Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1919)
T i i THE ’ B TA LION IT, April 10, 1010 THE BATTALION Publiahed every Wednetulay Bight by the Stadent« Aseociation of the *- AgrtcolUml and Mechanical - College of Texme. Subscription price $1.26 per year. Advertiming rates on application. Member of Texas Collegiate Press h - Amoriatiao. 1 i I • All Ada Run UntU Ordered Out 1 EDITORIAL STAFF ; ’ f X T . t C. H. Clark. . .Editor E. E. McQuillcn .. . . Aseietsnt F, L. Berlachler r; Asaittant K. J. Edwards Aasietant A. W. Harris — .. Afeeittant ia sc ho el. Im. the fact that dely harder work, there F'Jt BUSINESS STAFF j i i Coxey Evans. Business Manager — ) Caaspu* Editor: Mrs. D. V. Graves. Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas, Febtuarv 17. 1905. 1 ARE OUR ATHLETES S FOILED for B student to other words, in they have to requirement of are fewer ath the College req sport representatives expected Bo be super-uea mentally? If not msjfcfcra-' ly have no occH'ion to criticise them for low standards of class work. It is true that Some individuals among our athletes have failed to make good in their cfess work, oat this is no cause for ah arraignment of all Varsity representatives. There are few more difficult Handicaps than that under which these men must la bor in their efforts to maintain eligi bility standards. Let the man who regards this lightly jgoi out and ex haust himself by a hard afternoon's work and then come in and attempt to concentrate upon some text boot that night. The fact that the vast majority of athletes do not succumb to this handicap is evident proof thgt these men are among the best and most solid 4 , representatives of the whole school. As long a.« their pr*-*- ent record ia nfaintaiged the ath letes can not be justly criticized for deep, below the surface of common" place matters. Something that wo*Id All the freshmen with awe aad the graduate with love. Something that to meet i would make your college a place in Are .oarf your heart and give you something to carry away with you that all thru j rucell that life prould thrill you at thoughts of I daya. | Sons to the comii 1ms not the. tion that he; leaving the thrilling anc i v li A serious consideration bf the »ny scholastic shortcomings. above question will result ia tlwdpia- ; * ion that there is no occasion for WHAT DOES A. AND M. LACK* any frenzied attack upon olir ath- , . ^ imT jj RMBtl. On the other hand, the more Ask yourself this question Ari- the question Is considered the more swer it for yoarualf after excluding admiration is felt toward them* men, all minor aad iaaighilldant triviali- and the more credit is given them. ties. What *■ vitally missing? What The percentage of men in the| whole would make this Institution greater? school, forced to leave on aecqttni of What weald aiake you love it more? I - failure to pas* the necessary smdunt ‘ uf wdrk, is about four percent. Ia the past few years the percentage of . teen “flunking off” of athletic. tegma has been less than one percent. At the sdme titoe Conference eUdiMit- rules ireqaiae ufcaeet a feted aaore - than <U Wha$ would teake ita graduates love it more? What would make all per»- PU reapset. it more? Is dt not TRa- DITIONF? ' Hot in tke sense of tah-s of fee past, j But in the sense of same thing that would connect . fed peeaeat With the past history of the school, Eutnething that would touch your Alma Mater Every great school and college in the worlji has ita traditions. They are tarred to its sons. To a great exteat these traditions are lacking at A. aid M Too many students come for a year or two and go their way light heartedly. Too few of those who enter remain until they depart| as gteduates. Too many fail to ere the seriousness of a man's collage. Too many take the daily incidents ahd occurences as all that the college has tq offer. Too few consider that this is their stepping stone to life and that manhood comes to them while i.i the Halls of this old institution. What can alter these conditions? What can ehange matters? What can create traditions for the college? What can create an atmosphere of seriousness, age and love about the institution? This is s most difficult question. This school is different from, most great colleges. • Con ditions are not the same as are fouad at the Universitiea, the very names of which stand for all that could be de sired along this line to every citisen of the country. We must work out our problem for ourselves. • .There was a time when the retold tales of various fights, trips, aad games served this purpose. That day ia long past. We have outlived our name of “Roughnecks”. Such things are past history. The telling of such incidents no longer thrilL the Fish and give him a consuming desire to leave the college with his name in terwoven in another story to go down nr U ffi {{ ti ; J.Jt I , . I! t i r- IK. '• 1'*; We offer ble means o|j character to Would |t the College uates in the manent the daily 1 S classes? W thing if every from the old leave a muni selves? If done would with someth! than the belt days? Would the coUegsEH remember a now are? W feel more in if he knew class was bei spected by Would there atmosphere fo of graduate e not be inspi college . duA the young meet and have gone would not a. jsj take himaelf more serio and indeac stantly at wo: ing him to his b«di? elavatad •P The new man for the instita- years ago. The man titution has not the citing adventures to for the men of ether must be don* following as a posai- plying this lacking e extent: be a great thing for very class that grad- leave some per- on the esmpus for nation of the new it not be s greater that has gone out should return tc orial of them- two thisg* were the freshmap be met that tom n.*H deeper d bayonet of former ot the mad leaving more In his heart to ve than not the gradukt.! in his Alma Mater the symbol of his ily honored and re- students in school? be a more inviting n occasional return ■? j' Woold there for reunions st the ive sessions when sttendance would the older ones who ■? On the whole, • nt at the collegn bis school much Would there not be somethtef i «on- his concience urg- 1 n 'll' * i > E mm liU \\ -i, j CHORAL CIUB j, ' ■ ,yL‘ m b ? \ ■ !' ink. Men! Thirty-one Talented Ladies in this”' *! i 1 1 ip- It- - 4 » • ' ' P I ' 1 Womanless Desert at one time. Come IT'i U •. Or ti out and hear them. ■iHHKyijJJpl , APRIL 11,19 . I ■ 1 J - jj • ii 1 1 n : • r i ' •• ■'! -4 NEW AUDITORIUM AT 8:30 P. M. ■ i I .• : ' i i it.- k . .