The Collegian (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 13, Ed. 1, Friday, January 10, 1936 Page: 1 of 4
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TEXAS CONFERENCE BASKETBALL SCHEDULES
Begk Here Today
y Travis Foster
A suggestion for your next birth-
day: attempt to estimate tbe number
of days In your short life-span in
which you have been completely hap-
py. Admitting that one of us is more
likely to think seriously on his birth-
day than any other day during the
year efforts at self-analysis are per-
haps more fitting then than any time
else in the course of a year Includ-
ing January 1.
At any rate one of William Lyon
Phelps' friends used this logic and
wrote to him on the occasion of the
venerable educator's seventieth birth-
day asking him to estimate his days
of happiness. This question automat-
ically furnished an excellent subject
for discussion and Dr. Phelps made
good advantage of it to furnish this
information:
Benjamin Franklin said his days of
complete happiness during his enure
lifetime were no more than five. But
we are reminded that tbe Philadel-
phia philosopher said about the same
time that he would relive his life
with no changes If given the chance.
Edwin Booth declared that be bad
experienced not one-day of happiness
and Bismarck said his perfect con-
tentment totaled less than 24 hours.
It is said in Gibbon's "Rise and Fall
of the Roman Empire" that Calif Ab-
dalrabam gave himself fourteen days
of happiness over a long lifetime.
In the "Autobiography of Charles
Francis Adams" the author did not
estimate in days his happiness but
said he was convinced they number
ed more than those of any of his for-
bears. Finally Dr. Phelps got around to
bis own life and made answer to his
curious friend Dr. Charles D. At-
kins head of the education depart-
ment of the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Science. Dr. Phelps said
his days of happiness were 10673
(almost thirty years.) Realizing that
this seemed entirely too many days
for a man with the contemporary
reputation of philosopher and world
student Dr. Phelps qualified bis de-
claration with the statement "I
should like to be a philosopher but
cheerfulness keeps breaking In."
Being yet young how would you
tackle the question of what consti-
tutes a. happy day in your life? What
standard would you set this week In
order to judge your past pleasantries
and moments of content? in craw
individual standards vary remarkably
and it is rare indeed to find tbe per-
son who understands tbe why of bis
fits of melancholy and subsequent
hours of pleasure. Victor Hugo said
"Misery and Joy enter and make their
exits like unexpected guests. Their
laws their orbits their principles of
gravitation are beyond man's grasp."
Spine-chilling news from the Amer-
ican Medical Association and associ-
ated scientific organizations: Tbe
greatest advancement made In tbe
field of medicine In 1935 was the dis-
covery and development of the uses
of canned blood. Blood is taken from
the body after death (any time up to
six hours following death Is all right)
and tested catalogued canned and
labeled. It Is then placed in storage
at the hospital along with hundreds
of other cans containing other grades
and types. When an emergency
transfusion Is necessary the doctors
have just the right grade on hand
without the often fatal Inconvenience
of long delay In finding the "right"
donor.
Frauntiv we see a list of ten
books this or that person would take
with him if he were exiled to some
lonely iHland in mid-ocean. As long
as ttum Mlectlons are made from
purely Imaginative motives don't you
think it would be more fascinating to
decide what ten persons you would
talc with van. on a world cruise or
if mu inaiata. tn a. lonely Island. Of
course you should limit your choice
(Ooatinuedoapf )
LOOP CARD
ANNOUNCED
All Official Texas Conference
asketball Games Announc-
ed by Fort Worth Paper.
The complete official Texas Confer
ence basketball schedule was announc-
ed In Fort Worth Wednesday. The
following story appeared In the Star-
Telegram with regard to the details
of the year's schedule with probable
winners:
Scramble for Texas Conference bas-
ketball honors will begin next Tues
day night when Trinity University
and Austin College clash at Sherman.
Most teams however have chosen to
make a late start in the official race
and bulk of the 44 games composing
the championship schedule will be
played In February. Only seven are
listed for this month and six for
March.
Ten games are required for a rep-
resentative schedule but A. C. C
Daniel Baker Trinity Howard Payne
and Southwestern will play 12 and
McMurry will take on each of the
seven other entries twice.
Lively Contest Likely
With Hardin-Slmmons winner of
six of the last seven races out of the
conference a lively derby is foreseen.
Daniel Baker Abilene Christian Trin
ity and Howard Payne are being
picked as tbe most likely to compose
first division in the final standings.
The schedule:
(Continued on page 4)
SOS ORIS TO
HEAR ADDRESS
Miss Abney to Discuss Places
and People of Interest 8een
on Recent World Tour.
It has been announced by the S. O.
S. Club that Miss Genevieve Abney
will address the members of the club
in a meeting to be held in the club
rooms this afternoon at four o'clock.
