Weatherford College Coyote (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 29, 1929 Page: 2 of 4
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“Son of the Gods”
A
Faculty Advisor-------L. A. Allison
The Dean—a wrinkle perplexing
A me-
the girl who had
types which always drift.
mos; thoroughly.
Why
attendance con-
to participate in an
test at the reunion which
We thank our Alumni sub-
The Toreador
The first state win was in
tennis.
its
basketball and then close upon
Caps and Gowns.
champion.
The Shortharn
from turning bitter.
bea.ty is renewed.
The wanderings of Odyssens are
given
being but weeks and his
his years
■The South Texan
And on and er
rest we cannot
iarily characteristic odors of sulphur
dioxide and putrid stench of gases.
The song is ended.
The day is done.
dresses —]
the walks.
not seeking adventure but running
from himself.
Another dream has been dispelled
another ideal weakened and we have
been offered nothing to replace it.
A sensation of quiet, of sadness
of Holv Solemnity.
-puddles of brown water on
went to the auditorium for the I. Q’s.
! and did tlose kaddboied Seniors
, care a bit about whether they pass-
■ ed them or not?
The next thing I remember that
are deeply grateful for every-
thing that has hapened this
year. It has filled the paper
to such a degree that we have
never needed plate.
Loiterers-—drifting on. The
John Erskine has reviewed his at-
tack on the classics with another sa-
tire on Greek Mythology and on no
Vanderbilt’s own divorce experien-
ces.
Dick Stuyvesant and Felicia Brett
have come to Reno for a divorce and
us as a p— --
College. We are supposed,
at least, to act as part of that
next staff just a little more
general ‘cooeration than you
have given us. Some few fa-
culty members and a large
number of students have
helped us, encouraged us, in-
spired us to gather adds and
news every two weeks in the
face of apparent indifference.
But the majority of both clas-
ses have been either utterly in-
different or personally criti-
cal.
We haven’t minded for we
are of the rebel class all of us
“RENO”
“Reno,” by Cornelius Vanderbilt
Jr., is the frankest, most outspoken
book dealing with modern marriage
and divorce, that has been written
in recent years.
It is startling to the conventional
minded who do not know of the
versify and how hot it was.
blend the last time in the School's
Song. Aching hearts give expres-
sion in tears.
forgive either of
Penelope’s Man
will be
| BLURRED PICTURES FFeshman Reminiscence
----- Of 29-‘29.
wet stone of the College Dark
green trees with black trunks..
Grass shedding tears. Deserted ice
cream freezers by the stone bench.
Then sunshine------
And two leng lines of Black and
White leave the Black and Gold
less myth than Hower’s Odessy-
scribers both for their finan-! The new book, “Penelope’s Man,’
rial help and their interest in! stripes Odyssens of his heroic gran-
- part of Weatherford i deur and reveals him as a wander
1 ing, domestic husband.
The style of the book is distinctly
no other reason.
Your next staff may not be
so- They may want encour-
agement and back slapping
and pep rallys; so for the sake
of your paper quit argueing
with you neighbor who pro-
bably knows more than you do
about the matter long enough
to say “Good Paper” to at
least one of the staff. And if
you haven’t breath to waste
post a regulation sign on the
bulletin board every two weeks
and the journalists will pro-
baby be flattered to death.
Flame” Odel Winters kicked those
goals as pretty as any I’ve ever
seen.
Then basketball arrived with all
its glory and how? The student
I body didn’t get interested in basket-
ed it too often we are glad •
that you were a silent suffer-
er for the cause of news. W e
heels came the oratorical contest,
placing Bob Peterson as the state
the character. But as matters
in a rapid moving manner
N. T. A. C. has received her third
state championship. This win was in
are heard f triciious suit of light grey—Mr. Bo-
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Sixteen graduate students are
candidates for the Master of Arts
College this year. Only one of these,
however, seeks the degree at the re-
gular spring commencement. May
27. The others expect the degree in
August.
One hundred and sixty-eight are
candidates for the Bachelor degree
this; year.
not really over. There hasn’t been
nine months of this—But yet—a
lifetime it seems.
The grayish, cool lower hall, girls
walking slowly along—low murmers
of conversation, a sharp pierce of
| laughter. Groups at the bulletin
I board. Nothing new there, but
• groups at the bulletin board never-
theless.
On down the hall. The familiar
black and white signs over the of-
fice doors. Mr. Allison emerging
lope’s Man” Erskine again strikes
the mater of fact note of ‘ Galahad
and “Adam and Eve.” His first sen-
tence states plainly that. “Odyssens
was ten years in getting home from
Troy.” Then he says that Howers
made a hero out of them and was
therefore Odyssens4 best friend.
And so on through the book the
story is told briefly, concisely, with
almost no beauty and with flashes
It is also usually true that what-
ever you want to see, and determine
to see, you do see, whether it is good
or ill, great or small. Try to see th*
big things; make yourself a view-
point that is better than your neigh-
bors and you will go further than he
on the road to success and happiness.
