Three Sooner library leaders-TRUBY PH0TO

CARL H . MILAM, '07, SECRETARY OF THE

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, JESSE L.

RADER, '09, LIBRARIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY,

AND MILTON J. FERGUSON, '01, LIBRARIAN

OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, HOLD THEIR

OWN REUNION AT THE LIBRARY DEDICATION

SERVICES

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APRIL CALENDAR

April 1. President Bizzell will addressthe State Federation of Women's Clubsat Enid . Subject, "The Need of a Col-lege Education."

April 3-4-5. The state drama contestwill be held at the fine arts auditorium .April 3. The Playhouse presents the

winning play in the first state play writingcontest, A Certain Young Widow, byJohn Woodworth, fine arts auditorium .

April 4. Phi Gamma Delta house dance.Oklahoma relay meet for high schools .Sigma Chi house dance. Beta Theta Pidance at the College shop.

April 6. President Bizzell will speak atAll Soul's Unitarian church in Tulsa.Subject, "Education ."

April 7-11 . Medical short course, Uni-versity Medical School, Oklahoma City .

April 8. Installation of Sigma. Xi.April 9. Illustrated lecture by Oscar

B. Jacobson on "Pictures" in lecture hallof the art building .

April 10 . Concert, university band,auditorium .

April 11-12. Baseball, University ofOklahoma and K. S. A. C. at Norman .

April 11 . Second annual Art Masqueball, Union ballroom . Phi Delta Thetahouse dance . Delta Tau Delta dance atthe College shop .

April 12 . Dual track meet, Universityof Oklahoma and K. S. A. C. at Man-hattan . Phi Kappa Psi house dance. Sig-ma Alpha Epsilon dance at the Collegeshop.

April 15-16-17. Gas meter short courseat the engineering auditorium .

April 15 . President Bizzell will giveaddress of welcome at gas meter shortcourse . Sigma Delta Chi annual grid-iron banquet. Theta Sigma Phi annualWaffle Iron banquet, "The Scoop" NightClub, in the Union ballroom .April 17 . Tennis, University of Okla-

homa and K. S. A . C. at Norman.

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April 18-19. Kansas relays at Lawrence .April 18 . Acacia house dance.April 19 . Kappa Alpha house dance .April 21-22 . Baseball, University of Ok-

lahoma and Iowa State college at Nor-man.

April 21 . Tennis, University of Okla-homa and University of Nebraska at Nor-man .

April 23 . Lecture in art building by'Miss Edith Mahier on "Symbolism," at8 p. m.

April 2.3-24. Baseball, University ofOklahoma and University of Nebraskaat Norman .

April 25-26. Drake relays at DesMoines . Soonerland Follies, fine artsauditorium .

April 26 . Kappa Sigma dance at theCollege shop . Sigma Mu Sigma danceat the Teepee .

APRIL WNAD PROGRAM

500 watts, 1010 kilocyclesAll hours given are p. m.

Tuesday, April 1 . 7 :15-9 :00 Radio debate be-tween Lindsay high school and Moore highschool on the state high school question ;"Resolved : That Installment Buying of Per-sonal Property as now Practiced in theUnited States is both Socially and Economi-cally Desirable."

Wednesday, April 2. 7:15-7 :30 Sooner radio-grams (Campus news events) .7:30-7 :40 J. H. Craven, landscape gardener,"Landscape Arrangement."7:40-7 :50 G. V. Metzel, general secretaryof the Y. M. C. A., "Orienting the Fresh-man."7:50-8 :00 H. V. Thornton, instructor ingovernment, "State Government ."8:00-8 :10 Prof . Ray Six, instructor in ge-ology, "China, her people and traditions ."8:10-8 :20 "The One-Act Play," by Prof.Ray Holcombe, director of the school ofdramatic art.

Thursday, April 3 . 8 :00-8 :40 Musical programby the WNAD Miniature Symphony or-chestra, directed by Prof. G. Milton Diet-erich.

Monday, April 7. 7:15-8:45 Radio debate be-tween the University of Oklahoma and theOklahoma junior college forensic association

question, "Resolved : That Trial by Juryin Criminal Cases should be Abolished."

Tuesday, April 8. 7:00-8 :00 College of fine artsstudent recital.8:00-9 :00 Musical program presented bydouble quartet, directed by Mrs MinnelethaWhite.

Wednesday, April 9. 7:00-7 :30 Sooner radio-grams.7:30-7:40 J. H. Craven, "Cultivation ofPlants ."7 :40-7:50 G. V. Metzel, "Student Discus-sion Groups ."7 :50-8 :00 J . C. Phillips, instructor in govern-ment, "Home Rule, and the adoption of theHome Rule Charter in Oklahoma ."8 :00-8:10 Prof. Ray Six, "China, her peopleand traditions ."8 :10-8:20 "The One-Act Play," by MrsJosephine Ray, instructor in dramatic art.8 :20-8 :35 Oration by winner of the RenderMedal oration contest.8 :35-9:15 Musical program by students ofthe college of fine arts .

Thursday, April 10 . 8 :00-8 :40 Musical programby the WNAD Miniature Symphony or-chestra, directed by Prof . G. Milton Dieter-ich.

Tuesday, April 15, 7 :00-8 :00 College of fine artsstudent recital.

Wednesday, April 16 . 7:15-7 :30 Sooner radio-grams.7:30-7 :40 J. H. Craven, "Annuals ."7:40-7 :50 G. V. Metzel, "Student Churches ."7:50-8 :00 H. V. Thornton, "Government."8:00-8 :10 Prof . Ray Six, "China, her peopleand traditions ."8 :10-8 :20 "The One-Act Play," by Prof. J .W. Dunn, assistant professor of dramaticart.

Thursday, April 17 . 8:00-8 :40 Musical programby the WNAD Miniature Symphony or-chestra, directed by Prof. G. Milton Dieter-ich.

Tuesday, April 22 . 7:00-8 :00 College of fine artsstudent recital.8:00-9 :00 Musical program by double quar-tet, directed by Mrs Minneletha White.

Wednesday, April 23 . 7:15-7:30 Radiograms .7:30-740 J. H. Craven, "Care of Lawns."7:40-7:50 G. V. Metzel, "Vocational Guid-ance ."7:50-8 :00 Prof . J. C. Phillips, "New Re-forms of City Government."8:00-8:10 Prof . Ray Six, "China, her peopleand traditions ."8:10-8 :20 "The One-Act Play," by MissIda Kirk, assistant professor of dramaticart.

Thursday, April 24 . 8 :00-8:40 Musical programby the WNAD Miniature Symphony or-chestra .

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Tuesday, April 29 7 :00-8 :00 Musical program bystudents of the college of fine arts .

Wednesday, April 30 . 7 :15-7 :30 Sooner radio-grams.7 :30-7 :40 J . H. Craven, "Spraying Plants ."7 :40-7 :50 G . V . Metzel, "1930 SummerSession ."7 :50-8 :00 H. V . Thornton, "Government."8 :00-8 :10 Prof. Ray Six, "China, her peopleand traditions."8 :10-8 :20 "The One-Act Play," by Prof .Ray Holcombe, director of the school ofdramatic art .

WITH PRESIDENT BIZZELL

President Bizzell, who is one ofAmerica's most gracious university presi-dents, had a surprise all of his own mak-ing during the library dedication . At thebanquet given in honor of state editors,he announced that he would request theboard of regents to make Dr . David RossBoyd, first president of the university,president emeritus .The announcement was greeted with

an ovation by the large audience in at-tendance . Doctor Boyd, then superinten-dent of schools at Arkansas City, Kansas,became president of the territorial uni-versity in 1892 and continued as presi-dent until 1908 . Later he became presi-

Our changing varsityGIFTS TO EDUCATION

The late Herbert DuPuy, trustee ofthe Carnegie Institute of Technology, be-queathed $25,000 to the institute .

