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STEPHJSNYILLE, TEXAS, C€T([)BE3l 16; 1?20
' ;TEP"/MEETiNG THUKS-
1 SENIOR CLASS ROLL
DAY NIGHT
, )The p.rs:fc genuine p^p nieeting in
three..years was: lield Thursday
jijght. The/crowd began to gather
..'early and' by1, seven o'clock the
house was full. - College spirit
ro^e .fast and before the appointed
- After carefully checking' over
the list of seniors for the present
scholastic year, Mr. Ferguson re-
ports the following students at
present as having qualified as sen-
iors: Vernon Adam's," -Carl Ar-
thur, Wiiiiam Bridges, Mgfgurite
/fhoui1 :the auditdrium was' .in "an j.Carlton, Alma He^th, El.isha Bugh-
,uproav*i The ^ttendan'ee was jnore'j es, Guy Hukei, Earnest Johnson,
than^iOQ- per* cent fdir not b.iily was Cla&dejKay,.Conrad;Lanning,-Vedai
FOR 1920.1921
every student present /but ' also
Marr, Franklin Matheny, T; , Y.
dozens pf ex-students and support- Montgomery, Lucia Jrma Painter,
ers;;".Frank Cauble took charge a w?r Pur-
littla after seven- bv a series of' ' ' ° Koherts> Jake Robertson,
httle after sey^n, .by a,series ot Wai]aee Seottj ,Deinple; stigler,
• snappy yells-new yells-he^im- ^,.^ Clau^ Tate/aiui
mediately gamed a support seldom Zelda Tubbs. This makes a total
given any leader., Quiet, modest, < of twenty three seniors, one more
girlsland baqkwa.rdr timid, boys [than the number of graduates last
were;rvie|ng y^ith. each other to' year. A: more, plucky and more
make the. mpst rio.isp.V After twen-j gritty bunch had'never, we believe
of work the stu- been enrolled'as seniors in John
, dent body was entertained by aj Tarletpn Agricultural College, The
. :l*apd selection , of popular 'songs'College is expecting great'things
by ."the; boys'<iuart€itte.\ Then an- these sehjors- this, year. It. is
v otherV.w6rk..Qut on yell's. -The-J seniors largely who lead the
meeting broke, up' by a'series of and create the-pep and life' of
the school. Consequently this
'STUDENT'S COUNSEL"
. speeches, by .the - football,, squad,
beginning, with Captain Larining,
. uncling tip with the "subsi" The
squad promised the'school a. walk
/ over if given the supbrt -arid fight
;Cin t%"ifieM that. Was shown jn.the
auditorium,. They" got the- "walk
over:
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- In chapel last Friday, morning,
-..-Mys. Buchanan, a noted club work-
! er of'Fort Worth, made a spirited
., g.h^; helpful., talk to! the. stu'deritsr
' Jfer subject . \yas' '/'Ideals."; . First
ityfe spoke, oh tb3 :atniosphere -which
'< surrounds this college,1 and tends
^ to .uplift/the ideals of' the students.
She staled "that in every boy's life.
t'|ei'6-".is sonie'id.^1.'which he is
year, with the above, loyal "and en-
thusiastic-senior group, to lead the
way Tarleten heeds fear no c}an-
ger. Look at^the .list! There is
not a 'wroan in the bunch. !'
Another interesting thing about
this class is its number of young
men. They tell us that young men
no longer go to school, but that it
is the young women" who fill our
high schools and colleges of today.
Not so in this; case, sin Tarleton
the young ladies of the senior class
this .year will surely have . their
-way,, .since there, -are. .seventeen
toys, to six' girls. - It^jeems^that
some Qf the young men"'will be
obliged to seek out /lady friends
from among the freshman , class.
