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VOLUME XXVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1925 NUMBER 77 V of O Library SWIMMING MEET BEGINS TONIGHT Virginia Wilson, Breaker of World’s Record, to Enter Inter-Class Tournament NINE HOUSES AFTER CUP Series to Be Played Off on Elimination - Consolation Basis; Events Scheduled The first swimming meet of the women’s doughnut series will take place tonight in the woman’s gym nasium at 5 o’clock. Pi Beta Phi ■will swim against Thacher cottage. Vaccinations are still seriously handicapping normal activity in this sport. Virginia Wilson, who broke world’s record last year, will not be able to enter the dough nut tournament because of vaccina tion but it is expected that she will swim in the inter-class series which follows soon. Events Listed The events of the meet will be as follows: 20-yard free style; 40-yard free style; 20-yard breast stroke; 20-yard back crawl; plunge for dis tance; strokes for form—side, breast and two optional; dives— straight front, swimming front or swan, and two optional; relay. Each candidate may enter -any three of these events and the relay. Houses entering teams have been divided into two leagues. League I includes the following: Pi Beta Phi, Thacher, Sigma Beta Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Susan Campbell T, Hendricks I. League II includes: Delta Delta Delta, Hendricks II, Alpha Chi Omega, Susan Campbell TI, Alpha Phi. * Houses Enter Teams Each house is represented as fol lows: S. C. Hall I: Hazel Kirk, Nel lie Johns, Katherine Osburne, Monica Michels, Charlotte LaTour Tette, Frances Cherry and Cornelia Robertson. S. C. Hall II: Florence Baker,( Wanda Plincz, Margaret Michels, Golda Boone, Viona Pyritz, Mizelle Rollwage, and Gladys TTdick. Hendricks I: Grace Sullivan, Augusta DeWitt, Lucile Perozzi,' Florence Huntington, Aileen Smith, Florence Hurley and Ruth Brooks. Hendricks II: Gertrude Tucker, Mabel Fransen, Stella Haglund, Laura Breske, Anne Runes, Doris Neptune and Katherine Van Dellen. Thacher: Beatrice Fish, Helen Louise Cunningham, Betty Via, Re tina Davault, Dorothy Wagner, and Irene Reynolds. Alpha Chi Omega: Margaret Stahl, Helen Copeland, Maurine Buchanan. Mary Jane Dustin, Clara Lamb, Helen Mumaw and Alice Southwiek. Alpha Phi: Margaret Vincent, Katherine Graef, Hilda Chase, May- i fan Vurpillat and Mazie Richards. < Pi Beta Phi: Myrtle Mast, Con- i (Continued on page three) ( Afternoon Dance Draws Big Crowd • At College Side The Dime Crawl held yesterday at the College Side Inn from 4 to 5:30.was a great success, ac cording to all the “Crawlers.” As a date affair it proved more popular than ever before and the committee in charge predicts many more date Crawls. Previously these affairs have been held in the women’s houses between the hours of 6:30 and 7:30. The success of the Crawl today was in a large measure due to the excellent music furnished by Bill McBride ’a orchestra. The proceeds of the Dime Crawls are turned into the Wo man’s League foreign scholarship fund, which is maintained each year by the League. This fund is used to bring a foreign wo man to the Oregon campus for a year, with her expenses paid. TO TALK AT ASSEMBLY Clark Prescott Bissett is Author and Collector The only formal observance of Lincoln’s birthday today will be at the assembly hour in the Woman’s building when Clark Prescott Bis sett, professor in the law school at the University of Washington, will deliver his address on “Lincoln.” The University glee clubs, will sing “The Land of Hope and Glory,” by Elgar. “Professor Bissett’s address will be well worth hearing,” said Dr. Glen Hoover, of the economics de partment, “since he is asked over and over to give his oration on Lin coln," addding, “Students will hear more than a talk—it will be an ora tion.” Besides his famous library on Lin coln, Professor Bissett has a very fine general collection jt>f books; He is known, as well, as an able lawyer, and last year he attended the meeting of the American Bar association in London. Professor Bissett has another claim to fame in'the fact that he is the grandson of the historian, W. H. Prescott. He has himself written a book, “A Life of Abra ham Lincoln.” “Professor Bissett,” says Dean Colin Dyment, “is rather well known in the Puget Sound country as an orator of the old fashioned American sort, and is especially called upon for patriotic speeches. He is a genial man—thoroughly American.” - H? is picturesque in his attire, wearing the wide southern hat and j frock coat, and carrying cane and gloves about the Washington cam I pus. When Marshall Joffre came to Seattle during his tour of the Unit ed States following the war, the city of Seattle chose Professor Bis sett to deliver the address of wel come. — ^1'OT "THE IDEAL HUSBAND,” OPENS THREE NIGHTS RUN AT GUILD HAM By Leon Byrne The war of the