THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 28, 1915.
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Where Colleges
Miss the Mark
By Hi C. Howe
' H.' C. Howe Is professor of modern'
'English literature at the -University
of Oregon. His article, which he cheer- L
fully admits deals with "a heresy in
American educational circles" is. brief
ly, an appeal for the establishment of i
the English and Canadian pass man1
a n.i hnimii rrtun -iVBtpm in an atternot.
to cur American university ills. In
cidentally, such a movement is now
und-r way in the I'niversity of Ore
gon and will probably within 60 days
rimf before ttie full faculty In the
form of definite legislation for a vote.
Oberitn college of Ohio also la consid
ering it.
1'niv eiKit v of Oregon, KuRone, Or..
Feb. 27. During the last 20 years the
attendance, at American universities
has increased enormously. Less than
: generation ago the present enroll
ment at the University of Oregon
would have entitled the Institution to
be called the largest university in the
I'nited States. Yet today, enroll
ments of 5000 p.nd C)00 students are
; too common to excite remark.
It is curious that the period of this
sudden expansion of the mil versit ies
should also be notable for increasingly
'harsh c-ttticisin of their work, but it is
so.
Forty or 50 years ago the colleges
wei-r criticized solely because of the
restricted range of their studWs
Greek, latin, mathematics and some
times a slight rattling of 'he dry bon'-s
of philosophy comprised the whole
list. There was here no view of tb
orderly causal development of human
" laws, arts and institutions, 'no Inves
. tigation of man's relation to nature.
no study of the laws of wealth, or of
Apolitical science, no training of mind
1 or hand or eye for life's actual hysi
'. ncss; and the current saying was that
'college was a cloistered life, out of
touch with the busy complexity of
i, modern civilization.
'The universities have met this crit
icism by adding shops and laborator
ies, and a thousand new subjects f
study. They have gone farther afield
from everyday life to add Hebrew and
'Sanskrit, but they have nddwl a host
"; of modern languages. Tlieyiave built
, museums of ancient art, but they are
themselves teaching pupils block -
smithing, dancing, piano playing.
: drawing and butter making. If a boy
or girl wishes to enter upon any voca
tion in life, the universities hiisten to
offer him a condensed and systema
. tlzed preparation for it. The criticism
of our colleges for academic seclusion
and Impracticallty is as dead and out
Of date as the Pharaohs.
And at the very time of broadening
their intellectual outlook ho as to earn
; the proud right to boast of interpret
ing the whole of life, the colleges have
advanced their standards. The four
year high schools do now much Of the
work formerly occupying the college
curriculum, and the college student is
today nearly four years older and
wiser than his predecessor of Daniel
Webster's generation.
Shaxp Criticisms Made.
Tet in spite of the amazing vitality
' and adaptiveness, and the greater ma
turity and capacity of their pupils,
the colleges are more sharply criti
' cised than ever before.
As Dean E. U Nichols, of Cornell.
-8. This is a time of widespread
discontent with American college edu
cation as a whole. . . . We are told
that students .cannot write Knglish,
and are for the most part without ap
preciation of literature; that they are
unable at graduation to read Franch
or German or Latin; that they are un
able to apply their mathematics even
to the simplest problems."
He finds some misconception in this.
Why expect the student of piano play-
' lng- or butter making to read French
or Latin? Why expect the student of
earthquakes or insect life either to
write or to read literary Knglish? In
part the public Is criticizing the eol-
. lege man for failure in lines he bus
never attempted. But Professor Nich
ols himself bears witness that Ameri
can university students show too gen
erally a lack of interest and a dearth
of scholastic ambition.
Spurred by the censure of today as
by tha.t of 40 years ago, the American
universities are using whip and spur
to drive their students to the springs
of learning. This earns a new reproach,
that our college education is a system
-which does not carry its own appeal
and has to be forced on the pupils by
penalties and rewards. But whip and
spur don't make the colt drink deep
at the Pierian spring. They only make
him balk and buck.
Moreover, this surprising distaste
for knowledge, which certainly is
shown by many a college man. is ac-
quired by him in the preparatory
school, where whip and spur, bit and
bridle are still more coaxingly used.
"We must agree with Professor Nich
ols "that ltcannot be cured by a far
",rther application of the methods that
produced It." '
What then? When our worrying col
lege faculties will stop trying to make
the horse drink and let him alone a
" little, he will drink of his own accord.
Sinaple-isn't it? But the thirst to
., Know is an inborn instinct, and will
have Its way, if we let it alone.
In our colleges today are many stu-
' dents of 24 or 25 who iiave been school
teachers, newspaper reporters and the
like. They desire particular informa
tlon," but the college rules force them
into classes with youngsters of 17, as
sign them so many inches of algebra
or metres of French to learn per day,
and make them come up and recite on
these microscopic assignments as if
they were pupils in the fourth grade.
