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This Collegiate World
(By Associated Colleriate Pnui
Business men speaking before
groups of future Rotarlans tap their
fingers and remark "Ah yes no
young man could better occupy him
self during these depression years
than by going to college."
And a thousand college presidents
with one eye on the school account
books agree enthusiastically. In fact
if more young men and women with
money to spend don't agree with
them this year another batch of small
colleges are due to wipe the black
boards free from chalk and call It a
day. Ten colleges closed within the
last couple of years while several oth-
ers consolidated.
Others are putting up a strong fight
to save themselves. The methods they
have used in this fight are Just now
coming into the open thanks to an
investigation by the Association of the
American Colleges.
The Turck report shows that Ameri-
can schools of higher learning have
amazingly degraded themselves in the
frantic competition for students. Says
the reporter: "The business world has
had few practices in unethical com-
petition that cannot be matched some-
where In the college world."
Colleges offer "scholarships" lav-
ishly which are in reality only out
and out grants-in-aid and have no
merit basis. One man estimates that
out of 200000 freshmen last year only
15 per cent paid all expenses. Un-
scrupulous high school principals
make deals with the colleges where-
by they provide two paying students
to every scholarship. Alumni get com-
missions on each high school graduate
they drag into the fold of Alma Mater.
And the frame of mind of the stu-
dents themselves who are thus escort-
ed through college? Says an investi-
gator: "Flattered by many proposals
and at last bribed they act as if they
owned the campus. Professors find
them critical demanding unsympa-
thetic." And of course a student
who had entered a college at the earn-
est request of prexy himeslf would
find it mighty hard to flunk out..
The average college professor we
suppose would think of his slim pur-
se and remarked Times have not
changed" after reading that:
The "pedagogue" was originally a
slave.
He was a slave in the Athenian
household where be looked after the
safety of the master's sons. Under
the Roman empire he became the in-
structor of the boy slaves In the house
holds of the nobles. These slaves were
known as the "pacdagoglant" from
which term it is believed our word
"page" is derived.
A future Sam Johnson at the Uni-
versity of Michigan develops a few
word definitions: Honesty fear of be-
ing caught. Truth lack of tact
courage combination of stubborness
and resignation. Pleasure one-half
memory; one-half anticipation. Love
one-half imagination; one-half bio-
logy. Moron one who is content with
a serene mind.
New development in campus eti-
quette as outlined by a dean at the
University of Iowa (Iowa City). He
thinks that students should wait three
minutes for an instructor to appear
five for an assistant professor eight
for an associate professor and ten for
a full professor or dean.
To which we amend: O. K. If the
faculty will do this: Allow freshmen
to be two minutes late sophomores
Ave minutes juniors ten minutes and
seniors fifteen minutes.
Following our valuable custom of
making known all the newest philoso-
phies of education we introduce to you
the latest course study at the Univer
sity of Wyoming (Laramie). It is a
course in dude ranching. You study
bookkeeping botany journalism food
purchasing contract laws and speech
making.
What! Nothing about how to appeal
to the instinct of romance in beauti-
ful rich eastern girls?
Nothing about how to roll a clgaret
with one hand at full gallop?
My goodness It looks like a course
of work I
m i
St. Mary's Editor It
Not Planning to Buy
A Christmas Present
Moraga Calif. An emphatic "No"
to the recent proposal that St. Mary's
College turn co-educational Is the an-
swer of the Collegian weekly student
newspaper at the Moraga Institution.
In the leading editorial in its cur-
rent issue Editor Philip Qulttman
calls the idea "absurd" to no uncer-
tain words.
"We chose St. Mary's because we
wanted to go to a man's college. And
we still prefer to go a man's college I
There are ample co-educational facili-
ties in the immediate region for those
who must constantly be with the
weaker sex. For those students who
must have 'company' transfers to co-
educational institutions can be ob-
tained" he blasted.
Qulttman called St. Mary's "the last
real stronghold of masculinity in the
region." Authorities of the college are
sounding out sentiment on the pro-
posed admittance of women students
In the future.
