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VOLUME XXVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1924 NUMBER 5 Fraternities Pledge Themselves Whole heartedly and Without Reserve to a Vital Support to Elevate To Honor and Desira bility the Responsible Position of Frosh Presidency ' By D. L. W. The resignation of Walter Cush man from the freshman presidency almost before the ballots had been thrown into the waste basket once again brings forward an unsettled question. “Should the head of the yearlings be a respected and carefully se lected class member or should he be nothing but a green-lidded fig urehead who shall receive nothing save fingers pointing with pity and thoughts whispered of, ‘Fool’?” During tlie last tnree years tnere has been some attempt to make the position desirable for ambitious and capable men of the entering classes. Some success had been attained. And then comes the refusal by a fraternity pledge to accept the re sponsibilities just invested in him. A similar withdrawal took place last year. Administration of the affairs of the freshman class requires a leader. That leader must organize. He must do. He must accomplish— several things. The freshmen body is responsible for the Homecoming bonfire. It must stage a successful University dance. It must become collectively, individually, whole heartedly—Oregon-ized. The member who fills these re quirements is not “just anybody”— one who has been persuaded, per haps duped, into believing he should be “It.” It is time to ahange. Time to place the position of the president of the freshman class of the Univer sity of Oregon on the same high plane freshman presidents hold in other Universities. That means the support of the fraternities. It demands coopera tion on the part of the sophomores, and requires “urge” from the stu dent body. That support is given. Twelve men’s houses have subscribed to a compact binding themselves to up hold that spirit and to place no re strictions on any of their number running for the office. That demand for cooperation is met. Russell Larwrence, head of the sophomores, stands for the move ment without reserve. That requirement for “urge” is fulfilled. “No doubt there was a time when we were such a small school—that there wasn’t much out let for student energy—so they re sorted to making sport of the fresh man president. We are grown up now, and, the freshman president, who has so much work to do should be entitled to respect and his of fice raised to one of honor.” Randall Jones, A. S. U. O. presi dent. The materials for effecting this change are good. The spirit is strong. There has been action. The deed is done. Remains only—to keep it done. Which means—support, whole hearted, unreserved. * * * And you, Mr. Student, must give it. LOCAL FRATERNITY FORMED ON CAMPUS A new men’s local fraternity, called Lambda Psi has been formed on the University campus, and is now established in its permanent home at 893 East Eleventh street, corner of Kincaid. Officers of the fraternity are: Paul Ager, president; Harry Hulac, secretary; and O. J. Beatty, man ager. Besides the officers, the charter members are: Jack Rogers, John Lowe, Harry Hoflich, Leland Sha/w, Dell Robinette, Harold Judge, Peter Ermler, Harvey Woods, Ferris Reed, Everett Ogle, and Frank Post. %. A. C. WINS EASY CONTEST FROM WHITMAN The Oregon Agricultural College football eleven eas ily won its opening confer ence game against Whitman yesterday, at Pendleton, 41 to 0. The Aggies had the game their own way at all times. Oregon meets the Whitman team, October 25. o-... ——-c> NEW STRUCTURE TO BE MASSIVE Science Building Will House Laboratories, Offices, And All Reserve Books STYLE TO BE SIMPLE Facilities for Study Will be Much Greater Owing to Conveniences and Space The Dew science building on the corner of Thirteenth and Kincaid, which has been causing much spec ulative interest among the students, will be a three-story brick structure, trimmed with cream-colored archi tectural terra cotta. The appearance of the building and style of archi tecture will be in keeping with the general design of all the newer buildings on the campus. The first unit of the structure, now under construction, will face the east, the rather massive entrance bejing similar to that of the Oregon build ing opposite, but with just a series of* cement steps, with terra cotta rail ings for the approach, and extending' only a part of the distance across the building. The arch around the door will also be of solid terra cotta. A side entrance will correspond in design. The windows throughout the building will have steel frames which will be movable, in order that the classrooms may be easily ventilated. On the first floor will be labora tories for paleontology, geology, pe trology, mineralogy, geography