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PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE THURSDAY MARCH « 1915.
Volume XVII, No. 62
OH ON PRESS
111 WEEKSAYS HYDE
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■ WIL/L CONTAIN BETWEEN 300
AND 400 PAGES, SAME SIZE
AS LAST YEAR
ADVERTISING SPACE AVERA6E
Copies to be Given to Regents, Ad
vertisers and Staff Members
Who Helped
When finished, the Oregana will
contain between 300 and 400 pages,
according to a statement made by
Maurice Hyde, editor of this year’s
annual, yesterday. Its page will be
about the same size as that of last
year’s Oregana, with the exception
that it will be a trifle narrower.
All the copy and pictures, with the
exception of the feature department,
are practicall y in, and material for
that department is expected to be
ready for the press in about a week.
William Holt, manager, states that
the copy and pictures from the Law
and Medical Schools have been prom
ised for today. Merrill A. Reed is
attending to the work in Portland.
The contracts for the printing and
binding have been let.
The contract for cuts has been let
to the Hicks-Chatten Engraving Co.,
of Portland. Holt states that the
price of cuts is higher this year than
ever before, because of the war prices
which prevail on some of the mate
rials used. Practically no color work
is to be used.
The local merchants have ■been can.
vassed for advertising, and according
to Holt, the results have been fairly
good. Some have given larger ads
than usual, while others have respond
ed with smaller ones, making the en
tire amount about the same as in the
past. ' *
The total number of cuts has not
yet been estimated. The Seniors are
to appear eighteen times, the post
graduates five, Juniors six, and the
Sophomores and Freshmen each twice.
Each fraternity, sorority and honor
society is to be represented from one
to three times.
The foreword is to be about the
same as that used in the past, con
sisting of some form of greeting, Mr.
Hyde states. To whom the book is
to be dedicated has not yet been ful
ly decided.
Each member of the Board of Re
gents, each advertiser and every mem
ber of the Oregana staff who has re
ally helped will be furnished a copy
of the Oregana.
DeBAR STAYS HOME ONE DAY,
AND LEAVES FOR ALASKA
Bryant DeBar, who, with Ernest
Vosper, constituted Oregon's first de
tachment of Exposition guides, re
turned to Eugene at the end of last
week, stayed here for one day, and
then left for Alaska.
He brought with him many stories
about the fair and about how he and
Ernie did their work in the big Ore
gon Building.
“During our first two weeks’ stay,
he said, “we were placed at hard labor
unpacking the material that was ar
riving for exhibition in the building.
When the next two fellows arrived at
the end of that time, we took things
easier and watched them do the work.”
One of the four guides, it seems, is
to be placed on duty at the Oregon
exhibit in the Horticultural Palace.
Whether the boys will take turns at
this removed post, Bush could not
say.
All that Bush had to say regarding
the Exposition as a whole was that
it is “some fair.”
His immediate destination after
leaving Eugene is Seattle, from where
he is to sail for the northern country
the last of the month. He will remain
there probably until the fall, when he
is expected back at school.
HEAD GARDNER PLUCKS
FIRST ROSE OF SUMMER
Gold Avoca Climber on South Side ef
Men’s Dormitory Produces
Flower
The first rose in bloom on the cam
pus this year was picked by Super
intendent H. M. Fisher Tuesday.
The rose is of salmon pink color,
and was picked from the Gold Avo
ca climber that has crept up the three
stories of the south end of the Boys'
Dormitory during1 the past ten or
twelve years.
Mr. Fisher says that it is very un
usual for any rose to be in bloom so
early in the year as, ordinarily, they
do not appear until April. The last
few hot days, he said, have also
brought out the magnolia buds.
Mr. Fisher made a present of the
rose to Lucile Watson, ’16.
FAIR ARCHITECTURE TO
AFFECT CITIES, BELIEF
Luxuriance of Vegetation Striking
Thing About San Diego Ex
position
That the architecture of the Pana
ma-Pacific Exposition will have a de
cided effect on the architecture of the
American cities in the future, and
that this influence will not be pass
ing but permanent, w^s the opinion
voiced by Professor Ellis F. Ldw
rence, dean of the School of Archi
tecture, during the progress of an il
lustrated lecture on the architecture
of the Exposition, which he delivered
at assembly hour yesterday.
The first picture shown of a street
scene in Chicago, taken only a short
time ago, is typical of conditions to
day. The buildings shown were low
and unsightly and the vacant lots were
ugly and unkempt. The last pictures
were of the model city of Port Sun
light, in England. Here conditions
were just the opposite; simple archi
tectural beauty was seen everywhere.
