OREGON
VOL. 17.
EUGENE, OREGON, SATU RDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1915.
NO. 19.
INTRA MURAL SPORTS
RECEIVE FACILITIES
Faculty Committee Discusses
Ways and Means of Extend
ing and Adding Fields.
FINANCIAL AID IS LACKING
Plans Are Propounded For Two
Football and Baseball Arenas
Besides Other Extensions.
The committee on intra-mural
sports met yesterday afternoon at 4
o’clock, with President Campbell, to
talk over the best ways of furthering
athletics here and the feasibility of
increasing the number of athletic fa
cilities on the campus. Members of
this committee are as follows: E. E.
DeCou, chairman; President Camp
bell, ex-officio; Colin V. Dyment, H.
C. Howe, Hugo Bezdek, “Bill” Hay
ward, Miss Mabel L. Cummings, and
Robert Prescott.
“We desire to see how we can ex
tend our athletic facilities for intra
mural sports,” said Professor De
Cou, chairman of the committee.
“The question is how they can be
extended immediately at a moderate
cost. It would cost a lot of money
to fit up the new athletic tract. The
University cannot afford this right
now, for there are so many more urg
ent financial needs that must be met.
The cost of making the new field has
been estimated at anywhere from
$8000 to $10,000. This amount
would probably report for a foot
ball field, a baseball diamond and a
track. At present we cannot give
this much money. Now, what are
we going to do? Shall we wait for
four years for this particular field?
Something must be done to provide
space and facilities for all kinds of
sports while we are wa’ting for our
new athletics field. This is the
purpose of the intra-mural sport
committee,—to provide as many ad
vantages as possible for the money
on hand.”
The matter of golf was taken up
first. It was suggested that if golf
links could be laid out on the space
for the new athletic territory, they
could be used all winter and spring.
It is planned that. the number of
tennis courts shall be increased, so
that by next spring there may be a
dozen courts on the campus, includ
ing the cement court back of the li
brary and the dirt courts in the grove.
These, if the plans work out, will all
be made over, and new ones con
structed on the adjoining land.
“The space here is so level that it
will not be hard to construct new
courts there, as well as to afford
space for other out-of-door sports,”
said Professor DeCou.
Another problem considered, to
which no definite conclusion has been
reached, is where and how to make
room for another football field.
There will probably be two baseball
diamonds placed at the disposal of
the students by spring. Places will
be fixed, also, for out-of-door basket
ball, volleyball, and hockey.
“This committee is working in the
aftermath of the action taken some
time ago on the sport question,” said
N. C. Grimes, secretary to the presi
dent. “Something must be provided
to take the place of what has been
taken away. The fellows previously
could not be persuaded to go out yery
0 strong for athletics, because they
said there was no chance of their be
ing good enough to make the Varsity
team. The idea now is to have
enough space and adequate means of
enabling every fellow to go out for
something in athletics and make
some kind of a showing for his work.
Why, at the University of Michigan,
there is room for eleven games to be
played at once. We cannot go Into
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Militant Wrecks
Happiness of Rex
Jimmie Stoddard Sings Sad
Song of K-9 Shamed By
Ribbons and Perfume.
Once his hair was wholesome dirty
gray;
He met the world, rough-shod; he
was not spoiled
Into a dudish daintiness. If soiled
His garm^lts were, and if he smelt
He cared not, and was proud because
he felt
He ought to b£ a mixer with all men,
Not bothered by externals. But,
ah, then—
A woman had her way,
And soap and perfumed spray
And a bow of ribbon gay
Killed the pride of Rex that day.
O, woman-heeding Frosh!
Why did you ever wash
Our Rex, Rex, Rex?
Stanza the Second
(To be read with sobbing, choking
voice.)
Two canine eyes droop shamefully
and sad;
A ribboned tail hangs limply in
disgrace;
His perfumed hair now looks as if
it had
Been parted by a barber, and his
face *
So woeful seems to cower ’neath the
blame
Of decent folk. A scented dandy
ho ~ -
The thought doth brand a curse to
his good name.
The same old, dirty dog he longs
to be.
When you applied your soaps,
This dog’s strong, manly hopes,
Were wrecks, wrecks, wrecks!
GAMES TO BE MANY
Intra-School Games Hoped to
Compensate Loss of
Basketball.
Now that intercollegiate basketball
ball has been dispensed with, for a
season at least, students are already
anticipating the various class and in
terfraternity games that will take
place in Hayward hall this winter.
