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OREGON EMERALD UNIVERSITY OF OREGON VOL. XIV. EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1912. No. 1 HUM OUTLOOK FOR FOOTBALL VIEW OF COACH PINKHA BIG TURNOUT EARLY IN SEA SON LOOKS GOOD TO VARSITY GRIDIRON FANS OLD OREGON STARS HELP TRAIN TEAM Over Score of Burly Preppers Will Contest for Vacancies Made by Graduation. With a turnout of forty men and the installation of the graduate sys tem of coaching football, prospects at Oregon are brighter than they have been for many years. Although all of last year’s team have not re turned, it is the belief that when the referee’s whistle blows at the first game of the season, Oregon will be considerable stronger than she was at this time last year. Graduates to Aid Pinkham. A week previous to the opening of school Head Coach Pinkham had six men practicing daily with kicking and falling upon the ball and receiv ing punts. Monday, which was the first day of practice, brought out about thirty candidates, all of whom have had experience in their inter scholastic days. Assistant Coaches Gordon Moores, “Chuck” Taylor, and “Bill” Main, are all highly elated over the lemon yellow prospects and prophesy a winnig team. Veterans Respond. Among the older men who are back are Captain Dean Walker, Carl Fenton, Bob Farris, “Bill” Huesner, Joe Jones, and Ben Chandler. Big Ed Bailey, the giant tackle, is ex pected back in the school within a very short time, and Boh Bradshaw has announced his intention of re turning this year. Prep School Stars Loom. Never before in the history of ath letics here, has there been such a number of all star high school men avtending Oregon. Portland has fur nished the State University a big ma jority of the gridiron men graduated there last spring, among whom are such men as Anson Cornell, quarter of Washington High School, Bobby Jarrett of Columbia University, “Bill” Holden of Hill Military Acad emy, Lester Soden and Matschek of Portland Academy, and James Mc Clelland and Joe Kiser from Salem High. Sam Cook and Harold Purdy are two stars, who hail from Couer d’Alene School. Among the late ar rivals is Raymond Bryant, ex-star of Pacific University football team. Drain, Oregon, sends Engling, a 208 pounder, who, although he has not g.-ined much football experience in his preparatory days, appears to have the making of one. It is expected that next week the training table will be installed and that accommodations for twenty-five will be made. Laureans Want Members. There are ten vacancies in the Laurean Literary Society, which are to be filled. Applications for mem bership, stating qualifications, previ ous experience, etc., may be handed to the Secretary at the close of the meeting. Saturday night. Initiation and yearly dues, $1.00. P. Campbell Croekatt. Secretary. FKOSH SEXTET JOURNEY TO GREEN CAP DISPENSARY An innovation in Freshman perse cution was seen yesterday, when the 1916 sextet from the Kappa Sigma house appeared on 11th street in dress parade formation, and bearing :an empty stretcher, with their Soph jomore oppressors in full cry. A local dry goods dispensary proved the Mecca of the weary pilgrims, and they emerged wearing the regulation green Freshman helmets. The var ious specie of headgear which had lately adorned their craniums, were placed on the stretcher and borne homeward by the Frosh. oooooooooooo o The total enrollment at 3:30 o o today was 560. o oooooooooooo LOWER GLASSES CLASH Sophs and Frosh Gird Up Loins for Annual Fray—Juniors Will Engineer Scrap. The annual Sophomore-Freshman mix will be held in Kincaid field Sat urday afternoon, September 28. This contest, which is managed by the junior class, is to decide the physical supremacy of the two underclasses. Last year the Sophomores won by a large margin, but the Freshmen this year are said to be preparing for a hard struggle. The exact program has not been arranged, but will probably include races, pushball contest, tug-of-war across the frog pond, yelling contest, artistic decoration of grand stand, and similar competitive events. The idea of a conflict for the un derclasses was first tried last year and proved a big success in toning down the baby class. President Stannard, of the Junior class, is now busy arranging his com mittees for the control of the affair, and expects to make it the biggest event of the year. ooooooooooooo o ANNOUNCEMENTS o 0000000000000 Notice of coming events and any special notices or announcement will appear in this column each issue. Persons having notices of any nature, will hand them in at the Emerald of fice or to the City Editor. The former Calendar will