EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1915.
VOL. 17.
NO. 11.
ARC LIGHTS 10 SHINE
IN PRISTINE C10RI
AS GHOST BULL TH JOS
Early Darkness Means Advent
of the Whitewashed Pigskin
in Immediate Future.
TEAM RETURNED SUNDAY
Band and Rooters Met “Husk
ies” and Rent the Night Air
With Music and Yells.
(By Chester A. Fee)
The band played and the rooters
yelled as the Oregon Electric rolled
into the station Sunday night, and
the husky team got off to be greeted
with real enthusiasm and spirit. The
latent Oregon spirit, about which
everyone has been crabbing lately,
just naturally rose up and spilled
over. The hoys were put into jit
neys. The band followed. And be
hind came a wavering line of root
ers who yelled themselves hoarse be
tween Fifth and Eleventh streets.
The football men hung their heads
and were ashamed of the showing
they made, but Oregon did not kick,
for w,e knew that the best we possess
ed went into the game and that was
all we asked for. VVIe are just as
proud to greet a defeated team as
we are to march behind a victorious
one—for they are all “men of Ore
gon.”
The W. S. C. team is a wonderful
bunch of drivers, and their coach is
also a driver. To even suppose a
team averaging 175 could make
yardage against one weighing almost
190 seemed ridiculous, but to get
to the facts and see that they made
three times as much yardage as
the Varsity is nothing short of mi
raculous. But their coach has come
from a section where they rely upon
something other than weight, and
even speed; and this accounts for
their showing. Not one of their men
was an individual star, but all work
ed together in one of the finest ma
chines which has ever been built up
in the northwest.
Coach Bezdek is reported as say
ing, “We are going to have a big
shakeup in the team, and from now
on we are scheduled for hard work.”
And sure enough both remarks were
qualified today when the tackling
dummy, interference dummy, and
falling on the ball practice were in
stituted, and the men buckled down
to work. The rumors about a big
shake up in the can (not the dope
can) also left the realms of rumor
to bask in that of reality. The men
ought to acquire a certain shiftiness
in time, now, for there is going to be
no end to shifts of all characters,
mainly however, in men and posi
tions. Tonight Risley went back to
his old position at center, Bartlett
is playing tackle and Mitchell has
stepped into his place at end, Beck
ett is back at tackle, Snyder at
guard Tegert and Spellman at end and
quarter, Tuerck and Malarkey at
guard on the other side of the line,
while behind the line Monteith is at
halves and Huntington at fullback.
The team, as it is lining up now is
lighter than the former aggregation,
but it will be faster at least, and no
doubt more filled with “pep” and
fight.
Where most of the fault with this
year’s team seems to lie is in the
fact that we have a miserable second
team who are unable to give the
first string men any competition for
their places or any real workouts in
scrimmage. And the trouble does
not lie with the men who are there
every night, for they work as hard as
they can, but with those who who are
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Oregon Alumnus
Speeds to the War
Patriotic Peter Crockett, ’15,
Finds More Charm in Fight
ing Than in Teaching.
Resigning his position in the
United States to leave for England
and fight for his native country,
Scotland, Peter Crockett, ’15, will
leave for Canada in about two weeks
time, to enter a training camp there,
from where he will go to Europe.
Mr. Crockett, following his course
in the University, began early this
fall to teach oratory and public
speaking in the Tillamook high
school. Owing to the demand for
men in the war, he decided very sud
denly to enlist, not even waiting
for the customary 30 days of his
resignation to expire, before leaving.
From all reports Mr. Crockett was
“making good” in the school. In a
letter to Professor Ayer, of the edu
cational department of the Univer
sity, the Tillamook school board
recommended him very Highly, say
ing that they did not like to lose
such a capable member of their fac
ulty.
A member of the Alpha Tau Ome
ga fraternity said today that they
had expected him back in Eugene
for a two week’s visit before leav
ing for the front. Mr. Crockett was
a member of the ’15 alumni of that
fraternity.
NEWSPAPER PLAY TO
ACCOMPANY MEETING
Guild Production to Be Given in
Conjunction With Gathering:
of Journalism Teachers.
