The Collegian (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 25, Ed. 1, Friday, April 17, 1936 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DANIEL BAKER COLLEGIAN
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CARL ELLIS Business Manager
TRAVIS FOSTER Associate Editor
SARA COLLINS Feature Editor
Helen Post Wright Faculty Advisor
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ROMANCE PHILOSOPHY AND RATS
"Romance Does Not Help Grades But Does Add to College Co
eds and Gentlemen Decide says a headline in the Trinitonian.
The co-ed and gentleman whatever the case may be set forth in
the following article some rather rare philosophy:
Campus romance doesn't help the grades any but does add to
the attraction of college life is the opinion held by the majority of
students around the institution.
"Love makes the head go round and the grades go down but
I'm not agin' it" was the way one student summed up his con-
clusion. Most of the students were unanimous in the belief that love
affairs light or heavy have a decided effect on scholastic stand-
ings but at the same time most of these co-eds and eds dismissed
the thought with "well maybe grades don't count too much any-
way." Taking into consideration the opinions of the members of the
various classes the frosh and sophomores are stronger advocates
of moonlight walks and campus benches than are members of the
two higher classes. In explanation of this a senior said "It is
only natural for college kids just out of high school to be more in-
terested in dating and having what they call a 'romantic time
the experience is new to them. However after a few years they
settle down and 'romance' to them becomes more dignified and re-
served than during their first two years. It is during the last two
years of college life that a student makes his best grades as school
work gradually take the spotlight more and more." I
Here is what some of the sophomores have said about romance:
''If it wasn't for the so-called 'moonlight and roses' angle of col-
lege life I don't think any of college life would be worth living.
"Romance is a great institution.
"Why did nature provide for nights in April May and June?
surely not for us to sit around in libraries studying."
The Juniors were a bit more conservative. "Romances found in
college life bring much to the enjoyment of campus activities"
one remarked.
"Scholarship and romance go hand in hand" another stated
"I think that the person who gets out under the moon every once
in a while is much better off than the one who strains his eyes un-
der an electric light through all hours of the night."
According to the Mustang weekly at the New Mexico State
Teachers College in Silver City someone seems to be rather pro-
voked irked or maybe just plain mad. The head "We'll All Be
Glad When ou're Dead You Rascal You" indicate it but maybe
whoever said it was just kidding. Anyway read what that wrote:
I'll be glad when you're dead you rascal you ! I mean careless
drivers. All who drive cars are often potential killers. How fast
did you drive down the avenue? Not over forty. And isn't twenty-five
the speed limit for Silver City ?
Don't want to go to war eh ? Well we are at war. More peo-
ple have been killed by automobiles than ever died defending the
United States. You the careless driver are the cause of it. You
failed to slow up at that stop sign. Perhaps it wasn't you who hit
the man on the road near Tularosa or ran over the little girl on the
streets of that city. No but you were one of the great brotherhood.
The great American death as great as that from natural caus
es is accidental death. A crash an explosion and someone has
gone from among us. Did you take that curve too fast? You
might not have but the fool on the other side did. The result is
the same. A tangle of iron steel shattered glass and the morgue
gets the final job of putting together someone so that the slow
procession can wind to the place of eternal rest.
How about your brakes? They were good last January? To
be sure but will they stop it some unthinking cross-country rec-
ord smasher darts toward you from around that lumbering freigh-
ter? They will if they haven't been wet or over-used. You may
stop and you may get a release from life's burdens through the
shattered remains or your brains and the post that held the wind
shield in place.
Think it over! You drive slowly and safely. If the other fel
low doesn't you may get to go to his funeral. I'll be glad when
you are dead. Death is so permanent!
It seems that even California isn't perfect. Read the following
item which appeared in the Los Angeles Junior Collegian and draw
your own conclusions. By the way this Junior Collegian is a new
exchange and it is a very interesting paper. Here's the story:
If a huge black rat suddenly scrambles down from one of the
campus palm trees turns a few flips and runs in circles don't be
alarmed. This is the beginning of the end as planned by the Los
Angeles Health department.
These rodents have been living in the palm trees and thriving
on ripe dates not limiting their prank to trees alone as buildings
and houses are visited each night.
The health department "rat squad" a special group of experi
enced men have for several weeks been putting red squib on bread
a poison deadly only to rats in almost every palm tree in the neigh
borhood. Immediately upon eating the squib the rats rush to the
nearest water and die within a few minutes.
A specially equipped truck with an extending ladder makes the
climb through the sticky branches comparatively safe and fast
enabling a "squad" of four men to average over two hundred trees
per hour thus destroying over a half million possible rats' nests
each year.
And now the St. Mary's Rattler gives ui a few excellent defl-
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BiUious A game of skill sometimes known as pool.
Concur To vanquish or defeat.
