OBEGORhPRIlilCETON DEBATE TO BE HEED CHRISTAAAS1CATIOH Reply to Terms and Question on Way East; Decision Awaited. PRELIMINARY TRYOUTS TO BE HELD TONIGHT First Twelve Men to Enter Final Contest Friday; Six On Team. Tin* University of Oregon will meet Princeton in the field of debate during the Christmas vacation in Portland if the terms and the question proposed by Oregon in a reply to Princeton’s chal lenge arc accepted by the eastern uni versity. Reraey Cox, debate manager, replied Monday, accepting the challenge and making necessary arrangements. The preliminary tryouts for the team will be held at 7:30 tonight in Villard hall. Twelve men will be selected. Fri day night at 7:30 in Guild hall the finals will be held and six of these men chosen for the team. 0. A. C. to Debate First. Professor W. M. Michael, O. A. C., who takes Professor Prescott’s place as debate coach, stated that a triangular debate with O. A. C. and Iteed college, would come the second week in Decem ber. Oregon’s negative will go to Cor vallis, O. A. C. to Reed, and Reed will come to Eugene. The same subject will be used in the tryouts this .week ns was suggested to Princeton, and will be used in the de bates this season. It is; “Resolved, that the aid given to American shipping ns provided in Section 38 of the Jones bill (The Merchant Marine act of 1920) is to the best, interests of the United States.” Every member of last year’s team has returned to college except Ernest Crock att, although it was not announced that all would try out. Any student of the University who has been here one term is eligible to try out, according to Pro fessor Michael. Tryouts Open to Public. Roth the tryout tonight and the final tryout Friday night are open to the pub lice. In the preliminaries the speeches will be four minutes long. The selection of the twelve men will be made by Pro fessor Michael. Friday night the judges will be as follows: Dean Dyment, .Dean Hale, Dr. Gilbert, Professor Reddie ,and Profes sor Michael. The tryout will be con ducted as for three separate Rebates, there being three affirmative and three negative teams. The main speeches will he five minutes in length and the re bulla] three. Mr. Cox is making arrangements for a girl’s debate with O. A. C. this term. HARDING CLUB ELECTS COX FIRST PRESIDENT Rally Planned For Tuesday; Will Co« operate With Men of Eugene. The organization of a campus Hurtl ing dub took place last night in Villard hall when Jlemcy Cox was elected presi dent, Vivian ('handler vice president, and 01 lie Ktoltenberg secretary. I’lans for a republican rally on next Tuesday were formulated. It is expect ed that tin; club will be able to co-oper ate with the Lane county and Eugene re publican union in securing speakers and music. It was announced that Chair man Yoran of the downtown club had promised the best, speaker in the state for tin1 occasion. Mike Harris acted as temporary chair man of the meeting and outlined plans for securing the maximum registered vote. He stated that less effort would bo made by the club to present campaign argu ments than to arouse voters to the ne cessity of attending the polls on elec tion day. Student speakers will be assigned to every organization on tin; campus for the first of next week, and it. is the plan to have women speak at the men’s houses and men speak at the women’s houses. The list will be announced tomorrow or tlie next day. SEEING SNAKES IS WALKLEY’S HORROR Hiking Party On Spencer Butte Finds Six Rattlers Taking Sun Bath On Rocks. Snakes a half-dozen of ’em— coiled in a mass oil the sunny side of a rock caused the marathon stride of Glen Wallde.v to suddenly cease in its onward course several days ago when he happened on a nest of that variety of se'rpehts widen carry all alarm clock on the end of their tails. Glen was cruising around Spencer’s butte, marvelling at the wonders of na ture, and thinking how careifree this mundane existence was—for the day was Sunday and Glen wasn’t alone — when some subconscious premonition warned him that his pedal extremities were treading on the ground of an ancient enemy. Six of ’em lie counted, two big ones and four others of smaller varying sizes. Apparently they were indulging in a sun hath, and their sluggish movements when disturbed foretold the near JT.pproach of their six-months hibernation, scientifical ly explained Glen as he informed his lis teners that something he had eaten that morning suddenly made him sick im mediately after nearly treading on the rattlers. TO - KO - LO MEN ELECT To-Ko-Lo. the men’s sophomore hon orary society, held a meeting on Wed nesday of last week and elected new members for the coming year. Another meeting will be held in the near future to arrange the details of the installa tion. The names of the nyw members will probably be announced this week. R’s Not Lost by Prof. Cameron Even If He Does Hail from South INTRODUCING M. K. CAJIERON., Hi; isn’t a real southerner, for his home is Maryland and he pronounces his r’s like a rational human being, even as you and I. T-y the same token lie is not a New Englander, even if he did J5. A. from 1’rineeton. M. A. from Harvard and al most l’lid from the same institution. 