THE SOONER MAGAZINE February, 1933 ALUMNI NEWS Volume 5, Number 5

1933 by the Association. Entered as A News Magazine for University of Oklahoma graduates and second-class matter October 13, 1928 at the postoffice at March 3, 1879 . Estab- former students published monthly except August and Sep- Norman, Oklahoma, under the act of ; McElroy, tember by the University of Oklahoma Association, Oklahoma lished 1928 . Joseph A. Brandt, '21journ, editor George John Joseph Mathews, Union Building, Norman, Oklahoma . Chester H. Westfall, '34 law, business manager; Betty Kirk, '29, '16 journ., Ponca City, president; Frank S. Cleckler, '20, Dorothy Kirk, '23, Winifred Johnston, '24, Duane Roller,'23, '21 bus, Norman, secretary-treasurer. Membership dues : An- Elgin E. Groseclose,'20, Leonard Good, '28, Muna Lee, '12, George Milburn, '30, Harold Keith, '28, Ross Taylor, '31, nual $3 of which $2 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE, Life $60 of which $40 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE . Copyright contributing editors.

OFFICERS Neil R. Johnson, '15as, '17law, Norman, at large Dr . Ray M. Balyeat, '12as, '16sc, '18M .D., , at large Chester H. Westfall, '16journ ., Ponca City, President Lee B. Thompson, '25as, '27law, Oklahoma City, at large Lewis R. Morris, '15as, '17law, '15MA, Oklahoma City, Vice Presi- John Rogers, '14law, Tulsa, at large dent . Mrs Floy Elliott Cobb, '17as, Tulsa, first district Shelley E. Tracy, '11as, Dallas, Texas, Vice President A. N. "Jack" Boatman, '15as, Okmulgee, second district Frank S Cleckler, '21 bus, Norman, Secretary-Treasurer Hiram Impson, 15as, McAlester, third district Joseph A. Brandt, '21 journ, Norman, Editor Ben Hatcher, '24as, '25law, Ada, fourth district BOARD MEMBERS Fred E. Tarman, 'l0as, Norman, fifth district Mike Monroney, '23journ, Oklahoma City, ex officio H. Merle Woods, '17journ, El Reno, sixth district Luther H. White, '14 as, Tulsa, at large Dr. Lealon E. Lamb, '26sc, '28M .D ., Clinton, seventh district Otto A. Brewer, '17as, '20law, Hugo, at large Fritz L. Aurin, '14as, '15M .A ., Ponca City, eighth district

Oklahomans at home and abroad

ASSOCIATION PROGRESS respond to the first call for life mem- me favorably. But alas! it appears that bership in the University Alumni As- he is like several of his predecessors. To Tulsa Sooner club meeting sociation. That may or may not be an the person far away from the scene, the The Tulsa Sooner club will be host to evidence of my interest in the welfare impression is that the university is an visiting teachers at the annual Oklaho- of the University of Oklahoma . Be that institution without tradition, without sta- ma Educational Association meeting at as it may, I do hereby and now declare bility, and without policy. At the time the Hotel Tulsa Friday, February 3 . both my pride and my continuing in- when I was a student there a new state Dave R. Milsten, '25as, '28law, is chair- terest in that wonderful school. administration ripped into the university man of the committee on arrangements Imagine my chagrin, therefore, at the with the result that the president was and will serve as toastmaster. President unsavory news spread over the nation induced to leave just before being need- Bizzell is to be the principal speaker. that has just come from there. I have lessly fired . There was nothing in the just read the attached editorial from the management nor in the merit of per- Norman club meeting Cleveland Plain Dealer, of this date. In- formance that justified any interference The Norman Sooner club met at cidentally, by the way, my first informa- at that time. Never yet have I known, nor the Oklahoma Union Thursday, Janu- tion of the recent expulsions of the D. have I ever heard of, a single instance in ary 19, with Leonard Logan, '14as, D. M. C.'s came to me via the New which there was shown to be even a mi- president, as chairman. The club adopt- York Times. nor dereliction upon which to predicate ed a resolution recommending to the In some respects, the governor of Ok- such political intervention as the various Board of Regents changing the name lahoma, several months ago, impressed chief executives apparently feel called up- of Hygeia Hall to an appropriate on to exercise . name commemorating Doctor Gayfree CONTENTS The question arises in one's mind Ellison, and named a committee con- whether or not the president and the fac- sisting of Mrs Blanche Belt Shead, Oklahomans at home and abroad 131 ulty of the university have enough ex- chairman, Fred Tarman and Frank S. perience and knowledge properly to con- Cleckler to draw up the resolution and Oklahoma twenty-first 141 duct its affairs. If they have not, then to select an appropriate name. The club where is the proof for the benefit of the discussed the feasibility of furnishing an public, that they do not have it? Sooners in "Who's Who" 142 reading oil painting to be hung in the infirmary, On the other hand, if they are capable of and authorized a committee to investi- performing such routine duties as disci- gate the possibilities of doing so and re- Lawrence N. Morgan 144 pline, then why the executive interfer- porting at the next meeting. Mr and By William Witt, '30 ence? Mrs Earl VirDen furnished the music . You will observe that I have made no Harry B. Rutledge 146 reference to the merits involved in the By George Ovie Hopkins, '32 expulsion of the fourteen students al- SOONER TO SOONER leged to have wet-roped another student. The D. D. M . C. matter Sooner roll call 147 It may be that there is some doubt as Youngstown, Ohio, December 20, 1932 to what was done by these students. 1 -It was my good fortune to be able to Belles lettres and bell ringers 151 recall that among my warmest personal 132 The Sooner Magazine February friends of my student days, there were OUR CHANGING VARSITY Regents Tolbert, Lyons, and Barry at least a half dozen D. D. M. C.'s. were to be approved by the State Senate . Moreover, I recall that among this half Legislative proposals dozen were some of the most brilliant The Fourteenth State Legislature, as- Natural gas engineering course students ever enrolled in the university sembling January 3, was faced with the Many students who are enrolled in the up to that time. In addition, I firmly task of sharply reducing state expendi- school of mechanical engineering, and believe that all of these D. D. M. C.'s tures . Governor Murray submitted the who plan to enter the natural gas in- were just as loyal to the university, and proposed budget made by a Budget Com- dustry after graduation have been per- are now just as loyal alumni, as any who nuttee over which Regent Hatchett pre- mitted to substitute courses given in ever attended the university . But that sided. This budget would reduce the other schools and departments which re- has nothing to do with the issue. total expenditure of the state for the bi- late to the natural gas industry for cer- If a helpless youngster was taken to ennium by $11,000,000. To achieve this tain professional work of the regular the woods and beaten up by a gang, that budget, meant for the university a thirty mechanical engineering curriculum. is nothing short of the "gangster spirit," per cent reduction over the amount ap- Since the demand for a specialized and no self-respecting institution could propriated by the Thirteenth Legislature natural gas engineering course has been tolerate it, just as no self-respecting stu- for the biennium . proved, and since various men from the dent could participate in it. Such a It is proposed to give the university industry have suggested that it be adopt- thing, regardless of the delinquencies or $l,000,000 per annum during the next ed, the courses offered which are best offenses of the victim, is sheer cowardice biennium, as compared with $1,431,562 adapted have been grouped to form an and brutality. per annum during the period just clos- optional course for juniors and seniors But the point is: How can the uni- ing. The Board of Regents had reduced enrolled in the school of mechanical en- versity authorities, who ought to know voluntarily the amount used by the uni- gineering. the belief of W. H. Carson, di- the merits of the case, maintain disci- versity during this year by ten per cent, It is mechanical pline, if the governor of the state is to or roughly, $200,000 . This would mean rector of the school of en- will decide such matters by executive order, actually a further reduction of twenty gineering, that this course be the outstanding course of its kind in the without first going into the question per cent. Some of the specific reduc- geographical location of thoroughly? And if such executive is tions recommended for the university are country, as the and since the men of right should he expel the authorities who reduction of the medical school appropri- the school is ideal, have centered expelled the students? In other words, ation from $94,053 to $66,000 per an- the natural gas industry on the Southwestern Gas Measurement where is the middle ground? num, reduction of the university hospit- al appropriation from $308,521 to $198,- Short Course, which is held annually by One can easily imagine situations such 000 and similar reductions in other fields. the school of mechanical engineering, as as this being acted upon precipitantly A Salary Limitation bill by Phillips of the only course of its kind to which they by university authorities, indignant at Atoka, would