THE SOONER MAGAZINEOKLAHOMA ALUMNI NEWS

Oklahomans at home and abroad

FEBRUARY CALENDARFebruary 1-10 . Exhibition of arts and

crafts from the Fiji and Samoa Islands,belonging to Mr and Mrs Charles Calkin,of Ponca City . Mr and Mrs Calkin willlecture sometime during the exhibitionof the works .February 1-15 . Exhibition of oil paint-

ings by Orozco .February 3 . Will Rogers for benefit of

destitute Oklahomans.February 5 . President Bizzell will at-

tend a luncheon of the Oklahoma Con-gress of Parents and Teachers, at Okla-homa City.

February 6 . President Bizzell will ad-dress the library section and the Latinteachers conference at the OklahomaEducation association in Oklahoma City .Opening of second semester . Wrestling,Oklahoma and Kansas State at Manhat-tan .

February 7. Wrestling, Oklahoma andNebraska at Lincoln . Basketball, Okla-homa and Kansas at Norman .

February 12 . University of Tulsa in anexchange concert at Norman.

February 13 . Wrestling, Oklahoma andOklahoma Aggies at Norman . Acaciadance at house . Kappa Alpha dance athouse .

February 14 . Basketball, Oklahoma and

Kappa Sigma dance at College shop .Sigma Chi dance at house . Alpha Sig-ma Phi dance at house .

February 21 . Phi Gamma dance athouse . Basketball, Oklahoma and IowaState at Norman.February 27 . Basketball, Oklahoma

and Washburn, at Topeka . LambdaChi Alpha dance at College shop.

February 28 . Basketball, Oklahoma andNebraska at Lincoln . Wrestling, Okla-homa and Iowa at Norman . Phi Psidance at house. Pi Kappa Phi dance atCollege shop .

ASSOCIATION PROGRESSTreasurer marries

just two members of the official familyof the University of Oklahoma Associa-tion now remain unmarried : SecretaryFrank S. Cleckler and Vice PresidentFlorence McClure .Fred Thompson, '22 arts-sc ., of Nor-

man, treasurer of the Association, andone of the two bachelor officers of the As-sociation, was married December 6 atOklahoma City to Miss Augusta AnneJohnson, daughter of Oklahoma City'spostmaster. Mr Thompson is a memberof the Kappa Sigma fraternity .

Missouri at Norman. Kansas City Ath-letic Club indoor track meet.

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In Memory of Uncle BuckAlpha Epsilon dance at house . DeltaChi dance at house. Phi Delta Thetadance at house . Phi Kappa Sigma danceat house .

February 15 . Beginning an exhibitionof paintings by Texas artists .

February 17 . Basketball, Oklahoma andOklahoma Aggies at Stillwater .

February 19 . Wrestling, Oklahomaand Iowa State Teachers College atCedar Rapids .February 20 . Exchange concert with

University at Tulsa. Playhouse produc-tion, The Gardener's Dog. Wrestling,Iowa State and Oklahoma at Ames.

The Association has sent all memberscopies of the memorial booklet issued inhonor of the late James Shannon Buch-anan by the University of OklahomaPress . Several newspapers have com-mented favorably on the proposed lecture-ship plan, which is expected to be launch-ed this month .The Daily Oklahoman declared edi-

torially, under the title "His Real Monu-ment:"

It ought to be fairly easy for Oklahoma uni-versity alumni to raise the $50,000 they seek toendow a Buchanan memorial lectureship . Okla-homa and surrounding states have many citizens

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who owe a lasting debt to James S . Buchananfor counsel and inspiration he brought them intheir undergraduate days. This lectureship,when established, will not be the real monu-ment to Buchanan, however . His monument isthe lives he made broader and better, the hopeshe made forever bright and the generous im-pulses he planted in the hearts of his students .

Under the title of "An Appreciation"the Hugo Oklahoman declared :

An appreciation of the late James Buchanan,who served the University of Oklahoma as act-ing president and more recently as vice-president,has been published by the University Press . Fewmen, as remarked by various ones who hadexpressions in the Appreciation, had as great apart in influencing Oklahoma youth as "UncleBuck." Those who had opportunity duringthe days when the student body was muchsmaller than now, to know him more intimately,probably more keenly appreciated his qualities .Dean Buchanan had a large share of honorsduring his lifetime, but no more than his due .It is regretable that some of the things whichwere said after he had passed away could nothave been told him during his lifetime . Itseems a pity, but necessary, nevertheless, thatmen must die before their goodness can betruly estimated by their fellows.

Director ClecklerAssociation Secretary Frank S . Cleck-

ler was re-elected regional director of theAmerican Alumni council for the sixth dis-trict, embracing Oklahoma, Kansas, Mis-souri, Iowa, North and South Dakotas,at the annual meeting, held January 2and 3 in the Kansas City Athletic club .Tulsa was designated as the meetingplace for the next gathering, the meetingto coincide with the annual Tulsa Col-lege Nite program given by the Ameri-can Association of University Women.

In point of attendance and wealth ofprogram, the meeting was said to havebeen the best yet held . John G. Olm-stead, alumni secretary of Oberlin col-lege and president of the American Al-umni council, brought greetings from thenational organization .