Bernard Breeding, president of the
interfraternity athletic association,
plans to arrange a long' schedule of
interfraternity and interclub games.
Heretofore, each team was elimiated
after one defeat. This year he
hopes to arrange so that each team
will play at least two contests with
every other team in the league. The
various fraternities, clubs, the dormi
tory, and the faculty will compose the
league.
Phi Delta Theta won the cup last
year by virtue of their defeat of the
Delta Tau quintet in the finals. Both
of these houses, along with Sigma
Nu will have their forces intact for
the coming campaign.
“The faculty ruling will be a
good thing for the boys,” is the way
Hugo Bezdek characterizes their re
cent action. “The intercollegiate
ruling possibly is but for a year, and
we will have a finecehance to develop
new ipen.” Coach Bezdek expressed
himself as being heartily in favor of
interclass, interfraternity, and inter
club games, as well as an Indoor
baseball league.
“I hate to see basketball taken off
our athletic schedule,” said Bill Hay
ward. “I think it was a big mistake,
although the numerous class and in
terfraternity games will make up for
it, in a measure.”
PETITIONERS OPPOSE
BASKETBALL RULING
Committee in Charge Aver That
Nearly All Students
Will Sign.
The long-expected student oppo
sition to the faculty’s abolition of
basketball cropped out late Friday
afternoon, when a special commit
tee appointed by the student coun
cil at its Wednesday session circu
lated petitions calling upon the fac
ulty to reconsider and rescind its
action of a week ago.
The petition will be brought be
fore the faculty at its next regular
meeting and the committee says that
nearly every student in college will
place his signature beneath the re
quest. If the faculty refuses to re
consider the ban on basketball and
re-instate the game, it is intimated
that the matter will be placed before
the board of regents at its meeting
on January 18. Copies of the pe
tition have been sent to prominent
alumni, who will carry on a cam
paign among the ex-Oregon students. J
The petition is as follows:
“To the Faculty: We, the under
signed students of the University of
Oregon, objecting to the recent action
of the faculty whereby intercollegi
ate basketball was discontinued,
hereby petition that body that it
reconsider its action and reinstate
basketball for the following rea
sons: (1) It would take from the
University one of its principal in
ducements to new students and
place us at a disadvantage with
other institutions of the northwest.
(2) It would depreciate without re
course the value of our student body
tickets.”
The action of the faculty a week
ago at first caused no signs of mili
tancy on the part of the students,
and, until the above action, there
was little intimation of anything but
a general regret on the part of. the
students.
Student sentiment seems to be
with the faculty on all rulings ex
cept the one excluding basketball.
Feeling against the abolishment of
basketball is said to be strong, even
though the action of the faculty was
only an experiment.
The faculty members, as a rule, in
their statements favor the action on
basketball, unless, as may be the
case, their public statements are
short of their complete opinion.
On the other hand, Coach Bezdek
and Trainer “Bill” Hayward regard
the action as unwise.
The committee which framed the
petition and are circulating it is
composed of Cleveland Simpkins, of
Salem, Genevieve Shaver of Portland,
James Cellars, of Portland, Anson
Cornell of Portland, and Grace Ed
gington, of Hood River.
SPECIAL BULLETIN
0. A. C. beats Michigan
Aggies 20-0.
Oregon beats Willamette
34-0 end of third quarter.
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE TO
CHANGE MEETING DATES
The student affairs comimttee
have changed their regular meeting
dates from the second and fourth
Wednesdays in each mouth to the
first and third Wednesdays, at 4: IT.
o’clock, so that propositions0 referred
to the student council, which has
been meeting at 7 o’clock on the
fourth and second Wednesdays can
be acted upon two weeks later in
stead of a month as heretofore.
Net Wednesday the student af
fairs committee will act on the
“closed date” proposition. On No
vember 17, they will discuss the hon
or system
LIBRARIAN IN FM
OF EXTENDED HOURS
Faculty All See Wisdom in the
Proposed Change of
System.
That the librarian or the Univer
sity himself is in favor of extending
library hours and keeping the build
ing open on Friday nights, is attested
by a letter from M. H. Douglass, li
brarian, in which he says, “I am
thoroughly in favor of the movement,
and have recommended to President
Campbell that the change be made.
I also think that the petition which
the student council will send to the
regents is the correct move and will
have the desired results.
