The University News-Letter (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 15, 1911 Page: 3 of 4
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last season's intra-collegiate games
for the championship of the Uni-
versity the barristers won first
honors in both football and basket
ball and were strong contenders in
base ball Besides these honors
conferred for special merit or excel-
lence members of the Law School
are also prominent in the many or-
ganizations of the student body
PRACTICE COURT AND CLUB COURTS
The visitor entering the precincts
of the Law School at certain times
might well imagine himself in a re-
gularly organized and legally con-
stituted court of justice The
practice court club courts and legal
debating clubs lend to the school a
decided tinge of the practical The
practice court meets four times
each week under the direction of
Prof Cheadle and is a regularly
organized and accredited class for
senior students Here members of
the graduating class file briefs
argue cases before judge and jury
and conduct the entire gamut of
the practical work with all the cere-
mony and formality of any court of
law The club courts two in num-
ber are organized by the students
themselves In these courts cases
are argued involving disputed
points of law part of the members
acting as counsel for the plaintiff
and defendants and the others pre-
siding as justices and handing down
opinions at the conclusion of the
arguments The several law de-
bating societies which meet once
each week are for perfection in par-
liamentary practice and the discus-
sion of legal and political questions
rrs FUTURE GREATNESS ASSURED
With the school well organized a
strong dean at its head and working
ceaselessly for its upbuilding the
enrollment increasing by leaps and
bounds liberal support granted by
the legislature and the Bar Associ-
ation of the state and high recogni-
tion accorded by the foremost legal
educators of the land the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma School of Law
comes in its infancy into a heritage
such as other law schools have
THE UNIVERSITY NEWS-LETTER
labored for decades to attain and
stands face to face with a future
filled with wonderful possibilities
The great need of such a school
within the commonwealth is strong-
ly apparent to all thinking men
Oklahoma with her advanced laws
great undeveloped resources and
innumerable phases of land litiga-
tion offers a fair field which should
be occupied by lawyers in whom is
bred an abiding love and reverence
for the state if the state is to prosper
as it should in the generations to
come Already the legislature has
appropriated $125000 for the erec-
tion of one of the best law build-
ings in the west It is to be a
structure thoroughly modern and
superbly beautiful The law library
is being built up rapidly The close
of the school year will find the Law
School at the end of the third year
of its existence graduating a large
class into the ranks of the legal
profession The near future will
find the school domiciled in a law
building which will compare most
favorably with those of Kansas
Missouri Texas and neighboring
law schools with an attendance al-
most equal to that of these long
established institutions a faculty
second to none in the entire west
and a spirit of progress all dom-
inant which cannot fail to instill in
the breast of the student the seeds
of ambition
WHY LEAVE OKLAHOMA
All this means that the time has
at last arrived not when a student
can get as good a legal education at
home as abroad but when a better
one can be secured and he is only
committing folly when he leaves
the borders of his own common-
wealth to secure his legal knowledge
At the University of Oklahoma the
faculty is as strong and the curricu-
lum as good as in any other law
school At the University of Okla-
homa the student secures those in-
valuable things which cannot be
gained abroad: a thorough ground-
ing in the law of his own state a
wide acquaintanceship with hun-
dreds of progressive young people
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of his own state and above all a
degree from the leading educational
institution of his own state which
carries with it a feeling of pride in
and loyalty for Oklahoma With
these facts in mind it is little won-
der that dozens of law students are
leaving other schools to enroll here
where the cost of living is cheaper
tuition free and the educational
facilities are better and to aid as
they can in building up a great in-
stitution in the state in which they
expect to seek their professional
success
Those Missouri Valley Champions
Football circles of the great Mis-
souri Valley Conference have been
twice electrified during the past
two weeks by the wonderful show-
ing of the Sooners who have utterly
upset all dope and achieved records
which have made them known the
country over by defeating the
strong teams of the universities of
Missouri and Kansas The two
victories won by the crimson and
cream gridironers coming within a
week of each other have been easily
the sensation of western football
and have immortalized in Sooner-
land the names of the twelve play-
ars who for the first time in the
history of football at Oklahoma
have humbled the pride of the
Missouri Tiger and dragged in de-
feat the banner of that ancient
enemy the Kansas Jayhawker
With a team outweighed by both
of the opposing aggregations and
playing on the opponents gridiron
Bennie Owen who is being hailed
as one of the brainest coaches in all
the west directed his well drilled
machine to victory Missouri was
defeated on Rollins field at Colum-
bia by the decisive score of 14 to 6
Saturday Nov 4 One week later
November 1 lth at Lawrence Kans
the Sooners won from Kansas by
the score of 3 to O Witnesses say
that the Oklahomans did far the
best work in both games In the
games played thus far Oklahoma
has scored 242 points her oppon
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last season's intra-collegiate games labored for decades to attain and of his own state: and above a11 a
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