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OREGON EMERALD VOL. 18. EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1917. NO. 53. *o. A. C. DEBATE TONIGHT DON’T FORGET KOLLEGE GIRLS’ CHAMP B. B. GAME FRIDAY . ■ m m m % m m KARNIVAL SATURDAY EVENING GIRLS TO PLAY FOR SUITE TITLE nmif Championship Basketball Game Will Be Staged in Men’s Gymnasium. PENDLETON ACCEPTS SILVERTON’S CHALLENGE ^ To Meet Valley Team on Neu tral Floor; Dispute Over Number of Players. The Pendleton girls basketball team, which plays the Oakland team for the state championship in the men’s gym nasium tomorrow night, has accepted the challenge of the Silverton team for a game while on the trip in the Valley. This announcement was made this morn ing in a night letter to the limerald from II. T. Drill, managsr of the Pendleton team. Mr. Drill telegraphed: “Team prob ably play Silverton on neutral floor while on trip. Silverton challenges. Claim championship of Willamette Valley”. The Pendleton girls arrive tomorrow noon and will be extensively entertain 4 ed. The same would b. true of the Oak ' land girls except for the fact that they arrive and depart the same evening. The question of officials has been definitely settled. Miss Campbell, whose identity Mr. Drill fails to state will be referee and Miss Harriet Thompson, of the Uni versity, will be tlie ainpirc. Some difficulty was encountered be tween Oakland and Pendleton as to the number of players to be used. Oakland plays the intercoil ijiatc number whi.e Pendleton has been playing a six-member team. Pendleton wanted to compromise by playing one half of the game with six players and the other half with five. This Oakland refused to do and Pendle ton finally acquiesced and the full game will be played with the five players. Pendleton’s undefeated girl’s basket ball team will be feted from the time they arrive Friday noon tntil their departure Sunday evening. Sororities and frater nities alike are planning on showing the visitors a royal welcome. Sigmi Chi will act as hosts to the team on Friday night, accompanying the gills and their chaperone Mrs. S. It. Thomp son, and Coach Louis Hailey, a gradu ate from the University, r the class of 191(5. Saturday afte noon the party will be entertained by Kappa Kappa Gamma. An afternoon tea will be given Saturday by the members of Alpha 1 hi. Satur day evening the girls will dine with the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Chi Omega will entertain the team at Sunday noon dinner. The Oakland team will not arrive until Friday night at (3:50 P. M. and will de part immediately after the game. An aU-University lance will be held after the big game. A preliminary to the co-ed game will be staged by the Y. M. C. A. and Atlas jgk Clubs for the championship of the city league. The Silverton girls have issued a chal lenge to the winner of Friday contest, Intercollegiate rules will be used. The following is the lineup of the two teams: Pendleton Oakland Edith. Lang_C.Birdie Easley Vera Temple ...F .Rhea Hall Grace Rugg.F .Alice Easley Helen Nelson_G.Anna Mc-Mabb Thelma Thompson.G .Marie Chenoweth Substitutes; Pendleton, \ eva Cook, Alta Mentzter, Doris Chestnut, and Leta Agee. Oakland; Agnes Hogan. VOLUNTEER'S BENEFIT RECITAL Mrs. Thomas Carrick Burke of Port- , land, has offered to give a recital in | Eugene f r the benefit of the Women’s j building. Dr. Landsbury, who has been conferring with Mrs. Burke, has no defi- i nite program to announce as yet. At ; present Mrs. Burke is on a concert tour , with Theadore Spiering, violinist. i U. CLASSES TO BE IN SAND # 4 $s 4k TO TEACH ON SHRIMP SLOOP # # * s PUPILS TO LIVE IN TENTS “Sprig is albost cobe". Ask the bio logical student if lie is ready for his summer vacation, chorus of voices,“Yea” —but not so Dr. ,T. F. Bovard whose summer vacation will consist of teach ing a class in inverterbrate Morphology, (dictionaries on practically all library tables), from June 25 to August 4. at the Puget Sound Marine Station, Friday Harbor, Wash. This school is main tained by the University of Washington. A thorough course is given in biology and any student who puts forth good spirit can earn six credits in these six weeks of summer school. For illustra tion there will be discussions on the Ner ecystis, Arbogussinum oregonensis, Gor onocephalus euenemis, and shrimp. The majority of the students make their headquarters in tent houses, but better yet, some of the classes are held on the sand and still others on board a little shrimp dredger. Dr. Bovard says that it has not yet been definitely arranged just who will have charge of the Zoology Department in the University of Oregon as yet, but the ap pointment will soon be made. FACULTY GRANTS REQUEST Students Will Help Provide Speakers and Entertainment at Assemblies. An all-University entertainment hour will be given in Villard hall some time in the near future, according to the facul ty committee on assemblies, which has granted this request to the student body. Acording to members of the committee it is not expected the hours given over to the University students will be anything like the old class hours, and if the stu dents should make the entertainment in any way similar to