ONLY WOMAN ATTORNEY

Miss Katherine Lytle, '27 law, the onlywoman attorney in Sapulpa, was marriedFebruary 27 at Tulsa to George H. Hohlof Tulsa. Mrs Hohl's father is a promi-nent Sapulpa attorney and upon hergraduation from the law school, shejoined his firm as a practicing attorney .

OVER THE SAMOVAR

When you tune in on your radio atnight and get the Columbia chain andlisten to the "Over the Samovar" hour,the soloist you hear is a Sooner. MissHelen Rubin, '27 arts-sc., deserted thestudy of law for music. Though herhome is in Oklahoma City, she hasachieved her national success in NewYork, where she is known by her stagename of Ileana Kasanova .

ART EXHIBITIONS

In line with a program of outstandingexhibitions of etchings and paintings he

dent of the University of New Mexico .He is now seventy years old, and divideshis time between Norman and California .

Should the regents make the appoint-ment-and there is no question but thatthey will-Doctor Boyd will be the firstpresident emeritus of the university .

President Bizzell was one of the signersof a petition to be presented Congress bySenator Cutting of New Mexico, oppos-ing the customs censorship of books.

Having spent part of their last summervacation in Canada, President and MrsBizzell will visit Europe this summer,sailing June 18 on the steamer GeorgeWashington .

The president will have a short scheduleintervening between two commencementaddresses be has been asked to give thissummer . On June 9 he will deliver thecommencement address to the Universityof Kansas senior class at Lawrence, whilethe next day, June 10, he will deliver thecommencement address to the seniors ofthe University of Indiana at Bloomington .In order to make the schedule, the presi-dent must leave Lawrence immediatelyafter his address and travel practicallyuntil the time for his second speech .

has planned for the year in the newschool of art building, including a specialexhibition of the work of Scandinavian-Americans, Professor Oscar B. Jacobson,director of the school, has completed aprogram that gives to central Oklahomaan art gallery where the choice things ofthe nation may be seen .An exhibition of water colors by Profes-

sor Albert Bloch of the University ofKansas, was displayed in the office ofMiss Ina Annette. This was followedby a display of lithographs and etchingsin the exhibition room, by Manty Lewis,H . Costa, Kimon Nicolaides and RichardLahney . Following this will be an ex-hibition of oriental rugs .

SIGMA XI INSTALLATION

Dr. George Walter Stewart, head ofthe physics department of the Universityof Iowa, will be the officer to install theNorman chapter of Sigma Xi, nationalscientific fraternity, April 8, Dr . CharlesGould, president of the Norman club,announces.

ON WILSON

George H . Evans, editor of theChick-asha Express, was the Woodrow Wilson

Memorial Day speaker in university chapelMarch 4 . In part he declared :

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The achievements of Woodrow Wilson arewritten large in history and in the minds ofliving men. As my fellow Missourian, ChampClark � once said, "The greatness of men varieswith the square of the distance from them ."The basis of Wilson's deep comprehension

of human ills and welfare was a liberal edu-cation . He was exceptionally well prepared forhis tasks by studies in history, government andlaw. Jefferson and Roosevelt were scholars, but1 believe Wilson was the most pre-eminentscholar to fill the office of president .The business man as a leader is an idea

which opposes this . What business man iscompetent to steer the ship of state? A businessman is not skilled in statecraft, and each lineof endeavor calls for its own peculiar type andquaiity of man. True that a man with a Ph .D. degree may not have the ability to manageaffairs of state, but a knowledge of social affairsis essential to wise political statesmanship. Wil-son was the personification of this type of state-man.

Wilson's plans for world peace that seemdreamy and idealistic today will some clay beput into practice . Wilson was far ahead ofhis time . He thought in terms too large forthe people to follow, and therein he failed . Hishead, like a lofty mountain peak, was liftedfar above the storm clouds which raged below .

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

Six research fellowships each paying astipend of $400 and seven research schol-arships carrying $200 stipends each havebeen awarded by the graduate school,Dean Homer L. Dodge announces, whileten other appointments have been madeto university scholarships .The thirteen fellowships and scholar-

ships represent total awards of $3,900 .University scholarships do not pay cashbut entitle the recipients to exemptionfrom university fees .The appointments to fellowships are:M. R. Baker of Alva, in government ;Angle Debo of Marshall, in history;Nell Jane Guthrie of Norman, in zool-

ogy ;Walter 11 . Jordan of Apperson, in

physics;Lucy Tandy of Norman, in modern

languages ;William Phelps of DePauw university,

in physics.The research scholars are :Martha Buntin of Oklahoma College

for Women, in history ;Sylvia Roland of Oklahoma College for

Women, in zoology;Julian Thompson of Pacific Union col-

lege, in physics.Marion Hiers of Winthrop college, in

physiology ;Harold Bernard of Spokane university,

in history .Nellie Hilbish of North Texas State

Teachers' college, in business administra-tion .

STATE PRESIDENT

A Sooner stepped from the ranks ofthe Oklahoma League of Young Demo-

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THE TAU OMEGA GLIDER SUCCESSFUL IN TRIAL FLIGHTSeven successful flights were made at the Norman airport Saturday, March 15 by the Tau Omega glider, shown above.

Towed by an automobile against a seven-mile south wind, C. D. Case, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, at the con-trols, brought it up from the ground to a height of seventy-five feet . Dropping the tow rope, Professor Case brought the gliderto a landing after a minute in the air .

Altogether, seven flights were made.

The glider cost a total of $100, has a wing-spreadof thirty-four feet and a fuselage of twenty-two feet .

crats and was succeeded by another Soon-er as president . J . Bart Aldridge, '25 law,Wewoka, ended his year in office withplaudits of all for his steering of theleague . Gordon BIERER, '21 law, ofGuthrie, was selected in his stead aspresident at the state convention this year .

A CERTAIN YOUNG WIDOW

The first play written by an Oklaho-man to be given its first production inOklahoma by an Oklahoma companyand published by an Oklahoma publisher-that is A Certain Young Widow, thePlayhouse prize play written by John

'' Woodworth, '30 arts-sc., is to be presentedin the university auditorium by the Play-house April 3 during the second annualOklahoma Drama conference .

The book is being published by theUniversity of Oklahoma Press and willsell for $2 . It is illustrated with a cari-cature by Leonard Good, '28 art, whodesigned the jacket for the book, also .The book is bound in cloth covers andwill be on the market April 3.

The drama conference will be heldApril 3, 4 and 5. District preliminarieswere to be held by state high schoolsMarch 21 to select the eight high schoolcompanies to compete in the finals atNorman . The Playhouse shield will beawarded also to the best production bya state Little Theater, the preliminariesand finals of the Little Theaters will beheld in Norman .

Registration will be Thursday morning,April 3, in the fine arts building . Pre-

liminary eliminations will take placeamong the high schools in the afternoon.At night, Woodworth's play will be givenits premiere .

On April 4 the conference will begin.Speakers include Miss Helen Langs-worthy, director of college theater workat the Kirksville, Missouri, teachers' col-lege, Woodson Tyree, director of thePonca City high school dramatic art de-partment, Ward H. Green, head of theTulsa high school English departmentand Professor John W. Dunn of the Uni-versity of Oklahoma department of dra-matic art.Alexander Wycoff, director of the

Memphis, Tennessee, Little Theater, willbe the principal speaker at the LittleTheater conference .

