STUDENT PUBLICATIONS 

AT THE 

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 

TO 

1902 



Abortive Attempts 

The Reflector 

The Bulletin 

The Oregon 11.1onthly 

The Oregon Weekly 

Conclusions 

Appendices 

Editorial Staff 

Editorial Staff 

Editorial Staff 

Editorial Staff 

TABLE OF COHTEWS 

and Contents of The Reflector 

and Contents of The Bulletin 

and Contents of The Monthly 

and Contents of The Weekly 

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Appendix A 

Appendix B 

Appendix C 

Appendix D 



Customary as it is to note the progress of journalism 

and literature in an order which has developed to the stage where the need 

for written expression is apparent, the tendency has l;leen to vie"" such 

expression as necessitated by the pressure of t 10 e social and the political 

state and not by forces without these areas . Yet, it is evident that in 

the educational sphere as well as in the political order a need for expression 

is existent . The progress of the literary and news journals of the universities 

throughout the nation have been a product of the gradual advancement of the 

student and the institution. In many instance:, that advance has been a steady 

process which has not been too rapid in the material edn desired. In too many 

instances the students have not been given free reign in their projects, and 

as the case may be designated in innumerable instances, so did a like situation 

exist on the campus of the University of Oregon in those years before the 

student pa.per and student journal were established. 

The difficulty in the preliminary yea.rs of the university rested 

in the fact that the student body was a mnall group occupied with a curriculum 

which permitted little endulgence in matters without the curriculum proper. With 

the professorial staff supervising all effort, the student were held to strict 

account for the manner in which they pursued their labor . The e~ra-curricula.r 

activity of the small group was inconsequential; the first clubs were intro-

duced in the decade after the establishment of the university. The students, 

unable to engage in great self- directed activity, cauld not commence active student 

publications until the university had been fifteen years without this requisite 

of student life. 

The efforts during these developmental years to introduce such 



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journals as would be an expression of the student's mind were rather few in 

quantity, and those which did emerge were relegated to an indefinite future 

by a faculty vrhichwas all-powerful in the guidance of campus activities. As early 

as January 1883, it was evident that there was a distinct need for sucJ-, ~an in­

strument as a college journal, and the Oregon State Journal,. during that month, 

carried an article in its university column calling for the institution of a college 

newspaper. At the tirne a corrnnittee had been appointed to investigate the matter 

and the proposal accepted by this group was that a joint stock company be instituted 

to establish such a paper without the sphere of the authority of the college 

powers. The group in control of the proposed newspaper was to be composed of 

regents, faculty members and any others who were desirous of becoming affiliated 
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vvith the stock company. 

For two weeks the projected matter held the center of attraction in the 

university column of the Oregon State Journal, but after the issue of February 
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3, the matter disappeared from the papers. From the conunent evident in the column 

of january 27, 1883, wherein it was held that 11 sufficient shares ''have already 

been taken in the proposed joint stock company to justify permanent organizationn, 

it ~ppears that there had been a d,efinite progress in the campaign towards the 

establishment of the journal, but the failure of the project is an indication 

that the 'nfant University was not prepared for a student paper. 

Of other abortive attempts to institute a medium of student 

expression there are no references. The student body, with few sources of contact 

_other than the classroom and those functions without the school, had not attained 

the untiy and the state of development at which the faculty could recpgnize 
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the student as being capable of pursuing such endeavor. The faculty was 

not to sanction such student action until it arose from the varied student 
!-Oregon State Uournal - Janueary 20, 1883 
2-In the Journal of that date an article issuing a call for a meeting of the men 

interested in the project. 
3- Oregon State Journal - February 3, 1883 
4- The student body during this period was still insignificant, and the paper 

was not established until the body had increased appreciably. 

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literary organizations which had come into existence during the decade of 

the eighties. When the Laurean society, male literary and debating society, 

center of the intelligentsia among the male students of the period, became con­

scious of the need for such an institution as a college journal, the faculty 

members of the Johnson administration had relented to a degree in their ftU:'l'ller 

attitude towards a student-directed organ and permitted the establishment of 

the journal-- but only under conditions to be established by a faculty committee 
1 

compo sed of the professors Hawthorne, Condon and Carson. The petition of the 

committee of the 1aurean group, submitted by A.E. Reames, chairman, was accepted 
2 

by the conrrnittee, but the choice of Frank Matthews for editor was rejected, and 

the faculty maintained its position as the power behind the movement. Reames, w 

who was de&i.gnated as the candidate of the organization when Matthews and Miss 
3 

Anna Matthews, another candidate had both been rejected, was given the dis-

tinction having his name on the first issue as editor, but was not permitted to 
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maintain that position after the first issue. The basis f or such extra-

ordinary action appears to be unwarranted, but if one does employ conjecture, it 

is apparent that the manner of action of the facult y was an indication that 

the students were to be mere producers of the jourpal, while their instructors 

were to maintain control of the administrative affairs of the "Reflector" as 

this organ of the male and female literary societies, the Laurean and Eutaxian 

groups, was designated. Whether the Eutaxian group was instrumental in 

proposing the institution of the paper is not evident, but in its first issue, 

the paper is presented as the combined effort of the two groups. 

The Reflector, first student publication at the University of 

Oregon wa , placed before the student and faculty in 1891. The exact date of 

the first issue of the monthly can not be ascertained because volume number, 

issue number and date were not introduc ed into the journal until the issue of 

November, 1892, the twelfth issue to be edited. In all probability the Reflector 
1-Faculty Minutes of u.o.- Vol.I-p.233-Dec.1,1890. 
2-Ibid.-p.232-Nov.24,1890. 
3-Ibid.-p.238. 
4-Ibid.-po240. 



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was issued for the first time in the months between ~ebruary and May of 1891, 

the statements of the faculty committee conc.erning the choice of ed;tors being 
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the basis for this contention. The Reflector was issued for twenty-S"h:t:y-t'i-

months~ covering a period from 1891 to April 1894. There is no definite 

statement as to the volume of the paper until the April 1893 issue is designated 

as "Volume II I- no. 1 11
, a fact which may be employed as creating the basis 

for the contention that the first volume, first number appeared in April of 

1891. But, there being no more adequate base than these specific matters, it 

appears to ill advantage to attempt to determine in more profound manner, the 

e::imct date of the first issue of the Reflector. 

Of interest in the purely statistical notations is the fact that 

in listing the editorial boards, one is conscious that there is no mention of 

editorial board, or of individual producing the work after the issue of November 

1892. It is true that in the commencement number of July 1893 that the com­

mencement addresses and the men who delivered the orations are designated, but 

the pri'nciple os non-statement of board is upheld throughout the period of the 

~eflector1 s existence. 

As to its technical construction, the Reflector was a journal, a volume 

of some twenty or thirty pages containing both literary collll:lent and news features. 

The editorial boardvwas composed of an editor-in-chief, a business manager, a 

corresponding manager, a Laurean editor, a Eutaxian editor, a senior class 

editor1 a junior class editor, a sophomore class editor, and anfreshman class 

editor. The usual Reflector contained the news fo the varied classes, small items 

which gave some statement of the activities, social and physical of the person­

alities of the class; notes from the two literary societies, of ti_uality similar 

to that of the classes in that the social and intellectual activity of the groups 

were given analysis; and, in addition to these regular features, a variety of 

subjects- rere treated by student and fa.cul ty member. 

During these prelintinary issues the Hoflector wa apparently produced by 
~1--~F_a_c_u~l~t_y_r-,~~inutes-U.O.- Vol. I- pp.232-245. 



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the editorial board, without the assistance of any student not listed on the 

board. The first indication that persons other than those on the ditorial board 

were active in the work on the journal is the statement in the seventh issue 

under the heading "Contributor''. that Miss Elizabeth Sawyers was engaging in 

an analysis of the activities at the school of Music. From this origin devel oped 

one of the most attractive features of the Reflector- the re [·ular contributor's 

articles. These contributor's articles covered as thorough a variety of subjects 

as were the interests of those who composed the work. 
1 

Where Miss Savvyers 
2 

prrsented music, Miss Dora Scott wrote of William Lloyd Garrison, Gifford Nash 
3 

dispatched letters from Leipsic, the Reverend H.L. Bates contributed an article 
4 

on Leonardo da Vinci, and others, anonymous, after the period in which all 

contributors remained unknown because of the non-statement of contributor, 
5 

presented articles on "The Literary Style of Charles Dickens as a Novelistu, 
6 7 

"The Forum RomanUJ:1 11
, "The University of Michigan"- · "Virgil, A Poet for All Times 

8 9 10 
and All Tongues", "A Day at Harvard" "Romance and Reality of Baronial Life", 

11 
and "Some of the Pioneers of Oregon". 

Considered quantitatively, the majority of the materials 

published in the Reflector were concerned with the school and with the personalities 

in attendance at the university. The class and the society features, the very 

foundation of the magazine, were supported by orations by students, by excerpts 

from the lectures of persons delivering speeches at the school, by information 

concerning the departments and the faculty of the university, and by a veritable 

myriad of other incidental matters which might be included in such a journal. 

An analysis of Appendix A which includes editorial board and the contents of 

each volume will be adequate testimony as to the degree to whi~h this fact is 

1-Laurean and Eutaxian Society-The Reflector- 7th Issue. 
2-Ibid.-9th Issue. 
3-Ibid.-9th and 10th Issues. 
4-Ibid,-lOth Issue. 
5-16th Issue-Jan.1893 
6-18th Issue-Vol.II-no.9-March 1893 
7-19th Issue-Vol. III-no.1-April 1893 
8-20th Issue-Vol. III-no.2-Tu!ay 1893 
9-2lth Issue-Vol. III-no.3-June 1893 

10-23rd Issue-Vol. I Il-no.5-Nov.1893 
ll-28th Issue-Vol. IV -no.1-April 1894 



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maintained throughout the twenty-eight issues of the journal. And as it is 

apparent that these two factors held the center of interest, so is it apparent 

that throughout the life of the Reflector the journal was an indication of the 

mood of the faculty- and perhaps of the student. 1f one were to judge the 

temperament and the interest of the student from the varied prosaic matters which 

are given presentation, it would be conclusive evidence that the group at the 

university during the years of the heflector were rather a sober lot. Aside from 

the classical discussions, and the constant references to the educational program 

throughout the country and abroad, there are few contributions which deal with 

other than the discussions of critical academic theses. The journal contains 

few stories, and very few poems; the Appendix gives a notation concerning fiction 

and poetry, and the references are in the distinct minority. 

The student of history or of jour alism in analyzing the 

materials within the journal will note that there i s no definite editorial policy 

maintained by the ditors of the .t{eflector during the years in which it was main­

tained. Attempting to draw developmental lines through the consecutive issues 

of the magazine the interpreter would be at a loss to present any issue, under 

any of the different editors, _as being of a aifferent humor than that which followed 

it or that which it succeeded. In the columns under which editorial featur s 

are usually presented in magazines and newspapers could be found articles which 

dealt with the school, -but articles which were presented as factual infornation, and 

not as statements of attitude and appreciation. Towards the end of its career, 

this fact had become so engrained in the consciousness of the men producing the 

paper that instead of co:mmenc~ng each issue with what would ordinarily be the 

editorial comment, the editors , in the fifteenth issue, entitled their lead 
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comment as "Educational Topics". Throughout the l a st fourteen issues. this 

feature, a discussion of,anything which purported to be categorized under this 

broad heading, held the center of the journals space. 

