Obak’s Kollege Krier
OBAK Wallace, Publisher E.B.J. Office Boy and Editor
Volume 4 SATURDAY A. M. NUMBER 10
WOMAN’S DEBATE TEAM
PLANS TRIANGLE MEET
Reed, Washington, Oregon
To be Participants
A woman’s varsity debate is in
the process of arrangement with
Beed college of Portland and the
University of Washington and if
completed, the triangle will be held
some time the early part of next
spring term, according to Mildred
Whitcomb, women’s debate man
ager.
So far this year, the University
has been unable to make connec
tions for a woman’s varsity debate
other northwest or pacific coast in
stitutions either did not like the
subject proposed or objected to the
distance which teams would have to
travel. Washington and Reed orig
inally proposed a triangle with Uni
versity of California, which could
not be debated because of Presi
dent William Campbell’s opposition
to the type of question proposed.
Reed has now agreed to Oregon
substituting in the triangle. Pend
ing Washington’s sanction, it is un
determined whether the debate will
materialize. It is doubtful if con
tests with any of the California
schools can be arranged for women’e
debate since the price of sending
teams to each school is prohibitive.
However, Miss Whitcomb has writ
ten to both Stanford and California
university debate managers in this
regard.
FORTY-NINE COMPLETE
CORRESPONDENCE WORK
Forty-nine students completed
correspondence courses during the
month of January, earning a total
of 176 term hours of credit, ac
eording> to Miss Mozelle Hair, sec
retary of the Extension. This cre
dit was earned in 52 courses, and is
equivalent to that ofh 11 full time
students in a three months term, al
though those enrolled for corres
pondence courses are generally en
gaged in other work, including
teaching, housekeeping, good' farm
ing.
The total registration for the
month of January was 143 students
in 160 courses. A written paper is
required on each lesson completed,
and these amounted to 1424 last
month. The largest number of
papers are oil literature, education
and mathematics courses, Miss Hair
states.
The January 1926 report shows
a gain over that of a year ago, in
that the total registration was 122
students in 141 different courses
then. During January 1925, 39 stu
dents completed 39 courses, earning
a total of 129 term hours of credit.
The report shows that 1177 papers
were sent in to the Extension Divi
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| Campus Bulletin
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Dr. Conklin’s classes will not meet
this week.
TTnaffiliated women meet at T. W.
C. A. Bungalow 7:15 Monday
evening.
Debate meeting — Men’s team
against Utah, Boland Davis, Hugh
Biggs, meet 206 Sociology Satur
day morning, 9 a. m. with Mr.
Gray.
Paul Blanshard, field secretary of
the League for Industrial Democ
racy, will speak before the eco
nomics class 9 a. m. Monday,
Boom 105, Commerce building.
All students engaged in supervised
teaching (except music, art and
physical education) will meet
Monday afternoon at 4:10 in
Boom 3 of the Education build
ing. Important.
All groups desiring to add names to
their lists for the Oregana please
•phone Dot Ward, 49.
Members of Mu Phi Epsilon will
meet Sunday afternoon at 3:00
o’clock in the Xounge room of
the music bulding.
Sigma Delta Chi—Initiation will be
held Sunday at the College Side
Inn at five o’clock sharp.
ORDEALS DECIDED GUILT IN DAYS
OF OLD, SAYS LAW SCHOOL DEAN
W. G. Hale Traces Development of Administration of Jus
tice to Present Day
“Vital in human affairs is jus
tice. It is the basis of well-ordered
society,” said William 6. Hale, of
the University law school, in a lec
ture on “Some Changing Scenes in
the Administration of Justice,”
given recently in Portland, before
members of the Brotherhood of the
Congregational church.
“The administration of justice
h.^s to do with the settlement of
human controversies. Its aim has
in it the elements of idealism.
‘Justice’ as an ideal suggests that
divine balance which abides in the
bosom of God and can be envisioned
in its finished form only by the All
Seeing eye and administered only
by the Almighty Hand,” he said.
