VICTORIOUS ELEVEN
150 Enthusiasts Gather at
Chamber of Commerce in
Honor of Oregon.
WALTER CAMP TELEGRAPHS
HIS CONGRATULATIONS
Representative Speeches Are
Given and All Make Merry
at Celebration.
One hundred and fifty enthusiasts
gathered at the chamber of commerce at
a victory banquet given toy business men
of Eugene, in honor of the team that
humbled Pennsylvania in the great inter
sectional clash at Pasadena New Year’s
day.
It was a football banquet In every de
tail. The dishes each bore the name of
an Oregon star or one of the defeated
Easterners. Items such as “Steam Poll
ed Potatoes”, Captain John Mince Pie,
and “Light Berry Coffee” appeared on
the menu.
The entire assembly was welcomed by
J. H. Koke in behalf of the chamber of
commerce, and response was made by
President P. L. Campbell.
Toastmaster C. A. Burden next read
telegrams of congratulation which the
team and individual members had received
on the day of the victory, showing the
hearty support which was given them by
people all over the West.
The governor’s message, one among
1G received, read as follows:
“Greatly regret that I cannot be pres
ent to congratulate personally Oregon’s
football players upon their splendid vic
tory. We are all proud of them.
(Signed)
“JAMES WITHYCOMBE.”
“Governor.”
Walter Camp, famous football author
ity, also sent congratulations. His tele
gram follows:
“New Haven, Conn.
“Eugene Chamber of Commerce:—
“My advices have convinced me that
not only Coach Bezdek, Captain Beckett
Huntington, Parsons, and Tegart deserve
the greatest credit, but especially the real
football spirit that was shown by the
whole team in overcoming what looked
like a depressing beginning, and fighting
back with increased power, and also by
altering their attack suddenly to forward
passing when the opposing secondary de
fense came too close to the line in stop
ing the running game.
(Signed) “WALTER CAMP.”
Other messages were received from
Ray Loomis. Coach Dietz, Fred Bohler,
Captain Fangs, all of W. S. C.; Coach
Pipal, the O. A. C. football team; J.
Harper, University of Xotre Dame; Ed
win P. Shattuck, member of the first Ore
gon football team in 1894 and 1895; Mos
cow Chamber of Commerce; President
Henry Suzzallo, of the University of
Washington; W. B. Bovard, president
Associated Students, University Southern
California; A. M. Ellsworth, president
Multnomah club; Dr. Otto Miller, phy
sical director 1 niversity of Arkansas,
where Bezdek formerly coached; A. F.
Eschricht, president Portland, Oregon,
Agricultural College club; Corvallis Com
mercial club and A. .T. Bertonneau, man
1
ager Tournament if Roses.
President Campbell in giving the res
ponse. commended the factors that led
up to the victory, and especially empha
sized the make-up of the team and the
student body as a whole. ”11 e have had
a hard figh and there is a great deal yet
to accomplish.” said the president. “We
are just at the beginning and must go
on with the good vork with a greater
stride.”
A. C. Dixon, a member of the board of
regents, spoke of the interest he has in
the team and its success, and drew a
comparison between the exceptional bal
ance of the Oregon eleven and the after
life success of the all-round well-bal
anced man. “I hope that the members of
the team and the squad will prepare
themselves for life an they have seen
such preparations k out on the foot
ball eleven,” said Mr. Dixon.
1 >r. S. 1>. Read, a member of the
famous Salem Giants eleven, spoke on
"How Football was Played at Old Wil
lamette., and Could They Win From Ore
r gon Today?” Dr. Read recalled a number
of humorous footbSii happenings and oc
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SHE TIPS THEM OFF
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EIGHT COME TO OREGON
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ONE IS AT 0. A. C.
Miss Claire Dunn, ’10, heel of the
English department of the Redmond
Union high school, spent the Christmas
holidays visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. F. B. Dunn, :*i Eugene.
Out of the three graduating classes
since Miss Dunn began work in Red
mond one student is a: O. A. C. and
eight are at Oregon. Six of the eight
are freshmen. Largely due to Miss
Dunn's loyalty to Oregon, Redmond
among towns of its poi illation, is among
the best represented in the state.
DEATH LURKED ON CHEEK
No Talcum Then to Powder the Nose;
Corrosive Sublimate Used Instead.
