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OREGON EMERALD vol. xv: EUGENE, ORE., TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1914. No. LXV. STUDENTS TO STUDY PLANS COMMONWEALTH DAY TO BE DEVOTED TO DISCUSSION OF STATE PROBLEMS CONFERENCE TO BE IN NAY Leaders of the State Will Be Brought Into Touch With the University. More Practical Instruction Needed. “The Commonwealth Conference will be given a more practical turn this year than at any previous time it has been held,’’ said Prof. F. G. Young in discussing the plans for this year’s Commonwealth Confer ence at the University of Oregon. He continued, “The date for the conference has not been definitely decided upon, but in all probability it will be during the last week of May.” “These cooferences .^are held for the purpose of getting the people of the state into closer touch with the University and to acquaint them with its plans and aims. “On the other hand, it is hoped that the students will be enabled to get into closer to'uch with the state and is problems. In short, it is our aim to get the state and the Univer sity into a more intimate working re lationship. Conferences Practical. “At the present time the Univer sity is dumping its students out into the state in an awkward condition. It gives them a good book training and familiarizes them with general principles, but fails to a great ex tent in giving its students actual con tact with the problems which are confronting the state. We give them lots of book learning. We wish to release the University from this can ned goods pabulum and reach its ac tivities out into the actual life of the state. “Now the Commonwealth Confer ence will aid in supplying the miss ing link in the training of the stu dent. Our aim is this. We will as sign to the advanced and graduate students each a specific problem to work upon; for instance, Utilities of Credit, Country Roads Program, Im provement of the Educational sys tem, Municipal problems, Social Re form. The social, political and eco nomic conditions of the different lo calities will be studied. Students to Discuss Problems. “To the Commonwealth Confer ence will be called the leaders in each of these various lines. They will read papers and discuss these problems. The students will be en abled to get into closer relationship with the men who are handling these problems and thus get the practical viewpoint. These conferences are also necessary in order to insure the co-operation of the leaders of the state, and in order better to equip the student to go out to study and handle these important sae prob lems.” MISS WOODBURY READS Will Render “Lion and the Mouse” at Assembly. Charles Klein’s “Lion and the Mouse” will be the subject of a reading by Miss Elizabeth E. Wood bury, of Portland, at the assembly program Wednesday morning. Miss Woodbury acquired consid erable reputation as a reader through a series of readings given during the past winter at the Portland Y. M. C. A. “The Lion and the Mouse” is one of the best known of American plays, dealing with some of the great est political problems of the United States. WASHINGTON IS VICTOR IN WRESTLING MEET Oregon Men Lost Because ol Inexperience, Says Schockley “Inexperience is exactly why we were unable to place any men in the finals at the Northwest Conference wrestling meet,’' declared Coach Ed ward Shockley, after his return from Portland. “Our men did all that could be expected of green men; there was not one first year man that wTas able'to enter in the finals,’’ said Shockley. “Our outlook for another year should be good; all of this year’s squad are expected back, and with the new students of another year the present vacancies will be filled,” said Shockley. $ g Three of the men that Oregon drew to be matched against in the prelim inaries won in the finals. The finals were as follows: 108, King, O. A. C.; decision over Blomberg, W. S. C. 115, Dixon, U. of W.; fall over Pearey, O. A. C. 125, Bolin, 0. A. C.; decision over Gridley, W. S. C. 135, King, W. S. C.; fall over Hobi, U. of W. 145, Hancock, U. of W.; decision over Mosby, O. A. C. 158, Cornwall, W» S. C.; decision over Alworth, O. A. C. 175, Pearson, W. S. C.; fall over Vanbogard, U. of W. Heavy Hardy, U. of W.; decision over Albert, 0. A. C. PAN-HELLENIC PLANS WILL BE KEPI SECRET Sixteen Dances to Be on Pro gram—250 Couples Are Expected “Plans for the Pan-Hellenin dance to be given Saturday night in the Men’s gymnasium are practically completed,” said Ruth Beach, Pan Hellenic president, today. “Most of them we are keeping