Then the professor waxes sarcastic
because they show no enthusiasm for
such "learning."
Askrthese men what they wish to
-lo, and you find; they wish to master
Broke Her Husband
Of Drinking
. An Illinois Wife Broke Her Husband
- From Drinking With a Simple
Recipe 'That She Cave
at Home.
That the liquor habit can be ban
ished aecretly.is the claim of a well
kriown Peoria, 111; woman, whose hus
band. was a heavy drinker for years.
In a recent statement she said: "I
broke my husband from drinking: with
the 'following; simple, Inexpensive re
cipe which I gave secretly: To 3 oz.
of water add 20 grains of muriate of
ammonia, & small box of Varlex Com
pound and 10 grains of pepsin. Give
teaspoonful three times a day at
meal time la the food, or in the cof
"f ee ; tea "or milk. ; This recipe can be
filled at any drug- store, is perfectly
. harmless and has no color, taste or
smell.'- Any i wife or mother can .stop
their dear one from drinking the iania
as liha v ion and- at very- little ex-
ons." Adv.". : . , w. "
! THE DOGS OF WAR FROM THE ENGLISH POINT OF VIEW
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.HARK!
THE DOGS
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KeirodiH-ed herewith is a poster recently received from England which
point of view. The poster was originally reproduced in colors and
certain subjects in the library, or per
form certain experiments in the lab
oratories. Then, in the name of com
mon sent-e, why not let them do it,
consulting with the . professors of the
branches concerned, of course, report
ing their results from time to time,
and subject to searching examination
when they come up for a degree? Why
should men who can investigate for
themselves be laboriously taught like
children? Is the American university
a strait-jacket, or an opportunity?
This is heresy in American educa
tional circles, but it is no novelty. The
English universltie ; and the Univer
sity of Toronto long ago recognized
tiie fact that their students divided
naturally Into "honor men,", who could
learn, and "pass men" who must be
taught. But it Is more than time that
American universities ceased treating
all students like grammar school boys.
We have, and will have, many mere
pupils, who must be led by the nose.
Hut we have also many active minds,
men and women who can be fellow
students with Hieir professors, and we
must treat them accordingly. The cur
ious thing is the ease with which the
American university system can be
adapted to this end. We have only to
take off the strait-Jacket, turn them
loose in -the fields of learning, and re
cord and credit their' voluntary
achievements. After all, there are
many young men and women who do
not need their mental nourishment pre
digested by the professorial mind. The
professor may be forced to revise a
little his theory of his own import
ance, but we shall hear fewer " com
plaints that our students are reluctant
to learn.
THOUSANDS WITNESS
THE DEDICATION OF
SAN FRANCISCO FAIR
(Continued From Page Eight.)
sent into the Kootrvil district of the
Panhandle, Idaho.
American capital is ready to engage
in the manufacture of dye, according
to a statement of Secretary Redfield
to the senate.
Nearly six times as much wheat
was exported from this country In
January as during the same month
last year, according to figures an
nounced by the department of com
merce. During that month 24.803,660
bushels were exported. Similar in
creases were shown In flour, beef and
all breadstuffs.
Legal and Criminal.
CALIFORNIA oil operators"-at San
Francisco were still stunned over
the svipreme court decision handed
down in the case of the government
against the Mid-West Oil company of
Wyoming. Entry claims of corpora
tions and individuals to petroleum
lands in California alone, aggregating
nearly a billion dollars, are nullified
by the findings of the court.
Healing of the applications for par
don made on behalf of Richard Ford
and Herman Suhr has been postponed
to March 5. Ford and Suhr were sen
tenced to life terms in Folsom prison
for their connection with the Wheat
land hopfield riots which resulted in
the murder of E. T. Manwell. then
district attorney of Tuba county.
The month of April will go down In
California's history as the month of
hangings. The "death schedule" calls
for the execution of five murderers
during April. Two men will be
hanged on April 16. two on April 23
and one on April 30, unless the pres
ent dates are changed.
J. C. Wilson and B. A. Wilbrand,
former stock brokers, charged with
complicity with Charles F. Baker, as
sistant cashier of the Crocker National
bank, in embezzling funds from that
institution, went to trial at San Fran
cisco before United States Judge Dool
ing. The finding of a black bag contain
ing several pieces of jewelry with the
stones missing, is the only clew to
the robbery of the Beverly Hills ho
tel, Los Angeles, when the bungalow
of Mrs. A. H. Smith was entered and
Jio.000 in diamonds and money taken.
Two new robberies were reported at
the Beverly Hills hotel, Los Angeles.
The newest victims and their losses
are: E. R. Wood and daughter, . To
ronto, Canada, two valuable stickpins;
Misses Sadie Costello and E. Hoag,
considerable money taken.
