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PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A W1 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MARCH 27; 1915. Volume X-VII, So. S# JLaLuJjik&rf; u a V. L Mf, 08, CHOSEN era OF COLLEGE WILLIAM AND VASHTI, AT ALE DO, ILL., HONORS OREGON STUDIED CHEMISTRY IN BERUN ■’'j I f fat •'£. President-Elect Was Graduated from Oregon in Same Year that W and V Was Organized Ward L. Ray, A. M., who was grad uated from the University with the class of 1908, has been elected Pres ident of William and Vashti College, a non-sectarian institution located at Aledo, Illinois. William and Vashti was organized in 1908. It has a student body of 250, a faculty of 14, and a library containing 3,000 volumes. The “Verdurette,” the student pub lication of the institution, has the following to say in part concerning the selection: “Ward Lowe Ray, who became af filiated with William and Vashti Col lege in 1911 and who during the past year has been acting President of this institution, was recently elected to the presidency of the college for a term of two years by the College Board of Trustees. Dr. Ray, who was a student of Berlin University, first came to the college as instructor in Chemistry and Science and during the school year 1913-1914 he was dean of the college. In all his work at the College, President Ray has shown such great competency and interest in the progress and welfare of the in • stitution that the faculty and student body are highly pleased to know that he will man the helm of affairs dur ing the two ensuing years. During the present school year he, together with the able assistance of the other men bers of the faculty, has raised the general school spirit and standard of intellectual life at William and Vash ti to a higher plane than has ever been the case in the past. As a col lege president Dr. Ray has success fully fulfilled his position, and with many broad and greater plans already laid, Vashti will continue to prosper and grow under his aggressive direc tion.” COMMENCEMENT “BIDS” CAN NOW BE ORDERED AT IOC PER The commencement invitations have been designed and will be ordered as soon as it is known how many will be needed. The style of the invitation will be “something new” this year, according to Clark Burgard, who is in charge of this end of the work. They are to be made from basket-weave linen, and printed in shaded block letters. Ten cents will be the cost of each invitation if 1,000 are ordered, and seven and one-half cents if 1,500 are ordered. Burgard requests that Sen. iors place their orders before next Wednesday at the latest, for the print ing is to be done at Cleveland, Ohio, and some time will be required for shipment. Orders may be placed with Mildred Riddle, Alpha Phi house, or with Tom Donaca, Phi Delt house. NOTHING LESS THAN 3-HOUR COURSES UNDER DR. BARNETT Because he believes that some of his subjects are not being given adequate treatment in their present two hours’ time, Dr. Barnett next year will change the following two-hour courses to three hours: Municipal Govern ment, Political Theory, Government of Oregon and Practical Legislation. Government of Oregon will be made a year course, but the others will be for one semester only. Although this i will make the work heavier, Dr. Bar- ] nett will have no assistant. I BENCH BUGS HAVE TO 60; STUDENT COUNCIL SAYS SO “Captain” Boylen Will Lead Froah Brigade in Charge on Senior ; Resting Place The bugs have to surrender posses sion of the Senior beach. So decided the Student Council last night, after considering a complaint that the crawling creatures were ren dering repose on the classic resting place impossible. Accordingly, Tom Boylen, President of the Council, with Frosh aid, will sally forth to do de struction to the pestiferous ones. Campus gun-shoers have been at tempting to figure out how the bugs have become domiciled on the bench. The moat plausible theory is that the 40-candJe Mazda which, illuminates the spot has so brought the Slab into disuse that the bugs have found time to intrench themselves. This is fur ther substantiated by the fact that, whereas several near-graduates have noticed, the present state of affairs, no complaints until last night, have been made. AUSTRIA MAY BE GOAT THINKS PROF. O’HMM GERMANY WILL DOUBLE-CROSS YOKE-MATE TO CONCILI ATE ITALY Russia Has Gained Her End and Is About Ready to Quit Arena By Grace Edgington. The apparent willingness of Ger mans and Hungarians to sacrifice Austrian territory to Italy in order to keep that country from joining the allies reminds John P. O’Hara, in structor in the History Department, of Artmus Ward’s one-time remark that “rather