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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26, 1910. VOL. XII. No. 10 COACH WARNER TAKES SEVENTEEN MEN ON TRIP Valuable Men Lose Places on Team as Result of Injuries. Five Recruits on Squad. The Varsity squad is in good shape for the game with Idaho, and will leave Thursday for Moscow. Several men are out of the game on acount of inju ries and can not make the trip. Kay, who broke into the game recently, will lie out because of an injured shoulder. Mitchell will be out for the rest of the season on account of his knee, which was hurt last year. Jamison will also turn in his suit because of his parents’ objection to the game. As nearly as can be stated at pres ent, Coach Warner has announced that the following men will be taken to Mos cow: Michael, Fiser, Anneson, ends; Bailey, Flail, Widlund, tackles; Fenton, Grout, guards; Kellogg, Caufield, cen ters ; Taylor, Latourette, Main, Walker, Means, Bartell, Chandler, backs. Annesen, Hall, Caufield, Fiser and Bartell are new additions to the Var sity squad, but have shown sufficient class in past performances to warrant their being given places in the first menu 1 lie University of Idaho has a strong ■ team, and Oregon expects to play one I of the hardest games of the season at Moscow next Saturday. The alumni and Puget Sound games are the only ■contests Oregon has taken part in this I year, and neither of these are consid ered a fair test of the strength of the _Varsity team. The alumni game was I a burlesque affair, and in strength the P. S. U. team was far below the par of Coach Warner’s scrub eleven, which (meets the Varsity in daily scrimmage. Oregon will be weak in the punting [department this year. The main depen dence of the team is upon Fenton, who |has the earmarks of a number one punt r, but lacks experience. During the games of the past four fc'ears between Oregon and Idaho, the (University of Oregon football team has cored eighty-two points against 32 or Idaho. In 1906 Oregon won from lie Moscowites by the score of 12 to 0. ill of Oregon’s scores being due to lace kicks by Moullen. In 1907 Ore on defeated Idaho 21 to 5 in Portland, his game was famous because of the rst appearance of the wonderful Idaho (pread. in lyUc Oregon won irom ldano at Moscow in one of the hardest fought ootball games ever played in the North vest. It was in this contest that Or gon was forced to finish the game with •ut ten men. Tn 1909 the Oregon team overwhelmed he Idaho squad, in Portland, by the core of 26 to 6. Rev. Henry Marscum visited at the Seta Theta Pi house Tuesday night, oming down from Albany to see Nor rian Hackett in “The City.” He and Ir. Hackett are Theta Delta Chi fra irnity brothers. Mr. Buchen speaks to the Eutaxians Wednesday evening. DR. BENNETT TELLS WHY GIRLS COME TO COLLEGE Y. W. C. A. Hears an Interesting Talk by Psychologist Monday afternoon the women of the L niversity listened to the second of the talks planned by the Y. W. C. A. Dr. Bennett, of the Department of Psy chology, spoke on the. subject, “Why Girls Come to College. Dr. Bennett outlined several aims which a woman should have in entering a college. They were, in brief, to acquire skilled knowl edge and power; that is, to gain a knowledge of the purposes of lift—what is her relation to other people? To Christ? To the church? To the home? What is the value of suffering? She should aim to gain a knowledge of the values of life, the value of money, of beautiful, tasteful things, the value of time, and how to employ time most effectively intellectually, socially, aes thetically. She should strive for a greater knowledge of human beings and her own place in society. Lastly, in college, a woman sihould emancipate herself from the narrowness which is transmitted from the centuries behind us; she should get to see the race as a whole, freeing herself from all that is narrow. If she gains all this knowl edge, and realizes the truth of the max im, ‘Knowledge is light, and ignorance is death,’ her education has been worth while.” Prospects Never Better for a Real Championship Team With one of the best floors on the Coast on which to practice, and a squad of thirty men working hard, ' every night, the interest in basketball has largely increased. This is one branch of athletics in which Oregon has al ways been handicapped, but with the new gym floor completed last winter, basketball bids fair to become one of Oregon’s major sports. All of last year’s men are back, as well as a number of men