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UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA NEWS-JOURNAL
VOLUME VI
NORMAN OKLAHOMA JANUARY 12 1914
NUMBER 11
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UNIVERSITY DRAWS STUDENTS
FROM ALL BUT SIX COUNTIES
NORMAN Okla Jan - (Special)
--of the 77 counties in the state 71 are
represented by students at the University
of Oklahoma according to figures just
compiled in the registrar's office The six
which send no students to the state's
chief educational center are Adair Beaver
Cimarron Johnston Latimer and McIn-
tosh counties All the others are repre-
sented by from one up to several hundred
students
Cleveland county on account of the
fact that many families move to Norman
temporarily for educational advantages
heads the list Oklahoma county sends
117 more than twice as many as came
from the capital city and its vicinity last
year
Next to these two leading counties is
Kay with 34 students the largest repre-
' sentation from any of the outlying por-
tions of the state Other counties take'
rank as follows: Pottawatomie county 27
Lincoln county 22 Garvin county 21
Grady county 20 Kiowa county 19 Greer
county 17 Tillman county 16 Canadian
county 15
Classified alphabetically the counties
of the state are represented by the follow-
ing number of students:
Alfalfa 10 Atoka 5 Beckham 9
Blaine 9 Bryan 14 Caddo 11 Canadian
15 Carter 14 Cherokee 7 Choctaw 8
Cleveland 310 Coal 4 Comanche 10 Cot-
ton 6 Craig 5 Creek 8: Custer 13 Dela-
ware 1 Dewey 4 Ellis 2 Garfield 11
Garvin 21 Grady 20 Grant 13 Greer 17
Harmon 3 Harper 1 Haskell 3 Hughes
10 Jackson 9 Jefferson 8 Kay 34 King-
fisher 11 Kiowa 19 LeFlore 8 Lincoln
22 Logan 14 Love 1 Major 3 Marshall
10 Mayes 1 McCurtain 1 McClain 11
Murray 9 Muskogee 13 Noble 2 Nowa-
ta 4 Okfuskee 8 Oklahoma 117 Okinul-
gee 8 Osage 5 Ottawa 1 Pawnee 7
Payne 7 Pittsburg 13 Pontotoc 12 Pot-
tawatomie 27 Pushmataha 1 Roger
Mills 3: Rogers 13 Seminole 8 Sequoyah
5 Stephens 12 Texas 3 Tillman 16
Tulsa 10 Wagoner 3 Washington 6
Washita 3 Woods 6 Woodward 5
The figures gtven for the several coun-
ties are based on a compilation made
January 7 1914 According to these sta-
tistics the total number of students in
residence at the university for the year
1913 14 is 1149 This total includes stu-
dents in the summer session of 1913 but
excludes correspondence students Dupli-
cate names have also been eliminated
from the total Including 83 students reg-
istered in the extension courses the grand
- total of students is 1232
The university however does not draw
all its students from within the state's
boundaries Besides Oklahoma 22 states
and two foreign countries Mexico and
Russia are represented on the roll of stu-
dents Of the total of 1149 students in
residence 1043 come from Oklahoma and
106 from outside the state
Texas for example sends 20 students
to Oklahoma Missouri sends 17 and Kan-
sas 16 Other states are represented as
follows: Alabama and Arkansas seven
each Illinois six New York five Iowa
and Pennsylvania four each Kentucky
and New Mexico three each New Jersey
two Arizona California Connecticut Ind-
iana Michigan Mississippi North Caroli-
na South Carolina South Dakota and Vir-
ginia one each Mexico and Russia also
send one each
ART EXHIBIT ATTRACTS MANY
TO UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
NORMAN Okla Jan — (Special)
—People from all parts of the state
especially from the cities in whch art
organizations exist have visited the Uni-
versity this week in order to see the
American Federation of Art collection of
150 water color paintings now on exhibi-
tion under the auspices of the School of
Fine Arts These water colors comprise
examples from the best contemporary
artists and are being shown in no other
city in Oklahoma They will remain on
view until January 26 when they will
be shipped to Colorado
Professor Patricio Gimeno of the School
of Fine Arts has arranged to bring a large
party of art studentsfrom Oklahoma City
