Dean James Felgar

One cannot think of the college of engineeringwithout thinking of Dean James Felgar . Twenty six years of servicein engineering work in Oklahoma and at the University of Oklahomahas given Dean Felgar a broad insight into the trials and tribulationsof the student engineer . His generous and sympathetic understanding,in his relations to the parents of the young engineers under his guid-ance, has made him a much loved friend

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Oklahomans at home and abroad

APRIL CALENDARApril 1 . Junior college forensic asso-

ciation contest and annual banquet.April, 1, 2, 3. Y. M. C. A. and Y. W.

C. A. officers training conference atSoutheastern State Teachers college,

April 5. German club will present acomedy Eigensinn at 7 :30 in the en-gineering auditorium .

April 5. Plans have been made byTheta Sigma Phi, honorary journalisticfraternity for women, to hold the an-nual Waffleiron banquet April 5. SarahLockwood Williams, wife of WalterWilliams, president of the University ofMissouri, and at one time the best wo-man reporter in the United States, willbe the principal speaker, Ollibel Collins,president of the fraternity, announced.

April 7-21 . Art show displaying oilsand water colors by Millard Sheets, LosAngeles, California .

April 9. Track meet of Sooners, Cen-tral State Teachers college, and South-eastern State Teachers college at Nor-man.

April 10-24. Art show displayinglithographs and pencil portraits of In-dians and cattle ranchers by FrederickW. Herbert Dunton, Taos, New Mexico .

April 12 . Lecture, "The Character ofArt," by Prof . Oscar B. Jacobson, inthe engineering auditorium, 8 o'clock.April 15-29. Art show displaying oils

and lithographs by Harriet Kritser.April 17. University band concert at

3:30 in the university auditorium.April 18 . Dr W. D. MacMillan, Chi-

cago, nationally known astronomer, willgive an address during the annual in-

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itiation in April of Sigma Xi, honoraryscientific research fraternity, accordingto Dr J. O. Hassler, professor of math-ematics and astronomy. University audi-torium .

April 19 . Y. W. C. A. annual member-ship banquet at 6:30 in the McFarlin

iron dinner .April 22 . Home concert by the Mini-

ature orchestra at 8 :15 in the universityauditorium .

April 22, 23 . Oklahoma prize play bythe Playhouse, at 8:15 in the universityauditorium .

April 22 . Junior college track meet atNorman .

April 24 . Sigma Alpha Iota musicaleat 3:00 in the university auditorium .

April 27 . Interscholastic high schooldebating at Norman .

April 28-30. Interscholastic high schooltrack meet at Norman.

OUR CHANGING VARSITYThanksgiving vacation

That annual institution, the Thanks-giving vacation, has been abolished bvaction of the administrative council ofthe university . The closeness of thisholiday period to the Christmas holi-days was given as reason by the council,which took its action Thursday, March3.This ruling will be in effect next

school year . The Christmas holiday per-iod was shortened to twelve days, andwill begin December 22, ending Janu-ary 3, 1933 . Thanksgiving day itselfwill be a holiday. Other holidays ap-proved are Homecoming, Friday after-

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noon and Saturday of the interscholasticmeet, Memorial day, Independence dayand the Easter recess .

Another important change made bythe council will be of interest to alumni .Hereafter, commencement will be on aMonday instead of a Tuesday. This willpermit alumni to come up on a Satur-day, spend the week end in Normanand leave on Monday .The administrative council announced

that hereafter graduate students may notparticipate in non-athletic activities . Thislimits both athletic and non-athletic ac-tivities to four year men. However, anyactivity in any college is not affected bythe rule, as long as it is not an inter-college activity.

Six leading physicians of OklahomaCity are presenting talks on cancer pre-vention over WNAD, during March,under the auspices of the State and Na-tional Society for the Prevention ofCancer .Other topics include talks dealing

with the Forum Family, course in par-ent education by Miss Hedwig Schaefer,home economics department ; and pre-sentations by the WNAD players whopresented their first play February 23 .March 8, they were to present The Un-derground Railroad, and March 15 Cab-bages and Kings, March 22, Antigone .

