The Oklahoma Weekly (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1921 Page: 1 of 4
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THE OKLAHOMA WEEKLY
VOL. VI.
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, NORMAN. OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1021.
NO. 9.
CORPS CHAMPIONSHIP
AT STAKE IN R. 0. T. C.
GRIDIRON GAME TODAY
Battery A Meets Victorious Company
B After Eliminating Artillery
Teams
ELEVENS EVENLY MATCHED
Cadet Tournament May be Made An-
nual Affair as Result of Interest
Shown
The deciding football game of the R.
LANDLADIES TO GIVE
REBATE FOR HALF OF
VACATION ROOM RENT
INTER-CLUB DEBATERS
DRAW FOR POSITIONS
laborate on Arguments Begin-
ning January 11
O. T. C. series will be played at 4 oc.ock hc occpuies the room during vacation
ihis afternoon when Company 15 meets of for days that he does not occupy the
room before the holidays begin or after
NEW FILING TURNS RACE
FOR FRESHMAN SOONER
SPONSOR INTO RACE
. . , , . . Competition developed in the second
JJSMi«- <o coi-'<" 'sir.
ents for the period covered by the
Christmas vacation," said Roy Gittinger,
dean of undergraduates, Tuesday.
"Where the matter is not settled oth-
erwise by previous agreement, the cus-
tom has been for the student to pay
half the usual rent," Dean Gittinger ex-
p'ained. "In other words, if the student
is away ten days during the vacation,
he will receive a rebate equal to five days
rent. Of course, the student should not
receive the rebate for any days when
O.U. ORATORS MEET
MISSODRI TONIGHT IN
FIRST DEBATE OF YEAR
er popularity leader Tuesday when the'
name of May Hailey, fine arts fresh- Haddad and Horner Compose Team
man, Haileyville, was filed for nomina-j Which Will Battle Old Enemy
Preliminaries for the univeristy inter- tion from the freshman class. She will On Forensic Platform
society debates will be held Wednesday oppose Zella Hart, pharmacy freshman,J
night, January 11, Josh Lee, professor Crescent
,>f public speaking, announced Friday. The junior class continued to rank as ir;sj, Question Abandoned Because of
ARGUE INDUSTRIAL COURT
class work has begun."
GETS PUBLICITY JOB
* Battery A. The winner of this game will
have a clear title to the football champ-
onship of the R. 0. T. C. unit.
The two teams are equally matched,
* • .i..r f heavy materia! in the l.ne and
• an! comparitivcly light backfii;!d. i Hutton Bellah Appointed to Manage
t... :s teams have proved strong on the Stadium Drive. Monroney New
,'insivc and few ga:ns have been made Sport Editor
„ hru their lints by opponents.
I c-T-pany I! defeated Company A Mon-
day afternoon, 13 to 0. Line plunging
.I'.ul long runs coupled with excellent i
interference featured the game. Fum-
v„lies were frequent during the last half
•due to the darkness.
Battery A won its second game Friday
ifternoon when the team defeated Bat-
tery D 13 to 0. Campbell, captain of
Battery A was the individual star of the
jjame. Besides making substantial gains
around the ends, he advanced the ball
many yards by his broken field running.
. This made Battery A champion of the
four batteries of the artillery unit.
Athletics in the R. O. T. C. unit was
ijiven a great boost when the foobtall
series was arranged, Major C. A. Baehr,
commandant, declares. It has been a
success in every respect and present in-
dications are that the same plan will
t>e tried next year. The season will prob-
* ably start earlier and more games will
!>e arranged. Interest in the sport has
been high among R. O. T. C. cadets
and the support of their respective teams
indicates that R. O T. C. football wdt
* take the place of class football which
lias been prohibited by school authorities
daring the last two years.
The probable lineup for todays game
m:
enior class, Betty Coley, art:
Y inita.
and
GUARD MEN TO GET PAY
National Troops Who Drill With R.
