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Edward M, Miller...... Editor
Sol Abramson .-. Managing Editor
■Tfclir.iir Johnson .. Associate Managing Editor
News and Editor Phones, 655
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1925
Harold Kirk . Associate Editor
Webster Jones .-.-. Sports Editor
Philippa Sherman . Feature Editor
Frank H. Loggan ... Manager
Wayne Leland .-. Associate Manager
Business Office Phone
1895
Wilbur Wester
Mildred Carr
Esther Davis
Day Editors
Alice Kraeft
John O'Meara
Geneva Drum
Frances Bourhill
Night Editors
Upper News Staff
Mary Benton Edward Smith
Margaret Vincent Ruth Gregg
Lynn Wykoff Rar Nash
Ronald Sellars John Black
Paul Luy Vernon McGee
Sports Writers: Dick Godfrey and Dick Syring.
Feature Writers: Bernard Shaw, James De Pauli,
and Walter Cushman.
Mary Baker
Jack Hempstead
Claudia Fletcher
Lylah McMurphy
William ^Schulz
Mary Conn
Barbara Blythe
Pauline Stewart
Jane Dudley
Grace Fisher
News Staff
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Frances Cherry
Arthur Praulx
Margaret Hensley
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Ruby Lister
Genevieve Morgan
Minnie Fisher
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0 Business Staff
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The Oregon
Jliiily^ Emerald, offteial publication of the Associated Student, of the University of Oregon Eugene,^^dJail^ept^Sunday^an^Monda^dunng the
college year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as
year. Advertising rates upon application. Phones—Editor, 1820; Manager, 721.
Day Editor—Mildred Jean Carr
Night Editor—Lynn Wykoff
Assistant—Frank Mcuruns
Intercollegiate Baseball
Should Not Be Abolished
If the wishes of the Oregon student body are followed,
intercollegiate baseball will not be abolished. The last day
or so minors floating about that the swat-stick pastime may
be ruled out at the Coast Conference meeting to be held m
Seattle December 11, have brought out an expression of opin
ion almost unanimous in its belief that baseball should not be
relegated to the has-beens. _
The only reasonable argument against baseball is the one
involving finances; but since baseball last year cost less than
basketball or track, the financial burden, in light of impending
athletic prosperity through football, does not appear to be
particularly foreboding.
A sport should justify itself in the number of men par
ticipating; and judged in this light, baseball does not suffer
in the least. It is estimated that at least seventy-five men
turn out every year for varsity and frosh baseball, which
is very little less than the turnouts for football, basketball
and track.
If one may judge from appearances and from fireside talk,
the spectators get their money’s worth from the game. Not
many take the game too seriously, watching the encounters
for the fun they get out of it and not breaking any hearts
if the home team fails to emerge victorious. Not the least
among the attractions are the ever-present peanuts to throw
down the neighbor’s neck, the hot dogs, the umpires, and
the dumb wise-cracks of the eternal wits. Who would dis
pense with all this multi-colored fun?
• * • #
How to Know What’s Going
On In The World
In the good old days when the Greeks built Parthenons
and poisoned philosophers, all the noble men had the habit
of congregating in a portion of the town called the agora
and talking things over. Besides such trifles as raising the
salary of Head Coach Pericles, they discussed timely topics
as the latest cruelties of the Spartans, World Courts with the
Persians and, in view of the rising youth corruption through
such heathens as Socrates and the rest of the degenerates,
probably even considered the feasibility of establishing a
chapter of the Y. M. C. A.
The agora was a fine thing, eliminating the necessity of
newspapers and doing away with the danger of publicity agents,
false advertisements and feeble editorials.
Just as we still have our Greeks, so do we still have our
agora; and today the student body will meet in its agora,
the student body meeting, to talk over the various aspects
of student government.
A report of the coaching situation will be made; the build
ing committee will give the latest plans for the basketball
pavilion and other student structures; an account of the
extremely prosperous football season will be made; awards
will be announced for the football men; and in all probability
discussion on the question of abolishing baseball will arise.
Be a Golden Age Oregonian and attend the assembly.
Another Word From The North;
An Inter-State Annual Classic
Quoting from the editorial page of the University of Wash
ington Daily, “All praise is due the fighting squad of Web
footers who came so close to toppling the Huskies from their
proud position. The Oregon men played hard, clean football
and they played it well. The Daily is glad that if any team
was nearly to lower the Purple and Gold standard it was a
team from our own Northwest.
