Oregon Emerald Published each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the college year, by the Asociated Students of the Uni versity of Oregon. Phone 944 Entered at the postoffice at Eugene as second class matter. Subscription rates, per year, $1.00. Single copies, 6c. STAFF 1 Editor-in-Chief.. Leland G. Hendricks Assistant Editor....Marjorie McGuire j Managing Editor .Max Sommer News Editor .Wallace Eakin City Editor.Leslie Toosse1 Special Departments Administration .Harold Hamstreet Sports .Harry Kuck, Cyrus Sweek, Rex Kay, Floyd Westerfield Society .Beatrice Locke Assistant—Madge Barry. Dramatics ...Mandell Weiss Music—Edythe Rogers. Exchange .Rita Fraley Features .Lamar Tooze, Milton Stoddard and Edison Marshall City Editor’s Staff Don BeJding, Clytie Hall, Alexan der Bowen, Irwin Sutton, Helen Johns, Flawnice Killingsworth, Louise Al len, Margaret Stauffer, Charles Dun dore, Leigh Swinson, Lois Ladd, De Witt Gilbert, Helen Curry, Sara Bar ker, Helen Downing, Roberta Killam, Gladys Colwell, Charles Castle, How ard Hall, Clinton Thienes, A. L. Bost wick, Kenneth Moores, Mildred Ger ig, Jack Montague and Donald Rob erts. Basiness Manager....Anthony Jaureguy Asst. Mgr., .Frank H. Johnson Asst. Manager .Wayne Stater Collections .H. M. Gilfilen Circulation Mgr.E'nest Watkins Manager’s Phone, 841 FACILITATING BETTER LEGIS LATION No one who examines the work of the first special legislative session of the Commonwealth Conference which closed today can doubt that it will bear fruit in legislation beneficial T,o the state. It is rational to presume that the men who make the laws, meeting in conference with experts on the conditions which the laws are devised to meet, can greatly simplify their work. This is the idea of the legislative conference—to apply the methods of the laboratory to legislation. It is another phase of the realization by the University of its mission of ser vice to the state. The session just closed has been markeed by interesting discussions, and, while no classes have been dis missed and no special plea has been made for student support, a good num ber of students have attended volun tarily. Doubtless the legislative ses sion will become a permanent and in creasingly important adjunct of the general Commonwealth Conference. i AN “EVEN BREAK’’ Along with the evils or blessings j of the new dances, dress suits, cabs and flowers, and other moot questions which are brought to the fore by each big class party, that of the advantages or disadvantages of engaging dances ! in advance is becoming somewhat of an issue. Competition among the admirers of, certain University women is so keen,! it is said, that they are beseiged with requests for dances weeks before the appointed date. As a result, space on their programs is at a premium,! and the unwary swains who wait to press their suits until said programs are actually given out must be content with the ’steenth extra. Although it is now too late to undo the mischief, so far as tonight’s Sophomore Hop is concerned, perhaps the time is opportune to start a re form wave in anticipation of the Freshman Glee. It is hinted by the critics of the present system that an agreement by the girls to gently but firmly decline all importunings until the mystic hour would promote the cherished “square deal.” add interest to the scramble at the dance, and re lieve the fraternity telephone lines of much congestion. Thirty-four per cent of the Fresh men of Dartmouth are failing in Eng lish. An old clothes raid was made re cently at Columbia to collect gar ments for the war sufferers. CAMPUS NOTES A * * Kappa Sigma entertained with an informal dance Friday evening. Miss Mclntrye was a dinner guest at the Beth Rhea Friday night. Miss Guppy was a luncheon guest at the Gamma Phi Beta house Friday. Mrs. Millie Trumbull was a dinner guest at the Gamma Phi Beta house Friday night. 