O. T. C. Will Receive Checks
Cadets in the university unit of the
R. O. T. C. who are also members of
Angus Woodford, president of the the only c'.ass of the four without a
oratorical counc.l, called a meeting of candidate, as no nominations were madei
the league of literary societies Wednes- from that class Tuesday.
day, and the schedule for debate con- Thirty-six hours remains in which to
tests was arranged. The question to file petitions. Petitions will be received
be debated by the societies is, "Resolv- at the Sooner office, basement of Sci-
ed, that the Kansas plan for settling in- ence hall, until noon Thursday. Those
dustfial disputes should be adopted thru- now filed in the sophomore class are,
out the United States." 1 Sue Hailey, fine arts, McAlester, and
Forum and Philologian societies will Edna Stuard, fine arts, Waurika; and
have tho affirmative and Websterian and In the
r'krian s..eli-ties will have tile negative.! science
Congress and Ktidelphians will repre-
sent the affirmative against Jcfferson-
:ans anil Meletanians, negative. It is
understood that in no case will the men
L. Hutton Bellah, sport editor of the' be required to meet m a word battle
Oklahoma Daily has been appointed pub- those of the other sex.
licity director for the new proposed. Winners of the preliminaries will
athletic stadium according to secretary meet Athenaeans and Zetaietheans in 41)^ National guard organizations
E. R. Kraettli, who made the appoint-1 the final debate. It was decided among entitled to National guard drill pay for have been chosen are: Professor L. W.
ment ' the literary societies to start a preced- the period that they attend drills in the Courtney of the Baptist university at
Bellah has resigned from the Daily lent by which the winner in the finals j military unit here, according to a bul- Shawnee, Professor Earl Oberg of
staff but will continue to act as pub- each will be permitted contest in the ]etin issued Tuesday by Maj. Carl A. Phillips university at Enid, and Harry
licity manager of the university, and in iinals the following year without enter- Baehr, commandant of the cadet regi- B. Summers, debate coach at Ok.ahoma
addition wi.l succeed Willard H. Camp- ing the preliminaries. This ruling ex- mcms here. j City high school.
bell as Norman correspondent for the empts the Athenaeans and Zetaletheans These men should obtain a certifi- j The question for the Colorado and
Daily Oklahoman. from the preliminaries this year. cate from the professor of military sci- Kansas debates has been changed from
Aimer (Mike) Monroney has been Any regularly enrolled university cnce anti tactics to show that they re the Irish question to the question of UK-
appointed to fill the vacancy left by student who is a member in good stand- members of the R. O. T. C. and that they Kansas industrial court plan. The
Bellah as sport editor on the Daily, ac- ing of any literary society society will have attended drills therewith, Major change was due to a lack of interest on
cording to Tully Nettleton, editor of I* eligible for these contests, Lee said. Rachr said. The pay may be obtained the previous question
the Daily, who made the appointment' " ~ by presenting these certificates to Sgt.
which was ratified by the publication PI KAPPA ALPHA | H. Janz, sergeant-major, at the armory.
board Monday, December 19. Monroney | p; Kappa Alpha held initiation for Certificates should lie presented before
will take his place on the staff January | Dr. J. C. Stephenson Sunday. the holidays ^
Monroney was yell leader of the fresh- £$ ATTLEFIKLDS WILL BE VISIT ED ON
Lack of Interest Among
Debaters
The- Missouri-Oklahoma debate, the
first debate of the year, will take placc
at 8 o'clock tonight in the university
auditorium, Fine Arts building. The
Missouri debaters arc due to arrive in
Norman at 8:57 this morning. The
question is, "Resolved, that the Kansas
court plan for solving industrial dis-
I putes should be adopted thruout the
: United States."
William Haddad and J. Ket-ne Horner,
who will represent Oklahoma tonight,
. liau- been working hard on this de1>ole
' for some time, Josh Lee, debate coadi,
said Tuesday.
Dr. A. C. Scott of the extension di-
vision is to preside and the judges who
Battery A
pos.
Company B
Clark
le
Courade
Hargis
It
Collins
Miller
lg
Forbes
- Carey
c
GaHtson
Tims
rg
Lyvemkey
Hicks
rt
Brown
Willi ts
re
Bush (C)
Greene
q
Davis
Severson
rh
Oaks
Sanders
th
Van Zandt
•Campbell (C)
f<b
Andrews
man class and a freshman football let-
ter man last year and has served as a
sport writer for the Daily Oklahoman
at Oklahoma City for the past two years.
ALPHA XI DELTA
Alpha Xi Delta held initiation
Erda Owen Monday evening.
for
TOUR CONDUCTED BY PROF. JACOBSON
NO REHEARSAL TODAY
There will be no rehearsal of the men's
glee club this afternoon on account of
the faculty meeting, Joseph H. Benton,
director, announced late Tuesday.