the class hours, it is not likely that future petitions of the kind would be granted. The faculty assembly committee decided that hereafter they would act with a student committee selected by the Stu dent Council, in selecting speakers and planning the program for the weekly assemblies. The joint faculty and student committee will probably not be able to do very much this year but next year it may be possible to join with the Uni versity of California and the University of Washington and possibly some of the other western colleges, in bringing speak ers to the coast for the special purpose of addressing the students, thus illimin ating the necessity of depending entirely upon men who happen to be traveling out on the coast, for this purpose. The wholi question, also, of the devo tional and musical features of the assem bly programs will be discussed at the first joint meeting of students and faculty which will be held within a few weeks. OREGANA CONTEST STARTS $10 and $5 Will Be Given to Contestants for Highest Sales Average. The Oregana contest sale begins today. Fifteen enthusiastic contestants are fighting for the prizes of $10 and $5 and two Oregana books. The territory is to be exclusive for a few days, then all the eontestors will be free to sell Oreganas where they can. An effort is being made to Lave all the students who are going to buy the book subscribe before it goes to press on March 15. Harold Tregilgas, circulation mana ger, says the book's printing is alone costing $400 more than it did last year. There will be nearly 100 more pages in the book thin year. The feature section is to be bigger than ever before, there will be 125 pages in this section alone. Practically everybody in college will be represented in pictures in some form or other. The circulation staff is urging every one to assist the solicitors by ordering their Oregana early. The first payment is $1.50 and the other dollar is paid when the book is delivered. This is the term before March 15, after that the book is $3. Tour Through Ancient Lands Given by Archaeologist in Address. Dr. Edgar J. Banks Illustrates Lectures With Views of Near East. Before an audience that taxed the ca pacity of Villurd hail, Dr. Edgar J. Banks, author, traveller and professor at the University of Chicago, delivered a lecture last night on “The Bible and the Spade”. Starting from Constantinople, the speaker took his audience, via the lantern slide route, through Arabia, Palestine, and ancient Babylon. He pointed out re cent discoveries and explorations which have substantiated the old bibical stories of the flood, the creation of the world and Adam and Eve. Tablets and seals on which history of thousands of years ago was transcribed were flashed on the set ecu. Dr. Banks told how the excavations were carried on in the buried cities. He related some of the lucky finds that he had stumbled on in his search for records. One statue, in particular, was unearthed that was 0000 years old. The speaker told ho-, the tablets were deciphered and gave his hearers a short lesson in the cuneiform method employ ed by the Babylonians. He advanced the theory that the ten lost tribes are living now in Babylonia. "They are the only Jews who speak th ■ bibical Hebrew, they offer sacrifices, they worship in the Mosiuc form and have customs trae able to Moses,” said Dr. Banks. “For these reasons I believe they are the ten lost tribes of Israel." A teature or ms win was ms uescrip tion of the Arabs. He lauded the Arab ian horses and said the; could do all the things claimed for them. Not only do they excel in fleetness but also in ' 1 | telligenee. The Arabs he characterized as willing workers for a pittance, of IS cents a day and some one to sing to th mi while they labored. “There is nothing f an Arab would not steal,” said Ur. Banks. “We used to pay them extra for their finds so they /ould not go off to sell them to somebody else.” These were the roviu„ Arabs. There is another class entirely which is among the brightest of all race • In concluding his lecture Dr. Banks said, “More knowledge of the Bible has been brought to light in the last 50 years than in all previous time through thcs" excavations. There are innumerable fields for further exploration in the fu ture. Many mounds have as yet been n touched.” AUDIENCE TAKEN 1000 MILES DOWN TIGRIS While 700 college men and women waited in Villard hall to hear the assem bly lecture, "A Thousand Miles Down the Tigris River”, by Dr. Edgar James Banks, he was being rushed from the be lated train in an automobile to the campus. After a brief introduction by I President Campbell, the slides were thrown on the canvas, anc. the audience at once started on their pictorial journey 1000 miles down the Tigris river, the speaker pointing out the curious habits and costumes of th: people, or review ing the history of th past that ban been played in this part of th Orient. The speaker took the audience to the giddy summit of Mt Arurut 4000 feet higher than any peak in the United States, rising to the heigh, of 17,212 feet. On August 20, 1012, Dr. Banks | started the ascent with two guides and several companions, f he and his guides were the only ones of the paity that reached