Josh Lee who appears in the AndrewJackson program, March 15, 8 :30 to 9o'clock speaking on "The Principles ofAndrew Jackson," has received a greatresponse from his talk "George Wash-ington Today," given during the bicen-tennial celebration .Ralph Baker, M. A. '32, of the ex-

tension division will be introducedMarch 24 from 7:30 until 7:40 o'clockwhen he will address the radio audi-

Durant .April 3. Rev A. T. Robertson, of

South Baptist seminary, Louisville Ken-

Memorial church . The history of theY. W. C. A. will be featured .

April 21 . Formal dedication of Nor-tucky, will hold a religious program at man's new hotel by Sigma Delta Chi7:30 in the university auditorium. fraternity at the eleventh annual grid-

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PLANNING TOUR

Mary Elizabeth Simpson, '24 arts-sc .,of Norman, is organizing aEuropean tour for this sum-mer which will include Eng-land, Holland, Belgium, Ger-many, Austria Italy, Switz-erland and France. MissSimpson is a member of theEnglish faculty of the univer-sity

ence on the subject, "Using Your 1932Leisure Time," and later on, "Takingthe University to the State."

Democrats approve

The University of Oklahoma wasgiven a pat on the back by the statedemocratic convention which met in Ok-lahoma City February 20 . The en-dorsement, in the form of a resolution,is as follows:"We pledge the democratic party to

the maintenance of the state univer-sity and all other necessary state insti-tutions of learning and for that purposeto the appropriation of whatever sumsof money may be necessary, wisely andeconomically expended, to maintain theproper standards of instruction."

Next summerThe summer session issue of the Uni-

versity of Oklahoma bulletin is nowavailable at the registrar's office, accord-ing to Dean Ellsworth Collings, deanof the college of education and directorof the summer session. Registration ofthe twenty-third summer session will be-gin June 8, and class work will startThursday, June 9. Summer school en-rolment last year was 2,.398 .

Club visitorsMore than 100 members of the Okla-

homa Federated Women's clubs attendeda combined educational and entertainmentshort course held at the university, March7. After a reception in the Women'sbuilding and a visit to Doctor Bizzell'soffice, group conferences were held on

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educational relations, press and publicity,ceramics, interior decoration and drama.

History gainingNumber of students taking history is

considerably larger than ever before, ac-cording to Dr E. E. Dale, head of thedepartment . Enrolment the first semesterof 1930 totaled 762 compared with 912the first semester this year .

A mission for Oklahoma wealth

The university, like all other state in-stitutions, as well as private ones, is pinch-ing pennies by necessity in an effort tocover an ever growing budget. Howeverthis necessity does not mean that the eyesof the administration are wholly blindto the need of every encouragement andfinancial help possible toward the promo-tion of research . Doctor Bizzell is partic-ularly interested in seeing that creativeand scientific research, so necessary to thevirility and sturdy growth of our univer-sity, is not stifled in the increasing de-mands of more material needs.

Doctor Bizzell has devoted a great dealof time in an effort to solve the problemof providing enough money to carry on alimited amount of research with a mini-mum of equipment, in order that the uni-versity may not lose prestige with other in-stitutions of standing in an alliance whichsternly inspects research progress .

Miss Duane Northup is a journalismsenior from Enid, daughter of FrankNorthup, publisher of the Enid Events .Mr Northup recently was named coach ofthe 1931 All-American Newspaper Eleven,selected by John H. Casey, professor ofjournalism of the university .The following editorial in the Okla-

Organizing European tour

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homa Daily written by Miss Northup re-veals one more of the many chances theuniversity has had to pass up because oflack of funds, under the title of "ThereLie the Bones-Undug" :

For $2,000 the university could possess a$1,000,000 dinosaur .

J. Willis Stovall, assistant professor of geology,has located the dinosaur-just waiting to bespaded out and reconstructed. There are two ofthem in the same farmyard . One of them is oursin return for the digging of both . But it costsmoney to dig . The University of Michigan ap-propriated $10,000 to send a mastodon ex-cavation party into Iowa .

