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*r EMERALD VOL. XV. ° EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 9,„1914. ° No. LIX. 0” MEDICS ARE GIVEN CAMPOS 20 ACRES IN PORTLAND DO NATED UNIVERSITY BY O.-W. R. ft N« LAND VALUED AT $100,000 To Be Used as Site for Build ings and Hospitals. Dean of School Instrumental in Se * curing Valuable-Gift. Portland, Ore., March 8.—A tract of laud, valued at $100,000 and comprising 20 acres on Terwilliger boulevard, In South Portland, has re cently been donated to the Universi ty of Oregon Medical School by the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navi gation Co. The donation followed a sugges tion by Dr. K. A. J. MacKensie, Dean of the Medical School, to President J. D.'Farrell of the O.-W. R. & N. Mr. Farrell took the matter up with the executive committee through Judge Lovett, head of the Harriman lines. The committee passed favor ably on the plan and the gift re sulted. The land is to be used as sites for hospitals and buildings accessory to the institution. Members of the University faculty are much elated over the announce ment, “The gift of the railroad company shows a very splendid piece of public spirit,” said Dean John Straub, yesterday, Villard First Donor, “Some 25 years ago Henry Vil lard gave the University $50,000, ex pressing the hope that his example would be followed by wealthy Ore gonians. I saw him 10 years ago and *he evinced disappointment that others had not done so. The gift Indicates an awakening of Interest on the part of the people of the state for the University. I confidently be lieve that this is but the beginning of such gifts and that the wealthy and benevolent people of the state will do as Mrs. Hearst of California has done for the University of Cali fornia.” Regarding the gift, Registrar Tif fany has the following to say: “The present medical school in Portland is too small and insuffi ciently equipped for a modern medi cal school. The medical school is now listed as class “A” and, being the only one of its kind in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, it should be made more modern and complete.” “The gift should be a great in ducement for the legislature to ap propriate funds for a new medical building to be erected on the grounds, as the property would otherwise be of little value to the medical school.” Land Ideal For Campus. The land in question is the pick of a plot of 100 acres owned by the railroad in the vicinity. It lies in the foothills of South Portland and commands one of the most beautiful scenic sites that Portland can boast. A superb panoramic view of the city, the Columbia and Willamette rivers and the Cascades can be had from the land, which will be approached by easy grades as soon as the com bined parkway and boulevard is completed. , Under the provisions of the dona tion, full right is extended for the use of the property asca site for .pub lic or private hospitals. This will permit the construction of hospitals on the campus, a custom that is in vogue in all the large European cen ters and leading American communi ties, and thereby create a medical center, such as the Johns Hopkins University and the Harvard Medical 6chool. Recently the city of Cincinnati ac quired 27 acres of land upon which was constructed a hospital containing (Co Unued on Page 4.) REED COLLEGE PRESIDENT TO ADDRESS ASSEMBLY Stevenson’s ’Message to Youth’ Is Theme. Will Speak Again in Evening William T. Foster, president of Reed College, will address the as sembly tomorrow morning upon Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘‘Message to Youth." In the evening at 8 o’clock he will give an illustrated lecture in Deady Hall, room 31, upon “College Plan ning.” Lloyd Casebeer will give a piano solo. The outline of President Foster’s assembly address follows: The personality of Stevenson, re vealed through the “Child’s Garden of Verses;” his invincible youth; his cheerful struggle with disease. Stevenson’s joy in “The Primrose Path of Literature,” during child hood, through boyhood and youth. His infinite capacity for taking pains. His conception of his an. Stevenson as a romanticist, “Treas ure Island,” an epic of boyhood. The spirit of Stevenson, as shown in his doctrines of—the livableness of life; the inalienable birthright of happiness; the personal duty of hap piness; the joy of plain living. Stevenson compared with Isaac Walton, with Whitman and with Em erson. His ideal of a simple, whole some, active life. His