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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1916)
Alma Mater Welcomes Her Sons and Daughters Lawyers, Senator and Repre | sentative, of State Legisla ture, Guests of Honor. TOASTMASTER EXPLA1NSP0LICY i Legal Lights of State and Na tion Encouraged to Visit and Address Students. , Wednesday noon the law school stu dents and faculty banqueted, having as j guests of honor J. B. Kerr, an attorney c|f Portland and a member of the Reed College Board of Regents, W. H. Strayer, s!tate senator from Baker, Charles Childs, state representative from Brownsville, and R. S. Bryson, E. O. Immel and Judge Skipworth, of the Lane county Bar Association, and President Campbell. The banquet, as Toastmaster Bothwell Avison, explained, was a result of the policy adopted, by the school of inviting and encouraging legal lights of the state and nation to address the students upon (the working of law in practice—this for the greater efficiency of the future barristers as they graduate, and the rais ing of the professional standards as a whole. In the principal address of the banquet Mr. Kerr said, “If a man has a gleam of legal insight, extraordinary applica tion and a little more than ordinary in telligence he will and is bound to succeed in the law profession. I “A student wonders what it takes to make a success and in his introduction he asks himself if he has the legal mind. Well, the legal mind is just plain com mon sense—horse sense. * I “As a student is seemed impossible Ito me that I could ever attain the heights reached by the practicing lawyers of my | acquaintance. But I was contorted when I compared myself with my contempor aries in the law school. I knew that we 'could not fail. Soma of us were sure to make a go. So -when I found I could Istate with the same precision and ex actness the rule in the Shelley’s case as !the others could I felt I had a chance. “I am glad this institution has become a real law school. The Bar throughout the state approve of this new regime. i _______ (Continued on page three) I Oh, Print Me a Brief: | Charge a Dollar a Page | *---* Oh, print me a brief, Mr. Printer, To conform to the rules of the court, With margins as wide as a notebook, And pages alarmingly short. Use type like a child’s First Reader, l To make it seem weighty and sage; 1 Have it read like a sign, with three words to a line— And charge me a dollar a page! I I Each line must stand out like a head ing, I With spaces before and behind, | That it may be read without effort | By the lame and the halt and the blind. i For the law it presents is obscure, I Though crowned with the halo of age; i So string it along, and bring it out strong, And charge me a dollar a page! For a brief must look large end im posing For the court—and my client—to seg; ! Such a book that will leave the im pression That I’m certainly earning my fee. The price is of minor importance— My opponent will pay it, and rage. : So fill it with space and fourteen point face, And charge me a dollar a page! —H. E. C. in “The Lawyer's 1 Review.” WELCOM E HOME AGAIN. The Unix the Alma Mater of her grad uates, sendi vitation to tend Comn ning Frida The gates a welcome ax By inaugurating C o m mencement tions .and ersity of Oregon, forth a royal in ker Alumni to at lencement—begin / evening, June 2. re open—a jubilee uaits. before examina rearranging .the program for a special Alum ni day the hopes and desires have been created and fos tered of seeing a loyal rally of the Alumni The Alupini victories and achievements .for .Oregon shine through the mists of the past and are undimmed by the present. Oregon’s ap preciation will be shoxvn in the arrangements made par ticxilarly for the Alumni. Welcome Home Againf Course of to Take H struction Extended Care of Present Seniors Registered. Next September the law school on the campus sta rts on its third year and ed to take car senior students subjects to the Contracts to b Mortgages by the course of instruction will be eistend e of the third year for in the school. This will mean the addition of a number of new course as; Evidence Code Pleading, Conflict of Laws and Quasi e taught by Dean Hope, Dr. Merritt and Public Service Corporations and Carriers by Prof. Reeder, year men will sides carrying Along with this the third have the advantages of a course of lectures by some Eugene member of the bar on the subject of e and Procedure. A Moot Court will alsc be established where the embyro lawyers can have some actual practice in the application of the law. The student in this court will be given a case and will carry it through all the steps of procedure until judgment, be through his own case, (Continued on page three) Alumni, Senio vited to Ar rs and Undergraduates In Attend Alumni Ball at mory Saturday. IS 10 ALL armory. For