There appe~rs to be little connnent in the faculty reports 

l-15th Issue- December 1892. 



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concerning the manner in ·which the magazine was produced, the persons who 

were in charge of the printing of it, the manner in which it was financed, 

and those engaged in distributing and solicting advertisements. Apparently 

there was assistance from the faculty, and undoubtedly the cost of production 

was met by the price of the volume and the gain taken on advertisement,- but 

the statement is merely an hypothetical case, based on no definite infonnation 

from any authority. An organ of the two most powerful student organizations 

on the campus, the Reflector undoubtedly drew strong support from that quarter, in 

addition to the aid maintained through sale and advertisements. 

The reception of the Reflector by the world without the 

university was rather popular. The Oregonian, which could gaze down at the 

primary efforts of the student with something of an officious air, held that 

"the Reflector, published by the students of the Laurean and Eutaxian societies 

of the state university Eugene, is a highly creditable magazine. It is hard to 

say which is the more to be commended, the uniform excellence of •its contributors, 

or the good taste of the editors i; their selection. As the heflector must 

necessarily mirror the culture and method of the university, it is a. publication 
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of which that institution may well be proud." And it was a journal of 

which the school could be proud. So1er, dignified, the two column paged magazine, 

set up on smooth paper, analyzing in genteel manner da Vinci, Virgil and other 

characters and materials which were of importance in an era. when the classics 

were the foundation of every full education, was an effort of which the faculty 

could be proud. As an indication of the mood of a. people the Reflector is 

an asset for students of the future in gaining the key to the mind of the people 

of the period. Yet, on reviewing the weeklies which followed in close 

succession to this era., noting the divergence in interest one wonders at whether 

the La.urean and Eutaxia.n groups were rendering full evidence of their attitude 

in their vehicle of expres~ion. 

_______ T_h_e l\.eflector was presented to the public in its first issue of 
1-Portla.nd Oregonian- April 3, 1893- p.4 c.7. 



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the fourth volume in April of 1894, and then, for reasons unlmovm, the publjcation 

was disc ontinued. No statement for the action was forthcoming, but the minutes 

of the faculty meetings render the solution to the matter. On May 9, 1894, 

at a meeting of the faculty, it was agreed that the faculty request the Board 

of' Regents, the body rendering apparent financial assistance to the paper to" 
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"hold further payments on the Reflector". The minutes of the faculty meeting on 

the following day, add the further comment that 

•~1essrs. Welch and Keene, having been rebellious in 
the matter of publishing the Reflector, they were 
on motion suspended until they make amends to the 
Faculty. Miss Owen required to resign as pre.sident 
of the corporation or be sus r;inded f om the uni­
versity." 2 

The cryptic statement remains even more mysterious when it is 

a.gain noted that during these last issues of the Heflector, the names of those 

on the editorial board, and those contributing articles, remained anonymous. 

Whether Welch and Keene were the leaders of the editorial board, as is perhaps 

the case, though at the meeting of April 30, 1894, the faculty approved 
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"the choice of Mary Collier as editor of the Reflector", is purely questionable, 

but the,- were to some degree related to the board producing the journal. Their 

suspension, and the discontinuance of the publication of the Heflector, appear 

to be interrelated, and though, at the facultv meetinp of May 11, 1894, the 
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student petition to continue the Reflector was granted, the magazine did not 

appear again. As a foundational force the ·•eflector had achieved its purpose, 

and had instituted the basis for further student activity. But the influence 

of the faculty made of the magazine a faculty work, and not the full action 

of the student. 

There was no student publication in May of 1894, but in the following 

months another journal appeared, this one with the head "Published with the 

approbation of the Board of rtegents"emblazoned on its front page. '.l.'he student 

1-Faculty Yinutes-II-p.95-May 9, 1894 
2-Ibid-p,95-Ma.y 10, 1894 
3-Ibid-p.93-April 30, i894 
4-Ibid.-p,96-Ma.y 11, 1894. 



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activity in the Reflector had not met with the strict censorship of the 

campus authorities and the journal which succeeded it was to be an example of 

a faculty directed, and apparently, a faculty produced paper. 

With a student body of more than three hundred students in attendance 

at the university during the months when the action against the Reflector 
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was instituted, it 0oes apfear as though the faculty, in dislodging the student 

from the direction of the school journal forced a definite halt to the advances 

which had been made during the course of the journalistic career of the Reflector. 

The Bulletin was a decided retrogression, and in its emphasis upon matters 

without the s 0here of the student proper, was no indication of the mental 

or physical state, of those at the university. 

Issued for the first time in July 1894, the editors of the Bulletin 

(and again the editorial board is anonymous) inserted an advertisement which 

is indicative of the manner and the materials which were to hold the center 

of attraction during the career of the paper. 

"The Bulletin is published monthly by the Faculty of 
the. University. It is devoted to the interests of 
higher education in Oregon. Ea.ch issue will contain 
news of the State University and matters of interest 
to all teachers and students. Especial attention is 
invited to the CORRESPO1,DENCE COURSES which will be 
regularly published and will form a marked feature 
of the paper and the University work in the future. 
All educational institutions in the state are invited 
to ful'11ish the BULLETIN with brief items of news." 2 

With President Chapman as the guiding genius behind the paper, the 

monthly became the medium by which the faculty could express their emotions, 

and in addition, issue propaganda for the university. The contents of the 

Bulletin during the course of its existence was almost entirely given to 

educational matters, with the student definitely excluded from its pages. 

The size and quality of publication of the faculty monthly suffered 
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greater transformation during the period in which it was publi~hed than the 

1-Registrar's Office- University of Oregon Enrollment and Graduates since 
Organization. Aug. 31, 1933. It is true that until 1897 the 
totals include the University Preparatory school. 

2-The Bulletin - Vol. I* no.l -July 1894. 
3-Only one volune of the magazinemis to discovered. To declare that this is the only 



of the Bulletin published may be implied from the catalogues of the universi 
and from the materials to be discovered in relation to it . Yet, one wonders 
at the lack of any form of journal or newspaper fro:r.i the period of the termi 
of the first volume, April 1895, to the institution of the next journal, the 
Oregon }fonthly in 1897 . 



student directed Reflector. The paper employed no specific heGd, no specific 

type, nor did it maintain its two column and three column page with any unity 
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during the course of the year in which it was published. Advertisements were 

featured, but in the ma.in these advertisements were merely enumerations of 

the benefits to be obtained from enrollment at the University of Ore-gon. The 

financing of the pa.per must certainly have come from the Boa.rd of ite ents, for 

it was nothing if not the medium of expression,for the administration. Whether 

the seventy-five cents per year subscription charge covered the entire cost 
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of production appears unlikely, and it ea.ppears justifiable to declare that 

the a.dminsitra.tion was responsible for the paper. 

The mor.t significant feature of the pa.per was the institution of the 

correspondence courses. In order to further the spirit of the University, the 

faculty proposed to tender credit for work completed through the mail. In the 

first issue of the Bulletin, a major portion of two of the four pages of the 
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pa.per was composed of auestions in arithmetic, geograph'',. and grannnar. The total 

m.nnber of questions ran , well over an hundred, and were to be completed with the 

aid of' any te tbook which the home student desired to employ in gaining his 

home training. On the completion of a. series of these correspondence tests, the 

pupil was to forward his questions and anmvers to the university President in 

order that hensecure the credit for which he was working. The President on receipt 

pf these answers was to grade the papers and to dispatch the grade of the 

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correspondent to him when the terms work had been completed. No definite 

statement ofthe number of credits which wre to be gained through this process 

were noted in the pages of the Bul·letin, but it was maintained that "University 

credit would be granted" for those completing this work. There is no number 

designated the aua.ntity of those engaged in the practice, nor is there any 

conclusive statement of the manner in, hich this scheme worked at the home 

university. The correspondence plan held the attention of the editors of 
1-The number of pages in the Bulletin changed constantly-four was the usual number, 

but the total varied to six and eight as the need for additional material was 
evident. 

2-The Bulletin -Vol. I- no. K -p.2 3-Ibid-pp.3-4. 



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he Bulletin for the first three issues of the journal and then disappeared. 

fuether the plan had be en a failure, or whether it had b0 en held that such 

matter was not suited for the Bulletin is indet enninable. The correspondence 

courses disappeared, and other educational problems were inserted to take the 

formerly utilized for this purpose. 

The ten issues of the bulletin which are in existence a~e of significance 

in that each apparehtly gives indication of the manner i n which the faculty 

of employing the paper. In the first issue of the Bulletin, the 

faculty can be felt behind an over sentimental column dealing 

with that very sober topic "College Friendships". An appeal to the student and 

to the public on that familiar theme that these four years in college are the 

best four years in any :rp.an's life- a theme as hoary as the collegiate tradition 

in the United States- the column was evidence of the spirit of the period, that 

::reverence of the college and nAlma. Mater". In addition to this literary creation, 

the Bulletin gave a statement of the varied courses of the University and the 

degrees, Classical, Literary, Scientific and English, which could be obtained 

the cause of the state universities with a column on "Our State 

Institutions" and one on 11The State University", an exposition on the value 

of a state university. The material on the correspondence courses having 

taken two pages of the paper, these articles wre given the remaining space. 

The propaganda which is displayed in this first issue is maintained 

throughout the existence of the Bulletin, and becomes the dominant, and at 

only reason for its development. In the first issue, the correspondence 

course, the articles on the state universities and the statement of the courses are 

all propaganda measures. The second issue being no existent, the third issue 

maintains the correspondence work, offers articles by the deans of the schools of 

edecine and law on their respect ive schools, gives a schedule of recitations for 



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the university., discusses the school regulations regarding physical training, 

admissions, the dormitory, visitors, ~nd varid matters which are relative to the 

status of the student at the school. And as a feature of this issue, the 

history of the state university is pesented to those who were subscribers 

to the Bulletin. But, if the third issue were the advance from the preceding issues, 

the fourth issue became the foundation for slogans, for pictorial representations, 

for propaganda which held the columns of the Bulletin until the next year. 

In the fourth edition of the first volume, that presented 

in October 1894., a reprint of ~enator Dolph's address to the student assembly of 

October 16, 1894 is given, and from the moment of the reprint, the University of 

Oregon becomes the 11 School for the Plain Man - No tuition charge- $10 registration 

fee- board and room, water and light for $2.50 a week". The good, plain American 

virtues were expounded by the ~enator in speaking to his constituents in Eugene in 

uctober of 1894, and meeting the faculty on a point which they held sacred, he 

could employ cliches which were thoroughly worn and place them at the disposql of 

an editorial board which was anxious for newsvrorthy material which would complete 

the coli.nnns of the monthly. From the date of the speech, the Bulletin gave itself 

fully to the expression of the value of the state univer sities, and especually of 

"Oregon - the Plain Man's School". Throughout the issues which followe d there 

were pictorial displays of the dormitory, of Villard and Deady and of the campus 

and the gymnasium; the faculty was listed and the courses which could be taken for 

a degree were also placed in large page-long advertisements. Oregon was the ~chool 

of democracy, and the school was placed before the public in that light. 

In the fifth issue of the monthl Y, that of November, 1894, 

the admission requirements to the universoty covered two pages, and a full 

page advertisement, entitled, "The University of Oregon Charges No Tuition" 

occupied the entire back page. The otherhitems in this issue were entitled 

"Educational Intelligence"., "A Great University"., and "The Common Schools and 



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the Uriversity". A full educational issue, with the student excluded entirely. 