Informal meetings took place on Janu-ary 2, and problems of one of the newest

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professions, that of the alumni secretary,were discussed.

Papers were read on January 3 . FredEllsworth, editor of the University ofKansas Graduate Magazine, spoke on"The Alumni Magazine, some EffectiveWays of Interpreting the College to theAlumni." Mr Ellsworth, who is theKansas alumni secretary, is also the di-rector for regional conferences for thenational council . He also read a paperby Joseph A. Brandt, editor of The Soon-

er Magazine, on obtaining material andart for the alumni magazine . Ray Ram-sey, Nebraska alumni secretary, discussedrecent features of the Nebraska member-ship campaigns . George H. McElroy,secretary of Oklahoma A . & M. collegeex-Students association, and editor of theA. & M. College Magazine, discussedalumni clubs, some aspects of their or-ganizations, functions and service to thecollege . Mr Olmstead spoke on "Evalu-ation of Alumni Achievement ."

At the noon luncheon, ChancellorLindley of Kansas spoke on "The Sig-nificance of Alumni Co-operation toHigher Education in the Missouri Val-ley ."Most thought-provoking of the address-

es on alumni affairs was that of R. R .Maplesden of Kansas City, an engravingcompany representative and a graduateof Lake Forest college, who spoke on"There Is No. Such Thing As CollegeSpirit ."

Nominating committee

Under the amended constitution of theUniversity of Oklahoma Association thepresident of the Association each yearselects a nominating committee whoseduty it is to nominate three alumni foreach place on the alumni executive board .There are fourteen members of thisboard, one for each congressional dis-trict in the state of Oklahoma and six atlarge .The alumni executive board represents

the organized alumni and former stu-dents of the University of Oklahoma,elects the officers of the University ofOklahoma Association and determinesits policies and functions . The membersof the board for the current year areGlenn C . Clark, Ponca City, Paul Dar-rough, Oklahoma City, W. L. Eagleton,Oklahoma City, E . D. Meacham, Nor-man, Raymond A. Tolbert, OklahomaCity, and Guy Y. Williams, Norman,members at large . District members areLuther H. White, Tulsa ; A . N . Boatman,Okmulgee; O . A . Brewer, Hugo; ForrestDarrough, Holdenville ; Mike Monroney,Oklahoma City ; H . Merle Woods, ElReno; Mrs Alta L. Carder, Cordell ; andH. S . Browne, Ponca City .

President White has selected as the

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nominating committee for 1931 : Mr FritzL . Aurin, '14 arts-sc, M. A . '15, geologistand prominent oil man of Ponca City ;Prof Frank A. Balyeat, '11 arts-sc ., M .A . '18, of the faculty of the College ofEducation, University of Oklahoma, Nor-man; Lee B . Thompson, '25 arts-sc., '27law, an attorney of Oklahoma City andpresident of the Oklahoma Alumni clubof Oklahoma City .

This committee will meet early in 1931to make nominations for membership onthe alumni executive board as ballotsmust be mailed to members of the As-sociation on April 15 . The election ofalumni board members is by mail ballotbetween April 15 and May 15 each year .

Educational FundamentalsAssociation President Luther H. White,

'14 arts-sc ., who is also president of theTulsa board of education, told the TulsaKiwanis club some of his theories of edu-cation, in a recent talk as reported byHarlow's Weekly.

"Personally, I am a fundamentalist ; Iam a bit old fashioned," Mr White said ."I believe in stressing the fundamentalsubjects . But I find that I am wrongin selecting the subjects which peoplewant."

In the night schools, which are not conductedat public expense, but are paid out of the en-

rollment fees of the students, who are prac-tically all adults, there are sixty-seven subjectslisted . These subjects are demanded by theadult students who will be enrolled in the

courses. They are not subjects which are in-cluded in the regular school curriculum .

This proves beyond a doubt that the schoolsof this day cannot hold to the narrow curricu-lum of twenty-five years ago . The people de-mand training in subjects which were not con-sidered essential when you and I went to school .I find that I am wrong in insisting on whatwe are pleased to call fundamental school sub-jects .

SOONER TO SOONERMahaffie, Rhyne

Berlin, Germany, December 15, 1930-I have received The Sooner Magazineand I may say that I approve of every-thing it contains except the article bySavoie Lottinville (in December, 1930,"The Crisis Facing Germany"-Ed.)The make-up of the magazine is ex-tremely good, so good in fact that mostof the alumni of other schools to whomI've shown it have made the comment,"It's far better than ours." This maymean much or little to you, but to me itmeans that the Sooner Mag is pacing thefield . The changes made at the begin-ning of the school year have resulted ingreat improvement .Two points : the work of C. D . Ma-

haffie and his colleague on the Inter-

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IN THE SWAN .