Dean Hale traced the progress of
law from its earlyl history before
the Norman conquest up to the
present time, showing how the pres
ent court system evolved from the
tnore primitive forms.
Prior to the Norman conquest
there were two methods of trial,
said the Dean, by wager of law and
by ordeal. The outstanding char
acteristics of these methods were
their religious elements, their spec
tacular aspeetp and their formal
ism. Men appealed to the Deity to
settle what was beyond them.
Dean Hale read a passage quoted
in Chamberlayne which described
this ancient mode of trail as fol
lows: “Trial by ordeal was more
popular (than battle) among prose
cutors, because it eliminated the
unlimited chances of battle. The
accused person, being bound hand
and foot, was thrown into a pond.
If he swam, as it wa|s expressed,
he was taken out and dealt with
as guilty. If he sank and drown
ed, his innocence was manifest, and
he was buried with all decency and
“The fire ordeal was confined to
The fire ordeal was confined to
persons of higher rank and the
water ordeal to the common people.
Both might be performed by a dep
uty, but the principal who was the
accused stood for the judgment.
Blackstone says another mode was
by taking in the hand unhurt, a
piece of red hot iron of one, two
or three pound(s weight or by walk
ing barefoot and blind-folded over
nine red-hot plough shares. The
person was usually found guilty, un
less there.was collusion.”
The next development was the
use of trial by battle and it, too,
was based on religious conceptions.
It was not an appeal to brute force
as such, but to the god of battle.
The growth of the jury system
to a point approximating itp present
form was the third step, which seg
regated the function of jurors from
that of witnesses.
Trial by jury went through three
stages in its inception:
First, it was used only for the pur
pose of the king. He, for example,
appointed a group of individuals
from a certain community, who
made up what was then called the
jury of inquest. The jurors an
swered questions with reference to
the ownership of property. That
sort of body furnished information
entering into the famous Doomsday
book after the Norman conquest,
which contained information valu
able for taxation purposes.
Later, the jury aided the king in
detecting acts of violence in the
community, which marks the begin
ning of the grand jury. Under
Henry II, in the latter part of the
twelvth century, the privilege of
using this body to determine the
guilt or innocence of persons
charged with crime, extended to the
individual who had been accused.
Instead of the trial by fire, or
water, he was now referred to a
group of fellow citizenjs. This was
the beginning of the petit jury, or
the actual trial jury.
The very thing which today dis
qualifies men for the jury at that
time qualified them; that is, the
jury and witness were one. They
met, threshed things out and gave
the verdict which was based on
their own knowledge as witnesses.
As the jury developed into its
present form, the functions of the
jury were segregated from the func
tions of the witne*es, so those who
served as jurors had no knowledge
of the case and facts presented by
the witness.
With the segregation of these
two duties came the law of evidence
which determines the qualifications
of witnesses and w’hat they will be
permitted to testify. Hearsay is
eliminated from testimony, persons
mentally unfit, and children, too
young to comprehend the case, are
never allowed on the witness stand.
U. OF B. C. MAY PLAY
AMERICAN FOOTBALL
UNIVEBSITY OF BBITISH CO
LUMBIA, Feb. 9.—(P.I.P.)— ,A
eommittee consisting of two mem
bers of the alumni, two from the
faculty, two from the student coun
cil, and two from the American
Football elub, is working on the
matter of introducing American
football into the U, of B. C. Great
interest has been aroused on this
question.
STUDENTS TO PROBE
INCREASED DANCE TIME
The student council met last
night and appointed a committee
of thretej Bob Overstreet, Jo-An
Warwick and James Forestel to
look into the advisability of ex
tending the time of formal dances
from 12 to 1 o’clock. Many stu
dents feel that the present time
allotted for formal dances is too
short to get all the dances on the
program.
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DEAN ALLEN’S ARTICLE
RECEIVES RECOGNITION
Editor and Publisher for Febru
ary 6 has published an account of
an article on salaries of journalism
workers by Eric W. Allen, dean of
the school of journalism. The ar
ticle was prepared by Dean Allen
^snd a committee working under him
to be read at the annual meeting
of the American Association of
Teachers of Journalism, held at Co
lumbia univeifeity, New York, dur
ing December. A picture of Dean
Allen appears with the account.