0 o Sybil Brown and Florence Johnston were dinner guests at the Pelta Delta Delta house Friday evening. Delta Tau Delta entertained Delta Gamma with an informal dance Fri day night. Harriette Allen, of Hood River, was a dinner guest at the Gamma Phi Beta house Thursday evening. S. A. Elliott, of Salem, and J. H. Dundore, of Portland, were guests at the Kappa Sigma house Thursday. The members of Beta Theta Pi will entertain with afl informal party after the Sophomore dance. Dr. W. D. Smith, Rolla Ralston, Prof. A. R. Sweetser and Lyle Bigbee were dinner guests at the Beta Theta Pi house Thursday evening. A. H. Grout, of Seattle, and A. R. Marshall, of Portland, were dinner guests Friday evening at the Beta Theta Pi house. Senator Samuel Garland and Repre sentative E. H. Elmore were dinner guests Thursday evening at the Kappa Alpha Theta house. Mrs. Trumbull, of Portland, Sena tor E. D. Cusick, and Senator C. P. Bishop, were guests at lunch at the Kappa Alpha Theta house Friday. Mr. A. H. Grout and Mr. Joseph Mayper were dinner guests at the Gamma Phi Beta house Thursday ev ening. A. H. Harris was a guest at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house Thurs day evening. Mrs. M. E. Watson and Mr. Samuel Garland, of Lebanon, were luncheon guests at the Sigma Chi house Friday noon. Mr. Charles James, of New York, a delegate to the Commonwealth Con ference, was a dinner guest at the Delta Delta Delta house Thursday night. Mrs. Bancroft entertained with a dinner party at Mary Spiller house Thursday evening. The guests were: Dr. Bertha Stuart, Miss Harriette Thompson, Miss Katherine Davis, Miss Mary Perkins, Mrs. Millie R. Trumbull, of Portland, and Mrs. O. P. Hoff, of Salem. Beta Theta Pi entertained the fol lowing at luncheon on Thursday: Gov ernor-elect Withycombe, President Campbell, Dr. George Rebec, Mr. Harvey Beckwith, Senator C. P. Bish. op, Senator S. H. Garland, Represen tative W. P. Elmore, Senator E. D. Cu sick, Leland Hendricks, Tom Donaca, Lawrence Dinneen, Earl Blackaby, Henry Heidenreich, Ben Dorris, Daniel Boone. * * . -r-T-T '■. . * DRIBBLES AND SPIKES * By Rex Kay. • **•*••••••• » • * Clark, All-Northwest center, has been elected captain of the W. S. C. football team for 1915. * * W. S. C. beat Almira, a small town team, 55 to 2. This is W. S. C’s. first game of the year. * * John Fancher, All-Northwest for ward, has been elected captain of the Washington basketball team. * • In the Delta Tau Delta-A. T. O. basketball game near-scraps were fre quent between the opposing Fresh men. ° . * ° • Judging from the fight shown in the preliminaries, the finals of the inter-fraternity league should be a regular world’s war. • * Bob Bean and Don Cawley were; brought together on a foul in the Sigma Nu-Kappa Sigma game. To give Bob an even chance, Cawley let him stand on Hayward's knee. * • Chicago, Wisconsin. Illinois and Northwestern have formed a schedule for intercollegiate swimming meets. Water basketball is also to be played, and made a conference sport. Little can be learned of the strength of Idaho’s basketball team, other than that the Idaho alumni defeated the Varsity by a close score in the first game of the season. * * Harvard has the “athletic heart” scare. If, after rigid examination, it is found that all-around athletes are subject to this weakness, a rule will be passed prohibiting anyone from working out in more than one major sport during a college year. • • Four or five basketball players went “up to the gym yesterday afternoon and finding that they wertf too late, accepted Shockley’s invitatiqp to work, his gym class. 0 The yare still talking about the 1-2-3-4 stuff Shock ley gave them. “Never again,” they say. * Y. M. C. A. FINANCE CAM- * * PAIGN BULLETIN * * Friends. $681.10 * * Alumni . 49.50 * * Faculty . 192.00 * * Book Exchange. 120.00 * * Membership dues .236.00 * Student subscriptions . 51.00 * * _ « * Total ...$1329.60 * The young women of the Home Eco nomics Department at Oregon Agri cultural College will conduct a modei dining room and kitchen in the Oregon Building at the Panama Pacific Expo sition next year. A large number of the co-eds of the institution will, in relays, have charge of the undertak ing. There will be about the same nu;m tr of young women engaged ir. this work as there will be guides com - posed of the male members of the in stitution. —O. A C. Barometer. Don’t Forget To place }rour Xmas orders early for those famous Hoef ler’s Centennial and Varsity Chocolates. Uarsity Sweet Shop Our Hot Chocolates are the vogue. ARROW SHIRTS for every occasion. Color fast—guaran teed satisfactory. “Insist on Arrow.” $1.50 up Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc. 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