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ICC Ft Knight ASPER I I kMPUS NEWS COMPLETELY »ryj9, l9| COVERED BY DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM STU0ENTS "1)1 Capt. Charles ICC ft Knight ASPER I i •"hind thJ Official Student Body Publication of Texas Chrutian Vnivtriity V he 1932 InJ handball FORT WORTH, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1932. NO. 18. onday. All j ennox Robinson off thi Students Relate Senior Beauty Candidates Sandburg, Poet, Delegates Chosen Appears Before Opinions of the Names Qualities For Scholarship onb' team T. C. U. Audience Ideal Professor Of Good Scribe 1 cams ntsj Society Meeting To be an Ideal professor, ac- keep his "Yon will need grit, gall, de- coming », cording to the specifications stu- termination, brass, audacity, jamatist Is Director dents set forth when questioned m the Koi nerve, courage and inquisitivenesa Dr. Lord, Miss Houle to of Abbey Playhouse along this line, would require one '" a frie, in your profession" was the state- Represent T.C.U. at Van. ■ ^ in Dublin. to be a "good all-around fellow, ment made by Carl Sandburg, one , one that is likeable and not too of the best known modern day Convention. ■ ■i<' )iar sarcastic." poets, to a Skiff reporter Monday r whs wjs ^ELIC DRAMA IS TOPIC Most Of the students prefer ar jrai'ie, j evening after his lecture at C. I. ABILENE HOST TO GROUP the type of professors who lec- A. "College courses will help ' Bta' the (j ture to the ones who ask ques- hat the Fn [,ur of Dublin Players In 1911 you, but when you get into the Simmons University Session to tions. Several of those question- profession you will have things e s^ni^r A Was Origin of Little Be Discussion of Club Theater Movement. ed expressed their dislike for the pounded and pounded and pound- Problems. "K <"• it end professor thst gives pop-quizzes, oort, »• ed into you. That is the learning and the professor thst gives long that will stick," continued the fa- its to be p] |unnox Robinson, Irish playwright, assignments, seemingly with the mous poet who has been an edi- Dr. John Lord and Miss Clotilda t'kiiy find novelist and poet, told the idea in mind that his particular torial writer on the Chicago Anne Houle will be the T. C. U. fac- e faciai r ,ry of the Abbey Theater" Wed- course is the only one that the Daily News. ulty and student delegates to the student is tsking. "People should not have been IP'' rU. ,v evening in the T. C. U. Audi- convention of the Scholarship Society J. W. Townsend thinks thst the shocked by free verse for it is of the South which will take place at "ideal" professor is one who has very, very old," stated the man H iha ar» si Robinson, considered one of the brains, knows his subject thor- who has glorified free verse. Simmons University, Abilene, Feb. ^jn of it important of the) younger Irish oughly, has a sense of humor snd "People like it because it is eas- 22 and 23. Miss Bita Mae Hall was holding hujstists, is a producer and a direc- does not have a prejud'ee against ier to tell the truth in it than the delegate to the 1931 convention •res in the g M the Abbey Theater In Dublin, the students. in verse which has to have a cer- which was held at Belton. lie the teg T. W. Carpenter says "my ta'h meter and rhyme scheme." i«Bd, which has been called "the Report of the year's activities, be a stroaj ideal professor should have a Ssndburg sang a number of Hither of the Little Theater." good sense of humor, with plenty Texas folk songs at a reception discussions of problems, various sea* Poets Discussed. of brains, and should know his in his honor. Collecting folk sions and banquets will be the pro* still fiarhti Robinson Introduced his subject by course thoroughly. He should not songs is pne of his hobbies and, gram at Abilene. Prof. O. T. Good* tn sie « be too.easy or too hard on the according to him, the only book lommary of Irish history in which en of Hendrix College, Ark., is presi- ) 'he small students in assigning work. I of his that he knows is great is dent^ and Alfred H. Noli* of South- l briefly discussed the old Gaelic had ■ h- have more respect for the profes- "The American Songbag" which west Texas State Teachers College, :hey have k seta. "Long ago in Gaelic Ireland," sor who is a little hard than for is a collection of folk songs from San Marcos, Texas, is secretary- They uid. "the person who wished to the one who is too easy. " all over the world. treasurer of the organization. P in that JjKfta poetry had to ait for months Hersel "Slim" Kinzy says that Other yolumes of his poetry The officers of the T. C. U. branch he likes "a