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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1915.
VOLUME XVI, No. 37
WOMEN’S GLEE CLUB AT
EUGENE THEATRE HI 8
f EVEN TWO DOZEN CO-ED MEL
BAS TO APPEAR IN ANNUAL
CONCERT THURSDAY
VARIED PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
Quartettes, Solos and Stunts Included
in Repertoire of Director Ly
man’s Troupe
The Women’s Glee Club Concert will
be given Friday night at 8:30 o’clock,
in the Eugene Theatre.
The program will be divided into
two parts and will consist of vocal
^ solos, quartet selections and numbers
by the club, as well as of a piano ren
dition by Mona Dougherty, and sev
eral skits and stunts.
The club is practicing nightly for
the concert, which Professor Lyman
expects to be the best in the history
of the organization.
Twenty-four voices will sing the
ensemble parts.
The program will be as below:
PART ONE.
Two Oregon songs—• 1 ^
“Alma Mater Song,” Hendricks
Forbes.
“Songs of My Oregon,” Howe-Mc
Cosh.
Soprano Solo—“April Morn,” (vocal
waltz)) Batten—Virginia Peterson.
“Fairy Lullaby,”—Sherwood.
Quartette—“An Indian Lullaby”—
Vogt—Eva Brock, Martha Tinker,
Charlie Fenton, Leah Peerkins.
'Two Spring Songs— •
“Spring Time”—Mendelssohn- Root.
“The Year’s at the Spring,”—Mrs.
H. H. A. Beach.
PART TWO.
“The Dragon Flies”—Graben-Hoff
man.
Contralto Song—“My Heart at Thy
Sweet Voice,” (from Samson and De
lilah ">—Saint-Saens.
Leah Perkins.
“One Chance in a Thousand”—Geo.
Tyner.
Piano Solo—“La Casthenetta”—H.
Ketten.
Mona Dougherty.
Barcarolle—Offenbach-Sherwood.
A EXPLODING TIRE INJURES
FRESHMAN’S RIGHT HAND
The exploding of an automobile tire
in Salem Sunday afternoon so lacer
ated Bert Ford’s right hand so severe
ly that amputation of the index finger
will probably be necessary. The acci
dent occurred about 3:00 o’clock in the
afternoon, when Ford was attempting
to remove a tire without first letting
out the air. The tire exploded, crush
ing the hand with the flying rim.
Bert was injured only a short time
before he was to return" to college.
His mother writes that he will be able
to be in college in a few days unless
unforeseen complications arise,
fc Bert is a Freshman at Oregon, and
pledged to the Kappa Sigma frater
nity.
HERMAN OBERTEUFFER MAR
RIES MILDRED HEALY
After a three-year college romance,
Mildred Healy, ’15, and Herman Ober
teuffer, ‘14, were married New Year’s
eve at the home of the bride in Spo
kane, Washington.
Mildred Healy, a Kappa Alpha The
ta, was in college two years, and in
her Sophomore year was secretary of
her class, ’15.
Herman Oberteuffer, a Beta Theta
Pi, who graduated last year, was a
member of the Varsity tennis teeam.
City High School. Mr. and Mrs. Ober
^ He is now principal of the Junction
teuffer will make their home in Junc
tion City.
TO BE TAKEN FOR FROSH
IS LAST STRAW, SAYS DORRIS
Senior Commander-in-Chief Seems
to Make Unlooked for Impres
sion on Visitors
Ben Dorris, Commander-in-chief of
the Senior forces, came scurrying up
the walk in an endeavor to overtake a
man who was just ahead of him.
“Sorry to be late, Doctor,” puffed
Benjamin, “I was hunting for my cap
but couldn’t find it, so I had to wear
this roof.”
The Doctor, who was a stranger in
Eugene, turned and took in, with one
swift glance, Ben’s handsome head
gear. A brown felt hat shielded the
learned brow and protected the artis
tic dome.
“But,” quoth the Doctor, and fear
for his friend rang in his voice, “won’t
the Sophomores throw you in the race
if you don’t wear your green cap?”
He who is chief among the wearers
of the sombrero wilted in dismay.
“Mistaken for a Freshman! Wow!!’’
SEVEN QUALIFY IN
FINAL DEBATE TRYOUT
Absences and Sickness Put the Squad
Behind in Coach Prescott’s
Schedule
Seven of the eight men who com
peted in the final tryout for the ’Var
sity debate team successfully passed
the decision of Coach Prescott. The
contest was held on December 17.
