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Oregon VOLUME 21 EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, Emerald DECEMBER 6. 1919 NUMBER 26 OREGON AWAITS DECISION FROM PASADENA MEN Late Reports This Afternoon Say Committee Still Silent FINAL DECISION EXPECTED WITHIN A FEW HOURS Shy’s Men Favorites — All Oregon and California Supporting Lemon-Yellow No official selection of a Pacific coast football team to represent the west against Harvard university in Pasadena, New Year’s day, had been made by the Tournament of Roses committe, acording to all wire dis patches received in Eugene up to the time that the Emerald went to press late this afternoon. The latest wire report received said that the committee was in ses sion today and that it was expected that an official selection would be made before many hours. The campus went wild with en thusiasm and a real celebration near ly materialized last night following the published report that the Tour nament of Roses committee at Pas adena had selected the University of Oregon eleven to represent the West. The report, a dispatch from Los Angeles, was premature, according to a later report that was received 'in Eugene from Pasadena via the ^Associated Press at 11 o’clock- The ^Associated Press dispatch stated that the committee was in session last -night, but that no official selection had been made. All reports say that every indica tion points to the selection of the University of Oregon team, but no authentic selection has been made. All Oregon is still anxiously await ing the decision as to which eleven will meet Hravard in the southern city on New Year’s day. Word has been expected for the past three days, but evidently the board of control is having no easy task in making its decision. That Harvard will be the eastern representative is now certain. Word was received from the easterners yesterday that the Harvard dean of athletics had consented to the team’s playing the game. Southern California Helps. Graduate Manager Marion F. Mc Clain received telegram yesterday from the student body of the Uni versity of Southern California stat ing that that institution is backing Oregon to play the greatest contest of the year in Pasadena. Whether this means that the southern insti tution has given up all hope of being chosen is doubtful, but the spir it of the telegram indicated that such is the case. Word was also forwarded by an Associated Press dispatch yesterday that Oregon seems to be the favor ite with the committee. The fipal decision was to have been made ? yesterday, but as yet nothing has jcome to the Oregon authorities. Team to Get Rest. The varsity has completely dropped football for the year and if Oregon is chosen to play, Coach “Shy” | Huntington will allow his winners to rest until next week, as he be lieves his crew is deserving of a “layoff” for a week or more. Should practice begin again, the men will be in betted condition than at any time during the year. With three weeks of scrimmage and signal work, the aggregation should be strong enough to meet the best in the country. It is possible that the Harvard | team may be unable to come west, i If the fuel shortage continues the railroad administration may request the cancellation of the trip, acording to eastern dispatches received yester day. 13 STUDENTS NOW OUT FOR HIGHEST HONOR Seniors Only Have Till December 19 in Which to File Appli cations To date, there are 13 candidates for honors, nine senior and four juniors. The seniors have only the remainder of the fall term in which to make applications, and the juniors the rest of the year. Carl ton Spencer, registrar, puts stress on the fact that one honor student in a fraternity brings the house average up five points satisfactory while a candidate for honors adds six. Seniors listed for honors are: Newton C. Bader, sociology; Frank lin E. Folts, Ray Kinney, Philip W. Janfey, commerce; Marjorie Kay, economics; Lucile Morrow, Lucile Redmond, Irva Smith, English lit erature; Marcus O’Day, physics. The juniors are: Frank Palmer and Irene Whitfield, English liter ature. PROFS. fO MAKE MERRY Faculty Track Meet and Jollification to be Held Dec. 12 A trackmeet and general jambor ee will be featured at the faculty payty to be held next Friday night in the men’s gymnasium- Headed by the most dignified professors, the instructors will be divided al phabetically into four groups, each of which will endeavor to beat the other three. Special attention to coaching and conditioning the faculty ath letes is being given by “Shy” Hunt ington and “Bill” Hayward. Re lay races, “three-deep,” and “mis ical chairs” will be among the events, and a pre-Christmas rush for liniment is expected. Y. W. TO HOLD BAZAAR Christmas Sale of Japanese Stock to Be Conducted in Bungalow A Japanese Christmas Bazaar is to be conducted by the Y. W. C. A. in the bungalow from 2:30 to 5:30 o'clock every afternoon, next week, from