Divot To hand out; as he can divot but he can't take it.
Felon To stumble on ; as he felon his neck.
Gnu Had knowledge of; as I never gnu it.
Hobble Star pitcher for the Giants first name Carl.
Joss Only merely ; as joss a gigolo.
Kipper Maintain; hence kipper stiff upper lip.
Metaphor Trouble or annoyance; as what's a metaphor you
Notion A great body of water; as the Indian notion.
Ooze Contraction for who is; as ooze the wise joy?
Region To get drunk again.
Stoic The bird most responsible for over-population.
Thaw Angry or mad ; hence a thawhead.
Waddle Contraction for what will ; as waddle you do about it 7
And once again we get a bit of campus philosophy by Dean E.
V. White from The Lass-O. He says :
A nag a day keeps your friend away.
Getting something for nothing deprives at least two of their
desserts.
Purchased friendship isn't worth the price.
Never walk up the street to run somebody down.
Don't send yourself anywhere C. O. D.C
And along comes the old faithful Pine Log to give us a few in-
teresting facts about Texas just when we need them most ap-
proaching our Centennial celebration. Here they are:
Did You Know That?
Lemonville Texas is in Orange county?
The caoitol of Texas was once in Louisiana?
There are still 2100 Indians in Texas but only one reserva
tion?
There is a rosebush in every yard in Rosebud Texas?
There are three Bostons in Texas all within five miles of each
other Boston Old Boston and New Boston ?
All of these are in Texas Paradise. Utopia Divine Sublime
Loving Blessing Happy and Joy. There are also Mud Clay Sand
Earth and Grit?
The Skiff of T. C. U. burst forth with a few song titles and
iumblinir them fitted them to something else. Read for yourself:
A college paper has made the following suggestions for theme
songs :
"A Little Bit Independent" for the new Philippine republic.
"The Broken Record" for Joe Louis.
"I'm Livinir in a Great Biir Way" for Kate Smith.
"Chasing Shadows" for the Italian soldiers on the Ethiopian
front.
And the following drama for examinations : Before the exam
"I Wish I Were Aladdin;" during the exam "Where Am I?"; after
the exam "Out in the Cold Again."
Los Angeles Junior Collegian gives us the most reliable piece
of poetry trat it has been our pleasure to read in a long time wny
keep it from you any longer? Here it is:
HITCH HIKERS
To the right of us
Hitch hikers
To the left of us
Thumb fun eh ?
Max Looney was the "wait" man at the Fat Stock Show meet
in Fort Worth the day other ... he waited for the others to get
through running so that he could start back home ... go 150 mites
to run for dear old P. J.. C. and then not enter an event. The Bjt.
Now let end this whaever -you-call-it with a prayer:
A FRESHMAN GIRL'S PRAYER
Lord give me a man both tall and strong
A football hero with brain and brawn.
A romantic youth with a big limousine
A private yacht and a diamond ring.
A fraternity pledge with a racoon coat.
A good-looking knight with a castle and boat
Lord that's all I want find him if you can
Lord I will only take this kind of man.
A JUNIOR'S PRAYER
Lord give me a man both clean and brave
He need not be so handsome nor have a shave
Just so he's kind and good that's all I demand
Lord please give me this kind of man.
A SENIOR'S PRAYER
Lord! Give me a man! Anonymous.
This Collegiate World
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
When Fred Lemmer student at the
University of Minnesota meets his
English professor Mr. Weaver they
both blush slightly.
Over a period of many weeks Mr.
Lemmer has broken all records for ar-
riving late to Mr. Weaver's first hour
class. His alibis have varied: "My
alarm clock Is broken" or "There was
traffic jam" or "My car busted
down."
Finally Mr. Weaver snarled "Next
time you'U teU me your bouse burned
down."
Last week Mr. Lemmer was late
again. During the night his house had
burned down.
Governor Alf Landon is not the only
Kansas male winning renown for bis
sense of economy.
Take the males at the University of
Kansas for example. The men's coun-
cil there has Just issued a firm resolu-
tion requesting the girls of the cam-
pus to share evenly In the evening's
expenses while dating the men. They
have even gone so far as to formally
request the cafe owners of the town
IX) Issue separate dinner checks for the
womea.
"Do not have a false sense of chiv-
alry" the University men were advis-
ed by the council .
They are experts on apples out
there at the University of Washington
where the Yakimaa and the Wenat-
caees come from so what they have
to say about the business of apple
polishing ought to be worth listening
to.
The student paper set out to find
just what amount of apple-polishing
existed on the campus. They found
there was much leas of it going on
than popularly supposed.
Most of the professors Interviewed
agreed that there wasa't much of it.
One even said that "Many times stu-
dents don't come to see their instruc-
tors when they should just because
they feel they will be suspected of
working for a grade."
