AM I GETTING ALL THAT I CAN
OUT OF MY FOUR YEARS
AT COLLEGE?
By JOSEPH COHEN,
Experiment Station.
The above question is something
which, to my mind, ought to concern
every student of the A. and M. Col
lege. I shall take it as my task to
answer it for them in this short arti
cle, and in doing so it becomes expe
dient for me to put to your mind still
a second question, and that is, “How
can I get .the most out of my college
life?’’
The gist of the answer which I now
place before you for your acceptance
is that every student, whether he be
a young Freshman or a more experi
enced Senior, should try so much as
he can to BROADEN HIS FIELD
OF SERVICE AND KNOWLEDGE.
“Knowledge is power.” Just think, my
friends. The people of this great and
wealthy state have put here AT YOUR
SERVICE an immense plant and a
great number of men to train you and
to teach you how to become better
and more useful citizens of this com
monwealth. Are you, then, taking ad
vantage of this kindness and equip
ping yourself as the state and its peo
ple would have you do?
Do not, for one moment, think that
all that is required of you is to attend
classes and listen to the lectures.
That is only the ROUTINE of your
work here, and the boy or man who
does not get above his routine will
never rise above his fellows. Let me
illustrate by a concrete example.
We shall say that you intend to
make an engineer or a trained agricul
turist out of yourself. Now are you
merely studying the dails’- lessons as
your professors assign them to you
and no more, or are you looking ahead
and filling your mind with all the pos
sible information that can be gotten
on that particular subject, both from
textbooks and from daily life out in
the open world. That determines
whether or not you are interested in
your line of work and study or not,
and to a large extent, your future suc
cess in it. That is one way to get all
you can out of your college course,
but that is not the only way.
Thank God, there is more to life
than just work, work. You young men
have the athletic and social side of
college to take care of. It has been
freely discussed whether a boy gets
more good from the studying and
thinking efforts he may have to make,
and the discipline which a college
training affords, or, on the other hand,
from the associations he forms while
at school, and the coming in contact
with a good many refined and edu
cated men. Personally, the latter idea
appeals to me. I know from my own
experience, and I have heard a good
many others express themselves like
wise. Therefore, my friends, learn in
timately as many of the professors
and instructors as you can and, above
all, make as many acquaintances and
friends among your fellow students as
possible. You have no idea how nice
It is to arrive in some strange place
and find a young fellow to greet you
with “Hello, Bill, how are you, and
what have you done since leaving
college?”
My young friends, life is a great
privilege, but at the same time a
great responsibility. Sometimes I
think it is even tragic. Here you are
with no cares whatever, happy and
cheerful, while some hundreds of
miles away your father and mother,
sisters and brothers, are out in the
open field of life’s battle. You owe it
to them to make the most out of all
this. ‘ Cultivate cheerfulness, happi
ness, and good clean manners. Learn
to love someone that will give you
something to work for and put the
fires of ambition in you. BUT, ABOVE
ALL, look heaven and earth straight
in the face and say to yourself: “I
may not be the GREATEST engineer,
or the BEST farmer, or the MOST
ACCURATE chemist, but I will use
what talents I have toward making
myself AS GREAT an engineer, AS
GOOD a farmer, and AS ACCURATE
a chemist as I possible can.” Thereby
you will get all you can out of your
four years of college.
College, January 15, 1913.
TEXTILE ENGINEERING
SOCIETY ORGANIZED
Last Friday evening the T. E. stu
dents met in the Textile building and
organized into a society. The gather
ing, composed of all the enrolled
T. E.’s, was quite an enthusiastic
meeting, and from the interest mani
fested promises to be a permanent
success at the start.
Professor Tatum undertook the ini
tiative step in calling the students of
that branch together. After calling
the room to order he briefly outlined
his plan for the organization, putting
forth clearly the objects and possible
results of such. The plan met with
instant and unanimous approval, and
the gathering organized, dubbing
themselves the Textile Engineering
Society.
The following officers were elected
to serve for the remainder of the
year: J. W. H. Collins, president; E.
Driess, vice president; J. O’Brien,
secretary-treasurer.
The following committees were ap
pointed by the president:
Committee on By-Laws—Professor
Tatum, chairman; E. Driess, G. W.
Sansom, R. L. Mower.
Program Committee—J. W. H. Col
lins, Rhodes, E, A. Mittan, J. B.
Tighei*.
Refreshment Committee—J. D. Har
ris, J. B. Tigner, Rhodes, J. H. Bow
den, C. E. Crockett, J. R. Corley.
Driess and Rhodes were appointed
to select the pins for the society.
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