The College Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 4, 1934 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 23 x 16 in. Scanned from physical pages.View a full description of this newspaper.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
SOPHOMORE EDITION
Three Cornered
Moon
The COLLEGE STAR
Published Weekly During the School Year by the Students of the Southwest Texas State Teachers College
Three Cornered
Moon
✓
VOLUME XXVI
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1934
Bobcats Win Honors
I nCinder Contest Vs.
Schreiner Monday
EL BURRO
By JOVE
The sophomore edition is off the
press. Thank goodness for the
privilege of once more breathing
clean air which incidentally does-
n’t exist in the Star office. The odor
of overheated typewriters is the
reason. So far, far into the cold
misty night.
Come, come, why not a name for
the college gym. We have it. Why
not call it the dear old College
Gym? All in favor of this loop-
the-loop.
How do you like this column’s
new name? After all one has to
ride a burro to rope a Toro. The
name signifies calmness, sureness,
carefulness and laziness, the lat-
ter being parallel with Mr. Toro.
What do you think, Yonny?
Had a talk with Ignasius Cosden-
denas last -week while on an exten-
sive tour in the piney woods re-
gion. Incidentally the aforesaid
gentleman is the heap big chief
of Slick college publication dubbed
“The Oyster.” Great yegg, this
bozo is, and a mighty smooth lit-
tle pencil pusher. Greetings to you,
Igno, old sot.
My mind seems to continually
drift back to Incarnate Word Col-
lege. Its funny how one’s mind at
times can have but a single
thought. But back to the subject of
the inefficiency of the water foun-
tain.
That fountain is like the fresh-
man—one day its all wet and the
next it resembles a twenty-year-
old bone in the big middle of the
Sahara desert. Why, oh why,
must this tommyrot go on, and
why can’t we have just a teeny-
weeny little museum?
Top of the day to you Pansy.
Have been in enjoying your edi-
torials in the “Buttercup.” I think
that freshmen should be extermi-
nated just as you suggested, quick.
Could someone suggest a remedy
for this walking eJass epidemic that
is greedily enveloping the Hill?
Drop your suggestions in the Star
contribution box, with a bottle of
arsenic. Many thanks to you.
Why aren’t you on the honor
roll ? Did you send your grade
cards home ? Which reminds us
that we lacked ten grade points
to be listed among the uppers, but
our mind has but a single thought
which carries us far, far into the
night. Ho-hum. Its lazy weather.
For comparing daylight with
dark, look at Thistles by Count
and then ponder over Blurbs by
Duchess. Are you a slime or do
you amount to something?
The very best of wishes to you,
Mr. McNeil and Mr. Wilbern. My
sympathies are with you forever
and a day. Slime Dunlop is still
in a coma. Well done, Dunlop.
Again I plead for the roughen-
ing of the sidewalks. Were they
built for a playground slide or for
walking purposes? Hand me that
sandpaper.
Notice to Duke: Take a few
pointers from this week’s Blurbs
and learn to be a real philosopher.
Hooey is the essence of life,
therefore we should read Bally-
hoo to out-hoot the hooey. Aw
hooey.
Meandering nonchalantly hither
and yon about the lopsided quad-
rangle was the reason for a sore
toe that could otherwise been per-
fectly sound. That’s what you get
for loafing.
How about some fans in the li-
brary. If we have to work our-
selves to death, let us die cool. It
might moisten up some of those
dry books.
Oh yes, hope you all had a mer-
ry Easter. The ole Easter bun-
ny led me a most exhausting chase
and to tap it off failed to lay any
eggs. Give me the goose that
lays the golden eggs. My pants
are threatbare at the knees from
hunting Easter eggs. The only
egg I discovered was a yegg of a
(Turn to Page Four)
Three Records Broken in Close
Contest of 76 to 66
Coach “Oskie” Strahan’s group
of thinly-clads won their first
home meet last Monday evening,
downing the speedsters from
Schreiner by amassing 76 points to
the visitors’ 66. The Bobcat Fresh-
men garnered two points.
A feature of the meet was the
work of Johnny Hancock who hit
the tape first in the mile and two
mile runs not to mention gain-
ing second in the shot put. Han-
cock nosed out Forrester on the
sprint in the mile event. Captain
Sandy Germer and the other Bob-
cat speedsters came in for their
share of the glory by raising the
team’s total points to 76.
