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PLAN NOW
SPECIAL TO
COMMKKiB
NOV. f
THE CAMPUS CHAT
VOLUMN XIX
NORTH TEXAS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE. DENTON. TEXAS, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1984
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armistice program
wh1 be presented
by t. c. u. students
STUDENT COUNCIL
IUdei InfclflLlfr urni or PL\llMI<T}
MEETING SUNDAY!
SPECIAL Ml'SIC
ttKLATIONS ( M B PLANS TO
(ilVK PROGRAM AS PART
OF WORI.DWIOK MOVE
The two units of the International
Relations Clul> of Texas Christian
I'nivcrsity will give a special Ariins
lice I lay program at 4:0(l> p. m., Sun-
day, November II. in the Auditorium
ol the North Texas- State Teachers
( 'ollege.
The program is sponsored by the
Student Christian Association of
Teacher College, and the Student
Christian Association of Texas State
< ollege for Women will also lie guests
id' the organization. Both colleges
and towns| pie aiv invited to at-
tend.
Gene Cox, Richard I'oll and Gail
Walley of TC.ll. will speak on phases
of world peace, on the subject, "Muni-
tion Makers, Th • War Gods," after
which Dr. \\ J. Hammond, faculty
sponsor of ( nit 1, will conduct an
open-forum. Music will be furnished
hy the college orchestra under the
direction of Kloyd lira hail), a special
vocal group under the direction of
Miss Lillian Parrill, and organ and
piano specials hy Anna Mary H«-\ i 11
and I .eta Wood, student secretary of
the Methodist Church. Following the
program, a dinner will l>e served the
Kurt Worth visitors in the Mary Ar
den Lodge.
Miss Margaret Crawford, president
of the Teachers College Student
Christian Assoc iation, will preside.
Members of the S.C.A. are to obtain
Courtesy Squad card- from ushers
at the door.
The International Relations Club
i- one of the largest on the T.C.I!,
campus, so many students taking an
active interest that il ha been foun I
necessary to organi/.e two units. It
is one group in a world-wide move
mint, the purpose of which is to 01
ganizc college students into diseus
sion groups dealing with current proi
lems. This movement is one phase
ol the work of the Carnegie Kndow
ment for World Peace, and its in-
fluence is Iteirifr felt in 2ii countries
\v':erc (here are at the present time
697 local clubs. There are at least
ten such clubs in Texas.
"The purpose ot the Carnegie Kn
ilowinent in undertaking this work
is to educate and enlighten public
opinion. It is not to support any
single view as to how lies I treat the
conditions which now prevail through-
out I hi' world, but to fix the atten-
tion of students on those underlying
principles of international conduct,
of international law. and of inter
national organization which must be
agreed upon if peaceful civilization is
to continue." This statement is made
by Nicholas Murray Butler, I'resi
dent of the Columbia University, and
also director of the Carnegie Kndow
ment.
The Youths' Korum, presented each
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CON STIT1 'TION AI H)PTK I >
I.AST YKAR TO HE
CONTINUED
Work is to be resumed .soon on the
organization and putting <oto effect
of the Co-operative College Planning,
which was begun last yeai with the
adoption of the charter the Rtu-
uent Coui i d. the administi at ive body
fo* the iilan. President W. I Mc-
Connell stated in an int'!i'" *w this
week. He said, "It is my desire to
see the organization perfected and its
work started at I he beginning of the
second semester this year."
The constitution which va- accep-
ted m a vote by the student body
and faculty last year, like that of
the federal government, is brief and
general, rather than elaborate and
specific. Its nine articles make the
following provisions: the name, mem-
bership qualifications, organization
proceedings, organization of student
body, organization of Student Coun-
cil, meeting of the planning groups,
duties of the Council, financial or
rangements, and adoption and pro
eedurc following the adoption.
Because of various interruptions in
activities during the spring and sum-
mer terms, the charter could not be
put into effect, and it.- actual activi-
ties were postponed until this year.
The formulator* of the constitute u
were actuated hy the belief that the
most productive work of an inntitu-
tion as a whole is accomplished by
close co-operation between students
and faculty, and it also acted undi i
the belief that a representative form
of government should lie delegated
rather than exercised in detail by
its constituents.
