The Oklahoma Weekly (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1 Monday, February 17, 1919 Page: 3 of 4
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1919. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1919.
THREE
Ten Quintets in Tourney
to Be Held at El Reno
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Ten basketball teams from the
-itxth congressional district have
notified Principal C. F. Bradshaw, of
El Reno high school, of their in-
tention of entering in the congres-
sional tournament to be held in El
Reno March IS and 16. As chairman
of the tournament committee for the
district, Mr. Bradshaw met with J.
E. Arendall, superintendent of the
Kingfisher schools, and S. R. Doyle,
principal of the Lawton high school,
Saturday afternoon in El Reno. In
addition to the high school court, the
armory will be used for part of the
Sanies, in order to provide for the
large crowds. Business men of El
Reno will offer a prize to the winning
team. It is the plan of the committee
that every member of visiting teams
k e entertained free, since gate
receipts will defray the expenses.
The ten teams which have expressed
their intention to enter are: King-
fisher, Watonga, Geary, Anadarko,
Hinton, Chickasha, Walter, Lawton,
Duncan, and El Reno. No girls'
teams have entered yet. The winner
of the congressional event will play
in the state tournament the week
following.
Half of the proceeds of a high
-chool play given in Thomas Feb-
ruary 7 will be contributed to the
Union War Work," and the high
school treasury will get the other
half.
Plans are being made, with every
prospect for success, to provide the
high school and grade school students
at Weleetka with a gymnasium. A
large room in the city hall, well
lighted and well heated is tu be
equipped for the gymnasium with
traveling rings, set of swinging rings,
«4 trapeze, spring board, mat, dumb-
bells, bar-bells, Indian clubs and
basketball court.
The basketball game between the
hoys of Clinton and Cordell high
-schools February 7 was a hotly con-
tested one, but the Clinton scoring
machine rolled up a good margin for
Clinton high school.
The Greenfield high school stu-
dents went on a strike February 7,
but not without the consent of the
teachers, it is reported. They cele-
brated with a wienie and marsh-
mallow roast in the contrv.
McAlester is to have a new high
school building that will met its edu-
cational requirements for many year?,
hi a recent bond election in that city
it was voted to issue bonds to the
sum of $250,000 for the construction
of the new building. With the ad-
dition of the insurance money rea-
lized from the destroyed structure
there will be $.350,000 available for
the expense.
Mrs. Cameron, instructor in Eng-
lish in Lexington high school, gave
her last final examinations of the
year in English last week, which was
her final effort toward the intellectual
benefit of her students for the pres-
ent at least, for she has resigned and
left, with the regrets of pupils and
teachers of the high school. Elbert
Pipe of New Mexico will take Mrs.
Cameron's place.
Newkirk high school suffered a
decisive defeat at the hands of the
Ponca City quintet February 10 on
the Ponca City field. The score was
HI to 26. The following is an opinion
circulated by the victors: "If Black-
well defeats Newkirk in both games,
I'onca City will evidently hold second
place. But if Harsh returns to the
^ame and Newkirk defeats Blackwell
once, we will tic Blackwell for first
place with an excellent chance of
defeating our old rivals."
Great interest is being manifested
by the students of Norman high
school in the popularity contest to de-
cide upon the most popular girl and
boy to have a free page of display
in the Trail, the high school anual.
The present standing of the girls who
are candidates is as follows: Jessie
Frost, Retha Dellinger, Eunice Ray,
Margaret Seiver, Vivian Bilby. The
following is the rank of the boys:
Jim Long, Ivan Lehrer, Henry Hunt,
Wayne Miller, Fred Berry.
Experimental beds for mushroom
culture will be included in the garden
project of the numbers of the bio-
logy class of Oklahoma City high
school this spring. The class will
test garden soils for anybody in the
city who wishes to raise a garden.
The boys' basketball team of Erick
high school defeated Cordell in a
well-matched game February 7, by a
score of 40 to 31.
Sayre high school defeated Mangum
in a recent debate, which these
schools arranged in order to get
some practice in preparation for the
state contest.