The program will be of Interest to all
members and every one is urged to
be present.
Tbe speaker will devote tbe greater
part of the talk to a discussion of
interesting persons and places seen on
a recent world tour. This program is
one in a scries to be presented in the
course of the 1935-36 school year in
which prominent speakers appear be-
fore the members of the S. O. S. Club
with timely discussions of current
topics relating generally w myie uu-
mestlc science travel etc.
At the close of the program this
afternoon refreshments of cookies and
tea will be served.
FROSU CAGERS
Ml VICTORS
Freshman Team Emerges
Winner Over Indian Creek
High School Aggregation.
The versatile Coach Gipson has
turned basketball on us now. And
from all Indications is putting out &
pretty fair team. Practically every
afternoon he sends his frosh basket-
eers out on the hardwood against tbe
varsity and It Is only with much ef-
fort that the varsity beats them. Last
Monday night Coach Gipson sent his
charges against Spec Smith's team
from Indian Creek and after a tough
tussel came out on tbe long end of
a 41-21 score. The boys haven't been
drilling very long but they are devel-
oping fast. By mid-season they should
be a very formidable outfit.
Those coming out under Coach Gip-
son are: Bnodgrass Shults Wells
Watson. Ansel. Petslck Alford Da
vis McDanlel Morris Chllcote Aber-
nathv. Alcorn. Hicks Pate snoa
erass. Shults. Watson Angel McDan
tel and Morris are ouUtandnlg among
this group.
Marcelle ShulU Now
Recovering After An
Operation This Week
Friends of Marcelle Shults will be
glad to learn that her condition fol
lowing an appendicitis operation Mon-
day morning is showing rapid im-
provement. Miss Shults member of the Daniel
Baker sophomore class was removed
to a local hospital Monday morning
from her home on Avenue C follow-
ing a severe attack of appendicitis
Sunday. She had suffered other at
tacks earlier in the week.
The doctors in charge pronounced
the operation a success and foresee
for her a rapid recovery this adding
another to the traditionally long list
of Daniel Baker students who under-
go the ceremony of an appendectomy
before the end of each school term.
CAGE TOURNEY
STARTS TODAY
Annual Invitation asketball
Tournament for High School
Teams Under Way at Gym
Play In the annual Daniel -Baker
basketball tournament for high
schools in this section began this
morning and will continue through
tomorrow night. Interest in the tour
nament has been greater this year
than in several seasons past with
some of the strongest teams in Cen
tral Texas competing for first place
honors. Tbe annual .Daniel Baker
tourney has developed into one of the
outstanding mid-winter athletic events
of the season in Brownwood and tbe
entry list has gradually added new
strength until this year it presents
th ebest array of cage ability avail-
able. Among tbe strong aggregations
that have finished at or near the top
in this play in the past few years and
which are entered in the 1936 tourna
ment are Brownwood Williams In-
dian Creek Bangs Comanche and
May.
A lavish outlay has been made In
securing prizes to be awarded win
ners In the 1936 tournament and
these awards will be made Immedi
ately following tbe final game tomor
row night. Tbe officials in charge or
the play are expecting a capacity
crowd in tbe D. B. C. gymnasium to-
night and tomorrow when the last
games will be reached. Tbe winning
team will be awarded a large silver
basketball trophy nine Inches In di
ameter. The runner-up team will re-
ceive a smaller mounted silver tro
phy. Other awards will so to the
members of the official All-Tournament
team selected by officials and
coaches present during the progress
of play during the two days and to
the best individual player In tbe tour-
nament. Brownwood High School's Lions are
favorites to reach the finals again this
year to repeat their achievements in
practically all past Daniel Baker tour-
naments. But the Red and White lads
will not nave a path of roses spread
before them this year as there will be
several quintets entered which will
offer stiff opposition to the ultimate
finalists. May is always one of tbe
most dangerous teams to down on the
basketball court as is Williams. Both
these Brown county teams promise
plenty of opposition to teams In this
section during the ensuing season.
Blanket and Bangs will also rank as
strong pre-tournament favorites.
Out-of-county teams which nave
been Invited and will likely see action
In the tournament Include Comanche
Rising Star Mozelle and Santa An-
na. Added to these the Zephyr In-
dian Creek and Early High teams the
competition is doped to be stronger
this year than in many years.
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If your grades average 90 or better
you will find a job easily increase
your salary 11000 a year say M. I.
T. analysts.
The Harvard Committee on Re-
search in the Social Sciences has re-
ceived a (300000 Rockefeller Founds-
Itlon grant.
ACHIEVEMENT
TESTS GIVEN
Paoulty Still Insists it Is Not
An Intelligence Test Fresh-
men Wonder About It.