The sixth issue, thatnof December 1894, was almost identical 

to the previous issue. As had been the case in the fifth issue, the matter of 

admissions to the university occupied t\vo pages of the monthly, while the 

remaining pages deal with the topics of "An Historical Sketch of the University", 

and "Our Course in Pedagogy", an analysis of the work in preparaing individuals 

for careers as teachers. 

The first issue for 1895, the seventh in the first volume of 

the Bulletin, memorialized the passing of the schools benefactor, Judge Deady, 

offered an analysis o~ the origins of the continent in fexico as a form of 

historicalTnstudy presented to those ho .. ere taking the correspondence work, 

and utilized the remaining pages in educational discussion. The .desire to maintain 

the university as a non-tuition school had been attacked by citizens within the 

state who felt the expense elf granting a free education too great n burden on the 

populace, and in this issue, the faculty ran t\vo column article for tvro and one 

halr pages in a discussion of the manner in vm.ich other states ~aintained state 

universities. Calling upon patriotic Oregonians to maintain the prestige of 

the state, and of the school of the "Plain Man" against the undemocratic 

manifestations of those who vrould destroy the existing order, the faculty 

nlayed upon the emotions of its readers in this plea for the maintenance of 

the full democracy in education. 

After the seventh issue the Bulletin suffers a degeneration. The 

emphasis upon the university and upon the tradition had run its course, and the 

propaganda having been maintained for almost nine months the tendency of the 

moment shifted from propaganda to a statement of student action and to a discussion 

o' materials which might have been included to better advantage in a yearbook than 

in a paper supposedly produced to give news-infonnation. In the eighth issue, of 



February, 1895, a six-page affair, two reprints from the Eugene Daily Guard 

concerning the victory of Miss Julia Veasie of the University of Oregonmin 

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the state oratorical contest at Forest Grove on February 22, 1895, are given full 

analysis. One reprint discussed the collegiate atmosphere at the contest, while 

another gave statement of the activities of those engaged in the business 

activities of the State Intercollegiate Oratorical Association. In addition,to 

the articles on the contest, a lengthy exposition by .t'rofessor Simon Ne ·rnomb 

on the hist ory of · the national university idea, a column om "The Importance of 

Physical Education in Public Schools" and reprints from the Astroia High School 

Quill of .t''ebruary, 1895 complete the paper. 

The last two issues of the paper are compendia of student 

information and the propaganda. for a great state university in Oregon. The ninth 

issue, of March 1895 presents three a r ticles on the student, one a reprint from 

the Eugene Daily Guard concerning the Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Junior 

Class, held in Villa.rd Hall on March 28 and 29, another on the intramural 

handball tournament (the first statement concerning athletics at the university), 

and a third on the University Athletic Club field day of June 18, 1895. The 

first page of this issue is testimony to the fact that thou h full, blatant 

propaganda had been missing fron the eighth is sue, it had not been abandoned. 

The full first page gives a pictorial representation of the buildings on 

the university campus, and bears the inscription - "The University of Oregon 

has Increased its Attendance 66 per cent since La.st Year". (The statistics 

of the university do not qualify this statement., 343 being listed as having been 

registered in 1893-94, while 415 a.re listed as having registered in 1894-95.) 

The final issue, eight pages in length, published in April 1895, the tenth to 

be issued in this first volume, is a.gain devoted to both propaga.nada and the 

student. Alumni news, for the f irst time, is given discussion, while the results 



of an handball contest with Willamette University, and a column entitled 

"School notes" are presented in addition to the page-long co:rrnnents on the 

educational convention to be held on the campus, and the summer school to 

be held at Gearhart Park. 

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As a publication of the university the Bulletin gained itsnprime 

objective in presenting materials to the public anxious to be infonned on matters 

educational, but its presentation and the manner in which the paper was employed 

to serve a purpose must be condemned. As successor to the Reflctor, and a montr ly 

as the L1.eflector had been, the Bullrtin attempted to duplicate the literary 

efforts of the Laurean and Eutaxian societies' organ, and in addition attempted 

to employ the paper for propagandizing the values of the university-. The materials 

which were presented as newsworthy were designated as material which might have been 

included in a daily, yet their value had been of so little importance that they 

could have been designated in yearbook fashion and not as daily material. The 

varied construction of the paper, the frequent four page, the six page, and the 

imfrequent eight page editions, the projects commenced and abandoned, the 

infrequency of student discussion, the very tone of faculty production, these 

are the matters which make of the Bulletin a direct retrogression after the 

Refelector. If the producers of the journal had been willing to maintain 

the paper merely,as an educational pamphlet and had utilized it thoroughly to 

prrsent information concerning the school, it would have achieved its purpose 

vrihthout overstepping the delimi tory bounds vrhich it had establishee i? ' the state­

ment of purpose in the first issue. But as the information presented during 

these first issues co:rrnnenced to be a burden, as the innovations, such as the 

correspondence courses were proje ted and abandoned, as the student information 

connnenc d to take the place of admission requirements and faculty regulations, 

then did the Bulletin give striking evidence of the disintegration which was 

certain to follow. In the end, with the final two editions, when no definite 



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plan may be introduced as being the desired goal of the editors of the Bulletin, 

the paper no longer was useful for the purpose for which it had been established. 

Whether it continued for a period after April 1895 can not be stated with the 

materials which are at hand. In Appendix B- under the heading "The Bulletin" 

will be discovered references made to a "Bulletin -vol. II", by a former research 

investigator who conunenced an analysis of the subject. But the reference can not 
1 

be ascertained; there is no existing volume II of 11The Bulletin". 

Until 1895, then, the progress of student publications had 

been interrupted by faculty ruling which forced the student to retreat from 

the fore as directors <JI£ publication. The Reflector had been the organ of a group 

had maintained itself for a period of three years and had been forced oui of 

existence under mysetrious circumstances which can not be solved with the few 

materials bearing on the subject. The Bulletin, published by the faculty, 

ostensibly "'ith the aid of the student, is in reality basically non-student 

in its emphasis on matters which are relative to the administrative and the 

faculty organizations of the school. In 1895, the school was without an organ 

of student expression, and the state was such that the next organ was not in 

evidence until 1897, whena monthly was again projected. 

With a student population, including the preparatory classes 
2 

of more than 460 students, with the st dents organized into religious and literary 
3 4 

clubs, with the university represented by football squads, and engaging in 
5 

~ntercollegiate debating contests, with the school alive tonthe need of 

introducing an organ of student expression, the students petitioned President 
1-Though no reference can be found to other volumes, it appears that there may 

have been such volumes. The Eugene Guard of Jan.11, 1897~ speaking of the in­
troduction of a new magazine, holds that it will take the place of "the present 
Bulletin which is issued once a month by the faculty".- an indicationnthat the 
Bulletin was in existence at the time. But the volumes other than the first are 
no existent at the moment. 

2- Enrollementand Graduates since Organization- op. cit. 
3-Literary clubs had been formed in the eighties, the relifgious in the ninetues. 
4-Football squadcestablished 1888 (Letter F.K. Masters-to A.l.Veazie-May 7,1923) 

first game intercollegiate competition-1894-Albany College v. u. Oregon.-lL. J. 
Boyle -The Development of F~otball in the University of Oregon-n.d.-

5-First intercollegiate state contest in 1892. 



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Chapman for a student journal. The Eugene Guard, of January 11, 1897, spaking 

of the introduction of the new magazine, declare that 

"the matter of the new University paper, to be issued 
under the auspices of the several higher classes of 
the University of Oregon, was considered at assembly this 
morning and a committne of seven students was appointed 
to draft a constitution and by laws, which they are to 
report next Thursday evening. The new paper, while 
published by the c- tudentSJ'l:will be under the jurisdiction· 
of the faculty and will supplant the present Bulletin 
which is issued once a month by the facultyo 

No comment concerning the matter is evident until February 11, 1887 

when the same new~paper in another article brought forthe the information that 

the faculty had objected to the pplication of the name "Webfoot Student" to 

the new university paper and had suggested that a more appropriate name be 

found for the journal. The faculty whichnhad dominated the appointment of officers 

for thr Reflector, and had gone so far as to take the pqper entirely from the 

student and had discontinued it and set up in its place the Bulletin, apparent ly 

was to maintain great control in the activities of those who were to form the 

editorial body of the emerging Monthly. 

The editors of the new effort, D. V. Kuykendall, editor-in-chief, 

Kate Kelly and M-.H. Day, associate editors, and I.. R. Alderman and R.J. Bryson, 

business managers, commenced the journal withnan editorial which gave evidence 

of the spirit of the Monthly. In this introductory editorial , the editors 

declared, 

"in publishing the monthly the editors expect to furnish 
a paper both for the students of ithe University of Oregon 
and its patrons and f r iends. For the students to keep them 
informed an interested in what is happening at the University 
of Oregon and to point out to them every opportunity for 
advancement. For the patron and f r iend of the University 
to let them know what the Unbrersity and its students are 
doi ng, what kind of an institution they are sending their 
sons and daughters to, and what kind of influences are 
throvm around them here. We realize that our lack of ex­
perience and the small influence of a new publication 
are obstacles which only time and work can overcome, but 
we are interested in our work, and think that with the 



assistance of our fellow-students we may hope to do 
much toward the accomplishment of our purposes and 

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hand over to our successors a weLl--established paper. 11 1 

The first issue was an indication of the manner in which the monthly 

was to be presented in the future. Here was a journal which was the voice of 

the student, and not an effort encumbered too throDoughly by faculty regulations. 

In the first issue it was established that the student and hir 0ctivity were to 

be the main body of attraction in the monthly and with this purpose in mind, 

the editorial board boasted of reprrsentatives of all the classes, from the 

senior to the individual in the lowest class in the preparatory school. News of 

the student, of the societies, of the varied student activities, of the graduates, 

of the world without the narrow confines of the academic school-- these matters 

were to be the order of the day. Kuykendall, athlete-editor, was in charge of 

the athletics contribution in addition to his regularactivity as editor-in~hief, 

and the page devoted to athletics, took into account football, track and field, 

tennis, and a variety of other athletic subjects as the season for these athletics 

were at hand. The clubs were given thorouith analysis and a statement of the 

occurrences within the Laurean and Eutaxian, the Philologian, the Y.M.C.A. and 

the Y.W.C.A., the activities of alumni and the members of the different classes 

were presented by the students. 

The student business manager was in charge of the subscriptions and it was 

to the student business manager that one addressed his subscription. Advertisme:t1ts 

were solicited in the attempt to meet the need which did arise, and the back pages 

of the Monthly were replete with advertisements of the shops in town. The university 

too was given publicity, and as was the case in the back pages of the Bulletin, 

one could discover the usual connnent concerning courses, costs, and activities 

at the University, presented in such a manner as to attract those who subscribed 
' 

to the Monthly. 

Set up in a two-column page, on "mooth paper, the usual Monthly gave two 
1-The Oregon Monthly- Vol. I-no.1-Marcn, 1897-editorial. 



19 

feature articles the opening pages, then presented the editori 1 comment. The 

news of the campus activities completed the material of the Monthly, and the 
1 

advertising and univer ,, ity propag:mda acted a s the filler for the volume. In 

an analysis of the materials within the volume, it is apparent that the Fain 

body of composition dealt directly rith the student and his activities, vrhile 

the literary and scientific discussions vrhich u ere employed asthe features 

were the extraordinary effects. 

