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THE THRESHER
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Hudson and Wann Speak At Forum
On Study Habits and Environment
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been away from home and now is on
his own. In grammar school and
high school we have been treated as
children; then, suddenly, we are
thrust into the adult world with no
prior preparation. The new demands
that we must make on ourselves
form the keystone for your future
success.
<fThose who go to universities de-
lay their responsibilities. If we are
here because of a large amount of
drive, tension, or anxiety, then we
must remember to expect tension
throughout our college years. The
desire to study is not because we
are interested in study but because
we have an anxiety—we wish to
be accepted by^the group to which
we aspire. If we can expect anxiety
in school, we must not be demoraliz-
ed by anxiety. How to distinguish
anxiety from worry is simple—it
depends on what you do about it.
"The child is always in a subordi-
nate position when he is socialized.
Here at the university, in addition to
being subordinate to the upperclass-
men, you are also expected not to
act like a subordinate, but rather
like a scholar. It is a very difficult
and narrow path between being too
subordinate and not subordinate
enough to your superiors. The an-
swer in each individual's case will
be highly personal."
In concluding his talk Dr. Wann
made these four points:
(1) Be assured that you will be
anxious examination, will worry,
will blow up. Don't think that when
you make a mistake, it is irrevoca-
ble. Be wary if there is no anxiety;
there is something radically unad-
justed if one does not have Anxiety.
(2) As we grow up we learn to
react toward people by which rank
or positions they fill, not how they
are in character. Here for the first
time you'll be reacting to people on
what they are rather than on their
status. Now is the time to start
sizing people up. That is the first
statement I'd like to make concern-
ing interpersonal relationship.
(3) Second in importance in in-
terpersonal relationship is a conflict
between striving for status in your
family and still grow up in a peer
group. This will be the first time
that your loyalties will be divided.
Now you will run into ideas in your
group that may bring conflict at
home. It is very important that
students learn to adapt their atti-
tude to prevent conflicts. What you
are to do is not impress your fam-
ily with your learning but to use
your learning to make your family
happier.
(4) Third, the interpersonal re-
lationship assumed with sex. Sex
is very delicate to talk about. I look
on sex as a form of interpersonal
relatioinship; it then comes to me
as a subject in which problems will
arise. There is nothing one can say
about sexual adjustment that you
don't already know. One answer for
your problem: the person who en-
gages in sex activitity that departs
widely from his family and class
background will run into trouble.
Anxiety will arise that is unproduc-
tive. I would advise people to follow
very closely the dictates of their
group concerning sex unless those
dictates vary markedly from their
family background.
In his talk on "How To Study" Dr.
Hudson outlined three techniques
that have been used in studying:
(1) Review what you have read
and try to outline in your mind, if
not orally, the facts which you have
just read. Constant review will en-
able a person to remember more
than a review after a long concen-
trated period of study.
(2) In the course of study, if you
vary your activity, you'll do better
than if you arrange tasks that are
very similar because of retroactive
effect. If you arrange a difficult
lesson before bedtime, more will be
retained after you have slept than if
you had rested or studied something
else.
(3) Learn the structure of the
course. If you obtain a picture of the
whole situation rather than get a
keyhole picture of the situation,
much more will be gotten from the
course. Get the general outline and
then attach the details to it.
Dr. Hudson also emphasized the
importance of reading ability in
studying. In his talk he pointed out
that there is an enormous range of
reading ability. People often get bad
habitis in reading which result in
slow reading. One such habit is re-
gression. In this case a person be-
begins a line of reading, goes a
little way down the line, and then
starts over again—perhaps because
of a new word, or perhaps because
he didn't get the meaning at the
beginning of the line. However, this
regression often occurs on every
line and a bad habit is formed.
"A person should be able to read
about.-.250 words a minute, that is,
easy reading," said Dr. Hudson. "If
he cannot do this he should go to
the library in his spare time and
read some of the books there on
how to read. It is also hoped that
that this fall a new machine will be
obtained which aids people in speed-
ing up their reading. The purpose
of this machine is to reduce the time
of fixation and the number of fix-
ations."
