Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 125, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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CDIKEjAEIOMA
VOLUME XI
ATHLETICS PAGEANT AND
SOCIAL EVENTS CURTAILED
Many Student Activities to Give Way
to Military Training Kendall
' Meet Cancelled
TO HOLD HIGH SCHOOL CONTEST
A bomb has completely shattered
every branch of Sooner athletics
for the remainder "of the season
Because of the regulation passed at
the mass meeting Wednesday after-
noon at the suggestion of Coach Ben
1 Owen military training was pro-
vided for the regular exercise of
all men athletes Included
This cancellation takes effect at
once and call off the proposed
events for this week - including &
track meet on Boyd field with Henry
Kendall college There will be no
more gym meets or tennis contests
and the Kansas teachers who broke
even with the varsity baseball team
Monday and Tuesday oh the local
diamond have the honor of being
the last to clash horns with the
Sooner sportsmen In-the 1917 sea-
son InterscholBtlc Meet Unaffected
It has been emphatically stated
however that the cancellation docs
not apply to the annual Interschol-
nstlc meet which will be held on
Boyd field as scheduled This meet
Is set for May 4 and B and the con-
testants will come from high schools
and the preparations for war will
probably not Interfere with this
event In any way
Society Redoxes Backset
With the advent of military train-
ing social functions will take a back
seat In the attention of Sooncrs
Fraternities and other organizations
will probably cance" their spring
dance arrangement and devote their
attention to war developments Class
functions that are given will In all
probability assume a martial char-
acter as tho Junior Prom slated
to do
Tarrant Curtailed
In addition to the curtailment of
athletics It has been decided that the
pageant of Oklahoma history plsnncd
for the night of May 12' will be
given up entirely for tho present
school year In order that the time
needed for prnctlco mny be utilised
for military training At the men's
mass meeting President Ktrnttnn I)
Brooks nnnounrod thht while the
matter of giving It up would be left
to the will of tho student body it Is
very probnhle thnt It would be Im-
possible to hpM tho pageant on ac-
count of the enlistment of many
needed In the cast
A great deni of vnlunblo material
lias been collected nnd written up
for the event which will be held for
use at an entertainment of this kind
at some future time
Mini bcsiniVh n him
roil SENIOR MEETING TODY
"Every Sooner Henlor Out' are the
orders of President Albert Clink
scales to Issued members of the
class of '17 In reference to the
senior meeting this afternoon at 4:20
o'clock A great deni of Important
business Is to coine up at the meet
luj which will require a large at
tendance to dispose of properly
UNIVERSITY OP OK LAHOMA
CALL TO COLONS
ATTRACTS RECRUITS
Nine Enlist Yesterday Engineering
Kqnad Planned
FURTHER ENLISTMENTS
0 N 0 TROOP B
CAVALRY—
Francis IL Welsh
Lawrence Shead
0 N G FIELD HOSPITAL
NUMBER lr-
John Khans Jr
Bert Burch
Walter Berry
James R Tolbert
R R McClure
Ralph Clymer
John Brett
Every Interurban to Oklahoma
City carries some student who has
decided to answer the call to the
colors Four Sooncrs left Wednes-
day for the training schools where
they will begin active service C R
Stephens and V F Nlckles left for
Chicago where they will nttend the
Naval trnjning school Leland Hart-
ford and John Stono started yester-
day for Fort Logan Colorado where
they will learn the duties of regulars
in the U S Signal Corps
University students who have en-
listed in the Oklahoma National
Guard hospital corps No 1 are with-
drawing from school ns they expect
to be ordered to Fort Sill at once
Members of Troop B of the Cavalry
have received no orders ns to when
they may except to be called Into
service
The students in tho medical
school are again planning to- form
their hospital corps and offer their
services to tho government whllo at
the same time the engineers are
organizing two tentative squads
The first is to bo a company of eng-
ineers and will bo headed by men
who have been In the engineers pre-
vious to the present crisis while
tho other company aro planning to
tender their services to the O N G
