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.