The f irst volume ofnthe Monthly, that issued by Kuykendall and 

his group, was a thorough advance over both the Reflector and the Bulletin, Editorial 

comment, :ihich under the Reflector had been employed only in isolated cases as 

in the call for football competition, was employed with greater force and on 

numerous occasions in the Monthly, and the basis for later editorial activity 

on the journal was founded in this developmental stage. Orations and literary 

discussions which had been given expression in inter~ollegiate contests and at 

the various literary societies were reprinted and the Monthly became the student's 

vehicle, the first full vehicle of the students because the Reflector, throughout 

its career, had been the organ of the La.urean and Eutaxian groups. 

The faculty entered the Monthly and gave assistance in the 

creation of feature articles. ath a student body which was rather small, consider­

ing the numbers in the lower prrparatory ranks., with only forty-five listed as in 

the graduating class of that year, the assistance of the professors in the 

literary workr.iof the school was an asset,- even though their pressure in the 

administrative work of the past had been detrimental to the progress of the 

students in these affairs. In the first issue of the Monthly., the features 

were taken with the results of the Intercollegiate Oratorical contest held at 

Salem during the course of the month. The winning oration of Fred Fisk, the 

University of Oregon representative and ultimate winner of the contest, was 
1- Twenty pages in length, two column affair, about seven by ten, this first 

Monthlv Y1as .th,e basj s for further production. Its successors for nany issues 
adopted a similar apt tern. 



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reproduced in full, and the business meeting of the organization was descirbed 
1 

in a feature story. The second issue featured the first of the many contributions 

of Annie Laura Miller, "The Trials of Trulinger" and another •:a oration, this 
2 

by P.E. Bauer on the 11 Progress of JJemocratic Principles". The third fPa.tured 

two poems by Lotta Johnson, "Contentment" and "Spring in the Y{illamette", and 

a narration by J .R. Barber, Laurean contributor, enti-\..led 11 Three Boys on the 
3 

Road". The fourth and fifth issues of the Monthly, those for June and July of 

1897, were published as a single commencement edition. Tio poems were included 

in the collection, one by Frederic s. Dunn, 1 92, ''Memoria.e Hora. 11 and another 

by Lotta Johnson, 1 97, "The Class Poem". The Class oration for the <Ylass of 1897, 

"origins in Literature" was presented by Edith Veazie , while the winners of the 

l''ailing- and Beekman prizes, C.E. Woodson, "The Educating Power of Self Government 

in a Nation'\ and Ida Noffsinger' s 11 The Acquisition of Power 11
, respectively, had 

• 4 

their conrtibutions reprinted in the anniversary number. A feature concerning 

the trip home by some of the men at the university was included in George w. 

Gilbert's "From Eugene to Baker City by 1,'heel" and in Allen Eaton's "Homeward 
5 

Bound". In addition pict-ures of the ou standing seniors were included; group 

photographs of the various literary societies, and of the editorial board of the 

Monthly, photographs of the faculty und of the university campus was added to 

make of the June-July issues senior's book. The practice adopted by Kuykendall 

and his board was to be maintained through the years before the yearbooks came 

into existence. 

Surmna.rizing the first six months of activity, for the Monthly had only been 

in existence from ~"arch through July, the observer is conscious of the attempt 

at a balanced program adopted by the editorial board. The fiction material was 
1-0regon nonthly-Vol.I-no.1-:March 1897. 
2-Ibid-Vol.I-no.2-April-1897 
3-Ibid-Vol.I-no.3-Ma.y-1897. 
4-Ibid-Vol.I-no.4-5-June-July-1897 
5-Ibid-Vol.I-no,4-5-June-July-1897 



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given scant recognition, while exposition and the reprinting of orations were 

popular. Poetry ·was evident, and the summary of the materials in Appendix C 

will be an indication of the volume of production of the varied literary 

matters. The features were variables, while the body of the volur.ie contained 

the student news. The editor, in his final editorial analyzed his ow vrork and 

declared that 

"It has been our belief that a college paper should be 
a means o~ educationg by affording the student a practical 
means of improvement in gra.matical, rhetorical and 
literary composition; that it should be a branch of the 
work of the university by presenting articles which might 
be useful and instructive to its rea ers; that it should 
not be, as many are, a mere budget of gossip, jokes and 
foolishness, which may amuse for the time but is never 
of any pennanent value." 1 

Created on this basis by an editorial board that conducted its activity 

in sincere manner, the Monthly progressed from this stable foundation and 

was an indication that the faculty supression which had existed in the past was 

no longer necessary. Intelligently conducting both the financial and the 

editorial branches of the journal, the ctudents were given the opportunity 

to maintain that advantage gained. The isrues which followed made advances on 

the work which Kuykendall and his aids had produced. 

The second volume of the Monthly, that ibublished during the 1.cadameic 

year 1897-98, was produced under the editorial board consisting of Clyde V. Fogle, 

editor-in-chjef, M. L. Applegate and Agnes A~ams, associate editors and Charles 

v. Galloway and Walter 1.· Whitlesy, business managers. The form of the journal 

was identical with that of the volur.ie of the preceding year. Fogle, contributor 

0 rom the class of '98 during the Kuykendall period, maintained those features 

which his predecessor had instituted, and established the feature as the 

lead articles to support the body of the volume- those activities in which the 

1-0regon Monthly - Vol. I-no.4-5-June -July-1897-Editorial. 



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students endulged. 
1 

The first issue featured an article by President Chapman 

on"American Idea", while succeeding articles dealt with the topics "Athletics 
2 

at Yale", by R.H. Burien, in charge of athletics at the university, "The German 
3 

Student" by Professor Schmidt who served for years on the faculty of the 

university as professor of Romance anguages and then as chairman of the 

department of German. In addition Camilla Leach wrote of 11 Bryn Mawr College 11 

E.H. McAlister of the department of science wrote of "The Inhabita~ility of 

4 

5 
the Other Worlds ~ The manner of placing the vcmce of the faculty, and not 

the action of an adminsitrative body, before the students, instituted.by Kuykendall 

was accepted and carried over by Fogle. The body of the magazine was concerned 

with such topics as "news of classes and alumni", "persons worth knowing about" 

and a novel feature "About the University" which was the prototype of the modern 

gossip column. Poetry and fiction went on apace, but the lighter form of 

writing had not attained the prominence in display during this issue that the 

literary and scientific discussions which the faculty produced, held. The 

efforts of the older members of the university body vrere the featured articles 

and the story was a rarity rather than the principle. 

Theough the editors of the second volume of the Monthly cou1d 
6 

declare editorially in the May, 1898 number that the aim of the Monthly was 

to "develop the literary ability among the students 11
, it is evident from the 

amount of space given to contributors other than those on the editorial 1board 

that the students without the board probably contributed in no more profound 

fashion than to submit notes on the activities of individuals on the campus. 

With the faculty ancl the board monopolizing the work of the Monthly, it was 

maintained in fai:-hion identical to that of its first half-ye,3 r of existence. 
l•Oregon Monthly- Vol. II- no. 1- October 1897 
2- Ibid- Vol. II- no. 2-p.l- November 1897 
3- Ibid- Vol. II- no. 3-p.l- December 1897 
4- Ibid-Vol. II- no. 4-p.4-January 1898 
5- Ibid- Vol. II- no. 6-p.l- March 1898 
6- Ibid- Vol. II• no. 8-p.l- May 1898 



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One of the few features introduced by Fogle during his tenure 

a s editor-in-chief, was the institution in the January, 1898 number of a 
1 

feature entitled "Independent Opinion'\ a feature similar in fashion to 

the usual read r's column wherein the reader may submitnhis views, or other 

material which he desires to make public. During the days of the l•efelctor 

such a column had been conducted under the heading contributor, but though 

the project commenced as a column it soon overreaclred the bounds which held 

it and contributions of complete articles commenced to be the order of 

contribution. The effeect of such an activity was to terminate the monopolization 

of the space of the magazine by persons who were responsibel for its ad­

ministration. '(pre as in the past the editor and his staff, with the assistance 

of a feature by some member of the faculty would compose te entire paper, now 

regular contribution commenced to come from the student body as a group. 
2 

In its final issue of the year, the Ilfuy number, the second volume 

pursued the same course established by the editor of the first volume. The lehgth 

of the Honthly reached forty pages and photographs of the members of the 

graduating class, of the members of. the various organizations, and of the members 

ofnthe editorial board of the newspaper were presented in addition to the 

representations of the college buildings, the members of the faculty and 

the customaryncollegiate soene. 
3 

The third volume, edited by an editorial board consisting of 

Bertha s. Slater, editor-in-chief, Homer Angell and Leslie Scott, associate 

editors, and Walter L. Whittlesey and Allan Eaton, business managers, was 

similar in basic construction and in the contents to that published by both 

Kuykendall and Fogle. The features were similar to those in the preceding 

issues, and the first feature in the opening issue of the volume is an effort 
4 

by Professor F.S. Dunn on the 11Passing of the Etruscans". The volume features 
I-Oregon Monthly- January 1898- Vol. II- no. 4. 
2-0regon Monthly- May 1898- Vol. II- no. 8, 
3-0regon Monthly- Vol. III- Oct.1898-June 1899. 
4-0regon Monthly-Vol. III-no.l-p.1.-0ctober 1898 



24 

several eulogies, for the Hon. Henry Failing, the Hon. Hovey, and for President 

Johnson. The first two men, members of the Board of Regents, and President 

Johnson, died within a short time of each other and November is-ue of the 
1 

magazine is devoted to a memorial for these men. During the course of the 

tenure of Miss Slater, the first table of contents was introuced into the 

pages of the magazfne. In the January issue of 1899 this primary aid was 
2 

placed on the rear of -the front cover. The June issue, as had been the case in 

the past was introuced as the senior feature, and the usual col11Jllencement material 
3 

was placed in this issue of the Monthly. The final issue was forty pages in 

length, and as had been the case in the past, was produced as a double issue. 

Other features which are evident during the course of the 

history ofnthe third volume are the numerous matters contributed by Miss Annie 

Laura Miller whose fiction was a constant feature of the pages of the magazine and 

had been for the last year. Aside from Miss Miller there were few contributions 

in fiction. The narrative pr~sente by other students were discussions of 

personal activity, and the poetry was of the grad to be discovered in the 

college journal of the time. Though Miss Miller's work does not warrant 

unusual connnent for its quality, it does prove interesting because she was the 

only consistent contributor of fiction. 

But for these few remarks, the third volume possessed no 

striking differences from that which its predecessors had esrablished. The 

columns on the activity of the r ligious organizations and the literary 

groups, the attention give~ to athletics, the campus gossip- all were as 

prominent as they had been in the past volumes. 

The fourth volume, produced for 1899-1900 corrnnenced in 

like fashion and for six issues vras the same t.vo-columned, ti.venty-odd page 
1- Oregon Monthly - November 1898 - Vol. III-no.2 
2- Oregon Monthly - January 1899 - Vol. III-no.4 
3- Oregon Monthly - June 1899 - Vol. III - nos.9-10. 



