OREGON EMERALD
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sociated Students of the University of
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STAFF
Editor-in-Chief.Karl W. Outhank
Managing Editor.Franklin S. Allan
Haws Editor,.Henry Fowler
City Editor. Harold Younj
Assistant Editor... .Carleton K. Spencer
Special Departments
Sporting1 Editor,.Mason H. Roberts
Assistant.Thomas Boylen
Co-Ed. Sporting Editor, Nellie Hemenway
Administration . . . Clarence Brotharton
Assistant .lames Donald
Society Editor.Elizabeth Rewle
Assistant .May Smith
Riterary and Dramatic. A. H. Davies
Exchange.Dal King
Features, . Reland Hendricks
Raw School.B. Burns Powell
News Editor’s Staff.
Karl Blackahy Fred Dunbar
Tulu Kingsley Itohert Fiirlss
City Editor's Staff
Ralph Allen
Harrv Cash
Wallace Kakln
Maurice Hill
Luton Ac.kerson
Elmer Furusett
Arthur Crawford
Business Mgr.
Evelyn Harding
Reatrlce I .Illy.
Clarence Ash
.lanet Young
Beatrice Locke
Andrew M. Collier
Assistant Manager . .
Advertising Manager
Assistants.
Circulation Manager.
Assistants .
Lyman G. Xloe
Marsh Goodwin
..(Hen Wheeler
Clyde Altchison
. ... Ralph A1 len
. . Sam Mlohael
. . John McGuire
. .Frank Dudley
Tuesday, January 14, 191.3.
CHANCINU THK ( (INSTITUTION
The constitution of the Associated
Students provides that an amendment
shall be submitted for the first read
ing at a regular meeting:, 'l’his means
that those interested in proposed
changes, must begin to perfect the
wording of their pet measures and to
organize their forces, for the meeting
held on February 21! is the last until
that of May 7.
The question of making the Wo
man’s (ilee Club a branch of student
activity is awaiting the action of the
students. This organization was
granted temporary status as a depart
ment of the Student Hody by the Kxe
cutive Council, in order that it might
go ahead and work with adequate
support. However, this action of the
Council holds only until after there
has been opportunity for the friends
of the club to submit a constitutional
amendment. If this measure is one
worthy of adoption, it. is time for its
supporters to begin action in its
favor.
Those who wish to regulate the
awarding of Varsity letters, should
begin to work out a satisfactory sy
stem. In years past, every!ing has
been put <df until the last minute,
and there has been no organized at
tempt to supply an adequate remedy.
As a matter of fact, our constitu
tion has become antiquated. Condi
tions at. the University have changed,
making regulations once beneficial, a
hindrance and a disadvantage. The
instrument has been amended until it
is next to impossible to determine'
authentically the law upon a given
point. A great deal of it seems a
hopeless jumble.
It is time for some public spirited
student, or perhaps better still, a
group of students, to get together
and revise the constitution completely.
This could then be brought before the
A. S. U. 0„, revised still further, if
need be. and adopted l.et some of
Oregon’s budding statesmen take this
matter in band. It is an opportunity
to gain invaluable experience and to
do a lasting service for the Univer
sity.
It is high time that we turn our at
tention to the constitution.
! \SI(i\II) COM MIMIC \ THINS
Elsewhere on this pane are two un
signed loltoi.' to tho editor. Of
course, it is always desirable that tho
author ho known. Hut the Emerald
that not few 11 1 aits who
have ideas and suggestions, well
worth public consideration, have rea
sonable motives for desirinp to with
hold their names from publication.
In such en os tho name of the writer
will In' kept i mfidential,
The Kappa Kappa (iiimimi recep
tion Sunday afti rnoon, was attended
by many University students and
friends Re fro; hments were served
durinjr tin afternoon. The receiving
line included Mi ( arin De^erniark,
president of the lor .1 chapter, Miss
Eva Powell, prand president, Mrs.
Cuvier, house mother, Mrs Eric W.
Allen, and a number of the alumni
and visitors.
Try the Crossoy Rook Store, at ,V17
Willamette street
Announcements
Illustrated Lecture—By Professor
F. S. Dunn on “Pallas Athena,” Tues- |
day, 4:00 p. m., in Professor Sweet
ser’s room, Deady Hall.
Smith-Bobbin Meetings—Hear the
’’Great Speaker to Men” in Villard
Hall Tuesday evening, January 14, at
7 o'clock sharp. International Asso
ciation Quartette will sing. Basket
ball game postponed until 8:30 for
address. Admission free.
