Oregon Sunday Emerat
VOLUME XXIV,
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1922
NUMBER 17
Bugologists
Revel ’Mongst Stones
and Old Ccrumbly Bones;
Geologists
Crack Rocks, Stall on
Funny Snails; Call on
Fossilists
By Link
Little fossil, wlivinell
DiJ you die aud leave your shell
On that Cretaceous ocean floor—
Why did you not disintegrate?
That should have been your proper
fate
Then I’d not have to sit up late
To assemble you once more.
Last Sunday’s Emerald set forth the
beauties of the pursuit of knowledge on
the Campus during the summer session,
but there were others whpse thirst
for experience in unravelling the mys
teries of geologic ages long past led
them farther than the Condon Museum.
The 1922 Summer camp of the U. of
O. Geology Deparment was held on
Griffen Creek, about seven miles south
of Medford. Under the direction of
Dr. Packard, work began the Monday
following examinations and lasted
three weeks, ending with a trip to the
Oregon Caves.
Rise with Early Birds
Instead of dashing madly to an eight
o’clock, these intrepid scientists arose
with the lark (if there are any around
Medford) and started the day with the
best the chef d’ occasion could pro
duce; then with a couple of sandwiches
for lunch and a canteen of water, set
out to crack loose another date or two
from the earth’s calendar. Returning
in time for supper, they would hastily
bolt their home cooking and try to
piece together the information and fos
sils gathered througlit the day. Phil
Brogan, publicity agent par excellence,
kept the world informed of our scienti
fic progress.
While we can fully appreciate the
excitement to be derived from a con
test between the married and single
men, or a furious set of croquet, (these
fascinating events being a part of Sum
mer School) let it be understood that
the geologists-to-date had their pleas
ures as well as those who found solace
in the soothing silence of a well oiled
millrace.
Ditch Wading Delightful
After an all day stroll over a per
pendicular landscape, gathering fifty
pounds or so of choice rock specimens
in the balmy hundred-and-ten-in-the
shade sunshine, what could be more
delightful than a dip in a knee deep
irrigation ditch t What matter if the
crystal brooklet had taken on the hue
of a sunburned Indian in its tortuous
course thru wavy alfalfa fields t What
if it did leave a deposit of Cretaceous
alluvium upon the topography of the
bather? Water is wet. Wetness is
refreshing. The mud served as a plas
ter to alleviate the irritation of sun
burn and poison oak.
Then, too, there was always mail
for Ian Campbell and some times a
letter on of the rest of us. The pino
chole class met every evening, their
studies broken only by heated argu
ments such as “when is granite grani
diorite,’’ or “Is Trigonia Fitelii a vari
ation of Trigonia Lena?’’.
Were you oyster, snail or clams f—
Not that I really give a dam
But science says you must be clas
sified.
Did you simply stay and sit
On that friendly sandy spit
And let your food come on the tide?
Fault-finding Pastime
Fault-finding was a popular diversion.
Not that the members of the party were
afflicted with mania for criticism, but
the presence of Paleozoic Metamorphics
and Chico Cretaceous on opposite sides
of the camp had to be explained. The
adherents to the fault hypothesis spent
their leisure discovering new faulty evi
dence.
After Ford Wilson had wrapped the
last of the ten rock specimens required
of each members of the party and the
finest fossils had been padded for tran
sportation to the department, we set
off for the Oregon Caves—led by the
world’s champion pack carrying hiker,
Dr. Packard. The dusty miles rolled
away beneath our hob-nailed boots, and
we arrived that night at the alleged
town of Applegate. Walkley and Biggs
had arrived on their snorting tin
horses with the provisions, so we
made camp in the midst of a flock
of young turkeys. A restful night was
spent by all, swatting mosquitoes, and
we were awakened early by the gob
bling of the grasshopper traps as they
stalked their breakfasts.
Cavemen Are Unheeded
Next day we ascended the old trail
to the Caves, and camped in sight of
the downy mattresses which could be
had by those posessing a surplus of
capital. Siskyou, the pet deer of the
botel-camp, consumed all of Dr. Pack
ard’s jelly sandwiches about midnight,
(Continued on page two.)
