Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-03
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gpecial 10 The World

6pecial 10 The World.
NORMAN, Okla, Dec. 2.-Six stu
dents of the University of oklahoma
are members of the state legislature,
having received their certificates of
election from the state election board
this week The six students will be
excused during the session of the leg
iSiature. The next regular session of
the Sixth Oklahoma legislature con-
venes January 10, meeting in the new
capitol building for the first time, a
wing of the building having been
rushed TO completion. The six legis-
iators in the university have organ
lzed club for the discussion of legis-
latlVe problems in oklahoma.
The University of oklahoma will
be represented in four oratorical con-
tests this year, according to Debate
Coach l.. Q. Campbell. The uniVer-
sity Will be represented in the ma
! tional oratorical contest at Lexing-
non. KY, by Josh Lee. This contest
Mes place during the Christmas
holidays. Lee won the right to COM
pete in the national contest by win
ming over representatives from eight
other states last spring.
Educational exhibits from Great
Britain, Canada, Germany, Cuba,
Philippine and Hawaiian Islands and
from all countries on the American
continent will be found in the
museum now being established by
Prof. A. c. Parsons, state high school
inspector, at the University of Okla
ioma. The purpose of the museum
~ TO assist superintendents and pr.n-
cipals OF city schools thruout the
state in obtaining free or at nominal
cost things of educational Value for
their schools.
The 1916 annual meeting OF the
oklahoma Society of Engineers will
be held in Tulsa December 81 and 49,
Dean j. II. Felgar of the college OF
engineering in the University OF Ok
lahoma is president of the society.
Several new courses in geology viii
be offered at, the university next
semester, according to DR.. NJ. q.
Mehl, head of the department. One
of the new courses will be elementary
histology, which treats of the itd-
vanced principles of geology. over
three hundred students are taking
geology work at the university. yet
the department finds it Impossible TO
keep up with the constant demand
foS graduate geologists.
The lyceum course was opened at
the university this week by the
famous pianist Pasquale Tallarico,
who scored tremendous success a few
weeks ago as a soloist in the Chicago
orchestra, playing the Techaikowsky
j flat minor Concerto He is an
Italian by birth, but was educated in
America. In 1914 he won the con-
test for American trained pianistj,
playing the MacDowell A minor Con
certo in competition with 80 other
pianists from ~ states.
Professors S. w. Reayes, IL. C.
Gossard and Il. L. X. Duval of the
hS SthematiCal department of the uni
versity attended the meeting of the
southwestern section of the American
Mathematical society at Lawrence,
Kan, December /. The next meet
ing of the society will be held at the
University of oklahoma.
A Spanish conversational club has
been organized in the university to
promote better speaking OF the Ian
guage. The programs will be given
almost entirely in Spanish. The or
ganization was formed by Prof. l.. 3.
Alsdd for the advanced students.
THe Golden lhfeSnOlu an East
Indian song garland, the music of
which was written by Liza Lehman
and the poems by Sarojini Naidu, will
be given at the university before the
Christmas holidays by students in the
college of fine arts. The principal
soprano solo, the snake Charmer",
will be sung by Minnaletha Jones,
with flute obligato. The other solo
lists are Margaret Harlow, contralto,
and Glenn Hardin. baritone