and assaying, with an office adjoining each laboratory. This floor will cor respond to a basement, but will be almost on ground level. The second floor will house the re serve book department of the library [which is now so inadequately taken I care of. It will also contain a larg? reading room, a circulating hall, and men’s and women's coat rooms. Mrs. Hugh P. Ford, head of the reserve department, thinks that the facilities for study and getting reserve books to use will be incomparably better khan they are at the present time, [and many more books can be accomo dated, due to the much larger space. Two large lecture rooms, a seminar room and a research room will be located on the third floor. There will also be several offices, 19 indi vidual laboratories, and seven booths | for storage on this floor. | There will not be a great increase in space for the science department but there will be the advantage of having all ' of the classrooms and laboratories together. CAMPUS CELEBRATES “We shall be ready and waiting,” is the word given out by the ladies of the campus who are preparing for the annual festivities of open house, slated to commence tonight at seven o ’clock. Every last man on the campus, whether he be in an organization or not, is urged to take part in this yearly affair. It is, according to former students, one of the most enjoyable evenings spent during the University year and should not be missed by anyone. Several warnings have been is sued by the activities committee re garding the schedules to be fol lowed tonight, to prevent possible confusion. They request that the person in charge of each group make certain of the next organization and its location before continuing over the route. To leave on time and be at the houses on time is absolutely necessary to keep the schedule run ning smoothly. , “If it rains, I hope the men wear rubbers. It is a terrible lot of trouble to polish hardwood floors,” was the plea of one young lady. Delta Delta Delta will entertain in the new Sigma Nu house, on Eeventh street. Through some er ror this was overlooked in yester day ’s Emerald wherein the list of organizations, which will not be in their own homes, was printed. Last Call Sounded For Homecoming Slogan Campaign The last call for Homecoming slogans is being sounded today. At noon, Jeanette Calkins and the slogan committee will gather the slogans turned in and pick the best one. “If you haven't turned in one, turn one in now, and if you've already written one write a still better one,” urges the committee. A little more real ■ old Oregon fight as illustrated ; by a certain sorority which would not let the girls leave the luncheon table until they had written one. would help things considerably. The committee has received quite a number of slogans, but the idea of the football game seems to be predominant in most of them, it reports, and not the welcoming spirit to our alums and former students, which is really what Homecoming is for. Five dollars as a prize for the best slogan turned in by a student and two complimentary ' tickets if the winner is an alumnus or former student are offered. WILLAMETTE GRID MEN DECLARED INELIGIBLE Three Players in Oregon Game Start Home The game last Saturday between Oregon and Willamette, which ended in a scoreless tie, will probably be technically forfeited to Oregon, due to the fact that three men were play ing on the Willamette team in direct violation of conference rules. Each of the three men had already played four years of football at McPherson College, in Kansas. In a statement given out yester day, Dean George H. Alden, of Willamette University, said the men had withdrawn from college and were on their way back to Kansas. Neither the players nor the school officials knew they were ineligible, according to Dean Alden. The three men, who are ‘ ‘ Big Bill ’ ’ Mulray, guard, Colburn, substitute center, and Carter, halfback, in com pany with three others, drove out from Kansas during the summer, and took summer school work at Willam ette. In the fall they registered as bonafide students, and although it was known they had previously play ed college football, no question was raised as to their status. It was not until after the Oregon game this was found out. The loss of these three men will materially weaken the Willamette squad. Coach Bathbun, of Willam ette, is in Seattle with his team, and has issued no statement. Nothing of ficial will be announced, of course, I until the officials of the Northwest conference act. i I WORK HAS BEEN HEAVY AT EXTENSION OFFICE Work in the extension division has been very brisk during the last month, according to Miss Mary E. Kent, office manager, and is larger now than ever before. In August, 1464 lesson reports were received. , Sixty-nine