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€oirncys £an5ics Scaring necessities prescriptions Compound by iSrahuate pharmacists Sberimn=Ittoore Prug <Eo. 9tb anti Willamette Cor. 9th and Willamette. Smeede Restaurant Co. Wing Kee, Proprietor. American Bill of Fare, 6 A. M. to 12 P. M. ..Chinese Bill of Fare, 8 A. M. to 12 P. M. C. W. Crump Dealer in STAPLE AND FANCY Groceries Fresh Vegetables 20 East Ninth St. Phone 12. Alfred Benjamin AND Sophomore Clothes Regal and Stetson Shoes. Mallory and Stetson Hats. Star and Cluett Shirts. Roberts Bros. “Toggery” 554 Willamette Street. WHEN YOU THINK OF WATCH REPAIRING then of course you naturally think of Smart, The Jeweler New Location 591 Willamette W. M. Renshaw Wholesale and Retail, Cigars and Tobacco 513 Willamette St. Roach Music House Everything In the music line: 10th and Willamette Sts. Phone 862. W, M. GREEN The Grocer The BEST of Everything to Ea 623 Willamette Phone 25 1 ALUMNUS AGREES WITH EMERALD ON PLEDGING Merle Chessman Writes Views On Subject—Believes Action Would Be Step Forward. To the Editor of the Oregon Emerald: I should like to endorse the sen - timents expressed by Graduate Man ager Geary in an article in a recent edition of your paper relative to the evils of the pledging systems in vogue at the present time among the fraternities. It seems to me that, in asmuch as the fraternities have be come firmly established at Oregon, they should throw their primitive habits into the discard and manifest some indications of progress and de velopment. In the beginning when they were forced to fight each other with open disregard for the rules of modern ; warfare, in order that they might win the right of existence and com mand recognition from one another, the practice of going into the High School for recruits and enlisting the t “preps” long before they were eligible , for entrance to college might have been justifiable to some extent, but ■ it is certainly out of harmony with the present conditions. In other colleges where fraternity chapters had grown old before the University of Oregon was conceived, the value of mutual understanding, agreement and co-operation, has been recognized by different fraternities and the idea has been put into prac tice. In some it has resulted in Pan Hellenic organizations with pre 1 scribed rules and regulations. Such a system certainly eliminates in a large way waste of time, money and energy necessary for a continual rushing campaign and the resultant unrest in each individual fraternity and the animosity and enmity be tween different ones. The injustice which a prospective student does himself when he pledges himself to a group of men, with whom he has but a slight acquaint ance and the possible injury which a fraternity does its members in join ing with them a young man, of whom little is known, would be avoided by the adoption of the saner practice of rushing and pledging after the candi date has matriculated at the Uni versity. The subject is a serious one, as I view it. and can not be exhausted i within the short space which you have for communications. Therefore, j at the risk of being criticized as an | interloper, I am going to suggest that a meeting of fraternity men be called to discuss the abandonment of a practice so provincial, obsolete and opposed to the best interests of the fraternities and the institution in which they exist. Respectfully, MERLE R. CHESSMAN, ’09. OREGON By Bishop Charles Scadding. The soothing hush of cool Pacific’s waves; The odors sweet of cedars—Orford’s grift; The deep blue lakes, and winding rivers swift; The sanded shores which bright Co lumbia laves, And, stemming seaward, maidenlike behave, Joyous, and happy in its sprightly course; Willamette from the Cascade’s frozen source; The mighty rocks; and labyrinthine caves; The stately firs; the scent of roses rare; The native grape, luxuriant, brilliant, wild; The slopes of apple blossoms, and of pear; The giant mountains which in white robes stand; For these, and by these many charms beguiled; I love thee, Oregon, thou beauteous land! Katherine E. Hanne, ’96, is assist- 1 ant pastor of the Central Presbyter ian Church in this city. I CALL THE ATHLETIC FIELD ‘KINCAID FIELD' Pat McArthur Says Mr. Kincaid De serves Honor More Than Do the McArthurs. Portland, Ore., Jan. 5, 1912. To the Editor: About two years ago, some enthus iastic friend of mine at the Univer sity proposed to name the athletic field in honor of my family name, partially on account of my associa tion with the athletics of the Univer sity, but principally because of my fathers’ long service as a member of the Board of Regents. Since that time the field has been alternately alluded to by newspaper correspond ents and others as “McArthur Field” and “Kincaid Field.” The name has never been changed officially by the Board of Regents or the Associated Students