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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1925)
4 THE BATTALION THE BATTALION Published every Wednesday night by the Students’ Association of the A.gricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Subscription Price $1.75 per Year. Member Texas Collegiate Press Association. ALL ADS RUN UNTIL ORDERED OUT. > JACK E. FINKS C. T. SCHWAB R. W. COLGLAZIER D. G. BELL W. H. CALDWELL. . D. H. KEITH 0. C. GENTRY W. F. GUION JACK WILLIAMS . . E. H. CAPERS B. BERNARDONI L,. T. FRANKE l,. DODSON L. E. HAGAN EDITORIAL STAFF. Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor Statistican Associate Sports Editor Exchange Editor News Editor .Associate News Editor .Associate News Editor .Associate News Editor Social Editor Humorous Editor BUSINESS STAFF STEVE A. NOBLE Business Manager M. E. DEALY ’ Assistant Business Manager W. H. WENDLER Circulation Manager Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized October 18, 1922. UPPERCLASSMEN, IT IS UP TO YOU. The effect that co-eds would have on the student body of A. and M. gives rise to frequent and not always dispassionate discussion. A point upon which all agree, however, that if A. and M. were made co-educational, the cul tural standards would be raised. From this, one would deduce that these standards are at present below par. This view gives a threefold strength when one witnesses the cadet corps, that great body which is to furnish material for “officers and gentlemen,” at meal time in the Mess Hall. Perhaps the methods employed in consuming the food are the most efficient according to the amount of energy required. But regardless of the efficiency, table manners which everyone should have, especialty college men, are being sadly neglected and in some cases not through neglect alone but through lack of knowledge. What a deplorable sight it is to see a student, even a junior or senior,, grasp his knife and fork in a death-like grip and with head bent low over the plate, start a stream of food to the mouth which does not cease until the plate is empty. It is said that this condition exists only at the Mess Hall, and when stu dents are at home or guests at dinners, they act differently. We should be thankful that the statement is at least partially true, but before your four winters at Aggieland have come to an end, you will realize the statement is true only partially. Upperclassmen, it is up to you to train the freshmen so that this condi tion will be remedied. That which you teach them will be passed on for many years to come. COME TO YOUR SENSES. Thousands of very gifted and even notably brilliant students are pain fully impatient before hard training. They provide some of the most ex asperating experiences in the teacher’s career. The teacher can endure the dull or even the stupid student who is making an honest effort to progress. But the talented fellow, with ability “sticking out all over him,” who does not work, is unbearable. Such students regard their gifts as aeroplanes that will carry them to great heights without work. They laugh at the advise of those who have achieved prominent positions by dint of gruelling labor. These students— alas—usually arrive at mediocrity when it is too late to acquire technical skill and cultural equilibrium, which would probably have made them great. Sometimes temperament, sometimes conceit, sometimes sheer laziness, is responsible for leading them to the “easist way” which is always the hardest way in the end. Check up on yourself before it is too late. HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION HAS MID-YEAR ENTRANCE An announcement of special inter est to students who contemplate grad uate work in business is that the Har vard Graduate School of Business .Ad ministration has definitely decided to inaugurate beginning classes in Feb ruary as well as in September. This has been tried during the past three years with such success that the plan has been adopted as part of the per manent program. One of the advantages of the begin ning class in February is that it en ables the man graduating at mid year to continue his work with no loss of time. Others who have grad uated in June have found it incon venient to drop their work in Sep tember and have delayed entrance un til February. The same courses are taught as are offered in September. Applications for enrollment in the February class of 1925 are now being received by the Secretary of the School. According to present indi cations, the limit of 125 will soon be reached. Mr. Richard Wupperman, class of ’22, is now attending the Harvard Graduate School of Business Admin istration. 0. D. Wool Shirts AT CLEARANCE PRICES $5.00 Values $3.75 All Winter Apparel Reduced 25 per cent. T. K. LAWRENCE ♦♦♦ -*$* ♦£♦ ■*$»■ *£+ ■*2* ■*$«■ «$* ♦$. * DERE RUMMITT * v* *♦* *$. *J, .J. .J. .J. +--* .J. •'♦ *^* .*• ♦*• Aggieland. Jan. 13, 1925. Dere Rummit, Tom, I have been hearing of your prowess as a professor and if your success continues, I know you will be able to teach your kids somethin’ someday-maybe. You know I once had the desire to be a school teacher but made the mistake of trying to learn somthin’ myself. O’course I had made elaborate plans to teach the bright young urchins something. Why I had invented a contraption which cleaned the boards, dusted the eras ers, and paddled the obstinate one all at the same time. I remember how you looked in your glasses when you were here but I also remember how you looked with out ’em. An’ I always thought, Tom, that there was a limit to even the worst. So what I can’t see is how the girls thought you looked worse one way than you did the other. Say, boy, if you ever do realize the soothing sensation of having any of your old profs under your iron hand I sho envy you. I know some what I would be glad to send to your school. These profs here are all carryin’ big sticks and they’ve got me in a dark corner. I dream every night that they are all green-eyed dragons and that I am a tender, de fenceless lamb. Anyhow it’s a tight fight so I guess I had better rest up to-night so I can study a little some time next week. Yours till Oxford opens her doors to welcome you and me, LES. The Man He Killed. Thomas Hardy “Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! “But ranged as infantry And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me. And killed him in his place. “I shot him dead because— Because he was my foe, Just so; my foe of course he was; That’s clear enough; although “He thought he’d ’list, perhaps, Off-hand like—just as I— Was out of work—had sold his traps— No other reason why. “Yes, quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You’d treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown.” —The New Student. Welcome Back, Fellows! Best Wishes for the New Year. The Campus Tailor Chas. Nitch A. A. MACKENZIE Watches - Jewelry Sheaffer’s Fountain Pens. Also a line of College Jewelry consisting of Pins. Fobs, Belts, etc. Watch repairing a specialty. GIVE US A TRIAL