OREGON EMERALD
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HARRY N. CRAIN
William Haseltine ..
Robert G. McNary
Beatrice Thurston .
Douglas Mullarky
Melvin T. Solve ...
Pearl Craine .
. EDITOR
... News Editor
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Women’s Editor
feature Editor
Dramatic Editor
Society Editor
Assistants
Elsie Fitzmaurice, Dorothy Duniway, Helen Brenton, Beith Abbott, Her
man Lind, Bess Column, Adelaide Lak e, Alexander Brown, Levant Pease, Helen
Manning, John Houston, Gladys Wilkins, Elva Bagley, Alene Phillips, Louise
Davis, Frances Stiles.
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REFORMATION VS. DEFORMATION.
Wednesday evening the Student Council passed a resolution
which has, thus far at least, received but passing attention judg
ing from the manner in which dances and other social functions
are being announced for dates conflicting with major athletic
activities on the campus.
All through the year there appears to have been a spirit of
utter disregard for conflicts with varsity contests in the sched
uling of house dances. Time and again there have been from one
to three dances held on the campus during the time when Oregon
teams were in contest. The result has been to detract from the
turnout to the major events and a serious loss of enthusiasm
through divided attention. A striking example of this, and the
incident directly responsible for the Student Council’s action,
was the instance of three house functions on the night of the sec
ond basketbal game with O. A. C. last week. Here the effect was
marked. In the place of the howling, cheering crowd that at
tended the first game, the second contest saw great gaps along
the bleachers where rooters should have been; and the spirit was
low.
Next Saturday night Oregon’s wrestling team is to meet the
Aggie grapplers in the gymnasium and the social calendar shows
no less than three dances marked-up for that evening. True, it
would be hardly feasible to call in the invitations that have been
issued for these affairs, but it would be very desirable to post
pone the opening waltz until after the wrestling meet and there
by give everyone a chance to turn out and back up the team.
To the University students of several years ago who read
these lines the very thought that social affairs are being given
preference over intercollegiate contests by the students on the
campus today will be a real shock. It is a thing absolutely un
heard of in former years and, while we are not so narrow as to
oppose a reform simply because it deviates from the established
order of things, we are inclined to view the holding of social af
fairs in conflict with varsity activities more in the light of a de
formation of the Oregon Spirit than as a reformation.
II BUTTLE MICE
(Continued from page one)
; stead of advancing through the first
scone in scattered squad columns, us
directed, the men inarched in unbroken
line down Onyx street, and drew up in
full sight of the enemy, going through
“slow and painful maneuvers," as ehar
notorized by Captain Allen.
Company Becomes Spectator.
" "They drew themselves up like itrad
• dock’s men against the Indiana.” said
Mr. Allen. When ordered off the field,
1) company climbed the fence and sat
disconsolately w itching the rest of the
fight. U company did not succeed very
well in taking the place left vacant by
1> company, through misunderstandi:^
of i he orders.
After the charge. Lieutenant Tooic
addressed the battalion, explaining the
defects of the advance, ami offering sug
gestions for improvement. Besides 1>
company’s too conspicuous position, he
called attention to the fact that several
of the squads got in front of one an
other, so as to eut off the fire of thos<>
behind hem He mentioned men run
ning in front of the fire of their own
troops as another of the mistakes.
Staff Sergeant I’attersou, while run
ning with an order during Thruaday’s
light, stumbled and fell against some
barb wire, eiitting liis face badly, peril
’ ously near his eyes. He was on the
campus yesterday, his face swathed in
bandages.
0 Company Redeems Itself.
Yesterday, exactly the same problem
was tried as on Thursday, with splendid
results. Lieutenant Toozo gave special
mention to the good work of 1> com
pany. which fairly faded into the laud
•cape behind gras* atul ferns, t’reepiug
on their hands and kucee, the men could
scarcely l>c seen by the umpire*. “In
deed, there w.'i* a time that the umpires
could not see any of the battalion a(
all," anid Captain Allen, "so effective
ly did it net behind the grass, stamps,
ditches, and all natural obstructions.”
Lieutenant Toore complimented all the
companies on the work done in yester
day's fight.
ORCHESTRA SETS NEW DATE
Will Appear in Annual Concert in Vil
lard Hall April 6.
The dale for the annual concert of
the University orchestra, originally set
for March lfl. Iihs had to be changed
to April (!, owing to unforeseen com
plications. Practices are being held
twice a week, and each number of the
program is being brought to a height
of perfection. Several new instruments
1m ve been added to the organisation,
which have made a great difference in
the playing. Special selections will be
given by Mr. Faguy-Oote and Miss
Forbes. The concert will take place in
Villard Hall.
EX-STUDENT SELLS WRITING
Alyce Bnhr (lives Credit to Prof
Thaoher's Short Story Contest.
Mrs. Alyce R. Ruhr, ex ’10, recently
wrote to Professor \V F. (!. Thacher.
expressing her appreciation of the bene
lit she received from hi* short-story
dass, of which she was a member while
at the University two year* ago. Mrs.
