PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1915. Volume XVII, No. 57
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BELIEVES MILITARY
TRAINING M
1 PRESIDENT CAMPBELL AND
DEAN STRAUB OPPOSE
SYSTEM AT “U”
MAKES MEN WARLIKE—KOYL
Physical Training Offsets Value of
Military Training and Lacks
Drawbacks, is Belief
President Campbell, Dean Straub
and Charles Koyl, Secretary of the
University Y. M. C. A., have ex
pressed their views on military in
struction in colleges and universities,
now being agitated on a national
scale. President Campbell says:
“Military instruction works through
an external, rather than an internal
authority, and is secondary to indi
vidual instruction and character build
ing. A man should be taught to
know the real value of law, and the
effect of crime; he should himself
assume the duty of obeying; he should
not be driven into discipline. The
character of the individual is the first
thing to be considered.
“One of the benefits of military
training is the development of the
body. ' It tends to make men stand
erect and assume a military bear
ing. Blut I believe this is completely
accomplished by physical training.
Our men are just as perfect, physical
ly, as the men of our neighboring
colleges and universities who have
military training.
“I might say that, while military
training in this University would
have some miscellaneous advantages,
it would not be advisable, for the mere
reason that it is a step toward mili
tarism.”
Charles Koyl, for four years im
mediately associated with Y. M. C. A.
student secretaries from colleges
which have adopted military training,
says:
“Many Americans have no respect
for leadership or for their parents.
They are too much for ‘I,’ and not
enough for the rest of mankind. To
this type of man, or student, mili
tary instruction is a most excellent
thing.
“On the other hand, it makes men
warlike and eager for war. It does
not make men more democratic, and
democracy is what we want. A vast
majority of college men are under
21, and are just forming character
and habits. We don’t want these stu
dents to become military fends;-we
want them to be Christians and lov
ers of njankind. If you fyant disci
pline, let the faculty make stricter
regulations. National affsflrs do not
warrant the establishment of milita
ry training in universities.”
Professor Straub, Dean of the Col
lege of Letters an Science, talked up
on the question from the standpoint
of the students, and the effect upon
student body activities.
“I am in doubt as to the advisa
bility of the installation of military
training in the universities and col
leges. It has the effect of making the
men patriotic, but I think most of
Americans have enough patriotism
anyway. And if the development of
military ideas is advanced, the spirit
of the thing is apt to get us into war.
History has proved this fact. Still
we must prepare for war; there is
no doubt about that. When other na
tions mass armies and build ships for
their own protection, we must do the
same.
“Students would make good sol
diers, even as volunteers, in the war
with Spain scores of Oregon men en
listed and were sent to the Philip
pines, where, reports come back,
they made most excellent and coura
geous soldiers. They took that Ore
gon athletic fighting spirit with them
and nothing could beat them.
SOPHOMORES PREPARING
TO ENTERTAIN UNIVERSITY
Extravaganza Written by One of
Their Own Number Will Com
pose Class Hour Program
An “original extravaganza,” writ
ten by Edison Marshall, portraying
the past of many college characters,
a dancing exhibition by eight couples
and a purely Sophomore orchestra will
feature the Sophomore class hour
at next Wednesday’s assembly.
The “extravaganza:” involves a cast
consisting of Ralph Ash, Edison Mar
shall, Alex Bowen, Wallace Martyn,
Carl Naylor, Martin Nelson and Bob
McMurray.
Miss Hazel Rader has taught and
coached sixteen of the “second year
ers” into what she considers good
condition, and, aided by the class or
chestra, these will endeavor to set
an example for the week-end pat
rons of the “light fantastic.”
The National Council of Phi Delta
Kappa, the national educational hon
or fraternity, will hold its annual con
vention at Oakland, August 1 to 21,
this year.
WOMEN MAY LEARN
REALITY OF RELIGION
MISS LESLIE BLANCHARD WILL
LECTURE FOR Y. W. C. A.
ON MARCH 19, 20 AND 21
Seldom have the women of the Uni
Meetings Will be Held in
Women’s Gymnasium
By Clytie Hall.
Seldom havethe women of the Uni
versity had such an opportunity to
get the true reality of religion as will
be theirs when Miss Leslie Blanchard,
a member of the National Board of
the Y. W. C. A., will be on the cam
pus for special meetings from March
19 to 21. Miss Blanchard, who is a
graduate of Stanford University, has
had a wide experience with college
girls, and in this special series of
talks will have something worth
while for every girl. They are not to
b® evangelistic meetings.