Miss LouiseMilburn, '32 fine arts, and E .Van Heflin, '32 fine arts,played leading roles in thePlayhouse's second produc-tion The Swan by FerenzMolnar . Mr Van Heflin hasplayed in the juvenile leadof Channing Allock's MrMonneypenney in NewYork . In The Swan he wascast as Dr Hans Agi, the hero .Miss Milburn, cast as thePrincess Alexandra, playedin the Playhouse presentationof John Woodworth's ACertain Young Widow lastApril

state commerce commission is of vast in-terest to European students of jurispru-dence and politics, because such justicesas Mahaffie on the I . C . C . are producingdroit administratif in America as rapidlyas the "`New Despotism" is bringingit to England . Secondly, ProfessorRhyne's new book (Some Southern Cot-ton Mill Workers and their Villages, re-viewed in this magazine in June, 1930,page 351-Ed.), if I read the review cor-rectly, touches on America's "New In-dustrial Revolution." The similarity be-tween North Carolina in 1930 and Lan-cashire in 1790 strikes European studentsof economic history as being, of greatinterest . They should welcome DoctorRhyne's book if it is known to them .

SAVOIE LOTTINVILLE, '29 .

One of the bestWooster, Ohio, December 27-I have

been more than pleased to read theDecember issue of your Sooner Magazine .It ranks with the best we have and is byfar the outstanding magazine from aninstitution of your type and class . Bythat I mean, in plain English, excepting

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possibly Carl Stephen's superlative workon the Illinois Monthly, I do not knowany state publication comparable to yours.

JOHN D. McKEE.(Mr McKee is former president of the

American Alumni council and editor ofthe Wooster Alumni Bulletin, and is thealumni secretary of the College of Woos-Wooster

From a Sumatran jungle

A camp somewhere in the jungle nearMoera Klingi, Sumatra, November 15,1930-I left O. U. in June, 1930, but as Iwas rather busy chasing over Louisianaand Texas for the Humble Oil and Re-fining Co . of Houston, trying to holddown my first job after getting out ofschool I did not send in my membershipdues to the Association . Soon afterwardI was transferred to foreign work andafter a long trip out here I am about tobecome settled.We are in the wilds of a Sumatra

jungle--trying to find some new struc-tures, living in a camp and moving itevery four or five days . It is a great

life and there are several other ex-Sooners

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scattered over Java and Sumatra. Weare all removed from football games andI am looking forward to the first issuesto find out how some of the games cameout . It certainly isn't football weatherhere ; it is now the rainy season and asit rains at least once a day it keeps thingsvery green and the climate cool . Thesun, however, is pretty hot.

SAM ZIMERMAN, Ex '30 geol .

(Mailing address: Nederlandsche Kolon-iale Petroleum Maatschappij, Care Seis-mograph Party, Batavia, Java, DutchEast Indies).

A merited tributeBeaumont, Texas, January 7-The ap-

preciation of May Frank by Miss BettyKirk in the current The Sooner Magazineis something which should have beenwritten long ago but for which delay ispardoned because of the splendid treat-ment given it . I'm really glad that some-one else didn't attempt to write it earlierin the magazine's history .Miss Frank is one of those remarkable

persons with so many sides that it is dif-

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ficult to draw her without omitting ordistorting but Miss Kirk achieved per-fection . I have been cornering friendssince the appearance of the article andsaying, "You remember all I've told youabout May Frank? Well, this is what Iwas trying to say."

LExIE MARLIN NALL, '27 journ.

New life memberOklahoma City, January 2-Enclosed

herewith please find my check in thesum of $5.00 as the first payment on aLife Membership in the University ofOklahoma Association . With very kind-est regards and best wishes for a Happyand Prosperous New Year.

LEE B. THOMPSON .

Pleasing to the eyeOmaha, Nebraska, January 7-I have

been much interested in Oklahoma U'spublications . I think your alumni mag-azine is the finest I've ever seen . Itstypography is striking and very pleasingto the eye. Its makeup far transcends

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the makeup of any other alumni publi-cation I've ever seen .

FREDERICK WARE

(Mr Ware is the sports editor of theOmaha World-Herald and one of thewarmest friends of the Owen ideal ofsportsmanship) .

Likes the new coverChelsea, Oklahoma, November 25-I

have received several copies of The Soon-er Magazine and thoroughly enjoy eachone . I am delighted with the cover de-sign by Miss Kirk and think the ma-terial in the magazine is very well bal-anced . I find no criticism to offer andwish for the continued success of the As-sociation and its publication.

H. S. MILAM, '30 eng .

OUR CHANGING VARSITYFraternity taxation

Senator Hardin Ballard, '27 law, ofPurcell, has introduced a bill in the Okla-homa senate that proposes taxation ofcertain fraternal property, including fra-ternity houses of Greek letter societies atOklahoma institutions .

It is 'known as Senate Bill No . 7, cata-logued as "providing for repeal of thestatutory exemption from taxation givenfraternal organizations."Under present legislation, all property

exclusively used for charitable and re-ligious purposes is exempt from taxation .All real estate is also exempt .

Senator Ballard referred to the statuteof 1919, which exempted real estate andproperty rented by fraternal organiza-tions, as "good politics" but "wrong inprinciple ."Mr Ballard declared that in Cleveland

county, in which the state university issituated, fraternal property comprisesnearly a fourth of the taxable wealth ofNorman and a sixteenth of the total tax-able wealth of the county .Under the existing legislation, the

Beta Theta Pi fraternity contested theright of Cleveland county to levy taxeson its property . The court ruled it wasin the nature of a charitable and edu-cational institution and so exempt underthe statute .Mr Ballard made taxation of frater-

nity property an issue in the primarycampaign last fall .

