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0 OREGON VOL. 17. EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANARY 8, 1916. NO. 39. STATEWIDE INTEREST AROUSED III PAGEANT Portland Notables Promise Ly ric and Music Con tributions. MATERIAL IS ACCUMULATING Professor Bates Asks Students’ Co-operation in Fes tival. Material for the pageant is accumu lating. As a result of his recent trip to Portland in the interests of the pageant, Prof. E. S. Bates announces that Mrs. Thomas Carrick Burke has promised to compose some of the music, and Col. C. E. S. Wood will help with the lyrics if he finds it at all possible. Only two student contributions, two choruses by Mrs. Helen Wilson, have been finally accepted, although a number of others have been submitted. Prof. Dandsbury is now working on the music for these. Prof. Bates’ drama class is studying pioneer history in preparation for pageant work. But the management does not wish the composition to be confined to the regu lar English classes. “We want every student with talent for writing as a contributor,” said Prof. Bates. “If the students will read the outline, make any contributions or sug gestions they can, that is all we ask.” Th tentative scenario, drawn up by Dr. Bates, is as follows: Mother Oregon Appears Mother Oregon, a matronly figure in white, enters, followed by thirty-four beautiful maidens who have been select ed, one from each county in the state. The costumes of the maidens symbolize the chief interest or characteristic of each county; while all of one style, they are manifold in color and ornament. A dialogue follows, in which these Daugh ters of Oregon complain of their hard lot, revealing mutual jealousy, poverty, and disheartenment. Oregon, the moth er, reminds them of the beauty of the surrounding nature, the glory of the state’s past and its hope for the fu ture. To bring them to a full realization of this, she casts them into a magic slumber during which the ghosts of long dead heroes shall reappear and the de parted days return for a brief hour. j Primeval Nature Revealed Mother Oregon now calls upon nature to ireveal herself as she was ere man appeared. The response comes in the form of two choruses of men, repre senting the Mountains and the Plains, two of women representing the Forests and the Streams, the Mountains in dark purple, the streams in shimmering sil ver; the Forests in green; the Plains in golden brown. Lyrics from the leaders of the choruses, expressive of the deso late grandeur and useless beauty of un conscious nature, ^followed 'by the dance of nature in which the characteristic as pects symbolized by the choruses are ex pressed in terms of motion. Indians Form Compact With Whites The Spirit of Freedom enters, dressed j as an Indian girl. She tells in a lyric j of her people whom she is leading into | this land, and of the joys of their wild and simple life. The Indians follow, put up their wigwams, and dance a religious dance. Then enters the Spirit of Truth, clad in white, a youth. lie tells them of the coming of another race, wiser than they and worshipping another god. Even as he speaks, the party of Lewis and Clark is seen in the distance, guided ■by the Shoshone woman, Sakakawea. They are singing as they approach. The j Indians seize their arms and are at first | disposed to resist, but the Spirit of Freedom, overawed by Truth, per- ' suades her people to receive the whites | in friendly manner. Consequently, as j the expedition draws near, it is greeted ] by an Indian march in its honor to the ; sound of drums. The whites bring | gifts to the Indians, tell something of their great trip across the continent, and i describe briefly their religion. The In- ! dians are interested, four of them de cide to accompany the expedition on its return, in order to learn more of this ; new religion; the whites promise to send! missionaries. A ceremony of friendship ; is enacted, and the whites depart, with j the four Indians. Indians War on Missionaries Freedom questions Truth as to the na ture of Christianity and the mission aries. Truth replies in an eloquent ; eulogy. The missionaries enter and are ; welcomed. They preach to the Indians, j then set to work to raCe a church at the j back of the stage. (The church, of course, has been constructed before (Continued on page four) Tooze on Board Admires Scenery But Can Feel War in Air as the British Fleet of 27 Ves sels Steams By. On Board Frederick II, Kirkwald, Orkney Island, 3100 miles from New York, December 17.