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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1910)
VOL. XII. EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12, 1910. No. 6 ROLLICKING GOOD TIME ON TAP FRIDAY NIGRT NDOOR RALLY WILL BE BEST IN HISTORY OF COLLEGE Cider, Weinies, Boxing and Wres tling Will All Combine to Rouse Old Time Oregon Spir it In Most Sluggish Student Rich in noise, spice, beef, brawn, cider and sausage, the indoor feature rally is browned to a turn, and will be served to the Oregon rooters on the half shell, Friday night, in the Gym. The boxing and grappling bouts are bona fide and will be pulled off as advertised, the names only being fictitious. The wrest ling and boxing classes have brought out a wealth of good material, and from these will be drawn the contestants. No decisions will be rendered by the fam ous referee, secured especially for the occasion, and each bout will be of lim ited duration. There are no handicap affairs, for any difference in weight will be balanced by fitting a prisoner’s boot upon the lighter man and tying down one arm of the heavier one. The names of the contestants are to be kept under lock and key until eight fifteen of the night of the rally, when the famous an nouncer, “Maggie” Phone will intro duce the principals. The college band which has been un going organization will be bolstered up by the addition of several hired musi cians making in all a thirty-six piece silence eliminator under the leadership of the bass drummer, though there will be at least one other soloist. The uni forms for this occasion will be mostly catch as catch can. The evening’s festivities will open with an overture by the band, the hymn “Marquis de Queensbury.” To provide rooters’ hats for all, a vendor of classy head harness will be on the grounds with an unlimited stock. The management wishes to announce that, all those who are unsupplied may secure a lid by bringing along a little extra change. A quantity of glasses, cups and tomato cans have been secured and will be served brim full to the dry throated rooters by trained cider sling ers. The merchants of the town have con tributed liberally to the rally fund and it is through their liberal assistance that it has been possible to complete the rather elaborate plans. “Everything for Oregon” will be the slogan translated literally, and the man agement announces that any attempts at clannishness will be broken up and as sayed. Oregon spirit will be instilled into two by four hearts and the man that said Oregon spirit was dead will be a candidate for the undertaking frater nity. Mrs. Alice H. Dodd, who was last year house mother at the Kappa Alpha Theta house, is now touring the world. She sailed September 12th for the Ori ent, and from there she will go to In dia, where the greater portion of the winter will be spent. Mrs. Dodd ex pects to be away two years, after which she will return to her home in Salem. PLAN RADICAL CHANGES IN PAN-HELLENIC RULES The Pan-Hellenic Association met last Tuesday night to make some changes in the present rushing rules. An entire ly new set of rules has not been de cided on, but the members of the asso ciation are planning some radical chan ges. Pledge day will be earlier next year, so the rushing season won’t be as long as this year. If arrangements can be made for the accommodation of the guests, they will not live in the differ ent houses. A good boarding house will he provided, over which an official chap eron will be placed. Here the girls can stay during rushing season, and then after pledging day can go to the houses. A discussion of other rules was car ried on in the last meeting, but no other changes were definitely planned. L. H. Gregory, who started the fa mous “Midnight Doughnut,” is attend ing the University of Washington this year. He is taking special work in the excellently equipped journalism de partment opened last year at Washing ton, under the direction of Professor Thorpe. FRESHMEN LOOK GOOD Gordon Moores Will Prepare Youngsters for Their O. A. C. Game Rumor at this time has it that un less Fenton, Hall, Caufield and Fiser are transferred to the Varsity squad, the freshman football team will be un usually strong. New signals and new formations are being perfected, and the team rounded into shape for its initial game, which will be played with E. H. S next Sat urday on Kincaid Field, just before the alumni game. The classy Eugene High team, with a number of veteran players will be the “Frosh” adversary. Eugene High has always made a good record against Or egon, and will put forth a special effort Saturday. Besides the four men