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- . ~ . VOLUiiB IIX. DUR'ANT, OKLAHOMA, .WEDNESDAY, JIARCJI '14, 18M. N--lJter 2L . .

I Preparing Track

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The quarter mile cinder trae·k at Southeastern is being pre~ared for

_the annual high school tra1ck . meet, . which will be · held in April. The track has been · graded to f~ll in the low places caused .by heavy rains and · a h~a vy steam rollel" packed it

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· .previou stime . and it is likely that a number of long-standing records will fall.

The number of , schools and ath­letes ;parUcipating will be laljger than tb.e record year of 1917 a~d thou­sands of spectators are expected· to come to Durant for the aff~ir. It is indicated that the meet here will be the lar.gest and best ever hel? in Ok­lahoma, every standpoint co~sidered.

In addition to the track improve­·ment, runways have been graded and {r()lled for the broad and high jump 'and pole vaulters. Chat h~s been (laid •for one tennis court, w~ich will \be completed in a few days and it is ~bought that another will be com­{pleted in time for the· meet. !Part of ·.the .:ennis contests will be pl~yed on the two new clay eourts that are

ow under constru~tion south o-f · the ard surfaced ones. I

1\ Evety school in So.utheast~rn Ok-1 homa will be invited to se~d rep- " resentatives to the affair, Paul E. : ... aird, director, said today. I r. STC:---­JMI88 LEONARD HEARS

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~of the Russall Trainlng Scho0l, do-, ling i:esearch work at P~abody

. ~ Teacllers Oolle~e, ettend.ed tqe .lee­• ure given by John ~kine in

ville last Rriday evenin~ ~ and ·188 Leonard reports that NaslhvHle,

; . he ctty o-~ critics, pronounce~ him. 1 far the - best speaker and enter-

to hera in many a day.

I ' Miss Blanche Tanafl has returned

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The firs~ annual barnyard · golf · Durant·ites who have foupt ~ th~ .l tournament, or horse~hoe throwing · · ~jan war with John Erskine, view-' cpntests, will be held at .S_ou.theast- . ed the court of King Arthur with his ern Thursday morning, beginnfng at Gallahad and lived through the Drat

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tor, said today. MQ-Y of · the lead-·' and. Eve, will have an ·o·pportunlty , i.ng c ontenders for the pJ"tizes <;>fler- of seeing and ~earing Dr. Joan· Er-ed have already entered and· th'e. skine at close ·range. .

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rest will list their name before . the The nationally known writer and titne limit expires · Wednesday ni.ght, · literar~ critic is being brought here 'it is thought. :- ·by the Scribblers Club of S'outhea9t- 1

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The debating s ason is near at torium Saturday night th·is . ·e~k band now and ~outheastern · ·has· after speaking in Da.llas Thhrkday t3ome very good deb~t~rs . represent-. n~ght . and ·Oklahoma City ~day ·. ing them this year. Altho·ugb the n~ght. -· schedule for debating has·. not be.en : ·Marked int~rest is . being ·mat1l- . definitely completed, :t~e~ rire~ deba:te · f~s~~d . thro~ghout this . section of will probably be with Baylor l:Jtti- .o~Ia~oma In the coming .of Jl>hn versity on March 24. Joe Apple .and ~rslune. Ticket sa~es indicat d ' that Ros·coe Goins W·ill debate this . te~m ; . ~ ~ac\red house Will h~ar his 'I ad-

. · · . · dress · at Waco and u:pbold the aff~rmal.1ve · ~ :· 1 1

1d f the question <>'f A.bolishing . ~1-cket sales have been ~ad~ With-:hee D~e·ct Primary System ~f Voting. · out ~ solicitation in M~~Ul, . K~rigs-

A dual debate wi11 be held later · :. ton, Hugo, Antlers, Ardmore, ITisho.:. wi~h Burleson College ·.of ·Green- 'ming<> and Boswell.

