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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1909)
FRESHMEN ARE GRILLED FOR LACK OF SPIRIT The members of the Freshman class fell under the sharp censure of some of the leading upper classmen at the Student Assembly this morning, for their lack of interest in the athletic prestige of the University and for the small degree of spirit shown by the class as a whole. The subject was in troduced early in the meeting by R. M. Alton, the newly chosen yell leader, who deplored the lack of interest shown by the freshmen in learning the College yells and in taking part with the root ers on the bleachers at football prac tice every evening. Alton most earn estly requested the members of the class to turn out in force and do everything in their power to prepare for giving the Varsity football team the support from the bleachers which it deserves and needs in the games of the coming sea son. The spirit of the yell leader s ad dress was taken up more fully after the close of the business session of the assembly by Manager Goodman, of the football team, and by Huston, president of the senior class, both of whom up braided the members of the new class in no uncertain terms for their feeble show of college spirit and urged them to brace up and make the freshman class mean something in the life of the University. The words of Benjamin Williams, president of the student body, who said after the close of Mr. Hus ton’s speech, “1 think these remarks are very well taken,” voiced the ap proval of the majority of the student body and a definite demand for action on the part of the freshman class. In the buisness of the session, three amendments to the constitution of the student body were offered for consider ation at the next meeting, which has been set for Wednesday, October 20. The first, introduced by Cecil Espy, changed Article VI, Section 3, to the effect that in selecting the captains of the athletic teams for ensuing years, only those should be allowed to vote who had won their O's in competition against some accredited college, and that the manager of the team should not be allowed a vote unless be also had won an O under similar conditions. The second amendment, introduced by Chauncey Cunning, calls for the strik ing out of Article II, Section 1, of the by-laws, which limits the place where bills may be audited. The third amend ment was to change the name of the “University of Oregon Semi-Weekly’ to "Oregon Emerald.’’ In the appointment of the junior ush ers the following names were announc ed by the president of the student body: Fritz Dean, Cecil Espy, John Kestly,. Francis Curtis and Tom Burke. A meeting of the freshmen was held immediately after the adjournment of the general assembly, for the purpose of preliminary organization of the athletic interests of the class. At this meeting Messrs. Williams, Alton, Goodman, and Huston again spoke, urging the points that they had brought up in the meet ing preceding, and asking the new men to turn out heartily for yell practice, track work and football, and to do everything in their power for the ^up building of the honor and prestige of their school. Speeches by a number of freshmen followed and much enthusiasm was manifested, every man present join ing at the close of the meeting in some of the heartiest examples of yelling that the freshmen have had credited to them since the beginning of the school year. The selection of officers for the con trol of freshman athletics was made as follows: Football supervisor, Dean Walker; tracp captain, Bob Kuyken dall; track manager, Harold Warner. During the vacation time a building has sprung up which is the pride of all Eugene; the fine new $$0,00.00 city Young glen’s Christian Association building which was made possible by the generous subscription of 1500 peo ple during the memorable eight-day campaign last November. Through great good fortune the contractors have been able to enclose the building with out being caught by the rain, and it will now be pushed rapidly to comple tion. It is expected that the dedica tion will take place January 1st. The building contains 32 dormitory rooms to rent to young men, a line gymnasium and swimming pool, read ing and game rooms for both men and boys, locker rooms, shower baths, and class rooms. In the basement there is a business men’s club room contain ing a steam bath and other features, and a room 26x70 feet which is ex cellently adapted to manual training classes. On the second floor is a room with a seating capacity of 250 or more, which will be used for lectures, men’s meetings, banquets, etc. This floor also contains a kitchen, the gallery to the gymnasium, and nine of the dormitory rooms. College Foot wear. Burden & Graham HAZING NOT NECESSARY SAYS PROF. SCHAFER Much criticism has lately fallen upon certain members of the faculty because of their attitude toward hazing. Professor Schafer, on being asked to give the Emerald a statement of his po sition on hazing said: “I appreciate the courtesy of your request that I say a word to