the summit of the mountain after many days of hardship, the other* giving out by the way. It was rn the summit of this mountain, said the speak (Continued on page four) Twirling Staff Has Room; Shortstop Booth Vacant; Outfield Intact. First Contest With Spokane Indians April 7-8; Wash ington April 25-26. Baseball will start at Oregon as soon ns the snow melts and the ground hard ens. with the competition open to three places on the varsity for promising ex ponents of the national pastime. The return of “Dot” Medley, the de mon swatter on last year's nine, brought great, gobs of joy to Coach Ber.dek ns well as fandom in general. The Cottage drove boy arrived in town last Sunday and looked primed to jump into a uniform at a moment’s notice. lie will hold down his old job in right field. Captain Nelson will be seen piloting the team from the first bag. Walter Grebe will occupy second base with “Speed” Maison at third. Shortstop is open. .Toy Fox, Estey Farley and Lynn McCready from the class of TO, appear to be the most promising of the infield ers. Shy Huntington behind the mask and wind pad, with Scoop Itathbun on the firing line will do most of the heavy work during the coming season. There is a broad field of endeavor • open to pitchers for the two alternate roles. Babb, Heywood, Dudley. Hum and Wil son are the only known prospects who have shown any pitching ability. The outfield is intact. Medley and Sheehy are the holdovers from last year with Virgil Alexander, the sensational Eugene boy, having first call on the left veldt sunfield. Graduate Manager A. R. Uttany has announced the schedule which includes 11’ conference games. Varsity fans will also have the chance of seeing the Spo kane Indians in a two-game series on the Cemetery Itidge diamond on April 7 and 8. Rube Foster’s Chicago Colored Giants are expected to stop off the latter part of March to entertain the bleacher ites with their capers. The University of Washington nine opens the conference season here on April 25 and 2(5. The strong California “Rear” team will close the local schedule on May 21 and 22. It will he the first invasion of the Berkeley squad in some years. Oregon should have a strong offensive team. Captain Nelson, Medley, Hunt ington, Maison and Alexander can he counted on to hit in the select .300 circle. At present the cry is for pitching strength and speed. Some of the regulars are working out nightly in the gymnasium in the prelim inary process of unlimbering their long inactive muscles. Bezdek is urging light daily workouts indoors until the first signs of blue sky and sunshine. Batting practice will he in order the early part of next week if the weather permits. The following games have been sched uled for the season: Oregon vs. Spokane Indians at Eugene, April 7-8. Oregon vs. U. of \V. at Eugene, April 25-26. Oregon vs. O. A. C. at C orvallis, May 2-3. Oregon vs. I*, of W. at Seattle, May 4-5. Oregon vs. O. A. C. at Eugene, May 11-12. Oregon vs. W. S. C. at Eugene, May 16-17. Oregon vs. U. of C. at Eugene, May 21-22. 847 IN EXTENSION DIVISION Registration in the extension division of the University nor totals 847 accoul ing to the report recently issued by that department. The total number in courses Jan. 1, 1917, is shown us 710. In Janu ary 62 new registrations were recorded and during the present month 75. have been received. This shows an increase at the present time of 3(5 over the number registered for 1916, the number reported for the past year being 811. ANCIENTS WERE GUIDED « « * 4k BOOKS EXPLAIN WONDERS # « # * DR. BANKS GIVES DETAILS That the ancients had guide books which directed them to many wonderful places.where there were monuments never equalled in the modern world, is the state ment of Dr. E. J. Banks, archaeologist, j who has traveled widely through Asia Minor, Egypt, and the Ear East. He has visited many places of peculiar interest and he declared yesterday before the Y. W. C. A. that the seven wonders of the ancient world were: Tomb of King Kufu or the Pyramid of Cheops; the walls of Babylon; the Temple of Diana; Phidias’ statue of the god Zeus; tomb of King Mausolaus; the Colossus on the shore of the harbor at Rhodes; Alexandria’s light house. Dr. Banks presented slides of these various wonders and entered into a de tailed description of each. He said that King Kufu spent his whole life building his tomb and impoverished Egypt to accomplish his end, even forc ing the priests to work as day laborers. The pyramid covers 111 acres of land, 7Ho feet on a side, and is now 481 feet high. It once stood higher, he says. Y.M. CONVENTION AT SALEM Oregon-Idaho Representatives to Meet Saturday. The Annual Convention of the Oregon Idnho Young Men's Christian association will meet in Salem Saturday, March .’!. The meeting will last all day. Among those scheduled to speak are Mr. C. C. Robinson of the Boys’ Work department of the International committee; Dr. Joshua Stansfield, pastor of the Portland Methodist church, Governor Withyeombe, Prof. 11. E. Bates of Forrest Grove and others of state and national reputation. The local association will send three dele gates says J. I>. Foster. Students wishing to attend this meet ing are asked to see Loren Roberts, president of the. Y. M. C. A. The rail roads have agreed to give a rate of a fare and a third. GLEE CLUB CLEARS MONEY Home Concert Makes Up Deficit of An nual Trip. Comparatively speaking, the present Men's Glee club, under the management of J. Bothwell Avison. outdid that of last year in respect to receipts. Last year the home concert brought barely enough to pay for the use of the theater, while this year the dub eleared $170.