East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-03-09
GIRLS WILL DEBATE
At THE UNIVERSITY
SIX YOUNG LADIES TO
COMPETE IN TRYOUT
Students Will Mako Study of Slide
Rule-Prof. Frederick Dunn's Ar
ticles Copied i'm East-Same Orator
Picked for Both Contests.

University of Oregon, Eugene
At the second preliminary try-out for
choosing the coed debating team at
the University of Oregon six women
were selected to enter the final con-
test. The try-out, according to state
ments made by the judges, showed a
great Improvement in some of the
speakers since the previous try-out.
They knew better what was expected
Of them, and seemed to have better
control Of themselves.
What student wouldn't pay a
quarter to hear Oregon's women de-
bate?" said Managed Steele. "Ill
get the glee club to sing If can,
charge twenty-five cents admission,
and get crowd out and show the
girls that we are behind them In their
contests and really do believe in them
taking part in student activities"
The time of speaking will be seven
minutes for constructive argument and
three for rebuttal.
Those trying out are: Fay Clark.
~, of McMlnnville, prominent in
Eutaxian and Y. w. c. A. work and a
member OF the Oregon Emerald staff;
Llah Clark, n junior from Portland,
who has always shown up we'll in
Eutaxian debates. Carin Deger-
mark is a freshman from Lincoln
High, Portland, and is the only fresh
man who qualified in the prelimi-
naries. Hazel McKowan. '12, is a Eu-
gene girl who has always taken a
great interest in forensic work. Bird
lie Wise, '12, is from Astoria high
school. She represented that school
on the debating team two years, the
last year in the High school league.
when it won the state championship.
Willetta Wright II, Is a new stu
dent this year. entering from Albany
college, where she took a leading part
in forensic work.
To Study Slide Rule.
The slide rule is to be taken up and
studied thoroughly by a club OF engi-
neers that will meet for organization
next Wednesday afternoon at the
University of Oregon. The slide rule
is the instrument on which the engi-
neer does his figuring. Beginning as
a rather simple instrument, it has
been perfected to a high degree; and
as they should. To become thorough
ly acquainted with all forms, and es-
pecially the most modern and COM
plicated, this club will make a regu-
lar study of them and secure lecturers
to demonstrate their different uses.
Prof. Dunn Honored.
The November number OF the Uni
versity of Oregon Bulletin which was
edited by Prof. Frederick Stanley
Dunn, head of the department of Lat
In, on "a Study OF Roman Coins of
the Empire has been widely COM
mented on and copied by eastern pa
pers and magazines. The latest to
reprint It are two we'll known papers.
THE Records OF the Past" publish
ed in Washington, D. c., and the
Classical Weekly" The later prints
another article by Professor Dunn on
the confusion of Halley's comet with
the Julian Star" this being also re-
copied in the Popular Astronomy Re-
view for March, 1910.
That the University of Oregon's
representative at Salem next Friday
night will give a good account of
himself. that his grafton is one Of the
best and most consistent winners that
was ever turned out, was demonstrat-
ed in the try-out, when, for the Sec
onl time. set of judges selected H.
]. Rounds as the best orator in college
and the audience unanimously pro-
nounced II a great improvement on
the intercollegiate tryout. This is the
first time in the history of Oregon
that the same man has represented
her in both the interstate and inter-
collegiate contests. Mr. Rounds is
a senior an member of the Philo-
gogian society.