1‘ossibly he contemplated becoming a Roxtonian, which is neither east, west, moth or south, but is—Boston. At any rale he tarried there a year or so to leueh economics in the Y. M. C. A. night school, where they have 2000 grown nuui students, and offer work from the first grade of grammar school through • our years of college. *, Before deciding fully on his allegiance • " (his city however, lie went to Hibben. Minnesota, probably thinking he was coining to the west. He taught m the junior college there, and he has some ideas of his own on the correlation of high school and college work. He is trying out the real west now. teaching economic history and related subjects at the U. of O. He says the first thing he noticed on the campus was the democratic spirit, and since he found out about the tradition of Hello Lane lie lias made it a special point to stroll along there at least once daily,,and say hello instead of the regulation “good morning” or “how-do-you-do” expected from a dignified college professor. Indications point toward Mr. Came ron’s becoming, a real Oregonian. He likes it here. Mrs. Cameron likes it here. And Miss Edith Cameron, aged three and one-half years, has decided to go to the University of Oregon. M. L. B. Rooters, Prepare for Conflict! Final Workout This Afternoon 1669 SMUTS * EIOLLED AT OREGON Men 893, Women 775; Frosh In Lead With 523. The tola! enrollment of tlie University of Oregon to date is 1009, according to Carlton Spencer, registrar. Of this number 893 are men and 775 women. The Freshmen lead the classes with 523 enrolled, the men leading with a majority of one. having 202 to the 201 girls. The sophomores are next with 212 men and 210 women, making their total number 458. The men in the junior class number 177 and the women 137, the total being 314. By the time the seniors are reached the class enroll ment has dwindled to 21G, the women having 102 and the men 114. There are 112 special students and 29 | graduate students. Two women are tak ing law and 15 men are listed under 'the heading of “law.” There are of course many more than this studying the sub ject but this number includes those who are making law their one and only line or are special law students. Registration will continue throughout the term and the enrollment will prob ably reach 1700. according to Mrs. George Fitch, of the registration staff. DELTIZETIISSMLS * ! i Seventeen Members of Local Initiated As Omega. Installation of the Oregon Omega ' Chapter of Delta Zeta, national women’s fraternity, was held Friday and Saturday 'when Delta Psi, loeal women’s frater nity. officially received the 27th chapter granted by Delta Zeta. The ceremonies began Friday when seventeen members of the local organization were initiated. A tea was given on Saturday from three to five, at which the guests were faculty members, house mothers and representa tives, and visiting members of Delta Zeta from other chapters. The program ended with the installation banquet given Saturday evening in the Japanese tea room of the Osburn Hotel. The chief installing officer was Mrs Oertrude McElfrish of the Cornell Beta Chapter, and National delegate to Pan hellenic. Kub.v Long, grand vice presi dent, was a visiting member from Cash mere, Wash. Mary Curry, of the Seattle Kappa chapter, was an installing officer. Other guests from the Seattle chapter were Molly Veasie and Marie Schafer. Florence B'urnap, of the Portland Alumni Chapter was also a guest. Other visiting members who were present at the ban quet were Dorothy Edwards, Winifred Iiazen. Bernice Nelson, Myrtle Burnnp Hazel Fulkerson, Ituth Rosenbraugh Helen Moore. Ilulda Jane Faust and Esther Gardner, all of the Chi Chapter of Oregon Agricultural College. Alys Sutton, who organized and was head of Delta Psi, is grand parlimentar ian of Delta Zeta. Those who were initiated Friday are: Gladys Everett Jean McEachern, Adelaide Parker. Mabel Sutherland, all of Portland: Irene llage bush. Gerturde Whitten. Helen Smith, of Eugene; Bernice Shipp ^ Prineville; Nadine Stevens. Genevieve Johnston, of Dufur: Leona Marsters, Mildred Parks of Roseburg; Thelma Iloefleiu of Yo rpiina; Jeanette Hogan of Aberdeen Wash.: Veda Patton of Elgin; Elaine Todd of Tillamook, and Naomi Coffield of Vancouver. Wash. WOMEN LEAD SCHOLARSHIP. Stanford women are leading the fcmen in scholarship. The average for the women is 1.72 and the men, 1.20. Crisis In Student Body Support Must Be Met Before Game On Saturday. Big Bally Scheduled for Friday Night; Pep Needed. “It's mu- last chance tonight! “By Friday