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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1921)
Oregon Daily Emerald HARRY A. SMITH, Editor. RAYMOND E. VESTER, Manager. Member Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. ate Editor :..Lyle Bryson: News Editor ........Charles K. Oratke Assistant News Editors Yelena Jtnpert, Elisabeth Whitelionse feWtftr.Floyd Maxwell Sports Writers Eugene Kelty Edwin Iloyt Rlatistleian Iron ! >. Huntress Night Editors '('arlton K. Logan, Itciifl S. Monro, AVilford (’. Allon. News Korvieo Editor.laeob .Jnoobson" Aftsistants Aloxnnilor Brown, I'nnir-o Ziinmormnn Ueatnrc Writers .E. .7. il.. Mary Lou 'Burton. Emmes Quisenbetry News Staff . Fred Ouyon, .Margaret Scott, Harold A. Monro, Owen < 'alluwny. Jean fitmohan. Inez King, Lenovo Cram, Doris Parker. Phil Itrognn. Un.vniond I). Lawrence, MargaretCurter, Eloronee Skinner, Emily Houston. John Ilimlorff, Pauline Coad. Howard Hailey, Arlliur Itudd, Tlutli Austin, Clarenee Anderson. Mabel (HI ham, J-esaie Thompson, Hugh Starkweather. Jennie Perkins. Claire •Beale, Pan ‘Lyons. Kenneth Yotiel, John Anderson, Florence Walsh, Mayhelle .Webster Kuble AAfMiciatc Manager Ad*«rtiKinR Manager . (ieorge Aid let.rre 1 -’Circulation Manager.Ogden Johnson Office Assistant.Marion Weiss Collections ..1, Warren Kays Htftfjf AseJstunU; ltandol Junes. Jason McKurie. Hen Reed. Imogcne Letcher, Alary Alexander, Ehvyri Craven, Donald Hennett. James Meek. Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, leaped dally except Sunday arid Monday, during the college year. Entered ill the pod: office at; Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Sub scription rates jji'J.iiu per year. Hy term, 7-V. Advertising rates upon application. Campus office* f].V>. PHONES: Downtown office*— 1200. HAYWARD FIELD. The I'niversity of Washington has completed a new sta dium, while (’alifornia, Stanford and H.S.C. are either start ill £ new athletic structures, or planning- them. O. A. (\ now, luj.s (in athletic field which, at the occasion of the last O. A. yregdb football game, fully accommodated the 1 .■»,"><)() spec tators who witnessed the congest. , Hayward field, dedicated ‘but last year, is. at present far too small to seat the crowds which should atti^Tid foothall con tests here next year. Oregon’s field will seat hut 7,200 and even at; the time of-its dedication, could not hold all the foot ball followers who wished to see the llomecoming game. ‘ Siliee the (). A. (‘.-Oregon game will he played at Eugene nexj; year, and possibly a big football contest with some other eoa^f tenni, it is necessary that the seating capacity of Hay Ward field he doubled. Oregon cannot, afford to play any ftiore big football games on a field which will not permit ade quate financial returns and Which will not permit spectators ltd view the contest comfortably. .Just liow Hayward field is to be made over into an ath letic field that .will take care of the crowds which will surely home to Eugene' next season, is one of the biggest problems how facing- us. The biggest need is an entire new grandstand built on the east side of the gridiron. This structure should lie spacious enough to seat several thousand, should he built of time-re sisting materials and should he made a unit of a seating ar rangement which should in time convert the field into a large stadium. The bleachers could he saved for the present, and placed on the north end of the field, where they could still serve. Oregon students are awake to the need of a large athletic field. They realize1 that something must he done, and that done quickly. With .the present financial status of the asso ciated students, if is a problem which becomes more1 complex. But withal, it is a problem which must he solved. Sometimes students of the I’niversity become so engros sed in study and classroom preparation thev forget that they gre men and women of good breeding. Occasionally at as sembly just before some speaker is introduced, someone will start to leave the assembly hall, and a host of others prompt ly take the cue and follow. It is rather embarrassing to the speaker when this happens, and it is not befitting the conduct of students of Oregon that this should happen. Perhaps it the desire to pursue tin* elusive knowledge that impels such .conduct, hut more often