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Well it 1ms been a long time since
the Ranchers last were handed n
moral victory on the local floor. For
my part the Duffs were the first team
that I have seen the Cowboys lose to
in four years. And those two games
only prove that Canyon has a power
ful ball club and wc admit that they
are the tallest team ever to play here.
.. This department has been missing
something and maybe you have not
heard that old SU has a winning girls
basketball club. Well from now on
they rate the sport page. The girls
have been working hard and they have
my commendation and support.
We still lack some hard Texas Con-
ference games but with the kind of
work the team is putting out nnd the
spirit wc can put behind them there
is an excellent chance to take another
flag. Arc you going to get behind
them?
And I would like to quote my Motto
of The Month:
Curiosity is a fault
Which stirs my imagination f
The quality I prixe is zeal
For first hand information.
One of those things has happened.
You have often heard that you can
not please all the people all of the
time but just the same if there was
anyone on the campus who attended
the play "The House Beautiful" and
did not cnjoy.it thoy have failed to
express said opinion loud enough for
me to hear.
Really unusual entertainment and
in spite of difficulties in the staging
it was effective.
Would you believe it? The well
.known Class of '32 once feared dead
and even recently thought to be in-
active and possibly extinct shows
signs of life. Practically speaking
the class accepted a banquet date
selected a class gifc and is this week
putting out a Senior Edition of the
Brand. Socially the entire class will
meet at the cafeteria Monday eve-
ning for the big party of the term.
And 'Puny" can't be happy unless
ho is leaving a string of broken hearts
about the halls. Well that probably
comes of playing basketball. You
see- just as he gets all set and one
little girl thinks he' is going to pass
to her he'backs up and shoots clear
over her head.
The Bronco business managers Job
recently vacated by Steve Marshall
has passed into the hands of R. Sneck
Short who says that progress is be-
ing made in large quantities. So far
work on the yearbook is far in ad-
vance of former schedules and an
early release is th prospect. For my
part I would like to have my Bronco
before dead week for once.
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Wearers of the S are planning a
big time at the annual banquet to-
night. Gives the boys and girls a
chance to dress up and go somewhere.
The right honorable president Mr.
Stump Hamilton should have to wear
a "full" with claw hammer tails etc.
On the whole I opine that society
Is on the upgrade in the old school.
And it is time. Why some of the
sweet things haven't had a chance to
blossom this year.
If the groundhog ever failed to see
his shadow on the appointed day in
West Texas that is just1 one more
thing I missed. Six weeks more win-
ter but we can't kick if it is no worse
than what we have seen so far.
Well we can keep plenty busy for
awhile now with term reports soon to
bo handed in the rush of class and
club affairs and a ten day period set
.aside for the University meeting.
Such being tho case I will eee you in
''oburch.
Plans Had Fm Traditional
Junior Class Votes
For Semi -Formal
Banquet This Year
February 26 Is Date Set For
Affair; To Be Held
At Wooten
The junior class voting Tuesday
night decided to hold tho Junior-Senior
banquet as a scml-formnl affair.
This will be the first t'mo that tho
banquet has been informal since 1027.
Always n point of controvorsy before
this question lias not arisen in recent
years and this action on the part of
the Juniors came as n surprise since
it was not broadcast that th!s was
their intention.
The date for the banquet was set
at February 20. The banquet will be
held in the Wooten Hotel. This is
also a departure from tho route of
recent years. Tho Inst several ban-
quets that have been held hnvo been
at the Hilton Hotel. This will be the
first inter-class banquet that Sim-
mons students have held. in the Woot-
en. Vote Goes Informal.
After tho votes had been counted
and it was definitely decided that the
banquet would be informal John
Griffin made a motion that it bo
voted into the minutes that the de-
parture from formal wear for this
year's banquet was in no sense a de-
fiance "of tradition but purely an
emergency measure because of pre-
vailing conditions.
Pat Patterson formally tendered
the invitation of tho junior class to
tho seniors at the senior meeting in
Smith Hall at the same time.
At the senior meeting a motion to
give a hundred trees to the Univer-
sity as the class gift was passed
unanimously and without discussion
following the report of the commit-
tee which has been out on this mat-
ter. It is understood that the class
is here following the wishes of Presi-
dent Snndcfcr who recommended this
gift to the committee. The trees will
be Arizona; Cypress.
