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DECEMBER CALENDARDecember 5 . State Rhodes scholar-

ship selection, University club, Oklaho-ma City. Oklahoma versus Oklahoma Cityuniversity, football . Norman Thomas, fa-mous Socialist, in address in universityauditorium .December 11, 12 . University Play-

house presents Berkeley Square by JohnL. Balderston under the direction ofMiss Ida Z . Kirk, assistant professor ofdramatic art .December 13 . "The Pride of Oklaho-

ma," university band in concert Sun-day afternoon, 3:00 .December 17 . Philosophy club . "Me-

chanism and Vitalism," by Doctor Ad-riance S . Foster .

ASSOCIATION PROGRESSExecutive board meetingThe following members were present

at its Homecoming meeting of thealumni executive board, held in theunion building November 7, 1931 : A .S . Monroney, president ; W. Harring-ton Wimberley, vice-president ; H . MerleWoods, Guy Y . Williams, Charles B .Memminger, E . .D . Meacham, HarryI. . S . Halley (with proxy from W. L.Eagleton), Mrs Alta Loomis Carder.,Earle Sneed, H. S . Brown, Neil R . John-son, and Frank S . Cleckler, secretary .The minutes of the last meeting held

June 8, 1931, were read and approved .Motion was made by Memminger andseconded by Johnson that a membershipcampaign be conducted by the districtmembers of the board, each districtmember addressing a letter to thealumni residing in his particular dis-trict urging membership in the associa-tion, with the understanding that theclerical work involved by this actionbe performed in the alumni office . Mo-tion carried .

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Oklahomans at home and abroad

Audit of the association accounts forthe fiscal year ending August 31, 1931,was presented by Secretary Cleckler .Motion was made by White and sec-onded by Sneed that this audit be ac-cepted, approved, and filed by the sec-retary with the association records . Mo-tion carried .Motion was made by Johnson, sec-

onded by Williams that the presidentappoint a committee to study the con-stitution of the association and rec-ommend to this board at the next regu-lar meeting such changes as presentconditions seem to warrant . Motion car-ried . The president appointed Meach-am, Johnson, and Woods.Motion was made by Sneed and sec-

onded by Johnson that the presidentappoint a committee to study the feas-ibility of the establishment of an en-dowment association for the univer-sity to be sponsored by this association .Motion carried . The president appoint-ed Boatman, White, Sneed, Tolbert andEagleton .The resolution adopted by the Okla-

homa City alumni with reference tothe Ruf Neks and Jazz Hounds, formerpep organizations on the campus at theuniversity was introduced at the re-quest of the Oklahoma City alumni .By a vote of 6 to 5 the resolution, inits present form, was tabled .Motion was made by Meacham and

seconded by Memminger that this as-sociation invite the executive board ofthe Former Students Association of A .& M. college to be the guests of thisassociation at the A. & M. game andat Thanksgiving dinner at noon onNovember 26, 1931 . Motion carried .

HomecomingThe most widely attended alumni

homecoming in the history of the uni-

versity was said to have been celebratedthis year. More names of alumni fromdistant places were recorded than atany previous time . The students them-selves took the lead in initiating home-coming by declaring Friday afternoonand Saturday morning holidays . Forsome time before the Eighty-Niners,who had sworn not to shave until thewinning of a game, had been conspir-ing to restore some vestige of pep onthe campus .By offering a barbecue, a greased

pig-catching contest, speeches by thefootball coach, the president of the uni-versity and prominent athletes, and atug-of-war they gathered together threethousand students Friday afternoon, No-vember 5 . It was the second barbe-cue in the history of the university ac-cording to Ben G. Owen, director ofathletics, the first one being in 1915when the Sooners won a 14-13 victoryover the Texas Longhorns . A steer waskilled, skinned, cooked and eaten by anoverjoyed football crowd on that mem-orable day and the hide of that samebull is now one of the most prized pos-sessions of Director Owen .On Saturday, November 7, a perfect

Indian summer day, more than fivethousand alumni, former students andvisitors streamed into a highly decoratedNorman for fraternity houses were dec-orated in competition with each otherfor a cup presented by the Eighty-Niners .Mrs Everette De Golyer, '06, of Mont-clair, New Jersey, made the longesttrip . John T. Hefley, '01, Stillwater, rep-resented the earliest class . Ray Crowe, '04,Birmingham, Alabama, came fartherthan any former football captain whileother athletes of past days seen on thecampus were Billy Clark, '06, Pawhuska ;Floyd Swank, '07, Norman ; HarryPrice, '13, Tulsa ; Roy Waggoner, OwenAction, '08, Guthrie ; Lazelle White ;R . E . Clement ; Fred Roberts, coach and

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halfback in '01 ; Harvey and Dan Short,'01 ; and Clyde Bogle, '02, who playedon the O. U. team in the days whenbeards such as the Eighty-Niners hadwould not have attracted so much atten-tion .A dinner-dance and pep meeting

with record breaking attendance startedthe celebration off for alumni Fridayevening at the Huckins hotel in Okla-homa City . President Bizzell, BenOwen, Mike Monroney and Joe Whittenspoke .

