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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1921)
Oregon Daily Emerald HARRY A. SMITH, Editor. RAYMOND E. VESTER, Manager. Member Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. Associate Editor .Lyle Bryson News Editor.Charles E. Oratke Assistant News Editors Telma Jtup'ert, Elisabeth Wbitehouae John Dierdorff. 8pott* Editor ....Floyd Maxwell Sports Writers 18p<ehe Itelty_ Edwin Hoyt Statistics ician .Don D. Huntress Night Editors Wilford C. Allen. Carlton K. Logan; Reuel S. Moore, Kenneth Youel. News Service Editor ... .Jacob Jacobson Assistants Alexander Brown, Eunice Zimmerman _ii Feature Writers .E. J. H„ Mary Lou Burton, Frances Quisenberry -—--«-----1 News .Staff—-Fred Guyou, Margaret Scott, Racford Bailey, Owen Callaway, l*an Rtrachan, Ine* King, Ignore Cram, Doris Parker, Phil Brogan, Raymond D. Lkwrence, Margaret Carter, Florence Skinner, Emily Houston, Mary Traux, Pauline Coad, Howard Bailey, Arthur Rudd, Ruth Austin, Clarence Anderson, Mabel Gilkatn, Jessie Thompson, Hugh Starkweather, Jennie Perkins, Claire Beale, Dan Lyons, John Anderson, Flore nee Walsh, Maybelle Leavitt, Kay Bald. Leavitt. « ' --—----1 Associate Manager .Webster Ruble a ■—■■ - - ■ ' -.-.....—-1 Advertising Manager .George McIntyre .Cirtttfation Manager.,.AI Krohn Office Assistant.Marion Weiss Staff Assistants: James Meek, Randal Jones, Jason MoCune, Ben Keed, Mary Alexander, Elwyn Craven, Donald Bennett. Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Maned daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. i :-------•——i Entered in the post office at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Sub •cription rates $2.25 per year. By term, 75c. Advertising rates upon application. -----1 PHONES: Oampue office—656. Downtown office—1200. --—-1 THE COUNCIL’S DECISION. This afternoon the athletic .council should decide finally whether or not the present graduate coaching system is to re main at Oregon next year. The decision will he final, and no amount of talk will undo it. Oregon—to a man—must back the verdict of the council. "W/hile the Emerald has not been convinced that the ath letic council has proceeded thus far without mistakes, it nev ertheless recognizes that the athletic council has the power to make and unmake coaches at Oregon. And it now stands ready to back the decision to be made by the council this after noon in every way it can. Let the council proceed to its duty this afternoon convinced that a united student body will stand behind its decision, ready to continue the fight for Oregon. The Emerald makes but one recommendation to the ath letic council: that Oregon students be assured that, the ques tion which has now arisen does not come up again for several years. If the present coach is re-elected, assure the students that his position is secure for several years to come. If a new cbach is elected, assure the students that his position is secure for several years to come. One-year contracts will not prove successful. Insure Oregon against another such question as has now arisen. In making a final settlement on the question now before Oregon, the council can do one of two things: It can re-elect the present coach, or it can declare the position vacant, and ttake immediate steps to secure another. It will make a mis take if it merely postpones final action until more definite arrangements can be made with another coach. Oregon stu dents expect this thing to be settled this afternoon. They will be disappointed if it is not. The University of Oregon athletic council has ahead of it perhaps the hardest task of its career. Every student of Ore gon, who has been here long enough to imbibe the real Ore gon Spirit, will respect the decision of the athletic council. ( Communications | ♦--* RE: COACHING SITUATION. To the Editor: i I have noticed a good deni of talk in the papers about the attitude of the alumtii being against the retention of Huntington as coach. It seems to me that T am ns closely in touch with the alumni in Portland and throughout the state as any one else, and 1 am frank to say that I have heard practically no discussion until this mat ter began being discussed through the paperH. The alumni were not satisfied, of course, with the showing of the team this paat aeason. They felt that the team lacked the dash and the fight which they should have, and the only criticism I have ever heard of “Shy's” work was that he is not. aggressive enough, but everyone seemed to be of the opinion that his work during the past three years, entitled him, without, any discus sion, to another years’ contract. No school can win every year and moat of us have felt tbnt Oregon was winning her share of victories. We have been happy that Oregon has not beou inclined to make a chauge in her coach ing staff as has been the case of some other schools on the coast, every time they lose a game or two. Our success hag been rue to the pehmauenee of our reaching system. We have one thiug in Oregon which few aubools have and tliHt is the abso lute loyalty of Pill