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FEBRUARY CALENDAR

February 1. Basketball, Oklahoma vs .

Missouri, Field house.

February 1. Phi Kappa Psi house dance.

Delta Upsilon dance, College shop . Uni-

versity glee club concert, auditorium .

February 7. Sigma Chi dance, College

Shop . Kappa Alpha house dance.

February 8. Basketball, Oklahoma vs .

Nebraska, Field house. Homecoming

game . Sigma Epsilon dance, College

Shop . Delta Chi dance, Teepee .

February 11 . Basketball, Oklahoma vs .

Oklahoma Agricultural &Mechanical col-

lege, Field house.

February 12 . The Playhouse presents

three studio plays: The Slave with Two

Faces, The Underdog,HisSainted Grand-

mother.

Our changing varsity

REGENT BOWMAN

George Bowman of Kingfisher, an at-

torney, is anewmember of the Oklahoma

board of regents, having been named by

Governor Holloway to succeed W. E.

Utterbach, who resigned on being made

a member of the new Oklahoma State

Bar commission . Mr Bowman was a

member of the first board of regents ap-

pointed under the revised regent plan ef-

fective in 1919 . He was Democratic

national committeeman during President

Wilson's administration .

LAW EXAMS?

Whethergraduates of th °_ school of law

should be required to take the state bar

examination (from which they have been

exempt in the past) has aroused consider-

A SMALLCITY

February 15 . Phi Kappa Sigma house

dance. Sigma Mu Sigma dance, Teepee .

Alpha Tau Omega dance, College shop.

February 21-22. State high school wres-

tling tournament.

February 21 . Delta Tau Delta dance,

College shop. Library dedication.

February 22.

Sigma Nu dance, College

shop . Library dedication .

February 24 . Basketball and wrestling

Oklahoma vs . Kansas Agricultural and

Mechanical college, Field house.

February 26 . The Playhouse presents

three studio plays: Sabotage, The Aulis

Difficulty, For Distinguished Service.

February 28 . Pi Kappa Phi dance, Col-

lege shop . Phi Delta Theta house dance.

able interest among prospective lawyers

and legislators at the university . Under

the new rule of the Oklahoma State Bar

association, the student must take the ex-

aminations, and there has been consider-

able discussion pro and con, a sample of

which was the letter by Mr Ralls reprint-

ed in the January The Sooner Magazine .

Students who have begun their law study

by June 23, 1930, are exempt from the bar

examination, however. Hope has been

expressed by friends of the law school

that exemption for law graduates may

be obtained .

Some idea of the value of the univer-

sity to the city of Norman may be gained

by the fact that there are 1,223 persons

on the payroll of the university at Nor-

man and in the state. Of this number,

302 are instructors, seven are United

States army officers, others are engaged

in manual occupations, etc. A total of

172 students are employed in this number

by the university . Altogether, the list of

employes makes a small-sized city, not to

mention the more than 5,000 students in

residence.

FACULTY

Dr. RoyTemple House, editor of Books

Abroad andhead of the modern languages

department, and Prof . Oscar B. Jacob-

son, head of the school of art, were both

given places in Biografica, a biographical

dictionary published in New York and

Paris by the French Press bureau .

Dr . Maurice G. Smith, head of the

department of anthropology, was named

a member of the council of the American

Anthropological association at its meeting

at Poughkeepsie, New York, during the

Christmas holidays .

Leonard Good, '27 art, an instructor in

Oklahoma City schools, has been named

instructor in art in the university school

of art, to succeed the late Laurence Pickett

Williams .

Prof . Oscar J. Lehrer, director of

the university orchestra and himself a

composer of note, was elected national

president of Kappa Kappa Psi, honorary

musical fraternity, at the biennial national

convention in Oklahoma City recently.

Prof . John H. Casey, member of the

school of journalism faculty, has returned

from six months spent in graduate work

at Leland Stanford university, Palo Alto,

California . Prof . Buford O. Brown of

Stanford, who exchanged with Professor

Casey, has returned to Stanford . Profes-

sor Casey is working on a history of the

National Editorial association.

