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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXII. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON* EUGENE. OREGON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1921. NOt 70. Guests Numbering 75 t Well Pleased with What They See on Campus LUNCHEON IS SERVED BY HENDRICKS GIRLS Special Student Guides Take Lawmakers on Tour of Buildings A desire to see the usefulness of the University and the other institutions of the state extended as far as possible, was manifested ab the special assembly to greet the state legislators who were making a short visit on the campus, held at Villard hall, Saturday morning. Six of the'visitors spoke and showed a lively interest in the future welfare of the school. They were welcomed to the campus by President P. L. Campbell, who presided at the meeting. H. O. Bowen, president of the Eugene chamber of commerce gave a short talk, welcom ing the visitors to Eugene. Carlton Sav age, president of the student body, told of the aims of the students and the work being done by them. President Campbell thanked the legis lators for their interest in the success of the University, and for their support of the millage bill. He extended a welcome from the regents, faculty and students. University Is Appreciated. An appreciation of the University and a desire to see its work carried on, were expressed by Mr. Bowen, in behalf . of the chamber of commerce. He said that Eugene was always ready* and wil ling to do everything possible to aid the school. Representative J. D. Lee, introduced by President Campbell as a native son of Oregon, made a brief comment on his pioneer origin, ssfyiug that he bad been born within gunshot distance of the Uni 1 varsity. He was a member of the state legislature, he said, at the time when the. appropriation was made for Villard hall, for Which he had the privilege to vote. He also recalled his active campaign in behalf of the millage bill, in stating his attitude toward higher learning. In con clusion be gave liis slogan “Official In tegrity: Metropolitan Portland: Greater Oregon.” Senator Staples Shows Product. Isaac Staples, senator from Multno mah county and a member of the joint ways and means committee, declared that he could be depended upon to do every thing in bis power for the colleges. “There are two members present from the ways and means committee,” lie said, “and we want to do everything possible for the University. Both have the same first name, and people with that name generally get what they go after. You have your staple productions, pumpkins, squash, wheat and other things, but I have one of my Staple productions in' (Continued on Page SHORT STORY RULES OUT Feb. 15 is Last Day for Edison Marshall Prize Contest. Ruins for tlio Edison Marshall short story contest have been announced by Professor W. F. G. Timelier, who has charge of the short story work. The contest is held yearly, and the prizes are offered by Marshall, a former student at the University who is now one of the country’s best known novelists. All manuscripts must be submitted by h ebruary 15. The other rules of the contest follow: AH manuscripts should be typewritten, °" one side of paper only, and handed in flat—not rolled. " riter’s name must not appear any where on the manuscript. Accompanying the manuscript each contestant should hand in to Professor T hacher a sealed envelope containing the writer’s name. On the envelope will ttppear the name of the story. All stories should be entirely original ~~cxeept that the writer may make such 't-'P as he pleases of classroom criticism The standards by which the stories "ill be judged are those of the better *lass of American magazines. ( ontestants must be regularly enrolled undergraduate students of the Univer s't.v of Oregon. CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY TO TALK AT ASSEMBLY Fred B. Smith to Talk on Place of Chris tian Ethics In Present Day Business. J red B. Smith, vice president of the H. W. Johns-Manville corporation and a recognized leader among American in dustrial executives, bearing the gospel that a code of Christian ethics can and must govern modern busines, will ad dress the student body assembly Thurs day morning on the subject, “The Uni versity Man in Business.” In his position as the vice president ol a manufacturing concern that covers North America with its factories and dis tributes its numerous products through out the world, Mr. Smith has formed the opinion that has become a part of his personal gospel, that Christianity and business can amalgamate. Propagating an ideal of full orbed manhood, Mr. Smith for thirty years has been persistently following a creed both in business and private life for the mor al, mental, physical and social up-lift of his fellow man. Believing that every family should own their own home with the means to enjoy comfort and play as well as the con science to work, and insisting on the truth that commerce can be Christianized and the teachings of the Master brought into industrial life. Thursday’s speaker has a message that should hold much of interest for every student on the campus. OREGON TRAINING HELPS School of Education Produces Many Dis trict Superintendents. That two-thirds of the school superin tendents of first-class districts of the state have received all or part of their professional training at the school of education of the University of Oregon, was learned from figures recently cora piled. In addition to furnishing scien tifically trained men for such a large percentage of these executive positions, the University school of education has trained a large number of superintend ents for the smaller cities and towns, high school principals, high school and junior high school teachers, specialists for colleges and normal schools, experts for defective and delinquent children, and with the co-operation of other schools of the University many teachers of physical education and athletics, and art, and supervisors of ,music. Supporters of Both Sides To !