Oregon emerald., June 04, 1913, Image 2

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Editor-in-Chief.Karl W. Onthank
Assistant Editor. . . .Carleton E. Spencer
Managing Editor.Franklin 8. Allen
lews Editor.Earl Blackaby
Assistant .Tula Kinsley
City Editor.Clarence E. Ash
Eight Editor.Fred Dnnbar
Special Departments
Administration .... Clarence Brotherton
Assistant .James Donald
.Roger Moe
Sporting Editor.Jessnp Strang
Co-Ed Sporting Editor. Bellle Hemenway
Baseball .J. Ward Arney
Society Editor.Elizabeth Lewis
Assistant.May Smith
Literary and Dramatic.... A. K. Davies
Exchange Editor.Dal King
Assistants—
Oraham McConnel Deslie Tooze
Law Sohool.B. Burns Fowell
City Editor’s Staff
Harry Cash Evelyn Harding
Wallace Eakln
Arthur Crawford
Beatrice Locke
Margaret Belat.
Beatrice Lilly
Umar Tooze
Elmer Furusett
Business Mgr......Andrew M. Collier
Assistant Manager.Lyman Q. Bice
Collection Manager.Sam Michael
Assistants.Leonard Buoy
Roy T. Stephens Bert Lombard
Advertising Manager.... Clyde Altchlson
Assistants .Anthony Jaureguy
.Allen W. O’Connell
Circulation Manager.Sam Michael
Assistants.Kenneth Robinson
Wednesday, June 4, 1913.
HAPPY DAYS
It is pleasant to finish. It is al
ways a joy to be released. It is ever
gratifying to look back upon work
accomplished. Perhaps there is a,
little tinge of regret that we have
not done more or oetter. But the
retrospect is good.
In passing through four years at
the University we have seen the
transition from the old to the new.
We have been hazed and have seen
the last of hazing. We have suffered
from two referendums on University
appropriations and have seen a third
called, but we have watched the Uni
versity forge ahead despite them.
We have seen the public’s attitude
toward the University change from
indifference and outright opposition
to the strong demand for a greater
University now voiced by an awak
ening Commonwealth. We have put
the Student Body on a sounder foot
ing; have established the graduate
manager system; and have instituted
several new student activities. We
have watched the beginning |of ia
great institution in the development
of the Commonwealth Conference.
Wo have been present at the recog
nition of a new and mighty profes
sion in the establishment of the De
partment of Journalism; are already
beginning to reap benefits from its
work in the changing attitude of the
public press toward higher education.
We have seen the growth of the fra
ternity system and the decadence of
the literary societies. And many
other things we have seen and expe
rienced as we have passed through
Old Oregon, some not altogether good,
most of them, however, marked steps
in advance.
But with all these changes, col
lege life is pretty much the same as it
was before we came. It is largely
(bo external things which have
changed. We have the same round
of studies and classes and college
activities. There is the same old
practice of setting popularity and
prejudice before worth. Even the
fraternity argument, is still with us.
All of which goes to show that it
is the unusual that attracts the most
attention. College life is essentially
prosaic and uneventful. It is the
long grind of studies that most se
riously engages us in college. We
prefer the romantic and often try to
make our college life conform to our
preference. But the real business of
college lies in the humdrum, often
monotonous, business of getting an
education.
But. for all that, these four years
have been happy ones. We are glad
and anxious to get out and into the
grown up life that lit's ahead, but
still it hurts to break away. So it
is with mingled feelings of joy and
sorrow that, we hid adieu, and wish,
• with deepest .sPneority. the greatest
success o every member of “good old
1913.
And remember, now and forever.
Hail to Oregon!
HONOlt DUE
During the past two years hvo
men have been added to the Univer
sity faculty, both unique in the|r
spheres and both proving of inesti
mable value to the University. These
men are Profesanj1 A. F. Reddie, of
the Public Spea\%% Department, and
Professor Eric Allen, of the Journal
ism Department. No better men
could be found in their respective
spheres of work, and both have
thrown themselves whole-souled into
giving to Oregon the best that is to
be had. The influence of these men
cannot be measured by their class
work alone. That has been only a
comparatively /small part of Itheiir
work. In Dramatics and in Jour
nalism their aim has been to give
to the University of Oregon the repu
tation of standing for the best, first,
last and forever, and to this end
they have given liberally of time
and energy to which they were justly
entitled for their own use. These
departments are somewhat out of the
usual course of study, yet no one can
question the inestimable value they
have proved because of the men of
high ideals and strong determination
of the heads of them. Let us not
fail to render to these men the ap
preciation that is due them.
LUNCHEON AND REUNION TO
TAKE PLACE OF ALUMNI BALL
Among the other innovations be
ing introduced on the Commencement
program this year will be a luncheon
and reunion, which will be held on
Tuesday by the Alumni, in place of
the Alumni Ball which was to have
been held Tuesday night. This was
decided this afternoon at a Senior
class meeting held in Deady Hall.
Also on Wednesday at noon a big
banquet will be given to everybody
at the University’s expense. Wednes
day night the Seniors will give their
ball to the Alumnae.
EMERALD SETS NEW RECORD
(Continued from first page.l
another during the year. The staff,
even after the diminuation which ac
companies the approach of the end
of the year, numbers 61.
Has Become An Institution
In other words, the Emerald has
grown from a little college paper,
gotten out almost wholly by one or
two men, to a good sized institution.