Okahorna is overlooking an opportunity tomake one of the best paleontological collectionsin the United States at a nominal cost. This south-western territory is the natural habitat of manyanimals of historical importance . In the last twoyears Stovall has brought into the school speci-mens of altecamelus mastodon, and three-toedhorses that ranged this territory millions of yearsago . But the bulk of this material is being takenfrom Oklahoma .A few years ago A . S. Romer and Paul Miller

of the University of Chicago sold for $50,000 thehones they had collected in northern Texas andsouthern Oklahoma.And yet, the University of Oklahoma, which

should be the natural agency for the collectionand preservation of these fossils, has lacked thevision and co-operation of capital to make such acollection .We spend seventeen times as much money and

newspaper space on round-the-world flights, bath-ing beauty contests and dance marathons-thingswhich lose their interest the day after they're fin-ished . But to build a museum or to establish any-thing that has intellectual worth is difficult, sinceit is dependent upon people who have a true senseof values and an appreciation of intellectual de-velopment . s

Mary Elizabeth Simpson, '24 arts-sc.,an assistant in English at the Universityof Oklahoma is organizing a party fora European tour this summer . The tour,which will last fifty-four days, includeseight countries : England, Holland, Bel-gium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzer-land, and France . The tour is one ofthe special economy tours conducted bythe Student Pleasure Tours, Inc. Thecost of the trip from New York is $545 .This sum includes round trip third classsteamship tickets and United States tax;all transportation ; all expenses of sched-uled sight-seeing, admission fees andtips ; hotel accommodations and threetable-d'hote meals a day ; all tips excepton ocean steamers from New York backto New York . The prices do not in-clude passport or visa charges, fees onocean steamers, transportation of extrabaggage, personal expenses such aslaundry, baths, or drink or food not onthe regular menu.The itinerary includes London, Am-

sterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Wisebaden,Heidelberg, Interlaken, Lucerne, Inns-bruck, Cortina, Venice, Florence, Na-ples, Rome, Genoa, Nice, Avignon,Paris, Southampton, Cherbourg.The special sight-seeing tours in-

clude: a motor trip from Southampton

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to London via Winchester, a motor tourof London, one day to Shakespearecountry, a motor tour of Amsterdamand The Hague, a motor tour of Brus-sels, a visit to the cathedral in Coblenz,a trip down the Rhine by steamer, asight-seeing tour of Heidelberg, an Al-pine motor tour which includes theGrimsel pass, the Rhone glacier and theFurka pass ; an excursion on Lake Lu-cerne, a visit to the Austrian Tyrol, atrip to the Dolomites, a one day's tour ofVenice by gondola, one day's sight see-ing program in Florence, a visit to theart galleries of Florence, a motor tourfrom Naples to Pompeii, a boat trip toCapri and the Blue Grotto, a three half-days' sight seeing program of Rome, amotor tour to Monte Carlo via GrandeCorniche Drive, one day motor tour ofParis, one day motor tour to Malmaisonand Versailles .The party will be composed of stu-

dents, teachers, business men and pro-fessional people .

Senator Huey LongSenator Huey P. Long of Louisiana,

formerly of Norman, ex '12, rolled intoNorman February 23 with an escort ofpolice, militia and wailing sirens to talkbefore a special assembly at his formerschool .An invitation from President Bizzell

brought Mr Long and O. K . Allen, gov-ernor-elect of Louisiana, who were inOklahoma City conferring with ScottFerris, Oklahoma national committee -man, and George Henshaw, manager ofthe Murray-for-President headquarters .The body of students, accustomed to

lengthy success prescriptions from prom-inent men, heard the fiery boss of Louis-iana politics say, "I have no advice foryou . I am too smart to attempt to ad-vise college students ."Mr Long was described by President

Bizzell as the man who walked to Nor-man to enter the university, but whohas been running ever since . Longwalked into Norman from OklahomaCity, in 1912, with the thermometer nearzero, and borrowed $10 from R. O.Jackson to enroll in the law school . Hefrequently walked to Noble, Purcell andLexington, and so earned about $100monthly selling produce .

Senator Long and Governor-elect Al-len were received enthusiastically by thestudent body . Mr Allen gave a shorttalk, followed by the introduction ofother visitors by Judge Orel Busby, '14law, Ada .The party coming to Norman from

Oklahoma City included Long, Allen,Busby, Joe Morris, former secretary ofstate who arranged the trip, John Klor-er, private secretary to Long, and Charles

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Orr, '12 arts-sc ., '14 law, Holdenville,once a crack baseball player .

Others seated on the stage were DeanJulien C . Monnet of the law school,President Bizzell and R . O . Jackson .

