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THE BATTALION
Mrs. Baskin.
What do we need?
Fewev militaries;
More drills;
Start reveille;
Fewer ills:
Early to bed,
Early to rise;
No more lines
Beneath your eyes.
Dean Kyle: The lack of personal
contact between faculty members
and students is one of the mosc ser
ious defects in our college system.
This defect can best be corrected by
faculty members’ making an honest
and persistent effort to bring about
closer relations, and by the students 5
meeting them halfway.
Mrs. C. B. Campbell: More lec
tures of a wider range of interest,
calculated to attact the campus com
munity in general, rather than the
specialists in a few kindred depart
ments.
Mr. L. G. Jones: The test of the
College Product is not “What has he
done?”, but “WHAT HAS HE BE
COME?” In order to help students
to measure up to this test, it may
be suggested that A. and M. allow
more elective cultural courses.
Mrs. W. H. Thomas: More read
ing by both students and campus peo
ple of good books not connected with
their specialties.
Mr. Friley: The systematic de
velopment of the musical talent of
the college, both vocal and instru
mental, is one of our greatest needs.
A Committee of the Junior Class:
We need a greater degree of spec
ialization in our respective courses
and more electives in our junior and
senior years.
A Committee of the Senior Class:
Drop two-year coursese from our
curriculum and we will soon attain
a highere scholastic prestige by grad
uating only real college men. We
are jealous of that distinction which
is accorded a graduate of Texas A.
and M,
A Committee of the Freshman Class:
The students should be more will
ing to solicit and to use the stores of
good advice that every instructor
has waiting for him.
D. X. Bible (Member of the Rules
Committee): The privileges and
benefits of physical training must be
extended to all students. Correc
tive exercises for those who are
found, to be physically unfit for par
ticipation in competitive sports re
ceives a serious handicap in the lack
of ?. GYMNASIUM.
A. Bryan Girl (Miss Kathleen Sims
et al.): More diversification as
well as specialization,—more intellc-
tuality as well as vocational train
ing, would produce the perfect A.
and M. graduate.
Another Bryan. Girl (Miss Lilah.
Wicks): For A. and M. to be on
more equal terms of rivalry with
State University, a thorough course
in Jellybeanery should, be added to
tho present hopelessly unpractical
curriculum. The khaki uniform
should be discarded for white flannel
trousers, blue serge coat, brimless
hat, and two-tone shoes. Classes
should last only from eleven to one.
Lunch should be served at one, tea
dansants three afternoons a week
from three to five, and dinner at six
at the Sbisoria. The boys with their
dates (for A. and M. should by all
means be coeducational) could then
attend a musical comedy or cool
themselves in the waters of the arti
ficial stream flowing placidly over
the present Military Walk. After
whiling away the hours from seven
to ten, the happy couples would then
ascend to the heights of Leggett
Roof, to dance by the SOLE-INSPIR
ING strains of Ligon Smith’s Orches
tra, playing exclusively for the Col
lege. Those who preferred caba
rets would enjoy the Palais Royale,
erected where now stands Guion
Hall. After disposing of their dates,
the boys would drop into Casey’s for
a high-ball, and then retire to their
luxurious suites, to dream of A. and
M. as it was in 1922—THE GRAND
EST AND MOST WONDERFUL IN
STITUTION IN THE WORLD! ! !
(To the memory of Judge Guion,
the “Kind Old Man” of the College).
GUION HALL.
The children play about its steps, as
if they were the knees of a kind old
man;
Its pillars tower over their heads, as
though they laugh in the Spring
sunshine,
Tall and white and pure, ever guard
ing the little folk, like “Their
angels,
Who always behold the Face of Our
Father.”
Inside, it is noble, with spaces of a
great soul,
The students are quiet and do not
hurrah one another, when they go
in there;
They feel the calm of one who built
for their future in confidence,
They know they will be worthy of
his trust,
That they are the Blue Stars of the
Great Service Flag, guarding the
Stars of Gold.
It may be a building, built by brick
layers and stone cutters,
That I saw working all that summer, (
(They were rugged workmen, who
ate from their dinner pails at
noon).
But it has a holiness to me, as if
wings were furled somewhere be
hind us,
As if it were a “Building not built
by hands.”
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And I know that it will be here long
after you and I have gone away,
And that it will always gather the
children
As the knees of a kind old man.
NORA BARNHART FERMIER.
One of the most delightful hospital
ities of the present social calendar was
a dinner given at the Bachelor Club
last Friday evening by Messrs Dud
ley Baker, Clarence Braden and Ev
erett McQuillen.
The handsome and palatial Bach
elor Club, far famed for the spirit of
gentle hospitality that it exudes and
disseminates was beautiful with a col
or motif of green. In the reception
suite where the guests were met by
the hosts, cut flowers abounded in pro
fusion. Similax and evergreens were
delightfully employed to present a
most pleasing spectacle to the eye.
Silver candelabra and silver vases ad
ded a tone of elegance to the general
decorative scheme. Seldom, if ever,
has such grace and beauty in decor
ative employment been attained and
there were many “ohs” and “ahs” as
the eyes of the delighted guests took
in each detail of the artful employ
ment of colors and evergreens.
In the dining room the handsome
mahogany table was over-spread with
a cluny lace adornment on which were
spread clusters of cut flowers. A
center piece which has been in the
family of one of the hosts for three
generations added dignity.
IA Word t® the Profs.!
WE WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTU
NITY FOR THE EXPRESSION OF ADMI
RATION FOR THE PROFESSORS OF THIS
SCHOOL. WE HAVE TRIED TO BEAR
WITH THE CADETS ALL OF THEIR JOYS
AND BURDENS AND WE ARE VERY
GLAD TO SEE THAT YOU HAVE THE
SAME GOOD WILL AT HEART. BOTH
BEING FRIENDS OF THE SAME
FRIENDS, WE WISH TO EXPRESS OUF|
GOOD WILL FOR YOU, FOR WE ARE AL
WAYS FOR EVERYTHING PERTAINING
TO THE GOOD NAME FOR THE TEXAS
AGGIES.
Casey’s Confectionery
In the “Y” Building.
HONE OF GOOD THINGS TO EAT AND DRINK
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