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Emerald EUGENE, OREGON. SATURDAY. RECEMBER 13. 1919 NUMBER 29 THOMAS G.HENDRICKS UNIVERSITY’S GREAT BENEFACTOR IS DEAD Man Helped Raise First Stock of Union University Association HALL WAS NAMED FOR HIM Women’s Dormitory is Monument to His Connection With Institution Thomas G- Hendricks, father of the University, member of the first board of regents, for twenty-four years chairman of the executive committee of that body, inspiration for the naming of Hendricks hall, the monument to his connection with the institution, and perhaps the best known man in this part of the state, died at his home in Eugene yester day morning, at the age of 81 years. It was principally through the ef forts of this man that the Univer sity of Oregon came into being, for it was his sacrifice of time and money that raised the $50,000 capital stock of the Union University associ ation in 1873 and 1874. This money purchased the first site and paid for the construction of Deady hall before the state took the institution over. Great Friend Gone. “In the death of Mr. Hendricks the University has lost a great friend,” said Dean John Straub, who came to the campus two years after the opening of the school upon the persuasion of Mr. Hendricks, whom he met in Portland in 1878. “He used to go out and solicit the farmers for money to pay the first teachers Oregon ever had and when the farm ers had no cash to turn over he would bring in a cow or load of wheat and sell it, turning the money in for the teacher’s Saturday payroll. He frequently advanced money to the University and took his chances on getting it back. I consider his death a great personal loss, for he and I were the oldest friends of the school and we often got together > to talk over the ways in which we could advance its welfare- Mr. Hen dricks was a loyal friend and a splendid generous hearted man.” Founder of Bank. Mr. Hendricks was a retired bank er and capitalist, having founded the First National Bank of Eugene He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Richard Shore Smith and Mrs. Ruby Goodrich; three broth ers, Albert M. and Elijah Hendricks of this city, M. L. Hendricks of Woodburn, and one sister, Mrs. Frank Close of Eugene. Of all his activities the ones which he was proudest of were his con nections with educational advance ment. He had been associated with practically every branch of school work in the county. For six years, 1872 to 1878, he served in the ca pacity of county superintendent of public instruction and inaugurated the practice of personal inspection of the schools. The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon from the Gordon and Veatch chapel U. INFIRMARY MAY CEOSE Repairs Planned—Dr. Sawyer May be Reached by Telephone Unless a bed case or held-over cases develope, the university infirm ary will close during the Christmas vacation. Dr. E. L. Sawyer, univer sity physician, states that he will j be on hand to give treatment should the infirmary close or that.he will j call on the patient by appointment if 1314 is called on the telephone. The reason given for closing the infirmary, if possible, is to make some repairs so as to be ready for the winter term. Last month over 600 reported for threatment at the infirmary. Dr. Sawyer points out this indication of the extent that the students are using the infirmary. ' FRIEND OF UNIVERSITY; MEMBER FIRST BOARD OF REGENTS WHO IS DEAD Thomas G. Hendricks. DR. EDMONDSON DEIS POSITION IN HONOLULU PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY AC CEPTS $5000 SALARY AS RE SEARCH PROFESSOR Dr. Charles H. Edmondson, profes sor of zoology at the University, will leave to take charge of research work of the College of Hawaii and to be the curator of the aquarium there, ac cording to word received from the president’s office Wednesday aftei" noon. Dr. Edmondson, who is con sidered one of the foremost authori ties in the United States on protozoa, a science dealing with the original forms of life, is one of the leading men of the science department of the University. He came to the Univer sity about six years ago, after having finished a course at the University of Iowa, where he received his Ph. D. and - M. A. degrees. During the war Dr. Edmondson was appointed by the Board of Fisheries to investigate undeveloped food possibil ities on the Pacific Coast, which re sulted in the gathering of data which will be publislied in book form, ac cording to Dr. Edmondson. The Hawaiian college contains about 200 students, but its aquarium is one of the greatest in existence. A salary of $5000 in place of the $2100 he is now receiving is one of the chief reasons for his departure. BALL SCHEDULED FOR CHRISTMAS VACATION Students to Dance in Multnomah Hotel, Portland, Dec. 29, for Woman’s Building Fund All college students who will be in Portland for the holidays are invited to attend the Christmas college ball which will be held in Portland on Monday, December 29. The ball will be given in one of the two ballrooms of the Hotel Multnomah, which is being donated for the occasion by the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club. It will be a benefit for the Women’s Building fund of the University of Oregon, and is being arranged by the Portland alumni of Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Phi and Chi Omega. Tickets will be 75 cents a person and two of the best orchestras in Portland have been engaged to fur nish the music. Stunts will be put on by the four northwestern colleges and a prize will be given for the best. College songs will be sung between dances by the Multnomah club quar tet. Stunts will be put on by Pullman, University of Washington, Reed Col lege, O.A.C. and University of Oregon. The student body presidents of these colleges have been asked to appoint committees to make the dance known to their students who will be* in Portland on the 29th. The dance will be attended by a number of