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Oklahomans at home and abroad

MAY CALENDAR

OKLAHOMA ALUMNI NEWS

May 6. Dual track meet with KansasAggies .May 6. Annual Senior day. Registra-

tion from 8 to 10 and voting for class mar-shal . Pe-et and Mortar board pledging at11 . Alumni luncheon at noon . Free showsin afternoon at University, Sooner andCampus theaters . Faculty-senior baseballgame at 3:30. Interfraternity "sing" at7 o'clock. Annual senior dance at 8 :15,Oklahoma Union ballroom .May 8 and 9. Playhouse presents Rich-

ard M. Dickinson's Black Jack Davey,prize winning University of Oklahomaplay . (For tickets, write Ray Holcombe,director, The Playhouse) .May 9. Kappa Sigma dansant at Col-

lege shop . Beta Theta Pi dance at Col-lege shop . Delta Chi house dance. PiKappa Phi house dance.May 15 . Delta Upsilon dance at Col-

lege shop .May 15-June 1 . University of Oklaho-

ma art exhibition .May 16 . Phi Gamma Delta house

dance. Sigma Alpha Epsilon dance atTeepee. Sigma Chi house dance.May 22 . Pi Kappa Alpha house dance.

Delta Tau Delta house dance.May 23 . Phi Delta Theta house dance.

Phi Kappa Psi house dance. KappaAlpha dance at College shop .

ASSOCIATION PROGRESSNursingThe Alumnae Association of the school

of nursing of the University of Okla-homa met in business session in thenurses' room at the Crippled children's

hospital on Thursday, March 19th . Sometime was spent in checking absentee

through the Alumnae Association by DrWang Langston, '16 mad., and MrsLangston . The alumnae, as a body,pledged themselves to the upkeep of thevolumes in Doctor Langston's name, asa perpetual memorial to him and hisservice to the school . The report of thenational committee on the distribution ofnursing service in the February Bulletinfrom national headquarters precipitateda heated discussion regarding the nursingsituation, culminating in the appointmentof a committee to work out the detailsof a registry for hourly nursing serviceto be presented at the next meeting.

Association electionThe annual election of executive board

members of the Association is now inprogress, balloting being by mail . Bal-lots have been mailed by AssociationSecretary Cleckler to all paid-up mem-bers and must be returned to headquar-ters before 6 p. m. May 15 .The nominees were selected by a com-

mittee of three named by AssociationPresident White . Committee memberswere : Fritz Aurin, '14 arts-sc., M. A. '15,of Ponca City, chairman ; Dr Frank Bal-yeat, '11 arts-sc., M. A., '18, of Norman;Lee B . Thompson, '25 arts-sc., '27 law,of Oklahoma City .

DraftedA move has been initiated in Tulsa

to draft William L. Eagleton, '14 arts-sc .,19 law, former supreme court commis-sioner and Robert H. Wood, '11 arts-sc ., Tulsa geologist, for members of the

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board of education of Tulsa, of whichAssociation President Luther White ispresident . Five thousand persons signedpetitions requesting that they be candi-dates. A third, William Melton, presi-dent of the former student's associationof Oklahoma A . & M. college, was in-cluded in the draft.The strong movement to bring the ser-

vices of these three men educated inOklahoma's university and college is in-dicative of the increasing value of

alumniumni in civic and state affairs, andsore-pay the state for its expenditure for edu-cation .

OUR CHANGING VARSITYOklahoma Union approvedThe senate committee that investigated

the Oklahoma Union at the request ofcampus merchants reported to the senatethat the project is "serving a most use-ful purpose and has answered a greatneed of the university," and that it isnot a commercial project . The commit-tee, of which Senator MacDonald waschairman, reported as follows, in fulltext :We, your special committee, appointed pur-

suant to the adoption of senate resolution No.5, herewith submit the following report :

In accordance with the specific instructionsand authority, as directed by said resolution,we proceeded to conduct said investigation byhaving a public hearing, at which hearing theboard of governors of the student union councilwas represented by Messrs J . B . Dudley, JohnE . Luttrell and Raymond A . Tolbert . Theowners of private property were represented byMessrs Ben F . Williams and Homer H . Cowan .More than thirty witnesses were called,

examinedamined under oath,andinaddition thereto,a vast amount of documentary evidence wasoffered and introduced .

Without passing upon the legality or ille-gality of the existence of said corporation, orits right to exact from students a fee for eachsemester, your committee finds, however, thatunder, and by virtue of chapter 127 of thesession laws of 1923, and pursuant to the en-actment thereof, the board of governors of the

May 1 . Senior day.May 1-15 . Exhibit of paintings by

Kansas artists .

members. Miss Lillian Taylor, '28 istaking academic work at A. & M. . col-lege, Stillwater . A beautiful twelve-vol-

May 2. Sigma Nu house dance. Lamb- ume, loose-leaved Nelson Encyclopediada Chi dance at College shop . was presented to the school of nursing

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IN CALIFORNIA

This is theway the crew of GeorgeHeap, '23 se ., M. S . '29,resident of the Engineeringrust Co . of Los Angeles,

does things on the coast . MrHeap and John Shelton, '21eng ., sent out this invitationto coast alumni for their an-nual picnic . As you can see,it's all informal and lots offun . Mr Heap is president ofthe Los Angeles Soonerclub

Oklahoma Student Union was created, andthereafter, the board of governors of said Okla-homa Student Union and the board of regentsof the university entered into a lease contract,and thereafter following a thorough investiga-tion, approved the plan of the student Unionbuilding.The committee further finds that under the

rules promulgated by the board of governors,the use of the student Union building is re-stricted to students, members of the faculty,alumni of the university, their guests, donorsto the building fund, and their guests .

Your committee finds that these restrictionshave been generally observed . The proof dis-closes that in a few isolated cases the rulesand restrictions were probably violated but, inthe opinion of your committee, these isolatedinfractions of the rules would likely creep inunder any scheme, and we do not think theviolations by the public in general are suf-ficient that they would in any manner justifythe committee in finding that the building, andits uses, are generally commercial . There are,of course, certain lines of merchandise carriedon in this building, which in effect competeswith other merchants and business men in andaround the university, and down town in thecity of Norman, but it is the opinion of thecommittee that the competition is for the bestinterest of the student body .Your committee further finds that from the

inception of the undertaking, all of the fi-nances, both in the construction of the build-ing and the revenues derived from the variousenterprises carried on therein, have been care-

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fully and judiciously safeguarded and expended .The proof shows that monthly audits are madeof the accounts of each separate enterprise,and every member of the board of governorsfurnished with a copy of said audit . Theproof further shows that especially Mr

RaymondInond Tolbert, andnumerous others of thealumni have given a great deal of their timeand means in attempting to carry out the en-terprise, and that they have diligently anduntiringly worked without hire or expense .The committee, after hearing the testimony

of various and sundry students, as well as thepresident of the university, is of the opinionthat the student Union building is serving amost useful purpose and has answered a greatneed of the university, not only by furnishinga general center of supplies for the studentbody, but also is serving as a general "meltingpot," so to speak, where the fraternity andnon-fraternity groups come together on a com-mon ground, thus serving to promote a moredemocratic atmosphere both on the campusand in the university generally .The committee herewith submits and files, as

a part of its report, a complete transcript of allthe evidence submitted, together with exhibitsattached thereto .

