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SPORTS PAGE: Wire Coverage of Frosh-Rook Football Game TODAY'S EDITS Game Fight Song Propaganda VOLUME xli UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1939 NUMBER 13 VAwrud COMPLETE FALL TERM SOCIAL CALENDAR RELEASED uregon s tall social calendar released yesterday from the dean of women’s office shows a full social slate fur the term. Activities start off tonight with the annual "Open House" and the production of "Our Town.” Tuesday. October 17: YWCA nominations at 4:15 o’clock; WAA tea from 4 to 5 o’clock. Thursday, October 19: AWS mass meeting at 4 p.m. Tibhett on Schedule Friday, October 20: Lawrence Tibbett, concert series; High school press conference; Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledge dance. Saturday, October 21: Football, Gonzaga at Eugene; High school press conference; Highland house dance; Hilyard house dance; Del ta Gamma dance; Delta Tau Delta dance. Sunday, October 22: Pi Kappa Alpha open house. Tuesday, October 24: Phi Theta LTpsilon assembly. Wednesday, Heads of Houses reception for new housemothers from 4 to G o'clock; Delta Phi Alpha initiation at G: 15; Oregon Mothers’ tea. Friday, October 27: Pi Kappa Alpha house dance; Yeomen-Ori des dance; Kirkwood informal; Alpha Gamma Delta reception; Del ta Delta Delta dance. AWS Carnival Saturday, October 28: Football, UCLA at Los Angeles; AWS Carnival. Friday, November 3: Pi Beta Phi dance: Phi Kappa Psi dance. Saturday, November 4: Football, Washington State at Eugene; Sophomore informal; Law school dance. Monday, November 6: Midterm examinations begin. Thursday, November 9: YWCA doughnuf sale. Friday, November 10: Homecoming noise parade; Rally. Homecoming Game Saturday, November 11: Football, Oregon State at Eugene; Homecoming dance: Armistice day holiday. Friday, November 17: Phi Gamma Delta dance: Sigma Phi Ep silon; Alpha Gamma Delta; Theta Chi; Alpha Omicron Pi; Phi Sig ma Kappa; All Cooperative informal; Kappa Alpha Theta. Saturday, November 18: Kappa Sigma house dance: Chi Psi informal; Beta Theta Pi; Sigma Alpha Mu; Sigma Chi; Alpha Tail Omega; Gamma Phi breakfast dance; Alpha Phi informal; Chi Omega. Monday, November 20: Ballet Caravan, concert series. AWS Dime Crawl Tuesday, November 21: AWS Dime Crawl. Thursday, November 23-26: Thanksgiving vacation. Saturday, November 25: Football, Washington at Seattle. Tuesday, November 28: Phi Theta Upsilon freshman assembly. Friday, December 1: Alpha Chi Omega; Susan Campbell hail; Zeta Tail Alpha; University house. Oregon Mothers’ Lunch Saturday, December 2: Kappa Kappa Gamma dance; Alpha Delta Pi; Alpha Xi Delta; Delta Upsilon; Sigma Nu; Canard club; Campbell cooperative dance; Oregon Mothers' lunch and bridge from 1 to 5 o'clock. Friday, December 8: Closed. Saturday, December 9: Christmas Revels; Sigma Kappa house dance. Friday, December 15: Closed; lunch for Oregon Mothers. Saturday, December 16: Final examinations begin. Monday, December 18-21: Final examinations. Friday, December 22: Winter vacation begins. She'll Head UO Band in Future m Mary Anderson . . . will take her place at head of the University band at th^Gonzaga game" Mary was given the position by a student affairs committee ruling yesterday. Before entering the University this year she was drum mayoress for the Eugene high school band. Mystery Shrouds Gift $250,000 Bequeathed To University Officials Receive No Word About Affair Officials of the University of Oregon are faced with a mystery today as the result of news reports concerning the bequest of $250,000 for the University of Oregon made in a will filed Thursday in sur rogate’s court in New York. The will is that of Mrs. Mildred Williams who died in Beverley Hills, California, on August 29. The bequest is made in memory of the late Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie who was one of the founders and the first dean of the University of Oregon medical school in Portland. No one on the Oregon campus knows yet whether the money is to be given to the medical school or to the University since no word has been received yet to clarify the the situation except press reports which gave the first indication of the gift. Milton Horn, noted sculptor, is a resident instructor at Olivet col lege this year. Notice: House Managers The Emerald business staff requests that all house mana gers phone the business office and report how many student body members there are in their respective houses. Professor and Family On Extensive Tour; Travel 10,075 Miles Professor and Mrs. Jesse Bond and their daughter Ruth Virginia and Steffany Huestis, daughter of Professor and Mrs. R. R. Huestis, traveled 10,075 miles over the United States in seven weeks this summer. Some of the places on their itin erary include the following: San Francisco World’s Fair, Boulder Dam, Zion and Brice Canyon na tional parks, Grand Canyon, Wil liamsburg, Washington, D. C., New York world’s fair, Boston, Concord, Philadelphia, Niagara Falls, the Bad Lands and the Black Hills in South Dakota, Rushmore Memor ial, and the Yellowstone national park. At the San Francisco fair they enjoyed the beauty of the flower arrangements on the grounds, the lighting effects at night, the art exhibit, and some Chinese jugglers in the Chinese village