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. EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1917
NO. 3
SEVEN SECOND SIDING,
EIGHT OF 1916 FROSN
OUT FOB BEZDEK TEAM
TEN GREEN MEN ROUND OUT
SQUAD FROM WHICH COACH
MUST BUILD NEW ORE
GON ELEVEN
OLD SPIRIT RELIED ON TO BRIN6
CREDITABLE RECORD TO ’VARSITY
Gridion Material Light in Weight,
Short of Experience, but Full
of Fight.
Twenty-five men are out for the Or
egon football team. Seven of them
are second-string material from last
year, eight are from last season’s
frosh# team. The remaining ten are
new men with little or no experience.
To mould from this squad a team
worthy of upholding the glorious rec
ords achieved by lemon-yellow teams
in the past is the stupendous task
facing one Hugo Bezdek, late of Pitts
burgh. Such is the football situation
in a nutshell.
“We are going to do the best we
can and a little more, in the short
time that we have to practice before
the first game, but don’t kid yourself
into thinking we’ve got an even chance
because we haven’t W. S. C. has
seven letter men back, 0. A. C. four,
California five or six, while we have
but one,” said the coach. “I’m count
ing on the Oregon Spirit to pull us
through.”
Taking Off Rough Edges
Despite the coach’s lugubrious
words, the eleven men called the ‘var
sity have rounded off a few rough
edges in the two practices held thus
far. The tentative first teem lined up
with Stan Anderson and Dow Wilson,
ends; Bas Williams and Carl Nelson,
tackfes; Arthur Berg and George Cook,
guards; Keith Leslie, center; Dwight
Wilson and “Dot" Medley, halfbacks;
Bill Steers, quarterback; and Giles
Hunter, fullback.
Anderson and Wilson both played
on the frosh team and by their work
last selaison ought'to hold down the
extremity positions to the queen’s
taste, Bas Williams is the only old
hand on the line. The other tackle,
Carl Nelson, has ben one^ of Bezdek’s
“syrrals” for the past two seasons,
and this is his first chance in a big
league job. Arthur Burg is another
of Dean Walker’s proteges. George
Cook hias played end for two years
on the second team, is scrapping qual
ities make up for any lack of avoir
dupois. Keith Leslie was a tackle on
the frosh team.
Baseball Star in Squad
Two years ago “Chief” Wilson
played end on the freshman eleven.
“Dot” Medley gained an enviable rep
utation on the baseball diamond, but
this is his first experience with the
gridiron game. Giles Hunter is another
“syrral” of two years standing.
Quarterback presents nip worries
with the redoubtable Bill Steers call
ing the signals. Bill’s educated toe
is working even better than before
(Contnued on page 4.)
ENSOILMEMT OF 900 IS LIKELY SOON
Office Cloaes Friday After 839 Had
Registered in the University.
Registration this year has surpassed
all expectations and predictions. At
the close of the administration office
yesterday, 839 had registered and it
Is expected that a total enrollment of
900 will be reached by the early part
of next week. No accurate segrega
tion of the numbers of men and wo
men has been made, but a hurried
count showed that about 375 men were
registered. There has been a gen
eral increase of more than ten per
cent over last year’s registration.
—Remarkable increase is shown in
freshman registration. A gain of
more than 25 per cent naa been made
over last year. This is an unexpected
increase, as many high school grad
uates who had intended coming to Or
egon have enlisted in various branch
es of service.
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TWENTY TRY OUT FOR BAND
OUTLOOK PROMISING DESPITE
LOSS OF TWENTY-FOUR
MEN
Material Available Will Develop Strong
Organization for Military Drill,
Sayu Leader.
In spite of the fact that twenty-four
members of lost year’s University band
failed to return to school this year be
cause of enlistments and graduation,
the first band practice of the year
drew twenty musicians to Villard Hall,
Thursday night.
Albert Perfect, leader of the band,
says that the prospects are much bet
ter than he had erpected, and states
that the material on hand so far can
be made into an especially good field
band, to play for the military drill
ing.
The band will play before assembly
Wednesday, but will do so only to ac
commodate the student body, for the
members have not had enough prac
tice together to give a fair demonstra
tion of their ability. For that rea
son the students should not pass-judg
ment upon the band after hearing the
musie Wednesday, says M. Perfect.