Very respectfully,

G E 0. H E A PFAber 5211Sta. 602

MCDONALD, chairman .BALLARD,

MEMMINGERNICHOLSRITZLEY

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UNIVERSITY O F OKLAHOMAAlumni Association.

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Beautiful 1FUL, FISH CANYON.

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T O THE L A D I E S

F A S H I O N H I N T

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Maurice Greer Smith

"LOW HEELS ARE THE MODE"(NOT THE HUSBANDS)

May

S H " I N FISH CANYON .

HIKING! HORSESHOES .' WHAT HAVE YOU:

( N 0 G O L F )

E A T S

BRING BASKET LUNCHES WI with CUPS.

COFFEE WI LL BE SERVED.

( NOTHING STRONGER )

BEON LO'C'ATION AT 10 O'CLOCK OR AS

SOON AFTER A S YOU CAN G E P THE KIDDIES

R ready D Y.

JOHN 3 H E L T O NFAber 5211Sta. 631

The Nebraska Alumnus in its Marchissue carries an appreciation of the lateDr Maurice Greer Smith, a graduate ofNebraska in the class of 1922 and headof the anthropology department of theuniversity until his death from typhoidfever last fall .The appreciation by a classmate,

Joseph G. Knapp, follows in part :As a student or player he was extremely

dynamic but his intense nervous energy wasgenerally rationally controlled .Having completed his work for the doctorate,

Maurice accepted a position as assistant profes-sor of sociology and anthropology at the Uni-versity of Colorado . I visited him there inthe summer of 1928 . He was not entirelysatisfied with the position for he wanted towork more exclusively in his chosen field, an-thropology. The "break" came in 1929 whenhe was offered an associate professorship andheadship of the department of anthropologyat the University of Oklahoma, an opportunityand location without equal to a man whoplanned to make himself the leading authorityon the Indians of North America .To my great pleasure this past summer fate

brought us together again in Washington, D .C . He had been invited to the bureau ofethnology to work over certain valuable manu-scripts on the Peyote Indians ; unfinished manu-scripts which had waiter) fifty years for a

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SOONER CLUB PREXIES

Sooner clubsare taking a lead in alumniaffairs and the more Soonerclubs, the better . Here arethe officers of three of themost active clubs in Oklaho-ma . The Tulsa club, of whichEarle Sneed, '13 arts-sc ., ispresident, is planning toestablish a scholarship forTulsa high school students .Mr Sneed's photograph isat the immediate right . Nextis Lee B . Thompson, '25arts-sc ., '27 law, presidentof the Oklahoma City Club .Below is Person Woodall,'27 law, president of theNorman club, who will bethe host-president at the an-nual commencement party inJune

man with great interest and ability. He wasalive to the opportunity and although he plan-ned to come back the following summer to domore, his only regret was that the days wereso short . He often talked about the Indianshe had investigated on field trips, the latestof which had been made prior to coming toWashington with a "grant-in-aid" from the Na-tional Research Council . He always respectedthe Indians and they in turn recognized in hima friend . He planned soon to push his re-search into Mexico .Not many weeks after our pleasant talks and

"bridge tournaments" last summer, Elna (MrsSmith) wrote to us that Maurice was in theuniversity infirmary with what the doctorsthought was typhoid fever . Shortly afterwardsthe sad news of his death on October 22 ar-rived .Maurice dead-impossible, now that he was

walking on the firm earth of recognition asone of the most promising anthropologists inAmerica .

Maurice Greer Smith was not only an in-tense student but he was a stimulating teacher .He knew the knack of making knowledge in

itself interesting . He had little patience withdullards but gave his energy freely to studentsof promise . In the classroom he was alert andsympathetic, the "natural born teacher ."

Although his friend for ten years I did notrealize how much he had accomplished inwriting until I began to look over the files ofsuch publications as the Journal of Social Forces,the American Economic Review, the Journalof Sociology and the American Anthropologist .In all of these publications Maurice had con-tributed many discerning and appreciative re-views and articles .

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Dr Edward Everett Dale, '11 arts-sc.,head of the history department, address-ed officials and employes of the South-western Bell Telephone Co. at Oklaho-ma City February 24 on "Frontier In-fluence on Present Day Life ."The United States and Russia are

emerging, as the leading industrial na-tions of the world, although by converseeconomic approaches, Dr Nathan A .Court, member of the mathematical fac-ulty, told the Norman Lions club Febru-ary 24 .

Thirty years of active service in thearmy will soon end the military careerof Sergeant Frederick C. Goodwin, mem-ber of the R. O. T. C. staff of the uni-versity for the past eleven years. Forhim was held a review of all the cadetsof the university unit March 3.Dr Carl C. Rister, associate professor

of history, will teach history at GeorgeWashington university this summer.Dr A. I. Ortenburger, associate profes-

sor of zoology and nationally known au-thority on reptiles, has obtained for thezoology department from the nationalmuseum at Washington a collection ofrare reptiles and amphibians of foreigncountries .B. A . Botkin, instructor in English and

editor of Folk Say who has been on

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leave of absence at the University ofNebraska will return to Norman to teachin the summer session.

President Bizzell was to discuss thefuture religious education in the schoolsat the annual spring meeting of the Tul-sa council of religious education April16 .Dr Forrest Clements, head of the an-

thropology department, is the author of"The Relation between Skin Color andTanning" in the April-June issue ofThe American Journal of Physical An-thropology .Col. John Alley, head of the school of

citizenship and public affairs, has beennamed a member of the constitutionalrevision committee by Governor Murray .Dr J. O. Hassler, professor of mathe-

matics and astronomy, has been electedpresident of the university chapter ofSigma Xi.Dr A. I. Ortenburger, associate profes-

sor of zoology, addressed the North Tex-as Biological society at Arlington, Texas,March 28 on "Poisonous Animals andtheir Venoms ."

Colonel John Alley, head of the schoolof citizenship and public affairs in theuniversity, has been named by GovernorMurray one of a committee of twenty-onestate leaders to suggest revision of theOklahoma constitution .Dr A . B . Adams, dean of the college

of business administration, addressed theTri-state wholesale credit men's associa-tion at Wichita March 16 on businessrecovery .Dr J. J . Rhyne, director of the school

of social service; is making a study ofthe Chickasha lynching (May, 1930 for,the national commission on interracialco-operation .Dr John T. Salter, formerly of the

department of government in the uni-

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SOONER MAYORS

Here are twoSooner mayors who gov-ern Oklahoma cities . At theright is Holly Anderson, '24law, mayor of Sand Springs,whose city recently celebratedthe opening of the new bridgeacross the Arkansas river andthe dedication of LoradoTaft's statue of Charles Page .Mayor Anderson was a prin-cipal fi ure in these ceremo-nies . ON his right is JackFoster, ex '29, mayor ofNorman, who was recentlyre-elected . It is a questionin Norman which is betterknown, Jack's own name orthe telephone number of hisbusiness, «600»

versity and now with the department ofgovernment of the University of Wis-consin, has been awarded a Social Sci-ence Research council fellowship forstudy in Europe next year .Dr Gustav Miiller, assistant professor

of philosophy, has been named theAmerican editor of Logos, German pro-fessional philosophy magazine, for theJanuary, 1932 issue .