Iavid Fountain, convlctfed of the
murder of little Margaret Milling, was
isentenced at Sacramento to be hanged
on April 30, at Folsom prison. Judge
Glenn, In administering sentence,
showed .no feeling whatever for the
prisoner and as he closed the sentence,
sharply commanded Fountain to "sit
clown."" ;
. T4ie he was passed In United States
District ; Judge Cooling court at ,Ran
iranciscu during the hearing of -the
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By Sam Itaddon Jr.
'"Scattered Leaves," by Andreas
Bard. Rev. Mr. Bartl was formerly
rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church
in Walla Walla, Wash., and is now a
pastor in Kansas City, Mo. He has
written a number of poems and the
group recently gathered is published
by the German Literary Board of Bur
lington, Iowa.
The poems display a love that has
lingered and that has lent a beauty to
his soul; they also show a faith inGod
that animates the thought of the au
thor amid the din of the world.
In the soul of my songs. Beloved,
I find Thee everywhere!
He writes in the verse that is the
dedication to the little, artistically
paper-bound and printed book.
In "A Prayer" Mr. Bard makes a
powerful appeal that his soul live, on
and thus voices immortality:
'Mid life's surrounding discords O sus
tain The harmony within; extinguish not
The spark divine, and .let iue not in
vain
Dream for my storm-swept soul a
worthier lot
Than that of pebbles on oblivion's
shore
Or hush hope's yearning voice forever
more! Once again in "The Fadeless Flower"
is the sustaining, sunny Influence of
love on the poet shown.
O give me he land where the spring
never dies.
Where voices of joy will not mingle
with sighs.
When wildly the autumn wind blows;
Though heavens be gray or heavens be
blue.
Dear Heart, thou art the sunshine true.
And my love the fadeless rose
Among the 46 poems there are four
in German and eight that the poet has
translated from German into English.
Mr. Bard's translation into German of
Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" pre
serves the beauty and effectiveness
of the original, though of course the
simple power is not so full as in the
English. The same meter is used and
the same rhyme scheme
Goethe's "Wanderer's Night-Song" Is
so admirably translated that the spirit
of the original Is almost the same in
the English.
Gently steals a dream of peace
O'er the hill;
Not a breath stirs in the trees,
All is still:
And the linnet's even-song
Softer prows
Troubled heart, thou too, ere long, ;
Shalt repose!
Several poems of Heine's are trans
late 3 with a faithfulness that Is not
so strict as to destroy the simplicity.
Andreas Bard shows a rare facility
of rhyme, a poetic sensitiveness to the
tenderest forms of beauty, and yet a
responsiveness to the biggest things
of life and love. His poems are evi
dences of a genuine love of woman, of
nature, and of God.
case of J. C. Wilson and B. A. Wil
brand, stock brokers, charged with
conspiracy to loot a national bank.
The state of Georgia filed in the
supreme court of the United States a
brief in the case of Leo Frank, under
sentence to die for the murder of
Mary Phagan. Arguments in the mat
ter will be heard Thursday and Fri
day. Frank has appealed to the high
court in his final fight to escape death.
Four robbers dynamited the -safe of
the Princess theatre, in the loop dis
trict, Chicago, and escaped with $3000
cash. Apparently the robbers at
tended the performance at the theatre
and hid In an alcove while the rest
of the audience was leaving the build
ing. They bound . and gagged the
watchman and proceeded about the
robbery in leisurely fashion..
C. H. Canby, president of the Chi
cago board of trade, testifying in the
investigation being conducted at New
York into the rise in the price of
bread, said prohibition by , the .govern
ment of wheat exports was the only
check " to rising prices : possible.' He
said such action would leave the wheat
raising regions of the westta the
same disastrous position as 'were the
cotton growers of the south when ship
ments of cotton were checked:
John Foster, a night watchman, shot
his wife four times and fatally, -wounded
her and then sent a bullet into his
own - head, at; San Leandro. - He- may
recover.'. The couple had been sepa
rated for months. - .
Attorneys for Miss Maud Armfield,
motion picture actress who' was given
H -verdict of 940.009 for ; breach of
promise from Bryant Howard, of San
shows the "dogs of war" in action, according to the . British
was printed on fine calendar paper about three feet square.
AND THEIR 1
AUTHORS
"Woman and War," by Olive
Schreiner. -A selection from the au
thor's well known "Woman and
Labor," reprinted apropos of the Euro
pean upheaval.
The author sums up her discourse
with the conclusion;
"War will pass when intellectual
culture and activity have made possi
ble to the female an equal share in the
control and governance of modern na
tional life; It will probably not pass
away much sooner: its extinction will
not be delayed much longer.
"It is especially in the domain of
war that we, the bearers of men's bod
ies, who supply its most valuable mu
nition, who, not amid the clamor and
ardor "of battle, but singly, and alone,
with a three-in-the-morning courage,
shed our blood and face death that the
battlefield might have Its food, a food
more precious to us than our heart's
blood: it is we especially who. In the
domain of war, have our word to say,
a word no man can say for us. It is
our intention to enter into the domain
of war and labor there till in the
course of generations we have extin
guished it."
