THE SOONER MAGAZINEFebruary, 1933

A News Magazine for University of Oklahoma graduates andformer students published monthly except August and Sep-tember by the University of Oklahoma Association, OklahomaUnion Building, Norman, Oklahoma . Chester H. Westfall,'16 journ., Ponca City, president ; Frank S. Cleckler,'21 bus, Norman, secretary-treasurer . Membership dues : An-nual $3 of which $2 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE, Life$60 of which $40 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE . Copyright

OFFICERS

Chester H. Westfall, '16journ ., Ponca City, PresidentLewis R. Morris, '15as, '17law, '15MA, Oklahoma City, Vice Presi-

dent .Shelley E. Tracy, '11as, Dallas, Texas, Vice PresidentFrank S Cleckler, '21 bus, Norman, Secretary-TreasurerJoseph A.

Brandt, '21 journ, Norman, Editor

BOARD MEMBERS

Mike Monroney, '23journ, Oklahoma City, ex officioLuther H. White, '14 as, Tulsa, at largeOtto A. Brewer, '17as, '20law, Hugo, at large

Oklahomans at home and abroad

ASSOCIATION PROGRESSTulsa Sooner club meetingThe Tulsa Sooner club will be host to

visiting teachers at the annual Oklaho-ma Educational Association meeting atthe Hotel Tulsa Friday, February 3 .Dave R. Milsten, '25as, '28law, is chair-man of the committee on arrangementsand will serve as toastmaster. PresidentBizzell is to be the principal speaker.

Norman club meetingThe Norman Sooner club met at

the Oklahoma Union Thursday, Janu-ary 19, with Leonard Logan, '14as,president, as chairman . The club adopt-ed a resolution recommending to theBoard of Regents changing the nameof Hygeia Hall to an appropriatename commemorating Doctor GayfreeEllison, and named a committee con-sisting of Mrs Blanche Belt Shead,chairman, Fred Tarman and Frank S.Cleckler to draw up the resolution andto select an appropriate name . The clubdiscussed the feasibility of furnishing anoil painting to be hung in the infirmary,and authorized a committee to investi-gate the possibilities of doing so and re-porting at the next meeting. Mr andMrs Earl VirDen furnished the music .

SOONER TO SOONERThe D . D . M . C . matterYoungstown, Ohio, December 20, 1932

-It was my good fortune to be able to

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respond to the first call for life mem-bership in the University Alumni As-sociation. That may or may not be anevidence of my interest in the welfareof the University of Oklahoma . Be thatas it may, I do hereby and now declareboth my pride and my continuing in-terest in that wonderful school .Imagine my chagrin, therefore, at the

unsavory news spread over the nationthat has just come from there. I havejust read the attached editorial from theCleveland Plain Dealer, of this date . In-cidentally, by the way, my first informa-tion of the recent expulsions of the D.D. M. C.'s came to me via the NewYork Times.In some respects, the governor of Ok-

lahoma, several months ago, impressed

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Oklahoma twenty-first

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Sooners in "Who's Who"

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Lawrence N. Morgan

144By William Witt, '30

Harry B . Rutledge

146By George Ovie Hopkins, '32

Sooner roll call

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Belles lettres and bell ringers

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Volume 5, Number 5

1933 by the University of Oklahoma Association . Entered assecond-class matter October 13, 1928 at the postoffice atNorman, Oklahoma, under the act of March 3, 1879 . Estab-lished 1928 . Joseph A. Brandt, '21journ, editor ; George McElroy,'34 law, business manager; Betty Kirk, '29, John Joseph Mathews,'20, Dorothy Kirk, '23, Winifred Johnston, '24, Duane Roller,'23,Elgin E. Groseclose,'20, Leonard Good, '28, Muna Lee, '12,George Milburn, '30, Harold Keith, '28, Ross Taylor, '31,contributing editors .

Neil R. Johnson, '15as, '17law, Norman, at largeDr . Ray M. Balyeat, '12as, '16sc, '18M.D., Oklahoma City, at largeLee B. Thompson, '25as, '27law, Oklahoma City, at largeJohn Rogers, '14law, Tulsa, at largeMrs Floy Elliott Cobb, '17as, Tulsa, first districtA. N. "Jack" Boatman, '15as, Okmulgee, second districtHiram Impson, 15as, McAlester, third districtBen Hatcher, '24as, '25law, Ada, fourth districtFred E. Tarman, 'l0as, Norman, fifth districtH. Merle Woods, '17journ, El Reno, sixth districtDr. Lealon E. Lamb, '26sc, '28M .D ., Clinton, seventh districtFritz L. Aurin, '14as, '15M.A ., Ponca City, eighth district

me favorably. But alas! it appears thathe is like several of his predecessors . Tothe person far away from the scene, theimpression is that the university is aninstitution without tradition, without sta-bility, and without policy . At the timewhen I was a student there a new stateadministration ripped into the universitywith the result that the president wasinduced to leave just before being need-lessly fired . There was nothing in themanagement nor in the merit of per-formance that justified any interferenceat that time . Never yet have I known, norhave I ever heard of, a single instance inwhich there was shown to be even a mi-nor dereliction upon which to predicatesuch political intervention as the variouschief executives apparently feel called up-on to exercise .The question arises in one's mind

whether or not the president and the fac-ulty of the university have enough ex-perience and knowledge properly to con-duct its affairs . If they have not, thenwhere is the proof for the benefit of thereading public, that they do not have it?On the other hand, if they are capable ofperforming such routine duties as disci-pline, then why the executive interfer-ence?You will observe that I have made no

reference to the merits involved in theexpulsion of the fourteen students al-leged to have wet-roped another student.It may be that there is some doubt asto what was done by these students . 1recall that among my warmest personal

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friends of my student days, there wereat least a half dozen D. D. M. C.'s .Moreover, I recall that among this halfdozen were some of the most brilliantstudents ever enrolled in the universityup to that time . In addition, I firmlybelieve that all of these D. D. M. C.'swere just as loyal to the university, andare now just as loyal alumni, as any whoever attended the university . But thathas nothing to do with the issue .

If a helpless youngster was taken tothe woods and beaten up by a gang, thatis nothing short of the "gangster spirit,"and no self-respecting institution couldtolerate it, just as no self-respecting stu-dent could participate in it . Such athing, regardless of the delinquencies oroffenses of the victim, is sheer cowardiceand brutality .But the point is : How can the uni-

versity authorities, who ought to knowthe merits of the case, maintain disci-pline, if the governor of the state is todecide such matters by executive order,without first going into the questionthoroughly? And if such executive isright should he expel the authorities whoexpelled the students? In other words,where is the middle ground?One can easily imagine situations such

as this being acted upon precipitantlyby university authorities, indignant atconduct so wanton . In this connection,may I make the observation that organi-zations like the D . D. M. C. thrive onsuch publicity as has come out of thisepisode. To my mind (in this I maybe wrong), there is no more justificationfor the broadcasting of maters of thiskind through the public press, than thatthe spankings that I give my little boyshould be entered as "news ." Suchthings, within the university, should bedealt with quietly and as other routinematters are handled. A good big doseof silence, "thunderous silence," woulddo more to make such organizations seemuseless to the adventurous student thanall the publicized tabus in the world.There are so many magnificent things

that the university is doing that it justseems too bad that these unfavorableitems should gain wide attention . Re-cently a half dozen or more universitystudents have achieved national promi-nence. To my mind, an item of real"news" was the fact that the Book-of-The-Month-Club has offered a productof the University Press as one of the dis-tinguished books of the current months .There are a thousand things, perhaps notso sensational, but far more constructive,that the governor of Oklahoma and thefaculty of the university could broadcastover the land, than the story of thispuerile incident . And these thingswould be "news," too.

Very truly yours,CLAUDE B. NORRIS, ' 19 .

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OUR CHANGING VARSITYLegislative proposalsThe Fourteenth State Legislature, as-

sembling January 3, was faced with thetask of sharply reducing state expendi-tures . Governor Murray submitted theproposed budget made by a Budget Com-nuttee over which Regent Hatchett pre-sided. This budget would reduce thetotal expenditure of the state for the bi-ennium by $11,000,000 . To achieve thisbudget, meant for the university a thirtyper cent reduction over the amount ap-propriated by the Thirteenth Legislaturefor the biennium .

It is proposed to give the university$l,000,000 per annum during the nextbiennium, as compared with $1,431,562per annum during the period just clos-ing. The Board of Regents had reducedvoluntarily the amount used by the uni-versity during this year by ten per cent,or roughly, $200,000 . This would meanactually a further reduction of twentyper cent. Some of the specific reduc-tions recommended for the university arereduction of the medical school appropri-ation from $94,053 to $66,000 per an-num, reduction of the university hospit-al appropriation from $308,521 to $198,-000 and similar reductions in other fields .A Salary Limitation bill by Phillips ofAtoka, would limit the president of theuniversity and A. & M . to $6,000-smal-ler schoos to $4,000 and $3,000 .