SILENT SONGS

BIOLOGY ROUNDUP

More than one hundred delegates at-tended the third annual roundup of bi-

Graduates in embryo

The musical gleemen of the Universityof Oklahoma did not charm BroadwayMarch 8, as planned. Nor was the Mis-souri Valley conference represented inthe national glee club contest held inNew York . Thirty glee club members,representing the winning Valley club,were to have made the trip . All thatstood in the way was $4,000 .

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ology students held in Norman March 8and 9 under the auspices of the depart-ment of biology. Principal address ofthe meeting was delivered by Dr . DavidWhitney of the University of Nebraskaon "The Determination of Sex." MissRuby Northup of Stillwater summarizedsummer work at the Puget Sound Bio-logical station at the noon luncheon heldMarch 9. Professor Frank G. Brooks ofOklahoma City university was electedchairman of the organization committeeof the roundup association .Dr . Aute Richards, head of the de-

partment of biology, declared the meet-ing was a "great success." Delegates at-tended from Texas, Kansas and Oklaho-ma .

TRANSFERRED

Rev. John Morris Evans, rector of St .John's Episcopal church, has been trans-ferred to Providence, Rhode Island, andwas to preach his last sermon in NormanMarch 30 .

Despite the fact that special railroadrates had been secured, despite the factthat the glee club is one of the best everassembled in Norman, and despite thefact that it was the Missouri Valleychampion, no patriotic Oklahoman wasfound who was willing to send the club .The money was supplied last year, butappeals this year were fruitless.

Declared Professor R. H. Richards, di-

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rector : "Evidently the state is too poorto support any cultural project."

ELEVENTH GRIDIRON

The eleventh annual Gridiron dinnerof Sigma Delta Chi, professional journal-istic fraternity, will be presented in Nor-man April 15 and will be called "Whacksof 1930 ." This is the premiere gridirondinner of Oklahoma, the first one havingbeen presented in 1920 . Prof. T. H.Brewer, head of the English departmentand member of the fraternity, is expectedto preside for the eleventh consecutivetime as toastmaster . Luther Harrison,editorial writer for the Daily Oklahoman,is to be the principal speaker.

STAR MISSING

The university's lone policeman, W. L.Ball, known far and wide by his blackhat of western slant, is missing these daysfrom the campus . Lack of funds com-pelled the university to lay him off, withnine other employes . Faculty memberswho are prone to park their cars in theforbidden spaces in the oval, shed notears. No policeman, much nullification.

NO BOOZE QUESTION

The alert Harvard Crimson suggests adebate with Oklahoma on behalf of itselfand the Harvard debating council, onthat favorite parlor topic that keeps bub-bling up with the constancy of the seven-year itch, prohibition, but the Sooner de-baters would have none of it (the debate) .The Harvard plan was to crystallize

the opinion of undergraduates over thecountry on the question of prohibition .Questions to be debated included the re-peal of present legislation and the pro-hibition of saloons, and the advocacy offederal aid to states that prohibit liquors.

PAN-HELLENIC

Phi Mu fraternity holds the presidencyof the pan-hellenic council this year inthe person of Miss Selma Huggins, whileMiss Mary Katherine Sprehe of the Al-pha Omicron Pi fraternity was namedsecretary and Miss Noella Wible of Kap-pa Upsilon, treasurer.

ADMITTED

Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity has beenadmitted formally into the interfraternitycouncil. The Norman chapter wasnationalized last year . The interfrater-nity council has established a minimum oftwelve hours of work with no failures

and an average not lower than 1 .5 forinitiation of freshmen.

SOONER FOLLIES

The foibles and fables of campus lifewill be told in the Soonerland FolliesApril 25 and 26, according to the an-nouncement of Fred Wheeler, manager.The Follies succeed the old and outlawedJunior Burlesque and other "razz" shows.

FOR ST . PATRICK

Boom!Boom!Boom!Boom!Boom!Getting tired of reading that? Then

imagine how the patriotic citizens of Nor-man (who celebrate July the Fourth withall the fixings) felt the night of March14, when twenty (or was it thirty?) sa-lutes were fired starting at midnight inhonor of a saint not native to this landof uncanonized saints!But at that, there was no blood spilled

during the engineers' celebration in honorof St . Patrick. The lawyers remainedseated on their wind-blown front steps.(A truce had been signed between thelawyers and the engineers) . Miss SallyeCollier, fair engineer, slept unkidnappedin the Spanish precincts of the Phi Muhouse. (A score of husky engineers sur-rounded the Phi Mu house during thenight, to prevent any absent minded law-yer stealing the fair queen away.) Thebig moving sign on the engineering build-ing went Erin go Braugh . The bigwhistle that calls in the dates and sendshome the boys sirened away .And so, as in the fairy stories, the fair

Queen Sally wore her crown, the engin-eers banqueted, heard versatile WalterHarrison tell them to keep their profes-sional standards high, danced in the Ok-lahoma Union ball room, and then . . .Boom!Boom!And so on, far into the night.

SCHOLARLY GREEKS

The boys who wear the jewelled pinsand trot musical hoofs at the dansantfailed to add much to the intellectualprestige of the university's fraternities thefirst semester of this year, the grade re-port released by Registrar George Wad-sack, ex '18, reveals.The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity con-

tinued performing trojan feats with text-books (and tutors) and threw a javelininto the hopes of rivals . For the thirdconsecutive time, the fraternity led themembers of the inter-fraternity council

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and became the permanent possessor ofthe scholarship cup.Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, however,

outstripped all of the intellectual giantsamong the fraternities . Under the newrating system in which the marks are 4,3, 2, and 1 (failing grades disregarded),S. A. M. ranked nearly a B average andcame up from fourth place the secondsemester of last year . Sigma Alpha Muis not a member of the interfraternitycouncil and its average was not counted inawarding the scholarship cup.Alpha Tau Omega moved from sixth

place to third in the general average.There were certain other changes, how-ever, of a toboggan nature . The cele-brated Delta Tau Delta fraternity, alsoa holder of a permanent scholarship cupfor three successive leaderships, continuedon the toboggan, going from ninth placeto seventeenth . The first semester of lastyear it had been in fourth place. LambdaChi Alpha moved from eighteenth placeto the bottom of the list, while KappaSigma gratefully yielded its cellar posi-tion for a climb to twelfth place. Acaciaslid from third place to fourteenth, andPhi Beta Delta moved up from fifth tofourth rank .Sigma Nu moved into fifth place from

thirteenth position . Phi Delta Theta re-mained in seventh position .The entire fraternity average was less

than a C average, .79281 . The non-fra-ternitv average has not been computed .Fraternity men made 1,422 hours of A,3,593 hours of B, 4,532 hours of C, 2,803hours of D and 1,900 hours of F. Dhours under the university grading sys-tem do not count for graduation points .In general, very few of the fraternities,if they were individuals candidates fordegrees, would have earned any pointstoward graduation last semester .

In the grade averages that follow, theaverages are listed for the last three se-mesters. For last year, the highest pos-sible average was 6, while last semesterthe highest possible average was 4 . Hence,the grade average of last semester standsin the ratio of 4 to 6 to the average oflast year . The term "1-29" means firstsemester 1929, "2-29" the second semester,while "1-30" are last semester grades .The fraternity averages :

1-30 1-29 2-291 . Sigma Alpha Mu 1 .6109 3 .138 2 .9852 . Phi Gamma Delta 1 .2930 3 .049 3 .1193 . Alpha Tau Omega 1 .0915 2 .879 2 .8394 . Phi Beta Delta 1 .0640 2 .638 2 .9635 . Sigma Nu 1 .0369 2 .233 2 .5146 . Beta Theta Pi 1 .0152 2 .364 2 .7727 . Phi Delta Theta 1 .0020 2 .684 2 .7808 . Sigma Alpha Epsilon 0.9509 2 .748 3 .0589 . Delta Chi 0.9191 2 .226 2 .469

10 . Pi Kappa Alpha 0.8625 1 .790 2 .08911 . Phi Kappa Psi 0 .8504 2 .386 2.62912 . Kappa Sigma 0.8410 2 .441 2.05013 . Phi Kappa Sigma 0.8366 1 .811 2 .56114 . Acacia 0 .8027 3 .027 3 .03715 . Kappa Alpha 0.7210 2 .164 2 .09916 . Sigma Chi 0.7187 2 .495 2.60217. Delta Tau Delta 0 .6740 2 .791 2.751

"A RIDE, MISTER!"

