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VOL. XIII. EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1911. No. 1 GIRLS IN PAN HELLENIC GIVE NAMES OF PLEDGES SATURDAY ENDED ACTIVITIES OF THE ASSOCIATION AND REST FOLLOWS FOUR NATIONAL SORORITIES “SID” MANY “Rush” Season Filled with Recep tions, Theatre Parties, Dinners and Dances After a strenuous rushing season under the revised Pan Hellenic rules the national sororities are announc ing a number of freshman pledges. For the freshmen girls the first week of college was devoted largely to elaborate entertaining, which took the form of dinners, dances, lunch eons, teas and theatre parties. The festivities of the week were brought to an end with Saturday, “Bid-day.” Sleep was a state of being seldom reached, so strenuous were the activ ities. Tired bodies, shattered nerves, empty pocket books, are everywhere evident, and now that it is over, the girls exclaim in one accord. “My! but I am glad it is over.” This ends the rush season for a time. Social activities will drop into oblivion for a month or so, and en ergies will be directed toward per fecting the house managements and developing some acquaintanceship with the academic part of our college life. Gamma Phi Betas announce: Mar guerite Sheehy, of Portland; Kathe rine Carson, of Salem; Helen Cake, of Portland, and Lyle Steiwer, of Sa lem. Chi Omega: Ruth Dorris, of Spo kane, Hazel Tooze, of Oregon City; Lucille Shepher, of Portland, and Gertrude Chandler, of Baker. Kappa Alpha |Theta: Mildred Healy, of Spokane; Elsie Bain, of Al bany; Gertrude Taylor, of Albany. Delta Delta Delta: Vera Redman, of Portland; Gretehen Sherwood, of Coquille; Josephine Moorehead, of Junction, and Pearl Horner, of Cor vallis. EUGENE MERCHANTS DECORATE WINDOWS The merchants of Eugene arose to the occasion of the return of the stu dents and most of the windows on Willamette street bore “Welcome N. of 0.” cards. Several windows were especially decorated in Oregon col ors. The Dillon Drug company win dow was decorated in green and yel low crepe paper and penants. The First National bank showed a win dow full of large Oregon penants and The Roach Music House had in ad dition to Oregon penants a large “Welcome, Oregon’’ penant. Green’s grocery was decorated in stripes of yellow and green crepe paper in abundance. Probably the most expensive and elaborate window decorations, how ever, were in the window of the Obak cigar store. Mr. Wallace an ticipated the interest of the students and commemorated their return by decorating his show window with stained leather inserts, stamped with the coat of arms of the various fra ternities and sororities. These inserts are sewed upon a larger piece of leather, and may be used for pillow tops, lamp mats, table covers, etc., in an almost unlimited variety of designs. Already the leather inserts are at a premium among the souvenir fiends. Mr. Wallace will exchange other in serts with those having two of the same kind. NEW SECRETARY ELECTED FOR UNIVERSITY Y. W. C. A. At a joint meeting of the advisory board and cabinet of the Y. W. C. A. Monday afternoon, Miss Ermel Miller was elected secretary of the Univer sity Y. W. C. A. for the present se mester. Miss Miller has held the po sition of president of the Association since February, but will resign im mediately to take up her new duties as secretary. As a member of two of the Break ers Conferences and as an active missionary Y. W. worker in the Portland and Association, as well as through her general study of the work, Miss Miller has become fa miliar with every department which will demand her attention, and she was highly recommended for the po sition by Miss Frances Gage, the gen eral Northwest secretary. On account of the vacancy caused in the presidency by Miss Miller’s resignation, the election of a new chief officer will be necessitated, which will be held next week. TRYOUT FOR Gif EMIRS. Director M. Odgen Arrives Tonight With Wealth of Material and Ideas. — Melvin Ogden, director of the Glee Club for the ensuing year, will ar rive in Eugene this evening and hold the annual try-out for places on the club tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 28, in Villard Hall, commencing at 3 p. m. Since his appointment to the posi tion of director by Manager Cecil, on the recommendation of the president of the club, and Registrar Tiffany, Mr. Ogden has been making a dili gent search for suitable material. He has examined the musical libraries of such men as