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OREGON EMGRAIsD UNIVERSITY OF OREGON VOLUME 11 EUGENE, OREGON. SATURDAY, JAN. 8, 1910. No. 24 ALL MUST BUY TICKETS TO FINANCE DEBATE EIGHT HUNDRED MUST AT TEND GREAT DEBATE NEXT FRIDAY Manager Steele Inaugurates New System to Finance Forensic Contests. Manager Steele has solved the prob lem of expenses in the coming debate between the University of Oregon and Utah, by putting the price of admission down to twenty-five cents, and asking every student of the University to lend his support by buying one of the tickets, whether or not he expects to attend the debate in person. This is the first time that the Utah team has been brought to' Eugene, the expenses are necessarily heavy, and Manager Steele realizes that the only sure way of meeting them is by an appeal to the loyalty of the student body. Eight hundred tickets will have to be sold if the menagement is to break even on expenses, and this means that practically every student will have to help to the amount of the price of a ticket. Tickets will be placed in the hands of some member of each of the frater nities, equal to the number of inmates in each house, and they will be expected to dispose of them. The sale of the tickets among the students who do not reside in any of the fraternity houses will be placed in the hands of others. It is realized by all that the students owe to their representatives in athletic lines, that their debaters are entitled to the best possible audience, and that the man agement of the debating work is eneti tled to the financial backing that will enable-it to make its department of the student affairs effective and successful Hence it is probable Manager Steele’s plan will meet with the hearty approval and co-operation of all the members of the student body. MONTANA IS IN FAVOR OF COLLEGE ORATORY The University of Montana does not think that college oratory is dead. Man ager Steel has recoived a letter from Washington, stating that Montana has expressed her interest in the Interstate Oratorical Association and has written for full particulars concerning it. Montana has been invited to take the place made vacant by Idaho’s withdraw al. The preliminary tryout to choose Oregon’s representative for this con test will me held the first Friday in the next semester. The contest will be held in Eugene about the first of May. To bring about a closer relationship between himself nad the students at Harvard, President Lowell has inaugu rated the plan of holding Sunday after noon receptions weekly. MUST BE THERE EARLY FOR DEBATE TRYOUT Appearances seem to indicate that the debate tryout scheduled to begin next I uesday night will be the largest and best ever held at the University of Ore gon. Every man in the last contest will come hack with a vengeance and there is no end of new men coming forward to try their luck at it. The debating fever is in the air now with the approaching proximity of the big Utah contest. Students who never thought of making the team before are getting to work, dettrmined to wear one of the gold "O’s” before the college ca reer is over. The librarian is kept busy digging up old musty records and the book stores have found it necessary to send in hurry calls for extra supplies of index cards and boxes. The mark set by Coach Buchen is thir ty contestants. Tf he is in a good humor, however, he may be prevailed upon to allow a few more to enter. Be there early so as not to get left out. The last contest will be public, so there will be glory for all. Professor Herbert Crombie Howe, head of the department of English liter ature, will speak in asstmbly Wednes day on the “Relation of Student Ac tivities to College Life.” H. B. ANDERSON Leader of Utah Team Dr Schmidt Edits Heimat An American edition of Sudemann’s Heimat with notes and introduction by Professor F. G. G. Schmidt of the Uni versity of Oregon German department, has just appeared from the press of D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. This is the eighth work that Profes sor Schmidt has prepartd for the use of German students and his hooks are wide ly used hy teachers in high schools and universities. He is also a well known writer in phililogical journals. Professor John H. Van Amringe, Dean of Columbia College, will retire from active work June 20, 1910, after completing his 50th year »of service on the Columbia faculty. The undergrad uates are preparing a monster petition for his appointment as dean emeritus. The Khoda Khan boys have moved into their new home, built especially for them on the corner of Eleventh and Alder streets. MONTH LATE, BUI GYM IS A FINE STRUCTURE “HAYWARD HALL” READY FOR BASKET BALL MEN IN TEN DAYS Equipment, Modern in Every Particular, is Conveniently Ar ranged-Apparatus not Ordered The new gymnasium which was to have been finished by January first is still uncompleted, and though the work has been rushed as much as possible, it will not be ready for use until the first of February. The oidy important work yet to be done is the' laying of the hardwood floor and some cement work around the swimming tank and shower baths. 1 he carpenters began on the former yesterday and they expect to complete the job in a week or ten days. The other wood work including the lower fioor is well under way and will doubt less be completed by the first of Feb ruary. The running track above the gallery wai be left till the last. The cement work 0:1 the swimming i .me and showers .vill be started im mediately and will be ready for use by the time the rest of the gym is com peted. A few of the showers, however, will be set up immediately for the use of the basket ball men. I he furniture for the new building canont be obtained until the Board of Regents meets. '1 hey expect to have a meeting next week, and the furni ture can be ordered imemdiately there after. Some of the furniture from the old gymnasium will be transferred until the new furniture arrives. 