Tourists from the east to Texas onHighway 77 no doubt have had as theironly view of the University of Oklaho-ma the picture of a group of studentsstanding beside the road, where the high-way crosses Main street, hands upraised,begging a ride ."A ride, mister," is about the only

language a measureable group of studentsknow how to speak.When interurban fares were recently in-

creased ten cents the ride, the number ofride hoppers increased so substantiallythat even the long suffering Norman fill-ing station proprietors whose entrancesand exits were blocked by students, pro-tested .But Oklahoma City police were not as

patient as Norman officers . Capitol Hillmerchants and filling station proprietorswho lost a goodly share of their respectfor college education by these "representa-tives" demanded police protection .

Monday, March 24, they demandedthat police step in . A student, one ofthe long queue waiting for some one topick them up, was given a suspended finein Oklahoma City police court on a chargeof disorderly conduct.The student's arrest followed a brawl in

which he was not involved at Forty-fourthstreet and Highway 77 between one of theoutraged filling station proprietors andthe "representative" students who were

Association progressTHE BARNSDALL CLUB

Twenty-five alumni of the universityhave formed a University of OklahomaSooner club at Barnsdall . This is thethird club to be formed in Oklahoma .Edna Mae Stines, '23 arts-sc., is president,Marietta Wallace Willis, '23 arts-sc., vicepresident, and A . Marion Smith, '27 bus.,secretary .

GET THAT MEMBER

Are you doing your share in the Aggie-Sooner membership contest? It is asimple thing for you to sign up thatSooner who has been planning all alongto join but who has failed for some reasonto do so . Every membership countstwenty-five points .For this contest, life-memberships have

not been included, since the Former Stu-dents association has no life membershipplan . But every annual member counts .If every member were to secure one other

handed said f. s . prop . a black eye.The proprietor told police he had asked

the students to vacate from in front ofhis filling station but that they had re-fused.

"f do not mind the boys waiting for aride," he told police, "but the languagethey use is unfit for anyone, and least ofall a group of college boys ."

Capitol Hill business firms at this par-ticular intersection complain that thewaiting students block the driveways totheir places, that they use obscene lan-guage when refused rides, and that pros-pective patrons speed up instead of stop-ping when assailed by the students, think-ing them hijackers.

Threats following the brawl were made,it is said, that a group of students wouldcome clown and "wipe up" the CapitolHill crowd. A fair crowd of graduatesof the School of Hard Knocks were onhand later from Capitol Hill to show thecandidates for B. A. degrees the differencebetween culture and thoughtfulness forthe public .

Oklahoma City Police Chief BECKERwrote a letter to president Bizzell com-plaining about the students congregatingat the street intersections .

But the problem is one, for the police,not the university . Strict enforcement ofthe vagrancy laws would stop it-theuniversity is powerless to do so,

member-and that should not be difficult,since the present association already isalmost half again as large as it ever wasin its history-we could make the Aggiesgive us that free dinner and silver lovingcup.

AI .UMNI DIRECTORY

Linotype machines are busied settingthe some eight thousand names that goto make up the bi-ennial directory of theUniversity of Oklahoma Association . Thedirectory, if all goes well, will be in themail some time in May.

Certain changes have been made inthe appearance of the directory this year,which will facilitate its use. It is set intwo columns, with proper names capital-ized, so that a reader can get through itin a hurry. The geographical groupingin the second part has been retained .To Secretary Frank Cleckler goes the

credit for making this directory the most

complete ever issued by the associationor its predecessor organizations . Everyaddress has been checked and counterchecked .

THE NEW YORK CLUBAfter so long, the New York Sooners

have at last got into action and with avengeance . It all came about when IvinRichardson and Miss Jessie Bloodworthsat down at a luncheon table, perhaps totalk about paddling (re their interestingdebate in the Sooner to Sooner depart-ment) . They found that Sooners wereeager for an organization . So they met-but let Miss Elaine Boylan, '19 arts-sc.,tell of the meeting:The first Oklahoma University Club of

New York City was organized February25th when eighteen Sooner alumni metfor dinner at the Western Universityclub at 11 West Fifty-third street .

Jessie Bloodworth made the suggestionto Ivin Richardson one day when theywere lunching together, and Ivin, likingthe idea, made arrangements and roundedup the eighteen Sooners who attended .Happily reminiscing on one side of

the table were L. C. Snider, Lottie BovleMoyer, C. W. "Hammie" Hamilton, '12,of the Gulf Oil Co ., and Mrs. E. DeGol-ver (who was Miss Nell Goodrich).Across from them were Wright Felt,Freda Brown Felt, Elaine Boylan, '19,Miller Vernor, '16, and Ivin G. Rich-ardson, '17. Other present were DoctorsGeorge H. Kimball and James R. Reed,with Bellevue Hospital, Jessie A. Blood-worth, '20, Charles H . Clift, '24, "Bob"Cordon, '20, Elgin E. Groseclose, '20,Nina C. Nunnery, '25, Ruth Downing,and Homer De Golyer . A special guestwas Maurine Halliburton McGee, Okla-homa poet and columnist.

Officers of the new club are Ivin G.Richardson, president ; Robert S. Gordon,vice-president ; Jessie A. Bloodworth, sec-retary ; and Elgin E. Groseclose, treasurer.With more than one hundred alumni

in and about New York City, a largeclub is possible, and the initial group isconfident that Sooner loyalty will over-come the difficulty of getting people to-gether .

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Plans were made to entertain the Uni-versity of Oklahoma glee club on its ap-pearance in the national glee club con-test, but this of course, failed, when theclub did not secure a financial sponsor.

ON MAGAZINESSecretary Cleckler will preside over the

magazine section of the American Alum-ni Council meeting in Cambridge, Massa-chusetts, in May . Mr Cleckler last yearsuggested to the Council that more at-tention be paid to the editorial contentof magazines, rather than to stress typog-raphy to the exclusion of contents .

FOR APRIL, 1930

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Expressed in the pressCONCERNING DIPLOMACY

During the Mardi Gras celebration atNew Orleans March 4 Louisiana Gover-nor Huey P. Long, ex '12, received Com-mander Lothar von Arnauld de la Periereof the cruiser Emden. The commanderof the German cruiser came dressed infull regalia to pay a state call . Ac-companying him was the German con-sul, Role L. Jaeger .The Associated Press recounts the un-

expected results of that interview:Gov . Huey P . Long, who scoffs at conventions

and boasts of being a "hill billy," Tuesday hadsucceeded in smoothing the ruffled feelings ofCom . Lothar Von Arnauld de la Periere of theGerman Cruiser Emden, who took offense atbeing received by the governor in green silkpajamas and a lounging robe .The German commander threatened to weigh

anchor and steam out of the New Orleansharbor unless the governor formally apologizedfor the slight to German dignity. At first Gov-ernor Long refused, saying :

"Apologize! For what! Why I treated themlike home folks ."But his friends finally convinced him that

serious international complications might de-velop from the incident and Governor Longagreed to go aboard the Emden and presenthis apologies. Then it was discovered the gov-ernor did not possess formal morning wearnecessary for the occosion . His friends broughtin the striped trousers and frock coat and dressedhim up . The governor balked at the silk hatand went aboard with a snappy gray felt tuckedunder his arm .