it is the hope of the flitting htpeh. Be careful. The pestiferous sneak-thief, one of the lowest known forms of animal life, is with us again. Hints, coats, umbrellas, pen cils, pens, all such things that are left in halls or on desks are the subjects for the little pranks of tins specimen. The sneak-thief may lx* the lowest type of animal, hut he deserves the worst and most humiliating- type of punishment known if caUghtd FiOSH W MIX WITH PfliETI QUINTET Rooks Will Be Met in Four Game Series. „ The first samp of the season for the Oregon frost will probably be January US. with the Pendleton buekeroos. un cording: to .1 a< k ltenefiel. assistant0 grad uate manager, who has been working for weeks to shape things up for the hid bssketshoolet's. The IVudlet onions are reported to have uu e.speeially good team this year us piost of the men on their ehumpiou shjp football t gum are also, basketball st<vs. If the date is arranged it will be the diy after the boys from roundup loan mig with the rooks at Corvallis. U ord from Piek Hanley will eineli the deal :is Jimmy lliohardson nt l >. A. (' uud llonefiel have Imth agreed to the above dato. 'I’lii' annual row with the rooks will oonsi.st of four Kamos, two of which will |ho played on tho local floor February 1 and o and two at Corvallis the follow ing week-end, Friday 1 I and 1 No definite plans have keen made for other contests hut a nunther of prosper live saines are reported "coining up." Among them are four games to be played in Fort land, two with Franklin High about the .1st of this month. Caines with Hill Military Academy and Multnomah Intermediates are also possible. A heavy schedule for freshman basket I'Oll "dl mean larger returns to the ath letic treasurer as it has been arranged so that for the tirst time tho public will he able to sc»' the Oregon ipiintot in action. Seating cajmeity to the extent of k'hud has been arranged for at the Armory. Heretofore only the early comers were able to get into the hall where the games were played. Announcements Home Economics Club. — An impor tant mooting will ho hold in Miss Tingle’s room in Mary "Spiller Wednesday after noon at ii o'clock. Law School Smoker. — The faculty of the Inw school invites all law students and pro-legal Students to attend a smoker Thursday evening. January i 11, at 7tMO. in the Anchorage. Judge Lawrence T. Harris, associate justice of the supreme court, will speak. Lab Fees. — Laboratory fees are now due and payable. A delinquent fee of $1 will bo charged after January 18. Spanish Club. — Meeting Wednesday, 7:15 at the bungalow. Important busi ness. Spanish games and conversation. All interested in Spanish come. Bring |our dues. Graduates of the Oregon Institute of Technology, (V. M. r. A. Preparatory School of Portland.) — • There will be n short and important meeting at the ‘ V” hut u( 7:.'i0 p. in. on Wednesday, Janu ary 12, in which you will be interestcif. Debate*Tryout. — Wednesday evening al eight o’clock in Villnrd hall. Speeches will be limited to four infinites. Emerald Staff. — Meeting Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’eloek. The Shack. Freshmen Women. — Those who have not signed lip for physical examinations are urged to do so at once, at the secre tary’s office in the women’s building. Ex aminations should be taken this week. Women. All women registered for gymnasium work in the women's building are asked to watch the bulletin boards for announcement of the first classes. Receipt for key deposits should be brought#to class before lookers can be assigned. Lemon Punch. — All members of the Lemon Punch Publishing (.Society will meet; Thursday night in t|ie Lemon Punch office at 0:00 p .m. Imporjhnt. Lemon Punch. — All Lemon Punch Art contributors and nil others interest-, ed in the art work will meet tonight in .the Lemon Punch office 7:00 p. in. I Sigma Delta Chi. — Meeting tonight at Journalism annex. Important. Men Wanted. — Ten men are wanted to wait tables at the editor's hniupict. 