Oregon emerald., December 11, 1915, Image 1

VOL. 17.
EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1915.
NO. 34.
HAYWARD’S HOPEFULS
FACE GLOWING HORIZON
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With Three Letter Men, Minus
Their Letters, Captain Fee
Complains of “Nihil.”
RAIN PREVENTS TRAINING
Pour Meets Confronts Team
Which Is Depleted of Last
Year’s Star Performers.
■ (Chester Fee)
Track prospects take on a more gloomy
aspect as the rain continues to fall and
! the men fail to appear. Just now all that
[remains of Bill Hayward’s championship
track team of the 1915 season would not
have a show for the booby prize at a first
class baby show. As the former stars
rise from the horizon where they once
£ gleamed so bright, as the season draws
near, they begin to fade into thin air, and
\ at the rate they are now hitting the ob
livious shore, Bill will have to construct
| a machine out of the vaporings of his
' fertile mind. j
Certainly there might be inducements
in the way of a place to train but the
; management seems to think that the men
were ordinarily constructed for ducks and
mudhens anyway, and looks upon the
; whole proposition in this light. It is
' easy enough to expect every man to be
: out working every night but with the
facilities for training and the added in
ducements of taking cold and spoiling un
worked muscles for the 1915 season, it
| is indeed difficult to get anyone into the
: proper frame of mind for a dash into the
| cold.
Big Meets Scheduled
To start with there are some big meets
scheduled for this year. The forecast for
the season was just completed last week
I at Portland, and comprises at present
qnly four meets. On April 18 the team I
will journey to Portland where they will |
participate in the annual Columbia Uni-1
j versity indoor meet, where numerous high
| schools, the Multnomah Club, O. A. C., j
| Oregon and several other club and college {
I teams compete. Folowing this, the new
J Coast Conference track meet will be held
in Berkeley on May 0. A strong team will
be required to take this meet, as the con
■ ference includes the three nortliw'est teams
of Washington, O. A. C. and Oregon, and
the team from the University of Califor
nia. Then the team hooks up with Wash
ington at Seattle on May 20. The final
meet will be put on at Pullman on the
second and third of June. This is the
northwest conference meet, and includes
the six northwest colleges; Washington,
W. S. C., Idaho, Whitman, O. A. C., and
Oregon.
And now for the pageant.
First come the three letter men (and
by the way Manager Tiffany seems to
have forgotten that any men won their
letters last year for as yet the men have
not smelled the new wool of their long
wanted sweaters), Nelson, Hamstreet
and Fee.
None look uooa
None of these look very good. Ham
street won his letter during his fresh
man year in college in the low hurdles,
hut got a poor start when the gun was
fired last year, and failed to connect with
one of the round yellow boys. Nelson
also stepped into a had hole at the start
of the last season, but wTas able to over
come the lead near the end of the season,
and won a couple of conference half miles,
but let Smith of W. S. C. slip by him at
the tape in the conference meet, and lost
his most important race of the year by
so doing.
Payne, the Athena jack rabbit, who
trots about the two-mile course, has in
formed no one of his whereabouts, but it
is practically assured that he will he on
hand at the beginning of the new semes
ter, and will don the spikes for his thrid
season under Bill Hayward. And Muir
head. the lanky high sticker and jumper,
will be turning his feet in the same di
rection before many more moons. With
out these men, the Oregon track team
would be nihil, but even with these two
men to help out, it will need a whole lot
of grooming and strenuous labor to be
able to stack up with the other northwest
I teams, without considering California.
Conference Meet Will Be Hard
The coast conference meet will be by
far the hardest of the year for the one
reason that we have a poor team so far.
and even though some shining lights
should blossom out from the ranks of the
freshman class tne> would be ineligible,
on account of the one year residence rule.
Furthermore, the southern college is sev
eral times larger, they have about ten
times as many track men to draw from,
and they also haM the chance to train
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Valiant Students
Rush at Alarm
Falling Wire Turns in Fire
Alarm All Over Campus.
Volunteers Respond.
Loud and persistent peals from the
bells in all the buildings at 9:20 this
morning brought students from the com
merce and architectural halls out on the
campus armed with portable fire extin
guishers, a stepladder and a determina
tion to save the “wimin and children if
necessary.”
A thin stream of smoke waving out of
the open window in Mabel Louise Cum
ming’s private office in the women’s gym
nasium and an unmistakable odor of
some substance burning in the engine
room in back of the commerce building
were first to attract their attention. En
gineer Crabtree took charge of the step
ladder and with his trusty hatchet en
tered the former place to ascertain the
cause.
