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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1914)
EUGENE, ORE., VOL. XV. SL > EMERALD TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1914. XLVII. TWO- CO-EDS GET 'H’ CARDS OTHER HIGH GRADES ARE REPORTED AMONG ‘ STUDENTS OmCiAL REPORTS LACKING In Defeating Lemon-Yellow List. Comparative Standing of Clubs and Organizations to Be Compiled in Few Days. Because of the rush of business attendant to registration, the Regis trar’s office will he unable to furn ish a complete list of students re ceiving highest grades during the last semester for several days. But two all “H” cards were given this year. They belong to Beulah Stebno, who attained like honors last year, and Anna Neufeld. Frederic Malzer, a freshman from Baker, lacked but one hour of secur ing an all “H” card, receiving 15 hours “H” and one hour “M.” His “H’s” were secured in Greek, Eng lish, German and higher algebra, which are among the most difficult courses in college, while his one “M” was given in the one hour practical ethics course for freshmen. Beulah Stebno Highest. Probably the highest grades given 1 to any jupior except Beulah Stebno were received by Lewis Bond, of Eugene and a member of last year’s tennis team. Bond was given 12 hours “H” and four hours “S^” He :also enjoys the distinction of'being tthe youngest member of the Junior c&lass. ..Maude Mastick, of Portland, was riven senior honors by receiving €i rht ^hours “H” and 10 hours “S.” Mi- Ma. ^tiek was one of the three cou ‘ ' whi.1 received “H’s” in Taus £i ,>g E -joncm ics last year, considered one of the hardest courses in col lege. Relative schoIai~shiP standings of the various’ clubs a. nd fraternities will be coi. ipiled by tlle Registrar shortly. Over Thirty Flunk. According t o unofficial Reports, between 30 a nd 40 University stu" dents failed tc) make the requii'ed a ne hours, ne cess, ary to remain in college. The 1 ist o f bunkers in cludes five sen iors, five freshmen, the remainder ’being- divided be tween the soph omore and junior classes. It is not kno wn how1 in,Tv iy wil1 ' reinstated by fne Faculty,- m Mch W meet this evening to consul r ^ statement petitions. Sevdrtil1 «. f } number lacKed only an hoc'** °f “"king the required nine. hirty-one freshmen and ^Vfc ‘d students registered in the Un reakf M°aday- M°re new stun ’en1 ed h r t0day’ 80 that is exP- "C is.r„;e hst Wl11 reach 50 before re delation closes. CUT-RATE TIME EXTENDED ‘ p' '1 ,i,,ce on Oregana Will Be ept °Pe« Until February 15. srr* 't tW0 dollar and a half sub bp ' f011 Fate for the Oregana will for h ended t0 February fifteenth and 1 benefit of the new* students ^ on account of the examinations. wh„?° ^anvass will be made of the be r, 6 ,SCh°01 and a special effort will 0Dn a 6 -t0 SiVe the new students an this offer^ rf0 take advantag« of oueh • 11 Was only atter a thor of"rf.nneStisation the condition ed tr> Ul S tkat ®am Michael consent who v,6 Xend the time and every one two r\ 3n n0t taken advantage of the dollar'ih and half rate’ paying one ani\, ld a half when subscribing ceh-p °th6r dollar when they re scriho he b°°k’ are urged to sub as soon as possible. > DONALD AND MORRIS WIN IN ORATORICAL TRYOUTS To Represent “U” at Intercol legiate and International Peace Contests * Speaking on the subject, “Uni versal Democracy, the Extinction of \\ ar, James Donald secured the first choice of the judges at the ora torical tryout held Friday night, January 13, and -will represent the University of Oregon in the annual state inter-collegiate oratorical con test to be held! March 13 in Albany. At the same tryout Victor Morris won the choice of the judges for the position of Oregon orator in the state international peace contest. At this contest as in the other, all the col leges of the state will be represented, the winner to receive a prize of $7 5, while the second best will be given a $50 prize. Similar contests will be held all over the United States, and the best speakers from the various districts will meet early in the summer at Lake Mohonk for the final competi tion. OREGANA PRINTING AND BINDING CONTRACTS LET All Work Will Be Done in Eu gene. Date Set for Com- - pletion Is May 2 Ben Dorris, advertising manager of the Oregana, has let the bids for the Oregana to Yoran Printing house and Eaton’s for binding. There will be one thousand copies of five hun dred pages each. The book will be bound in cloth and will be stamped in gold on the front cover and back.. The publication will be finished and ready for delivery on May second. Pour hundred copies will be sent to public libraries, high schools, Y. M. C. A.s in the state. Each Uni versity in