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.