The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 21, Ed. 1, Friday, March 11, 1960 Page: 2 of 6
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EDITORIALS
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The annual high school day affair which Hardin-Sim-mons
hosts went off last week end according to schedule
despite inclement weather.
Low clouds damp weather threatening sleet and snow
didn't put any kind of a damper on the high caliber ex-
hibits and entertainment which H-SU'ers displayed for
the visiting high school students. The chemistry de-
partment presented an entertaining but educational skit
with the use of various 'tricks' with chemicals.
Exhibits in various areas of study were unusually dis-
played and were attracted quite a bit of attention from
the visitors as well as H-SU students who stopped by the
field house during the afternoon.
Sincere and well deserved words of commendation
to Byron Bryant Hal Haralson and the entire staff of the
public relations department for making the high school
day activities something our visitors will not seen forget.
The university and its activities both academe and social
were well portrayed.
One sorrow is that many high school students missed
a highlight of the year which was planned and prepared
especially for them.
Bland Style
Oftentimes English teachers and freshman English
students wonder why the capitalization and punctuation
in the Brand does not comply with the Hardin-Simmons
style book on writing thesis or with the Harbrace English
Handbook.
Newspaper1 punctuation is done journalistically. That
is we use commas for clarity and to make our readers
understand what we are trying to say. We try to avoid
semicolons as much as possible unless the sentence con-
tains words in a series involving commas within the
series. The reasdn for this is that if a sentence is long
enough to contain a semicolon it's too long. Our policy
is to use short concise sentences but not choppy.
Each newspaper commercial or collegiate has its own
style. Where the Brand uses a comma some other news-
paper may not and so it is with other details of style.
The Brand employes the down style of capitalization.
Briefly this means we don't capitalize letters unless it is
absolutely necessary. We do not capitalize the first let-
ters of subjects unless they are derived from a country
such as English Spanish or French or Greek.
There are several reasons for this style choice. One
3s that it speeds the turn out and completion of copy.
Perhaps to someone unfamiliar with deadlines this sounds
.rather unreasonable but every second or a portion of a
:second of time we save helps you our reading public get
"the Brand earlier on Friday.
Probably as you're reading this you are saying "this
may be the' style but you don't always do it this way."
Unfortunately we're not all perfect and the editor is
3artherest from it. If anyone knows a remedy to over-
looking errors let the copyreader know about it.
GJlje -m Branh
Opinions expressed in The Brand are those of the
Editor or of the writer of tye article and not necessarily
those of the university administration.
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Entered as Second .Class mail matter June 22 1917 at the
Post Office at Abilene Texas under Act of March 3 1879.
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Pat Dishman
.Lynn Jackson
Bill Deal
Tom Stevenson
Troy Holcombe
.Gretchen Cordell
Betty Bostic
ISteve Norman
Jorini Hillpni
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By JONNI HILL
Yippee-Ki-Yo get along little
doggie! How about the .big tough
Cowgirls and those poor mis-
treated pledges? Did you ever
see such -brutal cruel mean hate-
ful slave-drivers? (I'm getting
payola from one of the pledges
namely Jerri Hacker!)
It . all started about 5:15 one
morning. They buzzed all the
pledges to the lobby and woke
up everyone else that was trying
to sleep. Since I couldn't get
back to sleep I decided to get up
dress and go to the big bean for
breakfast. By the time I got
over there the Cowgirls were
across the tables sound asleep
and the pledges were making a
fast get-a-way. About this time
a nice shy sophisticated Cow-
girl which belongs to the name
Marlene Legg jumped up and
said in a mild and mellow tone
"COME BACK YOU LOUSY
PLEDGES!"
Every where you looked there
were little signs running around
that said "I am a lowly pledge"
for awhile they even carried
buckets of goodies until the
Cowboy band members decided
they would carry them!
At noon they were all over the
place carrying trays singing
songs fighting the Cowboy Band
toy the time they sat -down to
eat either they were too ex-
hausted or the food was cold. I
know of one girl who didn't eat
.for a week. And then there"was
uie giri inai iney oeat to ueatn
with a wet noodle they didn't
like the brand of toothpaste she
used.
O' cruel cruel world and cruel
cruel Cowgirls! I guess the most
cruel Cowgirl must be Donivee
"Ole" Stone face Roden ! !
she really put them through it. It
wouldn't have been so hard for
them to take if she would have
given them a cheery smile once
in a while!
This wouldn't be complete
without a word about the black-
est heart of the bunch the big
gang leader President Kut 'em
Up Kesner!
Her heart is made out of pure
charcoal. She made them do cute
things such "as playing in traffic
breathing carbon monoxide
wading in pools' of nitric acid
and smoking sticks of dynamite.
One of Kesner's cuter stunts she
saved for the last night. She
buried Laynette Morgan in the
sand up to her neck poured
honey over her arms and head
and turned 3000 ants loose!
Take it easy pledges you only
have 45 months to go and after
all' you know more than the
Cowgirls- at least you can do
the Cowgirl stomp!
I serve a purpose in this school
On which no man can frown:
I gently enter into class.
And keep the average down.
Clinical Methods Class
To Type Blood in Lab
The clinical methods class is
now available to type students'
blood Barbara Anderson class
member announced.
This service is open to any H-
SU student but especially fresh-
men Miss Anderson said Stu-
dents interested in the blood typ-
ing must go to the Science Hall
WEATHER'S CAFE
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Open 5 a. m.
