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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1922)
THE BATTALION 7 CHART 5H011/ING THE HEART - THROBS OF A C ERTAIN PROMINENT PORTLY GENTLEMAN OF COLLEGE STA. THIS CHART BEING ONE OF MANY PREPARED BY A CLASS INI THE DEPT OF- LOVE-SESIMEOGRAPHY. ^ Csf'A/T'Z y' ■ AMY C/i5£/AL 03Sf A? . /?IAC3. COST^r/oM, MOST VIOLENT THfcoeS VlOLCfiT THROBS THROBS SLIGHT FLUTTERS COOL. COLD. r/ME • IZ.T5 5:00 e;oo fl:40 10:00 WHAT’S WRONG. WITH US. More or less friendly criticism of A. and M. Fapulty and Student Body by More or less Com- tent Critics. No periodical nowad-ays is without its questionaire or its Intelligence Test, consisting of questions design- ed to expose to ourselves our lam entable ignorance on such matters of vital import as “Where is Poptiush- ka and what is manufactured there?” “Who was Cleopatra, and what (and whom) did she do?” “Name the chief works of Ilesayso, the famous Jap- enese etcher.” Personally, we cannot think of many fireside pastimes more engaging than making up these pos ers and then sitting back and chortl ing with wicked and superior glee at the hopeless efforts of the re$t of humanity to answer them and qual ify for even the lowest rank of in telligence. W;e envy the grateful sense of superiority with which the questioner, Encyclopedia in hand, must prepare the answers to appear in next month’s issue, with a fine air of “O, I thought everybody knew that!” In fact, we ourselves had half a mind to concoct an Intelligence Test for this number of the Battal ion. Our able and energetic staff has already begun to pour out idea after idea for questions like “Why are sophomores?” “When did Yap?” “Who laid the rail?” and others quite as brilliant and as searching. It was only when we came to write the headline that we gave up the scheme, for the only title we could think of was “ARE YOU A WELL- INFORMED MAN.” What a flat-nay, what a laughable question to put to such an audience as the student body of Texas A. and M.! How every member of the faculty would have roared at it! How the student body itself, gathered nightly in those tru ly Platonic symposia where, be tween study call and taps, the feast of reason and the flow of soul pre pare already overflowing minds to astonish afresh their instructors the next day-—how these cultured souls would have amused themselves at the expense of an Editor who knew them so little as to question in even the faintest degree the broad and deep information,—the almost uni versal information for which they are so justly celebrated! How absurd, above all, for an editor who had him-r self heard G W. Thomas discourse on First Love with an eloquence that comes only from exhaustive knowl edge of one’s subject—who had list ened enchanted to Tommy Cockrell discuss “A Pretty Woman” in terms possible only to an expert—how fool ish for him, of all people to ask such a question here. It was really un thinkable, and we were forced to conclude that an Intelligence Test was not the thing for A. and M.— in fact that it would here be utterly and ludicrously out of place. But some sort of question-and-ans- wer column we felt that we must have. All the really distinguished periodicals have them, and consider ing the rank which The Battalion holds (or did hold, before this issue appeared) in the literary world, we felt that it had lacked this essential long enough. So, with, a more modest ambition, we framed just one ques tion, and submitted it to those whose answers appear below. Perhaps, af ter all, it will turn out to be an In telligence Test, though not of our readers so much as of those who have answered it. At any rate, we hope that these replies will interest and loyalty beneath the criticism— that they will realize that it is pride and affection for the college that have dictated these efforts to sug gest some things in which we can all work to make it a better one than eve *. The question submitted by the editor. “IN WHAT DESIRABLE QUALITY DO YOU THINK. THAT THE COL LEGE IS MOST SERIOUSLY LACK ING? THE REPLIES. Dr. Bizzell—As to what desirable quality is most lacking in the Col lege, I am inclined to think that the answer is to be found. in the fail ure of many students to interpret broadly college spirit. I believe that many students think that loyalty to the College finds ample expression in learning the College Yells and supporting college teams. Certainly there is no lisposition on my part to disparage, this ..expression of college spirit. But I am inclined to think that it would be desirable if our students could realize that COLLEGE SPIR IT is reflected in maintaining good standards of work, in con forming their lives to high morals and relig ious principles, and in contributing a full man’s part to the social, moral, religious, and intellectual interests of college life. Dean. Puryear: A keen apprecia tion of the relative values of: (1) Character, (2) Health. (3) Scholarship. (4) Other Things. (With special attention to item 3) Dean Nagle: Respect for public property rights. Mr. Ashburn: More Students, and fewer men “just going to school.” A Committee of the Sophomore Class: The greatest fault we find with the student body of A. and M. College this year is its lack of spirit and indifferent attitude toward col lege activities. We are laying this to “The old order changeth,” as these faults were not evident in past years. A Committee of the College Sten ographers (Hand-picked) (Watch this now,—this is going to bo good! Ed.) Chesterfields, eh Cadets? What’r, Lacking? “Chivalry’s Funeral.” Ac : ; I. Time; Noon. . Place: Cadet’s Reviewing Stand, Mil itary Walk. Weather: Calm. “Ain’t Nothin’ ” Act II. Time: Same. Place: Same. Weather: Windy. “Three Deep!” JUST RECEIVED A NEW SHIPMENT OF STACOMB GET YOURS FOR THE R. V. FESTIVITIES *’ I Campus Barber Shop J. F. LAVINDER, Prop. James Drug Store JAMES W. JAMES, Manager The Leading Druggists Established 1880 TS1E REXALL STORE BRYAN, TEXAS Th€ Coik&c Drug Store Elie #'mitlf prxtp (So. J. A. McQueen, Manager I nothing hut the Best BRYAN, TEXAS J. F. HOUCK & SON The Expert Shoe Repairers On the Campus—East of Milner Hall PRICES ALWAYS RIGHT Campus Shoe Shop