The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-29
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STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS.
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! The University of Oklahoma en-
Thursday of last week began the last
year in the second decade of is exist
lence under conditions so suspicious as
to exceed the hopes of even the most
sanguine supporters. Despite the gen
eral failure of crops and the recent
board of education investigation, both
of which were expected to tell heavily
Iagain the attendance in all higher edu-
cational institutions of Oklahoma, the
lenrolIment is larger than ever before
i'm the history of the institution. At
the close of the third day of registra-
ton 536 studentc had applied for cards
Iof admission to the various colleges
land departments of the university. This
lis a substantial increase over the en-
roIlment at the same time last year
and is far in advance of that of all
years previous. The prediction is
freely made that the enrolment for
the fall term will pass the eight hun
dred mark since hundreds of th9 old
students have thought best to wait
the fraternity rushing season and the
general activity of the first week of
: school are over to apply for admission.
Last year the total enrolment for the
fall term was slightly over zoo and
that for the entire school year, summer
term included $40. The grand total is
expected to reach 1000 this year al
! though the hot weather of last sum
mer prevented any increase in attend
ance during the summer session.
The. formal opening exercises held
in the university auditoum Thursday
morning were most impressive. Eleven
hundred faculty members, students
and townspeople packed the largo
room to hear the address of acting
President Julian c. Monnet, dean ot
the school of law. Yet very weak from
e violent attack of hemorrage of the
r nose. the chief executive of the schoo
:, was often forced to lean on the desl
J. at his SIDE for support as he uttered
# one of the most direct criticisms OF
d the higher educational policy of Okla
e homa that has ever been heard within
S the state. Forcefully and with convinc
}. ling logic he took up and analyZed edu
If cational conditions within the state
e He attacked, without mincing words
o the expensive and unsuccessful polio.
d of building up many secondary agri
o cultural and normal schools at the eH
pense of the state university and plead
d ed for organization and centralizatio1
II in the educational system of Oklahoma
e Declaring that Oklahoma should b
E. conservative in all matters touchin
e education and profit by the expcrienc
k of other sta es, he called forcibly t
mind the fact that all states have
n great education system and made thei
o state universities the capstone of tha
'e system and given it unstinted supper
8. when necessary.
Is Glass work began Thursday morning
s. The increase in attendance was ei
'e pecially noticeable in the college c
1t arts and sciences, the school of la
le and the school of medicine!
Every thing indicates the stronges
V football team in the history of tn
p university of Oklahoma this fall. A
" but four of last seasons star frs
e, eleven are back and in harness, Will
i'd sixty or seventy ambitious youngstel
If have donned the moleskins and are OF
is booting the ball under the eyes
e. Coach Bennie Owen, assistant Cha
he Wantland and Captain Blink" Ca
h. shaw. There will be a merry scrar
Id BILE for places and it is freely predicte
II. that the second team this year will |
practically as strong as the first. Tt
ne schedule is an unusually stiff one sinC
d. the three big games, the kickfests wit
IN the universities of Texas, Kansas al
if Missouri are all to be away from HON
at Among the most likely of the new me
ng are Floyd Tribbey, 245 FOUNDER fro
Re. Maud; Beecher, a 220 pound lad fro
as IOklahoma Southwestern Beverly, fc