Saturday morning a parade of Eighty-Niners, the university band and seven-teen floats entertained visitors andaroused pep among students . Weavingback and forth across the street chant-ing their "gold-miner, moonshiner,eighty-niner" yell, a line of Eighty-Niners led the parade followed by acar in which Ben Owen and MikeMonroney, president of the alumni as-sociation, were riding . The universityband, led by Hugo Goetz, Pryor, drummajor ; Gayle McCorkle, Clinton, bandqueen ; and W. H . Wehrend, director,was next in line . The Norman alumniassociation had a Wells Fargo expresscoach filled with men and women inpioneer dress, attended by cowboys andfollowed by a large, late model car asan example of the progress made sincethe days of the beginning of the uni-versity . Engineers and lawyers tied forfirst place with their floats and thecollege of business administration camein third with an entry depicting re-covery from the present financial de-pression .When the Sooner-Kansas fray ended

in a 10-0 score for Oklahoma, Eighty-Niners, after carrying both teams offthe field, raced into campus barbershops and fraternity bathrooms wherethey hewed away four-weeks growth ofbeard .During the early part of Saturday

evening a reception and dansant wasgiven in the ballroom of the Unionbuilding for alumni .

First steps toward establishing anendowment association to receive en-dowments and gifts for the universitywere taken by the alumni executiveboard in its meeting Saturday with theappointment of a committee to investi-gate similar endowment organizationsin other schools . Whereas now, all giftsto the university are handled by theboard of regents, they would be givendirectly to the endowment associationunder the new plan . The committee,composed of A . N . Boatman, '14, Ok-mulgee ; Luther H. White, '14, Tulsa ;Earl Sneed, '13, Tulsa ; W. L . Eagle-ton, '14, Oklahoma City ; and RaymondTolbert, '12, Oklahoma City, will startwork on the plan, according to FrankCleckler, '21, Norman, alumni secre-tary.

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NORMAN PREXY

King Price, ex'20, of Norman, insurancespecialist, is the new president of the Norman Soonerclub, which was host toHomecoming visitors Novem-ber 7 . It was a great recep-tion President Price and hiscommittees gave the visitors,for outstanding among recentscoops was securing thestage coach from the 101Ranch, through the aid ofGeorge Miller, '23 law, ofPonca City

Plans for launching a drive for amemorial fund to honor J . S . Buchanan,former president of the university, whodied in 1929, are being worked out bya committee and its decision will beannounced later .

Homecoming registerFrank S . Cleckler, 1921, NormanRuth E . Moore, 1920, NormanVirginia Ballard, 1930, NormanRuth Redwine, 1926, Oklahoma CityMariorie Scott, 1927, Oklahoma CityRalph V. Miller, 1927, EnidMrs R . V. Miller, EnidMike Monroney, 1924, Oklahoma CityJ . Vic Collier, 1921, NormanG . E . Wadsack, ex 1918, NormanLeonard Logan, 1914, NormanNeil R . Johnson, 1915, NormanAleen Bell, 1929, GrayOrlan Bell, 1928, GrayH . T . Burson, 1895, YukonPauline Chase Baker, 1920-1925, TulsaMrs Marie Pratt Crandell, 1922, Ponca CityAnna Mae Dearden, 1924, NormanLionel V . Murphy, 1926, NormanRose Leske, 1921, NormanJewel Risinger Ditmars, 1919, MuskogeeJ . Dawson Houk, 1914, EnidEarl Sneed, 1911, TulsaC . Ross Hume, 1898-1900, AnadarkoHugh D . Stites, 1924, Aledo, IllinoisH. M . Woods, 1917, El RenoL . N . Morgan, Honorary, NormanDella Barnwell, 1931, BillingsHarry L . S . Halley, 1915, TulsaRay Ferrell Meacham, 1913, NormanE . D . Meacham, 1914, NormanA. N . (Jack) Boatman, 1914, OkmulgeeC . B . Memminger, 1914, AtokaHedwig Schaefer, 1918, NormanFlorence McClure, 1915, Oklahoma CityMildred E . Hutchison, 1931, Oklahoma CityLuther H. White, 1914, TulsaImogene Beegle, 1921, NormanAlice H. Gable, 1922, NormanGuy Y . Williams, 1906-1910, NormanEdgar W. Fielding, 1914, Wilmington, Del .May Melvin Browne, 1911, Ponca CityMildred Connally, 1931, Bethany

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Howard S . Browne, 1911-12-13, Ponca CityAlta Loomis Carder, 1906, CordellMrs Gertrude Collier, 1920, NormanRoss G. Hume, 1931, AnadarkoMrs Ross G . Hume, 1930, AnadarkoEarl Welch, ex 1911, AntlersHarry Waterbury, 1927, PocassetBob Howell, 1928, HoldenvilleL. V . Chaney, 1926, BartlesvilleHarrington Wimberly, 1924, AltusMrs Lorene Covert, 1930, SeminoleG . E . Covert, 1930, SeminoleTrester S . Harris, 1922, Ramona, CaliforniaDorothy Long, 1926, TonkawaFlorence Fegley, 1928, TonkawaDuane Roller, 1923, NormanBat Shunatone, 1927, WewokaIris Baughman, 1917, Oklahoma CityDella Link, 1926, Oklahoma CityHugh A . Carroll, 1907, NormanRoy Spears, 1914, McAlesterMary Bouteller, 1926, NormanAlbert Clinkscales, 1917, Oklahoma CityOwen Bradley, 1926, Oklahoma CityB . J . Heinrich, 1929, DuncanM . D . Fike, 1931, TulsaMabel L. Jone's, 1930, MustangEdith Johnson, 1927, MustangR. V . Jennings, 1919-1926, Oklahoma CityB . K . Cudd, 1920, Oklahoma CityJoseph A. Brandt, 1921, NormanGlenn Clark, 1913, Ponca CityMrs Glenn Clark, 1913, Ponca CityWilliam F . Absher, 1920, BartlesvilleSabert A . Hott, 1914, MedfordLewis R . Morris, 1915-1917, Oklahoma CityEva Lee, 1912-1914, Oklahoma CityRuth Morris, 1915, Oklahoma CityGlen Morris, ex 1915, Oklahoma CityT . G . Morris, ex 1908, NormanL . E . Wilhite, 1920, BartlesvilleJ . W . Rogers, 1911, TulsaGeorge H. Copeland, 1931, Oklahoma CityA. Martin Kingkade, 1906, Oklahoma CityLaurence E . Beattie, 1917, ArdmoreE . B . Johnson, jr ., 1924, Amarillo, TexasM . T . Johnson, 1917, Amarillo, TexasMainard Kennerly, 1929, WewokaJoe Snoddy, 1931, Elk CityElsie Harris, AntlersGrace Cook Worten, PawhuskaLaurel True Cook, 1915, TulsaFrances Dorchester Rogers, 1912, Tulsa