The next play to be given in the
Griiild theatre, “What the Public
Wiants,” will be presented October
2'9, while the Western Association of
Teachers of Journalism is convening
in this city.
The play itself is a newspaper
drama—a sfcoj-y of a man who tried
to give the people, as the title of the
play state®, just what they want. He
is unscrupulous, grasping, crooked
and is running a number of the yel
lowest of journals. The play car
ries him through a series of stages
which issue in a final reformation
The cast chosen for the production
ronows: air unaries worgan, mr.
Callison; Francis Worgan, Mr. Wat
kins; John Worgan, Mr. Smith; Saul
Kendrick, Mr. Murdock; Holt St.
John, Mr. Earl; Henry Cleland, Mr.
Weiss; Simon Macquoid, Mr. Wein
heimer; James Brinbley, Mr. Shet
terly; page. Mr. Settler; Emily Ver
non, Miss Fenton; Mrs. Cleland, Miss
Tuttle; Annie Worgan, Miss Peter
son; Mrs. Worgan, Miss Reed; Mrs.
Downes, Miss Walker; chairman of
scene committee. Miss Purington;
properties, Mr. Nelson.
In this, as all other Guild plays
to be given throughout the winter,
the scenery and properties will be
entirely in the hands of the students,
who will design and run the whole
matter.
The editorial association, which
will meet at the same time as the
play will be given, embraces repre
sentatives from all the schools of
jornalism in the west. They will
meet and discuss the various matters
pertaining to the pedagogical side
of the newspaper profession. Be
sides this, they will consider and
define the various terms used in
newspaper work. Their resolutions
on these matters will be sent to the
, national association, which meets
j this winter in Kansas City.
A black hat was left in the Y. M.
j C. A. office last week, and the owner
I may have it if he will call.
WOMEN Of OREGON
COMPARE FAVORABLY
Miss Cummings, New Physical
Director, Notices Different
Tendencies in the West.
BETTER FEET, POORER TEETH
Different Type of Shoes Worn
in West But Coast Water
Lacks Lime Is Opinion.
Better feet, inferior teeth, slight
er stature and development are the
principle characteristics wherein the
young women of Oregon differ from
those of Illinois, if the inferences
which Miss Mabel Louise Cummings,
physical director for women at the
University of Oregon, has drawn
from her physical examinations of
140 university women and her 12
years at the Illinois State Normal
University, prove correct.
People here are more homogenous
than they are in the middle west.
They are farther developed in our
nervous, dynamic American life than
in my state,” said MfSs Cummings.
“The girls have infinitely better
feet, which condition is due largely
to the more sensible type of shoes
worn by the women of the west.
"In the matter of teeth, they are
inferior; although tney show no
signs of dental neglect. This con
dition may bex due to a number of
causes, the soft water which fur
nishes no lime for the teeth, the pre
dominance of soft foods in their
more lightly developed physiques.
"It is hard to differentiate be
tween the girls of the two sections
in matter of posture and carriage.
At any rate, the women here do not
surpass those farther east in this
respect.
“I find my work among the girls
here very interesting. They are well
bred, pleasant, good natured, nicely
mannered and dress more sensibly
than those among whom I have been
accustomed to work,” she continued.
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JUNiOB DANCE PUNS
NELL UNDER WAV
Evening Festivities to Feature
End of Home-Coming Day
November 20.
EXPECTS CROWNING SUCCESS
Emmet Rathburn Heads Coterie
of Committees For Big
Alumni Event.
The junior alumni dance, as an
appropriate end for home-coming
day, will take place on the day of
the O. A. C. game, on November 20.
Emmet Rathbun is in charge of ar
rangements.
Rathbun is the general chairman,
and under him will be the different
committees.
The decoration committee, headed
by Bernice Lucas, includes Joe Bell,
Jack Elliot, Eulalie Crosby, and Myr
tle Tobey.
The progranus will be under the
head of Helen Curry, with Howard
Hall and Marion Reed as assistants.
Music will 'be a big feature. Echo
Zahl, chairman, and Merna Brown
and Bob Langley promise big things
The floor committee, consisting of
Roland Geary, chairman, Martin
Nelsbn, Wayne Stater, Richard Nel
son, and Ernest Watkins, are in
charge of all the heavy work of the
evening.
