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THE BATTALION
THE BATTALION
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EDITORIAL STAFF
R. T. FALKENBERG
ft. O. PEARSON . . . ,
R. H. JONES
L. H. MADDOX
S. BAKER
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R. E. HOMANN
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W. T. COLEMAN . . .
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G. M. WRENN
E. L. ANDREWS
G. F. STARK
R, B. TATE
N. A. DONGES
W. C. JOHNSON
W. D. McELROY
L. L. TAYLOR
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TO THE SENIORS.
For four years you have been Jearning to use books—the fundamental
tools of education. Are you now gtoing to stop reading, as some men and
women do, for two, perhaps five years, and then suddenly wake up to the
lact that when your reading stopped your education stopped also? Or, are
you going to make your reading, and therefore your education, a continu
ous, life-long process?
Most of you, next year, will be within hailing distance of a public libra
ry. Libraries are increasingly aware of the fact that they are the universi
ty of the man who has ended his formal education. More and more they are
making special provision for the serious reader.
The Reading with a Purpose series published by the American Library
Association is one of the new tools provided for this purpose. These are
little forty-page booklets written by such men as Vernon Kellogg, Lorado
Taft, William Allen White, Alexander Meiklejohn, Edwin E. Slosson, Fred
erick L. Paxsoh, and Samuel McChord Crothers. They briefly introduce a
subject,—psychology, biology, painting, or whatever it may be, and then
recommend six or eight readable books which will give a rounded view of
the subject.
If you have majored in science you may have missed out on literature.
Dallas Lore Sharp’s SOME GREAT AMERICAN BOOKS, W. N. C. Carlton’s
ENGLISH LITERATURE, Samuel McChord Crother’s THE MODERN ES
SAY, or Marguerite Wilkinson’s THE POETRY OF OUR OWN TIMES
will help to fill the gaps. Perhaps you have avoided history. Some day you
may wish you hadn’t. Then Herbert Adams Gibbons’ THE EUROPE OF
OUR DAY, or Frederic L. Paxon’s THE UNITED STATES IN RECENT
TIMES will prove a stimulating and useful guide. And so of all the major
subjects of knowledge. Twenty-two subjects have been covered and more
are planned.
And one thing more. You need not wait until next year to get ac
quainted with the series. You will find the courses in the college library.
SELF-CONFIDENCE.
How many times have we wanted to do something worthwhile, or some
thing that took lots of work and sacrifice, but finally gave it up because we
were afraid we couldn’t put it over? How many times have you been called
on to do something that you couldn’t get nerve enough to tackle? “Self-
Confidence,” according to Samuel Johnson, isi the first requisite to great
undertakings. If this be so, then it can easily be seen why there are so
many failures, and I believe the statement to be very true. Many times I
have seen A. and M. students completely fail to work some problem, pass
some quiz, or other things of more or less importance, only because they
lacked determination and self-confidence. Certainly, if you have no faith
in yourself you cannot expect anyone else to do so, and it is evident that
you cannot do the great things that you want to do. After all, the aim of
education is to make one sure of himself and therefore able to do his work
in full.
In another instance, the boy may simply be worried for any one of the
usual reasons: homesickness, the girl, finances, a quiz. The point is this:
That fellow needs a smile, a friendly slap, a hearty greeting. He needs to
be jarred out of his reveries. A smile is contagious. A smile, a true fellow-
feeling, true understanding, true comradeship, they are worth practicing.
And when practiced, the odd thing is that your own worries vanish away.
ALL CONFERENCE BASEBALL
GAMES TO BE BROADCAST
With the arrival of the baseball sea
son, several questions have been asked
as to which athletic events are broad
cast over the College Station WTAW.
It is customary to broadcast all con
ference athletic events, and other
events that are important enough to
be of interest to the citizens of Texas.
The station is much mope powerful
than it was last year, having been
heard from Maine to California, and
from Canada to Honduras. Most of
the athletic events occur in the day,
but WTAW has an exceptionally good
I daylight range, a consistent 150 miles,
with reports from both New York and
| California. The main trouble of recep-
| tion of this station is the interfer-
' ence with the KMOX of Saint Louis.
These stations have the Same wave
length, thus they “come in” at the
same place on any radio receiving set.
The folk at home can get WTAW at
that place every day at 12:15 noon
except Saturday, Tuesday and Thurs
day at 7 p. m., Sunday at 11 a. m.,
and when ever a conference contest
is held here.
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AN OBSERVATION.
Every once in awhile we see a boy walking along with his head dropped
—thinking. That may be a good indication and it may not be. It is an in
exorable rule with a college student that he is flooded with such a host of
conflicting thoughts sometimes that he becomes bewildered. And he may
become abnormal for a time, he is trying to adjust himself too rapidly,
thinking and worrying too seriously.
He may be trying to find the truth in life. In that case his contempla
tion is excusable if he is sincere. What is the use to worry? None. Mostly,
that chap needs only to grow up, a few stabilizing years.
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