Those who now compose the team are
Peter Crockett, Victor Morris, Fred
Hardesty, Bert Lombard, Nicholas
Jaureguy, Cloyd Dawson and Prentiss
Brown.
Absences from town and sickness
have prevented the members of the
team from accomplishing the work
they expected to have done by this
time. Mr. Prescott intended that the
team have the analysis and brief near
ly finished by the end of vacation,
but as it is, they have just started
to work upon the brief, so that work
upon the speeches will not start for
at least a week.
“So far,” aid Mr. Prescott, “all the
members of the team are showing up
about the same. It is just a question
of ability to keep in the race,” he
says, “which will determine who will
make up the teams in the big contests,
and they are really all to be big con
tests.”
MUMPS VICTIMS FEWER
Five Are Taken Down During Vaca
tion Weeks. Several Previous
Cases Persist
The epidemic of mumps, that caused
the early dismissal of school before
the Christmas holidays, has slackened,
but it has not wholly disappeared.
Five cases .developed during the lat
ter part of the vacation, have been re
ported, and some of the more serious
of the earlier cases are still occasion
ing the absence of a few students.
Earl Blackaby, Mary Chambers,
Glenn Wheeler, Myrtle Smith and
Donald Roberts are those who were
taken sick during the holidays.
Jessup Strang has returned to col
lege after an absence of over six
weeks. His was one of the first cases
in school to develop.
A mot of those having new cases
have had them for some time, it is
not thought that they will be absent
from college much longer.
The basketball game between the
Sophomore and Freshman women’s
teams will be played Friday, Janua
ry 8, at 5:00 o’clock, in the Women’s
Gymnasium.
WINGER IS VICTIM
OF CUPID’S DARTS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF
MATHEMATICS ANNOUNCES
ENGAGEMENT
WEDDING WILL BE IN JUNE
Fiancee Is Miss Alice McDonald, a
University of Illinois Graduate
of ’08
One more addition to the group of
faculty wives who are Eastern college
women is to be made next June, when
Dr. R. M. Winger, Assistant Profes
sor of Mathematics, marries Miss Al
iie B. McDonald, B. A., of Charleston,
111. The engagement of Miss McDon
ald to Dr. Winger was announced
simultaneously in Charleston and in
Eugene during the Christmas holidays.
Miss McDonald is a University of
Illinois woman of 1908. She taught
English in Illinois and Indiana hiyh
schools after 1908, then became a
graduate student at the University of
Chicago, taking Domestic Science. She
is now teaching Domestic Science at
the Frances Shimer School for Girls
at Mt. Carroll, 111.
Dr. Winger met Miss McDonald
when he was an assistant in the Math
ematics Department of the University
of Illinois, Miss McDonald then being
a teacher of English in the Urbana
High School. The wedding will be at
Charleston, which is 40 miles south
east of Urbana, the seat of the Uni-,
versity of Illinois. •
Dr. K. M. Dallenbach and Professor
Don C. Sowers brought Eeastern col
lege brides to the campus last Sep
tember. Mrs. Dallenbach is also a
University of Illinois woman.
JUNIOR GLASS TO MEET
Delated Meeting Scheduled lor Wed
nesday to Discuss Oregana
Policy
Wednesday morning, during the reg
ular class hour, in Professor Howe’s
room, the Juniors will discuss the
business policy of the Oregana.
“Several important matters are to
decided,” said William Holt, manager
of the 1915 Oregana. “The general
policy should be determined. The
printing must be attended to imme
diately, for some of the cuts are al
ready made. The end of the cam
paign for the $2.50 rate must be de
cided on. Personally, I think \the
best time will be about January 15.”
Formerly it has been the custom to
give the students two separate op
portunities to take advantage of the
cut rate. But this year, because the
time has alreaedy been extended, a sec
ond offer will not be made, according
to Holt.
Holt and one of his staff spent a
good deal of their time during the
holidays getting advertisements from
Portland firms. “It was a bad time
to do such work,” said Holt, “because
business men are so busy towards the
end of the year. We will continue
the work a few weeks later. Money
will be harder than usual to raise
for this purpose, because the times
are so hard.”
All the Juniors are urged to come
to the class meeting. Several weeks
ago a special meeting was called,
but very few turned out, so no ac
tion could be taken.
OPENING ADDRESS GIVEN BY
W. R. B. WILCOX TO BE PRINTED
The Journal of the American Insti
tute of Architects will print the ad
dress which W. R. B. Wilcox, of Se
attle, delivered at the opening of the
Architectural Building1 on the Univer
sity campus.
