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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1909)
Suctrty Brcutii Mr. fastidious: LOOK TO US for your Suit or Overcoat. We had you in mind when we selected this elaberate dis play of winter styles in Suits and Overcoats and we took particular pains to make positive of pleasing you, whether you want to spend $15 or $30 or whatever price between. S. H. FRIENDLY EUGENE’S LEADING STORE SIXTEEN MEN GET EMBLEMS AT O. A. C. Oregon Agricultural College, Dec. 10— \l a recent meeting of the Athletic Hoard the official athletic insignia was awarded to the following sixteen foot hall men: l/.veinlou, Kergman, Rriethaupt Clark, Dunn, h'.nherg, (lilhert, llawley, Huntley, Keck, l.oosley, Nelson, lias mu sen, 1C > nolds, Wallace and Wolff. I he cups offered In Coach Metzger at the beginning of the season to the men who -tayed in ever) game they played without time having to he tok en out for injury on their account were earned by I vendon and Hawle) and hear the inscription, " 1 o the man who was always in the game.” \\ i/th the 1/ttst issue the G C, Hammeter became a semi weekly, a long planned move. \ revision of the editorial stall has been made and sev ei a I new ollices have keen created. \s the sucess of am publication depends upon the efliciencN of its stall’ a system ol work is planned whereby experienc ed men mat he had at all times as heads of the various student publiea cions and a much higher grade of work will he assured. The organization of a press club in the near future is con tempi.ited so that any person interested m this work will he given an oppor (unity to study the same. LOST l in - da\ afternoon about five o’clock in front oi locket No. HO in boys locker room, a gold watch with initials I (i \\ Kinder leave at the Registrar's office or at \lpha Club. An O \ C rooter lost bis overocat while in Eugene at the football game. The finder will confer a favor on him as well as upon the I’niversity by noti fying the office. It' lo" rellects on the students. TEAMS SELECTED FOR CROSS COUNTRY RACE The tryout for the freshman cross country team was postponed till this afternoon, when Captain McClure, Mart/lolY, Emery, Henry, and Collier made places. I he other three class captains pick ed the men for their teams without 'a trial.. The sophomores and freshmen espec ially have been training conscientious v and expect to make an excellent show ing. Several of the men have been go ing around the course in sixteen and seventeen minutes and next Saturday should see some excellent time made. Captain (ieorge Riddell has selected the following men to represent 1910: I’latts, Leonard, Steel and Terry, t)nl\ two juniors, McQuire and Rue ter, will participate. (iarrahraudt, of 1912, has selected as colleague Clarence Walls, Herbert Clarke. James O'Neal and IWit/ Schu macher, ALL READY FOR THE SOPHOMORE DANCE \t twelve o’clock tonight the sopho more dance will go on the annals of past events. The decorating committee have been hard at work all day beauti thing the \rtnory. Class colors, Oregon pennants and pillows, and Japanese lan terns and umbrellas completely hide the tugged walls of the Armory. Edwarn Himes (electrician'), Ronald Kennedy, and "Sap" T.atourctte deserve credit for the elaborate decorations. The programs are very artistically arranged in the form of red Japanese lanterns, with ll)12 across the front, re . sembling Japanese figures. LYANS CHOSEN FOR RHODES SCHOLARSHIP Cecil 1\. Lyans, ’09, one of Oregon’s veil known Varsity debaters, , was chosen by the faculty I hursday ;is the ,nail who should receive the" supporr from this University for the Rhodes -clu>1; rship from the suite. I he other men considered were Hum ble and Morgan, both of whom had l.y.ans beaten in athletics, but fell down in scholarship. I he recommendation of the Oregon •.eulty practically gives Lyans the prize, for his only other competitor, a Port land man named Thompson, is past the age limit. Lyans passed the examination three years ago along with M’istar Johnson and Holton l Iambic. Since graduating he has been teaching school at Coquille, Oregon, lie has not yet been inform ed of the honor conferred on him, but doubtless will accept. Lyans was a resident of Eugene be fore entering the University. He made a great record as a student in both high school and University work. He was first colleague on last year’s negative debating team. Calendar Out Monday Fritz Lean's calendar “The Oregon Sketch Book." will be ready for salt Monday at Sclnvarzschild’s Book Store. It is a typical college production, con taining pictures, poems and drawings, illustrating life at Oregon. It is very artistic in design, making an ideal Christmas present. Copies will be sold at fifty cents tach. President Campbell is in California, attending the installation exercises of Or. Luella Clay Carson as president of Mills College. McArthur defends FORBES AND SYSTEM (Continued from first page.) other games on Washington's schedule there would have been another score or two like the one against Idaho. Few people who did not witness the Thanks giving game can realize what a splendid light Oregon made and how close the contest waged. Just as a reminder, let me say that Coach Dobie is an indirect product of the hated "Yale system”, the Washington coach having learned his football front Dr. Williams, the old 'dale star who has guided the gridiron destinies of Minnesota for a number of years. The "Yale system" needs no defense at my hands. It has proved successful,, over all rivals, in the East. It has not been used out here, but fragments of it have crept in and have worked suc cessfully. To say, however, that the "Yale system,” root and branch, has been used at Oregon is an absurdity. Coach Forbes, likewise, needs no de fense from me. With seven freshmen on his 1908 team, he defeated Idaho, Multnomah and the veteran eleven of O. A. C. lie repeated the dose this season, and although the O. A. C. team had many new men, it was, in many re spects, the best football machine ever turned out at Corvallis. The O. A. C. team had, in Keck and Wolff, two of the best punters ever seen in the Northwest, while Oregon had kickers of only ordinary ability. The Oregon players and their coach deserve more credit than they have been given for defeating the splendid team from Cor vallis. A review of the football situa tion in the Northwest during the past two season shows that Oregon has giv en the champion Washington team the deciding game each year. Let some of : the "knockers", in Eugene and else ' where, ponder over these facts and give Forbes the credit to which he is justly entitled. Let them remember that he had a “green" team in 1908 and had no high-class punter in most of the games of the season just closed; and in this connection let it be stated that punters are horn, not made. Oregon students, alumni and friends are satisfied with Forbes' record and regret that he cannot be engaged for another season. The football manage ment will do well to secure some Yale man as head coach for next season’s team. Nobody expects to see the “Yale system” picked up bodily, and brought to Eugene, hut the good work already begun by Forbes can he carried on to better advantage by some man who knows his methods and the rudiments of the game as he knows and teaches them. c. n. McArthur. Sky crapers Interests Faculty Prof. Percy P. Adams gave his pop ular lecture on skyscrapers before the Faculty Colloquium last Tuesday even ing. A fair sized audience was in at tendance. According to Professor Adams, the pryamid of Creops was the first sky scraper ever built, rising to a height of 500 feet above the neighboring plain. The first skyscraper of modern construc tion was the Eiffel tower at Paris. This tower is 948 feet high and is still the highest structure in existence. In the United States the first sky scraper was the twentv-story Masonic Temple of Chicago, which held the record until 1897, when the twenty-sn story Park Row building of New York was built. Following this came many buildings in New York from eighteen stories up. Now one is planned—the Equitable Life—which will he two and one-quarter times as high as the Park Row building, or 909 feet. This is half as high as Spencer’s Butte. It will have over fifty acres of floor space and accommodate 10,000 people.