Meanwhile a congregation of besmoked
art students, janitors and gardeners
from all parts of the campus had gath
ered outside. “Where is the fire?”
everyone asked.
And the cause: A heavy circuit wire
fell across the bell wire over on Univer
sity avenue in back of Mary Spiller hall,
immediately causing every bell on the
campus to ring until the coil in each re
lay was burned out. New relays were in
stalled immediately after the excitement
had subsided. No other damage was
done and the bells rang regularly the
remainder of the day.
DANCE SPIRIT REIGNS
SUPREME AT ARMORY
Annual Sophomore Hop Is Occasion for
Merrymaking of 250 Couples.
Tonight
“On with the dance.”
Two hundred and fifty couples are
whirling this evening to the syncopating
tunes of an orchestra at the new armory,
which has been transformed into a ver
dant forest. The occasion is the sopho
more hop, the first college formal of the
year.
At a few minutes past 8:30 the long
line of merrymakers with class presi
dent, Jimmie Sheehy, and vice-president,
Irma Keithly at the head, encircled the
decorated orchestra stand in the center
of the floor. Emma Wooton, Hazel Wy
more, Edgar Garbade and Chester Miller
distributed the neat white felt-bound pro
grams.
-The feature of the festivities was reach
ed at the tenth dance when 20 sopho
mores portrayed the trials, the down
falls and destinies of “Every Callege Wo
man.”
Many Without Dress Suits
As a result of the ultimatum from
General Chairman Tom Campbell that
the formalities of the evening should not
be compulsory, many men above the
freshmen year appeared without dress
suits.
Holding college formals in the armory
has developed one condition, that on a
rainy night when slippers and dress
clothes must not be ruined, the transpor
tation facilities of the city are kept very
busy. In anticipation of rain, many en
gaged machines weeks in advance. As is
often said after a warm Decoration day,
“everything on wheels was out.”
"The decoration committee found that
the big hall required a great deal of de
coration to go a little ways. Large fir
wreaths, lighted by strings of incandes
cents, were hung between the uprights of
the balcony, and fir streamers hung from
the railings. The punch room presented
a grotto of “frozen ice” with fir and moss
growing from the roof.
FORTNIGHTLY CLUB WILL
GIVE BENEFIT HOP JAN. 14
“On the night of January 14 the Fort
nightly club gives its big benefit dancing
and card party in the armory,” said Miss
Julia Burgess, of the committee, "and it
is hoped that students will remember and
reserve that date.”
The expenses will be rather light, 't
was stated, and the club is hoping that
the greater p^rt of the proceeds can be
turned over directly to the women’s me
morial building fund. The Fortnightly
club has pledged $500 towajjd this fund.
Besides the dancing on the main floor
and cards which are to be played in a
| separate room, Miss Burgess states that
special features of which particulars will
be given out later, are also to be intro
duced.
Green toques are to be worn by fresh
men at Blown this winter.
ADVERTISE ‘U’ WILL BE
“Get Together” Plan Will Re
ceive Students’ and Admin
istration’s Support.
Whether it be a hay-ride, a skating
party, a dance or a dinner that the “Ad
vertising-Oregon” clubs plan to give over
vacation, Secretary Grimes is sure the
students can “put it over.”
The “Advertising Oregon” plan is this:
Students going home for Christmas will
be urged to unite with their local alumni,
ex-students and the senior class of the
high school in some sort of a “get-to
gether” in the interests of the Univer
sity. The student council will be asked,
at its meeting Wednesday evening to
sanction this plan and to appoint one stu
dent to act as chairman of a committee
of his home town students to push the
“get-together” through. The administra
tion office has promised through Secre
tary Grimes to furnish any number of
printed copies of Oregon songs, for the
committee heads.
If the tentative plan of Acting Presi
dent Kuck materializes, the Y. M. C. A.
deputation which goes south during the
holidays will co-operate with the com
mittees where it can be arranged. Their
itinerary includes Medford, Ashland,
Roseburg, Central Point and Grants
Pass. A schedule of dates can be se
cured from J. D. Poster.
Glee Club Will Aid
The men’s glee club goes into Eastern
Oregon, stopping at Hood River, The
Dulles, Pendleton, Baker and La Grande.