1 he structure is well planned in every wry. 1 he main door, laid in bard wood, is a good size for basketball, and it will also fill the requirements of all Uni versity social functions. 'I he gallery i just above is deep and sloped so that j the entire floor is visible from any point The running track above the gallery will be of inestimable value for fall and winter training. In the wing of the main building are the physical direc tor’s office and handball court. Locker rooms, ^shower baths, and the large swimming tank will occupy the ground door. There is also a concrete walled steam room for the steaming out of cripled anpd bruised athletes. Trainer Hayward said yesterday af ternoon that basket ball practice would be held in the new gym within ten days. The spuad has been working under great difficulties in the old gym, but good results are expected from the men as soon as they have better quarters. The first game of the season will be played on the new floor February 1st. This will give a week’s practice on a good floor. To bring notice to instructors who persisted in holding their classes over time the Nebraska Daily published a list of those who did not. Northwestern University is encour aging the building of fraternity houses on the caippus by offering free sites to the chapters willing to build. UTAH WANTS THREE MEN AT LAST MINUTE The Oregon-Utah debate will be held in Villard Hall next Friday night, Janu ary 14th. This dehate will he the third that has been held between the two in stitutions. Three years ago it was won by Oregon, represented by J. C. Veateli and F. V. Galloway, that victory decid ing the championship of eight states. Last year Oregon lost by a two to one decision. If the Oregon debaters can win this year, there is a possihiltity of repeating the championship of three years ago, since Utah holds a strong record for victories in the league of which it is a member. Collier, ’ll, and Spencer, T3, will rep resent the University of Oregon in the coming debate and L. II. Hamren and 11. B. Anderson will be the debaters for Utah. A telegram was received by Man ager Steele, of Oregon, Friday, com ing from Manager Perry, of Utah, and suggesting that it be made a three men debate and that each institution add another member to its team. Mr. Steele has rejected the proposal, however, since the Oregon team has prepared its debate for a team of two men, and the addition of another man at this late date, would he of no benefit, and might on the other hand seriously disorganize the debate that Coach Buchen and the two debaters L. H. HAMREN Colleague on Utah Team have been working upon. With prepar ations all made for the ground to he covered thoroughly by two men, the ad dition of a third would either be su perfluous or would require an entire rearrangement of the debate as thus far developed. Oregon has not been so successful in debates during the past two years, as could be hoped, but a reversal of its bad fortune is anticipated during the present season. The University is for tunate in having secured for a coach in yiehate, Gustave Buchen, formerly of the University of Wisconsin, who is work ing earnestly to bring about success for Oregon in debates of the present season. Mr. Buchen is a veteran orator and de bater and holds a brilliant record in both lines of work in Wisconsin. Among new features that he has introduced into the debate work of Oregon, is a system of tryouts, whereby the candi dates are put through a series of con tests, thus giving the judges a better opportunity for judging the various men’s merits than could be had under the old system. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BALKS ON CO-OP. PLAN BELIEVE RISK TOO GREAT IN PRESENT FINAN CIAL CONDITION Members Favor Store butt Pre fer to Wait for Student Body or Private Action. The plan of starting a co-operative store in connection with the Y. M. C. A. hook exchange by handling- Blue Books /during examination week was not fa vored hv the executive committee at their meeting yesterday. It was discussed briefly, but not being pushed energet ically, was allowed to drop. It was not that the committee was against the store so much. Individually, they favor it. But they considered it too radical a step for them to take offi cially. It would be better and safer, they thought, t*> wait for the students to take action in the matter or for some individual students to undertake it. Since the student body cannot take the proposition up before the coming examinations, there are several students looking into the matter with this idea in view. In fart some had thought of it before and if the book exchange will sell their books on commisison as they of fered to do for the student body, it is probable that the plan will be carried out. The University of Michigan museum is to receive some 4,(XX) rare coins, dat ing back to the early Roman empire, besides a number of manuscripts, pam phlets and hooks which have been col lected at Cairo, Egypt. Next summer the museum will send two representa tives into Mexico to collect historical specimens. The Yale Dramatic Association has received a large donation for a theatre to he used exclusively by themselves. LEADING IN GONE SO CLUB CAN'T PLAY Ralph Moores, leading man in the Dra matic Club play, "A Likely Story, scheduled for this month, was taken seriously ill last Thursday with bron chitis and forced to leave school for his home in Salem. In consequence, the date for the play is uncertain and plans may have to he radically changed. The rehearsals have been progres sing nicely and under Miss Julia Bur gess, insturetor iti the hnglish depart ment, the members of the cast are show ing great ability in handling their parts. They till regrejt that the misfortune may delay the presentation until next semester. The Women’s Tennis Club will hold an important meeting next Monday afternoon at four o’clock. All members are expected to attend.