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VOLUME XXVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24, *1926 NUMBER 40 Green Capped . Football Men Show Promise 1927 Varsity t o Profit By Addition of Frosh Luminaries Freshman Grid Season Just Closed Best Ever Records of Former Frosh Teams Cited By W. HARRY VAN DINE IN HANDING a 19-0 defeat to the Aggie Rooks a couple weeks ago the freshman football team rang •down the curtain on the most suc cessful season ever enjoyed by a •yearling squad. Although the frosh turned Sut all last week to help condition the varsity for the O. A. C. game, the season officially end ed with the playing of the rook game. The frosh finished the season with an average of .750, winning three games and dropping one con test to the University of Washing ton babes by a close score of 19-18. Lose One Game In their other contests the first year men won over Columbia Uni versity of Portland, 26-0, and then tackled the strong Chemawa In dian school’s gridsters. The Indians could not stand up under the pound ing of the frosh and dropped the contest by a score of 32-7. After winning these two battles the fresh men journeyed to Seattle to meet the babes. After leading 18-0 at the ■end of the first half the yearlings were unable to hold the young Huskies and lost by a one point margin. A rest of two weeks fol lowed this game and the squad was drilled intensively for the little big game with the rooks. This game was played on a field that resembled a sea of mud and the frosh paddled their way to a 19-0 victory. They decisively beat the rooks in about every department of the game. Met Strong Teams From the above it will be dis cerned that the freshmen garnered a total of ninety-five points to their opponents twenty-six. They held two ■of their four opponents scoreless and the babes were the only team to score with success. All the teams the frosh met are considered strong and this adds to their record. The Hooks defeated Corvallis high and Albany College and were in turn trimmed by the frosh. Good Men Out Coaches Bill Reinhart, Baz Wil liams, and Jack Bliss were greeted with a wealth of material at the start of the season and had difficul ty in selecting the. man for each position as the fight was so even. Throughout the season there were always two and usually three or more men waging a keen scrap for •every position. Two complete teams were kept intact during the train ing period. Beam New Plays The team played its first game about three weeks after the first j practice eall had been issued. The j men were all instructed in the sys-, tem established by Capt. McEwan | and progressed rapidly. In their first game both Oregon and Stan ford plays were used. The team ^ learned, the Stanford plays in order to scrimmage the varsity in prepara- J tion for their game with the red shirts. In addition to the Stanford plays the frosh learned the plays of California, W. S. C., and O. A. C. to help instruct the varsity. These plays were in turn used in the games the freshmen played. Masons Injured Injuries "took their toll of valu able players when Masons, snappy quarterback, was laid up for the season. From time to time men would be out with injuries and thus j weaken the team. Many men be came discouraged, as was to be ex pected, and quit the squad. How- J ever, at the end of the season there were about thirty-five men turning out regularly for the team. Among these men are numbered several of varsity caliber who are sure to be heard from during the next three years. About one hundred answered the first call for candidates for the squad. Team Improves The team progressed steadily dur ing the season and it was a far greater team that played the rooks than it was when they ran up against Columbia. The team was well coached and the men on it had had sufficient experience to absorb (Continued on page two) High Student Judges Bar Reporter |From Initial Meeting of Special Court Joint Confab Results in Downfall of Newswriter So Readers Hear No Tales Today The first session of the latest cam pus innovation—The Student Court —held forth in room 111, Johnson hall, at 4:00 o’clock yesterday after noon. That’s all. No, the meeting was not that brief, nor are the pages of the stu dent daily too small to contain the news in studentdom. It’s simply like this: the student judges, hand ing down, mayhap, their first black robed decision, paused (lot in the very first minutes of their weighty deliberations) to put it upon record that the results of yesterday’s in vestigations should not appear in print. In short, these verdant judges judged that no reporter should “sit in.” Now, it naturally follows that Em erald readers must read in vain for the records of the court, for how could any newspaper make a co herent tale from those which might be gathered from the various and somber members