Carefully avoiding serious or politicalmatters, Senator Long simply radiatedthe famed Huey personality during hisvisit here, and in his talk before thestudent body . Listeners were amusedby jokes and witticisms .Long congratulated President Bizzell

upon the progress made by the univer-sity under his leadership . "The ad-vancement of our educational system inLouisiana during my office as gover-nor, is the thing of which I am mostproud of having helped accomplish," hesaid .

"Yes sir, when I read in the papersthat Doctor Bizzell had been electedpresident, I felt that the university wasgoing to grow into a big institution . Isat right down and wrote the new presi-dent a letter telling him just how I wouldlike to see him run the school, outlin-ing plans for building expansion and soforth . Later, I saw in the papers thatall my suggestions were being carriedout by Doctor Bizzell . I just pattedmyself on the back until one day mywife said, `By the way, have you gonethrough your returned mail?' Therewas my letter to the president, `returnedunclaimed. That took me down anotch or two ."But all joking aside, the university

has progressed by tremendous stridessince I went to school here . Back in

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«CAPONSACCHI»

Caponsacchi,third production of the Play-house, presented February20, harks back to the roman-tic cavalier period with sta-tely gothic arches and stainedglass windows reminiscent ofthe castles and cathedrals ofthat time . In the picture Ca-ponsacehi played by WilliamLee, is kneeling to receiveabsolution. from his supposedcrimes from the Pope, playedby Tommy Burns

'12, there were only three buildings . Theadministration building and two brownbuildings, I don't recall what they werenamed ."We had some times in the basement

where we studied law. I had a littletrouble with one of my professors as 1had been late for class several days . Ihad told him I had been to see the dean ." `Young man, there is one thing we

don't tolerate here, that is a liar. Iasked the dean if you had been talkingto him and he told me no,' the professoremphatically told me. `The dean wasmistaken, we were playing pinochle,' Itold him, and knew I was safe as theprofessor would not dare ask DeanMonnet if he had been playing pinochle .

"I have been informed that I am theonly law student from this school whohas become governor and senator . Butthat can hardly be blamed on DeanMonnet."Mr Long told of an expedition to Ok-

lahoma City to see a play from theheights of "peanut row." That was be-fore the time of the pavement and high-way rides to Oklahoma City . Thegroup mustered enough money to ridethe interurban to Moore, the end of theline . They then boarded a southboundtrain without bothering the conductorabout a ticket . "We rode near thefront of the train because we were in ahurry to get home," he said . The bag-gage car door opened and an irate con-ductor demanded tickets . The law stu-dent led the group in filibustering untilthe conductor finally put them off a

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CHAMPIONS AND CHAMPION-MAKERS

At the right are the captain andcoach of the Sooner baseball team which willchallenge the Big Six title this spring . CaptainWatson and Coach Jap Haskell, '21 arts-sc., areseen at the start of practice . The photograph belowis that of the intramural handball champions, (left toright) Sydney Rudin and Ben Marks, representingPhi Beta Delta

half-mile north of Norman . "Thankyou, right over there is where we live,"was Mr Long's parting remark to theconductor.

Senator Long made a notable recordboth as statesman and railroad commis -sioner . After leaving the university, heentered Tulane university in 1914, wherehe completed his law course . His ad-ministration as governor brought infree text books, a great paving cam-paign, brought natural gas to New Or-leans, and reformed the jury list sys-tem. Mr Long let justice take its coursein a notorious murder case, and so setan example for many state executivesin not being swayed by mob hysteria .

Faculty co-operationDr C. Warren Thornthwaite, assistant

professor of geography, developed a hap-py idea that has brought to a certainclass more "listeners" than students en-rolled in it . In a seminar in geographyhe decided to ask three members of thefaculty who were members of other de-partments, to co-operate in the givingof the course .

New church homeA new $25,000 building for St . John's

Episcopal church will be built in Nor-man this spring . The church will beerected at the corner of Duffy street andAsp avenue on the site occupied byKing hall . Construction will start atonce . Funds for the building were ap-propriated by the national council of the

Protestant Episcopal church, it was an-nounced by Right Rev Thomas Casady,Oklahoma City, bishop of the mission-ary district of Oklahoma . He said theappropriation was made in recognitionof the fine work done among univer-sity students by Rev Marius J. Lindloff,vicar.

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Dean T. Cornwell, instructor in ge-ology, has been the victim of car theft .His 1930 DeLuxe Ford Roadster, licenseNo . 200-435 was stolen from in front of748 College avenue, February 26 .