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Prof . H. H. Herbert, director ofthe school of journalism, was elected sec-retary-treasurer of the American Associa-tion of Teachers of Journalism at thenational meeting held in Baton Rouge,Louisiana, January 2 . The university hasasked for the 1931 convention to be heldin Norman .

GIFTS TO EDUCATION

Mrs Martin J. Insull of Chicago hasfounded and endowed with $25,000, inhonor of her husband, a scholarship atthe Cornell university college of engineer-ing, of which Mr Insull was an alumnus.Mr Walter P. Chrysler, the automobile

manufacturer, has given Dartmouth col-lege"the series of photoplays, The Chroni-cles of America, valued at $10,000.The will of the late Dr . R. Melville

Cramer, Dartmouth graduate of 1877,leaves to Dartmouth $185,000 for a fel-lowship fund.W. G . Skelly, Tulsa oil millionaire,

gives the University of Tulsa $100,000,while the Skelly Oil Co. gives the sameuniversity $22,500 endowment for theschool of petroleum engineering .

THREE SOLDIERS

Three soldiers meticulously avoidedargument in an argument in the Facultyclub forum January 15, when veterans ofGerman and American armies talked overthe World War as pictured in Remarque'sremarkable novel, All Quiet on the West-ern Front.Denouncing Allied propaganda as more

vicious and untrue ;than anything at-tempted by the German press, LieutenantJohannes Malthaner, commander of acompany before Verdun and now gradu-ate assistant in German, declared that noBelgian babies were butchered, no luridatrocities committed by Prussian troops .The grim horror of Remarque's book hecorroborated with memories of nightmaremonths in the trenches, of the Germanbattle against overwhelming odds, ofthree years in a French prison camp . Theglory of war Malthaner dismissed with asingle statement: "I got my Iron Cross.It cost me 85 lives, 50 wounded and threeyears in prison . War has no more glamourfor me."

Carefully avoiding controversy, MajorE. P. Parker, commander of an Ameri-can artillery regiment in France and com-mandant of the university R . O. T. C.,limited his remarks to a compliment forfor German military efficiency, a briefcriticism of the novel, and an able de-fense of army disciplinary methods. "Dis-cipline is that thing which makes a soldier

go ahead like an automaton . . . it is thebasis of all warfare," he said .W. A. Willibrand, member of an Ameri-

can ambulance unit and modern languagesprofessor, edged yet further from contro-versy, giving a comprehensive survey ofpost-war literature .Dr . Roy T. House, head of the modern

languages department and member ofHoover's staff in Belgium during the war,acted as master of ceremonies and review-ed Remarque's novel in both original andtranslated versions .

FOR POSTOFFICE

SIGMA XI COMING

Sigma Xi, manderin among scientificsocieties, granted the petition of the Uni-versity of Oklahoma club at the Decembermeeting. "A great honor," declared Presi-dent Bizzell . Installation will be in Aprilor May, probably .

Inspired by a bill introduced in congressby Representative Stone, ex '01, to pro-vide $500,000 for a postoflice building forNorman and $100,000 for a site, five

'TIL WE MEET AGAIN

A unique bit of modeling decorating

a Norman front yard in the university

section . The hands that modeled this

may some day do nobler work

in marble . The talent dis-

played should be cultivated

and not lost to the world of

art through neglect and dis-

use.

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Norman representatives visited Washing-ton the week beginning January G, to pre-sent figures aiding in securing the ap-propriation . The delegation consisted ofR. W. Hutto, '10 arts-sc., president ofthe Norman chamber of commerce, Har-vey Cobb, R. V. Downing, Richard H.Cloyd, '23 law, and Frank S. Cleckler,'21 bus., secretary of the alumni associa-tion .