Boyer and Weber, of Portland, for classical male choruses and the counters of all the Portland song shops for popular songs of the hour. He comes t'w Eugene with a wealth of material and plans well formed for a concert. Rehearsals will commence immediately after the tryout. The outlook for material is good. It is expected that at least sixty men will try for places. Several old men will, however, be missed this year, among whom are Francis Curtis, who graduated last June, and Lee Morri son, William Lai and Albert Clark, who will not return to college this semester. Tom Burke, ex-president and leader of the club, who also grad uated last year, is working in the Guard’s office in this city and may possibly sing on the club this year. . YEll LEADERS TRY OUT Candidates to Hold Competitive Drill, Enabling Committe to Make Choice. Tryouts for the selection of a yell leader will be held next week on Kin caid field. Those wishing: to try out, should hand in their names to R. Geisler immediately. Each aspirant to the position will be griven one nigrht in which to exercise his vocal and persuasive powers. The most suc cessful producer of noise will be se lected by the executive committee as yell leader for the remainder of the year. Candidates at present are lim ited to “Bush” Brown and “Chet” Moores. All loyal rooters are re quested to be out and lend their moral and vocal support to the various can didates. WARNER PESSIMISTIC OVER FOOTBALL TEAM SAYS THE LINE IS WEAK AND ISSUES CALL FOR MORE MATERIAL SEVERAL PROMINENT FRESHMEN OUT Deathlike Silence Pervades the Bleachers Where Rooters Should Hold Forth. Coach “Bill” Warner, when asked about this year’s prospects of turn ing out a championship football team at the University of Oregon, was reti cent about expressing his opinion. “It is hard to tell yet,” he said, “but so far the turnout of candidates has been far from satisfactory. The back field candidates are showing up fairly well, but the line looks too light. We must have more men out in suits.” In comparison with last year’s squad at this time this season’s ag gregation is far behind and also much less than the number trying out in other Northwest Conference col leges. Main, Walker, Latourette, Kellogg, Fenton, and Chandler, last year’s “0” men, have again donned their stripes and Annusen, Cobb, Bradshaw, Bean, Grout, and Canfield, of last years’ freshman team, are showing up well, and Bob Faris£, a former Pull man guard, has forsaken the glare of the footlights and choked his voice into a football jersey in answer to the call for more beef. Kiser, a fresh man from Alameda High, who was last year given a berth on the all California football team, is showing up well in the backfield. Also Fra sier, a stocky end, who was last year’s star tackle on the Washington High team, is likely to make a strong bid for a Varsity position. Heusner, a former halfback on the Cascadilla prep school eleven, is out for the varsity backfield. Among the other candidates who are learning the rudi ments of Varsity football and rub bing sawdust on their jersies, are Hawkins, Nolan, Dali, Jones, Miller, Earl, Harris, Bowman, Curtis, Bro therton. Finch, Curtis, Heaton, Vier eck, "MacCornack, and Hill. Others are coming out every night, “BILL" MAIN. ’12 Captain of Oregon’s 1911, Football Team. DR. STUART FILES BLANK ON GYM REQUIREMENTS An information blank containing1 instructions on the girls gymnastic work in the University has been com pleted by Dr. Stuart and will be given out by the registrar. The instruc tions cover the requirements calling for immediate attention on the part of the young ladies who are expected to take gymnasium work. JUNIOR CLASS ANNOUNCES MEETING THURSDAY NIGHT A meeting of the Junior class will be held next Thursday afternoon at 4 P. M. in Prof. Dunn’s room, Deady Hall. The meeting is called for the purpose of electing officers, hearing the financial report and making ar rangements for the various activities of the Junior class during the com ing year. The election of officers will include the election of manager of the Oregana, as Strong, the man ager elected last year, is unable to return to school. VARSITY GIVES BANQUET Business Development League From Portland Will Visit Eugene. Friday noon the varsity will enter tain a party of Commercial club mem bers with a banquet in the main re ception room of the Boy’s Dormitory. The party, representing the Busi ness Development league, is now at Klamath Falls on a business trip. On their return