The work originally appeared at the
time of the Boer war, the author liv
ing at that time in Johannesburg.
Frederick A. Stokes company. New
yor! 50 cents net.
"Our Criminal Criminal Law," by S.
C. Denson. A plea for the indeter
minate sentence, reformation, or "re
covery"' of breakers of the law, and
for new prison management.
Mr. Denson reviews a number of
cases of which he had personal cog
nizance in the early days of California,
shows wherein, in his experience and
judgment, existing methods of im
prisonment and treatment of prisoners
is all wrong, and recalls the delibera
tions of a number of prisoners who
themselves reduced the fault and the
remedy to the following proposition:
"The whole system of confiscation
of a jhah's time and opportunity to
work, because he had the misfortune
to violate some penal statute, is wrong
and barbarous; it does not do the mal
efactor any good and it does not ben
efit society, while it does increase the
burden of taxation., It is. better that
all men should be employed at soma
kind of work. It is cruel to deny to
anyone the right to work, and the de
nial .may make one a criminal.
"No. convict should be sentenced to
any definite term, and no full confisca
tion of his time should be made. Every
person convictect of a crime (less than
such as to merit death) should be ad
judged to earn and hav a specified
sum of money by his own labor."
Air. Denson submits a plea for prison
reformation along lines already being
followed to an ; extent in Oregon and
elsewhere.
Wllitaker & Ray-Wigging company,
San Francisco.
"Rada," a drama In one act, by Al
Diego, announced that she will file
suit in San Diego for $100,000 against
Mrs. Medora H. Howard, Bryant How
ard's mother. She will allege aliena
tion of affection, it is said.
Before the gaze of a crowded court
room, the killing of A. B. Shaw, a
watchmaker, by R. E. Umax, a weal
thy Jeweler, was reenacted in Superior
Judge Gavin W. Craig's court at Los
Angeles during Lomax's trial on a
murder charge.
Because his wife had obtained a di
vorce from him, Fred Cozzalli, 26, an
Italian,. lay In wait for her as she was
going to work, ' shot and mortally
wounded - her ; and then ended his own
life. The woman, Mrs. Ada Cozzalli,
23, died while en routte' to the emer
gency hospital. .
It was rumored at Milwaukee, Wis..
that a federal grand jury, investigat
ing a white slavery charge against the
Rev. James M. Darnell, of Kenosha,
Wis., would refuse to return an indict
ment. William J. -Klnnear, 80, a patient in
the. National hospital at Soidler'a
Home, Milwaukee, committed suicide
by blowing his Drains out with
a revolver. Rendered feebleminded
through-age, Klnnear had ' been as
signed to the hospital department for
care. ,
Sheriffs deputies from- Los An
geles are -co-operating with' the Long
Beach police in an effort to capture
the . two masked bandits who held up
Assistant Agent Park of the Pacific
Electric railway .at Long Beach and
robbd hlra-of poo of the company's
fund a . . - . , . - . -.
fred Noyes. A Christmas tragedy of
the Balkans. A plea, for peace.
Rada is a widojv of a day widowed
by war, and "the mother of a 12-year
old daughter. Two soldiers have quar
tered themselves In the cottage that
shelters the woman and child. The lat
ter unaware of the dangers about her,
awaits only the coming of Santa Claus.
Additional marauding soldiers demand
admittance to the chamber in which
mother and daughter seek refuge, and
as entrance there is being forced, re.
ports of two shots are heard from the
bedroom.
Blood trickles beneath the door.
. Frederick A. Stokes company. New
York. CO cents net.
"The Adventures of Grandfather
Frog." and 'The Adventures of Danny
Meadow Mouse," by Thornton W. Bur
gess. These are two of the volumes of
the "Bedtime Stories," with which
young and old readers of The Journal,
In particular, are well acquainted.
Harrison Cady has drawn the pictures
for them, and puts Mr. Burgess spirit
into his peculiar little animals.
Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 60 cents
per volume, net.
"Opera Stories From Wagner," by
Florence Akin.- This is a reader for
primary grades, and carries special
local interest because the author Is a
primary teacher in the Irvlngton
school, Portland.
The "stories" are told in conversa
tional sts'le, tho author having endeav
ored to make them complete, with only
those parts of the original tale which
are strong and sweet. Houghton, Miff
lin Company, Chicago.
According to the advance notices
George Palmer Putnam, secretary to
Governor Withycombe, has produced
a work entitled "In the Oregon Coun
try," which includes descriptive ac
counts of northwestern trips, out-of-door
exploits and legendary history,
Fifty illustrations show that the ar
tistic will bp an Important feature of
the volume.
