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.