The Oklahoma Weekly (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1920 Page: 3 of 4
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THE OKLAHOMA WEEKLY MARCH 11, 1920.
THREE
High Schools Work As
Tournaments Draw Near
f
Basketball Games Are Order of the Day; Baseball,
Plays, Orchestra Practice and Some Studying
Employ Time.
Construction of a new school build-
ing at Arcadia has begun.
. Quinton high school lost a debate
to Canadian Friday.
Sapulpa high school lost a basket-
ball game 34 to 11 to Sand Springs
Friday.
Martha high school boys defeated
.Warren 59 to 16 at Blair Tuesday of
last week.
Peroma, the annual yearbook of
Perry high school, is almost ready for
the printers.
Chickasha high school defeated
Ciiffhrie 29 to IS in a fast basketball
ffl&e this week.
Hartshorne high school has an
•fghestra practicing regularly and
g^![ing local programs.
Alva high school defeated Jet in a
delate on the question of universal
military training last Friday.
Belles Lettres is a debate club or-
ganised in Altus high school. Regu-
lar meetings are devoted to debates.
Cherokee high school gfirls tak-
ing the teacher training course made
an observation tour or rural schools
this week.
Erection of two new school build-
ings at Bristow will begin soon.
A Mother and Daughter banquet
was given in Guymon high school
March 3.
As a result of the Armenian drive
in Colony high school $83.93 was con-
tributed.
The R. H. S. Arrow of Ramona
high school is a paper omitted in the
list last week.
The Chieftain, annual of Muskogee
high school, will be dedicated to C.
K. Reiff, principal.
The Chicago Operatic company
gave an entertainment in Enid high
school March 4.
High School Athletes
Have High Standards
Woman's Physical Director Watches
Tactics In District Tourney
And Praises Playing.
A golf club is an innovation of
Fairfax high school. System of golf
used is African type.
A pie supper which netted $60 to
be applied on the "Caddo" annual
fund was held recently in Anadarko
high school.
In nifty new baseball suits pre-
sented by the business men of Fred-
erick, the high school boys of that
city began to swing the bat this
week.
Blair high school defeated Mangum
in a debate on the question of mili-
tary training last Monday. Blair and
Hobart will debate the same question
April 2.
Amber won a double-header basket-
ball game from Pocasset on the
Amber court Saturday. The Amber
hoys won SO to 9, and the Amber girls
33 to 7.
"The Little Clodhopper" is the title
of the senior play to be given in
Choctaw high school March 25.
Madill high school will give a musi-
cal comedy in the Tishomingo high
school auditorium Thursday evening.
Elk City high school will have a
modern new building with large audi-
torium at the beginning of school
next year.
Josh Lee. impersonator and reader
of the University of Oklahoma, will
give a program in Waukomis high
school March 13.
That tendency of high school stu-
dents for clean athletics has improved
since the state basketball tournaments
of last year is the opinion of Miss Ima
James, women's physical director, who
returned yesterday from Rotnona
where she referred a district tourna-
ment.
Miss James believes that this change
has been brought about among high
school students because of the example
of college men and women who are
their instructors. "College graduates
have taught them what clean college
sport really is", Miss James said.
Schools that were in the tourna-
ment, were Romona, Bartlesville, Col-
linsville, Copan, and Caney, Kan.
Bartlesville won the cup in girl's
basketball. The boys' team of Caney,
Kansas won the cups for both the
first and second team.
Last year Collinsville took the
tournament. The year before Caney
won it, and the year previous which
was the first year of the league tour-
nament, the championship was won
by Ramona.
This year Caney was the only
team which entered the contest unde-
feated. Collinsville had been de-
feated only by Ramona, and Caney.
It was not a surprise that the cup was
won by this team.
The Ramona girls were predicted
as winners by the R. H. S. Arrow be-
cause they had defeated Caney and
Copan and lost games only to Bartles-
ville and Nowata.
Driftwood high school girls de-
feated Lambert Monday by a score
of 14 to 9, and the Driftwood boys
lost to Lambert 14 to 9.
After eight consecutive victories
with teams of the central conference,
the El Reno five was defeated by
Chickasha 40 to 15 last Thursday.
Interscholastic Meet Is
Announced by University
Bulletins Announcing Rules in Every Contest Mailed
Out to High Schools; Dates, April 29, 30
And May 1.
SOONER GLEE MEN
PLAN SOUTH TOUR
Spring Journey of Singers May In-
clude Many Towns of Texas and
Oklahoma.
Arrangements are being completed
for an extensive southern trip to be
taken by the Sooner Glee club early
this spring, Homer Hurt, club
manager, said yeserday in making a
survey of activties for the rest of the
semester.
If accommodations can be arranged
the club will sing at Dallas and Fort
Worth, Texas. The trip will include
Ardmore, Marietta, Durant, and
Madill and a special concert at the
Kidd Key conservatory of music,
Sherman, Tex.
