* VOL. 21 Emerald NOVEMBER 8, 1919 NO. 16 MW I$. GILBERT TO BE SPEAKER AT Oregon Students to Participate In Celebration With City of Eugene PARADE SET fOR ONE P. M. American Legion Dance and Football Game to be Features of Occasion > Major William S. Gilbert of Astoria will be the speaker at the University Armistice day assembly Tuesday morning at 9:30 o’clock in Villard hall. Chaplain Gilbert went overseas with the old Third Oregon, was made senior chaplain of the 41st division and later of the First army corps4 At the time of the Spanish-American war Chaplain Gilbert was pastor of the Central Presbyterian church in Eugene and went as chaplain of the Second Oregon infantry. Chaplain Gilbert’s address on Tues day will be patriotic in nature. A selection will be sung by the Univer sity choir and a number of songs will be sung by the assemblage led by the choir. H. W. Davis, who was with the Y. M., C. A. overseas, now general secretary of the Eugene Y. M. C. A., will deliver the Invocation. An attempt was made at the first of the week to engage Col. John Leader as a speaker for the Armistice day assembly; but he had accepted an invitation to ride at the head of the British contingent in the Portland Armistice day celebration. He ex pressed his regrets at not being able to be at the University on that day. Arrangements for the assembly are in charge of a student committee. Representatives from student body and the entire faculty will be seated on the platform. Two representa tives from the committee for the city celebration have also been asked to occupy places on the platform for the morning. Indications point to a capacity house for the assembly Tuesday; the committee in charge believes. All students should be out, as there are no classes on that day. Many town people are expected to hear the pro gram because of its promise of ex cellence. Following the assembly all Uni versity men and women, led by Slim Crandall, will serpentine down (Continued on page 4) DISTANT GRADS PLAN HOMECOMING SPECIAL Eastern Oregon Alumni Will Come to Game on Train of Their Own, Says Dean Due to the efforts of Dean John Straub while in eastern Oregon, spe cial plans are being made by former Oregon students to attend the Home coming events at Oregon this year. Special trains will be chartered for the occasion. At Pendleton, Bert Jerard and Mr. Haoeier are in ci.arge, Wallace Eakin and F fentice Brown at Baker and Fred Kiddle anl Herbert Hanna at La Grande. The train, starting from Baker, will come through La Grande, Joseph, Enterprise^ Wallowa, Elgin and Pendleton. From there the train will pass through Portland, where it will be reinforced by a special from there. People from O. A. C. have been asked to jo’U the crowd and they may be assured a cordial wel come and reception, said Dean Straub. RULING ON ABSENCES REVISED BY FACULTY Cuts Due to Illness No Longer Bar to Examinations—Metric System Endorsed Under a new ruling passed by the faculty at their meeting in Guild hall Thursday afternoon, no student will be allowed to take a term exam ination in any class from which he has been absent more than 20 pei cent of the total number of hours, provided, however, that more than half of these absences are from causes other than sickness. TJnder the old ruling no distinction was made regarding the cause of the “cuts” and the new regulation is designed to be more lenient in the case of legitimate absences. The new ruling, it was emphasized at the meeting, deals only with examinations. Margaret Monroe of Portland was recommended for a B.A. degree. Miss Monroe> who majored in Eng lish, received credits from Washing ton State college, Puget Sound col lege and the University of Washing ton. She completed her course through the Portland extension cen ter and summer school. The faculty passed a resolution, a memorandum of which is to be sent to congress, endorsing the adoption of the metric system of mensuration through the United States. There has been considerable agitation among progressive institutions for the sub stitution of metrics for the British standard in vogue at present. O.A.C.-OBEGQN TICKET SALE OPEflS HAY STUDENT PASSES MUST BE EX CHANGED FOR SEATS BEFORE NEXT THURSDAY Student body tickets will count one j dollar toward reserved seat in the | grandstand for the Homecoming game j next Saturday with O. A. C., ae ! cording to the announcement made I yesterday by Marion McClain, grad ; uate manager. Reserved seats will be on sale Monday morning at S o’clock at Kuykendall’s drug store. The sale will continue throughout the week, the tickets costing $1.50 and $2.00. A booth will be opened on the cam pus Thursday morning where student body tickets may be exchanged for seats in the bleachers. All bleacher tickets must be secured on Thursday, Mr. McClain announces. Student body tickets must be exchanged to admit to the game. BENNETT PRIZE OFFERED Twenty Dollars to be Given Best Paper on Free Government The Bennett prize of about $20 will be offered this year to the student of the University who writes the best paper on “Principles of Free i Government.” The prize is the in j terest on a gift of $400 made to the : University of Oregon by Philo Sher man Bennett of New Haven, Conn. It was last offered in 1912, when it was won by Oscar S. Hauger, the income at that