as signal nurps These two organiza-
tion are open to alt comers announce
the organizers nnd ns soon ns the
required number Is secured they
will offer their services
WAR NUT LIKELY TO AFFECT
BlIlDINGK NOR ENROLMENT
The regular schedule of construc-
tion for the four university build-
lugs appropriated by tbe Inst legis-
lature will not be affected by the
break against Germany according
to President Brooks
Concerning the effert on the en-
rolment for the 1917-18 term IVan
Hoy Olttlngcr of the undergraduates
prophesied thnt the university would
hnve about ns many students os It
has nt present lie does Hot look
for nny Increase since It Is estima-
ted thnt one third of the mnle stu
dent body will enlist when actual
I fighting begins ‘
SUCCESSOR TO UNIVERSITY OKLAHOMAN
NORMAN OKLAHOMA THURSDAY
B & M DEBATE TONIGHT
The second preliminary debate In
the B and M cup contest will be
held tonight between the House and
Athcnaeans In the second year law
lecture room Lawrence Beattie will
preside
COLONEL ANNOUNCES
DRILLING PERIOD
At a meeting of the "committee in
charge of military affairs late Wed-
nesday evening It was announced
that Colonel G Y Williams will
send out information blanks to all
members of the faculty to learn what
branches of military service they
nr6 able to teach All students in
the university who have had military
drill are urged to file a statement
of that fact with M U Lively In
this statement the committee re-
quests that the students state num-
ber of years of training and where
It wfas taken whether or not a
graduate and all the military of-
fices held by the student The com-
mittee Is very anxious to get this
material In shape by Friday morn-
ing The regular drill period announc-
ed by Colonel Williams will be from
4:30 to 6:00 every afternoon begin-
ning Monday Every male Btudent
will be expected to report for drill
unless excused -by Dr Gayfree Elli-
son regimental surgeon A tem-
porary staff will be organized this
week to take charge of the drill
Monday The committee announces
that If An officer is found Incompe-
tent a correction will be made
The drill regulation of the United
States Army will be followed In
every detail The committee jwI11
send a delegation to Oklahoma City
today to confer with Adjutant
General Earp In regard to" the
equipment of the organization
GUY JONES ELECTED
GYM TEAM CAPTAIN
The Oklahoma gym team met for
the last time' on account of tho
cancelling of all University athletics
for tho remainder of the season on
Tuesday night nnd elected Guy
Jones ns cnptnln for tho current
year
Jones Hill and Cooley under tho
direction of Coach IL G Sou tar on
April 5 met nnd defeated tho Uni-
versity of Texas on their own mats
nt Austin The dual meet was won
by n remarkably strong mnrgln the
flnnl score showing the Isuighorns
with only 15 1-2 points to measure
with tho Sooner' 20 1-2 counters
The ranking of the various con-
testants was: parallels— Enter Jones
and Hill horse— Hill Jones nnd T
Jones nnd tumbling —Cooley Glaze
Hill nnd Feliurloek tied for third
place
FEUS 4’ l-lll OFF
Miss E Marly Anderson's class In
piddle speaking 10 will not he able
to give two plays of Uerrle ns
planned because members of the
class have enlisted
I NTENSION IS IOSI It
The “Canada and Nlagra rails'
slides of the extension division were
destroy'd by fire when several Santa
IV enrs burned between Hauls Val-
ley and Wnnettc last week
APRIL 12 1917
PA TRIOTISMRUNS HIGH
IN BIG MASS MEETING
REGIMENT 'OF STUDENTS TO BE ORGANIZED
Dr Williams is Chosen as Colonel and Bennie Owen
as Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteer Military
Training Corps in University Y
With a spontaneous outburst of patriotism 850 Sooner men
students unanimously resolved to commence at once a training
camp on the campus with daily universal military drill at a mass
meeting of all male students Wednesday afternoon Dr Guy Y
Williams was unamiously elected as colonel of a regiment of nine
companies to be formed from the student body Co-operating
with him five students were appointed by Harry Halley presi-
dent of the student council to complete the organization of the
regiment and to select officers from among the students who
have taken military training
Eight hundred and fifty of the 907 men in the university
