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TOLUME XXVIUNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1924 NUMBER 42 OREGON OXFORD DEB A TE TONIGHT VARSITY SPEAKER IN CALIFORNIA — I ss. FINAL RESULTS RECEIVED FROM EASTERN SCHOOL 'Williams College Defeats Oregon, 10,824 to 9034 In Athletic Competition NEW FORM OF CONTEST HELD BETWEEN FROSH ■‘Mee.t by Mail,’ May Become Annual Event; High Point Scores Are Announced With a total score of 10,824 points, Williams college of Wil liamstown, Miassaehusetts, defeated Oregon in their “meet by mail.” Oregon made a grand total of 9,034 points. This meet was started ■during the first part of the term but owing to the time it takes to run through the events and the dis tance between the two schools the final result was not received until yesterday. This is a new form of athletic competition developed between these two schools. It gives every one taking freshmen physical edu cation a chance to compete in one or more events. Individual Average Given There was a total of 255 men ap pearing in some part in the test for Oregon and 235 for Williams. Several of the men failed to com pete in all of the events scheduled thus lowering the total score. The evlents <and avetrag% times made were: 100-yard dash—W. 12.3 seconds; O. 12.8 seconds. Bope Climb-—W. 21 seconds; O. 23 seconds. High Jump—W. 4 feet, 3 inches; O. 4 feet 3 inches. Fence Vault—W. 5.5 seeonds; O. 5.8 sedbnds. 50-yard swim.—W. 44 seconds; O. 51 seconds. The individual average of each participant was Oregon 35.42 per cent and Williams college, 44 per cent. Some of the high point men and their individual scores for Oregon were, Webster Thomas, 78; Freder ick Joy, 74; A. A. Lawrence, 73; George Hill, 71; Lewis Beavis, 69; Thomas Powers, 67; Francis Reeder, 66; Clifford Wilson, 70; George Bitter, 62; and Augusto Esperitu, 03. Williams Men Mentioned A few of the outstanding men for Williams college were, C. T. S.1 Keep, and C. Boynton with 80 points each. R. C. Child, 79; R. G. Peck, 79; T. P. Robinson, 77; H. Dawes, 76; C. S. Davis, 75; R. I. Sharp, 74; G. H. Doughty, 74; and S. Anderson, 74. The scores are compiled on a per centage basis by taking the total number o*f men entered) in each event and figuring the average time. In all probability these meets will be an annual event between the schools. A total of 490 men competed in this meet which proved to be very satisfactory in every way, according to a statement is sued by the school of physical edu cation. WOMEN DISCONTINUE TEAS FOR REMAINDER OF TERM There will be no more Women’s League teas during the rest of the term, because of so many other so cial and scholastic functions which Must be crowded into the two weeks before examinations. They will be continued next term, how ever, under the charge of Doris Brophy, and as usual all university women on the campus will be in vited to drop in sometime during the hours for the affair, and join in the tea-drinking and dancing. Oregon’s Entrant In Stanford Contest Sol Abramson, in extemporaneous meet tonight. ‘COLLEGE NIGHT’ SET FOR FRIDAY EVENING Locating Minerals by Radio Is New Development “College night,” given annually for the delegates who are the guests of the campus during the high school conference will be held Friday night in the Woman’s building at 8:30. • The committee promises that the affair will be the biggest college entertainment of the year, and the program seems to include the best of campus talent. The ‘ ‘ Campus Tramps” will give some special numbers for the opening stunt; Virgil Mulkey, well known for his magie, will present several mystical acts; Elmer Clark will give a zylo phone solo; Jack Seabrook is sched uled for a piano monologue en titled “Bits and Bits.” There will be a skit presented from the'department of drama and speech arts under the direction of Fergus Reddie. Mr. Reddie and Betty Kerr will have the leading roles. Delbert Moore will play a violin sole; the department of phy sical education for men will give an act called “Tumbling Around;” Frank Jue, Chinese tenor, will sing. Barney McPhillips and Joy Johnson will give an Apache dance and the progre’-' will close with songs by the mei ’s glee elub. A charge of 25 cents will be made to defray the expenses of the confer ence. BIG MEET WILL END FULL TRACK SEASON Track work for the fall season will close Saturday afternoon with the meet on Hayward field