The band is anxious to enroll new
members, and anyone who can play
a band instrument at all should join
the organization at once. Wood wind
instruments are especially needed.
Mr. Perfect hopes to see a larger turn
out at the second practice, which will
be held Monday at four o’clock in Vil
iard. Freshmen will be excused from
the gym class Monday in order to at
tend band rehearsal, by making the
request of Eld Shockley beforehand.
HONOR STUDENTS’ LIST
TO BE OUT NEXT WEEK
ORDER OF THE H HAS MANY
NEW CADIDATES FOR RACE
DURING YEAR 1917-’18
Seniors Will be Admitted During First
Term; Juniors Allowed to
Enter Later
With practically no changes in the
ruling, the race for senior honors for
next year has begun. The lists have
not as yet been completed by the Reg
istrar’s office, but indications go to
show that the number will be about
the same as that of last year. Some
members of the "Order of the H” have
dropped out of college, some have re
turned. The “Order of the H” was,
and is, a society formed by the stu
dents w<h.o wiere known as “honor
students” last year.
For admission to honors in general
scholarship the student must have
for each semester hour of his credits
ranking below “S,” three semester
hours which rank above “S,” provid
ing none are below passing.
For graduation in honors in a given
subject the awarding of the honors
shall he optional with the major pro
fessor of that subject. The student
must have an “H” or an “S” stand
ing in the subject in which honors are
sought during the two semesters next
preceding registration for honors, and
evidence must be given by the stu
dent of his desire and ability to do
work of a scholarly nature beyond
that in the usual class assignment.
Honors may be given in a special
subject in special cases designated by
the Administration of Honors Com
mittee, on petition from the instruc
tor.
Seniors will be admitted to honors
upon registration in the first term;
Junior upon registration in the first
or second term. Honor students may
not take more than eighteen hours
in any one semester preceding their
registration in the course.
The instructor of the eourse, or the
committee, may at the end of any
given semester revoke the privilege
of the student to take honor work, if
it becomes evident that he is not
profiting sufficiently from his candida
cy for honors.
The final examination for honors is
divided into two parts, one part to be
(Contnued on page 4.)
FORTY-NINE PLEDGED
BY EIGHT FRATERNITIES
KAPPA SIGMA, PHI DELTA THET/
AND BETA THETA Pi TAKE
EIGHT MEN EACH
IN WEEK 7
Sigma Chi Picks Seven, Delta Tai
and Phi Gamma Delta Six,
, A. T. O. Five, and Sig
ma Nu One.
Reports from the various fraternity
houses of the University of Oregor
show that Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta
Theta and Beta Theta Pi houses each
pledged eight men during the past
week. Sigma Chi pledged seven men;
Delta Tau Delta and Phi Gamma Delta
each took in six new men. Alpha Tau
Omega house lias five new men and
1 the Sigma Nu one new man.
Following is a list of the pledged
men:
Phi Delta Theta.—Wilbur Carl, Port
land; John Kennedy, Portland; Paul
Farrington, Eugene; Rholand Cooly
and Edwin Burno, Silverton; Joe In
gram, Portland; Ed Ward, Dufur; and
Robert Boechier, Albany.
Beta Theta Pi,—Dontald Feenaughty
l Richard Martin and George Beggs
Portland; Novere Tompson, Nyssa;
Everet Brandenburg, Bend; George
Cusic, Albany; Shaffer Newton, Hood
River; and Paul Spangler, Eugene.
Kappa Sigma.—Lloyd Perkins, La
Grande; Allen Oasey, George VanWa
ters and Carl Mautz, Portland; Lee
Bartholomew, Stanfield; Clarence Mof
fit, Centralia, Wash.; Arnold Koepke
Athena; and Floyd Ellis, Dallas.
