It started raining as I got into Norman around dusk, so I
didn’t do much evening exploring around the city center but it did strike me as
being a quite lively college town and small city . In the morning I was around
the center of campus in the drizzle for a while and was impressed by the beauty
of the architecture, at least that of the older original part of campus. It
looks very much like that of private universities in the East with its gothic
turrets and ornamentation, like something out of New England or Old England. Oklahoma
University is much prettier than most public universities around the country
and not what I had expected for a college in a southwestern farm state.

My main reason for stopping in Norman was the university’s
art museum. The Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art is considered one of the best
university art museums in the U.S. with collections of French Impressionism, 20^th
century American paintings and sculpture, art of American West, and traditional
and contemporary Native American art. The museum is another one of Oklahoma’s
pleasant surprises.