Jest Good Food"and
Shuffleboard Too
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COUNCIL CORNER
ByDAVID BOYD
Well wooley-woof-woof but
it's good to be back on the rock-
ing Forty Acres after a hectic
six-day choir tour. And the
"sweet little boys and girls" on
council haven't been idle either.
Some of the more rowdy ones
are preparing to take off to Dallas
next weekend to the TISA con-
vention (envy envy!) They will
leave about five o'clock-ish Fri-
day a. m. and return late Satur-
day pretty bushed I would
imagine. The representatives
will be Melvin Cunningham
Juanita and Annita Welch Peg-
gy Flowers Jack Preston. Dean
Students Set Interviews
At Missions Conference
Three Hardin-Simmons Uni-
versity students have been recom-
mended for interviews by the
Texas Baptist Student Union
Summer Volunteer Missins Com-
mittee. These interviews will take place
Saturday morning at the annual
Mission Volunteers Fellowship
which will be held at the South-
ern Theological Baptist Seminary
in Fort Worth this weeeknd.
Those being interviewed are
Carroll Smith a senior from
Hooks; John Baker a junior from
Wichita; and Marvin Leech a
junior from Abilene.
Carroll Smith if appointed
will be sent to Colorado State
University at Fort Collins Colo.
to serve as Baptist Student Union
director from Sept. 1 1960 to
June 1 1961.
Silver Scholarship
To Be Awarded Coed
Hardin-Simmons coeds are
eligible for a $500 scholarship
which is being awarded by the
Reed and Barton Silver company.
The contest involves naming
your favorite patterns of china
crystal and sterling. The contest
deadline is March 31.
In the "Silver Opinion Compe-
tition" an entry form illustrates
twelve designs of sterling with
nine designs of both china and
crystal. Entrants simply lists
what she considers the six best
combinations of these. Awards
will be made to those entries
matching or coming closest to the
unanimous selections of table-setting
editors from three of the na-
tion's leading magazines.
Miss Faye Cook Westbrook
is the student representative who
is conducting the silver opinion
competition for Reed and Barton
at Hardin-Simmons. Girls inter-
ested in entering the competition
should contact Miss Cook in
Hunter Hall for entry blanks and
for complete details concerning
the rules. She also has samples
of 12 of the most popular Reed
and Barton designs so that en-
trants can see how these sterling
patterns actually look.
Through the opinions on silver
design expressed by college
women competing for these
scholarships the company hopes
to compile a library of expres-
sions of young American tastes.
on the first floor clinical labora-
tory. The typing only takes a few
minutes Miss Anderson explain-
ed and is a course requirement
for the clinical methods class.
Members of this class include
Gerald Tidwell of Munday Ger-
ald Tidwell and Eddie Williams
of Roscoe and Barbara Anderson
of Jacksboro. Hiram Arrant is
class professor.
to 10 p. m.
Collins will be a rip-roaring spon-
sor for the trip.
The council did take time out
to discuss some current problems
among students. We arrived at
some definite decisions and
found out the basic reasons under-
lying many of the things we as
students shake our angry fists at.
In order to promote better under-
standing between students and
faculty on such items as excused
absences may the council suggest
that you ask questions. Perhaps
even the lowly student council
could help. We'll try.
So until someone writes this
jewel next week I'll say as Larry
(I'm getting married) Lewis
I always says "Eat a bug."
Marvin Leach has been recom-
mended to serve in Hawaii for a
period of three months.
John Baker will be serving in
the Northwestern part of the
United States next summer if he
is appointed.
Dr. Lindell O. Harris head of
the division of religious studies
will attend the annual conference
along with students from H-SU.
Registration began at 10:30
this morning and will run through
noon tomorrow.
Theme of the meeting is "Shar-
ing the Divine Obsession."
Free housing is being provided
b' the Seminary.
The Saturday morning session
will be highlighted with mes-
sages entitled "Pitfalls to Mission
Appointment" given by Edna
Frances Dawkins of the Foreign
Mission Board and Glendon Mc-
Cullough of the Home Mission
Board.
Bill Lawson BSU director
from Texas Southern University
in Houston will bring the Satur-
day afternoon message.
Skindiving Is Growing
Popular With Texans
With spring and warm weather
settling over us now we get to
thinking about love life and
fishing. And if you haven't tried
the newest adventure in modern
fishing then you haven't lived.
Skindiving. According to Benney
Miles of Austin who is president
of the Austin Underwater Divers'
Club Texas now has more than
iuuuu skindivers. Skindivers
have Overcome most nhiivtinn rvf
fishermen who feared "spear-
carrying irogmen" would raid
their favorite fishing holes in
Texas.
The biggest objections have
been removed .by a law which re-
stricts spearfishing anything but
rough fish.
Marion Toole director of Inland
Fisheries for the Texas Game and
Fish Commission said game fish
are too friendly to skindivers and
are easy to spear.
"When you get underwater
black bass and sunfish especially
are not afraid of you. If you
have a mole on you the fish may
come up and try to bite it off" he
said.
There really is nothing like
sliding down through the water
free from gravity as you glide
toward a dark place just ahead
of you not knowing exactly what
to expect. The only thing is.
don't expect anything but fun.
Placement Calendar
March 16-Representative from
Fort Worth Schools. Contact the
Placement Office for an appoint-
ment. Representative from Joske's of
Texas.
March 17 Montgomery Ward
representative.
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