Senator Hardin Ballard, '27as, '27law,of Purcell, reintroduced a bill defeated atthe last session, to subject to ad valoremtaxation fraternal property .

Representative Thomas Z. Wright,'29bus, a student in the law school, an-nounced that he intended to ask theHouse to investigate prices charged inthe Oklahoma Union.

Representative Leslie Conner, '27law,of Oklahoma City, has proposed reduc-ing all salaries of faculty one-half start-ing January 1 ; he further proposed aninvestigation into the publishing divisionof the university, the cap and gown com-mittee, and the Oklahoma Union.

Representative Conner also introduceda bill providing that the Board of Re-gents of the university or the Board ofAgriculture of the Oklahoma Agricultur-al & Mechanical College could make nocharge of student citizens of the state anyfees for enrollment, library, tuition, etc.No fees for the Oklahoma Union couldbe charged. Mr Conner declared thataccording to the state auditor's reports,students of the university were chargedfrom January 1 to June 1, 1932 a totalof $289,000 in fees .A grouping of all schools under one

governing board is also to be presentedto the State Legislature, it is understood .This board would supplant the presentBoard of Regents, the State Board ofAgriculture and other governing boards .

February

Regents Tolbert, Lyons, and Barrywere to be approved by the State Senate .

Natural gas engineering courseMany students who are enrolled in the

school of mechanical engineering, andwho plan to enter the natural gas in-dustry after graduation have been per-mitted to substitute courses given inother schools and departments which re-late to the natural gas industry for cer-tain professional work of the regularmechanical engineering curriculum .

Since the demand for a specializednatural gas engineering course has beenproved, and since various men from theindustry have suggested that it be adopt-ed, the courses offered which are bestadapted have been grouped to form anoptional course for juniors and seniorsenrolled in the school of mechanical en-gineering.

It is the belief of W. H . Carson, di-rector of the school of mechanical en-gineering, that this course will be theoutstanding course of its kind in thecountry, as the geographical location ofthe school is ideal, and since the men ofthe natural gas industry have centeredon the Southwestern Gas MeasurementShort Course, which is held annually bythe school of mechanical engineering, asthe only course of its kind to which theywill send representatives . It will he re-called that this course is national inscope, and that the attendance reached apeak of 450 with fourteen states rep-resented in 1929 . Too, the AmericanGas Association has recognized thisschool by placing an annual natural gasfellowship here ; and one will find thatthe laboratory facilities of the school ofmechanical engineering for teachingsuch a course cannot be approached any-where in the country. The outlook fora man graduating from this courseshould be unusually bright as there areso many opportunities for engineers inthe gas industry, and since there are manypositions, such as district manager, spec-ial relation man, etc., as well as strictlyengineering jobs that require the s< r-vices of engineers.

Dr. Gayfree EllisonDr. Gayfree Ellison, for twenty two

years a member of the university fac-ulty, director of student health service,died at his home in Norman Thursday,December 22, 1932 . Doctor Ellison hadbeen ill for some months . He was fiftyseven years old, having been born inWallace county, Kansas, October 29,1875 .The building of Hygeia hall, sponsor-

ed by the Dad's Association, was one ofthe major monuments to Doctor Elli-son's work . The student health servicebuilt up by him ranked among the bestin American universities .

Doctor Ellison was a graduate of Beth-

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any college, Lindsborg, Kansas, fromwhich school came Benny Owen, DeanFredrik Holmberg and Oscar BrousseJacobson . He received his bachelor ofarts degree in 1898, his M. D. degreefrom Rush Institute in 1903 . He becameOklahoma state bacteriologist, later prac-ticed medicine and in 1911 he becamean instructor in bacteriology in the uni-versity. At his death he was professorof epidemiology . lie at one time waspresident of the Faculty club. His pub-lications include: A Sanitary Survey ofNorman, Rabies in Oklahoma and Can-cer in Oklahoma.His widow, a daughter Helena, a son

Gayfree, jr., and a brother and sistersurvive.

Oklahoma civilizationOne of the most important interde-

partmental innovations in the last dec-ade of university progress is the semi-nar course to be given by nine facultymembers belonging to different depart-ments the second semester on "The De-velopment of Civilization in Oklahoma ."

Breaking down the narrow divi-sion which characterizes many schoolsand colleges, these nine progressiveinstructors have demonstrated their in-telligence and vision in what prom-ises to be a valuable regional study.The class will meet from 7 :30 to9:30 P.M. every Wednesday and is opento graduate students majoring in one ofthe social sciences ; alumni living withindriving distance of Norman might findit of advantage to attend the seminar.The seminar is divided into three

parts : "The Background of OklahomaCivilization," "Economic Complexities inthe Culture Pattern," and "The Oklaho-ma Culture Pattern."

Lectures announced follow :"Introduction and Implications of Subject and

Statement of Problem," February 1 by Dr . For-rest E. Clements, head of the department ofanthropology ; "The Physical Background," Feb-ruary 8 by Dr. C. W. Thornthwaite, assistantprofessor of geography; "Content of Aborigi-nal Cultures in Oklahoma," February 15 by Dr .Clements ; "Historical Background of Settle-ment," February 22 by Dr. E. E. Dale, headof the department of history ; "Economic His-tory of Oklahoma," March 1 by Dr . FrederickL. Ryan, assistant professor of economics; "So-cial Problems of Oklahoma," March 8 by Dr.Jennings J. Rhyne, director of the school ofsocial service ; "Patterns in Oklahoma Politics,"March 15, by Dr . Royden J. Dangerfield andDr . Cortez A. M. Ewing, assistant professors ofgovernment ; "Land Utilization," March 22 withDr. Dale handling that which has to do withrange cattle and Dr. Clyde J. Bollinger, assis-ant professor of geography, speaking on thatpart which concerns agriculture ; "Cultural As-pect of the Petroleum Industry." March 29,speaker to be announced later ; "Mining" byDr. Ryan and "Lumbering," by George Phil-lips, Oklahoma government forrester, April 5;"Urban Development," April 12 by Dr. Rhyneand Dr. Thornthwaite; "Economic Change andPopulation Mobility," April 19 by Dr. Thornth-waite and Dr . Rhyne; "Race Mixture, Conflictand Adaptation," April 26 by Dr . Clements andDr . Rhyne; "Folk Ways in Rural Oklahoma,"

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May 3 by Dr. B. A. Botkin, assistant professorof English; "Functional Relation of Religion toCulture in Oklahoma," May 10 by Rev. E. N.Comfort, director of the Oklahoma school ofreligion ; "Phases of Culture and Oklahoma Pol-itics," May 17 by Dr . Dangerfield; and "Inter-actions of Educational Systems and Culture Pat-terns," May 24, the speaker to be announcedlater.

Recognition for Doctor SearsDr. Paul B . Sears, head of the botany

department, is given recognition for hisstudies of prehistoric pollen fossils in theDecember 27 issue of the New YorkHerald Tribune. The article, by G. Ed-ward Pendray, is as follows:Those old timers who insist that the climate

is changing may be right after all, though thechange can scarcely have been enough in onelife-time to make a measurable difference . Inthe last few thousand years climates in variousparts of this continent have certainly under-gone important alterations and the process isprobably a continuous one.Proof of these climatic changes, and some

idea of what they must have meant to earlierpeople who inhabited North America, are ad-vanced by Professor Paul Bigelow Sears, of theUniversity of Oklahoma, in the American An-thropologist . In this report on his recent workDoctor Sears adds another to the various ac-curate methods of measuring the time whichhas elapsed since the last glaciation . The newmethod is one that not only gives a measure ofthe years but also reveals what the climatewas in any given period by revealing the na-ture and abundance of the vegetation growingat that time .The method is based upon the slow accumu-

lation of vegetable matter in the form of peat,which contains layer after layer of fossilizedpollen . Since the pollen of every kind of plantis distinctive in shape and other characteristics,it is possible to count the percentage of variousplants represented in each stratum by examin-ing the material with a microscope .

Professor Sears reports that lie froze pieces ofpeat from various bogs in the Middle West andthen cut them vertically into thin sections . Af-ter such treatment alternating layers of cellularand gelatinous material are revealed at least insome pests. These layer's are considered byDoctor Sears to represent seasonal accumula-tions, one being laid down in summer and theother in winter ; each pair thus representingone year . The combined thickness of eachpair averaged one twenty-fifth of an inch inthe samples examined . This means that thepeat accumulated at about the rate of threecenturies per foot.

Doctor Sears reports that this method of read-ing the climatic history of the past has nowbeen applied to bogs in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa,Virginia, Arkansas and southeastern Canada .They reveal that there have been at least fivemajor climatic changes on this continent in thelast 10,000 years.

