Vol.XXHI. V
PORTLAND, OREGON, APRIL 12, 1935
No. 10
BIOLOGY CLUB
DANCE NEXT ON
SOCIAL SLATE
Harry Melvin
Final Preparations Made
for “Web of Dreams”
Wednesday, April 24
Beneath the silvery web of a
great artificial spider, University of
Portland students and their friends
will frolic Wednesday, April 24, at
the Biology club's second annual
dance.
Pinal preparations for the event,
which has been christened the “Web
of Dreams" will be made during the
vacation which opens Wednesday.
The dance will be the University's
first po6t-Lenten social function.
Patrons and patronesses chosen
for the dance are: Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Kohlruss, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold
B. Peterschmidt, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Fiene and Mr. and Mrs. James A.
Culligan.
Warren Neal, head of the decora¬
tion committee, promises to have
the drabness of the gym interior
changed into a ballroom of alluring
beauty. Silvery webs will form the
ceiling and will cover the walls of
the hall, while a large aluminum
colored spider, with blinking electri¬
cal eyes, will be suspended from the
girders.
Music for the semi-formal dance
will be furnished by Dan Flood's
orchestra. The, Harmonettes, a trio
of girls from Portland, the Colle-
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THE LINE
Morning Eggs
A Dim Bulb
О
kie-doke — Ugh !
.By Walt Doran.
This wild debauchery of name¬
changing has inspired a saturnalia
in these heah pahts, a time for the
citizenry of the Northwest to revel
in names, proper and otherwise.
Scriveners of the city have chosen
from among thousands of sugges¬
tions, the melliflous title, Pilots, and,
as they are the ones who will most
often set it to paper, they should
be in a position to judge. Conse¬
quently, they have selected a so¬
briquet which is unbulky and one
which lends richly to an enormous
amount of sequelae of a nautical
turn,
• • * *
And by the same token, if these
scribes see fit to change the nick¬
name, they may, for after all, they
supply the medium which brings the
news of the University’s athletic
events before a public which props
its sports page on an electric toast¬
er as it eats its morning egg.
• • * *
And Red Kennedy must have been
clairvoyant or something because he
seems to be one of the few to choose
the dovetailing nomer, Beacon, for
this weekly organ. It is particularly
fitting literally as well as figurative¬
ly, in view of our geographical situa¬
tion. A beacon is a guiding light,
which is precisely what this publica¬
tion attempts to be, whether it
achieves it or not. You can almost
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STUDENTS LIKE NEW
NAME FOR WEEKLY
‘The Beacon” Meets With
Campus Approval
The new name "The Beacon" for
The Columbiad has found much fa¬
vor among the students of Univer¬
sity of Portland.
“The change in name of ihe cam¬
pus publication removes our last
link with the past. From now on,
it's a clear path, with The Beacon
lighting the way," said Jack Mac-
leay, Senior from Portland.
“It is very fitting that the Pilots
should have a real Beacon on the
campus," was the comment of Dave
Sullivan, Junior and editor of the
Biolog.
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PICK “PILOTS”
AS NICK-NAME
FOR“U”TEAMS
New Monicker Selected to
Replace “Irish” and
“Cliff dwellers”
"Pilots" has succeeded "Irish”
and “Cliffdwellers" as the nick-name
of University of Portland’s athletic
teams.
At the conclusion of a newspaper
contest which attracted more than
1,200 letters and more than 8,000
suggestions, University officials made
that announcement Saturday.
To George L. Scott, Southeast
Kelly street, Portland, went the
twenty dollars cash prize offered
the person who was first to submit
the winning name. Sixty-six per¬
sons in all, submitted “Pilots", only
one name, "Chinooks'', with 78
backers, out-ranking it in popularity.
Judges of the contest, George
Bertz, sports editor of the Journal,
Billy Stepp, sports editor of the
News-Telegram, and Don McLeod
of the Oregonian, were almost unan¬
imous in their endorsement of "Pil-
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The Winnah!
JUNIORS PLEDGE
BRILLIANT PROM
Class Members Now Offer
Tickets for Sale
Qleemen to Qive
Radio Concert
The University of Portland Chorus
will give a radio broadcast some
time after Easter vacation, according
to the announcement made at yes¬
terday's rehearsal by Frederick W.
Goodrich, director. At the same
time, he announced that the ap¬
pearance of the Chorus at a Rotary
Club luncheon, originally scheduled
for next Tuesday, had been post¬
poned.
