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INTER-CLASS DERATE TRY-OUTS POSTPONED Early Christmas Vacation Necessitates Changing of the Date from Jan. 29 to Feb. 12 or 19 “Owing to the early Christmas va cation, necessitating the postponement of the Sophomore tryout, the annual underclass debate will probably be held on February 12 or 19, instead of January 2, as scheduled. This was. decided at a joint meet ing of the Freshman and Sophomore debate committees, Wednesday night. The Sophomore committee is com posed of Nicholas Jaureguy, Martin Nelson, Ernest Watkins and Milton Stoddard; Jimmy Sheehy, Turner Neil, McDonald and Kenneth" Moores rep resent the Freshmen. Each squad is divided into three af firmative speakers and three negative speakers. Affirmative debaters for the Sophomores are Milton Stoddard, Clin ton Thienes and Henry Thorsett; ar guers on the negative will be Robert McMurray, Howard McCulloch and George Colton. “Pro” debaters for the Freshmen are Jimmy Sheehy, Fred Packwood and Joe Hedges, while the “con-ers” are Ed. Thomas, Ed. Gar bade and Ernest Nail. WOULD-BE ACTORS DECIDE NOT TO GO ON ORPHEUM Paul Sprague, wih|0, accompanied by Melvin Jordan and Raeman Flem ing, left a week ago for Portland to go on the Orpheum circuit, returned Sunday. “We found,” said Sprague, “that the tryouts for the Orpheum were held in San Francisco and the tryouts for the Pantages in Seattle. We did not consider it worth the trouble to make either of these trips.” Neither Jordan nor Fleming are ex pected back in college. According to Sprague, unless all three of the boys are together, none of them go on the stage. DEDICATION OF*ADMINISTRA TION BUILDING TO BE, DECIDED The Board of Regents have not tak en action concerning the dedication of the Administration Building. Presi dent P. L. Campbell said, in speak ing of the affair: “The Administration Building will undoubtedly be dedicated to some pe^ son not living, as has always been the custom. No building on the campus has been dedicated by the Board of Regents to anyone living. At the next meeting of the Board, in Feb ruary, this matter will be brought up and decided.” FRATERNITY GRADES MAY BE PUBLISHED BOTH SEMESTERS Registrar A. R. Tiffany is consider ing publishing the fraternity grades for the second semester as well as the first. “This is a fine thing,” said Mr. Tif fany. "If the grades are published for the second semester too it will keep the students up in their studies all year, while if the grades were com piled only once a year, the interest would die down and the grades would suffer accordingly.” Formerly the grades of the various fraternities were published in the Em erald at the end of the first semester in the order of the highest standing. ROCK TIDE CAUSE OF EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY (Continued from per* l.) quakes have occurred in that region,” said Dr. Smith. Some interesting facts connected with earthquakes are shown in the San Francisco earthquake, when a fruit line 190 miles long, with a displace ment along the fault of from one to 15 foet occurred. During un earth quake in Mexico and Sonora in 1887 u crack 100 miles long, with u fault of eight feet, was produced An earth quake in Sicily in 1G93 killed 100,000 people. * Seat reservations for Saturday * * evening’s basketball game will * * open at the Y. M. C. A. Wednes- * * day morning. Students will be * * admitted on Student Body tick- * * ets. Section R downstair will * * be reserved for the. women, and * * the men will occupy their regular • , * bleachers. * MISS WATSON LECTURES ON LIFE AND WORK OF MUIR The Life and Work of John Muir was the topic of a lecture given be fore the student class at the Metho dist Church by Miss Mary Watson, of the English Department, Sunday morning. This lecture was the sec ond given in connection with Professor Sweetser’s class, which is studying the Bible of Nature. In a closing summary, Miss Watson said: “John Muir is a man who may be classed among the first of the natural scientists. With the exception of Dar win, he was probably closer to nature than any other man of the past gen eration and contributed more to the explanations of earthly phenomena than any of his predecessors. In late years he was the one authority on the Sierras and the Yosemite Valley. His explorations in Alaska will al ways be known by the Muir Glacier, which bears his name.” John Muir attended school at the University of Michigan, but never re ceived his B. A. degree. Later, how ever, that institution gave him three honorary degrees for his wonderful work. Muir was an inventor, a pro fessor and a scientist. Next Sunday Professor Smith, of the Geology Department, will speak on the life and work of Hugh