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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1909)
PRESIDENT KANE FAVORS FOOTBALL University of Washington, December 11—At the annual football banquet in the Washington Annex hotel Thursday night, President Kane took a radical stand in favor of football as it is now played. He censured the hystericals who knocked football because of its al leged brutality, and quoted figures to show that it had not claimed as many victims as autoing, hunting, horseback riding and other sports that arc consid ered tame enough for women. Prexy certainly struck the popular chord in the student mind when he took that stand. Sixty novices turned out for crew Monday. They will work in the barges for a couple of months when the most promising candidates will be selelcted for class and other crews. The old men will not go on the water until Febru ary. The Seattle Y. M. C. A. defeated the varsity basket ball five, Thursday night, by a score of 32-25. A return game will be played soon. The sophomore class won the recent interclass cross country race by a small margin. The Hutchinson cup will be given to the class of 1910, which has won the greatest number of points dur ing the past three years. Verne Fitch, ’10, was elected editor of the University of Washington Daily Wednesday, for the next semester. He is now telegraph editor of the Daily, and was editor of the 1910 junior annual. Hereafter all candidates for posi tions on the Daily’s staff will have to pass an examination. They will be re quired to compose a creditable news story in a given length of time, and must answer certain questions concern ing student affairs. Tonight in Ye College Inne Grill the staff of the paper will be given a ban quet. Heretofore all agitation for feeds or recognition of the journalists’ work has been unavailing. A heartless board of control lias always refused their sanction. GRIMM TO CAPTAIN WASHINGTON TEAM University of Washington, December 11.—Huber Grimm, ’ll, picked by many for All-Northwest left tackle, was elect ed captain of the team for next year at the annual football banquet Thursday night. Grimm played on the team in 1905, 1907, and this year. He was a member of the baseball team that went to Japan during the season of 1908. In his speech Victor Zednick, gen eral manager, stated that “he had a good hunch that Dobie would consent to coach the Washington footballers again next year.” And Dobie didn’t deny it. The students have interpreted this as a tacit acceptance of the position for another year. They are joyful ac cordingly. Dobie was the toast of the evening. He was spoken of as the greatest coach in the country, and handed other posies of like nature. He threw off his cloak of pessimism and joked with the men as he had never done before. Whitman Seeks New Ground Whitman College, Dec. 11—With the j long anticipated live million dollar en dowment fund for Whitman College now practically assured, plans are be ing made for the construction of an en tirely new college that will eclipe any thing of the kind in the Northwest. President Penrose and Dean Hendrick are now at Washington for the purpose of securing the government land where Fort Walla Walla is located. A bill is pending in Congress, which will give the land to the college if it is passed. The bill was introduced last Tuesday by Senator Wesley Jones. It is understood at Whitman that the college authorities are having sign;i/! success in Washington, and should the government favor the abandonment of PROVES FOURTH DIMEN SION TO BE REASONABLE (Continued from first page.) “It can be showen impossible to rep resent the properties of three dimen sional space by an algebraic system of three units, and it can be rigorously proved that all the properties of our ‘common’ algebra cannot be found in any system of a larger number of units. In other words, they render our ‘com mon’ algebra a unique algebra.” “Now there are boundaries that lim it the free play of the fancy of the mathematician in constructing an algebra system of a higher number of units. Each algebraic system has its character istic equation, embodying the certain properties by which it may be distin guished from all other systems. This shows that these systems, although be yond the power of our intuition to rep resent, still have properties which are real as those of the ‘common’ algebra, which represents the region in which we are immersed.” Dr. Leonard will prepare a special ar ticle on this subject which will appear in a future issue oi the University oi Oregon Monthly—probably the publica tion for the month of January. liis views are considered perfectly logical by iJrol. E. E. DeUou, head of the Mathematics Department, although the latter has never given the subject much study. Fourth dimensional geom ety has been occupying an increased at tention during the last few years, ow ing to the demolition ot the old atomic theories of matter by the discovery ol heretofore unknown properties in radio active substances. it carries with it such startling contradictory conclusions as that a body can occupy two positions at the same time, and that there is a vast world, inlinitely larger perhaps than any we are cognizant ol, co-exist ant with and occupying the same "space' as our own. The commoner facts that have lead philosophers to suspect the existence ol another dimension have been discussed and disputed for ages. Zeno, in ancient Greece, confounded himself m speculat ing upon the properties of ordinal) space and ended by denying the pos sibility of all motion. the mathema ticians long ago added to the confusion by demonstrating that parallel lines may meet and that plus and minus infinity are equal, or in other words, that a line projected to an inlinite length in one direction will finally return, mathemati cally, to its old position. Furthermore, ■ it can be demonstrated that numbers, the great measure of things intuitional in the human brain are variable. Even zero may vary, or at least, plus and minus zero are not equal. These facts proved beyond all doubt that the human brain was not so con stituted as to imagine all things within the scope of its reasoning powers. The new light thrown upon these subjects by Dr. Leonard’s discoveries goes furth er toward showing that there are still more things for the scientists to learn before they reach the end. the fort just west of the city limits, \\ hitman college would have the best possible site for their new buildings. 