It was to be expected, of course, there shouldhave been a gradual amelioration of climatefrom glacial days to the present-a 'sort of slowwarming and drying. Presuming that this wasthe case, archaeologists studying the relics ofprehistoric man in America have been puzzledby the overlapping cultures discovered in vari-ous parts of the continent, especially the OhioValley, where there are traces of at least fourdistinct peoples, each with a different type ofculture, and the period of occupation of eachsharply separated in point of time from theother.The evidence of the pollen and the bog

laminae. however, indicates that there has beenno such simple amelioration of climate, butrather a series of distinct changes from wet todry and back to wet, and from cold to warm .

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In the first period, around 10,000 to 8,000 yearsago, the climate was cold and wet, probablya hold-over from post-glacial conditions . Inthose days the Ohio Valley and most of In-diana were covered by forest of spruce, pine,and fir, and if there were any primitive Ameri-cans living in the region they probably en-gaged in hunting exclusively.

In the second period, between 9,000 and 6,-000 years ago, the climate became dry, thoughremaining cool . The pine-birch forests stillreigned in southeastern Canada, but in Ohiooak trees appeared in profusion among the pineforests, and in Indiana the trees were mostlyoak and birch, interspersed with intrudingsavannas of grass and shrubs . The prairies ofthe west in this period had moved eastwardas far as Iowa, which was covered with am-aranth grass and as a semi-arid region .

Between 6,000 and 5,000 years ago the cli-mate changed again, becoming more and morehumid but gradually rising in temperature. Theforests of hemlock and pine moved northwardinto Canada . Oak and beech trees coveredOhio, merging into forests in Indiana and opensubhumid prairies in Iowa . In this periodDoctor Scars believes the growing of maize waspossible for the first time in post-glacial historyas far west as Ohio, Indiana and Iowa, thoughit is unlikely that it became a major activityof the race of men who might have been liv-ing there. Dense forests would probably pre-clude agriculture in Ohio, at any rate .The fourth period began about 4,000 years

ago. The climate then became both dry andwarm. In southeastern Canada the pine forestswere replaced by stands of oak and birch. Iowaagain became semi-arid, covered with amaranthgrass. Huge grassy savannas appeared in theOhio Valley and Indiana, bringing to theseareas optimum conditions for growing maizefor the first time . It was in this period Doc-tor Scars thinks that the agricultural peoplesof the west and southwest following the bestcrop conditions, moved eastward to Ohio, dis-placing the hunters who had formerly in-habited this region, and there building up theirimportant cultures, relics of which have beenleft to us in the form of artifacts and ceremon-ial, defensive and burial mounds .In this fourth period it is likely that the maize

grower's moved so far east they were actuallycut off from their home land in the west andsouthwest by intervening deserts . Perhaps theyspread out, up and down the Mississippi, as farnorth as Wisconsin, as far south as Arkansas,which was in that time covered by forests ofoak and hickory . In their open fields therewas roots also for tremendous herds of bison,which ranged in this time further cast thanthey had ever been known before.Then came the fifth and last period, which

set in 1 .000 to 2,000 years ago, continuing in-to the present. It consisted of a swing backtoward humid conditions, with the result thatspruce, pine and hemlock reappeared in south-eastern Canada ; the savannas of Ohio and In-diana gave way to mixed forest conditions (be-fore white men cleared them) ; Iowa returnedto subhumid prairie, with oak and hickory trees,and the maize-growing centers shifted againto the west and southwest, bringing an endto the highly developed agricultural culture cfOhio and Indiana and replacing it with anessentially hunting type of culture such as wasfound by white men when they first crossedthe Appalachians.Whether the latest climatic shift has been

clue to an absolute increase in humidity or toa relative increase on account of a decrease intemperature is not clear . If it is the latter wemay be heading back toward a climate simi-lar to that of 5,000 years ago, though this isa field of speculation into which the Univer-sity of Oklahoma scientist does not venture.

Doctor Sears believes that the fact of chang-ing climates over broad areas of North Ameri-ca will clear up many mysteries surrounding

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the prehistoric peoples that have inhabited thecontinent since glacial times. We must as-sume, he says, the existence of several typesof peoples in different parts of the country,each culture sensitively adjusted to some oneof a variety of environments . Under such cir-cumstances, when the zone of the favorableenvironment moved, due to climatic or otherchange, the culture best adapted to it wouldtend to follow it .The Ohio Valley seems to have been a sort

of "tension zone" in this interplay of cultures,and consequently it was successively settled byvarious groups as conditions in this rather cen-tral point favored one or the other.

In northern New England and southeasternCanada, for example, only two well defined cul-ture strata have been found, one belonging tohistoric and prehistoric Algonkians, the otherto a group called the "red-paint" people, anunidentified tribe, known particularly for itsapparent cleverness in working slate . In theIroquois region there have been found relics of

But in the Ohio Valley there are traces ofmany overlapping cultures, At ]east four dif-ferent types of burials have been found and threetypes of highly developed mound cultures . Inaddition there are numerous village sites andpottery. Since the forest peoples were essen-tially hunters and the western and southwest-ern peoples essentially agricultural, dependingupon maize for their food, it is possible to dis-tinguish the relics of one from the other. Mostarcheologists have not placed the agriculturalpopulations of the Ohio Valley as far back asDoctor Sear's chronology places them, but thismay be explained, as Doctor Sears points out,by the relatively slow change of climate, andthe persistence of a maize-growing people inthe Ohio-Indiana region for some time evenafter conditions had become unfavorable forthem .An interesting sidelight of Doctor Sears' in-

terpretation of his peat-pollen evidence is thatthe climatic changes indicated for this countryagree rather well with those shown for Europein the same period by the method of countingmud laminations or "varves" in the bottom ofancient glacial lakes.

This method which has permitted the count-ing of years with almost calendar exactnesssince the great glaciation in northern Europe,depends upon the fact that the melting of iceis faster in summer than in winter . This pro-duces a series of layers, alternatively light anddark in the mull at the bottom of glacial lakes.Each pair means one year ; relatively thick onesmean warm years; thin ones cold seasons .

Varve-counts have been keyed or correlatedin Europe over a wide territory by comparingthe sequences of thick and thin laminae, and bythis means the full story of the years in whichthe ice front was retreating from northern Ger-many to extinction in upper Scandinavia hasbeen revealed . Similar clay counts are now be-ing made in this country by Dr . Ernest Antevsand other scientists . Doctor Sears believes that,when they have finished their work, the evi-dence of the varves will compare closely withthat of his peat count and fossil pollen study.Only one other method of telling prehistoric

exceeds these two in exactness . This is themethod of counting the annual rings in trees,and in the hands of experts it gives results ex-act almost to the year . By this method thesettlements of the pueblo Indians have beendated, even back to the time of their prede-cessors, the Basket-maker people, 3,000 yearsago.

Unfortunately, however, this ructhod is use-ful only for dating peoples who used trees inbuilding permanent houses, and the houses

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must have been con,tructed in such a mannerand in a proper climate to come clown to uswithout too much decay of the timbers. Thetree-ring method is consequently useless in de-termining the age of truly ancient peoples,

Qualities of Justice HolmesDr . Victor H. Kulp, professor of law

in the school of law, declared in the an-nual Phi Beta Kappa founders' day ad-dress that former Justice Oliver WendellHolmes personified the ideals of PhiBeta Kappa:"To me the one quality or character-

istic which outshines all his many vir-tues is his humility ; not the kind of hu-mility which is conceived a sign of weak-ess but truehumility which portrays

great strength of character and calls formoral courage of the finest sort . It hasnothing of egotism in it, is ever toler-ant of others but at the same time doe snot underrate the powers to achieve.

"In Holmes was personified the idealsof Phi Beta Kappa as he exhibited greatlearning and scholarship, combined witheffective leadership ant] those qualities ofheart that transcend all merely intellec-tual endowments, no matter how greatthey may be and without which no famecan he enduring."The annual founders' day dinner of

Phi Beta Kappa was held in the Facultyclub Monday night. December 5, 1932 .

Verdi's "Requiem"Verdi's "Requiem," presented January

I t by seven faculty members, the uni-versity choral union and a 50-piece sym-phony orchestra, drew the largest audi-ence seen in the university auditoriumfor years . "More than a thousand listen-ers sat as though charmed" according toan account of the production in the Ok-lahoma Daily, student newspaper .The soloists were Wilda Griffin, '27,

Norman, soprano; Miriam Dearth, grad-uate student, Bartlesville, mezzo-soprano;Farl A. VirDen, associate professor ofvoice, tenor; and Adrian Wynnobel, as-sociate professor of voice, baritone .Lewis S. Salter, '17, professor of music

education and piano, played the pianoand Paul S. Carpenter, professor of vio-lin, acted as concert master and directedthe .orchestra . R . H. Richards, directorof the choral club, had the responsibilityof binding the parts into a well organ-ized interpretation ."Requiem" was written by Giuseppe

Verdi in 1870 in commemoration of thedeath of Manzoni, Italy's literary genius .It was sung entirely in Latin.

