VOL. 18.
EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1917.
NO. 45.
Democratic Condition Found in
k Oregon Fraternities.
EXTRAVAGANCE NOT SEEN
Standard of Living Economical,
Says Dr. J. P. Bovard.
Fraternity houses where several of
the members pay part of their expenses
by waiting at table for the others evi
dence a lack of the aristocracy that is
sometimes charged against these col
lege organizations, in the opinion of Dr.
John F. Bovard, chairman of the com
mittee on student living.
Dr. Bovard’s committee is soon to file
with the faculty a report on its investi
gations of the student living expenses at
the University.
jjV “There may be extravagance in the
fraternity houses of this University,”
said Dr. Bovard, “but we have found that
it is simply in individual cases. The
standard of living in general in the fra
ternities is not conducive to extravag
ance.”
The committee has been busy for the
last month and especially so during the
last ten days, compiling statistics for the
use of the ways and means committee of
the Oregon legislature. It lias made an
exhaustive study of conditions in the
fraternities, dormitories and private
houses in Eugene. The committee’s
findings will be filed with the faculty at
its first meeting in March.
"We found that the average cost of
board and room, outside of the dormitory
was $25 a month,” said Dr. Bovard.
“Of course the dormitory is cheaper
than that, but the accommoda
tions are limited. Taken on a whole,
that can be said to represent the cost
of board and room at the University.”
“The rate at which the houses are
rented to the fraternities has been dis
cussed a great deal more than the con
ditions would justify,” says Dr. Bovard.
“We found that in most cases not more
than eight per cent was realized on the
investment.” he said, “and when the
length of the life of a fraternity house
and the short-time leases usually given
by the clubs are considered it is little
wonder that the owners raise the rent to
as much as $1000 a year.”
That fraternities are injurious to de
mocracy is an impression which has
gained a wide circulation, Dr. Bovard
found in his investigations. But his in
quiry disproved the statement, he says.
“When I went into several fraternity
houses and found as many as five of the
members earning a portion of their living
expenses by waiting upon the other mem
bers of their own house, this talk of
aristocracy was absolutely disproved,”
said Dr. Bovard. “If that is not de
mocracy I do not know what is.”
STUOirSJI BUCK
Sixteen Out of Seventeen Who
Petition Reinstated.
Net Total of Flunkers Now
Stands at 25.
Of the 41 students who were dropped
from the University at the end of the
first semester on account of poor work,
only 17 petitioned for reinstatement. Of
these all but one was accepted, and one
was referred back to the committee on
re-instatement.
The granting of such a large percent
age of the petitions for re-instatement,”
said Professor H. C. Howe, chairman of
the committee on re-instatment “is quite
without precedent. Usually a large
number of the petitions are re
jected without loss of time. The com
mittee on the re-instatements, however,
recommended the acceptance of all pe
titions submitted to them as they were
unable to find any difference in their
n-erit. This was accordingly done by the
faculty with one exception, and that one
was referred to the committee.”
The percentage of flunkers this ywT
is greater than usual. This is probably
due to the fact that the scholarship re
quirements this year are much higher
than ever before. Only one athlete, a
football player, was among those flunked.
RESS SUIT—
How Hyde Got His Raiment
Is Cruelly Disclosed by His
Heartless Fellow-Neophytes
—It Was Real Enterprise.
Friday morning when the time came
for Maurie Hyde to climb into his dress
suit and get ready to shine on the
campus with the two other Sigma Delta
Chi initiates in formal garb, he found
he didn't have an “evening dress” that
would fit him. Maurie was supposed to
be on the campus at 8 o'clock and here
he was—somewhere to go, not "dress
ed up”.
Not to be beaten he jumped into a
Ford, which he perhnps bought with the
fifty cents he carries for such emergen
cies. and ran over to the Phi Delta house,
where Malt Church lives. Yes, gentle
reader, Walt Church owns a dress suit.
M alt, you know, is somewhat elon
gated, and so is Maurie Hyde. Well, two
and two make four. If one longlegged
fellow owns a dress suit and another long
legged fellow needs a dress suit, what’s
the answer They come to terms.
Maurie and Walt came to terms.