25 

that it had been for the preceding years. But in the sevent issue, the 

monthly suffered a distinct physical transformation- a transonna.tion, which, 

tho~gh it was basically a physical change, brought into being a distinct psychical 

transition. The Monthly was made smaller in size, the tvvo column page was 

abandoned, a smaller type was employed for the straight line page, and greater 
1 

margins were adopted to make the appearance of the page more striking. And 

the transfonnation went deeper than the mere physical tranistion, The Monthly 

appeared to come of age and the magazine conunenced to appar in the guise of 

an adult's work and not the production of the school man. The editorials commenced 

to take on a polish and a verve which they had not held in the past, more 

poetry appears and poetry of an higher quality, in the main, than that which 

was previously offered. The fiction becomes more numerous and the paper becaomes 

a tribute to the editorial board of men long in the service of the paper• 

Homer D. Angell, editor-in-chief, Walter L. Whittlesey and Winifred Miller, 

associate editors, Allan Baton and Edward N. Blythe, business managerso The 

journal appears now as a literary effort and abandons the need for the combination 

literary and newspaper organ. The reason for the reformation of the journal 

resides in the fact that there was no longer any necesity for maintaining this 

dual personality- a newspaper which would give "news" had been formed on the 

campus, and it was no longer necessary for the Monthly to carry material which 

were definitely of ancient vintage and masquerad" them under the heading of 

vital news. 

In February of 1900 the first weekly appeared on the campus, the 

Oregon \ieekly, and the Monthly no longer was forced to devote its energies to 

matters which were seemingly incompatible. In its editorial column for 

~larch 15, 1900, the editors of the Monthly declared, with justification, that 

"the most serious obstacle we have had to contend 
with has arisen from the fact that the Monthly has 
tried to combine a monthly literary journal with 
a college news sheet 11

• 2 

Oregon lfcm-Enly - Vol. rv-no.7-April 1900. 
Oregon Monthly - Vol. IV-no.6-March 1900. 



26 

Under Angell 1 s adminsitration and under that of his successors 

in the years which followed immediately, the Monthly was maintained with striking 

success as a literary magazine. The members of the faculty contributed as they 

had in the past, and poetry and fiction were employed in greater quantity than 

in previous issues. 

The fifth volume, that ~or the acader.i.ic year, 1900-01, was edited 

by a staff consisting of Walter L. Whittlesey, editor-in-chief, W.H. Johnson and 

George O. Goodall, associate editors, Edward N. Blythe and Condon Bean mannager and 

assistant manager respectively of the Monthly. A table of contents on the cover 

of the Monthly, which was now smaller in length and width of page than had been 

the case in the four previous volumes, was divided into varied categories, with 

the 11 Li terary", "Odd Sizes'\ "Edi torials 11
, and "Eocchanges as the most prominent 

divisions. A novel system of number the pages was introduced and the pages ran 

continuously throuth the entire volume, and not, as had previously been the case, 

were the ·issues to commence with page one. 

Of the contributions to this fifth volume, aside from that 

contributed by the editorial board, Professor Joseph Schafer of the department 
1 

of Hi story contributed an· article on 110n the Oregon Trail 11
, while Professor 

Irving M. Glen of the department of Music 1vrote of Beowulf in two succes ive 
2 

is sues of the journal. Professor Henry D. Sheldon of the department of Education 

offered two articles of interest to the student and the public in "Intercollegiate 
3 4 

Debate 11 and 11Student Religious Societies". and Professor F.G.G. Scmidt of the 
5 

department of Modern Languages presented an article on 11At Paris and Madrid". 

It might be given as an evidence of the continued activity of the faculty that 

these men were engaged in work on publicationsmwhich were supposedly "student 

publications 11, but it is apparent that the influence of the instructors was a force 

beneficial to the progress and to the general elevation of the character of the 
1-0regon Monthly - Vol. V- no.1-p.l. ~Oct.1900. 
2-0regon Monthly- Vol. V-nos.-2-3- p.23; p.54; -Nov. and .Llecember 1900 
3-0regon 11:onthly - Vol. V -no.2-Nov.1900.; p.37 
4-0regon Monthly - Vol. V -no.7 -April 1901;p.173 
5-0regon Monthly - Vol. V -no.4- January 1901; p.84. 



27 

journal . The students were in control of the magazine, and the liberal 

assistance tendered by the faculty was no attempt at the suppression of the 

administrative duties of the student leaders of the Monthly . 

In addition to the matter given discussion above, the :Monthly 

differed from its predecessors in that it abandoned the employment of the 

final edition of the year as the yearbook issue . In 1901 the student annual 

had as yet not been projected, but the Monthly did not offer the senior 
1 

issue of the volume. No reason is apparent for the termination of the practice, 

but the introduction of the junior annual in 1902 filled the need for an annual. 

The sixth volume of the Monthly, that issued for the year ]901-1902., 

was edited under an editorial board of men who had been on the staff of the 

Monthly for years . George o. Goodall was editor-in-chief and his board we.s 

composed of Harvey Densmore and Grace Plummer, associate editors, and Marvin 

M. Scarborough and Clarence Poley, business manager and assistant busines manager 

respectively. The features which had been prevalent in the previous volume 

were utilized in this sixth editi©n. The divisions of the magazine were 

those which had been apparent in the former volume, "Literary","Editorial"., 

"Odd Sizes"(miscellaneous items) and the traditional "Exchanges" . Poetry 

was given greater space than was evident in any previous volume, and Goodall , 

who composed much of the verse featured, in his exchanges, the poetry of other 

schools . 

The assistance derived from faculty members who contributed to 

magazine was as influential in the production of a more elevated type of 

literature than would have been prevalent without such aid. The volume 

featured a series of articles by various members of the faculty on the 

graduate schools of varied universities throughout the nation. In the December 
1- The June l901 issue of the Oregon Monthly was of normal length as the 

usual Monthly, and was not the double volume which had been employed 
for years as the senior issue . 



28 

1901 issue of the magazine, Professor H.D. Sheldon contributed an article 
1 

on "Graduate Instruction at Clark University". In the January, 1902 issue, 

Professor Joseph Schafer offered an article on "Graduate Instruction at the 
2 

University of Wisconsinn. These articles were succeeded by others on "Graduate 
3 4 

Instruction at Harvard University", and "Graduate Study at Cornell". The 

educational features were supplemented by scholarly treatments by other men 

on the faculty who contributed to the moulding of a Monthly which was distinctly 
6 

of an advanced grade. Professor Sheldon wrote of "Huxley as an Educationalist 11, 

while Professor A.R. Sweet~er presented a graphic study entitled "Mushrooms, 
6 

.I!' . Toadstools and airy Rings". 

There was no senior issue, but the 11Webfdot", junior annual 

made its first appearance in June of 1902 and the foundation for future annuals 

had been established by this product of the student body. The sixth volume 

of the Monthly, that at which we conclude this analysis of the student publications 

until 1902, was not greatly diffe s·ent in its inherent form than that of the 

fifth issue. The features which have been given notation added the novelty to 

the usual items on literary notes, on personalities about the campus, on 

exchanges from other schools, and on the editorials which were being given 

display in ever-growing quantity during the administratiops of Angell and Goodall. 

That the analyses of the varied volumes have taken into consideration, to 

such an extent, the work of the members or the faculty, is evident of the 

influence of the instructors in the work of the student. Whereas, in the past 

the instructors had been the force guiding the work of the editors of the 

• Reflector, and had gone so far as to appropriate the paper and to institute 

the faculty-directed Bulletin, the Monthly had been a student-directed effort 
I-Oregon Monthly- VI-no.3-p.69-December, 1901. 
2rOregon Monthly- Vol. VI-no.4-p.106- January 1902 
3-0regon Monthly- Vol. VI-no.5-p.158- Februay 1902 - Professor F.S. Dunn 
4-0regon Monthly- Vol. VI-no.8-p.246-May 1902 -Professor H.C. Howe. 
5-0regon Monthly- Vol., VI-no.6-p.180-IVIarch 1902-
6-0regon Monthly- Vol. VI-no.7-p.226-April 1902-



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which gained supprot from those on the faculty who were able to give assistance 

through creative effort. That a more profound statement of the indidvidual 

efforts of the students was not designated throughout the course of the analysis 

of the Monthly is due to the fact that the editorial board of the Monthly 

were, in the main, responsible for the various sections ofnthe volume. That there 

were no outstanding literary creators who could be featured is evident by 
1 

a glance at those who were responsible for the work in the Monthly. 

During the volumes of the Monthly which followed after 1900, 

the student public and those without the scgool proper were given the opportunity 

to pursue their reading of the activities of the student in the school newspaper 

which was first issued on Feb, 12, 1900. The Monthly was to maintain itself 

as the literary journal of the university while the Weekly, as the new creation 

was entitled, presented the news of the school. 

The Weekly, a four column paper, published each Monday by 

the three literary societies of the University of Oregon during the first 

six months of the year 1900, contained those items of immediate interest 

to the campus. A campus calendar occupied a conspicuous portion of either 

the editorial or back page, and announcements concerning the social and educational 

activities of the campus were displayed there. News of neighboring colleges 

was given a prominent position in the columns of the paper and the exchanges which 

had been popular in the literary magazines were as fully developed on the pages 

of the Weekly. 

The editorial staff of the Weekly,members of the three literary 

societies, the Laurean, Eutaxian, and Philolog:ian, during the first six 

months of its existence were editor-in-chief Clinton N. McArthur; associate 

editors, E.N. Blythe and Grace I. Wold; managing editor, L. E. Hooker; associate 

managing editors, C.E. Sanders and Susie Bannard. The editors in their salutati.on 
1- Appendix C. 



30 

to the public disclaimed the comment that they had energed as a group in 

opposition to the Monthly and declared that 

11The Oregon Weekly is nowise antagonistic to the 
University of Oregon Monthly and we do not wish 
it to be regarded as such. The Monthly is a 
literary ~ournal, and we wish in no way, to de­
tract the support which it merits. The new pub­
lication is a newspaper- and in its columns will 
be found the weekly events which are of general 
interest to the different members of the Univer­
sity." 1 

McArthur and his group maintained control of the Weekly until 

the commencement of the fall tenr, of 190C. The editorials wh:ich were issued 

were striking for their lack of power, and for the seeming unimportance of 

the matters given discussion. The columns of the paper were concerned with 

the varied activities of the student-- too diverse to demand reiteration. 

The notations in Appendix D, those dealing with the items presented in the 

Weekly will present in statistical form those matters discussed in the 

Weekly. Col,.mm long articles on a debate qn0 an oration were not infrequent, and 

during the course of the spring athletic competition athletics were given a 

dominant poisition in the newspaper. The societies, the Christian organizations 

and the literary groups, the Glee Club and the Treble Clef, were the featured 

groups for the students and in approxim,,tely every issue there was some notice 

of a meeting of the social group. Again the Appendix will he adequate reference 

for the consistency of the editors in analyzing the activities of the student 

societies. 

The financial burden of the 11 eekly was apparently maintained by the 

members of the literary organizations publishing the paper. The price of the 

paper was five cents, but advertisement aided in maintaining the ~eekly . The 

editorial page (page 2), the third and back pages devoted fully half of the 

space of the page to advertisements. No comment is eviident of the cost of the 

advertisement, but undoubtedly the numerous notations aided in the publication 
!-Oregon Weekly- Vol. I-no.1- Feb. 12, 1900. 



31 

of the Weekly. 