Senator Ballard's bill, the AssociatedPress stated, has the approval of Gover-nor William H. Murray .

Confronted with the possibility of thetax measure, presidents of Norman fra-ternities indicated that they would fightagainst the bill . It was the consensus

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of opinion that passage of the bill wouldmean the -closure of many of the frater-nity houses near the campus .Leonard Ralston, president of the Kap-

pa Alpha fraternity, told the OklahomaDaily that if the bill passes "we willjust have to close the house, as the ad-ded expense would be unbearable."Mr Ralston declared his chapter would

boycott Norman merchants in event ofthe bill's passage . "We would not spendone penny more than is necessary in Nor-man since we think the bill is a resultof work ' in this county toward such ameasure," he said .

If fraternities had to return their housesto the financing companies, it wouldthrow the burden of dormitory buildingup to the state, Frank B. Neptune ofPi Kappa Alpha told the student daily.

Ernie Hill, president of Sigma Chifraternity, told the Daily that fraternityproperty added to the value of Normanproperty and thus more than paid itsshare of community burden in doing so ."We aren't in a panic . We will fight

the tax bill cool-headedly and systemati-cally. But if it passes and is upheld bythe courts, it will mean the end of fra-ternities in Norman."This was the opinion of Byron Mc-

Fall, president of the interfraternity coun-cil .

Honoring Aldrich BlakePerhaps the most cosmopolitan gather-

ing on the campus in recent months wasthe dinner given by the staff of BooksAbroad the night of December 17 inMcFarlin Memorial church in honor ofAldrich Blake of Oklahoma City .The dinner was distinguished by two

features : Practically everyone there hadcommand of at least two languages ; andthe address by Mr Blake, one-time sec-retary to Governor Walton, and nowpresident of the Flag Oil Corporation .Mr Blake had given $10,000 to BooksAbroad and told the diners that he hopedlater to help Folk-Say, A Regional Mis-cellany, edited by B. A . Botkin of theuniversity English faculty.

Explaining that he was interested inBooks Abroad (a quarterly reviewingnon-English language literature, foundedin 1927 and edited by Dr Roy TempleHouse and circulating in thirty-threeforeign nations and going to five thou-sand people) because of its mission andbecause it had not attained proper rec-ognition in Oklahoma, Mr Blake con-tinued ."Books Abroad is putting us in touch

with foreign literature . It is internationalin thought. I think we should interestourselves in the foreigners as well astheir literature . Name the five mostinteresting cities of America, and youwill find that they have been adapted by

Summer program

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foreigners : Santa Fe, San Francisco, NewOrleans, Milwaukee and New York.One of the main barriers to peace, Ithink, is that we do not understand peo-ple of other countries. We have shutour eyes and cut ourselves off from theculture of foreign people. So when wethink of foreign literature, we shouldthink of the foreigner himself.

"I hope the time will come when ourstate executives will seek advice fromour university heads, instead of wardheelers, whose policy is the dollar . Ifwe are going to build a state, it mustbe built by young people who come outof the university . I am not sure thateveryone should attend a university butthose who do should be trained in crea-tive thinking . It is divergence of opin-ion that brings about progress ."The reason I am interested in Books

Abroad is that it is not standardized, butis creative . Doctor House and ProfessorKaufman (Kenneth C. Kaufman, '20arts-sc ., assistant editor) are real idealists .In Books Abroad they are not trying tomake money, but are trying to do some-thing that will mean a great deal toOklahoma."Mr Blake declared that in like manner

he was interested in Mr Botkin's work ."Ben Botkin is a real genius," he de-clared . "Some day you are going to hearhis name from one end of America tothe other."

Several new features have been an-nounced for the summer session and forthe August intersession by Dr EllsworthCollings, director . These include :Four hundred courses, many of par-

ticular value to teachers ;A course for junior and senior high

school principals and another for schooladministrators, instructors including DrHerbert Bruner and Dr Elbert K . Fret-well, both of Columbia university teach-ers college, and Dr Calvin O. Davis ofthe University of Michigan ;A course in band and orchestra direct-

ing ;A varied entertainment program plan-

ned by George V. Metzel, secretary ofthe Y . M . C . A .

Dates are June 10 to August 7 for thesummer session, followed immediately inAugust with the intersession, lasting untilSeptember 4, work to be done in gradu-ate courses only. (See January issue ofthe magazine for additional details, page119) .

When the thirteenth Oklahoma leg-islature organized in Oklahoma CityTuesday, January 6, Sooners were much

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in evidence in high positions in bothhouses .

Carlton Weaver, ex '07, of Wilburton,was elected speaker of the house.W. G. "Bill" Stigler, ex '16, of Stigler,

was elected president of the senate .Dave Logan, '16 arts-sc ., was elected

speaker pro tempore of the house.Senator Stigler will be ex officio mem-

ber of the committee on committees ofthe senate . Senator Harry Jolly, ex '14,of Carnegie, is a member of the employ-ment committee.The house rules committee is presided

over by Speaker Weaver, with J. T. Dan-iel, '25 sc ., of Waurika, the other Soonermember . Representative Martin Fraley,ex '21, of Hominy, is a member of theprinting committee of the house.

Representative Daniel is the majorityfloor leader . Representative Ernest R.Brown, '22 law, of Pryor, was named thedemocratic caucus vice chairman .