All members of the freshman class
were required to take an achievement
test administered under the supervis-
ion of Mrs. Early head of the educa-
tion department Tuesday morning.
The test included questions on all the
major courses of study taught In Tex-
as high schools. History English
grammar math science were all
drawn upon In the preparation of the
examination which is given the fresh-
men of Daniel Baker every year.
The papers will be graded and Indi-
vidual achievement by the students
participating will be made public la-
ter In the year. The results of these
examinations In a great number of
colleges and universities in Texas are
annually compared for average
"achievement" of the respective fresh-
man classes. College officials stress
the fact that the examination la not
called an intelligence test. Individual
I. Q.'s are not recorded or even de-
termined In these examinations. Even
so. all the Denaiel Baker freshmen
were encouraged to exert every effort
to score a good grade on the exam
No public announcement was made
of the grades scored on the test last
year. The two highest marks were
chalked up by Jane MacWIUlams and
Sue McClelland. When the present
Junior class were freshmen two boys
ranked along the top In their achieve'
ment test being John Little and John
Beckham. It has not been learned
what senior scored high on the test
three years ago but The Collegian
staff of archaeologists are now go
lng into the records and one of them
will we are confident emerge from
the dust any minute now dusty and
dirty but grinning triumphantly with
the winner's name firmly clutched to
his bosom.
The 1936 freshman class has receiv-
ed rather lavish compliments of one
sort or another this year and has been
lauded on occasion as being one of
the best first-year classes to grace
the Daniel Baker campus in several
years. It remains to be seen whether
they upheld this noteworthy commen-
dation when they applied their collec-
tive and Individual mentality to tbe
questions and multiply-choice quanda-
ries on the achievement test Tuesday
morning.
SCHEDULEFOfi
SEASON GIVEN
Hill Mile asketball Team
Paces Tough Schedule for
Year Do Not Play Simmons.
Following the opening basketball
game of the year here Saturday night
against the San Angelo Junior College
team the Hill Billies will rest for two
weeks and then set out "for Alpine
where they meet the Sul Ross quintet
in two games January 23-24 Thurs
day and Friday that is. These three
games tbe San Angelo affair and the
two with the Alpine Teachers will
be the only non-conference tilts play-
ed by the Billies this year according
to tbe schedule released by the coacn-
es this week.
The first conference games will be
played in Abilene January 81 and Feb
ruary 1st when the Myermen wiu
take on McMurry's Indians and the
A. C. C. Wildcats on successive nights.
There will follow another two-week
rest from conference play in which
the chances are good that some for-
midable non-offlclal foe will be chal-
lenged and on February 15 the Indi-
ans of McMurry return the visit play-
ing on the Daniel Baker court Two
nights later the Billies will be In
Georgetown for a game with South-
western from which game they will
go on to Austin for a tussel with the
St. Edward's Tigers the following
night.
(OoatiWMd ob page 4)
ANNOUNCED
Members and Guests
of Skull and Bones
Club Have Steak Fry
Members of the Skull and Bones
Society were entertained with a steak
fry at Brownwood Lake last night.
This was one of the several social
functions this club has sponsored this
year and everyone on the party last
night enjoyed the entertainment to
the fullest extent. The list of mem-
bers and guests present includes:
Messrs. John Beckham Richard Dil
lingham Henry Wood Albert Miller
Lealrd Meadows Charles Hogue Ned
Snyder Jr. C. B. Lovelace Jimmy
Settle Leander Hall and Scott Whtt-
aker; Misses Martha Logan Eliza
beth Hoffman Catherine Sue Gallo
way Dorothy Nell Griffin Eileen Sat-
terwhlte Emma Catherine Hall Pat-
ta Jean Moore Sara Collins Eliza-
beth Sbeppard Lucy Mae Brown and
Emmarie Hemphill.
Mr. and Mrs. Tricky Ward acted
as chaperons.
SENIOROASS
TO GIVE PLAY
Members of Senior Class to
Present Plsy After Mid-Term
Mrs. Miller to Direct.
With the greater part of the mem-
bers of the 1936 senior class of Dan-
iel Baker taking part in the presen-
tation of a senior play to be presented
sometime before the close of the
spring semester it is almost certain
to be a success. With rehearsals be
ginning directly after the completion
of the first semester examinations
the play is bound to be worked up
within two or three months as well
as many plays that are played on tbe
professional stage. The senior class is
bubbling over with dramatic talent
and at the suggestion of Arveal Ad-
ams president of the senior class tbe
class as a whole unanimously and
whole-heartedly agreed to set them-
selves to the task of producing the
best play and best cast play that has
ever stood behind the Daniel Baker
footlights. That is a huge assign-
ment but once a dignified senior sets
bis head It's as good as done. Arveal
called a meeting of the senior class
last week. After bis suggestion was
so well received and carried out be
immediately began preparation by ap
pointing a committee composed of
Emmarie Hemphill Maurine Cnarn-
qulst and Charles Fowler to select a
number of plays that would be pre-
sentable to a packed audtence. These
plays are to be presented to the sen-
ior class as a whole and one out of
the bunch will be chosen. The Col-
legian suggests that the class choose
the play "Adam and Eve." Harvey
Hickman could play the part of Satan
disguised as a snake very easily
without any makeup whatever.
