The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-12-08
STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS

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/ Assistant Professor G. Y Williams
VINO is taking post graduate work at
the University of Illinois, writes that
Oklahoma university has as good ap
paratus for the work done in chemis.
try as any school he has ever seen.
Thomas Mabry, student here in
1906, spent Tuesday in Norman. visit
ing old friends and acquaintance. Mr.
Mabry is now a resident of Clovis,
N. Nj. He was the youngest member
of the New Mexico constitutional con-
vention and spent most of last year
lin Washington as member of a com
mittee from that convention. Recently
he was elected state senator. Mr..
Mabry received his early parliament
tary training in the debating societies
of the university
The coed basket ball team of the
university inaugurated the basket ball
season in an auspicious way when it
defeated the Oklahoma Methodist
University team at Guthrie Thanks
giving day by the one-sided score of
81 to Z. The work of the team in this
contest indicates that it is OF unusual
ability and it appears altogether prob
able that the state university will win
both the womens and mems basket
ball titles for Oklahoma this winter.
the Varsity lineup was eJnnie Toll
bert of Hobart (captain) first center;
Lottie Bohrer OF Norman, second cen
ter; Alta Caldwell of Guthrie and Eliz-
abeth Eagleton of Pawnee, guards;
Lucille Roby of Mountain Park and
Lucy Wantland Of Purcell, guards.
The senior class will in the near
future select the play to be rendered
during commencement week. Miss
Lora Rinehart of Clinton is chairman
of the committee. There is some talk
of following the method in vogue in
older state universities and present
ing a play by student of the insti-
tuition.
b. A. Gartside of Oklahoma City was
elected president of the Websterian
Debating Club at a meeting held Sat
urday
The Young Womens' Christian AS
sociation of the university has devised
another method to add to its fund for
sending delegates to the conferences
which is both unique and promising
financially. In the near future the
girls will place on sale on the campus
and downtown an attractive 1912 sou.
yenir art calendar of the university
The calendar is to consist of four
panels and cover. al of light brown,
with twelve pictures of the campus
and other university scenes in brown
halftone. The Y w c. A. here is not
eu for the ability it has always shown
in financing its affairs being much
more successful in this respect than
many of the male organizations of the
student body.
Glasses We're resumed at the univer-
sity Monday, December 4. after re
cess of four days and half over
thanksgiving
The $4,000 order of new books for
the law library is arriving. Last We'd
nesday a complete set of the Federal
Reporter in 200 volumes and a large
assortment Of text books were receiv-
ed A rare English work giving the
lives of the great English iurists is
among the consignment recently re-
ceived.
Evertt z. Carpenter, geology II, is
lin Norman visiting friends. He has
been working in New Mexico and Ari-
2ona for the past several months for
TIE United States geological survey
and is now on his way to Washington,
o. c., to take up clerical work with
che survey. MIR Carpenter is one Of
tie very few college men who passed
the severe civil service examination
for the government geological survey
last spring.
Seven third year law students had
applied to the supreme court to take