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About The Oregon weekly. (Eugene, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1908)
THE OREGON ...... T2 weekly. If the student-body will but speak in no uncertain tone in favor of such a move, the time is not far dis tant when ( )regon can have a college paper appearing twice a week. News is already so abundant that the lines in this issue have been crowded to gether, allowing a column m ore m atter than last year’s paper, and yet much is crowded out. A dvertisers are liberal, because they have come to realize that college advertising pays. The W eekly aspires to be more than a plavthing. or a a train in g departm ent for em bryo journalists. Its m ission is a serious one. It is to be supported not alone from the m otive of college pride, but on the ground of real value to the individual subscriber. T his is the year of the beginning of new things for the U niversitv. W hat new thing would be of more practical benefit than a semi- weekly new spaper ? ........TO TW O CH A M PIO N SH IPS. ........’l l There are tw o cham pionships which Oregon must win this year. Both are hers by right of repeated conquest, yet both were lost last year in the u n set tled and storm y referendum days. ( )ne is the debate suprem acy the o th er the N orthw est football cham pionship. No college on the Pacific C oast can stand against true ( fregón spirit speak ing through eloquent debaters or ch arg ing down the field em bodied in eleven heroes dedicated and consecrated to the glory of the V arsity. Yet for this service none but the best are w orthy, and only the suprem est effort will suffice. And such effort can come only as the result of keen com petition. Does O regon really wish to win from (). A. C. this year? Ask anyone who knew the bitterness of defeat last sea son. Yet effort and sacrifice are neces sary. No man of over one hundred fifty pounds weight should be w illing to sit in the rooters' stand. H e should be on the saw dust of Kincaid Field, steeled to effort by the thought of November 21 and N ovem ber 26. H e may itot “ m ake'' the V arsity team , but he can have the satisfaction of helping make it. As to debate work, no student, man or woman, should be outside of a lit erary society. Especially those who have the gift of fluency and the pow er of analysis should repair weekly to the halls which have developed the b ril liant forensic m aterial of the past. Last year sixteen men tried for debate. 'The best six of that num ber could not win over the better trained team s of \ \ ashington and Idaho. Less than forty aspirants for debate this year will mean a lack of interest that should not be. And of the forty, tw enty should be freshm en. WEEKLY Published every Monday during the college year by the students of the U N IV E R SIT Y O F OREGON Entered at Eugene postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES One year, by mail ........................... One year, by copy ........................... Single copy ..................................... .. .$1.00 . . .$ 1 .0 0 .. .$ .05 EDITOt-IN CHIEF EARL KILPATRICK ............... ..........’0 9 assistant editors O liver B. H ouston ....................... ........’09 ........TO MANAGER in ? ax ’ t r . n n n \ i \N ............ assistant manager C has . F rederick D ean .................. Monday, Septem ber 28, 1908. A G REA TER OREGON In the W est is vigor and life and grow th. The U niversity of O regon, as a western institution, is but entering upon the era of its greatest develop ment. 'I'his sem ester begins with 450 students already on the rolls, a sub stantial gain over the enrollm ent of last year. I hat such should be the case when an old established eastern insti tution like Harvard is slowly but sure ly losing in num ber of students, speaks volumes for the future of the state school of the W est. If we are not the largest University in the land, neither are we the smallest. Sm aller than we are the Universities of Arizona, F lori da. Idaho. Mississippi. M ontana, Ne vada. New Mexico, O klahom a, South Carolina, South Dakota, \ erm ont, W y oming, Deleware and Louisiana. We are not of average size either, for the average of atendance at American state universities is 1490 students. But h ith erto ours have not been average oppor tunities. W ith the assurance of ample support henceforth, let us hope that ( Oregon will build broad and stro n g the foundations of a greater university. W ith a greater university must come grow th in all departm ents and all lines of student work. The \\ eeklv aspires to keep abreast of this grow th. Its of fice is to give the college news to the students, friends, and alum ni of the 1 niversity, to express and in some de gree to mould college spirit and trad i tions, to be the exponent of all student enterprises, and to serve as the live wire of connection and com m unication with the rest of the college world. O regon can not long rest content with a weekly paper. The W ashington W ave will appear daily this year. The I niversity of ( Oregon should support at least a setni-weklv. Such a paper is worth more than twice as much as a T H E FRESH M A N ’S FR IEN D S M any new faces are to be seen upon the cam pus these days. The freshm en aie here, alm ost tw o hundred strong. It will be several weeks before they get fully acquainted and they still feel som ew hat strange. Not «all have vet learned that they are am ong friends. Perhaps with reason in the light of first experience, they think that the hand of everyone is against them, and they wonder “W ho are the freshm an’s friends, anyw ay?” Why, bless you, everyone! Every one from the President to the assistant janitors, was your friend before you came, and desires to remain so. The members of the faculty are glad to wel come you and to im part wisdom to vou. 'I'he seniors are delighted to see vou here. They know that your importance is greater than theirs, that you ought to be a better class than they, that you will know a greater University, will strive with m ightier foes, and reap a greater destiny than they. The juniors are your true friends. They wish you to prove w orthy of the mantle of re sponsibility which will rest upon your shoulders in two short years. The sophomores love you too, albeit some what dem onstratively and boisterous ly. You may not know it now, but soon you will adm it that the sophomore is the freshm an’s best friend. The manager of The W eekly, who wants your dollar; the debate and football coaches, who want your best effort in contest w o rk ; the caretaker who im precates you for treading on the grass, all are your friends, your admirers, vour well-wishers. A LU M N I SU B SC R IB E. The W eekly is pleased to add to its subscription list this week the entire membership of the O regon Alumni As sociation. The price of the subscrip tion is paid in the form of an increase of dues. H ereafter, as heretofore, the W eekly will give all im portant alumni news, as well as the news of the cam pus. As the official organ of the Uni versity, it will endeavor to represent adequately the interests of the institu tion which must extend wherever alum ni are at work. Anyone knowing of a member of the Alumni Association who does not receive the W eekly will confer a favor bv reporting the name and address of the neglected person to the manager. PA Y IN G T H E P R IC E . Every college in the N orthw est will suffer more or less severely this sea son by the strict interpretation and en forcement of the W hitm an Conference rules. M any old-time stars will be shut out under the four year rule. Some good athletes have changed col leges and may not compete this year. O thers will be disqualified from various causes. All this is for the best. The things we prize are the things which cost us something. Clean athletics will mean more to the Coast colleges if purchased at the cost of a few point- winners. W hen subscribing for the W eeklv and the M onthly, students should not neglect to subscribe for an extra copy to go directly home. This gives the people at home the news while it is fresh.
