The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1935 Page: 2 of 8

                                
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THE RATTLER
March 7, 193 5
Mehan Discusses
Millet at Meet
Recounting the principal events
in the life of Jean Francis Millet
and criticizing a number of his
works in detail, Raymond Mehan
continued the discussion of famous
artists at the Beaux Arts club
meeting of March 1.
"Millet was born near Cher-
bourg, October 4,    1814. He
learned Latin through the help of
the village priest. After studying
in the Academy of Design in Cher-
bourg, he received a pension from
that city which enabled him to go
to Paris. There he entered the
studio of Delaroche, but the sur
roundings there were not congen
ial to his tastes.”
According to the speaker, Mil-
let "found” himself in 18 84, hit-
ting upon the art in which he
could give utterance to his sin-
cere inner feelings. He then be-
gan to paint scenes of country
life. From this time on, the artist
lived in the village of Barbizon,
on the edge of the Forest of Fon-
tainebleau. He gained his greatest
prominence in later life and after
his death in 1875.
Following the account of the
life of Millet, Mehan gave a de-
tailed and instructive criticism of
some of the works of this artist.
Local Sodality Units
Discuss Program Plans
Student Council President Pleads for
Students Aid in Completing Gym
Group Draws Up Tentative
Schedule for Approval
By Rev. Lord
Representatives of the various
Sodality units of the San Antonio
Students’ Spiritual Leadership union
met at Central Catholic high school
on February 28 to discuss the pro-
gram of the coming Texas Sodality
convention, April 11-13.
Elie Arnaud, chairman of the
program committee, presided at
the meeting and outlined a tem-
porary program which has been
compiled from the suggestions of
the various units.
Members of the group expressed
their belief that a thoroughly ade
quate program resulted from the
meeting. A copy of the plan has
been sent to Rev. Daniel Lord,
editor of The Queen’s Work, who
will be in San Antonio for the
convention. Definite confirmation
of the planned program awaits
word from Father Lord.
Members of the high school So-
dalities will meet at St. Joseph s
high school on March 16 to work
in a group on the posters of direc-
tion for the convention.
While not officially confirmed,
discussion concerning a state-wide
poster contest during the conven-
tion led to the belief that such
contest would be approved by the
various Sodality groups.
Two courses which deal with
the agencies of peace have been
added to the R.O.T.C. curriculum
at Princeton university (N.J.)
The Mississippi State college for
women (Columbia j is the oldest
state-supported women’s college in
America, and it is now in its 50th
year.
Dear Editor:
For seven years St. Mary’s stu-
dents have gazed upon an impres-
sive but uncompleted structure, the
gymnasium. The building, poten-
tially one of the finest of its kind
in the State, has been absolutely
useless because the depression
sneaked over a lethal blow before
the floor or seats could be complet-
ed, leaving a massive shell of a
structure.
However, of late, rather per-
sistent rumors regarding comple-
tion of flooring facilities in the
gym generated into concrete activ-
ity with the grading of the surface
soil within the building. The Stu-
dent Council, amazed and incredu-
lous, asked Mose Simms to explain
the proposed action. Nearly two
full mornings were spent by Mr.
Simms in giving a detailed account
as to how the gym will be com-
pleted before school is out this
year.
A thoroughly skilled contractor
will supervise every detail of the
floor construction and will actu-
ally do all of the expert work him-
self. Students who are working
their way through school and who
have had some experience in car-
pentry will act as helpers. Mr.
Simms hopes to have the gym floor
in by the end of this school year,
in time for a grand gym prom to
be given in the building itself.
However, there is no rush. The
job will be done right.
The completion of the gym will
be the greatest boon, almost the
savior, of St. Mary’s students.
Every student who has even a
slight trace of what has come to
be referred to, with something akin
to contempt, as school spirit will
wholeheartedly throw his weight
behind the coming gym drive and
push it all the way.
Ever since the dropping of inter-
collegiate athletics four years ago
the St. Mary’s campus has steadily
become more akin to an impro-
vised parking lot. The spirit of
fellowship and good natured ri-
baldry has become practically ex-
tinct. Why? The reason is really
quite simple. There has been pract-
ically no way in which the stu-
dents have been able to mingle; to
amiably fight and cuss each other
except in the field of intramural
sports. Because of a painful lack
of facilities, intramural basketball
has died a pitiable death this year
The students have been willing to
make their college career mean
something a bit more than four
years of lectures, but without the
means good will, while laudable,
is also useless.
