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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1921)
Attempt Made to Secure Gilmour Dobie as Lemon-Yellow Varsity Football Coach TUTUS WILL BE ENFORCED STRICTLY BT LETTER WEARERS Order of the “0” to Hold Court on Library Steps Before Assembly. OLD-TIME PERSUADER MAY BE USED AGAIN Wearing' of Green “Derby," Bench and Anti-Smoking Rules to be Followed. The day when traditions of the Uni versity of Oregon can be violated, and the offenders go their way unpunished, has passed. Beginning next Thursday the Order of the “O” will hold court on the library steps for a few moments pre ceding each weekly assembly, and all of fenders will be brought to trial, and pun ishment meted out. This was the result of the action taken recently by the association of Oregon athletes, who voted to take defi nite action to educate all students as to the existing traditions and seeing that the traditions were upheld. With this end in view, the freshman tradition committee was organized some months ago. The purpose of this organ ization is to operate in conjunction with other campus organizations to see that all lawbreakers were brought to justice. The recent action of the Order of the “0”. is intended to substantially back the work of the tradition committee. Bjefore each assembly period frosh who venture forth “sans green derby”, underclassmen who sit upon the senior bench, students who smoke on the cam pus, and all other offenders will be brought to court by the tradition com mittee and tried by the letter men. It is rumored, according to Hank Foster, that the time honored “Oregon Per suader” will not be lacking. It has always been assumed that a student is an “Oregon man or Women” after having spent one year on the cam pus, and that she or he will uphold all of the time honored and cherished tra ditions of the University. The problem of discipline for fresh men has caused the student authorities much worry since the one-time violent means of punishing offenders has been abandoned. For the past few years the frosh have had but to fear the wrath of their immediate organizations. The nature of the work of this com mittee will be to safeguard the tradi tions of the school, by educating the stu dents to what they should represent and by forcing their observance, according to Foster. WORK IS STARTED ON ANNUAL CATALOGUE Each School to Have Separate Section; Students Will Reoeive De sired Part. Work has been started on the annual catalogue of the University, according to Mrs. George Fitch, of the registrar’s office. A new system called the “Harvard Plan” is to be tried this year in connec tion with the publication of the cata logue. Each school of the University will have its own section, and these sec tions will be published separately. Stu dents will receive the portion of the catalogue in which they are interested, the whole book being used only for ex change purposes. The first section, according to Mrs. Fitch, will be the grnduate school cata logue. Copy is due from the various departments now. General information will be issued as the second portion of the publication, which will be followed by the assort ment of information from the various schools of the University. The final as sembling of the information will be made late in the spring. The catalogue committee is composed of Dr. W. P. Boynton, chairman; Prof. W. F. G. Thacher, of the English de partment, Carlton Spencer and Robert I C. Hall, superintendent of the University Press. Most of the work will be done in the registrar’s office under the direction of Mrs. George Fitch. i ‘BODY’ DECORATES TREE Misguided Wit Hangs Effigy As Tribute te Disappointed Lover. The sight of a body hanging from a tree in front of the library is not a common one on the campus. Excited in quiries passed from person to person as they walked by the dangling body. Has the coroner been notified? Who is it? Questions of a like nature busied the passersby. At last the bravest, or perhaps the most curious, investigated. Some misguided wit had hung an effigy on the tree as a silent tribute to a dis appointed lover. The usual note accom panied the body, reading in part: “Should any one of my numerous friends desire to prosecute the instigator of this crime, I swear that the girls of the University are the direct cause of my death. Farewell, brethren, of the offi cial Piggers Union. Signed, Lonesome .Jake.” It appears that the dummy was pre pared originally by an upperclassmen to put in a freshmen’s bed to awaken him when he came in late, or rather, early in the morning. A group of would be lynchers stole the effigy, however, and hung it where they believed it would be most effective. Old Flag-Day Destructive Campus Day is Substituted In the good old days on the campus when the best were like the worst, and to all appearances there were no ten commandments, the juniors, on a certain Friday each spring, used to float the junior flag. To be more exact they tried to float it. They were opposed, often victoriously, by the sophomores and thereby hangs a tple. From 1896 these “flag days” had been growing more and