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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1909)
OREGON EMERALD Piibished Wednesday and Saturday dur ing the college year by students of the UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Application made for second class mail rates. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year.$1.00 Single copy.$ .05 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF W. C. NICHOLAS ....*.TO ASSISTANT EDITORS Ralph Moores . T2 Fay Clark . T2 C. W. Robison .’ll Calvin Sweek .’ll Dean Collins .TO manager FRITZ DEAN .’ll ASSISTANT manager C. A. OsTERHOLM.T2 Saturday, October 30, 1909 All Together For a month Oregon’s football team has been training hard. Daily their work conies nearer perfection and after each game prospects for winning the Northwest championship brighten. And just as steadily and surely do the crowds in the bleachers and along the side lines grow smaller. The students, especially the rooters, neglect the daily practice. Until now the Emerald has held its peace. “Surely,” we thought, "the spirit will kindle as the- season advances.” But we were mistaken. The apathy was sincere and we can ignore it no longer. We are i ot among those who unthink ingly attribute this to poor spirit. Scar city of rooters does not always indicate a lack of spirit, but in this case we think it does. Neither do we mistake our own cooling enthusiasm for apathy among the underclassmen. Seniors often do become absorbed in their own narrow line to ruch an extent as to lose touch with the student activities and then, having no spirit in themselves, they can see none in others. But there are unmistakable evidences that the complaint this year is well founded, permeating all classes from seniors to freshmen. I hat apathy is rooted deep is shown ' the fact that it continues so long. Aside from a few sporadic outbursts, the Oregon spirit has slept since hist year. Students are not alone in notic ing it. Faculty and alumni, men who have had experience for years, testify to the same conclusion. Such evidence is worth considering. C. N. McArthur, he who is so per fectly acquainted with every minute detail in and about the University that his name .‘lands for generations of vie tory and achievement in years past, visited the campus last week, t roubled looks and anxious doubts expressed by the older students were taken lightly, for he had seen the same before. But he went out to watch the team practice and he too was astonished. Privately lie expressed hi-' disappointment, saying that he had never seen such poor spirit since he had known the University. We have our own explanation for these conditions. 1 hat. however, is not needed. I'o he sure, the football team is strong. We think it will win without rooters, perhaps without spirit. But that is not all. I here are other victo ries to win. There is the glory of a university that has never given up to uphold. If this is done as it has been done in the past, not by wealth anc power, but by the strength of union and loyalty, the students must get together better. The freshmen are not so much to I blame as some others. You can't ex pect to drive them. What they need is an example. Let every upperclassman get out on the field with a good old un dignified hurrah and it will not take long for the babes to catch the spirit. It spreads fast and the freshmen like to see it better than any others. We know that words are useless as means of conveying spirit. But we hope to carry with this something more than mere words. The condition is ser ious. It calls for action—not talk. No student should condemn the freshmen who is not on one of the teams or in the bleachers every night. Then the talk would count for something and would be engendered in the new stu dents. Willow and Hazel Fields and Gladys Cartwright went to Salem, Friday night to attend the Willamette-Oregon game. lone Chambert and Felda McClain will spend Sunday in Portland. The student council of the Univer sity of Michigan has issued a decree that all freshment must wear the offi cial cap. It also gives seniors, juniors lor sophomores the right to confiscate the coverings of any freshman not wearing the official college badge of the first year men. Eighteen large boxes of specimens ob tained in Egyptian excavations have been presented to the Museum of Science and Art at the University of Pennsylvania. The collection is re garded as one of the best ever obtained in Egypt. No text books are to be used in the economic courses at Dartmouth this I year. Instead the class has been asked to subscribe to the New York Post, and to read the paper thoroughly in order to discuss economic questions in class. Thus. L. Barrell, manager of Hutch inson Hall, University of