“Perhaps one reason for the cordial athletic relations among
the universities of the Northwest is their disinclination to
weep about their defeats. The Daily is hopeful that some
day the spirit of graceful losing may spread beyond the
southern boundary of Oregon.”
This brings up the subject of the annual Oregon-Washington
game, of late years a classic in every sense of the word, which
in the minds of many, should be the Big Game of the North
west.
Ami why not? The two universities, friendly, and mutu
ally respectful, fill the same educational position in their
respecti\e states. They are old rivals, and from all indica
tions, early season games have little to do with the score in
this fracas, assuring always a tremendous battle.
The logical time for this game is Thanksgiving, after
practically all the other Conference games have been played.
Alternating between Portland and Seattle, the contest would
have all the elements entering into a real gridiron classic.
# * # •
The University Entertains The
Leaders Of The State High Schools
Tomorrow will see the arrival of scores of high school
students, all of them leaders in their respective schools. These
men and women are student body presidents, newspaper and
year book editors and managers, and girls’ league officers,
who have been chosen as leaders by their constituents and it
is ^afe to assume that a goodly share of next year’s frosh
0 class will be composed of men and women from this group
of people who are University guests over the week-end.
A full program of entertainment provided by the University
committee, coupled with the visiting students’ own sessions,
will keep the visitors occupied practically all the time, reliev
ing the fraternity houses and halls of residence from the
greater part of the responsibility of entertainment.
To these people, most of whom are glimpsing higher educa
tion for the first time, the University will be happy to extend
its cordial hospitality; and will do all in its power to make
the visit of these people pleasant and profitable.
'
SEVEN SEERS
Diary of Sirus Pinchpenny:
Up betimes and did sit long
munching of gooseberry muffins
until cook, brazen wench, did tell
me to get out. So away to campus
and to bench ’neath Nicotine bush
where did engage in campus tittle
tattle. But, Lord! Did get a greate
pleasure from it, and sit with Sir
Frederick Joy, and he made merrie
companie and speak the American
‘language with more zest than any
.man ever I see. Anon to home
where did guttle bread-pudding and
carrots with great content.
• * •
EPITAFY
James Jones rests here today,
Yes, today and forevermore;
The poor hoy tried to crack a joke,
While “Stiffy” Barnett had the
floor.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned girl who used to spend her
afternoons playing Mah Jongg?
The news picture today is an
intimate glimpse into the luxuri
ously appointed boudoir of Cyl
bert McClellan, campus style
devotee. Mr. McClellan is shown
wearing one of the new one
button - one - buttonhole shirts
shown at the recent style show in
Portland. The new creation is
made of a charming combination
of sackcloth ajid scarlet with
built-in collar and cuffs to match.
SIGN ON THE BACK OF A FORD
A PACKARD MAY RUN
SMOOTH BUT THIS IS BETTER
STILL.
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Thero is no excuse for that ele
ment known as “the great un
washed” anymore, modern conveni
ences are to be had by all. Take
for example the following advertise
ment of a local plumbing concern:
#*'*##*##*#*
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* Bath Tubs to Fit
* Your Pocketbook
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Today the Seers award tho con
crete souffle to Paul Ager. He says
it’s his idea of embarrasing moments
when you order a “eoe” at the
j Toastwich Shoppe, because you’re
| short of funds, and then find out
later you have been sitting on the
lucky stool.
THE HEIGHTII OF SLOW MO
TION HAS BEEN FOUND. IT
I TOOK PLACE IN THE MEEN
GRILL NEAR PORTLAND SAT
URDAY NIGHT. TWO SCOTCH
MEN WERE SEEN REACHING
FOR THE BILL.
Have you heard the latest in
Charleston t
No, what is it f
A new negro baby.
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* There once was a yell leader *
* Martin, *
* Who often was hailed as a *
* Spartan, *
* Though the weather wfis *
* moist, *
* His cheers were well voiced, *
* Name
* Phono
****##*#**»
SO’S YOUR OLD MAN!
G. HOSAFAT.
EXAM SCHEDULE
Tuesday, December 15
4:15—Personal Hygiene for wom
en.
Wednesday, December 16
8:00—3, 4, and 5 hour ten o’clock
classes.
10:00—First and second yea*r
Spanish, all sections.
1:15—3 and 4 hour 11:00 o’clock
classes.
3:15—Accounting, all sections,
and English History, all
sections.
Thursday, December 17
8:00—3, 4, and 5 hour nine
o’clock classes.
10:00—First and second year
French, all sections.
1:15—Survey course in English
literature, all sections.
3:15—3, 4, and 5 hour two-fif
teen classes.