( Present Cases Today. Four hundred men students on the campus have signified their desire to do away with the present graduate coach system at the University, according to the information given out last night by circulators of a petition among the men. This petition together with that which was circulated by Carl Mautz among the football men, in favor of the retention of Huntington and that of the business men of Eugene will be presented at the meeting of the athletic council scheduled to take place at 4 o’clock this afternoon | in President Campbell’s office. The petition signed by the students follows: “We, the undersigned, believ ing that the best interests of the Uni versity demand whole hearted co-opera tion between the athletic coaching staff and the student body, and that this co operation spirit is not being fostered un der the present graduate system, wish to go oi> record as opposed to the grad uate coach system. Since the present graduate system has not received the support of the mef most interested in athletics and since it has resulted in a division of the student body, we earnest ly petition that the athletic council of the University of Oregon use every ef fort to secure a coach who can bring about a united Oregon.” Professor H. C. Howe, chairman of the athletic council, said last night that any and all petitions which were presented to the council would receive due consid eration. It is the desire of the council, according to Howe, to treat the matter fairly and squarely and that student sen timent is welcomed in the final decision of the problem. It is understood that a few members of the football team will be called before the council to present their views this afternoon. COMPANY WILL Cl 'TALE OF 11 CITIES' | Play Will be Heaviest to Be Undertaken by The Company STORY ADAPTED TO STAGE BY REDDIE I Production Has Shown in | New York, Washington, Philadelphia Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities,” dram atized for presentation on the stage by Fergu Reddie, will be given by members of the Company in Guild theatre Feb ruary 24 and 25, according to Mr. Red die, who announced the cast last night. The play as Mr. Reddie has written it was given over the cast including New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore, having been played over a hundred times in all. It has the power and intensity of the popular war plays of the past few seasons, such as “Three Faces East” and others, and yet it gains its strength from human emotions, from moral issues of that bloody period in France, from the almost unbelievable horrors and cruelties of the day that lend themselves to stronger feeling of intensity than can be realized in the ordinary play where the situations de pend on plot alone. It is without doubt the heaviest thing that the Company has undertaken this year. Mr. Reddie will take the part of Sidney Carton, who as the hero is at once one of the weakest and strongest characters in the play. Few characters in drama1 have more possibilities than this figure created by Dickens, who has made" the story strongly dramatic through its entire length. Dr! Manette, who goes crazy from con finement, ..is another strong character Who will be played by 5Torvell Thompson. Mine. Defarge and La Vengeance, played by Charlotte Banfield and Irene Ste wart respectively, are other characters of Dicken’s that that will play impor tant part in the dramatization. Members of the cast as they have been announced are: Peasant Girl, sister to Mine. De farge .Marion Gilstrap Marquis St. Evremonde. .Claire Wallace Mme. Defarge’s brother. .Reuben Goffreirc Mr. Lorry.Claire Keeney Lucie Manette.. .Marian Taylor Miss Pross.Lota Rogers Jerry Cruncher..Vern Fudge Sidney Carton, Charles Darnay, doubles .Fergus Reddie Dr. Manette .Norvell Thompson Defarge .Ted Baker Mme. Defarge .Charlotte Banfield La Vengeance .Irene Stewart John Bat-sad .George Pasto DEAN ROBBINS LECTURES Tour Inoludes Ashland, Medford, and Klamath Falls. _ / Dean ttobbius, of the school of com merce, is in southern Oregon this week where he will deliver a series of lectures on the subject of ‘’Business Training,” and will also discuss the Commercial Club course, which is to be offered here during the Easter vacation, for the bene fit of commercial club secretaries throughout the state. He will talk on Monday afternoon to the Klamath Falls high school. In the evening of the same day he is to talk to the Commercial Club of that city. Tues day he will speak to the Medford Cham ber of Commerce, and Wednesday he is to speak to an Ashland gathering. YEARS ENROLLMENT 4,026 Total Includes Students in Every Branch of University. An enrollment of 4,028 in all depart ments of the University of Oregon, for the present school year has been reached. This includes registration for the regular and summer terms, the med ical school, extension students, corre spondence study students, and special students in the school of music. _ From the number of inquiries coming in daily and from other indications it is expected that the enrollment next yeai will exceed 5000. 