more hilarious, but it remained for the juniors of 1904 to stage something unique. On the "Wednesday night before the Friday when the flag was to be shown, the juniors, carrying the junior flag, climbed the 70 foot flag Pole, then in front of Villard. They hauledlv a large box and nailed it firm ly to the pole. Then they got in the box ®nd established a policy of watchful waiting. When the sophomores discovered this ®>ry habitation they beset it with eggs, two crates of eggs, seventy-two dozen, were deposited, a la the hand grenade Method, in, at, upon, or near to this Perch without avail. All day the battle 'aged and the juniors below hoisted ndwiches to their comrades above. Friday the sophomores began with re newed vigor. With a flash of in ' spiration they bethought themselves of a fire hose. They brought a fire cart from a nearby station and played a stream of water full force upon the un fortunate juniors. The juniors climbed down. , In 1905 a bunch of juniors, established themselves on top of Villard hall and chained down the trap door. The sopho mores caught the remaining juniors, tied them and stored them for safe keeping in an old barn. Then they got two tele phone poles and used them for battering rams against the trap door of Villard. It gave way and the handful of juniors were overpowered and their flag cap tured. The University buildings seemed in a fair way to be destroyed. The faculty wished to prevent this if possible. Pres ident Campbell called a meeting of rep resentatives from each class. It was agreed that the day should be a holiday and that a constructive instead of de structive program should be inaugurated. 1906 ushered in “Campus Day,” which is now a part of our Junior week-end, when the men clean up the campus, set out trees and improve things generally and the girls serve lunch. m sics wm cup BY DEFEATING FIJIS 11-6 III LAST GAME (Andre Scores All Points for Winners; Alstock, Gore Tally for Fijis. CONTEST WITNESSED BY BIG CROWD OF ROOTERS Uncertainty of Outcome Keep Fans on Edge Through | out Entire Struggle. B.v virtue of their win over the Fiji quintet by the score of 11 to & last night, the Kappa Sig team won the championship of the doughnut league and the silver trophy cup. The two teams topped the percentage column in the doughnut contests, both having won 12 games and each having one lose to their credit. Yesterday’s game was played to settle the claims as to the undisputed champions. Iiol Andre, the lightning speed demon of the Kappa Sig team was easily the star of the game and his playing was a feature of the contest. The combination of Rockhey, the diminutive guard of the Kappa Sigs, and Andre, played the ball down the floor time after time, evading the attempts of their opponents to break their passes. The close guarding of both teams kept the score down and only five field baskets were registered during the game. Three of these were scored by Andre while Gore and Alstock of the Fiji five are each credited with one. Alstock and Gore played up to their usual form for the Fiji quintet and in addition to scoring all the points for their team, they played the floor the most consistently. The game was roughly played and void of any pretty passing, ,and the rivalry for the honors was intense, keeping the players on their toes. Alstock of the Fiji five scored the first field basket after a few minutes of hard playing, Andre converting a foul for one point soon afterwards when Alstock was fouled for tripping. Strahorn, of the Kappa Sig team, was fouled soon aft er this for the same cause and Alstock converted the throw, making the score 3 to 1. Andre scored the next point on a son verted foul when Alstock was again fouled for tripping. This completed the scoring in the first half, neither side be ing able to register again although both teams took numerous shots at the bas ket. The close guarding made most of these shots necessary from difficult angles. At the start, ot the second halt, the Fiji five strengthened their lead by an other field basket, Gore scoring. This was followed soon after by a long field basket by Andre, who dropped in an other shortly, when a difficult catch by Burnett, the husky guard of the Kappa Sigs. gave him his chance at short range. This second field basket of An dre’s placed the Kappa Sigs in the lead, a position which they maintained to the end of the game. Andre converted three free throw's and another field basket while Alstock scored a point on a free throw just before the whistle. The final count ending 11 to 6 for the Kappa Sigs. The game was easily one of the hard est fought of the season and was any body’s until the latter part of the sec ond period when the Kappa Sigs had ob tained a substantial lead. In the open ing half the Fiji quintet appeared to have the better team W’ork and their passing was much smoother than that of their opponents. The latter period was all in favor of the winners, their smaller and faster team keeping the ball in their own territory most of the time. The line-up and score follows: Kappa Sigs—II. Fijis—6 Andre 11.F.Alstock 4 Strahorn.F.Knudsen Blackman.C.McMillan