—We Ford peace emisarries arrived here in port today; hauled in by the British patrol cruiser, Virginia, to undergo examination. Three German Red Cross doctors aTe on board and the party will be held until word can be received from London. This morn ing a fleet of 27 British cruisers and torpedo boats steamed by. One can al most feel the war in the air. Ip our party is Hurja, of U. of W., and Mr. Smock, national progressive committee man from New Plymouth, Idaho. My stateroom companions are Hettinger, of Stanford, Love, of Oberlin, and Robert Domanj of the New York Morning Tri bune. Our dinners are all formal. We have meetings every night. We .cannot land, but we get a splendid view of land from the boat. The country from the coast line back is flat and cut up into farms; laid out like a checkerboard. We met the Oskar in Kirkwald this morning. It had left New York four days before us, but was detained here two days. LAMAR TOOZE. The above message to Leslie Tooze is the first received from Lamar since he sailed from New York. The letter came Thursday night. WOMEN USE MENUS BUT MEN CRITICIZE Five Sororities Get Suggestions From Home Science Bill of Fares; Only One Fraternity. The Beta Theta Pi men think that the menus printed each Saturday in the Em erald are too much like Woman’s Home Companion stuff to be of any use to men. This seems to be the almost unanimous decision of the men. The Delta Tau Delta is the only fraternity which has made any use of them and they only get sug gestions for desserts. The Iota Chis think they contain a Jew suggestions but are not heavy enough for boys. The Phi Delta Thetas say they sound alright but that there isn’t enough in them to feed boys. The Sigma Chis and Phi Gamma Deltas get some suggestions from them and the rest of the fraternities do not use them at all. The sororities like them better and five make use of them. The menus help the Gamma Phi Betas to keep in touch with the market prices. The Alpha Phis con sider them practical and good and would like to have them continued. The Pi Beta >his think that the variety is too small. The Kappa Kappa Gamma haven’t used them yet but would like to have them continued for suggestions. The Delta Gammas and Tri Delts get god sugges tions from them and wmnt them contin ued. The Chi Omegas, Kappa Alpha The tas, and Kappa Sigmas do not use them at all. Mary Spiller hasn't used them yet but thinks that they are good. The menus have been contributed by the Home Science Club of Eugene. They are carefully balanced and are intend ed for persons leading a sedentary life. MISS FORBES TO GIVE RECITAL Miss Winifred Forbes, instructor of violin will give ft recital on the evenin» of February 18 in Villard hall. She will be accompanied by Mrs. W. F. G. Thach er who will also give one number. No admission will be charged. Miss Forbes, and Mrs. Thacher, with Mrs. A. Mid dleton, also of the school of music, have formed a harmony trio. REHEARSE “ROSE MAIDEN” Orchestra practice now consists of re hearsing for the “Rose Maid” to be giv en by the Eugene Philharmonic society this month. Following this, work is to be begun on the annual concert on March 21 in Villard hall. A fine program is promised. Any money derived from the concert will go to purchase new orches tral instruments. WILL INSTALL “MOVIES.” The trustees of Vassar college are con sidering the installation of moving pic ture shows at the college to be given each Saturday afternoon and evening. East year there was considerable discussion concerning the attendance of the “mov ies” by students in Poughkeepsie. From the Michigan Daily comes the wail that spirit is lacking. Many of the seniors refuse to sit in the cheering sec tion at the games. FORTNIGHTLY CLUB TO GIVE BIG BLOW-OUT Combination Card and Dancing Party for Benefit of Woman’s Building Scheduled Friday. “I move that we give $500 toward the woman’s building of the University of Oregon.” This was the proposal that electrified the membership of the Eugene Fort nightly club at a meeting last October. The women sat up straight and wonder ed where the $500 would come from if they voted it. Those were the very pio neer days of the woman’s building when women's clubs throughout the state were looking to the organizations in Eugene, to the associations of collegiate alumnae, and to the groups of Oregon alumnae, for a cue as to how seriously the con templated woman’s 'building was to be taken. So the Fortnightly club shut its eyes and voted $500. Now the hour has nearly come when the $500 is to be raised. The time set is the evening of next Friday, January 14. The place is the new armory; the method: a dance and card party; the ex pense: just 50 cents per person. Students, faculty, business men, club women and townsfolk generally, are in vited with equal cordiality to attend the woman’s building benefit. The event is to be an all-city one. Dancing and card clubs of the city have been