Slimo Hinton entertained the sen-
iors with several piano selections and
his interpretation of "The St. Louis
Blues" was especially well received.
Since the banquet is to be informal
at a recommendation of both classes
no corsages will be worn by the wo-
men attending tho banquet.
Tentative plans of the entertain-
ment committee were announced at
the senior meeting for an entertain-
ment for the seniors to be held soon
at the Cafeteria. The affair will
probably bo a "42" party
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Choralists Go On Road
With Tour Of Oil Belt
Cast and chorus for the musical-
comedy "Romeo nnd Juliet" left ear
ly Thursday morning for a two-day
tour of West Texas making six pres
entations including morning after
noon and evening performances
Towns to bo visited arc Albany Cis-
co Ranger Baird Eastland and
Brcckenrldge. Abilene High School
students enjoyed the performance at
the chapel hour Wednesday morning.
There nro six engagements on the
itinerary chapel programs Thursday
at Albany nnd Breckenrldge nn eve-
ning program at Ranger nnd chnp-
el programs Friday at Ranger and
Eastland and a night program at
Baird.
The evening concerts aro to fea-
ture n musical comedy a modern ver-
sion of "Romeo nnd Juliet." Quar-
tets and solos also will bo heard. Miss
Estelle Brit will be the soloist on the
Ranger program while at Baird Miss
Dorothy Boydstun is to bo heard.
Members of tho glee club aro Ber-
nard Richards Euell Porter Leo
Thompson Payne Hathcock Flnlon
Williams Hoyland Arnette Martin
Murdock Mack Cardcn Dalton Cof-
fey Ward Allen Howard King Ty-
ler Cagle Glenn McLoughlin E. B.
Milam Edgar Ingerson Dub Wof-
ford Doyle Prltchard. Shirley At-
wood is the accompanist
MINISTERS MEET FRIDAY
The regular Friday meeting of the
Ministerial Council was held last week
with 18 present.
Those who .appeared on tho pro-
gram wero Cecil Meadows Roy Sha-
han and A C. Clawson.
- A. C. Clawson of Brownwood and
Charles Mousey Mineral Wells are
the new members for the term
Work Progresses
On Band Program
Cowboy Musicians to Play At
Baylor College; Fourth
Repeat Concert
Work on tho program that the Cow-
boy Band is to present during their
coming tour is progressing nicely ac-
cording to Col. D. 0. Wiley dlrectoj
of that organization.
Tho chief dato on tho coming tout
will be the stny in Laredo where th
bond will piny for the Intcrnntionn
Washington's Birthday celebration
which is an annual feature in the
border city. This will be the second
time thnt the band has played during
that eclcbrntion.
Leaving here on February 20 the
band will piny their first concert nt
Baylor College for women nt Bel ton.
On the 21 the band will play a re-
l'gious concert nt San Antonio and
will go to Laredo that afternoon. They
will be heard in Laredo on the 21 22
and 23 of February.
On the return tho band will play a
concert nt San Marcos where they
also played last year while on the
same trip.
Nn information is to be had at pres
ent whether tho band will repent the
broadcast they made over station
WOAI last February.
Dr. Olsen Speaks
To Archaeologists
Treats Cycad And Era of For
mation With Slides
To Illustrate
Julius N. Olsen head of the science
department here spoke to a meeting
of tho Texas Archcological nnd Pn-
lcontological Society on the campus
Tuesday night on various prehistoric
periods and their remains which nrc
the substance of study and aim in
archaeological societies over tho world.
Dr. Olsen supplemented his lecture
with illustrated slides showing the
various eras of formation. Discus
sion wns confined chiefly to the eyenid
n rare formation of prehistoric plant
which has been found in Texas and
in only four other locations tho world
over.
Dr. Cyprus N. Ray n local archco-
cgist who has gained national repute
from hisdiscoverics in West Texns
spoke on Indian implements and dis-
played portions of his extensive col-
lection. Dr. Ray has written val-
uable articles concerning finds of ar-
chcological value in several nntional
magazines among them The Scien-
tific American.
Description of two trips of which
the quest wero remains of plants nnd
animals was made by Dr. Olsen. The
first related to a trip to Erath coun-
ty whero a petrified forest was viewed
in company with world-fnmed nota-
bles of the science. The second was
concerning the finding and excavating
of certain dinosaur footprints near
Glen Rose Texns the find being view-
ed in a glassed-in case in the science
rooms.
