The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 1, Ed. 1 Monday, September 15, 1958 Page: 2 of 8
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Monday, September 15, 1958
THE REDBIRD
THE REDBIRD
Published weekly except during holidays, dead
week, and final examinations during the regular
school term. Opinions expressed are those of the
student editors and do not necessarily reflect
those of the faculty and administration. Items of
interest are solicited and may be submitted at
the REDBIRD office.
STAFF MEMBERS
Editor
Business Manager
Managing Editor
Sports Editor
Photographer
Typists
Carl Dorman
Thomas Dixon
Larry Munsch
James Mellard
Thomas Dixon
Madge Channlng
Barbara Stevens
NO IVY HERE
We take this opportunity to welcome you to Lamar
Tech and to interject a word of encouragement for the
coming semester and your college careers.
The education you will receive here at Lamar Tech
is as fine as you can get. For the past five years Lamar
has busily been accumulating an impressive faculty.
Today, Lamar’s faculty is comparable in quality to
most of the great private institutions of learning.
Much import has been placed on European education,
and lately on Russian education. The truth is. . .
European education is greatly overrated.
The Ivy League is more myth than actuality,
If one should remove the ivy from the walls of these
venerable and aged institutions, they would undoubtedly
crumble and fall in a great cloud of library dust (the
driest dust there is.)
The lamentable product of the Ivy League "can be
found in the pseudo-intellectual fiction of Esquire
magazine. Tradition is pleasant, even useful ^ if it
doesn't inhibit progress. In the old schools innovation
is unknown. (We've heard rumblings that the profes-
sors have ivy instead of body hair.)
And, evidently, all European students major in riot-
ing rather than any academic curriculum.
Personally, we would rather be students here, at
Lamar, with this faculty and this student body than at
any other college or university anywhere in the world
The future center of education and culture in the
United States is here, in the Southwest. At Lamar you
will have an active role in making tradition (pleasant
ANDuseful) and here you will obtain a first class edu-
cation.
This education is yours at a terrific bargain. For
example, a typical year's operation, twelve months,
costs students $419,000 in tuition and laboratory fees;
for the same period, the State of Texas appropriates
$2,037,420 for Lamar's operating expenses .This means
that for every dollar a student pays for tuition and fees
the State pays about $4.80. You would not get a bar-
gain like this at any European university, or at any
Ivy League school. Welcome to Lamar Tech!
Use Your Hewspaper
If you look in the staff box on this page, you will see
the statement "Opinions expressed are those of the
student editors and do not necessarily reflect those of
the faculty and administration." As nearly as possible
the opinions of the editors will be the same as those of
the student body. Should we differ, this editorial page
is at the disposal of any student who wishes to voice
his opinion.
Requisites for editorial-type comments and state-
ments are merely that they are in good taste, that they
are written in passable journalistic style, and that
they are pertinent to current events. We will accept
no attacks, founded or unfounded, on an individual.
Letters to the editor are solicited and will be printed
if they are signed; names will be withheld if requested
but only if the letters are signed. Requisites similar to
editorial statements, taste, pertinence, style, etc., are
desired in letters to the editor.
WEAK BUT
TRIES HARD
(Editor’s note: The follow-
ing letter has beds kicked
around the REDBIRD o f-
fice for some time. Since
we have not been able to
locate the addressee,
Coach Musselman, OR the
sender, Benjamin Plotinus,
we have decided to publish
it in hopes that one of them
will stop by the office to
claim it.)
Department of English
September 12, J.958
Dear Coach Musselman:
Remembering our dis-
cussions of your football
men who are having troub-
les in English, I have de-
cided to ask you, in turn,
for help.
We feel thatPaul Spindles,
one of our most promising
scholars, has a chance for
a Rhodes Scholarship,
whichwouldbe a great
thing for him and for our
college..Paul has the aca-
demic record for this a-
ward, but we find that the
aspirant is also require.d
to nave other excellences,
and ideally should have a
good record in athletics.
Paul is weak. He tries hard,
but he has trouble in ath-
letics. But he does try
hard.