with prep reputations. Captain Jamison expressed himself as well pleased with the out look. He says, “Oregon will have her first championship team.” As soon as the football season is closed, a series of interclass and inter frat games is to be played. The win ner of each will receive a handsome tro phy cup. The most prominent players brought forth by these games will be chosen for the Varsity squad. foremost among tne new men in school is Carl Fenton, of Dallas, whose wonderful speed and all around play ing have made him known throughout the country. He was a member of the famous Dallas team which toured the East two years ago, and won 78 out of 84 games played. Prominent other men who are planning to turn out for basketball are Cobb, Motschen bacher, Young, Houck, Bradshaw, and many others. An inland trip will be taken during the Christmas vacation similar to that taken by the baseball team in the spring. The same teams will be played here later in the year and such an outlook for bas ketball bids fair to become a very pop-' ular sport. GREEN CAPS SAV AEL EMERALD REPORTER GETS VIEWS OF CELEBRITIES ON GREN CAPS Variety of Solutions Are Given, But All Think Rule Should be Enforced Rigidly. Many members of the 1914 class have made no pretense of wearing the green caps, and many who wore them at first have discarded them altogether, or wear them only occasionally. Desiring to learn the sentiment of the student body o nthis situation, the Em erald interviewed prominent students and faculty members, and herewith pub-I lishes their opinions. Percy Collier, President of the Stu- j dent Body, said: “The Freshmen should | be made to wear the caps by all means. I I believe it should be put up to the Freshman class to make its erring mem bers come to time. The general boy cott on all freshmen without the cap might help also.” "Chuck" Taylor, captain of the foot- j ball team, said: "The freshmen should certainly be made to wear the green caps. The clubs and fraternities can do a great deal in improving the ob servance of the rule. The boycott worked pretty well last year, and might do good this year.” Mr. Lowell, a prominent senior, said: "Beat 'em over the head and then throw ’em in the millrnre There dnpen’f seem to be any other way.” Carin Degermark, debater on the wo men’s team last year, said: “Put the responsibility on the freshman class. Let it pass some sort of a social boycott on its reluctant members.” Charles Robison, yell leader and booster of “Oregon Spirit,” said: “Bar all freshmen who do not wear the green caps from student functions. These functions are for college men. Two things make a college man: his books and his college life. Deficient in either, he is no college man.” Thomas Burke, leader of the Glee Club, said: “The rule is no good unless all freshmen are made to observe it. Some strenuous method of enforcement should be adopted. We will see to it that the freshmen on the Glee Club wear their caps on the tour.” Prof. Glen said: “The chap who wears the green cap demonstrates that he is a good fellow, whether he admires the architecture or not.” Willeftta Wright, members of wo man's council and secretary of the Pan Hellenic society, said: “Put the mat ter up to the freshman class, and let them make it a matter of class loyalty.” Raphael Geisler, member of the ex ecutive committee, said: “Post the names of all freshmen who do not wear the cap, in the Emerald or on the bul letin board.” Dean Collins, editor of the Monthly, said: “Everybody should boycott them, especially the members of their own class.” Miss Fitch leaves today for Chicago, after having installed the Tri Delta sorority here. She is a sister of the George Fitch who writes stories of col lege life for the Saturday Evening Post. MUSICAL INTEREST HERE j NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH Prof. Glen Speaks Thusly in Talk ing of New Choral Club Last spring a choral club was organ ized in the University, under the super vision of Profesosr 1. M. Glen, and pro duced a musical carnival, the May 1'"es tival. Both men and women participated, and much valuable training in vocal culture was obtained under Professor (den's capable direction. The Festival was not a financial success, however, and by their non-support the students greatly discouraged efforts for musical development. The University is fully capable of supporting such an organization as the Choral Club, but it will not be revived unless the students give evidence of increased interest and support for next spring's