REGENTS
MAKE
STATEMENT the women of the University by fur
REV.E.L.PINKERTON LECTURES
nishing and heating the present cot
Concerning the Needs of the Univer tage and by the construction of addi To the Members of the Young Wom
sity of Oregon—Urge Voters to
tional cottages or a general dormitory.
en’s Christian Association
Vote for Appropriation Bill
This, it is estimated, will take about
Tuesday Afternoon
$50,000. New buildings are needed for
Based upon estimates submitted to class, laboratory and recitation pur The regular meeting of the Y. W. C.
the proper committees, the last legis poses, at a cost of-approximately $75,- A. was held in Deady Hall.
Rev.
lature, by more than two-thirds vote, 000. The heating, power and water Pinkerton, of the Congregational
passed an act, appropriating $125,000 plant must be enlarged, at an expense church, spoke to the society on “The
annually for the support and mainten of $10,000 or $15,000 to meet the de Responsibility of a Higher Education.”
ance of the University of Oregon, and mands upon it for heating, irrigation
He spoke of the broadening influence
for the construction and furnishing of and fire protection. As soon as funds of education, and how from childhood
additional buildings, purchase of equip are available, the campus should be up, we gain a wider and more compre
ment, etc. A referendum has been in enlarged, to meet present and future hensive view of the world, past and
voked on the bill, and it will be sub needs, by acquiring additional grounds present. “Then the question comes to
mitted to the voters at the coming elec by purchase, if a satisfactory price can us, why did all these things happen,
tion in June, for approval or rejection. be obtained, and if not, by condemna and the answer is, that it was to im
In view of these facts the regents have tion.
prove the world and to make the civ
thought it best to make the following
These several items will cost from ilization which we enjoy and which
statement :
$125,000 to $150,000, and together with teaches us.
Since 1901, the University has de others, developing with the growth of “As we look out upon the world we
pended for its resources upon the an the University, will absorb the entire have at first a sense of liberty and
nual appropriation of $47,500, carried amount carried by the present bill, and freedom. All these things have been
by the act of that year, together with all additional revenues, over and above given us to enjoy and in our turn to
the interest on the University fund, in the expenses of maintenances, for a mold and shape as we please. Then we
see that it is a law of the Universe that
cidental fees, and interest on the Vil number of years to come.
lard fund, amounting to about $10,000 This covers, in a general way, the Nature must never waste her resources.
“A plant or comet may swing off in
a year, and special appropriations from needs of the University as we see it,
time to time. The act of 1901 was in and the use to be made of the proposed one direction, but in time it will al
ways return to its fixed orbit. Some
tended, with the revenues from other appropriation.
sources, primarily to cover the neces There is another matter which of the energy of an engine may escape
sary current expenses at the time of should be alluded to. The invoking of but according to this rule it must be
its adoption. Tt has been necessary to the referendum has restricted the Uni used elsewhere. The energy that was
supplement the amount thereof, from versity, since January 1, 1907, to the stored up in the beds of coal, by the sun
time to time, by special appropriations, annual amount appropriated by the act thousands of years ago, is now being
that of 1905 being $62,500. The pur of 1901, and about $10,000 a year from restored to use.
“Following this line of thought, the
pose of the bill now pending is to other sources, making a total of about
merge in one act all appropriations. $60,000 a year, which has been inade energy a student stores up in an educa
tion, especially a higher education,
The amount thereof is based on care quate to pay the expenses.
must be restored to the world again,
ful, and what is believed to be, con The salaries and incidental expenses
by some service. Herein lies the re
servative estimates, and in the opinion for the present scholastic year will
sponsibility of a higher education.”
of the Regents is necessary to bring amount to at least $50,000, to meet
After the address the Y. W. confer
the University up to and maintain it which there is an appropriation of ence at Seaside was discussed and it
at the standard of efficiency, which the $47,500, interest on Villard fund, $2,200, was urged that as many of the grils
educational interests of the State re or total of $54,700. At the close of the
would go as possible.
quire. The bare cost of maintenance is present scholastic year the University
Clarence Allen and Blaine Halleck
now approximately $75,000 a year. Ad will, therefore, be practically without
funds
and
as
the
law
absolutely
pro
were Portland visitors to see the meet
ditional instructors are needed in sev
eral of the departments, which will hibits the Regents or faculty from and attend the prom. They were the
bring the amount for maintenance to pledging the faith of the State for the guests of the Delta Alpha Fraternity.
Mrs. F. S. Dunn has returned home
$85,000 or $90,000 a year. The library University, in excess of the income for
the
current
year,
it
is
not
apparent
how
after an absence of several weeks.
which touches all departments alike,
Miss Ethel Cohn visited Miss Ruth
will require an annual expenditure of it will be able to open its doors next
fall
if
the
pending
appropriation
is
de
Hansen at the Tan Pi House last week.
at least $10,000 a year, for some years,
Misses Kina and Merle McKelvey
to bring it to the proper standard of feated.
Respectfully
submitted,
were week end guests at the Beta Up*
efficiency. Provision should be made
Board of Regents.
silon House.
immediately for the accommodation of
Harry Hildeburn and Nathan Fuller
: excellent programs for the Jun-
ton came down from Roseburg to at
to the members of the nine. \V hen the
reek-end were printed under the
tend the week end festivities. They
students of the University assemble
ion of Mr. Rueben Steelquist, 09.
visited at the Delta Alpha House while
again next fall a new amendment spec
-vey M. Wheeler, ’07, who has
ifying a suitable “O” for basket!).dl
postgraduate work at Chicago in Eugene.
Mr. David Campbell and Miss Agnes
men should be introduced and passed
ear, will go into Y. M. C. A. work
Campbell of Monmouth have been
at the next meting. Let us give merit
year.
visiting their brother, President P. L.
its due. Basketball men earn a right
x Hartman of Portland was in
Campbell.
to an emblem and should by all means
ie for the Junior prom.
have one.