asked to co operate by making no dates of their own. The townsfolk are to give the University proof of their interest; the University is to give the townsfolk proof of its appre ciation. “Which means,” said Miss Julia Burgess, former president of the Fort nightly club, “that everyone must go.” The present officers of the club will receive on the main floor. A full dance program will be given, special rooms will be provided for card playing, and groups that wish to reserve tables may have them held by applying to Mrs. Martha E. Watson. Punch will be served on both flors. And here’s some more: The girls’ glee club will sing. Miss Forbes and Mrs. Thacher will give a violin and piano duet. Miss Frieda Goldsmith and Miss Hazel Rader will give solo dances. These features will be presented as an interlude in the middle of the dancing program. More yet: The suit of hearts ballet from “Alice in Wonderland” will be given. Which announcement should really be in capitals. SOCCER HAS TROUBLES Weather, Basketball, Indifference, In juries and Mixup Over Oates Handicaps Squad. Even the soccer team is having its troubles. For the past two months 8, 12, 15 and sometimes 18 men have been turning out under Prof. Colin V. Dyment in an effort to make the team. Practice was greatly handicapped from the outset. Sloppy weather, which turns the field into a quagmire, has made footwork and hand ling the ball an impossibility. Then again the men have been cutting soccer practice for other activities. The Doughnut league series in basketball is now on, meaning that some twelve soc cer candidates will be unable to practice for over two weeks. The absence of Spellman and Tuerck has left the first squad in a bad way. Both men starred on Oregon’s teams the past two years, and both are now on the sidelines due to injuries received during the football campaign. Oregon had scheduled two games in December with the Multnomah club elev en of Portland. The club canceled these dates, saying that they were not able to get in shape so early. January 15 was then agreed upon as the date for the var sity to invade the Rose City. Complica tions arose and Graduate Manager A. R. Tiffany wrote to Multnomah asking for a game in Portland on February 5, and a return contest in Eugene on February 10. Although not definite, these two dates are almost certainties. Despite the many handicaps, lack of new material, slack interest in the sport, and the uncertain status of the game, Oregon should have a team that will rival the eleven that twice tied the clubmen last winter. Coach Dyment is working hard and faithfully against great odds to place a formidable combination on the field. Practice will be held Monday, Wednes day and Friday and nightly after the Doughnut league champions have been crowned. The men who turn out regu larly from now on will be the onea who will make the varsity. FIVE TEAMS IRE 500; THREE 1000; THREE 0 Third Day of Doughnut Series Sees Some Reversal in For mer League Standing. TEAM WON Phi Delts .2 Kappa Sigma .. 2 Dolts .2 Sigma Chi .... I, Dorm.I A. T. O.I Betas .I Ore. Club.I Fijis .O lota Chi .O Sigma Nu .0 LOST PCT. O 1,000 0 1,000 0 1,000 1 .500 I .500 I .500 I .500 1 .500 2 .000 2 .000 2 .000 Thursday’s Scores Sigma Nu 12, Delts 18; Iota Chi 7, A. T. O. 24; Dorm 15, Kappa Sig 20; Fijis 9, Ore. Club 15. Friday’s Scores Phi Delts 10, Sigma Chi 8; Betas 9, Sigma Nu 4; Delts 16, Iota Chi 2; A. T. O.-Knppa Sig. game postponed. Thursday afternoon saw some reversal in form of the teams that played the preceding day. Friday the dope played even. To date the Phi Delts loom up strong, with Rueh basket shooters as Roberts and Huntington. Shy hoisted a couple into the hoop last night from the middle of the floor and Roberts main tained his reputation in capturing foul shots. The Kappa Sigs percentage is holding through the stellar work of Jay Fox, and by that w’hiz, Laird Woods. The other team batting a thousand is the Delts, this team sticking by all around good team work. The Fijis, Iota Chis and Sigma Nus are playing the loving game in the cellar, while the other five teams in the league nrj coasting on the cellar door, each treading on the other’s tail to keep from the drop. GRIP EPIDEMIC RELAXES ITS HOLD ON PROFESSORS Rumor That College Would Be Dismiss ed on Account of Plague Is Denied. One of those unexplainable rumors was winded about the campus yesterday. Some one said that he heard that some body else heard that he heard that there would be a dismissal of the University on account of the "grip” so prevalent among the instructors at the present time. How ever, according to Secretary N. C. Grimes no such action is contemplated. “There is only a small per centage of the faculty on the sick