Mrs. E. J. Miller will undoubtedly
be asked to direct the play.
Students and friends of the college
are asked to keep this senior play in
mind and when the time for presen-
tation comes around you can do noth-
ing better for wholesome entertain
ment than come to see it.
Rita Young Marries
W. J. Sipes of Cross
Plains in December
Rita Young of Cross Plains one of
tbe most popular members of tbe
freshman class this year was mar-
ried to Son Sipes Cross Plains dur-
ing the Christmas holidays and has
withdrawn from school The couple
will make their home in Cross Plains.
Rita was one of the more charming
Inmates of tbe girls' dormitory during
the fall semester and she baa acquir
ed a host of friends in Brownwood
who are glad to offer best wishes and
congratulations to her and her hus-
band on the occasion of their wed-
ding. The groom who waa a mem-
ber of the Cross Plains Buffaloes dur-
ing the time of our Mr. Tomy Webb
is now employed by an oil company
In Cross Plains.
TEAM TO PLAY
ANGELO QUINT
lilies Will Open Season Here
Against San Angelo Junior
College Saturday Night.
Coach Wallace Myers has been
working his basketball charges hard
since the Christmas holidays in order
to work the "Christmas" out of them
right quick and In order to whip his
charges into perfect shape before the
conference schedule starts on January
31 In Abilene. Coach Myers states
that it has been bard to get practice
games for this month. However he
is still trying and to date has man-
aged to book three practice games
before the conference schedule starts.
Two of these games are to be played
in Alpine against Sul Ross on Janu
ary 23 and 24. The other game will
be played tomorrow night just previ
ous to the final game of the Daniel
Baker Invitation Tournament.
Billies Looking Well
This scribe has kept an eye on the
Billies' practice sessions for the past
week or so and most every day they
look rather promising in the scrim-
mage; other times they didn't look so
well. But practice In the past week
has been especially Impressive which
proves beyond a doubt that the boys
are rounding into sbape and they are
sure to be ready for conference play
when it comes. However this game
tomorrow night has nothing to do
with conference play and the outcome
of it will have no Influence or bearing
whatever on the title chase. San An-
gelo Junior College is reputed to have
a rather strong team and If the Bil-
lies win or lose it will only mean that
they won or lost another ball game.
A win over the Angeloans would
stamp the Billies as serious conten-
ders for the Texas Conference crown
and a loss would mean nothing be-
cause there are still approximately
thiee weeks in which to build a team
before encountering conference teams.
The whole squad will undoubtedly
sec action against San Angelo tomor-
low night and those destined to see
the most action are J. J. McDanlel
(captain) Jake McCulley Charlie
Chranc Nub Payne Carl McCurdy
Beans Morris and Hubert Davenport.
BANDGOESTO
TON AND HOW
url Williams Directs Daniel
Baker Band In Variety Pro
gram Wednesday In Chapel.
Burl Williams director of the Dan-
iel Baker band presented his musi-
cians in what was acclaimed as be-
ing tbe most entertaining chapel pro-
gram of the year Wednesday morn-
ing. The entire chapel hour was giv-
en over to tbe band and a varied
musical program featuring groups
soloists and the entire organization
was rendered. This program marked
a highlight in the history of Daniel
Baker's band and removed all doubt
that this group of musicians Is one
of the finest ever developed in Brown-
wood. The program was not lengthy but
each number on tbe list was executed
with the ease and polish worthy of a
much larger and more experienced
organization. The arrangements of
several of the numbers were novel
and demonstrated in excellent man
ner the talents of Director Williams
and bis lads for securing unusual and
striking interpolations.
Presenting "Victory March" as ov-
erture the saxophone section was
given the spot In the following num-
ber "Anchors Awelgh." The number
was handled ably by Albert Miller
Burl Strickland and John T. William-
son. This number waa followed by
two novelty arrangements "Pop Goes
the Weasel" and "Old McDonald" in
which the clarinet section trombones
bases and brasses were featured in
rapid succession. The next number
was "Woods in Autumn" overture.
The last number was "Go North-
western" a march. As an encore the
band rendered "Peruna" with the cla-
rinets and trumpets going to town oa
the final bars.
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for students injured while working on
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