The Oklahoma Weekly (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 4, 1919 Page: 4 of 4
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tup: oklahoma weekly, Monday, march 3. 1919.
AUDITORIUM FILLED
TO HEAR MACNEILL
Big Crowds Greet Canadian Captain
Throughout Meetings; Conferences
Are Success.
More than eight thousand univer-
sity students, towhspeople, and visit
•rs heard Captain John MacNeill,
noted Canadian overseas officer and
minister, during the series of meet
ings that closed with the convoca
tion for men and women in the new
auditorium at nine o'clock yesterday
morning.
Captain MacNeill made seven
speeches to Sooner audiences be-
sides the talks at fraternity and board-
ing houses and held conference with
more than fifty university men
These estimates were made by mem-
bers of the MacNeill committee at
noon yesterday.
The meetings at the university con-
clude MacNeill's itinerary in the
United States. He will return to re-
sume active charge of his pastorate
at the Walmer Road Baptist church,
the largest church of that denom-
ination in Canada.
D. R. Porter, national Student sec-
retary of the Y. M. C. A. and A. R.
Elliott, head of the student depart-
ment work in the southern depart-
ment, were unable to attend the meet-
ings as originally planned. Porter
was to have addressed a meeting of
the MacNeill committee and members
of the MacNeill flying squadron
Thursday afternoon.
Approximately fifteen hundred at-
tended the meeting for women held
Wednesday afternoon in the audi-
torium. The largest crowd at any
one meeting was the audience that
greeted MacNeill on Tuesday morn-
ing when two thousand heard the
opening speech.
Oklahoma was the only southern
state visited by the Canadian cap-
tain.
GYP IS GOAT IN
GREEK DOG FIGHT
Never Morel
Such is "Gyp's" decision regard-
ing tights. Until he is able to appear
•gain as a respectable dog on the
(treets of Norman, "Gyp" will ab-
stain from undue excitement—such
as slight engagements with "Mike",
king of Norman canines.
You see, it all came about this
way. "Gyp" is the mascot for the
Sigma Chis. "Mike" is known where-
ever learning is found as the Beta
wonder. So, as the Sigs didn't come
up to the Betas in scholarship, "Gyp"
bestirred himself to retrieve his
patron's loss.
fie is now at home moralizing on
the cruelty of the claws of fate—
and "Mike".
HISTORY DEPARTMENT
HAS NEW CHARTS
TEXAS AGGIES
MAY BEPLAYED
May Have Game At Fort Worth
Stock Show To Settle Southwestern
Championship.
A contest with the Texas Aggies at
the annual stock show at Fort Worth,
Texas, for the purpose of settling the
basketball championship of the south-
west is being contemplated by Bennie
Owen as a result of the postponement
of both the games with the Chilocco
Indians. In case Oklahoma wins the
Indians games, the Sooners will be
the undisputed champions of Okla-
homa and have a better record than
any other quintet in the southwestern
conference.
The Texans are claiming the leader-
hip in that state and desire a battle
with the Owenites to determine the
championship of both states.
If the game is arranged it will be
played the latter part of the week
ending March 8 at Fort Worth. At
present the local squad has not met
a single defeat and will be given gold
basketballs and sweaters unless
beaten next vv«ek.
DEBATING TEAM
TO BE SELECTED
Tryouts To Come Third Week In
March. Names Must Be In
Next Week.
A debate with Texas is already as-
sured and prospects are that a con-
test will be arranged with Colorado,
according to a statement made Thurs-
day by Prof. T. B. Robb, debating
coach. Both of the contests, if sche-
duled, will he held about the middle
of May and the try-outs to choose
the university representatives will be
held the latter part of the third week
March.
March 5 is the date set at which
the names of all who wish to try-out
for the team must be handed in
to Floyd Staley, president of the ora-
torical council. The subject for the
preliminary contests will be "Res-
olved, that the government should
own and operate the railroads."
When a name is handed in the side
of the question upon which the con-
testant is to speak must be disignated.
