Oregon
VOL. 20.
EUGENE, OREGON,
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ILL MEN'S HOUSES
Women Also Hard at Work for
Contests Set for Feb
ruary 6.
LIBRARY IS THRONGED
WITH DATA HUNTERS
Interpretation of Question is
Made by R. W. Prescott;
Outiook Bright.
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With a team chosen from each of the
ten men’s organizations and from nearly
il ithe women’s doughnut debate series
will be ready for a fine start February
6. More coaches have been selected and
the teams are hard at work, according
to ihe two heads of the debate leagues,
Helen Brenton and Herman land.
The complete list of the teams to
represent the men’s houses are as fol
lows: I’hi Delta Theta—Ed Durno,
George Black, Ben Ivy, lloscoe Roberts,
coach, W. F. G. Timelier; Sigma Chi—
Charles Lamb, Douglas Mullarky, Nel
son Dezendorf, Nick Carter; Sigma Nu,
Steve Mathieus, Barton Shirk, V. illard
Ilofllenbeck, Sprague Carter; Friendly
Hall—Remv Cox, Giles L. French,
George 'Shirley, William Rebec, with
Stanley Eisman- and Carlton Savage,
coach; I’hi Gamma Delta—Lyle McCros
kev, George La Roche, Sam Lehman,
William Bolger, coach, Dr., J. II. Gil
bert; Beta Theta I’i- Eugene Kelty.
Forest Watson, Curtiss Peterson, Rich
ard coach, Walter Myers; Delta
Tau —Carl Weigel, Raymond Kos
sell, Raymond Lawrence; Alpha Tau
Omega—Luc-key Bouncy, Ormand Hilde
brand, Charles Huggins, Donald Oxman,
coach, Peter Crockatt; Kappa Sigma—
Lloyd Still. Jack Dundore, Henry Koep
ke, John Masterson.
J. K. Armstrong has the coaching of
the men’s Oregon team in charge but as
yet a complete list of that team cannot
be otbained.
Ail But Two Girls’ Teams Picked
Among the women’s daouses all but two
have chosen their teams. These two, the
Gamma Phi Betas and the Delta Delta
Deltas, are still having tryouts. The list
of debaters, as far as completed, is as
follows:
Alpha Phi—Gwlndys Bowen. Elizabeth
Hadley, Dorothy Reed, Ruth Young,
coach. Miss Mary Perkins; Chi Omega—
Gladys Hollingsworth. Louise Seahnn; Pi
Beta Phi—Alice Thurston, Evelyn
Smith, Pearl Craine, Laura Rand, coach.
Peter Crockatt: Delta Gamma—Cle-.n
Cameron, Ruth Cowan, Lois Hall, Era
Godfrey; Kappa Kappa Gamma—Mary
Evans. Alice Evans. Norma Medler,
Ooris Pittenger, conch, AY. F. G. Thaeb
?r; Oregon Club—Grace Knopp, Helen
Flint, Marie Ridings. Jessie Todd, coach,
George Turnbull: Kappa Alpha Theta—
Mildred Garland, Margaret Thompson,
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COL. LEADER TO TAKE TRIP
Will Speak in Eastern Oregon High
Schools on Military Training.
Colonel John Leader, professor of mil
itary science, will make a trip through
jhe eastern part of the state next' week
3rhere he ■will inspect the military work
•fn the high schools, and where he will
speak before the different high schools
and community meetings.
Next Thursday he will give n public
lecture at Bend. The following Friday he
will he at TTood River where he will speak
to the high school in the afternoon, and
will give a public lecture in the evening.
Saturday afternoon he will lecture at the
Pine Grove school, fn the evening he will
speak there at a patriotic community
meeting.
The following week on Thursday. Feb.
ft. he has two lectures scheduled for La
Grande, in the afternoon before the high
school and a public lecture in the evening.
