,,MISSOURI •. ARE YOU .QNE? (Seepage 4S) VOL. I, No. 1 Oc-roBER, 1912 Read the.Last Sentence Twice Asticou, Maine, September 31 1912, n,ar Sir~ 'l'he Alumni .4.eeociation of the Dniversi ty o ! Viesouri is wise in undertaking to publish a monthly nilga­ sine and an alumni directory, We have done th.a first at Harvard tor many year ■, and the !i,st Harvard University Dir1ctory wae 1&l!ued in 1910, B.oth under.takings ha,;,e proved very suooassful and useful. I cannot illagine1 howov•r, how you oan provide both tl1~ magazine and ·; ;_. a d~rootory for· tw.o dollars a year. Sinoe~ely yours 1 C!P~lr.~ Vr. Harry I, Jlidinge, THE MISSOURI ALUMNUS. 1 1~\, IT'S A S'f'ORE'S BUSINESS TO BUY AND SELL MERCHANl)ISE Many of them handle kindred lines-they advertise in the same mediums, work toward the same ends with the same means. The store that wins your impartial patronage is the store with a personality-a distinction in merchandising. Emery, Bird, Thayer Company believes in progressive merchandising- modern methods. Emery, Bird, Thayer Company believes in distinction in merchandise as weH as methods of exploitation. T o this end we send buyers, specialists in the;r lines, to the world's foremost markets. Distinctive merc~andise they seek-that's the vital tl~ing about any great store. , One of the policies on which we have built our store is the privilege of "recall." If you should make a purchase in this store in person or by mail, and find upon getting it home, that you have erred in selection, return same at once in salable con­ dition along with the duplicate sales check for refund or credit -if by mail return it at our expense. , , , YOU ARE NO FARTHER AWAY FROM THIS STORE T H AN TI-IE NEAREST LETTER BOX. EMERY, BIRD, 'fHAYER COMPANY, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Outfitters to every member of the family anq Furnishers complete of the Home. (1) Buy from our advertleera and we'll have a better magazine. 2 THE MISSOURI ALUM-NUS. VOLUME 1 NUl>!BER 1 THE M1ssouR1 ALUMNUS Publithed by the Alumni Aaociation of the Univenity of Miuouri OFFICERS OF TBE ASSOCIATION ODON GUITAR, JR., St. Louis .... .................................... President N. T. GENTRY, Columbia . .............. ........... .. ....-,.- . ... Vice-President MRS. SARAH GENTRY ELSTON, Kansas City ..... •... .. • .•....... Vice-President HARRY E. RIDINGS, Columbia ... ....... ............................ .. Secretary S. F. CONLEY, Columbia ..... ................................. .......Treasurer HARRY E. RIDINGS, Managing Editor. THE MISSOURI ALUMNUS is issued nine months each year, the first number just alter the opening of school and the last just alter co11;mencement. SUBSCRIPTION to The Missouri Alumnus is included in the dues to the Association, which are two dollars a year. Dues should be sent to the secretary, Columbia, Mo. CHANGES OF ADDRESS of alumni should be received atthe Alumni Office in Columbia before the filteenth of the month to insure the prompt delivery of the magazine for that month. LETTERS should be addressed to The Missouri Alumnus, Columbia, Mo., or to the Secretary of the Alumni Association, Columbia, Mo. OFFICERS 011 LOCAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS BT, LO'OJS :S.Lll'8.L8 OITY J. T. Garrett, preaident, R. B. Caldwell, president, 1~ullerton Building. 831 Scarritt Building, ORIO.LOO J. A. Kurtz, secretary, Oscar H. Liebenstein., president, 306 Keith & Perry Building. 4231 Lake avenue. BOOll'll 00'11NTY L. W. Zatlin, vice-president, 6201 Madiaon avenue., Marshall Gordon, president. OllL.LBOIIIU (IT.LTll) Mrs. L. M. Defoe, vice-president. J, F. Sha.rp, president, E. B, Cauthorn, vice-president. Ira. D. Mullinax, secretary, J. S. Rollins, secretary. Insurance Building, Oklahoma City. S. C. Hunt. treasurer. - -,- THE MISSOURI ALUMNUS. 3 The State Normal School Warrensburg, Missouri H IS SCHOOL is better equipped than ever before to T meet the needs of every class of students. It offers a Rural School Certificate course to grad­ uates of rural schools, elective courses for graduates of four year high schools, and advanced professional courses for graduates of colleges and universities preparing to be teachers. I t gives excellent opportunities for vocational training. While the purpose of a Normal School is primarily to train teachers, this school gives the preparation necessary for life work in any calling. The expenses are lower than in any other school of equal rank. This is the only Normal School in the Middle West that furnishes virtually free text books. This school is given full credit by the University of Missouri. The Fall Quarter begins September 10, the Winter Quarter will begin December 2 . For catalog or other information, address PRESIDENT W. J. HAWKINS Alumni own The Alumnu,; they patronize It• advertlaera, 4 THE MISSOURI ALUMNUS. (. TABLE OF CONTENTS New Dean of Law.......................... .... .......... 5 By Forrest C. Donnell · Homer Croy a New York Editor................... .. .... 9 A New Departure in Instruction....... 11 By Dr. O. D. Kellogg With Co-eds in the Chorus. .. • . 