All R . O. T. C. units of the countrywill use the textbook now being pre-pared by Major Edwin P. Parker, com-mandant of the R. O. T. C. at Nor-man, and Major Marvin C. Heyser ofthe field artillery school at Fort Sill .Loyd E. Harris, '20 pharm., M. S. '24,

professor of pharmacy, is chairman ofa committee that has completed a sylla-bus of courses required by the Ameri-can Association of Colleges of Pharmacy .Other members of the committee in-clude Professor Charles H. Stocking ofMichigan and Professor Edward Davyof Western Reserve.

Dean GilkeyDean Charles W. Gilkey, chaplain of

the University of Chicago, was to speakin Norman under the auspices of theschool of religion April 24 . The annualstate Y. M . C. A. conference will be heldat Norman April 24 and 25, and DeanGilkey is expected to address the visi-tors .

ReductionThe salary item of the university was

reduced by the state legislature by sevenand one-half per cent and the mainten-ance ten per cent. The bills were lump-ed and were so presented to Governor

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Murray . At this time (April 10) thegovernor has not acted on -the bill .The bill requiring legislative approval

of sabbatical leaves of absence was killed .The bill preventing teachers from accept-ing royalties from books, magazine ar-ticles, etc ., was also killed . The fraternitytax bill was also killed .

Russian inspectionFive representatives of the Russian

soviet republic visited the school of pe-troleum engineering March 12 . Theywere to visit while in America the pe-troleum engineering schools of the Uni-versity of California and of the Univer-sity of Pittsburgh .

Senator Hardin Ballard, '27 law, ofPurcell, introduced a bill in the Okla-homa senate to build dormitory build-ings at the university totaling $900,000 .

Social science meetingOne of the most important educational

meetings in the state this year was thetwelfth annual convention of the South-western Political and Social Science as-sociation in Oklahoma City April 3 and4. States represented were Oklahoma,Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Louisiana,Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Twelvefaculty members from the university ap-peared on the program. President Biz-zell presided at the annual luncheon .Dr J. F. Zimmerman, president of theUniversity of New Mexico, was electedpresident. Professor J. P. Allen of theUniversity of Oklahoma was elected third

vice president . President Bizzell is amember of the national board. The nameof the organization was changed to thatof the Southwestern Social Service as-sociation.

High school dramaThe annual one-act play tournament

sponsored by the school of dramatic artof the university was to be held in Nor-man April 9, 10, and 11 . Eliminationcontests were held in each of the eightdistricts of the state, with the followingschools as winners : Shidler, Ponca City,Laverne, Hammond, Duncan, Sulphur,and Webbers Falls. Heavener and Ida-bel were to enter the semi-finals to de-termine which school was to representthe district .

On tour

Easter vac

From Porto Rico

Mrs C. H. Clark, hostess of the PhiKappa Sigma fraternity, has been chosentour matron of a group of universitystudents who will tour Europe this sum-mer in a student travel club .

Easter holidays at the university be-gan at 5 o'clock Thursday, April 2 andcontinued until 8 o'clock the morningof April 7.

May

Muna Lee, ex '12, director of the bu-reau of international relations of theUniversity of Porto Rico, would haveenjoyed the debate on her old campusbetween the University of Oklahoma and

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University of Porto Rico debaters April1 . Antonio J. Colorado and VictorGutierrez won an audience decision rep-resenting the affirmative side of thequestion "That this house is opposedto the principle of prohibition." Thenegative was represented by EdwinBriggs and Charles Schwoerke.

Sigma Xi election

Sigma Xi announces the election of :Dr Nathan Altshiller Court, associateprofessor of mathematics; Dr Mark Reu-ben Everett, professor of biochemistry ;Dr Jens Rud Nielsen, professor ofphysics ; Dr Joseph Mario Thuringer,professor of histology; Dr Alvin LouisTurley, professor of pathology and au-thor of the recent University of Okla-homa monograph, "Jake Paralysis;" DrFred W. Padgett, professor of petroleumengineering .Dr J. O. Hassler, professor of mathe-

matics, was named president of the so-ciety to succeed Dr William Schriever,professor of physics and first presidentof the local society . Dr A. O. Weesewas elected vice president . Doctor Weeseis professor of zoology and succeeds Dr

FOR ST. PATRICK

The upperview shows the coronationof the queen and the presen-tation of St . Pat on the stepsof the engineering buildingthe morning of Friday, March13, formally opening the St .Pat celebration . Below, thearrival of Queen AntoinetteHalko at the engineeringbuilding

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Alma J. Neill . Dr Lloyd Swearingen,'20 sc ., M. S. '21, was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

New regent

Malcom Rosser, jr ., ex '21, of Musko-gee, was named regent of the universityto succeed John Rogers, '14 law, of Tulsa,whose term had expired. GovernorMurray's appointment was confirmed bythe state senate March 30 . Mr Rosser isa democrat, having been president of theMuskogee chapter of the OklahomaLeague of Young Democrats. Mr Rogerswas a republican . Mr Rosser is said tobe the youngest man ever appointed aregent, he being twenty-nine years ofage. He is a member of Kappa Sigmafraternity .

Junior college debaters

Seventy-nine debaters representing ju-nior colleges debated at the annual Okla-homa Junior College Forensic associationtournament at Norman March 30 andApril 1, under the supervision of theextension division . T. M. Beaird, '21arts-sc., director of the town and country

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service department of the extension di-vision, presided as toastmaster at the an-nual banquet the night of April 1 . Ok-mulgee junior college won the tourna-ment .

Strange interlude

Practically one hundred students par-ticipated in the Playhouse production ofThe Beggar on Horseback March 27 and28 . At the premier show, the play be-gan at 5 o'clock, with an interlude fordinner from 7 to 8 :15.

Art reading room

In keeping with the dignity of the in-terior of the school of art building, thehallway on the second floor has beenconverted into a reading room, withwainscoted walls and beamed ceilings .

Greek Comeback

Greek is making a comeback at theuniversity . This semester, 140 studentsare enrolled in Greek courses, Prof .Joseph F. Paxton, head of the depart-ment, states .

