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VOL. 18.
EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1917.
NO. 80.
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CLIMBERS" WORTHY
VEHICLE FOR 17ERS
Senior Play Is Really a Good
Performance, Despite
Minor Defects.
MRS. RITESIS STAR
Is a Tragedy and Most Difficult
Production Yet Attempted
by Oregon Students.
“The Climbers”, by Clyde Fitch, was
presented at the Eugene Theatre Friday
night before a capacity house, as the an
nual performance of the Senior class.
In undertaking a play of so serious a
nature the class showed commendable
daring. It was altogether the most dif
ficult production that has yet been at
tempted by the University of Oregon
students.
The play is a tragedy, r.nd in any
American audience there will always be
a considerable minority too unimagin
ative to be able to disassociate the ac
tors from their ordinary student person
ality sufficiently to take any tragedy
seriously, however well it may be given.
“The Climbers”, while an excellent
play in its time, seems today hopelessly
old-fashioned in its technique. The so
liloquies and asides, the long didatic
speeches, the melodramatic happenings,
all of which were accepted cheerfully
enough fifteen years ago, are today al
most intolerable.
The caste had only two weeks for re
hearsal, there were numerous changes
of personnel during that time, and the
leading maa had to get out of a sick bed
to play his part.
Despite all these difficulties, the play
distinctively got over. The audience en
joyed it, and the universal comment was
that it was a good performance.
Alex Bowen, as Richard Sterling, the
weak-kneed husband, who drifts from
debt into dishonesty and finally into sub
side, had by far the most arduous role of
the evening, all the harder because of his
previous reputation as a comedian. Al
though greatly hampered by hoarseness
which deprived his voice of its usual re
sonance, Mr. Bowen gave an effective
rendering of his part. Admirably sin
cere, living the part every moment that
he was on the stage, he surprised his
audience by the emotional power he ex
pressed. In the last act he forgot a num
ber of his lines, due to th.e illness which
prevented his attendance at th'e final re
hearsals. Altogether it was a plucky
piece of work, and it left one feeling that
it was a shame Mr. Bowen should not
have been in condition to give what
would undoubtedly have been the best
performance of his student career.
Much credit for the uccess of the play
must be given to Rosalind Bates, the
lending lady. She made Sterling's rather
unsympathetic wife an essentially hu
man creature, notwithstanding the
wooden words with which Fitch wrote
her. She rose splendidly to her emo
tional climaxes and held the attention of
the audience to the end.
In maintaining the serious atmosphere
of the piece, she was ably supported by
Bernice Lucas, in the role of Ruth
Hunter, the aunt. This aunt is one of
those ultra-good people so often met with
on the stage, but from Miss Lucas, her
long, dry sermonizing speeches came with
a tensiveness of conviction and depth of
feeling which compelled belief. In the
impression of sheer moral fibre which it
gave, Miss Lucas’ work was remarkable.
In the role of Ned Warden, the other
highly virtuous character of the piece,
Earl Fleischmann maintained his usual
high standard of acting. His was a dif
ficult part to play for there was the
danger of making Warden appear prig
gish. But Mr. Fleischmann got the part
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James Sheehy
Harold Tregilgas
Kenneth Bartlett
Charles Huntington
Charles Dundors
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Floyd Isn’t Shy;
Just A Mistake
Floyd Westerfield had an eleven
o’clock journalism class Friday mornin,’
out in the journalism annex. So he went
to the recitation room bright and early
and he sat and he sat and he sat. Pret'y
J soon a couple of girls came inand they
sat. And a few more came iu and they
sat. But Floyd was busy with his own
thoughts send 'he never bothered about
them. It wasn’t until the last bell rang
that he looked up and found himself
completely surrounded by fair young
faces. Surrounded? Yes, the room was
cram full of them.
Floyd began to feel uneasy. Most girls
aren’t fond of advanced journalism
courses and he had never noticed so many
around the building before. They made
him a little suspicious, also unnecessary.
He looked up to the instructor’s desk
to see the explanation and lo and behold,
Miss Mabel Louise Cummings was just
beginning a lecture on personal hygiene.
The startled senior tried to make his
departure as inconspicuous as possible
but the class couldn’t help but notice the
hasty clatter of chairs as he made for
the door.