time amounting to about $16. The principal has been increased by the addition of the in terest since 1912, making it now amount to $563.50. Any students who wish to compete for this prize are asked to notify the registrar. STUDENT VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT OCCUPIES ATTENTION OF OREGON Sixteen Delegates to Represent University at Des Moines Convention The student volunteer movement Is j one of the largest problems that will I face the student body of the Univer-! sity this year, in the opinion of the local committee. To send at least 16 j delegates to the convention at Des j Moines is a consideration which is enormous in scope and which looms j larger and larger. The only way it! can be solved is by the loyal sup-j port of the students to make pos sible the sending of their delegates, j There has been a great deal of misunderstanding in regard to the manner in which this campaign is being conducted on the campus. There is a general committee in charge of the entire movement. Roy Veatch is chairman of the committee and the other members are Dean Fox, Era Godfrey, Eva Hansen, Stad Ander son, and Johnnie Houston. The nom inating committee was appointed yes terday, its members being Era God frey, chairman^ Dean Fox, Stan An derson, Bill Purdy, Helen Carson and Del Oberteuffer. The duty of this committee will be to nominate a reasonable number of students from the most prominent on the campus regardless of organ ization and the like. Both men and women will be nominated from the different classes, this giving a better balance to representation from the student body. This list of nominees will then be submitted to the students so that they may vote upon the ap pointed number to attend the con vention. The present plans are to have voting take place on the com ing Thursday at a place designated beforehand. Each vote will cost one dollar, this revenue being the means of seeding the delegates to the east. Oregon must raise one thousand dollars for this cause. The old poc ketbooks are being hit pretty hard these days, but to think that the rep | resentatives of O. A. C., of the Uni versities of California and Washing 1 ton will be at Des Moines strong in number should cause every Oregon man and woman to support the (Continued on page 4) COMEDY TO BE GIVEN BY MASK AND BUSKIN Receipts of Production to Go Towards Student Voluteer Movement Mask and Buskin, local chapter of | the dramatic fraternity of Associated University Players, ^announces that it will present a play at the Eugene Theatre on the night of December 6. This is a benefit play, the receipts to be given to the student volunteer movement. Mask and Buskin a is purely student body order and is composed the best dramatic talent on the of campus. The cast will be made up of mem bers of the student body and will be picked from the following members of Mask and Buskin: Evelyn Smith, Norvell Thompson, John Houston, Marion Gilstrap, Norman Philips, Er nest Nail, Lyle McCroskey, Curtiss Peterson, Ada McMurphey, Gladys Dyment, Ogden Johnson, Claire Keen ey, Arvo Simola, Norman Edwards. The honorary members are Professor Reddle and Miss Charlotte Banfield. STUDENTS TAGGED FOR niimmi or HOMECOMING ALUMNI Twenty Cars Put at Disposal of Committee ;Govenor Olcott to be Present All students of the University are to wear tags on Homecoming day, Novemberr 15, said Miss Charlie Fenton, alumni secretary yesterday. Each tag is to carry the name of the wearer and a message of greeting for the visiting alumni. At the last meeting of the commit tees on Homecoming everything was j reported to be progressing well. Era Godfrey, chairman of the committee to welcome alumni at the trains, re ported that 20 cars have already been placed at the disposal of the commit tee. These cars will be marked in order that the alumni can recognize and use them whenever they are j needed. It is expected that 100 such cars will be available for use on Homecoming day. The Y. M. C. A. hut has been selected as headquarters for the homecoming alumni. A checking room, telephone booths, and room lists will be available here at all times. George Shirley has been placed in charge of this department. The committee under Mabyl Weller which is listing available rooms for the week-end has already secured 200 rooms or about half the number of outside rooms that it is estimated will be needed for the occasion. The freshmen are laying extensive plans for the bonfire on Friday night and the stunts to be pulled during that event are being worked out, Miss Fenton said. A very thrilling and clever stunt has also been selected to be staged between halves of the game but this is to remain a deep, dark, and mysterious secret. The Washington State game in Portland today is offering an excellent opportunity to advertise Homecoming [ in Portland. Dodgers proclaiming the event will be distributed among the spectators, and attention will also be called to it in the rally and in the serpentine to be staged between halves. Over 1200 seats in the alumni sec tion have already been reserved for the game, Miss Fenton said. Tickets for these are now being mailed. Lee Hulburt is in Portland arranging for sleepers from eastern Oregon and special trains from Portland for the great Homecoming event and the O. A. C. game on November 