One woman professor did have a
"gripe" In this connection. Said she
"We don't like to have all the broth
ers and sisters from a fraternity or
sorority come down and try to high
pressure us Into giving a student a
higher grade so he or she can be initiated."
Prof. William F. Hoffman of Boston
University is sore about the attempts
of some professors to eliminate Amer-
ican dialects from the English lan-
guage. "Variety Is the spice of speech" he
said.
The new movement in American
colleges (first told about In this column
some weeks ago)' to organize chap
ters of the VFW or "Veterans of Fu-
ture Wars" Is growing rapidly. Nine-
teen local cells of the society are now
functioning in 19 different colleges.
Princeton has been the most active
and their work has stirred up a testy
reply from the national head of the
real VFW.
Even the coeds have fallen In with
the Idea several chapters of Gold
Star Future Mothers of Veterans hav-
ing been formed after the first one
started at Vassar.
At the University of Chicago a
search is on for one member of the
VFW to be chosen as Unknown Sol.
dler for the Future War. The girls
there are' already choosing their soci-
ety emblem. It is to be a blue eaglo
perched on a crossed hammer and sic-
kle and holding In its beak a swastika
and under Its wings a fasces.
Chief goal now is a $1000 bonus for
each future veteran to be paid ahead
of time of course In order that the im-
itation of the real VFW and American
Legion may be as faithful as possible.
(Ob weU the Hearst hunt had sort
SAMMY WRTTESA
LETTER HOME
rvr MawWell it wont be long
now maw befour the grate election uv
the clntry cums off and according too
awl thee big bugs arown the cowm-
pus It Is a slnch for me 2 bee elected
two the editersnip uv we uuccBm .
next ycer. Thay tel me thet 1 am by
for the most owxsianuin puiu
the puhelshun en colllg clrculls In this
M.an onih an l am buv a lorge muh-
jarity the most enteleglnt pursln too
ever aspire too we m punsmuuu
editor uv the Daniel Baker weakly
Includln the cuntemperary scribe so
my closlst frlns say. uv coarse maw
l wudent wunt the eauer 100 una uw
wot thay or sayin about me an hem
coz It mite make hem feal bad on ac-
count he Iz the won hoo axsully put
me on the rode too suckcess en this
knewspapor buznlss. INatrully tho
me bein a lot smorter than hem nat-
rully I natrully go ahed uv hem faster.
(Joe maw their Iz a gug hear hoo must
Gee maw their Iz a guy hear hoo must
think I'm alfey dumm er Bumpln bee-
a gud freshman an he liked me a lot
an he hated too sea me abused so
much and he sed he wunted too tip
me off abowt a bunch uv things. He
told me thet 1 wuz jes bein made a
gote uv an bavin my wits on inn I sed
qwlk as a flash aint wee all hill billy
gotes an he storted too say sumthln
an thin changed his mind I gues coz
he turned an wahkt away sort uv
downharted like. I gues hee mint wel
maw but the jes dont recognize entele-
gince whin he seas It an I sorta feal
sorry far hem coz eny body az lgner-
Int az he iz iz bownd not to glt very
for en this crool world. I Jes sorta
snickered to myself feeling all the
time my superorlty too theese cuntry
peepol down hear. Yes maw I'm get-
tin to bee quiet a big man now no
tellin what I'll be whin I gradgeate.
I gues I better not tawk about my-
self so much or you will think I hav
the big hed which I aint but i am
sorta prowd uv mysef aint you too
maw. Maw I jes had a peace uv gud
knews. I'm love sick i want too sea
my dawg Rover but 1 aint got no
muny to by hem bones with and won
uv the boys jes tol me that if Rover
liked eny kind uv animules there wuz
plenty uz RATS aroun the colllg if
he dident mind eatin cm so tel paw
too sin him 2 me rite away.
Your sun always SAMMY.
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Sounds too shrill to hear are pro-
duced by miniature fog-horns on Har-
vard's tabletop "sea" used to study
ocean signalling.
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Alumni of 8eth Low CoUege Brook-
lyn unit of Columbia have organized
to fight a discontinuance order.
Texas Furniture Co.
"Quality and Price Always Right
SEE US BEFORE YOU BUT
MARTHA LEE
Facial Treatment StU
$1.00
CONTAINS
1 Tissue Cream
2 Cleansing Cream
3 Skin Tonic
4 Astringent Lotion
Palace Drug Store
of died down and the college editors
were getting itchy for something of
the sort)
Seller's Barber Shop
Efficient and Courteous
Service
Daniel Baker's Own
Barber . . just a short
piece from the
Campus up Austin
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The Collegian (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 25, Ed. 1, Friday, April 17, 1936, newspaper, April 17, 1936; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth100116/m1/2/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.