Wednesday to Friday inclusive': Among the pretty things to be sold are Japanese stationery, lunch cloths, incense burners, place cards, purses and Japanese prints. All articles are of Japanese stock, and no articles to be sold above a dollar. The Y. W. finance committee, with Miss Evelyn Smith, chairman, is to have charge of the shop, and every one is invited to come to the bun galow and and look over the Christ mas goods. BAND ROOM IS OUTFITTED R. O. T. C. Barracks Adds Building for Instruments The Company E class room and band room which are being outfitted in the small building to the east of the R. 0. T. C. barracks are practically completed. Rifle racks are yet to be installed in the Com pany E room and lockers are to be built for the members of the band. The rooms will be used for storing the men’s individual equipment and for calss work when the inclement weather makes drill impossible. R. O. T. C. Pictures Taken. Pictures for the R. O. T. C. com panies for publication in the Oregana were taken yesterday for the second time. The first set, taken two weeks ago, did not turn out good enough for publication. Pictures of the band, machine gun squad and auto matic rifle squad will be taken at a later date Columbia Chooses Chess Teams. Columbia University has selected seven men as a result of tryouts who will represent the school in the regular tournament of chess with Yale, Princeton and Harvard. BULLETIN. At Corvallis: Oregon Socter Team .1 A. O. C.-.1 DOUGHNUT LEAGUE DEBATE SERIES EOR MEN OPENS TUESDAY Varsity Speakers Barred From Participation in Contests A. T. 0. TEAM WITHDRAWN Question Concerns Application of Chinese Exclusion Act to All Immigration Teams have been selected and judges chosen for the men’s dough nut debating series which will open for the first round on Tuesday of next week. The second round will be held the following evening. At a meeting of the men’s forensic council held yesterday afternoon in Professor Prescott’s room in John son hall all varsity squad and let ter men were declared ineligible for participation in the doughnut series by a ruling of the council, following a heated discussion by representatives of several of the teams. Friendly hall lost three delegates by this ruling, Carlton Savage, Remey Cox, and Elmer Pendell were eliminated from the doughnut team. The Owls lost Donald Davis. The Alpha Tau Omegas dropped out of the series entirely as a re sult of the ruling of the council, losing two of their debaters, Er nest Nail and Ernest Crockatt. Ten Minutes for Speeches. The thirteen men’s houses will make a complete round on each night and the three highest teams in the series will debate for the championship of the men’s houses some time before the thirteenth of this month. Each speaker will be allowed ten minutes for his speech and four minutes for re buttal. The same judges will judge the debates on the second night in the same rooms. The debates for the second night will be made from the results of the first night’s ser ies. One point will be allowed for the vote of each judge and one for the decision in deciding the winner in each contest, making it possible for the winning team to get eight points in the two series. The question selected for dis cussion is, “Resolved, that the prin ciples of the Chinese Exclusion Act should be applied to all immi gration into the United States for; a period of not less than than five years. The places where each con test will be held, judges, coaches, and members of the teams repren senting each house is as follows: Tuesday Evening Schedule. Schedule for men’s doughnut series, Tuesday evening, 8 o’clock: (1) Friendly Hall affirmative (Continued on page 2.) CUT SYSTEM CHANGE BRINGS DIFFERENCES IN OREGON OPINION Registrar Says Students Do Not Understand How New Plan Operates CRITICISM IS EXPRESSED Undergraduates Dislike Cumulative Idea and Inability to See Record in Office Differences of opinion between fac ulty and students over the existing cut system have been brought to the front by the recent discussion in a joint meeting between the faculty committee on absences and a special committee of the student council. Lack of understanding of the new system on the part of the students is alleged by the registrar. The dissatisfaction amfing the stu dents is due to the fact that they do not understand the system,” said Carleton Spencer, registrar, in dis cussing the meeting, "and also due to the fact that they are careless in making a record of their absences. A student, when he has been absent, knows he has to be excused within 30 days or not at all, and knows he has to be able to make out a petition to be excused.” As the system now exists every ten absences take off one term hour of credit at the end of the term. Ab sences are cumulative from term to term but not from year to year. If a student is absent 20 per cent of the time in any class he is barred from examination in that