Costumes For The
Witch Are Being"
Made By Home Ec.
noted turkish woman
steaks to snmins
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SHERMAN'S WAR
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WAS CHILD'S PLAY
TO ' 14-'I 8 FRAY
T. C. Library Has
Over 52,560 Books
hi CoHection Now
EARLY CURRICULA
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FORMED STANDARD
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COURSES FOR ALL
I ndei the direction of Misses Rots
Pearman anil Muriel Williams, of the
home economics department the cos
tunics for "The Witch" are being
made. They are assisted in this
work by Kric Mai shall and Anna
Mae Hudson, senior home economics
majors Other students of the home
economics department are also work
tug on the costumes.
The costumes are authentic lilth
century attire. Reading characters
ore to he clothed in suitable materials
•atins, velvets, with trimmings of
metal lace, while other characters
with speaking parts, as well as those
in the mob scene, will be dressed
appropriately, according to their res-
pective positions in this portrayal
of the life of a Pith century Nor-
wegian town.
Approximately fifty costumes are
to lie made for the production of
" I he Witch," which will be given by
the College Players on December ti.
Courses H ould Take 34 Years
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Hard Work In Every Field of T. C. Curricula
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If Student Were To I.earn All
"War is Hell," said Sherman, but
what did he know about war? Ac-
cording to the evidence which has
been gathered by the Historical Col-
lection, the Civil War was just a back-
yard mud fight. Just read some of
the ^5(1 World War letters telling of
teal hardships. You might also get
some information from the newspap-
ers of tdiat period What would Sher-
man have said about war if he had
seen a shell like the one from Big
BerthaThis shell now reclines
peacefully and harmlessly in the cen-
ter of the south wing of the museum.
tiermaii rifles adorn the west wall
of this section, but strange as it
scorns, the museum has not been able
to secure any American rifles. An
American and a German machine gun
I point menacingly in the general direc-
tion of the door. It might add en
chantinent to state that these guns
are in shooting condition. A little
i sister to the German gun is the
smaller airplane machine guns which
rests benignly with its shells inside
the center glass case. French. Kng
lish. German, and American bayonets
are displayed in the south case.
Other ease- contain hand grenades,
rifle bullets, spurs, stirrups, canteens,
fowl containers, identification tags,
ami some dilapidated sergeant's chev-
rons.
I>id you know the College had a
t raining camp for students on the
< ampus? Its service flag is among
the souvenirs. Various German.
Krench, and American medals are
grouped near a piece of hard tack, a
type of bread or cracker eaten by the
soldiers. Could the implication be
(that they deserved a medal for eat-
ing this nail-like substance? Drab
uniforms of officers, flying cadets, and
doughboys, hang forlornly in a case
with uniforms of other war periods.
If you ever design hats, you might
get some ideas from the helmets of
American and Krench privates or
from the Get man. Prussian, and Kng
lish dress helmets.
Foreign language students might
like to attempt to read the war pos-
ters of various countries which dec-
orates the southeast corner of the
'museum. Grotesque gas masks and
trench lanterns stare at you with
glassy eyes but finally you come to
a copy of the treaty of peace which
reminds you that the Great World
War has been ended.
TWO MKMBKRS TO BK
SELECTED FOR FORI M
By Alvin R. Irby
Should you be interested in taking
every course in the College, and are
able to go every year, passing five
courses each semester, it will take
you exactly thiny four years anil
one six w vk* sumnter session to
complete the entire list of courses of-
fered in the current catalog Of
course, if other departments or
courses are adiled by the College dur-
ing the next thirty-four years, addi-
tional time might be required to com
plete them.
The eighteen (k'partments of the
College offer a total of U42 semesters
of work, The fewest semesters of
work is offered in physics, in which
nine courses are available; the most
courses offered are in foreign lan-
guage, in which forty semesters work
may be t aken, including Spanish. Rat in
French, and German. The physical
education department, with thirty -
two courses, ranks second in the num-
lier of semester work available, and
the Knglish and education depart
mcnts run closely for third and
fourth places, the education depart-
ment leading by two semesters with
twenty-seven offered, ami the Kng-
lish department offering twenty-
five.
When the thirty-four years is com
pleted, the energetic student would
have completed the requirements for
the bachelor of arts, bachelor of
science, and bachelor of music de-
grees, and for the permanent high
school and for several sjiecial voca1
tional certificates.