ALASKA IN OKLAHOMA

Sun-accustomed Sooners had a taste ofAlaska starting January 7 and continuingthrough January 18, on which latter daythe mercury sank to eight degrees belowzero, equalling the previous low for Janu-ary in Norman . Almost continuous snow,sleet and wind made the cold spellnotable. Blizzards cost money-thou-sands of dollars were lost by Norman mer-chants because of virtually impassablestreets, while Walter W. Kraft, superin-tendent of utilities, spent hundreds ofdollars clearing sidewalks and streets .Seven inches of snow and sleet fell in thefirst onslaught, while on January 17, twoinches of snow fell, driven by a severenorther.

DONE IN SNOW

BY

DERALD SWINEFORD, '31

ARTS, ENID.

FEBRUARY, 1930

UPPER-NEW PHI KAPPA SIGMA HOME. LOWER-NEW LAMBDA CHI ALPHA HOME

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Graduates in embryoTHE STUFF OF POLITICS

On January 14, students of the uni-versity gamboled at their favorite sport,for which no letter is awarded. Theyheld an election . The stuff politics ismade of on the campus :

Ernie Hill, a feature writer for theOklahoma Daily, voted six times .Various students complained that when

they went to vote they were told otherstudents had already voted in their name.An alumna down from the city visiting

friends on the campus, was urged to vote,but refrained .The anti-administration party went

down deeper into political morass, leav-ing the administration (Sooner) partywith a majority of twelve to five .A total of 2,931 votes was cast .Among those elected were Tom Kight

of Claremore, son of Representative TomKight, celebrated foe of Governor Henry

Expressed in the pressSOONNES FOR GOVERNOR

Two Sooners are being mentioned ascandidates on the Democratic ticket forgovernor of Oklahoma . Jess Pullen, ex'22, of Sulphur, a member of the statesenate and long active in Oklahoma poli-tics, has announced his candidacy. Aneditorial recently in the Tulsa Tribuneurged Frank Buttram, '10 arts-sc ., presi-dent of the board of regents, and promi-nent Oklahoma oil man, to be a candi-date. This elicited a not unfavorablecomment from the Oklahoma Newswhich regarded Mr Buttram as an in-teresting candidate, and the News wenton to remark that the suggestion of MrButtram's candidacy was made in Tulsa,thus assuring north and south unity ifhe became a candidate.

A political story in the Daily Oklaho-man of January 10 reveals the extent towhich a real movement is underway tomake Mr Buttram a candidate:

Frank Buttram, Oklahoma City oil man, is onthe verge of becoming a candidate for the Demo-cratic nomination for governor and the an-nouncement of his candidacy for the place isexpected before the filing date opens .

Such is the impression gained from talkingto Buttram and to friends of his who are boost-ing him as a candidate .

Buttram says he is considering it, but wouldnot want to become a candidate unless he felta sincere demand for him to make the race .The prospects of his candidacy are gaining

much attention in Democratic political circles.'

Johnston ; Ed Mills of Oklahoma City,columnist, and son of Walter W. Mills,editor of the Oklahoma City Times. Millswas named junior class representativeand Kight law representative.Commented Paul Kennedy, Daily edi-

tor, on the election :It will be safe to say that there were at least

one-third more votes cast than there were stu-dents casting them . The election was not inthe slightest sense representative of the studentbody . On the contrary, it was representativeonly of professional politicians who prefer toresort to petty chicanery to win a trifling victory .

Wholesale stuffing of ballot boxes was in-dulged in by at least two parties in the raceand probably the third . . . An impartial ob-server saw one man cast four ballots in quicksuccession and a girl cast her fifteenth vote ofthe day.What is needed at this time is a general

awakening on the part of students . Whetherthey know it or not their self-government isslowly going into decay . . . their student councilis becoming more and more helpless. . . twomore years such as the past two and studentself-government and student council will be onlymemories . . . humorous memories .

His potential candidacy is the latest to developto any proportion and it threatens to prove areal factor in the Democratic lineup when thecandidates go to the post for the first primary .The Buttram talk is received in various ways,

depending on the respective political camps . Onthe Al Smith side many of the leaders declarehim to be a candidate of the anti-Smith factionor a part of it .

