OREGON NO. 6 *.m*a* EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1915. I II ■ .1 I I ... — -III I I III . I.. 1 . 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 (Continued on Page Four.) 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 (Continued on Page Four.) 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.)