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About The Oregon weekly. (Eugene, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1908)
PR O F. H. C. H O W E IS M idnight D oughnut the L atest. M R E L IO T A N D DR. B O Y N T O N At Assem bly W ed n esd ay on the Re lation of Socialism to L ite r a tu re fe llo w journalism of the most pro nounced type has made its appearance W ere the Speakers of the E vening at the M eeting of the F acu lty C ol at the D orm . Follow ing close on the loquium T uesday. | heels of the anonym ous “ F acts” has ••Socialism and L ite ra tu re ’' was the I come the "M idnight D ou g h n u t”, a pub subject of an in te re stin g p ap er which lication less radical but more sensa A rc 'th e Cecil R hodes Scholarships Professor H ow e read in A ssem bly last tional. fh e new paper is typew ritten Ju stilied ? was the question which Mr. W ednesday. It tre a te d of the h isto ry in three colors, and purports to appear S. 1’,. Eliot answ ered affirm atively at and grow th of socialistic th o u g h t in , weekly with a special edition several laculty club 1 uesday evening. the minds and w ritin g s of E n g lish lit tunes a day. A ccounts of bathtub- 1 he prevailing unsym pathetic a tti erary m asters, and is in ten d ed as an bm gs and sm okers appear in full in tude is due, said he, “ to failure to introduction to his stu d y of m odern tins paper before they take place. U ni understand C ceil Rhodes and his socialistic w riters, w hich are to be versity new s is also treated in a sens scheme. The broad historical interest, printed in Bonville M agazine. ational way. T. 11. G regory, the editor, which was ch aracteristic of Rhodes, Professor H ow e said in p a r t: “ All is a freshm an from C alifornia, form er which led him to go all the way to present day w riters of co n sequence are ly connected with the San Francisco C onstantinople to find out why that socialists. L iteratu re is essen tially an Call and Exam iner and the Portland city was chosen by C onstantine for account of social m ovem ents. T he T elegram . his capital, also kept Iresh in his mind great w riter p re se n ts not his ow n life, “ W hatever the O regon W eekly will the events of the Am erican Revolution but that of his people. Socialism in not or cannot or dare not print, is le and caused him to lam ent the circum literature has been a g rad u al evolution g itim ate new s for the D o u g h n u t”, he stances which separate the tw o Anglo- The different d eg rees have been ty p i said when seen last evening. “ By the Saxon peoples, lie was tilled with a de fied in w riters acco rd in g to the com w ay”, he continued, “ have vou read sire to see the sym pathies of the tw o pleteness of th eir socialization, and are the latest extra about the fight of tw o peoples brought together. A believer roughly divided into those of th e first, third floor freshm en over a peanut. It in the Darwinian theory, he conceived second and th ird degrees. the idea of supplem enting natural se ; is a clean scoop on the G uard.” •'All w riters are socialists to an ex T ed Cooper is said to be business lection by a form of artificial selection tent. in that they re p re se n t the th o u g h t m anager of the new publication which by choosing tit young A m ericans for of their social su rro u n d in g s. Men m ay be printed down tow n next sem training at < )xford and for subsequent leadership. Rhodes was no o rd in ary thought to g eth er before th ey th o u g h t ester. m illionaire, m aking m oney for the sake alone, a w riter is a socialist if he tre a ts ot money, lie had his project in view Engineers Build Arch humanity as if he w ere a social being. even before his tort line began to ac Shakespeare has no vivid conception cum ulate. < )xford has m any ad v an Practical work in the departm ent of of a popular social hero. R uskin, J o h n son and Shaw each discovered w ith stru ctu ra l engineering is taking the tages tor men of the practical-idealis amazement th a t th ere is in S h ak e form of the construction of a model tic type. The influence of the forem ost speare no mail w ith a social m ission, of a railroad stone arch. T he model, statesm en and the great churchm en is that the heroes of the g re a t d ra m a tist which is now well under construction, felt there. At O xford educational and are individuals w ith no p a rtic u la r so ' ill be of p laster of paris, and is one- culture influences do not vaunt th e m cial significance. S h ak esp eare w ith the tw elfth of the size of the projected selves but are there to chasten and easy power that com es from skepticism theoretical arch. All details are the subdue w hatever Is uncouth in th e was broad. D ante on the o th e r hand, sam e as thev would be in a regular m akeup ot scholars from the new a'.tli ougli not so broad, w as deep and large arch, except that everything is world. T hus is cultivated broader in on the scale of one tw elfth. E very terest in the educational, social and lofty. ¡’lie second degree of socialistic m em ber of the class has special charge political problem s of the w orld." Dr. Boynton followed with a talk, wrihng was rep resen ted in E n g lan d by of the m aking of one of the stones of reinforced by experiences, show ing the the school of M aria E d g e w o rth ; the the arch. The arch in its full size would third degree by \ \ illiam M orris. He be tw elve feet across, with thirteen validity of the wave theory of light was followed by M rs. H u m p h re y pieces of stone, the inside diam eter of as opposed to the hypothesis accepted Ward, 11. (i. W ells, B ern ard Shaw each stone being fifteen inches. Such bv New ton, nam ely, that light im pres and the more radical S in clair and Jack an arch would form the entire support sions are due to the impact of particles transm itted through the air. London, fh e m o tto of m o d ern lite r of a railroad bed to rest upon it. The wave theory would seem to be ary socialism is: ‘Give y o u r d ay s and C larke Chosen C aptain discredited by the fact that light seem s nights to social serv ice.’ ’’ Dudley Clarke, 10, was elected foot to be projected in straight lines and an ball captain at the annual banquet of object in its path renders it invisible, Die G erm ania the team at Otto’s on Monday night. while sound, on the o th er hand, which Bill Hayward and President Campbell is propogated by waves, will pass 1 lie first of the Christmas parties to counted the ballots and then burned around an object. 'The experim ents he held this year was that of Die Ger them, announcing only the result. substantiated the wave theory by mania. fhe club met at Kloshe Tilla- Clarke has been a star on the team for show ing that light waves pasing 'iiin Lodge on Tuesday evening and three seasons, and for the last two, an through an orifice are deflected, and had a Christmas program which was all-North west man. His title is clear neutralizing each other, creat a dark yry successful. It was an old-fash- as the best punter and defensive full spot, while at other points by com bina mned Christmas party, a member act back in the West. He is also a rare tion they reinforce one another. as Santa Claus. A German Christ mas poem was spoken by Miss Laura Lennon and Miss Gretta Bristow ren- deied an appropriate German song, loliday refreshments were served af- ’er which all sang the favorite songs hie old country. The club has made a good start and after the holi- 1 ays its real serious work will begin. Zcta lota Phi had a pleasant Christ- 'nts celebration at its house on 13th •md a I ill streets Thursday evening. A ristmas tree was the center of at traction. in g player on offense, possessing good qualities of generalship, as was attest ed by his handling of the team in the last game of the season. He is a resi dent of Portland and a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Some members of the senior class have suggested as an appropriate gift to the University from class 1909, a bronze bust of some great American poet, to be placed in the library. Dell McCarthy, ’08, was visiting friends in Eugene last week. The committe on a faculty club house reported that President Camp bell had received a letter from Judge Bean, stating that no legal objections were apparent to locating the house on the campus. Other locations can be secured if necessary, was also the be lief of the committee which further felt certain that ample capital would be available if a return of 6 per cent on the investment could be assured. A meeting will soon be held to organize those interested and form them into a corporate unit.
