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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1912)
OREGON EMERALD Published each Tuesday, Thursday, end Saturday, of the school year, by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered at the post office at Eugene as second class matter. Subscription rates, per year, $1.00. Single copies, 5c. STAFF Editor-m-Chief.Karl W. Onthank Hews Editor .Henry Fowler City Editor . Harold Young Asst. Editor.Carlton E. Spencer Law School .B. Burns Powell Exchange Editor .Hal Xing Sports . Mason H. Bobsrts Special Reporters. Literary .A. H. Davies Society .Bess Lewis Feature . Leland Hendricks Administration . Colton Mask Copy Readers. Catharine Carson. Nell Hemenway. Earl lilackaby. Reporters. William McAllen. William Kyan. Harry Cash. Jessup Strang. Joe Kaiser. Wallace Eakln. Horn Taylor. Myrtle Gram. Waldo Miller. Evelyn Harding. Harvey Lindsay. Edna Messinger. Clarence Hrotherton.Rober't Earrlss. Torn Boylen. James Donald. Beatrice I .Illy. Tula Kingsley. Maurice Hill. Henry Trowbridge. Business Mgr.Andrew M. Collier Assistant Manager.Lyman G. Xlcs Advertising Manager... .Marsh Goodwin Assistants .Glen Wheeler .Clyde Aitchison Circulation Manager.Sam Michael Assistant .John McGuire Saturday, October 2<i, 1912. THE HOSTING SYSTEM The statement in the Oregon Jour nal oi' last evening, “that student feel ing runs high on the campus” against the Faculty, is entirely erroneous and does an injustice to Oregon students The students do not feel that the Fac ulty members are opposed to football, nor that if they were, they would re sort to the posting system as a means of hindering Lhu sport. In most cases the student himself is largely to blame for his being with drawn from the team. Perhaps lack of good management has caused him to attempt a course which, together with outside work, is too much for him to carry. Perhaps he has al lowed his outside activities to take precedence over his studies, or per haps he has not become aware of his nearness to the danger line in scholar ship. However this may be, it is to be re grotod that a fairer system has not been devised. If a student is doing poor class work, the fact is surely evi dent long before the eve of a big game, it would seem that justice to the individual, to the team, and to the Student Body calls for a warning. It is significant that some of the most stringent and uiflieult departments have not found it. necessary to resort to this expedient, neither have they allowed their high standard of schol ntship to lap e for a moment. Furthermore, it is not desirable that football men should h come the spe cial object of the system. The schol Ht ship of all students should be guard ed with equal cite, in order to avoid the appearance of special watchfulness over any particular group. With the exception perhaps of the very rare instances wherein the in stiuctor takes a narrow attitude, a more earnest application of the indi vidual to his studies will remedy the situation. Although there are instances where the system has seemed to work un fairly. and men have been withdrawn from the line-np at critical moments with seemingly insutllcient warning, there has novel been a feeling among the students that the Faculty as a whole was out of harmony with the students’ interests. CHANGES ARE M \I)E IN V. VS C. V. i \ HI NET Several changes !i ve been made in the V \Y. C. \. Cabinet. Miss Flor ence Cleveland ha- r< nyned from the presidency because ef poor health. Miss Pena Newton will take her place, wlsile Mi Edith Clemens has been elected to taki Miss Newtons place as vice-president. M C, ret dun Sherwood has been app ed i take Mi-s Hess Lewis’ place, who has also resigned. Mi s Florence Cleveland was hos tess at a dinner party, Friday even ing. for the V. W. C. A. Cabinet members. 00000000000' 0 < o ANNOUNCEMENTS < o ( oooooooooooc Laurean—Regular meeting will bi held Tuesday evening. Suffrage ques tion will be debated. ooo Y. W. C. A.—Regular meeting wil be held Monday afternoon at Thi Shack. Rev. Wilkinson will speak, ooo Eutaxian—Regular meeting will bi held Tuesday evening, in Professo: Schafer’s room. Professor Reddie wil speak. ooo Wilson Club—Hon. George Fre< Williams, of Massachusetts, will speal in Villard Hall, Wednesday evening under the auspices of the club. A1 men of the University are invited, ooo Senior Women—A meeting of thi Senior women has been called fo next Wednesday afternoon in thi Women’s Gymnasium, for the purposi of electing a basket ball captain, ooo Choral Club—Will meet next Tues day evening in Villard Hall for prac tice. Orcheestra—String orchestra wi! practice Monday evening, at 7:3i o’clock, in Villard Hall. ooo Hand—Will practice Thursday even ing, in Villard Hall, at 7:30 o’clock, ooo Health Lecture—Last address of Y M. C. A. Health Series will be giver next Wednesday evening, in Deadj Hall by Professor Bovard. He wil speak on “Eugenics.” FROSH BABIES COO The annual baby party, given by tho Y. W. C. A. will take place Fri day evening, November 22, in tht Women’s gymnasium. This year the Woman’s Council intends to join the Y. W. C. A. in directing the affair. Each Sophomore and Upperclass