love of youth and its reward. Stevenson’s permanent position among men of letters; his imitation of other writers; in style; in plots. OUTDOOR READING ROOM PLANNED FOR LIBRARY Fresh Air Fiends May Use Roof for Study If Librarian’s Scheme Matures A change may be made In the plans for altering the present library building to allow for an open air reading room for use in fine weather. “The plan now calls for an addi tion five stack stories high, each floor with a capacity of from 25,000 to 30,000 volumes,’’ said Mr. Doug lass, yesterday. “This will give about as much shelving on each story as is in the present reading room. “The roof will be flat and sur rounded by a railing, if this project is finally adopted, and it will be pos sible to use this as an outside read~ ing room. This flat roof will also make it possible to add another sto-y to the building if it should ever be needed. “It is doubtful If the appropria tion will provide for the equipment of all five stories at present. How ever, the plan is to equip three stories at least, and this space will be sufficient to hold all books added to the library during the next four or five years.” These plans, Mr. Douglass says, are not final. “The details are not worked out fully as yet,” he says, “but the general plans are not to be greatly changed^’ ILLNESS IN 0. A. C. GLEE POSTPONES EUGENE DATE U. of 0. Singers Will Keep En gagement of April 1 With Corvallis The O. A. C. Glee Club will not appear in concert here tomorrow evening as was recently announced, owing to the illness of some of the members of the organization. Man ager Dean Walker" received this in | formation from Corvallis today ask ing for a postponement of the date. The University Glee Club’s concert in Corvallis will still be held April 1. A wrestling tryout to pick those who will compose the team to repre sent Oregon at the conference meet i in Portland, will be held tomorrow | afternoon at the men’s gymnasium at 4 o’clock. OPENING GAME IS TOMORROW PRACTICAL BASEBALL CON TEST WITH W.-P. TEAM SCHEDULED. % SPOKANE HERE APRIL 1,2,3. Manager Walker Working to Arrange String of Practice Games to Condition ’Varsity Men for Later Struggles. The ’Varsity baseball team will meet in Spokane April 1, 2 and 3 in this city. Spokane will stop on the^ way north after training in Califor nia, and will play three practice games. Formal practice started Monday afternoon, when Coach Bezdek gave the''squad the first real workout of the year. Hereafter, now that bas ketball season is over, he will be on the field every day. In case of bad weath r lectures will be given in the gym to the squad. Men Make Own Rules. An innovation this year has been announced by the coach. He states that he will allow the men to make their own training rules, and then the first man that is caught breaking one of them will be fired from the squad. “I do not care who he is,” said the coach, "if he is caught breaking any of the rules off the squad he goes.” No reply has been heard from the Baker team which is working out at Salem, but Manager Walker still has hopes of getting a number of prac tice games with them. It possible, they will be persuaded to come here and train. First Game Wednesday. The first practlce game of the sea son will be played Wednesday night between the squad and the Willam ette Pacific team. Jamison and Lyle Brown are getting up the team, and they are expected to round up a fast bunch of diamond experts. There are a number of ex-college players in the employment of the Willamette Pacific and a warm exhi bition is expected. The game will be called at 4 o’clock on the cam pus diamond. About 30 men were out Monday night for practice, and the coach believes he has good material, but stated that they will need a lot of work to round them into a team that will win. The campus care-takers have been busy on the diamond, and it will be in good condition by the end of the week. The weeds have been removed and after it is scraped and dried out somewhat it will be in good condi tion. MCCULLY SAYS OREGON TEAM SHOULD GET TITLE Former W. S. C. Star Thdmks ’Varsity Will Win North west Championship. “They look better than the team that beat our championship aggre gation here in 1906,” said M. L. McCully while watching Coach Bez dek’s balltossers go through their practice yesterday afternoon. “They are husky and they handle them selves like ball players. You should have a winning team out of that timber.” Mr. McCully, who is now in busi ness in Pullman, played