Burnett.G.....Houston Roekhey.G.Gore 2 No substitutions. Referee, “Shy” Huntington. Fouls converted, Andre 5, Alstock 2. University Social Survey Shows Seamens' Institute Not What Portland Needs Through an extensive survey of the port of_ Portland, conducted by the Uni versity of Oregon Portland School of Social AVork, under the supervision of Philip A. Parsons, director, for Bishop Walter T. Sumner of the Episcopal church a decision has been reached that a seamen’s institute would not ade quately satisfy the needs of the Port land port situation. In regard to the building of a sea men’s institute in Portland, the follow ing objections are found in the report submitted by Dr. Parsons; “The central ization of the work in the building would necessarily localize its activities and prevent a certain amount of flexibility which is necessary to meet the situa tion. Such an institution would provide merely another opportunity for lounging and lodging which would not improve the existing facilities nor successfully com pete with them. Again the overhead ex penses of such an institution would, in all probability, be out of all proportion to the services rendered, and it is ex ceedingly doubtful if it would render ser vice to those most in need of it. The establishment of the institute tends to apathy on the part of the community, due to the fact that it creates an idea relative to a particular problem, that the institution takes care of that situation and relieves other organizations and in dividuals from responsibility in the mat ter.” The. report recommends, however, the establishment of recreation and amuse ment rooms, club rooms, and reading and writing rooms, which may be oper ated or maintained in conection with the marine labor unions. The promo tion of such a movement might be taken up by the Episcopalian church, but the financing should be conducted by the sail ors through their present organisations, says the report by Dr. Parsons. The extract from the report describes the sailors of the present day, and ex isting conditions which are much differ ent. from what, they were years ago. “Fifty-eight per cent of the seamen on the deep sea boats are not over thirty years old. The seamen on the coast wise trade are much older. Wages are good, hours are reasonable, and living conditions aboard ships are immensely improved over old-time conditions. Ap proximately one-half of the seamen have homes in Portland.” Through the investigations it is found the sailors feel a need of more exten sive libraries on the boats, so that they can use their leisure to a greater ad vantage during the voyages. The im provement of conditions on the boat, to gether with the co-operation of civic bodies in extending an interest toward meeting the needs of the sailor on the land would greatly promote the life of the snilor. The report suggests that a higher de gree of efficiency could be secured by effecting the co-operation of all inter ested groups, such as churches, citizens, owners of ships, ships’ officers and sail or’s organizations, and thus make the work flexible through the service of a single. directing .individual. “Obviously some person or organization should vol unteer to take the initiative and bring together such a group of persons to con sider the matter of a unified program for sailors,” suggests the report. WILLAMETTE FALLS BEFORE U. OF 0. FIVE Lemon-Yellow Victorious in 2nd Game; Score 21-16. j Salem, Ore., Jan. 24. — (Special to the Emerald.) — Faced by a score tied at 11 to 11 at the end of the first half, eo-incidently the same as Friday night, the University of Oregon varsity basket ball team came back and handed Willam ette University her second defeat at the hands of the lemon-yellow aggregation, 21 to 16, in Saturday night’s contest. Eddie Duruo was responsible for 111 of the tallies rung up by Coach Bohler’s aggregation from Eugene. Francis Bel lar succeeded in solving the delay at- j tack, which Willamette used successfully against O. A. C. and on which Coach Matthews based his hopes for a win in the second game against the Oregon quintet. During the first period, Oregon main tained a small lead continually until a minute before the whistle blew for the rest, when a spurt by the Salemites tied the score. Durno converted five out of eight throws from the foul line. Summary: Oregon—21. Willamette—16. Durno 13.F. Wapato M. Latham 2.F.Gillette 6 H. Latham 4.C.Jackson 8 Bellar.G.Dimmick Chapman 2.G.Rarey Substitutes: Willamette, McKittrick (2) for Gillete, Oregon, Reinhart for H. Latham. ZETA RHO GIRL WEDS. Announcements have been received of the marriage of Miss Opal Gilmore of Silverton to Dr. C. W. Wilson on Jan. 6, 15)21. Mrs. Wilson entered the Uni versity last fall as a freshman and was a member of Zeta Itho Epsilon. Dr. Wil son is a dentist at Silverton and a grad uate of the Portland Medical School. They will make their home at Silverton. ELECTION IS ANNOUNCED. Beta Gamma Sigma announces the election of Byron O. Garrett, Chet Zum walt and Charles Van Zile, ,High School Squad Loses 24 8 to Oregon Youngsters. The frosh basketball team defeated the Roseburg high school quintet in the second game of their series here Satur day afternoon by the decisive score of 24 to 8. The frosh took the lead from the opening whistle and maintained it during the game, the score at the end of the first half ending 14 to 4 in their favor. Alstock, at forward for the frosh, was a factor in keeping the score of the Uoseburg team down. The entire frosh quintet performed creditably and Coach Huntington appeared to be well satisfied with their showing. Whipple and I’. Singleton were the point makers for the visiting five. The score: Oregon Frosh—24. Roseburg—-8 Alstock 10.F.Fields Rockhey 2.F.Hunt McMillan 6.C.Whipple 3 Douglas 4.