professor that is not are: "Slabs of the Sunburnt of the Scholarship Society are: spon- 1 t the feet of a famous poet, learn- have been too hsrd and not so doggone West," "Smoke and Steel," sor, Dr. John Lord; president, Miss U the intricate structure of the r years. particular about the work that he Rootabaga Stories," "Good Morn- Houle; vice-president, Miss Mary ■aelic poetry." The old Gaelic poets, assigns, snd one thst permits a ing America," "Abraham Lin- Jean Knight; secretary-treasurer. are now n is reached their height in the An- few jokes in class. He should coln" and numerous other collec- Miss Thelma Breithaupt; correspond- mifinals » lo-Irish culture of the eighteenth also try to help the student by tions. ing secretary, Miss Mary Frierson, Bill Brra^ntury, could write • letter as eas- being willing to point out mis- and social chairman, Miss Lamoyne Ashley, V , takes." Laurence. Greek or Roman as in Irish, Walsh, til ' o—— The T. C. U. organization will hold beginning of the nineteenth cen- Marion Hit Debaters Open its next meeting Feb. 16 at the home i qtyrtpt saw practically the last of these of Dr. Lord where the entertainmeaj Skiff Staff Is will be in charge of Miss Laurence. 1932 si its. ' QjANBT LJQGeNT Q/ANE d*G*S Season Monday iding play Crowd at Flrat Play. This club also will sponsor the Uni- as one of I versity Religious Fellowship meeting, The first play produced by the Ab- Named by Editor —Photos by Bryant's Studio. Austin College Team ;he crown. 1 Misses Marian Smith, Mary Louise Gilliam and Jane Jarvis of Fort March 6, at which time the program play t0 IJ Theater players was staged in Worth and Miss Janet Larrent of McKinney are the candidates for senior to Meet T. C. U. at will be in charge of a committee crowded halL Police aaved the Changes Are Made as beauty pages in the Horned Frog yearbook. They were recently presented Fort Worth. composed of Miss Mary Jean Knight, in the beauty revue held in the University Auditorium. chairman; Misses Hall, Frierson, ilij by causing • riot. "Dublin po Five Old Members Breithaupt, Doris Sellers and Mae dand Hall B"<." stated Robinson, "have infallible Withdraw. The Texas Christian debaters will have their first engagement of the Housel, and John Hammond, Marion Hicks doi imatic taste. They never interfere Some Like Magazines, Others Say season Monday night at 7:30 o'clock, Hicks and William Fellows. nd 21 to IVI for the sake of a true master- Several chsnges in The Skiff staff when they meet two teams from Aus- Otto NiesMj^jH were announced this week by Lau- Ballyhoo, Slapstick Lotta Hooey tin College. The debates will not be ile McDia rence Coulter, editor. These changes audience contests, although students Wood bun Is the development of the theater Prof. Sherer Is With the publication of such magazines as Ballyhoo, Hooey may attend if they so desire. The the feitsB*0 n'w factors gradually evolved. were msde necessary because of the withdrawal from the University of and Slapstick the old favorites are fast losing ground with the contests will be held in Room 304, Honored at Austin g the p )ramatists found they could write staff members. average college student of today. Formerly popular magazines public speaking room, and in the Uni- eautiful and successful plays about Ben Boswell has been appointed as- such as American, Cosmopolitan, College Humor and The Literary versity Auditorium. Prof. C. R. Sherer was elected "nk 7n" "' Pea5«nt people, and writ* in the sistant sports editor to Standard Digest have about lost their popularity with the students on the "Resolved, that Congress should chairman of the Texas section of it and Hi T. C. U. campus, if the opinions of the Mathematical Association of islect. Also the players discovered Lambert. Charles Casper will be in enact legislation to provide for cen- it Yarbrw charge of the intramural sports for a few representative students inter the order named are her preferences. tralized control of industry" will be America at its meeting in Austin last goes into tew technique in acting; they mov viewed on the subject hold good for the new semester. Don Evans likes a good detective debated on the affirmative by the T. week-end. He was vice-chairman last the hand i ,Dout and acted as naturally as The fine srts editor, which is a new the majority.. story or a wild west story. He C. U. team of Thomas Magoffin and year. must be rJt *" words they spoke were written Several of the students expressed Four seniors in the department of position on the staff, will be taken by said that he likes the other maga- J.
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