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LOCALS A N O T H E R D ORM ITORY DANCE T H E S E S
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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-
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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 ."