Punch will be served as a refresh
ment. Leone Williams, chairman,
and Lelia Cushman and Bernard'
Breeding are in charge of this end of
the dance.
With the O. A. C. and home-com
ing day on the same week-end, Mr.
Rathburn looks forward to a great
sunless. ‘ We expect this dance to
be by far the best dance of the
year. With the advantages of the
attraction of the day it should have
a record crowd,” he says.
Charles P. Taft, son of former
President William H. Taft, is playing
halfbaclt on the Yale team.
Supreme Court Justice and
Journal Editor to be Here
/
A series of lectures featuring the
various vocations of law, medicine,
journalism, architecture, commerce,
and education, and having such men
as Frank A. Moore, chief justice of
the state supreme court, John L.
Travis, news editor of the Portland,
Oregon Journal, and Dr. K. A. J.
MacKenzie, dean of the Portland
medical school, for speakers, start
tomorrow night in the new Guild
theatre. The lectures are open to all
students, but have been gotten up
entirely by the freshmen, with the
cooperation of the University Y. M.
C. A.
This is the first time that such an
undertaking has been attempted, and
the first time such prominent speak
ers have consented to come and give
their time to the University students
to help them fix their choice on some
particular profession. “The success
of these meetings depends entirely
, upon the interest shown by the
students,’’ said Douglas Foster, the
; general secretary.
j The meetings start tomorrow night
I—at 6:45 o’clock, and will be led off
j by Dr. D. W. Morton, dean of the
commerce department.
Over 70 per cent of the new stu
dents who enter college and a large
per cent of the old have failed to de
cide upon their life work, accord
ing to estimates made i 1 various uni
versities.
With the hope of redemying this
need, the University Y. M. C. A.
has secured 10 speakers, each repre
senting some particular vocation,
who will address the men students
of the University on Wednesday or
Thursday evening of each week for
a period of 10 weeks, at Johnson
hall.
The committee of freshmen In
charge, which is composed of Buryi
Grahmall; Roger Holcomb, Peter
Jensen, Paul Reaney, Raymond
Burns, and Ray Faybion, have se
cured the following speakers:
October 13, Ur. D. W. Morton,
head of the commerce department—•
Commerce.
October 21, Hon. F. A. Moore,
chief justice of the supreme court—
Law.
October 28, Professor E. F. Law
rence—Architecture.
November 4, Professor H. D.
Sheldon—Education.
November 11, John L. Travis,
news editor of the Portland Journal
—Journalism.
November 17, Dr. K. A. J. Mac
Kenzie, dean of the school of med
icine, Portland, Ore.—Medicine.
I>ecember 2--Professor H. B. Mil
ler, director of the school of com
merce—Government Service.
December 9, Speaker to be selected
—Social Service.
December 16, Dr. E. S. Conklin—
' How to Choose Your Vocation.
Avengers Capture
Freshmen at Noon
Wrath of Upperclassmen Vents
Itself On ‘‘Frosh” and Hot
Hand Ceremony Results.
Speedy nemesis overtook the fresh
man class at high noon today, for
invoking the wrath of the upper
classmen by mutilating the sacred
senior bench last night.
As soon as the 1919 trade-marks
were discovered this morning, the
word sped from upper classmen to
upper classmen.
At noon the “frosh” were greeted
at the various houses by vigllantees,
who avenged the action in numerous
ways. Some of the freshmen were
denied their noonday lunch, others
were bath-tubbed.
After these preliminary punish
ments were over, the offenders were
marched to the campus, where the
Oregon seal in front of Villard hall
was given a muchly-needed polish
ing, and the ceremonies were com
pleted with a hot-hand and oscilla
tory party at the senior bench.
SPORTING EDITOR WILL
LECTURE IN DECEMBER
Journalistic students, as well.as
many others, are anxiously awaiting
the opportunity of hearing Mr. Henry
Phillip Burchell, the sporting editor
of the New York Times. Mr. Bur
chell will be in Eugene for seven
hours on the afternoon of December
3. Plans are already under way to
entertain him, while he is here.
