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OREGON EMERALD VOL. XV. EUGENE, ORE., TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1914. No. LXII. FRATERNITIES FORM COUNCIL 18 MEN FROM 9 ORGANIZA TIONS TO COMPOSE ASSOCIATION BEZDEK IS THE PRESIDENT Object Is to Promote Friendly Relations Among Different Clubs and to Work for the General Good of University. Representatives from the nine lo cal and national fraternity organiza tions of the University met Sunday morning at the men’s gymnasium and formed an inter-fraternity coun cil, modeled on lines similar to such associations -in other colleges. The full name of the organization, as an nounced, is “The Inter-fraternity Council of the University of Ore gon.’’ For president, a disinterested outside man, Coach Hugo Bezdek, was elected. The only other office”s of the association will be a secretary and treasurer and' an executive com mittee. Lee Hendricks was elected to the secretary-treasurer position, but the other officers were not chos en, as no constitution has as.vet been adoDted and the size and conmosition of the executive committee has not been decided upon. This action of the fraternities marks the end of a long agitation for some kind of a Pan-Hellenic for the different clubs and organizations of the campus, and is a step which every university, where fraternities are found, is likely to face sooner or later. The primary purpose of the new association is to unite the con flicting elements of the University student life, and work together for the good of the University. The committee on drawing up a consti tution and agreement for the organi zation are going to incorporate this idea into the preamble of the consti tution. Bezdek Calls Meeting. Recent misunderstandings among some of the fraternities was the im mediate cause of the forming of the association. Coach Bezdek called a meeting-of the upperclassmen of the local and national fraternities last Thursday night at the Commercial Club, where the matter was discussed and need for some kind of under standing between the different bunches was seen. The meeting for Sunday morning was called, with in structions for each house to send two men, one Senior and one Junior, to the meeting. Nothing else was done at the Thursday meeting, the idea merely being to “get together.” The various Seniors present at the meeting all expressed the idea that some ouch action was imperative for the good of the University in general. These men, Wallace Caufield, Don Rice, Ray Early, Vernon Motschen bacher, Del Stanard, Alfred Davies, Robert McCornack, Harold Quigley and Ira Staggs, together with a Ju nior or lowerclassman from each house, compose the first counc’l. The committee appointed to work out a constitution will meet this evening. Questions connected with pledging will be of principal import ance and some simple set of rules will probably be adopted to cut out existing abuses found in the pledging and rushing System. Politics Not Involved. ° The proposition of pledging, rush ing and the forming of a friendlier attitude among the fraternaties in general will be the only aim of the organization along the line of trying to better conditions at the Universi ty. Politics will be strictly barred from the meetings, according to statements from practically all the representatives at the Sunday meet ing. WOMEN’S GLEE CLUB WILL GIVE CONCERT SATURDAY Seats on Sale at the Eugene Theatre , Friday Morning at Ten o’Clock “The Women’s Glee Club concert will be held Saturday night in the Eugene theatre, and we are going to surprise everyone with one good program,” said Ralph W. Lyman, di rector of the Glee Club, today. “The program will be practically the same as the one we gave at Cottage Grove two weeks ago, twelve numbers and some special features. Virginia Pet erson, Eva Brock and Zella Knox will sing solos and there will be a quar tette of Eva Brock, Burree McCona ky, Marie Churchill and Leah Per kins.” “We are making a departure from Glee Club prices this year,” said Manager Catharine Carson. “The balcony and gallery prices are low er, but we thought it would take bet ter that way in the end.” The seat sale opens Friday morning, March 20, at 10 a. m., at Eugene Theatre. RURAL SOCIOLOGY TO STAY AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON New Courses Considered by Curricula Board. Regular Meeting April 11 That there is no intention on the part of the State Board of Higher Curricula to give the exclusive of... rural. sociology to the Oregon Agricutural CoTTSge, the statement made by President P. L. Campbell, who returned Sunday aft er attending an informal meeting of the Board held in Portland Friday. "Contrary to a current report, the meeting in Portland Friday was not to