The following evening he will lecture at
Baker City. Saturday. February K. he
will inspect the high school cadets at
Gr.tsrio and give a lecture in the evening,
engagements at Pendleton have
broken because of the
No Frosh Man Will
Have Date with Girl
for Saturday Night
Feminine admirers of specific mem
bers of the freshman class will, on the
whole, be without dates for Satwirdny
night. Why? Because the annual Kappa
Sig frosh smoker,.one of the events of
the college year, will be staged that
night- Practically every member of the
freshman class will he there, while their
girl friends will keep the home fires
burning in the various houses, unaided.
The Kappa Sig smoker is one of the
biggest, things o-n the frosh calendar. It
is at that mixer that the freshmen gather
in/ congenial spirit, to imbibe friendship
and doughnuts and cider in perfect har
mony. Good things to eat, drink and
smoke arc to 'be had in abundance, while
■a. jovial spirit hangs over the whole af- j
fair.
Various entertainments are provided,
such as boxing and wrestling matches,
and each house has to put on a special
stunt of some kind.
(The smoker this year is expected t»
surpass any previous one. The Kappa
Sips have been working on it for a long
time, and according to campus rumors,
something unusual will be pulled off.
Building May Serve for Over
crowded Departments or
University High Gym.
Consideration of the disposal of the
University barracks for the use of any
one department of the University is now
being taken up, according to Karl W.
< inthank, secretary to President. Camp
bell. “It is unlikely however," he said,
“that the building will be adopted by any
department, before the spring term.
“Since the School of Commerce is the
most crowded, it is possible that com
merce classes may be held there to ac
commodate the overflow or, it might also
be fitted up for a cheap dormitory,” said
Mr. On thank.
The University high school would like
the building for a gymnasium, hut be
cause of the number of posts in the in
terior. it is improbable that there would
be sufficient floor space for gymnasium
work or indoor athletics.
Nothing has yet been decided. The
building is not very conveniently located
for use as class rooms. And, as a matter
of fact, the barracks have not yet been
paid for by the government, says Mr.
Onthank.
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MISSION WORK DISCUSSED
Miss Helen Cusman Cites Positions
Open to Women.
Woman’s work in missions was the
topid of discussion at the bungalow Sun
day at 4:30 when Miss Helen Crisman,
national field secretary for the World
Wide Woman’s Guild of the Baptist
church interested in foreign missions,
outlined for the girls the need of teachers
in that field and the positions open to
college graduates. Miss Crisman also
spoke of the work being done in I'nion
college at Tokio, Chinn.
Scripture was read by Miss Elsie Kap
pan in charge of the Columbia River dis
trict under Miss Crisman. Miss Gladys
Gorman, instructor in physical educa
tion, sang. %
I After the meeting Miss Crisman and
Miss Kappan were guests for lunch at the
! Pi Phi house, later they were guests at
! Hendricks hall. They left the T'niver
1 sity Monday afternoon for McMinnville
; where they spoke in the interest of mis
sions Tuesday.
COURSE TO BE EXTENDED
Civil Service Classes Allowed Month to
Make Up Work.
The course in civil service, scheduled
to end Feb. 1, will continue until March
1, was the information obtained from
the office of D. Walter Morton, dean of
! the School of Commerce, this morning.
Owing to the Influenza epidemic this
I year It was thought beet to let the course
: run on another month, giving those who
have been ill with the influenza a chpnce
to make up their work. There *"•* »hout
i 80 in the elate
Frank Branch Riley to Appear
at Assembly: Mazama will
Handle Stereopticon.
Frank Branch Riley, lecturer for the
Northwest Tourist Association and Port
land lawyer, is going to give the most
unusual and witty illustrated talk that
the students have had au opportunity to
tend tjiis year, 'Wednesday at assembly
hour, according to Karl Outhank, secre
tary to the president.
Mr. Riley is rated as a speaker of un
usual ability by all University people, who
kuow him. He has recently returned from
making some extensive lecturing tours
in the east and it was after a successful
appearance before the Eugene Chamber
of Commerce last week that he was dated
to lecture here at the University.
* The speaker will have with him a great
many colored slides of northwestern
scenery which are reputed to be the very
best, since they were made particularly
for the purpose of tempting the eastern
ers to see America first, and to interest
them in the scenic wonders of Oregon,
Washington and British Columbia.
