OREGON EMERALD
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Editor-in-Chief.Karl W. Onthank
Assistant Editor.... Carleton K. Spencer
Managing Editor.Franklin S. Allen
City Editor.Harold Yotuig
Special Departments
Administration . . . Clarenoe Brotbertos
Assistant .James Donald
Co-Ed. Sporting Editor, Nellie Hemenway
Society Editor.Elizabeth Eewle
Assistant .May Smith
Literary and Dramatic. . . .A. H. Darlas
Exchance Editor.Graham McConnell
Daw School.B. Burns Powell
City Editor’s Staff
Harry Cash Evelyn Harding
Wallace Eakln lieatrice I.illy.
Luton Ackerson Clarence Ash
Arthur Crawford
Beatrice Locke
Roger M oe
Janet Toung
Business Mgr.Andrew M. (Jollier
Assistant Manager .1.7 man O. Mlee
Collection Manager.Sam Michael
Assistants .Leonard I’uoy
.Roy 'I'. Stephens
Advertising Manager . Clyde Altchlson
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. Alien W. O'Connell
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Assistants.Kenneth Robinson
.Frank Dudley
Thursday, March 6, 1913.
ATHLETICS AS ADVERTISING
With the Athletic Council busy en
deavoring to make selections of
coaches for baseball and football, we
again hear the oft repeated assertion
that we must have a winning team,
without regard to the cost, for the
reason that unless athletic victories
are won, students will flock elsewhere
and the University will suffer. Actual
facts, however, do not seem to bear
out this allegation. The growth of
the University has been steady, with- I
out any perceptible regard as to ;
whether we had winning teams or
not.
Recent investigations at Yale and
Harvard throw light upon the ques
tion. Says the Harvard Ilulletin:
“The Yale Daily News has rein
forced through an exploration into
Yale history the truth established for
Harvard by President Eliot that sue- j
cess or failure in athletics has no
influence on the numbers of a col
lege. The News, going hack as far as
1866 in its researches, has shown
that at Yale there has been no relation
between increase or decrease in en
rollment and the winning or losing of
games and races. In 1868, 1872,
1880, 1891, and 1899, the entering
classes showed an increase, though
Yale had been unsuccessful in athlet
ics the year before; and decreases in
the entering classes in 1870, 1811,
ami 1895, followed successful seasons
in athletics. In the period from l»ho
to 18514, when Vale teams and crews
were winning pretty steadily, there
was, to be sure, a considerable and
almost continuous increase in the en
tering classes; but there was a like in
crease during the same period at Har
vard, and we certainly at that time
were not distinguishing ourselves in
athletics. The experience at Yale
therefore falls in exactly with that at
Harvard to disprove any relation be
tween athletics and enrollment.
"It is clear American boys keep
their heads in this matter, whatevei
the space given to college athletics by
the newspapers, and no matter how
tense the absorption of graduates, the
boys themselves seem to pick their
colleges without much regard to the
winners. There was a great and gen
eral increase in the number of boys
going to college beginning about the
middle or end of the eighties, and
many colleges showed the result in
their numbers; but success in athletics
has been one of the least of the caus
es which controlled the distribution of
the increase. It is a habit of the
American people to enjoy its amuse
ments hysterically; but underneath
the yelling, there is always a saving
sense of humor. In this endowment
of the fathers the sons have a full
share.”
The greatest factor in determining
what college a student will attend is
in nearly every case purely that of
the type and quality of work offered.
Second only to this, especially in the
West, is that of distance. Colleges
here are so far apart that it is not
possible, as it is in the East, for a
student to choose between a dozen in
stitutions. Unless other influences
enter strongly, the mere distances
force him to go to the college nearest
home. We have students at the Uni
versity from every state west of the
Rockies, and from several east of
them, but reasons other than our ath
letic renown brought them here. On
the other hand, it would be much eas
ier to show that the University’s
financial embarrassments have had
more influence upon the emmigration
of students to other states than the
fact that Washington wins annually
the football . championship of the
Northwest and California the Coast
track meet.
The few men who admit that the
advertising of athletic victories at
tracted them are not, as a rule, not
ably good students and otherwise
credits to their Alma Mater. Athletes
rank high in scholarship at Oregon,
but they are nearly all men who
would stand well anywhere, and who
entered the University primarily for
more substantial things than athletics.
Often as not the prep stars who
would be most attracted by athletic
successes do not become college stars
anyway.
Of course, we want to win. Victory
is always gratifying. But it seems
that the influence of winning teams
upon attendance has been exagger
ated.
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Women’s Choral Club—Members
who are not present at roheaisuls
Friday and Saturday and next week,
will not be eligible to appear in con
cert. Melvin Ogden, Director.
Wisconsin has a wealth of material
in the baseball line, and they are
working hard to perfect a champion
ship aggregation.
Get the (>28 Habit. Eagle Drug Co.
We deliver lee Cream. Eagle Drug
Co. Phone 628.
.less Garrett, an ex-coast pitcher,
has been selected to coach the O. A.
C. baseball team for this season.
Druggists to the students. Eagle
Drug Co. Phone 628.
Mohawk Lumber Co. for first class
lumber and shingles.
Y. M. C. A. Cafeteria for good
oats.
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IMPERIAL CLEANERS
All sorts of Pressing and Cleaning
done with up-to-date methods.
