The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-08
srArE UNIVERSITY NEws.

| Rev. Carter Helm Jones, the emf
nent Oklahoma City divine, delivered
lecture before students and towns
people Friday night
The University of Denver is endeav-
oring to secure football game for
next fall with the University of Okla
homa. As Coach owen already has a
game scheduled for Denver on Thanks
giving day with the University of Col
orado il is not likely that the Denver
institution will be accommodated.
Coach Paul A. Walke~ OF the uni.
versty debating squad this week an
nounced that Frank Manning of Chick
asha, Elton b. Hunt of Alex and c. c.
Williams of Durant would compose the
team which will debate the university
of Colorado at Boulder in April. The
team which opposes the university of
Kansas at Norman the same night will
be w. ]. Armstrong of Boswell John
Rogers OF holdenville and Will n,
| Randolph OF Chandler The six men
won phases on the squad in the pre-
liminary debates held a month ago
but the personnel of the particular
lteams was not determined until re-
Gently The question for debate in
both of the big forensic contests is;
nesolved that, the recall should be
applied to the state judiciary" Okla
homa defends the affirmative against
Kansas and has the negative against
Colorado
I In fast an dexciting game the
juniors of the college Friday night de
feated the sophomores for the honor
of contesting against the engineers in
the final game to decide the class
basket BAN championship Of the uni
versity
Dad" Elliott, the great secretary
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton for the middle west who is CON
sidered one of the most popular col
lege workers in the field, has Just con-
cluded a three days visit at the uni
yersity Of Oklahoma 1t is no exag
geration to say that his earnest and
eloquent appeal to the men Of the stu
dent body in the four addresses he
made in one OF the most efficient moral
forces the school has known in years
Elliott. a college man talking to coll
| lege men in the idiom known and un-
derstood by them all. has a way of get
ting to his hearers heart through the
medium of simple but convincing logic
which always Wins. His four subjects
while here were The Can OF the Bus
lmess World For Men OF Character, =
THE Common Battle Ground OF all
COLLEGE Men. college Cutters, and
THE Pace That Wins In an uncom-
+ promising manner he took up the cud-
gels against profanity, gambling, Gig.
aret smoking, strong drink and the
lother habits to which some men i'm
every college are addicted and Won
men from sn cults and classes of the
Z SlUNENt HNAA 10 p4SdES t8tNAttot lf N' ~
+ Ihenceforta abstain from undesirable
habits Record breaking crowds ats
tended the meetings despite The iRe,e-
ment weather
Baseball practice viii be Initiated
on Boyd field this week Coach Ben,
lrse owen says that material IS plenti-
lful ana there is every prospect for an
lallNctorious baseball aggregation
this spring. There viii be from three
to twelve candidates for every post
ton nthe team In every depart
ment with the possible exception OF
the pitching stan an improvement over
last yea ris promised Both the in-
fheld and out6eld will be fast and made
iap OF good stckers while several top
notch receivers are aspiring to stand
behind the bat An veteran pitchers
are back but it will be necessary to
develop one additional box artist OF
ealiber because OF the heavier sched-
ule
/ About twenty students IN the depart
mert OF geology VIII take the civil