The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 25, 1934 Page: 4 of 6
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PAGE FOUR
THE J-TAC
Recreation at Tarleton During the Past
Few Years Has Been Varying Diversion;
Recreation Building Under Construction
With the construction of a rec- to Tarleton have been Will Da-
rant, eminent philosopher; Jose
phus Daniels, statesman; Sir
Pliillip Ben Greet and his Shakes-
uearean players; Tom Skeyhill,
author and lecturer; the United
States Marine Band; Tonv Sard's
reation building well under way
at John Tarleton College it seems
that the school recreation bug
has taken a sudden change in
the process of metamorphosis. In
fact the school year of 1933-34
has been a year of a rapid change
in the growth of the bug. But
generally the means of recrea-
jion for people connected with the
college have been so near alike
from year to year that the
ahang'e is scarcely noticeable. It
is only by going ha eft eight or
ten years that the activities of
the student body seem at all
strange to present students.
Ten years ago, the' recreation
bug was in its earliest stages.
At that time, there were only
two formal events of the school
year; the faculty reception for
college students and the junior-
senior banuuet. These two af-
fairs were held every year and
both were well attended. Espec-
ially was the junior-senior ban-
quet a much looked-forward-to
occasion. At this time, the sen-
iors came forth in all their pomp
to show the rest of the school
that the seniors were the only
really important persons in the
school. The juniors, however, did
not agree with the seniors, but
believed that the juniors were
the real aristocrats of the college.
However, the two classes re-
mained ojj friendly terms and it
was only the sophomores and
* freshmen that were left out en-
tirely. The only other yearly af-
fair held regularly at that time
was the Halloween party. As Is
now the custom, all students and
faculty members of the college
were invited to attend. At var-
ious timet: in- the past few years,
the party has been held outside.
But as a rule, the clowns, devils,
witches, girl cadets, and numer-
ous other theretofore unheard of
and hence unnamble spirits had
to toot their horns and play their
pranks inside the gymnasium.
The one form ot recreation
most resorted to by students
ten years ago was picnics. Pic-
nics were- held by companies ir.
the cadet corps and when all of
the companies had had their pic-
nics, they would fifjJit up into
platoons and each platoon v.'-mid
then have its own picnic. The
college farm has proved thru the
years to be the ir.*)st popular
place for the picnics to be held.
There are other places; Green
Creek and Handy's Park, that
have been the scene of many a
picnic, hut the sercat majflritv
have been held at the farm.
.Whether there was a rule, of tho
college at «,>me fast time re-
nthring that monies lie held the re
i? not knowm but for some rea-
son, the precedent haw been set
end today in any pieces are held
at the farm.
Another extremely popular
event has been the senior break-
fast at the Country Club lake.
It was _ ten rears ago this yeac
that Miss Pear! Mahnn took the
senior class on the first .annual
senior breakfast. That class v/on:
if) the lake, and each year sp'.ce
that time, Miss Mahan has been
g of ri g with the year's graduating
class to have an eaiiv mormn^
breakfast at the lake. This year's
class is planning to keep tr.-
CUstom alive.
Of course, it is understood that.
football games and basketball
games have alwaya been attend
ed in great numbers. And thert
was a day when old King Base-
ball reigned supreme on the
larleton campus. But baseball is
a thing of the past at Tarleton
as far
if.te sport goes. There have been j ,f"lil ±umsn a niace
occasional outbursts of a fad of ! , , . stu(|'?nts *o employ them-
playing indoor baseball, and, only ! f,^'1'vos cither :n work or play
about .three ve&rs ago there ■ tbev do not have classes
were several games in progress ' fi0': w;sh to go to ths
at any time a sufficient nitmhe) I 1 "
of hova could fret awav from ,:J ,'s ,, pPed that the hV-ea-
classcs. ! | " Guiding will be co-r-i^- i
the p-su with few excep- • u ZL ^ IM?sent *"h°oi' vf-u
Experience is Believed to be Greatest
Teacher Since Professors Use Their Own
And Others to Bring Out Desired Point
Who says that experience is
not the greatest teacher of all?
At any rate, it seems that ex-
perience has a great deal to do
with teaching in the schools.
Much o£ this teaching comes
from laboratory work, but the
Marionettes; Henry, the magi- j greatest bit of information that
sian; V. L. Granville, actor and : we recejve from experience comes
impersonator; Cameron McLean, i n0(. from our own experience,
Scotch baritone; and Ellenor Cook, j jjut from those tales that our
internationally known intepreter teachers tell us about themselves,
of folk songs and lore. ^ their acquaintenances, or tales
In the fall of 1933, an entirely (jlaV4 been told to them,
now past-time was offered. That I ge[jorn ti0 we ,v0 to the class
was horseback riding. A student , r00m ;)ut w'nat the teacher has
brought horses here to lent out i highly interesting and en-| to him
his Lpens^f. Although horses ; tertaininfr story to tell us that \ 3eem3
.the famous spike was an ordi
nary railroad spike covered with
gilt. Few people were close
enough at the driving of the
spike to tell what it was and
those few were officials of the
two roads. At any rate, if the
spike was gold, it was replaced '
immediately by an iron one be- I
cause the golden spike has not
been seen since.