Senator Hardin Ballard, '27 law, ofPurcell, was the democratic caucus sec-retary in the senate .

Social science convention

The Southwestern Political and SocialScience association will hold its 1931meeting in Norman at the Universityof Oklahoma, about April 3 and 4. Abouttwo hundred and fifty delegates are ex-pected to attend from Oklahoma, Texas,Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico .

Nebraska reliefs

Four bas-reliefs in the form of plastercasts made by Lee Lawrie, sculptor, forsculpture work in the new Nebraskastate capitol building, are to be presentedto the university . The casts were giventhe university through the courtesy ofWilliam Younkin, supervising architectof the capitol, and friend of Prof JosephE. Smay, director of the school of archi-tectural engineering. They show the his-tory of law-making through the ages .

Building unemployment aid

Colonel Arthur Wood, chairman ofPresident Hoover's emergency unemploy-ment commission, asked President Biz-zell what steps the university was takingto co-operate in the national building pro-gram the commission has launched .The president replied that it was his

hope that the state legislature, meetingin January, would take care of the uni-versity's building needs through an emer-gency measure, and so aid in providingwork for many of the unemployed, aswell as helping relieve congestion at theschool .

If passed as an emergency measure,work could begin on the buildings as

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soon as Governor Murray signed the bill .Colonel Wood sent a letter similar to

that the president received to leading uni-versities and colleges, stating that an ac-celerated building program of a soundcharacter would aid greatly in relievingunemployment .The university requests approximately

a million and a half for new buildingsfor the biennium . Other universities, re-plying to the colonel, reported a total of$25,000,000 in college building immedi-ately contemplated ; replies were stillcoming in to him.

Lew Sarett

Lew Sarett, a professor in Northwest-ern university and poet, was to give alecture "Slow Smoke" in the universityauditorium January 8, under the auspicesof the Y. W. C. A.

A new hotel for Norman

Norman will have a new six story ho-tel, to be erected at the corner of Mainstreet and Santa Fe avenue, diagonallyacross the street from the stone buildingin which the first university classes wereheld . The building will cost more thana quarter million dollars . Constructionwork is to begin shortly.

Iris test garden

Garden lovers will be interested toknow of the establishment at the univer-sity by Dr Paul Sears, head of the botanydepartment, of an iris test garden . Thishas been a goal of Norman garden clubsfor some time, and the American Iris so-ciety co-operated in supplying one hun-

We are relia-

Ibly informed that the twogentlemen in black are hold-i

the missing clapper of theCentral bell of the Ok-

lahoma A. & M. college.They are, it is told, pledgesof a Norman fraternity andthey are dressed in thecostume of an Aggie rootingorganization

dred varieties as the foundation of theuniversity garden . Through this means,the best varieties of the Kappa KappaGamma flower for Oklahoma will bediscovered .

Faculty research grants

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CLAPPER?

Grants to members of the universityfaculty for research from the researchfund, have been announced by Dr Sam-uel S. Weidman, chairman of the com-mittee . None of the eleven membersgranted this aid from the fund set asideby the thirteenth legislature will growwealthy, however, since the fund totalis only $1,000 . The recipients :Dr A. B. Thomas, history-Spanish,

Apache and Comanche relations in thesouthwest;Dr Carl D. Reyer, business-status of

wholesale distribution in Oklahoma ;Dr R. D. Bird, zoology-ecological

survey of Cherokee Salt plains ;Dr F. A. Melton, geology-tectonics of

the southwest ;Dr J. W. Stovall, geology-pleistocene

mammals of Oklahoma ;Dr J. Rud Nielsen, physics-atomic

Ramon effect ;L. V. Murphy, government-source

material on governmental systems of theFive Civilized Tribes ;

Dr J. H. Marshburn, English-earlyEnglish novel ;Dr Edwin Nungezer, English-early

English novel ;Dr C. J. Bollinger, geography-popu-

lation density of Oklahoma, 1930 ;Dr M. O. Wilson, psychology-experi-

mental study of animal learning on whiterat .

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A campus visitor

John Oskison, who is writing an ar-ticle for the Outlook magazine on Okla-homa's wild oil wells, was a visitor tothe campus during early December .While here he made several talks in classand mentioned the fact that Oklahomawriters like Stanley Vestal, George Mil-burn and B. A. Botkin, were changingthe ideas of the east towards the state,to one of favor rather than of skepticism .

Faculty

Miss Helen Ruth Holbrook, secretaryof the Y. W. C. A., attended the nation-al student-faculty conference at Detroit,Michigan, December 27.Professor Leonard M. Logan, '14 arts-

se ., contributed a series of articles onOklahoma income tax reform to the DailyOklahoman.

Professor H. H. Herbert, director ofthe school of journalism, attended thejoint meeting held in Boston December29 to 31 of the American Associationof Teachers of Journalism and of theAmerican Association of Schools and De-partments of Journalism . Mr Herbertwas the secretary-treasurer of both organi-zations, which he invited to hold theirnext meeting in Norman .

