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O re go n eekly U N IV ER SITY OF OREGON VOL. IX. EU G ENE, OREGON, M OÎ\>AY, MAY 11, 1908. No. 31. ST U D E N T N O M IN A T IO N S H ELD 14. E N G IN E E R IN G CLUB M EETIN G At Regular M eeting of Associated Students L ast W ednesday—Elec tion on May 13 Held Friday Evening—Several Inter esting Talks Made by Faculty Members and Students At the re g u la r m eetin g of the A s sociated S tu d en ts held in V illard Hall last W ed n esd ay m o rn in g officers were nom inated for the college year of 1908- 09. T he an n u al election will take place on W ed n esd ay , May 13. F or alm ost every office there are several can d id ates. All are deserving and as a resu lt the m en chosen for next vear should give extrem ely efficient service. F o r the offices of vice-presi dent, ed ito r-in -ch ief of the O regon W eekly, asso ciate editors O regon W eekly, m an ag er and assistant m an ager O regon W eekly, editor-in-chief of ( )regon M onthly, m an ag er and assist ant O regon M o n th ly , th ere is no com petition, only the required num ber of nom inations b eing m ade in each in stance. F o r the o th e r offices there will he m ore o r less friendly com petition for honors. T h e nam es of the candi dates for th e v ario u s offices as they will ap p ear on the official ballot will he as follow s : P resid en t of A ssociated Students. V ote for one. 1. Jesse H . Bond. 2. T hos. R. T o w n sen d . V ice-president, A ssociated S tudents. V ote for one. 3. J. L eroy W ood. S ecretary A ssociated S tudents. V ote for one. 4. N ieta H ard in g . F ran ces N elson. M em bers at L arge, E xecutive C om m ittee. V ote for two. 6. C. M acC. Snow . 7. O rm o n d Bean. 8. H arv ard M oore. A thletic C ouncil. V ote for three. 9 . W m . W ood. 10 Fred C. M oullen. 11 W alter I. M cIn tire. 12 Paul W . Reid. 13 Ralph D odson. E d itor-in-C hief, ( Iregon W eekly. V ote for one. Earl K ilpatrick. A ssociate editors, Oregon W eekly. Vote for two. 15. H arriet Lane. 16. O liver H uston. M anager, O regon W eekly. Vote for one. 17. Dean T. Goodman. A ssistant M anager, O regon W eekly. Vote for one. 18. Chas. Frederick Dean. Editor-in-Chief, O regon M onthly. Vote for one. 19. Ruth H ansen. Associate Editors, O regon M onthly. Vote for four. 20. Gerald E astham . 21. Jennie Lilly. 22. Alfred Powers. 23. N eta Bartlet. 24. Cornelia Pinkham . 25. M arian Stowe. Business M anager, O regon M onthly. V ote for one. 26. W m . M. Cake. A ssistant M anager, O regon M onthly V ote for one. 27. Cecil J. Espy. Debate Postponed. The cham pionship debate which was to have been held at the U n iv ersity of Oregon on March 15, has been p o st poned for tw o weeks on account of the sickness of a m em ber of the L eb anon trio. The debate which will be held on March 29, will decide the In terscholastic cham pionship of the state. Both the A storia and the Lebanon team s have won the cham pionship in their respective districts so th at the final debate between the tw o rivals on May 29 will be quite spirited. A recent letter received by Dr. Geo. O ’B. DeBar from his d a u g h te r F lor ence DeBar. '06, who is now atten d in g W'elleslev College, sta te s that Miss Florence is g ettin g along well in her college work and is en jo y in g the best of health. A m eeting of the Senior class was held T hursday afternoon to consider commencement details. Last Friday evening the E ngineer ing C lub provided an especially in ter estin g program . W . E. M cIntyre spoke on the sub ject of pocket h u n tin g for gold in S outhern O regon. W hen the pocket- h u n ter finds a trace of gold he follows it up the gulch, using a pan, until the trace runs out. He then s ta rts up the hill side from the place w here he finds the last trace and pans the hillside dirt until he runs the trace to bedrock, lie may then have a pocket w orth an y w here from $1.00 to $300,000.00. Prof. DeCoti was called upon for an extem poraneous speech. lie traced the progress of the tran sco n tin en tal railroads across Canada. T he new G rand T ru n k line will have its w estern term inus near the southern border of Alaska, 'file C anadian Rail Roads are becom ing stro n g er com petitors of H ill’s and H a rrim a n ’s system s each year. T h eir lines are shorter and the w estern term inals are closer to China. P. P. A dam s spoke of the Yukon country, co n tra stin g conditions there in 1897 and in 1908. 'I'lie last speaker on the program was Pres. C am pbell. The subject of .his address was “ T he E ngineer’s E du cation.” He urged the engineering students to take five years for their college course. T hey should endeavor to get all the know ledge possible o u t side of engineering. The center of all education is centered around the per son. Its object is to make a man in the broadest sense of the word. Pile old education left man a dream er. 'Pile stiictly engineering education leaves a man narrow and m aterial. Pile E n gineering and L iteratu re, Science, and A rts buildings should be oil the. saint*, cam pus. 'Pile liberal minded man is the one now in dem and. Some eastern U niversities are re quiring a five year course in Engineer .... - - , - - - — - --— — - - • (C ontinued on p ag e th re e .)