In October of 1900, at the beginning of the fall tenn of that 

year, McArthur maintained his position as editor-in-chief of the newspaper, 

but Miss Susie Bannard and E.N. Blythe were now the associate editors. The 

position of managing editor was abandoned, and that of business manager insti­

tuted with C.C. McCornack as manager and Clyde A. Payne as assistant business 

manager. The volume was noted as the second, and the f irst issue for vctober 

was designated as the first issue of this volume. The production of the 

newspaper apparently was taken from the three literary groups which had 

monopolized the publishing of student publications to this date, and the 

paper was listed as being "Published each Monday by the Associated Students 

of the University of Oregon". The exchanges, the features concerning the 

various organizations, the notes on the alumni and the full narratives of 

athletic events were the dominant issues during the fall term. • The only 

definite change is the introduction of a coarser brand of paper for the 

smooth sheet in the tenth issue of the second volumer December 3, 1900. 

Another of the few features of the tenn was that of the eighth issue of the 

second volume, when, the University of Oregon football team having defeated 

the University of California squad by a score of 2-0 in a game played at 

Berkeley, the editors ran the front page in red ink with a banner announcing 

the result of the contest. 

The tenn corranencing in February, 1901 produced the third volume of 

the '\ eekly with identically the same staff as had been appointed at the begin­

ning of the academic year. The features remainee identical to those which had 

been in existence in previous issues, and no transfo imations of any degree were 

to be marked during the months of this volu!'e• 



32 

The volume commencing in the fall of 1901 also bore the 

title of "Volume III" and the first issue of the term, that of September 

30, 1901 was identical in number and issue to that of February 11, 1901-

both being designated as "Volume III- no.1 11
• The editors of the fall 

issue, Allen H. Eaton, editor-in-chief; Otis B. Tout and Marvin Scarborough, 

associate editors; Oscar Gorrell, business manager; Fred Thayer, assistant 

business manager, introduced few novelties. The editorial column was lengthened, 

and boxed heads were placed above the indivieual editorial. The advertising 

covered as full a portion of the pages of the ,aper as it hao in the past 

'and the news of the societies and the debates, of the athletic teams, and the 

news of the neighboring colleges were as populfr as ever. During the 

course of the year the quality of paper upon which the Weekly vras published was 

changed, but other than incidental transformations there were few changes in 

the body of the paper. In the course of the year the associate editors were 

replaced, Scarborough by Miss Virginia Cleaver on Oct.28, 1901, in the fifth issue 

of the third volume, and Tout by W,H, Johnson on November 18, 1901, in the 

eighth issue of the third volume. In the tv,enty-fourth issue of the volume, 

April 14,. 1'902, James H. Gilbert, later Dean of the College of Social Science of 

the University of Oregon, was appointed as a third associate editor. 

In so short an interval as two and one-half years it is not astonishing 

that the Weekly did not undergo more radical changes than vra.s the case. As a 

newspaper the primary f1 1nction of the paper was to present the most news-worthy 

material, and these matters were presented on the first page in satisfactory 

manner. The second page was devoted to editorials and club news, the third 

almost exclusively to advertising and incidental materials on other colleges. The 

back page was similar in construction to the third page. 

In 1902, the~ 'l.t the period when thts discussion is tenninated, the 



33 

student publications had been limited to a few movements, and these, in the 

main, had been closely affiliated with the faculty as well. The Reflector and 

t he Monthly, literary journals, presented the work of the faculty as well as 

the student. The Weekly, newspaper, was founded and produced by the three 

literary societies but then passed into the control of the ssociated Students 

oi the university• In 1902 the literary societie r , as organizations, were not 

responsible for the publications, though individual members of' the groups may 

have been prominent in the affairs of the papers. In 1902, the Monthly had 

attained a position of distinction as aliterary magazine which it had never 

held before, while the introduction of the weekly newvpaper had been a force 

destroying the 9.ncient attempt to weld both news and literary effort hto the 

Monthly. In the year in which we conclude both papers ,rere successful as they 

had not been in the past; the years of training which had been experienced 

by the men producing the papers aided them in the production of a worthy 

effort. In 1902 the prospect for the future was towards a gradual development 

of even a more advanced student publication. l( The forces which tended to 

nullify the effort1; of the past exist without this period and must be dealt 

with by those investigating the decade following 1902. 



The Reflector 

Organ of the Laurean and Eutaxian Societies 

1891 - April 1894 

Volumes I•IV no.I. 

APPENDIX A 

• 



e I - No. 1 

rial Staff -
&ea.mes - Editor-in-chief 
Lauer - Business Manager 
[cDaniel - Corresponding Editor 
Kubli - Laurean Editor 

- Senior Editor 
Bronaugh - Junior Editor 
c.G.Matthews- Sophomore Editor 

No. 2 

- Editor-in chief 
- Business Manager 
- Corresponding Editor 
- Laurean Editor 

Eutaxian Editor 
Veazie - Senior Editor 
Bronaugh - Junior Editor 
Henderson - Sophomore Editor 
Wintermeier-Freshman Editor 

e I - No. 3 

identical with that of the previous issue 

e (1) - No . {?) 

Henderson - Editor-in-chief 
auer - Business Manager 
Martin - Corresponding Editor 
Kubli - Laurean Editor 
Shelton - Eutaxian Editor 
Bronaugh - Senior Editor 
M. Dorris - Junior Editor 
Wintermeier-Sophomore Editor 

e (?) - No. {?) 

Bronaugh - Editor-in-chief 
Martin - Business Manager 
Miller - Correspon~ing Editor 
Harris - Laurean Editor 
Shelton - Eutaxian Editor 
Condon - Senior Editor 
Dorr is - Junior Editor 
Edith Tongue- Sophomore Editor 
McDaniel - Freshman bditor 

A 1 

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e (t) - No. {t) 
A 2 

tical with previous issue 

tical with the exception that T.M. Roberts displaced Miss Dorris as Junior Editor 

e II - No. C) 
e tical "th the preceding issue 

e II • No. t?) 

tical with the preceding issue 

tical with the preceding issue 

e II • No. qJ 

tical with the preceding issue 

• 1892 

. Martin - Edi tor-in-chief 
Exchange Editor 

. Keene - Laurean Editor 
s Shelton- Eutaxian bditor 
. Roberts- Senior Editor 
. Laurie - Junior Editor 
. Stevens- Sophomore ~ditor 

, 1892 
of the editorial board 

• 1893 
of the editorial board 

, 1893 
of the editorial board 

of the editorial board 



Vol. I - ,o . 1 

Contents 

A.E. ReBJ!les 
Introductory 
Our Jjenefactor 
Should e Have a Boarding School 
Impromptu Speaking 
Our Business 11anager 

E.H. Lauer 
A Toast 

C.T. McDaniel 
Irregulars 

K.K. Kubli 
The Laurean Society 
Society Reports 

J.C. Veazie 
Our Geological Department 
Senior 1.otes 

J.E. :aronough 
The Gymnasium 
Junior Affairs 

Miss C. Grace Matthews 
The Refining Influences of Art 
Sophomore Chirpings 

President of the Freshman Class 
A Free School 
Success 

By a Eutaxian 
The Work of the Eutaxian Society 

A.A. Smith 
The New South 

Professor McCornack 
The Musical Department 

A 4 



Second Issue 

Contents 

A.E. R&ames 
A Proposition 

K.K. Kubli 
A Senate 
Society Affairs 

Miss Alberta Shelton 
The Need of an Art Department 
Society Affairs 

J.C. Veazie 
Does a Six-Year College Course Pay 
Class Notes 

J . t.. Bronough 
Class Affairs 

C.E. Henderson 
The Library 
Class Concerns 

C.A. 1i intenneier 
Class Notes 

A 5 



Fourth Issue 

Contents 

C. E. Henderson 
Salutation 
Explanation 

K.K. Kubli 
Laurean Notes 

Miss Shelton 
Society Clippings 
Public Rhetoricals 

J.C. Veazie 
Farewell of Classes 
Class Notes 

J. E. Bronough 
Junior Sayings 

:Miss May Dorris 
Sophomore Siftings 

C.A. Wintermeier 
Freshman Jottings 

A 7 



Fifth Issue 

Contents 

c.~. Henderson 
The New Year 
Explanation 
Local and General 

E.H. Lauer 
Junior Jottings 

C • .t<' . l1artin 
Ex change W ote s 
Journalism 

J.E. Bronough 
Senior Notes 

A 8 



Sixth Issue 

Contents 

c . .t!, , Henderson 
Valedictory 
The Visit of Our B nefactor 
Public RhetQ"Ticals 
Locals andr Generals 

E.H. Lauer 
Junior .Jottings 

C.r'. Uartin 
Exchange Notes 
Plagiarism 
The Ignorant est 

J . t . Bro no ugh 
Senior Notes 

L.T. Harris 
Laurean Society Notes 

Miss Shelton 
Eutaxian Society Notes 

lits Edi th Tongue 
Sophomore Chirpings 

A 9 



Seventh Issue 

J.l'.;. Bronough 
Greetings 

H.T. Condon 
Our Educational Relations with Japan 
Senior Items 

Miss May Dorris 
otes of ,93 

Miss Edith L. Tongue 
Requirements of Women of the Nineteenth Century 
Sophomore Items 

C.F. McDaniel 
Fresh H ppenings 

Contributor -Miss Elizabeth Sawyers 
:Music 
Eutaxian Affairs 
Laurean Proceedings 
Social Notes 
Locals and Generals 

J.G. Miller 
Something Beside Book Larnin 
Exchange Notes 

A 10 



Eighth Issue 

Contents 

J.E. Bronough 
The Gynmasium 

H.T. Condon 
The Relation of the Educated Man to Government 
Senior Items 

Miss Lia.y Dorris 
Notes of •93 

Miss Edith L. Tongue 
Sophomore Items 

C.F. McDaniel 
Universal Education 
Fresh Happenings 

Contributors 
Miss Sawyers 

Music 
J.R. Greenfield 

The Age in which v e Live 
Thomas Roberts 

Decision of Purpose 

L.T. Harrh 
Laurean Proceedings 

A 11 

Miss Alberta Shel on 
The Interior and Surroundings of the University of Oregon 
Eutaxian Affairs 
Social Notes 
Locals and Generals 

J .G. Miller 
A SUT.11ller Scene of Winnachee :Meadow 
Ex change Notes 



Ninth Issue 

Contents 

J.E. Bronough 
Local an General 

H.T. Condon 
College Fraternities 
Senior Items 

T .M. Roberts 
Notes of 193 

Miss Tongue 
Sophomore Items 

C.F. McDe.niel 
Fresh Happenings 

Contributors 
Gifford W. Nash 

A Leipzic Letter 
Miss Dora Scott 

'Hillian Lloyd Garrison 
International Dictionary 

S.E. McClure 
The Weather Bureau 

Liss Bessie Sawyers 
Conservatory Items 

L.T. Harris 
Laurean Notes 

Miss Shelton 
Eutaxian Notes 

J.G. Miller 
Exchange Notes 
The Value of Higher Education 

A 12 



Tenth Issue 

Contents 

J.E. ~ronough 
Local and General 

H.T. Condon 
Education and the Columbian Ex.position 
Senior Items 

T.M. Roberts 
Notes of ,93 

Miss Tongue 
Sophomore Items 

C.F. McDaniel 
Pictu:r:es 
Freshman Notes 

C.F. Martin 
The Three Sisters 

Contributors 
Gifford W. Nash 

A Leipzic Letter 
Miss Dora Scott 

The Library 
Hon. S.W. Condon 

Leonardo Da Vinci 
Miss Bessie Sawyers 

Conservatory Items 
President E.H. Lauer 

Inaugural Address 

L.T. Harris 
Laurean Proceedings 

Miss Shelton 
Eutaxian Affairs 

J.G. Miller 
Exchange Note e 

A 13 



Eleventh Issue 

Contents 

J.E. Bronough 
Donations 

H.T. Condon 
Senior Items 

TM. Roberts 
Notes of 1 93 
The Importance of Logic as a College Study 

Miss Tongue 
Sophomore Items 

C.T. McDaniel 
Freshman Notes 

Contributors 
Rev. H. L. Bates 

Raphael 
Miss Bessie Sawyers 

Conservatory Items 

L.T. Harris 
Laurean Proceedings 

Hiss Shelton 
Eutaxian Proceedings 

J.G. Miller 
Exchange Notes 

A 14 



Twelfth Issue 

Contents 

J.E. Bronough 
University Extension 
College Journalism Outraged 

H.T. Condon 
Palo Alto vs. Education 
Senior Items 

T.M. Roberts 
Notes of 1 93 

Miss Tongue 
Sophomore Items 

C.T. McDaniel 
Freshman Notes 

Contributors 
Miss Bessie Sawyers 

Conservatory Items 

L.T. Harris 
Laurean Proceedings 

Miss Shel ton 
Eutaxian Affairs 

J.G. Miller 
Exchange Notes 

A 15 



Thirteenth r issue 

Contents 

Prize Orations 
Lenn L. Stevens 

Should the United States Continue to be an Asylu..~ 
for the Oppressed of All Nations? 

