OREGON EMERALD
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WHEN ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDEST.
In the average advance in the scholarship records of the
University, as reported from the office of the registrar, there is
even a more wholesome indication than that the students are
doing more for themselves. There is, course, muct satisfaction
to be gained from the knowledge that the men and women in the
University are steadily raising the standard of their class work.
That would be gratifying at any time, but it is especially so just
at the present when there is every reason to expect scholarship
to suffer more or less neglect because of the many important is
sues occupying the attention of the students.
The steady increase in the average grades from term to
term this year indicates that the demands of the war for more
serious application to even our routine duties have impressed
themselves upon the Oregon students. It indicates that the
students are coming to a fuller realization and a better under
standing of the National Government’s reasons for urging col
lege men and women to remain at their studies.
One year ago the University’s class work came practically
to a standstill. The entrance of the United States into the war,
though long expected and, therefore, less disturbing than it oth
erwise would have been, served to distrart the attention of both
faculty and students from everything else. The vital question
became, “What shall we do?” Even at that early stage there;
were those who sensed the danger of depleting the enrollment of
the colleges of young men and hardly had the flow of college men
into the service begun than England sent its warning. Eng
land’s first days of war were ones of dire need for young men,
especially those who had had even a semblance of military train
ing. Her institutions of higher learning were robbed of their
men during the first two years of the great struggle — then she
awoke to the fact that these were the men she should have saved
and trained as leaders of her civilian armies. The realization
came late and the damage done demanded urgent measures,
which took the form of a direct order for men to remain at their
studies until called. Thus the United States had the example of
a sister nation’s experience, but it also had on its hands the prob
lem of restraining the most impulsive and action-seeking type of
Americans. To diunpen the ardor of enthusiastic college men
by refusing them admission into the various branches of the ser
vice would have been disastrous. The task was one of educat
ing the college students of the country as to what really consist
ed their duty.
What progress has been made in the undertaking is indi
cated by the fact that the colleges of the country still have from
fifty to seventy-five per cent of the normal enrollment of men.
Put the thing which the government could not accomplish
through any means except that of active co-operation on the part
of the students themselves, was the intensification of the work
ol the students. The students have responded to the govern
ment’s plea and they have "gone them one better”—in the face
of the most disturbing influences they have raised the standards
of their work, while at the same time taking an active part in
every war service movement.
TRACK TEAM TO GET
PORTLAND TRY-OUT
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stead of the afternoon. The reasou for
thin change is that a largo crowd is
wanted. The entire proceeds are to he
turned over to the enlisted men at Van
couver ltarraeks for a permanent ath
letic fund.
The team, accompanied h' Coach Hay
ward, and Assitant Coach Mairhead will
leave on Friday morning. Mnirhe.ui is
als • entering the meet as representative
of the Multnomah club of that city.
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JUMIORS TO HEAR REPORTS
Junior Week-end Committees to Tell of
Plans at Class Meeting.
Reports from all Junior Week-end
committees are to he the feature of
Junior elass meeting iu Oregi n hall,
Wednesday morning at assembly hour.
Rians for the Week-eutl are to he
dismissed and announcements of eom
mittees iu full will he made.
.Vnnouneeiuents about the Oro.Ssna I
nil! he made at tins time also.
(ihtd.vs llathke spent the week-end ,u
Portland.
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♦ TENNIS MEETING ♦
♦ An inipor.int meeting of the Wo- ♦
♦ men’s Tennis elnh is to he held at ♦
♦ the lMta tisumia ho„i e. Wednos- ♦
♦ lai o\enine at S o’clock V!1 mem- ♦
♦ b. I s are urged to ne pi esetil ♦
spn PUT CIST
EDS TWELVE MEN
Henry Eickhoff, Chairman, Is
Seeking Actors to Put on
Comedy, “Facing the
Music.”
James Mott, of Salem, to Hold
Ten Rehearsals on
Campus.