This last bit of obvious moralizm
from the Ward-Delmont Hyphen.
loose living and inthate behaving j
of the people of the “Divorce Mill.”! Then twilight and Vespers. Again
“Reno” is supposed by many to the quiet—the imyressional cere-
be somewhat an autobiography of ) monies. Soft, low music with mur-
muring prayers. Then— Black ano
Gold”—choking, trembling voices
them. I was standing by the Coach
the last few minutes and he told me
personally that those last eighteen
seconds of that game cost him seven
gray hairs. But even that eventful
trip passed and then on Thanksgiving
Day we had to rub Hillsboro’s mug
in the ground before they would be-
lieve we were the best College. Boy,
didn’t ole Harrison role over thse
fellows backs for that touchdown
pretty and then that “Hillsboro
and the “Coyote” has meant
not school honor but indivi- !"e
dual pleasure to every staff anl
member. We have worked
because we wanted to and for
Who controls public opinion? from room 4. A gray suit, a red
Of course there are several factors, * rose bud in his lapel and 3 sheet of
but it is generally agreed that the ’ paper in his mouth. His never fail-
press is the greatest factor by far | ing jollity,
in the moulding of public opinion.
are read have greater suitably the majestic brow.
ball much till away along in the
season then some of the leaders of
the school saw that unless something
was done we couldn’t expect the
team to win the championship so
they planned a great rally just be-
fore the Decatur games and boy
did it go over? Well kid do you
weeks seemingly moments. His love
affairs are sketched primly and we
are left with the impression that
the hero was not such a Don Juan
after all.
Had Erskine stopped with the im-
pression of Odyssens’ thorough do-
A challenge has been issued b i The Chemistry Lab, door with , of interest
the class or 1904 to to2gclasses,05 .drawncurtain. Closed nowthedor footbal took to Trinity Uni
’79, ’87, 88, 89, 07, 08, and from which once issued those famila-
Miller years
Adv. Manager----Maxine Poulter
Business Manager------Fritz Hill
Ass't Bus. Mgr. ------Frizier Culwell
Helen’s return. The wit is more
subtile, the contrast quater, and the
philosophy less forceful in the latter
book.
Erskine characterizes Odyssens
We are deeply grateful to
those of the faculty members
who create news by doing
things; the people who direct
activities, attend concerts and
mugpest feature stories are an! of stark, biting satire,
important element in colle- Erskine has brolen,away1 rom
. M (c ' the classic necessity of detail 0
giaternswr we think cannot | “Helen of Troy.” He covers the ten
be surpassed in their interestyears of Odyssens’ wandering with
in literary work or in their i somewhat one half as many page-,
business UW- we recog- as he devotes tO the year following
nize the poor taste of throWw-
ing our own boquets but our
words will save effort on the
part of our friends and may be
skipped over by our enemies.
Now one last word, spoken
softly to keep the tempers
smooth and the sweet taste
and an unusually good student. His
money gains his entrance into
THANKING EVERYBODY j America’s best homes, but when he I
--- ' decides to become thoroughly
As our last editorial we ! American and wed an American
would like to leave a good I girl, his proposals are repulsed, .
taste in everyone’s mouth and i Embittered, he returns to China. Things which
the consolation of an even! Later he is proved to be an illegiti- influence than those which ,
temper in their minds. If we | mate white child who had been adop-1 The journalist has the opportunity j ger—talking quietly looking Slignt
have not published your name ! ted by the wealthy Chinese. He is ! of placing is views before the public i ly crushed,
often enough, we are exceed- ] then welcomed back to America by j eye in the most interesting arid mos- I And on ■
ingly sorry and if we have us- ! his former friends and is married by j forceful manner possible. j A closed, dirtily white stockroom
---- ~lad 3..... repudicated him —The. Daily Lart door.
until Oriental Customs are
THE COYOTE
Entered as Second Class Matter at
the post office at Weatherford, Texas
Editor_____ Anne Reynolds
Ass’t Editor__________Violet Roberts
Sport Editor________Jerome Kerby
Feature Editor-------Madeline Les
Columnst ____________Margaret Lee
Exchange _______Alma Huddleston
Reporters—Dorothy Lee, Bernice
White, Vaughn Perry, Gertrude
Byrd Hobbs, Gladys Brown, Alice
remember what all those people
fom those other colleges thought
about Weatherfrd College when we
finished that morning. They were
here for the State one-act play con-
test and they said Old W. C. was the
best in the state—Oh well, we knew
that. Well, anyway we won the
! State Basketball Championshp in
basketball and how—?
Then came the orators with their
speeches to practice on us and bore
us for forty-five minutes at a time
j but we didn’t mind them especially
since Morene won state for us. But
we think we got gipped on the de-
cision of White, McGuire and Brown
—Don’t you?