sexes, in which the odds are even, and the battle is to the keen of wit, Wilde’s most popular theme, is the sauce which garnishes his four-act drama, “The rdeal Husband,” which opened a three night run at Guild hall last night. Oscar Wilde is chiefly known for the cleverness and scin tillating brightness of the lines in his drama and his fiction. The plot jf “The Ideal Husband” is ingen ious; it is fully equal to the ‘lineal” iridesence. To an American college audience, anything by Wilde is worth seeing; the paradoxical, supercilious aphor isms which he tossed out to the aud ence by the handfull are a ehal enge to the assimilative capabilit es of good sound American credul ity. Many of last night’s nudienee leemed able to grasp the play in its entirety. Culture is surely in rading the west. The most satisfactory review of i work of Wilde’s would probably :onsist of a compilation of the most dever of the clever lines. To do ■hat, however, would obviate the iceessity of seeirg the play. A few will serve as specimens of the entertainment being offered to night. “Vulgarity is merely the conduct of other people.” “Being in love with oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” “You must get married—you can’t always live for pleasure.” “One’s past is what one is.” “There are temptations it takes strength to yield to”—such ate the Wilde theories advanced across the boards of Guild hall by the local Thespians. Following his egotistical bent, Wilde puts his own chairming self into his production. The polished, tremendously superior individual or rather personality about whom the other personalities rotate, Lord Gor ing, is Wilde himself. Yes, if you would see Oscar Wilde in person, go to Guild hall tonight and gaze intently at the person of Lord Gor ing,—that’s ’im. The plot must really be mentioned again: it is unusual. Most unusual of all is the ending. It out-Henrys O. Henry. It ends like an inhalia- | tion of Gordon dry gin used to end ; in other days—with a zip suddenly i and without warning. OREGON FACING STIFF CONTEST Game With Idaho Squad to Serve As Turning Point In Basketball Schedule OPPOSE VANDALS FRIDAY Gem State Quintet Appears Powerful After Beating Husky Team Monday Friday night will serve as a turn ing point for the Oregon basketball team when it meats the powerful Idaho quintet. Oregon, by virtue of a victory, will stand a good chance of finishing the season on top of the northern conference standings. However, a defeat will sorely handi cap the varsity as a championship contender. The Vandal basketeers have stepped from the ranks of medi ocracy up into the foreground, and by reason of their victory over Washington last Monday, are now rated as one, if not the most dan gerous hoop combination iu the Pa cific Coast conference. Idaho de feated the Huskies by a 30 to 29 score. Idaho Team Green Idaho has a comparatively green team, and the Vandal school is really spending this season to de velop a strong quintet for next year. Consequently, the Idaho team has developed very slowly, spending most of the time in learn ing the fundamentals of basketball. Therefore this northern . team drop ped several contests to northwest hoop squads. But with the mid season reached in the basketball schedule, the Vandals have devel oped into^a powerful combination and proof of this development was evidence in the Washington-Idalio game. The game with Idaho, this Fri day, will be an extremely difficult bar for the varsity to hurdle in their pennant race. The Vandals play much the same style of game as the Aggies, but the Idaho style is different and perhaps more dif ficult in one respect in that this team does not “stall” and wait for /breaks as the Beaver team does, but goes at top speed at all times, speeding up their offensive power considerably. Finish Hard Week-end The Oregon team has just finish ed a rather strenuous week-end in playing the Aggies and Washington State quintets, and therefore may not play up their usual form against the Vandals. Coach Reinhart intends to start practically the same combination against Idaho as he did against the Beavers. Hobson and Gowans will be at forwards with Okerberg at center. “Swede” Westergren is slated to start at one guard posi tion, while the other berth will be filled by Jost, Gunther or Gillen waters. PRE-ENGINEERING CLUB ANNOUNCES PROGRAMS The Technical society, an organi zation of students majoring in pre engineering, has announced its pro gram for the remainder of the win ter term. The first lecture will be given by Professor E. H. McAlister, in structor in mechanics and astron omy. His address will be given February 12, on “Wave Transmis sion of Energy.” “Tunnel Construction on the Nat ron Cut-off,” is the subject of an address to be given by Stephen Ford, sophomore in pre engineering, on February IS. Courtney Kelson’ also a sophomore in that depart