The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-05-29
LOCAL GIRL TELLS
OF EUGENE MEETING

This story was written for the Gla-
eier by Miss Mary G. Smith. Of this
IcitV. who is a student Of the Univer-
lsity Of OregOnl.
STbe greatest reason why Oregon 5
higher educational institutions are IN
class b. instead Of Glass A. as are Cal
ifarnla's and Washington S, IS because
Oregon lacks civic pride, said Mrs.
Vincent Cook, presiding officers at the
WomeB's session Of the Commonwealth
Conference at the University of Oregon
last Saturday afternoon. Nine hundred
students and guests we're present and
the meeting was an enthusiastic one.
California looks with pride upon her
| two great institutions classed with
/ Harvard, Yale and Princeton, while
/ Oregon looks with nalf-derisiOn upon
| her illy provided for state institutions.
Again say, that this is lack of civic
| pride. The more wealthy classes of
people send their children away to
school and no small number 90 to Cal
/ ifornia and Washington.
Mrs. Cook spoke strongly against
Oregon's lack Of pride and interest in
her schools and suggested that the
women Of the state be informed of con-
ditions and asked to aid in stimulating
civic pride,
washington and California have
strengthened their great universities
side by side with their commercial and
industrial growth. This Oregon has not
done, and as a result her schools are
not first class and cannot be expected to
be until the citizens wake up to the
fact that schools Of higher learning are
a necessity. Oregon needs and can
afford to support her agricultural col
lege and university. These schools
represent two distinct phases of social
and industrial life and as such they
should remain distinct.
Mrs. Maria l.. T. Hidden. of Port
land, also spoke in favor of higher edu-
cation, declaring that the thirty thou
sand women in the state of Oregon
could alone save the university from
the shameful process of politics by do
mating one dollar apiece to the cause. |
Mrs. Hidden herself argeed to give the !
first dollar. 1T is not enough that a |
few club women in the state work for |
the higher education cause: but COOP |
aration among all the women of the |
state is necessary.
Among other speakers were Miss |
Mary Isom, Mrs. Fletcher Linn, Mrs.
Mabel Holmes Parsons, DR.. Bertha |
Stuart, Miss Jessie Goddard and other |
woman prominent in social and indus |
Il iial work.
DR.. Bertha Stuart said: at is nee
essary that the girls body be trained |
and strengthened the same as man s /;
for without physical strength mental |
efficiency is impossible. 1t is our aim |
to strengthen the girls mind by train
ing her body; to teach her eugenics
and the laws Of personal hygiene and |
reproduction. In short, to imbue into
her those things which will make her
capable, intelligent mother and a good
citizen.
Miss Guppy. dean of women of the
spoke of the need of
building, declaring that the
women of the university except the
crowded library in which to study, and |
a small, inadequate gymnasium in
which TO rest or play. Miss Louise
Boyd, of the University of Washing
ton, told of the struggle of the college
women there for a woman's building
and gave the Oregon University women
some good advise as to how to 90 |
about getting what they wanted.
we worked our legislature, but for
got to work our governor, she said
"and | advise you to work
both of them, if you expect to get what
you want.
The rest of the afternoon was de-
voted to the production of scenes from
Midsummer Nights Dream and |
Peer Gynt' by Prof. A. Reddies
class in dramatic Interpretation.