Friday, December 18
8:00—3, 4, and 5 hour eight
o’clock classes.
10:00—3, 4, and 5 hour one-fif
teen classes.
Communications
ro the Editor of the Emerald:
And now we come to the question
if abolishing college baseball. Why?
For several years we have heard
diat it is not‘a financial success,
hat it is over-commercialized, it
■annot be carried on in the wet
ipring weather. No one, or all of
:heso arguments, warrant doing
iway with the sport.
College baseball is essentially a
student enterprise; financed with
student money, watched by students
uid played by students. It should
ie abolished only with the consent
if student opinion.
At this University every student
lays four dollars each term towards
die support of athletics. Baseball
s financed with this mondy. Neither
track, basketball, tennis, swimming
nor any other sport, except foot
ball, support themselves.
If baseball is becoming commer
cialized then no doubt it will soon
support itself. It is also well to
note that the chief criticism of the
jommjbrcialization of college ath
letics justly centers around foot
ball.
As to tho weather, not one game
on the Oregon schedule was can
celled last spring on account of rain.
All schools in the Northwest con
tend equally with the weather. Even
the football crowds have this year
complained of the rain, yet there is
no agitation to abolish football.
Baseball is the one major sport
which is not ruined by a losing team.
The crowd watches without organ
ized yelling and enjoys the sport
no matter who wins. Intratmural
sports will not take the place of
varsity baseball and it is very prob
able that we would lose many two
sport athletes to other colleges and
conferences if baseball were abol
ished here.
The question will no doubt be
taken up and voted upon at the
Pacific. Coast Conference meeting
in Seattle this month. Is student
opinion in favor of Oregon voting
to abolish baseball? II. B. P.
Theatres |
REX—Today only: Richard Tal
mndge in “The Wall Street Whiz,”
a cyclonic dralma of laughing thrills,
with the screen’s famous stunt star
at the height of his glory; comedy,
“Service,” all fun: Kinogram news
events: Dorothy Wyman, maid o’
melody, in musical comedy thrills on
the organ.
Coining—Gene Stratton Porter’s.
"The Keeper of tho Bees.”
SPACE MUST BE RESERVED
All organizations desiring space
in the Oregana must reserve the
amount, of space wanted before Be
.*ember 10, according to an announ
cement made last night by Eliza
beth Cadv, editor. Space reserva
tions are to be made with the edi- ■
tor at telephone 10C-J or George ■
Ross, manager, telephone 721.
New local honorary societies and
newly installed national honorary
fraternities are particularly re
quested to reserve space with the
editor as soon as possible.
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Campus Bulletin |
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Men’s Hygiene—Those absent from
classes this week call at the of
fice of men’s gymnasium for final
examination questions.
The Heads of the following organi
zations are requested to get an
important letter which 'will be
posted for them in thft basenffent
of the main library: PJii Delta
Kappa, Tre Nu, Kappa Beta Phi,
Pro and Con, Forum, University
Science club, California club,
Washington club, Coos County
club, Wesley club, and Normal
Arts club.
Y. W. C. A. annual recognition
service for new Y. W. C. A. mem
bers will be held in the Bunga
low today at 4:30. Old members
are asked to attend.
Hermian Society meeting tonight at
7 o’clock. Very important!
Hermian seminar tonight, 8 p. m.
Alumni Hall. Dean Bovard will
speak. Everybody welcome.
Student Body—First official asso
ciated student assembly this
morning at 11 o’clock. Coach
ing situation and other reports
to be given.
Band—Band practice” tonight at 7
o’clock. Attendance imperative.
California Club—Important meet
ing at the College Side Inn at
7:15 tonight.
Woman’s Leaglie executive council
meeting today at Anchorage, 12
o’clock.
The Big Sister information table
will bo available for use this af
ternoon at Dean Esterly’s office
between 3 and 5.
Order of the “O” important meet
ing this afternoon at 5 o’clock,
in the Administration building.
Pi Lambda Theta—Luncheon Thurs
day, December 3rd, at j^,e College
Side Inn. Important.
Coming Events
Thursday, December 3
11:00'—Assembly, Woman’s
ruilding.
Friday, December 4
Conference high s<fhool offi
:ers and press.
Saturday, December 5
Conference high schlbol offi
cers and press.
Oregana Picture Schedule
Wednesday, December 2
Theta Chi.
Thursday, December 3
Delta Zeta.
Friday, December 4
Kappa Kappa Gamma and
Sigma Beta Phi.