One new member J. G. Turner for-
mer student hero was admitted to the
club at tho Tuesday night meeting
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Ford Compjetes
Work Next Week
In Runnels County
The course on "Tho Teaching Of
Arithmetic and Reading" being
taught as an extension course by Hoyt
Ford to the Runnels County teachers
will bo completed next week accord-
ing to Mr. Ford.
Tho course carrying three hours
full collego credit for those who com
plete it is taught as a lecture course
Mr. Ford going to Bollinger each Sat-
urday nftcrnoon for a threo hour lec-
ture. The course was begun last
October.
Lost year Mr Ford taught a course
on the compounding and giving of in-
telligence tests and measurements to
practically the same group. These
courses are somewhat out of the or-
dinary in educational circles for the
unusual manner in which thoy are
given; being credited as (extension
work yet they are given as lectures.
Each counts three hours when completed.
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He Came Back
NOLL SEWELL
'Billy Boy' Visits
'One Big Family'
Midlothian's Wonder Turns
Up In Old Haunts For
A Brief Stay
Noll Sewell Munnger of the Mid-
lothian Hardware Company nnd Man-
aging Editor of' THE MIDLOTHIAN
ARGUS and president of tho Midlo-
thinn junior Chamber of Commerce
was n visitor on tho Simmons cam-
pus this week.
Sewell was Editor of The Simmons
BRAND during the year of 1930-31.
This paper placed first in tho annual
T. I. P. A. competition the first time
that the BRAND has ever done so.
Those who were in school last year
will doubtless remember the column
for which Sewell became more or less
famous among collegiate circles and
which wns cnllcd "Open Range" be-
causo of tho wide variance of inter-
est which it represented. He has been
prevniled upon to write n column for
this paper which will be found on
pngo two.
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Longhorn Band Will
Tour Europe In '33
In a press dispatch from THE
DAILY TEXAN for Thursday Jan-
uary 28 comes the announcement that
tho Longhorn Band from Texas uni-
versity will follow in the footsteps of
the Cowboy Band and tour the same
European countries that tho Cowboys
traveled over in the summer of 1929
probably in tho summer of 1933
The trip will be promoted by Fred
L. Haskett who was instrumental in
'promoting tho tour which tho Cow
boys made.
Evidently the Cowboys must have
mado a rather good impression on the
Europeans since tho Longhorn Band
plans to adopt the cowboy regalia
which the Simmons band has mado fa
mous for their tour. They plan to
wear clothes made of all Texas-produced
materials. Dates include one
week in London two weeks in Bel
gium two weeks in Holland five
weeks in Germany nnd a vacation
in Paris.
According to THE TEXAN Has-
kett plans for tho trip to finance it-
self and will toko a thirty piece band
on tho tour. Ho will bo in Austin
in tho latter part of February to make
the necessary arrangements with
steamship officials there and ho and!
Burnett Pharr director will make a
brief tour through tho places where
they will play during the summer of
1932 to make the necessary arrange-
ments. Stop" at Chicago.
Tho band will go to New York by
train and will stop over two days at
tho World's Fair in Chicago. Plans
for the Longhorn Band call for a
repetition of tho tour for f ivo. years.
It is understood by THE BRAND that
tho plans for tho Cowboy Band also
called for a repetition of tho tour for
five years but that other trips were
cancelled by tho band's management
becaueo of the prevailing economic
conditions prevalent in those coun
tries.
An Interesting sidelight of the trip
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Upper Class Affair
Scholars Announce
Final Program Plan
For Assembly Here
McMurry A. C. C. to Share
Host Honors With
Simmons U.
As the dato moves nearer for tho
southwidc scholarship convention to
bo held Jointly on the Simmons" Mc-
Murry and A. C. C. campuses begin-
ning Feb. 22 tentative plans are being
replaced by a definite progrnm for-
mulated by the threo local chapters
of the society. The scholars will con-
vene for two days.
Dr. Julius Olsen Simmons Dean
and head of the scienco school has
served the society in the capacity of
president for the past year. Miss
Edna Graham West Texas Teachers
College is vice-president nnd Albert
Nolle San Marcos Teachers is secretary-treasurer
an office which is per-
manent. New officers will bo elect-
ed nt tho convention.