As soon as he was safely out, Wester
field pondered. He found no solution to
the mystery until someone showed him a
calendar. The date thereon was Thurs
day,
Soap, Millrace, Canoes, People,
Spotlights, Music and Rain
Make Up Water Fete.
Nevertheless, Dignified Senior
Takes Hasty Leave From
Personal “Hy” Class.
Bubbles—soapy ones and otherwise—
were a noticeable feature of the official
opening of the twentieth Junior Week
end of the University. Three soaps
and an enormous colored bubble told the
tale. The millrace, canoes, lanterns, spot
lights, people, music, and lastly, um
brellas, formed the setting of the fifth
annual water fete Thursday night. The
rain, however, did not dampen the in
terest of the 500 people crowded in and
about the “Shack”; and along the Race
way; nor did it detract from the bril
liancy of the 18 entries.
A huge sea-shell of many delicate
shades, with Noemi Bernard as a sea
nymph, the center of attraction, was tlie
prize winning float entered by Chi
Omega. The prize was the silver cup,
and $11.
The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity,
commonly known as Fiji, entered a Fiji
Island float which received the second
prize of $6. “Beneath the sheltering
palms” two man-eating cnnnibals, Dow
Wilson and Lyle McCroskey were boil
ing a white captive, Arvo Simola.
Gama Phi Beta took the third prize
of $3, with a brilliantly colored and
lighted bubble, which floated down the
race apparently alone. Florence Sher
man lay inside, as if on the water.
Honorable mention was given to Delta
Gamma, and Mary Spiller. Delta Gamma
entered a soldier camp scene. Mary
Spiller represented Jap Rose Soap;
Ruth Wilson and Miss Tirza Dinsdale,
dressed as Japanese maidens, paddled.
A volcano, Tri Delta’s float, caused
the only accident of the fete. A defec
tive sparkler set the cotton, which form
ed the basis of the volcano, on fire—but
aside from minor burns, no one was in
jured.
The Junior float, decorated with apple
blossoms, and a huge “IS” in electric
lights, and carrying the silver cup, head
ed the procession. Winifred Starbuck
and Vivian Kellems were in charge. This
float was not entered for competition.
Patriotism formed the theme for four
floats—Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Chi, Delta
Gamma, and Alpha Tau Omega. Other
entries were Friendly Hall, and Kappa
Sigma, gondolas; Xappa Alpha Theta,
Fairy Soap; Alpha Phi, Ivory Soap; Pi
Beta Phi, balloon flpat; Kappa. Kappa
Gamma, a Dutch float; Delta Theta Phi,
Justice; and Delta Tau Delta "Salome’
Second Company Slated to
Win Meet With 56 Points
* At Four This Afternoon
By Adrienne Epping
The events of the inter-company track meet at four o'clock this afternoon and
the first three winners in order are:
50 YARD DASH—Foster, Westerfield, Mulkey.
BROAD JUMP—Mulkey, Hodson, Foster.
100 HIGH HURDLES—Knudson, McConnell, Fumey.
POLE VAULT—Jensen and Watkins tied. Knudson, Fumey.
75-YARD DASH—Foster, Fitzgibbous, Westerfield.
MILE—Scott, Case, Watkins.
HIGH JUMP—Jensen, Gurney, Kuudsen.
150-Y’ARD DASH—Foster, Hodson, Fitzgibbons.
440-YARD DASH—Hodson, Atkinson, Belding.
lS0-lrARD LOW HURDLES—Foster, Knudson, Masterson.
SSO-YARD RUN—Belding, Montague, Atkinson.
With a lead of 50 points at 4 o’clock
this afternoon the Second of the Univer
sity student companies bid fair to come
out of the inter-company track meet on
top. The Thirty-third, however, was
running' strong for a good second with 36
points and Belding in the quarter mile
and Jensen iiVthc high jump and Steers
and lesser stars yet to be heard from.
The “Fighting First” had 30 chalked
up to its credit, the “Flying Fourth” 21,
the “Sickly Sixth” IS and the “Fleeing
Fifth” 5.
Foster, of company two. was easily the
star of the meet, winning first in the 50
yard dash, 75 and the 100 and placing in
the low hurdles and broad jump. He was
ably seconded by Knudsen who copped
the five-point in the high hurdles and
who placed in the low.