2000 Portlanders Liked Glee Club Concert; Stunt Made Hit; Men May Go to Los Angeles More than 12000 persons heard the Men’s Glee Club concert in the Portland Municipal Auditorium last Friday night, January 28. “It was the best glee club performance I have ever heard,” de clared ,T. Erwin Mutch, New York con cert baritone and head musical instructor at the Ellison-White musical conserva tory in Portland. The concert was given under the auspices of the Ellison-White Concert Bureau, and the directors say the seat sale was the heaviest in this year’s concert season. The audience was appreciative, to the extent that the glee club had used all its encores before the program was half finished. Most of the numbers were without accompaniment, which made it the more remarkable that the harmony was distinct throughout, said John Stark Evans, director of the glee club. The good enunciation also won prase. “The boys sang better than they have at any time this year,” Mr. Evans, declared. Madame Rose McGrew accompanied the glee club and sang several numbers on the program. At the noon luncheon at the University Club the boys sang a number of songs between courses, One of the most successful numbers on the program was the “specialty,” a stunt entitled “From Opera to Jazz.” It consisted of piano work by George Hop kins and George Stearns, several songs, among them a tenor solo by Arthur Johnson, and jazz produced by three saxophones and a banjo. “We consider that the glee club was very successful in this concert” said Joe Ingram, president of the club, “and we are beginning to make big plans. Tentative plana arc under consideration now for a trip to Los Angeles under the direction of the Ellison-White Concert Itureau, or the Beheimer Circuit Theater management, during spring vacation. The program for the Portland concert follows: Program. Part I. Oregon Pledge Song .Evans Song of Winter .Hawley Glee Club. Shores of Sighing.Chaffin Glee Club. Soprano Solo—Visi d’Artc, from Tosca .Puccini Madame McGrew. Love Symphony.Damrosch Glee Club. Piano Solo—March Militaire ..Schubert Mr. Hopkins. The Redman’s Death Ch'ant.Bliss Glee Club. Part II. Songs of the. South... Just a Song. Massa’s in do Col,’ Col’ Ground (solo, Mr. Morrow.) Bau,jo Song (solo, Mr. Hopkins.) De Sandman. Glee Club. Part III. This Is She .Rogers Glee Club. A Little Specialty— Messrs. Hopkins, Johnson, Stearns, AV. Akers, Ingram, Moore, Newbury, C. Akers. Oregon Songs .. Quartet and Glee Club. 4 Varsity Loses Second Game To Sun Dodgers 51 to. 29. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ .3 o .1 .0 0 0 1 •_> 3 4 Pacific Coast Conference California. Stafford. Washington .. . Oregon. W. S. C. O. A. C. Northwest Washington .. . Oregon. Idaho . Willamette .. .. Whitman. w. s. c. O. A. C. 1000 ♦ ♦ 1000 750 500 250 000 Conference 1 1 750 667 667 500 500 285 000 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ By virtue of their two losses to the Sun Dodgers in Seattle Friday and Sat urday night, Oregon dropped into second place in the Northwest conference stand ings and into fourth place in the Pacific Coast Conference percentage column. The team returned Sunday from their Northern jaunt with four wins and two losses to their credit. This is a better record than Coach Bolder had expected and he is well pleased with the work ol the team. ' Bolder made the statement before he left that they would do well tc win half their gauges on the northern trip. « Saturday night’s game in Seattle re sulted in a 51 to 20 defeat for the lemon yellow quintet. The score nt the enc of the first half ending 21 to 18 witl Washington leading. Oregon starter strong in the fast period and with eighi minutes more to play the score stood 21 to 25 for Washington, when the strair o fthe six hard games winch the teair had been through began to tell and tin Sun Dodgers rolled up a score of 51 while Oregon annexed four points. Three of the strongest teams in tin conferences were met on the trip am that Oregon was able to eliminate two o them from the race shows that the lem on-yellow five will be strong contender for the championship this year. Tin two games with the Oregon Aggies a Corvallis on Friday and Saturday nigh of this week will be the next two bi| cont<|sts. on the schedule. Coach Bohle is giving the team a rest tonight an. with a lay off last night, active practic will be resumed at the Armory Wednes day night. Studies to be Listed in Bulletin Issued by Counoil Word has been sent to the heads of the departments offering major and minor courses for advanced academic degrees announcing that the graduate council and the catalog committee have started work on the new bulletin de scribing the facilities for graduate study in the University. This bulletin is to contain not simply general information but complete departmental statements with reference to graduate work and graduate courses. Courses for which graduate