University of Washington, .Tan. 10.—
Death lurked on the cheek of the Span
ish lady of the seventeenth century
and it was a blind suitor who essayed a
| kiss unawares. It was all because the
women had to powder their noses even
j as they do in the twentieth century. Ac
I cording to Professor M. P. I’hilbrick of
j the University of Washington, who re
| eentl.v read a paper before the Wash
! ington State Philological society on
j “Spanish Life in the Novels of the Sev
j enteenth Century,” the women of that
| day powdered their cheeks with bichio
! rate of mercury—corrosive sublimate.
Talcum and rice powder were un
known in the seventeenth century, so the
women could obtain nothing but the
poison for their faces. The corrosive
sublimate was found in the form of solid
cakes which were rubbed over the face.
White lead was also used, and one novel
of the time speaks of “a face adorned
with corrosive sublimate, now with
white lead and now with both.”
Ambergris was used as perfume, not
only by the women, but by the men. ac
cording to Mr. Philbricb. The perfume
was applied to the gloves instead of the
handkerchiefs as it is today.
YEAR HERE IS EXTRA LONG
Oregon Students in School Two Weeks
More Each Year Than Average.
Statistics gathered by the schedule
committee of the faculty present Oregon
as a dismal place to the student who
sings "It’s not to college that we come
for knowledge.” The average working
days in the college year of American'
universities is 194. Oregon has two
weeks more, 204 days.
Yet it has eighteen days vacation in
the first semester and the average is
only sixteen and in the second period
Oregon has eleven vacation days while
the average is six. Examinations, again,
are another cause for Oregon student
hilarity. During the year Oregon has
nine days of examination while the av
erage among other universities is over
thirteen.
The statistics will show that while the
present semester contains 2(K1 working
days next semester will have only 98, a
difference of nearly two weeks. The
comparisons were made by the schedule
committee from the 1914-15 year books
of Stanford, Michigan, Idaho, Southern
California, Wisconsin, Columbia. Har
vard, Illinois, North Dakota, Washing
ton, Cornell, Nebraska, Indiana, O. A.
C.. Colorado, Iowa, I’erdue. Ohio, Mis
souri, California and Oregon.
STUDENT CAMPS GROWING
Summer Military Training for College
Men Shows Enrollment Increase.
Owing to the need of officers of the
regular army for duty on the Mexican
border, student instruction camps were
held during the past summer only at
Monterey, California, I’lattsburg and
New York. The larger attendance this
year made field maneuvers possible on
a broader scale than before. The students
attending the camps were given careful
oversight by the officers in charge in
respect to tent accommodations, food,
and general sanitary and medical care.
The total list of attendance at sum
mer military instruction camps held in
1913, 1914, 1915 and 1910 was 20,434.
Of these 10.917 were from the castecn
department, 2,325 from the western de,
partment, 771 from the central depart
ment and 421 from the southern depart
ment.
Associated University Players
Gives Local Organization
Charter.
Installation by Grand Editor to
Take Place Between
Semesters.
The petition of Campus Players, up
perclass dramatic local, for an Ore
gon chapter was granted by the nation
al dramatic fraternity, Associated Uni
versity Players, at the annual meeting in
Chicago during the Christmas vacation.
The new chapter will he installed by
the Grand Editor, Colin C. Clements,
the installation to take place between
semesters. As the fraternity already has
a chapter known as “Campus Players” at
Northwestern University, the Oregon
chapter will he christened “Mask and
Buskin.”
Although there were nine other col
leges petitioning, the Oregon petition
was the only one acted upon favorably.
The Campus Players owe their good
fortune to the support of the other coast
chapter, Mask and Quill, at the Uni
versity of Washington. Both the Wash
ington chapter and the Grand Editor,
Mr. Clements, have been untiring in their
efforts in Oregon’s behalf.
An especial bond between the two
coast organizations is their mutual in
terest in the production of local original
days. The Campus Players’ five one
act dramas of last year won them es
pecial favor in the eyes of the Washing
ton chapter.
Another point which aided the Ore
gon petition was th ' splendid showing of
the varsity football team. All Oregon in
stitutions are basking in the reflected
glory of the gridiron men, and this could
not help but effect the Eastern estimate
of the University as a whole. In appre
ciation of the wonderful victory at Pasa
dena the Campus Players are going to
devote one half of their proceeds from
“The Live Corpse” to the football fund
as an aid in the purchasing of gold tro
phies. Besides this the entire six boxes
in the Eugene theatre will be turned
over to the team.