Phi Gamma Delta.—Haseitine
Schmeer, William Ralston and Joe
Trowbridge, Portland; John Houston
Klamath Falls; Kenneth Comstock
Sutherlin; and Leith Abbott, Ashland
Delta Tau Delta.—Rollln Woodrufi
and Walter Sohade, Portland; Karl
Wiegel and John Flinn, the Dalles;
Elmer Bettiengen, Pendleton; and Will
Lyle, Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Sigma Chi.—Stan Fenton, Boise
Idaho; Johnny Moores and Julian Les
lie, Coquille; Walton Parsons, Red
mond; Murry Blake, Heppner; Oren
Jenkins and Lee Halbert, Albany.
Alpha Tau Omega.—Don Oxman, Ja
meson, Ore.; Lynde Smith, Wasco,
Ore.; Joe Hammersly, Portland; The
odore Langton, Newberg; and Joe
Williams, Eugene.
Sigma Nu.—William Hollendeek,
Vancouver, Wash.
DOBIE LOSES HIS CHANCE TO SHINE
BEFORE FOOTBALL FANS OF EAST
Army-Navy Game Cancelled for Year,
Leaving Annapolis Team With
Slight Opposition.
With the announcement from the
east that the annual Army-Navy foot
ball classic had been called off for
this year, it is probable that Gilmour
Dobie, former coach at the University
of Washington, and now head coach
at Annapolis, will not have an oppor
tunity to show his ability before the
fans of the east. Dobie is expected
to have a strong team in the field
but will have no real opposition.
In the fourteen years during which
Dobie has been in charge of elevens
of the middle and far west, he has led
his men into 97 games and has re
turned victor in 93 and tied the re
maining four. His teams have run up
a total of 3,495 points as compared
with their opponents’ 152, which gives
them an average of a little better than
36 points per game.
As coach of the University of Wash
ington Dobie led the coast conference
for several years. Dobie came to the
University* of Washington in 1908 and
served with that institution until the
close of the 1916 season.
The secret of Dobie’s success, as he
himself has explained it, Lies in the
fact thait he demands the strictest dis
cipline and will not tclontn infitir
tion of any of his numerous training
rules.
W. H. Billinghurst, of Loughborough,
England, is in charge of the installa
tion of the chimes in the Campanile
tower of the University of California.
SORORITIES ANNOUNCE
flFMVBI PLEDGES
DELTA GAMMAS LEAD WITH
TWELVE NEW MEMBERS;
PI PHIS SECOND.
Kappas and Chi Omegas Are Tied
With Eight Each; Low Mark
Is Three.
When one o'clock rolled around this
al'tornoon the new women fraternities
pledges were as follows:
Kappa Kappa Gannna.—Gayle Rob
erts, Astoria; Evelyn Grebe, Portland;
Hazel Antlev Medford; Arlene Hoerr,
Lebanon; Helen Nicolai, Portland;
Zonowaiss Rogers, McMinnville; Kla
ra Garrigan, McMinnville; Margaret
Hamblin, McMinnville.
Delta Gammiai—Madeline Slottbloom,
Portland; Catherine Dobie, Superior,
Wisconsin; Marian Ady, Eugene; Ma
rinin Gilstrap, Eugene; Katherine Wil
liams, Portland; Dorothy Lowry, Eu
gene; Mildred Huntley, Oregon City;
Carlotta Reed, Portland; Margaret
Kubli, Portland; Vivian Chandler,
Dayton, Washington; Marian Taylor,
Eugene; Irene Rader, Ontario, Ore.
Pi Beta Phi.—Thelma Stanton, Eu
gene; Dorothy Dixon, Eugene; Ruth
Miller, Long Beach, California; Elvira
Thurlow, Portland Kate Chatburn,
Biandon; Adele Powell, Baker; Ruth
Elton, Portland; Ruth Danford, Spring
field; Edith Piere, Portland; Kathleen
Kem, Cottage Grove.
Kappa Alpha Theta.—Helen Man
ning, Portland; Cleo King, Portland;
Beatrice Wetherbee, Eugene; Lyle
Bryson, Eugene; Lillian Auld, Eugene;
Eva Hutchinson, Portland; Hope Mc
Kenzie, Portland.
Chi Omega.—Pearl Davis, Burley,
Idaho; Maude Barnes Dallas; Char
lotte Patterson, Portland; Grace Rugg,
Pendleton; Katherine Heilig, Port
land; Kathtlean Forrester, Lewiston,
Idaho; Louise Pullman, Baker; Wan
da Nelson, McMinnville.