15. Governor Olcott has written accept ing Miss Fenton’s invitation to attend the game, and promising that both he and Mrs. Olcott will be there for | the game and if possible for the dance at the armory in the evening. Mrs. i Olcott is to be one of the patronesses 1 of the dance. | - BANQUET FOR K. OF P. Student Members Invited to be Pres ent November 13 All students on the campus who are members of the Knights of Py thias are invited to a banquet which the order will give Thursday, Nov ember 13, in the -Knights or Pythias hall. The banquet will be the an nual roll call event of the year. Students who wish to be present! j are asked to nee Robert C. Hall, school of journalism or H. A. Clark, j professor of Latin BY WASHINGTON STATE ELEVEN IN HARD BATTLE AT PORTLAND —--<§ RESULTS OF FORMER U. of O.-W. S. C. BATTLES Following are the results of the previous games between the University of Oregon and the Washington State college teams, which meet on Multnomah field next Saturday afternoon: Year Ore. W.S.C. 1901 . 0 16 1903 . 0 0 1911 .. 6 0 1912 . 0 7 1914 . 7 0 1915 . 3 28 1916 . 12 3 1917 . 3 26 Totals . 31 80 Games won by W. S. C., 4. Games won by Oregon, 3. Tie game, 1. WOMEN TO PRACTICE BASKETBALL SOON MISS FLEGAL SEEKS LARGE TURNOUT FOR NEXT WEEK SERIES TO BE ARRANGED If you haven’t already signed up for basketball, be sure you have done so by Monday night, says Ruth Fle gal, head of women’s basketball, for practice begins Tuesday afternoon. Miss Emma Waterman of the de partment of physical education for women is to be the coach for all classes. Miss Flegal desires Jtliat a large number of women from each class turn out for practice in order that the class teams may represent the best basketball material in the Uni versity. Elimination contests will be started as soon as they can be arranged, said Miss Flegal, and dur ing the second term the class series will be played off. The practices as scheduled for next week are Tuesday from 5 to (1^ up perclassmen; Wednesday 4:16 to 6, upperclassmen; 6 to 6:45, freshmen; Thursday 3:15 to 4:15, mixed classes. The physical record of each girl must be looked up before she is allowed to enter the practice. COMPETITION POSTPONED Freshman Military Finals to Take Place on Monday Finals in the freshman military ef ficiency contest, which were sche duled for Friday, were postponed ow ing to the inclement weather. They will take place on Monday at the 11 o’clock drill period. Three cadets will represent each company in the last of the elimination series. The contest is based on the work of the school of a soldier. Forensic League to Meet A meeting of the Oregon Women’s Forensic league will be held Mbnday afternoon in Professor R. W. Pres cott’s room in Johnson hall. Local Backs Nearly Score In First Quarter BALL WORKED TO W. S. C. 2 YARD LINE BUT IS LOST Battered Condition of Varsity Men Tells In Last Period; Score Conies In Third (By Herman Lind) Portland, Ore., Nov. 8,—W. 8. C. defeated Oregon this afternoon 7" to 0 in one of the hardest battles seen here in years. A costly fumble on Oregon’s twenty-five yard line In the third quarter was largely re sponsible for defeat. Courgars re covered and took the ball straight through for a touchdown. Oregon rushed Washington State off their feet in the first quarter. Passes and line bucks brought a halt at the three yard line, but Washington's line held for downs. This was Oregon’s best chance to score. Both teams were strong on offense and were very evenly matched. Hunt ington, Steers and Jacobberger were very strong In the backfield and Bartlett and Williams were very ef fective on the line. Oregon rallied in the last quarter with Skeet Manerud at quarter but a .pass intercepted ended the Var sity’s chances. Oregon rooters ser pentined behind and all through Port land after the game with the slogan “Bring on the Aggies.’’ First Quarter Washington won the toss, choos ing the northern goal. Steers kicked 40 yards to Jennings, who returned the ball 12 yards. Jennings went through the line for one yard but on his second attempt fumbled, being thrown for a three-yard loss. Skaddan made three yards around hight end, but was hurt and replaced by Mclvor. Jennings punted 40 yards to Steers who returned the ball 10 yards> carrying it to the center of the field. Steers followed through the same hole on the next down, making three yards. Hunting ton completed the yardage by a gain around the left end. Three yards were made on the next down, Hunt ington following by a live-yard gain through center. Steers failed to gain on a Jab at right tackle but Jacob berger circled the right end on a crisscross play for seven yards, car rying the ball to Washington’s 15 yard line. Oregon, by a succession of line bucks carried the ball to W. S. C's two-yard line, where Steers was held on the fourth down. Jennings punted. Oregon tried a series of line bucks with small gains. A pass from Steers to Brandenberg failed to connect. W. S. C. was pen alized for being offside. Jacob berger hit a hole between right tackle and end for four yards. A pass from Steers to Huntington brought a six yard gain. On the third down a pass from Steers to Jacobberger made 11 yards. Huntington made yardage through left tackle, and Steeds plung ed through center for six yards. On (Continued on page 3)