The remainder of the pictures dealt
with the Exposition buildings and
models from which they were taken,
these conveying Professor Lawrence's
idea that the architecture seen
here represents ideals through which
in due time such buildings as shown
in the first pictures may be replaced
by ones such as in Port Sunlight.
i'roiessur Littwrencc saiu umi/ uie
Exposition architects received their
inspiration from many sources, but
mainly from the architecture em
ployed in the Mediterranean countries.
In explaining what the architecture
of the Exposition should embody, the
speaker said:
“The message given should be one
of dignity; it should be modern, uor
traying of the acftievements of to
day in science and literature; it should
be gladsome giving forth some of the
happiness of the sound of wedding
bells, at the wedding of the Pacific
and Atlantic; and it should be, in a
measure, prophetic as to the gaeat
results to come in the future from
this union.”
In his opinion, these results have
been obtained.
The first pictures shown of the Ex
position proper were of the ground
plan of the whole. The eight prin
cipal buildings are arranged in what
is known as a closed composition, to
gether with a court which leads to the
Fine Arts exhibit on one and, and the
Machinery Building on the other.
Plans are also included for space for
amusements, concessions, aviation and
other field sports, etc. Around the
entire group is placed a wall 65 feet
high to protect visitors from the dis
agreeableness of the trade winds.
Several views of the individual
buildings were shown, the first of
which was the Tower of Jewels, which
is 435 feet high. Professor Lawrence
(Continued on page 4.)
OHEGON SOCCER TERM
ILL BE MHZED
CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS MUST
CONSIDER LOCALS AS RI
VALS FOR HONORS
1914-1915 SEASONS SUCCESS
Coach Dyment Considers Six Months
of Practiceat Canadian Game
Well Spent
By Rex Kay.
Within two years Stanford and
Berkeley will have to recognize the
University of Oregon as a rival for
honors in the game of soccer, is the
opinion expressed Professor Colin V.
Dyment, coach of soccer, in giving
a review of the soccer season which
just closed with the game between
the University and Multnomah, and
in conjecturing on the future pros
pects of the Canadian game as it
will concern Oregon.
it is not pro Da Die, nowever, tnat
there will be any attempt to arrange
games with these institutions, as it
is intended to keep the cost of this!
sport down to Bed-rock. Games will
be played, however, with any travel
ing teams that happen to come into
this vicinity, and it is the prediction
of Coach Dyment that the Oregon
men will be able to meet any such
aggregation on equal footing. That
the men are coming into their own
and beginning to rank with all col
lege players, is the assertion of Coach
Dyment.
“The season that just closed was
a success,” said Coach Dyment. “It
all hinged on the second game with
thje Multnomah Club, and I consider
the six months of hard practice and
constant work well repaid by the ex
hibition of soccer which the men put
up at this time. The first game with
Multnomah, played in Portland, was
discouraging in that there was no
signs of coaching, training and prac
tice displayed; they showed no inner
knowledge of the game, but in the
second game of the series they turned
loose and showed that they had a
good understanding of the game from
a technical point of view. All the
work of six solid months was repaid
in that short hour and a half.”
It cannot be hoped that soccer will
occupy the place that football or base
ball does in the sporting world on
the Pacific Coast within less than a
century, is the opinion of the Ore
gon authority, but that the game is
here to stay is certain, as it is en
thusiastically supported by all stu
dent bodier where it has had a fair
chance. It must have nursing and
fostering for a time, but it will grad
ually rise into prominence on the Pa
cific Coast as a college sport
Next year will witness as great an
increase in soccer interest from ev
ery point of view as this year showed
over last year, predicts Professor Dy
ment, and this yeear the increase was
over a hundred per cent. There were
twice as many men out this year as
last and the players have improved
twofold.
‘Doc” Stewart has promised to have
a soccer team at O. A. C. next fall,
and has announced his intention of
meeting Oregon. He asserts that, be
ginning next season, the “Aggies”
will figure strong in the Coast soc
cer games. This will probably be
the biggest soccer struggle of the
year for either of the Oregon teams.!
But there are other good games to be
played.
It is expected that games will be
arranged with Multnomah, the cham
pions of the Portland interscholastic
league, and other teams of this class.
“Competition for places on the team
will be much keener next year, as
there are several good players from
Portland who will be in the Univer
sity next fall,” says Professor Dy
Continued on page 8.