The drive for the sale of debate
tickets yielded very little results and
the campaign will be repeated later,
President Staley said yesterday.
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FOUR DAYS VACATION
"Yoo-hoo Skin-ny—listen, we
get four days Easter vaca-
tion!"
I he revised calendar for the
spring quarter reads as follows:
Registration of new students,
March 20.
Class work begins, 8:10 a. m.,
March 21.
Easter recess begins, 5:00 p.
in., April 17.
Class work resumed, 8:10 a.
m., April 22.
Saturday of Interscholastic
Meet, May 3.
Memorial Day, (Holiday)
May 30.
Quarter examinations end,
June 6.
Baccalaureate Sunday, June
Commencement exercises,
10:30 a. m., June 10.
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Naval Reservists -May
Join R. O. T. C. Is Order
SOONER BILLS
GO TO SENATE
Big Oklahoma Appropriation Meas
ures 'Pass House Reading:
Vote To Come.
Bills introduced in the legislature
for the Oklahoma women's build
ing, the zoology building, extension
of the new library, and repairs on the
old library and science hall have all
passed the last reading in the house
and are now before the senate with
every indication that they will move
forward without opposition.
The Women's Federated Clubs,
the P. E. O.'s, the Oklahoma Divis-
ion of the War Mothers of America,
the Women's Pan-hellenic, and other
organizations of the state have been
working to bring before the legis-
lature the needs of the university and
especially the needs for the women's
building.
Two charts are now available for
use in the history department as aids
in carrying out the "eye method" of
acquiring facts in history. These
charts contain tables with the names
and titles of rulers together with the
dates of their respective reigns. Prof.
M. A. Floyd planned the charts.
The European History department
has just received a map of Europe
it) which the boundary line arc based
upon nationalities. It has the prin-
cipal features that will be in the new-
map which will be a result of the
peace conference at Versailles, it is
believed.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
CHANGES TO BE MADE
Professor F. G. Tappan, Acting
Director of the epartment of Elec-
trical Engineering, is now working
over revised courses offered in the
department The changes now being
made will not go into effect until
the beginning of the new scholastic
year. One or two new courses will
he scheduled but on the whole the
change consists chiefly in revising
the work and shifting parts of courses
tinder more suitable titles
The college will continue under
the .semester plan next fall but the
one and three hour courses will still
be included in the curriculni.
Navy Department Holds That Cadets
Are Not In Regular Army;
Must Enroll Soon
Members of the naval reserve force
now enrolled in school may join the
reserve officers training corps accord-
ing to orders from the Navy Depart-
ment communicated to Capt. A. V.
Ednie, of the Oklahoma R. O. T. C.
unit, yesterday.
Navy regulations adopted at the
time when reserve officers training
was established in colleges and uni-
versities of the I nited States prohibi-
ed the enlistment of naval reservsts
in the officers training corps. The
change was made on the grounds that
members of the R. O. T. C. do not
enlist in the regular army.
All navy reserve corps men now en-
rolled in school who have not at least
junior standing will be required to
take up military drill according to the
program adopted for university men
by the war department, Captain Ed-
nie stated yesterday. \\ hen men held
in the naval reserve finish the R. O. T.
C. course they will be discharged
from the navy in order that they
night accept commissions in the army
reserve corps, late navy orders advise.
At the third of a series of faculty
dinners, Alpha Chi Omega had as
dinner guests I hursday evening Prof,
and Mrs. R. C. Terrell, Mrs. K. E.
Dungan, Miss Edith Mahier. Miss
l.ucile Dora and Prof. E. I" Dale
past
HARLOW TO SPEAK
With the MacNeill meetings
the weekly lectures at the "Y" hut will
be resumed, and Victor E. Harlow, of
Oklahoma City, editor of Harlow's
Weekly, will speak next Thursday
night at tin hut oil the subject, "What
the \\ ;ir II.: Done I'or Oklahoma."
Three Typewriters
Taken From Offices
Three typewriters were taken from
buildings on the campus some time
during or shortly after the lunch hour
yesterday, it has been reported to the
office of J. i.. Lindsey, financial clerk.