ment, will talk on “Dam Construc tion,” February 25. The last ad dress will be given March 4, by 0. A. McClain, superintendent of the Eugene Water Board. He will talk on the “Clear Lake Water Project.” Mr. McClain has extended an in vitation to the Society to hold its ' annual picnic at the municipal elec- I trie power plant, in Walterville. A great deal of new construction has j just been completed there. The pic- \ nic will probably be held about ! May 1. OREGON’S ENTRANTS IN TRIANGLE DEBATE -,i.r-r • &Gitf*fM&C~&cc.ss fW&Troiik *— Above: Lincoln Erwin and Sol Abramson, negative team. Below: Benoit McCrosky and Ralph Bailey, who will uphold affirmative here. NEED Of NEW MEN’S GYMNASIUM STRESSED Oregon is greatly in need of a new men’s gymnasium, according to Coach Billy Reinhart, who was a guest of the Sports Writers’ as sociation at a lnncheon held at the Anchorage yesterday noon. Jack Benefiel, graduate manager, and Randall Jones, president of the stu dent body, were also guests of the association. The present gym is entirely un satisfactory for basketball games and to small for the large number of men turning out daily for differ ent sports, and those out for exer cise, according to Coaeh Reinhart. The basketball team is forced to play its games down town in the Armory and therefore must work out on that floor. As the Armory is a great distance from the cam pus and as the accomodations there are poor, the basketball squad is working under a handicap. Next week the hoop squad will have to work out for three days, previous to the important Oregon Aggie game, on the school floor while the automobile show is being held in the Armory. Jack Benefiel and Randall Jones discussed the proposition of making tennis a major sport at Oregon and recognizing golf as a minor sport but held that the student body bud get would not allow for expendi ture on these two sports this year without some special means of rais ing the funds. Neither sport is self-supporting but must be car ried by the paying sports or by a slight increase in student A. S. U. O. membership fees. The next meeting of the Sports Writers’ association will be held next Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock in the Journalism building. -. ^ I IDAHO LOSES TO AGGIES Corvallis, Ore., Feb. 11.— (Special to the Emerald)—The University of Idaho lost to the Oregon Agricultural college five here tonight 15 to 24. Close checking on both sides kept the score down but the Aggies held - a decided advantage. This victory brings O. A. C. up to the top of the conference with Oregon. The Idaho game here Friday night will decide j ; ! the conference supremacy. ♦-—o! Y. W. SALE TO BE HELD IN ST. FRANCIS LOBBY Contributions will bo received all day, for the Y. W. C. A. rummage sale which will take place tomor row and Saturday in the lobby of the St. Francis apartments on Eighth street. Those who have ar ticles of clothing, books or pictures which they wish to donate to the Y. W. C. A. for the sale will notify Miss Florence Magowan at the Bungalow and means of carrying the contributions away will be fur nished. l. - r. i'' p - The sale is being held by the local organization in conjunction with the advisory board, which is composed of town women. An error as to the place of the sale was made yesterday. The sale will be held at the St. Francis rather than near it and the location is Eighth street rather than Ninth street. NANCE INSTALLED AS MEMBER OF COUNCIL Richard M. Nance, recently ap pointed sophomore on the Student Council, last night at regular stu rent meeting took the oath of of fice and began to fill the capacities of the office immediately. Nance was appointed by Randall Jones, student body president, to fill * the place of Lauren Conley, past representative, elected at the regular election last spring, who is not registered in school this term. Nance will hold office until the student body administration is tak en over by the new officers, to be elected late next spring term. Routine business only was con sidered by the council. COLLEGIUM AUGUSTALE TO READ ‘AGAMEMNON’ The old Creek tragedy, “Aga memnon,” will be read before the meeting of Collegium Augustale, University Latin club, at the meet ing to be held this evening, in the Y. W. bungalow. The program is under the direction of J. E. Ains- ! worth Johnstone, instructor of , Creek and Latin. “Agamemnon,” is being consid ered by the department of drama for a Guild hall play, next spring. The reading will be illustrated by prints and pictures. The meeting will begin at 7:30. FELLOWSHIP HfS WILL HOLD MEETINGS Meetings will be held by the World Fellowship discussion groups studying Argentina and Switzer land today. The former meeting will be held at the Anchorage at 4:30 and the latter at the same place during the noon hour. Miss Rosalia Cuevas, instructor in the romance language