courses have been com ! pleted so far this year, and 114 course registrations are in. There have also been 455 more reading circle certificates to date this year than last. A reading circle manu , script has to be sent in to this de Ipartment or to 0. A. C. by each ! teacher in Oregon unless they at tend an institute. I E. F. Carlton, field representa | tive for the extension division, :read the papers before leaving ;for field work. _ PRESERVES AND JELLY MALE BY COOKING CLASS Prospective home-makers, mem jbers of the elementary class in i cooking in the household arts de partment, have acquired the art of I making jelly, conserve and marma lade during the past week. The ! jelly and preserves made in the ! classroom are either used in serv jing meals in the department or •they are sold. No public sale has ever been held, but students and 'faculty members often purchase ithem from the department. MUSIC TOUTS TOE ON MONDAY Lack of Instruments Felt. Final Plans of Concerts And Annual Trip Not Made TO BE TWO ORCHESTRAS Villard Hall Will be Used For Rehearsals Until New, Music Building is Ready! Rex Underwood, director of the University orchestra, announced yes terday that tryouts for that organi zation will be held Monday even ing from 5 to 6 o'clock in the Mu sic building, instead of today. The director urges that students playing any kind of instrument, with the exception of the saxophone, try out at this time. There is a special demand for brass in the orchestra and vacan cies have also been created in the string and wood-wind sections. All tryouts will be held privately, so that the aspirants need not fear the presence of an audience. There will be a first and second orchestra this year, giving wide opportunity for those playing only fairly well to. be come members of one of the organi zations. , As yet no definite plans have been formulated for the orchestra sea son. At least four concerts will be given on*the campus. During spring vacation, the annual trip will be taken to some part of the state. Many towns in Central Oregon were visited by the organization last season. New programs will be worked out this year, and an en tirely new repertoire will be estab lished. The director has lost many valued musicians by graduation and announces that all coiners will be given fair tryouts, in order that the vacancies may be filled with the best material available. Rehearsals will be held on Tues day and Thursday evenings at 7:3C in Villard hall during the month of October. With the opening of the new Music auditorium, all rehear sals will be held there. EMERALD CAMPAIGN BRINGS SUBSCRIPTIONS Five thousand notices of the Emerald circulation campaign have been sent to alumni in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. These ef forts have brought results already and the subscriptions are on the in crease although a much greater num ber are expected to subscribe before the campaign is over, according to James Leake, business manager of the Emerald. In former years there have been less than five hundred Emeralds sent to outsiders. This year it is hoped to raise the number to at least a thousand. One of the advantages of send ing home the Emerald is to interest the parents of the students in the campus and give them an allaround view of the activities in which their sons and daughters are taking part. “Students usually forget to save their Emeralds. Sending the paper directly to the home means that it will be kept and can later be bound as a record of school days,” said Leake in setting forth the advant ages of subscribing for parents. Members of the Emerald staff and representatives appointed in the various organizations will be on hand at all times during the next two weeks for those desiring to ob tain supscriptions. MUSIC GRADUATE TEACHES IN KLAMATH FALLS HIGH Eloise McPherson, ’24, is teach ing in the Klamath county high school at Klamath Falls, in the mu sic and English departments. MisB McPherson graduated from the school of music and received a B.M. degree. She was a member of Mu Phi EpBilon, Kwama, and the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. During the summer Miss McPherson. Ber nice Yeo, and Ruth Akers enter tained at Crater Lake where they gave 64 concerts during the season. I FRATERNITIES COMBINE TO ELEVATE POSITION OF FROSH PRESIDENT Fraternities Agree To Support New Freshmen President; Attempt To Place Office In Respected Position A firmly-launched movement is under way among (the men’s fraternities to place the office of freshman president on a level with other respected campus positions. Last night twelve men’s fraternities “believing the fresh man presidency should be an honorable and respected position HOIIS ASPIRANTS FOR AAEN’S GLEE CLUB Second Tryout to be Held Today at One-Thirty Thirty-five