MEN’S CLUB RETURNS
FROM BIIRRIL TOUR
TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS PROFIT
IS ATTRIBUTED TO
MANAGER
WARBLERS VISIT SIX TOWNS
LaGrande, Pendleton and Baker Draw
the Largest and Most Apprecia
tive Audiences of the Trip
By Edison Marshall.
Two hundred dollars ahead, heal
thy, with six delighted towns in their
wake, the University Glee Club ar
rived in Eugene Sunday after a tour
of Eastern Oregon. The towns visit
ed were: The Dalles, Pendleton, Ba
ker, LaGrande, Hood River and Al
bany, and a big hit was made in ev
ery town.
The big feature of the trip was the
$200 gain. Last year at this time the
Glee Club deficit was somewhere near
$1,000, according to Graduate Mana
ger Tiffany. This year ishjre is $200
in the club coffers as ffiie season’s
gain.
To Sam Michael belongs the credit,
according to Tiffany. Michael got the
reduced rates at the hotels, he fur
nished the newspapers with reader^
and arranged all the advertising. He
went over the ground a week before
the trip and made all preparations.
The greatest gain made was in
friends for the University. Every
where big crowds turned out, laughed
and clapped and enjoyed themselves
throughout the concert, and went away
satisfied. The soloists, Gillette,
Sprague and 'Vawter, got big “hands”
everywhere, so did the stunts, the
quartette, the Oregon songs, illustrat
ed by lantern slides, showing views
of the University; the entire concert,
in fact.
“Last evening’s entertainment giv
en by the University boys was an
event to inspire home loyalty to Or
egon educational institutions,” said
an editorial in the LaGrande Observ
er. “It was a show given by *our
boys,’ and they are real buoyant, da
tive, energetic Ixjys. They hhil from
all parts of the state, and no one sec
tion seems to have it over the re
mainder of the state in the produc
tion of men.
“From Sam Michael, business man
ager, to the high tendr and the popu
lar baritone, each of the bunch is man
ly, high grade, and a credit to the cit
izenship of Oregon. They also reflect
the training they are receiving at the
U. of 0., and President Campbell,
along with other members of the staff,
can well feel proud of the Glee Club.”
Other newspapers in other towns
were no les generous in their praise.
LaGrande, however, as always, turned
out the biggest and most enthusiastic
crowd.
Pendleton and Baker ran second in
size of crowd and enthusiasm. Hood
River was a close third. The crowds
at Albany and The Dalles were small
er, but the concert "got by” equally
well. o
The, Glee Club has several trips yev
to make. January 22 the club will
sing at Corvallis. About February
ll the club will go to Portland, to
sing at the Ad Club and the High
Schools, and to carry on the good work
of making money and friends for the
University.
OREGON STUDENT INVENTOR
OF A TELEPHONE METER
Ralph Milne, a student majoring in
Architecture, is the inventor of an
automatic telephone meter which re
cords the time spent in using the in
strument. Charges could then be
made on a time scale. Mr. Milne has
already received a certificate of pat
entability from his attorney at Wash
ington, D. C., and expects to apply
for a patent soon.
S.A.E. IS FIRST NATIONAL
FRATERNITTTO ENTER O.A.C.
Delta Omega Club, of Corvallis, An
v nounces Obtaining of Charter
During Christmas Recess
According to reports received from
the Oregon Agricultural College, Sig
ma Alpha Epsilon has granted a char
ter to the Delta Omega Club at thtat
institution, being the first national
general fraternity to enter the field.
The announcement of the obtaining
of the charter was made by members
of the petitioning organization dur
ing the Christmas holidays. Inasmuch
as the petition has Ueen under consid
eration by the national body since
1909, the members of the local are
elated over their success.
From 1880 to 1884 Alpha Tau Ome
ga maintained a chapter at the Agri
cultural College. Since that time,
however, no general national collegi
ate fraternity has existed there, al
though a national pharmacy fraterni
ty and a number of locals have flour
ished.
The news of the establishment of
the new chapter has caused something
of a stir in the fraternity world. It
is taken to signify that the Agricul
tural College, heretofore one of the
largest colleges in the country with
out fraternity, has raised its scholas
tic rating to the required standard
and is considered by at least one fra
ternity as a desirable field.