Hodson was high point winner up to
4 o’clock in company one. Making the
last time of 53 flat in the 440, falling ex
hausted a few feet from the tape but
pluckily crawling over the line before At
kinson who was a good second, could
reach the line.
The only man showing up in company
six was Mulkey who placed in the 50 and
75, made first in the broad jump with a
leap of 20’ 11”.
With 31 entries the fourth, Scott and
Furney were the only two point takers
up to publication. Scott took first in the
mile in the comparative slow time of five
flat. Furney heaved the shot over 40
feet for first place and made second in
the high jump.
Patterson and Bruukow grabbed two
fourth places in the mile and high hur
dles respectively for the Fifth company.
TELLS OF OK
President Campbell Attends
Washington Conference.
War Secretary Advises College
Men to Complete Their
Studies.
President P. L. Campbell in a message
of greetings to the special Woman’s
edition of the Emerald, sent from Wash
ington, D. C.. yesterday, described the
enthusiastic reception accorded British
and French war commissioners in the
east.
The president has been attending a
called meeting of college heads in Wash
ington, D. C.
Thousands of students cheered wildly
when Columbus University conferred de
grees upon Gen. Joseph J. C. Joffre,
Field Marshall and member of the French
commission and Arthur J. Balfour, head
of the British commission and Foreign
secretary, who were sent to the United
States to confer with American civil
and military leaders regarding co-opera
tion in the war.
Many students from Columbia, Har
vard, and other eastern Universities in
cluding several Oregon graduates are
going into military training camps to fit
themselves for commissions.
“Feeling is everywhere intense in the
east and the universities are badly de
moralized by the depletion of their ranks.
Secretary of War, Newton D. Buker,
urged undergraduate, students to go on
with their college work to complete their
technical preparation for service. Sec
retary Baker’s plan was heartily en
dorsed by the one hundred eighty-three
college presidents who met at the call of
the committee on national defense to mob
ilize the resources of colleges and plan
an avenue of work for student leaders.
All institutions represented expect to
maintain a normal organization for next
year, adding special courses needed for
military training.
The feeling is quite universal that the
war may be protracted so younger men
are advised to remain in college.
President Campbell considers the meet
ing held Saturday to be the greatest of
its kind ever held in this country.
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+ Elects
♦ Helen Brenton__
♦ Jeannette Calkins
♦ Lucile Saunders
♦ Lillian Porter
♦ Gladys Wilkins
♦ Bess Colman
♦ Elizabeth Aumiller.
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STUDENT GRIDES Fill
Last Semester Averages Show
93 Point Drop Over Preceding
Mary Spiller Leads With 2.395;
Ten Out of 18 Organizations
Below 2 or M Standing.
The general scholastic average of the
University of Oregon students has fallen
off 93 points since the last collecting
and averaging of grades which was for
the spring semester of 1916. The aver
age of the grades for the season semester
of the school year, 1915-16 was 2.004.
while the average of the semester just
preceding the present one has just heen
recorded at 1.911. Ten out of 18 having
averages below M. The basis used for
the averaging is the same used in class
markings; H-4; S-3; M-2; P-1; condition
.9; and F-0; showing that last semes
ter’s average was below an M grade.
Neither incompletes nor gymnasium
grades were used in computing this ever
age. .
The averages for the preceding se
mester, as just given out from the reg
istrar’s office, follow by groups:
Mary Spiller, 2.395; Pi Beta Phi, 2.
349; Kappa Alpha Theta, 2.144; Friendly
Hall, 2.101; Alpha Phi, 2.095; Delta
Gamma. 2.088; Chi Omega, 2.046; Delta
Delta Delta, 2.045; Phi Gamma Delta,
1.959; Delta Tau Delta, 1.941; Kappa
Kappa Gamma, 1.868; Beta Theta, Pi,
1.773; Gamma Phi Beta, 1.728; Alpha
Tau Omega, 1.623; Sigma Xu, 1.621;
Kappa Sigma, 1.593; Sigma Chi, 1.536;
Phi Delta Theta, 1.517; General aver
age, first semester, 1916-17, 1.911.