be discontin ued. Stag Mix, Men’s Dormitory, Friday evening, 7:30. Examination for Advanced Stand ing in Freshman Rhetoric will be held in Miss Perkins’ room Saturday morning, 9 A. M. Miss Guppy, Dean of Women, will speak informally to the women of the University, next Tuesday afternoon, at 4 o’clock, in Villard hall. Prof. Barker announces that his classes scheduled Tor 9 and 10 o’clock, will meet in Prof. Boynton’s room in Deady hall. His 11 o’clock classes will meet in Prof. Collier’s room in Villard hall. Subscribers not receiving the Em erald please hand your address to the circulation manager. All complaints may be given direct to the man ager. Miss Guppy, the new Dean of Wo men, has taken as her office the room in Villard hall which was formerly occupied by the Y. W. C. A., and has arranged for the following office hours: 9-12 A. M., and from 2-3 P. M. Miss Lila Sengstake, ’14, is visit ing at the Kappa Alpha Theta house for a couple of weeks. She will not enter college this year. OREGON GRAD LOSES LIFE JOHN W. SHATTUCK 0OOOOOOOOOOOO 0 o o John Shattuck, born in Gres- o o ham, Ore, 1891, died about Sep- o o tember 10, 1912, near Juneau, o o Alaska. o o o ooooooooooooo When the news first appeared in the Portland and Seattle dailies that John Shattuck was missing from Juneau, the many Oregon graduates and students whom he numbered among his acquaintances, were at first doubtful if the lost man could be the same whom they had known so well at college. Then came the saddening testimony from his par ents that the boy had been spending his vacation in Alaska, and then the news of the blizzard which had over taken the wanderers and through which no white man could have lived. The advice received a few days later that the bodies had been found, con firmed what was already almost a certainty. Jack Shattuck entered the Univer sity of Oregon in the fall of 1909 and graduated in the spring of 1912. He took a lively interest in college affairs and had a reputation as a first-class student, an indefatigable tennis player and an all round good fellow. In the strenuous forms of athletics he displayed more than or dinary ability, playing both basket ball and baseball. Shattuck was connected with the Mandolin Club, which formerly acted in conjunction with the Oregon Glee Club, and played in his senior year on the Pick and String Club. He was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. John Shattuck was a man of prom ise and ability and his death causes a loss which will be severely felt by the alumni of the state. The funeral will be held Friday in Portland. PROFESSOR ALLEN OF P. I. HEADS NEW DEPARTMENT A new department, Journalism, has been opened at Oregon under the charge of Professor Allen, a practical newspaper man, who until lately was with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the capacity of Northwest editor. Professor Allen has separated the work into three divisions; course one, for beginners in the newspaper game, and courses two and three for stu dents having had some practical ex perience. Course one, according to the new department head, will deal with news from the reporter’s and copy editor’s viewpoint, while the sec ond will treat of the city editor’s and news editor’s problems. The third will handle the ethics of journalism and questions of newspa per policy and tactics. A question of long standing in the University, as to whether or not col lege credits should be given for work on the “Emerald” will probably be settled this year, as Professor Allen favors granting such credits in case the work done duplicates any of his courses. The number of husky Freshmen on the campus indicates that 1916 may break the tradition that the Sopho mores always win the class fights. C. E. SPENCER WILL COACH HIGH SCHOOL DEBATERS The Correspondence Department of the University has added a course in debating to its curriculum. Carleton E. Spencer, student body president and debator and orator of three year’s successful experience, has been chosen to give the course. It is expected that the course will be of especial value to High School debators and coaches of the state, a number of whom have already filed applications. R. H. O’Neill, ex-’12, is in the lum ber business at Rainier. ooooooooooooo o The Stag Mix, Friday evening, o o is for all Varsity men. o ooooooooooooo Y. M. PLANS STAG MIX Friday is Date Given Out for Men’s Acquaintance Party—Indoor Athletics a Feature. Tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock oc curs the annual “Stag Mix”—an in formal acquaintance party and jolli fication, marking the beginning of the semester and the resumption of