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FROM AN ALUMNUS most of us, that otherwise most delightful of studies, history, was made a dreadful and dreaded thing in our public school days by the constantly recurring dates that our teachers insisted upon our remembering. Few of us ever remembered them long, and if we had little good would it do us at present. I do not believe the memory faculty was strengthened by this early tax upon it. and the stress of trying to keep associated in our minds certain dates and certain events made it impossible to get more than a faint impression of the moving impulses. Books of reference are made for dates and therein let them be recorded. In these desultory recollections, the incidents shall be dateless. For my theme I shall take the remark of a present under-graduate who in commenting upon college affairs of earlier days states There were no student activities in those days.” This young man had reference to organized activities: he understood human nature sufficiently to know, that regardless of period or clime, students arc and of necessity must be, irrepressibly active. When I matriculated at the Oregon Agricultural College, nearly thirty years ago, there was but one college building, it being located on a “down-town block. During this early period there were no college athletics at O. A. C. The only games played on the college grounds at that time were “shinny and marbles. However, some of the boys played baseball, but as members of the town team. The beginning of college athletics was during the administration of President Bloss when his son, W ill. II. Bloss, organized the first college football team in the state. The University of Oregon was persuaded to form a team, and intercollegiate athletic contests were initiated. “Zip Boom Bee was the first college yell in Oregon and I think Mr. Will Bloss was the designer of that classic which still holds first rank in popular favor at a O. A. C. At this time it might be well to state that there was an occasional military drill with either President Arnold or Professor Hawthorne as drill masters, both of whom served in the civil war. This drill was confined to the evolutions, as we had iK) guns. It must be admitted also that there were no student social activities during my time at college. Parties and social gatherings were plentiful, but these were town rather than college functions. When I entered O. A. C. there was one student organization successfully maintained, the Adelphian Literary Society, which met every Friday night. The society had its own assembly room in the college building, and on the regular meeting nights the room was usually crowded. One of the features of the evening program was the reading of the Adelphian Review, a paper edited by one [26]
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