"I was hoping that this morning I might havethe opportunity here to apologize for the in-decorous raiment in which I was attired whenyou called to see me yesterday morning," saidthe governor . "I am really very much hurt overthe incident . There is a great deal I might say .I undertook to explain to the consul .The commander assured the governor that

his apology was accepted and they chatted fora few minutes . As the governor left, the Emdenfired a 17-gun salute and the incident wasclosed .The embarrassment arose when the German

commander, in full dress uniform, went withthe German consul, Role L. Jaeger, to the gov-ernor's apartment in the Roosevelt hotel to payhis formal respects . They were escorted to thegovernor's quarters by Seymour Weiss, Lieuten-ant Colonel on the governor's staff.They caught the governor in repose, wearing

only green pajamas, a blue silk lounging robeand blue Morocco bedroom slippers . Aghastand dumfounded, the Germans greeted the gov-ernor, exchanged courtesies and then quicklywithdrew.The German consul went straight to the of-

fice of Colonel Weiss and demanded an apologyto his commander from the governor for hisbedroom attaire . At first the governor and thecolonel laughed but it was no laughing matterfor the Germans .

RIGHT ON COLLEGE SPIRIT

An editorial writer in the OklahomaDaily comments on Frank M. Long's let-ter published in the Sooner to Sooner de-partment in February as follows :

Is this intangible thing called "college spirit"dying a natural death?

From far-off Brazil came a letter to Joseph A .Brandt, editor of The Sooner Magazine, fromFrank M . Long, '08, member of "Bennie" Owen'sfirst football team in 1905, which sheds somelight on this much-doubted subject .The letter, which Editor Brandt printed in

the February issue of The Sooner Magazine,puts a trip in the theory advanced by MrGoldberg in the November 16 issue of the Liter-ary Digest that "College Spirit is the Bunk ."Let Mr Long speak for himself .

"Only a few days ago I received a letter call-ing me to a college reunion . 'Bennie's first teamof 1905 is having a reunion . . . not a memberof that team is dead . . you are a long way offbut . . .' Signed Billie Cross, quarterback .The paragraph ended as follows : " . . but there

was something in me that made connectionswith that letter and drew me back, and had Ibeen near enough and had the cash, Mr Gold-berg, I should have been there .

How was that 'something' created? Itwas by hard work and sacrifice . I am per-suaded that one floes not love one's team, class,college, country, home, children or wife untilone gives of oneself .Mr Long is just about right . It is the stu-

dent who is putting himself into his collegework that is keeping his so-called college spiritalive . That he will continue to keep this spiritnourished as long as there are great Americancolleges and universities is hardly to be ques-tioned.-J . B . G.

GIVE US MORE ROOM

More space in which to handle Okla-homa's rapidly growing army of collegi-ans is asked for the university in an edi-torial in the Daily Oklahoman of Febru-ary 20 :The approaching graduation of 1,000 stu-

dents from the high schools of Oklahoma Cityalone raises once more the insistent question asto what the state is to do with those young peo-ple in the way of advanced educational training .From the high schools of a single city a class isto be graduated equal in number approximatelyto one-fifth of the present enrollment at Okla-

Sooner to SoonerFOR THE GENERAL GOOD

Ardmore, OklahomaMarch 1, 1930

To the Editor :Dr . Adams' letter which appeared in

the January issue of the magazine arousedmy interest . I think Dr . Adams is cor-rect in his diagnosis.The original purpose of athletics was

the physical development of the students,but in the last few decades the purposehas become a mere shibboleth to bemouthed by the proponents of the pres-ent system whenever the lavish expendi-ture of funds and the development ofsuper-teams is criticized .Proof of the failure of the present sys-

tem can be found in the lack of interest

graduates if all of them should go to Norman?Of course the majority of the 16,000 will enter

college elsewhere, if they enter college at all .But an imposing number will enter Oklahomauniversity, which is sadly crowded in many ofits departments already . Even if one-fourth ofthe total number should undertake to acquire auniversity education in their home state, the con-ditions resulting would approach the deplorable .

Nearly all of the 16,000 should enter the uni-versity and there are sufficient reasons why mostof them should enter the university of their ownstate . We have encouraged them to finish thegrammar school and high school courses . Wehave tried to impart to all of them the desireto acquire a higher education . Now that theyhave done what they were asked to do, andare nearly ready for university matriculation,they are destined to discover that the state hasfailed to provide adequate accommodations fortheir university reception . And what has beensaid of Oklahoma university applies with equalforce to the Oklahoma A . and M . college whichalso is badly crowded .Here is a grave and growing problem which

must be met by the thirteenth legislature . Theclay of temporizing has passed and Oklahomamust face the issue effectually . Oklahoma can-not delay any longer the highly important taskof making adequate provision for accommodat-ing the high school graduates who seek a highereducation in their home state.

GOOD SPORT

Key Wolf, '10 arts-sc ., celebrated inSooner football annals, has been re-electedsuperintendent of schools at Davis, Okla-homa . Declares the Daily Ardmoreite :"Key Wolf is recognized as one of theleading educators of Oklahoma and main-tains a high scholastic standing for theDavis schools. . . . the success of Davishigh school in an athletic way is largelydue to his enthusiasm for clean sportsand good sportsmanship. His re-election ispleasing to, his friends throughout south-ern Oklahoma ."

and small numbers engaged in so-calledintra mural athletics . There is a pitiablelack of general participation .Moreover the results of the failure of

our present athletic program can be foundon every college campus . The afternoonsfind the majority of the male under-graduates lolling around the sororityhouses or sipping soft, sweet, cool concoc-tions in the various tea rooms or confec-tioneries which fringe the campus . Con-sequently the typical college student hasbecome weak, soft, flabby and effeminate .

I am not directing my censure at thestudents for they are not in the least toblame. They go to college to be edu-cated and must take what the facultiesoffer. Nor do I censure the coaches al-t o g e t h e r for they have made a good

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homa university .for these 1,000

Couldstudents

the university find roomif all of them should

seek admission? What could, possibly be donewith the state's 16,000 potential high school

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Associacao Christa de Mocos(Y . M. C. A.)

RUA PANTALEAO TELLES,PORTO ALEORE - BRASIL

ERC ICO

THIS LETTER WAS SENT BY THE FIRST AIR MAIL PLANE TOFLY BETWEEN BUENOS AIRES AND NEW YORK

thing of their jobs . Neither do I have inmind any college in particular . I thinkthe fault lies in the administrative author-ities of our colleges and universities whohave given too much ear to the demandsof over enthusiastic alumni and the pub-lic hungry for spectacles .The writer is inclined to agree in prin-

ciple with Dr . Adams' when he suggeststhat athletics should be controlled by thecollege authorities . The plan almost sug-gests itself when one considers that ath-letics are for the general good and at pres-ent are administered principally by thecoaches for the teams.

I am glad that some one is taking upthe case of the student who is too smallor too frail to make a place on the varsity .

RUTHERFORD H. BRETT.

IN RETROSPECT

Porto Alegre, BrazilFebruary 18, 1930 .

To the Editor :The January number of The Sooner

Magazine has just come . The article on"Early Sooner Sprinters" especially in-terested me . Being pretty well acquaint-ed with "Grandpa" (see page 108 b, TheSooner 1909) I looked him up and hada very pleasant hour with him talkingover the years 1904-09."Grandpa" runs our local Y. To see

him play basketball with the boys, or run100 meters, you would not think that heis close to the half century. Last yearhe was highest point man, among 20 of

the Y's best athletes in the "Poliesportivo"meet, ten events . He placed both in the100 meters and the 800 meters .