1
IS MENTAL ARISTOCRACY
TO BE AMERICAN TRAIT?
MANY CRY “NO!” SOME COLLEGE
HEADS SPONSER IDEA
Increased Enrollment Cited as Proof
That Students Are Seeking
Practical Education
Is there such a thing in America as
a “mental aristocracy”? Will Ameri
cans, who pride themselves upon their
adherence to the principle that all men
are "free and equal,” agree to recog
nize such a caste in American life as
that proposed by President Mark Hop
ikins of Dartmouth University?
Quite apparently “no,” is the answer
! which the crowds have given to Presi
dent Hopkins, and those college author
ities who have supported him in his
| stand. The enrollment in every college
' in the country has increased this fall,
with the exception of those institu
tions where students were absolutely
forbidden admittance, either upon the
excuse of an entrance examination, or
overcrowded conditions and lack of
equipment.
Columbia University, New York City,
admitted 31,000 students to its halls of
i learning this fall. At the University
of California, 15,000 students tread, at
its various stages, the path of learn
ing. And that is only for the students
resident on the campus during the col
lege year. Counting her extension
courses, summer schools, inter-term
courses, and subsidiary institutions,
California probably numbers between
26,000 and 30,000 people among her stu
dents; 10,000 students are on the Uni
versity of California’s campus daily.
Look at the following list and read
the desires of thousands of men and
women to attain an education—just a
good workable education, not desiring
to belong to any “mental aristocracy.”
And remember that many colleges, like
Oregon, have been forced, through in
adequacy of equipment, to limit their
numbers, at least temporarily.
Columbia University .31,000
University of Pennsylvania .19,000
University of California .15,000
Northwestern University . 9,000
University of Illinois . 8,000
University of Iowa . 7,000
Chicago University . 6,000
Oregon Agricultural College . 3,000
University of Oregon . 2,200
Washington State College . 1,887
University of Idaho . 1,400
!
HONOR SOCIETIES ON
CAMPUS NOW TOTAL 34
19 Organizations Are National;
15 Originated Here
With the installation of Phi Beta
Kappa, there will be 34 honor societies
on the campus this year, 19 of which
are national and 15 local organizations.
The societies are departmental and only
those students who stand highest in
scholarship and ability in the different
schools are elected to membership. A
student is never taken into any of these
organizations by the “handshaking”
method. Hard work and perseverence
are the two qualifications that deter
mine a candidate’s chances of becom
ing an honor fraternity member.
Majority Have President
The majority of the organizations
have a president, but a few appoint
committees to. take the place of a pres
ident. The national honor'fraternities
with their presidents are: Phi Beta
Kappa, a scholarship society for men
and women, has been granted the Uni
versity but has not been installed yet;
Sigma Delta Chi, journalism, for men,
Kenneth Youel; Theta Sigma Phi, jour
nalism for women, Mary Lou Burton;
Hammer and Coffin, humorous publica
tions for men, John Braddock; Mu Phi
Epsilon, music, for women, Florence
Garrett); Phi Mu Alpha, music, for
men, Glen Morrow; Tau Kappa Alpha,
forensics for men, Paul Patterson; Zeta
Kappa Psi, forensics for women, Lur
line Coulter; Delta Theta Phi, law for
men, Walter Whitcomb; Phi Delta Phi,
law for men, Harry Skyrman; Sigma
Upsilon, literary for men, Gene Whit
ten; Pi Lambda Theta, education for
women, Felicia Perkins; Phi Delta
Kappa, education for men, Ralph
Moore; Alpha Kappa Psi, commerce
for men, Ralph Couch; Bet^ Gamma
Sigma, commerce for men, Harold
Simpson; Phi Theta Kappa, commerce
for women, Audrey Perkins; Beta Al
pha Psi, accounting for men, Harold
Simpson; Associated University Play
ers, dramatics, for men and women,
has no active president; Geological and;
Mining Society of American Univer
sities, geology for men and women,
Raymond Porter; Phi Mu Alpha, music
for men, Glen Morrow.
