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Woodburn, 2; Oregon, 5. OREGON ENGINEERING CLUB Most interesting of the items of the 1 ( ontinucil from page one.) The V arsity team won the first addiess was the mention of the methcxl game of the season last Saturday in ounpaiatively simple. The js proposed for reproducing the length an exciting season with the Tri-city hoisted by an endless chain or belt of the standard in the event of a cat League at W oodburn. A fine diamond carrying the buckets, dumped into astrophe occurring to the standard bar. and perfect w eather made the game rotary or shaking screens, fitted with he method is based on the measure enjoyable. The poor condition of the a spray. The coarse material is ear ment of light waves and the claim is Oregon diamond had prevented the ned to the tailings pile directly while substantiated that it could be repro V arsity men from getting as much the fine material passes over sluices, duced within an error of one micron, practice as would have been desirable. the gold being retained by plates pre the one thousandth part of a milli The showing against W oodburn’s viously treated with mercury. 'This metre. strong team is encouraging, however, part of the process resembles very (The above article should have ap and thus far O regon’s hopes for the much the ordinary “free milling” pro- peared last week; but as it was hand 1 championship have not been discredit cess. ed in late and was too interesting to ed. W oodburn got six hits and O re The dredge is moved by a pair of cut down, we have presented it in gon, eight. The men who made the cgs, literally walks, simply moving tact. Editor.) trip w ere: H athaw ay(c), Kestley, over the ground by an alternate rais Ramp, Clarke, Coleman, Hurd, Taylor, ing and lowering of a long spur or Erskine, Mount (m gr.), and Coach beam at each side. THREE DEBATES THURSDAY Leonard. (Continued from page one.) In spite of its size and the consid erable amount of machinery involved The Northwest Interstate Debating Y. M. C. A. News in its working, but two men are re League is this season entering upon quired for its operation. the third year of its existence. Two 1 he • M. C. A. held its annual Mr. Adams began his subject by re business m eeting in Deady Hall last ferring to an earlier time when the years ago the championship of the hriday night. The reports of the com world had no precise standards o. league was won by Idaho and last year mittees were received and officers for measurement. In the latter part of it was taken charge of by Oregon. Under the constitution of the league the ensuing year were elected. The the eighteenth century, the need made the vote of each judge counts as one officers w ere: itself felt for more definite standards. point and the decision one point in President, E than Collier, ’09; Vice- Newton had already worked out his President, H arold J. Rounds, ’10; theory of the earth as an oblate spher deciding the championship. Thus a Treasurer, Earl Kilpatrick, ’09, Record oid. It was found that a clock with a unanimous decision of the judges counts four points, a two to one de ing-Secretary, Carlos M arsters, ’ll. constant length of pendulum lost time, cision counts three points to the win Profs. DeCou and Dunn, for the when carried from France and set up faculty and H arold J. Rounds, TO and over the equator; but at the same ner and one to the loser. ( ff the men who will debate at Eu Harold A. Dalzell, TO, were nominated time a man named Cassini measured a gene, Idaho sends two representatives for positions on the advisory board. portion of a meridian in France and who have had previous experience in claimed that the actual measure of the “Appeal to Reason” the butting mas line did not bear out the oblate spher orensics. J. F. Matthews, and R. (). cot of the D orm itory, and “Dubie” the oid theory. Due to this disagreement 'ones were both members of Idaho’s vicious-jawed pride of the D elta Alpha two expeditions were sept ou t; one to negative team which defeated W ash house, engaged in a unique combat measure a sector of the meridian at ington last year. B. D. Mudgett is a last W ednesday before an enthusiastic the equator and the other near the new man who has all ready made a audience. As a result the rum inating pole. The polar expedition proved a remarkably strong showing at Idaho. On the Oregon team Jesse II. Bond, participant has several silk stitches in failure but the other accomplished its ear, and Dubie ’ has a few sore some wonderful things. The base of leader, was a member of ( )regon’s neg ative team which last year won a unan ■spots on his ribs to remind him that their operations was fixed in South there is a difference between an An .America in what is now the territory imous decision over Idaho at Moscow. W alter M. Eaton and W. C. Nicholas, gora billy goat and an A ngora Thomas of Ecuador, the meridian however, while new at Intercollegiate debate, cat. being referred to as the Peruvian base. have always been regarded as among Wooden rods were used for measuring the leading speakers in their respective Plaine Halleck, of Portland, and linear distances, a quadrant with a sister, Alma, came up on the local Sat three foot radius for measuring hori societies, the Laurean and the Philo- logian. in day night.' The former was a guest zontal angles, and a three degree sec Both the Idaho and < Iregon teams at the Delta Alpha house, and the lat tor with a twelve-foot radius for ver ter at the Beta Epsilon over Sunday. tical angles and star observations. In are well prepared for Thursday’s con test and the decision will no doubt be spite of the crudity of their instru close when the judges finally hand in t lifton N. M cArthur, 01, came up ments they attained a degree of ac their ballots. tr<>ni 1 ortland Saturday evening and curacy of one in one hundred and was a guest at the Sigma Nu Frater- fifty thousand. As a result of this ex Scholarships to young ladies at the ity house. pedition the metric system was evolv University have been offered for 1908-9 Ada Coffey, ’ll , has left college tem ed. The standard metre is one ten mil by the Oregon branch of the Associa porarily on account of the illness of lionth part of the length of a quadrant tion of College Alumni and the Port measured along the Paris meridian. land Federation of W omen’s Clubs. one of her parents. The standard is a platinum bar kept Helena Hughes, TO, enjoyed a visit at the building of the International Professor A'oung was in Portland from her parents Sunday. Bureau of Standards at Paris. ast week on business.