Descriptive accounts of ramblings in
Oregon, Washington and California
are to be included in 12 large chap
ters, and there are stories of trips
along forest and mountain trails, on
foot and on horseback, and with gun,
rod and camera; of the ascent of peaks
and long canoe excursions, all replete
with incidents of Interest and rich
with word pictures of the country
traversed. The volume particularly
directs attention to the wealth of at
tractions for the sportsman and the
lover -of out-of-doors, while incidents
of the west's life today and accounts
of its legendary life of yesterday
round out the narrative pleasantly
into a work not only of Interest, but of
real value.
The introduction for the volume 1b
written by Governor Withycombe, who
recommends it enthusiastically as a
desirable addition to the state's litera
ture. Mr. Putnam is the author of a vol
ume on South America, "The South
land of North America." and is also a
magazine writer. He was located for
some time at Bend. Or., before becom
ing private secretary to Goernor
Withycombe, and came originally from
New York. He Is a son of a member
of the publishing firm of G. P. Pnt-
nam's Sons.
Arrested as he stepped from the
steamer Harvard at San Pedro, Cal..
E. J. Ryan, 22, accompanied by Miss
Ethel Hotchkiss, 17. augbter of a
prominent San Francisco ' merchant,
was charged with contributing to the
delinquency of a minor and will be
held pending the arrival of detectives
from San Francisco. '
Executive.
SUPERVISION by America of the
distribution ""-of American foodstuffs
. in Germany was said at Wash
ington to be the basis of this gov
ernment's latest proposal for an agree
ment on the war zone situation.
The house appropriations committee
refused to recommend an appropria
tion of $290,000 to reimburse Dan
bury, Conn., hatters for fines imposed
under the Sherman anti-trust law.
William C. Delancy, director of the
government's war risk bureau,, an
nounced that insurance rates on
American vessels, , with cargoes con
signed to German ports,' -have been
temporarily suspended. This suspen
sion was ordered, "Delancy said, pend
ing receipt of full -information by Sec
retary of the Treasury McAdoo of the
losses of the American steamers
Evelyn and Carlb. "
Administration officials said that
the American relations with England
and. Germany were - "practically un
changed." Secretary Bryan and others
-disclaimed knowledge of .foreign ad
vices' relative ' to Inquiries made in
London and Berlin in 'an effort to
end the present hunger war.
University and
College N ews
Recent Happenings on the
Nation's Leading Campuses.
Enrollment Affoxs.
The following figures, recent
ly published In Science, show
the relative ranking in enroll
ment of the leading American
universities. The figure in
clude the summer session en
rollments with due allowance
for double registrations.
Former
Enroll- In
ment. crease.
.11,294 1.365
Rank. College.
1 Columbia
2 California 8,180
3 Chicago 7,131
Wisconsin .... 6",696
1,109
297
806
536
784
311
634
327
405
832
552
195
6$
250
265
26
349
5
6
8
9
10
11
Pennsylvania .. 6,505
Harvard 6,411
Michigan
New York
6,319
6.142
Cornell 5.939
Illinois ....... 5,664
Ohio State ... 4,94 3
12 Minnesota 4,484
13 Northwestern . 4.072
14 Syracuse 3.193
15 Missouri 3,385
16 Texas 3,371
17 .Yale 3,2 8 J
IS Neoiaska 3,199
Reed College.
Four new tennis courts are to be con
structed on the Reed college campus
within the next 30 -days, according to
fhe contract let to Oskar Huber, suc
cessor to the Barber Asphalt company.
The courts are the gift of a friend of
the college, who refuses to let his
name be given out: and with the addi
tional equipment, they will cost $6700.
Professor Norman F. Coleman, head
of the Mnglish. department at the col
lege, spoke on the "Wordsworth Coun
try," the pretty part of England, where
Wordsworth lived and wrote, at the as
sembly Thursday. The lecture was il
lustrated with slides made from pic
tures which Professor Coleman collect
ed while on his recent trip through
England. He also gave a lecture on
"England and the War," at the Central
library Thursday evening.
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, of Temple.
Beth-Israel, was the chapel speaker
Thursday morning, and on Friday Rev.
L. K. Richardson gave the talk. Next
Friday morning Rev. T. L. Eliot will bo
the chapel speaker.
The last lecture of the series of hy
giene lectures for men was given last
Thursday afternoon, at 4Ho'clock, in the
college chapel, by Dr. Noble Wiley
Jones, who spoke on "The General As
themic State." The lecture was illus
trated with a number of radiographs
and drawings.
Miss Josephine Hammond, professor
of English, gave a reading of "Rada,"
by Alfred Noyes, and "The Little King,"
by W. Bynner, last evening, in tha
chapel, for thbeneflt of the Belgium
Relief Fund, under tho auspices of the
Amanda Reed association of Reed col
lege. This association was Just re
cently organized among the women of
the college, and It took this opportunity
of Duttinz itself Into prominence.