In parts of the anti-Smith camp, where hiscandidacy is of concern, Buttram is listed as aneutral and outside of the Smith-anti-Stnithfight of the party in 1928 .

Buttram's friends point to him as a possiblecandidate outside of the political lineups of form-er campaigns.One of the chief boosters in the Buttram

boom is Hubert L . Bolen, one of the old RobertL. Owen school, and leader of the anti-Smithmovement. His activity in kindling a Buttramfire has brought counter charges against theoil man.

Buttram declares he was not mixed in thefactional fight, and, while Bolen is for him, hehas only talked to Bolen once about his pros-pective candidacy.

Friends of Buttram count on support from thesection of the voters that want to get away from"has beens" and the political organization thatdominates state politics . They declare he willreceive a bulk of the independent vote, and be-come a real factor for business men to support.Buttram is a native Oklahoman . He is agraduate of Central State Teachers college atEdmond and the University of Oklahoma . Hewould have the advantage of his being an alum-

nus of those two institutions . He would havesupport from what is termed the "church group"in summing up voters, and newspaper supportalready has been voiced in sections .

Messrs Buttram and Pullen are thefirst university alumni to be mentionedin the governor's race .

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INSPIRING OKLAHOMA

Grove Hambridge finds much in Okla-homa to inspire, as he describes in theJanuary Country Gentleman in an articleentitled "The Spirit of the Southwest."

Oklahoma, at the tag end of nowhere, wasthe Ugly Duckling, or the dump heap for whatthe rest of the country wanted to get rid of.What shall we do with them redskins? There'sa big slice of country down to the Southwestthat ain't good for much. Let 'em have it. It'san easy way to get rid of 'em . . . .The Ugly Duckling shed its pinfeathers and

turned out to be a swan. . . .That (the opening of the Strip) was just

thirty-six years ago, half a life's span. Todayyou roll through the Strip on splendid concretehighways, between tilled fields of wheat andalfalfa and corn . You see sleek, blooded live-stock grazing in the pastures and modern farmhomes set in groves of trees . You pass throughbrisk, clean towns . The age of miracles is notpast.

Living in the presence of such miracles as thishas put something bold and swagger into theOklahoman's blood and made of Oklahoma astate unique . Visit some of the good SouthernKansas towns, Independence, Winfield, ArkansasCity, Wellington ; then drive across the line toPonca City, Bartlesville, Blackwell, Enid, anhour or so away on the concrete highway, andnote the difference . The atmosphere is saturatedwith a careless, easy freedom, yet it is electricwith big doings . The spirit of Oklahoma is acurious composite of restless, driving energy anda nonchalance that amounts almost to swash-buckling.

Incidentally, Tulsa led the entire worldduring the oil exposition, in air trans-portation followed by Croydon, England .

FOE OF HIGH RATES

Further recognition for the work ofPaul Walker, '12 law, in saving Okla-homans millions in freight rates is madein a story in the Daily Oklahoman re-Gently :

Savings of millions of dollars to the farmersand business men of Oklahoma and removalof the freight rate discrimination that has ex-isted against Oklahoma for years are the stakeswhich the state corporation commission is en-deavoring to obtain for the people of Oklahomathrough the activities of Paul A . Walker, specialcounsel, and C. B . Bee, traffic adviser.

ENDORSES

Proposal of Oklahoma City to houseits city and county officers in one build-ing enlisted this comment from ClydeM. Howell, '15 arts-sc., secretary of theOklahoma Education association and tdi-tor of the Oklahoma Teacher. "Thereis no question but that the need for allthree (courthouse, city hall and conventionhall) is serious . The courthouse is hope-lessly inadequate and out of repair and itwill be just a question of time until thecity hall falls apart. A convention hall isimperative . . ."

