology has secured a farm of fifty acres for the ra isin g of dogs, pigeons, guinea pigs, mice, etc. 'They are en d eav o rin g to have an experim ent al station for pedigree b reed in g estab lished also.— Ex. The Y. M. C. A. social announced last week has been postponed to a date in th * near future.
