OREGON
EMERALD
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
VOLUME 11
EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 9, 1910
No. 37
SENIORS GIVEN PARTS
IN “CAPT.LETTERBLAIR”
PROF. GLEN SAYS “BULLY”
WHEN ASKED HIS
OPINION
Senior Play Contains Pretty Ro
mance of Heiress Trying to Aid
Her Lover
The cast for "Captain Letterblair,”
this year’s senior play, which is to he
given in the Eugene Theatre on April
9th lias been assigned by Professor
(den as follows:.
Captain Letterblair—Dudley Clarke.
The Dean—Harold Bates.
Seaton, a barrister—Benj. Williams.
Smithers, a lawyer's clerk—Joel Rich
ardson.
Pinkney, the Dean's secretary- -C. P.
Shangle.
Jorkins—Roy 1 erry.
Meriville—Wm Kiltz.
Fanny—Miss Frances Oberteuffer.
Polly—Miss Ruth Duniway.
Hyacinth—Miss Jennie Lilly.
The plot of the play revolves about
the love of a young heiress, Fanny, for
Capt. Letterblair. Letterblair is a hand
some and brilliant soldier, whose great
ambition is to fulfill a promise made to
his father just previous to the latter’s
death. The father was at one time
president of a large hank, hut it failed
through no fault of his and he devot
ed the rest of his life to paying off the
creditors. He was unable to pay off
all of them, however, and while on his
death bed made his son, Capt. Letter
blair, promise to carry on the work of
clearing the name of Letterblair.
Fanny, knows of Letterblair’s cir
cumstances and desires to devote some
of her vast fortune toward helping him;
hut she wishes the money to come from
an unknown source; so she instructs
her attorney to “squeeze” a certain
debtor and to give the money to Let
terblair. -This debtor happens to he
the Capt. himself and in her efforts to
aid him she is bankrupting him. It
turns out all right in the end, however,
and Fanny and the Capt. are married.
Meriville, the villain, complicates mat
ters but in the end is discovered and
exposed. The Dean’s secretary and
Polly engage in a strenuous love af
fair and much humor is found in the
witty dialogues between Capt. Letter
blair and others.
Professor Glen is well satisfied with
the cast he has chosen, in fact, his
choicest adjective “bully,” never used
hut to expres great satisfaction, was
applied to this cast.
! he Seniors are working hard and
i: ■ energy nor expense will he sparred
in their effort to present the best play
,;i the history of Senior plays. The
''Mimes will be secured from Fred
'' "nder, of Portland, who has one of
'inest costuming houses in the West.
Since 1892 John 1). Rockefeller has
•'•'■ven to American colleges $93,485,000.
' is makes an average of five and a
m millions yearly.
O. A. C. will now have two hands,
>' second band serving as a feeder
the First Regiment Band when any
of its members drop out.
iiYi ERCOLi^EGIATE AERO
eLUB *6 BE'FORMED
l ho University of Oregon has re
ceived an invitation to participate in
the lorination of an intercollegiate aero
association, the purpose of which will
ue to stimulate interest in Hying among
American colleges.
1 he convention will be held April 1
and 2 under the auspices of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, with the sup
port of Columbia and Cornell. As the
invitation stated, the plan is to form an
intercollegiate association to be allied
with the Aero Club of America, of
which Courtland Bishop is president.
Intercollegiate contests will be arranged
and the interest in aeronautics stimulat
ed in all possible ways.
pdie notice reads: “Apparently an en
tirely new science is springing up in our
midst, that of aeronautics. The Ameri
can college which has always been first
in progressive science should not neglect
this held.”
The Oregon Agricultural College is
planning to give a circus in the near
future.
The sophomores and freshmen of
Syracuse have a snow rush every win
ter.
SIX UNIVERSITIES TO
ENTER BIG TRACK MEET
ALL COLLEGES ON COAST
TO SEND TEAMS TO
BERKELEY
According to present plans the six
big Universities of the West; namely,
Leland Stanford Junior University, the
Universities of California, of Nevada,
of Idaho, of Washington and of Ore
gon, will compete in a track meet to
be held at Berkeley on May 14th.