On Tuesday evening, at 7 o'clock, lf
the chapel, a debate will be held on the
question, "Resolved, That there should
be a literacy test for immigrants sim
ilar to that provided In the bill vetoed
by President Wilson." The speakers
ar H. II , Moore and C. F. Rochet, af
firmative, and J. M. Howes and E. R.
Means, -for the negative.
President William T. Foster will be
the vesper speaker In the chapel today,
at 4 o'clock. His subject will be "Tha
Spirit of the West."
University of Oregon.
James Donald, of Baker; Rose Siler,
of Spokane; Ruth Sears, Beulah Stebno
and Louis Holsington, of Eugene, were
graduated from the university at the
end of the first semester. They will
receive their diplomas at the June
commencement. Donald and Miss
Stebno were honor students.
Bryant DcBar, of Eugene, and Ern
est Vosper, of Portland, have gone to
San Francisco, where they will act as
guides in the Oregon building at the
Panama-Pacific exposition during the
next four weeks. They are fully
equipped with information regarding
the state. The other two university
students who have been chosen to act
as guides, Charles Collier, of Eugene,
and James Donald of Baker, will fol
low in two veeks. A new party will
leave every two weeks and the rep
resentatives will be selected by a fac
ulty committee from a list of 100 stu
dents who have signified their will
ingness to go. The Oregon Agricult
ural college will have a similar rep
resentation. Dr. G. Stanley Hall has wired that
he will take a place on the next sum
mer school faculty. Dr. Hall Is presi
dent of Clark university, and is wide
ly known as a specialist in child psy
chology. Elwood P. Cubberly, head of the de
partment of education at Stanford uni
versity, who nSade an educational sur
vey, of Portland schools some years
ago, will be another summer school
lecturer. A third will be Charles Fors
ter Smith, professor of Greek at the
University of Wisconsin.
The mlneroiogy class is classifying
the rocks in the university collection,
and is making up boxes of specimens,
which will be lent to high schools for
studies in physical geography. The
boxes contain from 20 to 25 classes of
minerals, and from 12 to 15 rocks that
Illustrate geological points. The first
high school to call for a loan collection
was that o Myrtle Creek.
Twenty-seven per cent of the women
of the third year clas6 are wholly or.
partially self-supporting, and their
average annual college expenses are
1478, where they are registered from
outside of Eugene. Of the junior men,
94 per cent are partly or wholly self-
February and March Bring Out TJn
ightly Spots. Sow to Re
move Easily.
The woman with tender skin dreads
February and March because tl ey are
likely to cover her face with ugly
freckles. No matter how thick her
veil, the sun and winds have a strong
tendency to make her freckle. -
Fortunately for her. peace of mind,
the recent discovery of anew prescrip
tion, othine double strength, makes it
possible for even those most suscepti
ble to freckles to keep their skin clear
and white. No matter how stubborn a
case of freckles you have, the double
strength othine should remove them.
Get an ounce from youV druggist and
banish the freckles.' Money back if it
falls. I . , - - Adv.'
FRECKL
supporting. The statistics have
compiled from seporta made by 119
out of 112 third year students. ..."
Harvard University. ;
Donald E Dunbar. '13. a first year
! student in the Harvard law school, hs
tjust received word that his essay of-
, fered in competition for the- Hart,
i Shaff ner & Marx prizes, has won first
in the graduate division, the prize be-
, ing J 1000. - Dunbar was one or the leaa
ing students in his college class, a
member of Phi Beta. Kanna. and edi
torial chairman of the Crimson during-
! his senior year. Following graduation
! he spent a year abroad pn one of the
Sheldon traveling fellowships.
Columbia University.
In the report of the committee on
women graduate students at Columbia
university,' Dean Virginia C. Gtlder-
I sleeve, chairman, urges the' securing
i of fellowships without restriction of
i sex, asserting that the committee doe.4
i not think It fair that a woman grad-
juate student, however, brilliant and
promising her -scholarly ability, fchould
be, merely because of her sex, shut out
entirely in the university from the
honor and aid whtch a fellowship gives.
The committee notes the srreat !ncrean
In the iivimlur of women students reg-
istcred under the graduate faculties,
the number last year being 711, Jiearly
100 more than the previous year,; while
out of 488 candidates receivings the
master of arts. degree 221 were women.
and out of 63 receiving the degree of
doctor of philosophy 11 were women.
. Oberlin College.
The special committee in charge of
loans to students at Oberlin college re
ports, hat a very significant percent
age of the young women enrolled in
various departments of the institu
tion depend either entirely or in part
upon their own resources for their
college education. Of the 80 women
classed as wholly or partly self-supporting,
seven are working. for all of
their room and board, 1 4 for part. Thirty-seven
have borrowed money; 38 are
earning money while studying'. 67 are
using or have used money saved from
their own earnings. The industries
reported are school teaching, 40;
house work, 18; office wonk, 11; with
a scattering distributed among can
vassing, nursing, teaching music, art
ist, market gardening, library assist
ant, postofflce assistant, playground
work, seamstress and curio aales
woman. Technology.
The Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology is taking definite steps toward
the extension of better relations be
tween the Institutions of higher learn
ing In the ITnlted States and South
American republics. The fnstltufe has
Just received a brochure in Spanish,
setting forth the work done there, and
Paul G. Hilken, '03. and Roger W. Bab
son, '98, are now on a tour of South
America, largely in the interests of
"Tech."
Alumni through the southern con
tinent have been notified, and fceveral
reunions are being planned for the pur
poes of having a good time together
and to aid the work of Mr. Hilken and
Mr. Babson.
Cornell University.
Wrork has begun on Cornell's first dor
mitories. Two buildings are now un
der construction, and the contracts for
erecting the third will soon be award
ed. It is expected that these three res
idence halls will be completed by next
January. When finished, they will ac
commodate 200 men.
The trustees have had plans drawn
for 15 residence halls, and for a great
student commons. The whole group "of
buildings will stand on tliat part of tha
campus, just below the library slope.
The entire group will provide accom
modations for about 1200 men.
Dartmouth College.
Thirty-four men were separated from
Dartmouth college as a result of defi
cient scholarship during the first sem
ester, according to a report made by
th dean today. This is a slight de
crease over the figures of last year,
and is notable in Its inclusion of one
Junior and seven sophomores. The
reasons for this Increase are not given
by the dean in his report, and the re
sult is generally assigned to one of two
causes: the fraternity acttvity during
the first semester, or a tightening of
the regulations.
University of Pennsylvania.
Greek letter fraternities hive re
ceived the official indorsement of Pro
vost Smith at Penn. Speaking at the
freshman chapel exercises, a few days
ago, the provost told the students that
they would get much more out cf col
lege in every way If they "made" a
fraternity. "I 'made' a fraternity when
I was an undergraduate," said Dr.
Smith, "and it had a powerful influence
on my future life." By the rules of the
university and fraternities, it is not
permitted to ask a freshman to Join
until noon March 8.
Wellesley College.
The seventh session of the graduate
council of Wellesley college, held on
Saturday and Monday,' January 30 and
February I, included delegates from
Denver, Kansas City. St. Louis, Chica
go and Atlanta. In the discussions it
was proposed that the council should
arrange for a meeting of associated
Wellesley c lubs," to be held In San Fran
cisco during the coming summer, at the
time of the meeting of the Association
of Collegiate Alumnae. "
Yale University,
Nearly -all the interests of the uni
versity last week were subordinated to
the Junior prom of the class "ft 1916,
which was danced as usual at the Sec
ond Regiment armory..
General Educational News.
It will cost $2,504,962 to furnish frea
text books in the public schools of New
York state, according to a report made
to the legislature on January 21 by
John H. Delany, state commissioner of
efficiency and economy. Commissioner
Oelaney makes no recommendations re
garding the advisability of supplying
free text books. The cost of annual re
newal would be $985,581. " The average
cost per pupil would be $1.23 In the ele
mentary schools and $4.84 in the soc
cfndary schools. The total estimated
nchool registration affected by the text
book buestton for the current year
1,594.610, of whom '1,446,311 are In the
elementary schools and 148,299 in tho
secondary schools.
BUSINESS UPTURN SHOWN
Chicago, ' Feb. 27i- Railroad man
agers of lines touching Florida and
gulf winter resorts assert the upturn
in business conditions is evidenced b'y
the heavy increases in pleasure travel
in the southern states. December rec
ords showed considerable improvement
and the increases In January were even
more marked, v The. Southern railroad
and " connecting . lines recently 'have
been obliged to operate nine extra sec
tion of regular; trains, . 2 extra Pull-
man cars and seven extra coaches.
endel Sisters
Puzzle New York
By Gotham Knickerbocker.
New York, Feb. 27. New York li
never tired of discussing the mystery
or the wendeis. No one has ever sug
gested an even probable explanation
of the strangest family in America;
The four Wendel sisters ha. $60.-
000,000.; - y-... r.
Three unmarried sisters live v a
Fifth avenue in an antique $500(1
house on a lot assessed at l,S97.00Ov
i lie rourin tmarrieaj lives on uen.
tral Park West. . , ;
The four sisters have been - enor
mously, wealthy from birth.: '
They nave never ridden In an auto.
They have never been on a yacht.
They have never attended a theatre.)
They have not bean in a church foi."
20 years. -
They never wear any article of Jcw-
eiry. .... , .-
They have never used an elevator. .