The slide machine is to be operated by
Homer Rogers, a local mountain climber
who belongs to the Mazamas and who
was the man that established Rogers
Lodge on Mount Hood. Mr. Rogers has
been on the campus before and at that
time he displayed n series of slides takeij
during his trip through Italy and into
the Alps mountains, where he made a
record for himself as a mountain climber
of no little amount of skill.
Sergeant in Artillery Returns
From France: Saw Wilson
Arrive in Paris.
Don Bolding, ex-’IS, radio sergeant in
the (30th corps artillery, has just return
ed from overseas and resumed his work
on the campus as a senior in the school
of commerce Monday.
Belding came back to the states on the
Tjiscondari which was loaded with cas
ual troops and wounded men. The boat
spent New Year’s day stranded on the
Delaware river. The men on board were
the first overseas troops to arrive in
Pennsylvania where they were received
most heartily.
AY hen peace came Belding's corps was
maneuvering close to (he front on the
Verdun sector, and the men were about
ready to go into action.
Belding was in Paris on the day that
President Wilson arrived. He tells of the
reception extended the party by the
French people and it is his opinion that
they appreciate President Wilson a great
deal more than do the Americans.
After having been in camp in the
states for nine months. Belding was sent
over on the Sibony. He landed at Brest
on April 20. On the way over the ship
was attacked by a German submarine.
Nothing was injured although consider
able excitement was aroused.
While, in the University during the fall
of 1010, Belding led Oregon's team in
its cross-country race with the Aggies.
According to records he was Hayward’s
best shot in the mile sprint.
REMODELING WORK BEGUN
Gym Annex Will Be Completed Within
Two Weeks.
W. O. Ileckart, Eugene eontrnetor, has
been awarded the contract to remodel tbp
drill she] into a gymnasium annex and
started actual work on the building Mon
day. Several loads of concrete blocks
which will be used in making the founda
tion for the floor of the new structure
have been unloaded on the site, and ac
cording to Dean Walker, Mr. Ileckart
will have a force of men start to work
Tuesday. Mr. Walker expects to have
the building ready for use within two
weeks. A cost-plus or percentage plan is
being used in covering the cost.
Mr. Ileckart had charge of the con
struction of the 5s. A. T. C. barracks and
the Y. M. C. A. hut on tho campus last
! term, flnlahlng both Jobs in record time.
Harold Newton Has Thrills as Sailor
Goes to Sea in Leaky Wooden Ship, Catches Tropical Fever,
Just Misses Hurricane, Sees-Many
Pretty Girls.
“Being a sailor is a great life, though
a rough one, and 1 advise anyone who
wainits thrilling experiences to go to sea,”
says Harold ("Skinny”) Newton, who
left college last March to join the mer
chant marines and has now returned to
register as a senior.
"The best way to get. a real thrill is
to go to sea im a leaky wooden ship,”
he says. Last winter Newton left Brem
erton on one of the new wooden ships
(he is forbidden to give the name).
Three times they had to ipnt back to
port, for repairs and three times they
ventured forth again. But the last tine,
something really happened. 'The water
fairly poured in through the seams. The
men worked night a.ud day at the pumps
for two days, wearing life belts all the
time, never stopping to eat. The life
boats were kept in readiness to lie low
ered. but the ship finally got back safely.
Newton has a string of exciting ad
ventures io relate, lie had the tropical
fever while in the South Seas, lost .‘10
pounds and most of his tan. llis ship
on its return from the Hawaiian islands
.Hist missed go tuns into a hurricane.
He was in heavy ttropienl rains aud he
saw. he alleges, mosquitoes so large that
one could easily emit off their hind legs
with a carving knife.
Of more interest than anything else
to him, however, seems to he his iitv
tcrest in the beautiful women of the
countries he visited. Best, of all, he
likes the dainty little almond-eyed Jap
anese maidens.
"I Qiketo watch them trot, around,”
says Skinny. “One day I went into a
little Japanese barber shop and a Jap
anese girl cut my hair. After that I
went, back five times in ns many days
t; ohave my hair out. I liked it fine.”
