The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-12

visiting student body, last Sunday OF
the subject, Getting Started Right.
Doctor DeBarr is always a welcom,
speaker before the undergraduates be
cause he always has something to say
worth while. He drew practical ii
lustrations from a long life prolific
, of experience, to support his plea thai
the students begin all worthy work Of
the semester Alright and prosecute II
to a successful and beneficial end.
The religious work of the institution
is every week gaining added force
and prominence under the able guild
ance of general Y. NJ. c. A. secretary
] j. Mcconnell. The large student
delegation which the university sem
to the state Y. NJ. c. A. conference
at Enid has returned surcharged with
enthusiasm, and everything indicates
that the work will proceed here with
a diligence never known before.
The Sooner basketball team is back
in camp after its hurry up trip to
the north and is being pounded into
trim for the battle with Southwestern
ern Kansas Normal College, sched-
uled to be played in the gymnasium
here Friday night. With Captain Dia-
mond, the backbone of the whirlwind
/ 10 hnnly in tho
fighting and the men perfected in
team work by special practice along
| that line, the dope seems to be that
the tables will be turned and the
Sooners will secure sweet revenge for
their decisive drubbing at the hands
of the Kansas normalites.
With the beginning of the second
semester and the coming of new stu
dents the Greek letter organizations
have announced number of pledges.
OF the sororities, Delta Delta Delta
announces Grace Cook of Norman,
Grace Stiles of Watonga and Edith
Barrett of Norman. Kappa Alpha
Theta has pledged Ida Agnes Pyle
of Fort Worth, Mary Virgin of Nor
man and Grace Millar of Norman,
and Luella Bretch of Hobart. Pi
Beta Phi announces Helen Anderson
of Norman. Some of the fraternities
have also been busy. Kappa Alpha
has its colors on Ted Evans, son of
President A. Grant Evans of the uni
versity. Sigma Nee has pledged Ches-
announces Crawford Cameron Of
Shawnee and Marc Truitt of El Reno.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon has pinned Tom
Mayfield of Norman and Truman
Dunn of Oklahoma City.
Chief Justice Henry NJ, Furman of
the Oklahoma criminal court of ap-
peals recently addressed the law stu
dents at the state university on the
subject of Criminal Jurisprudence.
The eminent jurist complimented the
embryo barristers on their opportun-
ity for acquiring a legal education,
saying that he walked seven miles to
borrow his first law book. He decried
the tendency of many judges to hold
that everything which came before
the court is wrong until proved right,
saying that the opposite attitude
should be assumed. Judge Furman
also referred to the common law as a
relic of the days of barbarism and
superstitution which is filled with alb
surdities and has about outlived its
usefulness. He has been suffering
much of late from vertigo and weak
ening of the vocal chords and these
were his first public utterances orally
delivered for over a year.
The old saying that college profes-
sors were not intended to combat the
stern realities of life was aptly illus
trated this week when Professor
Floyd of the department of history
at the state university essayed to
stop a dog fight In his attempt to
act as arbitrator of the canine mis-
understanding, he fell over a lawn
mower and broke his wrist. He now
reviews the punic wars and the story
of Napoleon with his arm in a sling.
A class in Russian has been organ
lied at the state university with Os-
sip DePorte, the brilliant young Rus
sian refugee, as instructor. A num-
Der of faculty members and students
are enrolled. If we are to preserve
strict neutrality a class in Japanese
should be organized at once. There
seems to be an admirable opening for
Japanese student at the university.
Almost the entire student body of
the law department of the university
visited the house of representatives
90 h. do