The Oklahoma Weekly (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1920 Page: 2 of 4
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THE OKLAHOMA WEEKLY
Published each Thursday from December to June by the School of
Journalism of the University of Oklahoma. Sent free upon application to
seniors in the state of Oklahoma. ...... n. ,_
University news consists ol material originally published in the Ukla-
hotna Daily.
Entered as second-class mail matter at the post-office at Norman, Okla-
homa. under the act of congress of March 3, 1879.
Grace E. Ray —High School Editor
THE MARDI GRAS AND THE CARNIVAL SPIRIT
Two years ago the first Mardi Gras ever attempted in the university
was held. Last year, because of certain conflicts, the entire carnival was
abondoned, without due effort being made to continue the show.
The Mardi Gras has ever opportunty to become a tradition in the univer-
sity; the reason why it was abandoned last year was because an attempt was
made to place its operation on the fraternities and sororities of the univer-
sity, and not 011 the student body as a whole. The Greek letter organiza-
tions were already heavily burdened with the high price epidemic and could
not lend any financial aid.
This year, the student council should appoint a committee to promote
the Mardi Gras, and arrange for its continuance as a Sooner tradition. With
the armory accessible for a carnival, there is no reason why a show cannot
be held. It is only a matter of planning long enough in advance and being
prepared when the proper time arrives for its production.
Complaint has often been made that there are not enough activities
10 keep the student body interested. The Mardi Gras provides one of the
finest means of so doing—through the carnival spirit. A plan could be
worked out by the student council committee whereby enough shows and
stunts could be provided to make it a success. It would not be necessary
for the first carnival to be replete in features; rather, the aim of the coun-
cil should be to start o nthe road to continued life the Mardi Gras.
The show in 1918 aimed to be risque rather than clever; this year, it
should be the aim to present wholesome shows that would serve as an
inducement in themselves for the continuance of the Mardi Gras.
The Mardi Gras must be continued; now is the time to do so.
WRESTLING SCHEDULE
INCLUDESJP STATE
Matches With Big Eastern Schools
! Planned for Youngest Sooner
Sport.
THERE MAY BE MORE IN THIS THAN YOU THINK!
Bert Moses once said that somehow or other you are inclined to doubt
if a man is the noblest work of God when you see what sits around a pool
room "spittoon." ....
Now no one with the average smear of culture which civilizations de-
posits on the individual will deny that such an individual as Bert had in mind
has some of the qualities of repugnance. But to ward off indulgence in trite
sayings—our university lias some men within its gates who far more re-
semble the spittoon itself in mental characteristics than the people siting
around it. , . ,
And what is the idea? Well, there are a few male students of the
Uaiversity of Oklahoma who have demonstrated in strident terms that they
Lave 110 sense of chivalry or respect for womenl Sad but true. They daily
commit the most flagrant discourtesies to the women clerks of the shops at
the campus gates. They have only a titular claim on the word gentlemen.
It is a disgrace to the university that such students infest its social life.
They have allowed their vicious habits, personal bigotry and desire to tram-
ple life's courtesies in the dust. Their own importance is eclipsed only by
their conceit. They have brokn every conventionality life offers to lessen
the friction of personal intercourse.
You may politely or formally express your disapproval and they in
form you with the utmost sang-froid that you are narrow minded or too
punctilious in your ideals of a gentleman's obligations.
No university man in educated really until he learns that courtesy and
amicability are a necessary part of his duty to others. It is presupposed
that he learned this far back in his adolescence. But in as much as some stu-
dents show the mind development of anthropoid ape and the manners of a
street urchin, it is evident their parents failed to do their duty and it conse-
quently devolves upon the state to teach them. This is a state institution
and perhaps it can assume the responsibility but such individuals should
remember that the university does not extend to the campus shops and conse-
quently they are expected to act as the majority of society customarily acts
until they are further instructed or until they take up abode in the county
coo-coo cage. Kl H" >22'
Wrestling matches with the Oklahoma
Agricultural collcge and with many
eastern schools have been arranged
for Sooner wrestlers, P. P. Moore, for-
mer University of Virginia wrestler,
and coach of the university squad, an-
nounced Friday.
