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OREGO ' ■ >•« EMERALD PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1915 Volume X\II, No. 60 WEATHERFORD PLEADS FOR HIGHER IDEALS WEAKNESSES ARE UNFAIR MJNDEDNESS, DISHONESTY AND IRREVERENCE CONTACT WITH GOD IS URGED Speaker Says the Business World’s SalYation Lies in the Hands of Pure College Men “Life is a contest and we must pre pare for it,” began Dr. Weatherford Friday night in Villard Hall, speak ing on “The College Man’s Battle.” “Simultaneously throughout the great Christian nations of the world, stand ards of wealth, education and moral living have commenced to rise. To day is the best day cne world has ever seen for moral purity. “All honor may be given to the man who will thrust aside the pleas ures he has been accustomed to en joy, and take up a strict schedule of physical training. This man will win in the season’s battle. He signs his name to a pledge that he will go to bed at a certain hour, that he will adhere to a diet prescribed by the coach, and that he will refrain from all social pleasures on or off the cam pus. This coach sees the necessity of strict training and the athlete see3 it too. But many men do not see the necessity of training for the highest ideals in the great battle of life. “I know it is hard to be a Chris tian. It is very hard to resist temp tation. It is not easy to avoid the so ciety of college life, but if a man can remedy and patch up three bad gaps in his weakness of life he can be an honorable and Christian man. “ ‘Unfairmindedness’ is the first weakness m men s lives, mere are two elements which go to make up the burden of this sin. The student will not search for the truth, or if " he does by chance get the truth, he will not give it a fair trihl. “ ‘Dishonesty’ creeps up to the very door of the University. It is in ath letics, society, and in every day life of the student. A man who would not think of stealing $10 from a bank. till would deliberately steal from his University in an examination. When this student graduates he is not able to do what his diploma gives him credit for. He lies to himself and to his University. I do not have the slightest hope that the business world of America will be pure until college men get a conception of hon hesty. Students who cheat in col lege will not have the manhood to resist dishonesty when out of col lege. « 4im©verence’ to God is indulged in by nearly every man. If a student in the University of Oregon would swear in the name of his mother, his sister or his girl friend, you men would not allow him on the campus. Yet you will trample under your feet the name of God, who is higher, nobleh and sweeter than your mother, sis ter or girl friend could be. Why do you do this? Thoughtlessly, of course, yet should you not think just a little more about your God? “Make up your minds, men, that you are in this game for a hard fight; never say die; get the spirit and en thusiasm into your lives. But you will need power beyond your'own self control to help you fight this battle. Get into mutual contact with God.” Dr. Weatherford, a tall, slender man, with a slight Southern accent, drives every point home with pure and simple examples taken from col lege life. His forcefulness is unchal lenged, for not a whisper or murmur could be heard during the entire hour Weatherford was speaking. -■ . At Stephens College in Missouri a fire brigade has been formed with a girl as chief. BENEFICIARY CRAMS CRAW AND VAMOOSES WITH VALISE Namesake of Scott’s Patriot Folds Up His Tent and Silently Steals Away Robert Bruce will not be a student at the University next year. Robert is footloose again atid seeking parts unknown. Robert drifted into town a couple of weeks ago, looking for a job— any kind of a job—and something to eat. He applied to Paul Lynch, civil engineer for the Willamette Pacific. Lynch could not employ him on the railroad, as the boy was under age, but he took him on a tour up and down Willamette Street and asked nearly every business man in town to make a job for him. &. J. Finneran, proprietor of the Daily Guard, could not use the boy in the shop, but he printed a heart interest item about the case. (Robert’s case, not Doc Sutton’s. That appears later in the story.) The “sob stuff” caught the eye and aroused the sympathies of a high of ficial of the University. Robert Vas brought to the campus, made official erand boy, assigned to a comfortable room in the Dormitory, and enthusi astic plans were formed for his fu ture. He was to enter college next fall and was to carve out a “poor boy-who-became-president” career. Robert fitted in nicely. He sat at the matron’s table. He made friends. When he asked Doc