Four organizations, Pi Beta Phi, Kap
pa Alpha Theta, Delta Tau Delta, and
Phi Gamma Delta show a higher average
than in the 1916 semester, while the
grades are lower than the preceding se
mester for Mary Spiller, Friendly Hull,
Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma, Chi Omega.
Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma,
Beta Theta Pi, Gamma Phi Beta. Alpha
Tau Omega, Sigma Nu, Kappa Sigma,
Sigma Chi, and Phi Delta Theta.
EASTERN "CHAMPS” COMING
Mike Gibbons, champion middle-weight
of the world, and his brother, Tommy
champion light-weight, are expected to
arrive in Eugene tonight. They will give
an exhibition bout at the Elks club next
Tuesday night. All Eugene is invited.
The men who are going up the Mc
Kenzie river on a fishing trip, were pre
vailed upon to appear here by Wiliam
Hayward, veteran trainer sit the Uni
versity .and a member of the local Elks
club. Hayward is an old friend of both
the boys.
Wants Khaki For
Girls’ Ball Suits
Fat girls, slim girls, tall girls, short
;irls. blonde girls, and dark haired girls
will all come back to the University of
Iregon in the fall wearing khaki costumes
f the suggestion of Bishop Walter T.
Sumner of the Episcopal diocese of Ore
ton is carried out.
Many have sought to woo the popular
naiden “Economy” but no one wants to
ook for her at home. Hence the pro
posal to modify woman's dress. If the
•ampus generates khaki clad figures the
>nd of created but not vital demands in
Iress, is fojretold. Gay ties, expensively
lyed sweaters and sports suits add little
o the prosperity of a country but much
;o its extravagance. They emphasize
person not personality. In the future,
women will be known by their ability to
wear khaki gracefully, make gardens,
loard the monied potato and extract the
nost nourishment from the prolific bean.
Miss Butterfly, a pseudo-student in
'very University, registered marked ob
jections to the bishop’s plan. “It will de
stroy our individuality,” she cried, fluff*
ng pip her curly hair and adjusting her
jew bonnet.
Here Miss Practicality smoothed her
sensible middy suit and sniffed. “If the
jivls just showed moderation in their
present garb we wouldn’t have to wear
uniforms.”
EVEN LOWLY FROSH
TOILED CMS DAY
Some Worked One Place, Some
Another, and Some Worked
Hard Avoiding Work.
Everybody works on Campus Dny. Ask
Billie Morrison if they don’t.
Billie had to work getting out of the
fountain because he, didn’t work on the
campus. So did Paul Spangler. Boss
McKenna came to the verge of a bath in
said fountain but he pleaded with the
judge to let him off and was excused.
On the tennis courts a squad worked
while Karl Becke bossed the job and saw
to it that everything was done right. The
boys hoed weeds off the courts, smoothed
them down and rolled them until they
are in fine shape.
Over on the walk between Deady and
the library the force was large but in
clined to have a little sport by throwing
some one of their number into the sen
ior fountain. Every now and then the
laborers would take a standing vote (or
rather a sitting vote) as to whether they
should rest, and the vote wns always in
the affirmative. Bert Breeding toiled
ceaselessly getting his crew to business
and “Scoop Ilnthbun, Henry Foster, Ern
est Watkins and “Mike” Harris respond
ed nobly. Over on the library steps
watching the toilers Ralph Tourtelotte
and “Doc” Medley were seen. Ralph went
home around the other side of the library
and Dot went in to study.
Over on the road in rront of Friendly
Hall, Martin Nelson and Itoscoe Hurd
held sway over a willing band of work
ers who spaded and shoveled like old
timers at the job.
Up on Skinner’s Butte, the “O” was
getting a new coat of paint under the
direction of “Shy” Huntington who said
he knew how to paint the "O” from old
days. Bert Woods and Ernest Boylen
worked like Trojans and as a reward
were given their “O’s.” Other deserving
frosh also received their letters.
Martin Nelson was going to raise the
first bridge beyond the Raceway but aft
er looking the proposition over decided
that it would take too much time and
trouble to do it so called off the party.
Superintendent II. M. Fisher said it
seemed to him that more work was ac
complished this year than usual.