to inspect the collection In connection
with the Federation exhibit which is
being shown free of charge there have
also been placed on display a number of
charcoal sketches water Color and oil
paintings illustrative of the work done by
Univerbity students
TEN TEAMS NOW ON SOONER
VARSITY BASEBALL SCHEDULE
NORMAN Okla Jan -- (Special)
—Games with ten teams are already in-
cluded on the 1914 baseball schedule for
the University of Oklahoma just an-
nowiced by Manager R H Smiser The
games which have been secured up to
date are as follows: Central State Normal
at Norman April 2 and 3 Topeka West-
ern League team at Norman April 7 and
Central State Normal at Edmond April
10 and 11 Oklahoma Agricultural and
Mechanical College at Norman April 23
and 24 Oklahoma A and M at Stillwater
May 1 and 2 University of Texas at
Norman May 4 and S
A tour through Texas is also being con-
sidered If it materializes the team will
leave about the middle of May playing
games at the University of Texas Texas
A and M Baylor University and Waxa-
hatchie Competition for places on the team will
be keen as there are 25 to 30 candidates
according to midwinter prospects - Prac-
tice will not begin for a month but when
Captain Toomer issues the call about the
middle of February strenuous work will
begin- lasting until March when the first
games will be played All but about two
o-1 last year's team will-p–rOl3ably- do–n- the
Sooner uniform for another season's conquests
"BILLY" CLARK IS ELECTED
SOONER FOOTBALL CAPTAIN-
NORMAN Okla Jan (Special)
—William L Clark of Comanche Oklaho-
ma known by all students as "Billy"
Clark Varsity tackle was elected captain
' of the 1914 Sooner foot ball team at a meet-
ing of the fifteen "0"men Friday afternoon
January 9 Clark was elected on the first
ballot by a vote of 11 to 4 "Trim" Cap-
shaw Varsity hallback was the other
candidate 'Billy's" election meets with
popular approval for his record on the
team is such as to entitle him to the high-
est recognition With Bennie Owen as
coach and Clark as captain Oklahoma
students are predicting a football season
that will be fully as successful as those
in the past
John Bell of Tonkawa Oklahoma was
elected captain of the Sooner basketball
team on Thursday January 8 Bell one
of last year's star men will play the posi-
tion of forward for the third time the
'coming season A long schedule of games
was begun Friday evening at Norman
whên the Sooners defeated the team from
Southwestern State Normal at Weather-
ford by a score of 43 to 15
FOUR MEETS PRACTICALLY
ASSURED FOR OKLAHOMANS
NORMAN Okla Jan — (Special)
—The University of Oklahoma track team
will have four meets this year provided
Coach Darling succeeds in securing one
more date for which he is working The
three already decided upon are K C A
C meet at Kansas City on February 28
the Oklahoma A and M meet at Norman
on a date not yet decided and the state
meet at Norman on May 15 and 16 The
proposed meets are with the University
of Arkansas at Fayetteville or the Kansas
Agricultural College at Manhattan
Only six men will be taken to Kansas
City but they will enter six or seven
events the 50-yard dash the high and
low hurdles the high jump the broad
jump and the handicap two-mile and one-
mile relay races The relay team will
probably be composed of Lowry Lively
Hansen and Jacobs with Fields as a pos-
sible first sub
COURSES IN ADVERTISING TO
BE OFFERED AT UNIVERSITY
NORMAN Okla Jan — (Special)
—Two new courses in advertising one
dealing with the principles and one with
the practice of the science together with
a course in comparative joulnalism are
to be given by the School of JoulLalism
next year according to plans re( t ntly
formulated These courses together with
others previously scheduled will prac-
tically double the amount of work which
students interested in journalism may do
A large increase in the number of stu-
dents is anticipated as a result of this
expansion
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