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PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK_UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 15. 1913. _ Vol. XIV; No. 90
TELLS OF FIGHT
EUGENE BROOKINGS, PRESI
DENT OF EDUCATIONAL
LEAGUE SPEAKS AT
ASSEMBLY
VARSITY TO BECOME GREAT
People Are Awakening to Neccessity
for State University and He Sees
End of Struggle
To an audience of students and fac
ulty members that completely filled
the Assembly auditorium, Eugene
Brookings, president of the Oregon
Citizens’ Educational League, spoke
upon the students’ relation to the
state and other institutions, and the
recognition that higher education is
receiving throughout the state, at the
regular Assembly nour yesterday
morning.
“Oregon,” he said, “is known
throughout the world as the most
progressive of our states, politically.
But the state is also known as the
most backward in the support of edu
cation. That must not be. The Uni
*' versity is the greatest institution of
any state, and is its greatest adver
tising. We must place ours where it
will be the same. The University
of Oregon has one of the most beau
tiful locations of any University in
the entire West, and I am now and
hereafter for the University of Ore
gon in the city of Eugene.
“The people all over the state are
becoming interested now, and want
higher education. I stand, as the
others do, for the University, because
it furnishes educational opportunities
for the poor and rich alike. The
somewhat popular notion that the
University has catered to aristocracy
is false.”
The dangers against which the Uni
versity must guard, he said, are peo
ple who are indifferent to education
and think there should be no Univer
sity; and those who think that the
institution is dominated by “society;”
and those to whom it appears that
the University is placing too much
emphasis on athletics and not enough
on forensic and literary attainments.
He said: “We must not set up
false standards, and violate the prin
ciple on which the University life
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JOINT COMMITTEE
IDEA OF RESOLUTIONS
Student Body Adopts Scheme for Co
operation With O. A. C. in Aid
of Education.
Resolutions were adopted yester
day morning at Assembly to co-oper
ate with the Student Body of the Ore
gon Agricultural College, and with
Eugene M. Brookings, of the Oregon
Educational League, to form a joint
student conference between the two
student bodies. The purpose of this
committee shall be to settle all ques
tions arising between the two institu
tions, and to work for harmony and
higher education in an effort to be of
the most benefit to the state.
The student body at Corvallis signi
fied its willingness to enter such a
coalition, and Oregon has now taken
the initiative in this matter. It is
through the efforts of Mr. Brookings
that this conference will be formed.
The resolutions are:
Be it resolved: That the Associated
Students of the University of Oregon
do hereby express their deep apprecia
tion of the work being done by Mr.
Brookings and the Oregon Educational
MANAGER-ELECT OF EMERALD
Sam. Michael, of Baker City, Who
Was Chosen Without Opposition.
Classes have been suspended for the
Commonwealth exercisis.
TRACK TRYOUTS COME
IN INTER-GLASS MEET
WILL GIVE LINE ON TEAM FOR
O. A. C. CONTEST
Bad Weather Alone Will Keep College
Records from Being
Broken.
—
The interclass track and field meet
scheduled for 3 o’clock tomorrow aft
ernoon, promises to be one of the most
closely contested events taged on Kin
caid field this year. The fact that
there will be no restrictions as to the
entries, letter men being allowed to
compete as well as the would-be stars,
will make the meet unusually fast and
hard fought. Several varsity men
who have not been compelled to ex
tend themselves to win their events
this Spring, are planning to try for
college records, if the track is in good
condition tomorrow afternoon. Mc
Clure clipped two seconds off his own
coast record of 4:24:2, in practice, sev
eral weeks ago and may try to repeat
the performance tomorrow. Huggins
ran a close second to McClure in this
race. Neil may also try to hurl the
javelin a few feet further than in last
Saturday’s meet, when he established
a coast record of 169 feet 1 inch.
ihe regular order of events will be
run with the exception of the relay,
in which event Hayward is planning
to have several try-outs to pick a
team for the 0. A. C. meet. The
showing made in this meet may de
termine the squad which will make
the trip to Corvallis on May 24.