IN WASHINGTON
The Collegian today presents the
first In a series of regular weekly col-
umns on Washington news of particu-
lar Interest to collegians written espe-
cially for this paper by the regular
Washington correspondent of the As-
sociated Collegiate Press and Collegi-
ate Digest.
y Arnold Serwer
Washington D. C. Previous to
1C32 before the New Dealers came to
ths town the words "Government em-
p: lycti" conjured up in the mind of the
average citizen a picture of a thin
middle-aged or even elderly person
bent over a desk in some Washington
office filling in endless forms at a
snail's pace. Washington Itself was
pictured as a town full of such clerkly
peopie pius senators with black Stet-
sons and a few Cherokees In to see the
ureat White Father.
At that Mr. Average Citizen wasn't
so far wrong. The national capital
was something like that. But the New
Deal has changed things here consld
erably and Washington's Mummy
Epoch has been superseded by the
Children's Hour comparatively speak
ing.
At least some of the oldsters think
of it as the Children's Hour. Strong
hold after stronghold of the oldtlmers
has fallen Into the hands of young
rows just out of college. The Treas
ury Department the Department of
Labor the Department of Commerce
the Department of Agriculture have
had their dignity severely jolted by
the Influx of Brain Trusters Junior
Bralntrusters and their various ap-
prentices and disciples.
The Department of Labor Is an out-
standing example. Once its Bureau of
Labor statistics had as personnel a
great many elderly slow-moving peo-
ple but now if you were to drop
around you would find a considerable
sprinkle of youthful statisticians out
of college only a few years plus a
number of ex-Instructors and quite a
few attractive young ladles doing ste-
nographic work whom you might
rightly Buspect got out of Bander-
snatch's Bon-Ton Business Institute
just a few weeks ago.
The New Deal agencies with their
predilection for young college gradu-
ates have in many cases infected the
old line departments under whose Jur-
isdiction some of them come with the
same virus. The AAA under the in-
fluence of Wallace and Tugwell hired
score upon score of young economists
statisticians lawyers minor execu-
tives and accountants not to mention
stenographers clerks and typists. No
matter how small the school you come
from it's a safe bet that you could
master at least a corporal's guard of
alumni and alumnae of the same
school from among the employees of
the AAA. A good many of them are
now getting into the older divisions
of the Department of Agriculture.
As for the NRA well before the
Supreme Court said "Thou Shalt Not
Code" it was the Harvard-Columbia-
Princeton Dartmouth - Michigan Tu-
lane-Amherst-Slwash-and what have
you-club all rolled Into one. The wide
corridors of the Commerce Building
were filled with sharp-looking Phi Be-
tes conversing earnestly with each
other about open prices code viola-
tions labor policies and whether or
not the Scrap Iron and Steel Insti-
tute's Code should have clause 13 sec-
tion 4 stricken out in fairness to the
manufacturers of bobby pins. Now
that the Blue Eagle has lost Its tail
feathers many of the young folks have
left the NRA but close scrutiny dis-
closes that they are now with the
AAA the Resettlement Administra-
tion the NYA the FERA or the
WPA.
The last three agencies named prob-
ably have the highest percentage of
recent college graduates on their pay-
rolls of all the New Deal bureaus.
Columbia Wisconsin and Michigan
alumni seem to account for the great-
est part of this group of college peo-
ple. The effect on the town as a whole
has been marked. A walk along
Pennsylvania Avenue at noon or in
the evening In the compass of a few
blocks turns up dozens of university
people. F street the city's principal
shopping thoroughfare displays In its
store windows far more clothing
meant for people under thirty than
ever before.
The cocktail lounges of 14th and
16th streets the restaurants of Con-
necticut Avenue are filled with young
Government lawyers economists ste-
nographers and secretaries. Gazing
about idly Joe Smith of Oregon U.
discovers the presence of Joe P. Smith
of Oregon U. and rushes over to
shake his band. They discover they've
both been working in Washington for
Uncle Sam for over a year and neith-
er knew the other was in town. There
are so many of them In from so many
colleges that one can easily miss
meeting an old classmate for months
on end.
University groups have formed
some meeting regularly others Infor-
mally for lunch. Over the table they
talk of many things about the WPA
allotment to Texas about a girl they
knew back on the campus about a
survey they expect to have a hand in
when their bureau starts it going
bout the superiority of Washington's
mint Juleps to that sulphuric acid they
drank at the Cornell-Penn game back
in 1931. Thelre apt to be clannish at
times especially when overtaken by
nostalgia. But snort often they mix
readily Columbia with Dartmouth.
Williams with Amherst. Traditional
college rivalries go by the board In
Washington.
