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THE BATTALION
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EDITORIAL STAFF
L. J. FRANKE Editor
6. L STRATTON. JR Managing Editor
R. H. JONES Associate Editor
L. H. MADDOX Associate Editor
K. O. PEARSON Associate Editor
S. BAKER Associate Editor
A. R. MENGER Sports Editor
C. M. FLORER Associate Sports Editor
T. A. P1LKEX Assistant Sports Editor
R. E. HOM ANN Exchange Editor
W. G. RALPH Social Editor
R. T. FALKENBERG News Editor
W. C. MORRIS Associate News Editor
G. M. WJRENN Assistant News Editor
W. T. COLEMAN Associate News Editor
G. F. STARK Literary Editor
R. B. TATE Literary Editor
N. A. DONGES Literary Editor
W. C. JOHNSON Associate Literary Editor
R. C. HAYNIE Humorous Editor
W. D. McELROY Humorous Editor
L L. TAYLOR Cartoonist
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THE INTERSCHOLASTIC BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
A. & M.’s opportunity of holding the Texas Interscholastic Basketball
Tournament here has given great pleasure to many of her supporters who
have watched with a jealous eye the monoply the University has exercised
for many years in the affairs of the Interscholastic League. It seems but'
Lair that Texas’ two great state institutions should share the honor of.
entertaining the state’s high school atheletes. Now at last Aggieland has
the opportunity of seeing the high schools of the state battle for the state
championship on the floor of the Memorial Gymnasium.
The only fly in the oinment is that the expenses of staging the?
tournament will be roughly two thousand dollars. The Athletic Department
believes that if it will contribute five hundred of this amount, the student
body, when it understands the situation, will buy enough tickets to the
game to make up the fifteen hundred dollar guarantee that is necessaryl
to partially defray the railroad expenses of the visiting athletes. The
Battalion seconds this belief. In the first place, every A. & M. student is
eager to have the high! school representatives visit Aggieland, and{
everyone realizes in addition that the games will be worth seeing. Further
more, there will be a few students who will not be “pulling” for some team
to win, and consequently will want to see that team play.
Therefore, when your company commander asks you to pledge your
financial support, remember that you are doing your college a service and
yourself a favor, and sign on the dotted line
the seniors. And when an entrance has been designated as belonging to
the underclassmen, the campus people, etc., the “Y” employee at that en
trance should be firm enough to refuse passage to anyone not entitled to
use that door.
At the last few shows, sophomores and freshmen were in the majority
in the senior section. The “Y” should have men ushering in this section
who woould not allow anyone in the center section except those entitled to
sit there.
It is to be hoped that the Y. M. C. A. will take notice of these sug 1 -
gestions, and devise some method of relieving the situation. Certainly it
is clear to everyone that the system of managing the details of the shows
are not all it could be.
In this connection, it might be said that the very men who complained
about the management of the shows, when questioned, all declared them
selves well satisfied with the type of entertainment offered by the “Y.”
Several recalled the days when every show brought forth complaints, and
asserted that now they heard nothing but expressions of satisfaction where
the “Y’s” choice of pictures was concerned.
REPLY TO “COLLEGE LIFE AT A. & M.’
SUGGESTIONS TO THE Y. M. C. A.
The Battalion has been approached by several students with the de
mand that it make some suggestions on the management of the picture
shows to the Y. M. C. A. A little canvassing among various organizations
on the campus revealed that practically everyone approved of these sug
gestions, and The Battalion therefore feels empowered to call the attention
of the Y. M. C. A. to the following measures, which are believed will re
lieve the situation.
At each show, and especially on Wednesday nights, a congestion oc
curs at the doors of the Assembly Hall that is irksome and distasteful to
everyone. Naturally this condition would result when some 1500 cadets,
as well as a number of campus people, purchase tickets to the show at one
time. When, after fifteen minutes of shoving and pushing, the ticket has
been obtained, the interior of the Assembly Hall has been darkened so that
it is difficult to find a desirable seat, and the picture is well on its way.
The remedy to this situation seems to lie in two moves. The first of
these is opening the doors of the Assembly Hall sooner, thus lengthening
the period of time for the crowd to enter and be seated. The objection to
this, of course, is that those who enter first will become impatient and
unruly; yet The Battalion believes that if the show started strictly ac
cording to schedule, and if the cadets realized that this move was made for
their convenience, they would refrain from any demonstrations. The second
direction of improvement would be the offering for sale of tickets at the
“Y” desk during Wednesday afternoons. Many students would buy their
tickets before going to the show, and since the “Y” keeps a man at the
desk in any case, this move could be instituted with little trouble except,
possibly, of adopting a more distinctive ticket.
Some time ago, the announcement was made that underclassmen would
enter the Assembly Hall through pne entrance, the seniors through an
other. This rule, while a good one, was never enforced, even from the be- !
ginning. A door should be designated by which seniors and campus people
should enter; certainly this move would meet with the approval of the latter
group, for now these people never have an opportunity of entering the show
until the cadets have forced their way through the doors. There is no doubt
that the campus family would receive more consideration at the hands of
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What we should do with our leisure time seems to be a subject of
considerable weight with the author of the editorial on “College Life at A.
& M.” in last week’s issue of The Battalion, and strange to say, he has 1
voiced the opinion of more than a Tew of our fellow Aggies. Justa what can
we do to pass away the many spare hours that some of us are lucky enough
to h)ave? Isn’t that a hard question to answer?
For one thing, we didn’t come to college with the prime motive of
passing away thej time and trying to find something to do, or at least the
college was not intended for people who find themselves in that position.
Practically all of the courses in the curriculum of the college are difficult
enough to require a great amount of the student’s time should he desire to
learn, the fundamental and general principles of that course. A brief
survey of the grades received by the average student shows that he is not
doing justice to his studies. The thing for such a man to do is to use that
big surplus of time in improvement of grades and learning something
which he came tq college to get.
Then, after the lessons have been prepared and experimentts completed,
should there still be any spare time, the library is open tq every student and
contains thousands of volumes well worth reading. A college is supposed
to develop a cultured class of men as well as a trained group of workers.
Which is the most cultural, an afternoon in the library or an afternooni
with some girl? Those who are dissatisfied with the amusements of A.
& M. (are the very one’s who never frequent good books. Th|e fellow whot
is seeking an education and the maximum benefit for the time spent in
school is never wanting for something to do.
Of course, there should always be some break from the montony of
study, and that is capably furnished by the college system of recreation.
For those athletically inclined, the gymnasium its resources. The only
desirable sport that is limited is tennis, and that has many substitutes.
The intramural sports ! program is intended to encourage boys to take part
in various competitive games—,and still there are a great number of men
who remain, in their rooms and “gripe” for something to do. For those who
require a social means of distraction, there are any number of girls in
Bryan and nearby towns—just as nice girls as there are in “the home
town”— who have many dateless nights. If a fellow stays in his room and
gripes for a date, he Was no one but himself to blame—he should at 'least
stand outside and give the girls a chance.
Ater all, if a fellow will consider seriously this matter of leisure time,
he will find that he alone is to blame if it passed unpleasantly by. Thej
student who can’t find enough ito do at A. & M. either knows too much tq
be a student here or is not interested in obtaining the education that this
institution was initially intended to offer.
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