“This year’s Junior Prom will be
one of the largest, finest dances the
University has ever given."
So declared Ed Roberts, Junior
from Portland and chairman of the
committee yesterday.
Every man in the Junior class is
enthusiastically working to make
this dance a model for following
functions, Roberts says.
Each Junior has been given three
tickets to the dance. Lower class-
men may purchase from the Juniors.
Seniors are to be guests at the af¬
fair and will be given their tickets
May 1.
The Prom, which is to be strictly
formal, is to be held at Portland
Golf Club. Music will be furnished
by Eddie Burke's orchestra.
Students who wish to attend the
dance but are unable to find trans¬
portation, are requested to get in
touch with Ed Roberts or Danny Mc¬
Carthy, Junior Class President.
DEADLINE NEAR
ON ANNUAL SALES
Only Five Days Remain to
Purchase Yearbook
Only five days remain to place
an order for an Annual. Copies of
the yearbook will be available only
to those who subscribe before Wed¬
nesday, April 17.
Crandall Brown, Senior from
Kellogg, Idaho, and chairman of the
"Buy-an-Annual" campaign, has
announced that members of the
sophomore and Freshman classes
have failed to make down payments
on the books.
Members of the subscription com¬
mittee will make one last attempt to
contact every man on the campus
before the campaign closes Wednes¬
day.
Bill Mazzocco, Junior from Port¬
land, and editor of the Annual, says
that most of the copy has been
turned in by the stafT and that pic¬
tures of all students and the faculty
have been taken.
Mazzocco announced that the
yearbook will appear on the campus
May 15.
Easter Vacation Begins
Wednesday, April 17
Easter vacation will commence
Wednesday noon. April 17, and
end at 8:25 a. m., Wednesday,
April 24.
‘Dom* Callicrate Frank Lonergan Bill Schmitt
PAPER RENAMED;
WILL BE KNOWN
AS‘THEBEACON’
Alan Kennedy Picks Win¬
ning Name and Will
Receive Prize
The Beacon has been selected as
the new name of The Columbiad,
student newspaper.
The new moniker was submitted
by Alan Kennedy, Freshman from
Multnomah, Oregon. Kennedy, by
his winning suggestion, also takes
possession of the three dollar prize
offered by the newspaper staff for
the best title.
A total of over 300 names were
entered in the contest, which closed
three weeks ago. Because of the
contest conducted through the Port¬
land daily papers for the selection
of a new name for the athletic teams
of the school, the announcement
of the paper's new name was post¬
poned until this week, when the
nickname “Pilots” was announced
as the winner in the other contest.
Judges of the contest were Father
John B. Delaunay, dean of men;
Jack Hayes, editor of The Beacon;
and Jack Cramer, supervisor of
publications.
N. D. MEN HONOR
KNUTE K. ROGKNE
Thirty members of the Notre
Dame club of Portland gathered
Sunday at the University to pay tri¬
bute to the late Knute K. Rockne,
former Notre Dame football coach,
at a Rockne memorial Mass and
breakfast sponsored by the Univer¬
sity.
Father Michael A. Mulcaire, C. S.
C., principal speaker of an informal
program which followed the Rockne
memorial mass and breakfast des¬
cribed him as “an ordinary man who
accomplished extraordinary things
because he lived in his own life the
ideals he taught his boys.” Father
Mulcaire who knew the famous
coach intimately said, “The thing
that impressed me about Rockne was
not his coaching genius, but the fact
that he, above all else, was a Christ¬
ian gentleman who constantly exem¬
plified the virtues of character, cour¬
age and culture which he attempted
to instill in his players.”
Three former Notre Dame cap¬
tains who later became coaches of
University of Portland before its
name was changed from Columbia
University, were present. They were
Frank Lonergan, Portland attorney
who captained the Irish in 1903 and
coached Columbia from 1904 to 1907;
Dominic Callicrate, who captained
Notre Dame in 1908 and coached
Columbia from 1911 to 1917, and W.
C. Schmitt, who captained Notre
Dame in 1909 and coached Colum¬
bia in 1910.
Other speakers were Father Boyle,
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Captains Three , They Honored Rockne
NEW ADS TO APPEAR
WEEKLY IN BEACON
For the first time. The Beacon
this week carries national advertis¬
ing.
On page 2 will be found a Prince
Albert tobacco advertisement and
on page 4 a Camel cigarette ad.
The advertisements of both products
will appear regularly in the future.
