OREGON
NO. 6
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EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1915.
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PW9KE DINNER
IS LEAGUE’S PLAN
10 GET UK Ml
Idea Is Outgrowth of Sugges
tion By Mrs. Irene
Gerlinger.
THERE WILL BE TWO CIRCUITS
Sororities and Men’s Dormitory
Will ti}ye Dp livening Meals
For “Cause.”
Committees have been appointed
And practically all arrangements
iaade for a “progressive” dinner, to
4e held one week from tomorrow,
October 8, tor the benefit of a fund
fnr ereotine' n hnililiur to servo as
headquarters of the Women's league.
The plan is an outgrowth of a»
Suggestion made by Mrs. Gerlinger,
University regent, in her talk in the
assembly of September 22, that
^lans should be made to provide
something for this general women’s
Organization.
According to the announcements,
all the sororities and the men’s dor
mitory will take part in serving,
while all the fraternities are intend
ing to give up their meals on that
date to patronize the “cause.”
There will be two drchits. Cir
cuit one will consist of, first, Chi
Omega; second, Kappa Alpha Theth;
third, Mary Spiller; fourth, Belta
Gamma; fifth, Delta Delta Delta.
Circuit two -Will comprise the fol
lowing: first, Alpha Phi; second,
Pi Phi; third, Men’s Dormitory;
fourth, Gamma Phi; fifth, Kappa
Kappa Gamma.
All the men are expected to buy
tickets from a committee in Charge
of Frank Scaiele. The following are
supposed to patronize circuit one:
Dormitory, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma
Chi, Iota Chi, and Beta Theta Pi.
Circuit two tickets will be for: Delta
' Tau Delta, Kappa Sigma, Phi Gamma
Delta, Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Nu,
and the outside.
Sorority number one in each group
will serve a first course. Sorority
number two will serve a second,
etc. It wiil be noticed that in each
grotip the meat course befalls Mary
SpHler halt, and the rn^n’s dormi
tory, respectively, thus casting the.
major expense upon the University
itself. Meal tickets will sell For 50
cents. A “dining car conductor”
will be on hand in each house to
punch the tickets as they are pre
sented.
According to those in charge, tne
idea is meeting with a great deal of
favor. Patronage is expected not
only from the college folk, but from
town people, also. Advertising is
being done through the churches, and
the high school and various clubs.
The big feature or the evening
itself will be the serpentines, led
by Jack Dolph and Merlin Batley.
The fraternities have been divided in
•half so as to facilitiate the working
out of the serpentines.
“The idea of this serpentine is to
gather up the fellows from every fra
ternity and bring them to the din
ner,” said Mr. Tooze. “Each serpen
tine will have a band.”
Lamar Tooze plans to have a mov
ing picture machine down from Port
land for that night to take pictures o
the festivities, to be circulated all
over he state.
"We want to make this as big a
success as possible, said Mr. Tooze.
“The woman’s building is a big thing
and deserves every student’s support.
Come out and swell the number of
the participants to 1000 strong.”
Matroh Praises
Football Men
Mrs. Presoott Siyft Boy* Are
Well Mannered ana
Gentlemanly.
“I’m pround of the boys. They
•go out there bn the field in every
kind of weather, slave and fight for
their school, and receive practically
nothing for their work. They are
nicely mannered and gentlemen in
every sense of the word.” That is
What Mrs. E. M. Prtscott, matron of
the men’s dormitory, thinks of the
football men who eat at the training
table.
The men are now receiving only
lone iheil a day at the table, but Bill
Hayward and Mrs. Prescott hope
that they will soon be able to take
at least one nrore there each day, for
according to the matron, the effect
iveness of such an arrangement
would exceed the present one.
Each night the men eat steaks—
good ones—plenty of potatoes, a
salad and some sort of custard.
Each man is supposed to eat one
pound of meat at a meal, but Mrs.
Prescott says they always exceed
this. “The boys do not, however,
eat as much as I should expect them
to,” she said.
lire macron Keeps an almost ma
ternal watch over the fellows, knows
who comes and who goes, his general
position and status on the team, as
well as his troubles and hurts.