1 he hdO acres which the fort occupies is excellent property ami ideally located. It is understood that if the grant is secured Whitman college will have to educate the Indians of preparatory standing free of charge for all time. It is rumored that the present college buildings will be used for that purpose. President 1 aft and the secretary of war favor the project. I he class basketball teams are all picked for the coming games which will start next Wednesday. There was a meeting of all basketball men recently at which rules were discussed. The A. A. I', rules will be used for the con tests, qnd the players were warned a g* a in st violation of the two rules "hold ing" and "advancing the ball.” BASEBALL MEN CONFER AND FIX SCHEDULE (Continued from first page.) April 27—Washington State at Pull man. April 28—Washington State at Pull man. April 29—Idaho at Moscow. April 3U—laho at Moscow. Alay 6—Oregon at Corvallis. May 7—Oregon at Corvallis. Alay 12—Washington U. at Corvallis May 13—Washington U. at Corvallis. Alay 25—Washington State at Cor vallis. Alay 26—Washington State at Cor vallis. June 3—Oregon at Eugene. June 4—Oregon at Eugene. UNIVERSITY OE OREGON A! arch 29—Whitman at Eugene. Alarch 30—Whitman at Eugene. April 11—Idaho at Eugene. April 12—Idaho at Eugene. April '8—Whitman at Walla Walla. April 19—Whitman at Walla Walla. April 20—Idaho at Moscow. April 21—Idaho at Aloscow. April 22—Washington State at Pull man. April 23—Washington State at Pull man. May 6—-O. A. C. at Corvallis. May 7—O. A. C. at Corvallis. May 14 A. M.—Washington Univer sity at Eugene. Alay 14 P. M.—Washington Univer sity at Eugene. Alay 25—Washington State at Eugene. Alay 26—Washington State at Eugene. June 3—O. A. C. at Eugene. June 4—O. A. C. at Eugene. WHITMAN COLLEGE Alarch 26—O. A. C. at Corvallis. Alarch 28—O. A. C. at Corvallis. Alarch 29—Oregon at Eugene. Alarch 30—Oregon at Eugene. April 9—Idaho at Walla Walla. April 18—Oregon University at Walla Walla. April 19—Oregon University at Walla Walla. April 25—0. A. C. at Walla Walla. April 26—0. A. C. at Walla Walla. May 11—Washington State at Pullman May 12—Washington State at Pullman May 13—Idaho at Moscow. May 14—-Idaho at Moscow. May 16—Washington U. at Walla Walla. May 17—Washington State at Walla Walla. May 21—Washington State at Walla Walla. WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE April 22—Oregon at Pullman. April 23—Oregon at Pullman. April 27—O. A. C. at Pullman. April 28—O. A. C. at Pullman May 7—Idaho at Pullman. May 11—Whitman at Pullman. May 12—Whitman at Pullman. May 21—Whitman at Walla Walla. May 28—Oregon at Eugene. May 24—Oregon at Eugene. May 25—O. A. C. at Corvallis. May 26—O. A. C. at Corvallis. May 27—Washington U. at Seattle. May 28—Washington U. at Seattle. May 30—Idaho at Moscow. June 4—Idaho at Moscow. UNIVERSITY OE IDAHO April 9—Whitman at Walla Walla. April 11—Oregon at Eugene. April 12—Oregon at Eugene. April 13—O. A. C. at Corvallis. April 14—O. A. C. at Corvallis. April 15—Washington U. at Seattle. April 16—Washington U. at Seattle. April 20—Oregon at Moscow. April 21—Oregon at Moscow. April 29—O. A. C. at Moscow. April 30—O. A. C. at Moscow. May 7—Washington State at Pullman. May 13—Whitman at Moscow. May 14—Whitman at Moscow. May 30 W ashington State at Moscow i June 4—Washington State at Moscow UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ? April 15—Idaho at Seattle. April 16—Idaho at Seattle Superior Tailoring’ Style and Individuality of Appearance Characterize Clothes We Make to Order ' ‘.7hk the fellows ” Ralston Shoes are made to wear. Try a pair at— “The Haberdasher” 505 Willamette Street Campbell - Fell man Co. Complete House furnishers Students call at our New Store on Willamette Street YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD OUR PRICES RIGHT May 12—O. A. C. at Corvallis. May 13—O. A. C. at Corvallis. May 14 A. M.—Oregon at Eugene. May 14 P M.—Oregon at Eugene. May 16—Whitman at Walla Walla. May 17—Whitman at Walla Walla. May 27—Washington State at Seattle. May 28—Washington State at Seattle. GLEE CLUB LEAVES MONDAY FOR SOUTH The Glee Club wil leave for the trip south next Monday. They are schedul ed to sing in Ashland, Roseburg. Grants Pass and Medford. At Roseburg, the men will be under the hardship of being compelled to ap pear in the Armory, the opera house having been recently turned into a store. At the other cities, however, the pros pects seem bright for a successful con cert. Homer Billings, ’06, has been doing some splendid work at Ashland, aiding Manager Geary with the advertising. Several of the students from these towns going home for the holidays, are also helping him distribute hand bills and other matter. The trip will end at Ashland when the men separate. Oregon Sketch Book on Sale The long expected calendar by Fritz Dean is out this week. It is gotten up with the idea of making an inexpnesive but attractive Christmas gift for stu dents. The drawings all have a dis tinctive college flavor and are excep tionally good.