THE SOONER MAGAZINE May, 1933 OKLAHOMA ALUMNI NEWS Volume 5, Number 8
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IVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA I THE SOONER MAGAZINE May, 1933 OKLAHOMA ALUMNI NEWS Volume 5, Number 8 1933 by the University of Oklahoma Association. Entered as A News Magazine for University of Oklahoma graduates and second-class matter October 13, 1928 at the postoffice at former students published monthly except August and Sep- Norman, Oklahoma, under the act of March 3, 1879. Estab- tember by the University of Oklahoma Association, Oklahoma lished 1928. Joseph A. Brandt,'21journ, editor; George McElroy, Union Building, Norman, Oklahoma . Chester H. Westfall, `341aw, business manager; Betty Kirk,'29, John Joseph Mathews, '16journ., Ponca City, president; Frank S. Cleckler, '20, Dorothy Kirk,'23, Winifred Johnston,'24, Duane Roller,'23, '21bus, Norman, secretary-treasurer . Membership dues : An- Elgin E. Groseclose,'20, Leonard Good, '28, Muna Lee, '12, nual $3 of which $2 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE, Life George Milburn, '30, Harold Keith, '28, Ross Taylor, '31, $60 of which $40 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE . Copyright contributing editors. OFFICERS Neil R. Johnson, '15as, '17law, Norman, at large Chester H . Westfall, '16journ., Ponca City, President Dr. Ray M. Balyeat, `12as, '16sc, '18M.D., Oklahoma City, at large Lewis R. Morris, `15as, `171aw, '15MA, Oklahoma City, Vice Presi- Lee B. Thompson, '25as, `27law, Oklahoma City, at large dent. John Rogers, '14law, Tulsa, at large Shelley E. Tracy, 'l las, Dallas, Texas, Vice President Mrs Floy Elliott Cobb, '17as, Tulsa, first district Frank S Cleckler, '21bus, Norman, Secretary-Treasurer A. N. "Jack" Boatman, '15as, Okmulgee, second district Joseph A. Brandt, '21journ, Norman, Editor Hiram Impson, 15as, McAlester, third district 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, '14as, Tulsa, at large Dr. Lealon E. Lamb, '26sc, '28M.D., Clinton, seventh district Otto A. Brewer, '17as, '201aw, Hugo, at large Fritz L. Aurin, '14as, '15M.A., Ponca City, eighth district L klklll' ~! I Oklahomans at home and abroad ~liillIl ASSOCIATION PROGRESS in its efforts to encourage qualified ap- finding employment, but will be of great plicants to enter Cornell ; to enable stu- social value to the graduate who finds it Stadium-Union compromise dents from each section of the country necessary to live outside his home com- An agreement has been reached by to become better acquainted with the munity . the Stadium-Union Memorial board and students from their respective localities. "The second element is especially im- the bondholders whereby the board will "The first element of the plan is plain- portant today because Cornell, like other pay $250 in cash and interest due on ly important, in the light of current eco- American universities, is faced with a each $1,000 bond on a series of twenty- nomic difficulties . Together with the falling registration, and a situation is de- one now due and give a note for $750 recently-instituted placement service, it veloping in which it may be proposed to III10 on each bond signed by the Stadium- IHWO, will not only aid graduating students in lower the standards required for admis- Inll ~ 4111 Union Memorial board and the Athletic sion. Such a step would inevitably have Council payable December 1 . This will CONTENTS an unfortunate result . Researches con- mean that a total of $15,000 will be pay- Oklahomans at home and abroad 219 ducted by the University of Minnesota able December 1 ; this money is expect- reveal that the colleges and universities ed to be raised in part from past-due Sooner loyalty 227 By Leonard Logan,'14 of the country are just now, after two pledges and the balance from last years' years of economic Commencement-Homecoming 228 depression, sensing football receipts . The total amount pay- the industrial emergency as reflected in able during the next school year is $41,- Animal Psychology 228 their enrollment figures . Many institu- 820, making a grand total payable be- By M . 0. Wilson tions have tried to meet this exigency tween now and the end of the next See you in Norman? 