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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1919)
OREGON EMERALD Official student body paper of the University of Oregon, published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the college year by the Associated Students. , Entered in the postofflce at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates $1.60 per year. Single copies 6c. Advertising rates upon request. Edited by LEITH F. ABBOTT Associate Editor DOROTHY DUNIWAY News Editor LYLE BRYSON Assistant News Editor NELL WARWICK Managing Editor HARRY A SMITH Sports Editor Herman Lind Assistants Alexander Brown, Raymond Lawrence Women's Editors Adelaide Lake Louise Davis Feature Writers Paul Farrington, Pierce Cumings Reporters J. Jacobson, Earle Rlrchardson, Velma Rupert, Charles Gratke, Eleanor Spall, John Houston, Stanley Eisman, Anna may Bronough, Eunice Zimmerman, Frances Quissenberry, Pauline Coa*d, Floyd Maxwell. Proof Readers Arvo Simola Maybelle Leavitt Business Manager LEE HULBERT Advertising Manager Warren Kays Assistants Alta Kelly, Dan Welsh, Larry Grey, Ruth Nash, John Newhall, Charles Hayter. Circulation Elston Ireland PHONE8 Editor . 660 Manager . 666 Campus office . 666 Down town office .1316 THE METRIC SYSTEM The faculty of the University of Oregon Thursday passed a resolution recommending to congress the adop tion of the metric system of men suration, placing itself in lino with one of the most progressive move ments in the field of American in dustry. Motrics are based upon the deci mal system and are as superior to the present British system as the American monetary standard is to the English reckoning by shillings and pounds, its simplicity makes un necessary the reduction of feet to inches by lengthy division and cubic j yards to gallons by slide rule cal culations. When metrics are used all that is necessary is to move the decimal point. The adoption in the I'nitod States of the metric system would of ne cessity be a slow process, but a law of congress setting it. as the official American standard, would lay the foundation for what would ultimately give the country a, system of men suration vastly superior io the one now m vogue. CAMPUS CALI NUAR Monday 4:o0 p.m- Debate meeting in Pro Lessor Prescott's room. Tuesday 9:30 a.m. -Assembly In Villurd ball. J 10:30 a.m—Down town celebration. 1:00 p.m.- Parade starting from Ar mory. 3:00 p.m.—Speeches In Armory, 3:00 p.m. Football game between K H. S. ami Franklin higb school on Kincaid field. 8:00 p.m.- Dunce In Armory, Wednesday 8:00 p.m Student council meeting. Thursday 5:00 p.m Women's league meeting 7:15 p.m Homecoming meeting. l>r.| Gilbert's room. ' VERSE MO WORSE By W. F. Plus Be Be. .. Too True Good-bye to dear old brake beam, Don’t ride them, Prexy said, I warn you not to beat thy way, You can’t root when you’re dead. And many rooters we will need, But cripples are “taboo.” What if the freight would jump the track And kill a man or two? So heed ye to my wise advice, Just think how mussed you’d feel To have the engineer slow up. And scrape you off the wheel. • * * The squirrels about the camuus frisk, They live on nuts, ’tis said. These kernels rare are everywhere Each a green cap on his head. * * • The Rally A rooster broke the silence, The day was drawing near; When all at once the old alarm Starts clanging in my ear. The downy sheets I had to leave, I knew that was no dream; We must arise at this small hour To 'give a sendoff to the team. Around me on the sleeping porch Were noises quite amusing; Some men were snoring oskies, Yes, everyone was snoozing. I’m Just a freshman, as you know, It fell my lot to wake ’em; We had to see the warriors off So round I went to shake ’em. Oh, sleep you are a gentle thing, But waking up is—well, Just what the fellows called me I sure will never tell. At last I got the rooters up; The zang was surely there. They grab a bite of cornflakes, Then to the station tear. Need I say that the sendoff Was heard for miles around. With noisy noise the football men Were oskled out of town. --- Bashful Bertram says: “1 agree with DeWitt Gilbert's Winuagin when he said, ‘You can take u boy off tin' farm but you can’t take the farm iff the hoy.’ We'll know you Aggies!” * * * ■ Speaking of (). A. (\ we understand that it is called a Cow College by many. That may be all right but some of them are going to look pretty sheepish alter Nov, 15. • * • And still further concerning our "sister" institution. O. A. C's prize cows may be great but they do not compare with the Steers id’ Oregon. EXTENSION WORK GROWS 1450 Enrolled in the Portland Center •—53 Courses Offered The 1'ortlanU router of the exten sion division of the University of Oregon Iws enrolled up until Novem ber t. 1450 persons. They are divid ed pretty evenly among the 53 courses offered. The courses are classed under three general heads, liberal arts, com merce and social service, the most popular classes being those of foreign trade, ' commercial Spanish, ethical evolution, short story and principals of accounting. Early Hours Fail to Dampen Spirits of Oregon Rooters To him who, in his love of rallies, forsakes the Ostermoor and accom panies the team to the train e’er it is yet light, Friday morning’s dem onstration at the 7:25 Oregon Elec tric when the University squad de parted for its clash with W. S. C. at Portland, was indeed a Joy. It was some rally. Led by the 33 piece University hand, hundreds of Oregon men and women—showing it —made their way to the depot and under the sped of Slim Crandall’s leadership gave the team one of the best send-offs ever seen in Eugene— at least at that time in the morning. There were women there—lots of them—but it is said that at some places along the course to town short rallies were held for those who rallied—that occasionally some co-ed who apparently had no Big Ben or anything, would shove an enthusiastic head from her window and voice her approval of the demonstration—e’er she returned to bed. Nearly 300 students were passen gers on the special train which left the Southern Pacific station yester afternoon at 1:30. And there were a great many who took later and ear lier trains. Most everybody’s in Portland. Bohunk Special Rests On Siding; Rooters Miss Game “There’s many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip.” The truth of this old adage will be vouched for by a number of University men. Depleted pocketbooks, coupled with a desire to see the Oregon-Washington Ag bat tle at Portland this afternoon^ led a group of students to board an out going freight early Friday morning. Under coyer of darkness the men thickly populated three lumber cars. All went fine and many of the men fell asleep with memories of “a pen ny saved is a penny earned” easing the roughness of their private cars. Not long after the Journey started —about five miles out of Eugene— the train stopped. The engine un coupled, the train broke up and cars switched about. Many of our friends, the newly dubbed “knights of | the road,” were asleep and those who were awake did not notice the man-| oeuvres of the locomotive. It was not until a few minutes later' when the toot of the engine coupled with sounds of a moving train, to gether with the immobility of the cars they were resting on, brought the men to their senses They quickly assembled from their various perches on the cars ana looked about at their surroundings. The lumber cars on which they had been riding now .rested on the side, track of a small hamlet. The rear light, of the caboose on the freight train twinkled a merry goodnight to the dumbfounded studes, as the train swung around a bend far down the track. Well to make a long story short, the men only had to walk seven miles back to Eugene while old Jupe Pluvius sent down his blessings in the form of copious quantities of moisture. SMYTHE TEACHES 150 ■ U of O. Graduate Instructs Geology Freshmen at Cornell Donald DeCou Smytlie, a nephew of Professor DeCou and a geology Honor student in last year's graduat ing class, is now in lthica. New’ York, where he is an instructor in econ omic geology at Cornell. He said in a recent letter to his uncle that he has charge of 150 freshmen in classes and laboratories. The remainder of his time is devoted to graduate study of geology, especially engineering geology. llis wife, formerly Miss Krma Zimmerman, a graduate of the University in 1919, is also in New York. THE CLUB CIGAR STORE Billiards and Pool. Show Your Oregon Spirit The Third Red Cross Membership Roll Call is on this week* No Students of the University need be told about this great relief organization* The Red Cross is cvcrybodys friend, the world needs its work, in peace as well as in war. You are doing your duty to humanity when you Join The Red Cross Do not wait to be solicited Look up the Red Cross representatide in your home or see Miss Dailey at the Y* W. Bunglow, and get in line V Your Dollar Will Help! Join! (Dsburn FAVORITE RESORT OF STUDENTS ! Dinner Dances -□ Teas and Banquets a Specialty — - - - — ~ Eggiman’s SOLICITS YOUR TRADE FOR THE COMING COLLEGE YEAR. Eggiman’s SPRINGFIELD, ORE. -$ Patronize Emerald advertisers. Send the Emerald home. Patronize Emerald advertisers. 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