Basketball—Game Monday evening
with Idaho will commence at 8 o’clock.
Game Tuesday evening will com
mence at 8:30 o’clock, to accommo
date the Smith-Robbin meeting.
Dance—Second Student Body in
formal Saturday evening, at 8
o’clock, Men’s Gymnasium. Season
tickets admit.
V'. M. C. A.—H. W. Stone, Secre
tary of the Portland V'. M. C. A., will
address the regular Thursday even
ing Y. M. C. A. meeting in Villard
Hall.
Assembly Hon. William Hanley, of
Burns, Oregon, will address the reg
ular Student Assembly tomorrow
morning at 10 o’clock, on the subject,
of irrigation.
Glee Club Concert—Glee Club con
cert at the Eugene Theatre, Friday
evening, January 17.
Inter-fraternity Basketball Wed
nesday afternoon, January 15. Ore
gon Club and Sigma Chi will play.
Thursday evening, Kappa Sigma and
the Dormitory will play.
Recital—Miss Winifred Forbes, as
sisted by Miss Avis Benton, will give
a violin recital in Villard Hall tomor
row evening.
Oratorical Try-out Preliminary
try-out to limit the candidates for the
Inter-collegiate contest to six, will be
held Friday, January 17.
Glee Club Will practice tomorrow
afternoon at 1 o’clock, Villard Ilall.
Cabinet meeting—Regular Y. M. C.
A cabinet meeting will be held tomor
row afternoon, at 5 o’clock, in the
Book Exchange.
WEI.I.-KNOWN IT’SSEK IS
FACETIOUS OVER NEW RULES
The new rules made by Miss Guppy',
Dean of Women of the University of
Oregon, to govern the young ladies,
have been met with loud acclamations
of relief and joy from the male por
tion of the students as well as a few
unmarried members of the Faculty.
The scattering pennies over the
monthly allowance obtained, some
times to buy a new book for a lec
ture course, can now be spent with
out the vision of a pair of entrancing
eyes in a new brand of cigarettes, a
can of tobacco, or in the improvement
of the manly art of hammering num
erous balls around a green table with
a stick chalked at one end. There
have been rumors of such a place of
amusement, in connection with the A'.
M. C. A. candy store.
Some of the boys also show a grow
inc' thirst for dry activities, which for
several years past have been entirely
overlooked in the more intoxicating
whirl of social life.
Altogether the boys are very much
pleased with the ruling and hope, for
the ultimate good of the University,
that it will meet with the hearty ap
proval and co operhtion of the young
women.
Bob Fariss.
VII M \ VI ISMII I \ | MKKI;
MHII'T \K\V CONSTITUTION
Mrs. 1. 11. Potter and tlu> Misses '
Ida and Harriet Patterson were
hostesses of tlu- Alumnae Associa
tion of the University of Oregon at
the home of Mrs. Potter on Satur
day afternoon.
A short business meeting was held
and arrangements were made for an
entertainment to he driven in the
spring, for the Junior and Senior
oollepe women by the Association. A ,
new constitution was discussed and <
adopted. i
After the business meeting the i
members enjoyed the usual social i
hour and refreshments were served, i
It was not decided, when or where ,
the next meeting would be held.
COMMUNICATIONS
TABOO ON FRAT TALK
DEPICTED AS AN EVIL
To the Editor:
In your editorial in the Emeralc
for January 7, entitled “Big Men al
Oregon,” you are in part right anc
in part wrong. The apparent lack ol
“big” men is not due entirely to the
reasons you assigned.
Two things you failed to take intc
consideration before you drew youi
conclusion. While in college, we have
not the proper perspective frorr
which to set ourselves up as judge;
of a student’s prominence. We are ir
a too intimate relation and constani
contact with each other to judge
whether our campus companions are
really big or not.
Another cause of this scarcity ol
men who can hold eiown several posi
tions with eliginty and ease is thai
the number of University activities
has not grown apace with the numbei
of men.
But there is something wrong wit!
the Student Boely. There are abso
lutely no leaders in action or thought
no one to take the initiative in any
thing. The Emerald has plainly
tried to start something severs
times this college year, but has
failed. It has had to hatch move
ments of its own accord, and ther
send some cub reporter around, I sup
pose, to find out what students think
about them. But no student, witk
the single exception of one co-ed, has
had a single thing to say on any sub
ject.