The speaker is considered one of
the few big men in his line of work
in this country. For the past 16
years he has been at the head of the
rimes' sporting page, and he is uni
versally recognized as an authority
on all matters of sporting interest.
In the course of his travels he has
t.aVked to thousands of students. So
Impressive was his lecture to the
Columbia School of Journalism that
Director Talbott Wiilliams, of Co
lumbia, is going to include the sport
ing side of the newspaper business
in his school’s curriculum.
BABES WIN FROM “PREPS”
IN HARD FOUGHT GAME
The University freshmen football1
team won a hard-fought game against
the Eugene high school on Kincaid
field Saturday, by the score of 9 to 0.
Both the teams fought a scoreless
half. In the beginning of the sec
ond half the high school advanced
the hall within one foot of the goal,
but failed to put it over. Towards
the middle of the last quarter, the
freshmen, with Morfit carrying the
ball, registered a touchdown. Three
more points were annexed by the
freshmen when Mast made a sensa
tional 15-yard drop kick.
The high school showed consider
able improvement over their first
game with the freshmen last Satur
day. Both teams were fast, and a
snappy game was the result.
The line-up for the rreshmen was:
Center, Herllnger; K. G., Johns; I>.
G. , Brown; R. T., Fell; L. T., Mad
den; L. E., Barbour; R. E., Cooke;
Q. , Holcomb; L. H., McDonald; F. B.,
Morfltt; R. H., Mast. The high
school lineup was; Center, McCal
lum; R. G., Trout; L. G., Hensen;
R. T., Campbell; L. T., Plxley; L. E.,
Newman; R. E., Davis, Q., Smith, L.
H. , Shaffer. R. H. Foster; F. B„
Christensln.
The Y. M. C. A. at Wabash College
has adopted a new method of assess
ment. Instead of paying regular
monthly dues, as heretofore, each
member pays just as much as he
feels able to, and at such times as
he feels able to pay.
ASSEMBLY WILL HEAR
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
TOMORROW MORNING
Eugene Merchants Suggest
Profit Sharing Basis to
Committee Chairman.
12 AMENDMENTS ARE UP
Store Problem, Home-Coming
Day and Cut Rule to Be Con
sidered By Student Body.
Shull the students of the Univer
sity buy their goods on a profit
sharing basis fr6m the mere han't* of
Eugene? This plan, suggested by
one of the merchants, will be brought
before the members of the student
council Wednesday by Chester Mil
ler, chairman of the cooperative store
committee.
Miller visited the merchants to get
;heir opinion of the possibility of a
cooperative store and was forced to
await the meeting of the Mer
chants’ 'Protective association. How
ever, one man suggested the plan
of making his store the headquarters
for student trade on the following
basis: Each student was to buy a
25 cent ticket at the first of the year,
and should J>e given a credit slip for
each additional purchase. At tho
end of the year if the sales amounted
to $10, the student would be given
5 per cent on his purchases. If the
sales were $15, 7 per cent; $20, 8
per cent, and so on.
Reports of the committee for
home-coming day will be submitted
to the council by Max Sommer,
chairman of that committee. The
fraternities anid sororitieB have sent
out letters to their alumni urging
them to be present, and according to
Lamar Tooze, there will be about 10,
000 visitors that day.
Another matter to be brought up
Wednesday will be a modification of
it hie present cut rule. Under the
present system all lose their hours,
but under the proposed change the
rule would not effect upper classmen
at all.
Beside 12 constitutional amend
ments to be presented to the stu
dents for approval at the assembly,
Wednesday, a total revision and
clarification of the constitution will
be considered.
Cloyd Dawson, chairman of the
committee composed of Anson Cor
nell, Eva Brock, Ix>ulse Bailey, Both
well Avtson and Max Sommer, will
present ttie 12 amendments.
Chester Miller, chairman of the
committee on resolutions will sub
mit the resolutions of condolence for
,he late regent, S. H. Friendly.
Another Important move for con
sideration at this time will be the
advisability of student body control
if the Oregana In the future. An
amendment to this effect will be pre
tented by Bothwell Avlson. chairman
»f the student council, and junior
clans committee.
These amendments are:
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 vlce
iresident 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
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