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VOL. XII EUGENE, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. JAN, 18. 1911. No. 27 fGENTS ASK SPECIAL $409,418.92 IS BUDGET FOR THE ENSUING TWO YEAR PERIOD This Sum Provides for New Ad ministration Building and Other Needful Improvements. The Board of Regents of the Univer sity of Oregon met Tuesday morning, January 17, at 10:00 o’clock, in this city, and transacted important business. All of the regents were present except Mr. J. C. Ainsworth, Mr. Frederick Hol man and Mr. Miller. The Board will recommend to the legislature the following appropriations for the years 1911 and 1912: For additional maintenance, including new instructors, increase in salaries, cor respondence study department and Sum mer School, $47,000; addition to men’s dormitory, kitchen, store room, repairs, etc}.. $10,000; Eleventh sitreet paving (assessment made by the city), $3,000; completion of swimming pool in men’s gymnasium, $5,000; expense in changing and moving present athletic field to new ricld in order that the present site may be occupied by new buildings, $10.000; laboratory apparatus and equipment, $30,000; for the purchase of additional land, $15,000; for addition to Electrical Engineering building, $15,000; Univer sity printing plant, $8,000; administra tion and commonwealth" ouilaifigj fixtures and extension of heating plant, $175,000; Medical School, for building, $30,000; for equipment, $10.000; and maintenance for two years, $20,000. R. W. Prescott was appointed secre tary to the President, at a salary of $1,200 a year. Altogether, the recommendations of the Board of Regents call for a special outlay of $409,418.92, and this is the size of the appropriation that the legisla ture will be asked for. It is under stood that the bill will be presented to the lawmakers within the next few ■days. President Campbell’s report was sub stantially the one' on which the Re gents based their recommendations. 1 he President’s report, however, called for $10,000 to repair Deadv Hall, which the Regents did not include in the budget. BOAT HOUSE MAGNATES IN SERIOUS TROUBLE Chief -of Police Farrington served of ficial notice on F. L. Chambers to re move the new boat house that is being instructed on the bank of the mill r tee, just opposite the University. The building, it is said, extends part way into the street, and must be removed from city property. Mr. Chambers, who is building the h mse in conjunction with Paul Bond, ' the University, will find exactly where be stands before taking action on the c'ise. The removal of the rising edi i e to a distant situation will mean a > nous loss in convenience to students. The schedule of the inter-frat league will not be followed exactly until aftcr the exams. Only one game will be P yed each afternoon at 4:00 o'clock. 1 he schedule will be resumed after ihe f'-ims, and from the date where taken up again will be played through sccor d.ng to the original schedule. The games left out on account of the one game a day rule will be played o: at the end of the schedule. James Johns and Harry Stine have re-entered college after a week’s rest. Mr. E. C. Mercer Administration is Conducting Census of Student Expenses The University of Oregon is making an attempt to secure reliable statistics on the cost of living at the University. Each student is being requested to fill out and hand in to the office a list of questions, which were distributed the first of the week. The questions deal with the entire expense of a year's work at the Univer sity, including railroad fare, registra tion fee, laboratory fees, books, board, room, laundry, clothing and incidental expenses. Tlie individual figures will be kept confidential, and the hearty co-operation of the students is asked in giving as ac curate figures as possible and in get ting them in at once. The following are the questions asked: 1. Railroad fare from your home to Eugene? 2. Amount of laboratory fees (list separately each lab.) 3. Gymnasium (locekr fees) ? 4. Cost of books? 5. Board and room per month (list separately where possible) ? 6. Laundry per month? 7. Other incidentals, not including clothes? 8. Clothing (if you care to give this estimate) ? GLEE ILL SING AGAIN That the Glee Club will give a re turn concert is now an assured fact. Manager Stine, who returned a few days ago from a short vacation in the mountains, has completed arrangements for a concert in the Eugene Theater; the date has been fixed, but Mr. Stine is not yet in a position to announce it. Manager Smith, of the theater, states that he refused .an engagement for a good road attraction, considering the Glee Club a better drawing card. Both he and Mr. Stine have been kept busy answering inquiries about a second con cert, both from students and towns people. The club, to a man, express themselves heartily in favor of the ar rangements now completed. Last year the second concert of the Glee Club was held under unfavorable conditions, just before the Easter hol idays. For that reason the concert was not very successful from a financial standpoint, Manager Geary netting only $50. This year expenses will be light, and from all indications the success of the coming concert is regarded certain. Some people are kicking about having boiled water in their soup. ********** 1XTER-FRATERX1TY LEAGUE * Won Lost Pet. * Beta Theta Pi Sigma Xu Kappa Sigma .. Tawah . Avava . Beavers . 5 5 4 2 3 3 Delta Sigma . 