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TEDDY ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY EX-PRESIDENT to stop WHILE ON WESTERN TRIP IN APRIL Dr. Schafer Arranging to Have Special Train Stopped at Var sity C-ampus. Theodore Roosevelt will speak to the students of the University April 5th Dr. Schafer is in receipt of a telegram dated New York February 14th, from the ex-Fresident, giving the schedule which he expects to follow on his West ern tour in the spring, and offering to speak from the rear of his train to the students of the University in case it can he arranged to have the train stop near the campus. It is thought that satisfactory arrangements can be made with the railroad officials to stop the train for ten or fifteen minutes at the University campus. According to Mr. Roosevelt’s schedule, he will pass through Eugene at about ten in the morning. The telegram received by Dr. Scha fer is the culmination of a series of communications with Mr. Roosevelt, en deavoring to secure him for a talk in the students in the spring. While Roosevelt was President he passed through Eugene a number of times, but never found it convenient to stop. LAW SUIT WILL NOT STOP WORK ON CANOE HOUSE Paul Bond’s boat house will be ready for business by the middle of March. No matter what is the outcome of the suit over the title to the land, the house will be completed and opened for bus iness. I he ground where the building is sit uated was once a county road, but was unused for more than ten years. Because of this fact, the land reverted back, by the Oregon statutes, to the original owners, from whom Mr. Chambers, the present owner, secured his title. Subse quent to the reverting back of the land, the city laid out a street which included the disputed location. Mr. Chambers is suing for a clear title, and the case will be settled in the March term of court. Meanwhile, Mr. Bond will finish the lower story iand prepare to receive ca noes, rent canoes and sell canoes. He "id have about fifteen new canoes for renting, and has secured the agency fot the Oldtojvn and Racine canoes, pad cll' etc. His aim, he gays, is to make Prices and accommodations such that uniess a person is a great enthusiast, ■t will be cheaper to rent canoes than to own them. 1’ the suit for the present locati 1° . the house will be moved to other site along the nace, but Mr. Bond 15 ' er.v anxious to keep it in its present Place. APPROPRIATION bill PASSES LOWER HOUSE I lie appropriation bill which propos es to give to the University of Oregon 0ver $503,000 has successfully passed the House. Its fate now rests with the Senate. Meanwhile, all plans for bet ted efficiency are hanging fire, and the e-Ve? of constituents and University friends are upon the daily acts of the Legislature. BENCH OF CLASS 1910 PLACED ON CAMPUS I he class bench, left as a memorial by the class of 1910, made its appear ance on the campus last week. Al though it was ordered last Commence ment. various delays prevented its be ing set up until the present time, and even now it is not complete, for “Class of 1910“ is yet to be chiselled on its back. Tn accordance with the custom at Oregon of leaving behind some token of remembrance, the class of 1910 do nated this bench to the school when they graduated, hoping at the same time to establish another custom, that of setting apart certain precincts as sa cred to Seniors. It was the desire o! the class that this bench should be con sidered as the Senior Bench, for the use of Seniors exclusively, just as the steps of North Hall in Berkeley are used by Seniors only. Ray Murphy is suffering from a se verely sprained ankle received in the A. T. O.-Avava game. INTERSTATE TRYOUT SET Nine College Orators Will Try Conclusions for Oratorical Honors The preliminary tryout for the Inter state Oratorical contest will be held next Saturday morning at 9:00 o’clock. Five orators will be chosen for a final contest March 3rd. A considerable number of men will enter the contest. Spencer, Robison, Ray, Beals and Pickett, who tried out for inter-collegiate orator, will deliver their orations again Saturday. Other men who will enter the tryout are: Jones, St. John, Childers and Dunton. The inter-staite contest is between the Universities of Washington, Mon tana and Oregon. This year it is held at Seattle in May. Last year it was held in Eugene, and won by Washing ton. COAST MEET IN APRIL Bill Is Arr \nging for Spring Meet at Berkeley, Open to Coast Universities Trainer Hlayward has received a let ter from Berkeley, with contracts and | statements regarding the Pacific