Tho progrnm for tho convention
gets under way when tho delegates
register at Mary Frances Hall at
2:30 p. m. on the day of the 22nd.
On the morning of tho 23rd tho
days activities begin with n service
in chapel on tho subject of George
Washington with Dr. Richardson de-
livering tho address.
To Have Banquet
Some time during the mcot the dele-
gates will all get together for a ban-
quet the placo of which has not been
fully decided upon.
Membership in this organization is
mado up of thoso students whose
grades place them among tho upper
tenth of the Junior-Senior student
body. It is considrcd one of. tho
highest honors that can be received
while an undergraduate to bo elected
to membership in the society by the
faculty committee who make a min-
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Coates Lectures
To Science Group
Ptolemy Interpretation Of
Space and Ether
Discussed
A review of the controversy con-
cerning the existence of ether nnd a
brief historical sketch concerning tho
rise of tho Quantum Theory of tho
physical properties of e'ther wero pre-
sented to the Simmons Science Club
in their regular meeting in Dr. 01-
6en's lecturo room Monday morning
by John D. Coats.
Coates opened with n discussion of
tho theory of ether or space ns if wns
interpreted by Ptolemy. Ptolemy held
that tho earth was the center of tho
universe nnd the universe proper wns
composed by three concentric circles
or spheres of tho earth firo and air.
This was all supposed to be in a world
of ether.
Moro recent experiments especially
tho Michelson-Morley experiment
which attempted to prove tho exist-
ence of other by measuring the drag
or drift caused by tho motion of tho
earth wero summarized.
There nro threo possible interpre-
tations to bo held regarding the ether
according to Coates who quoted Ed-
ington on this point. Edington him-
self holds that the apparatus used
would not give accurate results be-
cause of the change of size they un-
dergo when thoy move through space.
Ho says that tho instruments used
will contract in a very small degree
when they aro parallel to the lino of
of linear motion.
"Since wo must have somo way to
explain tho fact that light and heat
aro transmitted over distances wliero
nothing is supposed to be two theor-
ies hnvo grown up" said Coates. "One
is that the particles of heat and light
arc divided into Quanta anothor is
that they travel In waves. Coates talk
was interesting here when he quoted
the fact that a quanta is either tho
size necessary to cover an eight-foot
mirror or that it Is small enough to
get into an atom or both.
According to Coates "Edrington
says the ether is as much to tho fore
as it ever was in our present schemo
of thought. Other scientists also hold
that there is an ether.
'S' Club Banquets
Tonight At Hotel
Lettermcn And Literati Get
Feed At Annual
Affair
The "S" Club will entertain its
members nnd exes nt their annual
Informal banquet in the Wooten Hotel
tonight nt 7:30 according to "Stump"
Hamilton pres.
All men receiving nn "S" whether
in tho field of athletics or' literary
talent aro eligible for the banquet.
At present there nro nbout thirty
nctivo membeni in the club nnd there
should be as many exes present.
Conch Cranfill will serve as toast-
master completing n novel and en-
tertaining program worked out by
"Nubbin" Byron nnd J. B. Nccly.
George Gqlightly co-captain of last
season's football team and Levi An-
drus the committee on arrangements
have everything well in order for a
making the occasion a delightful suc-
cess. "Stump" Hamilton has worked as
cx-officio chairman of each of the
committees.
Leavell Will Arrive
Monday for Revival
Two Services Daily Scheduled
For Annual S. U. Meeting
February 9 to 19
Dr. James B. Leavell of Houston
who will conduct the University Re-
vival' this year will arrive Monday
according to President J D. Sandcfcr
who states that the first sermon by
Dr. Leavell will be heard Tuesday
morning. The speaker will bo given
twenty or twenty-five minutes each
morning and the evening services will
last from seven till eight o'clock.
Simmons is fortunate in being nble
to secure the services of this gifted
spenkcr as he is not only a scholar
but ho is especially interested in the
lives nnd activities of young college
men and women.
Dr. Leavell is a graduate of the
University of Mississippi having
lived nt Jackson Mississippi the
greater part of his life. After fin
ishing work of nn under graduate
thcro ho went to tho Southwestern
Seminnry at Louisville Kentucky
where the degree of Doctor of Di-
vinity wns later conferred upon him
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Burnam Represents
Simmons At Austin
Prof. J. E. Burnnm represented
Simmons at the annual meeting of
tho Texns branch of The American
Mathematics Association held this
year at Texas University Austin last
Saturday.