were present at the meeting and a great many members of the
faculty of the university were their and showed their interest
in many ways The meeting was called to order by Harry Halley
who explained the purpose of the meeting ajid stated that k the
time had come for the University of Oklahoma to prepare for war
WILLIAMS FAVORS
SCIENTISTS’ CORPS
A scientists’ reserve corps to be
operated on grounds similar to the
regular officers reserve corps as pro-
vided by order number 32 of the
war department is a plan being
advocated by Dr Guy Y Williams
professor of physical chemistry in
the war department technical maga-
zines and others
“Engineers chemists and other
scientists are practically fighting
the battles In tho present world
war” says Trof Williams “hence It
Is ns essential that these be specially
organized as It Is of nny other mili-
tary group''
Dr Williams suggests that scien-
tists be appointed upon examination
by tho president to offices on the
reserve corps ranking In propor-
tion to their education nnd nbliity
in the snmo order as regular officers
nro ranked In time of peace llioy
would be required to spend 30 days
of cnch year In special studying prac-
tical application of their science to
Industrial methods For Instnnce
In Oklahoma tho period would be
spent In the petroleum fields lend
nnd zinc district or in glass fac-
tories 0 U IVINS STATE
PEACE ORATORICAL
Earl Shepard Cordell an un-
classified student In the school of
arts and science carried off the $73
prize In tho state pence contest by
winning first plnre over five con-
testants In Stillwater April 6
Sheppard recently won second
place In a very close decision In the
Render medal contest The Inter-
state contest comes sometime In
Mar nt n pince not yet decided
“War and Internationalism" wns
the subject x bleb he used being a
development of the subject In the
local contrst Claudius rlctt
Kendall won second place
Ian Mldeke sophomore rffgTnecr
has withdrawn from school on ncs
count of marriage
NO 125
Josh Lee cautioned the students
that this was not a time to lose
their heads and that sane patriotism
was the need of America today He
pointed to the fact that Oklahoma
was a young state with no history
to point to that might prove what
Oklahoma's sons had done but that
now was the time to show what Ok-
lahomans could do The Sooner
war cry “Oklahoma Fights" that
has often been heard upon the
gridiron was the slogan to which
all loyal Sooncrs must rally and
show that they do mean what they
say affirmed Lee “I am an Ameri-
can to the core and will be tho
last whom anyone mny cnll a slack-
er The time hns passed for talk
nnd we must act"
President Outlines Flan
President Brooks outlined the plan
by which students might receive
training and at the same time pur-
sue thelr-courscs In the university
and quoted Major General Wood as
saying that students may bo of
more use If they stay in their uni-
versity nnd trnln thnn If they go to
the training camps Dr Guy Y Wil-
liams who hns seen service at the
border told the students thnt mili-
tary training was a man’s Job and
thnt It would he no Joke
Dr K W Reeves nominated Conch
Bennie Owen ns lieutenant colonel
of the regiment At the suggestion
of Dean J S Buchanan a vote was
taken In order to ascertain the num-
bers of student who wanted the
drill and xxlien the vote proved
unanimous the drill wns made com-
pulsory Committee Appointed -
President Halley appointed a com-
mittee of five students to cn-opcrnto
with the faculty In securing tho
hasty Installation of drill In the uni-
versity All members of the com-
mittee had military drill elsewhere
Tom Hill wns made chairman of tho
committee nnd M t’ Lively Nell
Johnson Hoy Hancock and Albert
Plgg were the members
Colonel Williams IJrutenant Col-
onel Owen nnd Tom Hill will go
to Oklahoma City today to arrange
for w lint supplies the adjutant
general will furnl-h and to scrum
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Copeland, Fayette, Jr. Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 125, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1917, newspaper, April 12, 1917; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1783261/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 10, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.