rush ing parties and will be a big get-to gether event for all northwestern col lege folk. CAMPAIGNERS FORGE ! AHEAD WITH STRATEGY OF COMING CANVASS Mrs. Gerlinger Marshals Forces for Big Holiday Effort to Gather Funds DRIVE SUCCESS FORECAST Eastern Oregonians and Portlanders Meet to Formulate Plans of Coming Harvest Although Mrs. George T. Gerlinger arrived in Eugene a few minutes too late to address the stndent body meet ing on Thursday, she nevertheless ap peared before three different student gatherings that day in behalf of the Women’s building campaign. At 4 o’clock she spoke at a meeting of the Greater Oregon committee in Guild hall; at 5 o’clock she addressed the Women’s league in Villard, and at 8:30 met with the eastern Oregon stu dents in the Y. M. hut. While speaking to the Greater Ore gon committee, Mrs. Gerlinger ac knowledged her appreciation of the action of the students in initiating a drive to complete the building at this time. “It is a very opportune mo ment,” she declared, “and the added support is coming just at the time when most needed.” The $30,000 must be in the hands of the University by January 1, 1921, she explained, in or der to comply with the conditions under which the state’s appropriation was made. The enlisting of the Uni versity’s 1600 students in the drive will give it new life and enthusiasm, and leave the issue no longer in doubt. Building Provides for Men Mrs. Gerlinger explained the plans of the building in detail during the course of her talk. In addition to providing a girls’ gymnasium, the new building will also be utilized for the women’s physical education class room. There will be an alumni room, and social rooms which as meeting places will add to the comfort of the men of the University as well as the women. She explained the conditions which prevented the state legislature (from providing sufficient funds to complete the building at the time the appropriation was made, and praised (Continued on page 2) OREGON DELEGATION TO DES MOINES WILL LEAVE DECEMBER 28 Final Plans for Attending Stu dent Volunteer Convention Made by Committee MAY HAVE SPECIAL CAR “Stan” Anderson and Don Newbury Unable to go—Coal Shortage Increases Expenses With the snow stilf “knee deep" and no signs of a thaw, the 15 student volunteers to the World Student con ference meeting in Des Moines are facing the situation and preparing to leave for the frozen East on Decem ber 28. The possibilities for Oregon’s being represented at the convention have lately been most uncertain on account of the coal shortage and the blockades on the railroads but Johnny Houston, delegation leader and business man ager, is now sure of transportation for the delegates. Rates on the railroads have been obtained. As yet it is not certain whether a special car will be furnished, leaving from Portland, or not, but if possible such accommoda tion will be made. The party will go over the Union Pacific route, and fare and one-third rates have been made possible. Accompanying the thirteen students from the University will be Miss Urith Dailey of the Y. W. C. A. and Profes sor Joseph Schafer of the faculty, who is also attending the convention of the American Historical society in Cleveland during the holidays. Dean Elizabeth Pox will be unable to at tend the convention with the Univer sity delegates because of her trip as chaperone with the Girls’ Glee club to southern Oregon during the vacation period. Two More to Be Named The approximate list of the stu dents who will attend the Des Moines convention is: Louise Davis, Mabyl Weller, Ethel Wakefield, John Gam ble, John Houston. Ella Rawlings. Ruth Flegal, Eleanor Spall, Wayne Akefs, Mildred Weeks and Hobart Belknap. Two others who have not yet been chosen will join the party. (Continued on page 2.) Oregon Congressman, After Viewing Numerous Games, Writes Interesting Treatise; Casey, of Harvard, Fleet But Not Great Star by c. n. “pat” McArthur, ’01 (Representative in Congress from the Third Oregon district. Mr. Mc Arthur was editor of the first publication of the University—the Ore gon Weekly, in 1900 WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4— (To the Emerald)—“During my col lege days at the University of Ore gon and for a dozen years thereafter when I kept in close touch with the games on the Pacific coast, I was led to believe that the east and middle west were playing superior football and this was undobtedly true at that time. Conditions have changed, however, and when we contemplate modern football, we no longer think exculsively of Yale, Harvard and Princeton, but must include Colgate, Syracuse, Penn State and a host of others in the east, as well as strong teams of the middle-west and Pacific slope. In the old days of “five yards in three downs” and mass plays through the line, the big college with its big enrollment and wealth of football material usually won the championships and the “little fel lows” didn’t count. Today, thanks to the forward pass, the general open character of the game and the pre mium placed on speed and skill, the small colleges have come into their own. Colgate and West Virginia are examples of what small colleges can do on the gridiron when they possess the right kind of spirit. “The season just closed offered my first opportunity to se my first eastern football and 1 was fortunate in witnessing the following games: “Navy vs. Georgetown, Nov. 8 “Penn vs. Pitt, Nov. 15. “Yale vs. Harvard, Nov- 23. “Army vs. Navy, Nov. 29 “It needless to say that I looked forward very eagerly to these events for I had seen a number of big games in the Pacific northwest dur ing the season of 1916—the last pre war football season—and was natur ally anxious to compare Oregon, Oregon Aggies, Washington and Washington State with the crack teams of the east. I had heard num erous alibis for the defeat of Brown and Pennsylvania by Washington State and Oregon in the great games at Pasadena and my friends from (Continued on