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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1952)
fwo Man Australian Debate Team To Meet Oregon Debaters Friday The Oxford type of debate will Ik- that used by the Australian Gregon debaters at 8 p.m. Friday 11 the Dads' lounge. This is not tne orthodox fashion, according to Anthony Hillbruner, speech in ructor, but a more informal type of debating. It puts a premium on j.ersuasion and psychological fac tors rather than the usual logic. “That Dictatorship is the Most Important Form of Government'' v ill be debated by a two man Australian debate team which v ill meet Oregon debaters Nancy -Ann Yates, junior, and Bill Lees, WRA Schedules Term's Sports Twenty women’s living organiza-' t ins were represented at the Worn i's Recreation association meet i g for house representatives at boon Monday. “Any other houses wishing to li-we representatives should con tact me immediately.” stated Mon me Gutchow, head of sports, chair man of the representatives. The three intramural activities •offered for winter term were dis cussed and representatives were g.ven instructions in signing up and carrying out the program for t: e term. Swimming, basketball auid bowling are the major activi t es for the term. senior, both in political science. Both have been active in speech j activities. Robin Millhouse and John Reid, two Australian law students make up that team. They are touring American colleges and universities under the sponsorship of the Insti tute of International Education. Millhouse and Reid are scheduled to visit thirty-two colleges across the country before returning to Australia in March. They came to the United States prepared to de bate on several other subjects also. Among them are: "It is regrettable that the Plymouth Rock did not land on the Pilgrim Fathers." “It is better to have loved and lost titan never to have loved at all." and “Modem society neglects the individual.” Paleface Tips Indian To Hard Winter LEWISTOWN. Mont. (U.Rl Joe Eagle Claw thinks the country is in for a “heap bad winter." The Gros Ventre Indian who came here for supplies was asked if cold weather was coming. It was pointed out that the beavers had thick fur. geese were going south early, and the gophers had started to hole up. Joe grunted: “No look at them yet. Was in Zoitman . . and white men all had big woodpiles." Burglars Fail In Final Theft Ail attempt was made to break into the office of the chemistry department Dec. 11, the night be fore the fall term first exams, pre sumably to obtain copies of finals, A. H. Kunz, department head, re ported. “As far as we know," Kunz said, "the attempt was not successful." Exams were locked in the -office, but none found missing. Some damage was done to the door of the office and lias been repaired. Kunz did not believe that those who made the theft attempt even got inside the office. Investigating on the case was done by the cam pus policemen, but Kunz said noth ing had been discovered. Militory Honorary Petitioning Open Petitioning for membership in Scabbard and Blade has been re opened for members of the corps of cadets who did not petition last term or who have raised their grades sufficiently since petition ing previously. Petitions are available at the in formation desk in the ROTC build ing and should be turned in by I' ri day. Those accepted will be notified next week and tapped at the Mili tary ball, Jan. 19. New Embosograf Service Offered An embosograf service Is being offered by the Student TJnton Board in room 336 of the Student Union this term, according to Pat Choat, who is in charge of the service. Posters up to 15 by 22 inches can be made in a vuriety of colors and paper textures by the machine. The embosograf presses the let ters into the paper and gives the effect of professional posters, Miss Choat explained. The cost for the embosogruf work, which includes such things as posters, signs which can be wa terproofed, and signs for desks, de pends on the number printed, the amount of lettering, and the type of materials used. The service is open to any cam pus organization. Miss Choat is in the embosograf office each week day from 4 to 5 p.m. except Mon day and she can be reached at the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Some samples of the emboso grafeil posters will be on the dis ; play this week on the SU bulletin board on the main floor. Springfield Elects Carlson President J. G. Carlson, head of the Uni i versity counseling center, has been elected president of the Willama lane Park district located in I Springfield and the district around Springfield. HE WHO KNOWS BEST BUYS j BEST SUBSCRIBE NOW TREAI THE FOLKS TO CAMPUS NEWS - ■ Every Day Omxm Daily . EMERALD • Campus Briefs 0 fryouts for “Tin- Second Man,” a play by S. N. Behrman, will be held Monday and Tuesday at 4 p.m. In Room 104 of Vtllanl hall. Frederick Hunter, director of the play, announced that two men and two women arc wanted for ao phsitlcated roles. 0 The Young Democrats club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday In the Student Union President George O'Dea announced. 0 Hui O Kamanina, campus Hawaiian group, will meet at 7 to night in the Student Union. 0 Students Interested In the campus creative arts program will meet at 4 p.m. tiaiay in the Stu dent Union, Orville Collver, chair man of the SU browmng room committee, announced. Purpose of the meeting Is to discover talent and materials for the "Campus Workshop" to be held at the end of winter term, Collver said. 1 0 Petitions for chairmanships for the World Student Service fmuly | drive have been called for by Gen eral Chairman Joanne Sloan. Available chairmanships Include | general secretary, publicity, pro motion and treasurer. Deadline for petitioning Is 4 p.m. Friday Peti | lions may he turned in to Miss Sloan at Delta Gamma. The WSSF : drive will take place during spring term. 0 Petitions tor two rails board vacancies have been called for by the rally board They are due in the ASUO office on the third floor of the Student Union by Tuesday. Members of all (la ses are urge.l to petition, especially freshmen, the board said BK1KFS Junior Panheilenic F.W 9 Junior I'anhellenlr win inert tonight at Alpha Gamma Della nt B:30 pm. Kmli representative la naked by the junior .sorority orga nization to bring a member of her pledge class and the dues lor her class. UO Grads Pass Bar Exams Best Approximately nine of every ten graduates of the University School I of Daw passed the state bar exam ination between 1917 and 1951, ac cording to a study quoted in the December issue of the Oregon State Bar Bulletin. A recent member of the board of bar examiners, who made the* j study, reported that 89 per cent of the University law graduates passed the test. This was the highest percentage in the state. Eighty-One per cent of Willamette graduates passed the exam, and the Northwestern College of Law's record was GO per cent. Stanford Leads Stanford led out-of-state schools in percentages for the Oregon ex am with 87 per cent passing it. Other non-Oregon school records were Harvard, 8-1 per cent; Yale, G4; Michigan, 55; and Columbia, 50. | The report also stated that 87.3 per cent of the Harvard graduates passed the Massachusetts exam in 1951, although only 48 per cent (according to unofficial sources) passed it in 1950. Oregon Second The state bar bulletin also re ported that the Oregon bar exam inations were recently rated as tho second-best in the nation by tho national conference of examiners. California’s were rated at the top. Dean Orlando J. Hollis of the University law school was present at a meeting last winter in Salem at which members of the board of bar examiners, representatives of the board of governors of the bar and the supreme court discussed complaints which nave been reg istered against the Oregon bar ex amination. Head and use Emerald classi fieds.