It is the best paper published by any
college! of less than 1,000 students,
and shows up well beside the best
college papers published anywhere.
Limitations of staff efficiency, es
pecially lack of trained writers and
the difficulties attendant upon having
the news office and printing ishopi
considerable distance apart made it
impossible to do all we wanted to
do. But we have no apologies to
make.
We see many ways of impioving it;
we have been and are still willing
and glad to render any possible as
sistance to those who succeed us in
the direction of this important col
lege institution.
We have tried to run a paper which
would harmonize the diverse inter
ests and viewpoints of our readers
as nearly as possible. Especially de
sirable is it that the Emerald measure
up to the standard of excellence de
manded by the alumni. More help
ful eritieisnf on the part of the alum
ni themselves would do much toward
reaching this ideal. Especially time
ly are the suggestions of the Old
(5rads earls in the fall, when the new
editor is getting his work started.
We regret there are a few of these
who seem unable to distinguish be
tween destructive and merely irri
tating, fault-finding, at minor er
rm s, and suggestive, constructive and
really helpful criticism. It is not a
, crime that things are not as they
were when these men wore in college,
and kicking at things after they are
past does no good. The alumni who
are most valuable to the University
are those who make thoughtful, time
ly suggestions. We are very grate
ful to those who have done this dur
ing the past year, and have made ev
ery effort to profit by their sugges
tions. We trust that there has not
been dissatisfaction among those
from whom we have had no word.
Students (let t'redit
(Jreat credit is due the students
who have server! on the statl this
yj'nr. Most of them lnu;e beetf eit
tirelv inexperienced, and in® view of
this the quality ®of work that they
have done has been remarkable. The
fact that, there were so few expe
rienced people who could be put in
, responsible positions, and the heavy
work divided instead of being placed
1 on the shoulders of a few, is the prin
i eipnl reason why we did not get out
a daily the second semester. With
the strong staff we have built up this
paper and the trained news writers
now being turned out by the Depart
men of Journalism, there seems to
be no reason why a daily can not be
realized in the very near future. The
momentum of the paper is increasing
tremendously. Future editors will
find the task of getting out a clean,
newsy and thoroughly creditable pa
per much easier.
The University owes much to An
drew Collier, the manager, whose
financial ability^ has made possible the
success of the Emerald this year. It
has been a privilege to work with
him. And now that the year is over
and the work completed, it is fitting
that we should express the pleasure
that it has been to serve the Student
Body. We have tried to give every
cause and every individual a square
deal, and to work honestly and sin
cerely for the best interests of the
University. We feel that our efforts
have not been wholly fruitless.
ATHLETIC YEAR PUZZLES FANS
(Coatinu*d from firat page.)
At the close of the season, Brad
shaw was elected to succeed Walker
as captain, and the graduate system *
of coaching was discarded for that of
professional, Hugo Bezdeck being
chosen to guide the 1914 team. i
Basketball Joy’s Fatal. i
In basketball, with four veterans,
the prospects were splendid for a
winner and in its first games, Oregon j
justified the predictions. The north
em crusade proved fatal, however,
for the team lost five out of its six ,
games. The contests on the home |
floor added two more games to the
credit side, O. A. C. and W. S. C. each ^
dropping a game. In the series with
O. A. C. each team annexed two wins,
thus tieing the state championship,
while Pullman walked off with the ^
Conference supremacy.
Carl Fenton will fill Sims’ place in
the leadership of the team for next *
year.
Ihe Baseball season proved a keen
disappointment after Oregon had
startled the college world by winning
from W. S. C. and Washington on
their home grounds, and continued its
success by breaking even with O. A.
C. and Washington on the campus
diamond, the team blew up and by
losing two games at Corvallis was
nosed out of the pennant. O. A. C.
and Washington showed the same
inconsistency, so the Western division
of the Conference ended in a draw
and furnished no team to compete
against W. S. C„ the Eastern winners.
Oregon’s defeat of Pullman early in
the season not only would silence any
of W. S. C.’s claims to the top-notch,
but gives Oregon the slight edge on
that place.
Though admittedly weaker than
ever before, Oregon’s track team gave
promise of maintaining its usual su
premacy of the Conference by defeat
ing Washington and O. A. C. in dual
meets, only to drop into fourth place
at the Conference gathering in Walla
Walla. The team simply had an off
year but, despite this ,is the best one
in the Northwest in a dual meet.
Lack of material in the sprints and
shorter distances and failure of the
distance horses to run in form, are
accountable for Oregon’s loss of its
long-eld place at the top of the track
ladder.
OHECON TEAMS HAVE
WON ALL DEBATES
Continued from first page.
Pickett, it was postponed until a sub
stitute could be rushed to the rescue.
With a crippled team Oregon again
won by a two to one decision of the
judges.
The final debate was that of the
Co-eds against Washington, and we
easily won a unanimous decision. The
question of the Immigration of the
peoples of Eastern and Southern Eu
rope into the United States was that
used in all the debates.
The dual meet in Portland against
Washington, including oratory and
extempore speaking, was won on close
decision by the Washington represen
tatives.
I Altogether this has been a most
successful season, and with the ex-C
perience gained in his first attempt,^
“Coach-Prescott „ought to turn out win
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men, only two of the old debaters will
1 be back and both of them will be
Seniors. The Co-ed team will all be
back next Fall.
Prixes of $100 have been offered
by Mr. Brookings to encourage debat
ing, and this should prove a great in
centive.
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