for a surprise, however. The color scheme is to be lavender and white Music for the sixteen dances will be furnished by Hendershott’s orchestra of eight pieces. “We are counting on 250 couples for the Pan-Hellenic dance, including the 155 sorority women and their guests. As far as we can tell, most of the women not in sororities are going and we certainly hope they will. The dance promises to be a great success and we want every wo man in the University to be present. The grand march will begin prompt ly at 8:30 p. m.” The committees for the Pan-Hel lenic dance are: Ruth Beach, general chairman; Xorma Graves, programs; Maude Mastic, patronesses; Rita Fraley, decorations; Wilma Young, floor; Agnes Elliott, punch; Meta Gold smith, music. DEBATE DATE WITH U. OF W. STILL UNDECIDED Women Will Be Chosen to Com pose Teams, Sometime This Week “The women’s debating team will probably be chosen this week,” said Coach R. W. Prescott. “We have not yet completed all arrangements with the University of Washington, but we will have our team chosen soon.” The University of Washington has suggested the date of May 8 at Seat tle for the debate, but as this will be during Oregon’s Junior Week-end, I Mr. Prescott thinks that the date of ! May 1 is the most desirable. Whether the University of Oregon will have two teams of women de baters or just one has not yet been determined. Those from whom the women de baters will be chosen are: Aldous Oberholtzer, Selma Baumann, Mrs. Stetson, Cecile Sawyer, Amy Carson j and Beatrice Littlefield. WOMEN SCORE WITH CONCERT GLEE CLUB SHOW SATUR DAY EVENING WELL RECEIVED PROGRAM WELL BALANCED Solo Work Unusually Good Ac cording to Critics, and Stunts and Numbers Given by the Whole Club Won Praise. (By Mandell Weiss) The Women’s Glee Club under the direction of Professor Ralph W. Ly man, appeared In their second an nual concert in Eugene on Saturday night at the Eugene theatre. A large and enthusiastic audience greeted the singers. The performance was spirited and finished throughout and showed to advantage the capable direction of Prof. Lyman, who has had charge of the Club, also the ability to select for the club the voices necessary to make a balanced ensemble. The program showed good taste and was satisfactory in every manner. Special Numbers Please. A feature of the program was the rendition of the new Alma Mater song. Dressed in senior caps and gowns ‘the girls were roundly en cored in this number. Tne perform ances-of the individual members in solos was very creditable, probably the best received of these being the numbers by Prof. Lyman and Miss Virginia Peterson. Other vocal solos by Eva BroCk, Rozella Knox, Marie Churchill, Buree McConahy and Leah Perkins were applauslvely re ceived. A reading by Janet Young was also a hit of the evening’s enter tainment. “Indian Lodge” Is Feature. An innovation was Introduced in the snape of “An Indian Lodge,” which featured special Indian songs and solos. The program was as follows: PART I. Alma Mater Song. .Hendricks-Forbes “Carmena” (vocal waltz. .H. Lane Wilson “I Hid My Love”.D’Hardelot Miss Virginia Petersen “Will o’ the Wisp”.Spross “The Dusk Witch”.Ambrose “My Homeland” .Hildach “The Spring” .Hildach Mr. Lyman “Annie Laurie” . .Arranged by Dudley Buck Quartette—“Last Night”. . . .Kjerulf Misses Eva Brock, Marie Churchill, Buree McConahy, Leah Perkins. Reading— "Bill Smitn” .Max Alder Miss Janet Young “The Sunrise Call”.. Charles Troyer (Zunl Indians) Sung by Miss Eva Brock. “The Coming of Montezuma”..Troyer (Zuni Indians) “The White Dawn Is Stealing”. .. .Charles Wakefield Cadman (Iroquois Indians) Solo by Miss Leah Perkins “An Indian Lover’s Song”..Beresford Sung by Miss Rosella Knox “From the Land of the Sky Blue Water” . .Charles Wakefield Cadman “The Old Man’s Love Song”.... .Arthur Farwell (Omaha Indians) Sung by Miss Marie Churchill “Far Off I Hear a Lover’s Flute” ..Charles Wakefield Cadman (Omaha Indians) “The Moon Drops Low”. .Charles Wakefield Cadman (Omaha Indians) The next meeting of the Athletic council will probably be held some time the latter part of the week when President P. L. Campbell has returned from a business trip to Call-, 1 fornla. VARSITY WILL PLAY MT. ANGEL SERIES OF TWO GAMES IS SCHEDULED FOR THE WEEK-END MANY PITCHERS AVAILABLE Coach Bezdek to Enforce Strict Training Rules for Squad. First Conference Game at Seattle, April 17. (By Willard Shaver) As a policy outlined toy Coach Bez dek to get all the practice games pos sible, the Mt. Angel College ball toss ers will arrive in Eugene next Fri day