Teaching methodsDr. Homer L. Dodge, dean of the

graduate school, reported in Decemberhis findings in a survey of many Ameri-can colleges and universities to discoverthe good and had features of moderncollege teaching . The survey was madefor the American Association of Univer-

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sity Professors, Dean Dodge being thefield director .Writing in the New York Times, Dean

Dodge gave some of his findings, al-though the report is not complete ordefinitive :A study of the problems of instruction in

American colleges leaves one confused by thecomplexity of the situation until he sees thatthere are a few chief sources of difficulty .With these eliminated, the way will he open-ed for the operation of the constructive forcesalready strongly in evidence .

One of these sources is the overemphasisupon departmental organization . More thanis sometimes realized, departments are themost important single influence in a collegeor university.

It is the opinion of many college profes-sors that departments have been devoted toself-aggrandizement rather than to service . Ex-cessive duplication of courses, refusal to sendstudents to other departments for needed re-lated courses, and bidding for students by low-ering standards are some of the faults charged.These evil effects are recognized everywhere,but little is done to remedy them . One of thefew institutions that has faced the problem isthe University of Missouri, which is buildingits curriculum around group majors instead ofdepartmental majors .

Moreover, many departments, especially in thelarger institutions, have been interested in sub-iect-matter rather than in human beings, andin research rather than in teaching . They have,as a rule, been indifferent to the major prob-lems of education and even to their own prob-lems of instruction .

This situation has been aggravated by theinfluence of the national learned societies which,with few exceptions, have concerned themselvessolely with research . These societies have evenhelped to cultivate the attitude that the collegeprofessor teaches to earn a living in order thathe may devote the bulk of his time and energyto research . Not on!y has this attitude beendisastrous in its effect upon instruction but ithas also condemned to hack-work teachingmany a man whose talents should have beendevoted solely to advanced students and re-search .

It is not that the emphasis on research isunwarranted ; college professors agree that, with-out research or some other recognized form ofscholarly activity on the part of the teacher, itis impossible successfully to conduct instructionon a college level .

It is, rather, that the instructional programhas been neglected . Departments that main-tain a balanced emphasis on research and teach-ing find that their advanced work and re-search actually profit because their elementarycourses are more effectively taught .

At Ohio State University the department ofbotany, with the help of testing experts fromthe college of education, has conducted experi-ments for nearly a decade upon the teaching ofthe elementary college course. The originalpurpose was to better adapt the work to theneeds of the 93 per cent of the students who(to not go on with botany . Not only has thisresult been attained, but it has also been foundthat the course is a much better preparationthan it formerly was for those who continuetheir work in the subject.Many are coming to believe that academic

departments must have men on their staffs whoare experts in matters of teaching as well as intheir subjects . To such men the guidance ofprospective teachers will in the future be dele-gated. It will come to be recognized that areasonable amount of time spent in substan-tial courses in education and in acquiring train-ing in the methods of teaching a given sub-ject is an essential part of the prospective teacher's program.

two culturesIroquois, one of

precedingthem

that of the historicresembling that of the

red-paint people and another considered bysome archeologists as being a type of prehis-toric Algonkian.

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Both candidatesselected by the Oklahomastate committee of selection were elected Rhodesscholars by the Gulf statesregional committee Decem-ber 14 at New Orleans .Only four states in the na-tion were so fortunate .Both scholars were from theUniversity of OklahomaOn the immediate right isDavid St . Clair, of Norman .a double degree man, whotakes his B . A . deqree inEnglish mid-semester andhis B . S . in geology at theend of the summer session .At the extreme riqht isJack Fischer, '32journ, ofAmarillo, Texas, former ed-itor of The Oklahoma Dailyand now a reporter on theOklahoman of OklahomaCity. Both men are PhiBeta Kappa members . MrSt. Clair rowed in his pre-paratory school days

In this picture the department or college ofeducation appears in its rightful place. In thefield of technical education it will continue tofunction as a subject-matter department or asa professional college . In the field of teacher-training it will be a service department to whichstudents can be sent for courses in educationalpsychology, philosophy of education, the Ameri-can educational system and similar basic sub-jects .

As has been demonstrated by extensivestudies and experiments made at the Universityof Minnesota, Ohio State University and otherinstitutions, moreover, the solution of manyeducational problems can result from

coopera-ative studiesmadebyacademic professorsandeducationists .

Another very definite obstacle to the im-provement of college teaching will be removedas soon as it is generally recognized that thepresent administrative organization of highereducation is badly in need o£ revision . In thepast, at a time when graduate schools were arelatively new thing and when the high schoolmarked the end of education for all but ahighly selected group, the four-year college pro-gram. was regarded as a natural unit .But experience is clearly demonstrating that

a large portion of high school graduates are notable to profit by the four-year college program .Two years of college work, especially adaptedto their needs, could be made a more effectivepreparation for life .On the other hand, it has been found that

four years of college work is insufficient forthose of superior ability who are preparing forcareers in which training commensurate withthe modern expansion of knowledge is requir-ed . In fact, many students are now being toldthat they should not consider specializing in cer-tain fields unless they can go at least as far asthe master's degree . This means, then, thatthe natural dividing line is not between thesenior year of college and the present gradu-

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ate school but between the lower half and up-per half of undergraduate college work .Recognition of these facts through adminis-

trative reorganization will, in the opinion ofmany, go far toward opening the way for abetter adaptation of materials and methods ofinstruction to the needs of the student. Thelower division or "college" will be concernedwith the student as well as with subject-matter .Since these years will mark for many people

the end of all formal education, and for otherswill be the preparation for specialized training,they should be devoted to the fundamentals ofgeneral education and should emphasize especi-ally the understanding of the larger problemsof the society in which the student is to live inorder that he may play his part intelligently asan educated man. In such a program success-ful teaching, as the word is commonly under-stood, will naturally be emphasized .

Those students who go to the professionalschool or to advanced and graduate work willbe a highly selected group, capable of adaptingthemselves to the type of instruction given byprofessors whose major interest is, and shouldbe, in subject matter and research . The spiritof the graduate school will extend into andvitalize the work which is given in the last twoyears of what is now considered undergraduatework .

It is impossible to discuss here all the im-plications involved in such a reorganization . Itis substantially the plan which is being tried atthe University of Chicago, apparently withmarked success .

College professors are beginning to expectthe same evolution and progress in instructionthat the\, find, and help to produce, in theirown particular fields of study. When collegeprofessors take a truly experimental attitudetoward their teaching and remember that theyare teachers as well as chemists, historians andphilologists, the way will be opened to manyimprovements both in the general educational

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structure and in the actual work of the class-room .

The Logan scholarshipsDave Logan, '16as, of Okmulgee, state

senator, has provided an unusual andvaluable scholarship foundation knownas the University Scholarship Founda-tion, which will administer the LoganApartments at the corner of Boyd streetand Lahoma avenue in Norman in theinterest of aiding worthy students .The Foundation is incorporated with

the following board: R . W. "Bcp" Hut-to, '10as, president of the Security Na-tional bank of Norman ; Bert Baggett,assistant cashier of the bank ; Dr. Leon-ard Logan, '14as, and W. K. Newton,both members of the college of businessadministration faculty; and W. D. Grissoof Seminole, formerly president of theDad's Association.The purpose is stated in the charter to

be "the educational, benevolent andcharitable purpose of encouraging schol-arship in the University of Oklahoma byaiding worthy and deserving students insecuring educational advantages by pro-viding scholarships which will enablesuch worthy and deserving students toremain in school until the completion oftheir education :"To own and hold real and personal

property and to rent, lease and other-wise use the same for the purpose of se-curing funds with which to endow, es-

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tablish and pay the aforementioned schol-arships; to maintain and operate all suchreal or personal property as may be ac-quired by said corporation either by pur-chase, grant, devise bequest or gift, andto apply all of the net profits from anyand all such transactions to the afore-mentioned endowment, establishmentand payment of educational scholarshipsand such other educational, benevolentand charitable acts as may be consonantwith the purposes for which this cor-poration is formed."Mr Logan erected his apartment build-

ing, said to be the finest in Norman, in1929 . Recently, the apartment buildinghas not been able to show a reasonableprofit as a commercial institution, MrLogan states ; and since this is the case,he believes that the Foundation can payout the remaining debts on the buildingin a few more years, since it will be taxexempt, and then, with the title clear, beused for students alone. During the per-iod when the remainder of the debt isto be retired, the apartments will berented either to tenants already occupy-ing them or to other persons, but a num-ber of apartments will be available atonce for worthy students, married stu-dents preferred .There are twenty four apartments in

the building. Most of these are rented .The first Logan Scholars were Mr andMrs Ernie Hill, both students in the uni-versity .

