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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1925)
f RICE OWLS NEXT! VOL. XXIII. Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. BRYAN, TEXAS, JANUARY 14, 1925. NUMBER 14 *$*t|*-»J*-*5*-*$»--*J*-*$*--*$*-*2t«$* < |*'*f*'»J»‘*|*'*J l *«!|*«$> * * * SAY AGGIE * •b ♦ ^ ■*J»-*1* ■‘Jj* •*$* «|* The time is here when the members of the Senior class are wondering what they will be doing a year from now. There is an intense interest shown in any kind of a position open to college graduates and a few are wondering why they ever took the course that they are now about to complete. A few men know definite ly what they will do, but the majority is still undecided. This indecision is very puzzling to some people who seem to think that a future should be planned in high school and followed out during life. Other people have ex pressed sympathy for anyone who tries such a plan, because he will usu ally either fail or change his plans. This is one of the best arguments of a more general course in the first few years of college, because such a course gives the student a better chance to really see what he wants. Perhaps the intelligence tests will be developed so as to determine the course which a student should take. Rain, mud, and cold—excellent sub jects to gripe about, and the time of the year was never better for grip ing than the present. . As one cadet expressed it, there are so many things to gripe about, there is not much use griping at all. In fact, we wonder if we are not just in the habit of com plaining and cannot stop. There al ways is, and always will be something displeasing in life and because it oc cupies our attention a large part of the time, we are inclined to be con tinually talking about our troubles. But the harm comes from just talk ing about it instead of really trying tc improve the situation. A “polly- arma” spirit is not especially desir able, because to improve thything, we must first be dissatisfied with it. The so-called constructive criticism is what we want. * * * Among the essentials to a well rounded college life is the habit of visiting the library. The library is not a place of oramentation—if such were the case ours would be a com plete failure. A college man is ex- (Continued on Page 2) NORTON PLAYERS WILL PRESENT COMEDY HERE Three Act Play, Putting It Over, To Be Given in Assembly Hall January 14. On this Wednesday evening in the Assembly Hall, cadets and campus people will have the opportunity of seeing a sparkling three-act comedy, “Putting It Over,” which is to be pre sented by the famous Norton’s Com edians. This play is the latest and best comedy of the company of actors, which includes fifteen real comedians and carries its own complete orches tra. The play which will be given here is now on its twenty-second straight weeks in Los Angeles. Both campus and students will be really amused and highly entertained by the play, which is characterized by de lightfully humorous situations entire ly inoffensive. Through the courtesy of the Y. M. C. A. the regular picture night has been given over to the play for the benefit of the 1925 Longhorn. Ad vance reports have it that the Norton Comedians are the best that have ever been to the college. Their per formance here is something to look forward to with plesent anticipa-' tions of an evening of unusual en tertainment. Those who miss the play will miss one of the outstanding events of the year. Campus people are reminded that the play with its clean humor will appeal to them also, and last two hours. Those who miss it will regret not having seen a play A corps meeting was held Tuesday afternoon at which Colonel Frank Stubbs and Assistant yell leader, E. O. Buck, explained the plan of the Longhorn staff in giving the show. “As has always been the case, the Longhorns staff has striven to put out the best annual ever published. And, as is seldom the case, they have contracted for such a combination of quantity and quality that additional funds will be required,” so states Mr. Buck, the staff representative. The performance will start at 7:30 AGGIES WILL PAY GREAT HOMAGE TO OLD “T” MEN Former Letter Men to be Guests of Honor at Dedication Day Ceremonies. In co-operation with the Athletic Department and the “T” Club, the A. and M. College student body will give a dance in honor of all inactive “T” men of the college on the evening of February 14, 1925, in the magnifi- cient new gymnasium that graces the north end of Kyle field. The day has been designated as homecoming day for all inactive Ag gie “T” men. On that day the pres ent Aggies will in every way possible try to show all the old men that Ag- gieland is still the same old place in a new environment. The day will be theirs, and plans are being made to make the day one that will be long remembered. One of the outstanding events in the program will be a meet ing of the “T” club in the afternoon, at which the new club rooms for “T” men will be officially opened. The meeting is proposed to last until all present have had an opportunity to “air” their views on important ques tions of the present and past. Sever al ex-Aggies who did not letter in Athletics, but gave four years of their effort toward making Aggie teams better, will be here to represent the often forgotten, but necessary part of all successful athletic teams. The outstanding event in the day’s program will be the dedication ex ercises in the new Aggie gymnasium in the early evening, which will be followed by a basket ball game with Texas University and an elaborate dance. The gymnasium will be ap propriately decorated and every effort is being lent so as to make the af fair a fitting one for the occasion it symbolizes. The splendid Aggie band will furnish music for the affair, and the combined artists of our dance orchestras, the Aggieland and Aggie Collegians, will furnish music for the (Continued on Page 2) COIMITTE ON STUDENT WELFARE NOW FUNCTIONING Each Class is Represented on Board to Serve as Medium Between Faculty and Students. The origination of the Student Wel fare Board was completed immediate ly preceding the holidays; so Dr. Biz- zell lost no time in calling a meeting of the board upon the return of the members to school. All of the stu dent and faculty representatives res ponded to Proxy’s call on January the ninth, each class, with the ex ception of the Freshman, being repre sented. The men gathered in the council room were Dr. Bizzell, chair man of the board, Dean Puryear, Col onel Todd, D. X. Bible, Dick Quayle, and Bob Colglazier, senior represen tatives; R. A. Roberts, junior repre sentative, and H. H. Blair, sophomore representative. Everyone listened with interest to a round-table discussion of the pur pose of the Student Welfare Board and what it should accomplish. The general concensus of opinion was that any question pertaining to the welfare of the student body was to be dis cussed and if possible, investigated. Many of the members expressed the opinion that the board should breach the gulf between the faculty and the student body, thus making it possible for the two to work together in closer sympathy. The council decided not to bring up any personal wrongs or grievances, but to limit their work to those things that affect a large group of students. It would be impossible to accomplish anything if time were wasted in set tling some student’s affairs that the individual concerned could settle him self very easily by talking with the commandant. Before the student members can function properly, it will be necessary for them to become acquainted with the conditions that cause dissatisfac tion in the corps. The only way to do this is for the dissatisfied ones to SEE THE SHOW—HELP YOUR ANNUAL