NO. 58.
VOL. 19.
EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918.
COLORS TO BE GIVEN
STUDENT BATTALION
Men to March on Field at 1
Wednesday; Presentation
to Take Place Inside
Hollow Square.
Companies Will Pass in Review
Saluting- National and
U. Banners.
The national and battalion colors will
be formally presented to the University
battalion Wednesday at drill hour, with
appropriate ceremonies.
“The presentation of the colors will
be one of the most important events
in the history of the battalion,” said
Adjutana Eric W. Allen yesterday.
The battalion will march on the field
at 1 o'clock, and will form in a hollow
square in the center of the field. The
ceremonies will take place inside the
square.
Clergymen to Bless Colors.
Bishop Walter T. Sumner, Chaplain
George H. Parkinson, and the clergymen
of Eugene, will bless the colors. The
presentation of the standards will be
made by Mrs. George T. Gcrlinger and
Mis. A. C. Dixon, assisted by First
Lieutenant Dean Walker and Fergus
Reddie, who will carry the colors.
The company commanders, Ray Couch,
Robert Cosgriff, Charles Comfort,
Henry Eiekhoff, and with Karl W.
Onthank, will receive the standards and
take them to their places in the bat
talion.
The battalion will then pass in re
view, saluting the colors, as the band
plays “The Star Spangled Banner.”
Campbell to Represent U.
President P. L. Campbell will repre
sent the University in his official capac
ity. The high school cadets have asked
permission to witness the ceremony. It
has been suggested that the G. A. R.
come also, and in this event, Doan John
Straub will be in charge of their re
ception. The event was announced ;n
a11 the churches Sunday and it is ex
pected that many townspeople will be
present.
To Raise Money to Furnish Em
erald for Soldiers.
Will Ask Regents to Help Start
Alumni Publication Next
Year.
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Resolutions regarding the association's
relations with the Emerald and the rais
ing of the sum of money with which to
send Emeralds to the men in service,
were passed at the meeting of the
alumni council in Johnson Ilall, Satur
day.
The council decided to discontinue re
lation as an association with the Emer
ald. Letters are to be sent to all mem
bers of the association that have paid
their dues for the year, explaining why
the Emerald has not been sent to them.
An investigation is to be made by the
council 'to determine whether the sum
necessary to send the Emerald to the
men in France can be raised before
further contributions are made, accord
ing to a motion passed at the meeting.
In hope of starting an alumni pub
lication next year, Walter C. Winslow
and Dean Walker were asked to go be
fore the board of regents, asking for
financial assistance, especially in this
matter of starting a publication.
Those present at the meeting were
Walter C. Winslow, Mrs. Leonard T.
Harris, Dean Walker, Mrs. John F.
Bovard, Marion McClain, and Karl
Onthank.
STUDENTS LAX IN ENGLISH
Mative of China Is One of Six Out of 75
Who Show Proficiency.
Only 6 out of 75 students in two
freshmen English classes, taught by
Miss Mary H. Perkins, assistant pro
fessor of rhetoric, were able to write
correctly a set of 15 sentences contain
ing mistakes in English, which Miss Per
kins gave to the classes for correction
the other day. One of the six stu
dents was Harry Pond, born in China,
who did not begin the study cf Eng
lish until after he was 14 years old.
DEAN FCX GETS CALL
TO FRANCE FROM Y. W.
Telegram Rereived From National Sec
retary Urging Her to Leave
at Once.
Dean Elizabeth 1 ox is considering an
offer, received by wire this morning to
go to France to engage in war work
for the Young Women's Christian As
sociation.
The telegram, signed by Mabel Cratty,
national executive secretary of the Y.
W. C. A. at New York, follows:
“Could you consider going to France
fo? us at once? Your experience in stu
dent work fits you for the request which
has come frona France, writing.”
"Mabel Cratty.”
Dean Fox was unable to say what she
intends to do. “I am tremendously in
terested,” she said this morning.
ALUMNAE TO AID TRE NU
GIRLS IN SUMMER WORK
Tirza Dinsdale Addresses Club on Aim
of Business Women's
Organization.