credit is given will be listed with a brief sugges tive description. The heads of the de partments are asked to provide the com mittee with a statement as to any upper division courses for which graduate cred it is not allowed and are also asked to provide an introductory statement cov ering such points as the prerequisites for a graduate major in the department, the major subject or subjects compatible with such a major, and any other infor mation that the prospective graduate stu dent in the department (should receive, such as typical \ or normal program ol graduate work for the master’s degree. This information is desired only foi departments offering graduate work to ward an academic degree. Schools wil announce their advanced courses loading to professional degrees in their own spe cial bulletins. MANLESS HOP SATURDAY Every Girl Invited and Urged To Be A Gym From 3 to 6. Another of those exclusive Women’i 1 League affairs is to be held Saturda; ■ afternoon in the women’s gymnasium. B; exclusive is meant that the men are ex 1 eluded—for this is the time when thi * women of the University have a big get together and get-acquainted party. Dancing is to be the entertainment o 5 the afternoon, and will last from threi ! to six. The same sponsor-sponsee lis t that was drawn up last term is to b t used, and it is urged that the sponsor j notify their former sponsees and raak r arrangements to escort them. Girls no 1 having sponsors are asked to come an; i way,, alone or with someone, for ever, - woman in the University is invited, ever; woman wanted, And every one must comt A Mentor Is “Comer,” Declares Harry Kingman, Student Volunteer Worker. IS SAID TO BE ABLE TO HANDLE FOOTBALL MSN “Clean Athlete” Says Vis itor; “Most Popular Maar on Berkeley Campus.” ' “ ‘Nibs’ Price is a 'comer,’ and I have no doubt that he will in three years be one of the biggest coaches in the coun* try,” are the terms which are used by hiprry Kingman, last year a member of the coaching staff of the University of California, to describe the ability of the man who is being seriously considered by, the athletic council for the position of head coach at the University of Oregptj, Kingman is visiting the colleges at the country in the interests of the studont volunteer movement, and he leaves fib* gene today after a brief stop here. Kingman spent a part of his tiihe here discussing Trice with Professor H, J©.‘ Howe, chairman of the athletic <councH. and graduate manager Marion McGiaitt. He gives Price a great deal of credit for the performance of the CalifbrnhL eleven this season, and credits him With producing a freshman team last year that was the equal of the varsity. , .V Trice, according to Kingman, waa baekfield coach of the California varsity this season, and with Andy Smith, do* vised the plays used by that tegm throughout the year. Price’s ability .{a handling players and students is re markable in Kingman’s estimation. He says that because of this quality on^ths part of Price, it generally fell to hisvlot to instruct the California player in plays which Smith and he together c<*peoct£<l, as tka players seemed more willing to do things for Price than they1 were for thf . head coach. Kingman also described to glowing terms, Price’s ability to imbibe the players with the punch necessary jto - win games. 4f‘ “Whenever any disagreements arise among the players or students in re gard to football, the situation is gener ally turned over to Price,” said Kingman. “The results are always satisfactory, and I liave yet to hear a single Word spoken, against him. He hasn’t a single enetqy to my knowledge, and is without doubt the most popular man ou the California campus.” .«• r “Price is also one of the cleanest • coaches I know,” added Kingman, "He lias a wonderful character, and the play ers whom he has developed arc like him, cleanout, straight - forward athlete*.” Kingman has traveled over the counter to quite an extent in the interests of the student volunteer movement, (fnjl being an athlete, has come to know'a great many coaches in various part® of' the country. Kingman was at Cornell while Dobif was in charge of the football team, and while he admits the qualifications of tl\e former Washington mentor, does not hesitate to give Price preference over him. “I do not know your coach Hunt ingtob,” he said, “and so I would be h# no position to judge as to the relative, merits of your present coach and Price. I do believe, however, that it would be wiser for Oregon to take Price than Dobie.” • '; Kingman, in addition to having been a member of the coaching staff of Call’* fornia last year, has achieved some repu tation as a baseball player. He played professional ball in the east last year. He prepared a signed statement for the ! Emerald regarding Price, which follows: (Continued on Page 3.) BLEACHERS HIT BY GALE East Portion On Hayward Fiold Blow* Off During Storm. The top of the cast bleachers on Hay* f ward field is gone. Saturday, during the , gale which swept the coast, the cover t ing to this portion of the stand win > blown over. The "gale, which waa re i ported to be blowing at the rate of owe * 120 miles along the coastline waa t heavily even at Eugene which is 50 miles r inland. ' r Neither the grandstand on Hayward r field nor the other bleacher sections rtf . fered any damage from the storm. 1