The team from each University is
to be limited to fifteen men, all of whom
must be either regular students carry
ing not less than ten hours work, or,
special students not having less than
fen college hours to their credit. More
over, “no student shall be eligible who
lias represented his University or any
Other University more than three track
Reasons seasons previous to the sea
son of 1910.”
The order of events in the track con
tests' will be: (1) one mile run, (21
100 yard heats, (3) 120-yard hurdle
heats. (41 100-yard final, (5) 120-yard
hurdle final, (6 ) 440-yard run, (7) two
mile run, (8 ) 220 yard hurdle heats, (91
220-yard dash heats, (101 one-half mile
run, (11) 220-yard hurdles'final, (12")
220-yard dash final. Tn the field events
the order will be: (1) 16-pound ham
mer throw, (2) running high jump, (31
shot put. (41 running broad jump, (51
Dole vault.
The finances of all visiting teams are
to be provided from the net gate re
ceints of the meet. The apportionments
are to be based upon the railroad rates
from the points of starting and return,
and hotel expenses in Berkeley. Tf the
j net gate receipts are not sufficient to
nav in full the expenses alloted them,
; each team shall receive an amount in
nroportion to the amount originally
| alloted.
MISTAKE MAY LOSE
CONTEST FOR OREGON
ROUNDS’ ORATION HAS A
HUNDRED WORDS
OVER LIMIT
Oregon’s Best Place Will Be
Fourth In Composition—Three
Other Offenders.
A mistake in interpreting the rule
that iifteen hundred words shall he the
maximum allowed in the Oratorical
Contest next Friday night may cause
Oregon to lose. It. J. Rounds, the lo
cal representative, understood that ar
ticles were not to be counted and as
a result his oration contains about one
hundred words over the limit.
This harassing condition of affairs was
not discovered until after the papers
were in the hands of the judges. The
secretary of the association noticed the
mistakes last w ek and immediately
wrojte Manager Steele notifying him
of the fact. A hurried consultation was
called of Coach Buchen and members
< .f the Oratory and Debate Committee,
and word was sent that the mistake
was unintentional, permission also be
ing asked to take back and revise the
oration. Whether this request will be
granted or not is not yet known.
The constitution of the Intercollegiate
Oratorical Association provides that one
per cent shall be deducted for every
word over the limit. If this penalty
is carried out literally, Rounds’ mark
ing will be reduced to nil and the minus
signs of algebra will have to he called
into requisition. So far as known,
lmurovpr flirv r*rmctitnt inn rlnpc tint nrn
vide for any mark less than zero.
The one saving hope in the matter
is that three other papers are also over
the limit, and one of them is worse
than Rounds’. The latter is from O.
A. C. and contains over seventeen
hundred words. This fact was discov
ered 1>y Manager Steele before his at
tention was called to the others and
life and the other Qregon men that he
talked to had decided to overlook the
matter or at least allow the oration to
he revised. Accordingly, they believe
that the same courtesy should be ex
tended to the other offenders. The
other two men that have exceeded the
limit are the Willamette and Pacific
University representatives. They have
fjnver words than has Rounds hut they
ive over fifteen hundred by about fifty
seventy-five words each. Just what
excuses the other offenders have to of
f(*r is not known,
i If Rounds is not
\fise his paper, the
can hope to get in
reduce him to fourth
system of summing
will count twelve
permitted to re
highest mark he
composition will
place. Under the
up averages, this
against him. Con
ceding him three firsts in delivery, a
very rare acocmplishment, the best rank
he could make would be fifteen points.
It is seldom that a contest goes to a
man with even this good a mark, so
| it looks as though nothing short of a
| miracle could land him the prize.
A. F. Flegal, ex-’12, was recently
elected manager of the Willamette Uni
versity baseball team.
PRESIDENT CAMPBELL
TAKES BOOTH S PLACE
i he nrst ui the series ui six auUresses
to be given betore the 'toung iVien s
Christian Association on the choice ot
a vocation will be heard on Friday
evening in Ueady Hall at seven o'clock,
senator Booth was scheduled to give
tins address but owing to a business
engagement in Salem he cannot be pres
ent and President Campbell will speak.