The meetings are to be held in the
Women’s Gymnasium, Friday at 7:00
P. M., Saturday at 7:00 P. M., and
Sunday at 4:00 P. M. The Y. W. C.
A. Quartet, composed of Hester Hurd,
Vivian Kellems, Martha Beer and
Amy Stannard, wilj sing on each oc
casion, and the University Women’s
Glee Club will be present at the Sun
day meeting.
A picnic supper will be held at the
Y. W. C. A. Bungalow Wednesday
evening by the various committees,
who have been,, appointed to work in
connection with the coming Blanchard
meetings. Miss Mary Gillies, Secre
tary of the Association, gave a short
talk about Miss Blanchard, and mem
bers of the various committees told
of the aims of the meetings.
The committees who have been ap
pointed especially for the furthering
of the meetings, are:
Personal Work—Katharine Bridges,
Jewel Tozier, Vera Moffatt, Ethel
Loucks, Callie Beck, Betsy Wootton,
Vaughan McCormack, Charlotte Sears,
Ruth Sears, Mina Fergusson, Nellie
Lombard, Evangeline Husband, Ida
Johnson, Lurline Brown, Claire Raley,
Agnes Dunlap, Eva Hadley, Rieta
Hough, Lillie Miller, Marion Reed,
Dorothy Wheeler, Winifred Ball,
Dorothy Collier, Mary Hislop, Helen
Ross, Helen Wells and Dorothy Wil
kinson.
Publicity—Roberta Killam, Grace
Edgington, Louise Allen, Sara Barker,
Edna Holman and Clytie Hall.
Meeting Arrangements—Martha
Beer, Helen Wiegand, Echo Zahl,
Grace Reed, Hazel Razor, Doris Ball
and Jeanette McLaren.
ATTENTION CENTERED
ON BATTING PRACTICE
COACH HAS DIFFICULTY IN SE
LECTING FAVORITES FROM
BIG TURNOUT
iDORE PITCHERS ARE WANTED
Forty Men Vie for Places in Outfield
and Infield; Game is Sought
With Town Team
By Rex Kay.
For more than a week, every after
noon has found some forty candidates
out on the baseball field going through
the first workouts of the season. It
is the largest drew Coach Bezdek
has ever had at Oregon, consequently
the coach is experiencing some diffi
culty in picking the first favorites.
But they are fairly well sized up
right now.
Many of the men are making their
initial bow into college baseball, and
it is still a problem to tell just what
some of them may have. Practice
has been light, mostly keeping up the
batting eye and getting onto the feel
of the ball, plus a general unwinding
of some neglected muscles.
The old men, the coach says, look
good, still a little weak with the
club, but showing improvement right
along.
Infield material has a more finished
gait at present than any of the other
departments. It is not a decided
matter at all, but Nelson at first, L.
Bigbee at second, Cornell at third,
and “Skeeter” Bigbee at short, with
Thompson, Griffin, Mhson and Griebe,
all new men and unknown, showing
strong, the infield will have real
class.
Hargreaves has been switched from
the outfield to try with Liewellen,
Earl and Risley for the back end of
the battery. This puts four huskies
into the catcher’s race. Nobody sees,
at present, where the axe will fall.
All are uncertain hitters, so far, and
Coach Bezdek will, he says, give them
lots of attention along this line from
now on.
The pitching staff could stand for
a few more good men without being
exactly crowded. Bill Tuerck and
Captain Welch are the only known
“sure pitchers” on the slate. The rest,
Beckett, Blaker and Kennon, are plug
ging right along and % may have the
goods. It is doped that Lyle Bigbee
will stay off the slab and feature in
the hitting.
So far the weather has not permit
ted strenuous work with the pitchers.
The coach has been holding them in,
but promises to tumothem loose now
at the first break of warm weather.
There are enough men out for the
outfield to make three teams, and
ease the mind of any coach. Some
are putting up good stuff, while oth
ers are wobbling on the border.
“Buck” Bigbee, in left field, is the
only old timer on the list. Gorman,
Sheehy, Mulla, Huntington and Kai
ser look like good starts. Several
others are under the coach’s spyglass
and look promising. It is certain that
these places are wide open for some
smart competition. '
“There are several men whom I am
watching closely,” said Coach Bez
dek, “and will work on a good deal
within the next few days. It is hard
to tell just what some of these fel
lows have. Many of them are real
ball players, but awfuly green and
need working on a whole lot. A few
days of good warm weather, and I
can begin to pick them out to quite
an extent, but there will be nothing
definite for some time.”