. STC-----ville, Texas. Southeastern will . send.. ,.... GET YOUR TIUKET. a negative team there, . ah~ : Burle-. . · ~ -,

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Department of Education. ' ' the Student Council fund will 1 &.1lmit ·

EXAMINATI~~c ~J:i:EDuLE. . them ·to all student activities to:d the I

'fhe exam·ination sch~dute of · the ·spring .term, and a num.ber of I e ter- . 1• •

'3outbeatern Teachers Coll~ge . baS-- ~ainments are being planend. j ~~nv I··

b · d f llows· M ' G- Orr of the programs will doubtless be een rev1se as o . · · .• · 1 , -· t 'd today. worth two or three times the eoSt of regis rar, sat . .

W d da March 14 . the · hcket. e ues y, • STC:---

7th hour class 2:30 ,to 4·:.30 · P. PROSP_E_CT-IVE TEACHERS. .. ~ .. -

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1st hour cJ8.B'8,-8: 00 . to 10:00 . . A. M. . . .

• . 3rd bouT class-10: 00 to 12: OQ M . . 5th hour class 1:00. to 3.:.QO ·P:

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Bennett requested all thase wbo wo~ld ~ receive itfe certJificatek ~nd . degre~, and who eJQpected to teach

· .this coming year, to ftll out n ~ ap­~Ucantion -bla·nk, 1 in duplicate.. f h's blank may be o.btai·ned from r C. c. nu.nlap. , ,

.DJ!. Bennett rem6rked -that h had Irot k·nown a year when ap-plications ,f~m school boards for teacher~ ~e .

"'~~·- ..... ~u her clasSM after a serious · Illness. · so .numerous as this year. 6th hour class-1: 00 to ·a: 00 P:· M. .. • . • • .

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80 . Nineteenth Annua:l Southeastern Oklahoma Inter-High S~hool

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ter•t of JD4uoatlon In South· I Oklahoma.

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' · · .... orlptloa price• lOa per ,. .. r.

u aecon4·cl••• tter Oc-t 1111 at Durant, Oklahoma. the Act of A.quat 14, 1111. Ac•

oeptaace tor malUn• at apealal rate of poataae provl4e4 for In aeetlon 1101. A.ot ef October I, 1117, autborlse4 Oc­tolter t, tilL

. WHAT PRICE HONOR?

t Is a -college degree worth? ~~....,8y it was a baH mark 'of

~;~~•• '""'e, a short-cut . to prefer­. . ence. Today these v·alues are anae­

mic. To~orrow, if ·present tenden-cies t·lnue, ~a college A. B. will as h be taken for g~ra~ted among

; the respectable as good manners or clean Unen, and will co~.fe~ about as m1!ch dlstinctlon. If vested in-

. terests in academic ho.nors are not to be scrapped there must be aibSO­lutely new guarantees of value de­vised and enforced and th·at prompt-

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handed out for staying untU the rest of the ~lass

ummoned for discharge? Did lty give this label to you to of you, or :that they might

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get take .,. .. ide in· yoUtr possessio~ of it. Does -n-·nr oollegi~te swag·ger repre­sent .&Aiur years o·f cohlege work, or t. it junior eolle~iate? Was it a eat university or college that gave ~ft'l'l this recognition, or did you obta it by correspondence? . A may go thro.ugh college to-day a ·mi·nfmum .of education

maximum of evasion. He may come out of college a .cultured pntleman, or a collegiate sport. He mar qua:lif7 as a· hard-boiled Napo­leon, or as a scholarly recluse. He may aram, and crib, and bluff his devlour~ way through a learned cur­riculum, and theri be as lonesome in a lea.rqed society as Ma~r Thompson would I be In Downing Street. And ~et, , 8111 these allke are d lors of Arts--of <. ar.ts about some of them at least, know and seem to care less.

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the -~·,.1 B. degree has tile saturation po.lnt of di-.

" value, except as it is at-•

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9 A. M. Prel'inlinaries: Girls Reading Boy.s Declamation 1 P. M. Preliminaries: Gilrls Quartet

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Story TelUn.g Boys Declamation

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FRIDAY, APRIL 13 9 A. M. Preliminaries:

' Clas.s C Girls Glee Club Class B Boys Glee Club 1 P. ;M. Preliminarfes:

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Class A and .Class .B Track -and Field Events 3 P. M. Finals: Piano Girls Glee Glub Class C

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G~Tls Quartet Class B Orchestra

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' SATUR!DAY, APIRIL 14. 9 ·A. M. Tennis Finals. 1 P. M. Finals:

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does honor t'O it by reason of the - . great r excellence of his cultura·l achievements. Educa.tion is not a vlcarious gloss. It is self-attained.

