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Oregon Daily Emerald UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1921 VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 35. DRY GRIDIRON FOII TILT WITH AGGIES PRAYER OF OREGON Varsity Perfecting Passes and Long End Runs For Big Game Saturday KICKING DUEL EXPECTED Beaver Offense Feared; King Johnson, Latham, Chapman Start in Backfield By EP HOYT Pray for the sunshine 1 For every drop of rain that falls on the verdant turf of old Hayward field lessens the chances of Oregon against her ancient rivals from Cor vallis when they tangle on Saturday. With the collegians outweighing the varsity some ten pounds to the man and with a wet field under foot they can be expected to outsmash the varsity on straight line plays. Given a dry surface on which to play however, the varsity appears a slight favorite over the farmers, for forward passes and end runs which were used so effectively against the Cougars at Pullman two weeks ago will be good for substantial gains against the Aggie defensive. Rutherford may be expected to de pend upon an exchange of kicks a gread deal for he has a real kicker in Ev Miller, former California high school star, who outkicked Jenne of W. S. C. last Saturday at Corvallis. Miller will meet with some real opposi tion in this line, however, when he runs up against “Spike” Leslie for the big tackle is getting them away for an approximate average of 50 yards in practice and seems to have entirely recovered from the unfortunate propen sity evinced earlier in the season to boot them out of bounds. Latham Also Punting In addition to Leslie, Huntington is developing a punter out of “Hunk” * Latham. The rangy fullback has the carry on his kicks already but lacks form and mixes in a lot of bad ones. With coaching “Hunk” should develop into a real kicker and will likely be relegated to that position on next year’s eleven. Head Coach Huntington will keep up the stiff grind scrimmage he has been using for the last two weeks until Thursday night when work will lighten a little in order to give the boys a chance to round into shape for the game Saturday. Friday will be devoted to light signal practice and just enough of a general limbering up to taper the squad into the final peak of condition. / Reinhart May Get In The team will probably swing into action Saturday much as they did against the Staters, a possible excep tion will be Johnson at left half who may replace Gram in the starting line up. Latham, King and Chapman will open in the other backfield position. In the line Brown and Captain How ard are scheduled for the wing berths ^ 'with Von der Ahe and Leslie at the tackles, Tiny and Floyd Shields at guard and Prink Callison at center. If Johnson is given the call at left half in the starting line-up Gram will break into the game before the final (Continued on page three) Campus Hun ter Slays Largest Bear of Year Who said that the taxidermist wasn’t busy in Eugene? If all hun : ters had the luck and skill that four University men had on their trip up to the head of the Blue river j every home could boast a bear rug i as a decoration. On October }7 Ralph Burgess, Rol Andre, Art Kuhnhausen, and Wayne 'Laird left on a hunting trip to the head waters of the Blue river. The God of the hunt, whoever he is went along and helped bring in the larg est member of the bear family killed in this section this season. Andre fired the shot that brought the bear down. Burgess and Kuhn hausen saw several of the animals but were unable to get them. Laird has two of them to his credit since school started. LEMON PUNCH OUT NOV. 19 MAGAZINE TO BE SOLE AT GAME AND AT WOMAN’S BUILDING Concentrated Wit of Campus Crowded Into “Back Number,” Promising Laugh For All The “Back Number,” the first issue of Lemon Punch, will be off the press Saturday morning, November 19, and will be on sale to old grads and ex students at the annual Homecoming luncheon in the Woman’s building, as well as at the football game in the afternoon. Students are urged to let the visitors have first chance at the copies, as many of them will leave im mediately following the game. All copies will not be printed until Satur day evening, and ^11 subscribers will rececive theirs at that time, as they will be distributed to the various or ganizations and boarding places of the students. Two thousand copies only will be issued, so those who have not subscribed and desire to purchase the magazine should get one early. They will be on sale at the Co-op. A