"I was just thinking myself of sendingin some corrections to the Sooner editor"said he, when I told him of my intentions .He told me many things of interest thathappened during his five years there, butmade me swear not to tell till after hisdeath. John Darling presenting "Grand-pa" to his father Christmas 1904, said,"This is the first football man to stay afterThanksgiving." He was also the first andlast to earn five football O's and two de-grees in five years. lie made the footballO, 04, 05, 06, 07, and 08, and receivedthe B. A. degree 08, M. A. 09 . And thatwas not all he did . He ran the "RUB ."M. M. Maynard said that he ("Grandpa")laid by $1,000 .00 per year while in school,he says that he did not save quite thatmuch, but he was banker to many poorerthan he, some of whom still owe him.One semester he earned 19 hours creditand took part in seven outside organiza-tions besides paying all expenses and put-ting aside a bit . To do this he did haveto cut the noon meal, a very good habithe says, for he continued the same sevenyears after he left college, the only thingthat made him begin again was a wife ."Grandpa" started the "Back to NatureClub ." In your picture "Athletics in thegay 00's" page 126, January Sooner Mag-azine, you see him opposite Artie Reeds,holding ladder on the ground . That pic-ture was taken in 1908, you can see"Grandpa's" chin whiskers . "Grandpa"was the center of many things, being the

second strongest man in school duringhis time and the student with the greatestlung capacity . Dr . D. R. Boyd was theonly than on the campus who could pumpout more air from his lungs . John Darl-ing was strongest during his time, andBob Severin during his time . I wish Imight tell you of some of the "stunts""Grandpa" pulled single handed, but mylips are sealed .

Just one more thing about "Grandpa ."He asked L. W. Cole, then professor ofpsychology and philosophy, to help himin some research during the summer .Cole, thinking that "Grandpa" neededthe credits for graduation-because offootball and track, for Cole could notconceive of an athlete being a student,asked, "How many credits will you haveto have?" "None" was the reply, andCole nearly dropped dead .But I have told you a lot about "Grand-

pa" and have not told you of the thingsI started to tell you.

In the October The Sooner Magazineyou published the scores of the O . U.-Tex-as U. football games, page 15 . There aremistakes in the years of 1904 and 1906and you left out 1907 and 1908 . Youwill find the correct scores for the years1900-1906 and 1908 in the Sooner 1909and 1907 in the last Mistletoe publishedby the juniors '09, for the school year '08and 09 . The scores are:

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I played in all of these games. So faras I remember, Texas has had only onelarger score against her, that by ChicagoUniversity . And we could have madeour score much larger, but Bennie cutthe time of halves, and then stoppedseveral minutes before the time was upbecause he felt sorry for the men. Whenwe reached 50 he said, "Oh, that's enough,come on off."

I happened to be in the meet whenEverett Noble made the 9 4-5 record . Thearticle in the 1907-08 Mistletoe on "Fieldand Track" was written by me . Nobleasked me, "Did I win it?" and when Itold him, "Yes, 9:4," his answer of, "Ihave prayed for this for six weeks," wasprefixed by, "Thank God," and it was in(lead earnest. Later he told me that asthey got on the marks, Galliger, one ofthe most consistent century runners inthe Southwest, looked across and made aface at him. O. U. had tried to barGalliger from the meet, because he helpedearn his school expenses by "summerrunning." He could make more moneythat way than by pitching wheat, but itwas not quite within the rules . He ranunder O. U's . protest, but after Noblebeat him, and O. U. won the meet, noth-

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ing more was done about the matter.That was a wonderful day for O. U.Everv man on the team save one scored,and he might have scored had he com-bined with his team mate . Frank Heraldwas scheduled to win the 880, he hadbeaten Frank Long in the preliminary .Everyone counted on Herald who set thepace and held it to the last turn, Longrunning second with his jaw set to stepup by Herald's side on the last turn andmake the next man run far out. WhenLong did this, Herald crowded him out,letting an A. & M. man have the rail . Itwas then a fight between this man andLong, and Long lost it by being on theoutside. Just at the finish another manbeat Herald out of the 3rd place. Hadhe held the rail he would have had sec-ond, Long first instead of second and theA . and M. man who got first would havehad only 3rd. This is only a little detailof the meet that no one noticed, but thatlost 5 points for O. U. and a place for

THANKFUL OREGON

The Oregon State Monthly for Febru-ary recites some of the things Oregon'State has to be thankful for; and theseinclude:

In the ten year period since 1918-19 OregonState college has made a remarkable growth asindicated by the following facts :Income from all sources has increased from

about $800,000 to considerably more than $2,-000,000 ;

Student enrollment has increased by 1,379students (from 4,096 to 5,462 all sessions) ;

Seventeen college buildings have been ac-quired or built through institutional funds ordonations at total cost of $2,313,916 ;Land aggregating 3,552 acres has been do-

nated to the college and 157 acres have beenpurchased, making a total acquired during thedecade of 3,709 acres ;

Scope of college instruction has been enlargedand standard of scholarship raised ;

Sabbatical year established for improvementof faculty scholarship and morale ;A fee of $150 a year for non-resident students

was imposed .

A LIFE JOB

Commenting on the questionnairePresident Spencer of the University ofWashington recently sent undergraduatesto determine whether faculty memberswere alert, the Southern California Alum-ni Review for February comments :

There is a tendency toward allowing uni-versity instructors, once they have been locatedin a position, to go for as long a time as theydesire to do so without further attention fromthe administration heads of the university.The reason for this is that university instruc-

tors, unlike employees in banks and mercantilehouses ; do not have to show results in theirwork by sales mada, accounts turned over,profit reports for stockholders, or by any ofthe other thousand and one means that a busi-

Herald . And this is the first time any-one has been told about it .This goes to you on the first air mail

by the Nyrba line (New York, Rio, Bue-nos Aires), leaving here tomorrow andshould reach N. Y. in six days . Thinkof that!

Sincerely yours,

FRANK M. LONG, B.A.'08, M.A.'09.

ENJOYS MAGAZINE

Maracaibo, VenezuelaFebruary 19, 1930

To the Editor :I am enclosing check for $3.00 in pay-

ment of membership dues for the currentyear .

Permit me to congratulate you uponthe excellent magazine and wish youevery success .

In the educational wonderlandness organization has for determining the rel-ative efficiency of the services rendered it by aparticular employe .The result of this is that many university in-

structors take on the smug thought that theyhave a life job for which they have qualified,and that there is no need for them to growmentally, or to fit themselves for more difficultcourses . Nothing is further from the truth .A professor's leisure time should never be count-ed as leisure, but rather as just one more op-portunity to learn that much more about hisjob . The privilege of being a professor, for itis a privilege, has its compensation in that onehas the opportunity to develop the mind to thenth degree along the line of the particular sub-ject in hand . No demand is made that he bepractical, but he is expected to know all thereis to know of the theory and history of the mat-ter .Some of the questions asked by Presi-

dent Spencer included "What is yourfeeling about the extent to which thiscourse, as compared with your othercourses, contributed to your education?"and "Did the instructor keep himselfinformed as to students' progress?" and"What are the outstanding merits or de-fects of the instructor?" Students replyingwere assured of anonymity as far as mem-bers of the faculty were concerned.

VALUE OF LIBRARY

CHAS . R. RIDER.

Steven T. Byington of the class of1891 of Vermont university, engaged intranslating the Bible from the Hebrewinto lively idiomatic English (a task onwhich he set himself when only ten years'old) writes of the value of a library,among other things, for the VermontAlumni Weekly :As to what U . V . M . did to equip me for

translating the Bible, my greatest gratitude isdue to old Professor Goodrich ; and, of course,

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the library. Not only did I read out of thelibrary a lot of Greek that I never had in class,but I got my first start in Hebrew from thewoefully antiquated volumes of Stuart which Idrew from the library for self-instruction .