So you see gang the year is gon i
and we have a great time together
and everyone is still in love with
someone else. So to those that are
leaving us we say “You are a great
gang of folks and we want you to
know we are for you and will do all
within our power to carry on the
good work.”
Well goodbye everyone and if you
get married before I see you again
give my regards to the rest of Che
family. Sjveet dreams.
held here on May 28. The winner
will be decided on the highest per-
centage of, living class members in
attendance at the reunion.
The Handout
“Goodnight, I wonder what they
think we are 1 anyway.That’
what most of us thought when we
came to old W. C., about the first
of September 1928. When I saw
that ole stone building and then
went to the dormitory and saw those
big ole ugly houses I thought to my-
self, this is gonna be a dead year.
But gee, do you remember when we
came to football trainin’ camp and
how Coach Beard worked us in that
hot sun? Boy it was fun! The
people there in town made we boys
that were from elsewhere feel at
home and how all the girls would
drive by the dormitory to see if there
was anyone new that they didn’s .
know. “Boy Howdy” we sure had
a big time.
September 17, 1928—Matricula-
tion Day. What a jam, lots of un-
called for jabbering and much ado
about nothing. Then all the fish.
the exception of Calypso, are vague'
personalities having life and force
Give the!■only when in contact with the hero.
Helen is touched lightly in the be-
ginning chapter and the impression
of her intense cleverness as well as
left temples. A few on the right.
A few on the next side—But no
Ph. D. tassels!
“Don’t we look dignified?” ex-
pressions; bored expressions on the
would be sophisticates, and a tor-
tured expression on Mr. Beard.
A mottled grey sky shading the
thoroughly ingrained into his life. | "rE V(I ANG
Then he returns to Aemerica to be i j iI LMUIHIL
educated. He is handsome, wealthy | _
them. Erskine has proclaimed Odys-
sens a coward and sent him away
“Is her husband a polce-
man?”
“No but he goes out with
them a lot.
| A d{scondant note. The coma
_ passed. A smothered giggle.
Tassels on the
Has Weatherford College a bud-
ding rival?
will. His associates however, with
Thirteen students will receive their Portals—and, like little ponies, trot
degrees from the College at the cere- . to the church.
monies to be held nevt Monday even- ; Slow, dignified now.
ing. Ten of these are candidates Fast beating hearts-a novel ex-
for the A. B. degree, three for he, perience. A bank of ferns at tne
B. .S. degree The Bacca lauureate after. A sea of faces. Music. A
sermon will be delivered - ! slow procession. Startled, strange
morning by er. Pierce 0 ,a A. j expressions on the faces of classma-
Richard M. Kleberg of the King!
Ranch will address the graduates at
. ... . i their commencement exercises Mon-
mesticity, his timidity of women, or LU
, 1, .. . ! dav evening.
even his tendency to exxaggerate, > " -
might forgive both the author 1
fall in love with each other. They;
become disillusioned however, after
a series of wild parties—but finally
decide to marry on a commor-sense
marriage basis.
Many well know characters of
America’s social smart set move
through the sophisticated and mo-
dernly frank pages of this book.
Rex Beach does quite the best
book of his career in “Son of the
Gods.’
It is a treatment of the race pre-
judice between the white and yellow
races.
Sam Lee, supposedly Chinese, is
adopted by a wealthy New Y ork
Chinaman. He lives in China for
The last days of school—rain—
rain—rain, and in between the acts
skits of hot sunshine.
A sense of unreality. School is
Erskinesque, even more so than it’s
companion novel, “The Private
Life of Helen of Troy.” In Penc-
Outside—a bright burst of sun-
light—a muddy and deserted tennis
court. Couples sitting on the stone
fountains, and in the shade ..of the
dorm.
Miss Stokes, a dainty rhythmn in
red, and Mr. Giles with sheet music
in his hand came around the dorm,
across the campus—into the side
door. And grey halls again.
Upstairs—notes of music from the
auditorium. A violin trembles at
high C—
A dark hall. The black and Gold
library windows;—the pig in the
bookshop—and meaningless students
leaning aimlessly on their elbows at
the library window.
A bleak reading room; chairs and
tables in chaotic disorder.
Sunday merning—More rain. A
dark i dy. Then sunshine—white
kid it was so hot down there they
threatened to have the boys play in
bathing suits. (Even "Stumblin"
Jordan was so hot he had to retire.
Now folks that’s “SOME HOT” when
it gets that bad. Then the team was
home for the next game and “OLE”
pooped out it was so hot that day.
I know everyone will agree with me
that those early season games were
great but then we “went’ ’to Decatur
and what a time. It “sorta” rained
while we were up there and we had
to furnish the crowd but we were
there. Then to top it off how we
I beat them 6 to 0 and how it hurt
institution.
To the students who hail us
down in the hall to ask about
the next issue we owe at least
half of our scanty inspiration.
They remind us occasionally i
that we are publishing . a
school paper instead of an in-
dividual pamplet.
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