Qaimma Phi Beta.—-Leta Kiddle, Is
land City; Virginia Wilson, Portland;
Blanche Wilson, Portland; Dorothy
Wootton, Astoria; Pauline Porteous,
Portland.
Delta Delta Delta.—Helen Stanfield,
Portland; Doris Churchill, Salem;
Ethel MicGiliclirist, Salem; Margaret
Jones, Leyviston, Idaho.
Alpha Phi.—Elizabeth Hadley, The
Dalles; Ruth Graham, Portland; Lois
Macey, Portland.
MORE THAN FIFTY MEN ENROLLED
IN ORDNANCE ACCOUNTING COURSE
Members Take Three Hours Daily of
Conversational French—War
Department Directs.
The School of Commerce of the Uni
versity now! has completed the enroll
ment of the first class in ordnance ac
counting as prescribed by the War
department. More than fifty young
men are taking the course under Pro
fessor C. C. Jeremiah.
While the members of this class
are regularly enrolled aS students at
the University, the intensive nature
of the training required precludes the
possibility of their taking any of the
other courses offered on the campus.
In addition to the accounting cours
es, they also are called upon to de
vote three hours a day to the study
of conversational French such as they
probably -will require when they get
to the fighting line in France, and one
hour a day to military training.
These courses have been arranged
by the school of commerce in close
co-operation with the War department
with the idea of fitting young men for
the important work of keeping an ac
curate account of the munitions and
supplies stored convenient to the
battle fronts in Europe.
When the present claBS is graduated
about the middle of November__an^
other clasirof GO or GO will be formed.
A third class will start early in Jan
uary. Professor Jeremiah alreay
is receiving applications for the sec
ond and third classes.
The members of the present class
are:
(Contnued on page 4.)
FRESHMEN DISCARD GERMAN
STUDY OF FRECNH MORE POPU
LAR WITH RECRUITS
Many Girls Take Up Gallic Tongue
With View to Probable Red
Cross Work Overseas
(By Alexander G. Brown.)
One of the most remarkable results
of the present European war yet to
manifest itself in the University is
the large number of freshmen and up
per classmen who are taking the first
year course in French. Professor Clo
ran, of the French department, reports
the enrollment of the first year class
to be 107 as compared to 83 last year.
As a number of the students are on
the draft list but have not been called
as yet, they are taking advantage of
the opportunity to learn French be
fore they are flailed. A number of
girls have also registered for the
course, with the ultimate aim, ta©
doubt, of becoming Red Cross nurses
beyond the sea if a certain friend is
called into the national army.
A number of the freshman students,
especially the boys, are not taking
German, because tills country is at
war with the German Autocracy, and
are taking Spanish instead. They
have evidently forgotten that this
country had a war with Spain in ’98
and therefore they have as much
oauseto evade Spanish as they have
German. The United States is not
at war with the German people, but
with the autocratic form of govern
ment, and, as President Wilson has
said, “to mjaike the world safe for
Democracy.” The period of recon
struction which will follow this war
will fall to a great extent upon the
college trained America^, therefore
instead of giving up the German lan
guage, now Is the time to further its
study.
The registration in the German de
partment shows a decrease in com
parison with last year. Up to the
present the number taking either be
ginning or advanced German is 169
as compared with 348 taking the
course last year.
OREGON’S NEW ELEVEN
WILL MEET MURINES
GAME ARRANGED WITH BECK
ETT'S TEAM OF OLD STARS,
TO BE PLAYED NOV. 3,
IN PORTLAND.
Six Former Pupils of Bezdek Are in
Line-Up WhicTr May Also Play.
Camp Lewis.
The University of Oregon football
team will meet the coast Marine Corps
eleven, six of whom are old Oregon
stars in Portland, November 3 accor
ding to announcement of* Coach Bez
dek, today.
Arrangements were completed Fri
day afternoon making the game a cer
tainty after a conference between the
Oregon coach and Johnny Beckett, last
year Oregon captain and this year
a member of the marine squad.