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a way ·tor education in an unwilling •

mind. ·There must be affin-ity and there must ·be desllfe. Education is

• ~ therefore not synonymous w.ith a~a-._::~mic prq,cesses or .promotions, and ~he coHeges are not to blame if their processes .da not funetion in an un­

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hofe of ouT educ,ational future, · that so ~ many i)eople who missed en­Hgh.te~ment in the schools. are going af·ter it as adults. Knock the "cul­ture hound" as you will, he, or more Hkel.y she, has at least the aspiring mind. These intellectual poachers

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they shuold be given a better chanee 1

to get it. At present they are too

much the vi~tims of · commercial •

wolves, who surfeit inexperience} with predigested cultures In fi(teen­mi.nute doses, or with denature short-cuts t-o a learned flueney i strange tongues and strange mtel­Iectual lingoes, set fot· tlh In tabloid strap-book'S, pictorial QUtllnes (!)f aU \ wisdom, and what not. The biggest \ "roast" on American intelligence ( le-vels tod·ay, if viewed by outsiders ) ·· who lack a sense of .humor, must be · this very fact that there are enough people among us to sign up on this educational side-show stuff to war-

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rant the .cont·!nued dtsplay of such allurin.g dec~lt in the advertising oolu·mns of our current periodlca•ls. Th~se ven·~ures must be payi.ng or they would stop. Speaking com.mar- .,.. c'ially ,; and yet a·ltrulstically, here is "good business" whleh the colleges should go after, but with

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allurements\ The American people

are prepared· to go the U·mit for edu-•

~ eatlon, to the very last drive; but ' ; are they going to continue their I

(larg~as indefinitely to those who do

1not want education enough 1to wo.rk

, for lt and share in it? May they per­~ :·haps suddenly· decide to open the 1doors of the univ-ersity to those who ' ( . ~· do want education and are ready to ~share in the sacrifice required to se-

• cure it? The pu bfic policy of ~good will

'Which systematically routes Am eq-i­can youth through fourteen ~~~ eigh­teen years of · legally comvu·lsory education, and then by sQci~l com­pul·sion passes th1s output bf the schools to a four-.year period of

. higher education in which t·he vic-• •

tim has little ·serious interest, mf.ght serve its purpose even better if ita

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sponsors should put the college and the universi-ty on as independent a basis as iB the public hos·pit-al or the pwblic librar~y, to which the .pe~­

·J)le resort by reason of their recog­nized needs and not by the Iegaliz-

. ed routine of a preordained sched­bl·e. The university exist~ for- the

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the increase of knowledge. It should be open to 'only those, bu-t to all

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ment &nd share that high purpose, '\Vhatever the· age or previous cond.i­tion of servitude may be.

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1 The "g.reased l ways" of public ' ~ducatton and : its stand·ardized pro-~otlons mig.h;t better stop s-hort with ~utheaatern two what price ronor _ D!igh school graduation. F11-om· that p\oint opportunity and responsibility

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ere by exam-ination alone .exami­ation chiefly of character, of pur­ose, and of desire, a proved 1 des it" o get something out of college b

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The college A. B. should be ap.ped or it should- be red~emed;

I is there any other way to re-it than through -cvmpebtion?

the A. B. degree · be given only to upper ha·lf. or upper third o:f a uating class, it m.ight suddenly

ume new value. Let the v~ry ex­tional few of the top-notch !grou-p

/ honored even m~re. { pro·poae a

raak ·heresy; but who caTes a rap to- · d&J abou.t a magna cum or a summa

laud~ three- days after ·gf~adua-

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tlon? Our colleges are granting SEVEN1'H ANNUAIA M. A. degrees for honor to · gradu­ates whose post-college ·intellectual · · ac·hievements are absolutely ·- nH;

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day's programs and one nlght 'at the . · Oklahoma Plresbyterian . Colle e. I ~ I

Progra~ Schedule. . l .. April 19, Afternoon, _No program.