limit the president of the will send representatives . It will he re- conduct so wanton. In this connection, university and A. & M. to $6,000-smal- called that this course is national in may I make the observation that organi- ler schoos to $4,000 and $3,000 . scope, and that the attendance reached a zations like the D. D. M. C. thrive on Senator Hardin Ballard, '27as, '27law, peak of 450 with fourteen states rep- as has come out of this such publicity of Purcell, reintroduced a bill defeated at resented in 1929. Too, the American episode. To my mind (in this I may the last session, to subject to ad valorem Gas Association has recognized this be wrong), there is no more justification taxation fraternal property . school by placing an annual natural gas broadcasting of maters of this for the Representative Thomas Z. Wright, fellowship here ; and one will find that that kind through the public press, than '29bus, a student in the law school, an- the laboratory facilities of the school of the spankings that I give my little boy nounced that he intended to ask the mechanical engineering for teaching be entered as "news ." Such should House to investigate prices charged in such a course cannot be approached any- university, should be things, within the the Oklahoma Union. where in the country. The outlook for with quietly and as other routine dealt Representative Leslie Conner, '27law, a man graduating from this course handled. A good big dose matters are of Oklahoma City, has proposed reduc- should be unusually bright as there are silence," would of silence, "thunderous ing all salaries of faculty one-half start- so many opportunities for engineers in do more to make such organizations seem ing January 1 ; he further proposed an the gas industry, and since there are many adventurous student than useless to the investigation into the publishing division positions, such as district manager, spec- world. all the publicized tabus in the of the university, the cap and gown com- ial relation man, etc., as well as strictly There are so many magnificent things mittee, and the Oklahoma Union. engineering jobs that require the s< r- that the university is doing that it just Representative Conner also introduced vices of engineers. bad these unfavorable seems too that a bill providing that the Board of Re- . Re- items should gain wide attention gents of the university or the Board of Dr. Gayfree Ellison cently a half dozen or more university Agriculture of the Oklahoma Agricultur- Dr. Gayfree Ellison, for twenty two students have achieved national promi- al & Mechanical College could make no years a member of the university fac- real nence. To my mind, an item of charge of student citizens of the state any ulty, director of student health service, "news" was the fact that the Book-of- fees for enrollment, library, tuition, etc. died at his home in Norman Thursday, The-Month-Club has offered a product No fees for the Oklahoma Union could December 22, 1932 . Doctor Ellison had of the University Press as one of the dis- be charged. Mr Conner declared that been ill for some months. He was fifty tinguished books of the current months . according to the state auditor's reports, seven years old, having been born in There are a thousand things, perhaps not students of the university were charged Wallace county, Kansas, October 29, so sensational, but far more constructive, from January 1 to June 1, 1932 a total 1875 . that the and the of $289,000 in fees. The building of Hygeia hall, sponsor- faculty of the university could broadcast A grouping of all schools under one ed by the Dad's Association, was one of over the land, than the story of this governing board is also to be presented the major monuments to Doctor Elli- puerile incident. And these things to the State Legislature, it is understood . son's work. The student health service would be "news," too. This board would supplant the present built up by him ranked among the best Very truly yours, Board of Regents, the State Board of in American universities . CLAUDE B. NORRIS, ' 19 . Agriculture and other governing boards. Doctor Ellison was a graduate of Beth- 1933 The Sooner Magazine 133

any college, Lindsborg, Kansas, from May 3 by Dr. B. A. Botkin, assistant professor In the first period, around 10,000 to 8,000 years which school came Benny Owen, Dean of English; "Functional Relation of Religion to ago, the climate was cold and wet, probably Culture in Oklahoma," May Fredrik Holmberg and Oscar Brousse 10 by Rev. E. N. a hold-over from post-glacial conditions . In Comfort, director of the Oklahoma school of those days the Ohio Valley and most of In- Jacobson . He received his bachelor of religion ; "Phases of Culture and Oklahoma Pol- diana were covered by forest of spruce, pine, arts degree in 1898, his M. D. degree itics," May 17 by Dr . Dangerfield; and "Inter- and fir, and if there were any primitive Ameri- from Rush Institute in 1903 . He became actions of Educational Systems and Culture Pat- cans living in the region they probably en- terns," May 24, Oklahoma state bacteriologist, later prac- the speaker to be announced gaged in hunting exclusively. later. In the second period, between 9,000 and 6,- ticed medicine and in 1911 he became 000 years ago, the climate became dry, though an instructor in bacteriology in the uni- Recognition for Doctor Sears remaining cool . The pine-birch forests still versity. At his death he was professor reigned in southeastern Canada, but in Ohio Dr. Paul B . Sears, head of the botany of epidemiology . lie at one time was oak trees appeared in profusion among the pine department, is given recognition for his forests, and in Indiana the president of the Faculty club. His pub- trees were mostly studies of prehistoric pollen fossils in the oak and birch, interspersed with intruding lications include: A Sanitary Survey of December 27 issue of the New York savannas of grass and shrubs . The prairies of Norman, Rabies in Oklahoma and Can- the west in this period had moved Herald Tribune. The article, by G. Ed- eastward cer in Oklahoma. as far as Iowa, which was covered with am- ward Pendray, is as follows: aranth grass and as a semi-arid region . His widow, a daughter Helena, a son Those old timers and who insist that the climate Between 6,000 5,000 years ago the cli- Gayfree, jr., and a brother and sister is changing may be right after all, though the mate changed again, becoming more and more . change can scarcely survive have been enough in one humid but gradually rising in temperature. The life-time to make a measurable difference . In forests of hemlock and pine moved northward the last few thousand years climates in various into Canada . Oak and beech trees covered Oklahoma civilization parts of this continent have certainly under- Ohio, merging into forests in Indiana and open One of the most important gone interde- important alterations and the process is subhumid prairies in Iowa . In this period partmental innovations in the last dec- probably a continuous one. Doctor Scars believes the growing of maize was Proof of ade of university progress is the these climatic changes, and some possible for the first time in post-glacial history semi- idea of what they must have meant to earlier as far west as Ohio, Indiana and Iowa, though nar course to be given by nine faculty people who inhabited North America, are ad- it is unlikely that it became a major activity members belonging to different depart- vanced by Professor Paul Bigelow Sears, of the of the race of men who might have been liv- ments the second semester on "The De- University of Oklahoma, in the American An- ing there. Dense forests would probably pre- thropologist . In this velopment of Civilization in Oklahoma ." report on his recent work clude agriculture in Ohio, at any rate . Doctor Sears adds another to the various ac- Breaking down the narrow divi- The fourth period began about 4,000 years curate methods of measuring the time which ago. The climate then became both dry and sion which characterizes many schools has elapsed since the last glaciation . The new warm. In southeastern Canada the pine forests and colleges, method these nine progressive is one that not only gives a measure of were replaced by stands of oak and birch. Iowa the instructors have demonstrated their in- years but also reveals what the climate again became semi-arid, covered with amaranth was in any given period by revealing telligence and vision in what prom- the na- grass. Huge grassy savannas appeared in the ture and abundance of the vegetation growing Ohio Valley and Indiana, ises to be a valuable regional study. bringing to these at that time . areas optimum conditions for growing maize The class will meet from 7 :30 The to method is based upon the slow accumu- for the first time . It was in this period Doc- lation of 9:30 P.M. every Wednesday and is open vegetable matter in the form of peat, tor Scars thinks that the agricultural peoples which contains layer to graduate students majoring in one of after layer of fossilized of the west and southwest following the best pollen . Since the pollen of every kind of plant crop conditions, moved eastward to Ohio, dis- the social sciences ; alumni living within is distinctive in shape and other characteristics, placing the hunters who had formerly in- driving distance of Norman might find it is possible to count the percentage of various habited this region, and there building up