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THE 00NER AGAZINE OCTOBER, 1929 MIGRATION DAY NUMBER Stanley Vestal and Isabel Campbell Tell How They Wrote Their First Novels Muna Lee Writes on the Cultural interchanges between the Americas Adelaide Loomis Parker Contributes A Beautiful Memoir of Professor Parrington David Ross Boyd, First University President, Tells of the University's Founding Texas Game (October 19) Plans In Detail in This Issue Vol. II University of OhlahomaNo. 1 School Equipment enetian Mirrors Our Furniture is serving you now, If in later years you MIRRC RS --WE MAKE should become a buyer of school Furniture follow the WE TAKE YOUR OLD FANCY VENETIAN MIRRORS example of your ALMA MATER and ALL WC RK GUARANTEE D WE & LSO BUY FROM SIPES-IT PAYS RESILVER JA SPER SIPES CO. THOMPSON Oklahoma City GLASS CO. 19 1/2 W, Main L. D. 259 209-211 S . ROBINSON OKLAHOMA CITY TYLER and SIMPSON COMPANY Wholesale BRANCH HOUSES : ESTABLISHED 1879 ARDMORE, OKLA . 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Here THE SOONER MAGAZINE without facilities any Kind for teaching. we are, in a new dress, * typographi-cally speakng,andinahewcorm of news presentation . As the year It becomes more evident, day by progresscu during the course of the day, that the state will either have nrsc volume of moner to provlue adequate buildings for T he Maga-zine,cnariges inform werecon- the university or severely limit the stantly suggesting themselves . Many enrollment. of these have been incorporated in I 111C university is now four years the present issue, ail designed to A News Magazine for University of Oklahoma (and King- behind 1h Its building program. By make Lie magazine more service- fisher college) graduates and former students. Established 1928 . the the awe. Published monthly except August' and September, by the time next legislature con-venes, the state will have toplovlue t his issue is being sent to every University of Oklahoma Association, Oklahoma Union build- uullulngs to meet six years growth. ing, Norman, Oklahoma . Raymond Tolbert, '12 law, Oklaho- grauuate of record. 1 he 01 ma q, president ; Mrs . Walter Ferguson, ex-'07, Tulsa, vice- cost such a construction pro- Our Sooner fam-ily ishow orrespectable size-more presidentCI ; Frank N. Watson, '13 law, Dallas, Texas, vice- gram, considered in the sum total, than seven thousand graduates . Our president ; Fred Thompson, '22 arts-sc ., Norman, treasurer ; will stagger our legislators . membership list reveals that Sooners Frank S. Cleckler, '21 bus,, secretary . Subscription is through Even the university s staunchest of may tie found literall in the four membership in the University Oklahoma Association, pay- friends cannot realize now raplu has able as follows : Annual membership, $3,00 in advance ; life corners of the earth, engaged in al- been membership, $60, payable in one sum or in quarterly instal- the school s growth . l liephys-ical plantseemslargetotheold must every occupation . Keeping up ments of $3 until paid out, Entered as second-class matter with the members of this great October 13, 1928, at the postoffice at Norman, Oklahoma, under timer, accustomed to the few build- graduate family is no easy matter . the act of March 3, 1 879 . Printed in the United States by the ings trial were then grouped around Help of graduates in supplying hews University of Oklahoma Press. Contents copyrighted 1929 by the the University of Oklahoma Association . administration building. T his coming to their attention will be appearance of prosperity does the appreciated. T he )ouncr Magazine Editor : Joseph A. Brandt, '21 journ. university a disservice. succeeds only wren it serves the Associate Editors: Betty Kirk, '29 journ.; Duane Roller, '23 sc . And there is an attitude, unfortu- greatest number of graduates . business Manager: John B, Gordon, '30 journ. nate in tile extreme, that regards the Advertising rates may be had on application to the business university as just another state insti- manager, Oklahoma Union building, Norman, Oklahoma . Cor- tution . Legislators feel that they Several events, important in our . respondence should be addressed to the editor Change of ad- have to provlue for the hydra-head- university s History, will occur dur- dress snould be made with the secretary of the association . ed school ing the coming school year . In the system the old political hand-out first place, we resume athletic re- Vol. II, No. 1 October, 1929 system set up during the Haskell days. They fee! that the lations with the University of Tex- state business college, the as, after an interim of several years. CONTENTS state mili- A FOUNTAIN, NEW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY tary school, the state Old timers will well recall how the school of mines FRONTISPIECE -all schools with noble order of Quo Vadis gained small enrollments, OKLAHOMANS AT HOME AND ABROAD 5 all schools members through the great games Calendar for October ; With President Bizzell ; Our Chang- duplicating work done by at Dallas, hitcri-hiking, riding the ing Varsity ; Graduates in Embryo; Gifts to Education ; the state university and the A. & M. college-must receive equal rods, walking-any way to get to Association Progress ; Expressed in the Press; In the Edu- cational Wonderland. treatment with the latter . the arena where the Sooners wres- MIGRATION DAY PLANS 15 tled with the Longhorn . The Texas LOYALTY AND SERVICE CHARACTERIZE TOLBERT 16 Other state-., like Texas, older game is an important one-the in- A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT TOLBERT 17 and wiser than Oklahoma, have terest Sooners have shown in let- ONE GENIUS IN A FAMILY- IS seeen how vicious duplication of By Stanley Vestal ters to the editor in the game evince educational effort can be, and have -IS NOT ENOUGH 19 eliminated the leech schools . But in that . By Isabel Campbell Oklahoma, playing politics is the Then there is the dedication of VERNON LOUIS PARRINGTON By great order of the day . No one who the hew library, which will be de- Adelaide Loomis Parker A CULTURAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE AMERICAS 21 knows will deny that the last scribed in detail as well as illustra- ses- By Muna Lee sion of the legislature made its tions, in an approaching issue. The MY FIRST DAYS AS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT 24 every move from purely political new library in its arrangements has Told by Dr . David Ross Boyd reasoning. The university and the attracted international attention, for THE SPIRIT OF LEARNING 1N A MOTOR AGE 27 By Dr. William Bennett Bizzell A. & M. college were made the po- it is without doubt one of the finest SOONER PERSONS AND PERSONALITIES 28 litical pawns. Both would have college libraries. While opinion dif- HERE AND THERE WITH SOONERS 33 fared far better had they been ac- fers as to the BELLES LETTRES AND BELL RINGERS architectural merit of 44 tively in politics-if material well- the building, all are agreed that in being were the only desideratum .