NEW MUSICIAN WILL
DIRECT UNIVERSITY BAND
Albert Perfect, a clarinet graduate
of the Royal Conservatory of Music
at Stockholm, Sweden, and a student
in hand arrangement of the famous
German hand leader, Freiburg, has
been engaged by the University to
teach wind instruments in the con
servatory and direct the band. Mr.
Perfect has lately been connected
With the State Normal of North Da
kota.
Oswald Day of Portland and Clay
ton Sharp of Seattle were recent vis
itors at the Phi Delta Theta house.
6RtEK MED 10 H
STATE PAN HELLENIC
“Prep” School Fraternities and
Internal Problems Will
Receive Attention.
A new movement for a men’s
state wide Pan-Hellenic association
is now being started with Bothwell
Avison at the head.
The chief object of the association,
if founded, according to Avison, will
be to draw the Greek letter men of
the state closer together and to
handle systematically any interfra
ternity problems that may arise. The
matter of high school fraternities
will be thoroughly investigated and
sociological work done.
Th headquarters of the organisa
tion will be at Salem or some central
point, from which all work may ra
diate.
In order for an organization of
this sort to be formed, it is necessary
for all of the fraternity men of the
; University to take an active part in
the matter, said Avison. The Uni
versity of Oregon is the center of all
fraternal activities in the state, and
consequently the point from which
all work of this sort must begin.
W. P. Allen, Grand Consul for the
Sigma Chi, who visited the frater
nities of the University last week,
heartily favored the plan as pre
sented to him.
president curai
opposed to mm
Cites Local and Outside Cases
Where Results Have
Been Fatal.
“MIX” IS X 600D SUBSTITUTE
‘‘Moral Suasion Is More Valua
ble in Training Freshmen,”
Says Executive.
“Men and women old to the Uni
versity should show hospitality to
the newcomer,” says President P. L.
Campbell. “Hazing is more or less
a relic of barbarism. Intellectual and
moral means of control are supersed
ing force. The 'Students as a whole
support this sane view.”
"Hazing came about good-natur
edly. It was a part of tradition that
the new man should be tried; in
itiated, as it were. But in a mob,
the most reckless take the lead.
Hazing, once begun, spreads like a
spark of fire in dry grass. In a com
paratively unorganized body, like a
school, the crowd goes beyond what
is originally intended. Results are
absolutely disastrous. Lives began
to be endangered, and when several
were lost, serious thought was given
the matter.
“Here at Oregon a man was mill
raeed,” he continued'. “He had been
threatened with tuberculosis. His
family could never be convinced that
his rapid decline and finally his
death was not due to hazing.
“Only six or eight years ago a
man was bath-tubbed in a rather
violent manner. He lost his mind
and had to be sent to the asylum,
newspapers all over the United States
commented on the occurrence. Car
toons came out picturing graphically
upperclassmen plunging a freshman
in icy water and holding him there
until he was crazed. ,
“In the neighboring University
not so very long ago a man was
tied to a tree over night. The hazers
did not know that their victim had
but recently recovered from typhoid.
The outcome was that he took a re
lapse and died.”
“One o fthe saddest cases I ever
heard of,” President Campbell went
on to say, “happened in an eastern
state. A boy was tied across a rail
road track merely to frighten him.
The students knew the train sched
ule and so they left him. But while
they were gone, a special came.
“So in this country universities
are all against the practice of haz
ing. The press and public are bit
terly opposed. The government en
forces rigid laws against it at West
Point and Annapolis.
“Here the class mix provides a
good substitute. Competing teams
and athletes provide occasion for a
clash, a coming together of classes.
It has proved a safe outlet for class
spirit.
“Let me say,” he added, “that
moral suasion and a good example
are more valuable in training a
freshman than is brute force. The
latter means is a confession of the
lack of greater strength. By the
right kind of courtesy people are
more easily handled, reformed, if
you like, than by physical control.
The system in houses of assigning
each freshman to an upperclassman
is immensely valuable.”
Rules against #hazing were made
early in the history of the institu
tion, but there has been no need to
resort to them for three of four
years.
The Y. W. has an interesting ex
hibit at the Salem State Fair, con
sisting chiefly of posters and pic
tures showing work done on the
campus.