their it of plants represented advantage to attend the seminar. in each stratum by examin- important cultures, relics of which have been The seminar is divided into three ing the material with a microscope . left to us in the form of artifacts and ceremon- Professor Sears parts : "The reports that lie froze pieces of ial, defensive and burial mounds . Background of Oklahoma peat from various bogs in the Middle West and In this fourth period it is likely that the maize Civilization," "Economic Complexities in then cut them vertically into thin sections . Af- grower's moved so far east they were actually the Culture Pattern," and "The ter such treatment Oklaho- alternating layers of cellular cut off from their home land in the west and and ma Culture Pattern." gelatinous material are revealed at least in southwest by intervening deserts. Perhaps they some pests. These Lectures announced follow : layer's are considered by spread out, up and down the Mississippi, as far Sears Doctor to represent seasonal accumula- north as , as far south as Arkansas, "Introduction and Implications of Subject and tions, one being laid down in summer and the which was in that time covered by forests of Statement of Problem," February 1 by Dr . For- other in winter ; each pair thus representing oak and hickory. In their open fields there rest E. Clements, head of the department of one year . The combined thickness of each was roots also for tremendous herds of anthropology ; "The Physical Background," Feb- bison, pair averaged one twenty-fifth of an inch in which ranged in this time further cast than ruary 8 by Dr. C. W. Thornthwaite, assistant the samples examined . This means that the they had ever been known before. professor of geography; "Content of Aborigi- peat accumulated at about the rate of three Then came the fifth and last period, which nal Cultures in Oklahoma," February 15 by Dr . centuries per foot. set in 1 .000 to 2,000 years ago, continuing in- Clements ; "Historical Background of Settle- Doctor Sears reports that this method of read- to the present. It consisted of a swing back ment," February 22 by Dr. E. E. Dale, head ing the climatic history of the past has now toward humid conditions, with the result that of the department of history; "Economic His- been applied to bogs in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, spruce, pine and hemlock reappeared in south- tory of Oklahoma," March 1 by Dr . Frederick Virginia, Arkansas and southeastern Canada . eastern Canada ; the savannas of Ohio and In- L. Ryan, assistant professor of economics; "So- They reveal that there have been at least five diana gave way to mixed forest conditions (be- cial Problems of Oklahoma," March 8 by Dr. major climatic changes on this continent in the fore white men cleared them) ; Iowa returned Jennings J. Rhyne, director of the school of last 10,000 years. to subhumid prairie, with oak and hickory trees, social service; "Patterns in Oklahoma Politics," It was to be expected, of course, there should and the maize-growing centers shifted again March 15, by Dr . Royden J. Dangerfield and have been a gradual amelioration of climate to the west and southwest, bringing an Dr . Cortez A. M. Ewing, assistant professors of from glacial days to the present-a 'sort of slow to the highly developed agricultural government ; "Land Utilization," culture cf March 22 with warming and drying. Presuming that this was Ohio and Indiana Dr. Dale handling and replacing it with an that which has to do with the case, archaeologists studying the relics of essentially hunting range cattle and type of culture such as was Dr. Clyde J. Bollinger, assis- prehistoric man in America have been puzzled found by ant professor white men when they first crossed of geography, speaking on that by the overlapping cultures discovered in part vari- the Appalachians. which concerns agriculture ; "Cultural As- ous parts of the continent, especially pect the Ohio Whether the latest climatic shift has been of the Petroleum Industry." March 29, Valley, where there are traces speaker of at least four clue to an absolute increase in humidity or to to be announced later; "Mining" by distinct peoples, each Dr. with a different type of a relative increase on account of a decrease in Ryan and "Lumbering," by George Phil- culture, and the period of occupation of each temperature is not clear. If it is the latter we lips, Oklahoma government forrester, April 5; sharply separated in point of time from the may be heading back toward a climate simi- "Urban Development," April 12 by Dr. Rhyne other. and lar to that of 5,000 years ago, though this is Dr. Thornthwaite; "Economic Change and The evidence of the pollen and the bog a field of speculation into which the Univer- Population Mobility," April 19 by Dr. Thornth- laminae. indicates waite however, that there has been sity of Oklahoma scientist does not venture. and Dr . Rhyne; "Race Mixture, Conflict no such simple amelioration and of climate, but Doctor Sears believes that the fact of chang- Adaptation," April 26 by Dr . Clements and rather a series of distinct changes from wet to ing climates over broad areas of North Ameri- Dr . Rhyne; "Folk Ways in Rural Oklahoma," dry and back to wet, and from cold to warm . ca will clear up many mysteries surrounding 134 The Sooner Magazine February the prehistoric peoples that have inhabited the must have been con,tructed in such a manner sity Professors, Dean Dodge being the continent since glacial times. We must as- and in a proper climate to come clown to us field director. sume, he says, the existence of several types without too much decay of the timbers. The Writing in , of peoples in different parts of the country, tree-ring method is consequently useless in de- Dean each culture sensitively adjusted to some one termining the age of truly ancient peoples, Dodge gave some of his findings, al- of a variety of environments . Under such cir- though the report is not complete or cumstances, when the zone of the favorable Qualities of Justice Holmes definitive : environment moved, due to climatic or other change, the culture best adapted to it would Dr. Victor H. Kulp, professor of law A study of the problems of instruction in confused tend to follow it . in the school of law, declared in the an- American colleges leaves one by the complexity of the situation until he sees that The Ohio Valley seems to have been a sort nual Phi Beta Kappa founders' day ad- there are a few chief sources of difficulty . of "tension zone" in this interplay of cultures, dress that former Justice Oliver Wendell With these eliminated, the way will he open- and consequently it was successively settled by Holmes personified the ideals of Phi ed for the operation of the constructive forces various groups as conditions in this rather cen- already strongly in evidence . tral point favored one or the other. Beta Kappa: "To me the one quality or character- One of these sources is the overemphasis In northern New England and southeastern upon departmental organization . More than Canada, for example, only two well defined cul- istic which outshines all his many vir- is sometimes realized, departments are the ture strata have been found, one belonging to tues is his humility ; not the kind of hu- most important single influence in a college historic and prehistoric Algonkians, the other mility which is conceived a sign of weak-ess buttruehumility which portrays or university. to a group called the "red-paint" people, an It is the opinion of many college profes- unidentified tribe, known particularly for its strength of character and calls sors that departments have been devoted to apparent cleverness in working slate. In the great for self-aggrandizement rather than to service. Ex- Iroquois region there have been found relics of moral courage of the finest sort . It has cessive duplication of courses, refusal to send two cultures preceding that of the historic nothing of egotism in it, is ever toler- students to other departments for needed re- Iroquois, one of them resembling that of the others but at the same time doe s lated courses, and bidding for students by low- red-paint people and another considered by ant of not underrate the powers to achieve. ering standards are some of the faults charged. some archeologists as being a type of prehis- These evil effects are recognized everywhere, toric Algonkian. "In Holmes was personified the ideals but little is done to remedy them . One of the But in the Ohio Valley there are traces of of Phi Beta Kappa as he exhibited great few institutions that has faced the problem is many overlapping cultures, At ]east four dif- learning and scholarship, combined with the University of Missouri, which is building ferent types of burials have been found and three effective leadership ant] those qualities of its curriculum around group majors instead of types of highly developed mound cultures . In departmental majors . addition there are numerous village sites and heart that transcend all merely intellec- Moreover, many departments, especially in the pottery. Since the forest peoples were essen- tual endowments, no matter how great larger institutions, have been interested in sub- tially hunters and the western and southwest- they may be and without which no fame iect-matter rather than in human beings, and ern peoples essentially agricultural, depending can he enduring." in research rather than in teaching . They