The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-01-08

casion to blush whether they study
the classics at Norman or sit in the
| United States senate.
recall charming Indian maiden
schooled in Boston and Cambridge
teaching physical culture with exQui-
site grace in Muskogee high school,
who now presides over homes OF large
wealth part OF the year in New York
and the other part in England
But the transformation from Indian
life into domestic. Industrial. CONNER
cial, and social life is scarcely less mi.
raculous than the civic and educa-
tional evolution OF other Americans
here in the last six years.
There were never greater tragedies
than those of the normal schools. the
colleges, and the State University
Nv short years ago
There are not likely to be any more
tragedies such as have been. The
last shifting Of political strata out OF
which earthquakes are born has tax
en- place All Oklahoma is now proud
Of her new record in scholastic fields
Take the State University as a sam.
pie transformation Four years ago
( President Stratton d. Brooks found
a much disturbed and widely rent fac
ulty- BY a liberal translation OF at
tainments he counted 600 students
among them thirty-sx students Of edu-
cation. When | was there in Novem.
Der, 1916. they had enrolled 1874 res
ident students this autumn, and 4O3
of these were students Of education,
and standards have arisen more than
numbers. And the summer session,
not counted in the 1874, was four-and-
one-half times as large as when | was
there three years ago. And in the l.
GA no student by correspondence. no
classes studying under these profes-
sors In Oklahoma iCty and elsewhere
were counted. Yale and Princeton
are no more conservative in their fig
ures than is the State University OF
Oklahoma, and nowhere has there been
a growth OF lS0 per cent on a stiffen-
ing Of requirements to a much higher
percentage. Nowhere has depart.
ment Of education increased thous-
and per cent on a stiffening progam.
No is II at Norman oily that Oklaho-
ma looms large educationally. At
Chickasha, at Claremore, at the six
State Normal schools it is the same
story, And last year eighty-five per
cent of all public school teachers spent
their summer at some normal, college.
or university summer school
And not public schools alone are
full Of achievement and promise At
Tulsa, Henry Kendall college, the
Presbyterian college Of the state, with
DR. Charles Evans, the new president,
has made a gain in attendance that
we suspect no other church college
has made this year or any year And
at Kingfisher Or George b. Hatfield,
the new president Of the Congrega-
tional college, Kingfisher is getting
things lined up delightfully."-
1t is more than coincident that
practically all of this educational
transformation has taken place since
Robert II. Wilson became state SUI
perintendent bringing to the work
realization Of the immense and intense
need Of heroic work in eliminating
politics, educational and otherwise.
from all state institutions. 1t is prac-
tically achieved today all along the
line.
All this reads like fairy tale and
can only be fully appreciated by one
who has seen the shifting of the
scenes twice year while the changes
were being wrought
oklahoma Mighty Oklahoma.
Vast in her resources Of oil, in her
fields OF cotton and in her square
miles OF wheat, but mightiest in the
purpose and spirit with which
She grapples with her own problems
n her own way.