Societies Listed
The local societies with their re
spective presidents are: University
Science club, science students, for men
and women, Dr. E. L. Packard; Cross
roads, honor and research, for faculty
and men, Remey Cox; Pot and Quill,
writers, for women, Marion Crary; El
Circulo Castellano, Spanish students,
Herbert Schenck; Le Foyer Francais,f
(Continued on page two.)
SPIRIT OF FREEDOM
URGED BY BURGESS
Fir Trees Are Compared to
Short-Skirted Flappers, and
Deodar Is Dignified Lady
CAMPUS NEED EXPRESSED
Round-up Boy Gets By Heavy
With Highbrow Line; Many
Students Read Good Books
By J. M. T.
The deodar outside Villard Hall is a
stately and dignified lady of a past
generation, with her skirts trailing
about her on the campus lawn; and the
fir trees nearby are naughty, young,
daring creatures, quite emancipated,
with their skirts comfortably and
pleasingly short.
This is a remark Miss Burgess made
once, and one that some modernist
producer of free verse ought to put
into poetry and sell, because they al
ways say that everything that’s any
good ought to be sold.
Miss Burgess’ fir-tree-girls are a lit
tle behind the times, this year, con
sidering that instead of lengthening
their gowns by means of drapes and
other articles, they ’Te making them
shorter than ever. Miss Burgess is
one of those persons who quietly ob
serves a great deal, but don’t say any
thing until they’re asked—about cam
pus affairs as about other things. Be
cause the little remark concerning the
fir trees showed a touch of whimsical
humor that students don’t always ex
pect to find in their instructors, Miss
Burgess was asked what she thought
about this shortening of skirts on the
part of the fir trees—flapperism being
out of date. She smiled, and answered
something about the campus automo
biles being able to sweep grander
curves if the trees weren’t allowed to
take up more than their share of room.
Miss Burgess’ eyes can twinkle delight
fully.
Young Are Self-Assertive
Since the well-worn subject of flap
perism had come up, the reporter asked
Miss Burgess what she thought of our
campus freedom. She had in her hand
at the time a theme somebody had writ
ten on the flapper, but she didn’t hack
any more at a subject already hack
neyed. She thinks that although, ow
ing perhaps to Freud and his ideas on
self-repression, young people have been
rather blatantly assertive of their per
sonalities and desires, self-expression
can be a virtue when it manifests it
self in independence and self-reliance.
“We may get a greater degree of intel
lectual independence, of fearlessness of
intellectual opinion, from this spirit of
freedom,”' Miss Burgess said, “and
there’s nothing this campus needs
more.”
Students, Miss Burgess said, often
read an astonishing amount of what
they might call highbrow literature, al
together outside their class assign
ments. “When I take out books from
the library,” she said, “I have the
curiosity to look at the names on the
cards, and I have noticed that students
read a good deal in philosophy and
aesthetics and other sorts of books not
required in their classes.”
oome QLUU.CII.bH Uigumuwn
Publicity personified in the form of
a well-known student in the school of
journalism entered Miss Burgess’ room
as she was speaking of what University
students read, and served to illustrate
a point. “This student,” Miss Bur
gess said, “read ‘Jean Cristophe’ while
he was in Colorado this summer, and
was so pleased with having done so
that he wrote to tell me. He sent it,”
she added, with a twinkle, “in a large
Pendleton Roundup envelope, with a
bucking bronco on the cover.” The
clever remark about “publicity per
sonified” was made, since newspaper re
ports must be accurate, by Miss Bur
gess herself, and was not just now
whacked off the typewriter—and brain
—of the Emerald reporter; but it’s
quite a piece of self-sacrifice to have
to admit it.
All of which goes to show that a
sense of humor isn’t confined to the
Lemon Punch, nor a spirit of observa
tion of the campus to the official pub
lications. Both these useful qualities
often sit behind class-room desks and
lecture to us on important subjects, but
neither lecturer nor student can get all
his wisdom from text-books.