CHEMAWA PLAYS HERE
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
WELCH AND LIEUELLEN WILL
BE BATERY BACKED BY
FIVE VETERANS
TWO FROSH TO START GAME
Bezdek Gives Out Line-Up for Week
End Contests. Bleachers Will
bo Completed
B|y Harry Kuck.
Oregon will meet the Chemawa In
dians in the fijrst baseball game of
the season Friday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock* with Captain Johnny Welch
on the mound and Sam Lieuellen on
the receiver’s end, backed by five vet
erans of last year’s championship
team and two Freshmen anxious to
make good with the fans in the first
struggle.
Coach Bezdek, although not satis
fied with the hitting of the Frosh duo,
Sheehy and Grebe, is pleased with
the fielding of the team and' his eye
lights up with pleasure at the way
the vets, especially Lyle Bigbee and
Dick Nelson, clout the horsehide all
over the lot. The coach, who has one
of the shrewdest baseball heads in
this neck of the woods, hopes to in
still a goodly dose of inside baseball
into the nine and has them at work
on a code of signals each night.
The Oregon line-up and batting or
der will be:
Cornell, 3rd base.
Grebe, 2nd base.
C. Bigbee, shortstop.
Nelson, 1st base.
L. Bigbee, right field.
Sheehy, center field.
M. Bigbee, left field.
Lieuellen, catcher.
Welch, piteher.
Owing to pecuniary stringencies,
the team will appear in last year’s
suits.
The seven veterans need no intro
duction to campus fans; their worth
and eccentricities are comon stock.
Jim Sheehy, whom “Bez” has cho
sen to aid Bigbee Bros, in guarding
the outer pastures, hails from Port
land, and received his prep school ex
perience at Jefferson High. He is
e natural outfielder and was one of
the leading letters of the interscho
lastic league last season, but so far
has failed to find his eye.
The other youngster, Walter Grebe,
breaks into the defense at second
base. Grebe won his letter at Wash
ington High three years and is one
of the fastest men ,of the team on
the bases. He has a good arm, but
so far in the training season has
failed to annex many bingles.
Manager Tiffany is having new
bleachers built around the south and
east sides of the diamond, which will
have a capacity for seating from 800
to 1,000 people, enclosed with wire
^netting to insure safety to all. The
ground is also receiving attention and
will be in goed shape for the opening
games with Chemawa.
Friday’s game will launch what
promises to be a busy season
for the Lemon-Yellow ball artists.
The Redskins will be the attraction
Saturday, also; and a week from to
day Oregon crosses bats with the fast
Chicago Colored Giants in a game
that will really test the mettle and
baseball knowledge of the locals. The
Negro team is composed of the fast
est colored ball players in the coun
try, and has been taking the measure
of Coast League clubs quite regu
larly.
“Bill” Tuerck will probably start
against the Indians Saturday after
noon, and “Shy” Huntington may be
given a chance behind the bat. The
game will start at 2:00 o’clock.
LOST—On campus; I-P note-book.
Finder please return to Roy Stephens,
Dorm, and receive reward.
PURDY WON’T STAY DEAD;
NOT VICTIM-OF OPERATION
Oregon Graduate Cornea to Life in
Timeto Save Oregon* from
Printing Obituary
Biblical miracles have nothing on
L. H. Purdy, a 1914 graduate, whose
death was reported on the campus
last September. A notice was pub
lished in the Emerald at that time, in
which his death was said to have been
due to an operation for appendicitis.
Prof. 0. F. Stafford, of the Chemis
try Department, received a letter this
week from the educational bureau of
the University of Wisconsin, saying
that Purdy is alive and well.
The rumor was so fully credited
that the Oregana had made arrange
ments for a page devoted to Purdy’s
memory.
HANDBALLERS PLAY
TWO PRELIMINARIES
Dormitory Club Wins From Phi Del
ta Thetas, and A. T. O. From
Sigma Nu
* * ****•••»**
* HANDBALL SCHEDULE *
* __ *
* Preliminaries *
* 1. Sigma Chi vs. Beta Theta Pi. *
* 2. Dormitory Club vs. Phi Delta *
* Theta. *
* 3. Kappa Sigma vs. Oregon *
* Club. *
* 4. Sigma Nu vs. Alpha Tau *
* Omega. *
* 5. Delta Tau Delta vs. Iota Chi. 11
* 6. Phi Gamma Delta. *
* Semi-Finals *
* Group 1 vs. Group 3. *
* Group 2 vs. Group 4. *
* Group 6 vs. Group 6. *
«*•***•«***
By Floyd Westerfleld.