have, upon maize for their food, it is possible to dis- The annual founders' day dinner of as a rule, been indifferent to the major prob- tinguish the relics of one from the other. Most lems of education and even to their own prob- archeologists have not placed the agricultural Phi Beta Kappa was held in the Faculty lems of instruction . populations of the Ohio Valley as far back as club Monday night. December 5, 1932 . This situation has been aggravated by the Doctor Sear's chronology places them, but this influence of the national learned societies which, themselves may be explained, as Doctor Sears points out, Verdi's "Requiem" with few exceptions, have concerned by the relatively slow change of climate, and solely with research . These societies have even the persistence of a maize-growing people in Verdi's "Requiem," presented January helped to cultivate the attitude that the college the Ohio-Indiana region for some time even I t by seven faculty members, the uni- professor teaches to earn a living in order that after conditions had become unfavorable for versity choral union and a 50-piece sym- he may devote the bulk of his time and energy them . the largest audi- to research . Not on!y has this attitude been phony orchestra, drew but it An interesting sidelight of Doctor Sears' in- auditorium disastrous in its effect upon instruction terpretation of his peat-pollen evidence is that ence seen in the university has also condemned to hack-work teaching the climatic changes indicated for this country for years . "More than a thousand listen- many a man whose talents should have been agree rather well with those shown for Europe ers sat as though charmed" according to devoted solely to advanced students and re- in the same period by the method of counting an account of the production in the Ok- search . on research is mud laminations or "varves" in the bottom of lahoma Daily, student newspaper . It is not that the emphasis ancient glacial lakes. unwarranted ; college professors agree that, with- This method which has permitted the count- The soloists were Wilda Griffin, '27, out research or some other recognized form of ing of years with almost calendar exactness Norman, soprano; Miriam Dearth, grad- scholarly activity on the part of the teacher, it since the great glaciation in northern Europe, uate student, Bartlesville, mezzo-soprano; is impossible successfully to conduct instruction depends upon the fact that the melting of ice Farl A. VirDen, associate professor of on a college level. is faster in summer than in winter . This pro- It is, rather, that the instructional program duces a series of layers, alternatively light and voice, tenor; and Adrian Wynnobel, as- has been neglected. Departments that main- dark in the mull at the bottom of glacial lakes. sociate professor of voice, baritone. tain a balanced emphasis on research and teach- Each pair means one year ; relatively thick ones Lewis S. Salter, '17, professor of music ing find that their advanced work and re- mean warm years; thin ones cold seasons. education and piano, played the piano search actually profit because their elementary Varve-counts have been keyed or correlated professor of vio- courses are more effectively taught . in Europe over a wide territory by comparing and Paul S. Carpenter, At Ohio State University the department of the sequences of thick and thin laminae, and by lin, acted as concert master and directed botany, with the help of testing experts from this means the full story of the years in which the .orchestra . R . H. Richards, director the college of education, has conducted experi- the ice front was retreating from northern Ger- of the choral club, had the responsibility ments for nearly a decade upon the teaching of . The original many to extinction in upper Scandinavia has of binding the parts into a well organ- the elementary college course been revealed . Similar clay counts are now be- purpose was to better adapt the work to the ing made in this country by Dr . Ernest Antevs ized interpretation. needs of the 93 per cent of the students who and other scientists . Doctor Sears believes that, "Requiem" was written by Giuseppe (to not go on with botany . Not only has this when they have finished their work, the evi- Verdi in 1870 in commemoration of the result been attained, but it has also been found dence of the varves will compare closely with death of Manzoni, Italy's literary genius . that the course is a much better preparation that of his peat count and fossil pollen study. than it formerly was for those who continue Only one other method of telling prehistoric It was sung entirely in Latin. their work in the subject. exceeds these two in exactness. This is the Many are coming to believe that academic method of counting the annual rings in trees, Teaching methods departments must have men on their staffs who and in the hands of experts it gives results ex- are experts in matters of teaching as well as in act almost to the year . By this method the Dr. Homer L. Dodge, dean of the their subjects . To such men the guidance of settlements of the pueblo Indians have been graduate school, reported in December prospective teachers will in the future be dele- dated, even back to the time of their prede- his findings in a survey of many Ameri- gated. It will come to be recognized that a cessors, the Basket-maker people, 3,000 years colleges and universities to discover reasonable amount of time spent in substan- can tial courses in education and in acquiring train- ago. and had features of modern Unfortunately, however, this ructhod is use- the good ing in the methods of teaching a given sub- ful only for dating peoples who used trees in college teaching . The survey was made ject is an essential part of the prospective teach building permanent houses, and the houses for the American Association of Univer- er's program. 1933 The Sooner Magazine 135

Both candidates selected by the Oklahoma state committee of selec tion were elected Rhodes scholars by the Gulf states regional committee Decem- ber 14 at New Orleans. Only four states in the na- tion were so fortunate. Both scholars were from the University of Oklahoma On the immediate right is David St. Clair, of Norman . a double degree man, who takes his B. A. deqree in English mid-semester and his B. S. in geology at the end of the summer session . At the extreme riqht is Jack Fischer, '32journ, of Amarillo, Texas, former ed- itor of The Oklahoma Daily and now a reporter on the Oklahoman of Oklahoma City. Both men are Phi Beta Kappa members. Mr St. Clair rowed in his pre- paratory school days

In this picture the department or college of ate school but between the lower half and up- structure and in the actual work of the class- education appears in its rightful place. In the per half of undergraduate college work . room . field of technical education it will continue to Recognition of these facts through adminis- function as a subject-matter department or as trative reorganization will, in the opinion of a professional college. In the field of teacher- many, go far toward opening the way for a The Logan scholarships training it will be a service department to which better adaptation of materials and methods of Dave Logan, '16as, of Okmulgee, state students can be sent for courses in educational instruction to the needs of the student. The senator, has provided an psychology, unusual and philosophy of education, the Ameri- lower division or "college" will be concerned can valuable scholarship foundation known educational system and similar basic sub- with the student as well as with subject-matter . jects. as the University Scholarship Founda- Since these years will mark for many people As has been demonstrated by extensive the end of all formal education, and for others tion, which will administer the Logan studies and experiments made at the University will be the preparation for specialized training, Apartments at the corner of Boyd street of Minnesota, Ohio State University and other they should be devoted to the fundamentals of institutions, and Lahoma avenue in Norman in the moreover, the solution of many general education and should emphasize especi- educational problems interest of aiding worthy students . can result from ally the understanding of the larger problems coopera-ative studiesmadebyacademic professorsand of the society in which the student is to live in The Foundation is incorporated with educationists . order that he may play his part intelligently as the following board: R . W. "Bcp" Hut- Another very definite obstacle to the im- an educated man. In such a program success- provement to, '10as, president of the Security Na- of college teaching will be removed ful teaching, as the word is commonly under- as tional bank of Norman ; Bert Baggett, soon as it is generally recognized that the stood, will naturally be emphasized . present assistant administrative organization of higher Those students who go to the professional cashier of the bank ; Dr. Leon- education is badly in need o£ revision . In the school or to advanced and graduate work will ard Logan, '14as, and W. K. Newton, past, at a time when graduate schools were a be a highly selected group, capable of adapting both members of the college relatively new of business thing and when the high school themselves to the type of instruction given by marked administration faculty; and W. D. Grisso the end of education for all