list,” said Mr. Grimes last night. “So far as I know only Professors Thachert Bovard, Sweet ser, and Dr. Hope are out of the Univer sity this week. Dean Straub has been out but he met his classes again Wed nesday.” According to information received by the Emerald last night, Dr. Hope is gradually recoyering and will meet his law students again Monday. Professor Sweetser said last night that he was better and would be on the cam pus again Monday. “I was at home when Mrs. Sweetser was sick and contract ed the ‘grip’ from her but I have man aged to break it up,” said Profesor Sweetser last night. “I shall be back Monday.” In answer to a question, ‘How do you feel," Professor Thacher replied that he felt like most people do when they are recovering from the disease. “Yes, I shall be on hand Monday,” he said last evening. “Dr. Bovard is still in bed but is bet ter than he was on Wednesday,” said Mrs. Bovard yesterday afternoon. “I think that he will be back on Monday.” Some students did not show very great sorrow when it was announced that such a professor would not meet his classes today. One girl in freshman zoology said, “What did he say? Oh, isn’t that love ly. Say, I hope he don’t come back to morrow.” GLORIOUS IN THEIR NEW PANTS. University of Washington. A stiff necked and embarrassed lot of freshmen swarmed the campus of the university of Wednesday. They were appearing for the first time in their cadet uniforms of gray. They hid their white gloveH till drill hour. MONTANA STUDENTS WORK At Montana university 80 per cent of the students are either totally or partly dependent upon their own resources. One student receives 35 cents an hour by caring for two babies every afternoon. Returing from a tour of Japan and the Philippines the baseball team of the uni | versity of Chicago has a record of 33 games won and seven lost. “Raven” of Poe Bested by Raven Metrically Inclined Reporter Breathes Terrors of Exams in Parody on Famous Poem. (CORALIE SNELL) (With congratulations to Poe for hay ing made his version run so smoothly. I don't see how he did it). It can’t be put off longer. Every day the thought grows stronger That the many quaint and curious vol umes of forgotten lore, Which I hoped I might remember from thnt third week in December When I started home for Christmas all rejoicing o'er and o’er. I said that for one fortnight all my stu dies I’d ignore Are forgot forevermore. Now upon each midnight dreary, I am pondering weak and weary, Trying to recall those hazy, fleeting memories galore, Which I had before vacation, but which hadn’t much duration, And upon which my salvation from ex am's Plutonian shore— From the terrifying quiz that leaves one stranded on that shore— Is depending more and more. Deep into this darkness peering, long I stand here wondering, bearing; Doubting, dreaming dreams most mortals dream at raid-year or before; And a vague, uneasy feeling o’er my troubled soul is stealing To my sorrow 'tis revealing that my care-free days of yore— Those sweet days when quizzes’ shad ows were not floating on the floor— Are returning—nevermore. DEAN STRAUB EXPECTS AN ENROLLMENT OF 100 Outlook Favorable for Oregon, According to Indications From Lecture Tour. “I would not be surprised if a hund red or a hundred and fifty students en ter the University the second semester.” says Dean Straub, who spoke to high school students of several Oregon towns during Christinas vacation. “Throughout the state there ib a tre mendous interest in the University. A friendly feeling towards Oregon is grow ing rapidly, and high school students are anxious to know all about the Univer sity.” I)r. Straub spoke at the high school of Gresham, Estacada, Clatskanie, Seap poose and Seaside. lie wus also scheduled to speak at Rainier and St. Helens but upon arriving at these towns found that schools had been closed on account of small pox and scarlet fever. College education as a dollar and cents proposition was the theme of Dr. Straub's lectures. He showed the students that they could not afford to miss a college education, for it means money in their pockets after they leave school. Many students of Vancouver high school, Washington, where Dr. Straub spoke before vacation, have already writ ten for University catalogues. That the majority of graduates from this high school will enter Oregon is the opinion of Dean Htrnub. Sulletins showing that there are plen ty of subjects that one who enters the second semester can take are being sent to students who finish high school this semester. LADS AND LASSIES SKIP AT OREGON CLUB DANCE There wasn’t a big crowd—there were no fancy decorations, but there was a genial, jovial set who merrily skipped to the strains of Hendershott’s orches