FEBRUARY, 1930

WHAT PINE FOSTERED

The Associated Press reports from

State College, Pennsylvania :Bricks so enormous that two of them would

about make the wall of a small bungalow wereforecast Monday in the announcement of thediscovery of a new building material at Pennsyl-vania state college. The announcement saysthat with this new material bricks may bemade twenty feet long, five feet wide and sixto eight inches thick.The material is a vitreous clay substance pro-

duced by Prof . Joseph B . Shaw and Myril C .Shaw of the ceramic department .The financial backing for this research was

supplied by United States Senator W. B . Pineof Oklahoma and the objective was to dis-cover a new road paving substance.

BABIES, WHITE, BLACK, RED

Wrote John B. Gordon, ''30 journ.,business manager for The Sooner Maga-zine, to the editor of the Oklahoma CityTimes.When I read about the Times annual Christ-

mas baby contest, which awards a prize to the

Sooner to SoonerTHE REAL COLLEGE SPIRIT

Porto Alegre, Brazil,December 18, 1929 .

To the Editor :The November 16 Literary Digest has

stimulated me to greater action this blis-tery hot afternoon, while all about is stilland I am lazy . States mail came todayand one of the first things that my eyeslit upon was, "Is College Spirit theBunk." Only a few days ago I, too, hada letter calling me to a college reunion.Mine was that of a football team. "Ben-me's first team of 1905 is having a re-union . . . not a member of that team isdead . . . you are a long way off but. . ."signed by Billie Cross, quarter back ofthat team . Bennie has been head coachthese twenty-four years and I never failto see him when near enough . Of themembers of that team I have seen little,some of them I have not seen or hearddirectly from in twenty-two years, butthere was something in me that madeconnection with that letter and drew meback, and had I been near enough and hadthe cash, Mr Golberg, I should have beenthere.That "something" I would call team,

or college spirit . How was that "some-thing" created? It was by hard work andsacrifice . I am persuaded that one doesnot love one's team, class, college, country,home, children or wife until one givesof oneself . Working my way throughcollege, it was hard work to make myletter on that team. Perhaps Mr Golbergdid not put enough into his class in or-der to get that "something" that stilltugs at the heart.

first infant born on Christmas day, I was im-pressed with the cleverness of the stunt . Yet,when one considers that the event is staged atthis season of the year--a time of cheerfulnessand good will toward all humanity. there isone clause in the contest rules which seemsunjust .

I refer to the rule which specifies that thecontest is open to white babies only .Of course, when the population of the negro

and other races in the city is compared withthe white race it is easy to see that the puremajority gives the white race a decided ad-vantage. That is, heavy odds are on the whiteside when the contest is held open to all .

Regardless of the point, however, I believethat here is one case when the whites shouldnot demand an unfair advantage . Why notaward this honor to the first chill that Godsees fit to send to our gaily ornamented city onChristmas day?To which the Times editor replied:Mr Gordon is right . Our God knows no

color line . Negroes. Indians, and Mexicansshould he included when considering gifts for thefirst baby born on Christmas day each year .On Christmas, 1930, the first babv born inOklahoma Cite, regardless of race, color or pre-vious condition of servitude, will be awardedall honors .

Although I am many thousands ofmiles away-it takes the mail about amonth to get here-twenty-one years fromgraduation, sixteen years foreign resi-dence, a Y. M. C. A. secretary withoutwealth, my alumni dues keep pretty wellpaid and when in the U. S. A. I makeit back to my Alma Mater to refresh mysoul, and I have managed to be at theHomecoming games my two furloughyears.

I would like to say to Mr Golbergthat college spirit as friendship is a pre-cious thing and we Americans do notappreciate it too much nor do we taketime enough to cling to, and continue tocultivate old friendships-being too busycheats us out of much of the best andfinest in life . But there is a price to pay,and that price is not cash, it is a part ofour very selves that we give, and continueto give throughout the years, if we are todevelop and retain that "something" thatenriches friendship, and college spirit .And now with thirteen years of service

for the young manhood of this splendidcity, that "something" has grown in metill it will be hard for me when the timecomes to move on .