Fred s. Dunn 
Absolutism, the Weakness of Russia 

H.T. Condon 
Senior Notes 

TM. Roberts 
Junior Jottings 

C.T. McDaniel 
Freshman Notes 

Contributors 
H.T. Condon 

Class Tree Oration 
Mrs. George }l . Miller 

Class Tree Poem 

A 16 



Fourteenth Issue 

Contents 

Ca.ray F. Martin 
Editorial 
Introductory Social 

c.rv. Keene 
Laurean Society Notes 

Miss Shelton 
Eutaxian Notes 

T.M. Roberts 
Senior Noteso 

J .A. Laurie 
Junior Jottings 

C.E. Stevens 
Sophomore Notes 

Exchange - J?G. Miller 
Notes 

E.H. Lauer 
"The Apples of Hesperides" 

Miss Bessie Sawyers 
Conservatory Items 

A 17 



Fifteenth Issue -- Dec. 1892 

Contents No authors listed 

Educational Topics 
The College Song in Hiddle "C" 
The Advantages of the Eutaxian Society 
College Athletics 
Thanksgiving 
The Literary Societies 

Eutaxian Notes 
Laurean Note s 

College Classes 
Senior Items 
Junior Items 
Sophomore Notes 
Freshman Notes 

Local and ueneral 
Contributed Articles 

A 18 

The Greatness of a Nation is the Product of Its Institutions 
of Learning. 

The Faculty of the University of Oregon 



Sixteenth Issue -- Jan. 1893 

Educational Topics 
Moral Character of the University 
The Study of Nature and La .. ,s 
In Memory of Clifton B. Stevens 
Literary Societies 

Laurean Notes 
Eutaxian Notes 

College Classes 
Senior Items 
Junior Items 
Sophomore Notes 
Freshman Notes 

Local and ~eneral 
Contributed Articles 

The Literary Style of Charles Dickens as a Novelist 

A 19 



Seventeenth Issue ---- Feb. 1893 -- Vol. II - No.8 

Educational Topics 
Will It Pay the Student to Visit the World 1 s Fair? 
Science 
Physical Culture for,Women 
Literary Societies 

Laurean Affairs 
Eutaxian Notes 

College Classes 
Local and General 
Contributed Articles 

A Story 
An Investment 

Exchange Notes 

A 20 



Eighteenth Issue 

Educational Topics 
The Library 
The Literary Societies 
Colleges Classes 
L0cal and General 
Contributed Articles 

Forum Romanum 
Poem- A Sophomore Maiden 

March 189 3 --- Vol. II - No.9 

A 21 



Nineteenth Issue 

Educational Topics 
The University of dhicago 
Right or Expediency 

---- April 1893 -- Vol. III -No.l 

In Memory of Hon. :Matthew P. Deady 
The Literary Societ ies 
College Classes 
Local and ueneral 
Exchange Notes 
Contributed Articles 

The University of Michigan-- An Example to Oregon 
A Vision 

A 22 



Twentieth Issue 

Educational Topics 
Literary Societies 
College Classes 
Local and ~eneral 
Contributed Articles 

-- '-8.y 1893 -- Vol. III - No. 2 

The Reunited Union-oration by C.E. Henderson 
Virgil-A Poet for All Times and All Tongues 

A 23 



Twenty-first Issue 

Educational Top i cs 
Hon. Matthew P. Deady 
The Oratorical Contest 

--- June 1893 -- Vol. III - No.3 

Some Benefits Derived from the Classics 
The Sciences as Part of An Education 
The Pacific Coast 
Literary Societies 
College Classes 
Local and General 
Contributed Articles 

A Day At Harvard 
The Conquest of Peace 

A 24 



Twenty- second Issue ---- July 1893 -- Vol. III - No. 4 

Commencement Exercises 
Should Arbitration Take the Place of WaF? 

(Oration by C.F. Martin) 
Cahenslevism -Its Dangers to America 

(Oration by T.M. Roberts) 
Address of Welcome 

A 25 

fAddre s s by Fres ident Beattie of the Eutaxians) 
Dedicatory Address 

Class ~oem -1893 
(Dedication of Class :Momnnent by L.T. Harris) 

(E.H. Lauer) 
College Classes 
Local and General 



Twenty-third Issue - Nov. 1893 --- Vol. III - No.5 

Educational Topics 
The Opening of the Eighteenth Year 
Inaugural Day 
The Elective Course in the Classics 
Literary Societies 
6oll ege Classes 
Local and General 
Contributed Articles 

Romance and Reality of Baronial Life 
The Dormitory 

A 26 



Twenty-fourth Issue 

Educational Topics 
The Athletic Club 

--- Dec. 1893 

The University of Oregon in Assembly 
The Mirror of Life (Poem) 
The Literary Societies 
College Classes 
Local and General 
Conservatory of Music 
Contributed Articles 

The Organist of St. Andrews 

- Vol. III - No.6 



Twenty-fifth Issue --- Jan. 1894 --- Vol. III - No.7 

Educational Topics 
Co-Education 
The British Parliament and the .American Congress 
Athletics 
A Picture 
Our Ministrel 
The Oratorica l Contest 
Literary Societies 
College Classes 
Local and General 
The Conservatory 

(Excerpt from L'Etude) 
Our Exchanges 
The Lecture 

A 28 



Twenty-sixth Issue 

The University of Oregon 
The Lecture 
The Reception 
The Local Contest 
Eastern Universities 

.t<'eb. 1893 --- Vol. III -No.e 

Some Phases of Life at Harvard ( Edgar McClure) 
An Oberlin Le"ter - (H.L. Hopkins◊ 

Literary Societies 
College Classes 
Local and General 
Law Department 
Our Exchanges 
Contributed Articles 

Music in a Few Practical Phases 
The New Education 

A 29 



Twenty-seventh Issue 

The University of Oregon 
The Lectures 

--- March 1894 --- Vol. III - No.9 

.A.....3.Cl 

The State Oratorical Contest 
Literary Societies 
College Classes 
Local and General 
Exchanges 
The Conservatory of Music 
Contributed Articles 

A Judicial Decisions of Greater Importance than Legal Treatises 
Conditional Citizenship 
The Bridge of Gods 



Twenty-eighth Issue --- April 1894 --- Vol. IV --- No. 1 

The Lectures 
Mrs. ·wilson - "Some of the Pioneers of Oregon" 
Mr. Baker - "Caeser and the Rise of Roman Imperialism" 
President Campbell of Monmouth - "The Vocation of Living" 

The Grune of Football 
Fifth Annual Junior Exhibition 
Literary Societies 
The College ClassesLocal and ueneral 
Law Department 
Exchanges 
The Sunbeam (Poem) 
An Air Castle 

A 31 



The Bulletin of the University of Oregon 

July 1894 - April, 1895 
Vol. I - nos. 1-10; no.2 missing 

APPENDIX B 



B 1 

Bulletin of the University of Oregon - Vol. I-No.l-July-1894 

Advertisement of the first issue. 

Contents 

"The bulletin i.s published monthly by the Faculty 
of the University. It is devoted to the interests 
of higher education in Oregon. 'ach issue will 
contain news of the tate University and matter 
of interest to all teachers and students. Es ecial 
attention is invited to the COR.~3P ND~NCE COURJ~J 
which will be regularly published and 1ill form a 
marked feature of the paper and theUniversity 
work in the future. 

11 11 educational institutions in thestate are invited 
to furnish THE BULLETIN with brief itemsof news. 
" The subscription price of the BULL'""TIN is 75 cents, 

postage free. 

Our State Institutions-
CoUIIIlents of state school 

College freidnships-
Column on value of college frei nships . Over­
sentimentalization of the familair topic. 

Items of Interest-
Notes on varied activities 

Correspondence Courses-
Lessons in Geography, Arithmetic and Grammar. 
Questions listed. Answers to be despatched on 
receipt of self-addressed envelope. Any text­
book to be used. Answered questions sent to 
University President for credit. 

tatement of the varied courses at the University and tre 
manner in which these courses may be followed 
to a degree-- a statement of the courses necess­
ary for graduation in the fields ofClassical, 
Scientific, English or Literary courses. 

The State University 
Value of the sgate college. 



Bulletin of the University of Oregon - Vol.I-No.3-Sept. 1894 
Published with the approbation of the Board of Regents 

f~s 
Contents 
Earning a Living 

Bn2 

Use of the classics in mouldin intellect for earning living. 