The order of events follow: Mile
run, shot put, 440 yard dash, pole
vault, 120 yard hurdles, high jump,
100 yard dash, broad jump, two mile
run, discus throw, javelin, 880 yard
run, 220 yard low hurdles, 220 yard
dash, and relay try-outs.
The Sophomore class with Parsons,
McConnell, Boylen, Heidenreich, Pack,
Bryant, and Blackaby, seem to have a
slight edge over the other classes in
figuring out a “dope” sheet, and
should run a strong race for first
place. The Senior class, with Kay,
McClure, and Neil, and the Freshmen
class, with Fee, Cook, Windnagle,
Kaiser, Barber, and Foster, may
spring a few surprises and take the
meet. The Junior class will be repre
sented by Huggins, Stuller, McCor
nack, and several world-beaters, who
are keeping their identity hidden un
til the psychological moment.
Professor E. E. DeCou was in Sa
lem yesterday, where he attended the
Peace Day exercises at the Salem
High School. Professor DeCou was
one of the speakers of the affair,
which was held in commemoration of
the Hague Conference.
League in behalf of higher education,
and do hereby express their desire to
co-operate with him and with the Stu
dent Body of the Oregon Agriculture
College through the medium of a Joint
Student Conference, the Executive
Council to act as the University’s
committee on co-operation. *
•
FOlEfflNS
. EMERALD RACE
NORMA DOBIE VICTORIOUS IN
FOUR CORNERED FIGHT
FOR STUDENT BODY
SECRETARYSHIP
THE TOTAL VOTE CAST IS 513
«
Two Offices Go by Default in Election
Centred About Editorship of
Emerald.
In an election centered about a bit
ter fight for the editorship of the col
lege paper, Henry F. Fowler, of Port
land, won the election yesterday. He
defeated Donald Rice, of Portland, by
77 votes. The presidency of the Stu
dent Body went to Vernon Motschen
bacher, of Klamath Falls, by default.
Four Co-eds Run Race.
A second fight which made in
teresting the student political arena
was that between four Co-eds, each
representing a different faction, for
the office of Student Secretary. It
was won by Norma Dobie, of Eugene,
who carried it from Maude Mastick, of
Portland, by 21 votes.
Elliott Roberts defeated Delbert
Stannard for vice-president by 19
votes. Willard Shaver and Delbert
King defeated Wallace Caufleld and
Everett Stuller for the two members
of the executive council. Carl Fenton,
Robert Bradshaw, and Elmer Hall
were successful candidates to the ath
letic council. Sam Michael was elect
ed manager of the Emerald without
competition.
After the election several of the suc
cessful candidates had a rally to cele
brate the occasion.
cjieciiun ivesims.
The results of the election are:
For President of the Student Body
—Vernon Motschenbacher, of Klamath
Falls, 483.
Vice-President of the Student Body
—Elliot Roberts, 264; Delbert Stan
nard, 245.
Secretary of the Student Body—
Norma Dobie, 157; Maud Mastick,
138; Ellice Shearer, 109; Ruth Beach,
99.
Executive Committee (two places)
—Willard Shaver, 305; Dalzel King,
289; Wallace Caufleld, 229; Everett*
Stuller, 178.
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NEW FUND*STARTED
FOR DEBATE WINNERS
Eugene Brookings Offers $100, to be
Used as Prizes to Debaters
Next Year.
Forensics received a strong impetus
at Assembly Wednesday, when Eu
gene Brookings, president of the
Higher Educational League, offered a
hundred dollars, to t>e used as prizes
for those representing the University
in debate next year. It is the plan
of Mr. Brookings to secure gifts from
several funds in order to raise this
amount to at least three hundred dol
lars.
This offer came as a complete sur
prise to the University, particularly
since President Campbell and Coach
Prescott have been working on a
somewhat similar plan, although en
tirely separate from the one proposed
by Mr. Brookings. Their plan, which
is not as yet entirely complete, is to
secure an endowment, from friends of
the University, large enough to sup
port oratory and debate, both the In
ter-collegiate and the Inter-class.