Skinny thinks that the Hawaiian girls
are really ugly, however. (The men are
the handsome ones in this case, villain
ous looking also, he says.
Newton spent twelve weeks on a steel
training ships cruising along the Cana
dian const. Here he had an opportu
nity to meet many English girds. They
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Dr. Margaaret i\!ordfeidt Tells
What Reconstruction Era
Means to Women.
The liy-prduets of the war are the
most important, of its results, assorted
])r. Margaret 1 >. Xordfeld't, a New York
physician, wi the l'irtt. of the series of
lectures foil- the women of the T adversity
given in Guild Mali at 1 o'clock Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of
this week. l>r. Nordfeldt, who is speak
ing umler the aiuispices of the war de
partment, brings a message of utmost
import to the women of the Tniver
■ifty.
The most important of the by-produets
is the shake-up of the morals of the
people all over the world. (This fact,
lead's even the spirit of umliversnl service
that lias been aroused myl the recog
nition of the value ;uvd dignity of labor,
especially of woman lalhor.
“The government,” said l>r. Nord
feldit, “feels that women must eertanly
taike a" luund in the whole subject. The
educated woman must naturally take the
lead, so the appeal « being made to her
first, although the fatality of the double
standard of morals is being shown to
the girl in the grade schools and the high
schools, to the factory girl, the depart
ment store clerk, club leaders and wo
men in all walks of life. A scieinitific
background is sought for the ( niiversi
ties.
Moral Decline haen
Not until the government started to
investigate the moral condition of the
army did we realize them how fur we
had slipped backward and that nature
nourishes the weed as well as the flow
er. Human weeds crowd out the flower
and must be uprooted. The government
started the reconstruction by the “joy
zone” and the "five ra'Je zone” nuad the
general cleaning up of the civil districts
near the camps. It is now nrp to the
people to support the government and
carry out its plans, said Hr. Nordfeldt
The Monday afternoon lecture served
as an introduction for those to follow.
In the words of Dean Ijouise Khrmann,
“The message that you are to receive
is the one that means much of construc
tive work.”
“1 am not here to make physical ex
aminations or to give prescriptions, but
I would be glad to meet anyone in private
conference and discuss any phase of the
subject that personally interests hrr,”
said Dr. Nordfeldt.
All the women of the University are
urged to attend the lectures.
In Guild Hall Thursday
Dr. Nordfeldt will give her lecture
on Thrusday afternoon at 1 o'clock be
fore the meeting of the Y. \V. <*• A. The
meeting will be held as usual in Ouild
hall, and will he open to all University
women and grids.
Dr. Nordfeldt is a practicing physi
cian in New York City and is a grad
uate of Vassar college. She is one of
(Ctontinued on verge ,ao*>
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Seniors and Freshmen will Play
Championship
Contest.
Tin* final Kamo of the series of wo
men's iutorclaKS basketball will he play
ed Thursday evenin'*; at 7:lf> in (lie
men's gymnasium. This game will he
played between the seniors and fresh
men and will decide the class champion
ship. An admission fee of twenty-five
cents will he charged for this game.
For three years in succession the sen
iors have won the trophy cup offered by
Mill Hayward and if they win it again
this year it is their permanent trophy.
It is hoped by Miss Gladys Gorman,
coach, that a large number of spectators
will be present at the game and that
class spirit will be shown and evidence
of hacking teams he* displayed.
Miss Gorman lias announced the fol
lowing ns the probable personnel of the
teams: Seniors; Claire Warner, jump
ing center, Virginia Ilales, side-center;
Maude Lombard and Hazel Itankin, for
wards; Harriet Garret, Erma Laird,
Leila Marsh, guards. Freshman: Dor
othy Reed and Helen Casey, guards; He
lm Maldaree, jumping center; Maurino
I Elrod, side-center; Ituth Illegal and
Mildred Van Nuys, guards; Elva Thom
son and Carolyn Cannon, suits for for
ward and side-center respectively.
MEN’S GLEE SOON TO SING
First Appearance Set for Assombly Ono
Week from Wednesday.