Every one is content to sit back
and wait for the other fellow. Every
man and woman in this institution
seems to have crawled into theii
shell of self satisfaction, and be con
tent to allow it to drift upon the
the rocks of a “do-nothing” policy, a?
far as the students are concerned.
And why? Is it because of the
single fact that no student has the
ability, force, or intellect, to start
something? Then we are a weak
crowd. Is it because there is no room
for improvement? Then we are per
fect. Is it because there is no way tc
make ourselves heard? Then we art
gagged. Is it because we have noth
ing to gain by seeking new condi
tions? Then our environment musl
be perfect.
They may partially explain the sit
uation, but the fact is that we art
afraid, actually afraid to talk.
And that fear has been engendered
by a false fraternal modesty that has
caused a fraternity tension and sus
pence as never existed in the days
when students had minds of their own
and were not afraid to speak them.
This reluctance of open expression
this surpressed feeling, throttled for
the sake of fraternity position and
criticism, is hindering the local con
dition of the University of Oregon
more at the present time, than any
one element in the institution.
Student.
SIMPLE GOWNS ARE
BEST, SAYS OLD GRAD
Eugene, Oregon.
l'o the Editor:
It is too bad the movement to abol
ish dress coats and silk toilets had not
oeen started before election, for from
ictual observation and contact with
he voters, 1 know that a large nura
icr voted against the millage bill un
Icr the misapprehension that the Uni
,’ersit.v was not democratic.
1 happened to drive into a crowd
liscussing it near the Park and at
nice became an interested listener.
Die remarks 1 heard, had they been
rue. would have been greatly to the
liscredit of the school.
The men were earnest, had no
bought they were doing injustice, but
hey had no more idea of what goes
ui at the University than a five-vear
>ld child.
As 1 was taking considerable inter
st in the millage bill, 1 told them 1
felt sure they were mistaken, that 1
nul spent many pleasant hours in
nunc of the houses, and that they
vonld find a splendid feeling of com*
adeship free from any snobbishness,
f they investigated. They immed
ately turned on me, saying it was
>asy to see I was a college man. I
old them, we had no fraternity hous
>s and 1 only wished we had such
fomforts. It was no use to argue;
hey had their minds made up that
he University was spoiling the youth
if the land.
Now comes Miss Guppy and public
ly insists on democracy; that was fine.
This movement to give the poor boy
an equal chance with the rich, is tne
best of it. There is no need for girls
to dress in rich silks. Time for that
when their school days are over.
There is nothing so becoming or so
suitable, and no dress a girl looks
sweeter in than pure white, that can
be had for a few cents a yard.
Time and again, when I went out,
have I heard it remarked, how much
better the girl in plain white looked
than one in silks, laces, and dia
monds, unsuited to her years. It is
all wrong to make little school hops
into elaborate functions, and take it
from me, if you want the people to
close up the University, you can
go at it in no more successful way.
Any girl, who has to put on silks and
jewels to make herself attractive, can
make herself doubly so in a simple
gown that will wash, if the jewels
consist of a small I. and large U. If
she is always considering other’s feel
ings and forgetting her own exist
ence, there will be no need of further
attractions, and those attracted will
be worth knowing. I have been all
down the line from the ball rooms of
England’s nobility to the ranch dances
of the frontier, and I never yet saw
silks and jewels outshine a sweet, un
selfish girl in a plain white frock.
Don’t do it, boys. If you have a
dress suit, have some feeling for the
fellow who has none. Cut them out,
and anything else that will hurt your
Alma Mater.
An old college boy.
I OREGON SHOULD HAVE
A LITERARY MONTHLY
If the Oregon Monthly is dead or,
at best, moribund, I wonder if this
period of privation might not offer a
suitable opportunity to consider, even
to formulate, plans for the magazine’s
successor. That it should have no
successor of some kind, seems to
augur, all things considered, a condi
tion rather remote from the exper
ience of our present college life. I
cannot see, for instance, why a well
conducted Monthly should not have a
place here which, in its way, would
call for as substantial a show of sup
port and good will as a well conduet
! ed daily. 1 may be wrong here—per
| haps Monthlies are going the way of
1 orations,- -yet I am fairly certain that
Monthlies flourish in other institu
tions no larger than Oregon and as
progressive. May not the difficulty
of maintaining such a magazine here
lie in the nature of the magazine it
| self- not in its inherent nature, but
in the kind of magazine that certain
conditions have brought about? I
think of one such condition—the way
you select your editors.
