The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-02-02
STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS.


The next issue of The University
Magazine" the student monthly liter
ary publication. will be special mum
Der on debating and athletics.
Final examinations for the first
semester begin Tuesday Second Sc
mester enrolment begins the following
Monday.
Miss Lora Rinehart. who completes
her course for an A. B. degree this
semester. has accepted position as
instructor in mathematics and history
in Shawnee high school.
Fifty-fve workmen are employed on
the large sewer ditch being dug around
the campus, 1t will be completed this
week.
The university chess club will begin
its games next semester with mem
bership of nearly thirty Bennie Owen,
manager of athletics in the university,
was also chosen manager of the chess
club.
Practice was begun last week on the
annual German play by the members
of the Teutonia society The play last
year was an unqualified success.
l. l.. Williamson of Alya, who grad
uated last suring and was on the de
batting team which opposed Kansas at
Lawrence, is a candidate for the Har-
ward debating team.
Track work was inaugurated at the
university last week in preparation for
the big meets which have been sched-
uled for the spring months. Several
cross country squads have been or
ganized by physical director, Want
land for the benefit of the long distance
runners.
The seniors have finally rejected the
idea of presenting a Shakesperian
drama commencement week. They
have selected for their graduation play
'Renisas," strong Russian comedy,
which the Yale dramatic club has rem
|dered four times with marked success.
Bob Wood, an alumnus of the uni
versity who is now with the United
States Geological Survey in Washing
ton, D. c., recently gave a dinner to
the Sooner alumni in that city. Okla
homa university grads" are found the
world over.
]. ]. Mcconnell, Jr, general Y NJ.
&C.. A. secretary at the university, was
called to Edmond last Friday by Pres
ident Evans of the Central Normal 70
deliver a talk to the students of that
institution. The subject chosen by Mr..
Mcconnell was THE Things That
Make Up Man"
The Sooner Bar, one of the strong
debating clubs of the law school, elect
ed officers last week as follows: Earl
Cowden of McAlester, president;
Claude Rosenstein of Skiatook, vice
president; c. d. Harrington of Norman,
treasurer; John Sowder of Norman,
critic; Thurman Hurst of Pawnee,
chaplain; Manford Cox of Tryon, sar-
geant at arms.
The oratorical council has definitely
decided to accept the invitation of the
Missouri Valley schools and send a
representative to Des Moines in May
to contest for honors in the big Mis-
sourl Valley oratorical contest in
which Drake, Ames, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas. Missouri and Colorado will be
entered. The conference officials pay
the expenses of the orator and award
a substantial cash prize to the winner.
The girls basket ball team plays the
East Central Normal girls on the home
court the night of February 2. The
team is exceptionally strong and
should reverse the score of last fall
Prof. Irving Perrine of Cornell Uni
versity has been appointed to the posi-
tion of professor of mineralogy made
vacant by the recent promotion of
Prof Taylor to the head of the depart
ment of geology Prof. Perrine has
been head instructor at Cornell for the
past three years. He has done ex-
tensive field work in connection with
his teaching and on the United States
geological survey and Louisiana geo.
logical survey. Cornell authorities
recommend Prof. Perrine as the best
student of historical geology ever en-
rolled in the institution.
The University Glee Club gave its
annual concert January 26, to one of
the largest audiences that has ever
assembled in Norman, despite the fact
that it ca meduring the rush of ex
animation week, Both students aud
townspeople made up the large audi
ence which heartily encored the mum
bers and pronounced the club one of
the best musical organizations in the
west. Prof. George Seymour Lenox Of
the department of music, acted as con
ductor and delighted the audience with
one of his inimitable tenor solos.