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GRADUATES IN EMBRYOPhi Beta KappaPhi Beta Kappa announced the election

on March 26 of six alumni, one honor-ary, six junior and twenty-four seniormembers. The alumni elected were :Association Secretary Frank Stuart Cleck-ler, '21 bus. ; Miss Dixie Young, '21 arts-sc ., M. A 22, assistant professor ofzoology ; Fred Bullard, '21 arts-sc., M. S.'22, associate professor of geology in theUniversity of Texas, Austin ; T. M.Beaird, '21 arts-sc., director of the de-partment of town and country serviceof the university extension division ; JesseLee Rader, '08 arts-sc., M. A. '13, li-brarian of the university ; Charles E.Rogers, '14 arts-sc., professor of journal-ism and director of the department atKansas State Agricultural college, Man-hattan . Grant Foreman of Muskogee,author, was elected to honorary member-ship. Dean Woolridge of Oklahoma Citywas the ranking junior . Other juniorselected were : Norman Futoransky ofOklahoma City ; Sam Minsky of Sapulpa;Jane Burton of Oklahoma City ; JackFischer of Amarillo, Texas ; John Wood-ward of Walters.Members of the class of '31 elected

were : Carl Albert of McAlester, Rhodesscholar-elect from the Gulf States dis-trict ; Margaret Brauer of Norman ; Wal-don Cooley of McKinney, Texas; Ma-urine Starns Cunningham of OklahomaCity ; Robert Drake of Muskogee ; Ger-trude Flanagan of Norman; MarthaFoster of Oklahoma City ; Hazel Jose-phine Graham of Wilson ; ElizabethHayes of Webster Grove, Missouri ; MaryEvlyn Hayes of McLoud; J. Edgar Hes-ton of Westville; Louis Johnson of Nor-man ; Virginia Kramer of Bristow;Catherine Ellen Leavitt of Oklahoma

IN MERGER

Two Sooners were affected in a news-paper consolidation at ElPaso, Texas, April 2 . Dor-rance Roderick, '22 journ .,left, purchased from his as-sociates in the Lindsay NunnCo. their interests in theMorning and Sunday -Times -Wallace Perry, '07 arts-sc .,right, editor of the -El PasoPost, becomes editor of the-El Paso Herald-Post* as theresult of the purchase by the-Post- of the -El Paso Her-ald- which Mr Roderick hadedited

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City ; Joseph Lee of Guthrie, Rhodesscholar candidate from the university for1930 and scholar-elect in phychology atClark university ; Dorothy Manes of Nor-man ; Vivien Milburn of Norman, wifeof George Milburn, ex '30, the author ;Elsie Montgomery of Darrouzett, Texas ;Miriam Moyer of Gage ; Charles O'Learyof Norman; John Staley of OklahomaCity ; Elizabeth Stewart of Chelsea ; Ed-gar Wardner of Hobart .

Greek grades took a sharp upwardturn last semester, as did the generaluniversity average, according to gradesummaries released early in April. Thelowest women's fraternity average, how-ever, was higher than the highest men'sfraternity average.Taking three as the highest possible

grade, representing A, the general aver-age for all university students is 1.003,according to Registrar George Wadsack,ex '15 . The average for all womenstudents is 1 .4, while that for all menis .829 . Five thousand students took69,883 hours of work, or practically allstudents in the university carried fullwork . Women made their highest houraverage in B, while the greatest numberof hours for men were in the C group.The hour total for the university fol-lows :

The average number of hours car-ried by each student was fourteen .

The average for the fraternities, with

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their ranking the second semester of lastyear, follows :

WOMEN

In The Sooner Magazine for Novem-ber, 1930, page 42, the rankings for thesecond semester of 1930 include SigmaAlpha Mu, which ranked first. The S.A . M. average was not announced in theinterfraternity average, since the frater-nity is not a member of that group.Consequently, the rankings given abovefor the second semester of last year are

POINTS FRATERNITY RANKLast Second

Semester Semester1930

1 .779 Phi Mu 1 131 .729 Alpha Xi Delta 2 51 .696 Sigma Delta Tau 3 91 .682 Kappa Kappa Gamma 4 11 .604 Delta Delta Delta 5 121 .581 Kappa Alpha Theta 6 71 .566 Alpha Chi Omega 7 61 .553 Delta Gamma 8 21 .529 Alpha Phi 9 41 .512 Pi Beta Phi 10 81 .501 Kappa Upsilon 11 101 .490 Alpha Omicron Pi 12 111 .476 Alpha Gamma Delta 13 141 .384 Chi Omega 14 31 .365 Gamma Phi Beta 15 15

MEN1 .330 Phi Gamma Delta 1 81 .248 Beta Theta Pi 2 51 .104 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 3 131.095 Delta Tau Delta 4 201 .010 Kappa Sigma 5 12.985 Sigma Chi 6 14.927 Lambda Chi Alpha 7 17.879 Pi Kappa Alpha 8 1.869 Phi Delta Theta 9 4.851 Delta Upsilon 10 15.837 Phi Beta Delta 11 3.815 Acacia 12 6.814 Kappa Alpha 13 7.756 Phi Kappa Sigma 14 10.736 Sigma Mu Sigma 15 16.727 Phi Kappa Psi 16 9.6587 Pi Kappa Phi 17 18.6586 Sigma Nu 18 11.593 Alpha Sigma Phi 19 21565 Alpha Tau Omega 20 2.510 Delta Chi 21 19

WOMEN MENA 3,637 5.608B 7,975 12,708C 5,752 13,604D 2,192 8,247E 372 1,436F 1,277 7.043

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DAILY EDITOR

Dick Pearce,'31 journ ., of El Reno, editorof -The Oklahoma Daily-, isstaying on the job, despitethe fact that an inquiry wasdirected by the men's coun-cil at his editorial policy .The inquiry, however, failedto shake confidence of thepublication board in this cap-able young editor

one less than that given in the Novemberissue, in which Sigma Alpha Mu wascounted.

Mortar Board prexyMrs F. D. Coleman of Lincoln, Ne-

braska, national president of MortarBoard, inspected on March 14 the uni-versity chapter of the honorary fraternity .Delta Delta Delta was her host and PiBeta Phi gave her a buffet dinner .

ProspectorMiss Gertrude S. Fields, '32 geol ., of

Norman, looked for the pot of gold andfound it . While living in Oklahoma Cityshe heard stories about strikes in the Ar-buckle mountains of southern Oklahomaof gold, silver and zinc . Interested, MissFields got a divided skirt, a geologist'shammer and a tent and started prospect-ing in the Arbuckles. As the result ofher search, she discovered zinc in themountains in 1912 . Her find was de-veloped commercially, and from the pro-ceeds of such development, Miss Fieldshas paid her way through the university .After graduation, she intends to developan oil tract in New Mexico .

Unlucky FridayFriday the thirteenth of February

proved an unlucky day in the calendar ofProf . R. H. Richards, director of the gleeclub . For on that day, the club he hadcoached placed third in the annual Mis-souri Valley competition at Lawrence,Kansas . Washington university placed

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first, Bethel collegg second . In the pre-vious two years, Oklahoma placed first .