This meeting annually brings to
gether nbout forty of tho most prom-
inent mathematicians of this section
to compare notes and hear what is
new in their field.
Tho progrnm an all-day affair was
held at tho University and that night
tho university complimented the
mathematicians with a banquet at the
Cafeteria presided over by Dr. H. Y
Benedict prexy of the university.
In tho meeting plnns for reducing
time given to tho study of math in
secondary schools was opposed. A
committeo was also appointed to draw
up plans for a suitablo curriculum in
this field for high schools.
Tho committee with Dr. Sparks of
Texas Tech as chairman was asked
to continue their investigation of tho
correlation between high school and
collego mathematics.
Schools represented at the meet
wore: Rlqo Instltuto Texas A. & M.
Texas U Baylor S. M. U Sul Ross
Tech and Simmons
Ralph Short Appointed j
As Manager Of Bronco
Ralph Short a senior in Simmons
was appointed by tho faculty com-
mittee on publications Monday Feb
ruary 1 to succeed Steve Marshall as
Business Manager of tho 1932 Bronco
Marshall transferred to George
Washington University at Washing
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Tom Skevhill Talks
On 'Washington' in
School Auditorium
Eloquent Australian Gives
Personal Version of
Patriot
Is World War Veteran
Former Anzac Soldier Once
Blinded In Campaign
Of Dardanelles
Tm Skcyhill coming ns tho second
artist attraction in n week last night
delivered one of his boat addresses
"George Washington" to the student
body nnd a large group of patrons in
tho Univesity auditorium.
Tho Australian soldier-speaker
proved to his old hearers that ho la
tho same Skeyhill whom they have
so lustily applauded on former occa-
sions. Among thoso who wero listen-
ing to him for tho first timo he was
received as the greatest word painter
ever to mount a local platform. His
abundant background of experience
furnished genuino material for his
brilliant description which possibly
nccountcd for his gracious rccoption.
Tom Skeyhll is a young Australian
a soldier a poet a world traveler a
student of literature political econ-
omy and world affairs. Ho was
stricken stone blind fighting tho
Turks at the Dardcnellea and spent
threo years of tho last ten in total
darkness. Ho miraculously recover-
ed his sight in 1018 and today ho is
one of tho best received lecturers of
tho American platform.
His stirring and humorous talcs
last evening wero not read from a
book or pamphlet as his tavel record
definitely proves. Since 1016 he has
crossed practically every sea in the
world has been in all the leading for-
eign nations not to mention detailed
touring of the United States and Can-
ada. Ho has figured promiently in
threo wars and three revolutions. In
figures he has traveled over half a
million miles.
In treating tho "father of his
country" Skeyhill adopts .a slant of
praise sprinkled with an occasional
bit of kind humor. For a man who
is not a native American ho has a
surprising knowledge of tho facts in
this great statesman's lifo and char-
acter. For him every action of Washing-
ton's "both officially and as a citizen
was indicative of noble character. His
command of words and languago add
a convincing tone to his presentation
of these facts. His background of
experience sets up definite relation-
ships and comparisons. His words are.
those of a realist rather than an ideal-
ist. As a speaker any prnlso which
might bo heaped on this young adven-
turer would bo trite.
"I would rather be on the stage
with Tom Skeyhill than any man I
know" said tho late Theodore Roose-
velt. This remark followed Mr. Skey-
hill's appearance in Madison Square
Garden during the liberty loan drive
when ho raised twenty-threo million
dollars for America in less than thir-
ty minutes.
"Tho most inspiring speaker that
ever appeared at the Metropolitan
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History Club Holds
Meeting January 22
Corneilison; L. Barnes; And
Wood Present Three
Part Program
At tho last meeting of the History
Club January 22 tho following pro-
gram was rendered: "The Mnrcey
Trail" given by Harold Corneilson
"The Southland Overland Mall" by
Leonard Barnes nnd "Marcoy's Prair-
ie Trails" by Dorothy Wood.
Tho program was presented with
the aid of a map of tho stato of Texas
whero all tho trails were traced out.
Special emphasis was made by Dr.
Richardson and professor Landers tho
sponsors of the club that the work
which tho club can do is important
nnd for tho members of tho club at
present to enlist tho aid of all tho
students who are studying and inter-
ested in history.
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