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
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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
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&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.
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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
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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
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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.”