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OREGON EMERALD Published each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the college year, by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered at the postoffice at Eugene as second class matter. Subscription rates, per year, |1.00. Single copies, 5c. STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.MAX H. SOMMEIt Assistant Editors.Wallace Eakin, Leslie O. To«*e Managing Editor.Harold Hainstreet City Editor.Harry L. Knek News Editor.Mandel Weiss Copy Editors.De Witt Gilbert, Clytle Hall Night Editor ...Eberle .Sheldon Special Writers. .Grace Edglngton, Frances Shoemaker, Charles Dundore, Walter Kennon, Mary Baker. Administration .Roberta Klllam Assistant .Francis Yoran Sports . Chester A. Fee Assistant .James Sheehy Features .Adrienne Epplng, Echo Zahl Dramatic Critic .James Cellars Dramatics .Martha Beer Music .Eulalle Crosby Society .Beatrice Locke Lucile Watson Exchanges .Louise Allen Reporters. . Kenneth Moores, Jean Bell, Marian Neil, Carroll Wlldin, Harold Say, Robert McNary, Percy Boatman, Coralle Snell, Lucile Messner, Lucile Saunder, Joe Skelton, Stanley Eaton, Helen Brenton. BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS MANAGER.FLOYD C. WESTERFIELD Manager's and Editor’s Phone—841. Don’t Be Sneezed At! WE ARE informed by the newspapers that the German and allied armies and the Ford peace pilgrimage have felt the dread attack of the grip. In the east the little sneeze-germ has also made headway until the epidemic has not only become a national evil but something in style of a world epidemic. This is nothing new. World epidemics of the grip began in the fourteenth century, and at least four, clear-cut, globe-encircl ing sneeze-diseases hav6 been recorded in the ninetenth entury. The earliest of the four is said by Dr. Woods Hutchinson, the well known writer on medical subjects, to have put the armies of both Napoleon and Wellington in the Peninsula campaign practically out of business for several weeks and prostrated nearly a third of the population of the Spanish Peninsula within four or five days. In the middle ages the disease was so “catchy" that the an cient seers—or rather, quacks—of Italy discovered that it was due to the malignant “influence" of some heavenly star; to wit, the name, influenza. Grip is the most contagious thing known in the medical world, and it seems that it has come to the University. Doctors gener ally do not place much faith in the%incient theory that grip is sent to earth by some avenging star. On the other hand they do gen erally admit that the epidemic can be spread by one carrier: the sneezing human being. The general preventative is: Don’t be sneezed at, and you will avoid two-thirds of catching the grip. We note that the students have not recovered from the plague. In fact, neither has the faculty. It seems to us a little cooperation between students and faculty might help to stamp out the rem nants of the grip at the University. A Word to the Wise. PREPAREDNESS IS the modern bug that has infested all phases of national life and discussion, and the season is now open for the preparation bee to invade the ranks of the drones at the University: not military preparation, but far more important, preparation for examinations, which are scheduled within a month. Examinations are liable to catch many a student unawares this year on account of the ten per cent, stiffening up of the cour ses. There is a hint abroad that there will be an unmerciful slaughter of the innocents—meaning freshmen. Heretofore only a few of the first year students have packed up their property and chattels for various and sundry reasons, all of which were perfect ly obvious to all except themselves. A similar situation is said to have occured at Stanford this year, where the authorities decided that the institution was retarded by too many paracides and unde sirables. Too forestall any prolix grinding the faculty members of the law department rigged up a set of examinations which would insure any desirable number of “flunkers.” And as a result many a supposedly secure student was landed high and dry on his lug gage at the Palo Alto depot, homeward bound. Not that this is likely to happen at Oregon, but the barometer indicates a freeze-out, and if such is the case there will be no thawing. Upperclassmen should also burn up a little more daylight and a lot of oil. An item to be considered in the final reckoning when it is a matter of to be or not to be graduated is the number of cuts negotiated and the prospect fop the number to be negotiated. With the raising of standards and the operation of the cut rule credits for graduation are like greased pigs: you've got ’em and you have n’t. A word to the wise: stop procrastinating, study a little harder now and avoid the wee sma’ hours, the cold towel and the hot head that usually precedes and interferes with the efficiency in exam inations. CLASSES MEET WEDNESDAY All Meetings to Be Held at Regular Assembly Hour. Instead of die regular assembly meet tUK in Villa rd hull on Wednesday Jtttiu ary r». there will be class meetings ill the following rooms: The seniors will meet in the chemistry loom in Mel’lnre ball; the Juniors in I’rof. II. O. Howe’s class room; the sophomores in tluilil hall; and the freshmen m the assembly room in Villard. Secretary N. t’, tal'iiues is responsi ble for the change. "When l came her1 last fall 1 was not aware of the custom of having these class meetings and ur ranged the program up to 1 leeciuber," said Mr. (irimes last night. "The idea in these assembly meetings is to get more students out to the class meetings. At thins'hour thc\ can have no excuse , O . . ,o O tor not coming, since olio classes ire held.” Mr. (jrimes announced the following future assemblies last night: A lecture on "What the World Kxpects of a Uni versity Graduate." by l'rittcipal II. 11. llerdmau of Washington high school, I'ortlatnl, on January 1J. Ur. J. S. laiudsbury of the music department of the University, will gi\< an illustrated lecture on "Musical Thought" January 19. On January ith. Messrs. Berger and Join's of Uortlund will present their j "Wonder Color 1’icturos” to tile Cui j versify. These pictures portray Oregon i and Washington scenery, making speeial features of the Columhiu river. There will be no assembly during the first week in February on aeeount id' the semester examinations. WOMEN SOON TO PLAY INTERCLASS BASKETBALL A series of interelass basketball games will be played by the women of the I ni versity within a few weeks. The fresh men will play the sophomores and th ■ juniors the seniors. The winners in these games will play each other to determine the championship. All the classes except the TO’ers have held practice games. Baskefcluill has been held up this year because the length of the hotkey sea son. The last hockey game played in j Corvallis Becomber 11 completed the j season. "BRAVE" GOES TO HARVARD Fred Mitchell of the Boston Braves has been appointed head coach of the baseball team at Harvard, llis contract calls for one year, with the privilege of renewal. He will retain his relations with the Braves as usual, except that he will net join the club until somewhat later than usual. GETS OXFORD APPOINTMENT ° o -2 Luton Ackerson ’15", Will L°eave for England in August. Luton Ackerson, ’15, principal of the Biehland high school in Baker county, received as a Christmas present the ap pointment to the Cecil Khodes scholar ship at Oxford University, England. Mr. Ackerson will finish his teaching and expects to leave in August, stopping to visit at several points going east. The term open at Oxford in October. Ackerson was the only one of three Oregon candidates to successfully pass the examination which is necessary be fore the committee will recommend the applicant to receive the scholarship. In addition to the honor, it carries with it a remuneration of 300 pounds per year, approximately .$1.>00. The scholarship is for three years' duration. I he appointment was made by a unan imous decision of the Oregon Oxford examining board, of which the presidents from Willamette, Pacific, McMinnville, Albany and Oregon Universities are members. In cases where there is more than one applicant, who has passed this examination, this board chooses, not to exceed two applicants from the state or territory in which they are acting as ex aminers. I or a student to receive this appoint - j ment it is necessary that he pass an ex : amination in Latin, Greek, and two of I the following subjects: Arithmetic, alge bra or geometry At the completion of the three years’ course at Oxford a degree of B. A. is given by the English authorities. This is equivalent to the American degree of l’h. 1>. l>ne to the comparatively short terms at the English institution an op portunity is given to the scholarship students to travel through Europe. The appointing of students to this scholarship is not based upon scholar ship alone, but he must be highly recom mended by University authorities, ininis , tors, bankers and business men. He must be athletically inclined as well. This does not mean that he must be a stellar athlete, but he must coincide, in a measure at least, to the Englishman’s idea of a sportsman. While attending the University here Mr. Ackerson lived at the Men’s dormi tory. lie is tilt* son of .7. C. Ackerson, who resides eight miles northeast of Eugene. “BONES” ALLEN NOW ON MORNING OREGONIAN Franklin S. (“Bones”) Allen, M3, U now holding a