which Bill Hayward plans for both the varsity and the freshmen. More than 75 men are expected to compete in the meet. It will not be an interclass or a varsity frosh meet but'is going to be a glorified competition to give Bill a lineup on the material with which he will have to work next term. Every man who has signed up will be in some event. Ten events are scheduled for the meet. All the distances will be shortened. There will be five field events—high jump, broad jump, javelin, discus, and shot put. The other events will be the 75-yard, 150-yard, 300-yard and 660-yard dashes, and the three quarter mile run. The men turning out now are at the height of the fall training and some good races are expected. SOL ABRAMSON SPEAKS TONIGHT Student Will Represent University in Contest To Be Held at Stanford GENERAL TOPIC LISTED Extempore Meet Held in Conjunction With League Gathering at Palo Alto Sol Abramson will represent Ore gon in the Pacific Coast extempore speaking contest, to be held at Stanford University, Palo Alto, to night, in conjunction with the an nual meeting of the Pacific Coast Public Speaking league. The gen eral theme of discussion is, “The Power of Federal Courts to Over rule Acts of Congress.’’ Sub-topics on. this subject will be given the speakers an hour before the contest begins. Abramson, a sophomore in jour nalism, has been active in foren sics during his attendance at the University. Last year he won the Jewett prize of $15 in extempore speaking contest conducted for members of the University public speaking classes. During the first week of school he was chosen to represent Oregon at the contest at Palo Alto, and has been studying on the subject ever since that time. He is also a member of the debate team that will meet O. A. C., Jan uary 8. League Started Two Years Ago Leaving the campus last Wednes day, Abramson has been practicing in various California auditoriums during the last week. He will re turn to the campus immediately after the close of the league con ference at Palo Alto. The Pacific Coast Public Speak ing league has been in existence two years. It was establihed to foster and promote interest among Pacific Coast colleges in public speaking. Seven universities and colleges are represented at the league meeting this year, these schools being: University of South ern California, Stanford, Oregon, Oregon Agricultural teoHege, Wil lamette, Whitman and Washington State college. Alternates Each Year The meeting of the league was held here last year when Ned Lewis, now student body president of the University of Southern Cali fornia, won the extempore speaking contest. The convention will prob ably be held at a northern insti tution next year, alternating from year to year between southern and northern colleges, according to H. E. Rosson, forensics coach. HOWE TO REPRESENT OREGON AT MEETING The Pacific Coast Conference meeting will be held in Portland, Thursday and Friday, December 11, and 12. At this meeting the sched ules for the 1925 football season will be arranged. Much interest is being taken in this meeting as the teams to be met by the Uni versity of Oregon will be decided on at this time. Hepresentatives from all schools in the conference will be present at this meeting. OREGON KNIGHTS REPORT TONIGHT FOR USHER DUTT Oregon Knights—The following members are to report to Knight Branin at M. E. church at 7:15 sharp to usher for Oxford debate: Bob Benjamin, Elmer Fansett, Wil liam Brown, Earl Olson, Foster Rose, Allan Button and Stuart Ball. All others meet at Condon hall at 7:15 for brief important meeting. U. OF O. TEAM IN TONIGHT’S DEBATE Walter Malcom, Paul Patterson and Joe Frazer, who will uphold Referendum tonight against Britons. THE GHOST BETWEEN* SPONSORED BY LEAGUE Proceeds Go to Foreign Scholarship Fund Tickets for “The Ghost Between” to he presented at the Heilig to night, should be secured early, be cause all seats are reserved. This was a statement made yesterday by Jeanne-Elizabeth Gay, manager of the performance. Downstairs seats are $1*00 and balcony seats 75 cents. The box office will be open from 10 a. m. until 8 p. m., the play starting at 8:15. “The Ghost Between,” is a road show, written by Vincent Lawrence, notod playright, and given by a cast of characters selected and coached by Bichard Carlyle, promi nent New York producer. Under bis direction the play ran . for months at the