1’’rid ay night at the Osborn hotel. Two or three hours work. Apply al the "V" hut today. Condon Club. — Itcgular program meeting this evening at 7:M0 in room 1 of Johnson hall. Claire Holdridge will speak on “The Skyline Trail.” All per sons interested In geological subjects are invited. At Home. — Dean Elizabeth Fox will be at home on Wednesday afternoon 1 rom I until 0 o'clock at her home on 1 1th and University street. At this time she wil he glad to receive members of the student, council. Sophomores. — Class picture is to be taken immediately after assembly Thurs day. Fine Arts. — The department desires a young man from the campus to pose for six life classes a week. Apply to Pro fessor A. TL Sehroff's office in the arch itecture building. Girls Glee Club. — Tryout for posi tion of second alto in tile Girls’ Glee Club Thursday at 7:110 p. m. at the school of music. U. S. C. BARS “ DANCE ” Word May No Longer Be Used in Heads Appearing in Trojan. University of .Southern California. Los Angeles, Jan. 11. The word “douce” may no longer be used in the heads over stories appearing in the V. S. C. Trojan, the studeut daily, as a result of a recent decision of the Student llody Publications Committee. Obeying the new ruling, the news editors are using stub heads on stories pertaining to social activities of the students, as. "Members of S. II. Club Indulge in Uhythmic Concerted Move ments,” sand "Trojans Tread Steps Timed to Music at Popular Academy Hall.” HISTORIAN MEETING JAN. 13. There appeared, in a headline in the Emerald yesterday morning, the state ment that the Historian's staff wouh meet January 1”. The date of the meet ing is Thursday. January l”. The day. Thursday, appeared correctly in the storj hut through a typographical error was i given as one day earlier in the headline. ry L Collar. I The Campus Cynic ] j_i ABOUT FACE. To the Editor: The possibilities of the face are enormous to contemplate. What wonders can be worked with such scanty proper ties as the wrinkles of the forehead, a twist of the nose, a pucker of the month, and the drop curtain effect of the eyelids. AVith these few instruments we can actu ally assume a look of intelligence at will! Too many of ns regard the faee only as an accessory, merely another bother some quota of spare, irregular in topog raphy, that has to bo more or less fre quently washed. It is really a crime the way we come into classes in the woe hours of the morning with visages as free of expres sion as the Sahara is of filling stations. It reminds one of low tide on the sea shore, when there isn’t anything to see except largo spaces of blank beach. It is a shame when we might, with a few twists of the lesser anatomy, assume a look of great wiseness. And when one succeeds in making a look of intelligence flourish where none flourished before, he is a^ much a benefactor to the race as his cousin the farmer with his justly famed blades of grass. AA'e all admit that there is a distinct lack of ideas at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, either original or borrow ed. It seems to be a physiological fact that, ideas simply won’t propagate in our frame before ten thirty. But that cer tainly shouldn't keep us' from going through with a schedule of facial ealls ! thonics. For instance, if the question j is apparently a deep one, judging from the number of words it takes the in I struetor to unwind it, the tiling to do is to impress him,with yonr display of hard thinking* place either hand oil the lower half of the face, covering up the month, and proceed to corrugate your forehead. The idea of covering- up the lower half ! of the faee is to throw the wrinkles in ! relief, since the wrinkles lvnppeh to be the conventional sign of thinking. At the | same time fix ypur eyes — which should • he about seven-eights closed. — upon j come minor feature of the instructor’s apparel, and gaze there with Unwinking eye until you hear him cull on someone else. T'pon hearing him do this you are lo assume shift number one, consisting of relaxing your rigid pain-in-stomaeh posture for a lolling attitude, gazing up ward to the ceiling with eyes Wide open, mouth slightly njnr. This gives the ef tect of an idea coyly flirting around the edges of the mental portal. Then you hear him call on another member of the class, and it behooves you to make an other shift. So you uncross your legs (I should have' mentioned tltbfr boinp crossed before. They were.) dv&g the heels of your shoes slowly and emphat ically across the floor, and twine them around the legs of your chair, with tlw clinging vine effect. Fold your arms ami ! T'ull out the full stop on your whole re I pertoire ol facial changes. Clamp every | thing down; the idea is to look vicious— as vicious as you cun after a breakfast of waffles and coffee. Get the idea? You have seen these Russian dancers seduce each other around the floor for a period and then get mutually mad and just raise heck. AA'ell that's the same thing you should appear to be doing. You’ve played around long enough with this 'idea; it is time to get rough and mu' I '""ling. .