OREGON EMERALD
Official student paper of the Univer
sity of Oregon, published every Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday to the
college year by the Associated Stu
dents.
Entered in the postoffice at Eugene,
Oregon, as second class matter.
Subscription rates $1.60 per year.
By term, $ .60. *
Edited by
LEITH F. ABBOTT
Dorothy Duniway.Associate Editor
Lyle Bryson.-.News Editor
Nell Warwick.Asst. News Editor
Harry A. Smith.Managing Editor
Helen Manning.Dramatic Editor
Mary Ellen Bailey.Society Editor
Sports
Raymond Lawrence Floyd Maxwell
Special Writers
Adelaide V. Lake Louise Davis
Alexander G. Brown
Feature Writers
Paul Farrington
William Bolger Wesley Frater
Reporters
Jacob Jacobson, Earle Richardson,
Ariel Dunn, Charles Gratke,
Eleanor Spall, John Houston, Stan
ley Eisman, Annamay Bronaugh,
Eunice Zimmerman, Frances Quin
senberry, Pauline Coad, Mary Lou
Budton, Ester Fell.
Proof Readers
Arvo Simola Maybelle Leavitt
Frances Blurock
Business Manager
WARREN KAYS
Elston Ireland .Circulation
Albert H. Woertendyke Adv- Mgr.
Assistants
Larry Grey, Ruth Nash, Ray Vester,
Betty Epping, Webster Ruble, Charles
Hayter
The Emerald desires that all sub
scribers set their paper regularly arid
on time. All circulation complaints
should be made to the circulation man
ager. His house phone Is 186._
PHONES
Editor .
Business Manager . »•;■>
Campus Office .
City Office.1310 or 103
THE FRESHMAN DECISION
Members of the freshmen class
deserve commendation for the way
they have handled the fresh cap ques
tion.
Following the passage of a resolu
tion by the student council which
stated that a freshman should be
classified by the months that he has
attended the University of Oregon
instead of the number of hours he
had acquired the freshntan held a
meeting and passed a resolution ask
ing that the student council rescind
its decree.
Yesterday the frosh thought better
of their action and held a meeting
at which the ringleaders for the dis
carding of frosh caps withdrew their
opposition and fell in line with the
majority who felt that they as fresh
men should abide by the student
council’s decision
Ttus snows exceneni spirit unu
good judgment on the part of the first
year students. They will find that
they have made no mistake, and that
their class spirit and their love for
their university will become more
ironclad by such a decision.
In making the resolution the stu
dent council members gave the mat
ter every consideration before they
gave their final decision. The Uni
versity could not be complete with
out a freshman class with freshman
spirit. Dividing the class now would
disrupt tradition, the freshman class,
and University affairs in general. It
is the opinion of many upperelussmtn
that the hours which were awarded to
men returning from military service
should be added to the men’s hours
in his senior year instead of now
forming a foundation to start on.
Unless the men graduate the awarded
hours will be of no value to them.
OUR BUSINESS MANAGER
The Emerald staff regrets the in
ability of Lee Ilulbert to continue
his work as business manager of the
paper, lie has been an untiring work
er for the publication and lias had
the interests of the paper ever upper
most in his mind. Only the fact that
lie must carry an extra heavy sche
dule of University work for the re
maining two terms in order to grad
uato this year, caused him to hand in
his resignation.
The position of business manager
on the Emerald Is equal in import
ance to the highest position on the
staff. The financing of tho paper in
these times of high prices requires
consistent effort and sacrifices every
day.
To our new business manager, War
ren Kays, wo offer our congratula
tions at his choice and assure him
that everyone fels certain that he will
carry on tlie work of his predecessor
in excellent stylo and successfully
guide tlie business end of the Emerald
through this very trying year.
. THE EMERALD AND SUPPORT
Students of Oregon, it is up to you. If you want your student body
paper to continue as it is you can make it possible by subscribing for it
and giving it every ounce of your support in the subscription drive
which will be held Tuesday. If you want the paper to become a semi
weekly publication, decreased in size or suspended, you can make it such
by failing to subscribe for it and letting the call for support go un
heeded.
The system which has been in force for the past many years on the
campus demands that students subscribe voluntarily Instead of auto
matically becoming a subscriber by paying an Emerald tax with regis
tration fees. While it is a fact that every student on the campus reads
the Emerald there are over 600 of them who are not paid subscribers.