consider the advisability of giving to the Agricultural College the ex clusive teaching of rural sociology, President Campbell said today. "Under the existing arrangements, both the University and Agr'cultural College are permitted to teach rural sociology. The University has the sociology and economic courses which naturally include rural sociol ogy, while O. A. C. is permitted to teach the course because of its close connection with the agricultural courses that it gives. So far as I know there is no intention to change these arrangements. “The object of the meeting Friday was to round out new courses to be added to the curriculum next year. “The regular annual meeting of the Board will be held April 11, at which time a report will be prepared to be sent to the Governor. REPRESENTATIVES CHOSEN Y. W. C. A. Send Eleven Women to Salem Conference. The annual cabinet conference of the Young Women’s Christian Asso ciation will be held March 27-30, at Willamette University, Salem. Ten girls will go from the local associa tion. Those who have been chosen as delegates are: Jewel Tozier, Caro lyn Koyl, Ruth Leonard, Mabel Mil ler, Charlotte Sears, Marjorie Cogs well, Mrs. A. R. Sweetser, Mary Ramage, Erna Petzold, Jennie Hug gins, Katherine Bridges. DYMENT EDITS BULLETIN Journalism Instructor Sends Press Items to Papers of State. The Press Buljetin, a semi-month ly publication, published by the0Uni versity and distributed to the differ ent editors of the state, is this year being edited by Prof. C. V. Dyment of the Journalism department. The aim of this bulletin is to inform the taxpayers throughout the state about the principal activities and achieve ments of the University, particularly as regards those things in which, the University attempts to do direct, first hand service. The editors re ceiving this bulletin are invited to make free use of such facts as they feel will interest their subscribers. OREGON SHOULD WIN MATCHES TENNIS OUTLOOK HAS NEV ER BEFORE BEEN SO ENCOURAGING 15 MEN AND 3 WOMEN SIGN ' Northwest Tennis Champion ship May Go to Oregon Hand icap Preliminary Try-out Be ing Held This Week. “The prospects for Oregon to have a Northwest Championship tennis team this year are better than ever before,’’ said Captain Broks, yester day. “The men are turning out bet ter than they did last year and seem to take more interest.” Fifteen men and three women have signed for the handicap tourna ment which is being held this week as a preliminary tryout for the six team conference meet which will be held here May 23 and 24. “It is impossible to tell how the men are going to show up before this tournament,” declared Captain Brooks. “But some of the old men, Church, Oberteuffer, Bond, Wollcott, a freshman, are showing up the best at the present time.” Only the first round matches are being held this week. The second round matches will be held the com ing week. All the matches are to be umpired and the scores are to be written under the winner’s name on the schedule card which is posted at the south end of the cement court. The matches will be two out of three sets. The handicaps are as follows: Owe thirty, Brooks; owe fifteen, Bond and Oberteuffer. Scratch, Scaiefe, Fariss, Church. Wheeler, Hyde, Trowbridge, Wollcott and Kuck. Receive fifteen, Shaver, Cowden, Stevenson and Gilpin; receive thirty, Bent, B. Cowden and Harvey. The schedule is as fololws, for the first matches: B. Cowden vs. Cowden. Gilpin vs. Church. Brooks vs. Wheeler. Scaiefe vs. Harvey. Bent vs. Trowbridge. Fariss vs. Wollcott. Hyde vs. Shaver. Bond vs. Oberteuffer. Kuck vs. Stevenson. Only four Freshmen signed for the Freshman tournament, which is also held this week and for which there is a silver cup given by the Seth Laraway company. In the first matches of the Freshman tournament Scaiefe plays Weist and Mickelson plays Wollcott; the winners play the final. U. OF W. DEFEATS IDAHO Seattle Men 'Win Fast Basketball Game at Pullman. Washington State College, Pull man, March 16.—The University of Washington had little difficulty de feating the University of Idaho here Thursday night, 48 to 23, in the first of tlte "intersectional playoff for the northwest conference title. Wash ington’s speedy passing was dazzling to the Idaho guards, while the close guarding of Fancher and McFee kept the Idaho forwards almost help less. Loux’s two field goals were from unusually difficult angles. The score at the end of the first half was 18 to 11 in Washington’s favor. The work of Savage, Washing ton’s big center, was the most strik ing individual feature. He is the class of all centers that have ever appeared in Pullman. The same teams play again tonight and if a third game is necessary will play here again Saturday night. JAPANESE MAY PLAY