there. ROTC Frosh Shoot It Out FLASH: Beware of the ROTC rifle range next week! Approach only at risk of mortal injury. The military department an nounced Friday that the 600 fresh men enrolled in the ROTC would start rifle practice on the indoor range next week. Staff Sergeant Harvey Blythe will instruct the freshmen in the fine art of the rifle. Sergeant Blythe in the past has turned out rifle teams that have brought championship after championship home to Oregon. Most notable of the competition units was last year’s national championship team which brought home the coveted Hearst trophy. At the present time Oregon holds both the national championship | and the Ninth Corps Area cham pionship, all of which makes Ore gon’s marksmen the finest college team in the United States. Sergeant Blythe is confident that this year’s crop will produce a team as fine as last year’s to up | hold Oregon’s supremacy. Los Angeles City college stu dents drank 1,500 bottles of pop daily during the recent California heat wave. : I Gonzaga unversity’s athletic coaching staff is composed entirely of graduates of the school. Ducks Favored to Down Bears In Vital Game at Berkeley Today Bunion Derby On At Stroke of Seven Campus Adonises Prepare Techniques; Gorgeous Coeds Ready for Awaited Annual University Open House Foot War BY ELEANOR ENGDAHL Tonight is the night when handsome campus Adonises pull out their walking- boots with the two-inch soles and perambulate the campus to glimpse the gorgeous gals in their natural haunts. Starting at 7 o’clock, boys are to migrate from one girls’ house to another until 11:40 when they begin the homeward trek. The line of march tfnay be located in yesterday’s edition of the Emerald, From ,'a quiz of several sororities’ it is probable that phonograph records or radios win iurnisn tne music for the evening. Last year there was some trou ble with the boys’ houses not ob serving their full ten minute waits. If the boys can wait their allotted ten minutes it will avoid many a pile-up, according to Betty Lou Kurtz, president of heads of hous es. This is an annual event which is not to be trifled with, according to several voices of experience. It is whispered about that local drug stores have a boom in bunion and corn plaster sales directly “open house" is over. But be of faith, it must have been just last year that such things happened. WAA to Entertain Frosh Women at Wednesday Tea At four o’clock Wednesday af ternoon, the Alumni hall at Ger linger will be the scene of a WAA tea for freshman women. Janet Morris, head chairman for the tea, revealed the names of some of the committees; others will be named later. Refreshments, Betty Mae Lind; serving, Jean Boggs; invitation, Bette Moifitt; clean-up, LaVaune McDonald. Preparations have been made to make the tea a really enjoyable one. All freshman women are urged to attend. Eight students of Little Rock Junior college are earning their college expenses operating a pea nut butter plant. The Campus Crumb is the name of a lunch service managed by Ha verford college students. ‘OurTown’ Held Over Students Still Like Smaller Town Life For Entertainment By BETTY JANE BIGGS Proving- that college students still like the simple things in their daily diet in spite of their sophis ticated veneer, “Our Town,” the naive story of small town life, will have a hold-over performance Tuesday after playing to record breaking crowds again tonight. Further proof showing the lack of sophistication of University fel lows and coeds came during the “boy” kisses “girl” scene in the play. “Oh’s” and “ah’s” filled the auditorium as the two went into a touching embrace and bashful maids blushed as they sat next to their embarrassed swains in the audience. Blushes and modesty fit in well with this performance, given the Pulitzer prize in 1938, as the plot is laid in the pre-war days before the time of “flappers,” glamour, or “oomph” girls. With stage “props” consisting of a table and a couple of chairs, only the outstanding performance of the actors and the unobtrusive narra tive of Stage Manager Horace Robinson keeps the audience’s at tention from wandering. Equally good was the perform (Please turn to paye jour) Aspirin Quick! 37429 Muddles PE Registration Permeating from the physical education office comes the story of unnamed freshman No. 37429% who yesterday came in to change his program from ad vanced swimming to frosh swim ming. Checking the register, the office secretary discovered that instead of being in these classes he had signed for football. The ultimate came, however, when it was discovered that he was not registered in the physical education division at all because he had failed to turn in his reg istration card. New Badminton Club Organized Oregon's shuttlecock addicts were organized into a club to be known as the Badminton club at a meeting in Gerlinger hall last Wednesday night. Jack Newton of the Campbell co-op was elected president of the new group, and Nickolas Hiasanov sky was named secretary-treasurer. Meetings are scheduled for every Wednesday night from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Gerlinger hall. A busi ness meeting followed by badmin ton practice and instruction will complete next Wednesday’s meet ing. A series of games against Ore gon State, the Salem