OREGON
EMERALD
VOL. 17.
EUGENE, OREGON, THUR SDAY, JANUARY 6, 1916.
NO. 38
COMMENCEMENT, Mil
EXAMS, FACULTY RULES
\
Tentative Program Described
By Prof. E. W. Allen Includes
All Week-End Functions.
PAGEANT FRIDAY EVENING
Senior Exams May Be Dropped
or Advanced; Senior Play
Not Yet Decided.
Commencement will i/receed exams
this year. So the faculty decided Thurs
day before the holidays. The bearing of
this ruling on senior plans was discus
sed at^the senior class meeting yester,
day and a tentative commencement pro
gram as discussed by the faculty was
described by Prof. E. W. Allen, class
advisor, lie said the faculty thought the
exercises might be rearranged in some
such form as follows, the seniors being
invited to appoint a committee to con
sider:
Program Proposed
Friday, June 2: Pageant in the even
ing.
Saturday, June 3: Alumni Day; meet
ings of alumni and alumnae; alumni lun
cheon; field day (if given); alumni ball
in the evening.
Sunday, June 4: Academic procession;
baccalaureate exercises; school of music
presentation.
Monday, June f>: Academic proces
sion; commencement; President’s re
ception; flower and fern procession;
Failing and Beekman orations.
May Oust Senior Exams
“This arrangement may dispose of
senior examinations, or it may bring
them in ahead of the other exams,” said
Professor Allen. “Undergraduates will
be studying, presumably, during com
mencement, and it is desirable that com
mencement disturb them as little as pos
sible. The commencement program
should aim to keep friends and relative'
interested on the campus, away from
the houses during study periods.”
“The criticism has been made that
commencement here is thin and unat
tractive,” said the advisor. On his sug
gestion that new features might be in
troduced or borrowed from other cam
puses, and that a committee be appoiut
ed to look over the ground. President
Batle.v named the following: Floyd Daw
son, Anson Cornell, Chester Miller, Les
lie Tooze, Louise Bailey, Claire Raley,
Katharine Bridges, and Genevieve
Shaver.
Seniors Want Play
The seniors want a senior play,
“something that will have in it every
thing we want it to have,” and the com
mittee trusted with this order will be:
Mandell Weiss. Ralph Allen. Chester
Fee, Charlie Fenton. Rita Fraley, and
Marie Churchill.
Whether there shall he a senior mem
orial. of what nature it shall be and
where in the program it shall occur was
referred for recommendation to a com
mittee as follows: Rothwell Avison, Wil
liam Burgard. Erna Petzold, Walter
Church, Grace Edgington.
Oregana Debt Is $400
The Oregana debt standing against
the class was moved paid. Class revenue
will provide part. A loan will be nego
tiated to cover the balance. The debt is
something like $400.
Walter Church as captain and Claude
Hampton as manager will work up a
senior basket hall team, and decide whe
ther “to make the game ping pong or
football,” by the favorite comparison ot
President Batley.
Wallace Eakin. Fred Dunbar, Berth i
Kincaid, and Lucile Watson were ap
pointed to report on commencement in
vitations.
Charley Fenton to Urge Mustaches
“All-round moustaches” will be dili
gently cultivated by the senior men. urg
ed on by a committee headed by Char
lie Fenton, who at last meeting present
ed the moustache resolution of the sen
ior co-eds. The other members are Wil
liam Burgard and Rothwell Avison. The
latter inquired if a good all-round mous
tache meant all around the mouth, an 1
amid some protest was referred to the
petition.
Provis.ons were made for a senior
leap year lottery dance. A plea was
o made for a good audience at the ^ om
ein’s glee club concert Saturday even
ing. especially in that there are many
seniors in the club and that it isn t
encouraging to see in the audience t
large sprinkling of intelligent-looking
seats.”
Attention was called by Henry Howe,
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Twenty-seven Pretty Co-eds Will Delight Theatre-Goers Tomorrow Night
GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB
Top Row—Margaret Welch, Margaret Spangler, Cora Hosford, R ta Fraley, Myrtle Tobey, Melba Williams. Mona
Johns, Eva Brock, Emma Wootton, Irene Rugh, Charlie Fenton, Leah Perkins, Virginia Peterson. Second Row—Cleojne
Montgomery, Kathleen Fraley, Laura Miller, Mamie Gillette, Hester Hurd. First Row—Marie Churchill, Esther Fenton,
Wood, Miriam Tinker.
Dougherty. Th rd Row—Helen
Carrol, Martha Tinker, Dorothy
Julia Platt, Erma Kiethley, Iva
“pig” No More,
’Tis Leap Year
Benedict “Poet” Cautions Men
From Game Less Safe
Than Before.
The gent who is wise wears no pin on his
vest,
But secretively hides it away,
For discretion than valor and rashness is
best;
And the season opened on New Year’s
day.
For this is the year that comes once in
four,
When February adds one day that it had
not before,
And women gun for men.