the United States will also receive one, to let the other schools see what Oregon is like. Dorris reports the price on the binding and printing as cheaper than the price made on any previous book. All Oregana photos must be In by the end of this week. The time is short and the prints are hard to make. All persons who are using last year’s pictures must go to the photographer and order the prints for this year. Leave them at the gallery and they will be collected by an agent from the Oregana. Juniors and Seniors must especially attend to this. AH drawings for the Oregana should be given to Thornton Howard as soon as possible. Editor Lee Hendricks of the 1915 Oregana says he expects to spend the busiest time of his ordinarily tran quil life during the next two or three months, with the work of get ting out the big book on time on his hands. “The signing of contracts by Man ager Dorris for printing and binding esterday means that the first sec ons of the book will go to press as sC0 n as the printer can accommodate them, ” said Hendricks yesterday. L,wit1t examinations over I expect the ‘_. of my staff to get their de | wtmests i& .~ w days.. _ ., f€ 'Hazel Barta, now MrS- Dona d Xe. certainly deserves credit for Pag . j.j1€ firgt member of the staff being .^j^e tie#' -work, that of the to co’ ,tration department. Al Admini xaly appointed a few weeks though . vacanc/, she prepared all ! ago to fill t <■ before she was mar her ccjjy j. m , it jn today. I call ried and tur UeL aud if the other that good sp. nt> s well the success staff members 1 ed. of the work is issui d€nts will pat “I hope ail tl *e stu feature box, ronize the Orej Tana - y newspaper which is located ’iear itrance to rack to the right °* ei 1 time I the library, or wa s 5aSl n that saw it. By patroni *z^n® * mea con the students afe r< ''Quested to 0f tribute .rather than Pilfer any our hard-earned joket CHAMPIONSHIP CHANCES FADE WASHINGTON BY WINNING TWO GAMES GETS BIG LEAD OREGON TEAM NOW ON UR By Defeating Lemon-Yellow Quintet by Scores of 28-7 and 30-10, Seattle Team Al most Cinches Honors. By annexing the first five games played this season,'Washington has gained a lead in basketball that will be pretty nearly impossible for any of the other teams in the western division to overcome. The last two games won by Washington we-e taken from Oregon by the scores of* 28 to 7 and 30 to 10, played Satur day and Monday nights. This puts Oregon in the cellar with O. A. C. with the exception that Ore gon has lost only two games so far while the “Aggies” dropped three games in Seattle. Washington heads the column with a percentage of 1000. ' • me nrst game at, Seattle was the hardest game played on that floor this season. It was hotljf contested by the opposing teams from start to finish, and they were evenly match ed throughout the game except dur ing the first few minutes in the sec ond half when Washington came back strong, and in half as many minutes five field baskets were chalked up for the home team. This gave them a lead which Oregon could not overcome. The second game played Monday night was a repeti tion of the first game, Washington again coming back the stronger in the second half, long enough to se cure a lead which the visitors could not overcome. Centers Are Feature. The feature of both games was the struggle between the two big centers on the opposing teams. In the first game, Fenton who is con sidered as one of the hardest men on any of the conference teams to handle, was guarded so closely by Savage that he was unable to toss a basket, while Savage secured one. Washington’s guards put up a splen did exhibition and kept Oregon from scoring. Oregon perhaps showed flashes of better team work than the northerners, but she was unable to toss the baskets. Both games were speedy and con ceded to have been the hardest fought 'games played thus far this season on Washington’s floor. Wash ington has a fast quintet and Is slat ed to walk aw-ay with the champion ship. However, all her games play ed have been on the home floor while the losers had this disadvan tage to cope with and this may have something to do with the final reck oning. Oregon’s team took the tri in a somewhat crippled condition as Wheeler, crack basket-shooter, had both thumbs sprained before starting and was unable to handle the ball in his usual style. The Lineup. The iine-up for the first game played Saturday night was: Oregon. Washington. Bigbee, Wolcott..f. Robinson Wheeler, Rice. 6 . .f. . . Dickinson Fentono ........ .c. Savage Sims .g. McFee Bradshaw .g. Fancher Field baskets: Wolcott, Wheeler, Fancher, Dickinson, Savage 2, Rob inson, McFee 4. Goals from foul line, Rice 3, Savage 6. Referee James. | ___ Delta Tau Delta announces the pledging of Prentiss Brown of I-eba non and Frank Scaiefe of Eugene. Five Stanford graduates are judges of the Superior Court of Cali fornia. MASK DANCE BIG SUCCESS EIGHTY SENIORS ATTEND LOTTERY DANCE IN COSTUME FRESHMEN ENTERTAIN DANCERS Many Unique and Clever Cos tumes Worn by Class. Func tion Marks End of Moustache Contest. Some eighty odd Seniors, men and women, attended the senior masque lottery dance given at the Kappa Sigma house last niglit. and onn tinued to trip it until nearly morn ing. Those—picsuill at tne party, "however, were not all dancers, and card tables were . prepared for these. Special entertainment was provided for the upperclassmen be tween dances by Emma Wootten, in recitation, by Milton Stoddard, who figured as a ‘thoot mon,” with an aptitude for making chalk talk, and by Zella Knox in vocal solo. Costumes were not in evidence un til after the house was reached, and after the disguises were donned the only means of identification be tween partners were the numbers pinned on man and woman. Each man’s number was th>^ same as that of the woman whom lie had escorted to the dance with the difference that the feminine numbers had the letter “A” added to them. Costumes Varied. Sailors and policemen seemed to be mainly in attendance after the music started, and with them ap peared an abundance of dancing girls, gypsies and the like. In a ma jority of cases, the four years’ asso ciation on the campus was too much for the concealment attempted by the masquers, but in a few instances the identity of some of the girls re mained in doubt until after the third number on the program, when in the course of a grand march led by class president, Allie Grout, the masques were removed. The dance programs were adapted specially to the kind of entertain ment given. The cards were divided into two sections, one for the dances themselves and one for classification. (Jnder classification the number of the partner was listed and, in addi tion, his or her costume, complexion, size and weight. A separate col umn was reserved for any miscel laneous remarks which might not ;oire under these heads. Frc hu.en as Servants. Freshmen boys in clown costume • ere in attendance at the door and it the rooms, while freshmen girls, n b'ick dr 3ses and white aprons resided over the punch bowl. At ie clo. e of the thirteenth dance, re •eshmei:ts cf ice cream and cakes ■ me serv ;l. As patrons an!l patronesses, Mr. and Mrs. Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. Bez dek, and Miss Julia Burgess, were present. The music was furnished by Hen dershott’s orchestra. STATE Y. M. SECRETARY WILL SPEAK THURSDAY “Students of Foreign Lands” Is Topic. Special Music for Evening Is Announced Ivan B. Rhodes, state se> ictary of the Y. M. C. A.’s of Oregon and Ida ; ho, will be the speaker at the first Y. M. meeting of the second semes ter Wednesday evening in Deady Hall from 7 o’clock to %, His sub ject will be, “Students of Foreign ‘Lands.” f~~* 1 This wdll be the fjrst time Mr. j Rhodes has spoken here for several ' years. He Is a graduate of the Uni GYMNASIUM FIGURES SHOW VALUE OF WORK New Arrangements Will Be Made for Women’s Classes This Semester That the •gymnas'um work that is ! being done in the woman’s gymna sium is a benefit to the health and physique of the girls is shown by the measurements of the Sophomore class: Weight—Fall, 1912-13, 121.8 pounds; spring, 127 pounds. In crease. 5.2 pounds. Height—Fall, 1912-13, 63 inches; spring, 64.1 inches. Increase, 1.1 inches. Lung Capacity—Fall, 1912-1913, 188.2 cubic c.; spring, 187 cubic c. Increase, 18.8 cubic c. The freshmen are not the only ones 'who flunk out in gymnasium at any rate. The seniors contributed more than their share of flunks. Ac cording to a report posted in the Wo man's gymnasium a larger percent age of seniors flunked than any other class. Of the Freshmen 37 per cent did not pass; of the Sophomores 35 per cent; of the Juniors, 33 1-3 per cent, and of the Seniors, 3 7^ per cent. EIGHT UNIVERSITY MEN TO INVADE COTTAGE GROVE Booster Meeting to Show Work of College Y. M. C. A. Planned for March First A deputation of eight University men will go to Cottage Grove in the interests of the Y. M. C. A., and in I eidentally to advertise, February 27 2 8 and March 1. On Friday after noon they will play the Cottage Grove High School a game of -bas ketball and on the evening of the same day there will be a greeting and reception. Saturday will be spent mixing with the High School boys and men of Cottage Grove. In the evening there will be a meeting with talks by the members of the deputation. Sunday afternoon there will be