of the deliberating party? Gathered, of course, after the judicial conclave was over. But to return to jhe tale of the “bounced” reporter. The powers that be in the Emerald world ad vanced a tip to the young cub “to get that story, regardless.” Regardless, this reporter -saunt ered into the den of the court; sauntered and sat. Sat, with the permission of one of the high doo doos. But, alas, in this court one high doo-doo is not sufficient to rule alone. For when another high judge arrived., a star chamber session was held with only the two walls in an adjoining hall to hear. The session closed; the chief po tentates re-appeared; the reporter reported nothing—alas! Sigma Delta Chi Delegate Home From Wisconsin 39 Chapters Represented At National Meeting Of Fraternity Eonald Sellers, a student in jour nalism and a member of Sigma Del ta Chi, national journalistic frater nity, returned Sunday from the na tional convention of that fraternity, at Madison, Wisconsin, to which he was sent by the Oregon chapter. The convention, which was held November 15, 16, and 17, was repre sented by 125 delegates from thirty nine chapters all over the United States. Sigma Delta Chi was found ed in 1909 and has grown rapidly, becoming a binding tie between pro fessional newspaper men who were members while in the various uni versity chapters. D. H. ClaA, president of the. fraternity, urged that the members of Sigma Delta Chi consider it as i a professional group and not as a | college fraternity, and that a man, j to be a member, must show a mark- j ed talent and perseverance in j journalistic work. Kent Cooper, j general manager of the Associated | Press, presented his opinion that a small town paper is the place to be gin newspaper work. Dr. |Grlenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, expressed his wel come to the members of the conven tion. Dr. W. G. Bleyer, director of jour nalism courses at the University of j Wisconsin, spoke on “The Needs of j Journalism.” He said that a higher j professional and ethical standard is; needed, and that there is too mueh I liberal arts mixed into the journal- i ists’ education. Sigma Delta Chi should recognize only schools, he said, with regular departments of j journalism, journalists should form! an association to attempt wage I raising, and newspaper men should increase the requirement of pro-! fessionalism to enter the profession.! Former Oregon Man Writes of Newspaper Work, Other Students A letter from Dick Eckman, Sig ma Alpha Epsilon, and a sophomore in the school of journalism last year, to Sol Abramson, editor of the Em erald, discloses the fact that he is at present engaged in publicity work in Vancouver, B. C., but ex pects to return soon to Seattle. He will take ove. active manage ment^ a musical comedy company in that city upon his return. While in Spokane recently Mr. Eckman met two. other former Ore gon students. Joe Frazier, Phi Del ta Theta, and a member of the var sity debate team, graduated last year. He was a first year law stu dent, but failed to return to school. Mr. Frazier is now working out of Salt Lake City with an auto fin ance corporation. Lewis Ashlock, the other Oregon man met by Eckman, was a student here for a few months last year. He is now writing dramatics for the Spokesman-Review, of Spokane, and also handles radio, ^fr. Ashlock formerly covered police for the Press in Spokane. Leather Bound Volume Shows Cornell Scenes Founder of Eastern School First to Establish Electric Line Mr. L. F. Henderson, research fel low in botany, has received a beau tifully bound leather volume con taining pictures of the buildings of Cornell University, his alma mater. Its beauty lies not only in the ex cellent make-up of the book, but because it gives to one a panorama of the growth of the university down through the years, beginning, of course, with a picture of the doner, Ezra Cornell, a self-made man, the first in the United States to build an electrical line. The Uni versity was founded in 1865. Scenic views, such as Beebe Lake, which bears similarity to our own Mill Race, and Ithaca Fall, where now is found a plate bearing these words: “Johnson Tumble,” so called because while chiselling in the rock, a laborer fell, bar in hand together with a huge piece of the projecting rock, from ai; enormous height to the foot of the falls. “A hearse was taken to gather up his remains,” Mr. Henderson said. “But it was not needed as the victim of the fall came walking out from among the rocks.” Another, the Taughannoek Falls, was of es pecial interest to the Cornell grad uate because at the time he at tended the university, which was be tween the years 1870 and 1874 the shelf over which the falls fell pro truded outward leaving an Open space behind the falls, but now has been worn away until it is almost the shape of a “v”. The remainder of