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Genevieve Courtright, 1923, NormanWinifrede Burke, 1927, NormanIrelene R . Boyd, 1919, NormanThomas M . Boyd, 1917, Norman

B . H . Murphy, 1929, Oklahoma CityRuth Thompson Hughes, 1919, Oklahoma CityO. M. `Bill' Ginder, 1931, CarmenElizabeth Price, 1927, SeminoleFrank Madden, 1918, NormanC . W . McFerron, 1911, Oklahoma CityF. Leonard Sibel, 1930, Oklahoma CityF. E. McReynolds, 1908-1929, TishomingoJohn T . Hefley, 1901, StillwaterMrs Ray Crowe, 1904, Birmingham, AlabamaRay Crowe, 1904, Birmingham, AlabamaD . F . Ditmars, MuskogeeMalcom Rosser, jr ., ex 1921, MuskogeeMargaret J . Mitchell, NormanMary Hooks, 1929, VinitaR . L . Wheatley, 1922, VinitaMrs Murl F . Hill, 1925, TulsaMurl F. Hill, 1925, TulsaMary Ritchey Wright, 1922, DurantThelma Ritchey, 1923, DurantAlice Ward Friend, 1925, TulsaRoy E . Emanuel, 1926, ChickashaMrs Roy Emanuel, 1926, ChickashaMrs L . A. Barr, 1921, NormanMary Lee Galbraith Armstrong, ex 1918,

Eastland, TexasTom Galbraith, 1919, San Antonio, TexasJ . M . Armstrong, 1919, Eastland, TexasMrs Paul Updegraff, 1930, NormanPaul Updegraff, 1930, NormanC . B . McMahan, 1929, OkmulgeeDennis Bushyhead, 1929, ClaremoreLouise Rosser, 1929, MuskogeeCatherine Witt, 1929, PryorElaine Bizzell Thompson, Oklahoma CityLee B . Thompson, 1925-1927, Oklahoma CityDorothy Manes, Oklahoma CityMary Elizabeth Filson, 1929, GuthrieWalter L . Barnes, 1925, Amarillo, TexasLester E . Smith, 1924, WewokaJoseph C . Looney, 1920-1922, WewokaMrs Joseph CLooneyWewoka.

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These were the visiting alumni whoregistered with the association .

OUR CHANGING VARSITYFrom New Zealand

In Dunedin, New Zealand, whereChristmas comes in the middle of sum-mer, Frank Barnett, announcer for 4ZO,

"I have just been listening to the lasthour of your test program and enjoyedit very much . The volume was fairand speaker's strength good. I receivedit on an eight tube Majestic, using anaerial 600 feet long and fifty feet high .Modulation was good, fading slight andlight static ."Ted Beaird, '21 arts-sc ., director of

the station, proudly added the letter to

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ONE OF FARTHEST

At no recentHomecoming has there beensuch a large out of state repre-sentation as this year. Oneof those who came farthestwas Dr Hugh D. Stites, '22sc., M.D . '24, of Aledo,Illinois . Mrs Everette De-Golyer, '06 mus.,'07 arts-sc .,of Montclair, New Jersey,and Ray Crowe, '04 of Bir-mingham, Alabama, led inmost mileage

the rapidly mounting list of postmarksthe world over who hear Norman overthe air .

$80,000

Sooners residing in Norman had tworare treats in one program in the uni-versity auditorium November 3. Theyheard Paul Carpenter, head of the vio-lin department, himself a rare artist,play on four violins, the total value of

Carlo Bergonzi in 1723 ; and the "KingHenry IV" by Antonius and Hieroni-mus Amati in 1595 . The instrumentswere exhibited by the Lyon and Healymusic store of Chicago.

General faculty meeting

The annual fall semester general fac-ulty meeting was held October 27 inthe engineering auditorium . GeorgeWadsack, ex '18, registrar, reported theuniversity enrollment of that date asbeing 5,209 as compared with 5,409 theprevious year .Among the reports:Jesse L. Rader, '08 arts-sc ., M. A. '13,

university librarian, reported that from10,000 to 12,000 volumes were beingadded to the library yearly .

More than fifty-five per cent of stu-dents entering the university and mak-ing passing grades never finish, MrWadsack stated .

Pharmaceutical loan

GRADUATES IN EMBRYOEpaulettes

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Of students eligible to re-enter theuniversity this year and in school last,1,900 did not return . More than sixty percent of this group had grade averagesof C and better.

The Oklahoma Pharmaceutical as-sociation, which met in Oklahoma Cityrecently, has created a loan fund of$1,000 for seniors and research studentsin pharmacy . Application for loans canbe made through Dr D. B. R. Johnson,dean of the school of pharmacy.

It is hoped to increase the fund tosuch an amount that the interest fromthe loans will be sufficient to createresearch fellowships in pharmacy suchas they have at the University of Wis-consin .

