University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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LAW Through musty vulunus. o ' er old events mid arguments, and on to understanding here we find the student barrister, seeking nitli nneo nproniising purpose the ansicer to his perplexing queries.

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PROGRESS OF THE UNIVERSITY 1 Ik- time was when the maturity- of a university xas consideretl to be a matter not of a few years but of a century. The unprecedented success of the University of Oklahoma during the past few years proves that it is not absolutely essential that a great institution of learning should measure its existence by centuries or even bv scores of years. The University of Oklahoma has just completed the first quarter century of its existence. Like many of the older institutions it suf- fered many difficulties in the beginning, when both political and denominational forces held sway over the institution, making its future doubtful, to say nothing of progress. As a result of these unfortunate circumstances financial support was a thing not to be expected, confidence in the institution was rapidly vanishing, and its standing in the educational world was little more than a bit of sarcasm. Such was the beginning of a great university. Oklahoma, the melting pot of civilization, was destined to ha e a university of which its citizens might justly be proud. Factionalism was eliminated, we hope forever, and today, the University of Okla- homa has a standing among the educational institutions of the North, the South, the East, and the West, that is unquestioned, and its students and graduates are admitted without loss of credits to those institutions which have for years prided themselves In being the best . During the past eight years the average yearly increase in students has been four hundred and forty. This is an evidence of the confi- dence of the people of the state in their own state university. The professional schools now hold, without exception, the highest rating among the National Associations, and the l ' ni ersity of Oklahoma, w ith less than ten years of real existence and progress, has laid a foundation upon which future dexelopment can be nothing but success.

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CHEMISTRY A monument to science, to the tneaning of things, and to those icho say all things are explicable, this building faces the rising sun and secrets of the ages are here revealed by those who seek the Sphinx beyond the portal.