Moore has written to or has matches
pending with Ohio State, University
of Ohio, Georgetown, University of
Pennsylvania, Lehigh, Yale, Navy, Vir
ginia, Washington and Lee, and perhaps
Virginia Military institute. Nearer
home he has written to Nebraska Mis-
souri, Texas, and Ames.
Moore thought that Southwestern
s v/ou'd he followed in the matches
with the Oklahoma Aggies March 18,
and in the first week in the second se-
mester. The matches are to be seven
minutes in duration. If no decision at
the end of the first period, seven min-
utes more are to be wrestled.
Edgar D. Meacham, assistant foot-
ball coach, said that the Missouri Val-
ley rules had not been received yet.
Moore has the following men from
which to pick the wrestling teams. L
Palmer, Stourh, J. Edmonson, Armor,
G. Reid, Cunningham. Jack Jackson,
C. Dolph, C. Franklin, T. Nauded, Cash,
J. Thompson, E. Wails, Hart Saunders,
F. Cooper, Conger, Kauffman, Rogers,
Cannon, Collins, Allen.
BY HUTTON BELLAH
About the time we think the all-Val-
ley picks have been made for all time
we find they havn't. Here is the Uni-
versity Daily Kansan's pick of the
Sooners. Haskell, end, Smoot, guard,
White and Hill, halfbacks and Swatek,
fullback.
"Fine," "couldn't be better", and
numerous other exclamations were
heard when it became known in Col-
umbia that Oklahoma would return to
Columbia again next fall and as the
probable Home Coming opponent. The
Sooners in their short sojourn in the
Missouri Valley Conference have made
friends every where they have gone."
—Columbia Evening Missourian.
COACH BENNIE IS OUT
AFTER APPROPRIATION
Points Out That Lack of Equipment
Only 475 Out of 1713 Men to Get .
Workouts.
TWO LEAGUES
TAKE COURTS
Interfraternity Basketball Schedule
Opens Jan. 14; Expect 125 Men
Will Participate.
Less than a fourth of the men enroll-
ed in the university participate in ath-
.(rtics. Less than a fifth of the number
participating in athletics can be ac-
commadate at the gymnasium. The
wonderful accomplishment of the Okla-
homa football this year, their first year
in the Missouri Valley conference, is a
double victory because this was done
without proper gym facilities, without
adequate dressing room, without suf-
ficient shower baths.
SEVEN SCHOOLS ADDED
TO TENNIS SCHEDULE
All Schools Met Last Year Repeat
Meets; Reputation Won Last Year
Interests Others.
PURE IN MORALS BUT MENTALLY CORRUPT
While university students arc as a rule pure in morals, it is true that
tl.ey are mentally corrupt, and that the university is the most fruitful source
lor implanting the after effects of the war.
It requries a higher and rarer sort of mental pabulum to satisfy the avid
mind of the university student. In fact, the term "college wit" today carries
with it a sort of half implication of "rawness" of which the collcge humorous
magazines of the day bear ample witness. That same intellectual atmosphere
produces the "parlor joke" which is refined putridness.
That may of course be stating the case in extreme terms, but it is true
nevertheless that the intellectual productions of the universitis in the last
quarter century have not been as wholesome as those of the decade pieceding.
The college man of today is keener, but his wit has given him a knowledge of
his smartness. The man who knows that he is smart utilizes his wit, but
does not know when his capital bears interest.
The old denominational school may not have had as great a hold as
the large state supported institutions of today, but the sense of balance and
proportion of their graduates offered a more substantial citizenry than the
present schools.
There arc those who scoff at the idea that the university mind is essen-
tially keyed to a higher pitch of expectation than the casual mind of the
nation as a whole. Yet a producer of a drama will tell you that it takes
things said in a rarer way to get across to a university audience than it does
to a crowd of laymen.
The university has so far ignored this phase of student life; a chair in
Bible probably would not rectify the condition, but more attention to reli-
gious phases of student life might prove beneficial.
Rules and schedules for the inter-
fraternity basketball leagues have been
drawn up and submitted to the inter-
fraternity council for approval, by
Roger Leahy, committee chairman.