activities on the part of the Young Men’s Christian Association, which is sponsor of the mix again this year. The affair will be held in the re ception room of the Men’s Dormitory. Freshmen will be regarded as special guests, several unique schemes hav ing been devised to facilitate “getting acquainted.” The doing's will commence with a round of the time-honored “hothand,” followed by a short musical program and talks by President Campbell, President Spencer of the Student Body, Trainer Bill Hayward, Coach Pinkham, Captains Walker of foot ball, Sims of basketball, with Crock at and Onthank speaking on behalf of debate and the Emerald. Following the speeches will come the feature of the evening—the cock fight. The cup given by the Association to the winner of the annual fight, and which has been held for the past two years by “Hippo Gillis,’ ’and Bob Kel logg, ’12, will be awarded to the vic tor of the contest. Refreshments will be the next di version, and in keeping with the usual originality and lavishness dis played in the “collation” line, some thing decidedly bizarre is promised this year. The affair will wind up with a round of Oregon cheers and songs, the “Toast to Oregon” closing the evening. Don Rice, ’14, is in charge of the arrangements for the Mix, and will preside. From previous years’ ex perience it is anticipated that prac tically all the men in college will at tend. Shafer Reviews Bulletin. In the September number of the Teacher’s Monthly, Dr. Shafer, of the history department, reviewed the “Good Roads” number of the Uni versity Bulletin, by Prof. Young, which appeared last spring, and which has since been used as a secondary text in certain eastern schools. Ferdinand Struck, ’ll, is head of the manual training department of Tacoma High School. Miss Nell Murphy, ’12, is staying at the Chi Omega house during rush ing. SEASON TICKET PLAN GEARY SUBMITS SCHEME AS REMEDY FOR FINANCIAL UNCERTAINTY FOUR HUNDRED TIGKETS MUST DE SOLD Colleges Elswhere Have Adopted the System With Good Results. Graduate Mgr. Geary has launched the plan of selling season tickets good for all inter-collegiate athletic and forensic contests. The price of one ticket is $5, whereas the total of single admission fees to all the events this year would be nearly twelve dol lars. The infallible statistican shows that at present about one-third of Oregon students attend college af fairs. System Used Elsewhere. “Obviously ’Oregon Spirit’ is in compatible with such a condition,” says the manager. In order to in crease the attendance at games, he has instituted the system which is now working out admirably at Wash ington, Amherst, California, Notre Dame, and scores of other colleges. Elsewhere season tickets sell for as high as fifteen dollars. “The only explanation given for the missing two-thirds,” says Geary, “is that most of them are at present financially crippled. The purchase of a season ticket would, however, ob viate the possibility of any similar embarrasments occurring during the year. At least 400 of these tickets must be sold to insure the success of the scheme. In case this number is not reached, the purchase money will be refunded and all tickets taken up.” Dean Walker, captain of football, in speaking of the scheme, said: “The plan should be taken up in a student body meeting and thoroughly explained. Those who are able should buy the tickets at once. The saving of several dollars is enough to de serve consideration.” Spencer Approves of Plan. Carlton Spencer, student body president, replied to the reporter’s queries, “It is a good thing and will enable all to attend student activi ties. It would be an excellent idea to have the student body fee large enough to allow everyone such a ticket.” Martin Hawkins, of last year’s track team and Olympic fame, says: “I have always advocated such a sy stem at Oregon. The payment should be compulsory, each student purchas ing his ticket at registration. It will get more money and makes far more school spirit. Late in *Ve season, when a man is broke, that card will seem like a free ticket. In case that it is not compulsory, the registrar should have these tickets anyway, and ask each student, if he wants one, when he registers. Of course, it is understood, that the system will save money for the students.” Bill Neill affirmed: “I like the idea, because it will help the old Oregon spirit as soon as the matter is pre sented effectively. The $5 may look big at first, but when the economy is appreciated, everyone will buy. To institute the system, it might be nec essary to have the purchase compul sory.” Ben Chandler, captain of baseball, Continued on last page.