but a professors whose major interest is, and should highly selected group, of Seminole, formerly president of the the four-year college pro- be, in subject matter and research . The spirit gram. was regarded as a natural unit . of the graduate school will extend into and Dad's Association. But experience is clearly demonstrating that vitalize the work which is given in the last two The purpose is stated in the charter to a large portion of high school graduates are not years of what is now considered undergraduate be "the educational, benevolent and able to profit by the four-year college program . work . Two charitable purpose of encouraging schol- years of college work, especially adapted It is impossible to discuss here all the im- to their needs, could be made a more effective plications involved in such a reorganization . It arship in the University of Oklahoma by preparation for life . is substantially the plan which is being tried at aiding worthy and deserving students in On the other hand, it has been found that the University of Chicago, apparently with securing educational advantages by pro- four years of college work is insufficient for marked success. those of viding scholarships which will enable superior ability who are preparing for College professors are beginning to expect careers in which training commensurate with the same evolution and progress in instruction such worthy and deserving students to the modern expansion of knowledge is requir- that the\, find, and help to produce, in their remain in school until the completion of ed . In fact, many students are now being told own particular fields of study. When college their education : that they should not consider specializing in cer- professors take a truly experimental attitude tain fields "To own and hold real and personal unless they can go at least as far as toward their teaching and remember that they the property master's degree . This means, then, that are teachers as well as chemists, historians and and to rent, lease and other- the natural dividing line is not between the philologists, the way will be opened to many wise use the same for the purpose of se- senior year of college and the present gradu- improvements both in the general educational curing funds with which to endow, es- 136 The Sooner Magazine February tablish and pay the aforementioned schol- all journalism majors, says H. H. Herb- Blanchard and Daisybelle Dunn, and Louis maintain operate the school . Bond and Eloise Warford, Electra, Texas. arships; to and all such ert, director of Bryan Cole and Dortha Love, James experienced Gwin real or personal property as may be ac- Under the direction of an and Mary Ozmen, Robert Pollard and Doris quired by said corporation either by pur- printer, A. C. Smith, assistant professor Medberry, Wilmer Ragsdale and Dorothy Henry, chase, grant, devise bequest or gift, and of journalism, the class, including three Laurence Elderkin and Marian Hauck, Laurence any students, is learning the elemen- Swansberger and Mary Carter, Dolph Shults and to apply all of the net profits from women Addie Williams, Thomas Munson and and all such transactions to the afore- tary facts about the linotype, different Bobbie Bowling, and Wayne Stephens and Jane Browne. mentioned endowment, establishment kinds of presses, setting type by hand, Ed Ellis and Upshaw Jones, Samuel Stillis and and payment of educational scholarships making up a page, use of mats, and job Elizabeth Plaster, Doyle Todd and Virginia and such other educational, benevolent printing. Todd, Paul Wilson and Janice Young, Claude Bless, Okemah, and Carolyn Shaw, Alfred and charitable acts as may be consonant Wearing the usual printers' aprons, Todd and Eloise Cheryholmes, Harold Kirton and with the purposes for which this cor- members of the class go down to the shop Virginia Kraettli, Douglas Bell and Betty poration is formed." of the Oklahoma Daily, student news- Scbeble, Bobby Clark and Martha Jane Dowell, Mr Logan erected his apartment build- paper, for an hour's practical experience and C. L. Holmes and Jessie German . Engleman and Jean ing, said to be the finest in Norman, in following each hour spent in the journ- Charles Garnett, John Fortson and Virginia Klein, Merton Muson, 1929. Recently, the apartment building alism classroom. Lawton, and Louise Pierce, Anadarko ; Mr and has not been able to show a reasonable Smith is a former member of the print- Mrs Carlton Wright, Oklahoma City ; and Mr profit as a commercial institution, Mr ers' union and has owned his own print- and Mrs Lynden Mannen . Others attending were Jack Sutherland, Logan states; and since this is the case, ing shops in Texas, besides holding ed- Tom Ashton, J. R. Settle, Millard Sinclair, Ted he believes that the Foundation can pay itorial positions on city dailies. Fisher, Thomas Hunter, Earl Sneed, Bruce Mil- out the remaining debts on the building ler, Clarence Birney, Robert Kutz, Gordon in a few more years, since it will be tax Faculty Watts, William Bollinger, George Herr, Jim Hopkins, Denver Meacham, Clyde Hightower, exempt, and then, with the title clear, be Dr. Homer L. Dodge, dean of the and Jacob Collar . used for students alone. During the per- graduate school, underwent a minor op- James Hamill, Thomas Weise, William Hew- iod when the remainder of the debt is eration late in December at St. Anthony's itt, Robert Reeder, Rupert McClung, Charles Davis, Denny Falkenberg, William to be retired, the apartments will be hospital in Oklahoma City. Majors, Wil- rented either to tenants already occupy- lard Gurley, Robert Biedleman, Dudley Culp, A. C. Gregory, member of the staff Richard Bryant, Fred Dunlevy, Kenneth Alfred, ing them or to other persons, but a num- of the University Press, was elected wor- Jack Highley, Clay Underwood, William Per- ber of apartments will be available at shipful master of the Norman Masonic ryman, Richard Carpenter and Jack Rivers . once for worthy students, married stu- Lodge Monday, December 5, 1932. Ace Bailey, Orval Hill, Jack Nunnery, John A. Croom, Ray Will, George Menninger, Ir- dents preferred. Dr. Jennings J. Rhyne, director of the win Tucker, Bennett Anderson, Berkley Woods, There are twenty four apartments in school of social service, attended the Joe Travis, Wilson Mahone, Ross Taylor, Joe the building. Most of these are rented . twenty sixth annual meeting of the Mills, Carey Maupin, Harry Lambert, Melvin The first Logan Scholars were Mr and American Sociological society in Cincin- Stilwell and William Throckmorton. the uni- And Bob Black, Glen Manning, Joe Fitz- Mrs Ernie Hill, both students in nati December 28-31 . patrick, Gerald Erdman, Warren Sherman and versity. Dr. Henry D. Rinsland, '20as, '24M.A., Arthur Ramsey, all of Oklahoma City. associate professor of education in the col- WNAD plays lege of education, is the only Oklahoman Class of '33 arch the American National broadcasting experts were re- invited to speak before A stone arch costing approximately Educational Research Association meet- porting to the university radio station $500 will be erected on the south side ing at Minneapolis, Minnesota, in Feb- WNAD on the three best plays of Brooks street entrance to the campus, ruary. Doctor Rinsland's subject is submit-tedintheradioplaycontestsponsored as the senior class memorial this year, it "Techniques of Validating English by the station. The judges were C. L. was decided at a late class meeting. Tests." Menser, director of dramatics for the Na- The class voted to assess each member Dr. Forrest E. Clements, head of the tional Broadcasting Company of Chi- a fee of fifty cents to pay for the memor- department of anthropology, represented cago; Don Clark, continuity editor for ial . If $450 is raised by the assessment the state at an archaeology conference of the Columbia Broadcasting System of plan the university will furnish the rest southeastern states held in Birmingham, New York ; Vida Sutton, of the NBC; of the fund as it did last year, according Alabama, December 19 to 21. Merrill Dennison of Toronto, Canada; to W. W. Kraft, superintendent of uni- and W. V. O'Connell, head of the de- versity utilities. partment of speech of the East Central State Teachers College. The plays final- GRADUATES IN EMBRYO Marco millions ly selected will be broadcast by WNAD, The first O'Neill drama presented on then sent in mimeographed form to the Acacia formal entertained with its the campus, Marco Millions, will be the members of the National Association of Acacia fraternity next production of the University Play- College and University Broadcasting Sta- formal dance at the chapter house Friday house, February 10 and 11 . Production tions, while the NBC has been granted night, December 2, 1932. Chaperones Maude K. Thomas, Mr and staff has been announced and costumes permission to reproduce them in its were Mrs and Dr. and Mrs are being made, while the play itself is Magic Speech hour. Mrs Emil R. Kraettli, Lloyd E. Swearingen. The Ramblers shaping up steadily under the direction orchestra played. of Profesor L. A. Hayden . Newspaper typography Dates follow: William Wylie, Norman, is to be stage Students graduating from the Univer- John Stewart and Jane Von Storch, Ed Bart- manager with Walter Ainsworth, Cam- sity ley and Frances Ray, Don Porter and Gayle den, Arkansas, as assistant. Properties of Oklahoma school of journalism Walker, McCorkle, James Ray and Lina Jane are to be handled by Georgia Ledbetter, in the future will be at home in the me- Frank Ittner and Frances Swigert, George Ver- chanical departments as well as in the ity and Grace Carr, Robert Blase and Virginia Norman and J. C. Skinner, Oklahoma front offices of a newspaper. Ruth Gentry, Leslie Hamm and Betty Bach- City. A class in newspaper typography and told, Paul Battenburg and Virginia Parriss, and Costumes will be made by Iva Jewel W. C. Alston and Barbara Pickrel. Rone, Walters; Marjorie Clevenger, mechanics is being taught for the first Ray Autry and Mary Morton, John Zwick time this semester, and beginning next and Gwen Wilson, James Wilson and Ruby Longview, Texas ; June Marie Williams, semester this course will be required of Cole, Austin Stough and Naoma Morris, Joy Oklahoma City; Phyllis Seago, Dearfield, The Sooner Magazine 137