The spirit of secession has enteredthe ranks of the cadets and as a resultwe have Epaulettes . Twenty-eight stu-dents of military training, claiming thatthe existing military fraternities aredominated by cliques, presented a pe-tition in the name of Epaulettes toMajor H. J. Malony, R. O. T. C. com-mandant, Tuesday, November 3. Theyplan to petition some nationally recog-nized group like Mortar and Ball .Among the leaders of the secessionistswere Jack Abernathy, '32 eng., of Shaw-nee and Milton Hardy, '33 eng., ofTulsa.

Jack Gober, 1915, NormanGene Pope, 1928, WatongaMrs Earl Sneed, ex 1910, TulsaLewis Salter, 1912, NormanMrs Reaves Alford Salter, 1920, NormanMrs Harry Murphy, 1928, Oklahoma City

Lower Octagon, turned the dial Sep-tember 29 and heard Oklahoma . Heheard WNAD, the University of theAir.He wrote WNAD:

Mrs Lester E. Smith, Wewoka which was $82,000. The four instru-Clifford M . Bennett, 1931, Texhoma ments were : "The Arnot" by AntonJ . D. Lapp, jr ., 1929, Oklahoma City Stradivarius, made in 1721 ; "TheRobert Galbrath, jr ., 1915, Oklahoma City Brodsky" made by Giuseppi AntonioTom Garrett, 1923, Oklahoma City

Guarneri in 1732 ; "The Schley" by

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SHAVED TEN TO NOTHING

The EightyNiners seen in the adjoiningphotograph are not the shadesof Quo Vadisians of bygoneyears but rather, just on theverge of rejoicing that Okla-homa was to defeat Kansasten to nothing . For the EightyNiners had vowed not toshave until the Sooners won-and three weeks can be atest of true love for any pro-back

Engineering pledges

Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Tau, nationalengineering fraternities, announce thepledging of twenty-six students at ajoint meeting held Thursday, Novem-ber 5 .Tau Beta Pi-Robert Lisk, Alva ;

Fred Newton, Cushing ; Aubry Billea,Norman ; Jay Robinson, Norman ; Rup-ert McClung, Trinidad, Colorado ; JohnWeiler, Wichita Falls, Texas ; AllenPelton, Norman ; Wiley Ross, Texhoma ;Bill Vogt, Norman ; Ed Bartley, Myra,Texas ; Earl E . Miller, Norman ; andRob More, Oklahoma City .Sigma Tau-Farrell McMullan, Man-

chester ; Don Porter, Lawton ; OrvilleBarnett, Watonga ; Ernest Cotton, Sayre ;Aubrey Bileau, Norman ; Siler Lambdin,Shawnee ; Erwin Glasglow, Carmen;Melvin Montgomery, Oklahoma City ;Edgar Kanouse, Amarillo, Texas ; Har-old Olivey, Tarrant, Texas ; Morris Pit-man, Enid ; Frederick Cullison, Bartles-ville ; Gordon Stine, Amarillo, Texas ;and List, Bartley, McClung and Moore .

Indian queen

Pauline Cowan, Chickasha, was elect-ed Indian queen at the fourth annualpow-wow of the Indian club Friday,November 6.

No social privileges

Sigma Gamma Epsilon, national ge-ological fraternity, has abolished monthlysmokers, released all fall pledges andwill pledge no more men for the re-mainder of the year. This action wastaken by the fraternity itself .. at thesuggestion of the faculty of the school

geology according to Doctor V. E .nett, director of the school of ge-

ology and geological engineering . Thismove came about because of the sug-gestive nature of a skit presented as

entertainment by the pledges of thefraternity at a social smoker October28th .

Second prize

G . Scott Hammonds, Oklahoma City,won second prize with his paper "RadioField Intensity Measurements" at theannual district convention of the Amer-ican Institute of Electrical Engineersin Kansas City, Missouri, during Oc-tober . Other university contestants werefrom Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico,Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri .

Debaters

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New members of the varsity debateteam are Fred Anderson, OklahomaCity ; Barney Burns, Carlsbad, N. M. ;Hicks Epton, Durant ; A . O . Johnson,Norman ; Leslie Hemry, Oklahoma City ;Harry Pines, Tulsa ; and Willis Starkand George Miskovsky, both of Okla-homa City . Bert Seidell, Brooklyn, NewYork, is alternate .

In trying out for places on the teamthese men debated for three minuteson resolved that the state legislatureshould pass a law restricting the cot-ton acreage of farms for 1932 and 1933to one-half their present cultivatedacreage . Judges for the finals wereWalter Emery, debate coach ; PerrillMunch, instructor in public speaking ;R . J . Dangerfield and Reginald Wil-liams, both of the government depart-ment .

Business officers

Officers elected by the Associationof Students of the college of Businessadministration are : Walter Wood,Chandler, president ; Herbert Smith,Ardmore, vice president ; Bob Turner,Anadarko, treasurer ; and Dorothy Cos-

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ton, Norman, secretary . Plans are be-ing made by the organization for aBusiness Administration Day in Feb-ruary .

The cast for Berkeley Square, secondUniversity Playhouse production, hasbeen chosen by Miss Ida Z. Kirk, di-rector . The two major parts have beengiven to Josephine Landsittel, Tulsa,who will play Kate Pettigrew, and E .Van Heflin, Oklahoma City, who willtake the part of Peter Standish .

Other roles are to be played by Mar-Ian Summers, Norman ; Louise Lillard,'30 fine arts, Wewoka ; Virginia Dick-en, Oklahoma City ; Harriet Stewart,Muskogee ; Stanley Martin, Norman;Fred Wheeler, Oklahoma City ; WilliamLee, Norman ; Jacob Collar, Chandler ;Hylagene Robberson, Norman ; PrissyOlinger, Oklahoma City ; Lucille Mc-Guire, Norman ; and Zada Warlick,Norman .