Most of then like the town. The
presence of so many other young peo-
ple the academic atmosphere that
hovers faintly in the air (every tima
an Important Congressman belabors
the Brain Trust or ths Supreme Court
rrowns at the New Deal it becomes
fainter) the physical resemblance of
the capital with Its parks and acres
of greensward to a campus all these
things contribute to making B. A.'s
and M. A.'s and Ph.d'a feel very much
at home.
In their offhours they swarm over
the tennis courts and pack the swim-
ming pools fill the picture houses and
crowd the concerts. Every third girl
among them looks like last year's
Prom Queen and possibly is. The
shops that rent bicycles including
tamdems report a boom in their busi-
ness. At night rollerskattng happily
around the Lincoln Memorial one
finds Mr. Gainsborough who during
the day is a busy and earnest young
attorney over at the Department of
Justice.
And meanwhile the government
clerk of yesteryear a very Throttle
bottomish individual continues to
work on in Washington daily seeing
the young folks moving In and the
old folks retiring with the whole life
of Washington getting new impetus
from these lively youngsters.
He only hopes that if he detides to
take a walk some evening after dark
down Constitution Avenue he will be
able to avoid being run over more
than twice by some of these young-
sters on their rented bicycles.
SAMMY WRITES A
LETTER HOME
dere maw well maw wee beet them
agates allwrite but thlm mltle bull
fyters wuz jlst 2 much far us. I rec-
kon seeln as how they wuz ust too
fltln bula that ua billvsrotes wuz les
two litle fer em-funnyUt thing took
place maw wen tnee mtoai teem wuz
on ther way to texas tek Tomy Web
he saw a slam wot said Coleman vs.
Cross Plains an he aat criminal (yes
wee hav criminals down hear) Jlst
wot that mint an crlm he sed fer tomy
2 gues an tomy he guesed that it
mint Coleman visites cross riains.
You shud hav herd th laffs maw an
it la reelv funnv coz It reelv meens
Coleman vamps Cross Plains i gues
thlms the names uv 2 pepol. wee hav
lotz uv thet vampln goln on down
heer but it ain't advertized so much
an eneyway wee aint got no funny
names down hear Ilk that say we
shure got a tuf (o say maw I Jlst
found out tnet mat ami we way io
neil ahure. thev wuz lus kiddin me
last weak it Is spelt BUR) skedgule
goz we are gonna play sum bobkats
an sum tigers an i thot that ther
wuznt enymor Injuns runnln wild in
this country enymor but 1 gues ther
ic beeoz wee are sronna flte the Mc-
Murry trlb petty soon everbody Is
tawkln bout it i gues it iz a knew
trlb leest i never herd uv tnim oee-
fnur. 1 member how srrandnaw ust
too tawk about fltln Injuns an i thot
he sed ther wuznt anymor. uues i
mlscalated wot be Bed. maw i got the
shoos o k but i kalnt find eny roks
down here rough enuf so you better
slndme sum rite away lm bavin 2
use graaburs til i git sum sootbul
roks. an nomejr thing i wlsht if you
cud spair ol flossy or ol bees you wud
aln me one uv thlm coz 1 aint ust
too doln without milk an besides eith
er one wud bee a hole lotz uv kumpny.
n uv maw vou mite let ol Rover
sleep in yur bed with you an paw
while lm gone soz you kin Keep mm
covered up gud. he mite git cold and
leenin in mv bed by himself an i
dont wunt nothln to happen two thet
dawg. Tell paw thet I got wai oune
an now l aruea i wont sro hungry fer
a while yet. wel so long wate maw
you know thet hogcaller t wuz teuin
you about wel why dont wee put him
in thet hogcolUn contest i no thet
he cud win. Wel maby moore neX
weak your son SAMMY.
m
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS
The U. S. Civil Service Commission
has announced open competitive ex-
aminations as follows:
Under card-Dunch operator 11260
a year alphabetic duplicating punch
operator 11440 a year junior iaou-
latlng machine operator $1440 a
year.
Junior blueprint operator 11440 a
year under blueprint operator 11260
a year junior photostat operator
$1440 a year under photostat opera-
tor 12S0 a year junior photostat and
blueprint operator 31440 a year.
Telegraph operator 31800 a year.
Policewoman 31800 a year Metro-
politan Police Department Washing-
ton D. C.