"Ministers' Responsibilities for KeepingAbreast of New Knowledge and CurrentThought," was the subject of an addressby Dr W. B. Bizzell before the annualconference of Oklahoma churches held inOklahoma City at St . Luke's Methodistchurch, February 25 to 27 . Rev. E. N.Comfort, director of the Oklahoma schoolof religion, R. B . Henry, instructor in re-ligion, and Rev . J. T. McClure, pastor ofthe McFarlin Memorial church also tookpart in the three-day conference .D. L. Barnes, assistant professor of ac-

counting, and W. K . Newton, associateprofessor of accounting, are giving assis-tance to employees of the university insnaking out their income taxes . A synop-sis of the provisions of the law was mailedThursday, and offices of the accountingexperts will be open during afternoonsfor conferences .Mrs N. A. Court, wife of Dr N. A.

Court, associate professor of mathematics,is completing a translation of Alexander

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Tchernenko's "Rasstrelanniye Godi," herEnglish translation being titled "YearsShot Away."

"Deceptive Cognates in Spanish," anarticle written by Dr Stephen Scatori, as-sociate professor of romance languages, ap-pears in the February issue of the ModernLanguage Journal.Prof. L. N. Morgan, professor of

English, left February 21 for his homein Goldsboro, North Carolina, wherehe was called by the death of his moth-er who had been in ill health since thedeath of Mr Morgan's father last year.

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Caps and gownsPresident Bizzell recently took time out

to answer a quiz submitted to him fromthe student council upon senior cap andgown fees . The council had passed a res-olution to enlighten students about thefees, and got up a questionnaire for Presi-dent Bizzell to answer in the OklahomaDaily . The president said that it was cus-tomary to handle caps and gowns throughthe 'secretary and treasurer of the univer-sity. Gowns are rented to seniors for $3.00 .In the majority of universities, seniors arerequired to buy gowns at a cost of about$20 . Any senior may buy his gown in-stead of renting it, Doctor Bizzel said .He said no individual was making any

profit off the gowns. After the expense ofrenting, repairing and measuring is paid,any surplus money goes into the fund topurchase gowns . At the present time theuniversity owns about 500 gowns .

It is probable that the gowns will beturned over to the University of Okla-homa Association, although SecretaryCleckler, was not over-enthusiastic abouttaking over the responsibility. Selectionof gowns must be under supervision orhalf the class would be likely to appearon the platform in doctors' gowns, Doc-tor Bizzell pointed out .At the present time the president said

he was sure of only one thing, that thegowns would not be turned over to anystudent organization .

GRADUATES IN EMBRYOSenior memorial

Seniors of 1932 will leave for thecampus a memorial arch, it has been an-nounced by Bob Feemster, Artesia, N . M.,class president . The arch will be locatedon the northeast corner of Brooks streetand Elm avenue and will be finished intime for dedication on Senior day, May 5 .Harold Gimeno, '21 arts-sc ., has designedthe arch which will be constructed by theuniversity utilities department.

Several arches have been built by grad-uating classes, the ones on Boyd street be-ing given by the classes of '16 and '17 . Thefirst class to leave a memorial for the uni-versity was the class of '06.

No skating"Pop" McCord, custodian of the Union,

is having a hard time keeping universitymen and women from skating through thelobby of the Union . Skating on the tilefloor breaks the cement between blocksand they become cracked or loosened . Alarge "No Skating" sign has been posted .The ruling came into effect following theepidemic of student roller skating whichbroke out upon the campus recently.

Home ec winnersMaxine Turner, '32, Norman, and Doris

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Duncan, '32, Oklahoma City, home eco-nomics seniors have been selectedwith ten other students out of 1,500 appli-cants from universities to enter the de-partment of dietetics and housekeeping atthe University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor,next year.

Glee club on topWinning the Missouri Valley glee club

meet for the third time, university glee-men gained permanent possession of thebig silver cup trophy, which they broughtback with them from Columbia, February27. Prof . R . H. Richards, glee club di-rector, will attempt to raise $500 in orderthat the club may compete in the nationalcontest at St . Louis, June 8 . Beginningthis year, the national meet will be heldat some mid-western city every other year .