A new student publication, TheBandsman, was issued Tuesday, October27 . This paper is being published bythe university band and will containnews and announcements relative tothe activities of the group .

Mater Admirabilis, known as the"Model Parish," is the student chapelof the Catholic church of Norman . Itis the only organization of its kind inthe world . Managed and financed en-tirely by students of the University ofOklahoma, interest has grown untilnow two hundred young people at-tend mass conducted in this chapelevery Sunday . It is the only Catholic

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church known to have women on itsboard of trustees . Its choir is composedof students .The Newman club, a society organ-

ized in connection with the parishwhich aids in keeping up interest andin carrying on the work necessary forthe growth of such an institution, wasto be host to the Fifth Annual Conven-tion of the Gulf States Province of theFederation of College Catholic Clubsat Norman, November 19, 20, 21 and22 .The program planned for these four

days includes :November 19 . Informal reception and regis-

tration of delegates at Newman Hall .November 20, 8 :00 Solemn High Mass

in the Mater Admirabilis Chapel, ReverendMaurice Schexnayder, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,celebrant.

Business meeting, Mrs Hubert Bourgois,president of Gulf States Province, presiding.

Discussion, Tom Llewellyn, Tulsa, leading.Addresses by Reverend John O'Brien, Cath-

olic Foundation, Illinois University, Champaign,Illinois ; Reverend Maurice Schexnayder whowill speak on "Catholic Youth as a StabilizingElement in Religion and Life ;" and ReverendWilliam F. Blakeslee, University of Texaschaplain, who will talk on "Our ChurchNeeds No Defense ."Luncheon, under auspicies of Elizabeth Sea-

ton club . Speakers : "Cardinal Newman,"Horace H . Hagen, Tulsa ; Mrs Hubert Bour-geois ; Mrs Thomas E. Braniff, Oklahoma City ;and Miss Irene F . Hickey, Oklahoma City.

Dinner Dance, Oklahoma City Golf andCountry club. Nichols Hills .

Speakers : Rt. Reverend Francis C .Kelley, Bishop of Oklahoma, toastmaster ;Governor William H . Murray, governor ofOklahoma ; Doctor W. B . Bizzell, presidentof the University of Oklahoma ; T . AustinGavin, Tulsa ; and Gene Nolan, Norman .November 21 . Luncheon, Delta Phi Epsilon,

Catholic boys fraternity . Dinner and Taverndance, Norman Golf and Country club .November 22 . Communion Breakfast ; ad-

dress by Bishop Francis C . Kelley .Reverend J. F. Maissant, first pastor

of the Model Parish, was expected toattend the convention .Other societies organized in connec-

tion with Mater Admirabilis who wereto help with plans for the conventionwere Elizabeth Seaton club, the girls'study group ; Mater Admirabilis AltarSociety; Children of Mary ; and theHoly Name Society .Mrs J. S. Buchanan, sr ., sponsor of

Catholic student activities, was the or-iginator of the Model Parish . ReverendFrancis Clement Kelley, Bishop of Ok-lahoma City-Tulsa, fostered her planwith the combined efforts of ReverendJ. F. Maissant of Victorian Fathers,first chaplain, and Reverend J. T. Hall-issey who is now pastor .

Students on the board of trustees areGene Nolan, Norman, chairman; Ru-fus Moore, Norman ; Elizabeth Baykin,Beaumont, Texas; Theresa Flanagan,Norman ; Victor Jamieson, Ponca City ;Leonard Zoeller, Sacred Heart ; Paul

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BERTRAND RUSSELL

Bertrand, EarlRussell, internationally knownmathematician, philosopherand shrewd observer ofworld affairs, was to speakin university auditorium No-vember 23 at 10 on a subjectnot as yet announced . Theaddress was to be open tothe public

Hull, Wichita Falls, Texas; ElizabethHustmyre, Alexandria, Louisiana ; Jose-phine Hindman, Tulsa ; John Borelli,Kingfisher ; Frances Rhinehart, Oklaho-ma City- and Nan Reardon, Ardmore.

Clapper

If the Eighty Niners make good theirpromise to exhibit the celebrated clappertaken from the tower of Old Centralat Stillwater in 1930 at the Thanks-giving game in Norman, the Aggiespromise to show the Sooners a gangfight, not a football game, according toreports from both Norman and Still-water.

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Number Seventeen

Miss Virginia Krug, '32 arts-sc ., ofOklahoma City, was elected presidentof the university orchestra at the or-ganization meeting.

The Oklahoma chapter of SigmaGamma Epsilon, geological fraternity,published the November issue of thefraternity's magazine The Campus.

The first play of the season wasstaged by the University PlayhouseNovember 5 and 6. Number Seventeenby J. Jefferson Farjeon, under the di-rection of Professor John W. Dunn,according to The Oklahoma Daily "heldthe audience's interest throughout two

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hours of bkeath-taking incidents ofmystery and suspense until the finalline of the play ." And it was indeedtrue .