linois, Garnet Bee Wright, Chicago, Il- manding the investigation which Mr Union suit ois; Grace Ferry, Oklahoma City; Eliz- Conner had proposed to the state legis- The state supreme court heard oral th Amis, Roswell, New Mexico ; Ef- lature . Although the council prohibits arguments January 17 on the protest of Jean Pulliam, Ardmore; and Elizabeth the use of proxies in such cases, the a number of law school students protest- inclair, Houston, Texas. proxy of a seventh member was cast and ing the payment of the $2.50 fee to the A crew of ten will be in charge of the the resolution was approved. Later, Mr Oklahoma Union. ighting effects. Members of the crew Stamper, said to be a close personal friend will be Irene Shaul, Norman; Odile of Mr Miskovsky, went with Mr Conner Abrams daily editor to Oklahoma City, taking Burroughs, Oklahoma City; Bob Nep- with him the Samuel K. Abrams of Guthrie, for- ne, Bartlesville ; Herman Zeimer, Yale; copy of the resolution which was the merly editor of the Capitol Hill Beacon orgia Ledbetter, Norman; Iva Jewel only copy at hand . Mr Stamper then of Oklahoma City, was elected editor of Rone, Walters; Virginia Cavitt, Oklaho- told Oklahoma City newspapers the ac- The Oklahoma Daily January 16 by the tion of the council reflected ma City; Trina Osburn, Tishomingo ; the will of publishing board to succeed Mrs Chris- the James Hawk, Norman; and Charles Mus- student body. tine Squire Hill, '33journ., of Norman, son, Norman. The action of the council aroused con- who was ineligible for the second semes- The cast includes Emily Stephenson, siderable protest on the part of students ter under the four-year activity rule. Miss and was roundly Anadarko ; Joe Callaway, Ardmore ; Mar- condemned as a Nan Reardon of Ardmore was elected usurpation cus Cohn, Tulsa; Fred Wheeler, Oklaho- of authority by univer- business manager of the Whirlwind to ma City; Irene Shaul, Norman; Merwin sity administrative officers . Following succeed R. H. Parham of Norman. Mr a petition by a majority of the lwell, Fairview; and William Lee, Dal- council, Abrams has been managing editor of the as, Texas. a resolution was adopted, proposed by Daily. Ralph Cissne of Oklahoma City, that the Lon Manar, McAlester, has been as- original resolution be interpreted as one Expert gunner badges signed a position new on the staff of the of confidence in the Thirty six field artillery badges for three organizations Daily, that of critic of books, plays and referred rating of expert gunner were awarded to and that this being the case, motion pictures. first year men last semester . The rating the council welcomed any investigation. Other names are: judged by standards of the United Twelve members voted for Mr Cissne's is Ervin Lewis, Tulsa, managing editor; army for three years college. resolution, President Stamper voting States in John Fortson, Tecumseh, city editor; against it. Those winning the badges are: Ralph Sewell, Oklahoma City, Frank D. Ashby, Stuart Brady, Nicholas Mr Stamper stated that his statement assistant city editor; Ralph Roberts, Norman, news Corff, C. V. Gannaway, Samuel M. Hoisington, to the newspapers was solely that of an Vern James, Jack Rushing, Oscar Smith and editor; Frank Culwell, Norman, sports individual and that he still wanted to Mal Wynne, all of Norman. editor; and Patsy Truscott, Norman, know where the money went. Herman William Bradburn, John Marik, Doren Shu- women's . bert, William Timmons, and Charles Worley, Greenhaw of Hobart, although voting for editor all of Oklahoma City ; Bert Barefoot, Max Hick- Mr Cissne's resolution, said he wanted Five special writers appointed are Dale ey, Wade La Boon and Robert Yeaton, all of an investigation. Rupert McClung of Clark, Sand Springs; Don Morrison, Chickasha. Waurika ; Roy Hickox, Oklahoma City; Clifton Bell ; Leo A. Bell, Cement ; Elmer Trinidad, Colorado, declared that a ma- Cain, Ringling ; Peter Campbell, Temple ; Dale jority of the council wanted the original Dale Moody, Cushing; and Hal Galla- Clark, Sand Springs; Mark Debakey, Drum- action of the six members and one proxy way, Vernon, Texas. right; Lemiel Dysart, Tipton ; Delmar Holleman, rescinded, and protested against "rail- Frederick; Ray Holloway, Collinsville ; James Killingsworth, Seminole ; Lows Moody, Tulsa; roading" the resolution demanding the William Roberts, Ardmore; Homer Wheeler, investigation. SPORTS OF ALL SORTS Sallisaw ; Earnest Beall, San Antonio, Texas; Free throwing Andy James A. Johnson, Buet, Texas; Luther Smith, Oratorical broadcast Dallas, Texas; Irving Weinstein, Houston, Tex- Influenza may have slowed up Andy Radio station WNAD will broadcast as ; and Earnest DiLorenzo, Brooklyn, New Beck, University of Oklahoma basketball York. the state peace oratorical contest Febru- ary 24. Joe Jackson of Sulphur will rep- "ace," just before the Kansas game but it couldn't keep him from hitting sixty "Welcome" or "Demand" resent the University of Oklahoma in two consecutive free throws the first day The celebrated men's council under the contest. WNAD has a frequency of he reported for practice after his illness, the direction of Joe Stamper, '35law, of 1100 kilocycles. the wildest shooting orgy railbirds at the Clayton, president, has voted : Fieldhouse have seen in years. a demand an investigation of the Continues loan of drill To Beck stood calmly at the foul line and University Press, the Oklahoma Union A diamond core drilling machine used poured the leather through the iron ring and the "cap and gown" committee. last year in the school of engineering will so regularly that it seemed the goal was b To interpret the resolution as one to be used again this year under the super- a magnet for the ball . As Beck kept welcome" such an investigation as pro- vision of John Q. St. Clair. The machine hitting, the news went around the Field- posed by Leslie Conner, '27law, of Ok- is owned by John, George and David St. house and soon players and spectators lahoma City, after Mr Stamper had told Clair who allow the university the use alike formed a group around the goal to Oklahoma City newspapers that the of it to assist engineering students to watch him shoot. council represented all students in de- obtain actual experience in core drilling . manding the investigation. The first action was taken when Mr Alpha Chi Sigma officers Wrestling meets Conner, who represented George Miskov- Alpha Chi Sigma, National chemistry Six dual matches and the Big Six con- sky, '35law, former president of the fraternity, elected the following officers ference tournament are on the wrestling men's council, in an unsuccessful effort at its annual banquet January 16: Wil- schedule of the University of Oklahoma to get Mr Miskovsky re-instated in the liam Patterson of Norman, president; this season, Ben G. Owen, Sooner ath- university after the student conduct com- Albert Schaefer of Mountain View, vice letic director, has announced. mittee had rusticated him for a year, ap- president; Jackson Sickels of Norman, Coach Paul V. Keen's Sooners meet peared before six members of the coun- secretary ; James Stephens of Norman, the three strongest teams in Oklahoma cil recently and presented them a resolu- corresponding secretary; and Robert besides themselves, engaging Coach Joe tion, according to newspaper reports, de- Florence of Antlers, treasurer. Milam's Southwestern Bulldogs here Jan- 138 The Sooner Magazine February uary 20, Coach Raymond Swartz's Cen- ing the 1931 season he used the Western The Sooners will meet Vanderbilt, tral Bronchos here February 3, and wrest- Roll and although his jumps weren't Iowa State, Kansas and Oklahoma A. ling two meets with Coach Ed Galla- questioned in the big meets, they would and M. at Owen Field here and Tulsa, gher's Oklahoma Aggies. be rulled illegal in the smaller meets. He Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas State The Sooner wrestling schedule for could jump higher with his old form abroad. Excepting Iowa State and Mis- 1933 : than the new one he was obliged to learn. souri all these teams were formidable last January 20-Southwestern at Norman. ALFRED HOWELL-Wasn't as strong as year and probably will be so again next January 28-Freshmen at Norman. most weight throwers and consequently season . And Missouri defeated Okla- February 3-Central at Norman. depended upon speed and leg power for homa 14 to 6 here last year. February 17-Oklahoma Aggies at his distance. Used the standard forms , starting his second Norman. in both the shot and discus . season as coach at Oklahoma, has lost February 24-Missouri at Norman. Young, Curnutt, Watkins and Cherry March 2, 