Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-09
Brownsville Junior
College Doings
These Days
Nv WALTER


~ quiet. perhaps due to the char
acter Of grades which were sent
out to parents early this week. An
epidemic Of pop-quizzes seems 70
have broken out, and a number of
students have suffered severely
from the effects. The pop-quiz
seems to become a fad with in
structors Immediately after term
grades have been given out.
Mrs. Pauline Landrum Goode.
head Of the Spanish department.
gave an illustrated lecture on Mex
leo Monday morning in the College
auditorium to a joint assembly OF
the high schools and the college.
Mrs. Goode has travelled extern
sively through Spain and Mexico.
and is enabled thereby TO lend a
personal touch to her lecture which
made it intensely interesting. She
was able to throw new light on the
scenes. activities. and interests OF
our neighbor republic. The scenes
in ana around Mexico City, and
the Lake OF Xochimilco were in
terestingly discussed by Mrs. Goode.
Mrs. Goode also talked 70 a meet
ing OF the National Honorary So
ciety Monday afternoon. The sub
iect for her discussion was Student
Life in Spain. The college members
OF the society were present, and
enioved the discussion immensely
Mrs Goode spoke on the same sub
feet to a meeting OF the san Ben
ito Spanish club at the Soore Las
Olas cafe on the highway between
San Benito and Harrington on Tues
day evening Of last week.
Mrs. Goode Is also a good instructor
and her interesting delivery helps
10 make her courses among the
most interesting in the curriculum
Enough OF the students have
DISPLAYED an interest in baseball u
enable the Scorpions to organize a
team OF their own. II was at first
thought that It would be necessary
10 organize a team jointly with
the high school and college, U
the Scorpions will report in ful
force Monday afternoon 70 their
first practice. This is the first base
hall team that the college has ever
organized. and II appearances are
not deceitful, il will be a good one
Were back Of the Scorps IN any
thing they undertake. and their
record SO far this year Is quite
ereditable.
A great deal OF excitement has
been aroused due TO the arrival OF
fhe sophomore rings and pins. Inc
ring will be delivered 70 the stud
ents early next week. Everyone IS
anxiouslv awaiting their delivery.
and Il Is expected that the cast
~ a recorder If the rings are
satisfactory. The freshmen are con-
sidering pins made up in the COL
lere emblem which they voted 10
standardize several weeks ago.
The Y. W. c. A. met Tuesday and
had a group picture made for the
Collegian.
Miss Anne Kendrick and Miss
Annie Tucker have begun rehear-
sing the students for the annual
junior college play which IS given
for the benefit OF the school pub
lication. 1t Will be some time be-
fore the play is produced.
Il has been rumored that the cast
OF Mi Novio ESpanol has not been
disbanded, and that another per-
Torrance will be given. The pur-
pose Of the performance has no.
vet been determined. The first
performance was an excellent one
and II 81 expected that the cast
will have benefited By the eX-
periencc.
J. r. Reid was a visitor in the
college Saturday. Mr.. Reid resigned
as college inspector for the depart
ment Of education on March ! ?
will accept a position with Hougn-
ton-Mifflin Company. he Is mere
TO visit his various friends on the
faculty. Mr.. Reid speaks very hlgn-
" concerning the several branches
Of the college.
u G. w. Gotke returned from At
fsntic City. New Jersey where ne
attended the meeting OF the Ma
finnal Eudcatioa Association. H.. Z
baker OF Edinburg. Paul z. Phipps
If Harlinaen. and Pres. Gotke were
the three Superintendents TO at
tend from the Valley. They joined
the other two hundred and fifty
delegates from Tevas at New Or
leans Atlantic City. Georgia; WASH
inc ID C.: Cincinnati. Ohio, and
philadelphia. Pa. were the principal
cities en- route to the convention
Tho convention was held in the
larrest convention hall in the
worId II has a seating capacity OF
fr-ty thousand and a ball room
~~anacitv OF five thousand. Excur-
sions to schools and places OF MS
torical interest were arranged ioI
the delegates. Supt. y. X. Crozler
OF Dallas was elected president OF
the National Education Association.
Mr. Gotke arrived in BROWNSVILLE
On Tuesday OF last week.
Miss Charlotte Heyman, heac o.
enc English department. created
enne excitement last week by re-
ruIrinQ both freshmen and sopho-
,nore English classes 70 compose
original poems. The subjects for the
roems varied from the ridiculous
r. the sublime. ranging from an
Ole 10 the wind and an ode to Valley
fever 70 MY Night to Work n a
S.nrrinfion Of the Harlingen bus.