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THE BATTALION
THE BATTALION
Published every Wednesday nisrht 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 Etaff
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.
W. C. MORRIS Editor-in-Chief
R. R. PEEPLES Managing Editor
T. A. PILKEY Sports Editor
BUSINESS STAFF.
L. N. BOURLAND .1 Business Manager
M. E. DIETERT Ass’t. Business Manager
J. E. FONTAINE . . Circulation Manager
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Each year the staff for the following year puts out the final issue.
Ine old staff has finished its work and now it is ready to sit back and see
what its successor is going to do with the new job. Perhaps there is little
that we can do this late, and there is nothing which we see where we could
have done better, but still we are ready to set the goal toward which we are
willing to work and put forth every effort in order to attain. The year has
been a successful one even though we have not carried off any athletic
championships. If it has served to do nothing more than bring about a
greater cooperation of the faculty and student body it has been well worth
the time spent and it will only be another step toward attaining greater
harmony in the future.
It has long been the custom to bid barewell to the Seniors in the final
issue of the Battalion and express our regrets of the parting days when
they will go out into the world to try to apply their education along various
lines. We are sorry to lose them because in their going we lose some of
the best friends we have ever had, but to them it is only a beginning, a time
when they may start out and avoid having to say, “If I had it to do over
again I would do better.” Each year it is the same old story and the same
old setting having only a change of characters. It is ever a process of watch
ing and waiting for the time when we will be able to go forth and take our
places along with our fellowmen and try to find out just what that four
years in college was worth to us.
With these few words of appreciation of the Senior Class and the Col
lege as a whole and acknowledging the new job which has been placed upon
the shoulders of the staff of 1928 by those who are departing, the Battalion
year of 1926-27 draws to an end.
PREXY’S FAREWELL.
It is assumed that every man who comes to the A. and M. College comes
with a serious purpose, that it is his purpose to take full advantage of the
opportunities offered to equip himself for useful and constructive citizen
ship, yet some do not utilize their time to best advantage. Whether you are
a freshman, a sophomore, junior or senior it will pay you to occasionally
take enough time for thorough self-examination to the end that you may see
plainly your own mistakes. If you are going out as a member of the grad
uating class you will not have a chance to profit scholastically, but self-
examination will undoubtedly be helpful to you in fortifying yourself to meet
the problems with which you are soon to be confronted in Whatever posi
tion you occupy. If you are an under-classman, self-examination ought to
enable you to improve your opportunities next year. There is but one time
for the average student to qualify himself for his life’s work. If that time
is wasted or any part of it frittered away, you are the one Who suffers
most in the end. Those who make the largest successes in life are the ones
who make the most persistent and intelligent effort. No worthwhile ac
complishment is easy. It is either fraught with great hardships or grave
dangers. In the game of life we draw out in direct ratio as we put in. So it
is in getting an education. You are making an investment for the future.
You are laying up mental deposits that will be subject to check throughout
the remainder of your lives, therefore the necessity for establishing your
mental account upon the most substantial basis possible. All of us make
mistakes, and many are unable to accomplish all that they would like to
accomplish during their College careers, but he who applies himself dili
gently will not have cause in after years to regret the hardships he may
undergo while a student.
We have had a good year together and it is my hope that each one of
you will spend a pleasant and profitable vacation, that the members of the
graduating class may find satisfactory and remunerative employment, that
the underclassmen return next September to pursue their studies until
they have completed their work for their degree and that each one may
have a pleasant and profitable vacation season.
T. O. WALTON.
STUDENT WELFARE COMMITTEE.
Shortly after the resignation of our former editor, Mr. L. J. Franke,
the Student Welfare Cbmmittee was formed. The purpose of this committee,
when formed, was to bring a closer relationship between the students and
the faculty and, to give both the students and the faculty a broader un
derstanding of the conditons here at A. and M.
