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OREGON EMGRAED UNIVERSITY OF OREGON VOLUME 11 EUGENE, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5, 19*0 No. 23 STUDENT SUPPLY STORE MAY BE STARTED HERE BOOK EXCHANGE OFFERS TO SELL BLUE BOOKS ON COMMISSION Executive Committee to Consider Plan of Beginning Co-operative Store at Once. The co-operative store suggested in a recent issue of the Emerald is now pos sible and will be considered by the ex ecutive committee of the Associated Students at the regular meeting next Friday. They will consider the plan of handling Blue Books as a start dur ing examination week. An opportunity for carrying out at once this plan was offered last week when the Y. M. C. A. agreed to handle the books through their book exchange for a commission of one-half cent on each book. This would leave a profit of at least one cent on each book, to say nothing of the infinitely greater con venience of having them on the campus instead of down town. The idea of a co-operative store seems to be taking well with the students, and several members of the faculty are tak ing an active interest in it. Registrar Tiffany says he has had such an es tablishment in mind for some time him self. The only objection so far en countered is from some who favor in dividual initiative in the matter rather than have the student body undertake K. M. Brown, becretaryoltne i. ivi. C. A., said before leaving for the East, that he was surprised to find no “co op.” here. He attempted to enlarge the scope of the Y. M. C. A. to include such a work but, meeting with opposition from the down town stores was forced to give it up. He said, however, that he would be glad to give the students his aid through the association. The sentiment of the executive com mittee is unknown as two of the mem bers have not yet expressed their opin ions. Two of the other three, however, were favorable. The third really fa vored the store but was doubtful wheth er the executive committee should un dertake it. B. H. Williams, President of the As sociated Students, expressed his entire approval of the idea. Vice President Jamieson was' also favorable, saying that he had exper ienced the need of ’t himself in his ca pacity as baseball manager, where lie could secure a large rebate through n in ordering supplies. Of course their approval was only ex pressed as to the general idea ana they may not favor the plan of acting through the Y. M. C. A. But as there is at present no room for any other ar rangement, this seems the probable way it will start. The matter will be defin itely decided, however, next Friday. The Kappa Alpha Theta girls, in cluding those from the Washington. California and Stanford chapters, 'had luncheon at the Portland Hotel De cember 22nd. HAYWARD WANTS NO RUGBY AT OREGON Trainer Hayward returned from Van couver Monday where he was sent by President Campbell to investigate the merits of the English as compared with the American game of football. His report is decidedly in favor of the lat ter. Hayward saye he was grossly, mis quoted in Vancouver and Portland pa pers which expressed him favoring Rug by over American football. All that he did say in this line was at a banquet in Vancouver where he re marked on the excellent passing dis played in the series between University of California and the Vancouver Ath letic Club. Bill's opinion is that Rugby is not as good a game as the American and much more dangerous. From the spectator's standpoint,he says there are some spec tacular stunts but that the American game is far and away the better of the two. In the Christmas series that Mr. Hayward witnessed one man was taken out with a fractured skull unconscious for thirty hours. He blames the fast open held work for most of the football injuries and thinks a hard collision in an open held more dangerous than the congest ed mass plays of the American gan»^. The Rugby game also allows the ball to be kicked, thrown or carried and as there are no downs a downed runner may be robbed of the ball. This often results in a man’s head being kicked in stead of the ball. Bill believes that Rugby would not do at all here in the Northwest where some teams play clean and others dirty ball. There are many ■opportunities for rowdy tactics that would place a premium on roughness. It is his personal opinion that the game will not be changed in the Northwest, he himself preferring to abolish the sport entirely rather than borrow the foreign game. IS WEDNESDAY TUESDAY, OR DID EDITOR’S LEADER STUMP THE OFFICE BOY? “Where’s my Emerald?” said a fresh man to the editor last night. “Emerald,” growled the learned one. “This is Tuesday.” “Oh, yes,—er—that’s right,” agreed the disconcerted freshman as he retired hesitatingly and stole a look at the near est calendar. Not until several others confirmed him, however, was he quite certain. Then he knew the awful truth. The editor must have made a mistake and the paper was a day late. Another version is yet more startling. All dur ing the holidays, so the story goes, the editor spent sleepless m'ghts \yorking on a ponderous editorial—a malsterpiece. Wednesday morning he sent the office boy to the printer with “copy”. The boy being curious stopped to read the news and stumbled upon the great leader. Dr. Holmes tells in one of his verses how such curiosity affected his serv ant and it may be that the office hoy found the reading too heavy. At any rate, the copy never reached the printer and the pape/ was a day late. The most distressing feature of the catastrophy, from the editor’s viewpoint, is that the great leader is now out of date and can never appear. And herein lies the secret of the first late Emerald in history. GLEE CLUB TRIP IS SUCCESSION OF TRIUMPHS OREGON STUDENTS MAKE HIT WITH SOUTHERN OREGON PEOPLE Much Improvement Shown— Management Most Successful in History of Clubs. . From the newspaper reports and the enthusiastic account of each member of the Glee and Mandolin Clubs, the third concert tour of Southern Oregon was a succession of triumphs for the Univer sity. Beginning with a “rip-roaring” success in the Roseburg armory, Mon day, December 20tb, each succeeding concert at Grants Pass, Medford, and Ashland was livelier and made a grand er hit than the preceding one. As one of the many favorable newspaper com ments reads, “There was a ‘go’ and ‘jin gle’ to things that would make even a clam open up and imbibe the spirit of the jolly college boys."