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VOL. 17. EUGENE, OREGON, COLLEGE CONFERENCE TO DECIDE 616 MAHERS Representatives of Northwest Institutions Will Meet in Portland. COAST COLLEGES MAY COMBINE Freshman Rule Likely to be Passed and Oregon Favors Rules Barring Scouting. On Thursday and Friday, in Portland, representatives from the University will meet those from the other institutions in the northwest college conference, to discuss several considerations of import ance that have arisen since last year. The University of California and pos sibly Sanford and U. S. 0. desire to en ter with Oregon and Washington in form ing a new Pacific coast conference, which, if carried in this meeting will mean that Idaho, Whitman, and prob ably Pullman must in some way with draw from the present arrangement. This would make five big games of the season for Oregon instead of two. Will Debate About W. S. C. Delegates from the southern institu tions will be in Portland to further their cause and it is thought that the question will be decided in favor of them. The real debate will be on the disposal of Washington state college, whether it will remain one of the powerful coast teams or join those of the Inland Empire. Oregon’s position in this matter has not been made public. However, Oregon is definitely known to be in favor of the freshmen one year rule barring freshmen from the team. O. A. C. and Washington will agree with Oregon on this. Oregon Would Bar Scouting Oregon delegates will urge that the other schools bar scouting from their athletics. This is the same stand that Oregon has always taken in the matter but it is understood that some' of the others have not been very particular in ■the matter. President Campbell will select the delegates Tuesday, each school being allowed two representatives. DR. K. A. J. MACKENZIE SPEAKS WEDNESDAY Assembly Tomorrow Will Listen to Address by Dean Medical College. Dr. K. A. J. Mackenzie, clean of the medical school of the University of Ore gon, will address the students of the University Wednesday morning at as sembly on, “Medicine as a Profession.” Dr. Mackenzie has studied in the uni versities of London, Merlin, Paris and Vienna, and is professor of operative and clinic surgery in the school of medicine. He is a fellow of the American Surgical association, and is ex-president of the Oregon State Medical association. The medical school was given an ap propriation of $50,000 at the last session ctf the legislature, for the erection and equipment of a new building in Portland. This appropriation was contingent upon the school raising $25,000 additional. Dr. Mackenzie has advised the financial agent of the University that this amount has been raised. The new building is to be erected upon property which is donated to the Univer sity by the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation company, for whom Dr. Mackenzie is chief surgeon in Oregon and Washington. University of Nebraska—The fourteen national sororities composing the Pan Ilellenic council at the University of Ne braska are considering taking up some form of new work, such as leading the local organizations in social service. Some of the sororities are already en gaged in active work; the national or ganization of Pi Beta Phi maintains a school in the mountain districts of Ten nessee. at Gatlinburg; the local chapter of Chi Omega offers an annual prize ol $25 to the woman student who does tht best work in sociology, both in the clash room and in its practical application. Princeton University—Princeton wi! open one week earlier in 1016 and clos> a week earlier in 1SI17 and thereafter, ae •cording to a recent0action of the board o trustee's. The plan is necessary to mak‘ possible the use of the college entranc board examinations in co-operation witl Harvard and Yale. PI PHI GIRLS WAX PLAYFUL: PROSPECTIVE STUDE ‘GOAT As Fred Fenton, prospective Ore gon student from Idaho, hut now vis iting his sister, Esther Fenton of the Pi Beta Phi house, stepped on the porch of said house Sunday evening, he was greeted by murky darkness, a locked door and a sign that read: Closed! Due to unsanitary conditions arising from the flooded base ment, this house is closed. For further information, call the Delta Tnu Delta house. Signed: DEAN GUrPY. Madly he dashed over to the Delta Tau house, flung open the door and demanded information. Blank con sternation and surprised ejaculations were his only consolation. Then “light” began to dawn. He cautiously tip-toed back to the Pi Phi house and listened. Feminine giggles eminnted from the sleeping porch. STUDENTS WILL STAGE Mysteries of Land of Nod Will be Unfolded on Nights of December 3 and 4. (By Martha Boer) "Alice in Wonderland,” a fantasy adapted from the story by Lours Carroi, is the next production booked for the "Little Theatre” in the new Adminis tration building. "Alice will be staged die evenings of December 3 and 4. A children’s mati nee is also planned for the afternoon of December 4. The story lias been dramatized by Professor A. P. Reddie for this occasion and is particularly well adapted for pro duction in Guild hall. In the dramatiza tion every effort lias been made to keep the wonderland atmosphere intact and those who have read Professor Reddie’s version cannot praise it too highly. A feature of the production will be the stage settings which will be design ed almost entirely by children—Martha and Betty Eaton, Jane Campbell and Ed gar Bohlman. All children, grown-up and otherwise, will be interested in Alice and the big children who have partially forgotten Alice’s marvelous adventures will do well to refresh their memories by glancing over the book between now and Decem ber 8. All our old friends will be there—the Jabberwock. the Snark, the March Hare, the White Rabbit, even the Queen of Hearts with a card ballet consisting of the lesser hearts, from the one to the ten spot. The card ballet will execute a number of “tricks” and will be drilled for the occasion by Miss Frieda Goldsmith, of the Physical Training department. I Particularly clever and ingenious light ing effects will be introduced. The Queen i of Hearts will of course, demonstrate j her ability to produce day and night at will and even the Cheshire cats disap pearing grin will make itself visible. The cast for the play is as follows: Little Alice.Jane Campbell Middle-sized Alice.Martha Beer Big Alice .Charlie Fenton Mary, Alice’s Sister.Agnes Dunlap The White Rabbit .Hester Hurd The Jabberwock.Ernest Wilkins The Snark.Richard Nelson Knave of Hearts.Clayton Baldwin Queen of Hearts Mrs. J. Frederic Thorne The Duchess.Mandell Weiss Mad Hatter.Margaret Crosby March Hare.Julia Platt Dormouse.Teressa Cox Cheshire Cat .. .Marion Reed Dook.Creston Maddock Ace of Clubs .Dale Melrose Card Ballet:— Ace of Hearts.Grace Gilmore Deuce of Hearts.Charlotte Nash Trey of Hearts.Evale Hadley 4 of Hearts.Mrs. Helen Wilson 5 of Hearts.Jeanette Klotzing G of Hearts.Kathryn Hartley 7 of Hearts.Estella Campbell S of Hearts.Rernadetta Baton 9 of Hearts .Mildred Woodruff 10 of Hearts.Louise Adams Mock Turtle .Algie Weinheiiner Gryphon .Robert Earle : King of Diamonds.Ernest Watkins | Queen of Diamonds ....Ester Chalmers j Jack of Diamonds .Nellie Cox j King of Clubs.Kenneth Shetterl\ ! Queen of Clubs.Marion Tuttle ! Jack of Clubs.Helen Purington j King of Spades.Virginia Peterson i Queen of Spades.Eyla "Walker ! .Tack of Spades.Gladys Fisher i King of Hearts ..Henry C'alhson ■ :Ace of Diamond.'.Ha Mood I Ace of Spades .Hallie Hart ' Deuce of Spades.Lawrence Tavloi i ! Five of Spades.Creston Maddocl I Seven of Spades.Charlie Fenton 1 Bezdek’s State “Champs” as They Line Up -- ■ r OREGON’S PREMIER FOOTBALL TEAM Lamar Tooze Is Selected to Talk Peace at The Hague Left for Portland to Await More Information About Henry Ford’s Neutral Peace Delegation of United States Citizens and Sixteen University Repre sentatives Which Sail From Now York on the Oscar II December 4. Lamar Tooze, president of the Asso ciated Student Body, left last night on the Owl train as a special representa tive of the University in the Ford peace pilgrimage to Europe. This came through an invitation received yesterday morning by President P. L. Campbell from «T. Lochner, secretary to Henry Ford, noted automobile manufacturer, in a telegram requesting that the University nominate a student representative for the peace delegation. Mr. Tooze was then appointed by President Campbell and a faculty advisory committee. This gives the University the honor of'having one of fifteen University representatives at the peace conference. Mr. Tooze will go at once to New York city in order to catch the first of the two boats sailing for 'Europe. In the event he reaches New York on the morn ing of December 8 and the boat sails in the afternoon he will catch the Oscar II; otherwise he will sail later on the Frederick. The boats will dock first at Stockholm, then at Copenhagen and finally reach The Hague, where the peace conference will be held with the representatives of the warring nations. When questioned by President Campbell as to his policy, Mr. Tooze replied that he was in favor of peace, but that he was i not a “peace-at-any-priee man.” Besides being the president of the student body, Mr. Tooze is a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity, Al pha Kappa l*si, national commerce fra ternity, and Friars, honorary senior so ciety. In his freshman year he was a member of the debating team that won the underclass debate. When a sopho more he was president of his class, and all four years he has been a Y. M. O. A. cabinet member and taken an