Obak’s Kollege Krier
OBAK Wallace, Publisher W. R. L., Editor
Volume 4
FRIDAY A. M.
Number 13
OREGON WINNER
IN FORENSICS
Three Firsts Taken in Six
Oratorical Contests
NEW RECORD ATTAINED
Four Big Institutions Lose
To Varsity in Debate
One of the most successful foren
sic years in the history of the Uni
versity is the one which closed in
a double victory for Oregon orators
at Stanford and Washington, last
week. Of six contests in whieh
Oregon orators participated, three
resulted in first place for Oregon
representatives; one third place
was taken, one fourth, and one
fifth. Victories were won in the
State Peace contest, the Northwest
oratorical contest, and the Pacifio
Ooast tryout for the National Ora
torical championship.
Two contests were captured by
Benoit McCroskcy, and one by Jack
McGuire, both of them members of
the freshman class.
In debate Oregon men won five
contests and lost one during the
year. The institutions defeated
included Washington, Idaho, Stan
ford, and Oxford. Oregon women
were less successful, tying one meet
and losing another. With one year’s
added experience, however, better
results are expected.
Best on Coast in Oratory
In oratory the year has been one
of record-breaking.
“Oregon certainly did the best
work on the coast in oratorical
work this year,” said Oscar Brown,
coach.
In the extemporaneous speaking
contest held at Palo Alto, Decem
ber 3, Sol Abramson^ in his first
venture into the Varsity oratorical
field placed fourth out of seven
representatives of the big univer
sities of the coast.
The Old Line Oratory contest, in
which all colleges of the state were
represented, was won by the Eu
gene Bible university, with James
Johnson, Oregon orator, taking fifth
place. This was also Johnson’s
first attempt at intercollegiate ora
tory.
Benoit McCroskey, a freshman,
with his oration “The Last Mile
stone,” won the State Peace contest
held ah Forest, Grove, from a field
of nine speakers taking a $75 prize
and adding another victory to Ore
gon ’s triumphs.
In the Pacific Forensic League
contest held at Corvallis, Ralph
Bailey represented Oregon, taking
third place with his oration on the
subject of recognizing struggling
Russia.
Beattie Contest Captured
By a unanimous decision of six
judges, Benoit MeCroskey won tho
Northwest Oratorical contest be
tween Oregon, Idaho and Washing
ton. He gave the same oration
used in the former contest and took
a prize of $100.
Jack McGuire, another freshman,
on the night of May 22, won first
place for the Pacific coast in the
National Oratorical Contest spon
sored by the Better America Fed
eration of California. McGuire’s
oration on “The Constitution” was
chosen at Washington, P. C., as one
of the seven best on the coast, and
by virtue of defeating the other
six contestants he now represents
the entire Pacific coast. He will
meet six other representatives of
different areas of the United
States in a final contest on the
night of June fi, in Bos Angeles,
for nation-wide championship.
Debate With O. A. C. Tied
The men’g debating team opened
the season this fall with a contest
in which they tied with O. A. C.
Benoit MeCroskey and Sol Abram
son, debated the affirmative side
of the question of overruling of su
preme court decisions by act of
congress and Hersche) Brown and
Lincoln Erwin took the negative
side at Corvallis. In each case the
judge’s decisions were 2 to 1.
By a popular vote of ail audience
which filled and overflowed the
Methodist church auditorium, Ore
gon won from Oxford, England, on
the referendum question. Great
interest was occasioned by this de
bate partly because the leading
member of the English team was
the son of the then prime minister
of the Kingdom. The whole audi
ence agreed on the superiority of
the American style of debating as
demonstrated by Paul Patterson,
Joe Frazer and Walter Malcolm,
who composed the Oregon team.
Northwest Title Won
Next, Oregon’s two teams each
took a 3 to 0 decision in the North
west Championship debate between
Washington, Idaho and Oregon, be
coming unquestioned champions in
this contest. Speaking of the su
preme court question Benoit Me
Croskey and Ralph Bailey, affirm
ative, met Idaho here and Sol
Abramson and Lincoln Irwin won
from Washington at Seattle, debat
ing the negative side of the ques
tion.
In the radio debate against Stan
ford, Ivan Houston and Joe Frazer
won a popular decision from the
radio audience which heard the de
bates broadcasted. The Oregon de
baters spoke from KGW, the Morn
ing Oregonian and Stanford broad
casted from the Oakland Tribune.
The question was, Resolved, that
Japanese be permitted to enter the
United States on the same basis
as Europeans, and Oregon hacl the
affirmative side of the issue.
Women Hold Two Debates
Although results in women’s de
bate were not so happy, it is the
opinion of Prof. E. W. Merrill,
women’s coach, that the girls
made the best showing in several
years.
Only two debates were held. In
a triangular debate between O. A.
0., Willamette and Oregon, Mil
dred Bateman and Beatrice Mason
won a 2 to 1 decision here and
Aline Buster and Dorothy Newman
lost at O. A. C. This last debate
was declared one of the best wo
men’s debates in years.