Hayward and “Shy" Huntington. It is a big thing to any school and it ia something you cannot buy for money. Now t notice they are considering a certain Mr. Price, freshman coach at California, for the Oregon job. T cannot see the idea of tnkiug the freshman coach of a school, whose bead coach is no better than our own. It has taken Andy Smith five years to develop a win ning team out of 10,000 students, and we have done it two years out of three uu dor oitv present system, with about one fourth that many students. The athletic council wants to fight the “Big Three” idea, and still they seem to be scared of that idea them selves, and figure to beat the proposition with a freshman coach of one of that trio. How many football games have we lost to Washington since Dobie left and how many have we lost to California since they returned to the American game? It is funny, isn’t, it, that we have been beating the “Big Three” and the real tough competition we have had has been from O. A. C„ \V. S. C. and even Idaho. I think it is time for Oregon to quit quibbling about little things. Take on au.v school, under any conditions, do the best we can and put sportsmanship above mere winning. We may be right about insisting on a three game schedule, but it looks like “crawfishing.” and it lias not helped us iu-so-far as public opinion is concerned. I think it is time we played the game a little differently, aud take things as they come instead of following the example of certain other schools, continually looking for particular advan tages to ourselves. And when we fiud a coach, who has delivered the goods, ami been successful, from the standpoint of pure sportsman ship, we shall give him the opportunity to which lie is entitled. -Oregon cannot afford to pay Dobic $8500 per year, and he would not he worth that much to us, if we could. The return of Beadek would be more welcome because he combines coaching ability with some real char acter. Furthermore, if we get Dobie 1 am positive we will lose Bill Hayward, and Bill to Oregon, is worth more tlinu Oobie could possibly be worth. The alumni generally are satisfied. We do not expect to win every game every year. All we want is a fair percentage and a feeling that the students are big enough to forget petty jealousies and stand back of our coaches no matter w ho ★<--* I Announcements 1 *—-*---* Bible Group. — The bible discussion group sponsored by the Oregon giris : club meets every Wednesday at the Y. 'W. C. A. bungalow between 12-30 and 1 o’clock to discuss “Christian Funda I mentals,” the subject which all the dif jferent girls organizations talk about every week under the direction of lead ers. Ail towns girls are invited to attend f these meetings. Dean Elizabeth Fox is the leader. Eutaxian Society: — Important meet ing Tuesday, February 1 at the Y. M. C. A. hut at 7:00 o’clock. Officers for the new term will be elected, and all members are urged to be present. Illustrated Lecture: — Professor El don Griffin will give a special illustrated lecture on Japan especially for students in the Pacific Orient course today at 3:15 in room Johnson ball. This does not take the place of the regular lecture. Visitors are welcome. Y. M. C. A. Classes: — Ralph Spear ow’s class in “Life Problems” at 11:00 o’clock each Tuesday. “Christian Fun damentals,” lecture aild discussion class, Hal Donnelly leader, Tuesday at 5:00 o’clock. Boys’ Work, Hal Donnelly, leader, 8:15 Tuesday. Lecture by Dr. George Rebec, of Portland, on some phase of philosophy and religion Wed nesday evening at 8:15. Y. W. C. A. — The regular Y. W. C. A. meeting will be held today in the bungalow at 5 o’clock instead of Thurs day. There will be out of town speak ers. European Trip. — There will be a meeting of all those interested in the European trip, in Dean Straub’s office Thursday at 7:15. they are. That has always been the Oregon spirit and it must continue. Yours very truly, V. T. MOTSCHENBOCHER, President Student Body, 1914. GUILD PLAYS ARE CRITICIZED. To the Editor: The Company, composed of the majors in the school of dramatic art. has just completed its latest “run.” The play. “The two Gentlemen of Verona.” was presented three times to a half filled house. It seems a shame that student theatricals fail even to fill a theater with the slender seating capacity of Guild hall. At the same time, the reason for this is explained^ and lies in the character of the plays which arc presented. No one can possibly expect an audi ence to expose itself, production after production, to English comedies of ques tionable humor, foreign plays without a “point” and Shakespearian pieces that were written to be rend—not played. “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” is not considered among Shakespeare’s su perior works. If the Company must pick on Shakespeare, why not take some his better works? Tlie reply may come that in such plays is found an opportunity for training actors. But can not an netor he trained in a live, up to date, modern, play with renl humor, or a good drama by an au thor whose work lias more of the popular