The departments and semesters
work offered in the catalog arc as
follows; art, II; biology, 17; business
administration, 18; chemistry, 16;
economics, 12; education, 27; Kng-
lish, 26; foreign language, 40; geog-
tory, 23; home economics, 20; in-
dustrial education, 18; mathematics.
Ifl; music. 21, physical education,
.'<2; physics, 0. ami speech. 12.
raphy, 15; government, 11; his-
The Forum Council lias now been
completed, with the exception of two
members who are to be elected from
the senior class, according to Bessie
Pearl Payne, presiilent.
The elected representatives are
juniors, Evelyn Lewis, Dixie Overton
and Gertrude Payne; sophomores,
Margaret Krisby, Chlotilde Hall and
Annette Reatherwood, and freshmen,
Mary Strothers, Virginia Thoma- and
Robbie Hayes.
Officers of the Council are Bessie
Pearl Payne, president; Caramel
Pittinger, vice-president; Mary Kloise
Wilson, secretary; Cindy Rusfcing,
treasurer; Kathryn Knits-, Campus
('hat reporter.
Both students and faculty use
the Library more and more as
years go by. Something over
52.500 volumes have been acces-
sioned since the collection was
started, acording to the libra-
rians. About 6,000 of this num-
ber be lungs to the Demonstra-
tion Shool. The circulation last
school year, not counting the
Demonstration School, whs 214,-
593. This would mean an aver-
age of over seventy books to
every student in school, count-
ing the year's enrollment at or
near 3,000.
The librarian has seven regular
assistants, four regular student
assistants who wcrk by the hour,
and four KKRA helpers, all of whom
are kept busy serving the student
body, and keeping the library in order.
Besides the accessioned volumes,
about 26ti magazines and eight news-
papers come regularly to the Ribrary.
Bound volumes of the New York
Times, with indexes in 1019, lielong
to the Ribrary The Library also
has on file thousands «f public docu-
ments, both State and Federal, num
erous pamphlets, and clippings, many
of which are in daily use.
Pride is felt not only in the large
library collection but in its quality
for all the departments of the Col-
lege; some departments are espec-
ially full and excellent.
The Ribrary is open from 7:46 in
the morning until 9:00 in the evening
on every school day during the long
session, and from (R4I5 in the morning
until 9:00 in the evening during the
summer session, except 'bat it closes
at 6 o'clock on Saturdays,
Mrs. Pearl McCracken is head of
a trained and efficient stafT of li-
brarians. Those who make up the
personnel of the staff are Misses
Elaine Adams, Rottie Brashears,
Rucile Crutcher. Roberta Moss. Mny-
dcll Wallace, Mrs Rois B. Knox, and
Mrs. Mary Swindle.
Students who are earning a part
of their college expenses by working
in the Ribrary are Margaret Roller,
Denton; Weldon Norman, Rule; Ar-
ville Raytoti, Winnsboro; George Neal,
Denton; Joelln Kretsinger, Kort
Worth; Mary Ruth Newsom, Spring
ton; Evelyn McGaughy, Noeona; and
Reeman Yeager, Denton.
Efficiency Will
Be Discussed By
House Presidents
There has l>een a time in the his-
tory of Teachers College when every
student entering the College was
made to sign a pledge stating that
he would teach in Texas schools for
at least the length of time he spent
as a student in the College. So pa-
triotic was the State at that time
that no one from any stat-- other than
Texas could enter the school unless
he liecame a Texas citizen and signed
the teaching pledge. This informa-
tion was contained in one of the first
catalogues issued here, to which a
Chat reporter was referred when in-
terviewing Dr. W. H. Bruce on Cur-
ricula this week.
According to Dr. Bruce and the
first catalogues, there was only one
course offered for th< first several
years of this school's existence, from
1901 to 1909, each student being re-
quired to take the whole prescribed
course, with the exception of an op-
tion of science (biology or chemistry)
or Ratin. The subjects prescribed
included a few elementary classes in
mathematics, a fairly thorough course
in Ratin, science, physical geography,
physics, physiology, biology and
chemistry, rudimentary Knglish gram-
mar classes and only one in litera
ture, history, civics, geography, edu-
cation, management, primary methods,
general psychology, and a few aes
thetic classes in such subjects as
music, drawing, and penmanship, to-
gether with reading and spelling,
crowded in somewhat during the
week. All these wrre included in a
year's work, the session being divided
into four terms, insU-ad of the tow-
that are now in effect.