The Inter-Fraternity Handball se
ries started last Saturday and accor
ding to present plans the last games
will be played this week or the first
of next. The men in charge of the
series have urged al contestants to
have their matches played as soon as
possible.
A cup will go to the team winning
the series. Last year the Oregon Club
represented by Kuck and Casebeer,
won the cup.
Only two matches -have ben played
so far. In the first game the Dor
mitory Club won over the Phi Delta
Thetas, 21-13 and 21-0. Monday the
A. T. 0. team defeated the Sigma
Nus, 21-11 and 21-14.
GLAD HAND TO. AWAIT
THE VISITING PREPPER
Partners for Junior Play and Junior
Prom to be Provided When
Desired
The following committee has been
appointed to take charge of the
housing and entertainment of the
track men who will be here Junior
Week-End:
Clark Burgard, chairman;; Fred
Kiddle, Harry Kuck, Howard McCul
loch, Jack Elliott, Larry Mann, Ches
ter Miller, Leo Furney, Ralph Ash,
Ernest Watkins, Bernard Breeding.
“Weexpect at least 100 men here
for the track meet and vfe intend to
show them the best time they have
ever had, so that they will like the
University well enough to make it
their college home,” said Burgard.
“The committee will meet every train
with machines and take the men to
their resepective houses. Also we will
provide them with partners for the
Senior play and the Prom.”
The members of the committee will
wear ribbon badges of lemon yellow.
MUIUETSTHET
MIS“r,SiiyPK
WOMEN NOT BRAINIER THAN
MEN, THOUGH MARKS SEEM
TO SHOW IT
SYSTEM IS HELD FEMINISTIC
Dr. Rebec Says Problem la to En
courage Initiative in Women and
Responsibility in Men
Are Oregon women mentally supe
rior to Oregon men ? If the compara
tive rating of the women’s and the
men’s clubs is based on mentality this
would appear to be the case. The tab
ulation of the scholarship averages
computed for the first semester shows
that with one exception all of the wo
men’s clubs have a higher average
than the highest men’s group-grades.
Members of the faculty interviewedi
however, express convergent opinions
to the effect that the grades do not
show comparative intellectuality.
When interviewed regarding this
matter, Dr. George Rebec said:
“Grades, rather than pretending to
show the comparative intelligence of
students, show the fidelity to allotted
tasks. The higher marks of the wo*
men show that they are more duteous
in fulfilling prescribed tasks than are
the men. Women have a maturer
sense of responibility and are more
obdient. My own feeling in the mat
ter is that the average young man is
likely to exhibit a greater degreeVof
initiative. Docility is the prominent
fault of the women and indolence the
prime fault of the men. The problem
is to devise methods of conducting
work to encourage initiative in wo*
men and real interest and responsi
bility in the men.”
Prof. H. C. Howe, head of the De
partment of English Literature, said:
“Women prise grades more than do
men. This is especially true of the
sorority houses who make an extend
ed effort to appear high in their scho
lastic standing. This being the case,
the grades recently published are not
indicative of the real test of intel
lectuality. The men, as a rule, are
more original, but are not as meth
odical or docile in their studies as
the women. The last two attributes
enter largely in determining the
grades.”
Prof. E. W. Allen, head of the De
partment of Journalism, says: “These
statistics, to my mind, are valueless
so far as showing1 any difference in
the amount of mental power between
the sexes, or even as indieating any
difference in the degree of profit be
ing derived from the University work.
“If the marks are right, then it
seems to me our system of education
must be feministic and wrong. I pre
fer to believe that the marks are
wrong.
“It is hard to devise ar system of
grading that will do justice to the most
important masculine characteristic—
independence and originality. If we
do not watch ourselves we penalize
this quality instead of encouraging it.
“On the other hand, feminine metic
ulousness and conformity is as much
a vice as a virtue, but it gets the high
grades every time.
“One of the purposes of the Pass
and Honor system, now under discus
sion by the faculty, is to give more
opportunity for gaining recognition
to the original and independent type
of mind.
“However, I do not believe that the
basis of giving marks needs to be
changed. The present system has the
advantage of being certain and defi
nite, while there can never be a
mathematical test of originality or in
dependence. Any assessment of the
originality of any individual will al
ways be a matter of opinion. It is
just as well te- continue to measure
(Continued on page 3.)