1964

Jo Anne Beall What will we think of next? John Lardner, a leading American sociologist, once stated, “It’s a well-known fact that college students need more relaxation than the rules of normal behavior allow.” This truth explains the following statistics: in 1937, 18,082 goldfish were swallowed alive by pursuers of higher learning; in 1949, 12,345…

Dear Editor: There used to be, in this country, something that we held in high regard. It was something that made this country more than just a brown, green, and blue outline on an American Geographical Society map. It was called the PEOPLE, I mean the kind of People who wrote the Declaration of Independence…

Lamar State College, Beaumont, has raised the admission score required on the SAT test from 600 to 700. A new rule at Odessa College is that students must pay a five dollar fee for a make-up test. That should cut down on absences. Some teachers at Odessa give bonus grades to students with perfect attendance…

Diana Gammill Christmas is almost here. (What an original and profound statement! Where else would it be this time of year?) Anyway, it’s nearly here and soon all the little toys will be delivered to all the little girls and boys. I hope I don’t get another doll again this year. For my letter to…

Is there any organization in Texarkana College that would like to conduct a campaign sponsored by Glamour magazine to determine “The Best Dressed College Girls for 1965”? The contest, now in its ninth year, works as follows: each college chooses the best dressed girl on campus, photographs her in three outfits, then submits the photographs…

A Christmas dinner party for the faculty, administration, and personnel, with their husbands and wives, is planned for Thursday night in the Continental Room, beginning at 6:30. Mrs. Carmen McFerran is chairman of the social committee. On the committee with her are Mrs. Lou Ella Humphrey and Richmond White. J. H. Calvert will be master…

The members of Phi Theta Kappa are selling chocolate candy to raise funds for the club. So if you like good chocolate candy, be sure and get some from one of the members. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Dick Akins who are the proud grandparents of a baby girl born to their son and daughter-in-law…

If there is anyone who has grown tired of school with its study of textbooks and its dozens of routine activities, perhaps he—or she—would like to spend nine months in the Scandinavian countries and get college credit without going through all of the traditional routine of an American education. Many American colleges and universities now…

The Texarkana College Choir presented its annual Christmas music at an assembly Tuesday, December 1, in the College Auditorium. The thirty-one member choir opened the program with a version of “Sleigh Ride.” Other numbers included “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” “It’s Christmas Once Again,” “Carol of the Bells,” “Silver Bells,” “Do You Hear What I Hear?”…