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Pillows Protect
Sigma Delta Chi
Pledges from
Paddle Blows
Campus luminaries received the
brunt of wise cracks and Sigma
Delta Chi pledges the brunt of pad
dle wallops in the journalism fra
ternity’s pre-initiation stunt in the
latter case, however, by the pres
ence of a fluffy pillow, with which
the trembling pledges valiantly pro
tected themselves.
The performance was watched by
a large gathering of students, well
sprinkled with freshmen drawn to
the scene by vivid recollections of
similar sessions.
Jack Hempstead announced the
names of culprits and their charges,
and Allen Canfield handled the
paddle. Each pledge underwent
punishment for the sake of well
known campus figures.
Charges ranged from general
cockiness, placed against the name
of Walter Malcolm, student body
president, to raising a wart on the
back of the neck to save collar but
ton expense, charged against Jack
Benefiel.
Pledges who took part in the pre
initiation stunt are James DePauli,
Jack Hempstead, Eddie Smith,
Glenn Radabaugh, Malcolm Epley,
Harold Mangum, Ray Nash, Allen
Canfield, Lewis Beeson, Ronald Sell
ers, and Herbert Lundy. These
adorned the campus throughout the
day with full dress suits.
MOSTPOPULAR BOOKS
LISTED BY LIBRARY
A list of the books most popular
at the University library for the
month of January has been pre
pared by the assistant librarian.
"Dark Laughter,” by Anderson,
still leads the list of fiction books
with a waiting list of 73 names,
“Dance of Life,” the most popular
non-fietion book has a waiting list
of 22 names. “Arrowsmith,” by
Lewis, is second on the list of fic
tion and “Glorious Apollo,” by Bar
rington, holds second place in the
non-fietion.
Eight other fiction books which
have a waiting list of more than
20 names are: “Professor’s House,”
by Cather; “Wild Geese,” by Os
tenso; “A Story Teller’s Story,” bj
Anderson; “The Plastic Age,” bj
Marks: “Constant Nymph,” by Ken
nedy; “Peasants,” by Reym'ont;
“Perennial Bachelor,” by Parrish;
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The “General Merchant’’
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a barrel of fun and
all the gifts you
can carry home.
(at night shows only)
And, in addition
The FEATURE PICTURE
“A WOMAN’S
FAITH”
with Alma Rubens and
Percy Marmont
SHELDON PICKS FOUR EUROPEAN
TRAVEL BOOKS AS 1925’S BEST
Delving into the mysteries of for
; eign lant^s through the medium of
the printed page is one of the main
; pastimes of Dean Henry D. Shel
!don, of the school of education and
chairman of the administrative com
mittee, who selected four volumes,
which deal with adventure in the
Sahara Desert, Morocco, China and
Thibet, as the leading travel books
published in 1925.
“‘The secret of the Sahara’ by
Rosita Forbes, is an extremely in
teresting tale of a trip to the oasis
of Kufra, eight or nine hundred
miles in the heart of the Sahara
desert, where live the fanatical
tribejs of Senussi,” Dr. Sheldon said
dramatically. “They are ‘puritans’
of Mohammedanism. They abstain
from tobacco and have no holy
places or anything which savours of
superstition. The book gives an ac
count of how the heroes entered the
country at the peril of their lives
and after many dramatic experi
ences, how they finally escaped.
“The story has the spice one likes
in books of travel,” he exclaimed.
And he hastened on, eager to con
tinue his account of the tales of
daring quests into far-away lands.
“The magic and glamour of the
atmosphere of ‘A Vision of Moroc
co,’ by V. U. Scott O’Connor, is
thrilling,” he said eagerly. “The
beauty of the style and the fine
sense of history, too, are its attri
butes. It is one of the most charm
ing books of travel published with
in 10 years. The author has a re
ceptive mind for the mystery of
that strange country.
