THE SOONER MAGAZINE OKLAHOMA ALUMNI NEWS OKLAHOMANS AT HOME AND ABROAD JUNE CALENDAR June 13. Lorado Taft, sculptor, in lec- John O. Moseley, associate professor of Latin, ture. will study at Stanford university. June 1 . Baccalaureate services, univer- A. C. Shead, assistant professor of chemistry, will sity auditorium . June 16. Eugene Laurant, magician, in study at the University of Illinois . program. Howard O. Eaton, associate professor of philos- June 3. Commencement . University of ophy, will study and translate the unpublished Oklahoma Association annual meeting. June 20. Holmes-Stuhl trio. manuscripts of the philosophical works which June 4. Registration for summer session. June 27. Bennett - Hall players in F. Brentano and A. Meinong had completed at June 5. Summer session begins . Grumpy. the time of their deaths, said study to be with the aid of Professors Ehrenfels and Kraus at the University of Prague, and Professor Mally at the University of Graz. These manuscripts deal largely with the philosophy underlying the Our changing Gestalt theory of psychology . varsity Jewel Wurtzbaugh, assistant professor of Eng- NEW FACULTY MEMBERS is working on a History of American Philosophy Hopkins . to be published in German. lish, will study at Columbia and Johns Kenneth Crook, W. A. Willibrand, assistant professor of mod- Three University of Oklahoma gradu- instructor in chemistry, re- ern languages, will study in foreign universities ates and one graduate of Kingfisher col- ceived B. S. in chemistry, University of Okla- homa, 1925 ; M. towards a doctorate. lege are included in the new appointments S., University of Oklahoma, 1926 . He was assistant professor of chemistry to the university faculty approved by the at Oklahoma City university, 1926-27 . He will RESTRAINT NEEDED board of regents. The appointments in- receive his Ph. D. from the University of Wis- Dr. Jerome Dowd, professor of sociol- clude a celebrated German author who is consin in 1930. ogy and internationally known authority a philosopher and playwright (see the Charles Eugene Springer, instructor in Mathe- on the Negro, told a Y.M.C .A. class at matics, received his B. A. from the University Belles Lettres department of this issue for of Oklahoma, 1925 ; M. A., University of Okla- Oklahoma City March 18 that "the cham- fuller treatment) . homa, 1926 . He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, pions of sex freedom do not favor any The appointments are : 1925-27 . He studied at the University of Chi- kind of restraint or discipline. In the evo- cago in 1929 as a candidate for the Ph. D. He family we have arrived at a Louis P. Woerner, associate professor of French was an instructor lution of the in mathematics in the Uni- in process and German, attended the classical gymnasium versity of Oklahoma, 1926-27. stage where paternal control is and "Philosophic" at Immensee, Fribourg and Stanmore B. Townes, instructor in mathemat- of disappearing . If human passion is to Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 1914-21 ; 1921-23, Saint ics, received his B. A. from the University of rise above the animal plane, it must be graduated . Mary's college, California, and was Oklahoma, 1923 ; M. A., University of Oklaho- subject to all the restraints which social While attending Saint Mary's college, he was ma, 1925 . He was an instructor in mathematics a member of the literary honor society, "A. P. at the University of Oklahoma, 1925-27 . He has considerations impose." Doctor Dowd told G. U.," and in 1923 was awarded the "Cottle been on leave of absence, studying in the Uni- the class that trial marriage made for Oratorical Medal," for winning the annual ora- versity of Chicago, 1928-30 . promiscuity, and a consequent lowering torical contest . He taught in the French and Ger- Yvonne Fleury, assistant in French and Ger- of standards. man departments in Saint Mary's college, 1923- man, received "Ecole Vinet" Diplome du Degre 29. He has done post graduate work in the Uni- Superieur, 1915 ; College Classique Cantonal versity of California and Stanford, and expects Lausanne, Baccalaureat es Lettres, 1918 ; Uni- FELLOWS to receive his Ph. D. from Stanford in Janu- versite de Lausanne, Licence es lettres, 1924 ; Maurice Halperin, instructor in French, ary, 1931 . University de Lausanne, Teaching diploma, 1925 ; now on leave of absence reading for his Gustav Mueller, assistant professor of philoso- International Phonetic Association certificate, phy, received B. A., 1917, from Humanistic gym- 1926 . She was a teacher of French and German, doctorate in the Sorbonne at Paris, has nasium, Bern, Switzerland ; M. A., University of Classen high school, Oklahoma City, 1929-30 . been granted an American field service Bern, 1930 ; Ph. D., 1923, University of Heidel- She has also done several years teaching in vari- fellowship carrying a stipend of $2,000 a berg. He taught philosophy, University of