production. Professor Glen says the students are in a state of musical coma and should he vigorously aroused. “Music is not dead, but sleeping.” Fenton’s knee is in good shap again and he is now lofting the oval for good yardage. Dud Chirk has done Ore gon's punting for so long, that no star punter has been developed in recent years. Fenton, however, seems to tit into the kicking shoes satisfactorily. Kay broke into the game encourag ingly for a young player by scoring a touchdown in the alumni contest. CLUB WILL VISIT ONTARIO Has Been Sending Her Graduates to Idaho University The Glee Club, in going to Ontario this year, will visit a part of Oregon never before visited by an Oregon club. I his part of Oregon has been sending most of her high school graduates to the University of Idaho, for it is nearer and they have felt that they belong more to Tdalio than to Oregon. Ted Lister, a graduate of Oregon, living in Ontario, wrote to President Ogden the first of this school year, ac quainting him with the condition of affairs, and urged him to bring the club there. He said, “the people in this sec tion of Oregon do not feel that the Uni versity of Oregon is their University. The Glee Club has made many trips to Eastern Oregon, but not once has it visited this part. If you fellows will come to Ontario, sing before her stu dents and get acquainted with them, you will win the whole country for the University.” The proposition looked good, and Manager Stein immediately made ar rangements to take the club there. Ontario has about one hundred stu dents in her high school, and Vale, a town only six miles from Ontario, has about seventy-five in hers. An excur sion will be run from Vale, and the Or egon boosters assure the Glee Club that its audience will he limited only by the capacity of the theater. The University members of the Lambde Sigmas, a prep school frater nity, gave a banquet to Norman Hackett Tuesday night. Hackett is a Lambde Sigma. COACH PREDICTS HARD OREGON WILL PLAY FAST, OPEN, KICKING GAME Bill Hayward Plans to Have Ev ery Man Carry His Own Jug of Pure Eugene Water. \\ hen asked today if he expected an easy game at Moscow, Coach Warren said: "By no means. I expect a very hard one. We will play an open game, with plenty of kicking and passing. The men have a hard gruelling ahead of them , and will be handicapped in that respect. I he difference in elevation, too, may make some, difference to the players. We will also miss a day’s practice this week, as Friday will be spent on the train.” I he team has not improved as much this week as hist, said Mr. Warner, and I expect a hard game Saturday. A new feature for football trip will be instituted by Trainer Hayward for this trip. Teams often suffer on trips from a change of drinking water, and the Moscow water is especially bad, be cause of the high percentage of alkali. On tlie hist Moscow trip the team drank mineral water. I his trouble will be obviated by taking along fifty gallons of pure water in demijohns. Each man will carry his own jug, and Bill prom ises to test each jug at intervals to gu.,nl against injurious fo'reign sub stance being contained therein. Moscow, where the U. of 1. is lo cated, is .on a branch road out of Col fax, Washington. The team will have a special car, which will be sidetracked a la theatrical party, at the held, and will leave at the conclusion of the game. Last year the men were compelled to dress in the baggage car, without baths. Another misfortune was the unaccount able delay of the suits, which compelled the use of worn out togs belonging to the U. of’l. This year’s management, however, proposes to avoid such difficulties and assures the twenty men a pleasant trip.| The team will return Sunday even ing on the 9:25. NEW MEMBERS CHOSEN FOR MANDOLIN SECTION The prospects for the Mandolin Club are far better this year than for many seasons past. Professor Warren has been training the eight men twice a week, and under his direction a fine program is being prepared. The greater portion of the members are new men, but all have had considerable experi ence, and the club is much better than it was last yea rat this time. Due to extremely heavy college work Rothchild, Devereaux, Moore and Bean will be unable to be with the club. Pos sibly eight men will be carried this year. So far as can be ascertained, the fol lowing men will be carried: Cy Ste vens, II. Young, Dean Collins, Buford Roach, Allen Smith, Hugh Currin and Ted Williams. The Washington State College Ever green is edited by a co-ed.