1 he subject tor Friday night, "the
Choosing oi a Vocation,” is prelim
inary to the addresses along delinite
vocations, including, the ministry, teach
ing, business, engineering and law. In
order to get the full benefit of the ser
ies it will be of advantage to hear
all six of the talks. As usual the meet
ing, beginning promptly at seven will
he dismissed at seven-fifty.
fhe Oregon Agricultural College will
probably meet Brigham Young Univer
sity in a dual track meet at Salt Lake
this spring. If possible it will be made
a triangular meet with the University
of Utah as the third school. O. A. C.
is also planning to send some of her
best men Fast to compete in the West
ern Conference meet to be held at
Chicago.
FROM 0. A. G. TONIGHT
WILL BE FIRST BASKET
BALL VICTORY FOR
OREGON
Should Oregon win the basketball
game from O. A. C. tonight, it will be.
the first time in the history of the
game here, and present indications are
that this is the best opportunity they
have ever had.
This year Corvallis has not made
such a brilliant showing as has been
her usual custom. On their trip they
lost all but one of the games played,
and that one they won from Idaho. On
their home iloor, however, they have
won from every team with the excep
tion of Washington State College, with
v horn they broke even.
Oregon on the other hand has devel
oped, in the past few weeks a whirl
wind team. The passing and team work
lias improved one hundred per cent
since the Idaho games and the play
ers have gotten a much better grasp
of the intercollegiate rules than they
have shown heretofore this season.
Oregon, chiefly because of the lack
of an adequate place in which to prac
tice, causing the interest in the game
to run low, has never won from O. A.
C. But now with the fine new gym
nasium completed it would seem that
the time had come to turn the tables
| on the Agrics.
Corvallis’ line up will be, Horton
and Keed, forwards; Keck, center; and
Pugh and Cooper, guards. I he first
named is said to be the best forward
it' the Northwest. Oregon’s line up
will be, Ruth, center; Jamison and
‘•Mein, forwards, and Walker and F.lliott
ards.
'I'lie University of Nebraska has art
I annual interfraternity track meet.
GAME PROBABLY OFF
CANNOT AGREE ON DATE
FOR BIG FOOTBALL
CONTEST
Unless O. A. C. Will Relinquish
Claim There is no Chance for
Agreement.
On account of conducting dates, it is
Very probable tli.it the annual football
game between the University of Wash
ington and the University of Oregon
will not he played next year. 1 lie con
diet seems unavoidable and no one ap
parently is responsible for it.
I he agreement between Oregon and
0. A. C. provides that the two colleges
shall alternate in naming the time and
place for their game. I his year it is
O. A. C.'s turn, and, in accordance with
ibis agreement, they have designated
.November 12th as the time.
Now, it so happens that November
12th is the dale Washington had left
open for the Oregon Washington game,
anil Manager Xednick insists that it is
their only open date. Unless Oregon
accepts it, he says, they will sign up with
Washington State College.
Early in the year, Oregon's manager
submitted the fourth, lifth, eighteenth
and nineteenth of November as open
dtites, from which Washington might
choose. These dates are all filled, how
ever, and unless the Corvallis manager
will change his date, there is little pros
pect of the two state universities reach
ing an .agreement. The lnixttp is very
unfortunate and may leave the Confer
ence Colleges with an undivided cham
pionship next year. The only redeem
ing feature seems to he that it is forc
ing Washington and Pullman into amic
able relations that have been severed
since their unfortunate row two years
ago.
GIRLS’ CLUB WILL
START SPRING TENNIS
An enthusiastic meeting of the girls’
tennis club was held this afternoon at
which over twenty attended.
It was decided to have the courts put
in condition immediately and in the near
future, weather permitting, to have a
formal opening of the season. Mildred
Bagley, business manager, reported that
dues were coming in rapidly and that
much interest was being taken in ten
nis by new girls. She also reported a
comfortable balance in the treasury to
begin the year on.
Next Friday .it four another meet
ing will be held to vote in new members.
I he officers of the club for this year
are Marion Stowe, president: Maude
Seals, secretary, and Mildred Bagley,
business manager.
Plans are being perfected for several
tournaments this spring.
The students at the University of Cal
ifornia are thinking of sending their
track team ligst this spring to compete
ui the We-tern Conference meet to be
held at Chicago.