Miss Browning, instructor in Erick
high school, lias resigned on account
of poor health, and Mr. Miller of
Erick will take her place.
The Binger high school girls' and
boys' basketball teams played Verden
February 7, with a victory for Ver-
den in each game.
The basketball teams of Guthrie
high school played a doubleheader
with the teams of Edmond high at
Edmond February 11. The Guthrie
boys were victorious by a score of
27 to 16, and the girls lost by a score
of 15 to 14. The girls lost by foul-
ing, and Edmond took every advan-
tage of these fouls to make goal on
free throws. The boys' game is des-
cribed as one of the most exciting
they have played this season.
The preliminary tryouts for a
high school debating team which
will soon combat Blackwell have
been held at Ponca City.
Baseball teams have been organized
wi Lexington and Custer City, which
indicates ait early baseball season if
not an early spring.
A unique method of grading in
which credit will be given for per-
sonal cleanliness will be put into ef-
fect by the junior high school of
I'onca City in a health campaign in
February.
The senior class of Custer City is
collecting campus scenery and other
pictures, including snap shots of
couples, for the annual. They have
appealed to their high school mates
for "witty sayings."
"Why Governments Should Control
the Railroads" was the subject of a
debate won by the freshmen of
Okemah high school against their
schoolmates and natural opponents,
the sophomores, February 11. De-
butes ' between the high school stu-
dents form part of the regular work
in English.
The Okemah high school boys'
basketball team defeated Banner by
a score of 15 to 4 February 7.
lhc junior class of Waukomis high
school has assumed the responsibility
of handling a five-number Midland
lyceum course to be given next year.
Medford and Waukomis high
schools divided the victories and
laurels for the two games played
February 7. The girls won easily
29 to 1. The boys, after a hard-fought
contest, were defeated by the Med-
ford quintet.
The teachers' gym class of Guy-
mon high school for both men and
women is becoming very poplar, if
the attendance of almost 100 on the
night of February 3 may be taken as
evidence.
Miss Gilbert, Y. W. C. A. secre-
tary of the southwestern district,
which includes Oklahoma, Texas and
New Mexico, was in Ponca City re-
cently as a guest of the high school
V. W. C. A. At a conference with
the cabinet, she expressed her pleas-
Faculty Changes
Old Credit Scheme
School of Arts and Sciences to Have
New Hour System Next Year is
Ruling.
Five, three, and two hour courses
will be offered in the university be-
ginning next year when the old sem-
ester goes back into effect according
o a ruling adopted by the Arts and
Sciences faculty in a special meeting
last Friday. Students may also en-
roll in from fourteen to sixteen hours
of work without special permission,
it is held.
Prescribed work for freshmmen en-
tering the university next fall will be
somewhat lighter than the standards
used heretofore, according to the new
scheme. No course in American his-
tory will be listed in the entrance re-
quirements and the student who pres-
ents one and one half units of algebra
for admission will be relieved from
taking mathematics 2, and one half
unit of trigonemotry may be sub-
sittuted for Mathematics 5 or 6.
Freshmen must enroll to satisfy as
rapidly as possible all postponed en-
trance requirements but in case the
science required for admission is
postponed, any laboratory science
may be substituted.
All two hour courses listed in the
catalog will be continued as such, by
action of the arts and sciences fac-
ulty at the next regular meeting, it
is expected. Courses listed in the
catalog as four hour courses may be
given as three hour courses next year.
ure that the Y. W. C. A. girls have
charge of the study halls. She said
that Ponca City was the first place
she had encountered in her field
work where such a plan was carried
out and where the superintendent and
principal had enough confidence in
the girls to let them undertake such a
thing.
Tyrone high school defeated both
the first and second basketball teams
of Guymon January 31 on the Guy-
mon court, in two of the fastest
games played there for several years,
they say. The score of the game
between the second teams was 16 to
21, and the contest between the first
teams ended with a score of 33 to 31.
"The Toastmaster" by Swartout
is the college comedy which is being
rehearsed by the Guthrie high school.
