The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-01-24
President SiratiOn D. Brooks Brings Mes
sage on Broader Education 10 Guests
Of Mems Dinner Club
HEAD OF UNIVERSITY
TELLS OF DIRE NEEDS
Compliments 0. c. W. and Scouts Idea
That One Stale School Would Try
10 Crowd Out Another

With every seat occupied at the ban
quet given by the Mems Dinner club
last night, the election of officers was
held and the same men who have sue
cessfully guided the destinies OF the
organization through its formative pc
riod were unanimously reelected to
office. BY acclamation d. II. Roche
was made president and j. ]. Merrill
secretary-treasurer for another year.
What the guests did not learn Of the
interesting inner workings of the state
university last night might well be
omitted for in three-quarter of an
hour address President Stratton D.
Brooks, with a directness and lucidity
which we're most convincing gave his
hearers pointers on the art of running
first class institution on shoestring
and then explained what additional
wonders might be wrought for the
youth of the state with comparative
ly small increase in the budget should
the Legislature see fit to grant it.
With normal average expenditures
Of $3.50 due colleges Of the accomplish
ment and virility Of the state school,
the Norman institution, under the
four years administration Of Presi-
dent Brooks, has been struggling along
with a $llS per capita appropriation
and only the art of persuasion tended
to induce new and promising instruc-
tors to come Ia the state university
before they became aware OF .ae fact
that the Oklahoma institution paid
them $500 or $1,000 less than their
services would command elsewhere.
Indifference to future careers has
ceased to become the case Of gradu-
ates under the new plan, which in
stills in the first and second year stu
dent an ambition to choose some pro-
fession or calling and then to pursue
his studies along that line as a first
course for the remaining years of the
course, subject, of course to change
should conditions alter the case in
question.
President Brooks is for education
first last and all the time-here, there
and everywhere, and would fight as
hard and as earnestly for an increase
in the appropriation for the O. G. w.
as he would for the Norman institution
should occasion require such action.
There is no rivalry between state
schools he declares. The very ma
ture Of things and peculiarity Of peo-
pie who patronize such institutions
preclude the probability of a clash be-
tween them. Patronage is largely a
matter Of locality and Capitalization
defeats the aims Of the broader edu.
Gator who would seek to moIUpolize
studies or courses. Should three
schools located Ia close proximity
unite forces and concentrate their en-
rollment at one place the single school
in a year or two would not receive a
much greater patronage than it had
with the other two in operation.
Duplication of studies do not detract
from any Of the institutions concern
I'd but rather creates an interest in
such studies which tends to increase +
The patronage of all schools. There
tore the state university is on excel 4,
lent terms with the Oklahoma Col
ege for Women and mutual high per-
sOhal regard exists for the heads Of
schools ably conducted. He
paid a high compliment to the 0. c.
W. and to President Austin.
The speech Of President Brooks fol-
owed a menu Of a high order and was
preceded by talks by Alger Melton (
4. L. Herr and others.
]. w. Kayser proved to be a merry I
and contributed to the {
yaiety of the occasion. {
1t was suggested that the next ban. i
luet be held on Lincoln's birthday but
lat was left to President Roche.
The following guests were present: v
A. Johnston, w II, Wadsworth, Louis t
Erich, J. A. Robinson, NJ. H. Shepard. ]
J. w. Kayser, Stratton d. Brooks. T. d
Il. Dwyer, J. W. speake, W. T. Lampe. Q