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OREGON EMERALD UNIVERSITY OF OREGON VOL. XIII. EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1911. No. 6 YOU ARE LIVING YOUR HAPPIEST DAYS NOW PRES. TAFT CHARACTERIZES OUR PRESENT LIFE AS STATED ABOVE NOW IS THE TIME TO FORM IDEALS Though Suffering From a Sore Throat, the President Makes Himself Heard. Greeted by the famous “Boola Boola,” of Yale, supplemented by several rousing Oregon “Oskey Wow Wows,” President William Howard Taft stepped to the rear platform of his train as it stopped at the campus, at 1:20 P. M., Thursday, and deliv ered a three-minute talk to the as sembled students. Although suffering from an affec tion of the throat, which made his voice rather huskey, the president spoke so slowly and clearly that he was distinctly heard by everyone present. After the train stopped, there was a delay of a few seconds, during which Mr. Taft was busy inside the car “touching up his throat,” as he expressed it. The students voiced their impatience by shouting, “We want Taft!” and at that instant the smiling chief executive appeared, saying, “You shall have him.” Mr. Taft said, referring to the sing ing of “Boola Boola” by Busher Brown’s cohorts: “I have been de layed a few moments getting my throat touched up, but from what I just heard, I judge that you know a good song. I always feel at home in a gathering such as this, having been a student myself, and I want to tell you, that you are now enjoying the happiest and most profitable period of your lives. You don’t have to provide for a family and spend your time in earning a living, as you will later, and therefore you have the opportunity for the development of altruism and high ideals. “The greatest benefits gained at college are not derived from books, although that helps. They are gained in the good fellowship and the high ideals formed. One of your strong est influences in later life, tending to make you a good fellow and a straightforward man, is the ties formed at college. You will endeavor then, as you do here, to so live that your actions will be approved by the fellows with whom you associate, or have associated.” The last words of the brief talk were delivered as the train was pull ing out, and Taft’s good-bye and wave of the hand were answered by a parting Yale yell. Y. W. NEWS BUDGET SHOWS ACTIVITY IN ASSOCIATION Monday afternoon Prof. Reddie will speak upon “Science and Reli gion” in the Women’s Gym. This will be the first of a series of scientific lectures to be given this semester by several of the University profes sors. President Campbell has set aside Monday afternoons from four until five for the Association meetings. There will be no classes, nor confer ences for the girls at this time, and the class presidents have been asked not to call meetings for this hour. The Employment Bureau, which has been conducted for several years, is again in operation. This bureau will find positions for girls desiring work and also fill positions for those needing help. All such applications should be made to Ermel Miller, at the Y. W. office. WOULD-BE THESPIANS TAKE SECOND DEGREE TO QUALIFY >The Dramatic Club held its second tryout Thursday evening in Villard Hall. Several who tried and failed at the first tryout, came forth with renewed energies and gained a place on the probable list. Those who made it were: F. A. Dudley. Alfred Skei, Hazel Barta, Allie Phillips, Kathryn Carson, Ruth Peters, Aletha Emeric, Beatrice Lilly. In the near future more trouble awaits those whose names are on the Probable List. They will be put through a test concerning their knowledge of general stage business, and if they pass this satisfactorily, they will have at last qualified for membership in the exclusive circle of actors in the U. of O. H. GEORGE JR. TO SPEAK Promoter of Single Tax Theory Will Expound His Doctrines to Eugene People. The people of Eugene are fortunate in having an opportunity of hearing Hon. Henry George, Jr., Monday evening, at 7:15 o’clock, in Villard Hall. Mr. George, who is congressman from New York, has been secured for this lecture through the efforts of the local Henry George Association. His subject, “Land Value Tax ation As a Substitute for the General Property Tax,” is one in which every citizen of Eugene and the State of Oregon should be interested. An amendment providing for the Sin gle Tax will be on the ballot at the next election and Mr. George will dis cuss some of the merits of the pro posed system. Mr. George’s father was the orig inator of the single tax theory, and as Mr. George, Jr., has traveled through the countries where the sin gle tax in a modified form is in oper ation, he will have some interesting facts to disclose. No admission will be charged. 