No clue to the disappearance of the
machines has been found.
One of the machines was removed
from the office of Dean Fredrik Holm-
berg in the fine arts building shortly
after the lunch hour and at about the
same time two other typewriters of
similar manufactures were taken from
the offices of J. W. Bridges, professor
f argicultural education, in Park Row
and the typewriting department on
the third floor of administration hall.
"Any clue that will lead to the loca-
tion of the typewriters should be re-
ported to the treasurer's office at
once," said Mr. Lindsey yesterday.
It is reported thkt two other type-
writers were taken from the univer-
sity buildings last week.
Registration For New
Term Starts March 10
Students now enrolled in the uni-
versity will be expected to register
for the third quarter on the after-
noon.-. from March 10 to 14. according
to a statement made Thursday by
Dean Gittinger.
"The new schedule for the third
quarter will be ready by the middle
of next week and students should be-
gin then to plan their work for the
next term, said Dean Gittinger.
I here is a special reason," lie said
why students should go on with the
work they have already started. The
university will change back to the
semester system next fall and work
that has been started should he fin-
ished now because it will be hard to
lit the unfinished work of the quarter
system into the semester system next
fall."
TRYOUTS IN MARCH
Preliminary tryouts for intercol-
legiate debates will be held about
the third week in March, according
to an announcement made by Prof,
r. II. Robb, debate coach, Thursday.
The subject for the tryouts will be
government ownership of railroad:.
STAFF SECURES
SOONER OFFICE
Work On Year-Book Is Well Under
Way. Copeland To Arrive
March 1.
Room 304 in the fine arts building
has been secured as headquarters and
work on the "Victory Sooner" is pro
ceedingly steadily, according to
statement made Thursday by Harold
J. Godschalk, assistant editor of the
book. Fayette Copeland Jr., who is
to be editor-in-chief as a result of his
election by Sigma Delta Chi, the or-
ganization directinf the publication,
will arrive in Norman March 1 and
devote his whole time to the work
until the beginning of the third term.
The picture work will be the first
disposed of and directions will soon
be sent out to those individuals and
organizations who are to have cuts
At present it is planned that only the
-eniors will have individual pictures.
All organizations who wish to pay for
space be shown in the book and the
athletic record of the Sooners this
year will be treated in full. The
work of compiling the information
about Sooners in the war is already
well under way.
DATE IS FIXED
FOR BURLESQUE
May 9 Is Date Set For Annual
Junior Farce. Material Being
Gathered.
Friday night, May 9, is the date
set for the junior burlesque as a re-
sult of a committee meeting Thursday
night and all arrangements have been
completed so that everything will
now go ahead in earnest. The farce
will be staged in the new auditorium
and new scenery will be secured for
the performance.
The management announces that
anyone who wishes to see any thing
or any body about the campus bur-
lesqued can secure the fulfillment of
their desire if they will secretly con-
fide their information to a member of
the committee or mail it to the bur-
lesque committee in charge of gen-
eral delivery. Justice is being sought
and no one will be favored when the
net is cast for victims.
Director Eugene Redd announced
yesterday that plenty of material is
already being secured. Full details
have been gotten with regard to the
girl in a brown suit and small brown
hat who was seen abroad Tuesday
night between the hours of one and
two.
MacNeill Talks
Praised By Dowd
The religion of Captain McNeill in
his discourses to the students re-
ceives the hearty approval of the
members of the faculty. Prof.
Jerome Dowd, one of the many mem-
bers who expressed themselves, said,
I regard him as delivering the
message oil the subject of religion I
ever heard. It is a message which
the world has been waiting and
hungering for these many years. The
reason so many people are indifferent
to religion and to church membership
all over the world is the way religion
lias been represented. It has ap-
pealed to an effeminate type of men,
and has emphasized too much creeds
and formalism. It has not outlined
any program, but appealed to the ag-
gressive characteristic of Americans.