reception will Every alumni member, every senior and undergraduate, and every member is invited to attend the Alumni ball to be given Saturday even ing, June 3, fit 8 o’clock in the Eugene those who don’t dance a be held also in the armory, where one can meet old friends and talk over the “good old days.” The receiving line will be composed of President anq Mrs. P. L. Campbell; Bean, regent and a mem ber of the first University graduating class, and Mrs. Bean; Ray Goodrich, ’04, Ruby Goodrich, ’03; Walter president of state alumni and Mrs Winslow, ’06, association and Mrs. Winslow; Dr. Gil bert and Isc president of tion; Merlin senior class Williams, ’10 The executi association ci lene Shaver Gilbert, TO, the state alumnae associa Batley, president of the and Erna Petzold, senior class secretary. The official hosts and hostesses will be: Edna Prescott Datson, ’06; Benjamin Leon ,Jtay, ’12; Roscoe, ’99; and Lizzie Griffin Bryson, ’99. ve committee of the alumni >mposed of Edna Urescott Datson, T2, chairman; Walter Winslow, 06; Myra Ko mis Johnson, ’93; Mary Mc Wilshire Bristow, TO; has Cormick, ’82; appointed the following committees to (Continued on page three) SEPTEMBER TO SEEU.OFO.il SCHOOL IN FINE NEW QUARTERS State of Oregon Needs Temple Where Sound Instruction Is Given—Not a Show Tent Where a Mob Is Harangued, Says Dean Hope in His Prospectus for College Year of 1916-17. As is the case with all law schools which start out with high standards our growth in mere number of students has not been, and probably will not Ibe, rapid. If we wanted a mushroom growth—large numbers—it could easily be had: All that it de mands is a lowering of standards to admit high school graduates directly into the Law School. In truth, we do not desire that kind of growth, but prefer, to build more carefully for future results and with material seasoned by a more adequate preparation. The State of Oregon needs, and the legal profession needs to have us erect here on the campus of this University a temple where sound instruction in the law is given to those who are ready to profit by it—not a show-tent where a mob is harangued. Our purpose is to build up a law school that will turn out foroad-guage lawyers of sound training and vision. Such men will repay to the people of this State manifold the cost of their education. As a matter of fact, there are only three law schools in the coun try which go beyond us in their en trance requirements and demand an A. B. degree for admission. Our requirement of two years of college is that of all the other good law schools, such as Chicago, Yale, Northwestern, Michigan, Stanford, etc. However, we shall probably have a good sized entering class next September, as many of the “pre-legals” of our own university will be ripe by then, and a number of students from other law schools back East, as well as from States adjoining us, are preparing to come here to study law. Next September will doubtless find us in a flourishing condition in point of ma terial equipment. In the first place we shall have fine quarters in the first of the New University group of buildings, now being erected at the corner of 13th and Kincaid. Most of the second floor of this building will be given over to the Law. jpere will be a commodious room containing the stacks for the new law library, and alongside of these comfort able study-tables of the latest design. At these, or in the study alcoves forming part of this room law students will find comfort, quiet, good light and air in short, all the incentive to study, includ ing the largest item of all the neces sary books all within reach. In this pleasant place it is expected that the law students will find it convenient to do i.ll their work. The library will be for the exclusive use of law students. No books but law books and law peri odicals will find place on the premises. There will be no interruption, nor dis traction, no talking nor anything that will disturb the serious student in his serious work. The students will be expected to make and strictly enforce their own rules and standards of conduct here. A special Law librarian will have his quar ters in this room and be charged with the care and up-keep of the books. The offices of the Law Faculty all open into the Library, thus affording a community of advantage im the use of the books, and permitting helpful rela tions between students and instructors. Just across a corridor from the Lid rary will be three recitation rooms all well appointed, well lighted and ventilated. As to the Library itself, the “back bone” of the Law School, it is planned to have an excellent one set up and ready for use for the Fall opening. It will be a splendid working library con sisting of the following valuable sets among others: the complete National Reporter System, which includes the