OREGON UNIVERSITY OF KEIO ON TOUR THROUGH THE UNITED STATES NAY BE IN EUGENE APRIL 8 Games With Chemawa Satur day Will Be a Real Contest. Present Practice Consistent. Seconds Beat First Team 8-7 The baseball aggregation of the University of Kelo, which, as champ ion team of Japan, has been induced by the Universities of Stanford and California to tour the United States this summer, will in all probability play the Varsity on or about April 8. Manager Walker is doing his ut most to arrange the game. The Japs will reach Seattle on April 1. The Keio team is credited with being a skillful aggregation, holding the White Sox and the Giants to close scores during their recent tour of the world. The men on whom Coach Bezdek is basing his hopes for a winning team this spring, will meet the Chemawa Indians here in two pre season games next Friday and Satur day. The Indian team which held O A. C. to a 6-5 score last Saturday will give Oregon the first real con test of the season. Coach Bezdek is very modest in estimating his pupils. “They are still crude,’’ he said, yesterday. And concerning his staff of pitchers which loks like a winning bunch to outsiders, he says he has not yet had time to form a definite idea. At the present time he is putting the men through consistent practice with the view of eliminating minor faults and teaching them the fine points of the game in which they are now lacking. Divided into two squad they go through daily prac tice in bunting and hitting, and last Saturday morning on Kincaid field each man was put through many tries toward the mastery of the hook slide. In the practice game played last Saturday the second bests had a lit tle surprise for the regulars, when with Bryant holding the first team men to scattered hits, the subs pounded out an 8-7 victory. GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB WILL SING ALMA MATER SONG Sophomores Will Divide Pro gram Into Two Parts: Form al and Informal “The Sophomore Class Hour, which will be held in Villard Hall Wednes day morning during the assembly period will be led off by the Girls’ Glee Club singing Oregon’s new Alma Mater song,’’ says Lamar Tooze, president of the '1C class. Tooze states that the program will be divided into two parts, formal and informal. No statements will be made regarding the informal exer cises which are under the supervi sion of Merlin Batley and Mandell Weiss. Twelve persons will partici pate in this part of the program* “Maurice Hyde 4s the general chairma“n and ha,s some very "novel and original plans arranged,”* re marked Tooze. “Cleveland Simp kins, who was class orator last year, has been given the same honor again. Harold Humbert will entertain with a vocal solo. A girls’ double quartet and a few instrumental solos will also be given. “The platform is going to be dec orated with greens and arranged as nearly like a real stage as possible. Programs will be distributed among the audience.” Each class at the University of Il linois has its dit8inctive style of headgear. WRESTLING SQUAD IS PICKED BY SHOCKLEY Collier Withdrawing Leaves Six Men Who Will Go on Portland Trip Collier, the 135-pound wrestler, who was to represent the Varsity in that weight at the Northwest Con ference meet at Portland, March 20 and 21, has withdrawn from the squad, because of his inability to train down to that weight This leaves only five weights rep resented by the Varsity at the con ference meet. Both Shaffner and Martin, of the 125-pound weight may be taken to Portland, if Coach Shockley can see his way clear to enter both men. The men that made the squad are as follows: King of the 158; Carl 145; 135 undecided; 125 Martin and Shaffner, 115 Fuji Maki, and Jackson of the 108-pound class. HENDRICKS RAVES ABOUT THIS BEAUTEOUS SPRING! Poet Laureate Gives Advice to Frosh Who Disturb Slumbers (By Lee Hendricks) “Awake, awake! Arise and sing! Behold the gentle, beauteous spring! The glorious sun once more is shin ing, whilst thou, on slothful couch reclining, heed’st not its joyous rays: For shame! Awake! Awake! For spring has came!" Thus spoke a frosh of base de gree this morn at nine o’clock to me, and with a visage stern and grim I handed this reproof to him: "Avaunt, thou slave! Out of my sight, and save thyself by instant flight, And never dark my thresh hold more, I’ve heard your brand of bunk before This springtime stuff which poets spill seems not my cal loused soul to thrill; It may get by the ivory-pa ted, or those whose brows are elevated; 1 don’t line up with either class, so when you pull that noise, l pass. I don’t deny a word you say; if spring’s not here, it’s on the way; but even if your dope is right, and if the sun is Bhining bright, then does it follow from that fact that you should