In these places it is suggested that the
get-together function might well be held
directly after the concert, enlisting the
general ginger and Oregon-ism of the
glee club.
The general plan is in practice at the
University of Montana, and Secretary
Grimes says he has known of its being
followed in a similar way at several insti
tutions in the east.
“I rather think a good many students
are considerably bored over the vacation
and would welcome an extra social di
version. Besides, Oregon is not making
the most of its alumni, and a chance to
work them into a thing like this should
not be neglected. President Campbell
says he thinks it is a good idea and
ought to work out.”
Mr. Grimes says he sees no reason why
the expected 10 per cent increase in at
tendance next year might not be made
considerably larger if the students will
unite to advertise Oregon.
Many Towns will Be Asked
The new plan will have to he modified
in the ease of Portland, perhaps, and
where towns are small, several may need
to unite. If the student council sanctions
the scheme, students from the follow
ing towns will be asked to hold some
manner of social function: Klamath
Falls, Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass,
Glendale, Roseburg, Cottage Grove,
Springfield, Creswell, Junction City, Al
bany, Salem, Dallas, Oregon City, Mc
Minnville, Astoria, Marshfield, Coquille,
North Bend, Randon, Portland, Hood
River, The Dalles, Pendleton, Baker and
La Grande.
COMMERCE DEPARTMENT
TO OFFER NEW COURSES
A number of new courses will be of
fered in the commerce department next
semester according to the plans dis
cussed by the University Commerce club,
at its last meeting.
The proposed courses are: Retail
Selling and Store Management; Sales
manship, Advertising; Credits and Com
missions; Vocational Guidance and For
eign Commerce.
These courses will prepare students
for the retail business. Professor I). C.
Sowers of the school of commerce says
that a number of the students are plan
ning to enter that line of work and that
therefore no courses for this purpose
have been given.
Leslie Tooze, president of the club,
says that the next meeting will be held
the first Wednesday after vacation. The
club is to consider prevailing business
conditions and prospects for a boom of
prosperity.
Greek Theatre at U. of W.
The university of Washington will
have a Greek theatre like that of Cali
fornia, if the plans of Dean A. S. Ilag
gett are realized. He has presented a
plan to President Suzallo of the univer
sity for the construction of an amphi
theatre resembling the Greek theatre.
The old wooden amphitheatre, a relic of
the Alaska- Vukon-I'acific exposition, is
to be torn down, as it is in a state of
ruin. Donations will be sought to cover
the cost of construction. It is estimated
that $500,000 will be needed.
WOMEN’S LEAGUE HEARS
SOCIAL WORKERS TALK
Mrs. George McMath and Miss
Ruth Catlin Point Out Wo
men’s Opportunities.
The women’s league was addressed at
a meeting Friday afternoon by Mrs.
George McMath, president of the Oregon
Congress of Mothers, and Miss Ruth Cat
lin, head of a girls’ school in Portland.
Both speakers are personal friends of
Mrs. Gerlinger, who persuaded them to
eonie here and talk to the women of the
University.
Mrs. McMath’s subject was “Women in
Public Service.”
“The club woman has been satirized,
and she has been praised to the skies,”
said Mrs. McMath. "In any case, she is
here to stay. And she is not shirking
wifehood and motherhood—but is seeking
in addition those things necessary for
the best kind of wives and mothers.
Women Not Tied to Routine Hours.
“Why should women undertake public
service? They are not tied to routine
hours of work, as men are. Usually, they
have more years of active schooling. They
are as loyal to the interests of their city,
or state, or country, as men are. Aud
they really know the needs of other wo
men.”
Mrs. McMath spoke of the work of Al
ice Freeman Palmer, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Mary Lyon and other women
pioneers in public service, and said in
conclusion:
“Let us keep up the work they have
begun. Our college education should fit
us to do all the things our grandmothers
did, and a little bit more. I don’t mean
for you to start a lot of new clubs—there
are plenty now. But do some real work.
The Chi Omegas of Portland are serving
hot lunches to poor children at the
Stephens school every day, and each
lunch costs the child three cunts. It is
the mind training that enables these
girls to plan and serve good meals at
such low cost.”
Miss Catlin talked on “The Spirit of
Joy in Work.”
“So many women,” she stated, “are
in a state of ill adjustment to living.
They are restless or half-hearted. Why?
It is partly because of their attitude.
They haven’t tin1 conscious respect for
and faith in life that they should have.
They haven’t enough interest and sym
pathy.
Work is a Panacea.
