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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1914)
HAT ARTISTS CHALLENGED ST. JAMES ATHLETIC CLUB VANTS CONTEST WITH OREGON TOO LATE SAYS SHOCKLEY Not Likely That Matches Can Can Be Arranged This Spring But Next Year Team Will Take on Anyone Says Coach. Coach Shockley received a chal lenge Wednesday from J. Frederick Meagher, captain of the St. James Athletic Club wrestling team, of Vancouver, Washington, asking for a dual meet at Eugene about April 10. / “I fear it will be impossible to meet the St. James team at that time; it will be too late in the sea son,” said Shockley, yesterday. “But another year we hope to stage meets with all that ask them.” The challenge is in the form of a unique personal letter to Shockley, which is as follows: My Dear Mr. Shockley: I venture to write you in regard to a dual wrestling meet between your squad and the St. James Ath letic Club of Vancouver, Washing ton, to be held in your town on, or about the 10th of April. I presume you could defray our car fares, two meals and one night’s lodging, the same terms as the O. A. C. accorded us, and give prizes to the winners. While the O. A. C. beat us most shamefully, I still hug the delusion I have a pretty good bunch of man handlers under my wing, and am itching for a chance to demonstrate such is the case. ■me maae-up of our team follows: Meagher, a deaf mute, at 118 and 125, one time second in National' A. A. U. championships; Kelly, private in company K, at 135; Minish, at 145; Corporal Roy Hunter, the fam ous cowboy-cavalryman of “Let ’er buck” fame, at 158. If you T^ant a heavyweight class I can supply you with a husky guy who thinks he is a world beat r, but who can’t wrestle much better than a two-year-old bull pup. Minish and Hunter won at Corvallis, the rest lost. Have no 108. I can make 115 flat if necessary, but as I take on two men would prefer not having to train down so fine, especially as I have to give so much time to arranging the multitude of details of getting thd boys away. For Corvallis I got Kelly out of the guard house after eight days’ con finement, just four hours before we left for the seat of war; don’t be lieve this company commander will accommodate us again, so we are al ways liable to have a crimp put in our make-up at the last moment by one of the soldiers getting jugged. In that case the class will be forfeit ed to you when the bout is called. I hear that you have a corking good man in Fuji Maki, and it will give me genuine pleasure to humble the pride of the Mikado’s flowery kingdom. Have often met represen tatives of other countries in the past, and never lost yet, so your crowd will probably witness a battle royal when the bell clangs for the onset. We suggest we wrestle intercollegi ate rules, best two in three six-min ute bouts, two docisions beat one fall, but one fall beating one decision and a draw. The meet would have to take place on a Saturday, as that is the only day I can get away from my class work. Trusting to hear from you shortly,' I beg to remain, % Yours for clean sport, J. FREDERICK MEAGHER, ^Captain St. James A. C. Wrestling sTe&m? Vancouver. 0000000000 0(0 000 0.0 o o^ o o o o o o o o o o o SENIORS—Be suiys and or der your cap and gown of Otto Heider or Bill Murphy before spring vacation in order to insure having them here on time. Measurements will be taken in the Y. M. C. A. ex change from 4 to 5 p. m. on Mondays and Thursdays. o o o o o o o o o o o ooooooooooooooooooo SIX ORIGINALS OF LISZT RECEIVED BY PROF. LYMAN Carl V. Lachmund to Lecture on Personal Recollections of Musician’s Life Framed pictures and souvenirs of the late Kranz Liszt, from the collec tion of Carl V. Lachmund, a personal friend of the great composer, have been received by Prof. Ralph H. Ly man. The pictures, six in number, have been placed above the fireplaces in the University Library, and will be fully described by Mr. Lachmund in a lecture, “Personal Recollections of Liszt,” which will be given Monday evening, March 23. “Mr. Lachmund will also read ex tracts from Liszt’s Diary for the year 1876,” said Mr. Lyman, yesterday. “This was one of the most interest ing years in Lisczt’s life, and we shall have something excellent to look forward to.” The hour and place for the lecture will be arranged later. ooooooooooooooooooo o o o KNICK-KNOCKS o o o o By Sage of Podunk. o o o ooooooooooooooooooo Back again. The Emerald seems to be a sort of public scratching post for irritat ed mentalities, so why not the Sage once more? Many people who fancy that they are standing in the lime-light find that they are the lime that furnishes the light. iNomaitar _1uuy janch you drill the minds of some people yOtr can’t, make them act right. Yes, all men are born equal. Some to X and others to O. Cheer up folks, if you can’t be handsome you can at least be unique. The girls raised their Pan-Hell and now the boys have started a lit tle one pf their own. Maude Muller on a windy morn, Walked down the street in lovely form; 'Twas silk they were beyond a doubt, As many a man will bear me out. Don’t lose courage, the Sage was working a cramp out of his forefin ger. He ought to do better next time. CHURCHES STANDING STILL Real Progress Is Being Made in Orient, Says Hounshell. “Our American churches are standing still, in comparison to the rapid growth of the few churches in the foreign fields,” said Mr. C. F. Hounshell, travelling secretary of Student Volunteers Association in his talk to the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. Monday afternoon in the Bungalow. Mr. Hounshell also spoke of the great demand for new Mis sionaries in the Orient and Asiatic countries and of the wonderful op portunity for real work to he done there. He concluded his talk with incidents in the lives of some