Outsiders Among Archies
Of the 120 majors in the school of
architecture, one out of every six is a f
transfer from other schools or colleges,
according to Professor E. F. Lawrence, |
dean. The larger part of these trans- j
ferred students are from schools with-1
in the state of Oregon, although Wash-1
ington, Montana, California, and even
North Dakota are represented. One of
the attractions of the local architectur
al school to outside students is the
group of teachers’ training courses.
Many of the transferred students have
come from normal institutions.
Football in Old Oregon Days
*********
Battles of Strange Tactics Told
Tales of Ancient Contests with Portland University, Albany
College and 0. A. C. Related by Sport Scribe; Contests
in Sea of Sticky Mud and Rain Described
(By Ep Hoyt)
In ‘' ve goode olde days” when Ore
gon was called the O. S. U., when the
center was called the centerrush, de
serving the title, the first gridiron con
test was held with Albany college and
‘‘the O. 8. U. ” took the Presbyterian
delegation into camp 4(5-0. That game
was played on February 22, 1804. The
gridiron was located between the walk,
that leads from 1:2th street to Doady,
and 13th just above the present location
of the “Y” hut.
A team was organized in the fall of
’93 and Cal Young of Eugene elected
coach but tho organization was not
sufficiently perfected until late winter
to permit the scheduling of a game.
The main scoring play in that initial
combat was the ‘‘flying wedge” where
in a man was given the ball and shoved
by sheer force through the opponents
team. That Albany game was the first
and last use of the wedge made by an
Oregon team.
In the fall of '94 largely through
the untiring efforts of Frank Matthews
’95 and ‘‘Hank” Templeton ’95,
Church, a famous Princeton star was
secured as coach and the ‘‘boy of tho
O. 8. U.” settled down in earnest to
put out a football team. Those boys
were ambitious and they tackled Port
land university, then one of the state
strongholds of the grid game and were
beaten 12-0 for their pains.
First Aggie Tilt in ’94
It was in the fall of ’94that football
relations were first opened with ‘‘tho
O. A. C.„ Tho first tilt with the Ag
gies resulted disastrously for Oregon,
O. A. C. winning 18-0 Then as tho sea
son wore on and the Oregon team grad
ually became more proficient in tho
theory and of the gentle art of foot
ball a practice game was scheduled
with the strong Pacific university
team. The contest was played. The
two teams battled it out through a driv
ing rain on a ‘‘sticky, muddy field
south of Eugene” (the old Stewart race
track) and as the chronicle has it, ‘‘it
was a very muddy game even for Ore
gon. ’ ’
The Pacific team was light and fast
and thoroughly scienced in the sport
and ‘‘at first the visitors simply walked
over O. S. U. But across the field be
tween them and the coveted goal line
ran a large ditch full of water of consi
derable depth and width and not being
good swimmers the P. U. boys simply
could not get over.” Tired of their
efforts to force the ball accross the
visitors resorted to strategy and re
solved to Kick. “ The quarter hurled
a large chunk of clay at the full back
who caught it and let drive with his
foot. It rained mud for a few min
utes.”
Players Mire in Mud
Finally they found the ball and the
game went on. According to the report
‘‘it was quite amusing to see tho play
ers searching among the lumps of clay
for the ball.” Where lightness made
it impossible for Pacific to gain her
ground on the heavy field the weight
of the Oregon team rendered them equ
ally importent and in tho next half
| the O. U. found it impossible to force
| the pigskin across the canal. But one
j Oregon player could gain yardage,
| Travis, and he but three yeards at a
clip, the story of the game discloses
I that “Travis would take the ball and
bring stuck in the mud would merely
; fall forward thus gaining his three
1 yards.”
Yes, the first season of football at
the O. !8. U. was unsuccessful but the
practice gained in the reverses of ’94
gave rise to one of the greatest seasons
Oregon has ever experienced on the
gridiron that of 1895 when every game
was won. Harry S. Templeton was
elected captain and Percy 'Benson who
had attained gridiron fame as a quart
er back at the University of California
was retained as coach. The team won
the intercollegiate championship of
Oregon defeating Portland university
6-4, Willamette twice 8-4 and 6-0 while
the stain of the previous year at the
hands of the Aggies was wiped out by
a 46-0 victory.