box has been placed in the li brary, in which all students may drop their subscription cards, showing where they desire to have their copies of the Punch delivered. Cards will be re ceived in this box until Friday noon. Those who fail to drop cards in the box may receive their cards at the Co op store. This number of the Punch is 32 pages in length, and contains 22 draw ings, a two-page spread by Wilbur Hulin, full page and half page cuts, special features, and the concentrated wit of the campus. The cover, which is of snappy color and good draftsman ship, is very attractive. Y. W. TO SELL FLOWERS Forty Cents and Address Insures Chrysanthemum by Saturday Can you imagine the Homecoming game without the Oregon flower—the chrysanthemum! Will it be yours that she will wear? Just leave 40 cents and the address to which you want a large, yellow chrysanthemum sent, and the Y. W. will do the rest. The flowers will be at the bungalow Friday, and will be sent to any address in time for the game Saturday. Since the flowers are not being sent from Portland, there will be no risk of their being crushed, and they are guaranteed to be excep tionally beautiful and well worth the cost. The money raised by this sale is to be used for refurnishing the bungalow. Bonfire, Parade, Street Dance Will Open Homecoming Events Friday night is the big night. At 7 o’clock that evenftig the Homecoming celebration will begin with a monster rally. Three hours later the frosh pyre will be lighted, a signal to the as sembled thousands that the Oregon clan is gathered and ready for battle. After speeches from the coaches and alumni—warriors of the olden days and yell kings who were able to get thunderous oskies out of a few hundred rooters—have been delivered from the platform on Kincaid lighted by the bonfire, the assembled hosts will mi grate to University street for a big dance. N-O-I-S-E is to be the epitome of the Homecoming celebration. A com mittee has been working on this rally for two weeks and have arranged an affair which is to be unsurpassed in the annals of the University, accord ing to persons who have the inside facts. A special prize has been defi ^ nitely arranged to be awarded to the organization which has the most ef fective noise producer. Students, al umni. and townspeople are urged, com pelled, and invited to join in the great rally. Yell King Oberteuffer and his assistants assure enough excitement and thrills to last for many moons. Every house must be entered in this competitive noisefest, and individuals are requested to bring anything port able from a baby rattle to the buzzing part of a sawmill. The parade will wend its way down Thirteenth to Alder, down Alder to Eleventh, follow Eleventh to Wil lamette, then downtown. Homeward bound, the line of rally will be over the same route to the Ad building and Kincaid. Jack Myers is chairman of the pa rade committee and promises no end of amusement for the crowd. Trac tors, trailers, trucks, steam engines, sirens, fireworks and everything which goes to make up an Oregon rally will be on hand. Alumni will ride, in state on ten dr more trailers hauled by a huge tractor. This alumni section is not a new feature of a Homecoming (Continued on page four) OR. F. M. PADELFORD TO DISCUSS DANTE AT NEXT ASSEMBLY Tribute to be Paid Italian Epic Poet, One of World’s Four Leaders in Letters * EXERCISES WILL INTEREST Head of English Department At Washington Specialist On Medieval Period The University of Oregon will recog nize the six hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante, an occasion cele brated all over the civilized world in tribute to the great medieval epic poet, with an assembly Thursday morning at which Dr. Frederick M. Padelford, head oi; the department of English at the University of Washington, will dis cuss the Italian master’s relation to the Renaissance. Dr. Padleford, who is a graduate of Yale, has been professor of English at Washington for 20 years. He is a specialist in the literature of the medie val period, having written much on the authors of the middle ages, and has been a contributor to both the Cam bridge and the Oxford histories of English literature. Members of the Oregon faculty who have heard Dr. Padelford, speak highly of his ability as a speaker. Dunn Heads Committee Here The Dante memorial should be looked upon with a great deal of interest, in the opinion of Professor Frederick S. Dunn, head of the Latin department, and chairman of the Dante memorial com mittee here. Students will be inter ested in