morning to play a two game se ries with the varsity nine. Mt. Angel has always had a strong team and Bezdek’s hopefuls may expect some real practice in the coming games! The Chemawa games gave Coach Bezdek an opportunity to judge his men under fire and although flashes of real baseball were exhibited the rough spots were also evident The pitchers that worked during the fif teen innings showed to advantage for such early season work. With three right-handers and two south paws this year’s team will not have the difficulty to face that teams of previous seasons have had The box scores in last week’s games revealed no sensational hit ters. Out of the T9 hits garnered in the fifteen innings every man but one got two. “Motsie” worked better than ever behind the bat and In the infield Carson Bigbee and “Dutch” Annunsen handled all their chances without an error. In the outfield Captain Fenton played a rattling good game and his heavy stick work was evident In the four ply swat he registered in the last game. Strict training rules have been ini tiated and conditioning of men is to receive especial emphasis. Public denouncement will be the penalty for those who disobey the rules set down by Bezdek. It is the hope of Graduate Man ager Walker to fill all available dates with outside teams so that the varsity nine will be well seasoned before its first game with Washing ton at Seattle, April 17. “EARLY TO BED” ORDERS FOR BEZDEK’S DRY SQUAD No Smoking, Little Dancing and No Nonsense Commands Baseball Coach After the second game with the Chemawa Indians Coach Bezdek called his baseball squad on to the field and laid down his training rules, which will hold for the balance of the season. The principal rules are: That there shall be no smoking and no drinking, and that every man shall be in bed by 10:30 every night. This will mean that members of the base ball squad will not be allowed to at tend any dances with the exception of the Pan-Hellenic and the Junior Prom. “These are rules which I think are necessary to gain the best results,” said Coach Bezdek. “A man must be in the best of physical condition to give the best that is in him. It makes no difference who he is, if any member of the squad is caught breaking these rules he will be in stantly turned loose. I have given the men fair warning that thiB has been coming." No meeting having in view the dis cussion of state politics will be al lowed at the University of Texas. In accordance with the long estab lished custom, Illinois Seniors will wear mustaches, sideburns, goatees or just plain whiskers until after the June finals. INSIDE DOPE GIVEN ° REGARD1NG bigbees Three Brothers Are Only Fol lowing Precedents Set by Relatives Two generations of Bigbee broth ers have made up 33 1-3 per cent of their respective baseball teams. The second of these two generations, Morris, Lyle and Carson Bigbee, are at present members of the University of Oregon nine. Carson holds the job of short stop and Morris and Lyle are outfielders. Back in the middle west some where, the father of the Oregon Big bees, C. P. Bigbee, played baseball, and two of their uncles, also Big bees, played on the same team. All the little knacks of the game C. F. Bigbee brought out to Oregon and he Is said to have been the first man to throw a curved ball in this state. Carson says he Isn’t sure whether his uncles each have at least three Bigbees to play on the same team or not, but they wern’t doing their duty to their Bigbee ancestry If they haven’t. However, if the Oregon Bigbees do as well as their father, Oregon will have a whole baseball nine of Bigbees in the next genera tion. Not only in baseball does a family on the team have its advantages. In Albany High School all three Big bees played on the same basketball team. If every Bigbee in the future were to have three sons, and so on ad in finitum, the number of Bigbees in American athletics would be stupend ous. Y. N. C. A. ANNUAL FEED TO BE HELD FRIDAY NIGHT Koyl Promises Snappy Speech es; Dormitory Orchestra Will Play Final preparations are being made for the annual Y. M. C. A. banquet to be held Friday evening from 6:30 to 8:16 o’clock In the banquet hall of the city Y. M. Music, talks, In stallation and refreshments ■will en liven the occasion. The Dormitory orchestra has been obtained for the evening and will furnish part of the musical program. Responses to Invitations are be ginning to come in. Charles Koyl says, “The prospects are for the best and biggest meeting we have ever held. The speeches will be short and snappy, as only