The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-01-13
STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS.


The Young Womens Christian AS
sociation met last week and elected
officers for the second semester as fol-
lows: Eva Messenger president; Jen-
ME Tolbert, secretary; Lima Bryan,
treasurer; Elizabeth Eagleton, vice
president.
The university orchestra is in great
demand this season by high school
and civic organizations of the state.
1t will leave soon for an extended trip
during which concerts will be given
under the auspices of the University
T Extension Bureau at Chickasha, Ana
darko, Lawton, Wewoka, Ardmore, Sui
phur Springs and Pauls Valley
Edwin Minteer of Norman represent
ed the local chapter of Kappa Alpha
(southern.. social fraternity in the ma
tional convention at New Orleans dur
ing the Christmas holidays.
The state board of education an
fnounced recently the appointment of
Prof Chas. H. Taylor to succeed Prof.
D. w. Ohern, now director of the state
geological survey, as head of the de-
partment of geology in the university.
Prof Taylor came to the university
three years ago and was professor of
minerology prior to his promotion. He
has wide experience both in the class
room and field.
First quarter reports from the uni
versity of Chicago show that Richard
A. Conkling who graduated from the
department of geology at Oklahoma
last June and is now attending the uni
versity of Chicago as a graduate stu
dent, received the highest average CIV
en- in the large class in photography.
Prof. Jerome Dowd, of the chair of
economics and sociology, and DR.. Dan
iel w. Ohern, head of the Oklahoma
Geological Survey, went from the uni
yersity during the holidays to attend
the national gathering Of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement
of Science held in Washington, D. c..
The organization is the greatest scien-
tific body in the world and is made up
of thirty different scientific societies.
Prof Dowd. in his capacity of chair
man of committee appointed two
years ago to recommend a course for
beginners in sociology, submitted a
fifteen page report which was unani-
mously adopted President Taft was
one of the speakers before the dele
gates
AfSAr a lapse of two years a chess
club is again to be organized among
the undergraduates. The university
mas tbs best chess player west of the
mississippi river in Ossip DePorte, a
young Russian refugee who is junior
in the department Of mathematics
All preliminary arrangements have
been made for a track meet in Nor
man next spring between the univer-
stiles of Missouri and Oklahoma. It is
humored that several star track men
are to enroll next semester and, with
those already in school, the Sooners
are counting on having material for a
team which will defeat anything in the
Missouri valley on the cinder path and
greensward.
The university medical school re-
ceived signal recognition of its work
last week when the announcement was
made public that one of last years
graduates had made the highest ex-
animation in the test for diplomas to
practice before the medical board of
the state of Kansas held recently.
Among those who took the examina-
ton were graduates of Rush, Tulane,
st. Louis and many other great medi-
cal colleges of the country.
Streeter Speakman Of Wellston, a
third year law student and ex-inter
collegiate debater of the university
spoke under the auspices of the Uni
yersity Extension Bureau at nine towns
in his home county during the Christ
mas holidays He addressed audiences
at Stroud, Kendrick. Davenport, Car
ney, Tryon Agra, Sparks, Prague and
Wellston. He spoke on The Lawyer,
His Vices and Their Remedies part
of his talk being devoted to discus