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About The Oregon weekly. (Eugene, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1908)
» SOM E IN T E R E S T IN G LOCALS A N O T H E R D ORM ITORY DANCE T H E S E S OF S E N IO R G IRLS Gathered by an Associate Editor for Took Place Last Friday Evening— Tw enty-two in Num ber—They Deal W ith Interesting Phases of all Guests Spend a Most Delightful The W om en’s Edition of the D epartm ents Evening Weekly A nother of the charm ing inform al I)r. H e rb e rt Johnson left his hom e in B oston last M onday for E ugene. H e Dorm C lub dances took place on F ri will deliver the baccalaureate serm on day evening. About th irty guests en and atten d the com m encem ent exercis joyed the hospitality of the men of the es. He is accom panied by his b ro th er d orm itory, who m aintained to the full W ista r, of the class of 1907, who is com ing hom e to spend the sum m er be their well deserved reputation for good fore leaving for O xford in Septem ber. en terta in m e n t. The reception room 'I'he Y. M. C. A. held th eir last m eet was charm ing ly decorated in roses and ing on F rid ay evening. It was con green foliage. Frozen grapejuice was ducted by Pres. E than Collier. P lans served at one end of the hall in a spec for sum m er work and for next year ially co n stru cted bower. A fter the were discussed. No senior m eeting dance a light lunch of straw berries and cream w ith sandw iches was served. will be held th is year. T h e K. O. R. T. Boy’s club arranged T his dance w as the last of a series of a pleasant p arty for th eir leader on p arties given during the season by the The hffairs W ed n esd ay evening. R efreshm ents men of the dorm itory. were served by the hosts P ro fesso r D unn e n te r tained inform ally some of th e m em bers of his L atin classes at his home W ed n esd ay evening af te r the rally. A m ost enjoyable ev en ing was spent. Carl C.abrielson and U rsel Kav and Lloyd Farm er of Salem were g u ests of the D elta A l pha fratern ity this last week. F o u rteen m em bers of the Y. M. C. A. am ong whom are Rounds, C ol lier, Steele, W illiam s, Scullen, Riddell, M ayer, ZETA IOTA PH I SO R O R ITY H O U SE D alzell, D ow ning, Dev- ereaux, Marsters, Professor Terrill, have been popular and have delighted P rofessor Bovard and Dr. L eonard all privileged to atten d , leave F rid ay for the B reakers to at- ----------— tend the annual Y. M. C. A. confer- M iss Irene Lincoln, 'OS, who has ence of the N o rthw est. been w orking on her th esis in P ortland. Definite arran g em en ts are now being wil1 re tu rn to be g ra d u ated at coin- m ade for the revival of the F low er and m encem ent time. Fern procession to take place during A. C. Gilbert of P o rtlan d , a student com m encem ent. at Yale, has broken the w orld's pole Mabel Sim ington of A storia has been vault record, raising it to 12 feet 7 3-4 visitin g her sister d u rin g the week at in. the Beta Epsilon house. Y. M. C. A. dues m ay be paid to Arle H am pton, ex -0 9 , is expected in E arl K ilpatrick. T h o m as R. T ow nsend, E ugene soon and will rem ain until af Glen Briedwell, of G. X. Riddell. ter com m encem ent. Ed Van Dvke. '01, from G ra n ts Pass Fred S teiw er, '06, visited at the Sig- was in Eugene over S unday on his way ma Nil house this last week. hom e from Portland. Carl Davis, 06, now of Rush M edical Several of the d o rm ito ry bovs have C ollege. C hicago, who has recently re- taken up work at can v assin g for the covered from an attack of typhoid fev- sum m er. er. is hom e to spend his vacation with The W hitm an C ollege annual “ W ai- his p aren ts. ilaptu has been issued. T h ere are tw e n ty -tw o g irls in th e Senior class and the m ajo rity of them have th eir m ajor th esis com pleted. T h eir subjects p resen t a wide and v a r ied selection. T h e follow ing gives the d ep artm en t and su b ject of each. In the G reek d ep a rtm e n t L ena M iller, “ T he P rep a ratio n of th e W o rld for C h ristian ity ," and Allie Beebe, “ Soc rates, the M o ralist,” T h e G erm an de p artm en t has five m a jo rs: E m ily M uhr, “ E pic Poem s of L a n a n ” ; C lara C au- field, “ T ra n sla tio n of G rillp a rz e r’s “ Die A rm e S p ie lm a n n "; H elene R ob inson, ,‘S chiller’s Ju n g fra u von O r leans as C om pared w ith H is to ry " ; A g nes S tevenson, “ T ra n sla tio n s of In St. Ju rg e n by T heo. S torm ," and M abel T iffany, " C h a r ac te rs in S u d e rm a n n ’s Jo h an n e s and th e ir H is torical B ack g ro u n d ." In M odern E n g lish L ite ra tu re are Jessie C hase, “ T h e P a rt P layed by D eath in th e W om en N o v elists"; Bessie K idder “ H ostile C riticism s of S h a k e sp e a re "; M ary Fo- shay, “ Sociological In te r ests of the E nglish P oets from G oldsm ith to W o rd s w o rth " ; and W inifred H adley “ D ea th s in the W orks of C harles R ead." T he D ep artm en t of H is tory has four m ajors, L ouise B ry an t, “ T h e Mo- doe Indian W a r " ; M ozelle H air. “The A ttitu d e of the O regon People tow ard S lavery d u rin g the Civil w a r" ; Irene Lincoln, “ T he M onopoly of th e C o lum bia R iver," and M arv S cott, “ T he B iography of Jam es W . N esm ith." In Biology are Elsie D avis, “ N otes on som e of the L egum inous P lan ts of O re g o n " ; Belle V an D uyn, “ O regon F erns," and Lilia Irvin, “ F leshy F u n gi." In the E nglish d e p a rtm e n t is C ora C am eron, “ T he W est in A m erican P o e t r y ”; in the F rench d ep artm en t E dna C anfield, “ P o etry of A lfred De \ ig n v " ; in the d ep a rtm e n t of E d u ca tion, Jesse Bell, “ B ibliograph of the Recent L ite ra tu re C o n cern in g L atin and L atin 'reac h in g , 1898-1908” ; and in the P hilosophy D ep a rtm en t, M iriam \ an W a te rs, “ T he R elation B etw een M aterialism and Social R adicalism ."