Atlantic, Northeastern Northwestern,, Pacific, Southeastern, Southern, South western, and Federal Reporters,—over 1000 volumes of cases decided in the American courts of last resort; the U. S. Supreme Court Reporter; the standard sets of selected cases, such as the Law yers’ Reports Annotated (old and new series); the so-called Trinity Series, in cluding the American Decisions, Ameri can Reports, and American State Re ports; English Ruling Cases; British Ruling Cases; the Cyclopaedia of Law and Procedure (“Cyc”) and the publish ed volumes of Corpus Juris; the Ameri can and English Encyclopaedia of Law; standard word reference books like Words and Phrases Judicially Defined, j and Bouvier’s Law Dictionary; Ruling Case Law; the American Digest Sys tem, including the Century, Decennial and Key Number Digests, which together collate and digest every important case ever decided in the United States. All the above mentioned books are in addi tion to a very good collection of stand ard text-books, statutes, reports, mono graphs nnd pamphlets already on hand numbering well over a thousand. We hare the whole of the Harvard Law Review in bound volumes, and take in the Colum j bia, the American, Illinois, and California i Law Reviews and the Law Quarterly Re I view. With this equipment the Law School of the University of Oregon will take its ■rightful place with the best state law | schools of the country. There is no , longer the slightest need for any Ore I gon man to go outside his own State I for a legal education. To do so is not only unpntriotic in a sense, but foolish: He can do as well or better here at home for the following reasons: (1) This ! school is not yet so large that the individ 1 uni is swallowed up in huge classes, get ting little personal attention from the instructor, and few opportunities to show what is in him. (2) He will here be taught the statute law and the practice of Oregon, at the same time that he is learning the principles of the Common Law—Quite an advantage when it comes time to pass tho Oregon bar examination! (3) He will have a law library that is amply sufficient for every need. It is a mistake to suppose that a law student ; will derive much, if any increased bene fit fro man immense law library of, say 50,000 volumes. Such figures are pro duced by the reduplication of many sets, and the gathering together of many rare, antiquated or out-of-the-way books, such as the most diligent student need never bother himself with. A solid working library of well-selected, standard books to the rumber of 5,000 will be more than h" can compass in his law course. (4) He will keep in touch with the import ant people of his own State, make friends w:th those who are likely to be of use to him in his later practice, anj can tell with more certainty where it will be tc hi3 .advantage to locate after I graduation. (5) The prelegal work [ taken in this College of Arts and Science I leads easily into the Law School and I and the degrees of A. B. and J. D. can be ; secured in six years. (0) The expense j of a legal education here (figured in | tuition, railroad fare, increased cost of i living in a large eastern city etc.) is at | least one-half less than at an eastern university. Beginning with September, 1910, it ' is expected that a new course will be added which will be of the greatest in terest and -practical utility for third year men. The course will be one in Oregon Practice nnd Procedure and will (Continued on page three). COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM FRIDAY, JUNE 2. 4:30 P. M. Band Concert. Campus. 7:00 F. M. Play on Campus. 9 :30 P. M. Fence Ceremonial.Campus SATURDAY, JUNE 3. 9:00 A. M. Meeting of Alumnae. 10:30 A. M. Meeting Alumni, Villard. 12:00 M. University Dinner. 3 to 5 F. M. President's Reception. 4:00 P. M. Baseball. O. A. C. Fac ulty vs. U. of O. Faculty. 0:30 F. M. Concert, Women. 8:30 F. M. Alumni Ball. SUNDAY, JUNE 4. 11:00 A. M. Baccalaureate Sermon by Dr. Stephen B. L. Penroe, Pres ident of Whitman College. 4:00 F. M. Sacred Concert. MONDAY, JUNE 5. 10:00 A. M. Comencement Address by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Presi dent of Leland Stanford Junior University. 2:30 F. M. Celebration Fortieth An niversary. 4HX) F. M. Laying of the Cornerstone of the Education Building. 7:30 F. M. Fern and Flower Proces sion. 8:00 F. M. Failing and Beckman Ora torical Contest. 