8EZ0EKS COHORTS
READY FOR FRAY
Pacific U. Team Will Line Upl
Against Oregon Saturday.
Dope Is Absent.
TDERQK IS SHOWING METTLE
Movements of Forest Grove
Contingency Is as Still as the
Night Air Says Critic.
The shrill whistle Is to sound at
3 o’clock Saturday and all ardent
supporters of the Varsity will have a
chance to watch Paclf'c University
and the Oregon team "battle” for
the “championshipp.” The game may
not be much of a “battle” in re
spect to field maneuvering and mili
tary strategy, but it should resemble
it as far as advancing and retreating
are concerned. And it may not be
much of a “championship.” It will
afford an opportunity for the rooters
to clear out their throats at least, and
this counts as much as anything.
The movements of the other camp
tuu uriug ncjn ourui auu uni n. no
the winds that whisper in the Stygian
cave, or films that fail to pass the
N. B. C. So we know little concern
ing the team which is scheduled to
appear here, but we are lead to be
lieve, a prior anno, that the game
will Improve the wind and endurance
of the boys. ^
The axe of chance fell With a sick
ening thud, yesterday. Johnny Par
sons, who was to appear again In the
role of a backfleld hero, when the
curtain was to be dragged up for that
tense dramatic struggle entitled
“Who’s the Northwest Champion?”
left oh the train for Portland, and i
announced that he would not enter
college. No one knows his Inten
tions exactly but a chance remark of
one of the Multnomah men leads to
the belief that Johnny has designs
on one of the backfleld positions of
the club.
The coach announced that he was
going to use only the first string In
the coming game but he will no
doubt have a chance to change his
mind when the men come off the
field at the end of the first half with
their tongues hanging out. In this i
event several men who have receiv
ed little mention before will in all
probability be given the chance to
get in the game.
Calllson will require watching. At
present he is playing tackle on the
second team, and flghtin with a spirit
hard to equal. There are rumors
afloat that he may be moved to cen
ter, as he displays possibilities for
this position, even at his present
anchorage.
Tureck, a recent addition to the
squad, has been traveling at scrub
halfback like a middlewestern cy
clone, and the way he leaves the men
stacked up around the field re
minds one of the same thing. Some
one may be surprised soon, when
Bill gets more in trim, and slips into
his coveted position.
Teggert and Mitchell have their
eyes fastened on the line extremi
ties, and are showing the necessary
fight. They excel In the certainty
with they pull the forward passes
out of the atmosphere, a department
of the game which Just at present
needs strengthening.
And if Be*, does as he probably
will, all the rest of the men who are
turning out would have to be
named and eulogized. But we shall
be able to tell more about this as
the game proceeds.
Let it suffice to know that the
Oregon team will play a game , so
everyone should attend and mingle
Ms voice with those of the other
rooters. You are soon going to have
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Trickling Rain is
Not For Seniors
“Sombrero Is Umbrella” Plead
ed and Is Again Adopted
Official Ornament.
"The sombrero. In addition to the
dignified qualities it possesses, is
also serviceable. The headgear pre
vents the rain from trickling down
in your shivering back during the
rainy season.” (Applause.)
Thus spOke Prentiss Brown at the
senior class meeting held Wednes
day afternoon in Dcady hall, in
pleading for the adoption of the hat
as the official ornament covering the
senior’s pate.
Brown won his appeal. The seniors
will, in the next few days, purchase
the mark of distinction.
The lottery dance, initiated by
the 1914 class, received considerable
attention, but inasmuch as this class
is not exempt from the unidance reg
ulation, the matter was deferred un
til the next meeting.
The class finances were reported
to be in good condition by Bothwell
Avlson, chief executive of last year’s
junior week-end festivities.
JOURNALISM TEACHERS
WILL MEET IN OCTOBER
The first annual meeting of the
Northwestern Association of Teachers
of Journalism, which was to have
been held last May. will meet here
in October. The speakers will be
Professors Prank G. Kane, Lee A.
White, Fred W. Kefaft«dy, dtod Hugh
A. Agnew of the University of Wash
ington, Department of Journalism;
Professors Eric W. Allen, Colvin V.
Dyment, W. F. G. Thacher, E. W.
Hope, Edmund S. Conklin, Don C.