mentioned above, other freshmen who are showing up well are: Cobb, Bean and Reynolds in the back field, Bradshaw and Annu son at the ends, and Grout and Ferger son in the line. Gordon Moores will probably be given entire charge of the freshman team in the future, and will make every effort to round it into a shape that will carry the O. A. C. babes off their feet Novem ber 5. The freshman game between the Or egon and O. A. C. freshmen will un doubtedly attract much interest this year, not only on account of the excel lence of the teams, but because, as Mr. Moores says, “the outcome of the fresh man game, to a large extent, predicts the future strength of the college teams.” Mrs. J. C. McAdams, of Portland, is visiting her daughter, Maurine, at the Kappa Alpha Theta house for a few days after which she will take up her residence at Professor Straub’s for the winter. Harry Swart and H. F. Clarke are sophomores in the Law Department of the University of Oregon at Portland. ALL NORTHWEST MEN 10 OLD TIMERS WILL FIGHT TO PUT SPIRIT IN VARSITY Team Will be Made Up Mostly of All-Northwest Men Who Are Veterans of Many Games Manager Pinkham lias, this last week, received numbers of encouraging letters from the old stars, and from present indications there will be a brilliant gal laxy of them twinkling on Kincaid field next Saturday. Numbers of them are planning to sac rifice business interests and to revisit the gridiron to show up Coach Warner's bunch. Spectators are generally surprised at the fierceness of these games, as they are generally the hardest fought of any early season contests. The alumni in variably come up with the determina tion to tryout the mettle and gameness of the new fellows, and while their wind lasts, always show the Varsity a good time It is not uncommon to see a vcterai lineman deliberately rough the younger man to teach him foxiness and fight. The alumni team will be largely com posed of All-Nortluvest men, men who have even national reputations. George Hug will play center. In 1906 he played against Overfield, the All-American man, who acknowledged Hug to be the strongest opponent he had ever faced. Khaki Moullen will be back in the game doing the alumni kicking. It is a fact not sufficiently realized that Moul len holds the world’s record for a place kick, having dropped the ball over from the 55-vard line against Tdaho in 1908. While playing for Oregon, he made 127 points by kicking. Jack Latourette will play quarter, and the Latourette family needs no intro duction to Oregon football fans. Jack played quarter four years, and was for three years an All-Northwest selection. He has been playing club ball since grad uation, and is in excellent condition. Last year it was his timely place kick that defeated th Varsity 4 to 0. The story of the Templeton boys, Frank and Joe, is a classic in Oregon football history. Frank was one of the greatest defensive players that ever wore a suit, and any freshman that bumps into him on the field will learn a little of the old style ball. Jack Hickson, ex-’12, will probably hold down an alumni wing, and should get away with a forward pass or two. Louis Pinkham needs no comment. He has given the Varsity four years of excellent service, and as he is in the pink of condition, should be a valuable man for the alumni. Altogether the alumni will be stron ger than ever before, and unless the Varsity is alive, the old grads will roll a bigger score than last year’s 4 to 0. Jessie Hurley, who has been visiting at the Gamma Phi Beta house since the opening of college, returned to Port land last week. Ormond Rankin and William Cake, ’10, are making a short visit at the Bea OWL CLUB WELCOMES TWENTY FRESHMEN rhe Owl Club met at the Lambda Rbo bouse last night for the first meet ing of the year. Homer Maris, '13, was elected pres ident, as lie represents the first grad uating class ever put out by Washing ton 11 igh School. The Owl Club is composed of students from Washing ton. and is organized for the twofold purpose of sociability and advertising for the University. The Owls keep in touch with their prep school, and en deavor to attract students to Oregon. The success of the organization is wit nessed by this year's increase in mem bership from 8 to 28. The new members are: Ellice Shear er, Rose Busier, Maurine McAdam, Lu cia Macklin, Norma Dobie. Marjory Rankin, \\ m. Bennett, Win. Fergerson, Henry Fowler, Charles Fowler, Byron Houck, Fred Anneson, Parks Morden, Waldo Miller, Delbert Stanard, Colton Meek. Sophomores: Aline Noren, Net tie Drew, Elizabeth Lewis, Carin Deg ermark, Homer Maris, Henry Bauer, Warren Cozens, Lloyd Barzee. U