Sincerely yours,FRANK M. LONG, '08.

A REPLY TO MR TOLBERT

Norman, Oklahoma,January 17, 1930 .

To the Editor :The only parts of the roasting that we

got from Alumni Association PresidentRaymond Tolbert, in the last issue of

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The Sooner Magazine, that we didn'tthoroughly enjoy and agree with, wasthe excerpt which inferred that we werelacking in Sooner spirit and the one whichsuggested that he didn't understand hismodern journalism .Even at that, we are swelled up enough

over knowing someone read it, to offsetany ill feeling that we might have suf-fered.The "drivel" that he mentioned was

a weekly feature in the Oklahoma Dailyin which we predicted the outcome ofBig Six football games last fall . Theparticular one with which he took issuehad to do with our prediction that theSooners would lose to Kansas on Home-coming day.

If what we had to say about the mat-ter had anything to do with the outcomeof the game, in the first place, the thingthat we are going to do is hit the editorup for a raise. If such is the case, weare being underpaid to say the least.

If a sports writer who had the reputa-tion of knowing his stuff and deservedthe reputation, had said the same thingthat we said, it might have had a psycho-logical effect on the Oklahoma team, butat that we doubt it as does the entirecoaching staff .A person would not have to have a

certificate in journalism to know that itis against all the ethics of the professionas well as common sense to be "two-faced" about anything one says, muchless writes . A newspaper story, evenunder a byline, is supposed to be un-biased . If we had predicted that Okla-homa would win against Kansas, whenwe thought differently, it would havebeen a lie on our part in addition to beinga breach of newspaper ethics . it wouldhave been an injustice to the public . (Allfour of them.)Don't get the idea that we are uphold-

ing the student body in its less than poordemonstration of team support last fall .Besides wailing about it all year, we edi-torialized along that line a couple oftimes.Mr Tolbert has made a mountain out

of a molehill by the article and asidefrom giving us something to write about,has done nothing but pay us a compli-ment which was not deserved . For thiswe thank him.

CLARENCE FROST, '30 .

ENJOYS THE MAGAZINE

Andalusia, Alabama.January 10, 1930 .

To the Editor ;I am enclosing a check for next year's

dues and a subscription to The SoonerMagazine . I look forward to the comingof each copy of it . Best wishes for theNew Year.

DORIS NESBITT.

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Sports of all sortsHOMECOMING

Mark this down in your date book:February 8.That done, come to Norman February

8 and watch Hugh McDermott's Soonerbasketball team in action in the fieldhouseagainst Nebraska .

Mac's team hasn't had the same notablerecord this year that it had the last two ;but all the more reason for your cominghomecoming night to boost the team.Anyway, two years without a conferencedefeat is nothing to hide under a bushel .If you haven't done so already, orderyour tickets now.

CAPTAIN FIELDS

Soonerland's new football captain is asix footer whom you have heard aboutbefore, Bob Fields of Ponca City . Cap-tain Fields, elected by his teammates,played center last year without missing aminute's play .

Eighteen Sooners were awarded lettersfor football representation last fall . Theyare: Captain Frank Crider, Tom Church-ill, Dick Marsh, Al Mayhew (all ofwhom have won letters three consecutiveyears), Weldon Gentry, Fenton Taylor,John Lee, Bob Fields, Curtis Berry, EarlFlint, Buster Mills, Clyde Kirk (all ofwhom have won two letters), RaymondStanley, Hilary Lee, Guy Warren, RoyNelson, Ernest Massad and Darrell Ew-ing.

THE GREAT SHELBY

Bus Ham in the Daily Oklahoman hashigh praise for Parker Shelby, artist andtrackman . Says Ham :

There were other great track men in thestate during 1929 but none so consistently

domi-nated allopposition inhisevent asdid ParkerShelby, towering University of Oklahoma highjumper .

