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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EQ THE OREGANA a University color, the editor prophesied that the new name would meet with immediate favor. The Oregon Monthly discontinued publication in 1912 and the Emerald changed to a thrice-a-week, six column paper, its present size. al 4: 4' 'P Oregon first began the publication of a year book in 1901, and these publications also throw interesting light upon University life during the past seventeen years. The Webfoot was the name chosen for the first issues, but the name was changed in 1907 to the Uni- versity of Oregon Bulletin. The books during this period were about one-fifth the present size of the Oregana, their successor. wk , :la lk 'K The Bulletin of 1906 reviews the football history of the Uni- versity up to that time. Football began, the Bulletin said, in 1894, and although no victory was won material was developed that enabled the University to win distinction the following year and in 1896. In 1897, however, the team was weak and went down to defeat. The next year football work was begun on a systematic basis and in 1900, two years later, the University was victorious over the University of California. In 1901 the team was weak and lost its big games. In 1903 the state championship was won, and in 1904, under the leadership of Coach Dick Smith, Oregon won the Northwest championship. Bill Hayward, present football trainer and track coach, ex- pressed this attitude in 1906 in regard to the next year's prospect in track: I am well pleased with the showing this year. I hope, if I am here, to take the team to California next year, and believe we will have a good chance to win. The Bulletin as a name for the year book was dropped in 1908, the University feeling that Beaver would be a more expres- sive name for the book. In 1909, however, the name was again changed, this time to The Oregana, and the following reason was given by the class of 1910, which was in charge of the book for that year: The name 'Beaver,' given last year's publication, was an es- pecially good one, but since our friends as Corvallis have chosen to adopt the sobriquet wholesale for all their different activities, we will let them have the term and move ahead. ' The Midnight Doughnut was the name of an interesting in- wenty-nine 'T'