Ore- ous schools in Switzerland . year. The honor is a coveted one. Mr gon, 1925-29 . He has traveled in France, Italy, Hilding V. Beck, assistant professor of me- Belgium, Holland, Germany, England, and the chanical engineering, received B. S. in M. E., Halperin will remain in France for an- United States. He is a member of the American with honors), University of Illinois, 1929 ; M. S. other year. In the meantime, the Penn Philosophical association, Schweizerische Psycho- in M. E., Yale, 1930 . Publishing Co. of Philadelphia will issue logische gesellschaft, and A. A. U. P. His prin- Roy D. Eaton, instructor in government, A.B., shortly a translation of Polish stories done cipal publications are: Philosophy of Life, An Kingfisher college, 1924 ; M. A., University of Elementary Systematic Philosophy, which was Oklahoma, 1928 . He has taught for sixteen years by Mr Halperin and Dr. Roy Temple used as a text book in his course at the Univer- in Oklahoma public and high schools. House, editor of Books Abroad. sity of Oregon ; Marx and Hegel (Bern) ; Parcel- Members of the faculty who will be on leave Professor R. J. Dangerfield of the school sus, drama (Bern) ; Der Ruf in die Wuste, dra- of absence 1930-31 are: of citizenship and public affairs, has been ma (Bern) ; "The Paradox of Ethics," Interna- Edgar D. Meacham, professor of mathematics tional journal of Ethics; and other articles in and assistant dean of the college of arts and awarded a fellowship carrying a stipend American and Svviss magazines . At present he sciences will study at the University of Chicago. of $3,600 by the Spellman - Rockefeller 306 THE SOONER MAGAZINE foundation for study at the University of conflict, and the Arkansas country became Span- assistant professor of geography, was pub- ish territory. To establish a government for Lou- Chicago. He will work with the Hoover lished in the April Geographical Review . isiana added one more problem to Spain's al- Rud Neilsen, associate professor commission on social trends, studying par- ready over-burdened Empire . In order to cope Dr. J. ticularly administrative centralization in with the situation Spain adopted France's Indian of physics, is the co-author of a study, national and state governments. policy ; that is, she made treaties and made gifts "Atomic Resonance Radiation in Potassi- to the Indians in order to control them . The Ar- um" published in the Optical Society of A fellowship carrying a stipend of kansas Post was a center of treaty making and America Journal recently . $3,700 has been awarded Dr. Jack T. Sal- trade during the Spanish period . The name of Doctor Neilsen has received a grant of ter, associate professor of government and the Post was now changed to Fort Charles III but this was only used in official circles. $200 from the American Association for editor of The Oklahoma Municipal Re- The correspondence between the Spanish gov- the Advancement of Science for his re- view by the Social Science Research coun- the Arkansas ernors and the commandants at search in the Raman effects on wave cil, effective July 1 . Doctor Salter will be Post covering the period 1766-1784 tells of the commander, such as, mechanics. on leave of absence from the university difficulties of a frontier trade regulations, Indian treaties, difficulty with ., librarian and will work in Philadelphia studying Jesse L. Rader, '09 arts-sc of the English traders, Indian wars, desertions of the university, addressed the members of city politics there. He has already made soldiers, the outlaws, the free traders, the frontier April 10 in the extensive study into the methods of ward and religious difficulties . Spain kept many of the the Par Avarice club treas- her frontier of the library on old and rare politics in that city. Frenchmen to help her carry out ure room policy in Louisiana. The French commander at books. "Rarity in a book involves many the Arkansas Post, Du Clouet, was there at the particulars," he told the club members. time of the transfer and remained until after the COLORS Revolution in 1768 in New Orleans. During the "Nearly all books which appeared in the and Ja- after the invention of The university was presented the regi- American Revolution Beltaser De Villers first quarter century cobo Dubrcuil were commanders of the Post and printing are very rare, some superlatively mental colors it had presented fourteen made Dubrcuil held the Post against an attack So . First editions always command high years ago to the old first Oklahoma infan- by the English allies, the Chickasaws in 1783 . and books coming from special try in service then on the Mexican border The Province of Louisiana by the end of the prices just beginning to show presses are much sought after by collec- by George Marland in behalf of E. W. nineteenth century was signs of a commercial future, and it shared with the case of finely illustrated works Marland of Ponca City April 15.