There is a chance that a practice
game will be played with the Eugene
town team next week. There were
negotiations on for a game Satur
day, but the team will practice Sat
(Continued on page 3.)
WEATHERFORD PRAISED
DT DDRACH OF D.A.C.
TELEGRAM OF RECOMMENDA
TION COMES FROM WASH
INGTON STATE COLLEGE
BANQUET DATE IS MARCH l8
Student Speakers Tell of Local In>
terest at Meeting of Greater Ore
gon Committee Wednesday
Pullman, Wash., Mar. 10, 1916.
Mr. Charles Koyl,
University Y. M. C. A.,
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Oregon.
Weatherford did splendid piece of
work in our campaign. His person
ality and addresses were splendid
and appealed to every man on the
campus. He is unusually strong in
every way and will help you wonder
fully. Do not hesitate to feature
him in strong terms; he will more
than make good.
J. R. McCURDY,
University Y. M. C. A. Washington
State College.
The contents of the above telegram
were substantiated by Dr. Dubach, of
O. A. C., in a lecture before the Great
er Oregon Committee, Wednesday ev
ening in Villard Hail. Dr. Dubach
was in a campaign with Weather
ford in Iowa in 1910, and comments
verey highly on the speaker’s ability.
“I knew Dr. Weatherford as a work
er in a social way, and I want to em
phasize that he will make good any
place you put him. In the first place,
he is a good looking man, and a
smooth talker; he is a born athlete
and knows the physical side of a man
like a book; he is a scholar and has
the advantage of some men because
he has been through the mill from
the ground up and everp speech he
gives is a finished lecture; he has
been a teacher and has mastered stu
dents’ problems; and he is religious
through and through. Weatherford
is riot emotional. Don’t let anyone
think he is going to hear an emo
tional lecture when he drops in to
hear Weatherford. What you will
hear is just cold, clear reasoning for
cleaen, upright living, and it will
come straight from the shoulder. He
is so convincing and reasonable in
everything that he says and does that
he reminds me of a battering ram.
Weatherford gives the best series of
lectures I have ever heard.
“It is up to you fellows to get ev
ery man in the University out to
hear “this splendid Christian worker.
It is the individual, personal work
that counts. If you can’t line up the
fellows any other wa^, go fright ou^
and get them every night. Over at
0. A. C. we have 100 men working
right and left to get the interest of
the Student Body in the meetings;
and we are receiving a wonderful re
sponse. If these meetings at 0. A. C.
and Oregon are a success, it will be
because of the personal, individual
work you fellows do. I know you
fellows are spending a lot of money
in advertising, but if just one man’s
life is changed for the good, you will
be repaid 20 fold for the money spent.
It is no time to think of money,
when students’ lives are to be rev
olutionized,” said Dr. Dubach.
Short speeches, showing the inter
est and enthusiasm of the students,
were given by Leslie Tooze, Martin
Nelson, Harold Hamstreet, Prentiis
Brown, Erie Lane, Herbert Lombard,
Cloyd Dawson, George Colton, Charles
Koyl and Ho Sheng Hoang.
Thursday evening, March 19, a
banquet will be held for all the men
in the Student Body. This banquet
will be the last blow in the interest
of the Weatherford meetings. The
Glee Club will sing several numbers,
and Paul Sprague will sing a solo.
' Every man student is invited.
CUSS HOURS MAY RE GIVEN
BUT NIX ON THE LEVITY
Faculty Willing for Good Programs
° and Nof Cheap Vaudeville to
be Put On
The faculty has reserved, subject
to change, the following dates for the
staging of the class hours: March
17, Sophomores; April 28, Juniors;
and May 26, Freshmen. Dr. W. M.
Smith, Secretary to the President,
makes the following statement con
cerning the class hours:
“The faculty is willing that the
class hours be put on, if the students
really want them and make serious
efforts to put on good programs. We
do not want them simply to degener
ate into a cheap form of vaudeville.”
The Sophomore class hour, which is
scheduled for March 17, will be well
worth attendance, according to Frank
Beach, chairman for the occasion.
STUDY OF ENGLISH IS
1 CAUSE OF FRIENDSHIP
JAPAN’S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
MODELED AFTER OURS, SAYS
JAPANESE CONSUL
K. Kumasaki Addresses Audience of
500 at Assembly; Subject is
“Education in Japan”
The study of the English language,
which is now required in the public
schools of Japan, may serve to create
a stronger friendship between that
country and the United States, by
giving them an opportunity to become
better acquainted with each other.
Such was the opinion voiced by K.