stamp? Tlie work of the Company mid the dramatic department deserves nothing short of the highest praise, but it is a shame to hamper the student actors with vehicles which are shunned by profes sionals on the legitimate stage. It is too bad that plays cannot bo put on which would appeal somewhat to the taste of the audience. Nor should this extend to the lowering of the dramatic standard of the University. There are, in the wealth of tho theatrical and literary world, surely enough high class vehicles to al low even the Company, fastidious as it may he. to put on productions which would enplile its actors to try their abilities upon a full house. Only when the dramatics of the Uni versity are made to appeal to the audi ence, as well as the likes of the produc ers. will that department gain the recog nition and support, which it obviously needs and so justly deserves. A GALLERY GOD. THE ATHLETIC COUNCIL. There is u body, consisting of uine members, duly organized and formed with the special purpose of considering aud directing the athletic policy of the University of Oregon. The name of this group is, “The Athletic Council.” of the University of Oregon. When this council meets, all uiue of its members gather with but one purpose, aud that purpose is the betterment of Oregon They entirely disregard their personal feelings and petty prejudices, and attempt to maiutaiu Oregon's ath letic prowess by honestly and unbiased 1 v considering whatever questions may arise. This committee has been in active con trol of Oregon's athletic policy for sev eral years just past, and although jits judgment may not have proven infallible, still no question has ever arisen as to its sincerity or the honesty and goodness of its motives. 1 The question properly arising, the Athletic Council considered the advisa bility of discontinuing the present grad uate system of football coaching at the University, and immediately pandemonium broke loose. Hasty and ill-considered alliances were formed, and sides taken, and the more active belligerents began to attack and to entrench. Nor was this confined to the students upon the University of Ore gon campus, but was taken up, carried and fostered by some of the Eugene down-town business men. Whether these local townsmen were misled by an overzealous desire to assist the University, or were merely taking the part of busy-bodies, or even had a personal iron in the fire, it is probably impossible to state, but they were, most certainly, entirely misguided and rnis-in formed, both as to the question at issue, and as to their own relation to the con troversy. Football at the University of Oregon, as at all of America’s large universities, is not only self supporting, but is the I money maker which practically carries all the other forms of college athletics on its financial shoulders. It is not sup ported in the least by the subscriptions, or even the taxes of the local citizen, and its policies should therefore be of no practical concern to such citizen. The student body of the University realize that its Athletic Council rightly should and does control the athletic pol icy of Oregon, and are ready and will ing to stand behind that body in its final decision. This student body has a direct personal interest in the final de termination of the athletic council, which no down-town business man can possibly have. Therefore, why should any pool hall keeper or other business man, insist upon meddling in affairs which not only do not concern him in the least, but which are so strongly none of his busi ness that he has been impliedly asked by the University, through the consti tution and policy of its student body, to a'low such a decision to be made by the Athletic Council. The most that can be said for such a man or men, who will meddle with that in which they are in no way concerned, and in which they insist they have no personal interest, is that they are busy bodies of the worst calibre, and if a man should have such a personal inter est, which it is almost possible to sus pect. is it not a lack of sportsmanship and of decency which would prompt him to attempt to force his preferences upon the Athletic Council and the Oregon stu dent body? Most certainly it is none of his business, and if he should adopt such a policy of “hands off,” in the. pres ent matter, athletics at Oregon could only be benefited. The only proper and possible policy for 'ENUS PENCILS TPOR the student or profU -F the superb VENUS out rivals all for perfect pencil work. 17 black degrees and! 3 copying. American Lead Pencil Co. 210 Fifth A VC. NcwYork The ' largest selling I quality pencil | in th< world 213 Fifth Avc. Dep’t D4'4 New York City all to adopt, and follow, is plainly shown by a mere summing up of the question at hand: 1. I am loyal to the University of Oregon first, last and always. 2. I have helped, directly or indirect ly, to create the Athletic Council of the University, and I believe in the wis ■”-u..'L~i-ausrsazas doin of that body, and wish to abide by its decision. 3. 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