The Oregon Glee Club will make its
first appearance before the student, body
at assembly ft week from this Wednes
day, if the plans of Director John Stark
Evans mature.
According to Mr. Evans the prospects
for this year’s glee club are I lie best
they have been in two years, so that
their 1919 season debut, should lie looked
forward to with comnidernlile interest.
A new tenor of exceptional ability is
expected to join the organization within
n very few days, so that Mr. Evans is
l*aienthusiastic over the sea
son’s outlook.
DEBATERS TO ASSEMBLE
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Meeting of Women of the Forum Set for
Wednesday Evening.
A meeting of the Forum wilt he held
Wednesday evening at 7 oVlock in Pro
fess</r Robert W Prescott's room '.n the
lunaement of Johnson Hall. All women
interested in debate are urged to at
tend. us the hour will he spent in an
explanation of the debate brief and or
ganization of material. This meeting
will be <.f particular value to those wo
men who are going out to represent
tb* «• Ju>-'.tte_s c' siu* ■-f t *-v,-li
High Grade of Basketball irf
Hotly Contested Game
Shown by Fives.
OFFENSIVE PLAY TELLS
AGAINST FAST VISITORS
Good Team Work with Snappy
Short Passes Aids Oregon
to Victory.
Tlu> University of Oregon basketball
five opened the 1910 Northwest Confer
ence season last night with a Victory
when it took the Washington State Col
lege quintet into camp by the score of
to -11. The teams played a high
grade of basketball and the game was
hotly contested from start to finish.
The Oregon team's strong point was
in its offensive play, ns in the game with
Willamette, and it proved to be good on
team work. The short, snappy' fast
passing in carrying the ball down tho
floor is working well for tho varsity
this season and its advantage over long
shots was shown In the game last night.
The Washington team tried a number
of long shots but foiled to get away
with them.
L Durno Hitjh Point Man
All hough ho was high point man of
the evening. Eddie Durno was not in
his best form in basket shooting. Ed
die tried a number of shots that should
have been duck soup for him hut was
unable to get them In. In converting
fouls lie was also a little off as he got
only 7 out of 15. Durno got two field
baskets and with tho seven points regis
tered on fouls he scored a total of eleven
points for the evening. The W. S. C.
team guarded him closely.
Mdvor, for the state college, con
verted six out of eight in the foul line
and got two field baskets giving him 1C
points. Francis Jacobberger and llerm
'hind did some fine work for the varsity,
and the guarding of Uramlon and Chap
man was above par. The rest of the
points gathered by the visitors were
mode by Hockey and 1 (oilman.
The Washington State College team
is a fine aggregation, and ns it handed
the University of Washington n couple
of defeats last week-end, it looks to he
among the strongest of the teams in the
conference. Tt will take on the Aggie
team this week-end which will give the
local followers a chance to see just
what O. A. I*, has along the line of bas
ketball talent.
Game Scheduled Tonight
The two teams will meet ngnin to
night., nnd Veil King Carter will lmva
the hand out to help the weak-lunged
rootirs. There wn< a fair showing of
“p^p’k last, night hot, not enough. The
! crowd failed to give the visitors a very
j Mg hand when they appeared on the
floor. That sort of thing should not
happen again.
Tonights game will start at 7 nnd
should he even closer than last night’s
contest, ns the visitors will have time
to get, properly rested after their jour
ney from Seattle.
The line-up.
Washington State Universltj
College (23.) of Oregon (29.)
Mclvor (101.F.Durno (11)
Hockey (0).F. .—Jacobberger (8)
Ilollman (fi).GloverC.Lind (fi)
Kotula..:.G.Chapman (2)
Burgess..G.Brandon (2)
(Washington State College allowed
one point on Jacobberger’s fourth per
sonal foul, by referee.)
IWeree; George A. Anderson, of
Portland. .
NEW COURSE IN EDUCATION
The University extension division is
offering a new course through corres
pondence on the .“History of Educa
tion." This course deals with the mod
ern period of education only, outlining
systems and organization in the, "resent
j sehood work.