University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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Jxj THE OREGANA - During its first years the Oregon Monthly handled both the news and literary departments of University life but dropped news when the Oregon Weekly was established about three years later by the Eutaxian, Laurean and Philogian societies for this purpose. The Oregon Monthly, in 1899, published an account of one of Oregon's first track triumphs after Oregon had won the state inter- collegiate meet held in Salem, June 9 of that year, and incidentally gave some idea of life at the University of Oregon at that time. The team and rooters came home singing, said the Oregon Monthly, and the people of our city were disturbed from their slumbers by the following appropriate slogan: Lickety, wallopy, scallopy, whoop, We chucked Willamette in the soup. We hit Corvallis with a bat And the final score was 50 flat. Field Day Cup, Eield Day Cup, We're the lads that gobbled her up. Rah! Rah! Rah! The same issue of the Oregon Monthly gives the information that the library had a total of 7500 volumes, the Villard fund which netted S400 annually being the chief financial source. The Oregon Weekly, established as a four column, four page paper, in 1902 chronicled the appearance of P. L. Campbell as pres- ident of the University. President Campbell has held the position since that time. At that time the University had an enrollment of about 250 students, including a preparatory department, since discontinued. By 1909 the paper had grown to an eight page paper but retained the four column size. Then, in the fall of 1909, it was changed to a five column, twice-a-week newspaper and issued for the first time under the present name of The Oregon Emerald. The name was chosen, according to the editor at the time, from the works of Joaquin Miller, a student of Columbia College. Miller was fond of referring to Oregon as the Emerald State. As Emerald had already been chosen . Old Assembly Tree Twenty-sovon g 5 .lxl

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-P THE OREGANA H dd When Deady was the University 1 Two of our number are with to the plain, practical side of life, but the chords of poetry, music and oratory respond more quickly to the touch of the shadowy fing- ers of the night. Be that as it may, the class of 1878 was greeted with a generous enthusiasm, in part as an expression of joy that the Uni- versity of Oregon was fairly start- ed after its trying years of in- fancy. We were not a large class, only five: Charles Whiteaker, M. S. Wallace, George Washburne and Robert S. Bean and the writer. us no more except in pleasant memories. But our place in the history of the University of Oregon must remain unique for we were the first class, the small beginning of all the future greatness of our Alma Mater. I 'il :la wk il' For years when weather permitted assemblies were held in front of Deady under an enormous tree, now known as the assembly tree. Here the students gathered about to hear the speaker of the day. , It was not until 1891 that the University of Oregon had its first student body publication. With gradual growth and increasing at- tendance since the actual opening of the University, on October 9, 1876, Oregon up to this time was still very small, compared with other state universities, or its present size. Since that time, however, athletics has been introduced, many traditions founded and growth and development has been on a much larger scale. This period, per- haps, can be traced best through a study of the student publications, issued since that time. ' The Reflector, a monthly literary and news magazine, was the first publication. Established in 1891 by the Laurean and Eutaxian literary societies-virtually the only organizations and means through which college activity was conducted up to this time-the monthly continued until 1895, when it was succeeded by the Bul- letin. Both papers were printed on six by ten inch paper and con- sisted of twelve pages an issue. The second publication of the student body was the Oregon Monthly which began in 1897 and took the place of the Bulletin, Twenty-slx -5-N

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