The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-06-07
STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS.

STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS. -
Streeter Speakman of Wellston, the
university representative in the recent
Missouri Valley oratorical contest in
Des Moines, won third place. Ames
university captured first prize. Mr..
Speakman's Grafton was "The Chal-
lenge of the Law" He was suffering
severely from tonsilitis before and
during the contest and withdrew from
school Immediately after his return
from Des Moines.
Daniel ~ Mcintosh of Checotah the
fleet little Indian quarter-miler, was
recently elected captain of the Sooner
track team for next year. 1t was Nc
lntosh's wonderful race in the last
the intercollegiate meet at Kingfsher
for the Sooners.
j. R. Saunders, returned mission
airy of Ying-Tak, China, addressed the
Young Mems Christian Association
last Sunday.
J. L. Highsaw, II was last week
elected principal of the Pauls Valley
high school for next year Mr.. High
saw is an honor student and former
intercollegiate debater.
Like bolt from clear sky a class
scrap threw the student body into a
furor last Friday night. In the annual
o1acc coran 1act fall tbo oc,,I, -. -. II
feated the freshmen for the first time
in years Determined to be reyenged
the freshmen quietly called their forces
together Friday, spirited Frank Par
sons of Civet, the sophomore leader
to the country in an automobile. axAav.
then attacked the sophomores east Of
town as they were leaving for a hay
ride. Eighty freshment and about
forty-five sophomores participated. '
After one of the fiercest scraps ever
held at the university the sophomores
We're tied, their eatables captured and
the girls driven back to town by the
freshmen boys.
A mass meeting of the entire student
body was held in chapel Wednesday
morning to discuss the organization Of
student council It is proposed to
give this council and the student body
which it is to represent entire control
OF the student activities President
Brooks addressed the students in favor
of an undergraduate organization.
The Pharmo-Medie baseball team
Saturday won the baseball champion
shipu of the university for the second
consecutive time by defeating the
Sophomore team of the college of arts
and sciences. The final score was 2
to 1. In the semi-1nals the Pharmo-
Medics defeated the Laws to 5.
The first concert of Phi Mu Alpha
music fraternity was given before a
large and appreciatiye audience in the
recital room of the Music studio Thurs
day night. An interesting feature of
the program was the solo, 20, Earth,
Hear the Voice of the Lord, sung by. :.
Prof. Lenox and accompanied by then
composer, Dana Tisdel.
Sam Jones Smith Of Rolf. junior ii
the College of Arts and Sciences, -
Sunday morning for Boston ASIA dele
gate from the Oklahoma chapter to
the national convention of Phi Mu
Alpha music fraternity. Mr. Smith :
will go from Boston to the Lake
Geneva Y. NJ. c. A., conference as pres
ident of the local association and rep &
from the university. NJ
Harry Wallenburg, former UNI Y
versity student. is visiting his rela- Z.
tives and Sigma Nu brothers in Nor .
man. He is head of the collecting de-
partment in one of the largest trust
companies of the southwest. with y
headquarters at Fort Worth, Texas A.
Prof Harold v Bozzell was re-elect- a
ed seeretary-treasurer of the Gas. Elec- \
trio and Street Railway association ofA
Oklahoma at its annual meeting in Oh.
lahoma City last week.
Or. Edwin DeBarr, head of the de-4s
partment of chemistry, recently ad ~
dressed the State Association of Drue
gists at its annual convocation in Oh Al
lahoma City. II
In dual tennis meet held at Law N
renee. kansasSlast Friday, Kansas mi
yersity won over Oklahoma by q mar