tra, and made the Oregon club party at the men’s gymnasium last night a suc cess. Tbe thinness of the attendance gave opportunity for the more elaborate walks and glides of the modern variety. The Charlie Chaplain sway, hdwever held its own. As a feature of the evening’s enter tainment, Martha Beer and MandeH Weiss presented a little breeay skit, which registered handfuls of applause. Henry Howe, president of the club, said that it took better than any feature given this year. And there was also a solo by Harold Humbert, which pleased. SHALL SENIOR EXAMS BE GIVEN IN JUNE? Dont Try to Influence the Fac ulty in the Matter Warns One Professor. FACULTY IS DIVIDED ON TOPIC Graduating Classes Have Peti tioned to Be Excused From Quizzes for Past 25 Tears. Shall the seniors be excused from sec* ond semester examinations this year? This question arises out of the recent fac ulty ruling that commencement shall be gin on June 2, before the general exam inations. "But I wouldn’t advise the stu dents to try to influence the faculty on the matter,” one foculty member said yes terday. "The faculty doesn't like to have its action prophesied.” or 15 years—perhaps as long as 25— the seniors have been sending in annual petitions to be excused from examinations, Professor II. C. llowe says. “And,” he continues, “every year they have been re fused. I don’t care whether they take ex aminations or not. In my own depart ment we know what a student’s probable standing is without an exam. In classes where no recurrent quizzes are given ex ams may be necessary. But a two-hour examination doesn't reveal what a stu dent knows anyhow. The alternative of giving examinations early to the seniors will make double work.” The pageant was plead as one reason for holding commencement early. “I do not think that the pageant should be permitted to abate the stiffness of tie examinations for any class one jot,” skid Professor Colin V. Dyment. “Where there are others than seniors in classes—which should not be the case—they should all take the examination early.” "Seniors are human, and examinations are an incentive,” said Professor E. E. DeCou. "I am opposed to letting the sen iors out. Not all, but many of them, need the thought of exams to keep them doing organized work up till the end.” Profesor E. W. Allen said that excus ing the seniors should be made a matter of exempting those who had an average of “M” or above. "I would favor per mitting them to do their work on good faith,” he explained. "It would be the professor’s duty to round them up if they were loafing.” Dr. Edmund s. Donum says ne nas some seniors who could stand being ex empted and some who couldn't. “But I have not thoroughly canvassed the situa tion," he stated. "I do think though, that commencement is going to be ruinous to the general examinations." "I should favor making up a schedule for seniors that would hot Involve exam inations," said Dr. Joseph Schafer. “However, If a senior were told his grades were not passing, he should be granted the right of examination.” That some seniors would not work much if there were no exams In the off ing, and that they would have a bad In fluence over lower classmen is the opin ion of Dr. H. D. Sheldon. “Besides,” he said, “there is no more reason for ex cusing seniors than for excusing other students. They have no more part in the pageant; they have scarcely any more part in commencement, now that there are no long orations, or programs prepared entirely by the seniors." Dr. Timothy Cloran stated that he would not like to excuse seniors from examinations. “Not under any circumstances!” said Dr. J. H. Gilbert. "Excusing the seniors would be a bad example. As long as I have been connected with the Univer sity as a student or instructor, the sen iors have been petitioning to be exempted. And they have always been refused. Giv ing the examinations early is only a mat ter of making an extra set of questions. There will be no additional work. The papers would all have to be graded any how.” "For my own department I favor let ting the seniors go,” said Dr. E. S. Bates. “In large lecture courses, however, I can see where that would be Impossible. Leave it to the individual professor would be my sentiment. I do not think that com mnemnt 1b going to interfere much with examinations.” Professor Howe said that when he came to the University 15 years ago, he tried the plan of exempting seniors from examination, but that other faculty heads opposed, and a ruling was pased forbid ding the excusing of seniors. A report of the university loan fund committee at Illinois shows that $70,000 has been loaned to the students from the loan fund of the university. In 1885 the total available fund was $158,