than see the South win the Civil War, he would sacrifice all his wife’s relations.” Austria, of course, is “his wife’s relations.” Italy, according to Mr. O’Hara, has now nearly a million men under arms, and stands a fair chance to get the desired Austrian provinces. If she secures a free hand in Albania, she will probably not join the allies. “Russia,” says Mr. O’Hara, “has gotten about all for which she went into war, viz., Galicia and Bukowina. So it is fair to suppose that unless the allies come through quickly with the Dardanelles, and give Constanti nople over to her, she may be dis posed to withdraw from the war. Probably the allies could not win without her. “Still, to predict when the war will end is impossible. One French mili tary authority estimates it as not less than five years off, if the Western de fense has to be broken down. Finan cially, all of the belligerents are io good condition. “It is true, however, that England is beginning to apologize for the loss of life on the western front. Eng lish public opinion will probably not stand for it long. The German fron tier is strengthened through Belgium by strategic railroads and fortifica tions in such a way that with a 50 yard firing line, the modern German machine guns there could destroy al most any number of men. “An American declares in the New York Sun that he is just leaving for England to continue with his part ner the work of building for the Brit ish government five dirigible Zeppelin destroyers. He says the English know the Germans can drop explo sives from air craft with absolute ac curacy, making searchlights and a.n gle-directed guns unavailable and even dangerous. The American ex pects a flight of German Zeppelins over England in ArpiL” i SPEAKER IS W Of AMERICAN fREEDQM • - - _21 • - » MARY ANTIN, BORN IN POVERTY AND DARKNESS, SAYS SHE HAS FOUND LIGHT STOUT OF UFE IS RONUNTIC ? r ' * r r '*• ? r> ;• » i. ■ Former Immigrant From Russia to Lecture Thursday for Benefit of Student Loan Fund By Clytie Hall. Mary Antin, the Jewess who came out of “the pale” of Russia 21 years ago to freedom and fame in Amer ica, wilj deliver a lecture in Villard Hall next Thursday night, on the sub ject of “America in the Light of the European War.” “The Promised Land,” by Mary Antin, which was published in 1912, is the memorable record of the first 20 years or so of the author’s own life. It is the story of the life of a young girl, born in the Jewish pale of Russia, and coming at the age of 12 to America. She knew no Eng lish, and had never before attended school, but in four years she was graduated from the grammar grades, and later passed with honor through high school and college. This eager-hearted, keen-brained girl, living in the so-called “slums” and handicapped by pinching pov erty, emerged from her study and thinking a woman of culture and pow er, a writer of distinction and in sight, and an ardent American citi zen. " Of her own book, Miss Antin says: “Born in a Jewish pale and in a mediaeval atmosphere of a dark cor ner of Russia, I early fled from the scourge of despotism and took shel ter under the American flag. I brought nothing with me but my memories of the old order of things and a great huftger for the bread of freedom. “How I was fed and taught and helped till the scars of my early mar tyrdom trere effaced, how the demo cratic institutions of America carried me in a decade through as many cen turies of progress—that is the story of my life. To love your country un derstandingly, you should know what I have been and what I have become. In the book of my life is written the measure of your country’s growth and an answer to your doubts.” In private life, Mary Antin is Mrs. Grabau; she was married to Prof. Amadeus W. Grabau, of Columbia University in 1901. Beside “The Promised Land,” Mary Antin is the author of a book called “From Polotzk’to Boston,” which was published in 1899. The lecture which she will deliver here next Thursday night is for the benefit of the Student Loan Fund of the Eugene branch of the Collegiate Alumnae. Tickets are 35 cents for students and public school pupils; general admission, 50 cents. SIXTEEN APPLY TO ACT AS ALTERNATES TO FAIR GUIDES The following men have applied to act as alternates to the guides chosen to serve in the Oregon Building at the exposition: Lawience Dinneen, J. A. Winship, R. W. Lar.gley, J. P. Norris, Wayne Stater, Howard T. McCulloch, Merlin Batley, Wilmot C. Foster, F. Leigh Swinson, Olin C. Hadley, James H. Sheehy, George N. Anderson, Milton A. Stoddard, Russell C. Ralston, Earl E. Fleischman and Paul Hendricks. A bill has been brought before the Ohio State Legislature which aims at the excessive cigarette smoking at the State University. It is proposed to deprive all cigarette smokers of a de gree. Professors must also swear off if the University is to receive any lore state funds. <j 1... ft “t? n/ h r <ih,, , rf TWO WEEKS REMAIN IN WHICH TO DEVELOP. MATERIAL FOR <•* ANNUAL TRIfST: a y i, ,ntic c t F8AIT JOIN PTmum J5PAD .?