The members of Campus Players mak
ing A. U. I*., are: Charles Prim, presi
dent; Earl Fleischman, vice-president;
George Colton, manager; Rosalind Bate*,
secretary; active members, Eyla Walker,
Victor Sether, Rosamond Shaw, Er
nest Watkins, Lillian Littler; pledges:
Helen Bracht and Cleveland Simpkins.
“CUBS” TO COVER SERMONS
Freshmen Journalists Will Report Evan
gelistic Services in Baptist Church.
Freshmen in the school of journalism
are to report the evangelistic sermons
by S. F. Iaingford at the Baptist church,
at the request of the press committee
in charge of the series. These sermons
commence Thursday evening and will
continue for two or three weeks.
Mr. Langford is from Sacramento,
California, where he did some reform
work. He is in ministerial work there.
STAIGER ’15.LIKES HARVARD
Writes That Loucks, McGilchrist and the
Toozes Are Also Pleased.
In a letter, recently received, Frank
lin Staiger, To, says that besides him
self, there are four other Oregon grad
uates attending Harvard. These are Kl
ton Loucks, Millar Medilehrist, Lamar
and Leslie Tooze. He says that they are
all pleased with Harvard and are mak
ing efforts to increase the enrollment
from Oregon next year.
Staiger is studying Latin American af- I
fairs. His aim is to make A. M. and
M. D. degrees, and then enter into col
legiate work as an instructor of Latin
American history. '
U. \V. Morton, dean of the school
of commerce, veil', return Friday evening
feuin h.M trip in the east, and will resume
his work in the commerce department
i next week. While in the oust Dean Mor
I ton attended the national convention of
1 the Economic association held late in
December at Columbus, Ohio. He also
visited his old home in Philadelphia.
"THE LIKE CORPSE"
TOMORROW EVENING
Campus Players lo Present
French Farce at Eugene
Theatre.
Half of Proceeds to Go to Fund
for Gold Fobs for
Varsity.
One-half of the proceeds from “The
Live Corpse” the French farce which
will be presented at the Eugene theatre
tomorrow night by the Campus I’ia.vers,
are to be donated to the football fund
to purchase gold fobs for the varsity
football team. The entire proceeds from
the sale of advertising in the program,
which is estimated will reach !?40, will
also be turned over to the fund.
An effort is being made to make the
evening a general "college night.” To this
end, college songs and yells will prob
ably bo given between acts, according
to George Colton, business manager.
Sweaters will not be presented to the
letter men ns has been reported. The
sweaters have not arrived and are not
expected until about .January 25.
The team, with Coach Bezdek and
trainer Hayward, will occupy the boxes
of the theatre. The University orches
tra will furnish the music and will play
between acts. Winifred Forbes, director,
pormises some good new numbers.
All indications point to success for the
play itself, which is a live, up-to-date
comedy. The players are all experienced.
Most of them have been seen in other
campus productions during the year.
There is a pretty thread of sentiment
running through the plot, but for the
most part the piece is just one big laugh.
The fun evolves from the efforts of a
young newspaper man to attain fame.
The chief merriment producers are
Ernest Watkins, Martha Boer, Earl
Fleischman and Rosalind Bates. Mr.
Fleischman, who will play the role of the
comely husband, has recently refused an
offer from the Nelig moving picture
studio. It was his work as Trudeau in
the chnutnuqun production of "The Right
of Way” that brought Mr. Fleischman to
the notice of the Selig company.
“Another member of the “Live Corpse”
east who has hud professional exper
ience is Rosalind Rates, who will play
the part of the very much alive yorpse.
Mrs. Rates was formerly leading woman
with “The Traveling Salesman”, n Henry
R. Harris production, as well as playing
roles with Xothorn and .Marlowe.
The rest of the cast is made up of
students who have distinguished them
selves in University dramatics. Martha
Reel-, who plays the sympathetic role
of Ethel Ford, has appeared in numer
ous Eugene productions. She was a prom
inent member of the high school dramatic
club and in college she has taken part in
“Strife,” “(Jetting Married,” “The Shop
keeper Turned Gentleman”. “Alice in
Wonderland”, “The Cradle Song” and
“The Magic of Oz”.