So Maurie appeared on the campus at
U o’clock in the morning fully clad in the
regalia befitting such an occasion, and
only an hour late. He swears and de
clares that he will never get another
dress suit until he is sure it will be the
right size for him. He says he must
cover up those legs of his, or else he
might get “strung”—just the same as
a telephone wire is strung on a tele
phone pole.
23 MEN WOULD FIGHT
Oregon Boys Enlisted in 0. N.
G. May Go.
If War Is Declared They May
Not Finish Year.
If the United States should soon be
come involved in wa • with Germany
twenty-three men of the University of
Oregon will probably discontinue their
studies to give military service. These
twenty-three student-soldiers are enroll
ed in the second company of the coait
artillery corps of the Oregon National
Guard, and spend one evening of every
week drilling and studying the science of
modern warfare.
The University men stand high in ihe
company, as is shown by the number of
important offices held by them on the
staff. Paul G. Bond, captain of Com
pany 2, is a graduate of the University.
Other Oregon men on the staff are Sec
ond Lieutenant, Chas. L. Beebe; Ser
geant, Don Belding; Corporal Floyd
Hart; Corporal, J. D. Foster; Mechan
ic, Edwin Cox; Sergeant, Miles Me Key;
and Company Clerk, Hubert Sclienck.
An effort is being made by recruiting
officers to enlist more college men. The
readiness with which college men learn
military manners and customs is com
mended by officers of the guard. They
are in demand because of their intelli
gence and willingness to co-operate.
At Thursday evening's drill, all the
militiamen were compelled to give in their
names, addresses, and phone numbers as
a measure of expediency in mustering the
guard in case of a declaration of war.
Lieutenant Shippam uf the United States
army was present and took the men
through some stiff maneuvers. Every
thing possible is being done to put the
Eugene companies of the national guard
on a fighting basis.
If war is declared by the United States
within a few weeks, it is likely that the
University of Oregon men enlisted in
the militia will not finish the semester.
Whether they will he sent to the war
zone or not cannot be prophesied, but
it is certain that eve-y militiaman in the
country will be mustered in case of war.
Being strictly coast artillery, the loci!
companies will probably be stationed cn
the Pacific to protect the western sea
board of the United States from invasion.
University men in the Second Com
pany are Nicholas Jaureguy, John De
Witt Gilbert, Hay Kinney, Ellis William
son, Lewis Bond, Paul Downard, Ralph
Boyd, Dell Hinson, Floyd Hart, Max
Schafer, Rodney Smith, Clifford Sevits,
Leland Haines. Georee Wilcox, Ben
Fleischman, J. D. Foster, Don Belding.
Wily Ivnighten. Edwin Cox, Hubert
Schenck, Miles McKey, Chas. Beebe and
! Blair Paul.
ju. Hi IS DEMAND
Invited to Portland for Three
Weeks’ Engagement.
Southern Oregon Tour Likely;
New Players Added.
The University band has been offered
n three weeks concert, engagement at the
Oaks park in Portland nest summer, ac
cording to a letter just received by Di
rector Albert Perfect. This is only one
of the contemplated important activities
of the organization. The band is also
planning a tour of southern Oregon for
the early part of March. Campus con
certs and a big musical evening in either
Villard hall or the armory are next on
the program.
Concerts in Portland will mean a big
boost for the band. In a letter Manager
John F. Cordray of the Oaks Amuse
ment park said: “I have a warm spot in
my heart for the University boys and
wish to assure you it will afford me
great pleasure to play the band and I
shall do everything in my power to
make the concerts a success. The band
xv ill need a repertoire of 100 standard
selections in order to fill a three weeks’
engagement.
The tour of southern Oregon depends
only on guarantees lacking from several
towns which when received will assure
the trip. This will be the first time the
musicians have left the campus except
for football games. The occasion will
compare with the glee club tour and will
mean much more recognition for the band
in other parts of the state.
Two new players have been added to
the organization, Hoy Scheisler, cornet,
and James Hichardson, drum. Both are
freshmen. The band is well balanced,
with all the players and equipment need
ed to perfect the organization. Work
lias begun on the “Jubilee Overture” by
Bach, the sextette from “Lucia”, the
quartette from “Rigoletto,” and other
operatic selections.