The second debate was a dual
meet with Washington in which
Aline Buster and Frances Cherry
and Mildred Bateman and Cecil
McKercher lost, the first named
team debating here and the last in
Seattle.
In view of the fact that there
was only one experienced debater
on the team, Prof. Merrill believes
the year a success and looks for
ward to next year when all of this
year’s team will be in school, since
none are seniors.
CELEBRITIES DROUGHT
FIR ASSEMBLY TALKS
Upton Close, Tom Skeyhill
Among Headliners
Several celebrities have visited
the campus during the college year
as assembly lecturers.
Among these, two arc writers.
Josef W. Hall, known as Upton
jClose, is the author of “In the Land
of the Laughing Buddha,” and is
an authority on Chinese affairs.
/Thomas Edward Green wrote “The
(Hill Called Calvary,” “In Praise of
Valor,” “The War Trust,” and
others.
; Dr. Arthur S. Coggeshall of the
Carnegie Museum of Pittsburg, an
| authority on prehistoric life, was
the only scientist.
Several speakers have been espe
cially interested in the young men
K>f today. Tom Skeyhill has travel
bd over much of the world as a
lecturer, making noteworthy speech
es during the war. Fred B. Smith
is internatiohally known for his
•activities with the Y. M. C. A.
Norman F. Coleman is president
of Beed College besides being wide
ly known for his work on indus
trial problems.
Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhadt,
president of Mills College, is one
of the foremost women educators in
the United States.
Dr. Jonah B. Wise, rabbi of the
Temple Beth Israel, Portland, has a
^national reputation as a leader in
7iis church.
I' Ralph Spearow, an Oregon grad
uate, is an athlete of worldwide
fame, having represented the Unit
ed States in the pole vault at the
Olympic games in Paris last sum
mer. His address at the assembly
was an explanation of the useful
ness of athletics as part of a col
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NO SENIOR HAS COME
SO FAR AS LOOMBA
The member of this year’s grad
uating elass, who has travelled the
greatest distance from his home to
this school is S. D. Loomba, a sen
ior in the school of business ad
ministration, whose home is in
Jaloun, India, nearly half way
around the world from Eupene.
Mr. Loomba, on leavinp India,
intended to enroll in the University
of California, but when he arrived
there the larpe classes and compar
ative lack of personal instruction
I decided him to come to the state of
| Oregon. He enrolled at O. A. O., and
attended that school for four years.
; This is his first year at Oregon.
America, believes Mr. Loomba,
has gone a step in advance of the
other countries of the world, for
it has combined the industrial prog
ress of western civilization with the
idealism of the east. In combining
the material with the idealistic, this
country has produced, he said, a
happy, progressive, and contented
people.
lie likes Oregon, because it is
small, and the chance for personal
attention is greater.
After leaving school, Mr. Loomba
expects to return to his home in
India by way of Europe, to go
into business.
CAMPUS COOK SEES STUDENTS
AS CLEAN, LOVABLE, HAPPY
“Mrs. Mac” Has No Patience With Narrowness of Criticism
Made by Carpers; Likes University People
By M. 31.
“If I could just tell Eugene—yes,
and all the rest of the world, what
I know about college students
there would be a lot of surprised
people and I’d get a lot of satis
faction out of it, too.”
Mrs. Mae’s dark eyes snapped
and she dug her paring knife into
the potato—which was not her cus
tom.
“Who should know college stu
dents much better than I do! I’ve
cooked at sorority and fraternity
houses on this campus for five years
and before that at the boys’ dor
mitory at the University of Michi
gan. I don’t have to work for my
living, but the whole thing fas
cinates me. I guess I’ll go on cook
ing till I’m too old to hobble up to
some house and ask for a job. I
want to be with the young people
—I just love them.”
Mrs. Catherine MacDonald’s af
fection is returned by every one
who has enjoyed her joyous outlook
on life and her witty comments
along with her excellent food. It is
an education in itself to stand in
the kitchen door and watch her
swift, efficient movements. Any one
who can scramble eggs with one
hand and stoke the fire with the
other approaches genius. With
quick, short steps, almost hops, she
is all over the kitchen and pantry
at once, the ends of her white head
gear floating behind her, her stiff
ly starched white apron crackling.
“I’d rather cook for girls than
boys,” she said. "I can get ac
quainted with them better, and
strangely, they seem more youthful,
happier. They simply bubble over
with the joy of being young. Every
year that I cook for a group of
girls I feel as if I could deduct
365 days from my age.
“College girls and boys are clean
mjnded. It’s ridiculous for people
to talk so much about the age’s
immorality; there have been a good
many periods much worse than this.
Just look at ancient Borne; they
say, too, that the French revolution
was a-terrible time. I don’t know
much about all that, but I do say
that college students, though some
of them pretend to be hard and
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bold, are clean and lovable down in
their hearts.
“It’s mostly the narrow people
who just won’t understand them. I
know them. I know a crabby old
man who thinks all college girls
are children of the devil. I’ve
argued and argued with him but
he’s bound to see them as all bad.