active part in that organization’s work. He was graduated from the Fulls City high school, although his home is in Salem. He was born in Wood'burn, but early moved with his folks to Falls City, where he completed the grammar grades and high school. He has largely earned his own way through the University by cor responding for newspapers. His summers are all spent at Newport, as the special representative of the Portland Oregonian. The trip will consume about six weeks, ‘ and bring him back to school again in the middle of January. He has been ex cused from his classes. Harry Kuck, vice president of the student body, will be the president in the absence of Mr. Tooze. FATE OF BASKETBALL TO BE BEGIOED SOON Faculty Committee Will Hear Final Reports and Arguments on Thursday. At the meeting of the faculty on Thursday the fate of intercollegiate bas ketball so far as Oregon is concerned will probably be settled. A special com mittee appointed to investigate the ques tion in further detail will render its re port then. This committee is compose 1 of Prof. H. C. Howe, chairman; Prof. George Rebec, Prof. Colin Dymont and Bill Hayward. The faculty will render its final decision after this body has report ed. This committee was apopinted to go more deeply into the question when a pe tition of a large number of students, ask ing the rescinding of that portion of the faculty rulings, temporarily suspend bas ketball as an intercollegiate activity, was presented to the faculty. The committee is an entirely different body from the one which considered the original mo tion of Dr. Barnett. Meanwhile preparations are going for I ward for starting a doughnut league schedule of basketball. The fraternities and organizations of the campus have 1 been assigned practice hours in the gym nasium. A meeting of the interfraternity athlet ic council will be held tonight to com plete arrangements. Prof. Dunn to Attend Session Professor Frederic S. Dunn will at tend the sixth session of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest. Professor Dunn was the organizing sec retary of that body and was later its president. He is now a member of the executive committee. Professor Dunn will read a paper on • Julius Caesar in the English Chron icles.” OREGON WOMEN OUTPLAY 0. A. C. CO-EDS IN HOCKEY Game Is Played During Downpour of Rain; Mud Bespatters Fair Fa.es. On a muddy field and under a down pour of rain the women’s hockey team of the University defeated the y. A. C. co-eds by a score of 5-0 on November 20. A goal was made by each of the follow ing girls: Terressa Cox, Olga Soder strom, Ethel Murray, Margaret Crosby and Gladys Conklin. Terressa Cox, Jennie Hunter and Ma ble Van Xante were the star players for Oregon, while Martha Beckett shone as a luminary for (). A. ('.. Seldom did a ball get by either of them. The line-up was as follows: Oregon— O.—Ethel Murray. It. I.—Margaret Crosby. L. I.—Gladys Conklin. It. W.—1Terressa Cox. L. W. -Olga Moderstrom. It. F. B.—Mabel Van Xante. I,. F. B.—Claire Warner. Goal Esther Furuset. It. II. B. Essie Met {uire. L. II. It. Elizabeth Minturu. C. II. II. - Jennie Hunter. O. A. C. - C.—Ruth Blake. It. I. Marie Abrahams. L. I. -Bernice Forrest. It. W.- -Xoe Witzig. L. W. Katherine Howell. It. F. B.—Marjorie Miller. L. F. B.—Martha Beckett. It. II. B.—Ruth Carlson L. II. If. —Frieda Laird. C. II. It.—Gladys Ridgeway. Substitutes: Hallie Halt for Conklin and Helen Withyeombc for McGuire. Officials: Referee, Mrs. Lewis; um pire, Frieda Goldsmith; timekeeper, Mar tha Beer; scorer, Mary Chambers. Wesleyan—A bank managed entirely by students is to be opened as an experi ment. This innovation is approved by the faculty and by the American Bank ers’ association. If the experiment is successful, similar banks will probably be founded in other colleges and universi ties. SPOKANE SPORT WRITER CLASSES NORTH TEAMS Spokane, Nov. 25)—The decisive de feat that Washington State college ad ministered to the admittedly strong ■Montana eleven and the state univer sity’s overwhelming victory over the University of California stamp the two Washington elevens as far and away the best teams west of the Rocky mountains. No other teams in this territory can be closely com pared with the state university and w. s. c. Oregon, O. A. O. and Montana more nearly approach the class of the two Washingtonian schools than any other on the Pacific slope, but any one of them would need a handicap of at least a touchdown a quarter to make a game even. The first touchdown that has been scored upon the state college this year was registered Saturday, when the Montanans blocked a punt and fell upon it when it bounded behind the W. S. <’. goal was inviolate, the goal line. Previous to Saturday Spokane fans take pride in the fact that the only team that scored on Washington was tin1 