3-Big Six Tournament at Drake in 0. C. Booster from his line, Walker and Simms from Manhattan, Kansas. Bruce Drake, greatest basketball play- his backfield, and also Orin "Red" Borah, March 10-Oklahoma Aggies at Still- er ever developed at the University of veteran kickeroff, from a squad that al- water. Oklahoma in the opinion of many, and ready was depleted by lack of reserves, now physical education instructor at the yet expects to draw liberally from a large On honor roll university, has returned to the lineup of freshmen turnout and to conduct what Despite the fact it was an Olympic the Oklahoma City Boosters of the Mis- will be Oklahoma's first extensive spring year and achievement therefore was all souri Valley A. A. U. league for his practice . the more difficult, the University of Ok- eighth consecutive year since graduating Vanderbilt, Oklahoma's first foe, went lahoma track and field team will be rep- from Oklahoma City high school in 1925. undefeated this year until its final resented in six events in the National With Drake in the lineup, feeding and Thanksgiving game with Alabama. The Collegiate Honor Roll published in shooting immaculately, the Boosters won Commodores tied the powerful Ten- Spalding's guide, Coach John Jacobs has both games he has played in, defeating nessee and Tulane teams. Moreover been notified by Major John L. Griffith, Baylor university, Southwest conference Vanderbilt landed four men, Gracey, editor of the Athletic Journal. champions, 48 to 17, and the Albert Talley, Leyendecker and Roberts, on the Sooner performances that rated were : Cleaners, 51 to 23. all-Southern team selected by the coaches. Clifford Mell's 21 .1 seconds for the 220- Other former Sooner players on the Tennessee and Alabama were the only yard dash at Manhattan, Kansas, April roster of the Boosters this season are Har- other schools rating as many as two 16; Mell's 24 feet 1 1/8 inches in the broad ry Pinkerton, '27; Gordon Graalman, places. jump made at Norman April 9; Harold '32 ; and Charles Grady, '32 . In Tulsa the Sooners are meeting a Morris' 24 feet 5 inches in the broad powerful aggregation that has not lost jump made at Norman, May 26; Bill R. I. P. a game on its home grounds at Skelly de- Newblock's 6 feet 4 inches in the high Joe Burleson's O. U. Sandwich Shop, field since the Sooners themselves jump June 11 at Chicago; Alfred How- which has furnished employment to Uni- feated them in a charity game at Tulsa ell's 48 feet 4 inches in the shot put at versity of Oklahoma athletes for the past two years ago, 20 to 7. Coach Elmer "Golden Hurricane" lost Lincoln, Nebraska, May 6; and Howell's five years, closed its doors recently and Henderson's 7 146 feet 9 inches in the discus May 27 now thirty of the university's best var- but one game this past year, the 0 to at Norman. sity and freshmen athletes are wondering defeat to the Sooners. Mell's 21.1 seconds for the furlong is where their next meal is coming from. An Oklahoma victory over Texas for since 1919 is scented by the second fastest ever made by an Ok- Joe saw the handwriting on the wall the first time Lit- lahoman, being surpassed only by Frank some time ago and although he fired his Sooner fans in 1933. Coach Clyde McCoy's mark of 21 seconds flat made cook and did the frying and stewing tlefield loses backs like Koy, Stafford, Hodges and Clewis and linesmen such at Guthrie back in 1901 . McCoy also himself, the depression was still too DuBose and attended the University of Oklahoma. much for him. Most of the thirty ath- as Blanton, Cook, Moody, Texas At Griffith's request Coach Jacobs letes were waiters or dish washers a t Price. Defeated only 17 to 10 by en- contributed the following form descrip- Joe's place. He had never used any help last year, Oklahoma apparently will the 1933 Dallas game with an even tions of each Sooner making the honor except athletes. ter roll : Last spring Dr. V. E. Monnett, presi- chance to win. his CLIFFORD MELL-doesn't hitchkick but dent of the university's athletic council, Coach Adrian Lindsey will bring No- uses the old leg swing method, and gets declared that Burleson had done more improved Kansas team to Norman Home- his distance by means of burning speed for Sooner athletics than any other per- vember 4th for the annual Sooner Lind- and strong determination. Did his best son in the school's modern sports history. coming day contest. Inasmuch as 1927- broadjumping when in best condition to Some of the greatest athletes ever de- sey coached at Oklahoma from 1931, resigning only eight months ago, run a 440-yard dash. Although a broad- veloped at Oklahoma formerly worked Kansas jumper by trade, Mell was fast at any at Joe's, men like Bus Mills, Frank interest will run high for the measure distance from 50 yards through 600 Crider, Hardie Lewis, Bob Dunlap, THE mentor will be keen to take the Hard- yards. In 1931 he won the 600-yard Roberts, Spot Gentry, Hilary Lee, Elton of the new Sooner mentor, Lewie Shannon Douglass cup race at Kansas Eubanks, Swede Ellstrom, Al Mayhew age. City from the best middle distance men and others. The Nebraska game at Lincoln October in the Big Six conference. 28 will be a terrific one for the Sooners HAROLD MORRIS-uses the hitchkick 1933 football season despite their great showing against the form and was an effective broad jumper With Coach Dan McGugin bringing Cornhuskers here last fall, Nebraska win- for the additional reason he developed his strong eleven ning only 5 to 0 the week after she ran his stamina by running the quarter in to Norman September 30 for the first Pitt all over the field. The 1932 game high school. intersectional football game ever played marked the first time in the twelve Ok- BILL NEWBLOCK-uses a modified roll by the Sooners at home, the University lahoma-Nebraska games that Nebraska form and had lots of action while in the of Oklahoma football schedule for 1933 failed to score a touchdown. air, owing to the variety of forms he is both strong and attractive, Athletic Either Coach "Bo" McMillin's smooth- was obliged to experiment with. Dur- Director Ben G. Owen believes . running Kansas Aggie eleven, which re-

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Coach Paul Keen's tains both Graham and Russell, or Coach five, a National A. A. U. tournament dual meet against February Lynn Waldorf's Oklahoma Aggies, al- game in 1931, McBride's Oklahoma col- University of Oklahoma squad ways a well coached team with plenty legians won by eight points . 24, it has ben announced by Ben G. Owen, athletic director . of reserves, are apt to take the measure will have no bearing on of the Sooners in the last two games of Athletic receipts This match the season . The Sooners will rest the With net receipts from athletics de- the Big Six conference championship, Saturday before they play the Aggies. creasing $19,259.34 from the preceding since that title is not decided by a round- Oklahoma's 1933 schedule : school year, an excess of expenses over robin this year, but rather by a confer- September 30-Vanderbilt at Norman . income of only $7,702 .87 was shown in ence tournament to be held at Ames, (Boy Scout day.) the financial report of the University of Iowa, March 3 and 4. October 7-Tulsa at Tulsa. Oklahoma athletic association for the Dallas October 14-Texas at . A proud addition 21-Iowa State at Norman . twelve months ending June 30, 1932, October of (Dad's day.) Ben G. Owen, athletic director, an- Cy Sherman, veteran sports scribe October 28-Nebraska at Lincoln. nounces. the Lincoln (Nebraska) Star, thinks the November 4-Kansas at Norman . In 1931-32 the amount available for Oklahoma-Vanderbilt football game, to (Homecoming) be played at Norman September 30, November 11-Missouri at Columbia. athletics and physical education, after the November 18-Kansas State at Manhattan. deduction of guarantees to visiting teams, 1.933, is not only a valuable addition to November 30-Oklahoma Aggies at Norman . was only $54,699.56, as against $78,232.- the Sooner schedule but that Nebraska (Thanksgiving.) 90 during the school year 1930-31 . or any other Big Six school would be The report showed that every varsity proud to meet the Commodores. Illegal jump sport at Oklahoma decreased its expenses Writing in the January issue of the John Jacobs, University of Oklahoma in comparison with 1930-31 . Football Star, Sherman said : track coach, opposes the present inter- reduced its expenses from $37,476.73 to Vanderbilt is nne of the leaders of southern collegiate high jump rule. $25,712.67, basketball from $8,284 .99 to football, a school of fine reputation in academic The part of the rule that Mr Jacobs $5,361 .42, track from $5,263 .86 to $4,- circles whose head coach, Dan McGugin, is objects to describes an illegal jump as outranked in the years he has served his in- 306.13, wrestling from $2,956 .96 to $2,- stitution by only two mentors in the nation, one in which the competitor dives or 173 .06, baseball from $2,375 .29 to $1,- Stagg at Chicago and Yost at Michigan. somersaults over the bar or jumps in 847.13, and tennis from $844.15 to $503 .