Our juniors snd sdphotnqres cej-v
; ,;inf|,yepe.ed, .by:, the gk?l .or woman' year ..in the senior class.there were
sK"$$^W-hdm. he, is'nids't closelyral4thirteen .young .laxliegV to' "nine
Related.;f Mrs.; . VSUelkaaiv, ':s&id|young-meij/. and Jn that/class.the
r'-',tha't-/because a girl is moi>- <Jeii-= J-youiig men. did', aoout ..as., they
;^ci^ahcl, doniples than a! boy/ she! Phased, but., this year."our. sympaV
^'isrco^sldewd ttf be.spiritually su-''«#■ .?oe3lroUfc to the young men.
i .tp; v i Imagine Vernon or "Monty or
perior. ! Frank Stockton, or the rest on some,
. cause. some, |oy to have, a |u,gbei.,Spej;iaj senj0I. occasion^ without a
^Jrl& no Iqn'ger think that--iady friend; . This is a. serious af-
. . "they. i:Kaye /hothmg to "do because | fair not t0 be" joked about. . It:, is
' they .expert, to marry..,;. Instead if, a pure matter of-arithmetic. The
this-;.'ia;: their;expectations,' then, chances against. the' young, men
,th£r6\is.' all" ,'th'e more --reason fori are. three to 'one; it is up to them
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/Last year there seemed to' be
something kicking ..in. the student,
body. A plan was figured out
whereby the students rnight know
4aeh other better. Wednesday of
each week, the" chapel period was
given over to the students. A stu-
dents counsel was organized, each
member of school being a part of
this society. , Eyery other ', Wed-
nesday" |he student counsel ren-
ders a program.. The intervening
Wednesdays werrj For class meet-
ings. This seemecT to be a good
thing for the school and before,
school - was - out ro.ificers -for this
year were elected. Roy Hudspeth,
president, Claude Kay, vice presi-
dent, Lota Roberts,^ Secretary; Mar;
guerite Carlton, corresponding sec-,
retary. Wednesday/ October 6th,
-the.students counsel held its first,
official meeting,for the year 1920-
1921, president Eoy Hudspeth pre-
siding. Mr.,. Gerreald iand ; Miss
Shumate were elected as student
advisors. - We know they will make
good ones. We hitve used Mr,
Gerreald before, and are sure Miss
Shumate will be a great help to us,
Frank Caub}e:was elected leader
of yells, with'Carey Baughn and
Grace 'Chandler as assistants. W.e
all know this was & wise selection.
If you are ncit going to yell you had
better hot come to a pep meeting,
and if y ou "don't come they are go-
ing to know the rea&pn why.. Old
Tarleton has raor"q. ;pep .than she
has ever bad b'efore, and we are
prophysing thaf'sli-e will win more,
games than ever Jjefore. Some
may;' aSk' ''why?.'- - ■ We would ■ say
"Look at the Student Body," when
they set their heads to do a thing
they most always do it. We as-
TARLETON'S EXHIBIT ;
■ ( ' AT THE STATE FA IR
Thru the co-operation of the
Chamber of Commerce 'of Stephen-
'yilie; Tai'letofi was. able. to main^
tain, an exhibit' at the State Fair,
now-in'fulj swing. 'The State Fair
is enjoying its greatest year aver-
aging 1^0,000 .in attendance; each
day and "representing practically
every state in.th^.unjon, " • •"
" Our '.exhibit is"'m'ad^ Up." .of ftrti-
cles.ifroin the home economics,, ag-
wcultiir^, ai^,"an'd: manual training
DECREASE OF? LIT- .
- ERARY: SOCIETIES
Twenty years': ago Tarleton col-
lege was ,a private 'institutiQn, in
that .day. Tarleton always had win-
ning ..athletics teams, but she did
not stop here, there Were also var-
ious literary societies that make
their society a place of work the
same, as a class, Y. W'a. and Y. M.,
C, A?s. that not only .supervised the
entertainment but jiacl vesper ser-
vices,1 arid studied the Bible. To-
.day, and for four years, this has
been a state school. During this
time TarletqA has acquired; six
liew' buildings,- pore and .costlier* ■
equipment, and a faculty of more,
than thirty members. The athlet-
ic te.ams became State champions.