Chief of rate group 33600 a year
Federal Communications Commission.
Experience Is required for all these
examinations.
Full Information may be obtained
from C. D. Woods secretary of the U.
8. Civil Service Board of Examiners
at the post office in this city.
Without distinction with procrasti-
nation love. Lavish it upon the poor
where it is very easy; especially upon
the rich who often need it most; most
of all upon our equals where It is very
difficult and for whom perhaps we
each do least of all. Henry Drum-
Collegiate Review
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy has grouped those who contribute
to Its financial support Into an organ-
ization called Research Associates of
M. I. T.
Twenty Mount Holyoke College
freshmen will be allowed to take only
iwo courses mis vear undar miaa aat
down for a unique educational experi
ment were.
Nineteen colleges and unlveraittaa
are giving prizes to those seniors who
acquire me most interesting library
during their college years.
Expansion of the Univaraltv of
Michigan graduate school is being
maae possioie mrougB the recent gift
of 5000000 from the trustees of the
Horace H. and Marq A. Rackham
fund
Three universities in Chicago are
sponsoring a university of Mia ii t
be broadcast over five local stations.
An extensive four-year course is being
planned for this novel university.
The human race has grown a full
two inches in average height during
the last century Dr. Edith Boyd Uni-
versity of Minnesota resorted after
extensive research.
New York University haa received
more than 10000 books during the
past few months through the activi
ties of the Society for Libraries.
ronceion university administrators
recently announced an exnanalon nian
that calls for the raising of $7700-
000. Seniors at the Newark Collae-a of
Engineering have voted in favor of
allowing women to enter their classes.
Biochemist Hector Mortimer told
the American Neurolorica.1 Aaaoela.
tlon recently that our skulls get den
ser as we grow oiaer. Ana tne condi-
tion is ten times far common in wom-
en than in men!
Oxford University (Enarland) offl-
cials have removed virtually all re-
strictions against women students. All
degrees at that Institution are now
open to men and women alike.
Yale and Harvard students will
meet In annual Intellectual contests
for a prize of 35000 awarded In the
will of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Put
nam.
Ten thousand students at a Los An-
geles relief school are paid to go
school and docked if they cut classes I
Parents and even grand-parents are
now given the opportunity to take
regular college courses and earn uni-
versity degrees In afternoon study un-
der a new adult education plan de-
veloped at the University of Southern
California.
Football Rule May
Cause Freak Decisions
Detroit Mich. Coach Charles E.
Dorals of the University of Detroit
has discovered a "Joker" In the foot-
ball rules that may prove to be more
important than a casual reading of
the code might indicate. It is a sup-
plemental note in Section 7 Rule 7
covering the dead ball and it eads:
"A runner who is on his feet even
though he be held by an opponent
may run pass or kick until the whis-
tle blows."
This is an apparent contradiction of
the body of the rule which reads:
"The ball is dead when a player in
possession and control of the ball goes
out of bounds cries 'down' or is so
held that his forward progress is stop-
ped or (except the holder of the ball
in a place-kick) when any portion of
his person except his bands or feet
touches the ground."
As Coach Dorals sees it much will
depend upon how quickly the referee
blows the whistle when the ball-carrier
is held by an opponent and Is still
on his feet. If the referee is fast with
the whistle it means that lateral pass-
ing will be greatly curtailed while if
he is inclined to place a lateral inter-
pretation on the supplemental note it
is going to be possible to pass later-
ally In a manner never before seen on
the American college gridiron.
"It may be necessary before each
game to find out from the referee Just
how he is going to interpret the rule"
he added.
Eat a Heavy Lunch and
End Up Flunking A
Chemistry Exam
Philadelphia Ga. You'll dispense
with heavy lunches if you want to be
alert for your afternoon classes. That
Is you will if you heed the advice of
Dr. Donald A. Laird Colgate Univer-
sity psychologist.
While on a recent visit here Dr.
Laird had this to say about the effect
of eating large meals at noon-time:
"Our experiments showed conclu-
sively that brain or cerebral anemia
caused by the digestive organs draw-
ing the blood away from the brain
is the cause of sluggish mental con-
dition which afflicts office workers
after the noon lunch period and that
this condition results in a definite Im-
pairment of the speed and accuracy
with which their minds work.