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♦ Elects ♦
♦ Mnrgaret Crosby ♦
♦ Beatrice Gaylord ♦
♦ Marian Neil ♦
♦ Miriam Page ♦
(llgn Soderstrom
♦ Marian Tuttle ♦
♦ Helen Wells ♦
♦ Ruth Westfall ♦
♦ Ruth Wilson ♦
♦ Emma Woottou. ♦
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FIJIS CAPTURE CUP
AFTER 11-1 BATTLE
Fourth Inning Is Jubilee for.
Victors; Score Nine Runs
on Four Hits.
FURNEY PLAYS WILD
Trophy Now Has Permanent
Owners; Crowd Out in
Spite of Showers.
I*hi Gamma Delta walked away with
the doughnut baseball championship yes
terday afternoon when it met Delta Tau
Delta on Cemetery Ridge and delivered
the latter an 11 to 1 defeat This game
gives the Fijis permanent possession of
the trophy won by them two successive
years.
A good crowd filled the grandstand
despite cloudy skies nnd occasional show
ers. The University band livened up
the scene with frequent intervals of
music.
The Delts loss was mostly due to wild
ness on the part of Fourney, who could
n’t get the balls over the plate. The
game was even up to the fourth inning
when the Delts blgan to weaken nnd
permitted the Fijis to score nine runs
on four hits, the largest number made-m
any one inning. Lefty Furney wms very
unsteady and issued eight walks during
the contest.
The landslide commenced when Nelson
fumbled Knudson’s grounder and heaved
wild to first. Knudssn continued to
second thence to third on a pass. Next
.•ame one of the brilliant plays of the
game. Tuerck delivered a high fly to
Montague and the latter cut Knudson off
at the plate by a perfect peg. Furney
led off for the Delts with a three sucker
down to third base line. He waited for
the batsmen to perish then made a des
perate attempt to steal home.
In the fourth the Delts grew danger
ous again. Holdridge got on through
Grebe's error. Nelson fanned. Madden
fanned but reached first when the third
strike got away from Risley. Tuerclj
tied nnd made Medley pop to Grebe.
Ralston fanned. Brown walked, stole
second, then got too ambitious nnd was
put out on third. Another drop third
strike put Holdridge on first. Tuerck
played in on Nelson and scored Hold
ridge.
The play that put the Fiji score on
the upcline occured in the fourth. Knud
son singled, Tuerck and Hedges walked,
Risley hit to Holdridge who threw late
to the plate nnd Knudson was over the
platter. Rathbun singled and chased
in a couple more. Grebe was safe on a
fielder’s choice. Lind walked. Wilson
fanned but Sheehy singled, cleaning
bases. Knudson got a fast one on an
elbow. Tuerck hit one to Furney who
threw the ball into the back stop trying
to head Lind off at home. Two more
runs were scored. Hedges fanned, Risley
walked, Knudson scored on a wild pitch,
Rathbun fanned and brought the inning
to a close. In addition to Furney’s
weakness, the Delt infield went to piece*
during the Fiji celebration.
Linn tripled a three bagger and Wil
son singled in the fifth. The Fijis scored
in the seventh on Grebe’s two bagger and
Wilson’s single. Tuerck led off with a
triple in the eighth but Furney caught
him flat-footed five feet from base.
Knudson relieved Tuerck at the box
in the beginning of the sixth. Both
pitchers got one hit off of each man.
Tuerck funned eight and his successor,
six. Furney struck out nine men.
The lineup was as follows:
Fiji—Grebe, ss; Lind, If; Wilson, 3b{
Sheehy, cf; Knudson and Tuerck, p;
Knudson and Tuerck. rf; Hedges, 2b;
Risley, c; Rathbun, lb.
Delt—•Holdridge, ss; Madden, If; Nel
son, .‘!b; Montague, cf; Furney, p; Atkin
sin, rf; Brown, 2b; Medley, c; Ralston,
lb.
RECOUNT IS ASKED
The sponsors of Harold Newton have
asked for a recount of the votes cast for
the editorship nf flic Gregnna.—The PT
ecutive committee decided that it was
necessary to have a petition to make a
recount possible, so as a result of such a
petition the recount will take place on
Monday. The outcome of the voting last
Wednesday gave the election to Helen
, Breutou by one vote.