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the Oregon Supreme court) recall that student organization as one of the most pleasant and useful associations of their college days. As the attendance of the college began to increase largely, making other student societies necessary, the Adelphian was discontinued. I do not know how long the “Jolly Sixteen” or the “Knights of Justice” held sway, and probably none of their records have been preserved. Our student activities were not numerous or complex, but they were sufficient for the times and for the number of students then attending O. A. C. They did not encroach upon the real college work and served both as an adjunct of that work and as an outlet for surplus mental energy. HARRY IIOLGATE. Secretary-Treasurer, O. A. C.. Alumni Assn. [28]
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or more members. Copies of this paper may be found at the present time stored away in relic rooms of the administration building. A secret society, T. J. S., which initials spelled to the initiated “The Jolly Sixteen,” originally a town organization, became an unofficial and unrecognized college society during my first year at school. It met for awhile in one of the class rooms Saturday evenings: but during one of its initiation festivities, when a candidate was demonstrating his physical fitness for membership and at the same time energetically opposing some of the mystic rites, the stove was upset, window lights broken and a desk or so demolished. The faculty, without unnecessary delicacy, intimated that they would immediately approve a request from the “Jolly Sixteen” to have its lease of the class room terminated. Later the “Jolly Sixteen” figured in a newspaper war with one of the professors, the immediate cause being a minstrel show staged by the members of the society. In a letter to thte Corvallis Gazette the professor condemned the performance as altogether unbecoming. During my second year another secret organization, “The Knights of Justice” was organized. Its list of officers included judge, prosecuting attorney, clerk of the court, sheriff and bailiff, and its province was to acquaint prospective lawyers with court methods. Mock trials were held weekly and the attorneys consulted down-town lawyers, and followed the rules of the real courts. While some of the cases tried were humorous, nothing farcial was permitted and today many of the former members of the “Knights of Justice” (among them Will R. King, one of the prominent members of the Portland bar ar.d a former judge of [27 J
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