On the team with Beckett will be
five other Bezdek-tralned football
stars. They are Lloyd Tegart, "Brick”
Mitchell, Hollis Huntington of last
year’s team, and Ed Bailey and Elmer
Hall, former stars.
Because of the old Oregon men on
the team, disappointment is felt on
the campus that the game could not
be scheduled for play In Eugene, avoid
ing the transportation expense for the
many rooters who will go to the game.
Beikett is visiting old friends on
the campus today, but will leave to
night for Camp Lewis and Seattle to
schedule games with the an*my and
naval training schools. If he is un
successful in arranging for either of
these games, he will attempt to get
a game with the Vancouver soldiers
ur with the University of Washington.
Frederick K. Kingsbury, a Journal
ism freshman last year who left to
Bnllst in the navy, writes Dean Allen
that he is now In the Harvard Radio
School at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
learning to be a wireless operator
for the navy. He says the students
are kept extremely busy.
Mm Mm success;
URGE CROWD PRESENT
Y. M. C. A. PUTS ON SNAPPY PRO
GRAM OF STUNTS, YELLS,
SPEECHES AND SONGS
UUMWif WINS THE COCK FIGHT THOPHT
MacPherson, Thlenes, Bezdek, Straub,
All Make Talks to Men Just
Entering.
The annual stag mix given under
the auspices of the campus Y. M. C.
A. was held last night at Villard Hall,
with more than two hundred men
present. The men present were bub
bling over with enthusiasm, which
fact, together with the snappy pro
gram of stunts, speeches and songs,
went to make last night’s mix the
"best ever.”
James MacPherson, secretary of
the Y. M. C. A. was the first speaker
of the evening. Mr. MacPherson said
that he had had experiences in many
colleges but no school spirit had so
impressed him as has the mighty Or
egon Spirit.
“Many students think that all the
Y. M. C. A. tries to do is to get fel
lows to go to church. Such Is not the
case, however, fellows. The Y. M. C.
A. stands for spirit, mind, and body.
Get into it, fellows, be one of us,”
were the words of the successor to
J. D. Poster.
Clinton Thlenes, President of the
Y. M. C. A., followed Mr. MacPherson
and urged all the men of the Univer
sity to Join the Y. M. C. A.
“We want nothing but one hundred
per cent membership,” were his words
in conclusion.
Faguy-Cote Leads Singing
Next on the program came some mu
sical numbers. Mr. Paguy-Cote ren
dered two vocal selections, accompa
nied by Mr. Evans, at the piano. So
well received were the selections, and
so extended the applause, that Mr.
Cote led the assembly in singing the
Star Spangled Banner.
Coach Bezdek was called upon for
a few remarks, and responded by say
ing that every man in the University
must work Just a little harder, and
strive to do Just a little more this year
than in years gone past. There are
two reasons for this, first, the number
of upperclassmen has been greatly de
creased, thus necessitating all upper
classmen to lead the underclassmen;
and second, the freshmen must grasp
quickly the Oregon traditions, and
must follow the lead of the old men.
Laraway Wins Laraway Cup
Thurston Laraway won the first free
for-all cock-fight and the cup donated
by his father. The fighters were di
vided into three classes according to
weight. Twenty men started out, but
after ten minutes of butting, the field
was limited down to the semi-finals in
each class. Then came the finals,
and after five minutes’ work, “Thirs
ty” was declared champion cock-fight
er, by securing two straight falls from
Langdon.
After the cock-fight the regulation
feed of cider, doughnuts and apples
was handed out.
Jimmy Sheehy,President of the stu
dent body, was chairman of the even
ing, and lived up to his reputation
for handling such events as the mix.
PROFESSOR HOWE'S POEMS PUBLISHED
Paper Is Suppressed After Howe’s
Poem Appears.
Professor Howe placed several poems
during the summer, with well known
magazines. In speaking of his |uc
ceas, he said:
"1 published two poems this sum
mer. One, called Ravens, appeared in
the August number of The Masses.
The government immedately forbade
the sending of The Masses through
the mails any longer. The other po
em, The Gates of Dawn, appeared in
The American Messenger. This pa?
per has not been suppressed. It iia
published by the American Tract So
ciety.”