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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1915)
THE Bum LION Published every Wednesday night by Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Subscription price $1.25 per year. Advertising rates on application. Member of Texas Collegiate Press Association. A. E. BURGES, '15 Editor-in-Chief J. F. HADEN Business Manager P. A. HOMANN, T5. .Associate Editor W. L. RUTAN, ’15....Asso. Bus. Mgr. E. McR. CLAYTOR, T5...Ex. Editor MISS LOUISE PROCTOR..So. Editor M. T. GARRETT, T6 Agr. Editor UEL STEPHENS, T6 Eng. Editor S. P. McFADDEN, ’16...Sport. Editor G. C. MOPPET, T6. .Y. M. C. A. Editor D. H. KIBER, T7 ’Frisco Editor Cartoonists P. T. CROWN, T5 (Chief), J. M. BUR- KET, ’16. L. A. Yon ROSENBERG, ’lo. Assistant Business Managers S. B. HAYNES, ’16, J. B. ROBERT, ’16, Reporters J. R. BARNES, J. B. JOYCE, T. W. TEMPLE, P. W. HALSEY. All material for publiication should be signed and turned in not later than Monday night. Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas, February 17, 1905. College Station, Tex., Jan. 13, 1915. STANDARDIZING THE SENIOR RING AND THE JUNIOR PIN. There are various advantages to be derived from standardizing the em blems of the senior ana junior classes, and these advantages are articularly to be desired in the case of the senior ring. The most important rea son for standardizing the senior ring is that it could in all after years be recognized at a glance by every grad uate and former student of the col lege. The wearer of a senior ring would have the peculiar pleasure of knowing that many hundreds of other graduates in all parts of the Nation and the world were wearing identi cally the same college emblem. If the design and quality of the senior ring and junior pin were set and fixt, manufacturers would make exceedingly low bids that they might get the first order and thus, by virtue of having the die, have a monopoly on these class emblems in succeed ing years. But the company first se curing the contract could not afford to raise prices much in following years for fear that some other com pany would find it profitable to under bid them. But the senior class which would standardize the emblem of graduation must consent to let all the lower classes have some voice in the choice of that emblem, or else the lower classes cannot be depended upon to maintain the standard when they be come seniors. We suggest to the present junior class that next year they issue a call for the election of, say, five representations from each class then in college, said twenty men to constitute a board for the selection of a standard emblem, quality and average weight for the senior ring and junior pin. It is not likely that a standard once adopted in such a way would be changed for many years to come, if ever. The ring adopted by the classes of 1914 and 1915 is a very good one (aside from the price) but for one fact—its significance is entirely mili tary. There are three conspicuous features of the A. & M. College—the agricultural, the mechanical and the military—and the present emblem sig nifies but one. We suggest that, should the senior ring in some way be standardized next year, the face of the ring be left as it is now, to signify the military nature of the college, and that some conventional design, such as a sheaf of wheat, be used on the right to signify the agricultural na ture nf the college, and that some conventional design symbolical of the engineering courses be used on the left to signify the engineering nature of the college. REMARKABLE FILM IN CAMPUS “MOVIES.” Among the films seen at the campus show last Saturday night was a comedy showing the results following the wreck of a circus train. Many ludicrous scenes showing the panic of the inhabitants of the nearest town when it was invaded by the escaped animals were depicted and caused great amusement among the audience. The remarkable part was the com pleteness with which the animals took charge of things and the naturalness with which they acted. There were two other good films and the house was completely filled with the crowd which came out. The Saturday night movies do much to ward making life at college more pleasant than formerly. CONCERNING “THE SHRAPNEL.” The Shrapnel, the fifty-page maga zine which was published just after our last issue in honor of Coach Moran, R. R. Allen and C. J. Davis be ing the “instigators,” was quite a creditable issue. The three-color cover page and the printing were attractive and the aterial, tho chiefly concerning athletics, had enough variety to give it spice. But the proofreaders seem ed afflicted with the same malady that the editor of The Battalion finds himself subject to while reading proof —that of cok-itis. The Shrapnel in an editorial has revived the discussion