Eleven fraternities will be represented
in two leagues and the winners of the
respective leagues will meet in a three
game series for the basketball champ-
ionship of the Greek world.
Any man who has ever represented
the varsity in any basketball game or
has been issued a uniform by the athle-
tic authorities will not be eligible to par-
ticipate in the interfraternity games.
This will give about 125 men an oppor-
tunity to enter the midwinter sport that
would not have had a chance for var-
sity athletics.
The two leagues are called League
A and League B. League A will have
six members and league B five. Every
teams' schedule comprises one game with
every other team in their respective
league. League A will play fifteen
ames and league B only ten before the
final series for the cup trophy to be
given by the interfraternity council.
Schedules:
.eague A.
Kappa Alpha, Kappa Sigma, Jan. 14.
Sigma Nu, Pi Kappa Alpha, Jan. 15.
Phi Kappa Psi, Kappa Sigma, Jan. 31.
Kappa Alpha, Acacia, Feb. 1.
Sigma Nu, Kappa Sigma, Feb. 2.
Phi Kappa Psi, Acacia, Feb. 3.
Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, Feb. 4.
SI. ma Nu, Acacia, Feb. 5.
Phi Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Feb.
A PLEASANT SURPRISE—MISS ALICE ROBERTSON
Sooners were warmly surprised at Miss Alice Robertson, the congress-
man from ti e second district, who recently was elected over W. H. Hast-
ings. Her pleasant and agreeable manner, her practical ability tinged with
a fine sense and loyalty, endeared her to university students.
The Daily feels sure that it must be from women like Miss Robertson
that the strength of the woman's party in America must come. Leaders
like Miss Alice Paul have much to undo all the good that years of struggle
l.avc brought to women. But careful, sane, and sympathetic leaders such as
Miss Robertson should offset the radicalism of the less reasonable leaders,
and produce good for the nation.
Acacia, Kappa Sigma, Feb. 8.
Sigma Nu, Phi Kappa Psi, Feb. 9.
Acacia, I'i Kappa Alpha, Feb. 10.
Kappa Alba, Phi Kappa Psi, Feb. 11.
Pi Kappa Alpha, Kappa Sigma, Feb.
12.
Kappa Alpha, Sigma N11, Feb. 14.
League B.
Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi, Jan. 14.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi,
Jan. 15.
Beta Theta Pi, Phi Gamma Delta,
Jan. 31.
Phi Delta Theta. Sigma Alpha Epsi-
\>n, Feb. 1.
Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Chi. Feb 2.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Gamma
Delta. Feb. 3.
I".:i Deita Theta, Beta Theta Pi,
Feb. 4.
Sigma Chi. Phi Gamma Delta, Feb. 5.
Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta,
Feb. 7.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi,
Feb. 8.
The 1921 Missouri Valley tennis
tournament held the last week in May,
may be played at the University of
Oklahoma, Ben Parks, manager of the
Sooner tennis team, announced Tuesday.
The Sooner racqueteers won a reputa-
tion in the Valley last spring when
they defeated every school in the con-
ference except the Washington Univer-
sity team.
The' 1921 tennis schedule includes all
the schools on the 1920 list with the ad-
dition of Northwestern University,
University of Illinois, University of
Michigan, University of Indiana, De-
troit University and probably Univer-
sity of Texas and University of Cali-
fornia.
If the University of Texas matches
can be arranged on the dates asked
for the Sooner team will meet the Long-
horns May 5 and 6, the first two days
of the rnnual interscholastic track
meet held at the University of Okla-
homa. On May 7 the Oklahomans
meet the Jayhawks at Lawrence, Kan.,
and then to Chicago for two games
with Chicago University, May 9 and 10.
Matches arc pending with Northwest-
ern University, Evanston, 111., May 11,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
May 12, Detroit University at Detroit,
May 13, and University of Indiana,
Bloomington, May 14. If these dates
are secured the Sooners will play every
1 lay except Sunday for twelve days.
Following the Indiana date the Okla-
hnn.ans have already arranged matches
with the University of Illinois, Urbana,
May 16, and Washington University,
St. Louis, Mo., May 17 and 18.