FOR RESEARCH

The California Monthly announces thegift by the Rockefeller Foundation tothe University of California of $182,000for the support of teaching and researchin the field of governmental administra-tion .

MRS SINCLAIR LEWIS ON WAR

Dorothy Thompson of the class of '14of Syracuse university, and equally knownas the wife of Sinclair Lewis, visited theSyracuse Forum several months ago, andsaid, among other things (as reported bythe Syracuse University Alumni News) :

I do not believe that it is a paradox to saythat the world is very close to war and at thesame time very close to peace . The sense ofdanger from the imminence of war leads to apassion for peace . I believe there never was atime when the possibilities of war were so greator the general will so pacific .

It has been the usual course of history toglorify war. People have been taught that warsof their own countries were always won andalways justified . Today we have an uneasyfeeling that the last war was not in the leastjustified . We have passed the stage when webelieve that a small group of men caused thewar . Our professors and historians have shownus that it was the inabilities of the peoples ofthe world to adjust to situations confrontingthem . We know now that the war was theresult of human stupidity and ignorance . Wealso know that the war was not glorious . Itseems to me most significant that no poet orwriter has arisen to herald the glories of thelast war. After an earlier war in France whenBarbusse undertook to write of the horrors ofwar he was ridiculed and thought to be un-real . Today we get in literature no other pic-ture . It has become impossible to make thelast war either romantic or glorious .

Another difference between the last war andother wars is the fact that nobody won it . Itis now fairly established that between indus-trially similar nations today it is impossible towin a war . Until the last conflict men did notknow this . They were controlled by old ideasand shibboleths . In the old clays nations couldtake slaves to help win wars or territories couldbe annexed . Today these resources are remote .

MR VALLEE'S AMBITION

Rudy Vallee of crooning fame and aformer student of the University ofMaine, where he was a member of theSigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, declareshe has always wanted to be as busy ashe is now, in an article for the MaineAlumnus for February . His father was adruggist but from the age of four (hewas born July 28, 1901) Rudy evincedan intense interest in music rather thanthe more prosaic side of the drug busi-ness .

Although I worked very hard playing, at theUniversity of Maine, I received very little for

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it since the union musician's wage is very lowin that section . A fraternity brother talked meinto transferring to Yale . The change was avery good one, but at first I was quite unhappyas the simplicity of everything at Maine waswhat I had loved, and the wealth, opulence andthe life of the big city of New Haven and thecampus which held the sons of the biggest menin the country was quite different from thestudent life at the University of Maine wherea wealthy boy was a rare thing and where theprettiest co-ed was not as devastating as manyof the plainest women that some fraternity menbrought to their (lances . However, I soon be-came accustomed to the boys at Yale with theirbig cars and nerve-racking life-week ends inNew York, and so forth .

Besieged by many offers with bigmoney to play in orchestras, Vallee finallyaccepted one to play in London, hisfriends predicting he would not return .After a successful year in London, hedid return to Yale to get his degree .

Sports of all sortsOXFORD HALF BLUE

The distinction of being the first Okla-homa Rhodes scholar to represent theUniversity of Oxford, England, againstCambridge, goes to Savoie Lottinville, '29journ., Rhodes scholar from Oklahoma,who boxed in his weight against Cam-bridge .Mr Lottinville thus received a half-blue

(the Oxford equivalent of an Americancollege letter awarded only for represent-ing Oxford against Cambridge.

ATHLETIC REFORM

Dr. A. B. Adams' letter to The SoonerMagazine on athletic reform was carriedby the Associated Press on its trunk wires .Reactions to it were varied, as was to beexpected . State football coaches weresevere in their criticism of Dean Adams'statements, while Association PresidentTolbert pointed out that faculty controlof athletics already existed at the uni-versity .Dean Adams, on the other hand, re-

letters commending him on hissome of which we excerpt fromAssociation Board Member Ruth-Brett agrees in principle with thestatement in a letter to the editor

ceivedstand,here .erforddean'sof this magazine, published in the Soonerto Sooner column in this issue.Howard J . Savage of the Carnegie

Foundation, wrote Dean Adams :President Keppel has passed to me your ar-

ticle on "Athletic Reform Needed" in the Janu-ary, 1930, number of The Sooner Magazine.This I have read with care . Your analysis isacute, penetrating, and worthy of the closestattention by any university or college that wouldmodify its athletics and physical education forthe better .

At present I live and work eighteen and some-times twenty hours a day, between my fourand five shows a clay at the Brooklyn and NewYork Paramount theaters, radio work, recordsand our evening session from eleven until threeat the Villa Vallee. I am very busy as I havealways wanted to be just as busy as I am now,and my health is fine so I am contented andhappy.

GIFT OF A MILLION

One of the pleasures of being editor ofthe Northwestern University AlumniNews must be in making announcementslike this one:On Saturday, December 7th, President Walter

Dill Scott announced that the University hadreceived from the family of the late CharlesDeering of Evanston a donation of $1,000,000for a new general library building to be erectedon the Evanston campus .

Gordon Schaul, '29 arts-sc., of Okla-homa City, of the Tune-Schaul & Co.,wrote:

I have felt for some time that the expendituresmade necessary by the intense competition be-tween the various institutions is not excusablein the light of individual prestige, and that theultimate consequences you spoke of are inevitable . One has only to attend a modern uni-versity in order to appreciate how much morean athlete or an exceptional team is valued incomparison with excellence in studies . Themajority of our students do not reap an ad-vantage in physical development anywhere nearcomparable to the expense and attention showeredupon certain branches of athletic activity. Ifeel as you do concerning the problem and modeof remedial action, and I desire to congratu-late your stand as a sensible and timely ex-position of prevailing conditions . I hope andbelieve that in time most of your suggestionswill be carried out ; if not in general through-out the country, at least in the University ofOklahoma .

Professor E. P. Brown of NorthwesternState Teachers' college, Ada, approvedDean Adams' stand in a letter to him:

It is very gratifying to know that we haveone man in Oklahoma who can not only thinkproperly but who is not afraid to express hisopinion frankly and fearlessly. I think you arevery much right about "commercialized ath-letics" and I am glad to see you state what youbelieve . I know you can be depended uponto stay with them in the face of adverse pub-licity in the sport sections of the papers . I amfor you .

Savoie Lottinville, '29 lourn., editor lastyear of the Oklahoma Daily, and Rhodesscholar from Oklahoma, expressed ap-proval of the letter as follows :

I was fortunate enough recently to receive acopy of The Sooner Magazine containing yourcriticism of the existing athletic system . Iscarcely can tell you how happy I am that someone has had the courage to come forward witha really sound criticism .

Although it now seems too late seriously toconsider revising the entire athletic system ofcolleges, it is not too late to consider the pos-

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sibilities of shifting the emphasis so that everycollege man and women will be led, if notpushed, into some healthful sport.

For some time it has been a habit of editorialwriters in America to point with envy to theBritish system of law enforcement and courtprocedure . I am not sure but that this "pointingwith envy" can be carried too far ; but I shalltake the risk in referring to sports as they arehandled here .

Every man does something. If he doesn'tplay for one of the many teams which representhis college or for the 'varsity, he's more or lessof an odd size in the scheme of things . He'sapt to be looked upon as peculiar, or backward,or shy, or eccentric.