The proceeds of the play are to be
added to the athletic fund of the
high school.
Much interest is being taken by
the Norman high school students in
the good roads contest writing, which
is being conducted by the English
department.
Sweaters bearing the blue were
awarded to the Ponca City high
school eleven recently.
The Difrant school board has un-
animously decided to ask for a bond
issue of $100,000 with which to erect
a new high school building. The
present plan is to work the Central
ward building, now considered in un-
safe condition, and to build the new
high school on that site.
On February 10 a course in home
nursing was established in the cur-
riculum of the Fl Reno high school.
All girls in the senior class are per-
mitted to take the work, and later it
is planned that a clas of married
women of the city will be formed.
Mrs. W. C. Armstrong, who has been
acting as matron for the emergency
hospital, will have charge of the
course.
Crescent high school has voted to
accept a lyceum number for the even-
ing of February 25.
Preparations are being made in
Lahoma for a new high school build-
ing next year.
One which was described as "one
of the best matched games that has
been played in Custer City this sea-
son" was played between the girls'
teams of Cordell and Custer City
February 8 in the gymnasium at
Custer City, with a resultant score of
IS to 19 in favor of the visiting team.
PHELAN AND WILSON
TO ATTEND CONGRESS
Dr. WAV. Phelan, director of the
school of education, and Virgil P.
Wilson, law student and senior arts
and science, will represent the univer-
sity at the mid-continent congress for
a League of Nations, at St. Louis,
February 25-26.
The university is entitled to five
representatives to the congress, but
so far only two have been appointed.
Dr. Phelan is director of the school
of education and profesor of educa-
tion. Mr. Wilson is a student in the
law school and is also a senior in
the college of arts and science. He
was a captain of infantry and in-
structor at the officers' training camp
at Camp McArthur during the late
war. He was also at one time Judge
Advocate of a special court at Camp
Travis, Texas.
Extension Division
Books Go To Press
Two new bulletins to be issued by
the Extension Division have just gone
to press and will soon be ready for
distribution. One is part three of
the Current Topic Series and the
other is a bulletin to be used by
Class "11" schools in debating.
The Extension Division is directing
all debating carried on by Class "1!"
schools this year by supervision of
the debating contests. All high
schools with debating teams are di-
vided into class "A" which is made
up entirely of accredited schools or
those in the old debating league, and
Class "B" or other schools which
are not accredited. The subject of
the new bulletin to he used and
which is now in the press is "Res-
olved that the Government should re-
tain control of the Railroads."
The bulletin for current topic
studies is "Individual Development
Problems", and is the third of a series
of four.
Kappas Are Owners
Of Scholarship Cup
By placing first in the sorority
scholarship contest for the third
consecutive time, Kappa Kappa
Gamma becomes the permanent
owner of the scholarship cup offered
by the women's interfraternity con-
ference. The race was exceedingly
close, the winners being les than one
point higher than the lowest in rank.
The rank of the different soroities
was as follows: Kappa Kappa
Ganuna, 4.785; Kappa Alpha Thehta,
4.584; Pi Beta Phi, 4.551; Delta Delta
Delta, 4.342; Delta Gamma, 4.306;
Alpha Chi, 4.236; Alpha Phi. 4.218;
Ganuna Phi Beta, 4.143
LII<ill S< 1IOOI. TvlKN
MAY RESUME SPORTS
Any soldier, who returns from war
take up his high school work where
it was left off, may engage in ath-
letics with the same standing that he
had before enlisting, according to a
recent ruling of the Oklahoma High
School Athletic association. The
question of whether or not the man
who has been out of school is to he
allowed to participate in state as
sociation meets in violation of the
old rule up for consideration for some
time.
The board of control that pushed
the question for action is composed
of Merle Prunty, Tulsa, E. I). Price,
Enid, and Harry Houston, Blackwell.
A class in signaling has been or-
ganized in Guthrie high school. This
class meets at the same time as those
in military drill, and all who are phy-
sically unable to take drill arc en-
rolled in signaling.