—(Ashland Tid ings.) The trip was a success in more ways than one. The men on the clubs made a hit wherever they went and by their agreeable democratic manner won much favor for the University. As the same clipping from the Tidings continues, “'! hey were a gentlemanly lot of fellows and deported themselves as such during their r«tay here, a fact that was favor ably commented upon, in contrast to some other college aggregations that have appeared in Ashland in the past.” The several songs sung by the Glee Club before each high school, alone, did much toward centering students’ attention on “Oregon.” The Glee Club undoubtedly has im proved since the Eugene concert. Fran cis Curtis as Madame Yelba in the "Italian Salad." one of the innovations on the program, brought down the house with regularity, despite the fact that he was handicapped by a fearful sore throat which made him screech life an Apache Indian in the concert at Medford. On account of Curtis’ cold, at ^shland Ogden standing in the chor us close behind the “pretty one” sang the song while Curtis completely fooled the audience by making the motions with his mouth. The three “college beauties” in. the “Falsetto Trio” were very attractive and had many friends to meet them at the stage entrances, although Burke with his somewhat ro bust form queered the deal at Ashland when he relieved Curtis of his part. Ogden, and Powell made a great hit in “Wanted, an Accompanist” stunt. The former waxed eloquent at Ashland, where he told of the rippling brook as it -flowed down Ashland canyon past the Chataqua building, and later raised the roof fairly by coming on the stage with his pants rolled up, purporting to have just arrived from the “wet” town of Medford. Powell almost made his trombone talk in his solo and aroused favorable comment all along the line. The soloists were pronounced good— Burke and Frazer doing especially well in the "F'ire in the Frat.” This skit ( Continued on last page.) DORM GOES UNDER STUDENT CONTROL I lie l niversity of Oregon Dormi tory, which has been under semi-stu dent control for several years has now been granted a constitution giving it full control of all matters dealing with the members, the only reservations being that physical punishment shall not be used. I he first meeting under the new constitution was held last night when officers for the rest of the year were elected. 1 he management of the Dormitory has never been entirely satisficatory, and since last year when so much atten tion was attracted to it through the un fortunate Bristol bath-tubbing incident, matters have steadily gone from bad to worse. At last President Campbell con sidered the idea cf taking direct charge of it through monitors instead of the old plan of having student committeemen who were supposed to report infractions of the rules When this plan was heard of, some of the older men appealed to him to give the students full charge and he de cided to make the trial. The board of control elected last night now has power to make and enforce all rules and the men are left free to conduct the establishment as they please with the understanding that if the plan does not work the more drastic measures will be substituted. I he officers elected last night are President, W. C. Nicholas; Manager, George Poysky; Secretary-Treasurer, Walter Huntington; Board of Control, Chester Downs and Herman Wetter horg. EIGHT TO ONE AND A BABY’S PART FOR SENIOR PLAY!—NOT MUCH If you were a high and mighty senior, how would you like to take a baby’s part in a play? If you were the lead ing lady, how would it suit you to ap pear dressed in horrid men’s clothes? And above all, if you were a senior girl wouldn’t you kick if a play was selected with eight male characters and only one female part ? These are only a few of the difficul ties the senior play committee has met with and in consequence they have des paired giving it until next semester. They announce, however, that the com petition has been narrowed to two plays, one of which will he selected. Their nature and title are still a deep secret hut manager Terry expects to have the winner in his hands before long. the reasons for rejecting so many plays are numerous. One required a baby’s role to be assumed ; and while it was not doubted that seniors could he found to carry the part with success, it was thought to be an insult to the dignity of the class to admit it. An 'other called for eight boys and one girl hut the jealousy of the female members of the class over who should he the one girl, killed the chances of that play. Considering the difficulties and dan-* gers of choosing the wrong play, the members of the committee believe they were entirely justified in taking their time even though the delay will necessi tate putting its production off until next semester. SERIOUS AND SACRED WAS GREEK THEATRE PROFESSOR STRAUB LEC TURES ON ORIGIN OF MODERN DRAMA Actors Rivaled Moving Picture Performer^ in Versatility, all taking More Than One Part. The Greek Drama and Theatre was the subject of an interesting lecture by Professor J. 11. Straub, head of the Greek department, in assembly this morning. Saying that the origin of the drama came from the Greek desire to repre sent the abstract in the concrete or to make visible to their senses the subject of their thoughts, Professor Straub showed how the first form of this rep resentation was sculpture and painting which reached a state of high devel opment under the Greeks. Idolatry was also one form of this representation and this developed into the system of impersonating their characters and ideas with living people. Professor Straub said that the drama was originated and developed by the Greeks and all others except the Chi nese and Persians, which are inferior, were copied from the original Greek. The theatre was a public institution among the ancients and all were ad mitted for a small charge which was uniform throughout the whole theatre, those coming first being first served. People who were too poor to pay the six cents admission were admitted free. I he theatre was a sacrea place ana small offenses on those occasions were treated severely. Even the act of eject ing another front his seat was punish- ^ able by death Each player assumed two or more characters and extra features, such as soldiers on the stage were considered as distracting from the central part of the play. One of the characteristics of the mod ern drama is curiosity but this, Profes sor Straub said was not the purpose of the Greek. The main idea of the Greek drama was to picture destiny. A large part of the story was taken for granted because the audience knew the story. The religious character of the play elim inated all amusement and curiosity. The time of the play was limited to two seasons of three to five days each. Some lasted continuously for several days and included a number of differ ent plays. There was no gorgeous scenery or change of scenes. The mod ern drop curtain was not known and it was impossible to picture the inside of a room. Harrowing scenes were not given hut were left to the imagination and murders were represented by bring ing the murderer and his victim onto the stage after the deed was done. The Sigma Xu’s who remained over during the holidays gave a little dinner oarty to a few of their friends on Thursday,December 30th. The after noon was spent playing cards and vari ous games.