position on the repertorial staff of the Morning Oregonian of Port land, leaving the place of city edittor on Eugene (luard which he held for a year and a half. Allen was managing edittor of the Emerald his last year in the Uni versity under Karl Onthunk, ’13. He was a member of the old Oregon Press club which secured a chapter in Sigma Delta Chi, national honorary journalism fra ternity, in 11(13. During the past year 512 students were enrolled in the Oraduate school of the I'niversity of Michigan. “DUTCH” YOUNG STILL' STRONG FOR OREGON ‘The college atmosphere at Washing ton does not compare with the college (“Dutch’*? V' 0reg(JD-” said Harold ( Dutch ) loung, ’14. who was in Eu dUuinS the holida-vs from ®e.att e w^ere he is enrolled in the \V °il; aw llt ^e University of Wastengton. J "They could not understand whv Ore gon students went wild when O \ C was defeated again this year. It was'too much for them to comprehend. They do not take the interest in their team nor m the members of the team that Ore gon students do. thnfT^y arr,80 tired of winning games that they did not care whether or not Dobie left. There have been no rumors or phophesies that I know of as to who will be the next coach. All reports that Washington did not have as strong a team this year as brst are false. I watched the team prac tice a number of times and they looked as good to me as they ever did. Dobi took a crack at ‘Hap’ Miller this vear. ■Miller has made, himself very unpopular and is considered the most unpopular man on the team this year. Dobie stuck him on his second all Washington team because he is lazy and ’skiffs’ in his I work. Dobie did not like him.” Young was appointed last year to a scholarship which entitled him to a yeai at Columbia University in New York! He was supposed to spend a portion of his time working for one of several large business firms in New York and after a college education, was to be given a po sition with one of them. After investi gating the proposition Young said he found that after a year he would have been sent to South America in the American movement that has been start ed to secure the trade of the Latin countries. He said he did not care to go to South America next year and so turned the opportunity down. H. C. Bean Gets High Grade in East. To receive one of She four highest grades in his class of 100 at the school of medicine at Johns* Hopkins univer sity, Baltimore, Md., is the honor re ceived recently by H. O. Bean, Univer sity of Oregon graduate in 1911 and son of It. S. Bean, federal judge of Oregon. As a reward for his standing, young Bean has the opportunity of spending the next two years in one of the largest hospitals in Baltimore, which has con nections with the medical school, a priv ilege not otherwise gained. Hospital ex perience is considered the most valuable experience that a young medical student may receive immediately after gradua tion. Bean was prominent at Oregon while here and has been prominent in scholar ship while at John’s Hopkins. He has a brother in Eugene, O. R. Bean, an archi tect, with offices in the Cockerline an 1 Wetherbee building, who graduated from the University in '09. Robert Bean, sen ior in the University, is also a brother. The Comedy club of the University of Michigan is presenting a series of the atricals to raise money to erect a the atre on the campus for the production of college dramatics. ADVERTISING PATRONIZERS OF EMERALD INCREASING Manager Westerfield Reports That Stu dents Prefer to Trade With Advertised Houses. ‘‘-The number of students that patron ize advertisers in the Emerald is getting larger every day,” said Floyd C. Wester field. business manager. “I have made in quiries and find that a large number of students mention the Emerald when making their purchases, and a good many have told me that they prefer to trade with the business houses that ad vertise in the Emerald.” “The advertising is about the same as it was last year,” continued Mr. Wes te.rfield "and students will find that if they trade with the advertisers the ad vantages will be mutual.”