Famed tSars Named
Some of the players who won fame
on that great eleven were E. P. “Ted”
SWattuck, ‘ ‘ Oregon’s great guard ’ ’ who
later won high athletic distinction at
Columbia university, Now York, Big
John Edmunson also a guard, Coleman
who was known as the “rod domon end
rush,” C. M. Bishop and E. It. Bryson.
The fall of ’96 saw .1. P. Frick of
the Itelianee Athletic club of San Fran
cisco elected coach and “Big John”
Edmonson '96 captain. The first game
vas a practice session with ‘ ‘ the O. A.
C. ” in Eugene and in the words of the
old Oregon Monthly “The day was
rainy, the ground muddy and the ball
slippery. After a long succession of
fumbles the O. A. C. was compelled to
touch the ball down bohind their own
goal thus scoring two for the U. O. ”
Once during that hardfought game an
Aggie back broke through and put a
touchdown over “But as Whittier
might have remarkod it was not so bad
for tho aforesaid farmer failed to hang
onto the ball so whon they wont to
hang onto the ball so when they wont to
kick goal they found the ball tight
in tho arms of a Eugene man . . . .and
some people wore disappointed and
some were not.”
Aggies Pleased with Showing
Tire Aggies well pleased with their
showing and in that game and secured
a return contest to be played in Cor
vallis. “This game was played in Cor
vallis in a fierco wind and rainstorm.
There was so much rain that the lime
lines wero washed out as fast as they
could be laid, as a substitute small
ditches wore dug .... Tho crowd ac
companied the ball up and down the
field helping with the interference.
Tho crowd made things interesting fori
the U. O. players and an O. A. C. man j
hit the referee. As tho “Monthly”
naively put it, “the Eugene team got [
out of town as quickly as possible and I
vowed never to go back, and they never J
have and they probably never will such j
is the memory of tho treatment that
they received.” However Oregon won i
that game 8-4.
STUDENTS OF SOUTHERN
INSTITUTIONS IN FIGHT
Clubs, Brickbats and Bombs Used in
Desperate Battle Between Bival
Colleges; One Man May Die
Two thousand students, armed with
clubs, brickbats and gas bombs, fought
a desperate battle on the campus of
the southern branch of the University
of California Friday night. One com
batant suffered possible serious injur
ies and scores received severe wounds.
Those injured were burned by gasoline
bombs and maimed by blows on the
head and body. The fight was waged
between students of the University of
Southern California and the southern
branch of the institution.
Roger Vargas, the most seriously in
jured of the combatants, may die of
his wounds. He is at the Los Angeles
County hospital.
According to police who answered
the riot call and subdued the battlers
after a fierce struggle, the fight result
ed when 600 armed students from the
University of California attacked the
southern branch students, who had
been gathered for a football rally for
the game with Occidental college to
day. The fire department also respond
ed when University of California stu
dents set fire to a large woodpile.
University authorities and police are
conducting a thorough investigation of
the affair.
The two neighboring institutions arc
affiliated in no way except that their
maintenance is conducted through one
form of taxation.
HIST—NEW SECRET CLUB
FORMED BY DATELESS MEN
Prominent Studes Band Together to
Defy Women’s Buies During
Senior Leap Week
A dark secret! For men only! The
leap is to be taken out of leap week,
leaving it like any other week.
A clan more clannish than the Triple
Kays is the Obak club, all members of
which are solemnly pledged, until bil-1
Hard balls are made square, not to en-|
courage, promise nor accept one single:
(late upon the week of the leapcrs.
The membership includes some of the
biggest men on the campus. One of the
organizers, however, a most prominent
journalist, has betrayed the cause. He
was one of the framers of the consti
tution at yesterday afternoon’s meet
ing, but on reaching home he accepted
two dates, which automatically obli
gates his resignation.
So bethink you, senior co-eds, before
[you make your dates, for the club is
morciless. All names of women at
i tempting to date up a club member
will receive pitiless publicity through
the Obak Squealer. That is not all;
■ after leap week, woman shall be
scorned (quote from by-laws) “even
: as the mud beneath our feet.”