Even_in.g, . 8:15, Merle Alcockl · Met- ·

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tice and redeem the M: ~- degree as well. Honor these "friends" in some other ,w.a;y earve their fea­t4reg in stone on the college gates, or what you w.ill but don't call them . Masters of the Arts, w.hich some of them, at least;. 4!3cidedly are not. But for the · upper. and­very small ftraction of college giad­uates, for those who e_inerge as d-e monstrated scholars in. a chosen field, · ma·sters of thoonselves and of

.royolitan 06ntralto · in Conceti. . J , Apr.il 20, Afternoon, :no prdgmm. ~- -

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lege and to their instructors and there aTe such hr all institutionR-s -the Mastersh-ip of A·rts is relatively at least none too signif.icant, n:one too high a reward for proved au­periqrity a.-mong the many of le~ser .

attainment. .Heresy? Safeguard the award even further by requiTenient of stin nioo-e searclling, . compr&hen-. .

sive examinations. sup heres·by. W.ell, then, what ~are the colleges go­ing to do for the sanctification ' of

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---STC:---1\IISS IRMA NOJ,EN DIED. .

IN SAN ANGEW Il4ST NIGHT ! .

Mrs. WiU Gravitt this mornin-g re-ceived the sad intellig 1 nee of the_· . . . death of M-sis Irma Nol n,: daughter . . of Mrs. B. E. NoleD. De th .occurred at 8 o'clock last night at.jSan ~ngelo, Texas, where she has b~en · for the

' past three yea.rs for th~ ~enefit of , . her health. '

Before her illpess ;Miss Nolen taught in the public schools of this city and was a ficient teacher.

most capable· and ef-• • ' •

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ty Superintendent Ceph · Shoemake yesterday, whereby high 'school stu-

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·Concert, Mrs. H. D. Neely~r~. Van ~-ili~ms, .. organ; P_ro.f. c. L. · ·er~swell; _Vtohn With 0. P. ~.-18. T. q. r nd

·:nura_nt High School Glee -pl~bs. · Eveni'ng, Services in All ChU:rehes ~.with special m'usic. 1 l l

April 23, Afternoon, I Amat eur ···, Contests, advaneed and junior biano,

-boys · and girls voice (:Medal~ I d:O-. ·nated und·er direction o·f Prof. 00 M. .1-Jaggard, ·S. ·-T. C.) Even1 ng, jokla- · ~boma Presbyter'ia-n Colle :e; i"C&J.r­ril.e.n, 'in concert under direcUo~ of Mrs. J. G. Jaekson-M;rs. ~· R. Han­nah -'Miss Hotcl)kins. ~ . I

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rant Public Schpols (one' thousand c_hildre~) in musical: pro am Jl~det \. 4irection Miss Juan.ita Riehar~so11 . _

~pril 25, After.no~n, Russell! Jnn1 ior Hi.gh School, Cantat~, "I~ab9~ ~~ ., \..A.{·an.e" under direction M O~land

Mb-rton. Eventn,g, Artist.' Pr<k+!m :~ _ 'Pian~·, Mrs. 1H. D. Nee y, ; Mrs. S.cro~gs, Misses McElvan , C.l~e.

Miss C'ham·blee. I I I .. April 26, Af1ternoo·n, Junior Stu­

dents in Re cital. Evening, S'out st­e-rn. State Teacber.s College Ch rua, 0per€rtta, ' 'Will Tell" under difree-

. ti.~n Miss Juli~ E. Stout ·( m~·s c ) ' and Mrs. J . R. Hannah (drama.!)

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red to the Bennington ~igh .sc-hool', . and this will take place with th'e beginn.ing of next year's school term:

Twelve students have been _tra~-. ferred already. Next year a truck .. • • . ' will be. installed for transporting students of the Cade neighborhood

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_·body. Many have expressed a d stlre to . thank the "mana,gemeni'·' for uhs \ convenience. I

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