Lighting and sound effects were ofmuch importance in the presentationof this mystery-comedy . The actiontaking place in a London street duringa fog and in the attic and basement ofan untenanted house, gave the lightcrew an unusual opportunity for de-velopment of an atmosphere difficultto attain . Much of the success of theplay depended on the realism of soundeffects such as creaking of stairs, anunderground train tunnel and runningsteps across a roof .Fred Wheeler, Oklahoma City, who

has handled all sorts of character partsin Playhouse productions before, had achance to put himself into anothertype in Number Seventeen. In the dia-lect of a Cockney sailor he drew hisaudience from hushed silence into galesof laughter only to still them againinto tenseness .Ralph Shaw, Munhall, Pennsylvania,

a former student in the School ofDrama of Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh,who played the role of a refined crook,upon proving to be a detective in dis-guise satisfied the double character rolesuccessfully .Muriel Monsell, Sand Springs, who

during the last three years has playedsuch varied parts as a queen, a sillyyoung wife, a Spanish lady of royaldescent, an old water-front hag, andothers quite as remote from one another,played the part of a clever womancrook in Number Seventeen who, fall-ing in love with the Scotland Yard

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detective, reforms wholeheartedly andwins his love .Buck Weaver, William Lee, Elizabeth

Miller, Alex Victor, Marcus Cohn, andStanley Martin carried their roles con-vincingly . The combined work of thegroup moved smoothly and satisfactor-ily .This action was made possible and

effective by the technical organizationwhich included Subert Turbyfill, Nor-man, stage manager; William Lee, Nor-man, Lillian Saunder, Henryetta ; Vir-ginia Dicken, Oklahoma City ; Mar-garet Janeway, Eufaula ; Mary RuthHolbrook, Perkins; and Hylagene Rob-berson, Norman, members of the lightcrew'; Marcelle P;atterson, Marceline,Missouri, and Madye Wheeler, Norman,responsible for properties used ; HermanZiemer, Yale, who directed sound ef-fects; and Ikey Swartz and Sam Lemon,Kingfisher, stage crew.

Before the performance and betweenacts music was furnished by theWNAD Miniature Symphony Orchestraunder the direction of Professor MiltonDieterich.

SPORTS OF ALL SORTSBig Six standing November 9

October 24Oklahoma 0, Kansas State 14Iowa State 20, Missouri 0Nebraska 6, Kansas 0

October 31Oklahoma 12, Iowa State 13Kansas 7, Oklahoma Aggies 13Nebraska 10, Missouri 7

The season thus farOklahoma answered the hopes of

some thirteen thousand Homecomingfootball fans for victory when Oklaho-ma defeated Kansas 10 to 0 on Owenfield November 7. Dunlap in the finalquarter ran half the length of thefield for a touchdown, Massad kickinggoal . Warren kicked up three morepoints a few minutes later by droppingback to the 33-yard line and plantingthe ball fairly between the goal posts.On October 3, the Sooners plucked

the feathers of the Rice Institute Owlson Owen Field, Norman, to the tune

THEY LEAD

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Hugo Goetz,Pryor, drum major, and GayleMcCorkle, Clinton, bandqueen, who lead the ,prideof Oklahoma*, universityband, at all football gamesthis year . Miss McCorkle is apledge to Chi Omega andMr Goetz is a member ofDelta Chi fraternity

of 19-6 . This was the opening game ofthe season .On October 10, Nebraska defeated

Oklahoma at the Memorial Stadium,Lincoln, 13-0 in the first Big Six con-test . For the first three periods, thegame was a toss-up. Twice the Soonerswere on Nebraska's 30 yard line, butlacked the power to go over . However,Oklahoma blocked the highly toutedaerial attack of the Huskers whereyards meant a score for Nebraska .Nebraska made both scores in the last

period . Sauer found a hole in the Ok-lahoma line and loped 47 yards for a

On October 17, Oklahoma was de-feated in the Fair Park Stadium, Dallas,before a crowd of 20,000 spectatorsgathered in commemoration of MigrationDay. This was the Sooners' third con-secutive defeat by the Longhorns.The game was scoreless for the first

three quarters . The Texas running at-tack crumpled before the plungingSooner line, Texas gaining only 3yards on ground plays in the first half .At one time in the opening period

the Sooners threatened to score. Theball was advanced to the Texas 15 yardline by "Iron Mike" Massad on a re-turn punt . A penalty on Oklahoma

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spoiled the chance for this much neededgoal .

In the fourth period "Ox" Blandonwas called into the game by Texas togive his "educated toe" a chance at afield goal . And this chance was thedeciding factor in the game. Blandondropped a beautiful kick between theposts and the game was over 3-0 infavor of Texas.On October 24, the Kansas Aggies

took Oklahoma on Ahearn Field, Man-hattan, with a score of 14-0 . Bothpower and aerial plays were used witheffect by the Aggies . In the last ofthe first period, Kansas scored after apower march down the field. The othergoal was gained by Kansas in the thirdperiod as the result of passing and lineplunging.With the lead of 14-0 the Kansas

backfield let up somewhat and thegame closed at that standing . Oklahomaattempted power and passes but couldnot make much headway. The Aggiesmade 15 first downs and 205 yards inscrimmage to Oklahoma's 8 first downsand 89 yards gained in scrimmage.On October 31, Ames downs Oklaho-

ma before 6000 Dad's day fans in theOwen Field Stadium, Norman, withthe score of 13-12 . This loss was thefourth straight for Oklahoma, and thethird in the Big Six conference .For the first half the game was de-

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TEAM W . L . PCT . PTS . OP.

Iowa State 3 0 1,000 40 18Nebraska 3 0 1,000 29 7Kansas State 3 1 .750 53 14Oklahoma 1 3 .250 22 40Missouri 0 3 .000 14 50Kansas 0 3 .000 0 26

Kansas State 19, West Virginia 0 goal . He duplicated this act in the lastNovember 7 four minutes of play with a 65 yard

Oklahoma 10, Kansas 0 run. In the last period rain had be-

Nebraska 7, Iowa 0 gun, which later turned to hail . Neither

Iowa State 7, Kansas Aggies 6 side could make much headway other

Missouri 32, Drake 20 than the two long runs for goals byNebraska .