Straight AFifty-five students made all A grades

last semester, it has been announced byGeorge Wadsack, registrar . Norman leadsthe list, having eighteen straight A stu-dents . Oklahoma City is next with eight,and three are from Guthrie . The students,listed by home towns are : Ada, VictorHughes; Alva, Robert Lisk ; Bethany, Reg-inald Williams ; Chandler, Jacob Collar ;Cheyenne, Gladys Bellamy ; Chickasha,Seymour Ingerson ; Cushing, Fred New-ton ; Erick, Ralph Hood ; Fort Cobb,Charles Ludwick; G u t h r i e, SamuelAbrams, Margaret Barnes, Oliver Ben-son ; Hartshorne, Jack LeFevre ; Idabel,Paul Fine .

Lindsay, Louise Welsh; Medford, Wil-liam Zeman; Miami, John Cunningham ;Muskogee, Malinda Brown; Norman,Evelyn Anderson, Sue Vaughan Aycock,Thelma Bradford, Wyatt Belcher, Ernes-tine Cortazar, Mary E . Dickinson, LowellDunham, Joseph Ensey, James Hawes,Elizabeth Janz, Adolph Johnson, AndrewJohnson, Andrew Larson, Jackson Sickels,David St. Clair, John St . Clair, John Swin-ford, and Bland West.Oklahoma City, Leslie Hemry, Stephen

Huff, Leslie Krob, Betty LeCompte,Eloise Longtin, Anne Stinnett, NorvellWisdom, Dean Wooldridge ; Pauls Valley,Jack Kinnebrew ; Piedmont, Boyd Simp-son ; Prague, Robert Slover ; Quinton,Aileen Moore ; Ringling, Victor Hamil-ton ; Sapulpa, Billy Longmire, Sam Min-sky ; East Chicago, Ind ., Marjorie Cres-well ; Paris, Ill ., Eleanor Watson ; RockHill, S. C ., Elizabeth Coker, and Tyler,Tex., Katherine Weeks.

Student government congressThe first annual congress of the Student

Federation of Oklahoma, a newly formedorder which will promote the interests ofstudent government, has been scheduledto be held here in March, according toGeorge Miskovsky, Oklahoma City, presi-

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dent of the men's council . Student repre-sentatives from every college in the stateare expected to attend as letters have beensent to all schools inviting them to sendmen. Tentative program includes discus-sions of student government problems,with President Bizzell and other leadingstate educators leading groups .

Influenzial word"Only a broken neck will be an ex-

cuse for cutting this quiz," Dr S . M .Salyer warned his English class and atleast one student took him at his word.Came the day of the quiz and Louise

Green, '32 arts-sc ., from Oklahoma City,was in bed suffering with influenza .However Miss Green's ears still echoedwith the threats of Doctor Salyer andshe went to the phone and called anambulance . Miss Green entered it andwas not only driven to school but in-sisted that the attendants carry her onthe stretcher to her class room .

Doctor Salyer was not there . Therewas no quiz. He was at home suffer-ing, not from a broken neck, but frominfluenza .

A pound of fleshWrote Jack Fischer, '32 journ ., editor

of the Oklahoma Daily in his column"Footnotes:"

I wonder how many of the nigger-hatinggentlemen have noticed the data dug up bythe Guggenheim foundation? Do they realizethat in another twenty generations there maybe no negro "race" in America? Do theyknow that less than twelve per cent of the"negroes" in the United States are of purenegroid blood? Do they even suspect thatthousands of mulattoes "pass over" into whitesociety every year, intermarrying in manycases with the whites? Do they know thatit is virtually impossible to tell when a per-son has a trace of negro blood in his veins?These things may be unfortunate but they arefacts.

It is no use pretending that there is a hardand fast line between whites and blacks, andthat all people with dark complexions were or-dained by God to be forever "inferior ." Suchan argument sounds hypocritical, coming fromsuch a hodge-podge people as Americans . Whoof us can claim a simon-pure lineage? Weare merely a pinko-brownish mixture of Teu-ton, Latin, Slav, Saxon and Indian.

If the southern negro is inferior it is be-cause the southern white has done everythingpossible to make him so . Even so, the racehas produced men like Dumas, the novelist ;Countee Cullen, the poet ; Raul Robeson, theplaywright; Florence Mills, the actress ; Tous-saint L'Ouverture and Dessalines, generals whocould have given Robert E . Lee lessons.