They never give a social entertain
ment or receive callers. -'-
So far as known, they, have never
given money to charity, , i
Like-little gray mice In an abam!
oned church, the three Wendel sisters
flit about their strikingly ugly big
house Just opposite th Union League
club, A great department storel has
reared Itself across the street on on
side. A tall office building overlooks
another side. The magnificent nsw
New York public library is one block
away. Their home lies midway be
tween the imposing Grand Central end
Pennsylvania terminals. The lUbway
half circles them, being one block
away on the east. They dwell In what
has Just become the heart of the fash
ionable shopping section. Before their
doors streams the most magnificent
procession of private vehicles to be
seen anywhere in the western hemi
sphere, if not in the world. What ia
behind these doors?
Now and then an old employs of tha
great Wendel estate, second in wealth
only to the holdings of the Astors,
passes into the hall, the floor of which
shows bare tiles in geometrical-pat
terns without covering. The hall tr
reached by three sets of doors. Jn th
rear of the hall is a treat wooden
stairway, and from the massive balu
strade a ponderous Iron gas Jet gives
a faint glimmer of light. The Wen-
dels do not use electricity. Don't they . I
approve of It? Nobody knows.
House Bams as In 188.
From thejhall open the library, par
lor and dining - room, all kept ex
actly as they were when the builder
of the house, John Wendel, died in
1869. The floor, of colored tiles, la
scarcely relieved of Its barrenness by
the small rug under the great ma
hogany table In the center of tho room.
The furniture Is all old and massive.
Every picture on the wall, as through-.
out the house, Is covered with whits
muslin winter and summer. -What is
on the floors above I cannot tell you..
Although the building is four stories
and a half high, there Is no elevator
or dumbwaiter.. Two middle agod
maids wait on the three strange sis
ters. All the sisters sre clad in-the
same way. They wear black iresacs."
cut in the style of two generations
back. They make their own clothes and
wear them until slightly shiny; Their
gray hair is drawn tightly back from
their foreheads.
On two sides of their house the Wen
del sisters have a yard, encompassed
by a high wall, 'This yard Is worth
about a million dollars. Tha 'sisters
take exercise here, but only In the eve
ning, when no one can look down upon
them Irom the high buildings nearby.
The life of the-fourth sister, Mrs.
Luther A. Swope, Is almost a replica
of her sisters. But she does venture
twice a week to the little old fash
ioned Wendel office at 175 Broadway
bare of telephone" or modern office fix
ture, where the Wendel estate -nterv
its business. She Is a slender, square
shouldered woman, who dresses In the
styles of 1880, like her sisters. But
she is not quite so shrinking as they,'
she has the firm Jaw of her brother,
John G. Wendel. who died last Decem
ber, at Santa Monica, Cal., and to her
the three maiden sisters turn over the
responsibilities of the $90,000,000 for
tune.
Aside from Mrs. swope's tegular;
visits to tho Wendel offices the only;
excursion of the strange quartet into
the light of day are their spring trips:
to their country place at Irvliifjton on.
the Hudson and their fall trips hack
to New York. The Jrvlnglon estata
Is even more sequestered than ' the
Fifth avenue dwelling. There ia a high
surrounding wall. Scarcely a neighbor
remembers ever seeing one of the sis
ters' faces, except whh they arrive J
for the hot season and wncn they
leave. r
Zdv la Seclusion. '
Their sole vehicle at Irvlngton Js a;
two-seated family carry-all, of a type
popular in the seventies. It appar
ently dates from that period. A deal-,
sr who lias delivered milk and gro
ceries to the housa every summer for
10 years says he never lias seen any
of the alsters.
Mrs. Swope's husband is past 80.
They have no children. There were
seven members in . this generation of
the Wendel family and only these
four sisters remain. Where will the
money go when they die? Will a dis
tant relative some day pslnt the White
Wray red with their millions? :
Can you suggest What makes these
sisters lead this dreary, mlsanthropio
life? Have you your solution of the
mystery?
Pafa In flMMlthjtm ftcft.1v tlfl V
quired the habit of climbing the or
ange trees.
GRANDMA NEVER LET
HER HAIR GET GRAY
Kept . her focks - youthful, dark,
glossy and thick with common
garden Sage and Sulphur.
When you' darken your hair with
Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can
tell, because It's done so naturally,
so evenly. Preparing this . mixture,
though, at-home 1 mussy and 'trou
blesome. For. CO cents you- can buy
at ' any drug . store the ready-to-uo
ionic calUd "Wyeth's Sage and Sul
phur Compound." You just dampen
a sponge or soft brush with It and
draw this through your, hair, ' taking
on small strand at a time. By morn
ing all gray hair disappears, and, after
another application or two, 'your hair
becomes beautifully darkened,- glor
and luxuriant. You will also discover
dandruff is gone and hair has stopped
falling. .- .- f
Gray, faded . hair, though no dis
grace, Is a : sign of old age, and as
we all desire a youthful and attractive
appearance) get busy at once wl)i j
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur and lotifc r
years younger.. - .;,'.-.; lAdv.)