230 by relaxing their entrance requirements school year of more than $56,000. The next biennium 231 and offering all sorts of inducements to Seward Sheldon 234 prospective students. Cornell's three point plan By Benton Ferguson, '31 "Cornell felt the effects of the depres- The Cornellian Council Bulletin for Inflation and business recovery 235 sion only last September when its reg- April contains an interesting account of By Arthur B. Adams istration fell by four per cent-less than an innovation planned at Cornell to se- Restless New York 237 most institutions, but still creating a ser- cure closer relationship between alumni By Winifred Johnston, '24 ious problem for an institution that is and students. This is known as the The province of the law 239 necessarily closely-budgeted . The obvious "Three-Point Plan" and an outline of it By Julien C. Monnet solution to the problem is to lower the follows : Faculty authors 240 entrance-bars, but this is a solution The Plan aims "to establish contact Grand opera and drama 245 which Cornell is not prepared to accept . with alumni clubs with a view to en- Instead, it has been decided By Savoie Lottinville,'29 to pursue abling new graduates to be re-introduced an intensive program with an end to Debate laurels 246 to their communities with definite Cor- securing a greater number of high-class nell relationships, which may prove help- By William H. Witt, '32 applicants . ful not only socially but economically ; Engineering purposes 247 "The alumni, by making an effort to to co-operate with the alumni Commit- Sooner roll call 250 interest young people of their acquaint- tee on Relations with Preparatory Schools Belles lettres and bell ringers 264 ance in coming to Cornell, can help the 220 The Sooner Magazine May IN THE HEADLINES Upper right--- Debaters in the Inter- national debate : left to right, A. 0. Johnson, Ok- lahoma, Alejandro Carrillo, Mexico, Neil Keller, Okla- homa, P. Jaime Montalbo, Mexico . The debaters of the Universidad Nacional de Mejico won the decis- ion, advocating abandon- ment of the Monroe Doc- trine Upper 'left- George B. Parker, '08as, editor-in- chief of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, of New York City, who is the first alum- nus chosen to deliver the Commencement address He will be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa at the an- nua! Phi Bete breakfast Extreme left -- George Coleman, jr., '31ex, of Mi- ami, Okl?homa, who won the 1933 outboard motor races in both Class B and Class C in Biscayne Bay, Florida, this spring. Mr Coleman's fleet swept the regatta, winning a $5,000 silver cup for the year. The photograph was made while Mr Coleman was in Florida His pilot averaged nearly forty-five miles an hour in the thrilling races Middle column, upper photograph-Roscoe Cate . '26 journ, city editor of The "Norman Transcript," who ranks among the best columnists of the state. In his column "The Press Box" Mr Cate adds distinguished 1933 The Sooner Magazine 221 personality to one of the zell, Prof. Walter S. Campbell, Prof . A. Robert OUR CHANGING VARSITY Ramey and Prof . Paul Eldridge . best newspaper friends of The music belonged to the occasion . Frances Education in the home the state university with Atwater Lindloff sang two Shakcspearian lyrics thoughtful comments on The child should be taught self-dis- set to music by Shubert, "Ilark, Hark, the and national prob- cipline in the home, President Bizzell Lark 1" and "Who Is Svlvia?" Professor local Charles Giard played two of his own composi- lems. Mr Cate is a former told the Norman Junior-Senior Parent- tions for the piano, "Puck" and "A Memory ." editor of "The Oklahoma Teacher association April 10 . Other- The high point of the evening if an even- Daily," a member of Phi wise, he declared, the home fails as the ing that is all high can be said to have one Kappa, and was form- greatest institution in human society. point, was the unveiling of the portraits of Beta Professors Brewer and Iladsell, painted this year erly associated with various "The habit of home study should be by Prof . Patricio Gimeno . state newspapers acquired in the lower grades by means Both portraits \ an added interest in that Middle column, lower of a five day week program of study they show their subjects in the academic robes of own photograph--Horace Tay- supervised by some member of the fam- their universities, Professor Brewer ily. By such plan, wearing those of Vanderbilt and Professor Had- lor, '22as, of New York a the parent becomes sell those of the University of Chicago. city, who has been made more closely associated with the child Doctor Bizzell, on behalf of the university, head of the undergraduate and the boy and girl learns to find real accepted these portraits which are to be hung in the university courses in Colum- enjoyment in the home," Doctor Bizzell library. economic It was an evening of large talents liberally bia university, on the nam- said. employed for an occasion that merited them . ing of his chief Professor He continued: Tugwell to the post of as- "We are turning our youth into the Pharmacy honors sistant secretary of agricul- world without discipline and are failing Rho Chi, honorary scholastic pharm- ture . Doctor Taylor aided to realize the truth that the school can- aceutical fraternity, has for the first time in the preparation of eco- not in itself furnish a thorough educa- conferred membership on Sooner alumni. nomic material for cam- tion.