VOL. XIII.
EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1911.
No. 17
POPULAR STUDENT
MEETS DEATH IN
VIRGIL NOLAND BURNED TO
DEATH IN AN ELECTRIC
BATHROBE
BLAZING BED CLOTHES GIVE WARNING
Fraternity Brothers Rush Into the
Room In Time to Save
House.
(By Evans Houston.)
The life of Virgil Noland, Oregon’s
left guard, was cut short Wednesday
evening, some time between 2:30 and
6:30, by the deadly currents from an
electric bathrobe at his home in the
chapter house of the Sigma Nu fra
ternity.
He had taken a slight cold, and
wishing to cure it immediately, took
a hot bath and wrapping himself in
the electric bathrobe, lay down upon
the bed about 2:30 in the afternoon
to sweat.
This bathrobe was often used about
the house as a cure for colds. Its ob
ject being to induce perspiration, be
ing strung with fine wires, which be
come heated upon being connected
up with the incandescent circuit.
There was no thermostat attached, as
the patient regulated the heat with a
switch within reach of his hand.
Ben Chandler entered the room
about 2:30 and asked him if the robe
was getting warm. Noland replied
that it was— a little—and Chandler
left the room. Sid Henderson came
in about three hours later and the
unfortunate student lay as if asleep
and Henderson passed out without
wakening him.
His absence from the football prac
tice in the afternoon was ascribed to
his slight illness and the team went
on with the scrimmage, the members
of the team little thinking that even
then their teammate had breathed his
last.
The ghostly discovery was made by
Edd. Geary immediately after dinner
in the evening. The odor of burning
cleth was detected and smoke was seen
issuing from the room. The bed was
then ablaze and Geary’s frantic cries
for help brought the other members
of the fraternity quickly to the scene
of the accident. The flames were
quenched and Doctors Bartle, Debar,
Loomis and Kuykendall were hastily
summoned, but to no avail. Noland
had passed beyond medical aid and
grim death had decreed that the whole
college mourn the death of one of
Oregon’s most popular and promising
young students.
MRS. SWEETSER TO BE
SPEAKER AT i. W. MEETING
At the regular meeting of the Y.
W. C. A., Monday afternoon, Mrs.
Sweetser will talk. There will be
special music by Agnes McLaughlin
and Lucile McQuinn. Lida Garrett
will lead.
Elaborate arrangements are being
made for the bazaar to be given De
cember 6. The various committees
are soliciting candy, fancy work and
the usual bazaar articles, and all in
dications are that it will be a great
success.
1912 Calender Out.
Orders for the 1912 art calendar are
now being taken and the sample can
be seen in the book exchange. The
calendars cost $1.00 and are the most
artistic work of their kind ever at
tempted at Oregon.
ENGINEERS POSTPONE MEET
ING TO FRIDAY, DECEMBER S
The regular meeting of the Engi
neering Club has been postponed until
December 8. At that time Prof. F. L.
Barker will give a talk on “The En
gineer as an Expert Witness.” This
will be of interest to all engineering
students and they should plan to be
present.
Walt Moore, ’10, will tell about the
best methods of placing concrete for
building construction. Mr. Moore has
had considerable experience in this
work and will give some practical
hints.
The meeting will be held in Deady
Hall Friday, December 8th.
MONTHLY ADDS DEPT.
Effort Being Made to Secure Maga
zines of All “Prep” Schools
for Exchange.
The Oregon Monthly is trying to
make high school exchanges one of
its new features this year. Up to the
present time, it has on hand The
Clarion from the Salem High School;
The Clatskanie Brave from Clats
kanie; The Junco-ed from Junction
City; The Boomer from Klamath
County High School; The Spinster
from St. Helen’s Hall; The Trouba
dour from the Portland Academy;
The Lens from the Washington High
School, Portland; The Cardinal from
the Lincoln High School, Portland;
and The High School News from the
Eugene High School. It hopes in the
near future to have exchanges with
every high school paper in the State.
Miss Degermark, in speaking of the
high school papers already received,
said that some of them were unusu
ally good on account of their artistic
and literary value and that many of
them contained some very clever
ideas. The editor further said that
these high school papers are at the
disposal of anyone who cares to read
them at any time. Also, any infor
mation that anyone could advance
concerning any high school in the
State or concerning any high school
paper or any article published in them,
would be gladly received.
