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About The Oregon weekly. (Eugene, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1908)
Hair and Tooth Brushes Tooth Preparations, Perfumes and Fine Soaps W. A. KUYKENDALL Pharmacist 569aWillamette Street LA U REA N D EBA TIN G SO CIETY Eugene, Ore. Girls and Gossip It is one of the most natural things H as Had a Most Prosperous Year— in the w orld for girls, when they m eet Four Men on Varsity Debat to discuss the good or bad qualities of ing Team T'lie L au rean L iterary society, the oldest in the U niversity, held its last m eetin g S atu rd ay evening. D u rin g the past y ear the L aurean society has had a m ost prosperous year. F o u r m em bers of the organization, Bond, W h eal don, T o w n sen d and E aton have won places on the V arsity d eb atin g team s while the in terstate oratorical con test was this year won from Idaho and W ash in g to n by a L aurean m em ber, Jesse I I . Bond. In in terso ciety debate the L aurean F resh m an team , although a stro n g trio, lost to the P hilologian F reshm en by a close tw o to one decision. In the freshm an class some rem arkably stro n g m aterial is on hand, who, from all signs, can fully keep up the reputation of the society in years to come. D ebating work in the L aurean so ciety halls has done much to tu rn out m any stro n g and able men. A m ong the noted L aurcans who have been g rad u ated from the U niversity of O re gon are Judge L aw rence T. H arris, Ju d g e E. O. P otter, and Ju d g e Chas. M oriarty. M ore recently the leading lights have been no less stars th an Clifton (P a t) M cA rthur, Ju d g e A rth u r L. F razer, Fred S teiw er, ’06; W alter C. W inslow , ’06; J. B. and T. E. D od son, ’06: and J. R. L ato u re tte, ’0 /. In the past the L aurean society has had good m en ; in the present she has good men, and in the future she will alw ays have good men. T he final exam inations begin next W ednesday and will continue for a week and a half. A num ber of s tu d en ts will leave as soon as their ex am in atio n s are over. T he boys that g o to the Y. M. C. A. conference at the B reakers have been granted special ex am in atio n s bv the I'acultv. ---- ■ — .... ,C ap t. B riggs very generously and w illingly cut all the roses th at were in bloom to send to our friends in P o rt land for the Rose F estival last week. Very Complete Stock of DRUGS CHEMICALS and Surgical Appliances a friend or acquaintance. To tell of their good qualities, to discuss the rea sons or causes for acts of kindness or unkindness, of charity or selfishness is very n atu ral. As we know, com pari sons are the most natural and the clearest m eans of explanation, and it cannot be judged entirely out of place to com pare the good tra its of one characted w ith the poorer tra its of an o th er and vice versa. T his reason ing m ay not seem ju st to the enem y of gossip— b u t it is true, nevertheless. 'I'lie real harm done am ong girls in this m anner is that the conversation grow s, and appears in a different light when it oversteps the bounds of a friendly chat. The girls m ust not throw broadcast, what they have been discussing am ong them selves. If a girl could only learn that if she m ust repeat, the repitition shall not exceed the original in anv m anner w hatsoever, file tone in which the com m ent is said and the occasion make all the dif ference in the world. If girls would rem em ber ibis it would do more for the lessening of gossip than all the non-gossip clubs th a t could be formed. E. Rav Fountain, '07, is renew ing old acquaintances at the dorm itory as the guest of Harold M errym an. Norwood R. C harm an, the popular captain of basketball has secured a lucrative position for the sum m er at Los Angeles, Calif. Cora Thom son, ex-07, who com plet ed a course in Berkeley in D ecem ber and has since been doing post-graduate work, passed through E ugene last week on her way to her hom e at Clackam as, O regon. CLOSES PRO SPERO U S YEAR Philologian Society H as W on Trium ph in O ratory and D ebate During the P ast Year. N ever since th e days w hen literary society allegiance m ean t m ore than politics to the U n iv e rsity s tu d e n t have the P hilos been so p ro sp ero u s as this year. An increased m em b ersh ip with som e excep tio n ally s tro n g freshm en has enlivened th e society. B ert W . P re sc o tt, ’08, has reflected credit upon it by w in n in g th e intercol legiate o rato rical ch am p io n sh ip of O re gon. T w o well know n P hilos, K il patrick and N icholas, secured places upon the in te rs ta te d eb ate team s. The crow ning success of th e y ea r was a hard-w on v icto ry o v er th e L aurean freshm an team . P h ilo lo g ia w as rep re sented in th is c o n test by Lee B. H o is ington, Ben E. B eatty , and C has. \V. R obison. Some of the P h ilo lo g ian alum ni have been especially active d u rin g the past y ear in political, ed u catio n al and pro fessional circles. A llen E ato n and L. R. A lderm an have ju s t closed a suc cessful fight for th e U n iv e rsity ap p ro p riatio n . H e n ry M cK inney has been elected to th e leg islatu re, \ \ alter W h ittle se y is te a c h in g a t C ornell; F ran ces G allow ay in E a s t P ortland H igh S ch o o l; Jo h n V eatch is boosting for Y am hill C o u n ty ; G eorge Goodall is se c re ta ry of th e R ailroad C om m is sion ; Jam es G ilb ert and I. M. Glen are te a c h in g in th e U n iv e rsity . M any • >thers are d o in g valuable w ork and reflecting h o n o r upon th e society. T ♦ ------------------------------------ R eg istrar T iffan y has received a large n u m b er of ap p licatio n s for fresh man stan d in g . S everal high schools have ex h a u ste d th e ir su p p ly of appli cations, sen d in g for m ore. Three Miss Edith M cG eary is expected to high schools w hich have never befoie arrive in Eugene soon. She will visit sent s tu d e n ts will be rep resen ted as Miss Helene Robinson and will rem ain well as several, who have not been rep resented for sev eral y ears. until after com m encem ent. ----- —— Professor D unn gave high school An “o u tla w ” team defeated the tlii’f com m encem ent addresses at Tillam ook floor of th e d o rm ito ry at baseball on and Ashland recently. S atu rd ay by th e close score of 9 to 7. W . S. C. expects to have an en ro ll Billie W illiam s, ’10, is tem porarily Miss Pearl H aw th o rn e w ent to P o rt m en ts of 1800 stu d en ts next year. land \ \ ednesdav to the Rose F estival. lam e as th e re su lt of a sl*gbf accident