With the date for the senior play,
“Facing the Music,” just sixteen days
away and a play on hand which requires
twelve men, initial try-outs have not yet
been held and senior men are scarcer
thnn the proverbial hen’s teeth.
Granted that that sounds a lot as if
those of us who pungle up a perfectly
good dollar and an equally good fifty
cents, are going to wish we’d spent it on
peanuts or thrift stamps. But this is no
time for discouragement or crabbing as
anybody from the kaiser down to the
chairman of the play committee will tell
you—it’s a clear case of “Gott mit uns”
and sit tight.
Yesterday the chairman, Henry Eick
hoff, received a letter from Jamas Mott
of Salem who ’'fill coach the senior hope
fuls, which brought joy to the hearts of
the whole committee. Mr. Mott explained
his plan of campaign and since it is the
one he employs regularly, he displays a
lot of faith in its efficiency.
Discards Old Method.
In coaching the vehicles of former
years, he has left his law clients to shift
for themseives for a day or bo while he
trekked to the Oregon campus to give
his prospectives the once over and cast
them in their parts. Then he left orders
that the parts be committed to memory
before the first rehearsal and went away
again, returning just in time to conduct
six night rehearsals before the date of
production. However, this is what he
says of that method:
“As a matter of fact, the senior thes
pians did commit their parts to memory
in advance of rehearsal period, and never
started to commit them until after I
had thrown the fear of the Lord into
them at the iui'ial rehearsal.”
Anti just now he has u railroad com
pany landed in his net that doesn’t un
ravel too easily, so this is what he’ll
do to the 18-el's:
“Will leave on the lust Sunday of the
month and that will give me time to cast
the play and give them ten full rehear
sals instead of six as formerly. Of
course, 1 don’t know what kind of mater
ial you have this year, but if they can’t
put on a play in ten rehearsals they’re
hopeless. I moan by that that if they
can’t get in ten rehearsals they couldn’t
get it in ten times that many.”
Sob Stuff Dlscauraged.
He further advises that first tryouts
be held and says the play can he enst if
it seems desirable. But he reserves for
himself the right to reenst any or all
parts when he arrives on the scene, and
discourages any sob stuff on the part
of fair aspirants if he should show them
tlie trail from heroiue to just plain ladies’
maid.
ll is Chairman Eickhoff’s plan to call
a meeting of his committee within a few
days, when tryouts will be arranged for
and other details completed.
DROPS SHAM BATTLE PLAMS
Junior Week-end Committee Announces
Parade as Military Feature
The military feature for Junior
Week-end will be a parade and bat
talion drill on the <1 rill field probably
Friday afternoon at one o’clock, an
nounces Charles Comfort, chairman of
the committee.
The plan at first was to hove a sham
battle for the benefit of the guests,
but no ammunition seems available, so
the committee has abandoned the idea.
“The drill will be new to the visitors,
anyway,” said Comfort yesterday, “al
though it may not be interesting for
those who have seen it so many times
before.”
The battalion probably will go through
the ceremony of retreat. The com
mittee is also considering several other
plans, on which they will be prepared
to muke definite announcement by the
end of the week.
FRAT PIN NO BETROTHAL *ICN
Kansas Draft Board Spurns Exemption
Claim of Missouri Man.
The wearing of a fraternity pin is
not sufficient proof of engagement to
murry according to flic decision of a
draft beard in Kansas. The claim of
a former NJissourl Vnivorsity student,
married after the draft law was passed,
set forth the evidenci that the couple
was engaged oefore the passage of the
law because the girl wore his fraternity
pin in a concealed place. The board
ruled that this was not a contract to
marry.
LIT S 601 To the Student Body flange!
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F01 THIRD VICTORY
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mound they put up a game which would
have ended disastrously for Oregon had
it not been for the already memorable
Lind home-run.
Aggies Hard At Work.
News from Corvallis says that the
agricultural school boys are eating “raw
meat’’ and are preparing for a big of
fensive in the coming week-end games.