In the discussion afterward one
student asked if slow readers didn't
get much more out of their reading
than fast readers. However, Dr.
Hudson stated that fast readers got
just as much, if not more out of
their reading than slow readers. He
also pointed out that skimming is
a highly useful procedure in getting
a general outline of a book.
In conclusion, Dr. Hudson reiter-
ated the three bad habits of read-
ing: (1) too many fixations, (2) too
lengthy fixations, and (3) regres-
sion.
AIEE Holds Party
Tickets will be on sale Wednes-
day thru Friday for a combination
picnic and listening party for the
LSU-Rice game. The seventy five
cents per person will include food,
beer, and soft drinks. A radio-phon-
ograph together with a loudspeaker
system will enable everyone to lis-
ten. It will begin at 2:00 P.M., Sat-
urday, October 1, 1949, on West
Beach at Galveston. Maps will be
provided with tickets. Sports equip-
ment will be available for those
interested. The party is being spon-
sored by the AIEE.
— COMPLIMENTS
ROGERS RAY, Inc.
ROBERT H. RAY Co.
Contracting and Consulting Geophysicists
Jack C. Pollard '25
Sam D. Rogers
Robert H. Ray, 25
Five All-ftaters Report To Coaeh
Moore As Blue Bolts Open Praetiee
Out on the practice field these
days a team noted since the war
as the fightingest eleven on the
campus is again getting back into
uniform. Of course, I'm talking
about the Blue Bolts, which is now
strictly a freshman squad. At the
last count, forty players had re-
ported to Coach Charlie Moore, in-
cluding five All-Staters. There are
plenty of good boys out there, and
good they will have to be, because,
since Rice's varsity is flooded with
graduating seniors, many of today's
slime players will be getting an
early baptism by fire.
Jack Day and George Pontikes
are two All-State ends, and Bob
Moore, an All-Stater from Amarillo,
is playing a tackle slot. Coach Moore
has Weldon Westerfeder and Don
Rrohen, the other two All-Staters, at
center. A tentative squad list has
Pontikes, Wright, and Perovich
working at left end; Bell, Fisk, and
Pfieffer at right end. Tackles are
Davis, Crockett, Moore, and Ed-
wards. Guards are Gray, Loth, Wag-
ner, Curry, and Sartor. Westerfeder,
Rhoden, Berger, Price, and Hobby
are manning the center position.
In the backfield at the man-under
slot, Hughes Birdsell, F r a z i e r,
Drake, and Berly are working. Billy
Daniels, a top-notch speed mer-
chant leads the candidates for the
left half post, with McMillan, Beck-
worth, Allen, and Franks not far
behind. Coach Moore has Nesrsta,
Haddox, Buck, Stobaugh, Dimkerly,
Emerson Meeting
The Emerson Society will meet at
6:30 Sunday evening in the parish
house of First Unitarian Church,
Fannin at Southmore. Senor Luis
Zarrilla, Mexican Vice-consulate,;
will speak on "Education in Mexico."
Following his speech will be group
discussion. Refreshments will be
served.
Swim Privilege Ended
Clyde C. McDougle, Asst. Profes-
sor of Physical Education, has an-
nounced that the arrangements for
Y. M. C. A. swimming privileges on
the Blanket Tax have not been re-'
newed for the school year 1949-50.
and Waltrip at right half, while
Fornes, Baswell, and Ormand are
fighting for the fullback's glory.
WITH SMOKERS WHO KNOW...IT'S
Ye is. Camels are SO MILD that in a coast to coast
test of hundreds of men and women who smoked Camels
— and only Camels — for 30 consecutive days, noted
throat specialists, making weekly examinations, reported
NOT ONE SINGLE CASE OF THROAT
IRRITATION DUE TO SMOKING CAMELS!
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1949, newspaper, September 30, 1949; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230816/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.