The Yucca, Yearbook of North Texas State University, 1974 Page: 29
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Home economics facilities at North Texas have come a long way
since these fair maidens utilized gas burners and metal cracker
boxes to produce kitchen magic (below).A play of yesteryear (upper right) depicts the feelings of young
women toward sex - a simple kiss on the cheek was cause for a
guilty conscience. In a day when all aspects of college life were
ruled with a firm hand by the university president, popular bowl
haircuts (above) and required class attendance made the hair
scarce and students plentiful in the classroom.As Dr. Rogers tells it, he "wandered into the president's
office for a conference and wandered out again with a volun-
tary commission for authorship." He spent the next three
years collecting material, digging through records in the
library, exploring the university archives in the State Histori-
cal Collection and perusing manuscripts written by others on
various aspects of North Texas' history.
Probably the most interesting and amusing part of the
book from the standpoint of today's students, is the section
dealing with Dr. Bruce's administration. Rules and regula-
tions were meant to be obeyed, and punishment was swift
and severe for those who did not.
More often than not, a student's parents were notified if
their son's or daughter's school work was not up to par. Dr.
Bruce once penned a long letter to the father of a student,
asking him to refrain from requesting special privileges for
his daughter. The girl was spending an inordinate amount of
time with "a young man of the town" and, as a result, her
class work was suffering. In closing the letter, Dr. Bruce
asked the father "in advance to relieve me from any further
responsibility concerning the result of her year's work."
In yet another communication with the parents of a "fallen
female," the watchdog president asked that the daughter be
sent for at once. She also was guilty of associating with a
"man of this town" (a Denton resident not attending the col-
lege). This she had done without his permission, which was
an absolute requirement for any young woman wishing "toreceive attention or visits" from non-students. "For this rea-
son I could not under any circumstances keep her here
longer," Dr. Bruce wrote. "I advise that you write her at once
to come home and send her the money with which to pay her
fare."
The victory bell that today's NTSU students see at football
games was used in the past as a class and curfew bell. At 7
each class night, it rang across the campus, warning stu-
dents to return to their boarding houses for study until lights
out at 10:30. In response to a faculty order, the bell was also
sounded at 5 every afternoon to encourage the young men
and women of the college to put aside their homework and
stroll around the campus.
According to Dr. Rogers, the myriad rules and regulations
"were designed to keep the whereabouts of students known
at all times and keep them at their studies." Normal students
were not allowed to leave Denton during the term without the
permission of the president; if they were absent from any
class without reason, they were dropped from the college
roll; and if they wished to go out to any "public place of
amusement" it was necessary for a faculty member to go
along or, again for Dr. Bruce to give his permission.
Housing regulations were something else again. An
approved list of boarding houses was provided by the col-
lege and students were not allowed to live in unapproved
housing. They were required to "refrain from singing or play-
ing upon musical instruments during study hours" at theirInquiry-29
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