WNAD playsNational broadcasting experts were re-

porting to the university radio stationWNAD on the three best plays

submit-tedin theradio play contest sponsoredby the station. The judges were C. L.Menser, director of dramatics for the Na-tional Broadcasting Company of Chi-cago ; Don Clark, continuity editor forthe Columbia Broadcasting System ofNew York ; Vida Sutton, of the NBC;Merrill Dennison of Toronto, Canada;and W. V. O'Connell, head of the de-partment of speech of the East CentralState Teachers College. The plays final-ly selected will be broadcast by WNAD,then sent in mimeographed form to themembers of the National Association ofCollege and University Broadcasting Sta-tions, while the NBC has been grantedpermission to reproduce them in itsMagic Speech hour.

Newspaper typographyStudents graduating from the Univer-

sity of Oklahoma school of journalismin the future will be at home in the me-chanical departments as well as in thefront offices of a newspaper.A class in newspaper typography and

mechanics is being taught for the firsttime this semester, and beginning nextsemester this course will be required of

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all journalism majors, says H. H. Herb-ert, director of the school .

Under the direction of an experiencedprinter, A. C. Smith, assistant professorof journalism, the class, including threewomen students, is learning the elemen-tary facts about the linotype, differentkinds of presses, setting type by hand,making up a page, use of mats, and jobprinting.Wearing the usual printers' aprons,

members of the class go down to the shopof the Oklahoma Daily, student news-paper, for an hour's practical experiencefollowing each hour spent in the journ-alism classroom.Smith is a former member of the print-

ers' union and has owned his own print-ing shops in Texas, besides holding ed-itorial positions on city dailies .

FacultyDr . Homer L. Dodge, dean of the

graduate school, underwent a minor op-eration late in December at St . Anthony'shospital in Oklahoma City .A. C. Gregory, member of the staff

of the University Press, was elected wor-shipful master of the Norman MasonicLodge Monday, December 5, 1932 .Dr . Jennings J. Rhyne, director of the

school of social service, attended thetwenty sixth annual meeting of theAmerican Sociological society in Cincin-nati December 28-31 .Dr . Henry D. Rinsland, '20as, '24M.A .,

associate professor of education in the col-lege of education, is the only Oklahomaninvited to speak before the AmericanEducational Research Association meet-ing at Minneapolis, Minnesota, in Feb-ruary. Doctor Rinsland's subject is"Techniques of Validating EnglishTests."Dr. Forrest E. Clements, head of the

department of anthropology, representedthe state at an archaeology conference ofsoutheastern states held in Birmingham,Alabama, December 19 to 21 .

GRADUATES IN EMBRYOAcacia formal

Acacia fraternity entertained with itsformal dance at the chapter house Fridaynight, December 2, 1932 . Chaperoneswere Mrs Maude K. Thomas, Mr andMrs Emil R. Kraettli, and Dr . and MrsLloyd E. Swearingen . The Ramblersorchestra played .

Dates follow :John Stewart and Jane Von Storch, Ed Bart-

ley and Frances Ray, Don Porter and GayleMcCorkle, James Ray and Lina Jane Walker,Frank Ittner and Frances Swigert, George Ver-ity and Grace Carr, Robert Blase and VirginiaRuth Gentry, Leslie Hamm and Betty Bach-told, Paul Battenburg and Virginia Parriss, andW. C. Alston and Barbara Pickrel .Ray Autry and Mary Morton, John Zwick

and Gwen Wilson, James Wilson and RubyCole, Austin Stough and Naoma Morris, Joy

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Blanchard and Daisybelle Dunn, and LouisBond and Eloise Warford, Electra, Texas.

Bryan Cole and Dortha Love, James Gwinand Mary Ozmen, Robert Pollard and DorisMedberry, Wilmer Ragsdale and Dorothy Henry,Laurence Elderkin and Marian Hauck, LaurenceSwansberger and Mary Carter, Dolph Shults andAddie Williams, Thomas Munson and BobbieBowling, and Wayne Stephens and Jane Browne .Ed Ellis and Upshaw Jones, Samuel Stillis and

Elizabeth Plaster, Doyle Todd and VirginiaTodd, Paul Wilson and Janice Young, ClaudeBless, Okemah, and Carolyn Shaw, Alfred Toddand Eloise Cheryholmes, Harold Kirton andVirginia Kraettli, Douglas Bell and BettyScbeble, Bobby Clark and Martha Jane Dowell,and C. L. Holmes and Jessie German .

Charles Engleman and Jean Garnett, JohnFortson and Virginia Klein, Merton Muson,Lawton, and Louise Pierce, Anadarko ; Mr andMrs Carlton Wright, Oklahoma City ; and Mrand Mrs Lynden Mannen .

Others attending were Jack Sutherland, TomAshton, J . R. Settle, Millard Sinclair, TedFisher, Thomas Hunter, Earl Sneed, Bruce Mil-ler, Clarence Birney, Robert Kutz, GordonWatts, William Bollinger, George Herr, JimHopkins, Denver Meacham, Clyde Hightower,and Jacob Collar .James Hamill, Thomas Weise, William Hew-

itt, Robert Reeder, Rupert McClung, CharlesDavis, Denny Falkenberg, William Majors, Wil-lard Gurley, Robert Biedleman, Dudley Culp,Richard Bryant, Fred Dunlevy, Kenneth Alfred,Jack Highley, Clay Underwood, William Per-ryman, Richard Carpenter and Jack Rivers .Ace Bailey, Orval Hill, Jack Nunnery, John

A. Croom, Ray Will, George Menninger, Ir-win Tucker, Bennett Anderson, Berkley Woods,Joe Travis, Wilson Mahone, Ross Taylor, JoeMills, Carey Maupin, Harry Lambert, MelvinStilwell and William Throckmorton.And Bob Black, Glen Manning, Joe Fitz-

patrick, Gerald Erdman, Warren Sherman andArthur Ramsey, all of Oklahoma City.

Class of '33 archA stone arch costing approximately

$500 will be erected on the south sideof Brooks street entrance to the campus,as the senior class memorial this year, itwas decided at a late class meeting.The class voted to assess each member

a fee of fifty cents to pay for the memor-ial . If $450 is raised by the assessmentplan the university will furnish the restof the fund as it did last year, accordingto W. W. Kraft, superintendent of uni-versity utilities .

Marco millionsThe first O'Neill drama presented on

the campus, Marco Millions, will be thenext production of the University Play-house, February 10 and 11 . Productionstaff has been announced and costumesare being made, while the play itself isshaping up steadily under the directionof Profesor L. A. Hayden .William Wylie, Norman, is to be stage

manager with Walter Ainsworth, Cam-den, Arkansas, as assistant. Propertiesare to be handled by Georgia Ledbetter,Norman and J. C. Skinner, OklahomaCity .Costumes will be made by Iva Jewel

Rone, Walters; Marjorie Clevenger,Longview, Texas ; June Marie Williams,Oklahoma City ; Phyllis Seago, Dearfield,

linois, Garnet Bee Wright, Chicago, Il-ois; Grace Ferry, Oklahoma City ; Eliz-th Amis, Roswell, New Mexico ; Ef-Jean Pulliam, Ardmore; and Elizabeth

inclair, Houston, Texas.A crew of ten will be in charge of the

ighting effects . Members of the crewwill be Irene Shaul, Norman ; OdileBurroughs, Oklahoma City ; Bob Nep-

ne, Bartlesville ; Herman Zeimer, Yale ;orgia Ledbetter, Norman; Iva Jewel

Rone, Walters; Virginia Cavitt, Oklaho-ma City ; Trina Osburn, Tishomingo ;James Hawk, Norman ; and Charles Mus-son, Norman .The cast includes Emily Stephenson,

Anadarko ; Joe Callaway, Ardmore ; Mar-cus Cohn, Tulsa; Fred Wheeler, Oklaho-ma City ; Irene Shaul, Norman; Merwinlwell, Fairview ; and William Lee, Dal-as, Texas.

Expert gunner badgesThirty six field artillery badges for

rating of expert gunner were awardedfirst year men last semester . The ratingis judged by standards of the UnitedStates army for three years in college.Those winning the badges are:Frank D. Ashby, Stuart Brady, Nicholas

Corff, C. V. Gannaway, Samuel M. Hoisington,Vern James, Jack Rushing, Oscar Smith andMal Wynne, all of Norman.William Bradburn, John Marik, Doren Shu-

bert, William Timmons, and Charles Worley,all of Oklahoma City ; Bert Barefoot, Max Hick-ey, Wade La Boon and Robert Yeaton, all ofChickasha.