“I am not, however, in favor of
keeping open Saturday night, also,
unless the attendance on Friday
night seems to warrant it.”
Opinions of several members of
the faculty concerning longer hours
at the library are:
“The library is three-fourths full
at closing time,” said Prof. C. V.
Dyment. “Students make the mis
take of coming at 8 o’clock instead of
7. Tt»ey don't get their two hours’
study. With getting there late, and
settling down to study, few students
get in more than one hour of real,
solid work. That is not enough.
“The library ought to be open
long enough to permit any student to
study all evening if he likes, without
having to study there an hour and
then go home if he wants to put
more time on his lessons.”
“It should be open until 10 at
least; before exams, until 10:30.”
“The faculty, as well as the stu
dents, need longer library hours,”
said Mf-s. Mabel Hjolmes Parsons.
“Many times I have wanted to get
some particular from the library; a
book I needed, and have found it
closed.
“My students show signs of need
ing longer hours at the library,”
said Professor H. C. Howe, “there Is
no doubt about that. They need
longer hours and ought to have
them.”
“I think everybody believes in it,”
said Dr. Sheldon. "It is just a
question of the library force.”
TEMI SEniiS TO WORK
Football Boys Forget Past and
Will Make Diligent Efforts to
Defeat U. S. 0. and 0. A. 0.
A reorganized, re-enforced' squad
left for Salem this morning. The
men, by mutual consent, have quit
crabbing and have settled down to
earnest work for the two big games
of the year—'Southern California and
the Aggies. Still, they are going
to Salem to win—and win big. They
say there won’t be any more 6 to 3
defeats through luck and mistakes.
No, ’twill be as last year—or worse.
“Bez” took two full teams up the
valley with him this morning—the
lordly Varsity and the deserving
second team. How he will use them
depends upon circumstances, but all
the men feel that they will at least
get a chance at the game.
The first team lined up as against
Idaho, except that Lyle Bigbee will
play Huntington’s half and Williams
will take Mitchell’s position at end—
the two succeeded ones being,jOUt o!
the game, so that they will be cer
tain of recovering from injuries in
time for the southern trip .
Friday noon the number of Wash
ington students who had signed foi
the big game at the University ol
California November 13, passed the
one hundred mark. Only one hun
dred signatures were necessary tc
obtain the $16 rate. They will go bj
boat to San Francisco.
Tenders of Pigs
Is Students’ Plan
Dartmouth - Amherst Contest
Draws Hundreds to Travel
A-La-Odoriferous.
Hanover, N. H., Oct. 28.—In order
to dodge Interstate commerce com
mission regulations and at the same
time see the Dartmouth-Amherst
game at Amherst, Mass., Saturday,
inexpensively, several hundred Dart
mouth men have arranged to tend a
number of pigs. At first they wanted
to hire a cattle car and go as “live
stock,” but the I. C. C. balked. How
ever, as chambermaids to the pigs
it’s O. K. and no fare other than the
pigs.
Their somewhat odoriferous car
will bar them from any “fussing’’ at
Smith college (female), orthampton.
Mass., the mecca of all New England
college men when on what the Dart
mouth men call a “peerade.”
PI BETA PHI ENTERTAINS
Newly Installed Chapter Holds
Open House This Afternoon.
Lecture This Morning.
Oregon Alpha chapter of PI Beta
Phi was installed yesterday afternoon
and evening, to replace Mu 'Phi Ep
silon, which last year became an hon
orary musical sorority. Twelve
charter members were initiated. More
than 20 visitors, members of Pi Beta
Phi, from Portland, Pullman, Wlash.,
and Berkeley, Cal., attended the in
stallation.
Between 40 and 50 visitors from
the campus were present at a lec
ture given at the Pi Beta Phi house
this morning, from 11 o’clock till 12,
by Mrs. H. C. Wilbur, Eta Province,
vice-president, who is a member of
the settlement board of PI Beta Phi
which maintains a school in the
mountains of Tennessee. The lecture
dealt with the settlement school, and
was illustrated with many pictures.
The new chapter entertained for
University friends at the chapter
house with a reception this afternoon
from 2 to 5, at which about 500
guests were present. In the receiv
ing line were the following: Mrs.