"Work in my panacea for this discon
tent. And work may he viewed from
three standpoints- it is a necessity, a
duty, and a joy. The world could not ex
ist without it; we have no right to live
unless we do something—cannot take
everything and give nothing. And there is
a joy in feeling that we are doing our
share.”
Miss Catlin spoke of the unusual op
portunities for accomplishing things in
the west.
“In the older centers,” she said, “peo
ple are forced more often to think of
needed changes, hut we have better op
portunities for affecting the change.
"And in hunting our work, let us not
look too far afield, for some things that
stirs the imagination, hut find the joy of
stimulating effort in our own neighbor
hood.”
FORD IS CHOSEN STAR
Former Soccer Captain Makes All-Cali
fornia Eleven. Club All-Stars
Defeated.
Neal Ford, last year’s soccer captain,
was chosen a member of the All-Califor
nia university soccer team which recent
ly played and defeated an all-stnr club
team. The game was played on the
“Marina” in the fair grounds and result
ed in a one to nothing victory for the
collegians.
The game was characterized by “Dad
Moulton and Herbert Ilauser, secretary
of the exposition as the best football
game played at the fair.
Ford went south this year and had no
difficulty in landing a job on the Stanford
wing. From this position he was picked
for the honor berth.
Will Have Skating Pond
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A movement is on foot to flood the ath
letic field, providing u place for skating
during the winter months. Coach Hade
inacher has expressed himself favorably
toward the proposition and, if the sen
timent is favorable and the necessary ar
rangements can be satisfactorily made,
it seems probable that a skating pond
will become a reality. Idaho students
will undoubtedly appreciate skating privi
leges -since available places for this
amusement are rare around Moscow.
Prof. Sacrifices
for GoIf--and $5
Thacher Gives Shelter for
Cows in His Barn So “U ”
May Have Links.
Prof. \Y. F. (5. Tkaeher declares ho
can't toll a stymie from a niblick, or a
stance from a Scotch highball, yet has a
deep and abiding interest in the proposed
golf course.
The dorm cows, now rejoicing in the
rich pasture of the University field, are
the chief obstacle to the links. Conse
quently they are to be removed; not to
fairer fields, but to PJrofessor Thacher's
barn. There they are to be housed in
return for the munificent sum of $5 a
month.
And Professor Thacher rejoices, for
he says he needs the money.
' Hut will these cows be permitted to
pursue the even tenor of their livesV
Professor Thacher is manager of the
commencement pageant. Professor
Thacher is lamenting the dearth of oxen.
May we not yet see the dormitory cows,
developed by proper exercises to the
size of Ezra Meeker’s famous oxen, and
urged on by orchestral strains, drawing
wagons of "old settlers” over the moon
lit campus? Time will tell. Let us pray.
“GOLF DAY” WILL BE GIVEN
OVER TO PREPARING LINKS
With Co-operation of Student Council,
Prof. R. W. Prescott Believes En
terprise Will Be a Success.
Golf Day, January 8, will he observed
in which the new golf course will be put
into condition for playing. Students
will be asked to aid in the construction
of the course and will 'be divided into
squads, each squad taking one green.
"It has not as yet been decided as to
how we will pick out the students to help
in this work, but the plans are to pick
them out of the University at random,”
said Professor It. \V. Prescott today.
“Hy this plan the whole student body
will be out and with this turn out a team
could he formed that would be able to
•compete with Washington, Stanford, and
the University of California.
All of these institutions have teams
in which the faculty as well as the stu
dents are eligible to compete. With a
little instruction, which we plan to give
the students, we can get up a team that
will be able to compete very favorably
with these institutions, a think,” said
Professor Prescott
Coif Day a wooK-tna feature
“This Golf Day we aim to make a fea
ture of the week-end. The student coun
cil has ratified the question and appoint
ed a committee to see the thing through. :
L think it will be a grand success.”
The committee appointed is as fol
lows: James Cellars, Emmet Itathbun
and Both well Avisou.
“I have no plans yet, as I was told
yesterday that I was on the committee,”
said Chairman James Cellars. “How
ever, I am getting plans made by which
we can distribute the work among most
of the students of the University.”
“At present there would be quite a
good deal of the work that would have
to be done by each of the fraternity
houses to get the course into shape. This
would make it too hard for each of them
to keep up the green. In the end, by
letting them do the work, the college it
self would not feel as if it had any inter
est in the course, and had the right to
play on it. This is the reason for dis
tributing the work around the campus in
the way that we intend.”