Coast J Inter-collegiate Conference meet to be held April 22. All of the colleges in th Northwest have been asked to send teams. The expenses of this meet are to he paid by the gate receipts, each team sharing in proportion to the number of miles it has to travel. Oregon’s expens es for twelve athletes, trainer and man ager, would be $637.00. It is thought that th chances of losing money on the trip are not great, as the visiting teams came out ahead last year at the Berkeley meet. As the meet will be held early in the spring season, the Oregon men will have to train in the covered track and the indoor track in the gymnasium, the ques tion being, can they get in shape for this , meet ? Notice for Seniors An important change in the law for | the certification of high school teachers goes into effect May 13. All Seniors interested in teaching should see Dr. Sheldon. :*********** * TNTER-FR AT LEAGUE * Won. Lost. Pet.* * Beta Theta Pi_ 7 1 .875 * * Sigma Nu _ 6 1 .857 * : * Kappa Sigma _ 5 2 .714 * !* Avava _ 4 3 .571 * j* Beavers_ 4 3 .571 * * A. T. O._ 4 4 .500 * * Tawah _ 2 4 .333 * * Dorm _ 2 4 .333 * * Delta Sigma _ 1 4 .200 * * Acacia _ 1 4 .200 * * Sigma Chi_ 0 4 .000 * *********** CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES OCCUR FBI. AND SAT. WASHINGTON AND ORE GON TEAMS REPUTED ABOUT EQUAL Washington His Beaten All the Inland Empire Teams, and so Has Oregon The Northwest Conference basketball championship will be settled when the Oregon team meets the representatives of the Washington University in the local gymnasium Friday and Saturday of this week. The Oregon team has just returned from a tour of the Inland colleges whh a clean slate, thus duplicating Washing ton’s earlier performance with the same teams. On the unreliable basis of compara tive scores. Oregon appears the strong er, but Washington took the trip ear lier in the season, when her players were in poor basketball trim. Reports from the northern camp indi cate that the Washingtonians will be j in rare form for their clash with the lemon yellow quintet. The large Ore gon scores made on the recent tour brought many favorable forecasts from, the players on the defeated teams, of Oregon’s chances for the Northwest chhmpionship; but the general topin ion of the fans who had seen both teams play was that the two are about equal in strength, Oregon excelling in some departments, and Washington in others,1 and that they stand about an equal chance for the champiqnship. Coach Hayward expressed himself as j well satisfied with the playing of the men on the trip, and believed that the ^ team was materially strengthened by the practice. Strange floors, strange oppo nents, and hostile crowds, all developed the team work of the Oregon men. The first game will be called at 8:00 o’clock Friday night, and the second at 2 :30 Saturday afternoon. For the ben efit of down-town people, tickets will be on sale at Linn’s drug store. The seat sale opens Wednesday afternoon. ABSENT STUDENTS MAY MAKE UP BACK WORK Tlie faculty has made arrangements whereby all students who were unable to return after the holiday, on account of illness, or because of their parents’ fear of typhoid fever, will be allowed to make up their hours in the work they were taking. Conditions, or incomph tes, were giv1^ in most cases, and these may be m ule up either by taking examinations upon the work at the regular time for such examinations in May, or by special pro visions made by the different instruc tors. In no case will the regular college credit be lost if the make-up work is accomplished. COUNTY FAIR TO BE GIVEN SATURDAY IN MEN’S GYM 1 he \ . \\ . C. A. is making extensive preparations for a “County Fair.” to be held in the men’s gymnasium on Sat urday evening, February 25th. A stunt committee, composed of Florence Cleve land. chairman, Ermel Miller, and Lu eile McQuinn, has been appointed and sworn to secrecy, to which stunts should be reported, insuring against duplica tion. Anything original and mirth pro voking is what the committee is in search of, and they want the co-opera-1 tion of every fraternity, sorority or in dividual in college to insure the success of the affair. Such affairs have proven most successful in other schools, and it is expeceed that it will be equally so in Oregon. There will he lots of fun and confetti and plenty of interesting1 side-shows. I he Lambda Rho fraternity enter tained the Delta Sigmas last Saturday evening with a dancing party. OREGON WILL DOUBLE Dr. Schafer Predicts Multiplied Population for Oregon in 1920 Dr. Schafer, of the History Depart ment, predicts