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UNDERGOES OPERATION
Leader of 1916 Team Spends Holiday
Vacation in Portland
Hospital
Anson Cornell, captain-elect of the
University of Oregon football team
for 1916, is recovering rapidly from
an operation on his knee. The opera
tion took place early in the Christmas
vacation, at the Good Samaritan hos
pital, in Portland.
An X-ray examination of the in
jured knee disclosed a piece of torn
cartilage under the knee cap. The
knee cap was removed and the torn
cartilage sewed back in place. The
operation was an unusual one and is
believed to have been a success. Laat
year Cornell had trouble with water
on the other knee.
This past season Cornell was una
ble to play through a complete game
of football. In the Idaho game at
Mosco’" the knee received its first in
jury. In the game with Washington
State College the injury was again
accountable for “Nance’s” short stay
in the game. At the University of
Washington game in Seattle the mini
ature quarterback was in the game
for only a few minutes.
Anson Cornell will be back in Eu
gene as soon as he is able to get about
on crutches. The first bandages were
removed last week and it is possible
that he will be back on the campus
the last of the week. •
If the injury is completely reme
died by spring, Cornell will be back
on the diamond for baseball.
DAVID CAMPBELL WILL GIVE
PIANO RECITAL JANUARY 20
David Campbell, formerly head of
the Piano Department of the School
of Music, will give a piano recital in
Villard Hall during the assembly hour
on January 20.
David Campbell is a brother of
President P. L. Campbell. He has re
cently returned from a year’s study
in Europe, and is now engaged in
concert work, with headquarters in
San Francisco.
The Eutaxian Literary Society met
this efening at the Young Women’s
Christian Association Bungalow. Mi3S
Mary Perkins gave a talk on “Mak
ing Your Own Library.”
BHL PUCE
ON IN FULL BUST
WHEELER, ONLY 1914 LETTER
MAN ON SQUAD, KEPT OUT
BY MUMPS .
BOYLEN FILLS VACANCT
Men Weakened by Long Vacation, and
Last Night’s Showing Proved
Slow
By Harry Kuck.
With the first conference game a
month distant, Varsity basketball as*
pi rants started practice in earnest last
night.
Holiday celebrations put a big crimp
in most of the aspirants’ endurance
and stock of wind, and last night’s ex
hibition wasn’t the fastest in the
world.
Coach Besdek has determined to se.
cure staying power as quickly as pos
sible and has laid down his training
altimatum: “Cut out all foolishness
from this on, boys; no more late hours
nor use of tobacco in any form.”
Only four men o\)t of the whole
squad took advantage of the long va
cation to improve their scoring abil
ity. Sharpe, Lyle Bigbee, Wheeler
and Skeet Bigbee spent most of their
vacation in Eugene and practiced get
ting the ball through the little iron
hoop nearly every day.
The squad has dwindled in size from
thirty to about twenty, and Coach
Bezdek announces that by the end of
the week he will slice off another quin
tet and then reserve the floor for the
remaining fifteen from four to six
every afternoon.
Glenn Wheeler, the only man on
the squad who won his letter last year,
is out of the game with the mumps.
He fell heir to them last week and
will he unable to get going for an
other week. Tommy Boylen, a 1912
letter man, is filling Wheeler’s place
in the tentative line-up.
No captain has been elected yet, the
plan be^ng to wait until the team is
practically chosen, so that the man
chosen will be sure to have a place.
Men who have been turning out
regularly for the team are: Dudley,
Brownell, Roberts, Sharpe, Skeet
Bigbee, Burgard, Gorman, Fumey, No
Huggins, Fee, Wood, Morton, Buck
Bigbee, Burgard, Gorman Furney, No
rene, Dolph and Hampton.
SOPHOMORE DEBATE
TEAMS ARE CHOSEN
Second Year Class Groom Ciceros for
Annual Underclass Debate on
January 22
Robert McMurray, George Colton,
Howard McCullock, Milton Stoddard,
Clinton Thienes and Henry Thorsett
have been chosen to represent the
Sophomores in the annual underclass
debates to be held on the afternoon
and evening of January 22.
As yet it is undecided which of the
six will represent the affirmative and
which the negative sides of the ques
tion: Resolved, that the Federal
Government Should Own and Operate
all Interstate Railways.
In the afternoon the affirmative
three of one class will endeavor to
“talk” to the negative three of the
other class, while in the evening the
remaining team will repeat the pro
gramme.
Contrary to the usual method of
having the debate committee select
the judges, this year the teams will
select their own judges.
In order thoroughly to stamp out
any remaining traces of mumps, the
Administration Department requests
a prompt report of any cases that
may develop.