Dr Paul B. Sears, head of the botanydepartment, and president of Phi Sigma,botany fraternity, presided over the na-tional convention of the group at Cleve-land, Ohio, December through January3. Dr A. 1. Ortenburger, associate pro-fessor of zoology, national secretary, alsoattended the convention . Both facultymembers attended the meeting of the As-sociation for the Advancement of Scienceat Cleveland .Dr A. O. Weese, professor of zoology,

Dr Ralph D. Bird, assistant professor ofzoology, Dr A. S. Foster, assistant profes-sor of botany, Dr Homer L. Dodge, deanof the graduate school and Charles E.Taft, graduate assistant in botany, at-

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tended the national meeting of the Ameri-can Association for the Advancement ofScience in Cleveland, Ohio, December29 to January 3 . Dr Paul B . Sears ofthe botany department, gave a paper on"Post-glacial Climates in North America"before the systematic section of the Bo-tanical Society of America. Doctor Fos-ter gave a paper on Phylogenetic andOntogenetic Interpretation of the Cata-phyll." Dean Dodge presided over ameeting to organize a society of physicsteachers . Dr A . 1 . Ortenburger withDoctor Bird as co-author, read a paperon "Ecology of the Salt Plain Areas inNorthwestern Oklahoma" before the Ec-ological Society of America and theAmerican Society of Zoologists .Rev E. N. Comfort, director of the

school of religion, announced that Phil-lip C. Nash, national director of theLeague of Nations association, and DrShailer Mathews, dean of the Universityof Chicago divinity school, were to speakat the second ministers' conference tobe held January 17 through January 19at Norman .Major Edwin P. Parker, commandant

of the university R. O. T. C. unit, willprobably be assigned to the war collegeat Washington on completion of his fouryears of service this spring at the uni-versity .A . M. de la Torre, instructor in Span-

ish, addressed the Pan-American leagueat Dallas, Texas in December on "TheImportance of Pan-Americanism."Dr J. Rud Nielsen, associate professor

of physics, is the author of a paper on"The Filling of a Spectograph withLight, Considered as a Geometrical Ra-diation Problem," in the December issueof the Journal of the Optical Society ofAmerica.Dr Paul Vogt, dean of the extension

division, addressed the chamber of com-merce of Prague, Oklahoma, Tuesday,December 16 .Dr S. W. Reaves, dean of the college

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At the left isthe squad Hugh McDermottis using to mold his Big Sixbasketeers . Below is CarlAlbert, '31 arts-sc ., Rhodesscholar-elect from the GulfStates region

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of arts and sciences, attended the meetingof the American Mathematical societyin Cleveland, Ohio, during the Christ-mas holidays .Dr Victor H. Kulp of the school of

law, was to address the Tulsa junior barassociation January 9.

The Playhouse of the UniversityOklahoma has announced as the winnerof its second annual original play contestBlack Jack Davey by Richard M. Dick-inson, ex '30, director of the Tulsa Lit-tle Theater.The play is to be produced probably

in April . It is adapted from John Oski-son's Black Jack Davey. The setting isthe country around Vinita, Oklahoma,in the pioneer days . Action takes placein one set, a side porch and yard of ahome . In one scene, the characters donot appear before the audience, the actiontaking place within the house. The playis swift moving, filled with dramatic in-cidents.The prize winner last year was John

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Woodworth's A Certain Young Widow.It is probable that Mr Dickinson's playwill be published by the University Pressin the Playhouse Series, since it has beenrecommended for publication by thePlayhouse.

GRADUATES IN EMBRYOScholar Albert

Carl Albert, '31 arts-sc., of McAlester,Oklahoma, was named one of the fourRhodes scholars selected from six statesin the Gulf state division at New Or-leans, Louisiana, December 13 and 14 .Oklahoma thus gained one scholar,

since under the old plan of selection,Oklahoma would not have elected thisyear . Mr Albert is twenty-two yearsold, is five feet two inches tall, is presi-dent of the men's council, a nationaloratorical contest winner, and holder ofmany other student honors . He' is amember of Pe-et and of Kappa Alphafraternities .

What! no follies?

It is quite possible that there will heno Soonerland follies this year . Thisgrievous news comes as the result of thefailure of any organization to sponsorthis noble undertaking. The men'scouncil refused to sponsor it. PresidentCarl Albert, '31 arts-sc ., explained thatthe council had money now, the objectof the Follies had been to supply the oldstudent council with money, and hatfor the past two years the Follies had lostmoney. Canny council has apparentlydecided to keep what money it has.

Christmas dinner

A hundred and more students whospent the Christmas vacation in Normanwere guests of the Oklahoma Union atChristmas dinner Christmas day . TheUnion also gave tickets to the SouthernMethodist university basketball games inthe fieldhouse December 31 and January1. This is the first such dinner but itis expected that it will be made annual .

Mid-semester graduates

Ninety-two seniors will join the greatSooner alumni family early this month,as mid-semester graduates. One doctorof philosophy is among them, Dora AnnStewart. Graduate coming from the long-est distance to school is Alfredo Berumenof Queritaro, Mexico, in arts and sciences .

«Amateurish

There will probably be fewer queensin democratic Oklahoma soon . Queers

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on the Oklahoma campus are about ascommon as jewelled fraternity pins . TheOklahoma Daily has been crusadingagainst them, through Dick Pearce, theeditor, as have most of the editors in thepast .