Miller. HUCKLEBERRY FINN IS FIRST PLAY OF YEAR (Continued from page 1.) Edythe Rogers. An old man with a past, alias “The Dauphin,” Ralph Ash. A young man with a past, alias “The Duke of Bilgewater,” Mr. Weiss. Jake Greenfield, a sieve, Martin Nel son. Widow Blartley, village dressmak er and undertaker's assistant, Mrs. Thorne. Joanna Wilks, niece of the late Pe ter Wilks, Miss Nellie Cox. Mary Jane, her younger sister, a “girl with sand,” Beulah Stebno. Dr. Robinson, physician at Pike ville and friend of the late Peter Wilks, Ben Fleischmann. Hines, the blacksmith at Pikeville, Fred Hardesty. The undertaker at Pikeville, Earl Bronaugh. Aunt Sally Phelps, sister of “Tom’s Aunt Polly," Eyla Walker. Uncle Silas, her husband, Ralph Ash. Mathilda Angelina Athmintal, their oldest, Martha Beer. Thomas Franklin Benjamin Jeffer son, their second, Ejner Hentze. Susie Polly, their youngest, Miss Teresa Cox. Sister Damrell, Brer Penrod, Brer Podwater, neighbors of the Phelpses, Josephine Moorehead, Mandell Weiss, Ernest Watkins. Tommy Podwater, Master Campbell. Mourners at a funeral, children, snakes, rats and spiders. SCENES ACT I—The yard of the Widow ' Douglass’ house, St. Petersburg, Mis- l souri, an evening in summer, 1865. “Why can’t Miss Watson fat up?” ACT II—A cove among the islands, on the Mississippi. Three weeks lat er. Scene 1—Evening. “What you want on a raft is for everybody to be sat isfied and kind to the others.” > Scene 2—On the raft down the “Mis’sip’ ” early morning of the sec ond day following. “You can’t help the way the king smells.’’ ACT III—Late afternoon of the same day. Parlor of the Wilks house in Pikeville, Mississippi. “I wouldn’t set out such a string as that, not if I never got to ACT IV—Yard of the Phelps’ plan- j tation house, “ten mile below Pike ville.” Scene 1—Evening of the day follow- ; ing. 11 “The rats is doin’ what they can to I keep off the dull times for Aunt Sal ly.” Scene 2—The same. Morning of the following day. “So Tom took all that trouble to ■ set a free nigger free! A feller with Tom’s bringin’ up helpin’ to free a | nigger!” ; Acting manager, Mr. Reddie. Prompter, Mrs. Thorne. Properties, Martin Nelson. Business manager for the Guild, J. - Frederic Thorne. j Agitation among Princeton stu ients for the establishment o’ a course n military training has resulted in I die faculty considering the plan. DEBATERS WORKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES Outside Employment Handicaps Var N sity Orators in Preparing for Meet With O. A. C. “If we are prepared when the final test comes, it will be only at immense sacrifice,” said Mr. Prescott in speak ing of the debaters’ work prepara tory to the contests with O A. C. on February 19. “The men have had a hard time to get together for work on account of conflicts. Necessity to make their living is the chief source of this in terference. Most of them, working their way through school, must work from three to six hours a day, be sides keeping up in 16 hours of Uni versity study, which, in itself, is no mean job. Because of this the teams are working under a great handicap. “Could the faculty and students of the University realize the sacrifices the team is making to uphold our honor in debate, they would interest themselves in forensic events; they would arrange their social programs to accord with the debate schedule, and then come out in a body to cheer the men in their efforts to wrest vic tory from the opponents. “The institution is in debt to her debaters, and if the students don’t wish to default payment they will not deny the men the very greatest en couragement possible. This encour agement means two things: it means knowing the debaters and speaking to them, and it means big audiences. “The two University teams," con tinued Mr. Prescott, “will meet Wash ington and Stanford on the second Friday in March. Three men will go to Stanford and three will remain here to oppose Washington’s trio. On the first Friday in April Oregon meets the University of Montana. “The negative team will be Morris, Crockett and Hardesty, while Jaure guy, Lombard, Brown and Dawson will compete for positions on the af firmative team.” FOUR STUDENT GUIDES ARE CHOSEN BY COMMITTEE (Continued from page 1.) :o, will be paid. Each is to be given Free room and board while engaged at the Fair, two meals and bed in the Oregon Building, the dinners to be se cured at home nearby restaurant. In return for this he is to do willingly sind steadily the work around the state building and to answer all ques tions asked about Oregon. Khaki uni forms will be required. PIERCE BROS. Staple and Fancy GROCERIES Phone 246—Cor. 9th and Oak Sts ©bah Amusement Co. 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