Notable Facts Set
Names Of Streams
ch Divi-
Politicians, heroes and others re
ceived their due from earlier Tex-
1ns in the naming of places but
|he names of streams were taken
Experi §fr° m area f ea f ur es such as oak
issistant [* rees ’ nam e of persons residing
Baylor i 1631, stream or other notable
:ed by P ac ^ S-
n head | araoug - the findings of
ast July fA&M University English Professor
Bohn Q. Anderson whose “Texas
■tream Names” appears in the
physics llatest volume published by the
ids, will |Texas Folklore Society with the
F’ounds- (title “A Good Tale and A Bonnie
icipants
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iport of
Sam Houston, for example, is
the namesake of a Texas city,
•al stu- Yet Texas State Highway Depart-
present bent maps listing nearly 4,100
a West Ktreams show not a single one
ociation iiamed Houston, Anderson said.
'» Calif, I- The professor and head of the
department of English write of
Texas place names in an earlier
Iff M ume °f the folklore society.
*-1^ He is a past president of the
'organization.
11 “The pioneers were seldom as
whimsical in naming streams as
in naming places,” Anderson said.
The names of neighbors and com
munity leaders, vegetation, ani-
nals, terrain, tools, equipment and
nemoriable events were given to
treams.
“More than a third, 1,429 to be
ixact, of Texas stream names are
amily names,” Anderson said. In
he list is everything from Adams
a Zoro.
Such names as Pa, Gal, Grannies,
[Bachelor and Swede also were
given.
Names of trees, plants and
ihrubs are the second most pop-
dar of the eight classifications.
There are 69 streams with the
fford oak in their names, 57 with
iedar and on down the list.
Almost equally popular are
lames dealing with the terrain,
Founda- [f ea t ures °f t* 16 water and similar
aspects.
“This classification includes
everything from the 20 streams
with prairie in their name to one
named Smokey,” Anderson said.
“The importance of animals,
wild and domesticated, to early
Texans is evident in the fact that
almost 500 streams bear their
names, including those named for
fish, birds and insects,” Anderson
said. The list includes 12 streams
with beaver in the name, six with
polecat and 67 with horses.
Anderson wonders what human
characteristics or conflict lie be
hind such creek names as Alarm,
Big Head, Friendship, Happy,
Hardshell, Harmony, Pikes Peak,
Poor, Repress, Rowdy and Thunder
Struck.
The names of rocks and min
erals are used in 238 names of
streams.
“Surprising in a way is that
despite the centuries of Spanish
dominance, only about 200 stream
names are obviously Spanish,”
Anderson said.
The hostility of the Texans after
the Revolution and the fact that
Spanish settlements actually were
few in name and confined to the
areas where Spanish names still
are found, such as the Lower Rio
Grande Valley, were cited as an
explanation.
And Texans used names asso
ciated with Indians in naming only
124 streams.
“Early Texans were apparently
anxious to forget the fierce Co
manche and named only four Co
manche creeks as compared with
12 for the friendlier Kickapoos,”
Anderson said.
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Twenty-five A&M University
graduate students enrolled in “In
troduction to Scientific Russian”
are preparing for the final exami
nation in the language new to
them six weeks ago. And they
should do well Friday.
The course offered by A&M for
the first time is believed to be one
of only four taught in the nation
this summer. Goal of the course is
to help graduate students master
Russian well enough to accurately
translate scientific literature.
On pop quizzes the students
successfully translate such sen
tences as “The first galvic cell
was made by an Italian physicist.”
The students may use a dictionary,
but they have only 10 to 15 min
utes to translate several sentences
of a pop quiz.
“Right now,” Dr. J. M. Skrivanek
said, “I don’t have anybody failing
the quizzes I’ve given.”
Students seeking the Doctor of
Philosophy degree are required to
have a reading knowledge of two
foreign languages for use as re
search tools. Skrivanek’s students
who successfully complete the Rus
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in Scientific Russian” next six
weeks become qualified in one
language.
French and German courses es
pecially for doctoral students long
have been taught at A&M. The
courses are equally demanding of
the advanced student.
Three women are among the 25
students from four nations in the
Russian class. They represent di
verse fields of study. Among the
major areas are agricultural eco
nomics, physics, petroleum engi
neering, entomology, mathematics
and chemistry.
The students quickly mastered
the 33-character Russian alphabet.
The modern Russian alphabet,
known as Cyrillic, evolved from the
original based mainly on the Greek.
The next step was learning rudi
ments of grammar and vocabulary.
Students now spend several hours
daily translating from the Russian.
“Let us further suppose that
charged particles have . beer^ ar
ranged summetrically,” is ah ex
ample of the sentences translated.
“I have read,” Skrivanek said,
“that 20 percent of the scientific
literature in the world is published
in Russian at the present time.”
He said the same source indicated
that in the “foreseeable future”
Russian will be second only to
English as the language of science
and technology.
University Historian Returns
To Study History Of Settlers
A&M University historian re
turns to South Texas later this
month to seek further information
about the people who settled in the
Coastal Bend and Lower Rio
Grande Valley after the railroads
were opened.
Dr. A. Ray Stephens last sum
mer checked railroad company rec
ords in such cities as Houston, St.
Louis and Chicago, as well as in
terviewing persons and checking
files in South Texas. Now com
pleting a summer term teaching
assignment at A&M, Stephens
plans to spend the remainder of
the summer in the Coastal Bend
and Lower Valley areas.
“South Texas has been neglected
so far as regional histories of the
state are concerned,” Stephens
said.
His interest in the transforma
tion of range country into an area
of farms and towns has resulted
already in one book. “The Taft
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Ranch, A Texas Principality” tells
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Christi from its beginnings in the
1800s until the last land was sold
to farmers. The University of
Texas Press will issue the book
later this month.
Who were the leaders who in
duced people to emigrate into the
Coastal Bend and Lower Valley
after the railroads were laid ? Wny
did the people come ? What con
tribution to the region did they
make ? These are the basic ques
tions Stephens seeks to answer
through personal interviews and
study of various records, news
papers and other documents.
His study entitled ‘“Emigrant
Special’: Impact of Railroads and
Emigrants on the Economy of the
Texas Gulf Coast, 1800-1930,” is
sponsored by the university.
Stephens joined the A&M faculty
in 1962 after completing doctoral
studies at the University of Texas.
He has been advanced to assistant
professor effective Sept. 1.
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