Next year twenty new band members
are expected, in which case two hnnds
v ill he maintained, one for concerts and
me for rallies, and campus affairs. The
work at the football games during the
first semester was not good for the
players on account of too much “boola”
music according to Mr. Perfect. In or
der that the student body may he accom
modated a second band will be used.
Practically enough players for this are
already assured. If the band continues to
improve ns during the last year and a
half the director predicts that the Uni
versity will have before long a music
organization ranking among the finest
college hands. “The boys” he says, “have
shown much enthusiasm and spirit in
their practice and are now in a position
to make a place in the band well worth
striving for.”
TENNIS STAR TURNS OUT
But Not for ’Varsity—He’s
Mortimer Brown, Crack Ma
terial for Next Year.
Oregon’s chances in tennis for at least
one year in advance took a jump when
Mortimer Brown turned out for practice
Thursday. Brown is ranked as sixth best
in the state and is the Portland inter
scholastic champion and city double
champion. He registered in the TJnive*
sity as a freshman and is therefore not
eligible for the varsity, but a freshman
match is arranged to take place with O.
A. C. this spring.
Lewis Bond, tennis captain, says that
the big trouble is the lack of material.
Hurd, Downard and Ilersehner are mak
ing the best showing of the possible can
didates. Last year Hurd was first alter
nate varsity and Hownard and Ilersh
[ ner were members of the freshman team.
ONLY FOUR IN HOSPITAL
Only four students in the University
have been reported this season to the
English “hospital”, where extra work
is given to correct their grammar.
Whether this is due to a higher grade of
English among the students or to the
negligence of the members of the faculty
in reporting them can not be decided, ac
cording to Dr. E. S. Bates, head of the
rhetoric work.
Thirty-four new freshmen and seven
who flunked in the work first semester
are registered in beginning work in com
position under Dr. Geo. P. Richardson,
instructor in the English department.
OPESI HOUSE PUT OFF
Postponed One Week on Ac
count of Goodrich Funeral.
Custom Will Remain, Says
Dean Fox; May Change Time
Open-house day has been postponed
from Sunday, February 10, to the fol
lowing Sunday, by mutual consent of the
sorority house heads. The postponement
is made out of respect to the memory of
Hay Goodrich, graduate of the University
and member of the Board of Regents,
who died in Boston last Sunday.
Starting from the postponement of the
open-house day, a rumor has spread over
the campus that the sororities were con
sidering abolishing the custom for the
alleged reason that the men of the Uni
vedsity made fun of the event.
Miss Elizabeth Fox. dean of women,
yesterday afternoon denied that the
question of discontinuing open house day
was being discussed.
“The only suggestion that the custom
he done away with came at a meeting
of sorority house heads Tuesday even
ing.” said Miss Fox. “At this
time one or two suggested that the men
of the University did not enjoy the open
house day. It was apparent, however,
that the majority of the girls thought
that the boys did enjoy it.
“The matter of disconinuing the cus
tom was given little consideration. It
would not have come up but for my an
nouncement that I would introduce,
some time before the close of the present
semester, a motion that open house days
be held, in the future, on Saturday nights
instead of on Sunday afternoons.
“I am advocating this change because
freshmen’s ideals of Sunday are shatter
ed the first Sunday they are in college
under the present custom. Freshmen
come here from homes where they have
been taught to observe Sunday by attend
ing church and in quiet rest. The first
Sunday they are in college the entire
afternoon is turned over in the making
of calls on sororities. The freshmen,
both boys and girls, from this get the
idea that making social calls is the prop
er way to observe Sunday in college. The
teachings of their parents are shattered
the first day.
“I do not know what percentage of
college men and women attend church,
but it should be more tha it is at Ore
gon. I will introduce the motion som i
time before the close of the present
semester so that the change can be made
beginning next fall. Sunday then will
be free for religious observance. I be
lieve that every student in the University
of Oregon should go to church services
every Sunday.”
There is some objection to the pro
posed shifting of the date, according to
Miss Fox. The objection comes from
girls who fear that fewer men would
come to open house Saturday night than
on Sunday afternoon.
“Personally, 1 can see no reason why
Oregon inert would not come in as great
numbers at night as on Sunday after
noon.” sayu Miss Fox. “Of course the
would do away with the dance usually
given by sorority houses the first Sat
urday in each semester in honor of the
entering freshmen. But many of the
girls tell me that they are tired from
their work during rushing week and do
not enjoy the dances anyway.