this commemoration of Dante’s Sesto Centenario (sixth centenary) he says, not only because he is classed as one of the four greatest poets of all time, but also because he has connected his work so closely with the classics, using Virgil as the guide in his cele brated Divine Comedy. September 14, the actual date of Dante’s death, was the time of the universal celebration promoted by pa triotic Italians to raise Dante to his place as one of the greatest poets the world ever has known. Owing to other plans for previous assemblies, how ever, this is the first opportunity given for such a celebration here on the cam pus. Dante Classed With Virgil Memorial statues of the poet may be seen all over Italy, according to Professor Dunn, who was engaged in Y. M. C. A. work in that country dur ing the war. He has a series of post cards illustrating Dante’s Inferno, which he collected while abroad. “Dante ranks with the greatest poets of the universe,” said Prof. Walter C. Barnes of the history department. “He can be classed with Virgil, Shake speare or a^y of the others. He rep resents the medivial mind at its best, just prior to the breakdown of the medieval ideas by the renaissance.” COMPOSITIONS OF LOCAL MEN SUNG AT CONCERT Songs by John Stark Evans %nd Dean John J. Landsbury Rendered by J. Erwyn Mutch By A. J. Among the numbers of greatest in terest to the audience gathered to hear J. Erwyn Mutch on the occasion of his recent concert in Villard hall, was a series of three songs in manuscript. “My Soul is an Enchanted Boat,” by Clarence Olmstead, of Portland, was sung with great delicacy and beauty of tone. The best received and most enjoyable song of the evening was “A Spring Love Song,” written by John Stark Evans. In this song Mr. Evans has. with the aid of an ex cellent accompaniment, found true er pression. Mr. Mutch closed his pro gram with John J. Landsbury’s “Ecs tasy.” This is a short, climactic song that gave a fitting close to an enjoy able evening. When such excellent material as these songs by local men (both of the songs were repeated) is to be had one wonders why so much of the present day music that one hears at concerts is of such a low grade. Dean Lands bury may present some of his compo sitions when he gives his recital on De cember 9. YALE TRACK COSTS *300,000 Improvements in track facilities to cost approximately *300,000 are now in progress at Yale University. COMMITTEE NAMED TO TAKE CHARGE OF DRIVES ON CAMPUS Campaigns to be Put Before Student Council For Final Sanction THIRTY MEMBERS NAMED — Every Housing Organization Represented; Soliciting to be Censored A new campus committee, the com mittee on the Friendship Fund, has just been appointed by Lyle Bartholo mew, president of the Associated Stu dents. This group of 60 members, one from each housing organization on the campus, is to have charge of all drives and canvasses hereafter. The com mittee, it is explained by the president, will first consider all proposed drives and will put before the student coun cil for final sanction those the com mittee regards as worthy. Each drive sanctioned by the stu dent. council will then be conducted i under the general direction of the Friendship committee. There are representatives from all the fraternities and clubs on the com mittee. The first meeting will be very important. It will be held in Dean Straub’s office in the Ad ministration building Wednesday af ternoon, November 16, at 4 o’clock.] The committee follow: Elsie Lawrence, Beatrice Morrow, Katharine Wilson, j Alice Evans, Hallie Smith, _ Leona ] Gregory, Florence Furuset, Beulah Clark, May Ballack, Maurine Elrod, Florence Skinner, Dorothy Cash, Ella Bawlings, Beatrice Hensley, Florence j Cartwright, Hildogarde Rcpinen, Wil rbur Hoyt, Frances Wade, Victor Brade son, Sidney Burleigh, Carl Newbury, Eugene Kelty, Ralph Poulson, L. K. Fraley, Dan Welsh, Arthur Kaun hausen, Curly Lawrence, Harold Lee, Emerald Sloan, Roy Veatch. TRE NU STARTS LOAN FUND NO INTEREST TO BE CHARGED ON SMALL AMOUNTS Money Obtained by Selling Peanuts Gifts From Alumnae; Named After Tirza Dlnsdale Tre Nu, girls’ honorary organization on the campus composed of girls who are wholly or partially self support ing, has started a new student loan fund. The aim of the fund is to help girls who are in need of a small amount of money for a short period of time and it is planned that no loan will exceed $25 while the average amount to be loaned to the students will rang3 from $10 to $25 for a period of 10 to 30 days after which time the loan may be renewed. The loan fund is to be called the Tirza Dinsdale fund after Miss Tir/.a Dinsdale, for several years Y. W. C. A. secretary on the campus, and a mem ber of Tre Nu. Miss Dinsdale in her work in the Y. W. C. A. on the campus fiTst felt the need of such a fund for the girls. The money was obtained by j selling peanuts at the Y. W.