the pictures show the memorial halls and other buildings including the library with its wonderful clock tower, Fuerte’s observatory, Sage’s chapel which is probably the largest in the world, and the “bleak old dormitory—Cas cadilla hall, one of the three build ings of which the university consist ed when Mr. Henderson was a stu dent there. Professors to Attend Historical Meeting Dr. Dan E. Clark and Dr. R. C. Clark are representatives from the University of Oregon’s history de partment to the Bacifid Coast Branch of American Historical aj-', soeiation at Stanford on November 26 and 27. The association meets annually, representatives coming from all parts of the coast. Last year they met at the University of Washington. Dr. R. C. Clark will give a paper on “Influence of the Tariff Policy of Great Britain and the United States, upon the Settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute of 1846.” Special Train Will Not Leave From Villard Hall Contrary to a report appearing in Tuesday morning’s Emerald, the Southern Pacific company will not run a special train from Villard hall at 3:15 this afternoon. The ; railway will, however, run a speciaf ] from the depot at 3:15 this after | noon. A special, and at the same time—but not from the campus. Three Stars ; Of Champion Five on Hand _ Spirit of Past Victories Shown by Regular Practice Work Twenty-five Men Report for Action Material of Other Teams Questionable Basketball u now receiving the attention of Oregon sport fans. Although nearly two months remain before the opening confer ence game with Idaho, the team is turning out regularly in high hopes of repeating its 1926 success when it won the northwest cham pionship by sailing through its schedule with ten straight victor ies. Only two men are lost from last winter’s championship outfit, and a host of good sophomore prospects are on hand to fill their boots. Oregon lost the coast champion ship last March by dropping two games to California at Berkeley in the play-off for the coast title. This year the winner of the southern half of the conference will come north to meet the champion, of the northern division. Jost and Hobson Gone Howard Hobson, the skillful for ward, and Chuck Jost, a steady guard, are missing, but Jerry Gun ther, a powerful forward, Boy Oker berg, a sterling center, and Swede Westergren, a two-year selection as all-coast guard, are back for ac tion. Practice has started regularly with approximately 25 men report ing to Coach Reinhart. ’ A barn storming tour will be made to Cal ifornia during the Christmas holi days for the purpose of developing team work, and welding the play ers into a scoring and defensive machine. Last w'inter, the barn stormers pierced to Los Angeles, and attended the Washington-Ala ’bama grid tilt at Pasadena New Year’s day. This year’s expedition will only take them into northern California, most of the games be ing scheduled around the bay dis trict. Forwards Aplenty Although it is still early to get an accurate line on the personnel of the 1927 team, a fair estimate can be made. Jerry Gunther will undoubtedly be back at his old for ward stand. His running mate will be picked from Clare Scallon, Arnie Kiminki, Bay Edwards, Tom Pow ers, Gordon Ridings, Mervyn Chas tain, or Keith Emmons. Kiminki, Edwards, and Powers were on the squad last winter, while the others are sophomores. Ridings and Scal lon are regarded as very promis ing material. Roy Okerberg has no competition for the center position. He has been an all-northwest pivot man for two years, and only missed all-coast last winter because Bill Higgins, of California, was in the lineup. How ard Eberhart, who goes well over six foot, Ray Edwards, and Bern ard Hummelt, from the freshmen of 1926, are the logical understudies at this time. Westergren is sure fire at one guard berth, with a running mate to be picked. Joe Bally looks like the most promising candidate to fill Jost’s place at present, as he is tall and experienced. Scott Milli gan is a flashier performer than Bally, but lacks the latter’s stead iness. Both Milligan and Bally were all-state men in high school, as were Ridings, Emmons, and Scallon. Pat Hughes, football end, is a good standing guard who has been on the squad two years. Bill Brown may come through. This is his second year on the squad. Hal Hutchinsorh, varsity tennis player, is another possibility. He is light, but fast and experienced. Others Teams Doubtful Oregon is particularly fortunate in material. O. A. C. hag but two men remaining—-Captain Ray Graap and Bill Burr, but .will bear wat ching as no team using Bager’s percentage system has ever finish ed out of the first division. Wash ; ington has a good crew, led by A1 Schuss, an all-coast forward. Idaho has seven lettermen and all the confidence in the world. Washing ton State has a new coach and a (Continued on page two) Novel Plan Followed in Choral Work I Orchestral Grouping Of Singers Method Of Russian Choir of 25 Voices Due Here Tuesday Well-k noun Conductor Heads Body BASILE KIBALCHICH, director of the Russian Symphony choir, which will sing in Eugene next Tuesday under the supervision of the Associated Students, has been an outstanding figure in the field of music for several years, having earned fame in both his own coun try and in the United States. Perhaps the most notable of his recent achievements was the forma tion of his present choir in 1924. At that time he undertook the task of radically changing the generally conceived ideas of choral work, a branch of music in which he had been interested for years, and was so successful that his choir was hailed by eastern music critics as a revelation. His idea was to ar range his singers as the conductor of a symphony orchestra would his instruments, and plan the parts of each singer to correspond with the change. New Venture Successful . The result was surprising, but met with instant acclaim. The Rus sian Symphony choir is composed of approximately 25 voices. All members are capable soloists, their different roles demanding that ability. Kibalchich was born in Teherrii goff in Southern Russia. He was impressed at an early age with the tremendous amount of folk-lore of the region and began to love the folk songs sung about the rough fireplaces of the country side. Al though it is doubtful that he saw the possibilities that lay in the lat er use of these songs for choral work, he did become greatly inter ested in conducting. As early as the age of 12 he was called upon to wield the baton. Director Has Travelled Much He learned the violoncello, be coming expert in the playing of that instrumnt about 1900, under the tuelage of Rimsky-Korsakoff. In 1906 he was the head of the Arcli angelsky choir of St. Petersburg, the most famous city of Russia, since known as Petrograd and Len ingrad. His interest in touring fol lowed his work with the Archangel skv group, when he travelled through Russia with the Choir of the Petrograd Conservatory of Mu sic for two years. His activities then broadened and in 1912 he be came choir conductor of the Rus sian Cathedral at Geneva, Switzer land. This was followed by a po sition in Paris with the choir of the Russian Cathedral and by a series of European tours which gave him an enviable reputation among the choral masters of the old continent. Appear Here Next Tuesday The full membership of the Rus sian Symphony choir will appear will be staged in the Methodist in the Eugene performance, which church at 8 o’clock next Tuesday night. Following the appearance here the troupe will journey south, ending their tour in Texas. Prac tically every lafrge university in the country has entertained the singers in the course of their trip. Slicker Awaits Owner At Rendezvous of Lost A slicker is part of a college stu dent on this campus and yet there seems to be some one who is con tent to scurry through these Novem-1 her downpours without one since a slicker actually reposes at the Uni versity depot, unclaimed. Five umbrellas have been turned in recently, and also a hat. Surely their owners must need them. One lonely ear-ring of intricate design is longing for its mate and its old jewel-box home. It has been in the lost and found department a long time now and is growing tired ; of it. To “M. R.”—If you have ever lost anything with your initial on it while you have been on this cam j pus perhaps if you report to the depot you may get the article re j turned. RUSSIAN CHOIR SINGERS This _ groujp will appear in the Russian Symphonic choir at the Methodist church on November 30, under the auspices of the A. S. XT. O. Phi Beta Kappa To Hold Election On December 2 Seniors to be Chosen - on Basis of Scholarship And Activities Phi Beta Kappa elections will be held Thursday, December 2. This year either six or seven members are to be elected to the honorary scholastic fraternity, to be chosen from the senior class on the basis of high scholarship and general activities. The standing committee on mem bership has been going over the records of the members of the senior class to get all the information about those who are outstanding in the class. Letters have been sent to every member of the faculty to get names of those whom they feel are eligible. The names of the stu dents are obtained from the regis trar’s office and their activities looked into. Every effort is made to get as much information as possible, said Dr. Dan Clark, of the extension div ision. The students must have high scholarship in order to be eligible and general scholarship and activ ities on the campus are also taken into consideration. Students who have achieved some distinction aloflg scholarly lines or have given promise of continuing along those