man will look after one Freshmar co-ed, seeing that she gets to the party and becomes acquainted. Freshmen will come dressed as ba bies one year old, Sophomores a; girls two years old, Juniors five years old, while the Seniors will act as nurse maids. Prizes for the prettiest fattest, sweetest, dearest, and hom liest. babies will be awarded. CHORAL CLUB MEMBERS CHOSEN BY TRYOUT Tho first meeting of the Women’s (dee Club was held Wednesday even ing in Vitiat'd Hall. The club is plan ning to put on an operetta immed iately after Christmas vacation, or which they will soon begin practice. From now on, regular practice will bo held every Tuesday and Wednes day evening at 7, in Villard Hall, and will be under the direction of Mr Bowman. With a membership ol thirty-six, the club is anticipating u successful year. As a result of the recent tryouts the following have been chosen foi the Cirls’ (dec Club: Florence Cleveland, I,cola Ball Faye Ball, Marie Hager. Mable With ers, dladys Crayhill, Jessie Purdy Jeanette Parks, Ethel Boydell, Olgn Paulsen, Janet Young, Agnes Mc 1 aughlin. Mabel Miller, Josephine Moorhead, Florence Avery, Gladys Cartwright, Grace Bean, Ethel Risley Mae Norton, Helen Holbrook. Grace Hartley, Jessie Lieser, Ruth Smith Katherine Kirkpatrick, Edith Rogers Catherine Carson, Lois Gray, Myrtle Gram, Mildred Wilson. Irmalec Campbell, Bess Bash, Florence Wil liams, I.ucile Fenton, Eelith Buell Eva Brock. I.eta Mast, Virginia Peter son, I.ucile Yoran. The club will meet next Tuesday evening, at 7 o’clock, in Villard Hall for practice under Mr. Bowman’s di rection. Engineer Committees Appointed. President Reynolds has appointee the following committees: Program Edgar Martin, Alfred Collier, ant Walter Hodge; membership, C. B Washburn, George Stevenson, am Wallace Caufield. lOOOOOOOOOOOO I o WHAT THE COLLEGE o , o EDITORS ARE SAYING o lOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT IS THE REAL REASON? (0. A. C. Barometer.) The Oregon Emerald bitterly de nounces the five year proposition, I claiming that they have no right to . bind future generations by contracts which conditions may upset. This sounds fair, but the real reason for , a long contract is to prevent these . very unlooked for conditions. Surely, | the schools will be just where they are now five years from now, both schools will have athletic teams, and [ the alumni and friends of each school ; will be just as anxious to see games then as now. I The proposition of playing the next four games in Portland also seems to cause dissatisfaction. There are > hundreds of alumni of each intsitu - tion who desire to see an annual foot . ball game between the teams repre > resenting their respective alma ma ters. When a game is played on either campus it works a great hardship . upon these people and consequently . few attend the game. Then again the general public is interested in the two schools and should be given an ) opportunity to see some of their ath letics. To satisfy these two de mands, if for no other reason, the . annual games should be played in Portland. Several prominent U. of O. alumni , have joined hands with O. A. C. in , our proposition. In addition to this the general opinion of the press is that we have proposed a perfectly ligitimate proposition. Why does U. of O. hesitate? Is she afraid? oooooooooooo o EXCHANGES o oooooooooooo Princeton and Dartmouth are now the only big Eastern colleges, whose goal lines are yet uncrossed. o o Harvard has a very promissing punter this year in Willetts. His punts are long and hard to catch, o o Walter Camp says, the best attack this year will be one that combines shift plays with straight football, o o Coach Lindgren has the poorest looking material at the University of Illinois that has been noted since 1906. o o A Freshman rally was held at Whitman College, last Saturday night, in celebration of their victory over Oregon. o o A fire at the Oregon Agricultural College last week destroyed the stock judging building and did damage to the amount of $7,000. o o Twelve Rugby players, with the coach and trainer, formed the train ing table, which started Monday at California. The list includes seven forwards and five backs. o o The annual fall track meet was held at Yale University, October 16. The object of this meet was to test the new material. As usual, none of the performances were phenomenal, but plenty of good material appeared. RECEPTION GIVEN DEAN BY LOCAL ALUMNAE The local University Alumnae As sociation was hostess, Friday after noon, at a reception given in honor of Miss Ruth Guppy, the new Dean of Women, at the home of Mrs. E. 0. Potter. In the receiving line were Mrs. L. H. Bean, president of the local asso ciation, Mrs. E. O. Potter, Miss Ruth Guppy, Mrs. P. S. Campbell, and Miss Ann Whitaker. Miss Ida Patterson was in charge of the dining room, where Miss Mabel Kuykendall. Miss Greta Bristow, Miss Lola Howell, and Mrs. Frank Jenkins served ices and cake. The rooms were decorated with smilax and dahlias. The favors were dainty corsage bouquets of pink sweet peas. About seventy-five town women and University faculty women called. 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