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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1925)
THE BATTALION THE BATTALION Published every Wednesday night by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Subscription Price $1.76 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 O. C. GENTRY W. F. GUION JACK WILLIAMS . . . E. H. CAPERS . B. BERNARDONI Li. T. FRANKS Li. 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 0. D. Wool Shirts AT CLEARANCE PRICES $5.00 Values $3.75 All Winter Apparel Reduced 25 per cent. T. K. LAWRENCE But, nevertheless, the advice to study diligently at the start is worthy of note.. In doing so you are laying the foundation for the work that is to come. How much more easy it is to grasp that which comes later, even with its increasing complexity, if one thoroughly understands that which has preceded. Then, too, studying is a good habit, and habits, as the psycholo gists tell us, are not easily broken. Study NOW,, and the rest of the term will take care of itself. 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. THEY RETURN. Each year, in Aggieland, the sad strains of “Home Sweet Home” bring tears to the eyes and memories of pleasant days that will be no more to those Aggies who have come to the end of their college training. Some of them have left, alas, never to return; some of them cannot return, and some of them will not recognize the A .and M. College that they knew when they do return here February 16—the day set by all present Ag gies to do honor to the former “T” men of the College. Honor is being placed where honor is due. These men are loyal to Ag gieland; they are bound to her by r the virtue of loyalty that has made the school seem like one big family; they are genuinely attached to every thing that pertains to Aggieland today, and that loyalty is unshakable and cannot be broken. That loyalty is a love that abides and cannot be moved. It is a love upon which one may lean with assurance. It is a love that looks out and not in. It is a challenge to you. Aggies of today. That day will test your qualities. Will you be able to give them the treatment they deserve? Will you make them feel like they are visitors, or will you make them feel that they are at home after a long and keenly felt absence? Will you look for entertainment—something done for us, or will you play—something we do ourselves? Will you forget about yourself and make room for the greatest day of play these old men have seen since they wore the maroon and white? Get right men, its up to you. Your slogan for all that day ought to be, “Let me do it!” OUR COLLEGE. The annual Older Boys’ Conference is to be held this week-end. High school boys from the far corners of this widely heralded state will congre gate at Aggieland Friday. This conference is composed of those who are leaders in their respective high schools and are in reality the cream of the high school boys of Texas. Practically all of these boys are in their last year of high school and na turally a large percentage of them are now considering what college they shall attend after graduation. Of course, their primary aim in visiting A. and M. is to attend the Older Boys’ Conference, but every one of them will be alert to observe everything that takes place within the student body. As the train pulls out Sunday night carrying these future college men back to their high schools, they will have obtained a conception of college life at A. and M. which will quickly circulate throughout their high schools. Will they have obtained the true conception of A. and M.? That rests entirely upon YOU,, for you compose that large body of men known as Texas Aggies. Nothing could be more detrimental than for these boys to obtain a false impression of our College. Students, We Leave It To You. THE STUDENT’S NEW YEAR. A little over a month ago bells rang out the old year and rang in the new—but at A. and M. the old year has been more recently replaced. Last Monday started the beginning of the new term, the new year of the stu dents. Now is the time to build the primary foundation upon which the work for the remainder of the term is based. Now,, you will be told, is the time to study diligently; thereby obtaining a “drag” with the instructor.. Then, 1 the rest of the term will be easy. Can we not give our instructors credit for more intelligence than that? Their sense of justice is usually normal and they are not of such weak char acter as to be influenced to any extent by their personal likes and dislikes. AIM HIGH. Man’s ideal is the truest expression of his nature and the most potent agency in developing his powers. If the ideal we aspire to is below us, life’s aim is downward, and the nearer we approach its realization the smaller we become. But if our ideal is above us, it will of necessity appeal to the very best and noblest in our nature, and call for the exercise and de velopment of our highest facilities and powers. Aim high and shoot straight —it pays. As Lasting As The Memories q/' College Days—, T—TERE is a pen as imperishable as thought—a fit companion of study hours—a ready tool for the brain that thinks and the hand that writes. 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