In Decern her 1911, the Board of
Regents made the College a four in-
stead of a three-year school, and at
the same time revised the one course
with the one option, making five
courses, of which a student had to
take all the subjects prescribed in
any certain one. These were named
the agriculture, industrial arts, lan-
guage. science, and primary and art
courses. The next year, the indus-
trial arts were divided into manual
training and home economics, and in
1U14, a history-English course wns
added. ( omparatively soon, however,
this system was abandoned and the
major-minor and elective method of
si curing a degree wa; adopted.
MARYS TO SEND
DELEGATE TO AUSTIN
A l/AO^Q
AV68U lilnlftl
k Dw Editors
d«7 mavamIiai1 1
Dj IwtCRIWI iv
All material for the winter issue
of the A vesta will be due by the
middle of November, according to a
statement by John Shelton, editor
for the year. The literary magazine
will be given to students on the Cam-
pus about the last of December.
Associate editors appointed by
Shelton arc E. J. Rargent and Mary
Jo Slaughter. Kenneth Hunt of the
urt department will again be in
charge of the art work. The decora-
tions will be done largely by students
in the \lepartment instead of the fac-
ulty as was formerly customary.
A standard size for the magazine
to be adopted for all future books is
to Ik- determined with this first issue.
There will lie three divisions of the
material: the short story, essay, and
poetry. However, there will be no
special department for freshman
essays this year. Prizes will be of-
fered for the best contribution in each
department, but these arrangements
are not yet definite, Shelton stated.
Dr. F. M. Darnall replaces Bliss
Mattie Ella Cravens as faculty spon-
sor.
MARY SWEET IS
GUEST SPEAKER
AT ALPHA Cll
Miss Mary Sweet spoke on
"Scholars in th Making" at the
annual dinner and initiation cere-
monies of the W. H. Bruce Chapter
ef Alpha Chi, national scholarship
society, last Thursday evening,
j "The true scholar does not try to
follow the paths of least resistance,"
Miss Sweet pointed out, "but he at-
tempts to delve into the mysterious
;difficult. To study and learn is a
pleasure for him. His studying does
i not end when he finishes his formal
schooling; it has just begun." Mia*
Sweet then mentioned Dr. W. H.
Bruce as a fine example of the true
scholar who devotes his life to study
and learning.
Following Miss Sweet's talk the
formal initiation ceremonies took
place. The following new members
were initiated:
To Junior Membership; Pauline
Crittenden, Mary Rouise Kloyd, Ed-
win Foster, R. A. Glenn, Florence
Huff, Oleta Miller, Lloyd Shaw, Paul
Stringer, Howard Stubbletield, and
Mary Jo Wilkins.
To Senior Membership; Kathryn
Barnes, H. R. Graham, Tressie Mar-
riott, and Suzanne Swenson.
To Graduate Membership: Callie
Miller.
Caroline Currio was raised from
Junior to Graduate Memliership; and
Willie Jones, Addic Millican, Helen
Owen, ami Richard Peterman from
Junior to Senior Membership.
Mrs. Maude Moore, who was un-
uble to be present, was elected to
Junior Membership
0FAJCW1UMV
RELATMB
ASM
EAST
TIENCE,
MENT.
"Turkey that was once a
empire, an empire baaed on the <
traditions, is a young
to the west," said
noted young Turkish
■paalur at the regular
Wedoeaday.
"Turkey accepted Eaatern culture;
they imported Persian
words, and no man was
cultured unless he could
Persian and Arabic lenfiiaiee Wa
wanted an empire just aa big and as
powerful aa Greece and Italy, for
the Turk had been cruahad betweea
the East and the Weat. His empire
was neither totally Weetera nor
totally Eastern." aha said.
Miss Ekram stated that the Tovfc
turned his back to the Weat
of hia different culture;
went away of hia own.
"Soon a new civiUaatfcw cam*
left us behind, and wa did net
to see the West 90 ahead of ue. The
World War ended the Ottoman
Empire. Unfortunately, we fought
with Germany."
The speaker related the happenings
of a war with Greece in
country was defeated.