A talk on the aims and work of Tre
Nu, the organization of business girls,
was given at their meeting Sunday aft
ernoon in the Yr. W. C. A. Bungalow by
Miss Tirza Dinsdale, advisor for the
association. The club endeavors, through
the mingling of the girls, to get them
in touch with suitable work, to ox
change ideas in regard to work and to
promote sociability.
At the meeting a committee, with
Frieda Laird as chairman, was appoint
ed to write to the chambers of com
merce iu different towns, in regard to
positions in their respective localities
open to University girls during the sum
mer. The Associate Collegiate Alumnae
will also work in co-operation with the
girls in regard to investigating summer
positions.
After the business end of the meet
ing was over, a supper was prepared
under the direction of Alma Clements,
and during the meal each girl told of
some experience which she had gone
through.
Guests for the occasion were Ruth
Danford, Florida Hill. Erma Huff.
Eileen Tompkins, Elizabeth Ginsey, and
Waiva Dean.
ORDNANCE MEN TO BENECIA
Present Class to Go to California From
Portland Says Jeremiah.
Lieutenant C. C. Jeremiah has been
advised that the present class in ord
nance will go directly from Portland to
Benicia, Gal., to receive six weeks’
work in the government arsenal
The course at the arsenal gives them
a certain amount of practical work nec
essary to complete their training.
Five members of the storekeepers’
division of the Southern Pacific Rail
road company, gave short addresses be
fore the class. These men are in a
work that is similar to the work that
the ordnance men do in the army.
The men who addressed the class
were EL G. Cook, R. L. France, of San
Francisco, and E. J. Becker and F. N.
Dobbs, of Portland.
STUNT SHOW IN BUNGALOW
Colleges Represented in Meeting of
Alumnae Association.
A stunt show will he the feature of
the Association of Collegiate Alumnae
meeting to be held in the Y. W. C. A.
Bungalow neat Saturday afternoon, and
a few guests have been invited. Each
college with a representative in the local
chapter will have its stunt. The As
sociation of Collegiate Alumnae is a na
tional organization, of which Oregon has
about (10 members. The only other
chapter in the state is at Portland.
WEEK-END COMMITTEE TO MEET
Spangler Will Call Juniors to Discuss
Plans for Annual Affair.
A general committee to plan for junior
week-end will be called some time in the
next week, according to Paul Spangler,
president of the junior class. Work has
been held up for various reasons so far,
and little progress has been made other
than on appointing the above commit
tee. which will meet to discuss the af
fair. The chairmen of the various com
mittees will be appointed then.
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♦ All fraternities please have a list ♦
♦ of the active men in the chapters ♦
♦ in to Bob McNary by noon Friday ♦
♦ for the Oregana. ♦
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HELEN 8. MAURICE
TO JPPEARIAS VIOLA
Dress Rehearsal for “Twelfth
Wight” Set for Wednesday
Evening; Costumes
to Be of Period.
Settings in Orange, Grey and
Night Sky Effect; Light
ing Emphasized.
Only one more day to go. The cast
and properties for the presentation of
Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” are
ready for the initial performance Thurs
day night. Dress rehearsals will be
tomorrow. The picturesque seventeenth
century costumes prepared by Frances
Schenk and her assistants hang in readi
ness in the costume room. The hang
ings and backgrounds are practically
completed. One setting is to be in
strong orange, another in neutral gray,
and a third represents the night sky,
with a full moon. Great attention has
been given to the lighting effects, Helen
Glittery having that matter in hand.
Costumes and Scenic Effect.
For the most part the costumes are
of soft colors, which will bleud readily
in the total effect. The costumes of
Viola and Sebastian offer the striking
color notes, as they are made up in tur
quoise and chnmpagne.
Helen Braeht Maurice will play the
part of Viola. Emma Wootton was first
cast for this part, but her absence from
the campus made it necessary to recast
the pert. Helen Maurice was selected
to play the important role, and owing to
the short time given her, she has had
to give a great deal of time to it.
Cast of Characters.