Ford J. Allen of Chicago, national
vice-president and installing officer;
Mrs. P. F. Carney, of Berkeley, Cal.,
national historian; Mrs. H. C. Wil
bur, of Seattle, province vice-presi
dent; Mrs. Fletcher Lynn, Mrs. Frank
L. Knight, Mrs. John Claire Mon
telth, Mrs. John R. Turner, Mrs.
Burton 'Beck, Mrs. James McMena
main, Miss Gertrude Blackman, Miss
Frances Dewar, and Miss Fay Stetn
metz, of Portland; Miss Elizabeth
Schumaker, Miss Mildred Dean, Miss
Marie Mitchener, and Miss Frances
Titus, of Seattle, Wash.; Miss Alma
Prichard, of Pullman, and Miss Win
nifred Forbes of Eugene.
The decorations were carried out
in wine and silver blue, the sorority
colors, with ivy and smilax. Re
freshments of ice cream, wafers and
after:dinner candies were served in
the candle-lighted diningroom. At
the tables were Mrs. P. L. Campbell,
Mrs. A. C. Dixon, Mrs. M. H. Doug
las, and Mrs. Elizabeth Prescott.
A banquet Is being given for PI
Beta Phi at the Hotel Osburn this
evening. Covers have been laid for
about 35 guests.
Visitors to the Oregon Alpha
chapter were entertained at Corvallis
Thursday, and a number of guests
from Corvallis are at the chapter
house here today.
”“The various fratornities on th(
campus have surely extended to us
a highly appreciated courtesy,” sail
Mrs. Allen, the Installing officer
“They have given us and our visitors
more Invitations than we can pos
sibly accept. The guests are having
the time of their lives, they say.”
WOMEN, IN PETITION,
ASK FOR RECOGNITION
Resolution Is Presented to For
ensic Council at Meeting
This Morning.
BUI NO ACTION IS TAKEN
“Women Will Undoubtedly Be
Admitted to Debate,” Says
Dr. Gilbert, Member.
I'
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lit nwilliiuu
“Whereas, action has been taken
by the forensic council of the Uni
versity of Oregon against women
participating in the regular in
tercollegiate debates of said Uni
versity, and
Whereas, the University of Ore
gon is a co-edueational institution,
and should have equal privileges
for women and men, and
Whereas, debate is the only in
tercollegiate activity in which wo
men can participate,
Be It Resolved, that we, the wo
men of the University of Oregon,
go on record as heartily disapprov
ing such unjust discrimination.
This resolution was presented to
the forensic council at a meeting
held at 11 o’clock today by Louise
Bailey and Mrs. Bates, representing
the Women’s league.
No action was taken upon the res
olution at this time, as it was plead
by Nicholas Jaureguy that the meet
ing was Illegal, the members having
received less than 24 hours notice.
Another meeting has been called for
3 o’clock Monday afternoon, at
which Jtlme a motion to rescind the
previous action will be made.
“Women will undoubtedly be ad
mitted to debate,” stated Dr. J. H.
Gilbert. “There is a clear majority
of four to three in their favor. As a
member of the forensic council, I
voted against the resolution to accept
contracts which debar women from
the contests. I believe the action of
the council was unwise and in a
measure unjust. To admit women
does not create any kind of unfair
competition in either local or inter
collegiate debates. My experience as
a-debate judge has led me to believe
that argtiments receive no special
consideration because they are offer
ed by girl debaters. If women win,
it is usually because of superior log
ic, clear statement and effective de
livery. If a woman has these quali
fications she should be given a place
on regular teams, the right to com
pete for the alumni medal, and to
represent the University in forensic
contests. This is especially true in
a University which pretends to admit
both sexes on equal terms, and in a
state which admits women to the ex
ercise of the ballot. The future po
sition of women as leaders in civic
and welfare movements demands the
very kind of training which inter
collegiate debate contests afford. The
substitution of co-ed debates does
not meet the need. It Involves dis
paragement of the women students’
work in this line and denies to them
the distinction which is theirs
when they make the team in compe
tition with men.”
Athlete <»«>«*« to O. A. C.
Corvallis, Ore., Oct. 29—Henry
Heldenrlch, University of Oregon dls
3 eus thrower and glee elnb member,
has entered Oregon Agricultural col
lege and matriculated In the depart
ment of Industrial arts.
While attending the State Univer
sity, Heidenrich was Hayward’s most
dependable performer with the Gre
cian saucer, and his presence at O. A.
i C. will aid the orange and black
track team in the meets other than
; northwest conference affairs, for
which he will not be eligible.