OREGON EMERALD
Pubished 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 .’10
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Ralph Moores .’12
Fay Clark .’12
Calvin Sweek .’ll
Dean Collins .’10
MANAGER
FRITZ DEAN.’ll
ASSISTANT MANAGER
C. A. OSTF.RHOLM .’12
Debaters, Get Busy
Next Tuesday night, in less than a
week, the tryout for the two big Var
sity debating teams begins. '1 hese teams
will contain three men each. The six
men who are successful should be the
very best that Oregon has.
Oregon has not won in debate since
three years ago. 1 his year, nothing
less than undisputed championship
should be satisfactory. Idaho and
Washington are her big rivals. The
greatest efforts should be concentrated
toward winning from them.
In the tryout for the Utah team, when
only two men could win, twelve com
peted. In the next tryout, when six
can win, conceding that one team is as
important as the other and figuring it
out mathematically, at least thirty-six
should compete. Every student in the
liberal arts departments should see to
it that the number does not fall below
this.
No one should stay out because he
has lost once or because he is new and
unknown. I he last tryout showed con
clusively that the old days when a man
could make a team on his reputation
were passed. The same conditions
will prevail again No man has a place
cinched. A judge, hearing a man only
once, will hesitate to put him above an
old and well tried debater, even when
lie appears to be superior. Hut when he
has three or four times to try him and
the result is always the same no such
difficulties for new men are encoun
tered. Accordingly the new men es
pecially should embrace this opportu
nity to make the Varsity debating
teams.
Remember, no student with ability to
talk and think can give a legitimate ex
cuse for staying out of these tryouts.
There are about fifty in the debate
and public speaking classes alone. No
one who is in one of these classes can
complain when Oregon loses if he does
not help win by trying for the teams.
The students can handle Blue Books
for about half the price the stores
charge for them. A conservative esti
mate places the profit to be made on
them at from twenty-live to fifty dol
lars. Why not begin with them to start
a co-operative store?
Arthur M. Geary, manager of the Glee
Club, spent a part of his vacation visit
ing at his father's fruit farm in South
ern Oregon. Mr. Geary expects to take
charge of the farm immediately after
graduation, and make fruit raising his
future vocation.
Miss Kthela Stearns, of Pacific lTni
versity, visited her mother at the Mary
Spiller house during the holidays.
William Main, Bob Kellogg and
“Brick" Michael spent the holidays
working at Wendling.
BASKET BALL TOURNA
MENT NEARING CLOSE
In Trainer Hayward’s office is a
beautiful silver cup waiting to be en
graved with the name of the winning
class in the basket ball tournament, of
which four of the six games have now
been played.
At present it looks as though the
sophomores would win the trophy as
with but one more game to be played
they have a perfect record. They de
feated both the juniors and freshmen
by scores of 32 to 17 and 50 to 26.
The seniors and juniors stand next,
each having won one and lost one game.
The freshmen are in the cellar as they
lost to both the sophomeres and seniors.
The two remaining games of the ser
ies will be played within the coming
week between the seniors and sopho
mores and juniors and freshmen.
It is probable that the new gymnasi
um will not be completed in time for
these games so they will have to be
pulled off in the old gym.
At the end of the series Hayward and
the four captains will select a squad of
ten men from which the varsity will
be chosen. A close watch has been
kept on the individual players in the
present series and the points made by
each man kept track of. This will give
the judges a good line on the capabil
ities of the men.
The schedule condensed is as fol
lows
Scores previous games :—
Sophomores 50; freshmen26.
Seniors 16, juniors 33.
Seniors 21, freshmen 13.
Sophomores 33, juniors 17.
Yet to play—
Sophomores- seniors.
Juniors-freshmen.
Societies Debate Live Questions
Two up-to-date questions are sched
uled in the men’s literary societies Sat
urday night. The Laureans will talk
"football’ and the Philo's ‘Vo-operative
store”. Following are the complete pro
grams :
PH 1LOLOGIAN PROGRAM
Declamation, John Shantin, Raphael
Geisler.
Address, C. W. Robison.
Current Events, Earl Marshall.
Debate, Resolved, That a student supply
store should be established at the Uni
versity of Oregon. Affirmative, Ferd.
f^truck, Walter Bailipy. Negative},
Raymond Thomas, Walter Fisher.
Parliamentary drill, C. P. Shangle.
LAUREAN PROGRAM
Address, 11. H. Clark.
Parliamentary Drill (five minutes) Ar
thur Geary, leader.
Debate, Resolved, That the colleges
comprising the Northwest Confer
ence Association should substitute
Rugby football for the game of foot
ball now played by them.
Affirmative, Gabriel, Ed Bailey, A
M. Collier. Negative, Latourette,
Statsney, Zimmerman.
Subscriptions Being Taken
The tivo solicitors appointed early in
the year In Manager Leslie Dobie of
the 1911 Annual began work this week
taking subscriptions for the book which
they claim is now on its way. Before
the end of the semester they will have
canvassed every club and fraternity
house, giving every student a chance to
order a book in advance.
The plan is to give a discount for
advance orders, as was done last year,
and till orders must be secured by a
cash deposit. Furthermore hardly any
books will be printed over what are ac
tually ordered, so that hist year’s fail
ure will not be duplicated.
DUNN’S BAKERY
Bread, Pies, Cakes and
Confectionery, abo 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 $bop and Baths
Six Chairs. On: door north Stnccde hotel
W. M. RENSHAW
Wholesale and Retail
CIGARS AND TOBACCO
513 Wilamctte St.
V^VVWWWvVWyWTWWTWVVTYTYTTTTtT1
Register Job Dept.
Gilded, Embossed and Engraved Fraternity and Club
Stationery.
Dance Programs that are different.
Invitations and Calling Cards, Printed and Engraved.
Chapter Letters and Petition: Given Expert Attention.
Window Cards and Advertising Matter of all Kinds.
Punched Sheets to fit any Loose Leaf Note Book
Kodak Books Made to Order, 25c and up.
The /Horning Register
Ralph Cronise, University Correspondent
The Morning Register will have complete reports of all
student activities, both on the Oregon campus and from other
Northwest college:. Watch our Bulletin.
Delivered to any part of the city, per month 50c.
& ♦♦♦ ♦!« *5* *5* -£» *$*■ ’v*«5**!*-*3mJ* ♦♦♦
W. A. Kuykendall, Pharmacist
Chemicals, Perfumes, Toilet Articles, Stationery Free Delivery
ye Oregon Critic of
Critics visit tbe==
Palace of Sweets
-and be pleased
THE C. E. SCOTT CO.
UNIVERSITY TEXT BOOKS AND SUPPLIES
PENNANTS AND BIGGEST LINE OF POST CARDS IN THE CITY
OPTICAL AND JEWELRY DEPARTMENTS
Are in charge of a registered graduate Optician and a competent Jeweler.
537 Willamette St. Phone Main 546.
JOIN OUR SPRUCE UP CLUB
Four suits cleaned and pressed.
Charges: $1.50 a month. We call for
and deliver.
The Pantorium Dyeing and Cleaning Works
Black 7131 59 East Ninth
Manville & Hempy
HOME FURNISHINGS
36 East Ninth Street
Is Roosevelt Right?
Ex-President Roosevelt proposes that all
corporations engaged in inter-state com
merce be required to take out a national
charter. This question will be debated by
UTAH vs. OREGON
JANUARY 14, 1910
VILLARD HALL
8 p. m.
25 Cents