Thirty-ninth Street theatre in New York, a few sea sons ago, meeting Broadway’s most severe tests and making an instan taneous hit. Briefly, the play concerns the Doctor, who marries a woman whom he believes to be in love with a memery—her first husband. All of the time she was falling in love with him and was unhappy because she thought the reason he wasn’t more attentive in little things, was because ho was tired of his bar gain. Each misunderstood the other’s motives, and it might have proved disastrous had it not been for the discovery of an interesting chain of circumstances that, of course, resulted in a happy solution of their imaginary difficulties. One critic of the play at the time it was given in New York says, “‘The Ghost Betwoen’ as the title might imply, brings you constantly face to face with the unexpected. Often what seems to be its most; serious moment suddenly becomes its most humorous—and sometimes you suddenly check a laugh to wipe away a tear that creeps out in spite of all you can do. There’s a real human touch to the play—and probably that is one reason why it has been so popular. It is told in a brand new way, and therein lies the peculiar charm of ‘The Ghost Between. ’ You will want to help that fine, noble spirit, ^The Doctor,’ out of his troubles, and you will feel like stepping right up over the footlights to tell him the real truth about the woman whom he believes is in love with a mem ory. It’s just that realistic—and has just that much appeal.” The proceeds of the performance will go towards the foreign scholar ship 'fund which is maintained by the Women’s League. Tom Skeyhill, Noted Australian Lecturer Is Assembly Speaker -Tom Skeyhill, Australian soldier lecturer, will speak to the students in the assembly tomorrow on the subject of “The Now Renaissance in Europe.” Mr. Skeyhill has spok en in every state in the United States, during the past five years, and every province in Canada, be sides addressing important gather ings in his native Australia, New Zealand, and England. Previous to these war speeches, Mr. Skeyhill served as an "Anzac,” in the Australian troop. He was blindod by a shell explosion, and did not regain his sight for two years. Since that time, he has visited Soviet Russia, during the latter part of the Revolution, and was in Italy during a part of the Faieisti disturbance. One of Mr. SkeyhiV’s favorite topics deals with the young men of today. He has traveled more than three hundred thousand miles all over Australia, the South Seas, the United States ^,nd 'Canada,, Europe, and parts of Asia and Af rica, meeting young men in their »wn homes and cbuntries, talking with them, questioning them, and getting their viewpoint. Mr. Skey hill is the better able to under stand and appreciate the young thought, as he is still a young man himself, being well uncjler (thirty. Y.1HI.C1 RECOGNITION Florence Buck, a senior in the English department, and president of the campus Y. W. C. A., has been honored with an offer of the position of executive of the Sea beck conference to be held during the latter part of Juno at Seabeck, Washington. The offer was made by the Seabeck council which met at Salem during the week-end of November 14 and 15. Helen An drews is the Oregon representative on the council. Each summer a conference is held at Seabeck for the purpose of bringing together and discussing the problems and ideas of the Y. W. C. A. in the universities and colleges of the northwest. Both Miss Florence Magowan, Y. W. C. A. secretary, and Helen Andrews expressed their appreciation of the honor bestowed on Miss Buck by the council. The position of executive of the Seabeck conference entails many responsiblities, among whieh are the planning of the general pro gram and the presiding at the con ference next summer. DEJIN ALLEN ELECTED Two Universities Granted Sigma Delta Chi Eric W. Alien, dean of the Uni versity school of journalism, re ceived one of the highest honors in Sigma Delta Chi when he was elect ed national honorary president of the organization at its tenth annual convention held at Bloomington, In diana, November 17, 18 and 19 at the University of Indiana. Ted Janes, senior in the school of journalism, represented the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi at the convention, at which 34 active chapters and six alumni chapters wore in attendance. Dean Allen is well known in the east