Balzac's Le Pere Goriot in Balzac's Human Comedy
A critical look at Le Pere Goriot as part of Balzac's Human Comedy. The review highlights Eugen de Rastignac's seduction by Paris, Old Goriot's daughters in high society, and Balzac's portrayal of environment shaping fate. Also notes Vautrin as a master if evil and the swift, relentless prose.
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LE Pere Goriot
Honore de Balzac
Balzac
Paris
Eugen de Rastignac
Goriot
Anastasie
Delphine
Monsieur Vautrin
Balza
Victorine
Pere Goriot
Saribenne Thomas
The Wayward Bus by Steinbeck Tells of a Realistic Journey
The Wayward Bus, a Steinbeck novel, follows a trip with varied passengers and tensions. The work portrays ordinary people and social dynamics aboard a long bus journey.
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John Steinbeck
The Citadel by A G Cronin review
Marshall Watts reviews The Citadel by A J Cronin as a realistic romance about a doctor’s professional struggles. It follows Andrew Manson from a Wales mining town to independent practice, highlighting moral questions and the rewards of perseverance.
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the Citadel
A. J. Cronin
Andrew Manson
Wales
Cronin
The
Citadel
Manson
Marshall Watts
Southern Association Praises Lee Junior College Facilities
The Lee Junior College earned Southern Association of Universities and Colleges membership in 1934 era progress. Visiting officials led by Dr H E Jenkin praised LJC faculty and teaching methods while noting the need for a separate building. Dean Rundell welcomed the high standing and listed seventeen Texas junior colleges already members.
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Lee Junior College
Southern Association of Universities and Colleges
LJC
Junior College Commission
H. E. Jenkin
M. C. Huntly
JCC
D. M. Nelson
Southern Association
Dean Rundell
Rundell
Lon Morris College
Schreiner Institute
Texas Lutheran College
Weatherford College
Westminister College
Quote by Benjamin Disraeli Cited on Critique Versus Correctness
A concise quotation notes that it's easier to be critical than correct, attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, highlighting a timeless tension between judgment and accuracy. The line is presented as a standalone thought without additional context or attribution beyond the author.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Library Receives Wide Range of New Volumes for Shelves
The college library adds 875 volumes including Career Monographs, psychology and literature titles, sports and music books, and Posner ballet sets. Notable authors and works include Grey, Coleridge, Yeats, Shakespeare studies, and Davis Stella.
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Sylvia Stern
Goodenough
Gessell
Eysenck
Popenoe
Baker
Starch
Cassid
Crow
Aheck
Hurlock
Johnson
McKinney
Jersild
Fite
Aadry
Gray
Coleridge
Snyder
Campbell
Stovall
Hellman
Benet
Reader's Encyclopedia
Jeffers
Glasgow
Ellmann
Yeats
Boswell
Davis
Stella
Anthony
the Label
Brown
Audyary Kipling
Yoseloff
Laurence Sterne
Timmons
Garner
Texas
Gamma Phi Kappa Holds Christmas Party
Gamma Phi Kappa held its annual Christmas party in the college library on Saturday December 11 with sixteen members present. Miss Sylvia Pearl Stern sponsored the event as gifts were exchanged amid bells holly and Christmas rope refreshments included cakes and cookies. The sorority presented Miss Stern with two hand painted plates.
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Gamma Phi Kappa
College
Sylvia Pearl Stern
Miss Stern
Confucius Quote Reflected On Life And Death
A reflective line from Confucius ponders knowledge of life and uncertainty about death, expressing a philosophical stance on human limits. The quote frames existence and the unknown with quiet introspection.
Personalities MUSIC CHURCH AND SCHOOL KEEP ALICE SPARKS BUSY
Alice Sparks is a standout LJC student active in piano voice speech modeling and church work. She accompanies the LJC choir and hopes to sing with it one day while teaching a Sunday School class and co sponsoring the Junior Training Union. She holds leadership roles in Rainbow girls Phi Theta Kappa and the Baptist Student Union. After high school she joined LJC and studied modeling in Houston last summer. She plans to major in Home Economics at the University of Houston and is engaged.
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Alice Sparks
LJC
First Baptist Church
Junior Training Union
Rainbow Girls
Phi Theta Kappa
The
Baptist Student Union
Mary Beth McDonald’s School of Modeling
Houston
Foley Brothers
McCall Pattern Show
Alice
University of Houston
Hayes Dorris
Dean Rundell Attends TJCA Meeting in Palestine TX
Dean Walter Rundell returned from the Executive Committee of the Texas Junior College Association meeting at Palestine on January 8. The group planned the program for the association’s annual meeting to be held in Dallas on March 24.
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Walter Rundell
Texas Junior College Association
Palestine
Texas
Dallas
Curtain Club presents radio comedy The Weatherman's Secret
The LJC Curtain Club staged a radio comedy on December 14 at 7 30 p m written by John Kirkpatrick. Set in the Weather Bureau office in Washington D C the plot features a U S senator predicting bizarre weather in Texas and California while a cast led by Joe Chandler Kate Penn Earl Rhodes and others perform roles including Cotton Ann Corn Weatherbee and more.
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LJC Curtain Club
John Kirkpatrick
Lynn O’hagan
the Weather Bureau
Washington D.C
United States
Joe Chandler
Texas
California
George Davidson
Kate Penn
Jo Ann Murdoch
Bill Gadget
Inventor
Earl Rhodes
Betty Jo Cheatham
Cotton Ann Corn
Alabama
Harold de Seppers
Dorothy Marshall
Deuteronomy Howers
Weatherbee
Mary Jo Holcomb
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