the student body through your columns, but there is really very little left to say. President Campbell’s statement to the students on T uesday morning covered the ground in ad mirable fashion, and I feel that any thing I might say at this time must be in the way of stressing one or two of the points already clearly made. “It seems to me that all of the dif ficulties out of which hazing everywhere springs are due to a very natural dis position to ever emphasize the sacred ness of college customs for the enforce ment of which no regularly constituted authority exists. lhe students have before them cer tain ideal conditions which seem to them exceedingly desirable and which they see no way to perpetuate except by the exertion of some compulsion upon the incoming class. This compulsion is hazing, and experience as well as sound reason condemns hazing; now the stu dents wonder what is gonig to happen to all their agreeable time-honored cus toms. Will we have to give them all up, some ask? By no means, if the costoms are in themselves justifiable, if not, yes. They must be justifiable in themselves because on no other con dition will the public opinion of stu dents, faculty and general society toler ate them. But if they are proper—not oppressive to any class, but in the long run helpful in building up the best type of college spirit and in enabling all classes to contribute their best to a common result—it will be found that public opinion is a sufficient sanction to secure the most perfect compliance with them. Of course, there will be an ocacsional freshman, sophomore or jun ior who will violate even the most prop er University custom, just as there are men who eat with their knives and re fuse to doff the hat on meeting a lady acquaintance. But in these latter cases some sign of disapproval on the part of persons who command respect, or a kindly suggestion from a friend, will ordinarily set the matter right. So it will be with reference to University customs. First, let us make sure by honest thought and discussion that our customs are right. Sometimes there is in college a something that may he des cribed as “play ground Toryism”; a determination to hold to old, outworn institutions because we are prejudiced in their favor not because reason opines them. If there are such weed them out. Retain only those that may be helpful in their nature to the entire follege, and then rely on public opinion to enforce them. It will not fail us. The college Y. M. C. A. has plans l under way for an office building. The Association for a long time has owned a lot just north of the campus, and now it is planned to construct a build ing, there for the use of its officers and members. The building will probably he of temporary construction so that it can be moved off and replaced by one more permanent as soon as the Uni versity grows sufficiently to warrant it. The directors of the local association will meet in a week or so and make definite decision in regard to the amount of money it would be advisable to in vest in the building at the present time. Mr. Hans Harrossonitz, of the Otto Harrossonitv hook firm in Liepsig, Germany, is spending a few days at the University. Most of the German books in the library have been pur chased from this firm. Mr. Harrossonitz is studying the library methods of the United States. j Bowers Drug Co. (Incorporated) You are invited to make our ele gantly equipped Drug Store your waiting place. We have a corner pur posely fitted for the convenience of people who take the car. Come in and see if you do not like the appear ance of onr store; (that is the way we get first impressions) afterward you will learn the superiority of our en tirely new stock. Goods delivered free of charge to all parts of the city. BOWERS DRUG CO. (Incorporated) Cor. Ninth and Willamette Sts. Phone Main 62 Campbell - Fell man Co. Complete House furnishers Students call at our New Store on Willamette Street OUR PRICES RIGHT YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD WEEKLY REPORTERS ARE NOW EDITORS Merle Chessman, ’09, and Wm. Lowell, both former associate editors of the Or egon Weekly, are now editing news papers in Eastern Oregon. Chessman has a position with a large Pendleton daily and Lowell is joint proprietor of the "Oregon Scout,” a weekly paper published at Union, Oregon. Lowell and a friend of his induced their parents to start them out in the newspaper pro fesion. One does the writing and the other the printing. Bob Nelson is living on his timber claim out in the wilds of the Coast Range. Oscar Furuset, ’08, and Earl Strong, 09, are attending Harvard University in the Law and Journalism departments. Edwin Platts, ’09, has accepted the position of instructor in the wood shops. The class in masonry may be seen out on the campus Monlay afternoons break ing rock. We hope the knowledge thus gained may not be necessary as the foun dation for their life ocupation. T. R. Townsend, President of the Stu dent Body last year and former editor of the Weekly was today elected princi cipal of the Central school in Eugene.