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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1916)
LUCKEY’S JEWELRY STORE Our Extreipely Large Stock of Goods Enables Us to Fill Every Demand of Our Big Student* Trade We can supply any w. We carry in stock lar^ nt of the student trade whether it be fine engraving, watch repairing, jewelry Repairing or jewelry manufacturing, e assortments of goods for suitable, high class, high quality, wedding presents, birthday presents, Christmas presents, favors, etc. Sterling Flat Ware Sterling Hollow W|are Hawkes Cut Glass Stouffers Famous China Plated Hollow Wa: e Hull Umbrellas Gorham Silverware Hamilton Watches Waltham Watches Howard Watches Elgin Watches Sheffield Plate \ Ed Todd Novelties Waterman Pens Seth Thomas Clocks > Krementz Collar Buttons Community Silver World Brand Silver Plated Flat Wart Our policy is to mark We have the reputation thing we sell or make or rep store in 45 years experience ting not only the best but th Our Policy all prices in plain figures. To carry qualjity goods, to mark all goods reasonably w hether sold for cash or credit. i Our Reputation over the whole county for carrying a splendid stock of high quality goods with reasonable prices and an absolute guarantee of every air. For over 45 years this store has been selling high quality goods and alway s at minimum prices. We are able to associate with this the very best manufacturers in the United States. Many of them sell to us exclusively is the reason we can assure you that you are get at we are getting the goods at the lowest prices possible. LUCHEY'S JEWELRY Established in 1869 The Quality Store 827 Willam<3rfte? Surest. Northern Lights Will Be Clear, Says Prof. McAlister. Showers of Shooting Stars Due This Winter, Also Other Heavenly Phenomena. The aurora borealis, commonly called the northern lights, will be seen better during the coming winter by the people of Oregon than for the past eleven years, according to Edward H. McAlis ter, professor of astronomy and me chanics. In ordinary times the northern lights are visible on an average of four or five times each winter in this latitude. Every eleven years the sun spots reach their maximum number, and, as a result, the northern lights play in the skies more frequently than in other times. Mr. McAlister says that the number and size of the sun spots seems to influence the frequency of appearance and the inten sity of the display of the northern lights. The aurora borealis will be seen near the northern horizon in shimmering streamers of white light, these steamers varying in length from a few miles to several hundred. In more northern coun tries the northern lights appear in dif ferent shades of yellow, green, red and blue. There is a possibility of the ap pearance of colored lights here, but it is not probable, as the intensity of the 1 cold heightens the color effect. There is no these very u Of iippi ed, to appei spells. A ph will ap] > of Nov shower i on a Shootin time oi the pe goes ing me shootin The di her 15 of the will be c etinite time ot tne mgnt wnen c isplays may occur, as they are qcertain and erratic in their times irance. Scientists have observ eer, that they are more liable Lir in cold weather than in milder tli r nomenon of a different character ear in the heavens on the nights mber 15 and 114, in the form of of shooting stars. A display laller scale is due on October 20. ■' stars are visible a few at a almost any evening but during iods just mentioned the earth ough a large number of travel eors, causing large numbers of ; stars to be visible at one time, iplay which is due on Xovem may be seen in the early hours morning, and that of the 24th visible in the early evening . STEA }Y JOBS ARE SCARCE Ten Students Must Leave if Work Is Not Secured. (lefic Tho fewer number the ter, sec A. Se jobs ha during tration No c account is not student before u ;h t lis steady jobs are somewhat year than formerly, the extra of odd jobs more than makes up iency, according to J. D. Fos retary of the university Y. M. C. enty-three permanent and odd e been secured for the students the first week following regis le has had to go home as yet on if low finances, although if work secured very soon, ten of the say that they will have to leave hristmas. Obak Advertises 58 and 60 Ninth 4ve. E. (FROSH LITTLE YOUNGER * # # * SCHOLARSHIP IS POORER « # : 4k THAN TEN YEARS PAST The popular assumption that freshmen enter University at a much earlier age than they did 10 years ago, is contra dicted by a set of statistics prepared by Fred Heitzhausen "IS. Heitzhausen found that the average age of men marticualting in 1005 was 20, that of 10.7.'! in 1915; women 19.44 in 1905 us compared to 19.74 in 1915. Heithausen's statistics also show that the student of today is not as good as the one of ten years ago. Moreover, he finds that the women beat the men in scholarship. According to his figures, in 1905 75 per cent of the students registering came from high school while in 1915 9." per cent of the women and 88 per cent of the men came from them. He gives ns the reason the increased number of accredited high schools which has caused the discontinuation of many private in stitutions. Heitshausen's research shows that in 1905 49.2 per cent of those registering were women while in 1915 44.7 ,*•.< cent were women. Though there has been a doubling of the number of courses since 1910, the women have mainly fol lowed the same courses, German and education claiming the most . With the men it has been different. In 1905 the. most popular subjects were economics and ziology while in 1915 they were journalism 'and biology. The If 20 OUT FOR Several Vacancies in Team to Be Filled. Material Looks Promising; Coach Dyment’s Hopes for /Winning Team Are High. Twenty men Inst night, answered the call for the first soccer turnout of the season which was held on the new Held back of Kincaid. Although only about one-half of ;the old men of last year’s team reported, Coach Colin Dyment has several other men in view who have played the game before and he has hopes of developing change is partly due to the removing of the school of engineering. DUNN’S BAKERY For Good Pasteries Watcp This Space All Year We will have something good every week Elliott & Hosmer , 1 GROCERS 9th and Oak Phone 246 i several very jood i)lnyers out' of these recruits. The places held hy Tuerek and Spell i man, who are out for the football team, ! will have to be filled by new men as will also the place which Parson played for the last three years. Italston is another man whose loss will be felt on the team this year. Besides the half dozen old men and the five or six who have played the game befor^ the rest of the twenty who reported for practice know practically nothing about the game. But as several other men have expressed their inten tions of turning out, Conch Dyment figures that the soccer squad will prob ably be swelled to 30 men and he has hopes of turning out a winning team. A. 11. Tiffany received a letter from A. B. Brown of O. A. C. which express ed the hope that soccer game could be i played between teams representing the two institutions sometimes later this full. It is also hoped that a date can be arranged for with Multnomah club. This would mean a game here with both O. A. C. and Multnomah and a return gume both at Corvallis and Portland with each team. The soccer squad will hold a meeting about the first of the month for the purpose rof electing a captain for the coming aenson. 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