The gymnasium is the greatest
hope for bringing a return of fel-
lowship among St. Mary’s men. In
fact, when it is completed, a finer
and stronger spirit will be born.
With its completion there will be
no more long automobile rides to
a far-removed court to play a few
minutes of basketball and then re-
turn, wet and sweaty, more and
longer miles to take a bath. The
class teams, as well as the varsity,
will have regularly scheduled prac-
tice periods where some kind of a
smooth working combination can
be developed. With an unsurpassed
gym underfoot, students who never
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gave basketball or indoor baseball
a thought will be hogging the
court with the rest of them.
Of course, it is difficult to halt
in enumerating the advantages of
such a structure. There is noth-
ing more obvious. But aside from
the new sport uplift, the gymna-
sium will serve another important
function of a social order. When
the floor is finished the building
will present one of the finest dance
palaces in the city for student
night revelry. The enormous ex-
pense now connected with the tra-
ditional school dances will be large-
ly obliterated. Everything but the
music will be provided for. All of
which means better music, bigger
crowds (of St. Mary’s men), more
fun, less formality, natural stimu-
lation, in short, real St. Mary’s
dances.
If you are a St. Mary’s man, if
you are a student who is interested
in anything on God’s good earth
from women and ping-pong to bas-
ketball, get back of the gym drive,
put it over in fine style, make it
really yours. Don’t knock. It’s
not a wild scheme, merely progres-
sive.
On the other hand, if you are
like King Levinsky, who could see
nothing worthwhile in the recent
World’s Fair, don’t come back to
St. Mary’s next year. In fact,
don’t even bother to finish this
year. You don’t fit.
—Tom Jackson
President Student Council.
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Biography
A. N. Moursund
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A. N. Moursund was born in
Travis county, Tex.,. March 26th,
1877. His father, A. W. Mour-
sund, came to Texas from Norway
at the age of twenty-five, served
for eight months as a Texas ran-
ger engaged in Indian warfare,
obtained his license to practice law,
served as a member of the Eigh-
teenth and Nineteenth Legislatures,
Leadership Union
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Give Entertainment
Get-together Held in Santa
Rosa Nurses Hall
Members of the college division
of the San Antonio Students’ Spir-
itual Leadership union entertained
with an informal party at the San-
Nursing halls,
ta Rosa School of
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Map Reading Taught
Cadets in Lecture
Map reading and conventional
signs were the subject of a lec-
ture given by Lt. William F. Cox
in the military class-room recently,
when high winds forced the cadets
indoors.
Several classes of maps were il-
lustrated. Territorial subjects in-
cluded Medina Lake and vicinity,
Fort Sam Houston and vicinity,
Edgewood Arsenal, and an aerial
photograph.
More advanced map work is to
follow, according to the com-
mandant, because the cadets must
be thoroughly familiar with the
principles of map reading in order
to efficiently conduct the coming
sham battle.
St. Mary's Students
Guests at O. L L.
More than 30 students of St.
Mary’s university were guests of
the freshman class of Our Lady of
the Lake college at a formal dance
held Saturday, March 2, in the
school ballroom.
In the receiving line were Eloise
Barton, president, and Melvin Fis-
ser; Louise Hunter, vice president,
and Barnaby Towle; Myrtle Glaie-
ser, secretary, and John Dove;
Louise Ledwig, treasurer, and Jesse
Oppenheimer ; Dorothy Wieder-
feld, reporter, and Mack Judson;
and Jossette Regard, parliamenta-
rian, and Paul Withoff.
On the welcoming committee
were Mary Catherine Crowley,
Kathryn Belle O’Donnell, Shirley
Ardussi, and Aline Cunningham.
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Ernest Raba, above, and Joseph
T. Kenny, below, are law school
reporters for The Tattler. Under
their direction, biographies of law
school professors are being present-
ed on these pages.
Former Student News
R. Beverly Caldwell, ’27 gradu-
ate and former University instruc-
tor in Chemistry, was married to
Ruth Elizabeth McDaniel at St.