and I am of the opinion that no change should be made, but that the old name of “Kincaid Field” should remain. I am not insensible of the compliment that was intended to my family name, but I am also mindful of the kind and courteous treatment accorded the athletic man agement of the University during my student days by Hon. Harrison R. Kincaid, former owner of the prop erty in question. For more than ten years, Mr. Kincaid granted the Uni versity students the free use of his field and those were the days when athletics were struggling for a bare existence. We had no grandstand, bleachers or running track and would have had no field but for Mr. Kin caid’s kindness. Mr. Kincaid is still living and to change the name of the athletic field would be an act of ingratitude. His name has been an honored one in our state’s history and in his declining years he should be made to feel that the alumni and students of the Uni versity have not forgotton his gen erosity. Henceforth let our athletic field be known only as “Kincaid Field.” c. n. McArthur. QUESTION OF FINANCES WILL DECIDE CO-ED TENNIS Graduate Manager Geary is enthu siastic in regard to having a Co-ed Tennis Team. The matter is to be brought up in a special meeting of the Athletic Council in the near fu ture, and arrangements decided upon. Finances are the only stumbling block toward the realization of a co-ed team, and even this is not a very great difficulty. If Washington will stand all the expenses this year, Oregon will finance next year’s tour nament. The following poem appeared in a recent issue of the Eugene Daily Guard. The Emerald reprints the poem, not that it agrees with the sen timent but because of the humor ex pressed: Who Is It? (Bruce MacClelland.) Who is it has the gift to choose, Of men, of acts, of laws and news, The view that’s always clearly wrong, Then voice the same, with rancor strong ? The Oregonian. Who is it shrieks at Governor West, A human man, who does his best, Like midnight yowl of backfence cat, Because he is a democrat? The Oregonian. Who is it trains with big Bill Taft, And Parkinson and greed and graft? Against free schools, where poor boys earn The right to live and laugh and learn ? The Oregonian. Who is it shrieks so loud and long, Like fabled shrew in ancient song, That people yearn to grasp her neck, And leave a dead and mangled wreck ? The Oregonian. Who is it with a doom complete, Can send a man to sure defeat. Not by condemning with force and vim, But the leading aid towards electing him ? The Oregonian. I Earl Jones Will Represent Varsity Preliminary Conference in Forest Grove. at The Committee of Oratory and De bate met Friday evening and chose their chairman, Earl Jones, to repre sent the University of Oregon at the preliminary conference of the In tercollegiate Oratorical Association, called for January 29, at Forest Grove. At this meeting of represen tatives from all Oregon colleges, the judges for the Intercollegiate Orator ical Contest will be chosen. The con test, which is an annual affair, was held at Eugene last year and will take place sometime in March this year at Forest Grove, under the auspices of Pacific University. The committee, in this meeting, also voted to interpret their resolu tion of the previous meeting as allow ing the winner of the tryouts for the intercollegiate contest to give the same oration unperfected and verba tim, in the later tryouts that he gave in the final intercollegiate tryout. The committee decided, further more, that a time limit of eight min utes should be placed upon the speeches of the candidates in the pre liminary tryout for the intercolleg iate contest, which will be held in Vil lard Hall, January 29th, at seven o’clock. LeRoy Johnson, Professor De Cou, and Professor Reddy, pro posed by Graduate Manager Geary as judges for this tryout, were accepted. It is desired by the committee that all those intending to participate in the oratorical tryouts hand their names to either LeRoy Johnson, Earl Jones, or Graduate Manager Geary'. Classes at the University of Mon tana will hereafter bepin at eipht o’clock in place of nine as formerly. The Genesee Hiph School basket ball team defeated the University of Idaho five last Saturday by the score of 17 to 11. Freshman Dance ■d B>am B»aa 0££ auoqd spoog SS9J(H ||nj 93AVU N931S uo sajjjd Duisudjns jaggo SMOoufl v tmnw aas ‘>ou j| £l{n§ ssajQ ||nj e noA oabh The Girl of the Pingree Shoe We Give Ease Where Others Squeeze WILCOX BROS. Royal Blue Store Across From Hampton’s NEW Seal Stationery at SCHWARZSCHILD’S Preston & Hales Mfgrs. of All Leather Goods Dealers in Paints and Paper. Agents Johnson's Dyes and Wax Footwear HP For College Folks Burden & Graham Printing... It's easy to learn the value of tasteful, appropriate and /classy” printing if you will place the work in onr hands. 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