Chicago, has published a booklet containing exhaus tive directions for the perfect waiter and is teaching a class of forty men the art of serving food in a gentile manner. The students at the University of Colorado have organized a Student Body Association and have adopted rules modeled after those which govern the Student Body at Washington. Football by mail is the latest in the correspondence school line. The head coach at Carlisle is giving instruction to- coaches of secondary schools by this method. A new feature of the curriculum at the University of Vermont will be a department of home economics. Over eighty-five men were present at the first try-outs for the University of Wisconsin Glee club. Indiana University has an organiza tion of all men students called the 'Howling Host.” The Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology is planning to give a course in aeronautics. A Married Students’ Club was re eently organized at the University of Indiana. Interclass and inter-fraternity tennis tournaments are held each year at Am herst. A man fifty years old has entered the University of Michigan as a freshman. $UX) is the amount of the prize to be given in a song contest at Minnesota. One thousand and eighty freshmen have registered at Cornell this year. DUNN’S BAKERY Bread, Pies, Cakes and Confectionery, also Ice Cream and Fruits. 4 E. Ninth St. Phone Main 72 SCHWERING & LINDLEY Barber Shop 6 E Ninth St., Opp. Hoffman House Students, Give Us a Call Preston & Hales PAINTS and OILS Johnson Dyes Johnson Wax Cbe Combination Barber Shop and Batbs —ITiaitiCMrist— Six Chairs. One door north Smeedc fiotel PIERCE BROS. GROCERIES AND FRUITS FRESH VEGETABLES 52 East Ninth St. w. mT renshaw Wholesale and Retail CIGARS AND TOBACCO 513 Wilamette St. w e: specialize CORRECT APPAREL FOR EVERY DRESS OCCASION FULL DRESS -A NI) TUXEDO SUITS and Furnishings Roberts Bros. Toggery Stetson & Mallory ! Hats Stetson & Regal Shoes W. A. Kuykendall, Pharmacist Chemicals, Perfumes, Toilet Articles, Stationery Free Delivery SPECIAL DIRECTOR FOR MANDOLIN CLUB Melvin W. Warner, an expert pro fessional musician, will takq charge of the directing of the Mandolin Club this year, lie is a thorough musician, being an instructor in stringed instruments and an expert cello player. He former ly played with the famous Thomas or chestra of Portland. Under his tutelage, the members of lie club expect to reach a high state of perfection and disprove the charges and criticism against their ability and need as a supplement to the Glee Club. They are practicing hard four evenings a week and already have one selection memorized. The Kappa Alpha Theta girls enter tained Friday afternoon, in honor of their house mother, Airs. Dodd. The Eugene Indies found Mrs. Dodd a charming, attractive woman. In the re ceiving line were, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Dodd, Mrs. Washburn, Mrs. Barker, and Frances Oberteuffer. The recep tion rooms were decorated with lilacs, vines and red dahlias. The dining room was daintily adorned with vines, and leaves. Miss Jessie Bibee poured tea, and was assisted by several other girls in serving sherbet and waffles. The Chi Omega’s will entertain with a Hallowe'en party tonight. Their in vited guests are—Ormand Rankin, Mer u in Rankin. Chester Moores, Dick Char man. Roliu Kennedy, Glen Bendwell, Tom Burke, Vernon Vawter, Herbert Barbour. Stanley Young, Harold War ner. Carl Huston, Clyde Brown, Gwynn Watson. Melville Sweet, Wallace Mount. Phil Hammond. Harold Broughton, Howard Dray, Paul Willoughby. The Klosche Tillaeum girls will give a Hallowe'en party tonight. Mr. Frank Chambers, of Eugene, has given the University of Oregon Y. W. C. A. a lot on 1/tli and Hilvard Sts. They have not yet decided what dispo ; sit ion is to be made of it. but are con j sidering plans for an association house. W. E. Boddy J. E. Russell U. OF o. CIGAR STOR6 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in CIGARS, TOBACCO, CONFFCTIONERY, SOFT DRINKS _POOL AND BILLIARDS_ LINN DRUG CO. FOR YOUR ILLS 530 WILLAMETTE STREET i. h i m Razors, Cutlery, Stoves Home-made Confectionery and Ice Cream College trade solicited. Prompt and cheerful service. Prat and Sorority orders will be given careful attention. FINE CUTLERY the Store that Saves Sou money TlinMflcCaugblin Co. THE BEST PLACE TO EAT IN THE CITY IS Otto’s Grill on East Seventh Street, next to Otto’s Confectionery 606 Willamette St. The Palace of Sweets , Having secured the services of a candy-maker of 22 years experi ence will be all that its name sug gests. Something new every day. We are manufacturing our own Chicken Tamalies and a trial will convince you as to their superior quality. We are preparing to serve Oysters and our service will be second to none.