Other important parts wiLl he taken
by Eyhi Walker, Golden Rarnett, Cleve
land Simpkins, Rosamond Shaw. Victor
Souther, George Colton, Lillian Littler,
Charles 1’riui and Clayton Raldwin.
GIRLS TO HAVE NEW YELLS
Triple B Will Also Arrange Songs for
Gills’ Basketball Games.
At the meeting of Triple R. held at
the Pi Beta Phi house 'I uesday after
noon Roberta Sehuebel was appointed to
arrange for the new yells and songs.
Class songs and yells for the girls
basketball games which are to be play
ed in the next couple of weeks were
discussed.
Triple R. is active in social service
work and at present is supplying an am
bitious cripple boy who is shut up in
the mountains, with books and maga
zines. Resides this ease there are sev
eral poor families in town that the girls
are helping. Anyone desiring to help in
this work should see either Helen Glit
tery or Kathryn Hartley.
Mrs. W. P. Boynton spoke at the
meeting on Tuesday on the subject tu
berculosis. Mrs. Boynton is an active
worker in aiding and the cure and pre
vention of this disease.
The next meeting of Triple R will be
held at the Alpha Phi house in three
weeks. j
FACULTY TO “MUSH ON”
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PROFS. FORM HIKING CLUB
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INITIAL HIKE SATURDAY
Tlio new faculty walking club, origin
ated by Professor K. W. Allen and Karl
Onthnnk. a week ago, will take its init
ial hike Saturday, January 111. The plan
is to start from the Administration
building at 1 :•'!(> o'clock and go out Al
der street road to the foot of Spencer's
Butte. Those who care to will climb the
butte while the rest oc the party will
circle the north base and meet the
others at a selected spot, where lunch
will be prepared. The return will lie
made by the Willamette street road.
Those who expect to go are asked to
inform either Mr. Onthnnk or l’rof. Al
len. No change in date will be made un
less the weather becomes too severe.
If this first trip is a success, it is
planned to make regular hikes in the
future, and to form a regular organ
ization of faculty hikers. Professor Al
len states that the club intends to climb
all the hills and visit all spots of inter
est in the vicinity.
TWO PLAYS GIVEN IN CLASS
Short Dramas, “The Stronger" and “The
Far Away Princess," Are Staged.
Two one-act plays, “The Stronger” and
Sudermann’s “The Par away Princess”
were presented before the class in dra
matic interpretation yesti rday morning.
“The Stronger” is a play for three
characters, written more as a mono
logue than as a play. The role of the
wife, played by Mrs. Johnson, is the
only speaking role in the drama, and
consequently carries all the action. The
other characters were taken by Louise
Mct'andliss and Thu'ston Laraway.
The leading roles in the "Far-away
Princess” were played by Kate Schaefer
and Warren Kdwnrds. This play is a
lively little comedy, concerning a tier
man poet:, who meets a princess, travel
ing incognito, and falls in love w'th her.
Their experiences and the discovery of
her identity make up the plot of the
piece.
These plays mark the end of the ser
ies given under the direction of Or. L.
S. Bates. Next semester Prof. A. K.
Iteddie will have charge of the depart
ment.
100 STUDENTS EXPECTED
Most of First Semester Graduates of
Eugene High to Enter College.
Between a hundred and a hundred and
fifty .students are expected 'by Dr. John
Straub to enter the University next sem
ester. By next. June, Dr. Straub believes
tlie enrollment will have reached eleven
hundred. He bases this estimation on
first hand information gathered while
traveling through the state. High school
students of central Oregon favor Oregon,
according to Dr. Straub. A majority of
the first semester graduates of Eugene
High school plan to enter the University
as well as a number of former students
who have been compelled to stay out on
account of finances. “I am sure of at
least a hundred new students,” aayi Dr.
Straub.
CLARK ADDRESSES CLASS
Foreign Trade Secretary Tells About
“the Eeonomis of World Trade.”
Ansel H. Clark, foreign secretary of
the Portland chamber of commerce, ad
dressed Professor Hopkin’s class in in
dustrial and commercial survey yester
day morning on the topic, “Economics
of World Trade.” Mr. Clark makes a
trip to Eugene every two weeks to lec
ture before various commerce classes.
