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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1920)
T STUDENTS CHOOSE OWN OUTDOOR SPORT Good Postures At Premium In Gym Department. CAMPUS VISIT IS SHORT Degree Taken at University in Mining Engineering. All freshman women whose posture was luted as correct by the staff of the physical education department are lu have their choice of sports until the com pletion of the new Women’s 'building. Those who do not rate an “A”, will enter regular gymnasium work. This puts a premium on the ability to walk and stand correctly, according to Miss Winslow, in structor in swimming and dancing. . Classes will begin this week in swim ming, folk dancing .elementary aesthetic dancing, hockey, tennis, and canoeing," un der Miss Thomson, Miss Winslow, and Miss Waterman. Student assistants, majors in the department, for this term will be: Ruth Wolff, assistant in swim ming, Ollie Htoltcnberg in gymnastics, and Naomi Robbins in tennis. These girls are seniors in the University and expect upon their graduation to take up work in physical training. Thus far no figures have been com piled comparing the registration with last year. More than two hundred fre,sli med women have completed their phy sical and medical examination, which is a preliminary 'requisite to any gymnasium work. The physical examinations are be ing conducted by Miss Thomson and Miss McAllester, newly elected member of tbo physical education staff. The gymnasium work, until the com pletion of the Women’s building, will consist of sports and darning mainly, owing to lack of floor space. At pres ent, only the indoor gymnasium is avail able and as many classes as possible are being organized which can meet out doors as long as the weather permits. OREGON GRADUATE FINDS 0100,000 MINE Mexican Property Discovered By Smythe for Company. Donald Smythe, a graduate from tin1 University of Oregon in 1919 in the de partment of geology, and at present an instructor at Cornell in engineering-geol ogy, found ia very valuable copper mine in old .Mexico tin's muanjetr. Mr. Smythe was employed this summer by the Phelps-Dodge corporation in then mining department, at Blsbe-e, Arizona. Ills business was to look for mines in Arizona and New Mexico. In a letter wiitteri by Mr. Smyth - or, August 20 to his wife, who was Erma Zimmerman, an 'Oregon graduate, he tells of finding this mine. He had been sent by the Phelps-Dodge company to look for outdrops of ore, and upon coming to this old mine thought it look interesting so investigated it. He says, “I went down the shaft and into drifts where the water was above my waist.” Later he was told that there was a coral snake in the mine but he did not see it. He spent several days looking over the country, sleeping on the ground at night. The jungle was so thick here that it was very hard to discover outcroppings. The mine was in the center of the Taqui coun try, -which region at times during the summer was very dangerous. The mine was recommended to the Phelps-Dodge company who bought it h for $100,000. Mr. Smythe, who is a very brilliant liinn was well known while he was at the University. He is a nephew of Pro fessor E. E. DeCou. During the war he was overseas with the engineers. DEBATERS TOLD TO TRIP Michael Says Ability to Dance and Sing Prevents Stage Fright. Professor Michael of the public speak ing department has warned some mem bers of his class in extempore speaking that he will require every candidate in the debating team to be able to dance and sing. He believes that these things are essential to effective speaking and an antidote for stage fright. The warning came in the course of a discussion when a student nrdentb ad vocated that the football men should he given as many credits for graduation as the debaters. FACULTY D. A. R. ENTERTAIN. The faculty members of the D. A. it entertained the Lewis and Clark chapter at the first meeting of the season this afternoon at the Anchorage. Miss Am) Dunn presided at a short business meet ing after which tea was poured. Host esses for the dry were Mrs. Ellen Pen nell. Miss Mary Perkins, Mrs. Edna Dat son and Dean Elizabeth Fox. Y. W. C. A. CABINET MEETS. 'J lie 1. TV. (\ A. cabinet and .Miss Tirza Dinsdale. secretary, were enter tained with a dinner at the home of Mrs. Aruar (billion where the cabinet met for its first regular meeting this year, Plans were discussed for a new membership drive and a new finaneiaj basis to lie laid. Also plans were made for the Y. M. ('. A. and Y. \V. ('. A. mixer, to come soon. All plans by this meeting however, are tentative and wilt be completed 'Tues day at the next meeting of the cabinet. DEAN FOX AT HOME WEDNESDAY. Dean Fox will lie at home at her resi dence on the corner of Fourteenth and University on Wednesday from -1 to <!. This will be Dean Fox’s day at home for receiving students and faculty members in general. , 2,000 Crowd Princeton. Princeton University, beginning her 175th year has a record attendance of 2.000 students. THE RETORT COURTEOUS, L'rosh—AV’hnt th<• ding dong you laugh ing at me for? Upperclassman- (>, don*t. mind me, t often laugh at nothing.- Sagebrush. N. Y. University Has 11,237. The University of New York is the largest university in the country. So far the registration is U. of W. STARTS SEASON. The University of Washington eleven will clash with Whitman today in the season’s opening game at Seattle. Coach Allison of the .Northerners is not opti mistic over the outcome, although the Whitman squad complains of being crip pled by injuries. This will in all prob abilities he the best game in the North west slated for today. AGGIES MEET PACIFIC U. TODAY The Aggies will line up against l’ae ifie University today for their initial game.of the seasno. Some place to go Sunday Evenings SPRINGFIELD Cars leave every half hour, last car leaves Springfield at Midnight. 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