Pig dinnerState alumni and other notables at-

tended the annual Norris pig dinner ofPhi Gamma Delta in Oklahoma CityMarch 14 . The dinner has been cele-brated annually during the past twenty-five years in honor of Frank Norris,the author . Speakers included MikeMonroney, '23 journ., president of theDoc & Bill Furniture Co., of OklahomaCity .

OfficersAlvin Muldrow, '32 arts-sc., Norman,

was elected vice president of the inter-fraternity council, succeeding Ernie Hill,'32 journ., resigned . Mr Muldrow is aBeta Theta Pi ; MR Hill, a Sigma Chi.

Hurst Swiggart, '33 law, of Tryon,was elected president of the Athenaenliterary society.

On sleepA note for those who sleep :You can do efficient work on eight or

six hours of sleep. Cut it down lowerthan that and your efficiency will becorrespondingly decreased. However,your efficiency will not be materiallyaffected after a period of short sleep ifyou have several nights of normal sleep .These and other interesting conclusionswere reached as the result of the experi-ments in sleep of a psychology studentof the university, John Anthony, '32 arts-

sc ., of Tulsa, whose observations covera period of thirty-three days, in whichhe observed the effects on his efficiencyof varying amounts of sleep.

Like Phi Bete keyWhile fraternity grades certainly would

not admit fraternities into Phi Beta Kap-pa membership, the badge of interfra-ternity council members will be a keyclosely resembling the Phi Beta Kappakey, it has been announced.

Alpha Xi Delta fireSparks from the chimney on March

17 caused $2,500 damage to the AlphaXi Delta fraternity house at Norman .

Many suspendedSeventy-three students were suspended

March 28 by the university for un-atis-factory work .

By radio

Contract renewed

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It was March 27 before Hicks Epton,university debater, learned the result ofthe one-man debate he had with a repre-sentative of the Kent law school of Chi-cago there January 25 . Epton won thedecision, the returns being by radio.

The athletic association has renewedits contract with the student associationfor next year to operate all student coun-cil dances . The athletic association lost$1,500 on this year's concession but hopesto make up the loss .

To Mexico al frescoHitch hiking to Mexico may not be

appealing to all but it was a charmingadventure to Bonner Hooks, '33 bus., ofNorman, formerly secretary to Associa-tion Secretary Cleckler. Mr Hooks leftNorman March 21 for Mexico and sev-eral clays later arrived in Mexico City,where he will continue his education.

The engineer's celebrationOn the morning of March 11, it ap-

peared that the long-standing rivalry ofthe lawyers and the engineers would getinto the headlines again. Green sham-rocks had been painted on the law barnduring the night. Lawyers disclaimedresponsibility and green-shirted en-gineers with turpentine and paint thin-ner began the hard task of removing thenight's symptoms of St . Pat. Lawyerscuriously watched the cleaning processand gave oral encouragement, much to

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the pleasure of the members of the en-gineer's club .The afternoon of the twelfth, Queen

Antoinette Halko was found missing.Several young men came to the librarywhere she was working and asked herto come with them . Lawyers quicklydisclaimed responsibility . Telephonecalls all over the state on the part ofengineers soon brought the whereaboutsof the queen. She had been taken toOklahoma City by several lawyers ontheir own responsibility and was return-ed to the school that evening after hav-ing a pleasant time .The coronation ceremonies took place

the thirteenth on the steps of the en-gineering building . Dean Felgar, quar-ter century Sooner, spoke. Dress suitswere sparse at the engineer's dance thatnight. The banquet on Saturday night

at the McFarlin Memorial church closedthe celebration, generally voted the mostsuccessful St . Pat's celebration at the uni-versity .

No Gridiron

Hard times have caused the membersof Sigma Delta Chi to postpone whatwould have been the twelfth annualGridiron dinner until next year . TheGridiron is the oldest "razz" dinner inOklahoma . It will not be abandoned bythe fraternity, Clarence Frost, '31 journ .,president of the chapter, announces.

Honored

Sam Alexander, '31 eng., OklahomaCity, is one of six students selected fromthe universities of the United States toreceive scholarships awarded annually byTau Beta Pi, national honorary engineer-ing fraternity . Mr Alexander is a mem-

GUGGENHEIM FELLOW

Dr Jens Rud Niel-sen, professor of physics, and oneof the most brilliant physicists inAmerica, was a recipient of a Gug-Guggenhiem fellowship announced on

arch 31 . Doctor Nielsen, an exstudent of Nils Bohr and R . A .Millikan, will work on the Ramanspectra and molecular work. He isa native of Denmark and gained hisnaturalization papers since comingto Norman in 1924 . He came toAmerica in 1923 on a ScandinavianAmerican fellowship

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bar of the university chapter of the fra-ternity. The scholarship of $750 .00,which begins next fall, entitles him to ayear of study at any university in thecountry. He has chosen the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology at Boston,where he will do research work on theproblem of "Power Transmission andCommunication." The winner is a mem-ber of Phi Beta Delta, social fraternity ;Phi Eta Sigma, national honorary fresh-man fraternity ; Sigma Tau, national hon-orary engineering fraternity, and Pe-et,university senior honorary leadership fra-ternity.Bob Weidman, '31 arts-sc., brilliant

language student has received a fellowshipin the University of Zurich Switzerland,where he will go next year to study. Heis a member of Delta Tau Delta fratern-ity.

Joseph Lee, '31 arts-sc., brilliant studentin philosophy and psychology, has receiv-ed an unusual distinction in a fellow-ship in psychology at Clark university.He is a member of Delta Chi fraternity.Usually, such fellowships are for personsholding master's degrees. Mr Lee willread for his master's degree at Clark,however.All three men were nominated by the

university to be candidates in the Rhodesscholarship competition, Mr Alexanderhaving been a candidate two years ago,the others last year . All three are mem-bers of Phi Beta Kappa.

Menless dinners

Sad news for the Kappas, and the TriDelts and the A. O. Pi's : the pan hel-lenic council has ruled that they may nothave Sunday dinner dates for the restof the semester for infringement ofpledging rules .

SOONER TO SOONERBig Sixteen

In Cairo

May

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 17 .You will be interested in a project car-

ried out in Milwaukee by alumni of BigSix and Big Ten schools living in Mil-waukee .Alumni of the sixteen schools got to-

gether and formed an organizationknown as the "Big Sixteen" for socialpurposes . The first social affair held bythe group was on February 6, in the formof a dance, which was attended by largegroups from each school . Oklahoma hadthe smallest representation at the dance,but the largest percentage of any school .Three of the four Oklahoma alumni reg-istered in Milwaukee attended the dance.Those present were : Mr and Mrs LeoMorrison, '25 bus and '27 fine arts, re-spectively, and Kieran Morrison, '26journ. Ingram X. Calhoun, '28 is theonly other Oklahoma alumni registeredhere .