men were successful in first glee club try-out held yes terday evening. John Star; Evans, director of the club, said that he was very favorably impressed with the quality of the voices, and for that reason a large selection was made. The following are to participate in the second tryout which will be held today at 1:30 p. m. in the music building. They are requested to bring a solo with which they are familiar: Robert Hunt, Frank Reid, cent Hill. Blain Alderman, Tom Donald Whitman, Ellis Lake, V:in McKenzie, Leroy Stephens, Reginald Heber, Charles Norton, Walter Dur gan, Boyd Homewood, David Foulkes, Raleigh Greene, Winston Lake, Arthur Everett, Alton Bas sett, George Wardner. Earnest Brokenshire, Arthur Gray. Jim Ross, Frank Warner, Clinton Mercer, Cecil Matson, Merritt Rodda, Jim Stewart, Tom Powers, Frank Roehr, Ward Rice, Ronald Kretzer, Hollis Carey, Raymond Crites, Ellis Lake, Alvin Christiansen, and Rahlas Ep ping. Speaking Contest Aspirants to Hold Tryouts Monday Tryouts for the Pacific Coast Public Speaking League’s ex tempore speaking contest will be held Monday at 4 p. m. in Villard hall. The contest this year will be held at Stanford and the winner of the local j tryout (willa be sent there as Oregon’s representative. The subject for the tryouts is: “The Power of Federal Courts to Overrule Acts of Congress,” and subdivisions of this general topic will be as signed to each of the aspirants on Monday. All those expect ing to take part in the tryouts should report to Mr. Rosson in his office, 207 Sociology build ing, by 3 o’clock to receive their particular topics. Everyone who is interested in debate or public speaking is urged by Elam Anistutz, foren sic manager, to turn out for these tryouts. THREE SISTERS MAP NEARING COMPLETION | A map of the Three Sisters re i gion is nearing completion in the 'department of geology. This map shows in detail the half dozen peaks of that area, the glaciers, and char acter of the rocks. It also shows volcanoes dissected to their very core, as well as young volcanoes whose lavas are barely cold. This map will be of great service to the tourists jcho come from all parts of the world to visit this great | playground. The Three Sisters ! region contains ten square miles of the largest number of glaciers in the j United States. It is one of the I most interesting areas for the sci entist along the Pacific Coast, and will be visited by as many tourists as now frequent the geological 'parks, such as Yosemite and Crater Lake. The map will be published in the near future by the University of ; Oregon together with a pamphlet | describing this area. The study of ! this country was made by Professor ; E. T. Hodge and a party of geologi cal students last summer under the auspices of the research committee of the University of Oregon. luc ijmvciouy ui vic^uu entered into a compact whereby each house pledged itself to do all in its power “to protect the dignity of the office,” andliad promise d that whomever elected would be given their “whole-hearted support.” Compact Supported This Agreement is not an attempt to place a fraternity man in the freshman presidency. It is merely an affirmation that in the future these fraternities will permit and encourage their members to accept this position if tendered. Following is the compact, to which in effect, the houses have sub scribed : “We, the undersigned, believing the freshman presidency should be an honorable and respected posi tion in the University of Oregon, pledge ourselves to do all in our power to protect the dignity of the office, and, should one of our num ber be selected to serve in this capacity, we shall give him our whole-hearted support.” Those agreeing unreservedly were: Alpha Beta Chi, Alpha Tau Omega, Baehelordon, Beta Theta Pi, Chi Psi, Kappa Delta Phi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Sigma Pi. Psi Kappa, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nil and Lambda Psi. Action Spontaneous Plri Gamma Delta and Delta Tau Delta agreed to assist in “ placing the freshman president in a digni fied and honorable position.” Sigma Pi Tau will swing in lino when the others have asserted their position. Phi Kappa Psi, believing the mat ter to be of considerable import wish to give the matter additional j consideration. Kappa Sigma be lieves the Oregon tradition of dis counting the office should not be disturbed. Sigma Alpha Epsilon had not as yet reported their stand yesterday evening. This action, more or less spon taneous on the part of the frater nities, resulted from a general and campus-wide appreciation of the embarrassing position in which the freshmen have found themselves. Left president-less by the sudden resignation of Walter A. Cushman Thursday evening, ifmediately after his election, the eight