YMCA and schools at Portland are being planned. “Badminton is an up-and-com ing game on the Pacific coast, and we expect plenty of competition from other clubs,” President New ton stated. “Everyone who plays badminton or is interested in the game is invited to attend Wednes day’s meeting.” Emerald 3 o'clock Club Holds Meeting The Emerald Three o’clock club met for the first time last night at the University press. Business before the club includ ed the adoption of a new club song, “Three o’clock in the Morning” and the initiation of Bill Borth wick, Friday night editor. Stehn Favors a UO Fight Song '-j ,u“6'-u uinvciauy Uliaer grads need a new fight song. The latest voice of authority backing this statement is that of John Stehn, Oregon band boss. ‘■Mighty Oregon” gets mighty boring because of its constant use as a fight song, for which purpose it was never intended, Stehn opined yesterday. While rooters performed credit ably with the pledge song at the j Stanford game, they must have a spirited fight song to show their best efforts, Stehn said. The Ore gon band leader definitely demon strated his interest on the subject i as he outlined a procedure through wmcn the University could find a song. The method used by Stanford in getting their fight song, “Come Join the band,” was, first, to pick a good march written by a good march composer and, secondly, to write the words. “It sounds simple and really is,” Stehn stated. | “There is no trick in writing j songs. An oil worker wrote the words and whistled the tune of the new Ohio State song, which became a success.” Same Method The University of California “Sturdy Golden Bear” is a good \ example of a fight song that was | obtained by the same method used by Stanford. ‘‘Oregon could follow this same method,” Stehn declared, ‘‘by picking several spirited marching songs which would be suitable for a fight song and playing them be fore a student committee which would represent the student body as a whole. After the committee has chosen the song a lyric writ ing contest could be held. Certainly there could be found, somewhere about the University, persons or an organization that would be willing to donate a prize to the person writing the best set of lyrics. Coaching Staff Optimistic as Game Nears Webfoots Given Slight Edge Over Golden Bear Eleven; Starting Lineup Uncertain Can the Oregon football team play the “big three” of California in three straight weeks without a defeat? This afternoon at 2:00 o'clock in Strawberry canyon, Berkeley, this vital question which has con fronted the football department of the University of Oregon will be settled. The Ducks will go into the game a favorite for the first time in 13 years, not since 1926 when Oregon scored an upset. Betting odds range from 10 to 9, to 2 to 1 odds on Oregon. Only football “expert” to choose Cal is Norm Speer, who | rates them a slight edge. In Good Shape When Tex Oliver left Eugene Thursday, he said his squad was in as good shape physically as they had been at any time this season. Only team member not to make the trip who ordinarily would is Ray Segale, soph guard, who is now sporting a cast around his right knee. It is expected to come off by next Monday. Coach Oliver said that he wouldn’t take $20,000 to pick the exact score of the game today, but by a flip of the coin, he would stick with his own team to win. This ! optimism is a bit unusual for the coaching staff, yet everyone else says the Webfoots are the team to beat. Lineup Indefinite Starting lineups are somewhat indefinite. The Oregon team will probably be the same as the one that started against Stanford. The only change is that the two heav iest halves, Johnny “Buck” Berry, and Bob Smith may start at oppo site half positions today in place of Jay Garybeal. Chet Haliski and Bull Stenstrom will open at quar ter and full. (Please tarn to page two) Theta Sigs Plan Sunday Tea Theta Sigma Phi, national jour nalism honorary and professional j group for women, will entertain at a silver tea for active and alumni members of the chapter Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Given at the home of Mrs. George Turnbull, the tea is being given so that alumni and active members may meet with each oth er. Catherine Taylor, Theta Sig president, and Mrs. Eric W. Allen, alumni adviser, are helping with the arrangement. The University of Maine has a new wind tunnel that develops a J UO-mile an hour gale. Webfoot General Tex Oliver . . . plans defeat for the Golden Bears of California in today's tilt. Kelly Returns From Institute Professor C. L. Kelly of the school of business administration attended the American institute of Accountants held at the Fairmount hotel in San Francisco from Sep tember 18 to 21. While there he attended sessions on taxation, on the revision of cer tificates, and the general meeting at which was discussed the various problems that now confront the ac countant. The meeting was out standing, according to Professor Kelly, in view of the problems that arose concerning the McKesson Robbins swindle. One-half day of the meet was given over to visiting the San Francisco world's fair. Professor Kelly considered the fine arts ex hibit at the fair especially good. During the convention San Francisco experienced the hottest weather in years.