of exemption from examinations in all subjects in which students have made as much as 85, and the Student Parmer for January has seconded the proposal. The Battalion is also standing behind this proposition since it appears to us there is no valid argument to the contrary. We understand that the faculty is considering the matter and we hope to see the change brought about in time to benefit the student body in the coming examination. The Battalion invites all students and instructors who have ideas to ad vance concerning local matters to write them out and turn them in. Communications of from 100 to 500 words will be cheerfully published, but must be signed for the informa tion of the editor. This simplified spelling seems to be “catchin’.” When we adopted the “three hundred words” for use in The Battalion we expected to hear con siderable protest, but none has reach ed our ears yet. On the contrary, we found the sentiment running in favor of the reform. Last month we were glad to note that the “Shrapnel” made use of a considerable number of sim plified words, and this month we found one or two on the editorial page of the Student Parmer. NOWHERE ELSE Will You Find MORE NIFTY GIFTS THE JEWELER Postoffice Block, Bryan, Texas Start you Christmas joy-making by making us happy by your patronage. We wish you a pleasant home-coming and a safe return to old A. and M.—“THE OLD MAN.” Gentle readers, permit me to intro duce to you one F. W. (Sot) Cawthon, who hails from Denison, Texas. He is another North Texas product, of which the senior class seems to be composed mostly, and we are fortu- natte in having him with us. “Major” Cawthon, as he is called by all the underclassmen, entered. A. & M. as a “fish” in “D” Company in the fall of 1911. During the winter of that same year, “Sot,” in company with several more husky fish of “D” and “H” Companies, rescued a lost car of oil and pushed it up the hill to the old steam plant. For their valuable services a dance was given to the two companies. Then and there is where “Sot” made his debut in Bryan society; his only regret now is that she married last May. “SOT” CmWTHON, Major Second Battalion. “Sot” was an unknown quantity during his fish year, probably due to his being calm, meek, reticent, and to his urbane manners and hilarious disposition, but he blossomed forth in his sophomore year along athletic lines. He played center on the cham pionship “C-D” team in 1912. During the fall of 1913 he was found to be too good for the company league and was immediately drafted to the squad. He won his letter playing consistently and by spectacular playing in Hous ton against Louisiana State Univer sity. He formed a large part of the nucleus around which was built the 1914 team. His quick recovery of T. C. U.’s fumbles on October 16 chal lenged the admiration of each and every cadet. “Sot” is enrolled in the C. E. course and has all of the qualifications for becoming a great construction engi neer, as is shown by his concrete il lustrations in his class-room recita tions. The desire to take C. E. came to him after wading in mud and water all over North Texas for a number of years, when he decided to come to A. & M. and learn how to drain all of North Texas. “Sot” is a man to be trusted, as was shown by his election to the posi tion of secretary-treasurer of the senior class, in which position he has to handle a vast amount 'of money. “Sot” is a member of the Company Athletic Council, head coach of one of the two all-company football teams, and major of the Second Battalion, the rank with which he was rewarded for his strict observance and adher ence to regulations. The senior class should be composed of more such men. A Little Story of \ College Life Sunday night there was a great commotion in Mitchell Hall which sounded as if the court were full of exploding firecraciters. A portion of the students rushed out to find the cause of the disturbance, but others, having been fooled by that firecracker stunt before, assumed an “I-should- worry” air and settled back at study, and that was why they missed the fun. A dog in the hall of the fourth story found a bunch of firecrackers tied to his tail, and, with an air of hurt sur prise, he began to race around the hall. He gained not an inch on the firecrackers, but, on the contrary, the faster he ran the faster they ex ploded. Then, in his fright, he did a desperate thing—he jumped from the fourth story into the court below, a distance of of about forty feet. The onlookers expected to see him land as a mass of broken bones, bpt, much to their surprise, he jumped up as soon as he struck and shot out of the basement. That the war will not effect the ’Frisco Exposition materially was borne out by the action of Germany in appropriating $300,000 for her ex hibit at the Exposition.