KUYKENDALL
Hair and Tooth Brushes
Tooth Preparations, Perfumes
and Fine Soaps
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ST U D E N T S
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U R L I- I
569 Willamette Street
E N G IN E E R IN G
Are Making Practical Tests of the
Effect of Clay Upon the
Strength of Cement.
Eugene, Ore.
IN T E R C O L L E G IA T E E D IT IO N
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T he present issue of the \\ eekly con
tain s som e college new s; but in the
main it is devoted to news of the I n
tercollegiate world. From the custom s
in vogue at other colleges, perhaps
m any ideas can be obtained which will
be helpful and beneficial to O regon
stu d en ts. Some of these custom s will
be discussed editorially later on this
Spring.
Very Complete Stock of
DRUGS CHEMICALS and
Surgical Appliances
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FR ESH M A N
M E E T ON FRIDAY
Trainer H ayw ard Is Rounding the
1911 A thletes into Shape For
the Contest
A track m eet betw een P o rtlan d High
W h at effect does clay have upon the
School and th e O reg o n freshm en will
stren g th of cem ent? T h is question,
take place on K incaid Field next F ri
which has been debated theoretically
day, M ay 1.
P re p a ra tio n for this
by ex p erts for several years, is about
m eet will be T ra in e r H a y w a rd ’s sole
to be solved in a practical m anner by
aim d u rin g the com ing week. The
som e of the engineering stu d en ts of
O regon freshm en have never before
the U n iv ersity of O regon. U nder the
Interstate Oratorical Contest.
had a m eet all of th e ir ow n, but it is
able direction of In stru c to r Carl
M cClain, sam ples are being prepared
planned to have one each y ear in the
T he annual interstate oratorical con
which will show the relative stren g th
future. T he P o rtla n d team is an un
test betw een W ashington, Idaho, and
of cem ent co n taining a v ary in g p ro
know n q u a n tity , th o u g h it is know n to
O regon will be held at S eattle, W a sh
portion of a given clay. Sam ples w ith
be a form idable one. T h e class of 1911,
ington, on M ay 22. A ccording to the
one per cent, ten per cent, etc., of clay i
but one y ear rem oved from the high
co n stitu tio n of the In terstate O ra to ri
are being prepared and will be allow ed
schools of th e sta te , has som e good
cal A ssociation the university w here
to stan d for one, three and six m onths, ■
m en, am o n g them
Sievers, May,
the co n test is held has the privilege
th a t the effect of age m ay also be
S truck, R oberts, M oon, D ow ns, Good-
of selecting any date betw een M ay 1
ju d g ed . The necessity th a t the sand
all, F ariss, D ean and Jo h n so n . M an
and the close of the college year.
used be absolutely pure has led to the '
ag er Bean also exten d ed an invitation
Idaho's representative is W . K. Gwin,
co n stru ctio n of two ingenious m achines
to the E ugene H igh School to enter a
’09, on the subject "B reak ers A head.”
which m ay be seen at M echanical H all, j
team and it has been accepted. W ith
Gwin was a m em ber of Id ah o ’s d e b a t
One of them is a dryer, which dries
such a th letes as K uykendall, K rieger
ing team which recently defeated
the washed sand.
T h e o th er is a
i and U llm ak er in th e sp rin ts and h u r
W ashington at M oscow.
W a sh in g
pow er screen, on the plan of a fan
dles, th e p o in ts will be divided and
to n ’s representative will be H erm an
which sep arates and grades the m a te
both the freshm en and P o rtla n d team s
Allen. 'OS, who was a m em ber of W a sh
rial from the large pebbles to sand as
will lose points w hich m ay be the de
in g to n 's debating team which o v e r
fine as dust. Both m achines are the j
ciding ones.
cam e California at S eattle recently.
work of Mr. M cClain, who c o n stru c t
O re g o n ’s representative is Jesse H .
M iss E lizab eth H a rris , a national
ed them wholly from m aterials found
Bond who debated ag ain st Idaho on stu d e n t-v o lu n te e r se c re ta ry will be in
at hand.
M arch 26.
Bond's subject is “ T h e E ugene T h u rsd a y and F rid a y and will
T h e tests, if successful, will c o n tri
E volution of C h ara cter.”
p robably ad d ress a m eetin g of the
bute a valuable addition to the know l
Y. W . C. A. and possibly a m ass m eet
edge of cem ent construction.
T he prelim inary try o u t for F ailin g
ing of the girls of th e U n iv ersity . Miss
College stu d en ts like all o th er live and Beckman o ra to rs will take place on
H a rris devotes all h er tim e to th is work
A m ericans m ust have a fad which takes ' S aturday, May 2. O u t of a co n sid er
and trav e ls th ro u g h o u t the U nited
the fancy. Now that sk atin g season is able num ber of possibilities, it is p ro b
S tates looking a fte r th e in te re sts of the
over nearlv every student in college a b l e that about tw elve speakers will
stu d en t v o lu n teer m ovem ent in the
has learned the difficult gam e of diablo. i trv-otit, of whom six will be chosen
ran k s of the Y. W . C. A. M iss H arris
Even som e m em bers of the faculty I for the final contest on Ju n e 24.
will g ra n t conftyences d u rin g her stay
The Dorm C lub gave a pleasant
have been caught spinning the french
to any w ho wish to speak w ith her con
tw irier, so fascinating is the gam e.
dance on Friday, A pril 24, to the s tu
cern in g p a rtic u la r or gen eral problem s
P resident Cam pbell spent the holi d ents who rem ained in E ugene for va
connected w ith m issio n ary work.
day session in E astern O regon. W hile cation. About sixty people were p re s
Allen E ato n and H . M. M cK inney
in P endleton, a banquet was given by I ent.
I’he p atro n esses
w er M rs.
are tw o U n iv ersity g ra d u a te s who were
the A lpha Psi fratern ity of Pendleton C hurch, Miss K ent and M iss P arker.
H igh School in honor of P resident
Several U niversity stu d e n ts kept in chosen at the recent p rim aries as nom
C am pbell ami C apt. Richm ond Pearson train in g last week by w ielding pick and inees for the leg islatu re.
A debate w as held in P ortland re
I lobson.
shovel on the city streets.
Dr. Joseph Schafer of the Dept. of
Several m em bers of the senior class cently betw een E u g en e P aln:?r and
H isto ry em barked for America \p ril spent last week in finishing theses and some of the friends of th e I niversity
under the auspices of the P c . And
24, on his retu rn from a y e a r’s absence p rep arin g orations.
in E u ro p e. He will again take up his
Bert Prescott has been enjo y in g a Y. M. C. A.
work as in stru c to r in H istory at the visit from his sister. M rs. D atson of
P rofessor C arson spent the holidays
U n iv ersity of O regon in Septem ber.
Baker C ity.
in P ortland.