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GOME OUT TO ROUSING RALLY, VILLARD HALL, 10 A. M. WEDNESDAY OREGON EMERALD VOL. 44. EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1915. No. 5 AFTERMATH OF 6JUWE IS SEnUNG Dili TO HARD PRACTICE Drubbing From Multnomah Shows Strength and Weak nesses of Oregon Squad. CLUB MAKES YARDAGE ONCE Inexperience and Ignorance of Rules and Principles Proves the Undoing of Team. (By Chester Fee) The Multnomah game has come and gone, leaving in its wake a few bruises and plenty of "the stuff dope is made of.” Oregon support ers are lying awake nights putting pyroglyphics upon paper, trying to figure where we will get off in the conference race whicn will soon oc cupy the arena of attention. But no one seems able to come to any definite conclusions, other than that the Oregon team is so inexperienced that the horues at the Agricultural Conege are apt to get them. When a bunch of college football players let a ball touch them and then forget to fail on it until an op ponent has it salely snuggled under his arm, and when they absolutely disregard instructions and are de ceived by a play they were cautioned against, something is wrong some where, and it lies in the power of the fellows alone to make good, and fol low the orders of the coach. Bez was reticent as usual, when interviewed in regard to the game, and the chances for some sort of a team, but he finally said, “The ma terial is decidely green and the only way we can get anywhere is by hard work. You noticed that the fellows came in later tonight than usual. We lost last Thursday, and in any system of coaching, especially mine, one lost day retards as much as a whole week of solid work advances. Saturday’s game shows what we have, and the men are going to work from now on.” Captain Cornell followed the same line in his remarks, stating "Hard work is the thing from now on. The game with Wv. S. C. in October is going to be one of the hardest games of the season. We have some good prospects, but it is necessary for them to work, and fight from now on.” The Oregonian of yesterday car ried a statement, in which the men of the Club mixed up in the fray, stated they thought Bartlett was Huntington, and they jumped upon him to pay him back for some rough stuff last year. No wonder Bartlett got sore when three men deliberately threw, held and wallow ed him, especially when he knew,°of nothing.hediad done to SieServe such ? .8 • • , * ° ° treatment. • In ^Saturday's game the team was supposed to have one very weak point, and that was guard and tackle upon the right side of the line, but Cawley and Endsley responded to the call and both played games that would do credit to much older heads, despite the fact that it was their first attempt at a Varsity game. Perhaps their work shows that no matter what people say, when an Oergon man realizes it is up to him, he pulls through with every ounce of brain and brawn he possesses. Judging from their showing in prac tice, no one expected either to ac complish much, but their playing brought to light several things here tofore concealed, and their appear ance lifts a big load from the ahoul Sophomores Elect Sheehy President Portland Athlete Wins in Presi dential Race Over A. B. Peacock by 16 Votes. James Sheehy of Portland', with 78 votes, was victorious over A. B. Peacock, with 62, in the election for president of the Sophomore class. The remainder of the results were as follows: For vice president, Ir ma Kiethly 70, Elizabeth Carson 22, Sara aBrker 48; for secretary, Juan Hazel Wymore 29; and for treasur Hazel Wymore 29; and for Treasur er, Don Belding; Editor, DeWitt Gilbert, and sergeant, Marshall Woodworth. Turner Neil, Clark Thompson, Ray Couch, Sam Bullock, Joe Hedges and Jack Dolph acting as judges of the contest, held official sway between the hours of 2 and 6 Monday over a table in the lower hall of the new Administration Building, collecting taxes from delinquent class mem bers and -counting ballots. SOPH-FROSH MIX OCT. 2 Annual Contest Will Be Full of Thrills According to Junior Committee. A big inter-class contest between the Freshman and Sophomore classes will be featured as a prelim inary to the Oregon and Pacific Uni versity football game at Kincaid Field on October 2nd. The contest will consist of a big push-ball game, grandstand decorating contest, yells and stunts of all kinds. The affair is the official annual scrap between the freshmen