five minutes Is al lowed to a speaker.” Public men and students promi nent In campus activities will speak. V. T. Motschenbacher, vice-president of the association and president of the student body, will talk on the subject of "Retrospect," after which he will call In the officers to he In stalled and swear them In. Presi dent-elect Bert Lombard will make his Inaugural address to be followed by Vice-President-elect Walter Diram. Dr. E. S. Conklin will take charge as toastmaster and short speeches will follow by President P. L. Campbell on “Influence of the Association on the Campus;” Dean Straub on “First Days of the Association,” recollec tions of the time when it was first organized 22 years ago; Prof. E. E. DeCou, retiring president of the ad visory board, on “Relation of the Faculty to the Association,” and R. A. Booth, a member of the advisory board. • The ladles of the Methodist church will serve at the banquet. Plates are 35c and there will be accommo dations for 200. W. C. Knighton, of Portland, who is figuring on the improvements to be made on the University buildings, is In Eugene gathering data. The Improvements are to be made on Deady Hall, the Engineering building, Dormitory and the Library. I Mr. Knighton Is inspecting the build | lngs with the Ideas for improvement. -O- , . BULLETINS IN GREAT DEMAND 5000 REQUESTS FOR SUM MER SCHOOL LITERA TURE RECEIVED TRAIL PARIS ARE PUNNED New Features to Enliven Ses sion. Berle, Axson, Sheldon, Turner, Alderman, Churchill, Hodge and Weir on Faculty. Over 6,000 requests for summer school 'bulletins have been received at the Registrar's office since they were published three weeks ago. The requests come from almost every town In the state, while not a few are from residents of other states. The queries In most cases are from school teachers who form the ma jority of the summer school students. The bulletin i3sued this year con tains 31 pages, and Is liberally inter spersed with University scenes and pictures of members of the Summer School faculty. The bulletin lays special emphasis on the advantage of the Summer School as a place for profitable rec reation. One of the attractive fea tures of this year’s session will be trail parties which will be organized to visit various scenic places acces sible by trail from Eugene. The University will aid these parties by giving lectures on camp life, ground beds, campfires, first aid and the packing of supplies. If desired, guides, cooks and pack-horses will be secured by the University. Trail Parties a Feature The trail parties will be organ* Ized at the close of the Summer School, and will consist of from 10 to 15 people. An effort will be made to secure a naturalist for each group to enhance the enjoyment and educational value of the trip. The trips will last from 10 days to four or five weeks, and will cost each member of the party from $10 to $50, acordlng to the destination chosen. Dr. Bertha Sturat, Instruc tor in physical training, will be In j charge of this feature of the summer school program. From 11 a. m. to 12 m. of each day of the Summer School session will be set aside as the general lec ture hour. Among the lecturers who will lecture at that period will be Dr. A. A. Berle, Prof. Stockton Ax son, Prof. Henry D. Sheldon, Dr. Clifton F. Hodge, Prof. Frederick J. Turner, Supt. L. R. Alderman, Supt. J. A. Churchill and L. H. Weir Instructors from Many Schools. Dr. Berle is professor of applied chemistry In Tufts College, Cam bridge, MasB., and was a member of the Summer School faculty two years ago. He will lecture on June 29 and 30 and July 1, 2 and 8, on the theme, "Ethical Aspects of Modern Industrial Organization.” Prof. Axson of Princeton Univer sity and Rice Institute, who lectured at last year’s session on English writers of the nineteenth century, will deliver four lectures during the second week of Summer School. The subjects of his lectures are not known as yet. Prof. Axson enjoys the distinction of being a brother-in law of President Wilson. Dr. Sheldon, who for 10 years was Dean of the University School of Education, but at present Dean of Education at Pittsburg University, is scheduled for four lectures, from July 13 to 17. The subject of his lectures will be “Childhood and Edu cation In Modern English Fiction." Dr. Hodge Will Lecture. I Dr. Hodge, who Is now connected i with the Extension Department No. 1 3 of the University, will lecture dur I lng the fourth week of the session. His theme will be “Civic and Social 1 Biology, Including Social and Sex TConT!nue<Rin*ag^TH^^™"