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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
VOL. IX.
EUGENE, OREGON, FEBRUARY 3, 1908.
INTERCOLLEGIATE
NO. 17
ORATOR
M ozelle II. H air, “ The Army of the MUCH PRACTICAL WORK DONE
D aw n.”
Chosen on Friday Evening—Bert Pres­
B ert W . P resco tt, “ Mercy T hat Con­
University of Oregon Junior Engineers
dem ns.”
cott, of Baker City, is Selected
Construct Splendid Miniature
H arold J. R ounds, "The Nobility of
by the Judges.
Bridge
R obert B urns.”
An u n u su ally s tro n g oratorical try ­
out was held in V illard H all on F riday
evening when th e o ra to r who will rep­
resent the U n iv e rsity of O regon in the
state In terco lleg iate O ratorical A s­
sociation co n test w as chosen. Five
stu d en ts com peted.
Each speaker
showed th a t lo n g m o n th s of prepara-
C larence L. \ \ healdon, “Commercial
M achiavellianism ."
H enry Davies, who was also a con­
testan t, was unable to enter the try ­
out on account of illness.
Bert W . P resco tt, the winner, is from
Baker C ity, and is a member of the
Senior class. Since entering the Uni-
An interesting specim en of the work
of the railroad engineering stu d en ts
may be seen at the tim ber testin g
plant.. It is the model of a railroad
trestle, a complete trestle in m iniature.
It is of the type com m only known as
“high" trestle, that is, it is com posed
of several stories, in this case three.
TH E THREE UNIVERSITY DEBATING COACHES OF THE NORTHWEST
PR O F. A. R. P R IE S T
O f the D epartm ent of H istory, who
will coach the W ashington
I )ebaters
D R . J A M E S G IL B E R T
( M the D ep a rtm en t of E conom ics, who versity he has alw ays been active in
will C oach the O reg o n T eam s
student affairs and is at present presi­
in D ebate
dent of the Associated S tudents. D u r­
ing the past three years Prescott has
tion had been put into his w ork. T he been a m em ber of the tenor section on
contest w as very close and it was with the 'V arsity glee club. H is oration on
difficulty th a t the w inner w as selected ; "M ercy T hat Condem ns" is exceeding-1
but when the p o in ts w ere all sum m ed lv well w ritten. Prescott is a m em ber
” P it was found th a t Bert W . P rescott, of the Philologian L iterary Society.
The judges for the F riday evening,
<>f Baker C ity, stood out pre-em inent
above the re m a in in g four and the h o n ­ contest w ere: Com position, Fred W.
Fisk, S. D. Allen and Ray \\ . G ood­
ors fell upon his sh o u ld ers.
I bos. R. T o w n sen d , ch airm an of the r i c h . On delivery. C ity A ttorney A l­
•Mudent co m m ittee on O ra to ry and D e­ len Mr. Rav \V. Goodrich and R epre­
bate, presided, and in tro d uced the con­ sentative Allen E lto n acted as judges.
T he Intercollegiate O ratorical A s­
s t a n t s in the follow ing o rd e r:
sociation was foundcil in 1893 ami since
Jesse II. Bond, "E v o lu tio n of C har
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acter.”
P R O F . E D W . M. H U L M E
Of the departm ent of history at Idaho,
who will Coach the Idahoans
in Debate.
\ 11 of the dim ensions are one-sixteenth
actual size, which makes the cross-
sections one tw o hundred fifty sixth
part of the size of the real trestle. It is
tw elve feet long and five feet high. It
is built in an artificial canyon of boards
and is supported by concrete piers. It
has been subjected to a pressure of one
hundred pounds per linear foot, but
will stand a m uch greater load. 'I he
trestle was begun by the junior engin­
eers of the class of 1905. Bolton and
D illard did considerable work on it at
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