Coleman will do the Spaulding tossing
act for one game at least and the Aggies
declare that there will be no more
homers. It is also rumored that “Ikey”
Cornel, their “wonder pitcher” is put
ting in long hours over the study table
in an effort to make the required hoars
to mak' him eligible for pitching honors.
If he should be successful, the Aggie3
would be supplied with two pitchers
which would cause furrows in the fore
heads of Varsity wielders who even now
hold the leading places in the batting
averages.
Grebe TwV‘f Ankle.
The team is undergoing a series of
hard workouts during the first days of
the week and will not cease until Thurs
/day night. Art Berg’s arm is in good
condition and Dwight Wilson is going
good. Dwight held the O. A. C. men to
six hits in Inst Friday’s game and but
f«*ur safe bits were made in Saturday’s
(contest. Walter Grebe, w’hose stellar
work at short stop as W'ell as his mani
pulation of the wtf.ow was a feature
of the games at Corvallis, twisted his
ankle in last night’s practice. He will
probably be forced to miss practice for
a day or so but expects to be in con
dition for the coming games.
The box score Saturday follow^:
Oregon.
AB. R. H. PO. A. 13.
Grebe ss .4 4 1
Lind lb .*.6
Medley If .5
Steers cf .5
Sheehy 3b .5
Dunton c .5
Morrison 2b .5
Runquist rf .5
Berg p .4
2 3
1
0
1 2
2 1
0 0
Reardon rf
44 15 17 27 10 5
0. A. C.
AB. R. II. PO. A. E.
.2 0 0 0 0 1
Seiberts ss .4 0 0 3 0 0
119 10
0 0 5 2 1
0 13
0 11
I Gurley lb ..4
Lodell c .4
Hubbard 3b .4 0 1
Baldwin cf .4 0 1
I Rickson 2b .3 0 0 3 4
Preston If .1 0 0 0 0
Kruger p .O O 0 0
Coleman p .2 0 0 1
Nesbitt p .2 0 0 1
1 2
0 O
0
0
32 1 4 27 11
Score by innings:
Oregon
Hits
10. A. C.
Hits
12062002 2
22063003 1—17
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0—1
00011110 0—4
-15 !
Summary; Stolen base, Grebe; Sacri
fice hit. Medley, Steers, Kruger; Home
run, Lind; Two-base hit, Grebe; Struck
out, by Berg—-3, by Kruger—1, by Nes
bitt—4; Bases on balls, off Nesbit—4;
Hit by pitcher, Rickson. Berg! Time of
Game 2 hours 15 minutes; Umpire
Newell.
Conference Batting Averages
AB. R. H. Pc.
Lind .10
Grebe .S
Runquist .S
Dunton .9
Steers .9
Wilson .3
.Morrison .7
Berg . 4
Mediey .9
.400 ;
o— I
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.O 4 • >
.333
0
1
1
1
2 1
.286
.250
ooo
Sheehy .9 1 0 .000;
Team .76 IS 22 .2S9
HGIS BEAT KAPPA SIGS
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extra bc.ses. Bill should have been
credited with errors on these plays but
the score keper didn’t have heart so
they went for hits. Moores for the
Kappa Si as made a couple of nice stops
at second and played his position in
bang-tip style.
Joe Trowbridge surprised everyone,
including himself, by making a nice :
catch of a high fly in left field after a
long run. Three home runs were rung .
up during the game, the Kappa Sigs
getting one aud the Fijis two.
The score by inmugs:
12 3 4 5—R. II. E.
Kappa Sigs 10 12 0—4 S 2
FigU 5 1 0 0 x—12 7 2
Batteries: Kappa Sigs. Hunt. Mantz
and Van Waters: Pigis. Heywood and
Huston. Empire: l'ean Walker.
Jeanette Wheatley. Gladys Shute and ;
Httth Linglader of Hillsboro, and Helen ■
Bennett of S< attic, spent the week-end ,
the Alpha Phi house.
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