Clinic of ourThe traveling theater

T IS to be hoped that Southwesterntrails broken centuries ago by In-dian, friar, and cowboy may soon be

followed by theaters-on-wheels . For thetheater is taking to the road, and in this

Shelby won first place in the national inter-collegiate, first in the Kansas, Drake, SouthernMethodist and Texas relays, first in the Big Sixindoor and outdoor meets.

His only defeat was in the K . C . A . C. indoo rmeet . in which Tom Poor . former Universityof Kansas athlete. nosed him out. Shelby latergot a measure of revenge for that defeat bybreaking one of Poor's records .

"Icky" Williams, Oklahoma Baptist univer-sity's brilliant quarter-miler, also brought fameand glory to himself and school, but his recordis not as convincing as Shelby's .

NO BIFF

Noted Capt. Lawrence "Biff" Jones,coach of West Point, asked to be assignedto the school of fire at Fort Sill . En-thusiastic Sooners wired War SecretaryPat Hurley to assign him to the universityR. O. T. C. Replied Oklahoma's Hurleythat Biff was serious about his armycareer and wanted the school of fire .

TOUGH BREAKS

By WINIFRED JOHNSTON

Fighting doggedly to the last min-ute of play, Hugh V. McDermott's Soon-er basketball team met its first con-ference defeat in 33 games January 11,when a team of Kansas long-range sharp-shooters invaded the Norman court to takea 34 to 22 victory . Kansas thereby savedits own all-time record of 34 straight con-ference wins .For the first time in his career Captain

Tom Churchill, playing with a sprainedankle, was held scoreless, and with themain-spring of their attack crippled theOklahomans were never able to hit awinning stride .The Kansas loss was the second for

Oklahoma this year . An inspired Okla-homa Aggie quintet, playing on its owncourt, sent the Sooners home with theshort end of a 28 to 22 score January7. McDermott's team had previously de-feated both the University of Texas andSouthern Methodist University in two-

times---the alumni university

revival of the medieval pageant-wagonprovincial America may well find itssolution to the problem of theatrical iso-lation .America has suffered much from

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game series, with close scores in all fourmatches.The almost imposible task of filling

gaps left by Bruce Drake at runningguard and Clif Shearer at center has beenMcDermott's chief problem . GordonGraalman and Jerry Jerome, sophomorecenters, lack height to make invinciblepivot men, and no candidate has beenable to duplicate Drake's brilliant floorwork. Three of last year's veterans,Churchill, Bill Noble and Lawrence Meyerhave been the nucleus for the Soonerteam, with Melvin Culbertson and HaroldRoberts fighting for the guard position,while Graalman and Jerome take turnsat center . With Churchill out of thegame, Charles Grady and Garland Em-mons, speedy second string men, pulledthe Sooner bacon out of the fire in the S.M. U. series .Oklahoma will have a chance to avenge

its defeat by Kansas when the Sooners in-vade Lawrence for the last conferencegame of the season February 15 . Mostimportant match on the home scheduleis the Missouri game February 1 . Othergames on the Sooner schedule are:Iowa State at Norman, January 18 .Nebraska at Norman, February 8.Oklahoma A . and M. at Norman, Febru-

ary 11 .

A WORTHY RECORD

In these days of athletic storm andstress, figures compiled by RegistrarGeorge Wadsack as to the number ofathletes at Oklahoma who take degrees,are interesting.

Out of 222 men (excepting those nowenrolled in the university) who havemade Oklahoma letters since 1895, 140or 63 .6 per cent, completed their collegework and received degrees.Out of the remaining number, sixty-

two left school in good standing and couldre-enroll if they desired.Only eighteen lettermen have been

dropped by the university in thirty-fouryears for failure to do their work .Thus two-thirds of the lettermen take

degrees, while only a third of the averagestudent body complete their work .

theatrical tastes artificially fostered . Pro-vincial America in particular has sufferedfrom the high cost of theatrical dainties .Yet carnivals and circuses have knownfor many years that there are paying audi-ences in prairie towns and crossroad vil-lages. For several years commercial com-panies playing the small towns of theSouthwest have swelled profits by pro-