page 6.) CROWN, NO! WITH HOPE OF OREGON COACHING STAFF EXPANDED FOR GAME Oregon will not be without a • complete coaching staff when • practice is taken up in earnest • in Pasadena next week. Coach • Huntington has been in com- • munication with a number of • former Oregon stars, nad it is • certain that a staff of at least • a half dozen men will be in the • southern city to aid in down- • ing the Crimson. • Johnnie Beckett, who is still • a member of the marines, is • stationed in San Francisco, and • will join the squad at that place • if it is possible for him to get • away. “Brick” Mitchell, who • has been coaching the Stanford • freshmen this year, has also • been asked to join the team at • San Francisco. • Several letters have been sent • out by Manager McClain and as • few replies have come in as yet • it is doubtful who will make up • the rest of the staff. • Oregon is leaving nothing un- • done in preparing for the Har- • vard game. It is Oregon’s sec- • ond chance to show that she is • among the best of the world • and if a victory can be achieved • the second time, the lootball • world will realize more than • ever that the west is not the • region between the Appalachi- • ans and the Mississippi. • STUDENTS WILL SING IN CANTATA SUNDAY Leland A. Coon, of School of Music, to Direct “The Christ Child”— Thirty in Chorus “The Christ Child,” a cantata in two parts, by C. B. Hawley, under the direction of Leland A. Coon, of the university school of music, will compose the greater part of the service at the Methodist church next Sunday, December 14, at 7:30 p. m. Curtiss Peterson, baritone, and George P. Hopkins, tenor, of the uni versity school of music, are listed among the soloists. Mrs. Ben Wil liams, soprano, Miss Beulah Keagy, soprano, and Miss Vera Shaver, con tralto, all former students of the university, compose the remainder of the soloists and will be assisted by a chorus of over thirty voices. A brass quartet will also play during the services. Mr. Coon, who is directing the cantata, is organist and choir mas ter of the Methodist church. Forty five minutes is required for the can tata, and all university and towns people have been invited to attend. WALTER CHURCH WINS $100 Forme*- Student Solves Staircase Pro belm at Boston Tech. Walter Church, son of Mrs. P. L. Campbell, has just been awarded a one hundred dollar prize for the best solution to a staircase problem which was offered by the Massachu setts Institute of Technology in Bos ton, where he is completing his architectural course. TRIPLE A TO MEET DEC. 16 Christmas Activities to be Planned— Freshmen Urged to Attend Plans for Christmas activities are to be discussed at a meeting of the Triple A to be held in Villard hall Tuesday evening, December 16, from 5 to 6 o’clock. It will probably be planned to distribute baskets, since none were given Thanksgiving. So cial events are also to be decided upon- All freshmen girls are urged to be present. Oregon Eleven Will Leave Dec. 19 for Movieland “SHY” HOPES TO TAKE TWO FULL ELEVENS Graduate Coaches Will Help Mold Lemon-Yellow Into Winning Form BY HERMAN LIND “The twain will meet,” despite Kipling’s avowal to the eternal un approachability of east and west. Heretofore east has been east and west has been west on the gridiron, except for the rare occasions when Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Brown and the Oregon Aggies ' sought new worlds to conquer far from their na tive heaths. But these contests, memorable as they were, never held the signifi cance of the coming battle Harvard is the autocrat of the east in foot ball and scholastically. Her accept ance of the challenge may seem al most condescension, but in reality it shows her rising in wrath to de fend her proud title, so adaciously threatened by the upstart elevens of the Pacific slope. No, she comes not to conquer new fields, but to defend her crown against the pre tenders of the west. Game Marks New Epoch. If some one had made the state ment a few years ago that the Uni versity of Oregon would meet Har vard’s football team in 1920, he would have been put in the class Charles Chaplin, and the man who said that Germany would win the war.. To think that the greatest football in stitution of the world would meet a team representing a state which, according to Frank Branch Riley, most New Englanders believe is across some bay from the Philip pines seemed absurd at that time, and had it not been for the aggressive ness of the west such a clash would never have been arranged. It re mained for the people of Pasadena, Calif., to make it possible for re nowned Harvard to leave her own back yard and pit her strength against the strongest but least known football aggregation from an easterner’s standpoint. But nevertheless this is just what happened and was evidenced in the telegram received by President Campbell a few days ago from the Pasadena board of control. Just what chance the varsity has with the eastern eleven is very hard to determine because of the fact that no western team has met an eastern one this season- The strength of the west has been shown in past intersectional contests, it is true, but Harvard has shown her superiority during the season by winning six contests and tieing one against some of the strongest ag gregate nof the east. Kincaid Deep With Snow. A novel experience confronted the members of Coach “Shy” Hunting ton s squad when news arrived that Oregon had been picked as the “best of the west.” Kincaid field was covered wit | a seven-inch coat of snow, so practice has been held the past three days on a white gridiron, something that has not been done in Engene for year. However, a little thing like snow does not matter to Trainer “Bill” Hayward who, when asked if he could get the men in condition, assured the Oregon followers that he could, snow or no snow. But New Yea^ day, the varsity team should be in better shape than they have been at any time this (Continued on page 5)