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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1912)
OREGON EMERALE STAFF Published each Wednesday and Satur day of the school year by the Studenti of the University of Oregon. Entered In the postofflce at Eugene ai second class matter. Subscription rates, per year, $1.00 Single copies, 5c. Editor-in-Chief....R. Burns Powell, ’12 Managing Editor.Fen Waite, ’ll Hews Editor.Harold Young, ’1 City Editor .Henry Fowler, ’1 Assistants— Helite Hemenway, ’ll Colton Meek. ’1 Eeland Hendricks, ’ll Associate Editors— Exchange—George Shantin, ’ll Sporting—Mason Roberts, ’1! Society—Elizabeth Eewls, ’ll Humorous—William Cass, ’11 Reporters— Edward Himes, ’ll Howard Zimmerman, '1! Anna MoMloken, '12 Elizabeth Busch, ’1! William McAllen, ’ll Flora Dunham, ’ll Bess Cowden, ’ll Ella Sengstake, ’ll Jessup Strang, ’it Eaurence Dlnneen, ’ll Carlyle Oelsler, ’ll Enton Aokerson, ’ll Otto J. Holder, ’14 Dal Xing, ’14 Robert Farlss, ’13 Business Mgr., Wendell C. Barbour, ’15 Assistant Manager. .Robert M. Wray, ’ll Advertising Manager. .Eyman O. Rice, ’ll Assistant .Bertrand Jerarc Circulation Clay Watson, ’ll Saturday, May 4, 1912. “Absolved From Blame.” There has been misunderstanding of late over the eligibility of certair tennis players to represent the Uni versity in the coming tournament with M. A. A. C. This tournament was originally promoted by Bert Pres cott, Albert Tiffany, Paul Bond, Miss Perkins, and I)r. Stuart, and not by the Student Body. It was designed to be a meet in which anyone connected with the University could tryout for places, and it will be financed by those who make the team, and not by the Student Body. The tennis squad was invited to meet with the faculty committee and devise methods for selecting the team, but when in council they attempted to legislate the original movers out of the right to compete for places, and got through the student body at the last assembly a resolution calculated to prevent them competing, evidently laboring under the belief that this was a student body affair. Now, however valid the reasons may be for preventing certain indi viduals, who are both post graduate students and assistants on the faculty, from representing the varsity in its scheduled meets, they clearly do not apply to the M. A. A. C. tournament, and the men who have been re ceiving considerable censure of late, because of their desire to enter this meet, should be absolved from all blame. The argument that the Student Body is furnishing the court on which to play, and therefore only stu dents should compete, carries with it no weight, for if the association wishes to act the part of “dog in the manger," the tournament can be held on one of the four dirt courts the University has built, and mantained for the women of the University, free of charge. ********** * A telegraphic report received at * * (>:30 at the Emerald office states * * that Martin Hawkins won the * * high hurdles, and McOliure the * * mile and two mile, in this after- * * noon's meet in Californit. The * * performance of McClure broke * * the Coast record. Oregon’s to- * * tal number of points was 23, tak- * * ing second place. First place was * *t«ken by California. * ********** OPEN LETTER RELATIVE TO EMERALD CANDIDATES As editor of the Emerald, I am about to discuss a most delicate mat ter. I have no desire to use the col umns devoted to the editor’s opinions to promote unjustly the candidacy of another, but because of certain im plications which were made against the editor’s choice for a successor in eulogy of another at the time of nom ination. I feel that in justice to the man who has worked his way from cub reporter to managing editor through three years of faithful ser vice, and who has borne, all this year, the brunt of the hard work, some thing should be said to clear him of | these implications, which are clearly unjust. I have nothing to say against the ability of Karl Onthank to con j duct the Emerald in a wise and ju t dicious manner. His masterpiece, the Oregana, will be out in a week or two, and everyone can pass judgment ; upon him then, but I do object to the : implication that Mr. Waite’s only | qualification for editor is long and faithful service, that he is a radical, i ... i and that he lacks in judicial mental ' caliber. Whatever radicalism has charac i terized the Emerald this year, the 1 editor is responsible for, and no one | else. Mr. Waite, in whose judgment ' I have placed great confidence all j year, has ever been a conservative influence, holding out against many ! of the stands the editor insisted on taking, and temporizing them as 1 much as is possible with a somewhat strong-willed boss. He has always held tenaciously to the idea that the ; Emerald should be kept clean of col lege politics, and has used all his in fluence to keep it so, cutting out item after item handed in by reporters who would boost their clubs or friends. Of course, we can never tell what a man will do until he does it, and this will apply to every candidate up for consideration, but from three years of intimate association with Fen Waite, and having, as I have, had excellent opportunity to test his ad ministrative and judicial powers dur ing one of these years, I make the statement that no one has ever been so thoroughly trained for the editor ship as he, and none have displayed greater ability. Why go outside the Emerald staff to select your editor, when a most ca pable man from it is seeking the honor? What incentive is it going to be for a student to serve the pa per faithfully in the future if you turn down the logical candidates? What protection do you leave your editors if you ignore their recom mendations for promotion? It is true that Mr. Onthank served as a city editor last year, but city editor then by no means meant what it does now. Last year it was more or less an empty title. Now it denotes the head of the most important depart ment of your paper. Had Mr. Ont-' hank stayed with the paper, his claim to the editorship would have been as valid as any other, but he dropped the Emerald to work in another field, which amply repays him in honor for his efforts, and left the editor to look elsewhere for help. Do you think his claim to the Em erald, from the standpoint of fairness and justice, is as great as the claim of Fen Waite? PURNS POWELL. Fairy Leach, ’15, will not return to college again this semester. An informal dance will be given to night by the Chi Omegas. C. W. Crump Dealer in STAPLE AND FANCY Groceries F res h \ e^e ta b 1 es 20 East Ninth St. Phone 18. HAMPTON’S CASH STORE Sixth Street. Golf and Tennis Supplies Eugene Gun Co. €otDneys danbies Sfyatung necessities Prescriptions Compound by (Srabuate pharmacists St?ertnin=2ttoore Drug do. 9th anb IDiilamette tfisf National Bank U Capital and Surplus $275,000.00 WANTS YOUR BANKING BUSINESS T. G. 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