The Monthly is endeavoring to
make exchanges, both of a literary
and a scientific nature, with many of
the large universities and colleges of
the country a regular department.
Some of the engineering exchanges
are especially good.
PICK AND STRINGS GONE
Glee Club Management Positively
Refuses to Carry Excess
Baggage.
(R. D. Moore—leader of Oregon’s
“to be” Mandolin Club, writes news
story for the Emerald, by special li
censed wire.)
The “coup de grace” was given to
the globe trotting aspirations of the
newly born Pick and String Club,
when the Glee Club management defi
nitely decided that the “appendix”
would not accompany it on either of
the proposed junketing trips.
This frost on the sanguine hopes
of the troubadours was due to various
causes. The songsters objected to
association with the auxiliary organ
ization, the management deplored the
expenses of carrying the extra men
and the knockers asserted that the
mandolinists never could play any
way.
Although disappointed in their
hopes of a trip, the members of the
Mandolin Club do not propose to let
the organization expire merely
through a general lack of appreciation
for harmony.
UNIVERSITY HOLDS
MEMORIAL SERVICE
FOR VIRGIL NOLAND
REV HAMMOND CONDUCTS SERV
ICES ATTENDED BY FRIENDS
AND STUDENTS
PRES. CAMPBELL MAKES BRIEF SPEECH
Beautiful and Impressive Songs Rend
ered by Mixed Quartet and Glee
Club.
Memorial services for Virgil No
land, conducted by Reverend Ham
mond, were held at 3 o’clock Thurs
day afternoon in Villard Hall, which
were beautiful and impressive. A
large congregation was present to
hear the services and to pay their
last respects to the memory of Virgil
Noland.
Revered Hammond spoke beauti
fully and simply of death, “the com
mon leveller whoch overtakes us all
and for which,we must all prepare;
Virgil Noland.
with hope through Christ for our
salvation.” He expressed for the as
semblage the great sympathy felt by
all for the bereaved and mourning
parents, and for the fraternity bro
thers and friends.
A quartette, composed of Miss Eve
Stinson, Miss Lou Yoran, Bert Pres
cott, and Kenneth Frazier, sang
“Lead, Kindly Light,” accompanied
by Nelle Murphy, and the Glee Club
sang “Abide With Me.”
President Campbell gave a brief
synopsis of Virgil Noland’s life,
spoke of the loss to the University
and to his friends, which his death
occasioned, and voiced the high re
gard in which he was held by the
University faculty and his fellow
students. He spoke of the uncertain
ty of life and the preparation for
(Jeath, which should be a working
part of all our lives.
The hall was beautifully decorated
with greenery, ferns and evergreens
being used in profusion with an in
termingly of white flowers, and with
the Sigma Nu colors, white, gold and
black, in evidence.
ROOTING AT MULTNOMAH
GAME WILL BE MILI)
According to Busher Brown, who
has charge of the Oregon rooters at
the coming Multnomah game, there
will be very little done in the way of
special rooting stunts on the thirtieth.
A section of the bleachers will be
reserved for the Oregon non-piggers,
but the boys will meet at the field
and will indulge in no “pee-rades” or
elaborate exhibitions of pip.
Y. M. WILL RAISE FUNDS
BY WHOLESALE CANVASS
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day of next week the University Y.
51. C. A. will co-operate with the
city Y. 51. C. A. in a canvass of the
men of the city for the purpose of
raising funds for the coming year.
The interests of the two institu
tions are united in this matter, as
the funds raised are to be used partly
for paying the salary of the college
secretary,- and partly for supporting
the city organization. College men
will serve on all of the committees
with prominent business men of the
city in this undertaking.
GAME CLEARED $2700
Total Receipts Amounted to $8,480.00
of which Oregon Received $3100
as Her Share
Now that the big game is won and
lost, it is intei'esting to note the ex
pense sheet for staging a game of
such magnitude and moment. Though
some reports of the attendance and
total expenses have been published by
the newspapers, the one printed be
low is official as given out by Manager
Johns on his return from Portland.
The total attendance was carefully
estimated at 8000 and the total re
ceiptsfrom admissions amounted to
$8480. Out of this sum the joint ex
penses of the two teams, such as rent
al for the field, advertising, officials,
etc., were to be defrayed and the re
mainder divided equally between the
two teams.