A mass meeting will be held soon in
i the club rooms immediately after a
certain dance, at which his Highness,
i the High Hermit, will outline the course
■ to be taken. Several prominent campus
back sliders are to be reprimanded for
alleged acceptance of dates. The Obak
I Scandal monger will report the meeting.
HOLD FROSH TO TIE
Battle Is Hard Fought From
Start to Finish; Numerous
Penalties Doles Out to Babes
FINAL COUNT IS SEVEN ALL
Wilcox, Gosser and Hunt forced
Out with Injuries; Curran,
Columbia, carried off Field
By Alfred Erickson
Fighting stubbornly before the su
perior weight and experience of their
opponents, Coaeli Buz Williams’ frosh
gridsters signalled their initial appear
ance on Hayward field yesterday by
holding the Columbia university eleven
to a 7 to 7 tie in a rough, hard-fought
game marred by many penalties.
The Oregon yearlings from the open
ing whistle showed n dash and fight
that was remarkable and but for their
misfortune in drawing numerous pen
alties, coupled with their inability to
break up the uncanny forward passing
of the visitors, would have gained the
victory.
In the first ten minutes of play the
babes went over for a touchdown, after
taking the ball from Columbia in their
own territory and marching straight
down the field by a series of fast end
runs. Led by the speedy work of Fur
vine, Brosterhouso and Anders, on the
freshmen swept the heavy Portlanders
off their feet, putting the pigskin on
Columbia’s five-yard lino, from where
Anderson carried it over in a line
plunge. Anderson also converted the
goal. Oregon then kickod off, Collins
carrying the ball back to the Columbia
40-yard line. Here the freshmen held
for throe downs, when their first pen
alty allowed the Portlanders their first
down in midflold, just as the quarter
ended.
Frosh Defense Stubborn
The stubborn defense of the frosh
kept the visitors from gaining much
by carrying the ball, and they were
forced to resort to forward pussing, a
style of play which netted them most
of the yardage during the rest of the
contest. The first half ended with the
ball in Columbia’s possession in mid
field.
i no visitors openea up me bocouu
half with much more snap and soon
had the yearlings on the defensive. By
a mixture of end runs and a BorioB of
snappy forward passes they carried the
pigskin to the babes’ 20-yard line,
where the frosh held them. Schulme
rieh then attempted a place kick but
the ball went wild and was carried by
Poulsen to the 20-yard line. Oregon
then punted and the visitors again
opened up their aerial game. After
several incompleted passes, a long spiral
from Schulmerich to Cudahy brought
Columbia to the yearlings’ ten-yard
line, where the fighting first year men
again hold and punted out of danger.
Early in the fourth quarter, however,
Cudahy went over for a touchdown
after another long pass had brought
the bail to the three-yard lino. Collius
kicked goal, tying the scoro.
Last Quarter Fast
The remainder of the game was spir
itedly contested with all the breaks
going against the Oregon lads. In the
last 10 minutes of play, the yearlings
carried the ball to their opponents’
five-yard lino only to bo penalized half
the distance to the opposite goal line
for roughness.
Frequent injuries on both sides
marked the play and the last half was
long and drawn out. Wilcox, Gosser,
Bhreeve and Hunt for the frosh wero
forced to retire because of injuries, and
Curran, Columbia end, was carried off
the field with a fractured rib.
The game ended with the ball in Co
lumbia’s possession in midfield.
The lineup:
Freshmen—7 Columbia—7
Bass. LER .Doughertj
A. Sinclair. LTR .Ransavag.
Hunt. LOR .-.Hicks
Gosser. C Cadiga*
Wilcox . RGB MeElhane>
Mautz.BTL .Van Orden
Carlberg. RKL Haner
Anderson Q Cudahy
Poulsen. LHR Schulmerich
Purvine. BHh .-.Johnson
Brosterhouse. F .Collins
Referee: Dean Walker; Umpire: Ter
ry Johnson; Head linesman: Gordon
Wilson.