Sutton, ’18, for the loan of a valise to carry some goods up to his room, Sutton and Wil mot Foster offered him anything about the place. He selected Sut ton’s most label-plastered suit-ease. Robert has not been seen since. The label-plastered suit-case was noticed on train 13, Southern Pacific, speed ing for the California line. ns SHIRKS STURT SHfffllHG THE BULL Tryouts for Places on the Team Will Take Place in About Two Weeks Exit ping-pong! Enter tennis! The past week of sunny weather has seen the tennis courts bristling with white-betrousered men swatting the kinks out of their arms. At such an early stage in the game, followers of the racquet are not very talkative. Lewis Bond is the only tennis play er in the University who played in the conference tournament last year. Walter Church, who was alternate last season, is the only man who is showing up very strong. Brooks and Oberteuffer, the other two who formed the Varsity trio last year are not in the University this year. Few men are turning out sp far for daily practice. Nearly all of those who are out to “swat the ball’ are Freshmen. Norene, Trigalgas, Wolf, Belknap and Roberts are out and may be able to show some speed soon. The tournament among the Fresh men is now in progress. The tryouts for places on the team will not take place for about two weeks. Shortly after the tryouts a handicap tournament will be held for the Laraway cup. FIRST VOLUMES OF OREGANA WILL GO TO PRESS APRIL 1 The first few books of the Oregana will go to press about April 1, accor ding to Maurice Hyde, editor of this year’s anual. Hyde states that near ly all of the material is in, and that the first part of the book is ready now. The athletics section is. of course, incomplete as yet, for several events are scheduled to come off later in the spring. iy.OFO.ie IN DISGUISE “DO THE ZONE" AT FAIR BORROW O. A. C. UNIFORMS AND SEE FREE SHOWS, WRITES “CHUCK” COLLIER EUROPEAN EXHIBITS ABSENT Professor Alien Receives Letter Con taining First News From Student Guides First news of what the boys are doing is contained in a leter, printed below, from Charles Collier, one of the second detachment of student fair guides, to Prof. E. W. Allen. Collier, in company with James Donald, left about two weeks ago. One of each pair of guides will write of their ex periences, and the Emerald plans to publish the letters from time to time. The following is the first to be received thus far: San Francisco, March 16, ’15. Dear Professor Allen: At last I will send you some of the news about the fair. Have been so busy this last week and a half seeing points of interest that we couldn’t do anything else. Ernest Vosper said he had written to you about the time we came. By wearing O. A. C. uniforms and official badges, the Oregon boys have worked the Zone to a finish.. Official guides are allowed free admission to the shows and the 0. A. C. suits are borrowed about every other night. Jim Donald at first questioned the propriety of putting on O. A. C. suits, but says that under the circum stances he thinks it’s necessary. Most of the shews on the Zone have been visited in this way. me ranama ^anai, Mexican vil lage, Creation and the Safety Racer are some of the favorites. It would cost $84 to go through the whole Zone once, and the money saved to the boys is worth while. Beachey, the aviator who was killed Sunday, has been doing some very dare devil stunts and something more reckless every day. He was getting good money and would have collected a fortune by the end of the fair. When he fell he was coming straight down on his sensational dip, and when he started to rise the wings of his new rhonoplane crumpled and he fell into the water of the bay. Some of the boys saw him fall. The guides are having a glorious time here. The whole party attended the Sutro baths the first day we were here. Sidietrips have been taken by individual groups to the University of California, Golden Gate Park, Mt. Tamalpais, Fort Scott, Alcatraz Isl and, the Presidio, Chinatown and other interesting places. Guides get a day and a half off a week, and half of Sunday. Also we go bff duty after six o’clock. Even ings are spent on the Zone or at some of the band concerts. Two guides are located in other buildings, Bryant DeBar at the Hor ticultural and Jim Donald at the Ag ricultural Building. Our duties as outlined by Mr. Hy land are to keep the building and ex hibits clean and to show visitors around and give any information they may desire. The Oregon Building attracts a whole lot of favorable comment,, and it is regarded as most restful and pleasing. He exhibits are not com pleted as in the other buildings, and probably will not be entirely in for a month or two. In