President Bizzell has denominated thequeen racket as "amateurish," in a state-ment calling for elimination of manyof the useless organizations on the cam-pus. "Membership in most honorary or-ders involves the expenditure of money,robs the student of time and increasesresponsibility," he said . "This quitenaturally has a bad effect on grades andconfuses the purposes of the university .In a university of this size and standing,queen elections are amateurish and prep-schoolish and should be cut out one byone until they are completely done awaywith ."

Southern debates

Oklahoma was to debate Centenarycollege at Shreveport, Louisiana, January23 and Southern Methodist university atDallas, Texas, January 24, on the ques-tion : "Resolved-that the nations of theworld should adopt a policy of freetrade."

New scholarship

Sigma Alpha Iota, honorary music fra-ternity for women, has announced ascholarship fund of $50 to be awardedeach semester to the senior woman

showingingthegreatest talent andneedforthescholarship .

Best civil engineer

Paul Thurber, '31 eng., of OklahomaCity, was selected as the outstanding civilengineer student by the Oklahoma Citychapter of the American Society of CivilEngineering December 19 . The prizeconsists of a junior membership in theorganization . Judgment is based oncharacter, scholastic standing and profes-sional attitude toward civil engineering .

From Venezuela

Three gentlemen from Venezuela,speaking no English, came to the officeof H. C. George, director of the schoolof petroleum engineering, and in Span-ish told him they had come here to goto school .Now, a university is a cosmopolitan

place. Professor George found A. M.de la Torre, genial instructor in Spanish,and himself a native of Peru, who be-came the host of the three visitors .

Jose A. Delgado, Edmondo Luongoand Abel Monsalve, students sent toAmerica by the Venezuelan government

to study petroleum engineering, will takethe complete course offered by the uni-versity . Mr de la Torre will coach themin English and all three expect to be ableto enroll in the university at the start ofthe second semester . All three are gradu-ates in civil engineering of the Universityof Caracas and each has had a year's prac-tical experience in engineering . Threeother Venezuelan government scholarsare in Tulsa, taking preliminary workin the University of Tulsa. They ex-pect to complete their work in petroleumengineering in the University of Okla-homa later.

Mario Cueto arrived at the universityearly in January to enroll for a four yearcourse in the university in petroleum en-gineering. He had been sent to the uni-versity by the Argentine embassy in Wash-ington . Senor Cueto is a graduate of theParis, France high school, attended schoolin England for three years, and is a nativeof Argentine, although his home now isParis, France .

The best

The university R. O. T. C. unit wasthe best he had thus far inspected, Col.George P. Tyner, chief of staff of theeighth corps area of Fort Sam Houston,Texas, declared, following formal in-spection of the University of Oklahomaunit December 9. Colonel Tyner wasparticularly impressed with the excellentcare Major Edwin P. Parker's men hadgiven government equipment.

New Greek

Phi Kappa fraternity in its nationalconvention at Kansas City December 28-30, empowered its officers to call for avote for admission of Delta Phi Epsilon,local fraternity of the University of Okla-homa . The local fraternity was form-erly known as the Columbia club, butadopted a Greek designation last year.It was inspected in November by the na-tional fraternity, but too late to empowera vote at the Kansas City meeting.

SPORTS OF ALL SORTSThe basketball season

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Oklahoma began its 1930-31 basket-ball season with a series of victories overnon-conference teams, although some ofthe victories were by tight margins. Inthe meantime, the athletic association,facing heavy financial deficit, was hav-ing a difficult time financing the game .With practically a new team to buildup, Coach McDermott was whipping in-to shape what may develop into a form-idable Big Six team. Reduction of gen-

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eral admissions to fifty cents was expect-ed to help boost attendance, and it washaving that effect.

OKLAHOMA 28, TEXAS 27By a one-point margin, Oklahoma

continued University of Texas on theroad to defeat at Austin December 19 .McDermott started with Hatman as cen-ter, Anderson, Grady, Beck and Meyer.

OKLAHOMA 34, TEXAS 33Oklahoma won the second game with

Texas, again by a one-point margin, De-cember 20 at Austin . The game wastight throughout, Texas taking the leaduntil the last few minutes of play, whenthe Sooners regained the lead . Beckmade three goals in quick succession toinsure victory .

OKLAHOMA 36, S . M. U. 33Oklahoma defeated Southern Metho-

dist university in the fieldhouse Decem-ber 31 by a score of 36 to 33 . The firstperiod was Oklahoma's, the score being22 to 10 . But in the second period, theMustangs loosened up with speedy bas-ket-looping appeared for a few minuteslike a real threat to the Sooners . Beckand Anderson in combination provedmost effective in Oklahoma scoring.The score :

Oklahoma

22 14 36S. M. U.

10

23

33

OKLAHOMA 35, S. M. U . 30Oklahoma started the New Year by

defeating Southern Methodist universityfor the second time in the fieldhouse bya score of 35 to 30 .The score :

Oklahoma

22 13 35S. M. U .