Clifton Bell ; Leo A. Bell, Cement ; ElmerCain, Ringling ; Peter Campbell, Temple ; DaleClark, Sand Springs; Mark Debakey, Drum-right; Lemiel Dysart, Tipton ; Delmar Holleman,Frederick ; Ray Holloway, Collinsville ; JamesKillingsworth, Seminole ; Lows Moody, Tulsa;William Roberts, Ardmore; Homer Wheeler,Sallisaw ; Earnest Beall, San Antonio, Texas;James A. Johnson, Buet, Texas; Luther Smith,Dallas, Texas; Irving Weinstein, Houston, Tex-as ; and Earnest DiLorenzo, Brooklyn, NewYork.

"Welcome" or "Demand"The celebrated men's council under

the direction of Joe Stamper, '35law, ofClayton, president, has voted :a To demand an investigation of the

University Press, the Oklahoma Unionand the "cap and gown" committee.b To interpret the resolution as one towelcome" such an investigation as pro-posed by Leslie Conner, '27law, of Ok-lahoma City, after Mr Stamper had toldOklahoma City newspapers that thecouncil represented all students in de-manding the investigation.The first action was taken when Mr

Conner, who represented George Miskov-sky, '35law, former president of themen's council, in an unsuccessful effortto get Mr Miskovsky re-instated in theuniversity after the student conduct com-mittee had rusticated him for a year, ap-peared before six members of the coun-cil recently and presented them a resolu-tion, according to newspaper reports, de-

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manding the investigation which MrConner had proposed to the state legis-lature . Although the council prohibitsthe use of proxies in such cases, theproxy of a seventh member was cast andthe resolution was approved . Later, MrStamper, said to be a close personal friendof Mr Miskovsky, went with Mr Connerto Oklahoma City, taking with him thecopy of the resolution which was theonly copy at hand . Mr Stamper thentold Oklahoma City newspapers the ac-tion of the council reflected the will ofthe student body .The action of the council aroused con-

siderable protest on the part of studentsand was roundly condemned as ausurpation of authority by univer-sity administrative officers . Followinga petition by a majority of the council,a resolution was adopted, proposed byRalph Cissne of Oklahoma City, that theoriginal resolution be interpreted as oneof confidence in the three organizationsreferred to and that this being the case,the council welcomed any investigation .Twelve members voted for Mr Cissne'sresolution, President Stamper votingagainst it .Mr Stamper stated that his statement

to the newspapers was solely that of anindividual and that he still wanted toknow where the money went . HermanGreenhaw of Hobart, although voting forMr Cissne's resolution, said he wantedan investigation. Rupert McClung ofTrinidad, Colorado, declared that a ma-jority of the council wanted the originalaction of the six members and one proxyrescinded, and protested against "rail-roading" the resolution demanding theinvestigation.

Oratorical broadcastRadio station WNAD will broadcast

the state peace oratorical contest Febru-ary 24 . Joe Jackson of Sulphur will rep-resent the University of Oklahoma inthe contest . WNAD has a frequency of1100 kilocycles .

Continues loan of drillA diamond core drilling machine used

last year in the school of engineering willbe used again this year under the super-vision of John Q. St . Clair. The machineis owned by John, George and David St .Clair who allow the university the useof it to assist engineering students toobtain actual experience in core drilling .

Alpha Chi Sigma officersAlpha Chi Sigma, National chemistry

fraternity, elected the following officersat its annual banquet January 16 : Wil-liam Patterson of Norman, president;Albert Schaefer of Mountain View, vicepresident; Jackson Sickels of Norman,secretary ; James Stephens of Norman,corresponding secretary; and RobertFlorence of Antlers, treasurer.

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Union suitThe state supreme court heard oral

arguments January 17 on the protest ofa number of law school students protest-ing the payment of the $2.50 fee to theOklahoma Union.

Abrams daily editorSamuel K. Abrams of Guthrie, for-

merly editor of the Capitol Hill Beaconof Oklahoma City, was elected editor ofThe Oklahoma Daily January 16 by thepublishing board to succeed Mrs Chris-tine Squire Hill, '33journ ., of Norman,who was ineligible for the second semes-ter under the four-year activity rule . MissNan Reardon of Ardmore was electedbusiness manager of the Whirlwind tosucceed R. H. Parham of Norman . MrAbrams has been managing editor of theDaily .Lon Manar, McAlester, has been as-

signed a position new on the staff of theDaily, that of critic of books, plays andmotion pictures .Other names are:Ervin Lewis, Tulsa, managing editor ;

John Fortson, Tecumseh, city editor ;Ralph Sewell, Oklahoma City, assistantcity editor ; Ralph Roberts, Norman, newseditor ; Frank Culwell, Norman, sportseditor ; and Patsy Truscott, Norman,women's editor .

Five special writers appointed are DaleClark, Sand Springs; Don Morrison,Waurika ; Roy Hickox, Oklahoma City ;Dale Moody, Cushing; and Hal Galla-way, Vernon, Texas.

SPORTS OF ALL SORTSFree throwing AndyInfluenza may have slowed up Andy

Beck, University of Oklahoma basketball"ace," just before the Kansas game butit couldn't keep him from hitting sixtytwo consecutive free throws the first dayhe reported for practice after his illness,the wildest shooting orgy railbirds at theFieldhouse have seen in years.Beck stood calmly at the foul line and

poured the leather through the iron ringso regularly that it seemed the goal wasa magnet for the ball . As Beck kepthitting, the news went around the Field-house and soon players and spectatorsalike formed a group around the goal towatch him shoot.

Wrestling meetsSix dual matches and the Big Six con-

ference tournament are on the wrestlingschedule of the University of Oklahomathis season, Ben G. Owen, Sooner ath-letic director, has announced.

Coach Paul V. Keen's Sooners meetthe three strongest teams in Oklahomabesides themselves, engaging Coach JoeMilam's Southwestern Bulldogs here Jan-

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uary 20, Coach Raymond Swartz's Cen-tral Bronchos here February 3, and wrest-ling two meets with Coach Ed Galla-gher's Oklahoma Aggies .The Sooner wrestling schedule for

1933 :January 20-Southwestern at Norman.January 28-Freshmen at Norman .February 3-Central at Norman.February 17-Oklahoma Aggies at

Norman .February 24-Missouri at Norman .March 2, 3-Big Six Tournament at

Manhattan, Kansas .March 10-Oklahoma Aggies at Still-

water.

On honor rollDespite the fact it was an Olympic

year and achievement therefore was allthe more difficult, the University of Ok-lahoma track and field team will be rep-resented in six events in the NationalCollegiate Honor Roll published inSpalding's guide, Coach John Jacobs hasbeen notified by Major John L. Griffith,editor of the Athletic Journal.

Sooner performances that rated were :Clifford Mell's 21 .1 seconds for the 220-yard dash at Manhattan, Kansas, April16 ; Mell's 24 feet 1 1/8 inches in the broadjump made at Norman April 9; HaroldMorris' 24 feet 5 inches in the broadjump made at Norman, May 26; BillNewblock's 6 feet 4 inches in the highjump June 11 at Chicago; Alfred How-ell's 48 feet 4 inches in the shot put atLincoln, Nebraska, May 6; and Howell's146 feet 9 inches in the discus May 27at Norman .

Mell's 21 .1 seconds for the furlong isthe second fastest ever made by an Ok-lahoman, being surpassed only by FrankMcCoy's mark of 21 seconds flat madeat Guthrie back in 1901 . McCoy alsoattended the University of Oklahoma.At Griffith's request Coach Jacobs

contributed the following form descrip-tions of each Sooner making the honorroll :CLIFFORD MELL-doesn't hitchkick but

uses the old leg swing method, and getshis distance by means of burning speedand strong determination. Did his bestbroadjumping when in best condition torun a 440-yard dash . Although a broad-jumper by trade, Mell was fast at anydistance from 50 yards through 600yards. In 1931 he won the 600-yardShannon Douglass cup race at KansasCity from the best middle distance menin the Big Six conference .HAROLD MORRIS-uses the hitchkick

form and was an effective broad jumperfor the additional reason he developedhis stamina by running the quarter inhigh school .

BILL NEWBLOCK-uses a modified rollform and had lots of action while in theair, owing to the variety of forms hewas obliged to experiment with . Dur-

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ing the 1931 season he used the WesternRoll and although his jumps weren'tquestioned in the big meets, they wouldbe rulled illegal in the smaller meets. Hecould jump higher with his old formthan the new one he was obliged to learn.ALFRED HOWELL-Wasn't as strong as

most weight throwers and consequentlydepended upon speed and leg power forhis distance . Used the standard formsin both the shot and discus .

