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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
W. C. NICHOLAS .’10
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Ralph Moores .T2
Fay Clark .’12
Calvin Sweek .’ll
Dean Collins .’10
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FRITZ DEAN .’ll
ASSISTANT MANAGER
C. A. OSTERHOLM .’12
Saturday, January 15, 1910
A Lesson Learned
Why did more than thirty candidates
sign up lor the debate tryouts tins year
and then less than half ot them come
outi e reason is, we believe, that two
teams were selected at separate tryouts.
And this tact should lie remembered hy
those m charge next year.
i he new system sould not have caused
anyone to stay out, hut the fact is that
it did. Freshmen simply saw in the new
men who made places the first time, ad
ditional sure place debaters and re
fused to try with all places full.
! he plan of having a series of tryouts
is excellent. It should be kept by all
means, and perhaps extended. Hut the
men on till teams should be selected at
one series of tryouts and given to the
coach to use as he thinks they will be
most effective. I lie leaders should also
be selected by the coach, not as leaders,
but simply as hist speakers. The place
should not carry with it any honor
more than the holder showed himself
worthy of in the final debate. If tile
place in itself carries honor with it, it
gives the coach a dangerous power to
promote favorites. Hut the coach
should have the right to place the men.
Get to Work Early
I'lii* midyear examinations are only
a few weeks away and it may be worth
while to give the freshmen a little
friendly advice.
hirst, the student's entire college rec
ord is largelj determined by his work
at this time. A bad mark is hard to
live down. Besides, with all chance for
honors lost, why try to live it down?
Second, probably [more students
"tlunk out" at the end of their tirst sem
ester than any other time. Such a mis
fortune would be considered a disgrace
at horn eand would ruin what might be
a splendid career, Better not take any
chances.
I bird, the time to "cram" is during
the semester,—not the night before the
examination, b very "night before" has
its "morning after". It is not yet too
late, but it soon will lie
A crowd like last night’s makes a
debater feel that his work is worth
while. Of course they won.
Who can now sa> that Oregon is alii
for athletics; \nother "side-show" at
least is recognized, if not the circus.
“Bill" Woods, W, is engaged in en
gineering work at \\ asbougal. W ashing
ton.
I
I lie near approach of the famous
Halley’s comet, has called to the mind
jf Professor Dunn a case of “mistaken
identity” that is highly humorous but
in spite of the fact that it was “on him”,
he has consented to relate it.
"I had been invited to attend an ‘at
home’ by the Latin instructor in our
local high school and to address the
class in whose honor the occasion had
been planned,” said Professor Dunn
concerning the incident. "Happening
to note that the date assigned was the
eve of the March Ides, the suggestion
readily came to my mind to take advan
tage of the coincidence and discuss the
assassination of Caesar. His deification
with the ‘Iuliunt sidus’ (Her. Carm.
1, 12, 47) as the nucleus of my address.
Only an hour or so previous to my
coming before the assembled company,
I was overjoyed to stumble upon waht
was to me a most astounding discovery.
Armed with it, I expected to take my
audience by storm.
■'In Duruy’s History of Rome, Vol, ;
III, Sec. 2, page559, foot-note 2, may be
found this comment upon the ‘hairy j
star' that played such an important }
part in the apotheosis of Caesar, 'The
comet which appeared at that time was ]
i 1 alley's.’ Even that early, although it
was March of 1904, public interest was
becoming alert over the expected reap
pearance of the great comet in 1910, so
that the above statement was, to say
the lesat, decidedly attractive. The time
to give my address was almost upon me,
and I had not the slightest hesitation in
accepting the dictum of Professor Ma
haffy, who, as the English editor of
Duruy's History, I knew was responsi
ble for the note. My peroration was a
magnificent effort, something to this
effect. ‘And so, if we are spared to
live until 1910, we shall have the pleas
ure of looking again upon the blazing
emblem that is the soul of our great
Julius, jmptiimoirphosed to the realim
where it surely belongs, a seat above
the greatest of Rome’s gods’.