"When the brain is adequately sup-
piled with blood and literally 'in the
pink of condition' mental efficiency
tends to be at Its highest point. When
the digestive system Is called upon to
dlsgest a heavy meal and draws upon
the blood supply of the brain mental
efficiency la lowered"
TAKE THOSE PLOWBOYSt
FOR PA
Opposite
Three Conference
Teams Win 5 Lose
and 1 Tie Played
Last week Texas Conference elev-
ens as a whole came out on the short
end of the score In their non-conference
tilts. The only wins were made
by Howard Payne Trinity and St.
Edwards over the San Marcos Ter-
rell Military College and Westmoor-
land respectively. Simmons lost to
Baylor Daniel Baker to Texas Tech
McMurry to East Texas Austin Col-
lege to S. M. U. and Southwestern
to College of Ozarks. A. C. C. tied
St. Marys. It Is utterly Impossible to
compare strength of the Texas Con-
ference teams yet; but after this
week's play when six members of the
conference taste conference competi-
tion comparisons can be made in a
small degree. This week's schedule
calls for Howard Payne to meet Trin-
ity in Waxahachie; McMurry at Aus-
tin College in Sherman; St. Edwards
at Hardln-Slmmons in Abilene; South-
western at Denton against North Tex-
as; A. C. C. at Marfa against Sul
Ross and John Tarleton against Dan-
iel Baker in Brownwood. Howard
Payne is slight favorite over Trinity;
Austin College very slight favorites
over McMurry; Hardln-Slmmons hea
vy favorites over St. Edwards; North
Texas is favored over Southwestern;
Sul Ross is due to down A. C. C and
Daniel Baker is slightly favored over
Tarleton.
With the present season getting
well under way it Is very interest-
ing to watch the developments of the
Texas Conference both In and out of
conference competition. Close follow
ers of the conference are continually
kept guessing and that Is one of their
biggest thrills waiting and wonder-
ing. Any idea of a college professor has
about money Is bound to be theoreti-
cal. Gand Rapids Press.
DR. R. A. ELLIS
Optometrist
Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground
For Appointment Phone 169
FRANK EMISON
& SON
QUALITY FOODS
and
FINE MEATS
Come in and See Us
1500 Austin Avenue
T
FOR
L. C. SMITH
TYPEWRITERS
See
J. A. COLLINS
Seller's Barber Shop
Efficient and Courteous
Service
Daniel Baker's Own
Barber . . just a short
piece from the
Campus up Austin
SOUTH SIDE CLEANERS
Phone 278 Our Work Guaranteed 1417 Austia
Howard Carmichael
inimuutnii
AUSTIN MILL & GRAIN COMPANY
Modern Millers
GOLD ARROW FLOUR CAKE FLOUR
GOLD ARROW FEEDS
Telephone 14
AND MA
Post Office
The most beautiful world la always
enticed through the Imagination. The
splendor of the sunset my friends gaze
at across the purpling hills is wonder-
ful but the sunset of the inner vision
brings purer delight because it is the
worshipful blending of all the beauty
that we have known or desired.
Helen Keller.
"Say boy your fiancee say yo'
tol' her you wuz goln'
to take her to Florida on
yo' honeymoon."
"Why I ain't tol' that gal no
seek thing I Jes tol' her
I wuz goln' to Tampa with her."
m i
A man wandered into a tennis tour-
nament the other day and sat down
on the bench.
"Whose game?" he asked.
A shy young thing sitting next to
him looked up hopefully "I am" aha
replied.
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Charlie: Will you marry me?
Thelma: Not
Charlie: Awl Come on and be a
support.
CLEMACO'S
BAR-B-Q AND
GROCERIES
School Supplies
Cigarettes - Candies
1 110 Austin
D. D. McINROE & CO.
REALTORS INSURANCE
LOANS
Telephone 173
fcrWMrWWrWVWWWUWWWH
All Kinds of Shoe Repairing
Chas. L. Faiilldnberry
The Shoe Maa"
906 Center Avenue
vwwwwwwwwwwwww
QUINCT
The Shine King!
SHOES DYED ALL COLORS
Dyer and Shine for
Hill Billies
at Majestic Barber
Shop
MAJESTIC
BARBER SHOP
Courteous Service
Reavis & Reynolds
Props.
1004 Auetla Ave.
Friday Saturday and
Sunday at
PALACE DRUG
A Sandwich and
Milk Shake
for
IOC
Jack Howell
Brownwood Texas
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