1 Dorm . A. T. O.... Sigma Chi Acacia 1 0 0 3 4 .S33 * .333 * .800 * .666 * .600 * .600 * .333 * .250 * .200 * .000 * .000 * DOUBLE HEADER BASKET BALL GAME ON FRIDAY VARSITY TO PLAY PACIFIC AND JUNIORS WILL PLAY SOPHS Student Officers Will Present Championship Cup to Winning Class Team. The University of Oregon basketball quintet will be seen in action for the first time this season next Friday night, when they will meet the team from Pacific University. As a preliminary, the Juniors will play the Sophomores versity and the handsome Laraway Harold Cockerline, Manager Var sity Basketball I cup. Some officer of the stu dent body will make the presentation immediately after the game. It is ru mored that both captains are preparing their speeches of acceptance. The cup has to he won but once to become the permanent property of the class win ning it. .Manager Cockerline secured a game with the Chemawa Indians several days ■ go for next Friday, but the Indians have called off the game, and Pacific then arranged for 'the date. The Pacific University team has played a number of games this season in the State Inter-collegiate League, and has shown up exceedingly well They are hard fighters, and the contest next Fri day will probably b no "walk away-’ game. Just what the Oregon quintet can do in the line of basketball is yet a matter of doubt. The team will be picked from the new practice squad whir|i has been posted, consisting of Jamison, Fenton, Simms, Walker, Elliott, Watson, Service, Moore, Perkins and Kay. Tn order to play off the preliminary game without prolonging the Varsity ' contest late into the night, the whistle will be blown at 7 :45 sharp. An admis sion price of thirty-five cents will be . charged. A large attendance is urged | to make the contest a financial success. Every grind has a day, but the pig gers have the nights. Sec. E. C. Carter Keen Competition for Positions on Basketball Team The Varsity basketball squad is fast rounding ouit into a collection of stars. Of tbe original dozen, Watson, Senior; Jamison, Elliott, Barbour, Fisher, Jun iors; Sims, Walker, Service, Sopho mores; and Fenton, Stevenson, Rice and Roberst, Freshmen; practically all are seen on the floor for practice every afternoon. Stevenson, who sprained his ankle t\yo weeks ago, is again in con dition, and is making up for lost time. I Henceforth the Vorsity squad will [practice daily, at the conclusion of the 4.00 o'ck.ek imcr-frai game. Friday evening the team will play the Chemawa Indians, a fast quintet, with a good record for the season’s work. As a preliminary, the final inter class game, Juniors and Sophs, will be played off. As this game is to decide j the inter-class championship, keen inter ] est is expected. | Much discussion of the relative merits iif aspirants for first team honors is heard around the campus. Announce ment of the promotion of several more men to the Varsity squad is looked for I within a few days, and it is rumored that three men will be dropped. 'I he women of the University are displaying a lively interest in the for mation of the Emerald inter-sorority basketball league, and the present indi cations are that every sorority and club, as well as the onside girls, will be rep resented by a team. Ur. Ilertha Stuart, when seen today, sanctioned the project afficially, and said: "I believe girls’ basketball, when played under women’s rules and when strictly refereed to eliminate roughness, to be an excellent sport. We hail fa mous co-ed teams at my college, Mich igan, and the games were very inter esting.” Ur. Stuart went on to state that the inter-sorority league should not begin until next semester, but that she would be glad to co-operate with the different sororities or Women’s Coun cil in arranging the schedule and reg ulations. Seven sororities and clubs have sig nified their intention of entering teams, and as there are many girls included v ho have played preparatory school bas ketball, some interesting and keenly contested g mes may be expected. They’re coming back from the jun gles dark, with their typhoid symptoms pone; they’ve probably had a fancy lark, but now their job is on. E. C. MERCER ENDORSED BK ALL WHO BEAR RIM COLLGE SPEAKER WILL BE HEARD FRIDAY AND SATURDAY He Comes Under the Auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and Will De liver a Series of Talks. I ho coming of Mr. Mercer, who is to speak at Villartl Hall on Saturday evening, is the occasion of considerable comment on the campus. Some discus sion of his methods has been heard in volving more or less criticism, on the Vround that he talks altogether too plain ly. and that his remarks, rather than being a benefit, are a harm. To some this may seem to l>e true, but the ob jection is usually heard from those who are not acquainted with his actual meth ods. Wherever he has been heard on his present trip down the coast, he has received the unanimous approval of fac ulty and student. President Penrose, of Whitman, Dean EJdridge, of Idaho, and the Dean of Pullman College, have all given their hearty indorsement of the lecture and the man. President Jordan, of Stan ford, in a letter recently received, says: “Referring to the lectures of Mr. Mer cer, permit me to say that I regard them as extremely valuable in turning the thoughts of college men in the right .Hon Mr Mercer is in dead ear nest. He is a picturesque and effective speaker, and leaves with college men a distinct impression of the dangers which are in their path and the way in which a strong man may avoid them or recover himself if he should fall.” Mr. Mercer carries on a correspon dence, through his secretaries, with near ly three thousand college men, who have bee n heh ed hv his addresses before col lege audiences. The reason ascribed for his talks being so much more effective than others, is because he speaks in the terms that tire understood by college men and because he has experienced all that he speaks of, and his deep sincerity is felt throughout everything that he says. A short hut interesting program has been arranged to precede the speaker on Saturday night. William Lai, the famous soloist of the Clec Club, will sing, ;:id Hums Howell has consented to give some of his trombone selections lint cptured the crowd on the recent Glee Club tour. Every man who does •wit know the Oregon songs will find it convenient to hove his handbook with him. Louis Pinkham, Oregon’s vereran football star and coach, will preside at this meeting and present the speakers. Hoth Carter and Mercer will be heard, the main address, however, being given by Mr. Mercer on ’the subject, “College Men 1 Have Met in the Slums and Pris ons of New York.” It is planned for the meeting to begin at seven and close, not later than eight forty-five. -—— The Lambda Rho sorority held initia t:on Thursday and Friday of hist week. The following students were initiated: Dorothy Campbell, Maude Kincaid, Al dous Oberholtzer, Agnes Elliott, Luia Macklin. Last Saturday evening the Dormitory Club gave an informal dancing party to its friends. On account of this info mality the event was particularly enjoy able. The patronesses were, Mrs. Stearns, Dr. Stuart, and Miss Mary Per kins.