In the second place, men don't consider theact of winning the most important aspect ofsports . They play what they call a "jolly goodafternoon of sports ." Someone wins, as someoneshould in the normal course of things . Butthat's a side issue to the wider and more in-clusive question of participation generally andthe health and good spirits which naturally re-sult from it. Paid coaches are practically un-known . This latter fact ought to seem all themore remarkable when we remember that theCalifornia crew, for instance, which is coachedby a highly paid individual and manned by arace of giants, is scarcely a match for the muchless systematically coached and lighter crew atOxford .

Thirdly, the "gate" is a term quite unknownto the captains of Oxford 'varsity or intramuralsports . Indeed, people do come in thousandsto see the games, but the circular slogan, "thebetter the team, the greater the gate, the finerthe stadium," has never entered into the con-sideration of well-wishers of the 'varsity .

Oklahoma, twice in succession unde-feated in the Big Six basketball confer-ence, ended this season without winninga conference game . Despite the adverserecord on paper, Captain Churchill's teamwas no slouch and gave opposition a runfor their money. They didn't get anybreaks in their favor. There was nogrumbling at the way the team fought-fans said they got their money's worthevery game at the Fieldhouse .The complete season's record :

December 18 . Oklahoma 46, Texas 28 .December 19 . Oklahoma 33, Texas 30 .January 3 . Oklahoma 24, S . M . U . 19 .Januar y 4 . Oklahoma 24, S . M . U. 22 .Januar y 7. Oklahoma 22, Oklahoma Aggies 28 .January It . Oklahoma 22, Kansas 34 .January 18 . Oklahoma 33, Iowa State 34 .January 21 . Oklahoma 23, Kansas Aggies 24 .January 20 . Oklahoma 20, Nebraska 35 .January 22 . Oklahoma 25, Bethany 27 .February 1 . Oklahoma 20, Missouri 37 .February 11 . Oklahoma 25, Oklahoma Aggies 14 .February 15 . Oklahoma 23, Kansas 25 .February 17 . Oklahoma 23, Iowa State 39 .February 24, Oklahoma 32, Kansas Aggies 37 .March 1 . Oklahoma 20, Missouri 36 .March 3 . Oklahoma 30, Washington 26 .

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Oklahoma made a total of 445 pointsto their opponents' 504. Oklahoma wonsix games and lost twelve . Missouri wonthe Big Six championship .

A final victory over Washingtonuni-ersity March 3 byascoreof 30to 26

went far to redeem the disastrous basket-ball season, since the St. Louis team wasthe only one able to pin a defeat on thechampionship Sooner cagers of 1929 .Lack of a center tall enough to take

his share of the tip-offs and an abnormal-ly long injury list accounts largely for thebasketball squad's lack of success . Agroup of speedy sophomores who borethe brunt of this year's work will formthe nucleus for a 1931 team .Honoring one of Oklahoma's greatest

athletes who played his last basketballgame under Sooner colors, the Nebraskagame February 8 was dedicated to Cap-tain Tom Churchill . Bill Noble, another

Let's talk it overBY ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT TOLBERT

"UNCLE BUCK" is gone . The familiarpus of smoke from his trusty pipe thatfrequently herald his coming across thecampus have faded from the picture ofcampus life but "Uncle Buck" will neverbe forgotten . He was like a father to allof us .

Taxpayers for many years have beeninvesting their hard earned cash in theUniversity of Oklahoma . Naturally theyhave expected their investment to yieldreturns in citizenship and the adminis-tration of public affairs. Sooners every-where will have the opportunity this yearto actively participate in the administra-tion of public affairs (politically) . Somewill be called to assume responsibility ofleadership . Others will serve in the ranks.All will serve patriotically conscious thatthey are doing their part to increase theyield in good citizenship from the invest-ment the taxpayers have been making inour university .

Fellow Sooner Walter Ferguson, ex '07,and his good wife, Lucia Loomis Fergu-son, ex '07, the distinguished vice presi-dent of our association, in their libraryat their home at Tulsa have by far themost remarkable- collection of photo-graphs, books and source material re-lating to Oklahoma history that has cometo my notice . One of their prize posses-sions is a bound volume of Volume I ofThe Sooner Magazine .

graduating veteran, had the Kansas Ag-gie game dedicated to the memory of his

three years on Oklahoma teams. MelvingraduatingOklahoma

Culbertson, the only otherregular, was honored at theAggie game February 11 .

CAPTAIN MEYER

Succeeding Tom Churchill as captainof the Sooner basketeers, will be LawrenceMeyer of El Reno . Churchill entertainedCoach McDermott and the team at theSigma Nu house, and shortly before that,Mrs Hugh McDermott sprang a surpriseon Hugh and the team by giving a din-ner party at her home, unbeknownst tothe coach or team beforehand . Meyer wonall-American mention in the Chicagonational high school tournament in 19?4 .

With the recent opening of the pave-ment from Covle to Perkins and the com-pletion of some pavement south of Still-water there is now only about six milesof dirt between Soonertown and Aggie-ville, and but nine miles of dirt betweenStillwater and Tulsa. Certainly A . & M.needs that stadium.

Let's do our best to help Father Soon-er balance the Sooner family's Stadium-Union budget . To date, the stadium hascost $284,511 .68 and the Union has cost$284,025 .02, a total of $568,536 .70 .

isn't it a tribute to the solidarity ofcould beshoulders

Soonerland to realize that itdone by all of its putting our

to the wheel.

After having paid all campaign ex-

penses and administration costs in full,we owe, as of March 6, 1930, the sum of$450,069 .88, as follows :

On bond issue

$390,000 .00Interest on bond issue clue

4-1-29

10,725 .00

Notes due

14,850 .00Balance due contractors and

architect

19,881 .28Balance due on furniture andequipment

14,613.60

Total$450,069.88

With which to pay this 450M . we haveunpaid pledges amounting to $371,617 .30,

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athletic revenues, student union tax andincome from the Union building.But the big point is we ought to have

the money right now to pay the itemsin addition to the bond issue . The moneyto pay the April 1st interest is in hand .

Father Sooner figured that when theconstruction was completed there wouldbe on hand enough subscription moneyplus the bond issue money to pay the billin full . But-did you ever build a housethat cost you a little more than you ex-pected only to discover also that you werea little short on anticipated income?

Balancing that budget is an importantmatter to all of Soonerland . Let's every-one do our part-now.

From the United States Daily : In 1927-28, 571,844 students in private collegesand universities pair) as tuition and edu-cational fees $98,691,.369, or about $172 .00each . Amounts paid by students amount-ed to about 33 1-3 per cent of the incomeof private institutions .

During same period 347,537 students instate and public owned colleges and

uni-versities paidaverage per capita tuitionand educational fees of $81 .00 per stu-dent for residents. Amounts paid bystudents amounted to 11 .4 per cent oftotal income as compared to 33 1-3 per centpaid by students in private institutions .Based on these figures, Oklahoma stu-dents apparently enjoy unusual oppor-tunities for which all of us are appreci-ative.

From the Ohio State University Month-

A recent financial report of the Universityof Michigan chows a total for all trust funds,for such purposes as professorships, student loanfunds, publication funds, and the like, amount-ing to $807,561 .59 . In addition to this sum,made up of large and small gifts, many of thecampus buildings to the total value of nearly$5,000,000 have been donated to the universityby its friends .

The University of California is another ex-ample of what the generosity of interested in-dividuals has done for a state institution . Morethan $11,500,000 has been presented to thatinstitution by private citizens for various pur-l ses--and this figure includes only those giftswhich were in excess of $50,000!

Friends of public education have favored, inthe southwest, the University of Texas . Forbuildings alone, this state university has beenthe recipient of more than $2,650,000, in ad-dition to one of the largest gifts ever presentedby an individual to a public institution of learn-ing, one estimated to be in excess of $12,000,000"to maintain, to enlarge and to further theefficiency of a hospital attached to the medicalbranch of the university .