#f unrig* T wit V wgiB’Tflr “The White Hat Comes Out Soon,” Says BiU-^-rThat Meaps. Rigiui Training a la Hayward By Floyd Westerfield. With the Columbia meet only two weeks away, track training is begin ning to be a serious reality. Each af ternoon about forty men warm up in their own peculiar way and then work out under “Bill’s” own particular guid ance. “The white hat comes out pretty soon,” said Bill yesterday. The ad vent of the white hat is a sort of for mal announcement that work is to be gin in real Hayward style. A further indication of the strenuous days that are to come is the large amount of “goose grease” that is placed at the disposal of the*men. “I am going to take all the men to the Columbia meet whom I think can win points,” said Bill Hayward. There is no limit to the number of entries, as in many of the regular conference meets. Some of the new men are not showing up as well as was ex pected earlier in the season. “They looked good in their own style, but they have to overcome many faults and get new forms,” is the way Hay ward sized up the work of the ex preppers. “Moose” Muirhead is spending hours a day at the high jump and hurdles, and is gradually working into form. Fee will probably per form in the high obstacle stunt. Ham street and probably Goreozky will be working over the low hurdles in the near future. In the sprints aspirants are as nu merous as the members of the Great er Oregon Committee. Bayler, Loucks, Claridge, Peacock, Riggs, Wilson, Go. reczky, Clark and a host of other quarter-milers, half-milers and up, are also conspicuous by their num bers. Pole vaulters are truly con spicuous by their absence. Cook and Parsons continue to have their regu lar daily race “to the second hurdle.” Training will continue during the vacation week for all those who in tend to try for places on the team for the trip to California for May 7 and 8. HOLT URGES ELECTION OF OREGANA HEADS Proposes Early Choice So as to Ac quaint Editor and Manager With Their Jobs That the Sophomores immediately elect the manager and editor of the 1917 Oregana, so that they may work with those getting out this year’s book and thereby gain practical ex perience, is the plan suggested by William Holt, manager of the 19$6 Oregana. ° • « Until last year, the election of the Oregana-staff has not been held until the last thing before school was out. The class of 1916 broke away from this custom and held their election in March. The plan succeeded so well that Holt is urging the Sopho mores to do likewise. “It sounds good to me,” said Joe Sheahan, Sophomore President. “I haven’t thought much about it until now, but I think it is worth consider ing. As yet it has not been brought before the class.” LADY HIKERS VISIT CAMPUS EN ROUTE TO SUN FRANCISCO lo^msKJ!- i-(Mo J r»ODaa nO Fair Pilgrims Fall for College Life, but-Refuse to Believe McMur ray a Benedict The lady hikers from Portland ar rived in Eugene Thursday .afternoon, and have been shewn as much atten tion by the students as were Rattle snake Jim, Sophie Tucker, and the other celebrities who have visited the campus this year The “hikers’* are Miss Kittie Be bertz, Miss June Shea and Miss Fay Shea. Their purpqse is to “hoof it’’ from Portland to San Francisco, where they will visit the exposition, and later embark on a vaudeville venture. Thursday evening the trio took din ner at the Kappa Sigma house, and Friday evening they were guests of the Sigma Chi boys, being duly chap eroned on both occasions.. They were delighted with their entertainment. “The University bunch is all right,” declared Miss June Shea enthusias tically. “They showed us a fine time, i We didn’t meet with any such treat ment here as at 0. A. C. Over there we were invited to attend a college dance, but the Dean of Women in formed us that our presence was not desired. Think of that! After we had just been entertained at Governor Withycombe’s home the day before.” “Yes, the, boys here are good sports,” assented Fay. “But I can’t believe one thijng they told us over at the Kappa Sigma house. They said that Blob McMurray is married. It sounds fishy. He doesn’t look it.” CAMPUS ARCHITECTS IN NATIONAL HONOAS SEVEN “MENTIONS” IN BEAUX ARTS CONTEST AWARDED TO LAWRENCE’S PUPILS Drawings of McGuire, Tominaga, Heckart and Collins Are Recognized Seven “mentions” out of 19 drawings submitted is the achievement