ENROLLS GLASSES Workers Will Start a Whirlwind Campaign to Fill Classes A unique feature in securing a large enrollment for the courses of Bible Stu dy that are presented by the Y. M. C. A. will be attempted on Thursday even ing, when Walter Huntington, chairman of that department, will head a commit tee of forty men who will make a quick canvass of all the men in the Univer sity between the hours of seven and ten. Huntington has set his aim at se curing an enrollment of .two hundred men this year. He has picked out three or four of the most interesting and ed ucative courses of study, and has se cured a number of strong men from the Faculty, the students and the business men to lead these courses. The stand of the committee in asking all the men of the University to sign up for a course is that whether a man can agree with the principle of the Bible or noe, his education is decidedly incomplete without some knowledge of this book, that has had such a decided influence on civilization. The campaign will be started off by an address by Mr. Henry W. Davis, former religious work director of the San Francisco Y. M. C. A., and also of the Portland Association. The week ly Y. M. C. A. men’s meeting which usually is held on Friday evening, has been changed for Thursday evening this week, in order not to interfere with the big rally. The meeting this week will begin promptly at seven, the ad dress by Mr. Davis on the subject, “The Value of the Bible in Modern Educa tion,’’short and to the point, will be given at 7:15, and the committee of forty or fifty men will begin the cam paign at 7.45. At 10:00 the committee wil come to gether at the city building to report and enjoy a feed, together with all the men of the school who will accept the invitation to present themselves at the city building after they have been in terviewed concerning enrollment in one of the courses. EUGENE WILL HI LAST HAVE FILTERED WATER STANDARD FILTRATION PLANT IS BEING INSTALLED System Guarantees Water 98 or 99 Per Cent Pure. .Plan Has Worked Excellently Where Tried Elsewhere The $40,000.00 filtering plant ordered for the city of Eugene at the bonding election last spring, is well under way, and will probably he delivering water 99 per cent pure by the first of the year The footings and moulds for the con crete have been completed for some time, and this morning the concrete crew began to fill the moulds. This part of the work should be completed within two weeks, and the remainder, including the setting up of the filtering apparatus itself, should not require more than two months, say the members of the Eugene water committee. The water is pumped from the river into two large settling tanks, 20 feet in diameter and 19 feet high. From these tanks it is led to the filtering units. Four of these units, each with a ca pacity of 500 gallons each twenty-four hours, are to be installed at once, and foundations set for two more to be in stalled as soon as the needs of the city warrant it. After settling through four feet of fine quartz sand, chemically treated to prevent the passage of bac teria, the water settles in a large well, from which it is pumped into the city mains. Every twenty-four hours the filters are washed thoroughly with fil tered water. Frequent tests made on water passed through this process have demonstrated that it runs from 98 to 99 and in rare cases 100 per cent pure. The pumps will be run by electric power from the municipal plant on the McKenzie. The plant is very similar to the one which has been giving eminently satis factory service at Oregon City. The New York Continental Jewel Filtration Company, which has installed filtration plants of a similar nature in numerous American and foreign cities, is install ing the gravity units here. One of their plants, that at Alexandria, Egypt, which has a reputation for the dirtiest water on earth, is producing water with a very high purity. The fight for pure water at Eugene has been long and varied. Now that the Springfield sewage and other im purities present in the Willamette river are to be removed from the product consumed by Eugene people and Univer sity students, there is a marked feel ing of relief, not only in Eugene, but all over the state. Yell Leader Robison and a corps of lively assistants have been busy today plastering the town with the rally post ers. The posters are one of the most original things ever seen on the campus, and though replete with illiteration and nonsense, will no doubt fulfill the purpose, and attract students to the ral ly. Only a limited number have been printed, and those not posted will be later sold, as souvenirs.