many of the palaces are vacant spaces with a flag or emblem reserv ing it for some European country, Germany, France, Autria or England, and the visitor wonders if they ever will be filled. The fair is magnificent and many popple say that thaw will never be (Continued on page 3.) BASEBALL TRAINING BESIKS IK EARHEST BEZDEK TABOOS ALL FORMS OF DISSIPATION AND ORDERS DILIGENT PRACTICE FROSH STILL WEAK AT BAT Squad Takes on Polish as Game With Colored Giants Draws Near. Pitchers Strong By Harry Kuck Hop her in there, old boy! Best little pitcher in the world! Give him to me! Make room for him on the bench, there! Watch him take ja drink! Hey! you outfielder, come on in and enjoy the game anyway! These and similar ejaculations interspersed with crips, telling instructions from C<pKh Bezdek, give the old ball grounds a real baseball training camp atmosphere. Coach Bezdek threw down his gauntlet last night, and from now on woe be to him who is caught paying tribute to Lady Nicotine or wander ing around long after the shades of evening have fallen. The coach said, “I want you fellows to cut out all foolishness, now, and get the baseball germ in your sys tems for good. Out every night from now' on.” , The first game of the season, with the fast Colored Giants, is but a week and a half off, and the squad is be ginning to take on a little more pol ish. Pitchers are cutting loose and mixing curves with their straight ones and all handle the ball with more ac curacy. Tl* 1 l! _ it__t_1. • _1 1_1 A’ ACAUAAlg VIA WAV miViW AO gUWUj MV»V only the letter men of last year are clouting the ball. The youngsters are woefully weak with the club so far. This is especially true of outfielders; there isn’t a single outfielder in the squad who can get his bingles. Be sides “Buck” Bigbee in left and prob. ably Lyle in right, there are a bunch of last year’s second string men and Frosh desirous of sticking in the gar dens. Wilhelm, Gorman, Sheehy, Mulla and Hargreaves are receiving a good deal of attention. At present the infield is composed of Father Nelson on first, and three small sons, Anson C. on third, Car son B. in the short pasture, and Mai son on the keystone sack. The first three mentioned are clouting the pill at an awful clip, and how long Mai son will stick depends upon how soon he gets his eye. If the Frosh gets to hitting, the coach %will probably switch Lyle Bigbee to right field. Cornell is more at home on the “diffi cult corner” than at second. “Skeet” burns speed around short and Maison fields nicely. Three of last year’s battery men are asured of their jobs. It looks like a good year for Welch and Tuerck in the box, and “Sleepy Hollow” Liewellen’s experience will probably land him the head receivership, with “Shy" Huntington as first assistant. Huntington never did catching duty before, But is getting the knack read ily. Bob Earl is also a candidate for catcher. Beckett, Baker and Kennon are “Bez’s” trio of * green slab artists. So far, Beckett is showing the most stuff, but the Frosh duo has- prom ise. They all look good for a couple of innings and then have a tendency to blow up. This ought not to last long, however. The first game or two of the season at least will be played on the old grounds on 13th street. Work on the new park is not progressing. Next week will probably see the team in action against Newland’s town aggre gation. _ _ University of Minnesota's employ ment bureau since August 1 has found work for 369 students. SADDENED SENIOR SIN6S SWAN SONS OF EN6INEERS “Shorty” Howard Demonstrates That Poetic Fire May Burn in Technical Mind By Thornton Howard. We’re the last of out race, departing, We’re the last of the engineers, And we’ll carry away, Both mournful and gay, The memory of our last years. Where the* slide rule was king, un challenged. Where motors and fuse: roared, And formulas stared, With frequencies squared, From the cracka of our faded black board. They are eight of the boys left to tangle— There were a dozen or more— With , the problems to come, And now, one by one, We are fighting to settle our score. So I offer this ode of remembrance To the spirit of bygone years— We’re the last to go through, And each is true blue— The electrical engineers. APRIL FROLIC WJLL BE HELD APRIL 3 IN MEN’S GYMNASIUM April Frolic will be held Saturday evening, April 3, in the Men’s Gym nasium. Every organization intend ing to put on a stunt must hand in its name on a card to Claire Raley, chairman of the social commjjfttee. Places on the program will be decid ed by Miss Raley. BMN OF HARVARD MEETS APPROVAL All-University Cast Makes a Hit as One of the Best Amateur Combinations By M.S. The college life of the Johnnie Har vards when they used