Kumasaki, the Japanese Consul at
Portland, in an address on “Educa
tion in Japan,” which he delivered
before about 500 people in Villard
Hall during the assembly hour Wed
nesday.
Mr. Kumasaki has been in the Unit
ed States but two years, and in Ore
gon two months. Hon. H. B. Miller,
Director of the School of Commerce,
who introduced the speaker, belilefves
that Mr. Kumasaki, who is only thir
ty years old, is a man with a brilliant
future.
“An interesting feature of Japan
ese education,” the speaker said, “is
the extent to which th|e English lan
guage is being used in our country.
The study of this language is begun
in the first year of the middle school,
and continues for at least eight years.
During my school years I studied
Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography
and Washington Irving’s ‘Sketch
Book.’
“We have begun to realize that our
people must fall in line with 500,000,
000 peopld who already speak the
language of Shakespeare. When we
can talk to each other we cam get
better acquainted; when we get bet
ter acquainted, we wfll like each
other better.
“I do not forget that your people
have been the teachers of my people
for more than half a century; for
we have based our school system upon
that of America for the last fifty
years. I do not think Japan can
ever pay her debt to America.
' The Japanese schools are divided
into three classes, the elementary,
the middle and the high schools, the
latter of which may be a sort of spe
cial college in themselves, or only a
means of preparation for the univer
sity. These correspond to your gram
mar schools, high schools and col
leges, to a great extent. For girls,
Japan has one university and two
higher schools; for the ‘new woman’
has been more slow in appearing in
our country than in yours.
“You may criticise Japan as you
will,” the consul said, taking up an
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HML GUIE DECIDES
somMonp
CD
OREGON AND MULTNOMAH WILL
PLAY OFF 3-3 TIE
TOMORROW
VARSITY IS STILL UNDEFEATED
Contest Will Close Soccer Season at
Eugene; Victory for Locals
Expected
By Floyd Westerfield.
Can Oregon do it again?
Do what?
Hold the Multnomah Amateur Ath
letic Club soccer team to a tie score.
“Sure thing” cries the soccer team;
“and what’s more, we’re going to beat
’em this time.”
At 2:46 o’clock tomorrow after
noon, on Kincaid Field, two soccer
teams that are eager to get at one
another will meet for the second time.
Last Saturday on Multnnomah Field
it was 3 to 3. If Multnomah wins, the
clubmen will feel duly avenged for
the embarrassment to which the Or
egon boys subjected them on their
home ground March 6, after they had
won nine straight games and had ev
ery prospect of winning the champion
ship of the state. If Oregon wins,
why should not the championship of
the state repose here?
Beating the Multnomah eleven will
prove a hard job, however. Here are
some brief “word photos” of a few
of their men:
Morris, the center half, is a huge
Scotchman, more than six feet tall,
and as expert with his feet as a first
baseman with his hands. His busi
ness Saturday will be to keep “Bill”
Tuerck from scoring, for the three
goals Tuerck got last Saturday wene
somewhat galling to Multnomah.
Morris not only towers above Tuerck
physically, but he was playing soccer
in Scotland when Tuerck was a small
boy.
Another luminary of the Multno
mah team is Mackie, a six-foot Scotch
man, who boots a soccer ball 60 yeards
without troubling to let it touch the
ground. Mackie has heen right full
back for Multnomah since the fall
of 1911.
Jacobberger, halfback; Leonard,
goalkeeper; Shevlin, outside left wing;
and Nixon, inside right wing, are
picked men from the Columbia Uni
versity team, which for years has
held the interscholastic championship
of Portland. They are notoriously
hard men to get past.
Grier, center forward, is an Eng
lish expert; Gray, inside left, is a
Scotchman who has played in the
Portland senior league for six years;
Mackenzie, outside right, is an old °
Portland cricketer and a Scotchman.
The game will conclyde the Uni
versity socoer season. The team has
been in process of formation since
last September. Now that soccer is
a student body activity, it will be
possible to end the season in future
years before track and baseball be
gin.
The baseball practice tomorrow
will be held in the forenoon, so that
all players may bo free to play in
the soccer game.
Father Moran, of Eugene, will be
j referee.
An admission of 25 cents will be
charged, as the Student Body made a
specific guarantee of $65 for this
game before soccer was adopted as a
Student Body sport, and it is desired
to get this amount back for the Stu
dent Body treasury.
One dollar to get married, ten
cents to go to college, and 50 cents
to graduate, are some of the new
regulations “governing the affixing
of stamps on certificates concerning
human affairs” which were recenaly
promulgated in China.