0:30 1*. M. Serenade by Men. OU WOMEN HOLD I FIRST TRUCK MEET Faculty Baseball Team Wins iSeries — Sophomores Get Highest Number of Points. University of Oregon women today held their first track meet and field day in the history of the University. Real athletes turned out for canoe races, archery, golf, tennis, baseball and a track meet. Trophies and letters were distributed to all members of the Ath letic association who had won them dur ing the year, by Eyla Walker, president of! the Woman’s Athletic association. A fine pair of paddles, the trophy for the winners of the canoe races were awarded to Iveta Rhodes and Dorothy Robertson, both freshmen; a yew wood bow, the archery prize won by Ada Ilall, a junior; a tennis racquet was present ed to Frances E. linker, the sophomore who won the tennis tournament; a pair of drivers were won by Ailine Johnson and Grace Hinghnm, in the golf tourna nlient and Ester Furusct received a (Continued on page three) OFFICERS MINTED Kingsbury and Foster Recommend Men to Drill Company Positions Next Year. The officers and no-commissioned of ficers to form the basis of organiza tion of one drill company next fall have been appointed by Captain J. D. Fos ter as follows; First Lieutenant—F. L. Folts. Second Lieutenant—L. A. Pickett. First sergeant—A. C. Sholton. Sergeant—Don Ilelding. Corporals—F. S. Adam, George Morc houshe, John Iluston, William Gnrret sen, K. C. Farley, Martin Nelson. Captain Kingsbury recommends the following for officers and “non-coms” in the other company: - First Lieutenant—Ed Harwood. Second Lieutenant—Floyd South. First Sergeant—Jay Gore. Sergeant—J. E. Nail. Corporals—K. F. Milne,, Stephen C. Pierce, Fred Heitzhausen, J. S. Ris ley, W. B. Blackaby, Charles A. Johns. J NATIONAL STADIUM PROPOSED A bill now before congress provides for a national stadium to be built at ^Vashiugton for future Olympic games and other international and inter-sec tional games.—Tech News, ifl ' ITSP . *1 WOULD OUST “HORSE PLAY.” The University of Washington Daily ; is waging a campaign against "horse I play” as a part of college fraternity iu jpLuations. . • - , VARSITY TENNIS MEI LOSE S1EES TOW. Two of Three Matches Taken by Visitors. Play Doubles This Afternoon. LEWIS BOND DEFEATS MUIBIA Doughty Little Jap Meets Wat erloo for First Time in Three Years of Playing. With two more matches yet to h# played off, Oregon’s prospects of win mug from the trio of University of Washington racquet wielders are rather unpredictable, although Louis Bond’s de cisive victory ovtlr the Washington star Muiria has instilled considerable enthusi asm and pep into the Varsity players. This is the third season that Louis Bond and Maria have crossed courts against each other in Conference tournaments nnd up to this ydar Muiria has come out ahead. However, the tables were turned last night when by the use of a speedier stroke nnd more rapid net work Bond took three straight sets from his oppon ent to the tune of 7-5, 0-4 nnd 15-13. After losing the first two sets, and with the score 5-3 against him on the third set, he began a desperate uphill fight and held the advantage up to ths 12th game. At this point Bond came hack strong and took Muiria’s service with some clever placing. With the games 14-13 in his favor. Bond began serving, and, catching Muiria off guard, sewed up the set and the match. Tennis enthusiasts crowded the bleach ers and saw sotpe of the greatest tennis playing ever done on the local courts. Time after time the crowd was brought to its feet by the great recovery of the rivals. Time after time the steady little Jap recovered well-placed balls, placing them again equally as well, only to have Bond recover and smash. The height of Bond was tod much of a handicap for Muiria, and he could not stand up against the smashing. In the second set the points stood 31-30. The next match was between Paul Bond of Oregon and F. Canfield, of Washington, resulting in a victory for the Washingtonian 7-5, 4-6, 8-6, 4-6 and 6-1, Four of these sets were closely (Continued on page three) *-! Muley Steer Jumps Gate and LaWyer Wins Case. *-1-★ When old Bill Hawkins’ muley steer east off kis yoke and jumped the gate, and made my garden sass look drear, I shook my fiat at old Bill’s pate; and loud I shrieked in accents hot— “Your beast has ruined my cabbages —I’ll have the law on you, or rot— I’ll sue you for the damages.” And straightway up the street I sped, with feverish liast^ until I saw a sign with letters bold and red—CY JONES— ATTORNEY OF THE LAW. Now Cyrus is a pleasant swain and my right hand he warmly shook, and when I’d spilled my injured pain he looked into a worn-out book; and then he smiled and knit his brow, and crooned at hie with knowing glance, "That’s ’gainst the law for any cow —we’ve got old Hawkins by the pente,” And so we eumoned Bill to court to answer for his grave offense} tile' stem-faced judge gave me, in short, that breachy steer for recom pense And while I chortled loud with glee, my lawyer Cyrus scratched his dome; “That steer,” says he, “will be my fee—I’ll go untie and lead him home.” And when I’d made my feeble kick, he punched me playfully in my spine, and cried, "Old econt, don’t < look so sick—-the SATISFACTION all is thine.”—Eugene Wilson Davis. JL. "j UE-'-'lT