afternoon it will all he history, and the story of our success or failure will be indelibly engraved in the annals of the University. “And what's more, it depends on you!” This is the way Claire Keeney, Yell King, characterizes the crisis that exists in the support of the varsity which meets the University of Idaho Saturday in the,first conference game of the season. And the last chance to which Keeney refers is the yell practice tonight on Kincaid field at 4:15 o’clock. This year’s yelling, says Keeney, has been ragged in the extreme, and unless it is improved there will not; be enough Ore gon Spirit Friday night to even spur the varsity on to a decent showing in Saturday’s conflict. New Yells Ready. A number of new yells are ready to be man-handled and Keeney promises that the band will be on the job to aid both tonight’s and Friday’s preform ance. It will be the last yell practice be fore the game and the only chance the varsity yell sjfaff will have to get pep enough generated ti. make a success of the big rally before the Idaho game Fri day. A scrimmage featuring the freshman team will be staged for the benefit and inspiration of the rooters this afternoon. The jazz rally is to be held just before the student carnival Friday evening. At 7 o’clock the parade starts from the library, with a time honored)serpentine that will go careening down town, lei off excess steam in the form of yells and songs, and then come back to the campus for the carnival. Old clothes, flannel shirts and “hay wire” attire are to grace the parade as well as the line of march. Keeney warns the tyros to leave their silk shirts and broadcloth pants at home. But at the same time lie warns them to stick their dancing pumps in their hip pockets ioi future use, because there will, in all probaility, as he puts it, be dancing at the close of the carnival. The pajama feature of the parade lias been abandoned this time, and will be staged in the rally that is to proceed the University of Washington game here dur - ing the homecoming. Special costumes i will also be omited Friday night, but the yell staff guarantee that what is lack ing in dress will be.supplied in vocal cal isthenics. CLASSES IN SWIMMING POPULAR WITH GIRLS Competition Between Groups Growing; Large Enrollment Encourages Interclass Meet. Considerable interest is being shown in girls’ swimming this term, says Frances Moore, head of swimming in the Women’s Athletic Association. She | appeals to all girls who are interested in | swimming and who have ability to turn j out for practice as there is a possibility of interclass meets again this year. The last year’s meet was won by the present sophomore class. Frances Moore and Valiere Coffey, both members of last year’s team against O. A. C., Kmily Veazie and others are practicing for the sophomores. Among the juniors work ing now are Winifred ITopson and Helen Nelson, both participants in the O. A. C. meet. Miss Moore states that there are- a number of good swimmers among this year’s freshman class and that the sopho mores will have to work hard to defend the championship a second time. BIG CARNIVAL TO BE EMU HI EVENT Stunts, Confetti, Costumes, to be Features. Tin* committees working on the ear nival to lie held in the Armory after the rally Friday night will meet at the Y. W. C. A. bungalow tonight at 7:M0. Each committee member is asked to he pres ent and to he on time in order that the meeting may not. he delayed, says Bee Wotherbeo, general chairman of the carnival committees. 'Flic members of. the various committees are: Advertising. John Dierdorff, post ers* Frances Habersham, Wilbur Hulin; Armory. 1 till Purdy; food. Wayne Akers; police. Don Newbury; stunts, Hob Earl; side shows, Dorothy Wootton, Wes Fra ter; admission managers, Bib Carl, Johnny Houston; yell leader, Claire Keeney; official speaker, Vivian Chand ler; collector, Madge Calkins. All of the persons named in this list arc supposed to he present at the meeting tonight. There will he a general discussion of plans and preparations and reports from the various committees on what they have done and what yet remains to he arranged. Costumes To Be Rule. The carnival will begin immediately after the rally for the idalio game on Friday evening, which will terminate at .the Aripory. Costumes arc to, he tke order of the affair and everyone is ex pected to he in some sort of a costume. All faculty members are invited and ex pected to be present in costume as well as tiie students, according to Bee Wetli erboe. The townspeople who wish to witness the affair will he able to view it from tlic balcony or, if they wish, from the floor. A number of stunts are to be pulled (Continued on Page 4) Smiths and Johnsons Lead In Race for Popularity. Compilers of grade sheets and roll call reports have met their Waterloo iu the duplication and similarity of names which exists at the