"A new Turkey
dent from frontier la frontier. A
series of drastic forms appeared hi
Turkey. A
adopted. We havnn la
customs, and created a new
Miss Ekrem pointed out that Turkey
has changed everything throughout
the nation. The people were foreed
to learn their A B Cs, from the priaM-
minister to the street
small child to the
"Together with the letters, wv
are learning how to fall in love, how
to get along with one wife instead of
four, and how to wear a hat iaetead
of a veil. In fact, the whole nation
depends a great deal on the hat, nd
th* styles of Paris are very im-
portant in Turkey."
She said that if Turkey was chant-
ing, it was because she wanted to
change, and because she wanted to
change.
"When I was a little girl, evory
woman was forced to wear a veil. She
could not appear in any public
without it Now the girls
just as you do, and the movies are
so crawded with women thnt the men
complain that they cannot find places
themselves.
During the World War the women
demanded the rights of higher equa-
tion. and were refused. Now the
University that refused these women
have three young women profeeeors."
Miss Ekrem stated that Turkey
now has the rights of religious free-
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TO
DALLAS
Mrs. Myrtle Hardy of the speech
department, accompanied by several
mem tiers of the College Players, will
go to Dallas Friday to see Maxwell
Anderson's "Elizabeth, The Queen,"
presented by th" Dallas Little Thea-
ter. The first performance of the
play was given Monday evening.
House Presidents' Club will meet
this afternoon, November 8, at 4
o'clock in the College Club House.
Roll call will Ih> answered by "some
thing my house has done socially."
A club singing, led by Dixie Over-
ton. accompanied by I^enora Rigon,
will be one of the program features,
and Wilma Jo West will sing a vocal
solo.
The subject for round table discus-
sion will be, "Increasing Student
Efficiency Through Co-operation."
Bonnie Sue Reynolds will apply this
topic to "Our Campus Homes." "In
the Class Room" will be discussed
by Gene Lackey, and Grace Billie
Hardee will treat the theme "In the
Library, Auditorium, and About the
Campus."
Hostesses will lie Ronnie Hamilton.
Jane Wilson, Mary Ona Corder.
Gladys Pipes. Krances Hammer, Vir-
ginia Karle Rose, and Sybil Ellis
The Mary Arden club will send a
delegate and an alternate to the Sen-
1 ate Convention of Federated Women's
Clubs which is to be held at Austin,
it was decided at a meeting of the club
Monday evening. Mrs. Fred Minor,
president of the City Federation of
Womens ('lubs was guest s|ieaker of
the evening.
Mrs. Minor took as the theme of
her discussion the value of cluhwork
and the importance of federated
clubs. Other features of the program
were a club sing-song led by Iris
Tunnell with Anna Mary Bevill ac-
companying at the piano, and a di
cussion of parliamentary procedure
by Jim Richardson.
TO HAVE SrPPER
Young Chat Reporter Knows
••••aaaeee
Who Is Going To Be Our Next PreMent
Who Will Choose Favorites
A six o'clock supper will be served
members of the K. D. Crlddle His-
torical Society at the Country Club
Tuesday evening, following which a
program will be presented.
All members sre to assemble in
front of the Administration Building
at 6:80 o'clock on that day: transpor-
ts! ion will be furnished everyone de-
siring to attend.
The ambitious young reporter edged
nearer to the man on the park bench.
"A-mmmh," he ventured.
"Hello!" said the man.
"I'm a a reporter from the—
Campus Chat uh " the represen-
tative haltingly informed him.
The man on the bench hitched his
coat absently and turned a casual eye
op the ambitious one.
"Yes?" he inquired.
"And- and You see—I'm mak-
ing a sort of -of survey. I find out
things, that is . . ." The reporter
paused hopefully.
"Indeed*"
"Uh—yes."
A pause.
"Well." demanded the man im-
patiently. "what do you want to find
out?"
"Uh—well- you see—"
"No."
"I mean- well, who's going to win
the World Series? I mean, who do
you think will—"
The man on the bench gaaed calmly
at a group of pigeons circling above.
"Eddie Cantor" he said.
Our reporter eyed the man in a
somewhat abashed manner.
"Well," he muttered, "well—"
No reply.
"Well, then, who's going to he our
next president?"
The man did not heaitnte.
Cantor," he avowed in a hi
masterful voice.
The ambitious reporter gulped, bat
continued bravely.
"Who will win
Award?"
"Eddie Cantor."
"Who will get the Davis Cup?*
"Eddie Cantor,"
The reporter, at
pressed his hand tightly
forhead and, betweet
ssked: "Who the devil
"Why," announced «
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