The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-15
STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS.

Over fifty undergraduates are en-
rolled in the two mixed classes recent
ly organized for the study of the CON
ditions and missionary movement in
Africa, Asia and South America. They
are led by Miss Annette Whitehurst
of Ardmore and General Secretary J..
]. Mcconnell
The senate literary society, the old
est debating club in the university, now
holds it's meetings in the tower room
above the third floor of the new ad-
ministration hall The senate made
application for the room several years
ago when the new building was first
talked of and the authorities granted
the petition as the club is the oldest
and most influential college debating So
ciety in the state.
The second year "Medics" elected
officers recently as follows Carl
Steen, president; G. X. Brown, vice
president; John Neal, secretary treas
urer; p A. Taylor, retiring president,
sergeant at arms.
Coach Bennie Owen, who accompan-
led the basket ball team on its recent
northward trip, remained over a few
days in Arkansas City to visit with
home folks.
Chickasha high defeated Norman
high 25 to II in boys basket ball
game at Chickasha last week.
Ottie White, one time professional
base ball player with various Okla
homa league teams, died at his home
in Helena of consumption at the age
of 23 Wednesday. White was a mem
ber of Sigma M fraternity and prom
inent athlete while at the university.
Despite his athletic activities he was
an unusually brilliant student.
The Architectural Club held an in
Iteresting meeting Wednesday, Russell
Crabtree and Vinson Lackey read ex-
tracts from different works on archi-
lecture. Prof. Sturgis of the Latin
department, delivered an instructive
talk on Greek and Roman architecture.
In the county republican convention
to select delegates from Cleveland
county to the state convention, several
undergraduates took prominent parts.
c. H. Harrington and p D. Erwin,
senior law students, addressed the
convention, while A. E. Jenkins and
Oscar Young were named as alter
mates to the state convention.
|. l.. Williamson, II, who enrolled
last fall for graduate work in psychol-
ogy in Harvard university, has recent
ly been appointed assistant under pro.
fessor Munsterberg, his major profess
sor Hugo Munsterberg is one of the
worlds greatest psychologists and the
distinction which has come to Mr..
Williamson is of such degree as to re-
fleet honor on the state and state uni
yersity of Oklahoma as well as on the
man himself. Mr. Williamson's home
is near Alva. He represented the uni
versity in debate against Kansas last
spring.
Chief Justice Henry Marshall Fur
man of the criminal court of appeals
was a university visitor Thursday
Milton Minor who was on the Kan
sas university debating team which
defeated Oklahoma last year will again
oppose this school. His colleagues are
Roxy Davis, a middle law, and Frank
MeClelland, a junior in the school of
law. The Oklahoma debators are John
Rogers and w. ]. Armstrong of the
college of arts and science and VIII
Randolph senior law student
Prof John Begg Cheadle of the
school of law was elected vice presi-
dent of the Oklahoma alumni associa-
ton of Kansas university at Tulsa last
week.
With trip through northern Okla
homa during which matches were play
ed with five rival institutions, the
Sooner basketball team terminated its
season last week Previous to maxi
ing this trip the Varsity cagers were
undefeated While away they lost to
both the Chilocco Indian school and
Oklahoma Baptist college of Black
we'll but retained their claim to the
state championship on comparative
scores. The Sooners had previously
defeated the Redskins twice in Nor
man while they won decisively over
the Tonkawa Preparatory school which
in turn defeated the Baptist college.
The games were the first to be lost
during the school year by male
athletic organization of the university.
The players attribute their defeats to
the absence OF Captain Parsons and
unfamiliarity with some of the courts
which were not of regulation size
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, who ot-
eupies in Brooklyn the most historic