with the W. S. C. team in 1905, 6, 7, 8, during four of the five years in which it held the Northwest Conference Championship; and he recalled a game played here in mid-season in 1906 in which his winning pitching arm failed to twirl a victory for his club, drawing the short end of a 2-3 •core. FEW ARE OUT FOR COUNCIL CANDIDATES FOR STUDENT - BODY OFFICE NAMED WEDNESDAY. ELECTION WILL BE FRIDAY Only 2 Seniors Are Prospects. Several Juniors Mentioned. Five of Former and Two of Latter Are Eligible. Candidates for positions on the new student council will be nominat ed Wednesday morning at assembly. Five seniors and three juniors are eligible for the office. The nominations will be held tomorrow and the election is called for Friday. The executive commit tee held a meeting today to make arrangements for the election. The polls will be open Friday during the hours that will best suit the mem bers of the student-body. “Candidates for these positions have been as scarce as hen’s teeth,” says President Motschenbacher. “I do not know why, but all those who may Intend to run seem to be lying low and waiting until the last mo ment before announcing their can didacy. A number in both the Junior and Seniof classes have been men tioned, but nobody that I know of has openly come out and announced his intentions. Live Bunch Needed. “The students who are elected to those offices should be of the proper calibre. The success of this experi ment will depend on those who are elected to the offices now. If a good, live bunch is elected it means that undoubtedly the council will be a success. The Senior men seem to have no candidates in the field, but expect to do their nominating in the meeting without announcing the men before hand. From among the women, however, there are two who are be ing talked of for nomination. They are Rose Basler and Mae Norton. Juniors Are Willing. Several names have been men tioned from the Junior Class. Among them are Fred Hardesty, James Don ald, Ben Dorris and Beulah Stebno. Doubtless a number of others will be nominated tomorrow morning. The officers elected at this time will serve out the rest of the year. For next year others will be elected this spring at the regular Student SIX GLEE CLUB PLACES ARE FILLED IN TRYOUT Dineen, Avison, Naylor, Huston, Ash and Pobst Are Successful I^our Freshmen, one Sophomore and one Junior were successful out of about twenty aspirants in the Glee Club tryouts held Monday night in Professor Lyman’s studio. There were six places open and the men who made the club were: First ten ors, Bothwell Avison and John Hus ton; second tenors, Carl Naylor and Lawrence Dineen; baritone, Sherman Pobst; bass, Ralph Ash. “A trip to Portland has been planned for March 30 and if the new men learn the music they will get to go along,” said Professor Lyman last night. “I wish to meet the new members in my studio, Wednesday at 4 p. m.” J. Prentiss Brown and Allen O’Connell were chosen at a class meeting Monday afternoon ae repre sentatives of the Sophomore class for the oratorical contest to be held in Albany March 13. A short discus sion of the Sophomore class hour was held but nothing definitely nr* ranged. THE FAILING-BEEKMAN TRYOUTS ON FOR APRIL 25 Nine Senior Have Submitted Subjects for Prize Orations. There will he nine contestants 1^ the Faillng-Beekman oratorical con test which will be held on June 16. The following are those entered and their subjects: Hawley J. Bean, "Moral Decline of the Drama.’’ A. H. Davies, “Our Dual Nationali ty—The Broader Americanism.’’ Otto Holder, “Democracy and Cen tralization.’’ Dal M. King, “Social Legislation for Oregon.’’ Alex Martin, “Indifference, the Foe of Democracy.” V. T. Motschenbacher. “The City, the Hope of Democracy” Harold W. Quigley, “An Aspect of Immortality.” Willard J. Shaver, “The Awaken ing of the National Conscience.” Janet Young, “Conservation of a Mighty Force.” The tryouts for the contest will be held on April 26, the orations to be limited to 800 words each, although the final oration may contain 1,200 words. Only six out of the nine will qualify for the final contest. Last year the Falling prize of $160 was won by Carleton Spencer of Cot tage Grove and the Beekman prize of $100 was won by Howard Zimmer man of Salem. NORTHWEST COLLEGES MAY AlOPT ALL A. A. II. RULES Trouble With Professionals Shows Need, Says Dunne of Portland. Portland, Ore., March 7.