The complete cast follows:
Orsino, Duke of Illyria.. Robert Cosgriff
Sebastian . Dorothy Wootton
Antonio . Morris Bocock
Valentine . Julian Leslie
Sir Toby Belch .A. F. Reddie
Sir Andrew Aguecheek .
.W. F. G. Thacher
Malvolio .David L. Stearns
Fabian ... Henry Foster
Feste ..... Norvell Thompson
Olivia . Ruth Rothroek
' iola .Helen Braeht Maurice
Maria . Grace Gilmore
Officer . Claire Dalgleish
EVANS TO GIVE RECITALS
Pipe Organ Instructor Will Play in
Church on Sundays in Lent.
A series of pipe organ recitals be
ginning the first Sunday in March and
lasting during Lent, until Easter, will
be given by Professor John Stark Evans,
instructor in organ at the University
school of music. The recitals will take
place at the Methodist Episcopal
church, and will begin promptly at 5
o’clock, and last for a half hour. The
Austin organ will be used.
At each recital vocal numbers will
be given by Mrs. Daise Beckett Middle
ton. Professor Arthur Faguy-Cote, and
Curtis Peterson. The public is invited
to attend the series.
CHILEAN TO SPEAK
OH TWOAMERICAS
Dr. Alejandro Alvarez Will Ad
dress Wednesday Assem
bly on International
Relations.
Speaker Former South Ameri
can Diplomat; On Tour of
Universities of U. S.
Dr. Alsjandro Alvarez, formerly ad
viser to the ministry of foreign affairs
of Chile and its legations abroad, and
■now secretary general of the American
Institute of International Law, will lec
ture at Wednesday’s regular assembly
on international relations between North
■and South America. He arrived here
Sunday and will remain until Wednes
day night.
Dr. Alvarez’ address will be one of
a series given in American universities
in connection with the work of the divi
sion of international law of the Carne
gie endowment for international peace.
Dr. Alvarez has already visited 24 lead
ing universities of the United States,
and intends completing his tour with a
study of Western institutions. He ad
dressed the University of Washington
'last week, and goes from here to the
University of California. A book on the
American students' conception of inter
national law will culminate Dr. Alvarez’
study of American colleges.
He is a member of the Institut de
Droit Internationale, a member of the
‘Permanent Court of Arbitration at The
Hague, a member of the Committee of
Jurists charged, in conformity with a
resolution for the codification of inter
national law, and represented Chile at
the fourth pan-American conference.
Some of the books written by Dr.
Alvarez are La Nationalite dans de
Droit Internationale Amerieain 1907
1910, La Codification du Internationale
Law, and Le Grande Guerre Europeene
el Lu Neutralite du Chile.
MU PHI EPSILON INITIATES
Music Sorority Takes In 18 New Mem
bers; Banquet Follows.
Initiation for Mu Phi Epsilon, honor
army music sorority, was held Saturday
afternoon, in the chapter room in Music
Hall. After initiation, a banquet, at
which the initiates were guests of honor,
was given at the Hotel Osbuin. A fea
ture of the entertainment was original1
compositions given by the initiates them
selves.
The new members are Claire Gazlev,
Pern Murphy, Marion Gilslrap, Leona
Marsters, Esther Banks, Helen Watts,
Aurora Potter, Madge Humbert, Minnie
Johnston, Margaret Mansfield, Beulah
Keagey, .Tenet Frasier, Gayle Roberts,
Cornelia Heess, Grace Rugg, Betty Al
linson, Anna Landsbury Beck, Kate
Chatburn.
Owing to the exodus of men from the
University of Minnesota at the outbreak
of the war, the Minnesota Daily is
forced to reduce itself to three editions
a week.—Ex.
Lamar Tooze now Instructor
in Sniping at Camp Lewis
Lamar Tooze, Lieutenant in Company
L, 364th Infantry, now stationed at
Camp Lewis, and former University of
Oregon student, in a letter to Dean Eric
Allen says that he has been detailed as
Battalion Sniping Officer in charge of a
selected group of 20 men who are being
trained in sharp-shooting, scouting, pa
trolling and observation.