-Y. M. mix given this term, from the members ff the alumni, and from Mrs. A. R. Sweetser. No interest will be charge! on the loan. The fund will be added to from time to time by the Tre Nu girls. Those wishing to secure money from the loan should see Margaret Dumway, treasurer of the organization. 15 TRY FOR RIFLE TEAM Ten Men to be Chosen For Meet With University of California Fifteen men have been designated to practice and try out for the Univer sity rifle team during the week ending Nov. 19. The ten men making the highest scores will be selected to shoot against the University of California rifle team between Nov. 20 and 26. The men designated to try out are: Captains James Meek, R. D. Roberts, and Don Zimmerman; 1st lieutenants W. H. Durham, M. R. Eby, V. E. Bul lock, and Percy Lasselle; sergeant T. I N. Page, C. L. Heider, Edson Biggar, | E. J. Breidwell, and W. Walsh. The ' team will be selected from these men I the latter part of this week. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Delta Zeta announces the pledging of Maud Graham of Forest Grove, Ore gon. . Game of Cards Helps Pep Up Latin Classes “Well, per geminos!” “Your deal, Professor.” “Mehercle! ” “It’s my play.” These were some of the remarks which might have fallen upon the astounded ears of a tardy student chancing to pass the office of Fred erick S. Dunn, of the Latin depart ment, Wednesday morning when a class in advanced Latin was sup posed to be in session there. If the passerby had stopped and applied his eye to the keyhole, doubt less his mouth would have dropped open in amazement, and he would have been more than astounded,— yea, even flabbergasted—at the de plorable sight within. For there seemed to be in progress, not a class In the “Silvery Age” of Latin lit erature, but a very lively card game, presided over by none other than Professor Dunn himself, seated at his desk, as he contemplated his cards with the glittering eye of a profes sional. Before him, cards in hand, sat the class, two disillusioned young victims who had come to their ten o’clock expecting to spend an hour of intellectual labor over the pages of Tacitus, only to find that they had been drawn into a card game. For Professor Dunn has a novel method of inducing his students to review Latin verbs. It is by means of a card game similar to “Authors,” in which Latin verbs with their principal parts take the place of the names of writers. Whether or not Professor Dunn ever plays for stakes is a matter entirely of conjecture, but at any rate he is winner almost invariably, and handles the cards like a veteran. RED CROSS DRIVE STARTS SEVEN 100% HOUSES ALREADY; WOMEN AHEAD OF MEN Students Solicit Town; Businessmen Subscribers to Wear Buttons Says Committee The campus drive for the 1922 Red Cross roll call starts today with a bang. The fact that five sororities and two fraternities have already sub scribed 100 per cent shows the en thusiasm with which the campaign is being launched, and the value of tho work of the Red Cross in caring for disabled soldiers, in tho minds of the studonts. All the members of these seven organizations handed in their subscriptions by yesterday morning, before the drive was regi^arly launched. All organizations will be solicited in their houses. A booth has been placed in front of the library to care for all who are not in organizations. A largo committee has boon organized to handle the campaign, and the largest amount of the subscriptions will probably come in today. Buttons will be given, and anyone who is not wearing one by Thursday will ba in a bad way, ac cording to Ruth Lane, who is in charge of the entire work of putting over tho drive on the campus. Every subscriber should wear tho but in order to help the campaign along, and to avoid further solicitation. Clyde Buck is in charge of a com mittee of three from the campus cham ber of commerce, which will commence soliciting faculty members this morn ing. Miss Madeline McManus, of the (Continued on page three) BEAVER NOURISHED ON OREGON SPIRIT IN RALLY ASSEMBLY Good Sportsmanship Dominant Note of Talks Made by Speakers CHAIRMEN MAKE REPORTS Knights of Oregon Introduced; Place of Campus Luncheon Has Been