But our' literary societie:^—here is.
the point—Oi,ir literary and relig-
ions societies have actually degen-
erated. What has become of- the
"F 'S 'f s" and "W K G's" of four
years ago? Why hot those spirit-
ed debates of. the Kelly Brothers'
days ? The public speaking .class
in" this school is-ncrtv nothing more
than a "get around" for senior En-
glish because, it can be substituted
iii its pjace.\ The Y. M.-C^-Aj has
ceased to exist ;Its' Bible classes
dire no more; The. Y. W. C.,A. a-'
coming to every meeting of the
Student Counsel, / . - ,
LYCEUM NUMBER :" i.-
AT HIGri SCHOOL
striviiig;,,t9;live an ideal life, for
eVery';wQ2han'\yants.to be a shining
; . light find high ideal to her- h'us-
: ,bAiAd?';ifV^he :neter. marries, then
.she~wj,rtts to;heip'some one oh the
journey thru life- and only by pufc-
: ti,hg forth her best effort can this
.', „be'dope.?:; V;'.;v
' .': ,.-:Mrs;" Buc.tfaman prefers a cp7edu-
c'atibnai school, because she said
- if boys and, girls were to live their
' v'.'lfcyjea .together, " why should" they
Educated : together. In
£ the fact that boys had,
, -uji: until recent year's,| been consid-
'' (^0.d;'^ntar%:.;iihead''Of girls, she
"spoke of the boys being more con-
'Aige / th'ah'' .girls,' She, quoted the
incident pf Tom Harris writing his
. #r^^.'"toicls'. Smith, 'and saying,
• I'.'Ybn' kjiow Bill Jones- Neck?
"fell :iri'.;the crefek; up, to it." Mrs.
: Buch|.nan: said; that had a girl
-.been iytrifing' that/She would have
- menfibHed. how far it was to Bill
/Jones' :%'eck, the kind : of shirt he
wore,ithe;- color' of hjs tie and whe-
i>.th*i: tfte'vwater; was..fresh, or i^alt,
h^shti. happened to fall in;
•' in' rl^ct . she, would" havfe- taken a-
: whol| P.^ge:' to;tell that :-/,coiicise
Xstateraerit, : / / ''
'-/'In- higher ..institUfi9ns of learn-
Jing th^id&jvls of^'iife ^re'.ipdst of-
vforitte-;l,,? it. is .,-here that
.ybiiiig pebple must be most careful
;4(T;|^rln the ideals.; : In the
l;,£uti^^th^,eyes;of;^e;-v?orld will
'v be', t^fijartb|W.ard.Jexas-- ot Pjr
wealth of the it'its, ! u.t
fo^AtigVlii^h -ideafe. V-, her yoiu/g
,.p4%;fii.%hile;tbey are'm her state
>sch'( ..i«c and., after: they go out in
to be^ gallant.
PROGRESS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS
Up to chapel Tuesday morning
there were 268 pupils enrolled , in
school and only 111 paid subscrip-
tions, or about 41.5'per cent of the
student body. Of course many
were unable to see the business
manager but remember it is your
place to look him up and not his1
place to ixnjA you. Since Mont-
gomery : announced this many,—
eatih perhaps thought they were
the only ones left,—have handed
in their subscriptions. The J-Tac
must be 10Q per cent! Subscribe
now—give it to either Montgom-
j£_e ery, Kay, Matheiiy or Purvis.
SCHOOL TERJMS REARRANGED
OFFICERS SOCIAL
POSTPONED
, - At a caied .meeting, held Mon-
day it was decided to postpone the
officers monthly social until Tues-
day, October 19, because of the
lack, of prepajration and the fact
that every one is facing tests this
week. " :. .:
. It is customar;,' for..the.officers,
to hold a.social ey^rv second Tues-
day, either as a-^tag or w'ith their
.Captain; Johnson, Lieuten-
-■!:,n Kay and Tate were appointed
lO serve as a social committee and
made the .necessary- arrangements
for the first meeting. '
-1 , ~j, , sex or previous condition of.tiervi-
l^evei^ onehe ^-"^d^ub^^toa.''