subject, unless he can show all but 10 per cent of the absences were caused by illness. How System Works “Every instructor has a blank on which he records each day all the ab sences for that day. These blanks go into the registrar’s office and the cuts are charged to the student. In order to be excused from a cut it is necessary for the student to go dir ectly to the dean, the men to the dean of men and the women to the dean of women, with whom the power to ex cuse cuts rests. If the excuse is con sidered sufficient the blank will be signed by the dean. This gops to the registrar’s office where the cuts are marked off the record and no longer count against the student. The exact date of the absence must be specified on the blank and it is necessary that the student himself keep a record of this date, since the registrar’s records are not open to him. All petitions for removal of cuts must be made within 30 days of the absence. Illness of the student himself, or illness or death in his family are considered legitimate excuses for absence. The reason that the records of cuts are not available to the students, ac cording to Mr. Spencer, are that the records are in constant use by the clerk recording them. It was felt that a blank form filled out daily by the instructors would establish a more (Concluded from page 2.) “Skinny” Newton Reverently Bows if ifififififififK,^>*' When Empire Of Japan Goes By “My, but some University literature ; would look good!” says Harold New I ton, formerly of La Grande, and gra i duate of the University of Oregon school of journalism, ’19, in a post j script to a letter recently received i from him. Newton is now teaching j English in a college at Osaka, Japan. 1 In telling of a recent experience in ! which he say the royalty of Japan, i Newton writes: | “Yesterday I saw the emperor and the crown prince. It cost me and my foreign friend considerable trouble to ; get a peep at them, but they were 1 good peeps, because we could easily have reached out and touched the j emperor with our canes. Yes, you may as well be told now that I carry j a cane. ! “We made our way to a small vil ) lage near where the emperor review ; ed a division of the Japanese army. It took about five seconds to write | that sentence, but it took hours going I to and from that village. We paced I the streets of the town, and I am quite [sure that we were the only foreigners there. About noon the police began clearing one of the narrow streets of all the populace present. Then street cleaners began fixing the surface of the road just so. It was up to my friend and me to wander around the by-ways seeking a bite to eat. We found nothing, but the wandering was plenty. Finally we caine across some schoolboys and luckily we were in vited by one of their instructors to “follow the gang.” The result came after two hours of waiting when an officer yelled “Hats off!” and the 18 year-old crown prince rode by on horseback. No shouting was allowed; we bowed our heads. I bowed so blamed low I didn’t get a look at the prince until after he had passed on a few yards. “The emperor, riding in a carriage, came along 15 minutes later. My companion and 1 decided not to bow so low this time. As the imperial (Continued on page 4) REPRESENTATIVES OF COAST DISTRICT MEET Greater Oregon Committee to Plan Benefit Dance in Marshfield For Holidays The members of the Greater Ore gon committee who represent the towns in the coast district are asked to meet Tuesday evening at 7:15 at the Pi Beta Phi house. The meeting is being called by Nell Warwick, dis trict chairman of the coast region, for the purpose of further organi zation of the towns in her district for carrying on the campaign for $30,000 for the women’s building during the Christmas holiday season The towns in her district are Marsh field, Bandon, Coquille, Myrtle Point, North Bend, Newport and Tillamook. A dance is scheduled to be given in Marshfield during the holidays for the benfit of the fund, and oth ers will be arranged. Miss Warwick is impressing on her workers, how ever, that it will be the personal! solicitation by each Oregon student in each community that will make the success of the campaign possi ble. MILITARY BAND LAUDED Twelfth District Bulletin Mentions U. of O. Group Highly I Favorable mention of the R. 0. T. C. band were contained in the News Bulletin of the twelfth mili tary district, for November 24. The Bulletin, which is published in Spo kane, contains a resume of the ac tivities of the R. O. T. C. camps throughout the northwest. The U. of 0. band is ranked among the best of the universities of the twelfth district. Mention of the freshman military efficiency contest which was re-1 cently won by Boyd A. Iseminger, and the inauguration of gallery prac tice with sub-calibre Springfields is made. CHRISTMAS MEETING HELD Y. W. Gathers for Last Time Before Holiday Season The Y. W. C. A. held its last meeting before the