HIGH SCHOOLS OPEN
DEBATING CONTEST
Sevcny-six Schools of State in
Race For Forensic Honors
This Year.
Seventy-six Oklahoma high schools
arc in the race for the inter-scholas-
tic debating championship of Okla-
homa.
The contest is being conducted
under the auspices of the Oklahoma
High School Debate League, with
headquarters at the University of Ok-
lahoma. T. B. Robb, profesor of
economics, is secretary of the league.
Ravages of influenza caused the
league to get a late start this school
year but from now on the fur will
fly until the championship is settled
at the annual interscholastic meet
here in April.
The state is divided into eight dis-
tricts. From now until the middle
of April will he devoted to settling
district championship. Then the in-
ter-district, senii-linals and finals will
he held at the university.
• The feasibility of the city manager
plan for cities of more than 5.000
population is the subject for debate
this year. Arguments for and
against it and a great amount of in-
formation relative to it have been
published in a bulletin, "The City
Manager Plan," edited by J. W.
Scroggs. director of extension work.
Following are the towns which
have entered the contest: Cherokee,
Geary, Alva, Shattuck, Mangum,
Blair, Arapaho, Eldorado, Clinton,
Frederick, Sayre, Custer, Cordell,
Snyder, Ninnekah, Hinton, Chickasha,
Duncan, Lawton, Coninianche,
Tuttle, Waurika, Walter, Wakita,
Waukomis, Medford, Marshall, Hen-
nessey, Blackwell Newkirk, Cleve-
land, Deer Creek, Lindsay, Talala,
Shawnee, Tecumseh, Davis, Luther,
Chandler, Marietta, Idabel, Benning-
ton, Milburn, Francis, Antlers, Fort
I'owson, Caddo, Ada, Madill, Beggs,
Konawa, Wainwright, Hartshorne,
Kiowa, Keota, McAlester, Porum.
Okmulgee, Stigler, Checotah, Semi
uole. Haileyville, Oktaha, Henryetta.
Tulsa. Hominy, Copan, Fairfax,
Jenks, Afton, Mounds, Grove, Sand
Springs, Claremore, Dewey, Nowata.
Ponca City Tests
Two Unique Courses
Two unique courses are being
tried out this year by the Ponca City
highschool at the suggestion of A.
C. Parsons, state highschool inspec-
tor, and professor of secondary edu-
cation in the University ot Okla
honia.
One is a course in citizenship, the
other a course in correlative English.
As put into effect by J. N. Hamilton,
Ponca City superintendent, the course
in citizenship induces the pupils to
actually participate in community
activities. They are shown what to
do and how to do it.
The course in correlative English
gives expression to the other course.
The pupils write the results of their
activities and these are published in
the Ponca City News. Several col-
umns are devoted to this each week.
Miss Josephine Duval, a graduate of
the university, teaches the English
PRESIDENT BROOKS IS
DELEGATE TO CONVENTION
Stratum D. Brooks, president of the
university, has been appointed by
Governor J. B. A. Robertson to act as
a delegate to the National Association
for Vocational Education to repres-
ent the state of Oklahoma at that
association.
The meeting will be held in St.
Louis from February 20 to 22.
From the meeting in St. Louis,
President Brooks will go to Chicago
and attend the National Educational
Association which meets there from
February 23 to 26 inclusive.
"We saved more than a week's
time in class work under the new
method of enrollment introducted at
the beginning of the second semes-
ter," said W. O. Moore, principal of
the Oklahoma City high school, after
the authorities had completed the task
of enrolling 2,000 students. Under
the new system each student is re-
quired to make out his own program,
with the help and supervision of a
special teacher.
BRIDGES TO ATTEND MEET
Prof. J. W. Bridges expects to leave
next week for St. Louis where lie will
attend a meeting of the Nations So-
ciety for Vocational Education. From
there he will go to Chicago to be
present the following week at a
meeting of the National Educational
association. Professor Bridges has
made arrangements to visit a number
of rural schools of Cook county,
Illinois, while gone.
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