UNIVERSITY ANTHOLOGY RECEIVES
FAVORABLE COMMENT FROM CRITICS
Twelve People Who are Willing To
Spend $15 Per Day for 76 Day*
Are Eligible To Join
The literary societies will not hold
their regular meetings tonight on ac-
count of the varsity debate.
PROPOSE NEW
DAILY SHACK
Members of Oklahoma Press Associ-
ation Back Branson's Plan for
Journalism Building
If plans launched Friday and Satur-
lay by Edgar S. B ron son, secretary of
Professor Oscar B. Jacobson will be the Oklahoma press association and edi-
... , . „ i >u k..* I tor of the El Reno American, material-
the leader of a party, under the bus- '"' ' . , , . ..
, , _ , 1 ize the school of journalism may soon
iness management of the Temple Tours ^ ^ ^ q( hj own
of Boston, to visit France, Italy, Sw.tx- of grQup twQ ()klahoma picss
Bulletin of Sooner Poetry Edited By
Prof. Paxton Is Praised By
Newspaper Writers
"University Anthology," compiled and
edited by Prof. Joseph Francis Paxton
and printed in the November 15 num-
ber of the University of Oklahoma bul-
letin, effectively answers persons who
have said Oklahoma has no inclination
for producing art or is too busy pro-
viding for its elemental physical needs
to take time for it."
Thus writes "R. M. J." in commenting
on university poetry in a lengthy article
which appeared in the Sunday edition of
the Oklahoman.
Prof. Paxton has received also sev-
++++++++++++++++++++*+++++
TRAIN TIMES
LEAVING NORMAN
Santa Fe
Southbound—To Purcell, Wynnewood,
Pauls Valley, Davis, Ardmore, Mariet-
eral letters of the same general tenor;
GIRLS CHOSEN
FOR GLEE TRIP
Seven Towns in First Concert Tour
for Girls' Club, To Take Place
in January
Girls who will go on the first girls'
gtee club trip for this season have been' George B. "Deke" Parker, editor of
•chosen, Prof. Herbert Wall, director of the Geveland Press and a graduate of
tiie glee club, announced Tuesday. The Oklahoma says that the subject matter
trip will take place the second week in is unusually good and "aids in preserv-
January and will include seven towns in ;ng university conditions." Others from
the eastern part of the state. The route whom comments have been received arc
will be announced later. | George L. Bowman and Samuel W.
Those who will go on the first trip Hays of the board of regents and Mrs.
re : first soprano, Zelda Hillis, Corrine Wiliam Tilghman, who contributed to
Wall, Dorothy Watson, Nellie Barnes, the bulletin. A complimentary article ap-
Gladys Cox, Kathryn Joss, Stella Ray- pcared in the Sunday "Kansas City
nolds, Mrs. Kate' Winterrowd, Bess
Showers, Dorothy Taylor, Donna Ward,
Juanita Stephens.
Second soprano: Ruth Neal, Lllee
Wilson, Ruth Ince, Virgil Keever, Willie
Barnhill, Margaret Gimeno.
First alto: Wilda Griffin, Gladys Car-
Star."
3:43 a. m. 6:05 a. m.
3:08 p. m. 6 :30 p. m.
Northboudn—Oklahoma City, E d -
mond, Guthrie, Perry, Ponca City, New-
kirk :
12:40 a. m. 8:57 a. m.
1 :10 p. m. 9:35 p. m.
LEAVING OKLAHOMA CITY
Frisco
Eastbound—Chandler, Depew, Sapul-
I>a, Tulsa, Claremore, Vinita:
8:00 a. m. 2:10 a. m.
5:45 p. m. 11:30 p. as.
Westbound—Chickasha, Cement, Law-
ton, Snyder, Altus, Wichita Falls, Tex-
as :
7:10 a. m. 11:30 a. m.
12:05 p. m. 6:45 p. m.
Rock Island
Eastbound—Shawnee, Wewoka, Hold-
enville, McAlester, Wilberton, Howe:
1 :35 a. m. 8 :40 a. m.