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13

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OKLAHOMA 33, BETHANY 22Oklahoma easily defeated Bethany col-

lege of Lindsborg, Kansas, in the field-house Monday, January 5, by the scoreof 33 to 22 . Andy Beck, Oklahomaguard, led in the scoring for the Sooners .Larson, the Swedes's six foot seven cen-ter, and All-American, brought in fifteenpoints for Bethany .The score :

Bethany

8 14 22Oklahoma

13 20 33

OKLAHOMA 35, OKLAHOMAAGGIES 21Oklahoma continued its victorious

march by defeating on January 7 at thefieldhouse Oklahoma Agricultural andMechanical college by the score of 35 to21 . Between halves some Sooners pa-raded what is reputed to be the clapper

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from the bell of Old Central, oldest Ag-gie building .The score :

Oklahoma

14 21 35Aggies

13 8 21

Oklahoma protested the eligibility oftwo University of Kansas players, Williamliam and KennethJohnson, on the

ground that they had participated ina basketball game during the Christmasholidays a year ago while at home inOklahoma City during a visit . Kansasruled the men eligible, after an investi-gation . The men had played in a "pick-up," rather than an "outside," game,Kansas found .

Football lettermenGuy Warren, better known as "Silly

Guy" Warren, halfback and speedyback field runner, was elected captain ofthe 1931 football team at a banquet giventhe team by the Beta Theta Pi fraternityDecember 10 . Mr Warren is the thirty-seventh football captain elected at theuniversity .The first football captain ever elected,

in 1895, was John A. Hart, of Winfield,Kansas . The captain who served longestwas C . C . Roberts, '01 arts-sc ., vice presi-dent of the First National Bank of Okla-homa City, who was captain in '97, '98,'99 and '00 . Out of the thirty-seven cap-tains, nine have been fullbacks, sevenends, five quarterbacks, six halfbacks,four tackles, three guards and three cen-ters .

Twenty-one members of the squad re-ceived football letters .

These are :

Captain Bob Fields, tackle, Ponca City; GuyWarren, halfback, Norman ; Charles Wilson,guard, Oklahoma City ; Ab Walker, quarter-back, Blackwell ; Charles Teel, guard, Tulsa ;Ernest Snell, end, Tulsa ; Charles Stogner,quarterback, Norman ; Curtis Berry, guard, Nor-man ; Paul Young, center, Norman ; Orin Borah,guard, Champaign, Ill. ; Raymond Stanley, guard .Lawton ; Harold Roberts, end, Medford ; Col-onel "Bus" Mills, quarterback, Ranger, Texas ;Hilary Lee, guard, Charleston, Mo . ; Clyde Kirk,halfback, Norman ; Hardy Lewis, halfback, Dun-can ; Darrell Ewing, end, Altus ; Fred Cherry,end, Okmulgee ; C. C . Buxton, quarterback,Oklahoma City ; Ernest Massad, fullback, Ard-more ; Dick Simms, halfback, Norman .

Wrestling :prospects

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The Kansas Aggies are worrying PaulKeen, wrestling coach, somewhat thesedays. Oklahoma, champion of the BigSix conference in wrestling last year, isgoing to be a strong contender this yearfor the title again, despite the loss ofMiller, Mantooth and Leach, the threemighty atoms of the squad last year .The point about the Kansas Aggies is

this : the Manhattan team has seven let-

February

termen back . Keen has five . Coachingodds are about even . Though Buel Pat-terson of Manhattan is an Oklahoma Ag-gie graduate, so is Keen . Iowa State,coached by Otopalik, ought to play likechampions too . And Nebraska may saysomething about the championship .The Oklahoma Aggies, the bete noir

for Oklahoma, will wrestle against Okla-homa at Norman February 13 . CanKeen's men defeat the undefeated Ag-gies? Keen's going to make a mightyeffort to stop the apparently irresistibleAggies .

Oliver Bass of Tulsa, is captain of thewrestlers for Oklahoma .

This year's scheduleOne new football team will appear on

the Sooner football schedule this year .Rice institute has been added to the ros-ter of teams played . The schedule in-cludes one game each with other mem-bers of the Big Six conference .The schedule follows :October 3 . Rice at Norman .October 10 . Nebraska at Lincoln .October 17 . Texas at Dallas, Third an-

nual Migration day .October 24 . Kansas Aggies at Manhat-

tan .October 31 . Iowa State at Norman.November 7. Kansas at Norman .

Homecoming.November 14. Missouri at Columbia .November 26 . Oklahoma Aggies at

Norman . Thanksgiving.

In K.C.A.C . meetCoach John C . Jacobs was to have

some of his able track men representingthe university in the annual Kansas CityAthletic club meet in Kansas City Febru-ary 14 .

In addition to the Kansas City meet,Coach Jacobs has on his program :March 7 . Big Six conference at Columbia

(indoor) .March 27 . Texas relays at Austin .March 28 . S. M. U. relay s at Dallas.April 18 . Kansas relays at Lawrence.April 20 . Missouri at Columbia .April 24-25 . Drake relays at Des Moines .May 6. Kansas Aggies at Norman .May 15 . Oklahoma Aggies at Norman.May 22-23 Big Six outdoor at Lincoln.June 6-7 . National collegiate meet at Chicago.

Intramural sportsSigma Mu Sigma won the intramural

finals in the wrestling tournament De-cember 18 .

Beta Theta Pi by defeating Phi KappaSigma 30 to 21 December 18 insured foritself the southern league basketballchampionship in the intramural basket-ball competition .