Mr. Clark has charge of the extension
work of this department in Portland.
Shots Bring Police.
Juniors tit tin- University of California
are working hard every evening on the
junior play which is to be given soon.
The rehearsal was progressing in fine
shape in one of the fraternity houses
tlie villain was shot—the hero Was only
slightly wounded—-everybody else was
shot except the heroin* when a passer
by, hearing the shots and ‘.creams, be
came excited and called the police head
quarters. An auto load of cops surround
ed the house and with guns draw'll sud
denly hurst in. “The police are working
on the clue.”
OKLAHOMA QUINTET
ME VICTORS. SH2
Opening Game of Season Proves
Disastrous for Green
Varsity.
OREGON FIVE TO MEET
DALLAS NEXT SATURDAY
Defeat Due to Lack of Team
Work and Inferior
Passing.
Jimmy Sheehy
The Oklahoma Northwestern Normal
quintet, lean, hungry looking, footsore,
and train sink after their long journey,
stepped into Hayward hall yesterday af
ternoon and netted a .‘112 to 12 victory
over ltezdek’s green, untried varsity. It
was the opening game of the 1917 bas
ketball schedule.
When the visitors ran on the floor
they looked to he “meat” for the husky
lemon-yellow. They were mere boys. The
wise ones soon sat tq) and took notice
as they found the net from any angle
in the warm-up proceeding the contest.
Jlezdek's men looked great when they
hurried across the floor togged out in
their brilliant green jerseys. They out
weighed the Hangers at least 15 pounds
to the man.
Hill Hayward started hostilities with
a short blast on his whistle and the game
was on. Met'ready and Cate started at
(lie forward positions, Sims was at cen
ter. and Hollis Huntington and Carl
Nelson did guard duty. Cate was forced
to quit a few minutes later from the ef
fects of a hard fall in a scrimmage under
(trogon’s basket.
The Normal hoys noon got under way.
They were cool and collected at all times,
'having been together for five years.
Their attack was a tantalizing short
pass, never dribbling, hut depending on
underhand tosses and shifty footwork to
elude their heavier opponents. Ilight for
ward Stewart, a slender 150 pound lad,
was a dead shot at the basket as well
as excelling on the floor. He rang the
bell for a total of 12 points. Kilkle. at
center, held his own with the varsity
middlemen on the jump-off and bagged
9 scores besides.
Tho lemon-yellow s learn wor« arm
[Hissing was cnnle. 'l hey failed utterly in
advancing the hull with the time-worn
long, fast passing. Lack of practice and
tin* fact that they had never played to
gether made it almost impossible to do
effective work. Met'ready showed to ad
vantage with three baskets. Hollis Hunt
ington, Carl Nelson and Dolph L’hipps
each found the hoop on long tosses.
At times the visitors let up in their
attack and played “horse” with the var
sity. They passed backwards, forwards,
sideways, and most every other way, al
ways to one of their own men who in
turn passed to a teammate, usually un
der the. basket. There was nothing daz
zling or bewildering in their play—they
were consistent they knew where every
man was.
Oklahoma went through the two halves
without committing a foul. Bezdek’s men
sinned on six occasions, four of which
were converted.
Biz changed his line-tip and gave all
his charges u chance. With the exper
ience gained in yesterday s buttle and
a change in offense and defense, its a
safe wager that the varsity will show
to far better advantage when they meet
the famous team from Dallas next
Saturday evening in . the men’s gymnas
ium.
The summary follows:
OKLAHOMA OREGON
McKitriek (5).F... .McCready («)
Stewart (12).F.Gate
Wilke <!>).C.Sims
McClure (ti).G.C. Nelson (2)
Lane.G.ll. Huntington (2)
Substitutes: Farley for Gate; Fox for
Farley; Grebe for Fox; Scniefe for Mr
Creadv; l>. Nelson for Sims and Phipps
for II. Huntington. Scorer, Sam Bullock;
timer, Fred Kiddle.
OREGON A “DARK HORSE.”
Oregon does not know what her bas
ketball chances are worth this year. But
neither do any of the other universities
in the conference know what she will do
and that is one advantage or consolation
to basketball enthusiasts at Oregon who
want to get the dope on Oregon’s pros
!
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