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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1909)
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FROM THE BLUE BOX The recent enforcement of article 3, paragraph 367, in the blue book with regard to the baseball players has caused quite a good deal of attention to be directed to that passage. The rules here state that no student will be allowed to take paft in athletic sports unless he has passed in at least fifteen term hours work during the last session. As a result of the en forcement of this act our baseball squad has dwindled considerably, many of the best players being thrown out of the game. Indeed it looks as if there will be Ao baseball team here this year unless something Is doneC' It is right enough for the man who plays baseball, football or track work to be expected to keep his class work up to a certain standard but there should be a limit to the height of this standard. Every up-to-date institution of learning recognizes the value of ath letics, both as an advertisment for the school and as a means of raising the tone of the student body. Every con cession possible is always granted the different teams and their work encour aged in every way possible. No one expects an athlete to do quite as well in his studies as the student who has nothing but his books to consume his time and the standard to which the athlete must attain is rarely ever made higher than he can reach with a moderate amount of work. Up to the present time the policy of this school has been to encourage ath letics in every way possible and yet have the students engaged in these sports do the proper kind of work. However, with the enforcement of the new rules a decided check has been ! given to sports. It is not an easy j matter for a man with nothing else ! but his books to pass his fifteen term hours of work and it’s much harder for one to do so when he must put in time each week in practice in some kind of athletics. Athletics are as necessary to a school as almost any 'other one thing and it is a bad day for A. and M. that sees any material check given their development. Surely some change can be made which will impose fewer re strictions upon the athlete in his class work. W P BOYETT The Campus Merchant CANDIES and Confectionery Cigars, Pipes and Tobaccos ►%**%* ^ *1* *1* »X« •I* ^ *1* *1* 1 Rain coals ❖ Cadet Trade a Specialty, T? CENTS GAY. Buys an Oliv^i-. This amazing offer—the New Model Oliver Typewriter No. 5 at 17 cents a day—is open to everybody everywhere. It’s our new and immensely popular plan of selling Oliver typewriters on little easy payments. The abandon ment of long and in favor of clean, legible, beautiful typewriting is the next step in human progress. Already—in all lines of business and in all professions—the use of pen-and- ink is largely restricted to the writing of signatures. 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