Plans are being made for another danceto be held shortly after Easter. As aresult of the big success of the first dancealumni are eagerly looking forward tothe second one. The first dance wasliterally the "talk of the town" for twoweeks before it occurred .The hall was profusely decorated with

pennants of all the schools and the dancehad the atmosphere of a regular collegeaffair, minus the drinking .

I look forward each month to the ar-rival of the Sooner Magazine . It furnishesone with the one close link to O. U., andserves to help keep alive the old Soonerspirit .

KIERAN MORRISON, '28 .

Cairo, Egypt, February 1 .It paid me to enroll as a life member

in the O. U. Association, for ever sincedoing so not one number of the maga-zine has missed me . A record! TheSooner Magazine is interesting, somethingunheard of in today's competition fromso many similar angles of life .

Over here in King Tut's habitat thesun pours down his arch rays in goldensplendor and it seems hard to realizethat the month is February . Up to nowI've been most busy at the opera house,so have not seen very many of the largenumber of interesting things in Cairo.Shall be here at the Royal Opera untilMarch 15, but please always address meand under my Italian stage name, to Mi-lano, Italy cr . American Express.

In Cairo I've had great success in mywork . The other first leading tenor gota badly infected leg a month ago. Thiscaused a gap at the opera house. But

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JAP'S HOPE

Glen Cannon, right, is Jap Haskell'stwirling hope in the currentbaseball season . Mr Cannonis captain of the Sooner nine

I knew his operas, stepped in and in six-teen evenings I sang twelve performances :Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, AnimaAllegra and La Boheme. A record forendurance, they tell me . At least, "norest for the wicked."

JOE BENTON, '30.

A question of allegianceStillwater, March 7-Being a

graduateate of twouniversities andA.& M. here,I find it difficult to decide where mygreatest allegiance depends, but the mostsatisfying and convincing factor thatwould determine my allegiance is thewholehearted support a former institu-tion has rendered me and that at timesOklahoma U. was the last university thatI graduated from and I did it more forthe support that I thought I would getthan anything else . We are all proneto have a peculiar acute feeling for ourstrongest and most loyal friends. Thereare friends and friends ; but a real friendis one who helps you, unsolicited andout of a whole heart, without any hopeof future recompense .Many alumni get poisoned with a lit-

tle success, popularity and a special reserv-ed few who must have all the big plumsand the culls and undesirable can be hadby those desiring such . This panic isof great service to many, a service thatreally is not appreciated . It is pullingman closer to man, but the bitter of itis that man is being forced to get closerto his fellowman, notwithstanding anyprevious social rank, status or socialpolitical, religious or financial service.Aristocracy is synonymous with destruc-tion .

As to my dues in the organization : Iam aware that dues must be paid orsomething might happen to those in

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official positions. If those that are servedcannot keep up the organization I do notsee why those not served should assist .Service will get support, like begets likein season and out. But here is hopingthat a more democratic spirit actuatesthe future motives of all alumni .

J. P. COWAN, M. S. in Ed. '23 .

For the MagazineScarsdale, New York, April 1-I'm all

for The Sooner Magazine and I couldn'tdo without mine . My husband gets abig kick out of the way I fairly devourit when it first comes into the house.MRS PERRY DAVIS, (Natalie Broach), '27

fine arts .

Washington, D. C., March 28-I havejust received your bill for three dollarsfor "annual alumni dues : I have neverpromised to pay the Association threedollars or any other sum, so I don't oweyou a cent ." But your "high powered"propaganda would make Calvin Cool-idge come through-in the heyday of hisso-called economy.

EDWARD MULLINS, '22 bus.

SPORTS OF ALL SORTS

The newly elected tennis captain isCrawford Bennett of Oklahoma City,veteran of two Big Six championshipseasons for the Sooners. Ed Overholser,also of Oklahoma City, was elected 1931captain last year, but became ineligibleat the close of the first semester . Re-turning lettermen to assist Bennett are

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Charles Davis, Oklahoma City, and EmilHastings, Tulsa, who won their firstletters last fall .

CaptainsVarsity basketball and wrestling teams

attended honor dinners March 12 andelected next year's captains . GordonGraalman, Blackwell, was elected to pilotthe capers when the team was fetedwith a dinner at the Pi Kappa Alphafraternity house. Graalman did not be-come eligible until the second semesterof this year, but while he played hescored more points than any other Soon-er . Season reviewers recalled his hard-driving floor work that inspired Okla-homa to beat Kansas 33 to 30 .

Elton Eubanks, Devol, was electedcaptain at the dinner honoring the wrest-ling team given by Sigma Mu Sigma.Last year he won 10 out of 12 matchesand this season he went undefeatedthrough six matches, being kept out oftwo others by injuries . In his six matcheshe won four by pinning opponents'shoulders and won the other two bylarge time advantages .

BaseballVeteran railbirds have been watching

with interest the early practices of Coach"Jap" Haskell's baseball team as springarrives, pitchers heave, basemen scamperand outfielders rove, heralding the com-ing season . Last year the team sharedthe top position of the Big Six loop withthe Kansas Aggies .Not many holes were left in the team

by commencement exercises except inthe pitching department . Captain GlenCannon, Sapulpa, is the only lettermanpitcher on the lot, but a flock of eligiblemoundmen are working out. They in-clude Bennett, Young, Bell, Brand andRoetzel.

Veterans reporting for practice are:Watson, catcher, Newman, first base, Lo-baugh, second base, May, shortstop, Millsand Chappell, outfielders . May has ful-ly recovered from a hip injury that kepthim off the basketball floor all winter .The only gap left in the infield is atthird base, played last year by Carl Hog-ge .Home games are scheduled with Kan-

sas Aggies, Missouri and Iowa State."

WrestlingTo all-victorious 175-pound Phil Ber-

ry went the title of "most outstandingand valuable wrestler" of the past sea-son when members of the team cast bal-lots for the season's honor matman . Hewas the only Sooner to gain a victory

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JAP'S HOPE

Glen Cannon, right, is Jap Haskell'stwirling hope in the currentbaseball season . Mr Cannonis captain of the Sooner nine

I knew his operas, stepped in and in six-teen evenings I sang twelve performances :Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, AnimaAllegra and La Boheme. A record forendurance, they tell me . At least, "norest for the wicked."

JOE BENTON, '30.

A question of allegianceStillwater, March 7-Being a

graduateate of twouniversities andA.& M. here,I find it difficult to decide where mygreatest allegiance depends, but the mostsatisfying and convincing factor thatwould determine my allegiance is thewholehearted support a former institu-tion has rendered me and that at timesOklahoma U. was the last university thatI graduated from and I did it more forthe support that I thought I would getthan anything else . We are all proneto have a peculiar acute feeling for ourstrongest and most loyal friends. Thereare friends and friends ; but a real friendis one who helps you, unsolicited andout of a whole heart, without any hopeof future recompense .Many alumni get poisoned with a lit-

tle success, popularity and a special reserv-ed few who must have all the big plumsand the culls and undesirable can be hadby those desiring such . This panic isof great service to many, a service thatreally is not appreciated . It is pullingman closer to man, but the bitter of itis that man is being forced to get closerto his fellowman, notwithstanding anyprevious social rank, status or socialpolitical, religious or financial service.Aristocracy is synonymous with destruc-tion .