Storms of protests deluged EditorFischer following the article . He wastold he didn't understand the prejudiceagainst negroes, that he advocated let-ting negroes vote, and that he urgedwhite people to associate with their col-ored brothers .

"Well you could never get me at thesame table with a dirty, ignorant niggerbuck," a co-ed protested .

"I wouldn't want her to eat with adirty, ignorant white man either," an-swered Fischer .

"I would bar 98 per cent of the ne-groes from voting, not because they arecolored, but because they haven't theeducation or intelligence. A good manywhites should be disenfranchised for thesame reason.

"Discrimination should be on a basisof mental capacity, not color . No racewhich has been in slavery for eight gen-erations could be the intellectual equalof us, but if they had the schooling andresponsibility as the white have, theymight develop into our equals."One who signed himself John R . Reaganwrites :

I gather that you believe implicitly in theequality of the white and black races . Nowmy dear Mr Fischer, while your views con-cerning your mahogany friends may be verypoetic, I think hardly anyone will deny thatthey are likewise unsound . That the negrorace is an inferior race is abundantly testifiedby almost all of the great scientific authoritiesof the last century. Name Sir John Lubbock,Huxley, and Darwin as men embracing thisopinion, to convince you that most biologistsare agreed upon this . The argument of thelate Sir James Frazier upon this subject arequite irrefragible.That the north neither admires nor loves the

negro is easily seen by the great number ofrace riots that have taken place above the Ma-son Dixon line during recent years .

No good was ever done by one race lower-ing itself to the level of another. The historyof ancient Athens is eloquent in this respect.A race that has given to the world the geniusof a Shakespeare and the character of Lee willnever fuse with people with a dim past, a pain-ful present, and a cloudy future .

Fisher replies :The English slaves of 55 B . C . for instance,

were in no way the equals of their Romanmasters ; yet in a few dozen generations theydeveloped into the race of which Mr Reaganis so proud . I think the negro situation maybe analogous .Climaxing the verbal barter in the

newspaper, a messenger wandered intothe daily office and left a newspaperwrapped parcel and a letter. Accordingto Fischer's words, the package contain-ed a four-foot strip of human skin, stillmoist and reeking with formaldehyde .The letter :We have been reading with interest your

articles about negroes . Since this happens tobe our open season on niggers around theseparts and since just this week we cleaned up onthis fine buck, we thought you'd like to havethe hide to hang in your office or something.We are sorry it is torn, but we'll try to dobetter next time . These rascals are hard tobag sometimes, you know . It's great sportthough . You all come down anytime you canget away and go hunting with us.

A SOUTHERNER.

"I suppose that the gift is some medi-cal student's idea of a practical joke andpersonally, I think it rather a neat one .I wish I knew who sent it; I intend towork the stuff into pocketbooks whenit gets dry, and would like to send oneto the `Southerner,' " and the editorsays the last word .

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2 8 .200Although composed largely of sopho-

mores, the Sooner basketball team tiedfor second place in the Big Six confer-ence this past season, winning six gamesand losing four.

Coach Hugh McDer-mott's boys had a chance to win thechampionship in the final game of theseason against Kansas at Lawrence butwere defeated in a hard fast game, 33to 29 .

Inability to win on the road was allthat kept Oklahoma from winning aclean cut championship . The Soonerswon every conference game they playedon the home floor, climaxing their homeseason with a 28-17 defeat of Missourithat drew an official attendance of 4,166persons in the fieldhouse, the largesthome crowd of the past three seasons .The season's record :

Wrestling championsBIG SIX FINISH

Coach Paul V . Keen's Sooner wrest-ling team, easily the most powerful andsuccessful one ever developed at theUniversity of Oklahoma, won the BigSix championship and administered toCoach Ed Gallagher's Oklahoma Ag-gies the first dual meet defeat they hadlost in eleven years, as they swept mag-nificently through their seven-meetschedule .

At Stillwater on February 27 theSooners defeated the Aggies on theirown home mat, 13V2 to 12 1/2, before4,000 people . Hardie Lewis, CaptainElton Eubanks, Warren Gunter andErnest Childers won decisions whileJimmie White earned a draw, to bringthe Sooner points . The Aggies won onefall and two decisions. .

Third in swimmingThe Sooner swimming team won its

highest finishing position of history atthe Big Six aquatic meet March 5 atLincoln, Nebraska when it finishedthird with twenty-three points . IowaState was first with forty-eight and Ne-braska second with thirty-nine . Bothcarried large squads to the meet .

