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THE BATTALION
THE BATTALION
Published every Wednesday night by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas.
Subscription price $1.75 per Year.
ALL ADS RUN UNTIL ORDERED OUT.
Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of
October 8, 1917, authorized October 18, 1922.
All undergraduates in the College are eligible to try for a place on the Editorial Etafl
of this paper. Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors who are interested in journalism for
its own sake, are urged to make themselves known to some member of the Staff.
EDITORIAL STAFF
R. T. FALKENBERG
R. O. PEARSON ....
R. H. JONES
L. H. MADDOX
S. BAKER
A. R. MENGER
C. M. FLORER
T. A. PILKEY
R. E. HOMANN
W. G. RALPH
W. C. MORRl'SS . . . .
W. T. COLEMAN . . .
B. P. GREENWADE .
G. M. WRENN
E. L. ANDREWS
G. F. STARK
R. .3. TATE
N. A. DONGES
W. C. JOHNSON . . .
W. D. McELROY
L. Li TAYLOR
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Sports Editor
. . .Associate Sports Editor
. .Assistant Sports Editor
Exchange Editor
Social Editor
News Editor
. . .Associate News Editor
. . Assistant News Editor
. . Assistant News Editor
.... Assistant News Editor
Literary Editor
Literary Editor
Literary Editor
Associate Literary Editor
Humorous Editor
Cartoonist
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R. L. EDGAR . .
J. A. DAVIS . . .
R. E. O. SLOAN
BUSINESS MANAGER
Business Manager
Assistant Business Manager
Circulation Manager
OUR LAST EDITION.
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Jt has long been customary that the Battalion staff for the following
year edit the last issue of each session and in accordance with this cus
tom the present staff surrenders its responsibilities and duties to the men
who are to be in charge of the publication next year with this issue.
Although the Battalion was handicapped this year in having two edi
tors’ preventing a consistent scheme from being carried on throughout the
entire year, the staff as a whole has worked efficiently and well to give
the students the best paper possible. The Battalion has its faults—but these
canhbt be overcome by the staff alone. The editorial side is easy enough
to handle but the financial end is more difficult. The present seventy-five
cent fee paid by each student upon entrance is far too inadequate to finance
the publication, much less to pay the expenses of the paper, such as traveling
expenses for the sport editor and the like. Wihereas other student publi
cations over the state have salaried editors the Battalion staff must work
for pure love of the journalistic art,—there being no positive financial re
turn for the work. In order to finance the expenses of the paper the Bat
talion must rely upon its advertisers. An attempt is being made at pres
ent by this years staff to overcome this difficulty for next year in order
that more space may be given to reading matter.
The Battalion has tried to present the viewpoint of the majority of the
student body on all occasions but if it has failed in this we apologize, for
the I paper should be truly representative of the student body that supports
it. Itr has been a pleasure to serve the student body of A. and M. as well
as a signal honor, and it is indeed with deep regret that we, the staff of
the twenty-fifth volume of the Battalion, lay down our pens and fade from
vi<;w.
FAREWELL TO AGGIELAND.
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it When the sun crept over the academic building on a certain mid-Sep
tember morning nearly four years ago, it shown down on a frightened
group of eight hundred boys who were matriculating for the first time in
an institution of higher education. With the passage of the intervening time
this group has become smaller in number but greater in self-confidence.
Today there remain only three hundred and two of the original class of ’27
who are ready to step across life’s threshold and into the world to seek their
fortunes.
These men, now seniors guiding the activities of the institution, have
tried to uphold the honor and traditions of Aggieland to the best of their
ability. There have been times when they failed to do so—but no one is per
fect; Our mistakes should serve as examples whereby other classes may
profit. In unison there is strength—not only should this exist among the
student body but it should include the faculty as well. There have been
times when the class of ’27 did not show the proper unison but we have
done the best we could under the conditions.