Drake in 0. C. BoosterBruce Drake, greatest basketball play-

er ever developed at the University ofOklahoma in the opinion of many, andnow physical education instructor at theuniversity, has returned to the lineup ofthe Oklahoma City Boosters of the Mis-souri Valley A. A. U. league for hiseighth consecutive year since graduatingfrom Oklahoma City high school in 1925 .With Drake in the lineup, feeding and

shooting immaculately, the Boosters wonboth games he has played in, defeatingBaylor university, Southwest conferencechampions, 48 to 17, and the AlbertCleaners, 51 to 23 .

Other former Sooner players on theroster of the Boosters this season are Har-ry Pinkerton, '27; Gordon Graalman,'32 ; and Charles Grady, '32 .

R. I . P.Joe Burleson's O. U. Sandwich Shop,

which has furnished employment to Uni-versity of Oklahoma athletes for the pastfive years, closed its doors recently andnow thirty of the university's best var-sity and freshmen athletes are wonderingwhere their next meal is coming from .

Joe saw the handwriting on the wallsome time ago and although he fired hiscook and did the frying and stewinghimself, the depression was still toomuch for him. Most of the thirty ath-letes were waiters or dish washers a tJoe's place. He had never used any helpexcept athletes.

Last spring Dr . V. E. Monnett, presi-dent of the university's athletic council,declared that Burleson had done morefor Sooner athletics than any other per-son in the school's modern sports history.Some of the greatest athletes ever de-

veloped at Oklahoma formerly workedat Joe's, men like Bus Mills, FrankCrider, Hardie Lewis, Bob Dunlap, THERoberts, Spot Gentry, Hilary Lee, EltonEubanks, Swede Ellstrom, Al Mayhewand others .

1933 football seasonWith Coach Dan McGugin bringing

his strong Vanderbilt university elevento Norman September 30 for the firstintersectional football game ever playedby the Sooners at home, the Universityof Oklahoma football schedule for 1933is both strong and attractive, AthleticDirector Ben G. Owen believes .

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The Sooners will meet Vanderbilt,Iowa State, Kansas and Oklahoma A.and M. at Owen Field here and Tulsa,Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas Stateabroad . Excepting Iowa State and Mis-souri all these teams were formidable lastyear and probably will be so again nextseason . And Missouri defeated Okla-homa 14 to 6 here last year .Lewie Hardage, starting his second

season as coach at Oklahoma, has lostYoung, Curnutt, Watkins and Cherryfrom his line, Walker and Simms fromhis backfield, and also Orin "Red" Borah,veteran kickeroff, from a squad that al-ready was depleted by lack of reserves,yet expects to draw liberally from a largefreshmen turnout and to conduct whatwill be Oklahoma's first extensive springpractice .

Vanderbilt, Oklahoma's first foe, wentundefeated this year until its finalThanksgiving game with Alabama. TheCommodores tied the powerful Ten-nessee and Tulane teams. MoreoverVanderbilt landed four men, Gracey,Talley, Leyendecker and Roberts, on theall-Southern team selected by the coaches.Tennessee and Alabama were the onlyother schools rating as many as twoplaces .

In Tulsa the Sooners are meeting apowerful aggregation that has not losta game on its home grounds at Skellyfield since the Sooners themselves de-feated them in a charity game at Tulsatwo years ago, 20 to 7. Coach ElmerHenderson's "Golden Hurricane" lostbut one game this past year, the 0 to 7defeat to the Sooners.An Oklahoma victory over Texas for

the first time since 1919 is scented bySooner fans in 1933 . Coach Clyde Lit-tlefield loses backs like Koy, Stafford,Hodges and Clewis and linesmen suchas Blanton, Cook, Moody, DuBose andPrice. Defeated only 17 to 10 by Texaslast year, Oklahoma apparently will en-ter the 1933 Dallas game with an evenchance to win.

Coach Adrian Lindsey will bring hisimproved Kansas team to Norman No-vember 4th for the annual Sooner Home-coming day contest . Inasmuch as Lind-sey coached at Oklahoma from 1927-1931, resigning only eight months ago,interest will run high for the Kansasmentor will be keen to take the measureof the new Sooner mentor, Lewie Hard-age.The Nebraska game at Lincoln October

28 will be a terrific one for the Soonersdespite their great showing against theCornhuskers here last fall, Nebraska win-ning only 5 to 0 the week after she ranPitt all over the field. The 1932 gamemarked the first time in the twelve Ok-lahoma-Nebraska games that Nebraskafailed to score a touchdown.

Either Coach "Bo" McMillin's smooth-running Kansas Aggie eleven, which re-

tains both Graham and Russell, or CoachLynn Waldorf's Oklahoma Aggies, al-ways a well coached team with plentyof reserves, are apt to take the measureof the Sooners in the last two games ofthe season . The Sooners will rest theSaturday before they play the Aggies .Oklahoma's 1933 schedule :September 30-Vanderbilt at Norman .

(Boy Scout day.)October 7-Tulsa at Tulsa.October 14-Texas at Dallas .October 21-Iowa State at Norman .

(Dad's day.)October 28-Nebraska at Lincoln.November 4-Kansas at Norman .

(Homecoming)November 11-Missouri at Columbia.November 18-Kansas State at Manhattan.November 30-Oklahoma Aggies at Norman .

(Thanksgiving.)

Illegal jumpJohn Jacobs, University of Oklahoma

track coach, opposes the present inter-collegiate high jump rule .The part of the rule that Mr Jacobs

objects to describes an illegal jump asone in which the competitor dives orsomersaults over the bar or jumps insuch a manner that his head crosses inadvance of both feet .

"I don't think there should be any rulesin the high jump except that you havehigh-jumping standards, a cross bar andlevel ground to take off," says Jacobs ."h don't think a man can go as high offof both feet as he can off one, thereforehe should be permitted to get over thebar any way he wishes as long as hejumps between the standards and doesn'tuse a vaulting pole . In my opinion thestrict Western Roll is a dive, accordingto the present rule ."

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A strong prospectFloyd McBride, Oklahoma's all-Mis-

souri Valley conference forward of 1924,whose East Central college five defeatedthe Sooners 32 to 25 at Ada is the bestyoung basketball coaching prospect inthe midwest, even better than Hank Iba,famous mentor of the Marysville, Mis-souri Teachers, his friends at the Uni-versity of Oklahoma believe .McBride's East Central college quintets

of Ada, have lost but one game in thepast four years in the Oklahoma Col-legiate conference, and have an offensiveaverage of right at 50 points a game overthe four-year span . They averaged 54.4points per game in 1931 .Moreover the Ada teams, under Mc-

Bride, always have done well at the na-tional A. A. U. tournament. In 1930 theywon third place, losing only to the cham-pion Wichita Henrys, 22 to 27 . Thatyear East Central had the tournament'shigh scorer in Bart Carleton, forward,who made the All-American team . In1931 they went to the quarter finals .

In the only meeting between Iba'sMarysville team and the East Central

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five, a National A. A. U. tournamentgame in 1931, McBride's Oklahoma col-legians won by eight points .

Athletic receiptsWith net receipts from athletics de-

creasing $19,259.34 from the precedingschool year, an excess of expenses overincome of only $7,702 .87 was shown inthe financial report of the University ofOklahoma athletic association for thetwelve months ending June 30, 1932,Ben G. Owen, athletic director, an-nounces.

In 1931-32 the amount available forathletics and physical education, after thededuction of guarantees to visiting teams,was only $54,699.56, as against $78,232.-90 during the school year 1930-31 .The report showed that every varsity

sport at Oklahoma decreased its expensesin comparison with 1930-31 . Footballreduced its expenses from $37,476.73 to$25,712.67, basketball from $8,284 .99 to$5,361 .42, track from $5,263 .86 to $4,-306.13, wrestling from $2,956 .96 to $2,-173 .06, baseball from $2,375 .29 to $1,-847.13, and tennis from $844.15 to $503 .-67 . Maintenance expenses were re-duced from $10,553 .14 to $4,126 .07, thereport showed .The total reduction in expenses of the

association in 1931-32 was $22,602 .99, ofwhich $10,200 was applied on the sta-dium-union bonds. No bond pa}mentwas made in 1930-31.

Football and basketball were the onlysports which showed an excess of incomeover expenses, and in the case of basket-ball the margin was very small, $169.52 .The report for 1931-32 :

GENERAL. STATEMENT

1931-32Receipts

$72,424.82Expenses

80,127.69Excess of expenses over income 7,702.87

INCOME AND EXPENSES

Income *ExpensesFootball

$48,626.71 $25,712 .67Basketball

5,530.94 5,361 .42Track

1,380.15 4,306.13Wrestling

1,031 .98 2,173 .06Baseball

598.10 1,847.13Tennis

350.42 503.67Swimming

128.58Intramurals

201.99Student tickets

14,156.50Maintenance andimprovements

4,126.07Administration

25,556.97Applied on stadium-union bonds

10,200.00Miscellaneous 750.02 1,903.26

$72,424.82 $80,127.69*Expenses include guarantees to visitingteams.