Saturday, December 5
Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Y W TO ADD TO POOR FUND
The Y. W. C. A. is cooperating
with Mrs. M. S. Ady, Eugene police
matron, in making possible a happy
Christmas for poor children of the
city by securing food and clothing
to be distributed among them. Pre
vious to this year various sorori
ties and organizations have given
parties for the youngsters. While
these were enjoyed aiyl apprecia
ted, Dorothy Munsell, chairman of
the work, states that if the campus
organizations contribute money to
be used in buying useful articles,
they will be doing a greater serv
ice, something which will last for
days. Students who have any
clothing that they wish to contri
bute to t.lio cause are asked to leave
it at the Y. W. C. A. Bungalow.
ACID DISROBES STUDENT
Sulphuric acid was the cause, and
a young man in somewhat athletic
attire was the inevitable result. It
happened in the physics depart
ment yesterday afternoon. Two ir
retrievable losses were sustained:
a bottle of sulphuric acid, and a
pair of first-class cords. But the
second loss was far more import
ant than the first, at least in the
opinion of the wearer of the ex
trousers. These were ruined beyond
repair by the powerful acid. In
fact, they were so badly damaged
that the victim was forced to spend
some little time dressed in athletic
garb, and these rainy days are
chilly.
BOOKS ARRIVE
Copies of Milton’s “Areopagi
tica” have just been received from
England by the Co-op for use in
Dean Eric W. Allen’s editing class.
The book is a copy of a fine old
print, and is considered by Dean
Allen the best imitation the classes
have yet been able to get. The con
tents deal with the argument made
before Parliament by John Milton
in favor of toleration and liberty
of the press.
CHASS TO SERVE EUJNUnjt^UN
The girls of the food class will,
prepare and serve luncheon to a |
group of faculty women next Thurs- j
day. The list of guests includes:
Mr. George Rebec, Virginia Judy
Esterlv, Clara L. Fitch, Mabel E.
McClain, J. Bishop Tingle, Dr. Wil
moth Osborne, and Miss Florence
Allen, Miss Mocelle Hair, Miss Lil-|
ian Tingle and Miss Gertrude Tal
bot.
INFIRMARY TO ACQUIRE
CHEERFUL ATMOSPHERE
Warm-toned figured cretonne pil
lows and drapes, harmonizing lamp
shades and neutral rugs are soon
to light up the drab interior of the
infirmary, reports the committee of
Woman’s League which has beeil
appointed to .re-decorate that budd
ing.
To establish a more cheerful,
homelike atmosphere than exists as
the result of the even-toned wall
paper and cream colored net cur
tains which now adorn the infirm
ary is the committee’s chief ob
jective, according to Mabel Fran
sen, who is in charge. The wicker
furniture which formerly was used
in the dispensary has been moved
to the infirmary.
The girls who are working on the
committee are Alice and Katherine
McGrath, Katherine Blakesloe,
Alice Dillar, Margaret Arnold and
Louise Clark.
SCRIBES POSTPONE MEETING
The meeting of those interested
in the proposed new magazine
has been postponed until sometime
next week by the committee in
charge, due to the necessity of com
pleting »sme unfinished business to
be presented at the meeting.
The exact date cannot be an
nounced at this time, but will be
published in the Emerald within a
few days.
DICK GODFREY IN HOSPITAL
Dick Godfrey, a sophomore in the
school of journalism, was operated
on Wednesday morning for appendi
citis. He is at the Pacific Chris
tian Hospital. Godfrey withdrew
from school the first part of the
week. Webster Jones, senior in the
school of journalism, is taking his
place as correspondent for the Reg
ister.
STAFFORD IN PORTLAND
Prof. O. F. Stafford, head of the
chemistry department, who has not
been able to meet his classes for
several days, left for Portland yes
terday to receive the care of a
specialist. He expects to return
shortly. Dr. F. L. Shinn and Prof.
H. G. Tanner are conducting Pro
fessor Stafford’s classes during his
absence.
GRAD IN OREGON CITY
Miss Mary Jane Hathaway has
I been named to succeed Miss Mar
garet Beatie as secretary of the
Oregon CJity Chamber of Commerce.
Miss Beatie, who has occupied this
position for a year and a half, re
cently tendered her resignation to
the board of directors.
CASEY TO ADDRESS EDITORS
Prof. Ralph D. Casey of the jour
nalism faculty will address the
Trade Class Journal Association in
Portland, Tuesday. The group is
made up of trade editors of Port
land and meets once a month. Mr.
Casey will speak on the subject
of “Informing the Public.”
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