Is your election of an editor who
may or who may not have been—the
chances seem about even—a constant
contributor to the magazine, con
dusive to the best writing for it or to
| loyalty among your best writers? I
j suspect that human nature is a little
: against you. My knowledge of col
lege magazines points to the fact that
j the editors have risen from the body
of contributors. The Monthly at
I Harvard is, I believe, a self perpet
I uating organization. The new editors
are chosen by the old staff, and in
variably from those who have offered
the most promising contributions. At
Yale the Monthly is, or was, pub
lished by a senior board. At the end
of the junior year, we elected a body
of five editors, but only from those
who had been contributors. The
number of articles accepted and the
name of each article were published
in the daily before the election took
place Those were eligible to nomi
nation who had gained a certain num
ber of ‘points.’ I imagine that in
other institutions there are other
methods of selection, yet I doubt, if
any method can account for a good
i magazine, unless there is some recog
nition or reward of work done. There
seems somehow to be a sort of
principle involved here—does there
not?
One other matter. I am wondering,
too, if Oregon is not about ready to
make of her Monthly a literary maga
zine. Would not that be the most
fitting field for a Monthly, the one
field not covered by our other pub
lications? Stories, descriptions, es
says.—not orations or desperately
‘timely’ articles! May it not be pos
sible to ignore the booster—say once,
only once, a month ? 1 wonder—for
the third time.
A good literary Monthly might
start in modestly; it ought at the
very outset, if possible, be self sup
porting. Perhaps a business man
ager might be chosen outside the
staff.
Edward A. Thurber.
H. W. STONE CANCELS THURS
DAY DATE WITH Y. M. C. A.
H. W. Stone, Secretary of the
Portland Young Men’s Christian As
sociation, who was scheduled to speak
before the Thursday evening Y. M. C.
A. meeting, on the subject, “The
World’s Leadership,” sent word to
day to the campus Y. M. C. A., that
he could not be in Eugene Thursday.
As no other arrangements could be
made for the meeting, the Smith-Rob
bins meeting tonight will take the \
place of the regular meeting Thurs
day.
Hot drinks at Obak’s.
Preston & Hales
Mfgrs. of all Leather Goods
Dealers in
PAINTS AND PAPER
Agts. Johnson’s Dyes and Wax
COCKERLINE & FRALEY
Fancy and Stade Dry Goods, La
dies’ and Men’s Furnishings, Men’s
Youth’s, Children's Clothing.
Phone orders filled promptly
W. M. GREEN
The Grocer
The Store of Quality and not
Quantity
623 Willamette Phone 25
L. C. SMITH & BROS. TYPEWRITER
COMPANY
UNDERWOOD AND VISIBLE
REMINGTON TYPEWRITERS
REDUCED IN PRICE
We have on hand a few 1911!
models of the machines of above
make, which we can sell for
$65.00 under our regular guar
antee of one year, on easy pay
ments, if preferred.
The price of these machines is $65.00.
What more suitable or appro
priate Christmas or New Y'ear’s
gift could be presented to your
son or daughter? It would be
worth many times its cost for
their future education and profit.
We only have a limited num
ber of these machines on hand,
at this price, and it will be nec
essary to take advantage of this
offer at once.
L. C. SMITH & BROS. TYPEWRITER
COMPANY
ISO Oak Street, Portland, Oregon, ,
Yours Solefully for a Better Un- ■
derstanding
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640 Willam«tt« j.
Linn Drug Co.
KODAK SUPPLIES
Prescriptions Carefully Com
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FANCY GROCERIES
FRUITS, VEGETABLES
Phone us your orders. We hare
>ur own delivery wagons. Phone 24C
THE CLUB
BILLIARDS
Bigger and Better than Ever
Eighth and Willamette
J. J. McCORMICK
Berry’s Shining
Parlor
640 Willamette
Grateful for Student Patronage
FURNITURE AND CARPETS
Seventh and Willamette Streets.
'The Kuykendall
Drug Store
DRUGS, CANDIES, TOILET
ARTICLES AND SUNDRIES
688 Willamette St.
Electric Wiring
Fixtures and Supplies
Eugene Electric Co,
W. H. BAKER, Prop.
>40 Willamette Phone 836
C. B. MARKS, M. D.
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
Glasses Cerrectly Fitted.
211 and 262 White Temple.
Phone 243-J.
13th ST. MEAT MARKET
C. B. DANIELL
'resh Meats, Fish aid Game
Big January Sale
HAMPTON’S