"But Captain MacNeill preaches a
gospel of heroism, self-sacrifice, and
strenuous service which characterize
a good soldier. ft is a masculine
theology and is something that the
college man who is strong and as-
piring can grasp. We find in this
new point of view of religion the
hope and the prophecy of a de-
mocracy which makes the world safe
and sane."
SOONER R, 0. T. G.
MEN START DRILL
Oklahoma Unit Will Comprise Eight
Companies; Officers To Be Ap-
pointed Soon.
Eight companies of R. O. T. C.
cadets have been organized and com-
pany commanders together with non-
commissioned officers are being
placed in charge of completing the
organization of the university Re-
serve Officers training unit. Within
a very short time all courses will be
arranged and military training will
be in operation as a regular course in
the university, Captain A. V. Ednie,
commandant, stated yesterday.
Training of the Oklahoma unit will
be especially easy with many officers
commissioned in the regular army
back in school and a large per cent
of the cadets somewhat advanced in
military experience, it is believed.
Special rating will be given men who
have-seen service in the army, ac-
cording to R. O. T. C. plans.
All R. O. T. C. men will be per-
mitted to attend summer encamp-
ments the expenses of which will be
paid by the government. Three such
camps were organized last summer
and more will be conducted this sum-
mer, tentative war department plans
indicate. Men from the Oklahoma
unit will ^probably be sent to Fort
Sheridan, III., for summer training
though no definite location of camps
has been made.
Candidates who have attended two
summer camps, and hold college de-
grees will be considered for com-
missions as second lieutenants in the
reserve corps. A movement has also
been started to pay summer camp
cadets.
All men who are to take the train-
ing here and who have not been
measured for uniforms will report be-
tween nine and ten o'clock Saturday
morning to R. O. T. C. headquarters
in the basement of the law building.
Captain Ednie stated Monday.
Student Volunteers
To Convene Here Soon
NEW Bl'I
LETIN
\EADY
A new
Mirnal of
IS
FOR PRESS
university bulletin, "The
James Akin, Jr.," is ready
for the press, Prof. Edward Everett
Dale, editor, announced yesterday.
James Akin, Jr., traveled at the age
of eighteen by ox wagon from south-
ern Iowa across the plains to Oregon
and the book describes American
conditions as they existed
State Convention Scheduled For
March 14-16; Delegates To
Come.
l he Oklahoma Student Volunteer
Union will hold its annual convention
here March 14, 15, and 16. At least
two hundred delegates from the var-
ious schools in the state are expected
here during the three days, accord-
ing to P. G. Phelps, y. M. C. A. sec-
retary.
Whether the meetings will be held
in the new auditorium or in the old
chapel has not been decided.
Mrs. Reed McClure, of India, and
Paul Reichal, who is connected with
the national Student Volunteer Union,
will make addresses to the conven-
tion. Olive Pearson, of Kingfisher
college is president of the Oklahoma
branch.
This is the only representative stu-
dent convention in the state and is
one of the most important branches
of the Y. M. C. A. and the y. W. C.
A. in Oklahoma. Plans for new
movements among the students this
year will be brought up at the con
vention, acording to announcements
just received from the executive
committee.
All local members of the Union
have been asked to meet in the "Y"
hut at 4:00 o'clock this afternoon
when plans for the convention will
be formulated and a tentative pro-
gram will be prepared.
BATTLE AXE INITIATES
Battle Axe, honorary freshman fra-
ternity, held initiation recently for the
following men: Russell D. Hardy,
Glenn Coates, Dewey McNabb, Neal
Sullivan, Merle Chapman, John
Lydick, Watson Wise, Roscoe Sears,
Richard Lawrence, George Town-
send, Harold Le Roux, Clarkson
Main, Don Nicholson, William Wiker,
Ted Colbert, Wendell Long, Floyd
Haynes, and Raymond Higgins.
Battle Axe was one of the first
honoraries in the university to re-
sume activity after the discharge of
the S, A T. unit.
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Ray, Grace. The Oklahoma Weekly (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 4, 1919, newspaper, March 4, 1919; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110851/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.