Changed Last night in old Villard tho famed O. A. C. Beaver was fed on Oregon Spirit. Tho spirit was the real effer vescing variety, the kind with the kick in it which made the great crowd that filled tho hall give “Shy” the greatest ovation he has received since his re turn from Pasadena after tho Harvard game. The football team, President Campbell, the coaches, and Homecom ing committee chairman were on tho stage. The Aggie beaver was escorted into tho hall and placed in front of the speaker’s platform by tho Oregon Knights—some 50 or more of thorn who crowded on to the stage in triple-line formation and wore introduced by Leith Abbott, chairman of the Home coming committee. Briefly, Abbott told the students that the Beaver had been borrowed from the O. A. C. campus in 1910 by somo Univorsity of Wash ington men. Last year two Oregon men trapped the beaver in his hiber nating groundnut Washington, and last night ho made his second public ap pearance on the Oregon campus. Must be Good Sports A dominant note in the speeches of President Campbell, tho coaches, and Lyle Bartholomew was student sports manship. “Shy,” commenting on tho disorganized rooting at O. A. C. lost yenr, asked the Btudents to heed the signals of tho yell king. “When “Obie” signals to yell, why yell your heads off,” said “Shy,” “But when he signals to quit, quit. Do this not only when our team has the ball, but also when O. A. C. is calling signals. We must be good sports. “Thero is not much to say about the team,” said “Shy” when he first ap peared on the stage. “Their actions speak for them. My only regret is that the game against W. S. C. was not played here so you could see how those men fought. fNext Saturday I want that rooter’s section to get behind the team and fight. The team might not hear that yelling, but they feel it. I never want to see Oregon rooters quit.” Bill Hayward said that the team which would face O. A. C. Saturday was in the best possible condition— the best conditioned team which has met the Aggies in many years. Refer ring to the clash between O. A. 0. and W. 8. C. last Friday, “Bill" said: “Rumor says that O. A. C. was holding something bark. I can’t imagine what it was.” Laughter and applause greeted him. “Saturday, we expect the rooters to play one half tho game. It will be a wonderful game.” Committees Make Reports Bartholomew dispelled the rumor that the Iron Woman was on tho campus by stating he had wired O. A. C. that to (Continued on page four) Thundering Thousand to Have Final Yell Rehearsal Today Final rehearsal of the Thundering Thousand is scheduled for 4:15 this afternoon on Hayward field, where the football team will stage the last open scrimmage before the big clash with the Aggies Saturday. Rain or shine, every spirited man student in the Uni versity is expected to be out at the field this evening so that the team will witness no such discouraging turnout of rooters as took place during the bleacher rally last week. Also, the stunt must be practiced today, accord ing to “Obie,” or it will be a flivver during the game. This year the rooters are to enter Hayward field for the Aggie-Oregon battle through the gate at the south end of the field. A student ticket one exchanged at the Co-op for the student body ticket—and a rooter’s cap arc the necessary credentials for admittancce. The 600 white-shirted rooters, an important part of the bleacher scenery Haturday afternoon, are assured a special roped off sec tion in a ceutral block of seats. This, believe the yell kings, should be one reason why the Thundering Thousand should lie out to the last unit tonight. “No man should come to the gains Haturdav unless he is prepared to yell vociferously for fill minutes,” said “Ohio.” “Tell the gang to lubricate their vocal cords and come prepared to yell. Wo won’t quit, and if O. A. C. wins we will be still yelling when the game is over.” Although “Obie” has admitted that he and his associate yell kings are to show up on the scene resplendent in new uniforms Saturday, he insists that he does not intend to make a side show out of the yell staff. No acrobatic stunts will be practiced this evening or staged during the game, asserts the yell king, but he intends to keep the rooters on a fighting edge from the initial kick off until the final whistle. According to the yell staff, the big guns of the Thundering Thousand are going to send vocal shells ricochetting across Hayward field and into the grandstand which will make the O. A. 0. cheering sound like a fizzling fire cracker.