Although the dates of each per-
formance have not been fixed, it is
probable that the club will leave
March 29 and return April 4. About
25 members, including Josh Lee,
reader, will make the trip.
Several new features will be added
to the regular program, Prof. Wm.
G. Schmidt, director, said last night.
After a program of inter-class
basketball games, Thomas high
school students sold $61 worth of
pies for the benefit of athletics Mon-
day night.
Clinton high school won by default
from Texola in the preliminaries of
the state-wide debate on universal
military training this week. Clinton
will meet Sayre next.
A "Liberty Sing" in Ponca City
high schools was given recently by
the girls' and boys' glee clubs. Ponca
City glee clubs are well known at
interscholastic meets at the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma.
Miss Marie Anderson of Oklahoma
City, formerly on the University of
Oklahoma faculty, gave the fourth
number of a lyceum course at Shaw-
nee high school Wednesday.
Tulsa high school will give an invi-
tation track meet this spring to
Muskogee and Oklahoma City the
two largest schools, with the excep-
tion of Tulsa, in the state.
Pryor high school boys were de-
feated by Atoka high school boys by
a scorc of 39 to 18, and the Pryor
girls lost to the Atoka girls by a
score of 44 to 27 Friday on the Pryor
court.
Blackwell high school basketball
boys increased their chances for vic-
tory in the eighth congressional dis-
trict basketball tournament when
they defeated Medford 34 to 27 this
week.
Eleven Characters Are
Announced For Comedy
Zaragueta, Spanish Farce, To Be
Given in Auditorium Instead of
Recital Hall.
Eleven students to take roles in
the spanish comedy, Zaragueta, to be
given here soon by students in the
department of modem languages
were announced yesterday by the
Spanish faculty.
They are Jessica Owen, Trester
Harris, Lowell Ridings, Merrill Hoyt,
Mrs. Jenkins, Margarita Gimeno,
Herbert Hoover, Herman Price,
Rolfe Englemann, John Conrad, and
Elizabeth Gillette.
Because of the size of the cast and
the rapid action in the plot, it is pro-
bable that the comedy will be given
in the auditorium instead of recital
hall as planned, Prof. Patricio
Gimeno, head of the department,
said.
Oklahoma Meteorite
Is Relic In Museum
Natural Curiosity From Beaver
County May Indicate Several
Such Occurrences.
A meteorite found near Knowles,
Beaver county, is on display in the
Memorial Hall of the American Mu-
eeum of Natural History, New York
City, according to C. W. Shannon, dir-
ector of the Oklahoma Geological Sur-
vey. No record of the collector or
the date it was found is available.
The meteorite is about 10 inchcs by
12 inches by 24 inches and is com-
posed chiefly of iron, with almost 10
per cent nickel and a very small per-
centage of cobalt. It weighs 355
pounds.
Meteorites are durable, Shannon
says, and this fact is said to have led
to the adoption of an alloy of nickel
and iron in making armor plate for
battleship.
Several occurances of meteorites
have been reported from Oklahoma,
some material from northern McCur-
tain county indicating that it was once
a part of a meteorite.
Fifteen hundred bulletins, an-
nouncing the sixteenth annual Okla-
homa interscholastic meet, to be held
at the University of Oklahoma, April
29, 30, and May 1, are being sent out
to all city superintendents, high school
principals, directors of music, domes-
tic science and manual training, and
high school coaches, and others in
Oklahoma high schools who are in-
terested in interscholastic contests, both
athletic and non-athletic.
Plans are being made for the most
extensive meet ever staged at the
University of Oklahoma since the es-
tablishment of the meet in the spring
of 1905. In that year only a few of
the larger high schools in Oklahoma
entered the meet but in recent years
even the smallest high schools are
sending successful contestants to the
meet.
The meet really starts on Monday,
April 26, when the champion debate
teams from the eight districts will be
parred for the first debates, and ends
late Saturday afternoon when Dr.
Statton 1). Books presents the medals,
loving cups and shields to the win-
ners following the finish of the Class
It relay race. Athletic contests in-
clude the track and field meet, base-
ball scries, boys' tennis singles, boys'
tennis doubles, girls' tennis singles and
girls' tennis doubles. Raseball will be
divided into two classes this year for
the first time.
Fine arts contests for 1920 include
piano, 'cello, boys' voice, girls' voice,
male quartet, girls' quartet, boys' glee
club, girls' glee club, orchestra, band
and art. Public speaking contests will
include dramatic reading, standard
oration, original oration, and extem-
pore speaking.
In the publications contests are cur-
rent and annual publications, while in
vocational training come manual train-
ing, mechanical drawing, domestic art,
and stenography. Under conferences
come the state high school conference
and the meeting for the high school
editors and managers.
Edgar Meacham, secretary of the
Oklahoma High School Athletic as-
sociation, is chairman of the interscho-
lastic meet committee.
