Sometime early in the fall of 1895, former president Murdaugh called the attention of the Faculty and the student body to the advisability of selecting colors for the school- the first ever adopted in Oklahoma, the writer believes.

A careful investigation was made of made of those then in use among the various prominent institutions the United States that we might avoid copying. With the thought in mind that mind that the colors  should  be significant, stand  for  something, be suggestive , the  choice  fell  upon BRONZE and BLUE: “The  shadowed  livery of the burnished  sun”- the gentle  light  of intelligence; Blue, the color  of the heavens__ broads, expansive, suggestive of depth, aspiration, hope, ideals.

Their  first  public, statewide  display was  at Guthrie when  the Hon. John Adams, a prominent lawyer  now of Guthrie, then  a member  of the first class ever  graduated from an Oklahoma  Educational Institution, represented the school  in the first oratorical contest  ever  held in Oklahoma ---  the  schools taking  part being the University, the  A. & M. College and “The  Normal School  for  Oklahoma” ___ now  “ Central.”

The worthy wearer of the BRONZE and BLUE must be enthusiastic in intelligent service and inspired by noble thought, lofty aspirations and unselfish ideals.

    --Edmond Dandridge Murdaugh