|05. Al though the annual trip proved nearly a failure in respect to finances the home concert has for once evened up the de ficit. The total amount the club went in the hole on the trip was close to $200. This deficit it can be seen narrowed down to about$28.95. “Botts” says thcr • wc 71).'? people in the theater the night of the concert. He refuses to say whether he counted the club and stage hands in that number. SOPHOMORES $50 IN DEBT Juniors Head List With Balance in the Treasury of $265.33. Because the sophomore class spent a large portion of its finances for jitney bills at tlie time of the soph-frosh mix ir is now the only class in debt. Through the dance to be given in the near future with the freshmen it is hoped to make enough to wipe out the $50 indebtedness. The juniors head the list with a bal ance in the treasury of $205.33. How ever, there are bills constantly corning in, some uf them two years old, which keep Harold Tregilgas, class treasurer, busy looking up and paying. After the expense of tire senior dance had been discounted Ben Fleischmunn found that class still had $S5.07 to its credit. The total i mount taken in during the year was $150.37. Clifford Sevits, the freshman treasur er, has $157.11 in the hank for the class but when he gets down to paying off the bills, he expects the sum to look con siderably smaller. KOLLEGE KARNIVUL PIG9ER S PARADISE Only Gluttons Can Exceed 65 Cent Expense Limit Says Committee. WOMEN, TOO, MUST BUY DANCE AND GRUB TICKETS Corduroys, Flannel Shirts, Mid dy Blouses and Sweaters Approved Oarb. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* ♦ ♦ ♦ FEATURES OF K. K. fc. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ No man escorting a girl can spend ♦ ♦ more than 65 cents, provided he is ♦ ♦ no glutton. Admision is 25 cents a ♦ ♦ couple and there are four shows at ♦ ♦ 10 cents a head. • ♦ Each girl will he required to pur- ♦ ♦ chase 25 cents worth of tickets her- ♦ ♦ self before going to the dance. These ♦ ♦ tickets may be used for refreshments. ♦ ♦ Corduroy pants, flannel shirts, ♦ ♦ middy blouses and sweaters are on- ♦ ♦ couraged by the management. White ♦ ♦ colnrs and pressed pants are frown- ♦ ♦ ed upon. ♦ ♦ ♦ (John DeWilt Gilbert) K. K. K. means Kollege Kid’s Karni val. Kollege Kid’s Knrnivnl means the maximum amount and quality of fun at a minimum expense to all concerned. Because the Knrnivnl is being given by the whole University for the purpose of rnising money to apply on a fund in which the. whole University is interested, both men nnd women will be expected to attend the fete. In order to accomplish this, nnd to take away from the men the entire burden of support of the Woman’s building, the women themselves will be required to purchase 25 cents worth of tickets, exchangeable later at the refresh ment booths for provender. The committe in charge of the Knrni vnl has held the cost to each individual as low as possible, making it a point not to fleece anyone whatsoever nnd making it impossible for the most profligate swain to plunge any further than 05 cents, unless he and his consort should possess appetites that will over-reach the quarter-dollar meal ticket provided by the Indy's munificent expenditure. There’s no absolute rule against shiny shoes or white collars, but no person is guaranteed against social ostracism who appears at the fest clnd in any of this ii-Rystem stuff. The dances, twelve in number, are going to be fast and furious. The genernl character of the evening’s diversion will be so riotous as to stir that old circus day feeling in the heart of the most astere co-ed that ever walked Hello Lane without speaking. In the first place, six dances will be held, interspac ed with novel nnd frequent stunts which are entirely and absolutely GRATIS. After the conclusion of this full half dozen heats a half-hour intermission will be injected to allow the contestants a breathing space and a chance to visit the four class side shows which will be kept running continuously during this 30 min ute halt. Each class is striving to outdo the rest in the novelty and brilliancy of their stunts. Ballyhooers will be present and the whole period will take on a gala day aspect likened only to a “Trail” or “Zone” or other lane of laughter. When the 30 minutes and 30 cents have spent themselves, the frolic will aguin be taken up and six more magnificent canters will be laid a-top the evening already full to overflowing. It may be remembered that the Fiji troHh raced the Delta Tau frosh a few weeks ago ; well, the Delt '20's have vow ed revenge and are going to race the Fijis Saturday night according to their own plans and those of the committee as woil. Nick Jaureguy says, “I’m so thrilled already that I can hardly wait. This is (Continued on page four)