The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1958 Page: 2 of 6
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THE REDBIRD
February 14/1958
Act Would Help To Win
’Battle of the Classrooms’
Jack Brooks, representative from this district, intro-
duced the National Science Scholarship Act in the House
of Representatives early in January. The bill is now
being considered, along with similar ones, by the
House Committee on Education and Labor.
Congressman Brooks has shown his interest in furth-
ering educational facilities of American youth in the
past. He was instrumental in securing legislation which
changed Lamar from a junior-college into a four-year
college. , . , ,,
Brooks’ proposed legislation (National Scholarship
Act) provides for 120,000 scholarships to be awarded
to high school graduates who want to attend college and
study for bachelor degrees in engineering, science and
mathematics.
Universities and colleges such as Lamar which offer
science and engineering couress would be eligible,
according to the Bill, for direct, low-interest loans
from the federal government to set up needed buildings
and laboratory facilities.
According to Congressman Brooks proposal the
120,000 scholarships would be awarded over a period
of 6 years, 20,000 each year, being divided among
states and territories in proportion to the number of
high school graduates.
high school graduates.
One admirable point of the plan is the special empha-l
sis given to the encouragement of teachers. The bill
expressly urges students to take courses along with
their major subjects qualifying them for the teaching
of science and mathematics.
State educational agencies would award the scholar-
ships to the students ranking highest on uniform exam-
inations. Each scholarship winneir would be allowed to
select his’own school and would be awarded a sum not
exceeding $1700 for each full calendar year's accept-
able stucfy.
Approval of the proposal has been expressed by lead-
ing educators in the country. V. Bush of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology stated "...I like very much in-
deed the idea that students selected would be enabled
to select their own colleges and universities."
Disapproval has been voiced by some authorities who
contend that the bill would give too much federal con-
trol to education. This is the old idea that when the
federal government provides money for a project they
also like to supervise the operations. The scholarships
will be awarded solely by the states and their educa-
tional agencies. A special provision in the bill states
that the National Science Scholarship Act shall in no
way be interpreted as allowing any direction, super-
vision or control over the cirriculum or program of
any school.
Addressing the Committee on Education and Labor,!
Brooks said, "The most important resource we have in
our free nation is talented young men and women. Per-
haps the most important shortcoming lies in our not
offering sufficient encouragement for each individual
to develop his own God-given capabilities to their max-
imum extent."
Statistics show that in the second congressional dis-
trict which include5 Jefferson county, as well as
throughout America, less than half of the top twenty-
five percent of high school graduates are getting the
higher education needed for the development of their
abilities. Financial hardships prevent approximately
100,000 capable high school graduates from attending
college. The National Science Scholarship Act would
make it possible for these talented students to receive
the higher education instead o f letting that talent go
unused. i
Legislation of this type is definitely needed and Tack
Brook's suggested program has many admirable points.
The plan is a step in the right direction toward winning
the "battle of the classrooms" now being waged between
Russia and the United States. s-3 Qg, t'->
Redbird
Ramblin’s
Oy SeJ-hjfty Dun as
Lastyear it didn't happen
until May, but Mac and
Dave tackled the task ear-
ly this trip. It seems that
Beaumont disk jockeys just
must prove to themselves
and the world that it's a
noble deed to punish one's
body to the tune of several
dozen hours loss of sleep.
This writer’s opinion of
the stunt (See REDBIRD,
May 10, 1957), well aired
by a local radio station
last spring, remains the
same.
Mac, my boy, you sur-
prise me--don’t you know
that there are easier ways
of being beat, even nihil-
istically speaking? How-
ever, as the man in the
newspaper says, "Don’t
let the Bethanys discour-
age you."
Movie selection terrible
lately—saw a rather dis-
turbing scene last week by
name of "Deep Six." I
think if I were a Quaker I
wouldn't have appreciated
it. It occurs to me that I
don't appreciate it anyway.
It r e ally seems that the
urge to Kill should not be
the ideal apex of a man's
development in life. Could
be I'm a bit old-fashioned-
what's your opinion?
- THE REDBIRD “
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'tcSSSSLif* ■“
what's your opinion?