Next we go to Military Science j
class where Lieutenant Davis
tells us a very humorous and in- •
formative incident of the Amerl- j
as i can doughboy in Francc, as told j
by and associate. It I
Welcome Students
New and Old
DR. CROMWELL
DENTIST
West Side of the Square
o - r-'lat k'le American's
were sent home on the coming ' best illustrates the point which ' first major offensive, they passed
of winter, they will be brought he is trying to bring to us. ' over enemy barbed wire etltangle-
If we go to English class and ments with a speed and ease that ^
our professor wants to show us baffled the French officers. The
that William Wordsworth and Yankees had only constructed a
Walter Scott were great and frame of wood and poultry wire
close friends and that the Words- which they laid across the wire
worths lived well but sparingly, entanglements, and then had
she does not merely say so in walked across on the frames,
so .many words, hut will tell the The French were so amazed at
following tale. The Wordsworths the ease with which Americans
ate a very scanty breakast. When crossed the entanglements that
Sir Walter Scott came to visit the-v sent a special commission
back in the near future.
But, just as there have been
many and varied forms of re-
cieation, there have also been
restrictions on recreation which
now seem comical. For instance,
the playing of bridge was abso-
lutely taboo. To play such a
game was strictly against the
rules of the college. Another re-
striction was that no special per-
mits were given to clubs to
sponsor picture shows. Now,
scarcely a week goes by but that
at least one show is sponsored
bv some club or organization.
No students were allowed to at-
tend home economics luncheons
—only faculty members. And, even
until this very year, dancing
was "a high crime" and punish-
able by suspension of the guilty
parties from the college.
But now that 1934 has rolled
around and dancing .has become
quite., the thing, and the Recrea-
tion building is being erected, it
seems as if the recreation bug
may come out of his cocoon and
flan his wings. And well it may.
The college glances are attended
en masse and the only reason
there are not as many teachers
as there are students at them
is that there are more students
■it school than there are teachers.
Work was begun Monday,
January 1, on a Recreation
Building to be erected adjoining
Dr. S. D. Naylor
OFFICE PHONE 130
residence 3o
WELCOME
PARENTS, EX-STUDENTS,
and FUTURE STUDENTS
Visit Our Fountain
PALACE
Confectionery
Prompt Curb Service
the east wall of the College I wt>!'ds. but it shows how. she
them, he, too, ate the scanty to the front t0 investigate
breakfast, but he also took ;■ matier- t!le doughboys carried
long walk each morning before S^11, frames with them, the
breakfast. In reality; Scott would Fren(m conwiikee found no clue
walk over the meadows to the 0,1(1 re turned the verdict that the
village znn unrf eat a hearty entan^it'"K-1|Ui offered no resis-
breakfast there and then return !?nc<Vto, tlle Americans because
to the Wordsworth cottage and j , , s K'ei'6 °f such height
eat with his friends. One mora- 1 * ! ""ch. io.n" }e%B-
Wordsworth determined to ■ ? s£ ,5t is 'n ftny c'ass we
go with Scott on his early morn- ft ? • what better way is
ing: walk. Try as he might, Scott 1'Z ? „ c ollt a P°int than
could not cause Wordsworth to 'j/^rate . There is none. And
change his mind nor could he beer * iLr wa7 is there to
Wordsworth to ^ake any path Into . \ „bv telling some
except the one which Jed bv ! iii- 3t01'v • A£ain, there is
the inn As the two friends ap-
proached the inn, Seatt tried to
hurry past. In spite of Scott's
efforts to avoid embarrassment,
the innkeeper ruined hrs scheme
by calling to the two passersby,
"Oh, Mr. Scott, we missed vou
at breakfast this morning." That
is not in the teacher's own
none.
Stephenville Service
Station
"Good Gulf Products"
A. B. COX and SONS
Attendants
Phone 87
J. T. A. C.
Filling Station.
Store. Tim project is a un't of
thy CWA program to be built
bv CWA labor from material to
be furnished by the college. The
building is to have a south front
of 59.1. feet and an east
frontage of 80.2 feet. It will
open directly into the College
Store and will be amply illumi-
nated and ventilated by windows
"■in ilu' south and east walls.
The building is to be constructed
>,>f native rock cxcavated from
nropertv of the College, walls
to be 20 inches thick and to be
WroximrHely ! 5 feet high.