“These men will become so expert with
the rifle that they will be able to hit the
Hun every time he sticks his ear above
the parapet,” writes Lamar.
“The army life is essentially a man’s
game, and the discipline, the physical
vigor, and the mental acuteness which
modern training for war promotes, more
than compensates for the setback which
my law study has suffered,” he says.
He speaks of the eagerness on the
part of the soldiers to get “over there,"
he says, “the cause we are all fighting
for—within the army and without—has
taken on an almost sacred character.
The noble way the men and women have
responded repudiates emphatically the
ante-bellum declaration that “America
has sold her soul.”
Mr. Tooze ia of the opinion that the
young men of this country huv been sad
ly in need of disipline and that one of
the greatest rewards the United States
will gain from entering into this war will
be the benefit derived from the extensive
military training, and that the lesson of
war time living will continue in times of
peace.
“The University has done the greatest
thing in its history,” said Lieutenant
Tooze, “by introducing military training
It takes a trained rnind to grasp the com
plex details of modern warfare, its a sci
ence just as truly as medicine is a
science.”
In his opinion it is a regrettable thing
that so many of the men below the age
of twenty-one are leaving school to enter
the service, and he says that as long as
America has plenty of men of draft age
to fill up the ranks of the army they
should wait. He writes “they'll get an
opportunity later—it is m.v firm convic
tion that this war will last two or three
years.”
HANDBALL MAY BE NEXT
FOR DOUGHNUT CIRCUIT
Games to Start Soon If Men Can Find
Time for Series, Dean Walker
Announces.
Now that the Doughnut league basket
hall games are over, the next thing on
Dean Walker’s athletic program is a
doughnut handball league. There is
some possibility that, owing to the
heavy demand on the students’ time by
the military department, it will not bo
found possible to hold the handball
games, but Walker hopes to be able to
find time for them somewhere.
It was originally planned to hold
doughnut games throughout the year,
following basketball with handball, and
later with baseball. The present mili
tary program has upset these plans to
a certain extent, but if the men think
they can find time for a handball league,
one will be started and a schedule will
be drawn up.
“It is up to the fellows themselves
if they want handball,” said Walker
yesterday. “I will arrange a schedule
if there are enough who want to play.”
GREEK LETTER HOUSES
PLAN STAMP CAMPAIGN
Tiffany Enthusiastic Over Movement to
Invest Savings in “Baby
Bonds.”
Are you a member of the war savings
stamp society? If not, you will this
week bo asked to join, for a vigorous
drive is on in Eugene. The heads of
the men’s and women's fraternities met
yesterday in A. It. Tiffany’s office and
planned a campaign to be enrried on in
the various houses in connection with
other efforts on the campus.
Each house will have a special war
savings stamp organization to urge Uni
versity students to buy the government1
stamps.
A. It. Tiffany, registrar, says he is
enthusiastic in regard to the movement.
“These stamps," said he, “might well tie
called ‘baby bonds,’ for they are as safe
an investment as the government bond."
James Sheehy is in charge of the gen
eral organization among the students.
The movement is nation-wide, $1,000,
000,000 being the United States’ quota.
The stamps are on sale in the post
offices and banks.
PHYLLIS FISHER IS WINNER
Gains Five-Collar Prize Offered by Pro
fessor Sohroff for Design.
Miss Phyllis Fisher won the $5 easii
prize offered by Professor Schroff for
the best stencil design submitted by his
class in theory and practice of decora
tive art.
Professor Schroff says her design was
exceptionally good, and the work sub
mitted by Miss Dora Spencer was a close
second. The award will be made at the
next meeting of the class.
“I had hoped by offering this incen
tive, to stimulate the work of the class
a little," said Professor Schroff, V[iut
it seems to have no indications of the
desired results.”
TO FORM DEBATE LEAGUE
Tri Delts, Alpha Phis and Phi Pis Will
Enter Teams for Trophy.
Arrangements are being made for a
girls’ doughnut debating league, which
will hold its contests soon. A shield sim
ilar to the one' won by I'lii Oamnm
Delta last year will be offered, accord
ing to memebrs of the forensic council.
Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Phi and Pi
Beta Phi huve announced their inten
tion of trying for the trophy, while
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Delta Gamma
have decided not to enter touins. Chi
Omega. Kappa Alpha Thctu, Oregon
Club and Hendricks Hall have not as
jet acted upon it. The question and
the date for the debate have not been
decided.
LEADER LECTURES ON WAR
Opens Series in Portland for Benefit of
Woman's Building.
Lieutenant Colonel John Leader re
turned to the campus today from Port
land, where he lectured Inst night on,
‘ The European War.” Colonel Leader
opened the series of lectures being given
for the benefit of a fund for the wo
man’s building on the campus. The
lectures, which are being given in the
ballroom of the Multnomah hotel, are
under the direction of Mrs. William D.
Wheelwright and Mrs. Walter F. Bur
rell, of Portland.
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OREGON FIVE BREAKS
TWO f§S' HOODOO
Washington Basket Tossers
Beaten Through Stellar
Work of Medley,
Forward.
TEAMS WILL PLAY TONIGHT
27 to 20 Score Pulls ‘‘XT' Team
Out of Cellar Position
in Conference.
Oregon defeated the University of
Washington basketball team in the Uni
versity gymnasium here last night by
the score of 27-20. It was the first
game won by an Oregon Varsity J
for two years, the first
day of Tommy Boylen,
Lyle Bigbee, Morton, and
The game pulls Oregon out of the
eeller in the west side division of the
northwest conference, and upsets the
“dope” of comparative seores, which
were slightly in favor of Washington
because of their greater scores in the
O. A. C. games.
Both Teams Green.
Oregon’s green team, not one of whom
had ever played in the Varsity before this
season, showed a remarkable improve
ment over the games at the opening of
the season. Fowler converted nine out
of ten chances from the foul line, shot
four baskets, and was a big factor in
tlie Oregon victory. Conch Hayward,
however, attributes the great showing
made by Oregon over their work of the
first few weeks, to “Dot” Medley, for
ward, who was out of the game early in
the year because of an injured foot, nnd
has been going good only during the
last few days.
“Oregon plays good hall in spots, bat
the men get ragged too often,” said
Coach Hayward after the game. “There
is lots of room for improvement. The
victory last night was the result of two
green teams meeting."
Both teams entered last night’s game
without a single man of their last year’s
teams on the floor. The game was slow
and rough, with the fight only saving
the exhibition from being poor. Oregon
led during the entire game after the
Varsity pulled away from a 3-3 tie,
which was ran up during the first few
minutes of play. The first half ended,
1 3to 8, for Oregon.
Cook Strengthens Losers’ Line
The Washington lineup was practical
ly the same ns that which meet O. A. C
for a double defeat Friday and Satur
day, except that the team was strength
ened by the return of Cook, stnr guard,
who made 16 out of 28 points in the
Washington-W. S. C. game earlier in
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Edison Marshall Competition
Gets No Response.
Mrs. George Rebec, Dr. E. S.
Bates and Donor of Prizes
Chosen as Judges.
No entries have yet been reecived for
1 the short-story contest, which closes at
the end of this terra. Professor W. F.
O. Thacher, who has charge o,' the con
I test, urges that every writer al the Uni
versity, whether he be in a short-story
class or not. submit a story.
I Two prizes of $5 and $10 are offered,
respectively, for the best and second
best stories; honorable mention will be
given for the third.
The tale must be original and written
without criticism or assistance, except
from what u student may gain in class
discussion, should it have been done or
iginally ns class assignment. Any type
of story will be accepted, the general
standards of the better type of ,iiner
! ican magazines will be used as the basis
| of comparison.
The judges chosen are Mrs. Goorge
' Itoboe, Dr. Ernest S. Bates, professor
of rhetoric and American literature, and
Edison Marshall, donor of the prizes
for the contest. It is thought that the
latter will he on the campus in the ord
nance course at the time of the giving
of the decision, hut in case it should be
impossible for Mr. Marshall to be here,
| another judge will be appointed.