Sowers, and Mrs. M. K. Parsons of
the University of Oregon; Mr. Mer
rill A. Reed of the Reed Advertising
Comapny may be here, and Professors
A. L. Stone, and Carl Getz of the
School of Journalism of the Univer
sity of Montana.
The Drama Guild is staging a play
on the 22nd of October, called "Wtiat
the People Want,” by Arnold Ben
,nett, which will furnish entertain
ment for the convention.
'HO MtDW
FOfl OHEGOli"-BkTLEY
I
Student Rally Bristles With
“Pep” Made By Yell Leader,
Bezdek and Hayward.
“Shall the able-bodied men of
Oregon give up bootball and play
ping-pong and tiddle-de-winks?”
queried Yell leader Merlin Batley,
before the 700 lung-power student
rally at Villard hall yesterday morn
ing. And a roaring "osky-wow-wow”
gave the negative reply.
Oregon songs rendered by the
joint glee clubs accelerated the
“pep” and toned the audience up
to hear the speakers.
President Campubell suggests
competition among the houses and
different organization for special hon
ors. 'Make Oregon noted for her
scholarship,” he Bald.
Pick a flaw, find something wrong
with something, write your griev
ances to the Emerald, said Max Som
mer in his plea for enlivening the
University 'paper.
Coach Bezdek wanted more root
ers out on the field during football
practice and even asked that Profes
sor Lyman inaugurate college
songfests, to lie held on the field once
a week. Bezdek thinks the girls are
a great inspiration on the- football
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PRINTING OF OREGANA
MAY RE TAKEN OVER
BY STUDENT BODY
Present Editor and Manager
Likely to Get Out the
Book This Year.
TO REWRITE CONSTITUTION
Faculty Ruling Excludes Stu
dent Body From Giving
. Dances.
A junior annual amendment was
read and approved by the student
council at a meeting last night, and
will be submitted with 12 other
amendments to the student body Oo*
tober 13.
The amendment provides that the
Oregana be made entirety a student
body publication, under the same
regulations as the Emerald; that
the editor and business manager shall
be elected from the student body at
the same time that other student
body officers are elected; that the
manager sball be under the super
vision of the graduate manager of
student affairs and the executive
committee.
It 1b the intention of the framers
of the amendment that a precedent
be established of electing the editor
and manager from the junior class.
It was expected by the council that
Milton Stoddard, editor, and Brne^
Watkins, business manager, who were
elected last year, would be retained
in office.
The amendment was prepared by
a committee from the student coun
cil, consisting of BothWell Avlson,
chairman, Max Sommer, Marie
Churchill, Louise Bailey and Fred
Kiddle, acting with a junior commit
tee, on which were Emmett Rath
bun, Howard Hall, Frank Scalefe,
and Ernest Watkins.
The other amendments to be sub
mitted are the twelve drawn up by
the drafting committee and given a
length In Tuesday’s Issue.
Another matter which came up be
fore the student council was the
question of authorizing the president
of the student body to appoint a
committee "to rearrange the con
stitution In logical order, ma>«
necessary corrections In wording,
but In no case abridge the meaning
of the constitution.”
"The reason for this action,” Bald
Lamar Tooze, president of the student
body, "Is the Illogical arrangement of
the constitution. It Is advisable to
attend to these matters now and get
them out of the way, once and for
all. This question will be submitted
to the student body. If It is agreed
on, the revised constitution will be
voted on by the student body.
The student council went on
record as "protesting against the
action of the faculty committee on
social affairs who left the student
body out of its regulation against
dancing. “The student council Is
not protesting the general action of
the committee,” said Tooze, "but the
discrimination against the student
body. According to the ruling, the
student body gets no dances at all.”
Max Sommer, chairman of the
home-coming committee, made a re
port, and announced a meeting of
the committee on Tuesday evening,
to arrange plans for entertaining the
guests on home-coming day, Novem
ber 20, and for publicity.
A committee to Investigate co-op
erative stores was appointed. On
this committee are, Chester Miller,
Fred Kiddle and Louise Bailey. A
report will be given at the next
student council meeting on the “co
op.” store at the Universities of Cal
ifornia and Washington.
(Continued on Page Four.)