We propose that you give
some special consideratiOL
to Paul as a varsity player,
puttinghim, if possible, in
the backfLeld of the foot-
ball team. In this way. we
can show a better college
record to die committee
deciding on Rhodes Schol-
arships. We realize that
Paul will be a problem on
the field, but—as you have
often said-cooperation be-
tween our department and
yours is highly desirable,
and we do expdct Paul to
try hard, of course. Dur-
ing intervals of study we
shall coach him as much
as we can. His work in
English Club and on the de -
bate team will force him
to miss many practices,
but we intend to see that he
carries an old football
around to bounce (or what-
ever one does with a foot-
ball) during intervals in his
work. We expect Paul to
show^entire good will in
his work with you, and
though he will not be abl$
to begin football practice
dll late in the season, he
will finish the season with
good attendance.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Plotinus,
Chairman
English Department
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Rally Round the flag, Boyel "and,
'Barefoot Boy with Cheek.’’)
ONCE MOltE UNTO THE BREACH
Today begins my fifth year of writing this column, and what an
eventful five years it has been! What things have these old eyes
not seen! What great discoveries have rocked the world—the
anti-proton, for instance, and the anti-neutron, and high-low
split, and Brigitte Bardot I
In these five yean it has also been discovered that Amerloan
smokers like two kinds of olgarettes—filter and non-filter. The
Philip Morris Company makes both kinds. I mention the
Philip Morris Company because they pay me to mention the
Philip Morris Company. They sponsor this column. I write it
and then they give me money. Then I take the money and pay
my grocer, my butcher, my gardener, and my four madrigal
singers. In this way full employment is maintained and we
avoid a repetition of the Panic of 1873 when bread riots killed
over 98 million people in Muncie, Indiana, and millions of others
were reduced to ghost-writing Ph. D. theses to keep body and
soul together.
But enough of gloom. Let us get back to cheerful subjects,
like the products of the Philip Morris Company. For those of
you who wish filter cigarettes there is Marlboro, which now,
more than ever, gives you a lot to like—a brand new improved
filter and a wonderful flavor that comes breezing right through.
For those of you who wish non-filter cigarettes, there is Philip
Morris, a mild natural blend, flavorful, fresh, and thoroughly
agreeable. For those of you who can’t decide between filters or
non-filters but have an affinity for packages, I should like to
point out that both Marlboro and Philip Morris come in both
the crashproof Flip-Top Box and the good old-fashioned Soft
Pack, and you will surely want several of each for your collection.
Speaking for myself, I smoke both Marlboro and Philip
Morris in both packs. What I do is make kind of a fun thing
out of it. In my bedroom I have four signs, one on each wall,
which say in turn: “PHILIP MORRIS-SOFT PACK”,
“PHILIP MORRIS-FLIP-TOP,” “MARLBORO-SOFT
PACK” and “MARLBORO-FLIP-TOP”. When I get up in
the morning I put on a blindfold and then my faithful cat Rover
spins me around six times and then, with many a laugh and
cheer, I walk forward with my finger outstretched and the first
sign I touch is the cigarette I smoke that day!
ftilUPMOUUS
fur-jop
HMtSotO
(OftOOf, H
As you can imagine, this little game has been a great source
of merriment to Rover and me, except for one untoward in-
cident one'morning. I was stumbling around in my blindfold
and fell out the window right on top of a man named Fred R.
Timken, a census taker, and broke all his lead pencils. He was
cross as a bear, and though I offered him both Philip Morris
and Marlboro in both the Flip-Top Box and Soft Pack, he
refused to be mollified. In fact, he refused to put my name
down in the census, so when you read population figures of the
United States, will you please add one?
But I digress. We were speaking of Philip Morris and
Marlboro who will bring you this column throughout the school
year. In this space I will take up vital aspects of undergraduate
life, like high-low split and Brigitte Bardot, and it is my fondest
hope that the column will be half as much fun for you as it is
for me. © iu«, u. «-■—
• • •
The makere of Marlboro and Philip Morris welcome you to
another year of fun and gamee from Old Max, and another
year of good emoktng from ue. Filter or non-Hlter, pick what
you please-—and what you pick will please you.
Buy An Annual Today!
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Dorman, Carl. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 1, Ed. 1 Monday, September 15, 1958, newspaper, September 15, 1958; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499280/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.