The duty of the student members of the committee is to get the wishes
and the sentiments of the student body and to bring them before the com
mittee for duscussion. But there seems to be an obstacle confronting the
student representatives which is very difficult to overcome. The students,
as a whole, seem to take very little interest in th matter and will not give
a free expression of their wishes and feelings. The general attitude seems
to be: “Well, we have elected you, now go ahead and get all that you can for
us.” But if a student has an idea he will not give it to his representatives.
The students have been howling for some sort of organized channel
through which they could express themselves. Now they have it, what are
they going to do with it? Let us support these representatives.
Questions of the most importance to the student body are brought be
fore the committee and, in as much as it is all for the benefit of the stu
dents, it seems that they should take more interest in the matter.
Most of the meetings of this year have been devoted to the organization
of the committee but it is believed that the committee will be in good form
at the beginning of the next school session. All of the members predict a
bright and useful future for the committee.
President Walton’s responsible for the committee and as usual, he has
met the students more than half way. Dr. Walton is an honorary member
of the commttee.
The following are the present members of the committee:
Dean F. C. Bolton, Chairman; D. X. Bible, M. L. Cashion, C. W. Craw
ford, F. W. Hensel, Ernest Langford, E. E. McQuillen, Dan Russell, O. W.
Silvey, Major J. O. Sloan, D. W. Williams,.
Seniors: B. T. Bowlin, S. F. Brewster, S. A. Coleman, R. F. Olsen, S. I.
Stratton, H. W. Townsend.
Juniors: L. J. Bourland, J. E. Mitchell, J. J. Sloan.
Sophomores: Dan O’Neil, J. C. Skain.
Freshmen: C. O. Deeg.
AN APPRECIATION.
This is not an attempt at a sentimental farewell to our seniors; it is
merely a statment of appreciation and respect for what they have done and
for their attitude in the past year. The present session has certainly been
one of the most successful in the history of the college, and this is largely
because of the Senior’s love and devotion for A. and M. being shown by
their vigorous and enthusiastic cooperation in performing their Senior du
ties.
Indications are that the scholastic standing of the new graduating class
will be high in the records of the school; there will be many who are dis-
tingushed in their four year’s work. The victories in sport have not been
numerous or outstanding, but those who have represented A. and M. on
the athletic field have upheld well her colors and traditions. The military
rating has not been announced, but the fine showing at the annual inspec
tion was made possible by the interest and help of the Senior Officers. The
Battalion has carried on in spite of great difficulties, and a wonderful Long
horn has been put out in record time.
The seniors will leave with heavy hearts and tear-filled eyes, but their
sorrow will be from leaving the home they love, and not from failing to
give all they had in upholding A. and M. and making it still a better place
for those yet to come. They have lived up to the young Athenian’s oath,
“never to disgrace his sacred arms, never to forsake his comrades in the
ranks, and to leave his country not in a worse, but in a better state
than he found it.”
FAREWELL TO THE SENIORS.
With the coming of the end of school and the happy anticipation of
vacation once more there comes also to us a feeling of sincere regret. With
a sureness of fate we see the time coming when we have to bid a last
goodbye to the seniors who have become so much a part of us.
We have heard the class of ’27 express itself in the last edition of the
Battalion, and we know how they feel—how dear old Aggieland is to them,
especially as they see the end of their last year of college life here.
Very little can be said or done now to show our Seniors how much we
regret to see them go. We have worked with them as our leaders for one
of the most successful years possible. We have fought together on Kyle
Field, and when tragedy threatened to destroy our good name, we have seen
how nobly they worked to uphold the honor of our school. As a big brother,
the class of ’27 has watched the upperclassmen, always at hand to help pro
tect them if the occasion demanded. It is for these reasons that our Sen
iors have come to mean so much to us.
But time must go on and we must go with it—the reality of life causes
our discomforts and sorrows. So now with an aching heart we, the under
classmen bid our Senior friends a fond farewell.
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