and Sophomore classes for the champion ship of the day, and from the ex isting rivalry between the two classes it promises to be an exciting event, with lots of fight and good-natured antagonism. The class winning each event will be awarded 10 points and at the close of the contest the class having the greatest number will be declared victor. The affair is under the auspices of a committee appointed by the Junior class. The judges are Lamar Tooze, Eva Brock and Merlin Bat ley. The contest will be policed by members of the Senior class, under the leadership of Bothwell Avison. The executive committee, appointed by Frank Scaiefe, President of the Junior class, are Robert McMurjay, Roland Geary, Alex Bowen, Emit Rathburn and Robert Langley. A great deal of care has been, given, to the preparation for the event. The push-ball consists of two. parts, the leather cover, which „ ^as n obtained from the University of California, and th«» rubber bladder, which was gotten- from® °the ° Portland Hunt , * ° o'* * • * 0 Rex Putnam, ’15, is teaching at Springfield. Gwin Watson, a former student, visited with his mother, Mrs. M. E. Watson of Eugene, in June. Watson made a seventeen day trip through the Panama Canal, en route from New York to San Francisco. Announcement Faculty meeting will be held at 4 p. m., Wednesday, in the architec tural building. 44444444444444444 4 * 4 Senior Class Meeting .4 4 Four o’clock, Wednesday af 4 4 ternoon, Room 24, Deady Hall. 4 4 Important—Everybody Out. 4 4 fc ***************** WOMEN ARE ELIGIBLE FOR DEBATING TEAM First Tryout Is Dated For Octo ber 16 and Aiready Feminine Ciceros Have Applied. COMPULSORY DRILL IS TOPIC Triangular League—0. A. C., Reed and Oregon—Will Re cognize Co-ed Debaters. Women are eligible to appear, this year, in debate tryout, for places on a university team. The first tryout will be held Saturday, October 16, on the question, • Resolved, That United States snould adopt some form of compulsory military training.” Ac cording to poster and to Robert W. Prescott, assistant professor of pub lic speaking, both men and women may appear. ‘ The women of the University,” says Professor Prescott, “have com plained that they are not informed when debate tryouts are to be held. So we want all women who care for a chance to make a Varsity team to know about the try out two weeks from Saturday. “Three years ago we had a dual contract for women’s debating with Washington. But the contract ran out, and interest died down so that we couldnt ven get the girls out for 1 the team, although we broke even with Washington. Last year a class hour was arranged for co-ed debat ing. But one girl signed up. This year, however, there is more inter est shown. Amy Carson, ’18, and Mrs. E. S. Bates, entering from the University of Arizona, are expected to try out for Varsity team. There probably are others who have not mentioned the matter to me.” A triangular state league, includ ing Oregon, O. A. C. and Reed, will admit women this year. This league is an expansion of a former dual league with O. A. C. At the first tryout, contestant may speak for ten minutes on either side of the question. About 16 freshmen have spoken to Professor Prescott about trying out. Of last year’s men who made the Varsity team, only two are back, Nicholas Jaureguy and Cloyd Daw son. Other men who expect to go in for forensics are Walter Myers, Les lie and Lamar Tooze, and Prentiss Brown. 0 "We wilj try to work in anybody “Who comes,” said Professor Prescott. “I am feady to talk at any hour about debate. The most retiring freshman0needn’t be afraid to come around.” Besides the triangular debate with O. A. C. and Rooed, Oregon has a dual with Montana, and a triangular coast league contract with Sanford and Washington. Practically all of these debates will be held in March and April. While no new courses have been added to the public speaking depart ment this year, the course in extem poraneous speaking has been- broad ened from a two into a three hour course. This course is intended es pecially as a thorough training in oral English, to prepare students for coaching high school debating, and to lay a foundation for effective ex temporaneous speaking in public Forensics need not be infulenced by the intercollegiate athletic situa tion, Professor Prescott thinks. “We train all who come,” he says, “de bating does not injure scholastic standing, and expenses are low, since the teams are small and the