As to my dues in the organization : Iam aware that dues must be paid orsomething might happen to those in

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official positions. If those that are servedcannot keep up the organization I do notsee why those not served should assist .Service will get support, like begets likein season and out. But here is hopingthat a more democratic spirit actuatesthe future motives of all alumni .

J. P. COWAN, M. S. in Ed. '23 .

For the MagazineScarsdale, New York, April 1-I'm all

for The Sooner Magazine and I couldn'tdo without mine . My husband gets abig kick out of the way I fairly devourit when it first comes into the house.MRS PERRY DAVIS, (Natalie Broach), '27

fine arts .

Washington, D. C., March 28-I havejust received your bill for three dollarsfor "annual alumni dues : I have neverpromised to pay the Association threedollars or any other sum, so I don't oweyou a cent ." But your "high powered"propaganda would make Calvin Cool-idge come through-in the heyday of hisso-called economy.

EDWARD MULLINS, '22 bus.

SPORTS OF ALL SORTS

The newly elected tennis captain isCrawford Bennett of Oklahoma City,veteran of two Big Six championshipseasons for the Sooners. Ed Overholser,also of Oklahoma City, was elected 1931captain last year, but became ineligibleat the close of the first semester . Re-turning lettermen to assist Bennett are

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Charles Davis, Oklahoma City, and EmilHastings, Tulsa, who won their firstletters last fall .

CaptainsVarsity basketball and wrestling teams

attended honor dinners March 12 andelected next year's captains . GordonGraalman, Blackwell, was elected to pilotthe capers when the team was fetedwith a dinner at the Pi Kappa Alphafraternity house. Graalman did not be-come eligible until the second semesterof this year, but while he played hescored more points than any other Soon-er . Season reviewers recalled his hard-driving floor work that inspired Okla-homa to beat Kansas 33 to 30 .

Elton Eubanks, Devol, was electedcaptain at the dinner honoring the wrest-ling team given by Sigma Mu Sigma.Last year he won 10 out of 12 matchesand this season he went undefeatedthrough six matches, being kept out oftwo others by injuries . In his six matcheshe won four by pinning opponents'shoulders and won the other two bylarge time advantages .

BaseballVeteran railbirds have been watching

with interest the early practices of Coach"Jap" Haskell's baseball team as springarrives, pitchers heave, basemen scamperand outfielders rove, heralding the com-ing season . Last year the team sharedthe top position of the Big Six loop withthe Kansas Aggies .Not many holes were left in the team

by commencement exercises except inthe pitching department . Captain GlenCannon, Sapulpa, is the only lettermanpitcher on the lot, but a flock of eligiblemoundmen are working out. They in-clude Bennett, Young, Bell, Brand andRoetzel.

Veterans reporting for practice are:Watson, catcher, Newman, first base, Lo-baugh, second base, May, shortstop, Millsand Chappell, outfielders . May has ful-ly recovered from a hip injury that kepthim off the basketball floor all winter .The only gap left in the infield is atthird base, played last year by Carl Hog-ge .Home games are scheduled with Kan-

sas Aggies, Missouri and Iowa State."

WrestlingTo all-victorious 175-pound Phil Ber-

ry went the title of "most outstandingand valuable wrestler" of the past sea-son when members of the team cast bal-lots for the season's honor matman . Hewas the only Sooner to gain a victory

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in the match with National ChampionOklahoma Aggies . Observers were call-ing him the greatest Sooner wrestler ofall time in his weight .The curtailment program of Oklaho-

ma athletics kept the team home fromthe national tournament at Providence,R . 1 . and the National A. A. U. meetat Grand Rapids, Mich . Director ofAthletics Ben G . Owen said the tripwould keep the wrestlers too long fromtheir studies.

Wrestling Alumnus Hugh Cunning-ham had a crack at the world's light-heavyweight championship at OklahomaCity March 14 when he met ChampionCharley Fischer. Cunningham held thechampion 37 minutes before losing thefirst fall . After another 20 minutes helost another fall and a chance for thethrone .

Polo

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Attendance

Eastern polo fans may see the Uni-versity of Oklahoma team in action atthe exclusive Intercollegiate Polo tourna-ment at Cedarhurst, Long Island June13 to 20 if Coach Jerome J. Waters canraise $3,000 for his team to make thetrip . Captain Waters has written toprominent state sportsmen concerningfunds. Frank S. O'Reilly of New York,treasurer of the association, wrote toWaters, prominent nationally as a horse-man, asking the Sooner team to enterthe tournament . The manager of thePrinceton polo team wrote Captain Wat-ers proposing a Princeton-Sooner gameas the feature event of Princeton com-mencement weekend program.

Colorado Aggie malletmen will be inNorman for two games April 9 and 10 .Other home matches include two withthe University of Missouri April 18 and20, two with New Mexico Military in-stitute on April 25 and 27, and twowith the University of Arizona May 16and 18 . Last year Sooners rode to vic-tory over Missouri, N. M. M. I., and lostto Arizona.

Lettermen will now have life-time seatsat athletic events with life-time tickets .Athletic Association Member GeorgeWadsack has just received indestructiblelife passes for lettermen, which will bedistributed to those entitled to havethem .

Total attendance at basketball gamesthis season was 37,244, or about twothousand less than for the year 1929-30,according to Ben G. Owen, director of

athletics . The average attendance ateach game was 2,199. The highest at-tendance was 3,108 at the OklahomaAggie game at Norman . The attendancefigures for this season were:

Texas meetsEight Oklahoma tracksters went to the

Southwestern exposition at Fort WorthMarch 14 for their first outdoor competi-tion of the year and finished in secondplace when all eight scored points . MilerDawson got a first place and BruceChoate was tied for first place in thepole-vault and won second in the highjump. The Sooner mile relay team wasthird and Melt was second in the broadjump.

Thirteen men were entered in threerelays and two field events in the Texasand Rice relays . Their results came toolate for this issue .The Kansas and Drake relays, dual

meets with Kansas Aggies, OklahomaAggies, and a tentative contest with somestate teachers college remain on theSooner schedule .

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Every member of the Sooner three-man swimming team placed at the BigSix meet at Kansas City March 14 and

Oklahoma finished in fourth place.

Mur-ray McDonald, Oklahoma City, set anew conference record of 1 :05 in the 100-yard freestyle, nosed out teammate Cap-tain Shelby Marr to win the 50-yardfreestyle and finished second in the 220-yard race . Marr took second in the 50-yard swim and Gene Hemry fancy-dived to fourth place.When the men got back to Norman

they met to elect Point Winner Mc-Donald captain of next year's team, thenhung up the 1931 suits. Bruce Drake,instructor in physical education, wascoach. Members of this year's team ownthe only four "O"'s given swimmers .Marr, who won the only letter givenlast year, now wears two stripes .

