VOL. XIII.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRU ARY 21. 1912.
No. 32
IDAHO BASKETBALL
TEAM TO PLAY OREGON
FAST NORTHERN TEAM COMES
TO EUGENE DETERMINED
TO BREAK EVEN
OREGON TEAM CRIPPLED BY LOSS OF MEN
Seat Sale to Commence Saturday With
Special Rate of 75 Cents for
Both Games.
The University of Idaho quintet
which threw a scare into Oregon’s
five in the recent Inland Empire tour
will be on hand Monday and Tuesday
of next week to try conclusions with
the lemon yellow in the varsity gym.
Though Idaho lost both games to
Oregon on the trip, they have profited
by their experience and reports from
theU.'of 0. camp state that the invad
ers from the far east intend to break
even at least on the series. They will
have a number of men in their lineup
who were out on account of injuries.
The fifth man on the Oregon team
has not yet been named, but will make
his debut on Monday night. Rader,
who played guard on the trip, will be
out of the game.
Bradshaw is a prominent second
team candidate for varsity honors and
Vosper. a former Jefferson High
School star, who entered the second
semester, is also making a strong bid
for the team.
The Idaho lineup will be Loux, cen
te,r Kinneson and Saulen, forwards,
and Buffington and Nuffer, guards.
The seat sale will open Saturday
morning, at 9:30, with sections both
at Linn’s drug store and the Obak ci
gar store. The price of admission to
a single game will be fifty cents, but
Manager Geary has a bargain rate of
seventy-five cents for both games.
This will be Idaho’s first game at
Oregon for two years, as they did not
make the valley trip last year. Ja
mison may not be back in the game,
unless his injured knee improves.
FRESHMEN SCORE HIT
Formal Party Has Minimum Blunders,
Beautiful Decorations, and Huge
Crowd.
On last Saturday night one of the
big formal dances of the year was
pulled off when the class of 1915 en
tertained the college folk as well as
many out of town guests. According
to the majority of opinions heard
since then it was one of the most suc
cessful affairs of the kind held for
several years.
The men’s gym, in which the dance
was held, was beautifully decorated
for the occasion. Fraternity and sor
ority crests were suspended from the
balcony, while a large fishnet, cover
ing all four walls of the gym was
completely filled with evergreens and
was a most convincing testimonial to
the untiring energy of the frosh dec
orators.
As usual, Berry presided over the
punch bowl and although nothing else
in the line of refreshments was of
fered, enough of the one beverage was
offered, to satisfy the cravings of the
five hundred odd couples present.
For the most part the dance was
exceedingly successful and at the
close, the lights were left on long
enough for the crowd to escape from
the building without necessitating the
use of the traditional pocket search
light.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WILL
DECIDE UPON CO-ED DEBATE
Its up to the executive committee
whether or not Oregon’s co-eds meet
; the University of Washington co-eds
in a tennis tournament this spring.
Manager Geary lias recommended
the scheme to the committee, which
has not taken action upon his recom
mendation so far. If it carries, the
Oregon team, consisting of two, will
journey to Seattle, in accordance with
Washington’s offer submitted to Man
ager Geary recently.
Who will represent Oregon is unde
cided until the weather will permit
consistent playing. As soon as the
ground has sufficiently dried out. the
three girls’ courts will be prepared,
and the announcement comes from an
authoritative sourse that a fourth
court will be constructed for the ex
clusive use of the girls.
Dr. Stewart has not yet arranged
j her girl’s tennis schedule, which is
substituted for the indoor gym work,
but says that it will be out as soon as
the weather permits of any playing.
George Washington, ’00, was born
on the 22d of February.
LINCLUDESDEPTS.
Onthank Makes Final Arrangements
For Law and Pre-Medic Schools
in Year Book.
Carl Onthank, editor of the Ore
gana, will go to Portland at the end of
the week to make final arrangements
for representing the Law and Medical
departments of the University in the
year book.
It is the intention of the staff to
give the faculty and upperclassmen of
the Portland departments representa
tion uniform with the University at
Eugene, an innovation which will be
an improvement over previous years.
An editor will be selected for each de
partment, who will secure the photo
graphs and whiteups necessary.
“Beauty” Robinson is busy among the
law students, collecting subscriptions
and doing some general boosting.
Individual cuts will be used to a
large extent throughout this year’s
Oregana, eliminating the prep, school
style of groups. The photographs of
seniors and juniors are practically all
in, and the fraternities are nearly
complete. Still a few of the senior
summaries are not yet in, which must
be handed this week to Ed. Bailey or
left at the Book Exchange. A large
number of students have not yet taken
advantage of the special subscription
rate, which will soon be withdrawn.