It was not until almost a year atter
these March Ides of 1904 that 1 found,
to my horror, that, without the leader
ship of M. Jules Verne, 1 had been ver
itably ‘off on a comet’. In February of
1905, i again took up the theme in a
more elaborate vein, recasting it to
present before the Faculty Coloquium
of the University of Oregon. Somehow,
a doubt crept into my conscience about
that brilliant finale of my former ad
dress, perhaps because, in all the popu
lar accounts of the several appearances
of the comet and of the historic events
with which it was connected, no men
tion had elsewhere been made of so sin
gular an event as the assassination of
Caesar. 1 therefore began a systematic
study from an astronomical standpoint
and was shocked to learn how far astray
I had been unwittingly led. Unlike
(ialileo, 1 am only too anxious to pub
lish my recantation, in the hope that
others may avoid digging the same pit
for themselves and pulling their fol
lowers therein after them. A glance at
the table of reappearances, or, if that is
not available, a simple mathematical
process, will quickly prove the futility
of identifying 1 (alley’s comet with the
lulium skills’, for the nearest appear
ance to the date in question was prob
ably in 11 B. C., thirty-three years after
tbi‘ assassination and the celebration of
Octavnan's games, when the comet is
distinctly said to have appeared.
" l his curious but unfortunate error
should be given publicity, for the popu
larity and widely accepted erudition of
the editor are quite apt to disseminate a
very gross misconception, to which my
own experience bears witness."
\s Professor Dunn is at the head <sf
the University of Oregon Latin depart
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ON HENRY GEORGE
AND HIS SINGLE 1AX
The Assembly Hall Wednesday morn
ing will be occupied by John Z. White,
a national lecturer on social, economic
and political questions. His subject
here will be "Henry George and His
Philosophy”.
'Mr, White is well known and attracts
large crowds wherever he speaks. At
present he is engaged in delivering a
series of lectures throughout the United
States under the auspices of the Henry
George Lecture Burean, New Yoix.
Tuesday night Mr. White will give
an address down town, probably in the
Court House, and Wednesday night at
eight o’clock he will talk to the students
in the chemical lecture room in Mc
Clure Hall. His subject will be “The
Single Tax”. An attempt will be made
to persuade him to discuss the present
political situation in Great Britain
where the Liberals are introducing
Henry George’s ideas in the new budget.
O. A. C. Has Chess Club
Corvallis, Jan. 14.—The Chess Club
which was organized at the beginning of
the year is progressing rapidly. Meet
ings for playing are regularly held and
much interest in the organization is
being shown by both the students and
the faculty.
The manager of the 1910 Orange
tJunior Annual) has handed in his
final report, which shows the book to
have been a financial success. Eleven
hundred copies were printed and the
cost per book was $3.61, while the sell
ing price was $2.50.
tnent and considered an authority on
all historical points concerning the an
cient Romans, this story is rather
amusing. The moral doubtless is “we
arc never too old to learn”.
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The University of Washington Daily
makes the following statement concern
ing the work of one of their alumni.
“Men of Destiny," an oration by Mar
tin Musser, who won the Tri-State ora
torical contest in 1906, is included in
"Representative College Orations," a
collection just issued by Professor
Edwin DuBois Shurter, of the Univer
sity of Texas.
lhe book contains between forty and
fifty orations selected from the work of
the leading colleges of the country. The
University of Washington is the only
coast institution represented.
The university work is somewhat sim
ilar to a text of rhetoric and oratory,
by Professor Shurter, which was edited
last year, and in yhich the oration “lhe
Foundations of the State" by Herman
Allen, '09, held a prominent place.
The Daily is mistaken, however, when
it says Washington is the only Pacific
Coast university represented. Robert
W. Prescott's oration, “The Reign of
Law," which won the intercollegiate
contest against six others in March,
1908, is printed in Professor Shurter’s
work. Prescott is an Oregon alumnus.
At the meeting of the freshman class
Friday, January 14th. a request from
the executive committee was presented
asking that they eradicate the numerals
| on the grand stand. The class intme
I diately voted for the appointement of a
committee to look after the work.
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Dr. Stuart will address the Woman's
Council of the senior class at a busi
ness meeting to be held in Professor
DeCou’s room, in Villard Hall, Tues
day afternoon at 4 o’clock. Her sub
ject will be “Nutrition” and will be
along the line of preparing proper food
for the tables of the women’s clubs of
the l niversity. Other business in reg
ular course will be brought up at the
; meeting.
Beginning with January 21st, Profes
! sor Shaefer will dekver a series of lec
tures in Portland under the auspices ot
the Portland Library Association. His
I subject on January 21st is “Ancient His
torians”; January 28th, “Dr. Wm. Rob
ertson"; February 4th, “Edward Gib
uon ; February 11th, "Thomas Carlyle ".