With the final review the regiem of the class of ’27 will be at an end
and next year there will be new men and new leaders to guide the destines
of the student body and cadet corps. When these new leaders return in Sep
tember the class of ’27 will be scattered from Brazil to Michigan and from
Maine to California, but however scattered they may be—
“Tho’ Alma Mater so far I roam—My whole heart shall be with you
e’er; I’ll always be proud to call you my own. Oh Aggieland so fair.”
And with this the class of 1927 bids you sad adieu.
THERE SHALL BE NO REGRETS.
mere three hundred, it would seem that the matter of quitting is one of
serious importance. There is really no reason for such a large percentage
giving up their educational plans.
Of the boys who turn out to be quitters, there are several divisions:
Those who are hampered by financial difficulties, those Who have made
poor grades for the initial year, those who grow tired of study and the
other work connected with College, and those who have no ambition at all
but are made 6y their parents to go to College. It is to all of these that I
am appealing.
Just what good is a College education? In the first place it gives self-
confidence and counteracts a possible inferiority complex. Then it gives
the student four years of the best practical study of psychology that can
be found—a study of the characteristics of the average men over the coun
try. It makes him more capable of competing and coping with his fellow
men in the business world. It gives him valuable general and technical
knowledge which can be obtained only through consistent study and appli
cation.
What has the quitter to say in answer to the question of, “Why did
you not graduate when you started to College?” There is no answer or
excuse that will counteract the effect of the question. In these days for
student loans, the lack of financial backing is worse than no excuse at all.
With so many choices to make in studies, one can not back down for lack
of a suitable course. The fellow who starts into College and goes a year
or two only to quit shows clearly that he wants an education—realizes the
value of it—but lacks the ambition and backbone to push onward.
Can the quitter go home and face his parents without feeling some
what ashamed? Think of the pride the mother and father take in saying
their son is in College. Then contrast it with the feeling they have wheni
their son quits. Consider the confidence that friends, real friends, have put
in the boy who goes off to school. What are they to think? Can they be
proud of a quitter?
As a last appeal to those who are going home for the summer months,
let me ask you to be fair to yourselves, to your mothersi and fathers, and to
your friends. Return to school next fall and push onward until the degree
is obtained. Then there shall be no regrets.
FOUR YEARS.
The Freshman comes to A. and M. He is brimming with hopes and
ambitions. He has heard that A. and M. is such a jolly place, a place of big
things, a place of traditions. It is real though, like all of life that is worth
while. He may discover it in time and make a good student, he may not,—
back home he goes, college days over.
He comes back as a sophomore, a very brilliant man of the world. He
thinks he will do big. Some way, the Freshman year was the happier, he
concludes.
As a Junior he begins to see something of the idea of it all. He is now
a true college man. Things now take on their true interests. He appreciates
his course and begins to adjust for the next year,—and after.
The Senior is serious. “I have a year more. Any mistakes of the past
must be corrected now.” Time become irksome. Distractions appeal. “But
it is only a few months—then life is before me.” If he has fought the good
fight and finished the course he is then worthy to be called a man. But
>et, he is just beginning.
SIGNING OFF.
The chief desire and ambition of every student that enters A. and M.
is to graduate as soon as possible. I entered school with that purpose in!
view, and now I lack only one week of accomplishing my mission. Now, the
question arises—“what have you done?” It is with a sinking feeling that
I realize that my days at A. and M. are over. I may not have learned much,
and I may not have served well, but I have made a mark that will either
be a credit or a blur to me, and every senior has done likewise. Extra-cur
riculum activities mean much to a college student, and I have enjoyed every
one I have entered. I regret one thing, that I have not entered more into
real college life. My last word would be, “Study and pass, but by all means,
do not neglect outside work, then when you finish you will at least have
lots of friends and you will have a few tears of regret”
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The last few weeks of College always brings with it the question of
who is coming back next year and how many are gloing to drop out, never
to come back again. When a class of around eight hundred thins down to a