or nine hun dred freshmen face the prospect of filling an office with no one willing to accept it. The movement among the houses has found favor among a number of well known students. Randall Jones, president of the A. S. U. O. when broached upon the (Continued on Page Three) PROSPECTS BRIGHT I i With the loss of only three last year’s varsity men, varsity swim ming prospects look good. The sprinters are especially promising. Lombard, Stone, Boggs, McCabe, Boyden, Marshall, Stoddard, Her ron, Yoran, Dills and Alderman, are all sprinters of exceptional speed. Samuels and Heider will furnish strong competition to any plungers who come in contact wit!, them. A new man, Erickson, adds great hope to Coach Fahl’s ambitions for a team that will take the coast championship this year. Erickson is the Pacific coast ba/ckstroke champion. This insures Oregon of points in this event in any meet. Coach Rudolph Fahl says, “We have better prospects this year than [ever before. With the experience igained by last year’s varsity, with the new material from last year’s frosh team and with the addition of Erickson, we have hopes of plac ing nearer the top than ever be fore.” Fahl expects to take the team on a trip through California, having meets with the leading California I schools, et.pe.iuhy the XJniv.r.-l'.y of j California and Stanford. DISTANCE TEAM BEGINS TRAIN! Three Veterans Supported By Promising Men From 1924 Frosh Track Squad MORE ARE WANTED OUT Hayward Has Big Nucleus To Work With in Spring; Sprinters are Plentiful Cross-country men have been working out on Hayward field for the past week. Not very much'real work has been done, however. That will come in due time or in about two weeks when the distance men start running the course in earnest. The three and a half mile jaunt takes a lot of indurance land the men have to work up to it gradually. So far Hayward has had them merely walk around the track. A squad of almost a dozen walked around the course one day last week to familiarize themselves with it before they are in condition to run it. Material Promising That ever present bugbear of dis tance men—and other track men for that matter—is sore legs. It wre< \s a team when some of the best men are put out on account of sore legs. So the cross country men at pres ent are taking it easy. The material out shows up promising in spite of the lack of real veterans. The half dozen new men turning out are undetermined yet as to strength and it is not un likely that some will turn out to be first class distance men. If they can only reach a stage of develop ment when they can bunch their coming in the success of the team is assured. -f Orval Robson, a veteran cross country man who was expected to be back thi^ fall was unable to en ter the University so that leaves the team with only three veterans of any experience. The remainder of the team will be picked from among the most promising frosli dis tance men of last year. It might be said that they are all young an 1 have a lot of chance for showing their wares this year. None of the younger men have reached their full development in track, : ■ Veterans Return Tetz and Keating ran for the var sity last spring. They arc both strong men. Chances are they will go better than ever this year. Tetz has been bothered with his legs in the past. If he can get around this difficulty some way he will show up as the mainstay of the team. Carl ton, who ran cross country in his freshman and sophomore years, came out the other day and boosted the hopes of the team. From the freshmen squad of last year come Jeffries, Swank, Conley and Barnes. Jeffries ran the quar ter for the frosh and if he can com Ibine a little of his quartermiler's speed with his endurance he ought to show up good in the cross coin try meets. Swank is stronger and promises to be better this year than he was last. He was a miler and a half miler who showed a lot of promise and would have easily made the frosh team but ineligibility kept him out. This will be his first year of competition at Oregon. Conley and Barnes both made the frosh team. Both are milers and shouli be stronger this year than las spring. A lot of improvement cai be expected this year from thea men. More Men Needed The schedule this fall includes a meet with Washington on Homecom ing week end, November 1. The j next meet will be with O. A. C. on i November 22, at Corvallis at her j homecoming. j In about two weeks the distance |men will start running around the course. The regular three and a half mile course that the men are running now will be used for all ' meets here. What Bill wants is more men out. | It’s hard to get any competition ! among so small a group of men, and ; competition makes a team. “I I ought to have 50 or 75 men out for I (Continued on Page Three)