Commensurate with this truism stands the fact that the Emerald is
paying a price for printing which is fully 25 per cent over the price paid
last year. Everywhere newspapers are finding the same condition and
are advocating higher advertising rates and smaller papers. Th Emer
ald is no exception and has felt the increased cost of publication.
The Emerald is self-supporting. It gets no financial aid from the
student body. Not a person on the staff from the editor to the lowest
cub reporter receives one cent of pay for his servics on the paper.
Instead every member of the staff makes sacrifices, and big ones too, in
order that the paper can be a success.
Eugene business men are daily finding the value of the Emerald as
an advertising medium, but in a city the size of Eugene with its two
daily papers, high school publications and other University periodicals
demanding advertising it follows that the Emerald cannot get a large
enough share to exist on advertising alone. It must have a subscrip
tion fund to fall back upon in these days when each edition of the paper
costs more than the greatest amount of adverising obtainable can
cover.
Six hundred subscriptions will assure the continuance of the sheet
on its present basis. The staff in launching the subscription drive are
not doing so with the idea of charity in view. If the paper will not
survive on its merits alone it will be suspended. Every student should
be a subscriber. He will get his money’s worth. By asking those
students to subscribe who have not already done so the charity motive
is obliterated. It is simply offering them a chance to come to the aid
of their paper with as much spirit as they support our athletic teams.
Y. M. C. A. CABINET MEETS
Robbins Outlines Program Plans for
Discussion Groups
The first meeting of the Univer
sity Y. M. C. A. cabinet was held
Thursday and the program for this
term was outlined. The cabinet voic
ed its unanimous support to the pro
gram which was presented by Pro
fessor E. C. Robbins of the execu
tive committee. This outline was of
discussion groups on the subjects of
biology, philosophy and psychology
and their relations to practical Chris
tianity. The lectures will be given
by members of the faculty and will
be held in such a way that questions
can be asked. These lectures promise
to be very interesting, and- as soon
as the dates are set, announcements
of the subjects will be made.
The problem of entertainments was
discussed and a commitee appointed
to co-operate with the Y. W. C. A.
to arrange for a social evening. Mis
sion study will begin soon and a
prospectus for the courses will be
given out at the Vesper Service on
Sunday afternoon.
BACHELORDON PLEDGES 4
Bachelordon announces four new
pledges for the quarter, Joe Mizner
of Mill City, Leo Cossman of Cres
well and Paul Patterson and Albert
U. Combes, both of Portland.
East to Meet West in Rifle Meet
The Stanford Rifle club has arrang
ed to meet Harvard in a dual con
test March 30.
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OREGON I11919-20
Gain 58.8 Per Cent Over Last
Year; 656 of Total Are
Freshmen
The University has enrolled for
regular work on the campus at Eu
gene for the year of 1919-1920 a total
of 1725 students with a gain of 54.8
per cent over the registration of the
year 1918-1919, according to a report
just compiled in the registrar’s office.
Of this number 935 students are men
and 790 are women. The registration
for the year 1918-1919 showed that
565 of the students were men and 549
were women, making a total of 1114
students. In these figures the enroll
ment of the medical, music, corres
pondence or summer school students
were not included.
The enrollment of the present year
is distributed as to classes as follows:
The freshman class has 316 men and
341 women, making a total of 657
students; the sophomores have 231
men and 172 women with a total of
403; the junior class has 172 men
and 133 girls, with a total of 305 stu
dents; the senior class has 111 men
and 84 women, with a total number of
195 students. There are 85 men and
46 women, making a total of 131
students who are taking special
work; and 20 men and 14 women, a
total of 34, who are taking graduate
work.
The medical school in Portland has
registered 107 students for the year
1919-1920, a gain of 36 over last year’s
registration. The school of music
has registered 263 students, while 165
were registered last year in that de
partment. The extension division
students have 702 in their department
this year, a gain of 274 students over
last year’s number. There are 316
students enrolled in the correspon
dence school. Thd summer school in
Eugene last summer enrolled 396
students. A total number of these
enrolled in departments other than
the regular academic departments in
Eugene is 2327, of which number 207
are music students who are also list
ed with the regular academic? stu
dents .
A complete total of University stu
dents in all departments is 3845, of
which number 1725 are students in
the regular departments at Eugene,
and 2120 are students in the schools
of music and medicine, summer
school, extension and correspondence
classes.
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