“ lam not at all in favor of the abol
ishment of the cust nn, but believe that
it should be extended to girls’ boarding
houses as well. New girls are often lone
some their first Sunday in college
seeing group after of group of men pass
ing by to call on sororities, and feel that
they are barred from the social life f
the University.”
GOODRICH FUNERALSUNDAY
Students Urged to March With
Procession to Masonic Ceme
tery; Service 2:30.
The funeral of Hay Goodrich late re
gent of the Univcsity, who died in
Boston last Sunday ./ill beheld tomorrow
afternon at 2:30. Eight faculty mem
bers of the University and eight students
will attend the services at the chapel.
The procession will reach Thirteenth
and Alder abi ut 3 o’clock. All Univer
sity students are urged to join at this
point and proceed to the Masonic ceme
tery.
YMENT—•
Former Oregon Professor
Upsets Tradition in Uni
versity of Washington De
partment of Journalism.
Students ut the University• of Wash
ington do not recognize the old office of
the head of the department of journalism.
It has undergone many great transforma
tions recently, according to a late issue
of the University of Washington Daily.
Instead of a murky atmosphere of
tobacco smoke, the office is now filled
with sweet, fresh air. It has been com
pletely clarified. Even variegated cigar
stubs and old pipes and tobacco cans,
sacred to all real newspaper offices,
have been thrown into the discard. The
whole place has been cleared of junk in
the form of papers, magazines and every
other commodity that naturally finds its
place in the office of a typical newspaper
man.
Now, when students enter the office
of the professor of journalism they need
not use a periscope to observe the man t
the desk. He sits calmly in his shirt
sleeves and smiles a pleasant welcome.
He is Professor Colin V. Dyment.
Hill, Wilson, Flegal, Get Deci
sions on Mat.
Jensen - Taylor, Rutherford.
Grey Matches Tie.
Close to 50 spectators crowded the lit
tle room off the gymnasium balcony yes
terday afternoon and witnessed the try
outs which decided the varsity wrestling
team that meets O. A. 0. on the night
of February 10, at Corvallis,
In all six bouts were pulled off. Fight
and aggressiveness stood out. in all the
matches, Coach Fd Shockley refereed,
and rendered his decisions with an im
partial hand.
Claude Hill won the right to represent
the varsity in the 125-pound class by
pinning Jenkins’ shoulders to the mat
in two straight falls. The opening fall
came after five minutes and .10 seconds
of the toughest kind of mauling. Hill
had the upper hand throughout but it
was witli difficulty that lie downed the
wiry Jenkins. llill used a half Nel
son in each case, the second fall coming
In 40 seconds.
Dwight Wilson gained a decision and
a fall in one minute and five seconds
over Chuck Dundore in the 1.15-pound
class. Dundore was game to the core hut
Wilson was the stronger, and more ex
perienced. Dundore was worn out after
the first uix minutes and fell an easy
victim to a head chancery.
The 115-pound division saw some live
ly milling between Bruce Flegal and
Shorty Phillips. The former won the ti
tle on aggressiveness and the ability to
retain the upper hand. Flegal meets
Barnett, a varsity wrestler of two years
ago, on Monday afternoon for the right
to represent the lemon yellow in the
bantamweight class.
The 105-pound class was the one dis
appointing feature of the afternoon.
Jensen met Taylor and neither showed
any real grappling ability. It was a ease
of two evenly matched men, neither of
whom could get at the other. They
fought three successive draws without as
nuch as falling to the mat. They will
stage n return match on Monday.
The liveliest go of the program was
the match between Captain “Rudy”
I Rutherford and challenger, “Bearcat”
Grey. Grey had previously disposed of
Boyd in two straight falls and was some
what tired. Both men felt each other out
and before three minutes had elapsed
thrv were going at it hammer nnd tongs.
Rutherford finally gained the upper hand
on a tumble at the edge of the mat. He
Wld it the .! paining two minutes and
was awarded the bout. Grey was given
n big hand for the battle be made
tgainst such overwhelming odds. They
book up Monday night in the final bout
to decide supremacy at 148 pounds.