Conference indoor meet

May

Track Coach John Jacobs took hissquad of 17 to the Big Six indoor meetat Columbia, Mo . March 7 and finishedin second place. Nebraska won the meet .Oklahoma nosed out Kansas and IowaState with points won in late events .This marked the return of Oklahoma tothe top section after being jolted to fifthplace last year . Sooners had won thethree previous annual contests .Clifford Melt set a new

conference record when he broad-jumped 23

feet,

10'/inches . Other first places were won bythe relay team of Potts, Abbott, Cherryand Melt, by Glen Dawson in the milerun, and by Bruce Choate, who tied forfirst place in the high jump with Leeof Nebraska . Dawson finished secondto Iowa State's great Putnam in the two-mile run. Fred Cherry was second bestin the quarter-mile and wee Bus Moorefinished number 3 in the 880-yard run.Morris was fourth in the broad jump and

CAPTAIN-ELECT

GordonGraalman, '32, of Blackwell,is the captain of the 1932Sooner Macketeers . Despitethe fact that he was benchedthe first semester, Mr

GraalGraalman made a spectacular rec-ord during the period of thesecond semester, when hisineligibility was removed

Opponents Here ThereMissouri 2,517 2,592Kansas 2,193 2,676Nebraska 2,366 3,073Kansas State 1,871 2,036Iowa State 1,871 2,036Texas, two games _ 3,000Bethany 1,989 ----Southern Methodist, two games 1,598Washburn - -- 753Oklahoma Aggies 3,108 3,000

Totals 17,686 19,558

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Newblock was tied for third place inthe high jump .

Intramural boxingThe all-school boxing tournament this

year brought out some of the best fight-ers ever seen in a Sooner ring and a rec-ord number of 2,000 fight fans came tosee the bouts. The tournament wascharacterized by evenly matched fights,close decisions and numerous knockouts.Charlie Teel successfully defended hisheavyweight crown .

Big Six codeWhen the faculty representatives of Big

Six schools ended their quarter annualmeet at Norman late in March the con-ference had a standard code of athleticswhich was specially prepared to eliminatesubsidization, recruiting and migration ofathletes .The new code says that alumni, friends

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and members of athletic staffs will placetheir schools open to suspension if evi-dence of recruiting is proved . Recruitingwas defined as urging prospective studentsto enroll without first receiving direct in-quiries from the boys ; promising employ-ment, loans, scholarships or remissions offees for prospective students ; and indirect-ly contacting students by suggesting toalumni or friends that they endeavor torecruit them .The conference officials voted to allow

scheduled contests between "B" teams inall branches of sports, leaving the matteroptional with each school . Bennie Owenannounced that Oklahoma would sched-ule no "B" team contests.

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Women's basketballSorority houses and women's dormi-

dormitories sent husky teams to the basketballfloor of the Fieldhouse for the intramuraltournament . In -the finals, RobertsonHall outscored Delta Delta Delta 29 to15 for the school championship .

Let's return Commencement

What's wrong with Commence-ment at the University of Oklahoma?Why do alumni not return for it? InEastern schools the crowds of alumni farexceed the number who return for Home-coming . In fact, Commencement is thebig Homecoming .These questions have been discussed

by Association officers during the pastyear . Commencement should be the bigalumni period, if there is any period thatshould attract former students to the uni-versity . And it has not been heretofore .How shall it be made so this year? How

may alumni be induced to return thisCommencement?

First step in the program now beingplanned to draw the largest Commence-ment crowd in history will be to bring theclass of 1906 back to the campus June 7-every member of that group, if possible ."This year we plan to concentrate on

the quarter century classes," states Asso-ciation Secretary Frank Cleckler . "Ofcourse, we will expect as many others ofthe five year classes to return as can. Butwe want to assure one class at least, ofa full and complete reunion. And our ex-perience in previous years indicates thatit is far better to try and get a completeclass turnout instead of small groups ofother classes."The class of '06, then, it is hoped, will

have a unanimous return . The Guy Y.

Williamses, loyal members of that class,promise that there will be no lack of goodentertainment for their fellow classmates .The program has not been completed, butit is now being planned.The five year classes, of course, will be

those of 1926, 1921, 1916, 1911, 1906, 1901,1896 .For members of those classes there is a

first class Commencement program on thepart of the university already prepared ;while Norman alumni, hosts to the alumniat the annual party, are to meet April 21at the call of Person Woodall, '27 law,president of the Norman Sooner club, tolay plans for the entertainment .The Right Reverend Thomas Casady,

bishop of Oklahoma for the Episcopalchurch, will be the baccalaureate speakeron Sunday, June 7. The alumni partytakes place June 8, with the annual meet-ing of the Association and of the Asso-ciation executive board . Then there willfollow new and interesting featuresplanned by Norman alumni . All alumniprograms, it is planned, will be held inthe Oklahoma Union building, generalheadquarters of the Association .

Pat Neff, former governor of Texasand an able speaker, will deliver the Com-mencement address in the fieldhouse June9. His speech will be worth any one'stime .

President Bizzell and the members of

the board of regents are expected to beguests of the Association at the alumniluncheon June 8.You should begin to lay your plans to

attend now. Certainly, if you have anyloyalty to the school, you should showsome of it in some way. There has beenan amazing silence on the part of alumni(luring the recent crisis through which theuniversity passed . It is so convenient ifyou live in Tulsa or Oklahoma City orArdmore to pack the family in the familycar and drive to Norman . Accommoda-tions for you are assured for the threedays or for the alumni day, if you cancome for only one day.

For Buchanan fund

The class of '31 has announced that itwill contribute to the Buchanan Me-morial fund the proceeds of the annualsenior class dance May 1, such contri-bution to be the class memorial . Plansfor senior day are being made by GradyFox, class president .

Solicitation for the Buchanan fund hasbeen held in abeyance by the Universityof Oklahoma Association, due to the un-settled political condition of the univer-sity . The campaign is expected to beginshortly, however.

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Due to curtailed finances, the athleticassociation of the University of Oklaho-ma will not have "B" teams next year,Athletic Director Ben G. Owen has an-nounced .

Broader subject selection and higheraccomplishments from candidates forgraduate degrees from the university areurged in a report made to Dean HomerDodge of the graduate school by a com-mittee of which Dr Charles M. Perry,head of the philosophy department ischairman .

Substitution of the conference plan forthe lecture system is urged by HamiltonHolt of Rollins college in World Unityfor February . "The lecture system isprobably the worst scheme ever devisedfor imparting knowledge. Under therecitation system, the professor is littlemore than a detective trying to find outthe student's degree of unfaithfulness ."

Classes as such will cease at the Uni-versity of Chicago in adopting a plansomewhat similar to Wisconsin's

experimentalinental college . Great new quadrangleswill be constructed by the university andaround these student life will be centered .Faculty and students will work together,the former in a supervisory way.