. The present circulation of the Emer ald is about 1300 and is as large as it was last year at this time, although at the close of the school year the num ber of subscribers was about 1400. The Emerald goes to all sections of the country at there are about 500 alumni in different parts of thj world who are subscribers. The Emerald is exchanged with some of the leading college papers or the country as "Well as with the Morning Oregonian, the Oregon Journal, the Evening Telegram and Portland News, of Portland. It is sent also to all the accredited high schools of the state. The College publications on the exchange list are: the Yale Itecord, New Haven, Conn; Scarlet and Black, Greenville, Iowa; The Evergreen, Pullman, Wash.; The Daily Palo Alto, Stanford University, Ca!.; U. of N. Sagebrush, Beno, Nevada; The Daily Kansan, Lawrence, Kansas; Ohio State Lantern, Columbus, Ohio; Daily Orange, Syracuse, New York; Wiscon sin Daily News, Madison, Wis.; I. S. C: student, Ames, Iowa; Idaho Argonaut, Moscow, Idaho; The Iowan. Iowa City, Iowa; The Cornelian, Mt. Vernon, Iowa; Vermont Cynic, Burlington, Vermont; Northwestern Magazine, Evanston, 111.; The Student, Bloomington, Ind.; The Bachelor, Crawfojdsville, Ind.; We;-ley on Argus, Middleton, Conn., O. A. C. Barometer, Corvallis, Ore.; The Cali fornian, U. of O., Berkeley, Cal.; Wash ington Daily, U. of W., Seattle, Wash.; The Volante, Vermillion, S. D.; The Weekly Spectrum, Fargo, N. D., The Wisconsin Sphynx, Wisconsin Sham, U. of YV., Malison, Wis., and the University Missourian, Columbia. Will Head English Department. Peter Crockatt, T4, has just been se lected head of the department of Eng lish and elocution at Spokane University, Spokane, Washington. Crockatt is now teaching in the high school at Tillamook, Oregon, and has handed in his resigna tion to the Tillamook authorities to as sume his new position in the University February 1. Crockatt was prominent in debate and oratory at the University and also played a position on the soccer team for three years. He worked his way through college as salesman, practiced law in a Portland office, and held a po sition as pastor at Wasco, Washington. ORIENT CONTRIBUTES TO OREGON STUDENT BODY Ho>Sheng Huang, of China, and Joe Tominaga, of Japan, Hold Popular Positions at University. This year but two foreign countries, China and Japan, are represented in the regular registration, a 50 per cent de crease since last year when India and Bulgaria were also included. Two spe cial students from the Bible University who are attending here came from New Brunswick, Canada and New Zealand. Eastern states such as Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin have con tributed several but the principal por tion is from Eugene and Portland and nearby towns. Ho-Sheng Huang, a sophomore from China, is majoring in the pre-medical course. He is a graduate of Portland Academy, the Anglo-Chinese college at Amoy, South China, and has attended St. Stephens' college in Hongkong, the An glo-Chinese college at Tientsin, and Union Medical college at Peking. Wants to Be a Leader He gives as his reasons for coming to America his desire to be a leader some day, to get experience abroad that will be of help to his mother country, and hi?: partiality toward American methods of education. Besides this he says he does not like to study medicine in the Chinese language. When he has completed his course here Huang is going east for a degree, following that he will return to China. At present he is working for th“ .Chinese students, as associate editor of the. "Chinese Students Monthly,” pub lished in Ithaca, New York. He is a member of the University glee club and his solos in Chinese have been a feature of the club’s recent performances. Does Not Care to Go Back From Osaka, Japan, comes Joe Tomi naga, a senior in the architecture depart ment, treasurer of the architecture club, and sergeant-at-arms of his graduating class. He has been in the United States nine years, arriving in Seattle with the intention of going east to study. Find ing that Oregon offered the only good course in architecture in the northwest and liking this part of the country, he came here. During the summer months he travels. He has been to Canada, Minnesota and California and before lie came to this country he had been to southern Manchuria. Tominaga has no very great desire to return to Japan un less for a pleasure trip, but he may go east after his graduation and continue his studies. He has made a name for himself in his work while in Eugene, hav ing contributed largely to the art pages in the Oregana. The Department of Physics of the Co lumbia University has recently come into possession of a furnace calculated to produce 1800 degrees centigrade of heat. It is capable of smelting platinum which melts at 1750 degrees. The heat is pro duced by the passing of a D. C. current of electricity through carbon granules. The Business Man who really deserves the trade created in Eugene each year by . University Students is the man who advertises in the students’ own publication, the ° *o • ’ • • ' G ° U O O ° ° Oregon Emerald Students! Before you make your purchases see if that merchant is ad vertising in YOUR paper— The ORE GON EMERALD. This is your publica tion and the prosper ity of YOUR paper depends on the way the merchant shows his appreciation of your trade. 2 CENTS COMJNG OUR WAY FOR EVERY DOL LAR GOING THEIR WAY WILL TURN THE TRICK.