Gonzuga univer sity eleven. The students of the Wesleyan Uni versity will open a bank to be man aged entirely by students. The bank will be operated under the direction of the American Bankers’ Associa tion. The project has the approval of the officers of the university. U. ATHLETIC PROWESS REVIEWED BY CRITIC Track Outlook Is Dim While Tennis and Socer Look More Optimistic. Saturday's football classic for the state till** practically terminated the first cycle of what promises to be an ex traordinary athletic year at Oregon. The abolition of intercollegiate basket ball by the faculty will leave Oregon en thusiasts minus a major sport to follow until track and baseball open up in the spring. Intramural sports will of neces sity become the main attraction this fall. The doughnut basketball race ought to lie a hummer. Every team will play ev ery other team and men who have partici pated in any conference game will be eliminated, thus narrowing the teams down to approximately equal calibre. Football, track, wrestling and boxing all re eive considerable attention in an in terfraternity basketball game. Last year’s letter men will have to content themselves with interclass scraps as substitutes for (). A. C. and other con ference fives. With Captain Lyle Big bec, Wheeler and “Skect" Bigbee ns a nucleus, Coach Bezdek would probably | have built up u strong team this year. For the first time in years the track outlook at Oregon is dim. The freshman class seems to be a “hitless wonder” in providing athletes this year; one football player, no track man with even a good prep school rating, and only mediocre baseball material. Bill Hayward lost Loueks, Boylen, Ileidenreich, Cook and Parsons from last year’s champions and will have to make a.team out of Captain Fee, Nelson, Huggins and possibly Muir head, with second string men as fillers. Baseball looks better but top notch battery men are lacking. The catching department was the bugbear last year and no stellar backstops have put in an appearance, ns yet. Huntington and Itis ley were broken in last year and may (Continued on Page Four) JOHNNY BECKETT WILL LEAD OREGON FOOTBALL DESTINY COMING YEAR Premier Tackier Is Unanimously Chosen by the Triumph ant Team. FIFTEEN WIN COVETED “0” Squad Will Remain Intact and With Incoming Material 1916 Looks Bright. (By Chester Anders Fee) “The greatest college football team that ever trod on Multnomah field gave Multnomah a 15 to 2 licking yesterday. "It Is doubtful if any football team of these United States could have beaten the University of Oergon yesterday. They showed the most marvelous in terference ever developed in the north west. and playing as they did yesterday, could have beaten any of the conference teams by from two to four touchdowns.” The football season at Oregon ended Thursday in a blaze of glory and the above-quoted comment appeared in one of the big Portland papers, and shows to what heights the team really attained. Commune With Fatima Yesterday afternoon the team came to gether for the last time, and after the election of captain and the taking of a picture the fellows bid a fond farewell to their mud encrusted togs, and hied their way homeward, most of them thoroughly enjoying long desired com munion with Fatima. Neither job executed necessitated much time or study. The election con sisted of writing Johnny Beckett’s name on a piece of paper and counting it (ex cept in the case where modesty over came tile big gridiron hero and he scribbled down Jake Hisley’s appellation) and the latter called for arrangement and the pressure of the bull). Beckett Unanimous Choice Beckett is being mentioned by every man who has ever seen him knock the mud off his opponents' head-gear, or step on soineoue’s neck, as their selec tion for All-American tackle. In the northwest he is the unanimous choice for the same position, and is the only man who received the whole number of votes cast. ' i ) Johnny hails from Fight Mile Way, and put that place on the map (no one knows where, exactly, but it is there. He meandered down to Portland and step CAPTAIN JOHNNY BECKETT ped into foot I >;t II shoes at Washington high school. No one knew what he was good for when lie came, but they discov ered before he left. In college he has been the same way, and never once did he appear in a game (if I remember correctly), that some place in the story following the game, he was not among the satellites. Fifteen Make Their Letters The men who made their letters this season and were thereby entitled to vote are: Beckett, Risley, Mitchell, Tegart, Tuerck, Huntington, Uigbee, Spellman, Malarke.v, Montcith, Snyder, Bartlett, Callison, Cawley, Cossman. It looks like every one is to Jie back next year when the roll is called for the first time, but no one can tell and there (Continued on Page Four.)