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Show STUDENTS ON I TRIAL TOR HAZING j CLASSMATE THEY DUCKED HIM IN COLD WATER WAT-ER FOR TWO SECONDS. i : Some Time After, Young Man Becomes i Insane, and Father Alleges Af- j f fiction Is Due to Hazing. I Eugene, Ore,, April 10. The trial before the regents of the University of Oregon, of five students alleged to have implicated in the hazing last December of Ralph Bristol of Portland, Port-land, was begun here yesterday. Young Bristol, some tlmo after the hazing, became Insane and his father, a prominent grocer, of Portland, alleged al-leged that the affliction was due to the having, . The students implicated in the hazing were Trank in their, stories. They admitted their respective parts without attempt to shift the blame. Their testimony was uniform that young Bristol was ducked in cold water wat-er for a period of about two seconds. This was punishment, they declared, for Infraction of dormitory rules, alleged al-leged to have been committed by Brivtol. The alleged participant stated that Bristol had repeatedly broken rules of tho dormitory, working hardship on students who were compelled to do servants' labors in working their way through college." The especial grievance griev-ance was his coming to meals from ten to fifteen minutes late. The Biie-j Biie-j tol boy had been warned, according 1 to witnesses, to be more prompt. I The question of young Briatol's men-' men-' tal condition prior to the ducking has become one of tho elemental issues of the trial. According to the professor, profes-sor, nothing abnormal was ever noted in the young man. |