“Harry Franck is the most pop
ular writer of books o ftravel at
the prepent time,” he said. “He
has the Saturday Evening Post
style, which is simple and direct
and appeals to the American pub
lic.”
“His ‘Roving Through Southern
China,’ gives a clear picture of the
conditions there. It is a big book—
a lot for the money,” Dean Sheldon
added humorously. “It gives an
unprejudiced account of the mis
sionary activities in China.
“Another good book is McGov
ern’s ‘To Lhasa in Disguise.’ It ip
a thrilling account of a man who
sneaks into Thibet through the
passes of the Himalyan mountains
in the dead of winter. He disguises
himself as a coolie and speaks the
Thibetan language. He succeeds
in reaching vthe capital before be
ing discovered. Tho Budd^st pope
and the chief officials shelter him,
because they know it would be dan
gerous for them to kill him. It is
the record of a wonderful feat of
endurance and an account of the
civilization of Thibet. It has a
thrill not found in the others.”
and “Many Marriages,” by Ander
son.
“Anatole France,” by Brouison;
"Paul Bunyan,” by Stevens; “Tra
vel Diary of A Philosopher,” -by
Keyserling; and “The Inns of
Greece and Rome," by Firebangh;
are the most read non-fiction books.
P. BAUTCHER LEAVES
SCHOOL TO ACCEPT JOB
Paul Bautcher, who is registered
as a sophomore in pre-law, has with
drawn from school to accept a posi
tion with the Western Union Tele
graph company at Lincoln, Cali
fornia.
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NEW WHITMAN DORM
IS NEARLY COMPLETED
WHITMAN COLLEGE, Feb. 10.
— (P.I.P).—A new dormitory to
bouse all women on the campus is
nearing completion. One of the
old dormitories, when evacuated
will be remodeled and used for'aca
demic purposes. The others will
probably bo sold.
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Pure
Milk
and Cream
First on the list of essen
tial health-building foods
for growing youngsters
should be — MILK! Let
them have plenty of it
with their cereals at
breakfast time.
Make sure though,
that it is Pure, Pas
teurized and Fresh!
We’ll deliver that
kind to your dbor
daily. Just phone
365. We manufac
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Gold Butter.
REID’S
DAIRY
Oregon Boys at O. A. C.
Oregonians to Spend
Week-End With
Farmers
Five stalwart Oregonians left
this morning for the farm, where
they will hpend a quiet week-end.
Incidentally, while they are there,
they will play the farmer boys a
game of basketball. Or, we mean
that these fivo COLLEGIANS will
get the Phantom five in condition
for their northern trip.
All that will be heard there this
evening is Gr-r-r (not Burr), for
these COLLEGIANS sure have bull
dog tenacity, when it means victory
ovei farmers.
O.A.C. May Not Make
Northern Trip
(Special from the Kow Kollege)
It is very doubtful as to whether
O. A. C. will be able to take their
northern trip. To date Baker has
! not been able to get Sparkplug in
Phantom “Baker” and Sparkplug
shape to make the trip. He has a
bad charlie horse and besides the
tires on the old hack need resetting.
Trainer Butler is working hard
with the old faithful, but the cav
alry boys in the R. 0. T. C. unit
have stoven the old horse up until
it is doubtful as to whether he will
ever be of any further value.
"Swede,” Oregon’s Sharpshooter
Obak Sees Oregon As
A Winner
Obak made the final review of
Oregon’s basketball team yesterday
afternoon, pointing out to BILLY
the weak points and just pepping
up the boys in general.
“I believe that our boys will turn
in another pelt tonight,” he told
the reporter for the Krier upon re
suming his seat at the Editorial
desk this morning.
Obak has arranged to have the
returns of the game at his parlors
tonight. Be there early and you
will get the complete results.
I
Your Girl—
will enjoy a Sunday evening dinner at the Rain
bow. The food is the best, the service faultless,
and the surroundings the most pleasant. An
ideal place to spend a ‘cozy” evening with your
best girl.
The RAINBOW
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