Three field records were broken
during the course of the after-
noon. New of the Bobcats tossed
the discus one hundred and thirty-
one feet and ten inches to estab-
lish a record in that department.
Captain Germer topped the one
hundred and twenty yard timbers
at sixteen seconds flat for a new
record, while the 440 yard sprint
relay team from Schreiner won
that event in the record-breaking
time of 43:7.
Milton “Punk” Shaw, Louie Ger-
mer, Frank Heffner, John Tom
Dailey, Orville McDavis and
George Schorlemer, all of whom
are sophomores, garnered a good
number of counters.
Coach Strahan seems optimistic
over the showing of his tracksters
but stated that many improve-
ments can and will be made.
The Results
Mile run: Hancock, Bobcats,
first; Forrester, Bobcats, second;
Garcia, Schreiner, third.
440 yard run: Norris, Bobcats,
first; Hodge, Bobcats, second;
Gueder, Bobcats, third.
100 yard dash: Reeves, Carr and
Davis, Schreiner, first, second and
third, respectively.
120 yard high hurdles: Germer,
Bobcats, first; Porter, Bobcats, sec-
ond; Nichols, Schreiner, third.
Time, 16 flat (new field record.)
880 yard run: Forrester, Bobcats,
New Cases Under Construction to
Hold Interesting Relics.
At last the long asked and look-
ed for college museum is being in-
stalled by the college.
Under the direction of the col-
lege authorities the trophy cases
for the many ages dormant relics
are being constructed in the main
hall of the Science building by the
college carpenter and electrician.
Present plans are to construct
three separate cases, one on the
left side of the entrance and the
other two on the sidewalls of the.
hallway. The case in the entrance
will be 32 feet long, 6 feet 10
inches high and 16 inches deep. It
will have a glass front with glass
partitions. Incased in the case will
be 35 lights. The case on the side-
wall of the west end of the hall
will be .24 feet long having the
some heighth and depth but will
contain only 25 lights. The east
hall case calls for a length of 40
feet. It also will be the same
length and depth of the other two
with the proportionate number of
lights.
This construction has been a
long waited for event by the stu-
dents of the college and it is hoped
that it will prove beneficial to the
student body.
The Philosphian Literary Socie-
ty will visit the Elisabet Ney
Museum in Austin on April 7. All
members are expected to go as this
will be one of the year’s interest-
ing events.
-o-o-
Buster Brown, former business
manager of the Pedagog was a
week-end visitor with friends on
the Hill.
PRES. EVANS SPEAKS
AT FOUNDERS DAY
EVENT AT BRENHAM
President C. E. Evans represent-
ed the Southwest Texas State
Teachers College at the celebra-
tion of Founders’ Day held in
Brenham last Wednesday evening
for Blinn College of that city. On
the program were a number of
leading educators representing the
colleges of Texas.
Dr. Evans reports that a reor-
ganization of Blinn College has
taken place, the former Blinn Mem-
orial College, a denominational in-
stitution, becoming Blinn College,
a local college suported by city
and county taxes. Founders’ Day
was held to give recognition to
this worthy movement.
An interesting bit of history was
brought out in connection with the
program relating to other colleges,
Dr. Evans said, when it was learn-
ed that Baylor University moved
from Independence in Washing-
ton county, near Brenham, to Wa-
co, and Southwestern University
moved from Chapel Hill, Washing-
ton county, to Georgetown.
As part of the program, Presi-
dent Evans discussed “The Coming
College,” a brief outline of the
discussion being as follows:
1. The coming college will have
a definite field and definite objec-
tives. Quality offerings for a
through and through product will
take the place of quantity sched-
ules with the dissipation of college
energies for slipshod product. The
coming college will not attempt “to
keep up with the Joneses”; it will
employ its talents to carry out its
own carefully projected plans, re-
gardless of the Joneses.
2. The coming college will be a
worthwhile, constructive influence
in the life of the State and the
lives of young men and young wo-
men. It is not enough for colleges
merely to disseminate knowledge;
the coming college will disseminate
BERRY, THOMAS
ADDRESS MEN’S
FACULTY CLUB
At the meeting of the Men’s
Faculty Club, held last Thursday
evening at the residence of Dr.