GERMAN CLUB WILL HOLD
MEETING TUESDAY EVENING
The German Club holds its first
meeting of the new semester next
Tuesday evening, February 27, at the
Lambda Rho house.
Elizabeth Busch, the club’s new
president, announces an interesting
outline for the Spring semester work.
The club intends to study by means
of poems, songs, and the different
phases of German life, as will be por
trayed by the following program:
1. “Rural Life and Labor”—Edna
Messenger.
2. Recitation—Miss Struck.
3. Peasant Life—Dorothy Campbell.
4. Solo—Rose Basler.
5. Tramp Through the Southern
Black Forest—George Schantin.
6. Recitation—Rachel Applegate.
This coming meeting will be an im
portant one, as new rulings and plans
are to be decided and the President
urges that all members be present
next Tuesday evening at the Lambda
Rho House.
MERE MAN WILL RE
PUT 10 SHAME UK
CO-EDS IN DANCE
NELLIE HEMENWAY, BIRDIE
WISE, AND FLORA DUNHAM
PLAN UNIQUE DANCE
SPECTATORS WILL CROWD TO GALLERY
Patrons Are Chosen From Among the
Faculty Male Members, But No
Cabs Mill Be furnished.
Under the leadership of a commit
tee composed of Nellie Hemenway,
Birdie Wise, and Flora Dunham, the
past performances of mere man at
the dances of the University of Ore
gon are to be put to shame by the
co-eds in the leap year dance which
will follow the Utah-Oregon debate,
next Friday evening. The patrons of
the dance will be led down the gym
nasium floor to their stations of honor
properly escorted and will be given
the most courteous attention through
out the evening. Although some of
the men who have been rather neg
lectful in the past, will not have their
programs filled by their pardners, and
one or two noted “cutters” will be al
lowed to adorn the wall, on the whole,
the women are planning to be consider
ate of their pardners as well as of
the patrons.
In the meeting of the committee
last night, Earl Fortmiller and Louis
Bond were selected to hand out the
programs in place of the two girls
who usually perform this duty. Brook
Dixon was chosen to stand at the head
of the stairs and direct the men and
their escorts where to place their
wraps, and the following list of pa
trons were agreed upon: Pres. P. L.
Campbell, Prof. Edgar Ezekial DeCou,
Dr. H. B. Leonard, Prof. John Straub,
Prof. Albert Raddie Sweetser, Prof.
John Freeman Bovard, and Prof. Rich
ard Harold Dearborne.
The plan, proposed by Nellie Hem
inway and Cecil Miller, to have a leap
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INDOOR MEET IN MARCH
Big Affair Will Be Held In (iym With
Special Features Besides Regular
Events.
A monster indoor meet will be
pulled off in Trainer Hayward’s ath
letic stronghold in March, with the
probable date set for the 23. The pur
pose of the affair being to stimulate
general athletic interest and to bring
out track material.
Besides having the usual features of
an indoor meet, there will be pulled
off something novel as a sixty-five
yard obstacle race, high dive, and a
string of wrestling bouts for all
classes. The best men in each weight
division will be chosen to represent
his class in the final tournament. En
tries for wrestling may be made one
week before the meet is pulled off.
The following is the list of events:
30 yards run; 100 yards run; 300
yards run; 600 yards run; 1000 yards
run; 2500 yards run; 60 yards ob
stacle pace; high jump; high jump
spring board; broad jump; pole vault;
shot put; high dive.
Interclass wrestling: 115 lbs. and
under feather weight; 135 lbs. and un
der light weight; 145 lbs. and under
welter weight; 158 lbs. and under
middleweight; 175 lbs and under light
heavyweight; 175 and over heavy
weight.
CANOE CIA B MAY HAVE
BO ATHOl'SE AND QC VUTERS
With its limit of thirty members
practically secured, the Canoe Club is
formulating plans for the erection of
a boat house to be used as a head
quarters for the boating entuslasts of
the varsity.
Steps have been taken to secure a ;
lease on the level strip of land lying
by the curve in the race just opposite
the civil engineering building. Should
this be secured, some local capitalist,
probably Mi-. Chambers, who owns the
land adjacent to the race, will be ap
proached with the plan of erecting a
simple, yet suitable boathouse, which
will yield a rent through the charge
for boat stalls. Plans for this struc
ture have been drawn by Charles Ol
sen, and should this scheme be car
ried out, it will give to those inter
ested in canoeing unrivaled facilities
for the sport.
The dues of the club, one dollar a
year, and fifty cents for new mem
bers, will soon be collected, giving the
organization ample funds for their
occasional social affairs. The next
meeting will be held Friday after
noon, at four.