lines after their college careers are considered also. Present Phi Beta Kappa members will receive notices of the election meeting. After the electiom, initia tion, for which plans have not yet been completed, will take place. There aje now 41 faculty members who belong to the honorary frater nity, and several students who were elected to membership in former years are still on the campus. First String Teams Show Unusual Skill When Women Swim Both the junior and freshman first women’s swimming teams won easy victories over the freshman and junior second teams last night. No first teams have been matched yet, but second team matches are showing up the caliber of the first teams. The junior team seems to have a small edge on the freshman team. The score for the junior first and freshman second match last night was 56*4 to 18%, the fresh man first and junior second 42 to 14. Individual winners for the events were: breast stroke, Virginia Louns- \ bury, junior 1; back stroke, Flor ence Iiurley, junior 1; side stroke, Louise Buchanan, junior 1, and Kathryn Mehl, freshman 1; free style, Hazel Kirk, junior 2, and tied between Esther nardy, junior 1, and Betty Summers, freshman 2; crawl, Virginia Lounsbury, junior 1, and lone Garbe, freshman 1;. endurance, Florence Hurley, junior 1; plunge, Mvrtis Gorst, freshman 2, who plunged 46.5 feet, and Genovieve Swedenburg, freshman 1, who plung ed 36 feet. Virginia Lounsbury took first place in diving for the junior first team, and lone Garbe, first place for the freshman first. Both the junior and freshman first I teams won the relays. Oregon Man Wins Award ! For Oratory Jack Hempstead, Junior Has Oration Judged Best in Nation Contest Is Declared Severe by Judges Western Student Seldom Wins Honor THIRST place in the National la tercollegiate Peace Association contest has been awarded to Jack Hempstead, third year varsity de bater and general manager of for ensics for this year, and a major in the school of journalism. Word concerning the prize was receiv ed on the campus yesterday. I 1 His oration, “ Sh a d o w s of Jack Hempstead Truth,” won over all papers from colleges and universities in all parts of the country. His subject em phasized the necessity of truthful dealing in international affairs, and gave evidence that war could be abolished if each nation had a clear concept of the good motives behind another’s international moves. Second In State Contest Hempstead was given only second place in the intercollegiate contest of April 9, held in Eugene last year, where the orations were pre sented verbally, while O. A. (Vs arguments were given first place. But the national judges to whom the written manuscripts of the first and second prize-winners of forty-eight states were submitted, for decision of the national champion, not onfy decided that his arguments were superior to those of the O. A. C. representative, but that they head ed the list of manuscripts of the other ninety-five intercollegiate winners. Hempstead also has the substan tial recognition of a sixty dollar check, to add to the glory of the first place in the contest; also he received a forty dollar roward last April for second prize. Recently he received word that lie and Benoit McCroskey were the victors in the radio opposition to the Australian debate team. Competition Very Keen The Misses Mary and Helen Sea bury of Massachusetts, who furnish the winner with the sixty dc’.lar re ward, commented in a letter to President Hall that competition was unusually keen this year—so keen, in fact, that the judges felt that two second prizes w'ere justified, in stead of the single second prizo gen erally given. They were given to Roscoe Tueblood of Penn College, Iowa, and Wallace I. Wolverton of Park College, Missouri. A personal letter from the judges to Hempstead compliments him on the winning of the prize and adds: “The winning of this contest is al ways a high honor, but this year it is especially so, since the orations were unusually good and the compe tition therefore keen. Hearty con gratulations to you and your col lege and state.” Coaches Share in Credit Formerly the national prize has rarely been won by a representative of a western college. Last year an easterner carried off first prize, as several men from that section col leges have done in past years. The winning of first place by an Oregon man in a nation-wide contest speaks well for debate coaching as well as for the ability of the winner him self. J. Stanley Gray, who is as sisting J. K. Horner with debate coaching this year, was debate coaeh at the time of the contest last year. When asked how it felt to be a national winner, Hempstead replied that it had been so long siuee the original contest, that he had for gotten all about it, and so it was quite an agreeable surprise. He add ed, smiling, “And so was the sixty dollars.”