He stands at the window and
watches them go up to the campus
and calls to his wife, ‘Sadie, come
here. Look! That girl hasn’t got
an underskirt on.’ Then he shakes
his head and thinks how wicked all
girls are. Probably his own Sadid
doesn’t wear a petticoat, either.
“What do I think a woman gets
from a college education! Why re
finement, polish. It’8 an education
just to meet'people. Some girls
just naturally can do it graciously,
others have to learn, and besides
travel school is the best teacher.
Still, if I were a girl who intended
to marry early, I’d travel rather
than come to college. You can get
just as much polish and I don’t
see why a girl comes here and takes
bookkeeping when she knows she’s
going to need housekeeping the day
school is over.
“College is wonderful for the
boys. If they didn’t learn a thing
it would be enough that they lose
their ‘ smart aleckness. ’ Put a pam
pered young man in a fraternity
house and see how quickly he draws
in his horns.
“Yes, indeed. I’m all for col
lege and college people. They’re not
vulgar and they’re not immoral.
They are clean in their thoughts
and habits and I like to have them
around me.”
INTERESTING FACTS OF HISTORY
George Washington and His Commission
On July 3, 1775, Gen. George
Washington took command of
the colonial forces at Cam
bridge, Mass., within the shadow
of Harvard College. This event
will be appropriately celebrated
on July 3, 1925.
The commission, which made
George Washington “General
and Commander-In-Chief of
the Army of the United
Colonies” by vote of the Con
tinental Congress at Philadel
phia, is dated June 19,1775, and
is signed by John Hancock, who
was then President of Congress.
This commission was the first
historic document signed by
John Hancock and next to the
Declaration of Independence,
signed by him the next year, is
the most important.
The original engrossed copy of
the Washington commission
can be seen in the Library of
Congress. A photographic copy
of this commission, as well as a
facsimile of the Declaration of
Independence, has been repro
duced by the John Hancock
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ONE GIRL ARCHITECT
TO FINISH THIS YEAR
Katherine Ashmead Second,
Woman Graduate
Few women are possessed with
the audacity of braving the mys
teries of a course in architecture;
and that is how it happens that
Katherine Ashmead of Fullerton,
Cal., who is to be graduated this
term, is the second member of her
sex in the history of the architec
ture department on this campus to
finish her course here with archi
tecture as a major subject. Mar
garet Goodin, who was graduated
in 1923, is Katherine’s only prede
■ cessor.
“I really don’t know how I got
started taking architecture. The
first thing I knew I was in it full
: force. Yes, I like it. When I get
out of school I want to work up
from draftsmanship to designing
residences,” Miss Ashmead ex
' plained to the reporter.
“The reason why most women
don’t like the course is because
there is so much mathematics in
! volved in it,” she continued, “I
■ like math, so I’ve always gotten
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OREGON NIGHTS
The few hours of sleep that
you do get must be com
fortable.
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along fine. I believe that the best
way for a woman to make a success
as an architect is for her to carry
it farther than a man by learning
interior decorating with it. Most
architects concern themselves only
with the bare framework of the
house. If a woman architect could
not only design and supervise the
building of houses but decorate
them also, she would make a great
success.
“The thing which makes the pro
fession a hard one for women after
they get their education and start
into business, is that people are so
used to employing men that they
have no faith in women. We will
have to prove our reliability before
we are absolutely successful,” she
laughed.
PATRONIZE
EMERALD ADVERTISERS
Obak Has Modem Pool Hall and Billiard Parlor
May 29, Special to the Emerald.
For many years there has been a
great need for a modern pool hall
and billiard parlor in Eugene and
Obak has made the first move to
install such an establishment. This
has taken a large expenditure of
money to make it a first class in
stitution. Among the novel fea
tures that are being installed are
the mezzanine floor, where all of
the pool tables and billiard tables
are located. Additional show cases
are being installed, and Obak will
install the leading newspapers col
lected from all over the Pacific
Coast. There is assured; la Ijpol
'room that is perfectly ventilated
with every possible modern fixture.
Workmen are working at top
speed to finish the structure be
fore the end of the term and every
effort will be made to do this.
However, if it is not finished it
will be made ready for you when
you arrive in Eugene for school
next fall.
OBAK THANKS ALL
HIS CUSTOMERS
At this time Obak wishes to
thank all of his many friends for
their kind patronage during the
past school year; we have always
had the pleasure of entertaining
many of them during the past years,
and for this reason we are making
Obaks a bigger and a better place
for you to pass your evenings. So
long, but not Goodbye.
Boys study hard and make all of'
your hours. This is the first time
in years that Obak hasn't ’bald
elimination tests, but, due to the
renovations, he has not been able
to make any arrangements for the
matches this spring.
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The board of regents have not
made their final report on Obaks,
but we are sure that it will meet
with their approval. During the
hard exam week drop into the
favorite place and drink some of
Obak’s Coffee, or try some Tee
Cream.
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There is lots of scandal around
Obaks now but we don’t know for
sure how it is going to come out.
Make OBAKS yours as soon as
you arrive next fall, we’re for you.
We make the final bow to each
and every one of you, and will wel
come the “biggest and best”'
Freshman class in the same way"
that we welcomed you.
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