PULSE is pounding along,
and toward that end all
articles must be turned in
to some staff member or
English prof during the
next week. Now hear this
statement--if you've sto-
ries, poems, articles
planned that you cannot get
completed by deadline
time, remember there will
be (speaking optimisti-
cally) more issues to fol-
low. Also, don't forget that
poems can be entered in
Eleanor Poetry Contest.
Check the English office
for details on that.
Barbara Y'Barbo, your're
being outdone. While you
are submitting your love-
ly little manuscripts to ex-
clusively HARPER'S and
the ATLANTIC MONTHLY
Agnes Bailey is addressing
hers to "Dear Monthly."
Yes, just wait, reader,
there is a story here. It
seems assignments have
been made for a course in
creative writing. I'm
really kidding, ana I hope
Y'Barbo doesn't do hafl so
well as I’ve kidded her
about, else I'll be out a
steak a day for a long,
long titne.
This is very official,
though the source remains
unquotable; seems an or-
nament from our beloved
campus is to be removed
for some length of time-
yes, wouldn't you like to
know?
Hennysaidit,no one else
could have, and it’s very
quotable, to wit: "When I
came to America I was an
affectionate conservative
now I'm a sexy material
1st," And that. Americans
with
MsShulman
BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE
Today let us apply the hot white light of sustained thinking to
the greatest single problem besetting American colleges. I refer,
of course, to homesickness.
It is enough to rend the heart, walking along a campus at
night and listening to entire dormitories sobbing themselves to
sleep. Add in the morning when the poor, lorn students rise
from their tear-stained pallets and refuse their breakfasts and
shamble off to class, their Ups trembling, their eyelids gntty,
it is enough to turn the bones to aspic.
What can be done to overcome homesickness? WeU sir, the
obvious solution is for the student to. put his home oh rollers
and bring it to college with him. This, however, presents three
serious problems:
1) It is likely to play hob with your wine cellar ; many wines
as we aU know, will not travel.
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2) There is the matter of getting your house through the
Holland Tunnel, which has a clearance of only 14 feet, 8 inches.
This, of course, is ample for ranch houses, but quite impossible
for Cape Cods, Georgians, and Saltboxes, and I, for one, think
it would be a flagrant injustice to deny higher education to
students from Cape Cod, Georgia, and Saltbox.
3) There is the question of pubUc utiUties. Your house—
and, of course, aU the other houses in your town-has wires
leading to the municipal power plant, pipes leading to the mu-
nicipal water supply and gas main. So you will find when you
start rolling your house to college that you are, willy-nilly,
dragging all the other houses in town with you. This will result
in gross population shifts and will make the Bureau of the
Census cross as bears.
No I’m afraid that taking your house to college is not feasi-
ble. The thing to do, then, is to make your campus lodgings as
close a replica of your home as possible.
Adorn your quarters with familiar objects, things that will
constantly remind you of home. Your brother Sam, for instance.
Or your citizenship papers. Or a carton of Marlboros.
There is nothing like Marlboros, dear friends, to make you
feel completely at home. They’re so easy, so friendly, so wel-
come, so likable. The filter is great. The flavor is marvelous. The
Flip-Top Box is wonderful. The tattoo is optional.
Decorating your diggings with familiar objects is an excellent
remedy for homesickness, but it is not without its hazards.
Take, for instance, the case of Tignor Sigafoos and Estabrook
Raunch who were assigned to share a room last fall m the
freshman dorm.
Tignor, an ice-skating addict from Minnesota, brought with
him 44 barrels over which he had jumped the previous winter
to win the Minnesota Jumping-Over-Barrels Championship.
Estabrook, a history major from Massachusetts, brought
Plymouth Rock.
Well sir, there was simply not enough room for 44 barrels and
Plymouth Rock too. Tignor and Estabrook fell into such a vio-
lent quarrel that the entire dorm was kept awake for twelve
days and twelve nights. Finally the Dean of Men was called in
to adjudicate the dispute. He listened carefully to both side* of
the argument, then took Tignor and Estabrook and pierced their
ears and sold them to gypsies. ® i»«. sh«i«»,
* * *
And now all ii quiet in the dorm, and everyone tits In
peace and emokee hit Marlboro*, whote maker* bring you
this column throughout the ichool gear.
Doe’s Shirt Shop
711 College Street
Beaumont, Texas
Phone TE 2-4467
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Barnes, Dorothy. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1958, newspaper, February 14, 1958; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499092/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.