6LEECLIIB STOCK JUMPS Morrison Returns and Robison and Dean Collins Collaborate on Travesty. The stock of the Glee Club jumped ahead this week with the return of Lee Morrison, the famous tenor of last year’s club. Up to the first part of the week it was thought that Mr. Morrison would not return to college this year. His return removes all “tenor” worry. “Beauty” Robison and Dean Col lins, graduates of June, 1911, are writing a playlet for the club. It is to be an ensemble act in the form of a travesty on Mr. Crane, the cele brated anti-college man. In the course of the act Mr. Crane visits the University of Oregon and is “gently” surprised with the life he finds there. Tentative plans are under consider ation for the chartering of a boat to take the Glee Club on a cruise up and down the Columbia and Willam ette River, giving concerts at the various cities. In the proposed itin erary are: Astoria, flood River, Van couver, and St. Helens. Plans for double concerts are also being considered at Eugene and Portland, subject to the satisfactory arrangement of rates and dates. Buy slide rules now. Bargain prices. Himes, 52 Dorm. UNDERCLASSMEN'S D*Y TO BE NEXT SATURDAT SOPHOMORES AND FRESHMEN WILL VIE WITH EACH OTHER FOR HONORS PUSH BULL SECURED FROM HUNT CLUB Presentation of Cup to be Made at Informal Dance Held in the Evening. Saturday, October 21st, is the date set for the first Freshman-Sophomore Contest Day, to be pulled off on Kin caid Field, and it promises to be one of the big: events of the year. The plans for the day are in the hands of the Juniors, who are leaving- no stone unturned to make it successful, in which event it will be made an annual occurance each Fall. The main event of the day will be the Push Ball contest, with about fifty on a side. Arrangements have been made with the Portland Hunt Club for a ball, which will be here the latter part of the week. There will also be a tug of war, with ten men on a side, a half mile relay race, composed of sixteen men, a free for all sack race, and a rooting contest. Both classes are sparing no effort to make the rooting contest the most spirited and artistic exhibition ever pulled off on Kincaid Field. In order to not interfere with the Varsity football practice, the events will start promptly at 2 o’clock. Field marshals have been appointed and the field is to be kept clear at any hazard. In the evening an informal dance will be given at the Gym, when the cups will be awarded to the winners. WILL ERECT GIRLS HALL Bishop Scadding Promotes Move ment for Episcopal Home for Girls of University Providing the referendum litiga tion terminates favorably for the University, Episcopalian friends in the state will erect a private dormi tory for girls. Bishop Scadding, the head of the church in Oregon, while in Eugene this week made provision al arrangements for the early con struction of the proposed building. A ninety day option has been taken on a splendid $2400 building site On the corner of President Campbell’s residence on Thirteenth Street. The plan is to float a $15,000 bond issue in $100 denominations, the shares of which are to be sold principally to Eu gene and Portland laymen. Though the church is to be sponsor for the entire arrangement, it is not a charitable undertaking. Living fees will be charged and all affairs will be transacted on a business-like basis. <A house mother will be in charge of the hall, which is planned to accommodate some twenty girls. The idea has been developed in res ponse to requests expressed by vari ous mothers throughout the state who feel hesitancy in sending their daugh ters to the University because they ~re uncertain of finding suitable and ple« -ant places to live. Residence in the new hall will not be restricted to women of the Episcopalian or any other Christian faith and the general rules of government will be similar to those of the Pan Hellenic sorori ties. This home in fact will fill very much the same place in the Univer sity that the Mary Spiller house now does and will be conducted largely upon the same plan. BEAUTY ROBISON HERE WITH WISE PURPOSE Lots of pip, fellows!!! “Beauty” Robison is here. He has arrived to tell us how he has organized the barristers, physicians and surgeons of the Portland departments of the University. It is the consensus of opinion on the campus, however, that Beauty’s visit is a Wise idea. The funereal gloom that pervades the campus must be dispelled and Beauty is here to do it. Otherwise we might not have seen the father of Smoke less Smokers until November 18th. Beauty is some organizer and the Varsity will be supported by the laws and medics in Portland with some thing new and novel in the way of songs and yells when we go north to meet Washington and Multnomah. FROSH PLAN DESTINIES Budding Orators Hold Yearlings Spellbound With Samples of Statesmanship. Weighty problems were considered at the meeting of the Freshman class held at 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon in Villard. The proposed constitution was placed on the dis secting table, torn limb from limb, and ably put together again by the profound statesmen of the class. In the line of oratory the efforts of Demosthenes Dineen, Cicero Curry, and Daniel Webster Grady, call for particular mention. A tax of one dollar per head was voted on all members of the class, and as the Frosh now number 325, it is expected that an ample sum to cover all expenses will be secured. The class this year hopes to make the annual bonfire and dance more successful, if possible, than any given by a former Freshman class. A class editor and the class ex ecutive committee, as provided by the constitution, were elected. After forming plans for the football game and push-ball contest with the sopho mores, the class adjourned to meet again at an early date. H0WLS0F6LEAGHERITES Jimmy Roberts, Salaried Sporting Editor, Picks Up Splinters From the Bleachers. Coach Warner made another shift in the Varsity lineup when Poland, the big freshman guard was shifted over from the scrubs. Noland’s work has improved wonderfully in the last two weeks, and the big blonde looks like a fixture on the first squad. Thursday night Sap Latourette was sent in at quarter on the Varsity for scrimmage practice. The way the old leaguer handled the ball and ran back punts, caused some of the fol lowers of “Bush” Brown to forget and let their pipes go out. Latour ette hasn’t lost any of his old cunning and it is a good bet that the old war rior will land all-northwest quarter back. Kaiser has been temporarily out of scrimmage on account of a sore shoulder and a bruised hip. Ben Chandler’s work at end has been on the big league order. Chand ler is a rattling good defensive end and is good at the receiving end of forward passes. The “Sea Gull” looks like a worthy successor to his brother Weary. Capt. Main is doing some good place kicking. Bill has been booting the ball over the posts from the forty yard line. SOPHS TRIM FRESHMEN IN MAGNIFICENT GAME SECOND YEAR MEN RUN UP BIG SCORE IN ANNUAL COMEDY ON KINCAID FIELD EXTRA BALLS ADD ZEST TO FRANTIC PLAY Loyal Supporters of Both Classes Turn Out and Cheer Determined Participants. Promptly at 1:43 this afternoon, when “Machuntz” Kimball, the plunging halfback of the Sophomore team, wiped the mud from the toe of his trusty shoe and booted the pig skin far into the territory of the year lings, began the greatest game in the history of football at Oregon. For four quarters the battle of the Titans raged and when Referee Latourette blew the whistle, announcing the close of the game, the Sophs led by 21 to 0. The feature of the game was the wonderful run of Benson, the dashing end of the ’l l team. Never since the days of Eckersall has such a run been made on the American gridiron and the prolonged cheering from the stands lasted fully fifteen minutes. Benson intercepted a for ward pass of the freshmen and ran seventy yards through a broken field for a touchdown. A new feature of football devised by Walter Camp, to be used next year was tried in the game. Several balls were used, instead of one, In order to give everybody an opportunity to run with the ball. One freshman end caught a long pass from “Bush” Brown and made several yards before being downed, thus winning the in stant approval of the spectators in favor of the new style of play. In the third quarter Umpire Jamison called for volunteers to go into the game to help the frosh, which was heartily re sponded to by several first year men. They overdid it, however, as the field became too crowded. The scoring was done by Reynolds, Benson and Stannard, who made a touchdown apiece. Stannard made a place kick from the 85 yard line and kicked three goals from difficult angles. The Woman’s Council will hold a meeting Thursday to decide upon the time and nature of their entertain ment. SOPHOMORES ISSUE LIST OF FRESHMAN SINS Freshmen Told to Beware of the Eye That Sees and the Terror That Flies. I here is considerable excitement about the campus this morning over the appearance of a poster, which has been generously distributed on fences and telephone posts around the University. The poster is in the form of a warning to the freshmen and characterizes them with a quantity of alliteration, telling them to read, peruse and ponder over a half dozen or more of their sins which include, “your trousers have detached no splinters from Kincaid bleachers,” and “you have increased in freshness to the limit infinity,” wherefore the Great Eye sees again and Walking Danger stalks once more. It winds up with: Be warned. It has been ordained that ye shall be meek; ye shall be mild; ye shall be deferent to upperclassmen. This rule shall apply particularly to Sophomores. And closes with a final mention of the “Eye that Sees” and the “Terror that Flies by Night.”