' AW die """tarti-
including two members of the fac-
ulty. The officers': elected were' #s
followsKa,3jl Brooker,;president,
Roy'Hudspeth, vice president, fori
Bethel, secretary -anil Jake Robert-
son, reporter.,.
„ , . , , A toll of the members with rin
The first number of the hig. ..^oyjjcement; of a program, will
school Lyceum was rendered Tues- come out jn the next, issue of the
day night in the appearance of the j.Tac.
Vaughn Quartette. Dean Davis
gave us the night off. About sevi
enty couples took advantage of the
opportunity and went over.
A thoroughly enjoyable program
wes rendered, especially so be-
cause the quartet, singing to a
public school, left the classical
music more for the comical and
even, juvenile selections. Added
to this were the many fupny, redi-
culous gestures and incidents
brought about for entertainment.
Perhaps the best selection was
"Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground"
sung "by bass and alto, while the
firft and second tenors imitated
the guitar, carrying out the full
tones, of the instrument. The door
receipts benefitted the football
~T '
squad.
etc., with pieces fr.p.m':cabinet mak-
ing class'thai; are at .one'e ,.beauti-
ful arid useful,;:: The attendant in
charge f.eporfs. he heard-one man
say /that - 'he -'had. .inspected,:'every'
cplleg^exhiblt that Ta.r^.tPn's
v/a.s by far the best.
ife■ Funlthouser" fias charge .of
placing the exhibit but because of
school work was- uuable tp remain
with it. Howe'V6r,> -'h'je has arrang-
.4 ;for some/reliable" person :to be
vHth.it all t,ime,:'and explain:the
detail's to the ^arge ' cro\yds con-
in-ivally pds'sing-.thru,' :TEe.: VolT
Tege fefels thatiihi^%-' b'.''.idx(;elleiii• - -. ,
plan ; for setting,the' work of 'th'el,^®e has survived and it lacks the
college ;beforje. the public." V After I SllP?or^ £in(^ "^®rest of a great
the fair the exhibit will:go to, the!huinbpr.of pupils. . During the
Waco Cotton Palace. ^ . ' mst four years these things /have_
' - befn allowed to;gradually decline ;
until last year no effort ^vas iiiade
to_ organize fchemly This year they
are: unthought' of except, "in.the
minds -bf some of the more matured ,
students. - Why.: the reason of all
this''Can it'bg explained by/the
fact that our!^pupil's.- tod£ty a,re so- '
much'-more younger- and perhaps
more frivolpus ? Or are these
things not properly fostered?-The
highCschbol ,iji .tli^shadovi? of bifr; ,
\J:V l ~ I.:. . ,, V. U}'. ,.,"1
tions far better than our own. 'It
appears thSt'-st-UdentS. todfiy refuse, -
eVery s,e|iflblan<;e, of responsibility
and -Work,1-trying, to :make college
a place; of pleasure rather - 'than
work.. .These things are .asaum-
ing serious, proportions. . It wouldv
be a disgrace* if we allowed, a first
daks college to; fail in these things"
while tliey fiourish in every college,"
and high school in the land. The
J-Tac will receive and print opin-
ion'.on. this subject. Write now
while it is uppermost iij your mind
EX-SERVICE MEN ORGANIZE.
The ;ex-service men have organ-
ized one of the Strongest, livliest,
and most; sociable cltibs that. Taj;-
leton ever- had.-; "Th'isycjuh:. feels
wortby of immediate recognition
in: the social realm regardless of
No reptiles are found ih the "ar-
tic regions.
■- Kinc- Arthur is said to have as-
sured, the British the sovereignty
pf the seas.