Mark’s church on March 2. Don-
ovan Caldwell, former student, was
the attendant to his brother, the
bridegroom.
Mrs. Caldwell is a graduate of
the University of Texas, and is the
daughter of Col. and Mrs. W. A.
McDaniel.
Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell will be
at home in Mercedes after a short
wedding trip.
Fred Collman, ’3 3, and Cour-
and Rothe, senior now attending
St. Mary’s, played important roles
in the recent presentation of Chintz
Cottage by the Mission players.
Exactly 42 per cent of the three
Harvard university (Cambridge,
Mass. ) upper classes are listed as
candidates for honors.
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Graduation Ring
Sample Arrives
Harold Delemater, senior ring
committee chairman, announced
the arrival of the sample senior
ring on Wednesday, March 6.
The ring will be displayed on
the University campus and ring
sizes will be taken by the commit-
tee within the next few days.
Those who have not placed their
order yet, according ot Delemater,
must do so immediately.
This year’s rings were specially
designed by Delemater and are
much more elaborate than any
previous St. Mary’s ring.
The crown of the ring consists
of a central ruby stone surrounded
by the words, "St. Mary’s uni-
versity,” and "San Antonio, Texas,”
with the date, 18 52, the year in
which the Society of Mary was es-
tablished in San Antonio.
Inscribed on it are the initials
of the degree and the number of
the year are on opposite sides of
the stone. Lower down on the
sides appear the seal of the Uni-
versity and a rattlesnake. Cactus
is arranged as a background around
the other decorations.
The sample has met with entire
satisfaction, and the final shipment
of rings should arrive by the end
of March.
ty-third District, which office he
held for eight years. Afterwards
he practiced law at Fredericksburg
to the time of his death, at the
age of 82 years. A. N. Mour-
sund’s mother’s maiden name was
Henrietta Mowinckle, daughter of
J. E. Mowinckle of Travis county.
He and his wife came from Nor-
way about 1840, and made their
home in Travis county, soon after
reaching this country.
The subject of this sketch at-
tended the public schools of Fred-
ericksburg, Blanco and Marble
Falls. He then entered the law
department of the University of
Texas at the age of 18, graduating
in 1897 with the degree of LL. B.
and in 1898 obtaining the degree
of LL. M.
He began the practice of law
with his father at Fredericksburg,
and was elected to the Legislature
in 1900, serving only one term.
In 1903 he removed to Mason,
practicing in partnership with his
father, who kept his office at Fre-
dericksburg. In January, 1912, he
was appointed Associate Justice of
the Court of Civil Appeals for the
Fourth Supreme Judicial District,
at San Antonio, and held such of-
fice until November, 1920, when
he resigned to enter the practice of
his profession in San Antonio. This
practice has continued down to the
present time, the firm with which
he is connected being Moursund,
Moursund & Bergstrom. In June,
1934, he was appointed a member
of the Board of Law Examiners for
this State, and still holds such po-
sition.
At the time the San Antonio
Bar association organized its school
of law, he was appointed Associate
Dean, and held such position up to
the time such school became a part
of St. Mary’s university.
Members of the Sodalities of In-
carnate Word college, Our Lady
of the Lake college, St. Mary’s uni-
versity, and Santa Rosa School of
Nursing were present.
The formal part of the program
consisted in a discussion of the So-
dality convention program, points
of which were treated in some de-
tail. Robert Curda, president of
the union, presided.
Following the discussions, the
members held a social hour at
which there was dancing; refresh-
ments were served. The primary
purpose of the party was to better
acquaint the members of the Cath-
olic college Sfidalities. Each guest
wore a badge upon which was
written his or her name and the
name of the school represented.
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Judge Bicket Made
Law Council Member
Judge John H. Bickett, Jr., chief
justice of the fourth court of civil
appeals, has been made a member
of the council of the American
Law institute.
This information was received
recently in a letter from William
Draper Lewis of Philadelphia, who
is director of the institute. The
election took place on January 30,
but notification had not been sent
to the justice.
The American Law institute is
devoted to clarification and sim-
plification of the law and its bet-
ter adaptation to social needs.
Judge Bickett is a member of
the Governing board of the St.
Mary’s university School of Law.
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