(J.Campbell Black 2.G.Thurston Substitutions: Oregon, Wilsey for Alstock, Clark for Rockhey, Oliver for McMillan, Edlunds for Douglas, Gore for Black. Roseburg, P. Singleton (5) for Hunt, G. Singleton for Thurston. NEW COMMUNITY HOUSE AT RICE. Tiie ground at Rice Institute, Hous ton, Texas, is soon to be broken for a new community house which will contain a ball room, an auditorium, a canteen, a cafeteria, barber sliops, pressing shops and a rest room. Next year it is planned to build garages for the con venience of students who have cars at the University. NEW SERGEANT ARRIVES. Sergeant Thomas Sullivan has arrived from San Francisco and has reported for duty witli the local R. O. T. C. He has been assigned to Company C and will later instruct classes in topography. | Previous to the war Sergeant ‘Sullivan served in the engineers in the Philippines and during the war he served in the in fantry in this country. FORMER wan MENTOR MODE OFFER TO COME TO HI Ten Thousand for Five-year Contract is Demand of Easterner. $8,500 IS SAID TO BE ATHLETIC CQgEN&L DID Board Also Discusses Tutor for Baseball; Bohler, '• Fisher Up. That an attempt is being made by the athletic council to secure Gilmour Coble, former coach of football at the Univer sity of Washington, and now occupying, * similar position at Cornell, ascoaeh of football for the University of Oregon has been ascertained from reports gath ered of the proceedings of the council'at its meeting Saturday morning. An offer of $8,000 was first padt Dobie by a member of the council. T$e eastern coach replied that a salary ’of $10,000 a year, and a contract far ftyt years would be his price to coach "footr ball only. Since then, it seems, OregohY offer hns been raised to $8300. A»l-yet no reply has been received to the-later proposal. '• < Two meetings of the council hare bees held thus far this year, the last, one1 be ing Saturday. At the initial meMilig, committees were appointed to loofc ip$i> the matter of selecting a football coach and'll coach of bascbaHr Tbr'cAk* Dobie was reported at the meeting'Sat urday, after the committee had also mait an offer to Hugo Besdek, former Ore^wb4 State College athletic teams, of $8000, which was turned down. It is upder stood that coaches other than Dobte’lftfe also being considered by the council. ' ' George M. Bolder, at present coach of basketball is .understood to be t& choice of the council for baseball coach, although Gus Fisher, former member" bf the Portland baseball team of thet Pg>* cific coast league was also mentioned as a possibility. No definite action hag ygt been taken however. ‘‘. That the council has been considering an eastern coach has been known on the campus for some time. The reason'.fMt the move has been given as a methbdJta' meet the new “Big Three.” The sche duling of games for next season has been held up by the delay of the athletic coun cil in naming next year’s coach, and mak ing a decision op Oregon’s future atti tude towards the new combination. Coach “Shy” Huntington, in the mean time, has been held up on plans for the coming year. He announced a few weeks ago that spring training for members fit the football squad wouWbe started this year, but so far has made no further plans along this line. „ coach, now mentor of All the sessions of the athletic council are held behind closed doors, and it has been u custom for all of its actions to remain Necret until released. Enough has leaked out this, time, however, fo know that the rumors which have been circulated concerning the proposal of gaging of an eastern coach are author itative. The members of the council are Dean Bovard, Professor Howe and Bill Hayward, faculty representatives; Dean Walker, David Graham and A Tiffany, alumni representatives, and B|j[l Reinhart, Si Starr, Glenn W^lkley and Carlton Savage, student representhtlveh. President Campbell and Marion McClain are ex-officio members. *! An attempt to reach alumni members of the council yesterday was unsuc cessful. Tiffany, Walker, Graham, Bovard, and President Campbell ^re’gll out' of town. PORTLAND JUDGE SPEAKS. ’ Judge Arthur C. ’ Dayton, formerly judge of the district court of Portend, addressed the students of the law achfol yesterday morning on the subject-of tfclt work and procedure of the small claims department of the district court, {fudge Dayton drafted the small claims a^t and administered it for several years. The law provides for a simplified and inex pensive procedure in claims of twenty dollars or uuder.