Smith, Superintendent Berry of the
city schools spoke of his impres-
sions at the recent meeting of the
National Educational Association,
and Mr. Thomas talked on the
status of the Paisano in fact and
in legend, both talks arousing a
great deal of discussion. Owing to
the facts several members were
out of the city doing judging ser-
vice at the county meets and oth-
ers were absent because of con-
flicting engagements and approach-
ing examinations, the meeting was
not up to par.
r---0-0-
Freshmen Go to
Schreiner Sat. For
Four-way Meet
The freshman track team will
leave Friday afternoon for Kerr-
ville where they will take part in
the meet between Westmoreland
College, Thomas Jefferson High
School, and Schreiner Institute.
The prospects for the freshmen
are good this year as there are
a good many men out for track.
We are hoping they will show up
better in this meet than they did
in the meet of last Monday with
the Bobcats and Schreiner.
(Turn to Last Page)
(Turn to Page Four)
Work On College
Museum UnderWay
HARPER BASS
R. R. RUSH
At the beginning of the year the
Sophs elected Harper Bass as class
president. Mr. Rush is class spon-
sor. Both are active in all stu-
dent activities. Bass is a member
of the tennis team at present and
was a Bobcat basketeer.
Boxing Finals Draw
Enthusiastic Crowd
In Gym Tuesday Eve
Before a crowd of excited box-
ing fans, the finals of the boxing
tournament were held last night
in the gym. All matches were
hard fought to the bitter end, and
a good time was had by all (ex-
cept the contestants.) Three one-
minute rounds were fought in each
bout.
In the heavyweight battle “Big
Boy” Lemons defeated Anderson.
Brightwell was conceded the light-
heavyweight crown by a forfeit as
Lamar has withdrawn from school.
Burtis in a rip-roaring fast fight
outpointed Johnny Hancock to take
the middle-weight title. Woody
Woodruff easily outpointed Walk-
er to carry off the honors in the
welter-weight division. Sowell, al-
ready crowned lightweight champ,
defeated Chapman, featherweight
champ in a special exhibition en-
counter.
An exhibition comic battle fea-
turing Kaufman and Brightwell
with the gloves and Gueder in the
roll of referee was given as an ex-
tra added attraction.
-o-o-
Commerce-Bobcats
Meet Next Saturday
The meet next Saturday between
Commerce Teachers and the Bob-
cats should prove to be one of the
most interesting meets of the sea-
son. Both teams seem to be even-
ly matched.
One of the, outstanding events
of the meet will be the race be-
tween Williams of Commerce and
Forester of San Marcos. Forester
won over Williams at Fort Worth
week before last.
Hitt, of Commerce, star half-
back of last year’s football team
will meet Germer in the low
hurdles event. Germer was beaten
by Hitt at the Fort Worth stock
show but Germer has an edge be-
cause he is running on the home
track and is in better condition
now.
In the sprints, Stevens, anoth-
er halfback of Commerce, will meet
Porter and Gueder. Gueder should
take away honors as he beat Stev-
ens at Fort Worth.
Thomas In Charge
Freshman Program
Teachers of English
At the annual meeting of Texas
Association of College Teachers of
English, which will hold its sec-
ond meeting at the University of
Texas Friday evening, April 13,
and Saturday morning, April 14,
Mr. Thomas will represent this
college as chairman of the fresh-
man committee on the general
theme of “Improving the Quality
of Freshman Instruction in Eng-
lish.”
The Texas Association of College
Teachers of English is an organ-
ization of college teachers of Eng-
lish formed last year for the pur-
pose of making better the teach-
ing of English in the universities
and senior and junior colleges of
Texas. Dr. H. H. Griffith, Univer-
sity of Texas, is president of the
association, which has a steering
committee of ten members, one of
whom is Mr. Thomas, who was ap-
pointed by the committee at its
November meeting to make a
study of Freshman instruction in
Texas colleges as is, with recom-
mendations for its improvement.
The recommendation will take the
form of a round table discussion,
with the following members of the
freshman committee participating:
J. B. Wharey, University of Tex-
as; John W. Bowyer, S.M.U.; Mrs.
F. B. Giles, Weatherford Junior
College.