The Recreation Building will
enclose a large open floor which
will be between two-thirds and
"hree-fourth as large as the floor
n the College Gymnasium, a
Vt"lienette, and boys' and girls'
'.oak rooms. Such are the pre
-ent plans, subject, however," to
"svisit. There nrobably will be
' <i.iie-icin!s equipment and othi_i
'ames in the hall with which
the students of the College may
'•mnlov themselves. The building
is to have a hardwood floor. ■ antl wefit
'•'This project vill be a een- 5c"°'v-- It i,
trai location nlace for students Jj"
while off duty for rest, recrea-
ion, and study throughout the
'Eiv. It will also be used in the
■venii'gs as a meeting place for
:£«rfe U-?., faculty. cZuhs. and other
iocial activities. The building- will
iccomodath approximate!" tUOO
eople during the day," reads
application to the liehoi
would bring out the point.
Then we might go the class in
Railroad Curvy.; where Mr. Do-
rernu® teHss us a highly interest-
ing hit of fact that is opposed
to the popular and inaccura^
ideas he'd as to the eomaletion
of the hrst transcontinental rai'-
roau. According to Mr, Doremus
who M v.-ell read on the subject'
the two railroads whose tracks
are supposed to have met with
a great celebration were actually
strong competitors and, tVv de
Rifled to foiu their tracks' onlv
when rney were compelled ra by
Cong-rea3l Tfc seems that th^
!>f Uj )S reCelV?d a cel'tai" amount
LI eIther ^'de ^eir
track for e.-erv miJe
tfiey put down. When Con<rr„i'5 !
' tr?d the ^ to!
' tracks, they we,G |
°ast each other ant1 ]
McDonald Drug-
Sfere
WELCOME
Parents, Fx-Students, and
Future Students
West Side Square
Siddons Auto Parts
IF IT'S FOR A CAR
WE HAVE IT
Phone 375
Connec
actually
I5r„ A. 0, Cragwall
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office Over Perry Bros,
Complete X-Ray Kquipment
Residence i'hone 29&
Office Phone 213
F"°
hfihly °p?;bBb?e thai '
City Barber Shop
Hair Cuts jgc
Shaves 15c
Perry Bros,, Inc.
5-10-25c STORE
South Side Square
Headquarters for
School Supplies.
the
towry & Harro]]
Fancy and Staple
Groceries
PHONE 19
Commission. The Kecreation
ar as being an inter-cot!eg- 'Ui'ding will not bo open to the
sport goes. There have been ! out will furnsh a nlaco
Tn
tions, toe Gr-issburr staff"m' bl ^ny ^wil!
held a carnival in the gy^a! i Sn/VS collet
,-lum, usually on or near April I ! finished rt 1 rn • ' 1(" !j!
there to be a druma- | stone building v-m
t-c club known as the T. J. j Iaree open floor, ■= kit-hep^t?
Actors that hehl regularly an- nd boys' and girls'' doa'
nounced _ program., A similar^ will not only
nt cnt^vt'-n'n^cnt of- i fr,r evening entcrfinmoi^
y ,t!'e Fine Art* cinb, wfu iJf! l[sed by th; °"e
which at that time gave regular . eolloge during t|v> /Jt,,
monthly urograms. j. Truly, it seems tw , . ..
Still another form ri enter- lr Tarleton has had" a ji!<4rv
tainrnent is the lycpum course, ' ^ its own, bul evi
WELCOME
PARENTS, EX-STl'DENT5
AND F L'TL" RE STUDENTS
Make our store your
Headquarters
Dr. J. S. Nutt
DENTIST—X-RAY
Special Attention Given Oral
Prophylaxis and Treating
Pyorrhea
Office Over A. & P. Store
Office Ph. 123 Res. Ph. >119
Armstrong and
White
Dry Cleaners
Phone 254
WE KNOW HOW
Service Drug
Rexall Xtors
which is pre-arranged each yea.
In the years gone by there hav_
been many notable performers ~
snd entertainers of the very best
on the Tarleton stage as a navt
of this lyceum course, fh-obably
the most outstanding lyceum
ever given at Tarleton was the
concert ten years ago by the
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Among the most popular ly-
Ceum entertainers ever to come
-ven now, ft
b6 ^ «* * « '
m
A. D. Fulbrig-ht
Realty Co.
Keal Estate—Rentals—-Loans
and Leases
Office Ph. 330—p, O. Box 532
COMFTON'S
CASH STORE
Geminil Hardware
and
Headquarters far
Fishing Tackle
Phone 136
THE LADIES STORE
Everything In Ladies Wearing
Apparrel
THE NEW THINGS FIRST
South Side Square
Farmers First National
Bank
OYER A QUARTER CENTURY OF SUCCESSFUL
BANKING.
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