These plans will be completed and
followed while Mr. Brookings will
conduct bis fund separately.
ATHELETIC COUNCIL ELECT
Bradshaw
Fenton
Hall
VARSITY JOURNEYS TO
CORVALLIS FOR SERIES
TWO GAMES WITH O. A. C. TO BE
PLAYED, RAIN OR SHINE
Dope Gives Oregon at Least One of
Contests, Which Occur May
16 and 17.
(By J. Ward Arney.)
Despite the fact that it is a 100
to 1 shot that the weather conditions
will be anything but ideal for base
ball, there is small possibility that the
two games scheduled for the end of
this week with O. A. C. on their home
grounds will be postponed or can
celled. The contracts between the two
colleges call for too big a guarantee
to pass up, while the playing of these
games gives O. A. C. the last straw
for its championship hopes to cling to.
Rain or shine the two teams will bat
tle out the series that means so much
to the final pennant standing.
Oregon May Take Two.
One of the dopsters in a downtown
paper’s sporting department has it
figured out that, owing to the poor
showing that Mr. Ayer’s team made
against O. A’. C. and Washington, that
if Oregon wins even one of these
games during the week-end that Ben
Chandler will have to rob someone’s
blacksmith shop. Acute lapsus
noodle. There is no reason why Ore
gon should not annex one game at
least and it wouldn’t cause a mad
panic from surprise, if Chandler and
Co. return with the woolen of two vic
tories.
In the first place, averages show
that the team as a whole is hitting the
ball at a .237 clip. Considering that
there are twelve men’s hitting abili
ties and weaknesses mixed up in that
average, it would seem that some of
Coach Garret’s pitchers were in for
trouble. As far as the working of the
two infields are considered, anyone
could see that Oregon has the better,
with 0. A, C. crippled at third and
first, as they are by the loss of Wil
son and Cooper. The Oregon outfield,
strengthened by Bigbee’s hitting
ability, leads in comparison.
Culver, O. A. C.’s Only Hope.
The only possible place that O. A.
C. has the advantage, is in the pitch
ing of one man, “Bennie” Culver, the
same who on one past occasion coaxed
out so many and varied slants from
his little sleeve, that Oregon bats
men failed to do anything with him.
This man is a real slabsman, but the
best of them have their off days, and
none of them are unbeatable. Either
Johnnie Welch or one of his two un
derstudies are apt to turn the trick.
Oregon will win one and maybe two.
Senior examinations at the Uni
versity of Washington will be held
June 7. These examinations will be
six hours in length and will decide
who is eligible to graduate.
Idaho and Whitman broke even in
their baseball series last week, each
taking one game and losing one. The
first game was won, 8 to 0, by Whit
man, while Idaho took the second by a
score of 13 to 4.
Vernon
Motschen
bacher,
President of
Student
Body.
Henry
Fowler,
Editor
elect of
Emerald.
Y. M. C. A. MEETING TONIGHT
IS LAST OF SCHOOL YEAR
The last meeting of the Y. M. C.
A. will be held tonight in Deady Hall.
Gale Seaman, Coast Secretary of the
Student Association, will give an ad
dress on “Student Conferences.” He
will illustrate his talk with slides
taken at various conferences through
out the United States.
Mr. Seaman’s address will be par
ticularly instructive for those inter
ested in the work of the Y. M. C. A.,
and it is desirous that all of the
members, if possible, be present.
Ira Manville will render a vocal
solo. Refreshments will be served.
LAUREANS TO INDULGE IN
ANNUAL BANQUET TUESDAY
The third annual banquet of the
Laurean Literary Society will be
given in the Osburn Hotel, Tuesday
evening, May 20. Toasts will be re
sponded to by Bert Prescott, coach in
debate and oratory at the University,
David Pickett, Walter Kimmell and
Andrew Collier. President Otto Hei
der will give a talk on the history of
the Laureans. Definite announce
ments will be made later.
$50,000 BUILDIIG IS
' PROJECTED BY WOMEN
<■ mum in» in
Enormous Task of Raising Money for
Proposed Structure Already
Begun.