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Each year the Dads' associationpresents cups to the outstanding university womanand man chosen by the administrative council of theuniversity . This year Alvan Muldrow of Normanand Miss Louise Hohl of Sand Springs were nomi-nated for the distinction . Mr Muldrow is presidentof the Eighty Niners and his approach to a Van Dykeis due to the fact that the O. U. football team hadnot won a victory for some weeks when this photo-graph was taken

DEEPLY understanding theimportance of insight into the environ-ment and guidance of college sons anddaughters, fathers gathered in Normanthe last week-end in October to cele-brate the seventh annual round of busi-ness and pleasure centering about Dad'sday at the university .

Vital interest was expressed in theoccasion by the coming of fathers fromKansas, Arkansas, Texas and all partsof Oklahoma to the tune of more than270 strong . Registration was held Fri-day, October 30 . Saturday was a fullday with the general assembly and busi-ness session scheduled for the morningand attendance of the Iowa State-Okla-homa football game during the after-noon . Special Dad's day services wereheld at Norman churches Sunday morn-ing.Mr Frank M. Bailey of Chickasha

was elected president of the associationreplacing Mr W. E. Grisso of Semi-nole . Mr B. B. Barefoot of Chickashapresided at the business session in theabsence of Mr Grisso who has been ill .The past president sent a letter ex-pressing his regret that his ill healthprevented him from taking active par-ticipation, but that he was most in-terested in whatever work the associa-tion chose to accomplish this year .The general assembly opened with

a musical program given by the Mini-ature Symphony orchestra directed byMr Milton Dieterich, and the mens'glee club, with Mr R. H. Richards di-recting . Miss Miriam Dearth of Nor-man, sang a solo.The invocation was given by Rever-

end H. E. Gatti, student pastor of theMcFarland Memorial Methodist church .

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Many fine ideas were exchanged bythe speakers and President W. B. Biz-zell, provoking a thoughtful responsefrom dads and other visitors in theaudience . Doctor Bizzell, in his wel-coming address, clarified the situationin the university by explanations ofadministrative ideals .

It is our belief that you ought to come tothe university- while you have children here .You ought to want to know the environmentunder which your child works . You oughtto want to know what kind of people weare. When your child stays away from homefour years he'll never be the 'same as he waswhen he left your home . First of all, hepasses from boyhood to manhood during thisperiod . He never looks upon life again ashe did when he entered college . It is im-portant to you to know what kind of peo-ple are teaching him. It is well for you toknow his environment . We have attemptedto work out a plan through Dad's day andMother's day (which will be in May) tobring the parents to the campus for thispurpose . Seeing your children in the environ-ment in which they live will give )-on someideas of what they are going through here .The university has enrolled this year slightly

over 5200 students . When you consider thefact that the institution is in its fortieth yearand we are in the midst of an economic de-pression this is notable . Up here they areusing the phrase "period of economic read-justment" and I like it . It feels better.

I have never known a student body tohave as hard a time as some of them arehaving this year to stay in school . But Ifeel that it will not hurt many of them andmay help some of them . Every county in thestate of Oklahoma is represented in the stu-dent body this year . There are students en-rolled from thirty-three other states in theunion, and ten foreign countries .

There are some things that you dads oughtto know about the university . (You know,it's funny to me, the thing's I want you toknow never get in the papers and the thingsI don't want you to know get on the frontpage .) This university has attained every aca-demic distinction that a first class university

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should have save one . We have not yet gainedcomplete recognition in the Association ofAmerican Universities, because our graduateschool is still young . We are looking forwardto the time when we will gain that dis-tinction . Institutions differ much as individ-uals . It is important to you that your chil-dren graduate from an institution that hasnational and international reputation .Above everything else we are concerned

about environment here . We want condi-tions in which your children can work safelyand happily and successfully at the task forwhich you sent them here . Our chief con-cern is an opportunity to build character inthe lives of these young people . We attempt toencourage a religious spirit . We hope to turnthese young people back to you in four orfive years men and women of character, menand women possessing normal attitudes towardlife.You ought to be tremendously interested

in what we are doing for the simple reasonthat we are going to make or break thiscivilization . We are going to build it ordestroy it . There are millions of our youthsenrolled in these institutions today . Thev willdominate the religious, industrial and finan-cial life of this country a few years hence . Ifwe do a poor job it will be disastrous .We want your help, your advice and your

cooperation . We are glad to have you heretoday.Mr E. L. Cralle of Norman respond-

ed by bringing out the thought thatthe home and the educational institutionhave been the two factors responsiblefor the progress of civilization . "Thefuture of our people will be measuredby the efficiency with which we handlethings now as taxpayers," Mr Crallebelieves .We have wrought wonderful changes since

the clays o£ Charles Dickens . Whatever wehave done in the educational life of ourpeople has been through two factors . Oneis the home of which you, Dad, is the head .The other is our educational institutions ofwhich these two distinguished gentlemen onthe stage here with me (Doctor Bizzell and