Missouri wrestlersUniversity of Missouri wrestling team

will invade the Fieldhouse here for a

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dual meet against Coach Paul Keen'sUniversity of Oklahoma squad February24, it has ben announced by Ben G.Owen, athletic director .This match will have no bearing on

the Big Six conference championship,since that title is not decided by a round-robin this year, but rather by a confer-ence tournament to be held at Ames,Iowa, March 3 and 4.

A proud additionCy Sherman, veteran sports scribe of

the Lincoln (Nebraska) Star, thinks theOklahoma-Vanderbilt football game, tobe played at Norman September 30,1.933, is not only a valuable addition tothe Sooner schedule but that Nebraskaor any other Big Six school would beproud to meet the Commodores.Writing in the January issue of the

Star, Sherman said :Vanderbilt is nne of the leaders of southern

football, a school of fine reputation in academiccircles whose head coach, Dan McGugin, isoutranked in the years he has served his in-stitution by only two mentors in the nation,Stagg at Chicago and Yost at Michigan.

McGugin's regime at Vandy had its beginningin 1904, after he had played under Yost atMichigan in the "point a minute" days . Thehigh reputation of McGugin does not rest aloneon his ability to produce winning teams. Moreimportant is the fact that McGugin's hold onthe affections of his old players is so strongthat they are sending their sons to Vandy-andthat tells the real story of why Dan McGuginis a great coach.

Frank Long's recordFrank M. Long, back in 1907 a

Uni-versityof Oklahoma tackle and half-miler, still maintains excellent physicalcondition despite the fact that he is nearlyfifty years old.A dispatch from Porto Alegre, Brazil,

where Long is Y. M. C. A. general sec-retary, discloses the information that theformer Sooner won first place in an all-around sports test with younger athletes,scoring 93 points . His son, James, aged15, was second in the contest with 50points . The elder Long ran the 880-yards in 2 :59 on a six-lap track, amongother feats.

In October, 1931, Long was a memberof the Porto Alegre 10-kilometer relayteam, running his kilometer in excellenttime .

Speaker McDermottHugh McDermott, '20as, basketball

coach, was a guest of honor January 17,at Duncan, where twenty years ago heplayed guard on the Duncan high schoolfive that won the first official state highschool championship awarded by the Ok-lahoma High School Athletic association .McDermott, Athletic Director Ben G.

Owen, Alumni Secretary Frank Cleckler,and Football Coaches Lewie Hardage andJohn "Bo" Rowland all drove to Dun-can where Owen and McDermott madeshort speeches at the dedication of Dun-

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can high school's new basketball court.After the ceremony Duncan lost the ded-ication basketball game to Lawton .Back in 1913, Duncan, a small city of

approximately 2,000 people, developed ahigh school basketball team that wonthe state championship, defeating Okla-homa City high school in the finals ofthe state tournament. March and Fuquaat forward, McCasland at center, andWhisenant and McDermott at guards,comprised the team .Three members of this team later at-

tended the University of Oklahoma andeach of them captained a Sooner basket-ball team before his graduation, McCas-land in 1915 and 1916, Whisenant in1917 and McDermott in 1918 .

Tennis prospectsWith Albert Rollins, of Okmulgee,

state high school champion, enrolled atthe University of Oklahoma, Sooner ten-nis prospects for 1933, '34 and '35 pickedup considerably .Although he won't become eligible un-

til 1934, Rollins is a splendid player andwith development should make theSooners an "ace" who deserves to rankwith the greatest tennis players ever de-veloped here, players such as Paul Dar-rough, George O'Connell, Ben Parks andFred Royer.John O. Moseley, Sooner tennis coach,

has set February 1 as the opening dateof Sooner tennis practice. All four let-ter men from last year, Ray McPhail,Jim Sessions, Bill Schofstall and hard-hitting Charlie Davis, are back in school,as is Albert Upsher, promising sopho-more from Oklahoma City .

Three greatsThree former University of Oklaho-

ma track. "greats," Glen Dawson, dis-tance runner ; Alfred "Hippo" Howell,weight-tosser ; and Harold Adkison, dashman ; are now in training for a swingaround the circuit of indoor meets stagedin the east in February . They plan toleave February 4 for New York City .Dawson is training at Skiatook, Adkisonat Tulsa and Howell at Bartlesville .Dawson holds four University of Ok-

lahoma outdoor distance records, Howellthe school outdoor record for the shotand discus, and Adkison is co-holder ofboth the school 50-yard indoor recordand outdoor 100-yard mark.Parker Shelby, greatest high jumper

ever developed at the University, andnow an architect at Los Angeles, wherehe jumps for the Los Angeles Athleticclub, may join them.

These safe recordsThree University of Oklahoma outdoor

track and field records in the new listCoach John Jacobs has compiled for 1933are excellent enough to defy the attempts

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of record-breakers for some time, it is be-lieved .They are the javelin record of 208 feet

2V2 inches made by Arthur Cox at Nor-man in 1925, the high jump mark of 6feet 5%s inches set by Parker Shelby atNorman in 1930, and the 220-yard dashtime of 21 seconds flat made 31 yearsago by Frank McCoy at the old Terri-torial Intercollegiate meet at Guthrieback in 1901 .Glen Dawson, probably the most ver-

satile intercollegiate distance runner everdeveloped in the nation, holds three out-door track records and also the Nebraskacourse record for five miles in cross-country. His mile record was set in araging wind-storm at Lincoln, Nebraska,and his two-mile mark at Stillwater af-ter he had tied a team mate for first inthe mile, consequently are not up toDawson's best standard .The Sooner outdoor records to 1933 :

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS

100 yard dash-9 .7, by Ray Lindsey, 1924,and Harold Adkison, 1928 .

200 yard dash-21, by Frank McCoy, 1901 .440 yard dash-49 .3, by Earl Flint, 1929 .880 yard run--1 :57.3, by Karl Frank, 1925 .Mile run-4:22, by Glen Dawson, 1931 .Two mile run-9 :33.2, by Glen Dawson,

1931 .

February

Denzel Carr'22ex, master of languages,has left Poland to becomeprofessor of Chinese gram-mar in the University ofLeyden, Holland

Javelin-208.2 1/2, by Arthur Cox, 1925 .Decathlon-7,422.2846, by Tom Churchill,

1929 .

440 yards-41 .9, by Don Adkison, Baker,Hill and Mell, 1931 .

880 yards-1 :27.6, by Don Adkison, CharlesPotts, Hill and Mell, 1931 .Mile-3 :23 .3, by Taylor, John Hewitt,Ed-mondson and Heald, 1928.

1 7/8 mile medley-7 :37.2, by Taylor (440),Harold Adkison (220), Carson (880), andKeith (mile) .2 1/2 mile medley-10 :32 .6, by John Hewitt(440), Heald (880), Carson (1,320), and Keith(mile) .

Ties dash record

RELAY EVENTS

Whitley Cox, of Tulsa, University ofOklahoma sophomore dash man, tied theworld's indoor record for the 60-yarddash this week by clipping it off in 6.2seconds on the Sooner indoor track be-neath the west wing of Memorial stadi-um .Running with tremendous speed and

acceleration, Cox defeated the best var-sity and freshmen dash men on the squadby a yard and a half . If he can do thatwell in Big Six competition, he will bethe first great dash man developed atOklahoma in more than two decades .

3,000 meters run-8 :53.5, by Glen Dawson,1931 . Basketball3,000 meters steeplechase-10 :9 .6, by Harold January 2-Oklahoma 39, S. M. U. 31

Keith, 1928 . at Dallas.120 yard high hurdles-14 .9, by Ray Dun-

311927. January 3-Oklahoma 29, S. M. U.son,220 yard low hurdles-23 .7, by Jack Car- at Dallas .

men, 1929 . January 6-Oklahoma 25, Iowa State 31Shot put-49.1, by Alfred Howell, 1932 . at Ames, Iowa .Discus-146 .9, by Alfred Howell, 1932 . January 7-Oklahoma 28, Kansas State 16Pole vault-13.1/4, by Johnie Bryce, 1929 . at Manhattan, Kansas .High jump-6.5 5/8, by Parker Shelby, 1930 . January 14-Oklahoma 25, Kansas 23Broad jump-24.5, by Harold Morris, 1932 . at Norman .Hop step and jump-45.4 1/2, by Harold Mor-

January 18-Oklahoma 39, Kansas State 36ris, 1932 .Hammer-137.8, by Artie Reeds, 1909 . at Norman.