trip to Portland, the members will make their only stop off at Eugene, arriving here about 11:15, and remaining until 1:30, when they will leave for Portland. Upon their arrival here, they will be shown through the University, and then honored with a banquet. The luncheon will be given under the di rection of the matron of the Dormi tory, the women of the college serv ing. Srom seventy-five to one hun dred guests are expected. Short speeches will be made by members of the University faculty, citizens of Eugene, and visitors. but many more are needed b«fore the success of the Varsity is assured. The football men report that the death like silence which pervades th<; bleachers during practice, is very try ing on the nerves and they would like to become accustomed to some at mospheric disturbance. ENROLLMENT INCREASES Scarcity of Co-eds cause of some Apprehension.—Many Valient Fresh. In spite of the rather awkward un-1 certainty in regard to financial sup port, the present enrollment exceeds that of last year appreciably. Ac cording to Registrar Tiffany’s books, an increase of ten per cent has so far been made over last year’s student list, bringing the total number regis tered in Eugene well into the six hundreds. Moreover, the census blanks filed in the administration building show that Oregon has ceased to be a Portland school. In former years, the Univer sity has drawm a large percentage of its students from Portland and from the larger cities of the state, but this season the entries are evenly divided between town and country, with even a sprinkling from California and some of the Eastern states. APPROPRIATION TRIALTO BEHELD NEXTTHURSDAY CASE WILL BE FOUGHT OUT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT AT SALEM JUDGE SLATER TO REPRESENT OREGON Uren, Wood, Parkinson and Other Legal Talent Will Champion Petitions. Thursday, September 28, a crisis in the history of the University of Oregon will be reached, for on that date the question of referring the special appropriation to the voters will be decided. Petitions calling for the invoking of the referendum on the bill were filed with the Secretary of State, in June. It is alleged by the appellants in the present case, that thousands of the “voters,” whose names are affixed to these petitions, never existed save in the fruitful imaginations of the circulators; in other words, that these signatures are forgeries, pure and simple. ^The preliminary skirmish in the legal conflict occurred a few weeks ago, when the enemies of the appro priation attempted to induce Secre tary of State Ben Olcott to grant the University cohorts a hearing. At this time all the contentions of the friends of the bill were sustained, and the hearing will now take place in Judge Galloway’s circuit court of appeals. Judge Woodson T. Slater, who dis covered the alleged frauds and has prepared the objections, will conduct the case for the University, while the best legal talent obtainable in this particular field will oppose him, to wit, W. S. U’Ren, the author of Ore gon’s present system of reform leg islation, and C. E. S. Wood, the fam ous socialist lawyer and writer, of Portland. Both cases have been elab orately prepared, and each side is confident of carrying its point. OREGON GIRL’S WEDDING IS ANNOUNCED TUESDAY The announcement of the marriage of Cornelia Ann Pinkham to Mr. Jo seph Knapp, of Portland, on Tuesday evening, September 26, comes as an interesting item to University folk. The wedding took place at the home of the bride’s parents in Spokane. Miss Pinkham, who graduated last June, was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity, and Mr. Knapp, a Purdue man, is a Sigma Nu, and has many friends here at the University of Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Knapp will go to Til lamook, where Mrs. Knapp is to be matron of honor at the wedding of Miss Hazel McNair and Elmer Paine, which is announced to occur a week from today. DRAMATIC CLUB TRYOUT SET FOR THURS., OCT. 5 The Dramatic club will hold its first meeting one week from Thursday evening, at 7 o’clock, In Villard Hall. All members are requested to be pres ent at the meeting, as several im portant matters are to be taken up. After the regular meeting tryouts will be conducted to determine mem bership in the organization. Those who desire to tryout should prepare a short selection of a dramatic char acter to deliver. Dean Collins, ’ll, ex-editor of the Oregon Monthly, is working on the Oregonian and making good.