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right, most valuable to the coloredrace,-the right to exemption from un-friendly legislation against them dis-tinctively as colored,-exemption fromlegal discriminations, implying inferior-ity in civil society, lessening the securityof their enjoyment of the rights whichothers enjoy, and discriminations whichare steps towards reducing them to thecondition of a subject race ."That the West Virginia statute re-

specting juries-the statute that con-trolled the selection of the grand andpetit jury in the case of the plaintiff inerror-is such a discrimination oughtnot to be doubted . Nor would it beif the persons excluded by it werewhite men . If in those states wherethe colored people constitute a major-ity of the entire population a law shouldbe enacted excluding all white menfrom jury service, thus denying to themthe privilege of participating equallywith the blacks in the administration ofjustice, we apprehend no one wouldbe heard to claim that it would notbe a denial to white men of the equalprotection of the laws . Nor if a lawshould be passed excluding all natur-alized Celtic Irishmen, would there beany doubt of its inconsistency with thespirit of the amendment . The very factthat colored people are singled out andexpressly denied by statute all right toparticipate in the administration of thelaw, as jurors, because of their color,though they are citizens, and may bein other respects fully qualified, ispractically a brand upon them, affixedby the law, an assertion of their in-feriority, and a stimulant to that raceprejudice which is an impediment tosecuring to individuals of the race thatequal justice which the law aims tosecure to all others ."The right to a trial by jury is guar-

anteed to every citizen of West Vir-ginia by the constitution of that state,and the constitution of juries is, a veryessential part of the protection such amode of trial is intended to secure .The very idea of a jury is a body ofmen composed of the peers or equalsof the person whose rights it is selectedor summoned to determine ; that is, ofhis neighbors, fellows, associates, per-sons having the same legal status insociety as that which he holds . Black-stone, in his Commentaries, says, `Theright of trial by jury, or the country,is a trial by the peers of every Eng-lishman, and is the grand bulwark ofhis liberties, and is secured to him bythe Great Charter .' It is also guardedby statutory enactments intended tomake impossible what Mr Benthamcalled `packing juries .' It is well knownthat prejudices often exist against par-ticular classes in the community, whichsway the judgment of jurors, and which ;

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therefore, operate in some cases to denyto persons of those classes the full en-joyment of that protection which othersenjoy . Prejudice in a local communityis held to be a reason for a change ofvenue . The framers of the constitu-tional amendment must have knownfull well the existence of such prejudiceand its likelihood to continue againstthe manumitted slaves and their race,and that knowledge was doubtless amotive that led to the amendment . Bytheir manumission and citizenship thecolored race became entitled to theequal protection of the laws of thestates in which they resided ; and theapprehension that through prejudicethey might be denied that equal pro-tection, that is, that there might bediscrimination against them, was the in-ducement to bestow upon the nationalgovernment the power to enforce theprovision that no state shall deny tothem the equal protection of the laws .Without the apprehended existence orprejudice that portion of the amend-ment would have been unnecessary andit might have been left to the states toextend equality of protection . . . ."We do not say that within the limits

from which it is not excluded by theamendment, a state may not prescribethe qualifications of its jurors, and inso doing make discriminations . It mayconfine the selection to males, to free-holders, to citizens, to persons withincertain ages, or to persons having edu-cational qualifications . We do not be-lieve the fourteenth amendment wasever intended to prohibit this . Lookingat its history, it is clear it had no suchpurpose . Its aim was against discrimi-nation because of race or color. Aswe have said more than once, its designwas to protect an emancipate race, andto strike down all possible legal dis-criminations against those who belongto it. To quote further from 16 Wall .,supra: `In giving construction to any ofthese articles (amendments), it is nec-essary to keep the main purpose stead-ily in view .' `It is so clearly a pro-vision for that race and that emergency,that a strong case would be necessaryfor its application to any other.' Weare not now called upon to affirm ordeny that it had other purposes .

`The fourteenth amendment makesno attempt to enumerate the rights itdesigned to protect . It speaks in gen-eral terms, and those are as compre-hensive as possible . Its language isprohibitory ; but every prohibition im-plies the existence of rights and im-munities, prominent among which is animmunity from inequality or legal pro-tection, either for life, liberty, or prop-erty. Any state action that denies thisimmunity to a colored man is in con-flict with the constitution . . . .

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play, and was inside the Cyclone's 10yard line twice during the second per-iod . Oklahoma led at the close of thefirst half with the score of 6-0 .

In the second half the picture hadchanged . In the third period Grefe ofAmes received a difficult pass andraced 56 yards for a goal . The place-ment kick was wild and the score waseven 6-6 . Early in the last period Ameslaunched a drive to Oklahoma's 10yard line . The ball was carried over,the placement was true and Ames ledwith a 13-6 score . "Iron Mike" Massadpulled down an Ames pass and raced 56yards for Oklahoma's second goal . Theplacement was wild and the score was13-12 in favor of Ames, at which countit remained .The game should have gone to the

Sooners, for at various times Amesallowed herself to get into trouble . ButOklahoma fumbled at the opportun-ities, as well as the ball, and the Dad'sday fans had to content themselves withthe thought that it was close at least.

Oklahoma City and TulsaFootball games which some sport

writers in the state have advocated fora number of years will be realitiesthis year . The university will playOklahoma City university at Nor-man probably December 5 and theUniversity of Tulsa at Tulsa prob-ably December 12, the proceeds ofboth games to go to charity . Asneither of these two state schools ob-serves Big Six conference standards asto eligibility, the Sooners requestedand secured permission of the Big Sixofficials to waive the four-year ruleand the freshman playing rule . As aresult, the Sooners will play some ofthe old stars like Mills and Fields andwill give some of the freshmen ma-terial a chance at the scrap .Some difficulty was encountered in

the manner in which the funds wouldbe distributed to charity . It was thehappy suggestion of Fred Tarman, '10arts-sc ., member of the athletic counciland editor and publisher of the NormanTranscript, that paved the way out ofthe dilemma . Mr Tarman suggestedthat any charity organization in thestate that wanted to could sell ticketsfor the games, keeping the proceeds foruse in its local activities . The univer-sity, being a state school, could notlend itself to playing for charity of anyone city .Once having achieved the game, the

"rumor" writers got busy with all sortsof wild rumors of what the Soonerswould do in the matter of playing men .