(Now don’t get. confused. You haven’t really got an idea — never elir have one. This is still a part of the pantomime.) Look vicious as long ns yom lace will retain that position, which won’t be long. Then start the whole show over again, trying to bring in vnria (Urns. If yon can wiggle your ears, so much the hotter; you then have atom , plete now set of combinations, f Keep this up until it is about your turn to be asked a question. Then spring your ,stock of innocent, questions — you know I what I mean—with that “seeking mfor f motion only” tone of voice. However if von have done your morning calisthenics well you won’t be called on. The profes sor seeing signs of such unusual mental agony at this unholy hour in the morn ing will always give it the solemn de ference and hushed awe Hint it rightfully deserves. n. j. it. + ♦ ♦ ♦.♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ « CONTEMPORARIES ♦ „ Spelling and Spelling “Bees.” Metropolitan newspapers recently de voted considerable space and effort to accounts of a thing we are disposed to smile upon sardonically and consider as ;i bygone antiquated custom of no value to us of today. The occasion was that of the annual spelling bee held at the Illi nois state teachers convention in which ,n Miss Benton carried off the honors, jfler last surviving rival had gone down on the word “tomahawk” after success fully solving such puzzles ns “assassi nate,” “sassafras,” “cayenne” and “arch ipelago.” There was all the keen inter est. the thrills and the rivalries that at tended the old-fashioned spelling bees of the little red school house and that used to attract all the citizens from the coun tryside around. Showing that a spelling bee is not such a time affair after ali and that we are not so sophisticated ns we are apt io think wo are. Booking at it from a sound practical standpoint it would bo a bad thing if the spelling contests were roivivod oftoner and in more local centers. We think the rhetoric instructors in our midst wiio labor over stacks of themes replete with slaughtered words will add a hearty sec ond to this and breathe a chorus of muons on it. Yet it is doubtful if the language specialists are any more eon vinced of the average; young Americans spelling deficiencies than wo ourselves who have been the recipients of so mam curel D’s and K's. The knowledge is shared too commonly to call for argu ment. We are. developing'into a nation of mis-spcllers. AA'e must have a dio , tionary (it our right hand else we write at • our own risk. If an instructor in freshman rhetoric or in any of the' 'advanced English i courses for that matter, were to line np his pupils along the blackboard once a week and bark out ojffajfspeliing manual in tbe good old-fashioned, way until the last man “fcook^his se.at’t there would ; very probably be a lot of ftin poked at him. And yet lie would display a vast amount of good Sense in doing it. Some of us eouln't spell “box” with any rea sonable amount, of assurance. — Daily ; mini. , , , ♦ WHAT THE OLD GRADS 4 ♦, ARE DOING. 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 4 4 Mis Bertha Dorris, a graduate of 1910. who started her career as a high school teacher and Who Went from that, into so cial service work of the most strenuous sort, is at present a news writer for the Detroit Journal, doing features and in terviews under the name of Nancy Dor ris. Miss Dorris Was’ a resident of Eu gene »tid after taking her M. A. here in ’14 she started doing social service work with the county and with the police in Eugene but she was soon advance.i to state work and was given a position in | ilie Technical School for Girls at Salem. | During the war she worked with the po lice in Tacoma and did such effective work that she was sent to New Orleans to tlie police department there. SOPH KNDNAPPERS INDICTED. 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