Captain Murray MacDonald won the50-yard free-style, Jack Fredericksontook second in the 220 and 440-yardfree style events, Ed Tuma was secondin fancy diving, MacDonald third inthe 100-yard free-style, the 400-yard re-lay team finished third and the medleyrelay team fourth.Four days before the conference meet

the team swam its first dual meet ofhistory against the Oklahoma Aggies inthe Y . W. C. A . pool at Oklahoma City,losing forty-eight to thirty-two althoughthey won four of the seven first placesin the individual meets and were aclose second in two others.

Bruce Drake, instructor in physicaleducation, coached the team and did afine job of it.

LettermenNine basketball players, nine wrestlers

and two team managers have beenawarded "O" letters .

Basketball players are Elwood Brock-man, Captain Gordon Graalman, AndyBeck, Ervyl Bross, Harold LeCrone, El-vin Anderson, Percy Main, CharlieGrady and Jude Potts . Captain Graal-man and Grady will graduate this year .

This season's mat lettermen are Cap-tain Elton Eubanks, Ray Inglis, TedGarvin, Jimmie White, Curtis Turner,Warren Gunter, Ellis Bashara, ErnestChilders and Hardie Lewis . Basharaand Gunter will be eligible next year.

Sweaters for managers were awardedto Hunter Johnson, basketball and TomAshton, wrestling .

Luster resigns

April

Beg G. Owen, director of athletics, hasannounced the resignation of DeweyLuster, football line coach, stating "Lus-ter's work was entirely satisfactory andwe would have been glad to retain himon the coaching staff. However, reduc-ed budgets would not permit the in-crease in salary that Luster desired." Al

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Oklahoma 35, Southern Methodist 20Oklahoma 43, Southern Methodist 28Oklahoma 31, Kansas 26Oklahoma 37, Iowa State 32Oklahoma 30, Oklahoma Aggies 16Oklahoma 24, Kansas State 31Oklahoma 37, Nebraska 34Oklahoma 20, Missouri 27Oklahoma 22, Iowa State 29Oklahoma 46, Nebraska 32Oklahoma 34, Kansas State 22Oklahoma 28, Missouri 17Oklahoma 31, Oklahoma Aggies 33Oklahoma 29, Kansas 33

w L PCTOKLAHOMA 4 0 1 .000Kansas State 3 1 .750Iowa State 3 1 .750Nebraska 2 3 .400Missouri 1 3 .250Kansas 0 5 .000

SPORTS OF ALL SORTS The season's record :Oklahoma 37, East Central 0

Tied for second Oklahoma 24, Kansas 3Oklahoma 21, Missouri 8

BIG SIX FINISH Oklahoma 20, Central 8w L PCT Oklahoma 27, Nebraska 0

Kansas 7 3 .700 Oklahoma 24, Kansas State 5OKLAHOMA 6 4 .600 Oklahoma 133/2 Oklahoma Aggies 121/2Missouri 6 4 .600

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Winners

Bringing backhome the Missouri Valleycup, the university glee club,directed by Prof . R . H .Richards, was ready to par-ticipate in national competi-tion if funds for that purposecould be raised from patrioticOklahomans . The Oklahomawrestling team not only wonthe Big Six title but adminis-tered the first defeat sufferedin eleven years to the wrest-ling team of Oklahoma Agri-cultural and Mechanical col-lege . The members of thesquad (letter men have theword «Oklahoma» on theirsweaters) are : front row, leftto right-Ted Garvin, CurtisTurner, Warren Gunter, EltonEubanks, E . W. Childers,Hardy Lewis, Jimmie White,and Ray Inglis ; back row, leftto right-Tom Ashton, man-ager, Denzil Foster, HarmMusgrave, Lloyd Manley,Ma-rion Foreman, Jodie Robuckand Paul V. Keen . The thrillof seeing Oklahoma lead inBig Six basketball came againthis year with this go-gettingteam : front row, left to right-Andy Beck, Charles Gra-dy, Gordon Graalman, JudePotts, Elvin Anderson, ErvylBross and Howard Brock-man; back row, left to right-Coach Hugh V. McDer-mott, Norman Kroutil, GradyJackson, Harold LeCrone andPercy Main

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