The Multnomah Club was guaran
teed $1500 for the use of the field and
the expense of advertising and officials
amounted to nearly $500. After these
bills had been paid Oregon received
for her share about $3100. Adding to
this $*90 to be turned in by Geary
and deducting $500, the expenses of
the football squad and the student
band, a surplus of $2700 is the amount
Oregon cleared from the game.
Perhaps some will be interested to
know the amounts paid to the four
officials of the contest. Varnell, of
Spokane, received $50 and his expens
es, as referee. Robt. Forbes, for his
services as umpire received a like
amount, Hugh Boyd, field judge,
drew $25, and Hugh Herdman, as head
lineman $10.
Fred Fisk, ’97, ex-sheriff of Lane
County, has turned farmer.
NOVEMBER MONTHLYOUT
Devoted to Oregon Clubs Coming
Under No Special Head of
Classification.
The November issue of the Oregon
Monthly is being delivered today and
is a great success in every way. This
number is devoted preeminently to
those clubs and organizations that
come under no other special head,
such as the Oregon, the German, the
Irish, the Henry George, the Owl,
and the Engineering Clubs. It also
contains articles on the “Friar’s
Club,” the “Gobbler’s Club,” and
i “Academy of Appreciative Genius.”
These organizations are of a very
secret nature, and this is the first
time that the public has ever had the
| opportunity of reading extensive ar
ticles concerning them. Some good
Irishman contributed a very clever
sketch in his native brogue—a meet
ing of the Irish Club.
The article of greatest interest is
without doubt one written by Mrs.
McCornack. on “The First Corn
Continued on fourth page.
OREGON WILL KEEP
THANKSGIVING DATE
WITH M. A. A. G. TEAM
COMMITTEES IN JOINT MEETING
FINALLY DECIDE TO HOLD
BIG GAME.
WALKER TAKES COMMENDABLE STAND
Varsity Will Send Strong Team Into
Contest In Effort to Close Season
With Victory.
The postponement of the Idaho
game has thrown football into a state
of confusion. It was first stated that
the Multnomah game on Thanksgiving
was also cancelled, but it was decided
later by a joint meeting of the Ath
letic Council and Executive Committee
that Oregon would keep the turkey
date with the clubmen. Dow Walker,
the ex-O. A. C. star, who directs the
interests of the club, is anxious for
Oregon to keep her part of the agree
ment, if they feel that they can pos
sibly do so. Although it is not gen
erally known, Multnomah faces a
somewhat similar situation as Oregon
on account of the death of Ralph Dim
mick earlier in the season. Walker
has not placed the proposition before
the University that they must play,
but has strongly urged the Oregon
team and management to keep the
date, if possible.
The lineup of the Oregon team for
the Multnomah game will probably
be about the same as in the Washing
ton game.
The club team is made up of North
west and Eastern college stars, and
as usual will present a hard row for
the Varsity to hoe. The annual
Thanksgiving game between Multno
mah and Oregon has become a foot
ball tradition for Portland fans and
is always looked forward to with in
terest. The two teams have whetted
up their appetite for turkey dinners
for more than fifteen years, only
missing in 1909, when Oregon played
her Thanksgiving game with Wash
ington. The game this year is at
tracting considerable attention de
spite Oregon’s showing of a week
ago, when they went down before
Dobie’s machine. The Multnomah
team is handicapped by the loss of
Callicrate and Schmidt of Notre Dame,
who quit the game after Dimmick’s
death, but the club always has
enough available material to fill up
the gaps. The Varsity still has plenty
of fight left and the club will have no
walkaway when the whistle blows.
There will be nearly as many students
go to Portland for the Multnomah
game as the Washington game and the
Oregon Spirit, which was recently
jolted, is returning to “pip up” the
rooters for the coming struggle.
SISTER COLLEGES SEND
EXPRESSIONS OF REGRET
Expressionsof condolence and the
deepest sympathy over the death of
Virgil Noland, left guard °n the Ore
gon team, were received by the stu
dent body and football authorities
from the University of Washington,
Idaho, Pullman, Oregon Agricultural
College, Willamette, and Pacific.
Aside from these expressions of
heartfelt regret, a beautiful floral
piece was received from Washing
ton.
Through the Emerald the Student
Body desires to express their sincere
appreciation for these remembrances
from the neighboring colleges.