so far of the University of Oregon School of Architecture in the competitions of the Beaux Arts Society that are in progress throughout the United States. “Mentions” are the only awards made, and the new School of Architecture, of which Ellis F. Law-, rence, of Portland, is director, holds to date the highest percentage of “mentions” of any town or institution west of the Rockies. The Beaux Arst Society is com posed of architects who have studied in L’Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. It has headquarters in New York and a branch in San Francisco. It con ducts national competitions, into which architectural draftsmen or students may enter. To the competitors a given architectural problem is sub mitted. The first problem -in the present competition was “An Orangery”; the second was “An Entrance to a Monu mental City House”; the third, “Foun tain in a City Park.” There are to be two more, the first of which is to go out April 12, “The Portal of ja For tress,” and the second by May 24. The 19 “mentions” awarded on the first three problems were distribut ed as follows: University of Oregon, 7 out of 19 drawings; Los Angeles, eight out of 23 drawings; Portland, two out of seven drawings; Seattle, twc out of 12 drawings.* Oregon’s six “mentions” have gone to the following students: J. E. Mc Guire, of Eugene, a Sophomore, three; Jo Tominaga, a third year Japanese architectural student, two; E. W. Heckart, Junior, of Eugene, one; Rus sel Collins, one. LOCALS FINISH HIYU SKOOKUM ,QNt LONG END OF 1£.,, j J $cqrp v hi > <. I f»T< “Skeet” Bigbee Wields War Club Well, but Chief Tiffany Counts Fev Pieces of Wampum » * TF nr; rr By Harry Kuck. Yesterday^ game ^ith Chemawa, although a 15 to 3 victory, was re plete with errors and served to shloiw that Oregon has lots of room for im provement before the standards 1 of last year’s championship machine are attained. Fielding throughout was ragged. Oregon made six errors and the Braves eight. The features of the game were the batting of “Skeet" Big bee, who garnered a home run, tri ple, double and single in four times up, and scored four runs, and a beau tiful running batch of a fly in short right off Buck Bigbee’s bat by Sup pah. Johnny Welch did not extend him self in the box, being content to keep the leather on the inside and letting the Indians hit the pill with the small end of the bat. At that, he was nicked for only a sou pie of hits. Chemawa scored her first run in the fourth inning without the aid of a single hit. Captain- Adams reached first on “Skeet” Bigbee’s error, stole second, and rambled all, the way home when the Oregon infield tried to s$e how many of them could throw the ball away in as short a time as pos sible. • 4 he Braves concluded their scoring with a duet of runs in the seventy. One hit, a couple of errors and a sac rifice tell the tale. Coach Bezdek is far from pleased with the showing of his team. If* says, “The boys fielded poorly and didn’t hit like they ought—12 hits wasn’t enough for yesterday’s game.” The locals started the game with a bang. Cornell waited for four bad ones, Grebe popped up to the pitcher in attempting to sacrifice, and then “Skeeter” opened what promises to be a big year with the willow for him by clouting the first ball pitched far over the right fielder’s head for ,a home run. Nelson struck out; Lyle Bigbee got a base on balls, stole sec ond, and scored the third run of the inning on a wild thro v by Hauser, the Indians’ coach and catcher, Sheehy ended the fireworks by taking three healthy swings. The home team scored almost at will all through the game, being es pecially prolific in the third canto. Cornell started things off by getting life on a muff by the Aborigines’ first baseman; Grebe beat out a bunt, ad vancing Anse to second; “Skeet” scored both “rabbits” with a triple, Nelson duplicating the feat, and “Skeet” registered. Lyle flew out to Becond base; Sheehy singled between third and short, scoring ^Nelson; “Buck” Bigbee grounded out to sec ond base, advancing Sheehy, who scored on Lieuellen’s single to center. Welch ended the inning by forcing his battery mate at second. Grebe and Sheehy got away well in their first game. Both got a bingle, and Grebe got three assists and five putouts with but one skip. The out fielders were about as busy as bees in winter time. Sheehy accepted the only chance in the second inning. The Indians have a practically new team, and are not very polished ex ponents of the national game. They surprised themselves and the fans in the eighth inning by getting the only double play of the afternoon. “Bill’ Tnerck oor Johnny Beckett will start the second game. “Shy” (Continued on pag« 8.) ~