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
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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.