Not content with laboring for five
years to earn money to build the
$2,000 Y. W. C. A. building which is
now under construction, the Univer
sity women have undertaken the
enormous task of raising $60,000 for
a University woman’s building. They
propose to earn parts of it by selling
candy and dainties, as a large part of
the $2,000 was raised, and also to ob
tain sums by subscription. The work
will be pushed energetically. The
first contribution from the women has
come from the Gamma Phi Beta wo
man’s fraternity, which has given
$25 in cash, and has pledged itself to
give a like sum each year until the
budding is completed. The Portland
branch of Oregon Alumnae is the
first non-student body to contribute.
It has given $10. The money has been
placed in the care of the president of
the University, by whom it will be in
vested until the final sum is raised.
The women feel that if they are
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WELL KNOWN SPEAKERS WILL
GIVE SHORT TALKS ON
TOPICS OF VITAL
INTEREST
ENGINEERS’ EXCURSION SAT.
Sigma Delta Chi Will Give Banquet
to Newspaper Men Saturday
Evening.
The fifth annual Commonwealth
Conference of the University will open
Friday morning, May 16, in Villard
Hall. Discussions by representatives
of the New York Bureau of Municipal
Research on efficiency in Oregon’s
public affairs will inaugurate the
morning session at 9 o’clock. The re
mainder of the morning session will
be occupied as follows: Paper by
Edward Gray, mayor of Astoria, on
“Co-operation and Scientific Methods
in Oregon Municipal Affairs”; paper
by Herman Brauer, director of the
Bureau of Municipal Research, Uni
versity of Washington, on “Legisla
tive Bureau Work”; L. H. Weir, Field
Secretary of the Playground and Re
creational Associatron of America,
will discuss “Recreational Activities
of Oregon Municipalities.”
Second Session Friday Afternoon.
The second session, Friday after
noon from 2 to 5 o’clock, will open
with papers by Robert Kuykendall
and Thaddeus Wentworth, on Com
monwealth Service. The program for
the remainder of the afternoon will be
as follows: Paper by Porter J. Neff,
city attorney of Medford, on Munici
pal Markets; paper by Hon. H. B.
Miller, on “Co-operative Production
and Marketing,” with a discussion by
J. O. Holt, manager Lane County Fruit
Grower’s Association; paper on Co
operative Distribution, by Z. W. Com
merford, organizer of co-operative
stores; paper on Credit Associations,
by J. George Johnson, master Lane
County Pomona Grange; paper by 0.
M. Plummer, secretary American Eu
genics Society, upon Racial Standards,
with a discussion led by Mrs. Millie
Trumbull, secretary Oregon Child La
bor Commission.
The third session will take place
Friday evening in Villard Hall, at 8
o’clock. At this time A. H. Harris, of
the Portland Labor Press, will give
an address on State Plumbing, while
Mr. Ellis F. Lawrence will give an
illustrated lecture on City Planning.
On Saturday morning, from 9 to
12, the following subjects will be
taken up: Reorganization of the
American Educational System to
Meet the Needs of the Twentieth Cen
tury, discussed by Dean A. F. Lange,
of the University of California, Wil
liam T. Foster, of Reed College, and
Eugene Brookings, President Citizen’s
Educational League; paper by Pro
fessor E. P. Culberly, of Stanford
University, on Community Service
from our Educational System, and a
paper by J. C. Meurman, of the
United States Department of Educa
tion,
E.iiKiuetTs in arrive saiuruay.
On Saturday morning, at 11 o’clock,
an excursion train is due, in charge
of H. L. Vorst, formerly president of
the Oregon Society of Engineers.
Following an address of welcome by
President Campbell in Villard Hall,
the visitors will proceed to the Men’s *
gymnasium, where they will be the
guests of a dinner under the direc
tion of the women of the Oregon
Alumni Association. At one-thirty
the sessions will be continued; those
interested in Journalism to proceed to
Professor Allen’s room in McClure
Hall, those interested in Engineering
to the meeting in the Men’s Gymna
sium, while the women will hold out
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