a big men’s and- boys’ meeting for which there will be a special speaker. Sunday night all the churches of Cottage Grove will unite in a big union mass meeting at one of the churches. Charles Koyl will preside and talks will be given by all the members of the deputation. The purpose of this deputation is to acquaint the people of 'the state with the work of the Y. M. C. A. This is the second one this year, the first having gone to Woodburn 'dur ing the first semester. GOLD EMBOSSED FATIMA CASE 'll?? TEMPTING Charles Koyl Now Listed as One of Obak Cigar Store Patrons It was quietly reposing in Obak’s show case. The lettering indeed was quite plain and the numerals as they shimmered in gold embossing on the leather of the “cig” case denoted a freshman. Inside the case were the smoker’s delights—awaiting the owner. And the owner came. Of medium height, glasses clinched on his ncse and his red hair shining he stepped to the counter. Charles Koyl had come to claim his own! This is no joke, for Koyl admits it. You may see the case but the “Mgs” are all-gone. Have a Rershey on Charles, boys! Nevada is tile only state in the Union that does not send a student tp Vale. Twelve foreign countries I are represented. versity of California and was a mem ber of that University’s track team. I H was while he was a student that he first became interested in the j Y. M. C. A. work. ! * Special music will be provided, i Harold Humbert and John Black | will sing a duet. C. E. COURSES LOST JO BOTH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ORDERED OUT AT EACH * OF STATE SCHOOLS BOARD ANNOUNCE SDEiilSION Hearing on Curricula of Univ- i versity and Agricultural Col- f lege Closes With Decision Adverse to Both Claims. Civil Engineering, as such, was ordered eliminated from both the University of Oregon and the Ore gon Agricultural College, by the Board of Higher Curricula at its last meeting, held in Portland last Sat urday. At its previous meeting the Board had ordered the abolishment of the electrical, chemical and me chanical engineering departments at the University. President P. L». Campbell said in regard to the decision: “At the present time I am not prepared to make a statement, as I felt that it would be unwise to comment upon the decisiQn at this time.” In a few days, upon receipt of details of the Board’s action, he will be prepared, he says, to make a statement. Two Resolutions. Prof. E. H. McAlister, dean of the engineering college of the Univer sity, states that the decision of the board was a complete surprise to him. “I did not expect the board to abolish civil engineering altogether, bat rather expected it would be moved to one or the other of the two institutions.” The decision of the board of high er curricula last Saturday took the form of two resolutions, both of which carried unanimously. 1. ‘‘The department of civil engi neering is eliminated from both in stitutions and there is to be no fur ther matriculation in this course in either school from the date of the or der. 2. “It is to be discretionary with the boards of regents of each school, however, whether they shall' main tain the course until it has been completed by those matriculated in it prior to the date of the order." According to Professor Skelton of the O. A. C., 88 per cent of work in a civil engineering course is also involved in the other courses of en gineering and only 12 per cent of the course in civil engineering is needed exclusively for a full degree course in civil engineering. Define* Intention. ’ The board not only tdnk op tlMc civil engineering question but '' fined what it meant when it ruled at t its December meeting to transfer the > courses in architecture, music, eco nomics and political science, com merce, education and the graduate school to the University excfhsively. As the board defined the rules, how ever, that the Agricultural College will retain the right to handle such parts of general courses as are es sential to the training of its stu dents in the various departments of the institution. Joseph E. Hedges, a member of the board of higher curricula, states that in the opinion of the majority, “The engineering courses were the only courses in which there was any duplication that was positively un necessary or expensive to the state. As the order stands ^^"iDiral College can still teach civil ing so far as it may be required to the courses leading to degrees in mechanical, electrical, irrigation and other courses of engineering.” There are a little over one hun dred students enrolled in the^ engh neering courses at the University about fifty of whom are in the eh engineering course. There are instructors in these department*.