- McGugin's regime at Vandy had its beginning under Yost at such a manner that his head crosses in 67. Maintenance expenses were re- in 1904, after he had played advance of both feet. Michigan in the "point a minute" days . The duced from $10,553 .14 to $4,126 .07, the high reputation of McGugin does not rest alone "I don't think there should be any rules report showed. on his ability to produce winning teams. More in the high jump except that you have The total reduction in expenses of the important is the fact that McGugin's hold on high-jumping standards, a cross bar and association in 1931-32 was $22,602 .99, of the affections of his old players is so strong that they are sending their sons to Vandy-and level ground to take off," says Jacobs . which $10,200 was applied on the sta- don't think a man can go as high off that tells the real story of why Dan McGugin "h dium-union bonds. No bond pa}ment is a great coach. of both feet as he can off one, therefore was made in 1930-31. he should be permitted to get over the Football and basketball were the only Frank Long's record bar any way he wishes as long as he sports which showed an excess of income Frank M. Long, back in 1907 a jumps between the standards and doesn't over expenses, and in the case of basket- Uni-versityofOklahomatackleandhalf- use a vaulting pole. In my opinion the ball the margin was very small, $169.52 . miler, still maintains excellent physical strict Western Roll is a dive, according The report for 1931-32 : condition despite the fact that he is nearly to the present rule." ' GENERAL. STATEMENT fifty years old. " 1931-32 A dispatch from Porto Alegre, Brazil, A strong prospect Receipts $72,424.82 where Long is Y. M. C. A. general sec- Floyd McBride, Oklahoma's all-Mis- Expenses 80,127.69 retary, discloses the information that the souri Valley conference forward of 1924, Excess of expenses over income 7,702.87 former Sooner won first place in an all- whose East Central college five defeated INCOME AND EXPENSES around sports test with younger athletes, the Sooners 32 to 25 at Ada is the best Income *Expenses scoring 93 points. His son, James, aged young basketball coaching prospect in Football $48,626.71 $25,712 .67 15, was second in the contest with 50 the midwest, even better than Hank Iba, Basketball 5,530.94 5,361 .42 points. The elder Long ran the 880- famous mentor of the Marysville, Mis- Track 1,380.15 4,306.13 yards in 2 :59 on a six-lap track, among souri Teachers, his friends at the Uni- Wrestling 1,031 .98 2,173 .06 other feats. versity of Oklahoma believe. Baseball 598 .10 1,847.13 In October, 1931, Long was a member McBride's East Central college quintets Tennis 350.42 503.67 of the Porto Alegre 10-kilometer relay of Ada, have lost but one game in the Swimming 128.58 team, running his kilometer in excellent past four years in the Oklahoma Col- Intramurals 201 .99 time. legiate conference, and have an offensive Student tickets 14,156.50 average of right at 50 points a game over Maintenance and Speaker McDermott the four-year span. They averaged 54.4 improvements 4,126.07 Hugh McDermott, '20as, basketball points per game in 1931. Administration 25,556 .97 coach, was a guest of honor January 17, Moreover the Ada teams, under Mc- Applied on stadium- at Duncan, where twenty years ago he Bride, always have done well at the na- union bonds 10,200.00 played guard on the Duncan high school tional A. A. U. tournament. In 1930 they Miscellaneous 750.02 1,903.26 five that won the first official state high won third place, losing only to the cham- school championship awarded by the Ok- pion Wichita Henrys, 22 to 27. That $72,424.82 $80,127.69 lahoma High School Athletic association. year East Central had the tournament's *Expenses include guarantees to visiting McDermott, Athletic Director Ben G. high scorer in Bart Carleton, forward, teams. Owen, Alumni Secretary Frank Cleckler, who made the All-American team. In and Football Coaches Lewie Hardage and 1931 they went to the quarter finals. Missouri wrestlers John "Bo" Rowland all drove to Dun- In the only meeting between Iba's University of Missouri wrestling team can where Owen and McDermott made Marysville team and the East Central will invade the Fieldhouse here for a short speeches at the dedication of Dun- 140 The Sooner Magazine February can high school's new basketball court. Denzel Carr After the ceremony Duncan lost the ded- '22ex, master of languages, ication basketball game to Lawton . has left Poland to become Back in 1913, Duncan, a small city of professor of Chinese gram- approximately 2,000 people, developed a mar in the University of high school basketball team that won Leyden, Holland the state championship, defeating Okla- homa City high school in the finals of the state tournament. March and Fuqua at forward, McCasland at center, and Whisenant and McDermott at guards, comprised the team. Three members of this team later at- tended the University of Oklahoma and each of them captained a Sooner basket- ball team before his graduation, McCas- land in 1915 and 1916, Whisenant in 1917 and McDermott in 1918.

Tennis prospects With Albert Rollins, of Okmulgee, state high school champion, enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, Sooner ten- nis prospects for 1933, '34 and '35 picked up considerably . Although he won't become eligible un- til 1934, Rollins is a splendid player and with development should make the of record-breakers for some time, it is be- Javelin-208.2 1/2, by Arthur Cox, 1925 . Sooners an "ace" who deserves to rank lieved. Decathlon-7,422.2846, by Tom Churchill, 1929 . with the greatest tennis players ever de- They are the javelin record of 208 feet veloped here, players such as Paul Dar- 2V2 inches made by Arthur Cox at Nor- RELAY EVENTS George rough, O'Connell, Ben Parks and man in 1925, the high jump mark of 6 440 yards-41 .9, by Don Adkison, Baker, Fred Royer. Hill and Mell, 1931 . feet 5%s inches set by Parker Shelby at John O. Moseley, Sooner tennis coach, Norman in 1930, and the 220-yard dash 880 yards-1 :27.6, by Don Adkison, Charles has set February 1 as the opening date Potts, Hill and Mell, 1931 . time of 21 seconds flat made 31 years Mile-3 :23 .3, by Taylor, John Hewitt,Ed-mondson andHeald, 1928. of Sooner tennis practice. All four let- ago by Frank McCoy at the old Terri- ter men from last year, Ray McPhail, torial Intercollegiate meet at Guthrie 1 7/8 mile medley-7 :37.2, by Taylor (440), Jim Sessions, Bill Harold Adkison (220), Carson (880), and Schofstall and hard- back in 1901. hitting Keith (mile) . Charlie Davis, are back in school, Glen Dawson, probably the most ver- as is Albert Upsher, promising sopho- 2 1/2 mile medley-10 :32 .6, by John Hewitt satile intercollegiate distance runner ever (440), Heald (880), Carson (1,320), and Keith more from Oklahoma City. developed in the nation, holds three out- (mile) . door track records and also the Nebraska Three greats course record for five miles in cross- Ties dash record Three former University of Oklaho- country. His mile record was set in a Whitley Cox, of Tulsa, University of ma track. "greats," Glen Dawson, dis- raging wind-storm at Lincoln, Nebraska, Oklahoma sophomore dash man, tied the tance runner ; Alfred "Hippo" Howell, and his two-mile mark at Stillwater af- world's indoor record for the 60-yard weight-tosser ; and Harold Adkison, dash ter he had tied a team mate for first in dash this week by clipping it off in 6.2 man ; are now in training for a swing the mile, consequently are not up to seconds on the Sooner indoor track be- around the circuit of indoor meets staged Dawson's best standard. neath the west wing of Memorial stadi- in the east in February. They plan to The Sooner outdoor records to 1933 : um. leave February 4 for New York City. INDIVIDUAL EVENTS Running with tremendous speed and 1924, Dawson is training at Skiatook, Adkison 100 yard dash-9 .7, by Ray Lindsey, acceleration, Cox defeated the best var- and Harold Adkison, 1928 . at Tulsa and Howell at Bartlesville . 200 yard dash-21, by Frank McCoy, 1901 . sity and freshmen dash men on the squad Dawson holds four University of Ok- 440 yard dash-49 .3, by Earl Flint, 1929 . by a yard and a half. If he can do that lahoma outdoor distance records, Howell 880 yard run--1 :57.3, by Karl Frank, 1925 . well in Big Six competition, he will be the school outdoor record for the shot Mile run-4:22, by Glen Dawson, 1931 . first at :33.2, by Glen Dawson, the great dash man developed and discus, and Adkison co-holder Two mile run-9 . is of 1931 . Oklahoma in more than two decades both the school 50-yard indoor record 3,000 meters run-8 :53.5, by Glen Dawson, and outdoor 100-yard mark. 1931 . Basketball Harold Parker Shelby, greatest high jumper 3,000 meters steeplechase-10 :9 .6, by January 2-Oklahoma 39, S. M. U. 31 Keith, 1928 . at Dallas. ever developed at the University, and 120 yard high hurdles-14 .9, by Ray Dun- January 3-Oklahoma 29, S. M. U. 31 now an architect at Los Angeles, where son, 1927. . he jumps for the Los Angeles Athletic 220 yard low hurdles-23 .7, by Jack Car- at Dallas club, may join them. men, 1929 . January 6-Oklahoma 25, Iowa State 31 Shot put-49 .1, by Alfred Howell, 1932 . at Ames, Iowa . Discus-146 .9, by Alfred Howell, 1932 . January 7-Oklahoma 28, Kansas State 16 These safe records Pole vault-13.1/4, by Johnie Bryce, 1929 . at Manhattan, Kansas . . University of Oklahoma outdoor High jump-6.5 5/8, by Parker Shelby, 1930 January 14-Oklahoma 25, Kansas 23 Three Morris, 1932 . Broad jump-24.5, by Harold at Norman . track and field records in the new list Hop step and jump-45.4 1/2, by Harold Mor- January 18-Oklahoma 39, Kansas State 36 Coach John Jacobs has compiled for 1933 ris, 1932 . are excellent enough to defy the attempts Hammer-137 .8, by Artie Reeds, 1909 . at Norman.