The gent who is wise pigs for joy of the
pigging.
And retaineth his freedom through all,
From oath and bethrothal forever reneg
ing.
And shunning Cupid’s thrall.
The cautious pigger now pigs no more,
For the game’s less safe than it was be
fore,
Now that women gun for men.
FRESHMAN DANCE FEB. 12
Committees Appointed; Music Refresh
ments, Features and Others
Included.
Committees for the freshmen Valen
tine danee were appointed at the class
meeting Wednesday and arrangements
made to collect the hundred dollars in
class dues not yet paid up. The dance
probably will take place Saturday, Feb
ruary 12. in the Armory.
Dr. Straub has urged that every
freshman girl be asked to go even if she
does not dance. "If any of you boys don’t
dance it won’t do you any harm to ask
a girl who doesn’t dance and go and sit
in the gallery. If I see any freshmen
there with an upperclass girl and find
that one of his own class has remained
at home I’ll take him to task about it as
soon as I get hold of him,” he said.
Committee chairman are as follows:
Social: Genevieve Dickey; music, Italph
Tourtellotte; program, Sprague Adam:
invitation, I*aura Miller: refreshments.
Dorothy Dunn; decoration. Kathleen
Fraley; feature, Wyville Sheehy. George
Gates was appointed general manager
Charles Johns was elected manager of
the freshmen basketball team.
DOUGHNUT SERIES ON,
ns gill for Flood
Two Hundred Witness First
Four Games of Inter-fratern
ity League at the Gym.
LEAGUE STANDING
TEAM WON LOST PCT.
Dormitory .I 0 1,000
Kappa Sigma ..I 0 1,000
Phi Dolts.i 0 1,000
Sigma Chi .I 0 1,000
A. T. 0.0 I 000
Fijis .0 I 000
Ore. Club.0 I 000
Betas .0 I 000
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS.
A. T. 0., 12—Dorm, 23; Fijis, 7—
Kappa Sigma, 9; Oregon Club, 7—Phi
Delts, 10; Betas, 3—Sigma Chi, 5.
With the shrill of Bill Hayward’s tin
COMMERCE COURSES
TO BE PRACTICAL1ZED
Dr. Morton Discusses Addi
tions to Be Made in the
Work Next Semester.
When the commerce students returned
this week they found their recitation
rooms considerably changed. During the
vacation a large well lighted room ou
the north side of the building was made
by putting a partition in the long hall
about a third of the length from the end
of the room. The remainder of the obi
main hall has been divided into two
parts; one will be used for a reading
room where ull the periodicals and com
mercial literature is kept and the other
will serve ns a working laboratory.
Too Much Space
“The reason we made the change",
says Dean I). \V. Morton, “is because
the old room was too big and gave us
poor black-board facilities and moreover
we expect to have a new man with us
Emerald Can Break the Speed Limits—
But Can the Staff Stand the Pace?
By special arrangements, II. W. (meaning “Hard Working”) Makar has
consented to print the Emerald on the hig press at the Guard office.
This press is the speediest on the market and its name is Duplex ‘Tit
ular,” with a maximum speed of .‘{0,000 papers per hour, folded and ready for
delivery.
“Shell” Sheldon, chief chauffeur, and "Ed” who runs a motorcycle when
he’s not running the press, have agreed to break the speed laws on the Eiucr id.
At this rate the Emerald issue will last from three to fiAe minutes after
the make-up and terotyping is completed.
On the old job press the same process requires about two and a half hours,
in addition to an hour for folding.
But—This saving of time in presswork requires a proportionate speeding
up in assigning, reporting, handing in assignment, copy-reading, head-writing,
proof-reading and make-up. Otherwise the Emerald will devour itself with
costly overtime.
To the entire staff, therefore, we request that work be speeded up, that
there be no delay in handing in assignments.
With this improvement, the Emerald’s mechanical equipment compares
favorably with any daily on the Pacific coast.
To put the rest of the Emerald’s facilities on a pa with the press, ad
ditional speed is needed on the editorial, managerial and repetorial depart
ments.
Let’s all push together to keep up with the press.
It means a better and earlier Emerald.
whistle the interfraternity basketball
games started Wednesday afternoon at
4 p. rn. in the gym.
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next semester and we will need more
room. The old electrical laboratory down
stair* has also been cleaned out and we
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Another Lottery!
’Tis Girls’Chance
Seniors Annual Hop—Mix Will
Be Democratic Affair; Com
mittees Appointed.
Another lottery dance, but this time
u leap year uffair!
With only one audible dissenter, Bill
Burgard, the senior class yesterday de
cided to retain the senior lottery dance
custom. The leap year feature seemed to
please especially that part of the class
that usually sees to cabs, and to flow
ers, to waiting in the parlor, and to smil
ing distantly at the patronesses who may
love to dance.
Ah! No Cabs! No Flowers!
But there will be no cabs and flowers.
