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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 ns second class matter. Subscription rates, per year, $1.00. Single copies, 5c. EDITORIAL STAFF. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.HA ROI.D HAM STREET Managing Editor ...Edward P. Harwood City Editor.lie Witt Gilbert BUSINESS STAFF. BUSINESS MANAGER .GEORGE T. COI-TON Assistant Manager .Burle Brnmhall Assistants.Louise Allen, Jennette Calkins, John McMtirray, Lay Carlisle Circulation Manager .Kenneth Farley, Phone TIKI Phone Editor 666...Phone Manager 4S1 FOR OLD OREGON. ' Football practice behind closed doors began Monday night. This was the oe aasion for that little sign “secret prac tice,” so significent to football fandom. It marks the advent of that period when the final rounding is given the team in preparation for the opening of the season. It also marks the advent of that season of fireside speculation where the dopesters hold forth in high glee and tell how much they—don’t know. And that little bug of anticipation gets into the blood and sets afire the spirit of enthusiasm. And the sign of secret practice on the gates of Kincaid field is the beginning of the rally season. It is the occasion for the great old Oregon Spirit to simply oo*e and inundate the campus with the manly enthusiams of clean sportsman ship. Oregon Spirit is with us always. It fosters our democracy and gives fame to our alma mater. But a rally is the factor that makes it effervesce in the exuberance of the occasion. And watch the old Oregon Spirit ef fervesce tomorrow morning! Tomorrow morning is the first rally of the year. It is . the first opportun ity we are going to have of showing “Bess” and “Bill” and “Deun” and the “team” that we arc behind them strong. It Is the first opportunity we are going to have of showing them that we are going to give them everything we have got in the way of rooting and moral sup port. We’ve got n hunch thnt Oregon has the greatest team in history this year. In fact we think that this is the year that Dobie will meet hia Waterloo. But that ia no reason why we should not get out - every mother's son of us~nnd tell the coach and the team how great is our Oregon Spirit. For that is the spirit of “backing 'em up” like two years ago when Oregon had its weakest team. It was at n rally then the students of Ore gon turned out in a great demonstration of "pep” and the next day backed the team to a tie game with the famed Ag gies. Thnt was Oregon Spirit—that standing by the team through thick or thin. And it is standing by the team to morrow that we want to do. Out we must get and show a little znz, and root till the lining of our lungs is raw and our vocal chords emit sounds like the jroaking of the bull frog. HOMECOMING DAY. When the student council met recent ly end voted for the annual homecoming day on November -1th, the date of the Oregon-Washingtou football game, the Interests of the active students in the alumni of the University were manifest ed. For homecoming day is manifestly an alumni day, when the doors of alma mater are thrown open in a royal wel come. but this homecoming is not re strictive in the sense of welcome to only the alumni. While it is manifestly for the alumni to imbibe go-to-speak in the joys of their youth when they trod the paths we now trod and slept through the lectures through which we now sleep S'ot that there is any particular joy in deeping through a lecture hut because it brings back to the “old-timer” some hing over which to chuckle yet. Homecoming is for the friends of the University and is designed to per petuate in these friends a favorable re gard already instilled. And the day is for strangers of the University in whom we hope to create this favorable re gard and so make new friends. And homecoming day is for the ac tive students. For this is the oppor tunity of a college life in subjecting oneself to the broadening influences that will be upon the campus in, the environs of the great concourse of people who will flock our buildings, trod the campus paths and fill the grandstands and bleachers. A great opportunity beckons in this homecoming day! BIG JOKE PERPETRATED A big joke has been perpetrated upon the students in the new ruling of gym work counting for a credit toward a de gree. But it was clever duping on the part of those who slipped the ruling over and they found the students gulli ble—as gullible as suckers. For they swallowed the bait without a gurgle. It was last year that agitation started for a reform in the gym system. A num ber of students were justly indignant that they should be required to take the exercise without credit and with the manifold injustice done of having a cut marked against them if absent from the muscle drill. For this cut counted onc sixteentli of an hour off from an A. B. degree although the work counted noth ing toward it. So the reform started. And now it is ended. But the end—oh, how sad! It is true the gym work for a semes ter now counts ns a semester credit. But four semesters of gym are required and read carefully four more hours have been added to the required number for graduation. The students are the victims of their own reform. Theoretically the sponsor system for tho girls of the University 11s in vogue now is splendid. Hut how is it work ing out practically ? That iR a question the Emerald would like to have answer ed. And don't forget that rally tomorrow morning! Miss Elizabeth Fox, dean of women, has been unable to supply the demand for girls to earn their board or to do odd work and requests that any girls looking for work come to her in her of fice. The annual freshman party given by lvwama for the first year women is to be held in the V. W. U. A. bungalow Saturday afternoon. It will end in plenty of time for the girls to attend the tea given by the Woman's League for Miss Fox at the home of Mrs. 1*. I.. Campbell, on the same afternoon. The first meeting of the Education club will be hi'Ul at the home of Oean It. 1>. Sheldon on University avenue Fri day evening September 110. Prof. F. 1.. Stetson will give his im pressions of Columbia university sum mer school and there will lie a discus sion of topics for the coming year. The time will be devoted to the study of secondary education. Teachers and sup erintendents in the vicinity are invited to attend meetings of the club. Ur. U. \V. Oellusk is making a tour of Eastern Oregon speaking at institutes in Morrow and Wheeler counties. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK OREGON EMERALD Please send the Oregon Emerald for the College Year, of 1916-1917, to. Address. Regular Subscription $1.00 in advance. Alumni with dues paid, 65c in advance. Address Emerald office U. of O. Geo. T. Colton, Business Mgr. Dr. Percival Lowell, Authority on Planet Mars, Will Lec ture October 13. Has Directed Many Expeditions and Made Many Discoveries of Scientific Value. I >r. Percivnl Lowell of the Lowell Observatory will give a lecture on “The Far Horizon of Science,” on the evening of October 13, in Villard hall. I)r. Dowell is a graduate of Harvard and has written several books on astronomy, and is an authority on the planet Mars. He established the Lowell Observatory in 1894 and undertook the Eclipse Expedition to Tripoli in 1900, he sent an expedition to the Andes to photo graph the planet Mars and has made dis coveries on the planets which are of great scientific value, especially Mars, and it was he who formulated the theory of its habitability. The Lowell Observatory is located at Flagstaff, Arizona. In connection with the establishment of the observatory, Dr. Lowell made very careful tests of atmos pheric conditions all over the world and selected Flagstaff as having the best for the purpose he desired. The obser vatory has a 24-inch telescope, 24 inch refracting telescope a 40 inch reflector, a number of smaller instruments and a battery of spectrographs. The original purpose of the observatory was to test the reality of the markings on Mars, which until this time had been seen by only one or two astronomers in the world. Since the only favorable time for observing Mars comes every two years and the equipment of the observatory is good for all work all the time, Dr. Lowell took up the observation of the other planets together with the various remarkable objects in the sky like comets and nebulae. Dr. Lowell in addition to his scienti fic research and study has given much of his attention to business matters he is acting treasurer of the Massachusetts Cotton Mills and treasurer of the Lowell Hleaehery, a director in the Stnte Street Trust company of Boston, a director in an electric company in Tampa Florida and Columbus Georgia. , , , Dr. Lowell, besides being a member of different clubs in this country Lon don and Japan is a member of different astronomical and Philosophical societies in this country, England, France, Can ada ami Mexico. Old Man Gloom (Continued from page one) Strowbridge were in every play, and were bears on the defense. It was a crime the way the scrubs were cuffed and mauled during the final two periods of entertainment. They presented a misfit, untrained, nervous, outfit and were at the mercy of the first stringers. With Montieth, Couch, and the two Huntington's, Shy and Hollis, carrying the ball in turn, it was little trouble to score the six touchdowns reg istered. Couch was high point getter of the meet with three scores to his credit, one of them being a. 00 yard run fro*i the kickoff. Shy Huntington was able to slip off tackle on every occasion for a 10 or 15 yard gain. lie used but three simple : plays throughout the entire four periods i and ran the team in good shape. Jake Risley caused the opposing linemen and baekfield much consternation by con tinually breaking through and spearing the runner before he got under way. , Tegart caught four forward passes rtur- ; ing the afternoon, and his running mate, j Brick Mitchell, was good for yardage . whenever called upon to ad wince the i leather. Behind barred gates on Monday night Bez set the boys to work learning new plays and formations. His improvised \ baekfield with Mitchell and Jensen fill- i ing in with Shy and Hollis Huntington tramped down the field for over an hour familiarizing themselves in the new surroundings. From now on to the Mill- j amette game, with an occasional break and letup in stringency, fandom's ap- | petite will go unwhetted in its search for dope direct from the confines of Kincaid, j Extension Division May Send Pictorial Courses to Schools, Visual Instruction Believed More Satisfactory for His tory and Civics. Suggesting the pictorial lecture sys tem for teaching civics and history in the university extension division, sent | out circular letters yesterday to 150 high schools in Oregon. “The division recommends the lec tures,” said Miss Hair, secretary of the | extension department. “If the schools j can afford it we believe that a number will use them. The plan was tried out last year and proved successful.” The course will give the progress of current events all over the world for each month. They are to be illustrated with from forty to fifty slides showing the men, objects and places prominent in late news. A lecture will be ready for use about the 5th of each month and the plans at present are to put it on a circuit send ing it from one school to another. The . schedule will be so arranged that a school can keep it an entire school day and evening. The .-harge each month is i $3.00. This amount is to cover the cost of new slides. The extension department recommends the development of visual instruction knowing the important place both still and moving pictures must take in edu cation. This system can also be used in I teaching the majority of subjects in the | seventh and eighth grades. A FINE BIRTHDAY. .Mrs. Russell Sage, who has given $115,000,000 to charities, celebrated her eighty-eighth birthday at Lawrence, I.. 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