Christmas va cation Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock in the bungalow. The Christ mas spirit was carried out in the program and decorations. Dean1 Elizabeth Fox gave a short talk and Miss Martha Findahl of the vocal department gave several mus-; ical selections. Tea was served during the afternoon. The Ivoyoto missionary work was spoken of by Miss Urith Dailey. NON-COMS MADE IN BAND Commandant Baird Promotes Six Cadet Musicians A number of non-commissioned appointments in the R. O. T. C. band company were made Friday by Commandant R. C. Baird. Wal ter Wegner was appointed sergeant and six other cadets were made corporals. Those who drew the latter positions are Claude Kime, Charles C. Hayter, Rex M. Stratter, Thomas F. Prospal, Meryl Deming and Lisle Wise. Glen W. Chandler, Frank Jue and George W. Johnston were ap pointed musicians first class. 'Students’ Activity Compiled A complete record of all students who have been prominent in debate, athletics, and other student activ ities, is being compiled at the Uni versity of Washington, which will act as a permanent record of in formation and press purposes - - - 1 - U. of California Gets Fossils A collection of prehistoric fossils from southern Germany, Italy, and Northern Russia, has been received by the biology department at the University of California. ! • BASKETBALL NOTICE • • Candidates for the Varsity • • basketball team will report for • • practice in the gym at 5 p.m. • • on Monday afternoon. • Win CARL MADE VfIMEI’S BUILDING CHAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN Towns to be Canvassed During Vacation For Funds For New Structure $30,GOO SUM TO BE RAISED Each Student Expected to Return After Christmas With $20 to Add to Fund Wilbur Carl of Portland was ap pointed this morning by Stan Ander son, president of the student body, as general chairman of the cam paign to be 'launched during the Christmas holidays by all the stu dents in the university to raise $30, 000 for the Women’s building fund. He will also retain his place as chairman of the Portland district. The first active Steps toward or ganization for raising the funds to complete the women’s building were taken Thursday evening at a meeting in Guild hall. The movement which is the first united effort of the stu dents to get behind the women’s building and insure the completion of that structure on scheduled time, has in mind th6 enlistment of every student in the university in a state wide campaign and Mr. Carl will have his plans completed soon for the coming campaign. About 150 were at the Guild hall meeting and included members of the Greater Oregon committee, dis trict chairman recently appointed by the student council, and representa tives from the various Oregon towns who are to conduct the work in their communities. Stanfordj Anderson presented the plans of the student council which has general supervi sion over the work. It was ex plained that the general purpose of the meeting was to get the district chairman in touch with workers from their territories and get the work of organization under way. Movement in Students’ Hands. The movement, acording to mem bers of the student council and Greater Oregon committee who are backing it, is entirely one of student initiative, and all plans and details are to bo worked out without faculty assistance. The idea, however, is heartily endorsed by President Camp bell. Plans which are now being elabor orated include placing the matter be fore the business men’s clubs in va rious towns throughout the state by means of student or alumni speakers, giving of dances in some sections, and personal subscriptions of funds by the individual students among their relatives and friends. The minmum set for each student to turn in at the end of the holiday period is $10. Financial matters Explained. Representatives from the various campus organizations met at 4:30 Friday afternoon in Dean Straub’s room and were given an insight into the details so that they might explain them as effectively as pos sible. President Campbell added a few words of encouragement, and explained the reason the total cost of the building has been made by state appropriation. At the time the matter came up before the legisla ture, President Campbell said, funds available for appropriation under the 6 per cent limitation law did not exceed $100,000. The limitation law he explained, prevents any legisla ture from appropriating more than 6 per cent in excess of the total ex penditures of the previous session. Rather than erect an adequate build ing the university has undertaken to provide a similar sum and to this end $70,000 has already been raised. Student Assembly December 11. Growing enthusiasm on the part of those inaugurating the movement is expected to reach its climax with the presentation of the completed plans to the student body at assem bly on December 11. University of Nevada has en rolled 327.