of the active workers. The Choral part of the service was lead by Harold Humbert, a stu dent volunteer worker on the cam pus. ooooooooooooooooooo o o o An important meeting of the o o Senior class will be held Fri- o o day, March 20, at 4 o’clock in o 3 0 ^r- Schmidt’s „rbom. Several o o imporfen^ matters • #111 come o o up at this°time, including the o„ o announcement of the caste for o o tfie senior play, Oregana r£ “port and the cap and gown pe- o o tition. All members of the o o class are urgently asked to be o o present o o ALVA GROUT, o o President, o 0 o ooooooooooooooooooo UNIVERSITY LIBRARY AIDS OUT OF TOWN PATRONS Newspaper Hies Supply the Material for Important Law Oase Many requests for books or infor mation upon special subjects are re ceived by M. H. Douglass, at the Uni versity library, from persons out-of town. These requests are from graduates, High School principals, debaters, club women, ministers, lawyers and engineers, in all parts of the state. Many inquiries come also from the State Library, asking for material which is desired by patrons. “Comparatively few requests come from Portland,* declared Mr. Doug lass. “Last year, however, a Port land lawyer wrote to us for some ma terial which had been printed in the Eugene Daily Guard about 15 years ago. The information which he gained was used in pleading one of his cases. “About 80 such inquiries were re ceived by the library last year, and there are about 4ft thus far this year.” ATTENDANCE AT SHORT STORY CLASS* DOUBLES Increase Necessitates More Room. Most Members Advanced. (By Buciie Watson; The Short Story Class, taught by Mrs. Mable H. Parsons, which meets from 8 till 9:30 o’clock every other Saturday night, in room B of the public library in Portland, has dou bled in attendance since tlfe begin ning of the school year. “The majority of the members of the class are advanced students, and they take a great interest in their work. Study groups, formed by some of the students on their own initiative, meet between sessions for the reading, and! discussion of their outside reading,” said Mrs. Parsons. “On account of the increase in at tendance, we have had to move once from a smaller room to a larger room, where we now are.” THESES ARE UNPROFITABLE Prof. Ayer Thinks Students Do Bet ter to Put Time In on Course. Only two undergraduate students are writing theses for Professor Ayer, Dean of the Education Depart ment. “Very few of my students write theses; I seldom give credit for them. I think the undergraduate student is not well enough prepared —it is much better to spend time on a well-balanced and prepared dourse of study,” said Professor Ayer. E. Erie Lane, who has been work ing two years on his subject, “Relig ion and Education,” may receive two credits. William C. Painter has chosen for the subject of his thesis, “School Survey.” ooooooooooooooooooo o o o ANNOUNCEMENTS o O ' o ooooooooooooooooooo Laureans—Important meeting to night in Dr. Schmidt’s room, Deady Hall. Meeting opens 7:15. Glee Club—Girls’ Glee Club gives first local concert Saturday night in Eugene Theatre. Seats will be on sale at 10 o’clock Friday morning at theatre. Baseball—Two games, the first of the season, will be played here Fri day and Saturday, on campus dia mond, with Chemawa Indian school. Council—The first meeting of the student council will be held Satur day morning. Important. Class Hour—The Sophomore class hour will be given Wednesday morn ipg at regular assembly hour. *° Y. M. C. A.—Regular meeting will be held Wednesday night in Deady H&11. First Aid lecture will be given at 7 o’clock. Eutaxians—Regular meeting to night in Deady Hall at 7 o’clock. Im portant meeting and all members are desired to be present. PUBLISHER WILL HELP STUDENTS TO FURNISH CAPITAL FOR COUNTRY NEWSPAPER Field. * GIVE JOURNALISTS START Department of Journalism Gets Many Requests for Students to Fill Positions on News papers in the State. An offer to furnish capital for graduates of the Department of Jour nalism who wish to start in the country newspaper field has been received by the department from one of the most prosperous of the publishers in. the cities of the state outside of Portland. The publisher wants to be placed in touch with students who can be recommended, and who would put up a very small proportion of the capital required, in order to insure that they would “stick,” and not leave him with a plant and no man to run it. The publisher’s plan includes a period of “breaking in” in his own plant, as preparatory experience to entering the country field. “I would not ordinarily advise an inexperienced man to invest money,” said Prof. E. W. Allen today in dis cussing the offer, “but this plan has some attractive features, and seems worth investigating. It come from a man of personal standing and good rating, and is no fly-by-night propo sition. In the University of Oregon a good many students have already had business experience before they came here, and have enough business sense to go into a small proposition on their own responsibility. “However, the difficulty so far has not been to find places for students, but to find students to fill the posi tions that are offered each year. Of course, the Department of Journal ism is only in its second year, and no student can yet be called a graduate, and none has much more than a smattering of the work offered in the course. Already there are six or eight for mer students of the department working on newspapers in Oregon and Washington. At a meeting of Williams students recently the first step was taken for the formation of a student council, which shall deal with undergraduate affairs. The meeting voted that a committee of nine, appointed by the chairman, should draw up a general plan for such a council. 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