Iialir writes that she has succeeded in
selling D short stories, lid poems. ,‘!
songs and It books One is a book of
fiction, the other one of poetry. Mrs.
llahr also write* for the l’eripterons
column of the Oregon, under the nom de
plume \yce Hosal.vce Rustung. She has
recently acce| ted an offer as deserip
ti\e sceuer. writer for a southern ra.l
way.
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eOVERNMENT POSTS
FOR C0LLE6E MED
Draftsmen, Men for Gun Divi
sion of Ordnance Are
Needed, Says Offi
cial Report.
Red Cross Assistants, Above
Draft Age, Wanted; Duties
Are Outlined.
Latest information from the intercol
legiate intelligence bureau in Washing
ton, D. C., received at the president's
office, calls for optical draftsmen, lied
Cross assistants, and men for the gun
division of the ordnance department of
the army.
Serial, call 115, issued February 20,
is for optical draftsmen and inspectors
of periscope manufacture. The work in
cludes inspection of periscope designing
in an important bureau of the navy de
partment in Washington, and is espe
cially for men slightly under middle
age; the salary is $2000 a year and up,
according to qualifications. Duties of
sui’h an applicant will include designing
land superintending the construction of
periscope optical systems, and the quali
fications are thoroughly familiarity with
optical formulae, combined with some
practical experience.
150 Wanted In Ordnance.
The ordnance department call is for
some 150 men, to be commissioned as
captains, and first and second lieuten
ants in the ordnance officers’ reserve
corps, who are of 25 years or over;
salaries are from $1700 to ,$2400 a year,
i according to rank, plus allowance. Men
for this branch of service must be quirTf,
energetic, adaptable, and of pleasing per
sonality. Some degree of technical train
ing is desirable. The chosen applicants
will he given a two months’ course in
general ordnance, and parti< ularly in
the design and construction of trench
warfare weapons, after which they will
draw field.duty, acting as instructors in
cantonments and service schools.
The candidate's letter of application
must contain statements as to his phy
sical condition; military experience, if
any; education, with date of graduation
' and degree: detailed account of husi
ness experience, present position and
salary, town, state, country and date of
birth, and full information as to draft
statue, if of draft age.
00 Wanted by Red Cross.
Red Cross affords places for about
t>0 men out of draft age. The call Is
i for field directors, assistant directors
1 and assistant directors attached to base
I hospitals in the States. In general, the
j duties are supervising and directing all
! Red Cross activities in the army and
I navy camps and stations, including the
I distribution of all supplies, such as
I sweaters, and other comforts, emergency
relief, home service for the families of
j enlisted men, etc. High grade men,
! preferably college graduates, are re
quired. All applications are forwarded by
: the adjutant.
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] HEARD AND OVER-HEARD j
By LEITH ABBOTT.
I’m feeling in a lOder mood 2 day
and feel poetic 2. With this word we
(editorially, meaning the good Under
wood and myself), are preparing for
your approval a line of sense and non
sense, figurtively speaking, which we hope
will go smashing down'- the colyums of
the Oregon Emerald with a resound
ing smash. When you read a joke
which made you chuckle when an infant
just say “that joke always did make
me laugh,” and pass on to the next.
Maybe you have read this one in last
month’s Judge, but road it again, and
remember that before the invention of
slates, people multiplied on the face
of the earth, and quickly turn to the
society colyums—we don’t care.
Our Weekly Health Hints.
Don’t get on a ferryboat—it will make
you cross.
To avoid fnlling hair—step out of
the way when you se? it coming.
Enuf—alright let’s pass on.
Gosh!
A fair young damsel set by the wide,
wide sea.
As calm and as complacent as she
could be,
As I strode along I spied her there
And wondered at her face so fair.
A conversation I must start.
For I had been hit by eupid’s dart,
So 1 said to her merely as a starter,
“Fair one, aren’t you afraid of the cold,
cold water?”
Her answer made mb hunt for a place
to hide,
When she said, “No, don’t you see it’s
tide.”
Well, how aa-e we gettin’ by? Shall
we start another? All right, here goes.
Deep Stuff.
We understand that the Zeba Sigma
have fixed up one of the rooms in their
house which has blinds on the windows.
This same room is also fixed up with
chairs large enough for two iso we are
told), and there is a piano in there
which plays mechanically and sounds
very much as if a human h ind tickled
tile keys. Taking altogether and adding
it with something else, we should say,
it is a mush room.
(For Men Only
Joys of Spring
B. V... ?
Help.
A woman asked me the other day.
Do the University eo-eds dress well?
1 was durn founded.
I didn't know what to say
For
1 had never watched them.
Russian War Song.
t^ung to the tune of. “Come Home Boys.
Mother lias Found Word.”)
Hurray! Hurray! For the Boleviski.
Hurray! Hurray! Our own Libertsky!
So we'll siug the chorus from Petrograd
to sea.
While we are marching through
At the Walrus Cistorla Tonits.
Perry Mickford and Douglas Funny
Prangs in “Soup to Nuts.” Showing
iuterior diniug room scenes of the coun
ty insane asylum.—Adv.
Notic*.
All students who do not lire in fra
ternities or dormitories, meet Mondav
at 4 o'clock in Yiilard Hall, to effect or
ganization of Oregon club.
Eugene Steam Laundry
The Student Laundry.
Melviri Solve, Campus Agent.
Phone 123. West Eights St.
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