that in the next ten years the population of Oregon will double. Dr. Schafer bases his predic tion on the census returns of a number of Western states during the last sev eral decades. He ooints out that, in a majority of cases where Western states reached a population about that of Oregon, as shown in the recent cen sus, they have doubled, and often more than doubled their populations in the next decade. Oregon, he says, has reached this stage, and is certain to have a tremendous growth in the next few years. PHINEAS COBB AT I). OF W. Former Editor of Midnight Doughnut Prominent at Washington Lair Gregory, ex-’12, for two years a prominent figure on the Oregon campus, is achieving fame at the University of Washington, where he entered as a Jun ior last fall. He at once became promi nent in journalistic affairs, and in Janu ary was elected editor of the Washing tonian, the Varsity monthly. His elec 'tion brought about a furor in faculty circles, as Gregory would submit to no supervision or censorship, and insisted on selecting his own staff. He won out .after a spirited contest. Lair Gregory is remembered here as the editor of the late lamented “Mid night Doughnut,” and the man who al ways carried a flask of Sunnybrook in his hip pocket. He hailed from Califor nia, where he had worked for several daily papers after he finished prep work. ] Me attended Pacific University for a short time before entering Oregon. His Oregon friends, remembering his achievements here, do not hesitate to predict a spectacular career at the helm of the Washingtonian. Dr. Goran, speaking of Gregory, says that he used to stop on the way to class to talk to a little bird—Old Crow. Gregory has been recently elected to membership in Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra ternity, and is also a member of a jour nalistic fraternity. OREGON’S BASKETBALL TEAM WINS ALL GAMES NO INLAND EMPIRE TEAM WAS ABLE TO WITH STAND OREGON “Frosh” Fenton, in Three Differ ent Games, Makes More Points than the Whole Opposing Te^m [Exceeding the most sanguine expec tations of students and supporters, the Oregon basketball taem did what no other Oregon team has been able to ac complish, that is, winning from and out classing completely Whitman, Pullman :■ rcl 1 (1 ho, in a tour of the Northwest last week. The games with Whitman Monday and Tuesday nights were both easy vic tories for Oregon. The score of the first game was 31 to 15, of the second game 36 to 12. At Moscow, the first game was much a repetition of the games at Whitman, the score being 27 to 10. However, the Idaho men guarded much better in the second game, land Oregon was only able to roll up a score of 21 points to Ida ho's 16. The game at Pullman was the hard est fought and the cleanest one on the trip. Pullman was reported to have a weak team, but she came up strong and outplayed Oregon during the first ten minutes. However, the Varsity men got togeth er in the second half, and won by the decisive score of 36 to 19. Pullman for feited the second game on account of a conflict in her dates. For brilliant work, Fenton stood out above .all his team mates. Tn the first three games he made more points than the whole opposing team made for it self, seeming to be able to shoot baskets at will. In the second game at Moscow, Montgomery, of Idaho, made himself famous by staying with Fenton at all times and not allowing him to get a basket. Fenton is generally considered to be the premier basketball player in the Northwest. Captain Jamison showed up well and annexed a l.arge share of Oregon’s points. W.alker, Simms and Elliott were also “there” every minute of the game. This trip is by far the most successful one an Oregon basketball team has ever taken. PROF. B. J. HAWTHORNE SPEAKS AT ASSEMBLY Professor B. J. Hawthorne delivered an illustrated lecture at assembly hour this morning on the “Psychology of Football.” Many of tbe pictures shown were of local interest and were loudly applauded. He explained the ability of football to draw larger crowds than any other sport on tlie ground that it is more dramatic, more brutal, and hence hlad a stronger appeal to the primitive instincts. OREGON WILL OPPOSE THE INCOME TAX Oregon has chosen the negative side of the income tax question for the wo men’s debate with the University of Washington.fi May 5th. 't he dates for the tryouts have not yet been chosen, but will probably be about tbe first of March. Many of the co-eds nrc already busy with the subject. Coach Buchen has posted a list of references in the library and intends to aid the de | haters in every way possible.