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
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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
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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.”