14 By Vaughn Bryant Our Alumni Candidates. 17 Constitutional Amendment Number Nine ..... .......... ... 19 . By Isidor Loeb When M .. U. Paths Were Named for Girls ................... 22 With the Football Men . .. ... ............ .. ... .. ........ 24 Reunion of All "M" Men .. ...... ..... .... • ..... ...... .... 26 Coach Jones to Leave M. U .... ....... .. .. .. ............ 26 "Nick's" Own Story ...... ................ .. ... .. .. ..... 27 "Gene" Field at the University .... ..... • . ............... 28 Oklahoma N ates. 30 Deaths. .... ... ... ..... ...... .... 31 Weddings ....... ..... • ... ... .. ·.. ...... • ... ...... .. .... 33 Kansas City Notes. • . 35 A Missouri Dance . ...... ....... .. ...... ... ..... .. ..... 36 Changes in Faculty ... : . • . 37 "Please Find Enclosed-" . ... ... : . • • • • . 39 Comment . ......... .. ........ ............. • ......... ... .. 42 Notes of the Classes . .. ........ .. .... ... .. ........ 47 to 64 f FOOTBALL NUMBER The next issue of The Alumnus, the November issue, will be Football Number. A special article will be written for The Alumnus by Prof. C. L. Br.ewer, head coach of football. Other football news and short articles will be featured. The magazine will be out the last of October, just before the Nebraska game. Other speciat;numbers later in the year are: "OLD TIMERS" NUMBER, giving considerable space to the older graduates-men and women graduated 30, 40, 50, and even 65 years ago. LITERARY.,NUMBER, containing articles by Missouri graduates who are w~ters. You will be surprised at the number of Missouri writers. COMMENCEMENT NUMBER, telling of the alumni reunions and the exercises in Columbia commencement week. ·! The Alumnus is issued monthly. EDWARD WILCOX HINTON, LL. B. '90. THE MISSOURI ALUMNUS VOL. 1 OCTOBER, 1912 No. 1 NEW DEAN OF LAW By FORREST C. DONNELL, A . B. '04, LL. B. '07 Not only is the dean of the Jaw tion is an enthusiastic and loyal department of a modern state uni­ graduate of the University and mem­ versity called upon to perform num­ ber of our Alumni Association. erous pedagogical or administrative Dean Hinton is descended from duties or perhaps both, but in addi­ Virginia stock, though he himself tion there devolves upon him a con­ was born at Rocheport, Mo., and siderable responsibility by reason of was reared upon a Boone County the fact that the growth, popularity farm. His father, John Hinton, and standing of the department came west in the latter part of the largely depend upon his own indi­ '40s and soon entered actively into vidual reputation for learning and the affairs of his adopted home. professional proficiency. If the dean Throughout the Mexican war he of a law department is unknown served as adjutant in the first Mis 0 or if his reputation as to ability is souri Volunteers, later became inter­ not of the highest the attendance ested in steamboat traffic, sub­ at the law school and its standing in sequently. engaged in the tobacco the community suffer, regardless of business and finally determined to how proficient the instructors may read law, specializing along probate be. lines. He was later elected probate The University of Missouri is to be judge of Boone County and was for a congratulated upon the fact that number of years a lecturer in the Edward Wilcox Hinton, the newly University of Missouri on Wills and chosen dean of its law department, Administration. " · is not only eminently well qualified as a teacher of Jaw but in addition is HIS LAW PARTNERSBif so widely and favorably known to His son, now Dean Hinton, was bench, bar, and laymen, as to as- inclined to favor .farming as a voca­ sure the department during his ad- tiQn but at the suggestion of his ministration of a continuance of the father, who perceived in him the high standing it has el).joyed in the .qualities which go to make ai.suc­ past. We Missouri' University cessful Jawyl'r, he determined to Alumni are likewise to be congratu- take up the study of law. A foun­ lated upon the fact that Dean Hinton dation of academic work for three o/,!!,8 .,not oply born almost within years in theCpllege of Arts•was fol­ .th~ ~Aadow of the University and lowed by the completion,: in June, is ,th!} .son ·of a (ormer president 1890, of the law course offered by tbe of its-B~~fd of Curators,_but in addi- Univer_!!ify of .Missouri, after which 5 THE MISSOURI ALUM-NUS. Mr. Hinton attended the school of basis. The members of the faculty law at Columbia University, from were able men, and competent crit­ which he was graduated in June, ics considered the quality of instruc­ 1891, nearly six months before his tion as good as any obt.ainable at twenty-third birthday. Within a that time in the West. At the close .a few weeks he was married to Mary of the first year of Mr. Hinton's Hood Turner, the daughter of Colo­ course the death of Judge Bliss -nel S. Turner, a prominent and in­ caused him to be succeeded by the fluential member of the Boone the late Judge Alex.antler Martin, County Bar and one of the leading author of a well known work on 1awyers of Central Missouri.