“It will do lots of good to the Univer
sity and will help to get the interest
aroused,” said Emmet Itathbun, “and we
want support.”
WAYS OF FINDING PROFS
WILL BE FACILITATED
Next semester’s schedule sheet prom
ises to be a better guide to the new stu
dent than those in the past. New alum
inum numbers are being placed on all the
rooms this week so that hereafter there
will be no difficulty in locating a pro
fessor.
The rooms in Deady hall will be from
one to nine in the basement, from 10 to
1!) on the first floor, and so on, instead
of the present scheme which is from 21)
to 20 on the first floor. There are ap
proximately 100 rooms on the campus
that will be renumbered.
University of Pennsylvania—“Drink a
Highball,” the famous drinking song of
the University of Pennsylvania, has been
condemned by the Penn faculty. Provost
Edgar F. Smith disapproves of the
song's repeated references to highballs.
Faculty men maintain that it lays the
students of the university open to mis
understanding throughout the country.
OPINION IS DIVIDEO OD
COMMENCEMENT SHIFT
Sentiment of Professors is That
It Would Interfere With
Examinations.
THOSE FAVORING OUT OF CITY
Some Favor Pageant But Not
Production Change Without
Which Spectacle Impossible
In order that every University student
may be present for the proposed Oregon
pageant, it lias been suggested by some
members of the faculty that commence
ment might just as well be held before
examination week.
Following are statements from various
i professors expressing their reasou for
such a change or their opinion why it
should remain as in previous years:
II. C. Ilowe—The plan as I under
stand it, would keep the students here
for commencement exercises and also
shorten the length of the school term by
a few days. These I think are good fea
tures, but the students would not do as
well in the examinations as they would if
the exercises came after the test.
.1. II. Hilbert.- I am not in favor of
the plan on account of the demoralizing
influence on the final examinations of
the students. I think that they would
take their work much less seriously if
the commencement exercises came be
fore the examinations.
Exams Would be a Farce
II. 1). Sheldon.—I am not sure that I
thoroughly understand the plan as out
lined. but I think that the examinations
would be a farce if the students were
kept busy for four or five days before
with a pageant and celebration. If the
students were busy entertaining guests
at the houses and staying up until late
hours they would be in no condition, phy
sically or mentally, to do their best work
in the finals. I am in favor of the pag
eant and the rest of the plan, except this
feature.
.1. Schafer.- I want the pageant, so I
am in favor of having commencement be
fore the examinations. The only disad
vantage that I can see is that the stu
dents would not have the quiet time for
study just proceeding the exams. But I
believe that due allowance could be made
for this.
Dean Straub I am strongly in favor
strauD favors nan
of holding commencement before the ex
ams. Three years ago this same ques
tion was brought up and the University
almost decided in favor of the change.
This year the faculty at O. A. C. have
adopted it. Usually the percentage of
those who remain for graduation is small.
The senior class misses the support of
the student body at the exercises. If,
on the other hand, these exercises could
be held at a time when all of the seniors’
friends and classmates could attend, com
mencement would mean more to both the
class itself and the associated students.
Then after commencement the exams
could be held and there would be a grad
ual melting away of the students instead
of them all leaving in a bunch just before
the commencement. I am in favor of
any such plan whereby commencement
may be enjoyed by all of the students.
Some who stayed last year, for the first
time perhaps, said “O, why didn’t I stay
before. I didn’t know it was so nice.”
Some of these people who wanted to stay
found it impossible for one reason or an
other. If the exercises had been held
earlier they would have been on the
campus and they could have been in at
tendance.
Erie \V. Allen—I am in favor of the
| change. I believe that it is a good thing
for the students to stay for commence
ment and get a little of the spirit mani
fested at that time. Commencement can
easily be arranged for a week-end so that
the students will not necessarily be kept
any longer than usual.
It. W. Broecker—I am not sure that
this change would make any difference
with the examinations.
Would Start on Last Day
Colin V. Dyment—1 am opposed to
putting commencement before the exam
inations. The distractions of a com
mencement program would certainly ob
struct preparation for the written tests.
I favor starting the commencement pro
gram about the last day of examinations.
Thus if examinations were scheduled to
end Thursday, the sehool of music recital
might be held on Wednesday night and
Thursday could be occupied witli earlier
commencement features. Degrees could
then be granted on Friday and under
graduates who cared to remain would
not lose more than two days.
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