-—o-o--
College Dance to Be
Given By Players
There will be a college dance
sponsored by the College Players
at the gym on April 16. No definite
arangements have been made at
this time for an orchestra, but it
is thought that Red Mills’ popu-
lar orchestra from the Plaza Hotel
in San Antonio will furnish the
music.
Ail college students are invited
to attend, and for those students
who wish to send out-of-town bids,
please turn the names in to An-
derson B. Alexander or Chas.
Davis before April 10. In the past
there has been much confusion in
the dean’s office over students who
wish to send last-minute bids. We
are attempting to avoid this con-
fusion so please get your bids in
at an advanced date.
:: A HISTORY ::
Goodby mamma, I’m going to
college. Be careful now honey,
and don’t let those big bad college
people change your ways. We want
you to write every week and be
sure and send us your grades. Re-
member you were fourth in your
class here at Goose Hollow. These
were the words exchanged between
future freshman and their mamas
on many instances in the fall of
1932.
Ou! oh! Uch! oi! my but these
blasted hills are hard to climb.
Give me the good old flat country
where the blood don’t run to your
head every time you sit down. But
finally these up and coming fresh-
men of 1932 learned the why and
wherefore of SWTTC, never dream-
ing that they would in 1934 as
sophomores be the outstanding
class on the hill.
After the usual routine of pay-
ing out their dough and signing
up for that required education
class the business of class organ-
ization loomed up. After a heat-
ed political discussion and a vig-
orous campaign J. Harvey Tilton
received the nod for president af-
ter passing his card over the cam-
pus. (Whata battle.) The year
was chuck full of activity which
always found the fish in the big
middle of the most heated discus-
sions. During the course of the
year Faye Jett, Roy Worley, Shor-
ty Patton, and Erkel Tuttle be-
came notorious-for their freshman-
like greenness. Eva Pitts, our
own little red-head, was chosen a
Gaillardian and Bill Barber fell in
love. At the close of the year
many tears were shed at an onion
party given by Beth Lancaster.
The summer session saw many
of the 1932 freshmen jump up a
notch, and when this school year
of ’34 opened the class was scat-
tered all the way from freshman
to junior.
The election of the Sophs’ pres-
ent corps of officers was even more
heated than the previous year’s
scramble. After the tallies were
counted they revealed that Harper
Bass had taken the office of pres-
ident by a heavy count, Alfred
Kirby took the vice-presidency,
Beth Lancaster the secretaryship,
and Goat-Herder Hopf won the
title of sergeant-at-arms by ac-
clamation. The seats in the stu-
dent council went to Lelia Fran-
ces Coons and Brooks Holt. Mr.
Rush, sophomore class sponsor,
(Turn (o Last Page)
NUMBER 28
Registration Figures
Loom Large As New
Half Semester Opens
COLLEGE PLAYERS
TO PRESENT COMEDY
HERE THURS. AND FRI.
Hearty laughs and plenty of
them are promised the audiences
at the College Theatre production
of “Three-Cornered Moon,” to be
presented in the auditorium tomor-
row and Friday nights. The play
is new; its Broadway run ended
less than a year ago, after play-
ing to capacity houses for a full
season, during which time it was
universally acclaimed by audiences
and critics alike as the best come-
dy of the season.
The cast and stage crew have
worked hard and steadily for the
past four weeks, and if we may
judge by recent rehearsals we shall
see a good play well done. The
play has to do with the Rimple-
gar family, a more or less rattle-
brained crew who positively refuse
to take things seriously. Comes
the big bad wolf, in the form of
depression and stock market los-
ses, due to the idiotic investments
of the head of the family; and fol-
lows, after many guffav/s, the
eventual solution of problems of
the Rimplegars.
The cast is as follows:
Douglas Rimplegar, Joe Horeczy.
Kenneth Remplegar, William Ma-
loch.
Mrs. Rimplegar, Virgilia Ruth
Wade.
Jenny, Jean Williams.
Ed Rimplegar, Ralph Brite.
Elizabeth Rimplegar, Bessie P.
Andrus.
Donald, Edison Starkey.
Dr. Alan Stevens, Edward Kor-
negay.
Kitty, Jessie Lee Chamberlin.
Most of the members of the cast
are appearing for the first time on
our stage, although all have had
previous playing experience else-
where. Only three have appeared
previously in College Theatre pro-
ductions. Bill Maloch will be re-
membered for his appearance in
(Turn to last Page)
Students Still Coming In; Us-
ual Spring Half Term
Will Bring Others
With three days of registration
gone into history the spring en-
rollment is gradually nearing com-
pletion. According to Registrar L.