Kor Constance Cartwright asked about
it, and ITesident Hatley said that though
he hadn’t any objection to a little decor
ation himself, he thought that a demo
cratic class should oppose such non-es
sentiuls.
“Now that I have voted in favor of the
measure,” said Mandell Weiss, “I'd like
to inquire just what the nature of the
affair will be.”
“A leap year affair is where the girls
try to show the fellows a good time,”
was the opinion of Bothwell Avison.
Corruption was the cry of one speak
er, who feared that heretofore the draw
ing of names has been juggled with. It
was promised that a higher committee
would scrutinize the work of the main
committee if necessary. The dance com
mittee consists of: Chester Miller, Kate
Stanfield, Constance Cartwright, Claude
Hampton and William Tuerqji.
AGGIES $3400 AHEAD.
The Oregon Aggies have got lots of
kale with which to start the new year.
After weeks of effort and hard work
jaunting the greenbacks, they have finally
deduced thati they are $3-400 ahead of
where they were when the season start
ed. And all this after making the trip
to Lansing, Mich., besides one to Cali
fornia and one to eastern Washington.
EXERCISE SOME MORE.
Sophomores at the university of Wis
consin were unable to get enough exer
cise in the varsity or interclass sports,
so they destroyed $00 worth of property
in a “cap fight” recently.
According to statistics recently col
lected at Colgate university the average
age of members of the entering class each
year is 19 years 8.3 months.
GIRLS TO DISCLOSE
FROLIC SECRETS
Concert Saturday Night of
Gleesters Promises to Be
One of Most Peppy.
10-20-30 TO BE CHEF D’OUVER
Virginia Peterson, Leah Per
kins, Mona Dougherty, Eva
Brock Are the Soloists.
Adrienne Epping
For once the secret stunts of April
frolic will be divulged to the public. The
program for the Girl’s Glee club concert
Saturday night will include several from
last season’s frolic. This concert prom
ises to be one of the most pepy perform
ances ever staged by the college girls.
The first selection, "Will o’ the Wisp”
will be an innovation with bizarre light
ing effects. It has leaked out that "Do
lte-Mi” is a big animated scole—the
I'niversity girls always did do things on
a large scale but "10-20-30” will be the
chef d’ouver of the evening. Virginia
Peterson, Leah Perkins, Mona Dougher
ty and Eva llrock are the soloists for
the club.
The program will be as follows:
Part One.
(a) Will o’ the Wisp.Spross
(b) The Dusk Witch .Ambrose
Glee Club
Solo—
A May Morniug .Denza
Miss Virginia Peterson.
To the Spring .Grieg
Glee Club
Solo—
A Bonnie Curl.Chadwick
Miss Leah Perkins
'l'he Fountain .Bartlett
Glee Club
Part Two.
Serenade ..Richard Strauss
Glee Club
Piano Solo—
Paraphrase on the quartette from
“Rigoletto” .Verdi-Liszt
Miss Mona Dougherty
Quarette—
“The Sweetest Flower That Blows”
.Hawley
Misses Brock, Tinker, Wood, Perkins
“10-20-30.”
Do-re-mi
Solo—
Lullaby from Jocelyn.Godareh
Miss Eva Brock
Songs of My Oregon... .Howe-McCosh
Glee Club
Tickets may be had at the box office
of the Eugene theatre after 10 a. m.,
Friduy, Jan. 7th.
PRESIDENT IS IN WASHINGTON.
President Prince L. Campbell will be
in Washington, D. (’., from December
31 to January 8, in attendance at the
American Scientific Congress nnd other
allied meetings. Professor H. B. Miller,
of the School of Commerce was invited
to be present at this convention and read
a paper. Pressure of business prevents
him from accepting, so President Camp
bell will read the paper.
GO FROM COUNCIL TO CONGRESS
In order to get away from the stiff
ness and artificiality of a classroom ex
teroise, Prof. It. VV. Prescott’s classes in
public speaking pretend that they are
anythin"' from a city council to a moth
, er’s congress.
“The students can’t put their hearts
into mere formal speeches,” says Prof.
Prescott. "They are conscious that
.there is no real end to be gained, and are
superficial in their argument. That we
muy have a vital interest, we imagine
ourselves in a situation which justifies
the discussion. If we want to talk on the
compulsory student body tax, we are,
for the time being, the student body. If
we want to discuss matters affecting the
entire state, we are the legislature. And
we can us reardily turn ourselves into a
woman’s club or a mothers’ congress, if
the subject demands it.”
Nearly $1000 have been raised among
the faculty of the Kansas Stute Normal
school at Kiuporia to go as a gift toward
the rebuilding of the college of Kmporia
building recently destroyed by fire.
NOTICE.
All soccer candidates report in
the gymnasium tomorrow at 3:30
p. in. Manager Tiffany has writ
ten to Multnomah Club for two
dates, February 5, and February
10. Active practice every Mon
day, Wednesday, and Friday from
now ou.