The Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 8, Ed. 1, Thursday, January 31, 2008 Page: 12 of 12
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January 31 2008
Page 12
Jan. '35: Hoops Slime Letter to Pa Campusology
Back Pag
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With this issue of the
Yellow Jacket we start a
new semester at Howard
Payne and we'll inves-
tigate a new semester
-that of the Spring 1935
as reported in the Jan. 1 1
1935 Yellow Jacket.
The front-page headline
reported the hard-fought
men's basketball loss to
Tarleton Junior College
the previous Wednesday.
The "Plowboys" out-
pointed the Jackets 39-
34 in the home and sea-
son opener. The reporter
observed "the home team
showed up much better
than had been expected
however and did well to
hold the long and lanky
Plowboys to such a small
lead. The visitors threw
everything except the
kitchen stove around all
night and looked good
enough to whip any team
in the Texas Conference
at the drop of the hat.
"... The Gold and Blue
did not look like a cham-
pionship team but they
looked plenty good for
the first game of the year.
Their passing was erratic
and their general floor
work can stand a bit of
improvement but if they
stay in there and battle as
they did ... they won't be
so far from the top in the
final standings."
In a related story it was
revealed that the basket-
ball team was composed
primarily of sophomores.
Coached by Joe Bailey
Cheaney it was hoped
that "the Jackets will
have the most successful
Robert Mangrum
University
Chronicles
team that they have had
in many seasons." Of
the 20 players the roster
1 1 were sophomores five
were juniors and three
were seniors.
In other front-page sto-
ries it was noted that the
spring semester was to
officially begin on Jan.
21; HPC was in transi-
tion from the term plan
to the semester system
and finals were slated
for Thursday-Saturday
of the upcoming week.
A final exam schedule
was included in the story.
Registration was to be
conducted Monday and
Tuesday. "Schedules will
be available the latter part
of next week so that stu-
dents may choose their
courses before registra-
tion." The Howard Payne
Hour (a precursor of
Baptist Student Missions)
announced its organiza-
tion and election of offi-
cers for 1935. The pur-
pose was to "interest the
laymen or students in
school other than minis-
ters and missionaries in
religious activities. The
sponsors of the organiza-
tion ... say it is not for
ministerial students ...
but rather for the wide-
awake and conscientious
students to advance the
cause of Christ." The HP
Hour was slated to meet
every other Thursday
from 7-8 p.m.
The HP Players reported
their recent entertainment
at Mrs. Leta N. Shelton's
on Saturday evening
Jan. 5. The "affair" was
described as an oyster
supper with games and
prizes awarded.
Quoting Paul Harvey
"Page Two." One finds
several editorials and a
very entertaining column
reporting campus going-
ons at colleges across the
country. There was also
a movie review column
that reported the follow-
ing movies were playing
at the Lyric Theater in
downtown Brownwood:
"The Painted Veil"
with Greta Garbo
"Helldorado" starring
Richard Arlen and Madge
Evans "Dr. Monica"
with Kay Francis. The
midnight show featured
"Anne of Green Gables"
with Anne Shirley.
Perhaps the most enter-
taining item on Page Two
was a weekly column enti-
tled "Slime Letter to Pa."
It begins "1 neigh onto got
into trubble this morning;
yuh see I tuck Airybelle
to see Bung Crosley the
radio man in a picture
and I forgot to look over
my history and I told mis-
sus Shelton long tenured
HPC history teacher that
the battl of Moscow was
a fight between a feller an
a water buffalo."
Page Three continued
the general theme of
reporting national news
and information. Of
these numerous stories
the column titled "Value
of a college career is
questioned" caught this
reader's eye. Frederick P.
Keppel president of the
Carnegie Corporation
questioned "the ability of
America to pay for ques-
tionable results of educa-
tion - a price reckoned
'not only in money but in
the years of youth.'"
Noting in his paper that
"although thousands of
young persons profit annu-
ally from college study
as American colleges are
organized it is a question
whether the game has
proved to be worth the
candle. The United States
is the only country in the
world in which it has been
assumed that four years
of post-secondary nonvo-
cational sic training - in
a word a college educa-
tion - should be the rule
instead of the rather rare
exception for its young
men and women."
Keppel continued point-
ing "out that one-third of
all American college stu-
dents are in separate col-
leges of limited endow-
ment which cannot
attempt the experiments
of the large and wealthy
universities."
On the back page we
THE 2007-2008
YELLOW JACKET STAFF
Editor-in-Chief' Joseph Dunlap
Assistant Editor - Steve Kllingsen
Page Designer - Crystal Rice
Photographers Jennifer Brock Jessica Melendre
Michelle Wilkins Jessica Zaldivar
Reporters - Jonathan Bell Stephen Cox Meagan Caldwell
Meghan Donald Tamatha Haircloth Matt Ramirez
Tricia Rosetty Jessica Willis Kelsey Woodward
Faculty Adviser- Mike Lee
mleehputx.edu
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find in addition to a large
ad for the spring semester
several columns includ-
ing one entitled "Campus
Comments." This col-
umn seems to be the gos-
sip column asking such
questions as "who is the
fair young damsel who is
wearing a beautiful new
diamond ring on the third
finger of the left hand?"
The second column titled
"The Brain Storm" com-
mented on more "mun-
dane" subjects such as the
Howard Payne Hour and
basketball. But we find
this to be good advice:
"It would be advisable to
take a light course load in
the coming spring semes-
ter for campusology sic
will be offered to every-
one at all off periods and
after classes. It will be
out in the open if the
weather permits neath
the trees among the birds
and bees."
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