The University of Missouri will play
the Sooners at Norman. Parks plans
to meet the Tigers during the annual
conference tournament if arrangements
for the meet at Norman can be com-
pleted.
The University of California has ar
eastern trip p'anncd for next spring
which will include many schools of the
middle west. Parks is in communica-
tion with the Pacific coast team con-
cerning matches with them to be played
at Norman. The California!! tennis
matches will be the last of the 1921
schedule if these dates can be secured,
Parks said.
Ben and Kirkland Parks and Forrest
Darrough are the Sooner representa-
tives on the tennis court. The Parks
brothers met the 1920 Valley champions,
the Washington University team this
far, and won four of the five matches
played. The brothers are one of the
best tennis pairs that ever represented
the universitv. Thev defeated the Mon-
ret-Darrough team of 1920 and the
1120 Sooners made an enviable record
r th • Missouri Valley confercncc.
With the 1920 Missouri Valley Con-
ference football championship tran-
scribed to the annals of the university,
Ben G. Owen, director of athletics, is* |
launching a campaign this week to ask
the 1921 state legislature for $350,00Qr,
appropriation for a modern athletic
plant, which will include an up-to-date
gymnasium and accompanying equip-
ment.
With 1713 men enrolled in the state
university only 475 are participating in
athletics because of the inadequate*
dressing rooms, shower baths, tennis
and basketball courts, and equipment.
A double victory was won when the
Sooners took the Valley championship-
in football their first year in spite of
this inadequacy in all things needed for
a successful showing among the big
schools. There is no question that the^
Sooner teams rank with the leaders in
the Misouri Valley conference schools,
but from a standpoint of equipment in
athletics, Oklahoma is at the bottom of
the list and even poorer than some^
schools in the state.
Enrollment has increased in the uni-
versity by leaps and bounds since the
war. Less than a fourth of the men en-
rolled participate in athletics and less
than a fifth of that number can l>e ac-
commodated in the present gymnasium.
Only ten men can play basketball at
time but there are approximately 190
men desiring to enter the midwinter
sport. Frequently men sit around in
their athletic togs all afternoon and then
go to the crowded showers without a
minutes practice.
Owen plans for a new athletic plant*
on Owen field, just south of Boyd field.
The plans for the new gym are for 1*
to adjoin the R. O. T. C. armory on
the east. Also plans for a sectional
concrete stadium to be started which
can be added to in the future as the at-^
tendance at the fall and spring athletii
events increases.
Within the stadium Owen plans to
put a cinder track. Under the present
conditions, with a dirt track, the Soon-
ers cannot compete with the Missouri
Valley track teams. The conference
rules specify that all meets be on a cin-
der track. «
It has never rained during the annual
interscholastic track meet held hero,
but if it should the track and other ath-
letic events would have to be cancelled.
The Oklahoma high school interscho-
lastic meet held every spring is the
largest high school meet in the United
States and one of the most successful
—-•but where would it be in a ram.
Owen has wanted to extend athletic
activities to every man in the univer-^
city but has never been able to do it be-
cause of the equipment and space. Hi
ambition is for a plant large enough to
accommodate every Sooner student s•>
that he can take an active part in at
least one line of athletics that calls for
brain work as well as brawn.
HOLIDAY DATE
NOT CHANGED
Christmas Vacation to Start Wednes*
day, Dec. 22; Tuesday, Dec. 21 Not
To Be Holiday.
Christmas holidays will start Wedr
nesday, Dec. 22, 5 p. m. and not
earlier, Pres. Stratton D. Brooks de-
clared Monday. This announcement
was issued to silence rumors that
vacation would start briday.
Although next Tuesday will be
celebrated as the tercentary of the
landing of the Pilgrims, the university
will not declare a holiday. The spirit
of the occasion will be observed, and
possibly chapel exercises may be held*
The university will follow strictly
the calendar as outlined in the uni
vcrsity catalog, Pres. Brooks said.
"Problems of the Mexican Oil Field,
led by Oren Bell was the subject 01.
discussion at the meeting of Sigma
Gamma Epsilon, honorary geological
fraternity for men, Thursday night
Plans for Initiation wcrt also discussed-
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