coach stays at home.” Announcement The student afafirs committee will meet Friday at 4 p. m. in President STUDENTS WILL RW TOMORROW IN VILURD General Topics Will Be Present ed On Matters of Univers ity Significance. "FROSH” EXPECTED EN MASSE President Campbell Will Talk on Scholarship, Bezdek Foot ball, Hayward Track. The first Student Body get-to gether of the year will take place i'n Vlllard Hall tomorrow morning at the 10 o’clock assembly hour. Student speakers will use most of the hour in presenting student topics, “Bill” Hayward will talk on “Track,” Coach Bezdek, “Football,” and President Campbell on “Scholar sh.ip.” The band will make its first appearance, and the men’s and women’s glee clubs, combined, will sing several songs. And for the benefit of those who may not use their voices in song, Merlin Batley will be on hand to lead in Oregon yells. A short talk on the merits and needs of the "Emerald” will be given. The complete plans and data for the Underclass Mix, to be staged Sat urday, will be given out, discussed, and interpreted by Frank Scaiefe, president of the junior class, Cloyd Dawson will present the Y. M. C. A. and debating. Along with the Y. M. C. A., the subject of the Women’s League will be spoken of by Louise Bailey, President of that organiza tion. Much interest has been expressed in wihat Coach Bezdek will have to say on his first appearance after the first game of the year. That something important in the way of “dope” will slip out is the opinion of many followers. The band held its first meeting yesterday afternoon, when Maurice Hyde, director, met some 20 experi enced embryonic musicians in Vil lard Hall. With more than half of the old men back and so many Fresh men appearing with Instruments, Hyde says that the outlook is prom ising for a really good1 band. Much dissatisfied with the qual ity of the “yelling,” Merlin Bailey will take the opportunity of working in a few practices, at the same time pepping up the Wednesday meeting. A large crowd, especially of Fresh men, is expected. MINES ARE SURVEYED J. G. Mitchell From U. of 0. and G M. Butler, 0. A. G. Make Curry County Trip. B. G. Mitchell, instructor of Geo logy in the University of Oregon, and G. M. Butler, former head of the same department at O. A. C. left Marsh field on June 13 for the purpose of making a mineral and: general geolog ical survey of Curry county. Curry county, with a population of but about 2,000, 1b one of the remote districts of Oregon and little is known as to its mineral resources. Of the trip Mr. Mitchejl says: “In the Rogue River Valley we found but little placer mining, while in the Bonanza basin the placer miners had made a tyig strike. One nugget worth $95, had been mined. In the Mule j Mountain region we examined the quartz and placer work and found small quantities of iron and magnet ite on the Wake Up Riley Ridge and prospects of copper in the Collier ft########!#*#**### * « # Friars elect— 41 # Cloyd O. Dawson, £ # Chester A. Fee, # # Fred B. Dunbar. # # * JUST III EVEN DOZED AMENDMENTS DRAFTED Oommittee Draws Up Proposed Changes For the Student Body Constitution. Twelve amendments to the consti tution of the Associated Student Body have been drawn up by the drafting committee, consisting of Oloyd Dawson, chairman, Ausou Cor nell, Eva Brock, Louise Bailey, Both well Avisou and Max Sommer. The proposed changes will be submitted to the Executive Committee before they are voted on by the student body. First Amendment: Repealing the amendment passed last year provid ing that each class should retain same Faculty advisor for entire four years of college. A resolution providing that the Freshman Faculty advisor remain as at present and at end of Freshman year that class elect a Faculty ad visor to serve them for remainder of college course. Second Amendment: The vice president of the student body shall be a member of the Student Council. Third Amendment: To provide an oath of office for officers of the As sociated Students. Fourth Amendment: To strike out that clause in the section regarding the Athletic Council which gives the President of the University an ab solute veto over all acts of the Council; to make the President of the Associated Students a member of the Athletic Council. Fifth Amendment:To provide five regular meetings of the Associated Students instead of three. Sigth Amendment: Clarification of the clause demanding that the Graduate Manager sign all contracts on