as he was president, of the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism in 1923. He is one of the pioneers in teaching journalism, having or ganized the Oregon school in 1912. Oregon was one of the first insti tutions in the country to have a school of journalism. The University of California and (Drake University of Des Moines, Iowa, were granted chapters of Sigma Delta Chi at the convention. Stanford University will install the petitioning group at California within the next few weeks. An alumni chapter was granted to a group of Sigma Delta Chi members in Indianapolis. The Oregon chapter officers were commended for their work in rela (Continued on Pune Four) ART MEMORIAL GROUP CALL MEETING TODAY A meeting of the committee or ganized to carry on the utatc-wide drive for funds for the Fine Arts Memorial building has been called for today at five o’clock in Con don hall. Augusta DeWitt, who has been named temporary chairman in the absence of Georgia Henson, has urged that all women named in yes terday’s Emerald as members of this committee be present, as plans for the campaign will be formu lated. In choosing the committee an effort was made to select rep resentatives from oach town in Ore gon. Volunteers have been asked to attend from towns not repre sented in order thart the state may be thoroughly covered. MEETING OF SENIOR CLASS WOMEN TO BE HELD TODAY A meeting of the women of the ! senior class will be held today at | 5:30 instead of 5 o’clock as was [ previously stated, in Oregon building. L CONTEST FIRST TO BE HEED HERE WITH EUROPEANS Question Will Be Discussed By Audience According To Old English Custom STUDENT BODY TICKETS CONSTITUTE ADMISSION Over Thirty Colleges Are Included on Itinerary Of Oxford Forensic Trip The University of Oregon will participate in its first debate with a European institution when the Oregon debate team meets the de baters from Oxford university at the Methodist church at 8 o Y-lock tonight. Paul Patterson, Walter Malcolm, and Joe Frazer, comprising the Ore gon team, will take the affirmative of the question, “Resolved: that the referendum is a desirable part of representative government.” J. D. Woodruff, Malcolm MacDonald and M- C. Hollis, speaking for Ox ford, will uphold the negative side. Cambridge Team in East Students will be admitted on pre sentation of their student body tickets. General admittance for others than students will be 25 cents. Reserved seats may be ob tained at Laraway’s Music store at 50 cents. Bob Love has charge of ticket sales and the financial side of the affair. International debating is com paratively new in America, Bates college having taken the initiative in this line of debate when its team visitod England in the spring of 1922 and met with a team from Oxford. This project was so suc cessful that it resulted in a visit to America by the Oxford team in the fall of the same year when sevoral American colleges were de bated. Since then Columbia and Colgate have gone to England on debating tours and two English universities, Oxford and Cambridge, have sent teams to America. A Cambridge team is at present tour ing the Eastern states while the Oxford men are meeting western universities. In a letter from the Institute of International Education, under whose auspices the Oxonians were brought to America, the essential diffoTcnc.es of debate practice be tween the English and American speakers are brought oitt. All j American debating, it is pointed I out, is an imitation of the law j courts while English debating is a \ parody of Parliament. Previous visit fcsuccessiui The audience will decide the puestion in the debate tonight in accordance with the English cue tom of settlement by the house. Tho idea of team against team is not upheld by British debaters and judgment is not given by judge* but by the assemblies who vote on the question. Over thirty colleges are on the itinerary of the Oxford team, Ore gon being the twenty-first college visited by the debaters. Reports from otheT colleges show that the visits there have been highly suc cessful with record attendance at the debates. MONEY FOR OREGANA PAGE MOST BE PAID THIS WEEK All campus organizations, wheth er living or honorary, must turn in their money to the business man ager of the 1925 Oregana, Gibson Wright, at the Oregana office be fore the end of this week if they wish space reserved for them in the annual.