University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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El Penseroso. Ed O Brien is in another world as he concen- trates on his notes, or is he just plain concentrating on the campus headline of tomorrow? Well, it isn ' t so difficult. Dr. Court tries to simplify those hieroglyphics ' on the board lor his mathematics students.

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? .in ' r ' Ono ill .1 million, thni Is what an individual is here; a group of ph.ir- macy students listen at- tentively to the prof and wonder how they will e er apply their knowledge. to use them. And besides that, there were coke bottles and Sisco down in Dallas. Students went beserk electing differ- ent queens. There were Homecoming and Truth or Consequences. And those two automobiles given away free for a price. And buildings. One day you ' d cut across a place that said Keep Off the Grass and the next day you ' d find some construction crew excavating for a new addition — as good a way as any to keep students on the sidewalks. Yes, they ' ll be remembering this 1947-1948 season on larnin ' a long time — trying to live up to it. and trying to live it down. And as you see it is clearly a question of ad- ministrative organiza- tion. — Dean Couch. ! OU don ' t need a degree to see this year ' s been a record breaker. Look at the grades. More 1947-48 students passed or flunked more courses than in any other period in the history of any school in the state. There ve been more veterans, more married students, more married students with kids, more every- thing in the way of matrimony. And look at the women. They ve put more material into their dresses and less into their bathing suits. But they were still as good to look at as ever. You found them exposed in different places was all. And in sports, the writers have had less trouble figuring this is the highest or lowest in history. More people saw the Big Red plow around on the gridiron. O. U. played some of the hottest and coldest basket- ball in the country There were more student athletic tickets and fewer places

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. . . WHAT WE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS YEAR T HERE is still some doubt as to whether or not head work does any good in passing a final examination. Especially one of these true-false deals. Be that as it may. several brains were worked overtime this past year. And the subject of the overtime exertion could hardly be classed as academic. The re- sults are also questionable. It became difficult to pass the Adminis- tration building without interrupting a wild-eyed mass meeting. And what a mass it was! There were other types of thinking, though. Some of it, especially after the grades were handed out. might possibly be classed as criminal — but always, mind you. it was clean as a dagger blade to get that outside reading done. Tlie thinker. 1- ' . L. Wheeler ponders over his typewriter while his cigarette burns down to a mere nothing. Any minute now that light will shine. Jr. W. Page Keeton, Dean of the School of Law, with plans for re-organization of the Law School curriculum, addresses the fu- ture lawyers of America. The more sordid thoughts came when the VA announced the ex-GI ' s would have to take more hours. Then it was found out that most of the students affected were already taking more than enough hours, so it was forgotten. Undoubtedly, however, the most important thought of the year concerned the proper method of applying — if you ' ll ex- cuse the expression — the diaper to the posterior of a young ' un. They, and by they is meant both babies and diapers, were thick in Sooner City. But the difficult part of the oper- ation seemed to be getting the job done and at the same time making passable sense out of the many and varied forms of words appearing in local text books.