CO-EOS ASK SUFFRAGE
Varsity Women Plan for Strenuous
Campaign During Semester—
Officers Are Elected.
The University organization of the
Women’s Suffrage League will hold
its next meeting on Wednesday even
ing in Dr. Schafer’s room. A consti
tution will be adopted and plans made
for the work of the semester.
The purpose of the club is purely
educational. Miss Wise, in speaking
of the organization, said that since
the problem of equal suffrage is a
live one, the question will arise,
“What do college women know about
the issue?”
The club is also to serve as a means
for the women to get acquainted with
the different phases of the subject
and get an intelligent knowledge of
all the problems which might be in
volved. The plans are to get good
local speakers and prominent lawyers
and business men from Portland to
address the Oregon association from
time to time. At present, it comprises
twenty-four of the prominent women
in college and it is expected that
many more will join. The officers of
the club are: President, Birdie Wise;
vice-president, Emma Waterman;
secretary, Esther Grissem; treasurer,
Merle McKelvey.
VARSITY SENIOR SENTENCED
TO SEMESTER’S HARD LABOR
Despite counter attractions in town
and on the campus, the annual Mock
Trial of the Laurean Literary Society
drew an attendance of upwards of
fifty last Saturday evening.
The case on trial was “State versus
Buford Jones, ’12—Grand Larceny.”
Jones was accused of purloining the
carboniferous specimen known as a
“chip diamond” from the chemistry
lecture room, and though ably defend
ed by Attorneys Kimmel and Terpen-i
ing, was finally convicted and sen
tenced to a semester of hard labor in
the department he had allegedly
wronged. Ben Williams, ’10, ex
president of the society, presided as ;
judge. State’s Counsel Collier and
Special Attorney King conducted the
prosecution.
The program for this week’s meet
ing, next Saturday evening, will in
clude monologues by E. L. Anderson
and Bill Cass, the “Sage of Podunk.”
The regular debate will be on the
subject of “Woman Suffrage,” which
is at present a question of consider
able localized interest.
OREGON IS PREPARED
FOR BIG UTAH DEBATE
NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT
JONES AND CROCKETT READY
FOR KICK OFF IN HARD
FOUGHT WORDLY BATTLE
LEAP YEAR DANCE INSURES ATTENDANCE
History of Oregon-Utah Debates
Shows Two Colleges Have Equal
Records.
The stage is set for the fourth an
nual debate with University of Utah,
which will be held in Villard Hall,
Saturday, at 7:30 P. M.
This debate will be the lirst leap
year forensic contest ever held at
Oregon. Manager Geary’s ticket dis
pensers are meeting with excellent
success and the indications are that
the Leap Year Debate and Dance will
be one of the most enjoyable of the
year, as well as a financial success.
The question at issue is the “Recall
of Judges.” 'Fhe Oregon stalwarts,
I. Earl Jones and Peter C. Crockett,
will uphold the affirmative, while
Messrs. Hamilton and Gardiner will
represent the Morman University.
Earl Jones, leader of the Oregon team,
enjoys the unique distinction of being
the first student of the Engineering
Department to represent the Univer
sity in debate.
Coach Johnson has placed all his
cohorts under strict training rules, in
cluding a guaranteed brain stimulat
ing diet.
The men have been rehearing their
material twice a day for the last two
weeks and are prepared to meet any
kind of attack.
Peter Crockett injured his knee last
week in the gym and it was feared
that he would not be able to debate,
but “Rill” Hayward, who has taken
him in charge, assures his recovery.
An investigation of the history of
the Oregon-Utah contest reveales the
fact that each school has won two de
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LAI SCORES A BIG HIT
Ex-Oregon Student Under Professor
Glen Calls Down Washington
Applause.
Before an audience of 1200 at the
University of Washington auditorium
last Wednesday, William Lai, member
of last year’s Oregon Glee Club, made
a decided hit as tenor soloist in the
cantata “Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast.”
Speaking of the former Oregon song
ster, the Washington Daily says:
“The remarkable fullness, sweet
ness and clarity of Lai’s tones, cou
pled with, excellent enunciation,
stormed the student audience, whose
applause could not be silenced until
he repeated a part of his solo, “Ona
way! Awake, Beloved.”
Professor Irving M. Glen, who
formerly directed the Oregon Glee
Club, had charge of the concert at the
northern institution, and the warmth
with which it was received by the
large audience, firmly established his
position as a leader in music circles
at the University of Washington.
In regard to Professor Glen’s abil
ity, the Daily said: “Professor Glen’s
success in directing the University
music department merits commenda
tion. During one semester the former
Eugene leader has rallied around him
the campus musical talent, and by his
pleasing personality and indubitable
ability has obtained excellent results.