27 East Seventh Street.
Announcements
Sophomore debate—Try-outs for
the Sophomore team have been post
poned until Friday, March 28. By or
der of the Committee.
Triple-A—Meet by order the Ad
ministrator, at the Chi Omega house,
Friday afternoon, at 4 o’clock.
Theatricals—“Servant in the
House,” presented by the class in
Dramatic Interpretation, at the Eu
gene Theatre, Friday evening,
March 7.
Y. M. C. A.—Professor Sweetser
will address the regular meeting of
the Y. M. C. A., Thursday evening, on
the subject, “The Challenge of the
Country.” Deady Hall.
Dance—Student Body informal has
been indefinitely postponed from this
coming Saturday evening in favor of
the excursion to Corvallis.
Freshman debate—Try-outs will be
held March 22 and 29. For informa
tion see Freshman committee on de
bate.
Y. M. C. A. election—The annual
election of the officers for the Uni
versity Y. M. C. A. occurs on Thurs
day evening, March 20, at the regular
meeting. All members should take
notice.
Women’s Athletic Association—
Meeting scheduled for Saturday after
noon at 1 o’clock, to form permanent
organization, has been postponed until
sometime next week, to be called by
Miss Thompson.
Choral Club—Meets for rehearsal
every afternoon, except Sunday, at
4 o’clock, in Villard Hall.
EUGENE DEMOCRAT FORGETS DATE
AND BITES ON FAKE WILSON BET
Taft Man Wagers That Banks Will
Be Closed Four Months From
Yesterday and Wins.
Tuesday, one of Eugene’s best Dem
ocrats was idly leaning against a tele
phone pole on Willamette street, en
joying the rays of the afternoon sun,
when he was approached by a local
Taftite, who said, “Well, Woodrow, I
see that your president is to be in
augurated today, and a peach he’ll be,
too. I'll tell you what I’ll do; I’ll bet
you five dollars that four months
from today every bank in the United
States will be closed.”
Fairly bursting with compressed
rage, “Woodrow” almost tore his
pockets to get his five into the hands
of a convenient stake holder. Blandly
scratching his head and with a real
William Howard smile, the Republi
can said, "I would just like to remind
you that four months from today is
fourth of July.”
“Woodrow” not only lost his five
dollars, but also the price of several
"bit” cigars which were demanded by
the witnesses of the wager.
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That “The Servant in the House” is
a play of great moral force and is
one of the great allepories of modern
times which contains the essence of
the teachings of the Man of Gallilee
of two thousand years apo, is the
opinion of the critic, Mr. B. 0. Flow
er. The followinp is a paragraph
taken from his criticism of the New
York production. He says: “It is a
notable fact that the most powerful
and soul-searching sermon of recent
years has been delivered, not in cathe
dral, church or chapel, but in the
theatre, and not uttered by gowned
and mitered priest or dark-robed min
ister, but by a band of earnest ac
tors, who faithfully strove to inter
pret the old-new message as the
author desired to have it voiced. And
it is equally significant that this mes
sage, luminous with the vital prin
ciples of pure and undefiled religion,
was so gladly received by the peo
ple. that the play has proved one of
the greatest successes.” This drama
will be produced in the Eugene Thea
tre. Friday, March 7, by the Depa: t
ment of Public Speaking.
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“Wrork for the Night is Coming.”
One student to wash dishes and do
odd jobs around the house, for board
and room, at once. Y. M. C. A.
Bureau.
The Association Bureau has several
needy students listed for work on reg
ular hours during the week. Mr.
Businessman, you need help and they
need the work. They give satisfac
tion. Phone 504, University Associa
tion . Bureau.
Student wanted to do chores and
tend canoes, for board and cash.
Private family. Association Bureau.
This spring there will be more odd
jobs for students than there are stu
dents to do them. This is your oppor
tunity to lessen the burden on your
parents and friends. Leave your
schedule of working hours with the
General Secretary in the Association
Bureau.
Students wanted, to circulate “Paci
fic Northwest.” Write to Philip S.
Bates, publisher, 215 Oregonian bldg.,
Portland.
The Association has a good propo
sition for six students for the sum
mer.
Several students wanted to handle
a good speciality during college
course and summer vacation. Asso
ciation Bureau.
EXCLUSIVE FLORISTS
REX FLORAL CO.
Phone Us Anytime. 692-J.
Burgess Optical Co.
501 WillaractfajjSt.
Registered Optometrists
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Finest, Freshest and Best
Teas a"d Coffees
in Eugene
Tea, Coffee, Spice.
Fancy Chinaware.
Christmaa Dishes.
Adams TeaCompany
Ninth and Oak Streets
EUGENE QUICK
Shoe Repair
Serviceable Repairing
M. MILLER 22 West Eighth
College Ice Cream
and Punches
Tar Particular People
PliMt 341.
Eugene Ice and
Storage Co.
Students eat at the Y. M. C. A.
Cafeteria.
Preston & Hales
Mfgrs. of all Leather Goods
Dealers in
PAINTS AND PAPER
Agts. Johnson’s Dyes and Wax
A. W. COOK
CLEANING, PRESSING AND
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LADUM wohx a specialty
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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 Year’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.
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COMPANY
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Dorris photo Shop
Classy Photos
Cherry Bldg. Phone 741
Oregon Stationery
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DRUGS, CANDIES, TOILET
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588 Willamette St.
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Dealer in Staple and Fancy
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Fresh Vegetables
Koehler & Steele
Millinery and
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