—It was learned from an authoritative source recently that an effort would be made to hare the Pacific North west Intercollegiate’ Conference adopt the Amateur Athletic Union rules regarding athletics. A great deal of trouble has arisen since the present P. N. I. C. agreement was adopted in 1910, and it is likely that it will be changed. T. M. Dunne, secretary of the Paci fic Northwest Association of the Amateur Athletic Union, believes that the Pacific Northwest Intercol legiate Conference would do the right thing if it would adopt the A. A. U. rules, which bar an athlete from competing if he signs a pro fessional contract, such as Ade Sie berts, who played with the Oregon Agricultural College basketball five, Bigned with the Portland Coast League baseball team. The rules defining an amateur, which were adopted by the Interna tional Amateur Athletic Federation, which was organized In Berlin last August, are very clear, and they will undoubtedly be adopted by the A. A. U. officials at their next annual meeting. Every university and college rep resented in the Pacific Northwest Intercollegiate Conference Is guilty of scouting, said a former well-known athlete, which gives the coaches and athletic directors of the university and college a tinge of professional ism. “If the universities continue to al low this scouting, why do they hire trainers and coaches?” asks Dunne. “My idea of a coach,” says Dunne, “Is that he is hired to develop the ath letes who duly register at a univer sity or a college.” ooooooooooooooooooo o o o Coach Bohler’s selection for o o All-Northwest basketball team o o for the 1914 season: o o Loux, U. of I.Forward o o Fenton, U. of O.Forward o o Savage, U| of W.Center o o King, O. A. C.Guard o o Fancher, U. of W.Guard o o o ooooooooooooooooooo OREGON TAKES FIFTH PLACE DEFEAT BY O. A. C. MAKES VARSITY SECOND IN STATE. U. OF W. TO PUT W. S. C. Washington Team Picked as Probable Conference Win ner. Oregon Captaincy to Be Decided March 20. ooooooooooooooooooo o o o Won. Lost. (P. <3. o o Washington .. 10 2 .833 o o Idaho . 10 2 .833 o o W. S. C. 8 4 .667 o o O. A. C. 6 7 .416 o o Oregon . 3 9 .250 o o Whitman .... 0 12 .000 o o o ooooooooooooooooooo Oregon ended the west side bas ketball schedule by defeating O. A. C. here last Saturday night. The teams were evenly matched in pass ing and shooting; but Dewey’s phe nomenal luck was not with him as in Friday’s game at Corvallis. He made good only seven out of sixteen , tries for goals after fouls, while Pen ton threw nine out of eleven at tempts. Each team annexed two field baskets. Sleberts with his Injured teg was out of the game after the first five minutes of play. Jordan who was substituted played a consistent game. For Oregon Bradshaw played a sen sational game in guarding and in long dribbles. In the second half Koch was call ed out to substitute for Rice. Cap tain Fenton objected and C. Blgbee went in instead. With a few m!n utee left to play, and with Oregon two points to the good, Koch was again called out to replace L. Blgbee. Fenton again objected and Wheeler was substituted. Blgbee in Brilliant Form. The Varsity men played close dur ing the last few minutes except for two sensational dribbles down the full length of the floor by L. Blgbee. The basketball season haa ended. When Oregon defeated O. A. C. last Saturday the result had no bearing on the championship. Idaho cinched the championship last Tuesday for the eastern division of the confer ence, and Washington has held the top of the scale for the Western since early In the season. Washing ton and Idaho will battle for North west championship on the W. Q. C. floor at Pullman on March 12, 13 and 14. Newspaper “dope" seems to indicate, since Oregon and O. A. C. both defeated W. 8. C. that Wash ington Is the stronger of the two. Will Pick Captain. The election for next year's bas ketball captain will be held Friday, March 20. At that time the Athlet ic Council will have decided who are entitled to "O’s" and who are there for eligible to vote. Until that for mality has been gone through it will not be known who will be given let ters. The lineup: O. A. C. Oregon. Dowey O).G.Bradshaw May .G...Walcott (2) .C...Fenton (11) Sleberts, Jordan (2).F. Ri<«e Ki“g.F.L. Blgbee Substitutes: C. Blgbee for Rice; Wheeler for L. Blgbee. Jordan for Sieberts; Billie for Jordan. President P. L. Campbell, Regent A. C. Dixon and Professor E. E. De Cou will speak at the first annual, banquet of the Eugene Coffee Club tomorrow evening at the Club rooms. The Dormitory Club entertained the women of the Dexter Club at din ner Sunday.