crab my Mor pheus act, and try to pry me from the hay at this outrageous time of day? “What care if the mottled thrush is warbling somewhere in the brush, what though the lovely, blushing flowers their petals ope in leafy bowers; what if, in grassy meadows green, the milkmaid, Innocent and keen, at evening calls the lowing kine; it is no funeral of mine. Don’t beef about the babbling brooks that lie half-hid In sylvan nooks, or nymphs that rag upon their banks and pull off other playful pranks. The nympths I’ve seen were not in woods, but In more populous neigh borhoods; So if you’ll kindly fade way, In this recumbent pose I’ll stay. “The charms of spring I cannot see; they do not get a rise from me. The only spring for which 1 pine Is that in this old bed of mine.” TWO FRESHMEN WOMEN SWIM MILE IN MILL RACE Madge Barry and Frances Heath Not Afraid of Cold Water or Long Distance. Two froshmen women” Madge Barry of Marshfield, and Frances “Heath, of Eagle Point, yeste 'day aft ernoon donned bathing suits and plunged into the mill race at the portage, a mile above Bond's boat house, and one of them, Miss Barry, swam the entire distance to the landing. Miss Heath completed two thirds of the course. The young women were follewed by companions in canoes, for the temperature of the water made the seizure from cramps a possibility. At the end of the swim, both thought that the water was cold, but say they will do the swim over again in a few days. Both are members of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. TIE IS AGAIN SOCCER SCORE NEITHER TEAM MAKES GOAL IN SECOND GAME WITH C. U. PREP PLAYERS SHOW SCIENCE Boylen, Hit With Ball, Has Bad Eye. Multnomah Manager Makes Overtures for Thanks giving Date Next Year. The University's first association football season has been formally closed and the team has been dis banded until next September. The gym. classes, which will now be turn ed out of doors, may exercise with the soccer ball as well sb at track and other outside sports, but there will be no regular soccer practices. The soccer team returned Sunday night from Portland, where on the previous afternoon it won many com pliments by playing the cnampion Columbia University eleven to ft tie. On the previous Saturday, In Eugene, when the score was 2 to 2, the university had the break of the luck, but the scoreless tie in Port land was secured on merit. After the game, Professor Bachj manager of athletics at Columbia, said the Improvement in the Oregon team during the week was a revelation. Field in Good Shape. Multnomah field was the first good soccer pitch upon which the Oregon team had played. The field was 120 yards long and 70 wide. It was smooth and fast. It gave the Columbia men plenty of chance to' i work their excellent combination, | which much of the time bewildered the Oregon halves. It gave to Ore gon, however, fine opportunity also to take advantage of the Bpeed and good training of several of the men, and Oregon’s speed and determina tion just about offset Columbia’s su perior science. Tommy Boylen Stars. On the Oregon forward line Tom my Boylen played a game that kept spectators inquiring who he was un til in the second half, when a Colum bia fuflback returned a ball so fast that Boylen was unable to close his eye before the ball struck it. A hemorrhage resulted and he had to leave the game, suffering greatly. He was taken to an eye specialist and Is now wearing blue glasses and must not read for two weeks. Mr. Dyment, of the faculty, who accompanied the team to Portland, said of the game: “The showing of the University team was so much better than ex pected that it is hard to predict what may be accomplished next fall. I hope the squad may be playing se nior league ball by Thanksgiving. The advancing proficiency of the boys was evidently recognized when the manager of the Multnomah team asked whether Oregon would meet his men in Portland next Thanks ing, as a preliminary to the Oregon Multnomah Intercollegiate football game. The attendance was slight be cause of the late date. Next fall we shall get games earlier and close the season earlier. . “The .playing Saturday was quite uniform, although ” backs and goal keeper probably outshone the rest a little. Next fall, there will be prob ably 76 or 100 men from whom to select a soccer eleven.” The eleven that began the game Saturday consisted of the following: Goal, Ralston; hacks, Spellman (captain) and Campbell; halves, Wil helm, Amspoker and Hendricks; right wing, Boylen and Nelson; left wing, Ford and Pearson; center, Tuerck. During the part of the sec ond half, Reifel substituted tor Boy len and Dinneen for Amspoker. Sub stitutes, though ordinarily not per mitted, were used through the cour tesy of Professor Bach.