department will speak to the group studying Argentina on the social customs and traditions of South America. Miss Cuevas is a native of South Amer ica having been born in Bogota, capital of republic of Colombia. Josephine Evans, leader of the group, has arranged for tea to be served during Miss (Cuevas’ (,'talk and the discussion which will fol low. " S', mm.'tfr l T The group studying Norway, will discuss the social and industrial aspects of that country during lunch. There will be no speaker from outside the group, but the members will take part in the dis continued on page three) FIRST TRIANGLE DEBATE TONIGHT Overrule of Supreme Court Decisions by Legislature Is Subject for Contest DR. GILBERT IS CHAIRMAN Affirmative to Uphold Case Against Idaho; U. of W. To Meet Negative Team Tonight the University of Oregon debate team will meet the Univer sity of Washington and the Uni versity of Idaho in greatest triangle debate of the season. “This meet,” said Oscar A. Brown, debate coach, “wiil be the best event of the year in the North west.” The question to be discussed by the teams is, Resolved: “That the constitution should be so amended to enable Congress to re-enact by a two-thirds vote, legislation over ruled by the Supreme Court.” Use Important Subject This subject is appropriate at this time as it is of considerable poli tical importance, having also been an issue in the presidential cam paign of La Toilette. Furthermore, it has been used by many college debato teams this year. Sol Abramson and Lincoln Er win, the Oregon negative squad will meet the Washington affirmative at Soattle. The affirmative group, consisting of Benoit McCrosky and Ralph Bailey, will uphold their case against John L. Roberts and Frank T. Wyman, who compose the Idaho negative section, in Villard hall at 8 o’clock. Dr. James H. Gilbert, head of tho economics department, will be chairman of the debate. Dr. Gilbert has taken considerable interest in debating and is the alumni repre sentative of the forensic committee. The judges of the meet are, Fred Lockley, special writer of the Jour nal; L, 8, Schiunaker, de^ii of men of Linfield college, ancl M. Sf. 6oP len, of the department of publie speaking of Linfield college. Starter Six Years Ago Six years ago Oregon first parti cipated in triangle debating. Tho event was between Idaho, British Columbia and Oregon. The meets between these colleges were then discontinued and not re-established until last year when Marion Dickey and Walter Malcolm met Idaho at Moscow and British Columbia came here. Due to the fact that the triangfe contest between Washington, Stan ford and Oregon and the other composed of Idaho, British Colum bia and Oregon were discontinued because of the inability of Stanford and British Columbia to enter the events. It was at this time that the triangle contest including Wash ington, Idaho and Oregon was or ganized. All the men participating in this debate, states Mr. Brown, have had (Continued on page three) DIRECT DESCENDANT OF ISLAM TO SPEAK ON CULTURE OF INDIA Syud Hussain, journalist and lee turer, speaks next Tuesday at Vil lard hall on the eultural contribu tions of India. Hossain is dis tinguished in being the direct de scendant of the prophet of Islam, as his name, Syud Hossain, indi cates to those who know Eastern history. Rvud is a variation of a title used by those who trace their descent in an unbroken male line from Husain, grandson of Mahomet, and the son of Ali, who carried Fatima, only daughter of the prophet. The Per sian ancestors of Hossain’s aristo cratic family settled in India during the rei.rn of Emperor Jehangir, in the sevnteenth century. His a..cestry, however, is not Mr. Hossain’s only claim to fame. He is widely recognized as an author ity on international problems and relations, having been one of In dia’s three representatives at the Near East Peace settlement in 1920. Mr. Hossain began bis career as a journalist, and was for several i years one of the “news hounds” of Fleet street, London, during which time he contributed to many well-known journals in England. Returning to India, he became suc cessively editor of the Bombay Chronicle and the Allahad Inde pendent, two of the most influential daily newspapers of the country. He is now editor of the New Ori ent, America’s latest magazine on Eastern affairs, which is published in New York, and presents in charming and entertaining form the point of view of the Orient in art, literature and life. Comparatively few- of those to whom the English language is na tive can use it with such mastery and effectiveness as does Mr. Hos sain. The urbanity of the cosmo politan and his poise and grace of gesture add to the natural sympa thies of his mind in making him an exceptional orator. Mr. Hossain will discuss the cul tural contributions of India to the world in his lecture “From Buddah i to Gandhi.”