PORTUGUESETO BE
ADDED NEXT YEAR
Oerman May Be Resumed and New
Languages Added For Benefit
Of Geologists.
Will Spry Young Geologists Ever Hear The
Riot Act Read By Coed Partner In Office?
Rosser Is Secretary
Of Oratorical Council
Literary Societies Will Entertain
Debaters and Judges Who Come
For Contests Soon.
Frances Rosser, junior arts and
M'ience, Muskogee, was elected sec-
retary of the oratorical council Thurs-
day.
A committee was appointed by
Leslie Salter, president, to arrange
for the entertainment of visiting de-
bate teams and judges. This com-
mittee will report at the meeting
Thursday, March 11.
The inter-literary society constitu-
tion is being drafted by Josh Lee,
ilebate coach, and a committee of presi-
dents of all literary societies. This
constitution will be considered at a
meeting of the council soon.
During the debate period, the coun-
cil will meet every Thursday after-
nooa at 4 o'clock in the practice court
room, law building.
Peabody Plan Delayed
By Sex Exchange Rule
French Authorities Won't Allow
Sexes to Write Each Other, So
Students Are Not Eager.
Developments in the Peabody Plan
for the exchange of leters between
French and American university stu-
dents are being delayed because of
the recent decision of French author-
ities which does not allow corres-
pondence between the two sexes, Dr.
R. T. House, head of the department
of modern languages, said Friday.
A shortage of French names and ad-
dresses is felt at present, and any stu-
dents of the university who have the
addresses of French people who are
likely to be interested in American
correspondence will greatly assist the
movement if they will turn these in to
Doctor House, modern language office,
administration building.
Will the geologist of the future
stay in town only long enough to ac-
cept orders from his office geologist,
who at one time was only a Sooner
co-ed?
And will it come about that fond
hubby will be sent out to locate oil
wells while wifey patiently works out
the underground structure in the
same area?
And again, cries the anguished geo-
logy major, will it ever ever come to
pass that while the valiant male is
pushing a drawing-pen in the office,
the weaker sex is out holding a rod on
a persistent limestone?
All these things and more seem
probable if one is to judge from the
deadly seriousness of the rockhoutul-
pose of many of the men taking geo-
logy.
Fail With Overconfidence?
It is a law of life that the over-
confident fall in the race. In the age
of the brachiopods and the ptcro-
dactyls-and everything-thc species
which became too sure of themselves
and sacrificed their usful parts in
order to "sport" strange and useless
appenages were annihilated. The
Romans thought nothing hould beat
them, and degenerated.
Will male geologists now step
aside, as steeplejacks and aviators
have already, and let the conquering
female sweep everything before him?
Or will they have any choice in the
matter, with one woman on the fac-
ulty, live student assistantesses, six
geological survevessess, and seven
girls now majoring in geology; and,
last but not least, two employed by
real honest-to-goodness oil com-
panies at the present writing?
Will they?
Don't ask us.
Adele Franklin, graduate of Col-
umbia University and with much
graduate work to her credit, is the
first woman faculty member in the
school of geology here. She teaches
paleontology and the elementary geo-
logy courses.
Co-eds Fortify.
Grace Jennings, B. A., '18, is our
first woman graduate to take up oil
work. She was employed by the Ok-
lahoma Geological Survey while at-
tending school, and left upon gradua-
tion to work in the subsurface depart-
ment of the Marland Refining Com-
pany, Ponca City.
Linda Green, B. A. '19, is also doing
subsurface work with the Roxana
Petroleum company, Mineral Wells,
Tex.
The seven majoring in geology are
Jessie Kelsey, Chickasha, graduate
student, Dollie Radler, Bristow,
senior, Vita Lee Waters, Fredrika
Fitch, and Bess U. Mills, juniors, and
Milred Bobeck and Dorine Guthrie,
sophomores.
A course in Portuguese, the rein-
stallation of German, and regular
courses in Italian are among import-
ant additions planned by the depart-
ment of modern languages next year.
Now a beginning course of Italian
is offered every two years but begin-
ning next fall advanced courses also
may be obtained.
The installation of Portuguese is
for students, especially geologists,
who expect to work in South America
and the Central American states.
About five new instructors will be
added to the faculty of this depart-
ment next semester and courses in
five of the modern languages will be
offered.
WOMEN'S CLUBS TO HOLD
CONFERENCE HERE SOON
A conference of Women's Clubs on
citizenship will be held in Norman tin'
first week of April. The conference
will be conducted by the extension di-
vision and the school of law.
Among subjects to be considered
are: The Oklahoma Constitution,
Women and the Law. The University,
and Citizenship, Social Problems,
Spiritual Resources of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Education, Political Parties
Oklahoma History, Elections, Ixical
Government in Oklahoma, and Educa-
tional Moving Pictures.
Round table discussions will be con
ducted by Dr. J. W. Scroggs, Dr. A
C. Scott, and Dean Julien C. Monnet
A complete program will be published
later.
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