University. Accord ing to Mrs. George Fiteli, of the regis tration office staff, Smiths lead off with 1N. Johnsons are a dose second with II. There are 'll Moores and 19 Millers to worry the professors, and Wilsons and Hills are running a close race with eight each. To add to the joy which this causes is the exact duplication and similarity of names. For instance there are two Hath A. Tucks;'an Arthur W. Johnson and an Arthur II. Johnson; a Harold V. Simpson and Harold E. Simpson; two Dorothy Dixons and a Dorothy Dickey to make life more pleasant for the hard-working bookkeepers. Two Hazel Whites are en rolled as are an Elaine Cooper and an Elaine Couper; two Hen Heeds and two lean .Mackenzies sometimes cause lost time in the registration office. Ed die Evans and Edward Evans sometime* cause worried professors to throw' theii hands, up in dismay. The three Hein Kings will probably get. their grade* mixed up when grading time comes an< J. Allen Smith and Allen It. Smith may find themselves in much the same predi cament. The men who finds a solutioi for the name mixing problem should bf awarded a science fellowship. University officials ask that those will: names which may be confused use the middle' initial at all times in signing pa pers or sign their name in some special form in order that they may be identi fied. FOOM OUTLOOK IDE ROST HI OV STEERS' RETURN Oregon Rises On Observers’ Horizon; California Is Still Favorite. IDAHO GIVES PROMISE OF HARD-FOUGHT GAME Gem Staters Best In Years; Contest WiU Shed Light on W.S.C. Struggle. Football dope is beginning to experi ence its annual upsetting period, and as usual at this time of the season, the predictions as to who will cop the coast honors from their showing so far is be ing made. The return of big “Bill”. Steers to the Oregon varsity appears to have put Oregon back on an equal foot ing again in the minds of a number of coast sport writers, although the uni versal opinion among the writers is that the California “boars” are leading the procession from their record so far. California beat St. Mary’s College by a score of 127 to 0, defeated the Nary team by a score of 88 to 0 and handed out. a 7!) to 7 defeat to Nevada last Sat urday. But, it can be remembered that the University of Washington eleven de feated Whitman by a score of 125 to 0 last season and yet lost to Oregon. What California lias done in the south can hardly be taken as a eriterian of what she can do against the northern teams. Montana Beats U. of W. The University of Washington team lost their first big game to Moiyfana last Saturday by a seorevof 18. to J4. Mon tana has a strong team this year, but Washington has so far failed to play up to last year’s form. Whitman scored two touchdowns against the Washington team the week before and Washington only defeated them by the score of 33 to 14. It is evident that either Washing ton does not have a great deal on the ball this year, or else Coach “Stub”. Allison Is holding his team back. However, it is an unusual thing for a coach to hold his team back so far that they will lose the game, and in the opinion of a number of eye witnesses of the Saturday’s game. Washington is not showing up to her old standard. "Heck” Dorman, coach of the Mult nomah club football eleven, who played a scoreless game against the Aggies at Cor vallis last Saturday, states that the Uni versity of Oregon football machine is just about twice as strong as Coach Ttuthcrford’s squad this season. Mult, loinali went into the game against the Aggies with a team considerably lighter and weaker than the one sent against he < b egun eleven the week before. O. A. C. failed to score on the clubmen and made yardage but once during the game. Since “Heck” Dorman saw the Oregon machine in action, Captain “Bill” Steers has joined the squad. Idaho Has Strong Eleven. Washington State is playing up to about her old standards according to in formation from Pullman way. The Cou gars defeated Idaho by a score of 14 to 7 at Moscow, Friday afternoon. Because this was a hard fought game is not at tributed to any weakness on the part of the Cougars but is blamed to the un usual strength of the Idaho eleven, this season. In the opinion of a number of witnesses of the Idaho game Friday, the (lent state aggregation is a better coach ed and smoother machine this year than they have been for several seasons paBt. The game this week between the Idaho eleven and the University of Oregon team will be the authority for the dope on Washington State and Oregon. The Washington-O. A. C. game will also be the elimination game for one of these con tenders in coast, honors. Coach Huntington is not overly opti (Continued oil Page 3.) | * »;t sit ;Jt * * * # « « * SIGMA UPSILON ELECTS. * * Ye Tabard Inn Chapter of Sigma * * Upsilon announces the election of * * Alexander Brown and Jacob Jacob* * * son. • | *!« a * * * * *i