Medical Departnent of the University 
Discussion of the Medical Department by the Dean 

The Law School of the State University 
By the Dean of the Law School 

Historyof the State University- Part I-
Beginning of the State school 

Scedule of necitations 
Classes, professors, hours 

Physical Training, Admission, Regulations, the Dormitory, Visitors 
University regulations concerning these matters 

The Business Department 
by the Principal 

Correspondence courses 
Arithmetic 
English Grammar 
Geography 

The Chemical Department 
News of the State University 
Educational Intelligence 
Board for Students 



The Bulletin - I-4 October 1894 

The School for the Plain Man: 
Good Western virtues of democracy 

Senator Dolph's Addres to Students-Oct. 16, 1894 

B 3 

An analysis _of the basic virtues of the plain man 
Education in Roseburg 
The Work of English in the University of Oregon 

by the Professor of Elocution and Rhetoricp-report forl893-9 
Pictorial representations of the buildings on caMpus of the 

"Plain Man's School'' 
News of the University 

Campus brevities 
The Law School 
The Medical School 



The Bulletin - I* 5 November 1894 

Admission to the State Universitytwo pages of material. 
Educational Intelligence 
A Great University 
The Common Schools and the University 

B 4 

Full page advertisement-page 4-"The University of Oregon Charges 
No Tuition" 



The Bulletin I- 6 

Admission to the University-same as that of no.5 
Historical Sketch of the University 
Our Course in Pedagogy 

B 5 



The Bulle tin I - 7 January 1895 

A Memorial Tablet to Judge Deady 
The Places from which Our Students Come 
How Public Education is Supported in Other States 

(Two collli!ln for two and one-half pages) 
The Necessity for the Higher Education 

(Reprint-High School Quill-Dec.1894-Astoria) 
University Hiatory-The nation 

(Origins in Mexivo) 
Expense of an ~ducation 

B 6 

(UniveBsity maintains the ideal of giving an education 
•tthout tuition payment as a mark of democracy. Attenpt 

t9 overwhelm those who would institute tuition,) 



The Bulletin - I- 8 

A National University 

l, t,,,..JU· -- February 1895 --- • r , 
B 7 

(Survey of an article by Professor Simon Newcomb giving 
an historical analysis of the national university idea) 

The Importance of Physical Education in Public Schools 
(The Usual CoIIII!lent) 

The Oratorical Contest 
(Miss Julia Veazie of the University of Oregon, speaking 
on "Alexander Hamilton" is returned the victor in the 
third annual state intercollegiate oratorical contest at 
Forest Grove- Feb.22, 1895) 

The Oratorical Contest 
(Reprint from the Daily Guardconcerning Miss Veazie's victory 
and giving a statement of the activities at the business 
meeting of the organization) 

Reprints from the Astoria High Quill of February 1895 



B 8 
The Bulletin - I-9 - March -1895 

First Page- Pictorial representations of the buildings­
Inscription- The University of Oregon has 

Increased its Attendance 66 Per 
Cent since Last Year. • 

Selections From An Address to the Members of the Thirty-Ninth 
General Assembly of Illinois by the Trustees of the State 
University 

The Juniors 

(The University as the seat of learning , as the 
force producing the future citizens deserves all 
the support which can be tendered it) 

(Reprint from the Daily Guard concerning the Sixth Annual 
Exhibition of the Junior Class-Villard Hall- March 28 and 
29) 

Handball Tournament 
(Virgil Johnson and Harry Templeton, E.P. Shattuck and 
Fred Templeton, leaders in the intramural tournament) 

Field Day 
(University Athletic Club holds first field day-June 18,1895) 



The Bulletin - I-10 x -- April 1895 

8 pages 

Educational Convention to be Held at Eugene- •1ay 18, 1895 

B 9 

(Object- "Consider the relations .between the 
colleges and schools of the lower grade 
and to define the place of the Normal 
School in our educational system) 

Summer School at Gearhart Park, July 22 to August 21, 1895 
{Tuition five dollars--- instructors- President 
Chapman, Supt. Erwin, Prof Condon, ~rof Campbell of 
Normal school, Prof. Condon ~ref.McClure and 
others. 
Courses- Penmanship, Biology, Bookkeeping, Geography, 

Physical Education, Anato□y, Physiology, 
and courses in Hygiene) 

Programme of the Alumni Association 
(By H.T. Condod, '92- statement of activities at 
forthcoming banquet) 

Voices from the Alumni 
(letters from the alumni) 

The Handball Contest 

School Notes 

(Virgil Johnson and harry Templeton, playing for 
Oregon lose to Willamette- 21-12, 4-21, 21-17.) 



The Bulletin of the University of Oregon B 10 

Curriculum. Vol. No. Date Page 

Astronomy II 1 Oct. 195 1 McAlister 

Biology II 1 Oct. 1 95 2' Washburn Biol. Lab. 
Biology II 4 Jan. 1 95 ., 111 ester, c. w .• Biol. Lab. 
Biology II 7 Apr. 1 95 1 

Business II 1 Oct. 195 3 
Business II 7 Apr. 1 95 5 Narregan 

Chemistry II 7 Apr. 1 95 9 McClure 

Engineering 
& Mining II 5 Feb. ,95 4 Notice of establishment by Board of R. 

Greek II 6 Mar. 1 95 8 Straub "Why Study Greek? 

Music II 1 Oct. 1 95 3 Baker 

Physics II 8 May-June 1 95 9 Friedel 

Psycholog,y II 3 Dec. 1 95 8 In "Senior Notes" reference to texts. 

Summer School II 3 Dec. 195 10 "Oregon Summer School." 

Equipment! Housing 

Biology Lab. II 1 Oct. 195 2 
Chemistry II 1 Oct. 1 95 1 
Donnitory II 1 Oct. '95 3 Dormitory rooms used for class rooms/ 
Gymnasium II 1 Oct. 195 2 
Physics Lab. II 1 Oct. 1 95 3 

Faculty 

Ifuright, M. L. II 1 Oct. 195 3 
Baker II 1 Oct. 195 3 In nrusic. 

Library 

II 1 Oct. 1 95 2 Additional books 

Student Life -------
Athletic Club II 1 Oct. 1 95 2 
Oratorical Contest 

II 8 Feb. 1 95 3 
University Chorus 

II 1 Oct. 1 95 3 

Relation to Secondary Schools 
II 1 Oct. 1 95 1 



The Oregon Monthly 

March 1897 - June 1902 

Volumes I•VI 

APPENDIX C 



nive rsit of Ore n :t:onthl --

di tori al Board 

ol1.llll3 One - 1897 

,V. Kuykendall - editor-in-chief 
ate Kelly -associate editor 
,H. Day - associate editor 
,R. Alderman - business zro.nager 
,s . Bryson - business manager 

Contributors 
lass of '97 - Edith F. Veazi.e 
1ass of '98 - Clyde V. Fogle 
lass of '99 - M.L. Applegate 
lass of '00 - H. D. Angell 
lass of '01 - Grace I. ,lold 
lass of '02 
lass of '03 
ra torical 
thleti c 

.w.c.A. 

- ~arl Stevens 
- Clive Cheshire 
- Balm Mann 
- D.V. Kuykenda ll 

tu.art B. Hanna 
- Lizzie Griffin 

Societies 
1taxian 
aurean 
hilologian 

- Lottie Johnson 
- John R. Barber 
- F.:M. Templeton 

olwre Two - 1897-98 
lyde V. Fogle - edit or-in-chief 
,L. Applepate- associate editor 
gne s Adfll!ls - associate editor 
arles v. Galloway - business manager 

alter L •. 'hittJ.esey - assistant business rmnager 
Contributors 

lass of '98 -Blanche :M. Taylor 
lass of '99 - John R. Barber 
lass of '00 - Arthur Waltz 
las s of '01 - Clifton McArthur 
lass of '02 - Lydia Johnson 
~ss of '03 - Harriette Patterson 
ratorical - There se Friendly 
.r.c. . - J.H. Carrico 
,., .c.A. - Mary Ficklin 

Societies 
- Homer Angel 1 
- Cora Pattee 
- Charles V. Galloway 

lume Three - 1898-99 
r a E. Slater -editor-in-chief 
slie Scott- associate editor 
mer Angell - associate editor 
lter L. './hittlesey -business manager 
len Baton - assistant business zmnager 

Contributers 
of '00 - Arthur /alt z 
of '01 - Grace ~old 
of '02 - Allan Eaton 
of '03 - Harriette Patterson 

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1urne Three (cont ' d) 
~.c . . - John Handsaker 

,C . • - Anna Grimes 
Societies 

urean - Homer Angell 
trian 'i Dasie Allaway 
nologi an - Allen Eat on 

ilwre Four - 1899- 1900 
)Ile r D. Angeli - editor-in-chi " 
1ter L. Whittlesey- associate editor 
iJlifred ~iller - associate editor 
1en TI . :2aton - business manager 
ward N. Blythe - assistant business 

Contributors 
Jas s of '00 

of '01 
- M. L. Applegate 
- Bessie Harn:nond 

rmnager 

of '02 - Louis St. Elmo Hooker 
of ' 03 - Harriette Patt e rson 

- J.B . "{instsanley 
- Dasie Allaway 

Societies 
aurean - C . N. PcArthur 
t axian -Susie Bannard 

hilologian . B. 'lal tz 
oci etas Q.uirinalis - Leila Straub 

Five - 1900- 1901 

alter L .• ':.'hittlesey - edi t or-in- chief 
.H. Johnson - associate editor-
orge o. Goodall -associate editor 

dward N. Blythe - business ma.nager 
Condon Bean - assistant business rmnager 

Six - 1901- 1902 

}eorge o. Goodall - editor- in-chief 
lrace PlUIIllrer - associate editor 
·.arvey B. Densmore- associate editor 
1,1.:. Scarborough - business manager 
'lar ence Poley - as s istant business manager 

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I- 1897 

·umber 1 - :arch 1897 
;reeting - Poem - l .H. Ross 
rotherhood - Oration - Fred Fisk 
e Intercollegiate Oratorical ssociation 

ditorials 
.hinge of Interest 
thletics 

.he ··-edical Stu.dent - Poem 
Jlass Ne\VS 
society rews 
"niversit New• 

··umber 2 - April 1897 
;rials of Trulinger - Laura Uiller - fiction 
regress of Democratic Principles - P.E. Bauer -or ation 
ditorials 

Tuings of Interest 
,thletics 
)lass Ne s 
society News 
~ni ver s ity rews 

umber 3- 1.:ay 1897 
'rhr~e Boys on the Road - J.R. Barber - exposition 
Spring in the .lillamette Valley - Lottie Johnson - poem 
,Plant Emergy - Reprint of !'rs . '.cCornack's science lecture 
aontentr~'Elr.t - Lottie Johnson - poem 
Editorials, etc. 

- June -July 1897 
r4tL~C- EdithVeazie -oration 
'97 - Lottie Johnson 

"'er.oriae Hora - Fred s. Dunn 
!cquisi tion of Po· ·er - Ida Noffsinger 
Class of 1897 
The Story of the Year 
Pictorial "'~epresentations of School, Board of Regents. 
From Eugene to Baker City by ,Vheel - George l. Gilbert 
Homeward Bound - llan • aton 
Pictures of Editorial Board of the 1:onthly and of Senior Class 

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olume II- 1897-1898 
·um er 1- November 1897 
,C. Carson - ~:emorial Exercises for Professor Edgar cClu.re 
,H. Chapren - The Anerican Idea 
ditorials, Club, Class and University News 

L ·umber 2- December 1897-issued (Nov. 15-1897) 
, A • Burden --Athletics ac Yale 

Soul's renance - (Anonymous) 
- Doubting (Poem) 
- How Our Rivers Rise (Poem) 

etc. 

·umber 3 - December 1897 
,G.G. Schmidt - The erman Student 

Straub - From I.Texico - (Leti;er from straub) 
-The Poet' s Gift 

- 'fuy (Poem) 
thletics, etc 

- January 1898 
Leach -Bryn 1:awr College 

-A Vision 
-A New Year Resolution 

Opinion, editorials, etc. 

'wnber 5- February 1898 
,'{. Glen - Children of the Night 
,J. Hav.rthorne- Hynotism 
ndependent Opinion, editorials etc. 

'umber 6- rarch 1898 
.H. "cAlister - The Inhabitability of Other "Torlds 

An Incident of 185-
The Erupt ion og VesuviusTranslated 
A Study 
The Girl I Love (Poem) 

etc. 

7-April 1898 
-Savonarola 
-Ideal Insanity 
-A Tramp's Excuse 

etc. 

lwnber 8- t!ay 1898 
'aude Kerns -The Fall of Wascos 
ill Grines -~uantitative Analysis of a Silver Coin 

-The Legend of Dakota 
-The descent of llan 

- Remarkable Discovery 
d.itorials etc • 

.!umber 9 -June 1898 
), H. Chapman - Tennysons In Uernoriam 
,Gifford Nash - -"rogram Husic 

-Jim's Stun Fish 
Laura Miller -A Pioneer of '47 
~di torials de. 

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