The small mat and lack of space mar
red what was otherwise nn interesting
lid lively performance.
HOWE MAY LEAVE YALE.
Henry Howe, one of Oregon’s 1916
graduates, who is now attending Yale,
may be forced to return home at the
conclusion of the present semester. Ac
cording to his father, l’rof. II. O. Howe,
his eyes have troubled him ro much for
the last month that study was practically
impossible. Howe was graduated last
June, winning highest honors in rhetoric.
TRICK OUTLOOK DIRK
Hayward, Minus Old Stars, Has
First Turnout.
WEAK IN FIELD EVENTS
Ooach Sees Chance for Hustlers
to Make Team.
With the final in Oregon's most dis
astrous basketball season but two weeks
off and the advent of the present warm
weather, varsity fans are ready to turn
their attention to track and field ath
letics.
Close to 20 candidates, including the
varsity and freshmen, answered Bill
Hayward's opening call last Wednesday
afternoon. The veteran track coach, who
has an uncanny habit of developing win
ning teams, was well pleased with the
turnout. After giving out the initial in
structions and admonitions to the ath
letes. Hayward sent the entire squad on
a slow, four-lap jog arond the track.
Hayward watched his future point-win
ners With a critical eye as they loosened
their long-kinked muscles on the soft
dirt.
Never before has the outlook been so
gloomy for winning the conference cham
pionship. Bill Hayward has issued hia
annual hear story, and for the first time
in years the students are prone to be*
lieve it is a real wnil. Lts year at
this time Captain Chet Fee, Moose Muir
head and Lee Bostwiek formol a nucleus
around which was built what later prov
ed to be the lemon-yellow's foremost
track and field team. Today the three
stars are missing. Fee, who earned the
title of the third best all-around athlete
in the United States in lDlti, has grad
uated and is working on his father's
ranch at Pendleton. He and Muirhead,
who has gone to Nebraska, represented
a track team in themselves. Seldom did
these sterling track luminaries fail to
annex from 25 to 30 points in any meet.
Bostwiek won his letter in the two-mile
last year, but failed to return this sem
ester.
A close canvnss of the varsity material
shows some strength in the sprints and
distances, with a woeful weakness in the
field events. Captain Martin Nelson of
Astoria, holder of the conference record
in the half mile, ought to show a clean
pair of heels to rival middle-distance men.
He will, no doubt, be used in the 440
and 880 yard runs as well aa the relay.
Kent Wilson and Ascar Gorezky, last
year’s letter men in the century and 220
are on hand to handle the sprints. Bob
Atkinson is expected to come through in
the quarter and half-mile runs. Ken
Bartlett, the Estacada discus-thrower, is
a sure point-winner in his event. He
threw the Grecian platter 137 feet last
year.
Upon Belding’s plugging ability, coup
led with the nid of Bob Cnse’s long legs,
rest the varsity’s chances in the dis
tance events. Bolding failed to make the
required nine points to win a letter lost
year although he placed in both dual
meets with Washington and O. A. C.
Case has the making of a good man with
a little more experience.
Skinny Hargreaves and Bill Blackaby
appear the only likely looking timber in
the jumps and pole vault. The former
has been out for the squad for two years
hut has failed to win his “O”. George
Gntes. of Medford, providing he develops
as rapidly as he did last year, ought to be
a first place man in the pole vault.
Pete Jensen is over weight and is too
heavy for the pole vault. He expects to
specialize on the javelin this year. Har
old Brock, of Pendleton, u sprint man
on the freshman team last year, rounds
out the list of the most likely-looking ma
terial. Hayward hopes to pick a dark
horse out of his big squad.
GERMAN CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS.
Th*> German club held its annual elec
tion of officern on Wednesday, February
7. The new officers follow:
President, Agnes Basler; vice-presi
dent, Viviun Kellems; secretary, Mary
Ilislop; treasurer, Gladys Conklin; critic,
Prof. Schwartz; sergeant-at-arms, Her
man Gilfillan.
Max ltiegard gave a report on the
last performance of “Der Meistersohaft.” ,
lie Raid: “The play was a decided suc
cess. both financially and artistically. All
the characters in the play were excep
tion well taken ami the large audienc«
was notably responsive.'1