H. Kidd the enrollment up to Wed-
nesday morning was counted at
636. This means that this num-
ber have completed and turned in
their schedules. Mr. Kidd stated
that many more were expected to
complete registration today and
the remainder of the week. The
registrar’s office has been buzzing
with activity for the past two days
with students trying to revise their
uncompleted schedules.
* The short term of this spring
session will begin on April 23.
Many teachers who are at pres-
ent engaged in teaching eight-
month schools will probably enter
at the half-way mark. Mr. Kidd
seemed confident that the enroll-
ment would experience a marked
increase in the next few days.
The figures show a scarcity of
new students but reveal that very
few of the last term students re-
signed. All the earmarks of a
successful term is looming for
SWTTC.
-o-o-
Strahan Returns
From Session at
New Orleans
Coach Strahan, on his return
from the meeting of the Physical
Education Association in New Or-
leans, reported a very interesting
and beneficial trip. During his
stay there, Strahan was honored
by being requested to speak be-
fore the association. Leading
mentors from all parts of the
United States were present. One
of the outstanding features of the
program was a talk which was
given by Dr. Williams of New
York, and which showed the trend
of physical education toward a
sports program for both men and
women.
Bobcat Net Squad
Take Schreiner Meet
DEBATERS GO
TO NATIONAL
CONVENTION
John Brandstetter and York Wil-
bern, veteran college debaters, left
last week-end for Lexington, Ken-
tucky to attend the annual meet-
ing of the National Convention of
Pi Kappa Delta, a national debat-
ing society.
These two men plan to enter the
debate which includes well over
one hundred fifty boys . debate
teams from all parts of the United
States. Other Lone Star teams
represented at this meet will be
Denton, Huntsville, Nacogdoches,
and Trinity. Teams from Baylor
University, Baylor College, Sim-
mons, and Howard Payne will also
be present.
Both Brandstetter and Wilbern
are seniors each having three
years of debate experience.
-o-o-—
Dr. Votaw, professor of educa-
tion, has returned to school after
undergoing a tonsil operation. The
sophmore class and his many other
friends take this opportunity to
wish for him a speedy recovery
of this and his other ills.
---o-o-
Mr. Jackson, librarian, announc-
ed that the library will stay open
until 7:30 p. m. during the re-
mainder of the spring semester.
The library opens at 7:00 a. m.
Reserve books will go out at 6:45
p. m. on all days except Saturday
when the library will close at 5:00
p. m. and books will be given out
at 4:00 p. m.
Make Clean Sweep of All Matches
Played
In the first tennis meet of the
year the Bobcat netters took the
Schreiner court representatives to
a decisive defeat on Riverside
courts last Saturday afternoon.
There were six matches played
and when the dust of battle cleared
away six matches had been won by
the. Bobcats. Only one of the en-
counters proved very difficult for
the locals. This was the match be-
tween McCarley and Weil which
was to decide the winner of the
number two position. The first set
was taken by McCarley rather
easily, but in the second set, Weil
came into his own and took the
set to the tune of 6-4. As the
third and decisive set got well un-
der way, McCarley began to dem-
onstrate the way “story-book”
shots should be made. As a re-
sult, he took the set and match
with a final score of 6-4, 4-6, 11-9.
In the doubles, Bass and New
had very little difficulty in the first
match and took Floeter and Poin-
dexter for a ride without the loss
of a game. In the second match,
Notley and McCarley had little
trouble the first set, but they
managed to win the second set
fairly easily, and thus beat Weil
and Shelby by the score of 7-5, 6-4.
The scores of the entire match
were as follows: In singles, Not-
ley took Floeter 6-1, 6-1; McCar-
ley defeated Weil 6-4, 4-6, 11-9;
New walloped Shelby 6-0, 6-1;
Bass won over Poindexter 6-2, 6-4;
in doubles, Bass and New blasted
Floeter and Poindexter 6-0, 6-0,
while Notley and McCarley eli-
minated Weil and Shelby 7-5, 6-4.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View three places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The College Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 4, 1934, newspaper, April 4, 1934; San Marcos, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth805011/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State University.