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
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Bezdek’s State “Champs” as They Line Up
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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
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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
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