8 :45 p. m.
erland, Holland, Bavaria, Belgium, and
England during the coming summer
months.
association, closed a two day meeting in
Enid Saturday in which Bronson intro-
duced a proposition to the cffect that
"Because the poems came out bound Westbound—El Reno, Geary, Weath-
in that gray cover, which characterizes J cr{ord Clinton, Elk City, Sayre:
university bulletins of rules and courses, j 5 ;45 a m 7 . qq a m
it is rumored that many students laid 11;55 a m 6:10 p. m.
aside undevoured. The holidays j M. K. & T.
it
should
men, Lticile Blanchard, Dorothy Brooks, makc up t]iat which they missed. T
Aleece Hamly, Thelma Neal, Mrs. r fopy home," said Prof. Pa>
■Gladys Been. Tuesday.
Second alto: Norma Jo Dougherty,
afford a good opportunity to
Take 1
axton
Minnie Baker, Margaret High, Mary
Hart. i
The soloist on this trip w'll Donna'
Ward; accompanist, Lc'ia Smith; vio-
linist, Anna May Sharp; and reader
Olive Robertson.
ALPHA KAPPA PSI
(Honorary commercial fraternity.)
Horace Taylor.
W. B. Ryder.
Anniece Moussa.
J Glenn Crowley.
NoNrthbound— Cushing, Osage, Tulsa,
Muskogee, Nelagoney, Bartlesville:
11:20 a. m. 11:15 p. m.
I Southbound—Shawnee, Ada, Coalgate,
'■ Atoka, Durant:
i 7:40 a. m. 6:40 p. tn.
Ft. Smith and Western
Northbound—Sparks, Okemah, We-
! leetka, Crowder, Quinton :
! 11 :30 p. m.
The trip will extend from June 17 suc}, a step m©et with favor and
to August 31 and will cost $1,170 a per- f inancial assistance thruout the state
son. According to Prof. Jacobson, a personally would contribute the major
party of twelve is desired. Ipart of such a fund.
The party will leave New York June! It is expected that the plan will be
17, reaching La Havre on June 26 to taken up in detail at the next regular
connect with train to Paris. There, meeting of the association in January,
visits will be made to Notre Dame, Eiffel ^ The need for such a building has long
Tower, the artists 'quarters and motor | been felt in the school and is illustrated
trips to places of interest such as Ver- each year by the Increased enrolment
sailles, the battlefields and ruins of in newspaper courses.
Rheims, Chateau Thierry and Bellcau. A building devoted to the training of
Eighteen days will be spent in a cir- j students interested in the news game and
cut of Italy, during which time, the one in which the mechanical side of
leaning Tower of Pisa, Rome, the Etern- the work could be taken up by instruc-
al City, St. Peter's and the Vatican, tors would add inestimably to the quali-
Naples, Florence, the capital of the {y of the work, H. H. Her!>ert, head of
renaissance, and Vemice will be visited, 'the school, pointed out.
The party will spend six days in thei Since the entire bureau of universi-
Alps of Switzerland and Bavaria. July ty publicity is handled thru the school
30, will be spent in Oberammcrgau at in its present quarters the increased
the Passion Play. Other features will facilities for service to the university
be a steamer trip down the Rhine by way as a whole wou'd add to the effeciency
of Coblenz to Cologne, and a four days' of the entire school, he declared,
'journey amoag the canals and tulip j Publications under direction of the
fields of Holland; thru the Hague to school now number seven and the ad-
the greatest cities of Belgium. [ ditional supervision made possible by
It is planned to spend ten days in increased room and the subsequent in-
England visiting London, Hampton crease in the school of journalism's
Court, Oxford, the eldest university in enrolment would corres|>onding'y gi-
llie English speaking world, Warwick, hance the quality and composition of
Kenilworth and Stratford-on-Avon, these enterprises.
Shakespeare's home.
Prof. Jacobson will make reserva
tions in the party for anyone paying a University Students Helping Santa
deposit of $60. The actual cost of the Claus in Oklahoma City
trip per person amounts to about $15
a day for 76 days.
THIRTY WORKING FOR P. O
ENGINEERS TO MEET
Thirty men are now working at the
postoffice in Oklahoma City during the
Chri.stiras rush, according to B. S. Gra-
The meeting of the electrical engineer- ham, "V" serctary, Monday. Ten men
ing society, A. I. E. E., postponed last were added to the original list of 20
Thursday night, will be held at 7:30 men the middle of last week. They
tonight in the west drafting room of the arc reported to be well satisfied with
Engineering building. j tlu ir work.
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Burton, Mary. The Oklahoma Weekly (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1921, newspaper, December 22, 1921; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110920/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.