to sing “Hail. Hail, the gang’s all here,” washed down by near-beer, was vividly por trayed by the all-University cast in “Birown of Harvard.” Little wonder that the play enjoyed an apprecia tive audience on two successive nights, for it stands out as probably the best amateur production that Eu gene has seen in many a day—the credit belonging chiefly to J. W. Mott, who directed the performance. The play is at heart a comedy abounding in risible, ripply college situations—probable and improbable. Merlin G. Batley, as Tom Brown, the immaculate rich son of a rich fa ther, gave a spirited picture of the popular college man, while Echo Zahl, as Evelyn Kenyon, his sweetheart, played opposite him with a finesse of femininity that was alluring. Dave jPhilbin, as “Tubby” Anderson, drew a laugh every time he uttered a word or munched a bit of cake. As an epi curean of rare taste and a guzzler of “biergemuthlichkeit” he certainly took the cake. Mandel Weiss and Ralph Ash were burdened with dif ficult parts—that of bringing the se rious and tragic elements into a pro duction that is essentially all comic. Both did themselves proud—Weiss, as Wilfred Kenyon, weak and cringing, gave his best character portrayal so far; Ash, as Gerald Thorne, was con vincible and forceful. The cast, one and all, starred. As a means of developing the con trol of pitchers at Harvard, Coach Sexton has had the walls of the base ball cage toward which the pitchers throw covered with placards reading in large letters, “Control the Ball.” It is expected that this mental sug gestion will produce the desired re sults. OREGON MUMP IN HUE DEBATE PRESCOTT’S WRANGLERS WIN AT HOME. BUT MEET DEFEAT AT PALO ALTO STANFORD HAS GLEAN SWEEP Washington Finishes in Cellar in An* nual Contest, With Government Owneniiip As Iscue Defeating the University of Wash ington team by a unanimous decision in Villard Hall last night, but losing to Stanford at Palo Alto, the Ore gon debating teams placed Oregon second in the Tri-State Debating League. Stanford carried off both her debates, winning first place. The Oregon home team, consisting of Fred Hardesty and Nicholas Jau reguy, upheld the affirmative of the question, “Resolved, that the Federal Government should own and operate all inter-state railroads acting as common carriers, including intra-state lines competing with them.” The neg ative team, which was defeated at Stanford, was composed of Peter Crockett and Victor Morris. Oregon, taking the general ground that “government ownership alone can provide for improvement, exten tion and ^prosperity,” treated it in its various sides and phases in a way that proved very convincing to Judges B. C. Ewer, H. G. Merriam, and Dean W. M. Proctor, of Pacific Uni versity. S. A. Herzog and Allan Rickies took the stand for Washington that there is nothing at present to justi fy so momentous a change as the taking over of our great railroad sys tem by the government and that greater evils than now exist would follow such a move. There was a perfect clash of argu ment throughout the debate. The Washington team presented the nega tive side of the question with unusual force of fact and speech. Fred Har desty and Nicholas Jaureguy built up their constructive program and suc cessfully protected it from the ag gressive arguments of the Washing tonians. In speaking of the debate, Dr. R. C. Bennett, chairman of the meeting and Professor in the School of Law, said: ‘ ‘The debate was of very high order. The delivery was about equal, but in their constructive arguments and in the general character of their debate, the Oregon men showed the effect of splendid coaching and prep aration. They are indeed to be con gratulated.” Coach R. W. Prescott, of the Ore gon team, stated this morning, “We lost the championship, but it was by a narrow margin.” ILLINOIS FLUNKER STUDENT SUES UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES Whether or not the University of Illinois has the right to drop from the rolls all students not doing satis factory work, will be decided at the spring term of the Illinois court when the suit of Miss Marie Seeback against the University of Illinois trus tees will be heard. Miss Seebacji wa' dropped from the University in 19,08, when her work was unsatisfactory to the faculty. She had been in atten dance at the University two years and had expected to get a teacher’s certificate at the time of her dismissal. At Cornell, Pennsylvania and Syr acuse, crew practice is already being held out of doors, and at Syracuse this was done in spite of the fact that snow was falling. Rowing was not enough exercise to keep the men warm and Intermissions had to be held while the men rubbed their feet and warmed up.