Watermelons are natives of In-
dia., " ' '
, Who says that-girls are just as
interested in athletics as boys?
They are-and this goes to prove
it. .Last Thursday at 5:30 a. m.
Miss Bierschwale's basket ba^l
girls, arose and from six until sev-
en practiced basket ball a.nd all
enjoyed the novelty - ,of the early
practice. , The only trouble 1 was
that the girls who stay at the dump
declare, that,, their appetites in-
creased beyond the food supply
on their tables. " -
Many of A. &.M,'s students-come
from the farm, and hence,are -late,
about entering. Heretofore .' such
pupils always fourjd 'it/difficult to
arrange their "work, as the pchoias-
tlc year was' divided , intp,. .two
terms.. The almost'invariably lost,
the work done, in the last half .of
the first term. Beginning with
this year. Tarleton will have four
terms—each three months in
length thus'enabling'.a student to
become regularly- classified pvery
three months, 1, We. :feel this .is a
benefit to the many, late pupils -and
that'many "Will, enter at the begin-
ning of the s^cond term whe other-
wise would not. The first- term
this year ends With the holidays.
TARLETON' WINS
' . FROM CUBS 98-0
Saturday morning,Rev, Stuckey
came up and gave us one. of his
short inspiring lectures, leaving in
bur minds:the fact that regardless
of the rating of pur institution or
the wbrk , and , efficiency: of the- in-
structors we Will get oj.it of1 school
only/, what; we put;- into,'.it.;. Rev.
Stuckey has his. owmsyle of expres
sion that enables him -to-' drive
home' facts1 in a, manner that; one
^ rememberti.; .It-is £it. onee.-jn^truc-.
Uve-and entertaining. ,
■Boys you. must stay awav from
the girls dormitory lawn. That Is
strictly the girls', premises, and it
would never do for you pesky boys
to molest those girls while they
sit out on the lawn to admire the
beautiful dusty roads and the var-
ious buildings on, the campus.
Ching Noung,, Emperpr of China
4000 years age is said to have made
real wine. ;
, Iii a i\Porly contested game last
Friday on Hays Field,.; Tarleton
topk a one sided game from the ;
Baylor Cubs, the final score being
:'>o-0. The Baylor) men had . the
weight but'Were lacking in fight,
they didn't play football, they
showed poo rcoaching. : There
were no star players—everybody
starred. 1 Monty's1 end runs,:
Adams' Comp's and Compton's line '
drives and .Tate's passes won the ,
the touchdowns Norman Martin
y/as hurt, se'riousyl in the third
quarter, and. didn't get back to
earth with his thoughts until next
naorning, but he Was good for Fri-
day' game. This is the second,
time Baylor Cubs-.have Jbeeu here,
and the. second time the" ware de-
j feafeed wofs.2 than Ta^stcri ever-
beat. Comanche high. We r uggest
they just find high school a hun-
dred -miles-, nearer home for the
next-game.-,/;, •
PROGRESS OF. ROOEIIES
. . The, new rookies have progressed
'so Well ' that Commandant Davis
decided to, give them some company
drill,. Captain Jphns.pn, says, thai
they have ;made the'best progress
of any new company so. far,' , !,' .
' The earliest collectipn of arms
and armpr dates back further than
1500 B. C. -: ', ■ ' -
- Temperature of ,birds is . some-
times as much,as 112 degrees fah-
renheit. '
-HIGH SCHOOL FOOT-
. BALL TEAM'
, , We neglected, to zicntion last "
week that 'tfo' hif'; school won a
football :gRm<? f-:Dublin high
n.ch'6ol\last Friday, week pn the
Hays field, ;I.".-t. Friday, October
• 8,: they nlf.ycd' Tharber £'id won
by a score of 26 te i-'l. Thia is the
first football team this high school
has had in several years, but they
are already attracting at' cntion as
"a fast, hard fighting, licth"-squad.
They ,play Dublin high school at
Dublin October 15. .:
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