behalf of the Student Body. Seventh Amendment: Stipulating a time for regular meetings of the Executive Council. Eighth Amendment: To provide means for amending the by-laws of the Associated Students. Ninth Amendment: To set a defi nite time for Student Body officers on the first Wednesday in June, rather than on the second Monday in June. Tenth Amendment: Providing for election of Graduate Treasurer at a joint meeting of the outgoing and incoming executive committees on the first Wednesday in June. Eleventh Amendment: Stipulat ing that the nominations of officers of the Associated Students shall take place at the regular meeting of the Associated Students on the first Wednesday in May; rephrasing that section of the constitution providing that the Australian ballot shall be used in the Student Body elections. Tweflth Amendment: To recon struct the section of the Constitution with regard to filling vacancies; to make it conform with recent amend ments. Proposed Thirteenth Amendment: To reorganize the Oregana as an of ficial student body publication, and that the editor-in-chief and the man ager be elected by the student body from the junior class; the manager to be under the supervision of the graduate manager. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stevenson, September 15, at Kelso, Wash. Mr. Stevenson graduated in ’08, Mrs. Stevenson FACULTY MEMBERS EXPRESS VIEWS ON BANNING ATHLETICS Of 7 Questioned, 4 Oppose, 2 Favor Modifying, and 1 Pro poses “Honest Trial.” H. C. HOWt IS NOT WORRIED 1911 Statistics Are Unearthed Showing That Athletes Are Well Up in Scholarship. (liy Mary linker) lnteroouegiaU.* athletics will be proed and couued tomorrow at facili ty meeting. A few of the faculty who have made up their minds say: “For three years 1 was head of the athletic department in another insti tution. There we tried abolishing in tercollegiate athletics, but in four years we went back to them,” said Morton, of the school of commerce. "So 1 can apeak from experience rather than experiment.” “Under the department and class system of athletics five times as many men go out as were ever train ed when teams for intercollegiate games were made up,” he continued, “but they lacked whoieheurtedness, enthusiasm; the spirit of the group. “Athletics ought to be entered in to by more people. .Departmental ac tivities are all right, class games are a good thing, but they are harder to regulate, aud it is more difficult to keep scraps and hard feeling from creeping in. Besides, they lack the esprit do corps.' Bay for me that it is a mistake to abolish intercollegiate athletics from a university.” Miss Harriet Thompson was asked how the physical culture department stood on the question. “1 cun’t speak for the whole de partment,” she replied, “but this particular individual is decidedly not in favor of abolishing intercollegiate activities.’ "1 feel about this matter as 1 do about the high cost of living,” said Professor W. P. Boynton. “It needs some modification. 1 am not actively opposed to athletics if the students really enjoy them. The present sys tem is far too expensive, it seems to me that the enthusiasm is rather forced, us shown by the repeated calls for rooters. However, I do not think Intercollegiate athletics will be done away with now.” “Hightly handled,” declared Percy Adams, of the school of architecture, “intercollegiate activities are good for a college. The time is not yet ripe to revise the present rules in a drastic way.” “i don’t know the ins and outs of athletics, but of one thing i am con vinced,” affirmed Miss Burgess, “and that is that freshmen should be kept out of the intercollegiate sports, because they begin their career in intercollegiate athletics be fore they begin their collegiate scholastic career. Here we give the best to freshmen. We ought to give them something to look forward to in their sophomore year.” “I have seriously considered this subject,” said Mrs. Pennell, “and 1 believe that under present conditions this experiment would be worth while; that is, if it were given an honest trial, which, you understand, would take several years, it is my honest opinion that it might be a good thing to do without games be tween colleges. There is plenty of spirit now, but the question is, is it the right kind of spirit to bring out the best in our boys and girls.” Professor H. C. Howe said he was not worried about the outcome; that the question had .come up several